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- Awaken Your Kundalini in 3 Easy Steps - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Kip MazuyMany people want to know how to awaken the Kundalini. And as there are techniques for Kundalini Awakening, most of the techniques are kept secret by masters until the student is ready to receive them. Here is a very powerful technique for Kundalini Awakening based on a Kriya Yoga technique. ...
Views: 29902(1 vote) - You Can Experience Enlightenment Using This "No Mind" Meditation Technique - by Submitted on May 02, 2012 from Kip MazuyYou can learn how to attain the state of no mind in meditation by learning and practicing this simple meditation technique. No mind, mind of no mind, meditation technique, meditation, zen, enlightenment, Before we get into the meditation technique, first let’s talk about what is termed ...
Views: 9269(2 votes) - Meditation Technique to Attain Self Realization - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2012 from Kip MazuyBefore we begin to discuss this powerful technique to attain self realization, we need to understand what is keeping us from self realization. We have to realize what we are constantly doing that separates us more and more from our own experience of oneness. As thoughts arise, we identify ...
Views: 4550(1 vote) - My First Spiritual Awakening and Experience of Oneness - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2011 from Kip MazuyHere I will relate my first big spiritual awakening and experience of oneness. I was in college in Vermont, having a bad day. After classes and meetings with teachers, I went back to my dorm room and sat down to meditate. When I sat down, I just surrendered. Not that I knew what surrender ...
Views: 4330(2 votes) - How to Transcend the Mind in Meditation - by Submitted on May 20, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"The source of all problems is the mind. Thoughts arise, you identify with your thoughts and that defines your experience. So many thoughts arise without you even knowing it. So many worries and troubles constantly arising and repeating and although you are not conscious of ...
Views: 3640(3 votes) - 2 Meditation Techniques to Help You Attain Bliss And Self Realization - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2011 from Kip MazuyWhether you are looking to deepen your meditation, attain self realization or you just simply want to experience more peace and bliss in your life, learning and practicing one of these two meditation techniques will deepen your meditation and bliss considerably and set you well on the path to ...
Views: 3117(1 vote) - The Difference Between Self Realization & Oneness - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2012 from Kip MazuySelf realization is the realization of the Self, or Atman. The Self can be related to the experience of impersonal being, or the sense that you are pure consciousness, or that you are silence itself or awareness itself. Self realization is also the freedom from the sense of being a personal ...
Views: 3112(1 vote) - How You Can Attain Spiritual Awakening through Self Discipline - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Kip MazuyIf you are really passionate about spiritual awakening then spiritual discipline is most important. For spiritual awakening to happen there must be that build up of energy and there must be that in-your-face awareness of yourself. You see, the moment your go for that beer, that glass of ...
Views: 2864(1 vote) - How to Transcend Ego in Meditation - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"If you practice being present in meditation, you will find even beyond the thinking that there is this reflexive urge to separate yourself from this moment. It is almost like two magnets that repel each other with all of their strength. This is the ego. You could even define the ...
Views: 2744(1 vote) - How to Still The Mind in Meditation - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"If you try and still the mind, it will be the mind trying to still the mind. Rather become aware of the mind. Become aware of the flow of thoughts. Not to define the thought or relate to the thought. But to impersonally be aware of the thought arising and dissapperearing without ...
Views: 2737(1 vote) - The Truth about Spiritual Teachers and Enlightened Beings - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2012 from Kip MazuyIf you are seeking enlightenment, it is important to understand that there is a huge difference between the new age spiritual teachers that are popular today and the enlightened beings who have actually attained full enlightenment. In the past, the majority of enlightened beings came from the ...
Views: 2361(1 vote) - Learn Mindfulness Meditation to Attain Self Realization - by Submitted on May 29, 2012 from Kip MazuyMindfulness meditation is really the essence of meditation and yoga. And if you practice this Zen technique given below not only in your sitting meditation but in your day-to-day life, it will help lead you into deep states of meditation and even self realization. Your natural experience of ...
