Shanmugam

A conman who accepts that he is a conman cannot be a conman by definition! Con - an instance of deceiving or tricking someone. I am not going to spam this thread with our conversation. So, the conversation ends here!

He was joking...

Live Life in its Totality, Drink Life in its Totality "I have heard a beautiful story - I don't know how far it is correct, I cannot vouch for it. In paradise one afternoon, in its most famous cafe, Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Buddha are sitting and chatting. The waiter comes with a tray that holds three glasses of the juice called "Life," and offers them. Buddha immediately closes his eyes and refuses; he says, "Life is misery." Confucius closes his eyes halfway - he is a middlist, he used to preach the golden mean - and asks the waiter to give him the glass. He would like to have a sip - but just a sip, because without tasting how can one say whether life is misery or not? Confucius had a scientific mind; he was not much of a mystic, he had a very pragmatic, earthbound mind. He was the first behaviorist the world has known, very logical. And it seems perfectly right - he says, "First I will have a sip, and then I will say what I think." He takes a sip and he says, "Buddha is right - life is misery." Lao Tzu takes all the three glasses and he says, "Unless one drinks totally, how can one say anything?" And Lao Tzu says, " He drinks all the three glasses and starts dancing! Buddha and Confucius ask him, "Are you not going to say anything?" And Lao Tzu says, "This is what I am saying - my dance and my song are speaking for me." Unless you taste totally, you cannot say. And when you taste totally, you still cannot say because what you know is such that no words are adequate. Buddha is on one extreme, Confucius is in the middle. Lao Tzu has drunk all the three glasses - the one that was brought for Buddha, the one that was brought for Confucius, and the one that was brought for him. He has drunk them all; he has lived life in its three-dimensionality. My own approach is that of Lao Tzu. Live life in all possible ways; don't choose one thing against the other, and don't try to be in the middle. Don't try to balance yourself - balance is not something that can be cultivated. Balance is something that comes out of experiencing all the dimensions o flife. Balance is something that happens; it is not something that can be brought about through your efforts. If you bring it through your efforts it will be false, forced. And you will remain tense, you will not be relaxed, because how can a person who is trying to remain balanced in the middle be relaxed? You will always be afraid that if you relax you may start moving to the left or to the right. You are bound to remain uptight, and to be uptight is to miss the whole opportunity, the whole gift of life. Don't be uptight. Live life in its totality, drink life in its totality! Yes, sometimes it tastes bitter - so what? That taste of bitterness will make you capable of tasting its sweetness. You will be able to appreciate the sweetness only if you have tasted its bitterness. One who knows not how to cry will not know how to laugh, either. One who cannot enjoy a deep laughter, a belly laugh, that person's tears will be crocodile tears. They cannot be true, they cannot be authentic. - "The Book of Understanding" by OSHO.

Bridging Materialistic Zorba with Awakened Buddha - Funny and Wise Video where Osho admits he was a Conman

Yes ....

AWARENESS HOLDS ALL Man is very tiny if you look at his body, man is very foolish if you look at his mind, and man is tremendously vast if you look at his consciousness. Three things meet in man. The vast, the infinite, meet in his consciousness, in his awareness. That's what you become aware of when you meditate: boundaries recede and disappear. The body does not contain you; in fact, you contain the body. Ordinarily you think, "I exist in the body." It is absolutely wrong. The body exists in you; you are vaster, you are bigger - not only bigger than the body, you are bigger than this whole universe. It is awareness that holds all. Osho

You said that yesterday

I am just joking with him because he is trying to test me

Do you have any plans for posting your original pic here... The monkey face is boring

I already told you I got unenlightened yesterday

yes Psychotically jealous!!!

ok good

Your understanding can get distorted.. so, it will be useful to refer to such descriptions in the future

This is Enlightenment! @Ether Bookmark it

It is not that I don't physically exist in the way people usually understand.. I exist as much as Donald Trump exists, as a creature on this planet. But I don't single out this body and the mental faculties and identify with it as 'me'... So, in a way, everything is 'I'...

Yes.. Very Very jealous of your mentor (that I know nothing about )..

Shanmugam is only a thought in your mind and my mind.. But in your mind, it is a reified thought..

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I never said that May be, I will clarify the first sentence a little bit: When it comes to the already available knowledge in spirituality (only spirituality, doesn't include brain science or rocket science), Science does nothing but separating facts from beliefs.. but further discoveries can be made in the future (on spirituality), which will be possible only when we strengthen the bridge between science and spirituality.

Who is your mentor?

When it comes to spirituality, Science does nothing but separating facts from beliefs.. Compare this with water and distilled water. Water is already there and you can always drink it... But you cannot really guarantee if the water is 100% pure... There are always tend to be impurities... Scientific method just distills the existing water and makes sure that it is 100% pure and devoid of any beliefs or myths.. That distilled water is scientific knowledge... 'Science' is not a human being.. It doesn't have a mind or consciousness. But Siddhartha was a human being. ('spirituality' is not a human being either.. It doesn't have a mind or consciousness. It is just the name of a topic...)

yea, that's a good one.. Someone just posted it here a few days before..

@Ether you are still missing the point... Listen to Rupert Spira

You either see a fried chicken or the puppies.. Not both at the same time! Ignorance and truth can't co-exist! Hope its clear for all the poor souls