Sant Mat Radhasoami

Path of the Masters: Sant Mat - Santmat, Radhasoami - Radha Soami, Satsang, Inner Light and Sound Meditation: Surat Shabd Yoga, Audible Life Stream, Quan Yin Method, Spiritual Science, Spirituality, Kabir, Maharshi Mehi, Kirpal Singh, Gnosticism, Third Eye, Out Of Body Experiences, Near-Death Experiences, Inner Space, the Kingdom of the Heavens Within, Mystic Poetry, Vegetarian Vegan, Ahimsa, Love, and God. The term "Sant Mat" was coined by Sant Tulsi Sahib of Hathras during the 19th Century.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Do Not

Do not talk with those who do not wish to listen.

Do not move with those in whom you have no faith.

Do not eat with those who do not have any respect for the kind of food you enjoy.

Do not live with those who have no understanding of you.

Do not advise anyone who will not take your advice.

Do not mix with those who have no respect for your life.

Do not love those who will not accept you as their lover or beloved.

Do not meditate that which will not bring good to the present.

Do not think of those who will bring fear and worries to your life.

Do not follow those who have no love for you.

Do not sleep with one who is not completely one with your own being.

Do not work at anything that brings imperfection and lack of success.

-- Sree Sree Mentu Maharaj

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Buddhism, Quan Yin, and Sound Current Meditation (Sant Mat)

An example of Sound Current meditation (Surat Shabd Yoga, my practice) from a Buddhist perspective:

Buddhism and Sound Current Meditation

Ajahn Sumedho, a bhikkhu of the Theravada school of Buddhism, from, "The Sound of Silence":

"As you calm down, you can experience the sound of silence in the mind. You hear it as a kind of high frequency sound, a ringing sound that's always there. It is just normally never noticed. Now when you begin to hear that sound of silence, it's a sign of emptiness - of silence of the mind. It's something you can always turn to. As you concentrate on it and turn to it, it can make you quite peaceful and blissful. Meditating on that, you have a way of letting the conditions of the mind cease without suppressing them with another condition. Otherwise you just end up putting one condition over another."

"A Buddhist Bible," Surangama Sutra:

"Avalokiteshvara Buddha [Quan Yin], the hearer and answerer of prayer, has visited all the Buddha-lands of the ten quarters of the universe and has acquired transcendental powers of boundless freedom and fearlessness and has vowed to emancipate all sentient beings from their bondage and suffering. How sweetly mysterious is the Transcendental Sound of Avalokiteshvara! Is is the subdued murmur of the seatide setting inward. Its mysterious Sound brings liberation and peace to all sentient beings who in their distress are calling for aid."

Namaste',

James of Maine