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A review by koberreads
Being Myself by Rupert Spira
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
5.0
What is the non-dual understanding? It contains two main foundations.
1. Peace and happiness is the nature of our being.
2. And we share this being with everyone and everything.
This is a book not about adventure or religion or mysticism or even how to meditate or prary (but it does highlight the essence or focus on why people since ancient times meditate and pray.)
But I do advice to read the book before this one if you are new to Rupert Spira’s ideas/teachings. That is: Being aware of being aware.
This book, Being myself, is not exactly a sequel to the book “Being aware of being aware.” but rather simply another different slice of cake. Both the books come from the same cake, Rupert just shared to you two different slices of it but inherently says the same thing.
I have established a meditation practice for 100 days or so now maybe the effects and meanings of the words of Rupert Spira affect me better compared to if I never done a practice before, I might find his words more difficult to digest. So that is why I suggest to read Being aware of being aware first because that is more suited for both a mediation practitioners and non-meditation practitioners.
Meditation and prayers are activities that remind us that we are already the happiness and peace we seek. If you are religious, it means God is always within you and outside of you. Our being of peace does not cease to exist the moment we stop meditating or praying, since such activities are only reminders
This does not mean we cease to experience negative emotions as we read or after we read these books but rather it reminds you that there is always that calm, and aware background in midst all experience even those unpleasant ones that we could all always lean to and is always there. The negative emotion or experience does not last forever. But you, your essential being, does last forever
1. Peace and happiness is the nature of our being.
2. And we share this being with everyone and everything.
This is a book not about adventure or religion or mysticism or even how to meditate or prary (but it does highlight the essence or focus on why people since ancient times meditate and pray.)
But I do advice to read the book before this one if you are new to Rupert Spira’s ideas/teachings. That is: Being aware of being aware.
This book, Being myself, is not exactly a sequel to the book “Being aware of being aware.” but rather simply another different slice of cake. Both the books come from the same cake, Rupert just shared to you two different slices of it but inherently says the same thing.
I have established a meditation practice for 100 days or so now maybe the effects and meanings of the words of Rupert Spira affect me better compared to if I never done a practice before, I might find his words more difficult to digest. So that is why I suggest to read Being aware of being aware first because that is more suited for both a mediation practitioners and non-meditation practitioners.
Meditation and prayers are activities that remind us that we are already the happiness and peace we seek. If you are religious, it means God is always within you and outside of you. Our being of peace does not cease to exist the moment we stop meditating or praying, since such activities are only reminders
This does not mean we cease to experience negative emotions as we read or after we read these books but rather it reminds you that there is always that calm, and aware background in midst all experience even those unpleasant ones that we could all always lean to and is always there. The negative emotion or experience does not last forever. But you, your essential being, does last forever