October 26, 2010
Not Alone in the Dark
Looking at What We Don’t Want to See
The things we don't want to look at in ourselves are the very things we need to look at.

It is one of life's great paradoxes that the things we don't want to look at in ourselves are the very things we need to look at in order to know ourselves better and to become more fully who we are. The feelings that make us want to run away are buried treasure full of energy and inspiration if we are willing to look. These feelings come in many forms, from strange images or snippets of information to recurring dreams and feelings that rise up seemingly without a reason. Whatever shape they come in, and no matter how scary they seem, these messengers bring the information we need in order to grow.

When we are tired of pushing something down, or trying to run away from it, a good first step is to write down what we think we are avoiding. Often this turns out to be only the surface of the issue or a symbol of something else. Expressing ourselves fully on paper is a safe way to begin exploring the murky territory of the unconscious.

The coolness of the intellect can give us the distance we need to read what we have written and feel less afraid of it. It helps if we remember that no matter how dark or negative our thoughts or feelings may be, these are energies shared by all humanity. We are not alone in the dark, and all the gurus and teachers we admire had to go through their own unprocessed emotional territory in order to come out the other side brighter and wiser. This can give us the courage we need to open the treasure chest of what we have been avoiding.

Within the parts of ourselves that we don't want to look at, there are emotions that need to be felt. Unfelt emotions are stuck energy, and when we leave emotions unprocessed, we deprive ourselves of access to that energy. When we feel strong enough, we can begin the process of feeling those emotions, on our own or with guidance from a spiritual counselor. It is through this work that the buried treasure of energy and inspiration will pour forth from our hearts, giving us the courage to look at all the parts of ourselves with insight and compassion.

Message from Babaji...

Be aware. Be awake to what is going on around you. Don't be asleep.
Be an observer for Babaji. Watch everything with diligence.
AWAKE NOW. This is my message.

Most are asleep all the time. Most are like sheep led to slaughter.
Be a light unto yourself. Be strong.

Know that I have come to give. Only to give. Are you ready to receive?

I give everything. But few ask for the real thing I have come to give...

--Babaji

non-attachment

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

From The Secret Daily Teachings
There is a difference between feeling gratitude and appreciation for something, and feeling attachment to something. Appreciation and gratitude are states of pure love, while attachment contains fear - fear of losing or not having what you are attached to. When it comes to something you want in your life, appreciation and gratitude attracts, and attachment pushes away. If you are feeling afraid that you will not get what you want, or losing what you have, then you have attachment.
To remove the attachment, keep shifting yourself into a state of appreciation and gratitude, until you can feel that the fear has gone.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret and The Power... bringing joy to billions

(from www.babajispeaks.com Emails with Babaji Q&A)

June 30, 2000

"Blessings and love to you dear one,
I thank you for bringing your message of love, simplicity and truth.
How does one go about 'spiritualizing the flesh?'
Raising one's own vibrations to be at one with the God consciousness?
Love and light and service"

"Blessings:
You are a spiritual being having a human experience in a body that will perish.
The body may be cleansed and purified, but it is not a spirit.
And this is why it is temporary.
To show you what is real and what is unreal.

Babaji"

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music

"It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?"

- Wittgenstein, 1949

navaratri

Navaratri is a special time of year when Divine Mother makes Herself
available to us. In the Spring, we are requesting that the seeds we
plant will bring an abundant harvest. Whether we plant a physical
garden/field or not, we can certainly plant 'seed thoughts' and help
them grow. We give thanks for the the blessings upon our 'gardens' and
we resolve to focus upon the higher good for the future. The world is
awash in Blessings!!!

KALI: The first three days are devoted to Kali, the Goddess of
Destruction and Restoration, wife of Shiva; it is a time of
purification, a time to let go of all that is not "on purpose" for
your life. This is an opportunity for "cleaning out your closets" to
make way for new things.

Night and Day One:
Sailaputra - Daughter of the Himalayas

Sailaputra begins at Sunset, March 15 and ends at Sunset on
March 16. The First Havan is performed on the morning of the 16th.

real

Reality is imagined.

when?

When shall I be free?

When I cease to be.


