FREE YOUR SOULS

Your Auras Reveal More About The Real You

2009-02-06T04:41:00.000-08:00

The world of the spirit begins where logic ends. logic is limited by the boundaries of reason,which is further limited by the limitations of the individual's buddhi (intelligence). However, since most speak and comprehend only the tongue of logic.
we can try to understand the aura which is of spiritual realm...
To be continued....

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7 reasons the world will end in 2012

2008-10-06T00:38:00.000-07:00

7 reasons the world will end in 2012

Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses the stop button...

1. Mayan Calendar

The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:

Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.

2. Sun Storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012

3. The Atom Smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4. The Bible says...

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5. Super Volcano

Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6. The Physicists

This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches

The Joy of Living Dangerously

2008-09-02T06:14:00.002-07:00

THE COURAGE OF LOVE

This Cake is Delicious!

Love is very rare. To meet a person at his center is to pass
through a revolution, because if you want to meet a person at
his center you will have to allow that person to reach to your
center also. You will have to become vulnerable, absolutely
vulnerable, open.

It is risky. To allow somebody to reach your center is risky,
dangerous, because you never know what that person will do to
you. And once all your secrets are known, once your hiddenness
has become unhidden, once you are exposed completely, what that
other person will do, you never know. The fear is there. That’s
why we never open.

Just acquaintance, and we think love has happened. Peripheries
meet, and we think we have met. You are not your periphery.
Really, the periphery is the boundary where you end, just the
fencing around you. It is not you! The periphery is the place
where you end and the world begins.

Even husbands and wives who might have lived together for many
years, may be just acquaintances. They may not have known each
other. And the more you live with someone the more you forget
completely that the centers have remained unknown.

So the first thing to be understood is, don’t take acquaintance
as love. You may be making love, you may be sexually related,
but sex is also peripheral. Unless centers meet, sex is just a
meeting of two bodies. And a meeting of two bodies is not your
meeting. Sex also remains acquaintance – physical, bodily, but
still just an acquaintance. You can allow somebody to enter to
your center only when you are not afraid, when you are not
fearful.

There are two types of living: one fear-oriented, one love-oriented.
Fear-oriented living can never lead you into deep relationship.
You remain afraid, and the other cannot be allowed, cannot be
allowed to penetrate you to your very core. To an extent you
allow the other and then the wall comes and everything stops.

The love-oriented person means one who is not afraid of the
future, one who is not afraid of the result and the consequence,
who lives here and now. Don’t be bothered about the result;
that is the fear-oriented mind. Don’t think about what will
happen out of it. Just be here, and act totally. Don’t calculate.
A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging,
safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way.

I have heard about an old Zen monk: He was on his deathbed. The
last day had come, and he declared that on that evening he
would be no more. So followers, disciples, friends started
coming. He had many lovers, they all started coming; from far
and wide people gathered. One of his old disciples, when he
heard that the master was going to die, ran to the market.
Somebody asked, "The Master is dying in his hut, why are you
going to the market?" The old disciple said, "I know that my
master loves a particular type of cake, so I am going to
purchase the cake." It was difficult to find the cake, but by
the evening somehow he managed. He came running with the cake.

And everybody was worried – it was as if the Master was waiting
for someone. He would open his eyes and look, and close his
eyes again. When this disciple came, he said, "Okay, so you have
come. Where is the cake?" The disciple produced the cake – and
he was very happy that the Master asked about it. Dying, the
Master took the cake in his hand… but his hand was not trembling.
He was very old, but his hand was not trembling. So somebody
asked, "You are so old and just on the verge of dying. The last
breath is soon to leave you, but your hand is not trembling."

The Master said, "I never tremble, because there is no fear. My
body has become old but I am still young, and I will remain
young even when the body is gone." Then he took a bite, started
munching the cake. And then somebody asked, "What is your last
message, Master? You will be leaving us soon. What do you want
us to remember?" The Master smiled and said, "Ah, this cake is
delicious." This is a man who lives in the here and now: This
cake is delicious. Even death is irrelevant. The next moment is
meaningless. This moment, this cake is delicious. If you can be
in this moment, this present moment, this presentness, the
plenitude, then only can you love.

Love is a rare flowering. It happens only sometimes. Millions
and millions of people live in the false attitude that they are
lovers. They believe that they love, but that is their belief
only.

Love is a rare flowering. Sometimes it happens. It is rare
because it can happen only when there is no fear, never before.
That means love can happen only to a very deeply spiritual,
religious person. Sex is possible for all. Acquaintance is
possible for all. Not love.

When you are not afraid, then there is nothing to hide; then
you can be open, then you can withdraw all boundaries. And
then you can invite the other to penetrate you to the very core.

And remember, if you allow somebody to penetrate you deeply,
the other will allow you to penetrate into himself or herself,
because when you allow somebody to penetrate you, trust is
created. When you are not afraid, the other becomes fearless.

In your love, fear is always there. The husband is afraid of
the wife, the wife is afraid of the husband. Lovers are always
afraid. Then it is not love. Then it is just an arrangement of
two fearful persons depending on each other, fighting,
exploiting, manipulating, controlling, dominating, possessing –
but it is not love.
If you can allow love to happen, there is no need for prayer,
there is no need for meditation, there is no need for any
church, any temple. You can completely forget God if you can
love – because through love, everything will have happened to
you: meditation, prayer, God, everything will have happened to
you. That’s what Jesus means when he says love is God.

But love is difficult. Fear has to be dropped. And this is the
strange thing, that you are so afraid and you have nothing to
lose.

The mystic Kabir has said somewhere, "I look into people… they
are so much afraid, but I can’t see why – because they have
nothing to lose." Says Kabir, "They are like a person who is
naked, but never goes to take a bath in the river because he is
afraid – where will he dry his clothes?" This is the situation
you are in – naked, with no clothes, but always worried about
the clothes.

What have you got to lose? Nothing. This body will be taken by
death; before it is taken by death, give it to love. Whatsoever
you have will be taken away; before it is taken away, why not
share it? That is the only way of possessing it. If you can
share and give, you are the master. It is going to be taken away
– there is nothing which you can retain forever. Death will
destroy everything.

So, if you follow me rightly, the struggle is between death and
love. If you can give, there will be no death. Before anything
can be taken away from you, you will have already given it, you
will have made it a gift. There can be no death.

For a lover there is no death. For a non-lover, every moment is
a death because every moment something is being snatched away
from him. The body is disappearing, he is losing every moment.
And then there will be death, and everything will be
annihilated.

What is the fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is
known about you and you are an open book, why fear? How can it
harm you? Just false conceptions, just conditionings given by
the society – that you have to hide, that you have to protect
yourself, that you have to be constantly in a fighting mood,
that everybody is an enemy, that everybody is against you.

Nobody is against you! Even if you feel somebody is against you,
he too is not against you – because everybody is concerned with
himself, not with you. There is nothing to fear. This has to
be realized before a real relationship can happen. There is
nothing to fear.

Meditate on it. And then allow the other to enter you, invite
the other to enter you. Don’t create any barrier anywhere;
become a passage always open, no locks, no doors on you, no
closed doors on you. Then love is possible.

When two centers meet, there is love. And love is an alchemical
phenomenon – just like hydrogen and oxygen meet and a new thing
, water, is created. You can have hydrogen, you can have oxygen,
but if you are thirsty they will be useless. You can have as
much oxygen as you want, as much hydrogen as you like, but the
thirst will not go.

When two centers meet a new thing is created. That new thing is
love. And it is just like water; the thirst of many, many lives
is satisfied. Suddenly you become content. That is the visible
sign of love; you become content, as if you have achieved
everything. There is nothing to achieve now; you have reached
the goal. There is no further goal, destiny is fulfilled. The
seed has become a flower, has come to its total flowering.

Deep contentment is the visible sign of love. Whenever a person
is in love, he is in deep contentment. Love cannot be seen but
contentment, the deep satisfaction around him...his every
breath, his every movement, his very being, content.

You may be surprised when I say to you that love makes you
desireless, but desire comes with discontent. You desire because
you don’t have. You desire because you think that if you have
something it will give you contentment. Desire comes out of
discontent.

When there is love and two centers have met and dissolved and
merged, and a new alchemical quality is born, contentment is
there. It is as if the whole existence has stopped – no movement
. Then the present moment is the only moment. And then you can
say, "Ah, this cake is delicious." Even death doesn’t mean
anything to a man who is in love.

Freedom The Courage to Be Yourself

2008-09-02T06:14:00.001-07:00

Man has not come to the point where governments can be dissolved. Anarchists like Kropotkin have against the government, the law. He wanted to dissolve them. I am also an anarchist, but in a totally opposite way to Kropotkin.

I want to raise the consciousness of human beings to the point where government becomes futile, courts remain empty, nobody is murdered, nobody is raped, nobody is tortured or harassed. Do you see the difference? Kropotkin’s emphasis is to dissolve the governments. My emphasis is to raise the consciousness of human beings to the point where governments become, of their own accord, useless; to the point that courts start closing, that police start disappearing because there is now work, judges are told, "Find some other job." I am an anarchist from a very different dimension. First let people be ready, and governments will disappear on their own. I am not in favor of destroying governments; they are fulfilling a certain need. Man is so barbarous, so ugly, that if he is not prevented by force, the whole society will be in a chaos.

I am not in favor of chaos. I want human society to become a harmonious whole, a vast commune all around the world: People meditating, people without guilt, people with great serenity, silence; people rejoicing, dancing, singing; people who have no desire to compete with anybody; people who have dropped the very idea that they are special and have to prove it by becoming the president of America; people who are no longer suffering from any inferiority complex, so nobody wants to be superior, nobody brags about his greatness. The governments will evaporate like dewdrops in the early morning sun. But that is a totally different story, a totally different approach. Till that moment comes, governments are needed.

It is a simple thing. If you are sick, medicines are needed. An anarchist like Kropotkin wants to destroy the medicines. I want you to be healthy so you don’t need medicines. Automatically you will throw them out - what will you do with all those medicines? They are utterly useless, in fact, dangerous; most medicines are poisons. For what purpose will you go on accumulating them? See the difference of emphasis.

I am not against medicines, I am against the sickness of human beings which makes medicines necessary. I would like a healthier human being - which is possible with genetic engineering - a human being who has no possibility of becoming sick because we have programmed him from his very birth in such a way that he cannot be sick, we have made arrangements in his body to fight against any sickness. Certainly medicines would disappear, pharmacies would disappear, doctors would disappear, medical colleges would be closed. But I am not against them! That will be simply a consequence of a healthy humanity.

I want one world, one language, one religiousness, one humanity -- and when humanity is really grown-up in consciousness, one government.

Government is not something to brag about. It is an insult. Its existence says to you that you are still barbarous, civilization has not happened; otherwise what is the need of a government to rule you?

If all the crimes disappear, if all the fears that others can exploit you, murder you, disappear, what will you do with this whole bureaucracy of government? You cannot continue it, because it is a burden on the economy of the nation, a big burden, and it goes on becoming bigger and bigger. The hierarchies have a tendency to become bigger and bigger for the simple reason that everybody wants not to work, everybody hates work. So everybody needs more assistance; the work is growing.

You can see, in any government office, files just piled up on the tables. Unless you are able to bribe someone, your file may remain somewhere in the huge pile, it will never come to the top. And the bureaucrats enjoy having many files there; it makes them big, special. They have power over so many people; in their minds, all these files contain their power over people.

I am an anarchist of a totally different category from all the anarchists who have existed on the earth. I am a category in myself, because my approach is totally different. I am not against government, I am against the need for government. I am not against the courts, I am against the need for the courts.

Someday, some time, I see the possibility that man will be able to live without any control - religious or political - because he will be a discipline unto himself.

