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The mind is very poweful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such a power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
~ A Course in Miracles
63 views · Dec 24th, 2020
MOVEMENT AND STILLNESS
On the circumference is a dance, and at the center is absolute stillness.
Meditation is not just when you close your eyes and sit silently. In fact, deep down, when Buddha is sitting silently under his bodhi tree, not moving at all, there is a dance deep inside him - the dance of consciousness. It is invisible of course, but the dance is there because nothing remains at rest. Rest is an unreal word; nothing corresponds to rest in reality.
It depends on us: We can make our life just a restlessness or a dance. Rest is not in the nature of things, but we can have a very chaotic restlessness - that is misery, that is neurosis, that is madness. Or we can be creative with this energy; then restlessness is no longer restless. It becomes smooth, graceful - it starts taking the form of a dance and a song. And the paradox is that when the dancer is totally in dance, there is rest - the impossible happens, the center of the cyclone. But that rest is not possible in any other way. When the dance is total, only then does that rest happen.
And there is a center to this whole dance. It cannot go on without a center. The periphery is dancing, the circumference is dancing - to know the center, the only way is to become a total dance. Only then, in contrast to the dance, does one suddenly become aware of something very quiet and very still.
~ Osho
50 views · Dec 24th, 2020
More from Darko
The mind is very poweful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such a power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
~ A Course in Miracles
63 views · Dec 24th, 2020
MOVEMENT AND STILLNESS
On the circumference is a dance, and at the center is absolute stillness.
Meditation is not just when you close your eyes and sit silently. In fact, deep down, when Buddha is sitting silently under his bodhi tree, not moving at all, there is a dance deep inside him - the dance of consciousness. It is invisible of course, but the dance is there because nothing remains at rest. Rest is an unreal word; nothing corresponds to rest in reality.
It depends on us: We can make our life just a restlessness or a dance. Rest is not in the nature of things, but we can have a very chaotic restlessness - that is misery, that is neurosis, that is madness. Or we can be creative with this energy; then restlessness is no longer restless. It becomes smooth, graceful - it starts taking the form of a dance and a song. And the paradox is that when the dancer is totally in dance, there is rest - the impossible happens, the center of the cyclone. But that rest is not possible in any other way. When the dance is total, only then does that rest happen.
And there is a center to this whole dance. It cannot go on without a center. The periphery is dancing, the circumference is dancing - to know the center, the only way is to become a total dance. Only then, in contrast to the dance, does one suddenly become aware of something very quiet and very still.
~ Osho
50 views · Dec 24th, 2020
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