Sunday, 22 June 2025

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Here is a set of summary bullet quotes reflecting Rupert Spira’s non-duality teachings, primarily rooted in Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, and direct path inquiry, framed in modern, experiential language:





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Rupert Spira – Non-Duality: Summary Bullet Quotes




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On Consciousness



  • “Consciousness is not something we have. It is what we are.”
  • “There is no objective evidence for a world outside of experience.”
  • “All experience appears in, to, and as awareness.”
  • “Consciousness doesn’t know objects. It knows only itself through seeming appearances.”




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On Self & Identity



  • “You are not a body or a mind. You are the ever-present, formless awareness in which all comes and goes.”
  • “The separate self is an illusion created by identifying with thoughts and sensations.”
  • “Peace is the nature of your self, not something to be attained.”




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On the World



  • “The world is a modulation of consciousness — not separate from it.”
  • “Matter is a name for what experience looks like from the ‘outside’; consciousness is what it feels like from the inside.”
  • “There is only one reality appearing as everything — not two.”




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On Practice / Realization



  • “The separate self does not become enlightened — it is seen never to have existed.”
  • “The highest meditation is simply to abide knowingly as awareness.”
  • “Understanding and experience must be unified in non-dual realization.”




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On Language & Teaching



  • “The purpose of words is to lead to the silence from which they arise.”
  • “The truth cannot be known by the mind — only recognized by awareness in itself.”





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