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Do you see how the mind deceives itself? Can you bring the unknown, that which cannot be experienced, into the conditioned, into the realm of the known? Obviously not. So don't try it. Don't try to find God, truth, for it has no meaning. All you can do is to observe the operation of your own mind, which is the area of conflict, misery, suffering, ambition, fulfilment, frustration. That you can understand, and its narrow borders can be broken down. But you are not interested in that. You want to capture God and put him in the cage of what you know, the cage you call the temple, the book, the guru, the system, and with that you are satisfied. By doing that you think you are becoming very religious. You are not. You are just hypocrites, robbing, cheating, lying within the cage.
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. Love will arise in your heart when you have no barrier between yourself and another, when you meet and observe people without judging them, when you just see the sailboat on the river and enjoy the beauty of it. Don't let your prejudices cloud your observation of things as they are; just observe, and you will discover that out of this simple observation, out of this awareness of trees, of birds, of people walking, working, smiling, something happens to you inside. Without this extraordinary thing happening to you, without the arising of love in your heart, life has very little meaning; and that is why it is so important that the educator should be educated to help you understand the significance of all these things.
What is the point of being educated if you are just going to carry on like a machine? But that is what your parents want, and it is what the world wants. The world does not want you to think; it does not want you to be free to find out because then you would be a dangerous citizen; you would not fit into the established pattern. A free human being can never belong to a country, class or type of thinking. Freedom means freedom at every level, right through, and to think only along a particular line is not freedom. It is very important to be free, not only at the conscious level but also deep inside. This means you must be watchful of yourself, more and more aware of the influences which seek to control or dominate you; it means you must never thoughtlessly accept, but always question, investigate and be in revolt.
Meditation cannot be learned from another. You must begin without knowing anything about it, and move from innocence to innocence. The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain and the fleeting joy. It must begin there and bring order, and from there, move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement, you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, or what the end is.
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something – and it is only such love that can know freedom.
There must be the flame that cleanses the mind and the heart, making all things new. That flame is not of the mind, it is not a thing to be cultivated. The show of kindliness can be made to shine, but it is not the flame; the activity called service, though beneficial and necessary, is not love; the much-practised and disciplined tolerance, the cultivated compassion of the church and temple, the gentle speech, the soft manner, the worship of the saviour, of the image, of the ideal – none of this is love.Attachment denies love. Love is not to be found in suffering; though jealousy is strong, it cannot bind love. Sensation and its gratification is ever coming to an end; but love is inexhaustible.Love is not of the mind. Let your heart be empty. Do not fill it with words, with the actions of the mind. Let your heart be wholly empty; then only will it be filled.
You don’t need a clever mind. What you really need, if I may point out, is the capacity to observe and to listen; to observe without all the clamour that lies behind the observation, the noise of opinions, rationalization, condemnation. You can observe very simply a leaf in the breeze; you can observe a fly in the room; and also you can observe your behaviour, why you do this and that, why you are hurt, why you store up the hurt, why you yield and why you are obstinate. Just to observe and to listen, without any muttering of your own like and dislike. You know, to do this you have to pay attention, and the learning of this is attention. And in this is a great deal of fun, much more than you realize. It is fun that comes of itself and that is real. The other kind fades away.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man's pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.⁠
I wonder what we mean by a new year. Is it a year that is totally fresh, something that has never happened before? When we say something new – though we know that there is nothing new under the sun – when we talk about a happy New Year, is it really a new year for us? Or is it the same old pattern repeated over and over again? Same old rituals, same old traditions, same old habits, a continuity of what we have been doing, still are doing, and will be doing this year. So, is there anything new? Is there anything that is really afresh, something that you have never seen before? This is rather an important question, if you will follow it - to turn all the days of our life into something which you have never seen before. That means a brain that has freed itself from its conditioning, from its characteristics, from its idiosyncrasies, the opinions, the judgements, and the convictions. Can we put all that aside and really start a new year? It would be marvellous if we could do that. Because our lives are rather shallow, superficial, and have very little meaning. We are born, whether we like it or not we are born, educated - which may be a hindrance too. Can we change the whole direction of our lives? Is that possible? Or are we condemned forever to lead rather narrow, shoddy, meaningless lives? We fill our brains and our lives with something which thought has put together. This is not a sermon. Probably in all the churches of the world, and in all the temples and the rest of it - New Year will continue in the same old way, the same old rituals, pujas and so on and so on. Can we drop all that and start anew with a clean slate and see what comes out of that, with our hearts and minds?⠀
There is a reality - please listen, sirs - there is a reality which, coming upon the mind, transforms it. You don't have to do a thing. It operates, it functions, it has a being of its own; but the mind must feel it, must know it and not speculate, not have all kinds of ideas about it. A mind that is seeking it will never find it; but there is that state, unquestionably. In saying this I am not speculating, nor am I stating it as an experience of yesterday. It is so. There is that state; and if you have it, you will find everything is possible, because that is creation, that is love, that is compassion. But you cannot come to it through any means, through any book, through any guru or organization. Do please realize that you cannot come to it through any means. No meditation will lead you to it. When you realize that no sanctions, no pattern of behaviour, no guru, no book, no organization, no authority can lead you to that state, you have already got it. Then you will find that the mind is merely an instrument of that creation. And it is that creation operating through the mind that will bring about a totally different world - not the planned world of the politician or the religio-social reformer - , because that creation is its own reality, its own eternity.
