Rupert Spira is a non-dual teacher and joins us to discuss the cause of suffering, the path to returning to our innate happiness, the realization of our true nature, and we also explore whether awakening has a moral dimension.

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Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro

1:37 What is suffering?

2:01 What veils our innate happiness? 

2:09 What is the mechanism by which thoughts and feelings veil our happiness?

5:28 What is our true nature? 

8:40 Isn't "I am" merely another piece of content? 

10:46 Experience as a property of being 

11:53 There's never a point in which there's no awareness

23:13 Non-materialist physicalist idealism

28:15 Consciousness as non-local

30:57 An experiment in inquiry

36:46 Experience, awareness, and the brain 

45:49 Is awareness independent the brain?

51:30 The risk of reifying consciousness as a thing

54:17 The silence of understanding and the mind bringing itself to its own ending

55:42 The stages of awakening 

59:52 First stage: The witness

1:02:55 Direct and progressive paths, and how purification and defabrication fit in

1:07:20 Rupert's definition of enlightenment

1:07:56 The insights of the second stage of awakening

1:12:00 One taste and recognizing aware being is the nature of everyone and everything

1:16:50 How does ethics fit into the realization of true nature?

1:22:17 World peace would have to based on a truth we can all agree on

1:27:29 Where to find and follow Rupert Spira

1:28:40 Outro

Episode ID: 1000577604464

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Release Date: 28/08/2022, 23:00:00