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What is Spirituality and How to Have a Spiritual Experience

What is spirituality? This is a koan in itself because spirituality is beyond the intellect. So anything that can be said in words about what is spirituality is going to miss it. Still, we can point to what is spirituality. And spirituality is this very moment. You do not need to leave this moment to find spirituality, because if you do this, you will miss it. To realize what is spirituality, notice what is here beyond your thinking. Do not allow thinking to define for you what is here in this moment, rather notice what is here beyond thinking.

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Enlightenment & The Importance of Kundalini Shakti

"Unde eath everything is silence; deep, profound, infinite silence. It is in everything yet remains as nothing. The spiritual path is very slippery because of this. Because the mind is always looking for that next bit of knowledge that might take it to silence, that next quote that temporarily makes you feel good until the next one comes along. And although there isrna 'feel good' experience in this, it does not really take you closer to your essence. Rather, it keeps on empowering the mind, strengthening the intellect. That is the beautiful thingr

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How to Witness Thoughts in Zen Meditation

Zen meditation is the path of awareness. You are about to learn how to attain witness consciousness, how to be free from desire and how to tell the difference between witnessing a thought versus getting identified with it. In Zen meditation, you learn to witness thoughts by learning to stop identifying with them. If a thought arises 'I would really like an ice-cream' and you consider yourself the 'I' in that sentence that wants an ice-cream, that is identification. With identification, you are in a dream state.

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The Art of Awakening & Surrender in Meditation

"In the beginning stages of meditation, you are in control, you are doing meditation and this is the way it is supposed to be. You are awakening the Shakti (subtle energy) or consciousness until that experience becomes dominant in your awareness. You are actively awakening that which is beyond body and mind until that which is beyond body and mind becomes a powerful presence in your day to day experience. It is then when surrender happens. Whatever arises in consciousness gets surrendered back into consciousness. Whatever thoughts or emotions ariser

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How to Experience Divinity and Realize the Enlightened State

"I have nothing against self improvement. But meditation is not about self improvement. Self improvement means there is something here that needs to be changed. Something about yourself that is wrong but can be fixed. And if you work hard enough if you try hard enough, one day that wrong part of you will be gone. And then you will be happy. But with meditation, with awareness, you accept yourself as you are immediately. You accept everything as it is in this moment.

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Consciousness, Awareness & The Nature of The Mind

"The mind is always looking to get caught up in something. Awareness is always free. It is simply a matter of where you place your attention. In meditation, if you let go of the need to latch on to something or take a position and feel this moment existing on its own without trying to control it or change it in any way, then you do not exist as a limitation, you do not exist as a solid separate thing, but rather as the essence of this moment, as the energy that makes this moment alive as vast, fluid, unlimited consciousness. Blessings, Kip"

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How Meditation Takes You to Enlightenment

"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 tornthis moment out of the love of giving. Because some daysr

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Attaining Deep Levels of Consciousness in Meditation

"In outward seeking and desiring you are always chasing what is seemingly ahead of this moment. You are always looking to be satisfied in the future. So the very experience of outward seeking will always be discontentment. It cannot be any other way because satisfaction is always just ahead of you, just in front of you. Like the man on the donkey cart holding the carrot just in front of donkey so it keeps walking, no matter how much the donkey walks the carrot is always just out of reach. So in desire, there is that constant resistance to being here;r

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Meditation & The Power of Observation

"You do not need to get rid of resistance. You do not need to get rid of negativity, or insecurity. You do not need to get rid of thinking or anything at all. The simple act of observing what is here, of consciously accepting and watching your experience in this moment is all that is needed. Just by observing your experience in this moment you transcend it. You transcend the duality of good and bad, right and wrong and enter into the essence of this moment that has no opposite. You enter into peace that has no opposite, silence that has no opposite,r

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Awaken Your Kundalini in 3 Easy Steps

Many people want to know how to awaken the Kundalini. And as there are techniques for Kundalini Awakening, most of the techniques are kept secret by masters until the student is ready to receive them. Here is a very powerful technique for Kundalini Awakening based on a Kriya Yoga technique. This technique will not only awaken the Kundalini energy, moving you towards spiritual enlightenment, it also can improve your health and remove all stress and unhappiness in your life.

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Enlightenment: In Silence the Truth Makes Itself Known

"You often hear about meditation being something to do with a set of beliefs or traditions. As though you have to believe in a higher power or something of that nature in order to meditate. And nothing could be farther from the truth. Meditation is the honest investigation into what is here in this moment. And if you look inwardly into this moment, you see the heart beating, the breath moving in and out, thoughts happening. And if you keep looking you get to something that you cannot define.

