When you are faced with trouble

When you are faced with trouble
Where can you possibly turn?

it is said act but do not re-act.

we come with expectations
as to how a situation should turn
and how people will be attuned to our words and feelings
because wishing for the best for them
we think they are in our mind
and happy to follow the way we traced into our mind

BUT it is not so
they come with their own mind and mood
and are not cognisant of your intend

they have free will
and you have yours

if their will happens not to match ours
then, on the spot we feel a sort of hit
be it a surprise or a deeper astonishment
and you feel that your belly has stopped to breathe

and then, in the second following it,
how do you re-act?
actually you are in a state of amnesia
as you always are
you are on the spot as if you had never been taught anything
nor had ever encountered conflictual situation
and have gathered no wisdom whatsoever

and what do you do?
you re-act.

but here,
we have the time and the space,
the Grace to remember
that the only solution
is the one of the state of meditation

WATCH the scene
breathe
re-center, re-align yourself
by putting attention on top of head
and
LET
for God sake,
LET the Divine Energie guides you to new ways
to be experienced

why do you absolutely need
to think over and over again
about what happened?

Remember?
Where attention goes, there goes the Energy...

so unless you wish the Divine Energy to feed your trauma
again and again
that is really a sadistic approach : )
and is rather for those who do not believe in another way than of the suffering
hey that is also a choice,
but NOT mine

so,
you better watch the energy which is your personal helper and compagnon

and at some point,
you will spontaneously know what to do next.

so, summing up:
WATCH
LET GO
ATTENTION on top of head/on the Divine Energy.

Let the waves (situations) rise and fall.

Do not fight it
Do not shove it unto the carpet
Do not react to it

JUST watch it rising and falling.
then you will not feed it
while you keep feeling the energy
with your attention on top of head.


Because what you see is your own mind in action :


Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!”
So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”

After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake.
This time too he found that the lake was muddy. He returned and informed Buddha about the same.

After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back. The disciple reached the lake to find the lake absolutely clean and clear with pure water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said,

“See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be…. and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water. Your mind is also like that! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”

Source: http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/spiritual-short-story-746-Buddha%E2%80%99s+Advice+to+Calm+a+Disturbed+Mind.html]

Star dust and the prayer of Light

"Nous sommes des poussières d'étoiles"
-Hubert Reeves


« C’est mon histoire qui est racontée : ce sont les mêmes forces qui organisent l’infiniment grand et l’infiniment petit, les cellules de mon corps comme les gigantesques amas de galaxies. Je fais partie d’un tout, je suis…. POUSSIERES D’ETOILES» Hubert Reeves



Imaginez que nous sommes des étoiles qui vagabondent dans le très large univers…  Des fois, nous passons au loin de galaxies, fonçons à travers des nébuleuses, nous écrasons sur une Lune (avec des séquelles éventuelles)…
Nous pouvons entrer dans le champs gravitationnel de planètes ou d’étoiles plus grosses que nous : nous sommes alors accélérés ou freinés, et quand le phénomène est particulièrement agréable, nous pouvons nous mettre en orbite autour de ces corps célestes pour un certain temps.
On a tous traversé les turbulences d’un champ d’astéroïdes, ou fréquenté un trou noir dont il a été difficile de se dépêtrer…
Notre vie n’est qu’une succession d’illustrations de la théorie des chocs avec la réalité, des lois gravitationnelles autour de personnes rencontrées, de la relativité absolue (encore un oxymore !) et parfois, de la loi du chaos. Le reste du temps, on navigue comme on peut, avec notre boussole, qui pointe vers le nord de notre vocation ou de nos aspirations.

source : http://pilarlopezsophrologue.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/changer-pour-rester-soi-meme-48-le-sens-de-la-vie-enfin-revele/



when one is meditating
and attention is on top of the head
we are swinging between images and stillness

images are what we must let go
for we are not them
we do not block them
nor stick to them
they are part of the manifestation of life
but we watch them
rising as waves rise on the oceans
then we let the waves go
these images are like the trail of dust of stars,
still shining
and catching our attention
yet they are no more
for we are the Present
still going on, moving on
to our Home

then, we bring simply our attention back
to the energy we are feeling on top of the head
on the sahasrara
that is so much more honorable to recall

the energy there
shall purify your attention
like a power removing the rust from your mirror
or like the Hand of God removing the veils that darken your vision

till Light Be

so when you swing back to your place of stillness
and let the energy purify you
you align yourself to the straight path within
and you let her do the job for you
i.e. to purify you

and your mind is indeed being polished
sharpened
and shines
blur is removed
and light increases
like the intense light of the particle of dust entering into the Earth's atmospher
shining more and more while reaching its destination
and leaving behind its trail of light

