Is being human so difficult?

Is being human so difficult? Is being in your ordinariness that degrading that you have to suppress someone to prove that you are superior & powerful?.

There are various sections of people who believe that what they believe separates them from the rest and defines their identity,it's kind of a superiority over others.
It's a pathologically sick to say that you are superior because of your skin colour ,belief systems,ideas etc.do you understand??,it's a accident that you were born in that part of the world.
And by the virtue of that, your parent's religion became yours and continuing in your training session since childhood, you listened to people who were believing the same thing and they said that you are superior. And you believed that...??
One more thing they said is if the people don't accept your superiority then make them accept it,you asked how? they replied "kill them" ,then other people like them will have to accept the superiority of our belief system.
Really???? Killing people is superiority? you respect your belief ,so you can kill anyone else who doesn't???? who comes up with that?

I will tell you who comes up with that,"The people who are power hungry,the people who are not satisfied with their lives,they always come up with a plan so that we can kill each other and that will give them some entertainment,yes ,entertainment for pathologically sick people is killing others and yeah it's also a power trip for them,it gives them a satisfaction of "who's the big bad wolf"? yeah ,it's me,me,me and just me.........for them.

Don't believe these people who blame conveniently the masses for the bloodshed,who know how to manipulate us and especially don't believe if they call out their organization name in media.

Desire- it's a useless emotion? or a emotion that can propel us into great action?

Desire...is it a useless emotion? or a emotion that can propel us into great action? or a emotion that can be very nasty if left unattended.

From what i can understand,desire is a useless as well as useful emotion that can be utilized to make our life for the better.

For e.g. if you desire to be beautiful in the physical sense of the word and the reality is that you are ugly,then i am sorry to say whatever you do to reach your perfect beauty,it won't be enough because you are lost in the physical beauty.
Beautiful is the one whose actions are more meaningful and beautiful.period,if you are not satisfied with this answer,go ahead with your makeup and cosmetic surgery.

It is my desire to let go of the desire that i am incomplete without a person of opposite sex, that i am not beautiful physically,not appealing.
It is my desire to make this planet more liveable and take actions to make it so.(Because in all fairness ,merely wishing it,won't make it happen).

You have to understand that sometimes having unrealistic desires can wreck havoc in our lives,
For e.g.the perfect mate,the perfect house,the perfect kids,the perfect job,the perfect life.Now look around you,tell me what do you see? you may see what you want to see,you understand? you see what you actually desire,you may see that someone may have the perfect all of the above,but trust your inner instinct,they don't have it.

Grass always looks greener on the other side and it tastes sweeter too.

You have to be gentle with yourself,you have to remind yourself that ,"whatever i will work for -i will get it,nothing more -nothing less".No unrealistic wishing and desiring business here.

So work Hard ,Think Smart for Fulfilling your desires.

You Get What You Put In.

God is not a person. God is just a symbol to show a certain quality in existence.

A rationalist mind is sharp like a sword. A rationalist mind means: I cannot believe in anything unless I have experienced it, and I cannot disbelieve in anything unless I have experienced it. Has he experienced God? Has he ever meditated? Has he ever gone into the inner lab? Has he ever known a single moment of no-thought? Then all his assertions are just meaningless.

Have you tried to know God? You are fighting with ordinary people, whose belief is just mumbo jumbo. You can fight with them and you can prove to them that their argument is not right, that their belief is not right. An ordinary man has no foundation; it is very easy to demolish his arguments. In fact he has no arguments.

But if you are really a rationalist, then you have to go into the experimentation of it. He should move into yoga, he should move into meditation, he should go deep into ecstasy, and from there he should

assert whether God is or not.

This is one of the most precious experiences of history, that whosoever has gone with inwards has become a mystic. Nobody has gone in and remained a non-mystic. Without any exception, whenever a person has meditated, he has felt the very heart, the very core of existence.

God is not a person. God is just a symbol to show a certain quality in existence. 

For example, if there is no God it simply means life is meaningless. If there is no God it simply means this cosmos is not a cosmos, it is a chaos. If there is no God it simply means that life is accidental, there is no reason for it to be there at all. God is a symbol. To say ”God is” is just another way of saying that life is meaningful. To say ”God is” is another way of saying that life has poetry in it, music in it,coherence, harmony. To say that God is to say that existence cares about you, it is responsive towards you, you are not uncared for, the universe is not indifferent towards you. The universe loves you, the universe feels you, the universe is a mother, is a father. These are symbolic ways of saying the same thing: that God is.

The paintings of Picasso are nothing but his nightmares.

The arts can be immensely helpful in therapy, in spiritual growth, in your meditations. But it is taking a hard and long way unnecessarily. The shortcut is: first, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord. Otherwise, it is a long journey; even one life may not be enough.

For example, the paintings of Picasso are nothing but his nightmares, as if somebody is not painting but vomiting. It has helped him to relieve himself of his tensions, schizophrenia, paranoia and all kinds of mental repressions. But it is not of much use to you. In fact, if you go on looking at a Picasso painting for a long time, you will feel sick, because it is vomiting. You will start feeling nauseous. This is not real art.

The people who created the Taj Mahal – that is real art. They were Sufi mystics who knew what meditation is. And they created the Taj Mahal in such a way that if on every full-moon night, exactly at nine o’clock in the evening, you just sit looking at the most beautiful architecture in the whole world, you will find suddenly you are becoming silent, peaceful, serene. Something is transpiring between you and the Taj Mahal.

Gurdjieff used to call the Taj Mahal, objective art. It means: created by people who are fully aware,able to create something which can help people to grow. He would not call Picasso an objective artist. Picasso is a subjective artist, he is just throwing up whatsoever is in his mind. It is not going to help anybody. Picasso feels relieved, but for how long? Soon he will gather tensions again. Soon he will be again in a state of insanity, and then he will paint. Painting is a release for him.

The people who built the Taj Mahal – it is not a release for them; it is their experience. And they are trying somehow to make something which can also give you the same experience – at least a

glimpse of it.

Right now you don’t know even what areas of creativity can bring out your potential for spiritual growth. To paint? – everybody is not a painter. To write poetry? – everybody is not a poet. To play music? – everybody is not a musician. How are you going to choose in your confusion? But if you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something, to become a musician.... It comes spontaneously!

If you feel you are special than others, you might be deceived.

The problem with all mediocre people is They cannot tolerate anybody who is better than them because that destroys their illusion of being extraordinary. But nobody can take your ordinariness.

It is something which is not a projection, but a reality.

The rosebush is ordinary, the pine is ordinary, the deer is ordinary. Why should any man try to be extraordinary?

Only man seems to be sick. The whole existence lives in absolute ordinariness and is so joyful, such a blessing; but man is sick. His sickness is that he cannot accept himself as he is. He wants to be

somebody great: Alexander the Great. Less than that won’t do.

But he forgets what Alexander gained. He lived only thirty-three years, spent his whole life fighting, invading, killing. He had no chance to live, no time to live.

He had met a great philosopher, sage, wise man, Diogenes, before he was going to invade India.

He asked Diogenes if he had any message for him.

Diogenes said, ”Only one: rather than wasting time, live it. You are not living yourself, and you are not allowing others to live. You are committing immense crimes against life – for what? Just to be

called Alexander the Great?

”Everybody thinks like that. Just inside, you can call yourself Alexander the Great; nobody is preventing you. If you want, you can even put a signboard on your chest: ’Alexander the Great’– but live! You will look like a buffoon, but that is far better than to be a buffoon; at least you will have time to live, love, sing, dance.”

Alexander understood the message. He said, ”I can see the point. When I come back, I will try to follow it.”

Diogenes said, ”Remember, nobody comes back from such an ego trip, because this ego trip never ends, it goes on and on. You will end, not your ego trip.”

And that’s what happened: he never came back home. On the way, he died. And when he was dying, he remembered Diogenes’ statement that nobody comes back. Ego drives you, and there is no end for the ego. It creates more goals, new goals, higher goals.

Remember one thing: all ideologies are dangerous.

Remember one thing: all ideologies are dangerous. They divide people. You become a Hindu, you become a Mohammedan, you become a Jaina, a Christian: you are divided. All ideologies create conflict. All ideologies are violent. A real man of understanding has no ideology; then he is undivided, then he is one with the whole of humanity. Not only that, he is one with the whole of existence. A real man of understanding is a flowering.

The natural desire of the human mind is to become special – to become special in the ways of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth – to be special.

The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you are fed up with the world, then again the ego starts finding new ways and new means to enhance itself – it becomes spiritual. You become a great mahatma, a great sage, a great scholar, a man of knowledge, a man of renunciation; again you are special.

Unless the desire to be special disappears, you will never be special. Unless you relax into your ordinariness, you will never relax.

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