Spiritoons - ‘Non-Serious’ Spiritual Cartoons by Sudi

Spiritoons - ‘Non-Serious’ Spiritual Cartoons by Sudi

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Meditation is a Mirror!

“Meditation is a mirror – and the most faithful one. Whoever goes into meditation risks a confrontation with himself: The mirror of meditation never lies, and it does not flatter. It is impartial and innocent and it never projects anything. It only faithfully shows your real original face, the face we never show to the world, the face that we ourselves have forgotten. So it is possible that you yourself may not be able to recognize it the first time! But do not escape from it. Face it and you will come to know it and recognize it. This confrontation is the first test of courage on the inner way. So when it comes to happen – rejoice and feel blessed”

~OSHO, A Cup of Tea - Letters written from 1962 - 1971.

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Jesus ! - The LOVE that is

“On the path of love celebration grows of its own accord, and dancing and singing, and life is no more a struggle but a let-go. And there are things which happen only when you are in a let-go. All that is great happens only when you are in a let-go. If you are in an effort to conquer, you will conquer only small things.

Conquerors can become at the most Adolf Hitlers, Napoleons or Alexanders. They never become Buddhas – they cannot. To become a Buddha or to become a Christ, one has to be not in the mood of conquering at all, but, on the contrary, to be conquered by god one has to be feminine. That is the secret of love: to be feminine, to be passive, to be open, vulnerable, ready to absorb, ready to be pregnant, just to be a womb, and all that is needed comes. That’s what I call trust – that it comes; whenever your real need is there, it comes. It never comes by your search. It comes only when your real need is there. When you are really thirsty, your thirst will be quenched.

That’s what Jesus means when he says ’Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Ask and it shall be given. Seek and ye shall find.’ But by ’seeking’ he does not mean an active search, because he says ’The kingdom of god is within you.’

How can you seek it actively? Where can you go to search for it? There is nowhere to go. One has to relax into oneself. The seeking has to be passive, the knocking has to be passive. It has to be a kind of prayer in love. “

Happy Birthday JESUS !!!!

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Thinking of Love!

” THE MORE YOU TALK AND THINK ABOUT IT, THE FURTHER ASTRAY YOU WANDER FROM THE TRUTH.

THINKING IS AWANDERING AWAY, going astray. Whenever you think about anything, immediately
you have started going away. I am here, you can be with me – but if you start thinking about me you are on a journey going on and on, and the more you get into thinking the further away you will be.

Thinking is a way to escape from reality; it gives you an inner direction, it makes you a path in your
mind and you move on it. A thinker is never here and now, he is never in the present, he is always somewhere else. A meditator is always here and now, he is nowhere else. That’s why thinking is the only barrier in meditation. You have to become aware, and by and by, the more you become aware, the more you stop cooperating with thinking.

~ Osho, Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing CHAPTER 3. TRUTH CANNOT BE SOUGHT

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Diwali, Let the celebrations continue

Diwali (festival of Light!) is celebrated tomorrow, on November 9th.

Like these beautiful trees, birds, animals, sky and stars, let the human celebrations also continue forever…

love to you all..

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Masks.. Costumes.. Personality

“You may not be aware that the word ‘personality’ comes from Greek. It means the mask. In Greek drama, in the ancient days, every actor used to have a mask. Persona means mask, and from persona has come the word personality. Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality.

Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. Personality is social convenience. Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the quality of the lion; the lion moves alone.

The sheep are always in the crowd, hoping that being in the crowd will feel cozy. Being in the crowd one feels more protected, secure. If somebody attacks, there is every possibility in a crowd to save yourself – but alone? Only the lions move alone. And every one of you is born a lion, but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep. It gives you a personality, a cozy personality, nice, very convenient, very obedient.

Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want obedience. The people who are in power, the people who have riches, the people who are the heads of religions, they all want one thing: you should not raise your head. You should live like a slave, pulled and pushed to this side and that side. You should not resist. You should not assert your being, your intelligence, your individuality.”

- One seed makes the whole earth green, Chapter 4 , Osho 1985

 

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Nothing is Hidden!

Existence is so open.. Only You are Closed
“People deceive themselves in millions of ways. They waste their time in millions of ways. Hoping some how then can enter the temple through some back door. There exists none. There is no back door to the temple.. only the front door. You may find many backdoors. But they will never lead you to the inner shrine. Back doors don’t exist in existence. Because existence doesn’t believe in hiding… Look… everything is so open.. The secret is so open.. Nothing is hidden.. everything is open. Only you need eyes to see it, Awareness to read it and ability to enjoy it. Everywhere everything is open secret. Nothing whatsoever is hidden from the very beginning. Existence is open.. only you are closed. The whole universe is written everywhere. In each blade of grass you can find the signature of the divine. And if you can understand a blade of grass, you understood it all.. root and all.
In each part the total is contained, the whole is contained.Anywhere you move.. you move into the whole. But it will depend on your understanding. How you will read it. Life is really short. And much has to be done. So, don’t fool around.”
-Osho

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - If I weren’t into Meditation

“Life has to be transformed into a continuous meditation. Meditation is not a question of something one does for one hour every day, and then for twenty-three hours one can remain unaware, No. That won’t help, and that one hour will be false, pseudo; it cannot win against twenty-three hours of
mechanicalness. One has to spread meditation all over one’s life. Walking, eating, talking, listening, in whatsoever you are doing, be there in tremendous attentiveness, as if that’s all, as if life and death depend on it, as if there is no other moment, as if the next moment is not going to come.
Then the whole energy pulsates in the present moment. That pulsation is subodha, and that’s what brings one to reality, to that which is. And it is the only thing that can give bliss, joy, what Jesus calls the kingdom of god.”

- Osho, Don’t Look before you leap [1978], Chapter 28

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Religion Inc!

Beloveds, We are back from vacation.. Almost 4 weeks in India with little bit of everything. Yes.. even a few days in The Great Himalayan region!

Spiritoons Continues….

“Religion has functioned as the greatest business on earth. It accumulates more money than any other business and it goes on selling things that are invisible!” - OSHO

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Existence is Hilarious !

“Existence is hilarious! If you just have eyes to see the hilarious points you will be surprised: in life there is no place to be serious. Everybody is slipping on banana peels - you just need an insight to see.” OSHO

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Happy Guru Purnima - July 29th

Guru Purnima July 29th

Guru Purnima is the day when one expresses his gratitude to his Guru.Osho says that a guru is the one who liberates us and with whom we are in deep love, faith and reverence. A guru is a presence. Through him one gets the first glimpse of divinity. A guru creates, transforms and gives a new birth to a seeker so that with complete trust one can follow his guru while traveling through many unknown paths and doors and opening many unknown locks. Speaking on the significance of a guru, Osho says that a guru’s blessing is a vital phenomenon. Through a guru one can look into his own future and can be aware of his own destiny. Through him one starts coming up like a seed trying to sprout towards the sky.

Happy Guru Purnima Day!!

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - LIFE - A Gift

“Life is something everyone should try atleast once!” - Henry J Tillman

Osho Said …

“People who have become addicted with idealism live a life of ritual, of empty gestures. They are always waiting: some great thing is going to happen. It never happens of course, because it cannot happen that way.It is happening right now, here, and their eyes are fixed somewhere there, far away. It is happening at close quarters. It is already happening near your heart. Where your heart is beating, it is already happening. And they are looking at the sky.So they make a life of routine, dead routine. They move like dead corpses – waiting and waiting andwaiting. And every day they know death is coming near: they become more and more desperate.Their whole life will turn into a mechanical routine.

Really if you want to live, you have to be spontaneous. Life is spontaneous. Be available to this moment. Allow this moment to lead you. Don’t plan for it.Otherwise you will live in empty gestures, obsessed with a dead routine, just thinking as if’… if you plan your life completely, some day or other the great happening is going to result.You think life is a result?

Life is not a result; it is already there. It is a grace. Nothing is to be done to attain to it. What have you done to be born? What have you done so that you can breathe? What have you done so that you can be conscious? What have you done so that you can fall in love? It has happened. It is a sheer grace, a gift.Yes, let me tell you – life is a gift.”

- Osho - Nirvana - The Last Nightmare.

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Happiness

“Happiness is worthless: it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both - happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say: ‘I am happy. Peace - it is wonderful.’ One simply watches, one says: ‘Yes, a white cloud passing.’ And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says: ‘A black cloud passing - I am the witness, the watcher.’
This is what meditation is all about - just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you, a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions - one dimension is happiness, another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you - the third dimension, witnessing, SAKSHI.

And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement. “

Osho - India My Love, Chapter 5, Fragrance of the East

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - We Are The Host!

“The thoughts exist separate from you, they are not one with your nature, they come and go — you remain, you persist. You are like the sky: it never comes, it never goes, it is always there. Clouds come and go, they are momentary phenomena, they are not eternal. Even if you try to cling to a thought, you cannot retain it for long; it has to go, it has its own birth and death. Thoughts are not yours, they don’t belong to you. They come as visitors, guests, but they are not the host.

Watch deeply, then you will become the host and thoughts will be the guests. And as guests they are beautiful, but if you forget completely that you are the host and they become the hosts, then you are in a mess. This is what hell is. You are the master of the house, the house belongs to you, and guests have become the masters. Receive them, take care of them, but don’t get identified with them; otherwise, they will become the masters.

The mind becomes the problem because you have taken thoughts so deeply inside you that you have forgotten completely the distance; that they are visitors, they come and go. Always remember that which abides: that is your nature, your tao. Always be attentive to that which never comes and never goes, just like the sky. Change the gestalt: don’t be focused on the visitors, remain rooted in the host; the visitors will come and go. “

 -Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Volume 2

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - 4th of July - Freedom !

