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@egoless Meditation is a technique. But the path of love, bhakti yoga , and Jesus is a BHAKTA, a devotee , knows no techniques. Love is not a technique and cannot be a technique, and if you bring technique into it, you will destroy love. Every day Buddha is gaining more and more followers in the West, because the West has become very very mind-oriented. The West has become technological about everything. The grip of Christ is lessening on the West. The reason is that the West no longer goes through the heart. Jesus says: Love God. If you can love, then there is no problem. If you cannot love, then Jesus is not the way for you. Then you will have to search for Buddha. Love is not a doing. It is a happening, it is a trust, not a technique.

Anything can be creative – you bring that quality to the activity. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean the floor in a creative way. You can cook in a creative way. Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things. Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing it is not purely economical, then it is creative. Don't be worried about what you are doing. One has to do many things, but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work becomes worship. Then whatsoever you do is a prayerfulness. If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive. When ambition enters, creativity disappears – because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future – and a creative person is always in the present.

Osho once claimed that the AIDS epidemic would kill three quarters of the world's population very soon.

Osho once stated that it was possible to push objects around by will power alone (psychokinesis), and he published an article in his Neo-Sannyas Magazine about how this ability could be demonstrated. Osho stated that one should take a bowl of water and pour a layer of cooking oil on top of the water, then place a metal pin on top of the oil and the oil would somehow make the metal pin float. The next step was to concentrate on the pin with your mind and order the pin to move around the bowl like a little motorboat. The first obvious problem with this experiment is that a metal pin will not float on either water or oil under normal conditions as steel is heavier than both water and oil. Adding oil to the water does not help the pin float. The second and most important problem is that psychokinesis is not possible, and those pretending to have that capability have been exposed as frauds. Osho never even tried the experiment himself, and this was just another example of him giving false teaching without caring if what he said was true. For him, it was all about getting attention.

But he was tortured and crucified for the sins of the whole humanity !

Buddha taught non-violence, even Hindus were influenced by him. Foreign civilizations attacked India. Foreigners never occupied India before Buddha. Even Alexander the great returned from the boundaries of India.

It was utterly stupid! When Buddha returns to his home after his enlightenment; He saw his wife. Certainly Yashodhara was mad! This man escaped one night without even saying anything to her. She said to Buddha, ‘Couldn’t you have trusted me? You could have said that you wanted to go, and I would have been the last woman in the world to prevent you. Couldn’t you have trusted me even that much?’ And she was crying. Twelve years of anger! And this man had escaped like a thief in the middle of the night – suddenly, without giving a single hint to her. Buddha apologized and he said, ‘It was out of non-understanding. I was ignorant, I was not aware.' Rabindranath has written a poem about this incident when Buddha comes. Yashodhara asked him one thing. ‘Just tell me one thing,’ she said. ‘Whatever you have attained… I can see you have attained, whatsoever it is. I don’t know what it is – just tell me one thing: was it not possible to attain it here in this house?’ And Buddha could not say no. It was possible to attain it here in this house. Now he knew. Because it has nothing to do with forest or with town, with family or with ashram – it has nothing to do with any place; it has something to do with your innermost core. It is available everywhere.

Buddha renounced his kingdom, left his wife and one day old son. He was only son of his old father. His family suffered tremendously and he enjoyed meditation.

@Ether Mother Teresa helped thousands - sick, poor and orphans. She never meditated. Love and prayer also brings serenity and contentment. Meditation is not the only path.

Bible says, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." Christianity insist on “service” and charity, and loving thy neighbor. Meditation is a selfish phenomenon, meditation means just enjoying your aloneness, forgetting the whole world and just enjoying yourself. Meditation gives a feeling of guilt , when the whole world is so troubled, when people are so poor, when people are dying of starvation, when people are suffering from diseases, you are meditating. You must be utterly selfish. First help the poor, first help the people who are suffering from diseases, first help everybody else. Jesus helped the blind, gave them eyes, turned stones into bread to serve the poor, even raised the dead back to life. His whole life was one of service to the poor.

Buddha did everything that could be done. Then, at last, he was so tired of doing, so deadly tired, that one day when he was taking his evening bath in the Niranjana River near Bodhgaya, he felt so weak and so tired that he could not come out of the river. He just clung to a root of a tree and a thought came to his mind, "I have become so weak, I cannot even cross this small river. How will I be alive to cross the whole ocean of the world? I have done everything, and I have not found the divine. I have only tired my body." He felt that he was on the verge of death.

Hindu deities are called as gods and goddesses in Hinduism. These deities have distinct and complex personalities, yet are often viewed as aspects of the same Ultimate Reality called Brahman. Hinduism is a pantheistic religion: It equates God with the universe. Yet Hindu religion is also polytheistic: populated with myriad gods and goddesses who personify aspects of the one true God, allowing individuals an infinite number of ways to worship based on family tradition, community and regional practices, and other considerations. Different traditions of Hinduism have different views, and these views have been described by scholars as polytheism, monotheism, henotheism, panentheism, pantheism, monism, agnostic, humanism, atheism or non-theism.

I don't do any work. I have no responsibilities, no social life. I can't sit silently doing nothing, all day. I am here for catharsis. Like me, other seekers also need to release repressed emotions, this forum gives them space for it.

Throughout the history of Hinduism there has been a strong tradition of philosophic speculation and skepticism. Buddha's contemporaries Sanjaya Belatthiputta and Mahavira also denied God. The Upanishads (ancient Hindu scriptures) think of God not as a person but as existence itself - as the very ground of existence. Nama-rupa-ateet - beyond name, beyond form. Because Upanishads could not create the revolution, Buddha had to speak in a harsher tone. Buddha speaks the same truth as the Upanishads.

Anyone who doesn't hurt my ego !

Buddha was sitting under a tree. One astrologer approached him – he was very puzzled, because he saw the footprints of the Buddha on the wet sand and he could not believe his eyes. All the scriptures that he had been studying his whole life had been telling him about certain signs that exist in the feet of a man who rules the world (a chakravartin) a ruler of all the six continents, of the whole earth. And he saw in the footprints in the wet sand on the riverbank all the symbols so clearly that he could not believe his eyes! Either all his scriptures were wrong and he was wasting his life in astrology… otherwise, how was it possible on such a hot afternoon, in such a small, dirty village, a chakravartin would come and walk barefoot, on the burning hot sand? He followed the footprints, just in search of the man to whom these footprints belonged. He found the Buddha sitting under a tree. He was even more puzzled. The face was that of a chakravartin – the grace, the beauty, the power, the aura – but the man was a beggar, with a begging bowl! The astrologer touched the feet of the Buddha and asked him, “Who are you, sir? You have puzzled me. You should be a chakravartin, a world ruler. What are you doing here, sitting under this tree? Either all my astrology books are wrong, or I am hallucinating and you are not really there.” Buddha said, “Your books are absolutely right – but there is something which belongs to no category, not even to the category of a chakravartin. I am, but I am nobody in particular.” The astrologer said, “You are puzzling me more. How can you be without being anybody in particular? You must be a god who has come to visit the earth – I can see it in your eyes!” Buddha said, “I am not a god.” The astrologer said, “Then you must be a gandharva – a celestial musician.” Buddha said, “No, I am not a gandharva either.” And the astrologer went on asking, “Then are you a king in disguise? Who are you? You can’t be an animal, you can’t be a tree, you can’t be a rock – who exactly are you?” And the answer the Buddha gave is of immense importance to understand. He said, “I am just a Buddha – I am just awareness, and nothing else. I don’t belong to any category. Every category is an identification and I don’t have any identity.”

The Buddha was about six feet tall with coal black hair and a golden brown complexion. All sources agree that the Buddha was strikingly handsome. The Brahmin Sonadanda described him as "handsome, good-looking, and pleasing to the eye, with a most beautiful complexion.

I can believe in big bang and evolution but not in Abiogenesis, how you could get together in one tiny, sub-microscopic volume of the primitive ocean all of the hundreds of different molecular components you would need in order for a self-replicating cycle to be established. It is an enormous problem.

How first living cell was formed ? In which theory do you believe?

Jesus says the same thing in different words. He says: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, then all else will follow.” Alexander was trying to create a bigger kingdom, to become a bigger king. His whole life was wasted in creating the kingdom, and then there was no time left for him to be king. He died before the kingdom was complete. This has happened to many. The kingdom can never be complete. The world is infinite - your kingdom is bound to remain partial.

There are no outer standards of success. They are efforts to cover up your inner emptiness, efforts to deceive yourself and to make you feel that you have not failed. In fact, man tries to possess things because he does not possess himself. This is a strategy to hide the fact that he does not possess himself. This is a strategy to hide the fact that he does not possess himself; this is a way of explaining away the inner emptiness; this is a way to feel, 'Look, I have so many things, what else does one need?' When you are surrounded by too many things - what you call 'success by outer standards' - what exactly are you doing? You are trying to create a substitute of 'having' for an emptiness which you are feeling inside. Being is missing, and you are trying to replace it by having. And it cannot be replaced by any having. There are not many successes - and that one success is to know oneself, to be oneself. Through that, one attains to ecstasy; through that, one attains to the ultimate.

The Kamasutra, free PDF download http://www.yogavidya.com/Yoga/Kamasutra.pdf

@Marks199 IF YOU THINK OF GHOSTS, THEY ARE BOUND TO APPEAR. Think and you will see. If you think of enemies, you will create them; if you think of friends, they will appear. If you love, love appears all around you; if you hate, hate appears. Whatsoever you go on thinking is being fulfilled by a certain law. IF YOU DON'T THINK ANYTHING, then nothing happens to you.

In Gautam Buddha's time there was one beautiful woman -- she was a prostitute, Amrapali. One Buddhist monk was just going to beg when Amrapali saw him. She was simply amazed because kings have been at her door, princes, rich people, famous people from all walks of life. But she had never seen such a beautiful person -- and he was a monk, a beggar with a begging bowl. She was going on her golden chariot to her garden. She told the bhikkhu, "If you don't mind, you can sit with me on the chariot and I will lead you wherever you want." She was not thinking that the bhikkhu would be ready to do it, because it was known that Buddha did not allow his bhikkhus to talk to women, or to touch any woman. And to ask him to sit on a golden chariot in the open street where there were thousands of people, hundreds of other bhikkhus, other monks...She was not hoping that he would accept the invitation, but he said, "That's good," and he climbed on the chariot and sat by her side. It was a scene. A bhikkhu with a begging bowl...!A crowd was following the chariot, "What is going on there? Nobody has ever heard..." And then the bhikkhu said, "My camp has come. Thank you for your being so kind to a poor man. You can drop me here." But Amrapali said, "From tomorrow, the rainy season is going to be here." In the rainy season the bhikkhus, the monks, don't move. They stay in one place -- only for the rainy season. The remaining months they are always on the move from one village to another village. "From tomorrow, the rainy season is going to begin. I invite you to stay with me. You can ask your master." He said, "Jolly good, I will ask the master. And I don't see that he will object, because I know him -- he knows me, and he knows me more than I know him." But before he reached, many others had reached and complained that the man had broken the discipline, the prestige, the respectability... that the man should be expelled immediately. The bhikkhu came -- Buddha asked him, "What happened?" He told the whole thing and he said, "The woman has asked me to stay with her for the coming four months' rainy season. And I have said to her, `As I know my master I don't think there is any problem, and my master knows me better than I know him.' So what do you say?" There were ten thousand monks, and there was pindrop silence. Gautam Buddha said, "You can accept her invitation." It was a shock. People were thinking he would be expelled, and he was being rewarded! But what could they do. They said, "Just wait. After four months Buddha will see that he has committed a grave mistake. That young man will be corrupted in that place, in a prostitute's house. Have you ever heard of a monk staying for four months...?" The man stayed for four months, and every day rumors were coming that "this is going wrong" and "that is going wrong." And Buddha said, "Just wait, let him come. I know he is a man who can be trusted. Whatever happens he will tell himself. I don't have to depend on rumors." And when the monk came, Amrapali was with him. He touched Buddha's feet and said, "Amrapali wants to be initiated." Buddha said, "Look, about all these rumors... When a real meditator goes to a prostitute, the prostitute has to change into a meditator. When a repressed person who has all the sexuality and is sitting on a volcano goes to a prostitute, he falls down. He was already waiting for it -- not even a prostitute was needed. Any woman would have done that."