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brother neil
USA
752 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 12:20:51 PM
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you meet someone and you have five minutes and can only give them three tips on how to attain enlightenment, they would be?
just a question
seeker
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Manipura
USA
870 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 1:48:16 PM
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1. Give up all control.
2. Accept everything exactly as it is.
3. Question your identity by asking the question: Who am I? |
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Divineis
Canada
420 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 3:22:45 PM
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1. Be with the in breath
2. Be with the out breath
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tadeas
Czech Republic
314 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 3:25:40 PM
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| explain deep meditation in about a minute :) |
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Jack
United Kingdom
305 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 3:26:15 PM
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1. Surrender everything.
2. Love everyone.
3. Repeat always. |
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emc
2072 Posts |
Posted - Mar 24 2008 : 4:07:06 PM
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1. Never try to attain enlightenment - it's impossible
2. Meditate twice daily
3. Get to know thyself - question your thoughts, emotions and behavioural patterns |
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Kirtanman
USA
1651 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 01:03:21 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by tubeseeker
you meet someone and you have five minutes and can only give them three tips on how to attain enlightenment, they would be?
just a question
seeker
1. Use all available means (devotion, breathing, meditation, chanting, tantric practices, inquiry, etc.) to access the living silence – the aware space between thoughts and perceptions, thus exiting the conceptual prison of apparent limitation emanating from mis-identification with egoic individuality.
2. Sustain awareness from within the living silence, in (apparently) increasing increments, until:
A. There is thoughtless awareness (realization) of the True Nature of Self as this Living Silence.
B. There is thoughtless awareness (realization) that All arises from and gives rise to this Living Silence; the True Nature of Self - Consciousness & Bliss.
C. There is thoughtless awareness (realization) that the source of this ever-fresh, ever-living reality - the source of the Living Silence of True Nature, which is indicated by the terms "Enlightenment", "Ultimate" or "Supreme" - cannot be known; the exquisite, utter freedom of liberation in this life can only be … living, now – being, now -loving, now as ever.
3. Welcome Home. Enjoy Living, Unbound.
AUM Hridayam - Heart Is Where the AUM Is,
Kirtanman
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 02:51:18 AM
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1) "Listen up!"
2) "Stop looking at the clock!"
3) "This will cost everything!"
(Sorry, just joking around  ) |
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Scott
USA
969 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 08:27:19 AM
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1. Stay still
2. Stay present
3. Stay awake
I like Meg's answer too! |
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eputkonen
USA
43 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 09:01:21 AM
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Meg's answer is pretty close to what I would say.
1. Let go of everything and cease doing.
There is not anything you can call "mine". Also cease making effort, Enlightenment is the "natural state" - so to speak. There is nothing you can do to regain a natural state. Also, the concept of "I am the doer" is an obstacle...let that go as well. In letting to, let go of the past and future...cease refering to either unless necessary to the task at hand.
2. Accept what is as it is for as long as it is.
Resistance to what is not only causes our suffering,b ut also reinforces and stengthens the ego.
3. Inquire - "who am I?"
If you are seeking..."who is the seeker"...the answer being "I am" and then ask "who am I?" When a thought arises ask "To whom does this thought or thoughts arise?"...and "to me"...and then ask "who am I?" In this way all thoughts are destroyed and there is a constant turning inward.
Namaste,
~ Eric Putkonen |
Edited by - eputkonen on Mar 25 2008 09:15:04 AM |
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jupiter
USA
22 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2008 : 6:46:52 PM
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1. Simplify your life and meditate
2. Cultivate deeper and deeper awareness
3. Let go
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Anthem
1608 Posts |
Posted - Mar 26 2008 : 1:43:20 PM
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EMC's and Kirtanman's posts resonate with me, here's my perspective:
1- Desire - cultivate a tremendous desire to awaken and end suffering.
2- Use every tool you can find: inquiry, the 8 limbs of yoga built on a foundation of deep meditation.
3- Embrace the flow of reality as your highest ideal, live in the here and now with your entire being. |
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thimus
53 Posts |
Posted - Mar 28 2008 : 1:20:33 PM
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1 dont harbour any thought
2 " " " "
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(from Nisargadatta, Tolle, Sri Aurobindo etc.) |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Mar 28 2008 : 8:42:13 PM
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Okay, I'll try again:
You are the awareness in which all things appear and disappear. All of these "things" include your individual identity; perceptions, thoughts, emotions, physical objects; the dance of energetic manifestation that shimmers within the awareness that you are.
Ultimately there is no temporal, energetic thing that keeps you separated from That awareness you are, excepting your temporary fascination with things.
Reside as the space of awareness in which the temporary fascination of things plays and enjoy the life that happens ever new, holding onto nothing, for no-thing is what you are. |
Edited by - Balance on Mar 28 2008 8:50:46 PM |
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yogibear
409 Posts |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 08:11:02 AM
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Favor twice daily AYP practice.
Favor Self Inquiry during the day.
Favor full engagement in all aspects of daily life. |
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Guy_51
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 10:12:04 AM
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Eat light and nutritious.
Meditate twice a day.
Be active.
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 1:13:55 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by robertjames
Eat light and nutritious.
Meditate twice a day.
Be active.
Guy
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Guy_51
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 2:40:05 PM
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Hi Balance:
Glad you like it. I have to tell you a quickie. Right after reading Yogani's book Diet Shatkarma's and Amaroli, I e-mailed him to say how much I enjoyed the read. I also said, "So, all we have to do is to eat light and nutritious, meditate 2X daily, and be active? His reply to me was. "That's the ticket" Sounded real good to me. So, I always try to remind myself of this and to keep it simple.
Guy |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 3:00:06 PM
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| Beautiful! As Yogani likes to say: "K.I.S.S.--Keep It Simple Stupid!" |
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thimus
53 Posts |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 05:23:48 AM
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A student leaves his zen-master and asked him to write down some tips on a paper. The master wrote : "attention".
Again the student gives the paper to the master to write down another tip. The master wrote again :"attention".
For the third time he gives the paper to the master and again the master wrote " attention". |
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emc
2072 Posts |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 05:40:48 AM
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thimus, I like that one! Gosh, the attention is what is lost when we fall asleep and go into illusion again! The only EFFORT we have to do is to keep the attention on what's real! And that can be very tiresome when we are very muddy! It's easier and more comfortable to go to sleep again...
Attention! Very good! Thank you! |
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thibaud05
France
86 Posts |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 06:50:43 AM
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1. Give 100 blows to the Buddha
2. Give 100 hugs to the Buddha
3. Repeat at will
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Etherfish
USA
3615 Posts |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 11:59:44 AM
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1) Increase your bhakti, desire, devotion to God, or your highest ideal.
2) Fearlessly let things be, and Thank God whenever possible for any reason, and you will begin to see even bad things have their place.
3) Turn your thoughts to God all day long as often as you can.
everything will change in incomprehensible, awesome ways! |
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brother neil
USA
752 Posts |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 12:49:32 AM
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| I totally forgot about making this topic. Thanks for the great responses, seems there are a lot of similarities. Hey thimus what was the answer for the fouth time that the student gave the paper to the master? ;) |
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Nancy
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - Apr 26 2008 : 12:45:19 AM
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| BE STILL IN LOVE AND YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWER YOURSELF |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Apr 26 2008 : 04:47:01 AM
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1) forgive yourself and others.
2) love love love
3) be present in the moment (old testament: be still and know that i am god)
Namaste
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