Awakening Together Presents Being Aware of Awareness Guided Meditations

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."

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Nisargadatta, "Merely to trust is not enough. You must also desire. Without desire for freedom, of what use is the confidence that you can acquire freedom? Desire and confidence must go together. The stronger your desire, the easier comes the help.", and Thought of Awakening #267.

During this episode we contemplated Thought of Awakening #255, 262, 266.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, page 57, "Mind likes complexity and would rather think about what you are. You are simplicity itself beginning to notice itself and at first you must make a little effort to not allow your attention to run away.", and Thought of Awakening #265.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, Chapter 7, 'Resting in Stillness', "The stillness watches all movement that appears within it but is itself unmoving.", and Thought of Awakening #263 & 264.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from NTI Matthew, Chapter 12, "As long as you believe and love your thoughts, you and your world are condemned, for there is no escaping the thoughts you choose to keep.". We also contemplated a quote from Dr. David Hawkins', "The Presence of the Self is experienced as compassion for all of life in all its expressions, including its evolution as one's personal self.", and Thought of Awakening #261.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, "Self-inquiry is a very simple technique that acts like a mirror in which instead of assuming we know what we are, we, are finally able to say, 'I do not know what this sense of "I" is.", and Thought of Awakening #257 & 260

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, "As we look and confirm over and over again, we begin to turn the tide of belief and see that we are not a 'thing' called 'me' at all.".

During this episode we contemplated Thought of Awakening #255.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Angelo DiLullo's, Awake, page 131, "Everything in immediate experience is on fire with the radiance of living truth at this very moment.", and Thought of Awakening #255.

During this episode we contemplated Thought of Awakening #252, 253 & 254.

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, Chapter 21 Self-Inquiry, "Each time we look and do not find a separate locatable self that is "me", we are moving ever closer to waking up fully and finally.", and Thought of Awakening #251 & 252.

In this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, Chapter 7, "When we find ourselves to not only be aware of the Stillness but to actually be it then we are undisturbed by the movement of mind.", and Thought of Awakening #250, 251, 252  & 253.

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Angelo DiLullo's,  Awake, pg. 132, "Separation can never be found outside of thought.", and Thought of Awakening #249. 

During this episode we contemplated a quote from Inner Ramana, "When the mind forgets reality, fear is a necessary component.", and Thought of Awakening #247.