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“Satsang weekend with Giten was a super course. When I read about Satsang weekend with Giten, I just knew that should do this course. I have missed people who really wants go as deep into the inner being that is possible, and in satsang with Giten I found this. So enjoyable to be in this presence. I just wanted to sit, see and be.”

Anne-li Fellman, social scientist and behaviourist, participant in Satsang weekend with Giten, March 11-13, 2016, in Stockholm

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: The Middle Way – 8. Right Samadhi

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Buddha’s

 Middle

Way

From satsang with Giten, March 3, 2016, in Stockholm 

8. Right Samadhi 

The eighth and the last step of Buddha’s Middle Way is Right Samadhi. 

Samadhi is when you are totally absorbed into the center of existence, when you are totally absorbed into the heart of existence.

Our seventh chakra is flowering. 

The preceding seven steps of Buddha’s Middle Way is a preparation for Right Samadhi.  

The preceding seven steps of Buddha’s Middle Way leads to Right Samadhi. 

But there is also the possibility of wrong Samadhi if you fall into unconsciousness. 

Samadhi should bring you to total awareness, to perfect awareness. 

You should not become unconscious, but one can become unconscious if you go inside so deeply that you forget the outside. 

Ordinarily we live outside of ourselves, so completely that we have forgotten the inside. 

But it is also possible to become aware of the inside and forget the outside. 

Buddha says that this is wrong Samadhi. 

Buddha says: Right Samadhi is when you are totally aware of both the inner and the outer. 

In Right Samadhi, the inner light is burning so bright that it fills both the inside and the outside with light. 

In Right Samadhi, both the inside and the outside disappears, there is only light. 

Right Samadhi is not the inner or the outer, Right Samadhi is to be one with life.

 

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”, I talk about being one with the whole: 

The personality, the Inner Being  and Wholeness

– The Three Layers of the Human Consciousness  

What are the three layers of the human consciousness? How do the three layers of the human consciousness relate to therapeutic work? The human consciousness consists of three layers: 1. The personality, the psychological “I” 2. The inner being, the authentic self and 3. Wholeness – being one with the Whole.

 The personality is the created sense of “I”. The inner being is our authentic self, our true individuality. The relation between the personality and the inner being is like the relation between the waves on the surface of the ocean and the silent, dark bottom of the ocean. The personality is the surface and the periphery of our total consciousness like the waves of the ocean, and the inner being is the depth of our consciousness like the silence at the bottom of the ocean.

The personality is a separation from life; the personality is a “no”-attitude to life through our separate ideas, psychological attitudes and concepts. Our inner being is a “yes”-attitude to life; our inner being is the door to oneness with Existence. 

In our psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity, we first develop the personality. Then we develop the inner being, which is the door to develop wholeness, being one with the Whole.                                                        



The personality, the psychological “I”

What is the personality, the psychological “I”? The word “personality” originally comes from the Latin word “persona”, which means role or mask. The personality is the role that we play or the mask that we wear. The personality is the sense of “I” that we identify ourselves.

The personality can be defined as the created sense of “I”. The personality consist of all our accumulated experiences from the past. The personality consists of ideas, emotions, attitudes and concepts that we have been taught from others. The personality is built through learning and imitation by being born in a certain family, in a certain society, in a certain culture and in a certain time.

 The personality consists of four layers:

1. Thoughts

2. Emotions

3. The psychological head attitude

4. The physical body 

 The girder of the personality is the psychological head attitude. The psychological head attitude is the basic decision that we have taken early in life about how we relate to ourselves and to life. It is the of kernel of thoughts, feelings and attitudes, which exists as a basic attitude within us and determines how we relate to ourselves, how we relate to other people and how we relate to life as a whole. If we put this head attitude in a short sentence, it could, for example, be: “I do not trust that I am already OK and that life takes care of me”, “I am not worthy of being loved and accepted as I am”, “I can never get what I really need in life” or “Life is a struggle to survive”. This head attitude is like wearing a pair of colored glasses and unconsciously allowing them to color how we interpret and perceive reality. 

The personality is a separation and a defense against life. The personality is based on the idea that we are a separate person, who is distinctly separated from other people and from life itself. The personality is like a small separate island in a large ocean. 

The personality is a “no”-attitude towards life through our separate ideas, attitudes, judgments, dreams, ambitions and concepts. The personality shows us how we resist life, and how we defend ourselves against the wholeness of life through our separate ideas and expectations. From a psychological development standpoint, it is necessary to first develop a strong personality, a strong ego, before we can begin to develop our inner being.

The inner being, the authentic self

 What is the inner being? The inner being is our essence and authentic self. The inner being is the Existential self; the inner being is our original face. It is to rediscover the self that existed before birth and which will continue to exist after death. The inner being is an inner “yes”-attitude in relation to Existence.

To rediscover our inner being means to discover that which is already perfect within ourselves. It is to discover the source of love deep within ourselves, which is our true nature.

To rediscover the inner being is to find the authentic self beyond the confines of the personality. The inner being is the unidentified witness and watcher of the layers of personality. Thoughts, emotions and the physical body is not aware about themselves, it is the inner being that is aware about the thoughts, the emotions and the sensations of the physical body. The inner being is the inner silent place, where we are not identified with the thoughts and its problems, with the emotions and their passion or with the sensations of the physical body.

 Meditation is the way to develop our inner being. Developing the inner being through meditation can be described like the step-by-step process of emptying a room from furniture until finally the room is completely empty, and only a pure silence and emptiness remains.  

In the inner being, we begin for the first time to experience the original life source beyond the personality; we begin to experience the unity  within ourselves. The inner being is the silent place within ourselves, which is beyond conflict and duality. In the inner being, we can rest in ourselves. We can rest in a presence, a silence, without trying, without fighting, without intention and without ambition. We are not going anywhere, there is nothing to prove, and there is nothing to achieve.

 In this inner presence, there is no sense of “I”, only a presence, a light, a joy, a love and a truth in the moment. The personality gives us the idea that we are somebody special, but in reality we are really nobody at all. And to be nobody at all is paradoxically enough the greatest joy there is. 

To be nobody at all, a presence, a silence, a nothingness, is to be one with ourselves. And to be one with ourselves is to be in joy.  

The inner being is the door to belongingness with Existence. Through opening this inner door, we can allow life to pass unhindered through us without interrupt the flow of life through our own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. The inner being is an inner space, a silence and emptiness, without desire to achieve anything, without wish to be somebody special and without wish to reach anywhere. It is an inner space, where we can allow people, situations and life to be as it is. It is an inner space, where we can allow people to come and go, without clinging when they come and without holding on when they go again.

 The inner being is a deep “yes” to life; the inner being is a deep acceptance of life. It is a deep acceptance of the reality of life as it is. The inner being is a depth within ourselves, which is as deep as Existence itself.

Rediscovering the inner being is to discover the and undefined and boundless within ourselves. Through opening this inner door within ourselves, we come home. We are home wherever we are. Rediscovering the inner being is to discover the limitless and boundless source of creativity within ourselves.

Wholeness – Being One with the Whole

What is wholeness? The word “religion” originally means “to return to the source”. It means to rediscover our inner being, our inner life source. The deepest pain in our heart is to be separated from life. We are separated from the Whole, from Existence. The deepest thirst in our heart is to return to our inner being, to our inner life source, where we are one with life.

“The most beautiful experience that we can reach is the mystical”, says Albert Einstein in the book “Living Philosophies.” The goal of meditation -if you can talk about a goal in connection with meditation – is enlightenment. In the depth of our inner being, we are really already enlightened. We are already an inseparable part of Existence, but we have forgotten our true inner nature. We have forgotten our inner Buddha. Meditation is the way to discover our inner being, our authentic self, our inner Buddha. Enlightenment is the fruit of meditation.

Enlightenment is to realize the highest development of the human consciousness. It is to climb the Mount Everest of human consciousness.

The philosopher Emanuel Kant was one asked what enlightenment is and his short answer was: “to grow up.”

During the time I was writing this book, I got a glimpse of wholeness on Easter Day April 16, 2006. I was having a coffee by myself in a café when suddenly a silence descended on me, and my separation from life disappeared like darkness from a room when you lit the light. Suddenly my whole perception of reality changed, and in a few second I learnt more than during 20 years in the university.  

I was suddenly one with life, one with the Whole. It filled my heart with an ecstatic joy to be one with people, one with the Whole, without reaching out of myself. I felt accepted and loved by Existence as I am. In this wholeness, there was nowhere to go and nothing to achieve. I was suddenly part of God. I was coming home. It was a joy to be in a silent communion with people on a deeper level beyond words, rather with the usual nonsense that people waste theirs lives on.

The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience this wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else just means that you hurt yourself, because we are all one on the spiritual level.

The word “religion” originally means “to return to the source”, and this experience is also a freedom through finding my own unique relationship to the Existential source, to the Whole, without depending on any church, organization, priest, faith or scripture – including the scientific rationalistic and materialistic religion.

What the Japanese Zen-tradition calls “satori” is a short glimpse of what enlightenment means. It is like when the lens of a camera opens for a fragment of a second and allows the light in. It is short glimpse of what is possible; it is a glimpse of the light, of the Whole, which always exists as a possibility in each moment in life.

Each human being is unique; each human being contains a divine spark, a divine light, an aspect of God. We are much more than we think we are.

The mystery and beauty of life is that it is impossible to understand, but we can live it. We can never really understand life, but we can become one with it. we can become one with the dance of life; we can become one with the ultimate mystery of Existence.

I remember an insight that taught me much. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted in life. I had a creative and meaningful work as a therapist and course leader, which allowed me to grow. I had a relationship with a beautiful woman, who I loved and who love me. I had friends that I trusted, and I had money to do what I wanted. But in spite of all this, I still felt that something was missing in my life. I was still not satisfied. The longing and thirst in my heart and being, still searched for something more. This made me realize that the deepest pain in my heart and being was that I was still separated from life, from the Whole, and that no outer things could ease this pain.

The inner being is the indefinable within ourselves, the ultimate mystery. It is so indefinable that we can experience it, but we ca not explain it. We can become one with it, but we can not understand it. It is the ultimate mystery of life.

We originally come from this existential source, and we also return to this source when we die. Death is the unconscious way to return to this original source, and enlightenment is the conscious way to return to this source. Death means to still believe in our separation from life, and enlightenment means to realize our inherent oneness with Existence.

The whole issue of enlightenment is still too large and overwhelming for me, but I feel that the deepest thirst in my heart and being is to become enlightened, to become one with Existence. I really want to understand deeply the mystery of life. I feel that the precious moments when my heart and being vibrates in oneness and harmony with life shows that I am on the right track. The open secret, the existential joke, is that enlightenment is really to search for that which you already are.

