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- [NDhighlights] #4483 - Sunday, January 15, 2012 [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/t/92ac5282b07787fd
- [Wisdom-l] from Conscious Immortality [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/t/c45aeb8f41770717
- [Wisdom-l] The Power of the Thought........ mooji... [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/t/23fc9c1bb5f6f0c6
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Topic: [NDhighlights] #4483 - Sunday, January 15, 2012
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/t/92ac5282b07787fd
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From: Dimensional Tourist <beunlimited@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10 07:30AM
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/msg/c434988a5cc09b3f
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Mark <markwotter704@yahoo.com> wrote:
Archived issues of the NDHighlights are available online:
http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm
Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4483, Sunday, January 15, 2012
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless
surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a
certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned.
Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True
meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.
True meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously when awareness
is not being manipulated or controlled. When you first start to
meditate, you notice that attention is often being held captive by
focus on some object: on thoughts, bodily sensations, emotions,
memories, sounds, etc. This is because the mind is conditioned to
focus and contract upon objects. Then the mind compulsively interprets
and tries to control what it is aware of (the object) in a mechanical
and distorted way. It begins to draw conclusions and make assumptions
according to past conditioning.
In true meditation all objects (thoughts, feelings, emotions,
memories, etc.) are left to their natural functioning. This means that
no effort should be made to focus on, manipulate, control, or suppress
any object of awareness. In true meditation the emphasis is on being
awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial
awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all
objects arise and subside.
As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's
compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Silence of being will
come more clearly into consciousness as a welcoming to rest and abide.
An attitude of open receptivity, free of any goal or anticipation,
will facilitate the presence of silence and stillness to be revealed
as your natural condition.
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of
the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest
potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
SOME COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDITATION
Q. It seems that the central instruction in True Meditation is simply
to abide as silent, still awareness. However, I often find that I am
caught in my mind. Is it OK to use a more directed meditation like
following my breath, so that I have something to focus on that will
help me to not get lost in my mind?
A. It is perfectly OK to use a more directed technique such as
following your breath, or using a simple mantra or centering prayer,
if you find that it helps you to not get lost in thought. But always
be inclined toward less and less technique. Make time during each
meditation period to simply rest as silent, still awareness. True
Meditation is progressively letting go of the meditator without
getting lost in thought.
Q. What should I do if an old painful memory arises during meditation?
A. Simply allow it to arise without resisting it or indulging in
analyzing, judging, or denying it.
Q. When I meditate I sometimes experience a lot of fear. Sometimes it
overwhelms me and I don't know what to do.
A. It is useful when experiencing fear in meditation to anchor your
attention in something very grounding, such as your breath or even the
bottoms of your feet. But don't fight against the fear because this
will only increase it. Imagine that you are the Buddha under the Bodhi
tree, or Christ in the desert, remaining perfectly still and unmoved
by the body-mind's nightmare. It may feel very real but it is really
nothing more than a convincing illusion.
Q. What should I do when I get an insight or sudden understanding of a
situation during meditation?
A. Simply receive what is given with gratitude, without holding onto
anything. Trust that it will still be there when you need it.
Q. I find that my mind is spontaneously forming images, almost like a
waking dream. Some of them I like, while others are just random and
annoying. What should I do?
A. Focus attention on your breathing down in your belly. This will
help you to not get lost in the images of the mind. Hold the simple
intention to rest in the imageless, silent source prior to all images,
thoughts, and ideas.
- Adyashanti
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Topic: [Wisdom-l] from Conscious Immortality
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/t/c45aeb8f41770717
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From: Dimensional Tourist <beunlimited@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10 07:24AM
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/msg/576851fc549a97
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Mark Scorelle <mark.scorelle@gmail.com> wrote:
Q. I do not understand your reference to dream and mental illusion.
A. Our experience of the world is evoked and dissolved by the mind.
When you travel from India to London does your body really move? No!
It is the conveyance which moves and your body remains inside-it
without itself travelling. It is the ship and the train which travels.
Just as these movements are superimposed upon your body, so are
visions, dream-states and even re-incarnations superimposed upon your
real Self. The latter does not move and is not affected by all these
outward changes, remaining still in its own place even as the body
remains still in the ship's cabin. You are always the same and hence
beyond time and beyond space. In deep sleep you have no sense of time.
The concept of time and space arises only when there is the limitation
of 'I'. Even now the 'I' thought is both limitless and limited. So
long as you think it to be the body, it is limited. At the time of
waking up and before one actually becomes fully aware of the external
world, that interval, timeless,
spaceless, is the state of the true I.
Conscious Immortality
Conversations with Ramana Maharshi
edited by Paul Brunton
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From: Dimensional Tourist <beunlimited@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 09 10:07PM
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/searching-for-truth/msg/12794a0cda1884f9
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