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Rupert Spira

In this podcast series, Rupert Spira explores the non-dual understanding, expressed in different ways. Please subscribe if you would like to be notified whenever new episodes are available. If you would like to find out more about events, publications, and Rupert's archive of recordings, please visit rupertspira.com.

Music written and played by Shena Power and recorded by Simon Power.

Rupert Spira Podcast

In this episode Rupert speaks with founder and CEO of Sounds True, Tami Simon, about how we may realise lasting happiness, whether we should value both being and becoming, and how to remain at peace amidst turmoil.
 
They also discuss Rupert’s idea of original ADD (awareness deficit disorder), absolute and relative levels of truth, and the Buddhist phrase ‘original face’.

Episode 73: Tami Simon

Episode 1 
In this episode, a woman says she notices different witness states during meditation and asks if they are different perspectives of awareness; Rupert elaborates on the ego and the ramifications of the belief in a limited, separate self; and a woman asks who makes decisions in life if there is no doer.
 
The dialogues in this episode are taken from Rupert Spira's December 2019 retreat in Wales, Being Myself. For audio and video recordings of the full retreat and the entire library of Rupert Spira's recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.
 
The perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen, among others – allows us to investigate the essential nature of our experience. In the simple knowing of our own being, we discover the source of the peace and happiness for which all people long above all else.

Episode 1: Conversations on the Witness, the Ego and Making Decisions

The dialogues in this episode are taken from Rupert Spira’s April 2019 weekend in Amsterdam, The Nature of ‘I’.
 
In this episode, a man asks Rupert to speak about the body as an instrument of perception; a woman asks for guidance about her fear of death; and a man asks for help with understanding that experience is made of awareness.
 
The perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen, among others – allows us to investigate the essential nature of our experience. In the simple knowing of our own being, we discover the source of the peace and happiness for which all people long above all else.
 
For audio and video recordings of the full weekend and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.

Episode 2: Conversations on Sensations and Perceptions, the Fear of Death and the Reality of Experience

In this episode, a woman asks why consciousness creates the world; another woman asks about time, the laws of physics and if the material world is a dream; and Rupert speaks about how all activities of mind, including time and space, are the movement of consciousness.
 
The dialogues in this episode are taken from Rupert Spira’s May 2019 retreat in Wales, The True Friend. For audio and video recordings of the full retreat and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.
 
The perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen, among others – allows us to investigate the essential nature of our experience. In the simple knowing of our own being, we discover the source of the peace and happiness for which all people long above all else.

Episode 3: Conversations on the Reality of Experience, Time and Space, Mind and Consciousness

In this episode a woman asks who or what is aware; another woman asks about memory and its relationship with identity; and a man asks if insentient things are a movement of consciousness.
 
These dialogues are taken from Rupert Spira’s May 2019 retreat in Wales, The True Friend. For audio and video recordings of the full retreat and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.
 
The perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen, among others – allows us to investigate the essential nature of our experience. In the simple knowing of our own being, we discover the source of the peace and happiness for which all people long above all else.

Episode 4: Conversations on the Nature of Consciousness, Memory and Manifestation

In this episode a man asks about the process of integration following the recognition of our true nature; a woman asks how to focus attention on objects without contracting into a separate self; and a man asks if the observer of the observed is located inside the body.
 
These dialogues are taken from Rupert Spira’s April 2019 retreat in New York, Naked, Self-Aware Being, and May retreat in Wales,The True Friend. For audio and video recordings of the full retreats and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.
 
The perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen, among others – allows us to investigate the essential nature of our experience. In the simple knowing of our own being, we discover the source of the peace and happiness for which all people long above all else.

Episode 5: Conversations on Stabilising As Awareness, Time and Space, and Attention

In this episode a man who says he feels localised within his mind asks Rupert for guidance; another man asks about the creative power of narrative thoughts; a woman asks how to set boundaries without feeling resistance; and a ‘recovering Catholic’ says he has a residual sense of guilt about the direct path as opposed to surrendering oneself for the sake of others.
 
These dialogues are taken from Rupert Spira’s March 2019 retreat in California, The Devouring of Experience, and April 2019 weekend in Amsterdam, The Nature of ‘I’. For audio and video recordings of the full retreats and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.
 
The perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen, among others – allows us to investigate the essential nature of our experience. In the simple knowing of our own being, we discover the source of the peace and happiness for which all people long above all else.

Episode 6: A Conversation on Thoughts and Thinking

In this episode, questioners ask if expressing emotions is a good spiritual practice; if there are positive aspects of the separate self; who is the self that seeks happiness; and whether identification with the ‘I’ of experience is actually a subtle layer of the separate self.
 
These dialogues are taken from Rupert Spira’s November 2019 weekend in Copenhagen, Sharing Our Being,and December 2019 retreat in Wales, Being Myself. For audio and video recordings of the full retreats and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.
 
The perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Sufism, Taoism and Zen, among others – allows us to investigate the essential nature of our experience. In the simple knowing of our own being, we discover the source of the peace and happiness for which all people long above all else.

Episode 7: Conversations Exploring the Concept of the Separate Self

In this episode, Rupert uses the metaphor of the actor John Smith playing the part of King Lear to address questions about reincarnation, the nature of experience, and overcoming self-doubt.
 
These dialogues are taken from Rupert Spira’s May retreat in Wales, The True Friend,and November 2019 weekend in Copenhagen, Sharing Our Being. For audio and video recordings of the full retreat and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.

Episode 8: Conversations Exploring Experience Through the Metaphor of an Actor

In this episode a man asks if awareness is simply a feedback mechanism of the body; Rupert distinguishes between the conditioned and unconditioned mind; a man asks about the difference between physical and metaphysical experience; and a man asks if our true self can ever be obscured. 
These dialogues are taken from Rupert Spira’s 5th July 2019 evening meeting in London. For audio and video recordings of the full meeting and the entire library of Rupert Spira’s recordings and publications, as well as information about attending live and streamed events, please visit rupertspira.com.

Episode 9: Conversations on the Nature of Awareness and Experience

In this episode Rupert Spira and Rupert Sheldrake talk about the nature of reality, consciousness, and beliefs about the universe, and discover a common understanding. 
 
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. 
 
Music written and played by Shena Power and recorded by Simon Power.

Episode 11: Rupert Sheldrake

Episode 11: Rupert Sheldrake

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