Observe the setting sun

Submitted by Cindrella on Wed, 2008-02-27 06:40.
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Buddha chose for his sannyasins the yellow robe. Yellow represents death, the yellow leaf. Yellow represents the setting sun, the evening. Buddha emphasized death, and it helps in a way. People become more and more aware of life in contrast to death. When you emphasize death again and again and again, you help people to awaken; they have to be awake because death is coming. Whenever Buddha would initiate a new sannyasin, he would tell him, "Go to the cemetery: just be there and watch funeral pyres, dead bodies being carried and burned... go on watching.


Christopher Calder, Krishna Christ, and his Lying or Misinformed “Lost Truth”.

Submitted by Anthony Thompson Phd on Tue, 2007-10-16 20:13.
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CHRISTOPHER CALDER, KRISHNA CHRIST AND HIS LYING OR MISINFORMED "LOST TRUTH".

A response to Mr. Calder´s “Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh and the Lost Truth”

By Anthony Thompson Ph. D.

*English is not my first language, so forgive my misspellings and grammatical mistakes.


Christopher Calder, The man who lies about osho

Submitted by Anthony Thompson Phd on Wed, 2007-08-22 19:22.
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CHRISTOPHER CALDER, KRISHNA CHRIST AND HIS LYING OR MISINFORMED "LOST TRUTH".

A response to Mr. Calder´s “Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh and the Lost Truth”

By Anthony Thompson Ph. D.

*English is not my first language, so forgive my misspellings and grammatical mistakes.


Can there be thinking without memory

Submitted by Brad on Tue, 2007-08-14 11:02.
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Questioner: Can there be thinking without memory?

Krishnamurti: In other words, is there thought without the word? You know, it is very interesting, if you go into it. Is the speaker using thought? Thought, as the word, is necessary for communication, is it not?
The speaker has to use words, English words, to communicate with you who understand English. And the words come out of memory, obviously. But what is the source, what is behind the word? Let me put it differently.


If you listen completely, there is no listener

Submitted by sudeepg on Mon, 2007-08-13 06:06.
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Listen to those crows. Do listen. If you listen completely, is there a centre from which you are listening?


Buddha’s deny to Nirvana – A parable

Submitted by Cindrella on Wed, 2007-04-18 11:48.
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This is a short story about Buddha that when he reached the gate of Nirvana, the gates were thrown open. Rarely does it happen – millions of years pass before a person comes to the gate. For millions of years the gatekeeper was just waiting and waiting for somebody to come. Rust must have gathered on the gate, it had not been opened for so long, for so many million years. The gatekeeper was happy, he opened the door. But Buddha didn’t enter the gate. The gatekeeper asked, “Why are you standing outside?


Can this radical inward revolution happen instantly?

Submitted by sudeepg on Fri, 2007-04-13 19:17.
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Can this radical inward revolution happen instantly?It can happen instantly when you see the danger of all this. It is like seeing the danger of a precipice, of a wild animal, of a snake; then there is instant action. But we do not see the danger of all this fragmentation which takes place when the “self,” the “me,” becomes important—and the fragmentation of the “me” and the “not me.” The moment there is that fragmentation in yourself there must be conflict; and conflict is the very root of corruption.


A different kind of culture must come into being

Submitted by sudeepg on Fri, 2007-04-13 19:16.
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As one travels over the world and observes the appalling conditions of poverty and the ugliness of man’s relationship to man, it becomes obvious that there must be a total revolution. A different kind of culture must come into being. The old culture is almost dead and yet we are clinging to it. Those who are young revolt against it, but unfortunately have not found a way, or a means, of transforming the essential quality of the human being, which is the mind. Unless there is a deep psychological revolution, mere reformation on the periphery will have little effect.


Philosophy – Waste of energy

Submitted by Cindrella on Tue, 2007-04-10 05:42.
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Philosophy is a sheer waste of your energy. The same energy can become your meditation; the same energy can become your awakening. Philosophy is like dreaming: you can dream beautiful dreams, but dreaming is dreaming. You can think of God, but to think of God is not to know God. To know about God is not to know God. The word “about” means around. You can go on around and around… you will be moving in a circle and you will never reach the target, because the target is the center not the circumference.


How can a mind which is everlastingly chattering perceive anything?

Submitted by siddhananda on Wed, 2007-04-04 20:33.
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Meditation implies a quality of mind that can completely attend, therefore, a mind that can be completely still. The mind is always chattering, always talking, either to itself, within itself or to somebody, always in movement. How can a mind which is everlastingly chattering perceive anything?


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