Rupert Spira

So instead of the space now feeling I am confined, I'm limited, I'm a fragment, I need something, I'm incomplete and so on, the space now feels I'm whole, I'm perfect, I'm complete, I need nothing. Okay, that's the analogy. So let's go back to our experience, try to make contact with this in our experience. Leave the analogy of this vast boundless space, go to the analogy of being.

Consider one being, whole, without borders, unlimited, infinite, a single being like the single space. And now consider the single being temporarily enclosed within the body-mind and mixed with the content of our experience. By content of our experience, I mean thoughts and feelings, sensations on the inside and perceptions of the world on the outside.

Consider one being, whole, without borders, unlimited, infinite, a single being like the single space. And now consider the single being temporarily enclosed within the body-mind and mixed with the content of our experience. By content of our experience, I mean thoughts and feelings, sensations on the inside and perceptions of the world on the outside.

Consider one being, whole, without borders, unlimited, infinite, a single being like the single space. And now consider the single being temporarily enclosed within the body-mind and mixed with the content of our experience. By content of our experience, I mean thoughts and feelings, sensations on the inside and perceptions of the world on the outside.

So our sense of ourself is a mixture of the fundamental being or being aware or awareness itself, plus the contents of experience. So I would suggest that our being is like the space. It's fundamentally unlimited. And this is easy to check in one's experience. We could perhaps go there later. It's easy to check in one's experience that one's being is without limits.

So our sense of ourself is a mixture of the fundamental being or being aware or awareness itself, plus the contents of experience. So I would suggest that our being is like the space. It's fundamentally unlimited. And this is easy to check in one's experience. We could perhaps go there later. It's easy to check in one's experience that one's being is without limits.

So our sense of ourself is a mixture of the fundamental being or being aware or awareness itself, plus the contents of experience. So I would suggest that our being is like the space. It's fundamentally unlimited. And this is easy to check in one's experience. We could perhaps go there later. It's easy to check in one's experience that one's being is without limits.

It has no shape, no size, no gender, no color, no age, and so on. But in each of us, our being, our essential self is mixed with our experience, with our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. So we don't experience ourself as this complete, inherently peaceful, whole. We experience ourselves as a being that is limited, temporary, finite, and therefore lacking. Because we're a fragment.

It has no shape, no size, no gender, no color, no age, and so on. But in each of us, our being, our essential self is mixed with our experience, with our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. So we don't experience ourself as this complete, inherently peaceful, whole. We experience ourselves as a being that is limited, temporary, finite, and therefore lacking. Because we're a fragment.

It has no shape, no size, no gender, no color, no age, and so on. But in each of us, our being, our essential self is mixed with our experience, with our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. So we don't experience ourself as this complete, inherently peaceful, whole. We experience ourselves as a being that is limited, temporary, finite, and therefore lacking. Because we're a fragment.

We feel incomplete. This mixture of infinite being plus the contents of experience makes for a finite being. Like the space in this room seems to be a finite space. So although infinite being is... is whole. It lacks nothing. So the common name for the absence of the sense of lack is happiness. It's complete. It seeks nothing. It needs nothing.

We feel incomplete. This mixture of infinite being plus the contents of experience makes for a finite being. Like the space in this room seems to be a finite space. So although infinite being is... is whole. It lacks nothing. So the common name for the absence of the sense of lack is happiness. It's complete. It seeks nothing. It needs nothing.

We feel incomplete. This mixture of infinite being plus the contents of experience makes for a finite being. Like the space in this room seems to be a finite space. So although infinite being is... is whole. It lacks nothing. So the common name for the absence of the sense of lack is happiness. It's complete. It seeks nothing. It needs nothing.

It's in a state of equilibrium, sufficiency, plenitude. But when our sense of ourself, the fact of being or awareness itself is mixed with the content of experience, mixed with our thoughts and feelings, it seems to acquire limits. I no longer feel that I am this inherently free, inherently peaceful, unconditionally fulfilled, being or awareness.

It's in a state of equilibrium, sufficiency, plenitude. But when our sense of ourself, the fact of being or awareness itself is mixed with the content of experience, mixed with our thoughts and feelings, it seems to acquire limits. I no longer feel that I am this inherently free, inherently peaceful, unconditionally fulfilled, being or awareness.

It's in a state of equilibrium, sufficiency, plenitude. But when our sense of ourself, the fact of being or awareness itself is mixed with the content of experience, mixed with our thoughts and feelings, it seems to acquire limits. I no longer feel that I am this inherently free, inherently peaceful, unconditionally fulfilled, being or awareness.

I feel that I am a temporary finite self that is made partly of being or awareness and partly of the content of experience that the body and the mind. And so we feel we're a fragment And as a fragment, we feel I'm missing something. So this sense of missing something and the attendant longing to find something is the core feeling of the separate self that we seem to be.

I feel that I am a temporary finite self that is made partly of being or awareness and partly of the content of experience that the body and the mind. And so we feel we're a fragment And as a fragment, we feel I'm missing something. So this sense of missing something and the attendant longing to find something is the core feeling of the separate self that we seem to be.

I feel that I am a temporary finite self that is made partly of being or awareness and partly of the content of experience that the body and the mind. And so we feel we're a fragment And as a fragment, we feel I'm missing something. So this sense of missing something and the attendant longing to find something is the core feeling of the separate self that we seem to be.

It's the one feeling that defines the apparently separate self, this feeling I'm incomplete, I lack something. And therefore, in response to that feeling of lack, all separate selves manifest. all apparently temporary finite selves, are motivated by one thing, to be completed, to be whole again.