Marblehead Posted January 6, 2011 Interesting take on the concept of bliss. I don't know if I'd buy it though. Hehehe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted January 19, 2011 "Meditation is a bit like gardening. You plant some carrot seeds and then every day you water it, you pull the weeds, you nourish the carrot plant in every way you can. You don't expect a carrot instantly. But out of love for gardening you do the work without expecting anything in return. And then one day to your surprise, there is the carrot, beautiful, orange and delicious. Same with meditation. You commit yourself to meditation without expecting anything in return. You give yourself to this moment out of the love of giving. Because some days it will be challenging. Some days awareness will be blissful and some days awareness will be a challenging surrender to the intensity that is here. But simply by meditating and by nourishing your awareness in every way you can, one day without even focusing on it, you could be reading a book or walking in the woods and suddenly there is an opening, suddenly bliss is radiating freely from your heart. Without you thinking about it. Without you do anything on your part. It arises on its own, at its own time, yet it arises also because you planted the seed and helped it grow. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Enlightened Spirituality CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Spiritual Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
surfingbudda Posted January 19, 2011 "Meditation is a bit like gardening. You plant some carrot seeds and then every day you water it, you pull the weeds, you nourish the carrot plant in every way you can. You don't expect a carrot instantly. But out of love for gardening you do the work without expecting anything in return. And then one day to your surprise, there is the carrot, beautiful, orange and delicious. Same with meditation. You commit yourself to meditation without expecting anything in return. You give yourself to this moment out of the love of giving. Because some days it will be challenging. Some days awareness will be blissful and some days awareness will be a challenging surrender to the intensity that is here. But simply by meditating and by nourishing your awareness in every way you can, one day without even focusing on it, you could be reading a book or walking in the woods and suddenly there is an opening, suddenly bliss is radiating freely from your heart. Without you thinking about it. Without you do anything on your part. It arises on its own, at its own time, yet it arises also because you planted the seed and helped it grow. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Enlightened Spirituality CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Spiritual Enlightenment Website Excellent poem, very encouraging to read Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cloudhand Posted January 19, 2011 Freedom can be a two edged sword read Jack Parsons. Cloud Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DalTheJigsaw123 Posted February 17, 2011 Beautifully put! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cloudhand Posted February 19, 2011 Well put. Spirituality isn't mere "self-help" psychology. It goes beyond all that - beyond name and form. We ultimately help ourselves most by dissolving our imaginary individual selves in the true Universal Self, or whatever we might want to call it. Tao works for me, or from a more modern perspective, "the numinous" (as Carl Sagan called it). Not bad, but we are the universe nothing we have to do. If its something we have to do or say its ego related not true Zen or Tao. Cloud Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted February 23, 2011 "Separation is not your natural state. You are not separate from everything and trying to get to oneness. You are doing separation. You are actively separating yourself from this moment. And I am not saying not to have definitions, not to call a chair a chair. All of this happens. This duality happens in nonduality. It is not one or the other, it the same. But because you latch on to the definitions you do not see the essence of what is here. It is not wrong to do this, but if you want to be free of stress, of anxiety and conflict, it is important to realize you are doing stress, you are doing anxiety you are doing conflict. Because the mind is so active, it appears that this is just occurring and you are simply a victim of suffering. But once the thoughts begin to slow down and things become more in balance, you begin to recognize this action of separation, this action of creating yourself to be a something against everything else. Something that needs to be protected that needs to control everything else in order to survive. And when you clearly see this, you can learn to stop doing it, you learn to let it go when it arises. Whatever arises, instead of taking a position in it, instead of grabbing hold of it, you simply allow it to arise and disappear in the same way bubbles rise up in club soda. They arise in water and disappear in water. You feel the bubbles arising you experience the bubbles arising but not as something separate. You allow the bubbles and remain as water. You stop fixating on definitions and remain in and as the unknowing. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Enlightenment CDs Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Enlightened Spirituality CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Spiritual Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted March 29, 2011 "In meditation everything gets stripped down to its essence. All of these seemingly different things, the body, the mind thoughts, emotions, consciousness, outer objects, are revealed to be one thing. And it is not a thing, but rather, it is energy, fluid, moving, conscious energy. And with awareness you begin to recognize this flow of energy. You begin to taste the peace and the bliss that is a result of this flow. So another way to look at meditation or whatever spiritual process you practice is that you are fully awakening and allowing this energy to flow, uninterrupted. You learn to awaken the energy and then get out of your own way so this Shakti can move through you and as you, so that this dense separate mass of contraction can relax into bliss, can come back to its true nature. And this happens even on the physical level. The pathways in the body are opened up so that the energy can flow freely and your awareness can expand far beyond the body into infinity. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation Music Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Enlightened Meditation Music Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The The Spiritual Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted April 13, 2011 "We want to get you out of your mind, out of the controlled idea that you are an intelligent and together person and into what is here in this moment beyond such ideas. The mind is always trying to put things in order. But once the mind puts things in order, you are out of touch with what is here. Unconsciously, the mind has an image of how a perfect person should be and the mind tries to emulate that. Not on a conscious level, you are not intentionally doing it. But once you do it, then consciousness cannot touch you. Life cannot touch you. So the first step in surrender is to be aware of this. Be aware of how the mind tries to put everything into neat little piles of understandings and justifications. Second is to allow yourself to become undone. Allow yourself to be naked and raw in this moment. Experience with pure honesty what is here in this moment without holding on to any ideas of what that might be. It is this honest awareness that is the key. We refer to ourselves as someone in time. Someone with past experiences and memories. But I want you to go beyond that thought construct and truly experience what is here. Because what is here is only here now and then it is gone. There is such freedom just in that realization. You can only feel this moment. You can't do it with the mind, you have to feel it. Beyond emotion, beyond the intellect. Surrender to what is here completely. Give up being together and simply fall apart in this moment and experience what is left. Then you will truly experience peace. You will truly experience freedom. You will realize that silence that is underneath everything. That silence that only fully reveals itself when you have come undone. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation Music With a Unique Sound Technology Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Enlightened Meditation Music Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Spiritual Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted April 13, 2011 Nice. But I still refuse to surrender. Hehehe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted May 4, 2011 "That which you assume yourself to be is not actually a thing, but an action. It is the action holding on. In every moment, you are unconsciously holding on to an idea of who you are. And although this idea of who you are is constantly changing moment to moment, the action of holding on remains the same, giving you the feeling that there is a 'you' moving in time, changing and transforming, learning and growing. But if you become aware of this action of holding on and even for this moment let go of this action of holding, then you fall into this moment and see very clearly, beyond the intellect that everything is arising by itself, radiating forever fresh and new out of this moment. You move beyond the idea of this you moving linear in time and experience conscious radiance, not as a person but as conscious radiance itself. You realize your natural state of peace where there is no such thing as stress. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Shakti Meditation Music Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Teachings on Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted May 4, 2011 Hi Kip, Nice, even though I both agree and disagree with what you have presented. Holding to something that is in constant flux is impossible. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted May 18, 2011 "It makes no difference what technique or method you practice, it is that you give yourself completely to that practice that matters. It can be as simple as watching your breath. If you really give your full attention to watching your breath then you will move beyond yourself, you will find freedom. If you are willing to let go of the idea that you know better and really plunge yourself wholeheartedly into a spiritual practice without looking for something in return, then somewhere along the line something will happen, the floor will fall out from beneath you and you will disappear into a place that has no words, no teachings, no attainments, just the complete contentment to be silence or to love God or however else it may be for you. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Spiritual Awakening CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Spiritual Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted May 18, 2011 Nice Kip. Thanks for sharing. That is consistent with the Taoist concept of attaining the state of 'wu', I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Golden Path Posted May 25, 2011 "It makes no difference what technique or method you practice, it is that you give yourself completely to that practice that matters. Hi , it's only may be a funny song. But there is nothing about " How a Spiritual Practice Can Lead to Enlightenment" Errors are begining in the first words: "It makes no difference what technique or method you practice" -There is very great difference what methods you practice! Some methods bring you nothing, only lost time, even if you give yourself completely to that practice Some methods can bring you big damage to health, and about any Enlightenment can not be even speech , and if you give yourself completely to them, they can lead to a death! Only methods received from Teachers and true schools can leads to results. Best Regards Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted June 15, 2011 "In meditation you are not moving in a linear line going from one place to another. Rather you are moving deeper into this moment. So the most important part of meditation, if you are practicing the path of awareness is to allow yourself to rest in this moment. To allow everything to be exactly as it is and relax into it and sink right through it. This sounds quite easy, but when you are constantly looking forward, trying to attain something trying to get somewhere, then when you actually try and rest in this moment, you are confronted with something that you want to escape. It's like the closer you are to no separation you really feel that sense of separation the strongest. When you are busy looking forward in time or backwards in time then you have successfully escaped fully feeling separation. But the moment you give up this linear movement you are confronted with what is here. And then there is the need for complete surrender, to fully allow yourself to sink into feeling what is here. To fully immerse yourself into what is here beyond the thoughts, the emotions, and the physical sensations. There cannot be any looking for it to be a certain way. You cannot look for there to be a payout. But the moment you give up this constant urge to move forward towards something, and sink into this moment, you are immersed in peace. And then the practice is to relax more and more into the depth of consciousness which exists outside of time. To sink deeper and deeper into the eternal stillness of this moment that lies beneath all movement. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Spiritual Awakening CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Spiritual Enlightenment Website 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted July 6, 2011 "If you observe your experience in this moment, then you are not controlling this moment in any way, you are not involved with it in any way. From witnessing, there is the flow of energy that is happening, that is arising by itself, that is creating the movement of all phenomena in this moment. The thoughts arise in this flow of energy, the sensations arise and change in this flow of energy, it is all the flow of one energy, arising out of consciousness and dissolving back into consciousness. The energy takes the shape of certain thoughts and then the thoughts dissolve back into energy and then the energy forms into other thoughts, or other emotions before dissolving back into energy. So you see in this there is nothing to change. Whether you experience loneliness or joy, it is all the flow of the same energy. From the witness it is all a flow of the same bliss. It is complete and perfectly content within itself. It is simply a matter of letting go of this need to control, change or distract yourself from this moment. You let go of that actual contraction of identifying with this moment, of being involved with thinking and rest as the witness, and then there is just this beautiful flow of energy, the nature of which is bliss. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Spiritual Awakening CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit The Spiritual Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stigweard Posted July 6, 2011 Excuse me BM, but by posting this here in the Contributed Articles you have officially become spam. Just a thought. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted July 12, 2011 Excuse me BM, but by posting this here in the Contributed Articles you have officially become spam. Just a thought. I am not sure how posting my articles in the articles section is spam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mal Posted July 12, 2011 Thanks for the report Stig (you know it takes us ages to discuss stuff )but Kip's posts actually don't smell like spam to us. but we are working to "tidy up" the contributed articles section. Cheers Mal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites