THE SILENCE

                                              LIKE GOD AS SILENCE

 

        ARE THERE ANY OTHER PORTALS APART FROM THOSE YOU JUST MENTIONED?

       YES, THERE ARE. THE UNMANIFESTED IS NOT SEPERATE FROM THE MANIFESTED. IT PERVADES THIS WORLD, BUT IT IS SO WELL DISGUESED THAT ALMOST EVERYBODY MISSES IT COMPLETELY. IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, YOU'LL FIND IT EVERYWHERE. A PORTAL OPENS UP EVERY MOMENT.

      DO YOU HEAR THAT DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE? OR THAT CAR PASSING BY? LISTEN CAREFULLY. CAN YOU FEEL THE PRESENCE OF THE UNMANIFESTED IN THAT? YOU CAN? LOOK FOR IT IN THE SILENCE OUT OF WHICH THE SOUNDS COME AND INTO WHICH THEY RETURN. PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE SILENCE THAN TO THE SOUNDS. PAYING ATTENTION TO OUTER SILENCE CREATES INNER SILENCE, THE MIND BECOMES STILL. A PORTAL IS OPENING UP.

       EVERY  SOUND IS BORN OUT OF SILENCE, DIES BACK INTO SILENCE, AND DURING ITS LIFE SPAN IS SURROUNDED BY SILENCE. SILENCE ENABLES THE SOUND TO BE. IT IS AN INTRINSIC BUT UNMANIFESTED PART OF EVERY SOUND, EVERY MUSICAL NOTE, EVERY SONG, EVERY WORD. THE UNMANIFESTED IS PRESENT IN THIS WORD AS SILENCE. THIS IS WHY IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS SO LIKE GOD AS SILENCE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PAY ATTENTION TO IT. EVEN DURING A CONVERSATION, BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE GAPS BETWEEN WORDS, THE BRIEF SILENT INTERVALS BETWEEN SENTENCES. AS YOU DO THAT, THE DIMENSION OF STILLNESS GROWS WITHIN YOU, YOU CANNOT PAY ATTENTION TO SILENCE WITHOUT SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOMING STILL WITHIN. SILENCE WITHOUT, STILLNESS WITHIN. YOU HAVE ENTERED THE UNMANIFESTED.

  

PLEASE TRY IT NOW

                                                           TRY NOW

          PLEASE TRY IT NOW. YOU MAY FIND IT HELPFUL TO CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR THIS PRACTISE. LATER ON, WHEN BEING IN THE BODY, HAS BECOME NATURAL AND EASY, THIS WILL NO LONGER BE NECESSARY. DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION INTO TE BODY, FEEL IT FROM WHITHIN. IS IT ALIVE? IS THERE LIFE IN YOUR HANDS, ARMS, LEGS, AND FEET- IN YOUR ABDOMEN, YOUR CHEST? CAN YOU FEEL THE SUBTLE ENERGY FIELD THAT PERVADES THE ENTIRE BODY AND GIVES VIBRANT LIFE TO EVERY ORGAN AND EVERY CELL? CAN YOU FEEL IT SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL PARTS OF THE BODY AS A SINGLE FIELD OF ENERGY? KEEP FOCUSING ON THE FEELING OF YOUR INNER BODY FOR A FEW MOMENTS. DO NOT START TO THINK ABOUT IT. FEEL IT. THE MORE ATTENTION YOU GIVE IT, THE CLEARE AND STRONGER THIS FEELING WILL BECOME. IT WILL FEEL AS IF EVERY CELL IS BECOMING MORE ALIVE, AND IF YOU HAVE A STRONG VISUAL SENSE, YOU MAY GET AN IMAGE OF YOUR BODY BECOMING LUMINOUS. ALTHOUGH SUCH AN IMAGE CAN HELP YOU TEMPORARILY, PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE FEELING THAN TO ANY IMAGE THAT MAY ARISE, AN IMAGE, NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFUL OR POWERFUL, IS ALREADY DEFINED IN FORM, SO THERE IS LESS SCOPE FOR PENETRATING MORE DEEPLY.

