PATANJALI MEDITATION

 

                                                     

                                    PATANJALI YOGA

                                          

           

             IN YOGA SUTRAS, THE SAGE PATANJALI COMPILED ASHTANGA YOGA WHICH LITERALLY MEANS EIGHT LIMBS" (AHTA-EIGHT, ANGA-LIMB). THESE EIGHT PROGRESSIVE STEPS ARE GUIDELINES TO PURIFY BODY AND MIND WHICH ULTMATELY LEAD TO SELF REALIZATION. THEY HELP ONE TO LIVE A MEANINGFUL, PURPOSEFUL AND PEACEFUL LIFE AND THEY GUIDE ONE TO GROW SPIRITUALLY . THE EIGHT STEPS OF THE LADDER ARE YAMA, NIYAMA, ASANA, PRANAYAMA, PRATYAHARA, DHARANA, DHYANA AND SAMADHI. THE FIRST FIVE ARE CALLED BAHIRANGA SADHANA I.E. EXTERNAL AIDS TO YOGA. AND THE REST HELP ONE TO GROW INTERNALLY AND ARE KNOWN AS ANTARANGA SADHANA.

                        YAMA :       YAMA MEANS ABSTENTION. IT DEALS  WITH ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOUR THAT ONE SHOULD HAVE TOWARDS PEOPLE AND THINGS OUTSIDE ONE'S BODY. IT CAN ALSO BE DESCRIBED AS UNIVERSAL MORTALITY. IT IS THE FIRST STEP OF THE LADDER TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL. IN SHORT IT IS DESCRIBED AS "ONE AS SHOULD TREAT OTHERS AS ONE WOULD LIKE OTHERS TO TREAT ONESELF".  THE FIVE YAMAS ARE AHIMSHA (NON VIOLENCE) SATYA (TRUTHFULNESS), ASTEYA (NON STEALING), BRAHMACHARYA (CONTINENCE) AND APARIGRAHA (NON CONVETOUSNESS). THEY ARE BASIC STEPS TO CHANGE HUMAN NATURE TO DIVINE NATURE. THEY REMOVE NEGATIVE TRAITS LIKE CRUELTY, STEALING, VIOLENCE AND HARSHNESS. THEY FILL THE HEART WITH KINDNESS, LOVE AND PURITY. THESE SHOULD BE PRACTISED BY ALL IRRESPECTIVE OF AGE, RACE, POSITION, TIME OR NATION.

                     AHIMSA: AHIMSHA LITERALLY MEANS NOT TO INJURE ANY LIVING BEING WITH ACTIONS, WORDS OR THOUGHTS, IT IS SUPREME LOVE - LOVE FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS AND OTHER LIVING ORGANISM IN THE WORLD. AHIMSHA MEANS NOT TO SHOW CRUELTY TO ANY LIVING BEING IN ANY WAY AND IN ANY SITUATION ACCORDING TO MAHATMA GANDHI, "WHEN A PERSON CLAIMS TO BE NON VIOLENT, HE IS EXPECTED NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH ONE WHO HAS INJURED HIM. HE WILL NOT WISH HIM HARM. HE WILL WISH HIM WELL. HE WILL NOT SWEAR AT HIM, HE WILL NOT CAUSE HIM ANY PHYSICAL HURT. HE WILL PUT UP WITH ALL THE INJURY TO WHICH HE IS SUBJECTED TO BY THE WRONGDOER" THUS NON-VIOLENCE IS COMPLETE ABSENSE OF ILL-WILL AGAINST ALL LIVING BEINGS. IT THEREFORE EMBRACES EVEN SUB-HUMAN LIFE NOT EXCLUDING NOXIOUS INSECTS OR BEASTS. IT MEANS KINDNESS AND FRIENDLINESS FOR EVERYONE. IN EVERY SITUATION ONE HAS TO BE CONSIDERATE AND NOT HARM ANY CREATURES ON THIS EARTH.

                          MAHATMA GANDHI TAUGHT THE WORLD, "WHEN THERE IS NO DESIRE FOR FRUIT, THERE IS NO TEMPTATION FOR UNTRUTH OR HIMSA. TAKE ANY INSTANCE OF UNTRUTH OR VIOLENCE, AND IT WILL BE FOUND THAT AT ITS BACK WAS THE DESIRE TO ATTAIN THE CHERISHED END". IBE SGIYKD STOP PHYSICAL , SPEAKING  HARSH WORDS AND NEGATIVE, HARMFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE THINKING IMMEDIATELY. VIOLENCE AGITATES ONE'S MID WHEREAS NON VIOLENCE CALMS ONE'S MIND.

                      SATYA - SATYA MEANS TRUTHFULNESS IN ACTION, WORD AND THOUGHT, IT MEANS HONEST COMMUNICATION.

              ONE SHOULD BE HONEST AND TRUTHFULNESS IN ONE'S ACTION.

              ONE SHOULD BE TRUTHFULNESS IN WORDS THAT ONE SPEAKS.

