Difficult to gain silence, but easily lost in the beginning

Apr 23
Lieh Tzu
"Talking and giving, we lose the place"

The moment you start taking and giving - do this, don't do that, relate, connect, with people - you lose your place, you lose your inner flame, you lose your inner contact. This is only so in the beginning.
You may become afraid of relating and escaped from life or to the mountain so as not to be in contact.

Yes, talking and giving, when we come to the market-place, the meditation is lost. Then, first attain to meditation, then go again and again and become more and more alert, so that you can become capable one day of relating and remaining alone together; of being in the market place and yet not being there; of being in the crowd and yet being alone. This is the highest. It cannot be said to a disciple. That happens only when one become a master. (Lieh Tzu - Then you have become a lotus; you are in the water and the water touches you not.)

Soul
That's my aim. I want to be here and yet be of here.

Osho
First develop, evolve, the sunya - the zero, the emptiness and then bring it to the world. Again and again you will lose it, that's true, but because of that don't try to escape from the world, don't become an escapist. It is a challenge. And the highest peak is attained only when nobody can disturb your inner space - nobody, no situation can disturb it.
Then for the first time you become a possessor of it. Then you are a possessor and you are possessed by it. Then it is yours, really yours.
For now, you have touched it, but you have not yet been a possessor.

Most of us do not want to see ourselves as we are, nor would want to take a second look into a mind-mirror. But he who will confirm us in the pet delusions we cherish about ourselves, can have just about anything we have got.

Remember, to be empty is to move into a space where you will see yourself as you are. That's why people are afraid: they don't want to go into that inner space. They are afraid that their ideal self-images will fall down.
Whatever path you are in, all the masters have insisted on one thing: that you have come to your reality as you are.

In the beginning, it will be almost an experience of hell, but that is the price we have to pay. If you are courageous enough, and if you can preservere, soon the hell disappears, the clouds are gone, and the sun shines in a cloudless sky. Then you have come to your inner paradise.

Soul
Exactly my belief and my experience. Amen. My belief was behind d fear is love.

Osho
Hell and heaven are both within. Hell is just your circumference, heaven is your center. You are the center of the cyclone. Tao says that nothing really has to be done. One has just to penetrate into one's own being.

Ken Reed
"One who has contentment in his heart finds good everywhere and at all times"

Nothing else is there to be done. You have forgotten who you are. The only thing that has to be done is to remember who you are. Forgetfulness is the world, remembrance is God. To forget is to be lost. To remember is to be back home.