How I Discovered the Awareness Watching （我发现了意识看如何）.pdfVIP

How I Discovered the Awareness Watching Awareness Method (the actual practice instructions are in italics) by Michael Langford By the year 2001, I had been studying the Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi for 27 years, from age 15 to age 42. I had read around 2,000 spiritual books from the various paths, etc. and I had seen many teachers. Reading those spiritual books, from so many different traditions, was a waste of time, because only Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Muruganar, Sri Sadhu Om and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj te ach the Direct Path. I had, during that 27-year period, placed emphasis on studying the books “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi” and “The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi.” Since “Talks” came from notes taken in Sri Ramana’s presence, and since “The Collected Works” was written by Sri Ramana, I thought they would be the most accurate sources of the Teaching. I had the other Sri Ramana Maharshi books, but I did not place much attention on them. I did not want to read Sri Ramana’s teachings through what might be the distorted vision and opinions of a ‘sleeping’ aspirant. In 2001, I was in Tiruvannamalai for the purpose of attending talks given by Sri V. Ganesan, who is the Grand Nephew of Sri Ramana Maharshi. In the guesthouse I was staying in, in Tiruvannamalai, I was thinking about paying attention only to the I AM, excluding all else, as is recommended by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, and feeling the sense of I or I AM as is recommended by Sri Ramana Maharshi. I was in my room in the Sesha Bhavan guesthouse in Tiruvannamalai. I was thinking about all the possible meanings of I and I am and all the possible approaches to them that I had read over the years in the teachings of Sri Ramana and Sri Nisargadatta. Then I thought, the thought I-am, the I-feeling, the feeling I-am, the I-consciousness, the I-am consciousness, etc. And the different approaches to