“You can have experiences of all flavours in life. But you will remain thirsty and restless until you get the plain water of nothingness.” SpiritualityZenNothingnessNo ThoughtShunya Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismMindfulnessZenMysticismHinduism Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualitySecretBuddhismEnlightenmentAwakeningZen Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessAwakeningZenShunya Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityPeaceBuddhismZenLiberationHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“Don't just pass by the present moment. Enter it. Even ordinary moments like peeling potatoes are entry gates of better and better future.” SpiritualityBuddhismMindfulnessZenLiving In The Present 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
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismZenHinduismNew Age Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismZenHinduismNothingnessSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningZenLiving In The Present Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismZenDetachmentDark SideNo Thought Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismMindfulnessAngerZenLet Go Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismSurrenderZenHinduismLiving In The PresentNo Thought Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeInspirationalMotivationSpiritualityBuddhismZenHinduismLiving In The Present Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityZenHinduismAdvaitaDualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismIllusionZenHinduismWholeness Author:Shunya
“Silence is the background music that you can play anywhere and make any ambience your own.” MindSpiritualitySilenceMeditationZenNo Thought Author:Shunya
“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.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismZenHinduismLet GoLiving In The Present Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityPeaceSilenceBuddhismInner PeaceZenNo Thought Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismMoralityZenAdvaitaDualityNon DualityPhiolosophy Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityPeacePsychologyJudgingZenJudgementHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismEnlightenmentAwakeningZenLiberationHinduismInner Journey Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismPossessionZenDetachmentLet GoPossessiveness Author:Shunya
“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.” ReligionSpiritualityMeditationBuddhismZenNothingness Author:Shunya
“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.” SpiritualityBuddhismZenPresent MomentHinduismLife JourneyNo Thought 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
“Mind is like government. Just as we file tax returns of all our transactions to government, we file return of all our experiences to mind.” MindWisdomSpiritualityZenNo ThoughtKnowldge 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
“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
“If your car is stuck and it needs a push, you can't push it from inside. Someone has to push it from outside. This is where faith comes into picture. It summons a power beyond your logical understanding.” FaithSpiritualityMysteryLogicOccult 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
“A chef can make a dish with anything available. A child can make a play with anything available. You can make joy with anything available to you.” LifeHappinessJoySpiritualitySorrow Author:Shunya
“O boatman! Enjoy your skills and touch the river of life in your own unique ways. She will reward you with the treasures that you can't imagine. Those who are in a mad rush of reaching somewhere die empty handed, for the river is endless and time is a trap.” LifeJoySpiritualityPresentHere And NowSkill Author:Shunya
“Why didn't I think of that before!" Most difficult problems often have simplest solutions and they exist right under your nose. Defocus your mind once in a while. Give time to the things that you consider unimportant.” LifeMindJoySpiritualityProblemsSolutionDefocus Author:Shunya
“Love is when you see a person as a person.” LoveLifeSpiritualityHuman NatureNondualityVedanta 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
“You are infinite but the character you're playing has certain boundaries. Before you discover those healthy boundaries, you will be so excessively kind that your soul will cry and so excessively mean that your conscience will hurt.” SelfSpiritualityCompassionKindnessSelf Improvement Author:Shunya
“Lustful people are often very generous. Addicts often have a tender heart. Bad things about you often surround the best thing about you just as thorns surround a rose.” LifeSpiritualityKindnessMoralityAddictionLustBad Habits Author:Shunya
“When a free lion starts proving himself before the circus lions, he no longer remains free.” SpiritualityFreedomLife PhilosophyAwakeningLiberationParadoxGuru Author:Shunya
“Understand the difference between mystical art and mystical knowldge. Devotional music, life stories of mystics and gods, images, paintings etc. may temporarily transport you to mystical world but they can't give you mystical powers. Art is beautiful. Knowledge is boring. Ancient sages tried to mix art with knowledge. We discarded the knowledge but kept the art.” ArtWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeMysticismMysticVedanta Author:Shunya
“Those who accept a situation find a way to get out of it. Those who try to run away from it suffer like a fly trapped inside a net.” LifeWisdomSpiritualityPeaceAcceptanceNew Age Author:Shunya
“In a village people were happy eating rice and vegetables. Then somebody started coming every morning to distribute sweets. Now villagers are happy only in the morning when they get sweets. Rest of the time they remain depressed. The sweets of hope and positivity and motivation being distributed everywhere are actually causing anxiety and depression.” MotivationSpiritualityHopePositive ThinkingPositivityDuality Author:Shunya
“If fire is giving you warmth, it doesn't mean that you should sit inside it. You can enjoy things as long as you keep an optimum distance from them.” LoveLifeWisdomSpiritualityRelationship 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
“Life throbbing in others touches the life throbbing in you. Ego in others invokes ego in you. Ignore their ego and see life.” LifeSpiritualityCompassionEgoDivinity 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
“While being non-violent to others, don't start doing violence to your own self. That would be doing the same thing in reverse.” LifeSelfWisdomSpiritualityCompassionViolenceSelf 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