Sangha of Buddhas - Krishnamurti Ramana Ramakrishna Rama Kabir Buddha Shankara

OSHO: What is the Need of Nations?

2011-08-09T10:41:00.001-07:00

OSHO: Meditations for Contemporary People

2011-06-12T03:21:00.000-07:00

Osho "All the techniques that I have developed are for contemporary people."

osho rajneesh on innocence, swami rajneesh video on innocence

2011-05-25T03:45:00.000-07:00

swami rajneesh is an enlightened disciple of osho
he is guiding seekers on the path of truth, meditation and love

to know more about swami rajneesh visit www.oshorajneesh.net

swami rajneesh message - how to be still and silent

2011-03-24T05:12:00.000-07:00

swami rajneesh is an enlightened disciple of osho.

the following excerpt is from latest ebook of swami rajneesh

the book can be downloaded or read freely at

http://www.oshorajneesh.com/go.htm

swami rajneesh - this silence

is the search

how to dive deeper and deeper

into the state

of utter stillness ?

deep silence

such a simple message

and so much talk about silence

how to reach it…how to drown into it

can you understand how ridiculous it is

have we gone so far away

that we have forgotten

how to listen to our inner being ?

have we lost this simple state of innocence

and gathered so much rubbish

that we need to learn

how to be still and silent ?

the message is very simple

but nobody wants to understand the simple message

the simple does not suit the ego

you are a powerful person

you can move the world

you can do so much

sitting silently…doing nothing

how the world will move ?

maybe it will stop spinning and collapse

source: swami rajneesh ebook "GO IN GO IN GONE"

Osho on vegetarian food, Osho Video on importance of vegetarian food

2010-11-27T03:35:00.000-08:00

Osho explains why vegetarian food is beautiful and Why Osho does not allow non-veg food in osho commune at pune

osho rajneesh - merging individual to collective to cosmic

2010-11-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

enlightened mystic swami rajneesh speaks in mexico - spanish translation - mystica maya tour - about merging the individual into collective into cosmic conciousness.

visit swami rajneesh website http://www.oshorajneesh.net

osho rajneesh - the circle - breath desire thought action

2010-11-26T07:27:00.000-08:00

enlightened mystic swami rajneesh meditation camp in mexico - spanish translation - mystica maya tour.

swami rajneesh speaks on the inner circle of breath - desire thought and action.

visit swami rajneesh website http://www.oshorajneesh.net

osho rajneesh - watchfulless in movement

2010-09-21T20:13:00.001-07:00

Swami Rajneesh mystica maya mexico tour - spanish translation.
Osho Enlightened Sannyasin - Swami Rajneesh speaks about watchfullness in movement

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on Project GreenHands

2010-09-21T20:10:00.001-07:00

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of the Isha Foundation, sat down with Causecast to explain his grassroots tree planting initiative, Project GreenHands, which claimed a Guinness World Record for most tree saplings planted in a single day.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on Environmental Degradation in Tamil Nadu, India

2010-09-21T20:09:00.001-07:00

Sadhguru discusses the drastic environmental degredation that has occured in the state of Tamil Nadu, India within a very short period of time.

Spiritual Quotes on Love, Enlightened Masters Quotes on Love

2010-08-27T05:32:00.000-07:00

Spiritual Quotes on Love

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God. - Meher Baba
This divine love, beckons us to a world beyond
only lovers can see with their eyes of fiery passion. - Rumi
Only ignorant people say that one should not have an excess of devotion and divine love. How foolish! Can there be any excess of divine love? - Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions, is absent. - J Krishnamurti
Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning. It is not a fruit of the spirit of bargain. If you want to be certain about the object of love before giving your love, it is only a form of calculating selfishness. - Meher Baba
Open the love window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window. - Rumi
"Dive deep. Learn to love God. Plunge into divine love. - Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior. - Osho

Avatar Meher Baba Quotes

2010-05-11T10:12:00.000-07:00

Avatar Meher Baba Quotes

People should go to saints because they are genuinely interested in true spirituality and for no other reason; it is only then that they derive greatest benefit out of their contact with the saints.
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
Life and love are inseparable from each other. Where there is life, there is love.
God's nature as the ocean of love cannot be grasped by the mind. God has to be known through love and not through the intellectual search after miracles. That is the reason why, for those who are closest and dearest to me, I do not perform miracles. I would rather have no following than use miracles for convincing others of my Divinity.
Selfless service is accomplished when there is not the slightest thought of reward or result, and when there is complete disregard of one's own comfort or convenience or the possibility of being misunderstood.
Those who cleanse their hearts of the embittering poison of selfishness, hate and greed shall find God as their own true Self. When you find and realize God, the problem of selfishness and its numerous expressions melts away like mist before the sun. In God and as God, all life reveals itself as being really one and indivisible, and all separateness created by identification with human or sub-human forms is seen to be illusory.
So long for one thing; be restless for one thing; long and wait for one thing that will kill the million other longings. Long for union with the Beloved.

Jaggi Vasudev Quotes - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Quotes and Sayings

2010-05-11T09:57:00.000-07:00

Jaggi Vasudev Mystic from India who is actively involve in teaching meditation, planting more trees and helping people fro rural area. Selected Jaggi Vasudev Quotes are:

Only when you are truly happy, you can be concerned about somebody. When you are unhappy you are only concerned about yourself.
The guru is someone who continuously punctures your ego, yet is your friend.
The world is trying to do so many things. We're trying to go to the moon, to Mars, but, fundamentally, I feel the most important thing is human consciousness, the quality of life here. How happy we are here simply depends on how we are within ourselves.
When you just look at the long term span of this creation, you are just a tiny happening. But you think too much of yourself, that is the biggest problem.
If you really pay attention to life, life will blossom within you. If you do not pay attention, you are somewhere else, then life could go wrong.
If you are truly a seeker of Truth, Truth can not hide from you. It is in the Lap of truth that you have happened. Most people who claim to be seekers are only seeking security, solace, or the fulfillment of their desires.
Everybody is making Choices; even their compulsions are their choices. Choices made in unawareness are compulsions. Let us say you get angry right now. It is your choice, actually, to be angry. Somewhere, you believe that's the way to handle the situation, but the choice is made in such unawareness that is is a compulsion; it's happening compulsively on a different level. So you are living by choice, but choices are made with out awareness - unconscious choices.

Ramakrishna Quotes - Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings

2010-05-05T11:29:00.000-07:00

Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings

What need is there of renouncing the world altogether? It is enough if you can rid yourself of attachment.
The aim of human birth is to love God. Realize that love and be at peace.
Unless a man is guileless, he cannot so easily have faith in God. God is far, far away from the mind steeped in worldliness. Worldly intelligence creates many doubts and many forms of pride—pride of learning, wealth, and the rest.
Live in the world but keep the pitcher steady on your head;that is to say, keep the mind firmly on God.
One finds peace of mind in the company of holy men. The alligator remains under water a long time. But every now and then it rises to the surface and breathes with a deep wheezing noise. Then it gives a sigh of relief.
Do all your duties, but keep your mind on God. Live with all — with wife and children, father and mother — and serve them. Treat them as if they were very dear to you, but know in your heart of hearts that they do not belong to you.
The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds — all reasoning and disputing — come to an end. Then you go into samadhi — sleep —, into communion with God in silence.

Rumi Quotes - Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes, Sufi Quotes of Rumi

2010-05-05T09:08:00.000-07:00

Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes

This divine love,
beckons us
to a world beyond
only lovers can see
with their eyes of fiery passion.
Until you've found pain, you won't reach the cure
Until you've given up life, you won't unite with the supreme soul
Until you've found fire inside yourself, like the Friend,
You won't reach the spring of life, like Khezr.
There's courage involved if you want to become truth.
Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.
The lover is a king above all kings,
unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown.
The dervish has a pearl concealed under his patched cloak.
Why should he go begging door to door?
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of That
Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Observation with clarity needs no choice

2010-04-29T00:59:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - To resolve a problem, one must see the problem very clearly. Clarity and observation are necessary To observe there must be clarity, light - artificial light or sunlight. Outwardly, if you would see a leaf clearly, you need light and you must visually observe it. It is fairly easy to observe a leaf objectively, given a light - artificial or otherwise.

But it becomes much more complex when you go inwardly, where one needs also clarity to observe. We may wish to observe the whole phenomenon of human beings - his sorrows his miseries, his everlasting conflict within himself; the greed, the despairs, the frustrations, the mounting problems, not only mechanical but human. There, too, one needs clarity, which is light, to see this mechanism within the human being. And to observe, choice is not necessary. When you see something very clearly, as you do this microphone or that tree or your neighbour

sitting next to you, there choice is not necessary, conflict is not necessary. What brings about conflict within and without is when we do not see clearly, when our prejudices, our nationalities, our peculiar tendencies and so on block clarity, prevent light. And when there is light, you can observe.

Observation and light go together, otherwise you cannot see. You cannot see that tree, the trunk, the sides, the nature of it, the curve of it, the beauty of it, and the quality of it, unless there is a

great deal of light. And your observation must be attentive. You may casually look at that trunk and pass it by. But you have to look at it, to observe it in detail, carefully, with a great deal of care and affection and tenderness; only then can you observe.

Then, observation with clarity needs no choice. I think we must understand this very clearly, because we are going to go into problems or issues that need a great deal of observation, a great

deal of detailed perception, seeing, listening. We always deal with symptoms - like war, which is a symptom. And we think we understand the symptoms, if we examine the cause or understand

the cause. So between the symptom and the cause we are everlastingly vacillating, backward and forward, not knowing how to deal with the cause; and even if we know how to deal with the

cause, there are the innumerable blocks, the innumerable influences that prevent action.

So our issue then becomes very simple: to see very clearly you need a great deal of light; and the light does not come except through observation, when you can see minutely every movement

of your thought, of your feeling; and to see clearly, there must be no conflict, no choice.

osho rajneesh speaks - healers & healing

2010-03-02T09:42:00.002-08:00

osho rajneesh speaks - where is osho ?

2010-03-02T09:42:00.001-08:00

osho rajneesh speaks - the miracle of life

2010-03-02T09:41:00.001-08:00

J. Krishnamurti video About Life and Death

2010-01-26T09:40:00.000-08:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti video on The Art of Listening

2010-01-24T23:31:00.000-08:00

Note - An edited version of Jiddu Krishnamurti interviewed by Dr. Allan Anderson on PBS in 1974, focusing on the art of seeing and listening.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - New York 1928, Ojai 1930

2010-01-24T23:22:00.000-08:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - I maintain that truth is a pathless land and can not be appraoched by any path whatsoever.

A rare video of the young Jiddu Krishnamurti in New York (1928) and Ojai (1930), reading what he had said at the Ommen Camp on August 3, 1929 (dissolution of the Order of the Star).

