Modern spiritual teachers in west influenced by east....

What does the Self mean to you?

The self is me, awareness.

And how do you define awareness?

You are a conscious awareful being. It is just your ordinary everyday awareness, not the subjective objects—thoughts, feelings and perceptions—arising in it. It is so much you, so natural to you that you don’t even notice it. You think it is something hidden far away, mystical perhaps, only available by some insight or epiphany.

It is because of that awareness that you experience what you experience. As yourself it is how you know what you know. Ignore what you know but HOW you know. And the answer is so simple that you will discount it immediately. It is because you are aware. You are aware because you are awareness...................................................................Teacher James Swartz

 "Can I realize myself beyond time?" - M: "Yes. Drop time."

Dont give up....

Shift of perception

Byron Katie: Fear of the Future

To understand feelings I should have a heart....

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I can only get something I already have through knowledge.

But knowledge doesn’t happen by itself. It must come through a

vehicle or instrument.

*****

THE MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE

by

James Swartz

Perception, inference, and language are means of knowledge. The means of knowledge we use is determined by the type of object we want to know. For example, if I want to see a sunset I can’t use my ears. Knowledge of thought depends on intellect. To understand feelings I should have a heart.

The means of knowing relative things is obvious, but the knowledge

revealing the limitless I is subtle because it has to remove a deep and hidden

obstacle, the ignorance of my limitless nature. For the means to operate properly, assuming a clear message is  coming from the scripture through the teacher, the mind must be trained to listen.

Listening with an open mind requires disciplined and consistent setting aside of cherished views of oneself and world. A means of knowledge is not brainwashing, accepting a new belief system; its only purpose is to deliver of a clear vision of truth, the limitless I. Simply hearing that one is free of limitation is not enough. Doubt comes from incomplete and incorrect thinking and is only removed by careful and patient reflection Meditation as a thought-free state or religious ritual as devotional practice are valuable tools for purifying the mind, but will not remove self doubt. So, along with the knowledge that I am limitless Awareness, I should follow the method of thinking enjoined by the scripture, the negation of all incorrect views about the nature of the world and myself.

The most formidable obstacle to the assimilationof the truth is the thought “If only I were different or the world were different, I would be happy.” Looking forward to an ideal inner or outer situation is futile because life and oneself is already and always perfect. When this thought is removed the mind enjoys limitless vision. So spiritual practice, meditation if you will, is the struggle to purify beliefs supporting the notion of oneself as a limited being.

Words can only reveal known objects. For example, the word ‘television’ wouldn’t have been understood a hundred years ago. Words  only work to describe substances, properties of substances, actions, species  or classes, and relationships, so how can the limitless I, which is apparently not an experienced object and obviously beyond these categories, be revealed  through the teachings of Vedanta?  If I say “tree,” a tree thought takes place in the mind because we have experienced trees, but the words “limitless I” don’t mean anything to most of us because we think of our ourselves as limited I’s. And the limitless I is the part of ourselves that can never be objectified, so it seems words won’t work to reveal it. However, if the thought that we’re limited is a delusion and the limitless I present and accounted for, an intimate part of every transaction, words can reveal it.

Vedanta tackles the word problem by first informing me that I’m an

unlimited I. That I’m limitless is indicated by the fact that though I have

literally hundreds of thousands of unique experiences in my lifetime, I

continually experience myself as a simple conscious being, one transcending

all experiences. The same I, unaffected by time, witnessed my baby body,

youth body, adult body, and feeble old-age body and their myriad transactions.

Talks of JKM

Ending of memory...

The Mind cannot enter into a totally new dimension if there is a shadow of memory of anything.

conversation with  Pupul Jayakar

Real revolution...JKM

Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.
From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he traveled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.

Real revolution

Essence of Deepavali....Drive the darkness and enlighten yourself.

Essence of Deepavali....Drive away the darkness and find the door of enlightenment.

