Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The Centre - an excerpt

The Centre ...
The true self of man is hidden in a central core of stillness, a central vacuum of silence...
This core, this vacuum occupies only a pinpoint in dimension...
All around it there is ring of thoughts and desires constituting the imagined self, the ego...
This ring is constantly fermenting with fresh thoughts, constantly changing with fresh desires, and alternately bubbling with joy or heaving with grief...
Whereas the centre is forever at rest, the ring around it is never at rest; whereas the centre bestows peace, the ring destroys it.....

~excerpt

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Taken from facebook :-)

Awakening is not a process. You cannot get awakened through any doing.
Yes, after awakening you lose interest in worldy matters. Like being rich, having fame, being a guru, being a president or a king has absolutely no value in your eyes.
After awakening you know, all that belongs to ego. All that can only be the wishes of a sick ego.
Also, there is absolutely no way that you can become a drug addict or alcoholic after awakening. Because awakening itself creates an abundance of natural drugs in your body.
You feel like being high on most wonderful drugs naturally.
Why would you take any drugs or drink alcohol when you are already feeling the most incredible ecstasy?
Yes, you lose interest in worldly matters, you know that it’s all an illusion, it’s only a movie, but you know at the same that this movie is been recorded as it happens, and you would like to create a movie in which not only you but also others, all animals, all trees feel better.
And to make that happen you know that you must make some effort, do something, anything.
If I choose so, I can live away from all the misery of the world.
It would only take few seconds to get off line, turn off the tv.
An awakened human being lives only in the present moment.
The moment you move away from all that darkness none of it exist for you.
None of that misery comes with you to the next moment.
When I’m not face to face with evil, evil does not exist for me, because I KNOW that nothing really exist, nor good or evil.
All that exist only in the movie.
But, knowing all that does not make me lose interest in creating a good movie.
Knowing that, it’s all a movie and none of it is real does not make me go and kill an innocent child, or stay silent when somebody else kills an innocent child.
Yes, it’s all a movie, but once awakened you have space only for one desire in your being and that’s to make a good movie.
Sometimes to make a good movie you have to shoot some bad guys!
Being on line, seeing life as it happens and to feel all kinds of feelings and react is part of creating a good movie.
Today I saw a post, in which she was saying, she is going to practice silence and talk as little as possible in order to achieve a silence mind!
Please allow me to tell you that, a quiet mouth has nothing to do with a quiet mind.
Some people who are capable to commit the most horrendous crimes speak very little.
Most serial killers are described as silent, low key.
Speaking as it comes, when you feel like speaking it does not negate you from having a silent mind.
There is absolutely no correlation between a silent mouth and a silent mind.
A silent mind cannot come through forcing yourself not to speak.
Forcing yourself not to speak, forcing yourself to meditate, forcing yourself to practice this and that method, cannot work.
Nothing you can ever do in order to achieve a silence mind can do the magic.
The magic can only happen all by itself when you stop all doing.
Even trying to stop all doing, practicing non doing is a doing!
Forcing yourself to do anything creates only harmful chemicals in your body.
The mind cannot be silenced by forcing.
Yes, you can have a great body by forcing yourself to exercise.
You can have lots of money by forcing yourself to work day and night.
You can even create an image of an enlighten guru by forcing yourself to smile.
All these things can only be the wishes of a sick ego.
Forcing yourself can only create resistance to surrender.
More you force yourself to do this or that more difficult it becomes to surrender.
All forceful doing in order to achieve a silence mind can only serve to make you insane.
That’s why none of Osho’s methods (dynamic, kundalini and all others) or, anyone else’s methods can silence the mind.
Dynamic specially is probably the most harmful practice ever created.
To force yourself to get up at six o’clock in the morning and to force yourself to scream like mad can only create harm in your body.
If you experience any quietness after all that rage, that’s only mechanical.
That quietness has nothing to do with the truth.
That quietness cannot even get you one step closer to the truth.
Truth cannot come as a result of any doing.
Any doing to achieve a silence mind, can only create resistance to surrender in your being…

Friday, February 20, 2015

Warning

The desire to enjoy is bondage.
Do not be carried away by temptation.

The lust for power, wealth, victory and sex.

Realize that all pursuits (including the pursuit for happiness) leads only to despair.

Remain constantly aware of the Self.

Inspite of the worst provocation by the cunning mind.

Nothing else is required.

(Note: Never underestimate the power and influence of the invisible mind)

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Non duality = Frustration

Non duality leads only to frustration.

There is no point to non-duality.

It serves you far more to learn to make an omelet.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Nice article by Pema Chodron

The most straightforward advice on awakening enlightened mind is this: practice not causing harm to anyone—yourself or others—and every day, do what you can to be helpful. If we take this instruction to heart and begin to use it, we will probably find that it is not so easy. Before we know it, someone has provoked us, and either directly or indirectly, we’ve caused harm.

Therefore, when our intention is sincere but the going gets rough, must of us could use some help. We could use some fundamental instruction on how to lighten up and turn around our well-established habits of striking out and blaming.

The four methods for holding our seat provide just such support for developing the patience to stay open to what’s happening instead of acting on automatic pilot. These four methods are:
  1. not setting up the target for the arrow,
  2. connecting with the heart,
  3. seeing obstacles as teachers, and
  4. regarding all that occurs as a dream.
First, if we have not set up the target, it cannot be hit by an arrow. This is to say that each time we retaliate with aggressive words and actions, we are strengthening the habit of anger. As long as we do this, without doubt, plenty of arrows will come our way. We will become increasingly irritated by the reactions of others. However, each time we are provoked, we are given a chance to do something different. We can strengthen old habits by setting up the target or we can weaken them by holding our seat.
Each time we sit still with the restlessness and heat of anger we are tamed and strengthened. This is instruction on cultivating the root of happiness. Each time we act on the anger or suppress it, we escalate our aggression; we become more and more like a walking target. Then, as the years go by, almost everything makes us mad. This is the key to understanding, at a completely real and personal level, how we sow the seeds of suffering.

So this is the first method: remember that we set up the target and only we can take it down. Understand that if we hold our seat when we want to retaliate—even if it’s only briefly—we are starting to dissolve a pattern of aggression that will continue to hurt us and others forever if we let it.
Second is the instruction for connecting with the heart. In times of anger, we can contact the kindness and compassion that we already have.

When someone who is insane starts to harm us, we can easily understand that she doesn’t know what she is doing. There is the possibility of contacting our heart and feeling sadness that she is out of control and is harming herself by hurting others. There is the possibility that even though we feel fear, we do not feel hatred or anger. Instead we might feel inspired to help this person if we can.
Actually, a lunatic is far less crazy than a sane person who harms us, for that so-called sane person has the potential to realize that in acting aggressively he is sowing seeds of his own confusion and dissatisfaction. His present aggression is strengthening future, more intense habits of aggression. He is creating his own soap opera. This kind of life is painful and lonely. The one who harms us is under the influence of patterns that could continue to produce suffering forever.
So this is the second method: connect with the heart. Remember that the one who harms us does not need to be provoked further and neither do we. Recognize that, just like us, millions are burning with the fire of aggression. We can sit with the intensity of the anger and let its energy humble us and make us more compassionate.

Third is the instruction on seeing difficulties as teachers. If there is no teacher around to give us direct personal guidance on how to stop causing harm, never fear! Life itself will provide opportunities for learning how to hold our seat. Without the inconsiderate neighbor, where will we find the chance to practice patience? Without the office bully, how could we ever get the chance to know the energy of anger so intimately that it loses its destructive power?

The teacher is always with us. The teacher is always showing us precisely where we’re at—encouraging us not to speak and act in the same old neurotic ways, encouraging us also not to repress or dissociate, encouraging us not to sow the seeds of suffering. So with this person who is scaring us or insulting us, do we retaliate as we have one hundred thousand times before, or do we start to get smart and finally hold our seat?
Right at the point when we are about to blow our top or withdraw into oblivion, we can remember this: we are warriors-in-training being taught how to sit with edginess and discomfort. We are being challenged to remain and to relax where we are.
The problem with following these or any instructions is that we have a tendency to be too serious and rigid. We get tense and uptight about trying to relax and be patient.

This is where the fourth instruction comes in: it is helpful to think about the person who is angry, the anger itself, and the object of that anger as being like a dream. We can regard our life as a movie in which we are temporarily the leading player. Rather than making it so important, we can reflect on the essencelessness of our current situation. We can slow down and ask ourselves: “Who is this monolithic me that has been so offended? And who is this other person who can trigger me like this? What is this praise and blame that hooks me like a fish, that catches me like a mouse in a trap? How is it that these circumstances have the power to propel me like a Ping-Pong ball from hope to fear, from happiness to misery?” This big-deal struggle, this big-deal self, and this big-deal other could all be lightened up considerably.
Contemplate these outer circumstances, as well as these emotions, as well as this huge sense of me, as passing and essenceless, like a memory, like a movie, like a dream. When we awaken from sleep we know that the enemies in our dreams are an illusion. That realization cuts through panic and fear.
When we find ourselves captured by aggression, we can remember this: there is no basis for striking out or for repressing. There is no basis for hatred or shame. We can at least begin to question our assumptions. Could it be that whether we are awake or asleep, we are simply moving from one dreamlike state to another?

These four methods for turning anger around and for learning a little patience come to us from the Kadampa masters of eleventh-century Tibet. These instructions have provided encouragement for fledgling bodhisattvas in the past, and they are just as useful in the present. These same Kadampa masters advised that we not procrastinate. They urged us to use these instructions immediately—on this very day in this very situation—and not say to ourselves, “I will try this in the future when I have a bit more time.”