Satsang with Giten on Buddha: The Middle Way – 8. Right Samadhi

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Buddha’s

 Middle

Way

From satsang with Giten, March 3, 2016, in Stockholm 

8. Right Samadhi 

The eighth and the last step of Buddha’s Middle Way is Right Samadhi. 

Samadhi is when you are totally absorbed into the center of existence, when you are totally absorbed into the heart of existence.

Our seventh chakra is flowering. 

The preceding seven steps of Buddha’s Middle Way is a preparation for Right Samadhi.  

The preceding seven steps of Buddha’s Middle Way leads to Right Samadhi. 

But there is also the possibility of wrong Samadhi if you fall into unconsciousness. 

Samadhi should bring you to total awareness, to perfect awareness. 

You should not become unconscious, but one can become unconscious if you go inside so deeply that you forget the outside. 

Ordinarily we live outside of ourselves, so completely that we have forgotten the inside. 

But it is also possible to become aware of the inside and forget the outside. 

Buddha says that this is wrong Samadhi. 

Buddha says: Right Samadhi is when you are totally aware of both the inner and the outer. 

In Right Samadhi, the inner light is burning so bright that it fills both the inside and the outside with light. 

In Right Samadhi, both the inside and the outside disappears, there is only light. 

Right Samadhi is not the inner or the outer, Right Samadhi is to be one with life.

 

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”, I talk about being one with the whole: 

The personality, the Inner Being and Wholeness

– The Three Layers of the Human Consciousness  

What are the three layers of the human consciousness? How do the three layers of the human consciousness relate to therapeutic work? The human consciousness consists of three layers: 1. The personality, the psychological “I” 2. The inner being, the authentic self and 3. Wholeness – being one with the Whole.

 The personality is the created sense of “I”. The inner being is our authentic self, our true individuality. The relation between the personality and the inner being is like the relation between the waves on the surface of the ocean and the silent, dark bottom of the ocean. The personality is the surface and the periphery of our total consciousness like the waves of the ocean, and the inner being is the depth of our consciousness like the silence at the bottom of the ocean.

The personality is a separation from life; the personality is a “no”-attitude to life through our separate ideas, psychological attitudes and concepts. Our inner being is a “yes”-attitude to life; our inner being is the door to oneness with Existence. 

In our psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity, we first develop the personality. Then we develop the inner being, which is the door to develop wholeness, being one with the Whole.                                                        

The personality, the psychological “I”

What is the personality, the psychological “I”? The word “personality” originally comes from the Latin word “persona”, which means role or mask. The personality is the role that we play or the mask that we wear. The personality is the sense of “I” that we identify ourselves.

The personality can be defined as the created sense of “I”. The personality consist of all our accumulated experiences from the past. The personality consists of ideas, emotions, attitudes and concepts that we have been taught from others. The personality is built through learning and imitation by being born in a certain family, in a certain society, in a certain culture and in a certain time.

 The personality consists of four layers:

1. Thoughts
2. Emotions
3. The psychological head attitude
4. The physical body 

 The girder of the personality is the psychological head attitude. The psychological head attitude is the basic decision that we have taken early in life about how we relate to ourselves and to life. It is the of kernel of thoughts, feelings and attitudes, which exists as a basic attitude within us and determines how we relate to ourselves, how we relate to other people and how we relate to life as a whole. If we put this head attitude in a short sentence, it could, for example, be: “I do not trust that I am already OK and that life takes care of me”, “I am not worthy of being loved and accepted as I am”, “I can never get what I really need in life” or “Life is a struggle to survive”. This head attitude is like wearing a pair of colored glasses and unconsciously allowing them to color how we interpret and perceive reality. 

The personality is a separation and a defense against life. The personality is based on the idea that we are a separate person, who is distinctly separated from other people and from life itself. The personality is like a small separate island in a large ocean. 

The personality is a “no”-attitude towards life through our separate ideas, attitudes, judgments, dreams, ambitions and concepts. The personality shows us how we resist life, and how we defend ourselves against the wholeness of life through our separate ideas and expectations. From a psychological development standpoint, it is necessary to first develop a strong personality, a strong ego, before we can begin to develop our inner being.

The inner being, the authentic self

 What is the inner being? The inner being is our essence and authentic self. The inner being is the Existential self; the inner being is our original face. It is to rediscover the self that existed before birth and which will continue to exist after death. The inner being is an inner “yes”-attitude in relation to Existence.

To rediscover our inner being means to discover that which is already perfect within ourselves. It is to discover the source of love deep within ourselves, which is our true nature.

To rediscover the inner being is to find the authentic self beyond the confines of the personality. The inner being is the unidentified witness and watcher of the layers of personality. Thoughts, emotions and the physical body is not aware about themselves, it is the inner being that is aware about the thoughts, the emotions and the sensations of the physical body. The inner being is the inner silent place, where we are not identified with the thoughts and its problems, with the emotions and their passion or with the sensations of the physical body.

 Meditation is the way to develop our inner being. Developing the inner being through meditation can be described like the step-by-step process of emptying a room from furniture until finally the room is completely empty, and only a pure silence and emptiness remains.  

In the inner being, we begin for the first time to experience the original life source beyond the personality; we begin to experience the unity  within ourselves. The inner being is the silent place within ourselves, which is beyond conflict and duality. In the inner being, we can rest in ourselves. We can rest in a presence, a silence, without trying, without fighting, without intention and without ambition. We are not going anywhere, there is nothing to prove, and there is nothing to achieve.

 In this inner presence, there is no sense of “I”, only a presence, a light, a joy, a love and a truth in the moment. The personality gives us the idea that we are somebody special, but in reality we are really nobody at all. And to be nobody at all is paradoxically enough the greatest joy there is. 

To be nobody at all, a presence, a silence, a nothingness, is to be one with ourselves. And to be one with ourselves is to be in joy.  

The inner being is the door to belongingness with Existence. Through opening this inner door, we can allow life to pass unhindered through us without interrupt the flow of life through our own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. The inner being is an inner space, a silence and emptiness, without desire to achieve anything, without wish to be somebody special and without wish to reach anywhere. It is an inner space, where we can allow people, situations and life to be as it is. It is an inner space, where we can allow people to come and go, without clinging when they come and without holding on when they go again.

 The inner being is a deep “yes” to life; the inner being is a deep acceptance of life. It is a deep acceptance of the reality of life as it is. The inner being is a depth within ourselves, which is as deep as Existence itself.

Rediscovering the inner being is to discover the and undefined and boundless within ourselves. Through opening this inner door within ourselves, we come home. We are home wherever we are. Rediscovering the inner being is to discover the limitless and boundless source of creativity within ourselves.

Wholeness – Being One with the Whole

What is wholeness? The word “religion” originally means “to return to the source”. It means to rediscover our inner being, our inner life source. The deepest pain in our heart is to be separated from life. We are separated from the Whole, from Existence. The deepest thirst in our heart is to return to our inner being, to our inner life source, where we are one with life.

“The most beautiful experience that we can reach is the mystical”, says Albert Einstein in the book “Living Philosophies.” The goal of meditation -if you can talk about a goal in connection with meditation – is enlightenment. In the depth of our inner being, we are really already enlightened. We are already an inseparable part of Existence, but we have forgotten our true inner nature. We have forgotten our inner Buddha. Meditation is the way to discover our inner being, our authentic self, our inner Buddha. Enlightenment is the fruit of meditation.

Enlightenment is to realize the highest development of the human consciousness. It is to climb the Mount Everest of human consciousness.

The philosopher Emanuel Kant was one asked what enlightenment is and his short answer was: “to grow up.”

During the time I was writing this book, I got a glimpse of wholeness on Easter Day April 16, 2006. I was having a coffee by myself in a café when suddenly a silence descended on me, and my separation from life disappeared like darkness from a room when you lit the light. Suddenly my whole perception of reality changed, and in a few second I learnt more than during 20 years in the university.  

I was suddenly one with life, one with the Whole. It filled my heart with an ecstatic joy to be one with people, one with the Whole, without reaching out of myself. I felt accepted and loved by Existence as I am. In this wholeness, there was nowhere to go and nothing to achieve. I was suddenly part of God. I was coming home. It was a joy to be in a silent communion with people on a deeper level beyond words, rather with the usual nonsense that people waste theirs lives on.

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

The word “religion” originally means “to return to the source”, and this experience is also a freedom through finding my own unique relationship to the Existential source, to the Whole, without depending on any church, organization, priest, faith or scripture – including the scientific rationalistic and materialistic religion.

What the Japanese Zen-tradition calls “satori” is a short glimpse of what enlightenment means. It is like when the lens of a camera opens for a fragment of a second and allows the light in. It is short glimpse of what is possible; it is a glimpse of the light, of the Whole, which always exists as a possibility in each moment in life.

Each human being is unique; each human being contains a divine spark, a divine light, an aspect of God. We are much more than we think we are.

The mystery and beauty of life is that it is impossible to understand, but we can live it. We can never really understand life, but we can become one with it. we can become one with the dance of life; we can become one with the ultimate mystery of Existence.

I remember an insight that taught me much. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted in life. I had a creative and meaningful work as a therapist and course leader, which allowed me to grow. I had a relationship with a beautiful woman, who I loved and who love me. I had friends that I trusted, and I had money to do what I wanted. But in spite of all this, I still felt that something was missing in my life. I was still not satisfied. The longing and thirst in my heart and being, still searched for something more. This made me realize that the deepest pain in my heart and being was that I was still separated from life, from the Whole, and that no outer things could ease this pain.

The inner being is the indefinable within ourselves, the ultimate mystery. It is so indefinable that we can experience it, but we ca not explain it. We can become one with it, but we can not understand it. It is the ultimate mystery of life.

We originally come from this existential source, and we also return to this source when we die. Death is the unconscious way to return to this original source, and enlightenment is the conscious way to return to this source. Death means to still believe in our separation from life, and enlightenment means to realize our inherent oneness with Existence.

The whole issue of enlightenment is still too large and overwhelming for me, but I feel that the deepest thirst in my heart and being is to become enlightened, to become one with Existence. I really want to understand deeply the mystery of life. I feel that the precious moments when my heart and being vibrates in oneness and harmony with life shows that I am on the right track. The open secret, the existential joke, is that enlightenment is really to search for that which you already are.

Enlightenment is really as simple as drinking a glass of water. But exactly because it is so simple, it becomes easy to miss. Enlightenment is so close to ourselves that it is easy to miss. It is about realizing that the door to enlightenment has never been closed. It is our own effort and restlessness that keeps the door closed.

In love relationships with another person, we can experience short moments of harmony and wholeness. But these moment are followed by separation, since relationships are a continuous balance between love and freedom, between meeting and parting again, between independence and being together and between separation and wholeness. Enlightenment means to discover this wholeness, this intimate relationship, within ourselves without being dependent on anybody else. 

Enlightenment does not imply to be somebody special, or to be especially spiritual. It is nothing special about being enlightened. To be enlightened does not either mean to be higher than somebody else, just as a large tree is not higher or better than a little bush, or a rose is not better than a tulip. Enlightenment only means that we have discovered our authentic inner being, our inherent harmony with life, while somebody else will experience this on his own when the time is ripe. To be enlightened is to be totally ordinary, so ordinary that we are nobody at all, we are a nothingness. To be enlightened is to be a medium for Existence; to be enlightened is to be a spiritual healer. It is to be a channel for Existence through which the Whole can dance and sing. It is then that we become a flute on the lips of Existence through which the Existential music can flow. We become a song to ourselves; we become a healing Buddha.

Existence tries in every moment to give us exactly what we need with more love, compassion and ingenuity that we can ever imagine. When we trust life, we can relax and allow life to guide us to meet the people that we need to meet, and to make the experiences that we need to take the next step in our spiritual growth.

We think that we are separate from life, but in reality we are already one with life. We are an inseparable part of life. We belong to life.

If you want to try how independent you really are from Existence, then try to hold your breathe and imagine how long you would survive without oxygen. Life is a continuous development and balance between dependence and independence, between love and freedom, between our male and female qualities and between separation and wholeness.

We need the air, we need the earth, we need the houses, we need the roads and we need the pavements. We are not separate from life; we are a part of the Whole.

Existence totally supports us in our thirst and longing to return to the original source. Existence tries to help us to become enlightened, to realize that we are already one with life.

Spiritual healing means to heal the split between our idea of a separate sense of “I”, and everything that we already are. Spiritual healing means to heal our separation from life.

One evening when I meditated out in nature, my separation from life suddenly ceased. Suddenly I was one with life. It was an insight into the mystical unity of life, which filled my heart with a joy without reason. I was one with the Divine dance, one with the Divine play. It was a deeply healing experience, a feeling of being OK as I am, and that Existence loved me. A feeling of belonging to Existence.

When we realize that we are one with life, the whole world become our home. We are at home everywhere.

Enlightenment is like throwing everything up in the air – all our ideas, dreams and expectations, all our separate goals and ambitions, all our earlier spiritual experiences, all our ideas of who we are – and to see what comes down again.

We all seek enlightenment – independent of whether we are aware about this fact or not. We all seek love, joy, silence, truth, freedom and belongingness with life. Some people seek enlightenment in unconscious ways through work, power, success, relationships, sex or by becoming famous.

Enlightenment is not only a question of individual enlightenment, it is a question of global enlightenment. It is a question of creating a buddhafield, a paradise on earth.

Enlightenment is not only a question of individual enlightenment, it is also a question of collective enlightenment. Collective enlightenment means a global expansion of consciousness. It means to begin to think in terms of “we”, rather than “I”. To think in terms of “I” means to act from the personality, from the psychological “I”. The personality is a separation from life. To think in terms of “I” is to act from a “no”-quality. To think in terms of “we” is to be in contact with the inner being, with the authentic self, with the inner capacity to surrender to life. To think in terms of “we” is to be in contact with the inner “yes”-quality. It is to cooperate with that which is larger than ourselves. Collective enlightenment could also be called spiritual globalization – which is different from the economical globalization, which is only good for the few and bad for the many. When we realize that all living beings seek enlightenment, that all living beings seek love, joy, truth and freedom, we can develop a compassion for all living beings.

The seventh level of consciousness is placed on top of the head. It is called Unity or Crown chakra, and relates to opening to universal consciousness, to achieve the ultimate wisdom.

The seventh level of consciousness is about learning to know God. It relates to truth, unconditional love, enlightenment, and to the experience of being one with the Whole. It is a freedom and joy beyond words. The experience of the seventh level of consciousness is beyond words, and is hard to describe in words. It is a paradoxical experience of being everything and nothing at the same time. It is to discover that we have never really been separated from life. It is to be in a deep unity and harmony with life. Our small separate individual river has finally reached and joined the ocean of consciousness.

When we begin to open the seventh chakra, the thousand petaled lotus flower is opening. We have learnt the lesson of life. We have grown up. We have become spiritually mature. Our inner tree is bearing fruit. This unity with the Whole does not mean that our unique individuality is extinguished. On the contrary, it means that the richer our life experience is, and the more qualities we have developed, the richer becomes the quality of our enlightenment.

The last steps towards enlightenment must a seeker of truth take himself, without relying on any outer crutch or authority.

I drank a silent cup of coffee in a café and when I left the café, one of these rare and precious moments happened without any outer cause. Suddenly my whole perception of reality changed from separation to wholeness. I experienced an intimate belongingness with all the people that I meet. Jag was one with all the people, and experienced that all people come from the same invisible source. People has their own unique individuality, but they come from the same original source. It is diversity in unity. It was a sublime joy to walk around and experience that I was one with all the people that I meet.

Divine love is to realize that we are one with life. Real love is to realize that we are one with the other person, that we are one with the stones, one with the trees, one with the earth and one with the blue sky. It is to realize that the whole of life is God.

Enlightenment is a total “yes” to ourselves. It is a total love and acceptance of ourselves as we are.  

Enlightenment is to live, love and be from the inner being, from the inner life source.  

Enlightenment is to find our authentic inner being, our own unique quality and fragrance.