Views: 2313(1 vote) - Self Realization: How to Have an Instant Shift in Consciousness - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2009 from Kip Mazuy"The mind functions by defining. And through definitions boundaries are created, separation is created. There is this body that is me and everything else that is not me. So you experience something the mind defines as pain in your chest and that pain is separate from you. ...
Views: 2288 - Meditation: How to Attain Oneness & Bliss - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from Kip MazuyIf you want more peace and bliss in your life, whether you want to attain enlightenment and states of oneness or you are simply interested in deep relaxation, yoga and healing, then you probably already know that meditation is the best thing you can do. In this short article about meditation, ...
Views: 2247(1 vote) - How to Awaken Enlightened Sensitivity in Meditation - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Kip Mazuy"When we were born we were sensitive to everything. We were vulnerable to everything. In that sense we lived an enlightened life. But as we began to feel things like hurt, sadness, rejection, we began to block that sensitivity. We began to contract and separate ourselves from our experience ...
Views: 2176 - How to Experience Pure Being In Meditation - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"For the purpose of meditation, you can break it down to two states. The first state is identification with thinking. You believe you are the thinker of your thoughts and the subject of your thinking. You experience this moment through the interpretation of the mind. The ...
Views: 2084(1 vote) - How to Attain Nonduality and Oneness - by Submitted on May 14, 2012 from Kip MazuyIf you are looking to attain nonduality and oneness, you first have to come face to face with your experience of duality, your experience of conflict. If you are lucky enough in meditation, you will come to the point where you cannot take it anymore. You will come right up against your ...
Views: 2062(1 vote) - 5 Steps to Become Enlightened - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2012 from Kip MazuyIf you want to become enlightened, there are certain things that are pretty much necessary to follow in order for you to really move deep into the enlightened state. Regardless of your spiritual path or beliefs, if you follow these 5 steps to become enlightened, you will be well on your ...
Views: 1957(1 vote) - 5 Meditation Tips Proven to Make Your Meditations More Blissful - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2012 from Kip MazuyThe first meditation tip is to not eat or drink anything besides water for at least an hour and a half prior to meditation. The reason for this is for one, the body will be busy digesting your food making it much harder for it to relax. Second, because meditation is awakening the subtle ...
Views: 1953(2 votes) - How to Attain Self Realization - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2011 from Kip MazuyWhat self realization is will always remain a mystery because the mind cannot describe what is beyond the mind. But the teachings to learn how to attain self realization are quite simple and straight forward. Follow these steps and you will also enjoy deep states of meditation and may even ...
Views: 1900(1 vote) - How to Have a Spiritual Awakening through Meditation - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Kip MazuyVipassana translates as “Clear seeing.” Although there are many meditation techniques associated with Vipassana, the Vipassana technique you are about to learn is one that will allow you to enter the highest states of meditation and spiritual enlightenment. One of the main teachings of ...
Views: 1722(1 vote) - How to Consciously Deal with Emotional Upheaval - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"First, realize that someone or something is not making you feel this way. You are feeling this way out of a reaction to what is happening. Blaming only keeps you unconscious. Second, be honest and accept what you feel, this is most important. Don't try and create ...
Views: 1698(1 vote) - How to Attain Cosmic Consciousness in Meditation - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"There is a force in this moment; an intense movement of energy. The more aware you become, the more you feel this incessant flow of energy gushing like a tsunami. The tendency is to repress this energy or to get rid of it, usually through chasing and fulfilling desires, or ...
Views: 1697(1 vote) - The Simple Path to Spiritual Awakening - by Submitted on Apr 11, 2012 from Kip MazuyThe path to spiritual awakening really does not have to be complicated. You simply, with an open mind find the practices that you experience a greater awakening into bliss and you practice them. You should try everything; from yoga breathing exercises, to mantra, to chanting to various ...
