“The purpose of having a long life is not just for our own happiness. The purpose of life, every day, every hour, every minute, every second, is to be useful for others, to be beneficial for others, to cause happiness for numberless other sentient beings. Those who are suffering, who need your help and support, who need your compassion, who need your loving kindness, are numberless. Whether it is one sentient being or many, the meaning of life every day is to make our lives beneficial for them. That is the purpose of living.”
After death, our mind doesn’t come to a complete stop – like water drying up or a flame going out. There is continuity. Just as wherever the body goes, the shadow comes along with it – similarly, wherever our mind goes, our karma comes along too. You must have an unshakably firm belief in this.
Modern life is on the fast drive. The sad thing is, it’s not really more efficient just because of that. Everybody’s running, running, running. It’s like those rodents on a wheel. You’re just endlessly scrambling, scrambling, scrambling, until you fall off, completely exhausted or dead, and you haven’t gotten anywhere. Not really. This is why big organizations like Google and so forth sponsor mindfulness retreats for their employees. It’s not for the sake of the liberation of those poor employees – it’s to keep them from burning out and reduce their stress levels while they’re still on the wheel. We should think about this.During the day, just step back, relax, take a few deep breaths and bring yourself back into the present moment. For each one of us, only we can bring more awareness and clarity into our lives. It’s up to us. No one can do it for us. This doesn’t take time. It just takes attention, awareness, and being more conscious. When we do this, things get done just the same. Yet at the end of it all, you feel that sense of spaciousness, instead of feeling claustrophobic and exhausted. This is the training. We have to train the mind.
As the Buddha said, “Let the wise man tame his mind. A well-tamed mind brings happiness.” So why not have a happy mind?
Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence. Osho
“Many people cannot allow themselves the time to sit and do nothing but breathe. They consider it to be uneconomical or a luxury. People say “time is money.” But time is much more than money. Time is life. The simple practice of sitting quietly on a regular basis can be profoundly healing. Stopping and sitting is a good way to focus on mindful breathing and nothing else.”
The only way is to enjoy your life. Even though you are practicing zazen, counting your breath like a snail, you can enjoy your life, maybe much better than making a trip to the moon. That is why we practice zazen. The kind of life you have is not so important. The most important thing is to be able to enjoy your life without being fooled by things.
This body is not me, I am not limited by this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born, and I have never died.
Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, manifestations from my wondrous mind.
Since before time, I have been free. Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey. Birth and death are a game of hide and seek.
So laugh with me, hold my hand, let us say goodbye, say goodbye to meet again soon. We meet today. We will meet again tomorrow. We will meet at the source every moment. We meet each other in all forms of life.
Life on the practical level does not contain any subtle philosophy or subtle mystical experience. It just is. If we are able to see that isness, so to speak, then there is a sense of realization. We experience sudden enlightenment. Without a sense of hopelessness, there is no way to give birth to sudden enlightenment. Only giving up our projects brings about the ultimate, definite, positive state of being, which is the realization that we are already enlightened beings here and now.
Sadhguru reminds us that time is running out for all of us, and that what really matters at the end of our life is whether we lived an enhanced life. This is why it is important that we invest the time to know and live a life beyond thought and emotion.
The only way is to enjoy your life. Even though you are practicing zazen, counting your breath like a snail, you can enjoy your life, maybe much better than making a trip to the moon. That is why we practice zazen. The kind of life you have is not so important. The most important thing is to be able to enjoy your life without being fooled by things.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
– Alan Watts
from the book “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”
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