Rupert Spira Podcast Episode 2: Conversations on Sensations and Perceptions, the Fear of Death and the Reality of Experience
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Jan 21, 2020 AI Snips
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Sleep Reveals Awareness Persists
- Sleep is not absence of awareness but the awareness of absence when thoughts and perceptions are removed.
- Rupert Spira points out we look forward to sleep because its peace shows awareness persists without objects.
Surrender During Attack Revealed Peace
- During an attack the questioner experienced an involuntary letting go that felt beautiful and like death.
- Rupert explains that forced surrender revealed the person's true peaceful nature shining through the crisis.
Longing And Fear Are The Same Dance
- The separate self longs for the flame yet fears dying into it because it cannot survive as separate to taste what remains.
- Rupert likens this to a moth that approaches and recoils from the flame it desires.