Look with eyes that are not confused. There will be confusion only when there is division between the observer and the observed. This division takes place when there is the image, the formula, the concept, the ideal. Therefore self-knowing, knowing oneself as one is, is the beginning of wisdom, which cannot possibly be bought in books. One has to observe oneself, not analysing but observing oneself in relationship, because in relationship all your reactions come out – your antagonisms, your fears, your anxieties, your bitterness, your loneliness. Without understanding all that, to find out if there is something beyond all human thought, if there is something real, true, is not possible. Therefore one must lay the foundation, and to lay the foundation one must observe one’s life daily without any distortion.
There is a higher, wider, significance to life. What value is our education if we never discover it? Education has very little meaning, except in learning a particular technique or profession. Training makes for efficiency, but it does not bring about completeness. There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond the efficiency of ambition. Education is to see the significance of life as a whole. Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the ‘what is’. Education is to awaken this capacity in oneself and in others. Education should help us to discover lasting values, to break down our national and social barriers instead of emphasizing them. The present system of education awakens us intellectually, but inwardly leaves us incomplete, stultified, uncreative. Education should awaken the capacity to be self-aware. Systems, whether educational or political, are not changed mysteriously. They are transformed when there is a fundamental change in ourselves. As long as the individual does not understand the total process of himself, no system, whether of the left or the right, can bring order and peace in the world.
If the young dont have revolutionary discontent, they are already old. And the old are those who were once discontented but have settled back.
There is no path to truth. Truth must be discovered, but there is no formula for its discovery. What is formulated is not true. You must set out on the uncharted sea, and the uncharted sea is yourself. You must set out to discover yourself, but not according to any plan or pattern, for then there is no discovery. Discovery brings joy – not the remembered, comparative joy, but joy that is ever new. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom in whose tranquillity and silence there is the immeasurable.
You know a man who talks about karma is the most ignorant man. Because every cause can be changed immediately, every cause and the effect of that cause can be shattered. To keep on saying: "This is my misfortune, i did this in the past, therefore i am this" - that is too childish! Because cause and effect related together, what was the cause becomes the effect, and what was the effect become the cause, and that can be broken. And to break with it you must come into contact with it, and not just live in words.
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. If you cultivate humility, it ceases to be. Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.
You can observe that where there is pleasure and the pursuit of pleasure, there is the nourishing of fear. Fear of the thing I did yesterday, fear of the pain I had a week ago; thinking about it sustains the fear. There is no ending to that pain when it is over; it is finished but I carry it over by thinking about it. So thought sustains and nourishes pleasure as well as fear. There is fear of the present, of the future, fear of death, fear of not fulfilling, fear of not being loved and wanting to be loved. There are so many fears, all created by the machinery of thought.
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and your teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing, but that is not living. To live is to find out for yourself what is true ...
