Papaji Quotes
Poonjaji (PapaJi) Quotes and Sayings
Sri H. W. L. Poonja (13 October 1910 – 6 September 1997) also known as "Poonjaji" or "Papaji" was borin in india. Poonja ji was a disciple of Ramana Maharishi and nephew of Swami Rama Tirtha. Although Poonjaji denied being part of any formal tradition, he is considered by many to be a teacher of the Advaita Vedanta and Bhakti traditions. After Osho left his body, many of his disciple went to lucknow to be with Poonja ji.
- Stillness of mind comes from giving up all attachments except that attachment to Self.
- Self is what gives breath to Life. You need not search for It, It is Here. You are That through which you would search. You are what you are looking for! And That is All it is.
- You have to be very careful, to be vigilant, to see what is coming from the mind, and to see the happiness that is coming from the Self.
- That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.
- Your purpose is to find out who you are. Find this out. Know who you are.
- Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
- Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
- Now is the time to have a direct introduction to this moment. This moment is free of time, of mind, of any notions...introduce yourself to this moment.
- Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Just get rid of the concept, "I am the body, separate from the source." You return to what you always were.
- There is a never-ending cycle of birth and death. What is birth and what is death? They are desire. This never-ending cycle is fuelled by desire, the desire to enjoy sense objects in a body. When desire ceases, this cycle also ceases. This apparently endless cycle of birth and death ends with the cessation of desire. It is not only birth and death that end. When desire ceases, the universe itself ceases. It is as if it never existed. That's how it is.
- Don't go to the past. The past is a problem, the past is mind. When you go to the past all will be problems so don't go to the past. The mind is the past and the past is a graveyard. Don't go the graveyard.
- Look within,
There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.
You are always Free.
There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.
Osho -be ordinary
A man of Tao remains ordinary, absolutely ordinary. Nobody knows who he is, nobody knows what he carries within him, what treasure. He never advertises, he never tries to display.
But why do we advertise? Because of the ego. You are not satisfied with yourself, you are satisfied only when others appreciate you. KOHINOOR is not enough.
You may have a valuable stone, but
it is not enough; others must appreciate it.
Others' opinion is more valuable – not your being.
You look into others' eyes as if they are mirrors and if they appreciate you, applaud you, you feel good.
Ego is a false phenomenon. It is the accumulation of others' opinions, it is not a knowledge of the self.
This self, the so-called self which is really the ego, is nothing but the accumulation of reflections– and then there is always fear.
Others may change their mind, you are always dependent on them.
If they say you are good you have to follow their rules to remain good, you have to follow them to remain good in their eyes, because once they change their opinion you will no longer be good.
You have no direct approach to your being, it is via others. So you not only advertise, you magnify, you falsify. You may have a little truth, a little beauty, but you magnify it and it becomes ridiculous.
Osho: If the Shoe Fits
But why do we advertise? Because of the ego. You are not satisfied with yourself, you are satisfied only when others appreciate you. KOHINOOR is not enough.
You may have a valuable stone, but
it is not enough; others must appreciate it.
Others' opinion is more valuable – not your being.
You look into others' eyes as if they are mirrors and if they appreciate you, applaud you, you feel good.
Ego is a false phenomenon. It is the accumulation of others' opinions, it is not a knowledge of the self.
This self, the so-called self which is really the ego, is nothing but the accumulation of reflections– and then there is always fear.
Others may change their mind, you are always dependent on them.
If they say you are good you have to follow their rules to remain good, you have to follow them to remain good in their eyes, because once they change their opinion you will no longer be good.
You have no direct approach to your being, it is via others. So you not only advertise, you magnify, you falsify. You may have a little truth, a little beauty, but you magnify it and it becomes ridiculous.
Osho: If the Shoe Fits
Surender to What Is
What is there to loose? I have nothing of importance. All is temporary. Even the idea of myself, this too is temporary.
If I let the non-essential drop off, then I will be like the stone the master used to carve the perfect one --the David...
What is here that is not temporary?
find this.
