tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post8305212109022374266..comments2023-12-16T16:12:08.051-08:00Comments on Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization: Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-79597832706766825292012-01-12T17:49:30.464-08:002012-01-12T17:49:30.464-08:00'Submit to a daily practice.
Your loyalty to t...'Submit to a daily practice.<br />Your loyalty to that <br />is a ring on the door. <br /><br />Keep knocking, and the joy inside<br />will eventually open a window<br />and look out to see who's there.'<br /><br />RumiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-86863038370319797962012-01-12T07:06:23.485-08:002012-01-12T07:06:23.485-08:00Valuable information indeed !
Inspired by this my ...Valuable information indeed !<br />Inspired by this my two (instead of one) sessions of sitting beginning with chanting began today.<br /><br />Funnily enough the mesage from Kuan yin oracle yesterday was 'try to attain your goal now for your disatisfaction comes from your apathy' <br /><br />Clear advice from Edji that 30 minutes a day is not enough.Mark U.Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-33812853395421597612012-01-11T18:32:04.201-08:002012-01-11T18:32:04.201-08:00Hi A,
Welcome :) Hope to meet you in Satsang soon...Hi A,<br /><br />Welcome :) Hope to meet you in Satsang soon.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10413232543605646416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-53738769788700194532012-01-11T16:14:49.304-08:002012-01-11T16:14:49.304-08:00Tell the psychiatrist you feel like you're dis...Tell the psychiatrist you feel like you're dissolving and he'll send you away for some 'rest'.<br /><br />Tell Ed the same thing and he'll<br />say 'KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-58373679635717586662012-01-11T11:25:09.614-08:002012-01-11T11:25:09.614-08:00A rare student indeed! Years, maybe decades of fu...A rare student indeed! Years, maybe decades of fumbling around already done with. Focused and empty... ready to receive. What a wonderful opportunity for student and teacher!<br /><br />I love how you say her path is the Jnana marga, then recommend bhaktic chanting :). <br /><br />I know for me the chanting has made me come alive again... no more judgmental cold fish here. I'm so grateful to you for introducing me to a little bhakta, and devotional chanting! Gimme the juice!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-75107863569581009692012-01-11T10:45:24.767-08:002012-01-11T10:45:24.767-08:00this exchange is so helpful. including arvydas. ...this exchange is so helpful. including arvydas. edji, you talked recently about being one of the only teachers who talks about his own experience. i'm so grateful that not only you do, but other students do too.<br /><br />this subject of anxiety. i've had it too and its arising at an early age corresponds with a spiritual awakening like your two students above.<br /><br />depression, anxiety, certain 'breaks' seem to sometimes, not always, have a spiritual element, reflecting something deeper going on.<br /><br />there's even a spritual emergency network that deals with people who have spiritual breakthroughs that are misunderstood to be mental illness.<br /><br />can you imagine the tragedy? someone telling a ramakrishna that's he's nuts and doping him up with medication.<br /><br />this isn't always the case, but, for me, anxiety reflected a glimpse that i don't exist, that things are unreal.<br /><br />it won't be resolved until i transend completely.<br /><br />thank you all. your REAl life experience inspired me, touched me.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817636191116872270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-51189035283773924302012-01-11T08:44:57.396-08:002012-01-11T08:44:57.396-08:00It is reassuring in a way to hear others speak of ...It is reassuring in a way to hear others speak of anxiety and fear.<br /><br />I often struggle with both of these on a daily basis.<br /><br />When reading material related to awakening or practicing in any way, I often have severe attacks making it very hard to breathe at times. <br /><br />I realize that it is the mind that imagines the fear and anxiety and it is the mind also that creates the resistance to it. <br /><br />At other times, it seems I am pulled into the whole drama.<br /><br />Ed, loved what you said in regard to this, "Don't go to war with your mind. Make love to it." <br /><br />This is so true. When I stand back and watch it with curiosity and a sense of playfulness and fascination rather than with the attitude of 'control' it takes a lot of the sting out.<br /><br />Great Thread.<br /><br />With Love,<br />JoanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-45693202926118690582012-01-11T04:40:42.008-08:002012-01-11T04:40:42.008-08:00Dear A,
I am totally with you. My journey started...Dear A,<br /><br />I am totally with you. My journey started when I was 15-16 too.<br />My main fuel: fear, anxiety. It started, when someone unasked hit my brains like with hammer and it was seen there is no 'solid I' anywhere. I have lived with fear that arose then for like 4 years.<br /><br />But it gradually started to recede as practice was going on. It didnt disappear though. It pops up now and then, even during Edjis' satsang, where the feeling of death arises. It stings no more though. <br />During these past nine years I have managed to try many teachings. I've found that pranayama helps with clearing many complexes of the mind. Heck, I even have reached a clear state of mind, where strong peace and clarity pervaded, skin was glowing like a lamp (according to those who saw). BUT.... BUUUUT... for fucks sake, though it seemed very nice, this shit feeling in solar plexus area didnt go away. Something was "not it". I dropped unwillingly pranayama, and was pulled again (and again, and again) to Ed. I gave up totally going anywhere, I thought: even in dreams I see Ed teaching me various things and showing me what I am holding onto through action, if such pull is going on, i though again, it is time to surrender.<br /><br />Though Bhakti was never "my thing", oh my, what a difference it made. Knowledge path became wet and alive. The 'indifference' of the Watcher of the inner processes started to melt. An aliveness, interaction pervades the journey. <br />One week you are flying, laughing from nothing, blissed out. The other you are lost, despair, anxiety dictates its ways. But its good and well.<br />We are so lucky to have met Ed alive, you have no clue, how lucky we are... it is a blessing from the sky.<br /><br />Wish you bestArvydashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16930435403396428739noreply@blogger.com