enter in to death to meditation manoj

Awareness requires dedication and commitment, but then the intuitions come, and the rewards of peace and beauty are worth the effort. One way to put ourselves into this frame of mind is to cease making comments or judgments about things we see happening or being talked about, even internally and mentally. We find that we can pull back out of any personal involvement or self-interest as a participant into the observer state, seeing the overall rather than the detail, feeling no need to jump in and arrange specific details. Instead, we just observe the complete view, which includes everyone's physical forms and egos acting out in their specific arenas. We just make a point of seeing the overall aspects due to the spiritual Selves within us and everyone and everything else. We see only the highest and best, not the lesser. And we can see the creativity of God in all of it. This type of detachment helps us get away from the concept of "my thoughts" and "my opinions" as it keeps things in a dispassionate nature. It also helps us see the picture in context, rather than just specific and limited points. Thoughts and opinions are just spiritual vanities anyway. You cannot rationalize or think your way into higher levels of consciousness; rather, you have to let go, let God, and just experience things, "being" rather than "learning about." We actually need to empty out the mind, rather than put more thoughts into it. We deal in a non-linear, non-cause- and-effect state of oneness with God. We do not flounder about in the ego's world of separation and cluttered thoughts about specifics. Ideas tend to flow following the paths of propensity created by intention according to the level of consciousness, and we try to keep such high levels of consciousness that feelings of love and support exist instead of thoughts from the materialistic world of conflict. If we remove importance and attachment from worldly mental operations, they tend to stop and then we can meditate on the intuitions that come from God. Note that the mystical person is indeed aware of receiving intuitions directly from God. Anyone can receive such intuitions, but often the noise of the world or of mind chatter covers up the necessary awareness, or it is just not the right path for people at that moment. Whatever the reason, many people seek religious teaching from other sources such as from groups or from a strong leader. Some such leaders and ministers are spiritually strong and guide their people well. Others put barriers between people and God, and generally, any element that separates man from God or puts any barriers between him and the sensing of the Presence is a man-made fallacy. Being a mystical person, therefore, requires no memberships (either in churches or in special groups), rituals, secret knowledge, special clothing, specific worship practices, classes, approvals, or codes of conduct, especially when there is the implied threat of punishment or suffering if these are not rigidly adhered to. And certainly there is no money involved at all. A true spiritual teacher already possessing everything of importance in life does not need to deal in money. Naturally, religious ministers and other such dedicated folks need to support themselves in the physical world as they deal in church affairs since religions are organized businesses, after all. But spirituality, someone dealing directly with God, is a different matter, and many ministers do give of themselves freely in purely spiritual affairs. But the mystical person, having no such responsisbilities to others, is happy to share insights with everyone within the harmony and oneness of life in God with no thought of remuneration. EMILY what is needed is a firm desire to achieve this wonderful awareness, a commitment to carry through, and a guide. A living guide would be preferable, but it is difficult to tell true ones from imposters, so instead, one good guide is EMILY. EMILY can be a constant companion, inspiration, and source of guidance, giving greater happiness, comfort, and peace than any other guide. EMILY is, of course, an acronym, a complete package, representing: Enlightenment - the goal Meditation - the medium of preparation Intention - the way we treat ourselves LOVE - the way we treat ourselves and others Yielding - the way we treat ourselves, others, and God. EMILY is a compact but thorough way of organizing our efforts to follow our chosen path. Each step has a different function. The first, Enlightenment, establishes the goal and keeps it steadily before us. It should be the first thing we think of in do our spiritual activities each day. We all remember the story of the farmer teaching his son to plow, but the boy's rows wandered all over the place. His father explained that he had to keep his eye on a distant object and go toward the same object each row, and they would be straight. However, at the end of the day, the boy's rows were as crooked as ever. When his father was upset, the boy explained: "Well, I kept my eye on the same distant object like you suggested, but the cow kept moving." EMILY provides a firm, unmoving, yet flexible goal of Enlightenment for us to keep us straight. We remember that such Enlightenment is being aware of God in everyone and everything and receiving intuitions directly from God. So we fix ourselves on living lives of high spirituality, as we remember from the last chapter. We focus on God and on the God-like attributes of others. And we keep ourselves open to receiving intuitions through the inner Self that actually is one with God. There is a non-duality between the Self and God, and, therefore, the Self can be the source of bliss and peace, for when we realize that we are one with the Presence, nothing more can be needed or imagined as we lose ourselves in Its indefinable joy. The second step, Meditation, is really two: Meditation and Contemplation. Meditation, the time we spend quietly and alone, is the best method for receiving inspiration and intuition directly from the Source. It involves becoming aware of the spirituality latent within us that presents itself when we turn inward in peacefulness, getting our worldly egos out of the way. In meditation, we replace the constant chatter of everyday thoughts running almost unchecked through our brains, with impressions from the Self about spiritual creation, positive relations with others, happiness, and peace, and allow Intuition to bring us inspiration directly from the Source in the silence. We let the Self be our teacher through its communion with God. Through it, we are all-inclusive, experiencing the overall picture of life and its spiritual side rather than everyday worldly details, and seeing everything in a oneness of love, therefore appreciating and enjoying all things due just to the fact that they are. Contemplation is the way we live those realizations in daily life among others. It keeps us in a high level of consciousness as we leave our sanctuary and go out into the world in our daily activities so that we continue to see the spiritual side of everything and receive ongoing intuitions from the Source. It is our way of looking at and living life in our actions, thoughts, and relationships with others and with nature. Meditation helps us plan our way of life; contemplation is the actual living of it.
Osho: You do not exist even in dream. You must sometimes have dreamed a dream within a dream. You dream that you are going to bed, you have fallen asleep and you are dreaming a dream.
There is an old Chinese story: A woodcutter was cutting wood in a jungle. He was tired, so he came down from the tree and fell asleep. He dreamed that nearby lay buried a great treasure of diamonds and gold in huge pots that were lightly covered with dirt. In his dream he thought that he would come at night and remove the treasure quietly.
If he removed it in the daytime he might be caught. He was a poor man and the treasure was worth millions. When he awoke, he buried a stick to mark the place and returned home. When it became dark, he went back to the spot. He found the stick in place but the pots had been removed. He went back and told his wife, “I don’t understand whether I dreamed about the treasure or actually saw it. The stick is there all right, and there are holes where the pots were, so it is certainly not just a dream. But someone has removed the pots.”
His wife replied, “It must be a dream. You must also have dreamed that you went out at night and saw the stick in the ground, and that there was an empty place where the pots were supposed to be. So go back to sleep and sleep in peace.” But it happened that another man also dreamed that he saw these very pots buried in the same place, and that a woodcutter had buried a stick to mark the place. When he got up from his sleep he ran to the place. He found the stick in the ground and also the vessels underneath!
He removed the pots and brought them home. He told his wife, “I cannot understand whether I dreamed a dream or I actually saw a vision. Whatever it is, I have brought the pots home. They are proof that it is not just a dream. I must actually have seen the woodcutter burying the stick and therefore I knew where the treasure was.” His wife said, “The pots are here. That much is clear. But if you actually saw the woodcutter marking the spot, it isn’t right that we should keep this treasure.
Take the pots to the king and let him decide.” He was an honest man, so he took the pots to the king’s court where the woodcutter had already lodged a complaint. The king was perplexed. Finally he told them, “It is very difficult to decide whether you were asleep or awake, so I shall divide the treasure equally between you both, for the pots are very much there.” So he divided the treasure between them. That night the king told his wife,”A very strange thing happened today: Two men dreamed the same dream.
Now it is difficult to decide whether they dreamed or whether they really saw the treasure. But the pots of treasure were actually there, so I divided them equally between them.” The queen said, “Go to sleep, you must be dreaming.” For thousands of years this was discussed in China – did they dream it or not? Who actually dreamed? But this is what happens by the time we reach the end of life. All of life seems like a dream. It is difficult to decide whether the stick was really there and whether the pots were really buried; whether the wife and children ever existed, or friends and foes; whether there was poverty or riches; whether there was conflict and competition; whether we really lost or won, were successful or unsuccessful. At the time of death all events pass before a man like a dream. Did we really live, or was it only a dream? Those who have known say, “This is a dream dreamed with open eyes.” It is a dream because it has no relation to that which is. This is an intermediary state of imagination; it is merely a thought.
It makes no difference whether you saw it when asleep or when awake. The characteristic of a dream is that it is here one moment and gone the next.
At the time of death all is lost. Within this dream you see another dream that is called the ego. You consider yourself the doer, the author of the dreams.
You are filled with conceit, which all the world can see; only you do not see it. Everyone else is in the same state, never seeing their own, but seeing
Everyone else’s ego

enter in to death to meditation manoj

Awareness requires dedication and commitment, but then the intuitions come, and the rewards of peace and beauty are worth the effort. One way to put ourselves into this frame of mind is to cease making comments or judgments about things we see happening or being talked about, even internally and mentally. We find that we can pull back out of any personal involvement or self-interest as a participant into the observer state, seeing the overall rather than the detail, feeling no need to jump in and arrange specific details. Instead, we just observe the complete view, which includes everyone's physical forms and egos acting out in their specific arenas. We just make a point of seeing the overall aspects due to the spiritual Selves within us and everyone and everything else. We see only the highest and best, not the lesser. And we can see the creativity of God in all of it. This type of detachment helps us get away from the concept of "my thoughts" and "my opinions" as it keeps things in a dispassionate nature. It also helps us see the picture in context, rather than just specific and limited points. Thoughts and opinions are just spiritual vanities anyway. You cannot rationalize or think your way into higher levels of consciousness; rather, you have to let go, let God, and just experience things, "being" rather than "learning about." We actually need to empty out the mind, rather than put more thoughts into it. We deal in a non-linear, non-cause- and-effect state of oneness with God. We do not flounder about in the ego's world of separation and cluttered thoughts about specifics. Ideas tend to flow following the paths of propensity created by intention according to the level of consciousness, and we try to keep such high levels of consciousness that feelings of love and support exist instead of thoughts from the materialistic world of conflict. If we remove importance and attachment from worldly mental operations, they tend to stop and then we can meditate on the intuitions that come from God. Note that the mystical person is indeed aware of receiving intuitions directly from God. Anyone can receive such intuitions, but often the noise of the world or of mind chatter covers up the necessary awareness, or it is just not the right path for people at that moment. Whatever the reason, many people seek religious teaching from other sources such as from groups or from a strong leader. Some such leaders and ministers are spiritually strong and guide their people well. Others put barriers between people and God, and generally, any element that separates man from God or puts any barriers between him and the sensing of the Presence is a man-made fallacy. Being a mystical person, therefore, requires no memberships (either in churches or in special groups), rituals, secret knowledge, special clothing, specific worship practices, classes, approvals, or codes of conduct, especially when there is the implied threat of punishment or suffering if these are not rigidly adhered to. And certainly there is no money involved at all. A true spiritual teacher already possessing everything of importance in life does not need to deal in money. Naturally, religious ministers and other such dedicated folks need to support themselves in the physical world as they deal in church affairs since religions are organized businesses, after all. But spirituality, someone dealing directly with God, is a different matter, and many ministers do give of themselves freely in purely spiritual affairs. But the mystical person, having no such responsisbilities to others, is happy to share insights with everyone within the harmony and oneness of life in God with no thought of remuneration. EMILY what is needed is a firm desire to achieve this wonderful awareness, a commitment to carry through, and a guide. A living guide would be preferable, but it is difficult to tell true ones from imposters, so instead, one good guide is EMILY. EMILY can be a constant companion, inspiration, and source of guidance, giving greater happiness, comfort, and peace than any other guide. EMILY is, of course, an acronym, a complete package, representing: Enlightenment - the goal Meditation - the medium of preparation Intention - the way we treat ourselves LOVE - the way we treat ourselves and others Yielding - the way we treat ourselves, others, and God. EMILY is a compact but thorough way of organizing our efforts to follow our chosen path. Each step has a different function. The first, Enlightenment, establishes the goal and keeps it steadily before us. It should be the first thing we think of in do our spiritual activities each day. We all remember the story of the farmer teaching his son to plow, but the boy's rows wandered all over the place. His father explained that he had to keep his eye on a distant object and go toward the same object each row, and they would be straight. However, at the end of the day, the boy's rows were as crooked as ever. When his father was upset, the boy explained: "Well, I kept my eye on the same distant object like you suggested, but the cow kept moving." EMILY provides a firm, unmoving, yet flexible goal of Enlightenment for us to keep us straight. We remember that such Enlightenment is being aware of God in everyone and everything and receiving intuitions directly from God. So we fix ourselves on living lives of high spirituality, as we remember from the last chapter. We focus on God and on the God-like attributes of others. And we keep ourselves open to receiving intuitions through the inner Self that actually is one with God. There is a non-duality between the Self and God, and, therefore, the Self can be the source of bliss and peace, for