Rain from the Pineapple Express storm has subsided, and the afternoon sunlight brightens the writer's desk in my room at Berkeley's Piedmont House travelers hostel. Swami Sivananda's book entitled "Concentration and Meditation" is open. Practically, it comes down to having a yogic
"double vision", wherein an aspect of the individual is always objectively witnessing, while one performs one's social role well. This, as opposed to unconsciously acting in a world defined by continuously changing phenomena.
Cultivating an ongoing meditative awareness, is the critical direction to go, because anything else leaves one unconsciously entangled in samsara, disoriented, and vainly searching for an elixir to remedy the situation. As the ancient Indian rishis pointed out, there is no elixir!
Regardless of any other factor, moment to moment to moment, the key is to cultivate an ongoing meditative awareness. Sages in every tradition have testified that identifying with the superconscious state is liberation from the suffering that results from identification with the body and mind. As Nisargadatta Maharaj, the cigarette salesman and jnana yoga master from Mumbai, India said: "Stop identifying with the body and mind, and your problem is solved."
People the world over are concerned about peace and justice, and the condition of the planet earth's environment. Lately, there is concern about global climate destabilization. However, without a primary focus on realizing the superconscious state, called "sahaja samadhi avastha", the confusion which characterizes the postmodern global social situation has no possibility of significantly changing. Unless the individual consciously evolves, this civilization cannot possibly move in a spiritualized direction.
Therefore, the most profoundly crucial activism is the conscious cultivation of unending meditative awareness. From that, world peace, justice, and environmental stability may manifest. OM Shanthi
Craig Louis Stehr
February 8th, 2015 A.D.
Blog: http://craiglstehr.blogspot.
Email: CraigStehr@inbox.com
Snail mail: P.O. Box 809, Berkeley, CA 94701-0809
Cultivating an ongoing meditative awareness, is the critical direction to go, because anything else leaves one unconsciously entangled in samsara, disoriented, and vainly searching for an elixir to remedy the situation. As the ancient Indian rishis pointed out, there is no elixir!
Regardless of any other factor, moment to moment to moment, the key is to cultivate an ongoing meditative awareness. Sages in every tradition have testified that identifying with the superconscious state is liberation from the suffering that results from identification with the body and mind. As Nisargadatta Maharaj, the cigarette salesman and jnana yoga master from Mumbai, India said: "Stop identifying with the body and mind, and your problem is solved."
People the world over are concerned about peace and justice, and the condition of the planet earth's environment. Lately, there is concern about global climate destabilization. However, without a primary focus on realizing the superconscious state, called "sahaja samadhi avastha", the confusion which characterizes the postmodern global social situation has no possibility of significantly changing. Unless the individual consciously evolves, this civilization cannot possibly move in a spiritualized direction.
Therefore, the most profoundly crucial activism is the conscious cultivation of unending meditative awareness. From that, world peace, justice, and environmental stability may manifest. OM Shanthi
Craig Louis Stehr
February 8th, 2015 A.D.
Blog: http://craiglstehr.blogspot.
Email: CraigStehr@inbox.com
Snail mail: P.O. Box 809, Berkeley, CA 94701-0809
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