Saturday, July 18, 2009

Hafiz - Only a Perfect One can make you know of Love




Only
That Illumined
One

Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form
Had the charm to win my
Heart.

Only a Perfect One

Who is always
Laughing at the word
Two

Can make you know
Of
Love.



Often our love is only pretense
-- or we simply confuse
 between what we WANT and what we LOVE --

Now lets examine this ONE thing:

How can we claim to love anyone

if we do not love the ONE ???


There is a nondual reality
unifying every one and everything

and to love that ONE reality
gives us the power
to know Love





Thursday, June 18, 2009

Hafiz - Let prayer become your beautiful Lover




Why just keep making love with God's child-- Form

When the Friend Himself is standing
Before us
So open-armed?

My dear,
Let prayer become your beautiful Lover

And become free,
Become free of this whole world
Like Hafiz.


When we pray for our selfish interest
we stop the ultimate power from manifesting in us.

When we pray out of  pure love,
prayer becomes our beautiful Lover



Monday, May 18, 2009

Hafiz - The Truth has shared so much of Itself





I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me

That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
my mind has ever known.


Only pure love can purify us completely of any sectarian thoughts.

The Truth is not a void -- it is filled with EVERYTHING : even personality. It can love and if we can love it back than we can enter in the dance of pure love.

To love Truth is real philosophy in action.








Wednesday, April 22, 2009

My work : website

I am currently working on a website and blog that will show the latest developments of my meditations - stay tuned !!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

My favorite teachers : Hafiz

HAFIZ

See the wikipedia link

  He was the most celebrated Persian lyric poet and is often described as a poet's poet.
His Divan is to be found at the home of most Iranians
who recite his poems by heart and use as proverb and saying to this
day. His life and poems have been the subject of so much analysis,
commentary, and interpretation and had influenced the course of
post-fourteenth century Persian lyrics more than anyone else has.



The major theme of his poetry is love.

    I gave up my desires on the first day when
    Beloved took my heart's rein and made me her slave.

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I love how he transcends all traditions
and rise above any sectarian concept


 I said, leave the idols,
choose the one that won't die;
    You said, for lovers, love to all will apply

 

Hafiz, a Sufi poet, expressed in poetry love for the divine, and the
intoxicating oneness of union with it.  Hafiz, along with many Sufi
masters, uses wine as the symbol for love.

The intoxication that results
from both is why it is such a fitting comparison.

Hafiz spoke out about
the hypocrisy and deceit that exists in society,
and was more outspoken
in pointing this out than many poets similar to him.















Rumi poetry : ascends to the skies



"Body of dust from love ascends to the skies
The dancing mountain thus begins to rise"








Only pure love can make us dance around the purest sun: the Shining One in our hearths


Love meeting ???

Love at first sight
Photo by Kjunstorms @ flickr




Sunday, April 12, 2009

My favorite teachers : Rumi



Rumi


See the wikipedia link

I get unlimited spiritual inspiration from te poetry of Rumi

Listen to the reed and the tale it tells,
How it sings of separation...

Known as the founder of the dervish dancers
Hie poetry makes our hearth dance like a dervish



He is non-sectarian and universal in his approach
and he never forgets the ultimate goal of life: pure love

Lover's nationality is separate from all other religions,
The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God).





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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Nice visit

Today I got a nice buddhist monk that came to visit me.

I told him to come around if he finds a place to do his retreat as he told me the first time we met on a trail.

Well,just like m he has not found the perfect place to meditate but we had a peaceful chat.

We are from different traditions but we can exchange smiles and silences together.

I love his sober peacefulness.



Monday, April 6, 2009

Words of wisdom on the nature of Pure Love



"I have estimated the influence of Reason upon Love and found that it is like that of a raindrop upon the ocean, which makes one little mark upon the water's face and disappears."


This is an estimate coming from someone who has spent a whole lifetime transcending all categories of religions, philosophies and mystical experiences...







Friday, March 27, 2009

Denying the freedom of the soul




It is fashionable to believe that all paths lead to the same goal, but that is limiting the variety of the Ultimate destination.

That is denying the freedom of the soul to chose his own goal and it is assuming that the Absolute is not able to reciprocate with various love exchanges in endless ways.





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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Real Love



Real Love
is lived
in the depths
of the spirit

It is not limited
to the surface
of existence


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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

My favorite teachers : Hafiz

HAFIZ

See the wikipedia link

  He was the most celebrated Persian lyric poet and is often described as a poet's poet.
His Divan is to be found at the home of most Iranians
who recite his poems by heart and use as proverb and saying to this
day. His life and poems have been the subject of so much analysis,
commentary, and interpretation and had influenced the course of
post-fourteenth century Persian lyrics more than anyone else has.



The major theme of his poetry is love.

    I gave up my desires on the first day when
    Beloved took my heart's rein and made me her slave.

------


I love how he transcends all traditions
and rise above any sectarian concept


 I said, leave the idols,
choose the one that won't die;
    You said, for lovers, love to all will apply

 

Hafiz, a Sufi poet, expressed in poetry love for the divine, and the
intoxicating oneness of union with it.  Hafiz, along with many Sufi
masters, uses wine as the symbol for love.

The intoxication that results
from both is why it is such a fitting comparison.

Hafiz spoke out about
the hypocrisy and deceit that exists in society,
and was more outspoken
in pointing this out than many poets similar to him.















Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Transfiguration

Unless you experience it for yourself, it is most difficult to describe the inner light that comes from a life of true contemplation and meditation.

It is a type of transfiguration that makes you feel lighter, more serene, detached and peaceful.  It is most useful for the pilgrim on the path of truth and true love as well as essential for anyone who has to deal with many problems in daily life.

Here are some pictures I took in one of my meditation retreat which convey a little bit of this idea of a bright light transfiguring and pervading everything.

 (comment: and it comes from somewhere – not emptiness)












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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Celebrating 30 years of joyful meditation

More description of my experience with meditation


IMG_0254 by danlayphotos.

Experiencing the power of detachment

When we are slave of our thoughts and minds even little things can annoy and irritate us. The most effective solution is to develop detachment and keep things in perspective. A powerful benefit of meditation is that it helps us to gain a broader perspective and detach ourselves from what is insignificant.

The Bhagavad-gita explains us in chapter 2 that real yoga means to be able to experience equanimity under any circumstance. Meditation help us to reach that state and get a strong footing in the higher dimensions of yoga that gives us the real power of detachment.










Friday, February 20, 2009

Steps to pure Love

(based on a Gopi-Gita meditation)




I miss you so much, it seems impossible to live without you. 
It seems also impossible to give up my life because my life belongs to you and it lives in the hope of being with you.

In this hopeless hope, I can only hear and chant about you in a renewed intensity of feeling. 

This increases my love for you.  My life becomes filled with your love.

The only real life
Is a life filled with
Real love for you


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Thursday, February 19, 2009

A flowery festival of Love


patram pushpam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayachati
tad aham bhakty-upahritam
ashnami prayatatmanah

“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”

Bhagavad-gita 9.26


Please check the nice texts and pictures related to this wonderful festival of flowers at the wonderfull website Bhakticollective.com

Here is an excerpt of the text :

“This wonderful festival is a festival of devotion. Please don’t see just with your eyes, see through your heart. Through the wisdom we receive from the Holy Scriptures and the great saints. It is a shower of our combined intent to please Krishna, to purify our own hearts and ultimately to be instruments of love in every aspect of our life.”

“The world is in turmoil, economically, ecologically, emotionally, psychiatrically. According to the World Health Organization depression, mental illness is the number three disease that causes pain and death. Why? Externally we have so much, but internally so little. The jewels of divine love within our hearts have been plundered by the thieves of greed, envy, anger, arrogance, selfish passion and illusion. Driven by those thieves, enemies within us, even the pure soul creates havoc within this world. There is a great need to understand what is really of value. Things like character, integrity, humility, self- control, a selfless spirit of compassion towards other living beings, which are all part and parcel of love for God. These are the greatest needs within this world.”



