OSHO

The sensual person is always after something, trying to achieve – money, power, prestige. The sensitive person is simply alive here now, enjoying the beauty that is available. When tomorrow comes then tomorrow will take care of itself.

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OSHO 

Book:The Buddha Said . . .

Publisher: Watkins

H. W. L. Poonja

“If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated, you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!” 

– Papaji

OSHO

EITHER/OR 

Mind functions in an either/or way: either this can be right or its opposite can be right. Both together cannot be right – as far as mind, its logic, its rationality, is concerned.  If mind is either/or, then the heart is both/and. The heart has no logic, but a sensitivity, a perceptivity. It can see that not only can both be together; in fact, they are not two. 

It is just one phenomenon, seen from two different aspects. And there is much more than the two – that’s why I say “both/and.”  And the heart is always right. If there is a question of choosing between the mind and the heart... because mind is a creation of the society. It has been educated.ucated. It has been given to you by the society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted. It is pure existence; hence, it has a sensitivity.  Look from the viewpoint of the heart, and the contradiction starts melting like ice.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: A Spiritual Dictionary for the Here and Now

Sri Ramakrishna

SALT DOLL  (Sri Ramakrishna parable) 

A salt doll wanted to measure the ocean’s depth.

It wanted to be the first to tell how deep it was.

But the moment it got into the water, it melted.

Man in Samadhi, knowing (becoming) Brahman

goes  beyond reason and is mute. No longer has

he the power to describe the nature of Brahman.

Source: Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Mahaguru Padmasambhava

Mind Training: The 72 Exhortations (31-33)

Great beings who are free of desire

Have no need for a karmamudra.

When the mind is mixed with desire,

The mudra will lead you to lower realms.

Don’t look at inferiors’ bad examples,

The causes of nondharmic behavior.

Instead, see them as deserving compassion,

And follow the mahasiddhas’ footsteps.

Skillfully give up negative friends.

Follow exalted spiritual friends

With learning and venerable qualities

Who have given up the world. [...]

— Kharak Gomchung

#Mahayana #KharakGomchung #HelpfulMaterials 

@VajraGuruSongs

Ramana Maharshi

“The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Maha Kalika Devi

Maha Kalika Devi 

The goddess is stated to destroy evil in order to defend the innocent.

OSHO

Loneliness is a misunderstood aloneness. Once you misunderstand your aloneness as loneliness, the whole context changes. Aloneness has a beauty and grandeur, a positivity; loneliness is poor, negative, dark, dismal. Loneliness is a gap. Something is missing, something is needed to fill it, and nothing can ever fill it because it is a misunderstanding in the first place. As you grow older, the gap also grows bigger. 

People are so afraid to be by themselves that they do any kind of stupid thing. I have seen people playing cards alone; the other party is not there. They have invented games in which the same person plays cards from both sides. Those who have known aloneness say something absolutely different. They say there is nothing more beautiful, more peaceful, more joyful than being alone.

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Love, Freedom, Aloneness THE KOAN OF RELATIONSHIPS Osho St. Martin’s Griffin New York

OSHO

If you want to be an authentic individual, use sadness; don’t escape from it. It is a great blessing. Sit silently with it, rejoice in it. There is nothing wrong in being sad. And the more you become acquainted with it and its subtle nuances, you will be surprised—it is a great relaxation, a great rest, and you come out of it rejuvenated, refreshed, younger, livelier. And once you have tasted it, you will seek those beautiful moments of sadness again and again. You will wait for them, you will welcome them, and they will open new doors of your aloneness . . . 

Alone you are born, alone you will die. Between these two alonenesses you can deceive yourself that you are not alone, that you have a wife, a husband, children, money, power. But between these two alonenesses you are alone. Everything is just to keep yourself engaged in something or other, so that you don’t become aware of it.

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OSHO

Love, Freedom, Aloneness THE KOAN OF RELATIONSHIPS Osho St. Martin’s Griffin New York

Iskcon tirupati

Iskcon tirupati

Mahavatar Babaji

If you come to doubt, I'll give you every reason to doubt. If you come suspicious, I'll give you every reason to be suspicious. But if you come seeking Love, I'll show you more love than you've ever known

Mahavatar Babaji

OSHO

336 

Love. 

Buddha says: If the mind does not arise all things are blameless. 

What more is there to be said: And even this much is enough to blame everything!

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

KWAN YIN

Namo Guan-Shi-Yin Pusa ...Om Mani Padme Hum

OSHO Guru poornima

Once you are in tune with me, you cannot lose me. You can again and again fall in line with me wherever you are, because it is something of the inner. It has nothing to do with the physical presence. Any moment, anywhere, you can close your eyes and remember me, and you will find me just close by.

Osho

Bowing

at the lotus feet of Osho

ON

Guru Purnima

Kwan yin

Namo Guan-Shi-Yin Pusa ...Om Mani Padme Hum

Mahaguru Padmasambhava

ANNIVERSARY OF GURU RINPOCHE - June 28, 2023

Om ah hung vajra guru Padma siddhi hung🙏🎂

Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

“Don’t be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Paramhansa Yogananda

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

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Paramhansa Yogananda

, Autobiography of a Yogi

OSHO

308 

Love.

 Love to be alone. 

Solitude is the temple of the divine, and remember that there is no other temple.

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

294 

Love. 

Meditate, pray and wait. 

Do not will anything, for in you there is strength greater than any strength of your own. 

But it works only when your will is at rest.

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

283 

Love. 

Silence is benediction but not the silence you can create, because you are the noise so you cannot create silence: but you can create the illusion of it, and this illusion is created by all sorts of autohypnotic techniques. 

So never use autosuggestions to be silent; rather, be aware of the constantly chattering mind, and be aware, not to make it still, but to understand it, and this very understanding flowers into a silence which is not just absence of noise but a positive bliss.

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

230

 Love.

 The divine is that from which one cannot depart, and that from which one can depart is not the divine. 

So find that from which you have never departed and cannot ever depart from – and then laugh at the absurdity of the human mind and its efforts! 

Buddha is still laughing because of that Listen!

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

221

 Love. 

Freedom from becoming means freedom for being. 

Becoming is desiring, being is that which is. 

Becoming is longing for the future, being is to be in the present.

 Becoming is mental, being is existential.

That is why becoming must cease for the being to reveal itself. 

Becoming is just like the smoke around the flame, or just like the outer covering around the seed, so please let the smoke go for the flame to explode in its complete glory and splendour, and let the seed die to its outer shell so that it may be what it is in its innermost depth.

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

203

 Love. 

If one is aware of the present moment then one also becomes aware of the fact that there is no ME inside. 

The me is my past, the me is the dead past.

 The me is not my life because it is not living.

 The ego can exist only in the past or in the future – which is nothing but a projection of the past; that is why awareness, moment to moment awareness, leads to egolessness:

 because the ego cannot exist in the present and because awareness cannot exist except in the present. 

So they both cannot exist simultaneously. Ego is unawareness and awareness is egolessness.

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OSHO

A  CUP OF TEA

OSHO

 175

 Love.

 With thought the mind has boundaries but without thought the mind is just infinite space.

 That is why in thoughtless awareness one stops being a drop and becomes oceanic. 

And then there is great energy. 

This energy wipes out everything which is dead. 

It wipes out the whole karmic past – and with no effort at all. The greater absorbs the lesser and remains untouched.

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

157

 Love. 

I hope you will be moving in deep meditation. Breathe in it sleep in it live in it – let meditation be your very existence.

 Only then is the happening. 

Don’t do it, but be it – And my blessings are always with you. 

If you need any help from me just ask when you are thoughtLESS, and it will be given to you.

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OSHO

A cup of tea

OSHO

Intelligence is k n o w n only w h e n you encounter the u n k n o w n , about w h i c h you don't have any memory, any knowledge, any information beforehand. W h e n you encounter the u n k n o w n , that is the point which is decisive. H o w do you respond? Intelligence means the capability to respond to n e w situations. It comes from your being—the m i n d is only a vehicle—a kind of awareness of what the m i n d is, without belonging to it. Intelligence is the quality of the witness; it watches the m i n d and it gives direction to the mind.

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OSHO

Intelligence

The creative response to now 

OSHO

If you look d o w n the ages you will find thousands of geniuses with very bad m e m - ories and thousands of people w h o had tremendous memories with no intelligence at all—because m e m o r y and intelligence come from different sources. M e m o r y is part of the mind—intelligence is part of nomind. Intelligence is part of your consciousness, and m e m o r y is part of your brain. T h e brain can be trained—that's what the universities go on doing. All your examinations are tests for your memory, not for your intelligence. T h e universities give you the w r o n g impression—as if m e m o r y is intelligence. It is not.

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OSHO

Intelligence

The Creative response to now

OSHO

Don’t call it uncertainty—call it wonder

Don’t call it insecurity—call it freedom 

 I am not here to give you a dogma—a dogma makes one certain. I am not here to give you any promise for the future—any promise for the future makes one secure. I am here simply to make you alert and aware—that is, to be here now, with all the insecurity that life is, with all the uncertainty that life is, with all the danger that life is. 

I know you come here seeking some certainty, some creed, some “ism,” somewhere to belong to, someone to rely upon. You come here out of your fear. You are searching for a sort of beautiful imprisonment—so that you can live without any awareness. I would like to make you more insecure, more uncertain— because that’s how life is, that’s how God is. When there is more insecurity and more danger, the only way to respond to it is by awareness.

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OSHO

COURAGE

Joy of living dangerously

OSHO

TH E P O E T R Y O F T H E H E A R T 

T h e intelligence of the head is not intelligence at all; it is knowledgeabillty. T h e intelligence of the heart is the intelligence, the only intelligence there is. T h e head is simply an accumulator. It is always old, it is never  new, it is never original. It is good for certain purposes: For filing it is perfecdy good! A n d in life one needs this—many things have to be remembered. T h e mind, the head, is a biocomputer. You can go on accumulating knowledge in it and whenever you need it you can take it out. It is good for mathematics, good for calculation, good for the day-to-day life, the marketplace. But if you think this is your whole life then you will remain stupid. You will never k n o w the beauty of feeling and you will never k n o w the blessings of the heart. You will never k n o w the grace that descends only through the heart, the godliness that enters only through the heart. You will never k n o w prayer, you will never k

 n o w poetry, you will never k n o w love

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OSHO

intelligence

creative response to now

OSHO

Now let me tell you a paradox: every child who is innocent is mature. Maturity has nothing to do with age because it has nothing to do with experience; maturity has something to do with responsiveness, freshness, virginity, innocence. So when I use the word ‘mature’ I don’t mean that when you become more experienced you will be more mature. That’s what people usually mean when they use the word — I don’t mean that. The more you gather knowledge, the more your mind will become immature; and by the time you are seventy or eighty, you will be completely immature because you will have a stale past to function through. Watch a small child…knowing nothing, having no experience, he functions here and now.

~ Øsho

“Ancient Music in the Pines

OSHO

I am not in favor of stopping the mind. I am in favor of watching it. It stops of its own accord -- and then it is beautiful when something happens without any violence it has a beauty of its own, it has a natural growth. You can force a flower and open it by force; you can pull the petals of a bud and open it by force -- but you have destroyed the beauty of the flower. Now it is almost dead. It cannot stand your violence. The petals will be hanging loose, limp, dying. When the bud opens by its own energy, when it opens of its own accord, then those petals are alive.

The mind is your flowering -- don't force it in any way. I am against all force and against all violence, and particularly violence that is directed towards yourself. Just watch – in deep prayer, love, and reverence. And see what happens! Miracles happen of their own accord. There is no need to pull and push.

You ask: How to stop thinking? I say: Just watch, be alert. And drop this idea of stopping, otherwise it will stop the natural transformation of the mind. Drop this idea of stopping! Who are you to stop? At the most, enjoy.

And nothing is wrong -- even if immoral thoughts, so-called immoral thoughts, pass through your mind, let them pass; nothing is wrong. You remain detached. No harm is being done. It is just fiction; you are seeing an inner movie. Allow it its own way and it will lead you, by and by, to the state of no-mind. Watching ultimately culminates in no mind. No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind. No-mind does not come by killing and destroying the mind: no-mind comes when you have understood the mind so totally that thinking is no longer needed -- your understanding has replaced it.

OSHO: A Sudden Clash of Thunder

Talks on Zen Stories

Chapter_2: When you are Not, God is

OSHO

INSIGHT 

All the great scientists say that whenever they have discovered something, they have discovered it not by thinking but when the thinking had stopped and there was an interval, a gap. In that gap was the insight – the intuitive flash like lightning. When thought stops, your thinking is pure. It will look paradoxical. When thought stops – let me repeat – your thinking is pure, your capacity to reflect reality is pure.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth - to be special.

The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you are fed up with the world, then again the ego starts finding new ways and new means to enhance itself - it becomes spiritual. You become a great mahatma, a great sage, a great scholar, a man of knowledge, a man of renunciation; again you are special.

Unless the desire to be special disappears, you will never be special. Unless you relax into your ordinariness, you will never relax.

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OSHO

OSHO

WAITING

 Waiting is simply waiting; not waiting for somebody, not waiting for something to happen. How can you wait for something you don’t know? And all that you will think should happen will be wrong, because it will come out of your past, and your past has been nothing but darkness, your past has been nothing but ignorance. Negative thinking cannot do anything – not even think about what is going to happen. This state, this silence, this utter purity, is the death and the resurrection.  

Waiting has no object, and that’s what meditation is. Let me define meditation: meditation is waiting without prospect, waiting for waiting’s sake. And truth is always there, pulsating at the core of being. Waiting allows it to bloom. Waiting helps you to melt. Waiting helps the innermost to express itself. Waiting releases the song that you are, the celebration that you are.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

VOWS

Life is never changed by vows, life is changed by awareness. Never take a vow; the vow simply means that you are forcing something upon yourself. Try to understand. When there is understanding there is no need to take a vow; your understanding is enough. 

You see something is wrong and it drops.  Seeing is enough, understanding is enough; no other discipline is ever needed. Whenever you need some other discipline it means your understanding is lacking, something is missing in your understanding.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

UNDERSTANDING 

Understanding is totally different from knowledge. Knowledge is borrowed, understanding is one’s own. Knowledge comes from without, understanding wells up within. Knowledge is ugly, because it is secondhand. And knowledge can never become part of your being. It will remain alien, it will remain foreign, it cannot get roots into you. Understanding grows out of you, it is your own flowering. It is authentically yours, hence it has beauty, and it liberates.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

SPONTANEITY 

Spontaneity simply means now there is nothing to hinder your self-nature from expressing itself. All the rocks have been removed, all the doors have been opened. Now your self-nature can sing its song, it can dance its dance…  

Spontaneity has not to be created; if it is created it is not spontaneity. Then there is a contradiction: if it is cultivated then it is not spontaneous, obviously. A cultivated spontaneity cannot be true; it will be false, phony, pseudo, it will be only a mask. You may be simply acting, you will not be really spontaneous. And it cannot go very deep; it will remain only something painted from the outside. Just scratch the so-called cultivated, spontaneous person, and all his spontaneity will be gone. He was only acting, he was not really spontaneous.  

Realize spontaneity comes from the center; it is uncultivated, that’s why we call it spontaneity. There is no way to cultivate it, no way to create it, no need either. But if you want to become an actor, if you want to act, then it is a totally different matter – but remember: any real situation will immediately provoke your mind. It will come rushing towards the surface; all spontaneity will disappear…

  So I will say the first thing to remember is: spontaneity has to be discovered – or, it will be better to say, rediscovered, because when you were a child you were spontaneous. You have lost it because so much has been cultivated – so many disciplines, so many moralities, virtues, characters. You have learnt to play so many roles, that’s why you have forgotten the language of being just yourself.

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OSHO 

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

I have seen people trying to relax. I have seen a book with the title, You Must Relax! "Must" will not allow you to relax! Relaxation is not something that you do, it is simply the absence of all your doings. In that absence is the greatest experience of life, and all great values will grow on their own accord.

OSHO

SERMONS ON STONE

OSHO

ONE DAY, KYOZAN WAS LOOKING AT THE MOON TOGETHER WITH SEKISHITSU AND ASKEDHIM,

”WHERE DOES THE ROUNDNESS OF THE MOON GO WHEN IT BECOMES SHARP,CRESCENT?”

SEKISHITSU SAID, ”WHEN IT IS SHARP, THE ROUNDNESS IS STILL THERE.”

When it is round it is still sharp.

Nothing goes anywhere.Sometimes it is manifest, sometimes it is unmanifest, but it is alwayshere – just like the moon.On the full-moon night you see its roundness, and then slowly slowlythat roundness is no more round.Something starts disappearing from your vision which is notdisappearing in the moon itself.

OSHO zen the solitary bird cuckoo of the forest

OSHO

44

 I sought many kinds of wealth, but I found them all, in the end, to be a loss. Then I searched for the wealth within myself. What I found was godliness. Then I realized that losing godliness is truly a loss, and finding it is the only wealth.  Somebody once praised an emperor with many words. He sang many beautiful songs to the emperor’s glory, expecting to receive something in return.

 The emperor laughed at all the praises heaped on him, and then presented the man with a lot of gold coins. When he looked at the coins, the man’s eyes filled with an extraordinary shine and he looked up toward the sky. Something was written on those coins. He threw them away and started dancing; his state had changed dramatically. An amazing inner revolution had happened from reading what was on the coins.

 After many years, somebody asked him what was written on the coins. He replied, “On the gold coins it said: ‘God is enough.’” Truly, God is enough. Those who know all agree with this truth.  What did I see? I saw that people who have everything are poor; I saw very wealthy people who actually have nothing. Then I stumbled upon this key – that those who want to attain everything have to let go of everything. Those who dare to let go of everything become worthy of godliness.

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OSHO 

LIFE IS A SOAP BUBBLE

OSHO

"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

OSHO

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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OSHO

The Book of Wisdom

OSHO

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

~~~

OSHO

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)