Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Just sit silently !
"Continue to meditate. Make it a regular thing. Even if you cannot do anything, just sit silently. Just to give specific time, deliberately, to meditation is enough; just the very idea that for one hour you will be sitting for meditation, and then you sit. Even if you don’t do anything; you simply sit under a tree or in your room; slowly, slowly that one hour becomes the most precious time.
You start waiting for it. You look forward to it. Slowly, slowly something starts settling in you; that one hour becomes sacred. And you can see the difference between your other twenty-three hours and that one hour. It is like a diamond in a heap of pebbles: It shines; it has a grandeur of its own. And that one hour finally becomes the only time saved. All else has gone down the drain. One day one understands that those were the only moments that one lived.
When the German poet, Goethe, was dying, somebody said, “In your long life you must have enjoyed many beautiful moments.” He was a man of great caliber, one of the greatest geniuses of the world, and multi-dimensional. But the question made him very sad. He said, “If I count, then it can’t come to more than two weeks in my whole life. But those are the only two weeks that I have really lived — a few moments far and few between; those were the real moments. I have lived only two weeks, the rest has been just a wastage.” If Goethe said that, what about an ordinary man? — not even two weeks.
But if one meditates, one simply sits for meditation, one keeps that one hour sacred and separate, slowly, slowly that one hour becomes a window: It starts giving you glimpses of the beyond. In that one hour you become open to something unknown, mysterious. You start feeling the presence that can only be called divine; there is no other word to express it. That one hour becomes a transforming process. So even if nothing happens in the beginning, don’t be worried; just go on sitting for that one hour. It brings great fruit. If you can, do Dynamic, Kundalini, or simply dancing will be good. If you cannot do anything — the situation does not allow — then simply sit silently.
The whole question is: You should be deliberately in meditation for one hour. What you do is not so important, so all kinds of meditation help, because the basic thing is there: the deliberate effort to keep a few moments apart, away from the marketplace."
OSHO
Source book : Hallelujah! , Chapter #10
You start waiting for it. You look forward to it. Slowly, slowly something starts settling in you; that one hour becomes sacred. And you can see the difference between your other twenty-three hours and that one hour. It is like a diamond in a heap of pebbles: It shines; it has a grandeur of its own. And that one hour finally becomes the only time saved. All else has gone down the drain. One day one understands that those were the only moments that one lived.
When the German poet, Goethe, was dying, somebody said, “In your long life you must have enjoyed many beautiful moments.” He was a man of great caliber, one of the greatest geniuses of the world, and multi-dimensional. But the question made him very sad. He said, “If I count, then it can’t come to more than two weeks in my whole life. But those are the only two weeks that I have really lived — a few moments far and few between; those were the real moments. I have lived only two weeks, the rest has been just a wastage.” If Goethe said that, what about an ordinary man? — not even two weeks.
But if one meditates, one simply sits for meditation, one keeps that one hour sacred and separate, slowly, slowly that one hour becomes a window: It starts giving you glimpses of the beyond. In that one hour you become open to something unknown, mysterious. You start feeling the presence that can only be called divine; there is no other word to express it. That one hour becomes a transforming process. So even if nothing happens in the beginning, don’t be worried; just go on sitting for that one hour. It brings great fruit. If you can, do Dynamic, Kundalini, or simply dancing will be good. If you cannot do anything — the situation does not allow — then simply sit silently.
The whole question is: You should be deliberately in meditation for one hour. What you do is not so important, so all kinds of meditation help, because the basic thing is there: the deliberate effort to keep a few moments apart, away from the marketplace."
OSHO
Source book : Hallelujah! , Chapter #10
Have you ever said, "Hello," to a tree?
The tree will be sending its energy, its warmth to your hand. ….
“ Have you ever said, "Hello," to a tree?
You yourself would think that you are going out of your mind.
Have you ever touched a tree with love, the same way you would touch your beloved?
Have you ever hugged a tree?
You are missing a whole world of sensitivity that surrounds you, that is available.
Slowly, slowly, you will start feeling that when you say hello to a tree... of course, it cannot respond in language, but it will respond in some way.
It may start swaying even though there may be no wind.
When you touch it lovingly, just a little acquaintance is needed, and you can feel that on the other side there is not something insensitive, but something which is far more sensitive than people are.
The tree will be sending its energy, its warmth to your hand.
If you hug a tree, the world is going to think you mad.
But all the trees will know that there is still hope for man; there are still sensitive people.
And hugging a tree, you will find more sensitiveness, more lovingness, than you can find even hugging your friend or your beloved, because your friend, or your beloved are full of tensions, anxieties, agonies.
Trees are absolutely innocent; their consciousness is as pure as the purest sky, unclouded.
We are not living in a dead world. “
OSHO
Source book : The Golden Future
“ Have you ever said, "Hello," to a tree?
