Satya Robyn leads a group meditation with chants in Sanskrit and Buddhist mantras, a Rumi poem reading, and the Four Refuges. One speaker reflects on chanting and spiritual practice while traveling. The session ends with community announcements about upcoming kirtan and a book group.
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All right, so we're going to start tonight's Hop Midsummer Wednesday night practice with a Rumi poem. It's a habit of yours to walk slowly. You hold a grudge for years. With such heaviness, how can you be modest? With such attachments, do you expect to arrive anywhere? Be wide as the air to to learn a secret. Right now you're equal portions clay and water, thick mud. Abraham learned how the sun and the moon and the stars all set. He said, no longer will I try to assign partners for God. You are so weak, give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to the shore. You need more help than you know. You're trying to live your life in open scaffolding. Say Bismillah, in the name of God, as the priest does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah. Your old self to find your real name. I'm going to read it a second time. It's a habit of yours to walk slowly. You hold a grudge for years. With such heaviness, how can one be modest? With such attachments, do you expect to arrive anywhere? Be wide as the air to learn a secret. Right now, your equal portions, clay and water, thick mud. Abraham learned how the sun and the moon and the stars all set. He said, no longer will I try to assign partners for God. You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. You're trying to live your life in open scaffolding. Say Bismillah, in the name of God, as the priest does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah, your old self, to find your real name. Namah Amida Butu.
Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakimani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakyamuni Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakyamuni Swaha!
Om Mani Mani Mahamani—
Shakimani Swaha.
Om Mani Mani Mahamani.
Shakimani Swaha.
Om Mani Mani Mahamani.
Shakimani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Mahamuni Shekimani Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamuni Shekimani Swaha!
Om Mani Mani Mahamuni—
Shakimani Swaha.
Om Mani Mani Mahamani.
Shakimani Swaha.
Om Mani Mani Mahamani.
Shakimani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shekimani Swaha! Ohh manee maaneemah haamaneee sheekimanye swa haa...
Om Mani Maaneemah hammaneee—
Shakimani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakimani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakimani Swaha. Om Mani Manipur Mahamuni Shakyamani Swaha! Ummani manii maaahh maaniii shaakkiyamaniswahaha... Ohm many money mahamonie shaki monieswa— ha? Hmmmm... Ha-ha-moni-shakeemonee swaaaha.
Huh?!
Is that right or wrong!? Ahhhhhh!!! Yeah yeah it's okay you're doing great!
It was just for practice anyway so don't worry about your pronunciation too much but focus on connecting to me through this sound vibration of OM MANI SWAHAHAMANI SHAKKIYAMANISWAAAHA.
So I'm going back into my mantra now which will be 3 rounds more like we did before because sometimes people need some time here at home while they do their meditation practices after listening from Sadhguru himself today; yes he said "do them when ever possible" not only during his satsangs tonight morning bit later." Okay thank God somebody got what happened there guys haha... Thank god everyone understands why our voice vibrates out loud every day if something happens inside us then obviously anything outside can feel how powerful those sounds have become even though no one knows exactly who made these noises yet by using MUM technique let alone knowing any Om Sanskrit words behind him anymore um oh wow good job everybody all done well Done team very nice work awesome amazing really beautiful energy coming up around everywhere ah perfect fantastic light beyond belief hello Lord Krishna namaste Namaskaram Sree Mani Ramana Maharshi Jai Guruji Nama Shivaya Ong Anima Ni Ma Hamini Shakhi ManyasvaHaMmaum ca Vaayuhamo Uma Nimani Mama Monni Sha Ki ManeesvahaMaom Ca Vivaami Mana Naadi Sa Kaapati Raag Mani Diksha Aaj Hai Chakra Kriyas Baarata Ji Gurudev Hari Ganesha Ganesh Devta Sahaja Yoga Teacher Pranic Healing Meditation Practice Today www.pranikram.org/meditation] Mahamani Shakyamuni Swaha!
Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakyamuni Swaha!
Om Mani Mani Mahamani—
Shakimani Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakimani Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakimani Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakyamuni Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakyamuni Swaha!
Om Mani Mani Mahamani—
Shakhyamuni Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakhyamuni Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakhyamuni Swaha! Om mani mani mahamani shakimini swaha! Ohm many money maaah mini shaekhee mooney sua— ohmm any mony ma ham eenee chaakee mooonees wahh? Om Mani Mani Ma Mani Shakimani Swaha! Om Mani Mani Mahamani Shakimani Swaha!
Om Mani Mani Maha Mani—
Satyam Ani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Mahamani Satyam Ani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Mahamani Satyam Ani Swaha. Om Mani Mani Mahamani Satyamani Swaha. Om Mani Mahamani Satyamani Swaha.
For refuge I go to the Buddha, the one who's awake and full of love. Namo Buddha. For refuge I go to the Dharma, all that guides us to wisdom and compassion.
All that guides us to wisdom and compassion.
Namo Dharmaya. For refuge I go to the Sangha. Those who live in the Buddha's light. Namo Sangha. For refuge I go to the Earth. The holy ground of awakening.
The holy ground of awakening.
Namobunyay.
Namobunyay.
With faith in the Four Refuges.
With faith in the Four Refuges.
And in light of my human tendencies.
And in light of my human tendencies.
I pray that I may become aware.
I pray that I may become aware.
Of when I take life. I pray that I may become aware— —of when I take what is not freely given.
