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Why Sunlight Is the Most Powerful Drug You Take Every Day - Feynman Explains (hyperlink)

You thought sunlight was only giving you vitamin D and skin cancer ? Think again. Do you think it is a coincidence that Greenland, one of the least illuminated areas on the planet, has the highest suicide rate ? Without the presence of the Sun, our planet Earth would be an ice cold marble, at around 3 Kelvin temperature in utter darkness. No life would ever become possible. Yes, our God is the Sun. The ancient civilizations knew this intuitively, but mankind has receded. Turn back. – JB

 

Every desire is a complaint against existence. Every desire is a discontent with the way you are, the being you are. And every desire brings frustration in its wake, because it cannot be fulfilled. Desire brings future in and disturbs the present. And desire creates the idea of ‘I’. Otherwise there is no I. If you go withinwards you will not find anybody there, it is utter silence. That’s what Buddha means when he says ANATTA, no-self. To know no-self is maturity. Osho

 

Events do not disturb us. Our evaluation of events disturbs us. – Ancient Stoics

 

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. Beauty is eternity staring at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. – Kahlil Gibran

 

The now is a window into eternity – Rupert Spira

 

You found it offensive ? I found it funny. This is why I’m happier than you – unknown

 

There is an unbridgeable gap between self-esteem and self-acceptance. Any self-esteem is under constant threat of collapse, because you may fail at any time and you know it. Self-acceptance, more precisely unconditional self-acceptance (USA), is under no threat. You can opt to accept yourself unconditionally, while continuing to rate your traits and acts. Let me know if you feel better have a certain amount of self-esteem or going with USA.– based on REBT

 

The folly of deservingness ! – REBT

 

The experience of love is this the understanding that the “other” is not truly other. The perception of beauty is that there are no “objects” out there – JB

 

Organized Religion : if something is capable of producing happiness in people, lets hate on it. – JB

 

Clothes are things I put on my body to not get arrested – unknown

 

If marriage didn't exist, would you invent it? Would you go 'Baby, what we got together, it's so good we gotta get the government in on this. We can't just share this commitment 'tweenst us. We need judges and lawyers involved – Doug Stanhope

 

the textbook scientists have merely transformed science into a new religion, the religion of matter. A true scientist is open-minded, fundamentally curious. The textbook scientist are too gutless to handle this uncertainty. True science is not intended to be a new belief, it is intended to be the absence of the need to believe. – JB

 

All beliefs are assumptions of things which do not lie in your experience at the moment. In short, they are lies. – JB

 

Forget not that the winds long to play with your hair and the earth delights to feel your bare feet (Kahlil Gibran)

It is not clear how you succeeded in desensitizing yourself from this, but that it has proven incredibly injurious is clear.

 

The universal soldier present in so many men. Without him Adolf Hitler would have stood alone – Donovan

 

Zeno’s paradox : An instant snapshot taken of an arrow in flight will appear to stand still. This reveals that all of space is a false appearance, an illusion.

 

Nobody is enjoying anything. Some people are enjoying, but they are not enjoying anything.

 

If you are happy for a reason, you have a very serious problem, because that reason can be taken from you.– à la Osho

 

The impression that you are a person is the only blasphemy there is. Because in order for you to be a person, God, the Infinite, would need to have a boundary where He ends and you begin, and He would not be Infinite anymore. This is impossible. You had better give up this sense of being a separate person. It only serves as an injury. – JB

 

Nowhere but where He is can you be found

 

You are at home in God, dreaming of an exile

 

You can be host to God or hostage to the sense of separateness (ACIM)

 

This is not an evaluating God, He is the absence of all evaluation

 

We’re just using Christian symbolism here.

 

With the exception of physical violence, nobody hurts you. The only things that hurts you is your own internal agreement with this thing that “hurts” you. If it were not for this agreement, it would be powerless to hurt you. This is why things don’t “hurt” people equally.

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This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. – Rumi

 

“Silence of the heart, practiced with wisdom, will see a lofty depth; and the ear of the silent mind will hear untold wonders.”– Hesychius of Jerusalem

 

EVEN IF YOU ARE FEELING VERY ECSTATIC, MIND WIL SAY: BEWARE, YOU MAY JUST HAVE A HALLUCINATION. WHEN YOU HAVE A MIGRAINE - MIND NEVER SAYS IT MAY BE JUST ILLUSORY. IT IS JUST A CENTURIES OLD HABIT: LISTENING TO THE MIND. YOU CANNOT MAKE A BUFFALO A BUDDHA, BUT MAN IS AN EXPLORER, AN ADVENTURER. GO FROM MIND TO MEDITATION AND YOU WILL BE THRILLED WITH THE NEW

