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The Frequency-Holders Author: Prem Featured "Frequency Holders." Eckhard Tolle - "A New Earth"	1		View Bookmark
ODanza - Dance Therapy and Zen Transformation system Author: Bodhi Featured ODanza Transformation is new and original "Flowing into Existence by Dance" system that integrates various dance styles with deep therapeutic healing approach with natural rhythms of life, authentic interactions, movements from martial arts, awareness techniques and celebration to provide experiences of intense perception of being alive in the here-and-now and step by step triggering expansion into Cosmic totality.... ODanza - is also known as "Dancing of Mysterious" system - "O" comes from "Oceanic-Cosmic Consciousness" and "Danza" means " “Movements of Full Meaning”. ODanza has its roots in Biodanza. New, complete, refreshed and integrated system developed by Bodhi Sarango includes : - Light Breathing techniques - allowing egoless state - Body Flexibility, basic BioEnergetics and Vitality exercises - Experiencing Rooting / Centering techniques - Emotional freedom Catharsis - 7 Chakras Opening - Tribal, Trance, Fusion and Progressive Dance integration - Exploring Male / Female Polarity and integrating the synthesis - Undastanding your Sexuality: Balancing and integrating Tantric Approach in your life - Rediscover natural intensity and totality by Dance - Exploring Tai Chi and Aikido Movements (the Way of unifying (with) life energy) , learning to use them in flowing - Transforming Power - the beauty of truth and sharpness - Introduction to Pre-Contact Dance - gooing deeper into flowing - Creativity Opening: Dancing into Painting , feeling Music - From Gurdjieff Movements to No Mind Movements - Role playing - Understanding our deep Body/ Mind patterns and learn to dissolve tensions (Past Life's approach) - Oceanic, Sky and Nature rhythms of life integration - Easy Let Go and Relaxation approach - Rediscovering our own Spontaneity and style - Awareness Transformation Dance - Unity Dance - Group Synchronizations – introduction in “Lord of the Dance” methods - Brotherhood Celebration - Opening to Childlike innocence, Non-Seriousness and Playfulness - Oceanic - Cosmic Totality Culminations ODanza is an invitation to explore life with authentic simplicity and enhance your natural potentials to further your Emotional Health and Inner Freedom. Experience Joy, Live Joy! The system is designed for 1,2 or 3 hours events workshops and 1,2,3,5 or 7 Days Course (for 5 and 7 Days - AUM Social Meditation, "Transformation Intensive" and "Life coaching: Creativity and Work" is included ). We are working now on new website / 2010 Calendar , with coming Events (with Bodhi Sarango and Odanza TEAM) this spring-summer in China, Europe, Rusia and North America. If you wish to organise an ODANZA Transformation Intensive event or participate or if you have any other questions please send an e-mail to: odanza.bookings@gmail.com "The only real path is when you start dancing and singing. You start losing yourself, you abandon yourself, you become drunk. Then small glimpses start coming to you. Suddenly something happens: for a few moments you are and you are not..." “Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is the meditation. Dance so deeply that you forget completely that ‘you’ are dancing and begin to feel that you are the dance. The division must disappear; then it becomes a meditation. If the division is there, then it is an exercise: good, healthy, but it cannot be said to be spiritual. It is just a simple dance. Dance is good in itself – as far as it goes it is good. After it, you will feel fresh, young. But it is not meditation yet. The dancer must go, until only the dance remains…. Don’t stand aside, don’t be an observer. Participate! And be playful. Remember the word playful always – with me it is very basic.” " Rejoice! Sing! Dance! Dance so totally that your egos melt and disappear. Dance so totally that the dancer is no longer there, but only the dance remains. Then you will find me wherever you are..." "There are only two activities in which you can feel egolessness easily. One is laughter, another is dancing. Dancing is a physiological method, a bodily method to feel egolessness. When the dancer is lost in his dance he is no more -- there is only dance. Laughter is a little more subtle than dance, it is a little more inner, but it has also the same fragrance..." Osho ====================== Bodhi Sarango holds a Master Degree in Computer Science and few other qualifications in General and IT Management. For 12 years he has been an executive manager and senior IT manager in few multinational companies working in many countries in Western and Eastern Europe. From 1999, after starting his journey on spiritual path with Osho his life transforms