फकीर बुलेशाह से जब किसी ने पूछा कि आप इतनी गरीबी में भी भगवान का शुक्रिया कैसे करते हैं तो बुलेशाह ने कहा..

चढ़दे सूरज ढलदे देखे... बुझदे दीवे बलदे देखे. 

हीरे दा कोइ मुल ना जाणे.. खोटे सिक्के चलदे देखे. 

जिना दा न जग ते कोई, ओ वी पुत्तर पलदे देखे। 

उसदी रहमत दे नाल बंदे पाणी उत्ते चलदे देखे।

लोकी कैंदे दाल नइ गलदी, मैं ते पत्थर गलदे देखे।

जिन्हा ने कदर ना कीती रब दी, हथ खाली ओ मलदे देखे ....

कई पैरां तो नंगे फिरदे, सिर ते लभदे छावा, मैनु दाता सब कुछ दित्ता, क्यों ना शुकर मनावा l

THE WORLD IS THICK FOREST, THICKLY POPULATED, WHERE ALL HAVE LOST THEIR WAY AND ARE CEASELESSLY AND AIMLESSLY RUNNING ABOUT ,LIFE,HARASSED BY THE GREAT DACOITS : LUST, GREED ,ANGER ,ATTACHMENT, AN PRIDE. THE REMARKABLE THING ABOUT THESE DACOITS IS THAT PEOPLE ASSOCIATE WITH THEM JOYFULLY AND , KNOWING THAT THE RESULT OF THEIR ASSOCIATION IS SUFFERING , HAVE NOT THE COURAGE TO DISSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM THEM. THEY EAT THE POISON, CRY AN EAT THE POISON AGAIN. LUCKY IS HE WHO BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND THE GAME OF THESE DACOITS, LUCKIER IS HE WHO TRIES TO DISSOCIATE HIMSELF FEOM THEM,AND LUCKIEST IS HE WHO MEETS A MASTER GUIDE AND IS PUT BY HIM ON THE PATH O THE SOUND CURRENT THAT LEADS HIM OUT OF THIS WILDERNESS TO HIS ETERNAL HOME O PEACE AND BLISS IN SACHKHAND.
TAPAN read thoroughly
I pray 5 naams and open this book.  And said babaji guide us.  He gave me the page and this message
See his grace

-Message sent by Viram. (copy/paste)

There is a difference between watching the mind and controlling the mind. Watching the mind with a gentle, open attitude allows the mind to settle down and come to rest. Trying to control the mind, or trying to control the way one's spiritual practice will unfold, just stirs up more agitation and suffering. 

~ Bhante Henepola Gunaratana ~ — with Roger Denedragon.

excelsior -- Latin for "ever upward."


“Mindfulness gives you time. Time 
gives you choices. Choices, skillfully 
made, lead to freedom. You don’t
have to be swept away by your
 feeling. You can respond with
 wisdom and kindness rather than 
habit and reactivity.”



~ Bhante H Gunaratana ~


"When we have anger in us, we
suffer. When we have discrimination
in us, we suffer. When we have the
complex of superiority, we suffer.
When we have the complex of
inferiority, we suffer also. So when
we are capable of transforming
these negative things in us, we are
free and happiness is possible.

If the people who hurt us have that
kind of energy within them, like
anger or desperation, then they
suffer. When you see that someone
suffers, you might be motivated by
a desire to help him not to suffer
anymore. That is love also, and love
doesn’t have any color. Other
people may discriminate against us,
but what is more important is
whether we discriminate against
them. If we don’t do that, we are a
happier person, and as a happier
person, we are in a position to help.
And anger, this is not a help."

