Transparent Body, Luminous World

The twenty-four yoga meditations inTransparent Body, Luminous Worldwere transcribed and selected from several hundred guided meditations that Rupert Spira gave at meetings and retreats in Europe and the USA since 2012. The 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. In this approach to meditation – which Spira calls the Tantric Yoga of Sensation and Perception – Awareness turns again towards the objects of experience. There is then a progressive infiltrating, pervading or saturating of the objects of knowledge and experience with the peace and happiness that are inherent in Awareness's knowing of its own being. The density and solidity of the body and the otherness of the world are penetrated and suffused with the light of pure knowing, God's infinite being, and are gradually outshone by it. The body becomes impersonal like the world, and the world becomes intimate like the body. 'Tantric wisdom tells us that everything we experience is made of pure Awareness – untouched, yet constantly manifesting as perceptions, sensations and thoughts. Under Rupert Spira's precise and loving guidance, this esoteric teaching becomes an actual, felt experience. His words contain a profound transmission of the reality he's describing. As you follow his pointing-out instructions, body, thoughts, sensations and sounds start to reveal themselves as arising inside a borderless Awareness. In time, you begin to feel your entire experience as saturated with Awareness, made of Awareness, dancing inside Awareness. Connecting to the Presence flowing through Rupert's words, you literally catch the awakened state. Rupert's pointing-out instructions can free Consciousness to…