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Lucas Perry
Rupert Spira on Innate Happiness, True Nature, and the Morality of Enlightenment
1 hour 15 minutes Posted Aug 28, 2022 at 10:00 pm.
Intro1:37 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 awareness23:13 Non-materialist physicalist idealism28:15 Consciousness as non-local30:57 An experiment in inquiry36:46 Experience, awareness, and the brain 45:49 Is awareness independent the brain?51:30 The risk of reifying consciousness as a thing54:17 The silence of understanding and the mind bringing itself to its own ending55:42 The stages of awakening 59:52 First stage: The witness1:02:55 Direct and progressive paths, and how purification and defabrication fit in1:07:20 Rupert's definition of enlightenment1:07:56 The insights of the second stage of awakening1:12:00 One taste and recognizing aware being is the nature of everyone and everything1:16:50 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 on1:27:29 Where to find and follow Rupert Spira1:28:40 Outro
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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.Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5VYkm1iU0tmbBvJohdTZcv?si=4be5c4df79fc4aa8 ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mu/id1640125881Timestamps: 0:00 Intro1:37 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 awareness23:13 Non-materialist physicalist idealism28:15 Consciousness as non-local30:57 An experiment in inquiry36:46 Experience, awareness, and the brain 45:49 Is awareness independent the brain?51:30 The risk of reifying consciousness as a thing54:17 The silence of understanding and the mind bringing itself to its own ending55:42 The stages of awakening 59:52 First stage: The witness1:02:55 Direct and progressive paths, and how purification and defabrication fit in1:07:20 Rupert's definition of enlightenment1:07:56 The insights of the second stage of awakening1:12:00 One taste and recognizing aware being is the nature of everyone and everything1:16:50 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 on1:27:29 Where to find and follow Rupert Spira1:28:40 Outro