Hans
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Hello Hans,
I was wondering if you could provide me with some guidance please. I have been trying to centre myself and concentrate on the positives instead of the negatives, but I can't seem to be strong enough to maintain it. I know I have the power inside of me, I am just having trouble reaching it. Your advice is appreciated.
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ineedtomeditate,
I was wondering if you could provide me with some guidance please: choose the way of your heart.
Your advice is appreciated: Be receptive for gifts of existence.
MASTER RYOTAN AND TOKUSAN WERE
SPENDING THE EVENING TOGETHER.
RYOTAN SAID, "IT IS GETTING DARK. YOU HAD BETTER
RETURN TO YOUR PLACE."
TOKUSAN SAID, "GOOD NIGHT" TO THE MASTER, AND
STEPPED OUTSIDE. A FEW MOMENTS LATER, HE RETURNED
TO THE MASTER SAYING, "IT IS SO DARK OUTSIDE!"
THE MASTER LIT A CANDLE TO GIVE TO TOKUSAN, BUT
JUST AS TOKUSAN HELD OUT HIS HAND AND WAS ABOUT TO
GET HOLD OF THE CANDLE, RYOTAN VEHEMENTLY BLEW OUT
THE FLAME.
AT THIS VERY MOMENT TOKUSAN WAS AWAKENED AND MADE
A BOW TO THE MASTER.
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Thanks for replying.
Do you mean my heart instead of my head?
I didn't really get the story either.
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ineedtomeditate,
Do you mean my heart instead of my head? No.
God is constantly searching for His people. Since
Adam left He has been calling and calling. He still
goes on calling and He still comes and knocks. But we
are hiding. And we have created such barriers, we have
created such mental attitudes that we cannot see, we
cannot hear, we cannot feel.
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"Do you mean my heart instead of my head? No." - then what do you mean? From my spirit/heart and not emotions?
I'm trying to break through the barriers that I have created. I am trying to meditate daily, hoping it will get easier with practise. At certain points when I feel a connection, I feel a warmth/ and a timgling in my hands, do you know what this means?
Thank you for helping me Hans.
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ineedtomeditate,
then what do you mean? The power of the inferior people is growing. The danger draws close to you; already there are clear indications, and rest is disturbed. Moreover, in this dangerous situation you are as yet without help or friendly advances from above or below. Extreme caution is necessary in this isolation. You must adjust to the time and promptly avoid the danger. Stubborn perseverance in maintaining your standpoint would lead to downfall.
From my spirit/heart and not emotions? Yes.
At certain points when I feel a connection, I feel a warmth/ and a timgling in my hands, do you know what this means? This is the arising of being in love, establishing a contact with the universe, besides that you seem to have healing hands.
You have taken a wrong step; you have to put it
right. My feeling is that for a few days you stop all
kinds of music, forget all about it. A gap is needed so
that your mind can become dissociated.
Then
you will have the joy; otherwise you will be doing it
and it will be worthless.
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Thank you Hans. I've been trying to make more time for myself, be kinder and nicer to myself. That then should help me build up more self love which should build into universal love. Thanks again.
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I forgot to ask, by saying "You have taken a wrong step; you have to put it
right. My feeling is that for a few days you stop all
kinds of music, forget all about it. A gap is needed so
that your mind can become dissociated.
Then
you will have the joy; otherwise you will be doing it
and it will be worthless"
did you mean to take time out for myself, remove myself from situations to give my mind a chance to recuperate? And only then can it get stronger?
And you said " Stubborn perseverance in maintaining your standpoint would lead to downfall."
Do you mean if I continue down the same path without any changes? Because I am trying to change that now.
Thanks Hans
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ineedtomeditate,
did you mean to take time out for myself, remove myself from situations to give my mind a chance to recuperate? no.
And only then can it get stronger? no.
Do you mean if I continue down the same path without any changes? No.
If you go on repeating a lie you will end up believing it. Constant repetition becomes hypnotic. In India it has been one of the basic laws that one should not start teaching people unless one becomes inwardly totally silent. When dreams have stopped, only then should one start advising anybody. If you still have dreams don’t advise anybody, because you are still in a state of dreaming. Your advice is of no use, you will create more mischief and misery for others. If somebody follows your advice he will be in danger.
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I don't really want to advise anyone, I just want to be at peace with myself. I thought one of the nest ways to do that would be through meditation. Sometimes I feel as if my own mind is against me, and that's what I'm trying to soothe and calm down. I'm not lying about anything.
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ineedtomeditate,
the creative people -- whether painters, musicians,
poets or dancers -- reach to a place once in a while
that can be called "a glimpse of enlightenment" but it
is only a glimpse. It is not a realization. They have
not prepared themselves for it. It has come
accidentally.
The painter was absorbed in painting. He was so
absorbed in painting that he forgot himself, forgot the
ego, forgot his thoughts, and without knowing it he was
in a state of meditation, and accidentally a door
opened and he saw the beauty of the beyond.
But because he is not prepared, he cannot remain in
meditation. He does not even know the ABC of
meditation; he may never have heard the word. He was
doing something else. It was just because he got lost
in his work -- in dance, in music, in singing -- he
fulfilled the condition for a glimpse.
Soon he will be back -- when the dance is over, when
the painting is complete, he will be back in the desert
of daily life. And he will be worse than the ordinary
man because he has known something which the ordinary
man has not even dreamt of. His misery is more. He has
seen the door open, he has seen the door closed, and he
feels utterly helpless.
Now a great problem has arisen for him, that there is
something far more beautiful than any painting, far
more musical than any music, far more poetic than any
poetry. There is a dance beyond dance, but how to reach
there? All that he can manage is his ordinary dance. In
his ordinary dance, if he becomes conscious that he's
doing it to get the glimpse back, he will not get the
glimpse because the condition will not be fulfilled, he
will not be lost in the dance. Technically he will be
doing the dance but his ego will remain watching for
the window to open; it will not open. It will open only
when he forgets himself.
The problem is that this situation has been only in
the West, not in the East.
The East is poor, immensely poor, but in a way
tremendously rich. In the East if the poet or the
painter or the musician had the glimpse, he would not
bother about the dance or the painting, he would look
for a master, because it is understood -- it is in the
atmosphere, and it has been there for thousands of
years -- that creativity can give you a glimpse but not
more than that. If you want something that becomes part
and parcel of you, then you have to find a master, a
path; you have to change yourself, your ways of living.
You have to bring awareness to everything that you do,
and you need somebody to tell you -- not only to tell
you, but somebody whose presence becomes a proof that
you are not chasing some shadow, some hallucination.