Enlightenment is really as simple as drinking a glass of water. But exactly because it is so simple, it becomes easy to miss. Enlightenment is so close to ourselves that it is easy to miss. It is about realizing that the door to enlightenment has never been closed. It is our own effort and restlessness that keeps the door closed.

In love relationships with another person, we can experience short moments of harmony and wholeness. But these moment are followed by separation, since relationships are a continuous balance between love and freedom, between meeting and parting again, between independence and being together and between separation and wholeness. Enlightenment means to discover this wholeness, this intimate relationship, within ourselves without being dependent on anybody else. 

Enlightenment does not imply to be somebody special, or to be especially spiritual. It is nothing special about being enlightened. To be enlightened does not either mean to be higher than somebody else, just as a large tree is not higher or better than a little bush, or a rose is not better than a tulip. Enlightenment only means that we have discovered our authentic inner being, our inherent harmony with life, while somebody else will experience this on his own when the time is ripe. To be enlightened is to be totally ordinary, so ordinary that we are nobody at all, we are a nothingness. To be enlightened is to be a medium for Existence; to be enlightened is to be a spiritual healer. It is to be a channel for Existence through which the Whole can dance and sing. It is then that we become a flute on the lips of Existence through which the Existential music can flow. We become a song to ourselves; we become a healing Buddha.

Existence tries in every moment to give us exactly what we need with more love, compassion and ingenuity that we can ever imagine. When we trust life, we can relax and allow life to guide us to meet the people that we need to meet, and to make the experiences that we need to take the next step in our spiritual growth.

We think that we are separate from life, but in reality we are already one with life. We are an inseparable part of life. We belong to life.

If you want to try how independent you really are from Existence, then try to hold your breathe and imagine how long you would survive without oxygen. Life is a continuous development and balance between dependence and independence, between love and freedom, between our male and female qualities and between separation and wholeness.

We need the air, we need the earth, we need the houses, we need the roads and we need the pavements. We are not separate from life; we are a part of the Whole.

Existence totally supports us in our thirst and longing to return to the original source. Existence tries to help us to become enlightened, to realize that we are already one with life.

Spiritual healing means to heal the split between our idea of a separate sense of “I”, and everything that we already are. Spiritual healing means to heal our separation from life.

One evening when I meditated out in nature, my separation from life suddenly ceased. Suddenly I was one with life. It was an insight into the mystical unity of life, which filled my heart with a joy without reason. I was one with the Divine dance, one with the Divine play. It was a deeply healing experience, a feeling of being OK as I am, and that Existence loved me. A feeling of belonging to Existence.

When we realize that we are one with life, the whole world become our home. We are at home everywhere.

Enlightenment is like throwing everything up in the air – all our ideas, dreams and expectations, all our separate goals and ambitions, all our earlier spiritual experiences, all our ideas of who we are – and to see what comes down again.

We all seek enlightenment – independent of whether we are aware about this fact or not. We all seek love, joy, silence, truth, freedom and belongingness with life. Some people seek enlightenment in unconscious ways through work, power, success, relationships, sex or by becoming famous.

Enlightenment is not only a question of individual enlightenment, it is a question of global enlightenment. It is a question of creating a buddhafield, a paradise on earth.

Enlightenment is not only a question of individual enlightenment, it is also a question of collective enlightenment. Collective enlightenment means a global expansion of consciousness. It means to begin to think in terms of “we”, rather than “I”. To think in terms of “I” means to act from the personality, from the psychological “I”. The personality is a separation from life. To think in terms of “I” is to act from a “no”-quality. To think in terms of “we” is to be in contact with the inner being, with the authentic self, with the inner capacity to surrender to life. To think in terms of “we” is to be in contact with the inner “yes”-quality. It is to cooperate with that which is larger than ourselves. Collective enlightenment could also be called spiritual globalization – which is different from the economical globalization, which is only good for the few and bad for the many. When we realize that all living beings seek enlightenment, that all living beings seek love, joy, truth and freedom, we can develop a compassion for all living beings.

The seventh level of consciousness is placed on top of the head. It is called Unity or Crown chakra, and relates to opening to universal consciousness, to achieve the ultimate wisdom.

The seventh level of consciousness is about learning to know God. It relates to truth, unconditional love, enlightenment, and to the experience of being one with the Whole. It is a freedom and joy beyond words. The experience of the seventh level of consciousness is beyond words, and is hard to describe in words. It is a paradoxical experience of being everything and nothing at the same time. It is to discover that we have never really been separated from life. It is to be in a deep unity and harmony with life. Our small separate individual river has finally reached and joined the ocean of consciousness.

When we begin to open the seventh chakra, the thousand petaled lotus flower is opening. We have learnt the lesson of life. We have grown up. We have become spiritually mature. Our inner tree is bearing fruit. This unity with the Whole does not mean that our unique individuality is extinguished. On the contrary, it means that the richer our life experience is, and the more qualities we have developed, the richer becomes the quality of our enlightenment.

The last steps towards enlightenment must a seeker of truth take himself, without relying on any outer crutch or authority.

I drank a silent cup of coffee in a café and when I left the café, one of these rare and precious moments happened without any outer cause. Suddenly my whole perception of reality changed from separation to wholeness. I experienced an intimate belongingness with all the people that I meet. Jag was one with all the people, and experienced that all people come from the same invisible source. People has their own unique individuality, but they come from the same original source. It is diversity in unity. It was a sublime joy to walk around and experience that I was one with all the people that I meet.

Divine love is to realize that we are one with life. Real love is to realize that we are one with the other person, that we are one with the stones, one with the trees, one with the earth and one with the blue sky. It is to realize that the whole of life is God.

Enlightenment is a total “yes” to ourselves. It is a total love and acceptance of ourselves as we are.  

Enlightenment is to live, love and be from the inner being, from the inner life source.  

Enlightenment is to find our authentic inner being, our own unique quality and fragrance.

Enlightenment is the phenomenon of “disappearing” into the Whole, to become so one with the larger flow of Existence that it begins to sing and dance through us.

When we live in contact with our inner being, we find ourselves in an alive, intimate and expanding relationship with Existence.

Enlightenment is not a static phenomenon, it is to say “yes” to the truth of the moment. It is to embrace the living reality of the moment. Enlightenment is a dance with life, a dance with eternity.

The insight of enlightenment is the same in everyone, but they way to express the experience of enlightenment is totally unique depending on the fragrance, quality and life experience of the person.

Enlightenment is not an end, but a new beginning, which has no end. It only means that we realize that we are one with life – and that life is a dance of joy. 

The dimension of being is a love affair with love. It is to return to the original life source.  

Enlightenment is to be in an intimate contact with the ocean of healing like when the drop surrender to the ocean. 

The Perfect Birthday Gift: The Existential Gift

– From death to the deathless, from separation to Wholeness

On May 15, 2009, it was my 50th birthday. This event emphasizes the relation between time and timelessness, between death and the deathless. During the Easter, 2009, I received the perfect unexpected birthday gift in advance, which was a gift from Existence.

I was 15 years old when I for the first time got the ice cold insight that I was never going to die. It was an insight that there was something in me that belonged to the deathless and the eternal. When I was 15 years old, this insight totally shattered my whole perception of myself and of life. It also created a thirst and longing in my heart and being to understand the mystery of life.

On Easter evening, 2009, I unexpectedly received the same penetrating insight that I am never going to die. It was the silent insight that my inner being belongs to the deathless and the eternal, which erased all my fears of death. This insight also taught me that death is not just an end, but a new beginning. Instead of death being a source of fear, death becomes a loving new beginning. The insight that my body belongs to time, and my inner being belongs to the timeless and the eternal, created a transformation of my whole being.

Later the same day this insight also expanded into a silent explosion of my whole consciousness. Suddenly I got the insight that I am one with life. one with the Whole. Suddenly I found that which I have searching for a long time, for many lives. It was like coming home.

Later the same day I took a walk and drank a cup of coffee in a small café. When I drank my coffee, I got the feeling that my physical body was too limited to contain my expanded and limitless sense of “I”. My expanded sense of “I” was much larger than my limited and confined physical body.  

I could taste the limitless and boundless waves of the ocean of consciousness in my own heart and being. This created an almost overwhelming joy and ecstasy in my heart, together with a feeling of being loved by the whole. I felt like screaming with joy and gratitude. 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

 

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: Bhumis & Paramitas – 6. Adventure, Courage, Meditation

 

 

  Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Bhumis – Ten Steps to Enlightenment 

From satsang with Giten, March 3, 2016, in Stockholm 

 

5. Adventurousness, Courageousness, Challenge-Welcoming

 

The fifth Bhumi is SUDURJAYA, which means adventurousness, courageousness and challenge-welcoming.

 

Buddha says: SUDURJAYA – look at the far. Let the very far be your challenge.

 

Accept and welcome challenges.

 

Don’t avoid challenges, welcome it.

 

 

Through accepting challenges, you expand your inner being.

 

Through challenges, you grow roots deep in your inner being.

 

Through accepting the adventures of life, you grow your awareness and inner integrity.

 

Meditation is the greatest challnge. On the fifth Bhumi, the meditator and buddhisattva, the buddha in essence, also develops the fifth Paramita DHYANA, which means meditation, silence, sitting and doing nothing.

 

 

Ordinarily people avoid challenges and are satisfied with safety and security: a safe job, a good house, a good wife or husband and a secure bank account.

 

Through choosing safety and security, people never grow.

 

People just grow old, but they never grow up.

 

Don’t be limited to the secure, to safety, like life is a insurance company.

 

 

Life is only for those that dare to live.

 

When you have the courage to be adventurousness, you move into the unknown.

 

When you are ready to drop safety and security, life will come closer to you.

 

You will feel the taste of the unknown, of the timeless and the eternal. 

 

Bodhisattva’s on the fifth Bhumi cultivate the perfection of Samadhi. They develop strong powers of meditative stabilization and overcome tendencies toward distraction. They achieve mental one pointedness and the perfect calm abiding. Bdhisattva’s who attain the fifth Bhumi help sentient beings to attain spiritual maturity without becoming emotionally involved if they respond negatively.

 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Paramitas – Ten Provisions for the Inner Journey 

From satsang with Giten, March 3, 2016, in Stockholm 

 

5. DHYANA: Meditation, silence, sitting, doing nothing 

 

The fifth Paramita is DHYANA; which means meditation, silence, sitting and doing nothing.

 

Buddha says: If you can sit silently for even a few moments without doing anything, insights and glimpses will start coming to you.

 

Let this quality of meditation, silence, sitting and doing nothing penetrate your life.

 

 

Whenever you have nothing to do, don’t create unnecessary occupations.

 

Just sit silently and watch life flow by.

 

Look at the people, look at the sky, at the trees or close your eyes and look at the thoughts or the inner silence.

 

Just be, and let things pass by.

 

Just sit silently and you are expanding your inner being.

 

You create a new space and freedom in your inner being.

 

 

This will change your eyes, it will change your face and you will become more centered, more fulfilled.

 

You will have a new presence and silence around you, which other people will start feeling.

 

This inner silence, people will experience on the outside as love and compassion. 

 

 

Buddha says: On this lonely journey to the other shore, you will need to learn how to sit silently.

 

  

In the book, “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”, I talk about the relationship between love and aloneness:

 

THE TWO ASPECTS OF MEDITATION:

LOVE AND ALONENESS

What are the two aspects of meditation? How does love and aloneness relate to each other in meditation? Just as the continuous rhythm of ebb and flood of the ocean, meditation also develops between two aspects. These two aspects are love and aloneness. Love and aloneness are the two banks between which the river of meditation flows. Love and aloneness are the two wings of meditation. We need to develop both these wings to learn to fly.

Aloneness is our inner nature. We are born alone and we will die alone. Aloneness is the quality of our inner being. Aloneness is to be deeply rooted in our inner being.

The word “aloneness” consists of two syllables: al-oneness. Aloneness means to be one with our self. When we can rest in our own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, silence and satisfaction, then our aloneness becomes a door to belongingness to life, to oneness with the Whole.

Meditation can be defined as the art of learning to be with ourselves in our aloneness. Meditation means learning to appreciate our own aloneness. Meditation is learning to rest in our own aloneness. When we can rest in our own aloneness, it becomes an inner source of love, joy, acceptance, relaxation, silence, creativity, freedom and wholeness.

Love and aloneness are really two sides of the same coin. The inner aloneness and the outer love are two aspects of the same phenomenon. Meditation is learning to be happy and satisfied in our aloneness, and love is the fragrance that arises when we can rest in our own aloneness.

A friend of mine said that she often feels alone, but that she accepts this aloneness as a source of meditation.

Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our inner being, with our authentic self, with the meditative quality within, with the inner silence and emptiness. This inner emptiness is experienced and is expressed on the outside as love. This is not a love that is addressed to a certain person. It is a presence and a quality that exists as a fragrance around a person, which is experienced by others as love.

A therapist needs to develop the capacity to rest in his own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, silence and satisfaction. When the therapist can rest in his own aloneness, he does not need to seek confirmation from clients. He can receive nourishment and inspiration from within himself or through friend and colleagues.

Life is a continuous development and balance between opposite poles and tendencies. It is a continuous development and balance between love and aloneness, between holding on and letting go, between our male and female qualities and between love and freedom.

Meditation is development and a balance between aloneness, to be with oneself, and love, to relate with others. It is a balance between inner emptiness and the outer world.

It is like the balance between the East and West, between spirituality and materialism, between body and soul – and both these aspects are needed to create wholeness.

The psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has called the two aspects aloneness and love for introvert and extrovert personality type, but he has not considered that these both aspects are really complementary aspects. The psychological and spiritual development process is about integrating both these aspects in our being. Using concepts from the world of Hegel, you could say that Jung described the thesis and the anti-thesis, but he did not describe the synthesis between the thesis and anti-thesis. Jung’s approach was also to create a synthesis between modern Western psychology and classic Eastern philosophy, but on the road he lost the method to create this synthesis. The method and the practical tool to create this synthesis in our own being is meditation.

Meditation is the only way to go beyond the personality and create this synthesis in our own consciousness. Otherwise it would be like creating a science, but without creating a practical research method through which you can use this science. In this context, meditation can be described as a subjective science through which you learn to study and observe your own inner world with the same accuracy and objectivity as natural science

studies the outer world.

Some people can easier be alone with themselves and other people can easier love and relate with people. My experience is that there are basically two kinds of people: those that easier can be happy and satisfied in their own aloneness and those that can love and relate with people. Depending on previous experiences in life, we can easier be with ourselves in our own aloneness and have a tendency to reduce ourselves when we relate with other people. None of these ways are better or worse than the other.

Aloneness means to learn to give this moment to yourself. To rest in our own aloneness is like sitting on the top of a mountain liberated from the noise and madness of the world.

The basic fear of aloneness is that in aloneness we are nobody.

Aloneness has always been my continuous companion in life. A friend of mine once said to me that of all people that he knew, I was probably the one who knew most about aloneness. I also remember that I once asked one of my teachers in life if it was my path to be alone. His answer was that he did not think so, but that through aloneness I could find my own inner source of love. He also said that through finding my own inner source of love, I could discover then that aloneness is no longer aloneness, but that it opens an inner door to oneness with life.

During a period in my life, I had as a continuous meditation to learn to be happy and satisfied in my own aloneness. It was a continuous meditation to learn to be so satisfied in my own aloneness that I did not need anybody or anything outside of myself. Basically I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness, but this meditation taught me to both accept when I felt a pain in my aloneness – and when my aloneness became an overflowing inner source of love. This meditation taught me that I can rest in my own aloneness as an inner source of love, and to be in contact with the Whole, without reaching outside of myself.

Several people have commented during the last year that I seem so relaxed in my own aloneness. I remember an experience that I had a year ago, which taught me a lot about aloneness. I sat alone on the train on my way to Gothenburg, the third largest town in Sweden, to conduct an intensive week with an open introductory evening, individual consultations and a weekend course. When I sat on the train, I suddenly landed in the pure aloneness of my inner being. It was like the whole world suddenly disappeared and I was totally alone. I got the feeling that it must be like this to know that you are going to die, to know that you are going to leave life, to know that you are going to leave all the people that you love and everything that is near and familiar. At the same time as it was a deeply painful experience; it was also a pleasurable experience. This experience taught me more in an hour than I could have learnt during 10 years of study in psychology at the University. This experience helped me to find a deep acceptance for the fact that I am totally alone in the world, independent of how many people are around me. This acceptance also created a sense of liberation, a sense of joy, and a deep relaxation in myself. Later I told a friend of mine about this experience, and her thoughtful comment was: “Well, after such an experience, there is not much to be afraid of any more”.

Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego cannot function. In aloneness, you are not.

I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness.

When we depend on other people, it becomes a bondage – instead of a freedom. I took this Sunday as a meditation to be consciously alone, and to accept all feelings of pain, of not being loved and the fear of being nobody that would come up during the meditation. This meditation goes up and down during the day: at certain moments, I can totally accept my aloneness. It feels fine to accept that I am alone and that I am nobody. At other moments, I feel the pain of not being loved, when the meditation brings up how dependence on other people is a barrier to totally accept my aloneness.

I take a coffee at a restaurant. I am the only person that sits alone in the restaurant, while the other guests are couples and families eating Sunday dinner. It brings up painful feelings of not being loved and wanting to be needed by other people, when I see how much people cling to each other in the couples and the families.

Escaping your aloneness through relationships and needing other people’s attention through being a teacher, a politician or by being rich or famous are ways of escaping the pain of aloneness. But then the relationships are not really love. Only when you are capable of being alone, you can really love.

When we can be alone, we discover the inner source of love, which is our true nature. When we can be alone, it opens the door to be one with the Whole.

 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

 

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: The Middle Way – 6. Right Mindfulness

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: 

The Middle path

From satsang with Giten, February 25, 2016, in Stockholm 

 6. Right Mindfulness 

The sixth step on Buddha’s Middle Way is Right mindfulness or Right awareness.

By mindfulness, Buddha means that you should always remian awake, alert and aware.

You should always remain present.

In every act that you do, be present and aware.

In walking, eating, talking or listening, be aware.

Never allow any act to be done without awareness.

Then this awareness will spread all over your life.

Then meditation and your life are not separate things.

Then meditation spreads in your acts, in your relationships and in your creatvity.

Meditation has to be one with life. 

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being, I write about the essence of meditation:

The Essence of Meditation:

Watchful Awareness, Acceptance

and Relaxation

What is the essence of meditation? The essence of meditation consists of four qualities:

1. Watchful awareness

2. An accepting attitude

3. A non-judgmental attitude

4. Relaxation

1. Watchful awareness

The first quality of meditation is a watchful awareness. Awareness is another word for meditation. Awareness is meditation. Awareness can also be described with the words presence or witnessing.

Awareness is the capacity to be present to the thoughts, the feelings, the sensations of the physical body, and to the outer stimuli. Awareness is a 180-degree turn within from being identified with the continuous inner stream of thoughts, feelings, desires, ambitions, dreams and expectations to being conscious about and to watch this inner stream.

Awareness is the capacity to say “yes” and to be present to the constant inner stream of thoughts; feelings and sensations, without will to stop this stream and without wish that it should be different than it is. It is like being a witness, an unidentified observer, to theinner stream. It is like sitting by the side of the river and watch the flow of the river.

Awareness is the corner stone that can transform our whole quality of life. Awareness can create the inner presence, which can transform our life into a joyful dance, a song of meditation. Through awareness we can discover our true inner nature, which allows us to discover a new dimension to be in contact with life. Awareness gives us the freedom to choose between clinging to the past or to live in the unknown mystery of the moment.

Awareness is not about continuously trying to change ourselves or to become “better”. 

Awareness is about learning to love and respect ourselves as we are. Awareness is about becoming aware, to lit the light of our inner being.

Awareness is not about becoming something; awareness is about realizing that we already are somebody.

In the light of awareness, the real and authentic grows by itself and the false and artificial falls away by itself like dead leaves in the autumn.

If we close our eyes and turn our attention within for a moment, we will soon notice three things:

1. That the activity of the mind in the form of thoughts, feelings, desires, ambitions, dreams, expectations and reactions on outer stimuli is going on continuously 24hours a day. When we are awake it is going on in the form of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and reactions and during sleep it is going on in the form of dreams. The mind is also one whole, even if Freud divided the mind into two parts, and calledone part for the conscious mind and the other part for the conscious mind. The only difference between these two parts is that the conscious mind is the conscious part of the mind and the unconscious mind is the denied and repressed part of the mind, but they are both part of the same whole. It is like the relationship between the dark, unknown cellar, where we do not enter, and the light, comfortable living area with the living room and the kitchen, where we normally live our lives.

2. That the mind continuously moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the dreams of the future, but it never stays in the moment, in the here and now. The mind is a mechanism that cannot function in the moment.

3. That there is an inner presence, an inner witness that has the capacity to watch the continuous activity of the mind, without being identified or engaged. This inner presence and this watchful awareness is the essence of meditation. It gives us the insight that there is an inner presence that can be aware of the constant activity of the mind. This insight leads u further to the realization that we are not the mind; we are not the thoughts, the feelings or the sensations of the physical body. The easiest level to become aware about is the sensations of the physical body, since the physical body is the grossest form of our consciousness. The second easiest level to become aware about is the thoughts and the most difficult level to become aware about is the feelings and emotions.

There is really nothing that can disturb our meditation; everything can be used as an object for meditation. Everything that happens on the inside and everything that happens on the outside can be used to go deeper into meditation. It does not really matter if it is a feeling of joy, sorrow, aloneness or anger that we meet inside ourselves. And it does not really matter if it is a person on the outside that insults us and makes us angry, sad and disappointed. With presence, awareness and understanding, we can say “yes” to and include everything that arises in our consciousness, and everything that we meet on the outside, in our meditation. The deeper we go into meditation, the more it expands in our life. It is to realize that life and meditation are not two separate things.

A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations in life is if we are identified with the thoughts, feelings and sensations of the physical body – or if we simply can be aware about and watch what arises in our consciousness.

Through this awareness, we can use all situations as an opportunity for meditation. 

2. An accepting attitude

The second quality of meditation is an accepting attitude. Awareness includes an accepting attitude. An accepting attitude means to learn to say “yes” to everything that arises in our consciousness. It means to learn to say “yes” both to positive and negative experiences, to light and darkness and to joy and sorrow.

An accepting attitude means to include everything that we find within ourselves with presence, awareness and understanding.

An accepting attitude means an attitude that the reality of the moment is perfect exactly as it is. It means not wanting to change the reality of the moment, or to have a wish that the moment should be different than it is. It means to embrace the moment as we find it inside ourselves with a love and acceptance for how the moment is. It is a love for the reality of the moment. This accepting attitude expands our inner being and creates larger freedom and space within ourselves.

An accepting attitude means to embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations in life is if we say “yes”, if we accept, what arises in our consciousness and what life offers us, or if we say “no”, if we resist the reality of the moment.

3. A non-judgmental attitude

The third quality of meditation is a non-judgmental attitude. Awareness also includes anon-judgmental attitude.

Normally we judge ourselves, rather than simply witness our behavior without judgment. Since early we have been taught to judge ourselves and make ourselves wrong, so now it is easier not judging others than ourselves.

People who love and respect themselves are not easy to control and manipulate, so the strategy of political, religious and economic interests is to teach people to judge themselves. People who do not trust themselves and are split within are easier to control, exploit and manipulate.

A non-judgmental attitude means to learn to love the imperfect in ourselves. It means to include everything that we do not love and accept in ourselves in the light of awareness. A non-judgmental attitude means to learn to say “yes” even to that which we say “no” to in ourselves.

A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations in life is if we say “no”, if we judge, that which arises in our consciousness and what life offers us – or if we simply cane aware and witness without judgment and evaluation.

4. Relaxation

The fourth quality in meditation is relaxation. The watchful awareness, the accepting attitude and the non-judgmental attitude, results in a deep relaxation together with feeling that whatever happens inside and outside of ourselves is perfect exactly as it is.

It leads to a rest in ourselves and the feeling that we are already all right as we are. This relaxation creates a feeling that we can appreciate the beautiful being that we already are.

We can rest in that which is already perfect within ourselves. 

– Swami Dhyan Giten
 

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: Bhumis & Paramitas – 10 Steps to Enlightenment: 4. Radiance, Aliveness, Vitality

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Bhumis – 10 Steps to Enlightenment

From satsang with Giten, February 25, 2016, in Stockholm 

4. Radiance, Aliveness,

Vitality

 

The fourth Bhumi, the fourth grounding and development level, on the way to enlightenment, is ARSIMATI, which means radiance, aliveness and vitality.

 

Buddha says: Radiance, aliveness, vitality is the fourth Bhumi, the fourth grounding.

 

On the fourth Bhumi, the meditator and bodhisattva, the buddha in essence, is also developing the fourth Paramita VIDYA, which means energy and courage.

 

But ordinarily religious seekers have moved away from life, they have moved away from the world.

 

Religious seekers have become sleepy, dull and dead. They are not interested in the burden of life, so they are just somehow dragging on.

On the fourth Bhumi, the meditator cultivate the perfection of effort and elimination of afflictions to meditation. He also enter deeper into meditation for extended periods of time.

 

Be alive, be vital, because it is only through life that you will reach truth.

 

When we are vital and alive, we have an inner radiance around us.

On the fourth Bhumi, the meditator emits the inner radiance of wisdom.

 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Paramita – The Ten Provisions for the Inner Journey

From satsang with Giten, February 25, 2016, in Stockholm  

4. Energy, Courage  

The fourth Paramita is VIDYA, which means energy and courage. 

A meditator and a bodhisattva, a Buddha in essence, need both energy and courage.

VIDYA stands for energy, courage and sustained effort to attain meditation and the persisted effort for the well being of others. 

A meditator needs also to be continuously aware that this life energy is not leaking and that the energy is not wasted. 

Ordinarily we are leaking and dissipating our life energy. 

Infinite energy is given to us, but we dissipate the energy.

 

We are never sitting silently. 

Meditation means to to sit silently, doing nothing.

That was what Buddha was doing under the Bodhi Tree. 

He was not doing anything. 

He was simply sitting silently, where there was not leakage of energy. 

Then the energy was reaching higher and higher. 

The energy reached to the Sahasrar, the seventh chakra. It reached the ultimate. 

There was a flowering and Buddha became a lotus flower.

We have the same energy, but whenever we have the energy, the desire to throw it away arises in us. 

We can call it a sexual urge or we can call it different desires and attachments. 

But if we allow the energy to gather inside us, the energy rises higher and higher until it touches higher altitudes of being.  

That is what Samadhi is. 

The third Bhumi is learning not to dissipate energy. 

 

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”, I talk about  the seven chakras, the seven levels of consciousness:, which is a development from sexuality to spirituality, to Samadhi: 

THE SEVEN LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

– THE SEVEN STEPS THAT AN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE 

IN HIS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS TOWARDS SPIRITUAL MATURITY  

What are the seven levels of consciousness? What life areas include the seven levels of consciousness? The seven levels of consciousness describe the seven steps that an individual goes through in his personal and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity. The seven levels of consciousness describe the whole rainbow of our consciousness. It describes all possibilities of our being. The seven levels of consciousness are also called the chakra system and is a map of human consciousness. 

The development process of the seven levels of consciousness is a process from fear to love, from darkness to light and from separation to wholeness.

The seven levels of consciousness are about the esoteric psychology of man, the psychology of consciousness. It is about the psychology of enlightenment, the science of inner transformation.

The chakra system is the seven jewels of human consciousness. It describes the seven life areas and dimensions of the human consciousness, which can help us discover a new clarity and a deeper dimension in relation to many areas of life, for example love, joy, feelings, relationships, awareness, communication, the inner man and woman, intuition, play, creativity, healing, meditation, silence, truth, wisdom and wholeness.

The chakra system seeks to develop and integrate the physical, emotional, psychological, mental, social and spiritual aspects of our being into one coherent whole.  

The development process of the chakra system includes the process from the personality, the psychological “I”, to the inner being, the authentic self, the development process of concrete and abstract thinking, the development process from seeing only one’s own needs to developing empathy, the capacity to understand the needs of another person, and the process of understanding the relation between level of awareness and working with people.

The chakra system relates both to the development process of the individual, to countries and to the whole world.  

Light on the chakras 

What is a chakra? How do the three lower and the three higher chakras relate to each other? The word “chakra” means “spinning wheel” in the ancient language Sanskrit. There are seven chakras, seven energy wheels in the body that moves clockwise. These charkas receive energy from the universal energy field, which is everywhere around us. The equivalent to the chakra system in the physical body is the endocrine glands, which regulates the hormones in the body.

Ckakras are the energy centers that take in universal energy, which we need to be alive.

Each chakra or awareness level is an energy center, which describes different life areas and psychological development issues in life. Each chakra also relates to a certain area in the body.

Each chakra plays a vital role both when it comes to physiological functions and to the development of our consciousness. The chakras relates to biological and physiological functions, to colors and light and to the development of our level of awareness.

The chakra system describes the three general development stages that an individual goes through in his psychological development: the animal, the man and the divine. The first three chakras belong to the animal and are about the themes survival, sex, power and money. The heart is a bridge between the animal and the divine. Love is the bridge between the animal and the divine.

Below the heart, man is an animal. Through the heart, man discovers the human within himself. Above the heart, man discovers the divine within himself.  

The seven levels of consciousness are:  

1. Survival – Grounding, Coordination and Physical Survival 

2. Sensations – Feelings, Sexuality and Satisfaction 

3. Power – Vitality, Strength and Self-sufficiency 

4. The heart – Unconditional Love and Acceptance 

5. Communication – Learning to Be Creative 

6. Vision – Learning to Know Our Self 

7. Unity- Opening to Universal Consciousness  

The first three levels relate to the personality, the psychological I, and the outer world. The heart is the fourth level, which is a bridge between the three lower levels and the three higher levels. The heart is a bridge between the three lower and the three higher charkas. The heart is the river between the outer and the inner self, between the personality, the psychological self, and the inner being, the authentic self.

The three lower chakras belong to the physical world. The heart is the golden bridge between the physical and spiritual world. The three higher chakras belong to the spiritual world.

The first chakra represents our relationship to the body, to the earth, and the seventh chakra represents our relationship to consciousness, to the sky.

The power chakra relates to the inner man, to the surface and periphery of our consciousness. The power chakra relates to the outer world.

The heart is the door to the inner woman, to the meditative quality within ourselves, to the inner source of healing and wholeness, to the inner capacity to surrender to life. The heart is the door to the inner world.

The three higher chakras relates to our inner being, the authentic self, and to the inner world.

This division in higher and lower chakras is only schematic. It does not mean to valuate chakras in better or worse. The key to understanding chakras is to learn to live in all chakras. Chakras are also connected with each other in pairs. The first chakra Survival and the seventh chakra Unity are, for example, connected with each other like body and soul, earth and heaven. It means that the higher we spread our wings in spirituality, the more we also need to find the natural roots in the body. It was an insight for me when I was working out with weight lifting in the gym one day, and suddenly had an insight that I was actually developing my spirituality by working on my first chakra through physical training. This insight gave me a both concrete and profound understanding of the relationship between the first and seventh chakra. It was an insight that there is really no division between body and soul, between matter and spirituality – it is one whole.

