Ask and it is given!

Just wanted to share this. My book order arrived today. At the last minute when ordering I had tacked on 2 extra books. When unwrapping the parcel today I flicked one (The ABC of Enlightenment) and the pages, as they do, fell where they wanted to. Some call this intuitive reading but I wasn’t even attempting that. I was just idly flicking through. Anway this is what came out;

First flick through –

GROWTH – ‘Growth is not soft; growth is painful (yep, that got my attention). All growth is towards the unknown,…towards the fragile, towards the indefinable. Growth is the by-product of the enquiry into truth.

If you want to grow, drop the past (considering the point of this blog I am now even more hooked).The past is no more, it is absolutely irrelevant, but it goes on interfering. You go on judging according to it; you go on saying, ‘This is right and that is wrong,’ and all those ideas of right and wrong, all those judgements are coming from something which is dead. Your dead past remains so heavy on you that it does not allow you to move. Drop the past completely.

The second thing to remember is not to create expectations for the future. Things are not going to happen according to you, things are going to happen according to the whole. The small wave in the ocean, cannot be the deciding factor. If the wave wants to go to the east, but the winds are not going to the east, if the ocean is not willing, then the wave will suffer….

The ultimate growth is simply to say ‘yes’ – to say ‘yes’ with as much joy as a child says ‘no’. That is a second childhood. And the man who can say ‘yes’ with tremendous freedom and joy, with no hesitation, with no strings attached…has become a sage. That man lives in harmony.’

So I am thinking, ‘ok so this is just this type of book, I could find anything pertinent in here (of varying degrees), like with a horoscope and something this relevant isn’t going to be found twice.' So I did it again;

CHANGE - ‘Misery arises when we don’t allow change to happen. We cling, we want things to be static. If you love a woman’ (well not that way inclined, but there is a man taking residence in my head) ‘you want her to be yours tomorrow, the same as she is today. That’s how misery arises. Nobody can be certain about the next moment, what to say about tomorrow.

Life is constantly changing. Life is change. Only one thing is permanent, and that is change itself. To accept this changing existence with all its seasons and moods, this constant flow, which never stops for a single moment, is to be blissful.’

Strike two for the lightening then? No try strike three because I did it again (and believe me there is plenty in this book that is wholly irrelevant; try the bits about paganism, palmistry, civilisation and charity). So what did the next flick through reveal?;

PAIN - (ah the crux of the matter). ‘Pain is part of growth. And remember, whenever something hurts, something inside you is repressed. So rather than trying to avoid the pain, move into it. Let it hurt like hell. Let it hurt totally so the wound is opened completely’ (for some reason my bottom lip quivered here and then I felt daft and a victim of psycho-suggestion). ‘Once it is opened completely it starts healing. If you avoid the spaces when you feel pain, they will remain inside you and you will come across them again and again’ (could this be why M.E. is a rollercoaster of relapse and remit?).

Feeling slightly bemused I turned to the next book on meditation for some solace. I have been trying to find a comfy meditation practice for ages. The 'taught/imposed' techniques never seem to work, because my body asks for something different and often different things at different times – and first thing in the morning mine has always loved to dance. But every meditation teacher I have ever come across says that meditation should be ideally slow and deliberate to promote intense concentration. They say just 'letting go' in an uncontrolled fashion won't allow this despite my insistence that I have a liberating, joyous, expansive experience dancing. Dancing it seemed therefore was dancing and meditation was meditation. Never the twain shall meet. So my next flick through (having been interrupted from boogieing to Michael Jackson by the postman);

OSHO KUNDALINI MEDITATION (in brief)

15 minutes; Shake your body out (letting your body you rather than you move your body)
15 minutes; Dance! Anyway you wish and let your whole body move (WAHAY!)
15 minutes; Be still (standing or sitting) and experience the changes inside and out.
15 minutes; Be still (lying or sitting) and close your eyes.

Ah bliss. Seriously happy now!!!!

And that is my lengthy blog over for the day. Blow the ‘what I have learnt?’ etc questions. I think a) it is self-explanatory and b) it’s time to just be and get out and enjoy the sunshine.

The books are
The ABC of Enlightenment – Osho
Meditation- the first and last freedom - Osho

in hugs and health ;)

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