Archive for the ‘Esoteric Wisdom’ Category
Types of Samadhi - Nirbuja Samadhi Without Karma
I, 50 tajjah samskaro anya samskara pratibandhi
I, 51 tasyapi nirodhe sarva nirodhat nirbija samadhihBorn of this
luminous wisdom is a
subliminal impression
that prevents other impressions
from arising.When the mind
becomes free from obstruction,
all vacillations cease,
and the mind becomes
absorbed into spirit
without producing future seeds.
Thus a new mind is born
of this wisdom,
free of ignorance.M. Stiles
Iyengar explains that the power of discrimination blocks new impressions or samskaras from arising which may have impeded true knowledge by creating doubt. When doubts are cleared then discriminative knowledge is discarded. This gives way to the flow of luminous wisdom that is “free of doubts and discrimination. Then citta dissolves “all residual impressions, the thinking faculty and the feelings of “I” are extinguished without a trace and becomes universal. The soul alone manifests and blazes without form, in pristine clarity.
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David Lynch promises Invincibility to French President Sarkozy
This is an interesting show, featuring various interviews on matters such as the the Collective Conscious. One of the primary topics discussed is David Lynch’s presentation, to French President Sarkozy, of the title of Grand Officer of the Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur. Read the rest of this entry »
Putting Out the Fire of Anger
Tich Nhat Hanh | Anger
Saving Your House
When someone says or does something that makes us angry, we suffer. We tend to say or do something back to make the other suffer, with the hope that we will suffer less. We think, “I want to punish you, I want to make you suffer because you have made me suffer. And when I see you suffer a lot, I will feel better.”
Many of us are inclined to believe in such a childish practice. The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides. Both of you need compassion and help. Neither of you needs punishment. Read the rest of this entry »
Zen Mind: The Beginner’s Mind - Control
by Shunryu Suzuki
“To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him”
To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment. When we lose our balance we die, but at the same time we also develop ourselves, we grow. Whatever we see is changing, losing the balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony. This is how everything exists in the realm of Buddha nature, losing its balance against a background of perfect balance. So if you see things without realizing the background of Buddha nature, everything appears to be in the form of suffering. But if you understand the background of existence, you realize that suffering itself is how we live, and how we extend our life. So in Zen sometimes we emphasize the imbalance or disorder of life.
David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
This talk on transcendental meditation, consciousness, creativity and the brain is a fascinating look at what several noted academics and film director David Lynch are doing to promote true world peace; the lasting peace that comes from inner peace.
About 45 minutes into the talk, John Hegalin Ph.D. speaks about the scientifically documented information regarding transcendental meditation, he also demonstrates, with a student hooked to an EEG, the effects of meditation on the student’s brainwave patterns.
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Dr. Mitchell Gibson on Spiritual Healing
Dr. Mitchell Gibson is a rare kind of medical professional. From an early age he used Buddhist meditation to purify his thoughts and energy. This enabled him to discover aspects of medicine that go far beyond what most doctors understand.
Most doctors are highly trained at understanding which disease a person has, based upon the symptoms that are observed; it is rare, however, that a doctor understand the underlying cause of the disease. According to the wisdom of spiritual healers, both diseases and healing come from the higher spiritual realms and then travel into the body.
Two health-related forces are at work during one’s life. Qliphothic forces create evil and suffering in one’s life while Sephirothic forces create goodness and well-being in one’s life. These two forces interpolate to help us, should we choose to do so, to grow spiritually and reach higher levels of intimacy with the creator. Read the rest of this entry »
Gangaji - Still in Awareness
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or sung or written. Not because it is far away and cannot be reached, but because it is so intimately close, because it is closer than anything that can be spoken.
It is truly alive as the stillness in the core of your being; not my being or her being being or his being, your being. Alive in the stillness that is the core of your being. It is too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the way that we think of knowing as knowledge, as objects. But it is yours already, it is already present.