With Freedom Comes Responsibility - Osho

“When I say to you that you are free, I mean that you are responsible. You cannot throw responsibility on anybody else, you are alone. And whatsoever you do, it is your doing. You cannot say that somebody else forced you to do it — because you are free; nobody can force you! Because you are free, it is your decision to do something or not to do something.

With freedom comes responsibility. Freedom is responsibility. But the mind is very cunning, the mind interprets in its own way: it always goes on listening to that which it wants to listen to. It goes on interpreting things in its own way. The mind never tries to understand what really is the truth. It has taken that decision already.

So when I say ’freedom’, I mean be responsible. The more responsible you become, the more free you become; or, the more free you become, the more responsibility comes on you. Then you have to be very alert to what you are doing, what you are saying. Even about your small unconscious gestures you have to be very alert — because there is nobody else to control you, it is only you. When I say to you that you are free, I mean that you are a God. It is not licence, it is tremendous discipline! “

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Speeding Up

God — Dead, or Just Missing in Action?
Osho’s Commentary on T.S. Eliot’s Choruses from “The Rock”

 

“The civilized man has lost something because now we live in the man-made world where it is almost impossible to find any signature of God. How can you find God on asphalt roads? They don’t grow, they don’t breathe. How can you find God in cement structures? They are not alive! How can you find God in machines, in technology?–although it is great, even the greatest machine cannot give you the sense of the mysterious, of the miraculous. Even facing the greatest machine you cannot feel awe, you cannot feel reverence, you cannot feel like falling on your knees and praying. And if you cannot feel like falling on your knees and praying once in a while, how can God remain a part of your being? How can you remain alert, aware of the divine? “
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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - You can’t be Happy!

“Silence has its vibe; it is infectious, particularly a child’s silence which is not forced, which is not because you are saying, “I will beat you if you create any nuisance or noise.” No,, that is not silence. That will not create the joyous vibration that I am talking about, when a child is silent on his own, enjoying for no reason, his happiness is uncaused?, that creates great ripples all around.
In a better world, every family will learn from children. You are in such a hurry to teach them. Nobody seems to learn from them, and they have much to teach you. And you have nothing to teach them.
Just because you are older and powerful you start making them just like you without ever thinking about what you are, where you have reached, what your status is in the inner world. You are a pauper; and you want the same for your child also?
But nobody thinks; otherwise people would learn from small children. Children bring so much from the other world because they are such fresh arrivals. They still carry the silence of the womb, the silence of the very existence.”

- Quoted from Osho’s talk, From Darkness to Light, Session 2 March 1, 1985.

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - The Original Question

“God is not the Answer. God is the state of being where the Question has disappeared!” - Osho

Master, I myself am a question. I know not who I am. What to do? Where to go?

“Remain with the question. Don’t do anything, and don’t go anywhere; and don’t start believing in any answer. Remain with the question. That is one of the most difficult things to do - to remain with a question, and not to seek the answer; because the mind is very cunning, it can supply a false answer. It can console you; it can give you something to cling to; and then the question is not answered but suppressed. Then you go on believing in the answer, and the question remains deep down in your unconsciousness like a wound. The healing has not happened.
If you remain with the question, I’m not saying that you will receive the answer. Nobody has ever received any answer. If you remain with the question, by and by the question disappears. Not that the answer is received; there is no answer. There cannot be, because life is a mystery. If there is any answer, then life will not be a mystery.
It has no answer to it, it cannot be solved. It is not a puzzle, it is a mystery. And that is the difference between a puzzle and a mystery. A puzzle can be solved, howsoever difficult it is to solve. A mystery cannot be solved - not that it is difficult. It is very simple, but its nature is such that it cannot be solved.
Remain with the question - alert, aware, not seeking, not trying to find an answer. Very arduous it is, but if you can do that… it can be done. I have done it. And all those who have dissolved their questions have done it. The very awareness, the fire of awareness, burns the question. The sun of awareness melts the question; it disappears, it evaporates. One day, suddenly, you find you are there, and the question is not there. Not that the question is replaced by an answer. There is none. But the question has simply disappeared. You are there and without a question. That is the answer.
You, without a question, is The answer. Not that you will be able to say who you are - you will laugh at the very question. The question has become absurd. In the first place, the very asking was wrong. But right now you cannot understand that; you have to ask. You have to ask very intensely. Ask the question, but don’t ask for The answer.
That is the difference between theology and religion. Theology gives you the answer; religion gives you awareness. Theology supplies you answers - ready-made, manufactured, polished, perfect. Religion doesn’t give you any answer; it simply helps you to penetrate deep into the question. The deeper you go into the question, the more you find it is melting, it is disappearing. And when the question has disappeared, a tremendous energy is released within you. You ARE there, with no question.
And when there is no question, of course, there is no mind. Mind is the questioner. When there is no questioning, the mind has also disappeared - pure consciousness - just the sky without any clouds, the flame without any smoke.
That’s what God is. That’s what a Buddha is; that’s what a Christ is. “

Osho - Come Follow Me - Volume 3

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon - Day of the Father

Osho on Playfulness -

“The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky. Zens greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.”

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Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon- Who Am I?

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