Tag: Spirituality
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What being human means
Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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The real freedom
The Buddha taught that we can find our freedom only through embracing the conditions that trouble us. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Mental silence
To be in silence is to be in meditation. In silence, you can hear your own inner voice and connect with your true self. Osho
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I wanna feel alive
I’ve read religions,But I believe in none.I had have practiced them for a while,I left them undone. I believe not in god,But I do believe in karma.Everything is requited in this world,Evanescent is their every petty dogma. Life is meant for laughter,Laughter is the meaning of life.So I’d rather be alive,Than to hold on to…
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What’s awakening?
When you realize something, when you feel it so deeply that you start to implement it in your life, that’s an awakening. Anirudh
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Be mindful of your actions
What you think impacts what you feel and do, what you feel impacts what you do and think, what you do impacts what you think and feel. What you’re thinking is also what you’re doing. The fabric of reality is woven so precisely, one thing wavers, the entire cycle of your life is shaken. Be…
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Meditation and love
In love you fall into somebody else being, in meditation you fall into your own being. They are very alike, the fall is the same, just the direction is different: love is other-directed, meditation is self-directed. The process is the same, that you fall from the head. Osho #love #life #meditation #dreams #aspiration #spirituality #osho…
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The capacity of the mind
Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind’s unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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The new you
When you enter the path of Buddhist practice, you’re ending an abusive relationship with yourself. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche . . . #spirituality #philosophy #meditation
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…the mind that sees it
There’s no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche #spirituality #selfreflection #lawofattraction #quotes #philosophy
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The perspective
When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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The victory over self
A conquest over oneself is far better than winning an infinite number of battles. This conquest is solely yours. Nobody can seize it from you. Neither gods nor demons, neither heaven nor hell. Buddha
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The Fox and the Rabbit
“If you had a chance to go back into past,” asked Rabbit from his friend, Fox. “At which point would you go?” “I’d rather be here,” wise Fox replied.
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Love yourself first
Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself. Osho
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Your intuition
You hear not with your ears, but with your mind; not with the mind, but with your soul. Confucius
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Way of Bodhisattva – Karma
(Physical) pain, mental unhappiness, All the various kinds of fear,As well as separation from what is desiredAll arise from an unwholesome way of life. (However) by committing wholesome actionsWhich are (motivated by aspiration) in the mind,Whenever I go I shall be presented withTokens of the fruit of that merit. Shantideva, Bodhicharyavatara, verse 41, 42 In…
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Our choices shape us
Some will teach you love, others hatred. It’s in your hands what you choose to learn and what you don’t in any situation. The choice is yours. Choose wisely. Anirudh
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Not everyone can walk this path
People who are spiritually minded tend to suffer from anxiety and depression more. You know why? Because their eyes are open to a world that is in need of repair. They literally have an increased ability to feel the emotions of people around them. Osho
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Be selfless
With perfect and unyielding faith, with steadfastness, respect, and courtesy, with modesty and conscientiousness, work calmly for the happiness of others. Shantideva
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Self transformation
Just as a serpent sheds its skin and adopts a new one, a person has to change his form many a times in his life. Buddha
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Be that energy
The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself – consciously. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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You discover meditation
A person who is wise enough to struggle with his own mind by trying to gain the mastery of his mind will learn the vital practice of meditation. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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You have the choice
When people say to me “life’s too busy, I can’t simplify.” No, it’s you don’t want to. Dandapani
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You become what you are aware of
When you focus on something, you become unaware of your surroundings. Why is it so? It is said that we are nothing but our consciousness, or the soul which is eternal, and rest is mortal and meant to let go as everyone dies eventually. Also, when we focus on a particular thing, we are conscious…
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Perks of discipline
A life of discipline is not an easy life, but it is a joyous one, with many soul-satisfying rewards. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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The wisdom of process
Stop complaining about your situation, and observe where life is leading you. Your destiny awaits. Anirudh
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Don’t take this risk
The most dangerous risk of all: the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. Alan Watts
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God vs Tao
Whereas the idea of God involves the control of everything going on, the idea of the Tao is the ruler who abdicates and trusts all the people to conduct their own affairs, to let it all happen. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t a unified organism and everything is in chaos. It means that the…
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The yin-yang of the kite
Life is like a kite. Just as it goes higher on systematic tuning of the grip, so are things in life. But again, you must learn when to loosen and tighten. And for that, you need to work upon it. Anirudh
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Dopamine trip
You zoned-out, and so, for once I snap in front of you to bring your attention here. I do that one more time as you zone out again, and more and more times as you keep on zoning out. This has become the need of human being – have someone or something that brings them…
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Key to mastering awareness
As soon as we control where awareness goes we control where energy flows. As soon as we control where energy is flowing we control what is manifesting in our life. Meditation is the art and science of directing awareness. Dandapani
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Truth?
