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Hi John, Just to say that it was lovely to speak to you, even though in the fluster to get the microphone going and actually being heard worldwide I forgot most everything I was going to say, still nevermind it really doesn't matter! What I actually wanted to say was that through the continual turning inwards to look at who and what I am I have been freed, and realise that I trully am no longer at stake in my life, as I feel an indescribable sense of fulfillment and freedom, regardless of what is going on in my life. When I look inside now I feel peace like I have never known, and as you said on Saturday, the underlying tow of fear and anxiety has disappeared. This has enabled me to live my life fully, completely and wholeheartedly — what a gift! What I have realised now was that the big experience of reality I had was still an experience, however amazing and a true glimpse of reality, but it is the enduring effect it has had on my daily life that has been so profound. It is the much more regular turning inwards that has really solidified the original experience for me and I am finding it a wonderful way to enjoy the housework (of which I do a lot with two small children) and other chores I previously thought as mundane! Even when I am not looking directly at what I am, the awareness of me not being my life is still there — yay!! I now see that we trully are all one and I can't quite believe that I managed to miss it before! It was the sense of separation that was driving me onwards, as that was what I was desperate to get rid of, and now it is gone. The self inquiry has made it all so simple because you really do not have to do anything except look in. This is in stark contrast to the amount of effort I had been putting in to maintaining the small existence of me. It is so simple in fact that no wonder it is so easily overlooked. The awareness found through self inquiry is something I realise I have always known as that part of me that has remained the same during the other very changeable elements of my personality over the years. It is trully profound in its ordinariness and so exquisite once discovered! This still really doesn't even come close to what I am trying to say, I suppose that thank you would cover it!!! Lots of love, **** Titirangi, New Zealand August 27, 2007 |
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| Worldwide Meeting - October 4, 2008 The only thing that is certain is you, but nothing can be said that is at all helpful in describing you or explaining you, or even pointing to you. You are here. The only certainty there is, is that of your presence. I am not speaking of the sense of self, although the focusing of attention on the sense of self, or the I am, or beingness, or by whatever name it may be called, will in fact result in the vanishing of the sensational experience that is the sense of self. In the moment of its vanishing, what remains is you. That's the incredible value and utility of Ramana's suggestion that we look at ego and grab it by the throat. In so doing, that experience vanishes and what remains is you. You, face to face with you. |
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