One day it happened that a great philosopher came to Buddha. Buddha was sitting under a tree. This man, Buddha, must have loved trees tremendously. He was always sitting under a tree. He became enlightened under a tree – although it is not such a big thing to become enlightened under a tree; many people […]
HAPPINESS IS UNBELIEVABLE. It seems that man cannot be happy. If you talk about your depression, sadness, misery, everybody believes it. It seems natural. If you talk about your happiness nobody believes you — it seems unnatural. Sigmund Freud, after forty years of research into the human mind, working with thousands of people, observing thousands
WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT TRUST, TEARS WOULDN’T STOP COMING. YOU SAID YOU TRUST US, AND I FEEL SO UNTRUSTWORTHY. PLEASE COMMENT. Trust is never conditional. I trust you, not because you are trustworthy; I trust you because I cannot distrust. Once in India I was traveling from Indore to Kanva. Kanva was a big junction,
We live in a world that worships speed.Faster decisions, quicker responses, instant reactions. But what if the real superpower is not speed…but the ability to pause? There is a powerful story of George Gurdjieff and his unusual method of meditation. Gurdjieff was doing far higher work. He found a simple way of stopping the mind.
IN DISCOURSE WHEN YOU SAY THINGS LIKE, “LIVE TOTALLY IN THE MOMENT,” I ALWAYS THINK, “OF COURSE!… THAT’S IT! FROM NOW ON I AM ALWAYS GOING TO DO THAT.” AND OF COURSE, A MOMENT LATER I HAVE FORGOTTEN ALREADY. IN EVERY DISCOURSE I DECIDE THE TIME HAS COME TO BE MORE MEDITATIVE, MORE RELIGIOUS, MORE
No man of truth ever contemplates the consequences. These are the people: Socrates, Mansoor and Jesus, who have raised the human consciousness by sacrificing themselves. They knew perfectly well that to say the truth was inviting death, but death does not matter to the man of truth. He knows there is no death – the
I was listening to a talk by the noted Gujarati thinker and orator Dr. Nimit Oza, who shared a story that stayed with me. I felt compelled to pass it on. Many of you would have heard of Thích Nhất Hạnh – a Vietnamese monk, peace activist, and one of the most influential teachers of
Zen masters used to tell his disciples the story of a master thief who became enlightened…Zen Masters have loved it tremendously. When you come across it for the first time you will feel puzzled about the story — it is about a master thief. So don’t be worried about being a judge or a doctor
A FEW DAYS AGO, I HEARD YOU SAY THAT THE VOICE SPEAKING INSIDE OF US IS ALWAYS THE MIND, SO I WONDER WHO IN ME IS HEARING THIS VOICE. WHEN I TRY TO FIND THE ANSWER, I ONLY FIND SILENCE. The moment you look into your self you only find silence. But are you not
I BELIEVED I WAS UNCREATIVE. WHAT ELSE CAN BE CREATIVITY BESIDES DANCING AND PAINTING AND HOW TO FIND OUT WHAT MY CREATIVITY IS? CREATIVITY has nothing to do with any activity in particular — with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular. Anything can be creative — you bring
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