7/28/2016

Stillness

#Osho

Stillness has many dimensions. One is silence: that is the polar opposite of sound, soundlessness. The second dimension is no movement: that is the polar opposite of movement. Mind is movement, just as mind is sound. Sound travels, mind also. Mind is in constant movement, never standing still. You cannot conceive a still mind. There exists no such thing, because when stillness is, mind is no more; when mind is, it is movement. So what is the movement of mind? Through it we can conceive the second dimension of stillness, no movement.

Efforts

Effort is necessary
to move oneself deeper and deeper
in the practice of Self-enquiry,
not philosophising on the subject.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Vasanas Desire

Hidden tendencies arise to leave when you are Quiet,
so it is a good sign when vasanas arise.
Do not be dismayed because they are Self.
Let vasanas arise, they do not exist.
The world is a playground for the wise
and a graveyard for the foolish.
Let the vasanas play, they are transient imaginations
and even the "I" to which they occur is imagination itself.
Abide as Substratum and allow circumstances to come and go.
Stay Quiet with no intention, no notion,
not even inquire for Freedom, and don't utter the word "I."
Then the gods and demons of the vasanas will vanish.

Your true nature does not come and go.
Play with what comes and goes.
When they arise they will disappear.
Allow them to go away.
Let things happen through mind-ego
and just stay Quiet as they happen,
with the firm conviction: I Am I Am.

7/08/2016

Surrender

COMPLETE SURRENDER MEANS GIVING UP ALL THOUGHTS

Ananya saranagati [complete surrender] means to be without any attachment to thoughts, no doubt, but does it mean to discard even thoughts of food and water which are essential for the sustenance of the physical body?
He asks, ‘Should I eat only if I get anything by God’s direction, and without my asking for it? Or should I make a little effort?’ All right. Let us take it that what we have to eat comes of its own accord. But even then, who is to eat? Suppose somebody puts it in our mouth, should we not swallow it at least? Is that not an effort? He asks, ‘If I become sick, should I take medicine or should I keep quiet leaving my health and sickness in the hands of God?’ In the book Sadhana Panchakam written by Sankara, it is stated
that for treatment of the disease called hunger one should eat food received as alms.
But then one must at least go out and beg for it. If all people close their eyes and sit still saying if the food comes we eat, how is the world to get on? Hence one must take things as they come in accordance with one’s traditions, but one must be free from the feeling that one is doing them oneself. The feeling that I am doing it is the bondage.
It is therefore necessary to consider and find out the method whereby such a feeling can be overcome, instead of doubting
as to whether medicine should be administered if one is sick or whether food should be taken if one is hungry.
Such doubts will continue to come up and will never end. Even such doubts as ‘May I groan if there is pain? May I
inhale air after exhaling?’ also occur. Call it Iswara [God] or call it karma [destiny]; some karta [higher power] will carry on everything in this world according to the development of the mind of each individual. If the responsibility is thrown on the higher power things will go on of their own accord. We walk on this ground.
While doing so, do we consider at every step whether we should raise one leg after the other or stop at some stage? Isn’t the walking done automatically? The same is the case with inhaling and exhaling. No special effort is made to inhale or exhale.
The same is the case with this life also. Can we give up anything if we want to, or do anything as we please? Quite a number of things are done automatically without our being conscious of it.
Complete surrender to God means giving up all thoughts and concentrating the mind on him. If we can concentrate on him, other thoughts disappear. If the actions of the mind, speech and body are merged with God, all the burdens of our life will be on him.

BHAGAVAN.

7/07/2016

Self

"That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging."  (MG, II.III)

"Of yourself you can say ‘I exist’. That is, yours is not mere existence, it is Existence of which you are conscious. Really, it is Existence identical with Consciousness." (MG, II.III)

"Consciousness is always Self-consciousness." (MG, II.III)

(Bhagavan quotes from 'Maharshi's Gospel': Bk. II, Ch. III)

Life

Remember, life goes on providing.

The child is born; before the child is born the mother’s breasts are swelling with milk.

The child is yet only on the way, the child is not born yet, but the breasts are getting ready.

Before the hunger of the child, the food is ready.

If you look deeply into life you will find it happening everywhere: Life provides.

And once you know it, great trust arises in life.

That trust is religious.
Trust does not mean believing in a book, in a certain ideology.

Trust means SEEING that life provides, FEELING that life cares, that it is not against you, that it is all for you, that it is not indifferent to you, that it loves you, that it protects you, that you need not be worried, too worried about security.

Life is your security.

OshO ❤️
CHAPTER 7. THIRSTY
The Wisdom of the Sands, Vol 2

Quotes

“It is not true that birth as a man (human) is necessarily the highest, and that one must attain realisation only from being a man (human). Even an animal can attain Self-realisation.”

(Bhagavan in 'Day by Day with Bhagavan' 2-9-46)

Buddha

“The Buddha is not going to project you to Buddhahood, as if throwing a stone. He is not going to purify you, as if washing a dirty cloth, nor is he going to cure you of ignorance, like a doctor administering medicine to a passive patient.

Having attained full enlightenment himself, he is showing you the path, and it is up to you to follow it or not. It is up to you now to practise these teachings and experience their results.”

~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

7/06/2016

Truth

“All this is enveloped by the Supreme Being”
(Isavasyam idam sarvam)
#SwamiTejomayananda
(Part 1)

In the traditional language of Vedanta a student endowed with the four-fold qualifications of discrimination, dispassion, self-control and so on, along with the intense longing for liberation is considered fit for gaining the Knowledge of the Self. He is called a sadhanachatushtaya sampanna adhikari.

Such seekers who have lived life, gained experiences and understood their limitations, reach a stage where they want to know the greater Truth. They then approach a Teacher established in Self-knowledge and seek to gain such Knowledge, at any cost. That Self-knowledge is indicated by the word Upanishad. Before the teaching begins, when the teacher and the disciple come together, they first recite the peace invocation (shaantipath).

The Ishavasya Upanishad is found in the Yajurveda, based on its very first word, Isha –the Lord. Sometimes it is also called Iso Upanishad.

Some Upanishads begin with a question, but this Upanishad begins with an answer - a direct statement from the teacher. It is implied that there are one or more disciples.

The student has approached the teacher and expressed a desire to live in this world, and live happily.

He says, ‘Sukhaaya karmani karoti lokah – a man performs all actions only for gaining happiness. I too strive to be happy.From the worldly standpoint I have everything, but happiness always eludes me. Why is this so? What is the cause of this sorrow? What should I do?’

The teacher responds, ‘You have performed many actions (karma), now it is time to gain Knowledge (jnana). You have done enough, now must know.’

7/05/2016

Osho

Awakening

“ ... You have to be aware that that Energy, that beautiful all encompassing Energy, now has been awoken, and it will do its work. It will do what needs to be done.

So this is why it’s very important to not to be afraid that somehow your lifestyle, your immediate priorities of what you need to do in a day-to-day situation, in going about earning the livelihood, engaged in your immediate relationship – it’s not going to interfere at all.  What you need to understand is that this power is simultaneously very disruptive – it overthrows everything we have thought about ourselves – yet, at the same time, when there is this acknowledgement, it’s the Supreme Intelligence Itself. 

It’s the subtlety – the subtlety of all relationships – hence you will be able to act and interact as long as you do not fight that process. Sometimes, you just let yourself be open, just catch that moment – that moment, repose. If you’re busy with people, suddenly you feel the wave is coming – speak to that Energy. Do not use it as something like – speak to that Energy! Close your eyes, or don’t close your eyes – just say, “Loving Devi, just wait for me – let me just go through this meeting – and I’ll be all yours, just give me a little bit more time.”