in multidimensional ways. After various training programs in Osho Multiversity India, he is experienced facilitator of Osho Active Meditations, Osho No Mind and Osho Mystic Rose meditative therapies, Emotional Freedom, Breath and Body Oriented Therapy, Tantric Consciousness and also AUM Social Meditation Trainer. Bodhi Sarango is a founder of ODanza system, a new and complete "Flowing into Existence by Dance" system, which integrates various Dance techniques with Natural Rhythms of Life, Awareness and Celebration to provide experiences of intense perception of being alive in the here-and-now and step by step triggering expansion into Cosmic totality: ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=204424055792 ) At the moment he is offering ODanza Transformation Intensive groups in various countries around the world, as well as in the Osho Multiversity in Pune, India. Bodhi Sarango is also available for Seminars and Individual Sessions on folowing subjects : 1 ) Undastanding your Sexuality: Balancing and integrating Tantric Approach in your life 2) Life Coaching: Understanding roots of Creativity and Integrating it in your Work-Business life To book Groups, Seminars and Individual Sessions with Bodhi Sarango please send an e-mail to: odanza.bookings@gmail.com	1		View Bookmark

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cheney Author: cheney cheney	2		View Unbookmark
The Frequency-Holders Author: Prem Featured "Frequency Holders." Eckhard Tolle - "A New Earth"	1		View Bookmark
ghfdsgh Author: whatmelon fhgfdhgfd	5		View Unbookmark
swamijeevanekin Author: Swami Je... OSHO	1		View Unbookmark
My View of spiritualism Author: Mo My view of spiritualism	4		View Bookmark
OSHO is in me. Author: sunil If someone says something against the Master, I go near the Master.	1		View Bookmark
2010 Author: Tserench... This will be the place where we are to grow real roses, and to discuss many topics which are facing our everyday's life.	1		View Bookmark
From the Path as many to the everpresent Pathless one Author: EternalJoy This is where i will be placing my insights into meditation techniques, common issues in the path of spirituality and life and also small cues and affirmations to contemplate and reflect on. A Place to share and commune in the one truth, which we are.	16		View Unbookmark
Swami Nirvesh Author: swami my hands my heart	1		View Unbookmark
hallo everyone from tenko meditation activity Author: anand I feel amazed to be here, in this zorba the buddha place. My name is swami anand taza and I feel joyful about this place. Thank you. The tenko meditation activity raised from the story pointed by Osho of a japanese kid, a mith in Japan, and Tenko had a drum which was magical. This story is from TAO - The Threee treasures. And it is a beautiful story. Tenko was drowned and the drum was stolen by the king. The drum stopped making sounds. Magically. And I see that most of us, human beings, had lost the creativity, in the education programs we have lived, with our teachers and parents... and our "drums" stopped playing and producing sounds. The king was scared and called the father of the boy, Tenko. The king ordered a memorial for Tenko and apologised to the father. the drum started to produce sounds again, when magically the spirit of Tenko came back and forgave the king. I love this story and wish we all reclaim our drums to play again. love and awareness TAZA - still in Brazil	1		View Bookmark
Pause and reflect.... Author: dechen I create this blog to pause and reflect ..on any passage, poem, quotes as a source of motivation towards life......	1		View Unbookmark
Me n My Life Author: Suvas I was on 16th Bhadra of 2041 B.S. on Nawalparasi District in place called Bhatti Danda on side of Bardghat Bazar. I'm really confused what to say about me. Actually while living this life there was a period when i was keen interested to say about me my aim & about my ability to do in many things in art, music & so on . Well, my grand mom use to say that i was very interested to dance in bhajans sang on temple . I think may be the tune of bhajan music may be has entered in my mind from that time, as I remember those days when i use to sing bhajans rather then singing other songs , what it be I think I entered in music from that period which I do not remember also & after ward I studied in school & gradually my interest towards music increased & when I was @ Collage I started to learn music from guru called Suresh Senchuri of Bageshwari Music Center from Butwal & On the same time I started to do Theater work & that was the time I started to sing Ghazals . After that I was totally devoted towards ghazal . In these days I use to sing just Ghazal whether it may be Hindi / Nepali or Urdu . But also im also not clear about my clear way of life. As i can say im searching my new & different way to lead my life . I can say that i was a bit spiritual person from my childhood & in this days im living a great spritual life & this way of life was leaded by many gurus. Mainly im in love with Osho . I use to listen his discourse & Use to read his books & i have taken his Sannyas from tapoban .	1		View Bookmark
peace project Author: maharaj peace project organosed as cultural celebrations.	1		View Bookmark
My Beast She Rises Author: Prem An honest account of a fruitful day.	1		View Bookmark
WITH LOVE RUMI Author: Suryaya With love bitter things seem sweet With love bits of copper are made gold With love pains are as healing herbs With love thorns become roses With love vinegar becomes sweet wine With love the scaffold becomes a bed With love mishap seems good fortune With love a prison seems a rose garden Without love a garden is a desolate place With love burning fire is pleasing light With love the devil becomes an angel With love hard stones melt like butter Without love soft wax hardens like iron With love poison turns into honey With love lions are harmless as mice With love wrath turns into mercy With love the dead rises to life With love the king becomes a slave RUMI A Poem from a Lover Suryaya I think I am going to die today.. Why do you think that? A lover has no choice in the matter To truly Love is to be annihilated There are a few who have died this way before burning in the flames of love and their shouts of Joy and Ecstasy have been heard through- out the earth But rarely understood I am no more only Love remains I saw the Sun for the first time The shadows cast by the Sun became a bone of contention Which of us wanted to sit in the shade when we both longed to be annihilated by the Sun. Such Bliss could not last long In the garden of my heart ablaze.	1		View Unbookmark
This moment Author: Ananda oooooooooo l ala la ,, The night is resting after the day delight .. Man is tired and sleeping tight ... God is dancing everywhere in this starry night !!! Love you all OSHO drops !!! As each drop of ocean is salty, so is OSHO sanyasins . .each one is a drop of celebration, bliss and light .. hoooooooooooo yahoo ...... l al al lla la la	0		View Unbookmark
Thank you OSHO Author: Ananda As the bird flies On the background of Blue sky, So , I am OSHO, I fly on the back ground of your Love Presence !	0		View Bookmark
osho in the making Author: Vikram I met someone is sydney who i think is what osho would have been before people started following him.. the guy i met is doing an emba from Insead and is writing revolutionary papers.. his classmates call him 'smoking buddha' or 'corporate jesus'.. i could not help but announce the presence of such a master in the midst of the hustle bustle of this world..	1		View Unbookmark
Joy Author: Deva Celebrate! Create! Multiply! Support! Love! All within meditation	0		View Bookmark
anti-art to OSHO and to everyone Author: Anuragi my work in anti-art inspired in dada art. celebrate!!!!	1		View Bookmark
Patience and longing and passion Author: Prem OSHO	1		View Unbookmark
Archana~~~~who is she ~~~~~ Author: archana the mystery is in.............. let me look..............	1		View Bookmark
Friends Author: devatara Bright light, almost blindin' Black night still there shinin' I can't stop, keep on climbin' looking for what I knew Had a friend, she once told me You got love, you ain't lonely Now she's gone and left me only lookin' for what I knew Ah-ahh, ah-ahh, ah-ah-ahh, ah-ahh Mmm, I'm tellin' you now the greatest thing you ever can do, now is trade a smile with someone who's blue, now It's very easy, just-a Met a man on the roadside cryin' Without a friend, there's no denyin' you're incomplete, there'll be no findin' lookin' for what you knew So anytime somebody needs ya don't let them down, although it grieves ya Someday you'll need someone like they do lookin' for what you knew Ah-ahh, ah-ahh, ah-ah-ahh, ah-ahh Mmm, mm, I'm tellin' you, now the greatest thing you ever can do, now is trade a smile with someone who's blue, now It's very easy, just-a, oh, yeah Ah, nah, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, yeah I'm tellin' you, now the greatest thing youever can do, now is tradeasmile with someone who's blue, now It'svery easy, i-it's very easy It's very easy, it's easy, easy, yeah, yeah	0		View Bookmark
When something cannot be said, should not be said!!but you can continue laughing!!! Author: Jeevan Many flowers have showered by the side of the road i travel, Clouds have gathered near my window, My heart is wet, my bockey is full of roses, birds are singing the songs of evening, And by the touch of cool breeze, Ah!I am blissed Out! 2nd one, Dear man, tommorrow never comes, life is like a bubble in the water, it is stretched beyond time, like the horizon of the sky. And ten fingers to count infinite stars. What would you like? to keep account who will come and who will go? or to join the caravan?????	1		View Bookmark
love Author: Nirman just the waves of love ...	1		View Unbookmark
poems ; The soul of the words ... Author: Ananda Dear all, Hre are some of poems which i created few months before ... Hope you all enjoy... (1) haiku ... Clouds come and Go, Night remains; Thoughts come and Go, Innerlight remains ! (2)LIFE AT COMMUNE... Day after day, we sit silently listening to music dancing to the rythm Day after day, we go on celebrating making every opportunity with wondering and awe to prepare for the unknown Day after day, we see the same things with different colours Breaking the boundaries Of ourselves, melting into other's mysteries! Day after day, We try to watch The Gaps of Nights !!! (3) Something romantic ...! You kiss me , Without lips ... I sing , Without words ... (4) Few splashes in The sea of life .. Some moved me further, some were wasted.. When I reached The shore; I found The same Sand , I had left behind...! (5) The last one (from a friend) Pitch darkness, Instantly transofrmed to Sunshine.. I just had to open my eyes ! Love, Ananda nirava	0		View Bookmark
rajneeshpuram Author: sasi passion....love	1		View Unbookmark
Sudha Author: Prem OSHO Miasto Italy Celebration with Sudha	1		View Unbookmark
The Fog Is Clearing Author: Prem A poem written after my first week of Dynamic Meditation in 2003!	1		View Unbookmark
Forever I smile back x Author: Prem Out of the darkness and into the light On my journey inside, the world and my place in it becomes absurd and ridiculous. Where to run from the world? where to hide? Except to go inside. To bring awareness to every moment. To accept myself in every form. To have the courage to experience my inner being, alone and when interacting with others. The opportunity to experience compassion I find is hiding in every moment and where it does not flow, let awareness shine for here lie the roots of misery. From where does this new found spring of energy now come? That blows my sails and stokes my fire? Is it the same source that puts diamonds in the eyes of strangers as if The Divine were winking at me? Forever I smile back x Now I am inside I move freely with the world. I move in and out, no longer looking for my place in it, for my home is not there...! Prem Leise x	0		View Bookmark
Live Like God Author: Vishal Man is made of matter.Matter is temporary,God is permanent. Attachment is temporary and painful while Love is God which is Blissful We can see that attachment is everywhere around us Attachment always arises from ego.Ego is nothing but our memory of this life and past life Nothing in this world happens without reason We are here because of a reason We are here to realise that God is present within us and everywhere we look around We are here to accomplish our unfulfilled desires of past life by not creating new desires in this life Children are full of innocence but are ignorant of Truth We are also children Maximum people do not get mature because their ego are very much strong which prevent them from experiencing the eternal Truth,God Ego is the mind Mind wants life so it can do every possible thing to prevent us from realising God If we experience God even once we will never want to be deceived by the mind We will start seeing ourselves separate from our mind and body And we will be free from attachment and full of pure Love Realising God we will start giving Love to everyone even to our own ego as our child who in innocence is ignorant Live like God And as Buddha had said "Be a Light Unto Yourself" With eternal Love, Vishal	0		View Bookmark
Eternal Wisdom is Within Us Author: Vishal Yes that is true Eternal Wisdom Is Within Us. In this Cosmic Dream of God everything seems to be dual i.e. the opposites such as positive and negative,Good and Bad,Life and Death etc. Dualities exist only because of our mind since we judge everything,it may be living or non living and thus creating a whole new process of suppression.When we say that this is good and that is bad we neglect the bad thing and thus this bad thing becomes a part of our life which becomes deeply penetrated if it is suppressed more and more. But in reality each dualities we see with our own key hole eyes are the two seashore of the same sea.They may seem to us two extreme points but deep down they are one.And God is One.So if we look from the Creator's eye everything is one.Accepting this simple thing one has already become wise in a few ways.But accepting it with doing Meditation and changing our view of looking at the world we can meet God. With Eternal Love, Vishal	0		View Bookmark
