Rupert Spira - 2nd Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - The Self-Knowing Nature of Consciousness
00:03:58 - The Experience of Awareness
00:06:46 - Directing Attention Inward
00:09:32 - The Experience of Being Aware
00:13:08 - The Nature of Self-Abidance
00:19:37 - The Unnamable Reality of Experience
00:20:10 - Does consciousness need a mind or a nervous system to know itself?
00:23:45 - The Nature of Consciousness
00:26:14 - The Experience of Being Aware
00:28:31 - The Experience of Consciousness Being Aware of Itself
00:31:30 - Knowing Oneself and Consciousness
00:35:01 - Sinking Attention into its Source
00:38:26 - The Relaxation of Attention and the Shining of Peace
00:42:23 - The Illusion of Separate Self and the Fabrication of the World
00:45:10 - The Test of Reality
00:48:47 - Experience as a Coloring of Consciousness
00:52:40 - The Collapse of the Distinction between Consciousness and its Objects
00:55:43 - Compassion for those in difficult circumstances
00:59:33 - Matter as a Perception
01:02:13 - Living with Love and Awareness
01:05:21 - The Universal Feeling-Understanding
01:08:49 - Treating the World with Kindness
01:11:59 - The Longing for Happiness
01:15:16 - The Source of Longing for Happiness and Awareness
01:18:47 - Stepping in the Direction of Discovery
01:21:32 - The Mud Puddle and Living the Words
01:24:46 - The Natural Style of Functioning
01:28:01 - The Presence of Consciousness in Experience
01:32:10 - Trusting Experience and God's Infinite Being
01:35:33 - A Beautiful Gift to Humanity
01:38:07 - Listening during your commute

From an early age Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. For twenty years he studied the teachings of P.D.Ouspensky, J.Krishnamurti, Rumi, Shankaracharya, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, in 1996. Francis introduced Rupert to the teachings of Jean Klein and Atmanada Krishna Menon and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience.

His two books, The Transparency of Things, (sub-titled Contemplating the Nature of Experience), and Presence, in two volumes (The Art of Peace and Happiness and The Intimacy of All Experience), are a profound exploration of the non-dual nature of experience.

Rupert’s YouTube Channel. Interviews can be listened to here and watched here.

Rupert lives in UK and holds regular meetings and retreats in Europe and USA.

For all further information see http://www.rupertspira.com.

Interview recorded 10/25/2014.