Swami Dhyan Giten's Blog, page 48
October 10, 2012
Giten on Love and Aloneness
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.”
GITEN
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Inner Silence – Exercises
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.”
GITEN
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.”
GITEN
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: 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.”
GITEN
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.”
GITEN
October 5, 2012
Giten on Jesus
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
October 4, 2012
Giten on Existence
GITEN ON EXISTENCE
“When the Facebook group “The Sannyas Network” attacked me and my book, I thought about simply letting it go. It felt like being in a situation that was smaller than myself. I let go of my personal reactions to this attack, and then I meditated over this for a couple of days if I should respond.
Then suddenly I felt that Existence within me wanted to respond. Then the text just “happened” in five minutes, I posted it on “The Sannyas Network” – and suddenly I found myself in a world of trouble, angry reactions and projections calling me everything from “a complete idiot” to accusing me of “wanting to be enlightened.” This last accusation is quite astonishing considering that the whole message of Osho and all the earlier enlightened Masters is enlightenment, but it becomes an accusation in Sannyas since enlightened persons now are automatically banned from the Osho resort in India.
This also made me feel that moving out of my own way, and allowing Existence to act is certainly not safe and secure. It is a dive into the unknown.
The persons who attacked me also seem so far from me that I actually have difficulty understanding them. They operate from a cult-world with fixed ideas, attitudes and expectations. If I go back 20 years, I can begin to vaguely remember being in a similar confined world - but even then I was never caught up in the ideas, attitudes and judgements.
I love to be with people, who have enough life experience and are spiritually ripe to say “yes”, but to try to fight with people who are not ripe are just exhausting. It is draining to deal with people, who do not want to understand, it is difficult enough when people try to understand. When people are not ripe and are also negative, they can also try to get you caught on a mind-level, and then they can drain you of energy through drama and conflict.
I also feel that I do not want to waste this precious inner silence and truth through outer conflicts, but at times this inner silence and emptiness can act outwardly quite strongly. It is basically the same inner silence and meditative quality whether it is expressed through the silent wind or an earth quake.
Now I can also see that spiritual Masters operate from the same ocean, from the same invisible life source. They talk about the same ocean, but they talk about it and express it in different ways. But their followers start to quarrel about the different words and expressions, which basically describe the same ocean. Actually, I was sitting in a tourist coach when I was 21 years old on the way to the magical town Marrakech in Marocko, and the tour guide talked about Muhammed, the enlightened Master and founder of Islam, that I suddenly got a sudden and profound insight that all enlightened Masters and founders of religions are actually talking about the same Ocean, the same invisible source, the same God.
GITEN
October 1, 2012
Giten Attacked by the Sannyas Movement
GITEN ON SPIRITUAL ORGANIZATIONS
It seems that the sannyas movement has not developed since Osho died. I posted info about my book “The Silent Whisperings of the Heart” on the Facebook group “The Sannyas Network” as an invitation to sincere seekers. Instead this info was meet by an unconcious mob of ten people, who wrote quite ugly, judgemental and stupid comments about me and the book, projecting their ideas and judgements, ridiculing me and trying to make me wrong. It was the same arguments and judgements that I heard 20 years ago from the Osho Center in Stockholm. It also seems like the Osho Ashram in Pune has become a fascism, where courageous and authentic seekers of truth get throwned out if they speak the truth.
It was only the eleventh commentater on “The Sannyas Network” who showed any intelligence, saying that Osho wanted people to share their love and truth in the world, but when people tried to do that in the sannyas movement they were put down, judged and ridiculed by other people.
I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in investigating what it means to live with open eyes. People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in their ideas of how it should be, and in the need of the ego to create hierachies of power, status, roles, norms and conformity.
I remember when a meditation center in Stockholm was spreading quite insane rumours about me. I confronted this meditation center about spreading these rumours, but to this day no one has taking any responsiblity for their own actions – and this was people that I thought was friends on the path of love and truth. A friend of mine also told me that she had to tell the leaders of this meditation center to stop spreading rumours about me and tell them directly that “Giten is a friend of mine and it does not feel good that you are spreading rumours about him.”
To be spiritual does not mean to belong to a spiritual group. I felt earlier that I had grown out of the kindergarten of a spiritual organization, and my inner tree was bearing fruit. Too many large trees can not grow in a narrow area. A friend also came with good advice during this period: “Go ahead without looking back, let others do their thing, that is their choice and freedom – you do need their limitation.”
More than 20 years ago, one of my mentors in life said something that I have had reason to remember during the years that I have worked with people. He said: “Spiritual Masters teach on many different levels at the same time. Some people take what they can, and some take something deeper”.