Birth, death and rebirth, life and eternity, god or gods, god or no god – there are so many concepts, and you read more and more to find the answers. Every text says a different thing. How do you know what’s true? It all makes no sense, because to know the truth, people dedicate their…
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The Awakening
Silence of the mind,And people think it’s funny.They’re so unaware,It’s as essential to them,As to the bees is the honey. They look for a doorway,To happiness and pleasure.But are so unacquainted,By this deeply rooted treasure. If it’s anywhere on earth,To the heaven any flight,It’s exactly what to look for,Their very birth right. Give me a…
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The hopeless pursuit
Human desire tends to be insatiable. We are so anxious for pleasure that we can never get enough of it. We stimulate our sense organs until they become insensitive, so that if pleasure is to continue they must have stronger and stronger stimulants. In self- defense the body gets ill from the strain, but the…
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Present experience and Spontaneity
YOU ARE LISTENING TO A SONG. SUDDENLY I ASK, “AT this moment, who are you?” How will you answer this question immediately and spontaneously, without stopping to find words? If the question does not shock you out of listening, you will answer by humming the song. If the question surprised you, you will answer, “At…
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Judgmental- Story of Shantideva
There was this hermit called Shantideva, the bearer of some spiritual knowledge. For further exploration, he visited the university of Nalanda as an apprentice. Now, what kind of behavior would be expected from a spiritual person? Of course, a decent one. But, on the contrary, what he depicted there was complete sloth. At the time…
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Life-Purpose
“In search of the gems they had lost, they lose the gold too.” It so happens that after a mind-opening spiritual experience, the person becomes so engulfed by its notion, so fascinated, that upon losing that knowledge, he forgets the way he used to be prior to that, and, in fact, asks himself several times…
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The Void within
When somebody goes through a heartbreak, they find themselves almost dead from inside; like a walking corpse, that’s something they turn into; like they have transformed into something which just watches things going around and all of which makes no sense to them anymore. This happens because all the good things they were expecting did…
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Think before you act
It’s a weird thing that though in today’s time people believe in God, follow their customs blindly but they so much neglect the law of Karma. Some of them believe in several theories and philosophies such law of attraction, etc., while others don’t, considering it superstitious. But if you observe, the law of Karma, it…
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Spirituality: breaking the myth, embracing it
Concentration is at the very core of all kinds of endeavors and success. Dandapani When it comes to leading a spiritual life, ordinary people are often consumed by a notion – ‘It might become a hindrance in my success path’. They have come up with the idea of spirituality, that they consider it to be…
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True Happiness
The world is struggling in search of success. People of today tend to live more in future than in the present for sake of an earning, while others seem to have been engulfed by the past and hence they are not just depressed, but also anxious. This state of depression cum anxiety makes the person…
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You owe it
Suppose, a man after an enormous amount of striving somehow becomes awake. Now that he has this knowledge, this awareness, he decides to thank each and every individual who has even the smallest of contribution in his awakening. So, first he thinks of his gurus. Secondly, he considers people who helped him in his dark…
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Live beyond philosophies
At several points in our lifetime, we all have to follow some philosophies. But, the real essence of life is in letting-go of them when the time comes. Anirudh Must Read
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Buddha and Udraka Rāmaputra
For the further cultivation in his spiritual journey Siddharth headed to the kingdom of Magadh. There he obstructed the path of some soldiers who were carrying a herd of cattle along with them. The animals were gathered for a ceremonial sacrifice. Criticizing, Gautama declared that to take their lives they first needed to kill him.…
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The philosophy of Forgetting
Zen is not attained by mirror-wiping mediation, but by self-forgetfulness in the existential present of life here and now. We do not ‘come’, we ‘are’. Don’t strive to become, but be. Bruce Lee The society of today’s time is obsessed over gathering more and more of information. News channels, websites, education intuitions, they are all…
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Harnessing the Divine energy
Watts said that you trying to attain an awakening is exactly what prevents you from doing so. And certainly if you’re trying to seize an awakening mind, that means at some point of your life you had already experienced it. That unsurpassable bliss, those miracles you had witnessed or even performed by your own. But…
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Essence of Buddhism
Unlike other religions of the world, Buddhism doesn’t have its particular religious text. Although there are various writing pieces that do guide and enlighten people on the better ways of living, bring about harmony in life and embarking on a spiritual journey. One of such books being ‘The Way of Bodhisattva‘ by Shantideva, a revered…
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Zen Buddhism
Once a man went to a Zen master and asked him to explain the meaning of Zen. The master began to pour a cup of tea. The cup went full, but the master still poured and the cup overflowed. The man couldn’t stand this any longer. “Why are you pouring the tea when the cup…
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A happy life
The only secret to a happy life is to think solely what is good and feel solely what is good. Anirudh Must Read