From Osho
"Let your gestures be alive, spontaneous. Let your own awareness decide your lifestyle, life pattern. Don't allow anybody else to decide it. That is a sin, to allow anybody else to decide it.
Why is it a sin? -- because you will never be in it. It will remain superficial, it will be hypocrisy. Don't ask anybody how to pray. Let the moment decide, let the moment be decisive, and the truth of the moment should be your prayer. And once you allow the truth of the moment to possess you, you will start growing and you will know tremendous beauties of prayer. You have entered on the path."
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Love Profusion
This is a feel good song, I love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMzSQnbBWPI&feature=related
Abraham and Madonna's Love Profusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMzSQnbBWPI&feature=related
Abraham and Madonna's Love Profusion
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Waiting
"What advantage could there possibly be in making decisions when you are not certain? What advantage could there be in basing your decision on anything other than having clarity? It doesn't make sense to be impulsive just because it is so habitual for the majority of the population to do that. After all, the thing that is driving this impulsive decision-making is the terror of uncertainty. Do you really want that to be the basis of your decisions and actions? Of course not!
Waiting is truly a spiritual practice because so often the reason you are not waiting is that if you did wait, you would have to face some pretty uncomfortable feelings that would come up during the waiting. Some of us are addicted to our impulsivity even though it perpetually causes us suffering."
"Pure Awareness: 5 Simple Techniques for Experiencing Your Essential Nature"
by Tom Stone
Monday, April 26, 2010
Our Symbolic Life
"We experience greater awareness through encounters with that which we are not."
"Living Your Unlived Life - Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life"
By Robert A. Johnson & Jerry M. Ruhl
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Questioning...
"One who goes into questions strays off into the jungle of philosophy. Let questions come and go. Look at the crowd of questions like you look at people moving on the street -- nothing to give, nothing to take -- with detachment, standing far away...
The more distance there is between you and your questions, the better. Because it is in this gap the answer will arise."
From Osho
This is something I really need to learn and that comes at the perfect time for me today.
:-)
Sunday, April 18, 2010
The Joy of Being Alone
From Osho
"The joy of love is possible only if you have known the joy of being alone, because only then do you have something to share. Otherwise, two beggars meeting each other, clinging to each other, cannot be blissful. They will create misery for each other because each will be hoping, and hoping in vain, that "The other is going to fulfill me." The other is hoping the same. They cannot fulfill each other. They are both blind; they cannot help each other.
That's what happens: you are lonely, the other is lonely -- now you meet. First the honeymoon: that ecstasy that you have met the other, now you will not be lonely anymore. But within three days, or if you are intelligent enough, then within three hours... it depends on how intelligent you are. If you are stupid, then it will take a longer time because one does not learn; otherwise the intelligent person can immediately see after three minutes: "What are we trying to do? It is not going to happen. The other is as lonely as I am. Now we will be living together -- two lonelinesses together. Two wounds together cannot help each other to be healed."
We are part of each other -- no man is an island. We belong to an invisible but infinite continent. Boundless is our existence. But those experiences happen only to people who are self-actualizing, who are in such tremendous love with themselves that they can close their eyes and be alone and be utterly blissful. That's what meditation is all about. "
Osho
Transformation Tarot
http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Sub1Menu=Tarot&Sub2Menu=OshoZenTarot&Language=English
"The joy of love is possible only if you have known the joy of being alone, because only then do you have something to share. Otherwise, two beggars meeting each other, clinging to each other, cannot be blissful. They will create misery for each other because each will be hoping, and hoping in vain, that "The other is going to fulfill me." The other is hoping the same. They cannot fulfill each other. They are both blind; they cannot help each other.
That's what happens: you are lonely, the other is lonely -- now you meet. First the honeymoon: that ecstasy that you have met the other, now you will not be lonely anymore. But within three days, or if you are intelligent enough, then within three hours... it depends on how intelligent you are. If you are stupid, then it will take a longer time because one does not learn; otherwise the intelligent person can immediately see after three minutes: "What are we trying to do? It is not going to happen. The other is as lonely as I am. Now we will be living together -- two lonelinesses together. Two wounds together cannot help each other to be healed."
We are part of each other -- no man is an island. We belong to an invisible but infinite continent. Boundless is our existence. But those experiences happen only to people who are self-actualizing, who are in such tremendous love with themselves that they can close their eyes and be alone and be utterly blissful. That's what meditation is all about. "
Osho
Transformation Tarot
http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Sub1Menu=Tarot&Sub2Menu=OshoZenTarot&Language=English
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Observation Changes the Outcome
From Leela Swann-Herbert
Human Design
"Once we learn to see our conditioning, it can no longer run the life. That which we can name loses its power over us. Observation changes the outcome of the experiment. If we want to experience something different in our lives, we don’t have to do a thing. Change is not about doing something different, it is about Seeing, and then change happens on its own, in its unique way, different than we could have ever imagined.
When we allow the form [the body] to live the life according to its uniqueness, it has a natural strategy for moving through life, and its own GPS system for making absolutely accurate decisions regarding its direction and course of life. Life will bring experiences, and the form will recognize which experiences are correct for its unique path in life, its unique contribution to the totality. The passenger consciousness was invited into this vehicle, it is this unique series of experiences that this consciousness has chosen, the gift of observing this life. We are here to observe this life, from the inside out, including the mind’s patterns.
When we observe our mind and its old conditioned patterns, they begin to change. We don’t have to DO anything about them, except SEE them, to experience them in an active state of awareness. And then change happens on its own, breathing in and breathing out, letting thoughts arise and fall, enjoying the moment, and letting it go. Observation changes the outcome of the experiment. This is the radical approach to self-discovery. We are here to learn to not just wait, but learn to Wait and to See."
http://www.jovianarchive.com/Pages/ChroniclesAuthor.aspx?id=2&n=Leela_Swann_Herbert
Human Design
"Once we learn to see our conditioning, it can no longer run the life. That which we can name loses its power over us. Observation changes the outcome of the experiment. If we want to experience something different in our lives, we don’t have to do a thing. Change is not about doing something different, it is about Seeing, and then change happens on its own, in its unique way, different than we could have ever imagined.
When we allow the form [the body] to live the life according to its uniqueness, it has a natural strategy for moving through life, and its own GPS system for making absolutely accurate decisions regarding its direction and course of life. Life will bring experiences, and the form will recognize which experiences are correct for its unique path in life, its unique contribution to the totality. The passenger consciousness was invited into this vehicle, it is this unique series of experiences that this consciousness has chosen, the gift of observing this life. We are here to observe this life, from the inside out, including the mind’s patterns.
When we observe our mind and its old conditioned patterns, they begin to change. We don’t have to DO anything about them, except SEE them, to experience them in an active state of awareness. And then change happens on its own, breathing in and breathing out, letting thoughts arise and fall, enjoying the moment, and letting it go. Observation changes the outcome of the experiment. This is the radical approach to self-discovery. We are here to learn to not just wait, but learn to Wait and to See."
http://www.jovianarchive.com/Pages/ChroniclesAuthor.aspx?id=2&n=Leela_Swann_Herbert
Thursday, April 15, 2010
From "Loving What Is"
Byron Katie:
How do you react when you think the thought: "I want them to accept my way," and they don't?
Justin:
It's painful.
Katie:
Yes. Lonely?
Justin:
Oh, yeah.
Katie:
Can you see a reason to drop this theory that anyone in this world needs to accept you at any time?
How do you react when you think the thought: "I want them to accept my way," and they don't?
Justin:
It's painful.
Katie:
Yes. Lonely?
Justin:
Oh, yeah.
Katie:
Can you see a reason to drop this theory that anyone in this world needs to accept you at any time?
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Role of our Unconscious
From "Inner Work" by Robert Johnson:
"The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character; we cooperate with the process whereby we bring the total self together; we learn to tap that rich lode of energy and intelligence that waits within."
"The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character; we cooperate with the process whereby we bring the total self together; we learn to tap that rich lode of energy and intelligence that waits within."
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