Being Aware of Awareness Guided Meditations from Awakening Together Podcasts

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated: "You ask me to describe this true Self to you. What can be said? It is That out of which the sense of the personal 'I' arises, and into which it shall have to disappear."

In this episode, quotes from Michael Singer's book Untethered Soul, page 66 were contemplated along with quotes from Ramana Maharshi.

"Maharshi: It is the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. The mind springs up and sinks down. It is impermanent transitory, whereas you are eternal. There is nothing but the Self. To inhere in the Self is the thing. Never mind the mind. If its source is sought, it will vanish leaving the Self unaffected.

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. 

"Questioner: Mrs. D said there were breaks in her awareness and desired to know how the awareness might be made continuous.

Maharshi: Breaks due to thoughts. You cannot be aware of breaks unless you think so. It is only a thought. Repeat the old practice, 'To whom do these thoughts arise?' Keep up the practice until there are no breaks. Practice alone will bring about continuity of awareness."

In this episode, quotes from Paul Brunton were contemplated. "The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves but not within our egos. It is within our conciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a concious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart; it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of mind."

In today's episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. 

"None can deny his own being. Being is knowledge, that is, awareness. That awareness implies absence of ignorance. Therefore everyone naturally admits non-existence of ignorance. And yet why should he suffer? Because he thinks he is this or that. That is wrong. 'I am' alone is; and not 'I am so and so,' or 'I am such and such.'

When existence is absolute, it is right; when it is particularized, it is wrong. That is the whole truth. Only be aware, and your being is clear in your awareness."

In today's episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi, were contemplated. 

"Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand, you are always Bliss. This desire is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Inquire.

In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss?

It is the ego. Seek its source and find out you are Bliss. There is nothing new to get. You have, on the other hand, to get rid of your ignorance which makes you think that you are other than Bliss. For whom is this ignorance?

It is the ego. Trace the source of the ego. then the ego is lost and Bliss remains over. It is eternal. You are That, here and now. 

That is the master key for solving all doubts. The doubts arise in the mind. The mind is born of the ego. The ego rises from the Self. Search the source of the ego and the Self is revealed. That alone remains."

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. 

"Questioner: How to get peace?

Maharshi: That is the natural state. The mind obstructs the innate peace. Our investigation is only in the mind. Investigate the mind; it will disappear. There is no entity by the name mind.

Because of the emergence of thoughts we surmise something from which they start. That we term mind. When we probe to see what it is, there is nothing like it. After it has vanished, Peace will be found to remain eternal."

In today's episode, a sutra was contemplated from The Radiance Sutras; 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder & Delight by Lorin Roche, PhD.

In today's episode, two quotes from Dr. David Hawkins were contemplated. 

"With sharp focus, it becomes apparent that thoughts can be relinquished earlier and earlier in the process of their emergence and formation. ...by doing this, it becomes amazingly apparent that one thinks only as a consequence of desiring to do so, and that thoughts and images only have an imaginary value."

"Freedom is a consequence of the deep humility that the only reason one thinks is because one wants to in order to derive an experiential benefit or payoff. The ego/mind is afraid that if it doesn't think, it will (1) get bored, and (2) cease to exist."

In this episode, excerpts from The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. "When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and the experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something, "I am this, I am that," continues, but only as part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps."