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January 13, 2013
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Healing Is Pure Love
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November 23, 2012
The Christmas Gift for Life – The Books of Spiritual Teacher and Author Swami Dhyan Giten
GITEN ON INTUITION,
THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word “in-tuition” means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with the Existence. Intuition is the voice of God.
The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition.
If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path.
Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do – you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons – you just know.
You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right.”
GITEN
GITEN ON PRAYER
“I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: “Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?” This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life.”
GITEN
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Swedish and English titles
MEDITATIONENS SÅNG
- OM MEDITATION, RELATIONER
OCH ANDLIG KREATIVITET
Giten’s first best-selling book in Swedish!
The book is available all over Scandinavia
SKICKA GITENS BOK MEDITATIONENS SÅNG
SOM PRESENTINSLAGEN JULKLAPP TILL EN VÄN PÅ INTERNETBOKHANDELN ADLIBRIS
Denna bok handlar om medvetenhetens konst. Det genomgående temat är hur det inre varandet, den meditativa kvaliteten inom oss, den inre källan till kärlek och sanning, relaterar till personlig och andlig utveckling, till relationer med andra människor, till andlig kreativitet och till livet självt.Denna bok erbjuder nycklar till andlig mognad. Dess olika teman varvas också med konkreta praktiska övningar.
Ur innehållet:
Inledning: Den inre resan
Personligheten och det inre varandet, det autentiska självet
Huvud, hjärta och varande – de tre medvetandenivåerna i det mänskliga medvetandet
Reaktion och respons – skillnaden mellan egogratifikation och varandeexpansion
Ja och nej till Livet – de tre positionerna att relatera till livet
De tre livsområdena: meditation, relationer och kreativitet
Meditation – vår inre natur
Meditationens essens
Meditationsprocessen
Meditationens två aspekter: kärlek och ensamhet
Meditationens två poler: den stilla, betraktande kvinnliga polen och den aktiva, kreativa manliga polen
Tillfredsställelsenivå
Intuition – det existensiella språket
Healing är ren kärlek
Relationer – balansen mellan kärlek och frihet
Kommunikation – nyckeln till liv, kärlek och skratt
Känslor
Den Inre mannen och den inre kvinnan
Sju steg mot det gudomliga: chakrasystemet
Relationen mellan personligheten och det inre varandet i chakrasystemet
Närvaro – att arbeta inifrån: att arbeta med människor utifrån kärlek och medvetenhet
Respons och reaktion: kamel, lejon och barn
Vision – att se klientens situation i ett helhetsperspektiv
4 Fallbeskrivningar
Att dansa med Existensen: Att arbeta med grupper av människor utifrån kärlek och medvetenhet
Ensamhet – den inre källan till glädje och kreativitet
Döden – grinden till Evigheten
Tidigare liv – det tredje ögats hemligheter
Meditationens hjärta: tomhet – frihet från jaget
Upplysning – den inre Buddhan
Meditationens konst – meditationsövningar för att transformera livskvaliteten
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Jag har läst den långsamt och
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Det är en bok för livet,
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GITEN’S NEW BOOK
PRESENCE – WORKING FROM WITHIN.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING
“Presence – Working from Within” is more than a book about presence, but a manual in the art of unlocking the Soul’s Presence within the Personality.”
Eric Rolf, American therapist and author of the book Soul Medicine, former consultant to John Lennon
Spiritual therapy works basically because we are all one. In the depth of our heart and being, we are in contact with each other. We are in contact with each other in the ocean of consciousness.
This book is an invitation to open our heart. This book is basically about love. It is designed to help us understand how healing happens.
Healing is pure love. Healing and wholeness happens when we meet the love within ourselves. Spiritual therapy is about love – what love is, where to find it and how to develop the capacity to share love, to give caring. This book is an invitation to people, who are interested in spiritual therapy and healing and wants to work with people from love, truth and wholeness.
