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Anne Sweet
- Jul 31, 2022
Standing Alone
As someone who was a long-term seeker/practitioner I unwittingly absorbed many beliefs and conditionings along the way. Many teachers have a tendency to believe that they have the only truth, the only right perspective and the only correct way of seeing, and this attitude is passed onto their students. It was relatively easy for me to see through and past this falsehood as it has been many years since I was embedded in a specific teaching or tradition. However, I was still ca
Peter Mitchell
- Jul 27, 2022
Spiritual Friendship
A Gentle Push Peter Mitchell In a recent exchange with Amir Freimann, a friend who is researching into questions relating to spiritual experience and spiritual exemplars, I described the qualities of the background to my experience in the following terms: “Quite recently, two words from a quote by Ramana Maharshi describing resting in “choiceless, effortless" Awareness woke me up again to the vital sense of living presence in which all the content of my experience unfolds. An
Anne Sweet
- Jul 20, 2022
In realizing the Self ...
In realizing the Self, the underlying sense of incompleteness and unhappiness is replaced with a quiet and easeful contentment. The endless searching and seeking and looking for answers and salvation outside oneself ceases. The feeling of isolation, disconnection and lack disappears and one feels whole and integrated and deeply connected to all of life and to the Mystery that underpins it all. Life is experienced as something profound and meaningful. There are still challenge
Anne Sweet
- Jul 16, 2022
The Mad Parrot
Thoughts intensify when there is any kind of emotional or physical suffering. Under no circumstances get on the mind train! The catastrophizing mind under pressure is the last place to find solace or clarity. Leave it well alone. Pay no attention to it. Know that it is mechanically churning out worst case scenarios, endlessly. Return to your body and your self-nature and the current circumstances as they are, and let everything burn down and around and through you until whate