It is human nature to want to be smart. The feeling is: the smarter you are the better life will be.
But being smart from the mind isn’t very smart, except to the people who put the stuff in your mind.
In my readings about different cultures, the Chinese culture is a good example of that kind of smart. For hundreds and hundreds of years, the Chinese has been encouraged to repeat, not think.
For two years I had three Chinese students live next door: no thinking, no emotions, was my experience. If any emotions were felt by me, it was the emotions of visitors
In this whole series, Osho examines a piece of poem or a story from a world culture that is spiritually meaningful. This poem is Japanese. Osho distinguishes being in the present, not being in the past, not being in the future, not desiring the present different from what it is.
Ultimately, this is the path to joy and happiness… Please read.
I didn’t put this quote first, because I agree with it. In fact, exactly the opposite is true. All the light that is coming to you is lurking in the shadow, just waiting for you to find it… but, human nature, knee jerk reactions rob you of your birth right… And you end up living an empty life with no light… Ooops… This is what this article is designed to remedy.
Thank you for your concern all of you that were too afraid to send me an email, a message, good energies, your good wishes.
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Why is this happening to me? add the whiny voice… and you can hear that this is not a useful question.
On the other hand, when you can answer that question (without asking it first), it has the same effect as a light switch flicked in a dark room.
So, how do you get to the answer without first…
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Some people write so much better than me. Some people are so much more inspiring than me. But I don’t know anyone who is better than me in being committed to you becoming an Expanding Human Being… That commitment helps me cope with my deficiencies. I got my hopes up, and I have been living “at…
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The art of being heard the right way On the Playground, last Tuesday’s topic was “Not being heard… Being misunderstood” Every person had at least one painful incident where their speaking was earning them grief and heart ache, instead of … Continue reading →