Í ţessum spurningum felst kjarni andlegs lífs ...

 

Auđvitađ getur ţađ gerst ađ viđ gleymum okkar leyndustu fyrirćtlunum ţegar viđ erum undir miklu álagi í amstri lífsins. En ţegar kemur ađ leiđarlokum og fólk lítur yfir farinn veg eru spurningarnar sem ţađ spyr yfirleitt ekki „hvađ sé mikiđ inni á bankabókinni“ eđa „hvađ ţađ hafi skrifađ margar bćkur“ eđa „byggt mörg hús“. Ef ţú hefur notiđ ţeirra forréttinda ađ vera hjá fólki sem veit ađ ţađ er ađ deyja ţá veistu ađ spurningar ţess eru mjög einfaldar: „Gaf ég raunverulega ást?“ „Lifđi ég lífinu lifandi?“ „Lćrđist mér ađ gefa eftir?“

Í ţessum spurningum felst kjarni andlegs lífs.

 

Jack Kornfield - Úr Um hjartađ liggur leiđ


The Enemy Within

 


For EnlightenNext magazine's classic “Ego Issue,” one of our editors traveled to a remote Greek Orthodox hermitage to speak with Archimandrite Dionysios, a revered elder from that ancient tradition, about why the narcissistic ego has always been considered the great nemesis of spiritual life.
      

Q:   Why is the ego considered to be such a formidable adversary on the path?


A:   It is the enemy because it is against love. When I look at myself, I don't love others. When I want to occupy for myself what is yours, I become the killer of my brother, like Cain killed Abel. When I want to satisfy myself, this satisfaction is gained through sacrificing the freedom of the other. Then my ego becomes my lord, my god, and there is no stronger temptation than this. Because to us, this ego may seem like a diamond. It has a shine like gold. But whatever is shining is not gold. The ego is just like a fire without light, a fire without warmth, a fire without life. It seems that it has many sides and many possibilities—but what is this possibility? What is ego? Only the means by which I protect myself as if I were in a battle, as if every other person is my enemy, and the only thing I care about is winning the victory.

 

Sjá viđtaliđ í heild hér: http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j17/dionysios.asp?ecp=tat-0112809 


Kennsla í Kriya Yoga um helgina

 


Swami Mangalananda er vćntanleg til landsins dagana 30. jan - 05. feb 2009.


Kynningarfyrirlestur verđur í sal Rósarinnar, Bolholti 4. Föstudaginn 30. jan. kl. 20:00


Innvígsla og námskeiđ í Kriya Yoga verđur í Yogastöđinni Heilsubót 31. jan - 01. feb.


"Retreat" verđur dagana 2 - 5 feb. fyrir ţá sem eru innvígđir í Kriya Yoga.



Fyrir nánari upplýsingar : kriyayoga@kriyayoga.is


Hugleiđslur eru í  Gerđubergi (sal F) Kl. 18:00 alla Fimmtudaga.
Hugleiđslur í Yogastöđinni Heilsubót, Síđumúla 15. klukkan 18:00


Dagskrá Guđspekifélagsins um helgina

Föstudaginn  30.  janúar   

             

Sigurđur Skúlason:  Ramesh Balsekar, Advaita og hinn endanlegi skilningur.  

Laugardaginn 31. janúar     

 

Herdís Ţorvaldsdóttir: "hugleiđingar um orđ spekinganna" 

 

 

  www.gudspekifelagid.is

Bodhisattvas will have to turn to politics

 

"And so, please practice! Please let that be your guide. And I believe that you will find, if your practice matures, that Spirit will reach down and bless your every word and deed, and you will be taken quite beyond yourself, and the Divine will blaze with the light of a thousand suns, and glories upon glories will be given unto you, and you will in every way be home. And then, despite all your excuses and all your objections, you will find the obligation to communicate your vision. And precisely because of that, you and I will find each other. And that will be the real return of Spirit to itself."

