Being Aware of Awareness Guided Meditations from Awakening Together Podcasts

During this episode a quote from "Inner Ramana" was contemplated, "Your choice is where, but not what. ... This is why knowing your Heart is your only business.", and Thought of Awakening #68, "All I want to do is want God. Everything else will take care of itself.".

In this episode Yukti verses 23 and 24 were contemplated from Lorin Roche’s book, The Radiance Sutras.

In this episode, excerpts from Helen Hamilton's book, Dissolving the Ego, were contemplated. "The aim of this practice is to reverse the tendency to think of yourself as an object. Objects like thoughts will be there but they are always appearing in (and witnessed by) this Subjective Self."

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. "If one knows that without the Seer there is nothing to be seen, just as there are no pictures without the screen, one is not deluded. The jñāni knows that the screen, the pictures, and the sight thereof are but the Self."

In this episode, excerpts from NTI Revelations from the book The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New Testament, from Regina Dawn Akers, were contemplated. 

All are welcome to join this program live on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 – 8:30 am ET in which participants are gently guided through Being Aware of Awareness meditation. This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who will to find that place of no-place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate, essential presence that can often be overlooked. Listen here to the recorded meditation. OR Come join us live awakening-together.org and discover what Being Aware of Awareness means for you, to you, as you. The reading was from Helen Hamilton's Dissolving the Ego, CH 17, pages 79 - 82. "Before you even think about something you must know that you exist to be able to have any thoughts. This knowing is the key to finding out who you are and to dissolving the separate sense of self."

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Angelo DiLullo's, "Awake: It’s Your Turn", page 131, "Separation can never be found outside of thought, so we can't blame our perceptions of divisions, isolation, and thus struggle, on reality. It's not reality's fault we look at it through veils we constantly create with thoughts and preconceptions.".

In this episode we contemplated a quote from  Angelo DiLullo's, "Awake: It's Your Turn", page 136, "There is a side to us that has no intention. It is always at rest.", and a quote from Ramana Maharshi, "Let not your intellect become a slave to the mere sound and fury of controversy. Enter the heart with mind pellucid, concept-free, and realize your natural Being as the Truth. From questing inward in the heart comes knowledge which destroys all false illusions.".

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Ramana Maharshi, "What does one gain, you may well ask, by giving up the wealth immense of worldly pleasure and seeking only mere Awareness? The benefit of true Awareness is the unbroken prevalence of peace within the heart, the bliss of one's own natural being.".

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Angelo DiLullo's book "Awake: It’s Your Turn", page 136, "Remaining in that place where intention meets surrender will set ypur practice (and your life) on fire.".

In this episode we contemplated Awakening Together's Core Value 5, "We accept all forms as temporary appearances permitted through enduring awareness of Self. We live this value by honoring all appearances and all experiences while continually reflecting on changeless truth.".

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Danna Faulds, "To take one step is courageous;  to stay on the path day after day, choosing the unknown, and facing another fear, that is nothing short of Grace.".

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Regina Dawn Akers, "Gratitude is an energy field ... an energy field of extension. ... You are grateful for that which your mind dwells on.", and a quote from Albert Einstein, "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." 

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Regina Dawn Akers, "Choosing to trust without knowing how or why ... choosing to trust without needing understanding ... this is the highest level of trust in the world.".

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Regina Dawn Akers, "When you choose the perception of separation as a way of seeing now, you choose to desire that perception. This is why it is important to be aware of your current feeling and to consciously out of willingness choose your perception now." .

In this episode a quote from Terence McKenna was contemplated, "Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.".

During this episode we contemplated a quotes from Nisargadatta, "Once you have grasped the truth that the world is full of suffering, that to be born is a calamity, you will find the urge and the energy to go beyond it." andRegina Dawn Akers, "I promise to let myself be led by Love within an experience of joy to the full and complete realization of Self.  I can keep this promise to myself through devotion, one- pointedness, commitment, and self-honesty. My job now is to collect all my energies into one great longing.". We also contemplated Thought of Awakening #273.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, page 32, "We can only recognize that something has appeared when it appears against a background of something continuous. Similarly, we can only recognize that a sound has stopped because the silence is there and listening.", and Thought of Awakening #272.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Nisargadatta, "Freedom cannot be gained nor kept without will-to-freedom. You must strive for liberation; the least you can do is uncover and remove the obstacles diligently. If you want peace, you must strive for it.".

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Nisargadatta, "The desire to find the Self will be surely fulfilled, provided you want nothing else. But you must be honest with yourself and really want nothing else.", and Thought of Awakening #254 & 268.