Note - on August 3, 1929, Jiddu Krishnamurti had left the old organsiation and had started moving independently. According to J Krishnamurti No path can lead you to truth. Truth is something which is unknown and no path can be described to attain it. Everyone has to make his own path to truth and no master can give you this truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti on Who Am I?

2010-01-24T23:15:00.000-08:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti is an enlightened master of last century who has helped mankind tremendously with His talks. Jiddu Krishnamurti spoke virtually on all topics relevant to today's men.

Note - Response to Question asked by Jiddy Krishnamurti "Who are you?"
Jiddu Krishnamurti talk in Saanen 1981, 3rd Questions and Answers meeting

Avatar Meher Baba - Love Comes West

2010-01-24T23:12:00.000-08:00

Lovely stills and film footage documenting Meher Baba's visits to the West from 1931 through the 1950s. Narrated by Jamie Dillon and Peggy Rock with Meher Baba's words read by John Krchniak. In addition there is fine guitar playing musical accompaniment by Tuck Andress. For more information visit. www.Sheriarbooks.org

Avatar Meher Baba video footage

2010-01-24T23:11:00.000-08:00

Avatar Meher Baba's Universal Message

2010-01-24T23:08:00.002-08:00

Message that Meher Baba gave on July 10th 1956, and stated it was for all, regardless of wheather one belives in Him or not. It is a message from God to mankind

Avatar Meher Baba Mesage Given in 1955 Sahavas

2010-01-24T23:08:00.001-08:00

Message given by Avatar Meher Baba in Meherabad at the 1955 Sahavas to His devotees gathered there.

Swami Rajneesh - Mystic Rose - The Celebration

2010-01-24T23:04:00.000-08:00

Osho Rajneesh video - Orgasmic Stillness Part 1

2010-01-24T22:57:00.000-08:00

Swami Rajneesh - The strange world we live in. People have forgotten how to dance. We just came here to dance. I don't do any meditation. That is just a stupid. All Idiots meditates. just dance. Create such an abundance of flow that meditation is just a shadow of ecstasy.

Note - Swami Rajneesh is an enlightened disciple of Osho. His official website is http://www.oshorajneesh.ne t

Osho Rajneesh video - Orgasmic Stillness Part 2

2010-01-24T22:53:00.000-08:00

Swami Rajneesh speaking on the state of No-Mind. Swami Rajneesh also known as Osho Rajneesh is an enlightened disciople of Osho and is guiding seekers all over the world into meditation. Swami Rajneesh website is OshoRajneesh.net

Swami Rajneesh - The Message is very simple. Attain to the state of no-mind. and the way is very simple. Live totally. Live totally in any way.

OSHO: The Philosophical Frog and the Centipede

2010-01-19T22:33:00.001-08:00

OSHO: A Buddha Will Be Misunderstood ? (1 of 2)

2010-01-13T22:35:00.001-08:00

Osho - Yes, it is absolutely enevitable. It can't be otherwise. A buddha is bound to be misunderstood. If a buddha is not misunderstood then he is not a buddha at all. Why is it so? because the buddha lives in a state which is beyond mind, and we live in minds. To translate something from the beyond to the mind is the most impossible thing in the world. It cant be done, although every buddha has tried to do it. That too is inevitable; no buddha can avoid it.

OSHO: A Buddha Will Be Misunderstood ? (2 of 2)

2010-01-13T22:34:00.000-08:00

osho rajneesh satsang - jabalpur marble rocks

2010-01-13T22:27:00.001-08:00

osho rajneesh - the rapist therapist 1 - 2

2010-01-13T22:26:00.002-08:00

osho rajneesh - www.oshorajneesh.net - speaks on osho therapists and therapies

osho rajneesh - the rapist therapist 2 - 2

2010-01-13T22:26:00.001-08:00

Osho Rajneesh - Silent Satsang

2010-01-13T22:25:00.000-08:00

Swami Rajneesh - Dance your way to Freedom

2010-01-13T22:24:00.000-08:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti video on Fear, Part 1 of 2

2010-01-06T22:37:00.000-08:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti speaks on fear with with Mary Zimbalist.

Jiddu Krishnamurti video on fear, part 2 of 2

2010-01-06T22:35:00.000-08:00

Tao Te Ching sutra of Lao Tzu

2010-01-06T08:56:00.000-08:00

Stop being learned and your troubles will end.

Give up wisdom, discard cleverness,
and the people will benefit a hundredfold.

Give up benevolence, discard moral judgements,
and the people will rediscover natural compassion.

Give up shrewdness, discard gain,
and thieves and robbers will disappear.

These three false adornments are not enough to live by.
They must give way to something more solid.

Look for what is simple and hold onto the Uncarved Block.
Diminish thoughts of self and restrain desires.

Ramana Maharshi : Renunciation is always in the mind

2010-01-06T08:49:00.001-08:00

Question : In the early stages would it not be a help to a man to seek solitude and give up his outer duties in life?
Ramana Maharshi : Renunciation is always in the mind, not in going to forests or solitary places or giving up one's duties. The main thing is to see that the mind does not turn outward but inward. It does not really rest with a man whether he goes to this place or that or whether he gives up his duties or not. All these events happen according to destiny. All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them. The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there.

Question : But is it not possible for something to be a help, especially to a beginner, like a fence round a young tree? For instance, don't our books say that it is helpful to go on pilgrimages to sacred shrines or to get sat-sanga?
Ramana Maharshi : Who said they are not helpful? Only such things do not rest with you, whereas turning your mind inward does. Many people desire the pilgrimage or sat-sanga that you mention, but do they all get it ?

Jiddu Krishnamurti : What is religion?

2009-12-23T09:37:00.000-08:00

Questioner: What is religion?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Do you want an answer from me, or do you want to find out for yourself? Are you looking for an answer from somebody, however great or however stupid? Or are you really trying to find out the truth of what religion is?

To find out what true religion is, you have to push aside everything that stands in the way. If you have many coloured or dirty windows and you want to see the clear sunlight, you must clean or open the windows, or go outside. Similarly, to find out what true religion is, you must first see what it is not, and put that aside. Then you can find out, because then there is direct perception. So let us see what is not religion.

Doing puja, performing a ritual - is that religion? You repeat over and over again a certain ritual, a certain mantram in front of an altar or an idol. It may give you a sense of pleasure, a sense of satisfaction; but is that religion? putting on the sacred thread, calling yourself a Hindu a Buddhist, or a Christian, accepting certain traditions, dogmas, beliefs - has all this got anything to do with religion? Obviously not. So religion must be something which can be found only when the mind has understood and put all this aside.

Religion, in the true sense of the word, does not bring about separation, does it? But what happens when you are a Moslem and I am a Christian, or when I believe in something and you do not believe in it? Our beliefs separate us; therefore our beliefs have nothing to do with religion. Whether we believe in God or do not believe in God has very little significance; because what we believe or disbelieve is determined by our conditioning is it not? The society around us, the culture in which we are brought up, imprints upon the mind certain beliefs, fears and superstitions which we call religion; but they have nothing to do with religion. The fact that you believe in one way and I in another, largely depends on where we happen to have been born, whether in England, in India, in Russia or America. So belief is not religion, it is only the result of our conditioning.

Then there is the pursuit of personal salvation. I want to be safe; I want to reach Nirvana, or heaven; I must find a place next to Jesus, next to Buddha, or on the right hand of a particular God. Your belief does not give me deep satisfaction, comfort, so I have my own belief which does. And is that religion? Surely, one's mind must be free of all these things to find out what true religion is.

And is religion merely a matter of doing good, of serving or helping others? Or is it something more? Which does not mean that we must not be generous or kind. But is that all? Is not religion something much greater, much purer, vaster, more expansive than anything conceived by the mind?

So, to discover what is true religion, you must inquire deeply into all these thing; and be free of fear. It is like going out of a dark house into the sunshine. Then you will not ask what is true religion; you will know. There will be the direct experiencing of that which is true.

Source - Jiddu Krishnamurti Book "Life Ahead"

Jiddu Krishnamurti - If you run away from something, obviously you do not understand it

2009-12-23T09:34:00.000-08:00

Questioner: If somebody is unhappy and wants to be happy, is that ambition?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: When you are suffering, you want to be free of suffering. That is not ambition, is it? That is the natural instinct of every person. It is the natural instinct of us all not to have fear, not to have physical or emotional pain. But our life is such that we are constantly experiencing pain. I eat something which does not agree with me, and I have a tummy ache. Somebody says something to me, and I feel hurt. I am prevented from doing something which I long to do, and I feel frustrated, miserable. I am unhappy because my father or my son is dead, and so on. Life is constantly acting upon me, whether I like it or not, and I am always getting hurt, frustrated, having painful reactions. So what I have to do is to understand this whole process. But you see, most of us run away from it.

When you suffer inwardly, psychologically, what do you do? You look to somebody for consolation; you read a book, or turn on the radio, or go and do puja. These are all indications of your running away from suffering. If you run away from something, obviously you do not understand it. But if you look at your suffering, observe it from moment to moment, you begin to understand the problem involved in it, and this is not ambition. Ambition arises when you run away from your suffering, or when you cling to it, or when you fight it, or when around it you gradually build theories and hopes. The moment you run away from suffering, the thing to which you run becomes very important because you identify yourself with it. You identify yourself with your country, with your position, with your God, and this is a form of ambition.

Source - Jiddu Krishnamurti Book "Life Ahead"

Jiddu Krishnamurti - To make an integrated individual is extremely difficult

2009-12-18T05:05:00.001-08:00

Questioner: As modern civilization is mostly technological, should we not train every child in some vocational profession?

Jiddu Krishnamurti : Obviously, and then what? He becomes an engineer, a physician, a mathematician, a scientist, or a bureaucrat; he keeps accounts for himself or for his boss. What have you done, sir? You have taught him a profession. Is that the end of life? With most of you, it is the end of life. Having a profession is all right in its place, but there are more vital things in life, are there not? I may want to be an engineer or a musician, and being my parent, you shove me on to become a banker.

So for the rest of my life I feel frustrated, and because I feel frustrated I chase every woman I can think of, or turn to God. But I am still frustrated, empty. So, mere technological training or having a vocational aptitude does not solve all the problems of life. It does obviously solve problems at one level, but merely to live at that one level, as most of you do, is destruction.

Sir, to make an integrated individual is extremely difficult. I must not only have a technological profession, but I must also have a clear mind, a warm heart. You cannot have a clear mind when it is rattling with a lot of noise which it calls knowledge. There can be integration only when there is warmth, when there is affection, when you love someone entirely, wholly; then affection, warmth, and a clear mind will bring about integration. Such a human being is rare, and it is obviously the function of education to create such human beings. Life is not to be lived at one level, it must be lived all the time at different levels; then only is there harmony, is there beauty, is there warmth in relationship, in feeling; then only is there happiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Religion as organized belief and dogma is not religion at all

2009-12-11T23:22:00.001-08:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Religion as organized belief and dogma is not religion at all. Religion is something entirely different from the mere acceptance of belief or the practice of a ritual. Religion, surely, is the process of freeing the mind from envy, from greed, from ambition, so that the self-centered activity of the 'I' no longer exists, and only such a mind is capable of pursuing in utter silence the movement of reality. That is why it is important to have a religious revolution - which is the only revolution - because mere economic revolution will inevitably fail.

