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It is distinguished by stillness. It is stillness that disentangles the witnessing awareness from the seer/object-seen relationship. When the mind becomes single pointed the 2 collapse into just "seeing". This is absorbtion. When the witnessing awareness becomes aloof, freestanding from all thoughts & sense impressions, it is clearly distinguished. If you do not find yourself in samadhi you have not performed self-inquiry correctly. Rendering the mind quiescent and to remain silent within is attending to your being. As thoughts arise they are to be destroyed then and there in the very place of their origin by inquiry. This calls the mind back everytime it trys to run back out the sense doors and externalize. "Remaining silent" "Holding onto the I am" is not what Ramana Maharshi taught. That is what Nisargadatta Maharaj taught. Maharshi taught that whatever phenomena arise to persistently inquire to WHO did it arise? The thought WHO destroys all other thoughts rendering the mind quiescent and turning the mind inward. The mind will actually begin searching. One then persists without interruption until the self is realized. (In chan buddhism this same method is practiced and is called Hua Tou.) The mind must be focused to a single point for self-inquiry to work. This can be achieved by using WHO or by other practices. Maharshi himself suggested using various tapas to develop this one-pointed concentration and that for such a mind self-inquiry will become easy. The place to search is the place from where the "I" thought arises. Aka the heart. Hence he has said that keeping in mind the I, I-ness, or I am-ness will also lead you to that place. However he has also said in other words that methods such as these are inferior to the self-inquiry method he taught. The answer is in the question.
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👋 BOOK FREE SAMPLE: Michael and Sandra announced in the Q&A video on 5th August 2023 the book launch ‘Ramana Maharshi’s Forty Verses on What Is - The ultimate truth on being as you actually are’: th-cam.com/video/5Um4S63wClc/w-d-xo.html
🎁 A free book sample is available (includes ‘Introduction by Michael James’) on u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZbcyp0ZeohBWWHhHf8gs7k3TN2vMz02WIBy
The book is available in print and e-book through Amazon.
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It is distinguished by stillness. It is stillness that disentangles the witnessing awareness from the seer/object-seen relationship. When the mind becomes single pointed the 2 collapse into just "seeing". This is absorbtion. When the witnessing awareness becomes aloof, freestanding from all thoughts & sense impressions, it is clearly distinguished. If you do not find yourself in samadhi you have not performed self-inquiry correctly.
Rendering the mind quiescent and to remain silent within is attending to your being. As thoughts arise they are to be destroyed then and there in the very place of their origin by inquiry. This calls the mind back everytime it trys to run back out the sense doors and externalize. "Remaining silent"
"Holding onto the I am" is not what Ramana Maharshi taught. That is what Nisargadatta Maharaj taught.
Maharshi taught that whatever phenomena arise to persistently inquire to WHO did it arise? The thought WHO destroys all other thoughts rendering the mind quiescent and turning the mind inward. The mind will actually begin searching. One then persists without interruption until the self is realized. (In chan buddhism this same method is practiced and is called Hua Tou.)
The mind must be focused to a single point for self-inquiry to work. This can be achieved by using WHO or by other practices. Maharshi himself suggested using various tapas to develop this one-pointed concentration and that for such a mind self-inquiry will become easy.
The place to search is the place from where the "I" thought arises. Aka the heart. Hence he has said that keeping in mind the I, I-ness, or I am-ness will also lead you to that place. However he has also said in other words that methods such as these are inferior to the self-inquiry method he taught.
The answer is in the question.
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