~ Thích Nhất Hạnh ~


"we practice meditation in order to
see ourselves as we truly are and
life as it truly is. when we are
suffering, we can look inside to find
the cause - always some form of
clinging. by noticing how quickly we
attach to new ideas and
perspectives, we can begin to
unlearn the habit. one trick is to
watch for moments when we feel
the need to defend ourselves or
our point of view. defensiveness is
always a red flag; it shows that we
have once again become stuck in a
point of view. we are pretending to
be solid, and we want everyone
else to go along with it. with a little
honesty and effort, we can
determine where we are stuck and
then choose to let go. gradually we
become more flexible, finding it
easier to let go of our perspectives.
we take this 'me' less seriously,
appreciating instead our dynamic
and unfixed true nature.
with practice, we begin to see the
world from the perspective of BIG
MIND, which can see all
perspectives but clings to none. we
learn that it is possible to return to
the view of BIG MIND whenever
we've become stuck. it's easiest to
assume that we're stuck
somewhere; we only have to figure
out where and then let go.
liberation from the self is living
each day without a place to stand or
ideas about who we are. that's
when we can dance with life."

~Genpo Roshi~ [the path of the human being]
—

હે પરમાત્મા ! મને સેવક બનાવજે, ગુરુ ન બનાવીશ.
મને સેવાદાર બનાવજે, સેવા કરાવનાર ન બનાવીશ.
તુ મને બાહ્ય વિદ્યા આપે કે ન આપે, આંતરિક જ્ઞાન આપજે.
મને સંસારિક પદાર્થ ન આપીશ, પરંતુ સુખ આપજે.
મને ગાડી-ઘોડા ન આપીશ, પરંતુ પગ આપજે.
મને સ્વાદિસ્થ ભોજન ન આપીશ, પરંતુ ભૂખ આપજે.
મને ગાદી-તકીયા ન આપીશ, પરંતુ નીંદ આપજે.
મને સંસાર ની શાબાશી ન આપીશ, પરંતુ તારી શાબાશી આપજે.

Tejas sent a beautiful email today.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF REPEATING SAME THINGS

An action is a thought that manifests itself.
A small gesture denounces us, so we have to make everything perfect, think about the details, learn the technique so that it becomes intuitive.
Intuition has nothing to do with routine but rather with a state of spirit that lies beyond technique.
So, after practicing a lot, we no longer think about all the necessary movements: they become part of our very existence. But for this to happen, you have to train and repeat.
And as if that were not enough, you have to repeat and train.
Watch a good blacksmith working the steel. To the untrained eye he is repeating the same hammer blows over and over again.
But those who know the importance of training know that each time the hammer is raised and then lowered, the intensity of the blow is different. The hand repeats the same gesture but as it approaches the iron it knows whether to touch it harder or softer.
Look at the windmill. Whoever sees its vanes just once imagines that it always turns with the same speed, always repeating the same movement. But those who know windmills know that they are conditioned to the wind and change their direction whenever necessary.
The hand of the ironsmith was trained after the gesture of hammering was repeated thousands of times.
Windmill vanes can move fast after the wind has blown a lot and polished their gears.
The archer lets many an arrow pass far from the target because he knows that he will only learn the importance of the bow, posture, the string and the target after he repeats his gestures thousands of times without being afraid of making a mistake.
Training is NOT routine. It is essential

Regards
Tejas
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We have to walk through life, in the turmoil of the world as it is today. It may get worse or it may get better. For many it is an unpleasant experience. We have to walk through, untouched by the fears of prejudice, the tensions of every day.

In order to develop that attitude, we have to believe what the Master says, that from the time you have come to the feet of a Perfect Satguru, from that time on whatever happens will be with his permission. The Master knows where we are out of balance. He knows our weaknesses. He knows the things we need and he knows the things we have to overcome.

So when all these things happen to us they happen with his permission. Though we do not think they are pleasant experiences, they are with his permission.  It gives us an opportunity to face the problems that hamper our growth, to become strong and rise above our weaknesses. If we reject the experiences that he gives us, then we reject the opportunity to grow.

There is another way to look at it. Whatever happens to us is with his will. Nobody can escape it. We have limited free will, but we have a destiny that is on a course that cannot be changed. The only way we can change it is to rise above it to a higher elevation of consciousness where we are unaffected by the results of our destiny.

We nevertheless have to go through our physical and to a great extent out mental destiny, because that is the way the Lord set it up.