Inner Stillness

When you lose touch with inner stillness,
you lose touch with yourself.
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
Your innermost sense of self,
of who you are, is inseparable from stillness.
This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

The ego

The ego is human;
egolessness is divine.
The ego is hell;
egolessness is paradise.

Mind Divides

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim
or a Christian or a European, or anything else,
you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?
Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind.
When you separate yourself by belief,
by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
So a man who is trying to understand violence
does not belong to any country, to any religion,
to any political party or partial system;
he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. ( J. Krishnamurti )

Is God Real?

Is God Real? Since the question came up,
let's briefly go into it.
When it comes to spiritual realities,
the fact that when you are
in a meditative state of oneness,
a G-spot might light up
(or whatever brain correlate is being tracked),
says absolutely nothing about
the ontological status of the referent in that state.
Any G-spot activity in the brain
is the correlate of a meditative state, not its content.
When I look at an apple, an area in my brain
associated with its perception lights up,
but we do not therefore assume that
the apple exists only in the brain.
So why sould we assume that
God exists only in the brain because the same thing happens? ( Ken Wilber )

Thought & consciousness

Thinking and consciousness
are not synonymous.
Thinking is only a small
aspect of consciousness.
Thought cannot exist
without consciousness,
but consciousness does not need thought.

You Are The Sky

You are the sky.
The clouds are what happens,
what comes and goes.

A metaphor for practising with thoughts
which is sometimes used which describes
the process of practicing with them as follows:

Thoughts are like clouds moving across the sky.
You are the sky and the thoughts are just a movement,
like clouds. Don’t move attention towards them or away from them.

But there is something very important
that is being left out.
The metaphor implies a “watcher” of the clouds
and unless this “watcher” is also released,
we have not begun to practise with
the mechanisms of self-image that give rise to patterns of contraction.

We need to attend to thoughts like the sky attends to clouds,
not like someone sitting on the ground looking up at the clouds.

Awareness is non-dual

Awareness cannot exist with duality, and mind cannot exist without duality. Awareness is non-dual, and mind is dual.So just watch. I don't teach you any solutions. I teach you the solution:
Just get back a little and watch.Create a distance between you and your mind. ~ Osho

Freedom

When each thought absorbs your attention completely,
it means you identify with the voice in your head.
Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self.
This is the ego, a mind-made "me."
That mentally constructed self
feels incomplete and precarious.
That’s why fearing and wanting are
its predominant emotions and motivating forces.
When you recognize that there is a voice
in your head that pretends to be you
and never stops speaking,
you are awakening out of
your unconscious identification
with the stream of thinking.
When you notice that voice,
you realize that who you are
is not the voice — the thinker — but
the one who is aware of it.
Knowing yourself as the awareness
behind the voice is freedom.

Beyond The Mind

All the things that truly matter
— beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace —
arise from beyond the mind.

Waking up

If you wake up one morning
realising that you do not know anything,
then you are awake.
If you still think you know something,
then you are still asleep.
If you are still trying to know,
you are still trying to control.
If you are still trying to control,
then you still think something can ‘go wrong’.
If you still think something can go wrong,
then you are not in touch with the source.
If you are not in touch with the source,
then you live in fear.
You are living in the fear that you have created,
and that you are trying to get away from. ~ ( Paul Lowe )

To be Ordinary

Drop the idea of being Extraordinary!
It’s keeping you mediocre.
To be Ordinary is the most
extraordinary thing in the world.
The Ordinary person has light in his eyes…
he has become extraordinary,
but he has no idea of it.

What is Awareness?

Ask yourself - 'What is awareness?'

"Become conscious of your consciousness. And in that very becoming, in that very silence - when you are only conscious of your consciousness and not of any other content - no thought, no desire, no dream - you are just conscious of your being conscious, the mirror is reflecting itself and nothing else... in that moment, something immensly miraculous happens. You become aware of the divine, you become aware of the essential core of your being." Osho

Ken Wilber

Human beings are born and begin their evolution
through the great spiral of consciousness,
moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational
to perhaps integral, and from there perhaps
into genuinely transpersonal domains.
But for every person that moves into
integral or higher, dozens are born
into the archaic.

Being & Becoming

All the Buddhas of all the ages,
have been telling you a very simple fact:
Be -- don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment,
becoming is ignorance.

Internal & external

Internal and external are ultimately one.
When you no longer perceive the world as hostile,
there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear,
you think, speak and act differently.
Love and compassion arise,
and they affect the world.

Eckhart Tolle

The habitual and reactive “no” strengthens the ego. “Yes” weakens it. Your form identity, the ego, cannot survive surrender.
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“Doing one thing at a time” is how one Zen Master defined the essence of Zen.
Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your complete attention. This is surrendered action - empowered action.
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Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
For instance, you may have a disability and can't walk anymore. The condition is as it is.
Perhaps your mind is now creating a story that says, “This is what my life has come to. I have ended up in a wheelchair. Life has treated me harshly and unfairly. I don't deserve this.”
Can you accept the isness of this moment and not confuse it with a story the mind has created around it?

Wake up!

It is mind that is your sleep. You are sleeping either in the past or in the future. Both are ways of sleeping.When I say, "Wake up!" again and again, when Buddha says, "Wake up!" a simple phenomenon is indicated. Come to the present.
Osho

The Now

A great deal of what people say,
think, or do is actually motivate by fear,
which of course is always linked with having
your focus on the future and being
out of touch with the Now.
As there are no problems in the Now,
there is no fear either. ~ ( Eckhart Tolle)

Who am I ?

What a liberation to realize that
the "voice in my head" is not who I am.
Who am I then?
The one who sees that.

Aware of Your Own Awareness

The only way out of ignorance
and out of this dark night of the soul,
is to be aware of your own being,
aware of your own awareness.
In that moment when you are
aware of your own awareness,
everything stops, time stops.
Suddenly you are beyond time
and beyond space, and a door opens
which makes you part of the whole.