LAUGHTER ::LEARN TO LAUGH MOREIf you have a sense of humor, you will be surprised that there is no time to be sad -- every moment something or other is happening everywhere. If you cannot laugh, you will miss many things in life, you will miss many mysteries. Read more…..“We want the world to be less serious and more sensitive. Sincere of course, but serious never.We want the world to learn that the sense of humor is one of the most fundamental qualities of a religious man.If you cannot laugh, you will miss many things in life, you will miss many mysteries.Your laughter makes you a small innocent child, your laughter joins you with existence -- with the roaring ocean, with the stars and their silence.Your laughter makes you the lonely part of the world which has become intelligent, because only intelligent people can laugh. That's why animals cannot afford to laugh -- they don't have that much intelligence.You can try -- you can tell a joke to your buffalo and see what happens.And because seriousness has always been taught to be almost necessary for respectability, it has made everybody serious. It is not that they are serious for any reason, but it has now become their second nature; they have forgotten completely that seriousness is a sickness, it means the sense of humor is dead in you.Otherwise the whole of life all around is so full of hilarious things.If you have a sense of humor, you will be surprised that there is no time to be sad -- every moment something or other is happening everywhere.My mission certainly is to bring laughter to the whole of humanity -- which has forgotten it. And when you forget laughter, you always forget songs, you forget love, you forget dance -- it is not that you only forget laughter. Laughter has its own combination of qualities, just as seriousness has its own combination of qualities.Forget laughter and you will forget love.With a sad face, how to say to a woman "I love you"? You will have to smile a little bit.With a serious face you cannot say even the smallest thing.People are taking everything so seriously that it becomes a burden on them.Learn to laugh more.To me, laughter is as sacred as prayer.”Laughter Time for you:1.When Mulla Nasruddin got married according to the tradition, his wife asked him, "To whom am I allowed to show my face?"Mulla Nasruddin said, "First let me have a look, only then can I say anything." So he looked at her face, closed his eyes and said, "Enough! Except for me, you are allowed to show your face to everybody."2.Once I told Nasruddin, "Mulla, the owner of the restaurant at the end of the street says that he is a close relative of yours.""Certainly not!" replied the Mulla. "That is not correct. He is a distant relation of mine.""How distant is the relationship?" I asked."Well," said the Mulla, "we have the same father, but he is the first child and I am the twelfth. So there! We are quite far apart!"3."Did you know I am a hero?" said Mulla Nasrudin to his friends in the teahouse."How come you're a hero?" asked someone."Well, it was my girlfriend's birthday," said the Mulla, "and she said if I ever brought her a gift she would just drop dead in sheer joy. So, I DIDN'T BUY HER ANY AND SAVED HER LIFE."4.Mulla Nasrudin finally spoke to his girlfriend's father about marrying his daughter."It's a mere formality, I know," said the Mulla, "but we thought you would be pleased if I asked.""And where did you get the idea," her father asked, "that asking my consent to the marriage was a mere formality?""NATURALLY, FROM YOUR WIFE, SIR," said Nasrudin.5."I see you keep copies of all the letters you write to your wife. Do you do that to avoid repeating yourself?" one friend asked Mulla Nasrudin."NO," said Nasrudin, "TO AVOID CONTRADICTING MYSELF."6.Mulla Nasrudin's wife was a candidate for the state legislature And this was the last day of campaigning."My, I am tired," said Mulla Nasrudin as they returned to their house after the whole day's work. "I am almost ready to drop.""You tired!" cried his wife. "I am the one to be tired. I made fourteen speeches today.""I KNOW," said Nasrudin, "BUT I HAD TO LISTEN TO THEM."7."Mulla, you look sad," said a friend. "What is the matter?""I had an argument with my wife," said the Mulla "and she swore she would not talk to me for 30 days.""Well, you should be very happy," said the first."HAPPY?" said Mulla Nasrudin. "THIS IS THE 30TH DAY."8.It was their first quarrel."And you tell me that several women proposed marriage to you?" asked the wife."Yes, several," replied the Mulla."Well, I wish you had married the first fool who proposed.""I did," said Nasrudin.10.Mulla Nasrudin received a note that read: "Leave a thousand rupees under the cottonwood tree in Pizitz Square Tuesday night, or we will kidnap your wife and you will never see her again." The Mulla answered: "I haven't