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Intelligence: The Creative Response to Now

2008-09-02T06:13:00.001-07:00

Man’s mind is a Pandora’s box.

It contains the whole of evolution from the lowest creature to the highest genius. They are all living together in man’s mind simultaneously, they are all contemporaries. It is not that something is past, something is present, something is future: as far as mind is concerned everything is simultaneous, contemporary.

It has to be understood very clearly because without understanding it the question of divisive belief systems and fanaticism will remain unresolved. The idiot is in you, and so is the genius. Of course the idiot is much more powerful because it has a longer history, and the genius is a very still, small voice. From Khomeini to Einstein you are spread; and the trouble is that Khomeini is in the majority, much more in you than Albert Einstein, who is in a very poor minority.

Think of man’s mind as a pyramid. The base is made up of Khomeinis, millions of Khomeiniacs, and as you go upwards there are fewer and fewer people. At the peak they are not in millions, not in billions, only in dozens -- and at the very peak, perhaps there is a single individual.

But remember that the difference between Khomeini and Einstein is not of quality, it is only of quantity, because part of Khomeini is Albert Einstein, and the major part of Albert Einstein is also Khomeini.

Recently the results of a three-year long research on Albert Einstein’s brain were published. It took three years just to count the cells of his brain. There are millions of cells in every brain doing different kinds of specific work: it is a very miraculous world. How a certain cell functions in a certain way is still not known. A certain cell thinks, a certain cell dreams, a certain cell poetizes, a certain cell paints. What makes the difference between these groups of cells? They are all alike as far as chemistry and physiology is concerned; there seems to be no difference at all. But there are cells which think, there are cells which imagine, there are cells which are mathematical, and there are cells which are philosophical. It is a whole world.

Three years counting the cells of Albert Einstein’s brain -- the result is very significant. A certain kind of cell has been found in his brain -- twenty-seven percent more than in the average brain. That certain kind of cell has only one function: to feed, nourish, the thinking cells. It has no direct function, it is a nourishment to the thinking cells. And this nourishing cell has been found to be twenty-seven percent more numerous than in the ordinary, average man.

Now the difference is of quantity, it is not a qualitative difference: those extra twenty-seven percent cells can be grown in you. And why only twenty-seven? Two hundred and seventy percent more can be grown because it is well-known and an established fact how those cells grow.

In white mice they have been growing all kinds of cells. If the white mouse is given more things to play with, he starts growing those nourishing cells, because he has to think. If you put him in a maze and he has to find the way through it -- if you put him in a box where food is hidden somewhere and he has to find the way through all kinds of labyrinths to reach the food, and he has to remember the ways that he has followed -- of course a certain kind of thinking has started. And the more he thinks, the more is the need for the nourishing cell.

Nature provides you whatever you need. Whatever you have is not given by any god, by fate; it has been created by your need. But one thing out of this whole research is very shocking and shattering: that the difference between Einstein and Khomeini is only of quantity. And that quantity also is not something special, it can be created: old Khomeini just has to start playing chess, cards.... Of course he won’t, but if he starts playing chess and cards and other things he will have to think.

Religions kill this very nourishing cell because they tell you to believe. Believing means: Don’t think, don’t play with ideas. Don’t try to find out on your own. Jesus has already found it, Buddha has already said it -- why should you be unnecessarily concerned? Then naturally that part that makes a man an Einstein does not develop: you remain average. And average means the basement of humanity.

Hence, I call man’s mind a Pandora’s box. And for another reason also -- because whatever has happened in evolution has left its traces within you. You are still afraid of darkness -- that fear must be millions of years old; it has nothing to do with the modern world. In fact it is difficult in a place like New York to find a dark corner, everything is so lighted. People may not be enlightened, but places are!

Why this fear of darkness? Because in modern life you don’t come across darkness in any fearful way. If you meet darkness at all it is soothing, relaxing, rejuvenating. Rather than being afraid of it you should have a certain love for it. But the very idea of loving darkness seems absurd. Somewhere deep down in your heart is still the caveman who was afraid of darkness. The fear of darkness comes from those days when ways to create fire had not been discovered. Those were the days of darkness, and darkness became almost synonymous with evil. Everywhere evil is painted as dark, black. Darkness became synonymous with death. Everywhere death is painted as black.

The reason is very clear: before man learned how to create fire, night was the most dangerous time. If you survived one night you had done something really great, because in the night all the wild animals were ready to attack you. You could not sleep, you had to remain awake -- just the fear of the wild animals was enough to keep you awake. And still they would attack in darkness, and man was helpless.

So darkness became evil, bad, and synonymous with death. And the fear has entered so deep in the heart that still today, when darkness has gone through a complete transformation.... Neither wild animals attack you in the dark, nor does darkness bring any evil or death to you. It only brings soothing sleep, takes away all the tiredness of the day; makes you again young, alive, full of energy, ready to meet tomorrow’s morning sun. But our attitude remains the same. So is the case with everything.

In the past, throughout the whole of evolution, man had to become part of a certain group, organization, society, tribe, for the simple reason that alone, he was so helpless. Alone, and the whole wilderness against you -- it was difficult to face it. Together, with a crowd, you felt more protected, more secure...

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Intimacy Trusting Oneself and the Other

2008-09-02T06:12:00.000-07:00

Truthfulness means authenticity—to be true, not to be false, not to use masks. Whatsoever is your real face, show it at whatever the cost.

Remember, that doesn’t mean that you have to unmask others; if they are happy with their lies it is for them to decide. Don’t go and unmask anybody, because this is how people think—they say they have to be truthful, authentic; they mean they have to go and make everybody nude, because “why are you hiding your body? These clothes are not needed.” No. Please remember: be truthful to yourself. You are not needed to reform anybody else in the world. If you can grow yourself, that’s enough. Don’t be a reformer and don’t try to teach others, and don’t try to change others. If you change, that’s enough of a message.

To be authentic means to remain true to your own being. How to remain true? Three things have to be remembered. One, never listen to anybody, what they tell you to be. Always listen to your inner voice, what you would like to be; otherwise your whole life will be wasted. Your mother wants you to be an engineer, your father wants you to be a doctor, and you want to be a poet. What to do? Of course the mother is right because it is more economical, more financially helpful, to be an engineer. The father is also right; to be a doctor is a good commodity in the market, it has a market value. A poet? Have you gone mad? Are you crazy? Poets are people who are cursed. Nobody wants them. There is no need for them; the world can exist without poetry—there will be no trouble just because there is no poetry. The world cannot exist without engineers; the world needs engineers. If you are needed, you are valuable. If you are not needed you don’t carry any value.

But if you want to be a poet, be a poet. You may be a beggar—good. You may not become very rich out of it, but don’t worry about it—because otherwise you may become a great engineer, and you may earn much money but you will never have any fulfillment. You will always hanker; your inner being will hanker to be a poet.

I have heard that one great scientist, a surgeon who was awarded a Nobel Prize, was asked, “When the Nobel Prize was awarded to you, you didn’t look very happy. What is the matter?” He said, “I always wanted to be a dancer. I never wanted to be a surgeon in the first place, and now not only have I become a surgeon, I have become a very successful surgeon and this is a burden. I wanted to be just a dancer, and I remain a lousy dancer—that is my pain, anguish. Whenever I see somebody dancing, I feel so miserable, in such hell. What will I do with this Nobel Prize? It can’t become a dance to me, it can’t give me a dance.”

Remember, be true to your inner voice. It may lead you into danger, then go in danger, but remain true to the inner voice. Then there is a possibility that one day you will come to a state where you can dance with inner fulfillment. Always look: the first thing is your being. Don’t allow others to manipulate and control you—and they are many; everybody is ready to control you, everybody is ready to change you, everybody is ready to give you a direction you have not asked for. Everybody is giving you a guide for your life. The guide exists within you, you carry the blueprint.

To be authentic means to be true to oneself. It is a very, very dangerous phenomenon; rare people can do that. But whenever people do it, they achieve. They achieve such beauty, such grace, such contentment that you cannot imagine. The reason everybody looks so frustrated is that nobody has listened to his own voice. You wanted to marry a girl, but the girl was a Mohammedan and you are a Hindu brahmin, your parents wouldn’t allow it. The society wouldn’t accept it, it was dangerous. The girl was poor and you are rich. So you married a rich woman, Hindu, brahmin by caste, accepted by everybody but not by your heart. So now you live an ugly life. Now you go to the prostitute—but even prostitutes won’t help you; you have prostituted your whole life. You wasted your whole life.

Always listen to the inner voice, and don’t listen to anything else. There are a thousand and one are temptations around you, because many people are peddling their things. It is a supermarket, the world, and everybody in it is interested in selling his thing to you. Everybody is a salesman. If you listen to too many salesmen you will become mad. Don’t listen to anybody, just close your eyes and listen to the inner voice. That is what meditation is all about, to listen to the inner voice. This is the first thing.

Then the second thing—if you have done the first thing only then the second becomes possible—never wear a mask. If you are angry, be angry. It is risky, but don’t smile, because that is being untrue. But you have been taught that when you are angry, smile. Then your smile becomes false, a mask—just an exercise of the lips and nothing else. The heart full of anger, poison, and the lips smiling; you become a false phenomenon.

Then the other thing also happens: when you want to smile, you cannot smile. Your whole mechanism is topsy-turvy because when you wanted to be angry you weren’t, when you wanted to hate you didn’t. Now you want to love; suddenly you find that the mechanism doesn’t function. Now you want to smile; you have to force it. Really your heart is full of smile and you want to laugh out loud, but you cannot laugh. Something chokes in the heart, something chokes in the throat. The smile doesn’t come, or even if it comes it is a very pale and dead smile. It doesn’t make you happy, you don’t bubble up with it. It is not a radiance around you.

When you want to be angry, be angry. Nothing is wrong in being angry. If you want to laugh, laugh. Nothing is wrong in laughing loudly. By and by you will see that your whole system is functioning. When it functions, really, it has a hum around it. Just like a car, when everything is going well, hums—the driver who loves the car knows that now everything is functioning well, there is an organic unity; the mechanism is functioning well.

You can see it—whenever a person’s mechanism is functioning well you can hear the hum around him. He walks but his step has a dance in it. He talks but his words carry a subtle poetry in them. He looks at you and he really looks; it is not just lukewarm, it is really warm. When he touches you he really touches you; you can feel his energy moving into your body, a current of life being transferred, because his mechanism is functioning well....

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Intuition Knowing Beyond Logic

2008-09-02T06:11:00.002-07:00

Once you have known the art of how to listen to your intuition, you will be surprised: intellect can err, intuition never errs - it is infallible. It always directs you in the right course of action.- Osho

What is intuition? Is it something that some people are born with, and others can never hope to develop? Or is it something that can be taught in courses, according to a set of formulas that anybody with a little perserverance and determination can master?

Osho’s understanding is that intuition is an inborn quality, available to all. But by the time most people reach adulthood, they have lost all contact with so many of their natural gifts - intuition among them - that they no longer even believe such gifts exist. Many things contribute to this loss of connection with our inborn gift of intuition - from the efforts of well-meaning parents to protect us from harm or ridicule, to attempts by our teachers to create classrooms full of orderly and obedient students. In the process we are taught to value safety more than exploration, to live within the confines of the logical mind at the expense of following the intuitive hunches that so often lead to true genius.

Intuition is the direct perception of reality, without interference from the prejudices and belief-systems of the mind. It is "knowing beyond logic" - and only those who are capable of going beyond the limitations of logic and analysis are able to respond creatively to the new and changing situations they encounter every day. In this book, Osho shows the way to removing the hindrances that have been placed in the way of our intuition so that it can flower and bring a new quality of intelligence and wholeness to our lives.

LIVE IN JOY

2008-09-02T06:11:00.001-07:00

Happiness is unbelievable. It seems that man cannot be happy. If you talk about your depression, sadness, misery, everybody believes it; it seems natural. If you talk about your happiness nobody believes you – it seems unnatural.
Sigmund Freud, after forty years of research into the human mind -- working with thousands of people, observing thousands of disturbed minds -- came to the conclusion that happiness is a fiction: man cannot be happy. At the most, we can make things a little more comfortable, that’s all. At the most we can make unhappiness a little less, that’s all, but happy? Man cannot be.
Looks very pessimistic… but looking at humanity, it seems to be exactly the case; it seems to be a fact. Only human beings are unhappy. Something deep down has gone wrong.
I say this to you on my own authority: Human beings can be happy, more happy than the birds, more happy than the trees, more happy than the stars – because human beings have something which no tree, no bird, no star, has. They have consciousness.
But when you have consciousness, two alternatives are possible: either you can become happy or you can become unhappy. Then it is your choice. Trees are simply happy because they cannot be unhappy. Their happiness is not their freedom; they have to be happy. They don’t know how to be unhappy; there is no alternative for them. The birds chirping in the trees are happy not because they have chosen to be happy – they are simply happy because they don’t know any other way to be. Their happiness is unconscious; it is simply natural.
Human beings can be tremendously happy and tremendously unhappy – and they are free to choose. This freedom is hazardous, this freedom is very dangerous because you become responsible. And something has happened with this freedom, something has gone wrong. Man is somehow standing on his head.

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Amateurs and Experts

2008-09-02T06:09:00.000-07:00

All great discoveries are made by amateurs.

It always happens that when you start new work, you are very
creative, you are deeply involved, your whole being is in it.
Then by and by, as you become acquainted with the territory,
rather than being inventive and creative you start being
repetitive. This is natural, because the more skilled you
become in any work, the more repetitive you become. Skill is
repetitive.

So all great discoveries are made by amateurs, because a skilled

person has too much at stake. If something new happens, what
will happen to the old skill? The person has learned for years

and now has become an expert. So experts never discover anything
;
they never go beyond the limit of their expertise. On the one
hand, they become more and more skillful, and on the other hand
they become more and more dull and the work seems to be a drag.
Now there is nothing new that can be a thrill to them—they
already know what is going to happen, they know what they are
going to do; there is no surprise in it.

So here is the lesson: It is good to attain to skill, but it is
not good to settle with it forever. Whenever the feeling arises
in you that now the thing is looking stale, change it. Invent
something, add something new, delete something old. Again be
free from the pattern—that means be free from the skill—again
become an amateur. It needs courage and guts, to become an
amateur again, but that’s how life becomes beautiful.

3. Choose Nature

Wherever you find that society is in conflict with nature,
choose nature—whatever the cost. You will never be a loser.

The thinking up to now has been that the individual exists for
the society, that the individual has to follow what the society
dictates. The individual has to fit with the society. That has
become the definition of the normal human being—one who fits
with the society. Even if the society is insane, you have to
fit with it; then you are normal.

Now the problem for the individual is that nature demands one
thing, and society demands something contrary. If the society
were demanding the same as nature demands, there would be no
conflict. We would have remained in the Garden of Eden. The
problem arises because society has its own interests, which are
not necessarily in tune with the interests of the individual.
Society has its own investments, and the individual has to be
sacrificed. This is a very topsy-turvy world. It should be just
the other way round. The individual does not exist for the
society, the society exists for the individual. Because society
is just an institution, it has no soul. The individual has the
soul, is the conscious center.

4. An Echoing Place

The world is an echoing place. If we throw anger, anger comes
back; if we give love, love comes back.

Love should not be demanding; otherwise it loses wings, it
cannot fly. It becomes rooted in the earth becomes very earthly;
then it is lust and it brings great misery and great suffering.
Love should not be conditional, one should not expect anything
out of it. It should be for its own sake—not for any reward, not
for any result. If there is some motive in it, again, your love

cannot become the sky. It is confined to the motive; the motive
becomes its definition, its boundary. Unmotivated love has no
boundary: It is pure elation, exuberance, it is the fragrance of
the heart.

And just because there is no desire for any result, it does not
mean that results do not happen; they do, they happen a
thousandfold, because whatever we give to the world comes back,
it rebounds. The world is an echoing place. If we throw anger,
anger comes back; if we give love, love comes back. But that
is a natural phenomenon; one need not think about it. One can
trust: It happens on its own. This is the law of karma: Whatever
you sow, you reap; whatever you give, you receive. So there is
no need to think about it, it is automatic. Hate, and you will
be hated. Love, and you will be loved.

5. Retrospective Wisdom

The other is never responsible. Just watch. If you become wise
in the moment, there will be no problem. But everybody becomes
wise when the moment is gone. Retrospective wisdom is worthless.

When you have done everything, you have fought and nagged and
bitched and then you become wise and see that there was no
point in it, it is too late. It is meaningless—you have already
done the harm. This wisdom is just pseudo-wisdom. It gives you
a feeling "as if" you have understood. That is a trick of the
ego. This wisdom is not going to help. When you are doing the
thing, at that very moment, simultaneously, the awareness should
arise, and you should see that what you are doing is useless.

If you can see it when it is there, then you cannot do it. One
can never go against one’s awareness, and if one goes against
it, that awareness is not awareness. Something else is being
mistaken for it.

So remember, the other is never responsible for anything. The
problem is something boiling within you. And of course the one
you love is closest. You cannot throw it on some stranger
passing on the road, so the closest person becomes the place
where you go on throwing and pouring your nonsense. But that
has to be avoided, because love is very fragile. If you do it
too much, if you overdo it, love can disappear.

The other is never responsible. Try to make this such a
permanent state of awareness in you that whenever you start
finding something wrong with the other, remember it. Catch
yourself red-handed, and drop it then and there. And ask to be
s forgiven.

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The Book of Secrets

2008-09-02T06:06:00.002-07:00

"Tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. This is the basic note
-- total acceptance. And only through total acceptance can you
grow. Then use every energy you have.

How can you use them? Accept them, then find out what these
energies are -- what is sex, what is this phenomenon. We are
not acquainted with it. We know many things about sex, taught
by others. We may have passed through the sex act, but with a
guilty mind, with a suppressive attitude, in haste, in a hurry.
Something has to be done in order to become unburdened. The
sex act is not a loving act. You are not happy in it, but you
cannot leave it. The more you try to leave it, the more
attractive it becomes. The more you want to negate it, the more
you feel invited. You cannot negate it, but this attitude to
negate, to destroy, destroys the very mind, the very awareness,
the very sensitivity which can understand it. So sex goes on
with no sensitivity into it. Then you cannot understand it.

Only a deep sensitivity can understand anything; only a deep
feeling, a deep moving into it, can understand anything. You
can understand sex only if you move in it as a poet moves amidst
flowers -- only then! If you feel guilty about flowers, you may
pass through the garden, but you will pass with closed eyes.
And you will be in a hurry, in a deep, mad haste. Somehow you
have to go out of the garden. Then how can you be aware?

So tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. You are a great
mystery of many multidimensional energies. Accept it, and move
with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with
love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every desire
becomes a vehicle to go beyond it. Then every energy becomes a
help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a
temple -- a holy temple, a holy place.

Question: WHAT ARE THE INDICATIONS TO KNOW THAT A PARTICULAR
TECHNIQUE WILL WORK FOR ME? (from Chapter 2, The Book of Secrets)

There are indications. One, you begin to feel a different
identity within you. You are no more the same. If the technique
fits you, immediately you are a different person. If you are a
husband, you are no more the same husband. If you are a
shopkeeper, you are never again the same shopkeeper. Whatsoever
you are, if the technique fits you, you are a different person;
that is the first indication.

So if you begin to feel strange about yourself, know that
something is happening to you. If you remain the same and do
not feel any strangeness, nothing is happening. This is the
first indication of whether a technique fits you. If it fits,
immediately you are transported, transformed into a different
person. Suddenly this happens: you look at the world in a
different way. The eyes are the same, but the looker behind
them is different.

Secondly, all that creates tensions, conflicts, starts dropping.
It is not that when you have practiced the method for years,
then your conflicts, anxieties, tensions will drop -- no! If
the method fits you, immediately they start dropping. You can
feel an aliveness coming to you; you are being unburdened. You
will begin to feel, if the technique fits you, that gravity has
become reversed. Now the earth is not pulling you down. Rather,
the sky is pulling you up.

How do you feel when an airplane takes off? Everything is
disturbed. Suddenly there is a jerk, and gravity becomes
meaningless. Now the earth is not pulling you, you are going
away from gravity. The same jerk happens if a meditative
technique fits you. Suddenly you take off. Suddenly you feel
the earth has become meaningless; there is no gravity. It is
not pulling you down, you are being pulled up.

In religious terminology, this is called "grace." There are two
forces -- gravity and grace. Grace means you are being pulled
upwards; gravity means you are being pulled downwards. That is
why in meditation many people suddenly feel they have no weight.
That is why many people feel an inner levitation. So many have
reported this to me when the technique fits them: "This is
strange! We close our eyes and we feel that we are a little bit
above the earth -- one foot, two feet, even four feet above the
earth. When we open our eyes we are just on the ground; when we
close our eyes we have levitated. So what is this? When we open
our eyes we are just on the ground! We never levitated."
The body remains on the ground, but you levitate. This
levitation is really a pull from the above.

If the technique fits you have been pulled, because the working
of the technique is to make available for you the upward pull.
This is what the technique means: to make you available for the
force which can pull you up. So if it fits, you know -- you
have become weightless.

Thirdly, whatsoever you will now do --whatsoever, howsoever
trivial, -- will be different. You will walk in a different
way, you will sit in a different way, you will eat in a
different way. Everything will be different. This difference
you will feel everywhere. Sometimes this strange experience of
being different creates fear. One wants again to go back and be
the same, because one was so attuned with the old. It was a
routine world, even boring, but you were efficient in it. Now
everywhere you will feel a gap. You will feel that your
efficiency is lost. You will feel that your utility is reduced.
You will feel that everywhere you are an outsider.

One has to pass through this period. You will become attuned
again. You have changed, not the world, so you will not fit.
So remember the third thing: When the technique fits you, you
will not fit into the world. You will become unfit. Everywhere
something is loose, some bolt is missing. Everywhere you will
feel that there has been an earthquake. And everything has
remained the same; only you, you have become different. But you
will be attuned again on a different plane, on a higher plane.

The disturbance is felt just like when a child grows and becomes
sexually mature. At the age of fourteen or fifteen every boy
feels that he has become strange. A new force has entered -- sex
. It was not there before, or it was, but it was hidden. Now for
the first time he has become available for a new kind of force.
That is why boys are very awkward; girls, boys, when they
become sexually mature they are very awkward. They are nowhere.
They are no longer children and they are not yet men, so they
are in between, fitting nowhere. If they play with small
children they feel awkward -- they have become men. If they
start making friendships with men they feel awkward -- they
are still children. They fit with no one.

The same phenomenon happens when a technique fits you. A new
energy source becomes available that is greater than sex. You
are again in a transitory period. Now you cannot fit in this
world of worldly men. You are not a child, and you cannot yet
fit in the world of saints; and in between one feels awkward.
If a technique fits you these three things will come up.

You may not have expected that I would say these things. You
may have expected that I would say you will become more silent,
more quiet, and I am saying quite the contrary: you will
become more disturbed. When the technique fits you will become
more disturbed, not more silent. Silence will come later on.
And if silence comes and not disturbance, know well that this
is not a technique; this is just getting adjusted to the old
pattern. That is why more people go for a prayer than for
meditation because prayer gives you a consolation. It fits you,
adjusts to you, to your world.

Prayer was doing virtually the same thing that psychoanalysts
are now doing. If you are disturbed they will make you less
disturbed, adjusted to the pattern, to the society, to the
family. So by going to a psychoanalyst for one, two or three
years you will not get better, but you will be more adjusted.
Prayer does the same thing, and priests do the same thing --
they make you more adjusted. Your child has died and you are
disturbed, and you go to a priest. He says, "Do not be disturbed.
Only those children die early whom God loves more. He calls
them up." You feel satisfied. Your child has been "called up."
God loves him more. Or the priest says something else: "Do not
be worried, the soul never dies. Your child is in heaven."
These prayers, they make you adjusted to the pattern... you
feel better.

Meditation is a science. It is not going to help you in
adjustment, it is going to help you in transformation.

That is why I say these three signs will be there as
indications. Silence will come, but not as an adjustment.
Silence will come as an inner flowering. Then silence will not
be an adjustment with the society, with the family, the world,
the business -- no! Then silence will be a real harmony with
the universe. Then a deep harmony flowers between you and the
totality, then there is silence -- but that will come later.
First you will get disturbed, first you will become mad. If a
technique fits, it will make you aware of everything that you
are. Your anarchy, your mind, your madness, everything will come
to light. You are just a dark mess. When a technique fits, it
is as if suddenly there is light and the whole mess becomes
apparent. For the first time you will encounter yourself as
you are. You would like to put the light off and go to sleep
again -- it is fearful.

This is the point where the master becomes helpful. He says,
"Do not be afraid. This is just the beginning. And do not
escape from it." At first this light shows you what you are,
and if you can go on and on, it transforms you toward what you
can be.

TRY THIS TECHNIQUE: (from The Book of Secrets, Chapter 49)

IN SUMMER WHEN YOU SEE THE ENTIRE SKY ENDLESSLY CLEAR, ENTER
SUCH CLARITY.

Mind is confusion; there is no clarity. And mind is always
crowded, always cloudy -- never the open sky, cloudless, empty;

mind cannot be that. You cannot make your mind clear; it is
not the nature of the mind to be so. Mind will remain unclear.

If you can leave the mind behind, if you can suddenly transcend
the mind and come out of it, clarity will happen to you. You
can be clear, but not the mind. There is not such a thing as a
clear mind; never has been and never will be. Mind means the
unclarity, the confusion.

Try to understand the structure of the mind, and then this
technique will be clear to you. What is mind? A continuous
process of thought, a continuous procession of thoughts --
associated, non-associated, relevant, irrelevant -- many,
multi-dimensional impressions gathered from everywhere. The
whole of life is a gathering, a gathering of the dust. And this
goes on and on.

A child is born. A child is clear because the mind is not there.
The moment mind appears, the unclarity, the confusion enters.
A child is clear, a clarity, but he will have to gather
knowledge, information, culture, religion, conditionings --
necessary, useful. He will have to gather many things from
everywhere, from many sources -- opposite, contradictory sources
. From thousands and thousands of sources he will gather. Then
the mind will become a marketplace, a crowd, and because of so
many sources, confusion is bound to be there. And whatsoever
you gather, nothing is certain, because knowledge is always a
growing affair.

I remember, someone related an anecdote to me. He was a great
searcher, and he told me this about his professor who taught
him for five years in a medical college. The professor was a
great scholar of his subject. The last thing he did was to
gather his students and tell them, "One thing more I have to
teach you. Whatsoever I have taught you is only fifty percent
correct, and the remaining fifty percent is absolutely wrong.
But the trouble, is, I don’t know which fifty percent is correct
and which fifty percent is incorrect -- I don’t know."

The whole edifice of knowledge is such. Nothing is certain, no
one knows, everyone is groping. Through groping we create
systems, and there are thousands and thousands of systems.
Hindus say something, Christians say something else, Mohammedans
still something else -- all contradictory, all contradicting
each other; no agreement, no certainty -- and all these sources
are the sources for your mind. You collect: your mind becomes
a junkyard; confusion is bound to be there.

Only a person who doesn’t know much can be certain. The more
you know, the more uncertain you will become. People, primitive
people, were more certain and appeared to be more clear. There
was no clarity -- simply unawareness of facts that could
contradict them. If the modern mind is more confused, the reason
is that the modern mind knows more. If you know more you will
be more confused, because now you have more knowledge, and the
more you know, the more uncertain you become. Only idiots can
be certain, only idiots can be dogmatic, only idiots will never
hesitate. The more you know, the more the earth is taken away
from your feet, the more hesitant you become.

What I mean to say is, the more the mind grows, the more you
will know the nature of the mind is confusion. When I say only
idiots can be certain, I don’t mean that a Buddha is an idiot
-- because he is not uncertain. Remember the difference. He is
not certain, he is not uncertain -- he is simply clear. With the
mind, uncertainty; with the idiotic mind, certainty. With no
mind both certainty and uncertainty disappear.

Buddha is a clarity, a space, open space. He is not certain --
there is nothing to be certain. He is not uncertain, because
there is nothing to be uncertain. Only one who is seeking
certainty can be uncertain. Mind is always uncertain and always
seeking certainty; always confused and always seeking clarity.
A Buddha is one who has dropped the mind; and with the mind
all confusion, all certainty, all uncertainty, everything is
dropped.

Look at it in this way: your consciousness is just like the sky
and your mind is just like the clouds. The sky remains
untouched by the clouds. They come and go; no scar is left
behind. The sky remains virgin: no record, no footprints,
nothing of the clouds, no memory. They come and they go; the
sky remains undisturbed.

This is the case within you also: the consciousness remains
undisturbed. Thoughts come and go, minds evolve and disappear.

And don’t think that you have one mind; you have many minds,
it is a crowd. Your minds go on changing. You are a communist,
so you have a certain type of mind. You can leave it and you
can become anti-communist. Then you have a different mind; not
only different, quite the opposite. You can go on changing
your minds just like your dress. And you go on changing -- you
may not be aware of it -- these clouds come and go.

Clarity can be achieved if you become aware of the sky; if your
focus changes. You are focused on the clouds if you are
unfocused on the sky. Unfocus on the clouds and focus on the
sky.

This technique says: IN SUMMER WHEN YOU SEE THE ENTIRE SKY
ENDLESSLY CLEAR, ENTER SUCH CLARITY.

Meditate on the sky; a summer sky with no clouds, endlessly
empty and clear, nothing moving in it, in its total virginity.
Contemplate on it, meditate on it, and enter this clarity.
Become this clarity, this space-like clarity.

If you meditate on open unclouded sky, suddenly you will feel
that the mind is disappearing, the mind is dropping away. There
will be gaps. Suddenly you will become aware that it is as if
the clear sky has entered in you also. There will be intervals.
For a time, thoughts will cease -- as if the traffic has
ceased and there is no one moving.

In the beginning it will be only for moments, but even those
moments are transforming. By and by the mind will slow down,
bigger gaps will appear. For minutes together there will be no
thought, no cloud. And when there is no thought, no cloud, the
outer sky and the inner become one -- because only the thought
is the barrier, only the thought creates the wall; only because
of the thought the outer is outer and the inner is inner.

When the thought is not there, the outer and the inner lose
their boundaries, they become one. Really, boundaries never
existed there. They appeared only because of the thought, the
barrier.

To meditate on the sky is beautiful. Just lie down so you forget
the earth; just lie down on your back on any lonely beach, on
any ground, and just look at the sky. But a clear sky will be
helpful -- unclouded, endless. And just looking, staring at
the sky, feel the clarity of it -- the uncloudedness, the
boundless expanse -- and then enter that clarity, become one
with it. Feel as if you have become the sky, the space.

In the beginning, if you only meditate on the open sky, not
doing anything else, intervals will start appearing, because
whatsoever you see enters you. Whatsoever you see stirs you
within; whatsoever you see is pictured, reflected. You see a
building. You cannot simply see it; something immediately starts
happening within you. You see a man, a woman; you see a car --
you see anything. It is not just outside, something has started
within, the reflection, and you have started reacting to it. So
everything you see moulds you, makes you, modifies you, creates
you. The without is constantly related with the within.

To look into the open sky is good. Just the expanse is beautiful
, with no boundaries there. Your own boundaries will disappear,
because the no-boundary sky will reflect within you. And if
you can stare without blinking your eyes it will be good. If
you stare without blinking your eyes... because if you blink
your eyes your thought-process will continue. Stare without
blinking the eyes. Stare in the emptiness, move into that
emptiness, feel that you have become one with it, and any
moment the sky will enter within you. First you enter into the
sky and then the sky enters you. And there is a meeting: the
inner sky meeting the outer sky.

In that meeting is realization. In that meeting there is no
mind, because the meeting can happen only when the mind is
not there. In that meeting you are for the first time not your
mind. There is no confusion. Confusion cannot exist without
the mind. There is no misery, because misery also cannot exist
without the mind.

Have you observed this fact anytime or not -- that misery cannot
exist without your mind? You cannot be miserable without your
mind. The very source is not there. Who will supply you with
this misery? Who will make you miserable? And the same is true
from the opposite direction also: you cannot be miserable
without your mind and you cannot be blissful with your mind.
The mind can never be the source of bliss.

So if the inner and outer sky meet and mind disappears, even
for a moment, you will be filled with a new life. The quality
of that life is absolutely different. It is life eternal,
uncontaminated by death, uncontaminated by any fear. In that
meeting you will be here and now, in the present -- because
past belongs to thoughts, future belongs to thoughts.

Past and future are part of your mind. Present is existence --
it is not part of your mind. This moment doesn’t belong to
your mind. The moment that has gone belongs to your mind; the
moment that has yet to come belongs to your mind. This moment
never belongs to you. Rather, you belong to this moment. You
exist here, right now here. Your mind exists somewhere else,
always somewhere else.

Unload yourself. I was reading one Sufi mystic. He was traveling
on a lonely path, the way was deserted, and he saw a farmer
with his bullock cart. The cart was stuck in mud. The road was
rough. The farmer was carrying a big load of apples in his
bullock cart, but somewhere on the rough road the tailboard of
the wagon became unfastened and the apples were scattered. But
he was not aware of it; the farmer was not aware of it. When
the cart got stuck in the mud, first he tried to bring it out
somehow, but all efforts were in vain, so he thought, "Now I
must unload my cart, then maybe I can pull it out." He looked
back. Hardly a dozen apples were left -- the load was already
unloaded! You can feel his misery. The Sufi reports in his
memoirs that that exasperated farmer made a remark. He said,
"Stuck, by heck! Stuck! -- and not a damn thing to unload!"
The only possibility was that if he could unload the cart it
could come out; but now -- nothing to unload!

Fortunately you are not stuck in such a way. You can unload --
your cart is too much loaded. You can unload the mind, and
the moment the mind is not there, you fly; you become capable
of flying.

This technique -- to look into the clarity of the sky and to
become one with it -- is one of the most practiced. Many
traditions have used this. And particularly for the modern mind
it will be very useful, because on earth nothing is left. On
earth nothing is left to meditate on -- only the sky. If you
look all around, everything is man-made, everything is limited,
with a boundary, a limitation. Only the sky is still,
fortunately, open to meditate on.

Try this technique, it will be helpful, but remember three
things. One: don’t blink -- stare. Even if your eyes start to
feel pain and tears come down, don’t be worried. Even those
tears will be a part of unloading; they will be helpful. Those
tears will make your eyes more innocent and fresh -- bathed.
You just go on staring.

The second point: don’t think about the sky, remember. You can
start thinking about the sky. You can remember many poems,
beautiful poems about the sky -- then you will miss the point.
You are not to think "about" it -- you are to enter it, you
are to be one with it -- because if you start thinking about
it, again a barrier is created. You are missing the sky again,
and you are again enclosed in your own mind. Don’t think about
the sky. Be the sky. Just stare and move into the sky, and
allow the sky to move in you. If you move into the sky, the sky
will move into you immediately.

How can you do it? How will you do it -- this moving into the
sky? Just go on staring farther away and farther away. Go on
staring -- as if you are trying to find the boundary. Move deep.
Move as much as you can. That very movement will break the
barrier. And this method should be practiced for at least forty
minutes; less than that will not do, will not be of much help.
When you really feel that you have become one, then you can
close the eyes. When the sky has entered in you, you can close
the eyes. You will be able to see it within also. Then there is
no need. So only after forty minutes, when you feel that the
oneness has happened and there is a communion and you have
become part of it and the mind is no more, close the eyes and
remain in the sky within.

The clarity will help the third point: ENTER SUCH CLARITY. The
clarity will help -- the uncontaminated, unclouded sky. Just
be aware of the clarity that is all around you. Don’t think
about it; just be aware of the clarity, the purity, the
innocence. These words are not to be repeated. You have to feel
them rather than think. And once you stare into the sky the
feeling will come, because it is not on your part to imagine
these things -- they are there. If you stare they will start
happening to you.

The sky is pure, the purest thing in existence. Nothing makes it
impure. Worlds come and go, earths are there and then disappear
, and the sky remains pure. The purity is there. You need not
project it, you are simply to feel it -- to be vulnerable to
it so you can feel it -- and the clarity is there. Allow the
sky to happen to you. You cannot force it; you can only allow
it to happen.

All meditations are really allowing something to happen. Never
think in terms of aggression, never think in terms of forcing
something. You cannot force anything. Really, because you have
been trying to force, you have created all kinds of misery.
Nothing can be forced, but you can allow things to happen. Be
feminine. Allow things to happen. Be passive. The sky is
absolutely passive: not doing anything at all, just remaining
there. Just be passive and remain under the sky -- vulnerable,
open, feminine, with no aggression on your part -- and then
the sky will penetrate you.

IN SUMMER WHEN YOU SEE THE ENTIRE SKY ENDLESSLY CLEAR, ENTER
SUCH CLARITY.

But if it is not summer what will you do? If the sky is clouded,
not clear, then close your eyes and just enter the inner sky.
Just close your eyes, and if you see some thoughts, just see
them as if they are floating clouds in the sky. Be aware of the
background, the sky, and be indifferent to thoughts.

We are too much concerned with thoughts and never aware of the
gaps. One thought passes, and before another enters there is a
gap -- in that gap the sky is there. Then, whenever there is no
thought, what is there? The emptiness is there. So if the sky
is clouded -- it is not summertime and the sky is not clear --
close your eyes, focus your mind on the background, the inner
sky in which thoughts come and go.

Don’t pay much attention to thoughts; pay attention to the
space in which they move. For example, we are sitting in this
room. I can look at this room in two ways. Either I can look
at you, so that I am indifferent to the space you are in, the
roominess, the room you are in -- I look at you, I focus my
mind on you who are here, and not on the room in which you are
-- or, I can change my focus: I can look into the room, and I
become indifferent to you. You are there, but my emphasis, my
focus, is on the room. Then the total perspective changes.

Just do this in the inner world. Look at the space. Thoughts
are moving in it: be indifferent to them, don’t pay any
attention to them. They are there; note it down that they are
there, moving. The traffic is moving in the street. Look at
the street and be indifferent to the traffic. Don’t look to see
who is passing; just know that something is passing and be
aware of the space in which it is passing.

Then the summer sky happens within."

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The Pathless Path

2008-09-02T06:06:00.001-07:00

A Taoist parable:
There is a statue of Lao Tzu, the founder of Tao. And a young man has been thinking for years to go to the mountains and see the statue of Lao Tzu. He loves the words, the way Lao Tzu has spoken, the style of life that he has lived, but he has never seen any of his statues. There are no Taoist temples, so there are very rare statues and they are all in the mountains - standing in the open, carved out of the mountain - no roof, no temple, no priest, no worship.

And years pass, and there are so many things always coming in between. But finally one night he decides that he has to go - and it is not that far, only a hundred miles - but he is a poor man, and he has to walk. In the middle of the night - he chooses the time in the middle of the night so that the wife and the children and the family are asleep and no trouble arises - he takes a lamp in his hand, because the night is dark, and goes out of the town.

As he comes out of the town to the first milestone, a thought arises in him, "My God, one hundred miles! And I only have two feet - it is going to kill me. I am asking the impossible. I have never walked one hundred miles, and there is no road...." It is a small hill path, a footpath - dangerous too. So he thinks, "It is better to wait till the morning. At least there will be light, and I can see better; otherwise I will fall somewhere off this small footpath. And without seeing the statue of Lao Tzu, simply be finished. Why commit suicide?"

So he was sitting just outside the town, and as the sun was rising an old man came by. He saw this young man sitting; he asked, "What are you doing here?" The young man explained.

The old man laughed. He said, "Have you not heard the ancient saying? Nobody has the power to take two steps together, you can take only one step at a time. The powerful, the weak, the young, the old - it doesn’t matter. And the saying goes, `Just one step by one step, a man can go ten thousand miles’ - and this is only a hundred miles! You seem to be stupid. And who is saying to you that you should go continuously? You can take time; after ten miles you can rest a day or two days, enjoy. This is one of the most beautiful valleys and the most beautiful mountains and the trees are so full of fruits, fruits that you may not have even tasted. Anyway, I am going; you can come along with me. I have been on this path thousands of times, and I am at least four times your age. Stand up!"

The man was so authoritative: when he said "Stand up!" the young man simply stood. And he said, "Give your things to me. You are young, inexperienced; I will carry your things. You just follow me, and we will take as many rests as you want."

And what the old man had said was true - as they entered deeper into the forest and the mountains, it became more and more beautiful. And wild, juicy fruits... and they were resting; whenever he wanted, the old man was ready. He was surprised that the old man himself never said it was time to rest. But whenever the young man said it was time to rest, he was always willing to rest with him - a day or two, and then they would start the journey again.

Those one hundred miles just came and went by, and they reached one of the most beautiful statues of one of the greatest men who has ever walked on the earth. Even his statue had something - it was not just a piece of art, it was created by Taoist artists to represent the spirit of Tao.

Tao believes in the philosophy of let-go. It believes you are not to swim, but just to flow with the river, allow the river to take you wherever it is going - because every river ultimately reaches to the ocean. So don’t be worried, you will reach the ocean. There is no need to be tense.

In that lonely spot the statue was standing, and there was a waterfall just by the side - because Tao is called the watercourse way. Just as the water goes on and on flowing with no guidebooks, with no maps, with no rules, no discipline... but strangely enough in a very humble way, because it is always seeking the lower position everywhere. It never goes uphill. It always goes downhill, but it reaches to the ocean, to its very source.

The whole atmosphere there was representative of the Taoist idea of let-go. The old man said, "Now begins the journey."

The young man said, "What? I was thinking, one hundred miles and the journey is finished."

The old man said, "That is just the way the masters have been talking to people. But the reality is now - from this point, from this atmosphere, a journey of one thousand and one miles begins. And I will not deceive you, because after one thousand and one miles you will meet another old man - perhaps me - who will say, `This is just a stopover, go on.’ Go on is the message."

The journey itself is the goal.

It is infinite. It is eternal.

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Love - Freedom - Aloneness

2008-09-02T06:04:00.002-07:00

A relationship is a puzzle with no clue to it. Howsoever you try to manage it, you will never be able to manage it. Nobody has ever been able to manage it. It is made in such a way that it simply remains puzzling. The more you try to demystify it, the more mysterious it becomes. The more you try to understand it, the more elusive it is.
It is a greater koan than any koan that Zen masters give to their disciples, because their koans are meditative -- one is alone. When you are given the koan of relationship it is far more complicated, because you are two -- differently made, differently conditioned, polar opposites to each other, pulling in different directions, manipulating each other, trying to possess, dominate... there are a thousand and one problems.
While meditating, the only problem is how to be silent, how not to be caught in thoughts. In relationship there are a thousand and one problems. If you are silent, there is a problem. Just sit silently by the side of your wife and you will see - she will immediately jump upon you: "Why are you silent? What do you mean?" Or speak, and you will be in trouble - whatsoever you say, you are always misunderstood.
No relationship can ever come to a point where it is not a problem. Or if sometimes you see a relationship coming to a point where it is no longer a problem, that simply means it is not a relationship anymore. The relationship has disappeared - the fighters are tired, they have started accepting things as they are. They are bored; they don’t want to fight any more. They have accepted it, they don’t want to improve upon it.
Or, in the past, people tried to create a kind of harmony forcibly. That’s why, down the ages, women were repressed - that was one way of sorting things out. Just force the woman to follow the man, then there is no problem. But it is not a relationship either. When the woman is no longer an independent person the problem disappears - but the woman has also disappeared. Then she is just a thing to be used; then there is no joy, and the man starts looking for some other woman.
If you ever come across a happy marriage, don’t trust it on the surface. Just go a little deeper and you will be surprised. I have heard about one happy marriage...

A hillbilly farmer decided it was time to get married, so he saddled his mule and set off for the city to find a wife. In time, he met a woman and they were married. So they both climbed up on the mule and started back for the farm. After a while, the mule balked and refused to move. The farmer got down, found a big stick, and beat the mule until it again began to move.
"That’s once," the farmer said.
A few miles later, the mule balked again, and the entire scene was repeated. After the beating, when the mule was moving again, the farmer said, "That’s twice."
A few miles later, the mule balked for a third time. The farmer got down, got his wife down, and then took out a pistol and shot the mule in the eye, killing it instantly.
"That was a stupid thing to do!" the wife shouted. "That was a valuable animal and just because he annoyed you, you killed him! That was stupid, criminal..." and she went on like this for some time. As she stopped for breath, the farmer said, "That’s once."

And it is said, after that they lived forever in married happiness!
That is one way of solving things, that’s how it has been done in the past. In the future, the reverse is going to be tried - the husband has to follow the wife. But it is the same thing.
A relationship is a koan. And unless you have solved a more fundamental thing about yourself, you cannot solve it. The problem of love can be solved only when the problem of meditation has been solved, not before it. Because it is really two non-meditative persons who are creating the problem. Two persons who are in confusion, who don’t know who they are - naturally they multiply each other’s confusion, they magnify it....

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The Flowers Showered

2008-09-02T06:04:00.001-07:00

"The child continues somewhere in you: when you weep you can
find him, when you laugh you can find him, when somebody gives
you a present you can find him, when somebody forgets to, you
can find him, when somebody appreciates you, you can find him;
when somebody condemns you, you can find him - it is very
difficult to be really mature. One can never be mature unless
the child simply dies within you, is no longer a part of you -
otherwise it will go on influencing your actions, your
relationships.

And this is not only true for the child, every moment of the
past is there and influencing your present - your present is so
loaded. And millions of voices from the body and the mind go on
manipulating you; how can you reach the path?
You are a mountain. This mountain has to be dissolved. What to
do? It can be dissolved consciously - one thing is to live your
past again, consciously.

This is the mechanism of consciousness: whenever you live
something consciously it never becomes a loaded thing on you;
try to understand this. It never becomes a burden on you if you
S live it consciously."

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The Art of Dying

2008-09-02T06:03:00.001-07:00

"Life is in living. It is not a thing, it is a process. There is no way to attain to life except by living it, except by being alive - flowing - streaming with it. If you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, in some philosophy, in some theology, that is the sure way to miss life and meaning both.

Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.
Concepts have become very important, explanations have become very important - and the real has been completely forgotten. We don’t look to that which is already here, we want rationalizations.

I have heard a very beautiful story.

