Its an inherent desire in humans to be happy. In india the ancient sages, through inquiry about life, were able to reach of state of consciousness in which the secrets of healthier, happier, and meaningful living were revealed to them. Sages called that secret and sacred knowledge ‘YOGA’

The term YOGA is derived from Sanskrit word YUJ, meaning union. The union of the individual consciousness with the universal consciousness. The knowledge of yoga can be found in ancient indian scriptures dating back over 5000 years. This knowledge was first revealed by Lord Shiva to his wife Parvati ( also known as Shakti , the cosmic creative energy according to Hindu Mythology.

Yoga transcends any religion or culture. Its application is universal. Yoga is not merely a form of exercise for the body , but a path towards total harmony of body, mind, and sprit, that ultimately leads to Self realization. The union with the self . It was from this state of union when Jesus said Me and My Father are one.

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche possesses a rare ability to present the ancient wisdom of Tibet in a fresh, engaging manner. His profound yet accessible teachings and playful sense of humor have endeared him to students around the world. Most uniquely, Rinpoche’s teachings weave together his own personal experiences with modern scientific research, relating both to the practice of meditation.

तिब्बत और नेपाल के बीच हिमालयी सीमा क्षेत्रों में 1975 में जन्मे, योंगी मिंग्युर रिनपोछे एक बहुत ही प्रिय और निपुण ध्यान गुरु हैं।

एक छोटी उम्र से, रिनपोचे को चिंतन के जीवन के लिए तैयार किया गया था। उन्होंने अपने बचपन के कई वर्ष कठोर तपस्या में व्यतीत किए। सत्रह साल की उम्र में, उन्हें अपने मठ के तीन साल के रिट्रीट सेंटर में एक शिक्षक बनने के लिए आमंत्रित किया गया था, इस तरह के युवा लामा के पास शायद ही कोई स्थान हो। उन्होंने उत्तर भारत में अपने घर के मठ में एक मठ कॉलेज की स्थापना से पहले, दर्शन और मनोविज्ञान में पारंपरिक बौद्ध प्रशिक्षण पूरा किया।

तिब्बती बौद्ध धर्म की ध्यान और दार्शनिक परंपराओं में व्यापक प्रशिक्षण के अलावा, मिंग्युर रिनपोछे की पश्चिमी विज्ञान और मनोविज्ञान में भी आजीवन रुचि रही है। कम उम्र में, उन्होंने प्रसिद्ध न्यूरोसाइंटिस्ट फ्रांसिस्को वरेला के साथ अनौपचारिक चर्चाओं की एक श्रृंखला शुरू की, जो अपने पिता, टिक्कू उरगेन रिनपोचे से ध्यान सीखने के लिए नेपाल आए थे। कई साल बाद, 2002 में, मिंग्युर रिनपोचे और मुट्ठी भर अन्य दीर्घकालिक ध्यानियों को विस्कॉन्सिन-मैडिसन विश्वविद्यालय में ब्रेन इमेजिंग और व्यवहार के लिए वैशमैन प्रयोगशाला में आमंत्रित किया गया, जहां रिचर्ड डेविडसन, एंटोनी लुट्ज़ और अन्य वैज्ञानिकों ने प्रभावों की जांच की उन्नत ध्यानियों के दिमाग पर ध्यान की। इस भूस्खलन अनुसंधान के परिणाम दुनिया के कई सबसे व्यापक रूप से पढ़े जाने वाले प्रकाशनों में रिपोर्ट किए गए, जिनमें नेशनल जियोग्राफिक और टाइम शामिल हैं।

पांच महाद्वीपों के केंद्रों के साथ, मिंग्युर रिनपोछे दुनिया भर में पढ़ाते हैं। उनकी स्पष्टवादी, अक्सर अपनी निजी कठिनाइयों के हास्यपूर्ण खातों ने उन्हें दुनिया भर के हजारों छात्रों के सामने ला दिया। उनकी सबसे ज्यादा बिकने वाली पुस्तक, द जॉय ऑफ लिविंग: द अनलॉकिंग द सीक्रेट एंड साइंस ऑफ हैपीनेस, ने न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स की बेस्टसेलर सूची में शुरुआत की और इसका बीस से अधिक भाषाओं में अनुवाद किया गया। रिनपोछे की सबसे हालिया किताबें क्लैरिएशन इन कन्फ्यूजन इन क्लैरिटी: ए गाइड टू द तिब्बती बौद्ध धर्म, जॉयफुल विजडम: एम्ब्रॉयडिंग चेंजिंग एंड फाइंडिंग फ्रीडम, और एक सचित्र बच्चों की किताब है जिसका शीर्षक है जिजी: द पपी दैट  लर्न द मेडिटेशन।

जून 2011 की शुरुआत में, मिंग्युर रिनपोछे भारत के बोधगया में अपने मठ से बाहर निकले और हिमालय और भारत के मैदानी इलाकों में “भटकते हुए पीछे हटना” शुरू किया जो साढ़े चार साल तक चला। जब भारत और नेपाल में उसकी देखभाल के लिए मठों में नहीं जाते हैं, तो रिनपोछे हर साल दुनिया भर में यात्रा और शिक्षण में समय बिताते हैं।

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche possesses a rare ability to present the ancient wisdom of Tibet in a fresh, engaging manner. His profound yet accessible teachings and playful sense of humor have endeared him to students around the world. Most uniquely, Rinpoche’s teachings weave together his own personal experiences with modern scientific research, relating both to the practice of meditation.