God is All
Gabriel Rosenstock sends the following:
from http://zenmirror.blogspot.ie/
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008
Remembering Fr. Thomas Hand
Here is the letter composed by Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro for his book Open Secrets and which appeared in issue #4783:
Reb Yerachmiel ben Yisrael
19 Tevet 5636
Many years ago, a spiritual friend of mine, Dr. Vickie Dendinger recommended that I meet Fr. Tom Hand. I had the great privilege of sitting a few retreats with this great teacher at the Joseph and Mary Retreat Center in Rancho Palos Verdes which was a converted Convent located in the Southern California South Bay.
For those of you unfamiliar with Thomas Hand, S.J., he spent twenty nine years in Japan and was one of the first Western Catholic monks to practice Zen meditation under the direction of Koun Yamada Roshi of the Sanbo Kyodon. His dept of understanding of religious experience was moving and helpful to me in my early days of exploration and unfortunately he passed away in 2005. During one of my precious interviews with him, he gave me a book of letters from a Russian Rabbi and one of his American flock that was written in the early twentieth century.
This is one of the letters and it struck me so deeply, but my comments will remain my own. I would rather hear from all of you, this is a brilliant and concise work of spiritual understanding.
Reb Yerachmiel ben Yisrael
19 Tevet 5636
My Dear Aaron Hershel,
You ask me of God: to define the Nameless to place in your palm the ultimate secret. Do not imagine that this is hidden somewhere far from you. The ultimate secret is the most open one. Here it is: God is All.
I am tempted to stop with this-to close this letter, sign my name and leave you with this simple truth. Yet I fear you will not understand. Know from the first that all that follows is but an elaboration on the simple fact that God is All.
What does it mean to be All? God is Reality. God is the Source and Substance of all things and nothing. There is no thing or feeling or thought that is not God, even the idea that there is no God! For this is what it is to be All: God must embrace even God's own negation.
Listen again carefully: God is the Source and Substance of everything. There is nothing outside of God. Thus we read: "I am God and there is none else [am od]" (Isaiah 45:5). Read not simply "none else," but rather "nothing else"-not that there is no other god but God, but that there is nothing else but God.
Let me illustrate. It rained heavily during the night, and the street is thick with mud. I walked to the Bet Midrash (House of Learning) this morning and stopped to watch a group of little children playing with the mud. Oblivious to the damp, they made dozens of mud figures: houses, animals, towers. From their talk, it was clear that they imagined an identity for each. They gave the figures names and told their stories. For a while, the mud figures took on an independent existence. But they were all just mud. Mud was their source and mud was their substance. From the perspective of the children, their mud creations had separate selves. From the mud's point of view, it is clear such independence was an illusion-the creations were all just mud.
It is the same with us and God: "Adonal alone is God in heaven above and on earth below, there is none else" (Deuteronomy 4:39). There is none else, meaning there is nothing else in heaven or on earth but God.
Can this be? When I look at the world, I do not see God. I see trees of various kinds, people of all types, houses, fields, lakes, cows, horses, chickens, and on and on. In this I am like the children at play, seeing real figures and not simply mud.
Where in all this is God? The question itself is misleading. God is not "in" this; God is this.
Think carefully about what I have said. It is the key to all the secrets of life.
B'Shalom
this could have been written by a Zen Master or a Sufi Master; yet this is a Jewish Master in a small community in Russia who understands the truth.
from http://zenmirror.blogspot.ie/
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008
Remembering Fr. Thomas Hand
Here is the letter composed by Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro for his book Open Secrets and which appeared in issue #4783:
Reb Yerachmiel ben Yisrael
19 Tevet 5636
Many years ago, a spiritual friend of mine, Dr. Vickie Dendinger recommended that I meet Fr. Tom Hand. I had the great privilege of sitting a few retreats with this great teacher at the Joseph and Mary Retreat Center in Rancho Palos Verdes which was a converted Convent located in the Southern California South Bay.
For those of you unfamiliar with Thomas Hand, S.J., he spent twenty nine years in Japan and was one of the first Western Catholic monks to practice Zen meditation under the direction of Koun Yamada Roshi of the Sanbo Kyodon. His dept of understanding of religious experience was moving and helpful to me in my early days of exploration and unfortunately he passed away in 2005. During one of my precious interviews with him, he gave me a book of letters from a Russian Rabbi and one of his American flock that was written in the early twentieth century.
