Swami Dhyan Giten's Blog, page 41
January 31, 2014
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten, January 29, in Stockholm
SATSANG
with
Swami Dhyan Giten
January, 29, in Stockholm
“Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega.
Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and
enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual
journey.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
“Sexuality is the door to love, and love is the door to
silence, to the divine.”
-Swami Dhyan Giten
“Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole
relationship to life.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The topic for the Satsang with Giten on January, 29, was relationships, sexuality and meditation. Giten began this Satsang by lecturing on Buddha’s sutra Silence is the Answer, where Buddha recommends the authentic seeker of love and truth to remain in your center, in your silence and to be aware if you are insulted by other people.
Giten also introduced the second chakra, Sensations, which is the center for relationships, feelings, family, friends and sexuality. Giten also talked about the relationship between sexuality and meditation, and how to use our basic energy to grow in meditation.
“I will take advantage of this opportunity for Satsang
with Giten.”
Lech Dulny, vice head of the School for the Arts in
Stockholm, which organizes courses in music, theatre,
dance, art, media and dramatic arts
A PHYSICAL PULL TO SATSANG
“I am sad that I missed the Satsang with Giten last Wednesday due to outer circumstances, but I felt that something was almost pulling me towards Satsang. It is strange. I have felt every time that something has pulled me to Satsang. I have felt it almost like a physical pull.”
Lotta Hallin, Stockholm
Buddha: Silence is the Answer
Buddha said: if an evil-doer, seeing you practice goodness, comes and maliciously insult you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
- When you grow spiritually, you will find that many people will get upset with you, because your spiritual growth, your presence, your love, your joy, your silence, create a guilt, a resistance, in them.
- A good man creates comparison in other people, which will hurt their ego.
- A Jesus must be crucified, because his his love, his presence, his light, hurt the ego. A Socrates must be poisoned, because his truth and authenticity creates a comparison. It mirrors others lies and unauthenticity.
- If you live with unconscious and unhealthy people, your consciousness and health are dangerous to them.
- People will come and insult you, because you hurt their ego, you hurt their lies.
- When people insult you, you should remain at your center, you should patiently endure the insult.
- You should remain in your center, in your silence, and be aware and watch the insult. You should not be disturbed by the insult. If you are disturbed, the insulting person has defeated you.
- You remain silent, collected and calm.
- Buddha says just keep quiet, endure it, remain patient and do not get angry with the person.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
2. Sensations
- Relationships, Feelings,
Family, 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.
An over active second chakra leads to:
Selfishness, an over ambitious and competitive attitude, explosiveness, aggressiveness, manipulation, an emotional attitude, vulgarity and an excessive sense of pride.
An under active second chakra leads to:
Impotence and frigidity, emotional problems and conflicts, a lack of emotional contact with other people, a lack of understanding other people emphatically, sexual inhibition and guilt, shyness, over sensitivity, hidden shameful feelings, suspicion towards others and an introvert disposition.
A balanced second chakra leads to:
A genuine caring for others, a capacity to intuitively and emotionally understand other people, a capacity to feel sympathy for other people, kindness, passion, sexual self-confidence and satisfaction, vitality and well being.
After the lecture, Giten invited questions and comments, and one female participant said that the work with the chakra system had started a deep healing in her.Another participant said that he had recently returned from India after 3 months, and that he really wanted to use this opportunity for Satsang with Giten.
He also said that he had closed off many relationships during the last period, but that now he wanted to to rediscover his inner being, to return to joy, meditation and silence, in his life again, which he felt that he had forgotten.
Giten commented that the inner joy and silence is always available within. It is only a question of rediscovering the inner joy and silence. Giten also said that relationships is a question of inviting people into your life from your inner being, rather than closing people off because of ideas and judgements. Giten also said that relationships is both about becoming clear about what I want in relationships, and about being clear about what I do not want in relationships.
The lecture was followed by 25 minutes of silent Satsang with Giten, which created a deep joy and silence.
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January 27, 2014
A PHYSICAL PULL TO SATSANG WITH GITEN
“I am sad that I missed the Satsang with Giten last Wednesday due to outer circumstances, but I felt that something was almost pulling me towards Satsang. It is strange. I have felt every time that something has pulled me to Satsang. I have felt it almost like a physical pull.”
Lotta Halldin, Stockholm
January 24, 2014
Giten on The World:
A Global Dictatorship and a Global...
Giten on The World:
A Global Dictatorship and a Global
Electronic Police State
“The basic problem with
the world is that there is too
much hate and too little love.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
More than 5 years ago, Giten wrote that the plans of the global political and economical elite are to create a global dictatorship and a global electronic police state.
This year Giten’s words became true through the revelations about NSA’s global surveillance. Washington Post revealed that the large American Internet companies Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Skype are tools for Internet surveillance for the American intelligence agencies CIA and NSA. But this is still only the tip of the ice berg. Mainstream media still seem incapable of connecting the dots and see the large picture.
Facebook and Google are also members of the Bilderberg group, whose aim is to create a global dictatorship and a global electronic police state. The directors of CIA, NSA and NATO is at attendance at Bilderberg’s annual meeting together with the international banks, the military complex, the global companies, international media (who do not report about the meeting) and democratically elected politicians from all over the world. The Bilderberg group meet each year behind closed doors, and the people have no information about what is discussed and what is decided. Stefan Löfven from the Swedish Social democratic party, who is probably the next Swedish prime minister this year, attended the Bilderberg meeting, and Swedish media has not asked him a single question about what was discussed.
In the article enclosed below, which was published 2 years ago, Giten says that the so-called war on terrorism is not against terrorism or a specific country, it is a war against humanity.
In Swami Dhyan Giten’s Newsletter for January 2013, Giten also criticized the endless wars in the world. The article was also sent to President Obama. A couple of weeks later, the American company Yahoo, closed Giten’s official Yahoo-mail since 10 years. Despite 3 complaints to Yahoo and 3 complaints against Yahoo to ISPA, The Internet Service Providers Association, Yahoo still refuses to explain the reason for this.
The war drums are alarming
again
Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts, which is unacceptable in the 21st century. The eternal wars are not really against a specific country, it is a war against humanity, says Swami Dhyan Giten, spiritual teacher and best-selling author.
The war drums are alarming again. The mainstream media informs us that USA need to defend themselves from the threats of a nuclear war from North Korea, but the truth is that USA has provoked North Korea until they threatened USA.
The foreign policy of President Obama is not very different from the foreign policy of George W. Bush as the economy of the US is based on the war industry. 1 trillion dollar per year of the taxes is used for military spending. It is also a well-known fact that the tax money for military spending that Pentagon receives is then converted into huge profits for the private companies and the war industrial complex.
The neo-conservative think tanks have made a plan for a new American century (see the link enclosed below). This plan consists of a war list, which lie on the desk of President George W. Bush and consists of war against the following countries: Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and North Korea. President Obama is now continuing to follow this war list.
President Eisenhower warned against the “war industrial complex”, which he considered the largest threat to democracy. President John F. Kennedy also warned against a “secret conspiracy” against democracy. The war industrial complex consists of the international banks, oil companies, war industry, democratically elected politicians, conservative think tanks, international mainstream media and global companies, who make profits from human suffering and wars.
The neo-conservative politicians, with roots in Nazism, are considered to be nuts in Washington, and many of these people were fired from the Reagan-administration because of criminal activities.
In Libya and Syria, the up rise was started by US allies. In Syria, weapons were smuggled in by the US ally Saudi Arabia, one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. USA has refused any invitations for negotiations for peace from the Syrian government. It also became very silent in Sweden among politicians and in the mainstream media when it was revealed that Swedish weapons that Sweden has sold to Saudi Arabia was smuggled in to the so-called “rebels” in Syria by Saudi Arabia.
The truth is that the goal of the eternal wars is a global dictatorship and a global electronic police state. The American president is just a marionette in the hands of the global political and economical elite. If he does not do what they say, he will be removed like Margaret Thatcher or murdered like John F. Kennedy – or Olof Palme. John F. Kennedy wanted to stop the Vietnam war and downsize the CIA, the world’s largest terrorist organization. Facebook, Google and Yahoo are also CIA-tools for Internet surveillance.
People are very tired of the endless wars, which is why the global political and economical elite has to lie and spread war propaganda to get people to support the wars. It is also the people that pay for the wars, which generate huge profit for the war industrial complex.
Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts, which is unacceptable in the 21st century. Instead of trying to conquer yourself, wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer life. Wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer death, which is the basic fear in the West.
The eternal war is not really against a specific country, it is a war against humanity.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
January 23, 2014
Satsang with Giten, January, 22, in Stockholm
SATSANG
with
Giten
on January, 22, in Stockholm
On the Satsang with Giten on January, 22, in Stockholm, Giten lectured about The Three Layers of Ego: The World, Relationships and No-Self, which started many interesting questions and discussions in the group about desires and attachment in relationships and about being a spiritual seeker in the world.
Giten also introduced the first level of consciounsess and chakra, Survival, which relates to the physical body. It also relates to developing a basic trust in life and in the abundance of life.
Giten lectured about 6 topics in connection with the first level of consciousness:
1. The Relationship to the body and to material wealth
2. Develping a basic trust in life: the polarity between trust in life and mistrust to life
3. Relationship to money: the difference between a poverty attitude and abundance consciousness
4. Healing comes from the inner source of silence: the inner healing system of the body
5. The relationship between mother and child: the first relationship in life, which can create a trust in life or a mistrust to life depending on if the relationship with the mother is loving and nurtruing or not.
6. Meditation: Learning to listen to the body with awareness
“Giten is a Master in explaining things, and he has a capacity to stay in himself, while discussing different topics with the group.”
Toshen
“I have missed something like this in my life. The concept of a basic trust in life and a mistrust to life was very helpful concepts.”
Kaisu
The Three Layers of Ego:
The World, Relationships and No-self
Desires and Attachments
- One of the fundamental principles of Buddha is that life is impermanent. The world is a dream, a maya and an illusion.
- The definition of truth is that which never changes, the untruth is that which changes
- Life is a flux, it is not stable, not permanent. Life is in continuous change.
- Life is continuously changing, and we try to resist change, which creates pain and misery
- Pain and misery come out of desire and attachment. We try to cling to the world, to relationships, which are continuously changing. We cling to our home, to our family, to our wife, to our husband, to the parents, to our children, to things, while everything is in a flux, in change.
- If we understand the impermanent nature of life, if we accept change, we can be in our home, we can be with our wife or husband, we can be with our children – and be aware that nothing belongs to you. We can remain alert to not fall into attachments. We can remain alert that if things change, we can accept change.
There are three levels of the ego, which includes our desires and attachments: 1. The World 2. Relationships and 3. No-self.
1. The World
The world includes your attachment to your body, your desires and attachments to power, greed, prestige, money and fame in the world.
The word also includes your desires and attachments to your work, your house, your car and your bank balance.
2. Relationships
Relationships includes your desires and attachments in your relationships. It includes your desires and attachments with your family, friends, your husband or wife, your children and your enemies.
Even if we relate with a man or a woman, the other remains a stranger. We relate on the periphery, but we remain alone. Relationships allows us to feel that we are not alone. Aloneness is our true nature.
2. No-self
No-self is the greatest message of Buddha. No-self is the deepest layer. These layers are joined together. When we become aware about the desires and attachments of the first two layers, the third layer, no-self, happens automatically.
The “I”, the ego, is a combination of our desires and attachments to the the world, to relationships and to meditation. When we let go of the desires and attachments, you disappear. You become a no-self, a silence, an emptiness.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
THE SEVEN LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
THE SEVEN STEPS THAT AN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE
IN HIS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS TOWARDS SPIRITUAL MATURITY
An excerpt from Giten’s book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being (available in paperback at the international book store Lulu: www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten
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 chakras. 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.