The religious revolution of which I speak has nothing whatever to do with any established religion. On the contrary, to have this religious revolution, one must be free from all organized dogma and belief, for only then is the mind capable of experiencing that which is real. But unfortunately, most of us do not give time to this; we are too busy with our daily lives, with earning a livelihood, with the things of the world. Being too busy, we multiply mischief in the world, and then we say, ''What can I as an individual do?''

If you observe, you will see it is only the enlightened individual that is capable of doing anything, not the mass, not the collective; and the enlightened individual is one who has an inward knowledge of himself, of the activities of his own mind, the operations of his own thought. To be truly aware, not only of the workings of the superficial mind, but also of the unconscious, is the beginning of self-knowledge; and without self-knowledge there is self-deception, illusion; therefore, you can never find out what is truth.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom. This self-knowledge is not to be gathered from books, but you can find it for yourself through observing your daily relationship with your wife or husband, with your children, with your boss, with the conductor of the bus. It is through awareness of yourself in your relationship with another that you discover the workings of your own mind, and this understanding of yourself is the beginning of the freedom from conditioning. If you go into it deeply, you will find that the mind becomes very quiet, really still. This stillness is not the stillness of a mind that is disciplined, held, controlled, but the stillness which comes when, through the understanding of relationship, the mind has ceased to be a center of self-interest. Such a mind is capable of following that which is beyond the measure of the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - The individual problem is the world problem

2009-11-12T04:02:00.000-08:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - As a ship that is lost at sea without a compass, so the man without the perception of the goal which is constant and eternal is lost in this world of confusion. As the captain of a ship establishes the destination of his vessel and by the compass is able to guide his course through stormy nights and dark waters, so the man who has knowledge of his goal can guide his life by that compass of understanding.

Because the individual does not know his purpose, he is in a state of uncertainty and chaos. Because the individual has not solved his own problem, the problem of the world has not been solved. The individual problem is the world problem. If an individual is unhappy, discontented, dissatisfied, then the world around him is in sorrow, discontent and ignorance.

If the individual has not found his goal, the world will not find its goal. You cannot separate the individual from the world. The world and the individual are one. If the individual problem can be solved by understanding, so can the problem of the world be solved. Before you can give understanding to others you have first to understand for yourself. When you establish the Truth in your heart and mind, there it will abide eternally.

Source - J Krishnamurti Book "Life in Freedom"

Osho Video : Absolutely Free to Be Funny

2009-11-07T22:23:00.001-08:00

Osho Videos : Marriage and Children

2009-11-07T22:22:00.000-08:00

Osho Video on Meditation : Meditation Is a Very Simple Phenomenon

2009-11-07T22:21:00.000-08:00

Osho - That's the whole secret of meditation, that you become the watcher. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do all small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, your centering should not be lost. That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded, undisturbed. Meditation is a very simple phenomenon.

Osho : With Meditation Life Will Be a Sheer Joy

2009-11-07T22:20:00.000-08:00

Osho video : Meditations for Contemporary People

2009-11-07T22:17:00.000-08:00

Osho Video on How to select a meditation technique. All the meditation techniques that Osho have developed are for the contemporary people. Osho active meditation techniques are specially devised for the modern men.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Is it possible to act at all times without idea

2009-11-07T22:13:00.000-08:00

Question: For Truth to come, you advocate action without idea. Is it possible to act at all times without idea, that is, without a purpose in view?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: What is our action at present? What do we mean by action? Our action - what we want to do or to be - is based on idea, is it not? That is all we know; we have ideas, ideals, promises, various formulas as to what we are and what we are not. The basis of our action is reward in the future or fear of punishment. We know that, don't we? Such activity is isolating, self-enclosing. You have an idea of virtue and according to that idea you live, you act, in relationship. To you, relationship, collective or individual, is action which is towards the ideal, towards virtue, towards achievement and so on.

When my action is based on an ideal which is an idea - such as ''I must be brave'', ''I must follow the example'', ''I must he charitable'', ''I must be socially conscious'' and so on - that idea shapes my action, guides my action. We all say, ''There is an example of virtue which I must follow; which means, ''I must live according to that''. So action is based on that idea. Between action and idea, there is a gulf, a division, there is a time process. That is so, is it not? In other words, I am not charitable, I am not loving, there is no forgiveness in my heart but I feel I must be charitable. So there is a gap, between what I am and what I should be; we are all the time trying to bridge that gap. That is our activity, is it not?

Now what would happen if the idea did not exist? At one stroke, you would have removed the gap, would you not? You would be what you are. You say ''I am ugly, I must become beautiful; what am I to do?'' - which is action based on idea. You say ''I am not compassionate, I must become compassionate''. So you introduce idea separate from action. Therefore there is never true action of what you are but always action based on the ideal of what you will he. The stupid man always says he is going to become clever. He sits working, struggling to become; he never stops, he never says ''I am stupid''. So his action, which is based on idea, is not action at all.

Action means doing, moving. But when you have idea, it is merely ideation going on, thought process going on in relation to action. If there is no idea, what would happen? You are what you are. You are uncharitable, you are unforgiving, you are cruel, stupid, thoughtless. Can you remain with that? If you do, then see what happens. When I recognize I am uncharitable, stupid, what happens when I am aware it is so? Is there not charity, is there not intelligence? When I recognize uncharitableness completely, not verbally, not artificially, when I realize I am uncharitable and unloving, in that very seeing of what is is there not love? Don't I immediately become charitable? If I see the necessity of being clean, it is very simple; I go and wash, But if it is an ideal that I should be clean, then what happens? Cleanliness is then postponed or is superficial.

Action based on idea is very superficial, is not true action at all, is only ideation, which is merely the thought process going on.

Action which transforms us as human beings, which brings regeneration, redemption, transformation - call it what you will - such action is not based on idea. It is action irrespective of the sequence of reward or punishment. Such action is timeless, because mind, which is the time process, the calculating process, the dividing, isolating process, does not enter into it.

This question is not so easily solved. Most of you put questions and expect an answer ''yes'' or ''no''. It is easy to ask questions like ''What do you mean?'' and then sit back and let me explain but it is much more arduous to find out the answer for yourselves, go into the problem so profoundly, so clearly and without any corruption that the problem ceases to be. That can only happen when the mind is really silent in the face of the problem. The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset. If you are antagonistic to the problem, you will never understand. Most of us are antagonistic because we are frightened of the result, of what may happen if we proceed, so we lose the significance and the purview of the problem.

Source - J. Krishnamurti The First and Last Freedom

Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Real Revolution - Part 1 of 2

2009-10-30T08:39:00.001-07:00

This 30-minute documentary is the first from an original series of eight made for television in 1966. They were the earliest sound-films of Krishnamurti speaking to audiences.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Real Revolution - Part 2 of 2

2009-10-30T08:38:00.001-07:00

This 30-minute documentary is the first from an original series of eight made for television in 1966. They were the earliest sound-films of Krishnamurti speaking to audiences.

Jiddu Krishnamurti : Why don't You Change?

2009-10-30T08:35:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti speaks with a talk show host of the 60's about life, death, misery, conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Be a Light to Yourself - Part1

2009-10-30T08:34:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti Video - Be a Light to Yourself - part2

2009-10-30T08:33:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti : How is one to stop one's mind from getting conditioned

2009-10-30T06:14:00.000-07:00

Question: How is one to stop one's mind from getting conditioned?

Jiddu Krishnamurti : The gentleman asks: ''What is the concrete action that will arrest conditioning? What is the definite action that will stop a mind from being conditioned?''

It can only be stopped when you are aware of the conditioning processes. When you read the newspaper every day, as you do, in which nothing but politics is discussed, obviously that is being imprinted in your mind. But to read a newspaper and not be influenced, to see the world as it is and not to be influenced requires a very alert mind, a very sharp mind, a mind that can reason sanely, rationally, logically - which means a very sensitive mind.

Now, the question is how to bring about a sensitive mind. Sirs, there is no ''how,'' there is no method. If there were a method, it would be like taking a tranquilizer - you know what it is; it is a pill that will tranquilize all your troubles, put you to sleep. To be aware of all the difficulties - which is to know them, to watch them, just to feel them, not verbally but actually, to know them as you know your hunger, your sexual appetites - that very knowing, that very contact with the fact, makes the mind sensitive.

To know that you have no courage - not that you must develop courage - to know that you cannot stand by yourself, to know that you cannot stand up for what you think, to know the fact that you have not the capacity brings you the capacity. You do not have to search for capacity.

Swami Rama Quotes on Spititual Guru or Master

2009-10-29T22:34:00.001-07:00

Swami Rama - We should not worry about who will guide us. The important question is: Am I prepared to be guided? Jesus had only twelve close disciples. He helped many, but he imparted the secret wisdom only to those few who were prepared. The Sermon on the Mount is comprehended by only a few, not the multitudes.

Swami Rama - Increase your capacity. Purify yourself. Acquire that gentle strength within. God will come and say to you, “I want to enter this living temple that you are.” Prepare yourself for that situation. Remove the impurities – and you will find that he who wants to know reality is himself the source of reality.

Swami Rama - Don’t believe anyone who comes to you and demands, “Worship me.” Even Christ and Buddha did not ask that. Never forget that guru is not the goal. Guru is like a boat for crossing the river. It is very important to have a good boat, and it is very dangerous to have a boat that is leaking. But after you have crossed the river you don’t need to hang on to your boat, and you certainly don’t worship the boat. Many fanatics think they should worship a guru. A guru should receive your love and respect – that is different from worship. If my guru and the Lord come together, I will go to my guru first and say, “Thank you very much. You have introduced me to the Lord.” I will not go to the Lord and say, “Thank you very much, Lord. You have given me my guru.”

Swami Rama - You do need one who can guide and help you. You need an external guru as a means to attain the guru within you.

Swami Rama - You will never meet a bad guru if you are a good student. But the reverse is also true: if you are a bad student, you wont meet a good guru.

Source - Swami Rama Book "Living with Himalayan Masters"

Osho Rajneesh (Swami Rajneesh) Meditation camps in India

2009-10-28T01:08:00.001-07:00

Osho Rajneesh also known as Swami Rajneesh is an Enlightened Sannyasin of Osho and Jiddu Krishnamurti lover. After Osho left His Body in 1990, Swami Rajneesh was banned from Osho Puna Ashram and He went into silence for next 17 years.

