Showing posts with label Hinduism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hinduism. Show all posts

Sati.....my first post

I have decided to start my first post with my favourite theme: Spirituality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti called it "choiceless awareness", Nisargadatta refered to it as "remaining in the I AM" and Ramana Maharshi proclaimed "witnessing attitude". All different terms describing what Sri Buddha refered to as Sati.

Out of all the above descriptions I like Jiddu's term, "choiceless awareness". It amptly describes what Sati is. Simply being aware of oneself, aware of ones breathing, body, thoughts, emotions, reactions but without condemning them. This way you know exactly who you are right here, right NOW! Not who you want to be, not who you were, but who you are at the present moment in it's wholeness......a sure way to Self-Knowledge and hence the beginning of true spirituality.