Meditations of the day

[Spirit of Light]

Cross of Buddha
It is good to start each practice session with emotional attunement and purification of the energy of the surrounding space. For this purpose there exists a wonderful technique known as the Cross of Buddha. It is performed in the following way.

For the best performance of this exercise we have to accept the so-called student posture: we sit down on the heels holding the spine straight, toes looking backward, and the palms of our hands resting upon the thighs. Then we send waves of our benevolence and love from the chest forward, saying mentally:

“May all beings have peace! May all beings be calm! May all beings feel bliss!”

We produce each of these three states inside the chest first and then radiate them forward. Then we repeat this to the right, to the left, backward, up, and down. This is a powerful technique that allows us to bring harmony to ourselves, to the surrounding space, and to the living beings around us.

Sound very much like Love and kindness meditation, where one send love and kindness to all corners of the world

 

[r2d2009]

Sound very much like Love and kindness meditation, where one send love and kindness to all corners of the world

yes, and this meditation opens and develops the spiritual heart

 

[Spirit of Light]

yes, and this meditation opens and develops the spiritual heart

100% agree with you on this.
Do you do Vipassana or Jhana meditation too?

 

[r2d2009]

100% agree with you on this.
Do you do Vipassana or Jhana meditation too?

I theoretically know what vipassana is, but the system that I practice does not contain it.
There are some analogues there.
My practice is www.swami-center.org

 

[r2d2009]

100% agree with you on this.
Do you do Vipassana or Jhana meditation too?

if briefly there are several stages -
discovery of the spiritual heart
raja yoga
buddhi yoga

 

[Spirit of Light]

I theoretically know what vipassana is, but the system that I practice does not contain it.
There are some analogues there.
My practice is www.swami-center.org

Thank you for the link. I will take the time to read it Look interesting to know about it.

 

[r2d2009]

Thank you for the link. I will take the time to read it Look interesting to know about it.

Yes, there are many interesting things.
I think I can answer some questions if they appear.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Yes, there are many interesting things.
I think I can answer some questions if they appear.

Is it mostly orthodox Christianity, or does it contain teaching from every form of spiritual life?

 

[r2d2009]

Is it mostly orthodox Christianity, or does it contain teaching from every form of spiritual life?

We can say that this is a scientific work on finding the common core of all the teachings.
Hesychasm is one of the variants of this common core.
This work will also include the development of the most effective methods of spiritual development.
It is described in the books of Vladimir Antonov.

 

[FineLinen]

"How could the Bible possibly speak of the perfect victory of God our Creator who loves righteousness and cannot bear evil, if that victory really means that He cannot bring His own creatures at last to hate evil as He hates it, but must confirm multitudes, indeed the majority of them, in their choice of evil for ever and ever?... What sort of victory is it to be able only to subdue evil and prevent it harming any but those who choose it, and to be unable to bring human souls to abominate it and desire to forsake it, so that the evil itself ceases to exist?" –Hannah Hurnard-

 

[FineLinen]

“To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.” - Rob Bell (Love Wins)-

 

[FineLinen]

"You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that." -Theodore Austin-Sparks-

Austin-Sparks.Net - Chapter 1 - Jesus: Before Times Eternal

 

[FineLinen]

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back the soonest is the most progressive." - C.S. Lewis

 

[FineLinen]

"The change we have been striving after is not to be produced by any more striving after. It is to be wrought upon us by the molding of hands beyond our own. As the branch ascends, and the bud bursts, and the fruit reddens under the cooperation of influences from the outside air, so man rises to the higher stature under invisible pressures from without." - Henry Drummond-

“Vibrate at the highest frequency possible.” -Anonymous-

 

[FineLinen]

“I believe the hour has come when God is initiating another major recovery. This time it is not just a truth, but the restoration of something so imperative that it will give the ultimate perspective to all truth.”

“Believers may not often realize it, but even as believers we are either centered in man, or centered in God. There is no alternative. Either God is the center of our universe and we have become rightly adjusted to Him, or we have made ourselves the center and are attempting to make all else orbit around us and for us. When the truth dawns, we are amazed to discover how the snare of making all things to revolve around man has been the bane of most of our preaching and teaching. This is true even of the area of teaching which is considered to be of the deeper life emphasis. As long as men are victims of this wrong philosophy and approach to truth, they cannot avoid reckoning from a self-center. When the center is wrong, then everything in our reckoning is wrong.” -Devern Fromke (The Ultimate Intention)”

 

[FineLinen]

"Be persuaded, timid soul, that He has loved you too much to cease loving you." -François Fénelon-

 

[FineLinen]

"While there is a wonderful simplicity in God, much about Him has been obscured by the traditions of men. We are surrounded with things difficult to understand. The way most people take is to look away, lest they should find out they have to understand them." -George MacDonald-

 

[FineLinen]

“If one detects sadness or suffering in another, they have just received an assignment. It is to uplift the other and to help alleviate the suffering.”

“When I am in the cellar of affliction I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.” -Samuel Rutherford-

 

[FineLinen]

"As long as there is any hate in us we are not ready for heaven, not as long as we're shutting the golden doors on anyone else...the heavenly banquet cannot begin until we are all there, and I can greet with love...everybody who has caused me pain, and call out a welcome to them all. The heavenly banquet cannot begin until all those whom I have hurt are ready to welcome me, in all my flawed and contradictory humanness... Belief in hell is lack of faith because it attributes more power to Satan than to God...but it is God who has the last word! God is not going to abandon creation, nor the people up for trial in criminal court, nor the Shiites, nor the communists, or the warmongers, nor the greedy and corrupt people in high places, nor the dope pushers, nor you, nor me. Bitter tears of repentance may be shed before we can join the celebration, but it won't be complete until we are all there." -Madeleine L'Engle-

 

[FineLinen]

"But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." -Madeleine L'Engle-