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June 30, 2009
June 29, 2009
bliss..
The nature of experience is bliss...it is independent of content of experience
- Sri Bhagavan
Whenever I experience the above, I am always fascinated.
Currently, I am going through an experience which can conventionally be termed unpleasant.A few years back I would have been anxiety driven and reactive.
Today, I am just experiencing the event and am responsive.
Thank You Bhagavan for this invaluable gift of grace......
Posted by Sundar at Monday, June 29, 2009 0 comments
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June 28, 2009
pain and suffering....
suffering is the story created to escape raw, naked pain....
suffering is illusionary, pain is real.....miracles can happen if we are in touch with raw pain...instead we focus on content or people and escape the experience of pain which can liberate us.
Posted by Sundar at Sunday, June 28, 2009 0 comments
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June 24, 2009
living on the edge...
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June 20, 2009
unlimited potential
In a "perfect" world - who are you? In a world where the playing field is level, what are your possibilities . . . what are your inclinations? What are your dreams and what are the probabilities of achieving such dreams when the playing field is devoid of limiting preconditions?Life came to you without real limits — make it very clear in your consciousness — the limits are not necessarily yours. The limitations you've been given are not laws — they are very often merely generational - or genealogical - or socially structured "suggestions." They have been in place for a very long time and the suggestions are nearly carved in stone, but when you test them you will learn that they are not absolute. Learn to ignore them — it will test your courage to the very core — but it will also help you to live with more honesty and a greater love for adventure. It will create your relationships with more passion and trust and commit you to your highest destiny.Learn to think in this way on a daily basis . . . learn to write and rewrite all the governing rules of - who you are — and — who you can become. Learn to disassemble your opinions of what is possible and give yourself the entitlement that the most entitled are able to live by. Learn to create level playing fields on a daily basis . . . then the game of life is fair . . . then the game of life becomes real . . . then the game of life has integrity.
- Guru Singhji
Posted by Sundar at Saturday, June 20, 2009 0 comments
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June 19, 2009
a thin line...
- Epictetus
Posted by Sundar at Friday, June 19, 2009 0 comments
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evolution
Posted by Sundar at Friday, June 19, 2009 0 comments
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quotes
Posted by Sundar at Friday, June 19, 2009 0 comments
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June 18, 2009
June 17, 2009
taking charge....
Posted by Sundar at Wednesday, June 17, 2009 0 comments
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mindbreak
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
Posted by Sundar at Wednesday, June 17, 2009 0 comments
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June 16, 2009
we get what we give....
It wasn't that I was embarrassed my husband was out of work. The situation was what it was. It's just that we are private people and don't share our problems easily with others. So when he lost his job, we just acted like nothing had changed and no one seemed to notice.
It didn't take too long, maybe two weeks, and my kids' friends noticed that Kyle's dad was home a lot more. When asked about it, I told my good friend and neighbor, Tammy, we were out of work and looking. She then told me that her husband had been applying for graveyard shifts all over town because his company was going under. I was shocked! We were constantly doing things together and I hadn't a clue they were struggling.
I didn't feel like we were the only ones going through this anymore. I always knew that others were struggling with the economy in a downturn, but now I had a comrade to share my woes with.
Knowing what they were going through, I wanted to help them, even though we didn't have much ourselves. So, I became the reconnaissance shopper. I scour the coupons and ads, and match things up to pay half-price for many items. I call Tammy when I get done with my planning session and offer to pick up things for her at the discounted price. It seems like our money goes even farther because we are willing to share.
It goes the other way too. Tammy and her husband have given us enough wood to heat our home this winter. They have the tools to cut firewood and they did extra for us. It has been a huge help to reduce our gas bill to almost nothing.
There are other examples of helping each other. I taught Tammy how to make bread and rolls; she watches my kids when I go to job interviews; I make dessert for Tammy's family party; she drives my kid to the bus stop in a snow storm… and the list goes on.
