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Investigations into Spiritual Truth
From a psychological point of view, emotional honesty is what is desired. But from a spiritual point of view, there is only one desire, which holds true in response to ALL situations: to drop thought and relax.
Your mind is lying to you, telling you that you are a thinking, doing, experiencing entity.
How can we know that we're prepared and longing for the spiritual? Many desires and emotions have specific objects in mind, but there are three -- restlessness, boredom, and nostalgia -- that might not. They suggest that what you might actually be looking for what is not out there, but is simply what you already are.
What precisely is it that relaxes when the mind relaxes? It turns out that the answer changes as practice increases, and the final answer is -- nothing at all.
People often think self-inquiry as a technique to spiritual awakening requires asking of every thought “to whom does this occur?” That might be ok at the very start, but very quickly it becomes unnecessary. Just re-focus your attention on the background on which all these thoughts, emotions, and perceptions occur.
The simplest way to spiritual peace and, indeed, enlightenment: ignore all thought.
My new book, Spiritual Dialogues with Akilesh; records a great variety of conversations with seekers on topics on or related to nonduality, including issues of the practice of self-inquiry and surrender, questions regarding my own state, theoretical questions, and much more.
What is the real status of illusion (maya) in the framework of enlightenment and self-realization? Is it true that the world and the ego appear to be, but are in fact nothing but the Self? Or is that a simplification for seekers?
What precisely is Self-Realization? It is called many things to help seekers, but what it REALLY is can never be understood.
I’ve compared realization to clarity, but it got me to thinking about the pros and cons of this description. In many ways, faith is a better term.. but why?
