Yes team. Here’s the timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:25 Defining Enlightenment 04:34 Our Past Selves 07:55 What is Awareness? 11:19 The Nature of Happiness 19:12 Are Peace and Happiness the Same? 23:10 What Impedes Happiness? 34:57 An Activity to Re-centre 37:29 The Essence of Non-Duality 44:39 The Finite Mind and Infinity 49:31 Lessons Learned from Rupert’s Life 55:13 Rupert’s Advice to Seekers of Happiness
12:56 Why happiness be the substrate we grow out of? From evolution psychology point of view, if you are constantly in a blissful state, then you wouldn't have the motivation to do anything. You would simply be washed out of evolution competition. In Why Buddhism is True, robert wright wrote about this wonderfully
I too have a small problem with the word: happiness. The glimpses I have experienced with our true-self are indescribably pure, aware-presence that is nonjudgmental of any emotion that may arise be it happiness or sadness. It's all semantics I guess. Bottomless-peace I feel is a closer description....but no words can genuinely describe it.
Rupert Spira perhaps my favourite teacher for a good few years, he has a beautiful way of expressing non duality that almost immediately quiets the mind
He’s the most lucid western explainer of consciousness I’ve come across .Most proponents need more two hours on a podcast at least , invariably tying themselves in knots and going over their elaboration again and again .By the first five minutes you get where he is going .
Someone recommended Rupert Spira to me about 9 years ago on the middle of a crowded dance floor. Met the man in Oxford a few years later. He helped me more than most on the continual search for the self. He has such a lucid clarity to his presence, I highly recommend watching some of the clips on his channel. Thanks for this!
I would also like to recommend the work of Byron Katie... through questioning our thoughts we find peace and an end to suffering, I live my life mostly with joy, laughter acceptance and peace more than I ever could have imagined... it’s really all so incredibly simple
I found Rupert Spira just 2 weeks ago and I can darely says he is second Ramana Maharshi explains the things simply to understand . Thank you Rupert and thank you for sharing this video❤️❤️❤️
I know this was uploaded a year ago, but I only just came across this. I love Rupert's clear teaching and he has a calming voice. You did a great interview and you have an infectious smile, Chris. Thanks for sharing.
What a great guest, I love the way you cover so much ground on so many varied subjects. Thanks a lot for the all the brilliant content which hopefully I am learning from.
Explanations,descriptions,questions are very entertaining to the intellect,but like a menu will never satisfy your hunger,the answers we seek can be discovered in the beautiful realm of the heart.All the great philosophers of the past have said Know Thyself,know,feel,and enjoy this gift of all gifts,the simple coming and going of this breath,which is my ticket to the greatest show on Earth.💚
Chris it made me so happy to discover that a youtuber of your calibre interviewed a man like Rupert. I hope that you'll continue with other great contemporary masters like adishanti and Angelo diLullo. Spread the word, spread the word...
Thank you, thank you, thank you both. Thank you Rhonda Byrnes for The Greatest Secret which lead to my awareness and opened up my world to teachers and videos like this. My gratitude is beyond words
Thank you so much Mr Spira you are making a massive impact and difference in the world...We need your wisdom and knowledge of the truth. what a special lovely man 👍🤗👏🙏
The dream analogy is very interesting... it always reminds me of psychedelic experiences, a common characteristic of which is that felt sense of unity and connectedness to everything. And what's so weird about that altered state of consciousness that it leaves one with the impression of being more real than our normal waking state, although a psychedelic experience is just a tiny fragment of our whole experience. When we wake from a dream it's different, we feel like the dream-world was less real than the normal waking state.
When Rupert said “Because it just is” in response to happiness being our natural state, it gave me pause. And I thought, we come out crying. It’s the first thing we do. Perhaps that ties into the nature of reality on Earth. It’s been said that Love is our natural state by those that have touched it, here and on the “other side”, as reported by NDE’ers. It seems one of the eternal questions of humanity is why is there so much suffering? I admire and respect Spira, and these are great questions being asked. But someone I care for deeply once said “Why ask questions to things you can’t answer?” I always remind myself of how much there is to not know, and that reminds me not to take it all so seriously.
I know this is way into the future that I'm seeing this, but I always liked the quote, "as our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." Just like the nature of everything on earth as a physical plane of perceived duality, wisdom is not just about learning truth, but also learning how much you don't know which leads to a peaceful surrender and humility to embody throughout life here. Kind of a similar idea to "the fool thinks he knows everything, but the wise knows he knows nothing." Rather than seeing things as suffering and prospering, I find the teachings that point to the world energetically as very helpful. That nothing is good or bad, it's moreso the polarity of absorption and reflection as expressions of light energy (since we are in a world of light perception.) Too much for a RU-vid comment but I recommend listening to people like Robert Edward Grant if you're interested!
I would be interested in hearing Rupert address dreams that come from the Self, as has happened in Scripture. Dreams as a directive from the Divine and one's calling to revealing something larger as seen in the Dream Story.
There seems to be so many people on this non duality trip of late. I am sure they all understand the concept on an intellectual basis but I often wonder how many of them have genuinely awakened. We all have to live in the real world and the whole concept must be much more difficult for those who live in abject poverty or in a war zone etc. It is indeed a mystery, for myself anyways, but who knows what tomorrow brings.
