Knowing Fish

One day Chuang Tzu and a friend were walking by a river.
"Look at the fish swimming about," said Chuang Tzu, "They are really enjoying themselves."
"You are not a fish," replied the friend, "So you can't truly know that they are enjoying themselves."
"You are not me," said Chuang Tzu. "So how do you know that I do not know that the fish are enjoying themselves?"

Only the act remains

Truth is revealed only to those who are drunk with love, who can dance and sing so totally, with such abandon, that they are lost in thier dance, that they are no more. Only the dance is, and the dancer disappears. Only the love is, and the lover disappears. Only the song is, and the singer disappears. - Osho

No hurry!

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

विचारों का बवंडर

विचारों का बवंडर मष्तिस्क एवं मन में विश्वास को आहत कर घृणा उत्पन्न करता है, अतः विचारों को एकत्रित कर एक ठोस विचारधारा का नवनिर्माण करने सेएक नवयुग का शुभारम्भ होगा, एक ऐसा युग जिसमें घृणा एवं द्वेष का लेष मातृ भी स्थान नहीं होगा.... मयंक

Without Fear

During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master.
Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was.
When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger.
"You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!"
But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved."And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"

Bahá'ís believe

• All humanity is one family.
• Women and men are equal.
• All prejudice—racial, religious, national, or economic—is destructive and must be overcome.
• We must investigate truth for ourselves, without preconceptions.
• Science and religion are in harmony.
• Our economic problems are linked to spiritual problems.
• The family and its unity are very important.
• There is one God.
• All major religions come from God.
• World peace is the crying need of our time.

The brighter side

Pain and Agony are there for the perspective of the experience you had...now what has happened is you have looked at the Effect, but why don't you look at the cause....because when you look at the Cause, you will find that if something that happened must have had a brighter side to it....nothing in this world happens with just a bad effect, there is always a brighter side to every Cause.....So try to look around and you would find happiness just on the other side of your pain and agony. - Mayank Trivedi

Transient

A famous spiritual teacher came to the front door of the King's palace. None of the guards tried to stop him as he entered and made his way to where the King himself was sitting on his throne.
"What do you want?" asked the King, immediately recognizing the visitor.
"I would like a place to sleep in this inn,"replied the teacher.
"But this is not an inn," said the King,"It is my palace."
"May I ask who owned this palace before you?"
"My father. He is dead."
"And who owned it before him?"
"My grandfather. He too is dead."
"And this place where people live for a short time and then move on - did I hear you say that it is NOT an inn?"

Potential divine

"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divine within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control, or philosophy - by one or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines or dogmas, or rituals or books, or temples or forms, are but secondary details." - Vivekananda

Name of the game

“Struggle is the name of the game as long as we are in this material world.”

Expectations: source of grief

Expectations are individualistic in nature and individuals indeed have limitations, thus setting limitations to fulfillment of expectations. And when the expectations are not fulfilled they are bound to generate grievance, grief and sorrow. So the certain way to do away with your sadness, grief, grievance, sorrow and anything with negative shade, is to set aside Expectation. - Mayank Trivedi

Love is the real poetry

"Love is the only real poetry. When the heart is full of love your whole life is transformed from prose to poetry, from noise to music, from discord to harmony."
Excerpted from "Scriptures in Silence and Sermons in Stones" by Osho

I Don't Know

The emperor, who was a devout Buddhist, invited a great Zen master to the Palace in order to ask him questions about Buddhism.
"What is the highest truth of the holy Buddhist doctrine?" the emperor inquired.
"Vast emptiness... and not a trace of holiness," the master replied.
"If there is no holiness," the emperor said, "then who or what are you?"
"I do not know," the master replied.

You are the world

One needs to understand "I am spread all over the existence. When trees dance, I am dancing. When the wind blows and sings songs amongst the trees, it is my song. When the ocean rolls in the full-moon night, I am not separte from it..... When the observer becomes the observed, when the knower becomes the known, when the seer becomes the seen, when the duality between subject and object disappers, when you are the world."
Excerted from 'The Rebel' by Osho

Receiving and giving

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein

Irritation to understanding

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

Gratitude

"The feeling of gratefulness can arise only if we become aware of what existence is giving us. We have nothing to give in return, hence we feel deep gratitude. We are not worthy of it all, we don't deserve it. Still the flowers bloom, still the sun rises, still the moon comes, and the stars..... Still the existence goes on giving, whether we take any note of it or not." - Osho