Chapter 1 - Silence & Stillness
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Stillness is your essential nature.
You are the awareness disguised as a person.
Listening to stillness, awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because only through stillness you can be aware of silence.
True intelligence operates silently . Stillness is where creativity and solution to problems are found.
Being still, looking and listening activates the non conceptual intelligence within you.
Chapter 2 – Beyond the Thinking Mind
The Human condition ; Lost in thought
Don’t take your thoughts too seriously .
Thinking fragments reality .
Wisdom arises through the simple act of giving someone or something your full attention. Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.
Spiritual awakening is the awakening from the dream of thought .
When you no longer believe , everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.
Boredom, anger, fear or sadness are not yours. They are not personal. They are the conditions of the human mind. They come and go.
Become at ease with the state of not knowing. Because mind always tries to interpret and conclude. When you are at ease, with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non-conceptual then arises out of the state.
Mastery of life is the opposite of control. You become aligned with the greater consciousness. It acts, speaks and does the works.
In Tamil - SUMMA IRUKKUM SUGAM
Chapter 3 : The Egoic Self
“I” is a mind-made sense of who you are, conditioned by the past and seeking to find its fulfilment in the future.
When you notice that voice, you realise that who you are, is not the voice – the thinker- but the one who is aware of it.
Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.
By giving your full attention to this moment, an intelligence far greater than the egoic mind enters your life.
Even if your grievances are completely “justified”, you have constructed an identity for yourself that is much like a prison whose bars are made of thought forms. Feel the emotional attachment you have to your victim story and become aware of the compulsion to think and talk about it. Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. With awareness comes, transformation and freedom.
Envy is the by-product of the ego, which feels diminished if something good happens to someone else or someone has more, knows more or can do more than you. The ego’s identity depends on comparison and feeds on “more”.
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life, but from the conditioning of your mind.
Chapter 4 – The Now
The now is the only constant factor in your life. Since there is no escape from the Now, why not welcome it and become friendly with it ???
When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home, no matter where you are. When you don’t feel at home in the Now, no matter where you go, you will carry unease with you .
Taking responsibility for this moment, not to oppose internally the “suchness” of Now, not to argue with what is. It means to be in alignment with life.
When you are fully present in the Now, you are free from the dream of past, future and thoughts. So simple, so clear. No room for problem making.
Your innermost sense of I AM(Being) has nothing to do with what happens in your life, nothing to do with the content of your life.
Your sense of Being gets obscured by circumstances, your stream of thinking and many external things of the world.
I AM NOT MY THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, SENSE PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES. I AM NOT THE CONTENT OF MY LIFE. I AM LIFE. I AM THE SPACE IN WHICH ALL THINGS HAPPEN. I AM CONSCIOUSNESS . I AM THE NOW. I AM.
Chapter 5 : Who you truly are
The Now is inseparable from who you are at the deepest level.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Reincarnation doesn’t help you if in your next incarnation, you still don’t know who you are.
All misery on the planet arise due to a personalised sense of “me” or ‘ us”. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self becomes your primary motivating force.
Time is required to learn a skill in your life. But it is not required for self realization. You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is the Now.
By knowing yourself as the awareness in which phenomenal existence happens, you become free of dependency on phenomena and free of
BG Venkatesh
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