“You should be immensely happy that the need for recognition is gone. That is a great achievement. You are no more dependent on others' opinions; for the first time you are just yourself and you don't need anybody to approve.This is the beginning of the birth of individuality. Otherwise people are only cogs in the wheel; whatever others say they believe, even about themselves. All that they know about themselves is what others have said. They go on collecting all kinds of opinions and that's what their self- knowledge consists of. It is a great experience that the need for recognition is gone. You should be happy with it rather than making some problem out of it.Mind is very clever and very cunning. Even if you are feeling very ecstatic, mind will say beware, you may be just having a hallucination. And it will destroy your blissfulness - "My God! It is possible it may be just a hallucination!" When you are having pain the mind never says that - not in the whole history of mankind. When you are having a migraine the mind never says that it may be just illusory.But if you are having a beautiful space within you, as if a rose is flowering, the mind is going to jump on it immediately: "You are daydreaming, this is all hallucination, illusion. You are being hypnotized."And you immediately listen to the mind, because you have listened to it for centuries. It is just a habit.– OshoChris Heria, one of the worldst finest calistenics athetes, said he got his large neck tattoo at a young age to make sure he would never be able to hold a regular job. That is the way to go.ECSTASY IS A LANGUAGE that man has completely forgotten. He has been forced to forget it; he has been compelled to forget it. The society is against it, the civilization is against it. The society has a tremendous investment in misery. It depends on misery, it feeds on misery, it survives on misery.The society is not for human beings. The society is using human beings as a means for itself. The society has become more important than humanity. The culture, the civilization, the church, they all have become more important. They were meant to be for man, but now they are not for man. They have almost reversed the whole process; now man exists for them.Every child is born ecstatic. Ecstasy is natural. It is not something that happens only to great sages. It is something that everybody brings with him into the world; everybody comes with it. It is life’s innermost core. It is part of being alive. Life is ecstasy. Every child brings it into the world, but then the society jumps on the child, starts destroying the possibility of ecstasy, starts making the child miserable, starts conditioning the child.The society is neurotic, and it cannot allow ecstatic people to be here. They are dangerous for it Try to understand the mechanism; then things will be easier.You cannot control an ecstatic man; it is impossible. You can only control a miserable man. An ecstatic man is bound to be free. Ecstasy is freedom.OSHO

 

You are already that Highest which you bow down to, veiling itself – JB

 

Freedom only comes when you decide that you dont need anyone or anything to change in order to feel better – Abraham Hicks

 

This is how it is: the mind lives in the no, it is a no-sayer; its nourishment comes from saying no to each and everything. The mind is basically atheistic, negative. There is nothing like a positive mind.The heart is positive; just as mind says no, the heart says yes. Of course, it is better to say yes than to say no, because one cannot really live by saying no. The more you say no, the more you become shrunken, closed. The more you say no, the less alive you are. People may think you are a great thinker, but you are shrinking and dying; slowly you are committing suicide.If you say no to love, you are less than you were before; if you say no to beauty, you are less than you were before. And if you go on saying no to each and everything, chunk by chunk you are disappearing. Ultimately a very empty life is left – meaningless, with no significance, with no joy, with no dance, with no celebration.

 

That’s what has happened to the modern mind, to the modern man. The modern man has said more no’s than ever before. Hence the question: What is the meaning of life? Why are we alive at all? Why go on living? We have said no to God, we have said no to the beyond, we have said no to all for which man has lived down the ages. We have proved to our heart’s content that all the values man has lived for are worthless – but now we are in difficulty, in deep anguish. Life has become more and more impossible for us. We go on living only because we are cowards; otherwise we have destroyed all the reasons to live. We go on living because we cannot commit suicide; we are afraid of death, hence we go on living. We live out of fear, not out of love.It is better to be positive, because the more positive you are, the more you are moving towards the heart. The heart knows no negative language. The heart never asks, “What is beauty?” It enjoys it, and in enjoying it, it knows what it is. It cannot define it, it cannot explain itself, because the experience is such that it is inexplicable, inexpressible. Language is not adequate enough, no symbols help. The heart knows what love is, but don’t ask. The mind knows only questions and the heart knows only answers. The mind goes on asking but it cannot answer.Hence philosophy has no answers… questions and questions and questions. Each question becomes, slowly slowly, a thousand and one questions. The heart has no questions – it is one of the mysteries of life – it has all the answers. But the mind will not listen to the heart; there is no communion between the two, no communication, because the heart knows only the language of silence. No other language is known by the heart, no other language is understood by the heart – and the mind knows nothing of silence. The mind is all noise: a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing.The heart knows what significance is. The heart knows the glory of life, the tremendous joy of sheer existence. The heart is capable of celebrating, but it never asks. Hence the mind thinks the heart is blind.

 

The mind is full of doubts, the heart is full of trust; they are polar opposites.That’s why it is said that it is better to be positive than to be negative. But remember: the positive is joined with the negative, two sides of the same phenomenon.I am not here to teach you the ways of the heart. Yes, I use them, but only as a device: to bring you out of your mind I use the heart as a vehicle; to take you to the other shore I use the heart as a boat. Once you have reached the other shore, the boat has to be left behind; you are not expected to carry the boat on your head.The goal is to go beyond duality. The goal is to go beyond no and yes both, because your yes can have meaning only in the context of no; it cannot be free of the no. If it is free of the no, what meaning will it have? Your yes can exist only with the no, remember; and your no can also exist only with the yes. They are polar opposites, but they help each other in a subtle way. There is a conspiracy: they are holding hands, they are supporting each other, because they cannot exist separately. Yes has meaning only because of the no; no has meaning only because of the yes. And you have to go beyond this conspiracy, you have to go beyond this duality. […]I am not teaching you the positive way of living, I am not teaching you the negative way of living: I am teaching you the way of transcendence. All dualities have to be dropped: the duality of mind and heart, the duality of matter and mind, the duality of thinking and emotion, the duality of the positive and the negative, the duality of male and female, yin and yang, the duality of day and night, summer and winter, life and death… all dualities.

