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#349 - Rupert Spira - Enlightenment, Happiness & Non-Duality

Modern Wisdom

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The Pitfall of Using the Word Awareness

Non dualism is the understanding that really underlies all the world's great religious spiritual and Philosophical traditions. If we were to distill the non dual understanding it may be expressed in these different traditions if we were todistill the essence of that understanding. We could describe it in two simple phrases firstly The nature of our being or self is not some kind of a subtle thing but rather an active, present reality. And then secondly That which knows or is aware of our experience is not any kind of an object. So when we use the word awareness we don't I don't mean to imply that it is some kind ofa subtle thing How does what we've gone through so

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