Monday, June 15, 2009
Live Unaffected
Verse 202: As the grains that are close to the pivot of a hand-mill (are not crushed), so those that have taken refuge with God are unaffected by the severest of afflictions.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Starlight Express
Starlight Express
When you good nights have been said
And you are lying in bed
With the covers pulled up tight
And though you count every sheep
You get the feeling that sleep
Is going to stay away tonight.
That's when you hear it coming
That is when you hear the humming of the
Starlight Express, Starlight Express,
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
Want you to take me away
But bring me home before daylight
And in the time between
Take me to everywhere
But don't abandon me there
Just want to say I've been.
I believe in you completely
Though I may be dreaming sweetly of the
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
And if you're there
And if you know
Then show me which way
I should go.
Starlight Express, Starlight Express,
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
When you good nights have been said
And you are lying in bed
With the covers pulled up tight
And though you count every sheep
You get the feeling that sleep
Is going to stay away tonight.
That's when you hear it coming
That is when you hear the humming of the
Starlight Express, Starlight Express,
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
Want you to take me away
But bring me home before daylight
And in the time between
Take me to everywhere
But don't abandon me there
Just want to say I've been.
I believe in you completely
Though I may be dreaming sweetly of the
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
And if you're there
And if you know
Then show me which way
I should go.
Starlight Express, Starlight Express,
Are you real, yes or no?
Starlight Express, answer me yes.
I don't want you to go.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
A peaceful and pure mind
Verse 199: That alone is right action that is done with a peaceful and pure mind; all action is sinful that is done with an agitated mind, or from desire.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Cool Mind, Desireless, Without Hate
Verse 193: To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, desireless and without hate, is beautiful in a sadhaka (spiritual seeker).
Saturday, June 6, 2009
I am not my body.
...birth and death are just ideas. All we need to do is overcome these ideas....Now we see that we are more than our bodies. Now we see that we have no life spans. We have no limits. Thich Nhat Hanh
Finding Perfection
First we have to direct our attention inwardly and pose the question, What am I until the answer comes. And, to get the answer to, what am I, it is necessary to still the thoughts. Thoughts are the noise blanketing the Truth. Lester Levenson
Perfection
We get to know Perfection by looking in the direction of where Perfection is. The Perfection is here, where we are...Lester Levenson
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
You impose limits on yourself...
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them” Ramana Maharshi
(quote sent to me by Rich Furlanic)
(quote sent to me by Rich Furlanic)
Lester In His Own Words
Thank you. Greetings and love to each and every one of you. I think the biggest surprise tonight was to me. I didn’t know I was going to talk until about ten minutes before eight this evening, when I was told I was going to be the surprise. So I began thinking, you know, what am I going to talk about? Talk about you? Or talk about me? And I realized, what’s the difference?
We are all in the very same boat, called life. We’re all doing, in my eyes, the exact same thing that I did. We are all looking for the summum bonum, the highest good, the ultimate place, the greatest happiness. And we’re about it all the time, struggling for it, struggling for it, looking for it, looking for it, wondering, “Where is it?”.
Well, back in 1952 I claimed I found the place. It’s right where I am. It’s right where you are. And all this looking for it everywhere, everyday, year in and year out, is such a waste of time. Why? It’s right where you are. We’re all here in this classroom called Earth, trying to discover something, the ultimate. And we’re all looking for it externally, where it isn’t! If we will only turn our direction back upon ourselves, we will discover it’s right here, where I am, where you are, right in your very own Beingness.
I say, “Are you?” You say, “Yes”. I say, “That’s it”. Do nothing else but that and you’ll be in the ultimate good and the ultimate state of happiness.
But why don’t you do it? You’re so habituated into looking for it over there, over here, in him, in her, in this job, and it never is there. So we’re all going through this same trip of trying to discover, “What is this all about? Where is my happiness?”. And when we stop chasing after it out there and we turn inward, we discover that all these hard, negative, terrible feelings are only a feeling, and that it is possible to get rid of these feelings, by releasing them. And all these feelings are subconscious programs, every bit of them put in as pro-survival. It’s not only fear that they say is fight-or-flight that is survival, all our feelings have been programmed-in to automatically keep us surviving. They keep us all the time looking out there, trying to survive; keep our mind active (subconsciously) 24 hours a day, so never for even one moment do we stop thinking and discover what we are.
If you could just stop your thinking for one moment, you will go through the most tremendous experience there is, that you are the totality of this universe, in your Beingness. That when your mind goes quiet, you automatically see, “I am the most terrific being there is in this universe. I am whole, complete, perfect. I always was, I am now, and I always will be.”
So what is it that keeps us from being in that most delectable state there is? Simply, the accumulated programs called “feelings”. All these negative feelings have us constantly struggling to survive, have us constantly looking away from this tremendous thing that we are. And all we need to do is to quiet that mind, and we become self-obvious to ourselves of this tremendous, loving being that we are.
How do we do it? I say it’s simple, the Release Technique. It happens to be the fastest, the most effective, way there is to achieve this high state of being: where we are in total control of our universe, where every moment is a wonderful, wonderful moment, where it is impossible to be unhappy. And I say that’s our natural state, when these negative feelings are released.
