Ljóð eftir Krishnamurti (Lauslega þýtt af Gísla H. Jakobssyni)

 

ÉG hef ekkert nafn, ÉG er eins og ferskur andvari fjallanna. ÉG hef ekkert skýli; ÉG er eins og ráfandi vötnin. ÉG hef ekkert athvarf, eins og dimmu guðirnir; eins er ÉG ekki í myrkri hinna djúpu hofa. ÉG hef engar helgar bækur; eins er ÉG ekki bundin í hefðir. ÉG er ekki í reykelsinu,klífandi á háum ölturum, ekki heldur í gleymsku athafna. ÉG er ekki heldur í grafinni ímynd, ekki heldur í ríkum ómi melódískar raddar. ÉG er ekki bundin af kenningum, ekki heldur spilltur af trú. ÉG er ekki í böndum trúarbragðanna, né í hvínandi kvöl presta þeirra. ÉG er ekki umkringdur af heimspekingum, né í haldi af mætti safnaða þeirra.
ÉG er hvorki hátt uppi né lágt niðri, ÉG er tilbiðjandinn og hið tilbeðna. ÉG er frjáls. Lag mitt er lag árinnar, kallandi á opið hafið. Ráfandi, ráfandi, ÉG er lífið. ÉG hef ekkert nafn, ÉG er eins og ferskur andvari fjallanna.

 Ljóð eftir J. Krishnamurti, lauslega þýtt af Gísla H. Jakobssyni

 

Values

 

Keep your thoughts positive

Thoughts become your words

Keep your words positive

Words become your behavior

Keep your behavior positive

Behavior becomes your habit

Keep your habits positive

Habits become your values

Keep your values positive

Values become your destiny

 

 

Mahatma Gandhi

Fyrirlestur um kriya yoga í kvöld - Aðgangur ókeypis

 

Kynningarfyrirlestur um kriya yoga verður haldinn föstudaginn 26. júní í sal Rósarinnar,
Bolholti 4, 4 h.tv. kl:20:00.

 

 

www.kriyayoga.is

Join us this Saturday for "Integral Spirituality: Embracing The Three Faces of God" With Ken Wilber

 

Join us this Saturday for
"Integral Spirituality:
Embracing The Three Faces of God"
With Ken Wilber

In this dialogue with the leading voice of the global integral revolution, we'll explore one of the most vital questions facing all 
of us who aspire to live an authentic spiritual life: How can we ensure that our spiritual path and practice will lead to a truly integral transformation? According to Wilber, to bring about a complete spiritual awakening, we must embrace what he calls "the three faces of God." Wilber points outs out that God or Spirit can be experienced and engaged from three distinct perspectives: 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person. God as Self; God as Holy Other; and God as Everything. Yet, it is all too easy for us to become lost in one of these "faces of God" at the expense of the others. For instance, many of us have had powerful first-person "enlightenment experiences" that revealed to us the divine nature of our Self. But in the absence of the always humbling recognition of the second-person face of God--God as Other, our first-person spiritual experiences have often made us more egocentric--not less so. Join us for a dynamic exploration of the path of Integral Spirituality, in which all three faces of God come together to transform every aspect of our life.

 

Hér getið þið hlustað á viðburðinn:

http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=8001219

 

Sjá frekari upplýsingar um fleiri álíka uppákomur: http://www.greatintegralawakening.com/  

Það getur enginn verið í núinu eða augnablikinu sem er ekki tilbúinn til að sleppa fortíðinni

 

„Forsendan fyrir því að viðhalda vakandi vitund er fyrirgefning eða afgreiðsla fortíðarinnar. Það getur enginn verið í núinu eða augnablikinu sem er ekki tilbúinn til að sleppa fortíðinni og viðheldur þ.a.l. einhvers konar sögu eða upplifun með gríðarlegri orku til þess að réttlæta skort sinn. Það sem gerist þegar maður er búinn að taka fulla ábyrgð og fyrirgefa sér, er að maður  velur viðbragð eins og skapari eða leiðtogi í stað þess að bregðast við eins og stjórnandi eða fórnarlamb. Það er slæmt að bregðast við eins og stjórnandi af því að þá er maður að bregðast við kalli fortíðarinnar. Eins og ég hef áður sagt, þá er eftirsjá fjársjóður fórnarlambsins. Ef maður er í vörn þá er maður háður. Þegar maður er háður, þá getur maður bara brugðist við. Þegar maður er frjáls þá getur maður valið viðbragð. Það er bara til eitt frelsi, það er frelsið frá ályktunum og væntingum sem eru byggðar á fortíðinni. Þegar maður er búinn að taka fulla ábyrgð og fyrirgefa sér, þá er maður ekki lengur háður og afmarkaður ályktunum og skoðunum.“

 

 

Zazen

 

 

Zazen sitting is the way of perfect tranquility: inwardly not a shadow of perception, outwardly not a shade of difference between phenomena.  Identified with yourself, you no longer think, nor do you seek enlightenment of the mind or disburdenment of illusions.  You are a flying bird with no mind to twitter, a mountain unconscious of the others rising around it.

 

Zen sitting has nothing to do with the doctrine of “teaching, practice, and elucidation” or with the exercise of “commandments, contemplation, and wisdom.”  You are like fish with no particular design of remaining in the sea.  Nor do you bother with sutras or ideas.  To control and pacify the mind is the concern of lesser people.  Still less can you hold an idea of Buddha and Dharma.  If you attempt to do so, if you train improperly, you are like one who, intending to voyage west, moves east.  You must not stray.

 

Also you must guard yourself against the easy conceptions of good and evil:  your sole concern should be to examine yourself continually, asking who is above either.  You must remember too that the unsullied essence of life has nothing to do with whether one is priest or layperson, man or woman.  Your Buddha-nature, consummate as the full moon, is represented by your position as you sit in Zen.  The exquisite Way of Buddha's is not the One or Two, being or non-being.  What diversifies it is the limitations of its students, who can be divided into three classes-superior, average, inferior.

 

The superior student is unaware of the coming into the world of Buddhas or of the transmission of the non-transmittable by them:   he eats when hungry, sleeps when sleepy.  Nor does he regard the world as himself.  Neither is he attached to enlightenment or illusion.  Taking things as they come, he sits in the proper manner, making no idle distinctions.

 

The average student discards all business and ignores the external, giving himself over to self-examination with every breath.  He may probe into a koan, which he puts mentally on the tip of his nose, finding in this way that his “original face” is beyond life and death, and that the Buddha-nature of all is not dependent on the discriminating intellect but is the unconscious consciousness, the incomprehensible understanding: in short, that it is clear and distinct for all ages and is alone apparent in its entirety throughout the universe.

 

The inferior student must disconnect himself from all that is external, thus liberating himself from the duality of good and evil.  The mind, just as it is, is the origin of all Buddhas.  In zazen his legs are crossed so that his Buddha-nature will not be led off by evil thoughts, his hands are linked so that they will not take up sutras or implements, his mouth is shut so that he refrains from preaching a word of dharma or uttering blasphemies, his eyes are half shut so that he does not distinguish between objects, his ears are closed to the world so that he will not hear talk of vice and virtue, his nose is as if dead so that he will not smell good or bad.  Since his body has nothing on which to lean, he is indifferent to likes and dislikes.  He negates neither being nor non-being.  He sits like Buddha on the pedestal, and though distorted ideas may arise from him, they do so idly and are ephemeral, constituting no sin, like reflections in a mirror, leaving no trace.

 

The five, the eight, the two hundred and fifty commandments, the three thousand monastic regulations, the eight hundred duties of the Bodhisattva, the Buddha-nature and the Bodhisattva-hood, and the Wheel of the Dharma-all are contained in Zen sitting and emerge from it.  Of all good works, zazen comes first, for the merit of only one step into it surpasses that of erecting a thousand temples. Even a moment of sitting will enable you to free yourself from life and death, and your Buddha-nature will appear of itself. Then all you do, perceive, and think becomes part of the miraculous Tathata-suchness.

 

Let it be thus remembered that beginners and advanced students, learned and ignorant, all without exception should practice zazen.

Meiho (1277-1350)

 

 

www.greatintegralawakening.com - Pioneering a New Spiritual Path

 

Dear Friend,

 

Here at Big Mind, we're always seeking to offer you opportunities to both engage with Genpo Roshi and to deepen your understanding and experience of practice. So, we're pleased to be writing you today with an invitation to participate in a FREE online teleseminar series that promises to help us all deepen our understanding of what an up-to-date, authentic, and integral spiritual path looks like.

 

The Great Integral Awakening: Pioneering a New Spiritual Path is an opportunity to interact with Genpo Roshi and 13 other visionary spiritual leaders in an in-depth exploration of the changing nature of spiritual life in the 21st century.

 

Over a 14-week period starting this Saturday, June 20th, these spiritual pioneers will explore the burning questions facing all of us who aspire to live an authentic spiritual life in our increasingly chaotic, fast-paced world.

 

Questions like:

 

How does the spiritual path need to evolve to meet the evolutionary challenges and opportunities of our time?

How can we make sure our own spiritual path and practice is "integral" and informed by both the timeless wisdom of Spirit and an up-to-date understanding of the human condition?

What does it mean to live a life of passionate evolutionary engagement that integrates our deep longing for spiritual transformation and our desire to improve the world?

How can we come together with other practitioners to begin to create microcosms of enlightened culture?

How can we engage our spiritual practice not just as a path to personal growth but as a contribution to the further evolution of humanity, life, and consciousness?

There is no charge to participate.  All of the luminaries have volunteered their time so that as many of us as possible can come together for this groundbreaking FREE online event. We hope you'll join us in creating the future of spirituality.

 

Sjá betur hér: http://www.greatintegralawakening.com/

Vedanta Spiritual Library

 

Allt um Vedanta

Vedanta Spiritual Library

http://www.celextel.org/

Big Mind TV

 

Hér getið þið horft á Big Mind TV: www.bigmind.org/zen-eye/big-mind-tv

 

Big Mind Big Heart - A Western Zen approach to life

 

 

Kriya yoga kennsla á Íslandi í júní

 

Peter Van Breukelen Kriya Yoga kennari er væntanlegur hingað til lands
og verður hann með innvígslu og námskeið helgina 26. - 28. júní.

 

Kynningarfyrirlestur verður haldinn föstudaginn 26. júní í sal Rósarinnar,
Bolholti 4, 4 h.tv. kl:20:00.

 

Farið verður í ferð í Bláfjöll dagana 29. júní - 2.júlí.
 

Hugleiðslur eru í  Gerðubergi (sal F) Kl. 18:00 alla Fimmtudaga.
Hugleiðslur í Yogastöðinni Heilsubót, Síðumúla 15. klukkan 18:00

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