Celebration
I am in tremendous love with life, hence I teach celebration. Everything has to be celebrated, everything has to be lived, loved. To me nothing is mundane and nothing is sacred. To me all is sacred, from the lowest rung of the ladder to the highest rung. It is the same ladder: from the body to the soul, from the physical to the spiritual, from sex to SAMADHI — everything is divine!
My sannyasins celebrate everything. Celebration is the foundation of my sannyas — not renunciation but rejoicing; rejoicing in all the beauties, all the joys, all that life offers, because this whole life is a gift of God.
- Come, Come, Yet Again Come, Chapter #2
Enjoy this celebration as much as possible, because whatever remaining falsities, personalities, parts here and there may have remained, they will be thrown away by your dance. Enjoy… this existence is for your enjoyment. It is our existence, it is our home.
Nobody is a sinner except those who don’t celebrate.
To me, celebration is the only virtue.
- The Great Pilgrimage: From Here to Here, Chapter #12
I want to remind you that whether I am here or not the celebration has to continue. If I am not here, then it has to be more intense and it has to spread around the world.
Celebration is my religion.
Love is my message.
Silence is my truth.
- Nansen: The Point of Departure, Chapter #10
Your celebration will bring you closer to existence, because existence is in constant celebration. Your joy, your blissfulness, your silence, will bring the silences of the stars and the sky; your peace with existence will open the doors of all the mysteries it contains. There is no other way to become enlightened.
- The Rebel, Chapter #5
Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration. That’s our natural state: to celebrate — as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state.
- The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1, Chapter #8
Celebration is the highest growth of consciousness, expression, manifestation, flowering of the Golden Flower.
I teach you celebration. Celebration is my key.
- The Secret of Secrets, Vol 2, Chapter #15
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
OSHO
Body
The Baul cherishes the body because the body is a vehicle, and through the body one can know that which is embodied, that which is not body itself. The body is the earthen lamp and God is the flame. The lamp is worshipped because of the flame. Once the flame is gone, who worships the body, who celebrates the body? Then it is nothing; then dust unto dust, it returns back to the earth.
The body is throbbing with God, pulsating with God. If you can see that pulsation, then even dust becomes divine. If you cannot see that pulsation, then it is simply dust. Then there is no meaning in it.
- The Beloved, Vol 1, Chapter #8
The five aggregates are the five elements the body is made of: earth, air, fire, water, and the sky. These five are the aggregates -- SKANDHAS -- elements of which your body is made. Just behind these five elements is hidden your treasure, THE HALL OF ZEN. Just inside the temple made by these five elements, is the fire of your awareness.
This body is a temple, and your consciousness is the god of the temple.
- Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master, Chapter #9
Your body is your temple, it is sacred. Your body is not your enemy. It is not irreligious to love your body, to take care of your body -- it is religious. It is irreligious to torture your body and to destroy it. The religious person will love his body because it is the temple where God lives.
You and your body are not really two, but the manifestation of one. Your soul is your invisible body, and your body is your visible soul. I teach this unity, and with this unity, man becomes whole. I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.
- The Book of Wisdom, Chapter #26
And your body is giving you the right indication; the body is very wise. The mind is a very late arrival. The body has lived millions of years, it knows what is needed. It is the mind that interferes. Mind is very immature, body is very mature. Listen to the body.
And when I say listen to the body, I don't mean remain confined to the body. If you listen to the body, the body will not have anything to say to you -- things will be settled. And when the body is at ease, relaxed, and there is no tension, and the body is not fighting for something, is not trying to attract your attention because you are not fulfilling a need, when the body is calm and quiet, you can float high, you can fly high, you can become a white cloud. But only when body needs are truly looked after. The body is not your enemy, it is your friend. The body is your earth, the body has all your roots. You have to find a bridge between you and your body. If you don't find that bridge, you will be constantly in conflict with your body -- and a person who is fighting with himself is always miserable.
The first thing is to come to a peace-pact with your body and never break it. Once you have come to a peace-pact with your body, the body will become very, very friendly. You look after the body, the body will look after you -- it becomes a vehicle of tremendous value, it becomes the very temple. One day your body itself is revealed to you as the very shrine of God.
- Dang Dang Doko Dang, Chapter #10
The Baul cherishes the body because the body is a vehicle, and through the body one can know that which is embodied, that which is not body itself. The body is the earthen lamp and God is the flame. The lamp is worshipped because of the flame. Once the flame is gone, who worships the body, who celebrates the body? Then it is nothing; then dust unto dust, it returns back to the earth.
The body is throbbing with God, pulsating with God. If you can see that pulsation, then even dust becomes divine. If you cannot see that pulsation, then it is simply dust. Then there is no meaning in it.
- The Beloved, Vol 1, Chapter #8
The five aggregates are the five elements the body is made of: earth, air, fire, water, and the sky. These five are the aggregates -- SKANDHAS -- elements of which your body is made. Just behind these five elements is hidden your treasure, THE HALL OF ZEN. Just inside the temple made by these five elements, is the fire of your awareness.
This body is a temple, and your consciousness is the god of the temple.
- Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master, Chapter #9
Your body is your temple, it is sacred. Your body is not your enemy. It is not irreligious to love your body, to take care of your body -- it is religious. It is irreligious to torture your body and to destroy it. The religious person will love his body because it is the temple where God lives.
You and your body are not really two, but the manifestation of one. Your soul is your invisible body, and your body is your visible soul. I teach this unity, and with this unity, man becomes whole. I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.
- The Book of Wisdom, Chapter #26
And your body is giving you the right indication; the body is very wise. The mind is a very late arrival. The body has lived millions of years, it knows what is needed. It is the mind that interferes. Mind is very immature, body is very mature. Listen to the body.
And when I say listen to the body, I don't mean remain confined to the body. If you listen to the body, the body will not have anything to say to you -- things will be settled. And when the body is at ease, relaxed, and there is no tension, and the body is not fighting for something, is not trying to attract your attention because you are not fulfilling a need, when the body is calm and quiet, you can float high, you can fly high, you can become a white cloud. But only when body needs are truly looked after. The body is not your enemy, it is your friend. The body is your earth, the body has all your roots. You have to find a bridge between you and your body. If you don't find that bridge, you will be constantly in conflict with your body -- and a person who is fighting with himself is always miserable.
The first thing is to come to a peace-pact with your body and never break it. Once you have come to a peace-pact with your body, the body will become very, very friendly. You look after the body, the body will look after you -- it becomes a vehicle of tremendous value, it becomes the very temple. One day your body itself is revealed to you as the very shrine of God.
- Dang Dang Doko Dang, Chapter #10
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
OSHO
Bliss
That is what bliss is, satchitananda. Bliss is not happiness, because happiness has a certain excitement in it — it is feverish. Sooner or later you will be tired of it; it is unnatural. Sooner or later you will have to change, you will have to become unhappy. Bliss is neither; it is neither negative nor positive — it is transcendental, it is beyond duality. One remains tranquil, calm, quiet, centered. Whatsoever happens, good or bad, one accepts both because one knows life is both.
- The Beloved, Vol 2, Chapter #4
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That’s why you look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature. You are going upstream — that’s what misery is.
And what is bliss? Going with the river — so much so that the distinction between you and the river is simply lost. You are the river. How can it be difficult? To go with the river no swimming is needed; you simply float with the river and the river takes you to the ocean. The river is already going to the ocean.
Life is a river. Don’t push it and you will not be miserable. The art of not pushing the river of life is sannyas.
- The Book of Wisdom, Chapter #4
Bliss is true happiness. What you call happiness is just misery in disguise. What you call happiness is nothing but entertainment, pleasure. It is momentary — it cannot be true. Truth has to have one quality, and the quality is of eternity. If something is true it is eternal; if it is untrue it is momentary.
True happiness is found only when the mind completely ceases functioning. It does not come from the outside. It wells up within your own being, it starts overflowing you. You become luminous. You become a fountain of bliss.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Chapter #7
Whenever some bliss happens, trust it, and go in that direction…and you will be moving towards God. Bliss is his fragrance. If you can follow bliss, you will never go astray. If you follow bliss, you will be following nature. And if you are natural, blissful, relaxed, wisdom arises.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 2, Chapter #7
When the ocean falls in the dewdrop, the dewdrop disappears, its boundaries disappear. It becomes as unbounded as the ocean itself; it becomes oceanic.
Bliss is an oceanic state… when you disappear as an ego, bounded, small, and become huge, enormous, as huge and enormous as the universe itself.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 4, Chapter #1
That is what bliss is, satchitananda. Bliss is not happiness, because happiness has a certain excitement in it — it is feverish. Sooner or later you will be tired of it; it is unnatural. Sooner or later you will have to change, you will have to become unhappy. Bliss is neither; it is neither negative nor positive — it is transcendental, it is beyond duality. One remains tranquil, calm, quiet, centered. Whatsoever happens, good or bad, one accepts both because one knows life is both.
- The Beloved, Vol 2, Chapter #4
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That’s why you look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature. You are going upstream — that’s what misery is.
And what is bliss? Going with the river — so much so that the distinction between you and the river is simply lost. You are the river. How can it be difficult? To go with the river no swimming is needed; you simply float with the river and the river takes you to the ocean. The river is already going to the ocean.
Life is a river. Don’t push it and you will not be miserable. The art of not pushing the river of life is sannyas.
- The Book of Wisdom, Chapter #4
Bliss is true happiness. What you call happiness is just misery in disguise. What you call happiness is nothing but entertainment, pleasure. It is momentary — it cannot be true. Truth has to have one quality, and the quality is of eternity. If something is true it is eternal; if it is untrue it is momentary.
True happiness is found only when the mind completely ceases functioning. It does not come from the outside. It wells up within your own being, it starts overflowing you. You become luminous. You become a fountain of bliss.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Chapter #7
Whenever some bliss happens, trust it, and go in that direction…and you will be moving towards God. Bliss is his fragrance. If you can follow bliss, you will never go astray. If you follow bliss, you will be following nature. And if you are natural, blissful, relaxed, wisdom arises.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 2, Chapter #7
When the ocean falls in the dewdrop, the dewdrop disappears, its boundaries disappear. It becomes as unbounded as the ocean itself; it becomes oceanic.
Bliss is an oceanic state… when you disappear as an ego, bounded, small, and become huge, enormous, as huge and enormous as the universe itself.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 4, Chapter #1
Monday, September 28, 2009
OSHO
Birth
Birth is only an opportunity — you can make it or mar it. Birth is not equivalent to life. Almost everybody thinks that birth is equivalent to life; so it is bound to become a drag — just breathing, eating every day, going to sleep, waking up in the morning, going to the same office, the same files and the same routine. For idiots it is perfectly okay, but for anybody who has some intelligence it is bound to become drag. Because he can see — what is the point? Why after all am I living? If tomorrow is again going to be just a repetition of today, as today has been a repetition of yesterday, then why go on living? What is the point of unnecessarily repeating the same circle, the same routine, the same happenings? But the fallacy is in the fact that you have accepted a wrong concept, that birth is life. Birth is only an opportunity.
Either you can learn to live a beautiful life or you can just drag yourself towards the graveyard. It is up to you. There are people for whom life is a drag, and there are people for whom even death is a dance. I want to say to you that if you make your life an art, your death will be the culmination of the art — the highest peak, a beauty in itself.
- Beyond Enlightenment, Chapter #16
The first birth is only a physical birth; don’t be satisfied with it. It is necessary but not enough. A second birth is needed. The first birth was through your mother and father; the second birth is going to be out of the mind. You have to slip out of the mind and that will be your rebirth — you will be reborn.
- A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Chapter #1
When a person was dying, friends, relatives and acquaintances would gather together around him to give him the absolute certainty that he was going to die, and to help him to relax. Because if you can die in total relaxation, the quality of death changes and your new birth somewhere will be of a higher quality. The quality of birth is decided by death. And then, in turn, the quality of birth will decide the quality of another death. That’s how one goes higher and higher, that’s how one evolves. And whenever a person becomes absolutely certain about death a flame arises on his face — you can see it. In fact, a miracle happens: he becomes alive as he has never been before.
- Ancient Music in the Pines, Chapter #8
Birth is only an opportunity — you can make it or mar it. Birth is not equivalent to life. Almost everybody thinks that birth is equivalent to life; so it is bound to become a drag — just breathing, eating every day, going to sleep, waking up in the morning, going to the same office, the same files and the same routine. For idiots it is perfectly okay, but for anybody who has some intelligence it is bound to become drag. Because he can see — what is the point? Why after all am I living? If tomorrow is again going to be just a repetition of today, as today has been a repetition of yesterday, then why go on living? What is the point of unnecessarily repeating the same circle, the same routine, the same happenings? But the fallacy is in the fact that you have accepted a wrong concept, that birth is life. Birth is only an opportunity.