 

 

Bodhisattvas will have to turn to politics - Viđtal viđ Frank Visser frá árinu 1995


Brot úr bókinni An Introduction to Zen Buddhism eftir D. T. Suzuki

Is Zen a religion? It is not a religion in the sense that the term is popularly understood; for Zen has no God to worship, no ceremonial rites to observe, no future abode to which the dead are destined, and, last of all, Zen has no soul whose welfare is to be looked after by somebody else and whose immortality is a matter of intense concern with some people. Zen is free from all these dogmatic and "religious" encumbrances. ...

 

As to all those images of various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Devas and other beings that one comes across in Zen temples, they are like so many pieces of wood or stone or metal; they are like camellias, azaleas, or stone lanterns in my garden. Make obeisance to the camellia now in full bloom, and worship it if you like, Zen would say. There is as much religion in so doing as in bowing to the various Buddhist gods, or as sprinkling holy water, or as participating in the Lord's Supper. All those pious deeds considered to be meritorious or sanctifying by most so-called religiously minded people are artificialities in the eyes of Zen. It boldly declares that "the immaculate Yogins do not enter Nirvana and the precept-violating monks do not go to hell". This, to ordinary minds, is a contradiction of the common law of moral life, but herein lies the truth and the life of Zen. Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in its inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism. ...

 

D. T. Suzuki  

 

Sjá meira hér: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/suzuki.html


Dagskrá Guđspekifélagsins um nćstu helgi

Föstudaginn  23. janúar

Ţorvaldur Friđriksson: “Gelísk áhrif á íslenska menningu.”  

Laugardaginn  24. janúar

Guđrún Ásmundsdóttir: “Trúarhugmyndir í ljóđum Einars Benediktssonar.”  

www.gudspekifelagid.is


Zen-fyrirlestur hjá Zen á Íslandi

 

 

Helga Jóakimsdóttir heldur fyrirlestur laugardaginn 31. janúar kl. 11 í húsi Zen-félagsins ađ Grensásvegi 8, 4. hćđ.

Allir velkomnir - Ađgangur ókeypis

 

sjá: www.zen.is

 

 

vertu alltaf byrjandi

ef ţú ferđ út í zen iđkun lćrir ţú ađ meta hug byrjandans

í huga byrjandans leynist leyndardómur zen iđkunar

 

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

 


Vow

 

 

An attitude of feeling safe and at peace as long as one is sitting is no good at all. All sentient beings are crying out in one form or another, they're suffering and in distress. We have to foster the vow deep in our hearts that we will work to settle all sentient beings. Vow is fundamental to our practice.

Uchiyama Roshi - Opening the Hand of Thought

 


Eckhart Tolle - Dagskrá sunnudaginn 18. janúar: 7. Kafli Finding Who You Truly Are.

 

Dagskrá sunnudaginn 18. janúar: 7. Kafli  Finding Who You Truly Are. 


 
 
Í vetur verđur áfram starfrćktur ţögull hugleiđsluhópur sem byggir á DVD myndefni međ andlega kennaranum Eckhart Tolle (sjá http://www.eckharttolle.com/groups). Hópurinn kemur saman annađ hvert sunnudagskvöld í vetur  kl. 20 á annarri hćđ í húsi Guđspekifélagsins ađ Ingólfsstrćti 22.  Húsiđ opnar kl. 19:30 og lokar kl. 20 og eru allir beđnir um ađ hafa hljótt um sig viđ komu og brottför. Byrjađ er á ţögulli hugleiđslu í uţb. 10 mínútur, síđan er horft á myndefni međ Eckhart  Tolle í 90 mínútur og ađ lokum er ţögul hugleiđsla í uţb. 10 mínútur. Í vetur verđur byrjađ á ađ sýna frá umfjöllun Eckhart Tolle og Opruh Winfrey á bókinni A NEW EARTH Awakening to Your Life´s Purpose  eftir Eckhart Tolle. Hópurinn, sem er öllum opinn, er í umsjón Elíasar Jóns Sveinssonar.  Hann veitir nánari upplýsingar í síma 897-8915. Einnig er unnt ađ hafa samband međ tölvupósti (eliasj@centrum.is). 
 


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