- Shpongle

rock

"Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the Earth as a Mother. This is one Earth. Don't be divided by thinking of yourself as belonging to different countries. This is one Earth. "

-Babaji

free

Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: He's free.
- Rumi

change

"Blessings
Do not be overwhelmed. This is a time of great change. Observe. Be Aware. Be Alert. Take one step at a time. Follow what is in your heart. You will understand what your direction is to be. Truth, Simplicity and Love is the guide for living in this world. Observe change through the teachings of Truth, Simplicity and Love. The unreal cannot overwhelm the real. Great change cannot overwhelm the real.

Your strength is greater than the maya of change. Your heart is greater than the maya of change. Your higher self is greater than the maya of change. The maya of change passes, fades into nothing. The real remains, eternal, observing. Attach to the real and triumph over the maya of change. Follow what is in your heart and overcome the maya of change. Change is the Law of the Universe. The lower self is overwhelmed by change. The higher self is unmoved, alert, aware, and unconditionally observing. Change is merely the maya of Shiva's dance. Understand this and rise above the unreal.

Blessings
Babaji"

not used up

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

From Sasha Chua

compressed time

You will find great changes as time compresses. Much will be
accomplished in less time. Events around you are changing in this
fashion.

Be aware of these changes. Be alert to these changes. Be careful.

Observe carefully in silence as events and circumstances are in a
flux. Be alert to emotional changes. Be alert to behavioral changes.
Observe these changes through an unconditioned mind. Do not judge,
nor be critical.

Just observe through silence, through a quiet mind, and you shall see
change. Now chant the mahamantra.

Place all observations through the filter of Truth, Simplicity, and
Love. Observe the truth of change. Observe the simplicity of change.
Observe the love in change.

Place truth into change. Place simplicity into change. Place love
into change. Now chant the mahamantra.

Let the great wheel of change flow like the ring of fire around Shiva
Nataraj. Observe as the ring of fire creates. Observe as the ring of
fire purifies. Observe as the ring of fire destroys. Observe as the
ring of fire creates once again.

Cycle after cycle, bead after bead around the mala, endless creation,
purification, destruction.

Do not attach yourself to change. Be aware. Be alert. Observe
change. This is the law of nature. The law is change.

Apply my message into your life and you will live within the law of
nature. Those who live within the law, understand the law, shall
destroy the lower self and attain mental equanimity.

Babaji

being

An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking and accomplishes without doing. -Lao-Tzu

gradual

"Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles:
pulling back a swing, releasing it, and observing it gradually come to rest;
turning over an hour glass and watching the sand slowly run through the bottom;
placing your feet in the sand by the ocean?s edge and watching, feeling, and listening to the waves gradually bury them."

- Steve Reich

work

19 SEPTEMBER 1983
Evening
For the sake of Lord Rama, the group that came here yesterday worked wholeheartedly today. Work is Mahayoga, Supreme Yoga. To go astray from the path of Karma is to create trouble for ourselves. Action is the source of all joy. Go on working. Go ahead, making progress. Work until your last breath.
The world is transitory. You will find stability only on the path of Karma Yoga. Only action can take a man to God and give him liberation. The law of Karma is so deep that no words are great enough to describe it. The day Karma stops on this earth will be the day of its dissolution (pralaya).
Brave ones, all of you, continue to work! Through Karma alone will you be able to change the world. It is the only way.
Today the world is playing with fire. We have to be ready to face fire, water and great storms and not be shaken. We have to go beyond the hope of life and the fear of death. Whatever happens, we must go ahead. Then only can we benefit the world. We have to bring the path of Karma into the light. Now the world is in deep darkness. The Revolution spreading in this world can be controlled by Karma alone.
(Babaji then whispered two mantras to Shastriji who repeated them: "Yadatma Dhrishchayaha: He who has control over himself, who is of determined mind, will succeed in life." "Utishchata Jagrata Prapta Varan Nibhoda Yata: Arise! Awake! Go and seek the wise and learn from them.")
You have come here from the four corners of the world. Today you should take a vow to work hard always and to spread the message of Karma wherever you go.
JAI MAHAMAYA KI JAI!
23 SEPTEMBER 1983

Babaji

Why is programming fun?

First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake.

Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder "for Daddy's office."

Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate.

Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both.

Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (...)


Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separately from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.

Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men.

The Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks

determination

Spring Navaratri 2009

essence

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The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of
the present moment, harmony with things as they
happen. A saint does not want things to be different
from what they are; he knows that, considering all
factors, they are unavoidable. He is friendly with
the inevitable and, therefore, does not suffer. Pain
he may know, but it does not shatter him. If he can,
he does the needful to restore the lost balance
or lets things take their course.
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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973