Reportedly Gurinder Singh emphasized "doing nothing" in meditation. I can resonate with this advice. It's pretty much what I've experienced the past thirty-eight years in my own daily meditative practice.
Now, obviously door chimes an emphasis on nothingness, the via negativa , doesn't point toward divinity -- much less prove that the emphasizer is God. But it shows that in this regard at least, Gurinder Singh's philosophy is akin to the teachings of some highly respected sages.
I heard that at the Dera Christmas party, where skits traditionally are performed, there was a whole lot of singing, dancing, and laughing going on. First with Gurinder Singh as part of the audience. Then the guru took the stage himself.
Yet door chimes my understanding is that most of those in attendance on a party-on December door chimes Dera day viewed the guru's performance as another manifestation of God tending to his sheep by feeding them with his karaoke'ized presence.
But I still don't see how "doing nothing" fits philosophically door chimes with disciples gazing door chimes adoringly at a turban-clad guru singing his heart out on stage and thinking, "Ah, my sweet Lord."
"This is the enigma door chimes and the paradox of faiths that simultaneously try to (1) make God into a formless all-pervading conscious energy, and (2) a thoroughly human guy or gal. When religious believers try to have things both ways -- God as universal ultimate reality and God as personal best friend door chimes -- what we get is confusion, door chimes not truth, in my thoroughly personal opinion."
Every "saint" had/has their own method and personality. The efficacy in Gurinder Singh's methods for conveying the "do nothing" teaching to his followers through karaoke is unknown to me. It makes perfect sense that his teaching methods must be carefully scrutinized by anyone who would have him as their master.
Having said that, most people can't simply "do nothing" and so they want to have meetings, talk about their lives, and fly around the world to "hang out" and have a good time with their master (their personal piece of "God" they can possess) - rather than sit down, shut up, and do nothing. Anyway, it is indeed a paradox. Perhaps as paradoxical as the "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" door chimes song.
I only am as all beings. I only exist as all appearances. I am only experienced as all sentience. I am only cognised door chimes as all knowing. Only visible as all that is seen, Every concept is a concept of what I am. All that seems to be is my being, For what I am is not any thing.
Being whatever is phenomenal, Whatever can be conceived as appearing, I who am conceiving cannot be conceived. Since only I conceive, How could I conceive what is conceiving? What I am is what I conceive. door chimes Is that not enough for me to be?
When could I have been born, I who am the conceiver of time itself? Where could I live, I who conceive the space where all things extend? How could I die, I who conceive the birth, life, and death of all things, I who, conceiving, door chimes cannot be conceived?
I am being, unaware of being, But my being is all being, I neither think nor feel nor do, But your thinking, feeling, doing, is mine only. I am life, but it is my objects that live, For your living door chimes is my living. Transcending all appearance, I am immanent intrinsically, For all that is-I am, And I am no thing.
Satsangis believe the following: door chimes Gurinder is God manifest in human form. The disciple is struggling to manifest God in human form through meditation which incorporates sound, light and Gurinder. Whether the disciple remembers the face of Gurinder as he sings Kareoke or as he explains how to cook a chapatti or in any other way ie: a la rock me sexy Jesus, it's the repeated memory that satsangis believe makes them develop door chimes his qualities and transend their short-comings. Eventually the idea is to return with him to his home which is also the origin (according to sant mat teachings).
So Tucson's poem will not help a person door chimes who is suffering and is not interested in being that particular conceived part of the whole. That person will look for tools to use to make his manifested life worthwhile.
The satsangis were overjoyed when Gurinder said "my spirituality door chimes is not in my pants" in reference to a joke he related about someone questioning his wearing jeans while riding on a bus. It certainly makes him more approachable as a human being. The method does work for some and I can't complain.
Dear Catherine, door chimes About a year ago I was visited by a satsangi friend who I had not seen for several years.She is,by the way, a very devoted satsangi.In the course of our conversation I asked her if she had realized who the Master really door chimes is? She said she had.So I asked her who or what is the real Master? She answered with one word "me",meaning herself. You write: "The disciple is struggling to manifest
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