There was a man who invented the art of making fire. He took his tools and went to a tribe in the north, where it was very cold, bitterly cold. He taught the people there to make fire. The people were very interested. He showed them the uses to which they could put fire: they could cook, could keep themselves warm, etc. They were so grateful that they had learned the art of making fire. But before they could express their gratitude to the man, he disappeared. He wasn't concerned with getting their recognition or gratitude; he was concerned about their well-being. He went to another tribe, where he again began to show them the value of his invention. People were interested there too, a bit too interested for the peace of mind of their priests, who began to notice that this man was drawing crowds and they were losing their popularity. So they decided to do away with him. They poisoned him, crucified him, put it any way you like. But they were afraid now that the people might turn against them, so they were very wise, even wily. Do you know what they did? They had a portrait of the man made and mounted it on the main altar of the temple. The instruments for making fire were placed in front of the portrait, and the people were taught to revere the portrait and to pay reverence to the instruments of fire, which they dutifully did for centuries. The veneration and the worship went on, but there was no fire.

Where’s the fire? Where’s the love? Where’s the freedom? This is what spirituality is all about. Tragically, we tend to lose sight of this, don’t we? This is what Jesus Christ/Krishna/Gautama Buddha   is all about. But we overemphasized the “Lord, Lord,” didn’t we? Where’s the fire? And if worship isn’t leading to the fire, if adoration isn’t leading to love, if the liturgy isn’t leading to a clearer perception of reality, if God isn’t leading to life, of what use is religion except to create more division, more fanaticism, more antagonism? It is not from lack of religion in the ordinary sense of the word that the world is suffering, it is from lack of love, lack of awareness. And love is generated through awareness and through no other way, no other way. Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear....

 Excerpt: Father Anthony de mello

From dawn to dusk I spend my day in vain talks,

From dawn to dusk I spend my day in vain talks,
Not even for a moment do I think "Who am I?‘ My Lord, you have told me if you  speak one word it will multiply into many words.

Ramana Deva, I am only pretending to be your devotee and not conducting myself as one.

I am a sinner who wastes most of his time listening to others‘ misdeeds and talking about them.

I have many defects myself, but if others mention them, my mind boils with rage.

Thinking that there is no harm in it, I do not hesitate to utter small lies. Oh!
Ramana Deva, is it not high drama to fall at your feet as if I am your devotee?

Though I have become old and suffer from various diseases, I have not destroyed the  desire for women.

The ghost of my mind desires to see their beautiful faces, converse with them, and listen to their honey-like speech.

Even though I give advice to the mind, it does not subside but wanders after them. Ramana Deva, when will this delusion end and my mind become firm? 

You know that my qualities and character are poor. You also know that among the ignorant full of defects, I am the worst.

Though you know all this, you still sort me and took possession of me. Ramana Deva, 

how can I explain this wonder?...........Sivaprakasam Pillai ((devotee who lived with ramana maharishi))

One devotee asked Bhagavan, ―Bhagavan, Sivaprakasam Pillai was such a 

great ascetic. He unswervingly put your teachings into practice. Reading 

his poems, I wonder where I stand! If he is in this wretched state, what 

will happen to me?‖ Bhagavan responded with a beautiful reply: ―When 

extolling God, Adi Shankara and other sages have berated their selves 

and said the same thing.  This is how  the sages guide others and warn 

aspiring aspirants.‖

"How is one to understand the mind?"

....Contd

"How is one to understand the mind?"

The way of the mind is the way of life - not the ideal life, but the actual life of sorrow and pleasure, of deception and clarity, of conceit and the pose of humility. To understand the mind is to be aware of desire and fear.

"Please, this is getting a bit too much for me. How am I to understand my mind?" To know the mind, must you not be aware of its activities? The mind is only experience, not just the immediate but also the accumulated. The mind is the past in response to the present, which makes for the future. The total process of the mind has to be understood.

"Where am I to begin?"

From the only beginning: relationship. Relationship is life; to be is to be related. Only in the mirror of relationship is the mind to be understood, and you have to begin to see yourself in that mirror. "Do you mean in my relationship with my wife with my neighbor, and so on? Is that not a very limited process?"