I have preferred the three higher chakras before, but now I also begin to appreciate the three lower chakras and to live in all seven chakras.

A chakra can also be overactive, under active or balanced. In the description below of each chakra, it will be described what it means for each chakra to be overactive, under active or balanced.

The seven levels of consciousness are about learning to accept and appreciate all steps and levels of our psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity. It helps us to see that both positive and negative experiences are teachers in life to help us to become spiritually mature. It is about learning to love the imperfect and incomplete within ourselves.  

The psychological and spiritual development process of the chakra system can be described as a building with seven floors. Understanding the development process through the chakra system is a process of seeing the world from a within-and- out perspective, rather than from an outside-and-in perspective. We create our own reality through our ideas, attitudes and concepts – and these concepts can lie on different levels of consciousness. This can be compared with a building. For example, you have a building in Stockholm, where you live in the cellar. In this cellar, you have two or three small windows, and your perspective of Stockholm is through people’s feet when they pass by the windows. But if you instead take the elevator up to the seventh floor, you are still in Stockholm, but now you have a greater view of Stockholm. You have more potential and more possibilities. But here something interesting happens in the psychological development process: in the outer world opposite energies attract each other for example positive and negative, man and woman and good and bad. But that is not true in the inner world: in the inner world similar energies attract each other and opposite energies repel each other.

The classic Indian book Bhagwadgita is about the struggle between light and darkness, between our lower and higher nature. The chakra system also includes the struggle between light and darkness, between good and evil, between awareness and unawareness and between separation and wholeness. The chakra system represents the choice between learning to listen to our intuition, to our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, or to listen to the endless desires of the ego.   

Basic functions  

1. Survival – Grounding, Coordination and Physical Survival 

The first chakra or level of awareness is called Survival and relates to the physical body. It is also called Root chakra. Survival is placed at the bottom of the spine.

Survival represents our relationship to the physical body. It relates to physical grounding, coordination and survival. It relates to instincts, to physiological functions and basic biological functions for example thirst, hunger, sleep and work. It also relates to emotional needs such as safety, security and our will to live.

Survival is the first chakra, where we become conscious about ourselves.

The first level of awareness is about learning to take responsibility for oneself and to develop a basic trust in life that life supports us and takes care of us. It also relates to our relation to money, work and home. The first level of awareness relates to our capacity to generate money and understanding that Existence is abundance and not just a struggle for survival. Survival relates to taking responsibility for ourselves. When we are not grounded in the first chakra, it creates a doubt that life supports us and takes care of us.

When we are born, the Survival chakra is first activated. It develops from birth to about 3-4 years of age.

The first chakra is the center that gives the soul roots in the physical body. It is the base for our human existence in the physical world. If this chakra is blocked, it results in an individual that feels rootless both in his physical body and in his spiritual existence.

Through the first months of the relationship of love, care and union between mother and child, the physical and spiritual existence of the child is developed in a sublime way. In the love between mother and child, the physical world is joined together with the highest form of spiritual love. It is a melting together and a symbiosis between mother and child. That is why the first months are so important for the child, since this period gives the newborn child the essential base for his continued physical and spiritual development. If this first period between mother and child is shortened or is completely omitted, it can become difficult for the child to accept that he had to leave the spiritual plane to enter a body. It can create restlessness in the child, but it is also possible to heal this lack later in life.  

When a mother lovingly takes care of her child, the light from their root chakras are melting together and their energies are joined together, so that the tie to the physical body that the child needs is strengthened and makes the separation from the spiritual plane easier for the child. 

2. Sensations – Feelings, Sexuality and Satisfaction  

The second chakra or level of awareness is called Sensations. It is placed three centimeters below the navel. Sensations is the center for feelings and relates to social needs, sensuality, sexuality, satisfaction and melting together with another person. It relates to feelings of anger, fear, sorrow and sympathy.

Sensations also relates to the ability to feel sympathy and being emotionally connected with other people.  

The second level of awareness is about psychological issues in relation to other people, for example parents, family and friends. It relates to liberating oneself from parents in order to grow up to an integrated, independent and whole individual.

Sensations start to develop from 3 to 7 years of age.

The second level of awareness is focused on the needs of the individual, which primarily are governed by emotions.

The second level of awareness also relates to the relation between food, sex and emotional issues.

People who have been let down by other people often have problems trusting others. This creates a defensive attitude and keeping people at a distance, which relates to the second level of awareness.   

3. Power – Vitality, Strength and Self-Sufficiency  

The third chakra or level of awareness is called Power. It is placed in the area around the solar plexus. Power relates to psychological issues like power, strength, self-respect and self-sufficiency.

The third level of awareness is about developing a trust in our ego in order to be able to direct and control our life.  

The power chakra is the center of the ego. It is about control, power and dominance over other people. A person who is on the level of awareness of power wants to change other people, but he does not want to change himself.

The power chakra is usually activated around 7-10 years of age. Children begin to become occupied with competition, achievement and to show their accomplishments around this age.

The power chakra also means to develop concrete logical and rational thinking, which primarily focus on one’s own needs, winning and self-sufficiency.

The power chakra relates to the outer world. It relates to the inner man, to the surface and periphery of our consciousness.

Ordinary relationships are often power relationships, which mean a fight and struggle between my needs and the needs of the partner. Often the two partners in a power relationship have the same strength in order to learn to develop their power through struggle and fighting. Strength and aloneness are also two sides of the same coin, two aspects of the same phenomenon, and fear of expressing our strength is often a fear of aloneness, of being abandoned, and of not being loved and accepted.

Acting aggressively has its roots in fear, judgments and insecurity. Violence and aggressiveness is about control and dominance over another person. To judge and to love are two sides of the same coin. Judgments about another person are really about ourselves. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our hearts opens. The heart is a healer that transforms fear to love, judgments to acceptance and separation to wholeness. The heart heals.

The society is created out of the ego, and the need of the ego to create a hierarchy of power, status, respect, position, norms, roles and conformity. Many people in the West lives in the power chakra, and is occupied with competing with others to prove that they are somebody important, and finding their place in the hierarchy.  

During the 20th Century, the psychological development level of humanity has been on the awareness level of the power chakra. The focus of humanity has been on power, dominance, position, status, money and control over energy resources. We are technologically advanced and the technology governs the development of the society, but this technology is at the same time destroying the earth. Energy resources are also distinguishing issues in the power balance between countries.  

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy. Chakras also relate to working with people and the third level of awareness relates to working individually with people.  

On the third level of awareness, a person begins to ask himself the question: “Who am I?” He comes to a point in his psychological development when his drama, defenses and self-sufficiency no longer works, and he begins to search for something more. But what? He may not know what he is really searching, but there is a feeling of dissatisfaction, a lack of meaning, and an inner need to be in contact with himself, with other people and with life, in a more true, meaningful and real way. This is what Indian mystics have called “The dark night of the soul”. It is when the endless desires of the ego and the rewards of the outer world are no longer satisfying. The outer world seems dark and empty, and when he turns within himself to the inner world; it is also dark and empty. This is the point in a person’s development when he realizes that real power is love and compassion.

Power and strength is like a sharp sword. It can be used either for destructive or creative purposes. It takes awareness to learn to use the strength in a loving and creative way.   

4. The heart – Unconditional Love and Acceptance  

The forth chakra or level of awareness is the human heart. The heart relates to unconditional love and acceptance both for others and ourselves. It relates to qualities of empathy, joy, acceptance, trust, intuition, understanding, compassion, playfulness, healing, friendship, sincerity and a feeling of unity in love.

The heart chakra is the center in a system of seven chakras. The heart is the golden bridge, where the physical and spiritual worlds meet.

The heart is the most important chakra. The heart is the base for spiritual growth. It is the seed for unconditional love, for the inner capacity to feel love for all and everything.

Love is the create aspect of life. Societies that only emphasize intellectual and academic education create spiritually challenged people.

The heart is the golden key to the greatness of being a human being. It is through the human heart that mankind has made the greatest achievements. The human heart is the only way to save mankind out of the present situation in the world.  

Humanity as a whole is in-between the power chakra and the heart in its psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity.

The power chakra relates to the ego and the outer world. The power chakra relates to the inner man. The heart is the door to the inner world. The heart is the river between the inner and outer self, between the ego and the inner being, the authentic self. The heart is the door to the inner woman, the meditative quality within, the inner source of healing and wholeness.

The open heart is like a fountain, which no longer make any distinction between “I love you – I do not love you”. The open heart does not any longer make any distinction between friends and enemies. The open heart is open both for others and ourselves. The open heart is unconditional love.

When there is a genuine love between two people, there is a natural will to give, instead of demanding.  

When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with an attitude of: “Nobody loves me” or “Nobody cares about me, which can make it difficult for other people to love us.

Many people live without really being in contact with their own heart. They live without really being in contact with themselves. Their energy goes from the power chakra and makes a detour around the heart, and goes straight up to the Communication chakra. 

During a period in my life, I felt that relationships with people just ended up in problems. I felt that relationships sooner or later ended up in a ditch. The two people in my life that I thought were my real friends, who I thought loved me and who I thought I could trust, had let me down. During this period I consciously decided to close my heart for a while. It surprised me when I realized that this is actually the way that many people live, without even being aware about what they are missing in their lives. This makes them emotionally and spiritually challenged. It leaves them without emphatic ability, without ability to understand either themselves or other people. It also leaves them without contact with their intuition, with their true inner voice, with their inner source of love, truth and wisdom. Instead they live their lives out of ideas, ideologies, and are directed from without themselves by other people and outer forces. Because of the lack of love in their lives, which would be really fulfilling, they seek a substitute instead in respect, status, fame, money, power and position.

The heart relates to developing abstract logical and rational thinking. The heart is also about developing empathy, the capacity to understand the situation of another person, and to see beyond our own needs and understand the needs of another person.

The level of awareness of a person also relates to how a person eats. On the level of awareness of the heart, a person becomes attracted to simple vegetarian food. This is also a help for the continued spiritual growth. It is like tuning our inner instrument.

Blocks in the heart chakra manifest itself as heart problems, a decreased immune system, and a lack of empathy and compassion.

Healing is pure love. The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy. Chakras also relate to working with people and the fourth level of awareness relates to working with groups of people. To work with groups of people, the therapist needs to have achieved the level of awareness of the heart. The therapist needs to be available with a quality of presence and heartfulness to be able to work with a group of people in a relaxed way.  

