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Nonduality, Consciousness, and Ending Suffering — Rupert Spira

The Weekend University

CHAPTER

The Awareness of Depression

What we are aware of always changes, thoughts, images, feelings and so on. The fact of being aware or awareness itself never changes. Most people spend their lives completely immersed in the foreground of experience. They don't even realize that there is this background. There is this presence of awareness that lies in the background of experience that's always peaceful. Even if our thoughts are agitated, even if our feelings are heavy or sorrowful or in the background there is this peaceful presence of awareness which is both one with the content of experience but at the same time it is independent of it.

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