Working with people from love, truth and wholeness is the psychology of being, the science of inner transformation. The psychology of being begins where Western psychology ends. It goes beyond Skinner, Freud, Jung, Rogers and Humanistic psychology. The psychology of being is the psychology of consciousness, a psychology for inner transformation. It is basically not a question of psychology; it is a question of being. The psychology of being begins where we are and takes us to that which we can be.The psychology of being takes us through the layers of personality of thoughts, feelings and learnt attitudes to our inner being, which is hidden deep within us. The inner being is a deep acceptance of ourselves as we are. The inner being is to be available to life. The inner being is to be one with life. This book is an invitation to discover the inner being, our inner source of love, joy, acceptance, humour, truth, freedom, wisdom, silence, creativity and oneness with life.This book is designed to help us develop our presence, so that our presence and intuition becomes a source of love, joy, acceptance, understanding, truth, silence, wisdom and creativity in the contact with another person. This book presents a new dimension of healing with a base in meditation. Meditation is the way to deepen our capacity to be present and to explore how to bring the meditative presence and quality into the healing and therapeutic process. he underlying theme of the book is meditation – but not meditation as a static technique – but as the capacity to BE with ourselves and with another person in a quality of watchful awareness, acceptance and relaxation.This book is written both for people who want to discover their own inner being and for those who work with other people and wants to discover a new love, clarity, depth and inspiration in their professional work. The different topics of the book are combined with practical exercises.
The American website Reasoned shares an excerpt from Giten’s book
“Presence – Working from Within. The Psychology of Being” on
Presence – The Inner Source of Love, Truth and Wholeness
http://www.reasoned.org/artic_19.htm
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THE SILENT WHISPERINGS OF THE HEART
- An Introduction to Giten’s Approach to Life
A Beautiful Gift for Yourself or a Beloved Friend
“It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being.
The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart.
It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.”
GITEN
How can we learn to listen to the silent whisperings of our heart? How does love relate to aloneness? What is intuition? How can we develop our presence, so that our presence and intuition becomes a source of love, joy, healing and wisdom in the contact with another person? What is the difference between the personality and the inner being, the authentic self? How can we develop the inner being through meditation? How do the inner man and woman express themselves on the outside in the form of relationships? How do the three life areas, meditation, relationships and creativity, relate to each other in creating a loving, fulfilling and creative life? What is spiritual maturity?
The Silent Whisperings of the Heart consists of a collection of quotes from Swami Dhyan Giten about awareness, meditation, intuition, relationships, the inner man and woman, healing, working with people from love and awareness, truth, creativity, silence, wisdom and spiritual maturity. Each page inspires you to see yourself and life in a new way, from a new dimension. This collection of quotes is an introduction to Giten’s perspective on life. It is a beautiful gift for yourself or a friend.Giten has been compared with the poetry of Kahlil Gibran, author of the famous book The Prophet, and he has been quoted together with Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Ramana Maharishi, Plato, Albert Schweizer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russel, Anais Nin, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Herman Hesse, Heraclitus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Indian book of wisdom The Upanishads.
“Thanks for being there in this world now with your writings from the heart.”
Inge Birgit Pescatello, Germany
“I have been impressed with Giten’s writings from the first time I encountered them. In keeping our hearts with all diligence, Giten helps us address the issues of our lives, fluently and eloquently speaking the language of the heart.” Larry Chang, author of Wisdom for the Soul, Washington, USA
“Giten is a really beautiful soul.”
Swami Anand Arun, Osho Tapoban Meditation Center, Nepal
“Beautiful, colourful…”
Nishkam, editor, Rebelliouspirit.com
“In The Whisperings of the Heart, Giten points at the variety of ways in which our inner being expresses itself in terms of our actions and our relationships. He also provides insights in various areas, including of course, those of healing and intuition, meditation, art and creativity, communications, loving relationships with both friends and family, working with people from love and awareness and spiritual maturity. His comments are both useful as well as joyful and inspirational. More than anything, they motivate us to taste where we may not have fully tasted before, to taste the beyond.Giten invites us to a celebration, a feast for the soul and delights us and inspires us with capsules of insight and conscious affirmation of the deliciousness of the divine.”
ERIC ROLF, INTERNATIONAL LECTURER, COURSE LEADER, PERSONAL COUNSELLOR TO JOHN LENNON, YOKO ONO, PAUL SIMON AND CARLOS SANTANA, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK SOUL MEDICINE
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Oprah, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Chicago, USA
The website High Existence shares Giten’s insight on Love
from the book “The Silent Whisperings of the Heart”
http://www.highexistence.com/love-by-swami-dhyan-giten/
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November 19, 2012
Giten on War
GITEN ON WAR
“All countries think that God is on their side in war. USA prays that God bless America in the war, but God is not the exclusive property of a certain country, God do not belong to a certain country. The truth is that God is the inner light of every living being, which is why the scriptures of all religions says that it is wrong to kill. The inner being of all living beings is the door to God. We are all children of God.
People are very tired of wars and it is time to end the eternal wars. But power maniacs who want to dominate the world, say that God is on their side against the heathens, the godless people, so that the soldiers feel that they are justified in killing people. In USA, many solidiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are now commiting suicide when they come home, because they can not handle their feelings about what they have been forced to do during the war.
I remember when I applied for community service as an alternative to military service when I was 15 years old. To assess my right to alternative community service instead of military service, a military psychologist travelled to my birth town in the north of Sweden and checked into a suite at the most luxurious hotel in the town. During a three hour tough interview and psychological investigation, the military psychologist made an assessment of my right for the alternative service.
During this three hour psychological investigation, I presented God as a light, which is the essence of every human being. God is the consciousness in all living beings, and therefore I can not engage in a training which means to learn to kill people.
This military psychologist was very tough during this three hour interview, but in the end he loved me. In the conclusion of his psychologist assessment, he wrote that the “candidate is a young man, who presented his arguments with methodical calm” - and then he recommended the alternative community service instead of military service.”
GITEN
November 13, 2012
Giten on Global Warming, the Greatest Threat to Humanity
GITEN ON GLOBAL WARMING
- THE GREATEST THREAT TO HUMANITY
“Global Warming is the greatest threat to humanity. During the US election, the problem with global warming was not discussed, but during the election New York was flooded with water. This is due to global warming, which interrupted the whole US election.
This was just a small warning of what will follow. In life you get small warnings, and it you do not listen life will speak louder, and if you are still deaf and dumb, life will scream loudly.
The Himalayas and the north- and south poles are now melting due to the global warming. This melting means that the water level of all the oceans will rise. This means that the same problems that affected New York will affect more ports and cities, which will be flooded with water. Our civilization will be drowned as Atlantis was once drowned in the ocean.
But this is such a stupid and insane world that we do not do anything about the global warming – and the scientific community agrees that it will soon be too late to do something about the Global Warming. A leading expert on global waring said recently that a major disaster is needed with many dead people. A disaster that can be traced directly to the global warming. And this disaster can not happen in Africa, because then we will not care. It has to happen in USA or Europe – until this happens we will not do anything about the global warming.
It may be that this is the end of this civilization, it may be that Existence see that this civilization has reached its possible potential, but we are responsible for these events. The only possible way to make this not happen is to create more love, awareness, understanding, truth, wisdom, silence and creativity in the world.”
GITEN
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President Obama shares Giten’s insight on “The Silent Revolution of the Heart – The Challenge for the 21st Century
PRESIDENT OBAMA SHARES GITEN’S INSIGHT ON “THE SILENT REVOLUTION OF THE HEART - THE CHALLENGE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
“The challenge for the 21st century is the Silent Revolution of the Heart. It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness.”
GITEN
Barack Obama won the US election yesterday, and will be president of America for another 4 years.
The climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, but this was not discussed during the election. The US foreign policy was not discussed either, which probably will result in a coming war on Iran, which could be the start of a third world war.