You yourself would think that you are going out of your mind.
Have you ever touched a tree with love, the same way you would touch your beloved?
Have you ever hugged a tree?
You are missing a whole world of sensitivity that surrounds you, that is available.
Slowly, slowly, you will start feeling that when you say hello to a tree... of course, it cannot respond in language, but it will respond in some way.
It may start swaying even though there may be no wind.
When you touch it lovingly, just a little acquaintance is needed, and you can feel that on the other side there is not something insensitive, but something which is far more sensitive than people are.
The tree will be sending its energy, its warmth to your hand.
If you hug a tree, the world is going to think you mad.
But all the trees will know that there is still hope for man; there are still sensitive people.
And hugging a tree, you will find more sensitiveness, more lovingness, than you can find even hugging your friend or your beloved, because your friend, or your beloved are full of tensions, anxieties, agonies.
Trees are absolutely innocent; their consciousness is as pure as the purest sky, unclouded.
We are not living in a dead world. “
OSHO
Source book : The Golden Future
Sunday, 11 October 2015
Being competitive is egoistic. It is sick.
You are asking, ”Why is it so hard to accept being a Failure?” It hurts the ego; otherwise there is no problem.
Vineeto, the very idea of being competitive is egoistic. It is sick.
There is nothing wrong in being a failure. Just be a total failure!
Do everything that you can do and if failure comes out of it, accept it with dignity.
Somebody has to fail, somebody has to win.
You should not be so much attached to your own ego that you always have to win.
Once in a while, just for a change, failing is not bad. As much can be learned by failure as can be learned by victory.
You can learn egolessness, you can learn humbleness, you can learn accepting whatever life brings to you.
And all these things will give
you a maturity.
you a maturity.
Then who is bothered who is the winner and who is the failure?
People are unnecessarily concerned that the whole world is watching.
People are unnecessarily concerned that the whole world is watching.
Nobody has time.
Everybody is interested in his own competition.
Everybody is interested in his own competition.
In fact, if you are a failure, you may have the sympathy of everybody. But if you are a winner, you won’t get anybody’s sympathy.
But one should take life almost like a playground.
One should learn gamesmanship.
One should know that somebody has to be the winner and somebody has to be the loser.
And if you are a humble man, you would like yourself to be a failure rather than deprive somebody else of victory.
Perhaps you have never thought about the possibility of enjoying
failure because you have given
the chance to somebody else of enjoying the victory.
failure because you have given
the chance to somebody else of enjoying the victory.
His victory depends on you. You could have deprived him of victory.
But all that is needed is a deep awareness to think and to see that these are the only two possibilities.
Fight with your total energy and intensity, but it is not necessary that you should be the winner.
And when the other wins, rejoice in his victory too.
It was a beautiful game.
Don’t feel defeated.
Your failure is a defeat only if you have not put your whole energy into it.
Your failure is a defeat only if you have not put your whole energy into it.
OshO ❤
CHAPTER 30. BE ADAM AND EVE
Sat Chit Anand
CHAPTER 30. BE ADAM AND EVE
Sat Chit Anand
Saturday, 3 October 2015
What is awareness?
What is awareness?
Awareness is neither accepting nor rejecting. There is a famous saying of Tilopa:
"Truly, because of our accepting and rejecting, we have not the suchness of things" -- we miss the suchness of things.
We cannot become aware of what reality is because we accept or we reject.
When we accept, we indulge. When we reject, we repress.
Buddha says: Don't accept, don't reject -- just be alert, just see.
Look, with no prejudice for or against.
If you can be in such an indifferent UDASEEN -- in such non-valuing, non-judging awareness -- things start changing of their own accord...
Osho,
The Discipline Of Transcendence
Vol 3...
The Discipline Of Transcendence
Vol 3...
Suitcase is not yours !
" DEE DEE DUM DUM " : -
A little old man was sitting on a bus humming, "Dee dee dum dum, dee dee dum."
The bus driver turned around and noticed a suitcase blocking the aisle.
He turned to the old man and said, "Would you mind moving the suitcase?" to which the old man replied, "Dee dee dum dum, dee dee dum."
In complete frustration, the bus driver jumped up and took the suitcase and threw it out the bus window and glared at the old man and shouted, "Now what do you have to say?"
The old man looked at him and smiled and said, "Dee dee dum dum, dee dee dum -- it's not my suitcase."
Once you have started moving, even death is not your death, even the body is not your body, even the mind is not your mind.
You can go on singing: Dee dee dum dum.... Even when death approaches you, you can go on humming -- because the suitcase is not yours.
A man of awareness can die so easily, so peacefully.
He lives peacefully, he dies peacefully. A man of sexuality lives restlessly, dies restlessly. It is your choice...
Osho,
The Discipline of Transcendence
The Discipline of Transcendence
Vol 3..
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