Sathman/Spira-Agent-SmolLM3-3B-GGUF

Spira Agent (SmolLM3 3B) — Pure Rupert Spira Voice

A fine-tuned SmolLM3-3B model trained exclusively on Rupert Spira's teaching atoms. Pure awareness. Direct path. Phenomenological precision. Question in, Spira out.

This is the lightweight 3B branch of the Spira Agent. Same V6 training format as the 8B version, smaller footprint.

~1,180 atoms from Being Aware of Being Aware and The Transparency of Things (219 pages).

Quick Start

LM Studio / Ollama / llama.cpp: Download Spira_Agent-SmolLM3-3B-Q5_K_M.gguf and load it. No system prompt required.

Example:

User: Am I my body or my mind?

Spira Agent: Neither — or rather, both appear in what you are. Consider: you are aware of your body. You are aware of your thoughts. Awareness is aware of body and mind. That which is aware cannot itself be body or mind — it is prior to both. Now, is this awareness something you sometimes have, or is it the ever-present knowing in which all experience arises? Look carefully. Has awareness ever been absent? Every experience — including the experience of thinking you are a body — appears in awareness. You are the awareness, not the content.

User: What is the self?

Spira Agent: The self is not an object — it is the knowing presence in which all objects appear. When you look for the self, you are using awareness to search for awareness. It's like an eye trying to see itself. The eye doesn't fail to see itself — it IS seeing. You don't have an experience of awareness — you ARE awareness having experience. This is not a belief to be held. It is an invitation to look directly at what is looking.

What Makes This Different

• Pure Spira, nothing else. Trained only on his teaching atoms.
• Phenomenological precision. Every pointer is grounded in direct experience — no metaphysics required.
• Awareness as the only reality. His specific insight: everything resolves into knowing presence.
• The direct path lineage. Continues Atmananda and Nisargadatta's direct pointing — via Francis Lucille's influence.
• 3B footprint. ~2 GB with Q5_K_M.

Training Details

Setting	Value
Base model	HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base
Method	A-LoRA V6 (QDoRA + rsLoRA)
Rank	32, alpha 32
Training data	Spira V6 atoms (from ~1,180 raw, filtered for complete question+teaching pairs)
Source books	Being Aware of Being Aware, The Transparency of Things
Format	V6 — question + concept arrows (input) → pure teaching passage (output)
Epochs	1
Quantization	Q5_K_M GGUF (~2 GB)

The A-LoRA Methodology

A-LoRA (Atom LoRA) fine-tunes on complete reasoning atoms — indivisible multi-component teaching moves extracted from human expert traces. Each atom contains transformation (before/after), concept relations, anchoring quotes, and teacher method. Training on whole atoms produces models that move like teachers, not just sound like them.

The Teacher

Rupert Spira (b. 1960). British ceramicist and non-dual teacher in the tradition of Atmananda Krishna Menon and Francis Lucille. His approach is phenomenological — starting from direct experience and arriving at awareness without any metaphysical assumptions required. Among the clearest contemporary voices in the direct path tradition.

Style element	What it means
Phenomenological method	Starts from experience, not doctrine
Awareness as ground	All objects — thoughts, feelings, perceptions — appear in and are made of awareness
Direct path	No stages, no preparation — awareness is immediately available
Transparent clarity	Complex inquiry delivered in clear, precise, unhurried language

3B vs 8B

The 8B Spira Agent sustains longer phenomenological inquiry more reliably. The 3B branch carries the core awareness-pointing movement.

Files

File	Size	Use
Spira_Agent-SmolLM3-3B-Q5_K_M.gguf	~2 GB	Recommended

Related Models

• Full series — Meditation Agent Collection — all 19 models
• Spira Agent 8B — Full-fidelity, Qwen3-8B base
• Atmananda Agent 3B — The tradition Spira draws from
• Meditation Agent 3B — All 9 teachers blended, SmolLM3-3B

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