Tag: Consciousness
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What’s awakening?
When you realize something, when you feel it so deeply that you start to implement it in your life, that’s an awakening. Anirudh
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Be mindful of your actions
What you think impacts what you feel and do, what you feel impacts what you do and think, what you do impacts what you think and feel. What you’re thinking is also what you’re doing. The fabric of reality is woven so precisely, one thing wavers, the entire cycle of your life is shaken. Be…
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Be selfless
With perfect and unyielding faith, with steadfastness, respect, and courtesy, with modesty and conscientiousness, work calmly for the happiness of others. Shantideva
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Be that energy
The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself – consciously. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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You discover meditation
A person who is wise enough to struggle with his own mind by trying to gain the mastery of his mind will learn the vital practice of meditation. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Way of Bodhisattva
So enough of this childish behaviour!I shall follow in the steps of the wise,And having recalled the advice concerning conscientiousness,I shall turn away sleep and mental dullness. Just like the compassionate Sons of the Conqueror,I shall patiently accept what I have to do;For if I do not make a constant effort day and night,When will…
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You become what you are aware of
When you focus on something, you become unaware of your surroundings. Why is it so? It is said that we are nothing but our consciousness, or the soul which is eternal, and rest is mortal and meant to let go as everyone dies eventually. Also, when we focus on a particular thing, we are conscious…
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The wisdom of process
Stop complaining about your situation, and observe where life is leading you. Your destiny awaits. Anirudh
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The yin-yang of the kite
Life is like a kite. Just as it goes higher on systematic tuning of the grip, so are things in life. But again, you must learn when to loosen and tighten. And for that, you need to work upon it. Anirudh
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Dopamine trip
You zoned-out, and so, for once I snap in front of you to bring your attention here. I do that one more time as you zone out again, and more and more times as you keep on zoning out. This has become the need of human being – have someone or something that brings them…
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Key to mastering awareness
As soon as we control where awareness goes we control where energy flows. As soon as we control where energy is flowing we control what is manifesting in our life. Meditation is the art and science of directing awareness. Dandapani
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Hustle when you can’t
We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.
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The hopeless pursuit
Human desire tends to be insatiable. We are so anxious for pleasure that we can never get enough of it. We stimulate our sense organs until they become insensitive, so that if pleasure is to continue they must have stronger and stronger stimulants. In self- defense the body gets ill from the strain, but the…
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The Chaos
Ever since the beginning of our childhood, we have been taught this one thing the most perfectly, and that is to rush. We were caught up in this race of a so-called life. Since that time, we just hope and wish for one thing – ‘let this time too pass’, as if we’re going through…
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Mindset
Suppose there’s an achievement that you made. Let it be meditating finally for the extended period of time you had desired. With persistence, you made yourself do this that you didn’t let your awareness waver. This is really a great achievement, but at the same time is hidden and stays unappreciated. Others are unaware of…
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Spirituality: breaking the myth, embracing it
Concentration is at the very core of all kinds of endeavors and success. Dandapani When it comes to leading a spiritual life, ordinary people are often consumed by a notion – ‘It might become a hindrance in my success path’. They have come up with the idea of spirituality, that they consider it to be…
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Knowing and Unknowing: A quest for awakening
“Who are you?” asked the Emperor in search of wisdom “I don’t know”, replied Bodhidharma The ancient Chinese philosophy Taoism is mostly about the law of reversed effort: actions of a man are counter productive. When one tries to fall asleep, he cannot but when he stops striving, he falls asleep on his own. When…
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Buddha and Alar Kalam
Prior to leaving his house and after he left, Siddharth was an austere atheist. He believed that god was either in every particle or he wasn’t even there. As he set about his venture he discovered a meditator and a great yoga-guru, Alar Kalam. He became Siddharth’s first spiritual teacher. Kalama had reached Akinchinapi/ Spere…
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Love, Life and Meditation
When we talk about spirituality, consciousness, awakening, law of attraction, this and that, there are a lot number of philosophies to come across. Tathagata gave the Eightfold Path, Lao instructed on approaching the Tao, Alan Watts gave a different philosophy. And as a result of that we are all baffled entirely. So here I provide…