Franz Kafka and the Doll

I came across this short, feel good, story recently, and it captures so many elements of life that reflect about relationships to the world and each other…

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.

Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.

The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”

Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.

“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: “my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.

A year later Kafka died.

Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written: “Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”

Listening

Listening

The art of living,

When some song's becomes popular, it's soothening music behind and people listen for ages. A common man listen only few instruments which sounds loud. But there are bunch of small instruments which is creating more beauty that we cannot listen. And the real artist is listening the peace between two musical notes. If that peace is not proper then music will become headache. The space between the musical notes are to decorate the musical notes. One has to develop the skills to listen.

The day we start listening we will listen the voices of our closed ones who are peacefully crying or some time shouting, or sometime the dry eyes sharing the pain. But we cannot decode that what they want to say. Just because we can  listen the louder notes or instruments. We should learn when someone is crying or shouting, what they want to say. Both are feelings, the person is trying to say something but cannot find words for it. That come out in form of shouts or tears or just silent gestures. Words are very limited, when  the urge becomes heavy, words cannot express it. Words are just essential for commerece. 

Being peace one can listen those spaces in music, one can listen those untold words. When we learn to catch the gap between two musical notes the real music begins. 

The power of smile

 

She was sent to buy a Loaf of Bread, but She brought the Bakery home: Her Uncle who was coming back from School saw her and took a picture and video of this Girl carrying a Loaf of Albany Bread She bought while She was running home in the mud. He captured the genuine and innocent happiness on her face. The picture went viral. People said it’s the kind of picture they would like to associate with the Bread. Soon after, the picture is all over on billboards and trucks of Albany. Albany recognised Lethukukhanya Mjaji, the beautiful 5 years old Girl that warmed South Africans with her radiant genuine smile. People requested that Albany put up a billboard with this beautiful picture. Albany responded by making physical contact with the parents. The little Girl has gotten a full education bursary till She graduates, and the single Mother has gotten a new house. The little Girl remains an Albany Bread brand ambassador for a while. A smile can work wonders in so many ways.

Smile is like H2O and Sadness is like H2O2. Just small difference of one atom wrongly connected in chain. H2O gives life while H2O2 take off the life. Be aware, no matter what circumstances around you, keep smiling.

The smallest and easiest Yoga I would like to give - 😊SMILE FOR A MILE😊. Go for a walk or sit down at place but just be aware the smile should not go away. The smile will change the chemical reactions in body. Even if you loose your legs, don't beg for it. Show your beautiful hands and how beautifully they can paint. No matter if you loose your eyes, don't beg for it. Let them listen your voice, how beautiful you can sing.

I am sharing my smile with you, you too share with someone 😊.

Dear Heart

We heard brain dead, the brain is not functioning but person is alive. We  never heard heart dead. So in real life brain is taking the charge of which he is not suppose to do. Brain is design to do mathemetical and rational decisions. But brain takes the charge of everything over the time. Why people miss the childhood? Child don't use brain, everything come out heartily. Child looks at the butterfly and be happy, he can cherish the moments of singing birds. An adult keep crying, can't see the butterfly now, can't listen the songs of birds. As much as we grow our life becomes mechanical. We can say a robot. Mind creates the malfunctioning in life. 

All other body parts like hands, legs, eyes keep doing their work without taking charge of others. Hands never try to take the charge of legs. The mind is dominating part, might be suffering from inferiority complex. Mind knows that heart is keeping him alive, so trying to potrait himself superior. While heart is submissive and living surrendered life, he knows it's value. Heart doesn't need to shout, he knows once he will stop functioning life will end. So he prefers to keep his task silently. We all know mind needs a break, always need to sleep and take rest. But not heart.

This is not the condemnation of mind. Both are equal when doing their own duties. We have to be concious and should not allow to take charge of someone who is submissive. 