 

Duality as such has to be dropped, because you are beyond duality.The moment you start moving away from both yes and no, you will have your first glimpses of the ultimate. Hence the ultimate remains absolutely inexpressible; you cannot say no, you cannot say yes.Gautama the Buddha never said no to God, never said yes to God. He seems to be the only person in the whole history of man who is neither an atheist nor a theist. This is unique, something immensely valuable. He is a pioneer; he is breaking into a new dimension, he is a breakthrough.People were continuously asking, as they have always asked, “Does God exist?” and they expected a categorical answer, yes or no. They were very puzzled by Buddha, because he would never answer clearly whether God exists or not. On the contrary, he would divert the question into something else; he might start talking about something else. And his impact and his magnetism were such that you would forget all about what you had come to ask him; you would remember only later on that he deceived you. You had asked about God and he didn’t say a single word about it.Many thought, “He does not believe in God and that’s why he keeps silent about God, because he is afraid that if he says no then religious people will leave him.”

 

Many thought, “He knows God is, but he does not say so because he does not want the atheists to leave him.” And many thought, “Because he knows nothing, he is utterly ignorant, that’s why he remains silent about the most fundamental question.” But they were all wrong.He was silent because God means something which is transcendental; yes is irrelevant as much as no is irrelevant. Nothing can be said about God; to be silent about him is the only right answer. He was really answering. Very few, rare people understood him.Once a man came. He touched Buddha’s feet and asked him, “Does God exist?” – the perennial question.Buddha said – that was always his way, it will show you his method – he said, “When I was young I used to love horses very much.” Now, the man is asking about God, and he starts talking about horses! But he was a sweet talker… the man became interested in horses, and Buddha said, “I came across four kinds of horses. One is the most stupid and stubborn kind: you beat the horse, still he would not budge. Many people are like that. The second kind is: you beat him and he would move, but he would move only if you beat him, if you whip him. Many people are like that. And the third kind you need not beat – you simply show him the whip and that’s enough; if he knows you have the whip in your hand, that’s enough. And I have also come across very rare horses: even the whip is not needed – just the shadow of the whip is enough.”And then he closed his eyes and sat silently.

 

The man also closed his eyes and sat in silence with Buddha.Buddha’s chief disciple, Ananda, was present; he was watching the whole thing. He could see that the man had asked about God, and Ananda was also curious about what Buddha was going to say – and he started talking about horses! Ananda was not happy about it: “This is no way, this is devious, this is cheating the person. He is asking about God and you talk about horses!” He made it a point, “When this man is gone I am going to ask. This is too much! If he talks about God, at least you can talk about meditation, but not about horses! If you don’t want to talk about God, talk about meditation, talk about silence, but something relevant. Talk about desirelessness, or at least you can say, ‘God is indefinable. Nothing can be said about God, but I can show you the way so you can also experience it.’ That would be right, compassionate. But what kind of a joke is this – you talk about horses?”But more than that, he was puzzled when Buddha closed his eyes and the man also followed. And there was such great silence, so solid, so substantial, almost tangible; you could have touched it, you could have felt the texture of it. Ananda was not a very silent man, but even he was moved by these two men facing each other sitting in such a tremendous silence. He could see Buddha’s face and he could see the face of the man becoming transformed just before his eyes. A grace descended, a great peace arose.And then after an hour or so the man opened his eyes, touched Buddha’s feet in deep gratitude, thanked him and went away.Ananda asked Buddha, “It is incomprehensible to me: he asks about God and you talk about horses. But I know you, I have heard you doing this to many people – but more than that I am puzzled about what transpired between the two of you. I know you, so it was not a great puzzle for me that you closed your eyes and you became silent. I know that it is more difficult for you to talk than to be in silence – silence is natural to you, spontaneous to you – but what happened to the other man? I could see that he was becoming silent and after a few minutes he was in such a deep silence – as if he had lived with you for years. Even I have not known such silence! And then what happened in that silence? What communion happened? What communication happened? What transpired? For what was he grateful? Why did he thank you so much?

 

”Buddha said, “There are four kinds of horses – you are the first kind, Ananda, and he is the fourth! Just the shadow of the whip is enough, he understood. And I was not talking about horses, I was talking about God; but God cannot be talked about directly. And I was not talking about horses, I was talking about meditation. But I knew the man – he is also a lover of horses. When I saw him coming on his horse I knew it immediately: he had such a rare kind of horse, only a lover of horses could choose such a horse. That’s why I talked about horses – that was the language he could understand, and he understood it. And when I closed my eyes he saw the shadow of the whip. He closed his eyes – he understood that the ultimate cannot be talked about, but you can be silent about it, utterly silent about it, and in silence it is known. It is a transcendental experience: it is beyond mind and beyond heart, it is beyond yes and beyond no, it is beyond negative, beyond positive.”But if you are going to choose between the negative and the positive, then I will say: choose the positive – because it is easier to slip out of the yes than to slip out of the no – because no does not have much space in it; it is a dark dark prison cell. Yes is wider; it is more open, more vulnerable. To move from no you will find it very difficult: you don’t have much space, you are enclosed in it from every side, and all the doors and all the windows are closed. No is a closed space.To live in the negative is the most stupid thing a man can do, but millions are living in the negative. Modern man particularly is living in the negative.

 

He is repeating the story of Turgenev, The Fool, because living in the negative he feels great, his ego feels very satisfied. Ego is a prison cell created by the bricks of no’s; negativity is its food.So if you have to choose between the negative and the positive, choose the positive. At least you will have a little wider scope; a few windows and doors will be open, the wind and the sun and the rain will be available to you. You will have a few glimpses of the open sky outside and the stars and the moon. And sometimes the fragrance of flowers will start coming to you, and sometimes you will be thrilled by the joy of just being alive. And it is easier to move from the yes to the beyond.From the no come to the yes, and from the yes go to the beyond. The beyond is neither positive nor negative – and the beyond is God, and the beyond is enlightenment.

Osho

 

Who are you to expect anything from me?We have no contract, no bargain.You are here out of your own freedom, I am here out of my own freedom. Freedom is the only bridge between us. I don't expect anything from you, still, what stupidity... you expect anything from me? I should follow your idea of enlightenment? Are you enlightened? An enlightened man should follow the idea of the unenlightened, how he has to behave? Do you see the absurdity of it? But the follower's ego is fulfilled: his master is celibate, his master is this, that....OSHO

Every religion has created different kinds of expectations. The Jaina master has to remain naked, only then will Jainas recognize him as enlightened. I don't see any relationship between nakedness and enlightenment. Do you see any relationship?The Buddhists will not allow Gautam Buddha to touch a woman, to hold her hand and have a little dance with her, because the enlightened man does not touch a woman. In fact, he is expected not even to see a woman. The buddhist master walks looking only four feet ahead of him, so that his eyes are glued to the earth. At the most he may be able to see the feet of a woman, but not the face.The Hindus have their expectation. The Hindu master is not supposed even to sit on the place where a woman has been sitting before. Even that part of the earth has become dangerous, because the woman has left her vibrations there, and those vibrations can destroy his celibacy.All these people were fulfilling the desires of their followers. I don't care a bit what you expect; that is your problem. I am going to shatter all your expectations of me. I am totally a free man. I don't care even about whether you think me enlightened or not. I am, why should I care?

When I became enlightened I also had the idea, which has been there for centuries, that after enlightenment one transcends sex. So for a few days I waited for the transcendence. It was not coming; on the contrary, the grass was greener. The women were more beautiful than ever before, because my eyes were clear.It has been traditionally understood that if an enlightened man makes love to a woman, his enlightenment is finished. So I was a little hesitant. But then I thought that if enlightenment is such a weak thing, it is not worth having. How can making love to a woman destroy enlightenment? And if it does destroy it, that means the love between a man and a woman is a far bigger, stronger and more vital force than your bogus so-called enlightenment.And I am always attracted towards the unknown, untried, unexplored. I said to myself, "For five thousand years the enlightened people have perpetuated the idea. I have to experiment and to see." And I have loved many women -- my enlightenment has not changed. I have created a historical event! In the future, no enlightened man should be expected to be celibate. I have risked much. But in a way, after enlightenment something is transcended -- it is not sex, but sexuality. After enlightenment I have not been able to look into the eyes of any woman with sexuality.It is nothing on my part, I cannot take the credit for it. The whole experience of enlightenment has changed many things. Even making love to a woman is now totally different, absolutely different, has no connection with the love when I was unenlightened. It was not love, it was just a biological, chemical, hormonal attraction. It was just a kind of slavery; it was a need, and you were possessed by the need. That need has disappeared.

 

