NTI Luke 7 says:<\/p>\n
There are expectations in your mind regarding truth, but these expectations are based on what you know within your slumber. They are not based on knowledge or Life. They are based on interpretation, or death.<\/p>\n
What do you expect of Me? Where is it that you think I am leading you to?<\/p>\n
Free yourself from these thoughts, and open your mind to Me unfettered by expectations. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of Me.<\/p>\n
Inner Ramana teaches that the way to awaken from the dream (from delusion to true perception) is to break the attachment to mental chatter. As today\u2019s message points out, that includes breaking the attachment to mental chatter about spiritual ideas.<\/p>\n
If I think I know what enlightenment looks like or how an enlightened one behaves, then I think I know<\/em>. If I think I know, that means I think the mind is me \u00a0<\/em>thinking.<\/p>\n Thinking I know anything that doesn’t come from pure observation is identifying with mind. (Observation is not pure if it is interpreted through mental chatter.)<\/p>\n This is difficult to accept when we are heavily identified with mind. It\u2019s hard to accept this, because of the underlying belief that giving up attachment to mind is giving up me<\/em>. It feels like the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n As inner wisdom said to Lanae last week:<\/p>\n To sacrifice the self is to request remembrance of the true Self.<\/p>\n We cannot be attached to \u2018me\u2019 and know the true Self too.<\/p>\n That is demonstrated in today\u2019s message by the difficulty I had hearing Inner Ramana on the day this message was written. As soon as Inner Ramana started talking to me about my desire to think about and talk about Self, I had trouble hearing Inner Ramana.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n