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@Annetta We can't judge a mystic by his behavior, a lot of people criticize Teal Swan. She is not an enlightened master but she certainly has a higher consciousness.

She is not praising Donald Trump. She said , "Donald Trump is not the problem. He is (and will continue to be) merely the reflection of human shadow. The true shadow, the true problem, is the conditions that put people in a such a state that they would feel so powerless and desperate in their rat cage that they could vote for Donald Trump in the 1st place."

@Annetta Even Jesus and Socrates were condemned, criticized, prosecuted and executed by the champions of morality in the society. I have seen many mystics in my life, she looks like a mystic.

There are women who look hot and beautiful but she has a mystical appearance , she looks like a mystic.

Not only wealth, there were lot of young and beautiful women around him. He was certainly a blessed one. OSHO: I Am a Spiritual Playboy @jse But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

@Revolutionary Think According to the World Health Organization, India is one of the most depressed countries in the world with a whopping 36% of Indians likely to suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Majority of Indians are most materialistic people in the world, westerners earn money to live a better life, Indians earn money only for saving. Indians have a great desire to possess. You may not have anything, and still you will be a materialist if the desire to possess is there. You may possess only a small hut or only a begging bowl, but that is enough for your whole possessiveness to be focused on. And you will be a materialist, not a spiritualist. Possessiveness and sexual repression has made life very miserable, it has resulted in increasing cases of depression in India.

I will learn about meditation. Celibacy cannot be taught. Only meditation can be taught. celibacy is the result. As meditation ripens, celibacy comes to fruit by itself. All effort is to be put into meditation. Someone asked Buddha, ”How shall we meditate?” Buddha replied, ”Whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness; all your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the moment, settles in the moment – this is meditation.” Love transforms, love is curative.

It will benefit , but don't expect a transcendence, it can't be a permanent cure.

When Kabir was weaving , there was no purpose, no reason, no resolution. When a Van Gogh paints a picture, there is no purpose, it is his love , his joy.

Some spiritual people are very rich, but earning money is not their goal. One of the mystics in India, Kabir, was a weaver. He had thousands of followers and still he continued to weave clothes. Even kings were his followers. But weaving cloths was his prayer, not work, When Kabir goes to the market with a bundle of cloth to sell, he goes there dancing. He addresses his customer as Rama, his God, and tells him that he has woven this piece of cloth especially for him, that he has interlaced it with prayers. Someone asks him why he does so even after attaining to lofty sagehood. In answer Kabir tells him, ”It is my prayer.” Kabir says, ”It is meditation when I walk, it is meditation when I eat, and it is meditation when I weave the cloth.”

People who try to control themselves have chosen a very foolish way. Control will not happen, but they will become cold. That is the only way a man can control himself — to become frozen so that energy does not arise. People who take the vows of celibacy will not eat much; in fact, they will starve their bodies. If more energy is created in the body, then there will be more sex energy, and then they don’t know what to do with it. So some monks eat only once a day — and then too, not enough. They eat only enough that bodily needs are fulfilled, very minimum needs, so no energy is left. This type of celibacy is not celibacy. When you are flowing with energy and the energy starts transforming itself into awareness then a celibacy, which is beautiful, happens. Meditation is simply the name for life lived with awareness. If you are living twenty-three hours a day without awareness, and only one hour with awareness, then you will never attain to the results.

The expression 'life purpose' is nonspiritual. Life is not a business, it is a play. And a play has no purpose really, it is non-purposeful. Can there be any purpose to being happy? What is the purpose of love? Happiness is itself the goal, there is no purpose to it. To be in love is the goal. The goal is not somewhere else; it is intrinsic, it is in the very phenomenon of love.