               ONE SHOULD SAY WHAT ONE THINKS. IT IS THE TRUTHFULNESS IN THOUGHTS. SOME BUSINESSMEN MAINTAIN TWO SEPARATE ACCOUNTS. ONE FOR BLACK MONEY AND THE OTHER FOR WHITE MONEY. THE INCOME AND EXPENDITURES OF BOTH ACCOUNTS ARE KEPT SEPARATELY. THEY HIDE ONE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND REVEAL THE OTHER. IF BUSINESSMAN ACCOUNT. IN THE SAME MANNER IF ONE LIES THEN THE MIND HAS TO MAINTAIN ONLY ONE TYPE OF ACCOUNT. ONE FOR TRUTH AND OTHER FOR LIES. TWO DIFFERENT SECTIONS IN MIND MEAN MORE NUMBER OF THOUGHTS. ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS WILL REQUIRE MORE TIME AND ENERGY TO STILL THE MIND. HENCE, SPEAK THE TRUTH". 

                      ASTEYA - ASTEYA MEANS "NON-STEALING" AND NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO ONE. ONE SHOULD RESIST THE DESIRE TO ACCEPT THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO ONE.

                        ONE SHOULD NOT DESIRE MORE THAN REQUIRED IF IT ONE'S OWN. GLUTTONY IS STEALING OF FOOD EVEN IF ONE CAN PAY FOR THAT. HOARDING MONEY IS ALSO STEALING EVEN THOUGH ONE HAS EARNED IT HONESTLY. IT ALSO MEANS NON COVETOUSNESS.

                          BY REDUCING ONE'S WANTS ONE WILL BE ABLE TO CONTROL ONE'S DESIRE. ONE SHOULT NOT ACCEPT ANY OBJECT OR SERVICE FREE OF COST. ONE SHOULD AVOID STEALING AS WELL AS HOARDING. ONLY THEN ONE WILL PROGRESS ON SPIRITUAL PATH. THE EASIEST WAY TO CONTROL ASTEYA IS "I HAVE ALL I NEED".

                      BRAHMACHARYA - HERE BRAHMACHARYA MEANS TO USE ONE'S SEXUAL ENERGY TO REGENERATE ONE'S CONNECTION TO ONE'S SPIRITUAL SELF. SEXUAL ENERGY IS BROUGHT DOWN DURING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE TO GIVE BIRTH TO A NEW BODY WHEREAS DURING MEDITATION SEXUAL ENERGY IS CONSERVED BY CLOSING ALL THE HOLES OF LEAKAGE AND DIVERTING THE STORED ENERGY INTO PROPER CHANNEL BY PUSHING IT UPWARDS TO GIVEN A NEW BIRTH TO ONE SELF. HENCE, BRAHMACHARYA MEANS TO CONVERT SEXUAL ENERGY TO SPIRITUAL ENERGY AND TO USE IT PROPERLY FOR SELF REALISATION.

                         BRAHMACHARYA MEANS WALKING WITH BRAHMA. CONSIDERING TOUCH AS MOTHERLY TOUCH IS BRAHMACHARYA OF SKIN. NOT WATCHING PORNOGRAPHY IS BRAHMACHARYA OF EYE. NOT HEARING ANY LUSTFUL TALK IS THE BRAHMACHARYA OF EAR. NOT SMELLING BODY ODOUR OF WOMAN IS BRAHMACHARYA OF NOSE. NOT TALKING VULGARLY ABOUT WOMAN IS BRAHMACHARYA OF TONGUE. NOT THINKING ABOUT NUDE WOMEN IS BRAHMACHARYA OF THOUGHTS. MENTAL BRAHMACHARYA CAN BE ATTAINED BY CHANTING GOD'S NAME. MEDITATION AND BY REMOVING DUALITY OF MIND ABOUT MAN AND WOMAN AND CONSIDERING THEM AS ONE BRAHMA OR GOD.

THE FEAR OF GHOST

                       ARE YOU BELIEVE IN THE GHOST?

                              THE AFRAID OF GHOST!

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                       I DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS AND YET I AM AFRAID OF THEM.  WHEN I AM ALONE IN THE NIGHT, IF FEEL THAT THEY ARE THERE AND THEY WANT TO SPEAK TO ME....

                        IN FACT, YOU DENY THINGS WHICH YOU ARE AFRAID. YOUR DENIAL SIMPLY SHOWS YOUR FEAR. YOU SAY, I DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS. IF YOU REALLY DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS. THEN FROM WHERE CAN THE FEAR COME? THEN WHY SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID? FOR WHAT? BUT YOUR DISBELIEF IS NOTHING BUT A WAY OF HIDDNG YOUR FEAR.

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                           REMEMBER: YOUR BELIEF IS OUT OF FEAR, YOUR DISBELIEF IS OUT OF FEAR. IF YOU LIVE IN FEAR, WHATSOEVER HAPPENS TO YOU IS GOING TO HAPPEN OUT OF FEAR. I SEE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE GOING TO THE TEMPLES AND THE MOSQUES AND THE CHURCHES OUT OF FEAR, AND I SEE ATHEISTS DENYING GOD OUT OF FEAR. IF I LOOK DEEPLY I DON'T SEE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE THEIST AND THE ATHEIST. THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME REACTING DIFFERENTLY, BUT THE SITUATION IS THE SAME AND FEAR IS THE SAME. THEIR DIFFERENCE ARE ONLY SUPERFICIAL.

                          IN EACH ATHEIST THE THEIST IS HIDDEN. AND IN EACH THEIST THE ATHEIST IS HIDDEN THAT'S WHY IT IS SO EASY TO CONVERT THEM. 

                        THESE ARE NOT REALLY TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. 

                         YOU SAY, I DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS...

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                        YOU BELIEVE. YOU ARE SIMPLY TRYING TO DECEIVE YOURSELF. HENCE THE FEAR. YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU ARE ONE IN THE NIGHT THEY ARE THERE. BUT YOU ARE UNNECESSARILY AFRAID OF POOR GHOSTS. COMPARED TO HUMAN BEINGS, THEY ARE VERY INNOCENT PEOPLE. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF ANY GHOSTS TURNING INTO AN ADOLF HITLER? OR CHENGHIS KHAN OR TAMURLANG? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF GHOSTS CREATING HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, PREARING FOR THE THIRD WORLD WAR? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF GHOSTS DOING ANY HARM? THEIR HARM, IF SOMETIMES YOU HEAR SOME STORIES, IS MORE OR LESS TRIVIAL SMALL THINGS.

                     I HAVE HEARD ABOUT ONE YOUNG GHOST. THE YOUND GHOST GOT VERY SCARED WHEN HIS FRIENDS TOLD HIM TOO MANY HUMAN STORIES. 

                      AND I HAVE ALDO HEARD. THEN THERE WAS THE GHOST WHO DID NOT BELIEVE IN PEOPLE.

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                        THEY ARE ALSO AFRAID OF YOU. AND YOU SAY, YOU ARE AFRAID THAT WHEN YOU ARE ALONE IN THE NIGHT I FEEL THAT THEY ARE THERE AND THEY WANT TO SPEAK TO ME...

                       I HAVE ALSO HEARD. THE FATHER GHOSTS TOLD HIS SON, SPOOK ONLY WHEN YOU ARE SPOKEN TO....

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                     SO, TO ME, THOSE THINGS ARE IRRELEVANT. FEAR IS THE BASIC THINGS. WHY IS MAN AFRAID? DON'T GO INTO REASONS CAUSES AND EXPLANATIONS GO DIRECTLY INTO THE FEAR. SO NEXT TIME WHEN YOU ARE ALONE IN THE ROOM, JUST CLOSE THE EYES GO INTO YOUR FEAR. DON'T BOTHER ABOUT GHOSTS JUST GO INTO THE FEAR. TREMBLE IF TREMBLING COMES, BUT DON'T FIND ANY EXPLANATION THAT YOU ARE TREMBLING BECAUSE OF THE GHOSTS. THAT IS JUST AN EXPLANATION TO EXPLAIN AWAY THE FEAR JUST GO INTO TREMBLING. TREMBLE FOR NO REASON AT ALL. IF YOU FEEL LIKE SCREAMING, SCREAM FOR NO REASON AT ALL BUT GO INTO THE FEAR ITSELF. DON'T BRING ANYTHING ELSE IN BETWEEN YOU AND THE FEAR. THAT IS A TRICK OF THE MIND. AND IF YOU CAN GO DEEP DOWN INTO THE FEAR, YOU WILL BE SURPRISED. THE DEEPER YOU GO, THE MORE AND MORE FEAR DISSIPATES, DISAPPEARS. AND WHEN YOU TOUCH THE VERY CORE, THE VERY BOTTOM CORE OF IT, IT HAS DISSAPEARED. YOU ARE SIMPLY THERE, UTTERLY SILENT. THERE IS NO GHOSTS THERE, EVEN YOU ARE NOT THERE. ALL IS SILENT, UTTERLY SILENT, ABSOLUTELY SILENT. THAT SILENCE IS JOY, THAT SILENCE IS FEARLESSNESS.

HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL

                                                            

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                            THE BUDDHA POINT TO 

                                  ACHIEVING THE GOAL

        

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                                IF AT THE ENDO OF OUR JOURNEY

                                    THERE BE NO FINAL RESTING PLACE,

                            HOW CAN THERE BE 

                                      A WAY TO LOSE OURSELVES IN? 

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                          YOU WILL HAVE TO MEDITATE OVER IT. SLOWLY, THE MEANING WILL DAWIN INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS.

                        FIRST, THERE IS NO GOAL, SO NOBODY CAN GO ASTRAY.. LE IT PENETRATE YOUR HEART, LET IT PIERCE YOU LIKE AN ARROW. THERE IS NO GAOL IN LIFE! SO THERE IS NO WAY TO MISS IT. ALL OTHER RELIGIONS DEPEND ON THAT, ALL OTHER RELIGIONS GO ON TELLING PEOPLE "YOU ARE MISSING". THAT IS THE MEANING OF THE WORD "SIN" TO MISS, TO MISS THE TARGET. THE ORIGINAL HEBREW ROOT MEANS TO MISS THE TARGET, NOT BEING ABLE TO REACH THE GOAL THAT IS SIN.

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                    ACCORDING TO GAUTAM BUDDHA THERE CAN BE NO SIN. YOU CAN'T MISS IT! BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING TO MISS. THE GOAL EXISTS NOT, THE GOAL IS IMAGINARY, IT IS YOUR CREATION . YOU CREATE THE GOAL, THEN YOU CREATE VIRTUE AND SIN. THOSE WHO ARE MOVING TOWARDS THE GOAL ARE SINNERS. YOU CREATE THE GOAL AND THEN YOU DIVIDE HUMANITY INTO SAINTS AND SINNERS. DROP THE GOAL AND SAINTS DISSAPEAR AND DIVISIONS DISSAPPEAR, DISAPEARS, AND THEN THERE IS NO HEAVEN AND NO HELL.

