how life teaches....

Many emotions move the human heart when it decides to dedicate itself to the spiritual path.
This may be a “noble” reason – like faith, love of our neighbor, or charity.
Or it may be just a whim, the fear of loneliness, curiosity, or the fear of death.

None of that matters. The true spiritual path is stronger than the reasons that led us to it and little by little it imposes itself with love, discipline and dignity.

A moment arrives when we look backwards, remember the beginning of our journey, and laugh at ourselves. We have managed to grow, although we traveled the path for reasons that were very futile.

God uses loneliness to teach us about living together.
Sometimes he uses anger so that we can understand the infinite value of peace.
At other times he uses tedium, when he wants to show us the importance of adventure and leaving things behind.
God uses silence to teach us about the responsibility of what we say.
At times he uses fatigue so that we can understand the value of waking up.
At other times he uses sickness to show us the importance of health.
God uses fire to teach us about water.
Sometimes he uses earth so that we can understand the value of air. And at times he uses death when he wants to show us the importance of life

Remember this when for some reason you feel unable to continue on your path.

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the 5 things

 BY “Insult the dead”. I checked it and I stumbled upon a very interesting text by Bonnie Ware.



For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.

When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.
From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realize, until they no longer have it.

2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.

This came from every male patient that I nursed. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.


Often they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.

osho meditaion....anger

When: Every night before sleeping.

Duration: 1 hour



Step 1: Go Bananas!

Go to your room, close off the room, beat the pillow, stand before a mirror, shout at your own image. Say things that you have never said to anybody and always wanted to say. But it has to be a private phenomenon.



So the moment you feel any negative emotion about anybody...that other person is not the question. The question is that you have a certain energy of anger. Now, that energy has to be diffused into the universe. You are not to repress it within yourself.

So whenever I say, “Express,” I always mean privately, in your aloneness. It is a meditation, it is not a fight.



Sit on your bed and do all kinds of crazy things that you wanted to do, that people do when they are angry, violent, destructive. And it does not mean that you have to be destructive to very valuable things; just tearing papers into small bits and throwing them all over.... Destroy anything, it can be valueless.



Step 2: Apologize

If you want to do something in public...you can go to the person you were angry with and tell him, “I have been, in private, angry with you. I shouted at you, I abused you, I said ugly things to you; please forgive me. But it was all done in privacy, because it was my problem; it has nothing to do with you. But in a certain way it was directed at you, and you are not aware of it; hence an, apology is needed.”



This has to be done in public. That will help people to help each other.



Don’t wash your dirty linen in public places. There is no need. Why unnecessarily involve other people? Why unnecessarily create an image of yourself as ugly?



Osho, The Transmission of the Lamp, Talk #10

occupy ur mind

Taking the cue from ‘Occupy Wall Street’, HENRYK SKOLIMOWSKI suggests we begin an ‘Occupy Yourself’ movement.

Human ingenuity is endless. Especially when we get stuck and we feel that existing circumstances imprison and incapacitate us. As a result of the recent impasse of the American socio-political system, people invented the idea: Occupy Wall Street. This was not only a verbal but also a spiritual protest to challenge the oppressors who, in a sly manner, have manipulated and impoverished millions.

The movement Occupy Wall Street spread like a bushfire throughout the world, as millions of people not only sympathised with those who were shortchanged in America, but felt they, too, were victims of injustices and inequities.

Renewal And Re-seeding

The movement went beyond the political protests against the abuses of Wall Street. It acquired positive dimensions. It has become a movement of renewal, of re-seeding yourself.

Jackie Fortino of Michigan has proposed the theme: Occupy Yourself, meaning your personal life, to make it vibrant and vital every day. In the process, the old meaning of the term occupy — to take over forcibly in order to exploit — acquired new meanings: standing up for what is truthful and meaningful, planting new sprouts over the dilapidated structures, changing what is required to move forward; not occupying another, but occupying with and for each other.

For Common Benefit

Michael Meade, mythologist and storyteller, went a step further and proposed: Occupy Your Soul. This must be seen in a larger context — of a culture which has been broken and damaged and emptied by the forces of nihilism of the status quo. So the movement — Occupy Your Soul signifies to secretly re-inhabit the empty and broken culture through the grass root movement, to move on and to hold and re-inhabit what has been lost. The emptying of our culture is a sure sign of the loss of our soul. Soul work means working together for common benefit.

My own contribution to the “Occupy” movement is somehow different. It is encapsulated in the words: Occupy your mind.

Creative And Resilient

Occupy your mind means first of all not to allow it to be an empty coconut; then not to allow it to be a garbage disposal unit for the inferior ideas of others. The right mind must be able to see through and not allow itself to be manipulated by the orgy of advertising and clever pseudo experts. But above all, the right mind must be creative and resilient as a coordinator of all other ‘Occupy’ sub-movements.

Thus, the roles of mind and of soul are stupendous in coordinating the grass root movement of ‘Occupy’. The lucid mind can surely help all other branches of the Occupy Movement. We need a guide and a compass, which would help us to arrive at the land of justice, compassion and harmony among people. The lucid mind could be this guide.

When I speak about the spiritual aspects of the ‘Occupy’ movement, people occasionally get uneasy, as if saying: but we are about the economy, about our jobs and life. Yes, these are important. But equally important are your dignity, the meaning of your life and the inner core of you, which is called the soul. It is all connected. And unless our minds and souls are straightened, we shall not regain our jobs and life.

It is amazing and significant how this whole movement has developed. Out of the belly of the beast, a spiritual spiral is emerging. Talk about the unpredictability of history. This is it. Who would have thought that out of the scores of maltreated people so much strength, hope and vision could have been generated. And this hope, strength and vision are not economic commodities but spiritual qualities. Never underestimate your inner strength because it is the source of your capacities and your

mirror

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.

The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.

But this was not how Oscar Wilde, the author of the book, ended the story.

He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.

“Why do you weep?” the goddesses asked.

“I weep for Narcissus,” the lake replied.

“Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,” they said, “for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.”

“But…was Narcissus beautiful?” the lake asked.

“Who better than you to know that?” the goddesses said in wonder. “After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!”

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:

“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.
“I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

“What a lovely story,” the alchemist thought.