          THE FEELING OF YOUR INNER BODY IS FORMLESS, AND UNFATHOMABLE. YOU CAN ALWAYS GO INTO IT MORE DEEPLY. IF YOU CANNOT FEEL VERY MUCH AT THIS STAGE, PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER YOU CAN FEEL. PERHAPS THERE IS JUST A SLIGHT TINGLING IN YOUR HANDS OR FEET. THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE MOMENT, JUST FOCUS ON THE FEELING. YOUR BODY IS COMING ALIVE. LATER, WE WILL PRACTICE SOME MORE. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES NOW, BUT KEEP SOME ATTENTION IN THE INNER ENERGY FIELD OF THE BODY EVEN AS YOU LOOK AROUND THE ROOM. THE INNER BODY LIES AT THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN YOUR FORM IDENTIFY AND YOUR ESSENCE IDENTIFY, YOUR TRUE NATURE. NEVER LOSE TOUCH WITH IT. 

FLOWERS HISTORY

                                               POLLEN AND NECTAR

   

           INSIDE A FLOWER THERE IS A SWEET JUICE CALLED NECTAR. AS INSECTS AND BIRDS DRINK NECTOAR, THEY TAKE POLLEN FROM ONE FLOWER TO ANOTHER. WHEN A BEE DRINKS NECTOR, POLLE STICKS TO ITS FURRY BODY. IT FLIES TO ANOTHER FLOWER OF THE SAME KIND AND SOME OF THE POLLEN DROPS OFF. THIS FLOWER NOW HAS SOME POLLEN FROM ANOTHER FLOWER. POLLEN CAN RUB ONTO A HUMMINGBIRD'S BEAK AS IT DRINKS NECTAR. THE POLLEN RUBS OFF INTO THE NEXT FLOWER THAT THE HUMMINGBIRD VISITS.

      BEES CAN COLLECT NECTAR FROM OVER 1000 FLOWERS BEFORE THEY FEEL FULL!

   MAKING SEEDS

          PLANTS START TO GROW SEEDS AS SOON AS THEY HAVE SOME POLLEN FROM ANOTHER PLANT. WHEN POLLEN LANDS ON A POPPY, A POD GROWS IN THE MIDDLE. SEEDS GROW INSIDE THE POD AND THE FLOWER BEGINS TO DIE. THE PETALS FALL OFF, LEAVING A POD FULL OF SEEDS. ALLIUMS ARE MADE UP OF LOTS OF TINY FLOWERS. EACH FLOWER BECOMES A TINY SEED POD. CHINESE LANTERN SEEDS GROW INSIDE A HOLLOW CASE. 

  SOME CATERPILLARS LIVE IN SEED PODS. WHEN THE CATERPILLARS MOVE, THE PODS SEEM TO 'JUMP'.

      SPREADING SEEDS

          SEEDS NEED LOTS OF SPACE TO GROW, SO THEY HAVE TO BE SCATTERED FAR APART. BURDOCK SHARP, SPIKY HOOKS. THEY GET CAUGHT ON AN ANIMAL'S FUR AS IT BRUSHES PAST. WHEN THE ANIMAL SCRATCHES, THE SEEDS FALL OFF. CRANE'S BILL PLANTS HAVE SEED PODS ON THIN STEMS. THE STEMS CURL UP AND SHOOT THE SEEDS OUT OF THEIR PODS. DANDELION SEEDS FLOAT ON THE WIND LIKE LITTLE PARACHUTES.

 WHEN ANTS CAN SEEDS INTO THEIR NESTS TO EAT, SOME OF THE SEEDS BEGIN TO GROW.

      RAINFOREST FLOWERS

         RAINFORESTS ARE WARM, WET PLACES. TREES BLOCK OUT SUNLIGHT, SO IT'S DARK ON THE GROUND. THE LEAVES OF GLORY LILIES HOOK INTO TREES, SO THEY CAN GROW UP TO THE SUNLIGHT. 

TANK PLANTS TRAP RAINWATER IN THEIR LEAVES. FROGS LIVE IN THE POOLS OF WATER.

     A RAFFLESIA BUD GROWS ON THE GROUND. IT GROWS AS BIG AS A CABBAGE. ITS FIVE RED PETALS START TO UNFOLD. RAFFLESIA FLOWERS ARE AS BIG AS THE WHEELS ON A TRUCK AND HAVE NO LEAVES OR STEMS. THEY SMELL OF ROTTING MEAT TO ATTRACT FLIES WHICH SPREAD THEIR POLLEN.

YOUR THOUGHTS TELLING WHO ARE YOU

                                                            THOUGHTS

     1. IMAGINATION IS THE DOOR TO INSPIRATION AND THE BASIS OF ALL THOUGHT.

     2. PUTS THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.

     3. HE WHO STEPS HIS ACTIVITIES AND AT THE SAME TIME IS STILL THINKING ABOUT THEM ATTAINS TO NOTHING, HE ONLY BECOMES A HYPOCRITE. BUT HE WHO BY THE POWER OF HIS MIND GRADUALLY BRINGS HIS SENSE ORGANS UNDER CONTROL, EMPLOYING THEM IN WORK, THAT MAN IS BETTER. THEREFORE DO THOU WORK.

