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I have never heard about anything written by an enlightened master. They communicate something by their presence, not by words. Still they speak to invite people, but speaking is only a bait.

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Meditation needs great work. It is arduous, it is an uphill task. To remain non-meditative is easy in a way. You have not to do anything about it, you are already non-meditative.

New Age is a compilation of metaphysical, Eastern-influenced thought systems. Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism are all extrovert religions. Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism are introvert religions. The extrovert religion prays to God; introvert religiousness meditates. Buddha and Mahavira taught meditation. Before Buddha and Mahavira, India was never invaded. There had never been any violence because people knew that to invade India was to just invite your death. After Buddha and Mahavira begins the downfall of India. They taught people to be non-violent. They completely forgot that the other people surrounding the country are not non-violent. Even Hinduism in India became influenced by Jainism and Buddhism. India has lived in poverty such as no other country has lived. India has lived longer in slavery than any other country of the world. But slavery, poverty, suffering , everything has to be accepted because it is your doing. The very idea of revolution has never happened to the Indian mind. Spread of this foolish philosophy (which is called 'New age' in western world) is the root cause of India's poverty. If the world is illusory then why care about science, why care about technology? Scientists are great thinkers, meditation is about no-mind. With a silent mind , you can't become a scientist.

There is difference between spiritual teacher and a fully enlightened master. When inside you everything becomes silent, you are no more as you used to be – a person. Now you are just a fragrance, a presence. Anybody who is intelligent is bound to feel something new that he has never experienced before. People have named it in different ways, because people are different. Somebody will say, ”It is a hypnotic force.” Somebody will say, ”It is something like magnetism.” Somebody will say, ”It is mesmerism.” Somebody will say, ”It is charisma.” Somebody will say, ”We don’t know exactly what it is.” One thing is certain: it has a tremendous gravity, it pulls you towards itself.

@egoless Christianity is an extrovert religion. The emphasis is on serving people - love, compassion. The emphasis is not on meditation, because if you meditate that looks selfish. When the world is in such a misery - people are hungry, ill, dying - and you are meditating? The whole thing appears to be too cruel.

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Jesus says the same thing in different words: Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, then all else will follow. But realizing that success does not exist in outer world is the beginning of meditation. Meditation starts only when you have come to know that there is no wealth worth speaking of in the outer world. There is no success as far as the outer is concerned. All outer success is just an effort to cover inner poverty.