Light upon light
the Being of Light behind the light

An-Nour

Tabarakta Ya Noor Al-Anwar
Nawar Qalbi Maarifatik
Ya Allah Ya Noor Ya Haqq Ya Mobeen

Bless be You O Light of lights
Enlighten my heart with the knowledge of knowing You
O Allah O Light O Truth O The Clear One


Prayer of Light of the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)


O God! You are light, and from You is light. Place light in my heart and on my tongue and in my eyes and in my ears and in front of me and to the right of me and to the left of me and behind me and in my presence. Place light in my nerves and in my bones and in my flesh. Make me live in light; grant me light; give me light; make me light.


 O Allah, place light in my heart, light in my tongue, light in my hearing, light in my sight, light behind me, light in front of me, light on my right, light on my left, light above me and light below me; place light in my sinew, in my flesh, in my blood, in my hair and in my skin; place light in my soul and make light abundant for me; make me light and grant me light.



Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.

source : http://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/st-patricks-breastplate.html

Here mistake me not...

Jesus peace be upon him equals not to Christ

Christ is the Light that is in all... The Light of God
and that is the True message of Yeshua (pbuh)

This is the light of your consciousness purified, as exemplified by Jesus.

You are the Light within
The Christos Light

When the waiting one
was the awaited one...

this is why the wait was so long
for it ended only
when the waiting one becomes one
with the awaited one

you are the witness to your own coming.
and Truth sets YOU free.

Under Water

This music is being played by Anoushka the daughter of Ravi Shankar,
who is a great indian musician. He was a realised soul.
And he departed recently, on the 11th of December 2012.


Ravi Shankar, KBE (Bengali: রবি শংকর, IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar, a plucked string instrument. He has been described as the best-known contemporary Indian musician.^[2]

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar



Sitar is for me the best instrument i ever heard.
one string produce so many notes,
it resonates so richly.

it is filled with so many harmonics
so many that one feels that it is a voice that is speaking.

in the following extract,
it feels indeed an inner voice that rises from within
and relates its own story
with its own emotions
while only ears to listen are needed to echo
what is being shared.

the voice is the soul turning its face towards the Spirit.

Smile

: )

in times of peace
it is so easy to smile
it is like nothing else exist
except the smile

you don't know why you smile
but you know it has all the meaning of the world in it

in times of distress
we can make all crazy promises
to try to fix and repair a situation
which has gone out of hand

but it is impossible to ever repair
it is a lie
when a friendly relationship is broken in two
there is no bad no good
there is only a separation and each one goes on his way

and in this fine and invisible line of separation
lies embedded a new life, a new face to meet
if there had not been the separation,
there would not have been this new meeting

true, separations are hurtful
because we are bundle of energies
which have exchanged streams of energies
so the you is in me and the me in you
separation brings you to accept the loss of this identity

so you lose the certitude that you were the other.
whatever the mistake you committed
life is not teaching you to learn to feel guilty
though it is inevitable to feel so
but it teaches you not to reiterate it
to grow from it

a new chance is given
while you could have bet your very life
that it is impossible to ever live again

the new chance is given
not for you to find yourself in another
but to find yourself within

others are graciously being a mirror to you
the more they have polished it to know themselves
the more you can see your self in them
and hopefully remember
that you are what you are seeing in the mirror


so the separation was never in the first place
the fault of one or the other
but it was the natural outcome of a relationship
and there is no evil in that
unless you see evil in it
there is no accusation against the other
unless you set your mind on it
and there is even less solitude
when you know that you already are
and it is what you keep forgetting.

and yet, you still need the other
to feel your own harmony within
you need the mirror to see your self

because it is what brings peace within
to see Truth within without.

and as Truth knows it,
and you too learned your lesson
from past separation
you need no more pain to experience peace
but you happily and silently
feel contented
and smile
even if you know not why.

you stay then in peace.