Beyond thoughts I exist


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"It is important to have the open mind of a scientist.” When I was studying Physical Sciences I attended a lecture by Shri Mataji for the first time. This happened more than thirty years ago, but there are two things that are still engraved in my memory: the change in my state of consciousness after meditation, and one of the phrases Shri Mataji pronounced: "It is important to have the open mind of a scientist." Meditation and scientific method are the paths that lead me to the best results in the search of understanding. And … what is the point of experiencing and understanding if you are not able to convey it? Here’s the question that has driven me to write this book. It is a book aimed at the general public. I receive emails from people who are mainly grateful that I have put words to what they somehow felt inside, or had experienced. They are from different backgrounds, and some of them are now attending our Sahaja meditations mainly through internet. It is also helpful for people who begin to meditate, or for people that just want to have clear and scientific information about what meditation is. The meditation physiological basis is explained from the modes of functioning of our brain, in a very simple way. Meditation state: presence of the Silence mode. The Spirit: what we feel we are in Silence mode.




Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software


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The seemingly insoluble problems of our species at the current time is our inability to successfully cope with the complexities of our massively-complex, highly-integrated society using our outdated software programs created when we were hunter-gatherers. This book outlines the problem areas with our current software, how to address them, demonstrates tools to facilitate this change and then gives a demonstration of how the process unfolds in a dialogue with a successful practitioner of the process and its improved software.The first section of the book focuses on a systematic approach to working directly on the problems with the current operating system (OS) and its programs. The process begins by removing our current, outdated OS "I" (focused on the "I") and evaluating the success of the removal. An updated OS "mini-me" (less focused on the "I") is then installed from several trusted and reliable sources. Next, the most problematic programs are removed or significantly modified. The second section provides a powerful tool to support this process, seemingly exactly tailored to it, the Ribhu Gita. Sections devoted to "Am 'I' these thoughts?", "What is this mind?", "Am 'I' this body?", "What problems arise from this belief (that 'I' am this body)?", "What am 'I'?" and then "What are the benefits of this knowledge of the Self?". This text was a/the favorite of my main teacher, Ramana Maharshi, and aligns perfectly with his "direct path" of self-inquiry for nondual awakening. It is powerful to read and to chant.The third section demonstrates that this self-inquiry and letting-go-of-attachments process works in the "real" world with a "real" job. Through dialogue with someone going through the process over a significant length of time it shows how the process actually unfolds. The fourth section focuses on the most problematic, strongly-held, and tenacious of the programs in the current OS "I", the issues of "free will", control and predetermination. This is the stronghold of the egoic/I structure. Selected comments, questions and answers from blogposts on the issue address resistances, objections, and problems that arise.




Proslogium


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ST. ANSELM


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Beyond The Physical Life


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Even death is not to be feared by one who lives wisely. Death is inevitable, thing which is born today will perish from the physical world one day without any doubt. But the journey doesn’t end here because there is another dimension or realm unseen by the naked eyes. These dimensions I have thoroughly discussed in this book




Intelligence in the Digital Age


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Intelligence in the Digital Age examines how our current Internet age and people’s use of digital technologies may be affecting their mental capacities and emotive lives in ways in which it will become increasingly difficult for those people to explore a larger, more expansive consciousness. After beginning with an examination of how people’s attention spans, working memories, and capacity for deep thought and reading are being imperiled by their addictive use of smart phones and PCs, the discussion continues with how this may be occurring at a deep level at which the brain creates short and long-term memories, pays attention, and thinks creatively. The book then explores how these negative effects may impede the search to explore the limits of one’s thinking mind and memories in pursuit of a larger intelligence. People may have fewer opportunities to be successful in this pursuit simply because they will have lost access to important personal dynamics due to the effects of the digital world on their minds, brains, and inner lives.




Leading Self & Beyond


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Leading Self & beyond is not about the messenger. It’s about the message. Everything which had to be said in this world is already said and there is nothing more to add. The message as such is everywhere, all pervading and is as alive and fresh as life itself though nothing unheard of before. It’s all about knowing & being self!! The message is probably as old as the civilization itself. The same message perhaps is being propagated by thousands of persons around the world in thousand different ways to help people connect with it. The newness could be in the packaging of the message!




Self-Knowledge


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Spiritual wisdom emphasizing self-knowledge and meditation in the tradition of vedanta (wisdom teachings of hinduism).




Happiness Beyond Thought


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Praise for Happiness Beyond Thought "Husband, father, scientist, military officer, and senior executive in industry and academia, Gary Weber has led a full and successful worldly life. Throughout all of this, Gary has relentlessly pursued a path of practice and inquiry in order to understand life and achieve enlightenment. It is rare to find one who has reached this goal, and rarer still to find such a one who has been so immersed in worldly life. With this book, Gary has successfully integrated his profound realization with traditional non-dualistic teachings, as well as insights from Zen Buddhism and modern brain research, into a practical path that uses Yoga's time-tested practices of asana, pranayama, chanting and meditation to illumine a path to enlightenment for the modern reader." -Gary Kraftsow, author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation "Gary Weber offers a treasure chest of practices for the serious practitioner seeking liberation. On your own journey towards awakening, savor these simple, easy to follow practices culled from Weber's study with his primary teacher Ramana Maharshi, his on-going exploration of Zen meditation practice, and the life-enhancing results of his experiments on the laboratory floor of his yoga mat." -Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression