Rupert Spira Podcast Episode 78: Colet House (Episode 2)
Jun 25, 2025
The conversation opens with a soothing guided meditation, leading to profound reflections on deep sleep and awareness. Rupert discusses how true nature exists beyond time and space, and how the illusion of separation is what causes sorrow. He explains the relationship between movement and stillness and the process of awakening as a recognition beyond ordinary time frames. Insights into self-remembrance highlight lasting peace, while the idea of 'lucid waking' encourages awareness in everyday life, transcending identification with thoughts.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Return Attention To Being Regularly
- Practice gently returning attention from thoughts and sensations to the fact of being during meditation.
- Over time this self-abidance becomes effortless and naturally present in daily life.
Forty-Nine Years From Practice To Simplicity
- Rupert recounts his early spiritual search learning mantra, Gurdjieff movements and Mevlevi turning.
- After decades he found realization to be ordinary, immediate, and familiar rather than exotic.
Awakening Is Outside Dream-Time
- Awakening doesn't occur inside the time-space framework the finite mind imagines.
- It is neither merely gradual nor sudden but occurs in what Rupert calls eternity.