Rupert Spira at the World Yoga Festival
Rupert Spira
Mindfulness
Overview
Rupert guides a two hour long workshop in the afternoon during 3 days of the 2016 World Yoga Festival.
These will begin with a meditation followed by a session of questions and answers. Click Here to watch Mooji at the World Yoga Festival
Modules: 24
Duration: 3 days of Satsangs
3 days of Satsangs
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The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.
Rupert Spira
Modules
01. Introduction to Non-Dual Teaching
Rupert introduces non-dual teaching by asking, "with what do you know your expereince?"
36min
02. Being Stripped Away
What remains when you can let go of everything you know you are? Stripping away the story exposes awareness.
8min
03. Clearing the Fog
A seeker asks for clarification when she feels unclear, foggy and distracted.
6min
04. We Are Always Awareness
A seeker asks if it's ok to find awareness in activities other than meditation.
13min
05. Awake, Dreaming and Sleep States
An audience member asks for clarification between different states of consciousness.
12min
06. Am I Not Infinite Awareness?
Rupert helps an audience member discover the difference between local or experiential awareness versus infinite expanded awareness.
14min
07. When Life Gets Difficult
During a quiet period of the talk, Rupert asks the audience to make the most out of their awareness of space. An audience member asks how he can stay present during difficult experiences.
10min
08. Intellectual Understanding vs Experience
An audience member tells Rupert that his intellectual mind is getting in the way of the full experience of awareness. Rupert offers some perspective on belief and knowing.
17min
09. Little Patch of Blue Sky
Rupert begins day 2 by describing our permanent state as the sky, and our moving experiences as the weather. What we may think is our truth may in fact just be a drifting experience.
21min
10. Enlightenment is Not Exotic
Rupert explains that while many spiritual journeys may include studies and artifacts from exotic parts of the world, the actual state of awareness is the most natural and ordinary experience there is.
10min
11. Do We Have a Choice?
An attendee asks Rupert if awakening is a choice, or if it is imposed upon us by fate or grace.
8min
12. It's Simple
Enlightenment is just an exotic name for peace and happiness. Rupert affirms to an audience member that finding that peace is much simpler than we try to make it.
13min
13. Individuated Consciousness
A seeker questions Rupert about reality of experience with an example of seeing people in front of you versus the existence of people beyond physical sight.
14min
14. Why This World?
Rupert is faced with the question "why?" - and offers a variety of answers that demonstrate that why can go on infinitely - and the only answer lies in simply being. Rupert suggests that the reason for consciousness may not be something humans can fully comprehend.
19min
15. I Knew You
An audience member recites a biblical passage, "Even before you were formed in the womb, I knew you". Rupert offers his insights into the interpretation of this awareness speaking to the separate self.
19min
16. What is Love?
When asked whether love is just a feeling or emotion, Rupert answers, "Love is the recognition that what each of us essentially is, is the same".
16min
17. The Inward and the Outward Facing Path
Rupert begins day 3 by describing the "neti neti" process - Neither this nor that, I am that which is aware.
26min
18. Inside and Outside
A man shares his awakening experience with Rupert and asks for advice on how to relate the inner awareness with the outer awareness.
20min
19. Experience is the Test of Reality
Rupert suggests referring to ones experience as the gauge of reality rather than doubtful thoughts.
18min
20. Lack of Purpose
Rupert says that consciousness cannot be described in relation to anything else, because it is that which everything else sits within. He also answers the difference between consciousness, drama and boredom.
7min
21. Why Are We in Bodies?
A seeker asks to understand why free consciousness would choose the constraint of the body.
8min
22. I Feel Guilty for Awakening
An audience member presents the notion that he feels guilty that in awakening he is leaving others behind.
13min
23. You Have to Go In
An audience member wonders whether her study is taking away from the experience of just going in. Rupert muses that "the ego thrives on the attention we give it".
7min
24. Perceiving Universal Consciousness
Rupert closes with the exploration of our ability to perceive consciousness from the level where we stand.
17min
Teacher
From an early age Rupert was deeply interested in the nature of Reality...
How does this workshop work?
This workshop is a 3-Day satsang intensive with Rupert Spira filmed live at the World Yoga Festival in Reading. Join us as Rupert guides the audience through topics of mindfulness, enlightenment and suffering.
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