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The end of the effort to settle the issue of identity is the realization that your life, just as it is, as it is unfolding, as it is displaying itself, is precisely your realization. Your life is yourself made real. Not real in the philosophical sense, but real in the sense of a manifested object.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman on July 5, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 39 min. File size: 23.8 MB

Click http://www.rajshri.com/tamil/songs/songs.asp?Page=1 to watch more Tamil songs Author: rajshri Keywords: Thirumalai Tirumalai Color Tamil Fun Kavithalayaa Productions (P) Ltd. Pushpa Kandaswamy Ramana Vhijay Vidyasag Added: July 2, 2008

Author: vitalcoaching Added: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:25:02 -0800 Duration: 356http://vitalcoaching.com/spiritualpower.htm Do I need a spiritual master or not? - Master - Guru - Source of inspiration - I have seen people succeeding with both - Arunachala - Mountain - Ramana Maharshi - Krishnamurti - Forest - Lake - A place in ...

Click http://www.rajshri.com/tamil/songs/songs.asp?Page=1 to watch more Tamil songs Author: rajshri Keywords: Thirumalai Color Tamil Fun Kavithalayaa Productions (P) Ltd. Pushpa Kandaswamy Ramana Vijhay Laurence Vidyasaga Added: July 1, 2008

This work is entirely about identity. There is nothing else that is of any use for us in fulfilling the natural desire to be alive, and free, and in love with life. There is nothing else that matters apart from identity. There is nothing else that gets in the way; there is no other problem, no other cause of suffering than the issue of identity. When the issue of identity is settled, all else follows.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on June 21, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 35 min. File size: 22.8 MB

Seek the sense of self. That is what the self-inquiry of Ramana Maharshi is. "Self-inquiry" is really not a good translation for what he advises. There is no inquiry to it. There is no question to it; there is no answer to it. "Who am I?" is not a question, it is a quest. It is an exploration, an adventure, it is an investigation into the bedrock reality of identity. It is the movement that will resolve the issue of identity once and for all. It is the action that will remove from you the fearfulness and anxiety that arise solely because there is operating within you the unseen, unseeable, inferential conviction that there is nothing to you but this life.nnComplete, live recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman on June 7, 2008.nnLength: 1h 33 min. File size: 22.39 Mb

How are metaphysical and philosophical questions of any use to you? How does understanding or not understanding the spiritual assertions that "you are inexistent," "there is nobody home," or "there is just being" help you bring an end to the undercurrent of fearfulness and anxiety that arises from the conviction that you are at stake in this life?n nAll that is ever really needed is to taste this sense of self, the feeling of being me whenever it occurs to you to do so. See if you can feel what it feels like to be here, to be you. Feel what self feels like.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on May 24, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 57 min. File size: 28.13 MB

Author: satyaloka Added: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:49:49 -0800 Duration: 152http://thehappinessproject.com - There are moments in history when the world stands at the brink of a new era and the relentless march of time pauses for a seemingly endless breath before the floodgates of massive change blow wide open... That time is now. Are you ready?

Spiritual ideas such as "resist nothing," "stop," or "call off the search" and the like are not instructions, they are simply attempts to speak of the outcome of our seeking.nnWhat we seek is the direct taste of the sense of self, and this brings us, again and again, face-to-face with the light of reality. It is that light that does all the work. nnIt is that light that snuffs out the deep, unseen conviction that we are these lives, these minds, these bodies and nothing more, and that we are at stake in these lives. Then we see what is meant by all spiritual ideas.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on May 3, 2008.nnLength: 2 h 8 min. File size: 30.76 MB

Once you embark upon the real effort to rid yourself of all beliefs about what you are, that effort makes the mind transparent to reality.nnnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on April 5, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 33 min. File size: 23 Mb

One of the things I want to talk about today is the role of words, of understanding and speech in the consideration of reality. I want to speak about the role of words, ideas and understanding in the arena that we call self-realization.nnI remember that, when I first heard the term self-realization, I thought that was a lot better than enlightenment. It seemed to have a more esoteric and highfalutin sound to it, there seemed to be an aura of special knowledge to it. So, I invested that word with a magical component, which is what we do with words anyway. We have this inclination to think of words as the gateway to understanding, and clarity and, in the spiritual arena, as the gateway to self-realization--a state that we imagine to be outside of, apart from normal experience. nnThat love affair with the idea of realization did me no good. If it had any effect at all, it was to delay the day when I was done with suffering and misery once and for all.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on March 15, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 27 min. File size: 20.96 MB

Ground Transportation, Flying, Spinning and Acts of Will. Managing Scene Transitions.

LDD.10 Navigation in Dreams from Stephen Berlin on Vimeo. Ground transportation, flying, spinning and acts of will. Managing scene transitions. Cast: Stephen Berlin

LDD.10 Navigation in Dreams from Stephen Berlin on Vimeo. Ground transportation, flying, spinning and acts of will. Managing scene transitions. Cast: Stephen Berlin

The idea that there is only one question is a kind of a cliché in the spiritual community. It started out as an articulation of a momentary insight that was clear, startling, and useful to people. But my sense of it is more that there are many, many questions. nnThere are infinite questions, but really there is only one answer. And that is the truth of it. So, for the one who is harboring a burning question about reality, or the relationship to it, or what can be done to realize freedom, and so forth, that question is unique and particular to the experience of the person who is uttering it. It is not the same question. But it is going to be the same answer.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on March 1st, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 11 min. File size: 17 Mb

Gopichand's Telugu Cinema : ONTARI starring Bhaavana opposite him. Ramana directs this action film - Exclusive video Brought to you on net by Cinefundas.com...Author: cinefundas Tags: Ontari gopichand bhavana ramana telugu cinema idisangati tollywood gopi chand bhaavana comedy cinefundas videofundas Newsfundas Posted: 05 March 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

When I say "you," I am talking to you. And you know who you are. You know what you are. I am not speaking to "ego," and I am not speaking to the "true self." I am speaking to you, to this reality of presence that hears my words; this reality of presence that is the source and the destination of all things whatsoever -- thoughts, confusions, ideas, understandings, and everything. I am speaking to you. And it is on you to know what you are. nnI can't tell you what you are. It is of no use for me to tell you that there are two you's, a little you and a big you, one of which has to go, and the other of which has to be woken up. That doesn't help you at all. That is just an interpretation of the reality of which all are already constantly aware; just an interpretation of the reality that is endlessly giving rise to its own interpretations, and its own versions of a narrative about itself. That's what this whole universe is: the arising of reality's attempt to say something about itself, to see itself, to explore the infinite range of expression that is its story about itself.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on February 16, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 25 min. File size: 20.3 Mb

I am reminded often, in my own mind, of the story of how Nisargadatta found his teacher, the guy said to him something to the effect of, "Just stay with the feeling 'I am' and it will take you home," then he promptly dropped dead, without providing Nisargadatta with any follow-up instruction, correction, discussion or anything else. nnI don't say it quite as poetically, but I don't have not much more to say than that. What I have to say in this realm is, Look at yourself. Look at yourself as often as it occurs to you to do so. As often as you can, look at yourself. So far, I haven't dropped dead on you and left you hanging, wondering what in the world can I possibly be talking about with this look at yourself business, but really, that is all there is to what I have to offer. All the rest of it is discussion, and elaboration, and explanation, and perhaps some guidance and encouragement and reassurance... The truth is that, if you take just this one thing that I say and try with all your heart to see what it is that I am talking about, it is enough. Look at yourself as often as you can, because it is the seeing that does all the work.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on February 10, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 36 min. File size: 22.9 Mb

Ramana Maharshi gave no one any encouragement to follow him in any way whatsoever. He only instructed us, consistently, and again and again, to find out for ourselves what is real, what is here, what we are. He did encourage us, and the encouragement he provided was by his own example, and by his own experience that the effort to find out for ourselves what is real would give us everything we have ever wanted. So far as I know, in all of the time that I spent reading Ramana and thinking about Ramana, he never told anybody to go out and teach in his name or in the name of his teaching either. Nor did he ever suggest that he was part of or the beginning of any lineage.nnThe whole essence of Ramana's offering is that there is only one thing worth doing in life, only one thing that has to be done in order that life can be seen as the wonder and the gift that it is. And that is to cut through all of the conditioning, the mental chatter and the mind's insanity and look with all your heart, trying only to see yourself.nnnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on January 19, 2008.nnLength: 1 h 31 min. File size: 21.8 Mb

IN VIDEOS 239-240-241 RASA EXPLAINS AN EDUCATIONAL DREAM, REGARDING DUALITY VS NONDUALITY, BHAKTI VS CONTEMPLATION. IN THIS DREAM JESUS, MARY, & THEIR SAINTS APPEAR, IN DISGUISED FORM, AS DEVELOPERS TAKING OVER A PIECE OF HER LAND, BUILDING IT INTO A GARDEN SURROUNDING HER POND, (VERY BEAUTIFUL), CHARGING PEOPLE TO VISIT THE PLACE, & TELLING HER -- RASA -- TO LEAVE! RASA REBELS, & SAYS SHE IS STAYING, SHE HAS THE DEED & CAN PROVE SHE OWNS THIS PROPERTY WITH THE POND ON IT. SO IT IS JESUS, MARY & SAINTS WHO PICK UP ALL THAT THEY PUT HERE, THE TREES, BENCHES, EVERYTHING, & LEAVE, & THE LAND & POND ARE LEFT UNDEVELOPED AGAIN, JUST THE POND, SUNSHINE, & WILDERNESS SURROUNDING IT, EVERYTHING BARE & EMPTY. THE PEOPLE WHO CAME HERE, WHO WERE CHARGED, RASA WANTS TO PERMIT TO COME HERE FOR FREE, & NOW THERE ARE MANY MORE, & AS RASA STANDS UP TO THIS FORMIDABLE GROUP OF INTERLOPERS, THE PEOPLE APPLAUD HER. IN THE NEXT DREAM, A TALL MAN DRESSED IN BRIGHT ORANGE LOVES HER, THEY APPROACH ONE ANOTHER, HE BOWS FROM THE WAIST DOWN & SHE CURTSIES, & THEY ARE A COUPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER. THIS DREAM ANSWERS THE DOUBTS RASA HAD THE DAY BEFORE, BECAUSE SHE HAS GIVEN UP PRAYER, MASSES, RITUALS, & SHE KNOWS SHE IS GOD, BUT SHE ISN'T DOING ANYTHING, & FELT FEAR THAT MAYBE SHE WILL BECOME LIKE ALL THE OTHERS OF THE WORLD, FORGETTING GOD. BUT THE DREAM ASSURES HER, NO, WHAT YOU ARE DOING HERE IS YOU ARE REJECTING OR STANDING UP TO GOD AS FORM, & ALL THE ORGANIZATION, THE ARCHITECTURE OF RELIGION, & YOU ARE SAYING TO FORM, 'I HAVE NOW CLAIMED MY OWN INNER SPACE & I AM NO LONGER GOING TO LET THE GOD OF FORM DOMINATE ME, HAVE AUTHORITY OVER ME, I AM REBELLING AGAINST FORM & CLAIMING MY OWN INNER SPACE AS MINE & MINE ALONE, & NOT EVEN JESUS, MARY & ALL THE SAINTS CAN CONTROL MY SPACE & USE IT. ALL THE BEAUTY OF THIS RELIGION OF CHRISTIANITY WILL HAVE TO LEAVE, AS I AM CLAIMING THAT I AM MY OWN GOD, I AM IN NONDUALITY, & WORSHIP GOD WITHIN ME, I DO NOT NEED DUALISTIC FORM NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS, NO ONE CAN NOW TAKE AUTHORITY OVER ME AS I AM MY OWN PERSON. (IN THE DREAM THERE ARE ABOUT 30 MEN & A FEW WOMEN, ALL BIG & HEALTHY LOOKING, & THEY THINK THEY CAN INTIMIDATE RASA TO GIVE IN TO THE DEVELOPER, BUT SHE STANDS UP TO THEM & EVEN CUSSES THEM OUT, & THEY ARE SURPRIZED!) THE DEVELOPER (WHO IS ACTUALLY JESUS) FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RASA'S LIFE, APPEARS AS A MEAN PERSON, & RASA SUBTLY REMINDS HIM OF HOW SHE IS MARRIED TO HIM! THE FINAL MOMENT COMES WHEN THE LADY, THE WIFE OF THE DEVELOPER (HOLY MARY) DEMANDS RASA LEAVE, & RASA REFUSES, & THEN, ALL THE SAINTS PICK UP EVERYTHING OF 'FORM' THAT WAS HERE, & THEY LEAVE. THIS DREAM ASSURES RASA SHE HAS DONE THE RIGHT THING, NOTHING WRONG WITH NOW GIVING UP WORSHIP OF GOD IN FORM & RITUAL, SHE IS NOW, HER DOMAIN, LIKE THE BARE POND WITH SUNSHINE, REPRESENTING THE GRACE OF GOD FROM 'ABOVE' ILLUMINATING THE 'RESERVOIR' OF GRACE, THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THIS DOMAIN OR PERSON, WHICH IS SERVING MANKIND. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE RASA WANTS TO SERVE WITHOUT COST, FREELY TO THEM, MEANING THIS NEW PATH IS ONE WITHOUT SUFFERING -- CONVERSELY THE PATH OF BHAKTI ENTAILS MUCH SUFFERING. AFTER THIS VICTORY, THE SECOND DREAM SHOWS GOD APPROACHING RASA AS THE YOGI OF BLISS, RAMANA MAHARSHI, WHO BOWS TO HER & SHE CURTSIES TO HIM, SHOWING MUTUAL LOVE & ACCEPTANCE OF ONE ANOTHER, RASA IS NOW NONDUAL, THIS IS HER NEW RELIGION OF BLISS. IN OTHER WORDS, NOTHING OUTSIDE IS NEEDED, ALL IS WITHIN, NO NEED TO SUFFER ANY MORE, JUST LET GO OF ALL THINGS ON THE OUTSIDE, ALL THAT IS NEEDED IS HERE, THE LIGHT OF GOD & THE GRACE WITHIN, ...SO SIMPLE. HER CLEINTS APPRECIATE THIS ALSO, THEY ARE INCREASING. FROM 'GURU RASA' -- RASA VON WERDER of the University of MotherGod Church, "WomanThouArtGod" (site)! Women must gather for empowerment with privacy & safe space Sisterhood gives confidence & support There are places & times JUST FOR US Has NOTHING TO DO WITH MEN -- WE NEED SACRED SPACE TO REST IN OUR OWN IDENTITY OUTSIDE THE CONCEPTS OF MALES! They get VERY NERVOUS when WOMEN MEET! They fear us finding ourselves, our great Power, getting secure, strong & confident! They have been holding the cork (us) down so many generations & they know when we get together their lies will unravel all the more quickly, for as we compare notes, we fill in each others gaps in Realization of what has gone on, we 'click' in recognition that we have been programmed with a pack of lies. They know very well, often on an instinctive unconscious level, that the whole world of SENSUALITY/SPIRITUALITY has been devised to make us lose our Fundamental Inborn Power, which is so gigantic that they are but DWARFS in the light of it. Author: rasavonwerder Keywords: RAMANA MAHARSHI ENLIGHTENMENT NONDUALITY JESUS MARY DUALISM BHAKTI YOGA CHRISTIANITY SUFFERING GRACE LIGHT RELIGION Added: January 21, 2008

IN VIDEOS 239-240-241 RASA EXPLAINS AN EDUCATIONAL DREAM, REGARDING DUALITY VS NONDUALITY, BHAKTI VS CONTEMPLATION. IN THIS DREAM JESUS, MARY, & THEIR SAINTS APPEAR, IN DISGUISED FORM, AS DEVELOPERS TAKING OVER A PIECE OF HER LAND, BUILDING IT INTO A GARDEN SURROUNDING HER POND, (VERY BEAUTIFUL), CHARGING PEOPLE TO VISIT THE PLACE, & TELLING HER -- RASA -- TO LEAVE! RASA REBELS, & SAYS SHE IS STAYING, SHE HAS THE DEED & CAN PROVE SHE OWNS THIS PROPERTY WITH THE POND ON IT. SO IT IS JESUS, MARY & SAINTS WHO PICK UP ALL THAT THEY PUT HERE, THE TREES, BENCHES, EVERYTHING, & LEAVE, & THE LAND & POND ARE LEFT UNDEVELOPED AGAIN, JUST THE POND, SUNSHINE, & WILDERNESS SURROUNDING IT, EVERYTHING BARE & EMPTY. THE PEOPLE WHO CAME HERE, WHO WERE CHARGED, RASA WANTS TO PERMIT TO COME HERE FOR FREE, & NOW THERE ARE MANY MORE, & AS RASA STANDS UP TO THIS FORMIDABLE GROUP OF INTERLOPERS, THE PEOPLE APPLAUD HER. IN THE NEXT DREAM, A TALL MAN DRESSED IN BRIGHT ORANGE LOVES HER, THEY APPROACH ONE ANOTHER, HE BOWS FROM THE WAIST DOWN & SHE CURTSIES, & THEY ARE A COUPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER. THIS DREAM ANSWERS THE DOUBTS RASA HAD THE DAY BEFORE, BECAUSE SHE HAS GIVEN UP PRAYER, MASSES, RITUALS, & SHE KNOWS SHE IS GOD, BUT SHE ISN'T DOING ANYTHING, & FELT FEAR THAT MAYBE SHE WILL BECOME LIKE ALL THE OTHERS OF THE WORLD, FORGETTING GOD. BUT THE DREAM ASSURES HER, NO, WHAT YOU ARE DOING HERE IS YOU ARE REJECTING OR STANDING UP TO GOD AS FORM, & ALL THE ORGANIZATION, THE ARCHITECTURE OF RELIGION, & YOU ARE SAYING TO FORM, 'I HAVE NOW CLAIMED MY OWN INNER SPACE & I AM NO LONGER GOING TO LET THE GOD OF FORM DOMINATE ME, HAVE AUTHORITY OVER ME, I AM REBELLING AGAINST FORM & CLAIMING MY OWN INNER SPACE AS MINE & MINE ALONE, & NOT EVEN JESUS, MARY & ALL THE SAINTS CAN CONTROL MY SPACE & USE IT. ALL THE BEAUTY OF THIS RELIGION OF CHRISTIANITY WILL HAVE TO LEAVE, AS I AM CLAIMING THAT I AM MY OWN GOD, I AM IN NONDUALITY, & WORSHIP GOD WITHIN ME, I DO NOT NEED DUALISTIC FORM NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS, NO ONE CAN NOW TAKE AUTHORITY OVER ME AS I AM MY OWN PERSON. (IN THE DREAM THERE ARE ABOUT 30 MEN & A FEW WOMEN, ALL BIG & HEALTHY LOOKING, & THEY THINK THEY CAN INTIMIDATE RASA TO GIVE IN TO THE DEVELOPER, BUT SHE STANDS UP TO THEM & EVEN CUSSES THEM OUT, & THEY ARE SURPRIZED!) THE DEVELOPER (WHO IS ACTUALLY JESUS) FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RASA'S LIFE, APPEARS AS A MEAN PERSON, & RASA SUBTLY REMINDS HIM OF HOW SHE IS MARRIED TO HIM! THE FINAL MOMENT COMES WHEN THE LADY, THE WIFE OF THE DEVELOPER (HOLY MARY) DEMANDS RASA LEAVE, & RASA REFUSES, & THEN, ALL THE SAINTS PICK UP EVERYTHING OF 'FORM' THAT WAS HERE, & THEY LEAVE. THIS DREAM ASSURES RASA SHE HAS DONE THE RIGHT THING, NOTHING WRONG WITH NOW GIVING UP WORSHIP OF GOD IN FORM & RITUAL, SHE IS NOW, HER DOMAIN, LIKE THE BARE POND WITH SUNSHINE, REPRESENTING THE GRACE OF GOD FROM 'ABOVE' ILLUMINATING THE 'RESERVOIR' OF GRACE, THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THIS DOMAIN OR PERSON, WHICH IS SERVING MANKIND. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE RASA WANTS TO SERVE WITHOUT COST, FREELY TO THEM, MEANING THIS NEW PATH IS ONE WITHOUT SUFFERING -- CONVERSELY THE PATH OF BHAKTI ENTAILS MUCH SUFFERING. AFTER THIS VICTORY, THE SECOND DREAM SHOWS GOD APPROACHING RASA AS THE YOGI OF BLISS, RAMANA MAHARSHI, WHO BOWS TO HER & SHE CURTSIES TO HIM, SHOWING MUTUAL LOVE & ACCEPTANCE OF ONE ANOTHER, RASA IS NOW NONDUAL, THIS IS HER NEW RELIGION OF BLISS. IN OTHER WORDS, NOTHING OUTSIDE IS NEEDED, ALL IS WITHIN, NO NEED TO SUFFER ANY MORE, JUST LET GO OF ALL THINGS ON THE OUTSIDE, ALL THAT IS NEEDED IS HERE, THE LIGHT OF GOD & THE GRACE WITHIN, ...SO SIMPLE. HER CLEINTS APPRECIATE THIS ALSO, THEY ARE INCREASING. FROM 'GURU RASA' -- RASA VON WERDER of the University of MotherGod Church, "WomanThouArtGod" (site)! Women must gather for empowerment with privacy & safe space Sisterhood gives confidence & support There are places & times JUST FOR US Has NOTHING TO DO WITH MEN -- WE NEED SACRED SPACE TO REST IN OUR OWN IDENTITY OUTSIDE THE CONCEPTS OF MALES! They get VERY NERVOUS when WOMEN MEET! They fear us finding ourselves, our great Power, getting secure, strong & confident! They have been holding the cork (us) down so many generations & they know when we get together their lies will unravel all the more quickly, for as we compare notes, we fill in each others gaps in Realization of what has gone on, we 'click' in recognition that we have been programmed with a pack of lies. They know very well, often on an instinctive unconscious level, that the whole world of SENSUALITY/SPIRITUALITY has been devised to make us lose our Fundamental Inborn Power, which is so gigantic that they are but DWARFS in the light of it. Author: rasavonwerder Keywords: RAMANA MAHARSHI ENLIGHTENMENT NONDUALITY JESUS MARY DUALISM ADVAITA BHAKTI YOGA BUDDHISM CHRISTIANITY SUFFERING RELIGION Added: January 21, 2008

Determination is a good thing. What is really required is intention. Not so much determination, but the intention, when you turn your attention looking for this ever-present reality, that it is your intention to see reality. That's all. In other words, it is not something that comes to you as a side effect of some other thing that you are doing or not doing. It is your intention in that moment, even if that moment is vanishingly small, and even if those moments are few in number over time. What is required is that, in those moments when it occurs to you to look at yourself, that you see that that is what you are doing: you are, with full intention, trying to see the reality of what you are.nnComplete recording of a Worldwide Meeting on January 5, 2008nnLength: 64 min. File size: 15.3 Mb

This activity that we call self-inquiry should be so easy to speak about, and so easy to offer clearly and understandably, that just having heard it once should produce in the mind that hears it at least a curiosity about whether there is any possibility that something so simple, so easy, so direct and uncomplicated could have such profound effects on the life. It should be simple. I should be able to say something that, when you hear it, you will say, Oh right, "I want to try that. I want to see whether there is anything to this." Without it triggering in you spiritual associations, and religious understandings, and all of that. Those things are all fine, but they are 100% beside the point in self-inquiry. nnnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on December 22, 2007.nnLength: 67 min. File size: 16.8 Mb

Lucid Dream Discourses - No. 7 - Stephen Berlin from Stephen Berlin on Vimeo. Faulty Logic in Dreams. Is your dream logic vastly improved when lucid? Not necessarily. Cast: Stephen Berlin

Lucid Dream Discourses - No. 6 - Stephen Berlin from Stephen Berlin on Vimeo. Day Residue in Dreams. Residue from a lifetime of days. Cast: Stephen Berlin

It seems to me that one of the great problems with this practice that we got from Ramana Maharshi is its simplicity. And I mean simple, not easy. By "simple" I mean stripped of all the adornments, decorations, explanations, rationalizations, and understandings that normally come part and parcel with a spiritual practice. nnUsually we engage in a spiritual practice not for the sake of the practice itself, but in order that we can transform or transcend our lives, or think more clearly, or think less, or have a better idea of what we want or what we want to be, or how we want to get there, or have a better idea that we are nothing, or feel better, have a deeper understanding, have more clarity about the world, and my life and the things around me. nnMost of us, for the most part, when we engage in a spiritual practice, we do so from the stand point of a life that has absolutely revealed itself to be wholly unsatisfactory, and from the experience of which we desperately want to escape. So, when are engaging in these practices, what we are looking for is some change in our lives.nnLive recording of a Worldwide Meeting on December 1, 2007.nnLength: 58 min. File size: 14 Mb

Lucid Dream Discourses - No. 9 - Stephen Berlin from Stephen Berlin on Vimeo. The Dynamics of Dream Emergence Cast: Stephen Berlin