{"id":35369,"date":"2018-12-05T01:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=35369"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:19:11","slug":"day-302-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/day-302-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from Regina ~ Day 302, The Importance of Practice, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s reading points out that there are two paths of awakening:<\/p>\n

Surrender
\nWithdrawing from the world<\/p>\n

The Teachings of Inner Ramana \u00a0<\/em>teaches surrender as the primary path to awakening. This is also the path taught in The Bhagavad Gita<\/em>. In Hindu tradition, it is called \u201ckarma yoga.\u201d It is a path of living in the world and going about your usual daily tasks\u2014work, family, etcetera\u2014while disengaging from the ego through detachment. That is the purpose of surrender\u2014to live an active life without being attached to mind.<\/p>\n

As we learned through The Circus and the Meadow<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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. \u2026 You will never be free through partial abidance. Only total abidance can be totally freeing.<\/p>\n

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\u2014it will take time for the surrender-program to fully develop in the brain\u2014but we should continue to give it our best effort everyday, whatever our current best effort is, because total surrender is how we will awaken.<\/p>\n

Remember, as you give surrender your best effort, awareness programs the surrender-program in the brain.<\/p>\n

Withdrawing from the world is the path of awakening that Michael Langford recommends in The Direct Means to Eternal Bliss<\/em>. That\u2019s 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.\u00a0However for most of us, surrender will work better than trying to fully withdraw from the world.<\/p>\n

In The Teachings of Inner Ramana<\/em>, \u201cenlightened\u201d is synonymous with Self-realized and true perception. \u201cAwake\u201d is a term reserved for the First Principle of God.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s reading points out that the enlightened one doesn\u2019t 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

However, the deluded one is still life-awareness, so the deluded one\u2019s attention has the power of life-awareness in it. As she gives believing-attention to her thoughts, she unconsciously creates the world through consciousness.<\/p>\n

That gives us an additional reason to live as if we are Self-realized.<\/p>\n

On Day 297<\/a>, you were asked to live as if you are Self-realized. That\u2019s because living as if you are Self-realized leads to Self-realization.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As Ramana Maharshi said:<\/p>\n

Your own Self-Realization is the\u00a0greatest\u00a0service\u00a0you can render the world.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t remember how to live as if you are Self-realized in a genuine and self-honest way, review the tip from Day 297<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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 \u00a0<\/em>thinking.<\/p>\n

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at\u00a0this link<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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