Precious teaching by Beloved Guruji

“What Siona is doing in the Gaia Minute Call, is a guided prayer to put everyone together in the same vibration at the same time. At every moment whenever there’s a connection, that’s prayer. Prayer has no definite form. It can vary, it can be just a silent prayer. In fact the best prayer is a wordless prayer. Absolutely no words. Nothing. Just expanding into the wide expanse around you and beyond the earth to the universe. Its giving. Just give. And just be quiet and merge.
 
It's a state of being. Regularity is very important. Regularity puts you into a habit and the entire bio-clock and the system gets ready for that particular moment. So while we’re doing it, maybe round the clock, we still fix up a time, which is a definite time – like the Islam people. You would notice that when it is their Namaaz time, their prayer time, whatever they are doing – they will drop everything and wherever they are, even if they are on the road – they will stop the car, offer their prayers at that particular moment. Regularity of a particular moment is very important. So doing it round the clock within yourself is one thing, but doing it at the same point of time everyday - Just like our bio-clock starts responding to hunger, to sleep, similarly the spiritual energy also started gearing up and getting ready for the prayer, when you start doing it regularly at the same moment every day. So I would request each one of you to at least have some sort of regularity, preferably daily – maybe even five minutes is okay – but do it every day at the same point of time, 5 o’ clock in the morning, 6 o’ clock in the morning, 9 o’ clock in the morning, 9.09 at night, whatever. But do it at the same time every day at least once. That will put you into a system whereby your system is going to respond to the universal call. This is what I want to tell each one of you. Please try to be regular so far as the clock is concerned.
 
It actually cannot be said, it can only be felt. Prayer has got different levels. Broadly there are 3 kinds of prayers. One is when you ask something for yourself. That’s a general prayer. ‘Oh Lord give me this, Oh Lord shield me from this, Oh Lord, I’m in trouble, etc, etc’. This is one kind of prayer The 2nd classification I would say is when you are praying for someone. Like you have a prayer list and you’re mentioning names or maybe someone is sick who you’re praying on behalf of, or asking for healing or relief, that’s another kind of prayer. Sometimes you pray for healing. The prayer that I am suggesting is, pray for nothing. Pray just for the sake of praying. And there is not even an intention… there’s nothing. There’s just you and the universe. There's just being. Just expanding. Just giving… The closest I can tell you is  that of mother feeding breast milk to a baby. That giving. There’s nothing, absolutely nothing, not even an intention. That is the highest level of prayer. At that level you loose words, you don’t even have words. You don't really have words at that point … you just sort of overflow from inside. And that goes out and creates the vibration. What we need is that kind of prayer together. A huge number of people. That's the movement.

If you ever lie down and look up at the sky when there is no moon, but all the stars are around. Then what do you feel? It is that feeling. Try and get the essence of what I’m trying to say. In a dark night if you're lying on your back on a rooftop or somewhere… and the sky is full of stars and there is darkness… but within the darkness there are these bright stars around and you feel that immenseness and then slowly you sort of melt into it... you dissolve yourself... you just become that ONE. So I don’t think its ‘acceptance’, it’s not even ‘giving’, it’s much beyond all that. You can only feel when you start doing it you can only feel it. I just don’t have any words. At that level there’s hardly any difference between meditation and prayer. At that point it sort of merges because ultimately both are taking you to the same.

There’s only one light. Just one light. Prayer and meditation. Trouble is that meditation requires a little bit of training, prayer comes naturally. The system is naturally attuned to prayer. But for meditation you need to learn certain techniques, you need to learn the breath control and so on, before you can settle down. But ultimately both reach the same point so at that highest level I don’t think there is much difference between praying and meditation. Meditation cannot be done, it happens but prayer can be done. You can sit down and try and meditate but half the time your mind is running away here and there – so when meditation happens, it happens. Meditation cannot be ‘consciously done’ – unless you’re so highly practiced that you just sit down and immediately you have that Samadhi – but that takes long practice and your life style has got to change  and things like that. So I would say – meditation happens. There is for example japa, the seed mantra, which you repeat, not loudly but internally, And then there is Dhyaan (or Dhyana), Dhyaan is meditation. You sit down and start repeating the seed mantra which in any case we are doing all the time internally, yet consciously at that point I’m repeating it  in my heart and suddenly that mantra vanishes and nothing remains. Suddenly I find that I’m into nowhere. I’m deep into Samadhi. It just happens. When it will happen I don’t know. But in prayer, I know that it can be done because I can simply sit down and as soon as I start expanding, I can pray and that’s the reason I told you to please pray. Because ultimately both are going to do the same thing. Both are going to generate the same vibrations. So prayer is the thing for us. And Siona has taken the leadership.