When the yogi is established in nonpossessiveness, when he possesses nothing except himself; he may be a king, he may live in a palace, but he does not possess it. If it is lost, not a ripple will arise in his mind. There is a story of a great yogi; his name was Janak. India has worshipped him for centuries, and India has not worshipped anybody else like him because he is unique in one way. Buddha left his palace, kingdom; Mahavir left his palace and kingdom; Janak never left. He remained in the palace; he remained a king. It happened that a young seeker was told by his Master, "Now, you go to Janak. Your last initiation will be done by him. Whatsoever I could teach I have taught you, but I am a beggar. I don't know anything about the world; I have renounced it. You must go to a man who knows about the world. This is going to be your last initiation. Before you renounce you must ask somebody who knows the world. I don't know it, so go to Janak the king." The disciple was a little hesitant because he was ready to renounce and he didn't believe that this Janak can be an enlightened man. If he is enlightened, then why is he in the palace? Ordinary logic: he should renounce everything. He should not possess anything because that is one of the basic things -- to become nonpossessive, to remain in nonpossessiveness, in pure austerity of nonpossessiveness. One becomes so simple, so innocent, why is he living as a king? But when the Master said, he had to go. Hesitantly, reluctantly, he reached. The evening he reached, Janak invited him to the court. There was much jubilation. Beautiful girls were dancing, wine and women, and everybody was almost drunk. This young man from an ashram could not believe his eyes, and he could not believe his old Master -- why that fool has sent him here. For what? He was disturbed so much that he wanted to leave immediately, but Janak said, "That will be insulting. You have come; be here at least one night. Tomorrow morning you can leave. And why are you so disturbed? Rest a little while. In the morning I will ask you for what purpose you have come." The young man said, "Now there is no need to ask anything. I have seen with my own eyes what is happening here." Janak laughed. The young man was taken care of -- fed well, given a good massage and a bath, given a beautiful room, very costly bed. He was tired, coming on foot from the jungle monastery to the capital, and he wanted to rest. The moment he lay down on the bed, he saw a sword hanging just above him by a very thin thread. He could not believe what was the point of it all, and he has been received so well and now why this joke. He could not sleep the whole night -- continuously the fear. He could not enjoy the bed, he could not enjoy the palace -- the sword was hanging on top of him. In the morning the king inquired, "Did you sleep well?" He said, "How could I sleep? What nonsense are you talking to me? Everything was okay, but that sword just hanging by a thin thread -- any moment it can fall. Just a breeze, and I will be killed." So the king said, "You couldn't enjoy the bed? It is the most beautiful we have in this palace, and the room that I have given to you is the most luxurious." He said, "I don't even remember that room and that bed. I have never been in such suffering -- because of that sword." The king said, "Then it is better you don't go. I am in this palace, but the sword is hanging on me -- the sword of death. And the thread is thinner than this, and any moment I can die." When one remembers death, how can one possess anything? The place is there, the palace is there, the kingdom is there -- but death is more there than anything else. How can one possess? When death is there, and one remembers it, one becomes non-possessive. Then one knows, "I can possess only myself. Death will take everything else."

With the disappearance of unhealthiness, a healthy body remains. But this is not true in the case of the mind. There is no such thing as a “healthy mind”. Mind, as such, is the disturbance, the disease. Meditation is the state of no-mind is a healthy state. The ordinary man is being used by his mind. When it becomes too much, when the mind starts using you completely in a totalitarian way, we call it madness. Body should be healthy and strong and well-nourished but mind should be blank and empty! And the criterion of supreme health is - a well-filled body and an empty mind. But we are more intent on filling the mind. This is our life-long effort - to fill the mind with thoughts, desires, ambitions! Mind is noise, it is craziness, insanity. No-mind is silence, health, wholeness.

Breathe properly A very wrong concept has pervaded in the world. According to this, the chest should be well developed and large, and the abdomen should be flat, almost against the back. This mad tendency has created a terrible disturbance within the human body. In order to inflate the chest, the breath has to fill the chest and not be allowed to go down further. There is a stupid idea popular in the whole world that belly should be pulled in and chest should look larger, it hinders natural breathing. Breath is literally the bridge connecting all of these aspects of our being and our existence. When you are relaxed ,as the breath goes in, your belly starts rising up, and as the breath goes out, your belly starts settling down again. Walk meditatively Walk in morning and evening regularly, empty stomach. Walk very slowly, one third of your normal speed. Take every step consciously. Keep your body relaxed especially lower belly (abdomen) and shoulders. Eat properly Chew food properly. Change your diet, find foods which you can digest properly. Never eat too much. Maintain gap between meals.

@Guillem Even animals, if they are receptive can grow in consciousness, and cows are very receptive. That's why in India they have become sacred. There was a great Master, Ramana Maharshi, each morning when he would sit for the darshan for one hour and people would come to sit with him, a cow would also come. The cow was so regular that no other disciple was so regular . It might rain, it might be summer, it might be winter. The cow might be ill, or healthy, whatsoever, but the cow was bound to come at the exact time. She would come and stand in the verandah and look inside through the window, her head inside the window, and remain there for one hour, sometimes with open eyes and sometimes with closed eyes. And sometimes tears flowing, it has become a miracle! When she was dying. And when Ramana reached, she closed her eyes and tears started flowing. She died. Somebody asked Ramana, "Is this cow going to be born as a man?" Ramana said, "No. She will not need to be born as a man -- she has passed beyond that. She is not going to be born at all. She has attained enlightenment." It was for no other reason than this that cows became an essential part of all the ashrams in India in the old days. They created a certain atmosphere, of purity, innocence. https://sriramanamaharishi.com/animals-birds/ramana-maharshi-and-cow-lakshmi/

The driver is hypnotized by the monotonous purring of the engine and the straight road without any curves for miles on end. Stroll in a public park, sit relaxed on a bench, so that you can calm down.

@Maycol When you are fragile in your growth, people like U.G. Krishnamurti can destroy you. These people have missed their life, and now they are living in frustration. That's what U.G. Krishnamurti is doing.

Nobody has the absolute truth. Truth is so vast! All truths are bound to be relative. It is the word ‘absolute’ that has dragged the whole of humanity into misery. The Mohammedan thinks he has the absolute truth in the Koran; he becomes blind. The Christian thinks the absolute truth is in the Bible. The Hindu thinks the absolute truth is in the Gita, and so on, so forth. Whatsoever we know and whatsoever we can ever know is bound to remain relative.

U. G. Krishnamurti said he went to see Ramana Maharishi. He was not attracted , because Ramana Maharishi was chopping vegetables. U. G. Krishnamurti must have gone to see somebody extraordinary sitting on a golden throne or something. Ramana Maharishi just sitting on the floor and chopping vegetables? preparing vegetables for the kitchen! He was very much frustrated. Then another day he went and saw him reading jokes. Finished for ever! This man knows nothing. This man is very ordinary. He left the ashram; it was not worth it. U. G. Krishnamurti must have been in search of a pretender. He could not see the ordinariness and the beauty of it and the grace of it. He missed J. Krishnamurti too. He lived for years with J. Krishnamurti. Now, J. Krishnamurti is totally different in his expression, very logical, very rational. But there U. G. Krishnamurti thought it was all abstraction, philosophy. He stopped going there because “It is all abstraction.” He left Sri Ramana because there was no philosophy. He left J. Krishnamurti because there was too much philosophy. In both the cases he missed.

It is thirst for inner peace for which I am on this journey.

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He is misinformed. I live in India, I have never seen a person roaming the streets and claiming that he has 'reached enlightenment'. People in India very well know how to test somebodies 'enlightenment'.

All forms of meditation are in fact techniques to prepare ground so that meditation can happen. Meditation can't happen to you, as you are. Anything you do in a wrong manner can harm you. If done in a proper manner nothing harms. ... but there is no shortcut to achieve 'Silence of the mind'. You can force celibacy, you can control your sexuality, but that is not going to help. You will not be celibate, you will be only more and more sexual. Celibacy can't be a goal, it can be a consequence of meditative life , but it can't be a discipline.

Problems don't finish even when you have lot of money and you don't do any work. Problems finish only when you are transformed. Those who have faith , don't ask such questions, they don't doubt at all. Those who have faith, know perfectly well that universe will provide that they deserve.

Not knowing simply means a state of ‘No-mind’. Mind can be knowledgeable, mind can be ignorant. If you have less information you are thought to be ignorant; if you have more information you are thought to be knowledgeable. So, between ignorance and knowledge the difference is only that of quantity, of degrees. They are not different, their qualities are not different.

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned A.D. 161–80), the archetypal “philosopher-king,” is perhaps best known today as the author of the Stoic philosophical treatise 'Meditations'. Philosophy for a Stoic is not just a set of beliefs or ethical claims, it is a way of life involving constant practice and training. Stoic philosophical and spiritual practices included logic, Socratic dialogue and self-dialogue, contemplation of death, training attention to remain in the present moment (similar to some forms of Buddhist meditation), and daily reflection on everyday problems and possible solutions. Philosophy for a Stoic is an active process of constant practice and self-reminder.

Jesus says, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” The fundamental question is whether you love yourself or not. You can love the neighbor only if you love yourself. If you have never loved yourself: it is impossible to love thy neighbor.