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गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा

auspicious night: The nights you experience on other days are ordinary nights. They are nights of darkness. But Sivaratri is an auspicious night. How is it auspicious? There are sixteen aspects for the mind. The moon is the presiding deity of the mind. Of the sixteen aspects of the moon, today, fifteen are absent. The remaining one aspect can be merged in the Divine by diverting the mind towards God. If you sing his Glory throughout the night wholeheartedly, even the remaining one aspect can also be merged with the Divine. On this day it is possible to get full control over the mind by contemplating on God. Hence it is considered as an auspicious day. Unfortunately, in this Kali Age, people observe the vigil of Sivaratri by seeing cinema shows all through the night or playing cards. This cannot be called Sivaratri. Every moment of the night should be devoted to the thoughts of God and chant His name wholeheartedly.

God has thousands of names. Of all those names, 'Satchitananda' is the most important and significant. 'Sath' stands for the changeless eternal principle and 'chith' denotes total awareness. The former can be compared to sugar and the latter to water. When sugar and water are mixed, what results is syrup. Likewise the combination of 'Sath' and 'Chith' results in Ananada. Fill your heart with love and chant the Divine name. Only then can you attain Divinity. Perform all your activities with love. Love would originate from the source, i.e. the heart and not by force. Today people chant the Divine name, not from source, but out of force.
No benefit accrues from chanting the Divine name unless it is done wholeheartedly. Chant His name wholeheartedly at least for half a minute, that is enough. One teaspoon of cow's milk is better than barrels of donkey's milk. God is interested in quality, not in quantity.

http://www.eaisai.com/baba/docs/shivaratri.html

Saturday September 27, 2008 - 10:15am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Compassion - The Ultimate Flowering of Love: by OSHO

Love is your very being, and all these things have come from the outside. Doubts have been created by people who are giving you beliefs. If you don’t have any belief, you don’t have any doubt. Have you ever thought about it?
But love is a miracle. If it happens, and you are totally involved in it, then it takes all the energy from fear, from self-condemnation, from doubt, from sadness, from misery, from anxiety. And once the energy is taken away, all those concepts are only corpses; they lose their grip on you.
Jesus says, ”God is love.” I would like to say to you, ”Love is God.”

And love has no other attributes. Love is the only experience on the earth which is not of the earth, which is not of this world, the only experience which can give you a taste of the beyond.
God cannot be discovered. I want you to deeply understand it, that God is not a person but only a presence. When love is abundant, overflowing, a presence surrounds you.
The presence transforms you from the world of human beings into the world of eternity, immortality,from all kinds of lies that religions have been preaching to you, to the naked truth of existence.

Thursday July 3, 2008 - 02:17pm (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Idiot compassion: Idiot compassion is a great expression, which was actually coined by Trungpa Rinpoche. It refers to something we all do a lot of and call it compassion. In some ways, it's whats called enabling. It's the general tendency to give people what they want because you can't bear to see them suffering. Basically, you're not giving them what they need. You're trying to get away from your feeling of I can't bear to see them suffering. In other words, you're doing it for yourself. You're not really doing it for them.

When you get clear on this kind of thing, setting good boundaries and so forth, you know that if someone is violent, for instance, and is being violent towards you —to use that as the example— it's not the compassionate thing to keep allowing that to happen, allowing someone to keep being able to feed their violence and their aggression. So of course, they're going to freak out and be extremely upset. And it will be quite difficult for you to go through the process of actually leaving the situation. But that's the compassionate thing to do.

By Pema Chodron

Thursday June 26, 2008 - 03:37am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Beauty and Love: Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;

Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek

Love lights Her fire from that flame.

When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night

Love comes and finds a heart

entangled in tresses.

Beauty and Love are as body and soul.

Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.

They have together

since the beginning of time-

Side by side, step by step.

~Rumi~

Sunday June 22, 2008 - 03:00pm (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
LAMA KHYEN NE, KHYEN NO: LAMA KHYEN NO
Lama, thinks of us.

DRIN CHEN TSA WIE LA MA KHYEN NO
Kind root lama thinks of us.

DU SUM SANG GYE KYI NGO WO
Essence of the Buddhas of the three times,

LUNG TOK DAM CHO KYI JUNG NE
Source of genuine Dharma in scripture and realization,

PHAK TSOK GEN DUN GYI NGA DAK
Master of the noble gathering of sangka,

TSA WEI LAMA KHYEN NE
Root lama, may you think of us.

JIN LAB THUK JE YI TER CHEN
Great treasure of blessing and compassion,

NGO DRUB NAM NYI KYI JUNG NE
Source of the two siddhis,

TRIN LE CHI DO KUN TSOL DZE
Buddha activity that grants whatever is desired,

TSA WEI LA MA KHYE KHYEN NO
Root lama, may you think of us.

LA MA O PAK ME PA KHYEN NO
Lama Amitabha, thinks of us.

Thursday June 19, 2008 - 07:31am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments

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