Listen "9. How to Awaken from the Dream"
Episode Synopsis
“I ask you to drop all expectations and let the guidance or experience of the current moment be what you were not told through thinking or imagining (what) to expect. This is what I mean when I say listen only to me. I mean let go of attachment to the thinking and remembering and judging and imagining mind.”
~Excerpt from the How to Awaken from the Dream message from Inner Ramana.
Letting go of expectations is a key theme of the message discussed in this episode.
Inner Ramana teaches that the way to awaken from the dream (from delusion to true perception) is to break the attachment to mental chatter. As today’s message points out, that includes breaking the attachment to mental chatter about spiritual ideas.
If I think I know what enlightenment looks like or how an enlightened one behaves, then I think I know. If I think I know, that means I think the mind is me thinking. Thinking I know anything that doesn’t come from pure observation is identifying with mind. (Observation is not pure if it is interpreted through mental chatter.)
Assignment for week 9: When you notice that you have expectations, practice self inquiry on them – What is the ‘I’ that expects this? – then move away from those expectations and continue use of the mantra and the practice of surrender.
Find out more about the Teachings of Inner Ramana here: https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/
Musical ident: Helen Allmark
#RamanaMaharshi #InnerRamana #surrender #IamthatIam #selfrealization #awakening #ReginaDawnAkers #AwakeningTogether
~Excerpt from the How to Awaken from the Dream message from Inner Ramana.
Letting go of expectations is a key theme of the message discussed in this episode.
Inner Ramana teaches that the way to awaken from the dream (from delusion to true perception) is to break the attachment to mental chatter. As today’s message points out, that includes breaking the attachment to mental chatter about spiritual ideas.
If I think I know what enlightenment looks like or how an enlightened one behaves, then I think I know. If I think I know, that means I think the mind is me thinking. Thinking I know anything that doesn’t come from pure observation is identifying with mind. (Observation is not pure if it is interpreted through mental chatter.)
Assignment for week 9: When you notice that you have expectations, practice self inquiry on them – What is the ‘I’ that expects this? – then move away from those expectations and continue use of the mantra and the practice of surrender.
Find out more about the Teachings of Inner Ramana here: https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/
Musical ident: Helen Allmark
#RamanaMaharshi #InnerRamana #surrender #IamthatIam #selfrealization #awakening #ReginaDawnAkers #AwakeningTogether
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