What may appear to be small, limited, if approached rightly, reveals the fathomless. It is like a funnel, the narrow opens into the wide. When observed with passive watchfulness, the limited reveals the limitless. After all, at its source the river is small, hardly worth noticing.

"So I must begin with myself and my immediate relationships."

Surely. Relationship is never narrow or small. With the one or with the many, relationship is a complex process, and you can approach it pettily, or freely and openly. Again, the approach is dependent on the state of the mind. If you do not begin with yourself, where else will you begin? Even if you begin with some peripheral activity, you are in relationship with it, the mind is the center of it. Whether you begin near or far, you are there. Without understanding yourself, whatever you do will inevitably bring about confusion and sorrow. The beginning is the ending.

"I have wandered far afield, I have seen and done many things, I have suffered and laughed like so many others, and yet I have had to come back to myself. I am like that Sannyasi who set out in search of truth. He spent many years going from teacher to teacher, and each pointed out a different way. At last he wearily returned to his home, and in his own house was the jewel! I see how foolish we are, searching the universe for that bliss which is to be found only in our own hearts when the mind is purged of its activities. You are perfectly right. I begin from where I started. I begin with what I am." 

By J.krishna murti on individual and the ideal.

MARVELLOUS GEMS OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA

 

Buddham sharanam

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ...Gautama Buddha.

Ø Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Ø A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."

Ø Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Ø The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Ø It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Ø There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.

Ø The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Ø It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Ø To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Ø What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Ø Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Ø "A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."

Ø The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Ø Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom

Ø You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together."

Ø The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Ø The tongue like a sharp knife, Kills without drawing blood.

Ø To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?".....Gautama Buddha.

  The Buddha's final words are reported to have been: "All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence"

Gautama Budhha,           four noble truths,        Noble Eightfold Path

Tumse milne ke baad life main bahut aage aayi hoon...

Tumse milne ke baad life main bahut aage aayi hoon......................( After meeting you i gone a head in life.)

hello friend,

There is nothing infront(आगे ) of life nor there is back(पीछे ), there is nothing in top(ऊपर ) nor bottom(नीचे)...na toh kabhi tum peeche thi na abhi age ho..tum jahan ho wahi ho(neither you are moving a head nor you trailing, you are just there where you are.)..The change appear in awareness of self. if any one Begin to learn, distinguishing between physical body, physical mind, subtle mind..., ego ( not pride {I}).. psyche (not ego nor self)...soul(not parmatma)....The different levels of consciousness of self.

All the sensory perception are illusion, they are the manifestation of the inner subtle mind, which giving you the pleasure of that moment...This statement is wrong until someone have real experience to go beyond ego, beyond ego there is no sensory perception hence no mind, than what is there left? and who would be the knower?...if someone has experience of that thing he would say there is no movement in life, its just level of awareness of being...there is not relativity..there is no newton theory working, Matter is not the ultimate reality there is some thing beyond the matter(material); exists, that which is continues to live every where  which very much evident in all  the cosmos. 

tabhi vedas say" tumahre aage namaskar peeche namaskar oopar bhi namaskar neeche bhi namaskar...namashkar every where am every where...am every where...am every where..

When you Demolish the walls of Turbulence, you will find city of PEACE. .

when you begin to understand inner mind mechanics; you begin to have patience , when it is clearly visible to us who the devil is - making turmoil in the life.  we clearly identify the culprit. defined, visibly amplified in front of us. We begin to know the strengths , well wishers, cooperators who enhance the strength to fight the battle with demons.

Maine kuch bhi nahi kiya na diya( i  did nothing nor i have given anything to u , i cant infact)...its there ..its you...you have begun to see yourself..thats it.
your friend and well wisher.



