Humility is a forgotten value in today's word. Our obsession with the image we have to project of ourselves is so strong that we have stopped questioning the validity of appearances and endlessly seek better ways to appear.
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Anything resembling altruism is merely selfishness dressed up in fine feelings. Caught one day late in life offering charity to a beggar, he was asked whether he had not just performed a selfless act
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You fight anger, and for a moment it seems as if you are going to conquer it - but than the very next day you discover that the victory was merely imaginary, anger takes hold of you again. You fight sexual desire: for a moment it seems that you are victorious, but then again you are defeated.
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Man is an animal, but not only an animal, he is more also. But that more cannot deny the animal, it has to absorb it. Man is more than an animal, But the animal cannot be denied. It has to be absorbed creatively. You cannot leave it aside, it is in your very roots; you have to use it creatively. So the first thing to remember is not to be negative about your animal heritage. Once you start thinking in negative terms you will become destructive to yourself, because you are ninety nine percent animal.If you create a division, you are fighting a loosing battle, you cannot win. The result of your fight will be quiet the opposite, because ninety nine percent is animal. Only one percent of mind is conscious, and this one percent cannot win against the ninety percent. It is going to be defeated. That is why there is so much frustration, because everyone is defeated by his own animal. You can never succeed. Of necessity you are going to be a failure, because that one percent cannot succeed against the ninety nine percent. It cannot even be divided from the ninety nine percent.It is just like a flower: it cannot go against the root, it cannot go against the whole tree. And while you are against your animal heritage, you are being fed by it. You are alive because of it. If your animal dies this moment, you will die immediately. Your mind exists as a flower; your animal heritage is the whole tree. Do not be negative - that is suicidal. And if you are divided against yourself, you can never attain anything which is blissful.You are creating a hell, and the hell is no where else but in a divided personality. In the split personality is the hell, And hell is not something geographical, hell is psychological - and heaven also. the personality which is a whole, one unit, with no inner division and conflict, is heaven. \So the first thing to remember is do not be negative. do not divide yourself, do not go against yourself, do not become two. The animal that is there is not something bad. The animal in you is a great potential. That is your past and also your future, because much is hidden in it. Uncover, develop it, allow it to grow and go beyond it, but do not fight with it. That is one of the basic teachings of Tantra.
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This is part of the good life for Indians today. Forget the rantings, screaming and ruckus of the politicians, forget the erratic changes of governments, forget the rumpus in the legislatures, Indians continue to improve, indeed raise, their living standards and styles, during the last twenty years.
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Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now or for the after life, afraid that tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so you have to prepare.
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The kids think that all Mom and Dad do is try to impose things on them, that it is always do this, do that. The small kids will bear with this for a while, because they are powerless. By the time they are teens, however, they show their rage.
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There's a proverb; To err is human and to forgive is divine. The people who can forgive can certainly be called divine. But the Existence, the Divine Source, does not need to forgive also, because it does not find anything wrong with its own creation.
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