GITEN
GITEN ON SPIRITUAL ORGANIZATIONS:
AGRESSOR, DENIER AND VICTIM
During the weekend the Facebook group “The Sannyas Network” has been attacking me since I posted info about my book “The Silent Whisperings of the Heart”. Yesterday the member of “The Sannyas Network”, Red Herling, called me “a complete idiot”, while another guy entusiastically was cheering him on. This situation is a reminder of high school, but this is the situation in the sannyas movement 2012. I also sent out a comment and a transcript of this attack on me to Osho centers and media – and the response was total silence. Even my friends responded today to this with total silence.
It is not many things that modern psychology agress upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility.
The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours.
All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles.
It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth and creativity.”
GITEN
September 26, 2012
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence
Giten Quotes on The Language of 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.
In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, your are not. 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 opens the door to be one with the Whole.
GITEN
Giten on Enlightenment
“Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness to
happen.
You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of “I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being.”
GITEN
Giten on Silence and Healing
“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.”
GITEN
GITEN ON DEATH AND ALONENESS
“Aloneness has been my constant companion in life. I lost early the people that I loved: first when my young and unmarried biological mother had to leave me because of outer circumstances. I was adopted by a very loving couple, who could not concieve a child. I have always felt naturally loved by them, and I have never really felt that I was adopted. Instead, I have always felt that I did a little detour to be able to be adopted by my real parents.
Then my mother died when I was 15 years old after a long sickness. On her funeral I took the decision to never depend on anybody again. Her death created such a deep pain in me that it was also the death of relationships for me. Then my father died when I was 21 years old – and I was completely alone in the world. This created a basic feeling of being alone and unloved in me, it created early a feeling of independence and self-suffiency in me. It also created a basic feeling of not trusting that I am alright as I am, and of not trusting that life takes care of me.
This created such a pain in me that I simply repressed the pain for many years in order to survive. These early meetings with death also created a thirst in me to discover a quality, an inner awareness, that death could not take away.
Now I can see that these early painful experiences are a blessing in disguise. It liberated me from relationships. I relate with people, but there is always an aloneness within me. I realize that a seeker of truth needs to accept that he is totally alone. It is not possible to lean on other people like crutches. When we totally accept our aloneness, it becomes a source of love, joy, truth, silence, meditation and wholeness.
I shared these experiences with a beloved friend and her thoughtful comment was: “I have my own aloneness.”
Aloneness is to be at home in ourselves, to be in contact with our inner source of love, while loneliness is to hanker for other people, to hanker for a source of love outside of ourselves. Aloneness is to come home.”
GITEN
GITEN ON BEING
ONE WITH EXISTENCE
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“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
GITEN ON SAYING “YES”
TO WHATEVER HAPPENS IN LIFE
“It has been so much change in my body during the last months that my body got sick during the weekend.
I got a cold with a low fever. I took it as meditation to witness my body, to witness
that my body was sick – and also to listen consciously to what my body needed.
I went into conscious celibacy almost a month ago, so it has been a lot of change in my body. Forced celibacy because of religious morality just leads to sexual neurosis, but I have been using sex as a meditation to try to understand sexuality so much that the woman in the Swedish Osho commune once lovingly called me “Piten” (which is a play with words combining my name with the Swedish word for “Dick”).
My male ego reacted with fear to this conscious celibacy, but it also means a new integration between my inner male and woman. My inner woman is the door to the depth within myself, to the inner source of love and truth, to being one with life.
Instead of going downwards to sex, my energi is now going upwards to spirituality. It has been a letting go of sex, of needing others, of relationships and of the body.
During the sickness, I was also letting go of my deep seated fears of not being loved and of being fundamentally alone in the world.
It has been a meditation to say “yes” to whatever happens in life.”
GITEN
GITEN ON COMMITTMENT
TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH
“Our spiritual growth depend on our committment to our spiritual growth. Without a basic committment to our spiritual growth, we will just go around in a circle, reaching nowhere. People can be categorized in three categories: sleeping, drowsy and awakened.
One of my beautiful students, a bright man in his thirties, who was a Tibetan monk in a previous life, travels for 4 hours once a month to meet me in Stockholm for spiritual guidance, to explore what is the current topic in his life right now and to see what is the next step in his spiritual growth.
I also recommend awareness exercises and meditation practises in the in-between time until the next time that we see each other the next month. This time he commented that he had practiced the methods that I had recommended the last time to become aware of the ego, the separated sense of “I”, and to move from “I” to not-I, to move from ego to egolessness. He commented that he could not believe the progress that he had made.”
GITEN
GITEN ON THE OCEAN OF CONSCIOUSNESS
During the weekend I did a Buddhist meditation- and ceremony to take the wow to help all sentient beings on the spiritual path.
