Reddit mentions of The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi

You can get the collected works of Ramana Maharishi here:

The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi https://www.amazon.com/dp/0877289077/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_Pp-TAbYXA9FVD


There is also the work of Gary Weber :

Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening https://www.amazon.com/dp/0595418562/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_js-TAb9HZYBP8

Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software https://www.amazon.com/dp/197972377X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_Ls-TAb76XWV5B

Self Inquiry is something that is done continuously through out the day along with sitting meditation.

To gauge progress, there are a few things to pay attention to:

1. Self referential thoughts will gradually stop along with practice conversations in the mind... the constant internal babbling in the mind.
   
   
2. Attention will remain on this precise instant in time creating a continuous flow of Now. Notice how the mind is constantly imaging an I/me/person in the past and future. This will subside.
   
   Find the feeling of “I” and focus on it as if it were the most fascinating and important thing ever experienced. The mind can only hold one thought at a time. If all attention is on the “I” thought/feeling then no other thought can appear and the mind will stop. The “I” thought is the root of all other thoughts... all thoughts emerge and grow out of the “I” thought. Keep the mind locked on the root and notice when it starts to grow and spread into other thoughts... let go of growing thought and return to “I”. As a side note, this is not the practice of repeating the word “I” over and over... it is the feeling of “I”.
   
   At first this requires an effort. With practice it will gradually become effortless. Once effortless, attention will linger on all perception in a continuous flow of now with the mind still. Have you ever laid in bed at night and lingered on a distant sound? It’s like that... in stillness. This is when the feeling of “I” will disappear.
   
   Everything appearing in consciousness is an expression of consciousness and has a strong sense of presence minus a personal self referential “I” thought. You are this space of consciousness, and consciousness has no qualities or attributes of its own. Consciousness is what creates everything appearing in consciousness.
   
   Another aspect of Self Inquiry is the act of sitting and searching for the witness/observer. This is where questions such as “Who sees?” and “Who hears?” and “Where am I?” come in. I spent many hours sitting and looking in my back yard, looking at what was seen and searching for the see’er before the realization “clicked” and took hold. I was suddenly stuck with “If I can see it then it isn’t me, so who sees me?” Attention then looked at the mind and everything about the mind started coming apart. It was as if the mind started to crumble away because none of it was me. Nothing about it was real... it was nothing but a bunch of conditioned stimulus-response. The mind is just a sensation appearing in consciousness, no different than the sensation of warm or cold or the sensation of sound or vision.
   
   In time you’ll notice that all thoughts and especially anxiety come from desires and attachments. Letting go of attachments is a big part of this process. Some strategies to help with this are:
   
   
3. The Sedona Method
   
   
4. The Work by Byron Katie
   
   Hopefully this helps... and remember, this is all about stillness. Be still.