The foregin policy of President Obama’s is not very different from the foreign policy of George W. Bush as the economy of the US is based on the war industry.
The amazing amount of 1 trillion dollar per year of the taxes is used for military spending. Think about what this money could do for peace and for for reforms for the US citizens. It is also a well known fact that the the tax money for military spending that Pentagon receives is then converted into profit for private contractors.
In connection to president Obamas victory in the election 2012, we again publish Giten’s insight on the challenges for the 21st century:
On September, 8, 2008, The American presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign site Obama Campaign Today, shared Giten’s insight on “The Silent Revolution of the Heart – The Challenge for the 21st Century”.
After Barack Obama had been elected, Giten received a mail from Barack Obama, the new President of the United States.
Read the whole article at:
http://www.giten.net/giten/english/gitenbgr/obama.pdf
Giten received a mail from Barack Obama, the new President of the United States of America:
http://www.giten.net/giten/english/gitenbgr/mailobama.pdf
November 10, 2012
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence V
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence V
GITEN ON TRUST, COOPERATION AND SURRENDER
“What are the three qualities that we need to develop in order to discover the not-I-quality, to disappear in the silence within? What are the relationship between trust, cooperation and surrender?
Trust, cooperation and surrender are the three qualitities that we need to develop in order to discover the not-I-quality, to disappear into the silence.
To disappear in the inner silence can bring up fear, why we need to develop these three qualities. These three qualities are really three aspects of the same phenomenon.”
GITEN
GITEN ON WORKING WITH PEOPLE
FROM THE INNER BEING
“It is a joy to be and work with people on a spiritual plane, and help them to go deeper within themselves and expand their inner being in meditation, relationships, creativity and in their relationship to life as a whole.
When a client expands the love, joy, intelligence, acceptance, understanding, truth, wisdom, silence and creativity of his inner being, it means that I can also expand my inner being and become richer.
It is a bit like the relationship between God and his creation. When God’s creation develops in consciousness, it means that God can also develop. It is God’s leela, God’s eternal dance.”
GITEN
GITEN ON LOVE AND MEDITATION
- THE TWO PATHS TO ENLIGHTENMENT
“What are the path of love and the path of meditation? There are basically two different paths to enlightenment. These two paths are The path of love and The path of meditation.
The path of love is the female path to enlightenment and The path of meditation is the male path to enlightenment. The path of love is the path of love, joy, relationships, devotion and surrender. The path of meditation is the path of meditation, silence, aloneness and freedom.
These two paths has different ways, but they have the same goal. Through love and surrender the person that walks The path of love discovers the inner silence. Through meditation and aloneness the person that walks The path of meditation discovers the inner source of love. These two paths are like climbing the mountain of enlightenment through different routes, but the two paths are meeting on the summit of the mountain – and discover an inner integration between love and meditation, between relating and aloneness.
Before I accept to work with a student now, I make an intuitive and clairvoyant evaluation about which spiritual paths that the student has walked before in previous lives. This intuitive assessment gives information about the spiritual level that the student has attained, and it also makes it easier to guide the person spiritually if he has followed a certain path in the past.
A female student of mine laughed recently when I told her that she had followed The path of love in several past lives. She commented: “You have told me three times now that I have walked the path of love and silence, but with my head I still do not understand it.” But this overall assessment of her spiritual growth uptil now, and of the spiritual paths that she had walked, made all the pieces of her life puzzle fit together - and brought a new, creative light to all her life choices in her current life.
A male student of mine, who was a Tibetan monk in a previous life, walks The path of meditation, and I notice how I change my language and the methods that I recommend when I guide him along the path of meditation.
I now work with students who walk both The path of love and The path of meditation, which also allows me to discover a deeper integration of love and meditation on my path to enlightenment.”
GITEN
GITEN ON SPIRITUAL PRESENCE
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“When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence.
When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence.
When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything.”
