SATSANG ON SUNDAYS; 12: NOON, ARIZONA TIME, JAN 1, 2007

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12:00 noon Arizona time Jan 1, 2017

PASSWORD:  edji

CAT CARETAKER MARIE SCHUCKLES--DEAD!

Marie Schuckles, my companion in cat colony management in Northridge, has died after her long struggle with cervical cancer at age 70.  She died in great pain.  Even morphine did not make it bearable. 

Marie had a hard life the last ten years.  After her mother died, their home was sold to cover the mother’s debts.  Marie moved in with her sister P., who really didn’t want her there, and she slept in the living room, on a couch, without any privacy.  P. did not even turn on the air conditioning o heat at night for Marie in the living room downstairs.  Her other sister, N., finally convinced Marie to get rid of all her storage belongings, giving them to her newly found, adopted out son, and with that money she got her own apartment, and for the last three months of her life she was happy.

I just found out that she died ten days ago, and have been trying to locate the three people she turned her cat caretaking efforts over to.

They are:

Valerie

Maria 

And Marilyn

Michael feeding my street cats  in 2013

Valerie is 86 and has been managing feral cat colonies for over 45 years.  She now has at least 100 cats she is feeding, getting spayed/neutered, and placing in homes.

So far, I have not located the person that is taking care of the 27 cats I was caring for, near California State University in Northridge, and I am hoping it is Marilyn, who herself contracted cancer about 8 years ago, and so far has beaten her cancer.  She too was taking care of many cats, rescuing even more and placing them in homes.  I have two of her street cats, Radha and Sitta.

Look, I hold weekly satsangs, write books, and post about Advaita teachings, Robert Adams, and ways of experiencing  various kinds of self-realization, as well advising many hundreds of people via email, mail, and phone calls regarding spiritual practice.  I have had many people that have come and stayed with me for weeks at a time, and I have really asked for nothing.

But I am asking all of you who care for my efforts, and who

One of five stops where I fed cats

manifest love and compassion, to donate money to these three women who feed many hundreds of cats, have them spayed and neutered, rescue them, and place them in homes.

I want you to send them money.   I ask you to call them, talk to them, learn all they do, and ask how you can help.

Please do this for me.

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Valerie  Stark (818) 900-3548

20032 Vintage St.  Chatsworth, CA 91311

When I last talked to Valerie two days ago, she was about to go out feeding her ferals, saying the winds were freezing cold and 70 mph!  We all worry about our feral friends outdoors.

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Maria  Jacquec (818) 826 0299 

19037 Bryant St. #4,  Northridge, Ca 91324

Marilyn XXXX  

I am trying to locate her now.  In the meantime, please send the money to me which I will give her for caring for my cats.  If I cannot locate her, I will give the money to Valerie or Maria.

Ed Muzika  edwardmuzika@gmail.com 

19017 North Welk Dr. Sun City, Arizona  85373

If my teachings and satsang are valuable to you, please do this as part of your sadhana, your path, your devotion.

PS;  I have been donating money directly to Marie Schuckles for the past two years that I have been here, and will continue as I can.

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SATSANG AT 10:30 A.M. SUNDAY 12/25

When I started this new round of Satsangs a month ago, that first Satsang was tentative, because that inner voice that had previously used me to speak for that which is beyond this Ed Muzika body and mind was starting anew, has now grown more powerful and more emotionally eloquent.

When we have Satsang, make no mistake, it is not me talking to you, but consciousness itself to your consciousness.  Also, deep within me, that which is beyond consciousness is also speaking to you who are also beyond consciousness, that who knows the coming and going of consciousness, and is itself untouched by consciousness.

For this reason, I want to hold a special Satsang this Sunday on Christmas, at 10:30 A.M. Arizona time, 12:30 P.M. Eastern Standard time, 5:30 P.M. U.K. time.

That day I will speak about the approach of love, of Bhakti, to the awakening of the Divine Self within, the spirit, Shakti, wherein the Self becomes aware of itself as consciousness and Shakti only, above and beyond the which are their vessel.

Go to http://satsangwithedji.weebly.com, and use the password   edji   whenever asked for a password.  Come early and listen to the chanting at the bottom of the page, especially the ALL NEW KUNDALINI CHANTS.

LISTENING TO THAT SPIRITUAL TEACHER

What is he saying, really?

Is he using experiential words relevant or potentially relevant to my life, or is he using abstract, philosophical words?

Jidda Krishnamurti and U.G. Krishnamurti emphasize the hopelessness of believing and following teachers who have little or no actual spiritual experience in terms of understanding themselves, and merely parrot Ramana or some other teacher, although Ramana is the teacher most frequently parroted.

You also need to be clear about what you are looking for.

Are trying to find someone who understands and can explain certain spiritual experiences you have had?  This is absolutely the wrong reason to seek out a teacher.

Drop that search immediately because it is not relevant to your present experiencing.  Past experience is gone, a memory that should not be allowed to haunt you.

You see, that experience has not stayed with you.  Where you are now is most important, and what you have to do is carefully explore your present experience, especially your inner experience, and see if there are any invariants, any inner experience that does not change.

Such would be the experience of a vast inner space, emptiness, which is the mainstay of Buddhism.  Do you know emptiness, both inner and outer?

Do you experience the Lifeforce within as a formless entity empowering and acting through you?  Are you aware that all that you know and all that you experience about yourself and the world is experienced through the medium of YOUR consciousness, and all that you really ever know is consciousness?

Are you able to watch big emotions, such as sadness, grief, love, jealousy, anger, etc., without fearing them?  Can you accept and totally coexist with even the strongest emotion?  Is this what you are seeking to do, to expose hidden emotions and reabsorb them into your sense of self?

Have you located the I sense within, or the I Am somewhere in your chest, gut, or head?  Can you focus on it, stay with it, and bring it into your heart?

Do you want to experience the bliss of having a close relationship with the Lifeforce, AKA Shakti?  Do you see how Shakti depends on consciousness to be part of your experience, and without consciousness--your consciousness--there is no experience of Shakti and no bliss?

Are you aware of your own sense of presence, that you exist as a presence in  the world, and this presence permeates and penetrates your body and mind and extends like an energy field into the space around you?

Are you aware of an inner, formless, "entity" that is aware of consciousness, and which can watch the coming and going of your waking state, dream state, and sleep without itself being touched?  Are you aware of all the movements of consciousness and the mind that flows when you first awaken, including the coming and going of consciousness, and the simultaneous presence of the witnessing of these changes within.

It is this kind of direct, experiential knowledge and experience which you should be looking for in a teacher, not someone who speaks abstractly about enlightenment or awakening, Nirvana or Brahman, Jiva or Atman, without carefully explaining these experiences.

          SATSANG

SUNDAYS DECEMBER—NOON  ARIZONA TIME

THIS IS 2 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME; 7PM UNITED KINGDOM; 8PM GERMANY; 6AM MONDAY, MELBOURNE

Topics of course will be about Robert Adams’ and Nisargadatta’s teachings, self-inquiry, what is the self, what is consciousness? Perceiving energy/bliss.

Sign in a few minutes ahead of time, and listen to chanting found at bottom of page, especially Krishna Das chants.

GO TO:  http://satsangwithedji.weebly.com

Password   “edji”  will be required on two different screens.

Then INVENT a guest sign in name

Go to top of video box and mute your microphone until you ask questions.

TRY THIS A DAY AHEAD OF TIME TO PRACTICE GETTING IN AND LISTENING TO CHANTS.

THIS WILL BE A 10 WEEK EXPERIMENT TO SEE IF PEOPLE COME.

STEVE ECKERT NOW WALKING IN THE FOOTHILLS OF GREAT ENLGHTENMENT

TO ME FROM STEVE:


Sri Edji, I bow to you Master and thank you for calling me !

This AM when meditating, the personality was gone and I was Consciousness-very blissful.


Then out of nowhere...............you know how it is when your busy with something and all of a sudden you know something is Watching you.


Well I am the I am and shit all of a sudden something is watching this whole thing happen.


In my imagination my head turned slightly to the right only to see a window with a light for the background but nothing there. And I knew I and Consciousness was being observed.
Nothing like this has ever happened before but I realized that is behind the window ............. before birth, timeless, space less and emptiness. This is my true home.