The Direct Path to Peace and Happiness: Rupert Spira - Nonduality, Advaita Vedanta, Direct Path

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A conversation with Rupert Spira, contemplating the Nature of Experience.
This talk is hosted by Maurizio & Zaya Benazzo.
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[@cassavates]

OMG I usually listen to Rupert and I find him very consistent and structured, really experiential and loving too - but I have not noticed previously how kindly he and his eyes radiate.. A sage. Beautiful too.

[@Fairy-8080]

I also never saw his face so happy and free. Maybe this is what happens when you’re interviewed by two friends and he doesn’t have to travel far, being right back home with his family afterwords. So happy to see him this way🙏🏻

[@zenazen878]

I noticed the same...love and compashion

[@marynatani7300]

I’m so glad I found Rupert Spira. His brilliance is like the sun. To find someone with such profound intelligence who is obviously so humble is such a gift. 👏👏❤️

[@LL-mf6dr]

The discussion of who Jim is which starts around the 56:30min mark has changed my life. Bless Jim for taking one for the team and being the subject of the questioning and bless Rupert and SAND for bringing it to us.

[@birukd]

thank you for pointing this moment out. i believe it has also changed mine as a result. and yes, bless Jim, and Rupert, and all of this.

[@markofmixy]

Very profound moment for all of us Laura and couldn’t of said it any better. Thankyou to Jim for taking one for the team. Rupert as ever, calm, patient and present in his pointing. A clear and true moment of seeing/being 🙏

[@butterflyvicify]

Wow, thank you for this, I lost my soulmate of 28 year's, he passed on 01.01.2020, he was diagnosed with metastatic brain cancer 2 months earlier, until then he was a fit healthy happy man, I nursed him myself at home until his last breath, this has been the darkest time of my life and also full of love within myself, I know he is with me I miss his physical presence alot, in 28 year's we only ever spent 8 days apart, Blessings and love 🙏🕉️💜

[@MsFoxygee]

My heart goes out to you...🖤💗🖤

[@kellymarieoconnorful]

I'm so incredibly sorry for your loss I cant imagine how painful that must be. I am separated from my fiance, my soulmate, due to being in different countries.. due to pandemic and my country closing it's borders we don't know when we will be able to see each other again. A different situation to yours... The grief I feel is so huge to me but so tiny in comparison to what I'd imagine losing your soulmate of 28 years is like. Sending you love and light 💜

[@tatianavutsan5292]

Sending you so much love and comfort Victoria!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@indiracamotim2858]

Blessings and peace in your heart, my dear 🪔🌺🌸🌹🌸🌺🪔

[@keithalcock7173]

Thanks for sharing your intimate and powerful life and death experience. You are not alone, you are never alone. Lots of love. Thinking of you. All the best.

[@enerleaf7178]

Rupert you have the kindest face. Thank you for all you do to communicate these bits of wisdom and knowledge. I learn and get inspired to keep me truly living from the heart. ~nerissa, Tennessee, USA

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

Thank you Rupert I also felt a great peace when my little daughter had a very sad accident many years ago. I learnt that peace or happiness is what manifest spontaneously when we surrender our will to the “Will of God” and release the idea that we have to do something to be happy.

[@ReynaSingh]

Rupert is such a calm and joyful presence 🙏 I appreciate these videos

[@embodiedauthenticity]

"Most people still believe they can get rid of their suffering, in other words they can find peace or happiness by changing something in their objective experience. Having a better relationship, changing their job, changing whatever. [...] in our culture we are brought up to believe that happiness or peace are dependent upon the content of your experience, external circumstances. And whilst the acquisition of the object, the substance, the relationship may briefly put an end to our seeking it never delivers the lasting peace or happiness for which we long. Sooner or later [...] the old suffering bubbles up again". That's pretty much the gold there. So simple, but understanding this from an experiential level, will definitely change ones life

[@derekhughes5730]

I experienced this during my Ayahuasca ceromonies brother

[@gusrohan9868]

i guess Im quite off topic but do anyone know of a good place to watch newly released movies online?

[@graysonelijah5979]

@Gus Rohan I would suggest FlixZone. You can find it on google :)

[@jairobjorn9290]

@Grayson Elijah Yup, I have been using FlixZone for years myself :D

[@gusrohan9868]

@Grayson Elijah Thank you, I signed up and it seems to work =) I appreciate it!

[@leonardogirotto9538]

I want to thank you immensely for making this meeting available to us. My heart is filled with gratitude for the generosity and love of Rupert, Zara and Maurício. I definitely felt in a web with my brothers from different parts, who, like me, who write here from Brazil, connect through our hearts and real Essence. May we all realize our true nature and become pure love.

