Richard

[Guest guest]

Dear Richard:

Thanks for sharing your consciousness.

Aloha,

Alton aka I AM

 

 

RamanaMaharshi, "richard_clarke95125" <r_clarke@i...>

wrote:

> Dear Alton,

>

> If I may, a couple of comments.

>

> You talked about being told that you have "too much desire."

Desire

> for Realization is one of Sankara's "Requisites for Realization." I

> have heard more than once from Nome that this is an area where you

> cannot have "too much desire."

>

> Also, Self-inquiry is compatible with the life of a householder.

We

> do not need to go to the forest to practice. Ramana says that

doing

> Self-inquiry only in mediation periods is just for beginners. Self-

> inquiry does not require any special place, time or posture. It

> merely requires continuing to turn your attention again and again

to

> your own identity.

>

> You talk about conditions for your own Realization, like "when I

> finish my family obligations ..." I suggest that this is just

another

> idea. Are you that idea? As you deepen spiritually, the joy and

> love that you bring into your life lights up the life of those

around

> you. What is the need to wait? Who is it, anyway, that is tending

> to these family obligations? Are you the doer?

>

> I think it is wonderful that you are so sincere in your spiritual

> efforts. Also, that you have the courage to share some part of

this

> with all of us.

>

> We are all of us together explorers into the Self. The words of

> those that preceded us can serve as signposts. We can also offer

one

> another what we are learning.

>

> We are Not two,

> Richard

>

>

>

> RamanaMaharshi, "lostnfoundation" <leenalton@h...>

wrote:

> > Deare Viorica:

> > Thanks for you sage observations.

> >

> > You wrote:

> > "You say you are here to learn ;

> > I am here to give everything up , let go of anything ,

> > and without such a hard meditation practice ,

> > things happen" ;

> >

> > Viorica, I am here to learn how to give up everything. My ego

says

> I

> > can do it now, but to wait until I finish my family obligations

so

> as

> > not to cause the same problems that I supposedly did in a

previous

> > life, when I left my wife and son to become a monk. I dont think

> > though, that I will be able to learn how to give up giving up

> > everything. That might be necessary to get through the door of

the

> > Absolute. Some psychic came to our house and told me I have too

> much

> > desire. That would be a hard thing to give up as that is my only

> gift

> > this lifetime.

> >

> > You wrote more: "So I think it would be better to go our own

way

> > and not make rules out of other people's realization" ;

> >

> > How about making rules but being able to change them if they are

> not

> > working.

> > The most important thing in my opinion is to honor diversity.

> > Can I tell someone who is gifted, that only meditates 1/2 hour

per

> > day to meditate 6 hours per day? We are given unique qualities

and

> we

> > are in harmony with our elemental natures is we go with that flow.

> >

> > Aloha,

> > Alton

> >

> >

> >

> > - In RamanaMaharshi, "viorica_weissman"

> <viorica_weissman>

> > wrote:

> > >

> > >

> > > dear Alton ,

> > >

> > > whenever I read your emails I notice you accept very

> > > easily somebody else's opinion and you see yourself

> > > and drop your opinion very easily if you feel it

> > > it is not very useful;

> > > or laugh at it and yourself;

> > > I think this is a very good thing ;

> > > another good thing is that you have such a good

> > > companion in your wife to laugh at yourself with;

> > >

> > > You say you are here to learn ;

> > > I am here to give everything up , let go of anything ,

> > > and without such a hard meditation practice ,

> > > things happen ;

> > >

> > > So I think it would be better to go our own way

> > > and not make rules out of other people's realization ;

> > >

> > > i'll adopt your aloha when replying to you,

> > > sounds very good to me,

> > > so -

> > > aloha,

> > >

> > > v.