Meditation

“Whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness; all your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the moment, settles... [Read more of this review]

So first visualize. Use your eyes inwards and see the letters. Letters are more related to ears than eyes because they are sounds, but for us, because we are reading, reading, reading, they have become associated with eyes. Basically, they are associated with ears — they are sounds. Start with the eyes, then forget the eyes by and by. Then... [Read more of this review]

The reality is the individual. And the problem arises because the reality has not been accepted. The real has been denied expression; and the unreal, the abstract, has been imposed upon it. You have been told continuously, “Live for humanity.” Where is humanity? Have you ever come across humanity? Do you think you are ever going to have... [Read more of this review]

Knowledge is negative, devotion is positive. Knowledge is like preparing the earth by removing the grass and the weeds and then putting in the manure, and devotion is like sowing the seed. Knowledge in itself is not sufficient. It cleans the earth but it does not sow the seeds (cannot be sown). It is necessary but not sufficient, because knowledge... [Read more of this review]

Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it. Then you become a Baul, then you become a lover—because... [Read more of this review]

The mind which is attached will have sorrow and grief also; and where there is no attachment, grief cannot be there. In fact, grief comes when the object of attachment is destroyed. There is no other cause for sorrow. Suppose we have an att…achment to somebody: if that person dies we are immersed in sorrow. Suppose there is a house to which... [Read more of this review]

Mahavir has called KRODHA — anger — a sort of meditation. He has named it ROUDRA DHYAN — meditation on negative attitudes. It is! — because you are concentrated. Really, when you are in deep anger you are so concentrated that the whole world disappears. Only the cause of anger is focused. Your total energy is on the cause of... [Read more of this review]

It’s a pity we waste our precious NOW by just aimlessly thinking of the unknown future. The mind has become our master rather than keeping under our control. We lift our arms and legs when we want to, but our mind is beyond our control; it keeps running non-stop even when we need it to stop… like a film roll reeling continuously flashing... [Read more of this review]

The word religion has to be understood. The word is significant: it means putting the parts together, so that the parts are no longer parts but become whole. The root meaning of the word religion is: to put things together in such a way that the part is no longer a part but becomes the whole. Each part becomes the whole, in togetherness. Each part,... [Read more of this review]

TOZAN SAID, “YOU MEET NOBODY ON IT.” THE MONK THEN ASKED, “HOW CAN WE GO ON THIS WAY?” TOZAN ANSWERED, “BY EGOLESSNESS, ATTENDING TO EACH STEP AS IT COMES.” THE MONK SAID, “ISN’T THE BIRDS’ WAY THE SAME AS ONE’S ORIGINAL NATURE?” TOZAN SAID, “O MONK, WHY DO YOU GET EVERYTHING... [Read more of this review]