Aditya Shah

Anything based on mind is bogus.
– Osho

Unstruck Sound

It happened once that a seeker who was in continual meditation with his koan persisted in listening to his mind. Finally one day his master said to him,

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
– Paulo Coelho

Fear

An old sage was passing through a jungle with one of his young monks. The night descended and it began

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale

Belief

If a Hindu becomes a Mohammedan, if a Mohammedan becomes a Jaina, if a Jaina becomes a Christian; if someone drops all religions

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
– Elisabeth

Whose education is governed/guided by his wit and his wit by education, and who does not disobeys elderly/educated people is a truly an educated person.
– Vidur

The Trick Of The Crow

Once upon a time, there

Wisdom accepts everything and transforms it; only ignorance rejects. Only ignorance rejects – wisdom accepts everything. Even a poison can become a medicine, but only through wisdom.
– Osho

The Tunnel

Zenkai,

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
– Buddha

Witness

There is a Zen story I have loved very much. Three friends had gone for a morning walk, and then they

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
– William Shakespeare

The King’s Condition

The ruler of Vijaynagar, Krishnadeva Raya had a versatile minister at his durbar, Tenali Raman. He was a poet, jester and the p

Never judge a book by its cover.

All that Glitters is not Gold

Anything that is bright and shining need not necessarily be made of gold. Certain things appear to be valuable but actually they are not. So we have

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
– Khalil Gibran

Step By Step

A conscious man also commits mistakes, but one mistake one time. A conscious man learns even from mistakes. He has

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
– Lao Tzu

Process Of Death

Your death is the ultimate declaration of your existence, how you have lived. If you fall in a coma, that

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
– Hans Christian Andersen

Silence Liberates

There lived a pious man in Bengal, India. Every day a Sanskrit scholar would come

Life is not a process of death death is a process of life.

Buddha Will Follow

Be a Zorba and the Buddha will follow automatically.

These people are saying, ”Sacrifice Zorba so that you can become the B

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it’s important to get the sense… are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
– Bjorn Lomborg

Small Things

Once it

The true sign of intelligence is not borrowed knowledge but experience.

What Are You Doing! What Are You Saying!

In modern times a great deal of nonsense is talked about masters and disciples, and about the

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
– Henri Frederic Amiel

Cooking The Khichdi

It was winter. The ponds were all frozen.

At the court, Akbar asked Birbal, “Tell me Birbal! Will a

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
– Albert Einstein

Seeker Of Truth

There is a story in the UPANISHADS, which contains a few very beautiful existential