Intuition is a function of the heart. Intuition is our true inner voice, our constant available inner source of love, truth and wisdom, the silent voice of Existence within. Through the intuition, we are in contact with Existence. Our heart is the door to how much we can allow life to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, attitudes and learned concepts of how things should be.

The human heart has both an active and outgoing quality, and a receptive and ingoing quality. The outgoing quality of the heart is active love, and the ingoing quality of the heart is to allow both ourselves and others to love us.  

A beautiful friend of mine once told me that she had a reading of her heart chakra, and that she was told that her heart chakra had the quality of a faithful and trusting dog. She was very cute when she told me this with a slightly ironical tone. She would probably have preferred to have a heart chakra with a more challenging, mysterious and adventurous quality.  

Our heart is the door to allow Existence to guide us. Our heart is the door to surrender to life. Our heart is the door to our inner being, to the inner world. When we begin to open our heart, we realize that we are a part of life, a part of the Whole.  

Above the heart, we need a teacher and a guide. It is somebody who “knows”, who has walked further on the path than us, and who can guide, encourage and inspire us. There is an Indian saying: “When the disciple is ready, the teacher appears”.   

5. Communication – Learning to Be Creative  

The fifth chakra or level of awareness is called Communication. It is placed in the throat. Communication is related to creativity and the capacity to communicate. It is about recognizing our creative potential, and its function is creativity and communication both in relation to ourselves and to other people.

On the fifth level of awareness, we begin to develop the second life area Creativity.

The fifth level of awareness is also called Creative center, since a healing process occurs when we bring things from within ourselves out in the light and share it with others. When our Communication chakra is closed, the result can instead become confusion and a lack of distance to ourselves.

On the fifth level of awareness, we become like a comedian. We begin to discover a humor, awareness and a distance to our personality, to our thoughts, feelings and psychological attitudes. We begin to be able to laugh at ourselves and to take success and failure with a laugh.

On the development level of the Communication chakra, our love becomes more and more meditative.

On the fifth level of awareness, we realize that we are not the physical body. We are not identified any longer with the body.

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy. Chakras also relate to working with people and the fifth chakra relates to working with large groups of people. The focus of working with people on the fifth level of awareness changes from the nation to the whole world, to the whole planet. Eric Rolf, international therapist and consultant, author of the book Soul Medicine and a precious friend of mine since many years, described this as being a global personality.

A country that has developed the fifth level of awareness focuses on equality, where issues like injustice, racism and socio-economic rifts in society need to be solved.

The more aspects of our being that we develop, the richer and more creative our life becomes.  

6. Vision – Learning to Know Our Self  

The sixth chakra or level of awareness is called vision. It is placed in the middle of the eyebrows. It is also called the third eye. The theme for this chakra is to dissolve the feeling of being a separate “I” and to unidentify ourselves with the ego.

When the sixth level of awareness is not developed, there is still identification with the ego, with the separate “I”, and a feeling of separation from Existence.

On the sixth level of awareness we stand on the threshold of physical existence, where all duality and opposite tendencies, for example masculine and feminine, light and darkness, intellect and intuition and life and death, begins to dissolve and disappear. Through awareness and understanding, we can see beyond the personality to our inner being, to our essence and authentic self. We discover the inner being, the silent place within ourselves, which is the inner watcher of the drama of the outer life, and where nothing ever happens. 

The physical body manifests the duality of life and of opposite tendencies through two pair of legs, arms, ears and eyes, while the position of the third eye indicates the dissolution of the duality of life.  

On the sixth level of awareness, meditation becomes a thirst in our heart and being. It is a thirst after truth. It is also on the sixth level of awareness that we begin to develop the third life area Meditation.

When we begin to open the third eye, our thirst and commitment increases to discover our inner being, to understand the ultimate mystery of life, and to become one with Whole.  

I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted in life. I had a creative and meaningful work as a therapist and course leader, I had a relationship with a beautiful woman, who I loved and who loved me, I had friends that I trusted, and I had money to do what I wanted. But in spite of all this, I still had a feeling that there was something missing in my life. I was not satisfied. The thirst and longing in my heart was still searching for something more. It made me realize that the deepest pain in my heart was that I was still separated from the Whole, and that no relationships and things outside of myself could ease this pain.  

On the development level of the Vision chakra, love is no longer a relationship. Love becomes a presence and a quality of our being. Love becomes a natural quality in our aura. It is no longer a question of loving a certain person, we simply are love. We are unconditional love.  

The sixth level of awareness also relates to ordinary logical thinking with capacity to handle a lot of facts and information. The sixth level of awareness is also the center for intuition and awareness. It relates to a specific form of intuition, which is called clairvoyance. Clairvoyance means clear seeing and is described in Patanjalis book Yoga Sutras as one of the siddhis or psychic powers that a devoted meditator develops. Clairvoyance is a form of intuition, which is not limited in time and space. Through clairvoyance we can remember past lives, which can help us understand unconscious psychological patterns from past lives, and give us a broader perspective of life.

Another psychic quality that is developed on the sixth level of awareness is a telepathic perception and sensitivity, which gives us the insight that no man is an island in the ocean of consciousness. We are all parts of the same whole, we are all small individual rivers on our way towards the same ocean and on the inner plane we are continuously in contact with each other.

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy and chakras also relates to working with people. On the fifth level of awareness, the focus expanded to include the planet. On the sixth level of awareness, the focus expands from the planet to include the cosmos.

Blocks in the vision chakra manifest as problems with the eyes.

The difference between an artist that has developed his creativity to the awareness level of Communication, and a mystic on the awareness level of Vision, is that the artist has both his eyes focused outwards to the outer world, while the mystic has one eye focused outwards to the outer world, and one eye focused inwards to the inner world. An artist is not a mystic, but a mystic can also be an artist.  

7. Unity – Opening to Universal Consciousness  

The seventh chakra or level of awareness is called Unity. It is also called The Crown Chakra. It is placed on top of the head. Unity relates to opening to universal consciousness, to receive the ultimate wisdom.

The seventh level of awareness relates to learning to know God. It relates to truth, unconditional love, to enlightenment and to the experience of being one with the Whole.

The experience of the seventh chakra is an experience beyond words. It is an experience of joy and freedom beyond words. It is to be everything and nothing at the same time. It is to discover that we have really never been separated from life. It is to be in a deep unity and harmony with Existence. Our separate little individual river has finally joined with the ocean of consciousness, with the Whole.

When we have begun to open the seventh chakra, the thousand petalled lotus flower opens. We have learnt the lesson of life. Our inner tree has given fruit. We have become spiritually mature.

The word ”religion” originally means ”to return to the source”. It means to rediscover the contact with our inner being, with the source of life within ourselves. The deepest pain in our heart is that we are disconnected from our inner being, that we are separated from life. The deepest thirst and longing in our heart is to return to our being, where we are one with life.

The goal of meditation is enlightenment. In the depth of our being, we are already enlightened. We are an inseparable part of Existence, but we have forgotten our true nature. We have forgotten our inner Buddha. Meditation is the way to discover our inner being, our authentic self, our inner Buddha. Enlightenment is the fruit of meditation. It is to realize the highest attainment in human consciousness. It is to climb the inner Mount Everest.  

I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room, and looked out of the large windows. Outside the windows, white snowflakes effortlessly and slowly singled down towards a silent, snow-clad landscape. Suddenly I was filled with a feeling of being one with the slowly dancing snowflakes, one with the silent landscape. I did not understand then that this was my first taste of meditation, but it created a deep thirst and longing in my heart to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.  

Each human being is unique; each human being contains a divine spark, an aspect of God. We are much more than we think we are. The mystery of life is that it is impossible to understand, but we can live life. We can never really understand life, but we can become one with life. We can become one with the dance of life, one with the ultimate mystery of life.

I had a magical day during one Sunday when I walked out in nature. On the outside this day just consisted of taking a walk out in the beautiful sunny weather and cleaning my apartment, but on the inside everything suddenly changed. When I walked out in nature in the sunny weather, there was suddenly a silent explosion within me, and my whole perception of reality changed. In a single moment, everything changed – although nothing on the outside had really changed. Everything on the outside was exactly as before, but my way of seeing had changed. The difference was that before I did not see, and now I could see. My eyes were open. Suddenly I was one with everything, one with the stones, one with the trees, and one with the people that I meet on my walk. My heart danced with joy together with a feeling of: ”I am God”. Not that I am the creator of everything, but that I am part of the whole, part of the divine. It felt like coming home, that Existence is my home. I saw that even if the people that I meet did not understand that they are a part of the Whole, they still are a part of the Whole. I felt the waves of Existence in my own heart and being, and I felt like a small wave in a great ocean. It gave me a taste of the eternal, a taste of the limitless and boundless source of creativity. In just a few moments, I learnt more than during 20 years in university. Wisdom is basically the understanding that we are all a part of the Whole. We are all small rivers moving towards the ocean. I laughed at the fact that enlightenment is really our innate birthright, and that small children already lives in this mystical unity with the Whole.  

This unity with the Whole does not mean that our unique individuality disappears. It means that the richer our life experience is, and the more qualities of our being that we have developed, the richer the quality of our enlightenment becomes.  

When we realize that we are one with life, the world becomes our home. We are at home everywhere. 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Giten invited as guest on the American radio program “The American Perspective”

Giten invited as guest on the American radio program “The American Perspective”

The American Perspective is a cutting edge national radio program that is full of inspiration and information which airs on The SOP Radio Network. It’s intended to help people succeed in life.

Each week the American Perspective features celebrity guests from around the nation such as Zig Ziglar, Maya Angelou, Yolanda King, Billy D. Williams, Tony Little, Mark Victor Hansen, Dean Koontz, Dave Ramsey and many many more.

The editor-in-chief Judyth Piazza writes to Giten:

Hi Swami Giten

I would love to interview you on my radio program, The American Perspective.

Listen to the show…

Judyth Piazza and Bill Borchert Discuss “When Two Loves Collide,” Moonshine and its Efects on America

http://thesop.org/story/20130425/judyth-piazza-and-bill-borchert-discuss-when-two-love-collide-moonshine-and-its-effects-on-america.html

Tommy Lasorda and Marques Toliver on The American Perspective.

http://thesop.org/story/radio/2009/01/10/tommy-lasorda-and-marques-toliver-on-the-american-perspective-wttb-news-talk.php

I have worked with some of the top PR and publishing companies around the world to promote their clients.  This semester we are raising funds for our scholarship program.  The only thing that I ask is in an attempt to continue quality broadcasting for nonprofit and charitable organizations free of charge is to ask that successful companies such as yours make a donation to our scholarship fund http://thesop.org/support.html ($50-$100) and in addition to airing on The SOP Radio Network, your interview will also be permanently archived at www.thesop.org.

