Michael L - Your guidelines on Awakening of Insight

[Guest guest]

Michael

 

2 days back I came across your guidelines in the FirstRing

group - on how to awaken insight.

 

You had pointed out that instead of reading books and Sayings like

reading newspaper, you should slow down and read a section many many

times, slowly, with an intention of grasping the true inner meaning.

Then insight is awakened. However this is very difficult to do

because the ego has a tendency to rush and to speed read and jump

around fast thinking 'I have read this before, yeah I know this, I

understand this'.

 

After reading yourguidelines, I took a print out of a small

section of Chapter 8 of Sadhu Om and read it many time with Sincerity

and earnestness and awaiting insight.

 

How amazed I was! I now noted words that I had previously misread!

I had puzzles and questions which I previously never had! And I had

answers pop up from insight. I had many 'Aha's!

 

And I understood how clearly Sadhu Om's description describes the

settling down of ego primarily by holding on to the First Person

- not holding, by clinging to him.

 

That evening I traveled by bus to Ramanashram and I tried to hold

onto the First Person without losing hold. When you do this, thoughts

come in but since your effort is strong in holding, you get back to

the First Person and start seeing that the thoughts are just thin

waves.

 

Secondly I started seeing that as I was holding, the thoughts were

fewer and fewer and less stronger and slowly I started feeling

sleepy, but for the first time, I saw that my mind continued to hold

onto the First person. I started wondering whether this holding Guy

and the held Guy are two different! Wow!

 

This process of Slow reading and then practising AWA for an hour,

are really insight releasing.

 

You know why?

 

At the end of this exercise, I opened Maha Yoga and in the

chapter

called Quest I read a quote that described this very process very

precisely. It provided the missing link from where Sadhu Om leaves:

 

Sadhu Om says: "Just as a rubber ball gathers momentum as it

bounces down a stair case, the more intense our concentration on

clinging to the First Person, faster is the contraction of the First

Thought (Ego) until it merges into the Source".

 

(I am happy to tell you that this was the first sentence of the

quote I took out of Chapter Eight, that I slow read according to your

guidelines.)

 

"Who" in Maha Yoga more concisely says ( I am paraphrasing) -

BY vigilantly holding on the the sense of I am, before going to

sleep, as thoughts drop off one by one, at the last moment, when the

last thought drops off, there is this Pure Awareness.

 

And in my further reading of Maha Yoga I found many quotes that

described the (new) insights I got right before the reading!

 

Outlandish as these coincidences may seem, another simpler

explanation is that the events of reality are also a dream where

we are creating them to suit our desires and fears.

 

The illusion of world and events apart from the mind and having a

mind as a intentious thinker are dissolving even though very slowly.

 

Thanks for being one of the first out in the open non-Indian

Rishi's who re-discover Vichara technique in precise ways.

I am not saying this to resurrect the ego which you might have

destroyed or prolong the one you are finding difficult to destroy.

 

I am sharing this to say my experience follows your experience, so

the truth of single consciousness is getting affirmed.

 

(P.S. I also visited Sri sadhu Om's Presence, on my first ever trip

yesterday to Ramanashram.

 

Ravi

[Guest guest]

In other words, the First Person awareness that is present during

waking state is the same one that remains in Sleep without taking up

any thought or listening to the outside world and the same one that

remains in dream as a detached Observer without getting fully taken

over by the created world.

 

Well, I said 'listening to the world'. Ramana and Upanishad's say that

'creating worlds'.

 

 

*****

 

In the spirit of Muruganar, I am expressing my gratitude to you as a

Tamil Poem:

 

 

"There is a teaching that says Cling only on to Awareness

and you will see that all the imagined rest of things - World, Mind,

Body, Ego will drop off like melting snow.

 

"There is a teaching that says Cling only on to this teaching

and do not waste time on indirect teachings. That is enough.

 

"The teacher who gave us "Who Am I?" Ramana, is today

appearing as Sadhu Om and UareLove."

 

Thaanennum Thannunarvai Vittidadhu Pidiththukkol

Paarennum UdalManadum Ahandaiyaam Paniyurugum

Paarendru Sonna Oru Sollae podum Naer vazhi Naan

Yaarendru raitha Ramananae Inru Om Saadhu U are love.

 

 

 

 

 

RamanaMaharshi, "rjaymidi" <rjaymidi>

wrote:

>

> Michael

>

> 2 days back I came across your guidelines in the FirstRing

> group - on how to awaken insight.

>

> You had pointed out that instead of reading books and Sayings

like

> reading newspaper, you should slow down and read a section many

many

> times, slowly, with an intention of grasping the true inner meaning.

> Then insight is awakened. However this is very difficult to do

> because the ego has a tendency to rush and to speed read and jump

> around fast thinking 'I have read this before, yeah I know this, I

> understand this'.

>

> After reading yourguidelines, I took a print out of a small

> section of Chapter 8 of Sadhu Om and read it many time with

Sincerity

> and earnestness and awaiting insight.

>

> How amazed I was! I now noted words that I had previously

misread!

> I had puzzles and questions which I previously never had! And I had

> answers pop up from insight. I had many 'Aha's!

>

> And I understood how clearly Sadhu Om's description describes the

> settling down of ego primarily by holding on to the First Person

> - not holding, by clinging to him.

>

> That evening I traveled by bus to Ramanashram and I tried to

hold

> onto the First Person without losing hold. When you do this,

thoughts

> come in but since your effort is strong in holding, you get back to

> the First Person and start seeing that the thoughts are just thin

> waves.

>

> Secondly I started seeing that as I was holding, the thoughts

were

> fewer and fewer and less stronger and slowly I started feeling

> sleepy, but for the first time, I saw that my mind continued to hold

> onto the First person. I started wondering whether this holding Guy

> and the held Guy are two different! Wow!

>

> This process of Slow reading and then practising AWA for an hour,

> are really insight releasing.

>

> You know why?

>

> At the end of this exercise, I opened Maha Yoga and in the

> chapter

> called Quest I read a quote that described this very process very

> precisely. It provided the missing link from where Sadhu Om leaves:

>

> Sadhu Om says: "Just as a rubber ball gathers momentum as it

> bounces down a stair case, the more intense our concentration on

> clinging to the First Person, faster is the contraction of the

First

> Thought (Ego) until it merges into the Source".

>

> (I am happy to tell you that this was the first sentence of the

> quote I took out of Chapter Eight, that I slow read according to

your

> guidelines.)

>

> "Who" in Maha Yoga more concisely says ( I am paraphrasing) -

> BY vigilantly holding on the the sense of I am, before going to

> sleep, as thoughts drop off one by one, at the last moment, when

the

> last thought drops off, there is this Pure Awareness.

>

> And in my further reading of Maha Yoga I found many quotes that

> described the (new) insights I got right before the reading!

>

> Outlandish as these coincidences may seem, another simpler

> explanation is that the events of reality are also a dream where

> we are creating them to suit our desires and fears.

>

> The illusion of world and events apart from the mind and having

a

> mind as a intentious thinker are dissolving even though very slowly.

>

> Thanks for being one of the first out in the open non-Indian

> Rishi's who re-discover Vichara technique in precise ways.

> I am not saying this to resurrect the ego which you might have

> destroyed or prolong the one you are finding difficult to destroy.

>

> I am sharing this to say my experience follows your experience,

so

> the truth of single consciousness is getting affirmed.

>

> (P.S. I also visited Sri sadhu Om's Presence, on my first ever trip

> yesterday to Ramanashram.

>

> Ravi