GITEN
SPIRITUALITY – EXERCISES
Exercise 2: Seeing the oneness in all beings
The inner being is the door to oneness with all living beings. It is the door to be one with Existence. This is an awareness exercise to consciously see the oneness in people, animals, trees, stones and the nature.
Begin this awareness exercise by going back to yourself and become grounded in your inner being. Then tune in to people, animals, trees and stones and feel the oneness in all living beings. You can begin with people as they are most close to us, then continue with animals, trees, stones and the nature.
You can use this exercise both as an awareness exercise in the moment, for example when you meet people or as a longer meditation in nature.
When you begin to feel the oneness, it will feel like you have crossed the small individual wave and and an ocean has opened to you.
MEDITATION – EXERCISES
Exercise 1: Conscious Living – Meditation Journal
To become more aware about how your meditation is developing, take a conscious decision to write a meditation journal every evening during one month. When you wake up in the morning, remember that this is a new opportunity for meditation. Take a decision deep in your heart that today I will be aware and bring a meditative presence and quality to all activities during the day. Be continuously aware during the day about the difference between when you become identified with different thoughts, feelings and learnt concepts and when you are present and conscious.
Be thankful in the evening for everything that has happened during the day as both negative and positive experiences, both joy and sorrow, both light and darkness and both success and failure are teacher in meditation. Write the meditation journal in the evening during 10-15 minutes about when you did succeed and when you did not succeed in being conscious during the day. Do not judge or evaluate whether you succeeded or not with being conscious during the day, but let this meditation journal be a way to become more conscious and let your meditation grow both in relation to your self, in relation to other people, in relation to work and creativity and in relation to life itself.
Exercise 2: Watching thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations
The essence of meditation is a quality of watchful awareness of the thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and outer stimuli. This is an exercise in four steps, which you begin with sitting comfortably. The turn your attention within and watch your breathing, which raises the stomach when you breathe in and lowers your stomach again when you breathe out.
The go with your inner attention to the thoughts and watch you thoughts like clouds that come and go on the sky. Then continue with your inner attention to the feelings and see what feelings there are in the body without trying to change the feelings. Finally go with your inner attention to the physical body and watch the sensations in the body without any will to change these sensations.
Exercise 3: The rhythm of meditation and love, aloneness and relating
This is an exercise to become aware of the rhythm between meditation and love, between aloneness and relating. Be aware when it is authentic to be alone together with yourself and when it is authentic to relate with other people.
When it is authentic to be alone with yourself, then allow yourself to give yourself this time to yourself and allow your aloneness to be an inner source of love, joy, relaxation, silence, freedom and wholeness.
Read Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence I on Giten’s blog
http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/09/26/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence/
Read Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence II on Giten’s blog
http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/10/16/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence-ii/
Read Giten Quotes on the Language of Silence IV http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/10/31/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence-iv/
October 31, 2012
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence IV
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence IV
“I love this!”
Bina Belani
“Awesome”
Jay Kotek
Free lance writer and
author of the poetry book
“Clouds of Dreams” and
“India. My Beloved”,
born in India,
lives in USA
GITEN ON BEING ONE WITH THE WHOLE
“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 white snow flakes silently singled down toward a snowclad 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 a longing in my heart to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.”
GITEN
GITEN ON DIVINE UNSATISFACTION
“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 friend 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 outer things or relationships could ease this pain.”
GITEN
GITEN ON ENLIGHTENMENT
“When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who I consider to be one of the best spiritual therapists in the world – said that I was going to get enlightened, that I would ”disappear into the silence”.
I did not really understand what he meant then, and it was totally absurd for me when other course participants congratulated me afterwards. The thought that I was going to be enlightened was totally absurd for me. For me enlightenment was something that happened to special and chosen persons like Osho, Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu and Krishnamurti. I did not feel either special or chosen. I did not feel worthy of being enlightened.”
