Guest guest Posted December 31, 2000 Report Share Posted December 31, 2000 Happy New Year ! Several spiritual traditions deals with the "inner smile". The inner, undefineable, peacefull joy called ananda... In Taoist meditation, the inner smile is connected to several organs. In Tantra, it's central in several fundamental meditation techniques. Personally, I've experienced it when going through Reiki healing. The inner smile has nothing to do with the common aims to and strive to attain the "happines" in our present "tic-tac" society, where people seek and seek "values"...... just to find them completly empty and meaningless. It is to live in these world but not of it, an inner smile, unattached to the misery and mediocricy in what's going on around oneself. The Divine is often called Sat-Chit-Ananda, "existence absolute" - "consciousness absolute" - "bliss absolute". To dive into these terms mentally is impossible. They are ungraspable as such - but yet they are "closer than the breath". Ananda is the joy of just existing, without any outer cause. Relax in the jaw. Open the mouth slightly, and breathe through the mouth, but not deeply. Feel that the breath becomes softer and softer... and then - feel a soft, peaceful pleasure stream through your very beeing and float with you in everything you do. In these very moment, you can feel a smile - not in the face, not escpecially visible from outside in the lips, but an existencial smile expanding from inside.... soft, nice and tenderly. This is one of the essensial secrets behind unattachment. Many figures of Buddha portraits these these soft inner smile, but most have neglected it or haven't paid it any attention. Attachment: (image/jpeg) Buddha2.JPG [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2001 Report Share Posted January 1, 2001 Dear Magne, I forgot to tell you that I enjoyed the "inner smile" post very much as well as the attachment. Here are some more... I love Khmer Buddha sculptures.(Jayavarman VII) Love, Wim Attachment: (image/jpeg) Avalokiteshvara.jpg [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) Lokeshvara.jpg [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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