“There is a fraction of a moment in the space between the breaths which is completely still and free of thought.
To focus on that space is the highest meditation and the highest knowledge.”
Swami Muktananda Paramahansa
A Course in Meditation and Understanding your Self @ Mandorla Coaching & Meditation
Your joy is intrinsic, inborn. Yet you rush here and there seeking happiness in others and thats why everything you do has some weird failure in it.
Your only difficulty is that you do not understand yourself.
As human beings we always act and feel and perform in accordance with what we imagine to be true about ourselves and our environment, without stopping to consider what we are doing and who is doing.
We can see that in conventional life one who thinks of himself or herself as poor or lonely or weak, lacking in skill or strength, a victim of sorrow and misery, actually becomes that. As you think, so you become.
We are controlled and dominated by everything with which we are identified.
You have been talking and thinking about your “I” for a long time. Can you explain what that “I” is? Or what is its purpose?
Our difficulty lies in the power of the mind to construct images of things apart from the things themselves. This includes the ability to make an image, an idea, of ourselves apart from our Self.
You must see through this idea of yourself before any transformation can happen – this invented person you keep going at such cost, this you that is not you.
When we are no longer identified with the idea of ourselves, our entire relationship with others, the world, our life undergoes a sudden and revolutionary change.
Why the Course
The primary purpose of this course is to become conscious of and familiar with our inner Self – the very source of ever-present love and creative energy.
The Self is known by being what you are, instead of what you imagine you are. The inner vibration of Being, Knowing, and Loving. Pure awareness of Being. Pure delight in Being.
The fundamental principle underlying the course is that the Self is an unchanging power of Consciousness - of strength and enthusiasm - and that Consciousness is the original and self-existent Reality. This Primordial Consciousness is made accessible through the awakening and functioning of a generally latent inner energy, which results in a progressive disentanglement of one’s Self from every false and negative identification.
Truth is that which, when known, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.
This is certain: all things exist in Consciousness, all things flow from it, all things are Consciousness; it is omnipresent, it is the one Self, it is the Truth.