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GITEN ON BEING ONE WITH NATURE, ONE WITH THE TREES AND ONE WITH THE PEOPLE
“I had a magical day during one Sunday when I walked out in nature. On the outside this day only 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, a silent explosion suddenly happened within me and my whole perception of reality changed.
In a single moment, everything had 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 also 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 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 all are 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 live in this mystical unity with the Whole.”
GITEN
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AT MCDONALDS
“Believe it or not, but spiritual insight can come even while drinking coffee at McDonalds.
I took a quiet cup of coffee at McDonalds and when I left the shop, one of these precious moments happ
ened. Suddenly my whole perspective of reality changed from separation to wholeness.
I experienced a unity and belongingness with all people that I meet. I experienced that I was one with all people and that all people come from the same invisible source. People have their own unique individuality, but they come from the same source. It is diversity in unity. It was a sheer joy to walk around and experience that I was one with all the people that I meet.”
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GITEN ON INTUITION,
THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word “in-tuition” means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with the Existence. Intuition is the voice of God.
The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition.
If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path.
Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do – you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons – you just know.
You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right.”
GITEN
GITEN ON ACCEPTANCE
“I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I discover a silent place in the depth of my inner being, where I am already one with life, where I am OK as I am.
It is also a silent inner place of healing and wholeness, where I can find a love and acceptance for that which is imperfect within myself.”
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GITEN ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HEAD ATTITUDE AND ENLIGHTENMENT
“In my individual therapy- and meditation programes, I explore with the clients the difference between the personality, the psychological “I”, and the inner being, the authentic self, the soul, the meditative quality within, the inner capacity to surrender to life.
I also work with the client to become aware about their basic psychological head attitude. The psychological head attitude is the load-bearing beam of the personality, the psychological “I”. The psychological head attitude is the basic decision that we have taken about ourselves, about other people and about our basic relationship to life, which unconsciously affects our relation to ourselves, our relationships to other people, our relationship to work and creativity and our relationship to life as a whole.
It was also an insight when I realized that head attitude is also a basic barrier to becoming enlightened, so now I also work with my students to become aware of the psychological head attitude in order to gradually prepare the mind for enlightenment.
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GITEN ON ONENESS
“We are basically all one. We are one being, one consciousness, one whole. We are all connected to each other. We are all parts of the same whole.
How we treat others are how we treat ourselves. If we treat others badly, we are really treating ourselves badly. If we hate others, we are really hating ourselves. If we love others, we are basically loving ourselves.”
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GITEN ON EDUCATION
“My beautiful mother was so wild in school that the boys in her class shoot her in the foot with an air gun. One day I came home from school when I was 14 years old, and felt that I never want to go back to school again. I have always rebelled in authoritarian systems, with a hidden agenda of controlling and conditioning the students to become obedient servants for the social order and for society. To get some parental opposition, I told my mother: “I will never go back to school again!”. The answer that I got from her was: “I would never do that either”.
If education would be real, it would help the students to know who they are. It would teach the students meditation, so that the students can find their own intelligence, love, trust, understanding, truth, wisdom, silence and creativity. But real intelligence is always rebellious, and society do not really want intelligent people, because they are difficult to manipulate and control.
In the career programes of the university, in the the business administration-, economy- and law programes, there is no emphasis on personal maturity, which create a lack of responsibility and awareness in the students. This is especally alarming since the students of these programes will be the coming leaders of society. A friend of mine calls the students of the business administration programe in Stockholm for “empty shells”, since there is only emphasis on the superficial surface, but there is no real depth and content.
This lack of real education is one the basic reasons for the state the world is in right now, where more and more people think that the ackopalyps, the end of the world, is coming closer.”
GITEN
GITEN ON TRUTH AND ALONENESS
“In the conflict with a spiritual organization, people accuse me of just seeking recognition and friends disappear because they are not in contact with their own truth.
Our ability to respond with the truth of the moment depend on how much we need the approval of other people. Not even our friends or family will always be able to support our truth.
To be able to respond with the truth of the moment, we need to develop the capacity to be alone.
