Global Holistic Motivators
Saturday 30 March 2013
Friday 29 March 2013
When you are desireless the unknown comes to you
Osho,
Last night you said that desires move between the
dead past and the imaginary future.
Please explain how and why this dead past proves so dynamic and powerful that it compels a person to flow into the process of endless desire.
How can one be free from this dynamic past,
the unconscious and the collective unconscious?
Osho:
THE past is not dynamic at all: it is totally dead. But still it has a weight - a dead weight. That dead weight works; it is not dynamic at all. Why the dead weight works has to be understood.
The past is so forceful because it is the known, the experienced, and mind always feels fearful of the unknown, the unexperienced. And how can you desire the unknown? You cannot desire the unknown. Only the known can be desired.
So desires are always repetitious. They repeat, they are circular. You always move in the same pattern, in the same circle. The mind becomes just a groove of repetitions, and the more you repeat a particular thing, the more weighty it becomes, because the groove goes deep.
So the past is important not because it is dynamic; it forces you to do something and to desire not because it is forceful, powerful, alive - but only because it is a dead groove. And the past has been repeated so many times that to repeat it has become easy and automatic. The more you repeat a particular thing. the more easy and convenient it becomes. The basic convenience is this: that if you are repeating a thing, you need not be aware.
Awareness is the most inconvenient thing. If you are repeating a particular thing, then you need not be aware. You can be just deep asleep, and the thing can be repeated automatically, mechanically.
So it is convenient to repeat the past because you need not be aware. You can go on sleeping, and the mind will repeat itself.
That's why those who say that desirelessness is the state of bliss also say that desirelessness is synonymous with awareness. You cannot be desireless unless you are totally aware. Or, if you are aware you will find that you are desireless, because desires can have a repetitive force upon the mind only when you are not aware. So the more asleep the mind is, the more repetitive and the more mechanical. So the past has the grip only because it is a repetition - and because it is the known. How can you desire the unknown?
-Osho, The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 1
http://www.osho.com/online-library-dynamic-pleasure-unknown-64e70b3e-e7a.aspx
Last night you said that desires move between the
dead past and the imaginary future.
Please explain how and why this dead past proves so dynamic and powerful that it compels a person to flow into the process of endless desire.
How can one be free from this dynamic past,
the unconscious and the collective unconscious?
Osho:
THE past is not dynamic at all: it is totally dead. But still it has a weight - a dead weight. That dead weight works; it is not dynamic at all. Why the dead weight works has to be understood.
The past is so forceful because it is the known, the experienced, and mind always feels fearful of the unknown, the unexperienced. And how can you desire the unknown? You cannot desire the unknown. Only the known can be desired.
So desires are always repetitious. They repeat, they are circular. You always move in the same pattern, in the same circle. The mind becomes just a groove of repetitions, and the more you repeat a particular thing, the more weighty it becomes, because the groove goes deep.
So the past is important not because it is dynamic; it forces you to do something and to desire not because it is forceful, powerful, alive - but only because it is a dead groove. And the past has been repeated so many times that to repeat it has become easy and automatic. The more you repeat a particular thing. the more easy and convenient it becomes. The basic convenience is this: that if you are repeating a thing, you need not be aware.
Awareness is the most inconvenient thing. If you are repeating a particular thing, then you need not be aware. You can be just deep asleep, and the thing can be repeated automatically, mechanically.
So it is convenient to repeat the past because you need not be aware. You can go on sleeping, and the mind will repeat itself.
That's why those who say that desirelessness is the state of bliss also say that desirelessness is synonymous with awareness. You cannot be desireless unless you are totally aware. Or, if you are aware you will find that you are desireless, because desires can have a repetitive force upon the mind only when you are not aware. So the more asleep the mind is, the more repetitive and the more mechanical. So the past has the grip only because it is a repetition - and because it is the known. How can you desire the unknown?
-Osho, The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 1
http://www.osho.com/online-library-dynamic-pleasure-unknown-64e70b3e-e7a.aspx
Thursday 28 March 2013
The best way to learn a thing is to teach it
[Osho suggested to a sannyasin to start a small meditation centre.]
– It will be good for you also. This is my observation, that there are many things that you learn only when you start teaching them. The best way to learn a thing is to teach it. And you grow more when you are less concerned about your own growth and more concerned with others’ growth, their problems. Deep down no problem is such that it is not yours. Every human being carries on the same type of problem; degrees differ, but they’re almost the same problems.
So when you are helping somebody to resolve something, to decide something, to come out of a vague, confused state, to settle, to centre, to be rooted, grounded; whenever you are helping somebody, you become aware of many things about yourself, because they are your problems also. When you help somebody to really solve a problem, you have attained a key.
It will be difficult when you are really involved in your own problem because you are too close to it; you cannot be an observer, you cannot be aloof and neutral. You cannot be a witness when he problem is yours. But when the problem is somebody else’s you are wise, and you learn much. When the problem comes in your own life, you will be able to cope with it more easily, because you know that the problems are just problems; they don’t belong to you or to me, or to anybody else. And keys are just keys. Solving many probems of others, you are solving your own life, and by helping others, you are helped.
That’s why I go on insisting that people go back and start helping others. In the beginning you feel a little apprehensive, because you know that you cannot even help yourself. I also know it. Knowing it I give you some work to get you out of your self-concern. Sometimes the self-concern is the only hindrance. When you help others you have moved out of your own ego, you are more relaxed. This happens every day in life.
If the surgeon is going to operate on his own wife, it will be difficult, almost impossible. His hands will tremble. He may be a great surgeon, but when it comes to his own wife or his own child, he will have to seek somebody else’s help; he will have to ask some other surgeon – because now the problem is so close. It is as if he is operating on himself. As it is difficult to operate on yourself, it is difficult to operate on people who are close to you; you lose all skill. But whenever you are helping somebody who is not close to you, suddenly you become wise, you have the skill.
So always remember, never avoid an opportunity in which you can be of help to somebody. It pays… it will make you more and more centred, alert. And you may not have to pass through many things; helping others, they will be resolved in you. If you go on helping others, thinking, meditating for others about their problems, watching, analysing, finding clues, you forget yourself completely, and one day suddenly you will see that your own problems have disappeared on the way. So you go… and I am going to work – don’t be worried. Just call your friends, and start a small beginning.
Osho,
“Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing”
http://www.baytallaah.com/osholibrary/reader.php?endpos=295008&page=135&book=Be%20Realistic%20-%20Plan%20for%20a%20Miracle
– It will be good for you also. This is my observation, that there are many things that you learn only when you start teaching them. The best way to learn a thing is to teach it. And you grow more when you are less concerned about your own growth and more concerned with others’ growth, their problems. Deep down no problem is such that it is not yours. Every human being carries on the same type of problem; degrees differ, but they’re almost the same problems.
So when you are helping somebody to resolve something, to decide something, to come out of a vague, confused state, to settle, to centre, to be rooted, grounded; whenever you are helping somebody, you become aware of many things about yourself, because they are your problems also. When you help somebody to really solve a problem, you have attained a key.
It will be difficult when you are really involved in your own problem because you are too close to it; you cannot be an observer, you cannot be aloof and neutral. You cannot be a witness when he problem is yours. But when the problem is somebody else’s you are wise, and you learn much. When the problem comes in your own life, you will be able to cope with it more easily, because you know that the problems are just problems; they don’t belong to you or to me, or to anybody else. And keys are just keys. Solving many probems of others, you are solving your own life, and by helping others, you are helped.
That’s why I go on insisting that people go back and start helping others. In the beginning you feel a little apprehensive, because you know that you cannot even help yourself. I also know it. Knowing it I give you some work to get you out of your self-concern. Sometimes the self-concern is the only hindrance. When you help others you have moved out of your own ego, you are more relaxed. This happens every day in life.
If the surgeon is going to operate on his own wife, it will be difficult, almost impossible. His hands will tremble. He may be a great surgeon, but when it comes to his own wife or his own child, he will have to seek somebody else’s help; he will have to ask some other surgeon – because now the problem is so close. It is as if he is operating on himself. As it is difficult to operate on yourself, it is difficult to operate on people who are close to you; you lose all skill. But whenever you are helping somebody who is not close to you, suddenly you become wise, you have the skill.
So always remember, never avoid an opportunity in which you can be of help to somebody. It pays… it will make you more and more centred, alert. And you may not have to pass through many things; helping others, they will be resolved in you. If you go on helping others, thinking, meditating for others about their problems, watching, analysing, finding clues, you forget yourself completely, and one day suddenly you will see that your own problems have disappeared on the way. So you go… and I am going to work – don’t be worried. Just call your friends, and start a small beginning.
Osho,
“Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing”
http://www.baytallaah.com/osholibrary/reader.php?endpos=295008&page=135&book=Be%20Realistic%20-%20Plan%20for%20a%20Miracle
Do you believe in the second coming of Christ?
Osho,
Do you believe in the second coming of Christ?
Osho:
AND WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?
CHRIST IS NOT A PERSON, CHRIST IS A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. There have been Christs before Jesus, there have been Christs after Jesus. JESUS IS ONLY ONE OF THE CHRISTS. Buddha is a Christ, Mahavir is a Christ, Lu-tsu is a Christ, Zarathustra is a Christ. CHRIST SIMPLY MEANS THE ULTIMATE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS; it is equivalent to Buddha.
BUDDHA IS NOT THE NAME OF ANY PERSON, IT IS A HAPPENING. So is Christ -- it is not Jesus' name! His name was Jesus. One day Jesus disappeared and the Christ-consciousness descended in him. He was no more the ego, he became the vehicle of the whole. He could say, "I and my Father in heaven are one." This is Christ-consciousness; it has nothing to do with Jesus.
IF YOU ARE WAITING FOR JESUS' SECOND COMING, THEN YOU ARE WAITING IN VAIN; but if you are waiting for Christ's coming, Christ has been always coming. CHRIST IS IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU ARE LISTENING TO HIM -- not to Jesus, certainly; not to Gautama Siddhartha, certainly. But you are facing a Buddha, just as you are facing a Christ....
DON'T THINK THAT CHRIST AND JESUS ARE SYNONYMOUS. That's where lies the error in two thousand years of the Christian Church. MANY have come in this time -- this has been a long period -- many have come out of the Christian fold, and few have come even in the Christian fold itself. Meister Eckhart was a Christ, so was Jakob Boehme, so was Saint Francis. These were in the same fold, but still Christianity missed them, because THEY WERE WAITING FOR JESUS -- THE SAME BODY, THE SAME FORM.
That is utter nonsense. It is not going to happen again. JESUS CANNOT BE REPEATED.
TO REPEAT JESUS, YOU WILL HAVE TO REPEAT THE WHOLE HISTORY THAT PRECEDED JESUS -- and that is impossible. Jesus cannot be repeated -- because for Jesus to be here you will need Mariam, you will need Joseph the Carpenter, you will need the whole two-thousand-year-old world of Jerusalem. You will need Herod the king, and Pontius Pilate the governor general. You will need the whole structure -- because Jesus came as part of it.
NO, JESUS CANNOT BE REPEATED; THERE IS NO WAY. But Christ can descend, Christ can descend in anybody.
WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST BAPTIZED JESUS in the River Jordan, the story says A GREAT WHITE DOVE CAME FROM HEAVEN, out of the blue -- nobody had seen such whiteness, such purity -- and he descended into Jesus and disappeared into Jesus.
THIS IS JUST SYMBOLIC. This is symbolic of Christhood: Jesus became enlightened -- something of the beyond... As Master Lu-tsu would like to say, "Heaven penetrated the earth."
THESE ARE JUST SYMBOLS, METAPHORS: a white dove descending from heaven, entering into Jesus and disappearing. And since that moment, Jesus is no longer Jesus -- he is Christ. The same happened to Buddha under the bodhi tree: something descended in him; and after that he was not Gautama Siddhartha -- he was the Buddha.
