Showing posts with label self-love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-love. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21

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This is the twenty-first in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed one...
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Self-investigation as the way to love

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In April of last year a Finnish friend, Jussi Penttinen, invited me to Helsinki, where he had arranged for me to give a talk and answer ques...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Rather than being aware of being aware, we should be aware only of what is aware, namely ourself

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This article is my reply to a recent comment on one of my earlier articles, How to attend to ourself? , in which a friend wrote: ‘I have tr...
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Sunday, 5 March 2017

What is the real ‘living guru’, and what is the look of its grace?

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A friend wrote to me recently asking ‘is it really not necessary to have a living guru if one truly opens oneself to Sri Ramana, and tries a...
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Friday, 6 March 2015

Intensity, frequency and duration of self-attentiveness

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A friend recently sent me an email in which he wrote, ‘I now clearly see that it is bhakti alone that can make me better and stronger at at...
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Saturday, 15 March 2014

Self-investigation and sexual restraint
(Interview on Celibacy: Part 1)

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Recently I was interviewed (via email) by the editor of the online Non-Duality Magazine for their current issue entitled The Celibacy Ques...
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009

‘Holy indifference’ and the love to be self-attentive

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In reply to a friend who wrote to me asking for some advice concerning the psychological effects of some health problems that he was experie...
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Sunday, 16 August 2009

Thinking, free will and self-attentiveness

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The following is a reply that I recently wrote to a friend: Regarding your final sentence, ‘We are only given the thoughts that we are allow...
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Saturday, 4 July 2009

Atma-vichara and metta bhavana (‘loving-kindness’ meditation)

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: I’ve got a question concerning atma-vichara in relation to some meditation techniques. Before I came ...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Staying with ‘I am’

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: The path is so subtle ... how to understand this? Ramana Maharshi mentions concentrating on the right ...
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Friday, 17 April 2009

Why to write about self?

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A question that I am asked quite frequently is why I take so much trouble to write about the nature of self and the means by which we can kn...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009

How to start practising atma-vichara?

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A friend wrote to me recently asking: How to start with atma vichara ?? Some says, “look at your thoughts”, some says, “see from where it oc...
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Self-attentiveness, intensity and continuity

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Last week a person called Teck posted two comments on one of my recent articles, Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attenti...
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Self-attentiveness and time

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With reference to a reply that I had written to an earlier comment quoting pages 584-5 of Happiness and the Art of Being , last week the f...
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Saturday, 6 December 2008

Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attentive only to our essential self

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Referring to a sentence that I wrote in my recent article Self-attentiveness, effort and grace , “We can free ourself from thoughts, sense-p...
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Sunday, 23 November 2008

Self-attentiveness, effort and grace

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Yesterday the following anonymous comment was posted on my previous article, Atma-vichara and the ‘practice’ of neti neti , with reference...
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Friday, 27 June 2008

Cultivating uninterrupted self-attentiveness

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Self-enquiry, personal experiences and daily routine , an anonymous friend wrote: “...uninterrup...
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Monday, 9 June 2008

Which sat-sanga will free us from our ego?

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In a comment on an earlier article, Happiness and the Art of Being is now available on Amazon and other sites , Anonymous wrote: I’ve been...
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007

The importance of compassion and ahimsa

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In continuation of my previous post, The supreme compassion of Sri Ramana , the following is what I have newly incorporated on pages 601 to ...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007

The supreme compassion of Sri Ramana

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Towards the end of chapter 10, ‘The Practice of the Art of Being’, on page 558 of the second e-book edition (page 589 of the forthcoming pri...