'Silence' - 'OSHO'

Silence

Learn silence. And at least with your friends, with your lovers, with your family, with your fellow travellers here, sit in silence sometimes. Don´t go on gossiping, don´t go on talking. Stop talking, and not only on the outside - stop the inner talk. Be in an interval. Just sit, doing nothing, just being presences to each other. And soon you will start finding a new way to communicate. And that is the right way.
Start communicating through silence sometimes. Holding the hand of your friend, sit silently. Just looking at the moon, feel the moon, and both feel it silently. And see, a communion happens - not only communication, but a communion. Your hearts start beating in the same rhythm. You start feeling the same space. You start feeling the same joy. You start overlapping each other´s being. That is communion. You have said without saying anything, and there will be no misunderstanding.

*WORDS OF WISDOM*

'Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside'.
—Ramana Maharshi

Dispassion brings abundance.

*POINTS TO PONDER* ~ 'Ramana Maharshi'

'The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, he is That which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be That. Of course we loosely talk of Self-Realization for want of a better term'.

The Buddha in 'Majjhima Nikaya' - Accept my words only when you have examined them for yourselves; do not accept them simply because of the reverence you have for me. Those who only have faith in me and affection for me will not find the final freedom. But those who have faith in the truth and are determined on the path, they will find awakening.

Nature of 'Sattvic' Food:
1. Sattvic foods are light and easy to digest
2. They bring clarity and perception
3. Sattvic food has the potential to unfolds love and compassion in the individual
4. Sattvic food promotes the qualities of forgiveness and austerity
5. It gives a feeling of contentment

Examples of sattvic (high prana) food:
1. Fruit - mango, pomegranate, coconut, figs, peaches, pears
2. Grains - rice, tapioca, blue corn
3. Vegetables - sweet potato, lettuce, parsley, sprouts, yellow squash
4. Beans - mung, yellow lentils, lima
5. Dairy - organic milk, fresh homemade yoghurt
6. Meat - none

'The unbroken 'samaya' is a lamp lit in spiritual darkness' - 'TILOPA'S 'MAHAMUDRA' SONG FOR 'NAROPA'

The body is essentially empty like the stem of a reed,
And the mind, like pure space, utterly transcends
the world of thought:
Relax into your intrinsic nature with neither abandon nor control -
Mind with 'no objective' is 'Mahamudra' -
And, with practice perfected, supreme enlightenment is gained.

The clear light of Mahamudra cannot be revealed
By the canonical scriptures or metaphysical treatises
Of the Mantravada, the Paramitas or the Tripitaka;
The clear light is veiled by concepts and ideals.
By harboring rigid precepts the true 'samaya' is impaired,
But with cessation of mental activity all fixed notions subside;
When the swell of the ocean is at one with its peaceful depths,
When mind never strays from indeterminate, non-conceptual truth,
The unbroken 'samaya' is a lamp lit in spiritual darkness.
Free of intellectual conceits, disavowing dogmatic principles,
The truth of every school and scripture is revealed.