Michael Koren's Homepage
Life is a unified wholeness.
Never deny the truth of
worldly experience, but neither ignore the grace of the Divine from
which it springs. Yield not the subtle,
effervescent, innocent feeling of happines to the pressures of the
world: hold it paramount and life will bow to you.
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"There is no difficulty that enough
love will not conquer,
No disease that enough love will not heal,
No door that enough love will not open,
No gulf that enough love will not bridge,
No wall that enough love will not throw down,
No sin that enough love will not redeem.
It makes no difference
how deeply seated may be the trouble,
how great the mistake.
Sufficient realization of love
will resolve it all.
If only you could love enough,
You would be the happiest
and
most powerful being
in the world."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"If you are to be a healer, you must understand that the biggest
difficulty facing people with a problem is rarely the problem itself, but the fear that nobody else understands
it. . . ."
--Neale Donald Walsch, The New
Revelations: A Conversation with God, chapter 15
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Welcome to my
personal homepage. On this site I am developing a conceptual framework
within which to organize and integrate my fundamental beliefs and
attitude toward my life, including the basis of and manner in which I
wish
to live it. A consistent structure for the site is still being sorted
out: any
remaining moo's and/or blue beetles are formatting placeholders and
will be removed in due course; some interpolation may still be
needed
in places. That said, anyone who wishes to participate in my process of
Self-discovery is welcome to follow the development of this page, and I
hope that it may inspire those who read it to observe and follow their
own
innermost wisdom of life. This will be an ongoing process, so please
join with me in
appreciating the flow of the unfoldment of knowledge of the total value
of life.
Thou art that Totality--awaken to That.
All glory to the Divine Master.
Jai Guru Dev.
Yearly Summary of Achievements
The nature of life is to grow.
Some of the major achievements in my life since July of 2003 are
listed here as a celebration of continuously increasing waves of
fullness and happiness in the inner and outer aspects of my life:
* received an
Advanced Technique of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation program
* bought a house to live in the community around
Maharishi University of Management, with plans to rectify it according
to the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Vedic architecture
* developed an increased appreciation for right
action
* developed an increased appreciation for the heart
value and subtle values of life
* cultivated personal integrity and integration of
life
* launched this website on Akshaya Tritiya, the Day
of Lasting Achievements, as a celebration of the knowledge and
experience of the full value of life
* applied for a Comprehensive Life Kundali (analysis
of birthchart) of Maharishi Jyotish to learn the current influences and
possibilities in my life, as well as qualify for Maharishi Yagya
performances to improve those influences and Maharishi Sthapatya Veda
consultation services for rectifying my house
* placed my life in the care of Mahalakshmi, Mother
Divine
* graduated from Maharishi University of Management,
with degrees in physics and electronic engineering
* applied for a masters program at M. U. M. in
Maharishi Vedic Science
* am pursuing plans to build new Maharishi Sthapatya
Vedic houses and develop other projects of personal interest which
could bring income for myself and to support Maharishi's programs for
world peace
* am enjoying increasing stability of awareness in
bliss and contentment as I allow my life to flow in the eternal grace
of the divine
--yearly achievements summary,
Guru Purnima, Day of the Divine Master, 2004 July 2. Jai Guru Dev.
My Life Map
Under my presidentship, my
Nature creates and administers the Universe.
"Man's life is so highly evolved that he enjoys freedom of action in
nature. This enables him to live in any way he desires, either for good
or for evil. As he behaves, so he receives. When the good increases in
life and the positive forces tend to overbalance the normal state of
existence, then the process of dharma, restoring equilibrium, results
in feelings of happiness in the heart and satisfaction in the mind. . .
. [A] high degree of concentration of positive forces fails to maintain
life in its normal state. The life of an individual under the influence
of increasing positive forces enters into a field of increasing
happiness and is eventually transformed into bliss-consciousness, in
which state it gains the status of cosmic existence, eternal life."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the
Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, verse 1.1,
commentary
Acknowledgement and Statement of Intent
Knowledge is different in different
states of consciousness.
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends
limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find
yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties
and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater
person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
--Maharishi Patanjali, from an organic wintermints tin
The ideas laid
out herein represent my synthesis of concepts and values that I have
found to be meaningful in the course of my individual evolution,
organized in order to help me consciously define and create on a
continuing basis the life I wish to live--as a human being at this time
on this planet and as the eternal, unbounded, universal Being which is
my true nature, and from which platform I ultimately direct and
coordinate all the circumstances and activity of this life. I have
chosen to present them in this format on the internet as a formal
declaration of my present intention for my life to the Universe and in
the hope that they may someday prove useful to others, either those who
may be following a similar path of evolution to mine or those whose own
path may demand understanding of the myriad ways in which human life
seeks to expand its range of experience and understanding of the wider
field of existence in which we are playing together.
This expression is not intended to present a plan of
life which necessarily applies to anyone else reading it; rather, it is
offered as a point of comparison against which the play of life may
measure, define, evaluate, and choose for itself that which satisfies
its own purpose in the ongoing shared dance of our collective
existence. Guidance may be found by those seeking it for the
development of any phase of their own lives in the words and teachings
of those realized individuals who have walked the earth in every age,
sharing their great personal awareness and experience of the reality of
the living wholeness of life with all those willing to utilize their
wisdom to bring eternal fulfillment in divine grace to their lives on
earth.
Only a soul which has realized, through its own
experience of
its inner reality, its true nature--the profound truth and deep
significance of its true
status as the source and fabric of the cosmic intelligence upholding
universal
existence--has the breadth and depth of understanding and the
competency
of action to engineer the perfect circumstances for the unfoldment of
perfection in the lives of others. I offer my greatest gratitude to the
source of the greatest wisdom that I have received in this life, His
Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose teachings are cited frequently
throughout this page, as well as the innumerable other sources of
wisdom through which the course of my personal life has been
continually blessed, and for which I am eternally grateful.
Any words that I write are inevitably an
expression of my own individual level of consciousness, the influence
of
which on the many diverse levels of creation I cannot as an individual
hope to comprehend fully. There are innumerable ways in which I could
organize and present the principles and ideas which guide my life, and
innumerable other angles and outlooks on life of which I cannot even
conceive. But, in essence, my Being contains all of them, and it is a
joy to continually add my own re-expressions of the highest principles
of life that I understand, carefully selected to inspire the maximum
fulfillment and upliftment I am competent to offer to myself and others
through their expression, to the timeless ocean of eternal wisdom
passed down by the greatest masters throughout time.
It is a source of great personal fulfillment and
evolution for me to choose to participate in life at the grandest and
richest levels that I know and to share the expansion of the boundaries
of those levels with my fellow human beings. I bow down to the
traditions of knowledge in the world which have preserved the wisdom
that can raise the life of every person on earth to a level befitting
its natural dignity, grace, and abundance in its own cosmic
intelligence. This wisdom, divinely bestowed, is alone capable of
providing the intellectual and experiential awareness that will
transform the limited consciousness of the vast majority of the world
population and raise it to a level where each person will truly support
and nourish the life of every other being in the universe. I offer the
level of development that I may have attained to Maharishi and the holy
tradition of Vedic masters for the benefit of mankind.
Purpose
Established in Being, perform action.
"You have control over action alone, never over its fruits. Live not
for the fruits of action, nor attach yourself to inaction. . . .
Therefore, remaining unattached, always do the action worthy of
performance. Engaging in action truly unattached, man attains to the
Supreme."
--Bhagavad-Gita, verses 2.47
and 3.19, translated by Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi
Supreme
integration of life is the goal of this plan for the rapid development
of all areas of my life in peace, bliss, and fulfillment.
Integration demands the breadth of awareness and unity of purpose
which can manage every aspect of life on the ground of wholeness, so
that all fields of life are absolutely nourishing and supporting to one
another and bring maximum success to every stream of behavior. Action
at this
level of wholeness can only come from an uncompromising simplicity of
awareness, which admits only the effortless flow of right action; the
unceasing but all-encompassing dedication to beauty, truth, and grace
in every phase of activity, to ensure continual progress and
advancement of life, and an overriding trust in God to manage all the
yet unseen influences in one's life, so that each step of evolution is
structured in the fullness of knowing that all is taken care of in the
most efficient and rewarding way. Such purity of action is cultured
spontaneously through the experience of one's natural inner divinity
and expressed in the integrated life. The power of purity develops the
full potential of the heart and mind and brings unconditional peace,
compassion, and gratitude to the individual while structuring harmony
and coherence in the surroundings for the fastest growth of happiness
and fulfillment at every level of individual and collective experience.
The stable, unchanging basis of life expresses
itself in the orderly progression of the dynamic cycles of change in
the world. I will explore the continually refining picture of my
awareness and intentions for my life at every level in the categories
laid out below. This dynamic plan for my life will be developed and
refined over time to become increasingly more integrated, coherent, and
powerful as my comprehension expands and my life unfolds.
My Core Values
The world is as you are.
