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Meditation

 

When life is stressful and distressing, the opportunity for relaxation and real joy is diminished. We are busy, running without purpose, ultimately we become tired, bored, and unhappy. Our hearts, lungs, and other internal organs are overburdened with the pressure of work and anxiety.  How can we enjoy a life of peace, relaxation, and harmony?



Meditation is the answer. Meditation is the art of living through the science of breath control. If you know how to relax your body and mind quickly, at will, you can live a peaceful and harmonious life.

 

 

 

Paramahansa Prajnanananda 

 

 

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Sesshin ķ Skįlholti

 

Sesshin* meš Roshi* ķ Skįlholti 8 .okt. - 12. okt. į vegum Zen į Ķslandi

 

 

*Sesshin: Sesshin - "Aš snerta hug-hjarta" er iškunartķmi sem stendur ķ 2 - 5 daga. Į sesshin er iškaš frį morgni til kvölds. Žeir sem eru nżbyrjašir geta komiš fyrsta daginn til iškunar. Viš męlum žó meš žvķ aš allir klįri sesshin ef žeir geta. Žessir tķmar eru ómetanlegir og mynda sterka kjölfestu fyrir daglega iškun zen nemans.

 

 

*Roshi: Roshi er kennari. Kennari Zen į Ķslandi er Jakusho Kwong Roshi. Sjį betur hér: http://www.zen.is/roshi.htm  og   http://www.smzc.net/pages/kwong-roshi.html


Spiritual?

 

If by eating vegetarian food one will be spiritual, then all the cows, goats, sheep, horses, and other animals will realize God first.

 

 

 

Paramahansa Hariharananda

 

 

 

Swami Mangalananda er vęntanleg til landsins helgina 30. jan - 01. feb 2009 til aš kenna fólki kriya yoga.


Hugleišsla

 

Meditation is the art of finding peace and happiness within by using simple methods of calming and stabilising our minds. Modern life can be stressful and busy.  Most of the time we are carried along by the force of emotions, habits and conditioning and end up feeling tired and stressed by everyday life. Practicing meditation can change this.  Meditation can help bring about a natural sense of peace and well-being that can extend to every aspect of our lives. People who meditate regularly tend to sleep better,  handle the ups and downs of daily life with more clarity and ease and relate to others with more compassion and warmth. 

At the heart of it, meditation is simply the practice of paying attention to what we are doing while we are doing it, whatever this may be. In the Buddhist tradition, this type of attention is called mindfulness. 



Traditionally we have come to think of meditation as sitting on a cushion in the lotus position, but this is simply one form of meditation.  Instead, meditation is the patient process of settling our mind in the present moment so that we are fully engaged with whatever we are doing at that moment; and consequently it can apply to all aspects of our lives.  For example, when we eat meditatively, we are fully present with eating, instead of eating with our mouth and planning the rest of our day with our minds.



To become proficient at meditation, we learn to identify and work with distraction, which is the tendency of the mind to drift off into thoughts and daydreams.  Distraction disconnects us from the present moment.  So, in meditation, every time our attention gets lost, we notice this and return it to the focus of our meditation.  This is done gently, just as a good parent gently returns a wandering child back to where he should be. And it is done patiently, again and again, until our mind naturally comes to rest of its own accord in the present moment.



As we become competent at meditation, it stabilises our mind and innate qualities of wisdom and compassion start to reveal themselves to us.  From here they permeate all aspects of our lives. We begin to understand how things are not as solid and unchanging as we'd first thought, and how our lives are interrelated with those of all other living things. Out of this realisation comes a sense of great joy and freedom.  We find ourselves appreciating our lives more and more and living more intensely in the present moment. As we do so, our vision expands to encompass not only our own happiness but also that of all other beings.

 

 

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Helgarnįmskeiš ķ Geršubergi 26. – 28. sept. meš Ashutosh Muni - Ayurveda - Leiš til betra lķfs

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Figures of the future

 

The great and rare mystics of the past (from Buddha to Christ, from al-Hallaj to Lady Tsogyal, from Hui-neng to Hildegard) were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

 

 

Ken Wilber - Sex, Ecology, Spirituality


Prajnaparamita veršur į landinu 12. - 14. september

 

Prajnaparamita er meistari sem hefur vaknaš til vitundar um sitt sanna sjįlf. Hśn mun koma meš nįš sķna og blessun til Ķslands ķ september ķ röš fimm tveggja tķma langra samręšna (satsang).

