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Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.
The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.
Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.
I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.
Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.
I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.
Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky.
Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.
Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.
Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.
Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.
Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.
You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.
By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.
Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.
I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.
This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.
If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you.