Spread happiness, gain happiness!
As simple as that.
Why this Blog!
Wherever i see, i find pain, dissatisfaction,people chasing goals that become meaningless once attained, pain accrued from relationships, fears, insecurities, mental and physical diseases and traumas, losses, newer and newer indulgences that become weary soon and meanwhile the gold of life slipping through our fingers.
We all loosing the precious treasures in the one life we got while chasing the above ghosts through the labyrinth. By sharing what i have been blessed by endless grace of the one, i mean to help my friends in a bit lightening up the burdens off their shoulder,in rising up and seeing the endless skies we belong to, where our beloved father is. It also is my karma. It also is my worship.
Dear friend, if all the words put together, end to end, in this blog manage to make life easier, fun, celebration for a single person, you, as it has for me then the whole effort would be a huge success.
May the divine grace bless us all!
We all loosing the precious treasures in the one life we got while chasing the above ghosts through the labyrinth. By sharing what i have been blessed by endless grace of the one, i mean to help my friends in a bit lightening up the burdens off their shoulder,in rising up and seeing the endless skies we belong to, where our beloved father is. It also is my karma. It also is my worship.
Dear friend, if all the words put together, end to end, in this blog manage to make life easier, fun, celebration for a single person, you, as it has for me then the whole effort would be a huge success.
May the divine grace bless us all!
Errata: Limitations of blogging on cellphone
Friends! Do pardon my spelling mistakes and punctuation errors etc. All my posts are mostly written and posted on my trusted Sony Ericsson P1i while usually travelling, and lacking the luxury of my Thinkpad. Thanks for getting around the errors and picking the fruits I mean to share.
Purity of Mind
"Kabira man nirmal bhaya, jaise ganga neer
Pachhe pachhe hari firen, kahat Kabir Kabir"- Kabir (Medieval great saint and poet of India)
Meaning- Since the Mind of Kabir became clean and pure like the water of Holy ganges, the holy spirit, the enlightement is no far to Kabir, in fact it is following and harking Kabir.
Cleanliness of Mind is the shortest way. It is the Tao.
After studying and swimming in the streams of all faiths of practices of all over the world, i have managed to extract the spirit of all in ONE SINGLE WORD. Yes a single word, and that is 'Suvichaar'(Pureness of thoughts).
Some faiths promise Heaven, others salvation, others still a royal re-incarnation, others returns in the same life and all for only the good deeds.
So good deeds are the key!
But as roses can not blossom on a wild desert bush, a mind captivated by desires, ego, hate, envy etc not give berth to a good and pure deed. In fact karma is different for same deed done with different spirits. For instance, giving alms to a beggar with feelings of mindlessness, desire of good karma, ego or compassion will all inherit different good and bad karma. In fact it is the thought , the feeling that matters. Also the mind does not differentiate between a fantasy, a dream and a reality. That is dreaming of a painful event, imagining it, visualizing it is almost as painful for the mind. The same psychosomatic reactions take place. Same chain of Amino acids and proteins take place resulting in same feelings of pain and despair and subjecting the body to same tortures taking place in the mind.
Also every piece of matter, brought into being was first born in the mind. A pin, an aeroplane, a tank, a spacecraft, The monalisa all first took form inside the mind before shaping up on the ground. Same way, all good deeds are also formed many a times first in mind and similarly the bad ones also. A harm to others is done hundred times in the mind and karma is also hundred times. Similar for the good deeds.
Therefore clean up the mind. Halt the thoughts smelling of hate, ego, envy. Let humility, compassion, faith grow and just see the difference inside.
Aren't the meek blessed.
Soon the peace will start prevailing and the guiding light start glowing from the distance, once 'Suvichaar' is adopted.
'Suvichaar' is the key! 'Suvichaar' is the Tao! 'Suvichaar' is the Tao of the Tao!
Pachhe pachhe hari firen, kahat Kabir Kabir"- Kabir (Medieval great saint and poet of India)
Meaning- Since the Mind of Kabir became clean and pure like the water of Holy ganges, the holy spirit, the enlightement is no far to Kabir, in fact it is following and harking Kabir.
Cleanliness of Mind is the shortest way. It is the Tao.
After studying and swimming in the streams of all faiths of practices of all over the world, i have managed to extract the spirit of all in ONE SINGLE WORD. Yes a single word, and that is 'Suvichaar'(Pureness of thoughts).
Some faiths promise Heaven, others salvation, others still a royal re-incarnation, others returns in the same life and all for only the good deeds.
