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I came across a very interesting discussion between a seeker and his master. It has some very important lessons for all of us . Here it it is for you :

Seeker :  When I think of doing meditation, one thing that come to my mind again and again is the fear  of losing who I am. Actually I am a very fun loving guy and the only real life role models I have encoutered in the meditation community are a bit to serious, somber and methodically sobering. I guess what I am saying is that I don’t want to end up like a monk and I have no reference for what a fun loving family guy would look like after going through the meditation.

I hope you understand and I would greatly appreciate any guidance.

Master : 

“I am afraid of losing who I am.”

A drop falling in the ocean is concerned about loosing itself. The ignorant drop does not know that when she falls into the ocean, she becomes the ocean itself. She becomes a part of the ocean. Nobody can tell that this is the drop and this is the ocean.

When you say : I am afraid of losing who I am.

You actually mean: I am afraid of losing my ego.

Hi I am the fun loving guy, the perfect party man. People love to spend time with me. They love my company, my sense of humor , my energy, enthusiasm. They talk about me when I am not there. How important I am for my family and friend! It is really frightening to think that if I continue with my spiritual practice this fun loving personality of mine will vanish and I’ll become a sober, serious guy like a monk. What my friends and relatives will think of me then? I can’t see any role model in Buddhism who is fun loving while still being a spiritually developed man. Shall I become a serious guy?

The real fear is in loosing your ego. Loosing your great reputation as a fun loving guy.

I feel if you are not ready to let go of your ego, you should forget the spiritual path and choose something different. Buddhisms (or for that matter any spiritual path) will not make you a serious or funny person. It will give you a fresh perspective towards life and make you calm and most importantly it’ll melt your ego. It will make you realize how ephemeral our existence is. We all are tiny puppets in the hands of a cosmic string. Just like waves in ocean, we took birth, spend sometime on this earth and then again merge with the existence. In a time frame of billions of years, our life period is just a very small point. So where is the place for ego.

Let me assure you : If you are a fun loving man by your intrinsic nature, spirituality will make you funnier. Because you will realize the stupidity of so many things we all consider so important now. You’ll realize the stupidity of how people argue, fight, and kill in the name of religion. You’ll realize that taking life seriously is itself a stupidity.

So don’t afraid and dive in. you’ll only loose your ego not your funnier nature.
 

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It cannot be more ironic. Just a few days after I posted the news about TM founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s retreat into complete silence, came the news of his death in Holland.

Maharishi Yogi, he founder and spiritual leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement, died in his sleep at his Netherland home in Vlodrop. He was 91.

Maharishi, known for his flowing beard and long graying hair, is credited for Transcendental Meditation or TM, whose main characteristic is the chanting of the mantra “Om” in a lotus seated position.

He described TM as “the unified field of all the laws of nature”, and through the years the practice gained medical respectability.

He was “guru” to leading celebrities such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Shirley MacLaine, Mia Farrow, Clint Eastwood, Director David Lynch, and Deepak Chopra, another New Age icon.

The roots of Maharishi’s life remain unknown. He was born Mahesh Srivastava in central India sometime 1911 to 1918.

A son of a civil servant, he studied physics at Allahabad University before becoming the right hand of a well known Hindu holy man, Jagadguru Shankaracharya, who taught him TM. After Jagadguru’s death, he continued the TM tradition.

Maharishi went into a two-year retreat in the foothills of the Himalayas before introducing TM to the West in the 1950s. In January 2008, he announced his retirement from active life, and devoted his remaining days studying ancient Indian texts.

My tribute to this great man who made India proud.

Suggested reading : My views on Transcendental Meditation

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement, has decided to take break from the hectic schedule of managing his huge organization based in the Netherlands. He has decided to spend his remaining life in silence contemplating and preparing a commentary on the Vedas, a vast Sanskrit canon compiled 3,500 years ago.

It appears that the age is taking its toll on the Yogi who is now 91 and up to now was working 20 hours a day for years. He has handed over the daily management of his global networks to aides.

Source : Chron.com

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Are you really busy these days and not getting any time to meditate?

If yes, then I have a suggestion for you. Don’t try to allocate any separate time for meditation. Make it a part of your busy work schedule. There are so many techniques which you can try even while working.

For example try to be just more aware of whatever you are doing in the moment. Start from little steps. In office, whenever you have some passive time, try to be more aware of yourself. Feel the consciousness within you. Feel the breathing pattern.

Just doing some deep breathing session during your work hour will help you to a great extent.

A very annoying stumbling block for meditation is that we try to allocate a separate time for it which we never find.  If you have tried meditation for sometime, you must be aware of what I mean. So instead of meditating at a specific time which you’ll never get; just make meditation a part of your busy life. Doing so is really very easy. Read some meditation techniques explained in the Meditation Corner and try them.

Though it is always better to meditate regularly in a separate room for a specified duration, if you don’t get any chance for this the next best thing is to meditate as and when we get time. Even if it is in our workplace.

Remember: even a small step is better than not walking at all.

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Wishing you a very happy and prosperous new year !!