The American Perspective is a cutting edge national radio program that is full of inspiration and information which airs on The SOP Radio Network. It’s intended to help people succeed in life. Each week the American Perspective features celebrity guests from around the nation such as Zig Ziglar, Maya Angelou, Yolanda King, Billy D. Williams, Tony Little, Mark Victor Hansen, Dean Koontz, Dave Ramsey and many many more.

“It’s the next generation of Inter-tainment”

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Thank you

Judyth Piazza

QuoteMaster shares a Collection of Quotes by Swami Dhyan Giten

Quote Master

 
QuoteMaster shares a Collection of Quotes
by Swami Dhyan Giten


Quotes by Swami Dhyan Giten

The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting yourself as we are all one on the spiritual level.

The mother is the child’s first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation.

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of I is false.

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

The heart is the door to our inner woman. The heart is the door to our inner world. The power chakra relates to the inner man. The power chakra relates to the outer world. Irrespective of if we are a man or a woman, the inner woman is the center of our consciousness.

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

The human heart operates from two premises: I Am Responsible and Only Love Works.

In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.

A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

Love never ends.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

Read the whole collection of Giten Quotes on QuoteMaster:


http://www.quotemaster.org/author/Swami+Dhyan+Giten

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: The Middle Way – 6. Right Effort

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: 

The Way of the Buddha

 – The Eightfold Way

From satsang with Giten, February, 18, 2016, in Stockholm

 

6. Right Effort

The sixth step on Buddha’s eightfold way is Right effort or Right action.

 

Buddha says: never strain and fight and never be lazy. One has to balance the two.

 

Then there is Right effort, which is basically effortless. This is what Buddha callas action through inaction. 

It is to act out of awareness. 

When Buddha says “Right effort”, it means that everything you do in meditation, in relationships and in creativity should be a joy in itself.  Be playful. 

 When we act out of joy, we are in contact with our inner being, with the meditative quality within, with our life source. 

 

Right effort is also the effort to abandon all harmful thoughts, words and actions, and instead cultivate what is loving, aware and creative to ourselves, to other people and to the whole.

 

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being“. I talk about the three life areas, meditation, relationships and creativity:

 

What are the three life areas? How do the three life areas relate to each other in creating a loving, creative and satisfying life? The three life areas describe the areas in life that creates a creative and satisfying life when they are developed and function in a harmonious balance. The life areas also describe a balance between the inner and outer world that continuously relate to and enrich each other. These three life areas are Meditation, Relationships and Creativity.

What are the three life areas? How do the three life areas relate to each other in creating a loving, creative and satisfying life? The three life areas describe the areas in life that creates a creative and satisfying life when they are developed and function in a harmonious balance. The life areas also describe a balance between the inner and outer world that continuously relate to and enrich each other. These three life areas are Meditation, Relationships and Creativity.

Traditionally man has created a deep split between the material and spiritual aspects of life. Man has created a split between the inner and the outer world, between intellect and intuition, between body and soul, and between male and female qualities. Man has either chosen to deny the world or to deny the spirit, the soul.

The three life areas describe a balance between the inner and outer world. They describe how the inner being of a person, the soul of a person, can be implemented into all the three life areas. The actions of a person can be carried by the quality that we call awareness the presence of the spirit both in meditation, in relationships, and in work and creativity.

The three life areas describes how our awareness expands and develops, they describe how we walk the way of life.

The first life area Meditation is about creating a conscious relationship to our self. It is about discovering the inner being, the authentic self, the meditative quality within, the inner source of love, truth and wholeness.

The second life area Relationships is about learning to relate with other people from our inner being, from our authentic self. Relationships are about learning to live our love and truth in relationship to other people. It is about learning to relate with other people in love, joy, trust, friendship, acceptance, sincerity, compassion, understanding and freedom. This life area is about learning that relationships are not a chain, but an opportunity to listen to the whisperings of our heart.

Relationships is also about developing and embracing our male and female sides, so that neither side wins or dominates over the other. It is then that the spark of love ignites naturally within us.

This life area is also about learning that people come and go in life. We cannot rely on others like crutches. We can walk together on the path of life, but we cannot lean on each other.

Relationships are also about learning to know when it is time to hold on and when it is time to let go. People disappear from our life when we do not have more to learn from each other. The criteria for when it is time to let go of a relationship is when there is no joy in the relationship, and we do not grow spiritually together.

The third life area Creativity is about learning to follow the whisperings of the inner in creativity. This life area is about recognizing our creative potential, and learning to use our energy creatively. It is about learning to express our love, joy, intelligence and passion in work and creativity.

This life area is also about discovering the area of work, which we love to express our creativity through, and which creates a deep sense of joy, meaning and satisfaction within ourselves. It is to find the area of work through which we can contribute to the world.

Problems in life can often be found in one of these life areas. When one or two life areas are not developed in our life, it also has an effect on the other life areas. For example, if we have not developed Meditation, it will have an affect on Relationships, as our outer relationships are a mirror of our basic relationship to ourselves. If we have not developed Meditation, it will also affect Creativity. When we have not developed Meditation in our life, our creativity is really just activity without awareness.

The criterion for how our meditation is developing in our life is that the meditative presence and quality is expanding both in our relationships and our creativity and that we develop a harmonious balance between the three life areas.

Three ways to relate to the life areas

 There are basically three ways to relate to the life areas:

1. To choose only one life area

2. To develop and balance between two life areas and to exclude the third life area

3. To develop a balance and harmony between all three life areas

1. To choose only one life area

To choose only one life area means to focus on Meditation, Relationships or Creativity. To choose only one life area to express our whole creativity means that we limit ourselves in expressing all aspects of our total being.

To only put emphasis on developing the life area Meditation in our lives means that the meditative quality is not allowed expanding into our relationships and creativity. This is however a common choice in traditional religious contexts. Meditation has also traditionally been associated with something serious and away from the world. The East has also traditionally chosen this position by choosing to only focus on spirituality and meditation.

To only focus on the life area Relationships means that you miss both the relationship with yourself and the relationship to creativity. It also means that you build your whole life around another person.

To choose to focus only on the life area Creativity creates a mechanical workaholic, who misses both the relationship to himself and the relationship to other people. It creates a person, who builds his whole identity on what he does, rather than on what he is. It creates a lonely and isolated person.

2. To develop and balance between two life areas and to exclude the third life area

To choose to balance between two life areas and to exclude the third life area creates three different positions:

1. Meditation/Relationships

2. Meditation/Creativity

3. Relationships/Creativity



The first position

 Meditation/Relationships creates a relationship to oneself and a relationship to other people, but it is still limited because you do not develop your creativity and your innate talents, skills and gifts. The more aspects of our being that we develop, the richer and more satisfying our life becomes.

The position Meditation/Relationships also describes how we relate to the two poles aloneness, to be with ourselves, and love, to be and relate with others in our life.

The second position Meditation/Creativity means to focus on the relationship to oneself and the relationship to creativity, but it excludes the relationship with other people in our life. This position can be very creative, but it can also exclude love and support from other people. It is also a position that can be creative for a shorter period, for example when we have ended a relationship and need time and space to be with our self and to discover our own independence, creativity and freedom.

The third position

 Relationships/Creativity are the most usual choice in the West, where the focus is on activity and the outer world. This position means a relationship to others and a relationship to creativity, but it excludes the basic relationship to oneself. To asses how an individual generally functions, Western psychologist uses the two criterias how the relationships and the work situation of the individual works. The problem with this position is that it describes an individual who has his whole focus directed towards the outer world, while he does not really know who he is. All problems in the West can basically be traced back to this position. This position is like trying to only breathe out, without breathing in again. It ends in fatigue and exhaustion.

3. To develop a balance and harmony between all three life areas

 To develop a balance and harmony between all three life areas creates the best conditions for a loving, creative and satisfying life. One life areas can of course dominate during a shorter period, for example when you have ended a relationship and need to emphasize your creativity and freedom.

Most people have only developed three two life areas Relationships and Creativity. To be spiritually mature enough to develop all three life areas, an individual need to develop the awareness level of the heart. The heart is the door to develop a balance between all three life areas. The heart is the door to develop a balance between the inner and outer world.   

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: Bhumis & Paramitas – 3, Luminousness, Light, Patience

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Bhumis

 – Ten Steps to Enlightenment

From Satsang with Giten, February 18, 2016, in Stockholm

3. PRABHAKARI: Luminousness, Light

The third Bhumi is PRABHAKARI, which means luminousness, light.

Buddha says: Man is light. Light means electricity.

Feel yourself as a light, live in contact with your inner light.

Feel like your are made of light, and you will feel a luminous light around you.

In fact, it is already there around you and when you recognize it, it will arise around you, your light and your aura around you will expand.

On the third Bhumi, the meditator and bodhisattva, the Buddha in essence, will also develop the third Paramita, the third of the ten provisions and helps on the inner journey. The third Paramita is SHANTI, which means patience, forgiveness.

Everything is made of electricity. Man is made of electricity, and matter consists of electricity.

When you recognize the fact that you are a light, you will become a luminous light.

You will become a light, not only to yourself, but also to others.

Buddha’s last words to his disciples was to be a light to yourself.

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”, I have written about how healing is an inner light:

Within each one of us there is a healer. Healing has always been a way and a deep source of healing for me. Healing is basically our own energy, which overflows from our inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner silence and emptiness.

Healing is pure love in essence. Love is what creates healing. Love is the strongest force there is. The sheer presence of love is in itself healing. It is more the absence of love – than the presence of love – which creates problems. Healing is a quality, which we can freely share without any ownership. Healing is not something that we can claim as our own, healing is to be a medium, a channel, for the whole.

Healing is a medium through which we can develop our inner qualities of presence, love, joy, intuition, truth, silence, wisdom, creativity and inner wholeness. Healing comes originally from the silence within, where we are already in contact with the whole, with the divine. Healing is what makes us spread our inner wings of love and silence and soar high on the sky of consciousness and touch the stars. Healing is to be in service of God.

People who have a quality of heart and a sensitivity are naturally healing. With some people that we meet, we feel naturally uplifted and inspired. With other people that we meet, we become tired and heavy. With people, who can listen without judging and evaluating, it is easy to find the right words to share problems and difficulties. And with other people, it seems almost impossible to find the right words.

