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“You can meditate even while chopping carrots: The metal of knife has come from Earth, carrots have come from Earth, body is nothing but refined Earth. It's all a dance of Earth and you are the eternal watcher, the soul.”

Soul Spirituality Peace Nature Meditation Mindfulness Yoga Vedanta

Author:Shunya

“There are people who fear XYZ. And then there are those who are obsessed with XYZ. These are two extremes. If you're on one extreme, get to know the other extreme. It will help you come to the middle where there is peace.”

Mind Soul Spirituality Fear Balance Obsession Middle Path

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“Enlightenment is death before death, death of everything you are not. And a seeker's journey is like a soldier climbing a hilltop in the shower of bullets, not like a tourist trekking a hill.”

Death Buddhism Enlightenment Awakening Zen Hinduism Spiritual Journey Inner Journey Seeker

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“Right now you feel stuck in the web of Time and Space. But when you become free from Time, you will realize that you were never stuck. Because you will become free from past too.”

Philosophy Spirituality Enlightenment Eternity Awakening Zen Liberation Paradox

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“Anything that can be said is a perspective, not truth.”

Truth Awakening Zen Hinduism Nothingness Shunya

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“Mind is like a net that can catch many things. Supreme truth is the fragrance it can never catch.”

Buddhism Zen Hinduism Nothingness Vedanta Shunya

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“You buy a personal jet. It's good. But soon you realize that it has a huge maintenance cost. Now you can't decide whether to keep it or sell it. This is Maya. Everything in Maya has huge maintenance cost.”

Spirituality Freedom Buddhism Illusion Zen Materialism

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“When you detach from your identity and I detach from mine, we are nothing (Shunya). But that 'nothing' contains everything just as white light contains all colours.”

Philosophy Buddhism Zen Hinduism Nothingness Shunya Immortal Talks

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“You can have experiences of all flavours in life. But you will remain thirsty and restless until you get the plain water of nothingness.”

Spirituality Zen Nothingness No Thought Shunya

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“Everybody is trying to put clothes of their own size on the Eternal Truth.”

Truth Buddhism Enlightenment Awakening Zen Hinduism Jainism Supreme Truth

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“There is a beautiful custom in India: On her first Makar Sakranti after marriage, the bride pretends to awaken her in-laws who pretend to be deep asleep. Similar thing happens between the Guru and seekers. God inside seekers is pretending to be deep asleep. God inside Guru pretends to awaken them. It's all a divine play.”

Buddhism Enlightenment Awakening Zen Hinduism

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“Your mind is too focussed on human beings. Observe the patterns, shapes, colours, texture, sounds and sensations around you. Soon you will come out of human identity and realize that you're not a person but a presence. You're not something that exists; you're the existence itself.”

Spirituality Buddhism Mindfulness Zen Mysticism Hinduism

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“Children think that adults know life, uneducated think that educated people know it, poor think that rich know it, subjects think that the rulers know it. The truth is that everyone is equally clueless. Awakened ones know the sweet secret but can't tell it.”

Spirituality Secret Buddhism Enlightenment Awakening Zen

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“When you see the Sun setting over the horizon, you feel like you've entered into a beautiful art piece. A meditative mind gets that feeling 24×7. The world feels like an art village for those who walk through it slowly.”

Spirituality Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Awakening Zen Shunya

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“The universe is dark and infinite. Then how come this little scene happening before me so vibrant with colours, shapes, patterns, sounds, sensations? This childlike wonder will keep you in eternal bliss. On the other hand, human characters and stories will give you highs-lows, pain-pleasure, hope-fear, stress-release and so on.”

Spirituality Peace Buddhism Zen Liberation Hinduism Vedanta

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“Don't just pass by the present moment. Enter it. Even ordinary moments like peeling potatoes are entry gates of better and better future.”

Spirituality Buddhism Mindfulness Zen Living In The Present

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“Do you know your parents? No. You're just familiar with them. We see things again and again, become familiar with them, give them some name and think that we know them. We don't know even a single thing or person.”

Philosophy Spirituality Psychology Buddhism Zen Hinduism

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“Flow with the universe and there will be bliss. Try to flow with the expectations of people and there will be pain and suffocation. Because you belong to the whole universe, not a few people.”

Spirituality Buddhism Zen Hinduism New Age

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“You can't grab the supreme truth. You have to melt into it. If you try to grab it, you will end up grabbing the myths that surround it.”

Spirituality Buddhism Zen Hinduism Nothingness Supreme Truth

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“The present moment is eternally new. Happy New Moment.”

Buddhism Zen New Age Living In The Present

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“You feel that your soul is in your character since birth. Your character’s memories make you believe so. A realized soul is not bound to memory of the character. A realized soul feels that it came to the character just now. Everything feels new.”

Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening Zen Living In The Present

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“To detach from your character, you should first know it fully -the dark side as well as bright side. It doesn’t mean that you should try everything in the world. To know itself, a tree doesn’t need to get hit by an axe at every inch of its being. The air around it can make it feel how far its branches go. When you are in a position to do something and do it, you only get to know one side of you. When you don’t do it, you get to know two sides of you -the one that wanted to do it and the other that didn’t.”

Spirituality Psychology Buddhism Zen Detachment Dark Side No Thought

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“Pencil breaks when you sharpen it fully. A student who wants to write only after fully sharpening the pencil will never be able to write. He will waste whole pencil in sharpening.”

Life Wisdom Buddhism Mindfulness Zen Present Moment Living In The Present

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“Your life is like a TV serial. You are the watcher, the audience. Producer of this TV serial is Maya (Interplay of Time and Space). You say to the producer, “I am very angry at this and this villain.” The producer’s purpose is to invoke emotions in audience and make money. If you are angry, it’s good for producer. More you get angry at characters, more their screentime will be increased in next episode. When they stop invoking any emotion in you, only then they will be thrown out of the TV serial.”

Spirituality Buddhism Mindfulness Anger Zen Let Go

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“This universe is like a company. Being detached doesn’t mean quitting the job. It means being at a position where you do your job and the entire universe seems to be helping you in your job. It doesn’t mean being the CEO or a king. You can have any role and still be in that position. A detached farmer does his job and the entire universe, including the king and the clouds, seem to be working for him and helping him in his job. On the other hand, for an attached king, even his family members work against him.”

Universe Awareness Buddhism Zen Oneness Hinduism Detachment No Thought

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“Have you heard the sound of knife cutting through apple? Have you felt touch of water when you wash your face? No. Because while doing these things you are already thinking of something in future. To be in the present you have to be fully sensitive to your surrounding. More sensitive you are, closer you are to the eternal bliss.”

Buddhism Eternity Zen Hinduism Sensitivity Living In The Present

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“If you play your role well in whatever script life has given you in the present moment, you will get signed for a better script in the future.”

Spirituality Buddhism Surrender Zen Hinduism Living In The Present No Thought

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“Make love to the present and give birth to your own beautiful future. If you make love to the demons of guilt and worries, you will give birth to a problematic future.”

Life Inspirational Motivation Spirituality Buddhism Zen Hinduism Living In The Present

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“Imagine you are passing by a roadside gambling stall. There is an operator surrounded by some audience members who are gambling their money and winning. You get interested and place your bet. You lose your money. Later you realize that the operator and the audience were all part of the same gang. Give it a thought: Maybe the things you like and things you dislike are part of the same conspiracy? They are just putting on a show to keep you engaged. You are the only real audience of this show.”

Spirituality Zen Hinduism Advaita Duality Vedanta

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“You are a glass of water separated from the blue ocean. Stop looking for blue colour powder. What you are missing is not colour but inner depth.”

Life Spirituality Buddhism Illusion Zen Hinduism Wholeness

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“Silence is the background music that you can play anywhere and make any ambience your own.”

Mind Spirituality Silence Meditation Zen No Thought

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“If a good thing is going out of your life despite all your efforts, don’t cling to it otherwise you will miss the better things coming your way. If a bad thing is staying in your life despite all your efforts, let it stay for some more time. It is probably stopping a worse thing from coming in and taking its place.”

Soul Spirituality Buddhism Zen Hinduism Let Go Living In The Present

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“When you started the journey of this life, you learned your mother tongue so as to communicate with the external world. Even before that you knew a language that you have been using since eternity. It’s your Divine-mother tongue: Silence. Use it to communicate with the divine.”

Spirituality Peace Silence Buddhism Inner Peace Zen No Thought

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“The universe looks different from different angles. Everyone is right from their perspective. If you say, 'No. Some are right. Others are wrong , then you are also right. There is no absolute right or wrong. Absolute is just silence of nothingness.”

