'Individual' truth and 'Universal' Truth. Conditioned mind and Unconditioned Consciousness

As individuals - as a window for consciousness - we are each uniquely positioned in space and time...

But in essence, at the roots of 'our' Being, we are consciousness itself - undifferentiated and unconditioned.

The deepest mystical revelations and spiritual insights amount to nothing more than this.

Self-realisation is a living knowledge of one's essence - not abstract or theoretical - inherently embodying the infinite creative potential as our very Presence.

Theoretical self-knowledge tends to inhibit inspired action - whereas, on the contrary, the awakened Presence is ever flowing with it.

Words cannot contain these truths... but inspired poetry can evoke them...

The 'Truth of our Essence' is world-shattering - it destroys all our beliefs about reality which are based on our sense of 'separate self'.

The Freedom that is sought while there is a constricted experience of separative-existence cannot be found by trying to 'understand' spiritual teachings. There is nothing the mind can do to alleviate this primordial suffering of existence.

But the struggle of the mind to find peace can be seen for what it is, and in that moment there is a lightning bolt of understanding that destroys the fixation on 'separativeness'.

The struggle of the mind to find peace is a symptom of the negation of our essence. While this negation continues the mind will not grasp spiritual truth - it will either reject it or intellectualise it.

There is no freedom found through the mind. There is Freedom in 'seeing through' the mind.

The play of mind is the basis of ignorance (about our essence).

Do not struggle with the mind!

This is mind's struggle! It belongs to the mind.

If you sincerely wish for and are open to Freedom, you must renounce this struggle.

It is not the mind's function to grasp 'reality'.

The mind's function/essence is to interpret and organise experience from an 'individual' (i.e. 'separate') perspective.

But renounce this struggle with mind.

It is not mind that is the problem. It is attachment to 'mind-ness' that brings the feeling of psychological or spiritual bondage.

Let mind be.

Awareness is vast enough to swallow mind with no effort at all.

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Shibendu Lahiri in Portugal - April 2010

Shibendu Lahiri at Quinta dos Milagres, Lagos.

Shibendu Lahiri is giving a lecture tomorrow night (16th April 2010) in Lisbon at 9pm, and Kriya Yoga initiations over the weekend and then a retreat in Fátima.

You can also find information about this and his upcoming events (UK, Germany, India, USA, etc.) at:
www.kriyayogalahiri.com/htmluk/program.htm

He is a true Advaita master - a voice for the Infinite.
His teaching is not 'comforting', it is profoundly disarming and dissolves the 'I'-centred illusion of separation...
If you meet him or 'his' teaching, prepare to be 'blasted'.

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Spiritual Coaching in Sintra

Sintra is one of the most picturesque and magical places on this planet.

Walk and meditate in the forests, visit initiatic gardens and labyrinths, have a picnic on the cliffs looking over the Atlantic, savour the local foods and unique sweets, visit organic farms, or learn to surf, and each day receive an hour (or more) of coaching while soaking in the magic of Sintra.

Now is the time. What better place to unwind and to open your Self?

Coaching with Peter Littlejohn Cook

information:

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'Purification'

'Purification' is a shedding of what is not necessary and an alignment with/recognition of the flow of life. It is not a process of gaining favour with (the) 'Supreme Being'.

It is a release of self-contraction and self-doubt. It is dropping the negation of the source.

Creation is taking place now. Recognising this, one recognises the ever-present Source.

When your 'work' becomes play and your play becomes 'worship'... 'Dharma Kriya' - the real 'Karma Yoga' - Action that Liberates

"A real creator is not a creator at all. A real creator becomes instrumental; he is possessed of the great forces. Wild forces of God possess him, wild seas and skies of God possess him. He becomes a mouthpiece. He utters, but the words are not his. He paints, but the colours are not his. He sings, but the sounds are not his. He dances, but he dances as if possessed — somebody else dancing through him.
... The question is, if your ego disappears into meditation, what will happen to your work? If it is a profession, it will disappear, and it is good that it disappears. Nobody should be a professional. Your work should be your love; otherwise the work becomes destructive. Then somehow you drag it and your whole life becomes dull. Your whole life becomes empty in a negative sense, unfulfilled. You are doing something which you never wanted to do in the first place. It is violent. It is suicidal — you are killing yourself slowly, poisoning your own system. Nobody should be a professional. Your work should be your love; it should be your prayer. It should be your religion, not your profession.
There should be a passion flowing between you and your work. When you have really found your vocation, it is a love affair. It is not that you have to do it. It is not that you have to force yourself to do it. Suddenly, you do it in a totally different way which you had not known before. Your steps have a different dance, your heart goes on humming. Your whole system functions for the first time at the optimum. It is a fulfilment. Through it you will find your being — it will become a mirror; it will reflect you. Whatsoever it is — a small thing.
It is not a question that only great things become vocations, no. A small thing. You may be making toys for children, or making shoes, or weaving cloth — or whatsoever.
It doesn't matter what it is, but if you love it, if you have fallen in love with it; if you are flowing with no reservation, if you are not withholding yourself, if you are not dragging — dancingly moving into it— it will cleanse you, it will purify you. Your thinking, by and by, will disappear. It will be a silent music and, by and by, you will feel that it is not only work, it is your being. Each step fulfilled, something in you flowers.
And richest is the man who has found his vocation. And richest is the man who starts feeling a fulfilment through his work. Then the whole life becomes a worship.
Work should be a worship, but that's possible only when your being starts to be more meditative. Through meditation, you will gather courage. Through meditation, you will gather courage to throw the profession and to move towards the vocation."
— Osho (Yoga: the Science of Living)