Your Auras Reveal More About The Real You

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.