This is your story and mine

 

The Buddha was born a prince and was predicted that he would become either a great religious leader or a great emperor. His father, the king, preferred to see his boy become a great emperor, so he had him trained in the arts of the warrior and the statesman. He also provided the comforts and entertainment appropriate to the station of a young prince – fine food and clothing, and the rest of it. 

 

This is your story and mine. When we are young, we are all little princes and princesses. We are each of us the center of the universe. In facts, our mouths are the center, and everything enters therein. We are guided by our parents towards a sense of responsibility, but despite the program set up about us, we emerge, each in our own way, as individual inquirers.

Robert Aitken - Taking the path of Zen

 

Starfaðu án þess að vera háður starfinu

 

Vel getur sá látið sér lynda að lifa hundrað ár, sem starfar án þess að vera háður starfinu, vinnur verk sín í einlægni en án langana, þráir ekki ávexti þeirra,- hann og hann einn.

Isha Upanishad

Buddhadharma

 

 Buddhadharma works every day. The great sky doesn´t bother the function of the white cloud.

 

 

Dainin Katagiri-roshi  - You have to say something

Our essence-nature is empty and vast like the blue sky

 

When we can awaken to the emptiness of the principle of cause and effect then it will no longer bother us. It's like clouds which appear and disappear. The cause is the arising, the result is the disappearing. Then we simply do not become attached to the arising or the disappearance. If we are to be unattached to this, then we must have wisdom. Because that wisdom allows us to distinguish what is the arising and what is the disappearance. Our essence-nature is empty and vast like the blue sky, no matter how many clouds appear in that sky, the clouds cannot stay there forever.

 

 

 

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Kennsla í kriya yoga 23. - 25. maí

 

Þann 23. maí 2008 er Rajarshi Peter Van Breukelen væntanlegur hingað til lands og mun hann leiðbeina fólki í kriya yoga, halda fyrirlestra, leiða hugleiðslur og vígja þá sem þess óska.

Kynningarfyrirlestur verður haldinn föstudaginn 23. maí kl. 20:00 í sal Rósarinnar, Bolholti 4 (áður Lífsýnarsalurinn). Fyrirlesturinn er án endurgjalds og öllum opinn.

Kennsla í Kriya yoga fer svo fram dagana 24.- 25. maí í Yogastöðinni Heilsubót, Síðumúla 15.   

Sjá betur á: www.kriyayoga.is

The enemy who can truly teach us

 

 

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

 

 

Dalai Lama

This is the goal of yoga

 

Although we begin meditation practice for a variety of reasons, the intention from a scriptural point of view is clear: meditation is to help us attain the fulfillment of the human incarnation: the realization of our oneness with the infinite Self, Brahman. This is the goal of yoga.

Sivananda

 

GOD

 

Who is God? What is God? Is there a God? Where is God? How to realise God? Man wants an answer to these eternal questions. Certainly there is God. God exists. He is the only reality. God is your creator, saviour, and redeemer. He is all-pervading. He dwells in your heart. He is always near you. He is nearer to you than your jugular vein or nose. He loves you. He can talk to you. You cannot find God by the intellect. But, you can find Him by feeling, meditation, experience, and realisation.

 

WHO IS GOD?

The Petromax does not talk, but it shines and sheds light all around. The jessamine does not speak, but it wafts its fragrance everywhere. The lighthouse sounds no drum, but sends its friendly light to the mariner. The Unseen beats no gong, but Its omnipresence is felt by the dispassionate and discriminating sage.

Behind all names and forms is the one nameless, formless Essence. Behind all governors is the one Supreme Governor of governors. Behind all lights is the one Light Of lights. Behind all sounds, there is the soundless Supreme Silence. Behind all teachers is the one Supreme Guru of Gurus.

Behind all these perishable objects is the one imperishable Absolute. Behind all these motions is the one motionless Infinite. Behind time, minutes, and days is the one timeless Eternity. Behind hatred, riots, and wars is the one hidden Love.

God is the totality of all that exists, both animate and inanimate, sentient and insentient. He is free from ills and limitations. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. He has no beginning, middle, or end. He is the indweller in all beings. He controls from within.

God is all in all. God is the only reality in this universe. The existence of things is by the light of God.

God is ever living. All depend on Him. He is not depending on any. He is the Truth.

God is the end or goal of all Yoga Sadhanas. He is the Centre towards which all things strive. He is the highest purpose or highest good of the world. You have the urge of hunger. There is food to appease the hunger. You have the urge of thirst. There is water to quench the thirst. There is the urge to be always happy. There must be something to satisfy this urge. This something is God, an embodiment of happiness. God, Immortality, Freedom, Perfection, Peace, Bliss, Love are synonymous terms.

  

WHAT IS GOD?

What is God? It is hard to tell. But, when I look at the Ganga, I know it is God. When I see the jessamine, I know it is God. When I behold the blue sky, I know it is God. When I hear the chirping of birds, I know it is God. When I taste honey, I know it is God.

The Supreme is indefinable, though scholars give intellectual accounts of It which are not absolutely true.

Every man has his own conception of God. The God of a military man wears a helmet. The God of a China-man has a flat nose and a pipe for smoking opium. The God of a Hindu has marks on his forehead, and wears a rosary and a garland of flowers. The God of a Christian wears a Cross. For some, God has wings. A buffalo will think that God is a very big buffalo.

Such an anthropomorphic conception of God is obviously puerile. The greatest and most important thing in all the world is to get a right concept of God, because your belief about God governs your entire life.

 

Sri Swami Sivananda   

 

Raja yoga - 8. þrep - Lokaáfanginn

 

Samadhi (uppljómun)

 

 Uppljómun, þ.e. dropinn sameinast hafinu á ný, einstaklingssálin sameinast alheimssálinni. Einnig nefnt nirvana, satori o.fl.. Talað er um Samvikalpa/sambikalpa samadhi sem er uppljómun en þó eru ´leifar´ af egói eftir og iðkandinn því ekki alveg í fullkomnu einingarsambandi við almættið og er ekki laus undan karma. Einnig er talað um Nirvikalpa/nirbikalpa samadhi en í því ástandi er uppljómunin algjör og iðkandinn er stöðugt í einingu við guðdóminn og búið er að leysa egóið upp og viðkomandi er því laus undan og óháður karma.