@Preetom Human mind as such is a daydreaming faculty. Unless you go beyond the mind, you will continue to daydream. Because the mind cannot exist in the present. It can either exist in the past or in the future. There is no way for the mind to exist in the present. To be in the present is to be without mind. Daydreaming will continue unless you start tasting meditation. Unless you are nourished on meditation, you will go on starving and hankering for some food in the future. This is what goes on happening to each mind – you long for something, it will happen, but by the time it happens you will see that you are still discontent. Something else is creating the misery now. This is something to be understood – that if your desire is not fulfilled, you are frustrated; if it is fulfilled, then too you are not fulfilled. That is the misery of desire. Fulfilled, you are not fulfilled. Suddenly many new things arise. You had never thought that when you will be a king, and horse-men will be in front of you and at the back of you, and a golden parasol will be over your head, the sun can be so hot that it can scorch your face. You had never thought about it. Then you dreamed of becoming a sun, and you become a sun, and you had never thought about the cloud. Now the cloud is there – and proving you impotent. And this goes on and on and on, like waves in the ocean… non-ending – unless you understand and simply jump out of the wheel. Life is here, life is now. If you are searching him in your daydreams, your search is in vain, because meditation is nothing but deep contentment. The mind that goes on telling you, ‘Do this, be that. Possess this, possess that… otherwise how can you be happy if you don’t have this? You have to have a palace, then you can be happy….’ If your happiness has a condition to it, you will remain unhappy. If you cannot be happy just as you are – a stone-cutter… I know hard is the labour, wages are poor, life is a struggle, I know – but if you cannot be happy as you are, in spite of it all; if you cannot be happy, you are not going to be happy ever. Unless a man is happy, simply happy, for no reason at all, unless a man is mad enough to be happy without any reason, a man is not going to be happy ever. You will always find something destroying your happiness. You will always find something missing, something absent. And that missing will become your daydream again. And you cannot achieve a state where everything, everything is available. Even if it is possible, then too you will not be happy. Just look at the mechanism of the mind: if everything is available as you want it, suddenly you will feel bored. Now what to do? You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting.

Money can't give fulfillment , but if you know how to use money it can make your spiritual journey easier before you reach stages of higher consciousness.

How can we know ? Do you think that enlightenment can be communicated through words ?

@Dharam It is the belief that failure exists. Failure only exists because you have a perceived expectation of yourself, because of a projection manifested within the future; and then, inevitably, disappointment will manifest within and as yourself because you didn't live up to your expectations and failed according to a belief within yourself; and then, the being disappointed within yourself because you didn't fulfill what you projected into the future of what is there to be fulfilled. Buddha was a failure in the eyes of his friends, family, wife, father, teachers, society – he was a failure. He had become just a beggar. What type of success is this? He could have been a great emperor: he had the qualities, he had the personality, he had the mind. He could have been a great emperor but he became a beggar. He was a failure – obviously. But I say to you he was not a failure. If he had become an emperor then he would have been a failure because he would have missed the real life. What he attained under the Bodhi Tree was the real and what he lost was unreal. If you want to succeed in the unreal then follow the path of those who are working in cunningness, cleverness, competition, jealousy, violence. Follow their path, the meditation is not for you. If you want to enter into meditation, accept fears and failures.

If you are legally adult , you can claim your share in grand father's immovable property , how will you prove in court that money belongs to your grand father? If a young man has a strong character , he can make his own career. Focus on your health and career. If you scream and harass your father, he will lose his confidence and mental balance and take more bad decisions. Try to convince him politely and logically.

Is he giving you food, shelter and your collage fees ? You work hard and make your career. Why do you interfere in his business ? We don't know under what circumstances he is doing such thing, may be is suffering from depression or any other psychological problems. Forget about fathers money and business , think what you can do in your life.

Then something is wrong with me, may be I am an idiot !

How can we know what enlightenment is ?

What's the need of meditation when logic , understanding is enough to 'clear way for rational thought' and 'quiet your ego' ? Do you mean you meditate for few minutes ?

Just play with children, and you will find your ego is disappearing, you will find that you have become a child again. Be creative. Don't be worried about what you are doing. One has to do many things, but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work becomes worship. Then whatsoever you do is a prayerfulness.

@Loreena In that total relaxation, existence opens its secrets.

Yes, there are other ways too. Become a body builder.

Nothing, I don't do anything, I only eat, relax and sleep.