When I say "you," I am talking to you. And you know who you are. You know what you are. I am not speaking to "ego," and I am not speaking to the "true self." I am speaking to you, to this reality of presence that hears my words; this reality of presence that is the source and the destination of all things whatsoever -- thoughts, confusions, ideas, understandings, and everything. I am speaking to you. And it is on you to know what you are. I can't tell you what you are. It is of no use for me to tell you that there are two you's, a little you and a big you, one of which has to go, and the other of which has to be woken up. That doesn't help you at all. That is just an interpretation of the reality of which all are already constantly aware; just an interpretation of the reality that is endlessly giving rise to its own interpretations, and its own versions of a narrative about itself. That's what this whole universe is: the arising of reality's attempt to say something about itself, to see itself, to explore the infinite range of expression that is its story about itself. Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting on February 16, 2008. Length: 1 h 25 min. File size: 20.3 Mb

I am reminded often, in my own mind, of the story of how Nisargadatta found his teacher, the guy said to him something to the effect of, "Just stay with the feeling 'I am' and it will take you home," then he promptly dropped dead, without providing Nisargadatta with any follow-up instruction, correction, discussion or anything else. I don't say it quite as poetically, but I don't have not much more to say than that. What I have to say in this realm is, Look at yourself. Look at yourself as often as it occurs to you to do so. As often as you can, look at yourself. So far, I haven't dropped dead on you and left you hanging, wondering what in the world can I possibly be talking about with this look at yourself business, but really, that is all there is to what I have to offer. All the rest of it is discussion, and elaboration, and explanation, and perhaps some guidance and encouragement and reassurance... The truth is that, if you take just this one thing that I say and try with all your heart to see what it is that I am talking about, it is enough. Look at yourself as often as you can, because it is the seeing that does all the work. Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting on February 10, 2008. Length: 1 h 36 min. File size: 22.9 Mb

Ramana Maharshi gave no one any encouragement to follow him in any way whatsoever. He only instructed us, consistently, and again and again, to find out for ourselves what is real, what is here, what we are. He did encourage us, and the encouragement he provided was by his own example, and by his own experience that the effort to find out for ourselves what is real would give us everything we have ever wanted. So far as I know, in all of the time that I spent reading Ramana and thinking about Ramana, he never told anybody to go out and teach in his name or in the name of his teaching either. Nor did he ever suggest that he was part of or the beginning of any lineage. The whole essence of Ramana's offering is that there is only one thing worth doing in life, only one thing that has to be done in order that life can be seen as the wonder and the gift that it is. And that is to cut through all of the conditioning, the mental chatter and the mind's insanity and look with all your heart, trying only to see yourself. Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting on January 19, 2008. Length: 1 h 31 min. File size: 21.8 Mb

Determination is a good thing. What is really required is intention. Not so much determination, but the intention, when you turn your attention looking for this ever-present reality, that it is your intention to see reality. That's all. In other words, it is not something that comes to you as a side effect of some other thing that you are doing or not doing. It is your intention in that moment, even if that moment is vanishingly small, and even if those moments are few in number over time. What is required is that, in those moments when it occurs to you to look at yourself, that you see that that is what you are doing: you are, with full intention, trying to see the reality of what you are. Complete recording of a Worldwide Meeting on January 5, 2008 Length: 64 min. File size: 15.3 Mb

This activity that we call self-inquiry should be so easy to speak about, and so easy to offer clearly and understandably, that just having heard it once should produce in the mind that hears it at least a curiosity about whether there is any possibility that something so simple, so easy, so direct and uncomplicated could have such profound effects on the life. It should be simple. I should be able to say something that, when you hear it, you will say, Oh right, "I want to try that. I want to see whether there is anything to this." Without it triggering in you spiritual associations, and religious understandings, and all of that. Those things are all fine, but they are 100% beside the point in self-inquiry. Live recording of a Worldwide Meeting on December 22, 2007. Length: 67 min. File size: 16.8 Mb

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