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Glorious Vaisakha (Buddha) Purnima - May 02, 2007

 

Namaste all. On the auspicious occasion of Vaisakha Purnima

(May 2nd, 07) I post this article which is very inspiring

to read from:

 

http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1307949.cms

 

Get Out Of Your Mind To Know Consciousness

 

OSHO

 

Anyone can be a Gautam Buddha, but not everybody can be a Michelangelo

or Nietzsche. This is because spiritual realisation is everybody's

birthright.

 

It is not a talent like painting, music, poetry, or dancing; it is not

genius either. A genius has tremendous intelligence, but it is still

of the mind.

 

Enlightenment is not of the mind, it is not intellect; it is

intelligence of a totally different order.

 

People like Friedrich Nietzsche who have missed the journey towards

their own selves were great intellectuals, geniuses unparalleled — but

all that belongs to the mind.

 

And to be a Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Zarathustra is to get out of

the mind. It does not matter whether you had a big mind or small mind,

a mediocre mind, or you are a genius; the point is that you should be

out of the mind. The moment you are out of the mind, you are in yourself.

 

So the strange thing is that the more a person is intellectual, the

farther he goes away from himself. His intellect takes him to faraway

stars.

 

He is a genius, he may create great poetry, great sculpture. But as

far as you are concerned, you are not to be created, you are already

there.

 

The genius creates, the meditator discovers. Consciousness has nothing

to do with creativity, it has nothing to do with inventiveness, it has

nothing to do with science or art; it has something to do with

tremendous silence, peace, a centring.

 

When an ordinary man meditates, he comes to the same space of

blissfulness as Nietzsche, Einstein or Russell.

 

That space of blissfulness will not be different, will not be richer

for Bertrand Russell because he is a great intellectual. Those values

don't matter outside of the mind.

 

It is as if you all fall asleep here; you will be dreaming. Somebody

may have a very beautiful dream, and somebody may have a nightmare.

But both are dreams.

 

And when they wake up, they will know that the beautiful dream and the

nightmare are not different — they are both dreams. They are

non-existential, mind projections.

 

Enlightenment is discovering your being. This is great and good news

because it means a woodcutter or a fisherman can become Gautam Buddha.

An uneducated Jesus, an uneducated Kabir, who doesn't show any

indication of genius, can still become enlightened, because

enlightenment is not a talent, it is discovering your being.

 

And the being of everyone is absolutely equal. Suddenly all

distinctions, talents of the mind, disappear. There is only pure sky

where you cannot make any distinctions of higher and lower.

 

Enlightenment is the very nature of things. But it has never been said

that way; on the contrary, people's minds have been corrupted by

creating a goal against nature, giving it beautiful names, " supernature " .

 

And man was caught in this because of a very simple reason: The nature

of things is already where you are. It is not an excitement and it is

not a challenge to your ego.

 

It is not a faraway star. Mind wants for its nourishment something

very difficult, something almost impossible. Only if you can achieve

the impossible can you feel you are somebody special.

 

Enlightenment is not a talent. It is not like somebody being born a

painter or a poet or a scientist — those are talents.

 

Enlightenment is simply everybody's very source of life; it is

realising the fact that " I am that which I have always wanted to be,

and I have never been anything else and I cannot be anything else, ever " .

 

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!

 

 

> nindasi yajnavidhe rahaha zRti jAtaM

> sadaya hRidaya darzita pazu ghAtaM

>

> kezava! dhRta buddha zarIra!

> jaya jagadIza! hare!

>

> - Sri Jayadeva 'dazAvatAra' stotra 1.9

>

> Meaning-

>

> 'O Lord Kesava! You took the form of Buddha deva

> to critisize the Vedas and to rebuke Yajnas,

> out of Your mercy towards the animals,

> who were being slaughtered by ritualists

> for trivial material gain.

>

> You are the same Hari, the Lord of all !'

>

>

> Happy Vaisakha Purnima (Vesak),

> Lord Buddha's as well as His Consort Queen Yashodhara's (Gopaa)

> appearence day to all!

>

 

------------

 

 

> Buddha and Christ - Two Gods on the Path to Humanity

> Article of the Month - November 2003

>

> http://www.exoticindia.com/article/buddhaandchrist

>

> The Life of Buddha in Legend and Art

> Article of the Month - May 2000

>

> http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/gautambuddha

>

> ------------

 

 

> More to read at this link about Jagadguru Sri Shankaraacharya

>

> http://forums.delphiforums.com/jayaradhey/messages?msg=5.94

>

> Jaya Sri Radhey!

>

> , beirut_ka_baba <no_reply@> wrote:

>

> > I do accept Buddha was incarnation of Krishna and He came

> > to remove many social evils prevailing in India.

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