Sri Humananda
www.myspace.com/humanandaPlease don’t ask me to be your ordinary friend. It’s too painful remaining silent when I see your enlightened body poking out from beneath your sleeves.Mood: 'fine'
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Sri Humananda
- Maine, US
- Last Login: 12/14/2009
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For what is your friend that you should
seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need,
but not your emptiness.
Kahlil Gibran
"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous,
it does not brag, and it is not proud.
Love is not rude,
is not selfish, and does not get upset with others.
Love does not count up wrongs that have been done.
Love takes no pleasure in evil
but rejoices over the truth.
Love patiently accepts all things. ..
It always trusts, always hopes,
and always endures.
Love never ends.
Saint Paul to the Corinthians
"You are awareness.
Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness
there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
All that you have to do
is to give up being aware
of other things,
that is of the not-Self.
If one gives up being aware of them
then
pure awareness alone remains,
and that is the Self."
Ramana Maharshi
"... this self alone is the friend of oneself, and this self alone is the enemy of oneself."
Bhagavad Gita
"Who Looks Outside, Dreams.
Who Looks Inside, Awakens."
Carl Jung
"...only when one realizes the unity in all diversity can the feeling of love for every created being be developed, transcending all apparent differences. Love for God implies love for all. Each and every individual should be looked upon as the manifestation of the Cosmic Entity."
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
"We know... in an Intuitive way... the Truth is not found "out there". You cannot get to This Truth from "out there". It's the other way around. The Truth is Inside. .. And because it is Inside, and we live mostly outside, for us to realize this inner Truth, we need to "turn"..."
Sri Humananda
"We are aware, by analysis, experiment and observation, that broadly speaking, we have three avenues of knowledge, two of which are in direct relation to our normal world-experience, and one is unknown to most of us. These channels of perception are sense, reason and intuition."
Swami Krishnananda
"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
Ten thousand things rise and fall
while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness,
which is the way of nature..."
Lau Tzu
In Yoga tradition, when it becomes clear to you that the quest for the knowledge of the Self, and the merging of the individual self with the Divine is truly, to you, more important than worldly life - that the space between the warp and woof of the fabric of life is more important than the cloth itself - then, as a sign of your commitment to this goal, provided that the path you are going to follow is a path of yoga, you obtain a yogic name. Your yogic name can be assigned by your Preceptor, or your Spiritual (Enlightened) Friend, or a Yoga Saint, or your Guru, or in some cases, you can "choose" your name via a Divine Intuitive sense. seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need,
but not your emptiness.
Kahlil Gibran
"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous,
it does not brag, and it is not proud.
Love is not rude,
is not selfish, and does not get upset with others.
Love does not count up wrongs that have been done.
Love takes no pleasure in evil
but rejoices over the truth.
Love patiently accepts all things. ..
It always trusts, always hopes,
and always endures.
Love never ends.
Saint Paul to the Corinthians
"You are awareness.
Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness
there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
All that you have to do
is to give up being aware
of other things,
that is of the not-Self.
If one gives up being aware of them
then
pure awareness alone remains,
and that is the Self."
Ramana Maharshi
"... this self alone is the friend of oneself, and this self alone is the enemy of oneself."
Bhagavad Gita
"Who Looks Outside, Dreams.
Who Looks Inside, Awakens."
Carl Jung
"...only when one realizes the unity in all diversity can the feeling of love for every created being be developed, transcending all apparent differences. Love for God implies love for all. Each and every individual should be looked upon as the manifestation of the Cosmic Entity."
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
"We know... in an Intuitive way... the Truth is not found "out there". You cannot get to This Truth from "out there". It's the other way around. The Truth is Inside. .. And because it is Inside, and we live mostly outside, for us to realize this inner Truth, we need to "turn"..."
Sri Humananda
"We are aware, by analysis, experiment and observation, that broadly speaking, we have three avenues of knowledge, two of which are in direct relation to our normal world-experience, and one is unknown to most of us. These channels of perception are sense, reason and intuition."
Swami Krishnananda
"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
Ten thousand things rise and fall
while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness,
which is the way of nature..."
Lau Tzu
Because of a number of deeply spiritual reasons, prompts and insights, I came to the name of Humananda, or it came to me. Humananda is Sanskrit and means "He who finds Bliss in (the sound of the) "Hum" (of the Universe)." For me it is one of the easiest ways to "tune in" to the Oneness. If you listen, right now, you yourself can hear the "hum" all around you. And if you listen more closely, you can hear it even inside of you. For me it then becomes Me, and then I am That That I am. Hence, Humananda.
My primary Yoga Teacher is the Kavi Yogiraj Mani Finger, founder of the Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda, (ISHTA) - a Sanskrit word meaning personalized, or individualized, Life president of the Yoga Teachers Fellowship of Africa and Patron of the International Yoga Teachers Association, and the founder of the Southern African Yoga Teachers Fellowship, and also father and Teacher to his son, Yogiraj Alan Finger
Nowadays I teach Yoga publicly and free of charge from a studio in Maine to many who are curious and have never heard of yoga in any serious way, and I teach privately to the few who adore it and want to live it, whether it be Tantra (from the root Sanskrit words tanoti, meaning expansion, and trayati, meaning liberation), or Yoga in general. Send a message for more info.