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Enlightenment & The Art of Surrender

"For your enlightenment, 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

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How to Experience Pure Being In Meditation

"For the purpose of meditation, you can break it down to two states. The first state is identification with thinking. You believe you are the thinker of your thoughts and the subject of your thinking. You experience this moment through the interpretation of the mind. The second state is that which precedes the first. It is what is here behind the thinking. You feel yourself existing not as a person but as sensation. Resting as consciousness itself, resting as pure being. You can approach meditation by recognizing these two states.

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Meditation: How to Be Free of The Mind

"If you look inwardly, you will see that there is the constant habit of identifying with thinking. A thought arises and you believe you are the thinker of that thought. Even more so, the thinking defines who you are and what life is. Meditation is about directly experiencing life beyond this mental perception. So first you come to realize that you do exist beyond your thinking. That there is this subtle yet vast awareness that you are and that is completely free from the mental perception. And that you can witness thinking from the standpoint of vast,r

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Taking Apart The Mind in Meditation

"In meditation, if you observe the process of identifying with thoughts, you will find that there is a pleasure in identifying with that thought. And what I mean by identifying is you grab hold of that thought, you make that thought you, it becomes your identity. So say a memory arises about your mother and immediately you make that thought about you. Instead of noticing a thought just arouse and letting it go, you become involved with it, you become involved with the emotions, memories and judgments around it. You become the person in that story.

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How to Attain Cosmic Consciousness in Meditation

"There is a force in this moment; an intense movement of energy. The more aware you become, the more you feel this incessant flow of energy gushingrnlike a tsunami. The tendency is to repress this energy or to get rid of it, usually through chasing and fulfilling desires, or through worry. Even spiritual practice can mistakenly become about trying to control this flow of energy, trying to repress this flow of energy, trying to escape it. So in meditation you lea to recognize this flow and surrender to it. To live in perfect balancer

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Enlightenment: How to Transcend the Ego

"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 momentr

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How to Still The Mind in Meditation

"If you try and still the mind, it will be the mind trying to still the mind. Rather become aware of the mind. Become aware of the flow of thoughts. Not to define the thought or relate to the thought. But to impersonally be aware of the thought arising and dissapperearing without any attachment or aversion to it. In witnessing the thoughts, they will become more subtle. First the thoughts will become impersonal. You will experience visions and dreamlike states that have nothing to do with you or your personal life. At this stage of witnessing you are free

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The Simple Path to Spiritual Awakening

The path to spiritual awakening really does not have to be complicated. You simply, with an open mind find the practices that you experience a greater awakening into bliss and you practice them. You should try everything; from yoga breathing exercises, to mantra, to chanting to various methods of meditation and everything in between. And when you find practices that help awaken the divine bliss that is beyond all beliefs and ideas then you follow those practices. You give yourself whole heartedly to them.

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The 2 Secrets to Having Deep Meditations

"The two most important parts of meditation are attention and allowing. Because if you just practice allowing, most likely you will escape this moment by being identified with your thoughts & emotions. You will be lost in the dream of one thought after another and you will remain unconscious to this moment. But if you just practice attention it will easily turn into trying to control this moment, trying to force yourself or this moment to be a certain way. But if you keep your attention completely on your experience in this moment while allowing this momentr

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Reaching The Depths of Consciousness in Meditation

"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 isrnand relax into itrnand 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 somethingr

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How to Transcend Ego in Meditation

"If you practice being present in meditation, you will find even beyond the thinking that there is this reflexive urge to separate yourself from this moment. It is almost like two magnets that repel each other with all of their strength. This is the ego. You could even define the ego as the action of separation from this moment. Because if you are fully present in this moment, there is no ego. There is no sense of "me." There is still awareness but all inclusive awareness. There is nothing separate from it. You can experience this at any time.

