“If not now, when?”
One of the most helpful question that can be asked to bring a person back into the Now and into their true nature is “if not now, when?”
Let me elaborate.
All past and future is an illusion. An illusion created by the mind aka Ego to sustain itself. The Ego (ie false sense of “me”) requires the past and future to exist. Without the past and the future, the Ego cannot survive for long as it has nothing to cling on to.
Most people live as if there is a real “I”. But go in for a moment and you will realize that you can’t locate the “I” anywhere. The “I” or “me” is nothing more than a bunch of concepts and beliefs held together.
“Me and my story”.
From my personal experience, I realized that most people think that Ego means arrogance and that only the more outspoken people have it. But every human being has an Ego, normally starting from an age when they are conscious of their own thoughts.
Even enlightened beings have an Ego. The difference between an awakened being and an mind-identified (ie Ego-identified) person is just that – He has awaken out of the dream of identification with the Ego and realized his true nature. And everybody’s true nature is silence, aka awareness, aka stillness. It is beyond “I am silent” or “I am aware” as there is still a sense of “I” in those statements.
“I am Silence.”
If you’re against words. Then you will end up with”I am.” which you have probably heard in your spiritual path.
But I digress.
I was talking about the need for the Ego to have a past and a future.
Most people have this thinking that the future is their salvation. That somehow they will be happier in the future. This problem is structural, the content can vary. In other words, whether the content is getting more money, or becoming successful with girls, or becoming more famous, it doesn’t matter. The problem is when someone is unhappy now and he looks to the future as the salvation, he has just entered a state of endless grasping that brings more suffering than joy.
This is when the question “if not now, when?” comes into play. Whenever you feel that you’re not centered in this Moment, ask yourself this question. You will realize within your heart of hearts and soul of souls that there is nothing more you need this Moment to feel peaceful or blissful.
May Light be with you, Roy, The Awakening OneAdyashanti: The Violence of Spiritual People
Adyashanti is some good shit too… and he’s still alive! Check out his site at http://www.adyashanti.org/
Below is an excerpt from his website. More of a note to myself really.
“Spiritual people can be some of the most violent people you will ever meet. Mostly, they are violent to themselves. They violently try to control their minds, their emotions, and their bodies. They become upset with themselves and beat themselves up for not rising up to the conditioned mind’s idea of what it believes enlightenment to be. No one ever became free through such violence. Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads. They try to concentrate their way to heaven. But Freedom is about the natural state, the spontaneous and unselfconscious expression of beingness. If you want to find it, see that the very idea of a someone who is in control is a concept created by the mind. Take one step backward into the unknown.”
Good Guys are Hard to Find
Ah tonight is a night I feel like ranting about one of the stupidest things girls can say.
I bet most of you have heard of the saying “Good guys are hard to find/come by etc.”
Women’s Supreme Book of Excuses #1049: “Good guys are hard to find”.. right after “I’m afraid of getting hurt”. (if you can get me in person, you really need to hear me say this in my whiny little bitch voice)
Anyways, they go on to list what constitutes a “good” guy but it all translates to this – He must be a guy who is able to hold contradicting values in him.
Now for the guys reading this, don’t give a flying fuck what girls say. What they say are just a reflection of their emotions at that point in time. But just for the sake of ranting, I will continue.
Let’s just think from a logical point of view. What I would regard as a “good” guy or rather a high quality man would be highly meditative. There is a very deep reason why I say this which I won’t go into here. Furthermore, he will have his own path in life and no neurotic girl with pussy power is going to stray him from his path.
Now statistically, this guy won’t be hanging out much in the places these validation-seeking girls frequent (malls, malls, more malls, clubs). Even if he did, and let’s be very frank here, these girls wouldn’t grab the chance and approach him. They are so fearful and so weak (just like most people really) that they would rather stay within their comfort zone and later whine about how there isn’t “good” guys around. DUH! How in the blue hell can anyone expect to meet a “good” guy when all the new people they meet are a) trickling in at a slow speed; and b) either their colleagues or classmates or friends’ friends. Unless you have some evolved friends, chances are the friends you meet through them will be of the same level.
