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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"'Know Thy Self by Learning How to 'Listen" to Your Self, Part IV" Podcast
(length 05:31 minutes)
This is part IV of a four part blog. Please see my last three blog entries on October 30, November 1 & 6 for parts I, II, & III.
It is in meditation where you can connect with the essence of your object of attention. It is in meditation where you can eavesdrop on your Self and on the God/Goddess within. It is in meditation where you can come to truly "Know ThySelf." Why not learn how to experience this sweet ambrosia of the gods? Why not learn how to experience your "Godness?"
As Yogananda wrote:
Meditation or consciousness focused upon itself is the ultimate revealer of who you really are, and what you truly are. You can discover an inner guidance within yourself, and that inner guidance will guide you to the destination you need to go. You have already been guided to many things which are opening you to be aware, but the greatest tool for self knowledge is Meditation.
Also, as Ramana Maharshi wrote:
Look! This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen. In this same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents Reality from being seen.
Lastly, this lovely sentence from "The Cloud of Unknowing" an anonymous medieval spiritual classic, sums it all up so beautifully:
By Love God may be gotten and holden, but by thought never.
So, learning how to still the mind through meditation helps one to learn how to truly listen to one Self and to another. It is in meditation that we access the essence and the heart of the matter, instead of getting all caught up in our heads and in the illusory surface appearance of things.
It is in meditation that we "see things clearly" and come to "know" ourselves and another. It is in this Silence where we can truly be present and Listen!
To learn more about meditation, please check out my Meditation CDs posted on my blog.
Also, to learn a lot more about Listening and Meditation please feel get a hold of my book: Magical Keys to Self-Mastery: Creating Miracles in Your Life.
http://www.MagicalKeystoSelfMastery.com
This is part IV of a four part blog.
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"'Know Thy Self by Learning How to 'Listen" to Your Self, Part III" Podcast
(length 05:21 minutes)
This is part III of a four part blog.
In order to learn how to Listen as I have described in my two previous blog entries, one must learn to quiet the mind through meditation. Meditation is the key to learning how to listen to your Self and to another.
The best passage that I have come upon to help one to understand what the state of meditation is and how it allows one to truly be able to Listen was written by Krishnamurti. In describing meditation he wrote:
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended. It has ended, but it can be brought into activity when there is necessity in the physical world. Now, it is quiet. It is silent. And where there is silence, there must be space, immense space because there is no [little] self. The self has its own limited space; it creates its own limited space. But when the self is not, which means the activity of thought is not; then there is vast silence in the brain because it is now free of all its conditioning.
And it is only where there is space and silence that something new can be that is untouched by time or thought. That may be the most holy, the most sacred--may be. You cannot give it a name. It is perhaps the unnamable. And when there is that, then there is intelligence and compassion, and love. So life is not fragmented. It is a whole, unitary process, moving and living."
It is in this state of being that Krisnamurti describes above where one can be present and listening. It is a profound state of unity with one's object of attention; and it is a profound state of the heart. It bypasses the mind and all its myopic judgments.
This is why I have for years taught and promoted the sacred art of meditation. When you learn how to meditate you can truly focus on someone and truly listen because you are totally present. You are not in your head, but you are in your heart. You are sensing things from the inside out rather than just skimming the surface by thinking about them.
This is part III of a four part blog.
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"'Know Thy Self by Learning How to 'Listen" to Your Self, Part II" Podcast
(length 05:01 minutes)
This is part II of a four part blog. Please see my last blog entry on October 30 for part I.
There are seven kinds or aspects to "Listening:"
1) "Listening" to another."
2) "Listening" to nature.
3) "Listening" to Spirit.
4) "Listening" to your physical body.
5) "Listening" to that part of us called the little self or the ego? That part that we often do not want to own or acknowledge, that we often wish to disinherit, despite the fact that it is has some very valuable things to say to us.
6) "Listening" to our Higher Selves.
7) "Listening" to the God/Goddess within.
All these aspects of Listening require the same skill, namely learning how to be quiet. Listening actually is not a cognitive process, it is not something we do with our minds; but something we allow or open up to with our hearts.
Listening is a receptive, open, allowing, feminine state; it is not an assertive, active, masculine state. When the mind is quiet, the heart can be open; and then it can "hear;" and then, as well, it can lead the way. The mind is meant to be the servant of the heart. The heart is meant to lead.
Don't analyze anyone or anything. When you do, you are using your mind and creating separation by judging, analyzing and compartmentalizing. Instead feel first.
Don't listen to words, instead feel their energy.
Don't judge a person; get a "feel: for them first.
Don't measure anything; just "feel" its energy.
Use your heart first and then let the mind help you integrate what the heart has felt. Feel first, think last! Then you will "know."
Stop thinking and start feeling! Leave your mind behind and put your heart first!
No longer think your way through life; feel your way through life.
Listening is a communion--a joining or merging with. It is not analysis or judgment.
This is part II of a four part blog.
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"'Know Thy Self by Learning How to 'Listen" to Your Self, Part I" Podcast
(length 04:34 minutes)
This is part I of a four part blog.
In order to come to "Know Thy Self," one first must learn how to "Listen." For it is only by really knowing how to "Listen" that one can get "a handle one's 'Self.'" And it is only through "Listening" that we can be true to our Selves and live an empowered, passionate, fulfilled, joyful life.
Usually all we hear or listen to is the noise and static that our fearful, angry, worried ego mind produces; this noise effectively blocks out our ability to hear what is really important, what is at the core of who we are.
It is only by learning how to embrace the Silence, that we can hear anything important. It is only by being quiet that you can "hear" your Self, "hear" another, "hear" nature, "hear" Spirit, and "hear" the God/Goddess within. One must quiet the fretful ego mind in order to hear one Self and come to "know" one Self.
Silence is ancient. Silence has been in the space you are this very moment
for longer than anything else. It will remain after you leave
and exist long after all other things have faded.
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This is part I of a four part blog.
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"Love is "Being Present" Part II" Podcast
(length 5:13 minutes)
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