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Question 11
Ramana Maharshi is famous for these quotes: "The Mind has to be destroyed."
"Stay without thoughts and just BE."
"Go to the root of the 'I' thought and find out 'Who Am I'?"
How would one function without thinking in this world? Isn't the Mind necessary for our normal day-to-day functioning in this world? What does Ramana mean by Destroying the Mind? |
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Question 12
Last night before going to sleep, I read the section in "Bridging Heaven and Earth" about the man who was awakened and wanted to "serve those who are lost". After his guide questioned him, the man eventually said he wanted only to serve God. In a powerful dream last night, I dreamt that I knew what it was to want to serve only God. I was amongst other people who knew this was their only purpose, also. I knew other things during this dream, which I can no longer remember, How can I regain this knowing in my "waking" day-to-day life?
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Question 13
As I continue my spiritual work, both on the inner and outer levels, I have stumbled onto some troublesome areas of my childhood. I realize after 50 years that my father abused me. I am furious with him and can now recall quite a bit of detail going back to early childhood. I now have such a hard time feeling and expressing any love for him.. Is it natural to want to address this with him and will it do any good? How does one heal this issue in a spiritual way?
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Question 14
I am in recovery from Alcohol and drugs. I find myself replacing these by acting out with deviant sexual behaviour and being filled with all the guilt and shame surrounding these acts. Then I pray and focus on my spiritual condition and cease the self-destructive activities for a while, only to fail again. This binging and purging is taking it's toll. How can I break this vicious pattern of behaviour?
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Question 15
What is fear and how do I deal with it?
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Question 16
Based upon your definition of enlightenment, what are the salient characteristics of an enlightened person?
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Question 17
I have done a lot of spiritual work over the past few years, but my inner focus was to connect with soul guides and teachers. For a long time it was light filled and Christ oriented. After two years, however, I knew that something was wrong. I stopped the work as I found myself anorexic and in psychosis. Since then I have been to many healers, doctors and I am still on anti-depressants. I had actually created a strange energy mass in my head and now I cannot sleep at night. I am drawn to go within and tune in to the silence you speak of in your books but I am afraid. How do I know I won't be drawn into the same experience of hearing thoughts and voices from my mind. You speak of the importance of feelings and yet I had totally disassociated from feelings and from my body. I wonder if I have ruined any chance of higher dimensions of consciousness in this incarnation.
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Question 18
Does God speak to us individually? I want desperately to believe in God.
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Question 19
I have been on a spiritual path now for 30 years and now I find myself in a crisis. I am in a relationship. She is a good, loving & generous person but mentally and verbally there is a great deal of chaos between us. It is exhausting and energy-draining. I am more interested in the Center-less Space of Being, while she tends to dwell on emotional and sentimental things, which I experience as a burden. I feel psychically drained for two or three days after we have had sex. What shall I do? Am I destroying myself in this relationship? Could this be the point in my life, where I have to 'die' to that too and let go of the need to be in a relationship?
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Question 20
I was with a teacher for about 5 years who taught a group of us various methods, which were designed to help us to see ourselves more clearly and he also taught us some methods to help break up the habits of consciousness that we were caught in. They did lead to different experiences and insights. I hung onto some of them desperately so as to be free of me and open to something beyond me. But, after awhile it seemed to be a false freedom. I could see this by my limited and stiff responses to the people around me. I wonder if presence requires a remembering. How do you come back to Presence? How do you remain in Presence without it being a doing?
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