“Birds of the same feather flock together”.
Moral of the story: Look out for these girls, avoid them like the plague, their weakness and insecurity will just energy-vamp your ass out.
(What a low-quality post, but heck, gotta start somewhere)
May there be light in your life, RoyOSHO: Accepting yourself vs. loving yourself
Accepting yourself.
It is the minimum that you can do. But when you can do the maximum, why stop at the minimum? When you can dance to abandon, then why go on just moving your body a little, as if under compulsion, ashamed: “What am I doing?” Accepting yourself is just like that: smiling, and yet still feeling, “What am I doing?…”
Something is negative in “accepting” yourself. The very word, acceptance, means there has been rejection before, a denial, and now you are trying to cover that denial, that rejection, with acceptance. No, I don’t want this kind of idea to be implanted in you.
My whole vision is of a human being, totally alive, intensely alive, enjoying everything that life makes available, and enjoying it with grace, with gratitude towards existence.
And that’s what loving yourself means.
Echoing Place
Love should not be demanding. Otherwise it loses its wings. It becomes rooted to the ground. Then it becomes lust. Lust brings misery and suffering. In other words love should not be conditional, you should not expect anything out of it. It is for its own sake, not for any reward or result. If there is some motive in it, then love cannot fly. The motive becomes the boundary.
Unmotivated love has no boundaries. It is pure elation, a fragrance of the heart.
Just because there is no desire for results, that does not mean results do not happen. In fact, it happens a thousandfold. Because whatever we give the world it comes back. If we throw anger, anger comes back. Whatever you sow, you reap. Hate and you will be hated. Love, and you will be loved.
Why Religions are Poison
The following excerpt from Osho’s ‘From Sex to Superconsciousness’ clearly explains why religions as they are now is just pure poison to humanity. Read on…
Wanting = Lacking
For my first post here I would like to talk about the endless ego-seeking of humans. Following the commercial success of “The Secret“, people have this idea that intense wanting will lead them to having what they want.
That is not true.
Take out two pieces of paper now and write a list of what you have in one of them. Afterwhich, write a list of what you want in the other piece of paper. Now, realize that nothing in the list of what you want appears in the list of what you have. What does this mean?
It means that by focusing on what you want, you are focusing on what you don’t have. In other words, you are focusing on the lack. Now those of you who knows about the Law of Attraction know what that means. For those who don’t, it means that you will repeatedly attract circumstances to you that correspond to what you are focusing on, ie the lack.
So instead of focusing on what you want, focus on what you have. Feel grateful for what you have. Rejoice! Celebrate! There is tremendous beauty when you realize deep down that YOU ARE ENOUGH. There is nothing more you will ever need to feel wonderful THIS MOMENT.
With love,
Roy, The Awakening One
Choose Nature
The thinking up till now is that the individual has to follow what society dictates. He has to fit in. That has become the normal definition of a human being – one who fits with the society. Even when society is insane, you have to fit in and then you are normal.
The problem arises when nature demands one thing and society demands the contrary. when society has its own interests which might not be in tune with the interests of the individual. Society has its own investments and the individual has to be sacrificed.
It should be the other way round. The individual does not exist for society, the society exist for him. Society has no soul. The individual has which is the conscious center.
Whenever you find that society is in conflict with nature, choose nature. Whatever the cost, you’ll never be the loser.
Illumination
Meditation is very simple. Nothing but consciousness. It is not chanting, using the mantra or a rosary. Meditation simply means transforming your unconsciousness into consciousness. Normally, 1/10 of our mind is conscious, 9/10 is unconscious. Only a thin layer has light; otherwise, the whole house is in darkness.
The challenge is therefore to let the small light grow so much that the whole house is flooded by light. When the house is full of light, then life is a miracle. Everything, even the mundane becomes extraordinary and sacred. Ordinary stones look as beautiful as diamonds.
The moment you are illuminated, the whole existence is illuminated. If you are dark, then the whole existence is dark. It all depends on you.
