solitude

Being alone means you are established firmly in the here and the now and you become aware of what is happening in the present moment.

You use your mindfulness to become aware of every feeling, every perception you have. You're aware of what's happening around you in the sangha, but you're always with yourself, you don't lose yourself.

That's the Buddha's definition of the ideal practice of solitude: not to be caught in the past or carried away by the future, but always to be here, body and mind united, aware of what is happening in the present moment.

That is real solitude.

🧘‍♂️ Thich Nhat Hanh

quite mind

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. 

As the sun on rising makes the world 

active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. 

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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I am going to tell you something now that you don't hear very often in the world,

and I use myself as an example for you.

If you want to go all the way, give up the sense that you have any rights in life.

Have no right at all. Have no rights for anything.

Then everything is a gift.

When you don't deserve anything, everything is a gift.

Just try.

Just for you. Okay?

This is not a political decision.

Give up this sense that you have rights, that life owes you something, and feel the space that remains. Maybe, initially, you will feel vulnerability like, 'Oh my God, I can't stand up for my rights. I will be abused.' But go beyond this feeling.

Sacrifice it for a greater truth.

You must begin to think with your God-mind.

God does not have rights.

God does not need any rights.

You have to be like God.

Give up this sense you have rights.

You wish to go all the way?

Give up pride also.

Give up future too.

If you give up future, you give up past also.

Just for you. You don't have to tell anybody.

And give up this dependency, 'Who will be here for me?'

And give up projections such as, ‘Yes, in two years time

I will be in a solid relationship and I will own my own apartment.’

There is nothing so great about that.

It just keeps you being a sucker.

You don't want to be a sucker.

There is greater than this to come.

You miss the full adventure and power

that comes from the Holy spirit if you start to choose for yourself.

If you feel to choose for yourself, He will leave you to choose for yourself.

But as soon as you give up this sense of rights; if you say,

'You give me the sense of choice. You are my choice,'

then something else will happen.

In the world nobody tells you this.

There you have to be proud and say, 'Listen, I have rights!'

When I have rights, the world has done me a lot of wrongs.

Give up pride.

Pride in being a woman.

Pride in being beautiful.

Pride in being accomplished in something.

Pride that you are a certain race, religion or nation.

Give up all of these things.

They belong to the devil.

They don't belong to you.

And experience what remains.

A great space will open inside your Heart.

Huge humility.

Huge acceptance, love, wisdom and freedom

as you experience integration with the cosmic being.

And no force on earth can manipulate or bind you, 

because you have made yourself empty of all that makes a 'person'.

Why think it is so great to be a person?

For a while we have to taste that state of personhood,

but there must come a time when you return to purity.

Come back to your purity, your original being!

You ask, ‘How?’

Collapse at God's feet. 

This is no ordinary fall. 

It is not falling down.

It is falling upwards into the embrace of the Living God.

~ Mooji

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परमात्मा एक आहे. तो सत्य, विश्वनिर्माता, निर्भय, कोणाशीही वैर नसलेला आहे. तो काळाला बांधील नाही, जन्म- मृत्यू यांच्या पलिकडे आहे. तो स्वतंत्र असा आहे; त्याचे ध्यान करा. गुरू नानक देव म्हणतात; ईश्वर हा अनादि- अनंत असून चिरंतन आहे. 

जयंतीच्या औचित्याने गुरू नानकजींना वंदन

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अंधों को पता भी कैसे चले कि हम किसी अंधे के पीछे चल रहे हैं? : ओशो...🙏

एक अंधी स्त्री न्यूयॉर्क के एक रास्ते पर रास्ता पार करने के लिए खड़ी थी। प्रतीक्षा कर रही थी कि कोई आ जाए और राह पार करवा दे। तभी किसी ने उसके कंधे पर हाथ रखा। और जिसने कंधे पर हाथ रखा उसने कहा, क्या हम दोनों साथ- साथ रास्ता पार कर सकते हैं? उस स्त्री ने कहा, मैं प्रतीक्षा ही कर रही थी। आओ।

दोनों ने हाथ में हाथ डाला और पार हुए। जब उस तरफ पहुंच गए तो स्त्री ने कहा, बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद कि आपने मुझे रास्ता पार करवाया। वह आदमी घबड़ाया। उसने कहा, क्या मतलब? धन्यवाद तो मुझे देना चाहिए। मैं अंधा हूं रास्ता तो तुमने मुझे पार करवाया। तब तो दोनों घबड़ा गए, पसीना आ गया। रास्ता तो पार हो गए थे, लेकिन तब पता चला, दोनों अंधे थे।

अंधों को पता भी कैसे चले कि हम किसी अंधे के पीछे चल रहे हैं? कतारें लगी हैं। क्यू लगे हुए हैं। तुम अपने आगे वाले को पकड़े हो, आगे वाला अपने आगेवाले को पकड़े हुए है। सबसे आगे कोई महाअंधा महात्मा की तरह चल रहा है। चले जा रहे हैं। न तुम्हें पता है, न तुम्हारे आगेवाले को पता है...

हम कर रहे हैं एक-दूसरे का अनुकरण। रस तो पाया कहां है? रस से तो तुम्हारी पहचान कहां हुई है? रस मिले तो प्रभु मिले। रस पा लिया तो सब पा लिया...

 अष्टावक्र : महागीता

"ओशो"

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When you look into the eyes of the Beloved,

You become absorbed into emptiness itself.

You lose your duality and become one

beyond even the concept of oneness.

Today, you must find the truth

of your own Self and be that,

for unless you know yourself,

you will not know what true love is.

Love and Truth are one.

~~Mooji

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I have not said that a Guru is not necessary. But a Guru need not always be in human form. First a person thinks that he is an inferior and that there is a superior, all-knowing, all powerful God who controls his own and the world's destiny and worships him or does Bhakti. When he reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on. That Guru comes only to tell him 'That God is within yourself. Dive within and realize'. God, Guru and the Self are the same.

(Gems from Bhagavan)

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Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world. 

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar