How to practice ātma-vichār, this is a practical synthesis or essence of what Ive learned from studying and practicing the teachings of John Sherman and Ramana Maharshi. 1. There’s no need to change or avoid changing anything else you’re doing. 2. The only problem there is, is a false belief about what you are. 3. The only solution that will work, is to see the truth of what you are. 4. There’s no need to understand what you falsely believe yourself to be, nor is it possible to do so. 5. This false belief is entirely unconscious and cannot be seen. 6. There’s nothing you can do that can rid you of this false belief, other than directly seeing for yourself the truth of what you are — this is so important. It’s not seeing what you’ve been taught is the truth of what you are. It’s directly seeing for yourself the truth of what you are. There’s a big difference. 7. All that you can know for sure about yourself is that you are here. All the rest is conjecture. This is just like Translation’s axiomatic major premise, just in a more directly experiential form. Instead of thinking Truth is that which is so, you notice you are that which is here. 8. So to practice ātma-vichār you just direct your attention to your hereness, presence, or being –- and see for yourself how it’s so simple, obvious, certain, continuous, changeless and permanent. ~ Ben Gilberti
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:33:55 +0000
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