Sunday, October 2, 2011

Luminous Shabda-Manorama


Pearls of Wisdom from this Sanskrit course called the "Lumious Shabda" (sound as light & awareness) with Manorama:
  • meditation is when God talks with us
  • what is silence? the absence of thought. experiencing what you are beyond thought
  • love yourself, looking outside of yourself for love is fragile. we are the only ones that go all the way with us
  • when something negative happens, don't give it more power. finish your karma, and don't create more
  • language is everything
  • the contradiction of reality is existing in this realm 
  • the silence of unknowing is important to sit in to let the knowing come
  • there needs to be a fall to learn. let me give you a place to fall. you don't need to know everything
  • confusion is the partner of clarity
  • you don't need to solve the problem, just take the next right step
  • yield in the interest of harmony
  • stay engaged. do something. everyday
  • breath is the one thing that is always with you
  • seek to be aware of what is immediate and in our thought
  • the more common something is, the more you have to study what it means ex:the concept of "love"
  • slow and steady. you can't drink the ocean with one gulp
  • the difference between meditation and sleep is consciousness in meditation
  • practice being dead and you will transcend this form
  • sanskrit is the language of vibration
  • peace is within your own capacity. we have to be peace
  • attention without tension
  • tongue placement is how sanskrit is described/written
  • use what is needed and not more
  • the extent you can pull in is the most you can put out
  • be curious
  • patterns show everything
  • give a little time each day to study yourself, very few people really know themselves 
  • we are pure energy
  • intimacy is the grand union
  • to the extent you live is how you will die or shift out of this form
  • to learn of death, you must study life
  • sit with intuition born of wisdom to guide right action
  • thinking creates anxiety, focus energy beyond the mind
  • not the answer, but the next right question
  • strength to walk directly through something, there are no short cuts. you must go through the center of it
  • explore possibilities. how could the other persons point of view be true?
  • the key to happiness is yourself 
  • nobody like meditation. it is uncomfortable. take comfort in knowing this
  • conserve your energy and then skillfully decide how to expend it
  • step up- find your footing in what is needed
  • trust that it is enough to pose the question-the answer will be drawn to you
  • follow the threads of your deepest hearts longing 
  • yoga should never be a dividing factor
  • yoga is not a phase, it is a way of being
  • mind your own business- what is our business but to know who we are
  • if God wanted to straighten out someone else's ego, don't you think he would have done it a while ago?
  • learning is its own reward
  • what has a beginning, has a middle, has an end. AUM cycle is in everything
  • when you can see the cycle of something, you are no longer in it and there lies the freedom. you are beyond the cycle
  • life gives us plenty of practice partners
  • to the extent that sounds have silence, that's how powerful it is
  • word is associated with life, light, God, and manifestation
  • AUM is pure sound vibration. ocean of energy
  • the inner music is uncreated, uncaused, without an instrument or a player. it is spontaneous, silence, unstruck vibration of pure energy. it is the sound of life. the cosmic vibration-connection to true self
  • once you are interested in yoga, you are never bored again. any moment to yourself, you can listen to the cosmic music within
  • how can the darkness ever hold suite when the light of knowledge is there?
  • did you ever know a time that you were not? and we still don't know what we are at the time
  • energy that is united with consciousness is realized energy
  • when Shakti dances, she never takes her eyes of Siva
Thank you for sharing your light, Jai Ma!
Check out Ma's website: http://www.sanskritstudies.org