Spirituality
Powerful Conversation with Thich Nhat Hanh
BISMILLAH!
BISMILLAH!
It’s a habit of yours to walk slowly.
You hold a grudge for years.
With such heaviness, how can you be modest?
With such attachments, do you expect to arrive anywhere?
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Is there anybody else up there who can help me?”
There was a man hanging from a cliff two thousand feet above the valley floor. The terrified man looked to the top of the cliff and screamed, “Is there anyone up there who can help me?” Continue reading
Thought for the Week – 6th July 2015
“Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.”
Anthony de Mello
Change will happen, you will not have to bring it about.
Come home to yourself
Observe yourself. That’s why I said earlier that self-observation is such a delightful and extraordinary thing. After a while you don’t have to make any effort, because, as illusions begin to crumble, you begin to know things that cannot be described. It’s called happiness. Everything changes and you become addicted to awareness.
There’s the story of the disciple who went to the master and said, “Could you give me a word of wisdom? Could you tell me something that would guide me through my days?” It was the master’s day of silence, so he picked up a pad. It said, “Awareness.” When the disciple saw it, he said, “This is too brief. Can you expand on it a bit?” So the master took back the pad and wrote, “Awareness, awareness, awareness.” The disciple said, “Yes, but what does it mean?” The master took back the pad and wrote, “Awareness, awareness, awareness means — awareness.”That’s what it is to watch yourself. No one can show you how to do it, because he would be giving you a technique, he would be programming you. But watch yourself. When you talk to someone, are you aware of it or are you simply identifying with it? When you got angry with somebody, were you aware that you were angry or were you simply identifying with your anger? Later, when you had the time, did you study your experience and attempt to understand it? Where did it come from? What brought it on? I don’t know of any other way to awareness. You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You don’t change. But when you understand it, it changes.
– Anthony de Mello
The problem is that we’re focused on problems rather than tapping into our courage!
We’ve been taught that thinking about our problems and examining them from every angle will help us change our habits and create more fulfilling lives, but we can get just as stuck in the nightmare by thinking too much as we do by doing too much. One hundred years after Sigmund Freud introduced the world to psychoanalysis, we’ve built a common vocabulary to help us understand and talk about every one of our concerns, big or small. 
While it’s great that we’re more self-aware than we used to be, the so-called talking cure hasn’t actually cured us of our fear . . . nor has it shown us how to live a life of courage……..
While it’s great that we’re more self-aware than we used to be, the so-called talking cure hasn’t actually cured us of our fear . . . nor has it shown us how to live a life of courage……..Your trust must be total – even the smallest hole in it will sink the boat.
Religion lives on Trust, just as Science thrives on Doubt.
If there is a predominance of religion in the world, it is difficult for science to thrive, very difficult, because the two are based on very different fundamentals. But if your trust is total and you have no doubt inside, then there is no law in this world that your trust cannot vanquish. And there is nothing in this world that your trust cannot make possible. But your trust must be total – even the smallest hole in it will sink the boat.
– Osho from ‘The Voice of Silence’
Everyone who has come into my life has been and is my teacher
I have learnt that life keeps bringing the same lessons to us again and again until we finally learn from them and move on.
ONE TUSK 