SOME FAVORITE QUOTES FROM OSHO

SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES FROM OSHO:


There are two types of creators in the world. One type of creator works with objects - a poet, a painter, they work with objects, they create things. The other type of creator, the mystic, creates himself. He doesn't work with objects, he works with the subject; he works on himself, his own being. And he is the real creator, the real poet, because he makes himself into a masterpiece.
You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed. Everyone is a masterpiece, because God never gives birth to anything less than that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, noT knowing who they are and just trying on the surface to become someone.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God himself has created you; you cannot be improved.

~Osho

You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth - everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you.
This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.

~Osho


Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
This mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You don't live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

~Osho

Osho's message from The Book of Secrets:

People come to me and I look at them, and I see
that they are fast asleep, dreaming. Their problems
are out of their dreams, and they want to solve
them. They cannot be solved because they are not real. How can you solve an unreal problem? If it exists, it can be solved-- but it
is nowhere; it cannot be solved. An unreal problem-- how can it be solved? It can be solved only by an unreal answer. But that unreal answer will create other problems which again will be unreal. And then you fall ad nauseam; there is no end to it.

If you want to come to meet reality.....And to meet reality is to meet God. God is not something hiddden somewhere in the sky, it is the reality around you. God is not hidden; you are hidden in an unreality. God is the nearest immediate presence, but you are hidden in a capsule of your own unreal world and you go on protecting it-- and the center of it is the ego.
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Nothing real can be dissolved. How can you dissolve it? If something is real, it cannot be destroyed; it will remian. And it will remain whatsoever you do. Only unreal things can be dissolved. They can disappear, they can simply evaporate into nowhere, into nothingness. Your ego can dissolve because it is unreal. It is just a thought, a notion; it has no substance to it.
"Just this moment, when this silence pervades, who are you?
A nobody, a non-entity.
You don't have a name, you don't have a form.
You are neither man nor woman, Hindu nor Mohammedan.
You don't belong to any country, to any nation, to any race.
You are not the body, not the mind.
Then who are you? In this silence, what is the taste of you?
How does it taste to be?
Just peace.....just a silence......
and out of that peace and silence a great joy starts surfacing, welling up, for no reason at all.
It is your spontaneous nature."

~Osho

ALL RELATIONSHIPS BEGIN FROM LOVING THE SELF

ALL RELATIONSHIPS BEGIN FROM LOVING THE SELF
(An excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace") 

To have harmonious relationships outside the self, one must first heal the relationship within the self. Relationship with oneself begins by loving and accepting oneself completely. We are responsible for our happiness absolutely. No one can make us happy or sad as it is our freewill to make ourselves happy or sad. We look at the world from our perception and we create our reality from the meaning we choose to give to life.

When we learn to love and accept ourselves completely, humility is born. Humility is emptying oneself of all of the stories of the past. Removing all of the labels of who or what we think we are. It is a most challenging journey and it is the journey to transformation. Without loving and accepting the self, one cannot understand humility. If we try to practice humility before loving and understanding the self, we will tend to live from the stories of woundedness, self pity, and lack of self esteem. Many times we give the meaning of humble to be weak.

Humility is not about weakness or lack of self esteem. Humility is power through emptying the self of past stories in order to allow the LOVE of the Creator to flow through. You cannot truly receive when you are full of the past stories of the I as the story of the I completely fills you and there is no space for the Creator anywhere.
Humility is the place of complete emptiness – emptiness to a sense of I. As long as there is an I, there is the control of the ego mind. The I likes to give but not to receive, it likes to keep memories, it likes to keep accounts, it summarizes and compares, and it thinks that it is all knowing. Only when we learn to drop the I, do we become the empty cup where the Divine Presence can fill us. We cannot receive if we are full of the I. We continue to give, to interact from the place of I, and we never know to receive. Receiving love, grace, and kindness from people around us and from the divine becomes very difficult when we do not empty the I in ourselves. The foundation for a true relationship is in giving and receiving as relationships must be balanced with giving and receiving. If there is no one to receive what you give, how will you be able to give it, how will you come to know what generosity is, and what love is. A true relationship is born from dropping the I, to let go of control, and to let go of the past and all of its stories of hurt and distress.

Only when we drop the stories of the past, we will become empty to receive, enjoy, and savor love. A relationship with the Creator or with anyone outside the self is fulfilled only when we have relaxed into the place of emptying, allowing, and accepting.

Relationships are based on true love, and true love is never an emotion. True love is a conscious connection with the Divine Presence. When we empty ourselves of all of the I stories and labels stored in our memories, we allow the love of God to pour into our beings. And when we are filled with the love of God, we return to True Love.

Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

~ An Excerpt from "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
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TOUGH TIMES ARE FOR HARVESTING WISDOM

TOUGH TIMES ARE FOR HARVESTING WISDOM

When life is viewed as real then it makes no sense given the suffering, injustice, disease, sorrow and heartache, but when life is viewed as an illusion then it makes perfect sense. Viewing life as an illusion helps to recreate every moment as we choose it to be.  Deciding to be in the place of trust and patience brings peace to every situation.  This Planet is a stage set up to harmonize the mind.  The mind and its stories arising from judgment is the root cause of all suffering.  Reflecting on the stories of the mind and questioning its truth creates space for wisdom. No one is immune to trials and tribulations in life, trials are placed in life for a reason. Unless we choose to face our fears, we will not be able see the bigger picture from the place of understanding and harvest wisdom from these experiences.  Making peace and blessing the conditions of our life we change them completely, for we are calling them something other than what they appear to be. Every so called "trial" is an opportunity to  encourage greater visions and thereby create grander solutions. For, there is immense courage, strength, and love placed within every human heart to transform every trial.

 I am reminded of this poem "Along the Road" by Robert Browning Hamilton  .

I walked a mile with Pleasure
She chattered all the way
But left me none the wiser,
For all she had to say,
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And never a word said she
But oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me!

Let us choose to awaken to the truth of who we are and let us choose to view life from the place of understanding. May we awaken to our Divinity within!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar  

EMPOWERING, ENLIGHTENING ~ CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD

I love this beautiful conversation with God ~ they are such empowering and enlightening reminders for humanity ~
~ from Neale Donald Walsch's book "Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue", Vol. 2

“Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. 

How? 

By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love.
Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing.
Avoid the mundane.
Do not accept the unacceptable.
Teach all who seek to learn of Me.
Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.
Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me.
Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing.
Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God.
Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift!
Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift—yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you…I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS.”

MANAGING GRIEF

MANAGING GRIEF

Today a sweet friend asked me a profound question about the best ways to handle the death of a loved one in a way that honors them and us. This is a very important question that some others also have been asking at this time, the exercise I have shared from my book helps not only to manage grief but also to clear agreements and release people when we have to.

We are energy beings and every action and every thought is a movement of the energy within us. We attract and merge with each other's energies through intense emotions, either positive or negative. This makes us involved in taking up each others "stuff" and try to manage the overload.

In order to be a witness of life and see emotions as passing clouds it is very important to release people and clear the agreements we have with them. The following is an energy work that can easily be done by anyone. This excerpt is from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace".

Energy work is a relaxed visualization with intention. This particular exercise is a wonderful gift that we can give to ourselves, our loved ones and any one with whom we have had a conflict.

May your moments be blessed with ease, grace and peace my dear friend!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

CLEARING AGREEMENTS -RELEASING PEOPLE - MANAGING GRIEF
(An excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace)

Be aware of yourself in a much more conscious level. The following is a powerful spiritual tool to release people from your consciousness and also to take back your power. In doing this exercise you are also giving people their energy back.
Many times we fill much of our space with other people’s energies and tend to depend on them to complete us. We forget to live from the place of our power. Connect with the heart. The heart is a place of transformation and hence, emotions like grief, sadness, and depression cannot persist there.
Intense negative emotions are due to people putting themselves into each others’ space. Human emotions are carried by the opinions of the mind:
“I love you, you love me, I am like you, and you are like me… so I love you.”
In this way, we attach so much emotion to our opinions. Human emotions of love that are attached only to opinions will dissipate overtime.
When a person’s opinion is not exciting anymore, they decide that they are done with the relationship, and they take their energy with them. They rip off their energy from the other person’s space:
“I am taking me back from you or I may or may not give you back to you.”
Energy loss such as this may happen due to death or separation. Absence of the energy called love from one’s space creates great grief, sadness, and depression. In order to fill this absence of energy, people search for energy from the wrong places and bring more confusion into their lives. The only way the holes in your energy field can be healed is by you replacing it with You. Grief happens when we give away ourselves expecting validation to be returned. The reality of all relationships is:
“I love me more when I am with you. I love me for creating you in my space.”
It is wise to empower oneself with the love and light of the Creator, to let go of other people’s energies from our space, and to take back the energy we left in their space. This allows us to become our wholesome, powerful selves.
You can think of the person who is consistently on your mind, who may be irritating you, and whose energy you would like to remove from your space. This is not necessarily a bad energy – it is only that you would like to heal and be your wholesome self, and you would also allow the person to take back his or her energy and feel whole again. This is a profound gift that you can give to people by giving them back to themselves.
Ground yourself to Mother Earth and connect with your heart. See yourself in the center of your head.
From the center of your head, see your view screen. Visualize a rose of any color and place the person inside the rose. See the rose change color as this is the color of that person’s energy that is in your space.
Now visualize another rose next to the first one. This rose represents you – notice the color of this rose.
Now give the command to the other person’s rose to collect up all of his or her energy from your rose. Now give the command to your rose to collect all of your energy from his or her rose.
When the roses have finished exchanging energy from each other, take a moment to thank the person. You can think of anything that you appreciate about her or him and offer gratitude. Now explode that person’s rose and make it disappear. The person’s energy will return back to him or her.
Now take your rose and fill it with the golden energy of your Celestial Soul and allow it to enter your body. The rose will replenish your body with life force energy wherever needed.

"Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
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THE GENTLE ART OF BLESSING

THE GENTLE ART OF BLESSING 

How can a blessing change the world? According to Pierre Pradervand, making the conscious choice to bless every person or being around you can truly make a world of difference in yourself and in others around you. In his book, The Gentle Art of Blessing, Pradervand shows that the practice of blessing has the power to create more than just a renewed perspective. It unleashes tangible benefits throughout your entire life -- through your daily interactions, your life-long relationships, and in the way your approach your place in the world.
An excerpt from his book "The Gentle Art of Blessings"

How to incorporate blessing into your life.

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth, for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good that is embedded in the texture of the universe and awaiting each and all.
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On passing people in the street, on the bus, in places of work and play, bless them. The peace of your blessing will companion them on their way, and its aura will be a light on their path.
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On meeting people and talking to them, bless them in their health, their work, their joy, their relationship to the universe, themselves and others. Bless them in their abundance and their finances, bless them in every conceivable way, for such blessings not only sow seeds of healing but one day will spring forth as flowers in the waste places of your own life.
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As you walk, bless the city in which you live, its government and teachers, its nurses and street sweepers, its children and bankers, its priests and prostitutes. The minute anyone expresses the least aggression or unkindness to you, respond with a blessing. Bless them totally, sincerely, joyfully—for such blessings are a shield that protects them from the ignorance of their misdeed and deflects the arrow that was aimed at you.
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To bless means to wish, unconditionally and from the deepest chamber of your heart, unrestricted good for others and events; it means to hallow, to hold in reverence, to behold with awe that which is always a gift from the Creator. He who is hallowed by your blessing is set aside, consecrated, holy, whole. To bless is to invoke divine care upon, to speak or think gratefully for, to confer happiness upon, although we ourselves are never the bestower, but simply the joyful witnesses of life’s abundance.
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To bless all without distinction is the ultimate form of giving, because those you bless will never know from whence came the sudden ray that burst through the clouds of their skies, and you will rarely be a witness to the sunlight in their lives.

When something goes completely askew in your day, when some unexpected event upsets your plans—and you—burst into blessing. For life is teaching you a lesson, and the very event you believe to be unwanted, you yourself called forth, so as to learn the lesson you might balk against were you not to bless it. Trials are blessings in disguise, and hosts of angels follow in their path.
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To bless is to acknowledge the omnipresent, universal beauty hidden from material eyes; it is to activate that law of attraction which, from the furthest reaches of the universe, will bring into your life exactly what you need to experience and enjoy.
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When you pass a prison, mentally bless its inmates in their innocence and freedom, their gentleness, pure essence and unconditional forgiveness; for one can only be a prisoner of one’s self-image, and a free man can walk unshackled in jail, just as citizens of a free country may be prisoners of the fear lurking within their thoughts.
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When you pass a hospital, bless its patients in their present wholeness, for even in their suffering, their wholeness awaits discovery within them. When your eyes behold a man in tears or seemingly broken by life, bless him in his vitality and joy, for the material senses present but the inverted image of the ultimate splendor and perfection that only the inner eye beholds.
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It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time. So hold constantly as a deep, hallowed, intoned thought the desire to bless, for truly then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall behold, everywhere, the very face of God.

P.S. And of course, above all, do not forget to bless the utterly beautiful person YOU are.

THE COLORS OF LIFE

THE COLORS OF LIFE
(A question and answer session to share)

Q: A Sweet friend recently asked me about why other people's lives are so successful while things were not going so well for him.

