Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
might lead a centering exercise. I noticed on the website that's
something that AHAM does and the purpose of that I think is to
get into the kind of thoughtlessness that is a precursor to peace.
And I would love to have you do that, because I could probably use
my own self induced centering on a daily basis, probably don't get
enough of that. Would you be interested in doing that today?
A. RAMANA: All right. If that would be beneficial, I'll be happy
to.
TRIP: All right, we could either start with that, or I've got some
questions for you, whatever you prefer.
A. RAMANA: Well let's start with it.
TRIP: All right.
A. RAMANA: Okay, if there's anyone or whoever is on the call, to
just take a moment, [Silence] give your attention to the fact of your
own existence. Your own existence is in the sense of I, the sense of
I itself is before anything else is, but even prior to the sense of I is
the pure awareness that we all actually are.
Now this pure awareness has no sense of I, but the sense of I will
give us the ability to withdraw our attention into the stillness and
silence of the pure awareness, the I am that we are. I am is before
even the sense of “I” is. The sense of “I” rises out of the I am. So
just being aware that you are, not I am this, or I am that, simply I
am.
Consciousness is this I am, pure awareness is this I am. And this I
am or pure consciousness is before anything else is, and without
this pure awareness nothing else would be. [Silence] Or out of this
pure awareness rises the sense of I, and the sense of I is what gives
note and gives rise to all other things as this or that. Things do not
call attention to themselves; it is we that call attention to things.
We say things exist, things do not say that they exist. So simply
see this.
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