Light...

Drop in Existence...

The history of the Earth is very very long, its a history with at least 4600 millions years of developments and which the human beings write at only about 5 thousand years.

Despite that long time here, every day we forgot and loose the link to that old and ancient wisdom/conscience - The Eternal Truths.

We are so small (but unique and precious) and yet we keep living our lives inside an enormous and damaging Ego.

The United Nations estimates that we will be about 9 billion in the year 2050. Especially, as now, most of people will be born in the less developed world (in material, economic terms).

Its time, once and for all, to raise our conscience and understanding about the Eternal and Guiding Truths...if we want a real progress into a more peaceful and balanced existence...

Eternal and Guiding Truths...

1. All Existence in connected - we are All in One. Unique, but one. We also have all range of potential to perceive, behave and act in all manners. But each being is unique in each moment...

2. Each moment is Unique and Incomparable, like each perception, each feeling, each being, each action and each interpretation. They are relative/subjective and specific to each time and space (with all the endless multitude of forces and influences in each moment)...

3. Truth and Non-Violence (large concept, in thoughts, words and actions against existence) emerge from the raising of our Conscience and understanding...

4. All must follow their respective Inner Voice and testify the Uniqueness and Beauty of each moment. Stop and observe, dont judge...Feel...and act in Conscience. All action/non action has consequences, energies...

5. Our life is our Responsibility. we must free ourselves from the prison, the burden, and the attachments of the Ego. Loose the Fear.

6. The Conscience emerges from our Heart, our Center, the Mystery of Life can not be rationalised by the Mind.

7. Even if you have broken your vow a thousand times, come, keep on walking...the journey, the path, the road ... life is characterized by Uncertainty... live in the Present and forget these and all other writings... : )

8. To be written...by you? : )

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The Journey...

Even if you have broken your vow a thousand times...

Sorrow and suffering and misery--everything has to be taken nonseriously, because the more seriously you take them, the more difficult it is to get out of them. The more nonserious you are... you can pass through the suffering, through the dark night, singing a song. And if one can pass through the dark night singing a song and dancing, then why unnecessarily torture yourself? Make this whole journey from here to here just a beautiful laughing matter.

There is a beautiful statement of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, one of the greatest Sufi masters ever. He says: Come, come, whoever you are; Wanderer, worshipper, lover of learning... It does not matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow A thousand times. Come, come, yet again come.

Remember this beautiful statement: "Ours is not a caravan of despair." I can also say this. Ours is not a caravan of despair, it is a celebration--it is the celebration of life.

People become religious out of misery, and the person who becomes religious out of misery becomes religious for the wrong reasons. And if the very beginning is wrong, the end cannot be right.

Become religious out of joy, out of the experience of beauty that surrounds you, out of the immense gift of life that God has given to you. Become religious out of gratitude, thankfulness.

Your temples, your churches, your mosques and gurudwaras are full of miserable people. They have turned your temples also into hells. They are there because they are in agony. They don't know God, they have no interest in God; they are not concerned with truth; there is no inquiry.

They are just there to be consoled, comforted. Hence they seek anybody who can give them cheap beliefs to patch up their lives, to hide their wounds, to cover up their misery.

They are there in search of some false satisfaction. Ours is not a caravan of despair. It is a temple of joy, of song, of dance, of music, of creativity, of love and life.

It does not matter. You may have broken all the rules--the rules of conduct, the rules of morality. In fact, anybody who has any guts is bound to break those rules. I agree with Jalaluddin Rumi: he says, Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times.

Intelligent people are bound to break all their vows many times, because life goes on changing, situations go on changing. And the vow is taken under pressure--maybe the fear of hell, the greed for heaven, respectability in society...

It is not coming from your innermost core. When something comes from your own inner being, it is never broken. But then it is never a vow, it is a simple phenomenon like breathing.

Come, come, yet again come! Everybody is welcome, without any conditions. You do not have to fulfill any requirements. The time has come when a great rebellion is needed against all established religions.

Religiousness is needed in the world but no more religions--no more Hindus, no more Christians, no more Mohammedans--just pure religious people, people who have great respect for themselves.

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