I Am
| Living in the awareness of Soham: I am one with God, I am one with God, I am that. I am one with God. |
posted by I Am This at 10:25 PM
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness
to ourselves and others.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see.
The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we
breathe can be a source of joy.
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness
that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years
for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in
the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh
- A Story of Enlightenment, Deepak Chopra
BUDDHA is a wonderfully imaginative story of a man and his iconic journey to personal spiritual growth.
Comments on "I Am"
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CE said ... (2:43 AM) :
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CE said ... (3:34 AM) :
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I Am This said ... (10:48 PM) :
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CE said ... (2:59 AM) :
post a commentSoham? I think I tried that mantra too. You know this kinds of things can make you stupid. Repeating things to yourself again and again. These are called mind control techniques. People try to control their minds with the hope of achieving a state of consciousness which can lead them to nirvana. Is this the way to enlightenment: watching your breath for a few minutes or repeating a mantram. This methods can lead to attachment or addiction to concentration or meditation techniques. Do you see all these yogis and buddhist monks doing the same, and being heavily conditioned by their traditions and rituals. All this bowing to one another is just an outward sign, it doesn't really show what a person really feels. Do you know that the Dalai Lama himself is a very irritable person; he admits this himself.
Well, try to convince me these methods can lead to enlightenment?
Well, I guess you're right. It helps to remember that once in a while. So-ham...so-ham...so-ham...
I'm glad you worked that out amongst yourself ;-)
Nice response! I still do these things once in a while. Especially when I can't sleep. This is one way to lull yourself to sleep.
I wrote a poem about illusions and lucid dreaming. Please have a look?