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"Thought has power, just not intrinsically with all of us. Whatever thoughts we
have, rule in our lives alone, as long as they're also accompanied with an
emotional charge. A thought by itself is all but powerless."
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Dynamics of love
Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It
constitutes the entire significance of creation. If love is excluded
from life, all the souls in the world assume complete externality to
each other and the only possible relations and contacts in such a
loveless world are superficial and mechanical. It is because of love
that the contacts and relations between individual souls become
significant. It is love which gives meaning and value to all the
happenings in the world of duality. But, while love gives meaning to the
world of duality, it is at the same time a standing challenge to
duality. As love gathers strength, it generates creative restlessness
and becomes the main driving power of that spiritual dynamic which
ultimately succeeds in restoring to consciousness the original unity of
being. -------AVATAR MEHER BABA
[From Discourses by Meher Baba]
From
OSHO 'S Maha gita :- Buddha returned to his village. And the father --
what the whole world could see, the father could not see. The world was
experiencing an illumination, the news was spreading far and wide,
people began coming from distant countries. But when Buddha came back to
his home after twelve years, his father said, "I can still forgive you.
Though what you did was wrong, you tormented us, you have certainly
done a crime, I have a father's heart -- I will forgive you. The doors
are open for you. Throw away this begging bowl, remove these monk's
clothes. None of this will do here. Come back -- this kingdom is yours. I
have become old; who is going to look after it? Much childishness has
gone on, now stop all this play!"
Buddha said, "Please look at
me. The one who left has not returned. Someone else has come, the one
who was born in your house has not come back. Someone else is here, the
seed has returned as a flower. Look deeply."
The father said,
"You are going to teach me? I have known you since the day you were
born! Go and deceive others; go and lecture other people and delude them
-- you cannot deceive me. I repeat again, I know you perfectly well --
don't try to teach me. I am willing to forgive you."
Buddha
said, "You say you know me? I didn't even know myself before. Only
recently have the rays of light descended and I have come to know
myself. Excuse me, but I have to say that the one you saw is not me.
Whatever you saw is not me. You saw the outer shell, but did you look
inside me? I was born out of you but you did not create me. I came via
you as traveller comes via a certain route, but what do the traveller
and the road have to do with each other? Suppose that tomorrow the road
says 'I know you, your being has come from me' -- just as you are
saying.
"I existed before you. I have been on this journey for
many lives. I certainly passed through you, as I have passed through
others. Others too have been my father, others too have been my mother.
But my being is completely separate."
It is very difficult, extremely difficult: If you saw the seed you cannot believe the flower is in front of you.
One way of looking is that of the distrustful, the rational, and the
skeptical. They say, "We know the seed so this flower is not possible.
We know the mud: how can a lotus come from it? It is all false -- a
dream, an illusion. He must have fallen into a kind of hypnosis. Someone
deceived him; some magic, some spell...."
This is one way.
The other is the way of trust -- of the lover, the devotee, of the heart
filled with empathy. He sees the flower and from the flower begins
traveling backwards. He says, "When the flower has become so fragrant,
when such radiance appears in the flower, when there is such beauty in
the flower, when such fresh innocence is seen in the flower, then
certainly it must also have been present in the seed -- because it is
not possible that what is present in the flower was not already in the
seed."
It is not that these stories actually happened. Those
who saw flowers bloom in Ashtavakra concluded that what has happened
today must have also been present yesterday -- it was hidden, screened,
behind a veil. What is here in the end, must have been present at the
beginning also. What is seen at the moment of death must also have been
present at the moment of birth; otherwise how could it arise?
So one way is to look backwards from the flower, and the other is to
look forward from the seed. If you look carefully their essence is the
same, their foundation is the same, but what a difference: like between
earth and sky! The one who knows the seed says, "How can what is not in
the seed be in the flower?" This is his argument. The one who knows the
flower says the same thing. He says, "What is in the flower should be in
the seed too." They have the same argument. But each has a different
way of looking.
When
Jesus came to his village he was very surprised -- the people of the
village didn't bother about him at all. Jesus has said a prophet is
never respected in his own country. What is the reason? Why won't the
village respect its prophet? The village people have seen him as the son
of the carpenter Joseph, saw him carrying wood, saw him planing wood,
saw him sawing wood, saw him bathed in sweat, saw him playing and
fighting in the streets. The people of the village have known him since
childhood, have seen him there as a seed. How is it possible that he
suddenly becomes the son of God! No, those who saw the seed cannot
accept the flower. They say there must be some fraud, some cheating;
this man is a hypocrite. --OSHO
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