Satsang with Giten on Buddha: The Eightfold Way – Right Intention

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

The Eightfold Way

From satsang with Giten, January 21, 2016, in Stockholm

2. Right Intention

We live with intentions, with desires.

 

Buddha says: Your frustrations comes from your intentions, from your desires.

 

If things are according to our intentions, then we will be happy. If things are not according to our intentions, then we are going to be unhappy and frustrated.

Our intentions seem to be going against reality.

If we drop our intentions, our desires, and just move moment-to-moment with reality, wherever it leads. Just float with the river of life and you will never be frustrated.

Frustration comes because of the conflict between our intentions and reality.

And reality is always going to win.

You cannot win against reality.

You can only win with reality.

Failure and success are indications to wheteher you are going against or with reality.

A man of understanding drops all his intentions. He has no private desires.

When you do not have any intentions, you have the right intention.

“Right intention” means no intention on your part.

Then the universe flows through you.

Then the universe goes on fulfilling it’s intentions through you.

You become a vehicle, an instrument for the universe.

Buddha says: The real religious person has no intentions of his own – and that is right intention.

He does not live a separate life.

He moves with the universe.

He is one with the universe.

He has no separate goals, no separate intentions.

The intentions of the whole is his intentions.

The man who has no intentions lives moment to moment.

He responds to the truth of the moment, he responds to the reality of the moment.

Then you are relaxed, you are not going anywhere, you are here and now.

Then the universe starts flowing through you.

You become an instrument, a flute for the universe to play it’s music.

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Swami Dhyan Giten: God is All that Exists

“God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.”

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: The Way of the Buddha – The Eightfold Way

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: 

The Way of the Buddha

 – The Eightfold Way

From satsang with Giten, January 14, 2016, in Stockholm

 

1. Right View 

BUDDHA SAID: THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE WAY ARE LIKE WARRIORS WHO FIGHT SINGLE-HANDED WITH A MULTITUDE OF FOES

THE MAY ALL GO OUT OF THE FORT IN FULL ARMOR; BUT AMONG THEM ARE SOME WHO ARE FAINT-HEARTED, AND SOME WHO GO HALF WAY AND BEAT A RETREAT , AND SOME WHO ARE KILLED IN THE AFFRAY, AND SOME WHO COME HOME VICTORIOUS.

O, MONKS, IF YOU DESIRE TO ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT YOU SHOULD STEADILY WALK IN YOUR WAY, WITH A RESOLUTE HEART, WITH COURAGE, AND SHOULD BE FEARLESS IN WHATEVER ENVIRONMENT YOU MAY HAPPEN TO BE, AND DESTROY EVERY EVIL THAT YOU MAY COME ACROSS; FOR THUS YOU SHALL REACH THE GOAL. 

Buddha’s Way is called “The eightfold way”.

The Eightfold way consists of eight steps. It is divided in eight parts.

The way is not really divided.

The way is one.

Buddha’s eightfold way is divided so that you can understand easily.

 

1. Right View  

All the eight steps are concerned with rightness – right view, right intention, right speech, right morality, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right samadhi.

Buddha’s word “right” is not against the wrong.

Right means that you are in tune with the whole.

When the individual is in tune with the universal, right exists.

When the individual fall out of tune with the universal wrongs arises.

Buddha says: Right is that which is not your intention.

If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come close to it you are right.

When you come home, you are perfectly right.

On Buddha’s eightfold way seven steps lead to samadhi.

Samadhi means that everything has fallen in tune with existence.

“Right” in the Buddhist meaning means: balanced, grounded, centered, harmonious.

The wrong is a human intention, the right is divine.

“Right” means balanced, centered – you are at home in existence.

Buddha says: if you are, you are wrong, because whenever you are, you are separate from existence.

When you are not, you are right.

When you are, you are wrong.

The ego, the separate “I”, creates the separation from existence.

When you are not, you are part of existence. 

These eight steps are indicators to create the courage to take the jump to simply disappear into silence, to become nobody.

When the self disappears, the Universal self arises.

The first step of Buddha’s eightfold way is right view.

Buddha says: look at things without any opinion, otherwise you never look at reality.

Look at things without any judgement, prejudice, belief or scripture.

Just look at things as the are.

Buddha says: Go to reality without any belief.

Belief is the barrier to reality.

Right view is: having no belief, no prejudice, no opinion.

Right view is the way towards truth.

If you have any opinion, you will impose your opinion on the truth.

Right view means no conceptualization.

Right view means that you need to develop the inner eyes to see truth.

Right view means a mind without views.

You are simply open.

Your window is simply open without any hindrances.

Buddha says that right view is how to treat your blindness, how to get out of your blindness.

If you live with views, you cannot see the truth.

Your view always comes as a barrier to truth.

It does not allow you to see things as they are.

And God is that which is.

To know the real you do not need any views.

That is the real renunciation that Buddha teaches: to drop all views, and right view will arise.

Reality has no obligation to fit with you.

A man of understanding will change himself rather than demanding that reality will fit with him.

A man of understanding will find that there is no conflict between him and reality.

That is right view.

