Alan Watts (1915 – 1973) speaks on worrying and compulsive thinking.
Man is as if asleep. Man lives in a stupor – moves, works, is born, lives and dies, but almost fast asleep, snoring.
Meditation is a subtle death – a deep death of you, your mind, your ego, of all that makes you defined. But that which is within is there. That is pure consciousness.
In this three-part series, Kaiyum clarifies widespread confusion about the difference between feelings and emotions.
Part 1: Providing the essential answer about the part played by the Mind.
Osho explains how gratitude arises out of compassion and is not directed towards anyone in particular.
Your time is created within you. Your time is not my time. There exist as many times parallel as there are minds. There is not one time. If there is one time, then there will be difficulty. Then amidst the whole miserable human-kind, nobody can become a Buddha because we belong to the same time.
The bhikkhu who guards his mind
And fears the waywardness of his thoughts
Burns through every bond
With the fire of his vigilance
Ian Sample writes in The Guardian that psychologists have found that people are distracted from the task at hand nearly half the time, and this daydreaming consistently makes them less happy.
Zen Gardner writes on August 4, 2014:
Rupert Sheldrake, author of “Science Set Free”, speaks on TEDx (this video was later removed, sparking a controversy about TED’s censorship).
Q: Osho, why is it that one becomes so attached to the physical peculiarities of a master: his beauty, his gentleness, his language, his mispronunciation – so that alongside the awe and respect he inspires there grows such a feeling of tenderness and familiarity? If this is a device I want to be caught by it forever.
When you immerse yourself in your work and go beyond the mind, you become centred, writes Pratiksha Apurv on June 15, 2014.
Chaitanya Keerti writes in the Deccan Chronicle on April 29, 2014 about forgetting who we truly are.
I have heard, a man in an orange robe entered the Vrindavan juice bar, barged up to the front of the line, and demanded tea and cake.
In the East much has been worked out, much has been done to understand the ego, much probing has been done.
Beloved Master, some scientists are concerned that man will some day relinquish his intellectual supremacy to computers – monster artificial super-brains with an intellectual power far beyond anything we can now comprehend.
Meditation is not a solution of any problem in particular; it solves nothing. It simply helps you to get rid of the mind, the problem-creator. It simply helps you to slip out of the mind as a snake slips out of the old skin. Once you know you are not the mind the great transcendence
Another thing: the quality of the mind has basically changed. In Patanjali’s days, the center of the human personality was not the brain; it was the heart. And before that, it was not even the heart. It was still lower, near the navel. Hatha yoga developed methods which were useful, meaningful, to the person whose
In an article published by CNN on 9.1.2012, Deepak Chopra explains that the brain is dynamic and ever-renewing itself and how brain functions can be improved through the mind. Whatever we pay attention to is registered in the brain and drastically shapes its structure.
In his highly inspiring article published by CNN on 4.1.2013, the inimitable Deepak Chopra says that the brain is the only organ that changes instantly according to how the mind relates to it.
I am not here to fulfill your expectations. If I fulfill your expectations I will never be able to transform you. I am here to destroy all your expectations; I am here to shock you. And in those shocking experiences your mind will stop. You will not be able to figure it out: and that
Q: Is the earth hollow? Is there an advanced civilization living there? Is there a sun at the center? Do these beings make periodic journeys through tunnels to specific places and tell the secrets? Is that where UFO’s come from?
Since 2005, Robert Mays and his wife Suzanne have made a huge contribution to science by conducting concentrated research into the nature of consciousness.
A Danish documentary was presented on June 6, 2012, called ‘Free the Mind’ – on the effects of meditation or as the so-called new fashion word, mindfulness.
This might look like gobbledegook or gibberish to you but we suggest you do one thing: Lean back in your chair, relax your eyes while looking at the screen, and your brain will actually be able to read this text.
Since the beginning of time man has been desperately seeking answers about what happens when the body dies.