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Manipura
USA
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 Posted - Jul 17 2007 : 1:32:03 PM
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But remember, one day, even those feet that have helped you tremendously on the path, they have to go. Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.
-Osho from his book 'Creativity' |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Jul 17 2007 : 5:28:20 PM
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"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."
~Osho
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Balance
USA
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Posted - Jul 21 2007 : 3:16:46 PM
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When you stop improving yourself, life improves you.
In that relaxation, in that acceptance, life starts caressing you,
life starts flowing through you.
*Osho
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tadeas
Czech Republic
314 Posts |
Posted - May 06 2008 : 08:41:07 AM
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ABANDON ALL HOPES OF RESULTS.
And then there is no need to go anywhere, God will come to you. Deep down say, "I give up." And silence descends, benediction showers.
Meditate over these sutras, they are meant only for meditators. Atisha is not a philosopher, he is a siddha, a buddha. What he is saying is not some speculation. These are clear-cut instructions given only to those who are ready to travel, to go on the pilgrimage into the unknown.
- http://oshofriendsinternational.com...chapter_id=9 |
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brushjw
USA
191 Posts |
Posted - May 07 2008 : 8:10:05 PM
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"...through love prayer is possible because prayer is again a love relationship - not between two individuals, but between one individual and existence itself."
Book of Secrets p. 623
"The heart must be higher than reason because reason is just in instrument and the heart is you. The heart must be allowed to use reason - not vice versa."
p. 624 |
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brushjw
USA
191 Posts |
Posted - May 07 2008 : 10:17:00 PM
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tadeas, thanks for the quote and the link. Much appreciated!
"The man who wants to become a buddha has to drop the nonessential more and more, so that more energy is available for the essential. Take a look at your life, how many nonessential things you are doing -- and for what? And how long you have done them -- and what have you gained? Are you going to repeat the same stupid pattern your whole life? Enough is enough! Take a look, meditate over it. Say only that which is essential, do only that which is essential, read only that which is essential. And so much time is saved and so much energy is saved, and all that energy and time can easily be channeled towards meditation, towards inner growth, towards witnessing."
Book of Wisdom, Chapter 9 (same link as tadeas': http://oshofriendsinternational.com...chapter_id=9) |
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brushjw
USA
191 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2008 : 10:46:55 PM
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Imbibe the spirit, imbibe the silence of the master, learn his grace. Drink as much out of his being as possible, but don't imitate him. Imbibing his spirit, drinking his love, receiving his compassion, you will be able to listen to your own heart's whisperings. And they are whisperings. The heart speaks in a very still, small voice; it does not shout.
Book of Wisdom Chapter 11 |
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brushjw
USA
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Posted - May 17 2008 : 11:11:40 PM
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Buddha, the original master in Atisha's line, said that unless compassion happens, don't remain contented with meditation itself. You have gone only halfway, you have yet to go a little further. Meditation, if it is true, is bound to overflow into compassion. Just as when a lamp is lit it immediately starts radiating light, it immediately starts dispersing darkness, once the inner light is lit, compassion is its radiation.
Compassion is the proof that meditation has happened. Love is the fragrance that proves that the one-thousand-petaled lotus in the innermost core of your being has bloomed, that the spring has come -- that you are no more the same person you used to be, that that personality has ceased and individuality is born, that you are not living any more in darkness, that you are light.
Book of Wisdom Chapter 5 |
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brushjw
USA
191 Posts |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 9:49:33 PM
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It is said of Beethoven that when he was on the stage he was a different man, altogether different. Goethe has said that when Beethoven was on stage directing his group, his orchestra, he looked like a god. It could not be said that he was an ordinary man. He was not a man at all; he was superhuman. The way he looked, the way he raised his hands, was all superhuman. But when he came back from the stage he was just an ordinary man. The man on the stage seemed to be posessed by something else, as if Beethoven was no more there and some other force had entered into him. Back down from the stage he was once again Beethoven, the man.
Because of this, poets, musicians, great artists, creative people are more tense - because they have two types of being. Ordinary man is not so tense because he always lives in one: he lives on the earth. But poets, musicians, great artists jump; they go beyond gravity. In certain moments they are not on this earth, they are not part of humanity. They become part of the buddha world - the land of the buddhas. Then again they are back here. They have two points of existence; their personalities are split.
So every creative artist, every great artist is in a certain way insane. The tension is so much! The rift, the gap between these two types of existences is so great - unbridgeably great. Sometimes he is just an ordinary man, sometimes he becomes buddhalike. Between these two points he is divided, but he has glimpses.
Book of Secrets, p. 135 |
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