“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.” BuddhismZenHinduismNothingnessAlchemyKundalini Author:Shunya
“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.” MindSpiritualityFocusBuddhismZenNo ThoughtDefocus Author:Shunya
“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.” WisdomSpiritualityWonderBuddhismEternityZenNo Thought Author:Shunya
“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.” LifePhilosophySpiritualityWonderBuddhismZenQuestions Author:Shunya
“The universe is like an ocean but we break away from it and start living in our own little hole. Then we spend whole life preventing the hole from getting dry or muddy. Once you are one with the ocean, no polluted stream can make you impure and no fire can dry you.” SpiritualityUniverseLife PhilosophyBuddhismZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“A man carries around a stick to protect himself from street dogs. He doesn't realize that the stick is the reason why dogs become suspicious of him and bark at him. This circle of absurdity is behind every deep attachment (not love). We get attached to those who solve the problems that they indirectly cause in the first place.” LoveFearBuddhismAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“Deep down all souls are innocent but they're caught up in a ruthless game.” GodReligionCompassionBuddhismInnocenceHinduism Author:Shunya
“If you’re tired of the highs and lows of life, there is an ancient formula for attaining the balance. Your passion for things you like should not be higher or lower than your compassion for things you dislike. They should be equal. And you can’t make them equal until you raise your awareness and see things from a higher perspective.” LifeSpiritualityCompassionBuddhismHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“You don't value things that easily come to you. You value things that are hard to get. You keep running after them and complain, "Why are things I desire hard to get?” LifeMindSpiritualityStrugglePsychologyBuddhismParadoxHinduism Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like a bell hanging outside a temple. It reacts to everything and gives sounds like “That is wrong” “That is right” “I like it” “I disagree.” Let it ring. Let it react. Leave it where it is and go inside the temple. Detach from the mind to enter your inner temple.” MindSoulReligionSpiritualityBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Answers are just food for mind. Like an animal may someday cross the boundaries of jungle in search of food, you might cross the boundaries of mind in search of answers. The supreme truth is not an answer but you may find Him in search of answers.” MindSpiritualityAnswersBuddhismSeekingHinduismInner JourneySeeker Author:Shunya
“Your body is like a kite. The space around you is the turbulent sky through which it is fluttering It is going where the wind of thoughts takes it. Leave this kite here. Don’t fight with the wind either. Just descend deep inside you and find your inner ground. Get hold of the string of awareness. It’s a magical string. You just have to watch the kite “and it will get out of the turbulent sky.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityAwarenessBuddhismThoughtsAwakeningHinduism Author:Shunya
“Nobody knows who you truly are. From your milkman to your spouse, everyone has a different image of you. You keep accepting, rejecting. correcting and enhancing those images. Even you don’t know who you are. You are searching for yourself.” MindSoulSpiritualityIdentityBuddhismEgoHinduismSearchSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“If a woman who has grown up alone in a far off island gets pregnant, she might think that she has got a fatal disease which is making her stomach swell. Your pain and discomfort is intolerable to you because you don't know that you are pregnant with a beautiful destiny.” MindPainSpiritualityOpportunityPerspectiveBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“The pendulum of your mind is going to the extremes because you are going with it. Leave it alone. It will slow down and ultimately stop. Just remain at the center and watch how it tries to tempt you to get a push.” MindBuddhismDepressionAnxietyEmotions Author:Shunya
“It's easy for a preacher to say 'Let Go'. Imagine a king who wants to let go of his power because it's giving him nothing but stress and anxiety. If he lets go of it, his enemies will kill him. He has to first let go of his own body-mind. Then right circumstances will form and his body-mind will be able let go of power safely. You have to let go of things spiritually before you can let go of them physically.” SpiritualityBuddhismLetting GoAnxietyStressHinduism Author:Shunya
“You are suffering from yourself. Others are just a symptom.” LifePainSufferingBuddhismEgoMiseryKarmaHinduism Author:Shunya
“Imagine people sitting around fire under a starry sky and wondering who we are and where we have come from. But instead we sit in drawing rooms and make statements: "I am so and so, my son is so and so, my god is so and so, my holy book is so and so." If you have already assumed an identity, how will you know who you really are?” SelfPhilosophySpiritualityWonderBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“All your past Karma get cleaned in just one moment of realization, the realization that you are not the doer. You didn’t do any of it. You just got attached to the doer; you just copied the doer’s Karma on your Pen Drive. The whole data can be cleaned in an instant of realization.” SpiritualitySinBuddhismEnlightenmentKarmaRealizationProblemsHinduism Author:Shunya
“When compulsions make you keep doing something against your will, don’t be frustrated with others. Just observe the helplessness of your own physical self and ultimately detach from it.” SpiritualityBuddhismInner PeaceInner Self Author:Shunya
“If you have perpetual disagreement with your family member, no matter where the conversation starts, it will end at the same conflicting point. It’s so repetitive that you exactly know their response even before they say it. If that is so, why not do it all in your head? Say both your side and their side of argument in your own head while watching them silently. It will become like a prayer. At the end you will not DEMAND them to change. You will just wish. And wishes do get fulfilled.” PeaceRelationshipsBuddhismArgumentInner PeaceHinduism Author:Shunya
“To get godly powers, you must have godly qualities. For human mind, the easiest godly quality to acquire is 'Infinite Patience'. That means, you should be able to wait infinitely for the results. In other words, you should not expect results, Those who can wait infinitely get it instantly.” PhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismPatienceHinduismExpectationDivine PowerInner Power Author:Shunya
“When we dig a well, we get muddy water before clean water. A thirsty person would swallow the muddy water and become sick. Only those who are detached from the thirst can be patient at the finishing line where nectar is often hidden behind poison.” LifeSuccessPurposeSpiritualityBuddhismPatienceDetachment Author:Shunya
“Sages told the king that prince Siddhartha would become a Sanyasi, To avoid it, king kept him within the luxuries of the palace for years. When prince went out, he suddenly saw sick, old, dead and suffering people. He became a Sanyasi. Had prince gone out and seen suffering from childhood, he would have become used to it like we have. He wouldn’t have become a Sanyasi. Telling the destiny and avoiding the destiny are a part of destiny.” SpiritualityDestinyBuddhismAstrologyBuddhaHinduFortune Telling Author:Shunya
“God is in my heart.' -- This has become the most common excuse to avoid spiritual journey. If He were in your heart, you would be swept over by feelings and emotions. Instead thoughts and opinions are crawling all over you.” ReligionSpiritualityBuddhismThoughtsEmotionsDevotionHinduism Author:Shunya
“When true surrender happens (through supreme knowledge or devotion), you become brush in the hands of the supreme painter, and He turns your mistakes into masterpieces.” ReligionFaithBuddhismSurrenderDevotionHinduism Author:Shunya
“Only your conscious being is eternally yours. Everything else is bonus. The loss or gain is happening from the bonus.” UniverseLossConsciousnessBuddhismEternityHinduismGain Author:Shunya
“All emotions and feelings are tasty if they are drank and digested. They turn nasty because we keep chewing them with the teeth of reasoning and thought.” FeelingsRelationshipsBuddhismThoughtsEmotionsReasoningHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Suppose you're about to start playing a game. Somebody comes and says, "You're going to play a game." Then if you play, you're proving them right. If you don't play, you are proving them wrong. It no longer remains your game. It becomes all about them. This is how thoughts tie you down. This is how Maya binds the soul.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismThoughtsHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“All processes in nature create waste but nature takes care of the waste too. The thought process is man-made. The waste it creates is like plastic. Religions all over the world have turned human mind into a factory of creating pious thoughts. The waste it creates is immense and dirty. People try to burn it with the fire of hatred, riots, wars and so on... True religion is about discovering the zone of no thought.” ReligionBuddhismMoralityThoughtsHatredHinduismVirtuesRiotsNo Thought Author:Shunya
“There is difference between knowing something and knowing "about" something. To know tea, you have to drink it. To know "about" it, you can google information and write essays or books on it. Tragedy is that most people just want to know "about" God. Those who dare to jump from the boat of knowledge and dive into nothingness are very very few.” GodWisdomSpiritualityLanguageKnowledgeBuddhismThoughtsWordsHinduism Author:Shunya
“Your questions are useless if your mind makes them as easily as a bubble-blower makes bubbles. A question should burn like fire. It should take you to a journey.” TruthAnswersBuddhismCuriosityHinduismQuestionsSpiritual Journey Author:Shunya
“To materialize your wish, the universe has to change the things around you. Your body is also one of those things. Drop the idea of ownership over your body and consider it as just another part of the universe. Otherwise either your wish will never materialize or it will materialize in a distorted way.” UniverseBuddhismLaw Of AttractionMysticismDetachmentWish Fulfillment Author:Shunya
“You have been taught things only from human perspective. To be holy, you must have holistic perspective. You must see things from other perspectives. For example: A Mango tree does business with human beings. It covers its seeds with sweet pulp and says, “My seeds can’t grow under my shade. So please take my seeds away from me. As your service fee, you can have the pulp.” WisdomSpiritualityUniverseWonderPerspectiveBuddhismHinduismBroad Mindedness Author:Shunya
