On Being You : A Simple Guide to Self Enquiry
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You are in this body on this Earth for a short while. Each day, each moment of time, will present you with an endless stream of experiences. Let these experiences become your text, your school, your university, your teacher and your guru. It is the learning you have from your direct experience, and will continue to have as you remain in this body, that is worthy of your attention and retention and is your true teaching. When you have fully absorbed all the learning that an experience brings for you drop that too and move on.
Self Enquiry is for all. You are already fully-qualified.....There is no need to travel to far away places; you can throw away your mala; no special uniform is required; there is no need to adopt a spiritual-sounding name. No rituals are needed, no study of complex texts or dogma....You have within you all that is required.
Be at peace as your True Self and you will be at peace with everything around you. In experiencing nothing you experience everything and in emptiness you experience fullness. You will be your Self, you as you are and have been always. Content, complete and joyful you will conduct your everyday life with ease, effectively, expecting nothing and achieving effortlessly all you need in every way. Living according to your nature, with love, you will be immersed in love........
This is living fully, living Consciously......this is being alive and this is you......
As the clouds vanish and the fog lifts you are re-united with your True Self. The page has turned, the last train gone, the drops of rain absorbed into the ocean. There is no going back. Who in his now-quietened mind would want to?
You simply need to be you.....
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"I came into this body with no-thing : without my name, my mind, my ego and without any material thing. It is assured that I will leave this body with no-thing. What is the nature of this "I" which existed before all these things were attached to it........? What is the nature of this Consciousness, this Awareness, that existed as "I" before entering this body? Who is this "I" that I am? Who amongst us will dare to ask.....?"
If you would reflect on "Who am I?" in your search for Self Realisation this small volume may be the invitation you seek and the map you require on your personal journey. The travelling may not be easy as you are invited to drop all the masks and kick away the crutches. But as the fog lifts and the clouds clear away you will become aware that the Realisation of True Self is the essential factor rendering as decoration and side show all other activities pursued in life.
You have within you all that is required and membership of this club is guaranteed with endless benefits......
About the Author
Born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Michael Vincent has been a painter and writer all his life. After spending a year at the Chelsea School of Art in London he spent a period of time living and painting in Finland. He returned to London in 1970 to continue his studies which culminated in the award of a Masters Degree (University of London) in 1979.
He taught art in various places for some years until establishing his first studio in Suffolk in 1987. From 1991 until 1993 he lived and worked in New Zealand. A further period of painting in Suffolk was followed by the move to Somerset in 1998 and the opening of a studio in Walton near Glastonbury. Following a period of challenge and contemplation after the death of his beloved wife Kaisa in 2001 he moved to Glastonbury. In 2006, with a group of friends and supporters, he established the AshTat Centre for Creative Living, a Centre which focused on developing individual creativity in whatever form in a totally non-judgemental place. He returned to Suffolk in 2008 re-establishing AshTat as a project benefitting worthy causes both locally and in India.
Michael specialises in gouache and oil painting. He has exhibited widely and his paintings and prints are in collections throughout the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India and Brazil.
Michael has written articles for local and national newspapers and magazines and published a book in 2001 celebrating the life of his wife Kaisa and her pioneering complementary health care programme for cancer. He has broadcast on local radio and facilitates workshops on visual art and Meditation.