“If the attempt to get rid of something is leading you towards more darkness, that thing has become your shadow. Just accept it. First it will stop bothering you, then it will stop affecting you, then it will stop existing for you.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismIndifferenceAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“A king often saw a white pigeon visiting his garden. It would fly away whenever he tried to approach it. He won its trust after great efforts and brought it to his palace. Soon after everything started going wrong in his life. He never doubted the pigeon for this. In fact he would cry before it and say, "You are the only good thing remaining in my life." How could he doubt someone whose trust he had won with great efforts?” MindSpiritualityPsychologyTrustBuddhism Author:Shunya
“When two sides are accusing each other, it's very difficult to figure out the reality. Because reality is different for everyone. The difference is not just in mind. Things actually look different to different people. Two or more people can align or sync their realities if they trust each other. When trust is gone, their realities again become different. This is Samsara.” LifeWisdomBuddhismConflictWrongFightHinduismRightDualityAccusations Author:Shunya
“Mentally strong people are like a dam on a river. Life keeps on overwhelming them with burdens. If you're tired of being a dam, just let go! Water will find its way.” LifeStrengthBuddhismBurdenReliefProblemsHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“Both pain and pleasure pull you deeper into the illusion of Maya (Space-Time). But voluntary pain (like climbing a hill to reach a temple) and conscious pleasure (Tantra sex) take you inward.” PainPleasureConsciousnessBuddhismHinduismTantra Author:Shunya
“You want to spend your day like an emperor and then sleep deeply like a labourer. That’s not possible in this world of dualities. Here definition of pleasure is relief from pain. Eternal bliss is found when you detach from both.” LifePainReligionSpiritualityPleasureBuddhismBlissDuality Author:Shunya
“Pain and pleasure are the same energy inside you. When it flows at a slow rate like sunlight in a morning winter, it's pleasure. When the flow rate goes beyond a threshold, it's pain.” LifePainSpiritualityEnergyPleasureBuddhismHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyPainReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“When we like something too much, a part of us wants to keep them forever in our 'wishlist' because we know that when wishes comes true, they lose their charm.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyPainReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point." But for people, drama is the point. A point is useless to them if it doesn't provide drama.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“Experiencing a particular thing strongly is passion. Experiencing everything deeply is compassion. The short-lived flame of passion must be used to discover the eternal Sun of compassion. Otherwise you will feel cheated every time a passion dies.” LoveSpiritualityPassionCompassionBuddhismMysticism Author:Shunya
“You don't know God because you know too much 'about' Him. A baby knows his mother even though he knows nothing 'about' her.” KnowingBuddhismHinduismNot KnowingNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya
“If you have hurt someone and they are angry at you, you are safe from the Karmic backlash. When their mind has forgiven you, their soul will cry every once in a while. That is when Karma will come to sting you.” SoulPainSpiritualityBuddhismHeartbreakKarma Author:Shunya
“I like this, I dislike that. He is good, she is evil.' This black and white approach towards life gives us very low quality experiences. To make up for the quality, we run after quantity. We seek more and more dramas everywhere be it home, office, road, TV, news media.” LifePhilosophySpiritualityEvilBuddhismGoodDualityExperiences Author:Shunya
“Every time you feel sad, you become a little silent Now your mind has started associating silence with sadness. Be silent when you are happy. When mind starts associating silence with happiness, going into meditative silence becomes easier.” MindSilencePsychologySadnessBuddhismThoughtsZenHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“A scientist is more doubtful of his theories than the science teacher who teaches those theories. A Guru is more doubtful of his words than his followers because he knows that everything except silence is a corruption of truth.” SilenceBuddhismAwakeningZenHinduismAbsolute Truth Author:Shunya
“There is a veil between you and God. Thoughts are like embroidery on that veil. People are doing more and more embroidery on your veil and making it more and more obscure.” GodSilenceBuddhismSolitudeThoughtsZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“In literature, words are used to give pleasures to your mind. In spirituality, words are used to take you beyond mind into the ultimate bliss of wordlessness (silence). Many seekers mistake spirituality as literature. They just enjoy the use of poetic words and stories.” MindSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismZenNo Thought Author:Shunya
“People create conflicts, arguments and all sorts of noise to help each other avoid silence. Because nothing scares a mind more than silence. Silence is the language of soul. The soul talks to God when mind stops talking about God.” PeaceSilenceMeditationBuddhismMindfulness Author:Shunya
“There are no exams in playschool. If you are tired of exams and tests life is throwing at you, make your life like a book from playschool: Less words, more pictures. Less conclusions, more stories. Less meaning, more poetry. Less interpretations, more direct experiences.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismSolitudeZen Author:Shunya
“If two deer meet in a jungle, they silently eat the grass or play. I am this... You did this... How dare you say that... All these arguments take place only when one of them is not a deer. And these arguments will reach no conclusion. They should either silently accept each other or silently walk away. Silence is the most natural thing in both the cases.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismArgumentZenHinduismNon Violence Author:Shunya
“Peacock is dancing.” These words can’t show you the dance that I am seeing right now. They can only invoke your past memory when you had seen a peacock dancing. Words always keep you in the past or future. Only silence can let you enjoy the present.” MindLanguageSilenceBuddhismThoughtsZenHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“When you say “Don’t judge”, you are judging those who judge. To say “Be Silent” to yourself, you have to break your silence. The thought of “being thoughtless” is there even when you are thoughtless. Spiritual truths can’t be practiced at mind level. You have to discover something deeper than the mind which is already non-judgemental, silent and thoughtless, Jo” SilenceJudgingBuddhismZenHinduismAdvaitaVedantaThoughtlessness Author:Shunya
“If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music. Most people just keep shuttling between noise and music. To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise.” ReligionSpiritualitySilenceMeditationBuddhismZenHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismZenNothingness Author:Shunya
“Talking softly when you are not sick, walking gently when you're not old, staying silent when you have words and so on... The energy you thus save lights your inner lamp and summons the higher powers.” WisdomSpiritualityEnergyPeaceSilenceBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“By the time you have described a moment in words, it has passed away. Instead of talking about dead moments, let us birth a new moment in silence.” LoveLifeRomanceSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismWordsNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Someone who is learning driving takes joy in the knowledge of driving. Someone who is on a long drive takes joy in the soulful experience of driving. Don't remain stuck in the knowledge. You are here for the experience.” JoySilenceKnowledgeBuddhismExperienceWordsHinduism Author:Shunya
“Some people are like echo. They will always have the last word in an argument, Even if you tell them that they are like echo, they will retort. Finally you have to settle for silence. Not just some people but the entire Space-Time is an echo chamber of duality. When you realize this, you settle for the eternal silence.” SoulSilenceBuddhismEnlightenmentEternityAwakeningHinduismAdvaitaDuality Author:Shunya
“Life is a silent movie. Society gives you subtitles (thoughts and words) which ruin the whole movie.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceSocietyBuddhismZane Author:Shunya
“This world is like an endless TV serial. If you keep discussing the characters and plots, you will never find the one who is watching this from the seat of eternity.” SoulGodBuddhismEternityHinduism Author:Shunya
“There are a hundred layers of dust and you are saying, 'This layer is mind, this layer is soul. I want to remove this and save this.' No. All of it is mind. All of it has to go. You have to go. What will remain is the divine you.” MindSoulSpiritualityDivineBuddhismHinduismDualityAdvaitavad Author:Shunya
“Like the small moon eclipses the Sun, your mind is eclipsing your soul, which shines inside you with the power of a thousand Suns.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismZenNo MindNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNondualityAdvaitaVedanta Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline. While trying to find the path which is beyond all opposites, you will realize that you are not mind.” MindSoulBuddhismHinduismNondualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“The new trend of capturing pics instead of enjoying the experience is not new. Human mind has been doing that for ages. Your mind tries to capture the experience by naming, defining, judging, comparing and categorizing everything. As a result, your soul misses the live dance of colours, sounds, shapes and sensations happening before you.” MindSoulPhilosophyPsychologyBuddhismZenOnenessNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Not taking an action is also an action. Not making a choice is also a choice. Body-mind can't escape from action. But if your action or inaction is guided by the awareness of your soul and silence of your inner self, it will take you out of the mess.” SoulActionSpiritualityBuddhismKarmaZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“Seekers get out of almost all layers of division, duality and two-ness. But their ego keeps them stuck in the duality of human and non-human, living being and non-living being. They can't see everything as one. They speak big words about soul, gods and scriptures but have no experience of godliness.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Your body-mind has a past, not you. You are eternal.” SoulPastSpiritualSpiritualityBuddhismEternityHinduismHigher Self Author:Shunya