Either you can learn to live a beautiful life or you can just drag yourself towards the graveyard. It is up to you. There are people for whom life is a drag, and there are people for whom even death is a dance. I want to say to you that if you make your life an art, your death will be the culmination of the art — the highest peak, a beauty in itself.
- Beyond Enlightenment, Chapter #16
The first birth is only a physical birth; don’t be satisfied with it. It is necessary but not enough. A second birth is needed. The first birth was through your mother and father; the second birth is going to be out of the mind. You have to slip out of the mind and that will be your rebirth — you will be reborn.
- A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Chapter #1
When a person was dying, friends, relatives and acquaintances would gather together around him to give him the absolute certainty that he was going to die, and to help him to relax. Because if you can die in total relaxation, the quality of death changes and your new birth somewhere will be of a higher quality. The quality of birth is decided by death. And then, in turn, the quality of birth will decide the quality of another death. That’s how one goes higher and higher, that’s how one evolves. And whenever a person becomes absolutely certain about death a flame arises on his face — you can see it. In fact, a miracle happens: he becomes alive as he has never been before.
- Ancient Music in the Pines, Chapter #8
Sunday, September 27, 2009
OSHO
AUM
“The moment you enter into your being you will be surprised to find that there is a constant sound that appears like 'om'. Mohammedans have heard it as 'amin' -- it is om; Christians have heard it as 'amen'; it is the same sound. Hence the Christian, the Mohammedan, the Hindu, the Jaina, the Buddhist, they all end their prayers with om. The prayer is bound to end in om; the prayer makes you more and more silent... finally there is nothing but om. All Hindu scriptures end with OM, SHANTIH, SHANTIH, SHANTIH -- om, peace, peace, peace. This is the word 'om'.”
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Chapter #9
“The sound of Om is heard only when your mind is completely silent, when you have gone beyond all language, all thinking, when there is pure silence, not even a ripple. Suddenly you hear a music. There is no instrument playing it. It seems it is simply the very heartbeat of existence. That's why it doesn't matter whether someone is a Buddhist or a Hindu or a Jaina. It does not depend on your philosophy, on your religion. It depends on the depth of your reach towards your very inner center. There, suddenly, you are overwhelmed.
It is not exactly Om, but Om comes the closest to expressing the sound. And the sound has been called the divine sound because it is not man-made. It is eternally herenow. Whoever wants to enter into the stream of eternal existence is bound to hear it. It says nothing, but it vibrates your being to such joy, to such celebration, to such dance that you have never dreamt of before.”
- Hari Om Tat Sat, Chapter #1
“In Sanskrit, aum is the symbol for the whole universe. It carries three basic sounds: a-u-m. Through these three basic sounds all the sounds have evolved. So aum is the basic sound, the synthesis of all the basic roots. That's why Hindus have been saying that aum is the secret mantra, the greatest mantra, because it implies the whole existence.
The three English words, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, are derived from aum. They mean one who has become as powerful as aum, one who has become as knowing as aum, one who has become as present as aum -- one who has become universal, one who has become the all.”
- The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus, Chapter #21
“Now scientists, physicists particularly, have discovered that existence consists only of vibrations. They call it ‘vibrations of electricity'. It does not matter what name you give, what jargon you use, but vibration means sound. That is the meaning of AUM.
AUM is the primordial sound of which the whole universe consists; we are made of music. Hence if we move into anything totally, only the music is left and everything else disappears because music is the stuff we are made of; all else is arbitrary, artificial, invented. Only the music hidden in our souls is not invented; it is part of God. God is the musician and we are his music. He is the dancer and we are his dance. He is the poet and we are his poetry. He is the singer and we are his song. This is the meaning of AUM.”
“It is called ANAHAT NAD; ANAHAT NAD means unstruck sound. There are two kinds of sounds. When you play on a sitar it is a struck sound; duality is involved, your hands and the strings, and you have to strike, then the sound is created. It is a little bit violent -- you are being violent with the strings. You are not allowing them to rest, you are disturbing their sleep. And there is a conflict involved with your hands; there is a fight going on between the musician and his instrument.
AUM is the unstruck sound; there is no instrument. When you become absolutely silent, suddenly it is there.
Zen people have the right expression for it; they call it ‘the sound of one hand clapping'. If two hands are there, of course, the clapping is easy, but one hand clapping and the sound of one hand clapping seems to be absurd -- but they are truly expressing the reality. When you go inside and you are absolutely silent you hear for the first time the inner music.”
- Philosophia Ultima, Chapter #1
“AUM consists of three sounds and one anuswar. Anuswar is a very subtle sound; it represents a kind of humming. When you say, "AU", that M prolonged, that humming sound that goes on reverberating, is the anuswar. Anuswar means just a dot; that too represents something. So AUM consists of four things: three visible, A,U,M, and the fourth invisible the rhythmic, humming shadow.
These four represent the whole of Indian metaphysics. "A" represents one state of the mind, when you are awake, the waking consciousness. "U" represents when you are dreaming, the dreaming consciousness. "M" represents when you are fast asleep, dreamlessly asleep -- sushupti -- deep, profound dreamless sleep. These are the three states of the human mind, human consciousness.
And the anuswar, the dot -- that humming sound that goes on reverberating -- that represents the fourth, turiya, the transcendental state when you are neither asleep nor awake nor dreaming, when you are just a witness to all that is happening: the state of a Buddha or a Christ, the state where I am, where one can declare oneself Bhagwan.”
“And, symbolically, AUM represents your waking consciousness, your dreaming consciousness, your sleeping consciousness, and the beyond -- the turiya -- the fourth state, where one becomes Bhagwan, where one becomes Christ, Buddha, where one is one with totality. It is a tremendously important formula; it contains the whole metaphysics of the East. But it is not a mantra. Please never repeat it. Repeating won't help; it will deceive you.”
- The Secret, Chapter #4
“And the heart center is the center from where the soundless sound arises. If you relax into the heart center, you will hear OMKAR, AUM. That is a great discovery. Those who have entered the heart, they hear a continuous chanting inside their being which sounds like aum. Have you ever heard anything like a chanting which goes on by itself -- not that you DO it.
That's why I am not in favor of mantras. You can go on chanting aum, aum, aum, and you can create a mental substitute for the heart. It is not going to help. It is a deception. And you can go on chanting for years, and you can create a false sound within yourself as if your heart is speaking -- it is not. To know the heart you are not to chant aum -- you have just to be silent. One day, suddenly the mantra is there. One day, when you have fallen silent, suddenly you hear the sound is coming from nowhere. It is arising out of you from the innermost core. It is the sound of your inner silence. Just as in a silent night, there is a certain sound, the sound of the silence, exactly like that on a very, very much deeper level a sound arises in you.
It arises -- let me remind you again and again -- it is not that you bring it in; it is not that you repeat aum, aum. No, you don't say a single word. You are simply quiet. You are simply silent. And it bursts forth like a spring... suddenly it starts flowing, it is there. You hear it -- you don't say it, you hear it.”
- The Tantra Vision, Vol 1, Chapter #9
“The moment you enter into your being you will be surprised to find that there is a constant sound that appears like 'om'. Mohammedans have heard it as 'amin' -- it is om; Christians have heard it as 'amen'; it is the same sound. Hence the Christian, the Mohammedan, the Hindu, the Jaina, the Buddhist, they all end their prayers with om. The prayer is bound to end in om; the prayer makes you more and more silent... finally there is nothing but om. All Hindu scriptures end with OM, SHANTIH, SHANTIH, SHANTIH -- om, peace, peace, peace. This is the word 'om'.”
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Chapter #9
“The sound of Om is heard only when your mind is completely silent, when you have gone beyond all language, all thinking, when there is pure silence, not even a ripple. Suddenly you hear a music. There is no instrument playing it. It seems it is simply the very heartbeat of existence. That's why it doesn't matter whether someone is a Buddhist or a Hindu or a Jaina. It does not depend on your philosophy, on your religion. It depends on the depth of your reach towards your very inner center. There, suddenly, you are overwhelmed.
It is not exactly Om, but Om comes the closest to expressing the sound. And the sound has been called the divine sound because it is not man-made. It is eternally herenow. Whoever wants to enter into the stream of eternal existence is bound to hear it. It says nothing, but it vibrates your being to such joy, to such celebration, to such dance that you have never dreamt of before.”
- Hari Om Tat Sat, Chapter #1
“In Sanskrit, aum is the symbol for the whole universe. It carries three basic sounds: a-u-m. Through these three basic sounds all the sounds have evolved. So aum is the basic sound, the synthesis of all the basic roots. That's why Hindus have been saying that aum is the secret mantra, the greatest mantra, because it implies the whole existence.
The three English words, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, are derived from aum. They mean one who has become as powerful as aum, one who has become as knowing as aum, one who has become as present as aum -- one who has become universal, one who has become the all.”
- The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus, Chapter #21
“Now scientists, physicists particularly, have discovered that existence consists only of vibrations. They call it ‘vibrations of electricity'. It does not matter what name you give, what jargon you use, but vibration means sound. That is the meaning of AUM.
AUM is the primordial sound of which the whole universe consists; we are made of music. Hence if we move into anything totally, only the music is left and everything else disappears because music is the stuff we are made of; all else is arbitrary, artificial, invented. Only the music hidden in our souls is not invented; it is part of God. God is the musician and we are his music. He is the dancer and we are his dance. He is the poet and we are his poetry. He is the singer and we are his song. This is the meaning of AUM.”
“It is called ANAHAT NAD; ANAHAT NAD means unstruck sound. There are two kinds of sounds. When you play on a sitar it is a struck sound; duality is involved, your hands and the strings, and you have to strike, then the sound is created. It is a little bit violent -- you are being violent with the strings. You are not allowing them to rest, you are disturbing their sleep. And there is a conflict involved with your hands; there is a fight going on between the musician and his instrument.
AUM is the unstruck sound; there is no instrument. When you become absolutely silent, suddenly it is there.
Zen people have the right expression for it; they call it ‘the sound of one hand clapping'. If two hands are there, of course, the clapping is easy, but one hand clapping and the sound of one hand clapping seems to be absurd -- but they are truly expressing the reality. When you go inside and you are absolutely silent you hear for the first time the inner music.”
- Philosophia Ultima, Chapter #1
“AUM consists of three sounds and one anuswar. Anuswar is a very subtle sound; it represents a kind of humming. When you say, "AU", that M prolonged, that humming sound that goes on reverberating, is the anuswar. Anuswar means just a dot; that too represents something. So AUM consists of four things: three visible, A,U,M, and the fourth invisible the rhythmic, humming shadow.
These four represent the whole of Indian metaphysics. "A" represents one state of the mind, when you are awake, the waking consciousness. "U" represents when you are dreaming, the dreaming consciousness. "M" represents when you are fast asleep, dreamlessly asleep -- sushupti -- deep, profound dreamless sleep. These are the three states of the human mind, human consciousness.
And the anuswar, the dot -- that humming sound that goes on reverberating -- that represents the fourth, turiya, the transcendental state when you are neither asleep nor awake nor dreaming, when you are just a witness to all that is happening: the state of a Buddha or a Christ, the state where I am, where one can declare oneself Bhagwan.”
“And, symbolically, AUM represents your waking consciousness, your dreaming consciousness, your sleeping consciousness, and the beyond -- the turiya -- the fourth state, where one becomes Bhagwan, where one becomes Christ, Buddha, where one is one with totality. It is a tremendously important formula; it contains the whole metaphysics of the East. But it is not a mantra. Please never repeat it. Repeating won't help; it will deceive you.”
- The Secret, Chapter #4
“And the heart center is the center from where the soundless sound arises. If you relax into the heart center, you will hear OMKAR, AUM. That is a great discovery. Those who have entered the heart, they hear a continuous chanting inside their being which sounds like aum. Have you ever heard anything like a chanting which goes on by itself -- not that you DO it.
That's why I am not in favor of mantras. You can go on chanting aum, aum, aum, and you can create a mental substitute for the heart. It is not going to help. It is a deception. And you can go on chanting for years, and you can create a false sound within yourself as if your heart is speaking -- it is not. To know the heart you are not to chant aum -- you have just to be silent. One day, suddenly the mantra is there. One day, when you have fallen silent, suddenly you hear the sound is coming from nowhere. It is arising out of you from the innermost core. It is the sound of your inner silence. Just as in a silent night, there is a certain sound, the sound of the silence, exactly like that on a very, very much deeper level a sound arises in you.
It arises -- let me remind you again and again -- it is not that you bring it in; it is not that you repeat aum, aum. No, you don't say a single word. You are simply quiet. You are simply silent. And it bursts forth like a spring... suddenly it starts flowing, it is there. You hear it -- you don't say it, you hear it.”
- The Tantra Vision, Vol 1, Chapter #9
Friday, September 25, 2009
OSHO
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.
- Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy, Chapter #14
Awareness has no past, awareness has no future; awareness has only this here-now.
And a man of awareness never thinks about the past again, it is finished. He did whatsoever could have been done. He never regrets, he has no grudge. He never thinks in terms of what should have been.
