VBT – Meditation 23.3
VBT – Meditation 23.3 The Very Foundation There is no source of consciousness. Consciousness itself is the very foundation...
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Podcast With Acharya Prashant Jakhmola # 1
Dhwani Shah, , Health & Lifestyle, Interactive Knowledge Exchange, Laws of Success, Living, Yoga, Patanjali, Yoga Sutra, 0
The Importance and Philosophy of Yoga Sutra Introduction Welcome to the Interactive Knowledge Exchange podcast series, organised by the...
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Introduction and Significance: 2
Dhwani Shah, , Health & Lifestyle, Laws of Success, Yoga, Patanjali, Yoga Sutra, 0
The Philosophy Behind Yoga Sutra
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Podcast With Debasis Satapathy # 15
Dhwani Shah, , DHC Podcast with Debasis, 0
Emotional intelligence: Timeless lessons from Mahabharata Introduction Welcome to “Exploring Mahabharata’s Teachings with Debasis,” brought to you by the...
VBT – Meditation 57.4
VBT – Meditation 57.4 The Center Is Detached If you see an actor acting in a psychodrama who, in a situation of anger, really becomes angry, you may think that he is simply acting, but it is not so. He might have really become angry; it may not be...
VBT – Meditation 55.2
VBT – Meditation 55.2 Your Dreams Now psychoanalysis goes on doing this business of analyzing your dreams. They have a big business because you cannot analyze your own dreams. They are symbolic, they are not real. They say something only in metaphors. If you want to kill your mother...
Learning Is Evolution Session: 69
Escapist
Learning Is Evolution Session: 68
Knowledge v/s Knowing
Learning Is Evolution Session: 67
Being Aware
Learning Is Evolution Session: 66
Be Enthusiastic
Yoga Sutra 32 Desire Is The Seed
SAMYAMA IS TO BE EMPLOYED IN STAGES. Patanjali is not for sudden enlightenment: and sudden enlightenment is not for...
Prayer
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart Prayer The Sufi mystic was a rebellious person. It happened this time that for three days they had no food, because every village they passed refused...
Old Man’s Answer
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein Old Man’s Answer A Sufi story. A man was sitting at the gate of a town, an old man. A rider stopped, a horse rider and asked him, ”what...
You Have Stolen My Heart
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer You Have Stolen My Heart 💓 Let me tell you a Zen anecdote about a burglar who entered the house of a Zen master to rob him....
Wood Cutting
Relaxation means you don’t have any shoulds. You are simply living moment to moment, not according to some future idea of yourself, but according to your reality that is herenow. – Osho Wood Cutting A Zen story. A very curious king, wanting to know about what these...
Entering into Death
Entering into Death Life is a pilgrimage towards death. From the very beginning, death is coming. From the moment...
Devices To Transcend Dreaming
Devices To Transcend Dreaming Will you please explain to us what are some of the other factors which can...
Something Of Me Behind
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. – Corazon Aquino Something Of Me Behind Once in awhile there have been single individuals who had the quality of true religion; for example, Bodhidharma. One of the most lovable human beings, he went...
Not Even for Free
If a man recites religious scriptures without bothering to understand the ideas being stated. Such person is not better than a ladle that is dipped in all kinds of food, but is unable to taste any. – Chanakya Not Even for Free What Buddha said… : Look at...
Come To The Middle
You have to wake up and realize the fact that your imprisonment is your imagination, that your fetters are nothing but the thoughts, that your bondage is nothing but your own unconscious way of living. – Osho Come To The Middle A youth, Prince Shrona, was initiated...
Sainthood on Top of a Pole
Opportunity knocks only once: We must make the best use of an opportunity when it comes our way. We may not get a second chance. So we have to be alert and identify an opportunity, grasp it as it comes along and make the best use of it. When...
Entering into Death
Entering into Death Life is a pilgrimage towards death. From the very beginning, death is coming. From the moment of birth, death has started coming towards you; you have started moving towards death. And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that it is against...
Pick Up The Roses And Avoid The Thorns
Pick Up The Roses And Avoid The Thorns Osho, When you were responding to Sarjano’s question, I heard you say that a disciple can say no to the master if the love is deep enough. I can understand your saying no to us out of your love, but not...
A False Laughter
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves. – Osho A False Laughter Look at people’s faces. They carry life as a burden — boring, with no meaning. It seems that everything is just a nightmare, a very cruel joke, that somebody...
Master And Thief
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. – Herbert Hoover Master And Thief I have heard that in a master’s small cottage far away from the town, one full moon night a thief entered. The master was awake. He...
Judge Ye Not
Judge Ye Not A young man came to Dhun-Nun and said that the Sufis were wrong, and many other thing besides. The Egyptian removed a ring from his finger and handed it to him. “Take this to the market stallholders over there and see whether you can get a...
Hope, Fear And Knowledge
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. – Conrad Hall Hope, Fear And Knowledge When a great Sufi mystic, Hassan, was dying, somebody asked, ‘Hassan, who was your Master?’ He said, ‘Now it is too late to ask. Time is...
A Slave In Your Own House
A Slave In Your Own House For example: if you are eating, Buddha says to eat with full awareness – samyak ahar. Then whatsoever you eat is right – just be aware. Now see the difference: other religions say, “Eat this, eat that. Don’t eat this, don’t eat that.”...
Bundle Of Misery
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. – Frederick Douglass Bundle Of Misery There is a Sufi parable:A man used to call every night to God and he would pray the same prayer. Again and again he would ask, “Do one...
The Knack Of Transforming Feelings
The Knack Of Transforming Feelings This is a beautiful method, it will be very useful for you. For example, if you are feeling very discontented, what to do? Patanjali says ponder on the opposite: if you are feeling discontented, contemplate on contentment: What is contentment? Bring a balance....
Selling Water By The River
Selling Water By The River Withdrawal brings a peace that is suicide. Yes, you go to the Himalayas, you live in a cave, you are peaceful – because there is no possibility to fight with anybody. You have not changed at all, you have only changed the circumstances. You...
From Maya (Illusion) To Reality
From Maya (Illusion) To Reality This remembrance is not given by the society to you. This self-remembrance will detach you from all that is peripheral. And if you can remember, you will fall back to your own being, to your own center. The ego will be there just on...
It Is Your Being
It Is Your Being Everything will be misunderstood; that is why I never talk about it. I simply lead you to the door of the temple and leave you to enter and know. I leave you at the door of the temple. These four steps help you to reach...
Osho's Preaching
Don’t Throw Responsibility When man is relieved of the burden of humanity he becomes light. You may not have...
The man of science is a poor philosopher. – Albert Einstein Frog The Philosopher Chuang Tzu talks about...
Happy People Are Dangerous In the beginning was the word, or the logos. The same cannot be said about...
The Fundamental Rule Be a little more aware when you make such assumptions. You think that somebody is mad?...
Happy People Are Dangerous In the beginning was the word, or the logos. The same cannot be said about...
An Idea Whose Time Has Come Osho, Is God overhead in the sky, in heaven? God is everywhere. God...
The Fundamental Rule Be a little more aware when you make such assumptions. You think that somebody is mad?...
Grace Is Bring Herenow When it really happens, there is no claimant left. One simply is it. Not that...
How To Stop Thinking I HAVE BEEN THINKING ALL DAY OF A WAY TO ASK THE QUESTION: HOW TO...
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. – Sam Rayburn The...
Once there were two frog friends. As they grew up, one of the frogs made his home in the...
Don’t Judge
Dhwani Shah, , Culture, Folk Tales, Master: Osho, Zen Stories, Osho, Zen Masters, Zen Stories, 0I have told you the story of a Zen master… A thief entered his house without knowing that it...
Any man who aims at satisfying his ego is either wasting his precious time or is creating an unnecessary...
