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August 19, 2015
Giten on Jesus Christ: Not the Master in Your Own Home Town
Giten on Jesus Christ:
Not the Master
in Your Own Home Town
An excerpt from the book “Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth and the Life”, which Giten is currently writing.
The book is a compilation of lectures during Satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ
Matthew 13
AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, HE TAUGHT THEM IN THEIR SYNAGOGUE, INSOMUCH THAT THEY WERE ASTONISHED AND SAID, WHENCE HATH THIS MAN THIS WISDOM AND THESE MIGHTY WORKS?
IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER’S SON? IS NOT HIS MOTHER CALLED MARY? AND HIS BRETHREN, AND HIS SISTERS, ARE THEY NOT ALL WITH US? WHENCE THEN HATH THIS MAN ALL THESE THINGS? AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM.
People were not so offended with Buddha or Lao Tzu as people were offended with Jesus.
With Buddha, he is so far away that you either do not understand him, or people could understand that he was the essence of the Upanishads.
With Jesus, people were offended, because he was just like them. They could not understand him. The said: “We know him! Isn’t he the carpenter’s son!”.
Buddha was also the son of a king, while Jesus was a carpenter’s son.
People could not understand. From where comes his wisdom?
They were offended, their ego was offended.
BUT JESUS SAID TO THEM, A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOUR,
SAVE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND IN HIS OWN HOUSE.
It has happened so many times that the people who are closest will always misunderstand.
We could expect the contrary, that the people of Jesus village would understand him first. The people of Jesu’s house, his family, his relatives, would understand him first.
But that does not happen.
A deep insight into the human ego is needed to understand it.
With those that are closest to you, it is very difficult to believe that they had gone beyond and above you.
If somebody else, who is not close to you, goes beyond you, the competetive ego does not arise.
But if your brother goes, and you are left behind, your ego is hurt.
You feel defeated, a failure. Then the easiest way is to deny that he has gone beyond.
Jesus offended his own village, family and relatives.
They knew Jesus’ birth date, they knew his father, his mother, his brothers and sisters.
So Jesus can not be forgive.
Jesus is a quality of love, but to be able to see this quality, you have to drop your ego.
The presence, the quality of Jesus offends, because you will feel that you have failed.
His very being, his presence, offends you.
With Jesus there are two qualities: either you follow him or you deny him, you become an enemy.
When Jesus was crucified, many felt a great relief.
Very rare people could follow Jesus, because they were ready to drop their egos.
And even those that followed Jesus, hesitated and had doubts, before they could say yes, before they can trust.
Jesus is a total yes to life, a total trust in life.
From the foreword of Giten’s book
“Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”
“Some time ago, I felt that I experienced more limitations, than possibilities in a spiritual organization, which I had belonged to for a long time. It became clear for me that I was prepared to expand, and take a new step in my spiritual growth.
To be spiritual does not mean to belong to a spiritual group. I felt that I had grown out of the kindergarten, and my inner tree was bearing fruit. Too many large trees can not grow in a narrow area.
This was a lesson to stand on my own feet; it was a lesson for me to live to my own life, to live my own truth, without following anybody else. I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition, I am only interested to explore what it means to live with open eyes.
A friend came with a good advice during this period: “Go ahead without looking back, let others do their thing, that is their choice and freedom – you do need their limitation.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
“It is not many things that modern psychology agrees upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility.
The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours.
All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles.
It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth, silence and creativity.”
– Swami Dhyan Giten
The Art of Living:
The Art of Being Happy
From Satsang with Giten,
June 18, 2015
The Art of Being Happy is the art of saying say to life. The whole message of Jesus is a total “yes” to life.
Whatsoever you do, do it happily.
Whatsoever you do, wherever you are, do not do anything unhappily.
Whatsoever happens, see out how you can find happiness in it.
If you know how to be happy, then even small things become great things.
Make being happy the art of living.
When you learn the art of being happy, it also begins to spread around you like the waves of the ocean.
August 18, 2015
Giten invited for satsang to beautiful Barcelona
GITEN INVITED FOR SATSANG TO BEAUTIFUL BARCELONA
Gemma Calaf at Conscious Barcelona writes to Giten: I’m writing to you because your work really inspires me, and it is is going perfectly with the aim of Conscious Barcelona.
