Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:25 pm

If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation.

If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

If you cultivate humility, it ceases to be.

Meditation is the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

- The Only Revolution, 37


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:47 am

How should we celebrate this festival of life?

The second is the very basic unit of Time, which we measure, in what we designate as a year.

Sixty seconds, make a minute, sixty minutes make an hour, twenty four hours constitute a day and thirty days make a month; twelve months pass and we say a year has passed!

When twelve months are over, we come back again to the first in the list of months, and call it the New Year Day.

We go on a spree to celebrate the occasion.

Really speaking, nothing new has happened on the “New Year Day” - it is not the year, but every second that follows the present that is new.

Hence, do not wait for the celebration of something new in Time, until minutes, hours, days, months and years add up!

Celebrate the immediately succeeding second, and every one after it, through honest effort and attain everlasting joy.

Do not waver in your determination to live in joy and peace.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 23, 1966.


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:49 pm

A mind which is a light to itself, needs no experience

What an extraordinary thing meditation is.

If there is any kind of compulsion, effort to make thought conform, imitate, then it becomes a wearisome burden.

The silence which is desired ceases to be illuminating.

If it is the pursuit of visions and experiences, then it leads to illusions and self-hypnosis.

Only in the flowering of thought and so ending thought does meditation have significance.

Thought can only flower in freedom, not in ever-widening patterns of knowledge.

Knowledge may give newer experiences of greater sensation but a mind that is seeking experiences of any kind is immature.

Maturity is the freedom from all experience; it is no longer under any influence to be or not to be.

Maturity in meditation is the freeing of the mind from knowledge, for knowledge shapes and controls all experience.

A mind which is a light to itself needs no experience.

Immaturity is the craving for greater and wider experience.

Meditation is the wandering through the world of knowledge and being free of it to enter into the unknown.

- Krishnamurti Notebook, 213


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:04 pm

Or the laughter of a man as he passes by

We hardly ever listen to the sound of a dog's bark or to the cry of a child or the laughter of a man as he passes by.

We separate ourselves from everything, and then from this isolation look and listen to all things.

It is this separation that is so destructive, for in that lies all conflict and confusion.

If you listened to the sound of bells with complete silence you would be riding on it -or, rather, the sound would carry you across the valley and over the hill.

The beauty of it is felt only when you and the sound are not separate, when you are part of it.

Meditation is the ending of the separation, but not by any action of will or desire.

Meditation is not a separate thing from life; it is the very essence of life, the very essence of daily living.

To listen to the bells, to hear the laughter of a peasant as he walks by with his wife, to listen to the sound of the bell on the bicycle of a little girl as she passes by: it is the whole of life, and not just a fragment of it, that meditation opens.

- The Only Revolution, 163, Meditations

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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:31 am

Which is the best way to overcome foul temper?

It is want of faith that causes one to lose temper and fly into fits of anger; it is lack of faith in oneself and in others.

If you really see yourself as the undefeatable Self (Atma) and others as reflections of yourself, as scriptures declare them to be, there can be no provocation to get angry.

What you must resolve today, is to manifest your inherent Divinity more and more.

Whatever else you may or may not do, do at least this: know that the Divine resides in you.

Recognise Him, let Him manifest Himself in and through you.

Fundamentally the fault lies in not understanding that this body and all things connected with it are impermanent.

- Divine Discourse, May 23, 1965


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:19 am

Happiness According to Alfred Hitchcock

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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:56 am

There is no meaning, there is no utility

Perception without the word, that is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena.

Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but with all the senses.

Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions.

It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

Perception without the perceiver in meditation, is to commune with the height and depth of the immense.

This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation, there is no object and therefore no experience.

Meditation can take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind, but then these objects have no importance at all.

One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility.

But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy, which is not to be confounded with pleasure.

It is the ecstasy, which gives to the eye, to the brain, and to the heart the quality of innocence.

Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, boredom, and a meaningless affair.

So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, the measureless.

- Meditations 1969, 3, Meditations


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:16 pm

The beast, like all of you, chooses freedom first.

And if ever the physical condition becomes less than joyful, the beast — if left to himself — will re-emerge into Nonphysical.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996 # 479


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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:22 pm

"The happiest people are those who see their lifetime as a positive and creative contribution to the human race."

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Re: Life 15 (Mar 12 - Jun 12)

Postby winston » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:19 am

How to acquire bliss and peace in life?

Learn to acquire bliss and peace in your life by studying the scriptures, or from sages who have won them.

Stick to the path assiduously, even if you received sharp criticism or callous condemnation.

Never let cynical laughter or comments bother you; they can never harm a spiritual aspirant.

Can a storm shake the Himalayan range?

Let not your faith in the goal or the path, quake before trouble or trial, toil or travail, distress or despair.

These are but passing clouds, casting temporary shadows, hiding for a little while, the glory of the sun or the moon.

Do not get distracted by doubt or despondency.

Build the mansion of your life on four firm pillars – virtue, wealth, desire and liberation (Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha) as laid down by the ancient sages, each pillar bound strong and safe with every other.

Never allow these pillars to slant or tumble as some individuals, communities or nations are doing now.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 23, 1966.


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