got any thousand rupees, and I am counting on you boys to keep your promise."11.Salesman: "Sir, is your wife at home?"Mulla Nasrudin: "Yes, sir."Salesman (after knocking in vain): "I thought you said she was at home, sir?"Nasrudin: "yes, sir, but I don't live here."12."Mulla, dear," said Mrs. Mulla Nasrudin, "such an odd thing happened today. The clock fell off the wall, and if it had fallen a moment sooner, it would have hit mother.""I always said that clock was slow," said Mulla Nasrudin.13.Mulla Nasrudin discovered his wife again and again in the arms of her lover. Finally, he shot her dead. The jury brought in a verdict of justifiable homicide.Just as Nasrudin was to leave the courtroom a free man, the judge stopped him and asked: "Why did you shoot your wife instead of her lover, Nasrudin?""Suh," he replied, "I decided it was better to shoot a woman once than a different man each week."14."You know, dear, your wife doesn't seem to be as well dressed as she was when you married her," a friend said to Mulla Nasrudin."That's funny," replied Nasrudin. "I am sure it's the same suit."
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HEALTH :THE BODY NOT TO BE SHUNNED :Love your body and seek its friendship. Osho says, “if you wish to go beyond the body, if you wish to rise above it, do not fight with it, harbour no hostility towards it.” The body is not our enemy. It is a wonderful mechanism. The attitude towards the body should be one of understanding and deep sympathy. One should have knowledge enough to protect it and view it with friendliness. It is our fellow-traveller in a long uphill journey, sharing with us our joys and sorrows.Read on….“Give the body abundant love, on getting which it becomes vibrant, alive. Its slumbering potentialities are awakened. But remember that neither the so-called debauchee nor the so-called abstainer loves the body in the real sense. The contempt of the libertine for his own body is manifest in the lack of his own self-restraint. It is out of this contempt that he is inclined to waste away his body. The abstainer too, recoiling from the other extreme, is no less backward in his hostility to the body. Of course, the directions they turn to are different.The abstainer tortures and torments the body in the name of self-restraint, in the name of renunciation, and the other in the name of licentiousness; but both of them are wanting in thankfulness to and ardent love for the body. The characteristic feature of a person of healthy mental poise is a favourable attitude towards the body with a loving vision. Torturing the body in any manner whatsoever reveals an unhealthy and sick mentality. It amounts to the fact that we can be tormented by two kinds of mental infirmities, one of unrestrained enjoyment and the other of unthinking renunciation. Hence the libertine makes a volte-face and comes to the point of renunciation. How much does one wish that he is able to stop in the middle! But, unfortunately, it is very easy to proceed from one sickness to another, such sick-minded persons have taught us a lot. This is what they teach: the body is our enemy, we have to fight with it.As a result of these baneful teachings religion and piety have become body-obsessed. Opposition to the body must perforce be body-centered. Hence I say that if you wish to go beyond the body, if you wish to rise above it, do not fight with it, harbour no hostility towards it. Love it and seek its friendship. The body is not our enemy. It is an instrument, a wonderful instrument, ready to be used. It is incumbent upon you to stretch your hand of friendship towards that which you wish to use. Prior to everything else, it is necessary to extend a friendly hand towards your own body, which is a fine specimen of God's adroitness as a skilled craftsman.It is a ladder full of secrets that leads you up to the Supreme Soul. He is certainly mad who comes into conflict with the ladder instead of climbing up through its rungs. Unfortunately, we are surrounded by the fraternity of such incorrigible bedlamites. Beware of them. It is difficult to estimate the extent of havoc wrought by such madmen among us. You do not fully realize the thousands of secrets lying hidden in this body naturally bestowed on you. Even if one learns all the secrets of one's own body, one can easily secure the key to the endless mysteries of the Supreme Soul. How small is this body but how many wonderful mysteries lie embedded in it! The mind is hidden in the body. The soul is hidden in the mind. The Supreme Soul is hidden in the soul.A sage was about to die. He took leave of his disciples and devotees present there. He thanked them all and stood up with his folded hands, and said, 'Oh, my beloved body! It is you who led me to God. I thank you for it. I could not do anything for you. On the other hand, I