    4. IT IS NOT THE BUILDING, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE A CHURCH, AND THAT IS WHAT WE ALWAYS FORGET.

   5. BUT I AM PREPARED TO GO ANY DISTANCE TO SEE THE FACE OF THAT MAN WHO CAN REALLY MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE SIN AND THE SINNER. IT IS EASY TO SAY SO.

  6. THE APPEARANCES OF HAPPINESS OR UNHAPPINESS OF THE SOUL ARE BUT REFLECTIONS.

  7. HEROES ONLY ENJOY THE WORLD.

  8. IN PHYSICS, THOUGHT THE SNAKE, EVEN THE ELECTRON AS A DUAL CHARACTER. SOMETIMES APPEARING AS A PARTICLE, AT OTHER TIMES AS A WAVE. THE GREAT SWAMI VIVEKANANDA WITTILY CALLED IT "WAVICLE" HE REMEMBERED.

 9. CONCENTRATION OF THE POWER OF THE MIND IS OUR ONLY INSTRUMENT TO HELP US SEE GOD.

10. WHEN YOU HAVE TRAINED YOUR MIND AND YOUR NERVES TO REALISE THIS IDEA OF THE WORLD'S NONDEPENDENCE ON YOU OR ON ANYBODY, THERE WILL THEN BE NO REACTION IN THE FORM OF PAIN RESULTING FROM WORK.

  11. THE COW NEVER TELLS A LIE, AND THE STONE NEVER STEALS, BUT, NEVERTHELESS, THE COW REMAINS A COW AND THE STONE A STONE . MAN STEALS AND MAN TELLS LIES, AND AGAIN IT IS MAN THAT BECOMES A GOD.

  12. NO MAN IS TO BE JUDGED BY THE MERE NATURE OF HIS DUTIES, BUT ALL SHOULD BE JUDGED BY THE MANNER AND THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THEY PERFORM THEM.

 13. THE MIND IS IN THREE STATES, ONE OF WHICH IS DARKNESS, CALLED TAMAS, FOUND IN BRUTES AND IDIOTS, IT ONLY ACTS TO INJURE. NO OTHER IDEA COMES INTO THAT STATE OF MIND. THEN THERE IS THE ACTIVE STATE OF MIND, RAJAS, WHOSE CHIEF MOTIVES ARE POWER AND ENJOYMENT. I WILL BE POWERFUL AND RULE OTHERS. THEN THERE IS THE STATE CALLED SATTVA, SERENITY, CALMNESS.

 14. WHAT A MEAN LEARNS IS REALLY WHAT HE DISCOVERS, BY TAKING THE COVER OFF HIS OWN SOUL, WHICH IS A MINE OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE.

  15. EACH IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE, BUT THE DUTY OF ONE IS NOT THE DUTY OF THE OTHER.

ABOUT FLOWERS

                                         BEAUTFIFUL FLOWERS HISTORY

      THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FLOWERS GROWING ALL OVER THE WORLD.

      THESE AMAZING FLOWERS ARE PASSION FLOWERS.

SEEDS TO SEEDLINGS

    A SEED HAS A HARD SHELL WITH A YOUNG PLANT INSIDE. SEEDS GROW IN THE SOIL WHEN THE SUN AND RAIN HAS MADE THEM WARM AND WET.

  

   EACH SUNFLOWER SEED CAN GROW INTO A BIG SUNFLOWER

IN THE SOIL THE SHELL OF A SEED SPLITS

A SMALL ROOT SPROUTS OUT OF IT.

THEN A SHOOT GROWS OUT OF THE SEED

       WHEN A SHOOT BREAKS THROUGTH THE SOIL, IT IS CALLED A SEEDLING.

THE LARGEST SEED IN THE WORLD IS THE COCO DE MER. IT IS BIGGER THAN A FOOTBALL.

COCO SEED

PLANT PARTS

   MOST PLANTS ARE MADE UP OF FLOWERS, LEAVES, ROOTS AND STEMS.

THE STEMS KEEP THE PLANT UPRIGHT. LEAVES AND FLOWERS GROW ON THE STEMS.

