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.



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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.”

 

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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.”
 
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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.”
 
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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.
 
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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.”

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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.”


 
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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.
 
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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.”

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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.
 
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 These quotes are also published on Giten’s new  spiritual blog on The Times of India


http://timesofindia.speakingtree.in/swamidhyangiten/spiritual-diary/blogs