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Basic information on spiritual activities of ing. Jiří Vacek and his friends

Sri Ramana Maharshi´s school of atmavichara (Self-enquiry) as presented by Ing. Jiří Vacek

Ing. Jiří Vacek was born on May the 25^th in 1931 on the spiritual holiday of the Holy Spirit. He started meditating when he was 14 on Christmas of 1945. From the very beginnings of his spiritual path he felt great admiration and respect to Ramana Maharishi who became his spiritual master. Read more

Jiří Vacek: Observation and concentration on observer (Czech title: Pozorování a soustředění na pozorovatele)

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Summary of atmavichara (Self-enquiry) meditation practice

Explanation of differences between the practice of simple conscious observation and atmavichara.

Some of the chapters are: Buddhist conscious observation, Correct progress in practice of conscious observation, Atmavichara and lokavichara – centripetal and centrifugal forces, Practice leading to realization of observer or witness, Consciousness is God and therefore it acts divinely. Read more

Jiri Krutina  

The best way is to follow the natural way. Our true Self is our natural state of awareness as pure I AM, which is a detached witness/observer of all realities of our mind, body and the world. All experiences of our mind, body and the world are only in You = witnessing consciousness. You are not your mind, you are witnessing consciousness of your mind. You are not your body and sense experiences of the world, you are their witnessing consciousness. Read more

Jiri Vacek   

Effective effort leading to Self-realization originates from the right understanding of what we have to achieve, of course without mistaking this understanding for the realization itself: we simply try to realize what we already are.

This effort has two stages:  Read more

Jiri Vacek

The Path to Self-knowledge requires the withdrawal of our attention from all objects - the world, our body, our mind with its thoughts, images, feelings — and fixing it on the witness of all objects, the Self, and realizing the Self to be all there is. This is not a creative process, but rather the recollection of our true nature. The Self is there all the time, but we are not aware of it. Instead, we limit it to the body or mind, thus creating the illusion of the ego with its attendant superimpositions...Read more

Jiri Vacek   

Atmavichara, enquiry for our true Self, is work with our consciousness and its attention but not with our mind. Its aim is to pull away attention of our consciousness from everything that can be observed i.e. the whole world and its beings, our body with its feelings, states and activities and our mind with all of its emotions, thoughts and ideas. If we back off our consciousness from absorbance in anything observable, if we withdraw it totally out of everything, then what is left is just pure consciousness, we ourselves...Read more