Dreams is secret window into your feelings, unfulfilled desire, act as inspiration for a creative project, and even help...
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. – Henri Frederic Amiel Cooking The Khichdi It was winter....
Once, a rich merchant left his city to go to another country for trade. He went aboard a large...
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. – Sam Rayburn ...
The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. – Eddie Vedder An Idiot And A Wise Man...
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge –...
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a...
There is a Sufi story… A rich man died. He was not only rich; he was wise also, which...
With our outer sacrifice, we see the Truth. With our inner sacrifice, we become the Truth. An ounce of...
Reflection cannot be seen in boiling water. Similarly, solution cannot be seen with disturbed mind. Cool down and you...
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing?’ Martin Luther King, Jr. Mantra And Monkeys Milarepa...
Ancient Wisdom In Modern Time Session: 32
Swadhyaya
Podcast With Acharya Prashant Jakhmola # 1
The Importance and Philosophy of Yoga Sutra Introduction Welcome to the Interactive Knowledge Exchange podcast series, organised by the Dwarkadhish Holistic Centre in collaboration with the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems at NIT Calicut. I am your host, Dhwani Shah, and today, we have the distinguished pleasure of introducing...
Ancient Wisdom In Modern Time Session: 31
Kriya Yoga
Introduction and Significance: 2
The Philosophy Behind Yoga Sutra
Ancient Wisdom In Modern Time Session: 32
Swadhyaya
Podcast With Acharya Prashant Jakhmola # 1
The Importance and Philosophy of Yoga Sutra Introduction Welcome to the Interactive Knowledge Exchange podcast series, organised by the Dwarkadhish Holistic Centre in collaboration with the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems at NIT Calicut. I am your host, Dhwani Shah, and today, we have the distinguished pleasure of introducing...
Ancient Wisdom In Modern Time Session: 31
Kriya Yoga
The Jackal Saved Lion
What will I gain in doing so and what will I lose in doing so. A man must ask such questions to himself before doing something. – Vidur The Jackal Saved Lion Once upon a time there was a lion in a jungle. Once when he had gone to...
You Have Stolen My Heart
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer You Have Stolen My Heart 💓 Let me tell you a Zen anecdote about a burglar who entered the house of a Zen master to rob him....
What Goes Around Comes Around
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown Jr. What Goes Around Comes Around His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry...
Affection Of A Tree
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Affection Of A Tree I have heard that there was once an ancient and majestic tree, with branches spreading out towards the sky. When it was in a flowering mood, butterflies...
A Bad Workman Always Blames His Tools
Be Lazy or Be Successful – Laziness is a state of mind and it evolves from two things. One is the lack of interest and other is the lack of responsibility. – Chanakya A Bad Workman Always Blames His Tools The meaning of this proverb is ….our success does...
Mustache
A person who begins a task after thinking about the outcome (with an aim), continues with it without any pause, takes rests only upon successful accomplishment, and who does not wastes his time is definitely an intelligent man. – Vidur Mustache I am reminded of a small story. In...
Intelligent Education
A farmer wants to divide his 17 horses among his three sons. According to the farmer, the oldest son should get half of the horses, the middle son should get one third of the horses and the youngest son should get one ninth of the horses. When their father...
And there is a path!
Many times life throws us a curveball and we are not sure how to proceed.We look at the circumstances and see no choice for us.Or rather the choice does not present itself clearly, or we do not wish to look at the choice. There is a sense of fear...
Agricultural Scenario In India
After the nationalisation of commercial banks in 1969 and then in 1980, a large number of bank branches have been opened in rural areas. In 1969 there were only 8800 branches of commercial banks out of which only 1400 branches were in rural areas. As on March 2016 figures,...
Verse and Worse
Verse and Worse An Introspection of ills prevailing in our system O ! Our Artful Masters !! Please stop the antics of populism And work out something of humanism; Pure and simple and bright, Without any twist of left or right Your Social Justice is injustice and casteism, Democracy...