A man who has a goal to reach is bound to remain in anguish and anxiety

[Vingger]

My approach is that the river of life itself is going towards the ocean; you just float with it. Wherever it takes you is your home. And while you are floating with the river, you can enjoy the sun, the trees on the bank, the birds and their song, the stars in the night, and the moon. The whole existence - all is available to you because your whole energy is open, is not engaged, is free.

Just follow the watercourse way. Be relaxed, and allow life to take you wherever it is going. Don’t be bothered that it should reach some specific goal; it has no specific goal. Just go on dancing with the river, singing with the river. You have made it a battlefield, fighting with the river, and then you are in trouble. You will never win, and you will never be able to enjoy a single moment, because every particle of your energy has to be put into fighting. Don’t fight life. But all the religions have been teaching you to fight life, to be anti-life. And they have created a poor humanity, which has forgotten to laugh, forgotten to dance, forgotten to sing; a humanity which knows only one thing: to fight. Stop fighting. Every river reaches the ocean - and without any map, without any guidebook, without any guru. It is in the very nature of the river that it goes on flowing, and because it is not going upwards, there is no struggle. It is going downwards, so wherever it finds a lower level, it moves in that direction - and the ocean is at the lowest point, so no river can miss the ocean. The ocean is your goal; the ocean IS God. If you allow yourself to be taken by life without fight, you will reach God - nothing can be a hindrance or a barrier to you. So if you feel that it has become a battle, nobody else is responsible except you. And it is in your hands to change your direction within a moment. Don’t fight.and to be defeated by life is not a defeat; it is our life: to be defeated by it is our victory. The moment you start understanding this strange statement - that to be defeated by life is our victory - you have found the very secret of all success, of all blessings

Osho.-

 

Edited May 16, 2018 by Vingger

[Prabhaker]

6 hours ago, Vingger said:

A man who has a goal to reach is bound to remain in anguish and anxiety

A man who has no goal to reach is bound to remain in material poverty.

[Faceless]

7 minutes ago, Prabhaker said:

A man who has no goal to reach is bound to remain in material poverty.

This is a reference to the reaching for psychological goals 

[Arkandeus]

2 hours ago, Prabhaker said:

A man who has no goal to reach is bound to remain in material poverty.

in that comes the art of moving towards a goal without aiming to reach it

sometimes the life flow comes from inside, and if life wants to make you desire a certain cushy job you can go after that while not seeking

the going after the job can be a dance of the present moment itself, enjoying the artful creation of a human going after a job

whether you attain the job it does not matter, we dance with life

seeking is not meant to be cast away, its meant to be understood, enjoy the seeking itself, without any longing to achieve it

be unmoved while you are moving

and in such life can guide us through our own desires, the universe can move us, trust everything to life

your outside circumstances and your inner drivings

 

[MiracleMan]

17 hours ago, Vingger said:

My approach is that the river of life itself is going towards the ocean; you just float with it. Wherever it takes you is your home. And while you are floating with the river, you can enjoy the sun, the trees on the bank, the birds and their song, the stars in the night, and the moon. The whole existence - all is available to you because your whole energy is open, is not engaged, is free.

Just follow the watercourse way. Be relaxed, and allow life to take you wherever it is going. Don’t be bothered that it should reach some specific goal; it has no specific goal. Just go on dancing with the river, singing with the river. You have made it a battlefield, fighting with the river, and then you are in trouble. You will never win, and you will never be able to enjoy a single moment, because every particle of your energy has to be put into fighting. Don’t fight life. But all the religions have been teaching you to fight life, to be anti-life. And they have created a poor humanity, which has forgotten to laugh, forgotten to dance, forgotten to sing; a humanity which knows only one thing: to fight. Stop fighting. Every river reaches the ocean - and without any map, without any guidebook, without any guru. It is in the very nature of the river that it goes on flowing, and because it is not going upwards, there is no struggle. It is going downwards, so wherever it finds a lower level, it moves in that direction - and the ocean is at the lowest point, so no river can miss the ocean. The ocean is your goal; the ocean IS God. If you allow yourself to be taken by life without fight, you will reach God - nothing can be a hindrance or a barrier to you. So if you feel that it has become a battle, nobody else is responsible except you. And it is in your hands to change your direction within a moment. Don’t fight.and to be defeated by life is not a defeat; it is our life: to be defeated by it is our victory. The moment you start understanding this strange statement - that to be defeated by life is our victory - you have found the very secret of all success, of all blessings

Osho.-

 

Well, we're at a cross section here of spirituality and the western self-help phenomenon.  They couldn't be more opposed, which I find comical on this forum a lot.

This is nothing personal, it's just funny to see folks bashing materialism, but they are 100% materialistic, they are spiritual materialists in a way, because they are on this spiritual quest and they believe they just need to try harder, obtain more knowledge, do yoga, employ more meditation techniques, read more books, get to "X" level of consciousness, obtain this state of mind, reach level orange.

This is all fine an dandy, but the point is you can never become enlightened that way, and for a forum that is over obsessed with enlightenment, well, you just giggle a little, and I giggle at myself for being so serious about the same complaints, and making the same mistakes listed above.

We are sooo fucking conditioned, even when we see intellectually that materialism is totally flawed, you can't just drop that conditioning over night.