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GITEN ON SHARING
“A friend of mine, who shares my quotes and writings on her Facebook page, told me
that her friends and relatives are now beginning to like the quotes.
It is a way to contribute to the Whole to create a better world,
and all small rivers are leading to the Ocean.”
GITEN
Intuition – Exercises
Exercise 1: From intellect to intuition
This is an exercise, which aims on learning to distinguish between the mind and the intuition, the language of silence, the inner source of love, truth and wisdom. Take as a continuous meditation to learn to distinguish between the mind, between our ideas of how things should be, and the intuition, our true inner voice, to learn to distinguish between the false and the real, between the true and the artificial.
Exercise 2: Listen to your heart
To continuously be in contact with your heart and with your intuition, you can ask the following four questions in different situations for example when you have to make a choice or when you are going to take a new step:
1. Will I love myself if I do this for example if I take this new step, if I chose this or if I say this.
2. Will I feel courageous?
3. Is it beautiful for me?
4. Can it be simplified in any way?
Exercise 3: To see what the Whole wants
This is an exercise to let go and to see what the Whole wants in a certain issue. When you have compared the pros and cons on a certain issue, then leave the issue to the intuition, to the inner source of love, truth and wisdom, to the voice of Existence within, and see what the Whole wants concerning this issue.
Sometimes Existence responds immediately and sometimes it takes some time before Existence is ready to respond. But you will always receive an answer in exactly the right time. Sometimes I have struggled to get something to happen, but it was first when I let go that it happened by itself. Sometimes things are not meant to happen either. It is a question of timing. It is a question of when the time is ripe. It is a question of trusting the Whole.
Read Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence I on Giten’s blog
http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/09/26/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence/
Read Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence II on Giten’s blog
http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/10/16/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence-ii/
Giten on Intuition, the Language of Silence
GITEN ON INTUITION,
THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE
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“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word “in-tuition” means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with Existence. Intuition is the voice of God.
The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition.
If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path.
Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do – you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons – you just know.
You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right.”
GITEN
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Giten on Education
GITEN ON EDUCATION
“My beautiful mother was so wild in school that the boys in her class shoot her in the foot with an air gun. One day I came home from school when I was 14 years old, and felt that I never want to go back to school again. I have always rebelled in authoritarian systems, with a hidden agenda of controlling and conditioning the students to become obedient servants for the social order and for society. To get some parental opposition, I told my mother: “I will never go back to school again!”. The answer that I got from her was: “I would never do that either”.
If education would be real, it would help the students to know who they are. It would teach the students meditation, so that the students can find their own intelligence, love, trust, understanding, truth, wisdom, silence and creativity. But real intelligence is always rebellious, and society do not really want intelligent people, because they are difficult to manipulate and control.
In the career programes of the university, in the the business administration-, economy- and law programes, there is no emphasis on personal maturity, which create a lack of responsibility and awareness in the students. This is especally alarming since the students of these programes will be the coming leaders of society. A friend of mine calls the students of the business administration programe in Stockholm for “empty shells”, since there is only emphasis on the superficial surface, but there is no real depth and content.
This lack of real education is one the basic reasons for the state the world is in right now, where more and more people think that the ackopalyps, the end of the world, is coming closer.”
GITEN
October 16, 2012
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence II
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence II
Giten on the Celestial Music
“During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music.”
GITEN
GITEN ON PRAYER
“I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: “Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?” This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life.”
GITEN
GITEN ON WHOLENESS
“When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy.”
GITEN
GITEN ON JESUS
A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the same invisible life source, the same God.
She also said that she worked in a Christan environment at the time that she received these insights, and when she tried to share these insights with the Christians she was accused of being “impure” and of being associated with the “Devil”.
Christians hold on to the idea that Jesus was the only son of God, without realizing that we are all son’s and daughter’s of God. By holding on to the idea that Jesus is the only son of God, they do not either to realize that all enlightened Masters are talking about the same God.
