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Q: What is meditation?
NM: To be one with THAT because of which we know we exist is meditation.
There are a number of names which have been given to God. All of them represent the same thing - they represent this knowledge that one is, this beingness, consciousness. This knowledge does not refer to an individual, but to the sense of presence as a whole.
Instead of accepting this knowledge as a total functioning, one wants to cut up the knowledge into bits and pieces, taking a part for himself, based on some concept. Any knowledge based on a concept is not true knowledge.
There is no such thing as an entity. Now you know that you are awake because, you are here and you have that knowledge.
When you are dwelling in this consciousness you see that you are not doing anything, it is all happening spontaneously. You cannot try to be
your Self, because you are your Self.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Q: What is meditation?
NM: To be one with THAT because of which we know we exist is meditation.
There are a number of names which have been given to God. All of them represent the same thing - they represent this knowledge that one is, this beingness, consciousness. This knowledge does not refer to an individual, but to the sense of presence as a whole.
Instead of accepting this knowledge as a total functioning, one wants to cut up the knowledge into bits and pieces, taking a part for himself, based on some concept. Any knowledge based on a concept is not true knowledge.
There is no such thing as an entity. Now you know that you are awake because, you are here and you have that knowledge.
When you are dwelling in this consciousness you see that you are not doing anything, it is all happening spontaneously. You cannot try to be
your Self, because you are your Self.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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YOUR CUP
Once, there was a wise teacher.
People from far and near would come and ask for his wisdom. They would ask him to teach them, enlighten them, and he seldom turned anyone away.
One day, a very important man came to visit the teacher and asked to be taught spirituality.
This man was used to getting his way most of the time and expected the same from the master.
The teacher smiled and invited the man for a cup of tea. When the tea was served, the teacher poured his visitor a cup. He poured and he poured. The tea rose to the rim of the cup, spilled over the saucer and the table, and finally onto the robes of the wealthy man.
The visitor, baffled and irritated, exclaimed, “Can’t you see the cup is full?”
At this, the teacher stopped pouring and smiled at his guest saying,
“You are like this tea cup, so full that nothing more can be added. Come back to me when your cup is empty. Come back to me with an empty mind."
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YOUR CUP
Once, there was a wise teacher.
People from far and near would come and ask for his wisdom. They would ask him to teach them, enlighten them, and he seldom turned anyone away.
One day, a very important man came to visit the teacher and asked to be taught spirituality.
This man was used to getting his way most of the time and expected the same from the master.
The teacher smiled and invited the man for a cup of tea. When the tea was served, the teacher poured his visitor a cup. He poured and he poured. The tea rose to the rim of the cup, spilled over the saucer and the table, and finally onto the robes of the wealthy man.
The visitor, baffled and irritated, exclaimed, “Can’t you see the cup is full?”
At this, the teacher stopped pouring and smiled at his guest saying,
“You are like this tea cup, so full that nothing more can be added. Come back to me when your cup is empty. Come back to me with an empty mind."
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Do what most enables you
to fly and makes you
glad to be alive.
~ Hafiz
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Do what most enables you
to fly and makes you
glad to be alive.
~ Hafiz
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In My Soul
In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
where I kneel.
Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.
Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is
illumined nothing,
where ecstasy gets poured into itself
and becomes
lost,
where the wing is fully alive
but has no mind or
body?
In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
a church
that dissolve, that
dissolve in
God.
~ Rabia al Basri
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In My Soul
In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
where I kneel.
Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.
Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is
illumined nothing,
where ecstasy gets poured into itself
and becomes
lost,
where the wing is fully alive
but has no mind or
body?
In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
a church
that dissolve, that
dissolve in
God.
~ Rabia al Basri
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Laugh with your Eyes
Smile with your Soul
Hug with your Heart
&
Love with your Spirit
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Laugh with your Eyes
Smile with your Soul
Hug with your Heart
&
Love with your Spirit
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The way is not really a way. It is a depth.
It is not a distance.
It is a deepening into the stillness,
stabilising in the unmoving.
It is not a walking journey.
Journeys are for the body and the ego-mind,
but the subtlety of intuitive seeing takes you deeper
into the bliss of the unknowable.
~ Mooji
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The way is not really a way. It is a depth.
It is not a distance.
It is a deepening into the stillness,
stabilising in the unmoving.
It is not a walking journey.
Journeys are for the body and the ego-mind,
but the subtlety of intuitive seeing takes you deeper
into the bliss of the unknowable.
~ Mooji
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Greetings to all on the
auspicious occasion of
✨Saint Kabir Jayanti✨
auspicious occasion of
✨Saint Kabir Jayanti✨
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Hamsa, the Swan
Oh, Hamsa! Tell me your ancient tale.
From what land did you journey,
To what shore do you fly?
Where do you sleep and what do you seek?
Oh, Hamsa! Awake, arise, and follow me!
There is a land where sorrow and doubt hold no sway,
Where the terror of death does not reign.
There, the woods are floored with the flowers of spring,
And the fragrance, “So’ aham”,
“He am I”, floats on the breeze.
There, the bee of the heart drowns in nectar,
And knows no other joy.
~ Kabir Sahib
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Hamsa, the Swan
Oh, Hamsa! Tell me your ancient tale.
From what land did you journey,
To what shore do you fly?
Where do you sleep and what do you seek?
Oh, Hamsa! Awake, arise, and follow me!
There is a land where sorrow and doubt hold no sway,
Where the terror of death does not reign.
There, the woods are floored with the flowers of spring,
And the fragrance, “So’ aham”,
“He am I”, floats on the breeze.
There, the bee of the heart drowns in nectar,
And knows no other joy.
~ Kabir Sahib
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He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one self up to God, means constantly remembering the Self. Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them all.
Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not?
We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one self up to God, means constantly remembering the Self. Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them all.
Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not?
We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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