DON'T WAIT FOR JESUS' COMING. And if you wait for Jesus' coming, you will be wasting your time, HE IS NOT GOING TO COME, HE CANNOT COME. But if you are waiting for Christ's coming, then there is no need to wait. CHRIST IS ALREADY HERE.
And those who have waited for Christ -- not for the particular form, but the consciousness, the essence of it -- they have always found Christ somewhere or other. THOUSANDS OF MASTERS HAVE EXISTED IN THE SAME CONSCIOUSNESS....
Christ is the Western equivalent of Buddha, the Awakened One, the Blessed One. That is actually the meaning of Christ. The meaning of Bhagwan is the meaning of Christ -- the Blessed One.
OSHO
The Secret of Secrets
http://www.osho.com/library/online-library-convert-christ-missionary-502215b4-b7b.aspx
Do you believe in the second coming of Christ?
Osho:
AND WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?
CHRIST IS NOT A PERSON, CHRIST IS A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. There have been Christs before Jesus, there have been Christs after Jesus. JESUS IS ONLY ONE OF THE CHRISTS. Buddha is a Christ, Mahavir is a Christ, Lu-tsu is a Christ, Zarathustra is a Christ. CHRIST SIMPLY MEANS THE ULTIMATE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS; it is equivalent to Buddha.
BUDDHA IS NOT THE NAME OF ANY PERSON, IT IS A HAPPENING. So is Christ -- it is not Jesus' name! His name was Jesus. One day Jesus disappeared and the Christ-consciousness descended in him. He was no more the ego, he became the vehicle of the whole. He could say, "I and my Father in heaven are one." This is Christ-consciousness; it has nothing to do with Jesus.
IF YOU ARE WAITING FOR JESUS' SECOND COMING, THEN YOU ARE WAITING IN VAIN; but if you are waiting for Christ's coming, Christ has been always coming. CHRIST IS IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU ARE LISTENING TO HIM -- not to Jesus, certainly; not to Gautama Siddhartha, certainly. But you are facing a Buddha, just as you are facing a Christ....
DON'T THINK THAT CHRIST AND JESUS ARE SYNONYMOUS. That's where lies the error in two thousand years of the Christian Church. MANY have come in this time -- this has been a long period -- many have come out of the Christian fold, and few have come even in the Christian fold itself. Meister Eckhart was a Christ, so was Jakob Boehme, so was Saint Francis. These were in the same fold, but still Christianity missed them, because THEY WERE WAITING FOR JESUS -- THE SAME BODY, THE SAME FORM.
That is utter nonsense. It is not going to happen again. JESUS CANNOT BE REPEATED.
TO REPEAT JESUS, YOU WILL HAVE TO REPEAT THE WHOLE HISTORY THAT PRECEDED JESUS -- and that is impossible. Jesus cannot be repeated -- because for Jesus to be here you will need Mariam, you will need Joseph the Carpenter, you will need the whole two-thousand-year-old world of Jerusalem. You will need Herod the king, and Pontius Pilate the governor general. You will need the whole structure -- because Jesus came as part of it.
NO, JESUS CANNOT BE REPEATED; THERE IS NO WAY. But Christ can descend, Christ can descend in anybody.
WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST BAPTIZED JESUS in the River Jordan, the story says A GREAT WHITE DOVE CAME FROM HEAVEN, out of the blue -- nobody had seen such whiteness, such purity -- and he descended into Jesus and disappeared into Jesus.
THIS IS JUST SYMBOLIC. This is symbolic of Christhood: Jesus became enlightened -- something of the beyond... As Master Lu-tsu would like to say, "Heaven penetrated the earth."
THESE ARE JUST SYMBOLS, METAPHORS: a white dove descending from heaven, entering into Jesus and disappearing. And since that moment, Jesus is no longer Jesus -- he is Christ. The same happened to Buddha under the bodhi tree: something descended in him; and after that he was not Gautama Siddhartha -- he was the Buddha.
DON'T WAIT FOR JESUS' COMING. And if you wait for Jesus' coming, you will be wasting your time, HE IS NOT GOING TO COME, HE CANNOT COME. But if you are waiting for Christ's coming, then there is no need to wait. CHRIST IS ALREADY HERE.
And those who have waited for Christ -- not for the particular form, but the consciousness, the essence of it -- they have always found Christ somewhere or other. THOUSANDS OF MASTERS HAVE EXISTED IN THE SAME CONSCIOUSNESS....
Christ is the Western equivalent of Buddha, the Awakened One, the Blessed One. That is actually the meaning of Christ. The meaning of Bhagwan is the meaning of Christ -- the Blessed One.
OSHO
The Secret of Secrets
http://www.osho.com/library/online-library-convert-christ-missionary-502215b4-b7b.aspx
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Only Beauty, Only Bliss Exists
TWO MEN WERE IMPRISONED. It was a full-moon night; both were standing near the window of their dark cell. The full moon was there. One was looking at the moon, and it was the rainy season -- must have been like these days -- and there was much water and mud just in front of the window. Dirty, and it was smelling and stinking.
ONE MAN CONTINUED TO LOOK AT THE MOON, THE OTHER CONTINUED TO LOOK AT THE MUD. And the man who was looking at the mud, of course, was feeling very miserable. And the man who was looking at the moon was aflame, aglow; his face was reflecting the moon; his eyes were full of beauty. He had completely forgotten that he was imprisoned.
BOTH ARE STANDING AT THE SAME WINDOW, BUT THEY ARE CHOOSING DIFFERENT THINGS. There are people: if you take them to a rosebush, they will count the thorns; they are great calculators -- their mathematics is always right. And when they have counted thousands of thorns, it is simply logical that they will not be able to see the one roseflower. In fact, their inner world will say, "How is it possible? -- amidst so many thorns, how is a roseflower possible? It must be a deception, it must be illusory. Or even if it is possible, it is worthless."
THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN THE THORNS OF A ROSEBUSH -- they look at the rose. And looking at the rose, feeling the rose, the beauty of it, celebrating the moment, they come to feel that even thorns are not so thornlike. "How can they be when they are growing on the same rosebush as the roseflower?" When their mind is focused on the roseflower, they start looking at thorns also in a different way: THEY START THINKING THAT THORNS ARE THERE TO PROTECT THE ROSEFLOWER. They are no longer ugly, they are no longer irrelevant; they are no longer anti -- a positive attitude arises.
IT IS UP TO YOU TO MAKE WHATSOEVER YOU WANT OUT OF YOUR LIFE. An enlightened consciousness makes even death beautiful. An unenlightened consciousness makes even life ugly. FOR AN ENLIGHTENED CONSCIOUSNESS, ONLY BEAUTY EXISTS -- only beauty; only bliss exists -- only bliss.
A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO BE HAPPY BECOMES HAPPY IN ANY SORT OF SITUATION. You cannot give him any situation in which he will not find something to be happy about. And there are persons who have learnt the trick of being unhappy. You cannot give them any situation in which they will not find something to be unhappy about.
WHATSOEVER YOU WANT TO FIND, YOU WILL FIND. Life goes on supplying all sorts of things to you. You choose!
SO THE QUESTION IS NOT HOW TO CHANGE UGLINESS INTO BEAUTY, how to change pain into pleasure, how to change misery into happiness. No. The question is how to change the unconscious into conscious, the unenlightened attitude into the enlightened attitude -- how to change your inner world of being, how to attain to life-affirmative values and drop life-negative values.
OSHO
A Sudden Clash of Thunder
Ch #6: Life undefined is what God is
am in Buddha Hall
http://www.osho.com/library/online-library-looking-miserable-thorns-987d11fe-10e.aspx
ONE MAN CONTINUED TO LOOK AT THE MOON, THE OTHER CONTINUED TO LOOK AT THE MUD. And the man who was looking at the mud, of course, was feeling very miserable. And the man who was looking at the moon was aflame, aglow; his face was reflecting the moon; his eyes were full of beauty. He had completely forgotten that he was imprisoned.
BOTH ARE STANDING AT THE SAME WINDOW, BUT THEY ARE CHOOSING DIFFERENT THINGS. There are people: if you take them to a rosebush, they will count the thorns; they are great calculators -- their mathematics is always right. And when they have counted thousands of thorns, it is simply logical that they will not be able to see the one roseflower. In fact, their inner world will say, "How is it possible? -- amidst so many thorns, how is a roseflower possible? It must be a deception, it must be illusory. Or even if it is possible, it is worthless."
THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN THE THORNS OF A ROSEBUSH -- they look at the rose. And looking at the rose, feeling the rose, the beauty of it, celebrating the moment, they come to feel that even thorns are not so thornlike. "How can they be when they are growing on the same rosebush as the roseflower?" When their mind is focused on the roseflower, they start looking at thorns also in a different way: THEY START THINKING THAT THORNS ARE THERE TO PROTECT THE ROSEFLOWER. They are no longer ugly, they are no longer irrelevant; they are no longer anti -- a positive attitude arises.
A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO BE HAPPY BECOMES HAPPY IN ANY SORT OF SITUATION. You cannot give him any situation in which he will not find something to be happy about. And there are persons who have learnt the trick of being unhappy. You cannot give them any situation in which they will not find something to be unhappy about.
WHATSOEVER YOU WANT TO FIND, YOU WILL FIND. Life goes on supplying all sorts of things to you. You choose!
OSHO
A Sudden Clash of Thunder
Ch #6: Life undefined is what God is
am in Buddha Hall
http://www.osho.com/library/online-library-looking-miserable-thorns-987d11fe-10e.aspx
Experience of Light is Spiritual
Question: When one experiences different forms of light and colors in meditation – such as red, yellow, blue, ochre, etc. – how can one know to which layers of being they belong?
Is there any gradual sequence of color and light experiences before reaching the ultimate light experience?
Osho: Light itself is colorless. All colors belong to light, but light is not a color. Light is just the absence of colors. Light is white; white is not a color. When light is divided, analyzed or passed through a prism, then it is divided into seven colors.
Mind also works as a prism – an inner prism. The outer light, if passed through a prism, is divided into seven colors; the inner light, if passed through mind, is divided into seven colors. So the experience of colors in the inward journey means that you are still in mind. The experience of light is beyond mind, but the experience of colors is within mind. So if you are still seeing colors, then you are still within mind. The mind has not been transcended.
So the first thing to remember is that the experience of colors is within mind, because mind works as a prism through which the inner light is divided. So first one begins to experience colors; then colors dissolve and only light remains.
Light is white; white is not a color. When all the colors are one, white is created. When all the colors are one, when you feel white, when all the colors are there undivided, then you experience white. When no color is there, then you experience black. Both black and white are not colors. When no color is present, then there is black. When all colors are present, undivided, then there is white. All the colors are just divided light.
If you are feeling colors inside, then one thing: you are within mind. So the experience of colors is mental, it is not spiritual. The experience of light is spiritual, but not of colors – because when mind is no more you cannot experience colors. Then only light is experienced.
Osho, The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol. 1
http://www.osho.com/online-library-beyond-mind-light-colors-05b4ae2f-cf5.aspx
Is there any gradual sequence of color and light experiences before reaching the ultimate light experience?
Osho: Light itself is colorless. All colors belong to light, but light is not a color. Light is just the absence of colors. Light is white; white is not a color. When light is divided, analyzed or passed through a prism, then it is divided into seven colors.
Mind also works as a prism – an inner prism. The outer light, if passed through a prism, is divided into seven colors; the inner light, if passed through mind, is divided into seven colors. So the experience of colors in the inward journey means that you are still in mind. The experience of light is beyond mind, but the experience of colors is within mind. So if you are still seeing colors, then you are still within mind. The mind has not been transcended.
So the first thing to remember is that the experience of colors is within mind, because mind works as a prism through which the inner light is divided. So first one begins to experience colors; then colors dissolve and only light remains.
Light is white; white is not a color. When all the colors are one, white is created. When all the colors are one, when you feel white, when all the colors are there undivided, then you experience white. When no color is there, then you experience black. Both black and white are not colors. When no color is present, then there is black. When all colors are present, undivided, then there is white. All the colors are just divided light.
If you are feeling colors inside, then one thing: you are within mind. So the experience of colors is mental, it is not spiritual. The experience of light is spiritual, but not of colors – because when mind is no more you cannot experience colors. Then only light is experienced.
Osho, The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol. 1
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Evolution: Not part of the self
Are you evolving?
If you are evolving, you are not in the Self. And you are not out of the Self, because nothing can exist out of the Self. (Laughter)
Broadly they can be put in these 5 catagories. There are six distortions that do not exist in the Self.
Expansion -- Prasarana. Expansion indicates there is already something into which something expands. That which expands cannot be the basis for expansion.
Contraction -- Akunchana. Contraction means something shrinks from something else. Self does not withdraw or shrink from anything, so contraction does not exist in the Self.
Evolution -- Vriddhi. Evolution is becoming something which it is not already. Self is the same, so it cannot evolve.
Decay -- Kshaya. There is no devolution or decay in the Self. It doesn't get old or stale. That's why, when you are close to your Self, you don't feel that you are aging.
Beginning -- Anaadi. Self has no beginning. If God has a beginning, then He is no God.
Lack -- Abhava. Self has no lack. Whatever lacks something is not complete. Self does not lack anything, it is complete. Lack indicates existence of something outside itself. That doesn't exist for the Self. So if you feel you have not grown at all, don't worry, you are close to the Self. (Laughter)
When your mind is with the Self, then you don't worry about evolution. If you are thinking about evolving, then you are stuck in the mind. And mind is part of the matter, and matter evolves and decays.
And that is how the experience of contraction and expansion is all play and display of the mind. Mind expands and contracts. When it expands, it comes close to the truth, which has no expansion.
Are you still evolving? Good luck!!
If you are evolving, you are not in the Self. And you are not out of the Self, because nothing can exist out of the Self. (Laughter)
Broadly they can be put in these 5 catagories. There are six distortions that do not exist in the Self.
Expansion -- Prasarana. Expansion indicates there is already something into which something expands. That which expands cannot be the basis for expansion.
Contraction -- Akunchana. Contraction means something shrinks from something else. Self does not withdraw or shrink from anything, so contraction does not exist in the Self.
Evolution -- Vriddhi. Evolution is becoming something which it is not already. Self is the same, so it cannot evolve.
Decay -- Kshaya. There is no devolution or decay in the Self. It doesn't get old or stale. That's why, when you are close to your Self, you don't feel that you are aging.
Beginning -- Anaadi. Self has no beginning. If God has a beginning, then He is no God.
Lack -- Abhava. Self has no lack. Whatever lacks something is not complete. Self does not lack anything, it is complete. Lack indicates existence of something outside itself. That doesn't exist for the Self. So if you feel you have not grown at all, don't worry, you are close to the Self. (Laughter)
When your mind is with the Self, then you don't worry about evolution. If you are thinking about evolving, then you are stuck in the mind. And mind is part of the matter, and matter evolves and decays.
And that is how the experience of contraction and expansion is all play and display of the mind. Mind expands and contracts. When it expands, it comes close to the truth, which has no expansion.
Are you still evolving? Good luck!!
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Monday 25 March 2013
Significance of Celibacy
Question: Punditji, talk to us about the significance of celibacy in our life.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Celibacy is a happening. When your awareness is so deeply rooted in the Being and Being is permeating everywhere, and when the thrilling joy and love is coming from every pore and cell of your body, a natural phenomenon that you call "celibacy" happens. The bliss in you is like the peak of the sex experience. When that stays with you as an electric current all the time in your body, you don't feel the body as a physical heavy body. It is light like a flower. It is like space, like air. When you get very spacey, you don't do anything. You don't feel the body because you are so immersed in joy. Then celibacy happens. It is not a practice that one does. It is a spontaneous happening, when love has flowered so much in our life.
It is one energy which, in the lowest centre of our body, manifests as sex energy as well as creative energy. See, when you are very creative, if you are going for an examination or are involved in a large business, those days, thoughts of sex don't cross your mind. You work, you go to sleep and you work, because that particular activity occupies your mind so much. When you are very creative, the sex energy is transformed. People who are obsessed with sex are less creative. The one energy comes as either procreative or creative energy.
When the energy moves further up, to the second centre of your body, beauty and the arts are enlivened. The same energy turns into arrogance and jealousy. One energy has these two aspects, either as beauty, arts and appreciation or as jealousy and arrogance. They are not two different energies. Have you observed a tendency with beauty? We see beauty and we want to possess it. You may see a nice crystal chandelier and say "Oh, I want it." You bring it home. Do you enjoy looking at it every day? No. Again when you go out, you see other types of chandeliers which attract your attention. Most of you have beautiful paintings at home. Do you look at them every day and enjoy them? You seldom do that. You may say you enjoy them showing them to guests. Do you really enjoy them? No.
Your tendency is - when you see beauty, you want to possess it. In the process of possessing it, you make it ugly. When you see a beautiful boy or a beautiful girl, you want to possess, you want to love them somuch that you make it hard for them to breathe. This is happening! People are suffocated by love! And people are hurt by love! You can't get hurt if there is no love. If you love somebody and they don't smile at you or are busy, you get deeply hurt. You don't get hurt by somebody whom you don't love. Hurt is a part of love. And you don't want to accept that. You just want people to love and say goody-goody things and smile. All these modulations of the mind open up and change with observation. To me, celibacy is a gift that comes to you. It is a happening. The word celibate means 'married to God'. That means God has possessed you so much, has so fully entered into each cell, that there is no space left for anything else. Celibate means to be married to the spirit. Having seen over and over again, for lifetimes, what sex is, you move a step further and become immersed into That, divinity, that love which Is.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Celibacy is a happening. When your awareness is so deeply rooted in the Being and Being is permeating everywhere, and when the thrilling joy and love is coming from every pore and cell of your body, a natural phenomenon that you call "celibacy" happens. The bliss in you is like the peak of the sex experience. When that stays with you as an electric current all the time in your body, you don't feel the body as a physical heavy body. It is light like a flower. It is like space, like air. When you get very spacey, you don't do anything. You don't feel the body because you are so immersed in joy. Then celibacy happens. It is not a practice that one does. It is a spontaneous happening, when love has flowered so much in our life.
It is one energy which, in the lowest centre of our body, manifests as sex energy as well as creative energy. See, when you are very creative, if you are going for an examination or are involved in a large business, those days, thoughts of sex don't cross your mind. You work, you go to sleep and you work, because that particular activity occupies your mind so much. When you are very creative, the sex energy is transformed. People who are obsessed with sex are less creative. The one energy comes as either procreative or creative energy.
When the energy moves further up, to the second centre of your body, beauty and the arts are enlivened. The same energy turns into arrogance and jealousy. One energy has these two aspects, either as beauty, arts and appreciation or as jealousy and arrogance. They are not two different energies. Have you observed a tendency with beauty? We see beauty and we want to possess it. You may see a nice crystal chandelier and say "Oh, I want it." You bring it home. Do you enjoy looking at it every day? No. Again when you go out, you see other types of chandeliers which attract your attention. Most of you have beautiful paintings at home. Do you look at them every day and enjoy them? You seldom do that. You may say you enjoy them showing them to guests. Do you really enjoy them? No.
Your tendency is - when you see beauty, you want to possess it. In the process of possessing it, you make it ugly. When you see a beautiful boy or a beautiful girl, you want to possess, you want to love them somuch that you make it hard for them to breathe. This is happening! People are suffocated by love! And people are hurt by love! You can't get hurt if there is no love. If you love somebody and they don't smile at you or are busy, you get deeply hurt. You don't get hurt by somebody whom you don't love. Hurt is a part of love. And you don't want to accept that. You just want people to love and say goody-goody things and smile. All these modulations of the mind open up and change with observation. To me, celibacy is a gift that comes to you. It is a happening. The word celibate means 'married to God'. That means God has possessed you so much, has so fully entered into each cell, that there is no space left for anything else. Celibate means to be married to the spirit. Having seen over and over again, for lifetimes, what sex is, you move a step further and become immersed into That, divinity, that love which Is.
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Sunday 24 March 2013
Dr Hari Kumar - Past Life Regression
Dr Hari Kumar - Renuka's Past Life Regression
Dr Hari Kumar - Rishi's Past Life Regression
Dr Hari Kumar - Saikiran's Past Life Regression Experience
http://www.youtube.com/DrHariKumar1
Dr Hari Kumar - Rishi's Past Life Regression
Dr Hari Kumar - Saikiran's Past Life Regression Experience
http://www.youtube.com/DrHariKumar1
Saturday 23 March 2013
Friday 22 March 2013
Consciousness -> Witnessing -> Awareness
QUESTION: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AWARENESS AND WITNESSING?
OSHO: "There is much difference between awareness and witnessing. Witnessing is still an act; you are doing it, the ego is there. So the phenomenon of witnessing is divided between the subject and the object. Witnessing is a relationship between subject and object.
Awareness is absolutely devoid of any subjectivity or objectivity. There is no one who is witnessing in awareness; there is no one who is being witnessed. Awareness is a total act, integrated; the subject and the object are not related in it; they are dissolved. So awareness doesn't mean that anyone is aware, nor does it mean that anything is being attended to.
Awareness is total -- total subjectivity and total objectivity as a single phenomenon -- while in witnessing a duality exists between subject and object. Awareness is nondoing; witnessing implies a doer. But through witnessing awareness is possible, because witnessing means that it is a conscious act; it is an act, but conscious. You can do something and be unconscious -- our ordinary activity is unconscious activity -- but if you become conscious in it, it becomes witnessing. So from ordinary unconscious activity to awareness there is a gap that can be filled by witnessing.
Witnessing is a technique, a method toward awareness. It is not awareness, but, as compared to ordinary activity, unconscious activity, it is a higher step. Something has changed: activity has become conscious, unconsciousness has been replaced by consciousness. But something more still has to be changed. That is, the activity has to be replaced by inactivity. That will be the second step.
It is difficult to jump from ordinary, unconscious action into awareness. It is possible but arduous, so a step in between is helpful. If one begins by witnessing conscious activity, then the jump becomes easier -- the jump into awareness without any conscious object, without any conscious subject, without any conscious activity at all. This doesn't mean that awareness isn't consciousness; it is pure consciousness, but no one is conscious about it.
There is still a difference between consciousness and awareness. Consciousness is a quality of your mind, but it is not your total mind. Your mind can be both conscious and unconscious, but when you transcend your mind, there is no unconsciousness and no corresponding consciousness. There is awareness.
Awareness means that the total mind has become aware. Now the old mind is not there, but there is the quality of being conscious. Awareness has become the totality; the mind itself is now part of the awareness. We cannot say that the mind is aware; we can only meaningfully say that the mind is conscious. Awareness means transcendence of the mind, so it is not the mind that is aware. It is only through transcendence of the mind, through going beyond mind, that awareness becomes possible.
Consciousness is a quality of the mind, awareness is the transcendence; it is going beyond the mind. Mind, as such, is the medium of duality, so consciousness can never transcend duality. It is always conscious of something, and there is always someone who is conscious. So consciousness is part and parcel of the mind, and mind, as such, is the source of all duality, of all divisions, whether they are between subject and object, activity or inactivity, consciousness or unconsciousness. Every type of duality is mental. Awareness is nondual, so awareness means the state of no mind.
Then what is the relationship between consciousness and witnessing? Witnessing is a state, and consciousness is a means toward witnessing. If you begin to be conscious, you achieve witnessing. If you begin to be conscious of your acts, conscious of your day-to-day happenings, conscious of everything that surrounds you, then you begin to witness. Witnessing comes as a consequence of consciousness. You cannot practice witnessing; you can only practice consciousness.
Witnessing comes as a consequence, as a shadow, as a result, as a byproduct. The more you become conscious, the more you go into witnessing, the more you come to be a witness. So consciousness is a method to achieve witnessing. And the second step is that witnessing will become a method to achieve awareness.
So these are the three steps: consciousness, witnessing, awareness. But where we exist is the lowest rank: that is, in unconscious activity. Unconscious activity is the state of our minds. Through consciousness you can achieve witnessing, and through witnessing you can achieve awareness, and through awareness you can achieve "no achievement." Through awareness you can achieve all that is already achieved. After awareness there is nothing; awareness is the end."
-Osho
Book - Meditation:The Art Of Ecstasy
Chapter # 14 Chapter Name -Conciousness, Witnessing & Awareness"
http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Meditation/Awareness/osho_awareness_witnessing.htm
OSHO: "There is much difference between awareness and witnessing. Witnessing is still an act; you are doing it, the ego is there. So the phenomenon of witnessing is divided between the subject and the object. Witnessing is a relationship between subject and object.
Awareness is absolutely devoid of any subjectivity or objectivity. There is no one who is witnessing in awareness; there is no one who is being witnessed. Awareness is a total act, integrated; the subject and the object are not related in it; they are dissolved. So awareness doesn't mean that anyone is aware, nor does it mean that anything is being attended to.
Awareness is total -- total subjectivity and total objectivity as a single phenomenon -- while in witnessing a duality exists between subject and object. Awareness is nondoing; witnessing implies a doer. But through witnessing awareness is possible, because witnessing means that it is a conscious act; it is an act, but conscious. You can do something and be unconscious -- our ordinary activity is unconscious activity -- but if you become conscious in it, it becomes witnessing. So from ordinary unconscious activity to awareness there is a gap that can be filled by witnessing.
Witnessing is a technique, a method toward awareness. It is not awareness, but, as compared to ordinary activity, unconscious activity, it is a higher step. Something has changed: activity has become conscious, unconsciousness has been replaced by consciousness. But something more still has to be changed. That is, the activity has to be replaced by inactivity. That will be the second step.
It is difficult to jump from ordinary, unconscious action into awareness. It is possible but arduous, so a step in between is helpful. If one begins by witnessing conscious activity, then the jump becomes easier -- the jump into awareness without any conscious object, without any conscious subject, without any conscious activity at all. This doesn't mean that awareness isn't consciousness; it is pure consciousness, but no one is conscious about it.
There is still a difference between consciousness and awareness. Consciousness is a quality of your mind, but it is not your total mind. Your mind can be both conscious and unconscious, but when you transcend your mind, there is no unconsciousness and no corresponding consciousness. There is awareness.
Awareness means that the total mind has become aware. Now the old mind is not there, but there is the quality of being conscious. Awareness has become the totality; the mind itself is now part of the awareness. We cannot say that the mind is aware; we can only meaningfully say that the mind is conscious. Awareness means transcendence of the mind, so it is not the mind that is aware. It is only through transcendence of the mind, through going beyond mind, that awareness becomes possible.
Consciousness is a quality of the mind, awareness is the transcendence; it is going beyond the mind. Mind, as such, is the medium of duality, so consciousness can never transcend duality. It is always conscious of something, and there is always someone who is conscious. So consciousness is part and parcel of the mind, and mind, as such, is the source of all duality, of all divisions, whether they are between subject and object, activity or inactivity, consciousness or unconsciousness. Every type of duality is mental. Awareness is nondual, so awareness means the state of no mind.
Then what is the relationship between consciousness and witnessing? Witnessing is a state, and consciousness is a means toward witnessing. If you begin to be conscious, you achieve witnessing. If you begin to be conscious of your acts, conscious of your day-to-day happenings, conscious of everything that surrounds you, then you begin to witness. Witnessing comes as a consequence of consciousness. You cannot practice witnessing; you can only practice consciousness.
Witnessing comes as a consequence, as a shadow, as a result, as a byproduct. The more you become conscious, the more you go into witnessing, the more you come to be a witness. So consciousness is a method to achieve witnessing. And the second step is that witnessing will become a method to achieve awareness.
So these are the three steps: consciousness, witnessing, awareness. But where we exist is the lowest rank: that is, in unconscious activity. Unconscious activity is the state of our minds. Through consciousness you can achieve witnessing, and through witnessing you can achieve awareness, and through awareness you can achieve "no achievement." Through awareness you can achieve all that is already achieved. After awareness there is nothing; awareness is the end."
-Osho
Book - Meditation:The Art Of Ecstasy
Chapter # 14 Chapter Name -Conciousness, Witnessing & Awareness"
http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Meditation/Awareness/osho_awareness_witnessing.htm
Grace comes if your Meditation goes Deep
Beloved Osho,
You often talk to us about grace.
It seems to be such a beautiful word but my understanding of its meaning feels limited. I know that it is something you have.
Could you speak some more about it?
Deva Anupo,
GRACE IS ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF LIFE. It is not something physical, not psychological, but something spiritual. It is not within your power to create it. Any created grace will be false, phony.
GRACE COMES AS A FLOWERING OF YOUR BEING. The moment your meditation reaches to the deepest core, to the very center of the cyclone, a tremendous silence, peace and blissfulness arise within you. Grace is the total effect of all these qualities: SILENCE, PEACE, LOVE, COMPASSION, BLISSFULNESS, ECSTASY. When these things arise in you, their flame, their fire starts radiating from your physical body. They are so much they start overflowing.
THAT OVERFLOWING OF YOUR INNER ECSTASY is what can be defined as grace.
So it is possible a man or a woman may not be beautiful physically, but WHEN GRACE ARISES their physical beauty or their physical absence of beauty is completely changed. Whatever their physique is, is overwhelmed by something inner which is far more powerful.
It is just like a lamp: the flame is inside; what you see outside the glass of the lamp is the radiation. The glass may be beautiful; the glass may not be very beautiful. The glass may be made of crystal; the glass may be made in India. ONCE THE INNER FLAME IS LIT, YOU DON'T SEE THE GLASS, YOU SEE THE LIGHT. When the inner flame is not lit, you will see the glass -- because there is nothing else to see. And then you will differentiate between a beautiful man and an ugly man, a beautiful woman or a homely woman. Just to avoid the word 'ugly' they have found a beautiful word, 'homely'.
But these distinctions remain only if the inner light is still dormant. ONCE THE INNER LIGHT COMES RADIATING THROUGH THE BODY, YOU DON'T SEE THE BODY, you see a beautiful radiance, a beautiful aura surrounding the person. That is grace.
Grace transforms your physical body completely -- because nobody can see now exactly what your physical body is. THE GRACE IS SO STUNNING, EVERY GESTURE BECOMES SO BEAUTIFUL. Your eyes radiate a totally new silence. They open to such great depths that they become almost unfathomable. Your words are not just language, something more is added to them. A fragrance, a beauty, a music, even your prose sounds like poetry. Ordinary words start having an extraordinary effect -- because your inner experience gives them authority.
Before, they were empty, just used cartridges, they had nothing in them. Now they are still the same words; the container is the same, but the content is a new addition to it. NOW THE CONTENT RADIATES THROUGH THE WORDS, and you can see it in many ways.
Gautam Buddha was born on the boundary line of India and Nepal. Now Nepalese are not known for much beauty. They are part of the Mongolian race. Their size is small, their faces don't show the beauty that you will find in Kashmir. But Gautam Buddha's statues are in a way not factual.
I don't believe that such a beautiful man was born on the border of India and Nepal. I have been over the whole territory of Nepal, and I have never come across anything resembling this beauty. Perhaps Gautam Buddha was also just an ordinary Nepalese, but why have the statues been made so beautiful? THE ARTISTS, THE SCULPTORS WERE NOT SEEING ONLY THE PHYSICAL FRAME OF GAUTAM BUDDHA, they were also seeing a tremendously powerful aura around him that was making him so beautiful. And it would have been wrong to make his statues as he would have looked before enlightenment. So those statues are all made after his enlightenment.
Almost the same has happened with Jesus. There has been an inscription found in the rocks near Galilee that describes JESUS CHRIST AS AN UGLY MAN, EXTRAORDINARILY UGLY. If you had seen him, he was repulsive. His height in that inscription is only four feet five inches, and on top of it all, he is described as a hunchback. Now you cannot call such a man beautiful. But all the statues and the descriptions by the disciples in the gospels do not mention that he was a pygmy, four feet five inches high, that he was ugly and repulsive, that he was a hunchback. They describe him as poetically, as aesthetically as possible.
And I am absolutely certain that they are not making it up. It is not their desire to present Jesus Christ their master to the world as beautiful. THEY HAVE SEEN HIS BEAUTY, but that beauty is not the ordinary beauty; THAT BEAUTY IS OF GRACE.
From the other side also you can see that you can sometimes find very beautiful people, physically -- if you look they are tremendously beautiful -- but if you are living close enough to them, you will find their ugliness starts coming out of their physical structure. Their physical structure may be like Cleopatra, but CLEOPATRA TO ME WAS NOT A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. She may have had the form of a beautiful body, but her intentions and
her state of consciousness were very ugly. She cannot have any grace; she was selling her body to anybody, just to remain the queen of Egypt. She was not using the army to fight, she was using her own body. And great generals like Anthony were caught into her trap. She was using her beauty for ugly ends. SHE COULD NOT HAVE GRACE.
So it is possible that a man or a woman may be physically beautiful, but if his inner being is full of darkness that darkness will show. THERE IS NO WAY FOR HER TO COVER THAT DARKNESS by any kind of makeup. In ordinary photographs, she will look beautiful. But in Russia one scientist photographer, Kirlian, has developed very sensitive films that also take the photograph of your aura. They not only take your physical frame, but the light that surrounds you, that surrounds every living being, even the trees.
Even the leaves have an aura of their own. And that aura makes such a difference. IF A MAN HAS GRACE, HE WILL HAVE A TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL AURA, so stunning to the eyes that you will forget about his physical body whether it was beautiful or not.
Christians have not been able to explain the inscription and the discrepancy with the gospels -- because they don't seem to understand the law of grace. KIRLIAN is the first man as far as science is concerned who has changed the whole approach. He takes photographs of the aura; his photographs are not only of you, but the subtle light that is radiating from you.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALMOST NO AURA. Their bodies may be beautiful, but their personalities will be ugly. Their intentions and ambitions and their desires will be of a very low character....
THE GRACE IS YOUR AURA, and as your inner being becomes more silent, your aura becomes more radiant. And just as Kirlian's photography has been able to catch the aura which your ordinary eyes cannot see, a disciple in love and trust starts seeing things which an ordinary observer, outsider, will not be able to see. He starts seeing a grace; he starts hearing the music. He starts feeling a certain fragrance arising from the man, who is centered in his being, who is no more a personality but has become innocent individuality; whose connection is no longer with the society but existence itself.
His life is of love; he is love. That radiance of love and peace and silence is all part of his grace. That's why I said the word 'grace' has tremendous meaning -- because ALL THAT MEDITATION GIVES YOU CAN BE PUT TOGETHER IN ONE WORD, AND THAT IS 'GRACE'.
But don't create a desire for it. Don't long for it. IT COMES IF YOUR MEDITATION GOES DEEP. You cannot do anything with grace directly, YOU CAN ONLY WAIT. Your waiting has to become so deep, so trustful, that grace will come when the time comes. Just as the trees go on waiting for the spring -- when it comes, it comes. They are not running after spring; they are not making any speed. They are not creating any action movement: "Why does spring come only once a year... why not twice, and why does it not remain always?" The whole world is silently waiting. Except man, there is no impatience anywhere.
And impatience makes you ugly.
And impatience is a disturbance in your meditation. Learn to wait. BE PATIENT AND TRUST THAT EXISTENCE WILL GIVE YOU WHATEVER YOU ARE READY FOR. All that you have to do is to go on deeper in meditation, beyond mind into silence. No thoughts, no emotions, no moods, just a silent watchfulness and waiting for whatever existence finds you ready for.
GRACE COMES, BUT IT COMES WITHOUT A WHISPER. You suddenly find it. You feel it within. You feel it in your movements; you feel it in your sleep; you feel it in your speech -- everywhere you are engulfed. But the only thing that is needed on your part is a deep waitfulness. MEDITATION WILL CREATE WATCHFULNESS AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE ART OF WAITING.
PHILOSOPHICAL PHYLLIS said she has learned three discouraging things about men. ONE, they go to war and kill each other when, if only they would be patient, they would die a natural death. TWO, they climb trees and knock down apples when, if only they would be patient, the apples would fall to the ground. THREE, they pursue women when, if only they would be patient, women would pursue them.
ONE HAS TO LEARN THE ART OF WAITING and then millions of things will happen to you which never happen to impatient people.
A man fell out of a tenth-storey window. He's lying on the ground with a big crowd around him. A cop walks over and says, "What happened?" The guy says, "I don't know, I just got here."
You have also just got here. BE A LITTLE PATIENT, and you will start experiencing things.
In a school in one of Chicago's poorer districts, a questionnaire was sent home with a girl pupil requesting information regarding the number of brothers and sisters, her father's occupation, et cetera. The next day she returned with a scrap of paper on which was written the following:
There are eighteen children in my family. My father can also do plumbing and carpentry work.
JUST WAIT. People are engaged so much. Now think of that man: eighteen children and still he can do plumbing and carpentry work.
GIVE A LITTLE TIME TO YOURSELF, and in the end you will find that is the only time you have really lived. Even if you can just give one hour out of twenty-four hours to yourself, to your meditation, to your silence -- JUST BEING, NOT DOING ANYTHING, JUST WAITING AND LEARNING TO WAIT. In the end of your life you will be surprised that your twenty-three hours have gone to waste. Only that one hour, whatever you have gained in that one hour is still with you and is going with you; even death cannot take it away.
JUST ONE HOUR can give you immense PEACE, SILENCE, BLISSFULNESS, and slowly slowly, the aura of GRACE will arise around you.
OSHO
The Invitation
Ch #18: A good laugh is the greatest prayer
am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
http://www.osho.com/online-library-the-invitation-5e790b3b89f4.aspx
You often talk to us about grace.
It seems to be such a beautiful word but my understanding of its meaning feels limited. I know that it is something you have.
Could you speak some more about it?
Deva Anupo,
GRACE IS ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF LIFE. It is not something physical, not psychological, but something spiritual. It is not within your power to create it. Any created grace will be false, phony.
GRACE COMES AS A FLOWERING OF YOUR BEING. The moment your meditation reaches to the deepest core, to the very center of the cyclone, a tremendous silence, peace and blissfulness arise within you. Grace is the total effect of all these qualities: SILENCE, PEACE, LOVE, COMPASSION, BLISSFULNESS, ECSTASY. When these things arise in you, their flame, their fire starts radiating from your physical body. They are so much they start overflowing.
THAT OVERFLOWING OF YOUR INNER ECSTASY is what can be defined as grace.
So it is possible a man or a woman may not be beautiful physically, but WHEN GRACE ARISES their physical beauty or their physical absence of beauty is completely changed. Whatever their physique is, is overwhelmed by something inner which is far more powerful.
It is just like a lamp: the flame is inside; what you see outside the glass of the lamp is the radiation. The glass may be beautiful; the glass may not be very beautiful. The glass may be made of crystal; the glass may be made in India. ONCE THE INNER FLAME IS LIT, YOU DON'T SEE THE GLASS, YOU SEE THE LIGHT. When the inner flame is not lit, you will see the glass -- because there is nothing else to see. And then you will differentiate between a beautiful man and an ugly man, a beautiful woman or a homely woman. Just to avoid the word 'ugly' they have found a beautiful word, 'homely'.
But these distinctions remain only if the inner light is still dormant. ONCE THE INNER LIGHT COMES RADIATING THROUGH THE BODY, YOU DON'T SEE THE BODY, you see a beautiful radiance, a beautiful aura surrounding the person. That is grace.
Grace transforms your physical body completely -- because nobody can see now exactly what your physical body is. THE GRACE IS SO STUNNING, EVERY GESTURE BECOMES SO BEAUTIFUL. Your eyes radiate a totally new silence. They open to such great depths that they become almost unfathomable. Your words are not just language, something more is added to them. A fragrance, a beauty, a music, even your prose sounds like poetry. Ordinary words start having an extraordinary effect -- because your inner experience gives them authority.
Before, they were empty, just used cartridges, they had nothing in them. Now they are still the same words; the container is the same, but the content is a new addition to it. NOW THE CONTENT RADIATES THROUGH THE WORDS, and you can see it in many ways.
Gautam Buddha was born on the boundary line of India and Nepal. Now Nepalese are not known for much beauty. They are part of the Mongolian race. Their size is small, their faces don't show the beauty that you will find in Kashmir. But Gautam Buddha's statues are in a way not factual.
I don't believe that such a beautiful man was born on the border of India and Nepal. I have been over the whole territory of Nepal, and I have never come across anything resembling this beauty. Perhaps Gautam Buddha was also just an ordinary Nepalese, but why have the statues been made so beautiful? THE ARTISTS, THE SCULPTORS WERE NOT SEEING ONLY THE PHYSICAL FRAME OF GAUTAM BUDDHA, they were also seeing a tremendously powerful aura around him that was making him so beautiful. And it would have been wrong to make his statues as he would have looked before enlightenment. So those statues are all made after his enlightenment.
Almost the same has happened with Jesus. There has been an inscription found in the rocks near Galilee that describes JESUS CHRIST AS AN UGLY MAN, EXTRAORDINARILY UGLY. If you had seen him, he was repulsive. His height in that inscription is only four feet five inches, and on top of it all, he is described as a hunchback. Now you cannot call such a man beautiful. But all the statues and the descriptions by the disciples in the gospels do not mention that he was a pygmy, four feet five inches high, that he was ugly and repulsive, that he was a hunchback. They describe him as poetically, as aesthetically as possible.
And I am absolutely certain that they are not making it up. It is not their desire to present Jesus Christ their master to the world as beautiful. THEY HAVE SEEN HIS BEAUTY, but that beauty is not the ordinary beauty; THAT BEAUTY IS OF GRACE.
From the other side also you can see that you can sometimes find very beautiful people, physically -- if you look they are tremendously beautiful -- but if you are living close enough to them, you will find their ugliness starts coming out of their physical structure. Their physical structure may be like Cleopatra, but CLEOPATRA TO ME WAS NOT A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. She may have had the form of a beautiful body, but her intentions and
her state of consciousness were very ugly. She cannot have any grace; she was selling her body to anybody, just to remain the queen of Egypt. She was not using the army to fight, she was using her own body. And great generals like Anthony were caught into her trap. She was using her beauty for ugly ends. SHE COULD NOT HAVE GRACE.
So it is possible that a man or a woman may be physically beautiful, but if his inner being is full of darkness that darkness will show. THERE IS NO WAY FOR HER TO COVER THAT DARKNESS by any kind of makeup. In ordinary photographs, she will look beautiful. But in Russia one scientist photographer, Kirlian, has developed very sensitive films that also take the photograph of your aura. They not only take your physical frame, but the light that surrounds you, that surrounds every living being, even the trees.
Even the leaves have an aura of their own. And that aura makes such a difference. IF A MAN HAS GRACE, HE WILL HAVE A TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL AURA, so stunning to the eyes that you will forget about his physical body whether it was beautiful or not.
Christians have not been able to explain the inscription and the discrepancy with the gospels -- because they don't seem to understand the law of grace. KIRLIAN is the first man as far as science is concerned who has changed the whole approach. He takes photographs of the aura; his photographs are not only of you, but the subtle light that is radiating from you.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALMOST NO AURA. Their bodies may be beautiful, but their personalities will be ugly. Their intentions and ambitions and their desires will be of a very low character....
THE GRACE IS YOUR AURA, and as your inner being becomes more silent, your aura becomes more radiant. And just as Kirlian's photography has been able to catch the aura which your ordinary eyes cannot see, a disciple in love and trust starts seeing things which an ordinary observer, outsider, will not be able to see. He starts seeing a grace; he starts hearing the music. He starts feeling a certain fragrance arising from the man, who is centered in his being, who is no more a personality but has become innocent individuality; whose connection is no longer with the society but existence itself.
His life is of love; he is love. That radiance of love and peace and silence is all part of his grace. That's why I said the word 'grace' has tremendous meaning -- because ALL THAT MEDITATION GIVES YOU CAN BE PUT TOGETHER IN ONE WORD, AND THAT IS 'GRACE'.
But don't create a desire for it. Don't long for it. IT COMES IF YOUR MEDITATION GOES DEEP. You cannot do anything with grace directly, YOU CAN ONLY WAIT. Your waiting has to become so deep, so trustful, that grace will come when the time comes. Just as the trees go on waiting for the spring -- when it comes, it comes. They are not running after spring; they are not making any speed. They are not creating any action movement: "Why does spring come only once a year... why not twice, and why does it not remain always?" The whole world is silently waiting. Except man, there is no impatience anywhere.
And impatience makes you ugly.
And impatience is a disturbance in your meditation. Learn to wait. BE PATIENT AND TRUST THAT EXISTENCE WILL GIVE YOU WHATEVER YOU ARE READY FOR. All that you have to do is to go on deeper in meditation, beyond mind into silence. No thoughts, no emotions, no moods, just a silent watchfulness and waiting for whatever existence finds you ready for.
GRACE COMES, BUT IT COMES WITHOUT A WHISPER. You suddenly find it. You feel it within. You feel it in your movements; you feel it in your sleep; you feel it in your speech -- everywhere you are engulfed. But the only thing that is needed on your part is a deep waitfulness. MEDITATION WILL CREATE WATCHFULNESS AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE ART OF WAITING.
PHILOSOPHICAL PHYLLIS said she has learned three discouraging things about men. ONE, they go to war and kill each other when, if only they would be patient, they would die a natural death. TWO, they climb trees and knock down apples when, if only they would be patient, the apples would fall to the ground. THREE, they pursue women when, if only they would be patient, women would pursue them.
ONE HAS TO LEARN THE ART OF WAITING and then millions of things will happen to you which never happen to impatient people.
A man fell out of a tenth-storey window. He's lying on the ground with a big crowd around him. A cop walks over and says, "What happened?" The guy says, "I don't know, I just got here."
You have also just got here. BE A LITTLE PATIENT, and you will start experiencing things.
In a school in one of Chicago's poorer districts, a questionnaire was sent home with a girl pupil requesting information regarding the number of brothers and sisters, her father's occupation, et cetera. The next day she returned with a scrap of paper on which was written the following:
There are eighteen children in my family. My father can also do plumbing and carpentry work.
JUST WAIT. People are engaged so much. Now think of that man: eighteen children and still he can do plumbing and carpentry work.
GIVE A LITTLE TIME TO YOURSELF, and in the end you will find that is the only time you have really lived. Even if you can just give one hour out of twenty-four hours to yourself, to your meditation, to your silence -- JUST BEING, NOT DOING ANYTHING, JUST WAITING AND LEARNING TO WAIT. In the end of your life you will be surprised that your twenty-three hours have gone to waste. Only that one hour, whatever you have gained in that one hour is still with you and is going with you; even death cannot take it away.
JUST ONE HOUR can give you immense PEACE, SILENCE, BLISSFULNESS, and slowly slowly, the aura of GRACE will arise around you.
