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March 2008 |
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The highest aim of any spiritual path is surrender. Although you may associate the word surrender with defeat or weakness, it is the most powerful spiritual action, offering you infinite freedom and possibilities. Surrender is trusting that God, the Universe or a higher intelligence can accomplish anything – even when you can’t foresee the outcome of a situation. Keep Reading Where's Deepak
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Words of Wisdom“Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.” "Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy."
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Seduction of Your Spirit
You are a multidimensional being made up of many realms of existence. You have a physical body, a subtle body – which includes your mind and emotions – and a causal body encompassing your soul, the collective soul, and the infinite field of spirit. Last month, we explored your bodymind and the inseparable link between your physical and emotional being. This edition of Namasté celebrates Spirit and the breadth of its expanse, from the most personal to the universal. At your very core you are stillness and silence – pure unbounded consciousness. Yet as a multidimensional being, your DNA is wrapped in a layer of food known as flesh; your mind is filled with emotions, beliefs, intellect, and conditioning; and your soul, containing your unique desires and memories, is your personal connection to the divine flow of the cosmos. Since EVERYTHING is Spirit, these dimensions of yourself are all aspects of the same consciousness, wearing different disguises. At the moment of your birth, you are pure, perfect, whole, enlightened . . . it is the first instant that the nonlocal, unmanifest aspect of your being breaches the realm of form, physicality, time, space, and individuality. From that moment on, however, you start to forget your spiritual nature. Throughout your life, you accumulate layers of social conditioning, physical and emotional experiences, relationships, and the impressions of everything you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. These layers can mask your your true essence – which is divine stillness and silence.
This realm of stillness and silence is infinite. It is pure consciousness pregnant with possibilities. It exists within you and outside of you. It exists in every breath you take and in the space between every thought. Each time you access this realm of pure potentiality and tap into its flow – even for a few seconds – you experience a small transformation. You shift from a reflexive state of reactivity into a higher state of consciousness known as restful awareness. The key to integrating this state of consciousness into your daily waking state is the practice of meditation. Millions of people around the world meditate every day and enter the realm of stillness and silence known as the “gap.” More important, during the rest of their day, when they are back here interacting with the rest of us – each breath they take, each thought they think, and each beat of their heart contains a tiny piece of that stillness and silence. This thimble-full of pure potentiality flows into their words . . . their actions . . . their perspective of life, love, being, and existence. The result is a deeper appreciation and a profound awareness of the divine quality of existence. While there are many ways of entering the gap, meditation is an easy and effective method that helps you effortlessly disconnect from the activity of thoughts, sounds, and sensations that you experience in the physical realm. Whether you practice Zen, mindfulness, vipassana, Primordial Sound Meditation or any of the many techniques for accessing stillness and silence, Namasté invites you to join us in celebrating the infinite possibilities that meditation brings into our lives and into the world. To your good health and happiness, P.S. Please share your comments, questions, and suggestions with us The Happiness Prescription
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Q: At a recent meditation session, the instructor said that we could sit on the floor or in a chair, but that we should rest our feet on the floor if we used chairs. I wondered, why do our feet need to touch the floor in meditation? A: The most important posture is one that will make you comfortable for 30 minutes. Crossing your legs can lead to a foot or a leg falling asleep. This will bring you back into the local domain. Many people recommend putting your feet on the floor because it can help your legs relax while connecting you to the earth. There are also several schools of thought that say crossing your hands, arms or legs blocks the natural flow of energy throughout your body. Find the position that’s most comfortable for you – one that lets you forget about your physical body for 30 minutes. If you can do that, then you have found the “right” position. Keep meditating . . . and we'll see you in the gap. Treasures from the Namaste Archives:
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The universal field of awareness underlying our individuality is imperceptible. Its very nature transcends sensory experience, and therefore our mind can only infer the presence of spirit. We can experience spirit directly, however, by going beyond our mind through the silent spaces between our thoughts. To connect with spirit, we have to go out of our conditioned mind. The Global Peace Event
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The Standing Bow, or Dandayamana Dhanurasana opens up your 4th chakra, the heart chakra. 
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