TECHNIQUES TO AWAKEN BUDDHI🔗

Buddhi is nothing but the intelligence to accept unconditionally whatever you know you cannot change.

Normally, we are always struggling to change everything inside and outside. We are centered in rajas (restlessness). That is why, the attitude of acceptance can become a technique to calm this restlessness and awaken buddhi in us. When you unconditionally accept whatever you cannot change, automatically your intelligence is awakened.

Buddhi is accepting both - the situation in the outer world, as well as the reaction that happens in the inner world.

Normally, you are taught to try and accept the outer-world situation, but never to accept the response that happens to that situation in the inner world. That is why you always suppress your natural emotions like lust, greed, anger and fear.

In this technique, you relax into the acceptance of both the outer and inner worlds, exactly as they are.

Just this one understanding, this attitude of acceptance, can heal all your restlessness in the outer and inner world. It can bring a deep peace and relaxation to you.

DURATION: 21 minutes

Sit in a very relaxed way. Close your eyes and remain still without moving the body. Body movements will create thoughts. If your body is stable without movement, it can take you to the deeper silence. Very consciously, with a strong decision, intensely, create an intention that you are accepting yourself just as you are this very moment, the outer world and the inner world. Tell yourself, ‘I have enough in the outer world - many wonderful possessions. I have enough in the inner world - many positive qualities. I am accepting myself completely. There is no need to develop myself in the outer world or the inner world. If I have ego, it is okay. If I have guilt, it is okay. If I have fear, it is okay. If I have greed, it is okay. Whatever others have told me about myself is also okay. I accept everything, right or wrong. I accept everything, right or wrong. I accept everything.’ Naturally, your mind will raise objections -‘No, no, no, I can’t accept this... I can’t accept that... how can I accept myself as I am..?’ Just accept totally that you are not able to accept it, whatever it might be. Accept that also! Accept the present moment. Accept all the future moments.

INSTRUCTIONS (continuation)

DURATION: 21 minutes

Whatever your mind thinks as worst thing can happen to your life, accept even those moments. If it happens, you cannot avoid. It is inevitable. Understand the inevitability and accept.

Do not try to do anything else. Just sit with this acceptance, that is enough. Whatever you are seeking from the outer and the inner world, drop it and accept yourself. The moment you accept, there cannot be any space for the mind to move! There will not be any thoughts. Just relax with this deep acceptance in your heart.

Om shanti, shanti, shantihi. Om, peace, peace, peace.

‘No’ is the voice of your ego. If you notice, almost all the time, you like to say ‘no’ – to anyone, to anything. When you say ‘no’, it gives a solid feeling to your personality, your ego. Saying ‘no’ makes you feel you are somebody. Saying ‘yes’ makes you feel like a nobody. The moment you ‘yes’ to anything, you feel you have become vulnerable to the whole world. ‘No’ is not just a word you are saying, it is the whole attitude you are carrying inside. It is your defence against whatever is happening in the moment. With just a powerful intention, you can move from ‘No’ to ‘Yes’. Just an intention is enough. When you continuously say Yes, you will see that your whole inner space is transformed. The expression can lead to the experience.

DURATION: Not applicable

Step 1: Sit down with yourself for a few minutes and watch your inner space. Feel how you are carrying a tightness inside, a solidity. Now try to exactly reverse this. Decide for the next twenty-four hours, you will start with saying ‘yes’ in every situation. Have this powerful intention that you are going to transform your being.

Step 2: Observe yourself over the next twenty-four hours. Watch how the ‘No’ just jumps up at the slightest disturbance. Even in your physical movements, this ‘No’, this rigidness is there. You carry your body like a defence against the world. Now, when you are sitting, standing, walking, let your body and limbs be loose. Let your eyes be soft, your movements flowing. Let your being feel soft and vulnerable. Just be like a flower in the breeze! Not only your body, watch the movements of your mind also. In any situation, your mind will feel like saying ‘no.’ Now watch the ‘no’ begin to rise, and drop it. Consciously say ‘yes.’ Again and again, say ‘yes’. Don’t try to resist the present moment, don’t resist anything. Don’t just accept, welcome the present moment with gratitude. Carry a deep ‘yes’ in you.

In just twenty-four hours, you will taste the peace of acceptance. Such a deep relaxation will happen in you. After that, you start living effortlessly in the space of acceptance.

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This technique is based on a Zen Buddhist spiritual practice. In this technique, all you have to do is mentally give away everything that you think belongs to you. Don't be deceived by the simplicity of the technique. It is a very powerful technique to heal our restlessness and tune ourselves with Existence. All our restlessness is because we are always struggling to possess more and more, to achieve more and more. When we realize that nothing we possess is actually ours, a deep healing and acceptance happens to us.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna says: Ananyaschintayanto maam ye janah paryupaasate Teshaam nityaabhiyuktaanaam yogakshemam vahaamyaham

When you live totally in tune with the Existential power, that same power takes care of running and enriching your life materially as well.

Just the understanding that Existence gives and takes at the right moment is enough. Then you know that what is happening is the right thing for the moment and life is flowing as it should. This creates a mental gap between you and your wealth, and that gap is the true renunciation.