There is only love. God is Love. The Universe is love. There is nothing except Love.

Om Namo Narayanam”

Awareness and Experience

Let us consider what we all call experience.

The entire universe, life, time, space, our family, everyone we know, is in this moment simply experience to us. We experience all the above through five senses, so I am calling all experience, sensations. These sensations are then given name and form by our ability to think and make distinctions.

Stop for a moment and simply experience the totality of your experience simply as sensations now.
Notice that what you experience, your sensations, are changing every moment and therefore cannot be described. In order to describe your experience of Now, you would have to speak volumes and as soon as you spoke, your experience would be already different.

Notice if when you experience like this, without trying to quantify or qualify your sensations, if there is a sense of boundary between you and your experience.

Notice that usually we think we can describe our experience and in this idea there is a sense of  'I'. Notice that in trying to describe our sensations, this activity appears to give the non-existent 'I'. a sense of control.
Now notice that you are aware of any experience. This awareness is already present. Whilst being this awareness, see if you can describe awareness.

You will notice that this is impossible.

Where is it?
Everywhere.

Are there any boundaries?
Nope.

What is in it?
Everything.

We have two words awareness and experience, but really they are only words. We can't describe either.
Notice if there is any boundary between awareness and experience.

We have the capacity to objectify experience and then it seems like there is an observer and what is observed. This gives a sense of 'I'. From this we can see that the sense of 'I'. is an activity and does not actually exist. As soon as the activity ceases, like in deep sleep, there is no sense of 'I'.
When experiencing the totality of our experience of Now, there is no possibility to objectify, hence no sense of  'I'.

Now notice what happens if you would like to have a different experience from the experience you are having.

Firstly, is it possible? If the thought that it is possible to have a different experience that what we are having is entertained, then it looks as if  'I' can do something about it.

As soon as we do not want the experience we are having, the not wanting it is also an experience and adds another layer into the tapestry of experience. Simply, what it boils down to is tightening up. Mostly we never consciously examine this tightening up and have an unconscious belief that this tightening up helps. Very often, we have resistance to this tightening up, which locks it in.

What we can notice about experience, is that it is always changing. When we don't want the experience we are having, we freeze-frame it, or objectify it, because we can't get rid of something that is changing. So in order to get rid of an experience or change it, we have to make it into something.

Check and see if what we make our experience into when we don't want it, actually exists?
The only human drama there is, is not wanting the experience / sensations we are having now.

See if this is true!

Not wanting the experience we are having, feels uncomfortable in the body and this registers as a problem. Our thinking is the capacity to solve problems, so our thinking tries to help by projecting what the problem is and what the solution could be. When we don't want the experience we are having, I am going to call this resisting, all that happens is that our experience gets more intense or subjectively we call it worse. Now that it is worse we don't want it either, so we resist again, which makes it worse and now that it is worse we don't want it either, so we resist, ad infinitum. In a matter of moments we feel out of control, the experience we don't want is still there and we feel overwhelmed. Our experience feels bigger than us. Most people spend their entire lives feeling overwhelmed. There is a sense of too much to do and there is a constant underlying feeling of stress and the feeling that we have to run just to survive.

For most of us, the habit is to tighten up as soon as we wake, if we don't wake up already contracted, from what we have dreamt. We do this by thinking of what we have to do this day and unconsciously or consciously believing that this tightening up somehow helps us to survive.

Once we have tightened up, this registers as a problem and then our mind tries to help ????.. etc

In western psychology, what we call the subconscious mind is everything we never want to experience again and everything we think we want to experience, in other words all our unfilled desires, that we think will make us happy. All of this is our resistance to our experience NOW.

This is what our thinking produces when we have sensations we are resisting, in trying to help us by identifying what the problem is and what the solution could be.

As soon as we think we know what the problem is, in other words, what's wrong outside or inside of us, we project that what is 'wrong' needs changing or fixing. We spend enormous amounts of energy trying to do the impossible. The non-existent 'I'. trying to change, fix or get rid of what doesn't exist.

Stop. Notice what your mind is constantly busy with.

Notice if what your mind is working with in this moment brings you peace. Could you for a moment simply let go of believing that thinking will help? Could you let go of believing that tightening up will help?

In this moment, being embodied awareness, aware in every cell, simply being, how is it? Notice if there is any boundary.

Notice that all experience is welcome. Some call this unconditional love or everything.

It is never the experience we are having that troubles us, it is whether or not there is an automatic habit of trying to not have the experience we are already having that troubles us.

Notice where in your body you experience not wanting the experience you are having. How does it feel? Can you notice or find anything worthwhile about resisting your experience? Could you let go of resisting having the experience you are having?