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                      SEE THE POINT OF IT! JUST THE IDEA OF THE GOAL CREATES HEAVEN AND HELL. THOSE WHO ARE MOVING TOWARDS THE GOAL, THE OBEDIENT PEOPLE, THE GOOD PEOPLE, THEY WILL BE REWARDED BY HEAVEN. AND THOSE WHO ARE GOING TOWARDS THE GOAL, THE SINNERS, THE BAD PEOPLE, THEY WILL BE PUNISHED BY HELL. FIRST YOU CREATE THE GOAL AND THEN EVERYTHING FOLLOWS... THEN HEAVEN AND HELL ARE CREATED, FEAR OF LOSING THE GOAL-AND THEN EGO IS CREATED, THE EGO THE GOAL. YOU HAVE CREATED THE WHOLE MESS, THE WHOLE NEUROSIS OF MIND.

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                       BUDDHA STRIKES THE VERY ROOT, HE SAYS THERE IS NO GOAL. JUST THIS SIMOLE STATEMENT CAN BECOME A LIBERATING FORCE, THERE IS NO GOAL, THEN ONE IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE. ONE IS ALWAYS HERE, ONE IS NEVER GOING ANYWHERE. THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO, AND THERE IS NOBODY TO GO. ALL HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE, AND ALL  HAS ALWAYS BEEN AVAILABLE.

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                           THE GOAL MEANS THE FUTURE, THEN YOU START BECOMING MORE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE, YOU START FORGETTING ABOUT THE PRESENT. THE GOAL CREATES TENSION, ANGUISH, FEAR-WHETHER I AM GOING TO MAKE IT OR NOT? AND COMPETITION AND JEALOUSY AND CONFLICT, AND THE HIERARCHY. THOSE WHO ARE COMING CLOSERTO THE GOAL ARE HIGHER, THOSE WHO ARE NOT COMING CLOSER TO THE GOAL ARE LOWER.

                        THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. DEPENDS ON A SINGLE PHENOMENON DISOBEDIENCE. BUDDHA SAYS THERE IS NOBODY TO COMMAND AND THERE IS NO WAY TO OBEY.

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                     LIFE HAS NO GOAL AS SUCH. LIFE ITSELF IS ITS OWN GOAL, THE GOAL IS INTRINSIC. THE VALUE OF LIFE IS IN ITSELF, IT DOES NOT COME FROM ANYTHING ELSE. LIFE IS NOT A MEANS TO SOME AND SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE. LIFE IS ITS OWN END, ITS OWN MEANS. LIFE IS ALL...

                       ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS YOU CANNOT SAY LIFE IS MEANINGLESS.

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                      BUDDHA'S UNDERSTANDING IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. HE SAYS, LIFE IS ITS OWN MEANING. YOU NEED NOT CREATE ANY OTHER MEANING AND ALL CREATED MEANINGS WILL BECOME JUST SOURCES OF ANXIETY. THE ROSE BLOOMING IN THE GARDEN IS NOT BLOOMING FOR SOMETHING ELSE! AND THE RIVER FLOWING TO THE OCEN IS NOT FLOWING FOR SOMETHING ELSE THE FLOW IS THE JOY. THE FLOWERING IS THE CELEBRATION.

                  YOU IN LOVE - MEDITATE OVER THE PHENOMENON. IS THE LOVER LEADING YOU SOMEWHERE? LOVE IS ITS WON DELIGHT. IT NEED NOT HAVE ANY OTHER GOAL. IT IS ENOUGH INTO ITSELF.

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                     WHEN YOU DROP THE IDEA OF MEANING AND GOAL, A STRANGE PHENOMENON HAPPENS THE IDEA OF MEANINGLESSNESS ALSO DISAPPEARS.  WITH THE IDEA OF MEANING, SIDE BY SIDE, PARALLEL, RUNS ANOTHER IDEA. THE IDEA OF MEANING TO BE ATTAINED, HENCE THERE IS NO QUESTION OF FEELING MEANINGLESSNESS. LIFE IN ITSELF IS ITS VALUE. 

WHAT IS THE TRUTH OF OUR MIND?

  

                       WHAT IS THE EXISTENCE OF 

                                         OUR LIFE?

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                             IF AT THE END OF OUR JOURNEY

                                 THERE BE NO FIND RESTING PLACE,

                            HOW CAN THERE BE 

                                     A WAY TO LOSE OURSELVES IN?

                       THERE CANNOT BE. NOBODY HAS EVER GONE ASTRAY! ADAM HAS NEVER LEFT THE GARDEN OF EDEN. HE IS STILL LIVING IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN BUT HE HAS BECOME GOAL ORIENTED SO HE CANNOT SEE IT. HE HAS STARTED THINKING OF THE FUTURE. BECAUSE OF THAT THOUGHT OF THE FUTURE, HIS MIND IS CLOUDED AND HE CANNOT SEE THAT WHICH IS AROUND.

                    WHEN YOU ARE TOO MUCH FUTURE-ORIENTED, YOU START BECOMING FORGETFUL ABOUT THE PRESENT - WHICH IS THE ONLY REALITY. 

