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When we cling to a thought or follow its track, we are performing a mental karma, and that, in turn, is the seed of all physical actions.
Similar is the case with our desires, for Raktbija was nothing but a symbol of desire. For every desire we humans fulfill, a thousand more will take birth. Suppressing them is the same as attacking them. That’s not the solution. Fulfilling them is accepting your defeat at their hands, giving birth to a thousand more. Ma Kali emerging out of Devi’s forehead represents mindfulness. When we are mindful of our thoughts, actions and desire, they subside on their own.
The kingdom of consciousness is under siege by the desires of our mind.
When the only burning desire to discover your true nature remains, half the work is done.
Memory plays a pivotal role in correct meditation. When you are able to retain only a part of your memory – that is, the object of meditation – you move towards achieving the tranquil state.
A mind that has gone empty fills with love naturally. An empty mind is not a devil’s workshop. A restless mind is. An empty mind is infact a meditator’s nirvana. A mind that holds no grudges against anyone, no desires, no expectations is a hotbed of noble intentions. Good meditation naturally leads to that exalted state.
What I mean to say is that the bliss promised from meditation cannot come from just meditation alone. It is not a substitute for love, compassion, humility, empathy and other virtues. Meditation is simply one of the methods to mould yourself into the person you wish to be, a process that can help you discover your primal state of peace and bliss.
It comes with great, persistent, prolonged, intelligent, alert, intense and correct practice.
The ability to direct your attention and keep it yoked to the object of meditation is fundamental to good meditation. This is the singular most important instruction, the only way to keep your mind in the present moment.
Concentration is the beam of your mental energy. The power
Saṃyutta Nikāya defines alertness as knowing both events in the mind and activities of the body as they are happening:
It metamorphoses into a state, it is no longer an act but a state – the meditative state. You remain in a meditative state
Until you are able to achieve perfect stillness, you will not be able to lose body consciousness, that is, you will continue to have distracting awareness of your body during your sessions of meditation. And till the time you are able to completely rise above your body, you are not going to experience any cosmic oneness.
Until you are able to achieve perfect stillness, all your experiences are going to be mere intellectual fabrication, they will have no intrinsic value and will remain mostly meaningless.
Our goal is to build non-discriminatory, unblemished, sharp and lucid concentration.
Contemplative meditation helps you identify yourself with your truest nature, above all labels and conditioning,
Mindfulness is the path to liberation. You are your own greatest friend and your own worst enemy.
emotions and desires are un-abandoned thoughts if you recall. Since our mind is full of thoughts, we all remember the times when we were hurt, when
we didn’t get what we wanted, we remember the minutest details of undesirable incidents from years ago. When it comes to meditation, however, all those details, emotions and desires are merely thoughts. For some reason, we have given more importance to those thoughts over millions of others that have circled in our mind.
Mindfulness is about paying attention to every thought (for every action stems from a thought) without discriminating ...
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When you will begin to watch every action of yours, as you become more mindful, a remarkable thing will happen to you: your mind will start downplaying d...
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Mindful meditation is the art of doing everything with a sense of awareness and the only way to master this art is by way of practice.
There's a reason why Patanjali put yama (moral injunctions) and niyama (fixed observances) long before meditation. He states in the Yoga Sutras: ahimsa satyaasteyabrahmacaryaaparigrahahyamah.35 Non-violence, truth, abstention from stealing, continence, and absence of greed for possessions beyond one's need are the five pillars of yama. Regarding fixed observances, he says: Saucasantosatapahsvadhyayaisvarapranidhananiniyamah. Cleanliness, contentment, religious zeal, self-study and surrender of the self to the supreme Self or God are the niyamas.
Compassion and forgiveness are simply synonyms of sacrifice. When you forgive, somewhere you sacrifice a part of your own existence, your respect, your dignity, yourself. However, by forgiving you also go beyond the shackles of ego.
Moreover, sacrificing is not a trade, you don't expect anything for yourself in return, it is philanthropy, it's an act of charity.
Jako rake saanyiyan maar sake na koye Baal na baanka kar sake jo jag bairi hoye… Who can harm the one who's got the protection of God, Even if the whole world turns against him, they can't even make dent a strand of his hair. Saanch barabar tap nahin jhooth barabar paap Jaake hriday saanch hai, taak hriday prabhu aap. There’s no penance greater than truth and no sin worse than lying, God lives in the one who has truth in his
The point I’m arriving at is that it’s pivotal to examine the nature of your truth you are about to state.
If it’s just a matter of opinion, you may want to hold on until you are absolutely certain that what you are stating is a fact and not your interpretation of a fact.
As they say, resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.43
gratitude is the quickest antidote of negativity.