This is one of the letters and it struck me so deeply, but my comments will remain my own. I would rather hear from all of you, this is a brilliant and concise work of spiritual understanding.
Reb Yerachmiel ben Yisrael
19 Tevet 5636
My Dear Aaron Hershel,
You ask me of God: to define the Nameless to place in your palm the ultimate secret. Do not imagine that this is hidden somewhere far from you. The ultimate secret is the most open one. Here it is: God is All.
I am tempted to stop with this-to close this letter, sign my name and leave you with this simple truth. Yet I fear you will not understand. Know from the first that all that follows is but an elaboration on the simple fact that God is All.
What does it mean to be All? God is Reality. God is the Source and Substance of all things and nothing. There is no thing or feeling or thought that is not God, even the idea that there is no God! For this is what it is to be All: God must embrace even God's own negation.
Listen again carefully: God is the Source and Substance of everything. There is nothing outside of God. Thus we read: "I am God and there is none else [am od]" (Isaiah 45:5). Read not simply "none else," but rather "nothing else"-not that there is no other god but God, but that there is nothing else but God.
Let me illustrate. It rained heavily during the night, and the street is thick with mud. I walked to the Bet Midrash (House of Learning) this morning and stopped to watch a group of little children playing with the mud. Oblivious to the damp, they made dozens of mud figures: houses, animals, towers. From their talk, it was clear that they imagined an identity for each. They gave the figures names and told their stories. For a while, the mud figures took on an independent existence. But they were all just mud. Mud was their source and mud was their substance. From the perspective of the children, their mud creations had separate selves. From the mud's point of view, it is clear such independence was an illusion-the creations were all just mud.
It is the same with us and God: "Adonal alone is God in heaven above and on earth below, there is none else" (Deuteronomy 4:39). There is none else, meaning there is nothing else in heaven or on earth but God.
Can this be? When I look at the world, I do not see God. I see trees of various kinds, people of all types, houses, fields, lakes, cows, horses, chickens, and on and on. In this I am like the children at play, seeing real figures and not simply mud.
Where in all this is God? The question itself is misleading. God is not "in" this; God is this.
Think carefully about what I have said. It is the key to all the secrets of life.
B'Shalom
this could have been written by a Zen Master or a Sufi Master; yet this is a Jewish Master in a small community in Russia who understands the truth.
When Something Bad Happens
This is not entirely accurate. There are really only two options:
1. accept it
2. do not accept it
The first option is the healthy choice. The second choice will make you more and more bitter and will eventually destroy "you."
But What if You Can NOT Accept it ?
If you can not accept it, then you at least can accept your non-acceptance of it. Any form of non-acceptance will create pain in you, which "you" in turn, will want to project outwards.
If you can accept it, then you can move on from there.
If you can not accept it, the memory of this "bad" will haunt you until you do accept it.
Our definitions of ourselves are not made as a result of something that happens, but are made before anything happens. Ego simply uses what happens to prove to ourselves that "we are" as we thought we were. In other words, it uses events to prove that we are right. "See I told you so," "I knew she was a wicked person as soon as I saw her" ... etc
Bad in the World
Instead of judging that something is good or bad, simply let it be. Leave such things "in the hands of god" so to speak. Earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, wars; what can you do about them anyway? Send them love. Join with the Spirits and God however you understand them, and send love. That's all you really can do.
Bad in your Face
If something happens we don't like, e.g. our dog gets killed by a drunk driver, we probably won't be able "not to judge." The event will raise lots of emotions in us, of loss, and anger. The mind will want to weave stories about it, embellishing it. The mind will want to tell everyone about it to see if our friends will also agree with us so that they too will confirm to us that we were right ...
Instead of using mind to go into judgement, try putting your attention into the body to feel the pain that is there already. Accept the pain and just stay with it. If you can do this, it will simply diminish. If you go back into "mind" -ie thinking about it, then this activity of "non-acceptance" and will simply create more pain, adding to the pain of the loss.
The only wise thing to do, if you want to reduce pain, is to accept it. Shooting his dog won't bring your's back.
Advice from Jesus
"Pray for your enemies." Great advice from Jesus. If you can't forgive it, spend your waking hours praying for the perpetrator of the crime. Send them love. At least you won't be spending your time cursing him.
Source for this advice: Ecart Tolle
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