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Obračaj svoj obraz proti soncu in
zagotovo ne boš videl sence.
Tako to počno sončnice.
Hellen Keller

• Work in groups when possible as group energy can multiply the energy of an individual many times over.

• Remember that meditation is an escape to reality, not an escape from reality. Avoid any guru or group that asks you to deny truth.

• Don't limit yourself to just one teacher. The single guru approach can lead to cult thinking with its small mindedness and us vs. them syndrome.

• Hatha yoga can make you more energetic and fit for long meditation sessions, but do not take it too seriously or become obsessed with extreme gymnastics. The easy and basic hatha yoga exercises work best. Extreme kundalini yoga exercises that involve fast breathing in bizarre positions may be dangerous and are not recommended. Men should never sit with their heels pressed behind the testicles, as some yogis instruct, as this practice is unhealthful and can cause sterility.

• Having a separate room used exclusively for meditation can be very helpful. It is possible to build up a vibration in a room so that the moment you enter it your mind becomes silent and ready to go deeper.

• Avoid fads (newage therapists kill girl) and complicated philosophies that give your mind more to think about. Meditation is a step beyond the thought process. No philosophy can adequately describe man's place in the universe. Concentrate on meditation in this moment and not on ancient scriptures. Many old scriptures were written by madmen and fools and have gained respect from society simply because they are so old and dusty.

• It is essential to maintain a nutritionally adequate diet without becoming a food fanatic. Most people find that a semi-vegetarian diet supplemented with dairy products and eggs is generally best for meditation, but not essential. If you have a medical problem like hypoglycemia, you may have to eat meat just to survive. Even the Atkins high fat, high protein diet is perfectly compatible with meditation.

• Food should not be made the fundamental basis of your spiritual practice. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian yet his diet did not save his soul or make him nonviolent. Most Tibetan lamas and Asian Zen monks eat meat, so obviously meat consumption is not a serious obstacle to cosmic consciousness. There is no scientific evidence to suggest that a vegetarian diet extends lifespan or improves health. To the contrary, nations with the highest longevity rates, such as Japan, Sweden, and Australia, are all populated by avid meat eaters.

• Fasting is a waste of time and will weaken you physically. Like taking LSD, fasting creates strangely entertaining short term experiences, but produces no long term benefits and can cause permanent neurological damage. When you fast your body literally feeds upon itself. If your brain needs protein for repair work, your body will be directed to eat away its own own muscles, or worse, your own peripheral nerve cells. People fast because their heads feel cluttered with thoughts and they hope planned starvation will purify their minds. The human body is made of mud, water and dirt, so the idea of a perfect, spiritually purified physical body is misguided. The way to end the cluttered feeling is to change the way your brain and subtle body function, and this can only be accomplished through real meditation techniques.

• I do not recommend solitary meditation retreats of longer than 7 days duration. To maintain health one must eat a balanced diet and get rigorous physical exercise every day. To maintain full brain function one must also get mental exercise through interaction with other human beings and through problem solving. If you meditate in isolation for months or years your body and brain will become deconditioned and atrophy. You may develop strange hallucinations and delusions and come back physically weaker, with a measurably lower IQ.

• Avoid drugs and alcohol. Carlos Castaneda was a talented fiction writer who misled many people. Drugs are not an effective path to enlightenment, but they are a quick path to misery and insanity.

• Have sex when you wish and do not force celibacy upon yourself in the hopes it will lead to enlightenment. To meditate one must be in a very natural and relaxed state of mind without repression or tension. Celibacy can only be of value if it occurs spontaneously without effort or thought. The majority of famous Eastern gurus who have claimed celibacy publicly have practiced intercourse privately. Why make sex a big secret and why have two faces? Many fully enlightened humans have had sexual relations even after enlightenment. There is no direct relationship between abstinence and spirituality.

• Do practice choiceless awareness (one object vision, mindfulness etc.) throughout the day. Meditation must become as continuous and spontaneous as breathing.

• Don't make meditation a competition and drop any hidden agenda you may have to use it to control others. Legitimate motives for meditation are the desire for tranquility and ecstasy, freedom from suffering, and the pure adventure of self-exploration.

• Don't turn your meditation into a business. People who make a profit from intercourse have turned something beautiful into something ugly. Those who make money from meditation have transformed a noble path into a sordid back alley. Whether you are a sexual prostitute or a spiritual prostitute, the fundamental quality of your mind is the same.

• Be completely honest and have just one face, not two.

