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Meditations based on non-dual Tantra, Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, Kashmir Shaivism, The Radiance Sutras, Shakti, Shiva, and Satchitananda as taught by Ramana Maharshi.

Wait, What? How Did I Miss This?

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As I am diving deeper into the direct path of meditation, there are a couple of extremely helpful books. One of them is The Seven Steps to Awakening. One of the gurus, the great master, Ramana Maharshi, shares that Self-Inquiry is one of the greatest tools to help one Awaken in this lifetime. How I have interpreted this is how self-inquiry is seemingly always interpreted as asking, “Who am I?” And sure this may be one of the ways and helpful in some way. But the real breakthrough for me was what unlocked within me when I finally read the introduction before the actual quotes began in the book.

On page 12 of The Seven Steps to Awakening Michael Langford describes Self-Inquiry as Self-Attention, Self-Abidance. This is what awareness watching awareness really is, it’s paying attention to the Self and that SELF is Awareness.

Now, if you tie in the blog that I just did on how Aliveness is Awareness then you have what I am feeling right now which is a huge insight into Self-Inquiry, that up until now hadn’t ever unlocked for me! The insight that is brand new is seeing that paying attention to the LifeForce, the Radiant Aliveness Within, is awareness watching awareness. And since there’s only one awareness, this is true for all.

What are the implications of this discovery? Well, it radically changes how I view Self-inquiry. It’s not just about asking, “Who am I?”. It’s how we both wake up and stay awake. It’s how we abide, it’s how we stay ‘centered in bliss’. And most wonderfully, it makes this practice of awareness watching awareness come alive, it’s juicy and vibrant! The scintillating Life-Force cascading in around through and beyond is where it’s at, in this state of fullness, meditation is no longer a chore. It’s both the doorway to the Infinite and how one abides serene and true.

When You’re Moving Against the Flow and How to Flow Once Again

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Embarking on a new journey with this website, there’s a deep desire to follow intuition. So, today there’s so much motivation to do the next steps whatever those steps may be, however small they seem to be. However, it literally feels like I am swimming in mud. My energy is low and the whole body feels like it just wants to go back to sleep.

So what an opportunity for deep contemplation! My question to my own inner intuition is what is this and can there be anything done about it.

What I received was: S.T.O.P. An acronym for Surrender to Open Peace.

What is this surrender? Just to be here now with exactly what is. In this case a feeling of swimming in mud. What’s it like to fully embrace this dense, heavy, pressing-down energy?

And for the open, it feels like being open to all possibilities and even the possibility of Peace. Perhaps even peace right here in the middle of this energetic happening. What if it’s true, that peace is already here now?

So, what did I end up doing? I went to a park and had an invigorating walk/run. Gazed at sundogs and imagined they were the outer rings of a portal to the sun. Then, I proceeded to swing on the swings for about 15 minutes and felt like a kid again, rejuvenated. The spring was back in my step and the bliss was back in my being. Haha, as if it ever left! It’s only that it was temporarily obscured by the swimming in mud-feeling.

I saw a lady walking by who looked so downcast. I thought to myself she could really use an “embrace your doldrums meditation”. Her demeanor ended up being an inspiration for me for my next meditation to make.

I am realizing that with each meditation I make it’s the step-by-step how-to be “Centered in Bliss”. The first meditation was embracing the gift of fear. That fear is actually a gift from Shakti. Then the second meditation made was how to be with unworthiness. I am walking myself and anyone who wants out of the nightmare and into Bliss to join me. Let’s see how this Living Mystery unfolds.