Recently I have founded Conscious Barcelona, Barcelona Conscient, a platform that has been born through the need of establish a bridge between those who work from consciousness, and all those people who are searching for an inspiration to continue looking further for their self knowledge and the experimentation of this consciousness.
August 15, 2015
Danish Christan fundamentalist says that Giten’s philosophy is in direct opposition to the words of God
DANISH CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST SAYS
THAT GITEN’S
PHILOSOPHY IS IN DIRECT OPPOSITION
TO THE WORDS OF GOD
Apostolic Church Center in Vejle in Denmark has written about Giten and linked to his words on their website, which has created heated feelings among Christians in Denmark.
On the Danish website Moriel.dk, the fundamentalic Christian Ole Michaelsen is horrified that Apostolic Church Center has written about “the mystic Swami Dhyan Giten” on their website.
He begins his article by quoting Paulus, who had never meet Jesus and whose basic mission was to kill the early Christians. He continues to say that Giten stands for hinduism, because Giten says that God is not a person, but that God is the underlying energy and consciousness of the whole existence. His conclusion is that Giten’s philosophy is in direct opposition to the words of God.
Read more on Moriel.dk:
http://moriel.dk/egne%20artikler%201/det%20bedrageriske%
Swami Dhyan Giten:
Jesus Christ – The Path of
Love
From the book that Giten is currently writing “Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth and The Life”, which is a compilation of lectures during satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ
The Path of Love, the path of Bhakti Yoga, is the path of Jesus Christ.
Love is not a technique.
Love knows no technique, so the path of love has no method or technique.
If you bring technique to the path of love, you will destroy love.
The whole existence is love, and the birds need no technique to love, trees need no technique to love the mountains need no technique to love.
Love only needs that you drop the ego, and drop into your heart. It is just like a rose flower opening. You need not open it, it has the capacity to open already. The capacity is intrinsic, and of it’s own accord the rose flower will open – and in the same way the heart opens.
The heart needs no technique, the heart needs no training.
Jesus says: “God is love”. If you can love, it will happen by itself.
Jesus path is the way of love, of prayer. It is a deep love for the whole existence.
Jesus was a man of love, of immense compassion. He loved this earth, the people, the threes, because that is the way to love God.
God is life. Jesus is very life-affirmative. He says total yes to life.
When you look into the eyes of each being that you meet, you meet God.
Everybody is an incarnation of God – the threes, the flowers, the rocks, the animals, the people and the mountains.
Love the people, love the threes, love the animals – and through the love you meet God.
All are brothers here, because God is one.
The threes, the flowers, the birds and the rocks are all your brothers, because they all come from the one source.
if you are not reconciled with the world, you cannot pray to God. Prayer is only possible when you are in harmony with existence.
The whole existence is your brother. The first step for prayer is to be reconciled with your brother. And your brother means all beings.
Jesus is a celebration of being, a celebration of life.
If you deny life, you deny God.
If you say no to life, you say no to God, because God is life.
To understand Jesus, you have to understand that life is God.
If you say yes to life, you will feel a prayer arising in your heart, a yes arising in your being.
The ego is a no to life, the ego is a separation from life. The inner being is a yes to life. The inner being is a deep yes and acceptance of life.
Saying yes bridges you with the whole. It makes you a part of the whole.
Saying yes will make you more and more spiritual.
Jesus whole message is yes. The word “amen” means yes.
You will never meet God, you will meet human beings, animals, stones and threes.
You can love God through other human beings, through threes, through stones and through animals.
And when you have learnt to love God through all his forms – then only love changes into prayer.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
August 13, 2015
Congratulation to Giten from Devadas
Congratulations to everything that you do
books
satsangs
blessings
Loka Devadas
Devadas was the house father of Ljusbacken (“The Hill of Light”), Giten’s first spiritual ashram in the north of Sweden when he was 15 years old. Giten writes about Ljusbacken in the foreword of his book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being:
“When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of Ljusbacken (“The Hill of Light”) in Delsbo in beautiful Halsingland in the north of Sweden.
