Saturday, December 31, 2011

Keep life in balance, avoid the extremes

Always remember: life is never unjust. If it looks unjust then you must have done something wrong. Somewhere you must have gone beyond the balance; then life seems to be unjust. And whenever you feel the unjustice it is better to look at yourself; you have done something wrong and you have been punished.

Accomplish but claim no credit


"You cannot defeat me because I don't want to be victorious at all".
Lao Tzu

Accomplish, but claim no credit or fame.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Playing

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Harmony


The whole universe is an interdependence. You depend on the whole, and not only that, the whole depends on you.

Never pass by a being (person, tree, bird, anything) without saying hello in your heart. It costs nothing. But it means a lot.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Walls are not meaningful


You live in a house, and your concept of the house is the walls. But walls are not the house, how can you live in the walls? You live in the emptiness, not in the walls. The hollowness - that is the real house. If you look at the real house, then there is no difference between a hut and a palace, since all hollownesses are the same; but there are rich walls and poor walls.

When you look at a person do you look at the body? Then you are looking at the walls. That is not the real person - the real person is the inner hollowness. Look at the inner, don’t look at the outer. All ego is just on the surface. The inner is pure.

All achievements are of the ego


Once it happened: a saint knocked at the doors of Heaven, and at the same time, just by his side, a sinner knocked too. And the saint knew the sinner very well. He had lived in his neighborhood, in the same town, and they had died on the same day.



The doors opened. The gatekeeper, St. Peter, didn’t give even a look to the saint. He welcomed the sinner. The saint was offended. This was not expected, that a sinner should be welcomed. He asked St. Peter, ”What is the matter? You offend me. You insult me. Why am I not received when the sinner has been received with such welcome?”

Said St. Peter, ”That’s why. You expect. He does not expect. He simply feels grateful that he has come to Heaven. You feel that you have earned it. He feels the grace of God; you think it is because of your efforts that you have achieved it. It is an achievement to you, and all achievements are of the ego. He is humble. He cannot believe that he has come to heaven.”

Saturday, December 24, 2011

The Closest Distance

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”
Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)

Laughter drops your ego

Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Meaning of life

 Life is not a chaos, it is a meaningful cosmos.

Choiceless

You always choose: you choose to be beautiful and ugliness becomes your shadow; you choose to be a saint and sin becomes your shadow. Choose – and you will be in difficulty, because the very choice has divided life. Don’t choose, be choiceless, create a harmony, let life flow in its own beauty.

Be simple, don't create opposites

When the people of the earth all know beauty as beauty, there arises ugliness.
When the people of the earth all know the good as good, there arises evil.

The moment you create a God, immediately you create a devil.

The world will be beautiful when people have forgotten about beauty, because then there will be no ugliness. The world will be moral when people have completely forgotten the word ”moral,” because then there will be no immorality. The world will be in order when there is nobody to enforce it, nobody who is trying to create order. All those who try to create order are the mischief-makers – they create disorder.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

You are the same wherever

No matter where you go, there you are.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Love's misery


The phenomenon of love - you come closer and closer and closer, but even in closeness there is a distance. That is the misery of all lovers.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Lotus Flower

A lotus flower grows from mud, but yet, it is of pure white; the mud or the water never touches its petals.
 Living in the world, but remaining untouched by it, unaffected.

Perfect Evening


Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain -
A perfect evening!


Grace

Grace is an effortless beauty.

Natural

Those who understand always act naturally.

Happy

When you’re happy, don’t ask why - there is no why.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Enjoy the mystery of life

Don’t be serious, take life as fun, as joy. Enjoy it, love it, live it, but don’t make a problem out of it. It is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Constant change

Permanence should not rule your mind, it should not be a value; otherwise, you will never be able to move towards existence. Enjoy a thing while it is there. When it is no longer there, forgive and forget and move on. That's how one grows.

In The Name of Thy Lord

Can you feel that the whole existence says to you: "Recite in the name of Thy Lord"?!

Betrayal

Tradition is a betrayal of life. Life is always new, always changing. "Tradition" is keeping you into the past, an outsider of "now".

Beautiful

When you have no complaint, suddenly everything is beautiful.

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Tea

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. - Japanese Proverb