Spirituality Buddhism Morality Zen Advaita Duality Non Duality Phiolosophy

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“Be someone who has nothing. Then everything you have will feel like a luxurious gift. Even better, be someone who doesn't even have a body. Then every touch and every visual offered by the body will feel heavenly.”

Buddhism Zen Hinduism Nothingness Minimalism

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“There is an emptiness inside us. If we look at it from outside, we feel painful loneliness. If we sit inside that emptiness and look outside, we experience blissful solitude.”

Relationships Loneliness Buddhism Solitude Zen

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“Life can be a party if you stop pretending to be the host, stop trying to micro-manage everything.”

Life Joy Freedom Buddhism Zen Detachment Let Go

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“Haters turn your followers into worshippers.”

Mind Psychology Buddhism Zen Duality Haters

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“What would the doctors do if there were no patients? What would politicians do if there were no social problems? What would humanitarians do if there were no inhumanity? The opposite sides that seem to be fighting each other actually depend on each other, define each other, thrive with each other.”

Peace Buddhism Opposites Zen Hinduism Advaita Duality Vedanta

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“Most people don’t want solution of their problem. When someone rants about their problem, imagine someone sitting in a cinema hall and ranting about the villain. They are fully engrossed in this endless movie since many births.”

Life Truth Buddhism Zen Attachment Problems Detachment No Thought

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“When you listen to the sound of waves at the beach, you feel relaxed because your mind doesn’t have to agree, disagree or judge that sound. Human beings are nothing but waves of five elements. Why does your mind go in overdrive when their sounds fall in your ear? You will feel tremendously relaxed when you stop agreeing. disagreeing or judging every human sound that falls in your ears.”

Spirituality Peace Psychology Judging Zen Judgement Hinduism No Thought

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“Be it a happy song or a sad song, you don't think about its end while listening to it. Inner journey is like a song. Yes, it will end. But if you are thinking about the end, you haven't tuned into the song yet.”

Spirituality Buddhism Enlightenment Awakening Zen Liberation Hinduism Inner Journey

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“You drop your heavy luggage at departure airport and pick it up at your arrival airport. Being possessive about things and people will only deny you entry into flights of life. Trust the higher powers. What is yours will remain yours.”

Spirituality Buddhism Possession Zen Detachment Let Go Possessiveness

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“The Time gives you subscription packages. If you get fed up of materialistic packages, it gives you spiritual or religious packages. The idea is to keep you hooked to one thing or the other.”

Religion Spirituality Meditation Buddhism Zen Nothingness

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“Find one thing that holds you in the present moment... one thing that stops the live commentary in your head. It can be anything like sipping hot beverage, taking a shower, watching the waves... That thing is your own meditation technique, your own door to connect with the supreme.”

Meditation Buddhism Yoga Zen Present Moment

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“Enjoy the present moment. Enjoy the journey. Because you are moving on an ENDLESS hill road. You are coming back to the same point again and again, maybe slightly higher or lower.”

Spirituality Buddhism Zen Present Moment Hinduism Life Journey No Thought

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“Nothingness is the source of everything. It is the magical pot from which you can get never ending supply of anything. But everytime you want something from it, you have to lose yourself into it. Then a new version of you will come out of it along with the thing you wanted.”

Buddhism Zen Hinduism Nothingness Alchemy Kundalini

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“Your mind is like a device you are wearing. Play with it instead of being played by it. You can easily play with one setting of this device: Focus. Focus only when required. At home, you are relaxed. But your mind is narrowly focussed on TV, fridge, phone and bed. De-focus and take in the whole surrounding. Feel the air touching your skin. hear so many sounds reaching your ears, sit on the floor and see your room without focussing on particular objects.”

Mind Spirituality Focus Buddhism Zen No Thought Defocus

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“We can create some information about Buffalo, milk and its nutritional values. We can exchange that information with each other for money, appreciation etc. A monk living alone in jungle doesn't know words such as Buffalo, milk or nutrition. He just wonders, "Green grass enters into this big black thing and a white liquid comes out of it. How!" He can't exchange this wonder with anyone but it transports him to eternity.”

Wisdom Spirituality Wonder Buddhism Eternity Zen No Thought

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“Why are trees green? Because of Chlorophyll. But why is that green? Because it absorbs all light except green. But why? Why has no answer. Just wonder how and stay in the state of wonder. Accepting an answer of why kills the wonder of how.”

Life Philosophy Spirituality Wonder Buddhism Zen Questions

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