Name: How Rupert Spira Moved Towards Enlightenment - A Spiritual Awakening Process
Uploaded: 2017-08-19T15:31:36.000Z
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'who am I.' Where did that take you in terms of investigation?

To begin with I had a presumption
that what I am is this individual entity

this individual entity will gradually dissolve itself

The individual entity cannot dissolve itself!

So I reached the stage of complete frustration.

The separate entity
trying to get rid of the separate entity

through all this means and it didn't work.

trying to get rid of this separate entity,

and just turned around and asked myself
'What is this entity that is unhappy, that is searching,

that is trying to quiet the mind, that thinks the mind is a problem.

And that was a very decisive turning point

which was initiating
all these so-called spiritual activities.

It's the moment the prodigal son turns around,

he gets to the end of the possibilities of the body,
the mind, and the world and he turns around,

So it was a moment when I turned around and said

'OK, no more practices for a while.
I am going to stop these practices.
They are like bandages(?),

they are not going to the heart of the problem.

What is this one, who is this one that is unhappy?

And as I began to look for this one I never found it.

and what you're saying is that you couldn't find the person or the part of you that was unhappy.

My life and in this case my spiritual life

'I' want to find, 'I' want to be enlightened,
'I' want to be happy.

I had explored it normally in the world as one does,

then I had begun to explore it spiritually,
which is a kind of refinement,

but nevertheless it's still a search,
more are in the realm of the mind.

In my case stilling the mind,
states of mind.

So at some stage I turned around
' Who is this one?

Who is this 'I', this 'Rupert,' that wants to be happy or enlightened or peaceful or whatever?'

'OK, if you are ruling my life, show up!'

'What are you? Where are you?'
I want to know you. I want to get acquainted with you.'

What was your process of turning it around?

up until then I had presumed that it is 'I-this-body-mind,'

but it became clear quite quickly to me that
'No, it's not 'I-this-body-mind' that knows the world,

In other words, the mind and the body are known.

I mean your cheek is not listening to these words,

an earlobe is not listening to these words,
a thought cannot hear!

'No, it's not a body-mind that knows or experiences, the body-mind is experienced, it is known.

that is present, that is intimately myself and that

that knows thoughts but is not made out of a thought,

that knows sensations,
but is not made out of a sensation?

And of course wherever you look,
wherever you try to turn towards it

If I were to ask you now to stand up
and take a step towards yourself,

Every step that you take would be the wrong direction

and yet you could never get away from yourself!

It was like that. I tried to look for myself

'No, I can't find myself in thoughts,
I can't find myself in sensations,

I said to myself
'Ok turn your attention now toward your thoughts'

and I would make these little exercises up with myself

'Give your attention to your thoughts'
- whatever it was I was thinking about -

'what should we have for dinner tonight?'

You give your attention to that thought.
Very easy.

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How Rupert Spira Moved Towards Enlightenment - A Spiritual Awakening Process

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