The lecture was followed by 25 minutes of silent Satsang with Giten, which created a deep joy and silence, where the silence became a song in the group, a song of silence.
January 18, 2014
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten, January, 15, in Stockholm: Truth
SATSANG
with
Swami Dhyan Giten,
January, 15 in Stockholm
“Meditation is a yes to life.
Meditation is learning to know ourselves.
Meditation is an inner “yes”- quality
of witnessing and affirming everything that we
already are.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
On the Satsang with Giten on January, 15, Giten lectured about Buddha: The Way, where Buddha talks about the four levels of Sharamas, the four levels of seekers, which lead to truth.
“I trust Giten.”
Toshen
Buddha: The Way
Buddha speaks only about the way, never about the goal. What is the way?
Shramana
The word “shram” means to excert oneself, to make effort. Only by your own effort, you will achieve. Only by your own effort, you will understand truth.
Shramanas: leave their parents, go out of the home, understand the mind, reach the source, comprehend the immaterial, the inner silence and emptiness, the truth.
4 Categories of Shramanas:
4. Arhat
Arhat is the highest state of consciousness, the highest state of no-mind. The word “arhat means “one who has conquered the enemies.
The enemies are not outside of you, the enemies are inside of you: the desires, the greed, the anger, the jealousy, the sexuality. Arhat is desirelessness.
3. Anagamin
The word “anagamin” means “one who will not come back again”. At the end of his life, the anagamin can achieve arhatship. He will not be born again, he will not come back to a body again.
It may be just a small desire that remains in the anagamin. He may hold on to the body. So when he dies, this desire will also disappear.
2. Skridagamin
The word “skridagamin” means “one who will come back”. After his death, he will come back to the earth only once more.
Arhat is desirelessness, but Skridgamin has passed beyond the gross desires (power, money, prestige), but he has still subtle desires (desires for enlightenment, desires to be free, desires to be calm, desires to attain the last state of arhatship).
1. Srotapanna
The word “srotapanna” means “one who has entered the stream. he has just began his journey on the path. He is no more worldly, he has become a seeker of truth, a meditator.
Far is the ocean, but he has entered into the river. Half the journey is over, just by entering on the path.
Buddha says that the srotapanna dies seven times and is born seven times until he finally attains arhatship. This is just symbolic. It means that he will die many times, but now his journey ha started. His face is turned toward the ocean.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
After the lecture Giten answered answered personal questions on spiritual growth and meditation.
One participant said that working as a teacher in meditation and 15 years of studies in Buddhism, had created a profound insight into no-self, into silence and emptiness, which had taken him several years to integrate. Giten agreed that the insight and experience of no-self is a deep and profound experience that affects our whole view of reality. It affects all areas of our lives and it can time to integrate.
This participant also said that his international work had resulted in a burnout. Giten commented that rather than going out into the world, it is question of inviting the world to you with awareness. It is a question of expanding our inner being into the world, rather than going out into the world from ego and desires.
A third participant said that resistance and anxiety was coming up in her meditation. Giten commented that fear, resistance and anxiety can come up in meditation, and that is good to have an understaning that this can happen. He also said that an initial resitence is always coming up when we meditate as the mind becomes resistent.
Another participant said that she found it difficult to find her place in the world. Giten suggested that she first found her inner world, that she found her inner source of silence, which expresses itself on the outside as love. Giten said that this is the way to find her home of love in the world.
The individual guidance was followed by 25 minutes of silent Satsang with Giten. Several of the participants this evening was new to Satsang with Giten and there was a lot of things that was processed during the Satsang, but the silent Satsang ended with 5 minutes of deep silence and unity.
Comments on Satsang with Giten on The Times of India
“Superb picture and deep meaning of spirituality.”