Apply that in real life too. We all are different kind of body organs, and our planet is one body in the universe. We have different roles, somone might be mind and someone might be heart. When we value the success of mind in society, we are killing the heart indirectly. People who are submissive are full of heart and keep doing their work silently, so called minded people don't mind the take the advantages. But they miss that, they are killing the life. Not only humans, the rivers, the forests, the trees, the flowers all who are pumping the life on planet.

Raise your hands not to pamper them but to save them, there is no life for heart dead.

The girl - part1

Most male comenting on girl driving and pointing fingers on her driving sense. No one raise his hand to overcome from the issue. For that one should find the roots of the issue, that can only help to imporve.

A girl in childhood or teenage is  pampered by family. Not to play out, not to go out, not to drive cycle. No physical activites no mental activities. On other hand a boy is roaming out, driving cycle on streets. Childhood is the training center of human life, what he learn in childhood that remains with humans over the life. 

Romaing out is developing confidence in boys. While boys driving cycle their body and mind balanced to drive in better way. The more practice you do, more better you perform. Most girls get their personal vehicle in certain conditions like no one available to drop, taxi fair is expensive etc. That has also certain restrictions college to home or office to home. Even in young age no outing by road. And boys are hitting the road every now and then. 

How a primary student will compete the graduate?

There is no reason to laugh at them. Be with them and help them to improve. Boys might not be good at chopping vegetables or cooking, but they take their stand as it's not boys job. But that is not the fact, it's just they are not trained to do that.

Running the campaigns of female empowerment will not help, real heroes will make the change, help the women to stand alone.

Don't follow me, I am not leading you

Don't lead me, I am not following you

Don't walk beside me, I am not the companion

Just walk with me.

Longest travel of million miles will start from the small step, don't expect to change the world, be the small change first.

😊

Living today is the peace..

Most people have one common idea, make lot of money and get retired before hair turned to gray and having nice farmhouse and watch sunrise peacefully. But they all excuse, just let me complete this thing only.... that never happen and at last 'Rest In Peace'. Basically everyone is hunting peace.

जितना भी ट्राई करो, जिंदगी में कुछ ना कुछ तो छूटेगा ही...

We eat some rotten food mistakenly, we immedidately spit it out. Here we all know what we are holding is stinking making us uncomfortable but we cannot drop it. That is all game of our fear, and fearful person cannot meet the god, cannot attain the peace, cannot love.

प्यार करेगी क्या डरने वाली

मेरी बनेगी कोई हिम्मत वाली

I am neither preaching nor insisting anyone to drop the job. But to drop the idea of living desired life tomorrow. Tomorrow never arrives, whenever it does - it is today. 

Use this simple formula, wake up with beautiful smile and tell yourself,  "it's last day. I will smile". Meet everyone with gratitude, let the tears roll down. Yes, when the heart is full of gratitude eyes will be rolling tears for sure. Thirst for the peace cannot be quenched by any means, rather just being peace.

Breathe & Smile

Dear friend,

Remember, peace here doesn't mean to sit like statue. The word peace is like cardboard, tasteless. 

Being peace is to live in this moment. No strings connected to past or future. Drop the past means, just don't get over burdened and remain stressed. Drop future doesn't mean we will not buy the ticket for tomorrow, but we should not board the train mentally today. 

Live in the moment is very simple but small practices.

Like when we take a bite of roti from dish, watch peacefully like slow motion. From dish to roti touch the lips. Then chew it with smile, enjoy the chewing and we can feel the juices in the mouth. 

Like when we shower, feel each drop of water dropping on body. Each body part should be touched and reamin full of gratitude. Even while cleaning the body, towel should be touched gentaly. Hang the towel with such gratitude, as that helped us. Put on the clothes mindfully and be thankful to them too. That should not become habit, but every moement should be mindful.

Like when we walk, walk peacefully. When bottom of the feet touch the ground feel it. While drinking water, feel every gulp going inside. While sitting be mindful that body is sitting and feel it. While talking be mindful, smile and speak to maintain the energy. 

That awareness should be every moment, but shouldn't drop the idea if missing that so frequently. Like we fall down in mud we get up and clean ourself and keep walking. Same way, every moment we will drop it, but whenever we realise just breathe and smile.

Defintely everyone think they breathe and smile. But that is robotic. Breathe in should be slow, long and deep. Even breathe out should be slow and mindful. 

There is much more to share but words will be same like cardboard, tasteless. For each word I have to write 'means' and those means having their own 'means'. Sitting like statue is hazardous, sit mindfully. For each word we need to explain, that is why all failed and misinterpreted. Though when someone explore the taste, try to narrate.....

I shared with someone, that person tried an hour and shared there is no peace. Miss the concept, mindfull breathing should be itself joyous, don't entagle mind in peace of FUTURE. Mindful breathing means show gratitude to the nature, to the cosmos that you are still alive.

Breathe and Smile

Life

A common man need constant change otherwise he will get bored of life.

Buddha or Krishna who found the oneness of everything, realise that everything is temporary and in constant change.

To make the environment happy around, Krishna has to play the role of Joker. 

That’s why Krishna was doing Leela.

Water is to drink

Food is to eat

Air is to breathe

&

Life is to live.

All philosophy we read or listen might help to ignite but life is beyond the books and thoughts. 

Simple way, when we search the destination path on google map, the first thing asked to enter “Your Location “.  There are thousands of way to reach at any location. But important is our current location.

Exactly that way, we have to accept where we are. Then the path will be helpful. We also have to understand that what we read is the finger pointing somewhere by Krishna. It is not the path itself.

Radhe Radhe

Patience

When we think now patience is over and react to the actions by others, we are overburdened by the past. The person living every moment, don't have memory of past, so will never loose patience.

If we are holding our anger just because of teachings about anger then it is very dangerous. Approaching in scientific way, if anger is bad and we are holding it inside then it is same like we feel vomiting but holding inside instead of spitting out. Constant efforts of holding agner can cause cancer.

When we vomit we try to avoid such food, which cause the vomiting. That will help us to avoid such incident. Same we have to find the cause of the anger, that will help us to be peace. In root cause of all anger there is something happened which we don't like. Now make the list of things which we don't like and we do it or we have to pass through it, we have no choice to alter such things.

Like, we are not the richest person on the planet, we would like to be but we cannot and live the whole life with consolation or compromise. Like we don't want to be sick, but we do. We would like to wake up early but we cannot. We would like to stand first in schools, colleges, everywhere, but we cannot. 

We would like to sleep whole day but we cannot. We would like take a break and sit on mountains, on seashores for hours and hous but we cannot. We don't like to do mistakes, but we do over the life. 

We never learn that things are not under our control, even for ourselves. Then how we can control others to do as we want.

Living every moment, accepting as what happened is the key to peace. Patience is  just outcome of the whole process.

hapiness is just acceptance of presence...

Osho Says: "It is said that a French prince visited a jail. In honor of the royal guest, the prison warden offered to release any prisoner the prince might designate. T

o pick out that prisoner, the prince began interviewing each of the men privately, asking, "Why are you here?" "I'm innocent, my lord!" cried one. "I've been framed!" pleaded another. Perjury, prejudice, injustice and oppression were reasons given by the convicts for their being in prison.

Only one man told a different story. "Your highness," he replied, "I deserve to be here and I have no complaint. In my time I have been a wicked, desperate murderer. It is a great mercy, both to society and to myself, that I am here."

"You wicked wretch!" the prince replied. "What a pity you should be confined among so many honest citizens. You admit yourself that you are evil enough to corrupt them all. I can't allow you to remain in their company another day. Guard! This is the man I wish released!"

Once you accept the reality, you are relieved, released; the prison exists no more. So don't try to be humble! Just know that ego arises. What can you do? You are not creating it. It is just like when a wave moves: in the wake another wave follows it upside-down -- that is the wake. It is natural.