The only reason that I have appeared in your consciousness is to simply confirm that. i truly have nothing to teach you, you probably know more than I do anyways. There have been plenty of teachers who have taught exquisite and true and useful codes of conduct, methods of meditation, ways of living in the world, ways of manifesting in the world.
But what this appearance that is called Gangaji is, in your consciousness, is simply pointing to the stillness that is alive in the core of your being and an invitation to turn your attention to that, to let that live your life, to give your questions to that, to give your answers to that, your failures, your successes, your form, your formlessness, your action, your inaction, your choice, your choice-lessness, all, to give it back to where it came from, back before creation.
This is possible only because you are that stillness. It would be impossible, regardless of the intention or the effort, if you were who you think you are. Who you think you are is, by the very nature of thought, limited. So, however grandiose that thought may be, it is still limited. But who you are, that has never been spoken, is closer than you can know. Who you are is where all is… ~Gangaji Read the rest of this entry »
Interview with Gangaji
Gangaji is a great teacher of self-realization and the realization of our oneness. She has been exploring deeper levels of her being since 1972, when she moved to San Francisco. She took the vows of a Bodhisattva, practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, and helped facilitate a Tibetan Buddhist meditation center. Between 1981 and 1987, she practiced as an acupuncturist, and worked in a clinic in San Francisco.
This interview, conducted in Europe, is an excellent introduction for individuals who are not familiar with her ideas about the nature of existence and how we can reach a deeper level of intuitive understanding.
Gangaji has a remarkable way of helping her students to see the eternal (present) moment, without trapping themselves in false concepts of the past or the future. It is truly a remarkable feeling when we can release all notions of our continued existence and accept the present moment in all of its fullness. If you are unclear what I mean by this, watch this and listen to her eloquant words; you will soon understand what it means to live in the present. It is not as simple as it seems, as it requires a different attitude about who the “I” that exists is. Read the rest of this entry »
On the Origin of the World
From the Nag Hamadi Library
Translated by Hans-Gebhard Bethge and Bentley Layton
Seeing that everybody, gods of the world and mankind, says that nothing existed prior to chaos, I, in distinction to them, shall demonstrate that they are all mistaken, because they are not acquainted with the origin of chaos, nor with its root. Here is the demonstration.
How well it suits all men, on the subject of chaos, to say that it is a kind of darkness! But in fact it comes from a shadow, which has been called by the name ‘darkness’. And the shadow comes from a product that has existed since the beginning. It is, moreover, clear that it existed before chaos came into being, and that the latter is posterior to the first product. Let us therefore concern ourselves with the facts of the matter; and furthermore, with the first product, from which chaos was projected. And in this way the truth will be clearly demonstrated.
After the natural structure of the immortal beings had completely developed out of the infinite, a likeness then emanated from Pistis (Faith); it is called Sophia (Wisdom). It exercised volition and became a product resembling the primeval light. And immediately her will manifested itself as a likeness of heaven, having an unimaginable magnitude; it was between the immortal beings and those things that came into being after them, like [...]: she (Sophia) functioned as a veil dividing mankind from the things above. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Tsarion on the Hermetic Tradition
In this interview Michael Tsarion discusses how, thousands of years ago, the ancients formed the basis for the concepts of existence that we use today. In the modern day, most of us are symbol illiterate; we don’t realize where the symbols we use are from, what they mean or why we they are used.
Most of our symbols were originally derived from the Tarot deck. The Tarot was used long before the modern notion of writing; images are a universal method of communication, as they transcend the differences in language that tend to divide us.
Michael also makes some interesting points about the importance of the physical (material) world versus the psychic (mental) world. It is commonly believed that the physical world is more significant than the psychic world, but the reverse is actually true; the physical world is merely a representation of the state of our psychic world.
This makes perfect sense when you consider the fact that everything we perceive as “material” must travel through the psychic realm for us to even know about it. If our psychic world is in disorder, and we fail to understand its true significance, then how are we to have any understanding of the physical or psychic worlds?
Michael Tsarion Interview About the Hermetic Tradition - 1 hour
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