The Transparency of Things
by Rupert Spira
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Author: Rupert SpiraEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-30
ISBN: 0955829054
Number of pages: 274
Publisher: Non-Duality Press
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Book Review: A pleasure to read
Summary: 5 Stars
I read alot of Nondual books. "The Transparency of Things" I found to be one of the best. Maybe it is because I was an artist. Maybe its because he reasons from direct experience to Consciousness, Presence, Reality. But I found it to be a most engaging and transforming book I especially like his approach that each and every question that arises naturally should be answered and this a necessary part of coming to full realization.
This book shouldn't be read like a philosophical text but rather a modern day sutra. I read about 5 pages a day until inspired than let it drop till the next day's reading. Trying to comprehend it intellectually won't be a satisfying approach although it is reasoned. But it is a sacred reasoning. One that leads to something intangible and real.
I had the opportunity to attend a weekend with Rupert in New York City. He is an engaging and compassionate teacher who IMHO is genuinely self-realized. If you are at all interested in the modern Awareness teachers and coming to self-realization, you should check this out. Here a few quotes:
Consciousness conceives of itself as a subtle object towards which it
can turn. It does not yet know that it is already the attention that it
is trying to give itself.
It does not yet see clearly that attention divested of an object is
already Consciousness, Presence, itself. So it plays a trick on itself. It
searches for itself.
Consciousness never finds itself in this way because it is, without
knowing it, already itself.
However, in attempting the impossible task of using mind to look
towards that which is not an object, Consciousness is somehow
undermining its habit of looking `outside' and `elsewhere.'
The mind dissolves when it tries to see or touch that objectless place.
The search collapses. It is undermined rather than fulfilled.
p 141
The idea that time is like a container, that houses all the events of
our lives is in fact a temporal representation of Consciousness, in
the mind.
And likewise, the idea that space is like a container, that houses all
the objects in the world is a spatial representation of Consciousness,
in the mind.
Events do not appear in time and objects do not appear in space. They
both appear in Consciousness.
p.243
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