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"I am not interested at all to convert anybody to my ideology – I don't have any. Secondly, I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom." Osho

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Think about the mind As stars, a fault of vision, as a lamp,

A mock show, dewdrops, or a bubble, A dream, a lightning flash, or a cloud,

So should one view what is conditioned.

Mind is a conditioned phenomenon. It is the effect of some causes. You cannot destroy the effects directly, you will have to go to the causes. You cannot destroy a tree just by cutting its branches and leaves and foliage: you will have to go to the roots- and roots are hidden underneath. So are the roots in you. These things have to be understood. Buddha says: "Think of your mind as stars." Why? Stars exist only in darkness. When the morning comes and the sun rises they disappear.

So is your mind: it exists only in unconsciousness. When the sun of consciousness rises it disappears - just like stars. Don't fight with the stars. You will not be able to destroy them, they are millions. Just become more aware and they will disappear on their own accord

A fault of vision.... Your eye is ill, it has some fault. Then you see things which are not there. For example, you may be seeing double or you may be seeing patterns, because your eye is not as it should be. If your liver is not good your eyes will start seeing things which are not there; a weak liver, and eyes will see patterns in the air, bubbles, designs, patterns. They are not really there. they are caused by your eye itself. You cannot fight with them. you cannot destroy them, because they don't exist. All that is needed is that you will have to go to a physician. Your eye needs treatment, your eye needs to be cured.

Buddha used to say, "I am not a philosopher, I am a physician. 1 don't give you a doctrine. I doctor you. I don't give you a theory. I simply give you a medicine. I don't talk about what light is. I only help you open your eyes so you yourself can see it

The blind man cannot be helped by definitions of light and color and rainbows. The only help possible is that his eyes have to be brought back. You cannot explain to a deaf person what music Is. Only when he can hear will he know. The experience is the only explanation:

Third. Buddha says think of the mind as a lamp. Why as a lamp? The lamp burns only while the oil in it lasts. Once the oil is finished the flame disappears. So is the mind- and the oil is the desire. While there are desires in the mind, the mind will remain alive. Don't fight with the flame, just don't go on pouring fuel on it. Desire is the fuel.

Desire means, that which is, you are not satisfied with it, you want something else. You are not living in suchness - that's what desire means. Desire means you want things to be other than they are. You don't want them the way they are. You have your own ideas, you have your private dreams to impose upon reality. You are not contented with reality as such, you want to change it according to your heart's desire. Then mind will remain. Mind exists because you are not contented with reality.

So many people come to me and they ask, "How to stop the thoughts? They want to stop the thoughts directly. They cannot be stopped. Thoughts exist because desires exist. Unless you understand desire and drop desire, you will not be able to drop thoughts - because thoughts are by-products.

First the desire comes in. You see a beautiful car passing by and a desire arises. Buddha will say, "Say, 'Car, car. Finished. If a desire has arisen in you, say again. 'Desire, desire,' and be finished." But you have seen a beautiful car and a dream, a desire, takes posses- sion of you.

Now so many thoughts will arise: "How can I manage to pur- chase this car? Should I sell my house? Should I go to the bank?

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OSHO

The Diamond Sutra,

OSHO

Truth is known only through a deep inner harmony. Ordinarily we are a chaos, very discordant, there is not one person in us but many. We are multipsychic: there are many minds inside, and they are all dragging us in different directions - many voices and you cannot figure out which is yours. One voice says, "Do this," another voice says, "Don't do this." One is constantly wavering. One is almost broken into thousands of pieces like a mirror thrown on the floor. That's the situation where man finds himself. But all those fragments can be gathered. They can be melted into the whole: they can be integrated, crystallized. The moment that unity arises in you, great The moment this inner chaos is gone we can hear the still, small voice within. And then indubitably, unmistakably one knows, "This is my voice, this is existence speaking in me.",,,

music is born, all noises change into an orchestra, and then only you can see, hear, feel the truth of existence. It is always there but our minds are so noisy that we cannot feel it.

And there is never any doubt, you will not doubt it: it is indubitable. Only on that rock of indubitability, on that rock of certainty, can life become a temple - otherwise we are simply making sandcastles.

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OSHO

BECOME ONE WITH YOURSELF

OSHO

Only creative people are happy.

Let this sink deep in your heart: only creative people are happy. Happiness is a by-product of creativity. Create something, and you will be happy. Create a garden, let the garden bloom, and something will bloom in you. Create a painting, and something starts growing in you with the growing painting. As the painting comes to the finish, as you are giving the last touches to the painting, you will see you are no more the same person. You are giving the last touches to something that is very new in you.

Write a poem, sing a song, dance a dance, and see you start becoming happy. Existence has only given you an opportunity to be creative: life is an opportunity to be creative.

If you are creative you will be happy.

When you want to climb to the highest peak of the mountains, it is arduous. And when you have reached the peak and you lie down, whispering with the clouds, looking at the sky, the joy that fills your heart-that joy always comes whenever you reach any peak of creativity.