Dadibattini Narayana
“Did a superb job”
Sanju Sinha
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January 10, 2014
Satsang with Swami Dhyan Giten, Januari, 8, in Stockholm: The Timeless and the Eternal
SATSANG
with
Swami Dhyan Giten
January, 8, in Stockholm
“The only possible way to change the world is through love – one person at a time.”
- Swami Dhyan Giten
The appreciated Satsang evenings with Giten in Stockholm began during the spring 2014 on January, 8. It will continue during 10 Wednesday evenings during the spring.
The first Satsang evening with Giten was a beautiful and sublime experience, which moved into a deep silence and a taste of eternity, of the timeless, of the limitless and boundless inner being.
“During the silent Satsang with Giten, I felt a taste of the eternal, of the timeless, of the unlimited inner being. It felt like the old Satsangs that I experienced in India. Giten is really good at what he is doing. It was also really strong to sit beside when Giten worked individually with participants.”
Toshen, beloved friend of Giten since many lives
Giten began this Satsang by saying that he would explain the meaning of life by lecturing on the The Purpose of Life: 4 Areas for a Balanced Life for the Individual and the Society , so that they can then move on to more fun things. He also said that it is easy to explain the meaning of life, but that it is really like love. We need to love before we can really know what love is. We need to dance before we can know what dance is. We need to taste the apple before we can really know what an apple tastes like.
This Satsang-series has the theme “Seven Levels of Consciousness”, and during these evenings Giten will lecture about the seven levels of the consciousness and the chakra system. The chakra system is a map of the human consciousness, and includes all psychological and spiritual life areas. During this Satsang-series we will explore the difference between the personality, the psychological “I”, and the inner being, the authentic self, the meditative quality within, the inner source of love and truth, the inner silence and emptiness, the capacity to surrender to life, in the chakra system.
Giten began this Satsang by lecturing on The Purpose of Life: 4 Areas for a Balanced Life for the Individual and the Society.
The Purpose of Life:
4 Areas for a Balanced Life
for the Individual and for the Society
The Purpose of Life consists of 4 areas, which create a balanced life for the individual and for the society. The four ares are Kama (The body), Arta (The world and the marketplace), Dharma (being) and Moksha (enlightenment).
1. Kama (Body)
Kama means “desire” in Sanskrit, and is the area of desire and enjoyment. It is the area of romantic life, sexual enjoyment and worldly and spiritual desires.
This area represents a life attitude of eat, drink and be merry.
2. Artha (The World and the Market place)
Artha means “material wealth” in Sanskrit, and is the area of money, economy and gaining material wealth. It is the area of ego, power, greed, selfishness, respect and fame in the world.
Arta is the area of government, politics, business and the church.
It is also the area of children, family and gaining money and material wealth to support the family.
This area is also about gaining material wealth to care of the physical body for spiritual growth.
This area is about understanding that Existence is abundance.
3. Dharma (being)
Dharma means “law, teaching and religion” in Sanskrit, and is the area when the individual begins to listen to his intuition, to his inner source of love, truth and wisdom, and begins to understand his true calling in the world.
It is the area when the individual begins to discover his inner being, the meditative quality within, the inner source of love and truth, the capacity to surrender to life.
This area is about discovering your vocation in life, and understanding how you can contribute to the world. It may be by functioning as a teacher, a doctor, a writer, a musician, a poet or by working in business, politics and government.
When an individual has developed the first three areas, Kama, Artha and Dharma, these three areas also begin to support the search and thirst of the individual for enlightenment.
4. Moksha (Enlightenment)
Moksha means “liberation or freedom” in Sanskrit, and it is the area for enlightenment.
It is the area for silence, emptiness and no-self.
It is the area to recognize the highest purpose in life, and to be one with God.
The essence of Satsang is to discover this area in life.
Swami Dhyan Giten
One participant commented that in his own experience dharma was the door to his inner joy, where he could share his creativity and music with the world. He also said that this created the relaxation into enlightenment.
Another participant said that silence was the way for her to find her inner source of love.
A third participant said that dharma felt like the most important area for her, and that it is the door for her to material abundance.
