Guest guest Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Dear Friends, I have collected some "Meditation Tips".I hope this will help to those who search With Regards, Beniton The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.Baruch Spinoza It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. Only wise men are able to understand them.Paulo Coelho Your actions in life set your course and determine the destination of your travels.Your reactions in life create the climate in which you travel.Beth Johnson Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Cherish what you have and don't hunger for what you don't have. When you are a fish, enjoy yourself swimming to your heart's content, and don't fantasize about flying. When you are a bird, enjoy soaring to your heart's content, and don't even think of wanting to dive.Tsai Chih The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the wholenet of words falls down, that you are left alone.This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.And meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.Osho The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng I’m having an identity crisis – my ego thinks IT is ME. This is disgruntling in itself, but disastrous when "I" agree. Cheryl Williams If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas.Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment.Sosan Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj Knowledge is a wide river and there's many ways to cross it. It is necessary to choose respected mentors, not to parrot them but to absorb what you can and use what they teach as stepping stones. Lisa Haynes Home is oneness, home is my original nature.It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.Tony Parsons If you dont relate to nature then you dont relate with man.Fields, forests, rivers, trees, all wonders and beauty of earth, this is Nature.If we dont relate at all with this then we will never relate to each other.Krishnamurti Everything exists according to its own nature - our individual perceptions of worth, correctness, beauty, size and value exist inside our heads, not outside them.unknown Every person is an instrument of the universal law. Never once think yourself not so. By practice you will assuredly have direct experience of it.Dogen one day we comeone day we gothere is nobody aboveand nobody belowcelebrate yourselfanandi The deepest words of the wise man teach us the sameas the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.Antonio Machado Be all you can be. Everyone has his own strength and unique qualities. Why care about other people's respect or disdain? If one lives according to other's values, one is guaranteed to die in one's own dissatisfaction.Heart Sutra Why do you look at me? Look at your own self. Why do you listen to me? Listen to your own self. Why do you believe in what I say? Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!Peace Pilgrim The things we are afraid of seem to be like high mountains to climb.When we have gone through them they were in fact very small hills.Tricky mind.Unknown The challenge for the 21 century is the Silent Revolution of the Heart.It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness.Giten The only decision you need to make is to open yourself and allow yourself to feel from your very core what is useful for your growth. You will not make a mistake. Beth Johnson To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra I often compare the mind in meditation to a jar of muddy water: the more we leave the water without interfering or stirring it, the more the particles of dirt will sink to the bottom, letting the natural clarity of the water shine through.Sogyal Rinpoche Always rely on just a happy frame of mind.Don't think about anything that concerns others.Abandon all hope of results.Atisha Meditation doesn't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.Thubten Yeshe Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men; seek what they sought.Basho What is to laugh, but a sparkling of the pleasure of the soul, meaning a clarity appearing outside according to what happens inside? Dante Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. Tilopa What's the difference between a life of comfort and security and a life of risk and total insecurity? One is just being like everyone else. The other is a great thrill, and furthers something unknown and unlimited that's ever-present. And that's what living the spiritual life is. Andrew Cohen Ordinary men hate solitude.But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.Lao Tzu To learn to meditate is the biggest gift you can give to yourself in this life. Indeed, only meditation will allow you to discover your true nature and find balance and roots to live well. Meditation is the way that leads towards awakening.Sogyal Rinpoche I am not talking about forcing anything, or repressing, but about bringing the quality of awareness to every moment.Tyohar Meditation is not some kind of excitement, but attention and observation on our daily activities.Nahsti The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally.Lynda Standley Richardson Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.Hua Hu Ching Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course.Then your mind will become still in any surroundings. Like a clearforest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drinkat the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but youwill be still.This is the happiness of the Buddha." Achaan Chah Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The answer is that you will get nothing out of it because enlightenment is the realization that there is no you to get enlightened; that your sense of separation and individuality is an illusion.Leo Hartong I declare to the world my happiness.Enough to hide... I say it to you.. I am happy!My heart is content, my being is part of this whole process of life and death... I don't know how it goes... It is inside me... It is outside me... I cannot touch it.. I am it.Nihsatdharma The essential core, the spirit of meditation is to learn how to witness.Osho In doing good, avoid fame. In doing bad, avoid disgrace. Pursue a middle course as your principle.Chuang Tzu The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.Leonard I. Sweet The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and always have been.Sri Ramana Maharshi There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj A meditative man has insight. He can see how he himself created his problems. And then, naturally he stops creating them.Osho When your attention moves from searching, dreaming and chasing after life, into being here and now, you are fully present in the wholeness of your Being. Tyohar Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness while doing something. Whatsoever you do can become creative.Chandan To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt Coming from nowhereDeparting from nowhereA flashing glance...entering the mystery!Ikkyu A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.Basil Joy calls happiness, sadness and dissatisfaction makes it flee. A merry heart creates around itself always more light and revival.Matsumoto Jitsudo It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.Andre Dubus You should find freedom by means of both examination and investigation.Don't brag.Don't be comsumed by jealousy.Don't act capriciously.Don't expect thanks.Atisha The Most Powerful Mantra is Om India Matrimony: Find your life partner online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2005 Report Share Posted June 2, 2005 OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA Dear Fernando please do not be offended at all - michaels words are authentic how come that you did send this email to RAMANA MAHARSHI LIST where SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI is the SADGURU? besides OM is not the socalled "most powerful" mantra every mantra honestly used is good SRI RAMANA said that I AM WHO I AM is the real "name" of GD and therefore even "stronger" than OM (AUM - amen) thank you for your efforts in love in GD michael Beniton Fernando <beniton_fdo wrote: Dear Friends, I have collected some "Meditation Tips".I hope this will help to those who search With Regards, Beniton The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.Baruch Spinoza It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. Only wise men are able to understand them.Paulo Coelho Your actions in life set your course and determine the destination of your travels.Your reactions in life create the climate in which you travel.Beth Johnson Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Cherish what you have and don't hunger for what you don't have. When you are a fish, enjoy yourself swimming to your heart's content, and don't fantasize about flying. When you are a bird, enjoy soaring to your heart's content, and don't even think of wanting to dive.Tsai Chih The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the wholenet of words falls down, that you are left alone.This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.And meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.Osho The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng I’m having an identity crisis – my ego thinks IT is ME. This is disgruntling in itself, but disastrous when "I" agree. Cheryl Williams If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas.Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment.Sosan Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj Knowledge is a wide river and there's many ways to cross it. It is necessary to choose respected mentors, not to parrot them but to absorb what you can and use what they teach as stepping stones. Lisa Haynes Home is oneness, home is my original nature.It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.Tony Parsons If you dont relate to nature then you dont relate with man.Fields, forests, rivers, trees, all wonders and beauty of earth, this is Nature.If we dont relate at all with this then we will never relate to each other.Krishnamurti Everything exists according to its own nature - our individual perceptions of worth, correctness, beauty, size and value exist inside our heads, not outside them.unknown Every person is an instrument of the universal law. Never once think yourself not so. By practice you will assuredly have direct experience of it.Dogen one day we comeone day we gothere is nobody aboveand nobody belowcelebrate yourselfanandi The deepest words of the wise man teach us the sameas the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.Antonio Machado Be all you can be. Everyone has his own strength and unique qualities. Why care about other people's respect or disdain? If one lives according to other's values, one is guaranteed to die in one's own dissatisfaction.Heart Sutra Why do you look at me? Look at your own self. Why do you listen to me? Listen to your own self. Why do you believe in what I say? Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!Peace Pilgrim The things we are afraid of seem to be like high mountains to climb.When we have gone through them they were in fact very small hills.Tricky mind.Unknown The challenge for the 21 century is the Silent Revolution of the Heart.It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness.Giten The only decision you need to make is to open yourself and allow yourself to feel from your very core what is useful for your growth. You will not make a mistake. Beth Johnson To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra I often compare the mind in meditation to a jar of muddy water: the more we leave the water without interfering or stirring it, the more the particles of dirt will sink to the bottom, letting the natural clarity of the water shine through.Sogyal Rinpoche Always rely on just a happy frame of mind.Don't think about anything that concerns others.Abandon all hope of results.Atisha Meditation doesn't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.Thubten Yeshe Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men; seek what they sought.Basho What is to laugh, but a sparkling of the pleasure of the soul, meaning a clarity appearing outside according to what happens inside? Dante Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. Tilopa What's the difference between a life of comfort and security and a life of risk and total insecurity? One is just being like everyone else. The other is a great thrill, and furthers something unknown and unlimited that's ever-present. And that's what living the spiritual life is. Andrew Cohen Ordinary men hate solitude.But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.Lao Tzu To learn to meditate is the biggest gift you can give to yourself in this life. Indeed, only meditation will allow you to discover your true nature and find balance and roots to live well. Meditation is the way that leads towards awakening.Sogyal Rinpoche I am not talking about forcing anything, or repressing, but about bringing the quality of awareness to every moment.Tyohar Meditation is not some kind of excitement, but attention and observation on our daily activities.Nahsti The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally.Lynda Standley Richardson Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.Hua Hu Ching Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course.Then your mind will become still in any surroundings. Like a clearforest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drinkat the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but youwill be still.This is the happiness of the Buddha." Achaan Chah Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The answer is that you will get nothing out of it because enlightenment is the realization that there is no you to get enlightened; that your sense of separation and individuality is an illusion.Leo Hartong I declare to the world my happiness.Enough to hide... I say it to you.. I am happy!My heart is content, my being is part of this whole process of life and death... I don't know how it goes... It is inside me... It is outside me... I cannot touch it.. I am it.Nihsatdharma The essential core, the spirit of meditation is to learn how to witness.Osho In doing good, avoid fame. In doing bad, avoid disgrace. Pursue a middle course as your principle.Chuang Tzu The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.Leonard I. Sweet The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and always have been.Sri Ramana Maharshi There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj A meditative man has insight. He can see how he himself created his problems. And then, naturally he stops creating them.Osho When your attention moves from searching, dreaming and chasing after life, into being here and now, you are fully present in the wholeness of your Being. Tyohar Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness while doing something. Whatsoever you do can become creative.Chandan To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt Coming from nowhereDeparting from nowhereA flashing glance...entering the mystery!Ikkyu A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.Basil Joy calls happiness, sadness and dissatisfaction makes it flee. A merry heart creates around itself always more light and revival.Matsumoto Jitsudo It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.Andre Dubus You should find freedom by means of both examination and investigation.Don't brag.Don't be comsumed by jealousy.Don't act capriciously.Don't expect thanks.Atisha The Most Powerful Mantra is Om India Matrimony: Find your life partner online. Discover Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing more. Check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Right and Wrong Q.: If it is a question of doing something one considers wrong, and thereby saving someone else from a great wrong, should one do it or refrain? Bhagavan: What is right and wrong? There is no standard by which to judge something to be right another to be wrong. Opinions differ according to the nature of the individual and according to the surroundings. They are again ideas and nothing more. Do not worry about them. But get rid of thoughts. If you always remain in the right, then right will prevail in the world. (The devotee was not satisfied with this answer and asked for further elucidation.) Sri Bhagavan then pointed out that to see wrong in another is one's own wrong. The discrimination between right and wrong is the origin of sin. One's own sin is reflected outside and the individual in ignorance superimposes it on another. The