Many Sannyasins asked Him to come back into the main stream world and start teaching. But Swami Rajneesh choose to remain silent and He continued deepening his inner realization. In 2008, Swami Rajneesh came back into the main stream world and shared his journey from a seeker to a Buddha in His mystical book "Tears of The Mystic Rose".

Swami Rajneesh is now taking meditation camps all over the world and is initiating seekers into Osho Sannyas. Currently Swami Rajneesh will be conducting Meditation camps and Events in India from Oct 2009 to Jan 2010.

Schedule of Swami Rajneesh meditation camp is available at Swami Rajneesh Website

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Why is there a fear of death

2009-10-28T01:02:00.001-07:00

Questioner: The fact of death stares everybody in the face. Yet, its mystery is never solved. Must it always be so?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Why is there a fear of death? When we cling to continuity, there is the fear of death. Incomplete action brings the fear of death. There is fear of death as long as there is the desire for continuity in character, continuity in action, in capacity, in the name, and so on. As long as there is action seeking a result, there must be the thinker who is seeking continuity. Fear comes into being when this continuity is threatened through death. So, there is fear of death as long as there is the desire for continuity.

That which continues disintegrates. Any form of continuity, however noble, is a process of disintegration. In continuity there is never renewal, and in renewal only there is freedom from the fear of death. If we see the truth of this, then we will see truth in the false. Then there would be the liberation from the false. Then there would be no fear of death. Thus, living, experiencing, is in the present and not a means of continuity.

Is it possible to live from moment to moment with renewal? There is renewal only in ending and not in continuity. In the interval between the ending and the beginning of another problem, there is renewal.

Death, the state of noncontinuity, the state of rebirth, is the unknown. Death is the unknown. The mind which is the result of continuity cannot know the unknown. It can only know the known. It can only act and have its being in the known, which is continuous. So, the known is in fear of the unknown. The known can never know the unknown, and so death remains the mystery. If there is an ending from moment to moment, from day to day, in this ending the unknown comes into being.

Immortality is not the continuation of 'me'. The 'me' and the 'mine' is of time, the result of action towards an end. So, there is no relationship between the 'me' and the 'mine' and that which is immortal, timeless. We would like to think there is a relationship, but this is an illusion. That which is immortal cannot be encased in that which is mortal. That which is immeasurable cannot be caught in the net of time.

There is fear of death where there is search for fulfillment. Fulfillment has no ending. Desire is constantly seeking and changing the object of fulfillment, and so it is caught in the net of time. So, the search for self-fulfillment is another form of continuity, and frustration seeks truth as a means of continuity. Truth is not continuous. Truth is a state of being and being is action without time. This being can be experienced only when desire, which gives birth to continuity, is wholly and completely understood. Thought is founded on the past, so thought cannot know the unknown, the immeasurable. Thought process must come to an end, then only, the unknowable comes into being.

Ramana Maharshi - How can terrible fear of death be overcome

2009-10-23T23:33:00.000-07:00

Q: How can the terrible fear of death be overcome?

Ramana Maharshi : When does that fear seize you? Does it come when you do not see your body, say, in dreamless sleep? It haunts you only when you are fully `awake' and perceive the world, including your body.

If you do not see these and remain your pure Self, as in dreamless sleep, no fear can touch you.

If you trace this fear to the object, the loss of which gives rise to it, you will find that that object is not the body, but the mind which functions in it.

Many a man would be only too glad to be rid of his diseased body and all the problems and inconvenience it creates for him if continued awareness were vouchsafed to him.

It is the awareness, the consciousness, and not the body, he fears to lose. Men love existence because it is eternal awareness, which is their own Self. Why not then hold on to the pure awareness right now, while in the body, and be free from all fear?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: How can one create harmony outside if one is not harmonious inside?

2009-10-22T01:02:00.001-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Where outside or inside, or both? How can one create harmony outside if one is not harmonious inside? The harmony inside is the first thing, not harmony outside. Is that the essential issue? Or, could it be that harmony is a result and not an end in itself? It is, it happens. It is like being very healthy and going out for a walk. But to seek harmony as an end in itself is that possible? One has to find harmony in oneself; for this one has to make tremendous enquiry into oneself, the contradictions, the efforts, the discipline all that is involved in it. Is that the essential question?

You say the essential question may be harmony, but it may be pleasure. Please listen to what we have just said. We have said that the essential question for most people may be the urge for and the continuity of and the strengthening of pleasure; pleasure being the pleasure derived from security, from sexual experience; it is deliberate, not a thing in itself. I do not know if you are following this. I derive pleasure in doing something the doing gives me pleasure; therefore the doing from which I derive pleasure is important; pleasure is not in and of itself, but results from the act of something. So, is that the challenge, is that the essential question?

Look, please, look at the world, look at all the things that are going on the extraordinary technological advancement, the wars, the affluent society and the poverty, one nation fighting another nation for its security, for its glory, and so on and so on all that is going on, it's there in front of you. If you look at it objectively, as you would look at a map, you would have the answer which is, to look.

Ramana Maharshi : Meditation is more direct than investigation

2009-09-27T09:57:00.000-07:00

Q: Meditation is more direct than investigation because the former holds on to the truth whereas the latter sifts the truth from the untruth.
Ramana Maharshi : For the beginner meditation on a form is more easy and agreeable. Practice of it leads to self-enquiry which consists in sifting the reality from unreality.

What is the use of holding on to truth when you are filled with antagonistic factors?Self-enquiry directly leads to realization by removing the obstacles which make you think that the Self is not already realized.

Meditation differs according to the degree of advancement of the seeker. If one is fit for it one might directly hold on to the thinker, and the thinker will then automatically sink into his source, pure consciousness.

If one cannot directly hold on to the thinker one must meditate on God and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently pure to hold on to the thinker and to sink into absolute being.

Meditation is possible only if the ego is kept up. There is the ego and the object meditated upon. The method is therefore indirect because the Self is only one. Seeking the ego, that is its source, the ego disappears. What is left over is the Self. This method is the direct one.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Is it possible to obey the order without understanding the order?

2009-09-27T09:55:00.000-07:00

Question: What is obedience? Is it at all possible to obey without understanding the order?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Is it possible to obey the order without understanding the order? Is it not what most of us do? Parents, teachers, the older people say, "Do this." They say it either politely or with a stick, and we are afraid and obey. That is what governments do. That is what the military people do. We are trained from childhood, not knowing what it is all about. The more tyrannical the government, the more totalitarian, the more authoritarian, the more we are compelled, shaped from childhood; not knowing why, we should obey. We are told what to think. Our mind is purged of any thought which is not of the state, of the authority. We are never taught or helped to find out how to think, but we must obey. The priest says so, the religious books says so; our own fear inwardly compels us to obey because if we do not obey, we will be lost, we will be confused.

So, we obey. Why do we obey? Do you understand? The social structure, the religious state, forces us to blindly follow the pattern created by another in the hope of some reward or happiness. Why do we obey? Must we obey? We are very thoughtless. To think is very painful; to think, we have to question; we have to inquire; we have to find out how the older people do not want us to find out that they have not the patience, that they are too busy with their quarrels, with their ambitions, with their prejudices, with their do's and don'ts of morality and respectability. So, the older people have not the patience, and we are young; we are afraid to go wrong because we also want to be respectable. Don't we all want to put on the same uniform, to look alike? We do not want to do anything different. To think separately, to be apart, is very painful, so we join the gang.

Why do we do all this - obey, follow, copy? Why? Because, we are frightened inwardly to be uncertain. We want to be certain - we want to be certain financially, we want to be certain morally - we want to be approved, we want to be in a safe position, we want never to be confronted with trouble, pain, suffering, we want to be enclosed. So fear, consciously or unconsciously, makes us obey the master, the leader, the priest, the government. Fear also controls us from doing something which may be harmful to others because we will be punished.

So behind all these actions, greeds, pursuits, lurks this desire for certainty, this desire to be assured. So, without resolving fear, without being free from fear, merely to obey or to be obeyed has little significance; what has meaning is to understand this fear from day to day and how fear shows itself in different ways. It is only when there is freedom from fear that there is that inward quality of understanding, that aloneness in which there is no accumulation of knowledge or of experience, and it is that alone which gives extraordinary clarity in the pursuit of the real.

Source - J Krishnamurti Talk - December 30, 1952

Jiddu Krishnamurti : Does change come from within or without?

2009-09-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

Question: Does change come from within or without?

Jiddu Krishnamurti : What do we mean by ''without'' or ''within''? Is it so clearly defined? Is not ''without'' the same as ''within'' and ''within'' the same as ''without''? It is like a tide going out and coming in. You do not say that is ''out'' and this is ''in.'' It is a movement, but we separate it. It is one movement, and that is the beauty of it. By understanding the outward movement, you begin to understand the inward movement. Then you see that the two are not separate. But if you separate the outer as not the real and the inner as the real, there is terrible confusion. But if you see that there is no division between the outer and the inner, then in the understanding of the outer - society, the morality of society, the whole pressure of the outer - you begin to understand also how the inner is the same thing as the outer. What we are talking about is the need to bring about a mutation in this process.

Most of us psychologically resist every form of change. We have found some form of security, some form of permanence; that gives us tremendous satisfaction, and we build a wall around that satisfaction and remain. The pressure outside is merely a casual and necessary acceptance - going to the office and all the rest of it. When one sees that mutation can take place, not only inwardly, but also outwardly, and that mutation is not change, then one will have to inquire very, very deeply and question every step of what we call change.

Do please inquire. Can you put away all thoughts of change? You have to put away change, not verbally, but emotionally, which is much more important than the verbal. When you put away all thoughts of change, what is taking place in the mind? What is the state of the mind that has finished with change? Let me put it this way. What is the state of mind that denies? How do you deny? There is Catholicism or Hinduism, and you deny it. What is the state of the mind? Do you deny it because you are going to join something else? Or do you deny all propagandist, organized religions? The denial of one because you are joining the other is not denial at all. I understand the whole implication of organized religion, and I deny it. But I do not know what is beyond the organized religion. I deny it totally. I do not join anything. Therefore my mind is totally insecure, uncertain. When I see the futility of change, I deny it; then the fact remains, and I do not think in terms of changing it or changing myself in relation to it. When the mind is free of this conflict of change, it has become sensitive in its awareness, and it realizes that it is dull.

When I say my mind is dull, do I know that dullness because I have been told, or because I have compared myself with somebody who is cleverer? How do I recognize the dullness? This involves a process of recognition. This involves the question of knowing. There are two ways of knowing - one is knowing because you have learned it, because somebody has told you; the other is knowing because you yourself have discovered. How do you discover? Do you discover through comparison? When you have put all these questions and have seen the futility of change, then is there dullness? Then how do you look at the thing? Do you look at it verbally?