[@user-dp8kk6lv9k]

I was present with you 10 month later,but it's now and forever. All of you in my thankful heart!

[@Meejateacher]

Massive thanks to Jim in this, that segment really did the work x

[@prahslra]

Very grateful for your generously sharing this publicly.

[@YaTut169]

The only thing that is appearing to stop you from enlightenment/self-realization/eternal life/knowing yourself to be unconditional love is identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences instead of being aware of being aware and knowing yourself to be that unconditional love pure consciousness in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences appear but are not inherently one with you; they are an expression of unconditional love; you are that infinite that is expressing itself as suffering/pleasure but inherently you are neither; you are that nothing/unconditional love/pure consciousness in which they are appear and by which they are perceived; Suffering/pleasure comes and goes; there is an awareness that is aware of them coming and going; that you are; remember and know what you are; never identify with anything that is appearing within you; since it appears within you; it can't be you; you are that in which it appears. When you abide as that in which it appears instead of identifying; nothing has a grip on you; if anything comes; it quickly goes; like clouds passing; only if you identify as a cloud then it will appear as if the cloud is here for longer than it is originally supposed to; if you simply rest as the awareness and do not identify; it will quickly dissolve; be unconditional love by being aware of being aware; this is the highest; this is what you are seeking in absolutely everything else; you are seeking yourself; you are seeking unconditional love; but you are looking outside of yourself; instead of being aware that you already are unconditional love. Love love

[@prahslra]

@@YaTut169 As you have written your comment in reply to mine, I’m wondering: were you addressing me, or was your comment just a general comment, meant for everyone?

[@victoriahangula382]

Your communication is timely with the confluence age, because all humans have lost their virtues and are seeking to find it again, we are attracted to learn about the self which is the answer to all human suffering. Pupert thank you for sharing directly this wisdom. Stay blessed 🙌 😇 🙏

[@ericmilfeld221]

This whole conversation seemed so perfectly “choreographed”. Something or someone infinite and loving was at work. And to think that that something or someone is you and me…

[@deannehammer2009]

Jim's question, 57.24 min, just beautiful. And especially from 1.04.10 where Rupert describes "I" ❤️

[@karimali8269]

I love Rupert and i love you all ‘ thank you 🙏 ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

[@user-zp1bn9lw7v]

Rupert spot on in relation to grief. Reminds me of Thich Nhat Hanh who said welcome these feelings. Talk to the wounded child, say I’m here for you, you are safe……and as Rupert says welcome grief

[@buzzhollandfrankgoodman1882]

Wow, what a fun experience! To have Rupert at home and yet so at hand, fantastic. And the hosts seem so very Nice, it was a Real Pleasure to share your conversation, in the pre-dawn hour in Portland OR, with the snow outside. Peace. xoxo Thank you, Rupert!

[@jolove2241]

Thank you so much for making these conversations available 🙏🏼✨. Beautiful. Authentic. True. Go well to all of you listening 🧡

[@user-xd3ut7ok9z]

Thank you Jim for being so true.

[@cristianetalles5475]

Rupert, todo meu amor e gratidão estão com vc!! Maravilhoso!! Gratidão 🙏🏻💗

[@pamelaastarte1194]

I want to thank Rupert for his clear and direct speech about who we actually are, pure consciousness and our bodies and minds are simply vessels to help us see this. This is a truly lucky lifetime for all of us whoa re willing to wake up to our true reality.

[@goldenmeanphaseconjunction313]

I am blessed to have eyes and ears to see and hear this. Thank you all🙏🏼

[@user-xd3ut7ok9z]

Brilliant explanation Rupert with Jim on the wholesomeness of our being. Thank you from the background of my being.

[@indiotupi]

this segment with Jim is really precious! Thank you Jim and Rupert.

[@holtrain81]

This gent is brilliant, thanks for sharing

[@tranceending5914]

You are the sky, observing the clouds, but thinking, it is the clouds.

[@ingridborate1064]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤

[@phillipphu5937]

Thank you so much to help us to find ourselves

[@silverwhitesand2094]

Thank you, really inspiring and enlightening, the value of the spiritual content of the speaker is immense. Regarding the ego, and any and all negative feelings, I believe that just accepting them, embracing them, as a part of ourselves is healing everything and brings us back to the core of our being which is pure joy, peace and love 💗✨

[@karatkdj9]

One of the greatest teachers of our time and all time

[@Progenitor1979]

A great master

[@indiracamotim2858]

Just “Thank you !” I am speechless and so very grateful. Just “Thank you !”

