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Buddha suffered due to his bad Karmas, his journey towards enlightenment was very difficult. Even after enlightenment , he was stoned and abused everywhere he went to spread his message.

Buddha left his young wife, one day old son and old father, he was only son of his father, who was a king. After enlightenment he persuaded his children who belonged to a royal family, made them beggars to learn spirituality. Buddha ruined life of his family members.

Don't assume that criminals are worst that moralists like us. We are equally unconscious, we fantasize about doing crimes , they have potential to do the crime. A criminal can easily transform into a saint , if he wills, but we can't.

Morality is not spirituality. Morality is a social politics. When you kill someone , you are a murderer. When you kill thousands in a war with enemy nation , you are a Hero. An enlightened person can't do anything wrong, even if he is killing someone. Sometimes killing is inevitable.

An enlightened person can kill someone, it doesn't mean he enjoys killing. Killing can be out of compassion. Sometimes not killing someone can cause more harm.

Muhammad married Aisha when she was not adult. Hindus have playful Gods but when you see the Hindu Gods play you will find human faces. Brahma created the world and created the first woman and fell in love with her – his own daughter – and started chasing her. A very Hindu God! More like Hindus than like God. Chasing his own daughter! And the daughter became very much afraid – naturally. She started rushing about, hiding herself in different forms. She became a cow, and the God became a bull – definitely a Hindu God! When the woman becomes the cow the God becomes the bull. God is responsible for everything happening, including children's rape.

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You are less informed about yoga. Yoga can give you everything , but it is very difficult to follow discipline of Yoga. You can build muscles and do a lot of mental work at the same time , but you can't achieve absolute health while doing both.

Matthew 10:34-36 Jesus said “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. " For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.

Life is very mysterious , we divide things into good and evil. Sometimes we have to choose from greater evil and lesser evil. Even a person like Jesus whipped money changers in Jewish temple.

Jesus was compassionate when he was crucified. Mansoor, another Sufi rebel, was executed. And the manner of his execution was very cruel and brutal. One by one, his limbs, even his eyes were severed from his body. Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered to witness the event. As his hands and feet were being cut off, Mansoor was laughing and his laughter went on getting louder as his body shrunk in size. Someone from among the spectators shouted, ”Are you crazy, Mansoor? Is this a time to laugh?” Mansoor said, ”I am really laughing at you, because you think you are killing me. You are badly mistaken, you are really killing someone else."

Enlightened person like Mohammad is full of love and compassion, and yet he has the courage to accept and fight a war. His heart is utterly non violent, yet he plunges into the fire and fury of violence when it becomes unavoidable. Violence itself is not real, violent mind is real. It is true, you can desire to kill someone, although he cannot be killed. This is a different thing – that one cannot be killed – but if you desire to kill him then this desire is real, and this desire is sinful. Violence is not a sin, but the will to violence, a violent mind is certainly a sin. If you want to kill someone, it is enough of a sin. It is a different thing that you cannot kill, but your desire to kill is in itself sinful.

It is materialistic to think that one is violent or non-violent. He is a materialist who believes he can kill someone, and he too is a materialist who thinks he is not going to kill anyone. Spirituality rejects both violence and non-violence.

If you treat it as a problem, you can never get rid of it. If you start finding its solutions, you will become obsessed. The problem is existential, it is related with your being. You might be losing interest in the world. Try to increase your vitality, life energy. Have you tried the Osho Dynamic Meditation ?

Weight training is a method to build muscles and good looking body but it is not a method of achieving absolute health. Weight training is not good for everyone, especially for intellectuals and people doing lot of mental work which requires thinking. Weight training has withdrawal effects, so weight training should be done very carefully. There is a stupid idea popular in the whole world that belly should be pulled in and chest should look larger, it hinders natural breathing. Breath is literally the bridge connecting all of these aspects of our being and our existence. When you are relaxed ,as the breath goes in, your belly starts rising up, and as the breath goes out, your belly starts settling down again. Try to see children, very small children, taking their breaths. They take them in a different way. Look at a child sleeping. His belly comes up and down, not the chest. That is the right way to breathe; remember not to use your chest too much. Sometimes it can be used – in emergency periods. You are running to save your life; then the chest can be used. Yoga can transform you if you know knack of doing yoga. Yoga can give you absolute health, but it can't give you quick results. Do yoga in the morning , after all other exercises, and in a very relaxed way. After doing yoga, relax for at least 15 minutes. If you have patience, yoga alone is curative. Live in a relaxed way, eat in a relaxed way, walk in a relaxed way, talk in a relaxed way.

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Have you ever tried yoga and meditation ?

@alyra Buddha has used a strange word "no self" , the mystics have always used the word “self” for the interior-most core of your being. Buddha uses the word “no-self.” To use the word “self” - even if you use it with a capital “S,” does not make much difference. It continues to give you the sense of the ego. And with a capital “S,” it may give you an even bigger ego. Buddha does not use the words atma, atta - "self". He uses just the opposite words: “no-self” - anatma, anatta. He says that when mind ceases, there is no self left. You have become universal, you have overflowed the boundaries of the ego.

Fully enlightened masters are very rare, A false master is a consolation, he gives you peace as you are, he never bothers to change you -- he is a tranquilizer. You come to him and he consoles. Even if a real master consoles you, that consolation is just like a fishing net. You will be caught in the consolation and then, by and by, he will create the chaos. You have to pass through the chaos, because as you are you are absolutely wrong. But to find a living Master one has to search, and in fact, all those false gurus help you in a way because experiencing them you become aware of that which is false. And to know the false as false is the beginning of knowing the true as the true, the real as the real. If you are absolutely clear about the false, suddenly you become clear about what is real, what is authentic. So even the false gurus are serving, in indirect way, to the real seekers.

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One can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when he is totally frustrated with his own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you. So many become interested, but very few enter because your interest may be just because of your mind. You may be hoping now, through yoga, that you may gain something, but the achieving motive is there-you may become perfect through yoga, you may reach to the blissful state of perfect being, you may become one with the brahman, you may achieve the satchitananda. This may be the cause why you are interested in yoga. If this is the cause then there can be no meeting between you and the path which is yoga. Then you are totally against it, moving in a totally opposite dimension. Yoga means that now there is no hope, now there is no future, now there are no desires. One is ready to know what is. Unless this moment comes to you... You can go on doing asanas, postures; that is not yoga. Yoga is an inward turning. It is a total about-turn. When you are not moving into the future, not moving toward the past, then you start moving within yourself – because your being is here and now, it is not in the future. You are present here and now, you can enter this reality. But then mind has to be here. Unless you are ready to die, Patanjali's yoga is not for you.

Before full liberation everyone passes through psychic realms , modern teachers intentionally not talk about them. Patanjali has cautioned seekers about them.

It is much more than that, modern teachers never talk about psychic powers or Siddhis that are mentioned in scriptures.