When there arises a big mountain, a valley follows it. The valley is nothing but the mountain upside-down. It is part of it. When you move, in the wake your shadow, your valley, follows. You simply accept it!

Mountains are not crying tears that 'why do valleys exist?' And neither are waves worried. The very idea that you have to get rid of the ego is wrong. Drop that very idea! When ego arises, simply note the fact that the shadow is falling -- and remember not to get identified with it; remember that you are separate. This is enough.

And the true humbleness is born out of this realization. It is not an effort against the ego that brings humbleness. If you fight the ego, it can bring you a certain type of humbleness -- but then there will be another ego arising and that will be the ego of the humble person.

The pious ego: "I am the most humble person in the world. Nobody is humble in comparison to me. I am at the top." Again the ego has arisen. Ego will always arise whatsoever you do.

Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is awareness, watchfulness. The only thing that is not part of the world of action is pure awareness.

No shadow is created by pure awareness. It is so pure that light can pass through it -- it is transparent and no shadow is created. Shadow is created by solid things. The more solid a thing is, the more shadow it creates. Your body creates a shadow; your mind also creates a shadow -- the ego is the shadow of the mind.

If you become more aware, if you simply watch the mind, its functioning, its mechanism, then you are moving beyond the mind. You become just pure awareness, transparent. Then there is no shadow. So just laugh at it. And if it tries to seduce you, have a good laugh! at your own absurdities. But don't become a warrior and don't start fighting with it."

gOOD bAD

iN gENERAL aT fIRST gLANCE tO tHE pAINTING, dEPICTS sOME pERVISION. nOW rEAD tHE sTORY bEHIND,

tHE mAN wAS sETENCED lIFE tIME iMPRISONMENT bECAUSE hE wAS cAUGHT fOR sTEALING a lOAF oF a bREAD, aND lEFT iN jAIL tO dIE wITH sTARVATION . oNLY hIS dAUGHTER wAS aLLOWED tO vISIT hIM iN jAIL. sHE wAS nOT aLLOWED tO cARRY aNYTHING iNSIDE. sHE sTARTED fEEDING hER fATHER sECRETLY. tHE mAN sURVIVED fOR lONG tIME sO aUTHORITIES fIND tHE fACTS. tHE aUTHORITIES fOUND  tHE aCT oF dAUGHTER fULL oF cOMPASSION aND rELIVE tHE mAN.

nOW pERVISION fROM tHE mIND iS cLEARED aND sTARTED tHINKING cOMPASSION. jUST cOME oUT oF hABIT oF jUDGING gOOD bAD.

sUGAR cAN kILL sOMEONE - dIABATIC

vENOM cAN sAVE lIFE - vACCINE

sUGAR cAN sAVE  lIFE wHEN  sOMEONE iS dYING dUE tO sTARVATION

vENON cAN kILL sOMEONE wHEN iNJECTED bY kOBRA

sTOP jUDGING, sTOP  pREJUDICING

sUGAR hELPED yOU oVER tHE lIFE, aLL sUDDEN yOU fOUND dIBATIC aND sUGAR bECOMES eNVY.  wHOLE lIFE wE hATE sNAKES, bUT sNAKE cAN gIVE uS lIFE sAVING vACCINES. gOOD bAD aRE oUR iLLISIONS wE cREATED sINCE cHILDHOOD. oUR dEFINITION oF gOOD bAD dEPENDS hOW wE aRE nUTURED bY fAMILY aND sURROUNDINGS. tHAT aLL oUR hABITS, nOTHING nEW.

lIFE iS iNFINITY, aLWAYS fRESH, aLWAYS nEW. gET rEADY TO tRY nEW tHINGS eVERY mOMENT, aT mAX yOU wILL dIE. bUT lIFE iS bEYOND aLL 

"UBUNTU: I Am Because We Are.

An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats.

