The Secret of the Golden Flower – synopsis from Oshos book
* Primal spirit – Soul
* Animus – Soul
Anima – Jeevan
* Mind means – division
Soul means – Unity
* Mind means – Time
Body means – Space
* Silver moon means feminine principle ( ref – vision )
* Buddha – No Bodyness – Space – Open Sky – Openness – Open space – A name for Openness
** Aloneness is the Ultimate state one has to attain
** Life comes into being not by birth but by Consciousness
** Coolness is Blissful ( experience of BGV )
** Three things lead to Golden flower :
- Seed Water – PogaaPunal – Paravindu
- Spirit Fire – Sagaathalai – Moolagni
- Thought Earth – Veggakkaal – Pranan
* In a dream , dream looks real
Real gainers are those who had never thought of gaining – they simply lived from moment to moment and enjoyed morning – noon and evening and so on
* Before Enlightenment – Zen monk used to chop firewood and carry water
After Enlightenment – fire wood is chopped and water is carried – that’s the difference
If your Eyes were full of Light , then yr Body will be full of Light
* TAO – the Undivided
* In profound meditation, you will become Non Erotic – U will have different kind of beauty but it won’t be erotic- U will have flavor of spirituality – subtleness of grace – not the grossness of sexuality
** Plotinus says – ” Flight of Alone to the Alone ”
** Meditation means going back to roots – source from where thoughts, mind and desires have risen – OUROBOROS – like a snake swallowing its tail
** Meditation means thoughtless state
** TAO – slow like snail
** ZEN – sudden enlightenment
** Nature is very very slow moving hence there is grace – and it is feminine
If heart and energy are coordinated, results will follow automatically
** Get rooted in your SELF, BEING AND CONSCIOUSNESS
** Five Secrets :
- Yr past is not yr future
- Yr beliefs become yr reality
- Yr actions become yr habits
- Yr heart will lead to wealth
- Yr goals are greater than yr gains
** The greatness of Emptiness :
- We put 30 spokes together and call it a wheel , but it is on space where there is Nothing , the usefulness of wheel depends
- We turn clay to a vessel, but it is on space , where there is Nothing, the usefulness of vessel depends
** Tao ‘s fundamental principle – Learn to be Patient
** Vertical movement is required to reach the Kingdom of God
** Truth can’t be conquered – surrender to it
** Live in the world – but let not the world be inside you – living like a dead man
Watch the world – learn how not to be affected by it
** If you have succeeded in meditation – you are in heaven – bliss
** Silence is Gratitude even – no need to say thanks to God /Guru
Just Be in Silence – This is the greatest wisdom
** Individuation means SOUL – ONE WHOLE – Only Jeevan is part of the Body
** Enlightenment is possible only to those who have stopped seeking – This is the great secret
** Existence cares – mothers
** When disciple is ready, the master arrives , when inner silence is ready, God arrives
** Middle is the golden mean
** Out of Blue – white snow starts appearing
** Lao Tzu – The water course way
** Arthanaari – transcendence of duality
** Division – Mind – Duality – good/bad – night/day – pos/neg is the way of downward and hell
** Undivided ONE – SOUL – Oneness – is the way of up and Heaven
** TAO – the Undivided ONE – Arthanaari – Totality – Infinity
** Surrender to TOTAL
** You just be an instrument in the hands of TOTAL
** Clarity is the state of mind when there are no thoughts
** Innocence is clarity –
** Emptiness – delusion – the center
** Live in the word w/o paying attention to things
** If God is present – I am not
If God is absent – I am there
** Existence , life is a leela , game and play
** Oneness is ecstatic – 8 + 2 – ONE
** With the upward movement of energy , a new child is born – Dvijan – twice born
BG Venkatesh