Spiritoons - 'Non-Serious' Spiritual Cartoons by Sudi

Florida Killer Whale – A Killer? – Cartoons on LOVE and FREEDOM

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:32:10 +0000

I was reading this sad news from Florida where a trainer was accidentally killed by a whale (Killer whale?) at Sea World resort. While the story is sad and I feel so sorry for the trainer and her family, I also think (and feel sad) of the poor animal that was some how forced to became an entertainer in front of human beings.

The spiritoons below were done last year for a book published in Kerala (Southern Indian State) that illustrate interactions between elephants and human beings. Though I enjoy being around domestic elephants and participate in festivals where ornamented elephants were used extensively, I often feel sorry for these giant animals and wonder how much of their wild instincts have suppressed deep down into their unconscious.

Like the whale story from Florida, elephants attacking (and killing) their keepers is so common in Kerala. You can view some videos here

Here are some words from my beloved master and mystic OSHO who’s view on LOVE and FREEDOM is so profound and often comes as a cool breeze to humanity indulged in violence (against fellow humans, animals), sex, false love, power politics, bogus religions, gods etc etc.

Love gives freedom. Love that doesn’t give freedom, is not love.

“Love is not thirst for power. How can you dominate someone you love? How can you make him dependent and still be loving? But what happens in the world in the name of love is something else: the lust for power, wanting to control others. Of course independence is inadmissible then. You do everything to make the other identical to yourself. You are afraid of the other person’s freedom, because freedom escapes control and freedom is unpredictable. So all so-called love tries to kill freedom in any way it can – and as soon as freedom is destroyed, love dies.
Love is very fragile, like a rose. You have to allow her to dance in the rain, in the wind, in the sun.

…. Love is like a bird in the sky, and its freedom occupies all of the sky. You can catch the bird, you can put it in a magnificent gilded cage, and it only appears to be the same bird that flew free and had the sky to itself. It just appears to be, but it’s not: you have killed it. You have clipped its wings. You have taken its sky from it. And birds do not care for your gold – no matter how precious your cage is, it is still a prison.”

Keeping an animal dependent is wrong

“Dependency is a form of lack of freedom that some people impose on pets and circus animals in exchange for affection and for doing tricks. These animals depend on man for their food. If an animal were free and able to find its own food, hardly a single animal would spontaneously show affection to people. Showing affection in exchange for food has been forced on animals. Animals (like people) have the right to be safeguarded from this. When people (children and adults) are looking for affection, it is better and more honest to find it in other people. Finding affection from animals is particularly wrong in the case of pets that have to be locked up. This of course doesn’t include dogs and cats, which have had centuries to get used to people. It is mainly the animals that belong in the open that we should leave in peace. “

Spiritoon – Human Nature

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:05:24 +0000

I found Osho’s understanding of human nature is deeper and wider than all of Freud, Jung, Skinner put together. Psychoanalysts keep on analyzing the human mind from within the boundary lines(of the mind). But Osho goes far and beyond the Mind itself.

Spiritoons are created with immense love and with inspirations from my Beloved Master OSHO and reflects his vision for a new way of living based in Awareness and the ‘Here and Now’.

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon – Lip Syncing, Bird’s Nest- Beijing Style

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:27:46 +0000

“Nobody has any face. Faces are masks. We are hiding behind those faces. And that facelessness is called the original face. Just think, just meditate a little: you look through the eyes, but the one who looks through the eyes has no eyes. You smell through the nose, but the one who smells through the nose has no nose. You eat through the mouth, you digest through the body, but the one who is behind, who feels the hunger, who feels the satisfaction of eating and being wellfed, has no mouth and no stomach. It is very strange to come around it – it is very shaking… uprooting. It can be maddening.”

~OSHO , Blessed are the Ignorant, Chapter 20
[Peiyi, Miaoke image COURTESY-The Age, Australia]

Spiritoons are created with Love and inspiriations from my Beloved Master Osho and reflects his vision for a new way of living based in “Awareness” and the “Here & Now”.

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon – The Followers

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:21:49 +0000

“If You want to reach the Master avoid all the Teachers” ~Osho

“Love.
All crutches bar the way.
Shun all support and then you will receive His.
He is the only help for the helpless.
There is no other guide but Him – all other guides
are obstacles on the path.
If you want to reach the Master avoid all teachers.
Don’t be afraid to make yourself empty
for that alone is the door,
that alone is the path –
and that alone is the destination.
The courage to be empty
is all that is needed to become one with the all.
Those who are full stay empty,
and those who are empty become filled –
such are His mathematics.
Do not consider doing anything –
through doing you can never reach Him,
nor through chanting,
A Cup of Tea 83 Osho
CHAPTER 1.
nor through austerity,
for He is already here!
Stop and see!
To do is to run,
not to do is to halt.
Yes! If He were far away we could run to meet Him,
but He is the nearest of the near!
If we had lost Him we could search for and find
Him,
hut to us He has never been lost! “

~ Osho, A Cup of Tea – Letter written by Osho 1962-1971

Spiritoons are created with immense Love and with Inspirations from my Beloved Master Osho and reflects his vision for a New Way of Living based in Awareness and the ‘Here & Now’!

Happy Guru Purnima to all of you. Love you all!! -Sudi

Spiritoons – ‘Non-Serious’ Spiritual Cartoons by Sudi

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:29:00 +0000

Spiritoons – ‘Non-Serious’ Spiritual Cartoons by Sudi

Sudi Narayan’s Spiritoon – Meditation is a Mirror!

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:48:38 +0000

“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.

Spiritoons are created with love and inspirations from my Beloved master Osho and reflects his vision for a new way of living based in ‘Awareness’ and the ‘Here & Now’

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Jesus ! – The LOVE that is

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:44:29 +0000

“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!

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:45:11 +0000

” 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

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:27:44 +0000

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

Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:58:37 +0000

“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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