A universal assembly for true discernment
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
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 342
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 342
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
Description: Jay McCormick shared that the basic tenant in A Course in Miracles is that we are seeing through a projection of our own belief and thus not seeing from true perception, or the right mind. The psychologist Carl Jung classified 28 defense mechanisms our mind uses, the first and primary of which he described as “projection”. One of the definitions the Merriam-Webster dictionary has for the word “Projection” is stated as: “The attribution of one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people or to objects. especially : the externalization of blame, guilt, or responsibility as a defense against anxiety.”Attainment of true perception, a healed mind, free of anxiety and fear, is what can be described as the ‘first awakening’. Yet a greater projection exists, the one of consciousness itself projecting as and into mind, creating a seeming world for all. In Hinduism, the tale of the God Indira was that he slept – as the flower of the world grew from his naval as but a dream. This could be interpreted as our life here, the grand illusion of the experience of ‘something else’ other than Heaven, perfection, and love – the experience of the seeming world.
Rupert Spira states that consciousness is naturally one with all things, one with the totality of experience. Awakening to consciousness is the ‘second awakening’ and final healing of all projection as consciousness re-cognizes itself as one.
Reading: Shiryl Kaplan read “The Natural Condition” by Rupert Spira from “The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience.”
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
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 341
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 341
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
