Spiritual Attunement through Meditation
Jul 24, 2026 · 23 min · 5 segments
Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation. Episode #134: The Inward-Facing Path. Today I’ll be sharing information from the 2017 book Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira. This simple…
Today I'll be sharing information from the 2017 book titled Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira.
This simple contemplative approach, which encourages a clear seeing of one's experience rather than any kind of effort or discipline, leads the reader to an experiential understanding of their own essential being and the peace and fulfillment that are inherent within it.
We'll begin with chapter six, titled The Inward-Facing Path.
Awareness shines in each of our minds as the experience of being aware, the feeling of being, or the knowledge I am.
As such, the knowledge I am is awareness's awareness of itself.
The knowledge I am shines briefly in our experience at the end of every thought, feeling, sensation, or perception, although it usually remains unnoticed due to its brevity, as when the screen is revealed between two frames of a movie.
The knowledge I am is also present during all thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving, but seems to be veiled by them, just as the screen remains present during a movie, but seems to be obscured by it.
The knowledge I am, or awareness's knowledge of itself, is thus prior to and beyond all the finite mind's relative knowledge and experience, as well as being its ultimate reality.
As such, it is absolute knowledge.
The Indian sage Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj referred to it as focusing on the I am, by which he meant resting in the experience of I am, that is, simply resting in and as our essential, unconditioned, self-aware being.
The use of the word focusing in this context is a concession to the mind's normal activity of directing itself towards or focusing on objective experience.
To such a mind, the teaching suggests reorienting attention towards the knowledge I am.
However, this is not a directing of the mind, but rather a resting of the mind in its own essence, the simple, non-objective experience of being aware or awareness itself." For a mind that is accustomed to directing itself exclusively towards objective experience, the experience of being aware, the feeling of being or the knowledge I am, is a trace or a hint in the mind as to the direction in which to look for the peace and happiness for which it longs.
The knowledge I am is like a small image on a screen appearing on that screen.
From the standpoint of the image, the image of the screen is part of the image.
From the standpoint of the screen, it is the screen.
From the point of view of the mind, the knowledge I am is an experience within the mind.
From the point of view of awareness, it is awareness itself.
Thus the knowledge I am is the experience in which the finite mind and infinite awareness intersect.
It is a beacon that shines with the presence of awareness in the midst of experience.
Today I'll be sharing information from the 2017 book titled Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira.
This simple contemplative approach, which encourages a clear seeing of one's experience rather than any kind of effort or discipline, leads the reader to an experiential understanding of their own essential being and the peace and fulfillment that are inherent within it.
We'll begin with chapter six, titled The Inward-Facing Path.
Awareness shines in each of our minds as the experience of being aware, the feeling of being, or the knowledge I am.
As such, the knowledge I am is awareness's awareness of itself.
The knowledge I am shines briefly in our experience at the end of every thought, feeling, sensation, or perception, although it usually remains unnoticed due to its brevity, as when the screen is revealed between two frames of a movie.
The knowledge I am is also present during all thinking, feeling, sensing, and perceiving, but seems to be veiled by them, just as the screen remains present during a movie, but seems to be obscured by it.
The knowledge I am, or awareness's knowledge of itself, is thus prior to and beyond all the finite mind's relative knowledge and experience, as well as being its ultimate reality.
As such, it is absolute knowledge.
The Indian sage Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj referred to it as focusing on the I am, by which he meant resting in the experience of I am, that is, simply resting in and as our essential, unconditioned, self-aware being.
The use of the word focusing in this context is a concession to the mind's normal activity of directing itself towards or focusing on objective experience.
To such a mind, the teaching suggests reorienting attention towards the knowledge I am.
However, this is not a directing of the mind, but rather a resting of the mind in its own essence, the simple, non-objective experience of being aware or awareness itself." For a mind that is accustomed to directing itself exclusively towards objective experience, the experience of being aware, the feeling of being or the knowledge I am, is a trace or a hint in the mind as to the direction in which to look for the peace and happiness for which it longs.
The knowledge I am is like a small image on a screen appearing on that screen.
From the standpoint of the image, the image of the screen is part of the image.
From the standpoint of the screen, it is the screen.
From the point of view of the mind, the knowledge I am is an experience within the mind.
From the point of view of awareness, it is awareness itself.
Thus the knowledge I am is the experience in which the finite mind and infinite awareness intersect.
It is a beacon that shines with the presence of awareness in the midst of experience.
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