had subjected you to untold sufferings and pain. I had extracted work out of you without paying you anything in return. I am indebted to you very much, for endless has been the help you rendered me. At this hour of farewell I seek your pardon. For all my acts of omission and commission, I request you to excuse me. But for you, it would have been impossible for me to reach God!"You have to see the body in this way. This attitude of thankfulness, this loving fervour is essential. The sage had said, "Oh, my beloved body!" These words stir up a wonderful bliss in me. Cannot a similar sympathetic understanding brighten up your life too? May I ask you whether you have at any time looked upon the body with an overflow of such loving sympathy? Have you ever felt yourselves blessed with its acts of service? Have you ever expressed your gratefulness to it? If not, how great had been the ingratitude! What an unbecoming discourtesy! What a misdemeanour!The attitude towards the body should be one of understanding and deep sympathy. One should have knowledge enough to protect it and view it with friendliness. It is our fellow-traveller in a long uphill journey, sharing with us our joys and sorrows. It is an instrument; it is a means and a ladder. Hence, in my view, no man with an iota of sense in him can come into conflict with it or be wicked towards it. But, as ill luck would have it, there have been in the world, and there still are, many men of warped, distorted vision whose high-handedness, violence, unrelenting suppression and cruel tactics towards their own physical body provoke in our mind feelings of remorse and sorrow and eventually a fervent prayer, "Oh God! save mankind from such stupid spirituality!" Activities of this magnitude and seriousness go only to prove a total loss of intelligence in them. But alas! the evil influences of such people still linger and haunt us even today. Let us keep ourselves away from such sickening sermons. Such preachers do not deserve our reverence; they deserve to be cured instead. Certainly I hope we will be able to cure them.This hostility to the physical body, as I said, is but a reaction to the weakness, failure and dissatisfaction resulting from unregulated sensual enjoyment. Thus the innocent physical body has been blamed for the sinfulness of the Self itself. I appeal to you to be alert in regard to agonizing self-denials based on hostility to the physical body. In view of the fact that you have been playing havoc with your body, you may feel tempted towards all forms of self-discipline. If on seeing the enormous wealth possessed by some one, one becomes greedy or on seeing someone's beauty, one is charmed, one does not normally puncture one's eyes; if one were to do so, I would definitely call him a madcap, for the eyes never ask you to be greedy, nor do they want you to be passionate; they don't command you to do anything of the sort.They are ever ready to carry out your bidding in the manner you deem fit to make use of them. As for the physical body, it is your slave, a whole time follower. Wherever you wish to take it, it is ever ready to follow you. Should you say, "Go to hell", it is ready to go to hell; should you say, "Go to heaven" you will find it ready to go to heaven. The question, then, is not of the physical body, but of your volition. Let it not be forgotten that the physical body reels along behind the will. We will be committing a great blunder if, instead of modifying the will, we were to torture the body, victimize it or even destroy it. Subjecting the body to harassment and suffering is another form of violence, and I never approve of violence to the self or to the physical body.I advocate self-love, and it appears to me that there cannot be anything more foolish than self-violence. But what I call self-love has nothing to do with ego-centred individuality. An ego-centred individual never loves himself, for should he love himself he would have been free from egotism, for there is nothing more diabolical and dispiriting than egotism. It is the ego-centred-individual who indulges in activities of self-violence in the garb of a holy man, for the ego does not attain as much satisfaction and nourishment in any other manner as in this. That is why a kind of haughtiness is visible in the so-called abstainers, ascetics and semifledged sages. They are egotistical because they are saints; and they are saints because they are egotistical.”
