IS LIFE NOT SOMETIMES FAR MORE SURPRISING THAN FICTIONS THEMSELVES? NOT ONLY SOMETIMES BUT ALWAYS. Fictions are only reflections of life – how can they be more surprising? No fiction is so fictitious as life itself; life is made of the stuff called dreams. Hence the mystic says life is illusion, MAYA, a mirage. It […]
Everything that is of value is fragile. Beauty is fragile, silence is fragile, love is fragile. Look at a rose flower dancing in the wind, and in the rain, and in the sun. It seems it is strong enough for the wild wind, strong enough for the sun, strong enough for the rain. It is
CAN YOU TALK TO US MORE ABOUT CELEBRATION? IS IT POSSIBLE TO CELEBRATE MISERY? It is possible because celebration is AN ATTITUDE. Even about misery you can take an attitude of celebration. For example: you are sad — don’t get identified with sadness. Become a witness and enjoy the moment of sadness, because sadness has
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.
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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I have heard: It happened in Japan. Once a mother visited her son at college and was pained to see suggestive pictures on the walls of his room. She said nothing but hung a picture of Buddha among the others. When she came again to see the boy the other pictures were gone, only the
WHAT IS INNOCENCE? WHAT IS BEAUTY? To live in the moment is innocence, to live without the past is innocence, to live without conclusions is innocence, to function out of the state of not knowing is innocence. And the moment you function out of such tremendous silence which is not burdened by any past, out
The power of family is not measured in grand gestures, but lies in the invisible threads of love, bonds, and relationships that hold us together. It is what turns ordinary moments into lifelong memories, and what carries us through life’s deepest valleys. Like every family, ours too has its share of likes and dislikes, gossips
OSHO, HAVE I TO PUSH THE RIVER? First, even if you do, you will not be able to push it. For a moment you may feel powerful – that you are pushing the river – but finally you will be defeated by it. The river is huge, the energy is huge, it will take you.
MY PARENTS KEEP ON SAYING THEY WANT ME TO LEAD A ’USEFUL’ LIFE AND DO SOMETHING ’USEFUL FOR SOCIETY’. AM I? The society wants you to be reduced to a commodity. To say it politely they say, ”Do something useful.’ They are saying, ”Be useful. Function as a commodity so that people can USE YOU.
