Re: Evolution and Enactment 2.

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Re: Death

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Re: input about time management with groups, blog, real life

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Re: Evolution and Enactment 2.

Is: Huh? Just like law and order is a product of the evolutionary structure Amber, so emptiness (the non-finding of independent persons or phenomena) is a product of the evolutionary structures Green-Turquoise. All understandings have a kosmic... More »

Awakening is Simple - Free book excepts

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Hi

Hello, new to gaia and have only been practicing yoga for a couple months. Absolutely love it and want to learn as much as possible!

Re: Discussing and analysing bhagavad Gita

Sri Krishna: With your mind intent on me, Arjuna, discipline yourself with the practice of yoga. Depend on me completely. Listen, and I will dispel all your doubts; you will come to know me fully.... More »

Re: Physical pain: does it mean anything?

Considering acute back pain I wouldn't immediately focus on possible emotional stuff behind the symptoms. Rather I would ask a physical therapist suggestions on which ways I would need to learn new ways to move my... More »

Re: The End of the World - What's Next?

Sandy brought our attention to self- governing individuals with "such as Aboriginal Self-Government." The tribe is where self-awareness first advanced, but not in a strong personal self, more a social self—an incomplete self. Gradually, an... More »

Re: SIVANANDABOTHAM

ALL WORK IS YOGA Every bit of work is yoga for you when you are sincere. Think that the Lord is working through your hands, eating through your mouth. In the beginning some of your... More »

Secret revealed

The fat growing in my belly and the impatience in me that I sense every once in a while! Reminding me to resume my daily yoga and exercise and eat healthier! Thanks for asking and... More »

Samadhi

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Another realignment

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Seven Circles Yoga

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running...

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The One Minute Miracle Daily Yoga Ritual w/Rakey Master Dan

what about me?

i've spent a lot of my life trying to define and create who i am when really all i needed to do was let my ego go. i have vivid memories of being a 4... More »

Former First Lady Wants Yoga In Every Russian Home

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Document: Philosophy of Liberation

Document: Philosophy of Liberation Sant Mat Fellowship: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SantMatFellowship {"Repeat the Name of your Beloved, day and night, again and again. With care in thought, word and deed, you will cross to the other shore." --... More »

Thursday Night

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Arguna: Of those steadfast devotees who love you and those who seek you as the eternal formless Reality, who are the more established in yoga? Krishna: Those who set their hearts on me and worship me with unfailing devotion and faith are more established in yoga. As for those who seek the transcendental Reality, without name, without form, contemplating the Unmanifested, beyond the reach of thought and of feeling, with their senses subdued and mind serene and striving for the good of all beings, they too will verily come unto me. Yet hazardous and slow is the path to the Unrevealed, difficult for physical man to tread. But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from the fragment's cycle of birth and death, for their consciousness has entered into me.

Whatever you do, make it an offering to me - the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. In this way you will be freed from the bondage of karma, and from its results both pleasant and painful. Then, firm in renunciation and yoga, with your heart free, you will come to me.

Wherever there is Krishna, the lord of yoga, and Arjuna, the archer, I think, there will surely be, victory, welfare and morality.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Back on typical schedule. I awaken between three and five, meditate for one or two hors, go straight to my desk and work till one or two P.M. The type of meditation I do varies, but the basic form is "the practice of the morning." or "ultimate guru yoga," where the true nature of one's own mind is the ultimate guru. The practice is: Upon waking, or upon passing from dream state to the waking state, look directly into the mind, inquire directly into the source of consciousness itself--inquire "Who am I?" if you like, or practice looking directly into the looker. Upon inquiring into the self, the self disappears, dissolving back into radiant Emptiness, and consciousness rests as absolute Freedom and Fullness, unbounded and unlimited, unborn and undying, unseen and unknown.

"Why are we doing yoga?  For health reasons?  Perhaps a walk in the park would be better.  To help someone else?  There are so many ways of helping people...No, nothing of the kind.  No motivation, no aims, only an agreeable appointment for the body to look forward to.  We do it for the fun of it.  To twist, stretch, and move around, is pleasant and enjoyable, a body holiday."

The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.

It is never too late.
Even if you are going to die tomorrow,
Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today.
If you keep your situation happy day by day,
you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of Enlightenment.

If your spiritual practice and the demands of your everyday life are not in harmony, it means there's something wrong with the way you are practicing.
Your practice should satisfy your dissatisfied mind while providing solutions to the problems of everyday life.
If it doesn't, check carefully to see what you really understand about your religious practice.

Religion is not just some dry intellectual idea but rather your basic philosophy of life: you hear a teaching that makes sense to you, find through experience that it relates positively with your psychological makeup, get a real taste of it through practice, and adopt it as your spiritual path.
That's the right way to enter the spiritual path.

When Lord Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.

Be gentle first with yourself - if you wish to be gentle with others.

We are not compelled to meditate by some outside agent, by other people, or by God.
Rather, just as we are responsible for our own suffering, so are we solely responsible for our own cure.
We have created the situation in which we find ourselves, and it is up to us to create the circumstances for our release.

Material things are not to be despised -- without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

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