So good deeds are the key!
But as roses can not blossom on a wild desert bush, a mind captivated by desires, ego, hate, envy etc not give berth to a good and pure deed. In fact karma is different for same deed done with different spirits. For instance, giving alms to a beggar with feelings of mindlessness, desire of good karma, ego or compassion will all inherit different good and bad karma. In fact it is the thought , the feeling that matters. Also the mind does not differentiate between a fantasy, a dream and a reality. That is dreaming of a painful event, imagining it, visualizing it is almost as painful for the mind. The same psychosomatic reactions take place. Same chain of Amino acids and proteins take place resulting in same feelings of pain and despair and subjecting the body to same tortures taking place in the mind.
Also every piece of matter, brought into being was first born in the mind. A pin, an aeroplane, a tank, a spacecraft, The monalisa all first took form inside the mind before shaping up on the ground. Same way, all good deeds are also formed many a times first in mind and similarly the bad ones also. A harm to others is done hundred times in the mind and karma is also hundred times. Similar for the good deeds.
Therefore clean up the mind. Halt the thoughts smelling of hate, ego, envy. Let humility, compassion, faith grow and just see the difference inside.
Aren't the meek blessed.
Soon the peace will start prevailing and the guiding light start glowing from the distance, once 'Suvichaar' is adopted.
'Suvichaar' is the key! 'Suvichaar' is the Tao! 'Suvichaar' is the Tao of the Tao!
'Stillness of the mind'
The still mind of the sage is a mirror of heaven and earth, the glass of all things.
- Chuang Tse
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders- Zen
Stillness................Being still.........Silence....
Visualization is the most powerful capacity of human mind. We can visualize, imagine, dream, memories. It is the biggest bother also. Leave your mind for a while and mind would start recalling all the ghosts from the past, erecting them from their graves. Reliving the past pains, grievances, going to the "What if..." and "If only..." lane. Result, the mind and the body( who, by the way are not two but one ) goes through the whole suffering again.
In the other direction, fears, insecurities of the future take the sleep away from our eyes. If only, if only we achieve stillness, of the rock in the water, of the hills against the skies. If only we achieve the stillness, the universe opens, all ghost fade away, the reality dawns, the true colours strike the eye, the world looks new and fresh, the daily problems also start un-knotting, and finally with the rock line stillness, the secrets of the universe will unfold. My own tenet is " The past never happened,
and The Future will never come,
what we have is Today, this moment, live it"
Even the psychic powers pass you on the way, though getting enticed by them and forgetting the whole jouney there would be foolish like a thief breaking into a jewelery shop and coming out with the doormat. Desire, greed, craving can only beget pain, suffering and loss. Joy is in giving, letting go, these from the mind, going with life, doing your karma, like a worship, like a duty. It isn't that difficult, not that crazy and no no one would even notice. At most, they would consider you not the sharpest tool in the shed, but can they know the bag of gold you are sitting on.
Things happen at their time ordained and jumping high and burning your life, would not happen in a day. Do it with patience, do it with faith, do it with the masterful ease of the painter laying a very fine stroke with a brush held very light. The thin, light and timely stroke of a still mind would work better than the coarse hand of the carver.
Stillness is supreme! Stillness is the Tao! Stillness is the Tao of the Tao!
- Chuang Tse
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders- Zen
Stillness................Being still.........Silence....
Visualization is the most powerful capacity of human mind. We can visualize, imagine, dream, memories. It is the biggest bother also. Leave your mind for a while and mind would start recalling all the ghosts from the past, erecting them from their graves. Reliving the past pains, grievances, going to the "What if..." and "If only..." lane. Result, the mind and the body( who, by the way are not two but one ) goes through the whole suffering again.
In the other direction, fears, insecurities of the future take the sleep away from our eyes. If only, if only we achieve stillness, of the rock in the water, of the hills against the skies. If only we achieve the stillness, the universe opens, all ghost fade away, the reality dawns, the true colours strike the eye, the world looks new and fresh, the daily problems also start un-knotting, and finally with the rock line stillness, the secrets of the universe will unfold. My own tenet is " The past never happened,
and The Future will never come,
what we have is Today, this moment, live it"
Even the psychic powers pass you on the way, though getting enticed by them and forgetting the whole jouney there would be foolish like a thief breaking into a jewelery shop and coming out with the doormat. Desire, greed, craving can only beget pain, suffering and loss. Joy is in giving, letting go, these from the mind, going with life, doing your karma, like a worship, like a duty. It isn't that difficult, not that crazy and no no one would even notice. At most, they would consider you not the sharpest tool in the shed, but can they know the bag of gold you are sitting on.