[@margathea7072]

Rupert Spira ... Just wonderful... Thank you thank thank you...I Am here now, not absent .......... ✨🕉️✨🕉️✨🕉️

[@Joanthebone46]

what an amazing man Rupert Spira is, I am in Awe xx

[@desertportal353]

You guys are the very best! And to have Rupert with you is just the best of all! Thank you.

[@MuktiKaliyo-ts1np]

Thank you so much ! from Paris

[@LoveIstheAnswer696]

Thank you God for bringing this wisdom to earth❤️🙏

[@joemanly9519]

I cannot tell who I am. Wow the right teacher has arrived. Thank you. The most important question. I am so grateful for the posting of this video

[@tomkerr4544]

Thank you for this ❤

[@RasMajnouni]

"We All know what we need, but do we ask what we are needed for?" "Know Thyself" is the theme of Idolatry. Putting yourself before others and before the Creator who planned your journey here and back.

[@RasMajnouni]

Focus on the needs of others, you will be adding peace, cleaning the spiritual pollution. Focus on yourself, you will go down in the quicksand.

[@tracya.schneider7698]

I love your spirits ~ so beautiful! Thank you...so grateful I found this!

[@LeonGalindoStenutz]

37:00 Feeling so blessed hearing -- and now seeing -- this lady speaking ... i feel bursting with soooo much that my deeoest self wants to, would LOVE to, share with you all ...

[@margueritecurtis2168]

Such a beautiful introduction. ♥️🙏

[@solmenard4281]

I love the teachings and of course Rupert seems to be a true expression of the teachings. A real genuine integrated human. Thanks Rupert for sharing.

[@hengamehbeheshtian6465]

Great talk Rupert as always, I love this video and learned a lot from that, many thanks to you all 3 lovely friends, blessing you and thank you

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Wonderful.Wah.Wah.Aha.Aha.bahut.bahut.dhanyabad.Rupert.thanks.

[@elsaberhe9704]

Thank you both for sharing and humbling introduction! It's such a fulfilling and refreshing experience listening to Rupert Spira. Thank you for helping me understand with more clarity as I am practicing to see things from love and peace. God bless!

[@susannayeung5545]

Thanks Rupert, Your explanation is getting clearer and clearer, and much easier to understand.

[@simonjones6128]

Thanks

[@user-ng3ky7wj3d]

Thank you scienceandnonduality 🙏

[@pennypocket5463]

💫🎶ah, Thankyou, what a dude🎶🎼🌠🎶💫

[@lesleymcmillan1893]

Heartfelt gratitude🙏❤️

[@heidieid2263]

BEAUTIFUL TRUTH🧡💙🙏

[@shankarimanoj6938]

❤️Thank you Rupert.

[@malaselvarajah242]

♥️ perfect

[@pathiggins6513]

Brilliant thank you🙏🏻

[@lilianq24]

Wow! Thank you🙏🙏🙏

[@ceciliasaayman6244]

So glad I stumbled on this. Much appreciation. Cape Town

[@Progenitor1979]

Durban here! Would so appreciate Rupert visiting us!

[@advayaaananda]

It's Advaita Vedanta and not Advaita Vendetta, friends.

[@annnilsson20]

Thank you so much 🙏❤️

[@derekhughes5730]

Nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists. Therein lies the peace of God 🙏

[@Sayinarts22]

Grief could be the bouncing effect but not the path. Peace bring peace very different path. The neutral nature is our true self

[@benhudson4014]

we seem to think/ be what we identify with, and yet our essense is councious awareness, hence observation without intent to classify, knowing it doesn't matter what happens , does this make sense to you?

[@RelaxedPanda2698]

Rupert is amazing!

[@achintabanerjee9065]

Thanks with love to all.

[@_ARCATEC_]

Thankyou 💓

[@Progenitor1979]

Rupert, please visit South Africa!

[@janwag6856]

Thanks 🙏

[@janetworrell5979]

Thank you Rupert. How can we return to peace after being targeted by your life long partner. 🌿👏🌿

[@espera_2192]

You can't let go of your suffering by fighting or ignoring it. But you can acknowledge/accept/ allow it, and the suffering will leave you, because it served its purpose.

[@espera_2192]

It is not your enemy, if you don't treat it that way. And as soon as suffering let's go of you, you are more experienced and gain the ability to change unhealthy/unnatural circumstances without pain or effort. Just by seeing the natural state of how things should be. You step out of confusion and into clarity

[@herbertcrappell8309]

Magnificent Mr. Rupert

[@peacenlove6502]

In the end its if we can give ourselves to ourselves 100% or not ?

