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.
Thoughts of Awakening # 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
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 302-308 including the Commentary on Not-Knowing (day 307) and the Commentary on Home (day 308).
- Read Read the following messages from The Teaching of Inner Ramana: The Importance of Practice Part Two, True Understanding Comes from Seeing, Exposing the “I” Thought, Exposing the Attachment to Mind, and Clarity on Purpose. There is no reading on Days 307 & 308.
