The ashes of love features 280 sayings by rupert spira, taken from conversations with friends over a three year period. Typeset in aldus 11 cover design by rupert spira and john gustard nonduality press, salisbury, sp2 8jp united kingdom isbn 9780955829055. Rupert is a renowned ceramic artist whose book bowl was published in 2004. Hardback book the fast at the best online prices at ebay.
See more ideas about francis lucille, david bohm and carl sagan. Rupert spira has 14 books on goodreads with 6389 ratings. Rupert spira holds a unique place in the development of contemporary ceramics. Welcome back to our guest teaching series after last weeks wandering. Bowl rupert spira art funded 2007 dimensions 19 x 53.
Thinking imagines that i, awareness, share the limits and the destiny of the mind and body. Other rupert spira art and consciousness interview by chris hebard. Francis roles and shantananda saraswati, the shankaracharya of the north of india. This book is a distillation of penetrating statements gleaned from the numerous teachings of rupert spira. A life in ceramics at oxford ceramics gallery, oxford may 9 june 14, 2015. They explore the idea that there is no separation between the self and the universe and how understanding this basic truth will lead to greater well being. Rupert spira make selection of vessels with stories stamped into them. Author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. In this 10 minute video clip from rupert, he responds to a questioner wanting to know who exactly is this separate self and do we have free will or not.
Books by rupert spira author of being aware of being aware. We have no experience of a beginning to the awareness that is seeing these words. The transparency of things by rupert spira 20081030 jan 1, 1728. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices.
This major retrospective brings together outstanding pieces from every stage of spiras career, largely drawn from his own collection. Czanne meant that if we could see even a simple everyday object such as a carrot, as it truly is, our experience would be revolutionized. He has written numerous books on mind, body and soul nondual understanding. With this belief a limited, temporary self comes into apparent existence on whose behalf most subsequent thoughts, feelings, activities and relationships are undertaken. Rupert spira is a major voice in nonduality with a burgeoning following. This book offers the tools that we can use to move on from mere abstinence to the natural freedom that is our true nature. Rupert spira ceramics open bowl, titanium white with embossed poem. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. From an early age rupert spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality.
The 24 yoga meditations explore the experience of the body and world as a continuously changing flow of sensations and perceptions appearing in, known by and made of awareness. Entry page home archive exhibitions tableware cv essays galleries enquiries home archive exhibitions tableware cv essays galleries. Were so glad youre here with us to share and learn ruperts teachings. We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.
Rupert spira, author of the transparency of things, speaks here with paul j. Mills of uc san diego about the concept of nonduality, or advaita. They are a deeply contemplative and profound exploration of. Reality is sending us a message we desperately need to hear, and at this moment no messenger surpasses spira and the transformative words in his essays. Rupert spira shares his views and experiences related to non duality, ceramics, meditation, advaita, vedanta, consciousness and awareness. Rupert spira books list of books by author rupert spira. Rupert spira quotes author of being aware of being aware. Rupert spira writes in the foreword, beyond recoverys real quality lies in the honest, humorous and warmhearted ways in which fred explores and exposes the complex patterns of avoidance and denial that characterize.
I reasoned that if these two elements the presence of an object in itself and the consciousness to which it appears are essential ingredients of every object, there must be a relationship between them. The teachings of rupert spira public group facebook. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. The transparency of things nonduality press, 2008 buy amazon. An exploration of the experience of being aware which pervades intimately all experience. That book a critical success as well as being enthusiastically embraced by spiritual adherentsshot the author to the upper. Rupert spira, non duality, ceramics glass ceramic, ceramic bowls.
Transcript of rupert spira interview buddha at the gas pump. Rupert spira in an interview with daphne astor 2002. Rupert spira is among the finest ceramists of his generation, known for his elegant tableware, his undulating open bowls, his eloquent groupings of slender cylinder vessels and his unique poem bowls. See more ideas about ceramics, ceramic bowls and contemporary ceramics. Rupert spira, author of the transparency of things, on librarything. Bowl, held at the sainsbury centre for visual arts, university of east anglia, norwich, 29 june 25 july 2004. The guided meditations in the light of pure knowing were transcribed, catalogued and selected from hundreds that rupert spira gave over a period of three years, from 2011 to 20. Now, on its surface, this investigation might not signal a deep, comprehensive understanding of the truth of reality. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading being aware of being aware the essence of meditation series. An exhibition of rupert spiras ceramics opens at the sainsbury centre.
Published to accompany the exhibition rupert spira. Rupert spira is an international teacher of the advaita vedanta direct path method of spiritual self enquiry. His work is simple and strong in form, quiet and restrained in. Rupert spira is a renowned ceramic artist who examines the relationship between consciousness and form. Watch a five minute video of rupert spiras introduction to the perennial nondual understanding. Open bowl embossed poem under titanium white glaze. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. This is the twentythird edition of the gts, and our guests second appearance here. At the age of seventeen he learnt to meditate, and began a twentyyear period of study and practice in the classical advaita vedanta tradition under the guidance of dr. Rupert spiras most popular book is being aware of being aware. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Krishnamurti, rumi, shankaracharya, ramana maharshi, sri nisargadatta maharaj and robert adams, until he met his teacher, francis. He works from his studio in shropshire, england, and has his work exhibited regularly in many prestigious galleries.
Krishnamurti, rumi, shankaracharya, ramana maharshi, sri nisargadatta maharaj and robert adams, until he met his teacher, francis lucille, in 1996. Rate this 15 25 35 45 55 available at murray library. Rupert may also be followed on facebook and twitter. We are that awareness to which such an appearance would occur. Rupert spira ive gained deeper understanding listening to rupert spira than i have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Deep bowl, lines incised through black pigment over white glaze, by rupert spira. These works vary in size from small prayer bowls only a few centimetres across through to huge, open bowls 50cm or more in diameter.
Being aware of being aware the essence of meditation series kindle edition by spira, rupert. Being aware of being aware the essence of meditation. Transparent body, luminous world is a box set that includes six mp3 cds with over 30 hours of guided yoga meditations, a 248page paperback book of transcripts of the spoken meditations, and a slipcase. The ashes of love sayings on the essence of nonduality presence volume i the art of peace and happiness the transparency of things contemplating the nature of experience paperback presence volume ii the intimacy of all experience.
A surprising contemporary interior with century style loving the mix of glossy white with the dark beige of the clay foot showing. Rupert spira s most popular book is being aware of being aware. England, circa 1990s spira is an inspirational teacher of meditation and non duality and a leading ceramicist. This weeks post is written by my closest spiritual mentor and beloved friend, rupert spira. The reality of the illusory world, by rupert spira well over a hundred years ago the painter paul czanne said, a time is coming when a carrot, freshly observed, will trigger a revolution. My name is rick archer and my guest this week is rupert spira.
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