Today, we will continue to look at our addiction to mind. We will continue to look at how much we believe mental chatter is me thinking.
On Day 303, I listed several spiritual practices that are now part of your daily Gentle Healing spiritual practice.
Do you feel your life is centered on those practices?
Do you avoid any of the practices for any reason? Because you don’t enjoy them, because you are too busy, because you have decided they aren’t useful, etcetera?
If you do, where did that idea—I don’t like to do this, or I’m too busy, or this practice doesn’t do anything—come from? Didn’t it come to you as a thought? And didn’t you believe it, and aren’t you avoiding the resisted spiritual practice because you thought that was you thinking?
If mind said, “I’m too busy to practice awareness-watching-awareness,” didn’t you think that was you thinking and believe you were too busy? Isn’t that why you skipped meditation? What about when mind said, “I’m tired. I need a break. What’s on TV?” Didn’t you believe that was you thinking as you reached for the remote control?
Are you free, or are you a slave to the mind because of your addiction to mental chatter?
What’s really going on?
Thoughts of Awakening # 305
Stillness is the one answer
you can ongoingly return yourself to.
In stillness, there are no attachments.
In stillness, there is no upset or fear.
In stillness, there are no stories.
In stillness, there is only peace.
~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.