To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth." 
"All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After ( I )'m gone, I trust you will notice the river"............................Father  Anthony de Mello

अहं सर्वस्य प्रभवो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते

अहं सर्वस्य प्रभवो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते। इति मत्वा भजन्ते मां बुधा भावसमन्विताः॥

मैं ही सब कुछ का आरम्भ हूँ, मुझ से ही सबकुछ चलता है। यह मान कर बुद्धिमान लोग पूर्ण भाव से मुझे भजते हैं।१०- ८

This confirms that Lord  is the generating cause and origin of the all the wonderfully, marvelous and fascinatingly phenomenal displays of activity found abounding in all creation comprised of intelligent and non- intelligent beings and objects. He alone energies all of creation and manifests the impulses required for all actions. The spiritually intelligent are the mahatmas or great illuminated beings who matva or realise His Supreme Absolute position as the ultimate controller of all existence. Who possesses all illustrious attributes such as compassion, affection, reciprocity, friendship, etc. These great beings are bhava- samanvitah or endowed with a wonderful way of serving Lord  in bhakti or exclusive loving devotion according to their internal mood. The spiritually intelligent cultivate their minds in such a way as to acquire this mood and deeply immerse themselves in it. ....(Translated by RAMANUJA CHARYA)

This verse is beautifully explained us that why are you looking outside, when ( I) is the generator of origin of the all wonderfully, marvelous phenomenon lie within us.

One should be always keep order his own house first, rather than  to viewing others .The spiritually intelligent person cultivate their mind in such a way to acquire this mood and deeply immerse in it. To untie the mind which is so attached to view others, a rupture( भंग) should take place, to initiate the process within. Those times would only come when either there is big jolt outside happened , which lead us to look inside because there is no hope outside, we search for inside, or we met more powerful person who can initiate us to look inside using tool of inside , even staying outside.Does it mean we should not look outside? the answer is no, infact we should look outside with open eyes and have pleasure of the creation,because all the manifestation outside is the reflection of internal thoughts,which are accumulated in from of ( I )

The conclusion is that what ever be the circumstance The ( I ) individual ego has to go to make it happen the inside self to open up ,  whom we call jivatman (individual atman).  That is self, originator of cause of our being.(it shouldn't  be confused as self to parmatama he resides every where.)

Satsang means communion with Truth

Satsang means one should have the communion with Truth- as the truth makes him free. What is that truth?

This question comes to mind. Truth never dies and it remains always as it is; To speak truth; is not that which we are discussing about.

As you know that at this time it is true to say that the Sun is - over our head but at the same time an American will not accept this truth, So such truth is limited, but our truth that we are discussing is unlimited and found everywhere the same. " They who knows Truth in truth and untruth in untruth arrive at truth and follow true desires" . But those who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth never arrive at truth but follow vain desires" such type of man suffers in this world and he also suffers in the next, he suffers in both. He suffers when he thinks of the evil he has done he suffer more when going on the evil path.

But the follower of the the truth is happy in this world and he is happy in the next , he is happy in the both. He is happy when he thinks of the good he has done. He is still more happy when going on the good path. The truth tell us that all created things are grief and pain . He who knows this and see them becomes passive in pain , this is  the way of purity as all created things perish." He who knows and see truth becomes passive in pain, this is the way to purity" Buddha.

A wise and good man who knows the meaning of this should quickly clear the way that leads to Nirvana. One who lives hundred years not seeing the truth, a life of one day is better if a man sees the immortal one. So search find and share the truth to enjoy everlasting life. 

Mentor
Gwalior, 1977

THE IMPOSTOR'S TRICKS

THE IMPOSTOR'S TRICKS

The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss

(new title)

The ego controls all thinking. The ego can create an argument against anything. Therefore, reserve all arguments against what is being presented here until you have read the book at least three times. Otherwise, the ego will generate arguments against any anti-ego presentation, thus blocking what is being presented.

See the vicious circle:

The ego in its attempts to block the ego from being exposed for the imposter that it is, and to block the realization that the ego is the cause of all human sorrow and suffering, creates arguments against what is being revealed in this book. Because the ego sets the standards for the debate, the ego always wins the debate. The way to break that vicious circle is to delay all arguments against what is being presented here until you have read the book very slowly at least three times.  When the ego forms an argument against what is being presented in this book, see the argument as an ego preservation strategy and ignore it, delaying all argument until the presentation is complete. Having the motivation to understand, instead of to argue, will help to produce an insight into what is being presented here. Put the arguments on hold until you have read the book at least three times. By that time you may be so skilled at recognizing the ego’s preservation strategies, you may decide to delay the arguments forever.

