Ramadhan meditation for inner enlightenment. "When God’ consciousness rises in the heart like a wave, greed and hatred will be washed away like bubbles in the ocean. The essential duty for the man of wisdom is to keep the love in our nature ever increasing and expanding. This is why God requests Muslims to fast." In spiritual practice this is a beautiful truth. It is a terrible shame that so many of the Muslims in the world resort to the very things their good book the Koran teaches them NOT to indulge in. What would this world be like if everyone followed the Spiritual Path, rather than the Path of Violence and Intemperance.
"Fasting literally means to hold back, to refrain from and to resist physical impulses. During Ramadhan, Muslims refrain themselves from eating, drinking and having sex, the three most basic forms of physical impulses, from dawn to dusk.
The goal is beyond abstaining from food, water or sex, however. The true goal of fasting is to realize one’s potential as spiritual a being, which is often dominated by excessive attachment to the selfish ego.
The Koran said, “fasting is ordained for you as it was ordained for those before you, so that you might remain conscious of God” (QS 2: 183). Conscious of God means we behave and live a life which radiates the lovely attributes of God: Love, compassion, and mercy toward the whole creatures.
An ancient and tested method, fasting is used by prophets of all religions to guide human beings from the desires of their flesh to the desires of their divine soul, to lessen the density of bodily impulses in human life.
“One cannot bring to perceive the subtle levels of reality without first quieting the grosser vibrations of the outside world. Everyday, reality is so striking that one has to make a conscious effort to downplay it in order to see the other reality that lies behind it” Inayat Khan, a great sufi teacher, observed.
Through fasting, Muslims should train themselves to return to their origin as divine souls and not be overly attached to the flux of worldly desires drawn by greed. The essence is not to get rid of desires,
but to train oneself not to become their slave.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/08/12/ramadhan-meditation-inner-enlightenment.html
"Some people seek happiness by imposing their own views and persecuting other people because of the difference of faiths. Religion in this case is in fact the only cover for egoistical impulses, for their failure to reserve space in their hearts for respecting others.
People will never achieve happiness through violence in the name of religion, either. Corruption and violence only make themselves the slaves of their own greed: The greed to accumulate wealth and the greed to impose one’s belief.
Very often, these people – corrupt people and religious extremists – look very religious outside because they think spiritual development can develop from merely conducting religious rituals, wearing religious symbols or talking about God and scriptures. But at the same time, they have left their heart unnurtured and their egoistical desires uncontrolled by doing corruption and being violent."
Ramadhan meditation for inner enlightenment. No doubt this posting will anger some who are anti-Muslim and so it will be. For myself, in the spirit of awareness that all paths are equally valid, I am doing so. Just as there are hosts of evil people in the Muslim community, there are also hosts of evil people in the Christian community, and so on. Try to take the message in this article as a Spiritual message rather than one that supports any particular religion or belief.
"Fasting literally means to hold back, to refrain from and to resist physical impulses. During Ramadhan, Muslims refrain themselves from eating, drinking and having sex, the three most basic forms of physical impulses, from dawn to dusk.
The goal is beyond abstaining from food, water or sex, however. The true goal of fasting is to realize one’s potential as spiritual a being, which is often dominated by excessive attachment to the selfish ego.
The Koran said, “fasting is ordained for you as it was ordained for those before you, so that you might remain conscious of God” (QS 2: 183). Conscious of God means we behave and live a life which radiates the lovely attributes of God: Love, compassion, and mercy toward the whole creatures.
An ancient and tested method, fasting is used by prophets of all religions to guide human beings from the desires of their flesh to the desires of their divine soul, to lessen the density of bodily impulses in human life.
“One cannot bring to perceive the subtle levels of reality without first quieting the grosser vibrations of the outside world. Everyday, reality is so striking that one has to make a conscious effort to downplay it in order to see the other reality that lies behind it” Inayat Khan, a great sufi teacher, observed.
Through fasting, Muslims should train themselves to return to their origin as divine souls and not be overly attached to the flux of worldly desires drawn by greed. The essence is not to get rid of desires,
but to train oneself not to become their slave.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/08/12/ramadhan-meditation-inner-enlightenment.html
"Some people seek happiness by imposing their own views and persecuting other people because of the difference of faiths. Religion in this case is in fact the only cover for egoistical impulses, for their failure to reserve space in their hearts for respecting others.
People will never achieve happiness through violence in the name of religion, either. Corruption and violence only make themselves the slaves of their own greed: The greed to accumulate wealth and the greed to impose one’s belief.
Very often, these people – corrupt people and religious extremists – look very religious outside because they think spiritual development can develop from merely conducting religious rituals, wearing religious symbols or talking about God and scriptures. But at the same time, they have left their heart unnurtured and their egoistical desires uncontrolled by doing corruption and being violent."
Ramadhan meditation for inner enlightenment. No doubt this posting will anger some who are anti-Muslim and so it will be. For myself, in the spirit of awareness that all paths are equally valid, I am doing so. Just as there are hosts of evil people in the Muslim community, there are also hosts of evil people in the Christian community, and so on. Try to take the message in this article as a Spiritual message rather than one that supports any particular religion or belief.
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