 

Hśn fetaši sķna andlegu braut ķ gegnum Advaita, Buddhisma, Ch’an og Zen. Ekki er žó um hefšbundna kennslu aš ręša. Frekar veršur ķ rólegri samveru meš henni til sjįlfssprottinn sannleikur sem blęs fólki ķ brjóst löngun til žess aš vakna til visku sķns eigin hjarta og dvelja ķ friši hins innra sjįlfs.

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Prajnaparamita

Prajnaparamita fęddist ķ Hollandi, hśn lagši stund į żmis fręši ķ hinu hefšbundna menntakerfi en fann sig ekki į žeirri braut. Ķ leit sinni hitti hśn loks hugljómaša sįl sem sķšar varš hennar fyrsti meistari. Hafši hann svo mikil įhrif į hana aš hśn gaf hjarta sitt og lķf ķ andlega vinnu.

Eftir frįfall meistara sķns, hitti hśn sinn nśverandi meistara, ShantiMayi, og varši hśn miklum tķma meš henni bęši į Indlandi sem og ķ Evrópu. Fyrir um įratug var hśn hvött af meistara sķnum til žess aš bjóša fólki satsang sjįlf "komdu meš žau heim" var boš hennar.

Hśn varš žar meš annar af tveim vestręnum meisturum ķ lķnu meistara sem heitir Sacha Sangha og er ęvaforn lķna/ęttkvķsl sem į rętur aš rekja til austur Indlands. Elsti nślifandi meistari ķ žessari lķnu heitir Maharajji og bżr ķ Laxmanjhula į Indlandi.

Prajnaparamita hefur nś ķ įratug gefiš satsang vķšsvegar um veröldina og um hana hefur safnast mörg hundruš manns sem hśn hefur leišbeint meš visku sinni og kęrleika.

 


Brot śr vištali viš Eckhart Tolle

 

AC: Ertu lengi ķ einu hreyfingarlaus žegar žś ert einn?

 

 

 

ET: Jį, ég sit stundum ķ tvęr klukkustundir įn žess aš nokkur hugsun bęri į sér. žaš rķkir ašeins órofa kyrrš. Stundum rķkir einnig kyrrš žegar ég fer ķ gönguferšir, skynjanirnar framkalla žį enga huglęga merkimiša. žaš rķkir ašeins fegurš sem er um leiš opin vitund, undrun og lotning.

 

 

 

AC: Ķ bók žinni, The Power of Now segir žś: „Lokamarkmišiš meš heiminum finnst ekki ķ heiminum, heldur handan hans.“ Geturšu śtskżrt hvaš žś įtt viš meš žessu?

 

 

 

ET: Aš komast handan viš heiminn tįknar ekki aš draga sig śt śr heiminum, ašhafast ekkert eša leggja nišur samskipti viš fólk. Handanleiki er aš starfa og eiga ķ samskiptum įn žess aš leita neins fyrir sjįlfan sig. Meš öšrum oršum: žaš er aš starfa įn žess aš reyna aš efla sjįlfskennd sķna meš athöfnum sķnum eša sambandi viš ašra. Aš lokum merkir žaš aš mašur žarfnast ekki framtķšarinnar lengur til žess aš öšlast fullnęgju fyrir sjįlfskennd sķna eša veru. Menn leita ekki neins meš athöfnum sķnum, hvorki meiri, fyllri né stęrri sjįlfskenndar ķ heiminum. žegar žessi leit er horfin getur mašur veriš ķ heiminum įn žess aš vera heimsins. Mašur leitar ekki lengur neins žarna śti til žess aš samkenna sig viš.

 

 

 

AC: Įttu viš aš mašur hafi lagt nišur tengsl viš heiminn sem einkannast af eigingirni og efnishyggju?

 

 

 

ET: Jį, žaš žżšir aš mašur reynir ekki lengur aš efla sjįlfskenndina, aš öšlast dżpri eša stęrri sjįlfskennd. Ķ venjulegu vitundarįstandi leitar fólk žess meš athöfnum sķnum aš vera meira žaš sjįlft. Į vissan hįtt į žaš sama viš um bankaręningjann (svo dęmi sé tekiš). Mašur sem keppir eftir hugljómun er aš leita hins sama vegna žess aš hann er aš reyna aš öšlast įstand fullkomnunar sem er įstand fyllingar, žar sem ekkert skortir į, einhvern tķmann ķ framtķšinni. Menn leita eftir einhverjum įvinningi meš athöfnum sķnum. žeir leita hamingju en žegar allt kemur til alls eru žeir aš leita aš sjįlfum sér - eša leita gušs, en žannig mį einnig orša žaš. Žeir leita aš sjįlfum sér į staš žar sem žetta er alls ekki aš finna, nefnilega ķ hinni venjulegu, óupplżstu vitund, vegna žess aš hin óupplżsta vitund er alltaf ķ leitarham. Žetta žżšir: žeir tilheyra heiminum - eru ķ heiminum og eru um leiš eign heimsins.

 

 

 

AC: Įttu viš aš žeir horfi fram į viš ķ tķma?

 

 

 

ET: Jį, heimurinn og tķminn eru ķ ešli sķnu tengd. žegar mašur lętur af allri leit ķ tķmanum sjįlfum sér til handa getur mašur veriš ķ heiminum įn žess aš vera eign heimsins.

 

 

 

AC: Hvaš įttu nįkvęmlega viš žegar žś segir aš tilgangurinn meš heiminum liggi handan hans?

 

 

 

ET: Heimurinn lofar okkur uppfyllingu óska einhvern tķmann ķ framtķšinni og sķšan leita menn stöšugt aš efndum žess loforšs ķ tķmanum. žaš kemur fyrir aš fólki finnst: „Jį, nś hef ég loks fundiš žaš sem ég leitaši,“ en fljótlega gerir žaš sér ljóst aš žaš hefur ekki nįš žvķ og viš leitnin heldur žį įfram. žetta er vel oršaš ķ bókinni A Course in Miracles en žar segir aš viškvęši egósins sé: „Leitiš en finniš ekki.“ Fólk horfir meš eftirvęntingu til framtķšar ķ leit aš hjįlpręši - en framtķšin kemur aldrei.

 

žegar allt kemur til alls stafar žjįningin af žvķ aš viš finnum ekki žaš sem viš leitum. Og žaš er upphaf vöknunar - žegar viš uppgötvum aš žetta sé  e.t.v. blindgata. žaš sé eins vķst aš ég komist aldrei žangaš sem ég stefni og žaš sem ég leita bķši mķn alls ekki ķ framtķšinni. Fyrst villumst viš ķ heiminum en fyrir žrżsting frį žjįningunni vaknar skilningur į žvķ aš svaranna sé ekki aš leita ķ veraldlegri velgengni ķ framtķšinni.

 

Žetta er mikilvęgur įfangi fyrir marga, žessi djśpa sįlarkreppa žegar heimurinn eins og žeir hafa skiliš hann og sjįlfskenndin sem fleir hafa ališ meš sér missa gildi sitt. žetta kom fyrir mig. Ég var ķ sjįlfsmoršshugleišingum, en žį geršist eitthvaš allt annaš - dauši sjįlfskenndar sem hafši lifaš į samkenningu viš sögu mķna og hlutina umhverfis mig, heim minn. Eitthvaš vaknaši į žvķ augnabliki, djśp og orkužrungin og lifandi kyrrš, veran. Sķšar nefndi ég žaš „nįvist“. Ég skildi - sem žó var ekki vitsmunaleg nišurstaša - aš žetta er žaš sem ég er, handan oršanna, žessi brįšlifandi, djśpa kyrrš.

 

Nokkrum įrum sķšar nefndi ég žetta „hreina vitund“ og allt annaš „mótaša vitund“ (conditioned consciousness). Mannshugurinn er mótuš vitund ķ formi hugsana. Mótaša vitundin er allur heimur okkar og bśinn til śr mótušum hugsunum. Allt sem viš upplifum er mótuš vitund, jafnvel hlutirnir. Mótuš vitund fęšir af sér formin sem sķšan mynda heiminn. Svo er aš sjį aš mönnum sé žaš naušsyn aš villast ķ hinum mótaša heimi, žaš virtist vera hluti af žroskaleiš žeirra, aš villast ķ hugsuninni sem er mótuš vitund.

 

Vegna žjįningarinnar sem fylgir villunni kemst mašur aš žvķ aš hiš ómótaša er mašur sjįlfur. žess vegna žörfnumst viš heimsins til žess aš komast handan viš heiminn. žess vegna er ég óendanlega žakklįtur fyrir aš hafa villst.

 

 

Tilgangurinn meš heiminum er aš menn villist ķ honum og žjįist, aš skapa žjįningu sem viršist naušsynleg til žess aš menn vakni. žegar menn loks vakna skilja žeir um leiš aš į žvķ augnabliki er žjįningin ónaušsynleg. žeir hafa bundiš enda į žjįninguna af žvķ aš žeir eru handan heimsins. žar er engin žjįning.

 

 

Žetta viršist vera leišin sem liggur fyrir öllum aš fara. Kannski ekki fyrir alla ķ žessu lķfi, en žetta viršist vera allra leiš. Ég trśi žvķ aš jafnvel įn andlegrar leišsagnar muni allir aš lokum fara žessa leiš. En žaš getur oršiš biš į žvķ.

 

 

 

AC: Löng biš.

 

 

 

ET: Mjög löng. Markmiš andlegrar fręšslu er aš spara tķma. Grunnbošskapur hennar er aš mašur žurfi ekki lengri tķma og žarfnist ekki meiri žjįningar. Ég segi viš fólk sem kemur til mķn: „žś ert tilbśinn aš heyra žetta vegna žess aš žś hlustar į žaš. Enn eru milljónir manna sem vilja ekki hlusta į žetta. žeir žurfa lengri tķma. En ég er ekki aš tala viš žį. žaš sem žś heyrir nś er aš žś žarft ekki meiri tķma og žś žarfnast ekki meiri žjįningar. žś hefur leitaš ķ tķmanum og leitaš frekari žjįningar.“ Og aš heyra žetta, „žś žarfnast žess ekki framar“ - bara žaš er fyrir suma augnablik ummyndunar.

 

 

Hiš fagra og góša viš andlega fręšslu er aš hśn bjargar mönnum frį ęviskeišum ...

 

 

 

Sjį vištališ ķ heild sinni hér: http://www.gudspekifelagid.is/Eckhard_Tolle_vidtal_1.htm

 


Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life

 

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life-perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy-if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation.

 

 

Krishnamurti


Sķšasti fyrirlesturinn sem Shunryu Suzuki-roshi hélt žann 21. įgśst 1971 - 2. hluti

 

"Way things exist." Here is, maybe, the problem of "to be" and "should be." "To be" and "should be." Recently people do not like the words "should be." [laughs] You like "to be," maybe. "Should be" looks [like] some rules, and "to be" is freedom: Whatever you do, that is good—that is "to be."

 

But it will be the opposite. "Should be" is "to be" [laughs], and "to be" is "should be." When you behave according to the circumstances, appropriately, then that is "should be" and that is "to be." "To be" and "should be" is same. But when your selfish idea arises and rejects "should be," reject the way you exist, then that is not way "to be." You are involved in delusion—delusion of self.

 

And in its strict sense, you cannot survive in that way. You think you can, but actually you cannot. Or you want to survive in that way, but actually it is not possible. If you want to go to Los Angeles, you should take Freeway 101 [laughs]. You cannot go that way, even though you want to go opposite way. "Many people are going that way, take 101, so I will go to the opposite way." Eventually you will reach to Los Angeles [laughs, laughter]. But that is a kind of—the way you choose.

 

So to think about a kind of freedom is good, but actually that is not possible. So knowing that that is not possible, to think about it is another matter. But if you sit seriously—try to do whatever you want to do, that is delusion. It means that you are completely involved in delusion. It is not actual. It is not possible to survive in that way. So "should be" and "to be" is not different.