People, who have a healing presence and quality, can support our own inner source of love, truth and silence through their presence. These people also seem to have an intuitive sensitivity to say the right words, which lifts and inspires us. This is the people, whose presence can mirror the inner truth, which we already know deep within ourselves.

The human heart is a healer, which heals others and ourselves. It is the hearts quality of love, acceptance and compassion plus communication through words, which creates healing. Words which comes from the heart creates healing. A silent listening with a quality of presence and an accepting attitude creates space for healing to happen.

The gift of healing comes when we see the other person with love and compassion. It is the quality of heart, which creates the love and the genuine caring for the other person. When our words are carried by the quality of heart, you can say almost anything to the other person and he will still be able to be open and receptive. But if our words lack the quality of heart, it also becomes difficult for the other person to continue to be open and receptive. Even if a therapist is very skillful on a technical plane or have a clear clairvoyant ability and still lacks the natural roots in the soil of the heart, then his words will not touch the heart of the other person.

When I began to work with people almost 30 years ago, it was an insight for me that I really cared about the other person and that it was this love that was communicated beyond the words to the other person. One of my course participants – who is a teacher – described this very beautifully when he said that he was impressed by my intuition and by my way of conducting therapeutic work – or if he would rather call this giving insights into love. Love is what allows us to go beyond the surface of the other person and to touch his inner being, his inner essence. Without love, it is only possible to reach the personality of the other person, to reach the surface and periphery of the other person.

Meditation is the way to develop our natural healing abilities. Healing comes originally from our inner being, from the inner source of silence and wholeness. In the silence, we can let go of all our problems, frustrations, fears, anger and sorrow. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light. Healing is to embrace and accept everything that we find inside ourselves without judgement or evaluation. Healing happens when we discover an unconditional love and acceptance for ourselves as we are with both our light and dark sides.

A male meditator says that he made a deep going insight in a course about what healing is, which has guided him much in life. He says: “I did a course and had been feeling very good during the week before the course. The first two days of the course I still felt very good. But the third day of the course, I began to feel uncomfortable. The question why I suddenly felt uncomfortable arose in me. But instead of asking somebody else, I asked myself this question and the answer I got was: “To receive attention”. “Well, was it so simple”, I thought”, and then I closed my eyes, went inside myself and gave myself attention. Through this I discovered that I could give myself healing. There were also many things that I suddenly understood through this about the question: “What is healing?” It became clear to me that healing is to give attention and that healing and giving attention is synonymous terms”.

Healing is not only a specific method, healing is also to invite another person into our own inner light, to invite another person into our presence, love, joy, acceptance, humor, understanding, playfulness, meditation and silence. Healing can also be a loving word, an understanding glance, a present touch, a silent listening or simply joking with another person and making him or her happy. Humor is also one of the strongest healing powers to see our situation and ourselves in a new and creative light.

When I did an education in healing in USA 1984, I was told that I had the capacity to become a crown chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a channel and catalysator for spiritual energy from the 7th chakra through the heart. At that time I had no idea what a crown chakra healer really was and since than it has been a continuous process during the last 17 years to deepen and develop my understanding about what a crown chakra healer is. This process has resulted in a way of working I call “Synchronicity – Transmission of the Light”, which uses healing and energywork from the Source on a formless level. With this way of working I have worked with groups up to 80 people. It is really a way of working, which goes around the ego and speaks directly to the heart. It allows a person to come in direct contact with his own inner being, with his own life source. With my intellect I still do not understand how this way of working functions. It is not a way of working, which can be understood on a method plane. It is a way of working, which relates directly to the heart and which can only be understood through insight and experience. One participant in Gothenburg described his experience of Synchronicity like thousand suns suddenly had been lit in his own consciousness. He says: “It was like an inner explosion, an expansion of my own consciousness – and I felt only love for the other people in the room”.

The greatest teacher in healing is nature itself. To be out in the nature is like being surrounded and embraced by love. Trees are also very beautiful people, who have their own innate wisdom and who are already in oneness with Existence. And the sky whispers it’s silent message that beyond everything, there is only one sky. A female meditator describes it like there is a basic meditative quality in nature. She says: “There is nothing in nature that questions each others existence like people do. Everything is allowed to exist and everything is allowed to be exactly as it is – and seasons come and goes. It is not strange that people love to be out in nature and experiences that they come in harmony with themselves, because there is nothing that tries to change them out in nature. There is a quality in the air, which can be called a meditative quality”.

Healing is to be in the light of our own consciousness. Healing is an inner light, which exist as a natural radiance around a person. This inner light is in itself a healing force beyond words. This inner light disperses darkness like when you lit a candle in a dark room and the darkness disappears by itself. This inner light exudes a subtle influence just through its presence. The more the light in our own consciousness is lit, the more it creates a subtle effect in the world.

– Swami Dhyan Giten

“Outstanding beautifully written. The message is luminous in itself,

but Giten’s way to formulate the message in English is a pure gift from God.”

– Brage Norin, professor in theoretical physics

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Paramitas – The Ten Provisions for the Inner Journey

From Satsang with Giten, February 18, 2016, in Stockholm

3. SHANTI: Patience

The third Paramita is SHANTI, which means patience.

Patience is timelessness. The inner journey is vast, and you need infinite patience.

If you are restless, if you are impatience, if you are in a hurry, you will never be able to achieve enlightenment.

An oceanic patience is needed on the journey.

Meditation and enlightenment are not an instant achievement.

Sometimes even three to five lives are not enough for the journey.

How much time the journey takes depends on your patience.

In fact, you are already that which you seek, you are already there where you want to be, but your restlessness, your impatience, make you not see it.

Love, patience, meditation, silence and wisdom are five qualities of the same phenomenon.

The day you relax and sit silently doing nothing, suddenly it is there.

With patience, you realize that you already are that which you seek.

In your impatience, in your restlessness, you cannot see it.

When you are patient, not going anywhere, when your being is just still, you realize that you are already that which you seek.

This oceanic patience also gives you a love, an acceptance, a patience and a forgiveness with other people.

When I was 23 years old, a spiritual teacher told me: Even if you are irritated with people, see if you can give them love.

This is the love, acceptance, patience and forgiveness that Jesus talks about when he talks about turning the other cheek and to forgive people.

According  to old Buddhist scriptures, Jesus studied at a Buddhist university in India before he began to preach, so when he talks about turning the other cheek it may be this Bhumi that he is talking about.

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Giten quoted in interview with musician and international DJ Luca Cazal on CosmicPineApple

Giten quoted in interview with musician and international DJ
Luca Cazal on the English site 
CosmicPineApple
 

Cosmix 0.1 – Luca Cazal


 

 

Cosmix 0.1 comes from musical wonder-mind, Luca Cazal.

Whether working with house, disco, techno or indie, Luca Cazal is a humble master and lover of music in all of its forms. Through his work with Ali Love as ‘Infinity Ink’, with Jamie Jones and Lee Foss as ‘Hot Natured’, with Brigante as ‘Luca C & Brigante’ and his previous integral part in the band ‘Cazals’, Luca’s musical interests hold no boundaries and whatever project he turns his mind to manifests in its perfection, as a true wizard’s work does.

Some musicians are born with an infinite amount of creative energy, working on solo and collaborative projects constantly with a persistent need to release the rhythms and melodies reverberating around inside their soul. Luca Cazal is one such artist, a music obsessive who works relentlessly to harness the power of the musical spirits that surround us, summoning them from the stars above, down to Earth and into the clubs.

Luca is a key member of the hugely successful Hot Natured group, two renowned duos; Infinity Ink and Luca C & Brigante, as well as the alternative project Invisible Cities. He has played a part in producing a long list of contemporary classics including ‘Morals’, ‘Tomorrow Can Wait’, ‘Games’, ‘Infinity’ and ‘Flash Of Light’ and the timeless hit ‘Benediction’. But now he is investing a large amount of time and energy into his own solo projects. Humble, driven and devoted to his craft, the focus on his solo work begins with a showcase of his diversity on an EP for one of the industry’s most influential labels, Crosstown Rebels.

As a DJ, Luca has travelled the world, playing at many of Europe’s most important club spaces including Panorama Bar, Circo Loco at DC10 and is currently in his third year as resident for Jamie Jones’ Paradise. His list of achievements also includes a slew of high-profile festival appearances; Glastonbury, Tomorrowland, Global Gathering, Hideout and Day Zero among them. Just like his production work, Luca pays close attention to detail when playing music, constantly evolving and pushing his limits. His tour schedule remains packed up until the end of 2014 and into 2015, with a firm focus on solo performances.

With ‘Cosmix 0.1′ Luca explores his own cosmic realms in a mind expanding 42 minute mix. Enjoy!

Cosmix interview:

 

Cosmic Pineapple: Tell us about the mix –

Luca Cazal: The style of music is a mix of early 80’s  electronic  European music which some people may refer to as ‘cosmic disco’ and some more modern productions loosely inspired by this type of music. I’ve been interested in these kind of records for a number of years, after listening to the now legendary ‘cosmic tapes’ by Daniele Baldelli.  Actually I shouldn’t call this a ‘style of music’ as it’s in fact many styles, it includes anything from afro beat, downtempo disco, rock, early new wave and many more  influences.  I’d like people to listen to it as a whole without really thinking about who made the music and see where it takes them.

Music is… ?

My life, my medicine and my obsession

What is your view on the state of universal consciousness?

I think it’s hard to describe what Universal Consciousness is, I would say that Universal Consciousness is the mechanism for everything and is everything, therefore we’re all part of it. I think that more and more people are starting to realise it and that can only be a positive thing.

Can you give us a cosmic quote?

“Healing is to be in the light of our own consciousness. Healing is an inner light, which exists as a natural radiance around a person. This inner light is in itself a healing force beyond words. This inner light disperses darkness, like when you light a candle in a dark room and the darkness disappears by itself. This inner light exudes a subtle influence through its mere presence. The more the light in our own consciousness is lit, the more it creates a subtle effect in the world.” – Swami Dhyan Giten

Your starsign ?

Cancer

If you could do anything with a pineapple, what would you do?

I feel obliged to point out that I don’t like the taste of pineapples, I’ve also never been able to understand why people would have pineapple on pizza… Being Italian I see this almost as a sacrilege.  But  I do love the way pineapples look and feel. They look amazing, the shape of the whole thing, the leaves, the geometry of the rind, pineapples look so tough and impenetrable. I would  love to be able to enter the plants realm and be able to hang out with them on the same level, communicate with them and live like they do. If this was possible I would have the pineapple as my protector/bodyguard in the plant World.

www.lucacazal.com