Everybody is a piece of rock. Unless you attain to your uttermost glory, you are bound to be a piece of rock. But nothing is wrong in being a piece of rock. Because the piece of rock is nothing but a God fast asleep, snoring. A piece of rock is god asleep. Nothing is wrong in the piece of rock, it has to be awakened.Initiation is an effort by a master to awake you, and an effort to shake you and an effort to shock you into awareness. Initiation is nothing but an alarm.That is how a rock avoids its own growth, the rock avoids its own future - by dreaming. Dreaming is the barrier. By dreaming we are avoiding the reality, by dreaming we avoid the real. It is our escape. You don't have any other escape. This is the only escape route - Dreaming.When you are listening to a master, you can dream also. Sitting with the master you can have a thousand and one thoughts roaming around in your mind. You can think of the future or of the past. You can be for and against to what a master says, you can argue, you can debate with him inside yourself but then you are missing the master. He is a fact here, you need not dream here you can just be here with him. and tremendous will be the result of it.But We go on dreaming. People are dreamers, and that is their way. When they are making love to a woman then they are dreaming; when they are are eating they are dreaming. when they are walking on the road - they have gone for a walk in the morning, the sun is rising, the day is beautiful, the people are getting up, the life is coming back again - they are dreaming. The are not looking at anything. We go on dreaming. Dreaming functions as a blind fold, and we go on missing the reality.
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When you go to a Master you are going to death. You will have to die, only because unless you die you cannot be reborn. When your dreams are destroyed truth comes into existence, Truth becomes revealed.You like a person because he helps your ego. You like a person because she says you are the perfect man.I once over heard two young lovers. They are sitting near the sea and big waves were rolling and the boy said, " Roll on, beautiful waves. Roll on bigger and bigger and bigger." and they become bigger and bigger. And the girl said, "Wonderful! the sea obeys you"You will like this person. and if somebody helps your ego, you are ready to help his or her ego in the bargain.You like a person when everything fits. It is a mutual arrangement . the moment the person starts on his own or something does not fit, or the person is adamant or the person has started to dominate, or the person starts to possesses, or the person starts to hurt you ego.....And that is going to happen because that person likes you not because you ego is strengthened - that person likes you because her or his ego is strengthened. He like you because of his own self, ego, and you like because your self is strengthened. Your purposes are different. So this type of arrangement cannot go on forever. And your purposes are not only different, they are antagonistic, because only can be the master and both are trying to be the master.In the beginning they will be very sweet because the territory is unknown. By and By as things settle, they will become more and more adamant, possessive, dominating, more and more aggressive to the other. And then you start disliking. You hate a person who in any way tries to bring your superiority down. You love a person who makes you superior.
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Swami Chaitanya Keerti Yes, there is a destiny--and we all have a destiny. A seed is destined to become a flower. It has an intrinsic potential which becomes a possibility, also a certainty, if it gets the right soil and the environment. Although we all human beings have the destiny to have a certain flowering, it always remains uncertain about the kind of flowering. We can become a Buddha or Changez Khan, an ordinary politician or a priest, an entrepreneur or businessman--everything depends on the various factors and environment. But, as far as our consciousness or awareness is concerned, the choice is ours. An animal does not have the same choice as his consciousness is not evolved to make a choice, though there had been rare cases in the world of animals when some animals chose something in a somewhat conscious manner and they evolved--and there was a revolution in their world. For example, when in the past a certain monkey decided to walk not on four legs, but on two legs--though it must have been very arduous for the poor fellow--he got a wonderful reward to gradually grow into a human being. He became the forefather of the whole of humanity. This monkey must have been ridiculed by the monkey society around him, also threatened and boycotted by it. And he remained stubborn and followed its instinct. This was certainly a conscious choice. There's another beautiful story of one of the previous lives of Gautama the Buddha. In one life he was an elephant - but then too he was superior. He tells the story that when he was an elephant the jungle caught fire. The fire was spreading rest a little in the coolness of the shadow. As he was just going to move and had lifted up one of his feet, a small rabbit, running in just the same fear of the fire, also came under the shadow of the tree, and rested there just where the elephant was going to put his foot. Now, to put his foot down would kill the rabbit, but not to put his foot. How long could he stand on three feet? And you should understand: an elephant standing on three feet is a really heavy job, just the one foot up is enough. But Buddha said, “I kept my foot up and saved the life of the rabbit, although because of balancing that great a load I tumbled and fell sideways and died. But because I had done that good deed, I was born as a man.” Now, even while he was an elephant he was a superior elephant, not an ordinary elephant; otherwise, I don’t think any elephant is going to be bothered by a rabbit. In the first place, he won’t even see if the rabbit is there. Elephants are big but their eyes are very small. Have you seen that strange combination?