Knowledge and Knowing
Art and Science of Getting Happier
Happiness is here Now…
Today we tackle some of the biggest questions in enlightenment practice, like what are we at our essence? What is consciousness? What does it mean to say that you are the same person that you were 20 years ago? What are we referring to when we say “I”? What happens if you take away everything that we identify with?
Book of the Month – September 2023 : Becoming Supernatural by Dr Joe Dispenza
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER by DR. JOE DISPENZA , the author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain.
Becoming Supernatural draws on epigenetics, quantum physics & neuroscience research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform their consciousness, mindset, and beliefs to heal and live SUPERNATURAL lives.
Becoming Supernatural marries some of the most profound scientific information with ancient spiritual wisdom to show how people like you and me can experience a more mystical life.
Readers will learn that we are, quite literally supernatural by nature if given the proper knowledge and instruction, and when we learn how to apply that information through various healing meditations, we should experience a greater expression of our creative abilities.
We have the capacity to tune in to frequencies beyond our material world and receive more orderly coherent streams of consciousness and energy; that we can intentionallychange our brain chemistry to initiate profoundly mystical transcendental experiences; and how, if we do this enough times, we can develop the skill of creating a more efficient, balanced, healthy body, a more unlimited mind, and greater access to the quantum field and the realms of spiritual truth.
Arduous path towards the unknown – Much courage will be needed….
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed. Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls – and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many. There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves. The same is the path for man. It is arduous. Much courage will be needed.
Osho
Way to Self Realisation
No way to self-realization is short or long, but some people are more in earnest and some are less.
I can tell you about myself.
I was a simple man, but I trusted my Guru. What he told me to do, I did.
He told me to concentrate on ‘I am’
He told me that I am beyond all perceivables and conceivables
– I believed.
I gave my heart and soul, my entire attention and the whole of my spare time (I had to work to keep my family alive).
As a result of faith and earnest application, I realized my Self within three years. You may choose any way that suits you; your earnestness will determine the rate of progress.
Establish yourself firmly in the awarenessof ‘I am’.
This is the beginning and also the end of all endeavour.
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Erosion of our most precious treasure – Our Essence
Soul erosion is a gradual process—a slow, creeping, chipping away of our inner being, resulting in the inevitable death of all we know to be our truest selves. It’s a disease that begins in childhood and spreads contagiously, especially in women. Its symptoms include loss of power, authenticity, voice, and vision. Soul erosion is essentially an obliteration of our inner knowing. Each incident in which we suppress our inner truth, we engage in the erosion of our most precious treasure—our essence.
A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free
By Dr. Shefali Tsabary
When we start to walk, on the way, the way appears – Rumi
How will we know?
– When we question all that we are – our ideas, our habits , how we judge others
– When we begin to separate the behaviours and opinions of others from their essential values
– When we begin to listen to others without criticizing, or judging; ignoring our usual filters
– When we experience a decrease in our emotions such as hatred, envy and jealousy.
– When we no longer blame others for what happens to us
– When we start to love our enemies
– When we see a little less evil, hear a little less evil, when we speak a little less evil everyday
– When we understand what we ‘are’ is more important than how we ‘appear’ to others
– When we start to perceive the beauties of existence and the good in everyone
– When self awareness and only intent , begin to reveal the ones of everything , the fleeting nature of every element of the universe and the eternity of the absolute
Stillness Speaks
If you cannot love your brother whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?
Vedanta is to know man as he really is, and this is its message, that if you cannot worship your brother man, the manifested God, how can you worship a God who is unmanifested?
Do you not remember what the Bible says, “If you cannot love your brother whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?” If you cannot see God in the human face, how can you see him in the clouds, or in images made of dull, dead matter, or in mere fictitious stories of our brain? I shall call you religious from the day you begin to see God in men and women, and then you will understand what is meant by turning the left cheek to the man who strikes you on the right. When you see man as God, everything, even the tiger, will be welcome. Whatever comes to you is but the Lord, the Eternal, the Blessed One, appearing to us in various forms, as our father, and mother, and friend, and child — they are our own soul playing with us.
Swami Vivekananda from Practical Vedanta
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