Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now

 

 

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

 

 

Swami Sri Yukteswar

What is the actual meaning of meditation?

   While asleep, whether you are aware of it or not, you are meditating. Deep sleep and meditation are very similar to each other. Meditation is deep sleep with consciousness, and deep sleep is meditation without consciousness. Meditation is to sleep consciously and the way to tap the source of energy within.

When you go to bed, you will first feel sleepy then there will be a dream and from the dream stage you will enter into sleep and from sleep into deep sleep. In deep sleep there is no consciousness of the world, no consciousness of the environment, no consciousness of the body; you have forgotten everything. Similarly, you are to attain that deep sleep state during your meditation. When thoughts still arrive, your meditation is similar to your dream state and not sleep or deep sleep and therefore it is not real meditation. You should try to attain that deep sleep state, where there is no sense of the world, nothing.

The actual techniques you are practicing are not meditation, they are just techniques to prepare you for meditation. When you sit practicing, it does not mean you have been meditating. You are simply practicing to attain that state.     

 

Paramahansa Prajnanananda – Yoga: Pathway to the Divine

Dagskrá Guðspekifélagsins um helgina

 

Föstudaginn 25. janúar kl. 20.30 Margrét Arnljótsdóttir:

Áhrif hugleiðslu á heilsu, hugsun og heila.

 

Laugardaginn 26. janúar kl.15.30 Guðlaug Ragnarsdóttir:

Umfjöllun um svæðameðferð.

 

 

 

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Change comes from within...

 

The hotdog salesman hands the Zen master a fat hotdog with relish, onions, mustard, the works, and says, "That'll be five dollars." The Zen master hands him a ten, and the hotdog salesman takes his money, and turns to the person behind him and says, "Next?"

The Zen master waits patiently until the hotdog salesman is done serving, then asks him, "What about my change?"

The hotdog salesman replies, "Change comes from within..."

Dagsönn mín

 

Að morgni

heilsa ég þér, Kristur,

á leið minni

til Gautama Búddha,

ég staldra við

hjá Krishna

og heilsa upp á

zenpiltana,

er á daginn líður

drekk ég japanskt te

með honum sköllótta Shinran gamla.

 

Lúinn leita ég þín að kveldi,

Kristur.

Rögnvaldur Finnbogason - Hvað er þá maðurinn? Úr heimi trúarbragðanna.

Listen to your inner voice

 

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listen to your inner voice.

 

 

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

 

Tekið úr bókinni: David Chadwick - Crooked Cucumber. The Life and Zen teaching of Shunryu Suzuki.

 

 

Without practice, there is no success

 

 

Without practice, there is no success. Only by studying the scriptures you will not be a perfect one.

 

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Spirituality is beyond intellectual development

 

I generally say, "If you are a Christian, read the Bible; if you are a Hindu, you may read the Bhagavad Gita; if you are a Muslim you should read Koran," and through the meditation and teaching of Kriya Yoga you will understand your own scripture better. You will realize that what your "son of God" or "prophet" or any "master" is teaching is common to all, there is no difference. We all are children of God and we should perceive Godճ love. There is no difference in anything. So, it is best to avoid insisting, "read only this!" Read any scripture that you love. But, try not to read too much. Read a little, and, through meditation, apply what you read in your daily life. Application is more essential than reading, because spirituality is beyond intellectual development. You must have both theory and practice in the application of scripture in your daily life. That will help you to lead a life of love, purity, and truth.

   Brot úr viðtali við Swami Prajnanananda Giri  

 

We gain enlightment like the moon reflecting in the water

 

 

We gain enlightment like the moon reflecting in the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the whole sky are reflected in a drop of dew in the grass.  

Enlightment does not destroy the one self, just as the moon does not break the water. One does not hinder enlightment, just as a drop of dew does not hinder the moon in the sky. The depth of the drop is the height of the moon. The period of the reflection, long or short, will prove the vastness of the dewdrop, and the vastness of the moonlit sky.

   Eihei Dogen – Genjo Koan

 

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Föstudaginn 18. janúar kl. 20.30 Anna Valdimarsdóttir:
"Hugleiðingar um hugrækt".

 

Laugardaginn 19. janúar kl.15.30 Halldór Haraldsson: Hugleiðingar um Sibelius og verk hans.

 

 

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