Things happen at their time ordained and jumping high and burning your life, would not happen in a day. Do it with patience, do it with faith, do it with the masterful ease of the painter laying a very fine stroke with a brush held very light. The thin, light and timely stroke of a still mind would work better than the coarse hand of the carver.
Stillness is supreme! Stillness is the Tao! Stillness is the Tao of the Tao!
What is Tao!
As already said, Tao is hard to explain, it is to be felt rather. Also, you dont have to adopt any exercises or practices. In other words, you dont have to go to Tao, Tao downs to you. Today I will try to get as close to the meaning as I can.
In so many words Tao is explained, and all mean spontaneity.
What the hell is spontaneity!
What does the wind do- Blow
What does the water do - flow
What do the birds do - sing
What does the child do - have fun
This is spontaneity.
spontaneity is unchaining your mind. Unchain it, urhaness it, let it flow, let it sing and dance, let it be.
Lets move about life with the freedom of, freshness of spontaneity. lets have fun. lets enjoy.
As already said, Tao is hard to explain, it is to be felt rather. Also, you dont have to adopt any exercises or practices. In other words, you dont have to go to Tao, Tao downs to you. Today I will try to get as close to the meaning as I can.
In so many words Tao is explained, and all mean spontaneity.
What the hell is spontaneity!
What does the wind do- Blow
What does the water do - flow
What do the birds do - sing
What does the child do - have fun
This is spontaneity.
spontaneity is unchaining your mind. Unchain it, urhaness it, let it flow, let it sing and dance, let it be.
Lets move about life with the freedom of, freshness of spontaneity. lets have fun. lets enjoy.
The Tao Of The Gita:
Gita or Srimadbhagwat Gita, revealed by Lord Krishna, incarnation of God Vishnu, to his favorite disciple and friend Arjun, is one of the best spiritual scriptures, culmination of vedantic philosophy running through Upnishadas is also the guiding light in the darkness of ignorance and confusion , leading to the aim of life, Freedom and salvation.
According to Gita, ways of devotion, philosophical meditation and Karmayoga are the ways to our destination. Of the three, Karmayoga is the most lauded by god himself. Once adopted, it might also prove to be shortest. Also, after a certain level of awareness attained, the three paths start merging into one another. The diffences start fading. Like the saying of Tao-Te-Ching, '' The initiate see the mounatins and the river, the practicing does not see the mountain and the river, the aware see the mountain and the river.''
Tenets of Karmyoga are as follows.
one can not abstain from doing karma. By one's existence itself, one is doing Karma.
The karma, as well as the result of the karma as predestined by the one.
as one can not abstain, and as all karma are predestined, one should perform his duty with no attachment to the results but only with the spirit of performing a duty, performing an act of devotion, worship.
your actions become your worship.
Becoming a karmyogi helps in the following ways.
actions are done by spirit of duty, and not forced by attachment, aversion, ego, greed, hate, envy, blind ambition etc.
karma is caused by actions, as well as the spirit behind that action.
Karmayogi is not bound to his karma, as his act are devoted to the one.
So basically life is a worship for a karmayogi, but dont worry, its not that boring and tenuous. Rather, the faith in god and predestiny liberates mind from guilt, remorse etc. Otherwise, our mind is like a cage of monkeys, with all past events and feelings associated thereof, playing havoc all around. Nothing like a free mind, believe me, try it. In fact one of my basic tenets for myself are, '' Today wherever i am and whatever i am is because I had to be so and here on this day.'' Well, more about it later on.
This way karmayoga is spontaneity of actions, of karma as per the occasion, and
Tao is spontaneity, spontaneity is Tao.
Gita or Srimadbhagwat Gita, revealed by Lord Krishna, incarnation of God Vishnu, to his favorite disciple and friend Arjun, is one of the best spiritual scriptures, culmination of vedantic philosophy running through Upnishadas is also the guiding light in the darkness of ignorance and confusion , leading to the aim of life, Freedom and salvation.
According to Gita, ways of devotion, philosophical meditation and Karmayoga are the ways to our destination. Of the three, Karmayoga is the most lauded by god himself. Once adopted, it might also prove to be shortest. Also, after a certain level of awareness attained, the three paths start merging into one another. The diffences start fading. Like the saying of Tao-Te-Ching, '' The initiate see the mounatins and the river, the practicing does not see the mountain and the river, the aware see the mountain and the river.''
