To be silent and meditative

To be silent and meditative is so ecstatic, you will forget all about your search for meaning, truth, God.
You start feeling yourself part of this immense organic whole.
You enjoy tremendously.

Osho

The way to happiness

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

Don’t let yourself miss a thing today. Take everything that compromises your peace of mind–worries, fears, insecurities, disagreements–and choose to let them go.

Things may not yet be addressed or resolved. People and situations may still need your attention. That’s OK–you can handle them. But you don’t need to feel tension to do it.

As the proverb goes, “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

TinyBuddha

On Meditation

When you meditate, there should be no effort to control and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating.
Let your body remain as it is, and your breath as you find it.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Spiritual Wisdom

"Nature is about the only thing left where principles and laws hold true, where things are as they are supposed to be, where there is no discrimination against anyone, and where beauty, harmony and inter relatedness provide experiences that people enjoy remembering. "
-Goff

Meditation

Meditation is something that is not contrived, organized.
Meditation IS.
It begins with the first step, which is to be free of all your psychological hurts, accumulated fears, anxiety, loneliness, despair, sorrow.
That is the foundation, that is the first step, and the first step is the last step.

J. Krishnamurti

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Food for Thought

The goal is not happiness, the goal is bliss...
Happiness is worthless: it depends on unhappiness.
Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy.

Osho

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Think of nothing

Thinking, you are separated from existence. Thinking is not a relation, it is not a bridge, it is not a communication ? it is a barrier. Non-thinking you are related, bridged; you are in communion. When you are talking to someone, you are not related. The very talk becomes a barrier. The more you talk, the further away you move. If you are with someone in silence, you are related. If the silence is really deep and there are no thoughts in your mind and both the minds are totally silent, you are one.

Whenever you are silent with someone, you are one. When you are silent with existence, you are one with it.

This technique says be silent with existence and then you will know what God is. There is only one dialogue with existence and that is in silence. If you talk with existence, you miss. Then you are enveloped in your own thoughts.

Try this as an experiment. Try it with anything ? even with a rock. Be silent with it ? take it in your hand and be silent ? and there will be a communion. You will move deep into the rock and the rock will move deep into you. Your secrets will be revealed to the rock and the rock will reveal its secrets to you. But you cannot use language with it. The rock doesn’t know any language.

Confined in thoughts you will be in misery. Unconfined, beyond thoughts ? alert, conscious, aware, but unclouded by thoughts ? you will be joy, you will be bliss.

Osho, The Book of Secrets, Talk #57

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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

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This is a dying man’s last gift to the world- an enormous, moving, powerful message. You will be moved, transcended if you allow, and better for it. I had heard of this speech by a young professor who found out he was dying but I never invested the time to watch the whole thing. After five minutes of watching I knew I had to bring it to my fellow KindHearts.

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Spiritual Wisdom

Only those who partake of the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature. Yogananda 

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Meditation

There are four phases in meditation
- Experiencing the suffering in life
- Discovering the causes of suffering
- Using meditation to be rid of suffering
- Reaching the ultimate state of no self and no suffering.

Heart Sutra