For a man who has been laughing all his life, death also becomes a matter of laughter. But we cry all our lives. We have been educated in crying. We have been initiated into crying.
Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop
You walk a certain pace, that has become habitual, automatic. Now try to walk slowly. Buddha use to say to his disciples, walk very slowly, and take each step very consciously. If you take each step very consciously, you are bound to walk slowly. if you are running, hurrying, you will forget to do this. Hence buddha walk very slowly.
We all know and more importantly believe that human being are born with a DNA. Now DNA comes to us as a thing that could not be changed no matter what efforts we made. Adding to it, is a comfortable acceptance of what is given to us by nature
n just the same way, in Tibetan buddhism there is a basic, normal, elementary spiritual education, a complete spiritual training for the natural Bardo of this life, which gives you the essential vocabulary, the ABC of the mind. The basis of this training are what are called the ” three wisdom tools” : the wisdom of listening and hearing; the wisdom of contemplation and reflection, and the wisdom of the meditation.
Mind is pure and no impurity can enter it. that is is impossible. The mind is just the buddha – nature the ultimate. And when I say mind I don’t mean your mind. I simply mean the mind where no I and You exist.
The poet and philosopher was born in Balkh in Afghanistan and known as the Son of Balkh. For Afghans, who learn his poems in primary school, Rumi is “Maulana Jalaludin Balkh”, or “Maulana” (our master), or simply “Balkhi”. Most researchers agree he was born in Balkh, Afghanistan in 1207 — though this too has been a subject of debate.
Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari We are naturally drawn outside as all the doors of our sense preceptors are opened to the external! So much of our life energy is spent fixing the external things of life. We struggle to change the outside for our senses drive us to the world outside, but when we draw our consciousness […]
Some one who feels that he is an integral part of this world, and that all its sins and good deeds are attributable to him, is moving towards true religiousness. He has no condemnation for anyone because to condemn the other is to condemn himself.
The enlightened Mystic, J Krishnamurti says in the Book of Life: Can the mind be free from the past, free from thought—not from the good or bad thought? How do I find out? I can only find out by seeing what the mind is occupied with
Thousand and one are the temptation around you because many people are there peddling their wares. It is a super market, the world, and everybody is interested in selling his wares to you; everybody is a salesman.