As I said before, the word is not the thing, and to separate the look from the word is extraordinarily difficult. You understand? We are looking at the fact without seeing the word, and the word dullness has conveyed its meaning. Now to look at something without the word is to look at it directly without the interpretation through the word, through the symbol. What happens to the fact - anger, jealousy, whatever it is - without the word? Do not answer me, sir. This requires immense penetration. It means that the mind itself must be free from the word, and to be free from the slavery of words, you must have gone into it. To look at the fact, you have to understand the futility of change, and also the mind must not be a slave to words. You see what is involved. You live on words. You are a Hindu, or you are a Christian, or you are a Buddhist, or you are a communist - all words. Indian nationality - a word. The Gita is a word, and the word has become tremendously important. So, it is extraordinarily difficult for the mind to be free from the word, the word being a symbol. Now if you are free of the word, what is the fact? Is the fact a word? Do not answer me. Look at it. But I have used the word to denote the fact. When you remove the word, when the word is no longer influencing your look, then that observation is a pure act, isn't it? Can you look at the Gita, your favorite book, without the word Gita? You can't. Because the whole world of tradition, the whole world of respectability, authority, the recognition by society that it is a sacred book - all this holds you, and you are a slave to words. But to look at the fact requires an enormous inquiry into ''change'' and not the word. Then, you have understood ''change,'' and you are free from the word.

A man who resists change is a dead man - he may live, he may go to the office, he may have children; but he is a dead man, he is not alive. And most of us are dead because we resist change; we remain what we have been from the beginning and die as we are. Life - not Indian life nor American life, but living - demands that you shatter through every form of change. And when you begin to inquire into change, you are bound to find out the emptiness of it, the meaninglessness of it. And, therefore there is no meaning in having ideals. When you have got cancer, you cannot think about ideals - the disease is eating you out. So in inquiring into change, you put away all ideals, therefore all examples, therefore all patterns, therefore all authority.

Do you inquire with words? We have to use words to communicate, to do, to act. But also there must be a look without the word. You must look at the flower without the botanical knowledge - which is a very complex process of looking. When you look in that way, you require immense, great penetration and meditation. Just listen to me while I am talking; you have to go into it, penetrate into it, in order to know. Then, if you have emotionally gone into the fact - not with words nor symbols nor a conclusion - then you will find for yourself that the fact has undergone a change because you have allowed it full freedom to flower. The flowering of the fact is important, not the word. It must flower, and in the flowering there is immense significance. But that significance cannot be understood or gone into if the mind is not highly sensitive, and there is no sensitivity if there is resistance to change.

Meditation Quotes | Simple meditation quotes for beginners

2009-09-11T06:08:00.000-07:00

Meditation is all about being aware of our mind and get dis-identified with the mind. In meditation we don't pursue our desires but we witness them. Meditation is all about observing the mind passively. Here are few meditation quotes for beginners to understand the meditation.

Meditation is not concentration. Concentration is done by the mind and it narrows down our vision. Concentration is an exclusion of everything and focusing on one single thing. Whereas meditation is an expansion of consciousness and we don't block any thing in meditation. In meditation we witness the mind who focus on thing.
Meditation is to be aware of our thoughts and feelings. In meditation we witness all the thoughts with out being identified by them.
Meditation is not thinking but it is to watch the thinking process which happens continuously in our mind.
Meditation is not the stop the mind or control the mind. But it is to understand the mind by witnessing it passively.
Meditation is not an separate activity but it can be a part of every activity. We just need to be conscious in our actions. Any act done with consciousness is meditation.
Meditation can be done by any body. Every body has the potential to meditate. But only few people dare to meditate.
Meditation is not about achieving any goal or ambition. But it is all about understanding the goals of the mind and going beyond them.
Meditation is not contemplation. Contemplation is done by the mind and never leads to any conclusion. In meditation we witness the contemplating mind. We don't get identified with any thought but we just watch them passively.

Vipassana Meditation Technique

2009-09-10T09:27:00.001-07:00

Vipassana is one of the essential meditation technique developed by Buddha. It is based upon watching our breath or actions. One can watch his incoming and outgoing breath at the nose or at the belly. If we are watching the breath at nose then we should watch both incoming and outgoing breath at the nose. We should also watch the gap between two breaths.

In case we are watching the breath at the belly then we should watch the belly rising when we inhale and the belly falling down as we exhale the breath. One should also watch the gap between two breaths.

When we inhale then Breath should reach our belly. Normally we don't breath correctly and our breath reaches only till the chest. But ideally it should reach till our belly. Small children breath in a correct way. When we are sleeping then our breath is correct and it reaches till our belly. For women watching the breath at belly will be more easier. Whereas for men watching the breath at the nose will be more easier.

Third way of doing Vipassana meditation is to become aware of our thoughts, feelings, moods and actions. In this type of Vipassana practice, No thought should leave with out being noticed by us. We should be aware of the change in our moods and how the mood is slowly gaining momentum in us. We should be more aware and conscious in our actions. e.g. simple acts of life like walking, talking, listening, eating etc should be done with awareness. Light of awareness should illuminate all our actions.

J Krishnamurti - As you walk along and a fear arises watch it

2009-09-09T23:14:00.001-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - The action of fear and the effects of fear and its action, based on the past memories, such actions are destructive, contradictory, paralysing. Right? Do we see that? Not verbally but actually see that? That when you are afraid you are completely isolated and any action that took place from that isolation must by fragmentary and therefore contradictory, therefore there was struggle, pain and all the rest of it?

Now, an action of awareness of fear without all the responses of memory is a complete action. You try it! Do it. Become aware, as you are walking along, going home, your old fears will come up. Then watch, watch, be aware, whether those fears are actually fears or projected by thought as memory. You see that? If those fears are the projection of thought as the response of memory, then your action will be incomplete and therefore painful. Right? But as you walk along and a fear arises watch it, whether you are watching from the response of thought or merely watching.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - If one is dependent on any stimulation

2009-09-08T10:52:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - If one is dependent on any stimulation, for the energy which one needs, then that very stimulation makes the mind dull, insensitive, not acute. One may take the drug LSD or other forms of drugs and one may temporarily find enough energy to see things very clearly, but one reverts to one's former state and becomes dependent on that drug more and more.

All stimulation, whether of the church, of the drink or drug, or the speaker, will inevitably bring about a dependence and that dependence prevents one from having the vital energy to see clearly for oneself. Any form of dependence on any stimulation lessens the quickness and vitality of the mind. We all depend, unfortunately, on something, it may be dependence on a relationship, or on the reading of an intellectual book, or on certain ideas and ideologies we have formulated; or we depend on solitude, isolation, denial, resistance - these obviously distort and dissipate energy.

One has to become aware of what it is that one is dependent upon. One has to find out why one depends on anything at all, psychologically - I don't mean technologically, or depending on the milkman - but psychologically, why do we depend, what is involved in dependence? This question is essential in investigating the dissipation, deterioration and distortion of energy - the energy we need so vitally to understand the many problems.

Rumi Poem - We are as the flute

2009-09-08T08:59:00.000-07:00

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!

Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?

We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.

We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.

Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!

Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

Source - Rumi Book "Masnavi"

Without meditation there can be no self-knowledge

2009-09-08T08:53:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, and without understanding there is no happiness. Thus, the awareness of what is - however complex a problem may appear - without distorting it, is the dissolution of the problem. To see the problem deeply and swiftly is not possible without self-knowledge.

Without meditation there can be no self-knowledge. Meditation is a process of perceiving the truth of every thought, feeling, and so action. Meditation is not the exclusion of all thoughts and the fixation on a particular object, image, or idea. It is a constant awareness of every thought and feeling as it arises without choice, condemnation, or justification.

It is the perception of truth in the problem that frees thought from the problem. With the unfolding of self-knowledge, the sorrow that comes with wrong valuations of things, of people, and of ideas fades away. This knowledge is not of the higher or lower self, which is still within the field of the mind - which is a false and self-protected division without any reality. This knowledge is the total process of one's own being.

So, as long as there is no self-knowledge, the multiplication and reformation of our problems will continue. For this reason only, the individual becomes greatly significant. He can alone transform himself. He alone can bring about revolution in his relationship, the necessary regeneration in the world of his relationship. This transformation can only come about through the knowledge of the self; it cannot come about through book knowledge, through inference, through another, however great. This knowledge is not in antagonism to the world about us. It is not a process of self-isolation. He cannot be without relationship. The understanding of this relationship to things, to people, and to ideas will alone bring happiness. Happiness comes not with the evaluation, not with the choice; it comes when the chooser, the actor, the mind, is not occupied with himself. When the mind is silent, truth and bliss come into being. Such a man is blessed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti : Why don't you do miracles?

2009-09-07T08:43:00.001-07:00

Questioner: Why don't you do miracles? All teachers did.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: To be healed physically is not so important as to be healed psychologically. In the past, I have healed physically. Now I am concerned with the healing of the inner, which is far more important, is it not? If the mind and the heart are diseased, they affect the body, which in turn affects the mind. If we give too much importance to the outer and neglect the inner, the inner will always overcome the outer.

This desire for the miracle, this transformation of the inner, is what you are looking for. You want a miracle to happen, which is really a sign of laziness, of irresponsibility. You want somebody else to do the job for you. The healing of the outer may make for popularity, but that will not lead man to happiness. So, we should understand the inward emptiness, the inward disease and corruption. None can heal you inwardly and that is the miracle of it. A doctor can heal you outwardly; a psychoanalyst may make you normal to fit into a decaying society; but to go beyond, to be inwardly true, clear, uncorrupted - that you alone can do and none else. This is the greatest miracle: to heal yourself completely.

This is what we have been doing here during the last three months - to understand ourselves, the causes of our disease, conflict, and contradiction; to see things as they are, clearly and simply, without distortion. When a thing is seen clearly, then a miracle takes place; then, that which is is perceived without distortion, and the truth that understanding brings, heals. The truth of that understanding can come only through your own awareness and not through a miracle performed by another. Miracles do happen, but only we are unaware of it.

You are not the same as you were yesterday. If you can follow the inward nature of the mind easily and swiftly, then you will see that miracles will happen, the miracles of newness, of life, of beauty, and of happiness. But you cannot follow the swift movement of life if you are tethered, bound to your own achievements and belief. A man who knows, who is caught in what he knows - there can be no miracle for him. But a man who is uncertain, who asks nothing - to him life is a miracle, for there is constant renewal, a renewal without an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - What does honesty mean?

2009-09-01T13:29:00.001-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - What does honesty mean? Can there be honesty - that is, clear insight, seeing things as they are - if there is a principle, an ideal, an ennobled formula? Can one be direct if there is confusion? Can there be beauty if there is the standard of what is beautiful or upright? When there is this division between what is and what should be, can there be honesty - or only an edifying and respectable dishonesty? We are brought up between the two - between what actually is and what may be. In the interval between these two - the interval of time and space - is all our education, our morality, our struggle.

We keep a distracted look upon the one and upon the other, a look of fear and a look of hope. And can there be honesty, sincerity, in this state, which society calls education? When we say we are dishonest, essentially we mean there is a comparison between what we have said and what is. One has said something which one doesn't mean, perhaps to give passing assurance or because one is nervous, shy or ashamed to say something which actually is. So nervous apprehension and fear make us dishonest. When we are pursuing success we must be somewhat dishonest, play up to another, be cunning, deceitful, to achieve our end. Or one has gained authority or a position which one wants to defend. So all resistance, all defence, is a form of dishonesty. To be honest means to have no illusions about oneself and no seed of illusion - which is desire and pleasure.

In desire there is always the better, the bigger, the more. In desire there is the measurement, the comparison - and the root of illusion is comparison. The good is not the better, and all our life is spent pursuing the better - whether it be the better bathroom, or the better position, or the better god. Discontent with what is makes the change in what is - which is merely the unproved continuity of what is. Improvement is not change, and it is this constant improvement - both in ourselves and in the social morality - which breeds dishonesty.

To live without a principle, without an ideal, is to live facing that which is every minute. The actual facing of what is - which is to be completely in contact with it, not through the word or through past associations and memories, but directly in touch with it - is to be honest. To know you have lied and make no excuse for it but to see the actual fact of it, is honesty; and in this honesty there is great beauty. The beauty does not hurt anybody. To say one is a liar is an acknowledgement of the fact; it is to acknowledge a mistake as a mistake. But to find reason, excuses and justifications for it is dishonesty, and in this there is self-pity. Self-pity is the darkness of dishonesty. It does not mean that one must become ruthless with oneself, but rather, one is attentive. To be attentive means to care, to look.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Mind is always changing

2009-08-27T02:04:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti is talking about how mind fools us. Mind or Me or Ego are different terms of same phenomena

Questioner: Though it seems to be an entity, to me it is more of an action, or an activity. Is this word not misleading us?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: No, it isn't. It does not mean it is something solid, like the trunk of a tree. It is a movement, it is a living thing. One day it feels marvellous, the next day it is in great depression. One day it is passionate, lustful, the next day it is worn out and says, ''Let me have some peace.'' It is a constantly moving, active thing. How is this movement to transform itself into another movement, without becoming violent?

First, let us get the question right. We said: this is a movement, it is a living thing, it is not static, it is not something dead, it is adding to itself all the time, and taking away from itself all the time. This is the ''me''. And when the ''me'' says, ''I must get rid of the 'me','' wanting to have another ''me'', it is still violent; the ''me'' that says: ''I am a pacifist, I live peacefully'', the me that seeks truth, the me that says ''I must live beautifully, non-violently'', is still the ''me'' which is the cause of violence.

What will the mind do with this living thing? And the mind itself is the ''me''. Do you understand the question? Any movement on the part of the ''me'' to get rid of itself, to say ''I must wither away'', ''I must destroy myself'', ''I must gradually get rid of myself'', is still that same movement of the ''me'', is still the ''me'' which is the root of violence. Do we realize that? Do we really see that? Not theoretically, but actually realize the truth of it, that any movement of the ''me'' in any direction, is the action of violence. Do I actually, sensuously, intelligently, see the truth of it, know the feel of it? If the mind does not, it can go on playing with words for ever.

Art of listening lies in passive listening and listener in the present moment

2009-08-25T08:46:00.000-07:00

When ever we listen to any body we bring our mind in between. We start interpreting the words of Speaker as per our conditioning. Art of listening is one art which has been given lot of importance by many sages. Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mahavira, Osho and Lord Krishna has spoken much on art of listening.

According to Lord Krishna, if we listen the Bhagwad gita with totality and in a right way, then we can become awakened just because of our right listening. But we don't know the art of listening. In right listening, we are there but the mind is not there. Otherwise, what ever we hear, see, feel or taste, our observation is colored by the mind. Mind dilutes all our experiences.

One has to develop the art of listening and slowly one can become adept in it. One thing which is very certain about the art of listening is that we have to be present in the moment. Listener has to be present so that he can listen. If the listener is present then the mind can not be there. Mind can function as long as the listener is not there. So the whole art of listening lies in our presence in the moment and being total.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: How do we keep intelligence awakened?

2009-08-20T01:03:00.000-07:00

Questioner: How do we keep intelligence awakened?
Jiddu Krishnamurti: Surely, this is a wrong way of putting the question, is it not? Either you are awake or you are not. Is there not the subtle thought implied in this question that you are fundamentally intelligent, that deep within you is reality or God, and that this abiding intelligence in you is guiding, shaping your life? And, at the same time, being caught up in ignorance and sorrow, how are you to keep awake to its beauty and its promptings?

Now, where there is darkness there cannot be light, where there is ignorance there cannot be understanding or love. If you are God then you are not suffering, you are not afraid, brutal, covetous; but you are suffering, you are afraid, so that must be false, and to assert that you are not suffering because you are truth or God is to deceive yourself and be in illusion.
Alert and discerning awareness alone can awaken intelligence.

In becoming aware of your environment, you begin to perceive the creator of that environment, which is yourself; you see how you have separated yourself from it and thereby started a dual process of conflict between the 'I' and the not 'I'. But through this awareness you begin to understand the cause of your own prejudices, your fears, your national and racial antagonisms, your craving. In trying to understand the environment, you come upon yourself, the investigator, and you find that you yourself are limited.

Then how is thought to free itself from its own limitations? It can do so only by becoming intensely aware of its own process of greed, possessive love, and its craving for its own continuity. This strenuous awareness creates its own understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti on love | Where there is love, there is no loneliness

2009-08-19T23:23:00.000-07:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti - To meet your wife or your husband, your children, your neighbour, at the same time, at the same level, with the same intensity, that is love. Do you understand this? To meet somebody, you must meet him at the same time, at the same level, with the same intensity.

Then that is relationship, but if you are ambitious, you follow the path, becoming noble, ignoble and all the rest of it, and she also follows another path. Naturally you may be married, you may have children and all the rest of it, but you never meet. That breeds a sense of desperate loneliness. Don't you know all this? I have no relationship with anyone - with my wife, with my boss, with my foreman - I have no relationship at all with anybody, because I am self-centred.

So that self-centredness and the lack of relationship brings about great loneliness. Discovering that loneliness, we then make out of that loneliness a problem - what am I to do when I am lonely? Your brain is ready to solve the problem. But you never rest with the loneliness, you never enquire the cause of it.

Where there is love, there is no loneliness. Where there is love in your heart, there is no problem. Having stated that, don't make it into a problem. Look at the fact. The fact is that we are not sensitive, that we don't have the depth of beauty. The fact is that we don't love; we don't look at it, try to remain with it, to see 'that is so', not try to rationalize it. It is so, that I don't love my wife; you know what it means to say that to yourself. You should cry. I want to cry for you all.

Sirs, it is like two parallel lines never meeting and therefore increasing conflict day after day till you die. See the fact that there is no love in your heart, to have the mind in your heart. We think love can be achieved, cultivated. Love is not something to cultivate. Either there is or there is not. If there is not, look at it, hold it, realize what you are without love in your heart; it then becomes a machine - insensitive, vulgar, coarse, only concerned with sex and pleasure. Sirs, please, I am not harassing you, I am not scolding you.

I am just pointing out what is happening. Your knowledge, your books, have destroyed you because love is not found in the books. It does not lie with knowledge. Knowledge and love don't go together. Then you say: 'I know my wife', but that is your knowledge which is your image about her. That knowledge is put together by thought, and thought is not love.

So, having stated all this, do you have love in your heart or is it something romantic, nonsensical, impractical, valueless? It does not give you any money; that is so. Having heard all this, is there a comprehension of the depth of that word so that your mind is in the heart? Then you have right relationship. When you have right relationship, which means love, you can never go wrong.

Janmashtami is celebrated as birth of Lord Krishna

2009-08-16T07:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Janmashtami festival was celebrated in large parts of india. Janmashtami is celebrated as the birth of one of the most loved enlightened being of India, Lord Krishna. As per the legends, Birth of Lord Krishna took birth on the eighth day (Ashtami) in the month of Sravana or Savana. Lord Sri Krishna was born on the 'Rohini' nakshatram (star). According to the Christian Calendar, Janmashtami is mostly celebrated in the month of August-September .

Janmashtami literally means the Janam(Birth) on the Ashtami(eighth day of dark side of lunar cycle). According to popular beliefs it was a dark, stormy and windy night when Lord Krishna took birth to end the rule and atrocities of his maternal uncle, Kansa

Lord Krishna is considered as a complete divine being who took part in various play of life with ease. Lord Krishna lived life in all his dimension. He was at ease in the roles of life which life expected him to play. He was an ideal husband, lover, friend, warrier, guru, brother and so on. He took the life as it came and gave one of the most loved hindu scripture that is Bhagvad Gita.

Mythological story of Churning of Ocean by Gods and demons

2009-08-09T12:14:00.000-07:00

In Hindu Mythology there is a story where gods and demons cooperates together to churn the ocean in the hope of getting precious treasures and wealth.

While they were churning the ocean, first of all a very deadly poison came out from it. Which Lord Shiva drank and after the poison many things came out from the ocean like Lakshmi (Goddess of prosperity and beauty), Goddess of wine, Moon, Rambha the nymph , White Horse, Kaustubha a jewel, Parijata the Celestial tree, Surabhi the cow of Plenty, Airavata a white elephant, Dhanus a mighty bow, Sankha a conch shell came.

But they kept on churning the ocean and in the end Divine nectar came out and as per the legend who ever drinks this nectar will become immortal.

Although this story looks like a myth but this is the story of every meditator. When we start meditation then the content from out unconscious mind starts surfacing and we have to witness many such desires which were buried deep with in our unconscious mind. These desires could be of fame, sex, power, money, vehicle or being immortal. But they come out and we have to keep on witnessing them like the gods and demons of this story who kept on churning the ocean, till the divine nectar came out.

If we persist in our meditation then in the end the divine nectar comes which signifies our real self or the realization of our true nature. Moral of story is that we have to have to dig deep in our mind and be a passive watcher of whatsoever comes from our mind. We don't need to indulge in these desires but to be a passive watcher of these desires and transform these desires into highest form of energy e.g. sex into love, hate into compassion etc

J Krishnamurti - Stillness of mind comes only through self-knowledge

2009-08-09T12:11:00.001-07:00

Questioner: Is not stilling the mind a prerequisite for the solution of a problem, and is not the dissolution of the problem a condition of mental stillness?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Is not the stilling of the mind a prerequisite for the solution of a problem? The mind is not a few layers of superficial consciousness. Consciousness is not just the dull actions of the mind. When a problem is created by the superficial mind, the superficial layers have to become quiet in order to understand it.