Of when I take what is not freely given.
I pray that I may become aware— —of when I fall into sexual misconduct.
Of when I fall into sexual misconduct.
I pray that I may become aware— Of when I fall into wrong speech.
Of when I fall into wrong speech.
I pray that I may become aware.
I pray that I may become aware.
Of when I become intoxicated. Of when I become intoxicated. No blame. Be kind. Love everything.
We vow to save them all.
Inexhaustible ardent passion.
We vow to transform them all.
Immeasurable ardent Dharma teaching.
We vow to master them all. Infinity is the Buddha's way. We vow to fulfill it completely.
Mm-hmm. So it was solstice last weekend and I went and found some trees, which is generally what I try to go and do, being Ravavani, Song of the Forest and all that. And then I went up to May Hill, watched the sunset, and I took my little shruti box, my little drone instrument which is designed for devotional singing. And after the sun had set, I sat at the top by the trees and I sang some songs and chants to the land and to the place into the night, and it was really, really beautiful. It was really magical. And as I was doing it, this kind of experience kind of gradually pervaded my state of consciousness. And it was a kind of sacredness, and it reminded me of when I was traveling some— a lot— many years ago. And I've been chanting and singing for like a lot of years before that. It was actually chanting that first drew me to Buddhism when I was 15. I was looking for some chanting, so I've got— clearly got some karmic connection going on there. But often it had been like, it would either been at pujas and that kind of thing, but like, we weren't really going into the depths of it. I don't really just done by myself. It was very much a solitary practice, very much a solitary practice. And I was traveling and I'd taken my shruti box at the time, which was 3 or 4 versions behind the one I have now. It was this really cool old vintage Indian one with bicycle spokes for Hindu languages and a completely different scale, a non-Western scale, and a really like raucous sound. And I'd taken that along with me and I'd ended up through various events, a couple of months in I was at a Rainbow Gathering in the forest in Georgia, I think it was at that point. Or maybe Turkey. No, I think it was one in Georgia. And, um, and it was late at night and I was sat by the central fire and I was like, oh, there's not many people around, I can risk a bit of chanting and a bit of singing. So I got me shruti box out and I very tentatively, because I wasn't used to doing it somewhere where people might be able to hear me, started singing, started chanting to the fire, to the forest, to the Divine. Um, I did it for a little while and then I stopped, and I discovered that there was someone sat next to me who I didn't realize they'd come and sat next to me. And I couldn't see their face, and I couldn't really make anything out, and I don't even know if I ever saw them again. But they said to me, very mysteriously, they said, 'Keep singing and you will discover why you are here.' And then they just, they went off into the night. And actually, they were completely right. They were completely right. So the next night, a bit earlier, a little bit slightly more sociable hours, I was there chanting, singing along again, and someone came to me and was like, 'Oh, 'Look, I'm gathering together musicians who want to come and run sound healings and stuff like that and travel, and why don't you come and join us?' And I was like, 'Okay, amazing, yes, this is maybe one of the reasons why I'm here right now.' So I went and joined them for many months, traveling around, doing chanting, healing instruments, um, meditation, that kind of thing. And obviously the practice of chanting and singing has just gone deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper in me over the years. And there is something that happens when I do it, which is what I realize why I'm here. And it's not linear, like I don't— I mean, occasionally it's literal. Sometimes I'll be like, I'm here to bring people together and do ancestral healing, or, you know, connect people with their spirit, you know, help people remember their spiritual connection. And, you know, sometimes it's literal, but often it's not. It's not linear, it's not literal, it's not something you can put into words. It's, it's really this kind of indescribable state of consciousness that I know that I'm in my ikigai, or whatever the word is. Like, I just know that in that moment I'm in the— I'm doing, being whatever it is that I need to be, the reason why I'm here. And I don't chant to get that feeling. Like, I didn't— I don't chant in order to get a specific outcome, you know. It has its— it is its own thing, you know. It has its, um, its value is inherent. When we chant the Nembutsu here, whether that's out loud, whether that's silently, whether that's through a relationship with nature or a rupa or another person, however the Nembutsu is expressing itself in that moment, its value is inherent. It's not a means, obviously. It's not a means to an end. And at the same time, sometimes it can bring about this sense that we are where we need to be. So just a real invitation to keep doing the things that remind us why we're here. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
engaged in secular life, take no notice of life wearing away day by day, night by night. Like a lump in the wind, how long can it last? In the six realms of vast samsara, there is no fixed abode. Until we are emancipated from the sea of affliction, How can we rest in peace? Should we not be afraid? While we still have strength, let us achieve the Dharma. Let us strive and diligently seek the path to eternity.
Lovely announcements. Sunday, this Sunday, Kirtan, 7:30 to 9:00. It will probably be a quiet one because it's the summer, but sometimes quiet is really lovely because it makes it all intimate. Any other announcements? Is your book group started?
My book group starts, it's probably a bit late. Join now, but if anyone did really want to, they could catch it. Satya Robyn wrote a book called Seeing Through the Eyes of Buddha. I always get it wrong. But it's a lovely book about the Four Noble Truths. Yeah, quite a great study book, actually. So other than that, we must have a garden day coming up sooner or later, but I can't— I don't have another day in my head.
So no, I think we need— when the heat wave has passed, we will have a garden hour. More about that.
Otherwise, no.
Yeah, wonderful. Okay. Bless. May we care for all living things. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
