"To be free from thoughts is itself meditation. You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them"
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
There are many tools
to work with, some contemporary, some intuitive, others ancient and classical.
They use practices such as yoga postures, breathing exercises, chanting,
meditative inquiry, affirmations, and negations including simple
thought exercises, surrender, chakras, diet, recent scientific studies
validating the work, reasons for practice, sitting meditation, what awakening
is like and what it isn’t, background texts including Ramana Maharshi’s Upadesa
Saram, Shankara’s Nirvana Shatakam, and selections from the Bhagavaad Gita, and
many dialogues and discussions with students.
Much of the
work focuses on watching thoughts in different situations and investigating
their structure. These approaches have been used for thousands of years and
have been rediscovered by virtually every culture. It is not necessary to
change your name, clothing, or hairdo, adopt some strange customs, travel to a
distant location, retire from the “world”, stop working, or give away one’s
possessions to engage in this work.
Teachings of
Ramana Maharshi), Nisargadatta Maharaj (I Am That), Bassui (Three Pillars of
Zen), Douglas Harding (Look for Yourself), Tony Parsons (As It Is), Adyashanti
(My Secret is Silence), and advaita vedanta are useful stuff, but the you- you think you are can do nothing at all.
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