A Belief System: What Is Loneliness?

Then imagine this energy moving down within you and dispersing harmlessly into the ground.Imagine a bubble, dome, or wall of white light of protection around you. It is difficult, because the old path is the way of least resistance—it is easier—and to be happy you will have to make an effort. You cannot catch hold of the wind in your fist. You have already accepted the idea that it is a scientific truth, and now all that is needed is to prove it. Use the following instructions as a guideline or read it aloud into a recording device and play it back as you visualize.Start by sitting up straight with your feet on the floor and your hands facing with your palms up in a receptive position to receive this energy. The Osho Active Meditations are techniques that Osho has developed specifically for contemporary men and women living in a fast-paced, stressful environment. Nothing distracts like feeling chilled.The following relaxation exercises will help you calm down and get prepared for whatever else you want to do. Yoga is one of the most ancient sciences developed by man. When complaining becomes a way of life, the cycle is difficult to break. You have to remain passive: passive, yet alert. Just be open and receptive to whatever comes, in whatever form. If you suppress in the stomach And everybody has suppressed many sorts of emotions—love, sexuality, anger, sadness, weeping, and even laughter. And if fear cannot touch it, then death cannot touch it. It helps your life, it protects you. Stress affects every system of the body, including the gut—it's no coincidence that gastrointestinal (GI) problems are one of the issues most commonly cited by people dealing with anxiety. When your body has again become receptive and there is no block, no poisons around it, you will always have a subtle feeling of joy wrapped around you. The deeper the roots go the higher the tree goes; there is no need to do anything else. Then you will be thankful even to anger; you will not be angry at it—because it has given you a new beautiful space to live in, a new utterly fresh experience to go through. And to determine that predominant factor is very helpful, because then you can proceed straight; otherwise your progress will always be zigzag. And these were not people who were suppressing in any way. Darling, this is rather embarrassing, said the husband, but was it you I made love to in the library last night? Now that the mind is silent, the awareness for the first time becomes alert about the body. Stress affects our food choices and the makeup of the microbiome in our gut, which is constantly communicating with our brain (something we will discuss in detail in chapter 5). They make beautiful ideals and then they force the ideals on you. If you are one hundred percent a watcher, then there is no mind—no sadness, no anger, no jealousy—just a clarity, a silence, a benediction. Only then does it free you. So it is a good experience. Existence is a river; it cannot stop for you, just for you, so that you remain depressed forever. But unfortunately man has not allowed her freedom to stand on her own and contribute to life. Even in his death he was hoping for a future life, but he never actually experienced any rejoicing, any meaning. Dogs have their own fundamental ideology; they bark at people who wear uniforms—policemen, postmen, they are absolutely against uniforms. If, however, your counselor has not provided answers or has asked you to wait, this probably means you don't have enough information or that the situation is still unclear. So when changes start happening in the body, watch them and rejoice. As a result, when he actually did what he had imagined he knew exactly what to do and had no fear doing it. For the first time you become alive. It may take a few days for you to be able to digest it, but the day it happens, you have stumbled upon a door that will take you really far, far away. There was enthusiasm in the world; people were not depressed. But what is the purpose of those tears? The man in the third house, a scruffy, unshaven, working-class fellow, said, I used it for sexual purposes. To know is life for him, not to know is death for him. The mind will say that you are getting more and more foolish; but you have to become a little madder! And the heart finds its own ways; they are utterly different from the ways of the head. The key is to regard any failure as an opportunity for learning and a stepping-stone to future success so you don't remain stuck in the image of having failed. Fear is normal. But a musician, a painter, a poet lives on a different plane. Hate or love or anything is coming from your source. Your parents and your society have destroyed you, and you are destroying your children. Denying a child's reality can take on subtle forms. They go underground. If you can go into no-feeling very easily, you belong to the feeling type. If I don't understand a certain thing, I cannot get out of it. If you don't get this training, or if you do but set unrealistic standards of achievement for yourself, you're setting yourself up to fail and reinforcing your belief that you can't. But self-mastery is a totally different phenomenon; it has no self in it. Nature gives sleep to the beggars who have been working the whole day, moving from one place to another in the hot summer, begging. You deserve a full life, and that includes a variety of kinds of human connection. I can understand their difficulty. Your parents' attention to or rituals around their own physical appearance also modeled beliefs and values about what is acceptable and what is not. And for another, the lack of love and connection in life is itself a kind of loss. Only the human being is capable of having this precious diamond. This went on for three or four months, when his wife finally sent him a wire that said, Better come home, I'm selling what you're buying! That's how things happen in life. They are responsible for the inflammatory symptoms we've all experienced when we've been ill—fevers, swelling, redness, pain—and when they overreact or storm our body, the results can be deadly. It is like a flame inside you and darkness starts disappearing. Suppose you feel stressed because you are going to meet your mother-in-law who is usually very critical. Finally, let go of this image and return to your everyday consciousness.While this method can be a helpful release for some people, others may find it makes them angrier. You say, The strongest emotion that I have is hating death. I went to my master as a young man; I was only seventeen and already miserable, and my master was old, seventy, and he was sitting under a tree, laughing for no reason at all. Everyone was in joy—happy. The whole thing depends on what works, what pays, what makes you richer or more respectable, what makes you more comfortable, safer, more secure, what gives you more nourishment for the ego—that's the best policy. By focusing on what to do to make I can happen, not on whether I could, and by acting the role I wanted to play, I became what I wanted to be. Now, Wesley, will you define 'unaware'? As you do so, feel the energy of whatever you are touching throb with power. To study this effect, researchers often tell participants that the drugs they are taking have terrible side effects, when they are really only taking a sugar pill. No disease should ever be repressed. It will disappear; nothing is permanent in this world. If this is a work problem, the actors will be your boss, work associates, or employees. And so on. The foolishness of childhood is no longer there, and the madness of youth is also gone. Because when you live at just one pole you lose sharpness, you lose variety, you lose richness. Day in, day out, the disciple meditates, finds no way, thinks this way and that way—but in fact there is no way. It is just as if the wind is blowing and the leaves are trembling. Don't take any attitude about fear; in fact, don't call it fear. For them everything will begin by knowing. As you visualize your success, experience the satisfaction and feeling of power this brings. A guide is largely nonjudgmental, allowing the child to exist as they are. There is no need to be in despair, in depression; you just have to move into an unknown dimension. It has really confused you. Sleep was so easy for him. Whereas the success pictured in the previous exercise represented attaining a goal, the image of prosperity in this exercise represents the rewards of that accomplishment. Wherever you go you will feel very comfortable and very safe, and you will find your answers there.Now, choose which path you want to follow: to the river or a lake, to the cave, to the mountaintop, or to the clouds. And the head is not the faculty for love. Whatever the situation may be, see yourself responding knowledgeably and confidently just as you did on the talk show. If you continue to use the same behaviors, it will eventually affect the inner you as well so you start to come into alignment with that inner role. For Mohammed, for Gandhi, that is the way. Write down ideas or images as they come to mind. Or you can develop a voice inside you to answer for your body. If a wound comes to the surface it is good, it is on the way to being healed—because it is only on the surface that it will be in contact with fresh air and the sun, and can be healed. Use it as a starter just in the beginning. The members of the organic unity are not just parts put together; there is something more. Their difficulty was that by love people understand biological love; to avoid that misunderstanding they used a negative term, nonviolence. To gain practice, he joined a swimming class where he practiced going farther and farther into the lake to get over his fear. Emerging science tells us that the genes we inherit aren't fixed; they are influenced by their environment, beginning in utero and continuing throughout our lives.