Enlightenment is the phenomenon of “disappearing” into the Whole, to become so one with the larger flow of Existence that it begins to sing and dance through us.

When we live in contact with our inner being, we find ourselves in an alive, intimate and expanding relationship with Existence.

Enlightenment is not a static phenomenon, it is to say “yes” to the truth of the moment. It is to embrace the living reality of the moment. Enlightenment is a dance with life, a dance with eternity.

The insight of enlightenment is the same in everyone, but they way to express the experience of enlightenment is totally unique depending on the fragrance, quality and life experience of the person.

Enlightenment is not an end, but a new beginning, which has no end. It only means that we realize that we are one with life – and that life is a dance of joy. 

The dimension of being is a love affair with love. It is to return to the original life source.  

Enlightenment is to be in an intimate contact with the ocean of healing like when the drop surrender to the ocean. 

The Perfect Birthday Gift: The Existential Gift

– From death to the deathless, from separation to Wholeness

On May 15, 2009, it was my 50th birthday. This event emphasizes the relation between time and timelessness, between death and the deathless. During the Easter, 2009, I received the perfect unexpected birthday gift in advance, which was a gift from Existence.

I was 15 years old when I for the first time got the ice cold insight that I was never going to die. It was an insight that there was something in me that belonged to the deathless and the eternal. When I was 15 years old, this insight totally shattered my whole perception of myself and of life. It also created a thirst and longing in my heart and being to understand the mystery of life.

On Easter evening, 2009, I unexpectedly received the same penetrating insight that I am never going to die. It was the silent insight that my inner being belongs to the deathless and the eternal, which erased all my fears of death. This insight also taught me that death is not just an end, but a new beginning. Instead of death being a source of fear, death becomes a loving new beginning. The insight that my body belongs to time, and my inner being belongs to the timeless and the eternal, created a transformation of my whole being.

Later the same day this insight also expanded into a silent explosion of my whole consciousness. Suddenly I got the insight that I am one with life. one with the Whole. Suddenly I found that which I have searching for a long time, for many lives. It was like coming home.

Later the same day I took a walk and drank a cup of coffee in a small café. When I drank my coffee, I got the feeling that my physical body was too limited to contain my expanded and limitless sense of “I”. My expanded sense of “I” was much larger than my limited and confined physical body.  

I could taste the limitless and boundless waves of the ocean of consciousness in my own heart and being. This created an almost overwhelming joy and ecstasy in my heart, together with a feeling of being loved by the whole. I felt like screaming with joy and gratitude. 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

 

Satsang with Giten on Buddha: Bhumis & Paramitas – 10 Steps to Enlightenment: 4. Radiance, Aliveness, Vitality

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Bhumis – 10 Steps to Enlightenment

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

4. Radiance, Aliveness,

Vitality

 

The fourth Bhumi, the fourth grounding and development level, on the way to enlightenment, is ARSIMATI, which means radiance, aliveness and vitality.

 

Buddha says: Radiance, aliveness, vitality is the fourth Bhumi, the fourth grounding.

 

On the fourth Bhumi, the meditator and bodhisattva, the buddha in essence, is also developing the fourth Paramita VIDYA, which means energy and courage.

 

But ordinarily religious seekers have moved away from life, they have moved away from the world.

 

Religious seekers have become sleepy, dull and dead. They are not interested in the burden of life, so they are just somehow dragging on.

On the fourth Bhumi, the meditator cultivate the perfection of effort and elimination of afflictions to meditation. He also enter deeper into meditation for extended periods of time.

 

Be alive, be vital, because it is only through life that you will reach truth.

 

When we are vital and alive, we have an inner radiance around us.

On the fourth Bhumi, the meditator emits the inner radiance of wisdom.

 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

Satsang with Giten on Buddha:

Paramita – The Ten Provisions for the Inner Journey

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

4. Energy, Courage  

The fourth Paramita is VIDYA, which means energy and courage. 

A meditator and a bodhisattva, a Buddha in essence, need both energy and courage.

VIDYA stands for energy, courage and sustained effort to attain meditation and the persisted effort for the well being of others. 

A meditator needs also to be continuously aware that this life energy is not leaking and that the energy is not wasted. 

Ordinarily we are leaking and dissipating our life energy. 

Infinite energy is given to us, but we dissipate the energy.

 

We are never sitting silently. 

Meditation means to to sit silently, doing nothing.

That was what Buddha was doing under the Bodhi Tree. 

He was not doing anything. 

He was simply sitting silently, where there was not leakage of energy. 

Then the energy was reaching higher and higher. 

The energy reached to the Sahasrar, the seventh chakra. It reached the ultimate. 

There was a flowering and Buddha became a lotus flower.

We have the same energy, but whenever we have the energy, the desire to throw it away arises in us. 

We can call it a sexual urge or we can call it different desires and attachments. 

But if we allow the energy to gather inside us, the energy rises higher and higher until it touches higher altitudes of being.  

That is what Samadhi is. 

The third Bhumi is learning not to dissipate energy. 

 

In the book “Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”, I talk about  the seven chakras, the seven levels of consciousness:, which is a development from sexuality to spirituality, to Samadhi: 

THE SEVEN LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

– THE SEVEN STEPS THAT AN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE 

IN HIS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS TOWARDS SPIRITUAL MATURITY  

What are the seven levels of consciousness? What life areas include the seven levels of consciousness? The seven levels of consciousness describe the seven steps that an individual goes through in his personal and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity. The seven levels of consciousness describe the whole rainbow of our consciousness. It describes all possibilities of our being. The seven levels of consciousness are also called the chakra system and is a map of human consciousness. 

The development process of the seven levels of consciousness is a process from fear to love, from darkness to light and from separation to wholeness.

The seven levels of consciousness are about the esoteric psychology of man, the psychology of consciousness. It is about the psychology of enlightenment, the science of inner transformation.

The chakra system is the seven jewels of human consciousness. It describes the seven life areas and dimensions of the human consciousness, which can help us discover a new clarity and a deeper dimension in relation to many areas of life, for example love, joy, feelings, relationships, awareness, communication, the inner man and woman, intuition, play, creativity, healing, meditation, silence, truth, wisdom and wholeness.

The chakra system seeks to develop and integrate the physical, emotional, psychological, mental, social and spiritual aspects of our being into one coherent whole.  

The development process of the chakra system includes the process from the personality, the psychological “I”, to the inner being, the authentic self, the development process of concrete and abstract thinking, the development process from seeing only one’s own needs to developing empathy, the capacity to understand the needs of another person, and the process of understanding the relation between level of awareness and working with people.

The chakra system relates both to the development process of the individual, to countries and to the whole world.  

Light on the chakras 

What is a chakra? How do the three lower and the three higher chakras relate to each other? The word “chakra” means “spinning wheel” in the ancient language Sanskrit. There are seven chakras, seven energy wheels in the body that moves clockwise. These charkas receive energy from the universal energy field, which is everywhere around us. The equivalent to the chakra system in the physical body is the endocrine glands, which regulates the hormones in the body.

Ckakras are the energy centers that take in universal energy, which we need to be alive.

Each chakra or awareness level is an energy center, which describes different life areas and psychological development issues in life. Each chakra also relates to a certain area in the body.

Each chakra plays a vital role both when it comes to physiological functions and to the development of our consciousness. The chakras relates to biological and physiological functions, to colors and light and to the development of our level of awareness.

The chakra system describes the three general development stages that an individual goes through in his psychological development: the animal, the man and the divine. The first three chakras belong to the animal and are about the themes survival, sex, power and money. The heart is a bridge between the animal and the divine. Love is the bridge between the animal and the divine.

Below the heart, man is an animal. Through the heart, man discovers the human within himself. Above the heart, man discovers the divine within himself.  

The seven levels of consciousness are:  

1. Survival – Grounding, Coordination and Physical Survival 

2. Sensations – Feelings, Sexuality and Satisfaction 

3. Power – Vitality, Strength and Self-sufficiency 

4. The heart – Unconditional Love and Acceptance 

5. Communication – Learning to Be Creative 

6. Vision – Learning to Know Our Self 

7. Unity- Opening to Universal Consciousness  

The first three levels relate to the personality, the psychological I, and the outer world. The heart is the fourth level, which is a bridge between the three lower levels and the three higher levels. The heart is a bridge between the three lower and the three higher charkas. The heart is the river between the outer and the inner self, between the personality, the psychological self, and the inner being, the authentic self.