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                    THESE BIRDS CHATTERING .... THAT FARAWAY CUCKOO.. THIS MOMENT!.. THIS HERENOW... IS FORGOTTEN WHEN YOU START THINKING IN TERMS OF ACHIEVING SOMETHING... WHEN THE ACHIEVING MIND ARISES, YOU LOSE CONTACT WITH THE PARADISE YOU ARE IN.

                THIS ONE OF THE MOST LIBERATING APPROACHES IT LIBERATES YOU RIGHT NOW! FORGET ALL ABOUT SIN AND FORGET ALL ABOUT SAINTLESS. BOTH ARE STUPID. BOTH TOGETHER HAVE DESTROYED ALL THE JOYS OF HUMANITY. THE SINNER IS FEELING GUILTY, HENCE HIS JOY IS LOST. HOW CAN YOU ENJOY LIFE IF YOU ARE CONTINOUSLY FEELING GUILTY? IF YOU ARE CONTINUOUSLY GOING TO THE CHURCH TO CONFESS THAT YOU HAVE DONE THIS WRONG AND THAT WRONG? AND WRONG AND WRONG AND WRONG.. YOUR WHOLE LIFE SEEMS TO BE MADE OF SINS. HOW CAN YOU LIVE JOYOUSLY?

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                    IF BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE TO DELIGHT IN LIFE. YOU BECOME HEAVY, LOADED. GUILT SITS ON YOUR CHEST LIKE A ROCK, IT CRUSHES YOU, IT DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO DANCE. HOW CAN YOU DANCE? HOW CAN GUILT DANCE? HOW CAN GUILT SING? HOW CAN GUILT LOVE? HOW CAN GUILT LIVE? SO THE ONE WHO THINKS HE IS DOING SOMETHING WRONG IS GUILT, BURDENED, DEAD BEFORE DEATH, HAS ALREADY ENTERED INTO THE GRAVE.

                   A MAN OF ABSOLUTE INTELLIGENCE BECOMES A FLOWER. HE LIVES HERENOW. HE HAS NO PAST AND HE HAS NO FUTURE. AND BECAUSE HE HAS NO PAST AND HE HAS NO FUTURE, YOU CANNOT SAY THAT HE LIVES IN THE PRESENT EITHER, BECAUSE PRESENT IS JUST A MIDWAY STATION BETWEEN THE MOVEMENT THAT HAPPENS FROM PAST TO FUTURE. THE PRESENT IS JUST A STATION ON THE WAY. WHEN PAST AND FUTURE DISAPPEAR, PRESENT ALSO DISAPPEAR. WHAT IS LEFTIS A TIMELESSNESS. NOW IS A TIMELESS MOMENT. IT IS ETERNITY AND BUDDHA CALLS IT MEDITATION.

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                      IF GUILT DISAPPEARS, RELIGION DISAPPEARS. AND GUILT DISAPPEARS IF GOAL DISAPPEARS. GUILT IS A SHADOW OF THE GOAL.

                         NOW, CHRISTIANITY WON'T LIKE IT, ISLAM WON'T LIKE IT. HINDUS WON'T LIKE IT THEY ALL LIVE ON THE GOAL. THEY WILL NOT LIKE THIS FLIGHT TO THE BEYOND, THEY WILL NOT LIKE THIS POETIC, AESTHETIC RELIGION. THEY HAVE BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO A VERY ORDINARY RELIGION, BUSINESSLIKE, IT IS PART OF THEIR MARKETPLACE.

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                                PRACTISING MEANS YOU ARE AGAIN THINKING TO DO SOMETHING TOMORROW, OR AT LEAST YOU CAN DO IT TOMORROW AND YOU CAN REAP THE RESULTS TOMORROW. BUT THE TOMORROW HAS ENTERED SOMEWHERE DEEP IN YOUR UNCONSCIOUS, IT HAS COME BACK. NO PRACTICE CAN GIVE YOU THIS UNDERSTANDING. THIS UNDERSTANDING IS NOT A QUESTION OF UNDERSTANDING.

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                                  IF AT THE END OF OUR JOURNEY

                                      THERE BE NO FINAL RESTING PLACE,

                                 HOW CAN BE THERE BE

                                       A WAY TO LOSE OURSELVES IN?

  

                                  SHAKUMUNI,'

                                       THAT MISCHIEVOUS CREATURE,

                                  HAVING APPEARED IN THE WORLD,

                                       MISLED, ALAS,

                                  HOW MANY PEOPLE!

                                      THE MIND

                                          WHAT SHALL WE CALL IT?

                                     IT IS THE SOUND OF THE BREEZE

                                         THAT BLOWS THROUGH THE PINES

                                      IN THE INDIAN-INK PICTURE.

                                   THE MIND REMAINING

                                          JUST AS IT WAS BORN

                                    WITHOUT ANY PRAYER

                                           IT BECOMES THE BUDDHA.

  

 

                                      TELL A LIE,

                                          AND YOU FALL INTO HELL.

                                 THEN WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BUDDHA

                                           WHO CONTRIVED

                                   THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST?

WHAT IS MEDITATION? (BUDDHISM)

 

                                  THE BUDDHA SPEECH 

                                       ABOUT NIRVANA

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                          NO CORRECTION IS NEEDED, JUST AWARENESS IS NEEDED. BECOME MORE ALERT. NO CHARACTER IS NEEDED, BECAUSE ALL CHARACTER IS FALSE IF YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS, AND ALL CHARACTERIS A BONDAGE IF YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS. AND ALL CHARACTER IS NOTHING BUT CHAINS IT DOESN'T BRING FREEDOM. ALL MORALITY IS HYPOCRISY IF YOU ARE NOT AWARE, IF YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS.