I generally add friends here who have ..Yoga as their primary preoccupation in life.. and those who are seekers of Self or are otherwise known to me as significant in either their Being or their Work.
Yoga Influences
Mahavatar Babaji
Lahiri Mahasaya
Sri Swami Sivananda
Swami Sri Chidananda
Vivekananada
Swami Kriyananda
Krishnananda
Swami Sri Venkatesananda
Sri Adi Shankara
B.K.S. Iyengar
Patanjali
Ramana Maharshi
Shudananda Bharati
Kavi Yogiraj Mani Finger
Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahansa Yogananda
Swami Satchidananda
Buddha
Deepak Chopra
Joseph Campbell
...and many more.
......
Who I'd like to meet:
Sri Yukteswar on a warm day, Leonardo da Vinci in his studio, People who have mastered the appropriateness of caring, People who try to keep the balance of thought and feeling, Seekers of Self, and open, emotionally courageous people.
Interests
General
I am interested in what exists inside of me depending upon where my consciousness is steered. So that makes me very interested in who is doing the steering and why some things appear interesting to me and others not at all. The old Raga-Dvesha (likes and dislikes) thingy. So I guess my interest is in the driver-in-me, but also in others - to see how they steer, and to what, and why. And if they can change direction, and how that works for them and in them, and in me. So, not so much the "what" as the "why" and "how". Then there is the stuff below as well...Music
Soft, slow stuff of any kind mostly. Music that touches me "in here". Stories, layers, like ..Leonard Cohen.. and others sometimes, or just great lyrics, and emotional stuff, even if loud. Oh, and some gentle Chopin is really cool. And finally, from time to time, something so movingly appropriate comes along, like the honest, sweet and grace-filled farewell prayer to a friend you are now listening to on this page.Movies
For entering into a level of illusion deeper than the one we are usually in, fast moving action can be effective, but mostly the more coherent foreign films, you know, those with a story. And layers of meaning. Movies where you sort of have to partake and ..give a little of yourself.. to get the full effect. Other times, just pure escape from myself and when the world takes on a quality so real that it is almost impossible to get from there to Here... and when I start scaring myself sometimes a good movie helps.Television
Some at times. The news and documentaries, Nature, History, Discovery, Nova... involved programs, rather than the spoon-fed "here's what you must think" stuff. And like movies, some that serve as effective distraction when I seem to need it. Stuff like "24" and "House", or comedy... some anyway. No "reality TV"... it is not real anyway...Books
Any religious writing really, specially the East - Vedas, Upanishads, the Gita, and that entire field. Sivananda writes well, as does Sri Yukteswar and Yogananda. Then, any alternative yet sophisticated life-argumentative stuff. Zen, the Western philosophy and psychology branches - the older guys like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and even older like Confucius and King Wen and the Duke of Chow, Lau Tsu, then also Camus, Hegel, Kant, Hume, Husserl, Moore, Spinoza, Buber, Freud, Rogers, Maslow, Adler, and yes, Skinner too, then, some of the Classics, and oh yes, good contemporary poetry.Heroes
The Great Yogis and other Enlightened ones... my Teachers and Friends and the significant women in my life without who I would most likely be completely different... and probably much worse off.
Companies
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Humananda Tantra
- Yes It's True, Maine US
Friend Space (Top 30)
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LucentShadows
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The Life and Teachings …
Sri Swami Satchidananda
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Ramana Maharshi
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yogini
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Lindsey
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Laurie~Prana Shakti Yog…
Laurie Ahlemann
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Ninon
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Paramahansa
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Ani
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Sherill: ~Kick Ass Ange…
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Lahiri Mahasaya
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Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Babaji
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Sri Swami Sivananda
Sri Swamiji Sivananda
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Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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Kristin
Kristin McGee
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Sarasvati
Christy Pfeifer
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Peaceful Poet
Terry Peaceful Poet
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Daya
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Joseph
Joseph Campbell
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Deepak
Deepak Chopra
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Carl G. Jung
Carl Jung
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Bei Bei
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JoAnn
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AMMA
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi
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yoga elements studio
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Uma Nanda
Uma Nanda Saraswati
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Yoga Chick
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Ryan
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L Condor
Comments
Dec 15 2009 1:06 AM
Regard ALL actions everywhere
as pure consciousness.
Swami
Dec 2 2009 3:04 PM
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Dec 2 2009 3:04 PM
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities ( DALAI LAMA)
Nov 25 2009 10:27 PM
Nov 1 2009 1:41 PM
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.
Enjoy the trip.
Peace, Love, Hugs & Blessings,
~ Linella ~
Oct 29 2009 8:09 PM
Love Nettie
Oct 29 2009 8:09 PM
Oct 29 2009 8:09 PM
God Bless you. Wish health and happ;iness
Sep 18 2009 1:06 AM
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
Swami Sivananda
Sep 3 2009 5:25 PM
Peace, love and respect