At least give what is being presented here a fair chance by being aware of the arguments that the ego creates and disregarding those arguments until an insight into what is being presented here is awakened. Plenty of time to argue later, after you have read the entire book. The ego has been deceiving humans for as long as there have been humans. 

Be aware of when the ego is trying to deceive you.

The ego controls all thinking, therefore, various combinations of thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and opinions are the ego’s primary tools to preserve the ego’s imaginary “self” and to prevent you from discovering your true Self. Most humans live their entire lives without ever having observed the background of awareness. Therefore, whatever opinions most people have about what the background of awareness is, what are its qualities, what is the true Self, etc., have no basis. If you observe the background of awareness for many hours everyday for a number of years, then you will eventually know that your awareness is: infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss. Because most humans spend their entire lifetime looking outward at thoughts, the body, the world, people, places, things, etc., most humans have never even once observed their own awareness, not even for one second, in their entire lifetime.
What is important are not concepts, beliefs or conclusions. What is important is Direct Experience.

Be aware of your thoughts, ideas, beliefs and opinions and see how they are serving the ego.

See chapter one for a clarification of the difference between the ego and the true Self.

What is being presented here in this book is a practical guide to Direct Experience, not some theory for intellectual entertainment. Because the ego is afraid of ending, the ego directs and creates thoughts, ideas, concepts, beliefs and opinions that will help the ego to continue its illusion of being real and to prevent it from being brought to an end. Those concepts are ego preservation strategies. Those concepts are the ego’s tricks. Because thoughts can be combined in trillions of combinations, the ego can create trillions of preservation strategies.

The ego has the ability to hide what it is doing from itself.

The ego can be creating preservation strategies throughout the day and you may not be aware that the ego has been creating preservation strategies throughout the entire day. If you are not aware of how the ego preserves its imaginary self, then the ego succeeds in preserving its imaginary self.
One of the purposes of this book is to look in detail at how the ego preserves its imaginary self. If one million people study a spiritual teaching and only one of those people ends the ego illusion, why did the other nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine miss the opportunity?
The reason the other nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine missed the opportunity is because of the ego’s fear of ending.
Due to the ego’s fear of ending, the ego creates strategies to preserve its imaginary self. Distorting the teachings is one of the many strategies the ego has to preserve its imaginary self. That applies to the teachings in the book you are now reading and to other spiritual teachings. Right from the  beginning, the ego’s preservation strategies have to be dealt with, otherwise the ego would block out . Then, instead of being an extraordinary journey, this would be just one more failed attempt.

The ego’s preservation strategies can be brought to an end Usually any mention of exposing the ego’s preservation strategies makes the ego run the other way. To be willing to look at the ego’s preservation strategies is a sign of spiritual maturity. Most people are not willing to look at the ego’s preservation strategies. Reading a book that reveals some of the ego’s preservation strategies does not make one immune to them. One of the ego’s preservation strategies is the thought “This does not apply to me”. The ego is very tricky and deceptive in all humans. The ego is a liar in all humans. The ego lies to its imaginary self. Therefore, when something is pointed out in this book and you think “This does not apply to me”, take a second look. Maybe it does apply to you and the ego is blocking that fact out, as a preservation strategy.

Challenge the thought “This does not apply to me”. 

The thought “This does not apply to me” may be an ego preservation strategy.
One of the differences between the one out of a million who awakens and the nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who do not, is the ability to stay focused on an essential point until it becomes an insight and a tool that you can use.

The fact that the intellect understands what is written here is not enough.
The book you are now reading is filled with the insights that lay the foundation to be the one who awakens and not one of the nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who miss. Dwell on what is written in every sentence in every chapter until an insight is awakened that becomes a tool you can use. To awaken insight, don’t read what is written like you were reading a newspaper or a book of trivia, and don’t read for the purpose of gathering information.

To awaken insight, read as though you were reading instructions about how to fly that are vital so that you do not crash. Slowly reflect on each line.That is why the sentences are often separated with a space between them, to encourage you to slowly reflect on them and not to be in a hurry to get to the next sentence. Continue to read and re-read long after the intellect has understood the meaning of the words.

