Number of words – 156 What exactly are the conscious experiences that constitute the flow of the mind? Every subjective experience has two fundamental characteristics: sensation and desire. Robots and computers have no consciousness because despite their myriad abilities they feel nothing and crave nothing. A robot may have an energy sensor that signals to … Read more
Number of words – 74 However, one core emotion is apparently shared by all mammals: the mother–infant bond. Indeed, it gives mammals their name. The word ‘mammal’ comes from the Latin mamma, meaning breast. Mammal mothers love their offspring so much that they allow them to suckle from their body. Mammal youngsters, on their side, … Read more
Number of words – 134 India is introverted a feminine country. It is like a womb, very protective. But if a child remains in the womb forever, the womb will become the grave. The child has to move out from the mother’s womb, otherwise the mother will kill the child inside. He has to escape … Read more
Number of words – 156 Zen means the same as dhyan. And Zen is a Japanese change of this word. Dhyan is the whole effort of Indian consciousness and means to be so alone, so into your own being, that not even a single thought exists. In fact in English there is no direct translation … Read more
Number of words – 261 The seed is an introversion. Try to understand the phenomenon of the seed. A seed is an introverted phenomena. It is centripetal. The energy is moving inward. That’s why it is a seed. Closed from the outer world completely. In fact a seed is the loneliest, most isolated thing in … Read more
Number of words – 83 And Budhidharma said, “Sit down here in the courtyard of the temple. There is no person around. Close your eyes as you are sitting in front of me with my staff. You’ve got to catch hold of the mind. Just close your eyes and go inside looking for it. Find … Read more
Number of words – 96 If you look at Japanese and Chinese paintings of Buddha, they don’t look like the Indian Buddha. They have changed him totally. If you look at Indian paintings of Buddha, his body is proportionate. It’s proportion as it should be. He was a Prince. Buddha was a beautiful man. Perfectly … Read more
Number of words – 46 Mulla Nasruddin’s wife said to him, “You don’t love me as much as you loved me before, when you were courting me.” Nasruddin said, “Darling don’t pay much attention to those things. It was just campaign propaganda. Excerpted from ‘Zen: It’s History & Teaching’ by Osho
Number of words – 275 Remember, the first thing a child has to do when he is born is to breath in and last thing a man does when he dies is to breath out. Life begins with breathing in and death begins with breathing out. Each moment when your breathe in you are reborn; … Read more
Number of words – 47 One of the famous German thinkers, Count Kesselring, has written that health is irreligious. Illness has a religiousness about it, because an ill person is sad. Desireless not because he has become desireless, but because he is weak. Excerpted from ‘Zen: It’s History & Teaching’ by Osho
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