Crisis is the motivation Author: nirvan Crisis is the motivation Meditation is the way Relationship is the test by Arthur D. Saftlas, aka Nirvan Out of crisis, out of the failure of our conditioned consciousness to deliver the promises of hope; when our dreams of success for money, reputation, and fame have proved futile; when traditional approaches and medication fail; when our life is misery and suicide is considered consolation—out of pain can come the opportunity, the possibility for us to open up, to inquire and seek real answers, and observe what is true and what is false. Meditation is the way to awaken, to transform ourselves, to begin a new life of awareness. A new life doesn't grow from the old, rather awakening is analogous with the Phoenix which rises up from the ashes of the old. Meditation is the way to die to the past, and the way to learn how to be joyfully in the present. Meditation is a shift in our perspective of time—from the illusionary future to what is real now; from pressure to relaxation; from left brain to right brain; from stress in the mind / body to peace in our hearts. Relationship is the test of our awareness. In relationship, we encounter fascinating opportunities for enlightenment, as life presents us with lessons to be learned at every turn. The key, which is our openness—our willingness to trust, witness, and learn, is tested with every communication; through recognizing our reflection in the mirror of another; through being responsible, by owning our reactions and feelings; through insightfully perceiving the hypocritical nature of our dual mind; through our capacity to give and receive love; through being, awareness of who we are. nirvan@2b-One.com http://www.2b-One.com 415 925-1648	1		View Bookmark
Golden Verses that will enlighten our lives Author: mysticrose Maa Dharm Jyoti's encounter with Osho - It is afternoon. Osho is sitting in an easy chair on the balcony--it is spring time. There is a huge mango tree near by, and a cuckoo is singing continuously. Her song deepens the silence even more. Osho asks me if I know whether this cuckoo is male or female. I have no idea and never even thought about it, but I say, "It is a male." Osho asks how I know and I tell Him, "I really don’t know--I just said it." He says, "It is a male bird. it is always the male who calls: the female waits." Then we hear another cuckoo calling. "Listen to this," says Osho. "This is the female responding to the first call. If you listen carefully you will find the difference." I forgot about the cuckoo’s call: I am astonished at this great insight of my master.	1		View Unbookmark
Ripples and Waves Author: Nirman An Ode to Life on Valentine's Day Guadalajara, Mexico	1		View Bookmark
Until the Silence Happens Author: Vee They say Journey is the goal... But I end up spending time packing and preparing for the journey. They say Silence is your being.... But I end up talking about silence....	1		View Unbookmark
The journey of a seeker helped by the writer inside... Author: Anuradha Life – a mysterious drama. Everybody is playing without being aware of fact that it's a "drama". There is no fixed script, there is no fixed role. Everybody is engrossed so much in its role that he has forgotten who he really is? We take birth, we die, we are sad, we cry, we laugh, we are g*different kinds of roles we play. We have no clue what is going to happen next, we are not the directors. There is nothing in our control, we merely play our roles. (its rhyming!) If there would be anything we could do than the human being has evolved so much, he has measured the moon, travelled the universe, made automatic machines, developing a pill of happiness or bliss was a no big deal! If we could plan our lives, everybody would have a plan chart before birth and no place for misery. But one thing has to be understood - the ultimate peace does not lie in this world, it lies within you. It can only be discovered by going inside, where there is a bigger world happening, it lies in awareness, which is only possible through meditation! (Said by Osho, but felt by me. not lying!) Awareness has to be understood - The very base of every religion emphasizes on the illusion of life. How life is not to be taken seriously as it is beyond our control. The existence is the only truth, everything else is a hoax. Osho says, "You are not the body, you are not the mind, you are only a witness" and once you become the witness you are a "Buddha". Anybody aware is a Buddha! The Existence is taking care…. It is taking care of the tiniest leaf hidden under a big rock, to a humongous planet, it does not matter if the leaf is in a market place or in a jungle, and it's of a flower plant or a thorny shrub, weather it's of a rich man or a destitute. The existence is equally taking care. How can you be left alone?? We are the designs of nature, playing the way we are designed to, no matter where we are born, what we do, what we face it's a part of our play. And once you become aware of your real