Meditation

30/05/2026

Are you living in the present?

25/12/2025

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11/10/2025

THE HASSID MYSTIC, ZUSIA, WAS DYING, AND HE STARTED PRAYING.
Tears were flowing down from his eyes and he was trembling.
And somebody asked ‘What is the matter? Why are you trembling?’
He was saying ‘I am trembling for a certain reason. This is my last moment, I am dying. Soon I will be facing my God, and I am certain he is not going to ask me “Zusia, why were you not a Moses?
If he asks I will say “Lord, because you didn’t give me the qualities of a Moses!”; there will be no problem. He will not ask me “Why were you not the Rabbi Akiba?” I will tell him “Sir, you never gave me the qualities of being an Akiba, that’s why.”
But I am trembling because if he asks “Zusia, why were you not a Zusia” then I will have nothing to answer, then I will have to look down in shame. That’s why I am trembling and these tears are flowing.
My whole life I tried to become Moses or Akiba or somebody else, and I completely forgot that he wanted me to be just Zusia and nobody else. Now I am trembling, now I am afraid. If he asks this question, what am I going to answer?
How will I be able to raise my eyes when he says “Why were you not Zusia? You were given all the qualities of being a Zusia, how did you miss?”
And I have missed in imitating others.’

23/07/2025

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31/05/2025

here is an anecdote about a son of the eminent Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, Ilya, that goes like this:

“One day, the boy was given a cup and saucer that he had wanted for a long time. Overjoyed, he wished to show it to everyone. He rushed around the house almost beside himself with excitement. But between one room and the next there was a high doorsill. Ilya tripped over it; the cup went flying and was smashed to pieces. …

“When his mother scolded him, telling him that it was his fault for being careless, he got angry and tearfully retorted: ‘It’s not my fault. It’s the builder’s fault! Why did he put a doorsill there?’”[1]

Tolstoy, who overheard this exchange, always remembered these words. Whenever a family member blamed their mistakes on others, he would smile and say, “It’s the builder’s fault, right?”[2]

We might find this story humorous, but truth be told, when we face a setback or failure, are we quick to blame the “builder”? For instance, if there is someone with whom we can’t see eye to eye, do we think, If they would just change, I would be better off? Or, if things aren’t going well at work, do we focus on how the actions of others are the source of our problems?

Ikeda Sensei explains that no matter how many justifications one may have, those who make a habit of blaming others will always be controlled by their environment, which will spell only certain defeat.

As Nichiren Buddhists, we don’t need to make excuses. This is because our Buddhist practice teaches the principle of “three thousand realms in a single moment of life,” which holds that everything is determined by our heart or spirit in each moment. Sensei says, “Through daimoku, there is no situation we cannot change, no obstacle we cannot surmount, no battle in kosen-rufu or daily life we cannot win.”[3]

We, in fact, are the “builders,” and when we decide to be victorious where we are right now, we are empowered to do and be better.
Courtesy SGI
World Tribune
https://www.worldtribune.org/

29/05/2025

11/05/2025

The witness is neither the mind nor the heart. Mind is a division which thinks, and heart is another division of the same mind which feels. Feeling and thinking, thoughts and emotions… but witnessing is separate from both. Whether you are thinking, the watcher watches… a thought is passing by, or you are feeling angry — the witness still watches. An emotion is passing by, just like clouds pass and you see them. You are neither the good nor the bad. You are neither the pleasant nor the unpleasant. You are neither the thought nor the emotions. .You are neither the mind nor the heart

13/02/2025

RIGHT­MINDFULNESS: THE FLAVOR OF UNDERSTANDING
These are the three states: one is thinking ­ the most disturbed state; second is feeling ­ less disturbed than thinking, but still disturbed; third is being ­ no disturbance at all. One is in the head, second is in the heart, third is in your guts. Right­mindfulness is a gut­state: no head, no heart. You are simply there undefined, undefinable. You ask me: “Please explain what ‘right­mindfulness’ is. If not a goal or something to practice, what is it?” And, yes, it is not a practice. You cannot practice it, because practice brings goal! Practice is desire, practice is mind. And remember: whenever you practice something, you are imposing something against yourself, otherwise why practice it? Against whom are you practicing? When you practice truth, what will you do? You will repress the untruth ­ but the untruth will remain there, deep inside you, ready to explode any moment. It will go on accumulating. When you practice love, what will you do? You will repress hatred. When you practice compassion, what will you do? You will repress anger. And all that is repressed will go on remaining in you, and all that is practiced will remain on the surface, and all that is rejected will go deep into your being. The rejected will become part of your being and the practiced will remain just a coating, a painting on the surface. And remember: whenever you practice anything, you are angry at it. Naturally so ­ because all practicing divides you, makes you schizophrenic. One part of you is trying to manipulate the other part. One part of you is trying to enforce some ideas on the other part. And the part that is trying to enforce is a very impotent part, but articulate ­ your head. It has no power, but it is very articulate, very clever, very cunning, very argumentative. And the head goes on imposing on your body, on your heart, which are far more potential, far more powerful; they have energy sources, but they are not articulate, they are not argumentative ­ they are silent. And the head goes on pretending that it has practiced.and then a situation arises and all practice is thrown away ­ because the head has no energy. You think for years that you will never be angry, then one day somebody insults you and in a single moment you have forgotten all that practice. And you are angry! By the time you come to know that you are angry, anger has already happened. You are burning, you are fire. From where does this fire come? And years of practice! That practice was just on the surface. Mind was pretending; because there was no situation provoking you, mind was able to pretend. Now the situation has arisen and mind is not able to pretend. The reality assert itself

24/01/2025

When powers start happening in your spiritual growth, the greatest courage is needed not to show them.
It is said of a disciple of Rinzai, a Zen Master, that some other religious Master’s
disciple was talking to him and the other Master’s disciple said,
‘Our Master is a man of miracles. He can do anything he wants. I have seen many miracles he has been doing, I have witnessed them myself.
What is the great thing about your Master? What miracles can he do?’
And the disciple of Rinzai said, ‘The greatest miracle that my Master can do is not to do miracles.’
Meditate on it. ‘The greatest miracle my Master can do is not to do miracles.’ When miraculous powers start happening, only the weaklings will do them. The stronger one will not do them — because he knows that now this is another trap. Again the world is trying to pull him back.
This is the last trap. If you can avoid psychic energies, silently, witnessing, if you can pass them by without being entangled by them, without being imprisoned by them, only then do you arrive home. It is a great ensnarement.

Osho – ‘Sufis: The people of the path’