Byrjendanámskeið í zen-hugleiðslu

 

Námskeið verður haldið mánudaginn 6. september (á morgun) kl. 19:00. Námskeiðið kostar 3000,-kr og er iðkun allan mánuðinn innifalin. Mikhael Óskarsson er leiðbeinandi. Áhugasömum er bent á að senda honum póst og skrá sig. ([e-mail])

Þátttakendur læra m.a.:

• Að sitja Zazen (zen-hugleiðsla).
• Kinhin (gönguhugleiðslu)
• Formið í setusalnum og rétta líkamsstöðu við Zen hugleiðslu á púða eða stól
• Að fylgjast með inn- og útöndun í þögn

Zen iðkun er sterk og heiðarleg iðkun sem byggir á öndun og vakandi huga (mindfulness). Zen iðkun hjálpar okkur að skilja betur hver við erum í raun og veru. Allir eru velkomnir að iðka með okkur. Við hvetjum alla áhugasama til þess að koma á námskeið en þau eru haldin fyrsta mánudag hvers mánaðar.

 

www.zen.is

Hlustið á Paramahansa Yogananda tala um Kriya yoga og margt fleira

 

 

Hér getið þið hlustað á Yogananda tala um kriya yoga og margt fleira: http://www.yogananda-srf.org/tmp/py.aspx?id=50

Mindfulness meditation increases well-being in adolescent boys

 

Mindfulness meditation increases well-being in adolescent boys

Wildmind Meditation News (September 3, 2010)

‘Mindfulness’, the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new study reports.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed 155 boys from two independent UK schools, Tonbridge and Hampton, before and after a four-week crash course in mindfulness. After the trial period, the 14 and 15 year-old boys were found to have increased well-being, defined as the combination of feeling good (including positive emotions such as happiness, contentment, interest and affection) and functioning well.

Professor Felicia Huppert of the Well-being Institute at the University of Cambridge said: “More and more we are realising the importance of supporting the overall mental health of children. Our study demonstrates that this type of training improves well-being in adolescents and that the more they practice, the greater the benefits. Importantly, many of the students genuinely enjoyed the exercises and said they intended to continue them – a good sign that many children would be receptive to this type of intervention.

“Another significant aspect of this study is that adolescents who suffered from higher levels of anxiety were the ones who benefited most from the training.”

For the experiment, students in six classes were trained in mindful awareness – mindfulness. Mindfulness is a ‘way of paying attention. It means consciously bringing awareness to our experience, in the present moment, without making judgments about it’. Students in the five control classes attended their normal religious studies lessons.

The training consisted of four 40 minute classes, one per week, which presented the principles and practice of mindfulness. The classes covered the concepts of awareness and acceptance, and taught the schoolboys such things as how to practice bodily awareness by noticing where they were in contact with their chairs or the floor, paying attention to their breathing, and noticing all the sensations involved in walking.

The students were also asked to practice outside the classroom and were encouraged to listen to a CD or MP3 file for eight minutes a day. These exercises are intended to improve concentration and reduce stress.

All participants completed a short series of online questionnaires before and after the mindfulness project. The questionnaires measured the effect of the training on changes in mindful awareness, resilience (the ability to modify responses to changing situations) and psychological well-being.

The researchers found that although it was a short program, the students who participated in the mindfulness training had increased levels of well-being which were proportional to the amount of time the students spent practicing their new skills.

Professor Huppert continued: “We believe that the effects of mindfulness training can enhance well-being in a number of ways. If you practice being in the present, you can increase positive feelings by savoring pleasurable on-going experiences. Additionally, calming the mind and observing experiences with curiosity and acceptance not only reduces stress but helps with attention control and emotion regulation – skills which are valuable both inside and outside the classroom.”

 

Sjá grein.

Beyond Awakening - The future of spiritual practice

 

What is emerging today at the leading edge of human transformation? How can our spiritual practice help us evolve toward planetary citizenship? Join 27 of the world’s most dynamic spiritual teachers for a groundbreaking series of dialogues.

Sjá frekari upplýsingar hér: http://beyondawakeningseries.com/

Meditation is not an escape from the world

 

Meditation is not an escape from the world; it is not an isolating self-enclosing activity, but rather the comprehension of the world and its ways. The world has little to offer apart from food, clothes and shelter, and pleasure with its great sorrows. Meditation is wandering away from this world; one has to be a total outsider. Then the world has a meaning, and the beauty of the heavens and the earth is constant. Then love is not pleasure. From this all action begins that is not the outcome of tension, contradiction, the search for self-fulfilment or the conceit of power. The room overlooked a garden, and thirty or forty feet below was the wide, expansive river, sacred to some, but to others a beautiful stretch of water open to the skies and to the glory of the morning. You could always see the other bank with its village and spreading trees, and the newly planted winter wheat. From this room you could see the morning star, and the sun rising gently over the trees; and the river became the golden path for the sun. At night the room was very dark and the wide window showed the whole southern sky, and into this room one night came - with a great deal of fluttering - a bird. Turning on the light and getting out of bed one saw it under the bed. It was an owl. It was about a foot-and-a-half high with extremely wide big eyes and a fearsome beak. We gazed at each other quite close, a few feet apart. It was frightened by the light and the closeness of a human being. We looked at each other without blinking for quite a while, and it never lost its height and its fierce dignity. You could see the cruel claws the light feathers and the wings tightly held against the body. One would have liked to touch it, stroke it, but it would not have allowed that. So presently the light was turned out and for some time there was quietness in the room. Soon there was a fluttering of the wings - you could feel the air against your face - and the owl had gone out of the window. It never came again.