Someday you’re going to do it. You’re in the same boat, you’re struggling, you’re doing everything to achieve that happiness. But someday you’ll get it, because you will never stop until you get there. But, if you want to do it faster, try our way. I promise you, you’ll be very pleasantly surprised. Everything you’re looking for is right where you are. All you need to do is to take off the blinders. Your vision is very blurred. You’re looking through all these subconscious programs. When you release them, your vision becomes clear, you discover: you are the greatest. You’re whole, you’re complete, you’re eternal. All your fear of dying disappears. And life is so comfortable after that. And there’s no struggle, no struggle whatsoever, when you get these negative feelings up and out.
So I urge you to take this method, it’s a tool. In one week’s time there’ll be a big change in you for the better. And from there on, you will continue to get better and better and better, lighter and lighter, happier and happier.
And this thing called Love is your basic nature. All the Love there is in the universe is right in your basic nature. And you’ll discover that happiness, your happiness, equates to your capacity to love. And conversely, all your misery equates to your need to be loved. Just love, love, love, and you’ll be so happy, and healthy, and prosperous.
But again, you need to lift out these non-love feelings. So, again, I urge you to try our way. I promise you you’ll be very satisfied. Try it, you’ll like it.
Thank you so much for coming.
We are all in the very same boat, called life. We’re all doing, in my eyes, the exact same thing that I did. We are all looking for the summum bonum, the highest good, the ultimate place, the greatest happiness. And we’re about it all the time, struggling for it, struggling for it, looking for it, looking for it, wondering, “Where is it?”.
Well, back in 1952 I claimed I found the place. It’s right where I am. It’s right where you are. And all this looking for it everywhere, everyday, year in and year out, is such a waste of time. Why? It’s right where you are. We’re all here in this classroom called Earth, trying to discover something, the ultimate. And we’re all looking for it externally, where it isn’t! If we will only turn our direction back upon ourselves, we will discover it’s right here, where I am, where you are, right in your very own Beingness.
I say, “Are you?” You say, “Yes”. I say, “That’s it”. Do nothing else but that and you’ll be in the ultimate good and the ultimate state of happiness.
But why don’t you do it? You’re so habituated into looking for it over there, over here, in him, in her, in this job, and it never is there. So we’re all going through this same trip of trying to discover, “What is this all about? Where is my happiness?”. And when we stop chasing after it out there and we turn inward, we discover that all these hard, negative, terrible feelings are only a feeling, and that it is possible to get rid of these feelings, by releasing them. And all these feelings are subconscious programs, every bit of them put in as pro-survival. It’s not only fear that they say is fight-or-flight that is survival, all our feelings have been programmed-in to automatically keep us surviving. They keep us all the time looking out there, trying to survive; keep our mind active (subconsciously) 24 hours a day, so never for even one moment do we stop thinking and discover what we are.
If you could just stop your thinking for one moment, you will go through the most tremendous experience there is, that you are the totality of this universe, in your Beingness. That when your mind goes quiet, you automatically see, “I am the most terrific being there is in this universe. I am whole, complete, perfect. I always was, I am now, and I always will be.”
So what is it that keeps us from being in that most delectable state there is? Simply, the accumulated programs called “feelings”. All these negative feelings have us constantly struggling to survive, have us constantly looking away from this tremendous thing that we are. And all we need to do is to quiet that mind, and we become self-obvious to ourselves of this tremendous, loving being that we are.
How do we do it? I say it’s simple, the Release Technique. It happens to be the fastest, the most effective, way there is to achieve this high state of being: where we are in total control of our universe, where every moment is a wonderful, wonderful moment, where it is impossible to be unhappy. And I say that’s our natural state, when these negative feelings are released.
Someday you’re going to do it. You’re in the same boat, you’re struggling, you’re doing everything to achieve that happiness. But someday you’ll get it, because you will never stop until you get there. But, if you want to do it faster, try our way. I promise you, you’ll be very pleasantly surprised. Everything you’re looking for is right where you are. All you need to do is to take off the blinders. Your vision is very blurred. You’re looking through all these subconscious programs. When you release them, your vision becomes clear, you discover: you are the greatest. You’re whole, you’re complete, you’re eternal. All your fear of dying disappears. And life is so comfortable after that. And there’s no struggle, no struggle whatsoever, when you get these negative feelings up and out.
So I urge you to take this method, it’s a tool. In one week’s time there’ll be a big change in you for the better. And from there on, you will continue to get better and better and better, lighter and lighter, happier and happier.
And this thing called Love is your basic nature. All the Love there is in the universe is right in your basic nature. And you’ll discover that happiness, your happiness, equates to your capacity to love. And conversely, all your misery equates to your need to be loved. Just love, love, love, and you’ll be so happy, and healthy, and prosperous.
But again, you need to lift out these non-love feelings. So, again, I urge you to try our way. I promise you you’ll be very satisfied. Try it, you’ll like it.
Thank you so much for coming.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Overlook the faults of others and have a pleasant life.
Verse 192: If the sadhaka (spiritual seeker) overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be pleasant. Ramana Maharshi
Monday, June 1, 2009
"Develop the habit of turning inward whenever something goes wrong
outwardly. We are so anxious to protest or make a telephone call or
change something. Reverse it. Think, 'Now, there is something within
me quite capable of handling this without useless motions.' Constant
practice reveals that there is." Vernon Howard
outwardly. We are so anxious to protest or make a telephone call or
change something. Reverse it. Think, 'Now, there is something within
me quite capable of handling this without useless motions.' Constant
practice reveals that there is." Vernon Howard
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