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Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. All people share the experience of being aware, but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. Most people’s lives consist of a flow of thoughts, images, ideas, feelings, sensations, sights, sounds, and so on. Very few people ask, 'What is it that knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?'

The knowing of our being—or rather, awareness’s knowing of its own being in us—is our primary, fundamental and most intimate experience. It is in this experience that the peace, happiness and love for which all people long reside. The happiness we have sought so long outside of ourselves, in situations, objects and relationships, turns out to be always present and available in the simple knowing of our own being as it truly is.

The knowing of our own being shines in each of us as the experience ‘I am’ or ‘I am aware’, or simply the knowledge ‘I’. This obvious, familiar and intimate experience has no objective qualities and is, therefore, overlooked or ignored by the majority of people. This overlooking of our own being is the ultimate cause of unhappiness. What is the nature of the experience of being aware or awareness itself? The exploration of this question is the subject matter of this book and the essence of the Direct Path to peace and happiness.

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The Essence of Meditation Series presents meditations on the essential, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, compiled from contemplations led by Rupert Spira at his meetings and retreats. This simple, contemplative approach, which encourages a clear seeing of one’s experience rather than any kind of effort or discipline, leads the reader to an experiential understanding of their own essential being and the peace and fulfillment that are inherent within it. Being Aware of Being Aware is the first and introductory volume in The Essence of Meditation Series.


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Date de parution

01 octobre 2017

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9781626259973

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English

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12 Mo

‘It is only when we cease seeking happiness in objec-tive expeience, and allow the mind to sink deepe and deepe into the heat of awaeness fom which it has aisen, that we begin to taste the lasting peace and fulîlment fo which we have longed all ou life.’ – r u p e rT s p i r a
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t h e e s s e n c e o f m e d i t at i o n s e r i e s
b e i n g awa r e o f b e i n g awa r e
Rupert Spira
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I searched for myself and found only God I searched for God and found only myself s u f i s ay i n g
c o n t e n t s
Acknowledgementsix Note to the Readerxi
i ntroducti on e Intuition of Happiness1
chapter 1 Knowing, Being Aware or Awareness Itself13
chapter 2 e Nature of Awareness25
chapter 3 e Overlooking of Our Essential Nature35
chapter 4 e Disentangling of Awareness45
chapter 5 e Effortless Path59
chapter 6 e Inward-Facing Path71
chapter 7 Trailing Clouds of Glory83
chapter 8 e Ocean of Awareness95
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