We may not have the budget to reproduce that at home but we can mentally shower the Lord of our heart with unlimited fragrant flower petals whenever we want (or have the ecstatic consciousness that will enable us to perform such amazing act of love).



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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Love with pure purpose




Pure Love is Love
with pure purpose


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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

More reasons to show love to others


 


More research shows how helping others is good for you.


The Corporation for National and Community Service recently pulled together research in this field and was able to demonstrate that people who volunteer live longer than those that do not. For example, individuals who get involved in good works after suffering a heart attack report reductions in despair and depression. This in turn drives a reduction in post-traumatic illness and significantly reduces mortality. It's also true that those who volunteer have fewer incidents of heart disease in the first place. US Census Bureau data shows that states with greater percentages of volunteerism have lower rates of cardiac-related illness.

See the complete article from Harvard Business






Saturday, February 14, 2009

Introducing Prema-yoga



Prema-yoga is simply yoga developed to its full expression and real purpose.

Real yoga is not only meant for the well being of our mind and body but to link us to the Absolute.

The best link is Love

The Sanskrit word “prema” means pure love flowing from and for the ultimate source of everything.

It is distinct from kama, the egoistic, greedy, materialistic hankering for illusory satisfaction. 

Prema is the source of all spiritual perfections while kama is the source of all sufferings and illusions.

Prema-yoga is a joyful process to enable you to taste divine love within the innermost chambers of your life.





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About this blog

This blog is written by Guy Tetreault (see my personal web page) and it focuses on the greatest need to obtain full satisfaction in our daily activities and the ultimate good of life: pure love.

To get a first glance of the importance of this Pure Love, please read this post.

To read more posts directly related to this subject, read the posts that are in the category Pure Love (Prema).

Of course, the subject is extremely vast and all the posts of this blog are meant to gradually bring a better understanding of the fascinating essence of life.

We are working hard to keep active with 1 or 2 posts minimum every week so it is worth subscribing to it by RSS feed or by email.
 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Why this blog focuses on the universal path of pure love



Pure love (Prema) is the real goal and ultimate subject of all scriptures, all religions and spiritual practices.

But, because most souls have a deep aversion for the Absolute Truth, they do not want to cultivate pure love for Him, they rather want to opt for cultivating knowledge, performing austerities and sacrifices, practicing all types of yogas, pious activities, acts of charity or mystical and esoteric processes.

For most people, it will take many lifetimes of those practices to reach the yoga of love and devotion which is described as the highest yoga in the most authoritative book on yoga: The Bhagavad-Gita (6.47)

Most often, the soul will get lost in matter and will imagine that the goals of life are either immediate material satisfaction or liberation from this world, but those goals are only egoistic and cannot satisfy the soul, nor those living around him.

Only pure love for the Absolute can bring full unity with everything, full satisfaction to the heart as well as freedom from dualities, illusions and all types of suffering.

That’s why this blog focuses on the universal path of pure love in a non-sectarian, non-denominational and non-material way.
 

New dates for the seminar on vedic psychology with Dr Satyanarayana das



http://www.vedicpsychology.net/images/our/vedicpsychology_seminar.jpg

The 2 day seminar on Vedic psychology will start on Feb 28th instead of March 1st.


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Details for the seminar


Food and lodging are available at the place of teaching in Faridabad.

No fixed price: donation basis

Registration must be made in advance with Guy Tetreault at guytetreault@gmail.com


For more details  visit the website Vedicsychology.net


GT


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Sunday, February 8, 2009

You lose yourself



You lose
What you don’t use

And when you don’t use
Your love properly
You lose yourself




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Friday, February 6, 2009

Pour un védanta complet


Question d'un lecteur :

J'aimerai savoir s'il éxiste quelques part une version en Français des Brahma Sutra de Shankara, car j'aimerai beacoup "étudié" ce texte et jusqu'ici toute mes recherches sont resté infructueuse....