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Giten quotes in other language translations: Norwegian, Italian and Indonesian

Giten quotes in other language translations

NORWEGIAN

De tre stadier av opplysning

Dette er de tre stadier av opplysning.

«Den første fasen er opplysning:
Et glimt av helhet

Den første fasen av opplysning er et kort glimt langt borte fra. Det er et kort glimt av å være.
Den første fasen av opplysning er da, for første gang, for et eneste øyeblikk at sinnet ikke fungerer. Det ordinære egoet er fortsatt til stede på den første etappen av opplysning, men du opplever for en kort stund at det er noe utover egoet.
Det er et gap, en stillhet og tomhet, der det ikke er noen tanker mellom deg og eksistens.
Du, og eksistens møtes og slås sammen for en stund.
Og for første gang frøet, tørsten og lengselen etter opplysning, møtet mellom deg og eksistens, vil vokse i ditt hjerte.

Translation: Synnasverden.net

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ITALIAN

Giten quoted in the new Italian book “Momenti Zen”

– 365 quotes on ZEN

Se imparerete ad ascoltarlo, il vostro intuito si svilupperà fino a diventare una fonte interiore di amore, verità e saggezza, sempre a vostra disposizione. Possiamo chiudere gli occhi, entrare dentro di noi, e ricevere sempre la giusta guida.

—SWAMI DHYAN GITEN

INDONESIAN

Intuisi dan Penyembuhan

Koleksi kutipan dari Swami Dhyan Giten

Bagaimana kita bisa belajar untuk mendengarkan bisikan batin kita? Bagaimana cinta berhubungan dengan kesendirian? Apakah itu intuisi? Bagaimana kita dapat mengembangkan kehadiran kita, sehingga kehadiran dan intuisi kita menjadi sumber kasih, sukacita, penyembuhan dan kebijaksanaan dalam hubungan kita dengan orang lain? Apa perbedaan antara kepribadian dan batin/diri-sejati? Bagaimana kita dapat mengembangkan batin kita melalui meditasi? Bagaimana pria dan wanita dalam mengekspresikan diri ke luar dalam bentuk hubungan? Apakah itu pencerahan?

The Silent Whisperings of the Heart berisi koleksi kutipan dari Swami Dhyan Giten tentang kesadaran, meditasi, intuisi, hubungan, batin pria dan wanita, penyembuhan, bekerja dengan orang-orang berdasarkan cinta dan kesadaran, kebenaran, kreativitas, keheningan, kebijaksanaan dan pencerahan. Setiap halaman menginspirasi Anda untuk melihat diri sendiri dan kehidupan dengan cara baru, dari dimensi baru. Koleksi kutipan ini adalah sebuah pengantar perspektif dari Giten terhadap kehidupan. Ini adalah kutipan dari buku tersebut yang mencakup dua wilayah yaitu intuisi dan penyembuhan.

1. Intuisi & Batin

Intuisi berarti belajar untuk mendengarkan bisikan hening dalam batin kita sendiri.

Intuisi adalah guru dalam batin kita, sumber cinta, kebenaran dan kebijaksanaan, dalam kehidupan.

Intuisi pada dasarnya berarti untuk mengembangkan kepercayaan yang lebih mendalam dalam diri kita sendiri. Intuisi berarti untuk mengembangkan kepercayaan yang lebih mendalam di hati kita dan batin kita.

Translation: https://henkykuntarto.wordpress.com

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https://henkykuntarto.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/intuisi-dan-penyembuhan/

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: Silence is the Answer

Silence is the Answer

 

From Satsang Weekend with Giten on Buddha,

December 11-13, 2015, in Stockholm 

 

“Giten gave me life back. An awakening. I have seen the beauty in life, and I know that this is the way.

I like Giten a lot. He is fantastic. The presence and the impact he has on people. His wisdom and humor.”

 

– Prem Mukta, Artist & Music Management, Stockholm

 

 

”The satsang weekend with Giten was fantastic and made me aware that I have not really understood what meditation is before.” 

 

– Lotta Briné, director in rehabilitation and treatment, participant in Satsang weekend with Giten, December 11-13, 2015, Falkoping

 

Buddha said: if an evil-doer, seeing you practice goodness, comes and maliciously insult you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

 

When you grow spiritually, you will find that many people will get upset with you, because your spiritual growth, your presence, your love, your joy, your silence, create a guilt, a resistance, in them.

 

A good man creates comparison in other people, which will hurt their ego.

 

A Jesus must be crucified, because his his love, his presence, his light, hurt the ego. A Socrates must be poisoned, because his truth and authenticity creates a comparison. It mirrors others lies and unauthenticity.

 

If you live with unconscious and unhealthy people, your consciousness and health is dangerous to them.

 

People will come an insult you, because you hurt their ego, you hurt their lies.

 

When people insult you, you should remain at your center, you should patiently endure the insult.

 

You should remain in your center, in your silence, and be aware and watch the insult. You should not be disturbed by the insult. If you are disturbed, the insulting person has defeated you.

 

You remain silent, collected and calm.

 

Buddha says just keep quiet, endure it, remain patient and do not get angry with the person. 

 

– Swami Dhyan Giten