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The good is not the `respectable'. The respectable man can never know what is good. Most of us are respectable and therefore we do not know what it is to be good. Moral education can only come, not with the cultivation of respectability, but with the awakening of love. But we do not...

What happen to Curiosity ; haven't seen here in a forum(s) for some time now. Hope she's fine.

Just wondered ,can you pick up the "Question period " on the line ?

This morning, the sea was like a lake or an enormous river without a ripple, and so calm that you could see the reflections of the stars so early in the morning. The dawn had not yet come, and so the stars, and the reflection of the cliff, and the distant lights of the town, were there on the...

Logic asks us to interpret everything in terms of a beginning and an ends. Since we interpret everything around us in terms of absolute existence in time and in space, we naturally assume beginning and ends. Yet quantum physics and the great spiritualists encourage us look at everything in terms...

. Many people do not like that word, they think it is rather old fashioned and has very little meaning in this modern world. And there are those who are religious at the weekend; they turn out well dressed on Sunday morning and do all the mischief they can during the week.When I'm using the word...

I have placed few posts and they never "made it " to the front page .As the matter of fact ,they never made anywhere.Hope this one will .

I am living here for over 5 years and my feelings about this huge country with its masses of people most probably differs from opinons of the outsider . What is your opinion of China ,how much do you know about this land ,what do you think about the influence of Chinese ecomomy on the rest of...

Just one question -- would it be better if the western provinces went their own way? Your humble opinion?

Take a leaf in the spring - how delicate it is and yet it has extraordinary strength to stand the wind; in summer it matures and in autumn it turns yellow and then it dies. It is one of the most beautiful things to see. The whole thing is a movement of beauty, of the vulnerable. The leaf that is...

What is life all about? Does it mean anything? Where are we looking for happiness or liberation? Do we have free will? What is enlightenment and how can I get it? Can anything be done to free ourselves from depression, anxiety, compulsive behavior, wars, holocausts, prejudices? What is spiritual...

What do we mean by experience? Is there anything new or original in experience? Experience is a bundle of memories responding to a challenge and it can respond only according to its background, and the cleverer you are at interpreting the experience the more it responds. So you have to question...

To free the mind from all conditioning, you must see the totality of it without thought. This is not a conundrum Curiosity , please , experiment with it and you will see. Do you ever see anything without thought? Have you ever listened, looked, without bringing in this whole process of reaction...

Are you afraid of death? Is it perhaps because you do not know how to live? If you knew how to live fully, would you be afraid of death? If you loved the trees, the sunset, the birds, the falling leaf; if you were aware of men and women in tears, of poor people, and really felt love in your...

Do you know what religion is? It is not the chant, it is not in the performance of puja, or any other ritual, it is not in the worship of tin gods or stone images, it is not in the temples and churches, it is not in the reading of the Bible or the Gita, it is not in the repeating of a sacred...

Are you anything in yourself? Strip yourself of your name, title, money, position, your capacity to write a book and be flattered—and what are you? So, why not realize and be that? You see, we have an image of what it is to be nothing, and we don’t like that image; but the actual fact of being...

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature we would...

What is it that most of us are seeking? What is it that each one of us wants? Surely it is important to find out. Probably most of us are seeking some kind of happiness, some kind of peace; in a world that is ridden with turmoil, wars, contention, strife, we want a refuge where there can be...

Is belief necessary to find out? I think to learn is far more important than to know. Learning about belief is the end of belief. When the mind is free of belief then it can look. It is belief, or disbelief, that binds; for disbelief and belief are the same: they are the opposite sides of the...

Modern education, in developing the intellect, offers more and more theories and facts, without bringing about the understanding of the total process of human existence. We are highly intellectual; we have developed cunning minds, and are caught up in explanations. The intellect is satisfied...