“Man decides everything, because everything is in his mind. I am a yogi because it is in your mind. If I am a perfect master it is because it is in your mind. If I am a nut, it is because it is in your mind. Everything is in your mind. Nothing else besides that exists with you. You are learning because it is your mind which is learning. I am teaching because it is mind that is teaching.” Yogi Bhajan
“Use your material support to do great things. Cultivate wisdom to complement your power. ” – a reading from the I Ching
Use your material support to do great things. Cultivate wisdom to complement your power. Use what you have effectively, do not flaunt it.
Meditation: NM0337-Bujung Kriya – For Wisdom and Understanding
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Today: “You must accept that you are you and that your mind is also you.” Yogi Bhajan
“You must accept that you are you and that your mind is also you. When you have a relationship between you and your mind, it shall answer all problems.”Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: LA935-980608- Connect the subconscious and intuition
Today: “The time has come when we should live as one. Forget finding God, I do not know who God is.” Yogi Bhajan
“The time has come when we should live as one. Forget finding God, I do not know who God is. Let us be very clean and honest and clear, and he will find us. Don’t run after him; he will run after you provided you know how to stay clear, provided you know love, provided you know how to stand honest.” Yogi Bhajan
Today: “Everyone wants to know the truth, but nobody wants to face it. Yogi Bhajan
“Everyone wants to know the truth, but nobody wants to face it.” Yogi Bhajan
“If you are right, and resistance to your efforts is wrong-headed, adopt a flexible approach. ” – a reading from the I Ching
If you are right, and resistance to your efforts is wrong-headed, adopt a flexible approach. Don’t force the issue. It only meets with more resistance. Your course will prevail in the end.
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Today: “A life with contentment is the life of an emperor.” Yogi Bhajan
“A life with contentment is the life of an emperor. A life of moderate desires is the life of a king. And a life of impatient desires is the life of a beggar.” Yogi Bhajan
“…bonding and unity will happen once the perpetrators realize and atone for their own foolish behavior.” – a reading from the I Ching
There is such discord and estrangement among tribal interests that the common interest, along with good manners and agreed upon contracts, are not just neglected but openly flouted by those who do not understand the necessity of union. People are injured and are dying for a cause that arose from extreme greed and a lust for power. Despite all that, bonding and unity will happen once the perpetrators realize and atone for their own foolish behavior. We just have to wait.
To modify such foolish behavior the compulsions of the powerful must be redirected.
Lecture and Meditation: Patience Pays – LA-19831020
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Today: “If you want to rule the world, there is only one law: the law of compassion and the sweet tongue.” Yogi Bhajan
“If you want to rule the world, there is only one law: the law of compassion and the sweet tongue.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: NM0163 – Feel God Within You, The Kindness in You
Recap: Healing and Meditation Workshop at Yoga West with Hari Nam Singh 2019-05-03 – The Projective Meditative Mind Part 2
The Projective Meditative Mind part 2
We held a workshop at Yoga West on May 3, 2019. In this class, we stabilized and developed the projective meditative mind.
In our healing tradition, healing begins when we can adjust our awareness to a specific aspect that we call the projective meditative mind. Other names for this are shuniya and the sacred space. Once we stabilize that position of awareness, we begin to relate with the patient (event) in a way that produces healing in the event. We call the aspect projective because in that position of awareness our intention becomes projective, in that it manifests in our relation with the event. Our intention to heal impacts the relation.
Literally, shuniya describes an aspect of mind that is empty. Not void as in nothing, as there is always activity in the mind, rather empty of any tendency to move or direct the experience. Sitting in shuniya, our mind allows the flow of our experience without interfering with it or imposing any bias or preconception onto the experience. See Milarepa’s Song to Lady Palderboom. Shuniya is a most profound state of being. It is most effective for healing.
Arriving at this awareness is not an accident. Nor is it likely that we should recognize it without preparing the mind with certain exercises, or kriyas. Of the many kriyas that come from the tradition of Kundalini Yoga, many deal directly with the development of shuniya.
If we could arrive at shuniya by thinking it or by verbal instruction, we would. Instead, we allow our practice of the kriyas to instruct our mind subtly. The kriya tricks our mind into moving our awareness toward shuniya, giving us a direct experience of being empty. With the repetition of kriyas, we practice accessing that place in our awareness, ultimately allowing us to stabilize it at will.
In this workshop, we performed two meditations.
Meditation: LA950 A00214 20000214 Develop Self-Reliance
and
Meditation: KYB117-19860822 – Achieve an Experience of God
Instability in the meditative mind comes from several sources, among them doubt, fear, unconfidence, insecurity and preconceived beliefs and prejudices about the forms of perception that are presented to us by our sensory experience. Our sensory field includes everything we feel, physical, emotional and otherwise, all ideas and thoughts.
Practicing the first meditation offers us a chance to rely on our perceptions without question or judgment, as they are. It connects us with the sacred energy known as prikirti. Prikirti helps us to transcend any struggle with accepting our perception as reality without adding anything to it. We can direct our attention to the flow of perception without agitation, anxiety, or distraction. We can then abandon tendencies for interrupting the flow and any other self-motivated movement of awareness. We can sit in shuniya.
The second meditation purifies our limited awareness, allowing it to extend infinitely within to achieve an experience of God. We merge with infinity.
Listen to the workshop audio, which picks up after the second meditation. The group performs healing exercises with their partners.
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“We just have to wait.” – a reading from the I Ching
Today: “The strength of the man does not lie in what he has. The strength of the man lies only in what he can give.” Yogi Bhajan
“The strength of the man does not lie in what he has. The strength of the man lies only in what he can give. Only those can give who have the capacity to tap into the universe. If the universe is not in your mind, your heart cannot give.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: NM142 19940615 – Bless the Planet Earth and Let the Heavens Descend in You
You must overcome fear and doubt and a lack of confidence.” – a reading from the I Ching
You must overcome fear and doubt and a lack of confidence. They lead to inaction and paralysis and bring harm to you and your family. Do not lunge forward blindly, however. Use your intuition.
Meditation: LA950 A00214 20000214 Develop Self-Reliance
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Today: “A man of God should develop a reliance on truth, on self, on higher self, on wisdom, on spirit, on mind, on physical abilities and capacities.” Yogi Bhajan
“A man of God should develop a reliance on truth, on self, on higher self, on wisdom, on spirit, on mind, on physical abilities and capacities. And a man of God should develop and guide this reliance so that when he walks out and faces the world, he is wise.” Yogi Bhajan
Recap: Healing and Meditation Class at Yoga West with Hari Nam Singh 2019-05-01 – The Projective Meditative Mind
The Projective Meditative Mind
We held a workshop at Yoga West on May 1, 2019. In this class, we stabilized and developed the projective meditative mind.
In our healing tradition, healing begins when we can adjust our awareness to a specific aspect that we call the projective meditative mind. Other names for this are shuniya and the sacred space. Once we stabilize that position of awareness, we begin to relate with the patient (event) in a way that produces healing in the event. We call the aspect projective because in that position of awareness our intention becomes projective, in that it manifests in our relation with the event. Our intention to heal impacts the relation.
Literally, shuniya describes an aspect of mind that is empty. Not void as in nothing, as there is always activity in the mind, rather empty of any tendency to move or direct the experience. Sitting in shuniya, our mind allows the flow of our experience without interfering with it or imposing any bias or preconception on the experience. See Milarepa’s Song to Lady Palderboom. Shuniya is a most profound state of being. It is most effective for healing.
Arriving at this awareness is not an accident. Nor is it likely that we should recognize it without preparing the mind with certain exercises, or kriyas. Of the many kriyas that come from the tradition of Kundalini Yoga, many deal directly with the development of shuniya.
If we could arrive at shuniya by thinking it or by verbal instruction, we would. Instead, we allow our practice of the kriyas to instruct our mind subtly. The kriya tricks our mind into moving our awareness toward shuniya, giving us a direct experience of being empty. With the repetition of kriyas, we practice accessing that place in our awareness, ultimately allowing us to stabilize it at will.
In this workshop, we performed a shuniya meditation. This particular one is the first in a series of four that Yogi Bhajan gave to us when he visited Los Angeles in the Fall of 1994:
Meditation: Shuniya Meditations as Taught by Yogi Bhajan, Yoga West, 1994.
Then we practiced some healing exercises with partners. After a couple of rounds, we performed the meditation:
Meditation: LA004 780109 Innocent Thumbs.
As we sit in shuniya, our perceptive field tends to “crank up the volume”, so we begin to become aware of minute sensations in a big way. They can be distracting to us if we become caught up with them. This kriya helps us not to engage, judge, or otherwise interfere with the flow of experience. As result, we become completely neutral as an observer of our experience. Then, the experience is allowed to flow freely as we simply observe sitting in shuniya. The healing intensifies as we increase the projective power of our intention.
After the healing exercises, we considered a next step to refining our projection. Just as we are able to train ourselves to develop and stabilize shuniya at will, we are able to merge that awareness with our radiant body. The radiant body impacts all who stand in our presence. Its effects are instant, so we can quickly heal people with our presence. The homework for this practice is:
Meditation: NM345- Strengthen and enhance the radiant body.
The class audio begins after the first meditation. It continues through the healing exercises through the end of class.
See a recap of other workshops,
posts related to the meditative mind
and posts related to shuniya
Today: “Recognize your family as it extends through the entire social structure.” – a reading from the I Ching
Recognize your family as it extends through the entire social structure. Take care of them all according to your capacity.
Meditation: LA051-780907 – Tune the Vagus Nerve to Cosmic Consciousness
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