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Nothing dies. nothing can die
Innocence is not knowledgeable, but it is not desirous of being knowledgeable either. It is utterly content, fulfilled.
Innocence
Maturity is a rebirth, a spiritual birth. You are born anew, you are a child again. With fresh eyes you start looking at existence. With love in the heart you approach life. With silence and innocence you penetrate your own innermost core.
Every child is being stuffed with knowledge. His simplicity has to be somehow removed, because simplicity is not going to help him in this competitive world. His simplicity will look to the world as if he is a simpleton; his innocence will be exploited in every possible way. Afraid of the society, afraid of the world we ourselves have created, we try to make every child be clever, cunning, knowledgeable—to be in the category of the powerful, not in the category of the oppressed and the powerless.
Same way as Con Luan, when he has to give up his karate to take up a new subject
It is very strange that people who don’t know who they are, are trying to become somebody. They don’t even know who they are right now! They are unacquainted with their being—but they have a goal of becoming. Becoming is the disease of the soul. Being is you.
We are a vast continent, joined in millions of ways. And if our hearts are not full of love for the whole, in the same proportion our life is cut short.
Thoughts that are part of the knowledge are gone too
Perhaps a song may trigger a desire to go in search of the source, perhaps a statue.
Today i look at the picture oh the yin yang cycle. Then i feel the urge to study "kinh dich"
As your silence grows, your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration. Have you ever thought about why, all over the world, in every culture, in every society, there are a few days in the year for celebration? These few days for celebration are just a compensation—because these societies have taken away all the celebration of your life, and if nothing is given to you in compensation your life can become a danger to the culture.
Haha
Make everything creative, make the best out of the worst—that’s what I call the art of living.
satchitananda,
Kien tanh pha nga
The “need-love” or the “deficiency-love” depends on the other; it is immature love. In fact it is not truly love—it is a need. You use the other, you use the other as a means. You exploit, you manipulate, you dominate. But the other is reduced, the other is almost destroyed. And exactly the same is being done by the other. He is trying to manipulate you, to dominate you, to possess you, to use you. To use another human being is very unloving.
what happens to the flower? It dies? It suffers? It becomes panicky? It commits suicide? It goes on blooming, it simply goes on blooming. It does not make any difference whether somebody passes by or not; it is irrelevant. It goes on spreading its fragrance to the winds. It goes on offering its joy to God, to the whole.
When you depend on the other there is always misery. The moment you depend, you start feeling miserable because dependence is slavery. Then you start taking revenge in subtle ways, because the person you have to depend upon becomes powerful over you. Nobody likes anybody to be powerful over them, nobody likes to be dependent because dependence kills freedom.
When you are dependent the other will certainly dominate you, and you will try to dominate the other. That’s the fight that goes on between so-called lovers. They are intimate enemies, continually fighting.
they have lost their height because only the smaller woman was always chosen. By and by the thing has entered in their minds so deeply that they have lost their height.
When you don’t have love, you ask the other to give it to you, you are a beggar. And the other is asking you to give it to him or to her. Now, two beggars spreading their hands before each other, and both are hoping that the other has it … Naturally both feel defeated finally, and both feel cheated.
Love is a by-product of being. When you are, you have the aura of love around you. When you are not, you don’t have that aura around you. And when you don’t have that aura around you, you ask the other to give love to you. Let it be repeated: when you don’t have love, you ask the other to give it to you; you are a beggar. And the other is asking you to give it to him or to her. Now, two beggars spreading their hands before each other, and both are hoping that the other has it … Naturally both feel defeated finally, and both feel cheated.
Now this is the paradox: those who fall in love don’t have any love, that’s why they fall in love. And because they don’t have any love, they cannot give. And one thing more—an immature person always falls in love with another immature person, because only they can understand each other’s language. A mature person loves a mature person. An immature person loves an immature person. You can go on changing your husband or your wife a thousand and one times, you will again find the same type of woman and the same misery repeated—in different forms, but the same misery repeated, it is almost the
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And when a mature person gives love, he gives without any strings attached to it—he simply gives. When a mature person gives love, he feels grateful that you have accepted his love, not vice versa. He does not expect you to be thankful for it—no, not at all, he does not even need your thanks. He thanks you for accepting his love. And when two mature persons are in love, one of the greatest paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much so that they are almost one, but their oneness does not destroy their
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what meditation is: timelessness, egolessness, silence, blissfulness, an all-pervading joy, overwhelming ecstasy.
Make love only when you are ready to be in a meditative space. And create a meditative atmosphere while you are making love. You should treat the place as sacred. Creating life … what can be more sacred? Do it as beautifully, as aesthetically, as joyously as possible. There should be no hurry. And if the two lovers meet in such an atmosphere outside, and such a silent space within, they will attract a soul who is the highest available.
a child who is born out of meditation cannot be conditioned; he will rebel against it. Only mediocre people can be conditioned.
Any borrowed truth is a lie. Unless it is experienced by you, it is never the truth.
Truth definition
Once, eating, suddenly I started laughing. The whole family knew that something was bound to happen, because there was a guest. But the guest was shocked. He said, “Why are you laughing?” I said, “Laughing needs no cause. In fact, I should ask you, ‘Why are you all sitting with long faces?’ Laughter has an intrinsic value; long faces don’t have any value at all. And since you have come, even people in my family are looking very sad, serious. I don’t understand what is wrong with you. Do you create this kind of atmosphere wherever you go?”
Beliefs stop all inquiry.
existence accepts only the originals. Carbon copies are not acceptable in existence. Let your child have his original face. It may create fear in you, it may create concern in you, but those are your problems. Don’t in any way inhibit the child.
If you respect your children, if you are friends to your children, no generation gap is possible.
If you can bridge your relationship with your mother, suddenly you will feel that the whole earth is bridged. You are more rooted in the earth. If you can bridge your relationship with your father, you are at home with the sky. They are symbolic, representatives of the earth and the sky. And man is like a tree, which needs both the earth and the sky.
you have to look in the mirror of love to see your spiritual face. Love is a spiritual mirror.
Then where is the moon if this is a reflection? If it is a reflection you have to look in the opposite direction. The reflection was there, deep in the lake—the real must be somewhere above the lake. For the first time
only in deep frustration lies the possibility of turning back to your own being.
The Velveteen Rabbit.
The journey creates the goal.
Time is that in which we live—it is horizontal. It is from A to B to C to D; it is in a line. Eternity is vertical. It is not from A to B and from B to C. It is from A to more A to still more A. It goes on upward. The moment is rare when eternity penetrates time, because it happens only when meditation has reached ripening, maturity, when you have touched your innermost core.
you can move in two directions—either horizontal or vertical. The vertical consists of silences, blissfulness, ecstasies; the horizontal consists of hands, work, the world.
you are encaged in a small body while your consciousness is as vast as the whole universe.
You remain in the world but the world no longer has any impact on you. On the contrary, you start influencing the world—not with conscious effort but just by your sheer being, your presence, your grace, your beauty. As it grows inside it starts spreading around you.
“A peace that is disturbed is not peace. And a silence that is disturbed is just a dream, not a reality.”
hahahaahaaaa =))))
“You need not be worried. This is not a begging bowl. I found a human skull and out of the human skull I made this begging bowl. It has not forgotten its old habit. Have you looked into your own begging bowl, your own head? Give it anything and it will ask for more and more and more. It knows only one language, ‘more.’ It is always empty, it is always a beggar.”
only beggars exist, because they are all rushing for more and the more cannot be fulfilled—not that you cannot get to a position you want, but the moment you get it there are higher positions. For a moment maybe a flicker of happiness, and the next moment again the same despair and the same race for more.
And when the ocean disappears into the dewdrop, the dewdrop is simply losing its boundaries, nothing else.
it is you and your identity with the thoughts that give them nourishment. When you are not giving them nourishment, thoughts cannot exist.
try to be indifferent—the word of Gautam Buddha is upeksha. Just be indifferent to the whole mind and a distance will be created—and then come to a point from where all nourishment to the thoughts is stopped.
Deeper in your core, in the very core of your being, you are neither—neither man nor woman.
He can surpass all and come to a point where he is only pure consciousness, just a watcher on the hill.
When sex is no longer a dividing force, you see human beings.
We are bitter because we are not what we should be. Everybody is feeling sour because everybody is feeling this is not what life should be; if this is all, then this is nothing.
to come to such a maturity where you can say yes and yet remain free, where you can say yes and yet remain unique, where you can say yes and yet not become a slave.
