Guru Purnima Day: Teachers and Teachings(2)

Aujourd’hui, 15 Juillet 2011, nous aurons la plus grande et belle lune de l’année. Dans la tradition hindoue et bouddhiste est célébré GURU PURNIMA.

Le yoga est une pratique spirituelle, il n’y a pas de yoga sans dévotion. La fête de GURU PURNIMA est une si belle tradition! L’opportunité nous est donnée d’honorer nos maîtres spirituels.

C’est un privilège que d’avoir rencontré dans cette vie présente des êtres humains qui vous ouvrent une porte sur l’éternité. J’en suis reconnaissante au delà des mots. Infinite gratitude, love and pranams to Sharon Gannon and David Life for the gift of Jivamukti Yoga, for being living inspirations of compassion, wisdom and fearlessness. Thank you for believing that awakening is possible and that kindness will bring success. OM bolo Shri Tripura Sundari Ma, OM bolo Shri Deva Das ki JAI!

En ce jour très spécial, toute ma gratitude va aussi à mes gurubais, à toutes celles et ceux qui m’ont apporté leurs lumières et parfois leur part d’ombre (autant d’occasions uniques pour évoluer).OM bolo shri sat guru, bhagavan ki JAI! Cette foi /shradda(en sanskrit) partagée me porte -

“Faith is a way in which your are connected to the universal truth. Faith and love are intimately connected. As it is said in the Ramayana, without devotion there is no faith; without faith there is no devotion. In a way it’s the guru’s own incredible relation to God that’s the transmission of living faith, the fact that he or she is living in the light of God. That connection is love. A book doesn’t give a living transmission. It’s the light coming through the guru, the remover of darkness. Faith really comes from within you, and the guru is awakening it. Faith comes through grace. You can cultivate it by opening your spiritual heart and quieting your mind until you feel the validity of your identity with your deeper Self. The qualities of that Self are peace,joy, compassion, wisdom and love. Faith is not belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell. Faith is in the heart, while beliefs are in the head. Experiences, even spiritual experiences, come and go. As long as you base your faith on experience, your faith is going to be constantly flickering, because your experience keep changing. The moment you recognize that faith lies behind experience, that’s just being, not the experience of being but being, then it’s just “Ah so” “ Extrait de “BE LOVE NOW, the path of the heart” par Ram Dass

Je dédie ma pratique aux gourous des mes gourous. Il y a un fil très fort qui nous relie. Je me sens plus forte d’appartenir à une famille, un lignage, Parampara . Ce lignage remonte à des temps immémoriaux qui nous ramènent à Ishvara, Shiva, le premier Yogi, notre premier gourou. OM NAMAH SHIVAYA.

Enfin, cette journée qui a apporté son lot d’annonces de décès me rappelle aussi le privilège (et la responsabilité) que nous avons d’être simplement en vie.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it, I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can. H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama

Happy Guru Pūrṇimā गुरु पूर्णिमा

Jeanine

NB: Vous pouvez lire aussi le focus du mois de l’école Jivamukti: The guru as a mirror 

Namaste

Jeanine

Teachers and Teachings(1)

“As you meet beeings along the path,you’ll come to sense who are your teachers and who are teachings for you. Some teachers are obviously still working on themselves, and they feed you by sharing their experiences. Others serve as living examples of the detours and the pitfalls along the way, which may help you reflect on how to get on with your own path. They become teachings for you, whatever the intention when you started out.

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A true guru, whether on this physical plane or not, can show you the possibility of enlightenment. That darshan,that flash of reality, gives you a perspective on the spiritual state and your psychological stuff. (…) As we begin to observe the roadblocks that impede our way, we see how we need to clean up our mental clutter and clear away the distractions.(…) Clearing the mind is a process of becoming simple, but it’s not a simple process. There’s plenty of rooms for excursions into delusion (maya).We’ve all encountered, whether in ourselves or others, the tendency to substitute piety for purity, ritual for personal experience, or concepts for consciousness.These are ways we pretend to be spiritual while maintaining the fiction that we are the center of the universe.The delusions are not good or bad, but the ego can be very subtle and convincing at “being spiritual” too. ” I’m a spiritual person”- how many lifetimes will we spend on that one? Eventually those fictions may lead us to real spiritual work anyway.

The guru acts as a mirror for your soul and at the same time reflects your impurities and attachments back to you. (…)

Of course, not everyone has a guru in a body to reflect their attachments back to them and show them where they are stuck. (…)Without somebody on the physical plane, it is easy to preserve your subtle ego defenses, in effect to stand in your own way.With a guru on the subtle plane you can too easily interpret his or her teaching to maintain your ego. I imagine I hear Maharaj-ji, and I interpret it.It’s the interpretation that’s gets me in trouble! Is it Maharaj-ji , or is my ego? I have to listen very carefully.

When a new experience presents itself, I ask, “Does it fit? Is it a teaching from the guru? Does it feel right” Your intuition, the quality of the heart that connects you to the guru, is how you validate and integrate the teachings. There is an intuitive stamp of approval. that intuition is based in the atman, so you’re using the spiritual heart as your radar. It’s not like using the intellect to judge.”

Extrait de “BE LOVE NOW, the path of the heart” par Ram Dass

Ram Dass sur le même sujet sur youtube . Son élocution est lente suite  à un avc , il n’en est pas moins fascinant de l’écouter et bien sûr de lire son dernier livre extraordinaire.

Namaste

Jeanine