Season's best greeting is ONENESS

[Guest guest]

When you look at a tree or flower and perceive the stillness, you become

still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness

with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness

of yourself with all things is true love. 

 

Family, friends, workplace, society, seva  and satsangs are opporunities

provided by the life to find the oneness. Marriage too is an opportunity,

 given

by the society for two people to come together and find that oneness. What

prevents that opportunity is the conditioned mind. Mind wants to hang on to

traditional expectation that appears to provide comforts (desires) and freedom

from

fear to the body-mind relationship. All thoughts are based on desires and

fear.

 

Traditional rules convinced by myness of ritual promoters cause obstacles in

realizing that oneness. True Love is the power of oneness. It is like the blue

sky that pervades everything in the universe. Clouds cover up the sky.

Similarly thoughts, traditions, conditioning and perceptions clutter our minds

and

thus limit our access to the oneness.  They limit our access to the Stillness

(awareness) within us. The Art of Living teachers provide us a key to realize

our essential nature.

 

Stillness is our essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or

awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become

thoughts.

Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.

 

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself and

you lose touch with the world.

 

Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness.

This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. You are that awareness,

disguised as a person.

 

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The

equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

 

Whenever there is some silence around you, listen to it. That means just

notice it. Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of

stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be

aware of silence.

 

See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not

thinking. You are aware, but not thinking. When you become aware of silence,

immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You

have

stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

 

Look at a tree, a flower. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they

are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

 

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still

yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with

whatever

you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all

things is true love.

 

Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even

when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of

the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure

awareness, consciousness itself.

 

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense

perceptions. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness.

 

Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your

inner resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance

also

takes you into that realm of inner peace that is stillness.

 

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is no matter what form it takes

you are still, you are at peace.

 

Pay attention to the gap the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent

space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or

the gap between the inbreath and out-breath.

 

When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something†becomes just

awareness. The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you

and replaces identification with form.

 

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and

solutions to problems are found. Is stillness just the absence of noise and

content?

No, it is intelligence itself the underlying consciousness out of which every

form is born.

 

And how could that be separate from who you are? The form that you think you

are came out of that and is being sustained by it. It is the essence of all

galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers, trees, birds, and all other forms.

 

 

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is

not really a thing, and it is not of this world. When you look at a tree or a

human being in stillness, who is looking? Something deeper than the person.

Consciousness is looking at its creation.

 

Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or

faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom

that humanity needs most at this time?

 

But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability

to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still,

looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let

stillness direct your words and actions.

 

(Based On Eckhart Tolle's book THE POWER OF NOW)

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

thank you for this greeting.....

 

"............Feeling the oneness

> of yourself with all things is true love..........."

 

nice words....and message....

for the Bhakti hearts...of us...

 

....the "Bhakti language" is not complicated....but can't

be "understood" completely by the intellect...

 

this days lots about "Self-Realisation" is written.....

 

....as long we didn't "experience" the Self....we can't realy

understand.....

 

wish all to experience the Self...on a Bhakti way.....means......cut

the intellect....and let the heart BE....

 

Regards and love

 

Marc