The lecture was followed by 15 minutes of silent Satsang with Giten, which created a deep silence, an experience of the eternal, of the timeless and of the unlimited and boundless inner being.
Read more about Satsang, Satsang Intensives and Satsang Weekends with Swami Dhyan Giten on MeetingTruth:
http://meetingtruth.com/teacher/SwamiDhyanGiten
December 30, 2013
Giten invited to Barcelona
Gemma Calaf at Conscious B...
Giten invited to 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.
She continues: 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.
December 19, 2013
Awakening: Satsang Intensive with Swami Dhyan Giten, February, 15, in Stockholm
Awakening:
Satsang Intensive with
Swami Dhyan Giten
February, 15, 2014
Awakening: Satsang Intensive med Swami Dhyan Giten is an invitation, which can bring light on your path to inner awakening. Giten helps us to see what stands in the way of being in contact with our authentic inner being. It is an invitation to rediscover our authentic inner being, the inner silence and emptiness, the inner source of love and truth, the capacity to surrender to life.
This Satsang Intensive also works as a prolonged shaktipat (transmission of spiritual energy), which both creates immediate result – together with effect that becomes obvious during the coming weeks and months after the intensive. When Giten pursued an advanced training in spiritual healing in USA 1984, he was told that he had the capacity to become a seventh chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a catalyst and channel for spiritual energy from the seventh chakra through the heart. The last 30 years has meant to develop and deepen this capacity to an instrument of subtle catalytic effect, which Giten uses in this Satsang intensive.
All are welcome to this journey towards inner awakening. This Satsang Intensive is a gift to ourselves on our way to spiritual awakening.
“I felt an immediate “yes” to Awakening with Giten.
Satsang with Giten was totally wonderful! Awakening with Giten was very strong.”
Toshen, beloved friend of Giten since many lives
“In some moments, I realize what an incredible opportunity Satsang with Giten is, and in other moments I fall back to the unawareness and sleep of the mind. I had never dared to take the step to participate in Satsang with Giten if there was not such a love.”
Emanuel Sjogren, musician and student of Giten since 5 years
“I could sit in Satsang with Giten on this sofa all night, but unfortunately I have to get up to work tomorrow –
but I think that this silence will affect people.”
Rolf Soderberg, supervisor in social work, Stockholm
Practical information
Time: Saturday, February 15, 10am – 18pm
Place: Farsta, 15 minutes from Stockholm C.
PRICE: 600 SEK – 60 £:-. Lunch is not included, but there are plenty of places close by for lunch.
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION: swami.dhyan.giten@gmail.com
Read about Awakening: Satsang Intensive
with Giten on MeetingTruth.com
http://meetingtruth.com/Event/958/Awakening+1Day+Satsang+Intensive
December 17, 2013
White Roses and Crystals: Awakening: 1-Day Satsang Intensive with Swami Dhyan Giten, December, 14, in Stockholm
White roses and crystals:
Awakening: 1-Day Satsang Intensive
on December, 14
Awakening: 1-Day Satsang Intensive with Swami Dhyan Giten on Saturday, December, 14, in Stockholm began with Giten receiving beautiful white roses and an exquisite Agate crystal with Titan.
Giten began this 1-day intensive with talking about the first step of Buddha’s seven blessings. The first step of Buddha’s seven blessings is the blessing to be born as a human being, and that only humans has the great possibility, the great blessing, to become awakened, to become enlightened. Buddha also says that it is very easy to miss this great opportunity.
Giten could only take one sentence at a time, before questions and honest and truthful dialogues with participants happened. When Giten, after 45 minutes, commented that they had only managed to review one sentence since the last time, there was a long, loving laughter in the group.
The intensive included much laughter, humor and silence, and Giten used guidad meditation, questions and honest and truthful dialogue with participants, silent communion with nature, using ordinary daily activities for meditation, and silent Satsang meditation.
Giten continued to speak about Buddha’s seven blessings during the day, which created a framework for the day to explore the three levels of the human consciousness: the head, the heart and the inner being.