- Returning To The Source, Chapter #4
The magic of awareness is that the more you become alert, naturally, the more a calm surrounds you. You need not cultivate it, it follows you like a shadow, it is simply your vibe. You are surrounded by a subtle aura of peace, serenity. When you are aware inside, there is a grace radiating from your being. That grace is spontaneous, not cultivated. And when something is spontaneous it has tremendous beauty. It is not an artificial flower, it is not a plastic flower; it is something that has grown in you, that has bloomed in you. It is your own flowering. It has fragrance because it has roots in your being.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 12, Chapter #7
The authentic awareness is not created by you, it is discovered by you. And the discovery needs no effort on your part because you are the problem, your efforts are the hindrances.
You have to be absent -- with all your will power, with all your efforts. You simply have to give way, and then there will be a totally different quality of awareness -- spontaneous, joyous, relaxing, rejuvenating, and you can never be tired of it. It is simply your nature.
- The Hidden Splendor, Chapter 24
Awareness is only a methodology. First, become aware of how much intelligence you are using, or are you using it at all? Belief, faith, are not intelligent. It is taking a decision against your intelligence. Awareness is a methodology to watch how much intelligence you are using. And just in that watching you will see that you are not using much. There are many ways awareness will make you alert. You can use it.
Awareness will bring you to your one hundred percent intelligence, will make you almost divine. And awareness does not stop there. Awareness helps you to use your intelligence fully.
- From Bondage To Freedom, Chapter #10
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.
- Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy, Chapter #14
Awareness has no past, awareness has no future; awareness has only this here-now.
And a man of awareness never thinks about the past again, it is finished. He did whatsoever could have been done. He never regrets, he has no grudge. He never thinks in terms of what should have been.
- Returning To The Source, Chapter #4
The magic of awareness is that the more you become alert, naturally, the more a calm surrounds you. You need not cultivate it, it follows you like a shadow, it is simply your vibe. You are surrounded by a subtle aura of peace, serenity. When you are aware inside, there is a grace radiating from your being. That grace is spontaneous, not cultivated. And when something is spontaneous it has tremendous beauty. It is not an artificial flower, it is not a plastic flower; it is something that has grown in you, that has bloomed in you. It is your own flowering. It has fragrance because it has roots in your being.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 12, Chapter #7
The authentic awareness is not created by you, it is discovered by you. And the discovery needs no effort on your part because you are the problem, your efforts are the hindrances.
You have to be absent -- with all your will power, with all your efforts. You simply have to give way, and then there will be a totally different quality of awareness -- spontaneous, joyous, relaxing, rejuvenating, and you can never be tired of it. It is simply your nature.
- The Hidden Splendor, Chapter 24
Awareness is only a methodology. First, become aware of how much intelligence you are using, or are you using it at all? Belief, faith, are not intelligent. It is taking a decision against your intelligence. Awareness is a methodology to watch how much intelligence you are using. And just in that watching you will see that you are not using much. There are many ways awareness will make you alert. You can use it.
Awareness will bring you to your one hundred percent intelligence, will make you almost divine. And awareness does not stop there. Awareness helps you to use your intelligence fully.
- From Bondage To Freedom, Chapter #10
Thursday, September 24, 2009
OSHO
Astrology
Some men have thought, and even now think, that astrology is superstition, blind faith. To a great extent this seems to be true. Those things that it is difficult to find a scientific explanation for seem to us to be based only on blind faith. But astrology is very scientific. The meaning of science is the investigation of the relationship between cause and effect. Astrology says that whatever happens on this earth is not uncaused. However, we may not be aware of the causes. Astrology says that the shape which the future will take cannot be isolated from the past but must be joined to it: what you will be tomorrow will be joined to what you are today; what you were until today is joined to what you will be tomorrow.
Astrology is a very scientific way of thinking. It says that the future will emerge only out of the past: your today has emerged from your yesterday; your tomorrow will emerge from your today. Astrology also says that whatever will happen tomorrow is in some subtle way present even today.
- Hidden Mysteries, Chapter #5
I don't believe in astrology; ninety-nine point nine percent of it is nonsense, but point one percent is pure truth. A man of insight, intuition and purity can certainly look into the future, because the future is not non-existential, it is just hidden from our eyes. Maybe just a thin curtain of thoughts is all that divides the present and the future.
- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood, Chapter #3
Astrology can be divided into three parts. The first part is the core, the essence; it is the essentials, and cannot be changed. It is the part which is most difficult to understand. The second part is the middle layer, in which one can make whatever changes one wants. It is the semi-essential portion in which you can make changes if you know how, but without knowing, no changes are possible at all. The third part is the outermost layer which is nonessential, but about which we are all very curious.
The first is the essence, in which no changes can be made. When it is known, the only way is to cooperate with it. Religions have devised astrology in order to know and
decipher this essential destiny. The semi-essential part of astrology is such that if we know about it we can change our lives -- otherwise not.
If we do not know, then whatsoever was going to happen will happen. If there is knowledge, there are alternatives to choose between. There is a possibility of transformation if the right choice is made. The third, nonessential part is just the periphery, the outer surface. There is nothing essential in it; everything is circumstantial.
- Hidden Mysteries, Chapter #6
Some men have thought, and even now think, that astrology is superstition, blind faith. To a great extent this seems to be true. Those things that it is difficult to find a scientific explanation for seem to us to be based only on blind faith. But astrology is very scientific. The meaning of science is the investigation of the relationship between cause and effect. Astrology says that whatever happens on this earth is not uncaused. However, we may not be aware of the causes. Astrology says that the shape which the future will take cannot be isolated from the past but must be joined to it: what you will be tomorrow will be joined to what you are today; what you were until today is joined to what you will be tomorrow.
Astrology is a very scientific way of thinking. It says that the future will emerge only out of the past: your today has emerged from your yesterday; your tomorrow will emerge from your today. Astrology also says that whatever will happen tomorrow is in some subtle way present even today.
- Hidden Mysteries, Chapter #5
I don't believe in astrology; ninety-nine point nine percent of it is nonsense, but point one percent is pure truth. A man of insight, intuition and purity can certainly look into the future, because the future is not non-existential, it is just hidden from our eyes. Maybe just a thin curtain of thoughts is all that divides the present and the future.
- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood, Chapter #3
Astrology can be divided into three parts. The first part is the core, the essence; it is the essentials, and cannot be changed. It is the part which is most difficult to understand. The second part is the middle layer, in which one can make whatever changes one wants. It is the semi-essential portion in which you can make changes if you know how, but without knowing, no changes are possible at all. The third part is the outermost layer which is nonessential, but about which we are all very curious.
The first is the essence, in which no changes can be made. When it is known, the only way is to cooperate with it. Religions have devised astrology in order to know and
decipher this essential destiny. The semi-essential part of astrology is such that if we know about it we can change our lives -- otherwise not.
If we do not know, then whatsoever was going to happen will happen. If there is knowledge, there are alternatives to choose between. There is a possibility of transformation if the right choice is made. The third, nonessential part is just the periphery, the outer surface. There is nothing essential in it; everything is circumstantial.
- Hidden Mysteries, Chapter #6
OSHO
Anger
Anger is natural, because you have not created it; you are born with it, endowed by nature. And nature must have some use for it, otherwise it cannot be given to you. But the society is against it; it says suppress it. And when you suppress anger, many more things are suppressed by it, because everything is interrelated in your inner being. You cannot suppress one thing; you cannot express one thing. You express one, millions are expressed; you suppress one, millions are suppressed.
- Until You Die, Chapter #3
Anger is just a mental vomit. Something is wrong that you have taken in and your whole psychic being wants to throw it out, but there is no need to throw it out on somebody. Because people throw it on others, society tells them to control it.
There is no need to throw anger on anybody. You can go to your bathroom, you can go on a long walk -- it means that something is inside that needs fast activity so that it is released. Just do a little jogging and you will feel it is released, or take a pillow and beat the pillow, fight with the pillow, and bite the pillow until your hands and teeth are relaxed. Within a five-minute catharsis you will feel unburdened, and once you know this you will never throw it on anybody, because that is absolutely foolish.
- And the Flowers Showered, Chapter#3
Somebody insults you, anger arises; you remain a witness. The insult comes from outside, the anger arises on the periphery, and you remain at the center, watching. Yes, somebody has done something, provoked your periphery, and there is anger on the periphery, and the anger is surrounding you like a smoke cloud, but you are at the hub, watching. You are not identified with the periphery. Then the insult is outside, and the anger is also outside of you. Both are separate and far away. Both are different from you
- The Beloved, Vol 1, Chapter #3
Whenever anger seizes us, our attention is focused on the man who has caused it. In that case, it is difficult to step out of anger. When anyone brings about anger in you, forget him immediately and concentrate on him to whom anger is happening. Remember, no amount of concentration brings any change in the adversary. If any change is to be brought about, it can only be in the one who is angry.
- The Way of Tao, Volume 1, Chapter #5
Anger is natural, because you have not created it; you are born with it, endowed by nature. And nature must have some use for it, otherwise it cannot be given to you. But the society is against it; it says suppress it. And when you suppress anger, many more things are suppressed by it, because everything is interrelated in your inner being. You cannot suppress one thing; you cannot express one thing. You express one, millions are expressed; you suppress one, millions are suppressed.
- Until You Die, Chapter #3
Anger is just a mental vomit. Something is wrong that you have taken in and your whole psychic being wants to throw it out, but there is no need to throw it out on somebody. Because people throw it on others, society tells them to control it.
There is no need to throw anger on anybody. You can go to your bathroom, you can go on a long walk -- it means that something is inside that needs fast activity so that it is released. Just do a little jogging and you will feel it is released, or take a pillow and beat the pillow, fight with the pillow, and bite the pillow until your hands and teeth are relaxed. Within a five-minute catharsis you will feel unburdened, and once you know this you will never throw it on anybody, because that is absolutely foolish.
- And the Flowers Showered, Chapter#3
Somebody insults you, anger arises; you remain a witness. The insult comes from outside, the anger arises on the periphery, and you remain at the center, watching. Yes, somebody has done something, provoked your periphery, and there is anger on the periphery, and the anger is surrounding you like a smoke cloud, but you are at the hub, watching. You are not identified with the periphery. Then the insult is outside, and the anger is also outside of you. Both are separate and far away. Both are different from you
- The Beloved, Vol 1, Chapter #3
Whenever anger seizes us, our attention is focused on the man who has caused it. In that case, it is difficult to step out of anger. When anyone brings about anger in you, forget him immediately and concentrate on him to whom anger is happening. Remember, no amount of concentration brings any change in the adversary. If any change is to be brought about, it can only be in the one who is angry.
- The Way of Tao, Volume 1, Chapter #5
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
OSHO
Aloneness
Meditation is a way to come to terms with one's loneliness, to have an encounter with one's own loneliness rather than escaping from it, diving deep into it and seeing what exactly it is. And then you are in for a surprise. If you go into your loneliness you will be surprised: at the very center of it, it is not lonely at all -- there resides aloneness which is a totally different phenomenon. The circumference consists of loneliness and the center consists of aloneness. The circumference consists of solitariness and the center of solitude. And once you have known your beautiful aloneness, you will be a totally different person -- you will never feel lonely. Even in the mountains or in the deserts where you will be absolutely alone, you will not feel lonely -- because in your aloneness you will know God is with you, in your aloneness you are so deeply rooted in God that who cares whether there is somebody else outside or not? You are so full inside, so rich inside.... Right now, even in the crowd you are lonely. And I am saying: if you know your aloneness, even in your loneliness you will not be lonely.
- The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty, Chapter #6
A man who knows how to be alone knows how to be meditative. Aloneness means meditation -- just relishing your own being, celebrating your own being.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Chapter #6
The word alone means all one. That's how it is constructed -- all one. On the surface you are separate from all. In fact on the surface you are lonely because you are separate from the all. In the depth, when you have disappeared, there is no distinction between you and all. All is one, you are no longer, aloneness is.
- The Diamond Sutra, Chapter #10
Meditation is a way to come to terms with one's loneliness, to have an encounter with one's own loneliness rather than escaping from it, diving deep into it and seeing what exactly it is. And then you are in for a surprise. If you go into your loneliness you will be surprised: at the very center of it, it is not lonely at all -- there resides aloneness which is a totally different phenomenon. The circumference consists of loneliness and the center consists of aloneness. The circumference consists of solitariness and the center of solitude. And once you have known your beautiful aloneness, you will be a totally different person -- you will never feel lonely. Even in the mountains or in the deserts where you will be absolutely alone, you will not feel lonely -- because in your aloneness you will know God is with you, in your aloneness you are so deeply rooted in God that who cares whether there is somebody else outside or not? You are so full inside, so rich inside.... Right now, even in the crowd you are lonely. And I am saying: if you know your aloneness, even in your loneliness you will not be lonely.
