The past is a barrier. Unless one is courageous enough to die to the past, one cannot be rewarded by true life. And this death has to happen each moment because each moment we are creating the past. It is not that once you have died to the past, the whole thing is finished. After […]
Love makes you free. The more you love, the more you are free. Ultimately you have the freedom of a cloud. A cloud is totally free, it has no fixed form, it is constantly changing, it is unpredictable. One moment it looks like an elephant; another moment it looks like a tiger. One never knows. […]
Remember your uniqueness. Love yourself, respect yourself, respect your own voice; listen to it and follow it. It is better to go to hell following your own voice than to go to heaven following somebody else’s because that heaven won’t prove much of a heaven; you will be just a blind follower. Related posts: No […]
If you can be a center to the cyclone that love creates, then your life starts growing. And as your centering becomes deeper with each challenge, as you become more grounded, more rooted, and nothing can uproot you – no problem can shatter you and you remain integrated in all kinds of crises-you will feel […]
Silence is music, pure music. The Zen people say that the ultimate enlightenment is like the sound of one hand clapping. If two hands clap, then there is a clash, conflict. When only one hand is clapping, it is of course absolutely silent, there is no sound at all, and that silence is the ultimate […]
Love has its own way of knowing. It is totally different from the ways of the mind. For example, if you try to know a roseflower through the mind you will have to dissect it, and in dissecting it you will destroy its beauty. You will come to know about its chemistry, but you will […]
To be spontaneously loving, naturally loving, is to be religious. Religion has nothing to do with worshipping Jesus or Buddha or Krishna. It has nothing to do with chanting mantras, it has nothing to do with all kinds of rituals being done in the churches and the temples. It has nothing to do with all […]
It is love that has given man the first glimpse of godliness; and then people have felt the urge to seek and search deeply. It is through love that they discovered meditation. Love is a natural phenomenon; meditation is a deliberate science. In love you are just at the mercy of the winds: sometimes there […]
If one is not able to become a song, life remains empty, meaningless. And people try to become everything except a song. They want to become rich, powerful, famous. But in becoming rich, in becoming politically powerful, in becoming famous, they lose all the qualities that can make their life joyous. They lose all cheerfulness, […]
The Song of Solomon is one of the greatest songs that has ever been com posed, ever been uttered. But it is one of the most misunderstood songs too. Christians particularly are embarrassed by it. It is part of the Old Testament and they are incapable of comprehending its meaning. They are afraid, very afraid, […]