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Prioritize consistent devotion over success or performance..
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The boundaries and barriers which hold us back from understanding our true nature are removed by silence alone.
The concepts and perceptions that keep the idea "I am a person living in a world which is solid and real" alive are weakened and dissolved by meditation alone.
It does not happen in any particular meditation session, but instead, day by day, underneath the surface of our conscious recognition, through simple, daily, consistent practice.
Therefore, be still.
Meditate daily.
Sit in silence and empty yourself daily.
Prioritize being present over thinking daily.
Relax away from thoughts and rest as awareness daily.
Don’t be lazy about it. Make time for it daily.
Let all wanting, striving, describing, projecting fall away, daily. They are of no use.
Dwell in being aware daily. That is it. Nothing more special.
No fancy tricks or techniques.
Just simple practice of the essential, daily.
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Consistency is more important than success in the realm of spiritual practice.
Devotion is more important than performance.
Devotion is the key that unlocks all doors.
The rest happens automatically.
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Truth is not something that you conquer.
It is something you completely surrender yourself to, so that it may conquer you.
This is the art of meditation.
Practice it....DAILY! Haha :)
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Our 10-week course will guide you properly and smoothen the transition. You can start with a 7 day free trial. (visit selfinquiryschool.com)
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Slow down.
Do everything you do with calm and poise.
Don’t seek short term results for any work, personal or spiritual.
Leave the responsibility of all results and outcomes to God alone.
Do your work without worry and attachment.
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Some days will be pleasant and easy. Let it be so.
Some days will be unpleasant and difficult. Let it be so.
Don’t react to what changes.
Don’t react to reactions.
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Find peace, security, and stability in the changeless reality within.
Rely on nothing else.
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Slow down. Don’t restlessly move around for the sake of action.
Don’t restlessly remain involved in books, videos, social media, and the company of others.
Prioritize quiet time for silence and reflection.
Prioritize remembering to turn inwards to the presence of the changeless.
Prioritize spiritual growth more than the acquisition of material wealth and pleasures.
This will grant you the strength and spontaneity to live in alignment with these teachings.
It will make your life simple, happy, clear, and peaceful.
Practice and experience it for yourself.
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Live in constant thankfulness to God for bringing the spiritual teachings into your life.
Live in constant trust of what may come and acceptance of what is.
Enjoy your freedom and embrace your destiny 🙂
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Morning and night, behold the presence of the divine within you.
Instead of letting the mind dwell on worldly things, fix it upon His presence.
Feel His presence as one with your presence.
Feel His being as one with your being.
Dissolve in Him.
Receive the gift of His Grace with an empty mind.
Make it your main priority.
Feel the peace of it.
See how it makes life happy, harmonious, truthful, honest, loving, kind.
Read again, and practice :)
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(If you would like to replace the word "His" with "Her" or "It," that is fine. Words don't matter much. See what they are pointing to instead)
- Sunny Sharma
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Declutter your mind of routine, mechanical thinking.
Strive to keep the mind as empty as possible.
Then, even the thinking that appears will be more sharp, clear, precise, and useful in its purpose.
A scattered mind is an enemy of the self. It creates only confusion and misery.
An empty mind becomes naturally creative, insightful, intuitive, wise. It creates only harmony and happiness.
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Regardless of the type of thinking that appears, you are not its doer - Only its witness.
But the more we strive to be present, empty of thoughts, the mind undergoes a natural transformation.
Its impurities fall away. It’s misunderstandings get cleansed. Its limitations, destroyed.
Kindness replaces hatred.
Contentment replaces desire.
Compassion replaces envy.
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We don’t need to understand how this works. We just need to experience it.
Don’t seek to achieve it either. Just be empty and present.
Don’t seek to analyze it when you experience it, just keep being empty and present.
This open, empty presence is the spiritual gate through which wisdom, peace, and happiness begin to flow through rapidly.
All our conceptual formulations about what life is, how it works, who you are, what you want, are destroyed and replaced with clarity - the understanding of the true nature of all things.
Can you feel meditation guiding you inwards in this manner? Away from concepts to Truth?
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On the outside we see an aging body.
Inside, we feel timeless being.
This timeless being, which we often refer to as "I", or presence, or beingness, or "I am," - this is the true object of meditation.
This timeless being, "I," we must keep directing our attention to.
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Dwell in timeless being.
Rest as wordless awareness.
Whenever you find yourself in thoughts, simply re-direct your attention back to your timeless being, "I."
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If we stay in thoughts, we stay in personhood, identified with the aging body and the changing mind.
Sacrifice thinkingness and focus on beingness.
Notice your timeless being as often as possible.
That is the greatest worship of the changeless Self within.
The more we "pay attention to it," the more it reveals itself to us, AS OUR SELF.
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All we need is a simple awareness of being
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What is it that IS? It is not this experience.
Experience is appearing.
I AM.
Experience may appear because I am there to know its appearance.
I am not anything inside the experience.
Even the mind and body are an experience I am aware of.
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Now, instead of being fascinated by the experience that is appearing, become fascinated with your being.