The three lower chakras belong to the physical world. The heart is the golden bridge between the physical and spiritual world. The three higher chakras belong to the spiritual world.

The first chakra represents our relationship to the body, to the earth, and the seventh chakra represents our relationship to consciousness, to the sky.

The power chakra relates to the inner man, to the surface and periphery of our consciousness. The power chakra relates to the outer world.

The heart is the door to the inner woman, to the meditative quality within ourselves, to the inner source of healing and wholeness, to the inner capacity to surrender to life. The heart is the door to the inner world.

The three higher chakras relates to our inner being, the authentic self, and to the inner world.

This division in higher and lower chakras is only schematic. It does not mean to valuate chakras in better or worse. The key to understanding chakras is to learn to live in all chakras. Chakras are also connected with each other in pairs. The first chakra Survival and the seventh chakra Unity are, for example, connected with each other like body and soul, earth and heaven. It means that the higher we spread our wings in spirituality, the more we also need to find the natural roots in the body. It was an insight for me when I was working out with weight lifting in the gym one day, and suddenly had an insight that I was actually developing my spirituality by working on my first chakra through physical training. This insight gave me a both concrete and profound understanding of the relationship between the first and seventh chakra. It was an insight that there is really no division between body and soul, between matter and spirituality – it is one whole.

I have preferred the three higher chakras before, but now I also begin to appreciate the three lower chakras and to live in all seven chakras.

A chakra can also be overactive, under active or balanced. In the description below of each chakra, it will be described what it means for each chakra to be overactive, under active or balanced.

The seven levels of consciousness are about learning to accept and appreciate all steps and levels of our psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity. It helps us to see that both positive and negative experiences are teachers in life to help us to become spiritually mature. It is about learning to love the imperfect and incomplete within ourselves.  

The psychological and spiritual development process of the chakra system can be described as a building with seven floors. Understanding the development process through the chakra system is a process of seeing the world from a within-and- out perspective, rather than from an outside-and-in perspective. We create our own reality through our ideas, attitudes and concepts – and these concepts can lie on different levels of consciousness. This can be compared with a building. For example, you have a building in Stockholm, where you live in the cellar. In this cellar, you have two or three small windows, and your perspective of Stockholm is through people’s feet when they pass by the windows. But if you instead take the elevator up to the seventh floor, you are still in Stockholm, but now you have a greater view of Stockholm. You have more potential and more possibilities. But here something interesting happens in the psychological development process: in the outer world opposite energies attract each other for example positive and negative, man and woman and good and bad. But that is not true in the inner world: in the inner world similar energies attract each other and opposite energies repel each other.

The classic Indian book Bhagwadgita is about the struggle between light and darkness, between our lower and higher nature. The chakra system also includes the struggle between light and darkness, between good and evil, between awareness and unawareness and between separation and wholeness. The chakra system represents the choice between learning to listen to our intuition, to our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, or to listen to the endless desires of the ego.   

Basic functions  

1. Survival – Grounding, Coordination and Physical Survival 

The first chakra or level of awareness is called Survival and relates to the physical body. It is also called Root chakra. Survival is placed at the bottom of the spine.

Survival represents our relationship to the physical body. It relates to physical grounding, coordination and survival. It relates to instincts, to physiological functions and basic biological functions for example thirst, hunger, sleep and work. It also relates to emotional needs such as safety, security and our will to live.

Survival is the first chakra, where we become conscious about ourselves.

The first level of awareness is about learning to take responsibility for oneself and to develop a basic trust in life that life supports us and takes care of us. It also relates to our relation to money, work and home. The first level of awareness relates to our capacity to generate money and understanding that Existence is abundance and not just a struggle for survival. Survival relates to taking responsibility for ourselves. When we are not grounded in the first chakra, it creates a doubt that life supports us and takes care of us.

When we are born, the Survival chakra is first activated. It develops from birth to about 3-4 years of age.

The first chakra is the center that gives the soul roots in the physical body. It is the base for our human existence in the physical world. If this chakra is blocked, it results in an individual that feels rootless both in his physical body and in his spiritual existence.

Through the first months of the relationship of love, care and union between mother and child, the physical and spiritual existence of the child is developed in a sublime way. In the love between mother and child, the physical world is joined together with the highest form of spiritual love. It is a melting together and a symbiosis between mother and child. That is why the first months are so important for the child, since this period gives the newborn child the essential base for his continued physical and spiritual development. If this first period between mother and child is shortened or is completely omitted, it can become difficult for the child to accept that he had to leave the spiritual plane to enter a body. It can create restlessness in the child, but it is also possible to heal this lack later in life.  

When a mother lovingly takes care of her child, the light from their root chakras are melting together and their energies are joined together, so that the tie to the physical body that the child needs is strengthened and makes the separation from the spiritual plane easier for the child. 

2. Sensations – Feelings, Sexuality and Satisfaction  

The second chakra or level of awareness is called Sensations. It is placed three centimeters below the navel. Sensations is the center for feelings and relates to social needs, sensuality, sexuality, satisfaction and melting together with another person. It relates to feelings of anger, fear, sorrow and sympathy.

Sensations also relates to the ability to feel sympathy and being emotionally connected with other people.  

The second level of awareness is about psychological issues in relation to other people, for example parents, family and friends. It relates to liberating oneself from parents in order to grow up to an integrated, independent and whole individual.

Sensations start to develop from 3 to 7 years of age.

The second level of awareness is focused on the needs of the individual, which primarily are governed by emotions.

The second level of awareness also relates to the relation between food, sex and emotional issues.

People who have been let down by other people often have problems trusting others. This creates a defensive attitude and keeping people at a distance, which relates to the second level of awareness.   

3. Power – Vitality, Strength and Self-Sufficiency  

The third chakra or level of awareness is called Power. It is placed in the area around the solar plexus. Power relates to psychological issues like power, strength, self-respect and self-sufficiency.

The third level of awareness is about developing a trust in our ego in order to be able to direct and control our life.  

The power chakra is the center of the ego. It is about control, power and dominance over other people. A person who is on the level of awareness of power wants to change other people, but he does not want to change himself.

The power chakra is usually activated around 7-10 years of age. Children begin to become occupied with competition, achievement and to show their accomplishments around this age.

The power chakra also means to develop concrete logical and rational thinking, which primarily focus on one’s own needs, winning and self-sufficiency.

The power chakra relates to the outer world. It relates to the inner man, to the surface and periphery of our consciousness.

Ordinary relationships are often power relationships, which mean a fight and struggle between my needs and the needs of the partner. Often the two partners in a power relationship have the same strength in order to learn to develop their power through struggle and fighting. Strength and aloneness are also two sides of the same coin, two aspects of the same phenomenon, and fear of expressing our strength is often a fear of aloneness, of being abandoned, and of not being loved and accepted.

Acting aggressively has its roots in fear, judgments and insecurity. Violence and aggressiveness is about control and dominance over another person. To judge and to love are two sides of the same coin. Judgments about another person are really about ourselves. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our hearts opens. The heart is a healer that transforms fear to love, judgments to acceptance and separation to wholeness. The heart heals.

The society is created out of the ego, and the need of the ego to create a hierarchy of power, status, respect, position, norms, roles and conformity. Many people in the West lives in the power chakra, and is occupied with competing with others to prove that they are somebody important, and finding their place in the hierarchy.  

During the 20th Century, the psychological development level of humanity has been on the awareness level of the power chakra. The focus of humanity has been on power, dominance, position, status, money and control over energy resources. We are technologically advanced and the technology governs the development of the society, but this technology is at the same time destroying the earth. Energy resources are also distinguishing issues in the power balance between countries.  

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy. Chakras also relate to working with people and the third level of awareness relates to working individually with people.  