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Meditation Technique to Make You Blissful

"If you want to be free of anxiety then notice and feel this: life is happening in this moment. You are not doing this moment, you are not making this moment happen. It is here on its own. If you really notice your experience in this moment, existence is happening. And if you disagree, if you think you are creating yourself to exist in this moment, then stop existing. Go on. In trying to stop existing you only become more and more aware of this sensation of existing. And this sense of existing cannot be changed orrnmanipulated by your thinking. Existence isr

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The Fundamentals of Meditation

"The reason why you suffer is because you unconsciously avoid this moment. You are unconsciously but constantly resisting this moment; separating yourself from this moment. So the path of awareness in meditation is to get you back to this moment. And the first part of meditation is to sit still. Because the most physical way you avoid this moment is by being restless in the body. It does not mean that you cannot be present while moving. But for this meditation, the first part is to sit still and allow that resistance to sitting still be burned awayr

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How to Dissolve Inner Conflict in Meditation

"Any inner pain or inner conflict can be dissolved simply byrnfeeling the sensations that are present. No analysis, no fixing, no figuring it out and no trying to control it. All of these things keep you from feeling the sensations, keep you avoiding what is here in the moment. It is a blow to the ego to simply surrender and feel the sensations instead of the mind trying to dominate the situation. And it is that blow to the ego, that being humbled that frees you into unconditional peace. Blessings, Kip"

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Meditation & The Nature of Attention

"If you give your full attention to anything without wanting anything in retu there is love and bliss. The particular action does not matter, it is that giving yourself over fully to that action which brings love and bliss. When you give someone you truly love a hug, you give yourself over to that hug. For that moment, you give uprntrying to be someone or get something. You lose yourself in that hug. That is how you should approach meditation. You lovingly give yourself over to it. Then there is no thought of attaining somethingr

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Attaining Enlightenment in the New Age

The new age/self help industry is often about building yourself up. Making yourself more special more successful, more liked, more confident. And there is nothing wrong with this. This brings you to a certain level of happiness. But enlightenment is the opposite. Spiritual enlightenment is about allowing the facade to fall apart, to allow yourself to be exactly as you are and to surrender into that. When you allow the idea of who you think you are to crumble, when you stop trying to make yourself different than you are, then all that is left in this moment is consciousness.

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Learn The Art of Witnessing: The Key To Self Realization

"There is no end to trying to figure it out. The mind is an endless puzzle that has no solution. If it had a solution, that would be the end of the reign of mind, and the mind does not want that. The mind wants to exist and it gets it's power from you identifying with thinking. And so it continues to grab your attention any which way it can. Just like a TV channel. The TV channel's purpose is to keep you watching. That is what it wants. So you are sitting there and the TV channel puts you on a tropical island with beautiful people, then you are flying an air

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The 3 Stages of Mind in Meditation & How to Transcend Them

"There are 3 stages of mind in meditation. The first stage is personal. The thoughts are about you, your world, what you've seen, heard, tasted, felt etc. It's experience is one of duality. There is you and everything else. Conflict and control, desire and resistance. Once you lea to witness your thoughts instead of identify with them, you enter into the second stage. In the second stage, the thoughts are no longer about your personal life. It is here you have dreams, visions, and even beyond visions you experience very subtle thoughts, that are bey

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Meditation: How to Live as Pure Existence

"If you greet someone and ask them how they are, they will refer to the last few hours, weeks or months for an answer. Thoughts of the past are constantly repeating themselves and that becomes who you think yourself to be. You might wake up in the morning feeling blissful, and then the thought arises that 3 days ago you got a speeding ticket. And now you don't feel blissful, now you feel awful. It is like you are getting that speeding ticket over and over! How many times will you get that same ticket in your mind?

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Attaining Stillness in Meditation - The Key To Self Realization

"Close your eyes. Allow the mental noise to flow as it does without getting involved. Allow the sensations to be as they are. Allow everything to be as it isrnand let your attention rest in this moment. Let your attention sink through all movement and rest in the absolute stillness underneath. It is where attentionrnnaturallyrnwants to be. If you stop chasing the thoughts or trying to control the thoughts, then automatically, your attention begins to fall into the stillness of this moment. And you will begin to feel the stress and contractionr

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How to Deepen Your Awareness in Mindfulness Meditation

"You grow in awareness by becoming conscious of what is unconscious in mindfulness meditation. You have been meditating for years thinking your mind is still in meditation, and then suddenly you see you have been lost in your thinking the whole time without even knowing it. Because of our conditioning, the tendency is to feel down about yourself, to feel like this realization that you have been unconscious for so long means you have failed.

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The Enlightened Gift of Hopelessness

"There are so many things we do in order to feel happy. Whether you are going to party all night or promise to make improvements you do it in hope to be happy. But what does this say? It says you are not happy now. Or rather, you are not satisfied with your experience in this moment. You do not want to experience what is here and therefore there must be something you can do, you can get in order to avoid this moment. And then it is the looking forward to something that gives you the fantasy of happiness.

