Summary of Rupert Spira's The Nature of Consciousness

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#1 All that could ever be known is experience, and all experience is known through the medium of mind. Thus, the first imperative of any mind that wishes to know the nature of reality is to investigate and know the reality of its own mind.

#2 The most profound knowledge that the mind can attain is its own essential nature. The mind’s recognition of its own essential nature is a different kind of knowledge that is the ultimate quest of all the great religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions.

#3 All experience has objective qualities that can be observed or measured in some way. Everything in objective experience has a form in time or space and a limit. The mind consists of two elements: its known content and its knowing essence.

#4 The common name for the knowing or experiencing essence of mind is I. I am the name we give to whatever it is that knows or is aware of all knowledge and experience. I am the knowing in all that is known, and the experiencing in all experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822528680

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Insights on Rupert Spira's The Nature of Consciousness

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

All that could ever be known is experience, and all experience is known through the medium of mind. Thus, the first imperative of any mind that wishes to know the nature of reality is to investigate and know the reality of its own mind.

#2

The most profound knowledge that the mind can attain is its own essential nature. The mind’s recognition of its own essential nature is a different kind of knowledge that is the ultimate quest of all the great religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions.

#3

All experience has objective qualities that can be observed or measured in some way. Everything in objective experience has a form in time or space and a limit. The mind consists of two elements: its known content and its knowing essence.

#4

The common name for the knowing or experiencing essence of mind is I. I am the name we give to whatever it is that knows or is aware of all knowledge and experience. I am the knowing in all that is known, and the experiencing in all experience.

#5

The mind is a continuous flow of changing thoughts, images, sensations, and perceptions. However, there is one element of the mind that remains the same throughout all experience: the feeling of being or the experience of being aware.

#6

The knowing element in all experience is always the same. It is the condition or essential nature of knowing that never changes. It is never modified by what it knows. It is the common, unchanging element in all experience.

#7

The knowing with which all experience is

Reviews for Summary of Rupert Spira's The Nature of Consciousness

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This was exactly what I needed to help sort the tangles I had about non-dualism/Advaita concepts. I had the details already, but sometimes details can be too circuitous that you forget what is ? what?. So this summary did a very good job in editing and getting to the meat of the different concepts that are essential to the Nondualism/Advaita vendetta. Highly recommended for certain seekers who already know.