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🟤 Quote by Osho: An Echoing Place The world is an echoing place. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we give love, love comes back. Love should not be demanding; otherwise it loses wings, it cannot fly. It becomes rooted in the earth, becomes very earthly. Then it is lust and it brings great misery and great suffering. Love should not be conditional, one should not expect anything out of it. It should be for its own sake-not for any reward, not for any result. If there is some motive in it, again, your love cannot become the sky. It is confined to the motive; the motive becomes its definition, its boundary. Unmotivated love has no boundary: it is pure elation, exuberance, it is the fragrance of the heart. And just because there is no desire for any result, it does not mean that results do not happen. They do, they happen a thousandfold because whatever we give to the world comes back, it rebounds. The world is an echoing place. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we give love, love comes back. But that is a natural phenomenon; one need not think about it. One can trust-it happens on its own. This is the law of karma: whatever you sow, you reap; whatever you give, you receive. So there is no need to think about it, it is automatic. Hate, and you will be hated. Love, and you will be loved.

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Four: Meditation and Mindfulness Nowadays we tend to blend the concept of meditation with the one of mindfulness, but in reality, meditation is when we sit down and use specific techniques to train our mind, while mindfulness is the awareness that we use to bring back our attention to the exercise, and this can be applied to the everyday life. Meditation then is not about emptying our minds, but about being aware of its thoughts and not getting caught up in them; it's about leaning to observe what happens in our mind, and applying that to our day to day life means feeling our feelings and emotions but not getting attached ad carried away from them.

i believe in you, you can do it!

🟤 Quote by Osho: Amateurs and Experts All great discoveries are made by amateurs. It always happens that when you start new work, you are very creative, you are deeply involved, your whole being is in it. Then by and by, as you become acquainted with the territory, rather than being inventive and creative you start being repetitive. This is natural because the more skilled you become in any work, the more repetitive you become. Skill is repetitive. So all great discoveries are made by amateurs, because a skilled person has too much at stake. If something new happens, what will happen to the old skill? The person has learned for years and now has become an expert. So experts never discover anything; they never go beyond the limit of their expertise. On the one hand, they become more and more skillful, and on the other hand they become more and more dull and the work seems to be a drag. Now there is nothing new that can be a thrill to them-they already know what is going to happen, they know what they are going to do; there is no surprise in it. So here is the lesson: it is good to attain a skill, but it is not good to settle with it forever. Whenever the feeling arises in you that now something is looking stale, change it. Invent something. add something new, delete something old. Again be free from the pattern that means be free from the skill-again become an amateur. It needs courage and guts to become an amateur again, but that's how life becomes beautiful.

I'm grateful for: Starting to eat more healthy starting practice trying to be more aware and conscious

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Three: Stress in the 21st century Our society is based on doing, not on being. We constantly want to achieve something, and when we do, we move on to the next thing. We are scared of losing what we have and what we love, we have attachments to things that are not forever. Our food is filled with chemicals that make us eat the whole package, and want more and new food. The more technology evolves, the more our stress level rises. We are working in and for a society where we constantly want to achieve something, likes, a certain status, or other. Meditation can help us tap into our inner-wired happiness, instead of looking for it outside.

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Two: Hard-Wired to be Happy Our natural state of being, our essence is free, is to be happy, but since we get too caught up in our thoughts and feelings, we are not able to be the way our true nature is. We can then learn to simply observe our mind so that we can be aware of the "clouds passing by", but remain the free and still blue sky.

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter One: What is happiness? In today's fast-paced world, we seek instant hits of happiness through our technologies, and we are constantly chasing happiness as if it is something external to find when it is already inside of us: "[...] we are hard-wired for it at a deep level". With meditation and mindfulness, we can choose to be happy and be free. Everyone can meditate, there is no prerequisite, and it doesn't matter if your mind is more or less busy than others. "Meditation [...] is a way to connect with our essence and to become who we truly are. Mindfulness is how to bring awareness into every situation".

🟤 Quote by Osho: Illumination The moment you are illuminated, the whole of existence is illuminated. If you are dark, then the whole of existence is dark. It all depends on you There are a thousand and one fallacies about meditation prevalent all around the world. Meditation is very simple: it is nothing but consciousness. It is not chanting, it is not using a mantra or a rosary. These are hypnotic methods. They can give you a certain kind of rest-nothing is wrong with that rest. If one is just trying to relax, it is perfectly good. Any hypnotic method can be helpful, but if one wants to know the truth, then it is not enough. Meditation simply means transforming your unconsciousness into consciousness. Normally only one-tenth of our mind is conscious, and nine-tenths is unconscious. Just a small part of our mind, a thin layer, has light; otherwise the whole house is in darkness. And the challenge is to grow that small light so much that the whole house is flooded with light, so that not even a nook or corner is left in darkness. Then the whole house is full of light, then life is a miracle, it has the quality of magic. Then it is no longer ordinary- everything becomes extraordinary. The mundane is transformed into the sacred, and the small things of life start having such tremendous significance that one could not have ever imagined it. Ordinary stones look as beautiful as diamonds; the whole of existence becomes illuminated. The moment you are illuminated, the whole of existence is illuminated. If you are dark, then the whole of existence is dark. It all depends on you.

🔘 Surroundings Observation The whole sky is gray. In this, I see groups of small light clouds moving fast. In the grayness of the sky and clouds, I don't see any specific shapes, the wind carrying them away makes them change and more distant, Today is cold and rainy, usually I don't like this weather, but now that I sit and observe it, I see something more in it: I see calm uncertainty, I see change in the stillness. I hear cars passing by, which remember me of the fast paced world, running to chase something that is never found. I see the light drops of water, that fall fast from the sky; they're tiny, almost impossible to see, but if you focus, you can perceive the movement. In this moment of stillness I remember how difficult it is in this world to just stop. But now, I did stop. And I'm grateful for these little moments.

I'm grateful for: Sara Open communication with Sara Dinner with guys I practiced

Trump said that when he will become president he will call Putin and the war will stop.. so that problem is off the list😂😂 We still have some time till climate change problema become irreversible. I am optimistic about this topic and I think we will take action. Maybe last minute, but we will.

Truly a great video. Thank you Osho❤️

I'm grateful for: practicing a lot doing yoga & meditation properly

🟡 Investment overview In the last few days, the company's stock is going down. I am not feeling great about it, but I know it's part of the process and I don't have to discourage myself.

⚫ Journaling again I'm not feeling great right now; today I didn't do much, after many days of work and study I got extremely exhausted, and I am kind of feeling sick. But I just need to rest. I am keeping up with the meditation practice, and I'm happy I managed to do it also today that was more difficult than the other days. I stopped doing the Gateway Experience, unfortunately. It takes a lot, but I should still do it whenever I can.

I'm grateful for: having great talks with Sara resting not paying for food

I'm grateful for: having sara in my life doing the website making money doing phone detox

I'm grateful for: Being with sara yesterday journaling working with nice people eating pizza

I'm grateful for: Going into nature and drawing Feeling supported by Sara Practicing, even if it was not the best Not smoking, drinking, or taking drugs

⚫ Simple Journaling Lately, I've been feeling better. Honestly, I don't know what my body and mind really need, but I'm trying to be open and not stay home and do the same things. I still feel that life is difficult, and I need to learn how to navigate through all the challenges and feelings I have. I probably already said it in the past, but I was a weed smoker, I used to do it really a lot. in the last 2 or even 3 years, I did it regularly, on a weekly basis, and usually in the months of May, April, and June I would smoke every day. Really disgusting. But I get it, I was hurting, and that was a good way to numb myself and not think. I really like weed, the effect it gives, and the act of smoking, but I hate the fact that I get addicted so easily. I would love to be able to do it once every 2 months, same as psychedelics, just to have a good, profound, and insightful experience. But for my mind weed is a light drug, that yes can be spiritual, but also a great way to stop feeling. That's why I don't smoke anymore. I feel strong. I don't want to do it again. And I am proud of myself because I live in the Netherlands, where you can smell weed literally everywhere, and on top of that my flatmate smokes every day. I am grateful I say no every time I have the opportunity to smoke. It was easy to not smoke from June, because I was in Italy with my family, but once coming back here the real challenge started, and I'm doing good, I think. I say "I think", because a couple of times I drank beers, once I even did ketamine. I haven't drunk beer since December 2021, and in the summer I stopped the sobriety. But it's fine. I am aware of all this, and I decided not to drink either. Alcohol is not the same as weed, because I like it less, that's why it's not gonna be so difficult. Today though, I went to the park with my housemates to draw, and actually before leaving we were considering taking an HHC gummy I've been keeping here for some time; then we said to take mushrooms. After not taking anything, while going to the park we passed by my gf house, and I remembered that I left ketamine in her room, so I thought to go inside and take it. Now, thinking about this makes me feel kinda disgusted, or just sad about these thoughts. Eventually I didn't take any drugs, and I'm proud of that. I came back home and I'm journaling. I also talked about all this with Sara, my girlfriend, and that helped me. With her, I always feel loved, accepted, supported, and she is always here if I need it. She is a great person.

In 2 years he's probably gonna be like Biden. Just an old man with dementia who doesn't know what he's saying

Okay but still I don't understand why you say she's shallow And hollow Not judging just asking

Why you think she's like this?

Even if these issues were solved, there would still be a big gap to reach enlightenment. And I don't think trump is the one who will solve these things