Hugljómun Krishnamurtis

 

Árið 1922 urðu tímamót í lífi hans. Krishnamurti var þá staddur í Ojai-dalnum í Kaliforníu. Hann virðist hafa náð því vitundarástandi sem kallað er hugljómun; kúndalíniorkan, sem hefur samkvæmt fræðum jóga aðsetur í neðstu orkustöð líkamans, steig upp eftir hryggsúlunni til að sameinast höfuðstöðinni. Þessu ferli, sem stóð yfir í nær tvö ár, fylgdi megn sársauki. Krishnamurti var stöðugt þjáður, með brunaverk og æðaslátt í hnakkagrófinni og neðst í hryggnum. Um þá reynslu er fylgdi þessari ummyndun skrifaði Krishnamurti:   

 

 

 

,,Þar [undir pipartrénu] settist ég með krosslagða fætur í hugleiðslustellingum. Þegar ég hafði setið þannig góða stund, fann ég að ég yfirgaf líkamann, ég sá sjálfan mig sitjandi undir smágerðu limi trésins. Andlit mitt sneri í austur. Fyrir framan mig var líkami minn og yfir höfði mér sá ég Stjörnuna, bjarta og skýra. Svo fann ég sveiflurnar frá herranum Búdda; herrann Maitreya birtist mér og einnig meistari K.H. Ég var alsæll, rólegur og í sátt við allt. Ég sá enn líkama minn og sveif skammt frá honum. Alger kyrrð ríkti bæði í loftinu og innra með mér, sama kyrrð og á botni ómælisdjúps stöðuvatns. Ég fann að yfirborð efnislíkama míns, með hugsunum sínum og geðshræringum, var hægt að ýfa, líkt og yfirborð vatnsins, en ekkert, nei ekkert gat raskað ró sálar minnar. Ég fann návist hinna voldugu vera stundarlangt, en svo hurfu þær á brott. Eg var óumræðanlega sæll því að mér hafði hlotnast sýn. Ekkert gat framar orðið eins og áður. Ég hafði bergt á hreinu og tæru vatninu í uppsprettulind lífsins og þorsta mínum var svalað. Aldrei framar gæti ég orðið þyrstur, aldrei framar gæti ég verið í algeru myrkri. Eg hef séð Ljósið. Eg hef komist í snertingu við samlíðanina sem læknar allar sorgir og þjáningar; ekki fyrir sjálfan mig, heldur fyrir heiminn. Ég hef staðið á fjallstindinum og litið augum hinar máttugu verur. Aldrei framar mun algert myrkur geta umlukt mig; ég hef séð græðandi Ljósið í allri dýrð sinni. Uppspretta sannleikans hefur opinberast mér og myrkrinu hefur verið sópað burt. Kærleikurinn í allri dýrð sinni hefur upptendrað hjarta mitt; hjarta mitt getur aldrei lokast. Ég hef bergt af lind fagnaðar og eilífrar fegurðar. Ég er upptendraður af guði."   

 

 

 

 

Sjá frekari umfjöllun um Krishnamurti: http://www.sigurfreyr.com/krishnamurti.html

 

I have nothing to teach

 

Searching for words, hunting for phrases,
When will it end?
Esteeming knowledge and gathering information,
Only maddens the spirit.
Just entrust yourself to your own nature,
Empty and illuminating
Beyond this, I have nothing to teach.

Bankei (1622-1693)

Dalai Lama - Our own brain, our own heart is our temple.

 

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

 

Dalai Lama

Returning to Silence

 

When you really want to know who you are or what the real significance of human life, human suffering is, very naturally you come back to silence, even though you don't want to, you return to an area of no-sound. It cannot be explained, but in this silence you can realize, even if only dimly, what the real point is that you want to know. Whatever kind of question you ask or whatever you think, finally you have to return to silence. This silence is vast; you don't know what it is.

 

 

Katagiri roshi

Zen-fyrirlestur laugardaginn 30. maí kl. 10

 

 Óskar Daian Ingólfsson mun vera með zen-fyrirlestur laugardaginn 30. maí kl. 10 í húsi Zen-félagsins að Grensásvegi 8.

 

 

www.zen.is

Your mind is an instrument ...

 

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

Eckhart Tolle

 

Paramahansa Hariharananda hefði orðið 102 ára í dag (27. maí)

 

Loving and Divine Soul

On this special day, Gurudev's 102nd birthday, I send my love, best wishes, and oneness to all of you. I pray to God and beloved Gurudev to bless each of us and the entire creation with peace, bliss, and joy.

 

It is said that God is the father and the guru is the mother. Through their love, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness, they create a new life for every seeker. We are all human beings, but Gurudev said we are not just human beings, but God in human beings. We have God-like potential — love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness — but these qualities must manifest in our thoughts, words, and actions.

 

God made us in His image. God gave us five powerful sense organs, not for our downfall or destruction, but for our evolution and realization. To achieve evolution, we must discipline our sense organs, otherwise there will be trouble and difficulty in every footstep. Gurudev often quoted a beautiful verse from the teachings of Shri Adi Shankara:

  kuranga matanga patanga bhringa
  mina hatah pancabhireva pancha
  ekah pramadi sa katham na hanyate
  ya sevate panchabhih eva pancha
        – Viveka Chudamani of Adi Shankara

“The deer, the elephant, the moth, the bee, and the fish: These five meet their end when they are attached to a sense object. Attachment to just one sense object causes a lot of trouble. What about a person who has five powerful sense organs?”

 

Gurudev taught us to use our eyes to seek the beauty of God in every name and form, to use our ears to remember God's presence in every sound, to be grateful for God's loving presence when our tongue tastes delicious food. Similarly, let our hands be always ready to love and serve, because God is everywhere. If we live in God consciousness during every breath, our lives will be beautiful. Yesterday Gurudev was physically present, teaching beautiful things in a loving way. With the passage of time he changed from form to formless. His teachings are here. Our evolution depends upon how much we practice. Let us love God and try to transform ourselves. Let each sense organ be a door to the divine temple of God's universe, as well as a door to perceiving divinity in the body temple. Let our eyes be the door to see the presence of God without and within.

 

On this special day, I request that each one of you meditates nicely and truly changes your life. Time is passing; let us make the best use of time.

Again, I am praying for you all.

 

With Love
Prajnanananda

Samadhi - Ljóð eftir Paramahansa Yogananda

 

SAMADHI*

Vanished the veils of light and shade,
Lifted every vapor of sorrow,
Sailed away all dawns of fleeting joy,
Gone the dim sensory mirage.
Love, hate, health) disease, life, death,
Perished these false shadows on the screen of duality.
Waves of laughter, scyllas of sarcasm, melancholic whirlpools,
Melting in the vast sea of bliss.
The storm of maya stilled
By magic wand of intuition deep.
The universe, forgotten dream, subconsciously lurks,
Ready to invade my newly wakened memory divine.
I live without the cosmic shadow,
But it is not, bereft of me;
As the sea exists without the waves,
But they breathe not without the sea.
Dreams, wakings, states of deep turiya sleep,
Present, past, future, no more for me,
But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere.
Planets, stars, stardust, earth,
Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms,
Creation's molding furnace,
Glaciers of silent x-rays, burning electron floods,
Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come,
Every blade of grass, myself, mankind,
Each particle of universal dust,
Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust,
I swallowed, transmuted all
Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being!
Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation
Blinding my tearful eyes,
Burst into immortal flames of bliss,
Consumed my tears, my frame, my all.
Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever new peace!
Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss!
Not a mental chloroform
Or unconscious state without wilful return,
Samadhi but extends my conscious realm
Beyond the limits of the mortal frame
To farthest boundary of eternity
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in me.
The sparrow, each grain of sand, fall not without my sight.
All space like an iceberg floats within my mental sea.
Colossal Container, I, of all things made.
By deeper, longer, thirsty, guru-given meditation
Comes this celestial samadhi
Mobile murmurs of atoms are heard,
The dark earth, mountains, vales, lo! molten liquid!
Flowing seas change into vapors of nebulae!
Aum blows upon the vapors, opening wondrously their veils,
Oceans stand revealed, shining electrons,
Till, at last sound of the cosmic drum,
Vanish the grosser lights into eternal rays
Of all-pervading bliss.
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
Ocean of mind, I drink all creation's waves.
Four veils of solid, liquid, vapor, light,
Lift aright.
Myself, in everything, enters the Great Myself.
Gone forever, fitful, flickering shadows of mortal memory.
Spotless is my mental sky, below, ahead, and high above.
Eternity and I, one united ray.
A tiny bubble of laughter, I
Am become the Sea of Mirth Itself.

* Samadhi means oneness of human consciousness with cosmic consciousness. The human consciousness is subjected to relativity and dual experience. In meditation, there are: The meditator, the act of meditation, and God (as the object of meditation) . Samadhi is the final result of deep, continuous, right meditation, in which the above mentioned three factors of meditation become one. Just as the wave melt' in the Sea, so the human soul becomes the Spirit. Through Oneness in samadhi, the dualities of human experience disappear. Everything is perceived to change into Spirit. In this state, the man in samadhi can perceive the spiritual ocean, with its waves of creation; or see the same spiritual ocean, transcendentally calm, existing without the waves of creation.

In the first state of samadhi, the yogi (one who unites his soul with Spirit by right meditation) is so absorbed in Spirit that he is oblivious of the material and created universe. A somewhat similar experience on a lower plane is experienced when one is so absorbed in books or thoughts that he is unaware of what is happening around him. This state is not unconscious, for unconsciousness implies lack of awareness, both inwardly and outwardly. Such unconsciousness is easily brought about by the use of drugs, anesthetics and other outward means. The full spiritual consciousness of samadhi, however, can be attained only through the regular, continuous, right discipline of meditation, and has nothing in common with unconsciousness.

The first state of samadhi, in which the yogi finds everything withdrawn and absorbed into Spirit, is called sabikalpa samadhi. The higher and greater state of samadhi is nirbikalpa, in which the yogi, after realizing the Spirit alone—without creation—perceives it also, simultaneously, both as above creation, and as manifested in all creation. Here his consciousness becomes the cosmic consciousness. The domain of his consciousness now extends from his body to include the whole universe. He becomes the Ocean of Spirit, and watches the bubble of his body floating in it. His consciousness perceives all motion and change of life, from the circling of the stars to the fall of a sparrow and the whirling of the smallest electron.

The yogi who has entered into these two states of samadhi finds that solids melt into liquids, liquids into gaseous states, these into energy, and energy into cosmic consciousness. He lifts the four veils of solids, liquids, gases and energy, and finds the Spirit, face to face. He sees the objective universe and subjective universe meet in Spirit. His expanded material self mixes with the greater spiritual Self and knows their unity. The spiritual Self, being the first cause, and capable of existing without material manifestation, is therefore greater than the material self.

Thus, the negative conception of God is removed. The yogi, instead of finding cessation of life and joy, becomes the fountain-head of eternal bliss and life. The tiny bubble of laughter becomes the sea of mirth itself. By knowing God, one does not lose anything, but gains everything. 

Tekið úr bókinni Whispers from Eternity sem þið getið lesið hér: http://www.ananda.org/inspiration/books/whispers/contents/index.html

Í hljóðum huga ertu að byrja að verða var við sjálfan þig einsog þú ert

Í hljóðum huga ertu að byrja að verða var við sjálfan þig einsog þú ert. Þetta sem jafnaðarlega fer fram huganum, hughræringarnar, má skilgreina sem hulu sem dylur þig fyrir sjálfum þér.

Þarmeð hefst leið sjálfsþekkingarinnar sem felst í að upplifa sjálfan sig uppá nýtt andartak framaf andartaki.

Samt sérðu ekki eitthvað nýtt. Þú ert eitthvað nýtt. Þú er fyrir alvöru farinn að vita með því að vera.

Með orðum verður því eigi lýst sem þú ert. En það sem ríkir í hljóðum huga hlýtur að kallast kyrrð. Einhver óskilgreinanlegur óendanleiki, kyrr og óbifanlegur, gæddur eðli lífs og vitundar, kemur í ljós þegar innihald hugans, hughræringarnar, þokast um set.

Sú kyrrð er vitundin sjálf, ódulin, ótrufluð, þú sjálfur, ekki það sem gerist, heldur það sem er. VItundin hefur vitund um sjálfa sig.

Nánar: Vitund þín í því ástandi sem kallast hljóður hugur  er bakgrunnur alls sem gerist alla tíð bæði nú og áður. Munurinn er einungis sá að áður hafði það sem gerðist þig á valdi sínu. Nú finnurðu þig vera það sem er og verður var við sjálfan þig virða fyrir þér það sem gerist.

 

Sigvaldi Hjálmarsson - Stefnumót við alheiminn. Leiðbeiningar um esóteríska iðkun.

 

Meira um Sigvalda Hjálmarsson: http://www.gudspekifelagid.is/sigvaldi_hjalmarsson.htm 

 

 

 

Sá sem eigi finnur musteri í hjarta sínu ...

 

Sá sem eigi finnur musteri í hjarta sínu, finnur hjarta sitt aldrei í neinu musteri.

 

Mikhail Naimy