Freedom is to be yourself

"You are totally free to choose, but once you choose, your very choice brings a limitation.If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence of the great masters just to be aware and not to choose? Because the moment you choose, you have lost your total freedom, you are left with only a part. But if you remain choiceless, your freedom remains total.So there is only one thing which is totally free and that is choiceless awareness. Everything else is limited."
Excerpted from 'Freedom, The Courage to be Yourself' by Osho

Liberation

"...it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
~ Excerpted from 'The First and Last Freedom' by J. Krishnamurti

Truth

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday Morning Gyan

Learn from the success of others and not their mistakes.

Not learning from the mistakes may be debated, but just think it this way that mistakes made in one scenario might not be the mistake in another. It also depends on the circumstances and the manner any step is taken and when we tend to learn from someone's mistake, we tend to generally opine that the reason why that person failed is not the right way to deal with something.

While learning from someone's success we learn what is the right way to do something, so..... think as the Sunday Morning Gyan is a Food For Thought.

Mayank

Ordinary man

"The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy." ~ Osho

Result of our thoughts

"All that we are, and all that we become, is the direct result of our thoughts". ~ Buddha

Witnessing

"Just be a simple witness, a mirror which reflects and makes no judgment. This very moment you can become a witness. Witnessing is the only religion there is." ~ Osho

Creating organic unity

The word religion is very beautiful, but because of these priests it has fallen into wrong company. The word comes from an origin which means "coming together." But the priests have been doing just the opposite! They are creating splits in man, not oneness. Religion means creating in man ...an organic unity. It has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you. It has nothing to do with worship, it has something to do with a transformation of your own consciousness. ~ Osho

Understand the whole

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." ~ J. Krishnamurti

Quest

"A quest is the most significant thing for a seeker. A quest means you want to know, you want to experience, you want to be the truth itself." ~ Osho

Children

A woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Excerpt from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

Experience

"All conditionings are based on belief. And my whole effort is that experience should be the only criterion, not belief." ~ Osho

Joy & Sorrow

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Excerpted from 'Joy and Sorrow' by Kahlil Gibran

Respect all religion

(Chorus)
I and I respect all Religion
I and I me pray to the Almighty One
Me give thanks and praise fe the righteous way
But me can't follow...no me can't follow one

(Verse 1)
Me say me look to the Hindu ca me a Indian
Me look to the Muslim and Sikhism
Ina India too much to choose from
Sit down with Sadoo.. Indian holy man
Listen man a talk and me start understand
Go down Africa and me reach a Jam One
Sit down with Rasta and start fe reason
Read out of the bible talk to Christian
When you check it out could a confusion
Religion bring war and contradiction
One god we have one destination
Respect each other and nothing can wrong

(Verse 2)
Me say me learn bout Rama and Hari Krishna
Guru Gobind Singh and the height of Allah
Me look to the East and pray to Mecca
Jesus Christ Christian Messiah
Ina Jerusalem was born the saviour
King Salassi I down a Ethiopia
The conquering lion of the tribe of Judah
Natty Rastafari and me pray to Jah Jah
Me look and me search and me study Buddha
Say nuff mon a talk bout Sai Baba
God bless all mon who fight evil doer
That's why the angels a fan me with the eagles feather

(Verse 3)
Ca me say nuff mon a pray to animal and images
Some kill animal in sacrifices
Say nuff of them a follow demon and witches
Them worship the devil and satanic verses
But I and I no mek fe mek no compromises
Give thanks to the Lord and the highest praises
You spread the good word and bring good wishes
You mix ina evil the highest watches
You clean up your heart and break no promises
Live good with all colour and all races
Overcome tribulation man faces
A me say dust-to-dust and ashes to ashes

(written by: Steve Kapur)

Focus on future

“At the point of realization, do not look into your past; but focus on your future.
Use knowledge, not to dissect your past; but to construct your future.”
Experted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 4 (October, 2010)

Truth, a pathless land

"Truth is a pathless land, and you can not approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.....the moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth." ~ J. Krishnamurti

Pride and arrogance

"It is those people who do not empty or share what they have that suffer from pride and arrogance."
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 3 (September, 2010)

My love

“Love is love, only when, what yo do and what you do not do, does not alter my love for you."
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 3 (September, 2010)

Secrets of life

"Without meditation you do not know the secrets of life, you only know the surface of life" ~ Osho

Kindness

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." ~ Dalai Lama