The head is the dimension of mind and intellect, of logic, reasoning and understanding, the heart is the dimension of love, trust, intuition, acceptance, humor, laughter and a sense of oneness in love, the inner being is the dimension of meditation, silence, emptiness, no-self and a oneness with life.
During the dialogue with participants, Giten recommended one participant to be aware of the conflict between following his own inner truth and his desire to be accepted by other people, and several participants laughed as they could recognize this conflict in themselves. With another participant, Giten talked about that she had a whole past life, where she was committed to meditation and silence, and that this intensive was her step back to the spiritual path. With a third participant, Giten said that a daily structure of daily meditation would help her to find a balance between the inner and outer world, between inner truth and outer satisfaction in life.
Giten commented during the last session of dialogues with participants that spontaneous moments of deep silence was beginning to occur in the group, which was a very good indication of being on the right track.
This 1-Day Satsang Intensive ended with 30 minutes of silent Satsang, where Giten guided the participants to see how much they could allow themselves to just disappear into the silence, to allow the thoughts to vanish – and the last session was a sheer delight in a deep silence, a rejoicement and a resurrection.
Giten commented afterwards that he did not think that it was possible to accomplish this kind of trust to disappear into the silence in a 1-day intensive. Giten also commented that the large concepts of enlightenment, Samadhi, Moksha and truth are really a very small experience when we dissolve into the silence – and learn to live this silence moment to moment.
This Satsang Intensive ended with Giten informing the participants of the opening of The Mystery School with regular Satsang Intensives and weekends, and a Christmas celebration where Giten handed out Christmas gifts to the participants.
Satsang – A Meeting in Love, Truth and Silence with Giten will continue during the spring 2014 in Stockholm, and another 1-Day Satsang Intensive will be offered by The Mystery School in February.
December 10, 2013
Slave Mentality and Poverty Consciousness – The Basic Causes of the Problems of the World
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN:
SLAVE MENTALITY AND POVERTY CONSCIOUSNESS
- THE BASIC CAUSES OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE
WORLD
Today is the funeral of Nelson Mandela, and the
hypocrites that before called him a terrorist are now
making speeches in his honor. USA registered Nelson
Mandela and his political party ANC as a terrorist
organization, but now President Obama is making a
speach in honor of Mandela as a good leader.
Responsibility is the corner stone for spiritual growth. The more we grow in consciousness, the more we also understand that we are responsible for the whole.
The largest fear of the forces that want to control and manipulate people is that people will grow in consciousness, and begin to realize that this is their world.
A friend of mine coming home after being in India for almost 2 years, asked me recently if the new age people in Stockholm was so egoistic as she experienced them.
When problems occurred earlier with the Swedish publisher Vulkan, and their CEO threatened me when I criticized them, I was shocked when people did not care at all. There was a total silence from the people that I thought was “friends” on the spiritual path. The response on Facebook was also a total silence. A therapist colleague commented that I was generously sharing something totally different on Facebook, but when problems occurred nobody cared.
I was sad when I meet the same silence when the American company Yahoo closed my official Yahoo-account since 10 years, because I criticized the endless wars in the world – but this time I was prepared when the same silence occurred.
But after allowing myself to feel sad, I realized that this is not really my problem: people’s egoism, denial and indifference is their own problem. And it is hardly the first time that I meet this indifference, cowardice and denial: I meet the the same attitude when I refused to accept the element of fascism in a spiritual organization, and when it was clear that I had been right all along, no-one wanted to take any responsibility for passively supporting a fascism.
My precious friend since many years, Eric Rolf, international lecturer, course leader and former consultant to John Lennon, commented when Yahoo close my mail-account: “Actions like this taken by Yahoo stimulate a sadness regarding the state of humankind that is felt at a truly deep level. At least I feel it so.”
Eric also commented what I said about people’s egoism and denial by saying that his feeling was that the attitudes of slave mentality and poverty consciousness are the basic causes of the problems that face the world today.
We need to grow up and see that we are responsible for the whole.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
