Recently someone who was having a certain difficulty in meditation sent me a question and wanted some help: “What forms of meditation are as effective as Zen in helping one become mindful? I have mild cerebral palsy and sitting still, relaxing and focusing on my breath is hard. The thought of sitting down to relax […]
Category Archives: Spirituality & Well Being
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This beautiful neo-sannyas was conceived by Osho on 28th September 1970, when he was talking on “Krishna The Man and His Philosophy” during a meditation retreat in Manali.
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A friend has written to me: What is your advice on becoming a meditation teacher/practitioner? These days, it is a common question many people ask because they think that meditation has a big market. It has become a flourishing business in India and all over the world. And the people who meditate themselves rarely, are teaching […]
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Life is Beautiful:First, believe in this world – that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!
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Silence is incommunicable; it cannot be communicated through language at all. Yes, there is a way of communion- that is what sannyas is all about. Getting in tune with someone who has already become silent make you silent.
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Picture courtesy Osho Nisarga, Dharamshala Swami Chaitanya Keerti Last month, I facilitated the Neo Zen retreat at Osho Nisarga in Dharamshala. On the last day of the retreat, a sincere seeker, Tomas Andrade from New Zealand took sannyas initiation and as he had asked for a new name, he was given the name: Swami Dhyan […]
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Man lives in anguish—with a certain deep feeling of becoming something. As he is he feels that he is incomplete. This feeling is the root-cause of all our misery.
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“I’m one of those people who just want to make everybody’s day. I love humanity! Each man’s joy is joy to me! ” says Martha Beck on Oprah.com Yes, most of us think in this way that we can make everybody around us happy, also we can make the whole humanity happy. This kind of thinking […]
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We seem to have spent our life fixing others. Now Sakshibhav Meditation brings us to our own Self. When we live in the present moment we are connected to our reservoir of infinite happiness that is not out there but in the stillness of our unwavering mind. All we are seeking is the sought! We […]
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You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word Majnu means mad, mad for god. And Laila is the symbol of god. Sufis think of god as the beloved; Laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu,