Episode 5: Conversations on Stabilising As Awareness, Time and Space, and Attention
Rupert Spira Podcast
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What Happens to Your Attention?
"I experienced me as awareness, it's impersonal, but it's as a center," he says. "Sometimes when I pass from that to just pure knowing, I can feel how my attention contracts again." The actor who plays the part of King Lear knows himself as John Smith and adopts his thoughts and feelings before taking on the role. It's the same thing for ourself: Ourself prior to the arising of experience simply knows itself as itself. And then as ourself, awareness assumes the activities of thinking and perceiving - one possibility is to completely forget itself and lose itself to the content of its experience. Or to not allow experience thinking and perceive to veil the knowing of
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