[@Officialviraj_thakur]

Love ❤ you rupert sir

[@chemistryclasseswithrajivs9128]

❤️❤️❤️ u Rupert....from.india

[@jitendradasloves-life5738]

That was so good ✨🥰✨

[@judabraun4126]

Wow this is powerful

[@CYMONKA]

Rupert, if our “I” fully merges with our essential nature (and there is no more limited and conditional mixing), is there any aspect of individual consciousness left? Is there anything to experience? How can we practically imagine such a existence?

[@MrHamburgerHelper]

Rupert !!!! 💋 So sorry to have missed this

[@spaciousentropy]

Is this dual emotional experience applicable to “evil/dark” behaviors when those are seemingly void of empathy and compassion? Perhaps at that point the soul has left and devoid is the result, therefore cycles repeat perpetually. In that case, Can evil be guided to light and evolve into feeling /expressing of empathy and love in a single lifetime?

[@tracya.schneider7698]

I have trouble with loss...would working with it be the same as the way Rupert talks about Sally's issue around grief? That it should be welcomed into myself?

[@bille77]

This guy is such a spiritual end boss. I love Rupert although I'm quite aware of the fact that admiration of assumed authorities is not very productive in terms of spiritual work.

[@marynatani7300]

How do we know the nature of our being?

[@marynatani7300]

Grief is love with no where to go.

[@ernesttilton7366]

Every i has experiance . only way to learn anything .we must at least. Look into and give all life a look .never judge any book just by the cover .so all am able to learn and its up to i to actcept or to exspress .love above all love life and the world .

[@bessiejaynes]

thank yo for sharing this convo. although wish he'd elaborate on the pervasive and more insidious crisis humanity is facing. would love a rupert spira take on it all

[@sarojbhattarai2551]

I have a question, it may be a weird question but all these spiritual masters those who are enlightened says that the awareness doesn’t die even after the body dies, on what basis they can say that the awareness doesn’t die even after the body dies while they’re still using the same body to say it? Can anyone kindly help me to understand this? Thank you

[@reeyanmaknojiya8921]

It’s because they’ve realised themselves to be the eternal awareness, without any body or mind. It’s a good question, but i think the real answer will only be found experientially. All of them talk about how recognition of the self is so true, it cannot be mistaken when it happens. I don’t know how to put it really, but even if you explore the teachings of non-duality intellectually, you will find a convincing answer somewhere :)

[@Htrac]

Problems do not always come from within. In fact most of the time they are external and beyond our control, so saying that we should embrace it and move towards the suffering is extremely unhelpful. Spira has a very nice life, I wonder if he would be able to practise what he preaches if he lived in abject poverty or with a very serious and painful disease, or chained to a radiator in a dark room for 4 years.

[@zenazen878]

Wow❤❤❤

[@deb2319]

🙏🌱💫💞

[@Sayinarts22]

Grief is kind of triangle with boundaries and limits. Circle is very different thing

[@isawthailand]

Thank you all so much 🙏💖🤟

[@tinelonborg7963]

❤️🙏🏻

[@alibazzin]

You stop nourishing that 'EGO' and at the same time start sharing. Remember you are now at war with that ugly self of yours and you are not going to cease until you reach that shore of peace. Your journey is made by a ship called:resistence of tentations and its aim is take you far away from egoism, hatred, enemity to the island of sharing caring and finally loving. This journey is taking place in your inside in your heart and the remedy is to substitute those dark feelings with others that make you human in the very profound meaning of the name. Do you think you are not going to suffer by doing this? Of course you are. Remember you are at war, and war requires suffering. But the most important thing is the result of the journey. There is no life without suffering. It is part of the human condition. When we talk about love, we are not meaning sentimentality or emotions because these don't last.these are changing and not constant and not transcendent. With love we mean the divine Love. It is the vehicle that makes you love everything everyone. You don't have enemies at all, you become the most ecologist human person in the world.

[@TYLight-ds1sd]

It’s only conflict with self. There is no us and them

[@Progenitor1979]

I am Jim...

[@herbertcrappell8309]

✌️

[@charliekaiser482]

Video title: Advaita Vendetta? 😂 That makes my day!

[@scienceandnonduality]

Good catch!!!!! 86,000 views and you are the first person that saw it . Thank you Charlie!

[@4kola]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@lindaj71]

I want to be Rupert.

[@heidieid2263]

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