I don't have much to give but I can give of myself. I can have charity, love, and hope in my heart, and the more I give those away, the more I get them back.
Posted by Sundar at Tuesday, June 16, 2009 0 comments
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the presence...
a couple of days back, somebody, to defend their positionality told me that their inner dweller, the antaryamin was guiding them. How I pray and wish that this happens to one and all.
It is , however, a challenge to be able to distinguish between Higher Consciosuness guidances and mind level games of manipulation. This is not a recognition driver event.We do not need to prove to someone that we are being guided. It suffices for us to know the same and celebrate Grace in our lives. Gratitude flows abundantly and spontaneously and every moment of our life is filled in awe of the presence. Living in an awakened presence is naturally joyous and blissful, full of love for one and all, it revels in itself. Events outside do not touch us. We just flow through them and move on. The anchored joy and love sustains across the most devastating mind cyclones.
Posted by Sundar at Tuesday, June 16, 2009 0 comments
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June 15, 2009
Pain and suffering
Posted by Sundar at Monday, June 15, 2009 0 comments
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June 14, 2009
Growth
Happiness is the index of growth.
- Sri Bhagavan
Posted by Sundar at Sunday, June 14, 2009 0 comments
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June 13, 2009
awe and wonder
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Posted by Sundar at Saturday, June 13, 2009 0 comments
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Openness
May they keep watch on your soul.
May they show you new hopes.
May the angels keep you till morning.
Posted by Sundar at Saturday, June 13, 2009 0 comments
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gems from the Master
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spiritual anchors
Posted by Sundar at Saturday, June 13, 2009 0 comments
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spiritual anchoring
We are spiritual beings going towards a human experience, not the other way around.
Life is designed to be exploratory , to get into experiences . The mind has a need for certainty but it also has a need for variety. They are conflicting intrinsically.
The mind more often than not takes us towards security but then security can be suffocating , inhibiting. We become dead, inert.
Each of usd seeks to come alive in what we do, in the way we relate to everyone and everything in life.
To operate as a spiritual being is achoice we make to live rather than exist.And it comes with it's challenges.We invest in it because we chose life over dead habit and monotony - meaningless and boring.....
Posted by Sundar at Saturday, June 13, 2009 0 comments
June 11, 2009
work quotes
You work so that you keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
Work is love made visible.
- Kahlil Gibran
Posted by Sundar at Thursday, June 11, 2009 0 comments
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shadows
when you turn your face towards the sun, the shadows fall behind. - old maori saying.
we manage suffering, escape it all the time. We focus on the content and do not face the pain squarely. Again, pain is real while suffering is hallucinatory.
Watching and being in touch with suffering is the key to inner joy and freedom.
Posted by Sundar at Thursday, June 11, 2009 0 comments
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June 10, 2009
Learning and tuning....
Posted by Sundar at Wednesday, June 10, 2009 0 comments
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June 09, 2009
oneness of suffering
We tend to think that events cause suffering. In a landmark statement, Sri Bhagavan declares that it is suffering which causes events.
At any given moment in our lives, physical + psychological + spiritual suffering is a constant. In colloquial life, what we call healing is a mere management. We may encounter suffering through the platform of business and manage it desperately.All our lives, we only mange sorrow. We never face sorrow and transcend it.
Managing suffering arising in our business space would lead for the pain to manifest itself in some other area of our life - maybe relationships, maybe our health or the health of our dear ones.
This is a principle of the universe.The pain within has to come out. There is no choice.
And man focusses on changing events.How erroneous can he get?
So man continues fire-fighting , only the events change....and he seeks liberation, little knowing that he has to die the way he is and be reborn in a new light.
He takes solace in the fact that the whole world is like him, but that is an illusion which will soon collapse for one and all.
It is a time of the world for a movement of one and all from perception to fact.Coulkd be a rude awakening for some but then it is compassion at work.
The universe knows best and we have to bow down to it.
Posted by Sundar at Tuesday, June 09, 2009 0 comments
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June 07, 2009
Success Mindset - repeat post
Taking this further, thought is really not ours.We do not create it. So if a thought of failure emerges from the recesses of the unconscious, all we have to do is watch it. Watching enables a response as different from an automated reaction.
Posted by Sundar at Sunday, June 07, 2009 0 comments
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hallucinations...
Sri Bhagavan says that our outer world is a reflection of our inner world.
Every moment of our life is a choice of breakthru approaches over breakdown perspectives. It is our direction of thought which solely matters.Seeing the cup as half empty or half full makes all the difference.
The tendency of the mind is to focus on the negative in most cases. We have to re-orient ourselves away from this tendency .The technique is to merely watch the tendency for negative orientation which is more often than not, merely hallucinatory.Most of our suffering emerges in imaginary realms of what could happen - erroneous perceptions , not based on fact.
And Bhagavan reminds us, "Suffering is never in the fact, it emerges only in perception."
People often say that this is removed from everyday reality. I wonder where else it should find application if not in everyday life. Can we really live without it in our daily lives? Guess people will continue doing so until they are woken up by the universe. I hope it is not too late for some....
Posted by Sundar at Sunday, June 07, 2009 0 comments
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power of thought and forgiveness
The Buddha was walking along with his disciples when someone suddenly came and spat at him. The Buddha was calm and unruffled.He just wiped it off and washed it.
His disciples wanted to act on the miscreant but the Buddha stopped them.
He smilingly said, "When someone offers you a gift , you can accept it or reject it. When you reject it, it stays back with the person who made the offer.And it builds up a thousand fold within him."
Nothing can ever happen to the sun. Anybody who spits on it is the loser. The sun , by itself is unaffected.
We sometimes get consumed by fear, anger, lust or any other and controlled by this, we vent out words on another. If the other chooses to accept within and continues sending his blessings, the words boomerang a thousand times and in myriad ways to the person from whom it has emerged.
Ignorance is not considered here.The principle of cause and its' manifold effect works here and in the process , man is hurtling towards self-destruction.
Posted by Sundar at Sunday, June 07, 2009 0 comments
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June 06, 2009
light
recent events in my life as a spiritual reflector indicate that we have got so accustomed to darkness that we fear light.
and then we want masters to help us in easy ways.
we have to unlearn our mistrust for light.
Posted by Sundar at Saturday, June 06, 2009 0 comments
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June 05, 2009
no half measures in enlightenment....
"Gamble everything for love,if you're a true human being.If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.Don't wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, and let the sea be you."
~Rumi
Posted by Sundar at Friday, June 05, 2009 0 comments
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June 03, 2009
the self - an idea...
Most of us are more attached to our self-identities than we realize. Our personal histories, psychological personalities, social roles, and purpose in life are all derived from the idea of a fixed self. Indeed, our very search for meaning in the universe is based on the sense of a personal identity. What would we be left with when this begins to dissolve? Who would we be when we are no longer recognizable as a fixed and separate self?
- dark night of the soul
Posted by Sundar at Wednesday, June 03, 2009 0 comments
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June 01, 2009
The Bhagavad Gita
In the Bhagavad Gita, Master Teacher , Krishna came as a charioteer in Arjuna's life when he came in touch with his suffering. A teacher and solutions are a happening when one comes in touch with his raw , throbbing suffering. Normally, our everyday life is an escape, a move away from this very fact. We avoid coming in touch with our suffering.
Similarly, a crucial lesson in the Mahabharata comes from the choice made by the leaders of the two warring factions.Duryodhana is given the first choice and he selects Krishna's army over Krishna - very symbolic. We need favours from God but not God himself. God comes as a package - it is not about what we like or don't; it is absolute integrity of life processes.....the Dharma of life.
Posted by Sundar at Monday, June 01, 2009 0 comments
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