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/