Some years ago a successful American had a serious identity crisis. He sought help from psychiatrists but nothing came of it, for there were none who could tell him the meaning of life - which is what he wanted to know. By and by he learned of a venerable and incredibly wise guru who lived in a mysterious and most inaccessible region of the Himalayas. Only that guru, he came to believe, would tell him what life means and what his role in it ought to be. So he sold all his worldly possessions and began his search for the all-knowing guru. He spent eight years wandering from village to village throughout the Himalayas in an effort to find him. And then one day he chanced upon a shepherd who told him where the guru lived and how to reach the place.

It took him almost a year to find him, but he eventually did. There he came upon his guru, who was indeed venerable, in fact well over one hundred years old. The guru consented to help him, especially when he learned of all the sacrifices the man had made towards this end. "What can I do for you, my son?" asked the guru.
"I need to know the meaning of life," said the man.
To this the guru replied, without hesitation, "Life," he said, "is a river without end." "A river without end?" said the man in a startled surprise. "After coming all this way to find you, all you have to tell me is that life is a river without end?"
The guru was shaken, shocked. He became very angry and he said, "You mean it is not?"

Nobody can give you the meaning of your life. It is your life, the meaning has also to be yours. Himalayas won’t help. Nobody except you can come upon it. It is your life and it is only accessible to you. Only in living will the mystery be revealed to you."

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ABC of Enlightenment

2008-09-02T00:03:00.001-07:00

Words are not just words. They have moods, climates of their own. When a word settles inside you, it brings a different climate to your mind, a different approach, a different vision. Call something by a different name and see how things change. So one of the most important things to remember is, if possible, live an experience and don’t fix it by a word, because that will make it narrow.

Say you are sitting outside on a silent evening. The sun has gone and the stars are just coming out. Just be. Don’t even say, ‘This is beautiful,’ because the moment you say that it is beautiful, it isn’t the same any more. By saying ‘beautiful’ you are bringing in the past, and all the experiences that you said were beautiful have coloured the word. Your word ‘beautiful’ contains many experiences of beauty. But this experience is totally new. Life has never been like this before. It will never be again. Why bring in the past? The present is so vast, the past is so narrow. Why look through a hole in the wall when you can come out and look at the whole sky?

So try not to use words, but if you have to, be very choosy about them, because each word has a nuance of its own. Be very poetic about it. Use each word with taste, love, feeling.

There are feeling words and there are intellectual words. Drop intellectual words more and more. Use feeling words. There are political words and there are religious words. Drop political words. These are words which immediately create conflict. The moment you utter them, argument arises. So never use logical, argumentative language. Use the language of affection, of caring, of love, so that no argument arises. If you start acting this way, you will see tremendous changes.

A single word uttered without awareness can create a long chain of misery. But if you are alert, many miseries can be avoided. Just a very small change can make a lot of difference. You should be very, very careful and only use words when absolutely necessary. Avoid contaminated words. Use fresh words, non-controversial words which are not arguments, just expressions of your feelings. If you can become a connoisseur of words, your whole life will be different. Your relationships will be totally different because 99 per cent of a relationship is expressed through words. Gestures are also words. If a word brings misery, anger, conflict, argument, drop it. What is the point of carrying it? It may have created a lot of trouble for you and yet still you blurt it out. Drop it. Replace it with something better.

The best thing is silence. Next best is singing, poetry, love.

The Beloved

2008-09-02T00:01:00.000-07:00

"If you are not growing your roots into life, if you are not growing your roots and spreading your roots in love, in trust, you will remain a dwarf. You will never become the essential man, adhar manush. Grow, grow towards depth - because when your roots grow towards depth, your branches grow towards height. Depth and height grow together. The deeper you go into the earth, the higher you go into the sky. The deeper you go into this shore, the closer you reach to the other shore.

Love, love life, love all that surrounds you, and let your roots spread as far and as wide as possible. You will start touching the feet of God. Your flowers will start being offered to the divine feet. Otherwise, remember - you will remain a dwarf. Love is a must. It is the only nourishment for the soul. The body can exist with food; the soul can exist only with love. Let it not remain just a word; allow it to become a penetrating experience.

Love is worship for the Bauls, love is prayer for the Bauls, love is God for the Bauls."

Beyond Enlightenment

2008-09-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Beyond enlightenment is only beyondness. Enlightenment is the last host. Beyond it, all boundaries disappear, all experiences disappear. Experience comes to its utmost in enlightenment; it is the very peak of all that is beautiful, of all that is immortal, of all that is blissful - but it is an experience. Beyond enlightenment there is no experience at all, because the experiencer has disappeared. Enlightenment is not only the peak of experience, it is also the finest definition of your being. Beyond it, there is only nothingness; you will not come again to a point which has to be transcended.

Experience, the experiencer, enlightenment - all have been left behind. You are part of the tremendous nothingness that is infinite. This is the nothingness out of which the whole existence comes, the womb; and this is the nothingness in which all the existence disappears.

Science has something parallel; there is bound to be something parallel. The spiritual experience is of the interior world, and science is the exploration of the exterior. But both are wings of the same existence - the inwardness and the outwardness - they always have similar points.

Scientists have come to a strange conclusion in this century, that a few stars suddenly disappear…and stars are not small things; they are not so small as they look to you. They look small because they are so far away, millions of light years away, but they are huge. Our sun is a star, but of a mediocre size, medium size. In comparison to the earth it is vast, but in comparison to other stars it is a small, medium-sized star. There are stars which are a thousand times bigger than the sun.

And in this century, for the first time we had the instruments of observation and we were very much puzzled: suddenly a star disappears, not even leaving a trace behind of where it has gone. Such a huge phenomenon, and not even footprints - in what direction has it gone? It has just moved simply into nothingness. This was happening continually.

It took almost twenty years to figure out this new phenomenon: that in existence there are black holes. You cannot see them, but they have tremendous gravitation. Even the biggest star, if it comes within their radius of magnetism, will be pulled in. And once it is pulled into a black hole, it disappears. It is the ultimate death. We can only see the effect; we cannot see the black hole, we only see that one star is disappearing.

After the black hole was almost an established theory, scientists started thinking that there must be something like a white hole - there has to be. If it is possible that in a certain gravitation, magnetic force, a big star simply disappears out of existence…. We have been aware that every day stars are born. From where are they coming? - nobody has asked it before.

In fact, birth we always take for granted; nobody asks from where the babies are coming. Death we never accept, because we are so much afraid of it.

There is not a single philosophy in the whole history of man which thinks about where the babies come from, but there are philosophies and philosophies thinking about what is dead, where people go on disappearing to, what happens after death.

In my whole life I have come across millions of people, and not a single person has asked what happens before birth - and thousands have asked what happens after death. I have always been thinking, why is birth taken without any question? Why is death not taken in the same way?"

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Body Mind Balancing

2008-09-01T23:59:00.000-07:00

Doctors and scientists have now come to recognize what common sense has always told us -- that there is a deep connection between body and mind, and it profoundly affects our overall physical health and sense of well being. Researchers have found that nearly half our physical ailments are stress-related. And the "placebo effect" - where people get better just because they believe that a certain treatment or medicine is going to help them, even if they are only taking a sugar pill - is well documented.

"It’s all in your head" - most of us have heard this expression more than once in our lives when we were complaining about this or that physical ailment or emotional difficulty… and although we might have denied it, we probably secretly suspected it was true. The problem is that just intellectually understanding that "it’s all in my head" doesn’t help. As Osho points out often in his talks, the thin layer of the conscious mind - the part that intellectually understands something - is only a tenth of our reality. The unconscious layers are far bigger, and when we’re not in touch with them they can be far more powerful.

It is this set of relationships - between the conscious and unconscious layers of the mind, and their influence on the body and our overall sense of well being - that Osho addresses in a revolutionary technique he developed in 1989. It started as an experiment with his own body, when his shoulder was giving him a great deal of pain. According to notes taken by his secretary at the time, Osho told his shoulder to "drop the pain" and it did - literally! - as the pain dropped from the shoulder first into the arm, and then the leg. But he kept on experimenting, and invited others also to experiment with a technique of talking to the body and asking it to drop pain, that it was no longer needed and once gone there was no need to bring it back. Over the next few days and weeks, "Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body-Mind" was born. It is now offered as a seven-day series of one-hour sessions at the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune, India, and offered around the world by individuals who have been trained in the process.

With the publication of this book-and-CD package, this process becomes available to individuals who can practice it on their own, and health professionals and counselors who can recommend it to their clients.

The book has been created using a variety of selections from talks by Osho, and begins by looking at the ideas we have about the body and our relationship to it that we may not be aware of. Almost everyone has been brought up with life-negative attitudes and conditionings against the body. And well-meaning attempts by parents and teachers to "civilize" children and help them to be accepted into society often end up repressing their natural exuberance and vitality, the sharpness of their senses, and their curiosity about their own bodies.

As adults we can’t do anything to change our own history and upbringing -- but we can become aware of the hidden elements of that upbringing, and how they have affected us. The magic is that in the very process of becoming aware, previously unconscious attitudes begin to lose their power over us and we can begin to make new and more life-affirmative choices for ourselves. Once this new foundation is established, we find that we become more aware of the body and its real needs, more grateful and appreciative of its miraculous workings on our behalf, and better able to work with it, not against it, to achieve the goals we set for ourselves.

Physical health and psychological well being are deeply related and interdependent. Body-Mind Balancing provides both the conscious understanding and the practical tools that are needed to support this partnership of body and mind. See the last chapter of the book for specific guidance about how the guided meditation CD is to be used. - Sarito Carol Neiman, Editor

Love - Freedom - Aloneness

2008-09-01T23:58:00.000-07:00

The Song of Ecstasy

2008-09-01T23:56:00.000-07:00

"If you watch carefully you will find that man wants money for freedom, he wants position for freedom. If you have position, power, the capacity, then you think you will be able to break away from a few bondages and you will be able to enter a little into the unknown and the unknowable.

Man wants freedom from every side. Deep down in the consciousness of man the yearning is only for moksha. That is why every type of bondage makes him restless. Even when you fall in love you do so in the hope that this love will become a sky, that you will be able to fly. You hope to get somebody’s support in attaining freedom. But when you fall in love you find that, never mind flying, you cannot even move. You expected to get support from the other, but the other, the lover, finished all your freedom, and thus love became a bondage. Freedom is only in dreams, and in reality it is only bondage.

The Prophet is a unique book by Kahlil Gibran. In it a person asks, "Speak to us of love." And the hero of this book, Almustafa, says, "Love each other, but don’t possess each other. Be near each other, but not too near. You should be like the pillars of a temple which hold the same roof and yet remain far from each other. If the pillars of the temple come nearer, then the roof will fall down. Keep a little distance from the lover so that there can be some free space between the two. If this empty space is absolutely lost then you will be trespassing on each other, attacking each other."

But all these things are written in books. In real life we take away all the freedom from the person we love because we are afraid that his love may turn somewhere else: "Somebody else may become the possessor of the love which I have." We are always afraid of losing whatever we have. If we have money, then we are afraid of losing money. If we have love, then we are afraid of losing love. Because of this fear, freedom becomes impossible.

The flower of freedom blossoms only in a state of fearlessness. The only yearning one has is for freedom. Everyone’s inner search is for liberation."

From the False to the Truth

2008-09-01T23:53:00.000-07:00

"Celebration is the very nature of existence.
Don’t separate yourself from existence; otherwise, you will be miserable. You cannot be nourished, you cannot eat the Bible and the Koran and the Gita. They will not nourish your body, they will kill you. If they cannot nourish even your body, how can they nourish your consciousness?

There is only one nourishment: your roots have to be deep down in existence. There is no other nourishment. And if you are nourished…I say, "Blessed are the nourished. Blessed are those whose roots go deep into existence. They are the richest people." Richness does not mean only money. I am not against money; it is a perfectly good servant for exchanging things. But money alone is not richness.