OSHO
The Invitation
Ch #18: A good laugh is the greatest prayer
am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
http://www.osho.com/online-library-the-invitation-5e790b3b89f4.aspx
Desire Vs Longing
Osho, What is the difference between desire and longing?
Desire is desire for something that is outside you. Desire is objective. Longing is not objective. Longing is for that which wants to explode in you. It is inner, it is subjective. If a rose wants to become a lotus, it is a desire. But if the rose LONGS to become a rose, it is longing. If the seed wants to sprout and become a tree, it is a longing! It is perfectly in order. It is how it should be. But if a seed wants to become a butterfly, it is a desire.
Desire is absurd: longing is existential. Longing is perfectly beautiful: desire is dangerous. And the distinction is very delicate and one has to be very much alert. Longing is opening of the inner: desire is accumulation of the outer. Man desires money: man longs for meditation. Man desires power: man longs for purity. Man desires knowledge: man longs for awareness. Man desires the world: man longs for God.
That which is intrinsic to you is longing. Divert your energies from desire into longing. Desire distracts you from your Tao, from your Dharma, from your nature. Desire takes you astray. It allures you into fantasies which are not possible. It drives you crazy, because it gives you hopes which cannot be fulfilled, which are unfulfillable. Time, energy, life, will be wasted, and in the end only frustration in the hands and in the heart.
Longing is fulfillment. If you want to become a rich man, you are desiring. But if you want to become a sannyasin, it is a longing. Desiring depends on others: in longing there is no need to depend on anybody else. It is your own flowering. It is already there – just it needs the right soil and the right time It is waiting for the spring to come….
-Osho
Desire is desire for something that is outside you. Desire is objective. Longing is not objective. Longing is for that which wants to explode in you. It is inner, it is subjective. If a rose wants to become a lotus, it is a desire. But if the rose LONGS to become a rose, it is longing. If the seed wants to sprout and become a tree, it is a longing! It is perfectly in order. It is how it should be. But if a seed wants to become a butterfly, it is a desire.
Desire is absurd: longing is existential. Longing is perfectly beautiful: desire is dangerous. And the distinction is very delicate and one has to be very much alert. Longing is opening of the inner: desire is accumulation of the outer. Man desires money: man longs for meditation. Man desires power: man longs for purity. Man desires knowledge: man longs for awareness. Man desires the world: man longs for God.
That which is intrinsic to you is longing. Divert your energies from desire into longing. Desire distracts you from your Tao, from your Dharma, from your nature. Desire takes you astray. It allures you into fantasies which are not possible. It drives you crazy, because it gives you hopes which cannot be fulfilled, which are unfulfillable. Time, energy, life, will be wasted, and in the end only frustration in the hands and in the heart.
Longing is fulfillment. If you want to become a rich man, you are desiring. But if you want to become a sannyasin, it is a longing. Desiring depends on others: in longing there is no need to depend on anybody else. It is your own flowering. It is already there – just it needs the right soil and the right time It is waiting for the spring to come….
-Osho
Thursday 21 March 2013
Wednesday 20 March 2013
WHAT IS LOVE?
TO FIT WITH SOMEBODY, IT IS A GREAT ART. To create a harmony between two persons... two persons mean two different worlds. When two worlds come close, clash is bound to be there if you don't know how to harmonize. LOVE IS HARMONY.
AND HAPPINESS, HEALTH, HARMONY, ALL HAPPEN OUT OF LOVE. Learn to love. Don't be in a hurry for marriage, learn to love. First become a great lover.
And what is the requirement? THE REQUIREMENT IS THAT A GREAT LOVER IS ALWAYS READY TO GIVE LOVE and is not bothered whether it is returned or not. It is always returned, it is in the very nature of things. It is just as if you go to the mountains and you sing a song, and the valleys respond. Have you seen an echo point in the mountains, in the hills? You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing.
EACH HEART IS A VALLEY. If you pour love into it, it will respond.
The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. BECOME A GIVER.
But people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love. YOU SIMPLY POUR, IT WILL COME.
And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about -- because A LOVER KNOWS THAT TO LOVE IS TO BE HAPPY. If it comes, good; then the happiness is multiplied. But even if it never comes back, in the very act of loving you become so happy, so ecstatic, who bothers whether it comes or not?
LOVE HAS ITS OWN INTRINSIC HAPPINESS. It happens when you love. There is no need to wait for the result. JUST START LOVING. By and by, you will see much more love is coming back to you. One loves and comes to know what love is only by loving. As one learns swimming by swimming, by loving one loves.
But people are very miserly. They are waiting for some great beloved to happen, then they will love. They remain closed, they remain withdrawn. They just wait. From somewhere some Cleopatra will come and then they will open their heart... But by that time they have completely forgotten how to open it.
DON'T MISS ANY OPPORTUNITY OF LOVE. Even passing in a street, you can be loving. Even to the beggar you can be loving. There is no need that you have to give him something; you can smile at least. It costs nothing -- but your very smile opens your heart, makes your heart more alive.
HOLD SOMEBODY'S HAND -- a friend or a stranger. Don't wait that you will only love when the right person happens. Then the right person will never happen. Go on loving. THE MORE YOU LOVE, THE MORE IS THE POSSIBILITY for the right person to happen -- because your heart starts flowering. And a flowering heart attracts many bees, many lovers....
NOTHING CAN DESTROY LOVE. If it is there, it goes on growing. But my feeling is, it is not there in the first place. You misunderstood yourself; something else was there. Maybe sex was there, sex appeal was there. Then it is going to be destroyed -- because once you have loved a woman, then the sex appeal disappears... because the sex appeal is only with the unknown. Once you have tasted the body of the woman or the man, then the sex appeal disappears. If your love was only sex appeal, then it is bound to disappear.
So never misunderstand love for something else. If love is really love... WHAT DO I MEAN WHEN I SAY 'REALLY LOVE'? I mean that just being in the presence of the other you feel suddenly happy, JUST BEING TOGETHER YOU FEEL ECSTATIC, just the very presence of the other fulfills something deep in your heart... something starts singing in your heart, you fall into harmony. Just the very presence of the other helps you to be together; you become more individual, more centered, more grounded. Then it is love.
Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion. LOVE IS A VERY DEEP UNDERSTANDING THAT SOMEBODY SOMEHOW COMPLETES YOU. Somebody makes you a full circle. The presence of the other enhances your presence.
Love gives freedom to be yourself; it is not possessiveness.
So, watch. Never think of sex as love, otherwise you will be deceived. Be alert, and when you start feeling with someone that JUST THE PRESENCE, THE PURE PRESENCE -- NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING ELSE IS NEEDED; you don't ask anything -- just the presence, just that the other IS, is enough to make you happy... something starts flowering within you, a thousand and one lotuses bloom... then you are in love, and then you can pass through all the difficulties that reality creates.
Many anguishes, many anxieties -- you will be able to pass all of them, and your love will be flowering more and more... because all those situations will become challenges. And your love, by overcoming them, will become stronger, more and more.
LOVE IS ETERNITY. If it is there, then it goes on growing and growing. Love knows the beginning, but does not know the end.
OSHO
The Discipline of Transcendence
http://osho.com/LibArchive/HaveATaste/YourQuestion.cfm?Nr=43
AND HAPPINESS, HEALTH, HARMONY, ALL HAPPEN OUT OF LOVE. Learn to love. Don't be in a hurry for marriage, learn to love. First become a great lover.
And what is the requirement? THE REQUIREMENT IS THAT A GREAT LOVER IS ALWAYS READY TO GIVE LOVE and is not bothered whether it is returned or not. It is always returned, it is in the very nature of things. It is just as if you go to the mountains and you sing a song, and the valleys respond. Have you seen an echo point in the mountains, in the hills? You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing.
EACH HEART IS A VALLEY. If you pour love into it, it will respond.
The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. BECOME A GIVER.
But people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love. YOU SIMPLY POUR, IT WILL COME.
And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about -- because A LOVER KNOWS THAT TO LOVE IS TO BE HAPPY. If it comes, good; then the happiness is multiplied. But even if it never comes back, in the very act of loving you become so happy, so ecstatic, who bothers whether it comes or not?
LOVE HAS ITS OWN INTRINSIC HAPPINESS. It happens when you love. There is no need to wait for the result. JUST START LOVING. By and by, you will see much more love is coming back to you. One loves and comes to know what love is only by loving. As one learns swimming by swimming, by loving one loves.
But people are very miserly. They are waiting for some great beloved to happen, then they will love. They remain closed, they remain withdrawn. They just wait. From somewhere some Cleopatra will come and then they will open their heart... But by that time they have completely forgotten how to open it.
DON'T MISS ANY OPPORTUNITY OF LOVE. Even passing in a street, you can be loving. Even to the beggar you can be loving. There is no need that you have to give him something; you can smile at least. It costs nothing -- but your very smile opens your heart, makes your heart more alive.
HOLD SOMEBODY'S HAND -- a friend or a stranger. Don't wait that you will only love when the right person happens. Then the right person will never happen. Go on loving. THE MORE YOU LOVE, THE MORE IS THE POSSIBILITY for the right person to happen -- because your heart starts flowering. And a flowering heart attracts many bees, many lovers....
NOTHING CAN DESTROY LOVE. If it is there, it goes on growing. But my feeling is, it is not there in the first place. You misunderstood yourself; something else was there. Maybe sex was there, sex appeal was there. Then it is going to be destroyed -- because once you have loved a woman, then the sex appeal disappears... because the sex appeal is only with the unknown. Once you have tasted the body of the woman or the man, then the sex appeal disappears. If your love was only sex appeal, then it is bound to disappear.
So never misunderstand love for something else. If love is really love... WHAT DO I MEAN WHEN I SAY 'REALLY LOVE'? I mean that just being in the presence of the other you feel suddenly happy, JUST BEING TOGETHER YOU FEEL ECSTATIC, just the very presence of the other fulfills something deep in your heart... something starts singing in your heart, you fall into harmony. Just the very presence of the other helps you to be together; you become more individual, more centered, more grounded. Then it is love.
Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion. LOVE IS A VERY DEEP UNDERSTANDING THAT SOMEBODY SOMEHOW COMPLETES YOU. Somebody makes you a full circle. The presence of the other enhances your presence.
Love gives freedom to be yourself; it is not possessiveness.
So, watch. Never think of sex as love, otherwise you will be deceived. Be alert, and when you start feeling with someone that JUST THE PRESENCE, THE PURE PRESENCE -- NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING ELSE IS NEEDED; you don't ask anything -- just the presence, just that the other IS, is enough to make you happy... something starts flowering within you, a thousand and one lotuses bloom... then you are in love, and then you can pass through all the difficulties that reality creates.
LOVE IS ETERNITY. If it is there, then it goes on growing and growing. Love knows the beginning, but does not know the end.
OSHO
The Discipline of Transcendence
http://osho.com/LibArchive/HaveATaste/YourQuestion.cfm?Nr=43
Don't Believe in Reincarnation!
As far as I am concerned, NOT A SINGLE WORD FROM ME HAS TO BE BELIEVED, BUT TO BE EXPERIENCED. And I am giving you the method, how to experience it.
BECOME MORE MEDITATIVE. Reincarnation and God, heaven and hell, does not matter. What matters is your becoming alert. MEDITATION AWAKENS YOU, GIVES YOU EYES -- and then whatever you see, you cannot deny it.
AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, REINCARNATION IS A TRUTH -- because in existence nothing dies. Even the physicist will say, about the objective world, that nothing dies. You can destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- so much power science has given to chimpanzee politicians -- but you cannot destroy a single drop of water.