During this meditation, I invited enlightened Masters as Buddha, Osho, Jesus, Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi to learn from their commitment to help all living beings on the spiritual path, and to become more aware about the the difference in love, joy and satisfaction in only gratifying your own ego and self-interests and being available for others.
Being with these guys, my whole consciousness suddenly changed, and I was suddenly in contact with the invisible ocean of consciousness that these guys transmitted. I suddenly felt how my own consciousness expanded into the limitless and boundless inner source of creativity. Suddenly I did not know where the boundaries of my own body was anymore.
Jesus would have described this with the words: “I and the Father are one”, Buddha would have called it nirvana and Osho would describe it as pure consciousness without any clouds. This is also what Jesus meant by “heaven”, which is not a physical place, where we come after death – if we are lucky. The “heaven” that Jesus talked about is the inner heaven of our own consciousness, it is the ocean of consciousness.
GITEN
GITEN ON WALKING IN ONENESS
“I took a walk out in nature yesterday, when suddenly my whole world changed. First I walked out in nature among the flowers, the trees and the people that I meet who was out walking their dogs – and I was separated from them.
But suddenly my whole perception changed - like I suddenly saw the young girl in the picture with the old woman – and I was suddenly one with the flowers, the trees, the air and the people and the dogs that I meet.
It was the same world, but suddenly it was totally different. Everything was the same, but I saw it in a new and fresch way.
I laughed about being one with the dogs that I meet on my walk.
Then I experienced a strong fear coming from my legs. I felt that my ego, the separated sense of “I”, was afraid of this experience, because the ego lives in separation from life.
It was also a very easy and natural experience. I got a very clear feeling that this is the reality and experience of the seventh chakra of oneness and wholeness, which is our innate birthright.”
GITEN
GITEN ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND INNER SILENCE
“I had a day when I was busy in the world, where the activity created a turmoil on the surface of my consciousness like waves on the surface of the ocean, which made it difficult to see through the waves to the inner silence.
It reminded me that we need to develop both the capacity to use the mind when engaged in activity and social relations, and to be able to let go of the activity and to come in contact with the deep inner silence.
The relationship between being active in the world and in social relations and the inner silence is like the relationship between the waves on the surface of the ocean and the deep inner silence on the bottom of the ocean.
GITEN
These quotes are also published on Giten’s new spiritual blog on The Times of India
http://timesofindia.speakingtree.in/swamidhyangiten/spiritual-diary/blogs
September 22, 2012
Giten on The Language of Silence
GITEN ON THE LANGUAGE OF 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 disapperared into the silence, which was like finding an inner source of bliss.
In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, your are not. 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 opens the door to be one with the Whole.
GITEN
September 21, 2012
Giten on Death and Aloneness
GITEN ON DEATH AND ALONENESS
“Aloneness has been my constant companion in life. I lost early the people that I loved: first when my young and unmarried biological mother had to leave me because of outer circumstances. I was adopted by a very loving couple, who could not concieve a child. I have always felt naturally loved by them, and I have never really felt that I was adopted. Instead, I have always felt that I did a little detour to be able to be adopted by my real parents.
Then my mother died when I was 15 years old after a long sickness. On her funeral I took the decision to never depend on anybody again. Her death created such a deep pain in me that it was also the death of relationships for me. Then my father died when I was 21 years old – and I was completely alone in the world. This created a basic feeling of being alone and unloved in me, it created early a feeling of independence and self-suffiency in me. It also created a basic feeling of not trusting that I am alright as I am, and of not trusting that life takes care of me.
This created such a pain in me that I simply repressed the pain for many years in order to survive. These early meetings with death also created a thirst in me to discover a quality, an inner awareness, that death could not take away.
Now I can see that these early painful experiences are a blessing in disguise. It liberated me from relationships. I relate with people, but there is always an aloneness within me. I realize that a seeker of truth needs to accept that he is totally alone. It is not possible to lean on other people like crutches. When we totally accept our aloneness, it becomes a source of love, joy, truth, silence, meditation and wholeness.
I shared these experiences with a beloved friend and her thoughtful comment was: “I have my own aloneness.”
Aloneness is to be at home in ourselves, to be in contact with our inner source of love, while loneliness is to hanker for other people, to hanker for a source of love outside of ourselves. Aloneness is to come home.”
GITEN
September 19, 2012
Giten on Being One with Existence
GITEN ON BEING ONE WITH EXISTENCE
“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 dicover 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
Giten on Enlightenment
Giten on Enlightenment
“Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness to happen.
You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of “I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being.”
GITEN
GITEN’S WORDS ON LOVE FROM THE BOOK “THE SILENT WHISPERINGS OF THE HEART” IS REACHING DUBAI
Rayan Kassem, media professional in Dubai, writes on Twitter: A good read by Swami Dhyan Giten: The Silent Whisperings of the Heart.