"To get a human heart is a rare thing--make full use of it. There are
four million kinds of lives which a soul can gather after that--one
gets a chance to be human, to get a human body. Therefore, one should
not waste this chance. Every second in a human life is very valuable.
If you don't value this, then you will have nothing in hand and you
will weep in the end. Because you are human, God has given you the
power to think and decide what is good and what is bad. Therefore, you
can do the best possible kind of action. You should never consider
yourself weak or a fallen creature. Whatever may have happened up to
now may be because you didn't know, but now be careful. After getting a
human body, if you don't reach God, then you have sold a diamond at the
price of spinach."
--Shri Guru Dev, His Divinity Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Maharishi's
master
(Note: these three columns are not the same.)
Harmony
Subtlety
Grace
Happiness
Simplicity
Clarity
Joy
Bliss
Fullness
Beauty
Awareness
Appreciation
Abundance
Playfulness
Dynamism
Silence
Peace
Stability
Freedom
Friendship
Integration
Coherence
Love
Universality
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Trust / Faith
Progress
Compassion
Forgiveness
Kindness
Balance
Speciality
Fine Discrimination
Acceptance / Tolerance
Truthfulness / Honesty
Respect
Commitment / Dedication
Knowledge / Wisdom
Responsibility
Integrity
Diligence
Vigilance
Humility
Fairness
Creativity
Purity
Openness
Curiosity / Inquisitiveness
Fundamental transparency
Surrender
Devotion
. . .
Truthfulness
Noninjury
Nontheft
. . .
Stability
Adaptability
Integration
Purification
Growth
|
Stillness
Reconciling irreconcilables / Achieving the impossible
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Tools
For those who are established in
the singularity of fully awake, self-referral consciousness,
Brahma, the Creator--the infinite organizing power of Natural
Law--becomes the
charioteer of all activity.
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat
or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
important than food, and the body more important than clothes? . . .
[Y]our heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his
kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to
you as well."
--Holy Bible, Matthew 6:25-33
(New International Version)
"Purity follows from meditation in proportion to practice."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the
Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, verse 6.41,
commentary
Action Plan
Under my presidentship, my
Nature creates and administers the Universe.
authorship of action
The basis of life
Outer is based on inner.
harmlessness quote on CC
Experience
- Knowledge is structured in
consciousness.
"This is the glory of
God-consciousness in man's life, a glory beyond the excellence reached
through austerity or knowledge or action."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the
Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, verse 6.46,
commentary
Understanding - Where there is absolute alertness, there
is victory.
"The verses of the Veda exist in
the collapse of fullness (the kshara of 'A') in the transcendental
field, the Self,
In which reside all the devas, the impulses of creative intelligence,
the laws of nature responsible for the whole manifest universe.
He whose awareness is not open to this field, what can the verses
accomplish for him?
Those who know this level of reality are established in evenness,
wholeness of life."
--Rk Veda 1.164.39
Moo.
Body
And the Word was made flesh.
Friendship and behavior
I share my integration.
"Vedic definition of a man of God: Softer than a flower where kindness
is concerned. Stronger than thunder where principles are at stake."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Friendship
Family
Community
Teaching
I am to them as they are to me.
"Fortunate are they whose minds are distressed for the misfortunes of
others. More fortunate still are they who are able to relieve the
misfortunes of others, themselves remaining undisturbed."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the
Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, verse 1.47,
commentary
Activity
Taking recourse to my own
self-referral Nature, I create again and again.
"Wise are those who understand the nature of a path from beginning to
end before they enter upon it, and wiser still are they who take a
short cut to accomplish the goal."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the
Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, verse 6.37,
commentary
Environment
I am the Universe.
"Aspire for as much knowledge as possible as soon as possible. With
more knowledge there will be more bliss. With total knowledge there
will be total bliss. So go for total knowledge and you will never fail
in your efforts or aspirations in life--and this is just the world we
want to create for everyone born on earth. So let's aspire for that.
Let's raise ourselves to enlightenment--and let's create an enlightened
world around us. And let's do it quickly without delay."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, press conference, April 2, 2004, Los Angeles
Beauty
Functionality
Harmony and Coherence
- The individual is cosmic.
World Peace - The world is my family.
Fullness
of life
That is full; this is full. From
fullness, fullness comes out. Taking fullness from fullness, what
remains is fullness.
The fulfillment
of one moment is never sufficient to satisfy the thirst for fulfillment
of the next. (. . .)
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This site and its contents copyright
Michael Koren, except as otherwise referenced. If you wish to reference
anything herein, please cite and link to www.mumstudents.org/~mkoren.
First posted 2004-4-22.
Last revised 2004-7-2.