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Nature wants you to get attracted and conditioned. That is why the world is like this, and that is why it rarely happens that one goes inwards.
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Wisdom lies in travelling inwards, coming to your center, and then disappearing.
What is it that brings you inwards? We call it ‘Grace’.
What is ‘Grace’? Something that you just get because Somebody loves you.
You answer His call by stopping the outward movement, which is anyway always happening.
do you know why you keep moving outwards? To search for the Center. And where is the Center? From where you started.
Always remember, there is Somebody who loves you greatly. And He loves you without demanding anything from you.
You have not done anything to deserve His love. And, whatever you do, he still keeps calling.
Boredom comes because you are somewhere else. All the fun is right now, here, but you are missing on all the action. It’s like a great party that is booming here, right now, and you are somewhere else. The party is Real; the place you are at is imaginary. You are missing out on all the fun, on all the celebration.
Truth cannot be decided through votes or through majority’s opinions.
To call a mistake, a ‘mistake’, is probably the only mistake. It is never a mistake. It is always a deliberate take. That is why it is extremely important to be free of guilt.
At eight, be a man! Have the guts to admit that, “I decided not to wake up.” And then like a man, take the consequences.
“I was the one who opted for pleasure, and I realize that pleasure comes with pain. So I will bear the pain now. In any case I don’t have a choice.”
Having had the pleasure, pain is inevitable. So what is the point of running away?
“The intelligent one bears in understanding, the foolish one bears in suffering”.
You will have to pay for your mistakes. Now don’t cry. Pay smilingly. Why are you crying? Don’t even call it a ‘mistake’. Calling it a mistake is a form of crime.
“Yes, I am paying for what I did, but I am not crying. I am standing up to it.”
J.Krishnamurti’s quote, “It’s no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”.
When you will do something which is not social at all, believe me, in that moment you will not be afraid of the society.
Whenever you will find something which is not social, which is not corrupted, which is entirely yours, in that moment there will be no fear, in that moment you will be the most fearless person.
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when there is no fear, then there is no question to ask.
Let intelligence function and then there will be no fear.
Your mistake lies in not recognizing that there is nothing that will not slip away. Everything will slip away. So, there is no point in trying to clutch anything. There is no point in feeling restless.
You have nothing except what you think you have right now. This is it! Come to terms with it. Make peace with it.
Who plans for happiness? The one who is not happy.
The one who is happy, is just happy. He does not want to be happy. He is just happy.
What prevents you to be happy right now? Challenge it.
What prevents your happiness every moment? Ambitions, notions, beliefs about happiness, prevent you from being happy.
Stop trying to be happy. Stop wanting happiness. That special happy day will never come. That special day is either right now, today or never.
Do not plan happiness. Do not strive to be happy. Just be happy.
Why am I so keen to get entertainment?”
“Why do I study only when the examinations approach? That means I have no love for what I am doing.” You
My own life, my one single precious life - observe it. Observe it just like you observe in science, without interfering, unbiased, unmotivated. Just observe what is happening, what is this whole drama about. You deserve to understand. It is your obligation towards yourself to understand.
Because all this is the process of understanding, and in this process of understanding, we come across this distinction - there is the mind and that mind may not be ‘me’.
The social conditioning includes all your beliefs which you have attained from your culture since childhood, tradition, language and lot of other things.
Wherever there is conditioning, there will be no free-will and the absence of free-will is nothing but slavery. Right?
This mind is two things. One, the conditioned part which you can give a general name as ‘the brain’. And second, ‘the conditioning’. This mind is the brain which carries all the conditioning, and the intelligence. The brain is thoroughly conditioned. But you are not merely the brain, there is something more to you.
We are captured, we are in a jail but our chess piece is entertaining us. That’s the purpose of entertainment in life, so that we do not look at the jail we are in.
Attention arises when the mind says that the ripples created by objects in mind must settle down.
In attention, there is no specific object. Attention is the quality of the mind in which it is alert to everything, including itself.
In concentration, there is a process of ego-based choices involved. Concentration is fragmentary. Concentration is upon a specific object that the ego has chosen for its benefit. Concentration does not give understanding; it only gives pleasure and satisfaction.
If you are totally identified with the past, you will never be able to look at the past.
What we are saying is see that as you are today, right now, you are not a product of the past. And then look at it, as if it is available like a database.
No, there is no need to not to ever look at the past or even the future. Fearlessly look at the past, and fearlessly look at the future, but mind you ‘fearlessly’. You cannot be fearless when you are attached.
books, do look at your family albums, do project the future, but be centred in the present.
Alright, do that. Wonderful! But do not let your mind be carried away by that. Do not start identifying yourself with that.
Emotion is just thought - ‘thought’ that has become severe, intense; ‘thought’ that has gathered a lot of energy.
Lot of energy is stored in the subconscious, thoughts usually remain at the surface level. But when the thought becomes intense, then it gets connected to the energy of the sub-conscious.