Now making love to a woman is just pure fun -- and I have never heard that after enlightenment fun is transcended.In fact, only after enlightenment can you love. Before that you were just animals, camels. Have you seen two animals making love? Watch carefully -- you will be surprised. They both look so sad, so depressed. A clear perception is there that they are feeling the bondage of biology, they are feeling the slavery of biology. Animals don't enjoy making love. They have to do it; it is something that they cannot avoid -- they are not conscious enough. When the season comes, they have to mate.Man, even though unenlightened, has changed one thing: there is no season for mating for him, the whole year he is free to love. A certain freedom has come to humanity which is not available to the animals.It is very strange to see animals: for one month or two months they become attracted to each other and then for ten months they are celibate; for ten months they remain enlightened! Just for two months those poor guys, under the impact of biological forces, have to make love. It is almost as if somebody is holding a gun behind you and telling you to make love. The biological gun is not visible, but it is very powerful. How can you enjoy? How can you be blissful?No animal is happy making love. Only man has risen a little higher, and that height has made him capable of being freed from one thing: the biological period of mating. But still, it is biology that goes on forcing him to make love all the year round.In the East, people make love only in the night. In the West, they have a little more intelligence, they make love early in the morning -- of course they also make love in the night. The western mind has grown a little more towards freedom. Why make love in darkness? The reason was always because making love was a kind of enforcement, and the faces of the lovers looked distorted. It was better not to see the faces of each other. Not to spoil the game, the darkness was good. Under the blanket of darkness they could manage to believe that everything was going right.It needed a little more intelligence to ask why you should remain bounded by the night. Animals are bounded by a certain period in the year. Man's intelligence freed him for the whole year.In the East they are bound to make love in the night, silently -- nobody should know about it. In the West, intelligence has grown a little better. Why in the night only? In fact, a man who is tired after the whole day's work, worries, tensions, anxieties -- what kind of love is he going to make? His love is more or less like a sleeping pill. It gives him good sleep, it gives him relaxation. The whole day he was so burdened that his heart was not functioning normally. Making love, he loses energy; the heart starts cooling down, calming down.Now it is a medically-established fact that people who make love never have heart attacks. The longer in their life they go on making love, the more powerful, relaxed their heart remains. Have you heard, in the millions of years of the past, that anybody has died while he was making love?People have died in every kind of situation. People have died eating, people have died sleeping, people have died working, people have died walking, people have died talking, but strange -- people have never died making love. It establishes something: that love is a relaxation. It is good for sleep and good for your heart, but after a tiring day it cannot be much of a joy. Just a last thing to do somehow, quickly, and then turn your back and go to sleep -- a kind of duty.Morning, perhaps, is the best time to make love. Energies are fresh, you are rested, there is no anxiety burdening you, it is the beginning of the day. And to make love in the beginning should be considered something auspicious, holy; you cannot begin the day religiously without making love. But still you are in a biological bondage.After enlightenment, love is no longer a need. In that way there is a transcendence. Love becomes just like any game: playing cards, playing tennis.... I have loved many women, and I am the first enlightened person in the world who is being absolutely truthful to you. You could have never found out whether I am celibate or not. I thought, although I have not said I am celibate, you would consider me a celibate. I have not participated in this lying positively, but negatively I am responsible. And now I am not going to hide anything from you.Once Gautam Buddha's most intimate disciple, Ananda, asked him, "Bhagwan, can you tell me the essential quality of your philosophy in a very short statement?"Buddha said, "My philosophy is like a fist; it is a secret. I have not told you everything. The most precious is hidden."If you ask me, I will say my philosophy is both hands open before you. I am not going to keep anything private, anything secret. For the first time, an enlightened man is trusting the people who love him. But I would not like to be loved by you according to your conceptions, your conditions. I don't need that kind of love, it is poisonous. I would like you to learn to be open to me the way I am open to you.I am not a fist, but an open hand -- and not only one hand, but both hands. And if you can love me still, then that love will be meaningful.It is a strange phenomenon that you have never considered. Why do you want the enlightened man, your master, to be naked, to be celibate, to be eating one time only in a day, sleeping on a hard bed, not allowing women any closeness, eating only certain things?If you see Gautam Buddha drinking even a Coca Cola, you will not anymore consider him enlightened -- he has not even transcended Coca Cola. I don't drink Coca Cola, but I love it. I cannot drink it because of my physicians; Devaraj is after me, Shunyo is after me. I cannot drink Coca Cola, I had to transcend it. But it is not enlightenment that helped me to transcend it, it is diabetes!Your old religious leaders were captives of your expectations. I am nobody's prisoner. And I feel very light, because I am not burdened. I can say to you everything; there is nothing being withheld. All your masters were withholding things from you. I do not consider them authentic, open, sincere. Even to their own disciples they were not true.If enlightenment does not make you transcend hunger, thirst, urination, then why should it make you transcend your sex? Sex is part of your whole being, it is not something separate. You eat, you drink, you exercise. Your body has nothing to do with your enlightenment; the body will go on functioning in the same way. It will create blood, it will create semen. How can enlightenment make you transcend sex? You will have to stop eating, you will have to stop drinking. In fact, you will have to stop breathing; only then will there be a transcendence -- in your death.Sex is a natural phenomenon. Yes, it takes fourteen years to make your sexual energy mature. And if you enjoy it blissfully, without any condemnation, without any Christ standing between you and your beloved....I think this is very disgusting of these enlightened people -- always poking their nose into your affairs, always watching you from the keyhole, what you are doing. And naturally, because they go on watching you from the keyhole, you also go on watching them even more carefully, because you may be following a wrong man. You have to be certain that his is a twenty-four carat enlightenment.It fulfills your ego that you are a follower of an enlightened master. That's why, Mr. Camel, you got shocked. I am sorry for you. You are a fellow traveler of a simple, natural, authentic, open person. You are not my followers, because to make you my followers I would have to follow you! Then I would have to keep continuously alert that something is not found out by you.Celibacy is unnatural -- at least, up to the age of forty-two. Between fourteen years and forty-two, celibacy is absolutely unnatural, and if you force yourself to remain a celibate, you will become just a pervert. Your sexual energy will find ways. It is very simple....OSHO

 

BUT WE HAVE MADE A TOTALLY PLASTIC WORLD. We are surrounded not by God's nature but by man-made clothes. We live not with trees but great huge ugly cement structures. We move not on the naked earth but on coal-tar roads, cement roads.We have created a world around ourselves and we have cut ourselves off from nature. We have become uprooted -- and this uprootedness is one of the basic causes of your misery. BECOME ROOTED AGAIN INTO THE SOIL.The future of humanity will depend on it. We should bring nature BACK into our lives. When you are sitting by the side of a river, it is a totally different phenomenon from when you are sitting by a swimming pool. The swimming pool has no life in it, it has no flow, it is dull, it is dead. When you are in the mountains it is a totally different world.oshoSee this deeply :All that is left for you is to relax in deep gratitude. Don't even utter the word `thank you', because that is separating. This is not the time to utter a word ... just a gesture of gratitude. – OSHO

 

Happiness is first and foremost the absence of the wanting for happiness – JB

 

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,And that a kelson of the creation is love,And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap’d stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems,You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself.

