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"We are born alone, we die alone"
Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience, two sides of the same coin. If one wants to experience silence one has to go into one’s total aloneness. It is there.
We are born alone, we die alone. Between these two realities we create a thousand and one illusions of being together — all kinds of relationships, friends, and enemies, loves and hates, nations, races, and religions. We create all kinds of hallucinations just to avoid one fact: that we are alone. But whatsoever we do, the truth cannot be changed. It is so, and rather than trying to escape from it the best way is to rejoice in it.
Rejoicing in your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. The meditator is one who dives deep into one’s aloneness, knowing that we are born alone, we will be dying alone, and deep down we are living alone. So why not experience what this aloneness is? It is our very nature, our very being.
Osho,
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Ch 14
An inside journey is a journey towards absolute aloneness; you cannot take anybody there with you. You cannot share your center with anybody, not even with your beloved. It is not in the nature of things; nothing can be done about it. It is easier to go to the moon because you can have company. Even if you don’t have a company you can have a connection with the earth; you can phone the people here. You can get directions from the outside, from the far away earth, but still, you are connected. The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.
That’s why the mystics have called the world illusory, Maya, not that it does not exist but for the meditator, one who goes in, it is almost as if it does not exist. The silence is so profound; no noise penetrates it. The aloneness is so deep that one needs guts. But out of that aloneness explodes bliss. Out of that aloneness, the experience of god. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.
Osho, ❤ЁЯТЮЁЯЩПЁЯЩПЁЯШН❤
Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Ch 18
Never allow anything in this world to ever frighten you. Allow things to unfold as they may. Remember you just watch and observe, hold on to the truth. Happiness will come of its own accord. When you hold on to the truth, when you do not react to life's conditions, person, place or thing, when you leave things alone and you stop fighting life, you're not giving up.
In the Western psychology, we're told that you never give up. We are taught to keep on fighting. But I'm telling you there is nothing to fight, and the only thing you're giving up is your ego. Western psychology has never gone beyond this. Therefore they do not know of life beyond this. Western psychology works in the presumption that you are a body and a mind, so naturally they tell you never give up, fight to the end. Stick up for your rights.
But in the highest teachings of the truth we learn that you have no rights. You're giving up your body, your ego, your mind, and when this happens, you go beyond psychology. Something happens that psychiatry, psychology are not aware of whatsoever. And that is you rise to a higher dimension, where there is happiness, and peace, and compassion, and love, joy, that is naturally yours. You begin to feel these things instead of the things you felt before. Prior to this, when you were fighting life, when you were sticking up for your rights, when you were trying to get even, when you were working as an ego, you were never able to feel happiness or joy or peace. Only sometimes, when you won, when you got your point across, when you won an argument, when you won a fight, when you sued someone and won, you felt happy for a while, but it didn't last long, and you have to go through it again and again. But this is as far as the world goes. It doesn't know anything else but this.
What I'm saying to you, let go of everything. Do not hold on. Stand naked before God, without any crutches, without anything to hold on to. When you can do this, from this moment on you will begin to rise. And you will become aware that you are not the body, or the mind, or the world, or the universe, but you are effortless choice-less pure awareness. You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. You have become everything, and everything has become you. Work on yourself.
Robert Adams
CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI
Q: I am trying to surrender to the Guru. How can I tell if I am succeeding? It is very easy to say ‘I’ surrender' but this is only a verbal statement. It doesn’t mean that real surrender has taken place. I think that I have achieved some success with my practice but how can I be sure?
AS: If you have really surrendered to the Guru you will see the Guru in all forms. Wherever you go you will only see the Guru.
If your mind is not steady it means that your surrender is not complete. Your Guru may take several forms. If your destiny is to go to several different places, your Guru may take the form of different saints. But even if he does there is still only one Guru because the Guru is the formless Self. You must learn to see the Guru in all things; you must learn to see the Guru everywhere.
Kunju Swami once visited Quilon Math. On returning he told Bhagavan that he had not done namaskaram to the Guru of the math. Bhagavan told him, 'Why do you limit Bhagavan to this form? The Guru is one not many.'
Seshadri Swami was once seen doing namaskaram to a donkey. When he was asked why, he replied, ‘This is not a donkey, it is Brahman.’
On another occasion when somebody asked him why he was staring at a buffalo he replied, 'I don't see any buffalo, I only see Brahman.’
- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p 292, 293
- photo: Seshadri Swami
"If in your heart you have chosen Truth, then trust your experience because something guides and protects you. When your search is genuine and your heart is humble, life protects you. But if you keep some arrogance, be sure trouble will come." Mooji
“ Live life in a relaxed way ,
with no hurry , with no worry ,
as if nothing is serious ,
living life joyously , playfully ,
from moment to moment ,
not bothering about the past ,
not bothering about the future
either ,
not bothering at all !
Whatsoever happens is good ,
and whatsoever does not happen
is also good.
Taking things
with such calmness
and equanimity brings
a restful spirit.
Slowly slowly
the whole turmoil settles ,
and suddenly there is bliss
out of nowhere ,
it starts welling up.
You become flooded with light ,
with life , with love.
Those are the three dimensions
of bliss.
It makes you more lightfull ,
makes you more lifefull ,
makes you more lovefull.
And when all these three ‘ L ’s
are learned ,
one has arrived home ! ”
------- Osho
The sage experiences that he is the body, just as the ignorant person does. The difference is that the ignorant one believes that the Self is confined to the body, whereas the sage knows that the body cannot remain apart from the Self. The Self is infinite for him and also includes the body.
A jnani does not feel oppressed by his body. Did those jnanis who lived in bodies and wrote sacred books cease to be jnanis?
The realized ones do not think or plan for the future. They let the future take care of itself. For them the future is in the present.
A jnani crushes the ego at its source. It rises up again and again, for him too as for the ignorant, impelled by nature, i.e. prarabdha. Both in the ignorant and in the jnani, ego sprouts, but with this difference: the former's ego is quite ignorant of its source, and is not aware of its deep sleep in the dream and waking states.
On the other hand, when the jnani's ego rises, he enjoys his transcendental experience with this ego, keeping his focus always on its source. His ego is not dangerous — it is only the ash-skeleton of a burnt rope; although it possesses a form it is ineffective. By constantly keeping our focus on our source, our ego is dissolved.
- CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
