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There are some problems but you don't know adversities in a third world country. When life a miserable around you, it becomes very difficult to live a highly conscious life. When you are living in a hell, you will like to remain less conscious to forget miseries. If Finland,Norway,Denmark are the happiest countries, they certainly have higher consciousness in comparison to other countries.

Matter can be converted into energy, Now scientists have claimed that energy can be converted into matter. https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/05/19/einstein-was-right-you-can-turn-energy-into-matter/#3fe22f2126ac Existence is energy. Consciousness is the highest form of energy. 'Everything is one substance' is a subjective truth, you want objective proof of it. It is like asking for proof of God. A Buddha knows the truth, you can't know it unless you become a Buddha. Either you trust him or ignore him.

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Any disease, first arises deep in the mind and then moves towards the body. It may take a long time to come to the body, it is a long distance. You are not aware of it when it is in the mind, you become aware of it only when it strikes hard at the roots of the body. You always feel the disease in the body, but it always originates in the mind. Try to find knack of meditation. It is a knack , either you get it or you don’t get it. Experiment on yourself.

A famous Sufi mystic, Bayazid, who wrote in his autobiography, “When I was young I thought and I said to God, and in all my prayers this was the base: ‘Give me energy so that I can change the whole world.’ Everybody looked wrong to me. I was a revolutionary and I wanted to change the face of the earth. “When I became a little more mature I started praying: ‘This seems to be too much. Life is going out of my hands – almost half of my life is gone and I have not changed a single person, and the whole world is too much.’ So I said to God, ‘My family will be enough. Let me change my family.’ “And when I became old,” says Bayazid, “I realised that even the family is too much, and who am I to change them? Then I realised that if I can change myself that will be enough, more than enough. I prayed to God, ‘Now I have come to the right point. At least allow me to do this: I would like to change myself.’ “God replied, ‘Now there is no time left. This you should have asked in the beginning. Then there was a possibility.’” This is not the story of one man called Bayazid – it is our story.

Cambodia has a child sex tourism problem. Some children are sold by their own parents, others are lured by what they think are legitimate job offers like waitressing. Pimps are reported to imprison young children who are virgins, not putting them to work until they have been presented to a series of bidders such as high-ranking military officers, politicians, businessmen and foreign tourists. Young girls working in brothels are in effect sex slaves. They receive no money, only food, and there are armed guards to stop them from running away. Children are often held captive, beaten, and starved to force them into prostitution. The possession, use, and sale of cannabis is illegal in most countries of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_cannabis

The seven-day week was established by God Himself, at the beginning! He worked Monday to Saturday. Even though He completed all the work of creation in 6 days, He added another day and took rest on the 7th day. India is not a Christian country but we work six days a week and we enjoy a relaxing Sunday, just like Christian God!

Buddha failed, Jesus failed, all masters have failed because man has remained the same. Unless somebody is not interested , no master can decrease his suffering.

Tibet was the most conscious country. Unfortunately, Tibet has fallen into a darkness. Its monasteries have been closed, its seekers of truth have been forced to work in labour camps. The only country in the world which was working - a one-pointed genius, all its intelligence in the search of one's own interior and its treasures has been stopped by the communist invasion of Tibet. And it is such an ugly world that nobody has objected to it. On the contrary, because China is big and powerful, even countries which are more powerful than China can ever be, like America, have accepted that Tibet belongs to China. Nowhere has such concentrated effort been made to discover man's being. Every family in Tibet used to give their eldest son to some monastery where he was to meditate and grow closer to awakening. It was a joy to every family that at least one of them was wholeheartedly, twenty-four hours a day, working on the inner being. They were also working but they could not give all their time; they had to create food and clothes and shelter, an in Tibet it is a difficult matter. The climate is not very helpful; to live in Tibet is a tremendous trouble. But still every family used to give their first-born child to the monastery. There were hundreds of monasteries, and these monasteries should not be compared with any Catholic monasteries. These monasteries have no comparison in the whole world. These monasteries were concerned only with one thing , to make you aware of yourself. If humanity were a little more aware, Tibet should be made free because it is the only country which has devoted almost two thousand years to doing nothing but going deeper into meditation. And it can teach the whole world something which is immensely needed.

I love your sense of humor! The principle of non-violence is central to Buddhist teachings, but in Sri Lanka some Buddhist monks are being accused of stirring up hostility towards other faiths and ethnic minorities. Burmese situation is far more serious. Here the antagonism is spearheaded by the 969 group, led by a monk, Ashin Wirathu, who was jailed in 2003 for inciting religious hatred. Released in 2012, he has referred to himself bizarrely as "the Burmese Bin Laden" Buddhism and violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence In 2012, Cambodia had a murder rate of 6.5 per 100,000 population. Petty crime is common in Combodia, with tourist areas often targeted. The rate of corruption in Cambodia is high; one source goes on to describe the situation as "nothing less than obscene". In 1993 it was estimated that there were some one hundred thousand sex workers in the country. Cambodia remains a major supplier of cannabis to countries in East and Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. Drug abuse is increasing among street children and rates of HIV/AIDS are increasing due to intravenous drug usage.

Poor India has nothing to brag about. We can begin with encouraging people to make their own toilets. India is rising, we are trying hard to imitate western culture. I am detached observer, I almost live like a hermit.

The primitive man was simple living a natural life. You will find people in the primitive societies are happier than those in civilized ones. Even Adam and Eve had no cloths, nothing to eat but they were living in a paradise. Adam ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge he was thrown out of paradise, to become knowledgeable is to fall from grace. Human consciousness rise and fall. Civilizations reach to their peaks and fall apart. In Buddha’s time India was the richest land. The spirituality that we have in India today is just a leftover from those days. Great civilization in Greece produced Heraclitus, Socrates,Pythagoras, Plotinus -- declined. If you talk about human awareness and levels of consciousness, we are living in dark ages. So-called civilized countries are as primitive and barbarous as you can conceive. In the twentieth century , you can produce Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, send the beautiful people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima directly to paradise together. List of modern conflicts in the Middle East https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_conflicts_in_the_Middle_East

Don’t worry too much about getting “ripped off” by small business people, merchants, guides and auto drivers. These are poor people trying to make a living, and if you overpay by a few rupees, consider it tourist tax and show some compassion. How to Survive Travel to India as a Beginner, What to Eat & Drink, Women-Specific Tips, Scams to Avoid & Everything Else You Need to Know https://www.asherfergusson.com/2012/11/100-tips-to-survive-travel-through-india-fun-facts-culture-temples-pictures-more/

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Jesus was a freak. At that time deprogrammer psychologists had not arrived; otherwise Jesus would have been saved from crucifixion. Just deprogramming would have been enough. He had just to be constantly hammered: "You are not the only son of God. Drop this nonsense. If you are the messiah for whom the whole Judaic tradition is waiting, let them recognize you. Why do you go on shouting that you are the awaited messiah?" It would have been very easy to deprogram that poor carpenter, but the psychologists were not around there. Plato called Diogenes "a Socrates gone mad". Difference between ordinary madness and divine madness is very subtle.

Hindus have looked upon God as the dancer, "Nataraj." In this symbol the dancer and the dance are one. God is the creator, but do not think He is separated form His creation. When man sculpts an idol and the idol is completed, the sculptor and the sculpture are no longer one; they are separate. And the sculpture will remain long after the sculptor is dead. If the image fractures, the sculptor is not also broken, because the two are separate. But there is no such distance between God and His creation. When man dances can you separate him from his dance? Can he return home leaving the dance behind? If the dancer dies, the dance dies with him. When the dance stops, he is no longer the dancer. They are united. God is the creator. But realize that He does not stand apart from his creation. He is absorbed and one with all that He has created.

Consciousness is not only individual, it is also collective. It is in you, but it is also outside of you. In a way, consciousness is in you and you are in a greater consciousness, just like a fish in the sea. The fish is in the sea and the sea is also in the fish. Whenever someone attains Buddhahood, becomes Enlightened through his efforts, through his conscious evolution, a wave in the ocean rises. We rise with Buddhas, we fall with Hitlers. With a Buddha you will go high, with a Hitler you will come down. With a rising wave you go up, then with a falling wave you go down. But you can use the opportunity. When you are rising high, then with a very small effort on the part of your will, you can attain more.

Work in the world but don't be lost in it. Work for five or six hours and then forget all about it.

In 1899 Sigmund Freud got a new telephone number: 14362. He was 43 at the time, and he was profoundly disturbed by the digits in the new number. He believed they signified that he would die at age 61 (note the one and six surrounding the 43) or, at best, at age 62 (the last two digits in the number). He clung, painfully, to this bizarre belief for many years. Presumably he was forced to revise his estimate on his 63rd birthday, but he was haunted by other superstitions until the day he died—by assisted suicide, no less—at the ripe old age of 83. That's just for starters. Freud also had frequent blackouts. He refused to quit smoking even after 30 operations to correct the extensive damage he suffered from cancer of the jaw. He was a self-proclaimed neurotic. He suffered from a mild form of agoraphobia. And, for a time, he had a serious cocaine problem. So much for the father of psychoanalysis. Mental health professionals are, in general, a fairly crazy lot, at least as troubled as the general population.

If chanting loudly is not possible, which is very important because it gives the foundation, skip it. Close your mouth and repeat and chant mentally. The throat, the tongue, the lips, everything should be closed, the whole body locked, and this chanting should only be in the mind, but as loudly as possible: with the same loudness as if you were using with the body. Now allow the mind too to be saturated with chant.

Walking Meditation Walk meditatively as if the eternity is yours, just walk the way you go for a morning walk in a relaxed way about three times slower than your usual walk. Bring your attention to the feeling of your feet touching the ground. Walk consciously but relaxed, as if walking is everything. Listening Meditation If you are listening with all kinds of prejudices, that is a wrong way of listening; it is really a way of not listening. You appear to be listening, but you are only hearing not listening. Right listening means you have put aside your mind. It does not mean that you become gullible, that you start believing whatsoever is said to you. It has nothing to do with belief or disbelief. Right listening means, "I am not concerned right now whether to believe or not to believe. There is no question of agreement or disagreement at this moment. I am simply trying to listen to whatsoever it is. Osho said : “I don't speak to teach something; I speak to create something. These are not lectures; these are simply a device for you to become silent, because if you are told to become silent without making any effort you will find great difficulty.” " My words keep you awake, and just between the words I give you gaps. And those are the real, essential things. Waiting for another word, you have to listen to silence.

What is wrong if you play tennis with one partner today, another partner another day? And sex is nothing more than tennis. The very combination of sex and morality has poisoned the whole past of morality. Morality became so much sex-oriented that it lost all other dimensions , which are far more important. Sex should not really be so much of a concern for moral thinking. It should be like a game, a play: two persons playing with each other's bodily energies. If they both are happy, it should be nobody else's concern. A man should be allowed to come in contact with as many as women as possible. A woman should be allowed to come in contact with as many men as possible. Both will be richer, and rich in experience, intimacy, friendship; they will know the heights of love which otherwise are missing. Humans are polygamous by nature, but woman has been conditioned by man for thousands of years into thinking that she is monogamous, but she is not.

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Whatever you call it makes no difference. Jesus was talking with seekers, disciples. Jesus was not a christian, he never heard about Christianity. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, you will never find the truth.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Don't bother about other things. First find the innermost core of the kingdom of God. Then you need not worry about anything; all else will follow. The moment you recognize that you are stupid, you are no more, because only intelligence can see the point of one's own stupidity. The stupid person cannot see it; that's why he is stupid. The most fundamental stupidity is that one cannot see it. Remember, only stupids seek enlightenment. Those who are clever and cunning are after money, fame, power, sex.