Jesus did not talk about faith, he talked about trust. He talked about discovering a trust in yourself and in relationship to God. Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within you. In Christianity, the church has become the intermediate between man and God, and people who claim that they have found a direct relationship to God are accused of blasphemy. The Christan church has become a barrier between man and God, and anyone who has declared that he has found a direct relationship to God are immediately banned by the church, for example Master Eckhart and Franciskus of Assisi.
I have always had a deep love for Jesus, but it is not the picture of Jesus that the Christian church presents. I was a disciple of Jesus in a former life, and was thrown to the lions in Colosseum in Rome as one of the early Christians. Jesus had many more disciples than the twelve disciples mentioned in The Bible.
In this life, I resigned my automatic membership in the church as soon as I could think for myself when I was 15 years old. I was also disgusted with an organization that said that they preached love and which has murdered more people than Hitler.
My experience with these rare and precious insights are that they expand our consciousness of reality. They are gradual initiations into reality. They may fade away, but we will never be the same again after receiving them. They will also come more and more, the more committment we have to our spiritual growth.”
GITEN
GITEN ON WORKING WITH PEOPLE
AND SILENCE
“What I basically listen to when I work with a group of people is when the moment becomes silent. Then I know that we are entering the dimension of love, truth and wholeness.”
GITEN
GITEN ON LOVE AND ALONENESS
“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 can not 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 open the door to be one with the Whole.”
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GITEN ON GOD
“Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean.
In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of everything, which is one with Existence.
Through the inner being, we come in contact with the inner ocean, the undefined and boundless within ourselves, where we are one with life. We realize that God is part of life. We realize that God is not a person, but the consciousness that is part of everything. We find God in a flower, in a tree, in the eyes of a child or in a playful dog.
Through discovering our inner being, we discover that we are also part of the flower, the child or the dog. We realize that God is everywhere.”
GITEN
Inner Silence – Exercises
Exercise 1: Letting go
This meditation is about letting go of everything that stands in the way of the inner silence, the inner emptiness. This is not a formal sitting meditation, but a on-going awareness meditation to continously letting go of anger, fear, sadness, frustration and loneliness that stands in the way of the inner silence.
“Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.”
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Exercise 2:. The Inner Silence in the Moment
The inner silence is always in the moment. This is an awareness exercise, which aims at turning your attention within yourself during moments during the day to come in contact with yourself and the inner silence.
“I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence. Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence. First this brought up fear, but now I am enjoying this meditation of disappering into the silence and to be nobody. I have started experimenting with this phenomenon to understand how to consciously go beyond the ego: yesterday when I took a cofee at a restaurant, I consciously turned my attention within and disappeared into the silence, which was like finding an inner source of bliss.”
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Exercise 3: Being dependent on others
Being dependent on other people is a bondage, instead of freedom. This is an awareness exercise to put the light of awareness on how you relate to other people – and whether this relating comes out of bondage or freedom.
“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 open the door to be one with the Whole.”
GITEN
Exercise 4: Rejoice in Aloneness
Aloneness is the door to the inner silence, to egolessness. This is a awareness exercise to be consciously alone, to accept and rejoice in your aloneness. During moment during the day, turn your attention within yourself and accept your inner aloneness. Also take time to be with yourself, to be consciously alone with yourself. In aloneness, you are not.
“Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness.”
GITEN
“I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness.”
GITEN
“In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, you are not.”
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Exercise 5: Walking Consciously
This is a meditation to walk consciously when you are on your way to somewhere. When you walk turn your attention within and walk consciously, be with the people and situation that you meet , instead of having your mind constantly commenting everything. This is a meditation to being with Existence when you walk.
“When I am walking, I consciously experiment with being with Existence without having the mind constantly commenting. I try to just be wordlessly with the people and situations that I meet on my walk. When I can just be with Existence, it open the door to be one with the Whole.”
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Read Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence I on Giten’s blog
http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/09/26/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence/