Tenets of Karmyoga are as follows.
one can not abstain from doing karma. By one's existence itself, one is doing Karma.
The karma, as well as the result of the karma as predestined by the one.
as one can not abstain, and as all karma are predestined, one should perform his duty with no attachment to the results but only with the spirit of performing a duty, performing an act of devotion, worship.
your actions become your worship.
Becoming a karmyogi helps in the following ways.
actions are done by spirit of duty, and not forced by attachment, aversion, ego, greed, hate, envy, blind ambition etc.
karma is caused by actions, as well as the spirit behind that action.
Karmayogi is not bound to his karma, as his act are devoted to the one.
So basically life is a worship for a karmayogi, but dont worry, its not that boring and tenuous. Rather, the faith in god and predestiny liberates mind from guilt, remorse etc. Otherwise, our mind is like a cage of monkeys, with all past events and feelings associated thereof, playing havoc all around. Nothing like a free mind, believe me, try it. In fact one of my basic tenets for myself are, '' Today wherever i am and whatever i am is because I had to be so and here on this day.'' Well, more about it later on.
This way karmayoga is spontaneity of actions, of karma as per the occasion, and
Tao is spontaneity, spontaneity is Tao.
Mind : The Madhouse
Mind is a madhouse:
ever noticed your thought streams, flowing through 100 lands in just 10 minutes. no single thought being processed for even 5 minutes, but then always lurking in the shadows, coming to the fore every 5 minutes or so. all past pains, future fears, guilts, memories, all churning the mind, whenever without any external preoccupation, or alone. leave a man alone for a week in a room with nothing to engage the mind, and there is half a chance of him going off the rocker.
its like a powerful speedster. very fast but without any steering. you will be zooming very fast, but going in all directions and hardly getting anywhere. same here. thats why we in possession of something as mighty as our mind, get bogged down by it, instead of benefiting from its unimaginable strength.
So 1. Mind is supremely powerful. its powers beyond limits of body. its eye reaches all spaces and time. all mysteries are revealed to a mind that is still.
2. Mind is always moving or rather flutterin, due to which causes stress and pain and forgeys its immense power as well as its prime aim.
So stilling the mind is the mammoth task.
Allrighty then, lets get on the job!
ever noticed your thought streams, flowing through 100 lands in just 10 minutes. no single thought being processed for even 5 minutes, but then always lurking in the shadows, coming to the fore every 5 minutes or so. all past pains, future fears, guilts, memories, all churning the mind, whenever without any external preoccupation, or alone. leave a man alone for a week in a room with nothing to engage the mind, and there is half a chance of him going off the rocker.
its like a powerful speedster. very fast but without any steering. you will be zooming very fast, but going in all directions and hardly getting anywhere. same here. thats why we in possession of something as mighty as our mind, get bogged down by it, instead of benefiting from its unimaginable strength.
So 1. Mind is supremely powerful. its powers beyond limits of body. its eye reaches all spaces and time. all mysteries are revealed to a mind that is still.
2. Mind is always moving or rather flutterin, due to which causes stress and pain and forgeys its immense power as well as its prime aim.
So stilling the mind is the mammoth task.
Allrighty then, lets get on the job!
Tao : an introduction
Tao : The way of freedom
9; What is tao, can not be told,
what is told, can not be Tao!' - Tao te ching.
Tao is the mystic way of self realization and enlightenment, following the great ancient
chinese teachings of Lao tse.
The essence of Tao can not be told, listened
to, treatised and discussed but only realized within. the realization wont happen in a day or a week or a month or an year, but then it never is that way. it is slow, it is gradual, but it is fun after a while and liberating.
But hey, its shorter than it seems.
9; What is tao, can not be told,
what is told, can not be Tao!' - Tao te ching.
Tao is the mystic way of self realization and enlightenment, following the great ancient
chinese teachings of Lao tse.
The essence of Tao can not be told, listened
to, treatised and discussed but only realized within. the realization wont happen in a day or a week or a month or an year, but then it never is that way. it is slow, it is gradual, but it is fun after a while and liberating.
But hey, its shorter than it seems.
Tao
Tao is 'The Way'.
This Blog is an effort to find and follow the way to 'The Way'.
Here is welcoming you aboard on this sojourn.
Lets share, discuss, learn and discover joy !
This Blog is an effort to find and follow the way to 'The Way'.
Here is welcoming you aboard on this sojourn.
Lets share, discuss, learn and discover joy !
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