 

 

Krishnamurti - The Only Revolution India Part 1

Sjálfsævisaga jóga kemur út í október

 

Þá er það staðfest að Sjálfsævisaga jóga mun koma út í október en hún var síðast endurútgefin árið 1970, síðan þá eða í 40 ár hefur hún ekki verið endurútgefin. Það hefur líka verið erfitt að nálgast hana; einstöku sinnum dettur hún inn hjá fornbókasölum og er til á einstaka bókasafni og oftast er hún í útláni. En nú verður hún  í öllum bókarverslunum í október.

 

The science of Kriya Yoga,mentioned so often in these pages, became widely known in modern India through the instrumentality of Lahiri Mahasaya, my guru’s guru. The Sanskrit root of Kriya is kri,to do, to act and react; the same root is found in the word karma,the natural principle of cause and effect. Kriya Yogais thus “union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite.” A yogi who faithfully follows its technique is gradually freed from karma or the universal chain of causation.

Because of certain ancient yogic injunctions, I cannot give a full explanation of Kriya Yogain the pages of a book intended for the general public. The actual technique must be learned from a Kriyabanor Kriya Yogi;here a broad reference must suffice.

Kriya Yogais a simple, psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers. By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues; the advanced yogi transmutes his cells into pure energy. Elijah, Jesus, Kabir and other prophets were past masters in the use of Kriyaor a similar technique, by which they caused their bodies to dematerialize at will.

 

Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi, 26. kafli The Science of Kriya Yoga

Jóga er aðferð til þess að hraða þroska mannsins ...

 

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Þá er ekki síður lærdómsríkt að sjá hvernig Sigvaldi fjallar um jóga og þær hættur sem felast í því að telja að jóga sé einhver aðferð til þess að búa til fólk sem gætt er einhverjum óvenjulegum hæfileikum og eiginleikum. Hann varar einnig við því að taka of alvarlega þegar jóga-iðkendum er lofað hreysti og hamingju í fornum indverskum ritum. Þar sé um að ræða skrúðmælgi og segi varla annað en að æfingarnar komi fólki almennt til góða. Öll sölumennska og yfirborðsleg kennsla í jógafræðum er að hans dómi skaðleg. Jóga er aðferð til þess að hraða þroska mannsins á þeirri braut til meiri þroska sem allir eru á.

 

HUGLEIÐINGAR UM KENNINGAR SIGVALDA HJÁLMARSSONAR ­ SÍÐARI HLUTI

 

Sjálfsævisaga jóga endurútgefin fyrir jól

Hin magnaða bók Sjálfsævisaga jóga verður að öllum líkindum endurútgefin fyrir jól. Það eru 40 ár síðan Sjálfsævisaga jóga kom síðast út í þýðingu Ingibjargar Thorarensen þannig að það var fyrir löngu kominn tími til að endurútgefa þessa bók. Um er að ræða endurútgáfu á endurbættri þýðingu frá árinu 1970. Meira um þetta síðar.

„Engillegi meistari, fyrst þú hefur veitt mannkyninu þá náð, að vekja til lífsins hina horfnu kriya list, vilt þú þá ekki auka þessa blessun með því, að slaka á hinum ströngu fyrirmælum um lærisveina?“ Ég [Lahiri Mahasaya] horfði biðjandi á Babaji. Má ég biðja þess, að þú leyfir mér að miðla kriya til allra leitenda, enda þótt þeir geti ekki strax í upphafi lofað innra afsali. Hinir þjáðu karlar og konur veraldarinnar, ofsótt af hinni þreföldu þjáningu, þurfa sérstaka uppörvun. Ef til vill reyna þeir aldrei leið frelsisins, ef þeim er synjað um kriya-vígsluna.

„Svo skal vera. Þú mátt fúslega veita öllum kriya, sem auðmjúklega biðja um hjálp. Hin heilaga ósk hefur verið látin í ljós fyrir munn þinn.“ Með þessum látlausu orðum hins miskunnsama meistara, var afnumin hin stranga vernd, sem öldum saman fól kriya fyrir veröldinni.

  

Sjálfsævisaga yoga – Paramahamsa Yogananda. Ingibjörg Thorarensen þýddi

Meditation For A Stronger Brain

 

Researchers say a type of meditation called integrative mind-body training can strengthen connections in certain areas of the brain, even when practiced for as little as 11 hours. Psychologist Michael Posner describes the study, and explains the brain changes he documented.

 

Hér getið þið hlustað á Michael Posner tala um þetta: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129324779

 

Metsöluhöfundurinn Neale Donald Walsch höfundur bókanna Samræður við Guð heldur fyrirlestur á Íslandi

 

 

Metsöluhöfundurinn Neale Donald Walsch höfundur bókanna Samræður við Guð - sem selst hafa í milljónum eintaka - kemur til Íslands og heldur fyrirlestur þann 22 sept nk. Einstakt tækifæri til að koma og hlusta á þennan frábæra fyrirlesara og heyra boðskap hans.

Fyrirlesturinn verður frá kl 09.00 - 18.00 og verð er einungis Kr. 4.500. Eingöngu er rukkað fyrir kostnaði þar sem Neale hefur ákveðið að gefa Íslendingum þennan fyrirlestur. Ef einhver ágóði verður af viðburðinum rennur hann óskiptur til Íslendinga í nauðþurftum. SKRÁNING MEÐ TÖLVUPÓSTI Á [e-mail]

Athugið að sætaframboð er takmarkað þannig að fyrstur kemur fyrstur fær.

Bækur NDW Samræður við Guð hafa verið þýddar á íslensku en eru nú uppseldar. Bók númer 1 kemur hins vegar út að nýju í byrjun september.

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