WHY I TEACH MEDITATION and SPIRITUAL PRACTICES THAT SAVED ME FROM SUFFERING and TRANSFORMED MY LIFE
I want to help as many people as I can by teaching these essential dharma principles and practices to anyone who wants and needs them
THE DAWNING LIGHT—Daily Journal of Positive And Inspiring Writing
Volume 8, Issue Number 951 …for Sunday, May 19th, 2024
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section Number 162—Stories by Chinmayan
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WHY I TEACH MEDITATION AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES THAT SAVED ME FROM SUFFERING AND TRANSFORMED MY LIFE
This story is my spontaneous response to a comment by a faithful reader to one of my recent stories—which you can read here:
Here is her response to my story:
“Perhaps the most striking post since I discovered you and have so much to learn in order to waylay my pain..”
And here is my comment…
Thank You, dear one, for your response!
One of the many beautiful benefits of the meditation practices I received many years ago from my teachers…and which I teach in our upcoming trainings, is developing the ability to watch our own minds, to see the effects of our thoughts and to consciously choose to no longer accept or believe the negative, endarkening thoughts and to accept only the positive and loving thoughts ….which results in our release from suffering and living with feelings of peace and well being.
Just as important in our training is learning authentic mantras and how to practice them.
Authentic mantras (such as “Om Mani Paydmeh Hung”, the mantra of Love and compassion) are the easiest and fastest way to gain control of and direct our minds.
The ones I teach (and have been using myself for over 50 years) dramatically reduce the number of thoughts, block and remove the negative ones and instill and help grow ever greater Love and compassion, especially towards ourselves.
Learning to Love ourselves is vital to our well being …and the right authentic mantras turbocharge and sweeten this process.
They also help us see our lives from a loving point of view, so that we can live from an open heart (instead our habitually closed and fearful hearts) and be more and more present and loving in our lives.
Purposeful, powerful, focused Prayer— learning how to pray effectively so that we feel the Divine’s presence, hear our inner guidance and develop our own personal love relationship with God is the third essential spiritual practice we teach…
I teach these authentic spiritual practices because even though they seem simple, they are supremely powerful and reliable in the positive results they produce…
and once you are grounded in these practices and use them in your daily life, they all become more and more effective, amazing and pleasurable.
They are 100% safe, tried and tested and used by millions of practitioners over thousands of years to transform their lives and become free from suffering and the sources of suffering.
Of course, just as my teachers told me…no tool that is put in our hands, no matter how well made or suited to its work, is any good at all to us unless we are ready, willing, able and wanting to use it to do the inner work, with the absolute intention of using it too achieve our goals.
Personally, I love these tools and am extremely grateful to my teachers who dedicated their lives to teaching them to us.
They recommend doing these practices everyday so that a momentum of gradual and ongoing transformation is built up which is continuously doing its work inside your own heart and mind.
On the spiritual path, incremental change from your sustained effort over the days, months and years is much better that pushing really hard and trying for dramatic breakthroughs…”a steady pace wins the race”.
The wonderful thing is that the authentic practices I teach are so effective that steady progress will happen even by doing them just 5 or 10 minutes per day!
They are the greatest gifts I have ever received…and I use them all every day.
I know I would already be dead or still stuck in severe chronic depression and utterly lost in life without them.
I would still be someone so hurt by my childhood that I became a rageaholic who got terribly angry out of the blue for reasons I could not understand.
I would be a far less evolved person without a clue about what life is really for.
I would not be the man I am now who is learning more and more how to love myself, and how to love, care for and share Love with the beloveds who are sharing their lives with me.
These practices are so valuable that even after 50 years of using these tools, I realize that I will always need them, that I will never outgrow them and that the best is yet ahead.
As I use them everyday, my understanding about them deepens which then reveals higher levels of effects as the practices become more powerful.
In fact, even if I were able to give you billions of dollars and grant your every wish, these things would have zero value compared to these authentic dharma practices.
Lastly, these tools will never wear out, break or malfunction.
I can and do rely on them absolutely because I know for certain, based on 50 years of experience, that the more I use them with total intention, the more the results and benefits there will be!
The results are cumulative and pervasive and are the foundation for all the good, loving and beautiful things in my life….
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
A SHORT VIDEO OF CHINMAYAN CHANTING the Mantra of Love and Compassion— “Om Mani Paydmeh Hung”
Om Mani Paydmeh Hung by Chinmayan…
A BEAUTIFUL HEART OPENING WORSHIP SONG FOR YOU!
With complete sing along lyrics!
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan
