Thursday, June 12, 2008

Accept yourself as you are

Everybody is training everybody else in how to be--and nobody seems to be satisfactory, never. If one wants to live, one should learn one thing: to accept things as they are, and to accept yourself as you are. Start living. Don't start training for a life sometime in the future. All the misery in the world is created because you have completely forgotten to live, you have became engaged in an activity which has nothing to do with life.


Osho: From meditation to meditation

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Drop the ideas!

Drop the ideas! There is nothing that you have to improve, you are perfectly beautiful as you are. And start living! Rather than thinking that you will live in the future when you are perfect, when you are like this, like that, you will live when you have attained a certain standard according to your mind...But life is herenow and slipping out of your hands. Tomorrow there is death--only today there is life...it is always today...Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witness is the miracle--the whole mystery of life.


Osho: From meditation to meditation

Monday, June 9, 2008

Feeling sorry


Feeling sorry for yourself is like an anchor, preventing you from living fully, from having joy, happiness, and fun, from supporting others, from requesting help, love, commitment.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a great way to sell yourself short and be busy inding all the things you are missing in life.

Feeling sorry for yourself diminishes the value you expect, create, and demand from others.

You cannot be wealthy if you are feeling sorry for yourself. And believe me, you will ind enough reasons to convince yourself of what a great loser you are!

The vaccine to feeling sorry? Being grateful! Focusing on what is going well in your life creates a circle of pride and healthy selishness and sets you up in a much powerful platform to give your best and expect the best.

Then you feel valuable, and it shows. You work on your strengths, on your passions, on your best you. You focus on making the best of your life and that includes taking responsibility for your resources.

10 Unwealthy habits
By Alicia Castillo Holley

Live fully

Learn how to live the moment joyously. Don't look for the result, there are none. Life is not going anywhere, it has no ends. Life is not a means to any end, life is just herenow. Live it. Live it totally, live it consciously, live it joyously--and you will be fulfilled. Fulfillment should not be postponed, othewise you will never fulfilled. Fulfillment has to be now--now or never... A religious person is one who is balanced, in whatever he is doing, he is always in the middle. He never goes to the extreme because all extremes will create tensions, anxities...A religious person is one who knows where to stop, and that should come out of your awareness, not out of a certain teaching.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Being in love


The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

- Ram Dass

Sunday, June 8, 2008

State of no-mind


The whole Eastern approach is to find a state of no-mind -- that silence, that purity, that serenity. And mind is no longer there with all its problems, with all its roots; it has simply evaporated the way dew drops evaporated in the Sun in the morning, leaving no trace behind. Hence I will say to you: awareness is not only enough, it's more than enough. You don't need anything else... Awareness brings you to a point where you are able to see with your own eyes the ultimate reality of yourself and the universe... and a miracle experience that you and the universe are not separate, that you are part of the whole.

To me this is the only meaning of holy.

Osho: From meditiation to meditation