QUESTION: Can the ego create illusions of happiness or anything positive for that matter.
...truth cannot be expressed because the very reaching to it is through silence, soundlessness, thoughtlessness. You reach to it through no-mind, the mind drops. And how can you use something which as a necessary condition has to drop before truth can be reached? Mind cannot understand, mind cannot realize, how can mind express? Remember it as a rule: if mind can attain, mind can express; if mind cannot attain to it, mind cannot express it. All language is futile. Truth cannot be expressed.
Then what have all the scriptures been doing? Then what is Lao Tzu doing? Then what are the Upanishads doing? They all try to say something which cannot be said in the hope that a desire may arise in you to know about it. Truth cannot be said but in the very effort of saying it a desire can arise in the hearer to know that which cannot be expressed. A thirst can be provoked. The thirst is there, it needs a little provocation. You are already thirsty – how can it be otherwise? You are not blissful, you are not ecstatic – you are thirsty. Your heart is a burning fire. You are seeking something which can quench the thirst, but, not finding the water, not finding the source, by and by you have tried to suppress your thirst itself. That is the only way, otherwise it is too much, it will not allow you to live at all. So you suppress the thirst.
A Master like Lao Tzu knows well that truth cannot be said, but the very effort to say it will provoke something, will bring the suppressed thirst in you to the surface. And once the thirst surfaces, a search, an inquiry starts. And he has moved you.
-Rajneesh
Table of Contents
- GMO Labeling Law Passes in Vermont!
- The power of the present moment - Taryn Crimi
- Debunking the 5 Biggest Myths About Cannabis - Waking Times
- Can The Ego Create An Illusion Of Happiness Within Us? - Sabrina Reber
- The Obstacle - Knowing Whispers
- US accuses Israel of ‘alarming, even terrifying’ levels of spying
- My thoughts on Jesus
GMO Labeling Law Passes in Vermont!
It was a good day in Montpelier yesterday, and not just because the sun was shining bright and warm. On May 8th, Governor Shumlin signed Vermont’s GMO labeling bill into law making Vermont the first state that will require labels on genetically engineered foods! The law will require labels on genetically engineered foods (also called genetically modified organisms, or GMOs) sold at retail outlets in Vermont, and will go in to effect on July 1st 2016. The law would also prohibit labeling products produced with genetic engineering as “natural”, “100% natural” or “all natural”.
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The power of the present moment - Taryn Crimi
Today we would like to focus your attention upon the power that exists within the present moment. Surely many of you have been told that the present moment is all that ever really exists. However it is our intention to share with you why the now moment is so transformational yet it is so often allowed to slip away while you focus on future events and past regrets.
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Debunking the 5 Biggest Myths About Cannabis - Waking Times
The more research is released, the more legalization makes sense.
Back in the 1930s, the arguments to criminalize cannabis were bizarre and openly racist. The anti-pot crusader Harry Anslinger made all sorts of over-the-top claims, such as, “Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters.”
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Can The Ego Create An Illusion Of Happiness Within Us? - Sabrina Reber
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The Obstacle - Knowing Whispers
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The idea of God is an attempt by mind and ego to avoid connecting with the authentic self and the true nature of existence.
The mind and imagination have created all manner of fictitious imagery in an attempt to satisfy the loneliness of the mind and ego as they attempt to fulfill themselves.
The reason why spirituality does not fulfill is because a belief does not reach into the core of existence to reveal the essence of our true nature. Beliefs are like toys in a child’s sandbox. They imitate the real, but are not real.
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US accuses Israel of ‘alarming, even terrifying’ levels of spying
I kind wonder about the timing of these revelations, especially in the wake of Snowden's disclosures about groups like Five Eyes and their obscene spying programs such as XKeyscore.
Israel has been trying to steal secrets from the US, its principal protector and benefactor, but also occasional rival, ever since the inception of the Jewish state in 1948, and even before. But according to the latest issue of Newsweek, quoting Obama administration officials, these activities have “crossed red lines” rarely encountered in the past.
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My thoughts on Jesus
Let me start by saying that nobody knows the facts about Jesus, because we were not alive, so absolutely everything we believe is based strictly off what we are taught by our parents or churches. To blindly believe everything we hear is like playing the game telephone and defensively and forcefully saying it's impossible the message had changed by the end, even though it's impossible to know what the original message was. That being said, here is what I think about Jesus.