When he asked them why they had run like that when one could have had all the fruits for himself, they said, 'UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?' ('UBUNTU' in the african culture means: We Are Defined By Our Compassion And Kindness Towards Others,I Am Because We Are.)

Being simple....

“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from the heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds – you will reap all of the days' golden grains. Eat more green – you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little – and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.”

Saint Seraphim of Sarov

Nature is talking to you, are you listening?

The desire...

There is a beautiful story, a great parable in the Upanishads:

One of the great kings, Yayati, was dying. He was a hundred years old, ripe enough to die — one should be ready by that time — but not grown-up enough; the seed of renewing life was not yet burnt. So when death came, Yayati fell at the feet of Death — a great king, a great conqueror! — and he said to Death, “Spare me only one hundred years more. I don’t ask for more, just one hundred years more. And it is nothing for you, you can do it. All my desires are still unfulfilled because I had never thought about you. I was simply preparing and preparing. I have not enjoyed my life. Now that everything is ready — I have conquered the whole world, I have all the riches, the most beautiful women, the most intelligent and courageous sons, the best army in the world, everything is settled, all enemies killed — I was just thinking to relax and enjoy. Is this the time to come? All these hundred years have been spent simply in preparing for these moments. Spare me just one hundred years more so that I can live to my heart's content.”

Death laughed and said, “I am ready to spare one hundred years more to you, but I will have to take one of your sons because I have to go with somebody who resembles you; if not you, at least one of your sons. I can’t go empty-handed, I have to give the account to my boss himself. He will ask, ‘Where is Yayati?’ What am I going to say? Such a thing has never been done before, but I feel sorry for you. Just ask one of your sons.”

Yayati had a hundred sons; he must have had a hundred wives too. He asked his sons. The oldest was eighty, but he started looking downwards, was not ready to say yes. Why should he? He had lived only eighty years; if his father is not contented with a hundred years, how can he be contented with only eighty years? At least twenty years more he is entitled to live. In those days, the story says, people used to live a hundred years. Why should he die a premature death, an untimely death? And this old fellow has lived enough! He did not want to hurt the old man so he didn’t say anything, he kept quiet.

The father was very much shocked; he used to think that his sons were ready to sacrifice themselves. But in this world nobody is ready to sacrifice himself for anybody else. He looked around. His sons also started looking at each other, meaning “Why don’t YOU go?”

The youngest, who was only twenty years old, stood up and he said, “I am ready. Take me with you, I am coming with you.”

Even Death felt sorry for the boy. Death came close to the young man and said, “Are you a fool or something? Your other brothers — one is eighty, one is seventy-five, one is seventy, sixty, sixty-five, fifty — these people are not ready to go and you are the youngest, you have not lived at all. Why are you ready to go?”

The young man said, “If my father could not live in a hundred years, if my eldest brother could not live in eighty years, if my other brothers… nobody has been able to live, then the whole project is nonsense. I don’t want to waste time. If I have to die it is better to die now. Why wait for eighty years? If THESE people have not been able to manage, it is absolutely certain it is unmanageable. And let my father try a hundred years more.”

Death tried to convince him, but he wouldn’t listen. Death had to take him away.

After a hundred years, Death came back and the situation was the same. Again Yayati fell at his feet and started crying and weeping and he said, “I know that now I should be ready, but nothing is fulfilled yet; all the desires are the same. I have LIVED all the desires, I cannot say that I have not lived them, but nothing is fulfilled. I want more! Now that I have lived a hundred years a new desire has arisen — I want more! I want to live at least one time more, a hundred years more, just one time more.”

And this went on happening again and again. When Yayati became one thousand years old and Death came, he was just going to fall at his feet. Death said, “Wait — enough is enough! Can’t you see the point, Yayati? Are you so blind? You have lived one thousand years, and you have been doing the same things again and again. You have done nothing new in these one thousand years, and still you want more? Can’t you see the simple point that mind lives in the more, it goes on asking for more? There is no end to it. Now you come with me — I am not going to listen anymore. Now even my boss is feeling angry with me. He says, ‘This is too much! This man has been given too much time.’ But I also wanted to try — let us see what you can make out of one thousand years. You have not made any progress, you are exactly in the same place, going in circles.”

Prayer....

Jesus says if you go to the temple to pray and you remember that you have hurt somebody, insulted somebody, that you are angry at somebody or if you have angered somebody, first go and ask to be forgiven, only then come to pray; otherwise, you will not be able to relate with God. First go and apologize. First clear things.

It happened when Michelangelo was working in the Sistine Chapel... He was making a painting of Jesus. The painting was almost complete – just the last finishing touches – but he was finding those last finishing touches very difficult. Jesus was not coming out Jesus-like; something was missing in Jesus’ face – that softness, that feminineness was not there, that love quality was not there. He tried and tried for days, and then he remembered that he had quarreled with a friend and he was carrying it in himself.

And then he remembered the saying of Jesus, that if you go to pray and you are not feeling good about a friend or a brother, then first go and ask forgiveness. He rushed out of the chapel, went to the friend, asked his forgiveness and told the whole story. ’For days together I have been working, but I cannot bring out Jesus’ face as it should be. Something angry remains in it’ – because something was angry inside him.

If there is anger and hard feeling and you are going to paint, your hands will paint, your painting will represent you, your painting will basically reflect you. And the day he asked forgiveness and was forgiven, he came into a totally different mood. And just a few minutes’ work, and the painting was complete. And it is one of the most beautiful paintings of Jesus. Just a few strokes and the painting came alive and Jesus surfaced, because now Michelangelo’s heart was in tune.

When such experience happend we should be more open to the universe. I cannot copy any of my paintings. I tried sometime, but that never worked. I don't know the color theory or I know nothing, though all painitings just happened. Like I was just a medium and something passed through me. Like electric current passed through the bulb.

Everyone please forgive me for all my deeds, I am not seeing the faults, as everything is happening here. I will keep praying for everyone.....

The Song Unsung

The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.

I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;

only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.

The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.

I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice;

only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.

The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor;

but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.

I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

Rabindranath Tagore

A friend came to see Rabindranath when he was about to die, just two days before his death. He said, ”Yours has been a very successful life. There is nothing to worry about or to regret now.” Both of them were friends since their childhood and now both of them were old. He said: ”You can die peacefully. I did not attain anything in this life, I have wasted it so I will not die peacefully. You have sung so many songs!”

Rabindranath has sung six thousand songs. No other poet in this world has sung so many songs. The poet Shelley is very famous in the West but his songs number about three thousand, while Rabindranath’s are six thousand, and all these six thousand songs can be put to music.

The old friend said, ”You were given the Nobel prize; honors have been showered on you, you can die peacefully. Of course I will die without peace but you can thank God while saying goodbye to the world.”

Rabindranath listened to what his friend was saying. Then he said, ”Well, I have not been able to sing the song which I wanted to sing, it is still within me like a seed. These six thousand songs are the unsuccessful efforts to sing that one song. I have tried many times to sing that one song which is in me like a seed but I have failed every time. You may have liked those songs but they are the stories of my failure. My song has not been sung yet. I have not sung it yet, and God has come to take me away. Just now I was tuning my instruments; with great difficulty I was able to tune my sitar. People thought I was singing. No, I was tuning my instruments. Now I have become mature enough, the instruments are ready, my spirit is ready, the moment of singing has come just now, but now it is time to go. Yes, I am complaining to God.”

OSHO

Be aware...

Yesterday while driving, I recall one person and thought he is doing few things wrong. During that thought the car speed increased unconciously and realised that is not my need. Soon came back to normal speed.

Lot of time in a day, we drowned into thoughts, most of our acts are in sleep. Those might hurt others and ourselves too. Specially when we are in thought of not liking. It could be anything somone looks ugly, something we don't like, we start creating negative thoughts. That is changing the energy channel within us. Be aware every moment.

That doesn't matter what other person did or what happened to us. But when we think, 'that is wrong' - we are in negative zone.

We can find different ways to be aware, but most efficient way is breathe.

Life is.....

 

Life is universal phenomena, if somone defines life, then it becomes smaller. Though, the one who is exploring will fine new definition everyday.

Life found like a Costume Party, keep changing clothes, colors, fragrances.......The more you are loaded with gadgets you will be adorable. Person will be accepted with all these gadgets only.

But there is no point to oppose, create chaos and disturb the life. Just be with you, don't expect social attention, do all as mere formalities.

The smallest way to define life..... "Life Is"

Two sides of coin

One lady is making lot of money by framing the baby bump and another one is working for few bucks during maternity to feed the baby.

WHAT IS EDUCATION?

Man is born as a seed. He is born as a potentiality. He is not born as an actuality. And this is very special, this is extraordinary, because in the whole of existence only man is born as a potentiality; every other animal is born actual.

A dog is born as a dog, he is to remain the same his whole life. The lion is born as a lion. Man is not born as a man, man is born only as a seed: he may become, he may not become. Man has a future; no other animal has a future. All animals are born instinctively perfect. Man is the only imperfect animal. Hence growth, evolution, is possible.

Education is a bridge between the potentiality and the actuality. Education is to help you to become that which you are only in a seed form. And this is what I am doing here; this is a place of education.

The thing that is being done in the ordinary schools and colleges and universities is not education. It only prepares you to get a good job, a good earning; it is not real education. It does not give you life. Maybe it can give you a better standard of living, but the better standard of living is not a better

standard of life; they are NOT synonymous.

The so-called education that goes on in the world prepares you only to earn bread. And Jesus says,

”Man cannot live by bread alone.” And that’s what your universities have been doing – they prepare you to earn bread in a better way, in an easier way, in a more comfortable way, with less effort, withless hardship.

But all that they do is prepare you to earn your bread and butter. It is a very, very primitive kind of education: it does not prepare you for life.

Hence you see so many robots walking around.

They are perfect as clerks, as stationmasters, as deputy collectors.

They are perfect, they are skillful, but if you look deep down in them they are just

beggars and nothing else.

They have not even tasted one bite of life. They have not known what life is, what love is, what light is.

They have not known anything of God, they have not tasted anything of existence, they don’t know how to sing and how to dance and how to celebrate.

They don’t know the grammar of life; they are utterly stupid.

Yes, they earn – they earn more than others, they are very skillful and they go on rising higher and higher on the ladder of success – but deep down they remain empty, poor.

Education is to give you inner richness.

It is not just to make you more informed; that is a very primitive idea of education.

I call it primitive because it is rooted in fear, rooted in that ”If I am not well educated I will not be able to survive. ” I call it primitive because deep down it is very violent: it teaches you competition, it makes you ambitious. It is nothing but a preparation for a cut-throat, competitive world where everybody is the enemy of everybody else.

Hence the world has become a madhouse.

Love cannot happen. How Can love happen in such a violent, ambitious, competitive world where everybody is at each other’s throat?

This is very primitive because it is based in the fear that ”If I am not well educated, well protected, highly informed, I may not be able to survive in the struggle of life. ” It takes life only as a struggle.

My vision of education is that life should not be taken as a struggle for survival; life should be taken as a celebration.

Life should not be only competition, life should be joy too. Singing and dancing

and poetry and music and painting, and all that is available in the world – education should prepare you to fall in tune with it – with the trees, with the birds, with the sky, with the sun and the moon.

And education should prepare you to be yourself. Right now it prepares you to be an imitator; it teaches you how to be like others. This is miseducation."

Osho

The secret , Chapter 2. A Chance To Pour My Grace Into You