You are a Buddha, by default. You need just to ‘factory reset’ yourself.
My English is poor, pronunciation is further ahead of it. Still I write so that you may get a glimpse towards which I am pointing to, like it happens when you ask a stranger in non-English speaking country about something and he or she tries to explain it. If you are thirsty of this knowledge, so you get it too. The consciousness plays an important role in communicating the point at much higher level where we all are connected because I am writing only from my own experiences or understanding.
I have encountered many problems while using my phone due to wrong settings.
Neither I am an IT professional nor I know much about computers or even apps. That you can easily understand because only recently I learned use of hyperlinks in my posts.
But I have tremendous zeal to ‘best use’ my smart phone. How I can lag behind all others?
So I keep opening different setting options and using my limited vocabulary I try to guess the effects of settings.
This way sometimes the phone’s look etc sometimes improved, but most of the time I could not even decipher the change.
The problem begins when I am unable to upload a photo, or in using my internet itself!
Thank God there are many people who have posted YouTube videos or blogs to rectify those common issues.
Sometimes the change is so deep that only an experienced technician could only understand where the fault lies behind it.
With respect to change in settings of Apps, such problems created really a great mess. The only option the IT professionals suggests is to use ‘reset to factory settings’ and reinstall all the Apps again.
Today I realised that in my own personal life also similar events occurred. In the process of becoming better than others, during adolescent age in a hurry, the changes I have brought in myself lead to more problems in my life.
My body (Used as a Phone in this metaphor ) is different not only in features but also the circumstances ( Apps in phone) in which I was raised made me an altogether unique person in this world.
I should not complain about my body or circumstances in which I have grown, it is like complaining phone for all the hiccups due to its settings that I did.
Osho clarified this situation in even a better way when talking to his disciples on Patanjali’s Yogsutra, Chapter 10 -Kaivalya path as below :-
“You think mad people are mad… just look at yourself, at what you are doing. You think when a madman pretends that he is the prime minister or the president that he is mad? Then what are your presidents and prime ministers doing? In fact, they may be more mad. The madman simply enjoys the fantasy, he does not bother to make it an actuality; but the premiers, the presidents and the generals have not remained satisfied with their fantasy; they have tried to actualize it. Of course, if any madman is an Alexander or a Genghis Khan, he never kills anybody; he simply is. He does not go to prove that he really is. He’s not dangerous, he’s innocent. But when these so-called sane people have the idea of being an Alexander, a Genghis Khan, a Tamurlaine, then they don’t remain contented with the idea. They try to actualize it. Your Adolf Hitlers are more mad, your Mao Tse Tungs are more mad than any mad people in any mad asylum.
The problem is that the whole humanity exists as if under a certain hypnosis.
It is as if you have all been hypnotized and you don’t know how to get out of it. All our life-styles are insane, neurotic. They create more misery than they create happiness. They create more frustration than they create fulfillment. The whole way you live brings you more and more, closer and closer, nearer and nearer to hell. Heaven is just a desire; hell is almost a reality. You live in hell and you dream about heaven. In fact, heaven is a sort of tranquilizer: it gives you hope – but all hopes are going to be frustrated. The hope of heaven simply creates a hell of frustration. Remember this; only then will you be able to understand Patanjali’s last chapter, KAIVALYA PADA.
What is the art of liberation? The art of liberation is nothing but the art of de-hypnosis: how to drop this hypnotic state of mind; how to become unconditioned; how to look at reality without any idea creating a barrier between you and the real; how to simply see without any desires in the eyes; how simply to be without any motivation. That’s all yoga is about. Then suddenly that which is inside you, and has always been inside you from the very beginning, is revealed.
The first sutra:
JANMAUSADHI-MANTRA-TAPAH-SAMADHIJAH SIDDHAYAH. THE POWERS ARE REVEALED AT BIRTH…
This is a very pregnant sutra, and I have not yet come across a right commentary about this sutra. It is so pregnant that unless you penetrate it to the very core, you will not be able to understand it.
THE POWERS ARE REVEALED AT BIRTH, OR ACQUIRED THROUGH DRUGS, REPEATING SACRED WORDS, AUSTERITIES, OR SAMADHI.
Whatsoever you are is revealed at birth without any effort. Every child, while he is being born, knows the truth, because he has not yet been hypnotized. He has no desires; he is still innocent, virgin, not corrupted by any intention. His attention is pure, unfocused. The child is naturally meditative. He is in a sort of samadhi; he’s coming out of the womb of God. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows. He knows it, not knowing that he knows it. The knowledge is absolutely simple. How can he know that he knows? – because there has never been a moment of not knowing. To feel as if you know something, you have to have some experience of non-knowledge. Without ignorance you cannot feel knowledge. Without darkness you cannot see stars. In the day you can’t see the is all dark; contrast is needed. A child is born in perfect light: he cannot feel that this is light. To feel it, he will have to pas-s through the experience of darkness. Then he will be able to compare and see, and know that he knows. His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has no mind, he has simple being.
What Patanjali is saying is this: what you are seeking you had known before. Not knowing it, you had known it before. Otherwise, there would be no way to seek it because we can only seek something which we have known in some way – maybe very dimly, vaguely. Maybe the awareness was not clear: it was clouded in mist; but how can you seek something which you have not known before? How can you seek God? How can you seek bliss? How can you seek truth? How can you seek the self, the supreme self? You must have tasted something of it, and that taste, the memory of that taste is still treasured somewhere within your being. You are missing something; that’s why search, seeking arises.
The first experience of samadhi, the first experience of infinite power, siddhi, of potentiality, of being a god, is revealed at birth. But at that time, you cannot make a knowledge out of it. For that you will have to go through a dark night of the soul; you will have to go astray. For that, you will have to sin.
The word ’sin’ is very beautiful. It simply means going off-track, missing the right path, or missing the target, missing the goal. The Adam has to go out of the Garden of Eden. It is a necessity. Unless you miss God, you will not be able to know Him. Unless you come to a point where you don’t know whether God is or is not, unless you come to a point where you are miserable, in pain and anguish, you will never be able to know what bliss is. Agony is the door to ecstasy.
Patanjali’s first sutra is simply saying that whatsoever is attained by the yogi is nothing new. It is a recovery of something lost. It is a remembrance. That’s why in India once somebody attains samadhi, we call it a rebirth; he is reborn. We call him dwija: twice born. One birth was unconscious, the first birth; the second birth is conscious. He has suffered, gone astray, and come back home. When Adam returns home, he is Jesus. Every Jesus has to go far away from the home; then he is Adam. When Adam starts the returning journey, he is Jesus. Adam is the first man, Jesus the last. Adam is the beginning, the alpha, and Jesus the end, the omega; and the circle is complete.
”The powers are revealed at birth.:..” Then arises ’the world’; what Hindus call maya. It has been translated as illusion, magic, but the best way to translate it is as hypnosis. Then arises the hypnosis. A thousand and one hypnoses are all around: here he’s being taught that he is a Hindu – now it is a hypnosis; he’s being taught that he is a Christian – now it is a hypnosis. Now his mind is being conditioned and narrowed down. He’s a Mohammedan – it is a hypnosis. Then he is taught that he is a man or a woman – it is a hypnosis.
Ninety per cent of your manhood or womanhood is simply hypnosis; it has nothing to do with your biology. The biological difference between man and woman is very simple, but the psychological difference is very complicated and complex. You have to teach small boys to be boys and small girls to be girls, and you bifurcate them. You create an intention: the girls are going to become beautiful women, and the boys are going to become very powerful men. The girls are going to be just confined in the home: householders, housewives, mothers; and the boys are going on a great adventure in the world: money, power, prestige, ambition. You create different intentions in them.
In different societies, different conditionings are given. There are societies which are matriarchal; the woman is predominant. Then you will see an unbelievable truth there: whenever there is a society in which the woman is predominant, the man becomes weak and woman becomes powerful. She manages all outside work and the man simply looks after the home.
But because we live in a male-dominant society, man becomes powerful and woman becomes weak and fragile. But this is a hypnosis; it is not natural. It is not so in nature. You give a certain direction, then a thousand and one sorts of hypnoses go round.
In India, if a man is born in a poor, untouchable’s family, is a shudra, he’s confined to being a shudra for his whole life. He cannot. even change his business. He cannot become a brahmin. He’s confined: a very narrow hole, a tunnel-like hole is given to him. He has to go through that; no other alternatives are available. And he will think in those terms, he will live a certain style of life. And each conditioning of the mind is self-perpetuating: it goes on creating itself more and more skillfully. Then you are given ideas about God. In Soviet Russia, you are given the idea that there is no God.
Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana, has written in her memoirs that from the very beginning, of course, since she was Stalin’s daughter, she was taught very strictly to be an atheist. But by and by, she started feeling, ”Why? If there is no God, why is there so much propaganda against Him? What is the point? There is no point in it; if God is not there, finished. Why be worried? Why create anti-God propaganda, literature, this and that; why try to prove? The very effort shows that something seems to be there, something may be there.” She became suspicious, and when Stalin died she revolted. She became a religious person, but her mind was narrowed down. She must be a very rare human being, because to be a theist in Soviet Russia is as difficult as to be an atheist in India.” – Osho, Yoga- The alpha and Omega, Vol 10, Chapter #1.
So there is no need to compete, instead what I should have tried is being a better version of myself everyday!
What Baul Mystics call search or attain to ‘Adhaar Manush’ or ‘The original face’ or ‘Philosia’ or ‘Satori’ in spiritual journey of a human being means the same state as we get in the phone when we do ‘resetting the phone to factory settings’. On being asked the quality of man who will be able to enter the Kingdom of God, Jesus replied, “Those who will be ‘like’ child could only be able to enter my Kingdom of God. This becoming like a child again is ‘factory reset’ of a human being. The settings we changed in phone may not cost us our life, but the settings we have mistakenly changed in our life may cost us many lives to ‘factory reset’ it.
What I am saying by ‘it may take lives to “factory reset” yourself’ is not that it takes that much time if everything is messed by us. No! It depends upon your yearning to see your ‘Original face’, it can happen here and now. Due to such mess you keep on taking birth among those people that it will take many lives to know about ‘factory resetting’ as the remedy to come out of such mess.
One event happened in my life acted like ‘damaging the screen of phone’. Now to repair or change the screen I need to take a backup of the phone and unwillingly ‘factory reset’ the phone. There was no such plan or information with me!
Now people around me say that you have changed dramatically, it was not expected by them. But the credit goes to that event. However I was trying my best to progress in my spiritual journey but it was really a lukewarm effort in real sense. But it seems to me that my dedication helped me to take right decision after that event. Instead of throwing responsibility on others, I took it as challenge to modify myself so that such event could never occur again in my life. This is how ‘the flow’ -as Osho says -works.
So you just need to begin, and with full dedication keep practising it. The season comes and the grass grows by itself green.
An enlightened master, Osho, or Jesus, or Buddha is (and You after ‘factory reset’ will) acts like a mobile with Quantum processor. My post on Qubit state of human being both at a time. For more about how and what of it. You too can unlock your quantum potential in this game called life.
They are able to ‘factory reset’ the moment they stop interacting with outer world, and all necessary apps immediately gets installed with their settings the moment they interact with the outer world.
So being in the world, the Buddha is not affected by the world like a drop of water on the Lotus leaf. This is actually right way to live and enjoy life as a human being on this planet. Only such persons can practically feel oneness with all.
Awareness meditation is the way worked for me, may be you too find it suitable otherwise Dynamic meditation is for most of the people. You may wish to know that the state of meditation is our natural state and “How meditation a
There are 110 other meditation techniques discovered by Indian Mystic Gorakhnath about 500years before and further modified by Osho that one can experiment and the suitable one could be practiced in routine life.
My experiences may be of your help in taking only one step in deciding to add value to life. Because everyone has to move forward alone, this is the nature of this journey.
In my life mindfulness or awareness meditation (My experiences shared through a post) helped miraculously. Along with meditation living a simple, authentic and totality in life is very helpful. It is helful even when we are serving people around us with great love and care without discrimination.
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