“Suppose that the universe has a battery. If you take out the battery, universe becomes non existent. But then the battery will exist! Both the battery and the universe can’t be non-existent. When one is in existence, the other is in non-existence. This absolute combination is known by many names: Shiva-Shakti, Shunya-Srishti, Pure Feminine-Pure Masculine.” PhilosophyUniverseExistenceBuddhismHinduismAdvaitaDualityHindu Author:Shunya
“See the past memories as just information, not a hard reality that you have lived. Then they will become detachable like a Pen Drive. Everything around you will feel new. You will be like a Time traveller who has just checked in to this moment.” PastSpiritualityUniverseMemoriesBuddhismDepressionAnxietyTimes Author:Shunya
“Universe can be imagined as a huge residential building. The view is different from different floors and apartments. Humanity is just one floor. A belief system is just one apartment on this floor. Free yourself from self-imposed limits. Whole building is yours!” TruthFaithUniverseBeliefPerspectiveBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“The whole world is a family.” It has become a moralistic phrase. Ancient Indian sages had designed it as a powerful thought experiment: Imagine that whole world is a small family. That family is living alone, surrounded by infinite dark space in which countless planets and suns and galaxies are floating.” PhilosophyReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Young Shani Deva was extremely attached to his mother. She became fatally Ill. To get a cure for her, he decided to climb mount Kailash and meet the supreme God. To climb higher and higher, he had to let go of all his baggages, including the baggage of attachment to mother. Then two things happened at the same time: God met him and his mother got cured. Attachment harms our loved ones, love heals them.” LoveGodUniverseBuddhismAttachmentHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“Nothingness is the source of everything. But if you want to take an apple out of it, so many other things will come out along with apple: The farmer who produced it, the farm, the seed shop, farmer’s family and ancestors... a whole new universe will come out with apple.” UniverseBuddhismHinduismNothingnessAdvaitaVedantaShunya Author:Shunya
“Tea made for one person has rare herbs in it. Tea made for a group has lots of sugar in it. Those who go alone on spiritual journey get the rare treasure of knowledge. Those who join a group just sing sweet glories of ancient knowledge, instead of getting the actual knowledge.” PhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismSolitudeHinduism Author:Shunya
“In a movie, dialogues take the story forward and background sounds give dramatic effect. So many people are saying so many things in your life. React to only those with whom you want to take your story forward. Regard the rest as background sounds.” LifeSpiritualityPeaceLife QuotesBuddhismSolitudeMinimalism Author:Shunya
“Don't let them rob your feminine in the name of feminism. Amputation is not a cure of the wound.” SocietyFeminismBuddhismFeminineWomen EmpowermentHinduismTantraShakti Author:Shunya
“Unique things can't be compared. Human beings discard their uniqueness and try to become like each other so that they can compare with each other. Comparison creates feeling of being superior or inferior, weak or powerful. Human being crave both. Feeling weak gives a different kind of release than feeling powerful.” PhilosophySpiritualitySocietyBuddhismComparisonHinduismUniqueness Author:Shunya
“If you feel that you are the owner of your body-mind, you are violent. No matter how much you suppress your violent energy, it will come out in some form, You will either harm yourself or others.” LifeSpiritualityViolenceSocietyBuddhismMoralityEnlightenmentNon Violence Author:Shunya
“There is a circus going around you. If you enjoy it as an audience, you can go to your inner home anytime you want. If you get involved in the act, they will sign you up as a performer for lifetime.” LifeSocietyBuddhismChaosHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“A door can either free you or imprison you. Every single thing is like a door. For some people even sex became door of liberation and for some even holy books became door of imprisonment.” LifePhilosophySpiritualitySexPsychologyBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“A child may burn his lips with hot milk because he is drinking it only for the sugar mixed in it. If you love the hot beverage wholly and fully, it won't burn you. The heat itself will become a soul-lifting ingredient.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismProblemsHinduismPresentWholenessTotality Author:Shunya
“You are sitting on a computer in the projector cabin of a unique cinema hall in which the screen is not made up of white cloth. Instead, there is a big transparent room full of white liquid. You click on a movie file on your computer, the projector starts throwing light on the room of white liquid, real characters start emerging from the white liquid. You get attached to the characters. You start feeling their pain and pleasures. That room of white liquid is Space-Time or Maya. You are a soul sitting on the computer. The movie file is Karma-Desires. If you don’t like the movie, you can change it and play a better movie.” PhilosophyBuddhismEnlightenmentAwakeningHinduismAdvaitaSpiritual Knowledge Author:Shunya
“The supreme knowledge is fatal. It kills your ego. Ego loves ancient books because it has developed immunity against them.” ReligionBuddhismEgoEnlightenmentHinduismVedantaAncient KnowledgeSupreme Knowledge Author:Shunya