Views: 1688(1 vote) - The Key To Witness Consciousness in Meditation - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"In order to witness thoughts, you have to allow the thinking, you have to become completely passive. It is like leaving all of the doors wide open so the wind can flow through. You do not try and define the wind, understand the wind or analyze the wind. You do not get ...
Views: 1679(2 votes) - How to Reach Samadhi in Meditation - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"The very essence of thought is no-thought. The very essence of mind is no-mind. If you try and get rid of thought, then you make thoughts stronger. If you identify with thought, then you make thoughts stronger . So the way to samadhi is through thought itself. ...
Views: 1585 - 4 Steps to Experiencing Spiritual Wellness - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from Kip MazuyIf you want to attain deep peace and spiritual wellness, follow these 4 easy steps. The first step in spiritual wellness is to address what you put into your body. Whatever food you eat becomes a part of your experience. And so if you are eating a lot of junk food then your body will be ...
Views: 1564(1 vote) - How to Witness Thoughts in Zen Meditation - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2009 from Kip MazuyZen meditation is the path of awareness. You are about to learn how to attain witness consciousness, how to be free from desire and how to tell the difference between witnessing a thought versus getting identified with it. In Zen meditation, you learn to witness thoughts by learning to stop ...
Views: 1496(2 votes) - What is Spirituality and How to Have a Spiritual Experience - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2012 from Kip MazuyWhat is spirituality? This is a koan in itself because spirituality is beyond the intellect. So anything that can be said in words about what is spirituality is going to miss it. Still, we can point to what is spirituality. And spirituality is this very moment. You do not need to leave ...
Views: 1484(1 vote) - How You Can Attain Oneness in Meditation - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2012 from Kip MazuyTo realize oneness in meditation, first we start with the breath, just to help bring us into this moment. So notice your breathing. Allow yourself to breathe. That may sound strange, as you are already breathing, but really let your attention rest on allowing the breath to freely move in ...
Views: 1428(1 vote) - Easiest Meditation Technique for Enlightenment - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"The mind is simply the action of identifying with thoughts. Thoughts arise and you take on the thoughts as your identity. You place all importance on them. The thought arises, 'this is not the way it is supposed to be' and you claim ownership of that thought. You take that thought ...
Views: 1371(3 votes) - How to Attain Samadhi in Meditation - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"If you can get to the point in witnessing in meditation, where you realize that everything is moving by itself, then you drop out of any idea of yourself and into formless consciousness. The experience of separation is cancelled out and you rest in your natural state. It is ...
Views: 1324(2 votes) - Attaining Enlightenment in the New Age - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Kip MazuyThe new age/self help industry is often about building yourself up. Making yourself more special more successful, more liked, more confident. And there is nothing wrong with this. This brings you to a certain level of happiness. But enlightenment is the opposite. Spiritual enlightenment is ...
Views: 1309(1 vote) - Attaining Deep Levels of Consciousness in Meditation - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2012 from Kip Mazuy"In outward seeking and desiring you are always chasing what is seemingly ahead of this moment. You are always looking to be satisfied in the future. So the very experience of outward seeking will always be discontentment. It cannot be any other way because satisfaction is ...
Views: 1308(1 vote) - Guided Meditation - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"Let yourself relax into this moment. Give up trying to make this moment any different than it is. Simply close your eyes and feel with sensation what is here. Allow yourself to feel existence happening without thinking about it. We're not here to change anything or ...
Views: 1294 - Enlightenment: How to Transcend the Ego - by Submitted on May 06, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"That which you assume yourself to be is not actually a thing, but an action. It is the action holding on. In every moment, you are unconsciously holding on to an idea of who you are. And although this idea of who you are is constantly changing moment to moment, the action of ...
Views: 1292(2 votes) - Enlightenment & The Importance of Kundalini Shakti - by Submitted on May 12, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"Underneath everything is silence; deep, profound, infinite silence. It is in everything yet remains as nothing. The spiritual path is very slippery because of this. Because the mind is always looking for that next bit of knowledge that might take it to silence, that next ...
Views: 1284(2 votes) - The Essence of Zen Meditation Revealed: How to Meditate like a Zen Monk - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Kip Mazuy"Close your eyes: what is left when there is no thought? (Truly, nothing else ever need be said beyond this.) But to try and answer what cannot be answered: All that is left is now. Now is not a place between past and future. For the past and future can only exist in ...
Views: 1283(2 votes) - Enlightenment & The Art of Surrender - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"For your enlightenment, we want to get you out of your mind, out of the controlled idea that you are an intelligent and together person and into what is here in this moment beyond such ideas. The mind is always trying to put things in order. But once the mind puts ...
Views: 1279(3 votes) - Meditation Technique to Make You Blissful - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2012 from Kip Mazuy"If you want to be free of anxiety then notice and feel this: life is happening in this moment. You are not doing this moment, you are not making this moment happen. It is here on its own. If you really notice your experience in this moment, existence is happening. And if you ...
Views: 1246(3 votes) - Meditation Technique to Attain Self Realization - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"You learn to remain un-attached to thoughts by first watching how attention attaches to a thought in the first place. You can become aware of that action of attachment. It is very subtle and very fast but if you are fully present in this moment you can watch it happen. The ...
Views: 1206(2 votes) - Learn This Advanced Meditation Technique for Spiritual Enlightenment - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"If you close your eyes and stop thinking even for a second you will discover all that is here is impersonal attention. So a good meditation technique is to keep your focus on this impersonal attention. Which is really saying turn your attention back upon itself until you are ...
Views: 1185(1 vote) - What is Kundalini and How to Have a Kundalini Awakening - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2011 from Kip MazuyThe Kundalini is an energetic pathway in the body that runs from the base of your spine up along your spine, up the back of your head and out the top of your head. There are many energetic pathways in the body but there are two main energy pathways. One moves up the center of the front of ...
Views: 1160(3 votes) - Meditation Technique for Self Realization - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"Your involvement with thinking takes you out of this moment. A thought arises, you grab hold of it and you are involved with that thought, you have no experience of this present moment. So if you surrender every thought that arises back into this moment then you will begin ...
Views: 1152(1 vote) - How To Meditate Yourself To Bliss In 6 Easy Steps - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2008 from Kip MazuyAs you may already know, meditation has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to experience inner peace and happiness and dramatically improve every aspect of your life. So it can truly be a life changing event to learn how to meditate. But let's face it, there is such an overload ...
Views: 1151 - Enlightenment: How to Attain Freedom from Separation - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"Separation is not your natural state. You are not separate from everything and trying to get to oneness. You are doing separation. You are actively separating yourself from this moment. And I am not saying not to have definitions, not to call a chair a chair. All of this ...
Views: 1101(3 votes) - The Fundamentals of Meditation - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"The reason why you suffer is because you unconsciously avoid this moment. You are unconsciously but constantly resisting this moment; separating yourself from this moment. So the path of awareness in meditation is to get you back to this moment. And the first part of ...
Views: 1101(1 vote) - The Art of Awakening & Surrender in Meditation - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"In the beginning stages of meditation, you are in control, you are doing meditation and this is the way it is supposed to be. You are awakening the Shakti (subtle energy) or consciousness until that experience becomes dominant in your awareness. You are actively awakening that ...
Views: 1094(1 vote) - Advanced Meditation Technique for Self Realization - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2010 from Kip Mazuy"There is a direct method to self realization. And that is to close your eyes and notice what is here beyond all thinking. Beyond any thought there is a subtle experience of existing. You can feel it. If you give your complete focus to this feeling of existing then this ...
Views: 1085(1 vote) - Learn Ramana Maharshi’s Meditation Technique for Enlightenment - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2011 from Kip MazuySelf inquiry is one of the most powerful and effective meditation techniques used by thousands of people all over the world. Taught by the enlightened Guru, Ramana Maharshi, this meditation technique alone has helped many people experience profound states of meditation, samadhi and even self ...
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