On the third level of awareness, a person begins to ask himself the question: “Who am I?” He comes to a point in his psychological development when his drama, defenses and self-sufficiency no longer works, and he begins to search for something more. But what? He may not know what he is really searching, but there is a feeling of dissatisfaction, a lack of meaning, and an inner need to be in contact with himself, with other people and with life, in a more true, meaningful and real way. This is what Indian mystics have called “The dark night of the soul”. It is when the endless desires of the ego and the rewards of the outer world are no longer satisfying. The outer world seems dark and empty, and when he turns within himself to the inner world; it is also dark and empty. This is the point in a person’s development when he realizes that real power is love and compassion.

Power and strength is like a sharp sword. It can be used either for destructive or creative purposes. It takes awareness to learn to use the strength in a loving and creative way.   

4. The heart – Unconditional Love and Acceptance  

The forth chakra or level of awareness is the human heart. The heart relates to unconditional love and acceptance both for others and ourselves. It relates to qualities of empathy, joy, acceptance, trust, intuition, understanding, compassion, playfulness, healing, friendship, sincerity and a feeling of unity in love.

The heart chakra is the center in a system of seven chakras. The heart is the golden bridge, where the physical and spiritual worlds meet.

The heart is the most important chakra. The heart is the base for spiritual growth. It is the seed for unconditional love, for the inner capacity to feel love for all and everything.

Love is the create aspect of life. Societies that only emphasize intellectual and academic education create spiritually challenged people.

The heart is the golden key to the greatness of being a human being. It is through the human heart that mankind has made the greatest achievements. The human heart is the only way to save mankind out of the present situation in the world.  

Humanity as a whole is in-between the power chakra and the heart in its psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity.

The power chakra relates to the ego and the outer world. The power chakra relates to the inner man. The heart is the door to the inner world. The heart is the river between the inner and outer self, between the ego and the inner being, the authentic self. The heart is the door to the inner woman, the meditative quality within, the inner source of healing and wholeness.

The open heart is like a fountain, which no longer make any distinction between “I love you – I do not love you”. The open heart does not any longer make any distinction between friends and enemies. The open heart is open both for others and ourselves. The open heart is unconditional love.

When there is a genuine love between two people, there is a natural will to give, instead of demanding.  

When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with an attitude of: “Nobody loves me” or “Nobody cares about me, which can make it difficult for other people to love us.

Many people live without really being in contact with their own heart. They live without really being in contact with themselves. Their energy goes from the power chakra and makes a detour around the heart, and goes straight up to the Communication chakra. 

During a period in my life, I felt that relationships with people just ended up in problems. I felt that relationships sooner or later ended up in a ditch. The two people in my life that I thought were my real friends, who I thought loved me and who I thought I could trust, had let me down. During this period I consciously decided to close my heart for a while. It surprised me when I realized that this is actually the way that many people live, without even being aware about what they are missing in their lives. This makes them emotionally and spiritually challenged. It leaves them without emphatic ability, without ability to understand either themselves or other people. It also leaves them without contact with their intuition, with their true inner voice, with their inner source of love, truth and wisdom. Instead they live their lives out of ideas, ideologies, and are directed from without themselves by other people and outer forces. Because of the lack of love in their lives, which would be really fulfilling, they seek a substitute instead in respect, status, fame, money, power and position.

The heart relates to developing abstract logical and rational thinking. The heart is also about developing empathy, the capacity to understand the situation of another person, and to see beyond our own needs and understand the needs of another person.

The level of awareness of a person also relates to how a person eats. On the level of awareness of the heart, a person becomes attracted to simple vegetarian food. This is also a help for the continued spiritual growth. It is like tuning our inner instrument.

Blocks in the heart chakra manifest itself as heart problems, a decreased immune system, and a lack of empathy and compassion.

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

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy. Chakras also relate to working with people and the fourth level of awareness relates to working with groups of people. To work with groups of people, the therapist needs to have achieved the level of awareness of the heart. The therapist needs to be available with a quality of presence and heartfulness to be able to work with a group of people in a relaxed way.  

Intuition is a function of the heart. Intuition is our true inner voice, our constant available inner source of love, truth and wisdom, the silent voice of Existence within. Through the intuition, we are in contact with Existence. Our heart is the door to how much we can allow life to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, attitudes and learned concepts of how things should be.

The human heart has both an active and outgoing quality, and a receptive and ingoing quality. The outgoing quality of the heart is active love, and the ingoing quality of the heart is to allow both ourselves and others to love us.  

A beautiful friend of mine once told me that she had a reading of her heart chakra, and that she was told that her heart chakra had the quality of a faithful and trusting dog. She was very cute when she told me this with a slightly ironical tone. She would probably have preferred to have a heart chakra with a more challenging, mysterious and adventurous quality.  

Our heart is the door to allow Existence to guide us. Our heart is the door to surrender to life. Our heart is the door to our inner being, to the inner world. When we begin to open our heart, we realize that we are a part of life, a part of the Whole.  

Above the heart, we need a teacher and a guide. It is somebody who “knows”, who has walked further on the path than us, and who can guide, encourage and inspire us. There is an Indian saying: “When the disciple is ready, the teacher appears”.   

5. Communication – Learning to Be Creative 

The fifth chakra or level of awareness is called Communication. It is placed in the throat. Communication is related to creativity and the capacity to communicate. It is about recognizing our creative potential, and its function is creativity and communication both in relation to ourselves and to other people.

On the fifth level of awareness, we begin to develop the second life area Creativity.

The fifth level of awareness is also called Creative center, since a healing process occurs when we bring things from within ourselves out in the light and share it with others. When our Communication chakra is closed, the result can instead become confusion and a lack of distance to ourselves.

On the fifth level of awareness, we become like a comedian. We begin to discover a humor, awareness and a distance to our personality, to our thoughts, feelings and psychological attitudes. We begin to be able to laugh at ourselves and to take success and failure with a laugh.

On the development level of the Communication chakra, our love becomes more and more meditative.

On the fifth level of awareness, we realize that we are not the physical body. We are not identified any longer with the body.

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy. Chakras also relate to working with people and the fifth chakra relates to working with large groups of people. The focus of working with people on the fifth level of awareness changes from the nation to the whole world, to the whole planet. Eric Rolf, international therapist and consultant, author of the book Soul Medicine and a precious friend of mine since many years, described this as being a global personality.

A country that has developed the fifth level of awareness focuses on equality, where issues like injustice, racism and socio-economic rifts in society need to be solved.

The more aspects of our being that we develop, the richer and more creative our life becomes.  

6. Vision – Learning to Know Our Self  

The sixth chakra or level of awareness is called vision. It is placed in the middle of the eyebrows. It is also called the third eye. The theme for this chakra is to dissolve the feeling of being a separate “I” and to unidentify ourselves with the ego.

When the sixth level of awareness is not developed, there is still identification with the ego, with the separate “I”, and a feeling of separation from Existence.

On the sixth level of awareness we stand on the threshold of physical existence, where all duality and opposite tendencies, for example masculine and feminine, light and darkness, intellect and intuition and life and death, begins to dissolve and disappear. Through awareness and understanding, we can see beyond the personality to our inner being, to our essence and authentic self. We discover the inner being, the silent place within ourselves, which is the inner watcher of the drama of the outer life, and where nothing ever happens. 

The physical body manifests the duality of life and of opposite tendencies through two pair of legs, arms, ears and eyes, while the position of the third eye indicates the dissolution of the duality of life.  

On the sixth level of awareness, meditation becomes a thirst in our heart and being. It is a thirst after truth. It is also on the sixth level of awareness that we begin to develop the third life area Meditation.

When we begin to open the third eye, our thirst and commitment increases to discover our inner being, to understand the ultimate mystery of life, and to become one with Whole.  

I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted in life. I had a creative and meaningful work as a therapist and course leader, I had a relationship with a beautiful woman, who I loved and who loved me, I had friends that I trusted, and I had money to do what I wanted. But in spite of all this, I still had a feeling that there was something missing in my life. I was not satisfied. The thirst and longing in my heart was still searching for something more. It made me realize that the deepest pain in my heart was that I was still separated from the Whole, and that no relationships and things outside of myself could ease this pain.  

