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VBT – Week’s Meditation 58 Nothing Is Permanent I will tell you one story. Buddha was traveling through a...
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Bhagavad Gita Verse 16.24
Life Is Religious – In Gita Verse 16.24 One should therefore understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one should act so that he may gradually be elevated. In Bhagavad Gita Verse 16.24 of the Bhagavad...
VBT – Meditation 33.2
VBT – Meditation 33.2 Emptiness Is Beautiful For centuries emptiness has been condemned. Emptiness is beautiful. And the foolish people have been telling you. “The empty mind is the devil’s workshop.” The empty mind is God’s workshop! The occupied mind is the devil’s workshop. But one has to be...
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Religion
Each Integration
Before we enter Yoga Sutra 42, let us understand what each integration is. Patanjali’s skill in expressing the inexpressible...
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...
Don’t Throw Responsibility
Don’t Throw Responsibility When man is relieved of the burden of humanity he becomes light. You may not have...
Illuminating Education: Roundtable # 2
Shifting the Mindset: From Survival to Significance Introduction Prof. Joy Sen opened the session by explaining that the meeting...
The Philosophy Of Emptiness
The Philosophy Of Emptiness It is possible soon. Space can be pulled out and then it can be again forced in, and the engine will take its shape again. Then big things can be carried without much problem. The weight will remain the same but the shape, the form,...
Bilalapadaka The Selfish Rich Man
It is thought that spirituality is a difficult attainment. It is neither: that is, it is neither difficult nor an attainment. Whatsoever you are, you are already spiritual. – Osho Bilalapadaka The Selfish Rich Man What Buddha said… : Do not think lightly of doing good, saying, “A little...
Mindfulness Means Life
God never guide a man like a shepherd with a stick in their hand. Instead they deliver intelligence and wisdom to the person. – Vidur Mindfulness Means Life What Buddha said… : Mindfulness is the way to the Deathless (Nibbana), unmindfulness the way to Death. Those who are mindful...
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...
Life, Death And Love
Life, Death And Love Don’t move ahead of yourself into the future because that is not possible to do. The future remains unknown; that is its beauty, that is its grandeur, glory. If it becomes known, it will be useless because then the whole excitement and the whole surprise...
Befriending Feeling
Befriending Feelings Somewhere there is that fear which makes me closed and hard and sad and desperate and angry and hopeless. It seems to be so subtle that I don’t even get really in touch with it. How can I see it more clearly? The only problem with sadness,...
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
An Idea Whose Time Has Come Osho, Is God overhead in the sky, in heaven? God is everywhere. God is everywhereness. God is not a person. You cannot locate him. God is the totality of all beings, of all things. But down the ages man has looked at the...
Town Of The Submerged Temple
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein Town Of The Submerged Temple I have heard a story. Thousands of years ago, a town with temples of gods got submerged in the sea. The bells of those...
Cherry Blossom And The Misty Moon
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy Cherry Blossom And The Misty Moon It happened about a very famous Zen woman, her name was Rengetsu…. Very few women...
No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, No Today
No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, No Today But society pays you enough to be moral, gives you as much ego as it is possible to give – not only here but in the afterworld too. There are also places, special places reserved for you in heaven. The sinner is suffering...
Galileo
Science is true religion because it leads you to truth. – Osho Galileo Our attachment to the dead past and its religions. I (Osho) am reminded of Galileo. He was almost on his deathbed –old, tired, spent. He was dragged to the court of the Christian pope because in...
To Enemy With Love
When you’re happy you don’t always have to be laughing, and when you’re sad you don’t have to be crying; sometimes it’s the opposite. You laugh when you’re the most upset. – Freddie Highmore To Enemy With Love But in ordinary life you are aware that opposites are always...
Life Is A Luxury
Life Is A Luxury It started raining, and as it started raining the driver speeded up. The wipers were not working. The hippie could not see at all through the windshield so he told the driver, “The wipers are not working and you are going with such speed. I...
Possessing Nothing, Wanting Nothing
Possessing Nothing, Wanting Nothing Only a meditator becomes adult. Otherwise, your chronological age may be seventy, eighty or ninety, it does not matter – you are only an old child.ninety years old but still immature because still interested in toys, still carrying your teddy bears, still interested in possessing...
Techniques To Become One With The Whole
Techniques To Become One With The Whole Swami Ramateertha used this technique for his own sadhana. A moment came when he started saying, “The whole world is in me, and the stars move in me.” Somebody was talking to him and he said, “It is very beautiful here in...
Letters
Letters There is a difference between knowledge and knowing. One is the amassing of information, simply an intellectual understanding; and the other is a knowledge which is experience, knowing, a living realization. One is the accumulation of dead facts, the other is the understanding of living truth. There is...
Osho's Preaching
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our...
The Challenge Of The Buddha Very difficult. We go on unconsciously expressing our opinion about others. Do you know...
Blissfulness Beyond Ignorance So if you are not aware of beauty, you will not be aware of ugliness. If...
A Small Fragment From The Past Also, if it becomes a scientifically proven fact – which I have no...
Most People Return Unopened What is the need of repeating them? One repeats a thing because one wants to...
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston...
The Golden Flower Is Opening You see a beautiful flower and you suddenly say something: “It is beautiful.” Watch...
When you’re in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?...
There is a Sufi story… A rich man died. He was not only rich; he was wise also, which...
The great king Krishna Deva Raya had a lot of wise ministers in his court. The wisest of them...
It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that...
The man of science is a poor philosopher. – Albert Einstein Frog The Philosopher Chuang Tzu talks about a...
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. – Rabindranath Tagore Palace...
The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. – Eddie Vedder An Idiot And A Wise Man...
“The attitude of a person plays a very significant role in his life. At instances he finds himself bound...
Who can speak at all situations, has an understanding for religion and religious-scriptures, is good at debate, and who...
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In...
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. – Sam Rayburn ...
Once, a cat saw a smart young boy. The cat fell in love with him. She wished that she...
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world. – Patanjali Millions Of Reflection...
There is a very famous myth – a great parable . . . maybe it was really a historical...
All the energies should develop rightly. The ideas of moral teachings have turned man into a very miserable and...
Ancient Wisdom In Modern Time Session: 42
Yama
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Eight Fold Path of Yoga
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Viveka Khyateh
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Purusha
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Yama
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Eight Fold Path of Yoga
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Viveka Khyateh