RUPERT SPIRA

The essential discovery of all the great spiritual traditions, is that experience is not divided into a perceiving subject, an entity known as ‘I,’ and a perceived object, other or world. The apparently separate entity and the apparently separate object, other or world are realised to be simply concepts that are superimposed by thinking onto the reality of experience. And if we look for the reality of all experience, we find only Consciousness. That is, Consciousness ‘finds’ only itself.

With the arising of dualistic thinking, ever-present Consciousness is imagined to reside in or as the body. With this primary belief in limitation and location, Consciousness or Presence seems to be veiled and, as a result, its nature of happiness, peace and love is seemingly lost. This apparent loss is known as ‘suffering’ and is synonymous with the search for happiness, peace and love in the realm of objects, situations and relationships. The search for happiness, peace and love is not something the separate entity does. It is what it is.

In Rupert’s meetings we look clearly and simply at the nature of our experience. That is, we go directly to the truth of our experience, to the truth of ‘what is’ and ‘from there,’ so to speak, explore all our beliefs and, more importantly, our feelings about how things ‘seem to be.’

In this loving and disinterested contemplation, the concepts with which the dualising mind has seemingly fragmented experience into separate entities, parts, objects, people and the world, are seen through, leaving the naked reality of experience as it is.

With the dissolution of the belief that what we are is a separate, limited, located Consciousness and of the feelings in the body with which it is substantiated, the imaginary separate entity comes to an end and happiness, peace and love are re-established.

Rupert SpiraFrom an early age Rupert was deeply interested in the nature of Reality. For twenty years he studied the teachings of Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Shankaracharya, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, twelve years ago. Francis introduced Rupert to the teaching of Jean Klein, Parmenides, Wei Wu Wei and Atmananda Krishnamenon and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience.

Rupert’s first book, "The Transparency of Things," subtitled "Contemplating the Nature of Experience," was published last year by Non-Duality Press. He is presently working on his second book, "It is what I am." www.rupertspira.com