New Year is the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the coming year. It is the time to forget and get past memories that are no longer useful or worth pondering upon. It is the time for new beginnings and new starts in life. New Year has a message for each one of us. One should let go of the past that has bad memories and accept what has happened, has happened for some reason. Instead of clinging onto your past and things that have gone, it is better to let go.

New Year is a time for celebration of love, of life, of Friendship.
It’s the time to thank God for wonderful friends, and to bring to their
lives as much magic as they bring to ours…So here’s celebrating our
Friendship and praying that its magic continues forever. Happy New Year
May this new year adorn your life with many beautiful things and sweet
memories to cherish forever. And care of those whom the heart holds
close, along with abundant joys and happiness, for you and your family.
Wishing you life’s best this New Year

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Get your free DVD of Sedona method here or Read on..

What is this free CD/DVD and what’s the catch?

Before telling you about this free CD/DVD and why I am saying you to get it, I want to tell you a small story.

This actually is not a story. It is a real life incident which happened in 1952.

In 1952, there was a man, aged 42, by the name Lester Levenson who lived in America. He was a physicist and successful entrepreneur enjoying life to his fullest. He was at the pinnacle of his worldly success in those days. However, he started to get some health problems which aggravated to a serious level very soon. Suddenly he found himself suffering from a bunch of serious health problems such as depression, an enlarged liver, kidney stones, spleen trouble, hyperacidity, and ulcers that had perforated his stomach and formed lesions. His condition became so worse that after his second surgery, his doctors sent him home in New York to die. He was told that at best he had only three months with him and he should be mentally prepared for the death.

However, this man was not an ordinary guy who gave up easily. He was a determined fellow who loved challenges. Instead of giving up, he decided to fight back and to find within himself some answers to his problems. He went within to understand how his mind works and how his emotions control almost every part of his life.

In his inner journey of his own mind, he made a curious discovery.

He found that his life is a direct outcome of various positive and negative emotions that emanated from his inner core. The more positive his emotions related to a particular task, the more positive was the outcome of that task. And the same was true for negative emotions. The more negative the emotion, the more negative was the outcome related to that emotion. While he was observing this phenomenon of emotions, he found a very simple method to let go of negative emotions quickly and permanently. He found that once we get rid of these negative emotions which create many inner limitations in our life, we become focused, calm, full of positive energy and thoughts.

Lester intensively used his new discovery on himself for a period of three months and slowly removes all negative and limiting emotions from his mind. The result was a miracle. By the end of three months, his body became totally healthy again. Furthermore, he entered a state of profound peace that never left him till the last moment of his life on January 18, 1994

What Lester actually discovered firsthand is that we all are unlimited beings, limited only by the concepts of limitation that we hold in our minds. These concepts of limitation are not true; furthermore, because they’re not really true, they can easily be released or discharged.

In short..

He found a way of letting go of our negative emotions - quickly and permanently.

Lester did not stop on himself. He decided to share this knowledge with others for the benefit of mankind. As a result, he began working with people, both in small groups and individually. Slowly his method stated gaining popularity and the number of people who wanted to learn this increased to a great level. However, owing to an increase in number of his students, Lester realized that it was not possible for him to personally counsel everyone. It simply was not possible. . So, in 1973, Lester realized that his teachings needed to be formalized into a system that he could allow others to teach—leaving him out of the equation. Thus a way to transform his powerful techniques for personal growth into a non-sectarian do-it-yourself system was devised, which is now called The Sedona Method.

Sedona : It actually is a French name which means - a form of Sidonie (from Saint-Denis, France). Sedona is a very rare female first name and a very rare surname

The Sedona Method is a unique, elegant, simple-to-master and very powerful tool that enables you to uncover your natural ability to “let go” of painful, unwanted, counterproductive feelings in the moment i.e. right before this negative feelings can do any damage to your inner peace, happiness, stability, relationships, goals and success.

It consists of a very easy-to-follow step-by-step process that leads you to a profound awareness of what you are feeling in the moment, and then gently guides you into the experience of letting all your negative, self-sabotaging feelings go. This method is really a great tool to help people ease away their loneliness, depression and negative feelings.

Feeling of Déjà vu ?

Well if you have read this website for sometime, you can easily understand that Sedona method is actually a meditation technique which helps us get rid of our negative emotions and realize our true self.

Yet, this meditation technique is really very easy and it is often considered as one of the world’s most effective and powerful tool. This is not a new fly-by-night self-help method, which secretly aims to extract cash from gullible users. The Sedona training program has been running continuously for nearly thirty years which it self validates the long-running interest in the material being taught. Further it has a very clear & solid spiritual basis.

You can learn Sedona method by ordering their free 2-Hour Long Sedona Method DVD. Plus a FREE Introductory CD & INSTANT MP3! This is an introductory course which itself is very powerful and gives you an overall summary of this entire method.

So what’s the catch ?

Well the catch is that you need to pay the shipping cost of this package. This DVD package will be delivered to you any where in the world for a very nominal fee. The domestic shipping (for US & Canada) is $6.95 and International Shipping is $9.95.

Apart from this small fee of shipping cost, there actually is no cost (except the time It will take you to watch the DVD and read the material.)

This is really a very good method. I recommend you to try it.

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