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When something cannot be put in a finite measure, then it is called infinite. That is what is infinite. That which cannot be measured or expressed numerically is the taste of infinite. So the infinite is not something far away, unattainable. It is so close, so very close.
What is important is the depth of those two minutes, not the number.
If there is depth, then time changes. Time is in the mind. If there is depth in attention, then time stops.
The real question is – what is the mind that is entering into this action?
We think that, just as in mathematics plus one and minus one is zero, similarly, in the world of actions, one action and its opposite get together and nullify each other. That doesn’t happen. In the world of actions, one action and another action, is just two actions.
never try to correct your actions, please never.
Looking at our actions is one thing, but trying to modify actions is absolutely different thing. You can observe the action. And observing the action helps you realise something. But you cannot look at action with the intent of transforming it.
never deal in the realm of actions. Never! And never tell somebody that, “These actions are not right.” The mind may not be at the right place. And the right place of the mind is the Heart.
What do you mean by that? Every action is alright and no action is alright because the term ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ cannot be applied to actions.
you cannot judge a person by his actions. This also means that it is not possible to draw inferences only from looks and words.
Do watch actions, but actions by themselves mean nothing.
when you watch actions, watch to go and find out the Source of the action, not the action itself. Find out the Source.
From where is this action coming? Is it coming from the real centre, the empty Source? Or is it coming from the centre of ego? Is it spontaneous? Or is it arising from some identity? A...
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there has to be that quality of Silence in which you hear words, and then you transcend the words, and then there is that connection of love, in which you really see where the whole thing is coming from, in which there is that Core to Core connection.
“What do I do if my life is like this?”- is just an inner ploy to continue things as they are.
It is a very calculated helplessness; calculated and cultivated. There is nothing authentic about it.
‘Going beyond’ requires the energy of your entire being. What you usually call as ‘looking at something’ is just an intellectual observation. That does not suffice.
The fundamentals of life are changed when you are prepared to pay with your blood.
So, it requires all your intensity, and it requires you to pay the highest price possible. It is not something so intellectual, so impersonal, so cold and calculated.
because there is a power beyond yourself that helps you and sustains you.
The one who believes that he has succeeded, believes in the concept of failure.
The one who does not believe in success, can never fail. The one who does not believe in failure, cannot succeed.
There is a man outside this racing track who is not running a race. When these two fellows are busy running and trying to succeed, that fellow is dancing.
These two are worthless. I want to talk about the third fellow.
It is quite strange that the race is always won by the one who does not run the race. The race is always won by the individual who does not participate in the race. The ones who participate in the race, always lose.
One day you will find that you are very close to death and all that you have been doing is racing, racing and competing with a millions of unknown faces, and unknown voices. And then you will say that I have wasted my life. Don’t race. Don’t compete.
Strengths make you feel proud of yourself, which is not good, which is ego, and weaknesses make you feel bad about yourself, which is again not good,
What is strength and weakness? You are just what you are. Simple! Stop, you are OK. If there really is a weakness, it is to be stupid, there is no other weakness.
stupidity is to not to know what is happening right now.
Wisdom is a very simple thing. Wisdom is to know what is happening.
How many of you feel this way that when the moment is there, the opportunity is there, you feel blank?
This will always happen when you are serious about something.
This will always happen when the results become very important to you.
Tell yourself that nothing is important, everything is alright. “Nothing is important. I am important.” Who is important? “I am important. Everything else is secondary, I am primary. I am central.” And then nothing, no problem.
Take everything playfully. Don’t bother yourself with the results. The results will take care of themselves.
Attachment is the fruit of attraction in time. Attraction happens right now and when attraction continues in time then what you get is attachment. Attraction is a dead thing and attachment is an equally dead thing.
this universe only knows attraction and attachment, it knows no love.
Love is understanding. And love does not relate to being attracted.
Only a stupid mind gets attracted and attached, an unhealthy mind, a diseased mind. A mind that feels incomplete and so it wants to go and cling to something and somebody, and feel complete.
Love on the other hand is the quality of a healthy mind that feels complete in itself. Because it feels complete in itself, because it is a healthy mind, all its relationships are also healthy.
Love has no excitement or titillation about it. It is a simple being in health.
where there is greed, fear, expectation, insecurity, there can be no love. There would be jealousy and possessiveness and there could be discord and strife, but no love. So there is nothing sensational about love, it is so simple.
relationships of a healthy mind are loving relationships.
When you do not relate to the other in order to get something from him, it is love.
Love is the quality of a healthy mind, a mind that is not afraid, a mind that is not carrying the burden of the past or expectations. That is love.
Never think that a man who is carrying ideologies, a man who is ambitious, a man who belongs to a particular line of thought, can ever be capable of love. He will carry his sense of violence into everything that he does.
forget love, look at the purity of mind. That is what you can do.
Whenever anything turns into a relationship, it goes bad.
Love is not a thought or a concept.
