Satsang with Giten on Buddha: The Middle Way – 6. Right Mindfulness

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: 

The Middle path

From satsang with Giten, February 25, 2016, in Stockholm 

 7. Right Mindfulness 

The sixth step on Buddha’s Middle Way is Right mindfulness or Right awareness.

By mindfulness, Buddha means that you should always remian awake, alert and aware.

You should always remain present.

In every act that you do, be present and aware.

In walking, eating, talking or listening, be aware.

Never allow any act to be done without awareness.

Then this awareness will spread all over your life.

Then meditation and your life are not separate things.

Then meditation spreads in your acts, in your relationships and in your creatvity.

Meditation has to be one with life. 

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being, I write about the essence of meditation:

The Essence of Meditation:

Watchful Awareness, Acceptance

and Relaxation

What is the essence of meditation? The essence of meditation consists of four qualities:

1. Watchful awareness

2. An accepting attitude

3. A non-judgmental attitude

4. Relaxation

1. Watchful awareness

The first quality of meditation is a watchful awareness. Awareness is another word for meditation. Awareness is meditation. Awareness can also be described with the words presence or witnessing.

Awareness is the capacity to be present to the thoughts, the feelings, the sensations of the physical body, and to the outer stimuli. Awareness is a 180-degree turn within from being identified with the continuous inner stream of thoughts, feelings, desires, ambitions, dreams and expectations to being conscious about and to watch this inner stream.

Awareness is the capacity to say “yes” and to be present to the constant inner stream of thoughts; feelings and sensations, without will to stop this stream and without wish that it should be different than it is. It is like being a witness, an unidentified observer, to theinner stream. It is like sitting by the side of the river and watch the flow of the river.

Awareness is the corner stone that can transform our whole quality of life. Awareness can create the inner presence, which can transform our life into a joyful dance, a song of meditation. Through awareness we can discover our true inner nature, which allows us to discover a new dimension to be in contact with life. Awareness gives us the freedom to choose between clinging to the past or to live in the unknown mystery of the moment.

Awareness is not about continuously trying to change ourselves or to become “better”. 

Awareness is about learning to love and respect ourselves as we are. Awareness is about becoming aware, to lit the light of our inner being.

Awareness is not about becoming something; awareness is about realizing that we already are somebody.

In the light of awareness, the real and authentic grows by itself and the false and artificial falls away by itself like dead leaves in the autumn.

If we close our eyes and turn our attention within for a moment, we will soon notice three things:

1. That the activity of the mind in the form of thoughts, feelings, desires, ambitions, dreams, expectations and reactions on outer stimuli is going on continuously 24hours a day. When we are awake it is going on in the form of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and reactions and during sleep it is going on in the form of dreams. The mind is also one whole, even if Freud divided the mind into two parts, and calledone part for the conscious mind and the other part for the conscious mind. The only difference between these two parts is that the conscious mind is the conscious part of the mind and the unconscious mind is the denied and repressed part of the mind, but they are both part of the same whole. It is like the relationship between the dark, unknown cellar, where we do not enter, and the light, comfortable living area with the living room and the kitchen, where we normally live our lives.

2. That the mind continuously moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the dreams of the future, but it never stays in the moment, in the here and now. The mind is a mechanism that cannot function in the moment.

3. That there is an inner presence, an inner witness that has the capacity to watch the continuous activity of the mind, without being identified or engaged. This inner presence and this watchful awareness is the essence of meditation. It gives us the insight that there is an inner presence that can be aware of the constant activity of the mind. This insight leads u further to the realization that we are not the mind; we are not the thoughts, the feelings or the sensations of the physical body. The easiest level to become aware about is the sensations of the physical body, since the physical body is the grossest form of our consciousness. The second easiest level to become aware about is the thoughts and the most difficult level to become aware about is the feelings and emotions.

There is really nothing that can disturb our meditation; everything can be used as an object for meditation. Everything that happens on the inside and everything that happens on the outside can be used to go deeper into meditation. It does not really matter if it is a feeling of joy, sorrow, aloneness or anger that we meet inside ourselves. And it does not really matter if it is a person on the outside that insults us and makes us angry, sad and disappointed. With presence, awareness and understanding, we can say “yes” to and include everything that arises in our consciousness, and everything that we meet on the outside, in our meditation. The deeper we go into meditation, the more it expands in our life. It is to realize that life and meditation are not two separate things.

