WARRIOR

BE^LIVE REVERENTLY

Realize Liberation

embrace challenge

be the change

realize the

LIBERATOR^LIBERATION

in you,

in everything

nurture, liberate, celebrate it

don't be progressive [...] be instantaneous

- Joe Talbot

abandon everything to receive the limitless support of the universe [...] having nothing is the first step to being blessed [...] until you realize & experience this, you won't be able to receive this blessing which comes naturally

- Tamo San (Ryoju Kikuchi)

break free from the chains you have forged about yourself; for you will be free when you are free of clay

- Hakim Sanai

Nothing to lose but chains

- Karl Marx

There are two ways to seek the truth: one is to borrow knowledge, the other is to seek yourself. Of course borrowing is easy, but whatever you borrow is never yours, and that which is not yours cannot be true. This condition must be fulfilled; truth must be yours

- OSHO

face the truth and fully accept reality as it is [...] The way out is in. You have to go back to yourself, face your deepest fears, and accept the impermanence of our civilization. The practice is to deal with our fear and grief right now; our insight and awakening will give rise to compassion and peace.

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Gather courage - the journey has already started. Even if you go back, you will not find the old shore again [...] Now the real has to be found, has to be inquired into.

- OSHO

Lean into fear, transform it into fire, passion, who/what you can become

- Sue Morter

When icy winter comes, it is unforgiving to all things young, tender, and insecure. One must grow beyond youthful uncertainty […] Maturity and determination are necessary. Seeing the courageous, solid way that trees prepare for winter, helps me appreciate the lessons that I have learnt.

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Don't be afraid to break the rules. That's how new ideas are born.

- Fritz Perls

moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

A really egoless person is not humble at all. He is neither arrogant nor humble; he is simply himself

- OSHO

My true nature, I realized, was much more real, both uglier and more beautiful than I ever could have imagined [...] Finding truth is not the same as finding happiness. You aspire to see the truth, but once you have seen it, you cannot avoid suffering. Otherwise you see nothing at all.

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

I tell myself that if I’m finding it really hard to stop and breathe, if I just can’t step back and stop, it’s because my ancestors found it difficult, and my society finds it difficult, and my habits find it difficult. I inter-am with all of these conditions. In which case, I tell myself, “Stopping must be the action of heroes!” And that gives me extra determination to keep trying. When I manage in these moments to stop and breathe, each time it feels like a victory, a turning point, a new departure.

- Sister True Dedication

above all, don't wobble

- a Zen Master

Because you have loved me, when you meditate, the image of your master may come to you. It is just an image, don't let that image prevent you from meeting the whole. Cut off my head" [...] "If I come on your path, immediately cut off my head." [...] the master at a certian point has to move out of the way. If he does not move out, it is the duty of the disciple to push him away and go directly into the cosmos.

- Osho on Buddha

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MEDITATIVENESS

before you become a warrior, you must be

there is no contradiction between a meditator & a warrior, but the priority is for the meditator

Only a meditator can be relied upon - that the sword in his hand is not going to destroy but to save; that the power that he has come to feel through meditation is going to be a creative energy, so whatever he touches is going to become gold.

I want you all to become magicians - magicians in the sense that your meditation will transform everything that you touch.

Without meditation, whatever you do is futile.

- OSHO

AFFLICTION

It is precisely when afflicted that you should carefully investigate and inquire where the affliction arises from

Right when you're afflicted, is it existent or nonexistent, empty or real?

Keep investigating until your mind has nowhere to go

When you arouse yourself to the point where the habit energy of love and affection within the store-house of consciousness is exhausted, then naturally it's like water being returned to water - giving back your original being, without thoughts, without sorry or joy

If you try to suppress forcibly, not daring to cry or think about it, then this is deliberately going against the natural pattern, denying your inherent nature: raising a sound to stop an echo, or pouring on oil to put out a fire.

- OSHO

MOVE BEYOND ESCAPISM

renunciation proclaims [somethings] reality [...] it is pure and simple escape, out of a cowardly mind [...] encounter the arduous realities of life

- OSHO

POWER

not over others, but simply a tremendous energy arising in you from the very core of your being

Not that you are powerful over others, it is simply that you are powerful

power over others can be taken away; it is dependent on others, it is not yours

You are simply hiding your impotence

Real power comes only with the experience of your own being

in search of the authentic, the real, your own

If you are independent, absolutely rooted in your own being, this experience of power can be shared

the transition of the lamp

You all have an inexhaustible source of power

it has something to do with your roots in existence

the more aware of this you become, the more powerful you become

the more you give it, the more existence brings to you from invisible sources

Man is just like a tree

As the tree has roots in the earth, which you don't see, man has roots in existence which are invisible

Once you become aware of your innermost center, you become aware of your immense power (which) can never do any harm to anybody

(It) can be used only as a blessing

- OSHO

ALERTNESS

remain alert [so as] not to fall in discord

remain always in accord

In tune with reality, you are right; the moment you are out of tune with reality, you are wrong

- OSHO

TOTAL ACTION

action without thinking, action without mind

- OSHO

COMMITMENT

commitment should be to truth, not to personalities

- OSHO

REBELIOUSNESS

The whole of history is full of the failures of revolutions; and the reason for their failure is that they were not coming from being - they were only coming from doing

If you want to be really a rebel, first you have to find your being

Then each of your acts will be not only an act of love and devotion, it will also be an act of tremendous revolution - in your life and in other people's lives

Only a rebellious person is truly revolutionary & is truly religious

He does not create an organization, he does not create a following, he does not create churches

- OSHO

RISK

Everything beautiful in life is risky

Don’t allow the mind. Be a gambler.

