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It is only necessary if you BELIEVE it is necessary. You are all you need.

Tell the impeccable truth about your feelings in every situation. When someone asks you which restaurant you would like to go to, be honest about the choice that would make you happiest. When someone asks you for a date and the thought of going doesn't feel attractive, say no. (If thinking about something doesn't feel good, doing it won't feel better!) When you feel drawn to a movie in the video store, take it home. If you're watching a video that feels emotionally debilitating, turn it off. Trust the messages your feelings are giving you as feedback on how well your current choice matches your well-being. Living from joy is like building a muscle; the more you trust and act on your intuition, the louder, stronger, and more real it becomes. If you don't live from your truth, your ability to access it will atrophy, and you will not know who you are, what you want, or what you are doing here. Live from the truth and you will be set free. ~ Alan Cohen ------------------------- Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness. ~Paramahansa Yogananda

I believe we have free will, we ask and it is given but we must keep faith and align with what we are asking for.

^^Nice joke name some please...

"Grace is within you. Grace is the Self." "Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you. You are never out of its operation." "Grace is always present." "You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you affect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, Grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you." From The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi

Thanks for the pics1 Inspires me to have the same feirce focus that they always have.

That was great, especially the Super Singh flying part!

"In order to return to a state of unlimitedness, to experience joy and the freedom of being, you must once again become that which holds you together. And the only way to become that, since you are encumbered with a body, is to fully activate your seventh seal pituitary so that your brain can receive the unlimited thoughts that lie just beyond social consciousness. That is how you expand your knowingness into the unlimited understanding of God: that which allows, and loves, and is the totality of itself, which is the totality of thought. So how do you get this wonderful little gland to awaken the dormant portions of your brain through its hormone flow? Simply through desire. To become a christ is to desire to know the Father and become the likeness of God. It is the deisre to allow all thought to become the reality of self. It is the deisre to LOVE in every moment all that you have become. It is the desire to BE the isness of all that you are. Why is it important to love the totality of what you are? When you do, you immediately transcend social consciousness. Then you rise above acceptance. You transcend judgment. Yu go beyond the illusion of time. Then you live only for the fulfillment of self. You listen only to the voice within. You follow only the path of joy; and on that path lies the knowingness of All That Is. Now, you say to me, 'But Ramtha, that is being wholly selfish'. Indeed it is! But selfish is Godish. Every moment you live for the love of this God within you, every illusion you embrace and give up, every thing you do to find your joy and light, emanates from your being into consciousness flow to feed the WHOLE of mankind. When you live wholly for the love of self- which IS the love of God - then yu exude God into the density of social consciousness. Then you light the way for your beloved brothers on their own paths back into self - the only path that will take them home to their beloved Father. When you love yourself enough to feel worthy to receive all that God is, and you desire to know that you are one with the Father, then your pituitary beings to open like wondrous flower. That is how you expand the capacity of your brain to receive all thought values in the Mind of God - by wanting to know, by desiring to feel all the emotion of that knowingness." Ramtha

"How can you be more understanding of all that is? Simply KNOW that you are. For how you think and speak determines how much you allow yourself to know. Do not say, I HOPE to know more' for then you never will. And do not say, 'I wil TRY to know more' for trying has never accomplished. And do not say, 'I SEEK to know more' for seeking never finds. Say, 'From the lord-god of my being I now KNOW all there is to know in this moment. So be it! and await the answers. Whether or not you realize at that moment what you desire to know, saying 'I know' opens the door for that realization to occur. That is all you have to say, and the knowledge that you are desiring will come forth. How you limit your creativity and your life is by saying you do not know - or by doubting the knowingness that comes to you. The worst abomination is the phrase, 'I don't know'....If you say, 'I don't know', you won't... No, knowingness is not belief. Belief is conjectural; knowingnes is absolute...When you believe in something, your soul understands the word 'believe' to really mean that someone, or even your own self, is assailing you to convince you of a truth that you have no awareness or certainty of, for that truth has not become an experienced reality within your being. I do not want you to believe in anything. I want you to know! To be enlightened is to know - without doubt, belief, faith or hope. All of those things are conjectural. Knowing makes it absolute, which brings what is known into manifestation. Through the manifestation of that thought into an experience, the understanding will be realized; then it will be a part of your being and not something you must convince yourself of." Ramtha