I hope that you will listen, but not with the memory of what you already know; and this is very difficult to do. You listen to something, and your mind immediately reacts with its knowledge, its conclusions, its opinions, its past memories. It listens, inquiring for a future understanding. Just observe yourself, how you are listening, and you will see that this is what is taking place. Either you are listening with a conclusion, with knowledge, with certain memories, experiences, or you want an answer, and you are impatient. You want to know what it is all about, what life is all about, the extraordinary complexity of life. You are not actually listening at all. You can only listen when the mind is quiet, when the mind doesn't react immediately, when there is an interval between your reaction and what is being said. Then in that interval there is a quietness, there is a silence in which alone there is a comprehension, which is not intellectual understanding. If there is a gap between what is said and your own reaction to what is said, in that interval, whether you prolong it indefinitely, for a long period or for a few seconds in that interval, if you observe, there comes clarity. It is the interval that is the new brain. The immediate reaction is the old brain, and the old brain functions in its own traditional, accepted, reactionary, animalistic sense. When there is an abeyance of that, when the reaction is suspended, when there is an interval, then you will find that the new brain acts, and it is only the new brain that can understand, not the old brain.
The difficulty is that we do not know how to listen, how to see, how to hear because when a new thing is said, we put it into old bottles, fit it into old terminologies, and therefore we spoil it.
We must understand very clearly that our thinking is the response of memory, and memory is mechanistic. Knowledge is ever incomplete, and all thinking born of knowledge is limited, partial, never free. So there is no freedom of thought. But we can begin to discover a freedom which is not a process of thought, and in which the mind is simply aware of all its conflicts and all the influences impinging upon it.
It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree, not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed.
Rain on dry land is an extraordinary thing, is it not? It washes the leaves clean, the earth is refreshed. And I think we all ought to wash our minds completely clean, as the trees are washed by the rain, because they are so heavily laden with the dust of many centuries, the dust of what we call knowledge, experience. If you and I would cleanse the mind every day, free it of yesterday's reminiscences, each one of us would then have a fresh mind, a mind capable of dealing with the many problems of existence.
When we lose contact with nature, we lose contact with each other. When you lose contact with the birds, the shy and timid quail, then you lose contact with your child and the person across the street. When you kill an animal to eat, you are also cultivating insensitivity which will kill that man across the border. When you lose contact with the enormous movement of life, you lose all relationship. Then you the ego with all its fanciful urges, demands, and pursuits become all-important, and the gulf between you and the world widens in endless conflicts.
Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The light of knowledge is a delicate covering under which lies a darkness that the mind cannot penetrate. The mind is frightened of this unknown, and so it escapes into knowledge, into theories, hopes, imagination; and this very knowledge is a hindrance to the understanding of the unknown.
Success is an invention of a society which is greedy, which is acquisitive. Can we, each one of us, as we are growing, find out what we really love to do - whether it is mending a shoe, becoming a cobbler or building a bridge, or being a capable and efficient administrator? Can we have the love of the thing in itself without caring for what it will give us, or what it will do in the world? If we can understand that spirit, that feeling, then, I think, action will not create misery as it does at the present time; then we shall not be in conflict with one another. But it is very difficult to find out what you really love to do, because you have so many contradictory urges. When you see an engine going very fast, you want to be an engine driver. When you are young, there is an extraordinary beauty in the engine. I do not know if you have watched it. But, later on, that stage passes and you want to become an orator, a speaker, a writer, or an engineer, and that too passes. Gradually, because of our rotten education, you are forced into a particular channel, into a particular groove. So you become a clerk or a lawyer or a mischief-monger; and in that job, you live, you compete; you are ambitious, you struggle.
We really do not seek true freedom. We seek something different from freedom, we seek better conditions, a better state. We do not want freedom, we want better, superior, nobler conditions, and that we call education.
When you are young you are curious to know all about everything, why the sun shines, what the stars are, all about the moon and the world around us; but as we grow older, knowledge becomes a mere collection of information without any feeling. We become specialists, we know much about this or that subject, and we take very little interest in the things around us, the beggar in the street, the rich man passing by in his car. If we want to know why there are riches and poverty in the world, we can find an explanation. There is an explanation for everything, and explanation seems to satisfy most of us. The same holds true of religion. We are satisfied with explanations; and explaining everything away we call knowledge. And is this what we mean by education? Are we learning to find out, or are we merely asking for explanations, definitions, conclusions, in order to put our minds at rest so that we need not inquire further?
The mind can never find reality by searching for it. All that the mind can do is to be quiet, to be tranquil, and then reality comes into being. Reality must come to us, we cannot go after reality. If you seek God, you will never find God, because your search is merely a desire to escape from the realities of life.
There is fear of the present, of the future, fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of not fulfilling, fear of not being loved—there are so many fears, all created by the machinery of thought.
To understand pleasure is not to deny it. We are not condemning it or saying it is right or wrong, but if we pursue it, let us do so with our eyes open, knowing that a mind that is all the time seeking pleasure must inevitably find its shadow - Pain.
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Most of our minds are drugged with other people's ideas and books, and as our minds are constantly repeating what someone else said, we have become repeaters and not thinkers.
All great things start on a small scale, all great movements begin with individuals; and if we wait for collective action, such action, if it takes place at all, is destructive and conducive to further misery. So revolution must begin with you and me.
It begins at school and you go through life repeating what others have said. You are therefore second-hand human beings. How can such a second-hand human being find out something that is original, that is true?
The highly anticipated V3 launch on the Ethereum mainnet AIP has been created by the community and is now live. V3 is the most significant upgrade to the Aave Protocol, and ETH is Aave’s first and largest market. 👻 Read 📚, vote 🗳️, and discuss here 💬: https://app.aave.com/governance/proposal/?proposalId=147 Aave V3 was deployed in March 2022 across Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Polygon. V3 introduced a flexible architecture for increased composability. Currently, the Ethereum market represents over $5B in total value locked (TVL) on the Aave V2 Protocol
DeFi continues to accelerate in LatAm 💪 Lemon Integrates Aave Protocol, bringing access to over 1.7M Users in Brazil and Argentina 🍋 + 👻 = ⚡️ By integrating Aave’s smart💡contracts, Lemon will be able to provide greater 👻 Transparency and 🔐 Security to its growing user base! The Aave integration allows users to deposit their tokens into the protocol and earn seamlessly 👌 while enabling users to control their funds, and safely access DeFi solutions. "We're excited 👻 that Aave was chosen as the first DeFi protocol to be integrated with Lemon. This integration unlocks opportunities that were previously not available to millions of users in LatAm . We look forward to growing DeFi access globally with partners 🤝 like Lemon.” @stani.lens . Learn more: https://wiki.lemon.me/aave-aave-que-es-y-como-comprarla-en-lemon-cash/
To find God, you must renounce all the gods man has invented.
Reason is limited. You can reason according to your conditioning. If you are conditioned as a scientist, philosopher or socialist, your reasoning will be within the field of your own conditioning.
Conflict exists when you want to be something, when there is ambition. There is conflict when there is greed and envy.
We are creating our own time, and therefore we are slave to time. Which is, I must achieve or become something in time. But understand the nature of time and remain totally with what is - envy, for example - don’t try to transform it into something else. Remain with envy and look at it, observe it. As you observe, it dissolves. In that observation, there is no time.
Old quote for the New year: Food is not a commodity – food is life.
Legal identity is only one aspect of who we really are. We are creators, friends, fans, pseudonymous social media users. Decentralized identity empowers us to choose when we share these aspects of our identity, and when we keep them private. Proof, but with privacy. https://blog.chain.link/web3-identity-blockchains-credentials-oracles/
If you eat with enormous gratitude for all the living things that give up their lives to sustain yours, then the food you eat will respond in a wonderful way within you.
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Happy holiday Lens frens. It was a strange year, i havent fallen for anyone for like 2 years, but i did this year, although she is so far away now, i have a feeling that our path will cross again. Now, another bong hit, cheers.
**Trading Volume shouldn't be the only criterion to evaluate an NFT project, especially PFP NFT.**\n\nIf everyone is so passionate about their PFP and wants to keep it (both for the picture and join the community), why is the trading volume of top PFP always on top? \n\nWe have people who want to join the community; on the other side, the PFP project must keep its collection volume on top to receive awareness. \n\nThis contradiction is due to the reality that:\n\n- The PFP NFT space is heavy speculation because the trading volume is so easy to pump. \n\n- The community is only enjoyable to a few (if you follow a discord close enough, remove all questions, we can only see some familiar faces) \n\nThis is a lesson for other PFPs want to be success in the space. \n\n1. If you can not think of a new index to represent the popularity of a PFP collection. Deal with it and hire an NFT MM team. \n\n2. NFT x Products. If the community has the same goal, they can be connected more than ever. This is why Yuga creates its metaverse project. Yuga has a lot of PFP collections, but the communities are silos to each other. If they can have the same goal (making money on Otherside, building the metaverse,...), the silo will break.
If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That’s the beauty of being a human being.
We are collaborating with @oasisapp.lens for the first semi-annual State of DeFi report coming in early 2023. You can contribute here 👇 https://stateofdefi.org/
There is a difference between easy and lazy. If you do life easy, you can do a lot more.