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The Universe in small

Philosophers say a human being is the universe in small, but it is more true that the essence of a human is the whole from which the cosmos grew. It looks as if fruit grows from a branch, but growth comes more truly from the gardener’s hope and the work of sowing the seed that grew inside the fruit. The tree of the universe grows out of the fruit and its seed, even though in form the tree bears the fruit.
Rumi & Coleman B.

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Freedom from the Known Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.

…such awareness is like living with a snake in the room; you watch its every movement, you are very, very sensitive to the slightest sound it makes. Such a state of attention is total energy; in such awareness the totality of yourself is revealed in an instant.

Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living.

…so all stimulation, whether of the church or of alcohol or of drugs or of the written or spoken word, will inevitably bring about dependence, and that dependence prevents us from seeing clearly for ourselves and therefore from having vital energy.

The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security. When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same.

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

Do you use the opposite as a means of avoiding the actual which you don’t know how to deal with? Or is it because you have been told by thousands of years of propaganda that you must have an ideal – the opposite of ‘what is’ – in order to cope with the present? When you have an ideal you think it helps you to get rid of ‘what is’, but it never does. You may preach non-violence for the rest of your life and all the time be sowing the seeds of violence.

To divide anything into what should be and what is, is the most deceptive way of dealing with life.

You have a concept of what you should be and how you should act, and all the time you are in fact acting quite differently; so you see that principles, beliefs and ideals must inevitably lead to hypocrisy and a dishonest life. It is the ideal that creates the opposite to what is, so if you know how to be with ‘what is’, then the opposite is not necessary.

Life is very real – life is not an abstraction – and when you meet it with images there are problems.

Does a flower full of beauty, light and loveliness say, ‘I am giving, helping, serving’? It is! And because it is not trying to do anything it covers the earth.

Trying to become like somebody else, or like your ideal, is one of the main causes of contradiction, confusion and conflict. A mind that is confused, whatever it does, at any level, will remain confused; any action born of confusion leads to further confusion. I see this very clearly; I see it as clearly as I see an immediate physical danger. So what happens? I cease to act in terms of confusion any more. Therefore inaction is complete action 1)↓.

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1. wei wu wei – przyp. Amin

Remember: Be Here Now Ram Dass

Then there was a still less frequent type of experience reported: a oneness, in which subjects would say,
 “ . . . I remember being in a dark room with another person and one of us spoke and one of us said, “Who spoke, you or me?” It wasn’t clear from who’s mouth the words came.
 And then there was a still less frequent experience where one looked at somebody and he started to see the other person as cellular structure or patterns of energy rather than as a person.
 And finally, a few subjects (maybe 3% or something like that) transcended all form and saw just pure energy—a homogeneous field. It has been called the White Light.

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 “Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I . . .”
 And he’d say, “Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.”
 Silence.
 And I’d say, “How long do you think we’re going to be on this trip?”
 And he’d say, “Don’t think about the future. Just be here now.”
 I’d say, “You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting . . .”
 “Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”

AMERICAN BUDDHA ONLINE LIBRARY: BE HERE NOW [FATHER-SUN]

The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle

Everything is honored, but nothing matters. Forms are born and die, yet you are aware of the eternal underneath the forms. You know that “nothing real can be threatened.”

An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern, and because of its often overpowering energetic charge, it is not easy initially to stay present enough to be able to watch it. It wants to take you over, and it usually succeeds — unless there is enough presence in you. If you are pulled into unconscious identification with the emotion through lack of presence, which is normal, the emotion temporarily becomes “you.” Often a vicious circle builds up between your thinking and the emotion: they feed each other. The thought pattern creates a magnified reflection of itself in the form of an emotion, and the vibrational frequency of the emotion keeps feeding the original thought pattern. By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern, and so on.

The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.

Basically, all emotions are modifications of one primordial, undifferentiated emotion that has its origin in the loss of awareness of who you are beyond name and form. Because of its undifferentiated nature, it is hard to find a name that precisely describes this emotion. “Fear” comes close 1)↓, but apart from a continuous sense of threat, it also includes a deep sense of abandonment and incompleteness. It may be best to use a term that is as undifferentiated as that basic emotion and simply call it “pain.” One of the main tasks of the mind is to fight or remove that emotional pain, which is one of the reasons for its incessant activity, but all it can ever achieve is to cover it up temporarily. In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find the solution, nor can it afford to allow you to find the solution, because it is itself an intrinsic part of the “problem.” Imagine a chief of police trying to find an arsonist when the arsonist is the chief of police.

The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.

As long as the egoic mind is running your life, you cannot truly be at ease; you cannot be at peace or fulfilled except for brief intervals when you obtained what you wanted, when a craving has just been fulfilled. Since the ego is a derived sense of self, it needs to identify with external things. It needs to be both defended and fed constantly. The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now.

Do you find this frightening? Or is it a relief to know this? All of these things you will have to relinquish sooner or later. Perhaps you find it as yet hard to believe, and I am certainly not asking you to believe that your identity cannot be found in any of those things. You will know the truth of it for yourself. You will know it at the latest when you feel death approaching. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.

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The time-bound mode of consciousness is deeply embedded in the human psyche. But what we are doing here is part of a profound transformation that is taking place in the collective consciousness of the planet and beyond: the awakening of consciousness from the dream of matter, form, and separation 2)↓. The ending of time. We are breaking mind patterns that have dominated human life for eons. Mind patterns that have created unimaginable suffering on a vast scale. I am not using the word evil. It is more helpful to call it unconsciousness or insanity.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

It’s up to you to open a portal in your life that gives you conscious access to the Unmanifested. Get in touch with the energy field of the inner body, be intensely present, disidentify from the mind, surrender to what is; these are all portals you can use — but you only need to use one.

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

A few years from now — two years or seventy years, it doesn’t make much difference — both of you will have become rotting corpses, then piles of dust, then nothing at all. This is a sobering and humbling realization that leaves little room for pride. Is this a negative thought? No, it is a fact. Why close your eyes to it? In that sense, there is total equality between you and every other creature.

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1. Heidegger – przyp. Amin
2. projekt gnoza – przyp. Ammin

L’Albero dello yoga B.K.S Iyengar

«La radice dell’albero si chiama yama, che comprende i cinque princìpi di ahimsā (non-violenza), satya (sincerità), asteya (liberazione dall’avidità), brahmacharya (controllo della brama sessuale) e aparigraha (liberazione dall’desiderio di possedere al di là delle proprie necessità). […]
 Poi viene il tronco, che si paragona ai principi del niyama, che sono śaucha (pulizia), santosa (appagamento), tapas (ardore), svādhyāya (studio di se stessi) e Īśvara-pranidhana (abbandono). […]
 Dal tronco dell’albero si dipartono diversi rami. Uno cresce molto lungo, uno di lato, uno va a zigzag, un altro cresce dritto, e così via. Questi rami sono gli āsana, ovvero le varie posture che fanno sì che le funzioni fisiche e psicologiche del corpo siano in armonia con il modello psicologico della disciplina yoga.
 Dai rami crescono le foglie la cui interazione con l’aria fornisce energia a tutto l’albero. Le foglie che convogliano dentro l’aria esterna e la portano a contatto con le parti più interne dell’albero, corrispondono al prānāyāma, la scienza del respiro, che unisce il macrocosmo al microcosmo e viceversa. […]
 L’albero, se non avesse la corteccia, sarebbe divorato dai vermi; il suo rivestimento protegge la linfa che fluisce all’interno, tra le foglie e la radice. La corteccia quindi corrisponde al pratyāhāra, che consiste nello spostamento verso l’interno dei sensi della pelle al profondo dell’essere.
Dhāranā è come la linfa dell’albero, il succo che porta l’energia in questo viaggio spirituale. Dhāranā è concentrazione, che focalizza l’attenzione al centro dell’essere umano. […]
 Quando l’albero è sano e c’è molta energia, allora sbocciano i fiori. Quindi dhyāna, la meditazione, è il fiore dell’albero dello yoga.
 Alla fine, quando il fiore si trasforma in frutto, questo si chiama samādhi. Come l’essenza dell’albero si trova nell’frutto, così l’essenza della pratica dello yoga è riposta nella libertà, l’equilibrio, l’armonia e la beatitudine del samādhi, dove il corpo, la mente e l’anima sono un tutt’uno armonico e si fondono con lo Spirito Universale.»

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Gymnosofiści z "Bezkrwawej rewolucji"

Gdy włoski arystokrata i erudyta Pietro della Valle podczas podróży do Indii w latach dwudziestych siedemnastego wieku po raz pierwszy spotkał nagich, pokrytych popiołem joginów o długich, splątanych włosach, bez wahania potwierdził: „Nie ulega wątpliwości, iż są to owi starożytni gymnosofiści, tak sławni na świecie […] do których Aleksander Wielki wysyłał Onesikritosa, aby się z nimi naradzał”.
z „Bezkrwawej rewolucji…” roz.4

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