Reclaim Your Chicken

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अपने मुर्ग़े को पुनः प्राप्त करें
- जॉन बर्नी के द्वारा

अपने अस्तित्व में रहने के लिए विचार की आवश्यकता नहीं है। पूरी तरह से एकाग्र रहो, नाजुकता से एकाग्र रहो। जागरूकता की स्वाभाविक सहजता पर भरोसा करें। कोई प्रयास न करें। कोई प्रयास नहीं, कोई कार्य नहीं, बचाव का कोई प्रयास नहीं। बस टकटकी लगाए और बिना प्रतिरोध के देखते रहे।

जैसे ही आप इस स्वाभाविक खुलेपन की अनुमति देते हैं, किसी बिंदु पर यह घुलना शुरू कर देता है। जागरूकता का घोल ! एक मिनट यह तरल है, अगले मिनट - ग़ायब ! यह थोड़ा अजीब है, लेकिन वहां है: जुड़ाव। जब आप उस तरह ट्यून होते हैं, तो वहां समानुभूति होती है। कोई "आपकी भावनाएँ" या "मेरी भावनाएँ" नहीं हैं, बस संवेदना की गति है।

यह गहराई से समझना है - व्यक्तिगत रूप से नहीं - वास्तव में जिम्मेदारी क्या है: यह अहसास कि हम हर चीज और हर किसी के साथ जुड़े हुए हैं।

जैसे-जैसे हम इस ध्यान को विकसित करते हैं, अस्तित्व का अंतर्संबंध उभरता है। इसके साथ स्वाभाविक रूप से चला जाता है हमेशा अस्तित्व को बचाने की सोच में रहने का बोझ। दुर्भाग्य से, जैसा कि आप सभी जानते हैं, हम ऐसी दुनिया में रहते हैं जहां नियमित रूप से अस्तित्त्व को बचाने का संघर्ष करना सामान्य बात है। यही कारण है कि हम खोए हुए, निराश, असहाय और निराशा में हैं। हमने अपने अस्तित्व के साथ संपर्क खो दिया है; हमारा वास्तविक अस्तित्व।

लेकिन यह खोया नहीं है। आप इसके साथ अभिन्न हैं। यह पौष्टिक, प्यार करने वाला, उदार है। इसे समझना हमें मनुष्य के रूप में पूरा करता है।

और इसलिए आप स्वाभाविक रूप से जी सकते हैं कि जैसे आप इस दुनिया में हैं, अपने व्यक्तिगत उद्देश्य के साथ अधिक संपर्क से, सभी जीवों के पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र में आपके योगदान के साथ। हो सकता है कि आप इसे स्पष्ट न कर पाएं, हो सकता है कि आप इसे समझ न पाएं, लेकिन आपके भीतर की कोई चीज पूरी तरह से इस बात पर भरोसा करती है कि कोई गतिविधि आपका मार्गदर्शन कर रही है और वो हर समय हर चीज का मार्गदर्शन कर रही है, क्योंकि अब आप इसके साथ तालमेल बैठा रहे हैं।

जागरुकता का समन्वय हो रहा है।

वर्षों पहले, मैं कहा करता था कि मैं मुर्ग़े के द्वारा दी गई सीख को समझता हूँ।

आपने अभिव्यक्ति सुनी होगी, "आप एक सिर कटे मुर्ग़े की तरह हैं जो इधर-उधर भाग रहा है।" याद है यह ? ख़ैर, मैंने इसे बदल दिया, "आप एक सिर हैं जो अपने मुर्ग़े को काटकर इधर-उधर भाग रहे हैं।"

आपको अपने मुर्ग़े को पुनः प्राप्त करना होगा!

आपके पूरे तंत्रिका तंत्र में शांति का अनुभव होना बहुत अदभुत है। न कुछ करना है, न कहीं जाना है, न कुछ बनना है। कितनी शांति है ! तब हम वास्तव में देखते हैं। यह देखना भी महसूस करना, सुनना, होना, जुड़ाव है। एक गहरा सिनेस्थेसिया।

सुनने के इस स्तर पर बहुत कम निर्देश की आवश्यकता होती है। यदि आप और अधिक समझना चाहते हैं तो उस इच्छा पर ध्यान दें। ध्यान दें असुरक्षितता के भाव पर , लेकिन इसे ठीक करने की कोशिश किए बिना । असुरक्षा को आने दें। क्या होगा अगर असुरक्षा-अरे वाह-में कुछ भी गलत नहीं था? यह प्रक्रिया सिर्फ एक प्राकृतिक पुनर्संतुलन है - यह सिर्फ उपचार है। ज़रूरी नहीं कि उपचार से किसी स्थिति से छुटकारा मिल जाए । उपचार हो भी सकता था। यह अपूर्णता के साथ संतुलन और सामंजस्य है, और अंततः स्वतंत्रता भी है।

प्रतिबिंब के लिए मूल प्रश्न: आपके चिकन को पुनः प्राप्त करने का आपके लिए क्या मतलब है? क्या आप कोई व्यक्तिगत अनुभव साझा कर सकते हैं जब आप अपने पूरे तंत्रिका तंत्र में शांति का अनुभव करने में सक्षम हुए हों? अपरिपूर्णता के साथ भी सामंजस्य महसूस करने में क्या चीज़ आपकी मदद करती है?
Seed Questions for Reflection

What does reclaiming your chicken mean to you? Can you share a personal story of a time you were able to experience peace throughout your whole nervous system? What helps you feel harmony even with imperfection?