A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations in life is if we are identified with the thoughts, feelings and sensations of the physical body – or if we simply can be aware about and watch what arises in our consciousness.

Through this awareness, we can use all situations as an opportunity for meditation. 

2. An accepting attitude

The second quality of meditation is an accepting attitude. Awareness includes an accepting attitude. An accepting attitude means to learn to say “yes” to everything that arises in our consciousness. It means to learn to say “yes” both to positive and negative experiences, to light and darkness and to joy and sorrow.

An accepting attitude means to include everything that we find within ourselves with presence, awareness and understanding.

An accepting attitude means an attitude that the reality of the moment is perfect exactly as it is. It means not wanting to change the reality of the moment, or to have a wish that the moment should be different than it is. It means to embrace the moment as we find it inside ourselves with a love and acceptance for how the moment is. It is a love for the reality of the moment. This accepting attitude expands our inner being and creates larger freedom and space within ourselves.

An accepting attitude means to embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations in life is if we say “yes”, if we accept, what arises in our consciousness and what life offers us, or if we say “no”, if we resist the reality of the moment.

3. A non-judgmental attitude

The third quality of meditation is a non-judgmental attitude. Awareness also includes anon-judgmental attitude.

Normally we judge ourselves, rather than simply witness our behavior without judgment. Since early we have been taught to judge ourselves and make ourselves wrong, so now it is easier not judging others than ourselves.

People who love and respect themselves are not easy to control and manipulate, so the strategy of political, religious and economic interests is to teach people to judge themselves. People who do not trust themselves and are split within are easier to control, exploit and manipulate.

A non-judgmental attitude means to learn to love the imperfect in ourselves. It means to include everything that we do not love and accept in ourselves in the light of awareness. A non-judgmental attitude means to learn to say “yes” even to that which we say “no” to in ourselves.

A question that we can ask ourselves in different situations in life is if we say “no”, if we judge, that which arises in our consciousness and what life offers us – or if we simply cane aware and witness without judgment and evaluation.

4. Relaxation

The fourth quality in meditation is relaxation. The watchful awareness, the accepting attitude and the non-judgmental attitude, results in a deep relaxation together with feeling that whatever happens inside and outside of ourselves is perfect exactly as it is.

It leads to a rest in ourselves and the feeling that we are already all right as we are. This relaxation creates a feeling that we can appreciate the beautiful being that we already are.

We can rest in that which is already perfect within ourselves. 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

 

QuoteMaster shares a Collection of Quotes by Swami Dhyan Giten

Quote Master

 

QuoteMaster shares a Collection of Quotes

by Swami Dhyan Giten

Quotes by Swami Dhyan Giten

The reason that people start wars is because they still believe in their separation from life. But when you experience the wholeness with all living beings, you understand that hurting somebody else is just hurting yourself as we are all one on the spiritual level.

The mother is the child’s first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation.

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of I is false.

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

The heart is the door to our inner woman. The heart is the door to our inner world. The power chakra relates to the inner man. The power chakra relates to the outer world. Irrespective of if we are a man or a woman, the inner woman is the center of our consciousness.

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

The human heart operates from two premises: I Am Responsible and Only Love Works.

In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.

A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

Love never ends.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

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Satsang with Giten on Buddha: Bhumis & Paramitas – 3, Luminousness, Light, Patience

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Bhumis

 – Ten Steps to Enlightenment

From Satsang with Giten, February 18, 2016, in Stockholm

3. PRABHAKARI: Luminousness, Light

The third Bhumi is PRABHAKARI, which means luminousness, light.

Buddha says: Man is light. Light means electricity.

Feel yourself as a light, live in contact with your inner light.

Feel like your are made of light, and you will feel a luminous light around you.

In fact, it is already there around you and when you recognize it, it will arise around you, your light and your aura around you will expand.

On the third Bhumi, the meditator and bodhisattva, the Buddha in essence, will also develop the third Paramita, the third of the ten provisions and helps on the inner journey. The third Paramita is SHANTI, which means patience, forgiveness.

Everything is made of electricity. Man is made of electricity, and matter consists of electricity.

When you recognize the fact that you are a light, you will become a luminous light.

You will become a light, not only to yourself, but also to others.

Buddha’s last words to his disciples was to be a light to yourself.

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”, I have written about how healing is an inner light:
Within each one of us there is a healer. Healing has always been a way and a deep source of healing for me. Healing is basically our own energy, which overflows from our inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner silence and emptiness.
Healing is pure love in essence. Love is what creates healing. Love is the strongest force there is. The sheer presence of love is in itself healing. It is more the absence of love – than the presence of love – which creates problems. Healing is a quality, which we can freely share without any ownership. Healing is not something that we can claim as our own, healing is to be a medium, a channel, for the whole.
Healing is a medium through which we can develop our inner qualities of presence, love, joy, intuition, truth, silence, wisdom, creativity and inner wholeness. Healing comes originally from the silence within, where we are already in contact with the whole, with the divine. Healing is what makes us spread our inner wings of love and silence and soar high on the sky of consciousness and touch the stars. Healing is to be in service of God.
People who have a quality of heart and a sensitivity are naturally healing. With some people that we meet, we feel naturally uplifted and inspired. With other people that we meet, we become tired and heavy. With people, who can listen without judging and evaluating, it is easy to find the right words to share problems and difficulties. And with other people, it seems almost impossible to find the right words.

People, who have a healing presence and quality, can support our own inner source of love, truth and silence through their presence. These people also seem to have an intuitive sensitivity to say the right words, which lifts and inspires us. This is the people, whose presence can mirror the inner truth, which we already know deep within ourselves.

The human heart is a healer, which heals others and ourselves. It is the hearts quality of love, acceptance and compassion plus communication through words, which creates healing. Words which comes from the heart creates healing. A silent listening with a quality of presence and an accepting attitude creates space for healing to happen.

The gift of healing comes when we see the other person with love and compassion. It is the quality of heart, which creates the love and the genuine caring for the other person. When our words are carried by the quality of heart, you can say almost anything to the other person and he will still be able to be open and receptive. But if our words lack the quality of heart, it also becomes difficult for the other person to continue to be open and receptive. Even if a therapist is very skillful on a technical plane or have a clear clairvoyant ability and still lacks the natural roots in the soil of the heart, then his words will not touch the heart of the other person.
When I began to work with people almost 30 years ago, it was an insight for me that I really cared about the other person and that it was this love that was communicated beyond the words to the other person. One of my course participants – who is a teacher – described this very beautifully when he said that he was impressed by my intuition and by my way of conducting therapeutic work – or if he would rather call this giving insights into love. Love is what allows us to go beyond the surface of the other person and to touch his inner being, his inner essence. Without love, it is only possible to reach the personality of the other person, to reach the surface and periphery of the other person.

Meditation is the way to develop our natural healing abilities. Healing comes originally from our inner being, from the inner source of silence and wholeness. In the silence, we can let go of all our problems, frustrations, fears, anger and sorrow. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light. Healing is to embrace and accept everything that we find inside ourselves without judgement or evaluation. Healing happens when we discover an unconditional love and acceptance for ourselves as we are with both our light and dark sides.

A male meditator says that he made a deep going insight in a course about what healing is, which has guided him much in life. He says: “I did a course and had been feeling very good during the week before the course. The first two days of the course I still felt very good. But the third day of the course, I began to feel uncomfortable. The question why I suddenly felt uncomfortable arose in me. But instead of asking somebody else, I asked myself this question and the answer I got was: “To receive attention”. “Well, was it so simple”, I thought”, and then I closed my eyes, went inside myself and gave myself attention. Through this I discovered that I could give myself healing. There were also many things that I suddenly understood through this about the question: “What is healing?” It became clear to me that healing is to give attention and that healing and giving attention is synonymous terms”.

Healing is not only a specific method, healing is also to invite another person into our own inner light, to invite another person into our presence, love, joy, acceptance, humor, understanding, playfulness, meditation and silence. Healing can also be a loving word, an understanding glance, a present touch, a silent listening or simply joking with another person and making him or her happy. Humor is also one of the strongest healing powers to see our situation and ourselves in a new and creative light.

