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manigma
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 Posted - Feb 11 2010 : 08:37:58 AM
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One windy morning, just as the spring was ending, a snail started travelling upwards on a cherry tree. Some sparrows which were just on a neighboring oak started laughing, because it was not the season and there were no cherries on the tree, and this poor snail was making so much effort to reach the top. They laughed at his expense.
Then one sparrow flew down, came near to the snail and said, `Darling, where are you going? There are no cherries yet on the tree.'
But the snail never even paused; she continued her upward journey. Without pausing, the snail said, `But they will be there when I reach. It will take a long time for me to reach to the top, and by that time cherries will be there.'
God is not, but he will be there by the time you reach. It is not something which is already there -- it is never there. It is a growth. It is your own growth. When you reach to a point where you are totally conscious, God is. But don't argue. Rather than wasting your energy in arguing, use your energy in transforming yourself.
And energy is not much. If you divert your energy into argument you can become a genius in arguing. But then you are wasting, it is at a great cost, because the same energy can become meditation. You can become a logician: you can make very logical arguments, you can find very convincing proofs or disproofs, but you will remain the same. Your arguments are not going to change you.
Remember one thing: whatsoever changes you is good. Whatsoever gives you growth, expansion, increase in consciousness, is good. Whatsoever makes you static and whatsoever protects your status quo is not good; it is fatal, suicidal.
http://www.otantra.net/oTantra/VBTv...apter18.html
sitting silently,
spring comes
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manigma
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Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 01:58:22 AM
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I think, therefore I am.
If I don't think, I am not.
Then its just like being a wave of an ocean.
But thinking is required to live in the world.
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Baseless arguing - a waste of energy