Richness is multidimensional. It happens when you are in tune with nature, in harmony with nature; it starts happening multidimensionally. You may not be aware of what will happen to you if you destroy your conditionings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and simply rely on and trust in nature. If your consciousness also trusts nature just the way your body remains trusting towards nature….

You don’t know what treasures you have got. Once there is nourishment you will start blossoming. You may not know that you can become a painter, you may not know you can become a dancer. You may be a Picasso, you may be a Nijinsky, you may be a Van Gogh, you may be a Rutherford. You don’t know who you are. You will know only when you blossom; there is no other way to know. And blossoming happens only in harmony with nature. Your roots should go not towards any church, not towards any scripture, not towards any dead prophets, but towards the nature that is available to you.

Just be natural. Drop all sense of guilt. The guilt arises only because your conditioning says, "Don’t do this" and your nature is hungry to do it. Now you are split. Your religion, your Jesuses, your Mohammeds say, "Don’t do this, this is wrong." Those Ten Commandments, three thousand years old - they are still dominating you. Why are you degrading yourself? Those ten Commandments say, "Don’t do this, this is sin. You will suffer in hell" - and your whole nature wants to do it.

Listen to your nature, not to your conditionings, and celebration will happen on its own accord."

From Unconsciousness to Consciousness

2008-09-01T23:51:00.000-07:00

Communication is through words, and communion is through silence
.So these days of silence have been immensely fruitful. Now only
those are left for whom my presence is enough, my being is
enough, for whom just the gesture of my hand is enough, for
whom my eyes are enough - for whom language is no more a need.
But today I have suddenly decided to speak again - again after
one thousand, three hundred and fifteen days - for the simple
reason that the picture that I have been painting all my life
needs a few touches here and there to complete it, because that
day when I became silent, everything was left incomplete.
Before I depart from you as far as my physical body is concerned
, I would like to complete it.
I have been speaking to Hindus, to Christians, to Jews, to
Mohammedans, to Jainas, to Buddhists, to Sikhs, to people
belonging to almost all the so-called religions. This is for the
first time that I am speaking to my own people: not to Hindus,
not to Mohammedans, not to Christians, not to Jews. It makes a
lot of difference, and only because of that difference can I
give the finishing touch to the picture that I have been
painting. What difference does it make? To you I can speak
directly, immediately. To the Hindus I had to speak through
Krishna, and I was not happy about it. But there was no other
way, it was a necessary evil. To Christians I could speak only
through Jesus. I was not at ease about it, but there was no
other way. So one has to choose the least evil. Let me explain
to you.

I do not agree with Jesus on all points. In fact, there are
many questions which I have left unanswered, because even to
touch them would have been destructive to those Christians who
had come to me. Now they are clean. People say that I am
brainwashing people. No, I am not brainwashing people. I am
certainly washing their brains - and I believe in dry cleaning!
So I can say to you now exactly what I feel; otherwise, it was
a burden on me.
To speak on Mahavira was necessary because without that it was
impossible to get any Jainas to hear me. And with Mahavira I do
not agree on all points. In fact, my disagreement is on more
points than my agreement. So I had to do a strange job: I had
to choose those points on which I could agree, and not talk at
all about those points on which I was absolutely against. And
even on the points on which I have a certain agreement I had to
manage another thing: that was to give new meanings to their
words, to give my meaning to their words. It was not their
meaning. If Mahavira comes he will be angry; if Jesus comes he
will be angry. If this whole crowd of Jesus, Mahavira, Buddha,
Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu meets me somewhere, they will all be mad at
me because I have made them say things they would never have
dreamed of. They could not. Sometimes I have even put meanings
into their words which go basically against them, but there was
no other way.
The whole world is divided. You can’t find a single man who is
clean. Either he is a Christian - he is carrying one kind of
dirt; or he is a Hindu - he is carrying another kind of dirt.
Now it is possible for me to say exactly and directly things
which may even sound bitter.

You have asked why I call my religion the first and perhaps the
last religion.
Yes, I call it the first religion, because religion is the
highest flowering of consciousness. Up to now, man was not
capable of conceiving of it. Even now, only one percent of
humanity is barely able to conceive of it. The masses are
still living in the past, burdened with the past, conditioned
by the past. Barely one percent of mankind is in a state now to
conceive of religion. All the old religions are based in fear.
Now, a real religion destroys fear. It is not based in fear."

From Sex to Superconsciousness

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"The simple truth is that sex is the starting point of all
journeys to love. The birthplace of the journey to love, love’s
Gangotri - the source, the origin of the Ganges of love - is sex.
And everybody is inimical to it - all cultures, all religions,
all gurus, all holy men. So this is an attack at the Gangotri
itself, at the very source, and the river is stopped there:
"Sex is sin," "Sex is irreligious," "Sex is poison!" And we
never even give it a thought that it is sexual energy that
ultimately transforms and transmutes into love. The evolution
of love is nothing but transformed sex energy.

Looking at a piece of coal, it would never occur to you that
this very coal will transform into a diamond. There is no
essential difference between coal and a diamond. The elements
in a lump of coal are the same as those in a diamond. Passing
through a process taking thousands of years, coal becomes a
diamond.

But coal is not considered important. When coal is kept in a
house it is stored in a place where it cannot be seen by guests,
whereas diamonds are worn around the neck or on the breast so
that everybody can see them. Diamonds and coal are the same:
but there seems no visible relationship between the two, that
they are two points on a journey made by the same element. If
you are against coal - which is very likely, because at first
glance it has nothing more to offer than black soot - the
possibility of its transformation into a diamond ends right
there. It is the coal itself which could have been transformed
into a diamond.

It is sexual energy which transforms into love. But everyone is
against it, is inimical to it."

The Great Secret

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"Truth surrounds you. How will you find it? Truth is there
already; the basic problem is that you have no vision. The sun
is always shining but you are blind. What should a blind man
seek? The sun or sight? If you have no sight, even if the sun
is sitting next to you what will you do? You will not be able
to see it; you will remain in darkness. Sight is needed. That
sight is love. God is ever-present. He is all around you. But
you have lost your vision; you have lost the means of
experiencing him.

Love is the ability to experience. Love is sensitivity. Love is
the experience in which all your impurities are washed away and
you throw open all your doors, all your gates. Then whosoever
stands at your door is no longer an enemy or a friend but a
beloved, and you open your door to him. When you begin to feel
the whole world is yours, when you begin to see the beloved in
whosoever comes to your door, when you no longer see strangers
or enemies, when you begin to see only friends everywhere -
when this phenomenon takes place in you, know that you have
found love. And for the man who has found love what else remains
to be found? The man who has found love has found the key to
the door of God.

Understand the significance of love carefully. Nothing is
greater than love, not even God. God is achieved through love,
but love is not achieved through God. The presence of God does
not guarantee love, but the presence of love will surely bring
him to you. As Jesus has said, "Love is God." The basic question
, the fundamental problem, is seeking love. So let us clarify
at the outset how love has been lost, because the way to regain
it will only be clear when we know and understand how it has
been lost in the first place."

LIVE IN JOY

2008-09-01T02:29:00.000-07:00

Happiness is unbelievable. It seems that man cannot be
happy.
If you talk about your depression, sadness, misery,
everybody
believes it; it seems natural. If you talk about your
happiness
nobody believes you – it seems unnatural.
Sigmund Freud, after forty years of research into the
human mind
-- working with thousands of people, observing thousands of
disturbed minds -- came to the conclusion that happiness is a
fiction: man cannot be happy. At the most, we can make things a
little more comfortable, that’s all. At the most we can make
unhappiness a little less, that’s all, but happy? Man cannot be.

Looks very pessimistic… but looking at humanity, it seems to be
exactly the case; it seems to be a fact. Only human beings are
unhappy. Something deep down has gone wrong.
I say this to you on my own authority: Human beings can be happy,
more happy than the birds, more happy than the trees, more
happy than the stars – because human beings have something
which no tree, no bird, no star, has. They have consciousness.
But when you have consciousness, two alternatives are possible:
either you can become happy or you can become unhappy. Then it
is your choice. Trees are simply happy because they cannot be
unhappy. Their happiness is not their freedom; they have to be
happy. They don’t know how to be unhappy; there is no
alternative for them. The birds chirping in the trees are happy
not because they have chosen to be happy – they are simply
happy because they don’t know any other way to be. Their
happiness is unconscious; it is simply natural.
Human beings can be tremendously happy and tremendously
unhappy – and they are free to choose. This freedom is hazardous
, this freedom is very dangerous because you become responsible.
And something has happened with this freedom, something has
gone wrong. Man is somehow standing on his head.

DO HAVE SEEN ANY DREAM WHICH GOT TRUE

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HI PEOPLE PLEASE SHARE YOUR DREAM THAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND WHICH GOT TRUE ??
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The Power Of Concentration

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The man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition and self-denial in unnecessary things will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
William James

Concentration on your Higher Self (the soul within) will encourage detachment and detachment will lead to power.

Everything in creation (as we understand it) is influenced by the law of magnetism. The law of magnetism teaches us that whatever we concentrate upon, we draw to ourselves. If we focus on goodness, our life can be a garden of happiness; if we concentrate on wealth, we will draw wealth to ourselves.

Success in life presupposes the power of concentration. Just as a magnet draws to itself iron filings and not rice grains, so too, the quality of our focused thoughts will create a dynamic but silent power within that will find us placed in situations akin to the nature of our thoughts. If we think ' good health ' and with faith and belief embed this deeply within our minds over a sustained period of time, we will gradually create for ourselves situations and an environment, which will be conducive to good health . Yet as we understand the workings of this power , it is essential that we not misuse power and that we be more involved in purifying our desires so that all that we seek only be bathed in the hue of wisdom and righteousness. Before we choose we always have an option, but once chosen, each action will bring forth a concomitant reaction.

Each of us is born with a certain degree of latent developed concentration, but the more we are aware of the existence of this power, and the more we seek to consciously use it, the more will we actually develop it. Men of success are men of concentration. Nothing of essence in life is achieved without concentration.

Be it in prayer, business, sport, art, or healing, concentration is the real key which helps one harness one's inner divine potential. Concentration aids you in drawing more of the life energy into your physical self and thereby raising your level of existence to higher layers of awareness. As you spiritualise your consciousness through Guru-channeled techniques of concentration, your energy pattern becomes more vibrant and pure, ushering all round tranquility and calmness into the temple of your mind.

With good concentration one can fulfill a task in virtually half the time and with double the accuracy of an average person. Paramahansa Yogananda said that we should do our interesting and enjoyable duties with all our heart and the uninteresting ones with our deepest attention. As we concentrate with will power on the task at hand, we learn to shut out unnecessary disturbing thoughts, doing nothing haphazardly. The mind thereby attains the ability to be one-pointed. The greatest power, remember always, is lodged in the fine, never in the coarse.

When one is able to lift a heavy object with muscles flexing, we appreciate the physical strength and the look and feel of the muscular part, but we must remind ourselves that the power to lift comes not from the muscles but from the life energy within, which in turn is drawn by the power of will and concentration. The greater the will and the more focused one's thoughts, the greater will be the inflow of the life force.

Each thought that we think forms a pattern in our brain cell grooves. These patterns then determine what our future patterns of existence will be. If we wish to change the nature of the existent (past) patterns or if we seek to create desired patterns (circumstances) it is vital to understand the workings of the science of concentration. Though any sincere practice in concentration may seem arduous and boring at the outset, after some time, internal interest is definitely developed.