“Human ego and drunk poets have ruined the powerful concept of soul and turned it into a flowery notion. Your character (body-mind) can function on its own. Soul doesn't do anything. It just witnesses what the character does. The character would go on as per its script even if your soul weren't here to witness it.” SoulDeathSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismFreewill Author:Shunya
“When babies fall asleep at one place but wake up at another place, they don’t even feel surprised. They know that their mother must have shifted them during sleep. If something similar happens to you, you will freak out. This attachment to the body and the surroundings is the reason your higher self is not able to shift you to better scenes in life.” MindSoulFreedomBuddhismHinduismDetachmentHigher SelfFreewill Author:Shunya
“Phases in spiritual journey: First you are a fire (Fire to seek the truth). Then you turn into ash (Earth) and become compassionate towards everything like mother Earth. Then ash flows into water. You want to wash away all the darkness inside and outside you. Then water evaporates and becomes air. Your notions about dark and light, good and bad evaporate. Then the trickiest part is to realize the Shunya or nothingness. Air can’t become Shunya. Everything including air is inside Shunya.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNothingnessShunyaFive Elements Author:Shunya
“In cricket fielding, if catch comes right in your hand, there is no fun. You enjoy the most when you have to dive to catch the ball. This is what playfulness is all about. Difference between being a servant of someone and surrendering to someone is playfulness. Don’t make things too easy in your relationship with your spouse or children or gods. Keep the playfulness alive.” MindSoulSpiritualityRelationshipsBuddhismSurrenderDevotionHinduismPlayfulness Author:Shunya
“Leftist, Rightist, Centrist - Let your mind be what it wants to be. Just don’t lose the awareness that you are a soul and you have the freewill to detach from this mind.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismIdeologyHinduism Author:Shunya
“Imagine that you are watching a movie which is so engaging that you forget yourself. Suppose that the movie is not 3 hours long but millions of years long. Of course, a human protagonist can’t have such a long story. So, the protagonist of the movie is someone who changes forms from human to cow to monkey to tree to dog to cat and so on... Then who are you and who is the protagonist of the movie? Aren’t you the eternal power watching your own story unfold before you?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismHinduismSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“Search the most weird thing on Google. You will find some people somewhere doing that thing. Your mind is even more advanced than Google. Whatever you want to believe, it can churn out logic to support that. Look at human history, most brilliant minds have died debating over their beliefs and no common conclusion has been reached so far. And it will never be reached. Mind is tricky machine that can complete any task that you assign it Give it the task of dissolving itself and it will dissolve itself with its own logic. Then you can experience the oneness - the Paramatma.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“A snake charmer was travelling in a bus. He asked for 21 tickets from bus conductor. On being asked “why”, he replied, “Whenever I open my basket and bring out the snake, 20 people also come out to see it. So I have 20 people in my basket.” That should be the mindset of a meditator. Enjoy this world as long as you want but when you want to meditate, you should be able to realize that all the people and things around you are all in your head. You should be able to wrap it all up and put it back in the basket.” SoulSpiritualityMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessHinduism Author:Shunya
“You are travelling in a vehicle. Another vehicle is moving alongside yours. Sometimes your vehicle is ahead, sometimes that vehicle is ahead. Then comes the separation. That vehicle moves to a different route. You feel slightly heartbroken even though you didn’t even see who the occupants of that vehicle were. Why? Because you are a soul. You don’t have to stay attached to just your own body. You can get attached to any other entity and feel its emotions. When you are travelling in a vehicle, your soul starts feeling emotions of your vehicle. Your vehicle feels heartbroken, not you.” MindSoulSelfSpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismHinduismInner Self Author:Shunya
“Soul awakens when it stops identifying with the body+mind. But in many seekers their mind stops identifying with the body. That is a painful situation because they are neither here nor there. Society seems meaningless to them and awakening remains elusive to them.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNew AgeOld Soul Author:Shunya
“I am a soul." This thought may give relief to beginners. But as you advance on spiritual path, this thought creates a huge problem: Your mind splits into two. One part starts acting like a soul and says "I am a soul." And the soul remains asleep.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya