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17 citátů plných hluboké moudrosti a inspirace

„Chodíte do kanceláře, nevím proč. Říkáte, že musíte, protože máte zodpovědnost, musíte vydělávat, podporovat rodinu. Nevím, proč byste museli cokoli dělat. Jste otroci, to je všechno.“

„Obáváme se nechat mysl ničím nezaměstnanou. Člověk by pak mohl přijít na to, jaký vlastně je.“

„Neexistuje zdravý způsob, jak se přizpůsobit hluboce nemocné společnosti.“

„Bez porozumění, co je potěšení, není možné ukončit utrpení.“

„Jste-li vězeň, není mým zájmem popisovat, co je svoboda. Mým zájmem je ukázat, co tvoří vězení, a vy jste je tak mohli prolomit.“

„Řád, vytvořený sledováním autority, plodí chaos… Nejhorší je tzv. duchovní autorita. Je jedním z hlavních tvůrců "řádu", protože rozdělila svět na různé druhy náboženství a ideologií.“

„Začněte žít a budete zde bez ptaní, bez hledání, bez strachu.“

„Člověk s materiálním bohatstvím, ani ten, který má bohaté znalosti a víru, nikdy nepozná nic jiného než tmu a bude šířit nepokoj a utrpení.“

„Je-li zde jakékoli potěšení, musí zde být i utrpení-jedno nemůže být bez druhého.“

„Velké štěstí spočívá v tom, že nechceme, že něco nejsme, že nikam nejdeme.“

„Navážete-li vztah se stromem, navážete jej s celým lidstvem.“

„Tomu, co je kladné, neporozumíme tak, že se to budeme snažit analyzovat, ale jedině tak, že pochopíme to, co je chybné.“

„Ctnostný člověk je spravedlivý a ten nikdy nemůže pochopit, co je to pravda.“

„Kdo chce nějakému faktu porozumět, nesmí od něj uhnout.“

„Zdá se mi, že největším kamenem úrazu v životě je neustálý boj, abychom něčeho dosáhli, něco získali, něco vlastnili.“

“Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?”

“Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”

“Is there a thinker apart from thought?”

“Can you look at a flower without thinking?”

“When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?”

“Only the free mind knows what Love is.”

“The traditional approach is from the periphery inwards, and through time, practice and renunciation, gradually to come upon that inner flower, that inner beauty and love — in fact to do everything to make oneself narrow, petty and shoddy; peel off little by little; take time; tomorrow will do, next life will do — and when at last one comes to the centre one finds there is nothing there, because one's mind has been made incapable, dull and insensitive.
Having observed this process, one asks oneself, is there not a different approach altogether — that is, is it not possible to explode from the centre?”

“The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”

“Psychological knowledge has made us dull.”

“To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.”

“Meditation is a state of mind in which the operation and exercise of will is not.”

“Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.”

“There are many for whom the Qualification of Desirelessness is a difficult one, for they feel that they are their desires — that if their distinctive desires, their likings and dislikings, are taken away from them, there will be no self left. But these are only they who have not seen the Master; in the light of His holy Presence all desire dies, but the desire to be like Him.”

“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

“No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.”

“The world is me and I am the world.”

“Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.”

“Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond this little life. And that is what millions of so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group, joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established pattern. But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made dull through discipline and conformity — such a mind, however long it seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.”

“In the denial of disorder there is order.”

“The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.”

“The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all humanity.”

“Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.”

“Passion is something which very few of us have really felt. What we may have felt is enthusiasm, which is being caught up in an emotional state over something. Our passion is for something: for music, for painting, for literature, for a country, for a woman or a man; it is always the effect of a cause. When you fall in love with someone, you are in a great state of emotion, which is the effect of that particular cause; and what I am talking about is passion without a cause. It is to be passionate about everything, not just about something, whereas most of us are passionate about a particular person or thing. I think one must see this distinction very clearly. In the state of passion without a cause, there is intensity free of all attachment; but when passion has a cause, there is attachment, and attachment is the beginning of sorrow.”

“When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”

“To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward.”

“Where there is fear there is aggression.”

“Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.”

“Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?”

“Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?”