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Thank you, Ken!!!!

December 6, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

Thank you, Ken, for all you did as our Sanctuary Director!!

Ken was our Sanctuary Director from October 1, 2016 until December 5, 2018. That is over 2 full years of dedicated service, and we are fully grateful. During Ken’s tenure, he helped create the safe and kind Sanctuary that Awakening Together envisioned, and then he helped us transition to our new Sanctuary in Zoom.

Ken, your effect on our Sanctuary will be long remembered and appreciated. Enjoy retirement!

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Thoughts of Awakening #303

December 6, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

Direct experience of joy
requires direct experience of release.

One cannot hold to
habitual mental activity
and know the joy of peace.

One can only know the joy of peace
by choosing to release
that which obstructs it.

Practicing what I teach
is choosing to release.

~From our Holy Spirit

Filed Under: Daily Contemplation, GentleHealingTips-Year2, Sidebar

Thoughts of Awakening Quote 303 – Meditation with Karen Worth

December 6, 2018 By Karen Worth

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 303

Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 303

Direct experience of joy
requires direct experience of release.

One cannot hold to
habitual mental activity
and know the joy of peace.

One can only know the joy of peace
by choosing to release
that which obstructs it.

Practicing what I teach
is choosing to release.

~ From our Holy Spirit

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Tips from Regina ~ Day 303, True Understanding Comes from Seeing

December 6, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

You have a lot of spiritual practices in your life now:

  • Daily reading and contemplation
  • Journaling with inner wisdom
  • Awareness-watching-awareness meditation
  • The loving all method
  • Surrender
  • Practicing the mantra
  • Looking at chatter to notice its “I” or “me” content

Spiritual practice is becoming the center of your life. There’s a reason for that.

Most people who believe they are on a spiritual path are on an intellectual journey only. Self-realization does not come from the intellect. Self-realization is beyond the intellect. And that is the purpose of a life centered on spiritual practice—to go beyond the intellect to Self-realization.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link

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Anne Blanchard ~ Unfiltered – “”Fear is a necessary component” as taught in Inner Ramana” – 12/05/18

December 5, 2018 By Dawn Fernandez

Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity.

Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.

Listen to the audio

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The Tao & Enlightened Leadership ~ Lesson #3: Practice Not Doing

December 5, 2018 By Dawn Fernandez

Regina Dawn Akers reads from the Tao Te Ching in order to contemplate enlightened leadership.

Listen to this audio

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The Radio Will Be Down Wednesday Night & Early Thursday

December 5, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

Awakening Together: Radio BroadcastThe Awakening Together Radio is moving to a new location, and there will be no radio broadcast during the move.

The radio will broadcast throughout the day today while the Sanctuary is open. Once the Sanctuary closes for the day, the radio will go down for the move.

The radio will be brought back online from its new home sometime tomorrow.

Thank You for Your Patience While We Move the Radio.

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Thoughts of Awakening #302

December 5, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

In true desire to awaken,
question everything.

When you hear yourself say, “I like …”,
question, “Who likes?”
Is it the unlimited
or limited self who speaks now?

When you say, “I believe …”,
question, “Who believes?”
Is it the unlimited
or limited self who speaks now?

Attachments are an activity of mind.
Mind is the limited and definable self.
What are you?

~From our Holy Spirit

Filed Under: Daily Contemplation, GentleHealingTips-Year2, Sidebar

Thoughts of Awakening Quote 302 – Meditation with Karen Worth

December 5, 2018 By Karen Worth

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 302

Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 302

In true desire to awaken,
question everything.

When you hear yourself say, “I like …”,
question, “Who likes?”
Is it the unlimited
or limited self who speaks now?

When you say, “I believe …”,
question, “Who believes?”
Is it the unlimited
or limited self who speaks now?

Attachments are an activity of mind.
Mind is the limited and definable self.
What are you?

~ From our Holy Spirit

Filed Under: Sidebar, TOA Meditation

Tips from Regina ~ Day 302, The Importance of Practice, Part Two

December 5, 2018 By Regina Dawn Akers

Today’s reading points out that there are two paths of awakening:

Surrender
Withdrawing from the world

The Teachings of Inner Ramana  teaches surrender as the primary path to awakening. This is also the path taught in The Bhagavad Gita. In Hindu tradition, it is called “karma yoga.” It is a path of living in the world and going about your usual daily tasks—work, family, etcetera—while disengaging from the ego through detachment. That is the purpose of surrender—to live an active life without being attached to mind.

As we learned through The Circus and the Meadow:

True stillness cannot be achieved by quieting the mind through meditative practices for part of the day and then being wrapped up in the stories of the mind the rest of the day. … You will never be free through partial abidance. Only total abidance can be totally freeing.

That means if surrender is our path of awakening, we want to learn to use surrender for all of our daily decisions. Learning surrender to this level will take time—it will take time for the surrender-program to fully develop in the brain—but we should continue to give it our best effort everyday, whatever our current best effort is, because total surrender is how we will awaken.

Remember, as you give surrender your best effort, awareness programs the surrender-program in the brain.

Withdrawing from the world is the path of awakening that Michael Langford recommends in The Direct Means to Eternal Bliss. That’s why he recommends meditating for 12 hours a day. Withdrawing from the world was also the path that Ramana Maharshi followed beginning shortly after his initial awakening to consciousness, which occurred when he was a teenager. However for most of us, surrender will work better than trying to fully withdraw from the world.

In The Teachings of Inner Ramana, “enlightened” is synonymous with Self-realized and true perception. “Awake” is a term reserved for the First Principle of God.

Today’s reading points out that the enlightened one doesn’t experience surrender like the deluded one does. The deluded one is attached to mental chatter as me, so to him, intuition feels like something other than me. The enlightened one doesn’t see mental chatter as me anymore, so intuition feels like the Self. Intuition is followed as easily by the enlightened one as mental chatter is followed by the deluded one.

However, the deluded one is still life-awareness, so the deluded one’s attention has the power of life-awareness in it. As she gives believing-attention to her thoughts, she unconsciously creates the world through consciousness.

That gives us an additional reason to live as if we are Self-realized.

On Day 297, you were asked to live as if you are Self-realized. That’s because living as if you are Self-realized leads to Self-realization.

Another reason to live as if you are Self-realized is because, when you do, you no longer participate in making illusion. That means that by living as if you are Self-realized, you stop contributing to the appearances that cause suffering in the world.

As Ramana Maharshi said:

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If you don’t remember how to live as if you are Self-realized in a genuine and self-honest way, review the tip from Day 297.

Today, practice surrender, the mantra, and practice looking back at chatter after you say the mantra to see what it was saying and how you were listening as if it was you  thinking.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link

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