Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 31, 2019

Just ask yourself – what do you really want of life? That is the direction you should go.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 30, 2019

It is important to simplify the material aspects of your life so that the deeper dimensions of who you are can find expression.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 29, 2019

Anyway, life makes you do all kinds of circus, juggling, and acrobatics. If you are well prepared, you can do it joyfully.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 28, 2019

There is too much talk about heaven because too many people have made a hell out of themselves.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 27, 2019

May the Divine light you up from within.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 26, 2019

Self-realization means to realize how foolish you have been. Everything has been right here within you and you did not get it.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 25, 2019

Life is involvement. Where there is no involvement, there is no life.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 24, 2019

In search of wellbeing, we have done all kinds of insane things on this planet, but wellbeing has not happened. If wellbeing is what you seek, in is the only way out.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 23, 2019

Success happens when you are able to use yourself to your full potential.

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Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 22, 2019

Spiritual process is for people who are bored with the good life and want to experience the fantastic source of life.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 21, 2019

Without a sense of abandon, you will never walk full stride in your life.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 20, 2019

An intention will not make things happen. It will only set the direction. You still have to make the journey.

Daily Mystic Quote - Oct 18, 2019

When things go wrong in life, that is when it shows who you are. When things go well, everyone can pretend to be fantastic.

Making Tea For a Lazy Disciple – A Zen Story

Story:

In a monastery, a Zen master gathered firewood and started a fire for a stove. He was preparing tea. A disciple asked him, "For whom are you preparing tea?"

The master replied, "You see that lazy guy sitting over there? It is for him."

He was referring to one particularly lazy disciple who kept dodging work and just sat around, while all the other disciples were active in work.

The disciple said, "Why do you have to prepare tea for him? He has grown up now. Let him prepare it on his own."

The Master smiled and said, "I am here and now."

Sadhguru's explanation:

What's the most important teaching in life? You do what you can do. It is far better to see that "I can do this and I cannot do this" rather than thinking "I have to do this and I should not do this."

When you identify yourself with something and think, "This is my family. This is my wife. This is my mother. This is my house. This is my street," you conclude that "I will do this. I will not do that." You will start thinking "If my child gets injured I have to run and save him, but if some other child is getting injured why should I bother?"

Nobody belongs to you in this world. They ended up coming into this world just the way you came in, that is all. If you get married, you say, "This is my wife." If you get divorced, you say "This is not my wife!" Both are relationships fixed by you. When you get married and feel that your spouse is a part of you, you accordingly develop love and pleasant thoughts towards them. Once you deny the relationship, these emotions change and you start feeling frustrated, angry and hateful.

So when you think something belongs to you, the emotions that come with it are hugely discriminatory. This will never bring out your capabilities to the fullest.

Raju and Malathi were lovers. As they belonged to different castes, their families and their communities were not ready to accept their marriage.

Raju said, "When we can't live together, what is the point of this life? Come, let us die together."

Both of them climbed up to a cliff. They stood there hand in hand at the edge. When they were just about to jump, Malathi said, "Raju, I am terrified. You jump first! I will get the courage to jump after seeing you go!"

Raju said, "I love you, Malathi!" and jumped from the edge in a moment.

Malathi saw him fall into a deep trench below where nobody could get to. She also got ready to jump. At that moment she thought, "Now Raju is no more. If Raju is not there, my love is no more. If there is no love anymore, no family problem, no social problem. When there is no problem at all, why should I give up my life?"

She looked down at the trench below and shouted, "Raju, I love you!" and started walking back home.

When you think “this is mine” or “she is mine,” the actions that come out of that will be just like this.

Those who walk on the spiritual path do not shrink themselves like that. They don't say, "I will do something for this person, I will not do something for that person." They will only think, "At this moment I can do this. If there is an opportunity to do it, I will do it," and they will act accordingly.

If you want to realize your life to the fullest, first and foremost is you should never shrink yourself into thinking "This is mine and this is not mine." If you expand within yourself to include the whole world, then everything is yours.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is simply because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.