A: I feel this is a question many many of us are asking at this time and hence I wanted to share this answer.
When things are not going as well as we want them to we often tend to look at other people's successful lives and envy the ease of their progress. We do not realize that they too have gone through their ups and downs, in fact none of us are immune to the disorderliness of things, every person experiences disorder at different times in their lives.  The real difference between us who are going through discord  at this time and those whom we envy for their success is just timing.  Our minds tend to see only what is in front of us, the mind cannot see the bigger picture. We can only perceive a minuscule part of the person's life, but we cannot see the entire 360 degrees of his/her life experiences throughout time and space. It is not right for us to come to a conclusion that other people always have successful lives, when we have no idea about their past or their future life experiences.
It is important to remember that everything in life has its timings/seasons. After every sunset there is sure to be a sunrise, after every winter there is sure to be a spring, after every phase of sorrow there is sure to be joy and excitement.  It is wise to be very conscious of the flow of life, to be in the place of trust and patience and to accept things as they are.  For nothing is permanent, when we take courage to face our fears, a kind of sanity arises within us and helps us move forward with balance. Every moment is a grand success when we are able to see the gift every moment brings, for every down moment creates a seeking and reveals wisdom, and every up moment creates gratitude and balance.  Every moment is precious if we choose to face it without judgment, and every moment we are present we harvest immense wisdom for ourselves and for this Planet.
May we choose to be alert and awake to every situation that life benevolently brings our way!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

THE GIFT OF AWARENESS

THE GIFT OF AWARENESS 
( An Excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace")

The blocks in the chakras are created to stop the depletion of life force energy. The illness in the body may be healed but the blocks can last longer, and they may even be carried from lifetime to lifetime through the cell’s memories. Being aware of the imbalances in the chakras and dysfunction in the body helps us to recognize where we are losing our energy. Every time we think and give emotions to our wounds, we are disempowering ourselves as we will lose energy from one of the chakras.
True healing requires us to pay attention to our wounds of the past, to forgive ourselves and others, and to have a sense of honor and integrity toward ourselves.

For ages, we have become comfortable with storing data, keeping account, and suffering. We have become story-tellers of stressful stories and we project our stories outward as the world around us. We define our lives by our wounds, and our social climate celebrates our wounded stories of the past and the present. We believe that if we do not have a story of hurt to share, then we have nothing to converse about with each other. We love to tell our stories of pain, but we do not really face our pain. We consider pain to be our enemy, and we try to run away and escape from it. Pain is actually our guardian. It is our body talking to us and asking us to be in our truth.

Healing is not perfection. Healing is redefining ourselves and working through our challenges in truth and integrity as a day to day life journey. Instead of asking why, we change by asking the question how. The moment we ask why we remain stagnant and we deplete our energy. When we ask how, we will be shown the way and our life moves on. We can have a million thoughts a day, but if we choose not to believe them or to attach our emotions to them, we remain in peace.

We do not actually love others; we only love the concepts we have about them. We project our concepts on to the world and we compare. It is not possible to have the idea of a mistake unless we are comparing our ideas and concepts with the reality of the world outside. The concept of a mistake happens only in the mind story. As long as we hold on to a negative concept about someone, we will continue to project it on to everyone. This is how we create a discord in our reality. So if there is a discord in our reality on the outside, we need to go within and heal the concept inside us. When we learn to love ourselves truly, it will not be possible to project the concept that other people do not love us. What we give to ourselves, we will project on to the world outside.

We deplete our energy by attaching to our judgments about the world. Instead of healing ourselves, we start searching for that perfect person who would love and understand us and complete us in all of the ways that we could not. In our search, we demand that our parent, spouse, or children validate the caring, the love, the nurturing, the acceptance, and the respect that we are not giving ourselves. That is why we want them to behave according to our ideals and our concepts. We try to mould them to our whims and fancies, and we create discord in our relationships when they are not what we want them to be. We never get to truly know them or see them as they are as we constantly seek to see them only from our ideals. Hence, we lose the joy of knowing the true person in our lifetime.

Each person is a universe unto themselves. Each person can understand only their own story. No one can ever understand another person’s story, and even if they do understand, it will only be from their perspective. Therefore, no one will be able to love or understand you the way that you want. Realizing this is a grand freedom. Realizing this we come to the understanding that the only person who can love and understand us the way we want is our own self. We are the ones we are seeking. The only true love affair is what we have with ourselves. The experience of love and understanding cannot come from anyone outside us; it can only come from within us. I cannot tell you truly that I love you, all I can say is “I love me more when I am with you” or “I love me more for having created you in my space.”
We are one hundred percent responsible for our own happiness; no one has authority over our life as only we have the authority. By noticing the concepts and thoughts that we attach to, we realize that no one can frighten us – it is our own doing. The world is a projection of our thinking. So when we understand our thinking, we understand the world. When we are at peace within ourselves, the world is at peace. When we love ourselves, there is clarity in our mind and through clarity we can see that all is good. We are all absolutely safe, and there are no mistakes in the Universe.

Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

~ An Excerpt from "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
Copyright © 2012 P Rajkumar , S L Christian
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