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Is it World is Going to End on 2012………?Of course, it is going to happen...Many are coming forward to proclaim "The End of the World," and they point to the Maya themselves as stating the end is coming. Mayan Calendar Strongly says that an end of the world would be on 21st December 2012 at 11:11:00 of GMT …A common aspect is that we are currently in the 4th world. The Hopi, who elder to mayan describe the demise of the other worlds as follows:1st world: ended when all of the volcanoes of the world erupted and an all consuming fire engulfed and destroyed the first world.2nd world: ended when the poles shifted and the earth was covered in ice. Mountains fell into oceans and seas.3rd world: "The third world was very corrupt and this time it would be destroyed through water. The noise of the rushing waters was incredible. Large continents sunk and broke apart into small islands. Incredible rains fell. Then it stopped, and there was silence the people walked onto the dry lands for the first time. They had emerged into the fourth world. This is the world we are all living in today."4th world: Hopis marked an end of the world (Present World) as a purge by fire Eventually a gourd full of ashes would be invented, which if dropped from the sky would boil the oceans and burn the land causing nothing to grow for many years (atomic bomb). That it could bring an end to all life unless people correct themselves and their leaders in time.According to astronomers, Dec. 21, 2012, is the day when our sun moves to the exact center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. There are a number of predictions that focus on a pole shift, a tectonic plate shift or some major perturbation to the electromagnetic field due to solar flares, or even a solar pole shift,Just a coincidence that these other cultures have a 2012 target?• Hopi Predict a 25yr period of purification followed by End of Fourth World and beginning of the Fifth.• Mayans call it the 'end days' or the end of time as we know it. Based on the Mayan calendar, has been set as Dec. 12, 2012.at 11:11:00 GMT.. The mathematical calculations of the Mayans are still very accurate to this day, which is quite remarkable when one considers their lack of technology or modern tools.• Maoris Say that as the veils dissolve there will be a merging of the physical & spiritual worlds.• Zulu Believe that the whole world will be turned upside down.• Hindus Kali Yuga (end time of man). The Coming of Kalki & critical mass of Enlightened Ones.• Incas Call it the 'Age of Meeting Ourselves Again'.• Aztec Call this the Time of the Sixth Sun. A time of transformation. Creation of new race.• Dogon Say that the spaceship of the visitors, the Nommo, will return in the form of a blue star.• Pueblo Acknowledge it'll be the emergence into the Fifth World• Cherokee Their ancient calendar ends exactly at 2012 as does the Mayan calendar.• Tibetan Kalachakra teachings are prophesies left by Buddha predicting Coming of the Golden Age.• Egypt According to the Great Pyramid (stone calendar), present time cycle ends in year 2012 AD• According to the writings of Michel de Nostredame (better known as Nostradamus), the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012 (no specific hour or minute is given).• NASA predicts will come in 2012.Other debatable 2012 prophecies include:1. The nuclear World War III predicted by Nostradamus, a physician in 1500s France noted for his future predictions2. A global peak in energy production, which would disrupt industrialized civilization as outlined in the Olduvai theory3. Technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence, making computers the source of invention in a theory known as the SingularityHumanity is in a very precarious situation; never before have so many mounting crisis points been converging together.WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE GALAXY?Our planet Earth orbits the Sun once a year but our solar system as a whole also traverses an orbit in this section of the galaxy with a period of about 24,000 years. There are many other solar (star) systems in this cyclic motion (just as there are numerous planets orbiting the Sun). The Pleiades, which is encircled by the photon belt, is about 400 light years from us, and is part of this system and in fact our solar system orbits the central sun of the Pleiades, Alcyone. The belt consists of many photon bands emanating from the centre of the galaxy, and associated with the spiral arms of the galaxy.Thus our solar system, and therefore planet Earth, takes some 26,000 years to come back to its same point in this particular orbit. Picture several star systems in a massive orbit, but now envisage overall a torpid or doughnut-shaped cloud cutting across these orbiting star systems. It is also described as an amoeba-like cloud of particles but most of its frequencies are invisible. This is the photon belt, or photon band. This means our solar system goes through the belt twice each cycle of 26,000 years (that is, every half cycle). The thickness of the photon cloud is such that technically it takes about 2000 years for our solar system to pass through, and therefore about 10,000 years between each encounter with this belt (2 x 11,000 plus 2 x 2000 = 26,000 years). Nevertheless, some sources state that the period in the band could be much less: 30 to 40 years, depending on man's resistance to change. This is difficult to relate to our fixed cyclic picture but, in addition, this same source points out that Earth was in trouble from the damage incurred by our civilization and called for the photon belt--a typical emergency call procedure for planets.This was killing the planet and it called on the photon belt which eradicated the race, everyone, in three days, by putting them to 'sleep'. Nothing as drastic as this will be necessary for Earth; the energy will encourage people to come into balance but where resisted will cause further imbalances. The photon belt enables the planet to repair her. Other spectacular effects, some of a temporary nature, were expected prior to the recognition that Earth intended to receive the photon belt as gently as possible as our Sun system moves into it. Earth is circling the Sun, thus it is alternatively ahead of the Sun and behind in its linear translation towards the belt.There will be a rebirthing of planet Earth. We are told it will divide; each part retaining wholeness though, producing a 3rd density (frequency density) Earth and a 4th density Earth. This will not be perceived physically; the planets will be in different dimensions. One will be in a parallel universe relative to the other. Earth has many parallel bodies: one around 3.0; we are about 3.5, then 4.0 and 5.0, etc.The photon cloud has a high density of electrons and positrons (positive, anti-electrons). When an electron and a positron collide they are annihilated and the mass is converted into radiation--photons. The photon energy as a result of the collision of electrons and positrons will become a major source of free energyRussian Scientists Confirm the Photon Belt and Solar System Energy Changes.Let us now go into this spiritual experience more deeply. To begin with, the Photon Belt really is nothing new. In ancient history there are many references, particularly by the Greeks and Romans, to a Golden Age wherein there was nothing but light, love, peace and tranquility, a place where death, war, famine, disease, and poverty were unknown.These ancient philosophers were obviously alluding to the Photon Belt, that 2000-year period of light. Once again we are at that point where we are about to enter into this phenomenal period of light, the Golden Age of the past and the future. We are emerging from our oppressive cocoon of darkness and, like the butterfly, can emerge as something extremely beautiful, that is, our light bodiesThat cocoon of darkness, despite its oppressiveness and negativity, has been our teaching and learning vehicle to qualify us once again to return from whence we came, the Photon Belt.We are again being offered the opportunity to break the fetters of this world of illusion to turn the mirror around, and in its place perceive our true reality. With this, the restraints of negativity, illusion, polarities, judgments, control, hate, avarice and greed, jealously, killings and war will all fall away.IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER DURING THE CHANGES BETWEEN NOW AND 2012:1. Always maintain your contact with the source of all life. The creative Energy of the Universe.2. Trust your gut feeling and intuition.3. Help people overcome fear by explaining the positive aspects of the coming changes.4. Help people improve their self esteem and to take back their power.5. Do not let the negative powers divide us (divide and conquer).6. Remember who you are. Most of us are old souls. We are more advanced, spiritually, than the extraterrestrials called negatives/regressive (Greys, Reptilians, Draconians) we have creativity, sexuality, sensuality, love for ourselves and others.7. Remember we are all here to learn and work out our karma. Each person’s mission is unique.8. Remember, everyone's reality is different. Be non-judgmental.9. Everyday we make many decisions. Each is based on either love or fear! Choose love!10. Do meditation every day and breach meditation to everybody. And there are 112 kinds of Meditations in Practice, Anapanasati is one among of it and it is very easy to learn and also teach others as well as it make us to get third eye experience in short duration of practice.11. Pyramid plays very important role in Meditation. Doing meditation in side of the Pyramid will increase the receiving of the cosmic energy as three fold more than the energy receiving from meditation doing in outside. Pyramid secures the peoples from earthquakes.How to do Anapanasati Meditation?Sit comfortably......Relax your Body......Clasp your Fingers.......Close your eyes ....... There is nothing else to do.... or think about ...... just relaxes..... Inhale.....and..Exhale Naturally........ Be calm.... and... Observe your natural breath with your mind...... Be still..... Be with your Breath ... in... Out....... in..... out..... That is all.......Be still..... Be with your Breath.......... Be with your Breath Energy.What are all the Benefits of Meditation?"Anapanasati Meditation" alone gives spiritual health to a person!Spiritual Health is the Root!Physical Health is the Fruit!All powers are within us, gain the powers through Meditation. Nothing from outside..... Everything is inside... Do meditation and draw everything from with in. Cosmic Energy Consciousness is achieved only through a regular practice of Anapanasati Meditation....Cosmic Energy is obtained only through being with the Breath Energy.Anapanasati meditation give you.. Healing of all diseases immediately,Memory Power will get increased, Work efficiency improved day by day,Thought power became highly potential, Tension Free life,Meditation is so simple..........It is so easy............The Breath energy is our Great Strength.......Be a Mediator! Be a Master!!Source:www.december212012.comwww.crystalinks.com/2012.htmlwww.facts.comwww.2012eschaton.comwww.Facts.comwww.viewzone.com/endtime.htmlwww.arkofmillionsofyears.comwww.pacepress.orgwww.2012.com.au/updates.htmlwww.2012.com.au/russian-photonbelt.htmlwww.iii.tripod.comwww.survive2012.comwww.greatdreams.com/end-world.htmlwww.lawoftime.orgwww.universallifetools.com/waveoflove/about_2012www.pyramidhealing.comRead more…
God is not a person. Because man has always taken God as a person, a thousand and one difficulties have arisen. All the problems that theology deals with are simply futile exercises -- and the base is that God is taken as a person.God is not a person and cannot be. Let it go as deep in you as possible, because that will become a door, an opening. And particularly for those who have been raised as Jews, Christians, Mohammedans, it is very difficult to take God as anything else but a person -- that becomes a closing. To think about God as a person is anthropocentric. In The Bible it is said God created man in his own image, but just the contrary seems to be the case -- man has created God in his own image. And men differ, that's why there are so many gods in the world.It happened that when for the first time Christian missionaries reached Africa, they were in trouble -- because they painted God as white and the Devil as black, and the negroes felt very much offended. They wouldn't listen to them, because from the very beginning the image was in conflict. Then one missionary simply got the idea: he changed the colors. He made God black and the Devil white, and the negroes were very happy -- they could accept. A negro is bound to paint his God in his own image, a Chinese in his own, an Indian in his own. We paint God as our own reflection -- of course, perfect -- but your image cannot be God. You are just a part, a very tiny part, one atom in existence. How can the whole be conceived in the image of the part? The whole transcends the part, the whole is infinitely vast. If you cling to the atom, if you cling to the part, you will miss the whole.God is not to be conceived in your image; rather, on the contrary, you have to drop your image, you have to become image less. Then, and only then, you become a mirror and the whole reflects in you.As man has been seeking more and more, this has become clearer and clearer -- that God as a person creates troubles, because then you are always in conflict with other gods. That's why the Jewish god, the Hindu god, the Mohammedan god, the Christian god exist. This is sheer nonsense! How can God be Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan? But there are different gods because Jews have their own idea of god, Hindus have their own idea of god, and the conflict is bound to be there. Hindus think that God speaks the Sanskrit language; the English always think that he is an English gentleman.It is said that one German and one Englishman were talking, and the German said, "We plan in every way, but why, every time, are we defeated?"The Englishman said, "You have to be defeated, because whenever we start fighting, first we pray to God and he looks after us. You are to be defeated; you can never be victorious."The German said, "But that we also do, we also pray."Then the Englishman laughed. He said, "But who understands German?" To an Englishman, God is an Englishman. To Adolf Hitler he must be a Nordic, has to be because we create our own image.I was just reading a memoir of an army priest. This priest was attached to Montgomery's wing, and one day, when they were ready to attack, it was so cloudy and there was so much mist and so much cold that it seemed impossible to move. So the priest has written in the memoir