Jayaji — Short Silences

Ten Minutes Of Spacious Stillness (meditation)

Ten-minute meditation to uncover the stillness and spaciousness of your Being. This spacious quality is synonymous with the natural state. When we inquire inwards, there is an edgeless-ness, a centreless-ness and a vast expanse to the nature of awareness. In our daily lives, we become, more often than not, contracted into experience. This is an invitation to return to spaciousness.
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Heart Teachings — RAMANA MAHARSHI

"As the sun gives light to the moon, even so, this Heart gives light to the mind."
Chapter 5 - The Science of the Heart from the Sri Ramana Gita.
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Freedom — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world; and is credited with raising interfaith awareness and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion.
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Ramana Maharshi — On Contemplation, Death & Sleep

"Why do you love sleep, but not death?"
 
Short contemplative reading from "Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi".
 
About Sri Ramana Maharshi In July 1896, at the tender age of sixteen, Sri Ramana Maharshi had an experience that transformed his life and awakened in him the true meaning of the Self.
 
During the following fifty-four years his life was a living example of supreme peace, universal compassion and ceaseless Self-Awareness. Thousands, both from India and abroad, flocked to his quiet hermitage nestled at the foot of the Arunachala Mountain in a small South Indian town.
 
In the purity of his presence, the restless waves of the mind were stilled, grieving hearts found solace, and sincere seekers of Truth experienced Supreme Beatitude. Even today, more than half a century after his physical demise, sincere seekers from all lands who turn to him experience the same unmistakable guidance and grace.
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Longchenpa — The Song of the Vajra

The following famous prayer has been extracted from Longchenpa’s explanation of Vajra Song and Dance (rdo rje’i glu gar) given in The Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle (theg mchog mdzod).
As stated by Longchenpa, the original source of this mantra is The Tantra of the Union of the Sun and Moon (nyi zla kha sbyor), one of the Seventeen Tantras of the Category of Pith Instructions. Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche explains this mantra to be the naturally resonant mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra in the form of a vajra song. Rinpoche stated that the song was not written in Sanskrit, but rather in the ḍākiṇῑ script of Uḍḍiyāna. Rinpoche points out that there are many different versions of this song. Rather than seeing one as correct and the others as incorrect, Rinpoche explained that they should all be considered as correct “because this teaching did not come from only one place or at only one time.”
ཅེས་པའི་དོན་ཏེ། སེམས་ཉིད་ཁྱབ་གདལ་ཡངས་པའི་ངང་ནས་བླང་ངོ་། ། Sing this while remaining within the all-pervasive expanse of mind’s nature.
| Lhasey Lotsawa Translations (trans. by Peter Woods and Stefan Mang), 2018.https://www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of...
 
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NISARGADATTA | Final Talks on Non-Duality

Some selections from "CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE, The final talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj"
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 ‒ 1981, From his living room in the slums of Bombay (Mumbai), this self-realized master became famous for brilliant, aphoristic, extemporized talks in which he taught an austere, minimalist Jnana Yoga based on his own experience. Many of these talks have been published in books. The earliest volume, I Am That, is widely regarded as a modern classic.
 
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Dzogchen Vajra Song: Definitive Metaphors and Meanings by Longchen Rabjam

Longchen Rabjam lived from 1308-1363 and is revered as one of the greatest scholars in the Nyingma tradition. He carried the title Kunkhyen - All-Knowing. As a child, he studied the Dharma in great depth and entered the famous Shedra Sangpu at age 19, but the behaviour of some of the scholars disgusted him, and he eventually chose to practise in the solitude of the mountains.
He wrote more than 250 treatises on a wide variety of topics but is best known for his works on Dzogchen, especially the extensive analysis of the Dzogchen tantras known as the Seven Treasures, the Chöying Dzöd. He gathered together the heart-essence teachings of Guru Rinpoche, Vimalamitra and Yeshe Tsogyal.
Although he was one of the most realized sages of Tibet, with crowds of disciples following him wherever he went, he remained a simple hermit with minimal belongings, often dwelling in caves. He saw solitude in nature as a source of spiritual awakening.
For him, nature's peaceful and clear environment inspired peace and clarity, enabling practitioners to unite with ultimate joy, to attain the oneness of universal openness and luminous clarity. He avoided building monasteries and lived in solitude, advising his followers to do the same.
This vajra song of definitive metaphors and meanings was composed by Longchen Rabjam, yogin of the supreme vehicle, in the isolated place of Lhundrup Ling for the sake of those with faith. May virtue abound!
| Translated by Benedek Bartha, 2022. https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-...
 
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RUMI | Three Poems on Silence

"Your love has brought us to this silence, where the only obligation is to walk slowly through a meadow and look." - Rumi
Jelaluddin Rumi is one of the greatest mystics to have ever lived. He was a Sufi master and Persian poet born in 1207. He is known for his works of poetry around the theme of union with God.
Let these three pieces on Silence allow you entrance into the domain of Silence.
 
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