When I did an education in healing in USA 1984, I was told that I had the capacity to become a crown chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a channel and catalysator for spiritual energy from the 7th chakra through the heart. At that time I had no idea what a crown chakra healer really was and since than it has been a continuous process during the last 17 years to deepen and develop my understanding about what a crown chakra healer is. This process has resulted in a way of working I call “Synchronicity – Transmission of the Light”, which uses healing and energywork from the Source on a formless level. With this way of working I have worked with groups up to 80 people. It is really a way of working, which goes around the ego and speaks directly to the heart. It allows a person to come in direct contact with his own inner being, with his own life source. With my intellect I still do not understand how this way of working functions. It is not a way of working, which can be understood on a method plane. It is a way of working, which relates directly to the heart and which can only be understood through insight and experience. One participant in Gothenburg described his experience of Synchronicity like thousand suns suddenly had been lit in his own consciousness. He says: “It was like an inner explosion, an expansion of my own consciousness – and I felt only love for the other people in the room”.

The greatest teacher in healing is nature itself. To be out in the nature is like being surrounded and embraced by love. Trees are also very beautiful people, who have their own innate wisdom and who are already in oneness with Existence. And the sky whispers it’s silent message that beyond everything, there is only one sky. A female meditator describes it like there is a basic meditative quality in nature. She says: “There is nothing in nature that questions each others existence like people do. Everything is allowed to exist and everything is allowed to be exactly as it is – and seasons come and goes. It is not strange that people love to be out in nature and experiences that they come in harmony with themselves, because there is nothing that tries to change them out in nature. There is a quality in the air, which can be called a meditative quality”.

Healing is to be in the light of our own consciousness. Healing is an inner light, which exist as a natural radiance around a person. This inner light is in itself a healing force beyond words. This inner light disperses darkness like when you lit a candle in a dark room and the darkness disappears by itself. This inner light exudes a subtle influence just through its presence. The more the light in our own consciousness is lit, the more it creates a subtle effect in the world.

– Swami Dhyan Giten

“Outstanding beautifully written. The message is luminous in itself,

but Giten’s way to formulate the message in English is a pure gift from God.”

– Brage Norin, professor in theoretical physics

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Paramitas – The Ten Provisions for the Inner Journey

From Satsang with Giten, February 18, 2016, in Stockholm

3. SHANTI: Patience

The third Paramita is SHANTI, which means patience.

Patience is timelessness. The inner journey is vast, and you need infinite patience.

If you are restless, if you are impatience, if you are in a hurry, you will never be able to achieve enlightenment.

An oceanic patience is needed on the journey.

Meditation and enlightenment are not an instant achievement.

Sometimes even three to five lives are not enough for the journey.

How much time the journey takes depends on your patience.

In fact, you are already that which you seek, you are already there where you want to be, but your restlessness, your impatience, make you not see it.

Love, patience, meditation, silence and wisdom are five qualities of the same phenomenon.

The day you relax and sit silently doing nothing, suddenly it is there.

With patience, you realize that you already are that which you seek.

In your impatience, in your restlessness, you cannot see it.

When you are patient, not going anywhere, when your being is just still, you realize that you are already that which you seek.

This oceanic patience also gives you a love, an acceptance, a patience and a forgiveness with other people.

When I was 23 years old, a spiritual teacher told me: Even if you are irritated with people, see if you can give them love.

This is the love, acceptance, patience and forgiveness that Jesus talks about when he talks about turning the other cheek and to forgive people.

According  to old Buddhist scriptures, Jesus studied at a Buddhist university in India before he began to preach, so when he talks about turning the other cheek it may be this Bhumi that he is talking about.

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Hopkinton Middle School in Massachusetts, USA, quotes Giten on Acceptance in a curriculum designed to educate students about the acceptance of and respect for others in the community and in the world.

 

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Hopkinton Middle School in Massachusetts, USA, quotes Giten on Acceptance in The Power of WE, which is a curriculum designed and implemented by the Middle School Counseling Department.  The mission of the Hopkinton Publich Schools is to learn, create, and achive together.

New in 2015-16, its goal is to introduce students to a new theme each year which will challenge them to think about themselves and the world around them. This year’s  theme,ACCEPTANCE, strives to educate HMS students about the acceptance of and respect for others in our community and our world. 

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  The Power of WE: Make a positive (+) difference today! 

  The Power of WE is a curriculum designed and implemented by the Middle School Counseling Department. New in 2015-16, its goal is to introduce students to a new theme each year which will challenge them to think about themselves and the world around them. This year’s  theme,ACCEPTANCE, strives to educate HMS students about the acceptance of and respect for others in our community and our world. HMS students were introduced to this new theme by their grade level Counselor in September. 

   

  The Power of WE curriculum consists of three elements: weekly Google Slide presentations that include a 2-5 minute media clip followed by a take away lesson and weekly challenge; classroom lessons delivered by the School Counselors on a trimester basis; and school-wide events and activities. Following the theme of acceptance, this year’s curriculum is broken into three sub-themes that look at acceptance from a community level, a peer level and a self level. First semester focused on diversity (community level) – the acceptance and respect for people from other races, religions, abilities, etc. Now, currently in second trimester, our focus has moved towards peer acceptance as we discuss bullying and healthy friendships. Finally, during the third trimester, the curriculum will turn to the importance of self-acceptance. 

   

  The first trimester kick-off of Power of We was deemed a success by students, teachers and administration. Students report looking forward to the videos on Monday mornings as a great way to start their week, giving them something to think about as they go through their routines. Many teachers have taken the weekly themes and found ways to integrate them into already planned lessons, propelling students to find ways to meld the classroom with “real life.” Behavior changes are already being noticed across the school by students and staff, demonstrating that the program’s ideas are taking root.

   

  The Power of WE curriculum meets several standards required through the Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework. Specifically, Standard 7.7 states that by the end of Grade 8 students will “Recognize the positive contribution of character traits (such as tolerance, honesty, self-discipline, respectfulness, and kindness) to relationships, the benefit of which include understanding and respecting individual differences, and the detrimental effect of prejudice (such as prejudice on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, or religion) on individual relationships and society as a whole.”

   

  We are very proud to have introduced this program this year and have already begun working on next year’s installment of the program. Weekly presentations can be found below. We encourage families to review these presentations with their children at home and have discussions about how the messages resonate in other areas of their lives. In addition to accessing the current week’s presentation, the Power of WE webpage also provides an opportunity to preview the next week’s presentation, as well as past presentations using the archived link at the right of the page. you have any questions, please feel free to contact your grade level School Counselor. 

   

   

  When we stop judging others, and ourselves, our hearts begin to open. 

   

  ~ Swami Dhyan Giten
  

   

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Satsang with Giten: The Call of the Wild – Sermons from a madman

THE CALL OF THE WILD:

SERMONS FROM A MADMAN

“The silent Satsang yesterday felt strong. Almost immediately when we sat down in silent Satsang, I was filled with an energy so strong that it felt like I was surrounded by an almost physical energy field.

I almost felt like I was going to levitate, like the energy was so compact that I could not sit still on the floor. It was like the Satsang danced, it was living its own life. It felt ancient, powerful and beyond control. And in the middle of everything, a loud and wild laughter grow, which I had to fight to keep back. It felt like I would never stop laughing if I began.

When Giten sounded the bell that the Satsang was over, I had to concentrate to come back in one piece, remind the body of the frame, and remind the head of the room, of the here and now.

After a while, it worked, and the effect was that I felt happy, calm and full of love after Satsang.

– Prem Mukta, Stockholm

Giten lectures about a variety of topics of concern for the modern man during Satsang weekend, December 11-13, 2015, in Stockholm for example love, joy, relationships, acceptance, understanding, intuition, healing, trust, creativity, friendship, spiritual growth, evolution, society, life, meditation, silence, spirituality, mysticism, truth, wisdom, death, unity with life, God and enlightenment. He also talks about a number of spiritual teachers and traditions such as Vedanta, Yoga, Tantra, the chakra system, Tao, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Patanjali and Jesus Christ. 

Danish Christan fundamentalist says that Giten’s philosophy is in direct opposition to the words of God

 

DANISH CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST SAYS

 THAT GITEN’S

 PHILOSOPHY IS IN DIRECT OPPOSITION

 TO THE WORDS OF GOD

Apostolic Church Center in Vejle in Denmark has written about Giten and linked to his words on their website, which has created heated feelings among Christians in Denmark.

On the Danish website Moriel.dk, the fundamentalic Christian Ole Michaelsen is horrified that Apostolic Church Center has written about “the mystic Swami Dhyan Giten” on their website.

 

He begins his article by quoting Paulus, who had never meet Jesus and whose basic mission was to kill the early Christians. He continues to say that Giten stands for hinduism, because Giten says that God is not a person, but that God is the underlying energy and consciousness of the whole existence. His conclusion is that Giten’s philosophy is in direct opposition to the words of God.

 

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Swami Dhyan Giten:

Jesus Christ – The Path of

Love

 

From the book that Giten is currently writing “Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth and The Life”, which is a compilation of lectures during satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ

 

The Path of Love, the path of Bhakti Yoga, is the path of Jesus Christ.

 

Love is not a technique.

 

Love knows no technique, so the path of love has no method or technique.

 

If you bring technique to the path of love, you will destroy love.

 

The whole existence is love, and the birds need no technique to love, trees need no technique to love the mountains need no technique to love. 

 

Love only needs that you drop the ego, and drop into your heart. It is just like a rose flower opening. You need not open it, it has the capacity to open already. The capacity is intrinsic, and of it’s own accord the rose flower will open – and in the same way the heart opens.

 

The heart needs no technique, the heart needs no training.

 

Jesus says: “God is love”. If you can love, it will happen by itself.

 

Jesus path is the way of love, of prayer. It is a deep love for the whole existence.

 

Jesus was a man of love, of immense compassion. He loved this earth, the people, the threes, because that is the way to love God.

 

God is life. Jesus is very life-affirmative. He says total yes to life.

 

When you look into the eyes of each being that you meet, you meet God.

 

Everybody is an incarnation of God – the threes, the flowers, the rocks, the animals, the people and the mountains.

 

Love the people, love the threes, love the animals – and through the love you meet God.

 

All are brothers here, because God is one.

 

The threes, the flowers, the birds and the rocks are all your brothers, because they all come from the one source.

 

if you are not reconciled with the world, you cannot pray to God. Prayer is only possible when you are in harmony with existence.

 

The whole existence is your brother. The first step for prayer is to be reconciled with your brother. And your brother means all beings.

 

Jesus is a celebration of being, a celebration of life.

 

If you deny life, you deny God.

 

If you say no to life, you say no to God, because God is life.

 

To understand Jesus, you have to understand that life is God.

 

If you say yes to life, you will feel a prayer arising in your heart, a yes arising in your being.

 

The ego is a no to life, the ego is a separation from life. The inner being is a yes to life. The inner being is a deep yes and acceptance of life.

 

Saying yes bridges you with the whole. It makes you a part of the whole.

 

Saying yes will make you more and more spiritual.

 

Jesus whole message is yes. The word “amen” means yes.

 

You will never meet God, you will meet human beings, animals, stones and threes.

 

You can love God through other human beings, through threes, through stones and through animals.

 

And when you have learnt to love God through all his forms – then only love changes into prayer. 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Giten Quotes – Life, Love and Truth: International book site Goodreads shares a collection of quotes from spiritual teacher and author Swami Dhyan Giten

GITEN QUOTES – LIFE, LOVE AND TRUTH

The International book site Goodreads with 30 million users shares a collection of 140 Giten quotes.

Spiritual teacher and author Swami Dhyan Giten has spoken on a variety of topics of concern to modern man, for example meditation, awareness, love, joy, healing, relationships, creativity, mysticism, truth, silence, emptiness and enlightenment.

 

“Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect – like the waves of the ocean.”
―  Swami Dhyan Giten

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Mystery School: The Sacred Yes – 6-Month Transformation Programme with Swami Dhyan Giten, February – July 2015, in Stockholm

Mystery School

Love – Awareness – Truth

THE SACRED YES:

6- MONTH TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME

During the Satsangs with Giten during the last 1,5 years in Stockholm, a deep silence and oneness have developed, and it felt like a modern mystery school of love and truth.

So Giten has decided to open Mystery School, which is a very loose organization to offer regular Satsang Intensives and weekends and longer programs for sincere seekers with a commitment for inner awakening and enlightenment. Some Satsang Intensives will only be open for seekers and meditators, who are part of the mystery school.

Deep within ourselves is the inner being, the authentic self, the inner silence and emptiness, where we already are one with Life.

The Sacred Yes: 6 Month Transformation Programme will be offered by the Mystery School, which will be open for both current participants of the Mystery School and for other seekers, who have a commitment to their spiritual growth and previous experience of meditation.

The Sacred Yes programme is a beautiful and mystical journey into our inner being during 6 months, where Giten uses silence, words and awareness to help us rediscover our authentic inner being, the capacity to surrender to life, where we find a joyful, alive and expanding relationship to Existence.

