I started a long voyage
In search of the hidden treasure...
With great courage and faith
I traveled across the oceans
But in vain...
With all my strength and patience
I roamed all over the lands
But in vain...
With all my intelligence and knowledge
I flew across the skies
But in vain...
With great despair and sorrow
I returned back to myself
Eureka!
The treasure was always there
Deep within me
Waiting to be found!
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Thinking about thoughts...
Some interesting exercises & questions for your brain:
- Is the mind in the brain? Or is the brain in the mind? And who is using them?
- Are YOU thinking the thoughts or your brain is firing them?
- If you think that you are thinking your thoughts then you should be able to STOP them at your will for any period of time. Can you do it?
- Can you think who is thinking that the thoughts that you think you are thinking are really not your thoughts?
- Count how many thoughts you think in a minute.
- How many thoughts can you think at a moment simultaneously?
- Can you think what your next thought is going to be?
- How much time do you stay without thoughts between two thoughts? Can you find the time of this ‘gap’? Can you increase this ‘gap’?
- When I am thinking about past, I am in the past. When I am thinking about future, I am in the future. When I am thinking nothing, I am in the eternal present!
- I can observe the thinker within me who is thinking all the time. But then how do I observe the observer who is observing the thinker?
- Who came first, the brain that produced the first thought or the thought that produced the first thinking brain?
- Can you think about something that you have never thought before?
- Can you read following words without firing any thought / picture / memory in your brain? SPIDER MAN WEB FIRE WATER GOD
- If we were to type out each and every thought that we think in our lifetime in a text file, what will be the approximate size of that file and what will be the total word count?
- If all your ‘mental movies with internal dialogues’ happening within your mind for your entire life are to be recorded in a computer, what will be the required hard disk memory size?
- When you think about something, who decides what you are thinking is good or bad?
- Sometimes I think I should do this and immediately I feel I should not do this. Am I alone or someone else is also thinking with me?
Is God really everywhere?
How many times have we heard ‘God is everywhere’ in our life? And how many times have we actually thought deeply about this simple eternal truth? God is everywhere – everywhere means not somewhere particularly - everywhere. If we really ‘understood’ this simple statement, it has the potential to change our life entirely. This simple truth has been spoken by almost all great masters who walked on this planet and is mentioned in all the religions on Earth.
If God created this universe out of ‘nothing’, then ‘everything’ that exists now must exist within God only! Whether it is air, pebbles, water, trees, birds, animals or humans. Hence we can refer to God as All That Is or as Life or simply as Isness.
God is in the entire physical as well as all other ‘non-material’ universes! God is in the holy place, outside the holy place, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, in the dust bin and in all our thoughts, including all bad thoughts. If we insist that God is only in ‘good’ things and ‘good’ places then we will be contradicting the very foundation of all religions and beliefs. Who ‘created’ and who is ‘controlling’ those ‘bad’ things, ‘bad’ thoughts, and ‘bad’ people? If nothing can happen without God’s will, how can so many ‘bad’ things happen without God’s will?
Let us meditate further on this statement. God is everywhere – means whether it is India, USA, China, Japan or Iraq or even a planet outside our solar system, there can be only ONE GOD in all these places. Whether it is a temple, a church, a mosque or any other holy place – the SAME GOD is present at all these places! If you say your God is different than my God – are you saying that the universe is running so smoothly by a ‘team of Gods’? And if at all we have so many Gods out ‘there’, why there is no ‘chaos’ in the universe? Which God runs which jurisdiction? Whether inside a statue or outside; whether inside a holy place or outside; whether inside you or outside, that same God exists everywhere!
If we say God is ‘here’ then what is ‘there’? Who is running ‘that’ part of the universe? If God is only in holy place, who is controlling the life outside the holy place? In human history of millions of years, can there be any place on Earth which has not seen wars, killings, rapes, hatred or other ‘bad’ things? How can we say a particular place to be eternally holy and a particular place to be unholy if All That Is is God? A stone that was first ‘tortured’ with chiesel and hammer to get a particular form, is worshipped after the stone is carved into a particular shape! But then what was there in it before that form was carved?
We are only fooling ourselves in seeing God ‘somewhere’ in some ‘form’ or ‘name’ and then fighting and killing each other over those various forms or names of SAME ENERGY. When will we really understand the meaning of this simple statement – ‘God is everywhere’? When will we follow our true religion?
What will happen when we start seeing God everywhere – in all humans, including our enemies and people of ‘other religion’ and all those whom we hate; in all animals (not only holy animals), in all plants (not only few plants), in all our thoughts (not only in good thoughts) and in all our actions (not only in good actions)? Can we start seeing God everywhere – (now)here?
If God created this universe out of ‘nothing’, then ‘everything’ that exists now must exist within God only! Whether it is air, pebbles, water, trees, birds, animals or humans. Hence we can refer to God as All That Is or as Life or simply as Isness.
God is in the entire physical as well as all other ‘non-material’ universes! God is in the holy place, outside the holy place, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, in the dust bin and in all our thoughts, including all bad thoughts. If we insist that God is only in ‘good’ things and ‘good’ places then we will be contradicting the very foundation of all religions and beliefs. Who ‘created’ and who is ‘controlling’ those ‘bad’ things, ‘bad’ thoughts, and ‘bad’ people? If nothing can happen without God’s will, how can so many ‘bad’ things happen without God’s will?
Let us meditate further on this statement. God is everywhere – means whether it is India, USA, China, Japan or Iraq or even a planet outside our solar system, there can be only ONE GOD in all these places. Whether it is a temple, a church, a mosque or any other holy place – the SAME GOD is present at all these places! If you say your God is different than my God – are you saying that the universe is running so smoothly by a ‘team of Gods’? And if at all we have so many Gods out ‘there’, why there is no ‘chaos’ in the universe? Which God runs which jurisdiction? Whether inside a statue or outside; whether inside a holy place or outside; whether inside you or outside, that same God exists everywhere!
If we say God is ‘here’ then what is ‘there’? Who is running ‘that’ part of the universe? If God is only in holy place, who is controlling the life outside the holy place? In human history of millions of years, can there be any place on Earth which has not seen wars, killings, rapes, hatred or other ‘bad’ things? How can we say a particular place to be eternally holy and a particular place to be unholy if All That Is is God? A stone that was first ‘tortured’ with chiesel and hammer to get a particular form, is worshipped after the stone is carved into a particular shape! But then what was there in it before that form was carved?
We are only fooling ourselves in seeing God ‘somewhere’ in some ‘form’ or ‘name’ and then fighting and killing each other over those various forms or names of SAME ENERGY. When will we really understand the meaning of this simple statement – ‘God is everywhere’? When will we follow our true religion?
What will happen when we start seeing God everywhere – in all humans, including our enemies and people of ‘other religion’ and all those whom we hate; in all animals (not only holy animals), in all plants (not only few plants), in all our thoughts (not only in good thoughts) and in all our actions (not only in good actions)? Can we start seeing God everywhere – (now)here?
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