• Don't take the inspiring but totally unrealistic teachings of J. Krishnamurti and U.G. Krishnamurti seriously. Both great men, but generally poor teachers, were talking about themselves when they said that methods are not needed. They lost the need for technique after enlightenment, but both men practiced many methods before they attained. If you do not do methods you will never develop any inner power. Meditation methods put direct pressure on the false self, the ego. If you continue patient practice at some point that false self will implode under the pressure, without warning and without apparent and obvious method. 99.99% of people who drop methods stop far too soon, thus bringing their progress to an early end.

• For every action there is a reaction, not just in theoretical physics but in ordinary human life as well. When you create positive actions you will eventually reap positive reactions for yourself and for others. In this way what we call ethics and morality are woven into the very fabric of the universe right down to the subatomic level.

by Christopher Calder

kaj več na:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/


Žal je tekst v angleščini, zaenkrat tega ne objavljamo, je pa dober tako da ga lahko preberete tukaj, al pa če se komu da prevajat.

Pa še ena. Sicer je avtor pesmi naveden, članek pa je bil oddan kot anonimen.

*************Težko je biti človek.
...poznati svoje Vesolje
in vedeti Njegovo ime,
poiskati edino srce-z ljubeznijo premagati vse ovire.
Težko je biti človek,
poznati besede svoje duše
in govoriti iskreno,
povedati kar misliš si
in povedati resnico tako, da ne boli.
poznati svojega duha,
in se boriti da tisoč zunanjih jezikov ne oskrunilo bi notranjega Boga.
Da ostajaš in živiš, častiš in dihaš zvestobo svojemu Bitju, ki ti je vdihnilo sonce...


Nimue

KAPLJICA ROSE

Poslušam pesem moje Duše,
odmeva v mojem srcu, kot čudoviti zvon
in kot majhen , nedolžen otrok
tiho,nemo in začudeno,
občutim trepetanje Življenja
in obstrmim;
tako čudežna, veličastna, mogočna in hkrati nežno preprosta
je večno neizpeta pesem Ljubezni,

brez pesnika,
brez not,
brez poslušalca,
brez petja,
brez pesmi
in vendar tišina poje, odzvanja, govori...

Govori mi biserna kapljica rose, v kateri se lesketa Stvarstvo,
govori mi potoček, kamen, šepeta veter, listje, trava,
mehko, nežno, tiho
in vendar je ta veličasten zvok tako močan,
da doseže in preplavi Bistvo VSEGA.

Tako lepa je Lepota sama
in , ko jezik postane omejitev,
govori le srce
in mi šepeta večnost skozi minljivost.

Sem ogledalo, ki odseva vse
a v njem ni odseva.
Sem Svetloba radosti bivanja,
polna spoštovanja in občudovanja
do vsake najmanjše oblike
do kreacije vsega, kar je, je bilo in bo.

In vidim skozi obliko, čutim, sem
povsod sem, le
če nisem v ničemur.

Kakšna radost, blaženost in mir
je svoboda bivanja v nebivanju.
Sem roža, metulj, šepet vetra, petje ptic,
sem gora, sonce, ki se blešči v kapljici vode
in nič od tega
ker samo
SEM...TO.

Preprostost je zlati ključ ,
drevesa se ne odevajo v obleke
so to , kar so.
Bistvo nikoli ni bilo skrito
tahko majhno, nežno in preprosto je vse.
Ja,tako ljubko a tako mogočno,
ta večno pojoča tišina,
ta čudežni spev je VSE.

iZVIR sem in voda
in VIRiz katerega se vse rojeva
in v katerega se vse vrača.
IZVOR sem,studenec čiste zavesti,
ki ohladi in odžeja Stvarstvo
in napaja samega sebe z življenjem.

Ganjena sem,v dno srca
občutim hvaležnost in božansko nežnost Ljubezni,
občudujem veličastnost tega trenutka ,
ki je SEDANJOST,
ki je večnost,
ki je to ,kar je.

Tako majhna sem,
tako nežna

rahla kapljica rose...

ARELENA

arelena wrote on 23.03.2004 at 15:07:05:


Super.

A bi se lahko prosim registrirala na Pozitivkah in potem oddala še enkrat svoje pesmi? Je tako mnogo boljše, kakor biti anonimus. Če tega ne želiš, pa bomo objavili pod imenom Pozitivke.

arelena wrote on 24.03.2004 at 15:15:32:

http://www.gape.org/geeklog/public_html/article.php?story=20020806211444784

Tako. Z Areleno sva uštimala, zdaj je registrirana, ti dve pesmi sem ji jaz gor obesil, v bodoče bo sama.