The Teachings of Inner Ramana – Détails, épisodes et analyse

"It's time to go beyond everything you've learned.

Everything you've learned has been helpful. It's been helpful toward willingness to take this next step. But without the step that we are taking together now, all that you've learned serves no real purpose toward awakening." - excerpt from the "Looking at the False 'I' Thought" message in the book The Teachings of Inner Ramana.

This final podcast episode is Part 13 from a 13-episode series of video teachings by Regina on her book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠"Teachings of Inner Ramana⁠⁠⁠⁠." It was first uploaded in November 2012.

Despite their age and the fact they may repeat some of the content in the earlier audio-only teachings in this podcast, these videos are being included here in case they resonate with some spiritual students. Please be guided by your own inner teacher as to whether they are for you or not.

To read more about The Teachings of Inner Ramana, please visit:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/

"Understand that all resistance comes from your willingness to listen to resistance before. It is an echo from the past that is being picked up and heard now. To listen to it again is like shouting into a cave again. The echo will only return." - excerpt from The Circus and the Meadow message in the book, The Teachings of Inner Ramana.

This episode was part 12 in a series of video teachings by Regina on her book, ⁠⁠⁠⁠"Teachings of Inner Ramana⁠⁠⁠⁠" and was first uploaded in November, 2012.

Despite their age and the fact they may repeat some of the content in the earlier audio-only teachings in this podcast, these videos are being included here in case, for some reason, they resonate with some spiritual students.

Please be guided by your own inner teacher as to whether they are for you or not.

To read more about The Teachings of Inner Ramana, please visit:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/

"We are going to learn not to listen to the mind, first, by listening to another Voice, which speaks through the mind, but does not speak from mind, for mind or with mind." ~The Purpose of Surrender message from "The Teachings of Inner Ramana"

In this episode, Regina reads from the Purpose of Surrender message.

Please note that this episode is from a series of video teachings by Regina on the ⁠⁠"Teachings of Inner Ramana⁠⁠" that were originally uploaded in 2011.

Despite their age and the fact they may repeat some of the content in the earlier audio-only teachings in this podcast, they are being included here in case, for some reason, they resonate more with some spiritual students.

Please be guided by your own inner teacher as to whether they are for you or not.

To read more about The Teachings of Inner Ramana, please visit:

⁠⁠⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/

"Think of mind as a filter. This filter enables one to distinquish differences where there are none. ... It places a veil of perception over reality so reality can be experienced in a new way." ~ The Commentary on Mind message from The Teachings of Inner Ramana

In this episode, Regina reads from the second half of the The Commentary on Mind message.

Please note that this episode is from a series of video teachings by Regina on the ⁠"Teachings of Inner Ramana⁠" that were originally uploaded in 2011.

Despite their age and the fact they may repeat some of the content in the earlier audio-only teachings in this podcast, they are being included here in case, for some reason, they resonate more with some spiritual students.

Please be guided by your own inner teacher as to whether they are for you or not.

To read more about The Teachings of Inner Ramana, please visit:

⁠⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/

"The mind is not constant. This is why one must step away from the mind to find peace. Peace cannot be found with the mind." ~The Commentary on Mind

Please note that this video is from a series of video teachings by Regina on the "Teachings of Inner Ramana" that were originally uploaded in 2011.

Despite their age and the fact they may repeat some of the content in the earlier audio-only teachings in this podcast, they are being included here in case, for some reason, they resonate more with some spiritual students.

Please be guided by your own inner teacher as to whether they are for you or not.

To read more about The Teachings of Inner Ramana, please visit:

⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/

The story of how "The Teachings of Inner Ramana" was received by Regina Dawn Akers.

Please note that this video is from a series of video teaching by Regina that were originally uploaded in 2011.

Despite their age and the fact they may repeat some of the content in the audio teachings, they are being included here in case, for some reason, they resonate more with some spiritual students.

Please be guided by your own inner teacher as to whether they are for you or not.

To read more about The Teachings of Inner Ramana, please visit:

https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/

In the final episode in this series, Regina Dawn Akers teaches from the following three messages from Inner Ramana: The Only Choice is Where, Moving from Resistor to Abiding in Self (starts 14:06), and The Missing Ramana Message (starts 19:03).

The first message explains why "knowing your Heart is your only business." You can learn more about the themes in it here: https://awakening-together.org/day-323-tip/

The second and third messages are about three states of mind: Resistor– The state of mind when we fully believe the body-mind-personality is what we are. Doubter– The state of mind when we learn about Truth and question everything we believed as resistor. Abiding– The state of mind when we embrace Truth as our reality and live from that instead of from thought.

Learn more about these stages at https://awakening-together.org/gentle-healing-2-day-324-moving-from-resistor-to-abiding-in-self/ and https://awakening-together.org/day-326-tip/

In this episode, Regina says: "What he's really asking us to do at the end of the book is to step off the bridge into abiding and just trust that you will know what you are to know in every moment."

Learn about Inner Ramana here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/⁠⁠⁠⁠

When Regina mentions NTI, she is referring to The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament: A Course in Understanding and Acceptance. You can read more about that book here: ⁠https://awakening-together.org/interact/regina-dawn-akers/books-by-regina-dawn-akers/

Musical ident: Helen Allmark

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The Pain and Purification message from Inner Ramana is the first message discussed today. Regina says ⁠elsewhere⁠* that this message cannot be understood by the mind, so it might be helpful to practice awareness-watching-awareness before contemplating it in order to break the attachment to mind and come from a place of Self-realization. Regina also says that the Self does not experience pain, the only thing that experiences pain is the mind. When you believe that you experience pain, you are identified with the mind. Awareness as attention has projected itself into thought and imagines itself to be thought. It is like watching virtual reality from what appears to be within virtual reality. “If you place your identity with the false identity ‘I’ in the thinking mind, then you experience everything it thinks up to prove that it exists. …“...But this does not change the fact that you are not it, and it and the experiences that come from it are fully and perfectly illusion.”  ~ Excerpt from the Pain and Purification message from Inner Ramana Just as the Self does not experience pain, the Self does not require purification. It has never been anything but pure. Neither can the mind be purified. All you can do is see that the mind does not exist and that you are not the mind. Thus, the purpose of purification is not to change or improve the mind, it is the process of disengaging from the mind, disregarding its chatter and instead listening to wisdom. It involves seeing that the mind is not real and the mind is not what I am. Full-time Inquiry for Self The Full-time Inquiry for Self message (Regina starts this at the 29:00 minute mark) urges you to seek the awareness of Self at all times and in all circumstances. It says Self-realization is all that matters and if you make it your only purpose, it “shall certainly become your reward.” Assignment for week 15: Practice enquiry with everything, whether you're having a shower, doing the dishes, watching a movie, and so on. Really try to keep focused on awareness by inquiring into every experience that you can inquire into. Learn about Inner Ramana here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/⁠⁠⁠⁠ *⁠https://awakening-together.org/day-319-tip/⁠ Also note that when Regina mentions NTI, she is referring to The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament: A Course in Understanding and Acceptance. You can read more about that book here: https://awakening-together.org/interact/regina-dawn-akers/books-by-regina-dawn-akers/ Musical ident: Helen Allmark #RamanaMaharshi #InnerRamana #surrender #self-inquiry #self-realization #awakening #ReginaDawnAkers #AwakeningTogether #NTI #intuition #devotion #willingness #purification #pain

In this episode, Regina Dawn Akers starts by teaching the Contract about Awakening message from Inner Ramana, which she says is about noticing which source you are. Are you the chatter in the mind or are you the heart?

If you look at your willingness and your desire for devotion and say, "That's me", you're reminding yourself which source you really are.

Excerpt from A Contract for Awakening message from Inner Ramana: "Your identification with the mind is the obstacle to knowing the beauty of your true Self. It is this identity that makes you blind. When you judge me and when you judge life by the mind's standards, you throw a blanket over the truth, and you choose not to see."

Regina starts teaching the The Grace of the Guru message at about the 15:52 minute mark.

Excerpt from the The Grace of the Guru message from Inner Ramana:
"It is as if I have come to abide in your Heart for a time. I have lit a campfire there and I sit by that fire singing the songs of the Heart. But that is only so you can hear yourself more clearly and recognize your Self above the chatter of the mind, so you may return to you there in the center of the Heart."

Assignment for week 14: Inner Ramana says to practice everything he teaches. As you do that, whenever you notice willingness, whenever you notice devotion, whenever you notice desire for God, whisper to yourself, "That's me. That willingness is my voice."

Learn about Inner Ramana here: ⁠⁠⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/⁠⁠⁠

Musical ident: Helen Allmark

#RamanaMaharshi #InnerRamana #surrender #self-inquiry #self-realization #awakening #ReginaDawnAkers #AwakeningTogether #NTI #intuition #devotion #willingness #grace

This week’s message is about surrender. Regina says that in order to fully realize the lesson in the message, you need to surrender to the message.

“Confusion comes from judgment or deciding or thinking one knows without checking with me. This is the core of all confusion, and without this one error, confusion becomes impossible.” ~ excerpt from The Mind that Thinks it is Lord message from Inner Ramana

Assignment for week 13: Continue to practice surrender but try the mantra "Abide in me as I abide in you" and say it as often as you remember to say it.

Learn about Inner Ramana here: ⁠https://awakening-together.org/about-awakening-together/other-resources/teachings-inner-ramana/⁠

Musical ident: Helen Allmark

#RamanaMaharshi #InnerRamana #surrender #self-inquiry #self-realization #awakening #ReginaDawnAkers #AwakeningTogether #NTI #intuition