Gautum Baiji said, "We know what our practice is, and yet if we do not practice it, we cannot achieve our spiritual goals.
We can sit in front of the Gardens of God and not experience God at all.
The mind does not want to allow it. It doesn't want to become your slave. It says, "Follow me!"
Yet the mind is like a monkey - it can never stay in one place.
How can we concentrate the mind with the Holy Name? Because if you remember the Holy Name, all sorrows and pain can go away.
Meditation.
A philosopher said life is not full of joy or sorrow, it is filled with what you think it is filled with, what you decide it is filled with.
How can the bird get the fish in the water without getting wet? The same is true for us.
There are two things you have to do for yourself: eat, and meditate. If you want liberation and salvation, meditate.
A man came to a doctor and asked for a cure for his wife's deafness.
"Bring her here and I will examine her first," the doctor said.
"No, she will not come," the man said sadly.
"Well I at least need to know how serious the problem is, so here's what you do: stand 40 feet away and ask her something simple. If she does not respond, go to 30 feet, and so on."
So the man left. When he arrived at home, he stood 40 feet from his wife and said, "Will you make me some lentil soup?"
Nothing. So he moved 30 feet from her. "Will you make me some lentil soup?"
Still nothing. So he repeated it at 20 and 10 feet away with no success.
Finally he walked right to her and said right in her ear, "Will you make me some lentil soup-"
Suddenly she shouted, "I keep telling you over and over, make it yourself!"
Who was deaf? Him.
Happiness and sorrow will happen like the ebb and flow of the tide. The goal is to rise above and know joy and bliss through meditation.
The human body is one of the greatest miracles. Experiencing, seeing, hearing...
It has the capacity to realize God, as long as you practice your meditation.
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