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  Photo Credit: Minimalist Quotes Desireless-ness We should give up all outward-going efforts, all that leads us outwards. All that becomes a vehicle for our consciousness to move outward – renounce it. In the deep inactivity of renunciation, we will come to the center. How does the mind embark on its outward journey? It moves for wealth, prestige, power. Any movement means a deep desire for something outside, a deep desire for something which doesn’t belong to us inside, but belongs to the objective world. Any desire for any object in the world is a movement outward. Renounce this movement. Even for a single moment, if we can renounce all outward-going movements, we will be in. This means that this in-coming doesn’t need anything to be done directly. It needs something to be done indirectly. Don’t move outward and we will find ourselves in the heart, in the cave of the heart. Mind moves with desires, outwards. Then it can continue, continue, and go on and on – to the very en...

  Photo Credit: QuoteFancy Training the Intellect If intellect is such a big obstacle, why train it in the first place? Why not introduce children to meditation while they are still innocent and simple, instead of sending them to university? Instead of shaping their logic and thinking faculty, instead of educating them, why not drown them into meditation in their innocence and simplicity? If intellect is an obstacle, why help it grow? Why not get rid of it before developing it? It would have been alright if intellect was only an obstacle. But an obstacle can also become a stepping-stone. We are walking on a pathway and there is a huge rock lying on the pathway. Now, this is an obstacle, and we may return from there thinking the pathway does not go anywhere further. But if we climb on the rock, a new pathway is revealed – which is totally on a different level from the previous lower one. A new dimension opens up. The unintelligent one will return from there taking the rock as...

  Photo Credit: Reddit Understanding One’s Confusions There is no need to bother about confusions, simply go on living. Live through the confusion, accept and learn; if one tries to get out of it, one will create more confusion. A confused mind cannot get out of confusion - it will create more confusion. The only way is to accept it. Everybody is confused, otherwise all would have been saints! The whole world is confused. Confusion is intrinsic to the human mind. The confusion has a very fundamental reason, there is an ontology to confusion. Man comes from the animals and man has to become God, that is the confusion. Half belongs to the world of the animals, the unconscious part, and the other half is trying to become conscious, absolutely conscious, hence the tension. Both go on trying to manipulate us, and we are never sure who we are – whether to go this way or to go that way. In being pulled between these two the confusion arises. Don’t try to escape from it; live it. Thi...

Photo Credit: Pinterest   Aging is not wisdom Just becoming old does not mean that one has become wise. Age in itself does not make anybody wise. One may grow old; that does not mean that one has become a grown-up. Growing old and becoming grown-up are totally different phenomena. Aging is difficult for us in today’s western world outlook, because we rarely think about this stage of our life until suddenly, we find ourselves staring in the mirror at this “old” person. How did this person get here? What does this mean? Youth is the idol; so much of our culture is geared toward youth.  I was once asked if I had a chance to live again, would I do anything differently; I had responded, not at all, I would live exactly the same way as I have done so, so far. As Carl Jung had once said – old age is the most valuable phase of life. Unfortunately, old age is also the invisible time of life. People begin to migrate from the homes where they spent their householder years (the...

  Photo Credit: Pinterest Dealing with Judgement Just one thing to do: whenever we feel   that any judgement is coming in the mind, change the breathing pattern, and immediately we will see a change and that the judgement has disappeared. Whenever we want to change a pattern of the mind that has become a long-standing habit, breathing is the best thing. All habits of the mind are associated with the pattern of breathing. Change the pattern of breathing and the mind changes immediately, instantly. Try it. Whenever we see that a judgement is coming and we are getting into an old habit, immediately exhale – as if we are throwing the judgement out with the exhalation. Exhale deeply, pulling the stomach in, and as we throw out the air, feel, visualise, that the whole judgement is being thrown out. Then take in fresh air deeply, two or three times, and just see what happens. We will feel a complete freshness as the old habit has not been able to take possession. So, start by...

  Photo Credit: QuoteFancy Is it Difficult to Change? No, it is not difficult to change, but if our mind is fixated that it is, then it becomes difficult. This idea can create trouble – nothing else. We can drop the old as easily as we drop our old clothes; nothing much is involved in it. Nobody is set. Our being always remains free – because freedom is our inner nature, nothing can imprison us. This very moment we are totally free, because we are the doer, and we are greater than our actions, bigger than our act. Whatever we have been doing we are free, already free! If we have been angry, when the anger has gone, we are free. There is no need to bother that we have been angry, so how can we be free of it?   We are already free; the anger has gone. It was a momentary thing that we have passed, we have overcome. If we want to repeat it, we can, but that will be a fresh decision to be angry. Don’t say that we are angry because we have been angry so many times before. We ...

  Photo Credit: QuoteFancy Respect through Love Only if respect comes through love does it become meaningful, seeking respectability is a worthless substitute. We become political because politics becomes a substitute for love. When somebody loves a person, they care about him/her, they make one feel worthwhile and significant. Whatever we are, howsoever we are, we are accepted. But if people miss love they start playing tricks. The trick is to manipulate others’ respect by doing something, having something – character, morality – something that people have to give respect to. But it is never fulfilling, and one can go on and on till we need a whole crowd…. We can become a president or a prime minister of a country where millions of people pay us attention. They have to because we are powerful, and we can manipulate and become dangerous. But even then, the love of one person is more valuable than the whole country looking up to us. Respect is for something we have, not for u...