Reading very, very slowly is insight reading.
Read very, very slowly. 

The ego is like an inchworm that lets go of one thought only when it has grabbed hold of the next thought. Therefore, when re-reading every chapter over and over, don’t be in a hurry to proceed to the next sentence. It is important to understand the difference between insight and intellectual understanding.

Never confuse intellectual understanding with insight.

Intellectual understanding, which is to understand the words, is good as a first step. However, after one has understood the words, if one then goes on to another concept before the insight has been awakened, the words will become obstacles and hindrances to ending the ego instead of tools that end the ego. Intellectual “understanding”, an intellectual appetite and an intellectual approach to “spirituality” are what characterize the nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who miss. Insight is what characterizes the one in a million who brings the ego to its final end.

Most people study “spiritual” teachings because they enjoy the concepts.

The ego is fundamentally dishonest in humans and has the ability to hide what it is doing from its imaginary “self”. Therefore, most people may not allow themselves to see that they are studying “spiritual” teachings because they enjoy the concepts. The desire to go quickly to the next concept and to gather more and more information and to read more and more spiritual books and to think about what has been read and to discuss what has been read and thought about are symptoms of the intellectual appetite and are symptoms of intellectual “spirituality”. Approaching the study of spiritual teachings intellectually, as just described  is an approach that the nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine who miss use.

There are no opinions, philosophies or beliefs being presented in this book.
The report of Direct Experience and a practical guide to Direct Experience is what is being presented in this book.

What is being pointed towards in this book are not ideas.
What is being pointed towards in this book is the awareness that is prior to thought and how to directly experience that awareness.

The ego likes to scatter attention.

Scattering attention is one of the ego’s preservation strategies. Thinking is scattering the attention. To bring the attention to a single point and to dwell on that single point for a very long time is the way to awaken insight.

Insight is not thinking and insight is not belief.
Insight is: a permanent new perspective.

To find one powerful quote, not a quote that the ego that wishes to preserve itself selects, and to stay with that quote until insight awakens is the kind of approach the one in a million who brings the ego to its final end uses. One might stay with a single quote for one day or one week or much longer than one week. Those who use this approach are rare. Keeping the attention directed outward is one of the ego’s fundamental tricks. Creating unnecessary activities is one way the ego keeps attention directed outward and is another of the ego’s tricks. Dropping all unnecessary activities, to create the maximum amount of time for spiritual practice, is an essential key to bringing the ego to its final end. Pretending a journey through thought is an authentic spiritual journey is also one of the ego’s tricks. The ego has as many tricks to draw upon as there are concepts, ideas, beliefs and opinions. Choosing belief instead of Direct Experience is one of the ego’s tricks.

Wasting time is one of the ego’s tricks.

Spending time in entertainment that could have been spent in spiritual practice is one of the ego’s tricks. Almost all thoughts are just the ego’s tricks.

Reflect on one sentence for a very long time before reading the next sentence.

Reflecting means looking. Reflecting does not mean thinking and reflecting does not mean arguing. Stay with each sentence until you have an insight into it.

The previous sentence  describes a key approach that the one in a million who succeeds in living in infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss uses. There are a few key principles to be understood and a little reading may be required for that. However, to go on and on reading spiritual books is an ego preservation strategy, another of the ego’s tricks. Most reading, discussing and thinking about spiritual teachings is an ego trick. The ego keeps thoughts about spiritual concepts going to avoid the practice that leads to the ego’s final end.

The ego keeps people lost in an endless maze of concepts.

Spiritual concepts do not lead to freedom.