Be fascinated with the fact that you are.
This simple noticing is what it is all about.
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Don’t try to grasp it or benefit by it.
Even the desire or expectation of reward from this practice is an experience, seen by that which IS.
Instead, just notice that I AM, whenever you remember to.
Drop all thoughts of concern, worry, grasping and be aware that you ARE.
Feel your being, notice your amness, sense your presence.
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Become aware of the fact that you are present.
Become present to presence.
You already and always are.
Now just begin to notice that fact.
The fact that I AM.
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When you know you are, you are aware of being.
When you are aware of being, you are aware of Self.
When you are aware of Self, Self is aware of you.
Self is aware of itself.
The truth comes alive in this experience.
The light of God shines in the midst of this experience.
We can say it in many different ways :) But descriptions don't matter.
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Please don’t go seeking for your mind's idea of these things.
Just stick to the simple noticing of being, and let experience be whatever it needs to be in this moment.
Just become curious, fascinated, and obsessed with this fact that you ARE, that you are aware.
I AM!!!! (Scroll through the 3 attached images)
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Feel the presence of what is here and now
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What is here?
This experience is not really what is here, for it is always changing.
Experience appears to be what is here, but it is only an appearance.
It changes into a new appearance.
A new experience is always appearing.
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Meanwhile, what is here never changes.
Feel the presence of what is here.
It is always here. It only remains to be noticed.
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It is not noticed as something other than you.
It is noticed as your very own Self.
You are that which is here.
You are here, yet you are not this experience, nor any other experience that has ever, or will ever appear.
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Reflect on that today :) What we seek is so near that it is going unnoticed.
- Sunny Sharma
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No experience has beingness
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All objects(experiences) appear in and arise from beingness, which is like the space without which they cannot exist.
But beingness is not an object or experience.
All objects(experiences) appear in beingness, with beingness as their changeless perceiver.
No object has beingness of its own.
The beingness of objects is apparent, illusory, unreal. It is a facade.
No experience lasts. All objects come and go. All things are impermanent, including the experience we call mind and body(person).
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The apparent beingness(momentary existence) of every object is borrowed from beingness.
It is on lease 😂
This is where you can discern between existence and beingness.
Existence means it come and goes. Existence is momentary.
Beingness is changeless. Being does not arise and subside as a perceived object.
Beingness PERCEIVES the appearance and disappearance of all objects.
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So this is the work we do in Self Inquiry School.
We learn to discern between:
Beingness(that which IS) and existence(that which appears)
Perceiver(seer) and perceived(seen)
The Self "I" and objects.
The changeless and changeful.
The one and the many.
The Real and unreal.
The changeless perceiver is the hint of truth in illusion.
It is the reflection of the eternal reality(birthless, deathless, imperceivable) inside the realm of impermanence(birth and death).
Through this discernment(Self inquiry), we rescue the beingness from the web of concepts(misunderstanding).
We grow in the understanding of the true nature of things. We find peace, happiness, clarity, truth.
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How surrender leads to true happiness and fulfillment
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Your plan for life is an idea of what you think you want.
Life's plan is what happens moment by moment :)
Surrender means to become non-attached to your plan and accept life's plan as it unfolds in each moment.
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We think our happiness lies in trying to force our plan into existence.
Where our true happiness actually lies is in allowing life's plan to unfold without resistance.
Try it out. You will find this to be true.
When we allow life's plan to unfold without resistance, not only do we find our greatest personal happiness, but also the express path to Self-realization.
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What is Self-realization?
It is wisdom; seeing things as they are; understanding the true nature of things, the true nature of myself.
If that is what you seek, trade resistance for acceptance, control for surrender.
Trade attachment to impermanent experiences for Truth.
That is the way.
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(In weeks 4 & 9, we focus on surrender because it is an essential aspect of the spiritual journey, without which we remain stuck in pride, doership, and suffering.)
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You can only know yourself through negation, not through knowledge.
For knowledge can only be of what you are not.
Yourself, you can only be.
But by the very virtue of seeing that you are not what you perceive, you are as you are.
Matter of fact, it is only from the position of that which you are, that you can know that you are not what you perceive.
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This is a very simple and obvious statement, yet it can appear very subtle and abstract to the mind.
But this teaching holds the key to understanding our true nature and the main "practice" for it.
There is a quote I discovered yesterday by Tony Parsons which someone shared in our school community. It gives a similar direction. Please read it slowly and attentively.
"Stillness is not brought about by not thinking. Stillness is absolutely beyond the presence or absence of thought. I cannot make myself still, but when that which appears not to be still is seen, then that seeing emanates from stillness."
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You already are what you are. You need not become it.
All that is needed is to notice your being.
How to notice it?
Stop taking yourself to be what you are not.
See that you are not what you perceive.
Cease identifying with what you perceive.
And notice, that you are perceiving what you are not, FROM the position of what you already are.
Still confusing? I've made a guided meditation on this and just uploaded.
Go to my channel and look at the most recent video titled "The mot direct meditation to know your true nature"
It will help you become clear on this.
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