Yoga sutras

 

I. YOGA AND ITS AIMS

 

 

1. This is the beginning of instruction in yoga.

 

2. Yoga is the control of thought-waves in the mind.

 

3. Then man abides in his real nature.

 

 

 

How to know God. The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

If you can keep your beginner's mind forever, you are Buddha

 

So, the most difficult thing is to keep our beginner's mind in our practice.  So, if you can keep your beginner's mind forever, you are Buddha.  In this point, our practice should be constant.  We should practice our way with beginner's mind always.  There is no need to have deep understanding about Zen.  Even though you read Zen literature you have to keep this beginner's mind.  You have to read it with fresh mind.  We shouldn't say, "I know what is Zen," or "I have attained enlightenment."  We should be always big enough.  This is very important.  And we should be very, very careful about this point.

 

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

 

Sjá:http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/lectures/srl%20la%20beginners%20mind.html

Merry Christmas from Prajnanananda

 

Merry Christmas (2004)

 

 My loving divine children of God,On this special day I am thinking of you and praying for you all. Jesus Christ was born to Mother Mary. She was a virgin which symbolizes absolute purity. Inner purification can give birth to the child of consciousness, which is Christ consciousness. We practice various types of spiritual disciplines only for inner purification. Let us not forget that every moment we need this inner purity.

When we live in the present moment we live in consciousness. When we live in the past and in the future we live with the mind. Inner purity can make your journey go from the mind towards consciousness. Life is a continuous journey from mind to consciousness. In this journey you will find the treasure of love. The real purpose of life is to live with love consciously. Let us contemplate Lord Jesus’ saying that we are to “love thy neighbor.” What does this really means? The neighbor is not just a person living next door. Anything next to you is your neighbor. The real meaning is to love all. Loving all means loving God.

Let us not forget that our life is not our life — it is the life of God. We do not know when we have to leave this world. In this short span of life let us live with love and to receive the love of God.

On this holy day of Christmas I am praying for you all. If you have a little love for me then please meditate a little more.

With all my love and oneness… a child of God


  Paramahansa Prajnanananda  

 

Gleðileg jól

 

 

Ég óska ykkur öllum gleðilegra jóla og farsældar á komandi ári. Ég sendi þeim sem hafa nennt að kíkja af og til á síðuna mína góðar kveðjur og þakka ykkur fyrir allt.

 

 Megiði hafa það sem best yfir hátíðirnar. Gangi ykkur öllum vel og megi þið finna friðinn sem er ávallt með ykkur.

 

OM

 

 

Christmas Message from Yogananda, 1933. “A Christmas Letter to Students, All Individuals, and All Nations”

 

 

 

 

Dear Friends:Let us decorate the growing Christmas Tree of Civilization with the flaming flags of all brother nations. Let us drown our differences and behold the branches of our National Life spreading out from the tree of one International Life. Let us demand that America, India, Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Mexico, Egypt, and all nations, learn to decorate their flags on the Christmas Tree of Brotherhood and celebrate the coming of the United Nations of the World through their awakening in Christ.

 Let all brother nations contribute their best to make a League of Hearts and a League of Wisdom in preparation for their coming Union. Let all nations consider themselves as Children of God, with different names only.

 May the love of nations be the twinkling lights with which to decorate the Christmas Tree of World Union. Let us obliterate the oddities of dogmatism and behold all religions as the branches of the One Tree of Truth.

Let all sects celebrate around this One Christmas Tree of Universal Religion in the coming United States of the World. Let us behold the soft twigs of our temporary joy-loving senses, not projected away from, but joined together to the everlasting Christmas Tree of Divine Joy. May we all learn to climb up the Spinal Tree of Life and pass by the starry knots into the Infinite Kingdom of Christ.

In this coming Christmas, we shall celebrate the coming of One Kingdom, One Religion, One Brotherhood, One Human Nationality, One Wisdom, One Ever-New Happiness, One Language, One Race, One Universal Law, One Freedom, contact of One God, and One Understanding for all human brothers.  

May this Christmas and New Year time fill you with the adamantine determination to improve yourself and others, as Christ would wish you to do, to usher in Paradise on Earth.

 Very sincerely yours,
Swami Yogananda 

Myndbandsbrot með Suzuki-roshi

 

 

Hér getið þið séð stutt myndbandsbrot með zen-meistaranum Shunryu Suzuki-roshi:

http://www.sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?catid=1,10,165&pageid=551 

 

 

Gassho

I see men quarrelling in the name of religion

 

 

Wherever I look, I see men quarrelling in the name of religion ---
Hindus, Mohammedans, Brâhmos, Vaishnavas, and the rest. But they
never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Úiva, and
bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Âllâh as well --- the
same Râma with a thousand names.   A lake has several ghâts. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it 'jal'; at another the Mussalmâns take water in leather bags and call it 'pâni'. At a third the Christians call it 'water'. Can we imagine that it is not 'jal', but only 'pâni' or 'water'? How ridiculous!


The substance is One under different names, and everyone is seeking the same substance; only climate, temperament, and name create differences. Let each man follow his own path. If he sincerely and ardently wishes to know God, peace be unto him! He will surely realize Him.



 Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)   

Sjá: www.vedanta.com

 

Kriya Yoga námskeið helgina 4. - 6. janúar 2008

Kriya Yoga námskeið helgina 4. - 6. janúar 2008

Swami Mangalananda kemur nú fyrstu helgina í janúar til að innvígja og leiðbeina fólki í Kriya Yoga.
Það er um að gera að byrja árið vel og koma að hugleiða í góðum félagsskap, fyrsta hugleiðslan verður á venjulegum tíma kl. 18:00 í F sal í Gerðubergi fimmtudaginn 3. jan. (fyrir þá sem eru innvígðir).

Kynningarfyrirlestur verður haldinn í Sal Rósarinnar, Bolholti 4 kl. 20:00  föstudaginn 4. jan. (ókeypis fyrir alla).
Innvígsla verður í Yogastöðinni Heilsubót, Síðumúla 15 á laugardeginum kl. 10:00 og svo hugleiðslur kl. 12:30 og 17:00.
Hugleiðslur á sunnudeginum verða kl 10:00, 12:30 (II Kriya) og 17:00.

  Upplýsingar veita:

Guðmundur S: 6918565

Valgeir S: 8697151

  www.kriyayoga.is

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Religion is the peace of mind felt when you are truly yourself

 

 

Most think that a religion is belonging to a group that shares a system of beliefs. In reality each individual has their own religion.

Religion is the peace of mind felt when you are truly yourself. It structures your daily life, but it can't be explained or shown to anyone. I think religion is this stability hidden deep in one's self.

 

Kodo Sawaki Roshi