Non-Duality and the Nature of Consciousness | Blog | Rupert Spira

There is a spontaneous activity of thinking (fire) and ‘I’ claiming it is doing it (iron bar). There is being and ‘I’ claiming it. It may feel like the sense of ‘I’ hijacks the being, awareness of presence.

Pure Seeing is Non-Dual — there is no ‘seer’, no substantial object that is ‘seen’ as distinct from the pure function of Seeing.

in reality you are not a separate person, not an individual self, but the open space in which all of the little waves of experience—thoughts, sensations, sounds, feelings—come and go. You are, quite literally, what you seek. You are the consciousness that holds the dance of form.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realizes its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested. Then, when your consciousness comes back to the manifested world, you reassume the form identity that you temporarily relinquished. You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But

even when we are aware of ourself as a body and are consequently aware of a world, the clarity of our fundamental self-awareness does not perish.

Furthermore, suffering is an object within consciousness. Consciousness is aware of suffering. But if we no longer mistake consciousness (no-thingness) with its objects (things, including things like thoughts, feelings, pain), then we recognise that it is not the real me that suffers, rather it is that phenomenal ‘I’, it is the one in the mirror wh