The platitude before the flowering is only natural as new forms of mental thought seek to erase typical thought habits of the past. Evil and harmful habits are what we have gifted ourselves through concentrating repeatedly on the wrong thought patterns and now if we are to be rid of them, it is necessary to concentrate on the opposite. For example, if we have a habit of biting our nails, we must concentrate on seeing ourselves as living without any trace (even in imagination) of that habit. We must see only the goal, and the obstacles will fall off by themselves. With the coming of His Divine light, the darkness of eons can melt away.
As one advances in one's realisation and experiences the benefits of concentration, one hardly wants to abandon its practice. Spiritual techniques in concentration take one to the threshold of supreme joy, divine strength, deeper knowledge, and high levels of intuition. Ultimately success in profound concentration is a pre-requisite for success in communion with the omniscient Spirit.

Through concentration, one can draw to the surface, the repository of experiences submerged in the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is our most obedient serf and carries experiences not only of this life but also of the entire past. Swami Sivananda explained "when we are unable to solve a problem, be it personal or scientific, we should tell our subconscious mind to do it for us. Approached with trust and confidence, it will provide the right answer. The command must be couched in very clear, explicit terms with no ambiguity. If the solution is not elicited after a night's sleep, we may repeat the command at the same time each day, until the response is forthcoming."

Comprehensive development of the subconscious mind will relieve some of the pressure of the conscious mind, enabling it to concentrate more easily on noble and wise objectives and practices.

We oft complain about the traumas and trials that manifest in our lives. But very conveniently we forget that deep down we ourselves are responsible through our own thoughts and actions for these traumas. We have either been lazy or then simply over-enthusiastic in our uncontrolled thoughts and actions. Increased practices in techniques of concentration will manifest in us the ability to arrest the seed of unwanted thoughts right at the outset and also to skillfully guide the raft of our new thoughts. Only then will we be able, with the help of God and Guru to have control over our destiny and over our own mind; and one who has control over one's own mind can very definitely also relate with and manifest control over every other mind.

Concentration implies great self-control, especially over one's emotions and true concentration endows great strength-of mind and of character. It awakens within us an innate capability to withstand life's sudden and unexpected shocks, be it depression, chaos or other uncertainties. This strength, we must realize, depends not on material power but on mental caliber and poise. To acquire real mental poise, you have to attain wisdom. To acquire wisdom, you have to develop the mind, which is to develop the power of superconcentration, whereby will flow from within the all-conquering power of wisdom.

The main idea of concentration, explained Swami Paramananda (Ramakrishna Mission) "is to make our ourselves a channel, so clear, so direct, so unbiased, that through our instrumentality the power of Divinity can flow and accomplish Its great end. Keep this always in mind." In the Bhagavad-Gita, the concentrated mind of the Yogi is compared to the flame of a lamp that does not flicker. "When the mind is completely subdued by the practice of Yoga, and has attained serenity, in that state, seeing Self by the self, he is satisfied in the Self alone."

A mind that becomes concentrated enters a new province. Like one who has discovered a chest full of treasure, it can think of nothing else. "Seeing Self by the self, we are satisfied in the Self alone." Like a musician wholly absorbed in his notes forgets all about food, drink and bodily needs, a man of single focus is able to harness all his energy to the one most essential objective. Concentration is a tremendous force in society. Through its right use, one is successful in whatever one chooses to do. But concentration should not be consciously practiced only during times of need; one should constantly keep developing the powers of the mind at all times.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, the great Master of modern India gives in his teachings a very vivid illustration. Every man, he said, should make a legitimate effort to keep his mind in a good, clean, concentrated condition; otherwise it grows unsightly-like a metal vessel, which becomes tarnished if it is not polished every day. A golden vessel, however, does not have to be polished so frequently. So too with our mind. Once it mingles with the Supreme, it becomes like the vessel of gold and retains its splendor even when it is not given any special care.

A perfect balance of yin and yang

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For more than 2,000 years, the Chinese have always practiced Feng Shui to bring harmony, happiness and prosperity. Feng Shui means 'wind and water', and refers to natural surroundings and how they can be manipulated to produce a healthy environmental balance to give you the things you want most in life. Feng Shui involves an understanding of chi (positive energy) and sha (negative energy), yin and yang, the five elements of Chinese philosophy, the meaning and value of numbers, the importance of directions, and the pakua.

Chi and sha: The ancient Chinese considered chi as an invisible flow of energy that swirls throughout the earth and the sky and brings a life force with it. The Feng Shui masters call chi the 'cosmic dragon's breath of the universe,' and nothing can flourish and prosper without a good supply of smoothly flowing chi.

A negative chi flow, which may either be excessive or insufficient in amount, is known as sha. Sha's energy is unhealthy, creates disharmony in relationships, and upsets the natural balance that is necessary to prosper in an environment. Sha energy may manifest as physical, mental, or emotional illness.

In Feng Shui, positive chi will not enter narrow doorways and hallways and thus cause the stale, negative sha chi to be created. Sharp corners and angles also cause the sha situation in the environment that gives rise to arguments, business difficulties, and general bad luck. You can attract positive chi to those areas by hanging crystals, placing live plants, or displaying auspicious paintings or pictures.

Yin and Yang: In Feng Shui theory, yin-yang is the balancing force of the universe. It is a law of opposite energies that complement each other. Yin is water, yang is fire. Yin is night, yang is day. Yin is feminine, yang is masculine. Yin is receptive and retiring, yang is active and aggressive. Yin is lunar and yang is solar.

In Feng Shui, the most desirable living conditions derive from the balance of yin and yang in the environment. For example, too much light in a home results in an excessive yang energy, which calls for modifications in lighting with shades and balance. Because yin and yang are complementary, if one overpowers the other, their link is so strong that both forces are destroyed. One must, therefore, strive to

create the right balance of yin and yang in your living environment to benefit from the results of positive and harmonious Feng Shui.

The mystery of life & death

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We all live in the shadow of the fear of death, we believe that life and death are opposed to each other. This feeling causes us to miss life and we miss death as well. When we are born, death is born with us.

Every day changes into night, and every night changes into day. The present elapses into the past and the future dawns upon the present. This cannot happen without the element of death. This process of change is death. If you want to die peacefully, live totally, completely. Death is the crowning glory of life lived intensely and fully. But our life is wasted in searching for the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is in life itself. No philosophy, no scripture, no cause can give meaning to life. You have to seek your own meaning and nobody except you can come upon it. Osho said, "It is your life and it is only accessible to you. Only in living will the mystery be revealed to you. Once you know what life is you will know what death is.

Death is also a part of the same process. Ordinarily we think death comes at the end, that it is against life; we think death is the enemy, but death is not the enemy. If you think of death as the enemy it simply shows that you have not been able to know what life is. Death and life are two polarities of the same energy, of the same phenomenon - the tide and the ebb, the day and the night, the summer and the winter. They are not separate and not opposites, not contraries; they are complementary.

Death is not the end of life; in fact, it is a completion of one life, the finale. A man who has understood what his life is, allows death to happen; he welcomes it. He dies each moment and each moment he is resurrected. Each moment he dies and is born again."

Discovering your Purpose and Destiny

2008-08-04T12:43:00.000-07:00

Do you find it difficult to see the wood for the trees in your future plans? Do you have a vague idea of what you would like to do with your life, but just can’t pin it down? Or do you have no idea at all, except that you are not hapy with what you are doing now?

Finding true purpose and destiny can be a difficult thing to do. It is a rare person who ‘just always knew’ what they wanted to do and went on and did it. Most of us don’t have that luxury. Strangely, the question often hits us hardest when we are older. Usually this is because we have become frustrated from trying various ‘paths’ and realising we no longer have the time for experiments.

Some techniques you could try to 'Find your True Path' in life

You could read advice books, working through various questionnaires and exercises. There are some great books that can help you enormously. I found this method suits me best in most circumstances, but if you are not a reader you will find books tedious. They are great for ideas for career paths, and to help you to focus a little if you are prepared to work through the recommended exercises properly.

You could listen to tapes or CD’s – I, personally, didn’t find any that were helpful, although many are very encouraging. Usually this type of audio is for motivation and visualisation to help you achieve your goals, but of little use in helping you to discover what they are! (If you find one that is different, let me know).

You could attend seminars. Unfortunately they are few and far between, expensive, and seldom give you specific answers. Once again, they are more suited to motivation. You are better off working through the exercises in the books to help you figure out where you are going. There are some seminars, like my Motivational Gifts Seminar, that will help you to understand your motivations better and give you an idea of the type of activities that suit your personality. It also helps you to know what type of thing to avoid! Nevertheless, even this seminar will not help you to make the ultimate decision.

You could try a Career Advisor. They are great if all you want is a few ideas of what you could try, or a general idea of what your abilities and interests might be suited to. They don’t tend to care much about ‘Purpose and Destiny’, or finding out what you ‘want’ in life. Of course, you might not care about that either, in which case this route would be your best option.

You could, as most of us do when we are young, just try different things, walk down many paths, hoping to eventually ‘discover’ your true path. The chances are, though, if you are reading this, that you have already tried this one, and time is running out for experimentation!

Or, you can get somebody to help you. Somebody who will walk alongside you and help you to find the answers. I wish that option had been available to me.

I often say “I wish I had had ‘me’ to help me along the way!” I don’t mean that to sound boastful, It isn’t. I just never met anybody who does what I do. There were people who believed in me, but they had no idea how to help me to believe in myself.

There were people who made interesting suggestions. There were people who knew how I felt and offered tea and sympathy. There were people who had absolutely no idea what I was on about because they just ‘did what they had to do’ and couldn’t be bothered with all this bumph about ‘purpose’, ‘desire’ and ‘destiny’. Fair enough. But it did bother me, and I know from my clients that it bothers a lot of people. I knew that there was something I should be doing, something that I would love doing so much that I would gladly pay to do it.

While some people feel they have no choices (never true), I had the opposite problem of feeling that I had too many! To me there were so many wonderfully interesting things out there that I could be doing, but there didn’t seem to be one path that was worth my entire focus. Of course it isn’t necessary to do only one thing, but it is true that divided focus in one of the biggest causes of failure to achieve.

Destiny versus fate

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Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be distinguished. Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable". Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of finality, projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out, is Destiny. In classical and European mythology, there are three goddesses dispensing fate, The "Fates" known as moirae in Greek mythology, as parcae in Roman mythology, and norns in Norse mythology; they determine the events of the world through the myistic spinning of thread that represent individual human destinies.

One word derivative of "fate" is "fatality", another "fatalism". Fate implies no choice, and ends fatally, with a death. Fate is an outcome determined by an outside agency acting upon a person or entity; but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. participation happens willfully.

Used in the past tense, "destiny" and "fate" are both more interchangeable, both imply "one's lot" or fortunes, and include the sum of events leading up to a currently achieved outcome (e.g. "it was her destiny to be leader" and "it was her fate to be leader").

Fate can involve things which are bound within and subject to larger networks. A set of mathematical functions arranged in a grid and interacting in defined ways is Fatelike. Likewise the individual statues in a larger work of counterpoint art are aesthetically Fated within the work. In each case Fate is external to every individual component, but integral to the network. Every component acts as Fate for every other component. The entire world can be seen as existing within such a network, a kind of mythical spiderweb controlled by unseen forces.

DEFINATION OF DESTINY

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Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed NATURAL ORDER to the universe.

Different concepts of destiny and fate

Destiny may be envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine (for example, the protestant concept of predestination) or by human will (for example, the American concept of manifest destiny).

A sense of destiny in its oldest human sense is in the soldier's fatalistic image of the "bullet that has your name on it" or the moment when your number "comes up," or a romance that was "meant to be." The human sense that there must be a hidden purpose in the random lottery governs the selection of Theseus to be among the youths to be sacrificed to the minotaur.

Destiny may be seen either as a fixed sequence of events that is inevitable and unchangeable, or that individuals choose their own destiny by choosing different paths throughout their life.