when we realize that we are one with the Presence, nothing more can be needed or imagined as we lose ourselves in Its indefinable joy. The second step, Meditation, is really two: Meditation and Contemplation. Meditation, the time we spend quietly and alone, is the best method for receiving inspiration and intuition directly from the Source. It involves becoming aware of the spirituality latent within us that presents itself when we turn inward in peacefulness, getting our worldly egos out of the way. In meditation, we replace the constant chatter of everyday thoughts running almost unchecked through our brains, with impressions from the Self about spiritual creation, positive relations with others, happiness, and peace, and allow Intuition to bring us inspiration directly from the Source in the silence. We let the Self be our teacher through its communion with God. Through it, we are all-inclusive, experiencing the overall picture of life and its spiritual side rather than everyday worldly details, and seeing everything in a oneness of love, therefore appreciating and enjoying all things due just to the fact that they are. Contemplation is the way we live those realizations in daily life among others. It keeps us in a high level of consciousness as we leave our sanctuary and go out into the world in our daily activities so that we continue to see the spiritual side of everything and receive ongoing intuitions from the Source. It is our way of looking at and living life in our actions, thoughts, and relationships with others and with nature. Meditation helps us plan our way of life; contemplation is the actual living of it.
Osho: You do not exist even in dream. You must sometimes have dreamed a dream within a dream. You dream that you are going to bed, you have fallen asleep and you are dreaming a dream.
There is an old Chinese story: A woodcutter was cutting wood in a jungle. He was tired, so he came down from the tree and fell asleep. He dreamed that nearby lay buried a great treasure of diamonds and gold in huge pots that were lightly covered with dirt. In his dream he thought that he would come at night and remove the treasure quietly.
If he removed it in the daytime he might be caught. He was a poor man and the treasure was worth millions. When he awoke, he buried a stick to mark the place and returned home. When it became dark, he went back to the spot. He found the stick in place but the pots had been removed. He went back and told his wife, “I don’t understand whether I dreamed about the treasure or actually saw it. The stick is there all right, and there are holes where the pots were, so it is certainly not just a dream. But someone has removed the pots.”
His wife replied, “It must be a dream. You must also have dreamed that you went out at night and saw the stick in the ground, and that there was an empty place where the pots were supposed to be. So go back to sleep and sleep in peace.” But it happened that another man also dreamed that he saw these very pots buried in the same place, and that a woodcutter had buried a stick to mark the place. When he got up from his sleep he ran to the place. He found the stick in the ground and also the vessels underneath!
He removed the pots and brought them home. He told his wife, “I cannot understand whether I dreamed a dream or I actually saw a vision. Whatever it is, I have brought the pots home. They are proof that it is not just a dream. I must actually have seen the woodcutter burying the stick and therefore I knew where the treasure was.” His wife said, “The pots are here. That much is clear. But if you actually saw the woodcutter marking the spot, it isn’t right that we should keep this treasure.
Take the pots to the king and let him decide.” He was an honest man, so he took the pots to the king’s court where the woodcutter had already lodged a complaint. The king was perplexed. Finally he told them, “It is very difficult to decide whether you were asleep or awake, so I shall divide the treasure equally between you both, for the pots are very much there.” So he divided the treasure between them. That night the king told his wife,”A very strange thing happened today: Two men dreamed the same dream.
Now it is difficult to decide whether they dreamed or whether they really saw the treasure. But the pots of treasure were actually there, so I divided them equally between them.” The queen said, “Go to sleep, you must be dreaming.” For thousands of years this was discussed in China – did they dream it or not? Who actually dreamed? But this is what happens by the time we reach the end of life. All of life seems like a dream. It is difficult to decide whether the stick was really there and whether the pots were really buried; whether the wife and children ever existed, or friends and foes; whether there was poverty or riches; whether there was conflict and competition; whether we really lost or won, were successful or unsuccessful. At the time of death all events pass before a man like a dream. Did we really live, or was it only a dream? Those who have known say, “This is a dream dreamed with open eyes.” It is a dream because it has no relation to that which is. This is an intermediary state of imagination; it is merely a thought.
It makes no difference whether you saw it when asleep or when awake. The characteristic of a dream is that it is here one moment and gone the next.
At the time of death all is lost. Within this dream you see another dream that is called the ego. You consider yourself the doer, the author of the dreams.
You are filled with conceit, which all the world can see; only you do not see it. Everyone else is in the same state, never seeing their own, but seeing
Everyone else’s ego

