tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post7916775791062217296..comments2023-12-16T16:12:08.051-08:00Comments on Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization: Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-88966671654957496792012-05-22T19:44:56.186-07:002012-05-22T19:44:56.186-07:00Dennis said, "Stop this anonymous parrot face...Dennis said, "Stop this anonymous parrot facebook like teaching pleace and show your real 'face' thank you!"<br /><br />I agree with you 100%.<br /><br />JoanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-36174002749042795882012-05-22T16:28:32.208-07:002012-05-22T16:28:32.208-07:00To Dennis,
The answer for you is between the word...To Dennis,<br /><br />The answer for you is between the words not in them. Look again.<br /><br />Silence IS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-22462493721694036282012-05-22T12:52:15.422-07:002012-05-22T12:52:15.422-07:00HA! I sense that some nothing happened to deepen ...HA! I sense that some nothing happened to deepen your awakening, and it is BEAUTIFUL.<br /><br />-JasonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-3318838929811551712012-05-20T00:03:07.874-07:002012-05-20T00:03:07.874-07:00I will NEVER claim to know the REAL. Yes being sil...I will NEVER claim to know the REAL. Yes being silent is my highest aim. But nobody tells my what to do. Some can suggest but there is no autority outside of me. <br />Love from Tibet, dennisDennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150430873373794955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-5023401144336453972012-05-18T21:23:39.502-07:002012-05-18T21:23:39.502-07:00To Dennis,
If you cannot see and feel the REAL, w...To Dennis,<br /><br />If you cannot see and feel the REAL, what would you like me to do?<br /><br />BE STILL NOW!<br /><br /><br />Silence IS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-14385550571880932942012-05-18T17:47:09.722-07:002012-05-18T17:47:09.722-07:00All the anonymous replys, like silence IS, anonymo...All the anonymous replys, like silence IS, anonymous etc are parrot like comment to me. Show your real face and tell us your experience beyond all 'beautifull' words. Words, words, words, abouth what is ego love, what is human love, real love, how Robbert was looking at the world. What is there to hide. Stop this anonymous parrot facebook like teaching pleace and show your real 'face' thank you! Dennis, NepalDennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150430873373794955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-78188148435771768382012-05-17T23:33:39.887-07:002012-05-17T23:33:39.887-07:00Where does human love exist?
In duality?
Therefo...Where does human love exist?<br /><br />In duality?<br /><br />Therefore projecting love the opposite must also take effect. The balancing of duality must come to pass. Such is the world and its manifestations.<br /><br />Someone has to be projecting. The ego thinks it is projecting. The question must return, "Who am I?" And to follow it through.<br /><br />Robert is LOVE. Robert did not need to LOVE he was totally its essence and therefore everyone felt their Self when with him. He is here now!<br /><br />It seems one is still seeing Robert from a human perspective. Afraid to let go of human qualities. Robert was totally beyond that.<br /><br />The point of view of the writing is what is seen from a personal ego or as a human being. When one sees from THAT all these writings become irrelevant.<br /><br />Silence IS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-41403491726337213542012-05-17T06:14:19.979-07:002012-05-17T06:14:19.979-07:00Will there be Satsang this weekend? If so please ...Will there be Satsang this weekend? If so please post a link with instructions on how to connect. Im not used to the new format.\<br /><br />- IsaacAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-32526214435231743832012-05-17T03:11:56.439-07:002012-05-17T03:11:56.439-07:00Thank you, 'anonymous' wellknown! Ohm nama...Thank you, 'anonymous' wellknown! Ohm namah Shivaji. Ohm paramatman. Thank you Edji, Love from NepalDennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150430873373794955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-11047620940684547502012-05-16T13:41:44.459-07:002012-05-16T13:41:44.459-07:00Ramana's grace continues to permeate the ether...Ramana's grace continues to permeate the ethers of the seeking consciousness even today.<br /><br />"In Talks with Ramana Maharshi" there are several dialogues with seekers where he acknowledges that while pure self inquiry is a direct route, there are differences in individual jiva (souls) consciousness. According to one's disposition, karma yoga, Bhakti or others may be requisite. He informed that all paths lead to self-inquiry.<br /><br />At least I feel that our various stages or disposition are also being addressed through Edji's teachings.<br /><br />Another account re: Ramana was when someone came to him from Gandhi's ashram and asked if there was anything he could report back to Gandhi. Ramana replied: (paraphrase), "tell him the love there is the same love here".<br /><br />Can we qualify grace and love of one teacher from another, when that love is of the Overself? Is that not the same love?<br /><br />Although the mind today is no different from the mind of thousands of years ago with all of the confusion and delusional stuff, can we not expect teachers to come forward to help us by pointing the way back to the Self even today?<br /><br />We are graced to have a living teacher and embodiment of love and grace in Edji that speaks our language and patiently points the way toward the Self and liberation from conditioned thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-1238639506079526522012-05-16T03:17:42.929-07:002012-05-16T03:17:42.929-07:00Dennis, notice Edji here is talking about loving t...Dennis, notice Edji here is talking about loving the guru, a self-realized person and being in his proximity. Then loving is like loving the self.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-2204736939346201732012-05-15T22:38:20.133-07:002012-05-15T22:38:20.133-07:00Love for another can be love of the Self for the S...Love for another can be love of the Self for the Self. It all depends on the depth of the love and the person's openness. Otherwise it can be merely a physical thing.Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-57193182099927739662012-05-15T20:41:12.949-07:002012-05-15T20:41:12.949-07:00Love is the fuel for selfenquiry. Without love adv...Love is the fuel for selfenquiry. Without love advaita becomes mental arrogance. Edji are you presenting a new teaching? A new bhakti approach? In my experience is looking outside for real love always ending in desilliusion. Therefor with all respect and love i will proceed the direct path of selfenquiry. Tought by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150430873373794955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-74871377118683414532012-05-15T13:32:15.494-07:002012-05-15T13:32:15.494-07:00Dear Edji,
Once again, thank you for the teaching...Dear Edji,<br /><br />Once again, thank you for the teachings that help keep the mind from finding an easy foothold to call truth or belief in anything transient. It is a difficult teaching, but so beautiful.<br /><br />How quickly the mind tries to crystallize thought and make it a teaching or method and label it Advaita, Zen, Christianity, Sufi or whatever, when those are temporal anamolies and are therefore not real. They are real only in the world of appearances. <br /><br />I do not know how to define love except that when I pay total attention to another, be it a squirrel, plant, rock or person that feeling must be it. Sometimes I am conscious of seeing others as me in their circumstances and that is probably it also.<br /><br /> As my mind keeps coming back to you and your teachings, there is an indescribable energy. I basque in that.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-69172092588665942142012-05-15T09:15:58.498-07:002012-05-15T09:15:58.498-07:00"Truth will set you free" -Jesus
And wh..."Truth will set you free" -Jesus<br /><br />And when there is a little bit of 'free', can love flow and wash. =DArvydashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16930435403396428739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-66435917681670377872012-05-15T09:07:21.483-07:002012-05-15T09:07:21.483-07:00Hmm...
At least to me Truth serves as the destroye...Hmm...<br />At least to me Truth serves as the destroyer of egotistical tendencies, imaginary world, many pictures about oneself, etc. Then, what is left is Love. Though, love is always there, but somehow that imaginary world blocks seeing... it may sound 'easy', but this is quite difficult to articulate. <br />To be in Gurus presence is without doubt the best practical approach to spirituality. Everything other is something one practices while there is no Guru around.Arvydashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16930435403396428739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-37715829747837295502012-05-15T08:05:49.983-07:002012-05-15T08:05:49.983-07:00Ah, Anonymous,
The mind wants something fixed.
I...Ah, Anonymous,<br /><br />The mind wants something fixed.<br /><br />I think the disavowing and changing directions is brilliant.<br /><br />The teaching or rather spiritual knowledge is the hardest knowledge to let go of. <br /><br /><br />BlessingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-58803721276355228092012-05-14T22:06:28.845-07:002012-05-14T22:06:28.845-07:00You have a strange habit of teaching things, disav...You have a strange habit of teaching things, disavowing them dramatically, and changing direction. I find it alarming, to be honest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-32462281506214430502012-05-14T18:01:36.143-07:002012-05-14T18:01:36.143-07:00This is R, adding to my previous post.
The heart ...This is R, adding to my previous post.<br /><br />The heart enlarges and has a greater and greater capacity to Love when we allow ourselves to be completely vulnerable (allowing the heart to express itself, not knowing what the response from the other will be)<br /><br /> When we realize that vulnerability, though risky, is way more valuable than avoiding the possible pain, we will be more and more willing to take that risk.<br /><br />RAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-69919272931169029032012-05-14T17:43:14.642-07:002012-05-14T17:43:14.642-07:00Great post Ed.
I've noticed recently the tend...Great post Ed.<br /><br />I've noticed recently the tendency to explain away love, squelch it, withdraw from it...all in the name of Truth, knowledge,understanding...<br /><br />I see that just as I used religion as a pacifier to calm the deep longing of my heart to really, really Love someone, I also do the same thing with spirituality.<br /><br />It seems that both of these can be great tools to silence the experiences that the heart is longing to have, especially when those experiences defy the conceptual world of do's and don'ts, shoulds and shouldn'ts. <br /><br /><br />At some point, and it has been reached here, not even the most severe beliefs can silence the heart's longings. <br /><br />The greatest ecstasy that I have ever felt was in the sweet surrender to another. The type of surrender that gives them the power to destroy you, while you trust that they won't. The heart is always willing to take this risk, but the head can seem superior in its reasonings and logic against it.<br /><br />It's scarey, no doubt about that.<br />So scarey even, that I find myself almost afraid to really 'feel' again. This fear has snuck up on me like the fucking ghost of Christmas past. <br /><br />It takes courage to keep the heart open, especially when the hurt has been severe.<br /><br />Many thanks.<br /><br />RAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-25010288413209219592012-05-14T16:24:02.450-07:002012-05-14T16:24:02.450-07:00I don't know how things are done today, but at...I don't know how things are done today, but at one time, monks in her ashram were required, on a daily basis, to meditate for eight hours, recite the 1000 names of the Divine Mother, perform several hours of seva, and practice japa whenever possible. This focus on intense sadhana doesn't come out in the superficial materials available online because these things are for the masses rather than for serious devotees.<br /><br />Amma used to give Krishna Bhava (darshan as Krishna) in addition to Devi Bhava (darshan as the Divine Mother). She stopped Krishna bhava in 1985 because she said it put her into a completely impersonal state in which there were no others, and there was no world, so compassion couldn't be expressed. As with Robert, the "personal love" seemed to be necessary to keep her grounded here.Ed Muzikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-82202367787881840672012-05-14T16:13:51.558-07:002012-05-14T16:13:51.558-07:00wow ed, it's so painfully true what u say. i&...wow ed, it's so painfully true what u say. i've felt that for a while too. advaita is a wonderful head trip, but the core, the Heart is untouched. i've found myself <br /><br />on this strange human relationship, failing, misery, path that seems to, in a strange way, work. yes, human relationships, vulnerabilities, stickiness.... it's my way.<br /><br />i've also found power in the christian church (an open, non crazy-evangelizing-wing-nut denomination, hahaha)<br /><br />i want to give and receive love. if i have a drop, i want to give it away. fill up, give, fill up more, give more....<br /><br />the joy of blessing people, dat's my way. :)johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817636191116872270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-48370914517606846612012-05-14T11:16:45.933-07:002012-05-14T11:16:45.933-07:00I think everybody wants that – it is our deepest n...I think everybody wants that – it is our deepest nature, we are Love and we continue to project and seek it out there. We are simply seeking ourselves - the LOVE that we are. <br /><br />As you say, even Robert Adams did that when engaging with women and with you as a friend. <br /> <br />If we are to live and manifest as human beings that is what we begin to do – project our love in others and seek their reflection, their love for us. <br /><br />Many speak and preach about enlightenment but very few speak about the intimacy of a relationship that allows the human love to grow so much that it becomes a beautiful flower, the lotus of self-realization leading to saintly personhood/human-hood. This is what being truly human means – to love so greatly, so completely. That is the guru-devotee relationship. Very few understand this. It is a very deep, but also very secret teaching because it is dangerous. How many have had that guru-chela relationship themselves? This relationship contains the gems of existence – love for the guru that is grace, humility and worship. And those lead to service, for we see it in every human being we meet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com