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How to Fall Into Your Essence in Meditation

"The beautiful thing about a dog is he's never going to lie to you. If he's sad, he's going to tell you. If he's glad to see you, he's going to tell you. But there is something hidden unconsciously in the human condition that says what you are experiencing is wrong. And therefore try to change it, try to put something else on top of it, try and control it and hide it before anyone sees it. It may boil down to social acceptance. Trying to fit in. Trying to project yourself to be a certain way in order to feel loved. And wanting to feel loved is human natu

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Enlightenment: Realizing Unconditional Bliss

"Bliss is not an emotion or even a state of being. It has nothing to do with outward appearance or personality. The same bliss animates anger, sadness, happiness, and humour. It is the electricity that powers emotions, powers the physical, and the mental. It is in everything and remains also as nothing. When you experience that this same bliss is the underlying current of every experience and non experience, there is incredible freedom. When you fully allow the personality to be exactly as it isrnwhile remaining aware you realize your true naturer

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5 Meditation Tips Proven to Make Your Meditations More Blissful

The first meditation tip is to not eat or drink anything besides water for at least an hour and a half prior to meditation. The reason for this is for one, the body will be busy digesting your food making it much harder for it to relax. Second, because meditation is awakening the subtle energy. (also known as Kundalini Shakti or Chi) And for this to happen, you want to keep your physical body as light and clear as possible.

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The Truth about Spiritual Teachers and Enlightened Beings

If you are seeking enlightenment, it is important to understand that there is a huge difference between the new age spiritual teachers that are popular today and the enlightened beings who have actually attained full enlightenment. In the past, the majority of enlightened beings came from the East, places like India, China, Korea and Japan. Historically, teachings on spiritual enlightenment probably started out in India. From there it branched into Hinduism, Buddhism and then traveled further east turning from Buddhism, to Zen.

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3 Steps to Spiritual Awakening

"This experience of separation and stress, of being a person separate from everything else is something you are doing. You are contracting moment to moment into identifying with thinking, identifying with the body, identifying with the idea ofrnwho you think yourself to be and how life is supposed to be. And this contraction blocks you from experiencing your true nature of peace. So then how do you stop this contraction? How do you stop creating this suffering? Lets put it in 3 parts: The first is practice: spending time every day actively practicingr

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How You Can Attain Oneness in Meditation

To realize oneness in meditation, first we start with the breath, just to help bring us into this moment. So notice your breathing. Allow yourself to breathe. That may sound strange, as you are already breathing, but really let your attention rest on allowing the breath to freely move in and out of your body. Relax your body all the way into stillness so that breathing is happening effortlessly without your trying to change it in any way. And in that relaxation, allow your attention to rest on allowing yourself to breathe. This is meditation.

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Meditation: How to Attain Oneness & Bliss

If you want more peace and bliss in your life, whether you want to attain enlightenment and states of oneness or you are simply interested in deep relaxation, yoga and healing, then you probably already know that meditation is the best thing you can do. In this short article about meditation, you will learn how to experience very deep states of peace and oneness in meditation.

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5 Steps to Become Enlightened

If you want to become enlightened, there are certain things that are pretty much necessary to follow in order for you to really move deep into the enlightened state. Regardless of your spiritual path or beliefs, if you follow these 5 steps to become enlightened, you will be well on your way. The first step to become enlightened is shaktipat. Also knows as Kundalini Shakti, Deeksha or Grace, shaktipat is the spiritual energy that awakens you to enlightenment.

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What is Meditation?

What is Meditation? This is a tricky question because meditation is beyond the understanding of the mind. Meditation could even be said to be the recognition of what you are beyond the mind and body. Beyond thinking, there is a sense that you exist. Not existing as a name or person, but as the simple experience of being without definition or description. When someone asks “what is meditation?” you could almost say meditation is the recognition that “I am,” yet even the “I” in that sentence will disappear in meditation. So then we are left with “am:” the essence of being.

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How to Attain Self Realization

What self realization is will always remain a mystery because the mind cannot describe what is beyond the mind. But the teachings to learn how to attain self realization are quite simple and straight forward. Follow these steps and you will also enjoy deep states of meditation and may even attain self realization. First and foremost, if you want to attain self realization it is most important to sit with a fully enlightened meditation master or guru. If you sit with such a Guru, you should feel their presence, their Shakti. (spiritual energy)

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