It needs intelligence to be happy, and people are taught to remain unintelligent. The society does not want

intelligence to flower.

The society does not need intelligence, in fact it is very afraid of intelligence. The society needs stupid people. Why? -because stupid people are manageable. Intelligent people are not necessarily obedient; they may obey, they may not obey, But the stupid person cannot disobey, he is always ready to he commanded. The stupid person needs somebody to command him, because he has no intelligence to live on his own. He wants somebody to direct him, he seeks and searches his own tyrants

Politicians don't want intelligence to happen in the world, priests don't want intelligence to happen in the world,

generals don't want intelligence to happen in the world. Nobody really wants it. People want everybody to remain

stupid, then everybody is obedient, conformist, never goes outside the fold, remains always part of the mob, is

controllable, manipulatable, manageable.

The intelligent person is rebellious. Intelligence is rebellion. The intelligent person decides on his own whether to say no or yes.

The intelligent person cannot be traditional, he cannot go on worshipping the past; there is nothing to worship in the past. The intelligent person wants to create a future, wants to live in the present. His living in the present is his way of creating the future.

The intelligent person does not cling to the dead past, does not carry corpses.

Howsoever beautiful they have been, howsoever precious, he does not carry the corpses. He is finished with the past; it is gone, and it is gone forever. But the foolish person is traditional. He is ready to follow the priest, ready to follow any stupid politician, ready to follow any order anybody with authority and he is ready to fall at his feet. Without intelligence there can be no happiness. Man can only be happy if he is intelligent, utterly intelligent.

Meditation is a device to release your intelligence. The more meditative you become, the more intelligent you

become.

But remember, by intelligence I don't mean intellectuality. Intellectuality is part of stupidity.

Intelligence is a totally different phenomenon, it has nothing to do with the head Intelligence is something that comes from your very center. It wells up in you, and with it many things start growing in you. You become happy, you become creative, you become rebellious, you become adventurous, you start loving insecurity, you start moving into the unknown. You start living dangerously, because that is the only way to live.

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The Book of Wisdom

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Love is a deep desire to bless the whole of existence. 

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His Eminence Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Every time you think of experiencing suffering for others, you purify so much negative karma. Medical science does not do this, cannot help you do this. Medicine itself cannot cure the true cause of suffering; the more important thing is meditation.

 To prepare for death, practice tonglen. Take the suffering of all beings into your heart, as you breathe in, and give them to your ego in order to destroy it. Give all these sufferings also to the emotional “I” that appears to really exist from its own side but is actually nonexistent.Try to die with this motivation.

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His Eminence Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Book: WHOLESOME FEAR

Wisdom Publications • Boston

Born: 3 December 1946; Thangme, Nepal

Parinirvana: 13 April 2023

སྐྱེ་བ་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཡང་དག་བླ་མ་དང་།།

འབྲལ་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དཔལ་ལ་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ཅིང་།།

ས་དང་ལམ་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་རབ་རྫོགས་ནས།།

རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་གི་གོ་འཕང་མྱུར་ཐོབ་ཤོག། 

In all my lives, never separated from perfect Gurus, 

May I enjoy the magnificent Dharma.

By completing the qualities of the stages and paths,

May I quickly attain the state of Vajradhara.

🙏🙏🙏

His holiness Dalai Lama XIV

The purpose of religion is to

control yourself, not to criticise

others.

His holiness Dalai Lama XIV

THE MIRACULOUS 16th KARMAPA

THE MIRACULOUS 16th KARMAPA 

When he was dying I heard he would go to Chicago. I didn’t really know when to go so I just went, and because of our karmic connection, I landed there five minutes after His Holiness. When I went to see him in hospital he was smiling and joking. I said I would like to go there every day to serve him. There were 16 of his attendants there and he didn’t need me but I went anyway. 

Every day he was very charming, smiling, joking as usual. Sometimes the doctors came to look at him but sometimes there was nobody except me. The doctors were not Buddhist. They would say, “This man is very strange. He has so many problems, heart, tuberculosis, and so on, and he’s always very happy. He must have a lot of pain but he always says, I’m fine, I’m fine.” The doctor told his attendants he would not live long, maybe five days or one week. His Holiness laughed and said I will have another fifteen days. And he lasted for exactly fifteen days.

I returned to India knowing they would bring his body to Rumtek. In Tantric teaching it’s said that if you have great faith and devotion in the guru you will get blessings; if not, you won’t get anything. One bhikshu spent twenty-four years with Buddha and didn’t get any kind of blessing. 

Real faith and devotion is difficult to explain. It’s not strong love, not strong attachment. It’s some special feeling. 

In Guru Yoga practice usually they say your guru should transform into Vajradhara (the primordial buddha), Guru Rinpoche or Buddha Sakyamuni. Then you can say the prayer. For some people, who see the guru as a human being, then maybe it’s better for them to transform him into Vajradhara. 

If I change him into Vajradhara, my guru yoga disappears.

I see him as he is. That’s good. As he is. GET IT?

~  Dorzong Rinpoche

From: «The Miraculous 16th Karmapa» (Parinirvana)