Born in 1975 in the Himalayan border regions between Tibet and Nepal, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a much-loved and accomplished meditation master. From a young age, Rinpoche was drawn to a life of contemplation. He spent many years of his childhood in strict retreat. At the age of seventeen, he was invited to be a teacher at his monastery’s three-year retreat center, a position rarely held by such a young lama. He also completed the traditional Buddhist training in philosophy and psychology, before founding a monastic college at his home monastery in north India.

In addition to extensive training in the meditative and philosophical traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Mingyur Rinpoche has also had a lifelong interest in Western science and psychology. At an early age, he began a series of informal discussions with the famed neuroscientist Francisco Varela, who came to Nepal to learn meditation from his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Many years later, in 2002, Mingyur Rinpoche and a handful of other long-term meditators were invited to the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Richard Davidson, Antoine Lutz, and other scientists examined the effects of meditation on the brains of advanced meditators. The results of this groundbreaking research were reported in many of the world’s most widely read publications, including National Geographic and Time.

Mingyur Rinpoche teaches throughout the world, with centers on five continents. His candid, often humorous accounts of his own personal difficulties have endeared him to thousands of students around the world. His best-selling book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. Rinpoche’s most recent books are Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, and an illustrated children’s book entitled Ziji: The Puppy that Learned to Meditate.

In early June, 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche walked out of his monastery in Bodhgaya, India and began a “wandering retreat” through the Himalayas and the plains of India that lasted four and a half years. When not attending to the monasteries under his care in India and Nepal, Rinpoche spends time each year traveling and teaching worldwide.

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And once discovered, he consistently kept resigning from his comfort zone and to share the secret of his success with the entire world. It is this very urge of helping people and doing something good for the society that inspired him to take the initiative of changing people’s lives in the form of “Free Life-Changing Seminars and Sessions”.

No wonder people connect with him and his mission of ‘Sharing’ is now being actively propagated and practiced by millions. It is his diligent focus, the great support of his family and the faith of his team that keeps him going.

Apart from being a successful entrepreneur, he is a guide, a mentor, a role model and a youth icon for millions of people all over the world. People love and adore him for his great mission of making everybody believe in them and helping people to make their life ‘Aasaan’ (Easy).

His unshakable faith in the divine power grants him strength to thrive. Being at the helm of success, it is quite astonishing to know that money does not lure him. And that’s why, profits don’t drive his organisation. It’s an emotional bonding with each and every person working in the company that matters for him.

Capable of building an entire new industry or an organization, he is satisfied to adhere to his self-made benchmark that states, “If you have more than you need, simply share it with those who need it the most.”

With a completely distinct aura than any other person of his age and stature, he rose above the rat race and broke through the age-old myth of ‘Life is tough’ with his simple mantra ‘Aasaan Hai’.( its easy )

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Anger is a distortion of your true nature and it doesn’t allow the self to shine forth fully. The structure of human consciousness or the mind is very similar to that of an atom. The positively charged protons and neutrons are in the center of the atom while the negatively charged particles are only on the circumference. Similarly, even in human consciousness, mind and life, all the negativities and vices are only in the periphery. Your true nature is peace and love.

Showing anger itself is not wrong, but being unaware of your anger only hurts you. Sometimes you can show anger purposefully. For example, a mother gets angry at her children and can act tough or shout at them if they put themselves in danger. There are situations that warrant showing anger, but when you get angry, have you observed what happens to you? You are shaken completely. Look at the consequences of getting angry. Are you happy with the decisions you have made or the words you have spoken in a state of anger? No, because you lose your total awareness. But if you are completely aware and are acting angry, that is fine.

Being in the Present Moment

All anger is about something which has already happened. Is it of any use getting angry about something which you cannot alter? The mind always vacillates between the past and the future. When the mind is in the past, it’s angry about something that has already happened; but anger is meaningless as we can’t alter the past. And when the mind is in the future, it’s anxious about something that may or may not happen. When the mind is in the present moment, anxiousness and anger appear so meaningless.

Spiritual practices help you maintain your centeredness and not be shaken by small events. This is where a little knowledge about yourself, your mind, your consciousness and the root of distortion in our nature helps. It is when you are exhausted and stressed that you lose your nature and get angry. Every individual is bestowed with all the virtues in the world. They simply get covered-up by lack of understanding and stress. What is needed is just to uncover the virtues that are already there.