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                    SO, TO ME, RELIGION MEANS ONLY ONE THING, TO BE MORE CONSCIOUS, TO LIVE MORE CONSCIOUSLY.

                        DOES ANYMORE OR ANYTHING NEED CORRECTION? IT                                          PUZZLES  ME.

                       IT HAS PUZZLED EVERYBODY DOWN THE AGES. FORGET ABOUT CORRECTION. PUT YOUR TOTAL ENERGY INTO AWAKENING. THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO BE UNCONSCIOUS OR CONSCIOUS. CHOOSE ....

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                        "ENLIGHTENMENT IS MY TRUE NATURE, THERE IS NO 

                         NEED TO DO ANYTHING".

                       "ONLY WHEN EFFORT IS COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED AND ONE

                          FEELS UTTERLY USELESS DOES GRACE COME".

 

                       " WHAT IS ALL THIS? I AM CONFUSED. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

                         SHOULD I CONTINUE WITH MEDITATION OR SHOULD I JUST

                         SIT AND LET THINGS HAPPEN?

                       

                         PLEASE GUIDE ME.

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                        SHIV-PRIYANAND, IF YOU ARE CONFUSED THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE MEDITATIONS. CONFUSION IS THE ILLNESS, MEDITATION IS MEDICINAL.BOTH THE WORDS MEDITATION AND MEDICINE COME FROM THE SAME ROOT. IF YOU ARE CONFUSED, YOU WILL HAVE TO GO ON MEDIATATING. WHEN YOU SEE THE POINT WITHOUT ANY CONFUSION, THEN THERE IS NO NEED. BUT MEDITATION WILL PREPARE YOU, MEDITATION WILL FORCE YOU TO SEE THE POINT THAT THERE IS NO NEED TO DO ANYTHING. ONLY MEDITATION CAN DO THAT.

                    JUST LISTENING TO ME... I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT TO BE NATURAL IS TO BE ENLIGHTENED. NOW YOU THINK, SO, THAT IS GREAT! I CAN SIT SILENTLY AND DO NOTHING:. BUT CAN YOU REALLY SIT SILENTLY AND DO NOTHING? IF YOU CAN REALLY SIT SILENTLY AND DO NOTHING, THEN THIS QUESTION WOULD NOT HAVE ARISEN. YOU WOULD HAVE SAT AND KNOWN AND YOU WOULD HAVE BOWED BEFORE ME AND THANKED ME. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO QUESTION. YOU WOULD HAVE COME DANCING TO ME, NOT WITH QUESTION AND A CONFUSED MIND.

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                            THAT'S  WHAT BUDDHA WAS DOING UNDER THE BODHI TREE SITTING SILENTLY DOING NOTHING.. AND THEN IT HAPPENED. THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED TO ME! THAT'S HOW IT ALWAYS HAPPENS!

                         BUT NOT TO DO IS NOT SO EASY. BECAUSE YOU HAVE BECOME SO ACCUSTOMED TO DOING SOMETHING OR OTHER, EVEN SITTING WILL BE A DOING TO YOU. YOU WILL HAVE TO FORCE YOURSELF IN A YOGA POSTURE AND YOU WILL SIT STRAINED, STILL, IN CONTROL, HOLDING, TRYING TO SIT SILENTLY AND NOT DO ANYTHING AND BOILING WITHIN, TO DO A THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS, AND THOUSANDS OF THOUGHTS WILL CLAMOUR AROUND, WILL DISTRACT YOU.

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                       CAN YOU JUST SIT AND DO ANYTHING? THAT IS THE ULTIMATE. THAT'S WHAT NIRVANA IS, SAMADHI IS.

                      QUESTION: YESTERDAY YOU SAID THAT THERE IS NO GOAL, NO PATH, NO ONE TO LEAD AND NO ONE TO FOLLOW. IS THIS STATEMENT A LIE AGAIN? WERE YOU KIDDING US YESTERDAY?

                 THAT'S WHAT I AM DOING EVERY DAY. THAT'S THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING TO DO. ALL STATEMENTS ARE LIES. TRUTH REMAINS UNSTATED. TRUTH CANNOT BE REDUCED  TO A STATEMENT, IT CANNOT BE REDUCED TO A FORMULA. IT IS VAST! HOW CAN YOU REDUCE IT TO A STATEMENT? THE MOMENT YOU STATE ANYTHING ABOUT TRUTH, THE VERY EXPRESSION BECOMES A BARRIER. WORDS CLING AROUND TRUTH LIKE CHAINS.

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                    TRUTH CAN BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN SILENCE. SO THOSE WHO REALLY LISTEN ME, THEY DONT' LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY, THEY LISTEN TO WHAT I AM. THEY LISTEN TO THE GAPS, THEY LISTEN TO THE INTERVALS, WORDS ARE NOT IMPORTANT, BUT THERE ARE SMALL GAPS BETWEEN WORDS AND THE MEETING BETWEEN YOU AND ME HAPPENS IN THOSE GAPS.

                     THOSE GAPS ARE OF MEDITATION. SLOWLY SLOWLY, WORDS MOVE ON THE PERIPHERY AND MY MEETING, MY COMMUNION WITH YOU BECOMES THE CENTER PHENOMENON. WORDS ARE THERE, JUST DISTANT, ON THE PERIPHERY. SILENCE STARTS HAPPENING.

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                       IF YOU FALL SILENT LISTENING TO ME, THEN YOU HAVE LISTENED TO ME. IF LISTENING TO ME YOUR MIND STOPS AD THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN THERE ARE NO THOUGHTS, ALL IS STILL AND QUIET, THEN YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO ME.

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THE TIPS TO FACE THE FEAR

 

                           HOW TO FACE THE FEAR

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                           THE BUDHIST APPROACH

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                            THE BUDDHIST APPROACH HAS BEE TO LOOK INTO REALITY WITHOUT ANY IDEA SO THAT REALITY CAN REVEAL ITSELF. ALLOW REALITY TO REVEAL ITSELF, DON'T ENFORCE ANYTHING UPON IT. ALL OTHER RELIGIONS HAVE BEEN ENFORCING SOMETHING OR OTHER HENCE THEY GO ON MISSION. THEIR WORK BECOMES METAPHYSICAL, INFACT, THEIR WORK BECOMES A KIND OF AUTOHYPNOSIS. BUDDHISM DE-HYPNOTIZES MAN. BUDDHA'S WORK IS DEHYPNOSIS. BUDDHISM DE-HYPNOTIZES MAN. BUDDHA'S WORK IS DEHYPNOSIS, HOW TO DROP ALL KINDS OF HYPNOSIS, ALL KINDS OF SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BY THE SOCIETY, BY THE PEOPLE. AND WHEN YOU ARE UTTERLY SILENT, WITH NO CONDITIONING, TRUTH BECOMES KNOWN. THAT TRUTH LIBERATES.

                      IF IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN,

                                   IF IT RAIN NOT, LET IT NOT RAIN,

                       BUT EVEN SHOULD IT NOT RAIN,

                                     YOU MUST TRAVEL

                         WITH WET SLEEVES.

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                        ONE  VERY PRECIOUS WORD IN BUDDHA'S APPROACH TOWARDS LIFE IS SAMATA. SAMATA MEANS EQUANIMITY, EQUILIBRIUM, BALANCE, CHOICELESSNESS. DON'T MOVE TO THE EXTREMES, AVOID EXTREMES, PAIN AND PLEASURE ARE TWO EXTREMES DON'T CHOOSE. DON'T AVOID EITHER AND DON'T CLING TO EITHER. JUST REMAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, WATCHING, LOOKING AT IT, UNATTACHED.

                       PAIN COMES, LET IT COME YOU JUST BE A WATCHFUL CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU JUST BE A AWARENESS. THERE IS A HEADACHE, YOU JUST WATCH IT. DON'T SAY NO TO IT, DON'T START FIGHTING WITH IT, DON'T DENY IT, DON'T AVOID IT. DONT TRY TO ENGAGE YOURSELF SOMEWHERE ELSE SO YOU ARE DISTRACTED FROM IT. LET IT BE THERE, YOU SIMPLY WATCH. AND IN WATCHING IT, A GREAT REVOLUTION HAPPENS.

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                     IF YOU CAN WATCH IT WITHOUT LIKE AND DISLIKE, SUDDENLY IT IS THERE BUT YOU ARE OUT OF IT, YOU ARE NO MORE IN IT. YOU ARE STANDING THERE UNBRIDGED TO IT. CHOICELESSNESS UNBRIDGES YOU FROM ALL KINDS OF MOODS, FROM ALL KINDS OF MINDS. THAT IS SAMATA. 

                     PLEASURE COMES, LET IT COME. DON'T CLING TO IT. DON'T SAY, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU FOR EVER AND EVER". IF YOU CLING TO PLEASURE, THEN  YOU WILL AVOID PAIN. AND DON'T GO TO THE OTHER EXTREME. DON'T START DENYING PLEASURE, DON'T START ESCAPING FROM PLEASURE, BECAUSE THAT IS THE SAME. IF YOU START ESCAPING FROM PLEASURE, YOU WILL START CLINGING TO PAIN. THAT'S WHAT ASCETICS DO.

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                   THE INDULGENT PERSON CLINGS TO PLEASURE, AVOIDS PAIN. AND THE ASCETIC PERSON AVOIDS PLEASURE AND CLINGS TO PAIN. BOTH APPROACHES ARE WRONG, IN BOTH YOU LOSE BALANCE. BUDDHISM IS NEITHER INDULGENCE NOR ASCETICISM. IT DOES NOT TEACH ANYTHING IT SIMPLY SAYS WATCH!

                          AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS GOES ON REPEATING AGAIN AND AGAIN WATCH! KEEP ALERT, KEEP AWAKE.

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                           YOU TRY IT! THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY NOTHING TO DO WITH GOD. AND YOU WILL BE SURPRISED AND IMMENSELY BEBEFITTED. THE DAY YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU ARE NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE IS A GREAT DAY, IS THE GREATEST DAY BECAUSE FROM THEN ONWARDS THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT.

                            IT IT RAIN, LET IT RAIN....

                                    OF THERE IS PAIN, LET IT BE SO.

                           IF IT RAIN NOT, LET IT RAIN NOT.....

                             IF THERE IS NO PAIN, LET IT BE SO. IF THERE IS PLEASURE, LET IT BE SO. BUT YOU DON'T GET IDENTIFIED WITH ANYTHING.

