Similarity between Nature and bank

The law of nature is almost like the banks':

·         If you don't have money they will not give you.

·         If you need money they will create a thousand and one conditions;

·         If you don't need money they will seek you.

·         If you have enough of your own they are always ready to give you as much as you want.

The law of nature is exactly like that:

·         It gives you more when you don't need,

·         It gives you less when you need;

·         It takes away if you don't have anything,

·         It gives you in a thousand and one ways if you have something.

On the surface it looks as if it is paradoxical -- the poor man should be given more. The rich man, should not be given at all. But no, when you have a certain richness you become a magnetic force to attract more richness towards you. The poor man repels; he does not allow richness to come to him. Deep down, the poor man is poor because he does not attract. He has no magnetism to attract riches towards him; hence he is poor. Nobody has made him poor. He is poor because he does not attract; he does not have the magnetism to attract. So if you want

·         If you want happiness first make yourself happy then the nature will give you so much happiness.

·         If you want Love, create love with yourself then the nature will give you so much love

·         If you want to be rich then first create richness in yourself then nature will make you rich(Never cut expenses but try to increase income)

·         If you want honesty first honest with yourself

·         If you want trust then first create trust in yourself

The list is exhaustive whatever you want first look, search and create in yourself then only you can expect the return from nature.

Living in Fear               

                        All your fears are by-products of identification.

You love a woman and with the love, in the same parcel come fear: she may leave you — she has already left somebody and come with you. There is a precedent; perhaps she will do the same to you. There is fear, you feel knots in the stomach. You are too much attached.

You cannot get a simple fact: you have come alone in the world; you have been here yesterday also, without this woman, perfectly well, without any knots in the stomach. And tomorrow if this woman goes...what is the need of the knots? You know how to be without her, and you will be able to be without her.

The fear that things may change tomorrow.... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with more and more fears, and none of them are valid...because yesterday also you were full of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may have changed but you are still alive. And man has an immense capacity to adjust himself in any situation.     

The fear is part of the mind. The mind is a coward, and has to be a coward because it doesn’t have any substance. It is empty and hollow, and it is afraid of everything. And basically it is afraid that one day you may become aware. That will be really the end of the world!

The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full of fears. And you will go on creating new fears; there is no end to it. You will live in fear, you will die in fear, and you will never be able to taste something of freedom. And it was all the time your potential; any moment you could have claimed it, but you never claimed it.

Regards,

Ashish

---Contents taken from OSHO’s  Beyond Psychology

Moments Of Life
There are times in our lives, when winds blow against us, when we feel crushed and our backs are placed against the wall. There are moments when the self within us becomes overwhelming and the boat of our life seems to go on rudderless, bouncing with the tide of time. There are also times when we get entrapped in the web of mediocrity (or chalta hai attitude) and the zeal within, goes for a holiday. These are testing moments in life. Narrating our painful times and showing our wounds to the world, are symbolic of vulnerability. Strength lies within, not outside. Let not the gales of times shatter us. As a poet once said:

Jinke dil mein hai auron ke liye pyaar ka jazba,
wo log kabhi toot kar bikhra nahi karte

(People who care for others, do not succumb to defeat easily!)

Some people even say, happiness is just a brief interlude between periods of grief and struggle. But, from another perspective, happiness is just a state of mind whether in relaxation or struggle. Down we may be, but certainly not destroyed. Though it is easier to say than to practice, but pain it is said, can also be enjoyed. The beauty of silence holds in its bosom much more than what a thousand words can mean. Silence is evidently the highest form of protest as well. Another poet says:
Wo mazaa kahaan wasl-e-yaar mein,
Lutf jo mila intezaar mein
(What pleasure lies in embrace and reunion,
than in the endless wait of the beloved!!)

We need to move ahead of these tougher times. The flickering light of hope should never be allowed to die, come what may. Cynicism, despondency, loneliness are some of the challenges, we need to overcome. The spirit of man is all-powerful and immortal. Let us respect it and not fall prey to the challenges that are going to come our way. we need to be committed and proud of the human spirit – characterized by unflinching faith, strong resolve and a phoenix-like instinct…!!!

Ashish

It does not matter whether you call it good or bad, because what you call it – good or bad – will depend upon your conditioning. A good or bad is all the mind game.