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How can I practice Self-Enquiry at work?
Q. If we are not the doer what aspect of us decides to turn within? | Advaita | Self-Enquiry Ramana
Understanding Self-enquiry and the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Q. “If we are not the doer and do decide to turn within, what aspect of us is doing that?”
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Q. I am feeling deep peace in meditation – how can I go deeper?
What you are is what you are. It can never be known by the mind. The thinking mind can never discover what you are. This is knowledge, supreme knowledge, supreme realisation as opposed to mundane or worldly knowledge. This knowledge is your Being. It is known by being what you are. So when this question is asked, ‘Who am I? What am I?’ The answer is not the words ‘I am’, the answer is what those words signify.
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The two main hurdles to Self-Enquiry | Atma Vichara
What is Self-Enquiry? (Atma Vichara) | Sri Ramana Maharshi
Difficulty Meditating? Tips for Meditation and Self-Enquiry
A Meditation: You are the Subject
Am I the Subject, or am I beyond both subject and object?
Question: Am I the Subject, or am I beyond both subject and object? Some teachers will say, ‘you are not the object, nor are you the subject, you are beyond that which is both.’ Could you explain please?
Tom: The essential teaching is that You – the Absolute, the Self, the Divine – You are beyond all objects, that is, you are beyond body-mind-world.
If a teaching says what you are is beyond both subject and object, then subject refers to the body-mind and object refers to the world, and you are That Pure Consciousness which is beyond both.
If a teaching states you are the Pure Subject beyond all phenomenal objects, then You refers to Pure Consciousness beyond all objects, ie. body-mind-world.
Don’t forget the purpose of the teaching is not to have merely an intellectual understanding of the above, but to turn your attention selfwards and abide as the Self, for this is the key/clue that leads to self-realisation – otherwise it is just theoretical talk.
Namaste
Tom
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