- The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty, Chapter #6
A man who knows how to be alone knows how to be meditative. Aloneness means meditation -- just relishing your own being, celebrating your own being.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Chapter #6
The word alone means all one. That's how it is constructed -- all one. On the surface you are separate from all. In fact on the surface you are lonely because you are separate from the all. In the depth, when you have disappeared, there is no distinction between you and all. All is one, you are no longer, aloneness is.
- The Diamond Sutra, Chapter #10
Monday, September 21, 2009
OSHO
When I use the word 'aesthetics' I mean a quality in you. It has nothing to do with objects -- paintings, music, poetry -- it has something to do with a quality in your being, a sensitivity, a love for beauty, a sensitivity for the texture and taste of things, for the eternal dance that goes on all around, an awareness of it, a silence to hear this cuckoo calling from the distance....
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Chapter #8
To me, aesthetics is the closest neighbor of religiousness, not ethics.
Lenin is reported to have said, 'Ethics will be the aesthetics of the future.' I say: No, just the contrary; aesthetics will be the ethics of the future. Beauty is going to be the truth of the future, because beauty can be created. And a beautiful person, who loves beauty, who lives beauty, who creates beauty, is moral -- and with no effort. His morality is not a cultivated morality, it is just his aesthetic sense that makes him moral.
- The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1, Chapter #9
Life is a hierarchy of needs. First the physical need has to be taken care of, the material existence has to be taken care of. Science fulfills a basic need. If you miss science you will miss religion. Between science and religion is the world of art. These are the three basic dimensions of life. Science has to take care of the material, the physiological, the biological -- the extrovert needs of man. Religion has to take care of the innermost -- the interiority, the subjectivity. And between the two is the world of aesthetics: art, poetry, music, dance, drama, literature.
- The Goose is Out, Chapter #4
Aesthetics is just an artistic approach towards life, a poetic vision. Seeing colors so totally that each tree becomes a painting, that each cloud brings the presence of God, that colors are more colorful, that you don't go on ignoring the radiance of things, that you remain alert, aware, loving, that you remain receptive, welcoming, open. That's what I mean by the aesthetic attitude, the aesthetic approach.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Chapter #8
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Chapter #8
To me, aesthetics is the closest neighbor of religiousness, not ethics.
Lenin is reported to have said, 'Ethics will be the aesthetics of the future.' I say: No, just the contrary; aesthetics will be the ethics of the future. Beauty is going to be the truth of the future, because beauty can be created. And a beautiful person, who loves beauty, who lives beauty, who creates beauty, is moral -- and with no effort. His morality is not a cultivated morality, it is just his aesthetic sense that makes him moral.
- The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1, Chapter #9
Life is a hierarchy of needs. First the physical need has to be taken care of, the material existence has to be taken care of. Science fulfills a basic need. If you miss science you will miss religion. Between science and religion is the world of art. These are the three basic dimensions of life. Science has to take care of the material, the physiological, the biological -- the extrovert needs of man. Religion has to take care of the innermost -- the interiority, the subjectivity. And between the two is the world of aesthetics: art, poetry, music, dance, drama, literature.
- The Goose is Out, Chapter #4
Aesthetics is just an artistic approach towards life, a poetic vision. Seeing colors so totally that each tree becomes a painting, that each cloud brings the presence of God, that colors are more colorful, that you don't go on ignoring the radiance of things, that you remain alert, aware, loving, that you remain receptive, welcoming, open. That's what I mean by the aesthetic attitude, the aesthetic approach.
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Chapter #8
Saturday, September 19, 2009
OSHO
When people come to me and they ask, "How to meditate?" I tell them, "There is no need to ask how to meditate, just ask how to remain unoccupied. Meditation happens spontaneously. Just ask how to remain unoccupied, that's all. That's the whole trick of meditation - how to remain unoccupied. Then you cannot do anything. The meditation will flower.
When you are not doing anything the energy moves towards the centre, it settles down towards the centre. When you are doing something the energy moves out. Doing is a way of moving out. Non-doing is a way of moving in. Occupation is an escape. You can read the Bible, you can make it an occupation. There is no difference between religious occupation and secular occupation: all occupations are occupations, and they help you to cling outside your being. They are excuses to remain outside.
Man is ignorant and blind, and he wants to remain ignorant and blind, because to come inwards looks like entering a chaos. And it is so; inside you have created a chaos. You have to encounter it and go through it. Courage is needed - courage to be oneself, and courage to move inwards. I have not come across a greater courage than that - the courage to be meditative.
But people who are engaged outside - with worldly things or nonworldly things, but occupied all the same, they think ....and they have created a rumor around it, they have their own philosophers. They say that if you are introvert you are somehow morbid, something is wrong with you. And they are in the majority. If you meditate, if you sit silently, they will joke about you: "What are you doing? - Gazing at your navel? What are you doing? - Opening the third eye? Where are you going? Are you morbid? Because what is there to do inside? There is nothing inside."
Inside doesn't exist for the majority of people, only the outside exists. And just the opposite is the case - only inside is real; outside is nothing but a dream. But they call introverts morbid, they call meditators morbid. In the West they think that the East is little morbid. What is the point of sitting alone and looking inwards? What are you going to get there? There is nothing.
David Hume, one of the great British philosophers, tried once... because he was studying the Upanishads and they go on saying: Go in, go in, go in - that is their only message. So he tried it. He closed his eyes one day - a totally secular man, very logical, empirical, but not meditative at all - he closed his eyes and he said, "It is so boring! It is a boredom to look in. Thoughts move, sometimes a few emotions, and they go on racing in the mind, and you go on looking at them - what is the point of it? It is useless. It has no utility."
And this is the understanding of many people. Hume's standpoint is that of the majority: What are going to get inside? There is darkness, thoughts floating here and there. What will you do? What will come out of it? If Hume had waited a little longer - and that is difficult for such people - if he had been a little more patient, by and by thought disappear, emotions subside. But if it had happened to him he would have said, "That is even worse, because emptiness comes. At least first there were thoughts, something to be occupied with, to look at, to think about. Now even thoughts have disappeared; only emptiness....What to do with emptiness? It is absolutely useless."
But if he had waited a little more, then darkness also disappears. It is just like when you come from the hot sun and you enter your house: everything looks dark because your eyes need a little attunement. They are fixed on the hot sun outside; comparatively, your house looks dark. You cannot see, you feel as if it is night. But you wait, you sit, you rest in a chair, and after few seconds the eyes get attuned. Now it is not dark, a little more light........
You rest for an hour, and everything is light, there is no darkness at all.
If Hume had waited a little longer, then darkness also disappears. Because you have lived in the hot sun outside for many lives your eyes have become fixed, they have lost flexibility. They need tuning. When one comes inside the house it takes a little while, a little time, a patience. Don't be in a hurry.
In haste nobody can come to know himself. It is a very very deep awaiting. Infinite patience is needed. By and by darkness disappears. There comes a light with no source there is no flame in it, no lamp is burning, no sun is there. A light, just like it is morning: the night has disappeared, and the sun has not risen.... Or in the evening - the twilight, when the sun has set and night has not yet descended. That's why Hindus call their prayer time sandhya. Sandhya means twilight, light without any source.
When you move inwards you will come to the light without any source. In that light, for the first time you start understanding yourself, who you are, because you are that light. You are that twilight, that sandhya, that pure clarity, that perception, where the observer and the observed disappear, and only the light remains.
Osho - from the book What is Meditation?
When you are not doing anything the energy moves towards the centre, it settles down towards the centre. When you are doing something the energy moves out. Doing is a way of moving out. Non-doing is a way of moving in. Occupation is an escape. You can read the Bible, you can make it an occupation. There is no difference between religious occupation and secular occupation: all occupations are occupations, and they help you to cling outside your being. They are excuses to remain outside.
Man is ignorant and blind, and he wants to remain ignorant and blind, because to come inwards looks like entering a chaos. And it is so; inside you have created a chaos. You have to encounter it and go through it. Courage is needed - courage to be oneself, and courage to move inwards. I have not come across a greater courage than that - the courage to be meditative.
But people who are engaged outside - with worldly things or nonworldly things, but occupied all the same, they think ....and they have created a rumor around it, they have their own philosophers. They say that if you are introvert you are somehow morbid, something is wrong with you. And they are in the majority. If you meditate, if you sit silently, they will joke about you: "What are you doing? - Gazing at your navel? What are you doing? - Opening the third eye? Where are you going? Are you morbid? Because what is there to do inside? There is nothing inside."
Inside doesn't exist for the majority of people, only the outside exists. And just the opposite is the case - only inside is real; outside is nothing but a dream. But they call introverts morbid, they call meditators morbid. In the West they think that the East is little morbid. What is the point of sitting alone and looking inwards? What are you going to get there? There is nothing.
David Hume, one of the great British philosophers, tried once... because he was studying the Upanishads and they go on saying: Go in, go in, go in - that is their only message. So he tried it. He closed his eyes one day - a totally secular man, very logical, empirical, but not meditative at all - he closed his eyes and he said, "It is so boring! It is a boredom to look in. Thoughts move, sometimes a few emotions, and they go on racing in the mind, and you go on looking at them - what is the point of it? It is useless. It has no utility."
And this is the understanding of many people. Hume's standpoint is that of the majority: What are going to get inside? There is darkness, thoughts floating here and there. What will you do? What will come out of it? If Hume had waited a little longer - and that is difficult for such people - if he had been a little more patient, by and by thought disappear, emotions subside. But if it had happened to him he would have said, "That is even worse, because emptiness comes. At least first there were thoughts, something to be occupied with, to look at, to think about. Now even thoughts have disappeared; only emptiness....What to do with emptiness? It is absolutely useless."
But if he had waited a little more, then darkness also disappears. It is just like when you come from the hot sun and you enter your house: everything looks dark because your eyes need a little attunement. They are fixed on the hot sun outside; comparatively, your house looks dark. You cannot see, you feel as if it is night. But you wait, you sit, you rest in a chair, and after few seconds the eyes get attuned. Now it is not dark, a little more light........
You rest for an hour, and everything is light, there is no darkness at all.
If Hume had waited a little longer, then darkness also disappears. Because you have lived in the hot sun outside for many lives your eyes have become fixed, they have lost flexibility. They need tuning. When one comes inside the house it takes a little while, a little time, a patience. Don't be in a hurry.
In haste nobody can come to know himself. It is a very very deep awaiting. Infinite patience is needed. By and by darkness disappears. There comes a light with no source there is no flame in it, no lamp is burning, no sun is there. A light, just like it is morning: the night has disappeared, and the sun has not risen.... Or in the evening - the twilight, when the sun has set and night has not yet descended. That's why Hindus call their prayer time sandhya. Sandhya means twilight, light without any source.
When you move inwards you will come to the light without any source. In that light, for the first time you start understanding yourself, who you are, because you are that light. You are that twilight, that sandhya, that pure clarity, that perception, where the observer and the observed disappear, and only the light remains.
Osho - from the book What is Meditation?
Friday, September 18, 2009
OSHO
Until the inner guide is found, a master is needed. Once the guide is found, you have found the
master within yourself. The master is there simply to say something to you which is being said by your heart already. But you cannot hear it so it has to be said from the outside, because we can listen to something from the outside more easily than to something that comes from the inside.
The master outside is just a representation of the guide within. So the inner guide and the outer
master are not two phenomena; they speak the same language. Surrendering to the master is really surrendering to your own inner guide, because the outer master functions only as an echoing point, as a mirror: he reflects you. He makes things clear which are not clear to you, that’s all. He simply says loudly that which is being said by your heart silently. He magnifies the still small voice.
master within yourself. The master is there simply to say something to you which is being said by your heart already. But you cannot hear it so it has to be said from the outside, because we can listen to something from the outside more easily than to something that comes from the inside.
The master outside is just a representation of the guide within. So the inner guide and the outer
master are not two phenomena; they speak the same language. Surrendering to the master is really surrendering to your own inner guide, because the outer master functions only as an echoing point, as a mirror: he reflects you. He makes things clear which are not clear to you, that’s all. He simply says loudly that which is being said by your heart silently. He magnifies the still small voice.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
OSHO
Question : What is Love?
Osho : It depends. There are as many loves as there are people. Love is a hierarchy, from the lowest rung to the highest, from sex to superconsciousness. There are many many layers, many planes of love. It all depends on you. If you are existing on the lowest rung, you will have a totally different idea of love than the person who is existing on the highest rung. Adolf Hitler will have one idea of love, Gautam Buddha another; and they will be diametrically opposite, because they are at two extremes.
At the lowest, love is a kind of politics, power politics. Wherever love is contaminated by the idea of domination, it is politics. Whether you call it politics or not is not the question, it is political. And millions of people never know anything about love except this politics -- the politics that exists between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. It is politics, the whole thing is political: you want to dominate the other, you enjoy domination.
And love is nothing but politics sugar-coated, a bitter pill sugar-coated.
Beloved Friends…….Now the HAPPY HOUR TIME:
1)
Nancy was having coffee with Helen.
Nancy asked, "How do you know your husband loves you?"
"He takes out the garbage every morning."
"That's not love. That's good housekeeping."
"My husband gives me all the spending money I need."
"That's not love. That's generosity."
"My husband never looks at other women."
"That's not love. That's poor vision."
"John always opens the door for me."
"That's not love. That's good manners."
"John kisses me even when I've eaten garlic and I have curlers in my hair."
"Now, that's love."
2)
Paddy NcNaughty went to confession: "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned."
"And what is it that you have done, my son?"
"I made love to one of the girls in the village."
"My God!" said the priest, "and which of the village girls did you commit sin with?"
"Ah, Father, that I cannot tell."
"And if you will not tell me, then I shall not give you absolution."
"Ah dear!" said Paddy.
"Was it Molly O'Flaherty?" asked the priest.
"No, it was not Molly O'Flaherty."
"Then was it Flora Fitzgibbons?"
"Ah no," said Paddy, "it was not Flora Fitzgibbons."
"Was it Maggie Muldoon, then?" persisted the priest.
"Ah, sure no, it was not Maggie Muldoon."
"Then who in heaven's name was it?"
"Ah, sure, Father -- that I cannot tell."
"And if you don't tell me I shall not give ya absolution."
"Ah, Father, that's too bad!" said Paddy and walked out of the confessional.
His friend, Michael, was waiting outside. "Well, Paddy, did ya get yar sins forgiven?"
"No," said Paddy, "but I got the names of a few good broads!"
In reverence of BELOVED OSHO
Anand Kamal
Osho : It depends. There are as many loves as there are people. Love is a hierarchy, from the lowest rung to the highest, from sex to superconsciousness. There are many many layers, many planes of love. It all depends on you. If you are existing on the lowest rung, you will have a totally different idea of love than the person who is existing on the highest rung. Adolf Hitler will have one idea of love, Gautam Buddha another; and they will be diametrically opposite, because they are at two extremes.
At the lowest, love is a kind of politics, power politics. Wherever love is contaminated by the idea of domination, it is politics. Whether you call it politics or not is not the question, it is political. And millions of people never know anything about love except this politics -- the politics that exists between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. It is politics, the whole thing is political: you want to dominate the other, you enjoy domination.
And love is nothing but politics sugar-coated, a bitter pill sugar-coated.
Beloved Friends…….Now the HAPPY HOUR TIME:
1)
Nancy was having coffee with Helen.
Nancy asked, "How do you know your husband loves you?"
"He takes out the garbage every morning."
"That's not love. That's good housekeeping."
"My husband gives me all the spending money I need."
"That's not love. That's generosity."
"My husband never looks at other women."
"That's not love. That's poor vision."
"John always opens the door for me."
"That's not love. That's good manners."
"John kisses me even when I've eaten garlic and I have curlers in my hair."
"Now, that's love."
2)
Paddy NcNaughty went to confession: "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned."
"And what is it that you have done, my son?"
"I made love to one of the girls in the village."
"My God!" said the priest, "and which of the village girls did you commit sin with?"
"Ah, Father, that I cannot tell."
"And if you will not tell me, then I shall not give you absolution."
"Ah dear!" said Paddy.
"Was it Molly O'Flaherty?" asked the priest.
"No, it was not Molly O'Flaherty."
"Then was it Flora Fitzgibbons?"
"Ah no," said Paddy, "it was not Flora Fitzgibbons."
"Was it Maggie Muldoon, then?" persisted the priest.
"Ah, sure no, it was not Maggie Muldoon."
"Then who in heaven's name was it?"
"Ah, sure, Father -- that I cannot tell."
"And if you don't tell me I shall not give ya absolution."
"Ah, Father, that's too bad!" said Paddy and walked out of the confessional.
His friend, Michael, was waiting outside. "Well, Paddy, did ya get yar sins forgiven?"
"No," said Paddy, "but I got the names of a few good broads!"
In reverence of BELOVED OSHO
Anand Kamal
Friday, September 4, 2009
OHSO
The whole problem is rooted in the desire of attaining a permanent meaning for life. Life is not a problem at all, but we expect things which are against the fundamental law of life and then we are in trouble.
Life is constantly changing and it is good that it is constantly changing; that’s its beauty, its splendor. If it were permanent, static, it would be not life but death and it would be utterly boring. It would stink because it would be stagnant. And the mind is constantly asking for something permanent. The mind is the desire for the permanent, and life is impermanence.
Hence if you really want to be blissful you have to live the impermanent life as it is, without any expectation, without any imposition on your part. Flow with life. It changes – you change with it. Why bother about a permanent meaning? What will you do with a permanent meaning? And meaning exists only when something functions as a means to some other end.
Life is not a means to some other end, it is an end unto itself, hence really it cannot have any meaning. That does not mean it is meaningless, it simply means it is transcendental to meaning or no-meaning. Those words are irrelevant.
OSHO
Life is constantly changing and it is good that it is constantly changing; that’s its beauty, its splendor. If it were permanent, static, it would be not life but death and it would be utterly boring. It would stink because it would be stagnant. And the mind is constantly asking for something permanent. The mind is the desire for the permanent, and life is impermanence.
Hence if you really want to be blissful you have to live the impermanent life as it is, without any expectation, without any imposition on your part. Flow with life. It changes – you change with it. Why bother about a permanent meaning? What will you do with a permanent meaning? And meaning exists only when something functions as a means to some other end.
Life is not a means to some other end, it is an end unto itself, hence really it cannot have any meaning. That does not mean it is meaningless, it simply means it is transcendental to meaning or no-meaning. Those words are irrelevant.
OSHO
Thursday, September 3, 2009
OSHO
Today's lifestyle is vastly different from the lifestyle of ancient times. The lifestyle of a modern man is busy, fast and tedious. Everything is out of order except speed. Osho says, “you are going fast, but you are going so fast that you have no time to look at where you are going and why you are going there.”
A catholic priest took a trip into the wilderness of Africa. He engaged a tribal group to carry his belonging. Every few hour's the tribal group would take a rest. The priest got curious, so he ask them. Why you all needs to take a rest every few hour's? The tribal group answered him , we rest so that our Soul can catch up with us.
A catholic priest took a trip into the wilderness of Africa. He engaged a tribal group to carry his belonging. Every few hour's the tribal group would take a rest. The priest got curious, so he ask them. Why you all needs to take a rest every few hour's? The tribal group answered him , we rest so that our Soul can catch up with us.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 30
Try this today, contemplate ; whatever VISION you have for you, whatever DREAM you have for you, extend it to another. Whatever you think you can do, see it in another too. No matter what you want, no matter how beautifully you want to live, please see others being able to do the same thing too. SIGHT IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL YOU SEE IT FOR ANOTHER TOO.
So today, no matter what's your dream is, see others living it too. No matter what's your possibilities, see it in another too. Its like this, in our eastern culture last time, when somebody wants to learn meditation and know god, Gurus will send their disciples to travel for 3 years, all over the country, and the idea is to see shiva in everybody. In anybody they meet, they must sit down and see them as shiva. The purpose of this exercise is, if he wants to see shiva within himself, he must see it outside of him too. QUEST for today is the same thing, its the rule, its the law, so whatever you see for yourself, see it in another. Whatever dream, whatever beauty, whatever joy for you, is for others too.
Today try this, as you travel, as you meet up your friend, silently see all your dreams and visions in their eyes. As you see it in them, it becomes even more real for you, its a deep inner theraphy.
Indirectly this will break the bondage of limiting and limitation of ones dream and vision, thus you move higher for better living.
Explore this.................
So today, no matter what's your dream is, see others living it too. No matter what's your possibilities, see it in another too. Its like this, in our eastern culture last time, when somebody wants to learn meditation and know god, Gurus will send their disciples to travel for 3 years, all over the country, and the idea is to see shiva in everybody. In anybody they meet, they must sit down and see them as shiva. The purpose of this exercise is, if he wants to see shiva within himself, he must see it outside of him too. QUEST for today is the same thing, its the rule, its the law, so whatever you see for yourself, see it in another. Whatever dream, whatever beauty, whatever joy for you, is for others too.
Today try this, as you travel, as you meet up your friend, silently see all your dreams and visions in their eyes. As you see it in them, it becomes even more real for you, its a deep inner theraphy.
Indirectly this will break the bondage of limiting and limitation of ones dream and vision, thus you move higher for better living.
Explore this.................
Monday, August 31, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 29
Lets draw the attention today towards, EFFECTIVENESS. One of the quality for one to be effective is the quality of COMPLETION.
Investigate today, are you a person who complete things? DO YOU COMPLETE THINGS? DO YOU LIVE IN COMPLETION?
There's a habit with people, whatever they do things they never complete and it extends to many aspect of their life and end up their life becomes INCOMPLETE LIFE.
Today, dedicate your life to complete everything, every work, everything you have started, everything you have left behind. By the time you go to bed tonight, make sure you have completed everything for the day.
Live in completion today. Dedicate to complete everything. IF YOU TAKE A PEN, PUT IT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT. IF THERE IS A WORK TO BE DONE, COMPLETE IT. Bring this quality of completion into your life. THIS IS ONE THE QUALITY OF THE WISE. They live in a deep COMPLETION and one day you are COMPLETE.
go on...
Investigate today, are you a person who complete things? DO YOU COMPLETE THINGS? DO YOU LIVE IN COMPLETION?
There's a habit with people, whatever they do things they never complete and it extends to many aspect of their life and end up their life becomes INCOMPLETE LIFE.
Today, dedicate your life to complete everything, every work, everything you have started, everything you have left behind. By the time you go to bed tonight, make sure you have completed everything for the day.
Live in completion today. Dedicate to complete everything. IF YOU TAKE A PEN, PUT IT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT. IF THERE IS A WORK TO BE DONE, COMPLETE IT. Bring this quality of completion into your life. THIS IS ONE THE QUALITY OF THE WISE. They live in a deep COMPLETION and one day you are COMPLETE.
go on...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 28
Dear all ANBULLAMS,
Lets do a simple exercise for today, find a few minutes, lie down and LET GO. Lie down and let the body be carried by the earth. Lie down and LET GO to the gravitational point.
Letting go has got many meanings, one of it is to let the BODY to LET GO. Today be mindful of what it feel to the body to let go, to rest, to relax, to allow existence to rejuvenate you.
Most of times the only way we rest the body is by sleeping. To let go the body means, to relax and to rest totally in a switch off mode.
Find some time today, in private and let go. If you sit on the chair, let the chair carry you. Be in a deep let go. Then you will suddenly discover existence is actually holding you, guiding you, loving you, shaping you. This is the one of the most profound realization. Many times we have this thought that we are alone, we are stuck in hole, we are helpless, but on the contrary, we are not. Vast energy of love guiding us. Existence itself protects us for living, but we lose hope and let go of living magnificently. People are so tight, people are so stress, they cant flow. They think they have to be in complete control, this is nonsense.
Go somewhere and lie down and know you don't have to do anything and the earth will carry you. Try to familiar yourself with the experience of letting go, see the truth comes of it.....
Give it a try.
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin
Lets do a simple exercise for today, find a few minutes, lie down and LET GO. Lie down and let the body be carried by the earth. Lie down and LET GO to the gravitational point.
Letting go has got many meanings, one of it is to let the BODY to LET GO. Today be mindful of what it feel to the body to let go, to rest, to relax, to allow existence to rejuvenate you.
Most of times the only way we rest the body is by sleeping. To let go the body means, to relax and to rest totally in a switch off mode.
Find some time today, in private and let go. If you sit on the chair, let the chair carry you. Be in a deep let go. Then you will suddenly discover existence is actually holding you, guiding you, loving you, shaping you. This is the one of the most profound realization. Many times we have this thought that we are alone, we are stuck in hole, we are helpless, but on the contrary, we are not. Vast energy of love guiding us. Existence itself protects us for living, but we lose hope and let go of living magnificently. People are so tight, people are so stress, they cant flow. They think they have to be in complete control, this is nonsense.
Go somewhere and lie down and know you don't have to do anything and the earth will carry you. Try to familiar yourself with the experience of letting go, see the truth comes of it.....
Give it a try.
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin
Friday, August 28, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 27
Let us today enter a word, a truth, which is great significance to all of us, which is called HEALING. Look into this word and ask yourself, are you living in a way you are healing yourself or are you living in a way you are hurting yourself?
Many people are living in a way that hurts them, nevertheless many others too living in a way that is healing them.
How are you living and also be mindful of the healing that you need to go through. Maybe you had a broken relationship, maybe you had something happened. If you contemplate deeply, MAYBE THERE IS HEALING AWAITING.
First you must detect what needs to heal and then you can look for that healing, or allow that healing.
So today be mindful, are you living in a way to bring healing to you or are you living in a way that is creating hurt?
The wise lives in a healing mode, because only when you are healed, there is love, only when there is love, the best out of you comes out and only when the best out of you comes out, YOU ENRICH HUMANITY.
Find out...........
Many people are living in a way that hurts them, nevertheless many others too living in a way that is healing them.
How are you living and also be mindful of the healing that you need to go through. Maybe you had a broken relationship, maybe you had something happened. If you contemplate deeply, MAYBE THERE IS HEALING AWAITING.
First you must detect what needs to heal and then you can look for that healing, or allow that healing.
So today be mindful, are you living in a way to bring healing to you or are you living in a way that is creating hurt?
The wise lives in a healing mode, because only when you are healed, there is love, only when there is love, the best out of you comes out and only when the best out of you comes out, YOU ENRICH HUMANITY.
Find out...........
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 26
Self Awareness Centre Quest 26
Lets explore this today, the right attitude to approach this life is to enter it with deep PLAYFULNESS.
Playfulness here doesn't mean carelessness. Playfulness means to participate, without so much worry of the outcome. Playfulness means to engage totally, without creating a wound out of the outcome.
Ask yourself and explore, have you lived playfully, have you brought playfulness into your life, are you a player ???
Its like this, if you really want to enjoy playing football, tennis, golf , you have to become a player, there are times you win, there are times you lose. THE RESULT MUST NOT DISTURB YOUR PARTICIPATION. Most people are caught hold of the result and cannot be playful, they become TOO SERIOUS.Same thing in day to day life, they become to serious, depressed to lead the life.
Explore this today ; ARE YOU A PLAYER? DO YOU HAVE A PLAYFUL HEART? CAN YOU PARTICIPATE IN THIS LIFE AS A BIG GAME FOR FUN?
The moment playfulness enters you, you become such a beautiful person. Love starts flowing. LOVE STARTS OVERFLOWING. Your life becomes bright.
For this to happen, one must grasp the idea, the truth of PLAYFULNESS. Scientist are saying that ENERGY is just a play. Its playing out.
The question is are you a player? Do you have the beauty, the integrity, the insight, the depth to be a player in this life, because if you are not a player in this life, YOU GET PLAYED BY LIFE !
Check how you can bring the quality of playfulness into your day to day life.... SANTHOSAM
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin
Lets explore this today, the right attitude to approach this life is to enter it with deep PLAYFULNESS.
Playfulness here doesn't mean carelessness. Playfulness means to participate, without so much worry of the outcome. Playfulness means to engage totally, without creating a wound out of the outcome.
Ask yourself and explore, have you lived playfully, have you brought playfulness into your life, are you a player ???
Its like this, if you really want to enjoy playing football, tennis, golf , you have to become a player, there are times you win, there are times you lose. THE RESULT MUST NOT DISTURB YOUR PARTICIPATION. Most people are caught hold of the result and cannot be playful, they become TOO SERIOUS.Same thing in day to day life, they become to serious, depressed to lead the life.
Explore this today ; ARE YOU A PLAYER? DO YOU HAVE A PLAYFUL HEART? CAN YOU PARTICIPATE IN THIS LIFE AS A BIG GAME FOR FUN?
The moment playfulness enters you, you become such a beautiful person. Love starts flowing. LOVE STARTS OVERFLOWING. Your life becomes bright.
For this to happen, one must grasp the idea, the truth of PLAYFULNESS. Scientist are saying that ENERGY is just a play. Its playing out.
The question is are you a player? Do you have the beauty, the integrity, the insight, the depth to be a player in this life, because if you are not a player in this life, YOU GET PLAYED BY LIFE !
Check how you can bring the quality of playfulness into your day to day life.... SANTHOSAM
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin
Monday, August 24, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 25
Guys, whenever we do not BREAKTHROUGH, we do not able to transcend our own limitation, when we live in our entrapment, ALL WE CAN DO IS SUPPRESS, thus majority of the humanity live in suppression.
Today pay attention to all that you suppress, and how these suppression rules you ? Suppression is, there is a force trying to breakthrough but you are putting a block on it. Mindful of your own logical reasons on why you need to live in a suppression.
But before that, detect what are you suppressing and why?
Like human being, they have to suppress their emotions. Spiritually speaking, that's nonsense. In society that is an accepted ideas.
Once you have pondered upon your suppression and why, now figure out your own way to free yourself from your own suppression.
Explore this today......
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Today pay attention to all that you suppress, and how these suppression rules you ? Suppression is, there is a force trying to breakthrough but you are putting a block on it. Mindful of your own logical reasons on why you need to live in a suppression.
But before that, detect what are you suppressing and why?
Like human being, they have to suppress their emotions. Spiritually speaking, that's nonsense. In society that is an accepted ideas.
Once you have pondered upon your suppression and why, now figure out your own way to free yourself from your own suppression.
Explore this today......
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 24
As for the 24th Quest, draw your attention to the word BREAKTHROUGH. Be very conscious of the BREAKTHROUGH that you need to go through. Most people are not even aware thus it never happens.
So be very conscious of what has to be broken through in your life. Maybe in reality, you need to breakthrough your financial slavery. Maybe internally you have to breakthrough entrapment of your own mind, your blocks and heavies.
Today become crystal clear of that which you need to breakthrough.
Recognize deeply and be totally conscious of the BREAKTHROUGH, YOU NEED, for your internal growth and your external growth. Be mindful about this today.....
So be very conscious of what has to be broken through in your life. Maybe in reality, you need to breakthrough your financial slavery. Maybe internally you have to breakthrough entrapment of your own mind, your blocks and heavies.
Today become crystal clear of that which you need to breakthrough.
Recognize deeply and be totally conscious of the BREAKTHROUGH, YOU NEED, for your internal growth and your external growth. Be mindful about this today.....
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 23
Today lets pay attention to the MULTIPLE FACES we put on. In the normal world this is called BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT and this is nothing to do with being DIPLOMATIC. Maybe for the sake of society we live in, its correct, but to ourself, we must recognize it and find the fake ones which really draining much of the energy.
Be mindful of the many faces you put on. There are times when you put on many faces, you get confuse of what is your real face. Focus all the faces you put on and how it effects you. How you are this way to this person, how you are that way to that person and bring into attention why do you do that? Why we need to have so many faces? Why we need to project this to this person and project that to that person? Many times we ended up in shitty situations due to this multiple faces and a little feeling emerged in you telling, "I should have been opened up and be truthful".
You see, a mentally and spiritualy strong person doesnt have to be anything to anybody, he is just what he is. So remember, when we are putting many faces, there is WEAKNESS. Something is not right. Something you are not recognizing. Its a disease. Its a collapse of integrity.
What are the price you are paying for your multiple faces? Have you tried showing your real self so far to the world, because the world deserves the real you, the real person whose embodiment is nothing but UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, not the political you. Remember, the moment all these faces end, your inner violent will end. Violent is being forced to be something other than what you are.
Contemplate today on this multiple faces you put on and how it effects you.....
Give it a thought!
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Be mindful of the many faces you put on. There are times when you put on many faces, you get confuse of what is your real face. Focus all the faces you put on and how it effects you. How you are this way to this person, how you are that way to that person and bring into attention why do you do that? Why we need to have so many faces? Why we need to project this to this person and project that to that person? Many times we ended up in shitty situations due to this multiple faces and a little feeling emerged in you telling, "I should have been opened up and be truthful".
You see, a mentally and spiritualy strong person doesnt have to be anything to anybody, he is just what he is. So remember, when we are putting many faces, there is WEAKNESS. Something is not right. Something you are not recognizing. Its a disease. Its a collapse of integrity.
What are the price you are paying for your multiple faces? Have you tried showing your real self so far to the world, because the world deserves the real you, the real person whose embodiment is nothing but UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, not the political you. Remember, the moment all these faces end, your inner violent will end. Violent is being forced to be something other than what you are.
Contemplate today on this multiple faces you put on and how it effects you.....
Give it a thought!
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 22
Lets move on to our next Quest, when you know how things are, when you know how things unfold, when you are grounded to values,nature and true existence, stress disappears. Stress is nothing but expecting or trying to do things beyond ones embodiment.
Stress is "hoping it will rain tomorrow when you have no control over the rain". If you are grounded to the true existence,values and nature, you know you cant demand it. Once you know this truth, this reality and live within it, there is no stress.
So today, investigate, THAT WHICH CREATES STRESS IN YOU and contemplate HOW YOU CAN UNDO THE STRESS? HOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE BIRTH OF STRESS? HOW YOU CAN LIVE A STRESS FREE LIFE?
Remember, STRESS DISAPPEARS WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THINGS AS THEY ARE. If you know it takes 12 hours for the tide to come in, there is no need to stress about, surely it will take 12 hours, but if you want it to come in 3 hours, you going to be stress out.
Drive you attention towards this word called STRESS, understand about it and see how you can free yourself from stress ....
...and please, do it without STRESSING YOURSELF :-)
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Stress is "hoping it will rain tomorrow when you have no control over the rain". If you are grounded to the true existence,values and nature, you know you cant demand it. Once you know this truth, this reality and live within it, there is no stress.
So today, investigate, THAT WHICH CREATES STRESS IN YOU and contemplate HOW YOU CAN UNDO THE STRESS? HOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE BIRTH OF STRESS? HOW YOU CAN LIVE A STRESS FREE LIFE?
Remember, STRESS DISAPPEARS WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THINGS AS THEY ARE. If you know it takes 12 hours for the tide to come in, there is no need to stress about, surely it will take 12 hours, but if you want it to come in 3 hours, you going to be stress out.
Drive you attention towards this word called STRESS, understand about it and see how you can free yourself from stress ....
...and please, do it without STRESSING YOURSELF :-)
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 21
The creative person becomes an adventurous person. Only when life is adventure, its is worth living. People living a boring life, they get caught in a small hole and they repeat circling in it. There is no adventure, they don't move out, they sit within, they dare not explore, they dare not find out. These erodes the brain.
To be adventure in living, one must be creative, then life is so beautiful, not a day is a same. Adventure is moving into the unknown. Ask yourself, have you looked upon your life as an adventure or have you made your life a security aboard. If you want to live in ecstasy, in joy, you must go on an adventure.
Contemplate today, HOW CAN YOU MAKE YOUR LIFE MORE ADVENTUROUS ? WHAT MORE CAN YOU VENTURE INTO ? HOW MUCH CAN YOU BREAK YOUR OWN BORDERS, YOUR OWN RESTRICTION ? HOW CAN YOU WALK BEHIND YOUR OWN CONFINEMENT TO THE BROADER HORIZON ?
Think on this today, explore .....
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
To be adventure in living, one must be creative, then life is so beautiful, not a day is a same. Adventure is moving into the unknown. Ask yourself, have you looked upon your life as an adventure or have you made your life a security aboard. If you want to live in ecstasy, in joy, you must go on an adventure.
Contemplate today, HOW CAN YOU MAKE YOUR LIFE MORE ADVENTUROUS ? WHAT MORE CAN YOU VENTURE INTO ? HOW MUCH CAN YOU BREAK YOUR OWN BORDERS, YOUR OWN RESTRICTION ? HOW CAN YOU WALK BEHIND YOUR OWN CONFINEMENT TO THE BROADER HORIZON ?
Think on this today, explore .....
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 20
In order to live life beautifully, one must become rather creative. Creative is when the brain is alive. HOW CREATIVE ARE YOU IN REGARDS TO YOUR LIFE ?
Creative does not mean you paint, you draw, you sing, no.... Its the style of your living, are you living creatively? Creatively means to be new. Living new without sidelining to the past. The moment you start living creatively, you start recognising that you are a creator, and when you are a creator, for the first time you are an individual, when you are an individual, you are undivided, you are in oneness....
When you are in oneness, you become whole, there comes fulfillment. Ask yourself, have you been creative in your life? Or you just followed what has been said? A creative person is a leader. Un-creative person can just follow.
Contemplate today, have you lived creatively, or how much more creatively can you live?
Make a commitment today, to live a DEEP CREATIVE LIFE in every aspect, so your life can become exciting and fantastic.
Try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Creative does not mean you paint, you draw, you sing, no.... Its the style of your living, are you living creatively? Creatively means to be new. Living new without sidelining to the past. The moment you start living creatively, you start recognising that you are a creator, and when you are a creator, for the first time you are an individual, when you are an individual, you are undivided, you are in oneness....
When you are in oneness, you become whole, there comes fulfillment. Ask yourself, have you been creative in your life? Or you just followed what has been said? A creative person is a leader. Un-creative person can just follow.
Contemplate today, have you lived creatively, or how much more creatively can you live?
Make a commitment today, to live a DEEP CREATIVE LIFE in every aspect, so your life can become exciting and fantastic.
Try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 19
Lets go through an investigation:
WHAT IS THE CONTENT OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS?
What ever you become conscious of, becomes the content of your consciousness. Become very mindful, what are you conscious of ? It is like in a dark room, you shine a light, wherever you shine the light, that comes into your consciousness, into your awareness.