Only practice leads to freedom. However, it must be the most rapid and direct practice and not a practice created by or distorted by the ego.
 (source extracted from website albigen,Richard_Rose book all credit goes to him)

Rose recommended a number of authors to his students and disparaged other authors, based on his research. Those he most highly recommended were Indian guru Ramana Maharshi, Chan master Huang Po, Christian mystics St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, George Gurdjieff, and researchers Paul Brunton and Richard Bucke. In Albigen Papers he described H.P. Blavatsky's books as "some of the most valuable a student can own," and in his publication of Profound Writings East & West, called her text Book of Golden Precepts (also Voice of the Silence) as "a condensed guide to the deepest teachings of mankind." Rose advocated the study of what he called thaumaturgical laws[25] as a means to protect oneself from unseen influences, for anyone who would explore the dimensions of consciousness ("the mind dimension"), referring to texts by Eliphas Levi and others.[26][27]
[edit]Teaching Style and Methods

THE IMPOSTOR

Beginning of Dussera reminds me the destruction of demons, asuras but where is real demons sitting in? who is the real demon, have found beautiful lines from a  website based on Ramana maharshi teachings.

 THE IMPOSTOR

The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss
(New name)

 (based on Ramana Maharishi teaching in 7 steps of awakening)

These are the definitions of the words "thought", "ego" and "Self" that will be used in this book:

THOUGHT: thoughts are the words of your language in your mind. If your native language is English and you write in English and speak English, those same English words in your mind are thoughts. Some people may speak, write and think in more than one language. EGO: ego is the thought I. The ego is the I-thought.

“I am happy”, “I am sad”, “I did this”, “I did that”. There are so many sentences that are thought of with the word I in them. That thought “I” in each of those sentences is the ego. The ego is the idea of a separate, individual identity. The ego identifies with the body and with thought, and calls the body and thought “I”.

The ego is thought.
The ego is thinking.

SELF: the Self is infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss. Those are five words pointing towards one awareness. Awareness-love-bliss are not three, they are one. The Self is the background of awareness.
Because almost all humans are in the habit of looking outward towards thoughts, the body, the world, people, places, things, etc (जगत )., it appears as though the background of awareness (the Self) wakes up in the morning and goes to sleep at night.

If one turns the attention towards the background of awareness, eventually it will be discovered that the background of awareness is continuous and unbroken. Because almost all humans are in the habit of looking outward towards thoughts, the body, the world, people, places, things, etc., it appears as though the background of awareness is limited. If the attention is turned towards that awareness that wakes up in the morning, instead of towards people, places, things, thoughts, etc., eventually it will be discovered that that awareness is infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss. The background of awareness that wakes up in the morning is there during all the waking hours until one goes to sleep at night. Thoughts come and go, but the background of awareness that is aware of the thoughts is there during all the waking hours and does not come and go.

The background of awareness is the true Self.

Before you learned the language that you now think in, the background of awareness was there. Then you learned the word “I” in your language. Your body was given a name, and when people saw that body they said “There goes John, (or Mike, or Jane, or Julie, or Kumar or Radha) or whatever name that they gave your body.

Thus the idea “I am John, I am this body” arose.

You existed as the background of awareness before that I thought arose.
The thought calling its “self” “I” is an imposter “self”.

The background of awareness is the true Self. The fact that you existed before you learned the words that later became your thoughts helps to reveal the difference between your true Self and the imposter. Because you existed as the background of awareness before you learned the language that produced the thoughts you now think in, you can easily see that the I thought is an imposter.

All thoughts are opposed to your real nature. 

You know that thoughts are not part of your true nature because you had to learn them. That is why you cannot speak, write and think fluently in languages, because you have not learned, or brought in those languages from the outside.

You can observe that same process in an infant.
You can see that an infant is aware before it learns any language.
You can observe the child growing older and learning a language.
You can observe when the child learns the word I and when the child begins to say the word “I”.

Being able to see how the imposter arose in you and how the imposter arises in every human infant and child are very important tools.
The reason they are very important tools is because you do not have to rely totally upon those who have ended the imposter and who have awakened from the human dream to tell you that the ego is something acquired and not natural and is an imposter.

You can observe this for yourself.

Thought is something foreign, alien to the true Self.
Thought pretends to be the Self.
Thought is not the Self.
Thought is an imposter.
Thought believes that it is a real entity and that it is a real self.
Thought is not a real entity and thought is not a self.
Living from thought instead of living from Awareness is the cause of all human suffering.

The imposter is the cause of all human problems, sorrow and suffering.
The background of awareness is the true Self.

The awareness that wakes up in the morning is the true Self.
The awareness that is looking through your eyes now is the true Self.

As an example for clarification, you could view thinking and memory as something like a computer program. Within that computer program is a virus.

The virus is called the “I thought”.

The virus controls the program. The I thought controls all thinking.
The virus pretends to be your self. The I thought pretends to be your self.
The virus creates tremendous sorrow and suffering. The I thought creates tremendous sorrow and suffering. None of the sorrow or suffering is needed.
What is needed is to delete the virus that pretends to be “I”. What is needed is to delete the imposter self.

When one attempts to delete the virus, the virus sends out many thoughts stating that deleting the virus is not a good idea. The virus has many strategies to preserve the illusion that it is real and to continue the delusion that it is the real self.

In humans the program that came from the outside and took control of their awareness is called thought, language, thinking. In humans the virus is called the ego or the I thought. The I thought (ego) is an imposter pretending to be the Self.

The ego is the cause of all human sorrow and suffering.
The ego is the cause of all disease, death, war, fear, anger and violence.
Human beings have made almost no inward progress for thousands of years toward ending suffering, sorrow, war, fear, anger, violence and lying.

Thousands of years ago humans had suffering, sorrow, war, fear, anger, violence and lying. Today humans have suffering, sorrow, war, fear, anger, violence and lying. What has kept humans in the same pool of inward unsolved problems? The ego (the imposter) has kept humans in the same pool of inward unsolved problems.

Inward problems cannot be solved by looking outward.
Inward problems can only be solved by looking inward.

The ego knows that if the attention is turned inward, the ego will be found to be a myth, an imposter, an illusion. Therefore, due to the ego’s fear of ending, the ego keeps the attention directed outward. Even when there is an attempt to turn the attention inward, usually due to not understanding the meaning of looking inward, people are still looking outward.

Humans are slaves to an imposter “self”.

Exposing the strategies of that imposter “self”, how to put an end to those strategies, how to bring the imposter “self” to an end, thus ending all suffering and sorrow and remaining in the true Self whose nature is infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss are the primary purposes of this book. Ending the ego does not end the body. After the ego ends, the body will live out the natural course of its life. One should never attempt to harm the body.

The ego is the I-thought.

Ending the ego is ending the I thought.
Ending the bodily life will not end the ego.

The ego will just create the dream of a new body when the old body ends.
Thus ending the body does not help to solve the problems.
Humans almost always have their attention directed outward towards thoughts, people, places, things, etc.

The background of awareness is the true Self, and it is almost always ignored.
Your true Self deserves to be paid attention to.

When a human turns their attention away from thoughts, the body, the world, people, places, things, experiences, etc. and towards their awareness, eventually they will directly experience their true Self. The imposter (thought) pretending to be your self and calling its pretend self “I” should not be tolerated even for one moment. Especially an imposter that has created so much suffering and sorrow should not be tolerated even for one moment.

The imposter (thought) is like a parasite.

Because the ego believes it is a real entity, the ego is afraid of ending.
The ego controls all thinking. Because the ego is afraid of ending and controls all thinking, the ego directs thought in ways that will preserve its imaginary self so that its imaginary self is not brought to an end.

The purpose of the teachings in this book is to bring the imposter to an end so that what remains is only the true Self whose nature is: infinite-eternal-awareness-bliss-love. When the imposter ends, all suffering and sorrow also end. Thinking that thinking or thought is your self is a delusion, a dream-like illusion. Thinking that you are a body living in a world is a delusion, a dream-like illusion.

Thought has created those delusions.

All sorrow, suffering and delusions have one single root.
The single root is thought.

The root of thought is the I thought.
The root of thought is the thought I.

Thought is not part of your true nature. Thought is something you learned.
Do not let something you acquired pretend to be your self.

Chapter One contains a description of the secret that has enslaved humanity for as long as there have been humans.
  (source extracted from website albigen,Richard_Rose book all credit goes to him)