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Rupert Spira on Advaita Vedanta & the non-dual nature of mind and reality | Living Mirrors #25

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

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The Separate Self

Any spiritual path makes a concession to the apparently separate self because awareness doesn't need any spiritual instruction or practice it is already infinite, eternal and perfectly at peace. The teaching is addressed to the one who believes themselves to be temporary finite and limited and is as a result suffering now if the teaching says to that person there's nothing to do well then they have no reason to suffer. If we think of you mentioned this with any insight into our own being our own nature through these these methods I think there's this kind of tricky issue of if one takes that to be a kind of goal directed task  you're trying to get somewhere whereas actually just the insight is that everything is here perfect as

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