On the development level of the Vision chakra, love is no longer a relationship. Love becomes a presence and a quality of our being. Love becomes a natural quality in our aura. It is no longer a question of loving a certain person, we simply are love. We are unconditional love.  

The sixth level of awareness also relates to ordinary logical thinking with capacity to handle a lot of facts and information. The sixth level of awareness is also the center for intuition and awareness. It relates to a specific form of intuition, which is called clairvoyance. Clairvoyance means clear seeing and is described in Patanjalis book Yoga Sutras as one of the siddhis or psychic powers that a devoted meditator develops. Clairvoyance is a form of intuition, which is not limited in time and space. Through clairvoyance we can remember past lives, which can help us understand unconscious psychological patterns from past lives, and give us a broader perspective of life.

Another psychic quality that is developed on the sixth level of awareness is a telepathic perception and sensitivity, which gives us the insight that no man is an island in the ocean of consciousness. We are all parts of the same whole, we are all small individual rivers on our way towards the same ocean and on the inner plane we are continuously in contact with each other.

Working with people is basically a question of presence, awareness and energy and chakras also relates to working with people. On the fifth level of awareness, the focus expanded to include the planet. On the sixth level of awareness, the focus expands from the planet to include the cosmos.

Blocks in the vision chakra manifest as problems with the eyes.

The difference between an artist that has developed his creativity to the awareness level of Communication, and a mystic on the awareness level of Vision, is that the artist has both his eyes focused outwards to the outer world, while the mystic has one eye focused outwards to the outer world, and one eye focused inwards to the inner world. An artist is not a mystic, but a mystic can also be an artist.  

7. Unity – Opening to Universal Consciousness  

The seventh chakra or level of awareness is called Unity. It is also called The Crown Chakra. It is placed on top of the head. Unity relates to opening to universal consciousness, to receive the ultimate wisdom.

The seventh level of awareness relates to learning to know God. It relates to truth, unconditional love, to enlightenment and to the experience of being one with the Whole.

The experience of the seventh chakra is an experience beyond words. It is an experience of joy and freedom beyond words. It is to be everything and nothing at the same time. It is to discover that we have really never been separated from life. It is to be in a deep unity and harmony with Existence. Our separate little individual river has finally joined with the ocean of consciousness, with the Whole.

When we have begun to open the seventh chakra, the thousand petalled lotus flower opens. We have learnt the lesson of life. Our inner tree has given fruit. We have become spiritually mature.

The word ”religion” originally means ”to return to the source”. It means to rediscover the contact with our inner being, with the source of life within ourselves. The deepest pain in our heart is that we are disconnected from our inner being, that we are separated from life. The deepest thirst and longing in our heart is to return to our being, where we are one with life.

The goal of meditation is enlightenment. In the depth of our being, we are already enlightened. We are an inseparable part of Existence, but we have forgotten our true nature. We have forgotten our inner Buddha. Meditation is the way to discover our inner being, our authentic self, our inner Buddha. Enlightenment is the fruit of meditation. It is to realize the highest attainment in human consciousness. It is to climb the inner Mount Everest.  

I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room, and looked out of the large windows. Outside the windows, white snowflakes effortlessly and slowly singled down towards a silent, snow-clad landscape. Suddenly I was filled with a feeling of being one with the slowly dancing snowflakes, one with the silent landscape. I did not understand then that this was my first taste of meditation, but it created a deep thirst and longing in my heart to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.  

Each human being is unique; each human being contains a divine spark, an aspect of God. We are much more than we think we are. The mystery of life is that it is impossible to understand, but we can live life. We can never really understand life, but we can become one with life. We can become one with the dance of life, one with the ultimate mystery of life.

I had a magical day during one Sunday when I walked out in nature. On the outside this day just consisted of taking a walk out in the beautiful sunny weather and cleaning my apartment, but on the inside everything suddenly changed. When I walked out in nature in the sunny weather, there was suddenly a silent explosion within me, and my whole perception of reality changed. In a single moment, everything changed – although nothing on the outside had really changed. Everything on the outside was exactly as before, but my way of seeing had changed. The difference was that before I did not see, and now I could see. My eyes were open. Suddenly I was one with everything, one with the stones, one with the trees, and one with the people that I meet on my walk. My heart danced with joy together with a feeling of: ”I am God”. Not that I am the creator of everything, but that I am part of the whole, part of the divine. It felt like coming home, that Existence is my home. I saw that even if the people that I meet did not understand that they are a part of the Whole, they still are a part of the Whole. I felt the waves of Existence in my own heart and being, and I felt like a small wave in a great ocean. It gave me a taste of the eternal, a taste of the limitless and boundless source of creativity. In just a few moments, I learnt more than during 20 years in university. Wisdom is basically the understanding that we are all a part of the Whole. We are all small rivers moving towards the ocean. I laughed at the fact that enlightenment is really our innate birthright, and that small children already lives in this mystical unity with the Whole.  

This unity with the Whole does not mean that our unique individuality disappears. It means that the richer our life experience is, and the more qualities of our being that we have developed, the richer the quality of our enlightenment becomes.  

When we realize that we are one with life, the world becomes our home. We are at home everywhere. 

– Swami Dhyan Giten

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. 

Giten’s books: Christmas Gifts for Life, Love and Truth

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The Way, the Truth and the Life: On Jesus Christ, the Man, the Mystic and the Rebel

by Swami Dhyan Giten(Goodreads Author)

The Way, the Truth and the Life: On Jesus Christ, the Man, the Mystic and the Rebel

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“A very beautiful book.”

– Iiris, special education teacher for autistic children and participant in Satsang with Moji and Eckhart Tolle

“With Giten’s book on Jesus, it is like Jesus is coming back. It is the true Jesus.”

– Prem Mukta, Artist & Music management, participant in satsang with Giten, Stockholm

“No one has been able to deliver the message of Jesus so fantastic beautiful that Giten has managed in the book “The way, the truth and the life.” Finally we have got his message in original. I am shaken and stunned.

The religious words that Giten formulate can make anyone mentally stunned. These words create an inner silence and a deep spiritual wonder for life. Giten has shaken me. I hope the readers also discover his greatness.”

-Brage Norin, professor in theoretical physics

“When I participated in Satsang with Giten for the first time, I felt that I had come to the right place. I felt that I had come home.
I never thought that a 2-hour Satsang could go so deep.
The love that I found within myself during Satsang with Giten just continued to flow a week after the Satsang.”

– Iiris, special education teacher for autistic children and participant in Satsang with Moji and Eckhart Tolle

This book is a compilation of Swami Dhyan Giten’s lectures on Jesus Christ during satsang between May – July, 2015, in Stockholm.

Giten was a disciple of Jesus in a former life.

In this book Giten talks about the beauty and wisdom of the words of Jesus.

Giten talks about Jesus, the Man, Jesus, the Mystic and Jesus, the Rebel. He makes a clear distinction between Jesus Christ and the religion that has been built around him – Christianity.

Through talking about the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John, Giten reintroduces Jesus as the man, the mystic and the compromiseless rebel, who are filled with love and compassion. Jesus becomes alive in a new and dynamic way and not in the way that Jesus has been presented to us by the theologians and the priests.

Giten talks about love, joy, trust, acceptance, healing, truth, the need to serve, the difference between being and ego, wisdom, silence and God.

For the first time, we really feel the laughter, passion, silence and celebration of life in Jesus, which shows us the deeper meaning, the timeless relevance.

This book is a a joy and a delight for those in love with the words of Jesus.

In-between the lectures on Jesus Christ, Giten answer questions on spiritual growth from seekers of truth.

Giten has also complemented the lectures on Jesus with The Art of Living, which includes practical meditation exercises.

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      The Language of Silence: From Darkness to Light

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“I was 9 years old when I had my first spiritual awakening, my first glimpse of wholeness with Existence, my first taste of the language of silence, says spiritual teacher and best-selling author Swami Dhyan Giten in this book. This created a deep thirst and longing in his heart and being to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.

I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth, the inner language of silence”, Giten explains in this book. “Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence. ”

This book consists of a collection of quotes from Swami Dhyan Giten on silence. It also explains how silence is the flower and love and wholeness are the fragrance.

Swami Dhyan Giten has dedicated his life to teach the art of awareness and meditation. He conducts individual consultations, seminars and courses internationally. His quotes, articles and books has touched the hearts of thousands and are appearing with increasing frequency in magazines, blogs and websites.

“As I started studying for Giten, a new dimension of awareness has developed step by step, which has transformed my whole life. Thank you so much Giten for your wonderful being and support in life.”

– From the foreword by Deva Emanuel, musician and student of Giten since 6 years.

“This book reminds me of those moments when we drift back from sleep to wakefulness and the precious insights that quite often occur in those instants of ”awakening. Giten’s “The Language of Silence” is a beautifully expressed and highly intimate picture of his own spiritual history. Giten offers us a quite intimate connection with his inner being and thus a glimpse of the beauty within ourselves.”

– Eric Rolf, international lecturer, author of “Soul Medicine” and former consultant to John Lennon

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Presence – Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

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Spiritual therapy works basically because we are all one. In the depth of our heart and being, we are in contact with each other. We are in contact with each other in the ocean of consciousness.

This book is an invitation to open our heart. This book is basically about love. It is designed to help us understand how healing happens. Healing is pure love. Healing and wholene Spiritual therapy works basically because we are all one. In the depth of our heart and being, we are in contact with each other. We are in contact with each other in the ocean of consciousness.

This book is an invitation to open our heart. This book is basically about love. It is designed to help us understand how healing happens. Healing is pure love. Healing and wholeness happens when we meet the love within ourselves.

Working with people from love, truth and wholeness is the psychology of being, the science of inner transformation. The psychology of being begins where Western psychology ends. It goes beyond Skinner, Freud, Jung, Rogers and Humanistic psychology.

The psychology of being is the psychology of consciousness, a psychology for inner transformation. It is basically not a question of psychology; it is a question of being. The psychology of being begins where we are and takes us to that which we can be.

This book is designed to help us develop our presence, so that our presence and intuition becomes a source of love, joy, acceptance, understanding, truth, silence, wisdom and creativity in the contact with another person.

This book presents a new dimension of healing with a base in meditation. Meditation is the way to deepen our capacity to be present and to explore how to bring the meditative presence and quality into the healing and therapeutic process. The underlying theme of the book is meditation – but not meditation as a static technique – but as the capacity to BE with ourselves and with another person in a quality of watchful awareness, acceptance and relaxation.

This book is written both for people who want to discover their own inner being and for those who work with other people and wants to discover a new love, clarity, depth and inspiration in their professional work.

The different topics of the book are combined with practical exercises.

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SWEDISH

   Meditationens sång – Om meditation, relationer och andlig kreativitet

by Swami Dhyan Giten (Goodreads Author)

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Denna bok handlar om medvetenhetens konst. Det genomgående temat är hur det inre varandet, den meditativa kvaliteten inom oss, den inre källan till kärlek och sanning, relaterar till personlig och andlig utveckling, till relationer med andra människor, till andlig kreativitet och till livet självt.

“Meditationens Sång” bygger på en sammanställning av svar på frågor från sö Denna bok handlar om medvetenhetens konst. Det genomgående temat är hur det inre varandet, den meditativa kvaliteten inom oss, den inre källan till kärlek och sanning, relaterar till personlig och andlig utveckling, till relationer med andra människor, till andlig kreativitet och till livet självt.

“Meditationens Sång” bygger på en sammanställning av svar på frågor från sökare på Gitens Värld – En Skola för Hjärtat. De är ordnade så att de bildar en vägkarta över hela den inre resan mot andligt uppvaknande. Denna bok erbjuder nycklar till andlig mognad.

Boken är en inbjudan att utveckla den närvaro och det subtila lyssnande som behövs för att höra Meditationens Sång. Dess olika teman varvas också med konkreta praktiska övningar. 

 

“Att läsa Meditationens sång har varit en stor upplevelse för mig.”

Lisbet Gemzell, lektor vid Lärarhögskolan och Teaterhögskolan

“Den här boken förändrade hela min världsbild!”

Ann-Sofie Segerstedt
 

En alldeles underbar bok. Jag har läst den långsamt och
noggrant och njutit av varje ord och mening. Det är en bok
för livet, som jag kommer att läsa många gånger.”

Monica Samuelsson, Linköping

“Giten är en kärleksfull förmedlare av mycket visdom.”

Lena Nikunen, terapeut, Göteborg

Boken kan beställas på internetbokhandeln Adlibris: www.adlibris.se

Giten on Jesus Christ: Not the Master in Your Own Home Town

Giten on Jesus Christ:

Not the Master

 in Your Own Home Town

An excerpt from the book “Jesus Christ: The Way, The Truth and the Life”, which Giten is currently writing.

The book is a compilation of lectures during Satsang with Giten on Jesus Christ

 

Matthew 13 

AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, HE TAUGHT THEM IN THEIR SYNAGOGUE, INSOMUCH THAT THEY WERE ASTONISHED AND SAID, WHENCE HATH THIS MAN THIS WISDOM AND THESE MIGHTY WORKS? 

IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER’S SON? IS NOT HIS MOTHER CALLED MARY? AND HIS BRETHREN, AND HIS SISTERS, ARE THEY NOT ALL WITH US? WHENCE THEN HATH THIS MAN ALL THESE THINGS? AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM.

 

People were not so offended with Buddha or Lao Tzu as people were offended with Jesus. 

With Buddha, he is so far away that you either do not understand him, or people could understand that he was the essence of the Upanishads.

With Jesus, people were offended, because he was just like them. They could not understand him. The said: “We know him! Isn’t he the carpenter’s son!”. 

Buddha was also the son of a king, while Jesus was a carpenter’s son. 

People could not understand. From where comes his wisdom? 

They were offended, their ego was offended. 

 

BUT JESUS SAID TO THEM, A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOUR,

SAVE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND IN HIS OWN HOUSE. 

 

It has happened so many times that the people who are closest will always misunderstand. 

We could expect the contrary, that the people of Jesus village would understand him first. The people of Jesu’s house, his family, his relatives, would understand him first. 

But that does not happen. 

A deep insight into the human ego is needed to understand it. 

With those that are closest to you, it is very difficult to believe that they had gone beyond and above you. 

If somebody else, who is not close to you, goes beyond you, the competetive ego does not arise. 

But if your brother goes, and you are left behind, your ego is hurt. 

You feel defeated, a failure. Then the easiest way is to deny that he has gone beyond.

Jesus offended his own village, family and relatives. 

They knew Jesus’ birth date, they knew his father, his mother, his brothers and sisters.

So Jesus can not be forgive. 

Jesus is a quality of love, but to be able to see this quality, you have to drop your ego. 

The presence, the quality of Jesus offends, because you will feel that you have failed. 

His very being, his presence, offends you. 

With Jesus there are two qualities: either you follow him or you deny him, you become an enemy. 

When Jesus was crucified, many felt a great relief. 

Very rare people could follow Jesus, because they were ready to drop their egos. 

And even those that followed Jesus, hesitated and had doubts, before they could say yes, before they can trust. 

Jesus is a total yes to life, a total trust in life.

From the foreword of Giten’s book

“Presence – Working from Within: The Psychology of Being”

“Some time ago, I felt that I experienced more limitations, than possibilities in a spiritual organization, which I had belonged to for a long time. It became clear for me that I was prepared to expand, and take a new step in my spiritual growth.

To be spiritual does not mean to belong to a spiritual group. I felt that I had grown out of the kindergarten, and my inner tree was bearing fruit. Too many large trees can not grow in a narrow area.

This was a lesson to stand on my own feet; it was a lesson for me to live to my own life, to live my own truth, without following anybody else. I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition, I am only interested to explore what it means to live with open eyes.

A friend came with a good advice during this period: “Go ahead without looking back, let others do their thing, that is their choice and freedom – you do need their limitation.”

– Swami Dhyan Giten 

 

“It is not many things that modern psychology agrees upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility.

The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours.

All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles.

It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth, silence and creativity.”

