Það er ekki einu sinni hægt að skiptast á prumpi við næsta mann

 

  
  

Til þín sem getur ekki hætt að hafa áhyggjur af áliti annarra á þér.
 
Það er ekki einu sinni hægt að skiptast á prumpi við næsta mann. Hver og einn verður að lifa sínu eigin lífi. Ekki eyða tímanum í að velta því fyrir þér hver sé hæfileikaríkastur.
 
Augun segja ekki við augabrýrnar, “Jújú, við erum fyrir neðan ykkur, en við sjáum meira.”
 
Augabrúnirnar segja ekki við augun, “Gott og vel, við sjáum ekki neitt, en við erum fyrir ofan ykkur.”
 
Að lifa búddadharmað er að gegna hlutverki þínu fullkomlega án þess að vita af því. Fjallið veit ekki að það er hátt. Hafið veit ekki að það er víðáttumikið og djúpt. Hver og einn einasti hlutur í alheiminum er starfandi án þess að vita af því.
 
Söngur fuglsins og hlátur blómsins birtast af sjálfu sér,
 
algjörlega óháð manneskjunni sem situr í zazen við fjallsrótina.

Fuglinn syngur ekki til heiðurs þeim sem situr í zazen. Blómið blómstrar ekki til þess að heilla okkur með fegurð sinni. Á nákvæmlega sama hátt, situr manneskjan ekki í zazen til þess að öðlast uppljómun. Hver einasta vera raungerir einfaldlega sjálfið, í gegnum sjálfið, fyrir sjálfið.

Kodo Sawaki

Lesa í heild hér: http://zen.is/?p=972

Nýleg rannsókn sýnir tengsl á milli hugleiðsluiðkunar og heilsu

A new study from the University of Sydney is the latest to highlight possible links between meditation and improved mental and physical health.

Rsearchers surveyed 343 long-term Sahaja yoga meditation practitioners and compared their results to the general population.

“We found that the health and wellbeing profile of people who had meditated for at least two years was significantly higher in the majority of health and wellbeing categories when compared to the Australian population,” Sydney Morning Herald quoted research leader Dr Ramesh Manocha, from the university’s psychiatry discipline.

The study highlighted Sahaja yoga meditation as it focuses on achieving “mental silence”, the closest practice to the “log” definition which was found by the researchers in old texts.

Dr Manocha asserted that the study showed those who achieved mental silence more often had more health benefits.

“The frequency with which they were experiencing mental silence and its relationship to a [health] advantage was very significant.”

A recent study from the University of California’s Centre for Mind and Brain found that meditation might slow the ageing process.

The researchers revealed that people who went on a three-month meditation retreat had signs of stronger telomeres, which play a part in protecting cells from ageing.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have also divulged that people who practised meditation long-term had more active “disease-fighting” genes than those who did not practise any type of relaxation.

Dr Maarten Immink, the director of human movement at the University of South Australia, revealed that meditation has also been shown to strengthen the hippocampus, part of the brain tied to memory.

“Along a number of lines we have evidence that meditation promotes quality of life as we get older,” Dr Immink said in an interview last year.

“Stress-reduction means that our metabolism works better, our immune systems work better, our whole body systems work better.”

Sydney Meditation Centre director Kevin Hume insisted that meditation largely comprises focusing on the present to clear the mind and relax.

Hume said his meditation classes attracted bankers, IT professionals, corporate lawyers and executives because it aids them deal with extremely stressful workplaces.

“We’re moving a long way from the old shaved head ‘ohm’ on top of the mountain thing.

“Curiously, I’ve come across meditators from the 70s who are now very senior executives in various corporations.

“They practise covertly, it’s like a secret vice they’ve had for the last 30 or 40 years.

“They’re often people who are renowned in their organisations for their ability to focus, for their ability to be empathetic managers, for their ability to be emotionally strategic in how to manage people in conflict or crisis situations.”

Hume said that some other effects he observed included an enhanced attention span, a greater ability to handle emotions and improved sleep patterns.

“The research indicates very clearly that if you incorporate it into your fitness regime as a matter of regular practice you’re going to have much more long-lasting and observable effects.”

Dr Immink said other research demonstrated that practising meditation even for a short time had an impact.

“We’re not talking about lifetime meditation to get changes, they’ve put people through four weeks of meditation and they’ve done some neuroimaging while they’re doing certain things and their brains have changed.”

“So it’s quite powerful,” Dr Immink added.

The study has been published in the journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Our main duty is to still the mind

 

 

Our main duty is to still the mind. If the mind is not controlled, sadhana is flawed. If worldly duties are not properly performed, man looses his humanity, what he values as a human being.

Lahiri Mahasaya

 

Bókin The Meditative Mind eftir Daniel Goleman

 

The Meditative Mind is an updated version of a book Daniel Goleman first published in the 1970s and revised in the 1980s. Goleman, who’s famous for his classic, Emotional Intelligence, was in on the first wave of research into the effects of meditation, having made a visit to India and having met some impressive yogis before returning to Harvard. Goleman has been ahead of the curve for a long time. This earlier parts of this book, he points out, first appeared at a time when the links between traditional Asian systems of mental training and modern psychological science were few and far between. They are of course far more common now, with an explosion of research having taken place over the last two decades in particular.

