Rupert Spira on Innate Happiness, True Nature, and the Morality of Enlightenment

Rupert Spira is a non-dual teacher and joins us to discuss the cause of suffering, the path to returning to our innate happiness, the realization of our true nature, and we also explore whether awakening has a moral dimension.

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Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro
2:10 What is suffering?
2:30 What veils our innate happiness? 
2:35 What is the mechanism by which thoughts and feelings veil our happiness?
5:28 What is our true nature? 
7:40 Isn't "I am" merely another piece of content? 
10:04 Experience as a property of being 
10:57 There's never a point in which there's no awareness
19:57 Non-materialist physicalist idealism
24:04 Consciousness as non-local
25:47 An experiment in inquiry
30:40 Experience, awareness, and the brain 
37:41 Is awareness independent the brain?
42:54 The risk of reifying consciousness as a thing
44:52 The silence of understanding and the mind bringing itself to its own ending
46:38 The stages of awakening 
51:24 Direct and progressive paths, and how purification and defabrication fit in
56:16 Rupert's definition of enlightenment
57:04 The insights of the second stage of awakening
1:00:41 One taste and recognizing aware being is the nature of everyone and everything
1:05:03 How does ethics fit into the realization of true nature?
1:09:00 World peace would have to be based on a truth we can all agree on
1:13:34 Where to find and follow Rupert Spira
1:14:30 Outro