I am death

This is reality of world this world is going to end no way which escape anyone in this world because you want to safe live in world that is only one way that is the way of death then why any one ignore death only one things is truth and real and every things is lie.

a good story

One day, a scriptural scholar came to the edge a river and hired a ferryman to take him across in a boat. The scholar was proud of his intellectual learning and mistook such knowledge as being valuable in itself. The ferryman was simple and humble. While the boat was traveling across the river, the scholar started a conversation with the ferryman:

Scholar: “Well my friend, have you studied the Vedanta philosophy?”
Ferryman: “No sir, I have not.”
Scholar: “Oh, well then have you studied the school of logic?”
Ferryman: “No, I have not.”
Scholar: “Well surely then you must have at least studied the psychology of yoga?”
Ferryman: “No sir, I am an unlettered man.”

In this way the scholar kept on highlighting his own learning. Finally the scholar said:

Scholar: “Well, what can be done? It seems half your life has already been wasted.”

Just then, the waters of the river began to churn and became increasingly turbulent. The ferryman tried to control the boat, but it seemed that soon the boat would be capsized. The scholar began to get worried. Then the ferryman said:

Ferryman: “Learned sir, have you learned how to swim?”
Scholar: “No, I have not.”
Ferryman: “Well then. It seems your whole life is wasted! Good bye!”

With that, the ferryman dove out of the boat, and with all his might, started to swim for the shore.
There once was a sadhu (a monk) who built a small hut on the outskirts of a village. Under the instructions of his Guru (Master), he would live there and practice austerities. Everyday he would beg some food from the villagers. In this way he passed his time happily. His only possession was a piece of loincloth.

One day, he went for a bath and hung up his wet loincloth to dry. After he returned, he found that a rat had chewed holes in it. So he went to the village and begged for another piece of cloth. A few days later, the same thing happened again. Then a few days after that, again a rat chewed holes in his cloth. Not knowing what to do, he again went to the village and told some people of his problem. One villager suggested:

Villager: “Sadhuji, if you would only keep a cat with you, then the rats would stay away and you would not need to beg anymore new cloth.”

The monk thought it was a good idea and obtained a kitten and took it back to live with him. From then on the rats never bothered him again, and everyday he would spend some time feeding the cat with milk that we would beg from the villagers. After some days a villager told him:

Villager: “Sadhuji, it may be difficult for us to supply you with milk year round. But if you had a cow, then you would have no problem producing milk.”

So after a few days, the sadhu found a cow and took it back with him. But he immediately found that everyday he needed to beg some straw from the village to feed the cow. A villager then suggested:

Villager: “Sadhuji, you need not beg straw everyday. There are lots of uncultivated lands surrounding your shed. If you cultivate them, you will no longer need to beg straw.”

So the sadhu started tilling the land. After a while, he needed to engage some laborers to help him with the great work. Then he needed to build a barn to hold all the crops. Then eventually, he needed a wife to help him look after his large household. Now he passed his time like any hardworking householder.

After many days, his Guru decided to come for a visit. Reaching the place, he became puzzled and asked a servant of the household:

Guru: “There used to be an ascetic who lived here in a hut. Do you know where he has gone?”

The servant didn’t know how to reply, so the Guru ventured inside the house. Upon seeing his disciple he said:

Guru: “My son, what is all this?”

Feeling great shame, the disciple fell at his Guru’s feet and said:

Disciple: “My Lord, it is all for the sake of a loincloth!”

the story of ramakrishna

The Magic Dye

“One day there came to a village a traveling dyer, who had only one vat. But you see, it was a magic tub: whatever color you asked for, that was the color the cloth came out. People marveled to see such a thing. The same vat gave blue, red, etc. A clever villager was watching all this at a little distance. Finally he brought his cloth to the dyer and said, "Please make my cloth the color of the dye in your tub." Why is God like the magic dye? Because, though he is One, he gives everyone different things, according to their preference; if you want to know what he is in himself, be like the clever villager.”
The Watchman and the Lantern

“In olden days, the Indian village hired a night-watchman to keep down crime and accidents. He would go around the streets and lanes with a square metal lantern, open only at the front. The watchman could see, wherever the lantern cast its light. No rays of light fell on him, who carried the lantern. If you wanted to see who the watchman was, you had to ask him to turn the lamp back on his own face. We are like that! Our eyes (ears, tongue, etc.) are all facing outward, looking at and feeling the things of the world. God says, "if you want to see me, turn the lamp around; look within and find the Source of all the light.""
God Helps Those Who Do Not Help Themselves

“One day a holy man, a lover of God, coming that way was praying hard and walking with his eyes almost closed. Accidentally he stepped on some of the clean laundry spread there, and the washermen saw it. Angry, they came to give him a beating. Now this holy man became very frightened. He earnestly and loudly called on God to come to his aid and save him from the washermen’s anger. God, who was sitting in conference up in his heaven, heard the saint’s cries and went to intervene. But just then the man himself picked up some bricks to throw at his tormentors; so the Lord singly returned to his heavenly seat. God helps those who do not help themselves!”
How Can God Be Realized?

“You know that story of the man who asked his guru how God could be realized. The guru said to him: ‘Come with me. I shall show you how one can realize God.’ Saying this, he took the disciple to a lake and held his head under the water. After a short time he released the disciple and asked him, ‘How did you feel?’ ‘I was dying for a breath of air!’ said the disciple. When the soul longs and yearns for God like that, then you will know that you do not have long to wait for His vision. The rosy colour on the eastern horizon shows that the sun will soon rise."