Being Aware of Awareness Guided Meditations from Awakening Together Podcasts

In today's episode, the meditation is focused on one of the core values of the Awakening Together community. This is Core Value #3: 

"We accept one true Self, which is one Presence or Being, non-dual, without beginning or end, and absolutely changeless. We live this value by practicing letting go of the belief in the individual self as who we are."

In this episode a quote from the book The Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. The quote was #277 by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. “Within the prison of your world appears a man who tells you that the world of painful contradictions, which you have created, is neither continuous nor permanent and is based on a misapprehension. He pleads with you to get out of it, by the same way by which you got into it. You got into it by forgetting what you are and you will get out of it by knowing yourself as you are.”

This episode is a focused meditation on looking right at Awareness and uncovering any potential false belief that Awareness is an object.

In today's episode a quote from the book Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. The quote was #182 and was from the Supreme Yoga.

"182. Do not fall into the net of duality and non-duality, etc. All such controversy and polemics only lead to sorrow and despair. When one pursues the unreal or impermanent there is sorrow. When the conditioning of consciousness drops away, there is no sorrow even as in sleep there is no sorrow. The consciousness that abandons conditioning realizes its unconditioned nature. That is liberation."

In this episode quotes from the book Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford were contemplated. The quotes from the book were #175-176 from the Supreme Yoga.

"175. You are deluded because you do not recollect repeatedly and frequently the truth concerning the infinite consciousness, but you partake of the poison of self-limitation and the consequent psychological conditioning."

"176. As and when the perception of an object arises within you, meet it with the understanding 'I am not this.' Such ignorant perception will immediately cease. In fact, there is nothing to be know in all this: there is need only to get rid of confusion or deluded understanding. If this delusion is not repeatedly revived, it ceases to be. Whatever notion arises in you, even as movement arises in wind, realize that 'I am not this' and thus derive it of support."

In this episode, the self-luminous Light of Knowing, also known as Awareness, Christ Consciousness, Buddha Nature, was contemplated.

In this episode Yukti verse 34 from The Radiance Sutras with Lorin Roche was shared. Quotes from Sri Sadhu Om were also contemplated. “If our attention is directed only towards ourself, our knowledge of our existence alone is nourished, and since the mind is not attended to, it is deprived of its strength.”

“When, through the aforesaid Self-attention, we are more and more firmly fixed in our existence-consciousness, the tendencies will be destroyed because there is no one to attend to them.”

In the episode quotes from Dr. David Hawkins were contemplated. "The Source is both the initiator as well as the destination."

In this episode a quote from The Seven Steps to Awakening, compiled by Michael Langford, was contemplated. The Quote 158 was from The Supreme Yoga. "All thoughts and beliefs lead to sorrow. Whereas no-thought and no-belief are pure bliss. Therefore, with the help of the fire of wisdom, vaporize the waters of your beliefs and become peaceful, supremely blissful. Behold the one infinite consciousness.”

In this episode Yukti Verse 31 from the Radiance Sutras with Lorin Roche were contemplated.