that the general, Montgomery, called him and he said, "You pray to God and tell him immediately that we, his soldiers, are on the march, and what is he doing? Is he in conspiracy with the enemy? Tell him immediately to stop all this!" The priest was surprised: "A man like Montgomery -- and what is he talking about?" He said, "But this won't look good. It doesn't look good to say to God, `What are you doing? Stop this immediately because we are on the move and we are your soldiers.'"The priest felt a little embarrassed, but Montgomery said, "You listen to my order! You are my priest, attached to my army, so whatsoever I say you have to do. Go and pray immediately!" This happens. It looks absurd and foolish, but this is happening all the time, to all the people, to everybody. If you take God as a person this is bound to happen. Then you start communicating with him as a person -- and he is not a person. There are millions of atheists because you have taken God as a person. The atheist is not against God, but he is against your conception of God as a person, because the whole concept is foolish. And think in what anguish you must be putting your God, because Germans are praying for their victory, the English are praying for their victory, and everybody thinks that God is with them, at their side.I have heard: Once Junnaid, a Sufi mystic, dreamt that he saw that he was dead and the greatest sinner of the town was also dead, and both reached God's door and knocked. The sinner was received and the saint was neglected. He felt very, very hurt. He was expecting always that he should be received, welcomed, and what was happening? -- just the opposite. And he knew this man who was being received with such ceremony. When the ceremony was over and the sinner was sent to his abode, the saint said, "Just one question I have to ask God: What are you doing? I have been praying continuously, twenty-four hours, day and night, calling your name, praying. Even in my sleep I have been calling your name and chanting!"God said, "Precisely because of that -- you have pestered me so much that I am really afraid of you now that you have come to heaven. What will you do here? From Earth, so far away, in twenty-four hours you have not left me a single moment of peace! This man is good, that's why we are celebrating. He never bored me, he never pestered me; he never used my name; he never created any trouble for me."God as a person is just foolish, the whole concept is foolish. And he cannot be a person because he has to be all persons -- how can he be a person himself? He cannot be somebody because he is everybody, and he cannot be anywhere because he is everywhere. You cannot define him, and personality is a definition. You cannot limit him, and as a person he becomes limited. Personality is just like a wave that comes and goes, and he is like an ocean. He is immense -- he abides.Personalities come and go, they are forms; they are there and then they are no more there. Forms change; forms change into the opposites continuously, and he is the formless. He cannot be defined, it cannot be said who he is. He is all. But the moment you say, "He is all," the problem arises: how to communicate? There is no need; you cannot communicate with him like a person. You have to communicate with him in a totally different dimension -- that dimension is of energy, that dimension is of consciousness, not of personality.God is energy.God is absolute awareness.God is bliss, ecstasy; indefinable, unlimited; no beginning, no end; always and always; eternal, timeless, beyond space -- because God means the total.The total cannot have a personality -- this is the first thing to be understood, very, very deeply; not only intellectually, but as totally as possible, because if you can conceive, can feel, grope towards God as totality, then your prayer will be different. Then your prayer will not be a foolish prayer, then he cannot be on your side -- he is on every side. He is also with your enemy as much as with you, and he is as much in the saint as in the sinner -- because he is all! He is as much in the dark as in the light. He comprehends all. All opposites meet and mingle and become one in him. Because of the concept of God as a person we have to create a Devil against God, because all the negativities! -- where will you put them? You have to create somebody to throw all the negativities onto. Then your God also becomes false, your Devil also false, because negatives and positives exist together, not separately. And all that you like you put on God's side. It is your division.God cannot be divided -- he is undivided.First thing: God is not a person. And remember, you are also not a person. It is ignorance, it is self-ignorance: that's why you appear like a person. If you move deeper, soon personality becomes blurred; a moment comes when you don't know who you are. Sometimes it happens that if somebody wakes you suddenly, you may have observed many times, you suddenly don't know where you are -- whether it is morning or evening, whether it is your house or somewhere else, what town it is; for a single moment everything is blurred, no time sense, no space sense, and you don't know who you are. Why does it happen? -- because in deep sleep you move towards the center, of course unconsciously, but at the center there is no personality, an impersonal energy exists. And if somebody suddenly wakes you, you have to move from the center to the periphery in such a rush that there is no time to gather personality. In a sudden rush you simply lose identity -- and this is your reality, this is who you are in fact.
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Be a light unto yourself :“Our so-called religions are based in fear. Buddha's religion is based in an inner benediction. We worship God because we are afraid, because we don't know what to do with our lives. We are continuously trembling, scared -- death is coming and we don't know what to do, how to protect ourselves. We need a protector. It is out of fear. Buddha's religion is based in an inner benediction, in an inner blessing -- it has nothing to do with fear.The so-called religions are just out of fear. And anything based on fear can never be beautiful. Your gods, your churches, your temples, if they have come out of your fear they stink -- they are bound to stink of your fear.Buddha's religion is not based in fear at all. That's why he says thefirst step is to drop all beliefs. Those beliefs are because of the fear. Dropping the beliefs you will become aware of your fear, and that is good, to become aware of your fear. You will become aware of your death. You will become aware of this whole infinite cosmos -- nowhere to go, nobody to guide, nowhere to find any security. In that fear, in that awareness of fear, the only place left will be to start going withinwards -- because there is no point in going anywhere. It is so vast.THE INTERIOR JOURNEY STARTS when you have dropped all beliefs and you have become aware of the fear, death, desire. And once you are in, suddenly you see fears are disappearing; because in the deepest core of your being there has never been any death, there cannot be. Your innermost core is absolutely a non-self.A self can die. The no-self cannot die. If there is something, it can be destroyed. That's why Buddha says there is nothing inside you -- you are a pure nothing. That nothing cannot be destroyed. And once you have understood it, that death cannot destroy, that this nothingness is in itself so beautiful, there is no need to go on stuffing it with money, power, prestige, fame. This nothingness is so pure and so innocent and so beautiful that you are blessed in it. You start dancing in that nothingness. That nothingness starts a dance. Buddha hints you towards that dance.When Buddha was dying, Ananda started crying and he said, "What will I do now? You are leaving and I have not yet become enlightened."Buddha said, "Don't cry, because I cannot make you enlightened -- only you can do that miracle to yourself. Be a light unto yourself -- APPA DEEPO BHAVA."Buddha throws humanity into the interiormost core. Buddha says:Go within -- and there is nowhere else to go. YOU ARE THE SHRINE. Go within! And there is no other God anywhere to worship. The more you move inwards, the more a worshipping consciousness will arise -- without any object for worship; a prayer will arise, not addressed to anybody. A pure prayer... out of bliss, out of being, out of inner benediction.”The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol-3
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THE PROCEDUREClose your eyestake all the time you need to get comfortableshift muscles stretch and relaxspine and neck are relaxed...not held stiffly !there is no stiffness herejust comfort ... the beginning of calm ... there is no hurry nowthere is nothing else to do ... or think about ... just pure relaxation !Be the BreathINHALE softly, easily...EXHALE softly, easilylet your breath be a rhythm of calm your breath is a rhythm of calmfollow your breathBe CalmBE WITH YOUR BREATHuse your mind to follow your breath in ... out ... in ... outthat is allBe StillBE WITH YOUR BREATHbe with your breath-energyAnapanasati Meditation is so simple ..so very easy .. not al all difficultMeditation can be donebyany oneat any ageat any timeat any placeMeditation should be done regularly ... every day meditation should be done .. as per one's age in terms of so many minutes ..e.g., twenty minutes .. if your age is twenty years .. forty minutes ..if your age is forty years and so on and so forth
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