“One can come to the forest; it is best to do it in spring, but any other season is also good. One has to stand near a birch, touch its trunk with a finger, stroke tenderly this living tree, and then feel a ray of light coming from one’s own chest, from the place where love lives. And then — to stroke with this ray of light the trunk of the birch: as with a finger. Then repeat this exercise several times — in order to really feel this touching. "Anyone can do this — a little child, the mother or grandmother of the child; then the child can teach it to the father and the grandfather. Everyone has this ray; one needs just to turn on the light of love. “Then one has to learn to shine with this ray at any distance — and give thus tenderness to all whom one loves. “One can try to direct this ray to our Earth and stroke the planet with it, directing the ray into the depth: the Earth also has a heart… One has to stroke it very tenderly: Earth is living! Also one can stroke God with this ray and feel Joy of God in response…
"I will try to outline several simple and easy-to-use methods that can replace usual amusements of city life. "For example, one can learn to walk the Earth. One can remember that our Earth is a living soul, and simply walk, carefully stepping on the body of the Earth ... Even children can be taught this. If people become aware that the Earth is a living soul, then they will be more kind and understanding, because a connection between two souls occurs: between the small human soul — and the giant soul of the Earth. "One can also lay on the Earth with open arms … If a teacher or parents lie together with children in this way and tell them about the universe — then children’s impressions from this conversation will be more important than those received in entertainment attractions! “One can touch with the hands living water ... wash oneself, swim in interaction with this wonderful miracle ... even talk to water, to ask it to purify and to heal the body! “Also one can wash oneself with sunlight. It does not mean simply exposing the body to sunlight, but one has to interact with it! ...The energy of the Sun is so wonderful! It exists both on the visible and non-visible to human eye levels; it penetrates in the depth of us! One can stand under a flow of sunlight as if under a waterfall — and do the exercise latihan. “Of course, one should not suggest to people who are not interested in spiritual truths to dedicate much time to such exercises. For them it can be interesting and useful to arrange sport trainings in nature, to collect mushrooms, berries, and medicinal herbs. “It is in interaction with harmonious states of living nature, with concrete plants and animals that people can come to understand with what great Love God created everything living!”
devoid of trees, hills, dwellings Let your gaze dissolve in empty space Your mind relaxes O gazelle-eyed Beauty! Consider the wind as your subtle bliss-body As you tremble in the wind, reach the luminous presence During a dark and moonless night, eyes open in the dark Let your whole being melt into the obscurity Attain to the form of Bhairava When a moonless rainy night is not present Close your eyes, see blackness Thus, faults disappear forever
Beyond the clouds The serenity
initiation in a city, but he cannot complete it there. For he must not breathe dead and burnt air, – air, that is, the vitality of which is quenched. He must be a wanderer, a dweller in the plain and the garden and the mountains. He must commune with the starry heavens, and maintain direct contact with the great electric currents of living air and with the unpaved grass and earth of the planet, going barefoot and oft bathing his feet. It is in unfrequented places, in lands such as are mystically called the “East,” where the abominations of “Babylon” are unknown, and where the magnetic chain between earth and heaven is strong, that the man who seeks Power, and who would achieve the “Great Work,” must accomplish his initiation. THE PERFECT WAY BY ANNA BONUS KINGSFORD AND EDWARD MAITLAND 15. Inquire of the earth, the air, and the water, of the secrets they hold for you. The development of your inner senses will enable you to do this. 16. Inquire of the holy ones of the earth of the secrets they hold for you. The conquering of the desires of the outer senses will give you the right to do this. Light on the Path trans. by Mabel collins |
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most insensitive can feel no wonder at the beauty and design in nature, and say that there is no soul in it, and want to destroy it and pave it over, and follow a religion that calls seeing God in nature "paganism". But in the end even this person will go to nature to restore his stressed-out nerves. All my life I have gone to forests, mountains, the sea shore to walk alone, often in the peace of the evening. I feel all of nature surrounding me with love and freshness. I feel a security because I know that bad persons are usually not going to these places. But I feel also a sence of respect because I know the dangers of mountain storms, sting rays and sharks, injuries in isolated areas. I recall how in India, the people would paint the knarl on a tree trunk red, put to little eyes on it and pay their respects when passing by. A reminder of consciousness in nature. Some may call this idol worship -- I call it a reminder of the divine being where it is -- everywhere. Jesus broke bread and said to eat it seeing it as his body and the wine as his blood -- is that not finding the divine in nature? Instead, the silly people think that somehow the wine becomes blood!
(a lady) meditated in the mountains for 12 years. Muktananda was very fond of gardening and horticulture. Gagangiri Maharaj prefered to actually sit in water for meditation -- tide pools, mountain ponds and streams -- to such an extent that the fish ate away part of his feet! The Milk-drinking Baba of Nepal was always treking into the Himalayas, ostensibly on pilgrimage to high altitude temples and mountains, but I think he just loved nature. The selections below are from a woman I believe lived in Russia, but I am not sure. They speak of "nature meditation" and especially its value for children. It is reprinted by the kind permission of the author, Vladimir Antonov. See lots more at: Anastasiya Or order his book. |