To take account of at least some of these developments, new material has been added, detailing some of the history of the encounter between meditation, on the one hand, and science and psychotherapeutic traditions on the other.

The Meditative Mind is uneven in tone, but this is to be expected given that it’s a compilation of writings spanning several decades and having been composed for a variety of purposes and circumstances. The book is in five parts.

 

Lesa greinina í heild hér: http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/book-reviews/the-meditative-mind-by-daniel-goleman

 

Hefur bætt líf sitt með hugleiðslu

 

„Ég hef fundið mikla breytingu. Öll mín afstaða til lífsins er breytt. Ég er meira meðvitaður og er skilningsríkari manneskja en áður,“ segir kvikmyndaframleiðandinn Sigurjón Sighvatsson sem segir líf sitt breytt með tilkomu hugleiðslu.

„Í gamla daga þegar ég var að kaupa kvikmyndaverkefni þá fannst mér allt mótlæti mikill persónulegur ósigur. Lífið varð óhemjuerfitt ef ég tapaði stóru verkefni til annarra stórlaxa. Mér fannst ég hreinlega hafa brugðist.

Ég hugsa allt öðru vísi í dag. Ég nýt þess frekar að vera í samkeppni við stórlaxana og fái þeir verkefni sem ég hef sóst eftir þá hugsa ég til þeirra af virðingu og held áfram að reyna við næsta verkefni og held einbeitingunni. Ekkert er „big deal“. Hugleiðslan hefur gefið mér þennan kraft og ég er þakklátur enda hljóta allir að sjá að ég hefði orðið útbrunninn karl í Hollywood ef ég hefði haldi uppteknum hætti. Spurning hvort ég væri á lífi ennþá.“

 

Sjá: http://www.dv.is/lifsstill/2012/5/18/hefdi-ordid-utbrunninn-karl-i-hollywood/

Námskeið í kriya yoga 15. - 17. júní

 

Námskeið í Kriyayoga 15. - 17. júní

Peter Van Breukelen kemur til landsins í júní og verður með innvígslu í Kriya yoga. Námskeiðið verður í jógastöðinni Heilsubót. Dagskráin er eftirfarandi:

Föstudagur 15. júní: Fyrirlestur kl. 19:00 opinn öllum
Lauguardagur 16. júní: Innvígsla kl. 10:00
Lauguardagur 16. júní: Hugleiðsla kl. 17:00
Sunnudagur 17. júní: Hugleiðsla kl. 09:00 önnur kriya
Sunnudagur 17. júní: Hugleiðsla kl. 11:00
Sunnudagur 17. júní: Hugleiðsla kl. 17:00

Þennan mánuð mun Eckhart Tolle útskýra Bhagavad Gíta

 

This month, join Eckhart in an exploration of The Bhagavad Gita, the first in a series. Experience this work, considered one of our greatest spiritual treasures, together with Eckhart. Move towards consciousness and spiritual awakening in an exploration of the gifts that this illuminating text has to offer us.

Sjá hér: http://www.eckharttolletv.com/free/?f=1#/386108280/Current-Issue-Preview-The-Bhagavad-Gita&utm_source=whatsonthismonth&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=whatsonthismonth 

Paramahansa Yogananda on The Mother Aspect of God

 

In creating this universe God revealed two aspects: the masculine or fatherly, and the feminine or motherly. If you close your eyes and visualize vast, illimitable space, you become overwhelmed and enthralled − you feel naught but pure wisdom. That hidden, infinite sphere wherein there is no creation, no stars or planets − only pure wisdom − is the Father. And Nature with her diamond-dazzling stars, the Milky Way, the flowers, birds, clouds, mountains, sky − the countless beauties of creation − is the Divine Mother. In Nature you behold the mother aspect of God, full of beauty, gentleness, tenderness, and kindness. The beauty in the world bespeaks the creative motherly instinct of God, and when we look upon all the good in Nature, we experience a feeling of tenderness within us − we can see and feel God as Mother in Nature.

 

Paramahansa Yogananda

... því allt eru þetta mínir vegir

 

Margir hafa til mín horfið,

hjá mér leitað hreinir athvarfs,

lausir við ástríðu, ótta og reiði,

allir vígðir í vizkunnar eldi.

Hvaða veg sem mennirnir velja,

er þeir vilja til mín komast,

tek ég við þeim hverjum og einum,

því allt eru þetta mínir vegir.

 

Bhagavad-Gita. Indversk helgiljóð. S. Sörenson íslenskaði 

Bæn Sankaracharya til heimsmóðurinnar

 

Allar mínar athafnr eru þér til dýrðar. Allt mitt tal bæn til þín. Öll verk minna handa helgiathafnir þín vegna. Allt mitt iðjuleysi helgistund með þér. Þegar ég nærist er það fórn á þitt alltari. Þegar ég leggst útaf fell ég flatur fyrir þér. Allt sem ég geri er helgar þér.

Úr Saundarya Lahiri eftir Sri Sankara-Bhagavatpada. Sigvaldi Hjálmarsson þýddi. Tekið úr vorhefti Ganglera frá árinu 1979. Hægt er að fá gömul eintök af Ganglera í Lífspekifélaginu á 50 kr.