This program is an invitation to people who have sufficient life experience to discover their own authentic inner being.

In his past lives, Giten has travelled through many spiritual paths. In this programme he uses philosophy and spiritual methods from many traditions – Vedanta and The Upanishads, Patanjali, Tao och yoga, Buddhism, Sufism, Christianity, the seven chakras and seven energy bodies, modern psychology and Classic Eastern methods for meditation and awareness to guide the individual seeker in a way that relates to the seeker’s own spiritual path from path lives. This makes it easier to take new steps on the spiritual journey.

It is an invitation to the sincere seeker of truth.

The Sacred Yes consists of two Satsang series with Giten during February – July on Thursday evenings in Stockholm. The first Satsang series focuses on The Path of Wisdom – The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism and the second Satsang series will focus on Jesus, where Giten will talk about Jesus, the man, Jesus, the revolutionary and Jesus, the mystic. Giten will talk on Christ, not on Christianity. Giten makes a clear distinction between the rebel called Jesus Christ and the religion that followed after him – Christianity. Giten was a disciple of Jesus in a former Life, where he was thrown to the lions in Colosseum in Rome.

“I love when Giten talks about Jesus.”

– Prem Mukta

The Sacred Yes also consists of two 2-Day Satsang Weekends with Giten in 11-12 April on Tibetan Buddhism and in June on Jesus.

The 2-day Satsang Weekend is Giten’s invitation to everyone, who have the inner thirst and longing for a direct recognition that our heart is the door to our being, our inner “yes”-quality, our authentic self, the meditative quality within, the inner source of love and truth, the inner silence and emptiness, the capacity to surrender to life.

The 2-day Satsang Weekend with Giten is an opportunity for a direct insight and realization of being. To meet our inner being means to witness and affirm everything that we already are. It is to meet that that which is already perfect within ourselves.

The Sacred Yes also consists of three individual consultations with Giten.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

TIME: February – July 2015.

PLACE: Farsta/Stockholm. 15 minutes from Stockholm city.

COST: 4.500:- – 450 EUR. The fee can be paid in two installments.

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION: You registrate to the programme by booking the first individual consultation with Giten (1 hour/600:-). Booking: swami.dhyan.giten@gmail.com

The Just Love Movement Quotes Giten on Love

The Just Love Movement quotes Giten on Love

from the initiation talk with Prem Kalyani

– together with Albert Einstein, Albert Camus,

Rumi, Shunya Suzuki, Paulo Coelho,

Rainer Maria Rilke, Lao Tzu, Deepak Chopra,

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, John Keats,

Anne Frank, Khalil Gibran, Henry David Thoreau, Rabindranath Tagore

– and most of the contemporary intelligentia of the world 

“Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.

Love is overflowing joy.

Love is when you have seen that you are not separate from Existence.

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being.

Fear is the opposite of love. In love, one expands. In fear, one shrinks. In fear, one becomes closed. In love, one opens.

In fear, one doubts. In love, one trusts.

Do not be afraid, this Existence is not your enemy. This existence loves you, this existence is ready to support you in any way.

Trust and you will feel a new overflowing energy. That energy is love. That energy wants to bless the whole existence. Because of this energy, one feels blessed.

Love is a deep desire to bless the whole Existence.”

 

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Read more at:

http://justlovemovement.com/just-love/

 Initiation into Freedom: Prem Kalyani (“Being a Blessing to Existence through Love”)

celebrates the new year by listening to her initiation talk with Giten

“I opened and celebrated the new year by listening to the recording from my initiation (far from the first time and guaranteed not the last time). Once again it struck me how intelligent and pedagogic your are. You talk so direct and personal. 

 

I like very much the name that you gave me. It has happened a lot the last time, I have matured, and have taken many new steps”

– Prem Kalyani, musician and accomplished violin player, studies chamber music at the University of Orebro in Sweden. Her boy friend, Deva Emanuel, who is also a student of Giten, says that she plays the violin like an angel.

Read more about Initiation into Freedom on The Giten Blog

https://swamidhyangiten.wordpress.com/initiation-into-freedom/

Satsang with Giten: The Path of Wisdom – The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism, spring 2015, in Stockholm

Satsang with Giten:

The Path of Wisdom

– The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism

The Satsang series “The Path of Wisdom – The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism” with Giten is a guide for inner discipline and transformation, and an opportunity to help you to grow and to live in wisdom.

