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... upwards." This is a beautiful story - falling upwards. There is a law of falling upwards. And sometimes when you meditate, dance, sing, you will feel it: being possessed by something higher, from the above. And you are taken to higher plenitudes than you have ever known before. That is the law of grace, or the law of power. And when you can use both the worlds.... One belongs to science, one...
... milk: Obey! I teach you awareness. And, of course, out of awareness a totally different kind of obedience arises. Then you say yes because your heart says yes. and if your heart says no, then say no, and risk all for your no. That is human dignity. ARTHUR KOESTLER WRITES ABOUT AN EXPERIMENT. Meditate over it: A series of highly original experiments was started by Doctor Stanley Milgram. The purpose...
... you disobedience, disorder, indiscipline. I am not doing that kind of thing at all. I can be misunderstood. I AM being misunderstood. What I am saying is: I am making you responsible. The individual is TOTALLY responsible whatsoever he is doing. So you have to think, meditate, and act out of your meditations - and whatsoever you do will be virtuous, and whatsoever you do will be moral, and it will...
...? Meditate on the great statement of Jesus: "Love thy neighbour as thou lovest thyself." But the fundamental is loving thyself. You cannot love anybody else - because love has to well up within you first. And you are the closest to yourself: if you hate yourself, you will hate your neighbour. Whatsoever the priests and the leaders go on saying, it will not make any difference. You will hate your...
... old man laughed and he said, "Who listens?" This seems to be the only protection if you don't know how to meditate. Then the psychoanalyst only pretends that he is listening. Freud was very diplomatic about it. He managed the whole thing in such a way that the patient used to lie on the couch, and Freud would sit at the back so the patient could not see him - whether he was listening or...
... polarities. Both are your poles, both have to be lived. Yes, you have to be as deeply, intensely, authentically passionate as you have to become cool, silent, quiet. You have to love and you have to meditate. Meditation and love should not be divided; they should be like the valley and the peak - together. The peak has beauties, the sunlit peak and the virgin snow, and in the morning it is all gold, and in...
... think you are a man?" He said, "If I am not a man, if I am not a Hindu, if I am not Doctor S.N.L. Shrivastava, then who am I?" I said, "That is anguish! You meditate over it. If you find out the answer your anguish will disappear." But before his anguish disappeared he threatened to resign from the college. He said, "Holidays won't help; after all, I have to come back...
...; there were many caves. "Go and sit in a cave, and just meditate on, Who am I? All else is just explanations, experiences, efforts to translate those experiences into language. The only real thing is this question, Who am I?" I have come in contact with many people, but I never came in contact with Raman Maharishi; he died when I was too young. I wanted to go, and I would have reached him...
...: That is witnessing, watching, observing, awareness. And that's what I call meditation. Without anguish you cannot meditate. You have to pass through the fire of anguish. It will burn much rubbish and leave you cleaner, fresher. And your being is not far away. It is there, very close by, but just the buzzing of all the thoughts does not allow you to hear it, to see it, to feel it. Anguish is the...
... you. So even though there is no God - Buddha has no God in his religion, but he says to his sannyasins, "After each prayer, never forget to distribute your virtue." It is worth understanding. He says, "When you pray or meditate you attain to a certain virtue, a purity, a compassion, a certain quality of love, a spiritual fragrance. Don't hold it, immediately disperse it. Give it back...
... ascetics, masochistic: the more you torture yourself the more spiritual you are. Other people could not torture themselves as much as Mahavira was capable of torturing himself Mahavira used to meditate standingsitting was too comfortable. If he sees my chair... I am just heading for hell. He would be sitting naked on the bare ground or on a stone, because he could not use any carpet, any mattress, no...
...; even that would be comfortable. So he used to meditate standing, with closed eyes. I feel digambaras are right; about his nakedness, they are right and about his closed eyes they are right, because not a single statue has been found in the whole history of Mahavira with half-open eyes - it is enough proof. And the statues are naked. It is such an historical fact, reported by all the religions of...
... is a higher opening. A choice between sex and meditation must be made, and meditation is the superior alternative. Do not condemn sex; teach children to meditate. Being opposed to teaching children about sex only alerts them to its existence. And this is a highly dangerous approach. Later, it leads to the perversions of immature sexuality. As yet, when no door has opened, when both the doors are...
... meditation when one is older. Older people trying meditation is like sowing seeds after the season is over. The seed of meditation can easily be sown in children, but man, as he is, only shows interest in meditation towards the end of his life. He is anxious to meditate then - when his energy has ebbed, when all the possibilities of progress have dried up. Only then does he inquire about meditation and...
... educated about sex; they must be given the right education. Secondly, children should be taught to meditate - how to remain calm, serene, silent; how to reach the state of no-mind. Children can learn to accomplish this very, very quickly. Every home should have a scheduled program to help children move into silence. And that will only be possible, when you, as parents, also practice with them. A daily...
... is a man of learning. Even at the moment of death he is still learning. When he was given the poison, his disciples started crying and weeping. He said, "Don't miss this opportunity to learn something about death. It is one of the greatest events in life, in fact THE greatest even, because it is the culmination, the crescendo, the climax. Wait, watch, meditate over what is happening to me...
... infinity. How long can you repress? How long can you sit upon a volcano? Sooner or later it is bound to erupt. Remember, a wholesome discipline has nothing to do with control or repression. The DESIDERATA IS tremendously significant when it says: "BEYOND A WHOLESOME DISCIPLINE, BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF." Meditate, and meditate totally, and put your whole energy into it. Beyond that, be gentle...
... contagious. Whosoever comes in contact with them is overwhelmed, starts looking at reality with new eyes. They give you a new insight into the herenow. This is "just freedom." Meditate over it. There is no need for any psychology either, and that's why psychology has not happened in the East. There is no need to go into past traumas, and in fact even if you go into past traumas you are never free...
... the egolessness of the person, and remember it. And what is the quintessential elixir of this whole advice? That is how to transform the five decays into the bodhi path. What are the five decays? Meditate on two states. One is the state of sleep in which the greater part of humanity is. People are living like somnambulists; mechanical is their life, unconscious is their behavior. They are not aware...
... have come to know your innermost essential core -- that it is not personal, that it is universal; that it is not mortal, that it is immortal; that it has nothing to do with time and space, that it is eternity itself. AMRITASYA PUTRAH: we are sons of immortality. Once you have known it, life is not a regret. Life is a blessing, a benediction. Meditate on Atisha, listen to his advice; it is of immense...
.... Don't be calculating. You have come across a beautiful intuition, an insight. Then be more and more like a fool. There is a beautiful novel of Feodor Dostoevsky, 'The Idiot'. Read it, meditate upon it. In that novel the main character is a fool... but a fool like St. Francis, a fool - but like Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. He has dropped, or he has no calculating mind. Of course, if you are a fool you will be...
... mouth is so small that it cannot get out. What to do? This is a zen koan. It is given to disciples to meditate over. Now it is absurd. What can you do about it? Whatsoever you do, again and again the same problem. The bottle has not to be broken. That seems to be the only way to bring it out. And the goose cannot be allowed inside any more, because now there is no space left and it will die. Now what...
... to do? The question is urgent. And the disciple is told to meditate as intensely as possible. The disciple meditates twenty-four hours. Then he comes to the master, he finds some way - but what way can you find? All ways are impossible. There is no other way, this is the only alternative. And the disciple becomes desperate and more desperate, and he thinks and meditates, and his mind starts reeling...
...? - then what is the point of it all? If there is no soul in man, if there is nothing immortal in man, then why make so much effort? why meditate? for what? Buddha says this idea of the self is a misunderstanding. You are, but you are not a self. You are, but you are not separate from the universe. The separation is the root-idea in the concept of self: if I am separate from you then I have a self; if...
... - conscious, unconscious - that you are going to gain something out of it, here or hereafter, then it is a selfish desire. That which comes out of the self is a selfish desire; that which comes as part of the ego is a selfish desire. If you meditate just to attain to your selfhood, then it is a selfish desire. Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that...
... you. And unless you can become a DHARMA-MEGHA, remember, your life was in vain. You lived without any purpose, you lived fruitlessly, barrenly. In fact, you lived not; you only appeared to live. So meditate on this small story of Buddha's, his asking, and the answers... just meditate on it. I will tell you a few anecdotes to show you how we understand. A minister asked a little girl what she thought...
... contradictory. My approach is individual; my approach is person-to-person. I try to relate with you as individuals. In the morning discourse you can meditate over whatsoever I say, but whenever you are deciding to do something, ask me in person. Don't decide it through the morning discourse because you are too many, and I am talking in a general way. The morning discourse is just to make principles clear to...
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