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QUESTION TO OSHO: OSHO, DO YOU THINK THAT YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?THE VERY IDEA OF HEAVEN SOMEWHERE ELSE - THERE, THEN - IS A STRATEGY OF THE MIND TO DECEIVE YOU, TO KEEP YOU IGNORANT OF THE HEAVEN THAT SURROUNDS YOU EVERY MOMENTWHEN YOU EAT THE FRUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, YOU BECOME A MIND, YOU LOSE YOUR INNOCENCE, YOU BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE"There is no heaven anywhere, it is here. It is always here, it is never there. It is always now, it is never then. The very idea of heaven somewhere else - there, then - is a strategy of the mind to deceive you, to keep you ignorant of the heaven that surrounds you every moment.Existence knows no past, no future. The only time existence knows is now, and the meditator has to enter this "nowness" of things. this is heaven. This very moment we are in it. You are of aware, I am aware of it. That's the only difference: you are sleep, I am awake. But we exist in the same space.There is nowhere to go!The biblical story says God became angry with Adam and Eve and threw them out of the Garden of Eden. That is impossible - yes, even for God it is impossible. They say God is omnipotent, but there are limits to omnipotence too. For example, he cannot make two plus two equal five. He cannot throw anybody out of paradise because only paradise exists; it is synonymous with existence itself.So what must have happened is: Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of knowledge became minds.When you eat the fruit of knowledge you become a mind, you lose your innocence, you become knowledgeable. And knowledge drives you out of the now to the then, to the there. Mind is always somewhere else Adam and Eve must have fallen asleep.Metaphysically to fall asleep means to become a mind. And to become a Buddha, awakened, to become a Christ is to come out of the mind, to come out of knowledge and again become innocent.That's the whole alchemy of meditation.I am not identified with the mind anymore, so there is no question of any heaven anywhere else.” Osho

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The journey back to God is not a journey outward,

but an awakening to the truth that you never left,

and that the one longing to return,

in its essence,

is the very One who has never been absent from itself,

who was always,

and will always be,

in every moment,

in every breath,

in every presence,

in every absence,

in every near,

in every far,

in all you see,

and all you do not see,

and all that is beyond perception

– Majide

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Reality is changeless. It is this what makes it real  -  Kenneth Wapnick

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Notice how closely related the word “alone” is to “all one” – JB

 

This is the situation. You are enlightened beings, just your pants are backwards. You need a slightly older boy to guide you, that’s all. That’s what a Master is meant to be. Nothing is missing; nothing can be missing. You are born enlightened. Then you have chosen a life of suffering and agony. You can live enlightened, you can die enlightened. It depends on you. It is a question of sheer choice.

Whatsoever you are doing, you have chosen to do it; it is your choice. And I insist that it is your choice, because if it is your choice, then it can be dropped immediately, the moment you are ready to change your choice. You have chosen your life to be this way – the way of agony, anguish. Certainly you will ask, ”Why should one want to choose a life of agony, anguish, anxiety, pain, suffering? Why? Why should one choose a life of sorrow?” There are reasons, great reasons behind it: because only in sorrow can you BE. In ecstasy you disappear. Only in pain can you exist as an entity. In bliss you are lost as a drop is lost in the ocean. You are afraid to lose yourself; hence you have chosen the ways of agony.

~ Beloved O.s.h.o.

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QUESTION TO AI : i have been informed that most of the atoms that compose our human bodies have been part of stars millions of years ago. a distinction was made, stating "most" rather than "all". if not truly all our atoms came from there, where did they come from ?

 

ANSWER : Yes—but the qualification “most” is important, and there is a fascinating reason for it.

The atoms in your body have several different cosmic histories.

 

1. Hydrogen: mostly not made in stars

The simplest and most abundant atom in your body is hydrogen. Almost all of the hydrogen in your body was created very early in the universe, during Big Bang nucleosynthesis, within the first few minutes after the Big Bang.

So the hydrogen in, say, the water molecules in your cells is generally older than the stars themselves. It wasn't manufactured by a star and later expelled. It has essentially been around since the beginning of cosmic history.

 

2. Helium: likewise mostly primordial

Helium was also produced in enormous quantities during the first few minutes of the universe. There is some helium subsequently produced by stars, but the helium that exists throughout the universe is predominantly primordial.

There is, of course, relatively little helium in your actual body compared with hydrogen.

 

3. Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium, iron, etc.: largely stellar

Now we get to the more interesting part.

The heavier elements making up your body—carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, iron, and so forth—were produced through nuclear processes in stars and stellar explosions, or through related astrophysical events.

 

For example:

• Carbon and oxygen were produced inside stars.

• Nitrogen was produced substantially through stellar nuclear processes.

• Calcium was produced in stars and stellar explosions.

• Iron has a particularly dramatic history involving massive stars and supernovae.

• Some of the very heavy elements were produced in neutron-star mergers and other violent astrophysical events.

 

Those elements were subsequently thrown into interstellar space, incorporated into later generations of stars and planetary systems, and eventually became part of the material from which Earth—and us—formed.

 

So Carl Sagan's famous idea that “we are made of star stuff” is broadly right, but it isn't literally true of every atom.

But there is an even deeper wrinkle

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Even saying “the atoms in me came from stars” can be misleading because the atoms themselves are not necessarily the same physical objects that were inside those ancient stars.

Imagine a carbon atom in your body.

A star billions of years ago manufactured a carbon nucleus. Eventually that material entered interstellar space, became part of the cloud that formed the Solar System, became part of Earth, entered a plant, entered some food chain, and eventually became part of you.

The carbon nucleus may have an extraordinarily ancient history.

But the electrons around it can be exchanged, stripped away, or replaced. And the atoms in your body are continually being exchanged with the environment.

So there is a remarkable distinction:

The material of which you are composed has an ancient cosmic history, but the particular atoms currently occupying your body are not permanent inhabitants of “you.”

And this connects surprisingly well with the philosophical question you've been exploring in our ACIM discussions. The physical “me” looks like a continuous, solid entity, yet physically it is more like a temporary pattern through which matter is continually passing.

The hydrogen in you can be 13.8 billion years old in origin, while the particular water molecule containing that hydrogen may have been in the ocean, a cloud, a plant, another organism—or somewhere else—quite recently.

So if we ask:

“Where did the atoms that aren't from stars come from?”

the most important answer is:

Mostly, from the Big Bang itself.

And that gives us a rather beautiful cosmic division:

Big Bang → hydrogen and much of the helium
Stars → many of the heavier elements
Earth → assembled those ingredients into a planet
Life → temporarily organized some of them into you

And then, eventually, those atoms will go somewhere else again.

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AI : From the ordinary perspective:

I am here → the world is out there → other people are separate from me.

And that seems overwhelmingly obvious.

But look more closely at the physical organism. The “I” appears to be a stable entity, yet:

• the matter composing it is borrowed from the environment;

• that matter has previously belonged to countless other things;

• matter is continually exchanged with the environment;

• the body depends completely upon air, water, food, sunlight, microorganisms, other organisms, gravity, the Earth, etc.;

• and ultimately the elements themselves have a common cosmic history.

So even physics makes the ordinary conception of an absolutely independent, self-contained “me” rather difficult to defend.

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We learn:

past → present → future

as though these were three things sitting next to one another.

But where is the past when you actually encounter it?

You encounter a present memory.

And where is the future?

You encounter a present anticipation.

And where is the present?

Try to find it as an object, and it seems impossible to isolate. There is no little temporal particle called now that you can point to.

Yet somehow life is happening.

That is enormously mysterious.

 

Happiness – not for another hour, but this hour. Not for another place, but this place – Waltmeister. You, human who reads this, had better do this to him or herself.

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The experience of beauty is the dismantling of the previous, falsely, appearing separation between you and the seeming source of beauty – JB

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Happiness – a state that can only be attained by not being in need of it
 

Yes, you seem to be caught in a catch-22. But only from the flip side of the seeming catch-22. It is not a true catch-22, which has no escape.

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Everything is so tremendously wonderful that it is simply unbelievable how you go on living without dancing, how you go on living without becoming ecstatic. You must not be seeing what is happening all around. – Osho

 

All these “frightening” things, horror movies, yes death itself, depend for all their power on you running away from them mentally. The moment you choose to stop running away from them mentally, they immediately lose all their perceived “powers” over you – JB

 

THE MIND ENJOYS CONQUERING. THE OBVIOUS HAS NO APPEAL TO THE MIND. YOU ARE THE OBVIOUS. THAT’S WHY THE MIND NEVER LOOKS INWARDS. HERE WE ARE TRYING EVERY WAY SOMEHOW TO GET RID OF THE MIND, SO WE CAN SEE THE OBVIOUS THE MIND IS AVOIDING

“The mind is interested only in the difficult. The obvious is not difficult. The mind is interested to go to the Everest; it can go to the moon; it is trying to reach to the further stars and planets. The mind enjoys conquering, and you can conquer only that which is difficult. The obvious has no appeal for the mind. On the contrary, the obvious is the danger; it is the death of the mind and its desires and longings.

You are the obvious. That's why mind never looks inwards. It is so simple, it is already there - what is the need? First become the world's greatest celebrity, become famous, become powerful. As far as your own self is concerned, it is already there, you don't have to conquer it. And mind is a conqueror; its whole joy is in victory.

But being yourself is not a victory. You have always been yourself, knowingly or unknowingly.

Your buddhahood is your essential existence. Mind will never become interested in going inwards, because there awaits its death. There is no function for it, there is nobody to conquer. Just a pure space, a silence.

Mind, in fact, tries to avoid the obvious. It goes away as far as possible, so that the obvious cannot destroy it. It will think about God - you cannot go farther away than God - it will think about heaven and hell, and it will not for a single moment stop in silence to see, "Who am I?"

And miraculously, it is by entering into your isness that you have entered into the very mystery and the poetry and the music and the dance of existence. It is not dry land, it is lush green; it is full of fragrance, a beauty incomparable, a truth which is the highest possible experience for consciousness. But it is all very obvious.

