Love and Reason
Reason says:
These six directions are the limit.
There is no way out!
Love says:
There is a way.
I have gone it many times.
Reason saw a market and began to trade.
Love has seen other markets beyond this bazaar.
~Rumi
India Summer
Sunday, August 8, 2010
The Daily Bread
The Daily Bread...
Nobody knows anything about the future.Your heaven and your hell and your God are most probably all hypotheses,unproved.The only thing that is in your hands is your life; make it as rich as possible.
By intimacy, by love, by opening yourself to many people, you become richer.And if you can live in deep love, in deep friendship, in deep intimacy,with many people,you have lived rightly. And wherever you happen to be,you have learned the art,and you will be living happily there, too.
If you are simple, loving, open, intimate, you create a paradise around you.
If you are closed,constantly on the defensive,always worried that somebody may come to know your thoughts, your dreams, your perversions, you are living in hell.
Hell is within you—and so is paradise.They are not geographical places,they are your spiritual spaces.
Cleanse yourself. And meditation is nothing but a cleaning of all the rubbish that has gathered in your mind.When the mind is silent and the heart is singing,you will be ready-- without any fear but with great joy—to be intimate.And without intimacy, you are alone here among strangers.With intimacy,you are surrounded by friends,by people who love you.Intimacy is a great experience. One should not miss it.
Osho
Nobody knows anything about the future.Your heaven and your hell and your God are most probably all hypotheses,unproved.The only thing that is in your hands is your life; make it as rich as possible.
By intimacy, by love, by opening yourself to many people, you become richer.And if you can live in deep love, in deep friendship, in deep intimacy,with many people,you have lived rightly. And wherever you happen to be,you have learned the art,and you will be living happily there, too.
If you are simple, loving, open, intimate, you create a paradise around you.
If you are closed,constantly on the defensive,always worried that somebody may come to know your thoughts, your dreams, your perversions, you are living in hell.
Hell is within you—and so is paradise.They are not geographical places,they are your spiritual spaces.
Cleanse yourself. And meditation is nothing but a cleaning of all the rubbish that has gathered in your mind.When the mind is silent and the heart is singing,you will be ready-- without any fear but with great joy—to be intimate.And without intimacy, you are alone here among strangers.With intimacy,you are surrounded by friends,by people who love you.Intimacy is a great experience. One should not miss it.
Osho
Random thought #67849302-111
Random thought #67849302-111
Are you getting skeptical of skepticism?
Do you find yourself bleary-eyed
swerving over the fine line of belief or pretend?
I was just wondering....
India Summer
Are you getting skeptical of skepticism?
Do you find yourself bleary-eyed
swerving over the fine line of belief or pretend?
I was just wondering....
India Summer
I want your life to be a garden...
- LOVE AND MEDITATION SEEM TO BE OPPOSITE POLARITIES. CAN YOU PLEASE TALK TO US ON HOW TO GROW IN MEDITATION AND IN INTIMACY WITH THE BELOVED?
- You neither know what love is, nor do you know what meditation is. Still, you are disturbed by the question. To you, love and meditation seem to be opposite polarities -- I wonder where you got that idea? If love and meditation are opposite polarities, then nothing in this world can be close to any other thing. But I know all the old religions have also been under the same fallacy.
The meditators have been escaping to the mountains to avoid love, and the lovers never bothered about meditation because they knew that if they meditated their love life would be finished. It has been one of the longest fallacies humanity has lived with. Love is a silence, a joy, a peace, a blissfulness between two persons. But because there are two persons, sometimes they don't match.
Meditation is the same experience of silence and peace and bliss -- but alone. But if two meditators are in love, then things come to the highest peak. If one meditator can reach to a certain peak in his blissfulness, in his silence, two meditators who love each other can become an immense support to each other's flight into the unknown. Their love can become a nourishment to their meditation, and vice-versa, their meditation can become a nourishment to their love.
This is the point where I differ from all the religions of the past. They have made love and meditation polarities, parallel lines which meet nowhere.
To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving. All his anger is gone, all his hate is gone, all his possessiveness is gone. If he cannot love then who else can love? And a man of love can go deepest in meditation because love is our highest quality, our purest self, our perfect song. If two singing hearts cannot meet in deep meditation then no other meeting is possible.
In fact, the people who have escaped to the mountains to meditate, think only of women in their meditation. They hallucinate. Their hallucinations can become so real that they start talking to those women. And in the whole world, people without meditation are loving each other, but their love does not bring a paradise to their life; on the contrary, it creates hell. They are known as intimate enemies -- enemies who have decided to live together.
My own understanding is that unless love and meditation are almost two sides of the same coin, we cannot create the new man, the new humanity, the new world.
Last night I told you the story of Jesus on the cross telling Peter, "Peter, from my height I can see, far away, my house." From my height of consciousness I can also see the faraway house where love and meditation will dwell together. We have to create that house.
Azima, don't say love and meditation are opposite polarities. That is a lie propagated by the priests down the ages. It has destroyed lovers into miserable lives and meditators into juiceless deserts. I want your life to be a garden full of flowers -- full of fruits, full of juice.
There is no question of how to create a loving, meditative relationship. Here, the people who have gathered around me are already living -- at least making an effort for the first time in the whole history of man -- to bring love and meditation as two sides of the same experience. Why should love disturb your meditation?
In fact, love should give you the right atmosphere, the right soil to meditate. And meditation should give you the right fragrance for love to become a treasure, a glory, a benediction.
Osho
- You neither know what love is, nor do you know what meditation is. Still, you are disturbed by the question. To you, love and meditation seem to be opposite polarities -- I wonder where you got that idea? If love and meditation are opposite polarities, then nothing in this world can be close to any other thing. But I know all the old religions have also been under the same fallacy.
The meditators have been escaping to the mountains to avoid love, and the lovers never bothered about meditation because they knew that if they meditated their love life would be finished. It has been one of the longest fallacies humanity has lived with. Love is a silence, a joy, a peace, a blissfulness between two persons. But because there are two persons, sometimes they don't match.
Meditation is the same experience of silence and peace and bliss -- but alone. But if two meditators are in love, then things come to the highest peak. If one meditator can reach to a certain peak in his blissfulness, in his silence, two meditators who love each other can become an immense support to each other's flight into the unknown. Their love can become a nourishment to their meditation, and vice-versa, their meditation can become a nourishment to their love.
This is the point where I differ from all the religions of the past. They have made love and meditation polarities, parallel lines which meet nowhere.
To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving. All his anger is gone, all his hate is gone, all his possessiveness is gone. If he cannot love then who else can love? And a man of love can go deepest in meditation because love is our highest quality, our purest self, our perfect song. If two singing hearts cannot meet in deep meditation then no other meeting is possible.
In fact, the people who have escaped to the mountains to meditate, think only of women in their meditation. They hallucinate. Their hallucinations can become so real that they start talking to those women. And in the whole world, people without meditation are loving each other, but their love does not bring a paradise to their life; on the contrary, it creates hell. They are known as intimate enemies -- enemies who have decided to live together.
My own understanding is that unless love and meditation are almost two sides of the same coin, we cannot create the new man, the new humanity, the new world.
Last night I told you the story of Jesus on the cross telling Peter, "Peter, from my height I can see, far away, my house." From my height of consciousness I can also see the faraway house where love and meditation will dwell together. We have to create that house.
Azima, don't say love and meditation are opposite polarities. That is a lie propagated by the priests down the ages. It has destroyed lovers into miserable lives and meditators into juiceless deserts. I want your life to be a garden full of flowers -- full of fruits, full of juice.
There is no question of how to create a loving, meditative relationship. Here, the people who have gathered around me are already living -- at least making an effort for the first time in the whole history of man -- to bring love and meditation as two sides of the same experience. Why should love disturb your meditation?
In fact, love should give you the right atmosphere, the right soil to meditate. And meditation should give you the right fragrance for love to become a treasure, a glory, a benediction.
Osho
Do the Math
Monday, December 14, 2009
In the End
Given enough time, in the end, the mathmaticians will boldly pronounce that they have found the mathmatical equation to that which we call "God". And the Mathmaticians and Scientists will say, "God is Math, and Math is God, We are Math, We are an equation". Do the Math.
I think we are at a time when it is dawning that those things we have seperated and demanded to be seperated, will begin to merge. It is only a matter of our own eyes opening to see more. Science and Spirituality are not mutually exclusive. While a distinction can be made for both "arts", at the cutting edge of those fields they are completely entwined. Science is only one method of discovering the divine. There are many paths you can go by.
That being said, I'm still in favor of Seperation of Church and State on the material/physical plane.
India Summer
In the End
Given enough time, in the end, the mathmaticians will boldly pronounce that they have found the mathmatical equation to that which we call "God". And the Mathmaticians and Scientists will say, "God is Math, and Math is God, We are Math, We are an equation". Do the Math.
I think we are at a time when it is dawning that those things we have seperated and demanded to be seperated, will begin to merge. It is only a matter of our own eyes opening to see more. Science and Spirituality are not mutually exclusive. While a distinction can be made for both "arts", at the cutting edge of those fields they are completely entwined. Science is only one method of discovering the divine. There are many paths you can go by.
That being said, I'm still in favor of Seperation of Church and State on the material/physical plane.
India Summer
A Woman
A woman is God shining
through subtle veils,
haughty spirit astride
the elegant mare
of her body.
Loving her
you love spirit.
~Rumi
Translated by Daniel Liebert
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Monday, December 28, 2009
India Summer Public Alert
Current mood: indifferent
I am now officially a "Twit"! After having an imposter posting messages on Twitter, I decided to make a profile. I also alerted Twitter who promptly did nothing about it. So... you can find me on Twitter as MsIndiaSummer. Not "MilfIndiaSummer"...that would be the imposter.
So, there's my big Public Alert Announcement.
Blue moon on New Year's Eve...
That's my Astronomical Public Alert Announcement.
Monday, December 21, 2009
I'm Not on Twitter! Imposter!
Thanx to my friends (THANK YOU PRINZZESS/Felicity Jade), I was alerted to the fact that an imposter has been sending out "Twits and Tweets" to people on Twitter. I'm not on Twitter. Never have been. Not once. It's not me.
Please feel free to be rude as fuck to anyone identifying themselves as me on Twitter.
Happy Holidays!
Love, India
India Summer Public Alert
Current mood: indifferent
I am now officially a "Twit"! After having an imposter posting messages on Twitter, I decided to make a profile. I also alerted Twitter who promptly did nothing about it. So... you can find me on Twitter as MsIndiaSummer. Not "MilfIndiaSummer"...that would be the imposter.
So, there's my big Public Alert Announcement.
Blue moon on New Year's Eve...
That's my Astronomical Public Alert Announcement.
Monday, December 21, 2009
I'm Not on Twitter! Imposter!
Thanx to my friends (THANK YOU PRINZZESS/Felicity Jade), I was alerted to the fact that an imposter has been sending out "Twits and Tweets" to people on Twitter. I'm not on Twitter. Never have been. Not once. It's not me.
Please feel free to be rude as fuck to anyone identifying themselves as me on Twitter.
Happy Holidays!
Love, India
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