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Our current spiritual thinking have been influenced by the great schools of the East. India, China, Tibet are have all been great sources of deep spiritual wisdom. Their advent in the West have help accelerate the understanding of new realities to a wider audience.
The fully open heart rests in sweet unknowingness, safe in its own embrace, rushing to meet its own perceived need that dissolves in the grace swallowing it. Dancing its tender dance of sheer delight in its own loveliness, merging with itself everywhere, only this, exquisitely so.This may sound far off for some people, a place unattainable, a state made available only for a few, but I can assure you that it doesn't require you to change or to become different at all to know this firsthand. It only requires a willingness to stop. The more we stop and the more we let go, the more our consciousness naturally opens.
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He said it is the most fundamental level of reality, the ‘being’ level, from which everything comes and everything returns to.
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This is also one of my favourite stories. My own story as well.Whenever I seem/seemed settled in a situation, along comes an invitation
to allow moving on to happen.
As I see it, not only is this the only creative way to live, it is the
only true way of living. Truth in living - staying or going, has not to do with choice.
Choice is of the mind.
The mind has only conditioned information from which to draw its
conclusions, and this information is only of the past. As the past is done
and dead already, any choice based on the mind is a choice based on the
past. So it is dead.
Whether by coincidence or divine design, it seems to me that ‘life’ is
always presenting and invitation - to live, unconditionally, in the
present moment:
“Take no thought of the morrow, let the morrow take thought of its self."
As soon as the mind is engaged to check if an action is appropriate or
not, it is like stepping on the bank of a river, watching the river of
life flow by, and trying to work out the temperature, and to where the
water is flowing. Then we wonder why we get bored!
We all know when something is appropriate. Always. We get a tingle, a
gentle buzz. As soon as we go to our mind to work out if an response is appropriate or
not - too late!
Try this. If you think you have a choice about somethings, sit quietly by
yourself and imagine that you are living the one choice. Then come back,
let it go, and do the same with the other choice. Your body will tell you
which one is the most alive. For sure.
How does that fit into ’normal life?’ It doesn’t. What we call ‘normal
life' is not natural.
And noticed? - it doesn’t work.
I could recant to you many such happenings from my life. Over and over.
And each time it gets better. Much better.
When in doubt - do it!
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The Sufi Story of Mojud:
There was once a man named Mojud. He lived in a town where he had obtained
a post as a small official, and it seemed likely that he would end his
days as inspector of weights and measures.
One day when he was walking through the gardens of an ancient building
near his home, Khidr, the mysterious guide of the Sufis, appeared to him,
dressed in shimmering green. Khidr said, "Man of bright prospects! Resign
from your work and meet me at the riverside in three days' time." Then he
disappeared. Mojud went to his superior in trepidation and said that he
had to leave. Everyone in the town soon heard of this and they said, "Poor
Mojud! He has gone mad." But, as there were many candidates for his job,
they soon forgot him.
On the appointed day, Mojud met Khidr, who said to him, "Tear your clothes
and throw yourself into the stream. Perhaps someone will save you." Mojud
did so, even though he wondered if he were mad. Since he could swim, he
did not drown, but drifted a long way before a fisherman hauled him into
his boat, saying, "Foolish man! The current is strong. What are you trying
to do?" Mojud said, "I don't really know."
"You are mad," said the fisherman, "But I will take you into my reed-hut
by the river yonder, and we shall see what can be done for you."
When he discovered that Mojud was well-spoken, he learned from him how to
read and write. In exchange, Mojud was given food and helped the fisherman
with his work.
After a few months, Khidr again appeared, this time at the foot of Mojud's
bed, and said, "Get up now and leave this fisherman. You will be provided
for."
Mojud immediately quit the hut, dressed as a fisherman, and wandered about
until he came to a highway.
As dawn was breaking he saw a farmer on a donkey on his way to market. "Do
you seek work?" asked the farmer, "because I need a man to help me bring
back some purchases."
Mojud followed him. He worked for the farmer for nearly two years, by
which time he had learned a great deal about agriculture but little else.
One afternoon when he was baling wool, Khidr appeared to him and said,
"Leave that work, walk to the city of Mosul, and use your savings to
become a skin-merchant."
Mojud obeyed.
In Mosul he became known as a skin-merchant, never seeing Khidr while he
plied his trade for three years. He had saved quite a large sum of money,
and was thinking of buying a house, when Khidr appeared and said, "Give me
your money, walk out of this town as far as the distant Samarkand, and
work for a grocer there."
Mojud did so.
Presently he began to show undoubted signs of illumination. He healed the
sick, served his fellow men in the shop during his spare time, and his
knowledge of the mysteries became deeper and deeper.
