The Practice of Atma Vichara

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Approach

If you applied your mind persistently to the question “Who am I?” even as an intellectual exercise you would conclude that you are not the body, not the thoughts, not the events that you experience. These things are happening and are arising in something, something which is enduring and constant. That something is the power of knowing itself, the power of Being, through which the world is experienced. It is that power which constitutes I. This is not something to be found, it is something which already is but is not recognised or seen because of the strong sense of ego that dominates identity.

The practice of Atma Vichara is unlike other meditations it is a recognition of Being rather than an act of doing. Progressively we learn to drop the urgency to do and have and get. In its place there is natural alertness, attentiveness to the spontaneous constant presence of this feeling I and a deep experiential understanding of what that is.

As well as the meditation, insight is progressively developed and strengthened through spiritual study, pondering and reflecting on the teachings themselves and dialogue with the teacher.

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