Have you noticed that when you think you hear something and try to hear what it is, the mind becomes silent? Nanak uses this phenomenon as a technique to still the mind.
If you sing a song, and at the same time really listen to yourself singing, the same thing happens.
Even better, listen as if it is the Universe itself, that is singing. While you are silently listening. It has the same effect as when you sit in meditation, and you imagine that it is the Buddha that is sitting. And then you realise it is.
Nanak became a big inspiration for me. So much so that I soon left a lot of Yogi Bhajan's philosophy behind. Maybe ego yoga is necessary up to a point. A phase to pass through - for some.
It may even be a good place to start.
But it is not a good place to end up.
If you sing a song, and at the same time really listen to yourself singing, the same thing happens.
Even better, listen as if it is the Universe itself, that is singing. While you are silently listening. It has the same effect as when you sit in meditation, and you imagine that it is the Buddha that is sitting. And then you realise it is.
Yoga for Kaliyuga
Going deeper into the sources of Yogi Bhajan's kundalini yoga, I came across Nanak, the great poet from the Indian middle ages. The founder of Sikhism, who realised that the best yoga for the age of darkness (kaliyuga) was to sing, and thus vibrate every cell and mitochondria in the body, stimulating inner light and equanimity.The yoga of the coming age of ethical individualism will not be ego yoga
Nanak became a big inspiration for me. So much so that I soon left a lot of Yogi Bhajan's philosophy behind. Maybe ego yoga is necessary up to a point. A phase to pass through - for some.
It may even be a good place to start.
But it is not a good place to end up.
And it is not a necessary phase that everybody has to go through.
I hope the era of the ego - or the era of collective and narcissistic enslavement to the belief in a false self - will come to an end soon. It is not good for us, and not good for the planet.
Nanak found out something very interesting. Instead of listening all the time to the self-referential thoughts that create and sustains the ego, you can listen to no-thingness instead. If you do that, the whole ego thing falls away naturally.
What we are left with then, when ego falls away, is the new human. The new model that uses what we call ego as a tool, without wearing it as an identity. This is something everybody can learn how to do - now. We are not obsolete. We have the next level of human evolution already in us. Dormant.
When you come to Nanak and the Guru that is in Nanak, you have to be finished with competition and power-games. You have to be finished with all the yoga-for-the-ego-stuff.
Instead It’s time to realize that ‘where ego is, the Divine is not’.
It’s the ‘not me, but Christ in me’ moment of Paul. It’s the ‘Thy Will be done’ of the mystics. It’s the ‘realisation of no self’, of the Buddha. Basically, it is the stage of the journey where it is time to grow up.
I have not become a Sikh, for various reasons (It really doesn't matter to Nanak if you become a Sikh or not), but the thinking of Nanak and his teacher, is free for all. His songs are gifts to all mankind.
Through his songs, Nanak teaches us concepts that can really help us grasp reality as it really is - beyond sensory experience and our worldview based on this.
Like the Naad, the standing wave or vibration that is the primal soundless sound of creation in everything. Modulated differently, and uniquely, in every individual being.
Or Naam - the song of who we truly are - that is sung inside us, in every cell.
These concepts really vibrate with me, and in me. I can feel them. And therefore I can learn from them, and draw power from them. They are like contact-points to impulses from No-thingness. (The source from which all things emerge, but in which no thing has yet received characteristics).
Somehow, the Universe itself has some kind of inherent sentience, some kind of teaching ability. Somehow IT is able to teach me. - through my experience of my own life.
This is Nanak’s guru to me. It is not a symbol or personification. It is the creative intellect of the universe that creates every living individual continuously through that individual's experience and learning - according to the natural laws of evolution. Spontaneously.
If you identify with the ego, you are just a theatre prop. A costume or a mask. A persona. You’re not even an actor. There are many roles, but only one actor, Nanak tells us.
The Guru is the writer of this Theater of Wow! IT is the producer and director of the play we are all playing. And also the ecstasy of the Aha! Experience. The catharsis. Sometimes painful, sometimes blissful, but always playfully teaching us to evolve and let go and be at one with the One, in unison.
This is my homage to the great sage:
We are the next big thing without knowing it
I hope the era of the ego - or the era of collective and narcissistic enslavement to the belief in a false self - will come to an end soon. It is not good for us, and not good for the planet.
Nanak found out something very interesting. Instead of listening all the time to the self-referential thoughts that create and sustains the ego, you can listen to no-thingness instead. If you do that, the whole ego thing falls away naturally.
What we are left with then, when ego falls away, is the new human. The new model that uses what we call ego as a tool, without wearing it as an identity. This is something everybody can learn how to do - now. We are not obsolete. We have the next level of human evolution already in us. Dormant.
Time for humanity to grow up
When you come to Nanak and the Guru that is in Nanak, you have to be finished with competition and power-games. You have to be finished with all the yoga-for-the-ego-stuff.
Instead It’s time to realize that ‘where ego is, the Divine is not’.
It’s the ‘not me, but Christ in me’ moment of Paul. It’s the ‘Thy Will be done’ of the mystics. It’s the ‘realisation of no self’, of the Buddha. Basically, it is the stage of the journey where it is time to grow up.
Modulations of the same vibration
I have not become a Sikh, for various reasons (It really doesn't matter to Nanak if you become a Sikh or not), but the thinking of Nanak and his teacher, is free for all. His songs are gifts to all mankind.
Through his songs, Nanak teaches us concepts that can really help us grasp reality as it really is - beyond sensory experience and our worldview based on this.
Like the Naad, the standing wave or vibration that is the primal soundless sound of creation in everything. Modulated differently, and uniquely, in every individual being.
Or Naam - the song of who we truly are - that is sung inside us, in every cell.
Contact-points to No-thingness
These concepts really vibrate with me, and in me. I can feel them. And therefore I can learn from them, and draw power from them. They are like contact-points to impulses from No-thingness. (The source from which all things emerge, but in which no thing has yet received characteristics).
What is the teacher of Nanak?
Somehow, the Universe itself has some kind of inherent sentience, some kind of teaching ability. Somehow IT is able to teach me. - through my experience of my own life.
This is Nanak’s guru to me. It is not a symbol or personification. It is the creative intellect of the universe that creates every living individual continuously through that individual's experience and learning - according to the natural laws of evolution. Spontaneously.
The Theater of Wow!
If you identify with the ego, you are just a theatre prop. A costume or a mask. A persona. You’re not even an actor. There are many roles, but only one actor, Nanak tells us.
The Guru is the writer of this Theater of Wow! IT is the producer and director of the play we are all playing. And also the ecstasy of the Aha! Experience. The catharsis. Sometimes painful, sometimes blissful, but always playfully teaching us to evolve and let go and be at one with the One, in unison.
This is my homage to the great sage:
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