Zen-fyrirlestur á fimmtudaginn kemur.

 

Á fimmtudaginn kemur (1. september) kl. 19:30 verður Ástvaldur Zenki með Zen spjall um lífið og tilveruna. Smelltu hér til að kanna málið betur.

The urge to find out what God is

 

The urge to find out what truth is, what God is, is the only real urge, and all other urges are subsidiary. When you throw a stone into still water, it makes expanding circles. The expanding circles are the subsidiary movements, the social reactions, but the real movement is at the centre, which is the movement to find happiness, God, truth.

 

 

Krishnamurti - This Matter of Culture, p 84

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi - Video

Viðtal við Swami Prajnanananda

What Is Yoga, Really?

 

By practicing the step-by-step methods of Yoga taking nothing for granted on emotional grounds or through blind faith we come to know our oneness with the Infinite Intelligence, Power, and Joy which gives life to all and which is the essence of our own Self.

In past centuries many of the higher techniques of Yoga were little understood or practiced, owing to mankind’s limited knowledge of the forces that run the universe. But today scientific investigation is rapidly changing the way we view ourselves and the world. The traditional materialistic conception of life has vanished with the discovery that matter and energy are essentially one: every existing substance can be reduced to a pattern or form of energy, which interacts and interconnects with other forms. Some of today’s most celebrated physicists go a step further, identifying consciousness as the fundamental ground of all being. Thus modern science is confirming the ancient principles of Yoga, which proclaim that unity pervades the universe.

The word yoga itself means “union”: of the individual consciousness or soul with the Universal Consciousness or Spirit. Though many people think of yoga only as physical exercises — the asanas or postures that have gained widespread popularity in recent decades — these are actually only the most superficial aspect of this profound science of unfolding the infinite potentials of the human mind and soul.

 

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Kynningarfyrirlestur um kriya yoga í kvöld - Ókeypis aðgangur

 

 

Föstudaginn 19. ágúst kl. 19:00 mun  Peter Van Breukelen halda  kynningarfyrirlestur um kriya yoga í Yogastöðinni Heilsubót.

Eckhart Tolle on Karma

 

Q: You talk about Presence and Being as the keys to enjoying form, and creating positive circumstances, or softening circumstances.  How does karma fit into all of that?

ET: Everybody is born into a certain external environment.  Also, everyone is born with certain predispositions – they may be partly genetic, they may be other things.  A person is born with certain patterns, in other words.  We don’t need to examine where they come from, but the fact is that a human being is born into a certain environment.  It may be violent, or it may be relatively peaceful.  A person is born with inner patterns that you inherit.  Even painbody is partly inherited.

There’s a whole set of conditioning that happens when you come into an environment.  The environment conditions you further, and there’s no choice involved – it’s just influences.  You find yourself in this world with certain unconscious patterns that have become the conditioning of who the person is.  Karma, as I see it, is the unconscious conditioning that runs your life.  Karma is partly collective, and partly personal.  You can only understand karma not as an abstract subject external to yourself, you can only understand it by observing yourself, and then you know many other things.  If you want to understand karma, you need to look at yourself.

 

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Innleiðing í kriya yoga um helgina

 

 

Innleiðing í kriya yoga yoga um helgina

 Sjá hér: http://kriyayoga.is/

 

Wake-up Sermon

 

Seen with true vision, form isn’t simply form because form depends on mind.  And mind isn’t simply mind, because mind depends on form.  Mind and form create and negate each other. That which exists exists in relation to that which doesn’t exist.  And that which doesn’t exist doesn’t exist in relation to that which exists.  This is true vision.  By means of such vision, nothing is seen and nothing not seen.  Such vision reaches throughout the ten directions without seeing. Because nothing is seen.  Because not seeing is seen.  Because seeing isn’t seeing.  What mortals see are delusions.  True vision is detached from seeing. 

Lesa í heild hér: http://www.dailyzen.com/zen/zen_reading1108.asp 

... 'good for nothing'

 

What's zazen good for? Absolutely nothing! This 'good for nothing' has got to sink into your flesh and bones until you actually practice what is truly good for nothing. Until then, your zazen is just good for nothing.

 

Sawaki Rôshi