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13 Past Reflections
AN
Feb 1, 2023
Being does not require thought. Be fully attentive, gently attentive. Trust the natural ease of awareness. Make no effort. No trying, no doing, no defensiveness. Just gazing and seeing without resistance.....Isn't it how we were when just born and of course few years after that and then we started loosing ourselves in the world of thoughts, emotions, sensations & actions...That natural state of being is just there in the background, because that is part of us and will be with us as long as we are in the body...We necessarily not to be in either our natural state (when we were born) or in our current state (state of adulthood as I may call it)...we can lead our life with both natural& adulthood state can co-exist supporting each other. I have figured out the way that works...by what I call practicing spiritual mental hygiene routine ..just the way we follow physical hygiene routines daily...Trust it works!
DD
David Doane Feb 1, 2023
I like your statement. What I like to be into is as much natural state as I can get away with and as little world state as I can get away with. Peace
SS
Jan 31, 2023
તમારા ચિકન પર ફરીથી દાવો કરો જોન બર્ની બનવા માટે વિચારની જરૂર નથી. સંપૂર્ણ સચેત રહો, નરમાશથી સચેત રહો. જાગૃતિની કુદરતી સરળતા પર વિશ્વાસ કરો. કોઈ પ્રયાસ ન કરો. કોઈ પ્રયાસ નથી, કોઈ કાર્ય નથી, કોઈ રક્ષણાત્મકતા નથી. પ્રતિકાર વિના માત્ર જોવું અને જોવું. જેમ તમે આ કુદરતી નિખાલસતાને મંજૂરી આપો છો, અમુક સમયે તે જેલ થવાનું શરૂ કરે છે. જાગૃતિના જેલ-ઓ! એક મિનિટ તે પ્રવાહી છે, બીજી મિનિટ - બ્લૂપ! ત... View full comment
SI
Jan 31, 2023
I tried adding a reflection with some links included. It was flagged as spam. Frustrating, as I think the links quite relevant. Ah well. Here's another try. Nic Askew uses similar language when he talks about how he sits with people to produce his "Soul Biographies" films. Nic's language is similar to that used by Hareesh Wallis to talk about Pratibhā. I've gathered some of his words in the post "Pratibha" on my systalk.org site. It is related to the "still small voice" that gets drowned out by the ego's shouting and pushing. It's quite unsettling to the ego that it might not be necessary after all.
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Emily Eisen
Jan 31, 2023
Fabulous
RO
Jan 31, 2023
There have been times when pursuit of my "chicken" stopped and I was in a realm of whatever is happening is before me. It was a very lucid awareness while on very happy magic mushrooms. Truly magical things happened without any effort on my part at all.
RI
Jan 31, 2023
Lovely reflection. I find a rational scientific understanding leads me to harmony with imperfection - imperfection is a moral judgement, but nature is finely tuned, honed in to an unimaginable degree to produce things like eyeballs and brains and complex cultures and ecosystems. Literally everything in nature is there for a reason, the product of billions of years of adaptation. If i were given the option of eliminating anything in our world l’m not sure I would. Because all that we label good is in complex ways dependent on all that we label bad. Consciousness comes often through suffering. Pain and fear protect us. Viruses allow us to exchange DNA with animals - a key source of mutation. I’m not saying the world is perfect, and I’m a passionate campaigner to make it better. But it’s with the humility that the way it is has been shaped by a far greater intelligence, and only when I feel connected to that do trust my urges to make change.
MI
Mike
Jan 31, 2023
I went to an Ashram called Anuttara in British Colombia, Canada. I got off the grid and out of my mind in the majestic splendor of the natural world.
DD
Jan 28, 2023
Reclaiming your chicken means to me less focus on head activities like thinking, planning, worrying, expecting, and judging, and more focus on body including what I am experiencing, feeling, and sensing. I've experienced peace. I'm sure my experiencing of peace involves my nervous system and may be throughout my whole nervous system but I don't experience peace throughout my whole nervous system, at least I'm aware of it as such -- I just experience peace. What helps me feel harmony in any situation is to live in harmony, that is, to live with my behavior, my thinking, and my feeling to be in harmony. In those times I've got my stuff together, I'm in sync.
TE
Jan 27, 2023
Beautiful passage! Growing up in duality, I see myself as separate from others, and see Spiritual or Divine as separate from myself (though perhaps as an admirable path, dream or goal). With awake eyes it become clear the separation IS the dream state, and as long as we are alive, the head was never actually separate from the body (as much as it may have seemed that way). There is an infinitely deep peace in experiencing Life this way, letting go of the endless chase of the chicken for the head, and visa-versa: the illusion of separation was only in each part thinking it had lost the other. But how to help what looks like bleeding chaos "out there"? Can we awaken when we are tired of sleeping?
TE
Ted Jan 27, 2023
Dreams have no actual existence other than in the memory of the sleeper, but greed, hatred, and delusion are expressions of the dream of separation which DO affect those other dreams around us. Infinite Divine, and unconditional loving-kindness beckon from the waking realm, which includes all limited dreams without being lost in any of them.
JP
Jan 27, 2023
Who is running your life chiken or you? Are you like a chiken running around with your head cut off or you are a head running around with your chicken cut off? Who runs your life? Does your desire run your life or your thinking clear mind runs your life? From my own experience whan I let my desire run my life I get into trouble. This is the way I relate to the metaphor of chicken and head. My nervous system gets disturbed when my desire, intention and action are not in harmony or in sink with my thinking. I do not like this tug of war within myself. Life teaches us lesson if we are aware and open to see when I get off the track. I know I am not perfect. I have learned not to get imprisoned by my unrealisic desire and that way suffer. Since I am not fighting with my own self I feel more free and do the best I can. I do not want to be my own enemy. I want to be my friend and live in harmony, in accord with my desire, intellect and actions. Self-examination and following the inner ... View full comment
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Vicki Jan 31, 2023
Your comments really resonated with me. Thank you.