A Meditation on Silence Inspired by Meister Eckhart (Christian Mystic)

Meister Eckhart said, “There is in each one of us an immense silence which beckons us into itself.” Rupert guides us in a meditation based on the writings of the Christian Mystic, Meister Eckhart. The theme is silence, from where the innate qualities of peace and joy permeate. Rupert mentions how it is this same silence that forms the foundation or fountain of true friendships, as they are grounded in our shared being.

Rupert Spira is an English teacher of the “direct path”, a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a notable English studio potter with work in public and private collections. From an early age, Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. At the age of seventeen, he learned to meditate and began studying and practicing the teachings of the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition under the guidance of Dr. Francis Roles and Shantananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of the north of India, which he continued for the next twenty years. During this time he immersed himself in the teachings of P. D. Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, in 1997. Francis introduced Rupert to the Direct Path teachings of Atmanada Krishna Menon and to Jean Klein and the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience.