Tag: spiritual-path

Luscious fruit & the Reality beyond

Unsplash photo by Jannis Brandt

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On the Youtube video entitled Rilke and The Tantric Path Rupert Spira, our Oxford-based brilliant spiritual teacher said to a student;

“I like very much your description of consciousness the artist and every thought, feeling or  perception is like a brush work 

and the work of art but each brush stroke bears the signature of consciousness

and the signature of consciousness is the experience I am 

so every experience contains within it what I am and as you say that 

signature is is transparent it has no colour of its own but it is contained within it is the coulourless paint before 

it is tinted with each particular colour so its fine to focus on a particular brushstroke a particular perception 

as as long as you’re not focusing on its objective aspect but 

you’re using the object to take you to the signature of consciousness to the experience I am so 

you can follow every experience this is the tantric path you go 

we don’t start by going inwards towards the I am 

you follow your perception but 

you don’t stop with the objective aspect of the perception 

you go through it to the colourless paint out of which it is made 

the signature of consciousness which is always the experience I am

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NB I have tried to not add or detract what Rupert said but I have presented it with extra line to present each idea separately

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Juicy apple, pear, and banana,

Gooseberry … They all speak of

Death and life in the mouth … I have a presentiment …

Read it from a child’s expression

If she savours them. It comes from far, from far …

Aren’t you slowly becoming aware of something inexpressible in your mouth?

Where a moment ago were words, a flowing discovery

Is released, startling, from the fruit’s flesh.

Venture to say what your apple is called.

This sweetness, which originally condensed itself,

Spreading out, slowly in being tasted rose up

To achieve a clarity, awake and of transparency,

Resonant of opposites, sunny, earthy, of the here and now -:

Oh the experience of it, the feeling, the joy -, immense!

Rilke’s sonnets are here – https://www.sonnetstoorpheus.com/book1_13.html

The one referred to here is number 13

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Rilke photo on Wikipedia