Completely understand where you’re coming from. It seems like a majority of these people are intelligent and are good at understanding theories or concepts.. but when it comes to spirituality or enlightenment.. they’ve never actually experienced it themselves. They are just good at talking about it conceptually.
@@Miguel-q2c1b hard to explain ina RU-vid comment. But implementing what you learn about yourself or spirituality in actual life on a daily basis and pursuing infinite growth in all aspects of ones character and existence. Always asking why you feel a certain way or why you make the decisions you make. Always asking what the fundamental nature or process is things are. Never ending curiosity and exploration of ideas and concepts. Always searching to understand God and consciousness. A lot of people like to learn about spirituality and philosophy and regurgitate things because there’s a persons and image they are after.
Amazing interview. I didn’t know Chris, and his questions where so smart and focused on following the ideas of Rupert. Clear, generous, smart. Thanks a lot, from Argentina. ❤
Superb interview, Chris! I've watched your interview-dialogues before, and this was a special treat with Rupert Spira. Your interview with Rupert and the awesome dialogue between you is a great gift to our world culture! Looking forward to more. Peace!
The name we used to call happiness, maybe it’s pleasure. Not the real happiness, peace that has no oppositions. Pleasure is dual. Changes to suffering. Maybe happiness never changes.
Peace is a stillness like a meditation, no focus. Happiness is a feeling you get only when you’re focused (creating). That’s why it feels like movement. Energy is flowing faster in happiness.
Great interview. Content is just right to introduce the philosophy to another person. Rupert has thousands of videos on YT, but I was looking for one that would give a balanced simple summary.
The second dimension is entirely dual, polarity. The eighth dimension is entirely dual, polarity. The second governs electricity. The eighth governs paradox.
Meditation though a wonderful peaceful and enlightening experience is not enough, and not lasting. Meditation will not change your character because your character is comprised of beliefs, habits, programming, and conditioned behaviors. Meditation plus knowing thyself will improve your life.
Hmm... Interesting interview. While I wouldn't agree or perhaps wouldn't want to live in such state described by Mr. Spira, I have to say that I very much enjoyed listening to this conversation. And while nonduality may not work for me I hope others find it useful in their lives.
Happiness is our true nature here and now, but it's about realizing it or not. For sure healing needs to take place to ready us for realization. Because people who are totally messed up, even though they already are their true nature of pure happiness for no reason, they just don't realize it.
Nice job at 31:26 of articulating the question about fear/lack motivation. I could tell you were trying to unearth the answer for a bit before hand, but it wasn't quite connecting. Reminds me of Cranium when you have to hum a song and it's like, why can't they tell what the song is..lol
Enlightenment is the experience of receiving the actual light or lights in geometric perfection and hearing the vibrational tone: it is the mandala of the self and all selves.
Happiness isn’t an “emotion”, happiness is a state of mind, which can be accessed regardless of what I believe is happening outside of me. Either God is the source of my happiness or something I believe is outside of me is the source.
When you connect your Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad with your Prioperception, the world vastly opens. And when you move your Locus to the Claustrom, you become Enlightened.
That is a brilliant interview Chris. I sense you are very close to being enlightened yourself. You clearly understand the concept that you are more than the separate self called Chris. I sense you just need to really in you heart believe it. I think it's just a matter of belief for you. Are you ready to really believe you are God and everything you see in the world around you?
Chris - thanks so much for this. Q: surely there are some few among us who simply enjoy the journey and are not driven by lack, whether they be biz entrepreneurs or gym junkies for example? Asking for a friend ;-P
Dear Chris. The reason happiness is the emotion of Consciousness is really quite simple. Our real state is " not two," however we imagine a state of separation which is an unreal state. Because we are existing in an unreal or we can say, an " unnatural state," this imagined separation manifests an uneasiness which we call suffering ( in all its degrees ). When we come to realize this and are able to sit in this Conscious Reality, the suffering imagined dissipates and suddenly as a result of this we find ourselves in a released from the tension of imagined separation and in a peaceful state and this liberation is happiness.
Want to get to the heart of understanding full realization and the means to it? Read and listen to Adi Da, first. You'll realize that you don't have to read anything else you after that. You CAN if you want to, but you won't get any greater clarity.
I the awareness, you the awareness, fish the awareness, flowers the awareness, cloud the awareness, rock the awareness. Are the the same? Or identical? Is happiness pervading in all beings, be the sentient like an animal, or otherwise such as a tree or a drop of water?
This bit about the need for a constant, unchanging self "behind" a changing me, mind-body-complex...is always presented in an axiomatic manner. In Buddhism there is no constant observer but there is an knowledge and informationally linked succession of beings which maintains the perceived "constancy." Even if you do not bring in Buddhism, can memory and some mental states explain the continuity of self-identity? Also why is the nature of that essential being Happiness? Did Rupert balk just a smidge? Maybe because it - that state of happiness - is a human attribution - and those are the terms we think in - happiness as opposed to non-happiness etc. Still - quite a remarkably polished conversation. Thx
Nonduality isn't a state of consciousness. State is transient. Nonduality is just a word that points to this waking dream, in all its fullness, but simply As It Is, Just THIS, not something else, just THIS.
