Blog Recommend

This is a blog recommend.

When it comes to meditation, there are any number of ideas about how to sit, what to eat, how to breathe, how to control the mind and so on. But I found a very simple pointer, simple but not superficial- it gets more profound as you get profound. I found it in one the blogs I follow- Greg Perry's "Dropping a Paradigm".

This is what I found:

Dr. Evans-Wentz once (had) asked Sri Ramana Maharshi, the famous sage of India.

“Is it helpful to sit on a tiger’s skin?” he asked. “Should one sit in the lotus position, or may the legs be kept straight? What posture is best?”

“All of this is unnecessary,” the Maharshi answered. “Let the mind assume the right posture. That is all.”

Brilliant, right? Exceptional.

Another blog I follow is Thomas Meehan's "The Words of a Mystic" . It is a blog of diverse quotations at quite a good length from which Thomas Meehan is almost absent. There is not a wasteful word from him. I mail a 'spiritual' message to three people everyday, and almost seven times out of ten, my mails have his content.

Here is a sample:


"Tawazu in Sufi terms means something more than hospitality. It is
laying before one's friend willingly what one has, in other words
sharing with one's friend all the good one has in life, and with it,
enjoying life better. When this tendency to tawazu is developed,
things that give one joy and pleasure become more enjoyable by
sharing with another. This tendency comes from the aristocracy of the
heart. It is generosity and even more than generosity. For the limit
of generosity is to see another pleased in his pleasure, but to share
one's own pleasure with another is greater than generosity. It is a
quality which is foreign to a selfish person, and the one who shows
this quality is on the path of saintliness."
-"True pleasure lies in the sharing of joy with another."- Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:



When you follow someone's writing for some time, you develop an image of what kind of person he is: I imagine Greg Perry is youngish, with interest in meditative religion but with busy schedule and multiple activities. I don't know how I came to think this way. And I imagine Meehan as a reticient, courteous and comtemplative gentleman, quiet and unassuming but forthright with his opinions.

And if you who read my posts think of me as a confused person with a restless mind, who does not know what to do with his time and himself, you are not far off from the truth.