meditation tip of the day

change is constant

2007-12-27T02:08:00.001+01:00

Change is constant in life. Mind should accord with changes. Do not use yersterday's mind to perceive today's happenings. Zhuang Zi

the day meditation dies...

2007-12-27T02:06:00.001+01:00

The day meditation dies, man will also die. Man's actuality is meditation. You may be aware of it or you may not be, you may know it or you may not, but meditation is your inner core. That which is hidden within your breath, that which is hidden within your heartbeats, that which you are, is nothing other than meditation.

Osho

Back in your mailbox

2007-12-27T02:04:00.000+01:00

For those visiting the blog I forgot to announce the meditation tip of the day is back in your mailbox since quite a while. watch out again in 2008 for more tips to comment.

Email delivery suspended until further notice

2006-09-01T22:07:00.000+02:00

dear friends

we have announced today (Sept 1st, 2006) that for an indefinite period of time the meditation tip of the day will be no more delivered by email. The quote is only available online at www.deeshan.com

many have responded to say their sadness not to receive the tip anymore and some were concerned whether we had some problems with money or other... we are fine, we don't need money, it is just that in the next few months we cannot manage to keep a regular email delivery... so we felt to stop it until it can be resumed... meanwhile you can always go and read the tip anytime of the day on the website, even from your mobile phone at www.deeshan.com/tip.htm

thank you for all your support and friendly messages... love... deeshan

The creative man

2006-05-11T09:48:00.000+02:00

The creative man seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers.

The creative man seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new tables. The creative man seeks companions and fellow-harvesters: for with him everything is ripe for harvesting.

Zarathustra

Total freedom

2006-03-16T23:45:00.000+01:00

A free man belongs to himself and nobody else.

A free man is simply an energy with no name, no form, no race, no nation.

Osho

We are unique

2006-03-09T23:58:00.000+01:00

You are just great the way you are.

Be yourself and do not compare.

Find your uniqueness and BE IT.

Tishan

Divine world

2006-01-27T01:24:00.000+01:00

Whatever your daily tasks, seek every opportunity to make contact with the world of the spirit, with the divine world, because it is only here, in this world you each carry within you, that you can blossom and find plenitude. The subtle joys of the spiritual world are the only lasting joys, so why spoil them by endlessly lingering too low in the material? This divine world you carry within you is your higher nature, and by identifying with it you give it every opportunity to develop. Then, little by little you will sense that even when you are in darkness and torment you will forever be accompanied by peace and light.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Two dimesions

2006-01-22T01:47:00.000+01:00

There are two dimensions to life, and we should be able to touch both.
One is like a wave, and we call it the historical dimension.
The other is like the water, and we call it the ultimate dimension, or nirvana.
We usually touch just the wave,
but when we discover how to touch the water,
we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer.

Thich Nhat Hanh

few basic things

2006-01-14T00:47:00.000+01:00

Always rely on just a happy frame of mind.
Don't think about anything that concerns others.
Abandon all hope of results.

Atisha

seeking - finding ...

2006-01-03T18:20:00.000+01:00

When someone is seeking it happens quite easily
that he only sees the thing that he is seeking;
that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything,
because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking,
because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal.
Seeking means: to have a goal;
but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Siddhartha

Step by step

2005-11-21T02:08:00.000+01:00

The horse is our emotions.
The carriage is the body.
The mind must learn to control the emotions.
The emotions always pull the body after them.
This is the order in which work on oneself must proceed.

G. Gurdjieff

In the world but not of it

2005-11-15T22:17:00.000+01:00

When you begin to give your attention to the nature of consciousness itself, there is instantaneous freedom - you experience yourself falling out of time. You are in the world but not of it because the place from which you are seeing it exists prior to everything that ever happened.

Andrew Cohen

Only you!

2005-11-13T22:53:00.000+01:00

And inside you is your real freedom, because your consciousness cannot be touched by anybody. You are the only master of your being.

Osho

Peace

2005-11-12T09:29:00.000+01:00

I call meditation the true practice of peace, the true practice of nonaggression and non-violence, and the real and greatest disarmament.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Nothing to say

2005-11-09T23:05:00.000+01:00

The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher
has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Hua Hu Ching

on the Way?

2005-10-31T23:11:00.000+01:00

How do you know you are on the Way?
When your map no longer serves you.

Haven Trevino

We are only travelers

2005-10-26T00:19:00.000+02:00

In Tibetan, the word for body is 'lu', which means 'something you leave behind', like baggage. Each time we say 'lu', it reminds us that we are only travelers, taking temporary refuge in this life and this body.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Consciousness itself

2005-10-25T00:17:00.000+02:00

The spiritual path is not about gaining more knowledge or settling stronger beliefs. These are activities of the mind, a protection of the ego. Spirituality is the expansion of Consciousness, the realization that we are Consciousness itself. Your being is nameless, free of any kind of identity or definition. Freedom is simply the recognition of that.

Tyohar

Be yourself

2005-10-23T08:57:00.000+02:00

All respectability, all honor is meaningless
if it drives you against your nature.
What can you do if you are not a lotus flower,
but just a marigold?
Enjoy being a marigold.

Osho

Enjoy life

2005-06-19T23:58:00.000+02:00

I understand that the whole manifestation and life is nothing but a dream, a play. I am playing the whole game. I am simply enjoying life. Kiran

Stepping stones

2005-03-26T01:12:00.000+01:00

Knowledge is a wide river and there's many ways to cross it. It is necessary to choose respected mentors, not to parrot them but to absorb what you can and use what they teach as stepping stones. Lisa Haynes

and then.... what do do?

2005-03-11T09:09:00.000+01:00

This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do? Osho

God, an invention?

2005-02-28T23:52:00.000+01:00

We have invented god. The thinking created god for itself. That means, due to unhappiness, fear and depression we created something, called god. When you are free of fear, free of suffering, there is no desire for a god. J. Krishnamurti

Natural state

2005-02-22T23:52:00.000+01:00

"Sitting under a tree at the river's edge a Zen master hears someone calling his name. Across the river he sees one of his students. "Master" the student shouts "how do I get to the other side?" The master shrugs and calls back "You are at the other side!" This text says that you too, are already at the other side, that enlightenment or Self-realization is not something which exists only for a chosen few, but that It is your natural state, available right here and right now. Leo Hartong

Happiness

2005-02-19T00:24:00.000+01:00

To find happiness in your life it does not matter what you do. What matters is to have the courage to be yourself: - without it you will always remain unhappy - with it you will find infinite happiness. Nashti

Thankfulness

2005-02-14T01:24:00.000+01:00

Be thankful for each and every morning. Enjoy life and worry not about things that wouldn't matter in 10 years anyway. Unknown

Oh life!

2005-02-13T10:14:00.000+01:00

Oh life! Live it fully, abundantly. not look back, do not look at others, follow that flame which burns inside yourself. Dare, take risks, and there is nothing you will regret, and there is plenty you will get. Itnash

The three essentials

2005-02-06T22:59:00.000+01:00

Meditation has a few essential things in it, whatever the method, but those fewessentials are necessary in every method and the fundamentals remain the same:relaxation, watchfulness, a non-judgmental attitude. Osho

spiritual progress

2005-01-24T23:46:00.000+01:00

The surest sign of spiritual progress is a total lack of concern about progress. There is an utter absence of anxiety about anything like liberation and a sort of hollowness in one's being, a kind of looseness and involuntary surrender to whatever might happen. Balsekar

never born never die

2005-01-24T10:05:00.000+01:00

This essence is not born and can never die. It exists eternally. Some call it energy; others call it spirit. But what is it? No one knows. Any concept we have of what it is can only be an analogy. Zen

Enjoying life

2005-01-22T01:35:00.000+01:00

I understand that the whole manifestation and life is nothing but a dream, a play. I am playing the whole game. I am simply enjoying life. Kiran

Peace and freedom

2005-01-19T23:54:00.000+01:00

Do not look for peace and freedom in the outside world. Real freedom and real happiness are inner states which are yours when you are in harmony with the divine. Ramdas

Go out! - the world is beautiful...

2005-01-18T23:55:00.000+01:00

Relate with others, but relate with yourself also. Love others, but love yourself also. Go out! - the world is beautiful, adventurous; it is a challenge, it enriches. Go out fearlessly - there is nothing to lose, there is everything to gain. Osho

no right no wrong

2005-01-18T01:13:00.000+01:00

there is no right there is no wrong no height to climb no depth to fall live from the heart and love from your soul Unknown

Human ambition

2005-01-17T01:25:00.000+01:00

To shake off the dust of human ambition I sit on moss in Zen robes of stillness, While through the window, In the setting sun of late autumn, Falling leaves whirl And drop to the ground. Tesshu Tokusa

Boosting one's ego

2005-01-16T01:07:00.000+01:00

Fame, status, achievements and wealth have a tendency to boost one's little ego. As a result, one is led astray like a traveller who has lost his way and is unable to return home. Keichu

Sutta Nipata

2005-01-15T01:31:00.000+01:00

Rouse yourself! Sit up! Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. Do not let the king of death, seeing you are careless, lead you astray and dominate you.

Sri Sri Ravishankar

2005-01-14T01:08:00.000+01:00

Enlightenment is a rare combination of innocence and intelligence, having words for expression and, at the same time, being very silent. In that state, the mind is fully in the present moment. Whatever is necessary is revealed to you in such a natural and spontaneous way, you just sit and the song of the nature flows through you.

Osho

2005-01-13T01:20:00.000+01:00

A free man belongs to himself and nobody else. A free man is simply an energy with no name, no form, no race, no nation. deeshan: - One earth - One country - One humanity

Andrew Cohen

2005-01-12T01:41:00.000+01:00

Human beings only learn and evolve through relationship. The only way we can see ourselves objectively is through the reflection of others. We can go off and sit in a cave and meditate for years, but we only really find out what happened in that cave when we come out and get involved with other people. So we need each other if we want to evolve.

Eckhart Tolle

2005-01-11T01:54:00.000+01:00

We all came into this world gifted with innocence, but gradually, as we became more intelligent, we lost our innocence.

We were born with silence and as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words.

We lived in our hearts and as time passed, we moved into our heads.

Now the reversal of this journey is enlightenment.

It is the journey from the head back to the heart, from words back to silence; getting back to our innocence in spite of our intelligence.

Although very simple, this is a great achievement.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

2005-01-10T01:08:00.000+01:00

"It doesn't interest me how old you are, I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive." Your age does not matter, but your courage, your thirst to live... and it is never too late!

Osho

2005-01-08T11:18:00.000+01:00

The whole world should be one humanity: no fanaticism, no racism, no nationalism. Then, for the first time, we can drop the idea of wars. We can make life with honesty, worth living, worth enjoying; playful, meditative, creative, and give every man and every woman equal opportunity to grow and bring their potential to flowering.

Osho

Balsekar

2005-01-07T23:45:00.000+01:00

Understanding can come only at the appropriate time, and no one can say when. All that can be said is that the understanding cannot come so long as there is expectation, so long as there is a "me" wanting it. Balsekar

Introduction

2005-01-05T19:10:00.000+01:00

Hello friends

This blog is to share, to discuss, to meet about meditation and about life in all its dimensions.

Everyday I post a quote on my website www.deeshan.com and I will also post it here.

Why desire at all? Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all. Nisargadatta Maharaj

love... deeshan