When you run so fast to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
it is like an unopened gift.... thrown away.
Life is not a race. Do take it slower.
Hear the music, Before the song is over.
Dharma

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”

- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness comes from an inner peace, understanding and acceptance of life; a perspective of truth that opens your eyes to the beauty of life all around us. Happiness cannot be achieved by external status, it must be an internal state that we realize when we see our innate perfection.

Action: Realize that happiness is a choice. In every decision you make ask yourself “how can I respond to make myself happy and fulfilled?”.

How to Still The Mind in Meditation!

"If you try and still the mind,
it will be the mind
trying to still the mind.

Rather become aware
of the mind.
Become aware
of the flow of thoughts.

Not to define the thought
or relate to the thought.
But to impersonally
be aware of the thought arising
and dissapperearing
without any attachment
or aversion to it.

In witnessing the thoughts,
they will become more subtle.

First the thoughts
will become impersonal.
You will experience visions
and dreamlike states
that have nothing
to do with you or your personal life.

At this stage of witnessing
you are free
from individual identification
and there is deep peace.

Continue to witness
the flow of thoughts
and you will begin to experience
the thoughts as movements
of energy that arise and burn away.

And in witnessing
this movement of energy,
thoughts need not ever
fully manifest as a thought.

They become more
and more subtle
until they are no more.

In this way,
the mind may be stilled.

But still, it should not
be a goal to still the mind.

You will drive yourself nuts
trying to still the mind.

It is through witnessing
that there is freedom.

Mandukya Upanishad we find this beautiful passage: “The body is the bow, Om is an the arrow, the arrow’s tip is the focused mind, and the ultimate Mystery is the target.” Thus, meditating on Om is used to guide one to discovering the higher Self, and the true nature of the universe.

How to Pronounce OM
It is very important when repeating Om to pronounce the "O" sound correctly. In Sanskrit, the sound "O" is a diphthong-- a subtle speech sound that begins with one vowel and changes to another vowel within the same syllable. This “O” sound begins with an “A” sound as in “law” and ends with a “U” sound as in “put.” When these two vowel sounds are combined in this diphthong, it produces a single, pure vowel sound. Thus, when you pronounce Om it should sound like “home” without the beginning “h” sound. When pronouncing Om the sound should emanate from the navel, with a deep and harmonious vibration, and gradually rises upwards to resonate in the nostrils.

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Forgive Yourself & Others

Life is too short to hold on to such great possessions as anger hatred stubbornness and judgments. Yes, you are right but where does it get you? In the end you are the one that suffers.
Forgive and forget. You are too hard on yourself and others.
When you forgive others, you forgive yourself and this opens the heart in ways you didn’t know exist.
If you are not able to openly forgive, do it silently and it will be felt.

Divine Will

Relax.

Do not fight what is meant to be.

It is not up to you but the will of existence, of destiny.

Understand you are not the driver of the car.

Sit back; enjoy the ride.

Be in tune and flow with what is

OM

When people hear the Pranava they hear the Absolute itself.
When they utter the Pranava they go to the abode of the Absolute.
He who perceives the Pranava sees the state of the Absolute.
He who always has the Pranava in his mind has the form of the Absolute.

“Whatever is eaten physically will have an effect mentally.”

The body is the vehicle through which the individual evolves during the span of life on earth, and must be taken into serious account by the yogi who will discover that the body can exert a necessary effect on the mind. If wax and clay are cold they cannot be molded, nor will they take any impression. If molasses is cold it will hardly pour. It is all a matter of responsiveness. Only when warm are these substances malleable. In the same way, unless our inner and outer bodies are made responsive or reactive to the japa and meditation of Om we will miss many of the beneficial effects. Hence we should do everything we can to increase our response levels, to ensure that our physical and psychic bodies are moving at the highest possible rate of vibration.


A fundamental key to this is diet. For not only does the physical substance of the food become assimilated into our physical body, the subtler energies become united to our inner levels, including our mind. The yogi who observes will discover that the diet of the physical body is also the diet of the mind, that whatever is eaten physically will have an effect mentally. (One who does not know this is no yogi at all.) The Chandogya Upanishad (6.5.4; 6.6.1,2,5) tells us: “Mind consists of food. That which is the subtle part of milk moves upward when the milk is churned and becomes butter. In the same manner, the subtle part of the food that is eaten moves upward and becomes mind. Thus, mind consists of food.”

Meat is both heavy and toxic–especially from the chemicals spread throughout the tissues from the fear and anger of the animal when it was slaughtered. So our minds will also be heavy and toxic from eating meat as well as poisoned by the vibrations of anger and fear. Moreover, the instinctual and behavioral patterns of the animals will become our instinctual and behavioral impulses. Fruits, vegetables, and grains have no such obstructions. Consequently, our mental energies will be light and malleable, responsive to our spiritual disciplines. There is no greater spiritual boon to the meditator than the adoption of a vegetarian diet. (See Spiritual Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet.) By “vegetarian” I mean abstention from meat, fish, and eggs or anything that contains them to any degree, including animal fats.

Both meditation and diet refine the inner senses so we can produce and perceive the subtle changes that occur during meditation.

Our general health also contributes to our proficiency in meditation, so a responsible yogi is very aware of what is beneficial and detrimental to health and orders his life accordingly, especially in eliminating completely all alcohol, nicotine, and mind-altering drugs whether legal or illegal. Caffeine, too, is wisely avoided, and so is sugar.

The sum of all this is that we must do more than meditate. We must live out our spiritual aspirations by so ordering our lives that we will most quickly advance toward the Goal. This is done by observing Yama and Niyama, often called the Ten Commandments of Yoga. They are:

1) Ahimsa: non-violence, non-injury, harmlessness;
2) Satya: truthfulness, honesty;
3) Asteya: non-stealing, honesty, non-misappropriativeness;
4) Brahmacharya: sexual continence in thought, word and deed as well as control of all the senses;
5) Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-greed, non-selfishness, non-acquisitiveness;
6) Shaucha: purity, cleanliness;
7) Santosha: contentment, peacefulness;
8) Tapas: austerity, practical (i.e., result-producing) spiritual discipline;
9) Swadhyaya: introspective self-study, spiritual study;
10) Ishwarapranidhana: offering of one’s life to God.

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” -Buddha

One of the greatest misconceptions in life is that we are somehow powerless to let go of what’s behind us. That we have to carry regret, shame, or disappointment, and that is has to dictate how today will unfold, at least on some level.

It doesn’t. At any moment, you can let go of who you’ve been and decide to be someone new–to do something differently. It won’t always be easy, but it is always a choice you can make.

You can either dwell and stay stuck, or let go and feel free. Give yourself space to fill with good feelings about the beautiful day in front of you–and the beautiful tomorrow you’re now creating.

You see the world from a single perspective. What you know to be true about your life and what exists around you is scratching the surface of what you are infinitely capable of knowing. When correctly opening your Third Eye, you can get a glimpse of this universal understanding that will allow you to see existence from an infinite number of perspectives.