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I must have some past track on self-enquiry and currently resonate with it and while studying I see how TROM complements and fulfills the past attempts to explain how to "vanish the mind", which is also the end result of a completed TROM bridge.
Here is a quote from Ramana Maharshi: Sri Ramana Maharshi: Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. If you do not experience peace it means that your Vichara (enquiry) has been made only in the mind. Investigate what the mind is, and it will disappear. There is no such thing as mind apart from thought. Nevertheless, because of the emergence of thought, you surmise something from which it starts and term that the mind. When you probe to see what it is, you find there is really no such thing as mind. NOTE: I'm not saying any of these masters achieved total vanishment (or resolution) of the mind, but at least a dis-identification to a large degree. Some of their instructions have helped me have a greater appreciation for Dennis' work, and I have not seen anything like RI in the self-enquiry way. colleen
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