 

So real freedom is in "should be" and in its true sense "to be." That "should be" is the way for beginners, and that "to be" which is one with "should be" is the advanced student. So first stage should [laughs]—should be "should be." [Laughs, laughter.] And "should be," should be "should be" [laughs]—an endless, continuous practice of "should be" [laughs]. You have no chance to get out of "should be" [laughs]. That is okay. Pretty soon "should be" will be "to be." "Should be" or "to be"—you don't care. "Should be" is okay. "To be" is okay, for you. That is the goal of practice.

 

So Dōgen-zenji says, "Buddhism originally is beyond all positivity and negativity." Buddhism originally is beyond the all "to be" and "should be." Real way is not only "to be," but also "should be." Or not only "should be," but also "to be." That is real way. That is the stage you will acquire after following teaching.

 

Ahh. This is rather discouraging [laughs]. Maybe if I say so from the beginning, you may say, "Oh, I wish I didn't start practice Buddhism. [Laughs.] It is too difficult." You may say so, but Buddhism is not any special teaching. Actually, Buddhism is our human way.

 

Here we have many things to think about. First of all, we should know how—we should know that this world is for human being—for human being, not for birds or cat but for human being—this world is world of suffering [laughs]. Originally—not originally, but—for human being, as long as we are human nature, which is very selfish, which care for something which you cannot acquire or you cannot expect. That is human nature. We care for something which we cannot reach. Or because you cannot reach you want it. Because we do not stay young forever, we want to be young always [laughs]. Something which we cannot expect is something we like. That is our human nature. So human life is, at the same time, a life of suffering. That is very true.

 

We should know many things about our human being. When you know about human nature deep enough, then you will start to practice Buddhism. It is like operation. When the pain is strong enough to accept operation, you will go to the doctor [laughs]. But it is almost impossible to have operation when you have no pain. Because you have a great pain, because you know human nature well enough, you start Buddhism like you go to the doctor to have operation. This is nature of Buddhism. That is why you practice zazen.

 

At first when you sit, many things will come up, many ideas—many wrong ideas and many things you did before. We don't do so much good things in comparison to bad things [laughs]. Most of the things we do is bad [laughs] or things you feel regretful. Something when you do, you feel very good, but after you did it, how do you feel? [Laughs.] "Oh. I thought it was very good, but it was not so good." [Laughs.] That is something—feeling you have. And that kind of feeling comes up constantly when your mind is very calm, like a bubble comes up from the bottom of the water. When the water is rough—not smooth enough, then no bubbles comes out. Even though it comes out, you don't notice it. As soon as your mind becomes calm, you may realize how much bubbles you have in your bottom of your heart. The real practice starts from that kind of practice.

 

You may say Zen practice should be calm—to have calmness of your mind is real practice. "I have been practicing zazen for so many years—two years, three years, or more than that. Still I don't have calmness [laughs] of mind at all. What shall I do?" That will be your question.

 

In zazen practice, we say if something arises in your mind, let it arise, let it come. Then it—they will not stay so long, so let it go away. In zazen that works pretty well. If you let it come, and if you do not entertain them, they will go away. But in actual life it is not so easy. You may suffer. Then what will you do? When you suffer, what you will do? The suffering is very strong. What will you do? Here is something you should think about.

 

The one point is, your practice is in the first stage, and you have next stage and the third stage. In the next stage, you will, like when you have good zazen practice, nothing arises in your mind. Your mind will be, even for a while, in complete calmness, where there is no image or no feeling. Your mind is complete calmness. That is the next stage you will have in your zazen practice. And the third stage will be the stage you come back to the stage—something like the first stage where there is many problems, where there is many weeds, and where there is many flowers. But the way you see the flowers, the way you see the weed, is different, but nearly the same stage. Looks like same stage, but big difference.

 

So you don't have to solve that problem. The point is you should continue that practice of difficulty. That is the point. So you should know that is only the first stage of your practice. So you cannot solve the problem only at the first stage. If you struggle at the first stage, you will lose your practice. That is why we say, "Great patience is the best of virtues. [Laughs.] To continue it is most important practice


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