Clerics, philosophers and others visited him and asked, "under whom did
you study?"
"It is difficult to say," said Mojud.
His disciples asked, "How did you start your career?"
He said, "As a small official." "And you gave it up to devote yourself to
self-mortification?"
"No, I just gave it up." They did not understand him.
People approached him to write the story of his life.
"What have you been in your life?" they asked.
"I jumped into a river, became a fisherman, then walked out of his
reed-hut in the middle of the night. After that, I became a farmhand.
While I was baling wool, I changed and went to Mosul, where I became a
skin-merchant. I saved some money there, but gave it away. Then I walked
to samarkand where I worked for a grocer. And this is where I am now."
"But this inexplicable behavior throws no light upon your strange gifts
and wonderful examples," said the biographers. "That is so," said Mojud.
So the biographers constructed for Mojud a wonderful and exciting story:
because all saints must have their story, and the story must be in
accordance with the appetite of the listener, not with the realities of
life.
And nobody is allowed to speak of Khidr directly. That is why this story
is not true. It is a representation of a life. This is the real life of
one of the greatest Sufis.
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From: http://www.realitysandwich.com/across_threshold_0 For a few decades now, it seems, humanity has been on the verge of a breakthrough in collective consciousness. Perhaps it was the Hippies in the 60s who saw it first. To them, it was crystal clear that the consciousness revolution would sweep all before it, that within a few years' time such institutions as government, money, marriage, and school would become obsolete. Forty years later, their vision has not come to pass and, superficially at least, the defining institutions of our civilization are more powerful, more encompassing than ever. Nonetheless, to many of us much of the time, and to most of us at least once in a while, the breakthrough in consciousness the Hippies foretold seems imminent still.
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The way I see it is, this is not not a luxury, it is the only intelligent way to live. Let’s see if we can explain that more clearly.When you have done the Satori group/taken a relaxing substance/everything in your day has gone wonderfully well/
your beloved is extra loving to you - and you sit down a really relax, doesn’t everything seem perfect? Every cell in your body seems to be in a deep relaxed state? Circumstances have not really changed, you still have all the practical to take care of, yet everything feels great.
That is how it is when you are ‘In The Zone.’
You, and everything, feels wonderful.
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I have often been asked this question: How To Stop The Mind?Some Tibetans have a method. You sit in a small cell, with eyes half closed, for eighteen hours a day, until you die. Then after you are reborn, the Lama comes and finds you, and you do the same thing again, for life after life, until you wake up.
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Would like to share and yes find it hard to write what is there to share, in a space of 'no mind' it does not help with this part. but to stay away from expressing does not support you seeking to find this place within.
To awake to watch, 'Dianne does this', 'this is how Dianne lives', 'oh and now this is what is happening', lots of spaces in between, lots of floating of not being here. Lovely blissful energy. And then it continued and continued with bits coming in, a feeling of total freedom within and without a sense of space and overwhelming tears.
To touch a plant and tears just continued to fall as I was with the no separation of us. Sobbingly overwhelm to drink a glass of the rain water, that this was also me and drinking it into the body, the one that carries this being around that this being resides in.
No one there driving to Paul's place, then, oh driving, oh the leaf fell on the road, oh, oh, oh, then eventually getting to Paul's, which is only 1 km down the road. Ahhhh.
The slowing down is so full, the time is no more and the seeer and the seen are one, the peace that passeth all understanding, all there and more. beautiful. And this is what I didn't know I (Dianne) was seeking.
Dianne wanted a life without the dramas, without the stuff, without the ups and down, Dianne had lived 50 years the other way and was willing to look for another way to live. And yes it popped in on Monday morning, the 'are you willing to let go Dianne". Half asleep half awake. then when I (?) did arise, oh, very different.
So the answer that all are seeking is..... all of what Paul [Lowe] says, without conditions, without the person...... Dianne stopping to go oh, but what about, oh if I can have this, if if if............. There is a totally being with all of who you are, what you are. I saw my impatience and rightous-ness and so went to a very strange sharing group, where that was so in my face and so uncomfortable and sat with it, felt it. I stayed no changing to fit.
Dianne looked at the taking, the dishonesty and did not do that any more what ever it took to not be that way, no matter how uncomfortable it was, no matter the loss incurred no matter how much 'face I lost' no matter how uncontrolled it was. and being with not getting what Dianne wanted.
Until, and this is just the possibility, that she dissolved, Dianne no more was there. and now tears fall from these eyes in gratitude for
that process, gratitude for the man of amazing wisdom that lives down the road, deep appreciation for Dianne's willingness to go
beyond her, to feel the being that is here now is just such a huge over whelming feeling of love.
In loving care to you all
To awake to watch, 'Dianne does this', 'this is how Dianne lives', 'oh and now this is what is happening', lots of spaces in between, lots of floating of not being here. Lovely blissful energy. And then it continued and continued with bits coming in, a feeling of total freedom within and without a sense of space and overwhelming tears.
To touch a plant and tears just continued to fall as I was with the no separation of us. Sobbingly overwhelm to drink a glass of the rain water, that this was also me and drinking it into the body, the one that carries this being around that this being resides in.
No one there driving to Paul's place, then, oh driving, oh the leaf fell on the road, oh, oh, oh, then eventually getting to Paul's, which is only 1 km down the road. Ahhhh.
The slowing down is so full, the time is no more and the seeer and the seen are one, the peace that passeth all understanding, all there and more. beautiful. And this is what I didn't know I (Dianne) was seeking.
Dianne wanted a life without the dramas, without the stuff, without the ups and down, Dianne had lived 50 years the other way and was willing to look for another way to live. And yes it popped in on Monday morning, the 'are you willing to let go Dianne". Half asleep half awake. then when I (?) did arise, oh, very different.
So the answer that all are seeking is..... all of what Paul [Lowe] says, without conditions, without the person...... Dianne stopping to go oh, but what about, oh if I can have this, if if if............. There is a totally being with all of who you are, what you are. I saw my impatience and rightous-ness and so went to a very strange sharing group, where that was so in my face and so uncomfortable and sat with it, felt it. I stayed no changing to fit.
Dianne looked at the taking, the dishonesty and did not do that any more what ever it took to not be that way, no matter how uncomfortable it was, no matter the loss incurred no matter how much 'face I lost' no matter how uncontrolled it was. and being with not getting what Dianne wanted.
Until, and this is just the possibility, that she dissolved, Dianne no more was there. and now tears fall from these eyes in gratitude for
that process, gratitude for the man of amazing wisdom that lives down the road, deep appreciation for Dianne's willingness to go
beyond her, to feel the being that is here now is just such a huge over whelming feeling of love.
In loving care to you all
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Spiritual practice is the care of our energy bodies on all levels; from the physical, mental, emotional levels to the most subtle energetic forces moving through us and out into the cosmos. Mantra, traditionally the repetition of the names of God, is the use of sound, or frequency, to set the tone, vibration, or "Word" at cause in your creation, which is your Life. A more well known form of Mantra in the western culture is Music.
About 10 years ago I found myself taken over by a continuous stream of thought about all the pain, suffering, and heartache I had ever experienced and all the places in the world reflecting these aspects of life. While the observer in me, well aware of its impact on my health and well being, wanted to shift it, the momentum behind it seemed unstoppable.
At one point a voice within me rose up over the noise and said, " Sing!". That week I joined the Interfaith choir at One Spirit Learning Alliance <http://www.onespiritinterfaith.org/> and in a few short weeks shifted my world considerable.
About 10 years ago I found myself taken over by a continuous stream of thought about all the pain, suffering, and heartache I had ever experienced and all the places in the world reflecting these aspects of life. While the observer in me, well aware of its impact on my health and well being, wanted to shift it, the momentum behind it seemed unstoppable.
At one point a voice within me rose up over the noise and said, " Sing!". That week I joined the Interfaith choir at One Spirit Learning Alliance <http://www.onespiritinterfaith.org/> and in a few short weeks shifted my world considerable.
Singing is a powerful way to shift our minds and influence our creations. The level of intensity found in "big city" environments requires ways that meet the challenges presented by this intensity. Singing mantra is one of the ways that has served me well.
What is the inner soundtrack of your life?
The purpose of spiritual practice is the care of the human body, mind, and spirit and includes the acknowledgment and care of the soul. It is a natural part of daily life and living. It clears metabolic waste from our living energy systems and puts us back into conscious alignment with our natural divinity and connection to Infinite Intelligence at the very core and source of our being.
I have made and continue to make shifts as the layers of "old news" and bad programing purge themselves from my "bodies". It is an ongoing process just as life is an ongoing process. Practices with Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Mind, and Love... Mantra is a Spiritual Practice of Mind and Mindfulness.
On the more traditional path there is a great abundance available to discover about Mantra. But, don't just read about it. The benefit is in the doing; in the practice. Set aside some time each day and give your old thought systems a taste of something divine... Let me know what you discover.
blessings, Peace
I would like to share these wonderful Mantras I came across on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/LordGanesha
●►Ganesha Mantra●►
Ganesha Mantras are known as Siddhi Mantra the one with perfection. Each and every mantra is full of energy and power of Lord Ganesha. It is believed that mantras of Ganesha, when chanted with genuine devotion, give positive results. These mantras ward off all trials and troubles gracing the devotee with every success.
