“When you see ads again and again, the brand becomes familiar to you. Familiarity makes you think that you know about the content too. Actually we don't know much about anyone. We just see things and people again and again and become familiar with them. It creates the illusion that we know them.” PhilosophySpiritualityKnowingPsychologyTrustIllusionFamiliarity Author:Shunya
“When black and white fight with each other, they both turn grey if spiritual awareness is not on either side. Then they both claim to be white and become an ugly shade of grey that is not found anywhere in nature except in human mind.” PhilosophyEvilAwarenessGoodnessWrongRightVirtues Author:Shunya
“Every situation is unique. So there can't be a standard definition of right and wrong. But deep down every soul knows what is right. We use reasoning to avoid our own soul.” PhilosophyReligionSpiritualityDoctrineWrongDogmaRightBeliefsVirtues Author:Shunya
“Things are complicated. Don’t judge someone as good or bad. If you have already judged, don’t waste your energy in trying to prove that your judgement is right.” PhilosophyJudgingWrongRightOpinionsJudging Others Author:Shunya
“All sorts of people are doing all sorts of things all over the world. They all are right as per their own definition of right and wrong.” LifePhilosophyReligionBeliefWrongRight Author:Shunya
“Inside you, there is an Eagle (courage to face the unknown) and a Serpent (knowledge). Both should grow equally. If the Eagle grows more, you become a wandering ascetic. If the Serpent grows more, you become a philosopher. When they grow equally, one day the Eagle flies away with the Serpent. Then only the Enlightened being remains for whom there is nothing known or unknown.” PhilosophyKnowledgeCourageEnlightenmentMysticismAsceticism Author:Shunya
“When somebody is massaging your head, you will notice that they tend to leave one spot untouched. You will say, “Why are you leaving the spot where it is itching the most?” The truth is, that spot is itching the most because it is being left out. “Why am I not getting the thing I want the most?” should be rephrased as “I am itching to get this thing because I am not getting it.” The power of a desire lies in the difficulty to fulfil it.” SoulPhilosophyDesireSpiritualityPsychologyKarmaDesires 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
“Search of truth is actually a search of strength to handle the truth.” PhilosophyLife LessonsSpirituality 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
“Imagine that the universe is the size of your room. There is nothing outside your room. But you can expand the universe as far as your senses go. If you can see a mountain from the window, universe has expanded till the mountain. If you walk 2 km outside the room, it has expanded 2 km. If you are reading about Britain, universe has expanded till britain.. and so on. This is not an imagination. This is reality. Your universe exists only as far as your mind goes. You are expanding it by discovering new things.” PhilosophyWisdomSpiritualityUniverseImaginationWonder 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
“You're hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn't sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You're the eternity.” PhilosophyRealitySpiritualityIllusionHinduismNondualityDualityShunya 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
“Good wins over evil. Then Evil wins over good again. This circle goes on till eternity. Permanent winner is the awakened soul who becomes free from both.” WorldSoulPhilosophyEvilAwarenessEternityAwakeningGood Author:Shunya
“A beggar is sad because his alms collection is lower than usual. An emperor is sad because his tax collection is lower than usual. You are on a circular ladder. There is always a lower and higher.” PhilosophyHappinessReligionSpiritualitySadnessFailureComparisonRelativity Author:Shunya
“We notice our own quality when we see lack of it in someone else. Others work like mirrors for us in various ways.” PeopleLifePhilosophyReligionSpiritualityKarma Author:Shunya
“Society gives you some goals. You achieve them after much effort. You celebrate for a few days. Then life becomes the same as before. You don't get the happiness you were expecting. Achievements feel useless. Then you attach your pride to them to make them seem useful. Pride is a tool of self deception.” LifePhilosophyWisdomSpiritualityPsychologyPrideSelf Deception Author:Shunya
“Suppose you're inside a room and the room starts moving with you. If you take one step, room also moves one step. How will you get out of it? (Your mind is like that room).” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityLiberation Author:Shunya
“What you think, speak and do is mostly in reaction to the people and situation around you. Rare are those moments when your bare soul expresses itself from deep within.” MindSoulPhilosophyPsychologyInner Self Author:Shunya
“Imagine that a scientist creates a human clone in a lab based on the genes of a real man called Raghu. It looks exactly like Raghu. Through virtual reality (VR), its mind is fed with experiences and memories of Raghu so that now it believes that it is Raghu. Now both of them -Raghu and the clone - behave exactly the same way. They cry on same things, laugh on same things. How would you find out which one of them has a soul?” MindSoulPhilosophyReligionSpiritualityHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“When you finally jump out of the pond and see trees for the first time, how would you describe them to your former companions in the pond who have only seen moss till now? Weird large frames covered with moss?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“There are no colours. There are things and light that appear to have colours. Our mind labels them as Red, Green, Blue etc. But they too are just labels, not colours. Colours are non-existent. But non-existence is more real and alive than existence. Your real self (soul) resides in non-existence.” SoulPhilosophyExistenceEnlightenmentAwakeningHigher Self 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
“Suppose you have a weighing scale that has maximum weighing limit of 10kg. If I put things below 10 kg on it, it will measure them correctly. If I put an 11kg thing, it will measure it incorrectly as 10 kg. When you try to describe things that are beyond your limit, you end up describing yourself and your own limits.” MindSoulPhilosophyGodPsychologyMysticismHinduism 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