funny and good: http://www.bswa.org/modules/mydownloads/topten.php?hit=1

http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1WVP352...OK2E8L8KK6CJE20 To make the journey into The Power of Now you need to leave your analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. Access to the Now is everywhere - in the body, the silence, and the space all around you. These are the keys to enter a state of inner peace. They can be used to bring you into the Now, the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here you find your joy and are able to embrace your true self. It is here you discover that you are already complete and perfect. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language in a question and answer format. The words themselves are the signposts to guide you on your journey. There are new discoveries to be made along the way: you are not your mind, you can find your way out of psychological pain, authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now. When you become fully present and accepting of what is, you open yourself to the transforming experience of The Power of Now.

Seth Quotes collection: The Nature of Personal Reality "You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There is no exceptions." "I told you that the self was not limited, yet surely you think that your self stops where your skin meets space, that you are inside your skin. Period. Yet your environment is an extension of your self. It is the body of your experience coalesced in physical form. The inner self forms the objects that you know as surely and automatically as it forms your finger or your eye. Your environment is the physical picture of your thoughts emotions and beliefs made visible. Since your thoughts emotions and beliefs move through space and time, you therefore affect physical conditions separate from you." You are confined only to the extent that you have chosen physical reality, and so placed yourself within its context of experience. While physical, you follow physical laws, or assumptions. These form the framework for corporeal expression. Within this framework you have full freedom to create your experience, your personal life in all of its aspects, the living picture of the world. Your personal life, and to some extent your individual living experience, help create the world as it is known in your time. "Look about you. Your entire physical environment is the materialization of your beliefs. Your sense of joy, sorrow, health or illness - all of these are also caused by your beliefs. " "I would like you to recognize your own beliefs in several areas. You must realize that any idea you accept as truth is a belief that you hold. You must, then, take the next step and say, "It is not necessarily true, even though I believe it." You will, I hope, learn to disregard all beliefs that imply basic limitations. "Physical data will always seem to reinforce the beliefs, therefore, but the beliefs formed the reality. " "....you must realize that no one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without. You can indeed change them for yourself, however, with knowledge and application. " " Within you is the ability to change your ideas about reality and about yourself, to create a personal living experience that is fulfilling to yourself and others. " "The realization that you form your own reality should be a liberating one. You are responsible for your successes and your joys. You can change those areas of your life with which you are less than pleased, but you must take the responsibility for your being. Your spirit joined itself with flesh, and in flesh, to experience a world of incredible richness, to help create a dimension of reality of colors and of form. Your spirit was born in flesh to enrich a marvelous area of sense awareness to feel energy made into corporeal form. You are here to use enjoy and express yourself through the body. You are here to aid in the great expansion of consciousness." Remember, even false beliefs will seem to be justified in terms of physical data, since your experience in the outside world is the materialization of those beliefs. So, you must work with the raw material of your ideas, even when your sense data may tell you that a given belief is obviously a truth. To change your experience or any portion of it, then, you must change your ideas. Since you have been forming your own reality all along, the results will follow naturally." "You must be convinced that you can alter your beliefs. You must be willing to try. " " The inner self is embarked upon an exciting endeavor, in which it learns how to translate its reality into physical terms. The conscious mind is brilliantly attuned to physical reality, then, and often so dazzled by what it perceives that it is tempted to think physical phenomena is a cause, rather than a result. Deeper portions of the self always serve to remind it that this is not the case. When the conscious mind accepts too many false beliefs, particularly if it sees that inner self as a danger, then it closes out these constant reminders. When this situation arises the conscious mind feels itself assailed by a reality that seems greater than itself, over which it has no control. The deep feeling of security in which it should be anchored is lost. The false beliefs must be weeded out so that the conscious mind can become aware of its source once again, and open to the inner channels of splendor and power available to it." "Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people that like you, take it for granted, again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume that your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them." Sessions 613 thru 616, pages 14 thru 34. "You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly." "To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically (emphatically) by creating it in your own being. This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result. " Session 627, page 108 "Your beliefs about what is desirable and what is not, what is good and what is evil, cannot be divorced from the condition of your body. Your own ideas of values can help you achieve good health or bring about disease, can bring into your experience success or failure, happiness or sadness. Yet each of you will interpret that last remark in line with your own value system. You will have definite ideas about what success or failure means, or what good or evil is. Your own value system then is built up of your beliefs about reality, and those beliefs form your experience. " Session 633, page 140 "Normal aggressiveness flows with strong patterns of energy, giving motive power to all of your thoughts whether you consciously regard them as positive or negative, good or bad. (very definitely:) The same thrusting creative surge brings them all forth. When you consider a thought good you usually do not question it. You allow it its life and follow through. Usually if you regard a thought as bad or beneath you, or if you are ashamed of it, then you try to deny it, stop this motion and hold it back. You cannot restrain energy, although you may think you can. You simply collect it, whereupon it grows, seeking its fulfillment. session 634 "As you examine the contents of your conscious mind, it may seem to you that you hold so many different beliefs at different times that you cannot correlate them. They will, however, form into clear patterns. You will find a grouping of core beliefs about which the others gather. If you think of these as planets, then your other ideas orbit about them. There may be some "invisible beliefs," and there may be one or two invisible core beliefs. These, following the analogy, would be hidden behind the other brighter, more obvious "planets," and yet would show their presence through their effects upon your relationships with all of the other visible core beliefs in your "planetary system." Questions you cannot seem to answer as you study your own ideas, for example may lead you to suspect the existence of such invisible core beliefs. Let me emphasize that they are consciously available. You can find them through the approaches mentioned earlier working from your feelings or by beginning with the beliefs that become most readily available." Session 645, pg. 227 "Ruburt also saw that he believed he had to justify his existence through his writing. This because he did not trust the basic right of his being as it existed, and does, in space and time. These old beliefs had not caught up to his newer ones. The same artificial need to vindicate being is present in many of my readers, and various core beliefs may be built up to hide this inner insecurity. You may "justify your life" by biological creativity, and then latch onto your children and never want to let them go. You may use your career instead. But in all cases you must come to grips with such unnecessary ideas, face the reality of your creaturehood, and see that you certainly have as much of a place in the universe as a squirrel, an ant or a leaf. You do not question their right to exist. Why question your own?" Session 645, pg. 233 "Numbers of you are looking for a state of "peace" in which there is a static sort of bliss, with all question forever answered and all problems solved. Some of you think that this will somehow be miraculously accomplished for you. If you recognized the power of your own being, you would know that it ever seeks greater realms of creativity and experience, in which new challenges are inherent - for all problems are challenges." Session 666, pg. 380. "Because you now distrust the imagination so, you do not understand the great clues it give you, both in terms of problem solving and of creative expression. ..... A good percentage of your problems can be worked out rather easily through the use of your imagination." Session 669, pg 396 "No matter what your current situation, the answers lie within your own aspirations and abilities." Session 669, pg. 397 "The ordinary sense of communication given you through your creaturehood, if spontaneously and honestly followed, would solve many of your problems. Only repressed communication leads to violence. The natural force of love is everywhere within you, and the normal methods of communication are always meant to bring you in greater contact with your fellow creatures." Session 674, pg. 427 c c c The Early Sessions, Book 9, "In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver's own inner emotions, energy and mental environment." Session 469, Page 268 c c c The Early Sessions, Book 4 "His (an individual's) perceptions of basic reality in one way does not change the nature of that reality or of that action, as it exists independently of his field of reference. However, the very distortions that occur in his attempt to perceive this reality results in a new reality." Session 157, Page 43 c c c The Early Sessions, Book 8 "If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer." "For example: if others seem deceitful to you it is because you deceive yourself and then project this outward onto others." Session 340, Page 25 "Thoughts however are connected with language and with highly organized ego development. They are translations and symbols for inner activity. As a rule they are highly physically oriented, their function being to acquaint the physically adapted ego with some inner data. The thoughts may rather faithfully, though never completely, translate such data, or they may considerably distort it. Behind thoughts are images, which are more basic but still physically oriented. Because they are more basic they have a stronger effect. They are more emotionally charged, more concise than thoughts, and they are directly connected with the mechanics involved in translating inner data to physical reality. Behind these, so to speak, exist what you may term temperature pictures, in which delicate gradations of heat form ever-shifting emotional patterns that so have a semi-physical outline. From these, you see, normal images are built up, and from the images thoughts are formed...Thus thought becomes an inner image which is translated into a thermal image, and then into intuitional form, into highly condensed and codified data, and then into a pure and direct sort of experience which you cannot understand as physical creatures." Session 341, Page 27 "There must be an open-minded, and openhearted attitude here. You must not try to use what you have learned in a narrow, limiting way. This hampers your own development. It closes your eyes to many possibilities that will be important to you. It is natural, perhaps, to want to use what you have learned, this information, as a technique to achieve what you at any particular time think desirable, a particular person, a particular thing. But what is important is the inner development. If this is taken care of, it will automatically lead you to the person that is best for you and to the circumstances that will help you develop. To insist that a specific individual or a specific goal be attained through these methods is limiting. There must always be the acknowledgment that you do not consciously as yet realize the depths of yourself, the goals you have set and the challenges, and this material should be used to open up your inner horizons and to lead you in those directions toward which your inner self has already set you. If you then egotistically, say - No - this particular situation is what I want, then you may be blocking the inner direction which has been meant for you." Session 403, Page 233 c c c The Early Sessions, Book 9 "You cannot separate creative and psychic ability." Session 444, Page 126 "Now when anything is wrong with your body, it is trying to tell you something. And when you understand what it is trying to say, and if you make an effort to do what is needed, the symptoms are no longer needed as a method of communication. The body is trying to tell you that you have a problem, and because you did not cope with it, and denied it mentally, it is physically materialized in symbolic body language." Session 502, Page 401 c c c The Nature of Personal Reality "Your emotions and your imagination both follow your belief. When the belief vanishes then the same emotional context is no longer entertained, and your imagination turns in other directions. Beliefs automatically mobilize your emotional and imaginative powers. Few beliefs are intellectual alone. When you are examining the contents of your conscious mind, you must learn, or recognize, the emotional and imaginative connotations that are connected with a given idea." Session 619, page 65 c c c The Nature of the Psyche "The [human] species has built into it all of the knowledge, information, and data that it can possibly need under any and all conditions. This heritage must be triggered psychically, however, as a physical mechanism such as a music is triggered through desire or intent." Session 762, Page 36 "A tree does not have to ask for nourishment from the ground or the sun, and so everything that you need is available to you in your practical experience." Session 800, Page 220 c c c The Nature of Personal Reality "And so it is from your larger identity that you form the reality that you know. It is up to you to do this with joy and vigor, clearing your conscious mind so that the deeper knowledge of your greater identity can form joyous expressions in the world of flesh." Session 613, Page 14 c c c The Early Sessions, Book 4 "It goes without saying that you must bring to all your experiences more than a mere wish to be different, more than a mere curiosity. In order for you to operate effectively in any area there must be in your makeup a strong, positive and definite desire to benefit the race of man." Session 185, Page 244 c c c The Early Sessions, Book 6 "The one main test to be applied to these sessions, to my advice and to the material is this: The sessions, the material and your new knowledge must transform your psychic and physical environment, your health and all aspects of your inner and outer life for the better." Session 245, Page 56

The point isn't to argue with them, just express your opinion. There are alot of young impressionable minds on that forum, I just express my opinion there to balance the field.

Dude I agree, its just sad that many youth are misled by the narrow minded people and end up nearly giving up on the spiritual path. If anyone would liek to give your input please refer to this thread: http://tapoban.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&amp...252&t=14252

thanks for the sweet link Kam! I posted this link on tapoban.org and this is what a poster had to say: ---------------------- P. Singh, The Naam technique that Bhai Waryam Singh is openly telling on stage has many flaws. I request all Gursikhs to ignore it and not follow it even in their dreams. First of all, who gave Waryam Singh right to give out Naam and teach Naam to just about everyone? The right to give Naam and its technique lies with Punj Pyaray only. I say this with great regrets that despite being the son-in-law of Great Gurmukh Baba Hira Singh jee Daudpuri, he is still openly giving Naam. He should have learned from his father-in-law who had lost all kirpa and Kala of Guru Sahib for doing much less offense than Waryam Singh is doing. Besides, the technique that he is teaching is not according to Gurmat, in my humble opinion. He is stating that Naam should be japp-ed swaas swaas but it teaching otherwise. This is the problem with the so called sants now a days. They try to imitate Guru Sahib and take on Guru Sahib's prerogatives. Kulbir Singh ---------------------------- Sad

. http://www.adyashanti.org/index.php?file=l...448f52dd1102252

"Thoughts are friends, not enemies. They're just "what is." They appear. They're innocent. We're not doing them. They're not personal. They're like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. Thoughts arise like that, and we can make friends with them. Would you argue with a raindrop? Raindrops aren't personal, and neither are thoughts. It's the meaning you attach to those thoughts that you think is personal. Inquire. Meet them with understanding. Once a painful concept is met with understanding, the next time it appears you may find it interesting. The next time it appears, you may find it funny. The next time you may not even notice it. There will be no attachment. I meet thoughts the way I would meet my children. I met them with love, gentleness, and a quiet understanding. I inquire." Byron Katie

ya I have expereienced it but the trick is to become aware that its a lucid dream and remember the dream aftwards. I wish I did more with my lucidity as well but hey we can get there again. cool site: http://www.ld4all.com/

I love these exploration type of subjects, here is some info on yoga Nidra: Yoga Nidra, which literally means "sleep of the yogis", is in the beginning used just as a physical and mental relaxation technique, but this is not the true sleep of a Yogi, which penetrates into much deeper levels of consciousness and awareness. Yoga Nidra should not be confused with techniques of auto-suggestion, or "autogenous training". Adherents claim that half an hour of Yoga Nidra can replace up to three hours of normal sleep. Regular use as a sleep substitute is not recommended, however, as the body and mind still require sufficient standard rest. Yoga Nidra can, however, be practiced on a daily basis as a relaxation technique, in addition to normal sleep. The true sleep of a Yogi is a state of consciousness in which the Yogi is connected with that divine energy pervading the whole Cosmos. This energy is beyond space and time and during this state of consciousness the Yogi can see past, present and future. He knows his past lives and what will manifest in the future. Through Yoga Nidra the Yogi can work through Karmas, as this clarity penetrates levels of the unconscious and subconscious. It is used to help purify the subconscious through use of certain vows known as Shankalpas. Experienced Yogis use Yoga Nidra for Astral travels and in its highest level it leads to Samadhi.

Lots of people have had near death experiences and from what I have read ALL of them absolutely love and embrace so called "death" from this physical plane.

are you sitting on it?

Do not meditate - be! Do not think that you are - be! Don't think about being - you are! Sri Ramana Maharshi

Is there any way to contact shaka?

“Observe the attachment to your views and opinions. When you become involved in an argument or conflict, watch how defensive you become, and feel the force of your own aggression as you attack another person’s position. Feel the mental-emotional energy behind your need to be right and make the other person wrong, then let go of the force inside you that is fighting for power.†“Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is.†“Through allowing the isness of all things, a deeper dimension reveals itself to you as an abiding presence, an unchanging deep stillness, and uncaused joy beyond good and bad. This is joy of Being, the peace of God.†“Presence removes time. Without time, no suffering, no negativity, can survive.†“Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and make the Now the main focus of your life.â€

Thanks for the awesome posts Harbhajan!