As you perfect the practice of calm abiding and you become one with the breath, after a while even the breath itself as the focus of your practice dissolves and you find yourself resting in nowness.
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Many others fear no better: people who change or progress in their careers are, in terms of happiness, right back where they started after around three months. The same goes for the people who buy the latest Porsche.
The work that one has to do upon self consists in taking back from the robot, de-automatising processes. And you will be surprised: if you de-automatise any process great awareness is released.
So when you wants to hold on to the good, all that he can do is put the good side of the coin on top, but the bad will always be present underneath. When he catches hold of the good, the bad will automatically be in his hand as well because it is not a separate thing, it is the other side of the good.
“We celebrate everything, both positive and negative,” he says, “Recently, my Dad was diagnosed with cancer,” he says, “When I heard this news, I directly confronted myself and totally accepted it.”
Love happens only when you are mature. You become capable of loving only when you are a grown-up. When you know that love is not a need but an overflow: being-love or gift-love, then you give without any conditions. The first kind, the so-called love, derives from a person’s deep need for another, while ‘gift-love’ […]
Only meditation or practice of mindfulness can bring us more to this present moment awareness of life’s flow to create that pause in us where we can find our quiet power and invoke the divine potential to face the negative and gradually win it by our spiritual strength.
They have ‘discovered’ that most of the things we think will make us happy, don’t, at least not for long. For example, to their surprise, they found that money, beyond enough for basic needs, does not bring more happiness.
This Holi festival is just a catharsis for the whole country to throw out all nonsense. It is good, it cleanses.
So the first thing to be understood is that love is not an act; You cannot do it. you can be in love, but you cannot “do” love. Doing is absurd. But other things are also implied. It is not an effort because if it were an effort you would get tired. It is a state of mind.