"Whosoever clings to life, whosoever tries to preserve it, will lose it, & whosoever is ready to lose it, will preserve it" [- Christ]

Every child is a warrior, every old man is a businessman [of the mind, mechanical] don’t be calculating or cunning [...] the whole society, education, culture, conditioning, makes you more & more fearful, afraid. You cannot take any risks - & everything that is beautiful is risky. Love is a risk, life is a risk, godliness is a risk - godliness is the greatest risk - O

if you can risk, totally risk, not preserving anything, not playing tricks with yourself, not withholding anything, suddenly the unknown envelops you. And when it comes, you become aware that it is not only the unknown, it is the unknowable. It is not against the known, it is beyond the known. To move in that darkness - to move in that uncharted space without any maps and without any pathways, to move alone into that absolute - the quality of the warrior is needed [...] because you were once children, you were all warriors, you were all dreamers of the unknown. That childhood is hidden, but it cannot be destroyed; it is there, it still has its own corner in your being. Allow it to function. Be childlike & you will be warriors again [...] Don’t feel depressed; you can be a warriror anywhere. It is a quality of the mind, to take risks, the childlike quality - to trust & to move beyond that which is secure.

- OSHO

BRIDGE RIFTS

To bridge the gap

the rift between you & existence

- OSHO

Division & Conflict (inner & outer)

how to bridge that rift, and how not to create it anymore

- OSHO

Earth Holder - Bridge the Chasm
Preserve & Protect

Contribute the energy of holding life together, sustaining life

The energy that is holding us together

Further communication, connection, between humans & other species & to protect the Earth & the environment

To collaborate in creating a new chapter in this era of globalization

Create space that can embrace everyone, build bridges to cross from one side to the other, & to build a road, a way, so we can reach those we love

- Thích Nhất Hạnh on the Lotus Sutra

SUFFERING

meditate on suffering; from sufferer to centered

- OSHO

No mud, no lotus

- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Real silence only follows after the storm

real, authentic silence happens only after you have passed through a storm. Only when the storm is over can the silence explode within you, never before. You can create a false silence before the storm, but then you are deluded. You can create stillness - artificial, cultivated, forced from without - but it is not spontaneous, it is not of your inner being. There are many tricks to still the mind [...] that sleep is not silence [...] simply negative. You have become dull because of repetition. Every repetition creates dullness [...] Through dullness you cannot experience misery, you cannot experience suffering. The dullness is an anesthetic - it has made you unconscious [...] you will be less tense, but not more alive. A silence to be real, must be more alive and more sensitive. A real silence comes only after the storm. Don't force the storm to disappear [...] live it, allow it to happen. Act it out, throw it out. Allow the storm to disappear from you, evaporate from you. Don't suppress it [...] it will remain in you [...] unconscious [...] that which is suppressed has to be fought again and again [...] Your stillness will be on top of a volcano, and that volcano can erupt at any moment [...] you will negate life, you will try to escape from life [...] whatsoever is there: the storm within. Allow it to move without and don't resist, don't suppress. Allow it to move out totally. Then a moment will come when the storm has gone. In that moment, real silence happens to you [...] The stream is flowing. It is not anything that you have created; it is not anything that is happening because of your effort [...] you are not there, only the silence is. And the silence is fearless. Nothing can disturb it because that which could be a disturbance has been thrown out. The storm has disappeared.

You cannot force the flower to open, it opens by itself. You cannot force your being to open; there is no possibility of it [...] you cannot be violent toward it. It will simply be destroyed.

The flower opens by itself. The only soil needed is authentic, real spontaneous silence [...] trouble is a training. You should not try to have fewer troubles. Be with your troubles, be in your troubles and move through them. Don't leave them, don't escape from them. A moment will come when you have gone beyond them, but that moment always comes from passing throught them. Pass through the storm and allow a real silence to come. Then your being will flower, not till then.

- OSHO

The Essence of Yoga

nonviolence, honesty, nonpossessiveness

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY ^ INDIVIDUAL REVOLUTION

freedom is a great responsibility [...] but a new door opens through that [initial] burden and you can throw the suffering out [...] if I have been causing my miseries I can drop causing them [...] It is up to me to stop pedaling, then the bicycle would stop. No one else is pedaling it [...] I have been responsible for all that I have been suffering or enjoying [...] become free [...] choose your own world to live in [...] dance and the whole dances with you

- OSHO

MASTER^DISCIPLE

rise beyond distinction, judgment, ego

5 Mindfulness Trainings (INITIAL)

14 Mindfulness Trainings (SUBSEQUENT)

- Thích Nhất Hạnh & the Order of Interbeing