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André Duqum interviews Rupert Spira about what a person really is. Spira says the limited mind is built from thinking and from the senses, and that a picture of the universe made only from those stays relative. He uses the room they are sitting in as a picture. The openness there is not actually stopped by the four walls, and noticing that fact is not what makes the openness. In the same way, he says, the aware presence people already are is not produced by a technique. What covers an inborn happiness is the stuff of experience. The mind can name the qualities of that awareness only inside its own frame, so it cannot know awareness the way it knows an object. Religions, he says, were founded on this kind of knowing. He makes a deep point in plain words.
Key points
- André Duqum interviews Rupert Spira about what a person really is.
- The limited mind, Spira says, is built from thinking and from the senses.
- The openness of a room is not stopped by its four walls.
- An inborn happiness, he says, gets covered by the stuff of experience.
- The mind cannot know awareness the way it knows an object.
Short quotes
Our finite mind consists of thought and perception.
Rupert Spira, Rupert Spira on the finite mind
He says the limited mind is built from thinking and from the senses. Watch at 6:11
The space in this room is not actually limited by the four walls of this room.
Rupert Spira, Rupert Spira on the finite mind
He says the openness of the room is not stopped by those four walls. Watch at 19:00
Our innate happiness has been veiled by the content of experience.
Rupert Spira, Rupert Spira on the finite mind
He says an inborn happiness gets covered by the stuff of experience. Watch at 24:51
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