Non-Duality and the Nature of Experience with Rupert Spira and Paul J. Mills

I've watched all Rupert's YouTube videos - read all his books. The questions from the doctor/interviewer are the most practical and effective questions I've seen asked to Rupert. The interviewer did an incredible job at making this accessible to westerners with no advaitan background. And as always, Rupert delivers clear crisp pointers. 5 stars

And, bravo to this MD who has the curiosity and open-mindedness to investigate this sixth domain of well-being, the recognition of our true nature.

Great video, I love how Rupert explains and talks about non-duality, very much crystal clear.

Rupert Spira meditations are amazing and easy to fallow. Thanks Rupert for guiding me back home! 🙏🏼

The essence of the Bhagavad Gita is a great stress buster and makes a person very calm thoughtful and one would like to let go of things gracefully.

Paul radiates such gentle and peaceful energy, its beautiful.

Rupert Spira gives the Advaita definiiton, which is close to but not the same as the Zen Buddhist approach. In Zen, the Zen Master Huineng (d. 712 C.E.) spoke of this in the Platform Sutra. He said 'no-thought" is the foundation of the Zen lineage and described "no" as "not having the characteristic of duality." What people do not understand about "non-dual" realization is that it means seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking are not changed as functions of awareness, it is just the way that thinking thinks about them that changes. The one most difficult to understand is "non-dual thinking" because it is still thinking, just not dualistic thinking, that is, it is a different way of thinking about thinking, but it is still thinking, but because it is not dualistic thinking Zen calls is no-thinking.

I thank you Dr. Mills for posting this video. I too am a family physician, practicing in the East near Boston. Rupert is the teacher I find to be most useful in this amazing discovery of our own true nature. The pointing is simply beautiful and utterly transforming!

Excellent ,simple and candid discourse on an inner journey that has no steps or distance other than the ones we create within ourselves . Thank you.

Most excellent discussion. Wonderful is the symbology of the two glasses of water on a very solid seeming, very visible, round glass table behind the two speakers: duality of the two glasses being supported by a single solid support via a transparent glass top - non-duality. Between the two watery glasses is Rupert 's book that elucidates the whole matter so wonderfully. Neither of the two gentlemen seemed to have much thirst though.

Great to have this discussion in this context!  Kudos to Paul J. Mills for initiating it, and of course to Rupert Spira.

I appreciated the very accessible nature of this discussion.

I closed my eyes towards the end of this, and genuinely felt as if I was falling backwards - waves of the mind washing forward.

Clear , effortless and simple. Well done Rupert Spira also thank you Paul Mills for listening with open mindedness.

‘Follow your heart’ means that in every given moment do what you feel like doing, and at the same time the ‘Self’ remembers that there is no separation between the ‘doing’ and the ‘do-er’. Thus the body-mind system constantly creates stories as if one is following one’s heart. But actually, there exists no separation from the dream. So when there is love there is no separation. To put it bluntly, give up trusting the intellect altogether visa vis what you have been taught. It's your nature that simply feels likewise the sense of being alive. By Self-remembering, you acknowledge that Love is your nature and therefore there is no need searching for it in time – it is right here now. Non-duality means; coming home to unity with the Beloved.

There is no fast track to Self-realization. Without constant practice, purification and dissolution of the egoic tendencies, the recognition of the silent awarenesses by itself will not help us a lot to live and express fully the peace, light, love and bliss we are as awarenesses

It's like re-prioritizing from our thoughts, feelings, idea, beliefs, memories being the most important (or only thing), to having them be a far second behind the recognition of our essential being.

Outstanding. Thank you both.

so profound ! as well remarkable way of expressing, the tone and phase of the conversation.

Beautiful.