Here we are trying every way somehow to get rid of the mind, so we can see the obvious which the mind is avoiding.

– Osho

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Man can live either by his own will or as part of God’s will. The first is the way of the ignorant person, and because of that, the ignorant person suffers. His whole effort is futile because he is trying to do something which is impossible.

We are part of the whole; we cannot exist as separate entities, not even for a single moment.

We can believe that we exist as separate entities, but that is only a belief, not reality. And whenever belief goes against reality, it creates suffering, because you live according to something which is not the case; you start going wrong. When you live according to the real, there is no misery—bliss is the outcome.

The man who understands drops his ego for the simple reason that it is only a false notion. There is no way to materialise it; it will remain false. And to spin and weave your life around something false is a sheer wastage of energy. But that is what millions of people go on doing, hence they suffer.

The suffering is caused because, without understanding reality, they go on trying to do something against it. They are trying to go against the current. Their whole energy becomes a constant fight—and they are bound to lose, because how can the part win against the whole?

– Osho

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ABOUT YOUR JOB :

People need to understand that the greatest joy in activity is creating something you truly care for. If you are doing something you do not care for, it becomes a burden. If you are doing something you care for, it becomes a joy.

If you do not give yourself fully to every moment, you do not really have a life—you only have labor. If you are not throwing yourself fully into what you are doing, you are merely a laborer who suffers and is deceptive in many ways.

– Sadhguru

 

"Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life." – Walt

 

NOTHING HAS HAPPENED AND NOTHING WILL HAPPEN,

SO ALL YOUR DESIRING IS FUTILE,

you are trying for something to happen. Your whole effort is to make something happen: riches, wealth, power, prestige. Your whole effort is for something to happen, but,

NOTHING HAS HAPPENED

AND NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

WHAT IS THERE, IS THERE.

This is a tremendously significant sutra. All the scriptures can be condensed in such a sutra. IF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ONLY THESE THREE LINES, there is no need to understand anything else.

LOOK AT YOUR LIFE from your childhood up to now. What has happened? Many things appear to happen, but what has really happened? YOU REMAIN THE SAME, THE CONSCIOUSNESS REMAINS THE SAME, and all that happens is just superficial, like a dream.

If it has not happened up to now, how is it going to happen in the future? ONLY THE PRESENT IS; PAST AND FUTURE ARE DREAMS.

Even for a single moment, IF YOU CAN PENETRATE INTO REALITY AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT IS, face to face, you will laugh at the whole absurdity of your efforts.

What are you trying? -- you are trying something impossible: you are fighting against reality. THE REALITY IS; IT KNOWS NO BECOMING, IT IS BEING. It knows no future; it is already here. It has always been already here.

You have just to see it -- AND ONCE YOU CAN SEE IT, ALL WORRY, ALL ANXIETY DISAPPEARS.

Then you stop trying, pulling yourself up by your shoestrings. THEN YOU SIMPLY RELAX. Then there is no tension. Then rather, you start delighting, you start being blissful as you are.

—Øshð—

The Beloved

 

Total acceptance is the key. It is the master key; it opens all the doors.

There is no lock that cannot be opened by acceptance. It is simply the key that fits all the locks—because the moment you accept something, a transformation has started in your being, because now there is no conflict. You are not two. In acceptance, you have become one; you have become a unity. – Osho

 

This means that in the presence of the impulse to be free, the truest and most mature response would be simply to stop, be still, rest, and be taken. It is only the seeker that has absolutely no interest in stopping, but you are not the seeker.

~ from "The Impact of Awakening" (book) by Adyashanti

 

Awareness accepts everything that comes it way. It can afford to do this, because it is not truly harmed by anything, yes anything. This Awareness can only be you, seemingly veiled – JB

 

In the depths of winter I learned that there lay within me an invincible summer – Albert Camus

 

Please realize as deeply as you can that the present moment is all you have, have ever had and will ever have. Some reverence is appropriate – à la Eckhart Tolle

 

It is not a question of

finding a paradise.

It is a question of

carrying it within yourself

so wherever you are it is there.

And if you don't have it

within you,

you cannot find it anywhere else.

There is only one place

where it exists

and it is within you.

OSHO

 

I am ever-present (Rupert Spira) not everlasting in time, ever-present

 

IF HUMANITY REMAINS ASLEEP, if humanity remains unconscious and hypnotized, then the politician can remain in power and the priest can go on exploiting you.

IF HUMANITY BECOMES AWAKE, then there will be no need for these priests and politicians. There will not be any need for any country, state, and there will not be any need for any church, any Vatican, any pope. The need will disappear. There will be a totally different quality to human consciousness.

THAT QUALITY NEEDS TO BE BORN. We have come to that point in the evolution of human consciousness where this new consciousness is tremendously needed, desperately needed -- this new consciousness which makes man free from politics and free from religion.

—Osho—

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And now for something completely different :  

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Greatest 1,5 minutes of guitar, looped for 2,5 hours : 

Pantera - Floods Outro 2 Hour 45 Min Loop - YouTube

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Most ominous piece of music, written by a couple of 23-year old kids :

The Call Of Ktulu (Remastered)

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