Ljusbacken consisted of an international gathering of yogis, meditators, therapists, healers and seekers of truth. It was on Ljusbacken that I for the first time came in contact with my path in life: meditation.
It was also on Ljusbacken that I meet people for the first time in my 15 year old life, where I on a deep wordless level felt that I meet people, who were on the same path as me. It was the first time that I meet people, who could put words on and confirm my own inner thirst after something that I could only occasionally sense vaguely, like some sort of inner guiding presence, or like a beacon in the distant far out on the open and misty ocean. For the first time in my life, I meet brothers, sisters and friends on the inner path.
It was also on Ljusbacken that I meet the mystery called love for the first time in my 15 year old life. With my 15 year old eyes, I watched with wide eyed fascination and fear filled excitement the incomprehensible mystery, which is called woman.
My own thirst after truth, together with my inner guiding light, resulted in an early spiritual awakening when I was 15 years old. It led me back to the inner path, which I have already followed for many lives. It led me back to a life lived with vision, with dedication and meaning, and not only a life governed by the endless desires of the ego, a mere vegetating without substance between life and death. It led me to explore the inner journey again, to discover the inner being, the meditative quality within, and to come in intimate contact with the endless and boundless ocean of consciousness, like the drop surrenders to the sea. At the source, the drop and ocean are one.”
July 31, 2015
Satsang with Giten, August-October 2015 in Stockholm: The Way of the Buddha – Living Consciously and Dying Consciously
SATSANG WITH GITEN
– A COMMUNION OF THE HEART:
SATSANG MED SWAMI DHYAN GITEN CONTINUES DURING THE AUTUMN 2015 IN STOCKHOLM:
THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA: WAVES & OCEAN
– LIVING CONSCIOUSLY AND DYING CONSCIOUSLY
“When I participated in Satsang with Giten for the fir st time, I felt that I had come to the right place. I felt that I had come home.
I never thought that a 2-hour Satsang could go so deep.
“The love that I found within myself during Satsang with Giten just continued to flow a week after the Satsang.”
– Iiris, special education teacher for autistic children and participant in Satsang with Moji and Eckhart Tolle
Satsang with Giten is meeting in silence and truth. Satsang is a love, a meditation and a energy transference.
Satsang is a direct insight and experience of being.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
Time: August 13, 20, 27. September 3, 10, 17, 24. October 1, 8 , 15. 19.00 PM – 21.00 PM
Booking and information: swami.dhyan.giten(a)gmail.com
Read more info in Swedish on the pages of this blog.
July 26, 2015
Parenthood.com quotes Giten on Children and Spiritual Parenting
Parenthood.com
– Helping families to grow
quotes Giten on
spiritual parenting
“Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a
climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and
silence.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten
“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.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten
“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.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten
July 22, 2015
Giten on Jesus Christ – The Path of Love
Swami Dhyan Giten:
Jesus Christ – The Path of Love
From the book that Giten is currently writing the book “Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth and The Life”, which is a compilation of lectures during satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ
The Path of Love, the path of Bhakti Yoga, is the path of Jesus Christ.
Love is not a technique.
Love knows no technique, so the path of love has no method or technique.
If you bring technique to the path of love, you will destroy love.
The whole existence is love, and the birds need no technique to love, trees need no technique to love the mountains need no technique to love.
Love only needs that you drop the ego, and drop into your heart. It is just like a rose flower opening. You need not open it, it has the capacity to open already. The capacity is intrinsic, and of it’s own accord the rose flower will open – and in the same way the heart opens.
The heart needs no technique, the heart needs no training.
Jesus says: “God is love”. If you can love, it will happen by itself.
Jesus path is the way of love, of prayer. It is a deep love for the whole existence.
Jesus was a man of love, of immense compassion. He loved this earth, the people, the threes, because that is the way to love God.
God is life. Jesus is very life-affirmative. He says total yes to life.
When you look into the eyes of each being that you meet, you meet God.
Everybody is an incarnation of God – the threes, the flowers, the rocks, the animals, the people and the mountains.
Love the people, love the threes, love the animals – and through the love you meet God.
All are brothers here, because God is one.
The threes, the flowers, the birds and the rocks are all your brothers, because they all come from the one source.
if you are not reconciled with the world, you cannot pray to God. Prayer is only possible when you are in harmony with existence.
The whole existence is your brother. The first step for prayer is to be reconciled with your brother. And your brother means all beings.
Jesus is a celebration of being, a celebration of life.
If you deny life, you deny God.
If you say no to life, you say no to God, because God is life.
To understand Jesus, you have to understand that life is God.
If you say yes to life, you will feel a prayer arising in your heart, a yes arising in your being.
The ego is a no to life, the ego is a separation from life. The inner being is a yes to life. The inner being is a deep yes and acceptance of life.
Saying yes bridges you with the whole. It makes you a part of the whole.
Saying yes will make you more and more spiritual.
Jesus whole message is yes. The word “amen” means yes.
You will never meet God, you will meet human beings, animals, stones and threes.
You can love God through other human beings, through threes, through stones and through animals.
And when you have learnt to love God through all his forms – then only love changes into prayer.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
July 18, 2015
The Art of Living: The Three Stages of Enlightenment
The Art of Living:
The Three Stages of Enlightenment
From Satsang with Giten, June 25, 2015
These are the three stages of enlightenment, the three glimpses of satori.
1. The first stage enlightenment:
A Glimpse of the Whole
The first stage of enlightenment is short glimpse from faraway of the whole. It is a short glimpse of being.
The first stage of enlightenment is when, for the first time, for a single moment the mind is not functioning. The ordinary ego is still present at the first stage of enlightenment, but you experience for a short while that there is something beyond the ego.
There is a gap, a silence and emptiness, where there is not thought between you and existence.
You and existence meet and merge for a moment.
And for the first time the seed, the thirst and longing, for enlightenment, the meeting between you and existence, will grow in your heart.
2. The second stage of enlightenment:
Silence, Relaxation, Togetherness, Inner Being
The second stage of enlightenment is a new order, a harmony, from within, which comes from the inner being. It is the quality of freedom.
The inner chaos has disappeared and a new silence, relaxation and togetherness has arisen.
Your own wisdom from within has arisen.
A subtle ego is still present in the second stage of enlightenment.
The Hindus has three names for the ego:
1. Ahamkar, which is the ordinary ego
2. Asmita, which is the quality of Am-ness, of no ego. It is a very silent ego, not aggreessive, but it is still a subtle ego.
3. Atma, the third word is Atma, when the Am-ness is also lost. This is what Buddha callas no-self, pure being.
In the second stage of enlightenment you become capable of being in the inner being, in the gap, in the meditative quality within, in the silence and emptiness.
Four hours, for days, you can remain in the gap, in utter aloneness, in God.
Still you need effort to remain in the gap, and if you drop the effort, the gap will disappear.
Love, meditation and prayer becomes the way to increase the effort in the search for God.
Then the second stage becomes a more conscious effort. Now you know the way, you now the direction.
3. The third stage of enlightenment:
Ocean, Wholeness, No-self, Pure being
At the third stage of enlightenment, at the third step of Satori, our individual river flowing silently, suddenly reaches to the Ocean and becomes one with the Ocean.
At the third Satori, the ego is lost, and there is Atma, pure being. You are, but without any boundaries. The river has become the Ocean, the Whole.
It has become a vast emptiness, just like the pure sky.
The third stage of enlightenment happens when you have become capable of finding the inner being, the meditative quality within, the gap, the inner silence and emptiness, so that it becomes a natural quality.
You can find the gap whenever you want .
This is what tantra callas Mahamudra, the great orgasm, that Buddha calls Nirvana, what Lao Tzu calls Tao.
You have found the door to God.
You have come home.
– Swami Dhyan Giten
July 14, 2015
Coming home: Comments from participant in Satsang with Giten
COMMENTS FROM PARTICIPANT IN SATSANG WITH GITEN
“When I participated in Satsang with Giten for the first time, I felt that I had come to the right place. I felt that I had come home.”
“I never thought that a 2-hour Satsang could go so deep.”
“The love that I found within myself during Satsang with Giten just continued to flow a week after the Satsang.”
– Iiris, special education teacher for autistic children and participant in Satsang with Moji and Eckhart Tolle
