Tag: Meditation
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What meditation can do and why meditation needs to be practiced ?
We experience two states of mind in our day-to-day life, one is with thoughts, the other is without thoughts. We know we have thoughts when we are awake. In deep sleep, do we have thoughts? No. So there are two states of mind: with thoughts and without thoughts.
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What should one do if you they are new to meditation ?
The first thing is, be sincere. Keep an open mind. Have the openness to experiment. Be enthusiastic. There is a beautiful term in the Zen tradition to describe the attitude – the beginner’s mind. It means looking at every single thing in life as new, so everything in life excites you. The second thing is,…
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Meditation is just being. It is experiencing the present moment without resistance
Meditation is falling in tune with nature, with Existence. This is your natural state, your true state of bliss. This is connecting with the Ultimate Consciousness. You see, the universe or the macrocosm is made up of the five elements – earth, water, fire, air and space. In the same way, the body, the microcosm,…
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The word ‘ananda’ itself means, ‘that which cannot be reduced, which cannot be lost’
What is your ultimate aim in life? To earn more? To stay forever young, healthy, beautiful? To have better, longer-lasting relationships? To improve your personality? The list is endless. For each individual, there will be a specific goal or many goals. But every single goal, without exception, points to the same thing: a yearning to…
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Swamiji, why do you insist on being in the presence of the master?
The master is the ultimate luxury in your life. When the master happens in our lives, nothing else is needed. If he does not happen, nothing else is of use. He is a channel to bring wisdom to our life and to update it, according to our need. Life energy and the master are not…
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Meditation technique for Global Peace
The way to achieve global peace is to create individual peace. The meditation for global peace is a collective meditation. This is a very simple but very powerful meditation. Sit in one circle or concentric circles, holding hands so that you hold the hand of the person on your right with your right hand palm…
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Any problem can be solved with this one technique
Try this technique from His Divine Holiness Bhagawan Sri Paramahamsa Nithyananda Swamiji: Anything comes in your mind, ask ‘How will master behave?’ Do the same. One more thing, be very clear, when you behave as I am behaving, you will have what I am having. That is a promise from Existence. I don’t have anything…
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Meditation technique to establish you in the awareness of the present moment
Mahamantra meditation The Mahamantra meditation is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist technique to awaken the anahata chakra, located at the heart center. This meditation makes your mind firm and stable. Your mind is all the time oscillating with thoughts. This meditation makes your mind still by making it enter into the zone of no-mind. It is…
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The more the number of engrams, the more clouded is our thought process, and the lower is the productivity!
So much has been written and said about productivity in organizations. Productivity has become the mantra in organizations for the last two or three decades. As a result of invention of computers and new communications technologies such as the internet and cell phone, the world has become a much smaller place. While there has been…
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How does the mind work ? What are engrams or samskaras ? How do they influence our being ?
What do I mean by the word, ‘state of the leader’? A true leader is a person who is ready to take responsibility consciously, who is ready to handle life consciously, who is not constantly dependent on the past or his memory. If you are dependent on your memory, if you are dependent on the…
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Meditation technique to allow the play of spontaneous intelligence in your life
Just try this for the next 48 hours. Consciously decide you are not going to think about your problems. Drop your intellect which continuously tells you that you do not have enough intelligence to solve your problems spontaneously, that you do not have the capacity to produce that much spontaneity. Work on solving your problems…
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When our body can digest food, pump blood, adapt to the environment and at the same time perform a thousand other complicated tasks without help from outside, you have to accept that there is an intelligent energy driving it.
How many of us realize the tremendous intelligence that our body possesses? Take the example of our digestive system. The whole process of converting bread to blood is such a complex and delicate one, requiring fine intelligence to convert the different types of food into energy to run the body. What is achieved through a…
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