Paths to Happiness

1. Wisdom
Understanding the nature (craving, Impermanence, Empty) and sources of human experiences. Everything in phenomenal world is constantly changing and shifting. Understand how reality unfolds without clinging and craving, without trying to freeze past experience and longing for future experiences. 
2. Positivity
Building the positive spiral for human flourishing and well-being. Optimists see challenges as temporary and local specific while pessimists see challenges as permanent and global. Gratitude builds an inward environment of positivity.
3. Embodiment
Leveraging the synergy of Body Mind connection. Mind and body are same. All experiences are body mind experiences created by senses, hormones and other psycho physical chemicals and phenomenon. Attune the body mind connection by diet, yoga and meditation
4. Flow
Getting centered and fully engaged in ones karma and life. A rock climber gives his 100% and forgets everything else. For him there is no time, past or future, No ruminations or planning.
5. Relationships
Harmonious and joyful relationships release joy hormones, laughter and well-being. e.g.: Lover, Pets, unselfish charity, random act of kindness.
6. Virtue
Find your signature strengths and exercise them with character and virtue
7. Purpose
Break down the boundary with world, get involved and identify with all beings and nature as one. Discover meaning in life that is bigger than the "Me"


http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx

•  No person can ever be enlightened. A person means it is a limited identification that you have created for yourself.
• Only because we have not realized the immensity of what it means to be human, we are constantly talking about gods that we have not seen.
• If only you go through difficult times with an inner grace, you could see that every situation we face is an opportunity to enhance our lives.
• One should use information and logic like a drunkard would use a lamp post – only for support, not for illumination.
• Thinking is not intelligence. Thinking is just intellect. Being spiritual means to rise beyond the mediocre. It is the most intelligent way to exist.
• The unfortunate reality in the world is, most people will know peace only with death.  It is time that you do something about it in life.
• When you shake off all the influences of external circumstances, you are naturally spiritual.
• If you are truly blissful, you will begin to experience whatever is within the boundaries of your sensation as a part of yourself.
• Physically, mentally, we all may be different. But, spiritually, all of us are equally capable. All of us carry the same possibility within us.
• The fundamental root of stress is your identification with the physical, and your instinct of survival.
• You are seeing the infinite, but unconsciously through physical means. The physical can never become infinite.
• Just taking care of survival process – to eat, sleep, reproduce and die one day – you don’t have to come with this kind of body and intelligence.
• Yoga means your experience of life has become such that you experience everything as one, or yourself. (Empty of the nature of duality)
• If you become meditative, to be peaceful and blissful by your own nature becomes natural for you.
• Meditation is not a technique, it is a certain quality. It is a certain way of being.
• Love is a longing to include something as a part of yourself. Love is a possibility where you could become more than what you are, by inclusion.
• Death is a fiction. There is just life, life, and life alone; moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another.

http://wisespiritualideas.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-quotes-from-sadhguru-jaggi.html

 

എന്റേതെന്നും നിന്റേതെന്നും ഉള്ള ഭാവം ഇല്ലാതാകുന്നു (ജ്ഞാ.4.39)

ഭഗവദ്ഗീത ജ്ഞാനേശ്വരി ഭാഷ്യത്തില്‍ നിന്ന്
ശ്ലോകം 39
ശ്രദ്ധാവാന്‍ ലഭതേ ജ്ഞാനം‌
തത്പരഃ സംയേതേന്ദ്രിയഃ
ജ്ഞാനം ലബ്ധ്വാ പരാം ശാന്തിം
അചിരേണാധിഗച്ഛതി
ഗുരുപദേശത്തില്‍ ശ്രദ്ധയുള്ളവനും ജ്ഞാനം സമ്പാദിക്കുന്നതില്‍ താത്പര്യമുള്ളവനും ഇന്ദ്രിയങ്ങളെ അടക്കിയവനുമായിരിക്കുന്നവന്‍ ബ്രഹ്മജ്ഞാനത്തെ പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു. ജ്ഞാനം കൈവന്നിട്ട് അവന്‍ വേഗത്തില്‍ മോക്ഷത്തെ പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു.
ആത്മാനന്ദത്തിന്റെ അനുഭൂതി ആസ്വദിക്കമൂലം ഇന്ദ്രിയവിഷയങ്ങളോട് വെറുപ്പുതോന്നുന്നവന്‍. ഇന്ദ്രിയങ്ങളെ പരിഹാസവിഷയങ്ങളാക്കുന്നവന്‍, ചിന്തകളെ സ്വന്തം ചിത്തത്തെപ്പോലും അറിയിക്കാത്തവന്‍, പ്രകൃതിയുടെ പ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങളുമായി സംബന്ധപ്പെടാതെ ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറി നില്‍ക്കുന്നവന്‍, ആനന്ദതുന്ദിലനായി സദാ കര്‍ത്തവ്യപാലനത്തില്‍ മുഴുകുന്നവന്‍, ഇപ്രകാരമുള്ള ഒരുവനെ അനന്തമായ ആനന്ദം നല്കുന്ന ജ്ഞാനം തേടിയെത്തുന്നു. ജ്ഞാനം ഒരിക്കല്‍ ഹൃദയകമലത്തില്‍ പ്രതിഷ്ഠിക്കപ്പെട്ട് പരമസുഖമായ ആനന്ദമായി വികസിക്കുമ്പോള്‍, അവന്‍റെ ആത്മാവിന്‍റെ ദര്‍ശനംവിശാലമാകുന്നു. അവന്‍ എവിടെ നോക്കിയാലും ശാന്തിയും ആനന്ദവും മാത്രം ദര്‍ശിക്കുന്നു. എന്റേതെന്നും നിന്റേതെന്നും ഉള്ള ഭാവം ഇല്ലാതാകുന്നു. ഇപ്രകാരം ജ്ഞാനബീജം ദ്രുതഗതിയില്‍ വര്‍ണ്ണനാതീകമായ വിധത്തില്‍ മുളച്ചു തഴച്ചുവളരുന്നു.

 

 ജ്ഞാനേശ്വരി

What exactly is the mind?

If you look carefully, you will find that when you say mind, you cannot conceive of mind without thought.  When you say mind, it means that however high or low the mind is functioning on this earth, there is thought.  When the mind is functioning in the higher spheres it may be subtle thought, but it is thought all the same.  So we can, in a way, say that the mind is a complete bundle or collection of thoughts.  All thoughts together form the mind.

There is no separate entity called mind that is thinking - thinking itself is mind.  When there are thoughts, automatically there is the mind. Therefore, from this we can imply that where there is no thought, there is no mind, in the ordinary sense of the term.

The other thing is, think carefully and see – Can you think without a language? Try.

Whenever you think, there is language, whatever the language may be.  Now, the rishis and the yogis who have gone into this subject in practice, have said that there is something called mind, where there is no language; there is thought which has no language and that is Consciousness.

You cannot really call it the mind.  Because the mind means thought and thought means language and if there is something without that thought, you cannot conceive of it ordinarily.  But apparently it exists.

One more lead to this, to show that there is something that exists, which is not thought and yet it could be called the mind or consciousness, is, if you look very carefully, you will find that thought is not a continuous process. Although from birth to death we keep thinking. There is no time when we are not thinking except when we sleep.

Even in dreams, there is thought.  It appears to us that there is no gap.  Now, right now you are thinking. Immediately there is another thought. There is no gap. But if you look carefully, you will realise that it is just like a movie  – in the movies there are many frames and they are moved at a particular speed.  When they are moved at that speed, you see it as a continuous whole.   When you take one frame, it is a frozen action.  It is not continuous.  Only when it moves, it is continuous.

In the same way, the mind or thought is not continuous.  There is a chain of thoughts and they are so fast, one thought coming and disappearing and another coming up, so fast, that you cannot see the interval between the thought that has gone and the thought that has arisen.  You cannot see the interval because it is so quick.  We are saying, that there is an interval.

On the surface, thought comes and thought goes, continuously.  We are saying it is possible sometimes to glimpse the gap between one thought that has arisen and disappeared, before the next arises. If you see the gap, you have reached That, which is without language. Meditation from this point of view means, to take a glimpse of that gap.

The gap is the ground on which the thought moves.  And that ground is the ocean, on which thoughts arise like waves, come and disappear.  But the ocean remains the same. When the wave comes up it appears to be individual but it goes back again to the sea and it is the same, there is no difference.  So the zen teachings say that the problem is that we think that we are the waves. The moment we begin to glimpse or even understand that we are the ocean and all thoughts are just rising and disappearing into it, that is our primordial state.  That is the gap between thoughts.

Continued in Mind II ...