Amrit Sadhana
Guilt trap of happiness
Everybody wants to be happy, but the moment happiness arises it is shadowed by guilt. It is a common experience, maybe not so overt, but covertly guilt creeps in with the feeling of happiness. So people try to hide it. They are almost embarrassed that in the world full of misery they dare to be happy. They miss the ecstasy that happiness brings along with it.
The key to a free mind
Mantras have been very popular in the spiritual world. Maybe because mantra is one of the easiest form of meditation.
The game’s not about the goal
Why do people play sports? Is it a diversion from the drudgery of life, a recreation or a pleasant pastime? Maybe all of that. Originally sport stemmed from the natural urge to express the body and enjoy its agility. But this playful activity now has become so competitive that it creates more stress than it recreates. That is because the goal has become more important than the actual play. This is true not only of sports but the whole fabric of modern life.
Basically, education that is imparted is goal-oriented; it injects poisons like competition and ambition into children, so when they grow up they are completely programmed to fight and win and never lose.
Silence and solitude
In the life of contemporary urban human beings you will find two fundamental and valuable ingredients missing: silence and solitude.
Laugh as you live
If you ask me when did I have a good laugh the last time, I would say, “a few minutes ago”. It is no joke, I mean really, factually. For people who practise Osho meditations, laughter is a part of their lifestyle. They laugh very easily, frequently and totally.
If in love, coo
The season of celebrating love is around the corner. The air is charged with romance and romantic expectations; red roses, pink hearts and all kinds of pretty gifts flood the market.
Answer lies in problem
Some people are good at creating problems out of nothing. More often than not it is their attitude towards things that make them look like problems. Simple things like a leaking water tap or the fused light bulb, or an unironed dress seem to be big problems for them. Life becomes very stressful if we look at these day-to-day incidents as problems. The mind lives in labels, and the moment we label something as negative, the mind doesn’t want to look at it. The brain enters a deadlock. We are bogged down by fear and worry and our thinking goes into a negative mode. Life seems to be full of hurdles.
Is your glass clean?
While browsing the Internet I came across an enlightening story. A young couple moves into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbour hanging the wash outside.
“That laundry is not very clean,” she said. “She doesn’t know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.”
Resolution 2012
The New Year has begun with celebrations, as usual. Isn’t it funny?
Carve your own religion
One of the radical contentions of Osho is that man cannot be born in a religion, a religion has to be born in man. Certainly Osho is not talking about the established religions because everyone is born in some religion or the other but religions that are reduced to cults have harmed the humanity so much, it’s time to drop them and graduate to a more refined quality of consciousness, which is “religiousness”. This religiousness doesn’t have a label, it is individual, intensely intimate; in fact it is like a love affair. Your own religion is born in you when your inner being goes through the agony, the fire of finding its own unique individuality.