self there is nothing but pure bliss! The hatred will be lovable, jealousy will be enjoyed, miseries will have their own charm, and sadness will be Bliss! How can anything else be possible, when the existence is the care-taker and we are the spectators?! Something might happen to the player, he plays the game of life. We are ecstatic watching! Watching the game of games, the ultimate game of life! Life makes a lot of sense; it has tremendous meaning in it, if taken non-seriously! One man kills another saves, one is a judge another convict, one hates another loves, one cares another rapes, one is lecherous another saint. Varieties of people are playing various roles. No one is greater than another. Everybody is a master actor, engrossed deeply into its character. And once you detach yourself from the character and become the watcher there can be no misery. Buddha said "Moksha"; detachment is the only way out of our miseries. But who has to be and aware and who remains ignorant is also designed, not in our hands again!! The drama goes on…… When you relate to the existence and not to the actors, when you see the hidden Buddha in everybody, when you see everything as one, the pebbles on a road, the bricks in a wall, a doughnut, a peanut, a rabbit, a reindeer every d*thing you see or invisible comes from once source, that one supreme!! When you do not judge anybody, when you do not judge yourself! There will be no guilt, no regrets, only joyfulness! Osho designed some wonderful techniques to be aware; some remarkable meditations, helpful in finding our respective paths. He was not a philosopher or a priest, a politician or a saint he was an actor with awareness, he says, "Only that which blossoms within you like a lotus has ultimate value. Out of that arising of consciousness, you cannot do evil", he played his part beautifully! Am going through so much these days, the experience is just euphoric, I want to go crazy, shout, laugh, dance, go wild with my imagination, I want to wear the rainbow, walk in water, kiss on the road, run, fly, die!! Life suddenly has changed, or may be I have, or may be it is all the same, I am in a new design! I am in a new role. Everybody looks so beautiful, sounds so poetic, I am High! Oh man……… Am feeling all this not merely saying am experincing! am aware of my struggle to convey my feelings to you, am aware of the fear of you not understanding! am experiencing this nervousness.... My experience after two days of resort stay!! Continued……	0		View Bookmark
Free Soul Author: Dev Lets share our idea about freedom. what do you mean by freedom?	1		View Unbookmark
Hello everybody Author: Raji Ma... Dear friends and lovers of Osho here on Zouddha! Today I found you here through Krishnaprem´s Video on youtube.com My own site is www.myspace.com/rajiarts. If you wonna come by to visit, great! Much love and til later! And a happy new year! Raji	0		View Bookmark
Sudha's Fare Well Celebration Photo's Author: Katha Sudha and her celebration in Miasto. Some words on her cancer, the outlook, friends, celebration, pics, it's all there. Photo's of Celebration in Miasto by Deva Muni Photo from Sudha b/w done in 1997 at Osho Commune by Anurag Katha You are welcome to leave your message to Sudha on Deva Krishna's : http://www.otoons.com/gossips/sudha.html	0		View Bookmark
Osho Tapoban, Osho Commune in Nepal Author: Ram Here You will find info about Activities and events about Osho Tapoban, An international commune and forest retreat center in Nepal.	1		View Unbookmark
"When the Disciple is ready the Master appears" Author: vimalgit A place to relate of the experiences of our Master Osho. Whether supposedly great or small......there are no coincidences.....in the life with the Master!!:)	0		View Bookmark
Sanyaas Author: Shweta I have been reading OSHO for the past 6 years and have felt hypnotized every time I read the books..Following which I attended oceanic dance meditation workshop by Sw.Sambodh Viram in Oshodham Delhi 2 years back. I was so overwhelmed by the experience, that I decided not to take Sanyaas. I am mesmerised by OSHO...I want to take a plunge in Sanyaas now...But there is a strange kind of fear and a practical difficulty of not being able to spend 2-3 days exclusively at Osho dham due to personal commitments..Is there some other way(less time consuming way) of going into it...	1		View Unbookmark
ARUN Conscious Touch and OSHO Author: prem Arun Conscious Touch The meditative experience that transforms lives www.arunlanzarote.com www.aruntactoconsciente.com www.web.mac.com/chiaraescario arunlanzarote@yahoo.com	1		View Unbookmark
ahrnish poems Author: MUKESH poems u must meditate over	3		View Unbookmark
PRAYER??? By Osho... Author: ,mnbujf PRAYER IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE. Prayer is not something that can be thought either. Prayer is a state of silent being, of utter silence. One simply is... then one is in prayer. If you do prayer, you miss the whole point. Doing remains on the circumference; doing cannot enter to the center of your being. If you are saying your prayer, you again miss -- because in saying it you are thinking of yourself as separate from God, you are relating to God as if he is separate from you. And that is the basic illusion: God is not separate from you. Hence, prayer cannot be a dialogue between I and thou. I is thou -- there is no possibility of any dialogue. The moment you say your prayer, you have accepted a hypothesis which is basically wrong -- that God is there, far away from you, separate. You have reduced God to an object. And God is your very subjectivity, he is your very center. The Upanishads say, "TAT-TVAM-ASI: thou art that." The only way to be in prayer is to be in utter silence. In that silence there is an overflowing of gratitude, but it is not verbalized. There is a tremendous thankfulness, but it is not said, it is not spoken. There is great love, but it is a pure presence. Yes, Prabuddha, no-mind is the ultimate prayer. And it is the state of no-mind where prayer and meditation meet. Meditation takes you to the no-mind, prayer takes you to the no-mind. No-mind is the peak where the path of the mind and the path of the heart meet, where Zen and Sufism are one. The path of Zen starts by dropping thoughts, becoming more and more alert to the thought process -- becoming so aware that in that awareness, in that heat of awareness, thoughts start evaporating and you are left in your total nudity and aloneness. That is the path of meditation; it works through the mind. It is against mind, it transcends mind, but the path goes through the mind. The path of the lover, the devotee, the Sufi, goes directly through the heart. It simply leaves the mind aside; it doesn't work on the mind at all, it works on the feelings. Feelings are silent, non-verbal -- you cannot communicate, you can only commune. In Zen, thoughts are reduced. And as thoughts are reduced, your energy is released to become no-mind. In Sufism, feelings are strengthened, you pour your energy into feelings. As feelings gain more and more strength, thoughts disappear of their own accord. But from both the ways you reach the shrine of no-mind. It is the ultimate in prayer and it is the ultimate in meditation. That is where the Sufi is a Zenist, and a Zen follower is a Sufi where Buddha and Bahauddin meet, where all the religions enter into the ocean of oneness. Religions are like rivers: no-mind is the ocean. Come from anywhere, come from any direction, follow any path -- but the day you come to the state of no-mind is the day of rejoicing. You have arrived home.	0		View Unbookmark
Cheer Up! The next day is for Yours Author: malayaleee A man Raghavan in kerala was wandering for some money. He asked several persons-friends,relatives and strangers too. But he couldn't get the money. He become disappointed. His needs increases and volume of money needed become large. Then too, he couldn't get any money from others. Then he walked to market and ask everyone for money. The bench of paises was not sufficient to fulfill his needs. But he doesn't think about to make money from someother sources except begging. His daily routine was begging and live unsatisfied with that money.Raju my friend, decided to give him a job in his relatives shop. But Raghavan is not willing to get that job. Because that excess needs and insufficient money creates a "pain". That pain became a "happy" thing for his life. Lastly, he was proud of his pathetic condition and dreaming for tasteious food. some.especially keralians is like that way. They criticise everyone and doesn't receive anyone's help too. Raghavan's life give us a very good lesson for happiness. If he can happy, unless he got a job or he accepts one.Or he wants. Yes, want to become a happy man/women is our aim. Be happy and think about how to make happy ourselves.	1		View Bookmark
My feelings Author: Anand This is about my felling about my sanyas and myself as a sanyasin.	1		View Unbookmark
Shiva Smiled Author: Bhagawati Travel log about our trip to India in March/April 2007	1		View Bookmark
My Beloved dog Leela left for her Final journey Author: Shanti Very very sad these days-my dog Leela-my friend and dog soulmate for the last 10 years died last week very sudden-huge shock for me-she had so much Love for people and so much energy and softness- a perfect Zorba the Buddha in the dog world-you can see her web site here www.leela.dk even though she was handicapped for 8 years she never let it bother her-such a lust for life and exploring new things-all dog lovers know what I mean-hard to find out what to do these days though I feel she is in a better place	1		View Unbookmark