– Swami Dhyan Giten

 

 

The Art of Living: 

The Art of Being Happy

 

From Satsang with Giten,

June 18, 2015 

 

The Art of Being Happy is the art of saying say to life. The whole message of Jesus is a total “yes” to life. 

Whatsoever you do, do it happily. 

Whatsoever you do, wherever you are, do not do anything unhappily. 

Whatsoever happens, see out how you can find happiness in it. 

If you know how to be happy, then even small things become great things. 

Make being happy the art of living. 

When you learn the art of being happy, it also begins to spread around you like the waves of the ocean.

 

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About the book: How can we learn to listen to the silent whisperings of our heart? What is love? How do the three life areas, meditation, relationships and creativity, relate to each other in creating a loving, fulfilling and creative life? The Silent Whisperings of the Heart consists of a collection of quotes from Swami Dhyan Giten about awareness, meditation, intuition, relationships, the inner man and woman, healing, working with people from love and awareness, truth, creativity, silence, wisdom and spiritual maturity. Each page inspires you to see yourself and life in a new way, from a new dimension. This collection of quotes is an introduction to Giten’s Approach to ife. It is a beautiful gift for yourself or a friend.

“Giten write in a poetic language. “When I read Giten, I am reminded of Kahlil Gibran. Yes, I would like to compare Giten to Kahlil Gibran.”

– Gordon Banta, author of “Magic of Meditation”, USA

“I have been impressed with Giten’s writings from the first time I encountered them. Giten helps us address the issues of our lives, fluently and eloquently speaking the language of the heart.” 

– Larry Chang, author of “Wisdom for the Soul”, Washington, USA

“Giten invites us to a celebration, a feast for the soul and delights us and inspires us with capsules of insight and conscious affirmation of the deliciousness of the divine.” 

– From the foreword of ” The Silent Whisperings of the Heart” by Eric Rolf, international lecturer, author of “Soul Medicine” and former personal consultant to John Lennon

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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.

Swami Dhyan Giten: The Silent Revolution of the Heart – The Challenge for the 21st Century

From Fear to Love, 

from Darkness to Light

and from Separation to Wholeness

 

An excerpt from Swami Dhyan Giten’s book “Presence – Working from within. The Psychology of Being” (Lulu.com, 2012) 

 

The challenge for the 21st century is The Silent Revolution of the Heart. It is not a revolution within an organization or a land in the traditional sense with violence, madness and blood shed. It is a revolution in human consciousness.

In society today there exists a deep split between the inner and outer world, between intellect and intuition, between male and female qualities, between rest and activity and between outer knowledge and inner wisdom. There is a rapid technological development in the society, but we seem to forget the most important factor: our self.

Humanity as a whole is in-between power and the heart in its psychological and spiritual development process towards spiritual maturity. The next step for humanity as a whole is to realize that real power is love and compassion.The power chakra is the centre of the ego, the separated sense of “I”. The power chakra is about control, power and dominance over other people. A person who is on the development level of the power chakra wants to change other people, but he does not want to change himself.Ordinary relationships are often power relationships, which is a fight and struggle between the partners needs and mine. Often the partner in a power relationship has the same strength to develop the power chakra.The society is created out of the ego, and the need of the ego to create a hierarchy with power, status, respect, position, norms, roles and conformity. Many people in the West live in the power chakra, and are occupied with competing with others, to prove that they are somebody important, and finding their place in the hierarchy.

During the 20th Century has the psychological development level of humanity been on the awareness level of the power chakra? The focus of humanity has been on power, dominance, position, money and control over energy resources. We are technologically developed and this technology governs the development of the society, but this technology is at the same time destroying the earth. Energy resources are also a distinguishing theme in the power balance between countries.

Acting aggressively has its roots in fear, judgments and insecurity. Violence and aggressiveness is about control and dominance over another person. To judge and to be loving is two sides of the same coin. Judgments about another person are really about yourself. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our hearts opens. The heart is a healer that transforms fear to love, judgments to acceptance and separation to wholeness. The heart heals.

The 21st century means an inner awakening. It means a time to grow up. Many people talk about spirituality, meditation and inner development but it does not seem to change their lives. Our spiritual development depends on our commitment to our own development. We can use our free will to take on the challenge of life to grow or we can choose not to grow. This is the freedom that life gives us and it our own responsibility, but it seems that it is few people that accept life’s challenge to grow.

The 21st century represents a choice between the separation of ego and the vision of the heart. The silent revolution of the heart is a shift in human consciousness from the short-sighted perspective of the ego of “me” and “mine” to the focus of the heart on love and the needs of the other. It is a shift in consciousness from the short-sighted separation of the ego to the vision of the heart.

When we follow the way of the ego, the path of endless desires, it leads to struggle, conflict, exhaustion and separation from the Whole. The way of the heart is about learning to listen to our heart, to our inner source of love, joy, truth and wisdom. It is to be in a deep harmony with Existence.

When our heart is closed it creates an isolated and lonely feeling together with the attitude: “Nobody loves me”, “nobody cares about me” and “life is a struggle”, which makes us not see the love that is all around us.

A silent revolution of the heart happens when we start to care about another person, and it is a joy to put the needs of the other person before our own needs. It is on the awareness level of the heart that we begin to develop the sensitivity and awareness that makes us care about another person. The heart operates from the premises: I am responsible and only love works.

Love is to eat pizza with our beloved partner even though we hate pizza.

Our heart is the door to unconditional love both for ourselves and others. Our heart is really always open, but our judgments about ourselves and others keep it closed. When we stop judging ourselves and others, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love and understanding. It means to learn to love everything that we find within ourselves.

We have been taught to love others, but not to love ourselves. But how can we love others without loving ourselves? The ABC of love is that we first need to learn to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.

Trust is a prerequisite for love. Without trust, love is without depth. It is like a plastic flower, instead of an alive, fresh and fragrant rose. Even if some people will let us down and make us sad and disappointed, it is no reason to let it undermine our basic trust in life. It is better to allow some people to let us down than not allow our basic trust in life to develop. Many people are so sleeping and unconscious that they really do not know what they are doing. They make us disappointed even if they do not really mean to. Even if we feel hurt, disillusioned and disappointed with people, see if you can give them love and understanding. A criterion for spiritual growth is that we begin to give love, rather than needing love.

Exactly as the rhythm of in-breathes and out-breathes of the physical body, the heart has also two poles: to give love and to receive love. Certain people are easier to give love to and other people are easier to be open to receive love. But to allow our love to become whole, we need to learn both to give love and to receive love.

Animals are great teachers in friendship and unconditional love. One of my course participants commented in a course, “I prefer animals before people, because animals cannot hurt me in the same way that people can. I myself still find it difficult to really trust that I am loved as I am. Even if I am aware about this, there is still a small part of myself that wants to contract, and which does not really trust that I am loved as I am and that life takes care of me. I find it easier to be present for others than to allow others to be present for me.”

Love and fear are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of love fear arises. In the light of love fear disappears, like when you turn the light on in a dark room. Fear is a contraction of our life energy together with an attitude of loneliness and isolation. Love creates an expansion of our life energy together with a feeling of love, joy and belongingness.

Love is the strongest power there is. There is no stronger force than love. Love is pure magic. Love transforms people without really doing anything. The sheer presence of love transforms people. There is nothing more holy than love, since love makes people whole.

Love accepts a person as he is. Love creates the freedom, which allows a person to be himself. Love creates the relaxation, which allows a person to relax into his inner being, into his authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being that we already are. Love allows a person to discover his true individuality.

Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is a quality of our inner being. It is to discover the source of love deep within ourselves, which is our true nature.

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.

It is on the awareness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separate from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a large ocean, but that life is one and that we are all small parts of the same whole. It is on the awareness level of the heart that we begin to understand what is important and meaningful in life. We begin to understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding, that life is about giving, rather than taking.

It is when we open our heart that we discover a sense of unity in love with other people, with the trees, with nature, with the sea and with the blue sky.

This is the silent revolution of the heart.

The human heart is the solution to the problems of the world.

The human heart contains all the answers.

The human heart has the capacity to expand and embrace the whole earth.

– Swami Dhyan Giten,

Presence – Working from Within

– The Psychology of Being (Lulu.com, 2012)