Hello everyone, A big welcome to Christy Putnam - I hope you find this site one of your more interesting paths in your life journey. This is to everyone in the...
Hi, I am quite new to the meditation practise and have bin exercising it for about 4 months. Sometimes when I'm meditating my body starts to shake, mostly arms...
One day one of his fellow townspeople came upon Nasrudin standing with a bow and arrow in his hand, and saw dozens of target circles on the side of a barn the...
Hello Everyone, I hope all your lives are going well. Jon, I think I know the reason to this "shaking body" problem of yours. You know, I've been trying to get...
When we meditate,the central power we have remains in force.It disperses the owerwhelming clouds which are greatly fried up by its force,only can abhyasi can...
Hello, 1. If you were to get a splinter in your foot, do you remove it? Or do you realize there is no foot, no splinter, no pain. Ramana sat to close to the...
... Of course! ... That too.... ... The revered saint was also a foolish little man in a dhoti. ... Who are these "non-dual types?" Non-duality, being who and...
Hello, You say ramana had a shelterd life. This I dont get. Leaving home, to sit on a mountain side the rest of the life, with no concern for food or...
... ...or very canny, given the culture he lived in.... ... A "sheltered life" doesn't imply physical shelter. ... Thanks for the reassuring instruction....
Hello, Thanks for playing with me. ... This is qualified non-dualsim. ... Was not Ramana a housholder before he left. This seems a copout, and an insult to...
... OK, label noted. ... No, he went from his parents' home directly to renunciation afaik. ... If Bhagavan is insulted, perhaps he'll somehow let me know --...
Hello, Honestly, I dont feel that being recognized for your renuciation has anything to do with it. What of the dudes that go into the forest, and are never...
"The exchanging of favors or praise, as among artists, critics, or academics," Jeffji? I confess I once attempted to give Gregji an old snare drum, but he...
Not at all -- I found out that he likes to hit things rhythmically on occasion, so I figured to give him something appropriate for that activity. Sometimes a ...
Some insight by Papa Ramdas......... Once, to illustrate the futility of empty, theoretical advaitic knowledge, Papa narrated the following story. He was...
Hello, Beautiful qoutes. I always loved how Sri Ramakrishna explained things. So crafty, so honest. I believe Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Chatainya proved that...
Spirituality is the science and the art of remembrance.We have forgotten our original home from where we have descended to this world in which we are living...
if we view the matter from thae above view-point,as being nothing but the change of vehicle necessary for the advancement of the soul to the Goal. OUR PRESENT...
In due course SAMSKARAS (impressions) began to be formed which brought about their resultant effects.Virtue and vice made their appearances.Slowly our exisence...
GOAL OF LIFE First we have to establish what is our goal.And if the goal falls something short of what we should truly aspire for,then it very often happens...
A Meditation on God, The Father. Fasten your seat belts for just a few minutes. I know that this post's title will send those who have been derailed by the...
Warning: beware of rolling logs! OK, I sort of liked it -- it's a bit on the treacly side, but given the provided context it's pretty danged effective and does...