A special one-day event in Sebastopol with Rupert Spira!
October 20th, 2013 2pm-7pm
Dhyana Center
186 North Main St. Suite 220
Sebastopol, CA 95472
In Rupert’s meetings we explore the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions such as Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana and Dzogchen Buddhism, Mystical Christianity, Sufism, Zen etc., as well as the western philosophical tradition of Parmenides, Plotinus and many others, and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own intimate experience. This is a contemporary, experiential approach involving silent meditation, guided meditation and dialogue, and requires no affiliation to any particular religious or spiritual tradition. All that is required is an interest in the essential nature of experience and in the longing for love, peace and happiness around which most of our lives revolve.
“Know yourself as nothing, feel yourself as everything.”
From an early age Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. At the age of seventeen he learnt to meditate, and began studying and practicing the teachings of the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition under the guidance of Dr. Francis Roles and Shantananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of the north of India, which he continued for the next for twenty years. 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. Francis introduced Rupert to the teachings of Atmanada Krishnamenon, Jean Klein and the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience. Rupert lives in UK and holds regular meetings and retreats in Europe and USA. For further information see www.rupertspira.com.
His two books, The Transparency of Things, subtitled Contemplating the Nature of Experience (2008) and Presence in two volumes, subtitled The Art of Peace and Happiness and The Intimacy of All Experience (2012) are a profound exploration of the non-dual nature of experience. A book of sayings – The Ashes of Love – and a collection of meditations on the essence of non-duality – The Light of Pure Knowing – are due for publication later this year.
View a clip from the DVD with Rupert Spira "The Unknowable Reality of Things"