“Imagine you wake up one morning and see a new mole on your chin. You will freak out. This is called Relative Change - something was not there yesterday but it is there today. Now suppose that along with the new mole, somebody installs some past memories about that mole in your mind. You will not notice the change because the memories will make you believe that it was already there. This is called Absolute Change. You can only detect change, not absolute change. So a god or goddess can live in your house as your family member and you would not even notice them because of the memories they install in your mind.” SoulPhilosophyTimeSpiritualityChangeMysteryMysticismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Imagine a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces. There are a million ways in which it can be incomplete but there is only one way in which it is complete. Your mind thinks that it is a player with the mission to solve the puzzle of universe. The truth is that mind itself is the last piece of the puzzle. Surrender! Dissolve the mind and be one with the rest of the universe.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityUniverse Author:Shunya
“When you throw a stone to get a mango from tree, it’s a normal thingcause and effect. What if you just mimicked the hand gesture without actually throwing the stone and still get the mango? That is magical. That is how this world feels when you enjoy it from the level of soul. Maya (Space-Time) doesn’t want you to be at the level of soul. She suggests, “You can have this kind of experience at mind level too. You can get reaction from people just by doing acting, just by faking the action.” Since we lack the soul-level magical experience, we try to emulate it at mind level by faking things. Let aside earning money, even the act of love becomes an exercise in fakeness. The search of that magical experience at mind level often turns into lust and greed.” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityMagicIllusionGreedLustHinduism Author:Shunya
“You and your body-mind are in a room. Somebody calls a name. Your body-mind go out of room. You (soul) have no name. Nobody is calling you. Then why are you going out with the body-mind?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“I don't know', 'Maybe', 'Perhaps' - If you have stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don't have beliefs. Beliefs have you.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“People don't have time to be evil. There is pettiness all around but not much evil.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionBuddhismZenSpirituality Vs Religion Author:Shunya
“Past troubles those who divide it into two: Waste that must be disposed off and trophies that must be showcased. Things of the past are raw material for the future. If they are dirty, wash them with acceptance. If they are too bright, dip them into grace.” LifeMindSoulPhilosophyGodWisdomReligionSpiritualityBuddhismZen Author:Shunya
“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.” PhilosophySpiritualityEnlightenmentEternityAwakeningZenLiberationParadox Author:Shunya
“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.” PhilosophyBuddhismZenHinduismNothingnessShunyaImmortal Talks Author:Shunya
“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.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismZenHinduism 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
“Turn inward: If you're asking 'why', also ask why 'why'? If your power is to question, also question the questioner in you.” PhilosophySpiritualityLogicReasoningInner JourneyTurn Inward Author:Shunya
“Suppose your mind has 1000 files stored about supreme knowledge but your friend’s mind has capacity to store only 10 files. You can’t prove to him that you have 1000 files because you can’t transfer more than 10 files to his mind. That is the problem in interacting with people with lower awareness than you. They hit a dead end beyond which you can’t help them unless they are ready to accept and expand their limit.” MindPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyLogicReasoning Author:Shunya
“If people weren't busy making a living and dealing with their problems, they would destroy each other in innovative ways. Misery is keeping the human race alive. An individual will continue to be miserable until she learns to handle lack of misery by knowing her true self.” PhilosophySpiritualityPsychologyViolenceSocietyHuman NatureMiseryInner Self Author:Shunya
“Your kindness is only for the half. The compassion that will flow from deep inside you will be for everyone: rich-poor, deer-lion, wise-unwise because they all are caught in the trap that you will have escaped.” PhilosophyWisdomCompassionKindnessIllusionAdvaitaDuality Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like an umbrella. You want me to come under it. How is that possible? I am the sky. Throw away the umbrella. Let me drench you.” PhilosophyGodReligionSpiritualityPsychologyRelationshipDivine Love Author:Shunya
“If everybody is jumping into the well and you're unable to do it, that will become your problem. That's the definition of problem for human mind: Being left out from what everyone else is doing.” MindPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySocietySolitudeProblemsRat Race Author:Shunya
“Mirrors show exact reflection of you. What if there were a mirror that showed a different reflection than yourself? Imagine that Ram stands in front of the mirror and sees not Ram but Shyam in the mirror. “Maya” is the house of such mirrors. The people you see around you are just your different reflections. Some reflections are similar to you and others are completely different. If you try to change a reflection, you would end up banging your head against a mirror. Instead, change your position and angles. Don’t try to change people. Just change your distance and expectations from them.” LoveMindPhilosophyTruthSpiritualityRelationshipsIllusionExpectationsDetachment Author:Shunya
“Those who act from their heart feel that everyone acts from their hearts. Those who act from their head believe that everyone acts from their heads.” MindHeartPhilosophySpiritualityPsychologySelflessnessHead Author:Shunya
“Problems are like traffic jams. They clear up if you wait patiently. But instead of waiting for solution, you start seeking solace in two ways: (1) You target those who you think are cause of your problems (2) You target yourself. As a result problems sink their roots deep into your mind. ॐ” LifeMindPhilosophyMotivationReligionSpiritualityPsychologyProblemsSolution Author:Shunya
“This morning, did you wake up in the same body in which you slept last night? Maybe you slept in the body of Ram and woke up in the body of Shyam. Now you think you are Shyam because you have taken up memories and everything that belongs to Shyam. Maybe you take a new body everyday. Rejoice! It's a new day and a new life!” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityMysteryMysticismOccult Author:Shunya
“Notice the small letter “a”. The typed “a” is different from what you write with pen on paper. This difference doesn't bother you at all. Mind can adapt to anything. It can even learn to read 'cow' as 'elephant'.” MindPhilosophyPsychology Author:Shunya