“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
“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.” BuddhismZenHinduismNothingnessMinimalism Author:Shunya
“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.” RelationshipsLonelinessBuddhismSolitudeZen Author:Shunya
“Life can be a party if you stop pretending to be the host, stop trying to micro-manage everything.” LifeJoyFreedomBuddhismZenDetachmentLet Go Author:Shunya
“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.” PeaceBuddhismOppositesZenHinduismAdvaitaDualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“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.” LifeTruthBuddhismZenAttachmentProblemsDetachmentNo Thought 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
“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.” MeditationBuddhismYogaZenPresent Moment 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
“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
“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
“When you know that you are not in control, everything will feel under control. When you are in the illusion that you are in control, everything will go out of control and you will struggle to maintain your illusion.” RealityBuddhismIllusionZenControlHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“Suppose a Sun many times brighter than our Sun comes up in the sky. After we get used to its light, it goes away. Then our Sun will feel like moon to us and what we call as “light” will seem like darkness. So light and darkness are relative terms. Darkness is just less light.” LightDarknessBuddhismZenHinduismDualityRelativityNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Love and hate are two forms of the same energy. As soon as you close the outlet of love for someone, the outlet of hate opens up. Both outlets have to be closed if you don't want to deplete your energy on someone.” LoveLifeHateEnergyBuddhismZenHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Anything that occupies your mind is your occupation. For some people quarreling is an occupation. They fear losing it more than a job-goer fears losing job. Because emptiness of mind is scarier than emptiness of stomach.” SpiritualityPeaceRelationshipsSilencePsychologyBuddhismSolitudeMental HealthZenNoise Author:Shunya
“How satisfying it is to see a chef at work! Adding a bit of this, bit of that! If you do all little things with full awareness, you will also feel like a chef enjoying the process of cooking.” SpiritualityPeaceAwarenessBuddhismMindfulnessZen Author:Shunya
“You don't react to the sounds coming from waves of water. Then why do you react to the sounds coming from waves of five elements (human beings)?” SpiritualityPeacePerspectiveBuddhismAngerZenHinduism Author:Shunya