Remember Existence

Remember Existence

“The existence has to be remembered; then you will not get caught in the net of an egoistic feeling, that “I am special.”  The moment you feel you are special, you have lost contact with life, with love, with the totality of the whole – you are alone.” – Osho “Sermons in Stones” pg. 577

In regards to the Martial Arts, I can change the above statement to: Firearms have to be remembered; then you will not get caught in the net of an egoistic feeling, that “I am special.”  The moment you feel you are special, you have lost contact with reality and real modern day warfare and survival.  When you train with firearms you will quickly understand how ordinary you really are.  You are nobody special because you have been training in “Martial Arts” for over 2 decades.  You are not better than anyone else, you are not below anyone else, you are simply unique. 

When you come to the point in your training when you have destroyed your own ego, when you have destroyed your own self-importance, that is your critical moment of spiritual growth, this will be the true test of time to determine whether or not you really have what it takes to be a Martial Artist.  Will you still train in the Martial Arts even though it will not make you anybody special?  Will you still train in the Martial Arts even when anybody can just purchase a gun to kill you in an instant? 

Do you see yourself as above somebody else because you practice Martial Arts and he does not?  If so, you have lost contact with the Tao.  When you are at one with the Tao you truly see that you are nobody special, you are just one small part in the entire existence, there is absolutely nothing you can achieve that will make you greater than the whole. 

You Are Not Born With Guilt

You Are Not Born With Guilt

“Guilt is not something that you are born with, it is not part of your nature.  Guilt is created by the society.  For example, every religion creates guilt – in different ways, but the technique is the same.  All the religions live, thrive, on guilty human beings.  First make them guilty – once you have succeeded in making somebody feel guilty, you have almost killed his spirit.  Now he will be a soulless slave to you.  As far as I am concerned, my whole work is in how to free you from guilt – not to transform it.” – Osho “Sermons in Stones” pg. 549

We create our own mental prisons everywhere we go.  We are programmed since birth to have a guilty conscience.  The programmers are our parents, relatives, schoolteachers, priests, politicians, doctors, lawyers, police officers, bosses, media, etc.  These programmers formulate a vast list of what is considered “right” and what is considered “wrong.”  Now everywhere we go, even when they are not physically with us, they are within our conscious, and within our conscious they have control over us, they have us enslaved. They tell us that making love is wrong, so we feel guilty about sex.  They tell us that guns are bad, so we are in total fear of guns.  They tell us a million and one things of what we should and should not do, now we live our lives as machines, we are not truly human, we are not truly free.  We will never be free until we learn to break free from this guilty conscious and follow our hearts towards the true Way. 

The Buddha's Are One

The Buddha’s Are One

“When I am with you, I feel like a boat on the wide ocean and the waves go higher and higher.  And then the question arises: are you me or am I you?”

“Two sides of one coin – both are right.  You can see this side, you can see that side.  The higher you go, the closer you come to me.  At the highest point, certainly this question arises: Who are you? – me or yourself?  In fact, those two entities have disappeared into one organic whole.  This is what I call devotion, the ultimate state of disciplehood.” – Osho “Sermons in Stones” pg. 549

I feel at one with the great sages of whom I have become a disciple of.  I feel at one with 2pac, Bruce Lee, Lao-tzu, Buddha, Osho.  As I have grown I have grown with them.  I feel that their expression is one with my own and that my expression is an expression of theirs.  I am able to transform and adapt to change my expression according to the time and circumstances.  I see that once you discover the Buddha within, you become one with all Buddhas.  You understand all Buddhas.  We all have no names, we are all just one.  Their expression lives through me and my expression is expressed through their teachings.  Even when they have passed away, their teachings live on, even when I pass away, my teachings will live on, because the teachings of all Buddha’s lead towards the same source. 

Silent Creativity

Silent Creativity

“Creativity has two possibilities.  One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence – then creativity is healthy.  But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger.  It may be arising out of your confused mind.  It may be arising out of your insanity.”

“Anything that comes out of your tense mind, helps you anyway.  It gives a relief.  Something that was going round and round inside you – you have released it, but it will torture somebody else.  It may torture many… because the song that was imprisoned within you was a personal matter; you have made it public.  And if the song has come out of some kind of madness, some kind of confusion, you will certainly feel good, but at a cost which is too big.  Millions of people for thousands of years can be affected by it.  You are relieved but you have not behaved responsibly.  You have not behaved sanely, you have not behaved humanely.  Your songs, your paintings, your dance will have all the qualities of your mind, from which they came.”

“Before you start making your songs and singing and dancing, create the right consciousness, the right awareness, so whatever comes out of you is a blessing for humanity, not a curse.  That is the criterion.  Unless it can be a blessing, throw it into a fireplace.  You are released, but don’t burden somebody else.” – Osho “Sermons in Stones” pg. 457-459

These above passages speak directly to me and my past experiences.  It is clear that not all creativity is worth sharing, is worth making public.  Creativity out of anger and ego should be created and disposed.  Created as a sense of psychological release, but disposed so that it does not cause burden onto those around you.  It is like passing on an illness.  Rather than passing an illness onto another, heal yourself in privacy and only engage with the public when are healed.

Silent Creativity on the other hand is positive and healing.  Silent creativity is born out of meditation and peace.  Silent creativity should be shared with the public.  Silent creativity promotes love and happiness.  When you are overfilled with joy, you wish to share this joy.  If you are overfilled with madness, it is best not to share this madness but to keep this madness private, to transform this madness into bliss, once it is transformed to bliss, then it is the time to create and share bliss with others. 

Speak Wisely

Speak Wisely

“Don’t speak anything that is not absolutely necessary.  Don’t speak anything that is going to hurt somebody.  It is better to be silent than to be unnecessarily in quarrels and fights and violence, because most of your violence begins with your words, with your mouth.” Lao-tzu from “Sermons in Stones” by Osho – pg. 445

From my past experiences, I have learned that I have to remain silent, to only speak when I feel it is necessary, not to speak because I am being paid to speak, not to speak to get attention or recognition, not to speak because I am asked to speak.  But rather to speak from the heart, never from the mind, but only from the heart.   If I choose to speak, I should speak when I am filled with love within, I should speak when I am at peace within.  If I am ever angry, I should not speak, it would be wiser to express this anger energy through physical exertion aimed towards creativity.  Harsh words can cause much damage to an individual’s psychology.  Clearly it is not good to be physically violent towards others but also it is not good to be verbally violent towards others as well.  All violence needs to stop physically and verbally.