                           BUT EVEN SHOULD IT NOT RAIN,

                               YOU MUST TRAVEL

                            WITH WET SLEEVES.

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                           BUT REMEMBER ONE THING, EVEN IF YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN OF CONVENIENCE, COMFORT, PLEASURE, AND THERE HAVE BEEN GREAT PAINS, GREAT MISERIES, THEN TOO YOU MUST TRAVEL WITH WET SLEEVES. WHY? BECAUSE STILL YOU WILL BECOME OLD, STILL YOU WILL HAVE TO DIE TO DAY,. DO ON CAN LIVE A VERY PLEASANT LIFE, BUT OLD AGE IS COMING, AND DEATH IS COMING. DEATH CANNOT BE AVOIDED, THERE IS NO WAY TO ESCAPE FROM IT, IT IS EVITABLE. SO WHETHER YOU LIVED A PAINFUL LIFE OR YOU LIVED A PLEASANT LIFE WILL NOT MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE WHEN DEATH COMES. AND DEATH IS COMING.

THE BUDDHA'S SAYS IS !

                         

                           WHAT IS THE MEANING OF

                                    MIND FULLNESS

   

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                              THE MIND REMAINING

                                   JUST AS IT WAS BORN

                          WITHOUT ANY PRAYER

                                    IT BECOMES THE BUDDHA

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                               THEN THERE IS NO NEED TO PRAY, NO NEED TO DO ANYTHING , NO NETHODOLOGY, NO TECHNIQUE IS NEEDED. JUST GO DOWN AND SEE THE ORGINAL MIND, THE CONTENTLESS MIND, THE MIRROR WITHOUT DUST, THE MIND WITHOUT THOUGHTS, WITHOUT CLOUDS AND YOU HAVE ARRIVED, AND YOU ARE A BUDDHA.

                     THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND A BUDDHA IS ONLY THIS, YOU HAVE MORE THAN BUDDHA. BUDDHA HAS LESS THAN YOU, BECAUSE BUDDHA IS JUST A PURE MIND YOU ARE A THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS ADDED TO THAT PURITY. SO REMEMBER, BUDDHA IS POORER THAN YOU, I AM POORER THAN YOU. YOU ARE FAR RICHER THAN ME. I AM LACKING MANY THINGS, MISSING MANY THINGS, MISERY, MEANINGLESSNESS, FRUSTRATION, ANGER, PASSION, GREED,.... AND A THOUSAND AND ONE THINGS YOU CAN COUNT. YOU ARE REALLY RICH.

                      WHEN BUDDHA ATTAINED ENLIGHTENMENT, SOMEBODY ASKED HIM, WHAT HAVE A GAINED?

                    HE LAUGHED. HE SAID, "I HAVE NOT GAINED, I HAVE LOST MUCH. I AM FAR POORER THAN I USED TO BE. I HAVE LOST ALL IGNORANCE, ALL ILLUSIONS, ALL DREAMS. NOW I AM JUST MY ORGINALITY.

  

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                               TELL A LIE,

                                    AND YOU FALL INTO HELL.

                            THEN WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BUDDHA

                                     WHO CONTRIVED

                             THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST?

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                            A VERY REVOLUTIONARY STATEMENT, THE MIND REMAINING JUST AS IT WAS BORN.IF THE MIND REMAINS JUST A MIRROR AND REFLECTS NOTHING, IT NOT CONDITIONED BY ANYTHING, HAS NO CONTENT... THE CONTENTLESS MIND IS THE ONLY REALITY WE CAN BE CERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTIAN OF.

                      THAT'S WHY ZEN PEOPLE SAY, LOOK INTO THE ORIGINAL MIND, "ORIGINAL MIND" MEANS WHEN THERE WAS NO IMPACT OF ANYTHING ON THE MIND, BEFORE CONDITIONING STARTED, BEFORE YOU WERE TOLD WHO YOU ARE, BEFORE YOU WERE TAUGHT, BEFORE YOU LEARNT, BEFORE YOUR MIND STARTED COLLECTING CONTENTS, JUST GO DEEP DOWN INTO THAT FIRST MOMENT WHERE THERE WAS NO CONTENT BUT ONLY THE CONTAINER, JUST THE MIRROR REFLECTING NOTHING, THAT IS REAL. THE WITNESS IS REAL.

                           AND MILLIONS AND MILLION OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING BUDDHA. THEY HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD. IF THEY HAD UNDERSTOOD THEY WOULD HAVE BECOME BUDDHAS, NOT FOLLOWERS.

                           AND, BEING WITH ME, YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT. BECOME ENLIGHTENED DON'T TRY TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED. TRYING IS MISSING THE WHOLE POINT. I AM NOT HERE TO GUIDE YOU. I AM HERE TO TAKE ALL GUIDANCE AWAY. I AM NOT HERE TO LEAD YOU INTO SOME OTHER WORLD I AM HERE TO MAKE YOU AWARE THAT THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO AND THERE IS NOBODY TO LEAD AND NOBODY TO BE LED.

                     SEEING THE POINT, A LAUGHTER ARISES, AND THAT LAUGHTER IS ENLIGHTENMENT. SEEING THE POINT, ONE RELAXES THAT RELAXATION IS ENLIGHTENMENT.