●►11 Special Ganesha Mantras●►
1. "Aum Shri Ganeshaya Namah":- "Praise to Lord Ganesha". This is the mantra of prayer, love and adoration. It is chanted to get Ganesha's blessings for the positive starting of a project, work or simply to offer him the praise.
2.Aum Gan Ganapatye Namah:-This is Lord Ganesha's mula ("root") mantra .It is also known as his ''beej'' Mantra. This mantra is used for Yoga Sadhana in which we pray to Lord Ganesha and merge ourself with the supreme knowledge and peace. This is a mantra from Ganapati Upanishad. One can always use it before starting any new venture so that success comes without any hassle.
3. "Aum Vakratundaya Hum":-This is a powerful mantra from Ganesha Purana. When things are not in your favour, or when the minds of the people turn negative, depressed or discouraged, the attention of Ganesha may be drawn by this mantra to straighten their ways. The HUM symbolizes "Delay no more, my Lord, in straightening the paths of the crooked-minded ones." This mantra is used many a times in the Ganesha Purana to reduce the violence of cruel demons. In addition, this mantra could also be used for healing any spinal problem, such as curvature of the spine or curved limbs. Dedicate 1,008 repetitions of this holy word to straighten and heal such deficiencies.
4."Aum Kshipra Prasadaya Namah":-Kshipra means immediate. If some danger or negative energy is coming your way and you don't know how to get rid of that danger, with true devotion, practice this mantra for quick blessing and purification of one's aura.
5. "Aum Shrim Hrim Klim Glaum Gam Ganapataye vara varada sarva janamme vashamanaya svaha":-There are several beej (seed) mantras in this mantra. Among other things, it says, "Shower Your blessings, O Lord. I offer my ego as an oblation."
6." Aum Sumukhaya Namah":-This mantra has a lot of meaning, in simple terms, it means you will be always very beautiful in soul, in spirit, in face, everything. By meditating on this mantra, very pleasing manners and a beauty comes on you. Along with that comes peace, which constantly works in your eyes; and the words you speak are all filled with that power of love.
7."Aum Ekadantaya Namah":-Ekadanta refers to one tusk in the elephant face, which means God broke the duality and made you to have a complete one-pointed mind. Whoever has that oneness of mind and single-minded devotion will achieve everything.
6."Aum Kapilaya Namah":-Kapila (red) means that you are able to give colour therapy. You are able to create colours around yourself and around others, soak them in that colour and heal them. As per the mantra you create, so will you create the colors. Another meaning is "wish cow," the "cow of plenty." It means that whatever you wish, that comes true. There is a wish-cow inside you. Whatever you wish, especially for curing others, comes true instantly.
7." Aum Gajakarnikaya Namah":-The ears of Ganesha, the elephant - god, are constant fanning, which means people can talk a lot, but you are not receiving inside anything other than what is important. It also means that you can sit any where and tune this celestial tube (the body) with seven channels (chakras) and all 72,000 nadis, to any loka and be able to hear ancestors, angels, the voice of God or the voice of prophets. That kind of inner ear you will develop through this mantra.
8."Aum Lambodaraya Namah":-This means you feel that you are this universe. It means that all the celestial bodies are within you. Like an entire tree is in the seed, the whole universe is in the sound of creation, which is Aum, and that Aum consciousness in you makes you feel that you are the universe. Therefore, if you say, realizing the oneness with the universe, "shanti to the world" every day, then the grace of God will come and there will be world peace, universal peace. It is the universe within Aum and Aum within you.
9." Aum Bhalachandraya Namah" :- In Sanskrit, bhala means the forehead center. Chandra means the crescent moon. Bhalachandra means that chakra from where the nectar drips. That is the secret of all healing. It is to feel yourself as Shiva, identifying yourself with the Truth and feeling constantly that you are carrying the crescent moon, the symbol of growth and nectar of peace.
10."Aum Vinayakaya Namah" :-Vinayaka is the name of Ganesha in the golden age. So by realizing this mantra, your life will have a golden age. In your office, in your work, you'll be the boss. Vinayaka means something under control. Vinayaka means the Lord of resolving problems.
11."Aum Bhalachandraya Namah":In Sanskrit, bhala means the forehead center. Chandra means the crescent moon. Bhalachandra means that chakra from where the nectar drips. That is the secret of all healing. It is to feel yourself as Shiva, identifying yourself with the Truth and feeling constantly that you are carrying the crescent moon, the symbol of growth and nectar of peace.
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