You cannot destroy. Physicists have become aware of this impossibility. WHATEVER YOU DO, ONLY THE FORM CHANGES. You destroy a single dewdrop, and there is hydrogen and oxygen; they were its components. You cannot destroy hydrogen or oxygen. If you try, then from molecules you come to atoms. If you destroy the atom, you come to electrons. We don't know right now if we can destroy the electron. Either you cannot destroy it -- it is the ultimate objective constituent of reality -- or if you can destroy it, then you will find something else. BUT NOTHING CAN BE DESTROYED IN THE OBJECTIVE WORLD.
THE SAME IS TRUE ABOUT THE WORLD OF CONSCIOUSNESS, OF LIFE. There is no death. DEATH IS ONLY A CHANGE from one form into another form, and ultimately from form to formlessness.
And that is the goal -- because EVERY FORM IS A KIND OF IMPRISONMENT. Unless you become formless, you cannot get rid of misery, jealousy, anger, hatred, greed, fear -- because these are concerned with your form.
BUT WHEN YOU ARE FORMLESS, THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN HARM YOU, there is nothing that you can lose any more, there is nothing that can be added to you. You have come to the ultimate realization.
Only Gautam Buddha has given the right word for this experience. In English it is difficult to translate it, because languages develop only after experience. It is just arbitrarily that I am calling it "enlightenment". But it is very arbitrary; it does not really give you the sense that Buddha's word gives. He calls it nirvana.
I can explain the word to you. NIRVANA MEANS CEASING TO BE. Strange... ceasing to be. I could have used that word, but that would make you afraid. Already people are so much afraid of me -- I, who have never done any harm to anybody.
NOT TO BE IS NIRVANA. That does not mean that you are no more; it simply means you are no more an entity, embodied. Yes, in that sense you are no more, but that is the way -- NOT TO BE IS THE WAY TO BE ALL. The dewdrop drops into the ocean. You can say it has died, but those who know will say it has become oceanic. Now it is the whole ocean.
EXISTENCE IS ALIVE AT EVERY STAGE. Nothing is dead. Even a stone -- which you think seems to be completely dead -- is not dead. So many living electrons are running so fast inside it that you cannot see them, but they are all living beings. Their bodies are so small that nobody has seen them; we don't even have any scientific instrument to see the electron, it is only guesswork. We can see the effect; hence we think there must be a cause. The cause has not been seen, only the effect has been seen. But the electron is as alive as you are.
The whole existence is synonymous with life.
Here nothing dies. Death is an impossibility.
Yes, things change from one form to another form till they become mature enough that they need not go to school again. Then they move into a formless life, then they become one with the ocean itself.
-Osho, From the False to the Truth
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oshosannyasins/messages/3222
BECOME MORE MEDITATIVE. Reincarnation and God, heaven and hell, does not matter. What matters is your becoming alert. MEDITATION AWAKENS YOU, GIVES YOU EYES -- and then whatever you see, you cannot deny it.
AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, REINCARNATION IS A TRUTH -- because in existence nothing dies. Even the physicist will say, about the objective world, that nothing dies. You can destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- so much power science has given to chimpanzee politicians -- but you cannot destroy a single drop of water.
You cannot destroy. Physicists have become aware of this impossibility. WHATEVER YOU DO, ONLY THE FORM CHANGES. You destroy a single dewdrop, and there is hydrogen and oxygen; they were its components. You cannot destroy hydrogen or oxygen. If you try, then from molecules you come to atoms. If you destroy the atom, you come to electrons. We don't know right now if we can destroy the electron. Either you cannot destroy it -- it is the ultimate objective constituent of reality -- or if you can destroy it, then you will find something else. BUT NOTHING CAN BE DESTROYED IN THE OBJECTIVE WORLD.
THE SAME IS TRUE ABOUT THE WORLD OF CONSCIOUSNESS, OF LIFE. There is no death. DEATH IS ONLY A CHANGE from one form into another form, and ultimately from form to formlessness.
And that is the goal -- because EVERY FORM IS A KIND OF IMPRISONMENT. Unless you become formless, you cannot get rid of misery, jealousy, anger, hatred, greed, fear -- because these are concerned with your form.
Only Gautam Buddha has given the right word for this experience. In English it is difficult to translate it, because languages develop only after experience. It is just arbitrarily that I am calling it "enlightenment". But it is very arbitrary; it does not really give you the sense that Buddha's word gives. He calls it nirvana.
I can explain the word to you. NIRVANA MEANS CEASING TO BE. Strange... ceasing to be. I could have used that word, but that would make you afraid. Already people are so much afraid of me -- I, who have never done any harm to anybody.
NOT TO BE IS NIRVANA. That does not mean that you are no more; it simply means you are no more an entity, embodied. Yes, in that sense you are no more, but that is the way -- NOT TO BE IS THE WAY TO BE ALL. The dewdrop drops into the ocean. You can say it has died, but those who know will say it has become oceanic. Now it is the whole ocean.
EXISTENCE IS ALIVE AT EVERY STAGE. Nothing is dead. Even a stone -- which you think seems to be completely dead -- is not dead. So many living electrons are running so fast inside it that you cannot see them, but they are all living beings. Their bodies are so small that nobody has seen them; we don't even have any scientific instrument to see the electron, it is only guesswork. We can see the effect; hence we think there must be a cause. The cause has not been seen, only the effect has been seen. But the electron is as alive as you are.
The whole existence is synonymous with life.
Here nothing dies. Death is an impossibility.
Yes, things change from one form to another form till they become mature enough that they need not go to school again. Then they move into a formless life, then they become one with the ocean itself.
-Osho, From the False to the Truth
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oshosannyasins/messages/3222
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Trust Has A Magic In It
A PERSON WHO TRUSTS HIMSELF CANNOT DISTRUST ANYBODY, even those who are going to deceive him, even those who have already deceived him. Yes, he cannot even distrust them, because now he knows TRUST IS FAR MORE VALUABLE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
You can cheat a person -- but in what can you cheat him? You can take some money or something else from him. But the man who knows the beauty of trust will not be distracted by these small things. He will still love you, he will still trust you. And then a miracle happens: IF A MAN REALLY TRUSTS YOU, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHEAT HIM, almost impossible.
It happens every day in your life, too. WHENEVER YOU TRUST SOMEBODY, IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO CHEAT YOU, to deceive you. Sitting on the platform in a railway station, you don't know the person who is sitting by your side -- a stranger, a complete stranger -- and you say to him, "Just watch my luggage, I have to go to purchase a ticket. Please, just take care of the luggage."
And you go. You trust an absolute stranger. BUT IT ALMOST NEVER HAPPENS THAT THE STRANGER DECEIVES YOU. He could have deceived you if you had not trusted him.
TRUST HAS A MAGIC IN IT. How can a man deceive you, now that you have trusted him? How can he fall so low? He will never be able to forgive himself if he deceives you.
There is an intrinsic quality in human consciousness to trust and to be trusted. AND EVERYBODY ENJOYS BEING TRUSTED. It is respect from the other person -- and when you trust a stranger it is more so. THERE IS NO REASON TO TRUST HIM, AND STILL YOU TRUSTED. You raised the man to such a high pedestal, you valued the man so much... it is almost impossible for him to fall from that height. AND IF HE FALLS, HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE HIMSELF -- he will have to carry the weight of guilt his whole life.
A MAN WHO TRUSTS HIMSELF COMES TO KNOW THE BEAUTY OF IT -- comes to know that THE MORE YOU TRUST YOURSELF, THE MORE YOU BLOOM -- the more you are in a state of let-go, relaxation; the more you are settled and serene; the more you are calm, cool and quiet.
AND IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT YOU START TRUSTING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE. Because the more you trust, the more your calmness deepens; your coolness goes deeper and deeper to the very core of your being. AND THE MORE YOU TRUST, THE MORE YOU SOAR HIGH. A man who can trust, will sooner or later know the logic of trust. And then one day he is bound to try to trust the unknown.
IT IS ONLY WHEN YOU CAN TRUST THE UNKNOWN that you can trust a master -- never before it. Because the master represents nothing but the unknown. He represents the uncharted, he represents the infinite, the unbounded. He represents the oceanic, he represents the wild, he represents God.
Osho, The Book of Wisdom
http://www.osho.com/online-library-society-selfishness-person-e3937f53-34a.aspx
You can cheat a person -- but in what can you cheat him? You can take some money or something else from him. But the man who knows the beauty of trust will not be distracted by these small things. He will still love you, he will still trust you. And then a miracle happens: IF A MAN REALLY TRUSTS YOU, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHEAT HIM, almost impossible.
It happens every day in your life, too. WHENEVER YOU TRUST SOMEBODY, IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO CHEAT YOU, to deceive you. Sitting on the platform in a railway station, you don't know the person who is sitting by your side -- a stranger, a complete stranger -- and you say to him, "Just watch my luggage, I have to go to purchase a ticket. Please, just take care of the luggage."
And you go. You trust an absolute stranger. BUT IT ALMOST NEVER HAPPENS THAT THE STRANGER DECEIVES YOU. He could have deceived you if you had not trusted him.
TRUST HAS A MAGIC IN IT. How can a man deceive you, now that you have trusted him? How can he fall so low? He will never be able to forgive himself if he deceives you.
There is an intrinsic quality in human consciousness to trust and to be trusted. AND EVERYBODY ENJOYS BEING TRUSTED. It is respect from the other person -- and when you trust a stranger it is more so. THERE IS NO REASON TO TRUST HIM, AND STILL YOU TRUSTED. You raised the man to such a high pedestal, you valued the man so much... it is almost impossible for him to fall from that height. AND IF HE FALLS, HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE HIMSELF -- he will have to carry the weight of guilt his whole life.
A MAN WHO TRUSTS HIMSELF COMES TO KNOW THE BEAUTY OF IT -- comes to know that THE MORE YOU TRUST YOURSELF, THE MORE YOU BLOOM -- the more you are in a state of let-go, relaxation; the more you are settled and serene; the more you are calm, cool and quiet.
AND IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT YOU START TRUSTING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE. Because the more you trust, the more your calmness deepens; your coolness goes deeper and deeper to the very core of your being. AND THE MORE YOU TRUST, THE MORE YOU SOAR HIGH. A man who can trust, will sooner or later know the logic of trust. And then one day he is bound to try to trust the unknown.
IT IS ONLY WHEN YOU CAN TRUST THE UNKNOWN that you can trust a master -- never before it. Because the master represents nothing but the unknown. He represents the uncharted, he represents the infinite, the unbounded. He represents the oceanic, he represents the wild, he represents God.
Osho, The Book of Wisdom
http://www.osho.com/online-library-society-selfishness-person-e3937f53-34a.aspx
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Story:I am going to win the competition!
'Swamiji! I am a postgraduate. It is more than ten years since I completed my studies. So far, I have not received even a single interview card from the employment exchange. So, I am working as a cashier in a restaurant. This job has no connection whatsoever with my educational qualifications. Last month, there was a shortage of cash at the counter. I do not know it happened. The shame of being accused loomed large my mind. I thought I could pawn one of my wife's jewelry and replace the missing amount. But my wife refused. I asked my mother. She only fired me, but did nothing to help me! In this world, my own mother and wife were not ready to save my honor!'
I told him, ‘Leave alone the fact that your mother and wife not trust you. Do you trust yourself? Think deeply! You lack the confidence to take risks in life. So, you are stuck a job that you dislike. Since you dislike your job, you are unable to do it with full involvement. Because of this, you are not able to remember how that money was missing! So, your problem is not your wife or mother. It is you, yourself ! Lack of self-confidence is your problem. First try to overcome it.'
In order to foster growth of self-confidence, three qualities are absolutely essential.
Firstly, we should never give into worries, sadness and self-pity. Instead learn to feel good and build self-esteem.
Secondly, we should learn new skills.
If we do not acquire new skills, we cannot develop self-confidence! What I mean by skill is, expertise in some field, which is of interest to us. It could be carpentry, gardening, painting, cooking, plumbing…. Select any field, learn it and train yourself in it!