best course for one is to reach the state in which such discrimination does not arise. Do you see wrong or right in your sleep? Be asleep even in the wakeful state, abide as the Self and remain uncontaminated by what goes on around. Moreover, however much you might advise them, your hearers may not rectify themselves. Be in the right yourself and remain silent. Your silence will have more effect than your words or deeds. The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi edited by Arthur Osborne - michael bindel Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:06 AM Re: Meditation Tips OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA Dear Fernando please do not be offended at all - michaels words are authentic how come that you did send this email to RAMANA MAHARSHI LIST where SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI is the SADGURU? besides OM is not the socalled "most powerful" mantra every mantra honestly used is good SRI RAMANA said that I AM WHO I AM is the real "name" of GD and therefore even "stronger" than OM (AUM - amen) thank you for your efforts in love in GD michael Beniton Fernando <beniton_fdo wrote: Dear Friends, I have collected some "Meditation Tips".I hope this will help to those who search With Regards, Beniton The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.Baruch Spinoza It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. Only wise men are able to understand them.Paulo Coelho Your actions in life set your course and determine the destination of your travels.Your reactions in life create the climate in which you travel.Beth Johnson Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Cherish what you have and don't hunger for what you don't have. When you are a fish, enjoy yourself swimming to your heart's content, and don't fantasize about flying. When you are a bird, enjoy soaring to your heart's content, and don't even think of wanting to dive.Tsai Chih The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the wholenet of words falls down, that you are left alone.This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.And meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.Osho The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng I’m having an identity crisis – my ego thinks IT is ME. This is disgruntling in itself, but disastrous when "I" agree. Cheryl Williams If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas.Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment.Sosan Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj Knowledge is a wide river and there's many ways to cross it. It is necessary to choose respected mentors, not to parrot them but to absorb what you can and use what they teach as stepping stones. Lisa Haynes Home is oneness, home is my original nature.It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.Tony Parsons If you dont relate to nature then you dont relate with man.Fields, forests, rivers, trees, all wonders and beauty of earth, this is Nature.If we dont relate at all with this then we will never relate to each other.Krishnamurti Everything exists according to its own nature - our individual perceptions of worth, correctness, beauty, size and value exist inside our heads, not outside them.unknown Every person is an instrument of the universal law. Never once think yourself not so. By practice you will assuredly have direct experience of it.Dogen one day we comeone day we gothere is nobody aboveand nobody belowcelebrate yourselfanandi The deepest words of the wise man teach us the sameas the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.Antonio Machado Be all you can be. Everyone has his own strength and unique qualities. Why care about other people's respect or disdain? If one lives according to other's values, one is guaranteed to die in one's own dissatisfaction.Heart Sutra Why do you look at me? Look at your own self. Why do you listen to me? Listen to your own self. Why do you believe in what I say? Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!Peace Pilgrim The things we are afraid of seem to be like high mountains to climb.When we have gone through them they were in fact very small hills.Tricky mind.Unknown The challenge for the 21 century is the Silent Revolution of the Heart.It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness.Giten The only decision you need to make is to open yourself and allow yourself to feel from your very core what is useful for your growth. You will not make a mistake. Beth Johnson To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra I often compare the mind in meditation to a jar of muddy water: the more we leave the water without interfering or stirring it, the more the particles of dirt will sink to the bottom, letting the natural clarity of the water shine through.Sogyal Rinpoche Always rely on just a happy frame of mind.Don't think about anything that concerns others.Abandon all hope of results.Atisha Meditation doesn't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.Thubten Yeshe Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men; seek what they sought.Basho What is to laugh, but a sparkling of the pleasure of the soul, meaning a clarity appearing outside according to what happens inside? Dante Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. Tilopa What's the difference between a life of comfort and security and a life of risk and total insecurity? One is just being like everyone else. The other is a great thrill, and furthers something unknown and unlimited that's ever-present. And that's what living the spiritual life is. Andrew Cohen Ordinary men hate solitude.But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.Lao Tzu To learn to meditate is the biggest gift you can give to yourself in this life. Indeed, only meditation will allow you to discover your true nature and find balance and roots to live well. Meditation is the way that leads towards awakening.Sogyal Rinpoche I am not talking about forcing anything, or repressing, but about bringing the quality of awareness to every moment.Tyohar Meditation is not some kind of excitement, but attention and observation on our daily activities.Nahsti The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally.Lynda Standley Richardson Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.Hua Hu Ching Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course.Then your mind will become still in any surroundings. Like a clearforest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drinkat the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but youwill be still.This is the happiness of the Buddha." Achaan Chah Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The answer is that you will get nothing out of it because enlightenment is the realization that there is no you to get enlightened; that your sense of separation and individuality is an illusion.Leo Hartong I declare to the world my happiness.Enough to hide... I say it to you.. I am happy!My heart is content, my being is part of this whole process of life and death... I don't know how it goes... It is inside me... It is outside me... I cannot touch it.. I am it.Nihsatdharma The essential core, the spirit of meditation is to learn how to witness.Osho In doing good, avoid fame. In doing bad, avoid disgrace. Pursue a middle course as your principle.Chuang Tzu The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.Leonard I. Sweet The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and always have been.Sri Ramana Maharshi There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj A meditative man has insight. He can see how he himself created his problems. And then, naturally he stops creating them.Osho When your attention moves from searching, dreaming and chasing after life, into being here and now, you are fully present in the wholeness of your Being. Tyohar Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness while doing something. Whatsoever you do can become creative.Chandan To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt Coming from nowhereDeparting from nowhereA flashing glance...entering the mystery!Ikkyu A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.Basil Joy calls happiness, sadness and dissatisfaction makes it flee. A merry heart creates around itself always more light and revival.Matsumoto Jitsudo It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.Andre Dubus You should find freedom by means of both examination and investigation.Don't brag.Don't be comsumed by jealousy.Don't act capriciously.Don't expect thanks.Atisha The Most Powerful Mantra is Om India Matrimony: Find your life partner online. Discover Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing & more. Check it out! Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release 6/1/2005 Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release 6/1/2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Dear Friends, I Hope Im not offending u all, The Mantra Om.... The mind is energy, in fact, the same energy that comes through the sun, the same subtle rays. Ask the physicists. They say the mind has a voltage of electricity, that it is electrical.If you can focus the mind through a lens, the mantra is a lens, and you go on repeating Ram, Ram, Ram, or Om, Om, Om, or anything, just one word - if you go repeating and repeating and repeating it, and the mind's whole energy is centered in that one word - it becomes a lens. Now all the rays are passing through that lens. Narrowed to one point it becomes powerful, you can do miracles. Just by thinking you can do miracles.But remember, those miracles are not spiritual. Power is never spiritual. Powerlessness, helplessness, to be nothing, is spiritual;. power is never spiritual. This is the difference between magic and religion; magic is after power, religion is after nothingness.’ Osho, A Bird on the Wing `A humming sound is heard – "Om Mani Padme Hoo".This complete Tibetan Mantra comes out from it. This Mantra-slogan continues to hum in the temple. There is some meaning behind it. This Mantra goes within our body and excites some wheels in our body and the power of those wheels begin to rise up. The word 'Om' and its humming are meant to take energy upwards. Not only 'Om' but the 'Amin' of the Muselmans, and the 'Amen' of the Christians are forms of 'Om'. The English words omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotence are derived from 'Om'. Omniscient means one who has seen the 'Om'. The 'Om' means a very huge Brahma. Omnipresent means one who is with 'Om', Omnipotent means when one who becomes as powerful as 'Om'. He is now full with the seed of energy like God. This word 'Om' has A, U and M, has three fundamental sounds in it. If these sounds are systematically repeated, hummed they seem to raise the energy upward. There are sounds opposite to these which, if they strike, make the energy go down. So if you see the twist dance, you will find within a short time that twisting begins within you. Some energy begins to swerve within you.’ Osho, 'The Perennial Path, the Art of Living' Michael in my Perception Om is most powerfull Mantra for me.I dont Insist to follow u If feel Amen is Powerful then it is it depends on ur perception I dont think my mail is offending u Ofcourse Ramanar May be ur Sadguru But what is there for ramanar with my mail im not offending him Im just a simple member of this group I have some rights to mail .In fact my mail is about meditation tips. Ramanar is pointing u the direction but u r still bitting his finger. Ok Bye Take care Beniton FernandoLinda Sherman <lsherm wrote: Right and Wrong Q.: If it is a question of doing something one considers wrong, and thereby saving someone else from a great wrong, should one do it or refrain? Bhagavan: What is right and wrong? There is no standard by which to judge something to be right another to be wrong. Opinions differ according to the nature of the individual and according to the surroundings. They are again ideas and nothing more. Do not worry about them. But get rid of thoughts. If you always remain in the right, then right will prevail in the world. (The devotee was not satisfied with this answer and asked for further elucidation.) Sri Bhagavan then pointed out that to see wrong in another is one's own wrong. The discrimination between right and wrong is the origin of sin. One's own sin is reflected outside and the individual in ignorance superimposes it on another. The best course for one is to reach the state in which such discrimination does not arise. Do you see wrong or right in your sleep? Be asleep even in the wakeful state, abide as the Self and remain uncontaminated by what goes on around. Moreover, however much you might advise them, your hearers may not rectify themselves. Be in the right yourself and remain silent. Your silence will have more effect than your words or deeds. The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi edited by Arthur Osborne - michael bindel Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:06 AM Re: Meditation Tips OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA Dear Fernando please do not be offended at all - michaels words are authentic how come that you did send this email to RAMANA MAHARSHI LIST where SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI is the SADGURU? besides OM is not the socalled "most powerful" mantra every mantra honestly used is good SRI RAMANA said that I AM WHO I AM is the real "name" of GD and therefore even "stronger" than OM (AUM - amen) thank you for your efforts in love in GD michael Beniton Fernando <beniton_fdo wrote: Dear Friends, I have collected some "Meditation Tips".I hope this will help to those who search With Regards, Beniton The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.Baruch Spinoza It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. Only wise men are able to understand them.Paulo Coelho Your actions in life set your course and determine the destination of your travels.Your reactions in life create the climate in which you travel.Beth Johnson Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.Chan Chih Cherish what you have and don't hunger for what you don't have. When you are a fish, enjoy yourself swimming to your heart's content, and don't fantasize about flying. When you are a bird, enjoy soaring to your heart's content, and don't even think of wanting to dive.Tsai Chih The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the wholenet of words falls down, that you are left alone.This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.And meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.Osho The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect. Huineng I’m having an identity crisis – my ego thinks IT is ME. This is disgruntling in itself, but disastrous when "I" agree. Cheryl Williams If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas.Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment.Sosan Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj Knowledge is a wide river and there's many ways to cross it. It is necessary to choose respected mentors, not to parrot them but to absorb what you can and use what they teach as stepping stones. Lisa Haynes Home is oneness, home is my original nature.It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.Tony Parsons If you dont relate to nature then you dont relate with man.Fields, forests, rivers, trees, all wonders and beauty of earth, this is Nature.If we dont relate at all with this then we will never relate to each other.Krishnamurti Everything exists according to its own nature - our individual perceptions of worth, correctness, beauty, size and value exist inside our heads, not outside them.unknown Every person is an instrument of the universal law. Never once think yourself not so. By practice you will assuredly have direct experience of it.Dogen one day we comeone day we gothere is nobody aboveand nobody belowcelebrate yourselfanandi The deepest words of the wise man teach us the sameas the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.Antonio Machado Be all you can be. Everyone has his own strength and unique qualities. Why care about other people's respect or disdain? If one lives according to other's values, one is guaranteed to die in one's own dissatisfaction.Heart Sutra Why do you look at me? Look at your own self. Why do you listen to me? Listen to your own self. Why do you believe in what I say? Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!Peace Pilgrim The things we are afraid of seem to be like high mountains to climb.When we have gone through them they were in fact very small hills.Tricky mind.Unknown The challenge for the 21 century is the Silent Revolution of the Heart.It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness.Giten The only decision you need to make is to open yourself and allow yourself to feel from your very core what is useful for your growth. You will not make a mistake. Beth Johnson To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra I often compare the mind in meditation to a jar of muddy water: the more we leave the water without interfering or stirring it, the more the particles of dirt will sink to the bottom, letting the natural clarity of the water shine through.Sogyal Rinpoche Always rely on just a happy frame of mind.Don't think about anything that concerns others.Abandon all hope of results.Atisha Meditation doesn't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.Thubten Yeshe Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men; seek what they sought.Basho What is to laugh, but a sparkling of the pleasure of the soul, meaning a clarity appearing outside according to what happens inside? Dante Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. Tilopa What's the difference between a life of comfort and security and a life of risk and total insecurity? One is just being like everyone else. The other is a great thrill, and furthers something unknown and unlimited that's ever-present. And that's what living the spiritual life is. Andrew Cohen Ordinary men hate solitude.But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.Lao Tzu To learn to meditate is the biggest gift you can give to yourself in this life. Indeed, only meditation will allow you to discover your true nature and find balance and roots to live well. Meditation is the way that leads towards awakening.Sogyal Rinpoche I am not talking about forcing anything, or repressing, but about bringing the quality of awareness to every moment.Tyohar Meditation is not some kind of excitement, but attention and observation on our daily activities.Nahsti The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally.Lynda Standley Richardson Be interested in yourself beyond all experience, be with yourself, love yourself; the ultimate security is found only in self-knowledge. Be honest with yourself and nothing will betray you.Nisargadatta Maharaj The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.Hua Hu Ching Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course.Then your mind will become still in any surroundings. Like a clearforest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drinkat the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but youwill be still.This is the happiness of the Buddha." Achaan Chah Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The answer is that you will get nothing out of it because enlightenment is the realization that there is no you to get enlightened; that your sense of separation and individuality is an illusion.Leo Hartong I declare to the world my happiness.Enough to hide... I say it to you.. I am happy!My heart is content, my being is part of this whole process of life and death... I don't know how it goes... It is inside me... It is outside me... I cannot touch it.. I am it.Nihsatdharma The essential core, the spirit of meditation is to learn how to witness.Osho In doing good, avoid fame. In doing bad, avoid disgrace. Pursue a middle course as your principle.Chuang Tzu The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.Leonard I. Sweet The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and always have been.Sri Ramana Maharshi There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj A meditative man has insight. He can see how he himself created his problems. And then, naturally he stops creating them.Osho When your attention moves from searching, dreaming and chasing after life, into being here and now, you are fully present in the wholeness of your Being. Tyohar Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness while doing something. Whatsoever you do can become creative.Chandan To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn’t come from anywhere outside. Buddhist Sutra While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt Coming from nowhereDeparting from nowhereA flashing glance...entering the mystery!Ikkyu A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.Basil Joy calls happiness, sadness and dissatisfaction makes it flee. A merry heart creates around itself always more light and revival.Matsumoto Jitsudo It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.Andre Dubus You should find freedom by means of both examination and investigation.Don't brag.Don't be comsumed by jealousy.Don't act capriciously.Don't expect thanks.Atisha The Most Powerful Mantra is Om India Matrimony: Find your life partner online. Discover Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing & more. Check it out! Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release 6/1/2005Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release 6/1/2005 How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends n family photos for FREE with Photos. http://in.photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 OM NAMO BHAGAVATE SRI RAMANAYA Dear unknown friend in GD thank you for your email. Please reread the mail from LINDA and mine and you will - if you really are open enough - feel the TRUTH thank you for your efforts always ready for your questions in love in GD michaelBeniton Fernando <beniton_fdo wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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