If you are too engaged with your intellect, you will not find time to be engaged with your total being. If you are too much in your head you will miss much that is available. The way can be known only if you deeply participate with existence. It cannot be understood from the outside, you have to become a participant.
Osho
Osho, one of the best-known and most provocative spiritual teachers of our time, presents The Sutra of 42 Chapters—a scripture compiled in the first century C.E by a Chinese emperor. Using wonderful anecdotes throughout, Osho weaves his own unique insights into this profound ancient wisdom and expands its meaning for our time. As we travel with the Buddha on a path of radical wisdom, we’ll laugh or shake our heads at the folly, the ineptitude, or the goodness of the characters in the stories—and gain knowledge and understanding at the same time. Osho engages us at every level to help us experience the Buddha’s teachings and take in their timeless truths. A powerful, inspirational gem of a book.
( Recommended by Mr Maharajah)
A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, “Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game.” The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety. Gallwey’s revolutionary thinking, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, was really a primer on how to get out of your own way to let your best game emerge. It was sports psychology before the two words were pressed against each other and codified into an accepted discipline.
The new edition of this remarkable work–Billie Jean King called the original her tennis bible–refines Gallwey’s theories on concentration, gamesmanship, breaking bad habits, learning to trust yourself on the court, and awareness. “No matter what a person’s complaint when he has a lesson with me, I have found the most beneficial first step,” he stressed, “is to encourage him to see and feel what he is doing–that is, to increase his awareness of what actually is.”
You possess only that which you can give.
Only by giving do you become the possessor. If you cannot give, then you are not in possession, you are not the master.
Then the thing that you think you possess, is possessing you. Then you are possessed by your possession.
– Osho
“`We are often our own prisoner, We limit ourselves and give in to things that don’t align with who we truly are, out of fear.
We fear abondoning our past because we have invested so much in It. We fear disappointing others and we end up disappointing ourselves.
We lie to ourselves so we can continue to believe in the illusion that satisfaction comes from external things. We build a comfort zone outside of ourselves and neglect our inner space.
We fear sitting alone in silence and listening to ourselves, because we can’t stand hearing the non sense we have repeated over the years,
But we know better now, we have enough hindsight to see that the surest investment is self knowledge and inner stability that is independant of the exterior world,
In crazy times like ours, meditation, presence and introspection are the key to embracing the exponentially changing world,
Wishing you all courage and awareness.
( Contributed by Mr. Balasunder )
ONE TUSK 