PLANT MAKE FOOD IN THEIR GREEN LEAVES. SOME PLANTS HAVE LEAVES THAT ARE SHARP AND SPIKY. THEY GROW WELL AS ANIMALS PREFER TO EAT SMOOTH LEAVES.

LOTS OF THINGS YOU EAT ARE PLANT PARTS. BROCCOLI IS A BUNCH OF FLOWERS AND CARROTS ARE A KIND OF ROOT.

  

UNDERGROUND, THE ROOTS SOAK UP WATER FROM THE SOIL . THEY HOLD THE PLANT IN PLACE TOO.

MAKING FOOD

 PLANTS NEED FOOD TO GROW. THEY USE SUNLIGHT, AIR AND WATER TO MAKE THEIR FOOD.THE SOAK UP AIR AND SUNLIGHT. THEN THE LEAVES SUCH RAINWATER UP THE STEM FROM THE ROOTS. THE WATER, SUNLIGHT AND AIR MAKE FOOD IN THE LEAVES.

SOME PLANTS STORE THEIR FOOD IN BULBS, WHICH ARE MADE UP OF LAYERS OF SPECIAL LEAVES. ONIONS ARE A TYPE OF BULB. IF YOU CUT ONE IN HALF, YOU CAN SEE ITS LAYERS. 

ONION

BUDS TO FLOWERS

   WHEN A SEEDLING HAS GROWN INTO A STONG PLANT, IT IS READY TO GROW FLOWERS. BABY FLOWERS ARE CALLED BUDS. THE PETALS ARE TIGHTLY PACKED INSIDE A BUD. SLOWLY A BUD BEGINS TO OPEN, ITS PETALS START TO APPEAR. THE PETALS OPEN INTO A FLOWER.

IN THE MIDDLE OF A FLOWER THERE ARE LONG TUBES CALLED STAMENS. ON THE TIPS OF THE STAMENS THERE IS SOME POWDER CALLED POLLEN. PLANTS USE POLLEN TO MAKE SEEDS.

IMPROVE YOUR LIFE WITH POSITIVE THOUGHTS

                                        WAKE UP WITH POSITIVE ENERGY

1. THE DOCTRINE OF NON-ATTACHMENT.

 2. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT WE ARE AND WHATEVER WE WISH OURSELVES TO BE, WE HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE OURSELVES. IF WHAT WE ARE NOW HAS BEEN THE RESULT OF OUR OWN PAST ACTIONS, IT CERTAINLY FOLLOWS THAT WHATEVER WE WISH TO BE IN THE FUTURE CAN BE PRODUCED BY OUR PRESENT ACTIONS, SO WE HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO ACT.

 3. HINDU RELIGION DOES NOT CONSIST IN STRUGGLES AND ATTEMPTS TO BELIEVE A CERTAIN DONTRINE OR DOGMA, BUT IN REALISING-NOT ON BELIEVING, BUT IN BEING AND BECOMING.

 4. HE WHO HAS NO FAITH IN HIMSELF CAN NEVER HAVE FAITH IN GOD.

 5. BY NO PROPHETS OR ANYTHING .... ONLY INFINITE WORDS, INFINITE BY THEIR VERY NATURE, FROM WHICH THE WHOLE UNIVERSE COMES AND GOES.

 6. IF THE SUBJECT IN A GOOD ONE, WE SHALL FEEL FRIENDLY TOWARDS IT, IF THE SUBJECT OF THOUGTH IS ONE THAT IS MISERABLE, WE MUST BE GLAD, IF IT IS EVIL, WE MUST BE INDIFFERENT.

 7. THE MIDST OF INTENSE ACTIVITY FINDS HIMSELF IN THE.

 8. CIRCUMSTANCES CAN NEVER BE GOOD OR BAD. ONLY THE INDIVIDUAL MAN CAN BE GOOD OR BAD.

 9. HYPNOTISE OUR MINDS INTO THE BELIEF THAT WE ARE BRAVE.

 10. THEY BECOME WHAT THEY THINK. WE WILL BECOME (ONLY) BY.

 11. HE IS TRYING TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF, BUT HE CANNOT FOOL KRISHNA.

 12. THAT WHICH IS SELFISH IS IMMORAL, AND THAT WHICH IS UNSELFISH IS MORAL.

 13. KRISHNA IS THE HIGHER SELF, OR GOD. HE SEES THROUGH THE ARGUMENT AT ONCE. IN THIS CASE (THE MOTIVE) IS WEAKNESS.

 14. THERE ROSE THIS MAN KRISHNA, AND IN THE GITA HE TRIES TO RECONCILE THE CEREMONY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PRIESTS AND THE PEOPLE.

 15. NO KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM OUTSIDE, IT IS ALL INSIDE. WHAT WE SAY A MAN "KNOWS" SHOULD, IN STRICT PSYCHOLOGICAL LANGUAGE, BE WHAT HE, "DISCOVERS" OR " UNVEILS" WHAT A MAN, LEARS, IS REALLY WHAT HE "DISCOVERS" BY TAKING THE COVER OFF HIS OWN SOUL, WHICH IS A MINE OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE.

 16. THAT WHICH IS TRUE MUST BE INFINITE AND ETERNAL. THAT IS ONE TEST OF TRUTH. IT NEVER DECAYS, IT IS ALWAYS THE SAME.

17. LEARN EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD FROM OTHERS, BUT BRING IT IN, AND IN YOUR OWN WAY ABSORB IT, DO NOT BECOME OTHERS.

 18. UNIFORMITY IS THE RIGOROUS LAW OF NATURE, WHAT ONCE HAPPENED CAN HAPPEN ALWAYS.

 19. THE FIRE THAT WARMS US CAN ALSO CONSUME US, IT IS NOT FAULT OF THE FIRE.

 20.COMFORT IS NO TEST OF TRUTH. TRUTH IS OFTEN FAR FROM BEING COMFORTABLE.

YOUR PRESENCE

                                               THE POWER OF NOW

    IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS

       YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE STATE OF PRESENCE AS THE KEY. I THINK I UNERSTAND IT INTELLECTUALLY, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE EVER TRULY EXPERIENCED IT. I WONDER- IS IT WHAT I THINK IT IS , OR IS IT SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT?

         IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS! YOU CAN'T THINK ABOUT PRESENCE, AND THE MIND CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT. UNDERSTANDING PRESENCE IS BEING PRESENT. 

         TRY A LITTLE EXPERIMENT. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SAY TO YOURSELF. "I WONDER WHAT MY NEXT THOUGHT IS GOING TO BE", THEN BECOMED VERY ALERT AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT THOUGHT IS GOING TO BE. THEN BECOME VERY ALERT AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT THOUGHT. BE LIKE A CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE. WHAT THOUGHT IS GOING TO COME OUT OF THE MOUSE HOLE? TRY IT NOW.

      WELL?

      I HAD TO WAIT FOR QUITE A LONG TIME BEFORE A THOUGHT CAME IN.

     EXACTLY. AS LONG AS YOU ARE IN A STATE OF INTENSE PRESENCE, YOU ARE FREE OF THOUGHT. YOU ARE STILL, YET HIGHLY ALERT. THE INSTANT YOUR CONSCIOUS ATTENTION SINKS BELOW A CERTAIN LEVEL, THOUGHT RUSHES IN. THE MENTAL NOISE RETURNS, THE STILLNESS IS LOST, YOU ARE BACK IN TIME.

     TO TEST THEIR DEGREE OF PRESENCE, SOME ZEN MASTERS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO CREEP UP ON THEIR STUDENTS FROM BEHIND AND SUDDENLY HIT THEM WITH A STICK. QUITE A SHOCK! IF THE STUDENT HAD BEEN FULLY PRESENT AND IN A STATE OF ALERTNESS, IF HE HAD KEPT HIS LOIN GIRDED AND HIS LAMP BURNING, WHICH IS ONE OF THE ANALOGIES THAT JESUS USES FOR PRESENCE, HE WOULD HAVE NOTICED THE MASTER COMING UP FROM BEHIND AND STOPPED HIM OR STEPPED ASIDE. BUT IF HE WERE HIT, THAT WOULD MEAN AND WAS IMMERSED IN THOUGTH, WHICH IS TO SAY ABSENT, UNCONSCIOUS.

        TO STAY PRESENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE, IT HELPS TO BE DEEPLY ROOTED WITHIN YOURSELF, OTHERWISE, THE MIND, WHICH HAS INCREDIBLE MOMENTUM, WILL DRAG YOU ALONG LIKE A WILD RIVER.

         WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "ROOTED WITHIN YOURSELF"?

        IT MEANS TO INHABIT YOUR BODY FULLY. TO ALWAYS HAVE SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION IN THE INNER ENERGY FIELD OF YOUR BODY FROM WITHIN, SO TO SPEAK. BODY AWARENESS KEEPS YOU PRESENT. IT ANCHOURS YOU IN THE NOW.