Become very mindful of what you are bringing your light of consciousness to, if your bring your light of consciousness to the ugly part of life, that's all you see. Its like you have a beautiful home but you only choose to light up the toilet, or the garbage bin. This is what human being have done. They have a past and they only light up the miserable part of their past. They do not light up the beautiful part of their past.
Contemplate today, where does your consciousness dwell? This is the secret, WHAT YOU BECOME CONSCIOUS OF, BECOMES YOUR REALITY. You become what you aware of, within. It is all there, you just need to shine your lhight upon them and be what you want.
Choose the content of your consciousness deliberately.....
Give it a try !
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
WHAT IS THE CONTENT OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS?
What ever you become conscious of, becomes the content of your consciousness. Become very mindful, what are you conscious of ? It is like in a dark room, you shine a light, wherever you shine the light, that comes into your consciousness, into your awareness.
Become very mindful of what you are bringing your light of consciousness to, if your bring your light of consciousness to the ugly part of life, that's all you see. Its like you have a beautiful home but you only choose to light up the toilet, or the garbage bin. This is what human being have done. They have a past and they only light up the miserable part of their past. They do not light up the beautiful part of their past.
Contemplate today, where does your consciousness dwell? This is the secret, WHAT YOU BECOME CONSCIOUS OF, BECOMES YOUR REALITY. You become what you aware of, within. It is all there, you just need to shine your lhight upon them and be what you want.
Choose the content of your consciousness deliberately.....
Give it a try !
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 18
Spend sometime today, exploring and break free of a LIE. The LIE is WE PRETEND THINGS ARE OK BEFORE THEY ARE.
Like humanity, there are so much to do, so many conflicts has to end, but many people pretend that everything is OK. On personal level, we do that too, we pretend everything is OK with our self. We pretend to feel everything is OK, so that the mind and heart can find some kind of psychological safety. This is wrong and drains our energy.
The real way to experience psychological safety is to recognize what is not OK, truthfully and have some ability to deal with it.
So, contemplate, how you make things OK before they are OK ? and the reason why..
Look into this today.. Santhosam
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Like humanity, there are so much to do, so many conflicts has to end, but many people pretend that everything is OK. On personal level, we do that too, we pretend everything is OK with our self. We pretend to feel everything is OK, so that the mind and heart can find some kind of psychological safety. This is wrong and drains our energy.
The real way to experience psychological safety is to recognize what is not OK, truthfully and have some ability to deal with it.
So, contemplate, how you make things OK before they are OK ? and the reason why..
Look into this today.. Santhosam
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Rgds, Thian Yin.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 17
Quest 17
Spend sometime today,exploring, what does it mean to GIVE? What does it mean to SHARE?
Misunderstanding of this word makes people non-living. If you really investigate human beings, he is nothing but a movement of sharing. He is a flow. So when the day somebody forgets the art of giving, the art of sharing, he actually stops living. All over the world, miseries are in alarming state because people are misers. Head running after business in regards to heart which is looking for living. They refuse to give, they refuse to share. Life only begins when you start sharing.
Be mindful today and see what is giving for you, what is sharing? Sometimes to give a smile, sometimes to say a hello, sometimes to give a Ringgit and sometimes to give the best out of you through your work and its nothing but a process of giving, when the best of you is given and that's the ultimate living.
Have you wander in forest, be close with the nature? Its nothing but a giving mechanism. Its just giving. Yes, it takes, but it takes to GIVE. See how yourself in this?
Because indirectly it will tell you how are you living. If you are unable to share, you are not living but miserable. Contemplate. Santhosam...
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Regards, Thian Yin
Spend sometime today,exploring, what does it mean to GIVE? What does it mean to SHARE?
Misunderstanding of this word makes people non-living. If you really investigate human beings, he is nothing but a movement of sharing. He is a flow. So when the day somebody forgets the art of giving, the art of sharing, he actually stops living. All over the world, miseries are in alarming state because people are misers. Head running after business in regards to heart which is looking for living. They refuse to give, they refuse to share. Life only begins when you start sharing.
Be mindful today and see what is giving for you, what is sharing? Sometimes to give a smile, sometimes to say a hello, sometimes to give a Ringgit and sometimes to give the best out of you through your work and its nothing but a process of giving, when the best of you is given and that's the ultimate living.
Have you wander in forest, be close with the nature? Its nothing but a giving mechanism. Its just giving. Yes, it takes, but it takes to GIVE. See how yourself in this?
Because indirectly it will tell you how are you living. If you are unable to share, you are not living but miserable. Contemplate. Santhosam...
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Regards, Thian Yin
Search Within.
OSHO
The heaven is not somewhere far above in the clouds. It is within you, and for that you don’t need to go to the Ganges or to go to Kaaba. You need to go to yourself. But that is something that no priest of any religion wants you to do, because the moment you do it you get out of all the bondage of religions – Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity – all that seems to be stupid and nonsense. You have found your truth
The heaven is not somewhere far above in the clouds. It is within you, and for that you don’t need to go to the Ganges or to go to Kaaba. You need to go to yourself. But that is something that no priest of any religion wants you to do, because the moment you do it you get out of all the bondage of religions – Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity – all that seems to be stupid and nonsense. You have found your truth
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 16
Lets get into the 16th Quest.
The word INNER VOICE has been a word existed many thousands of years. Human being have that ability.
Today, find 5 ,10, 20 minutes, sit down and listen to yourself, pay attention to your within, see what it is saying.
It is said that we know everything that is about to happen, we just dont hear our own self. We know what is right for us. We know the action that we must undertake, from moment to moment, we have a inner voice. In the east they call it the INNER GURU. It is like a inner guide, inner compass.
So today try to go towards it, listen to yourself, pay attention to it, when you know how to go to your own inner voice, you do not need any outside help, you become self-sovereign, you become unique to yourself, you will know what to do rightly for you. Great decisions and tremendous change happens then and there for the betterment of yourself thus for the humanity.
Give it a try.......
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Regards, Thian Yin
The word INNER VOICE has been a word existed many thousands of years. Human being have that ability.
Today, find 5 ,10, 20 minutes, sit down and listen to yourself, pay attention to your within, see what it is saying.
It is said that we know everything that is about to happen, we just dont hear our own self. We know what is right for us. We know the action that we must undertake, from moment to moment, we have a inner voice. In the east they call it the INNER GURU. It is like a inner guide, inner compass.
So today try to go towards it, listen to yourself, pay attention to it, when you know how to go to your own inner voice, you do not need any outside help, you become self-sovereign, you become unique to yourself, you will know what to do rightly for you. Great decisions and tremendous change happens then and there for the betterment of yourself thus for the humanity.
Give it a try.......
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness.
Thank-you Jason.
Regards, Thian Yin
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 15
Lets get into the 15th Quest:
Today explore this word MATURITY. The truth about maturity is, only when there is maturity, there is living, there is result, there is fulfillment. Its like when you plant a seed, only when its mature, it gives fruit and flowers. It becomes to its own wholeness.
First, have you been moving towards your own inner maturity? Second, how you dealt with your life in a mature manner?
Connect, understand and see whether you love or choose to participate in rising to complete maturity. In the east, the final maturity is called enlightenment, awakening,moksha. Become aware of your relationship, your participation, your understanding in your own maturity. Would you consider yourself a MATURE person ?
try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness. Thank-you Jason. Rgds, Thian Yin.
Today explore this word MATURITY. The truth about maturity is, only when there is maturity, there is living, there is result, there is fulfillment. Its like when you plant a seed, only when its mature, it gives fruit and flowers. It becomes to its own wholeness.
First, have you been moving towards your own inner maturity? Second, how you dealt with your life in a mature manner?
Connect, understand and see whether you love or choose to participate in rising to complete maturity. In the east, the final maturity is called enlightenment, awakening,moksha. Become aware of your relationship, your participation, your understanding in your own maturity. Would you consider yourself a MATURE person ?
try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Acknowledgement: I would like to thanks Mr. Jason Ramakrisahnan from Self Awareness Society ( Penang Branch )for sharing his Quest with us. Deligently dwelling within himself meditating and searching within for selfawareness. Thank-you Jason. Rgds, Thian Yin.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 14
Lets get into the 14th Quest:- SPEND SOMETIME EXPLORING ALL THE FEAR THAT HOLDS YOU.
Fear is a fact in most people's life. Fear grips us.
The reason why many people do not experience their fear is, they never venture out. Even to be able to be in contact with what they afraid of. For example, if somebody is afraid of swimming, he never goes near the river or the sea. So he thinks that he is not afraid.
Explore today the fears that have hold you and how you live adjusting to this fear. Its like somebody who is afraid of swimming, starts having hobbies outside of anything to do with water, and then he thinks that he is safe, maybe he is, but he has impose a limitation on him, thus the ocean becomes unaccessible to him. Same thing in life, whatever we become afraid of, we block it out, we dont go, so we limit ourself to live within that which never frightens.
Today, grasp and stay focus to see all that which frightens you, all that fears which keeps you from venturing beyond that. Most often, limiting yourself from life experiences because of some fears may ended you up in not becoming WHOLE.
Pay attention to all those fears and how it limits and prevent your growth. Have a self recognition !!
try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Fear is a fact in most people's life. Fear grips us.
The reason why many people do not experience their fear is, they never venture out. Even to be able to be in contact with what they afraid of. For example, if somebody is afraid of swimming, he never goes near the river or the sea. So he thinks that he is not afraid.
Explore today the fears that have hold you and how you live adjusting to this fear. Its like somebody who is afraid of swimming, starts having hobbies outside of anything to do with water, and then he thinks that he is safe, maybe he is, but he has impose a limitation on him, thus the ocean becomes unaccessible to him. Same thing in life, whatever we become afraid of, we block it out, we dont go, so we limit ourself to live within that which never frightens.
Today, grasp and stay focus to see all that which frightens you, all that fears which keeps you from venturing beyond that. Most often, limiting yourself from life experiences because of some fears may ended you up in not becoming WHOLE.
Pay attention to all those fears and how it limits and prevent your growth. Have a self recognition !!
try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 13
This is the 13th QUEST :
Sit silently for a few minutes and Draw your awareness of yourself as a CREATOR. Most of us miss this, that we are Creators. A simple example, even when you smile your creating something, by behaving in a particular way, you are creating something, by thinking some thoughts, your are creating something.
Like some people carry thought that "everybody is hurting me,everybody is hurting me", that thought is creating and that will become real. The awareness to be a CREATOR is to know all these that is happening and to be conscious with the results it produces. As you grow deeper in this awareness, you start becoming aware of your energy field and what this energy field brings to you. What you vibrate and what you attract?
Contemplate today for few minutes for your own creative ability and your own creative nature. See if yourself can recognize yourself as a CREATOR and the moment you become aware of that Creating state, act as a CREATOR today. REMEMBER YOU ARE A CREATOR AND ACT BY IT ! BE VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE THOUGHT, BE VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE RESPONSE. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST POWER YOU GOT AS A HUMAN BEING AND TODAY MAKE IT A COMMITMENT TO TAKE IT BACK TO YOUR LIFE .....
try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Sit silently for a few minutes and Draw your awareness of yourself as a CREATOR. Most of us miss this, that we are Creators. A simple example, even when you smile your creating something, by behaving in a particular way, you are creating something, by thinking some thoughts, your are creating something.
Like some people carry thought that "everybody is hurting me,everybody is hurting me", that thought is creating and that will become real. The awareness to be a CREATOR is to know all these that is happening and to be conscious with the results it produces. As you grow deeper in this awareness, you start becoming aware of your energy field and what this energy field brings to you. What you vibrate and what you attract?
Contemplate today for few minutes for your own creative ability and your own creative nature. See if yourself can recognize yourself as a CREATOR and the moment you become aware of that Creating state, act as a CREATOR today. REMEMBER YOU ARE A CREATOR AND ACT BY IT ! BE VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE THOUGHT, BE VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE RESPONSE. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST POWER YOU GOT AS A HUMAN BEING AND TODAY MAKE IT A COMMITMENT TO TAKE IT BACK TO YOUR LIFE .....
try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com/
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 12
Be mindful, this is the 12th Quest ; WHAT IS MY EXPECTATION TOWARDS SPIRITUALITY?
What is.....?
We all are very much aware of the theory behind expectation and what it can do to us; disappointment.
Many times through various inputs by the masters,we let go of many expectations that binds with us in an attempt to be clear along the path of spirituality. But knowingly or unknowingly, we plant some other seeds of expectation within, along the way. Some expecting enlightenment around the corner, some going after mystical experiences and few looking for siddhis (psychic ability). Even the least you are expecting something, zero the steps towards the UNKNOWN.
How far are you meditating without any expectation?
Be mindful. If you do acknowledge that you got some expectations, how are you going to drop it, destroy the very seed?
Remember, vast volume of destruction is on the way with your every expectation along this journey !
try on........
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What is.....?
We all are very much aware of the theory behind expectation and what it can do to us; disappointment.
Many times through various inputs by the masters,we let go of many expectations that binds with us in an attempt to be clear along the path of spirituality. But knowingly or unknowingly, we plant some other seeds of expectation within, along the way. Some expecting enlightenment around the corner, some going after mystical experiences and few looking for siddhis (psychic ability). Even the least you are expecting something, zero the steps towards the UNKNOWN.
How far are you meditating without any expectation?
Be mindful. If you do acknowledge that you got some expectations, how are you going to drop it, destroy the very seed?
Remember, vast volume of destruction is on the way with your every expectation along this journey !
try on........
http://www.selfawareness-sas.com
Monday, August 10, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 11
This is the 11th QUEST, a very simple one : -
Its "towards caring society" question....
WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES PREVENTING YOU FROM INTRODUCING MORE PARTICIPANTS FOR THE 7DTJ?
list them down accordingly and be mindful on how you are reacting to each one of them. what are the needful to be taken to solve the issues?
going deeper into this question will bring you new ideas and ways to be more creative in handling the issues
try on........
Its "towards caring society" question....
WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES PREVENTING YOU FROM INTRODUCING MORE PARTICIPANTS FOR THE 7DTJ?
list them down accordingly and be mindful on how you are reacting to each one of them. what are the needful to be taken to solve the issues?
going deeper into this question will bring you new ideas and ways to be more creative in handling the issues
try on........
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 10
This is the 10th QUEST : -
Ponder upon this for a while, absorb the meaning of this explanation by Mahan...
" those who are preaching and sharing knowledge learned from books; if they use the knowledge into their life and realise through experience the meaning of what they have studied, they may shine as a mentor,motivator and wisdom leader. if they are not at any account,experiencing and applying what they have studied, they will mislead and starts deceiving unknowingly, the crowd with their false knowledge and serves the people merely as a substitute for many books which they have read, nothing more "
Now contemplate on this : HOW MUCH OF REAL KNOWLEDGE IS IN MY POSSESION?
much of the knowledge that we lived upon and shared onto another is not ours. instant realisation by experiences along the way alone is our REAL KNOWLEDGE.
but most often we keep on reading and reading various books, the mind absorbs the beautiful lines and sentences, philosophies and insights but never truly studies,experiments and converts them into real knowledge of enlightened awareness.
in gradual process, this may lead to destruction, ego building up, confusion, conflict of interest and the MOST, energy drain !!
adding to that, what is the main reason behind these captions of Mahan :-
" experiences leading to wisdom"
" book knowledge only capable of serving the hungry stomach"
" having knowledge which is not yours and by books without experimental nature is like carrying heavy loads of animal dungs which will never serve any purpose but draining your energy and strength "
HOW MUCH OF REAL KNOWLEDGE IS IN MY POSSESION?
try on........
Ponder upon this for a while, absorb the meaning of this explanation by Mahan...
" those who are preaching and sharing knowledge learned from books; if they use the knowledge into their life and realise through experience the meaning of what they have studied, they may shine as a mentor,motivator and wisdom leader. if they are not at any account,experiencing and applying what they have studied, they will mislead and starts deceiving unknowingly, the crowd with their false knowledge and serves the people merely as a substitute for many books which they have read, nothing more "
Now contemplate on this : HOW MUCH OF REAL KNOWLEDGE IS IN MY POSSESION?
much of the knowledge that we lived upon and shared onto another is not ours. instant realisation by experiences along the way alone is our REAL KNOWLEDGE.
but most often we keep on reading and reading various books, the mind absorbs the beautiful lines and sentences, philosophies and insights but never truly studies,experiments and converts them into real knowledge of enlightened awareness.
in gradual process, this may lead to destruction, ego building up, confusion, conflict of interest and the MOST, energy drain !!
adding to that, what is the main reason behind these captions of Mahan :-
" experiences leading to wisdom"
" book knowledge only capable of serving the hungry stomach"
" having knowledge which is not yours and by books without experimental nature is like carrying heavy loads of animal dungs which will never serve any purpose but draining your energy and strength "
HOW MUCH OF REAL KNOWLEDGE IS IN MY POSSESION?
try on........
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 9
This is the 9th QUEST : -
Contemplate on this for today: AM I A JOY TO PEOPLE AROUND ME?
This is an interesting question to ponder upon, since we all are here for humanity and universal peace.
All starts from you, the very being of transformation, transform the world.
Do people longing for your presence?
Do people celebrate their life to the maximum when you are around?
In another word, how happy your immediate family members, friends and relatives when you are with them?
Try asking deeper ; how am i polishing my very being inside and out to be a JOY for everyone.
try on........
Contemplate on this for today: AM I A JOY TO PEOPLE AROUND ME?
This is an interesting question to ponder upon, since we all are here for humanity and universal peace.
All starts from you, the very being of transformation, transform the world.
Do people longing for your presence?
Do people celebrate their life to the maximum when you are around?
In another word, how happy your immediate family members, friends and relatives when you are with them?
Try asking deeper ; how am i polishing my very being inside and out to be a JOY for everyone.
try on........
Friday, August 7, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 8
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This is the 8th QUEST, lets get into this : -
lets contemplate on the word "SMILE" today. how much importance you are giving for "smile" in your life?
people entangled in this hectic life, totally forget about smiling, which is the perfect tool for living and enhancing good relations in this mass community.
a simple smile on our face creates a better ambiance for everyone around us, REMEMBER !
most often we got distracted with our own problems and drop the idea of a "smile" but nevertheless,we always expecting a smile from others in front. why is it so?
check how important it is for you to smile this whole day, be mindful.
you can even try not to smile to few and see what happens.
There's much beyond a simple "SMILE"........
try on........
This is the 8th QUEST, lets get into this : -
lets contemplate on the word "SMILE" today. how much importance you are giving for "smile" in your life?
people entangled in this hectic life, totally forget about smiling, which is the perfect tool for living and enhancing good relations in this mass community.
a simple smile on our face creates a better ambiance for everyone around us, REMEMBER !
most often we got distracted with our own problems and drop the idea of a "smile" but nevertheless,we always expecting a smile from others in front. why is it so?
check how important it is for you to smile this whole day, be mindful.
you can even try not to smile to few and see what happens.
There's much beyond a simple "SMILE"........
try on........
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 7
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This is the 7th QUEST, lets get into this : -
Contemplate today with the word "THANK YOU" . How often do you use this word, wholeheartedly within?
Most often ,what been really given regularly were verbal THANK YOU's and nothing more than that.
Verbally yes, wholeheartedly no....
Check yourself this whole day for ; how much do you thank people, how much do you thank yourself for being the person you are, how much do you thank the Great Masters who have been a guiding light and do you really thank someone from the bottom of your heart?
Be mindful, Gratitude in all forms are definitely a spiritual practice with the essence of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE !
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
This is the 7th QUEST, lets get into this : -
Contemplate today with the word "THANK YOU" . How often do you use this word, wholeheartedly within?
Most often ,what been really given regularly were verbal THANK YOU's and nothing more than that.
Verbally yes, wholeheartedly no....
Check yourself this whole day for ; how much do you thank people, how much do you thank yourself for being the person you are, how much do you thank the Great Masters who have been a guiding light and do you really thank someone from the bottom of your heart?
Be mindful, Gratitude in all forms are definitely a spiritual practice with the essence of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE !
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 6
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This is the 6th QUEST, lets ponder on this : -
Contemplate, WHERE IS YOUR LOVE FLOWING? where is your energy flowing basically? if you can watch your fantasy, if you can watch your dream, if you can watch your inner movement of desire, you can see where your love is flowing. Is your love moving towards being creative? Is your love moving towards well being of humanity? Is your love moving towards loving another rightly? Or is your love flowing towards destruction? Initial reaction to this question is, "I DONT KNOW" , but the truth is you know. Just watch within you.....
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
This is the 6th QUEST, lets ponder on this : -
Contemplate, WHERE IS YOUR LOVE FLOWING? where is your energy flowing basically? if you can watch your fantasy, if you can watch your dream, if you can watch your inner movement of desire, you can see where your love is flowing. Is your love moving towards being creative? Is your love moving towards well being of humanity? Is your love moving towards loving another rightly? Or is your love flowing towards destruction? Initial reaction to this question is, "I DONT KNOW" , but the truth is you know. Just watch within you.....
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 5
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This is the 5th QUEST, lets ponder on this : -
" In sankrit, {sickness} is called vyadhi and to go beyond all sickness is samathi {wholeness} . WHAT ARE THE SICKNESS PREVENTING YOU FROM BECOME AWARE OF YOUR WHOLENESS ? contemplate this one by one, start with physical sickness, mental sickness and spiritual sickness.
Most of the time we know we are sick in some way or another but we never take our time and concern to sort things out.
health left uncheck : that's physical sickness
heavies running our life's course : that's mental sickness
faith and loyalty to GURU and CENTRE is 50 - 50 : that's spiritual sickness
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
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This is the 5th QUEST, lets ponder on this : -
" In sankrit, {sickness} is called vyadhi and to go beyond all sickness is samathi {wholeness} . WHAT ARE THE SICKNESS PREVENTING YOU FROM BECOME AWARE OF YOUR WHOLENESS ? contemplate this one by one, start with physical sickness, mental sickness and spiritual sickness.
Most of the time we know we are sick in some way or another but we never take our time and concern to sort things out.
health left uncheck : that's physical sickness
heavies running our life's course : that's mental sickness
faith and loyalty to GURU and CENTRE is 50 - 50 : that's spiritual sickness
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
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Self Awareness Centre : Quest 4
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let get into the 4th QUEST, lets contemplate on this " WHAT IS THE TRUTH THAT YOU ARE LIVING WITH?"
Stop and see for yourself, what is the truth you are facing upon, what is the truth of you. be very mindful today and ask this question. most often,unconsciously we live up to some ideas, dogmas and belief system which was hammered to us in generations, though we been exposed to variations of awareness by GURU. you can even penetrate deeply into the question at last and ask, who am i truthfully ?
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
let get into the 4th QUEST, lets contemplate on this " WHAT IS THE TRUTH THAT YOU ARE LIVING WITH?"
Stop and see for yourself, what is the truth you are facing upon, what is the truth of you. be very mindful today and ask this question. most often,unconsciously we live up to some ideas, dogmas and belief system which was hammered to us in generations, though we been exposed to variations of awareness by GURU. you can even penetrate deeply into the question at last and ask, who am i truthfully ?
try on........
SANTHOSAM !!!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 3
Self Awareness Centre Quest 3
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Quest 3
Let comtemplate on this...
" ARE YOU PARTICIPATING IN YOUR OWN UNFOLDMENT OR TRANSFORMATION?"
Most of the time we are not. We tend to look to others, afraid of making changes
simply because someone would say something.
With all the techniques taughts.
We still shy away to participate within to bring the best.
This is the time for you to ponder that you are involve in the making of you.
Are you carving yourself to the way that you want to be in complete ' freedom '?
Which was given to you through the courses and initiation.
try on........
SANTHOSAM!!!
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Quest 3
Let comtemplate on this...
" ARE YOU PARTICIPATING IN YOUR OWN UNFOLDMENT OR TRANSFORMATION?"
Most of the time we are not. We tend to look to others, afraid of making changes
simply because someone would say something.
With all the techniques taughts.
We still shy away to participate within to bring the best.
This is the time for you to ponder that you are involve in the making of you.
Are you carving yourself to the way that you want to be in complete ' freedom '?
Which was given to you through the courses and initiation.
try on........
SANTHOSAM!!!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 2
2nd Quest
let comtemplate on this "WHERE ARE YOU HEADING?"
Observe every action, observe every thought, observe every feeling observe every mood; become mindful where you are heading?
Most often we miss, we react to the moment, we are in the panic driven mode as far as life is concern, if you remain the way you are, where you going to end up?.
Try on.......
SANTHOSAM!!!
let comtemplate on this "WHERE ARE YOU HEADING?"
Observe every action, observe every thought, observe every feeling observe every mood; become mindful where you are heading?
Most often we miss, we react to the moment, we are in the panic driven mode as far as life is concern, if you remain the way you are, where you going to end up?.
Try on.......
SANTHOSAM!!!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Self Awareness Centre : Quest 1
First Quest: Let comtemplate on this - ENQUIRE AND EXAMINE HOW YOU ARE ?
Most often we're caught up in how we want to be or how we were but very rarely we check ourself on time, on the very moment, how am I existing to myself and to other's.
Thus one's neeeds an emergency situation to fall back and see how one's is ?
This question can be painful for some people's, but you rather do it in the time of non-crisis then to observe it in the time of crisis.
try on......
Santhosam!
Most often we're caught up in how we want to be or how we were but very rarely we check ourself on time, on the very moment, how am I existing to myself and to other's.
Thus one's neeeds an emergency situation to fall back and see how one's is ?
This question can be painful for some people's, but you rather do it in the time of non-crisis then to observe it in the time of crisis.
try on......
Santhosam!
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Self Awareness Centre
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