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2011-09-21T07:28:00.001-07:00

No-Thought for the Day ®
Copyright © 2011 Osho International Foundation

Once you get identified with a certain idea, then you are sick.
All identification is mental sickness. In fact, mind is your sickness.
And to put the mind aside and just to see silently ? without any thought, without any prejudice ? into reality is a healthy way of being acquainted with reality.
· · September 8 at 2:27am
Scott Amundson
For those who want to live — not to think about it, but to love; not to think about it, but to be; not to philosophize about it — there is no other alternative:
then drink the present moment´s juices.
Squeeze it totally because it is not going to come back again.
Once gone, it is gone forever.
- OSHO
· · September 2 at 7:18am
Scott Amundson
Compromise is one of the most ugly words in our language. It means, I give half, you give half; I settle for half, you settle for half. But why? When you can have the whole, when you can eat the cake and have it too, then why compromise!
Just a little courage, just a little daring...

2011-09-21T07:25:00.001-07:00

Scott Amundson
Life is its own purpose; it is not a means to some end, it is an end unto itself.
The bird on the wing, the rose in the wind, the sun rising in the morning,
the stars in the night, a man falling in love with a woman, a child playing on the street...there is no purpose. Life simply enjoying itself, delighting in itself. Energy overflowing, dancing, for no purpose at all.
-osho
· · September 16 at 5:48pm
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No-Thought for the Day ®
Copyright © 2011 Osho International Foundation

Loneliness is when you hanker for something, some occupation; when you hanker for the other and you miss the other, that is loneliness. And when you have started enjoying it, the beauty, the austere beauty of being alone, the silence, the stillness, the joy of just being, breathing in the sun, just sitting under a tree doing nothing, listening to the birds, just being utterly herenow,
and a great joy arises...aloneness.

2011-09-20T19:29:00.001-07:00

Remember always, significance is the shadow of truth.
And those who live only in facts live an utterly meaningless life.

2011-09-12T18:59:00.000-07:00

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'perfection' by 'totality.' Don't think in terms that you have to be perfect, think in terms that you have to be total. Totality will give you a different dimension.

2011-09-11T21:04:00.001-07:00

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2011-09-10T22:01:00.001-07:00

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Loneliness is when you hanker for something, some occupation; when you hanker for the other and you miss the other, that is loneliness. And when you have started enjoying it, the beauty, the austere beauty of being alone, the silence, the stillness, the joy of just being, breathing in the sun, just sitting under a tree doing nothing, listening to the birds, just being utterly herenow,
and a great joy arises...aloneness.

2011-09-08T01:27:00.001-07:00



		If you don’t love yourself you will never be able to love anybody else. If you are not kind to yourself you cannot be kind to anybody else. Your so-called saints who are so very hard on themselves are just pretending that they are kind to others. It is not possible. Psychologically it is impossible. If you cannot be kind to yourself, how can you be kind to others? Whatsoever you are with yourself you are with others. Let that be a basic dictum. If you hate yourself you will hate others — and you have been taught to hate yourself. Nobody has ever said to you, “Love yourself!” The very idea seems absurd: loving oneself? The very idea makes no sense — loving oneself? We always think that to love one needs somebody else. But if you don’t learn it with yourself you will not be able to practise it with others. You have been told, constantly conditioned, that you are not of any worth. From every direction you have been shown, you have been told, that you are unworthy, that you are not what you should be, that you are not accepted as you are. There are many shoulds hanging over your head, and those shoulds are almost impossible to fulfill. And when you cannot fulfill them, when you fall short, you feel condemned. A deep hatred arises in you about yourself. How can you love others? So full of hatred, where are you going to find love? So you only pretend, you only show that you are in love. Deep down you are not in love with anybody; you cannot be. Those pretensions are good for a few days, then the color disappears, then reality asserts itself. Every love-affair is on the rocks. Sooner or later, every love-affair becomes very poisoned. And how does it become so poisoned? Both pretend that they are loving, both go on saying that they love. The father says he loves the child; the child says he loves the father. The mother says she loves her daughter, and the daughter goes on saying the same thing. Brothers say they love each other. The whole world talks about love, sings about love...and can you find any other place so loveless? Not an iota of love exists — and there are mountains of talk, Himalayas of poetry about love. It seems all these poetries are just compensations. Because we cannot love, we have somehow to believe through poetry, singing, that we love. What we miss in life we put in poetry. What we go on missing in life, we put in the film, in the novel. Love is absolutely absent, because the first step has not been taken yet. The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don’t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn’t belong to you. You are just to be yourself. Relax and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don’t go on copying others signatures. You are not expected to become a Jesus or a Buddha or a Ramakrishna; you are simply expected to become yourself. It was good that Ramakrishna never tried to become somebody else, so he became Ramakrishna. It was good that Jesus never tried to become like Abraham or Moses, so he became Jesus. It is good that Buddha never tried to become a Patanjali or Krishna; that’s why he became a Buddha. When you are not trying to become anybody else, then you simply relax; then a grace arises. Then you are full of grandeur, splendor, harmony...because then there is no conflict! nowhere to go, nothing to fight for; nothing to force, enforce upon yourself violently. You become innocent. In that innocence you will feel compassion and love for yourself. You will feel so happy with yourself that even if the divine comes and knocks at your door and says, “Would you like to become somebody else?” you will say, “Have you gone mad?! I am perfect! Thank you, but never try anything like that — I am perfect as I am.” The moment you can say to existence, “I am perfect as I am, I am happy as I am, “this is what in the East we call shraddha — trust; then you have accepted yourself and in accepting yourself you have accepted your creator. Denying yourself you deny your creator. If you go and see a painting of Picasso’s and you say, “This is wrong and that is wrong, and this color should have been this way,” you are denying Picasso. The moment you say, “I should be like this,” you are trying to improve upon existence. You are saying, “You committed blunders; I should have been like this, and you have made me like this?” You are trying to improve upon existence. It is not possible. Your struggle is in vain; you are doomed to failure. And the more you fail, the more you hate. The more you fail, the more you feel condemned. The more you fail, the more you feel yourself impotent. And out of this hatred, impotency, how can compassion arise? Compassion arises when you are perfectly grounded in your being. You say, “Yes, this is the way I am.” You have no ideals to fulfill. And immediately fulfillment starts happening! The roses bloom so beautifully because they are not trying to become lotuses. And the lotuses bloom so beautifully because they have not heard the legends about other flowers. Everything in nature goes so beautifully in accord, because nobody is trying to compete with anybody, nobody is trying to become anybody else. Everything is the way it is. Just see the point! Just be yourself and remember you cannot be anything else, whatsoever you do. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself. There are only two ways. One is: rejecting, you can remain the same; condemning. you can remain the same; or: accepting, surrendering, enjoying, delighting, you can be the same. Your attitude can be different, but you are going to remain the way you are, the person you are. Once you accept, compassion arises. And then you start accepting others! Have you observered: it is very difficult to live with a saint, very difficult. You can live with a sinner; you cannot live with a saint because a saint will be condemning you continuously: by his gesture, by his eyes, the way he will look at you, the way he will talk at you. A saint never talks with you; he talks at you. He never just looks at you; he has always some ideals in his eyes, clouding. He never sees you. He has something far away and he goes on comparing you with it...and, of course, you always fall short. His very look makes you a sinner. It is very difficult to live with a saint...because he does not accept himself, how can he accept you? He has many things in him. jarring notes he feels. he has to go beyond. Of course, he sees the same things in you in a magnified way. But to me only that person is a saint who has accepted himself, and in his acceptance has accepted the whole world. To me, that state of mind is what sainthood is: the state of total acceptance. And that is healing, therapeutic. Just being with somebody who accepts you totally is therapeutic. You will be healed. Osho, A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Talk #8 To continue reading – and see all the available formats of this talk: click here Next Week: Part 3

2011-09-06T07:02:00.001-07:00

Whatever you do, remember one thing:
out of fear you are not going to grow; you will only shrink and die.
Fear is in the service of death.
Mahavira is right. He makes fearlessness the fundamental of a religious person,
and I can understand what he means by fearlessness - that means dropping all armor.
A fearless person has everything that life wants to give to you as a gift.
Now there is no barrier: you will be showered with gifts, and whatever you will be doing you will have a strength, a power, a certainty,
a tremendous feeling of authori

2011-07-27T18:44:00.001-07:00

Copyright © 2011 Osho International Foundation

But the real love is not an escape from loneliness, the real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share —
happiness always wants to share. It is too much, it cannot be contained; like the flower cannot contain its fragrance, it has to be released.

2011-07-25T21:51:00.001-07:00

No-Thought for the Day ®
Copyright © 2011 Osho International Foundation

The freedom that is brought by no is a very childish freedom. It is good for seven-year-olds up to fourteen-year-olds. But if a person gets caught into it and his whole life becomes a no-saying, then he has stopped growing.

2011-07-20T20:22:00.001-07:00

The intelligent person hesitates, ponders, wonders.

- Osho

2011-07-19T19:52:00.001-07:00

Six Words of Advice from Tilopa

Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don't try to figure anything out.
Don't try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest.

Loose & Natural

2011-06-14T18:06:00.001-07:00

- Tilopa

2011-01-21T16:14:00.000-08:00

'Vinny Carwash', 'The Fang', 'Tony Bagels', 'Johnny Pizza', 'Baby Shacks', 'Jack the Wack', 'Junior Lollipops', 'Bobby Glasses'...

2011-01-20T22:18:00.001-08:00

Some of the accused mobsters have colorful nicknames like “Vinny Carwash,” “Tony Bagels,” “Johnny Pizza,” “Lumpy,” “The Bull” and “Meatball.”

According to Deepak Chopra,

2011-01-18T17:12:00.003-08:00

What you want to do is have your desire from that state of consciousness that is one with the universe. This is the silent state of awareness reached through meditation. At that deepest level of nature, your intention and the intention of creation through you at that moment are one and the same. That state of awareness itself timeless and completely fulfilling, so it’s not a question of when you will get what you want-in that state, you are already the source, the process, and the outcome of what you want. The external manifestation of your desire is almost incidental, because you are already satisfied within and your happiness is no longer tied to your desire. That is why the spiritual approach to manifesting your desires is liberating in contrast to the approach that only emphasizes the external outcome that keeps you trapped in the cycle of trying to fulfill more and more desires in the search for happiness.

2010-09-09T12:26:00.001-07:00

Being positive is the most provocative thing you can do.

2010-05-04T15:31:00.001-07:00

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2010-05-04T15:20:00.001-07:00

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2010-04-27T01:39:00.000-07:00

"Of course, all that I say of the orator applies with even greater force to the orator's latter-day and more influential brother, the journalist. The power of the journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of that power unless it is used aright. He cna do, and often does, great good. He can do, and he often does, infinite mischief. All journalists, all writers, for the very reason that they appreciate the vast possibilities of their profession, should bear testimony against those who deeply discredit it. Offenses against taste and morals, which are bad enough in a private citizen, are infinitely worse if made into instruments for debauching the community through a newspaper. Mendacity, slander, sensationalism, inanity, vapid triviality, all are potent factors for the debauchery of the public mind and conscience. The excuse advanced for vicious writing, that the public demands it and that demand must be supplied, can no more be admitted than if it were advanced by purveyors of food who sell poisonous adulterations."

-Teddy Roosevelt on the media, April 23, 1910

Dattatreya Says...

2009-10-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

The way out is to go beyond sensory perceptions.

* At no time are you a victim to circumstances.
* Every moment is new and you can change your life momentarily.
* Do not wait. Waiting is a waste of time.
* You are not stuck.
* Knowledge is bondage. Do not read too much. Do meditation instead.

Great Quotes from George S. Patton, a Man who Fought and Knew How to Fight:

2007-12-20T10:23:00.001-08:00

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived!

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack!

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear!

Better to fight for something than live for nothing!

2007-10-19T07:40:00.001-07:00

THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE

2007-06-17T23:09:00.000-07:00

"A hundred years from now... people will still be watching this f___in' thing."
--Tony Soprano

QUOTES FROM THE DUKE

2007-06-17T21:45:00.000-07:00

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."
--John Wayne

"If you want to send a message, call Western Union."
--John Wayne

As Theodore Roosevelt once said,

2007-05-26T07:13:00.000-07:00

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

WAKING THOUGHTS

2007-04-18T20:21:00.000-07:00

"Keep pursuing knowledge and keep changing the balance of lack and abundance in your mind. Carefully select the thoughts that you prefer to think about people, and know that when your thoughts about each person in your life remains stable and full of light, then external forces no longer have a hold on you. And once you are free from the pressure of external forces, then you are zooming along in your path of positive manifestation. Until then these external forces all have the power to shift you from your path. Anchor your mind safely in the energy of Joyful Manifestation."
- Source Unknown

"MAN'S REACH SHOULD EXCEED HIS GRASP!!!"

2007-04-03T07:29:00.000-07:00

From lying in the gutters:

"Travis Charest has been dropped from Alejandro Jodorowski's long-awaited DREAMSHIFTERS graphic novel, with artwork being taken over by Zoran Janjetov, for publication later this year. Why?"

"Travis states, 'I started working on this book over six years ago, the original idea was for me to do the pages in pen and ink and have them colored. I got it in my head that although I wasn't a painter and hadn't ever painted a comic, I would paint this one. Big mistake, a disaster. It took forever to get a page finished, I was redoing pages, changing the paints, a nightmare, by the time I'd left Paris and moved back to the USA I only had a dozen pages to show for nearly two years work. Since coming back, the pages haven't really come any faster, and after all this time, I've only produced 30 pages of 'DREAMSHIFTERS.' It wasn't a case of screwing the pooch or anything like that, I've always worked hard, I just had a laborious process and a dismal understanding of how to really paint. I haven't had any new script for a year or so and I figured something like this was happening, but I found out like you did, someone mentioned the article to me and I asked my editors about it. I can't blame them, if the book ends up being around 48-52 pages, then at the pace I was going, they'd be waiting another 4 years for this to be finished. If anything they should be applauded for being as patient as they were, especially Jodo, a wonderful, generous man who only wants to see his book finished and deserves more than I've been able to give him. I've wanted to talk about all this for a long time but wasn't able to. I may still do more pages and the cover, but other than that I'm not sure. Now you know everything I know.:)'"

I find this incredibly inspiring and can't wait to get DREAMSHIFTERS! I believe this is the trait of a true artist. Everything is in the reaching. The fact that Charest, a man at the top of his game, decided to foresake all the big-time easy money and paint a comic he was supposed to pencil, taking 3 months to complete one page, and doing so for 6 years is astonishing. He literally is a Michael Jackson of the artworld. He goes from selling hundreds of thousands of issues a month to completely disappearing for 6 years from the entire scene. He must have really grown.

EXCITING!!!

B

2007-04-01T15:26:00.000-07:00

HAP
B

"I was going to ask, 'So when will you start?' But it just dawned on me, there's nothing to start. All you need to do is feel. So the more appropriate question is, 'When will you feel happiness, connection, etc?' If you find yourself beginning to answer with 'When such-and-such happens', it's a misguided answer - take a moment, and think about it again.

"There is nothing important outside yourself you don't already possess."

-Unknown

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Scott AmundsonCompromise is one of the most ugly words in our language. It means, I give half, you give half; I settle for half, you settle for half. But why? When you can have the whole, when you can eat the cake and have it too, then why compromise!Just a little courage, just a little daring...

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