Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:47 am

What are the simple tasks, which when done consistently, will grant us eternal joy and peace?

To get joy and peace, you must develop a pure mind, unsullied by egoism and its children - lust, greed, envy, anger, hatred and the rest.

This will be easy when you seek good company and perform good deeds, entertain noble thoughts and read inspiring books.

More important than all of these is to put into practise, at least one good thought.

If you don’t practise, the blemishes in the mirror of your heart will not be wiped off and the Divine cannot be reflected therein.

Constant practise with full faith will transmute human to Divinity, for you are in essence Divine.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 17, 1966.


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:18 pm

It has no technique and therefore no authority

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life, perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody. That is the beauty of it.

It has no technique and therefore no authority.

When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy, if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation.

So meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of birds or looking at the face of your wife or child.

- Freedom from the Known, 116

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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:35 am

Why should we trust the wisdom of the ancients and persist in our spiritual practices?

In spiritual matters, faith is the very essence.

Have faith in the wisdom of the ancients - do not pitch your tiny and little brain against the institutions of saints and their discoveries.

For example, people question the ritual of offering food in the fire, on the death anniversary of one’s parents. They scorn and mock, "How can the food placed here reach wherever they are?", "Why are the dead given food, when the living starve?" they argue.

You post a letter in the box, it goes straight to the addressee, is it not? If the address is written correctly and clearly, and if the necessary postage is paid in valid stamps, the letter is carried in bus, air, train or by people right upto the doorstep of the person and delivered.

The ritual fire is the authorized post box, fire is the postal authority, manthras are the stamps.

There is a science of the spirit, as there is a science of matter; it has its own modus operandi; its own experts and authoritative theses.

Only by spiritual practices, can the secrets of either matter or mind be known, grasped and used for one's benefit.

-Divine Discourse, April 19, 1965


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:12 pm

That drop nourishes the earth and man

It's curious how all-important meditation becomes; there's no end to it nor is there a beginning to it.

It's like a raindrop: in that drop are all the streams, the great rivers, the seas and the waterfalls; that drop nourishes the earth and man; without it, the earth would be a desert.

Without meditation the heart becomes a desert, a wasteland.

- Krishnamurti Notebook, 91


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:12 am

Every religious practitioner wishes to end the mind and realise one’s true Self. Where to begin and how to succeed ?

The desires that cling to the mind, are the blemishes that tarnish one’s inner consciousness.

Control the senses; do not yield to their insistent demands for satisfaction.

When a corpse is placed on a pyre, and the fire is lit, both the corpse and the pyre are reduced to ashes. So too when the senses are negated, the mind too disappears.

When the mind disappears, delusion dies and liberation is achieved. Faith in the Divine is the best reinforcement for spiritual victory.

When you revel in the contemplation of the splendour of the Divine, nothing material can attract you; all else will seem inferior and the company of the Godly and the humble alone will be relished.

The Spirit can only be awakened and realized through individual discipline, and the Grace of theDivine. These two can be won through love, purity and service to others.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 17, 1966.

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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:59 pm

It is only when there is friction that there is noise

Meditation is to find out whether the brain, with all the activities, all its experiences, can be absolutely quiet.

Not forced, because the moment you force, there is duality.

The entity that says, 'I would like to have marvelous experiences, therefore I must force my brain to be quiet,' will never do it.

But if you begin to inquire, observe, listen to all the movements of thought, its conditioning, its pursuits, its fears, its pleasures, watch how the brain operates, then you will see that the brain becomes extraordinarily quiet;

That quietness is not sleep but is tremendously active and therefore quiet.

A big dynamo that is working perfectly hardly makes a sound; it is only when there is friction that there is noise.

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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:25 am

What is the opportunity we have in this birth? What do we need to do, to uplift ourselves?

Being blessed with the human form, you must strive to grow beyond the physical, mental and emotional bounds.

With the help of the discriminating intellect, you must bring it to perfection, just like what a sculptor does to a crude stone.

Be aware of your kinship with the Divine; of the Divinity latent in you; of the immense potentiality within you.

This can be attained by the exercise of discrimination and dispassion.

No living form other than the human being is capable of this exercise.

When you earnestly aspire, the Lord Himself will guide you from within through illumination, or through someone He will send.

Do not despair in this journey; march bravely. Fill every moment with thoughts of the Divine, in some form or other.

- Divine Discourse, May 22, 1965


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:18 pm

Light is light; it does not ask for more light

Always to seek for wider, deeper, transcendental experiences, is a form of escape from the actual reality of 'what is,' which is ourselves, our own conditioned mind.

A mind that is awake, intelligent, free, why should it need, why should it have, any experience at all?

Light is light; it does not ask for more light.

- The Flight of the Eagle, 38


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:06 pm

You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim

Meditation is one of the most extraordinary things, and if you do not know what it is, you are like the blind man in a world of bright color, shadows and moving light.

It is not an intellectual affair, but when the heart enters into the mind, the mind has quite a different quality;

It is really, then, limitless, not only in its capacity to think, to act efficiently, but also in its sense of living in a vast space where you are part of everything.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many.

It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar, whether golden or earthenware; it is inexhaustible.

And a peculiar thing takes place, which no drug or self-hypnosis can bring about; it is as though the mind enters into itself, beginning at the surface and penetrating ever more deeply, until depth and height have lost their meaning and every form of measurement ceases.

In this state there is complete peace, not contentment which has come about through gratification, but a peace that has order, beauty and intensity.

It can all be destroyed, as you can destroy a flower, and yet because of its very vulnerability it is indestructible.

This meditation cannot be learned from another. You must begin without knowing anything about it, and move from innocence to innocence.

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin, is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain and the fleeting joy.

It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner.

In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river.

You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim.

And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

- Meditations 1969, 1

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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:36 am

How can one make best use of noble company or spiritual expositions?

It is good to attend discourses on the Scriptures by learned scholars. However this is of no use if you lean on a pillar in the lecture hall and doze off.

That is to say, it is not the sound, but the meaning that matters.

It is not the ear, but the heart that must drink the nectar of the Scriptures and imbibe its essence.

Seek and enjoy noble company; but along with that, there also needs to be self-examination.

Examine yourself to see how much you have succeeded in escaping from the senses, and getting close to the Divine.

The mind is like a wild elephant which can be tamed by the repetition of the Divine's name.

Do not feed it with conceit, envy, hatred and greed. Let the name of the Divine echo ever in the ear.

- Divine Discourse, May 22, 1965.


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