When you have a business problem, what do you do? You switch the telephone off. You stop your secretary from interrupting you and you study the problem. This is what most of you do with regard to your various problems.

In studying the problem, only the superficial layers have become comparatively quiet, temporarily at least. Only when every problem is completely understood, the problem leaves no residue, no memory. Consciousness is a process of experiencing, naming, and recording, which is memory. This process is going on continuously, consciously or unconsciously.

How can a mind be made still without understanding the whole content of consciousness? The mind cannot be made still by discipline, which only makes the mind dull and weary. Only by allowing every movement of thought and understanding its implications, stillness comes into being. As the pool becomes serene when the breezes stop, so the mind becomes extremely quiet, and the problems are dissolved.

A stillness of mind comes only through self-knowledge, not through denial or acceptance, but through being aware of every thought and feeling. To cultivate stillness destroys creative understanding. When you pursue stillness, you are exercising will, which is the outcome of desire; and desire, in its very nature, is disturbing. It is only by inviting sorrow that you can understand reality, not by escaping tribulation.

Source - Jiddu Krishnamurti talk at bombay, March 21, 1948

Jiddu Krishnamurti on difference in awareness and introspection

2009-08-09T12:03:00.001-07:00

Questioner: What is the difference between awareness and introspection, and who is aware in awareness?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: The examination of oneself in order to modify or change is generally called introspection. To look within with an intention to change the responses of the self is what most people indulge in. In this process, there is always the observer and the observed, the observer having an end in view. In this process is involved not the understanding of what is, but only the transformation of what is. When that end, that transformation is not achieved, there is depression, there is frustration, that peculiar moodiness that goes with introspection. In this there is always the accumulating process of the 'me', the dualistic conflict from which there is no release. In this introspective action, there is a battle of the opposites in which there is always choice and the endless strife that it breeds.

Awareness is entirely different. Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

In introspection there is self-improvement which causes self-centeredness. In the process of awareness there is no self-improvement; on the contrary, it is the ending of the self, the 'me' and the 'mine' with its idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. Self-introspection implies identification and condemnation, choice and justification. In awareness there are none of these things. Awareness is direct relationship without the intermediary of persuasion, like, or dislike. Awareness is being sensitive to nature, to things, to relationship of people and of ideas. It is an observation of every feeling, thought, and action as they arise from moment to moment.

Awareness is not condemnatory; there is no accumulation of memory as the 'me'. Awareness is the understanding of the actions of the self, that of the 'me' and the 'mine' in its relationship to things, people, and ideas. This awareness is from moment to moment and so it cannot be practiced; so awareness is not the cultivation of habit. A mind that is caught in the net of habits is insensitive. A mind that is functioning within a pattern of action is not pliable. Awareness demands constant alertness and pliability.

Introspection leads to frustration, to conflict, and misery. Awareness is a process of release from the activities of the self. To be aware of your daily actions, your movements of thought and feeling, to be aware of another, there must be that sensitive pliability which can only come with inquiry and interest. To know oneself fully - not just one or two layers of oneself - there must be that alert, expansive awareness and freedom so that the hidden intentions and pursuits are revealed.

Who is aware in awareness? In the state of experiencing, there is neither the experiencer nor the experience. It is only when the state of experiencing has gone, there emerges the experiencer and the experience, which is the division in memory itself. Since most of us live in memory with its responses, we invariably ask who is the observer and who is it that is aware. Surely, this is a wrong question, is it not? At the moment of experiencing, there is neither the 'me' which is aware nor the object of which he is aware.

Most of us find it extremely difficult to live in a state of experiencing as it demands easy pliability, swift movement of thought and feeling, a high degree of sensitivity. All this is denied when we are pursuing a result, when achievement becomes far more important than understanding. Only a man who is not seeking an end, who is free from that bargaining spirit, who is not becoming - such a man is in a state of constant experiencing. You can experiment with this yourself and observe that, in experiencing, the experiencer and the experience do not exist.

The improvement of the self-expansion process can never bring truth. This self-expansion is ever self-enclosing. Awareness is the understanding of what is - the what is of your daily existence. It is only when you understand the truth of your daily existence that you can go far. But to go far, you must begin near. Without understanding the near, we look to the dim, distant future, which only brings confusion and misery.

Source - from J Krishnamurti talk at bombay, 1948

Mulla Nasrudin a sufi mystic

2009-08-09T11:50:00.000-07:00

Mulla Nasrudin is a sufi mystic who used to teach people through his weird but funny jokes and stories. Mull Nasrudin teachings are very valueable in the current time when life has become very competitive. It seems that Mulla Nasrudin was never serious in his life and he took the life in a very light hearted way. He was a man of tremendous wisdom and his jokes still make people think even after centuries.

Most of us take life very seriously and are very much determined to achieve our ambition at any cost. We don't even look at the fact that we lose all our comfort and peace of mind to achieve some thing which only boast our ego but do not nourish our soul at all.

Meditation & Concentration - Meditation is not concentration

2009-08-08T06:17:00.000-07:00

Most often Meditation is confused with Concentration. Many teachers who have no idea about meditation teach concentration exercises in the name of Meditation. Reality is that Meditation and concentration are two different things. In a way Meditation is totally different and opposite from concentration.

Meditation means to go beyond the mind. In Meditation we don't interfere with the mind but we witness the mind thoughts and feelings. Slowly a meditator, dis-identify himself with the mind and his responses comes from no-mind.

Whereas Concentration is any exercise which makes the mind stronger and pin pointed. For improving concentration, generally people make use of some mantras, tratak, deity image etc to concentrate their mind on it.

Concentration makes the mind stronger whereas meditation makes the mind grip on us weaker. Meditation is to go beyond the mind. Meditation is dis-identification with the mind.

How to control Mind to become master of Mind

2009-08-08T05:54:00.000-07:00

Many people are interested in controlling their mind and their thoughts. In the internet many people give techniques also to control the mind. But in reality, the truth is that no one can control the mind or its thoughts. It is a bitter truth for those who wants to control the mind. But fact remains the same - we can not control mind but we can go beyond the mind.

Best approach regarding controlling the mind or thoughts is NOT to control them but to understand the mind. Instead of stopping or interfering with the thoughts, one should become a passive watcher of the thoughts.

At the most one can control the mind for a while, for few minutes by practicing some mantras or technique but the moment we stop using that technique then the mind comes back at us even with more force. So all the effort which we put in controlling the mind goes waste.

Someone who tries to control the mind will always has to be on guard to control the mind. The moment he relaxes, the mind will come back more stronger. The situation is like that of a school where students start making noise when teacher is not there. Similarly the mind can be kept in control as long as we practice some technique to control it. So ultimately those who tries to control mind become slave of the mind, as they have to keep a guard on it 24 hours.

Best approach is to go beyond the mind. Meditation is the art to go beyond the mind. Meditation is to become aware of one thoughts, feelings and actions. In meditation we don't interfere with the mind but we go beyond the mind by becoming a passive watcher of its activities. A meditative person uses the mind when there is a need and drop the mind when there is no need of it. Thus meditation makes us the master of our mind and this is the real mastery which is worth achieving in life.

Occult powers, Siddhis are obstacles in spirituality

2009-08-08T00:20:00.000-07:00

Mind is always desiring and seeking one thing or the another. In materialistic world, mind seeks power, fame, money etc. In spiritual world also, the mind will seek the same things and this is very natural for the mind. Because desiring and seeking is very tendency of the mind.

A real spiritual person stops identifying with the desires of the mind and starts responding from his consciousness and awareness. As long as we are slave to mind desires then we are going to be mislead and fooled by it. Many times it happens that people who are practicing meditation or spiritual sadhanas start running after Occult powers, siddhis or fame. This is because they have not learnt dis-identifying with the mind. Somewhere their actions are still governed by mind desires. These craving for occult powers or siddhis distracts a seeker from attaining his real self.

Patanjali has devoted an entire chapter in his Yoga sutras, so that spiritual seeker does not get trap in these occult powers and siddhis which come on the way while we practice meditation. One should let go of these occult powers and keep on moving on the path. If we don't use these occult powers then they disappear on their own. But on the contrary if we start using these siddhis then slowly we will lose our attention from the goal and we will end up wasting our life.

A spiritual seeker should never try to achieve any occult power or siddhis and even if they come on their own then there is no need to use them or boast about them with other people. One should always try to transform oneself rather than indulge in fulfilling mind desires and fancies.

Full Moon Night helps in Meditation

2009-08-05T10:31:00.000-07:00

Full Moon night is one of the best time for meditation. Energy of Moon has a lot of influence on earth. It affects the sea and creates low and high tides in it. Our body also carries lot of water and it is also influence by the Moon energy.

On full moon night energy is at its peak and a good meditator can easily make use of it. It is one of the best night to sit for meditation. Many Zen people meditates on full moon. Many people have got awakened during the full moon.

Meditation is all about transforming our energy and raising it to higher chakras. When we raise our energy to upper chakras then we start working from our higher centers and our frequency of vibration is also raised. We need to channelize our energy to upper chakras by transforming them with awareness.

According to Buddha's any action done with awareness is meditation. Meditation is a passive way to witnessing our thoughts, feelings and actions. When we don't identify with our emotions and thoughts then that energy which we usually spend in the emotions gets transformed and moves into upper chakras. Meditation is the science to transform our energies and full moon night is only conductive to our growth, If we make use of it by practicing meditation. A seeker should not ignore the full moon night time.

Top 10 Spiritual Books of 20th century

2009-08-05T09:17:00.001-07:00

Last century saw the coming and going of many Spiritual souls, teachers and masters. Many Great masters like Meher Baba, Ramana Maharshi, Gurdjieff, Osho, Jiddu Krishnamurti etc have given discourses to raise the consciousness of human beings. Here I am listing my list of top 10 spiritual books of 20th century:

Living with Himalayan Masters by Swami Rama
This Book shares Swami Rama experiences with spiritual saints and yogis of himalayas and different places in India.
Be As You Are by David Godman
This Spiritual book carries Ramana Maharshi teachings compiled in best presentation format.
First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Commentaries on Living by Jiddu Krishnamurti
In Search of Miraclous by Ouspensky
Ouspensky was disciple of Gurdjieff and this is the best book which shares fragments of Great master Gurdjieff teachings from a disciple(Ouspensky) understanding.
Buddha Dhammapada Sutras - Discourses by Osho
Patanjali Yoga Sutras - Discourses by Osho
Tears of The Mystic Rose by Swami Rajneesh
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra - Discourses by Osho
Diamond Sutra - Discourses by Osho

Don't build up hatred, antagonism within yourself

2009-08-05T05:27:00.000-07:00

Questioner: I have a friend who hates her parents because they have separated her from a person she loves. How can I help her?

