From an early age, Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. At the age of seventeen he learned to meditate, and began a twenty-year period of study and practice in the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition under the guidance of Dr. Francis Roles and Shantananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of the north of India. During this time, he immersed himself in the teachings of P. D. Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, in 1997. Lucille introduced Spira to the Direct Path teachings of Atmananda Krishna Menon, the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism (which he had received from his teacher Jean Klein), and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience. Spira lives in the UK and holds regular meetings and retreats in Europe and the United States. For further information, see www.rupertspira.com.
"A transparent book by a transparent being."
--Francis Lucille, author of Eternity Now, The Perfume of Silence,
and Truth Love Beauty
"Recognition of our true nature does not need studious reading of
spiritual texts, years of meditation practice, or deep devotion to
a teacher. We need only the willingness to engage in a rigorously
honest investigation into the nature of awareness itself--not an
intellectual investigation, but a personal investigation into what
we truly are. In The Transparency of Things, Rupert Spira not only
distils the essence of this inquiry into everyday language; he does
so without reference to any metaphysics or esoteric doctrines. He
appeals only to our direct experience, encouraging the reader to
dive into the personal investigation of what it means to be aware.
If you do, you will find yourself tasting the realization enjoyed
by the awakened ones throughout the ages."
--Peter Russell, author of The Global Brain and From Science to God
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