You’ll see what happens, just very very gently. Your attention is required.  You’re driving, you’re with little children, your grandchildren; at work, you are at the meeting with the boss, you don’t want to lose your job because suddenly you feel like a dancing kriya overcomes you, and you feel like dancing on the table of the boss – soon as there is acceptance, soon as we’ve embraced, it then finds its most beautiful way of how to do this work because there is no such thing as you without that Divine power...”

– Igor Kufayev – excerpt from video, “Working with Universal Powers”

Photo: taken by Helena Zingarella at ‘Divine Intoxication’ Immersion, Templeton, CA, May 2016

~ Prema Landbauer, Team Flowing Wakefulness

7/03/2016

Sanyassa renunciation

Disciple: What is the real purpose of sannyasa (renunciation)?

Maharshi: Sannyasa is only the renunciation of the ‘I’ thought, and not the rejection of the external objects. He who has renounced (the “I” thought) thus remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara (empirical world). Just as when the mind is concentrated on some object, it does not observe other things even though they may be proximate, so also, although the sage may perform any number of empirical acts, in reality he performs nothing, because he makes the mind rest in the Self without letting the ‘I’ thought arise. Even as in a dream one appears to fall head downwards, while in reality one is unmoving, so also the ignorant person, i.e., the person for whom the ‘I’ thought has not ceased, although he remains alone in constant meditation, is in fact one who performs all empirical actions. Thus the wise ones have said. .~Self Enquiry (vicharasangraham) Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi.

Misery

People are talking about misery and you must think that they want to get rid of that misery -- you are wrong!

Never try to belittle their misery: they will be very angry and they will never forgive you. They are rejoicing that they have the greatest misery in the world -- and you are trying to belittle it or ignore it!

The human mind is a very strange creature. Rather than trying to understand your misery, you start glorifying it. You start feeling a kind of martyrdom -- and martyrdom is a desease, a sickness of the soul.

But the whole tradition of humanity has praised the martyrs as great human beings. They were simply masochists who wanted an opportunity to be tortured! Nobody says it is so because that means your whole history has to be written again: it is not about the sincere and the real people, it is about the sick psychopaths.

Beloved Osho
The Path of the Mystic

Self

We go round and round in search of atma [Self] saying, `Where is atma? Where is it? till at last the dawn of jnana drishti [vision of knowledge] is reached, and we say, `This is atma this is me.' ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Meditation

If you are surrounded by lots of thoughts, if the thought-process is going on continuously, if you have forgotten your being just here and now -- please make your breathing deep and deeper suddenly, and continue it; and you will feel all thoughts have been vaporized, and you will return to home to your being right now!

Osho

#Osho

People are talking about misery and you must think that they want to get rid of that misery -- you are wrong!

Never try to belittle their misery: they will be very angry and they will never forgive you. They are rejoicing that they have the greatest misery in the world -- and you are trying to belittle it or ignore it!

The human mind is a very strange creature. Rather than trying to understand your misery, you start glorifying it. You start feeling a kind of martyrdom -- and martyrdom is a desease, a sickness of the soul.

But the whole tradition of humanity has praised the martyrs as great human beings. They were simply masochists who wanted an opportunity to be tortured! Nobody says it is so because that means your whole history has to be written again: it is not about the sincere and the real people, it is about the sick psychopaths.

Beloved Osho
The Path of the Mystic

7/02/2016

VIJNANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA

VIJNANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA

The One Who is Intimate to All Beings said,

16.

Hum a sound,
such as ahhhhh . . . uuuuuuu . . . mmmmmm,
or hreeeeemmmm, or eemmm,
or even the sound hum itself.
Bathe in the sound with infinite leisure . . .

As the sound fades
into an imperceptible hum,
it will carry you
into the hum of the universe.

Thinking

You are not paying so much attention to the Reality.
You are paying so much attention to the the body-form, the mental form. You are thinking, always thinking creating great problems all the way through, making them rooted to this thinking, of depression, boredom, lack of interest, the body, all these things.  So much energy is wasted at this mental level, intellectual level, physical level. Your identity is beyond that.

Selfless Self Talks with Shri Ramakant Maharaj