Finally, the ability to take on responsibility and be accountable.
You, would have seen some employees in Government Service. When you ask them a question, they will never give a definite answer of 'Yes' or 'No.' Their replies are either vague or incomplete. If an issue is to be resolved, they will Listen to the whole narration, only to say at the end, 'Well, why don't you go directly to the higher official and tell everything?' This behavior is dubbed as 'cautiousness'. They would pat themselves with pride for having such a sense Of cautiousness'!
This is definitely not cautiousness ... it is just passing the buck! Passing on the responsibility to someone else. It is a very disgusting thing to do. Persons with self-confidence take responsibility on themselves. Look at the history of successful people.There are many who have succeeded in life, without education, money and why, even arms or legs! There are such achievers; but no person has succeeded without self-confidence.
In Olympics, why do only a few countries win gold medals repeatedly?
When an athlete is participating in a race, even if he thinks just for a moment that he might lose, it is enough to make him lose. He would not be able to perform with his full strength in the race after such a thought has entered his mind. So, not only while participating, but also while practicing, he must tell himself repeatedly with a strong belief- 'I am going to win!' Go on playing the mental video of you winning and position yourself powerfully. This is known as 'Mental Rehearsal'.
Recently one of my students asked, 'Swamiji! I am not like others. I did not depend on a government job; I invested all my money in business. I faced a huge loss and now I am broke. Tell me how I can fill myself with selfconfidence?'
There were umpteen failures in the life of Abraham Lincoln.
When he was 7 years old, his family was forced out of home on a legal dispute.
At 9, his mother died.
At 22, he lost his job as a clerk.
At 25, he was defeated in a legislature election.
At 27, he had nervous breakdown.
At 28, he lost his beloved.
At 30, he lost the election for the post of a speaker.
At 35, he lost the Congress election.
At 46, he lost the Senatorial elections- around the same time he lost his son.
At 47, he lost the Vice Presidential elections.
These failures could not shake his self-confidence!
At 52, he became the President of USA.
So, please do not allow the past to damage your self-confidence!
Therefore, Oh, Life Relax Please!
Yoga of Wisdom:
Self confidence is not the absence of fear; but the conquest of it.
Yoga of Action:
Keep your chin up and knees prayerfully down, you will learn from losing.
Contemplation:
Fear is food for fools.
Unhappiness dwells in the ruins of fear.
Poor self-esteem builds a world of hell.
A good archer is not known by his bow and arrow but by his aim.
-Swami Sukhabodhananda, Oh, Life Relax Please!
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/08/16/oh-life-relax-please/oh-life-relax-please.pdf
I told him, ‘Leave alone the fact that your mother and wife not trust you. Do you trust yourself? Think deeply! You lack the confidence to take risks in life. So, you are stuck a job that you dislike. Since you dislike your job, you are unable to do it with full involvement. Because of this, you are not able to remember how that money was missing! So, your problem is not your wife or mother. It is you, yourself ! Lack of self-confidence is your problem. First try to overcome it.'
In order to foster growth of self-confidence, three qualities are absolutely essential.
Firstly, we should never give into worries, sadness and self-pity. Instead learn to feel good and build self-esteem.
Secondly, we should learn new skills.
If we do not acquire new skills, we cannot develop self-confidence! What I mean by skill is, expertise in some field, which is of interest to us. It could be carpentry, gardening, painting, cooking, plumbing…. Select any field, learn it and train yourself in it!
Finally, the ability to take on responsibility and be accountable.
You, would have seen some employees in Government Service. When you ask them a question, they will never give a definite answer of 'Yes' or 'No.' Their replies are either vague or incomplete. If an issue is to be resolved, they will Listen to the whole narration, only to say at the end, 'Well, why don't you go directly to the higher official and tell everything?' This behavior is dubbed as 'cautiousness'. They would pat themselves with pride for having such a sense Of cautiousness'!
This is definitely not cautiousness ... it is just passing the buck! Passing on the responsibility to someone else. It is a very disgusting thing to do. Persons with self-confidence take responsibility on themselves. Look at the history of successful people.There are many who have succeeded in life, without education, money and why, even arms or legs! There are such achievers; but no person has succeeded without self-confidence.
In Olympics, why do only a few countries win gold medals repeatedly?
When an athlete is participating in a race, even if he thinks just for a moment that he might lose, it is enough to make him lose. He would not be able to perform with his full strength in the race after such a thought has entered his mind. So, not only while participating, but also while practicing, he must tell himself repeatedly with a strong belief- 'I am going to win!' Go on playing the mental video of you winning and position yourself powerfully. This is known as 'Mental Rehearsal'.
Recently one of my students asked, 'Swamiji! I am not like others. I did not depend on a government job; I invested all my money in business. I faced a huge loss and now I am broke. Tell me how I can fill myself with selfconfidence?'
When he was 7 years old, his family was forced out of home on a legal dispute.
At 9, his mother died.
At 22, he lost his job as a clerk.
At 25, he was defeated in a legislature election.
At 27, he had nervous breakdown.
At 28, he lost his beloved.
At 30, he lost the election for the post of a speaker.
At 35, he lost the Congress election.
At 46, he lost the Senatorial elections- around the same time he lost his son.
At 47, he lost the Vice Presidential elections.
These failures could not shake his self-confidence!
At 52, he became the President of USA.
So, please do not allow the past to damage your self-confidence!
Therefore, Oh, Life Relax Please!
Yoga of Wisdom:
Self confidence is not the absence of fear; but the conquest of it.
Yoga of Action:
Keep your chin up and knees prayerfully down, you will learn from losing.
Contemplation:
Fear is food for fools.
Unhappiness dwells in the ruins of fear.
Poor self-esteem builds a world of hell.
A good archer is not known by his bow and arrow but by his aim.
-Swami Sukhabodhananda, Oh, Life Relax Please!
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/08/16/oh-life-relax-please/oh-life-relax-please.pdf
Story:Back To The Source!
Does God exist?
There can be no other doubt as ancient or prehistoric as this! Let us see an incident from the life of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa. He was an enlightened master. Many people from all over the country flocked to visit him at Kolkatta. There was a famous Pandit during his time. This Pandit was a very learned person. He was an expert in many forms of learning, but he had no faith in God. The Pandit was very jealous of Paramahamsa’s popularity.
He wanted to have a debate with Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to show his expertise and prove to him that there was no God. The Pandit argued well, citing a number of points, incidents and examples to put forth his argument with great skill and expertise. All the disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa were listening with rapt attention. The disciples feared the possibility of nonexistence God being proved! Such was the eloquence of the Pandit’s convincing skills.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa listened compassionately.
Finally he smiled and said, 'Excellent! Wonderful! Your point of view was fantastic! You spoke with great skill. In every single word you uttered, I could see God's radiance dancing ... My heartfelt thanks to you for showing me God in and through your logic!”
The Pandit was dumbfounded.
The Vedas describe God as one without a beginning and an end. What is it that is without a beginning or an end? The very Existence! In that way, existence is God.
Let us read a Zen story.
A village was starved of rain for many seasons. he fields were parched, the wells had dried. At that stage, a Zen monk came to the village. People described their pathetic condition with tears in their eyes. The monk decided to relieve them of their sufferings. He requested for a place in the centre of the village to meditate. During the course of his meditation, the rain God was pleased and showered the village with heavy rain. The villagers drenched in joy. They gathered around the monk with tears of gratitude and exclaimed, 'How did you manage to do this?'
The monk replied, 'As I meditated, a sense of peace dawned in ~ my mind and harmony set in my body. The atmosphere around me was in tune with harmony. The harmony created a difference externally; thereby enabling transformation of the season of no rain. So, it rained. If you are in harmony, nature will be in harmony with you.'
If there is peace of mind within, the same would spread outwardly also. So is it with nature. If one does not cheat nature would not betray mankind. This was the philosophy proved by the Zen monk!
This is not magic or mumbo jumbo! One should accept it as a scientific truth. Nature consists of so many wonders that are beyond our comprehension.
The Vedas call this 'Maya.' It is very important to understand the way Maya engulfs us.
A master was teaching his disciple under a lamp. The flame disappeared due to heavy wind. Now the disciple asked the master, 'Guruji! Where has the flame gone?'
'It has gone back to wherever it came from!' said the master.
So, instead of focusing on endless debate as to whether God exists or not, we must realise the divine potential within us. Let us focus on strengthening this potential. There is no stronger divine power than this!
Yoga of Wisdom:
The inner ecology is disturbed, if your soul is disturbed. The internal ecology disturbs the external ecology.
Yoga of Action:
God is constantly speaking. Do we have time to listen?
Contemplation:
Heart has its own logic that the head cannot understand.
Be in harmony with life and nature will bless you thousand folds.
An unwise man fights his own shadow.
- Swami Sukhabodhananda, Oh Life Relax Please!
https://archive.org/details/OhlifeRelaxPlease
There can be no other doubt as ancient or prehistoric as this! Let us see an incident from the life of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa. He was an enlightened master. Many people from all over the country flocked to visit him at Kolkatta. There was a famous Pandit during his time. This Pandit was a very learned person. He was an expert in many forms of learning, but he had no faith in God. The Pandit was very jealous of Paramahamsa’s popularity.
He wanted to have a debate with Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to show his expertise and prove to him that there was no God. The Pandit argued well, citing a number of points, incidents and examples to put forth his argument with great skill and expertise. All the disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa were listening with rapt attention. The disciples feared the possibility of nonexistence God being proved! Such was the eloquence of the Pandit’s convincing skills.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa listened compassionately.
Finally he smiled and said, 'Excellent! Wonderful! Your point of view was fantastic! You spoke with great skill. In every single word you uttered, I could see God's radiance dancing ... My heartfelt thanks to you for showing me God in and through your logic!”
The Pandit was dumbfounded.
The Vedas describe God as one without a beginning and an end. What is it that is without a beginning or an end? The very Existence! In that way, existence is God.
Let us read a Zen story.
A village was starved of rain for many seasons. he fields were parched, the wells had dried. At that stage, a Zen monk came to the village. People described their pathetic condition with tears in their eyes. The monk decided to relieve them of their sufferings. He requested for a place in the centre of the village to meditate. During the course of his meditation, the rain God was pleased and showered the village with heavy rain. The villagers drenched in joy. They gathered around the monk with tears of gratitude and exclaimed, 'How did you manage to do this?'
The monk replied, 'As I meditated, a sense of peace dawned in ~ my mind and harmony set in my body. The atmosphere around me was in tune with harmony. The harmony created a difference externally; thereby enabling transformation of the season of no rain. So, it rained. If you are in harmony, nature will be in harmony with you.'
If there is peace of mind within, the same would spread outwardly also. So is it with nature. If one does not cheat nature would not betray mankind. This was the philosophy proved by the Zen monk!
This is not magic or mumbo jumbo! One should accept it as a scientific truth. Nature consists of so many wonders that are beyond our comprehension.
The Vedas call this 'Maya.' It is very important to understand the way Maya engulfs us.
A master was teaching his disciple under a lamp. The flame disappeared due to heavy wind. Now the disciple asked the master, 'Guruji! Where has the flame gone?'
'It has gone back to wherever it came from!' said the master.
So, instead of focusing on endless debate as to whether God exists or not, we must realise the divine potential within us. Let us focus on strengthening this potential. There is no stronger divine power than this!
Yoga of Wisdom:
The inner ecology is disturbed, if your soul is disturbed. The internal ecology disturbs the external ecology.
Yoga of Action:
God is constantly speaking. Do we have time to listen?
Contemplation:
Heart has its own logic that the head cannot understand.
Be in harmony with life and nature will bless you thousand folds.
An unwise man fights his own shadow.
- Swami Sukhabodhananda, Oh Life Relax Please!
https://archive.org/details/OhlifeRelaxPlease
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