Réponse :

Merci de ton bel intérêt pour le Védanta.

Lire Shankaracarya ne t’aidera pas beaucoup. Il a été de loin dépassé et rectifié par de nombreux autres grands acaryas ces derniers 1200 ans.

Je te conseille plutôt de te procurer mon fascicule « Exploration du Védanta » pour voir tous les merveilleux détails des nombreuses branches du Védanta.


Sincèrement,

Guy Tétreault

Voici une brêve description de ce livre DISPONIBLE IMMEDIATEMENT
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Exploration du Védanta
Agrandir


Le
seul aspect du Védanta assez connu en occident est celui du monisme
radical de l’Advaita-védanta avec sa conception impersonnelle de la
non-dualité.


Il existe de très nombreux
autres aspects à la non-dualité ainsi que cinq autres grandes écoles de
Védanta qui se sont développées en Inde depuis plus d’un millénaire et
ces textes sur le Védanta vous en donne un aperçu.


Toutes
les notions ici explorées ont nécessité plus de 20 ans d’études pour
êtres assimilées. Ne vous découragez donc pas si vous n’arrivez pas à
tout assimiler en quelques minutes.


Ces
études ont été faites auprès de grands maîtres tellement plongés dans
l’étude et l’enseignement de cette discipline exigeante qu’ils se sont
tenus très loin de tout show-business spirituel tel qu’on peut le voir
présentement sur toute la surface du globe.


Ils
sont vraisemblablement les derniers représentants d’une tradition qui
exige toute une vie de pureté et d’érudition pour être cultivée avec
succès.


Donnez une grande attention à ce rare enseignement!



Ce livre est un fichier PDF de 241 pages que vous pouvez lire sur
votre écran ou imprimer. Il vous faudra le lecteur de fichier PDF,
Adobe Acrobat (5.0 ou plus), si vous ne l'avez pas.




Thursday, February 5, 2009

A prayer to the supreme Goddess of Love.





A prayer to the supreme Goddess of Love.

Your lotus feet are the topmost summum bonnum of all existence and the very life treasure of Govinda.
May the cooling waves of honey, dripping from the pollen dust of those feet, soak my heart with a Rassa that will attract fortunate souls to your merciful service.


 

Monday, February 2, 2009

Ready to pay the real price ???

Many claim they want truth and freedom from illusion but who is ready to pay the real price to obtain it?

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Putting an absolute limitation

If you limit the Absolute, you limit yourself absolutely.

Most modern crusaders of non-dual consciousness limit the Absolute’s highest manifestation to an impersonal void devoid of all attributes, qualities, personality… they therefore totally miss the most essential feature of a genuine yoga: prema, which is pure exchange of love.

This is putting an absolute limitation to the amount of bliss they can experience.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

The source of everything

The source of everything is existing without even the possibility of not
existing

If we imagine it to be less than what we are,
we make a big mistake

If we imagine it to be devoid of love
-- we cut ourselves from the greatest source of real love

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Celebrating 30 years of joyful meditation

More description of my experience with meditation



"flor do sol" by Flores do meu jardim.

Happiness and Peace of Mind


Meditation offers peace of mind and takes us to the source of happiness. The great classic of meditation: the Bhagavad-gita (2.66) explains that without control of the mind peace is not possible and without peace happiness is not possible.

If our minds are all over the place, then we are constantly being attracted to unlimited patterns of thinking. If we can meditate with a clear mind, we will discover a deep and peaceful happiness.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Celebrating 30 years of joyful meditation

More description of my experience with meditation

Setcreasea purpurea by mmeida.



Control of our thoughts

Most people are victims of their own thoughts, and have no means to control what goes on in their minds. Regular meditation leads to the ability to control our thoughts.

But in the love meditation of bhakti-yoga we can go even beyond that. In love the thoughts flow naturally to the loved one just like a river going to the ocean. This yoga of live is to properly direct the love at the absolute truth -- source of everything.