Based on the book “Seven Points of Mind Training” by the Buddhist mystic Atisha, who brought Buddhism to Tibet, Giten will capture the essence of Tibetan Buddhism, and give us an accessible method for training the mind, awakening the heart and growing in love and kindness towards others.  In short, he will teach us to live with wisdom.

In a former Life, Giten was a spiritual counsellor in Dalai Lama’s palace Potala in Lhasa in Tibet.

Satsang with Giten is a direct insight and experience of being. These Satsang evenings will begin with a lecture and end with Satsang with Giten in silence and meditation.

SWAMI DHYAN GITEN, spiritual teacher and author, has more than 30 years of experience in individual counseling and in teaching awareness and meditation. He is trained in both modern psychology and in classic Eastern methods for awareness and meditation.

In 1982, when Giten was 23 years old, he was directed by the Divine presence in a trance session with the American trance chancellor Lin David Martin: “You have listened to your intuition, to your true inner voice, more than most. You have been searching for the contact with the Spirit for a long time and now it is beginning to manifest on the outer plane. You have been gifted many times in previous embodiments and now everything will come rather easy for you. I want you to put your energy into the lives of others, because you can”.

A spiritual teacher, who have counselled thousands of people, told Giten in 1984: “You will dissolve into the silence. All the earlier enlightened Masters and all the small Deva’s are just here to help you to get enlightened.”

He is author of the best-selling book “Meditationens Sång” (Swedish edition, www.adlibris.se), “The Silent Whisperings of the Heart”, “Presence – Working from within. The Psychology of Being” and “The Language of Silence: From Darkness to Light” (available at international book site Lulu.com: www.lulu.com/spotlight/Giten).

COMMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS IN SATSANG WITH GITEN

“Satsang with Giten was totally wonderful!”

– Toshen, Stockholm

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

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

– Prem Mukta, Stockholm, participant in Sound & Silence: 2-Day Satsang Weekend with Giten, December 6-7, 2014

“It is so rare with this kind of silence.”

– Prem Kalyani, musician and accomplished violin player, participant in Satsang with Giten

“Hallelujah! The 1-day Satsang with Giten was fantastic. Magic. I left the Satsang, so in love with life. Happiness. I only feel love.”

-Prem Mukta, participant in Giten’s Satsang Intensive, February 15, in Stockholm

“In some moments, I realize what an incredible opportunity Satsang with Giten is, and in other moments I fall back to the unawareness and sleep of the mind. I had never dared to take the step to participate in Satsang with Giten if there was not such a love. Since I began to study for Giten, a new dimension of awareness has developed step by step, which has transformed my whole life.”

– Deva Emanuel , musician and student of Giten since 6 years

“Satsang with Giten is a rich and warm emptiness. I want to give Giten all love and my warmest thank you. Giten and the Satsang has given me so much. I have never been so close to happiness before. In many moments, life has become complete.”

– Prem Mukta, Stockholm 

“The silent Satsang yesterday felt strong. Almost immediately when we sat down in silent Satsang, I was filled with an energy so strong that it felt like I was surrounded by an almost physical energy field. I almost felt like I was going to levitate, like the energy was so compact that I could not sit still on the floor. It was like the Satsang danced, it was living its own life. It felt ancient, powerful and beyond control. And in the middle of everything, a loud and wild laughter grow, which I had to fight to keep back. It felt like I would never stop laughing if I began. When Giten sounded the bell that the Satsang was over, I had to concentrate to come back in one piece, remind the body of the frame, remind the head of the room, of the here and now. After a while, it worked, and the effect was that I felt happy, calm and full of love after Satsang.

– Prem Mukta, Stockholm

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

TIME: 10 Thursday evenings. 19.00 PM -21.00 PM. February 19, 26. March 5,12, 19, 26 april. April 9, 16, 23, 30.

PRICE: 1200 SEK – 120 EUR/10 Thursday evenings. Single evenings can also be booked by advance booking. Advance booking: swami.dhyan.giten@gmail.com. Price, single evenings: 150 SEK – 15 EUR.

PLACE: Farsta/Stockholm, 15 minures from Stockholm City

REGISTRATION Before February, 11 to: swami.dhyan.giten@gmail.com

Prevous experience of meditation and spiritual growth are recommended.