Q: What do you do when you encounter a problem in life? At first, you don’t even acknowledge the problem. You act as though it’s not a big issue, pretending it’s something minor—something like a common cold—that will go away on its own. There’s no need to consult a specialist, no need for any remedy. […]
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
HOW CAN ONE DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN A PROJECTED EXPERIENCE AND AN AUTHENTIC FEELING? It is difficult. Because we have to speculate, that’s why it is difficult. For example, how can you feel that you are touching a real fire or just an imagined one? If you have not touched a real fire, it is very difficult
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
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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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
