Kindness and Courage

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Adam Lindsay Gordon

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Every desire is kama

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Sadhguru, Satsangs, Yoga

When we say Shiva…
The word Shiva has become
synonymous with the third eye.
The third eye… What it means…

These two eyes are to look outside.
These two eyes are capable of showing you
the physicality of the existence; these two eyes
can only perceive that which is physical.

The third eye is an inward-faced eye.
It’s not gonna open up upon your forehead.
The third eye is an inward-looking eye.
But you have heard stories,
“Shiva opened his eyes,
and he burned Kama”.

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In India there is a god of love and lust, called Kama (“kama” means lust, which you don’t like to face head-on, so you make it love [audience laugh]; because you need some aesthetic to it). So… He hides behind a tree, and shoots an arrow. And Shiva is hurt. Target is found and Shiva gets a little disturbed. Then he sees it’s Kama (that is, it’s his own lust coming up). Then he opens up his third eye, a fiery eye, and burns Kama, who is hiding behind a tree. Burned him into ashes. Then Shiva took the ashes of this burnt Kama; smeared himself. That put these things to rest for good.

That is the general story told to the people.
But you tell me: your lust arises within you, or behind the tree?

Now, you may go behind the tree; that’s another matter… [Roaring laughter]

But where does it arise? Within you! Desire is not hanging outside. It is not because a beautiful woman or a beautiful man is sitting there that your desire comes. Because the desire, the kama, is within you.

So he opened his third eye. And burned the kama within himself.
Not the one who is standing outside. Because he never, ever stood outside.

Please look at this and see. Your lustfulness, your desiring nature, never ever stood outside. It only stood inside.

So he opened his third eye; not this way [pointing outward]. Inward! Then he saw; this lustfulness. Which essentially means that some aspects are built into you, which make you feel incomplete. So you think you will find completion only by going towards something or somebody.

Lust is not just about the opposite sex. Shopping is lust! Because you have to go towards something. Only then life will be complete. Every desire is lust! Because,

“Without that, I cannot exist! I want that, because only when I have that,
this [lightly thumping his chest with both fists] will be complete!”

It may be a thing, it may be a position, it may be power, it may be sexuality… It doesn’t matter what it is. Essentially lust means, it creates a sense of incompleteness within you. And a longing for something, that it makes you feel, if you don’t have that, you are not complete.

So he decides to burn the kama within himself. He burned the kama, and then, instead of sweat, ash oozed out of the pores of his body. This is the yogic story. The common story told to the public is, he was hiding behind a tree, and burned him; opened his eyes and burned him; and then he took that ash and smeared himself. The yogic dimension of the story is, kama arose within him, he opened his third eye, burned him, and then ash slowly oozed out of his body, clearly showing him, everything is laid to rest.

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[Video concludes with
introduction to next episode]

Everything that you know as yourself
should die. When I say death, it’s not
the physical death which is a problem.

The question is your losing
“Everything that I know as myself right now”.
Your personality. Your identity.

Once you learn to be an individual beyond
physiological and psychological formats,
that means you are for good.
This is what living death means.
So if you know how to be an individual, still,
without physiological and psychological format,
you are a living death.
If you are a living death,
you are eternal in your existence.

It is time
that you become living death,
so that you live
eternally.

Sadhguru transcribed by Leon Hieros

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most beautifully cleansing

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Ludovico Einaudi

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It IS there – only maybe different than you think!

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Marina Kaiser

The question is not whether you are strong or not
– you ARE strong, like everyone else is.
You only have to find your own unique personal kind of strength,
by feeling your way into it, fully aligning with it.
It might be that YOUR strength looks different than you think…
You may have to dive a little deeper!
Strength IS deep within you!

The question is not whether you are beautiful or not
– you ARE beautiful, like everyone else is.
You only have to discover your own personal kind of beauty,
by totally accepting the map that
this unique expression of life has drawn as your body.
It might be that you have to look into the mirror in a different way…
… that you have to look with loving eyes!
Beauty IS deep within you!

The question is not whether you are happy or not
– you ARE full of joy, like everyone else is.
You only have to find your own unique personal style of happiness,
by feeling your way into it, fully aligning with it.
It might be that YOUR joy looks different than you think…
You may have to dive a little deeper!
Joy IS alive deep within you!

The question is not whether you are peaceful or not
– you ARE blessed with peace, like everyone else is.
You only have to find your own peace that dwells deep within you,
by feeling your way into it, fully aligning with it.
It might be that YOUR peace feels different than you think…
You may have to dive a little deeper!
Peace IS alive deep within you!

The question is not whether you love or not
– you ARE immersed in love, like everyone else is.
You only have to find your own unique personal style of love,
by feeling your way into it, fully aligning with it.
It might be that love is different than you think…
You may have to dive a little deeper!
Love IS vibrantly alive deep within you!

They ARE waiting for you, NOW and always,

Strength, Beauty, Joy, Peace and Love

In the depth of your being…

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May all beings feel their inner self!

Most heartfelt greetings to you and all dear guests here!

Marina Kaiser translated by Leon Hieros

Meiner Seele Schatz und Wonne

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Alexander Hamilton, Christ Jesus, Johann Sebastian Bach, Martin Jahn, Nick Deutsch, VOCES8

In “Jesus bleibet meine Freude” we have the confession of a Christian soul attaching to Christ. There are many German songs from this period about the joy given by God in times of misery and sorrow. This is the result of many years of war in Germany. The 30-years war (1618-1648) had resulted in the death of about a third of the population.
(From exorientelux’s comment under VOCES8 video)

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As torrents in summer

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Atlanta Master Chorale, David Steindl-Rast, Edward Elgar, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As torrents in summer, Half dried in their channels,
Suddenly rise, tho’ the sky is still cloudless.
For rain has been falling.
Far off at their fountains;

So hearts that are fainting Grow full to o’erflowing,
And they that behold it, Marvel, and know not
That God at their fountains
Far off has been raining!

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experiencing the Divine in whom we live

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Arvo Pärt, Evgeny Genchev, Luka Sulic, Rumi

The importance of silence for Pärt is paramount:

“Before one says something, perhaps it is better to say nothing. My music has emerged only after I have been silent for quite some time, literally silent. For me, ‘silent’ means the ‘nothing’ from which God created the world. Ideally, a silent pause is something sacred…”

He relates this silence to love:

“If someone approaches silence with love, then this might give birth to music. A composer must often wait a long time for his music. This kind of sublime anticipation is exactly the kind of pause that I value so greatly.”

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[and from the article’s conclusion:]

If the space one inhabits and draws inspiration and music from is an experience of the Divine in whom we live, move and have our being, then surely some of that breath of life and love passes through (as with all love experiences), in the most human-divine way possible, to those who listen? Or even further: revelation tells us that God is present, always; faith is the doorway that opens our eyes to discover and experience that presence. Perhaps the space that is opened by this music somehow draws or gathers people into that place inhabited by God’s Spirit, with whom, for a time, we amicably, even if unknowingly, make three tents and dwell for a while.

From Maeve Louise Heaney’s article
Can Music “Mirror” God?
A Theological-Hermeneutical Exploration of Music
in the Light of Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel

Listening to this is enough;
if you feel like humming along, an even more
wonderfully healing experience may be awaiting you.

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