Jiddu Krishnamurti: This is a very complicated question, is it not? You know, life is not very easy, some parts of it are very cruel. There are thoughtless parents who are not concerned with their children at all; or if they are concerned, they want the children to obey, to imitate, to do everything exactly as the parents wish. So resistance is gradually built up in the children, is it not? If the father happens to be intelligent, and the mother stupidly insistent when the father is not there, or vice versa, the children have resistance, antagonism to one parent or the other. Perhaps you can help your friend by being more understanding, more affectionate, and explaining in a kindly manner some of the things which you and I have talked about and which you understand for yourself.

You see, the moment you have a grudge, the moment you hate somebody, it harms you far more than the person you dislike, because that feeling is like a wound inside you that is festering, but it is very difficult for children, for young people to understand all this. After all, children are full of mischief, full of happy play - as they should be; and if parents force their child into a particular pattern or mould, it creates in the child a tremendous resistance, a blind antagonism which he is going to take out on somebody as he grows up. If you have begun to understand this, you can talk it over with your friend and perhaps help her not to build up this hatred, this antagonism within herself.

Dhyanalinga temple of Sadhguru Jaggi vasudev

2009-07-25T13:11:00.000-07:00

India is a land of spirituality. So many buddhas and enlightened masters have chosen india to take birth. Vibes of india is spiritual and it helps in spiritual practices. There are many places and temples in india which are very much charged with spiritual vibration and are conductive for meditation.

Dhyanalinga is one such temple created by Sadhguru Jaggi vasudev. According to Jaggi Vasudev energy of Dhyanalinga is very conductive for spiritual practices and is not going to decay for another 5,000 years. In the preparation of Dhyanalinga lot of occult science is used and it seems that it contains the energy of all the 7 chakras. In his book "Mystic Musing", Jaggi Vasudev shares the occult science behind the Dhyanalinga temple and how it took him 3 births to make this dhyanalinga a reality.

Most of the temples of India were closed during the current Solar eclipse of 22nd july 2009. As the vibrations of Solar eclipse are not considered good for temples and their gates are remain closed. But Dhyanalinga was open during the solar eclipse and Jaggi Vasudev asked people to meditate inside the Dhyanalinga temple during Solar eclipse time.

What is real spirituality and being a spiritual person

2009-07-25T00:51:00.000-07:00

In India the term spirituality or being religious or spiritual often means..... going to the temple, performing poojas, reciting mantras, japas, stotras or reading spiritual books.

But in real sense spirituality is knowing our true essence, finding who am I and to realize oneself. Most of the time this so called spirituality is just escapism from the mundane world. Materialistic people seek power and fame in this world whereas so called spiritual people try to seek blessings and comfort in an illusory divine world.

But a real spiritual person is not after any reward. Instead he is interested in knowing oneself and in seeking the truth. Real spiritual person will only be interested in knowing the truth.

Seeking enlightenment is highest form of desire

2009-07-24T07:15:00.000-07:00

All our life we are constantly seeking and desiring. It does not matter whether we seek in materialistic world or in spiritual world. A desire is a desire.

It is the nature of mind to seek and desire. According to sages even the desire for an enlightenment is also a desire and is an hindrance to enlightenment.

But it does not mean that we should not seek and desire for enlightenment. Seeking enlightenment is highest form of desire. What is important is to understand and be aware of this constant desiring nature of the mind.

Mind is never satisfied and is always discontented. Meditation is a way to go beyond this desiring mind. Mind can never find solution for any thing, but it always adds more confusion in our life. So, being aware of this desiring mind and its nature helps in bringing more clarity and peace in our life.

Devraha Baba rare video

2009-07-13T23:12:00.001-07:00

Devraha Baba is a famous ageless yogi from india who lived for over 250 years, before entering into samadhi in 1989.

Devraha Baba was so elderly that the first President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, said more than fifty years ago, that his father had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba as a child - that is, in the middle of the nineteenth century - and Devraha Baba was already elderly at that time.

This rare video of Devraha Baba was recorded for a russian television channel around 1987-1989, so it is not in English.

Self inquiry meditation technique of Ramana Maharshi

2009-07-13T12:04:00.000-07:00

Ramana Maharshi is an enlightened master who has given us a very powerful meditation technique for awakening. Self inquiry meditation technique, taught by Ramana Maharshi is consider as the shortest and direct route to awakening.

When ever someone used to come to Ramana Maharshi for any spiritual instructions then Maharshi used to ask that person to follow the Self Inquiry and through out his life Maharshi gave importance to the practice of Self Inquiry meditation for realizing the self.

Self Inquiry meditation technique means that mind will only subside and merge to the source by the inquiry 'Who am I' and when ever any other thought comes to us then immediately we should inquire `To whom did they rise?'

According to Ramana Maharshi, "The mind will subside only by means of the inquiry `Who am I?' The thought 'Who am I?', destroying all other thoughts, will itself finally be destroyed like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre. If other thoughts rise one should, without attempting to complete them, inquire `To whom did they rise?' What does it matter however many thoughts rise?

At the very moment that each thought rises, if one vigilantly enquires `To whom did this rise?', it will be known `To me'. If one then enquires `Who am I?', the mind will turn back to its source [the Self] and the thought which had risen will also subside. By repeatedly practising thus, the power of the mind to abide in its source increases".

According to Ramana Maharshi seeker should practice Self Inquiry meditation all the time and He should be really sincere and total in his practice. There is no need to leave the household work or go to jungles to practice this technique.

Shravan Month in traditional Hindu calendar

2009-07-12T01:25:00.000-07:00

The month of Shravan is the fifth month of the Hindu calender and is one of the holiest months of the hindu calender. It is one of the most auspicious month of the Chaturmas. Chaturmas is a period of four months in which wandering spiritual teachers and monks in old times used to stay at one place and learn and recite the holy scriptures. Even Buddhist monks don't wander during rains and stay at one place for 3-4 months.

The Shravan Month in traditional Hindu calendar followed in North India in 2009 begins on July 8 and ends on August 6. Shravan is considered the holiest month of the year. This holy month is dedicated to Lord Shiva and contains many religious festivals and ceremonies.

Each monday of this month, known as Shravana Somvar, is a special day in Shiva temples. It is believed that the worship of Shiva during Shrawan month is 108 times more powerful than worshipping during normal days.

All days of Shravana month are auspicious for doing spiritual sadhanas. But, mondays of Shravana month are considered specially important for spiritual practice and many Ladies in india observes fast and do austerity on this day.

Inner nature of mind is always desiring and seeking

2009-07-11T22:51:00.000-07:00

"One day, a scorpion was standing on the side of a river, looking for some way to reach the other shore. He saw a frog swimming in the river. Scorpion ask the frog to carry it to the other side.

Everyone knows the nature of scorpion, he bites everyone. So, frog was also afraid and he ask 'How do I know you won't sting me?'.
Scorpion replies 'Because if I bite you, I will also drown with you'.

The frog thought about the answer and felt that what scorpion is saying is right. So he put the scorpion on his back and started taking him to the other shore. But midway across the river, the scorpion plunged its stinger into the frog's back. As they both began to drown, the frog asked again 'Why?'
The scorpion replied, 'Because it is my nature.'

If we listen to our mind then we will never be able to reach the other shore. Mind always dwells in the materialistic world and will always drown us, that is the inner nature of the mind - always desiring.

Jiddu Krishnamurti : what is our mission in life?

2009-07-11T08:39:00.000-07:00

Questioner: Why do we exist, and what is our mission in life?

Jiddu Krishnamurti : You exist because your father and mother have produced you, and you are the result of centuries of man, not only of India but of man all over the world, are you not? You are the result of the whole of India, of the whole of the world. You are not born of any extraordinary uniqueness; you have all the background of tradition, you are a Hindu or a Muslim. You are the product of the climate, the food, the social and cultural environments, the economic pressures. You are the result of innumerable centuries, the result of time, of conflicts, of pain, of joy, of affection. Each one of you, when you say you have a soul, when you say you are a pure Brahmin, is merely following the tradition, the idea, the culture, the heritage of India, the heritage of centuries of India.

You ask what is your mission in life. First you must understand your background. If you do not understand the tradition, the culture, the heritage, if you do not understand the whole picture, then you will merely take an idea, a twist, out of the background and call that your mission. Suppose you are a Hindu and you have been brought up in that culture. Then, out of Hinduism, you pick up an idea, a feeling, and make that into your mission, don't you? Do you think differently, totally differently, from any other Hindu?

To find out what the innate, potential being or urge is, one must be free of all these outward pressures, outward conditions. If I want to get at the root of the thing, I must remove all the weeds - which means, I must cease to be a Hindu or a Muslim, and there must be no fear, there must be no ambition, no acquisitiveness. Then I can go much deeper and see what the real potential thing is. But without removing all this, I cannot assume something potential. That only leads to illusion and is a philosophical speculation.

Present world crisis of population explosion

2009-07-08T03:53:00.000-07:00

Our earth and its environment is deteriorating every day and we are facing a danger of big environmental change. The result of which could be loss of Human life, property and may be extinction of human species in coming time. Many spiritual masters like Osho and Jiddu Krishnamurti have talked about this present crisis and raised the awareness of the seekers about this issue.

To prevent this disaster, our responsible soul should act immediately and participate in making people more aware about these issues. One of the major factor which is contributing in this crisis is the population explosion. Human population has grown so rapidly that it has taken a big load on the resources of the earth. Every human life needs resources to grow. But sadly, the resources are so much overused and exploited that now we are facing so many famines, shortage of food, drinkable water, electricity, and clean air. How can one live in such a condition when we don't have basic amenities of the life available.

Instead of procreating, people should plant more trees to restore the balance of earth. What we need right now is not increase in population but increase in number of trees and less exploitation of earth and its rescources.

Full Moon Night Meditation - Meditation on the full moon

2009-07-06T11:38:00.000-07:00

Today, 7th July is a full moon night and this night is very good for meditation. Every full moon night is a special night for meditation as the energy of the moon supports the meditation and pull our energy and spirits up.

Full moon is a high energy day and one can use this energy in any way. More people go mad on full moon day than on any other day. Whereas many seeker have realized their Buddha nature on full moon than on any other day. It is said that Gautam Buddha was born in a full moon day, he got awakened on full moon day and he left the body(mahaparinirvana) also on full moon day.

Full Moon night is used by many meditators, specially in Zen monasteries. They just sit and watch the full moon. The technique is very simple, one has to see just see the moon in a very relax and unfocused way. Just witness or watch the moon. Slowly, slowly as we keep on seeing the moon, it also stir some thing inside us and take us to deeper into meditation.

All meditation is to get dis-identify with the mind and reach the no-mind state. When we watch the moon, then many thoughts and desires are going to come. Let these desires to come and go on their own. No need to interfere or stop them, Just keep the attention on moon. Just meditate on full moon.