Learn from trees

We should learn from tree. It absorbs minerals and water from the ground and air from the atmosphere for its survival and in turn becomes food for other members of the existence and contributes in their survival. Beyond this, it spreads fragrance, showers beauty… its contribution is invaluable.

But man only consumes; he only abuses resources. Man doesn’t intent to return anything back to the existence; not even love, gratitude. - Vaibhav

Don’t follow

"Be your own master; don’t follow anybody. No one can teach you the truth; no one can show you the truth. Neither you can learn from anybody; nor can you see though somebody else, other than you, yourself." - Vaibhav

Your children are not yours

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you." - Kahlil Gibran

The wave and the sea are One

Our seemingly separate life is like an individual wave that rises and falls on the great sea of existence. Like a wave, we are propelled forward by the powerful currents of life.
If we only experience the surface of things, we will live like a wave, pushed around by invisible currents and regularly crashed down onto the rocky shore line. But if we choose the depths where motion slows down and the silence sets in, we will sense the connectedness and the Oneness of all beings.
Waves come and go, but the ocean remains...

Man Maketh the World?

I saw in the news a feature
About a small living creature;
Killed it was, without any cause,
Without a thought about its loss.

Then I saw a documentary
And heard the full commentary
About man and his cruelty,
Destroying things, not knowing their utility.

It came to me in a sudden flash,
That all man does is to clash;
When he can be a cannibal,
Why can’t he kill a poor animal!

One day in order to quench his thirst,
Would he be draining away the ocean?
Upto the level of the crust,
Would he be snatching away life portion?

Nothing would be left then,
This world, a dessert barren,
This is not for what we strive,
Not this for what we crave.

This day, let us take a vow
Into Mother Nature shall we sow
The roots of an atmosphere serene
Revitalizing the environment green.

Words spoken from your mouth cannot be taken back;
If you can’t, don’t give; but take not life of others.

Thinking disappears

All meditation techniques are basically moving to the same point of inner silence. The method may be passive, it doesn't matter, the goal is the same. It may be a Sufi method, it may be a Zen method - the goal is the same. The goal is: how to make you so silent that all thinking disappears and you are just a mirror, reflecting that which is.
Excerpted from 'Philosophia Perennis' by Osho

All I need

All I can hide but not loneliness
All I need is to enjoy aloneness

All I am but not compassionate
All I need to do is meditate

All I can leave but not my ego
All I need is lot more love

All I can take but not right action
All I need is some direction . . .
- Vaibhav

Face to face with truth

Buddha came across a ceremony going on; a great crowd has gathered. He asked, “What is happening?” and hey told him that the man who was worshipping has asked for something and it has been fulfilled. Now he was sacrificing a bull; he was killing a bull – it was a religious ceremony.

Buddha said, “But what has the bull to do with it? If that man feels that god has given something to him, has been favorable to him, he should sacrifice himself.” Buddha entered the crowd and asked the man, “What are you doing?” Why are you being violent to this poor bull? He has not done anything!”

The man was a Brahmin, a scholar, a knower of scriptures. He quoted the scriptures saying, “You don’t know. The Vedas say that if in a religious ceremony an animal is crucified, killed, murdered, butchered, the animal soul goes to heaven directly. I am not being violent to him, he will go to heaven.”

The Buddha said, “Why don’t you kill your father or your mother or yourself? Why are you missing the opportunity to go to heaven? This bull may not want to go to heaven. If this is certain, then kill your father or kill your mother – or kill yourself! The best thing is to kill yourself!”

The Brahmin listened to Buddha. His presence made it so clear to him: he dropped the weapon right there, he renounced that religious ceremony and he asked Buddha, “Now you tell me how to be religious, because I have been doing these things my whole life. You have shocked me, but you have made me awake too.”
Excerpted from ‘The Wisdom of the Sands’ by Osho

Spiritual affinity

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations” - Kahlil Gibran

Innocence

"Innocence means becoming a no-mind, a no-ego: dropping all the ideas of goals, achievements, ambitions, and living just as it happens in the moment." - Osho

Reverence for life

I was a guest in Maharaja Jamnagar's palace. He showed me hundreds of lions, deer - their heads. The whole palace was full, and he was showing them: "These are the animals I have killed myself."

I asked him, "You look a nice person. What was the reason? What have these animals done to you?"

He said, "It is not the question of reason or a question of them doing anything against me. It is just a game."

I said, "Just look from other side: If a lion killed you, would that be a game? Your wife, your children, your brothers - will any one of them have the guts to say that it was a beautiful game? It will be a disaster. If you kill, then it is a game; if they kill, it is a calamity. These double standards show your dishonesty, insincerity."
He said, "I have never thought about it."

But the whole of humanity is non-vegetarian; they are all eating other life forms. There is no reverence for life as such. Unless we create an atmosphere of reverence for life, man can't realze the goal of getting his fundamental right of life.
Excerpted from 'Sermons to Stones' by Osho

World belongs to you

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu