Equality..Here and Now

Equality..Here and Now

The word

implies that there are two

and these two are equal..

Such an assertion

results in a counter

that seems obvious:

two are never equal..

From this common

experience

we learn to question:

Is this simply perception..?

Experience of 

Here..Now

alters perception

with joy we find:

Real Equality is

never not One...!

(Our Declaration of Independence

includes the word: Equality

which Lincoln restated at

Gettysburg..

The Civil War was fought

over the notion

that the first perception

was the only one..

The Declaration was 

written assuming

the second perseption...!)

Amazon review: The Nature of CONSCIOUSNESS by Rupert Spira

Amazon review:  (posted)

This new work by Rupert Spira fills a critical need in our
world culture. Our culture is based on a time-worn paradigm
of materialism, which of late has resulted in what seems as
an elevated level of suffering.  Rupert addresses our beliefs
which are dependent on materialism, or more specifically,
on our assumption of separation, of the world of subject/object
duality located in the body.  This old paradigm, stemming
from the Greeks, places our awareness, or consciousness
in a body which looks out upon a world of separated people
and objects. Conflicts result. Within persons, between persons,
and collectively among nations.  How much time remains
for a reversal of this increasingly painful well-seated assumption?
A very necessary reversal, expressed with his unmatched
clarity, is the gift  Rupert Spira gives to all of us.

I have been a student for several years.  What has been
impressive to me is Rupert's recognition of the limits of language,
yet his scientific precision in carefully selecting and defining
his words. The powerful element of his teaching is its simplicity,
and availability to all 7 billion of us. Asking ourselves the simple
question: "Am I aware?" a question asked by the finite mind,
followed by a search and pause, results in an answer by the
serious person, as "Yes!" The answer is also formed by the finite
mind, but the mind-less experience in the pause is an experience
of our true nature, our real Self.  This "direct approach" can
result in an illuminating Experience which does not depend
on years of meditation and study, and is available to everyone,
right here and now!  In a world which so urgently needs a
new paradigm, this approach holds much, perhaps the only,
promise.
Our own Experience is key!

Based upon this brief questioning exercise, Rupert
expands upon a simple path of realizing our true nature.
The Q and A is essentially what he refers to as the "inward
path," which religions call transcendence, and it is followed
by an "outward path," or path of immanence, resulting in
the realization that everything is in Consciousness (God is
the religious name), and, actually made of Consciousness.
Again, all of this is Experiential and available to everyone!

Rupert appreciates the power of the metaphor, and uses
several, claiming as his favorite a metaphor of the screen
and the movie.  The screen represents Consciousness, our
true Self, and the movie, appearing on and actually made
of the screen, represents our lives of seeming separation.
The characters (us) in the movie, longing for happiness,
search the world for the screen, not realizing we are made
of the screen, which is the very happiness we are seeking!
The dilemma of our time!  The movie characters are simply
modulations of the screen, as are we  relating to our true
identity:  Awareness or Consciousness.

Hopefully, I have touched on the essence of this unique
spiritual masterpiece.  Rupert has written several books
preceding this one, and there is a plethora of videos and
shorter writings on the web...again, all presented with
extraordinary clarity.  His new book presents an excellent
summation of his well-stated approach, an old approach,
(the Perennial approach) stated in new language and new 
luminosity for our time.  It is vitally important!

Are you aware?

~~~Charles R. Coon

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The real meditation

The real meditation

Disentanglement

from clinging attachments

is the first step..

Turning the attention away

from those attachments

toward the emptiness

of the Self..

Resting in the emptiness

and realizing the reality

of this experience of unlimitedness

in which the clinging has ended..

Meeting the Self..

The real meditation..

And there is more..!

Those former attachments

are found merged

in the Self

and made of the Self..

Now we know that

meditation is not what we do

but what we are...! 

Know Yourself..

In a welcome return to the time-honored practice of teachers commenting on the sacred texts of the past, Rupert Spira weaves a masterful commentary between the lines of the little-known book Know Yourself by the 13th century Sufi Awhad al-din Balyani. With the clarity and insight we have come to expect from Rupert, he gives us a foretaste of his book The Nature of Consciousness, and reminds us that, as is true of the misunderstandings of other world religions, the popular mythology is far removed from the realization of the founder of Islam, whose teaching was always the oneness of being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a78jhhXtXgI&feature=youtu.be

Our Souls at Night

'Our Souls at Night' understands both what changes in people as they age and what remains the same.

For the remainder of the review, see:  http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-our-souls-at-night-review-20170928-story.html

Tree Life

Tree Life

The seeming opaqueness

the concreteness

of what is seen

results in surprise

when a tree

seems to defy..

The cracks and crevices

are filled with tree Life

and in reality

the Life in those cracks

is what is known

as infinite..eternal..

Opaqueness dissolves

and thus we find 
there is no surprise

really...

Sunday Morning

Sunday Morning

The externals

traffic..parking..
church..indecision..

Claiming their independence

reaching for attention.. 

Pause..

Now discerning Self

mixed with seeming
 independent externals..

Observing the externals

bouncing within Self

while becoming known

as Self
Self then firmly revealed..

A meditation:

Knowing Self on this

Sunday morning...