A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read Looking at the False “I” Thought from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 300.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link
Today let me have strict abidance
in the Heart, Within,
listening and following
and not thinking.
I ask for strict abidance
because I know and do not deny
the ego’s ability to distract attention
to the world of form,
away from the Heart
and inner awareness.
I choose to remain firm
in remembrance of what I want.
I ask for strict abidance,
that I may remember
I do not want to be distracted
away from inner attention
on Self.
Amen
~A prayer of awakening
Please read The Circus and the Meadow from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 299.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link
The mind wills to wander,
but the Heart remains
as always
constant.
Let the mind stay focused with the Heart.
Let it not be like a separate being
wandering apart and lost.
Let the mind be Home,
focused on the Heart,
centered and one with it.
This is its truth.
Let it not deny reality
by thinking and wandering as if alone
separate from the loving and peaceful existence
that is its Source.
Amen.
~A prayer of awakening
Please read Instructions for Using the Mantra from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 298.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link
February is the quietest time of year in La Veta, so it is the perfect time to spend a week abiding in stillness with a small group of committed friends.
At this retreat, you will learn to focus on the ‘I am’ presence to the exclusion of all else as taught by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and his guru, Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj.
Using guidance provided through Nisargadatta’s teachings, you will determine the difference between the ‘I am’ presence and the ego, you will observe how the ego attempts to distract you from the ‘I am’ presence, and you will learn to ignore the ego’s distractions so you can follow the direct path to awakening as Nisargadatta did. You will have ample opportunity for meditation, contemplation and journaling on your own, as well as spending time in group instruction, meditation and discussion. We will also explore how you can continue to be motivated to meditate after you go home from this retreat.
The retreat will begin at 10am on Monday, February 18 and end at 3pm on Friday, February 22. We recommend arriving in La Veta on or before Sunday, February 17 and departing on or after Saturday, February 23.
All guests are welcome to stay at the AT Retreat House for up to 28 days. Longer stays are possible with permission.
Words are symbols.
They are symbols
that I believed
communicated.
I see now
that symbols do not
communicate.
Communication is beyond
all symbols.
Communication occurs
through the vibration
of mind or Heart.
Holy Spirit,
help me to abandon
the vibration of mind
because the thinking in mind
is not me.
Help me attune
to the vibration of Heart
and sing only its song,
since its song is my true song
and all that I would want
to sing now.
Amen.
~A prayer of awakening
Please read The Purpose of Surrender, Part Two from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 297.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link
Holy Spirit,
it is my will
that I do Your Will.
I am aware
of a voice in me
that is not Your Voice
or Your Will.
I chose this voice
and gave it permission
to speak in my mind,
but now I make another choice.
It is my choice now
to return to My Will,
which is also Your Will
because our Will is the same.
Help me to leave
the habits I have formed
and return Home
to my Heart and my truth.
Show me when I have slipped
and begun to forget who I am,
that I may surrender the will I no longer want
and return Home to Your Will and my Heart.
Amen.
~A prayer of awakening