- such small eyes in such a big animal. Who is creating these designs? A little proportion is needed. Or do you think the elephant can see the rabbit who is just sitting underneath his feet?I think it will take long yoga practice for the elephant to look down; it is not easy for an elephant to look that far down. Just draw a picture of an elephant - I have drawn one and I have tried in every possible way to imagine myself as the elephant, but I couldn’t see the rabbit. The foot is there, and the rabbit is underneath the foot - but such small eyes in such a big body. It is just not possible. Even in his elephant life, Buddha was so non-violent, non-hurting, that he preferred his own death rather than killing a rabbit. He tells many stories of his past lives, and in every life he is superior. That superiority continues even into this last life: now he is the supreme-most enlightened man. A monkey or an elephant could make a conscious choice, but sometimes the seemingly evolved human beings are unable to make a conscious choice--they continue living with their animal instincts. And they play havoc with the world. They do have the same potential as Gautama the Buddha had--to become an awakened one--but they do not have the consciousness or awareness to observe it or feel it within their being. They become Hitler, Mussolini, Changez Khan, Stalin and Lenin, the list is endless. The world is full of such people with violent instincts. Osho explains it: "Violence is not the nature of man; it is the acquisition of his past, it is the impression of his past. Violence is man's conditioning, which was unavoidable through the process of his evolution from beastly life. The beast is to be pardoned because violence is unavoidable in its life. Man cannot be pardoned, because violence is his choice. "Violence is inevitable for beasts, it is a responsibility for man. It is a fact for beasts, for a man it is merely a historical memory. It is the present for beasts, it is past for man. We have a choice in front of us. Man can take a decision to be nonviolent; he can take a decision to be violent also. That is why when a certain person takes a decision to be violent, no beast can compete with him. Really, no beast can be as violent as a man can be, because a beast is violent by nature while a man becomes violent by planning. So, even after a thorough search among beasts, we cannot get such violent beasts as Changez Khan, or Timur, or Nader Shah, or Hitler. If we consult the history of beasts and ask them if they had parallel examples they would reply, "We are very poor in that, we do not have any memory -- any record -- in this matter." It is very interesting to know that no animal except man commits atrocities against its own fellow-members. No animal kills another animal of its class, or commits violence against it."
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Curiosity remains valued in the arts and sciences today. But it is limited by our enlightenment inheritance, which assumes that curiosity should be applied to ideas and object, rather than people. One recent study, for instance defines curiosity as an exploratory inquisitiveness about ' what we don't know', omitting any reference to Who we don't know we should move beyond this inheritance and elevate curiosity about others into supreme virtue
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Yes this whole cosmos is a joke; Hindu calls it a Leela. It is a joke, it is a play. And the day that you understand then you start laughing, and the laughing never stops it goes on and on. It spreads all over the cosmos.
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It happens in your life, sometimes only in a few moments when you love a person. That too is rare, because man's mind never leaves him, even in love. It goes on creating its own nonsense, creating its own world. and the lover is no longer allowed such closeness that he reaches to the background.
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Swami Ramteerth returned from America. He had been teaching all over Europe and America about the true essence of things, and he had acquired a lot of influence. Millions of people had heard him and worshipped him. He came back to India and spent some days in the Himalayas. His wife went to meet him, and Ramteerth refused to meet with her. He said, “ I will not meet her. “Sardar Pooran Singh, who was living with him, was very surprised. He said to Ramteerth, “ I have never seen you refuse to meet a woman in Europe and America, thousands of women came and you never refused to meet any of them. Why are you refusing to meet this woman? At some level do you still believe her to be your wife? You left her and went away. You are refusing to meet your own wife.”Definitely, at some level he still believed her to be his wife – other woman visited him and he never refused to meet them.As long as you have an attachment to thoughts, you should not be under the illusion that you can drop anything. The real clinging and burden is that of thought. Everything else is on the outside, it does not have a hold on you. It is only thought that has a hold on you. It is the circle of thought, the heavy load of thought through which you feel you know something. It is worth asking yourself, “Is any of it really mine? “Once there was a famous monk. A young seeker came to visit his commune. For a few days the young seeker listened to what the old monk had to say - and the old monk had very little to say. The young seeker got tired of listening to the same things again and again and he thought, “ I had better leave this commune, it seems there is nothing much to learn here. “Just then a new monk entered the commune. That night the new monk gave great discourse, it wonderful, very serious, subtle and deep.The young seeker listened to the talk of the visiting monk, the guest , and said to himself, “ this is what a master should be like, he has such great knowledge, so serious and deep. The old monk in whose commune I am staying knows only a few things, nothing more.” He also thought that the old monk must have felt sad when he listened to the old monk speaking like that . He must have felt insulted, “ The old monk does not know anything. He has wasted his life. “After completing his talk the monk looked around the assembly proudly to see the impression he made. He also looked at the old monk.The old monk said, “I have been listening very attentively for the past two hours, but I saw that you did not speak at all. “The monk said, “ Are you mad? I have been speaking for the last two hours, and every one was silent and you say you listen to me for two hours and I have not said anything?”The old monk said, “ I have certainly listened very carefully to you but you never said anything. Whatever you said was completely taken from others. You have no thoughts from your own experience. That is why I say you never said anything. Others were speaking through you, but you did not speak. ”For freedom of thought, for liberation of thought, and for the awakening of intelligence, the first thing, the first awareness that is needed is : “ No thought is mine” Calling a thought mine which is not your own is lying. No thought is yours. You should break the identification with thoughts.
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Imagine an evening so warm that you are out without a coat. The sun is dipped below the horizon out the cobbled street give off a welcome heat and there's a flicker of anticipation, a feeling in the air that the night ahead exist only for pleasure.
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