The Secret of the Breath

Breathing techniques and meditation are very effective in calming the mind. Learning something about our breath is very important. Our breath has a great lesson to teach us, which we have forgotten. For every rhythm in the mind, there is a corresponding rhythm in the breath and for every rhythm in the breath there is a corresponding emotion. So, when you cannot handle your mind directly, you can handle it through breath. Meditation is letting go of anger from the past and the events of the past. Meditation is accepting this moment and living every moment totally with depth. Often anger comes because you do not accept the present moment. Anger comes when one seeks too much of perfection. When you are joyful, you don’t look for perfection. If you are always looking for perfection then you are not at the source of joy.

The world appears imperfect on the surface but, underneath, all is perfect. Perfection hides; imperfection shows off. The wise will not remain merely on the surface but will probe into the depth. Things are not blurred; your vision is blurred. Infinite actions prevail in the wholeness of consciousness, and yet the consciousness remains perfect, untouched. Realise this now and be natural.

by : shri shri ravishankar

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Spirituality brings purpose and meaning to life, and as we develop it, we grow in wisdom and love. We begin to experience a sense of awe, a sense of connection to all of life, and a deep reverence for the Divine. We find ourselves moved to prayers of gratitude and moments of spontaneous worship. Spirituality calls a human being to a life of trust and service.
    When our spirituality is nurtured and vibrant, we are connected. This connection is both a sense of relationship to the Creator, Great Spirit, or God (divine force), as well as a relationship to all people and to Mother Earth (our life-giving environment). Spirituality takes us beyond our egocentered lives by expanding our hearts with compassion towards all.
    Spirituality does not dwell in a realm apart. It is not an extracurricular activity. Spirituality involves a reverent attitude toward all things because it awakens us to a divine presence in all things. In this way of seeing and being, all things and persons are interconnected and interdependent. In the Sioux native language, the word for the Great Spirit is Wakan, which means ‘the great mystery.’ Yet this spirit, full of mystery, is every bit as real as the visible, tangible world.
    It is important to differentiate spirituality from religion. Some people have rejected religion in order to escape what they consider to be oppressive rules and regulations. In the
process, however, many lose the great gifts of joy and compassion that spirituality brings.
    Religion and spirituality are related and intertwined, but they are not the same. A person may experience spirituality without being a member of any specific religious affiliation, and even the most religious person may feel spiritually bereft. The true purpose of religion is to enhance spirituality through ritual and practice. This is accomplished when a person approaches his or her religion as a way to enter the great mystery, to become aware of the sacredness of all life.
    Religion can become a barrier to spirituality when it insists on narrow, judgmental dogma, and estranges its followers from a sense of connection with the Divine. Religion serves us best as a vehicle to nourish and develop our spirituality.
    It is possible, however, to get too caught up in the vehicle, the religious practice, while losing sight of the destination, spirituality, which is communion with the Divine and compassion for all. For modern, academically oriented professionals, like physicians and health care workers, spirituality is often a difficult subject.
    Their training is framed by science. They depend on logical, analytical, and rational approaches, and for good reason. These approaches have successfully ushered in a host of lifechanging improvements in health care and technology. While honouring science and the mind, our cultural tendency urges us to devalue belief and mystery, but the result is costly: They are left spiritually starved and out of balance.
    Some of life’s most difficult questions are the spiritual ones. What is the purpose of life? Where does real meaning come from? What is of real value in our lives? If there truly is a God who loves us, how could there be so much suffering and unfairness in the world? Part of our addiction to the busyness of life is an attempt to prevent ourselves from thinking about our mortality, the inevitable fact of our own death. But when we keep ourselves too busy to consider the purpose of our existence, our lives cease to have meaning. Strangely, it is only when we fully accept the reality of our mortality that we truly begin to live. This is the point at which we begin to enter into and learn about the spiritual dimension of our humanity. 

At this point, you might ask yourself several questions to help assess your own spirituality. Do i have a sense of connection with the Divine? Do i feel compassion for others? Do i feel awe and reverence? Do i live a life of trust? Am i called to service? Is prayer or meditation an important part of my life?    As French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin remarked, “We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a physical experience.” Our spirituality is our true essence. It is that part of our life which relates to our soul, which from a spiritual perspective is connected to the Divine and is infinite. This lifetime is but the physical experience of our deeper reality, our spirit, which is our fundamental nature. 

God can help manage your medication Spirituality helps older black American women with high blood pressure stick to the drug regimens that keep the condition under control, new research suggests. Older black Americans tend to have poorer anti-hypertensive medication adherence than either younger blacks or white patients, even though adherence helps reduce hypertension-related health problems and deaths, noted a team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.    This study included 21 black women, average age 73, who were members of a Programme of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly. The women had been diagnosed with hypertension for an average of 16.7 years, and they were taking an average of 3.3 prescriptions to battle the condition. All the women said they used their spirituality to manage their medication adherence. As part of this process, identified as ‘Partnering with God to Manage My Medications,’ the women accepted personal responsibility for adhering to their medication regimen and used their spirituality as a resource to make decisions to remain adherent, to cope with medication side effects, and to increase their ability to deal with barriers that kept them from sticking with their medicines. It must now pass through all the necessary committees for final approval including the Senate and Governor of the State.

    by ALAN SHELTON

source: sunday times.