very beautifully expressed, aachi.as many people so many paths of discovery..unique...

Aachi my friend

What a poetic elegy to the mysteries of the unknown. So few take risks and so few thus know the beauty of the unbounded. To quote Osho " the greater the risks the greater the expansion" and that is where the essential courage of man lies. To jump off the cliff and trust the winds that will teach him/her to fly. BTW OSho has a marvellous book called 'The journey of the Alone to the Alone'.
Thank You you wonderful star gazer for a great vision into the unknown.

Hello Aachi,

Thank you for providing the link. I have found this blog's philosophy very close to my heart.

As to your post - journey from unknonw to unknow, or from self to self - well, an other interesting aspect of this journey is to find out that below the apparent there is a coveyer belt, which 'takes' us there even without our moving a leg. Then we say, oh, I had always been there, all was like a dream, all the beauties on the way wer my ow creations. The yhad no exitence of their own...

Well met. Harb

Hello Jasjit, Sunder...

Welcome Harb

Good to see you here and glad that this blog finds consonance with your wisdom. I hope you will share your myriad thoughts/experiences/wonders and enrich this space with your very unique insights and ideas.

love

hi harb, welcome to this space...

Thank you, good to find some like-minded fellow travellers here...

Welcome Harb, :)

thanks for accepting my invitation. Loved to see your thoughts on the blog.

i agree with you about the 'conveyor belt'

it is like the bird flying in an infinite sky has no place to go. the infinite sky itself is the journey and the destination.

Sundar thanks. The thought of as many people, so many individual paths is indeed unique and beautiful. A sense of adventurism and joy. And most importantly meeting the unexpected.

jasjit thank you.

the vision was inspired by the book you mentioned. though i havent read it , i was charmed by the title when i first saw it in Pune.
your example of jumping from a cliff is very apt. it is actually a prerequisite in some forms of monastic life that the intended monk is true at heart when he can fall from a palm tree like a rag doll , without moving a single limb for protecting the fall.

love,
Aachi

Hey there Aachi, Sundar, Jasjit, Harb,

It feels nice to be among friends. But I am still trying to figure out whether the guy who bought this domain name,"isitaboutsexblog.com" kept this name because sex sells (LOL) or was he/she being funny? (wink) If it was the latter....I like the sense of humor.

"A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it...."

.....Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 13

Good Morning Navin

Good to see you here. We wanted to keep the url simple and direct and if that also sells- perfect. LOl. I have posted on why etc so hopefully that tells you more(check archives). And the humour is always intended, why get so serious about it all anyways?

Thanks for sharing that pertinent quote. Hope to see more of you here. Have a joyous New year.

love

thats a lovely share from osho, navin..tx to jasjit and her team for creating this internet wayside dhaba of a space share...a platform for "interesting and nourishing b(y)tes"...

a very happy, fulfilled, enriched and evolutionary new year to all those who post and visit here...

Thanks fellas,
And wish all of you a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year too. Here is an interesting quote I read somewhere about the New Year:

An Optimist stays up on New Year's midnight to bring in the New Year. A Pessimist stays up to make sure the Old Year is gone!

Cheers!
Navin

Hey Dude Navin, Great quote from Osho. I'm quite into him myself but so many people say so many things against him and sometimes I get confused with all of that and I find doubt begins to creep in. Have you ever had to handle stuff like that....would like to know.

Hey White Horse,
I love white horses!
If you think Osho is some kinda fad or drug that you "get into" (lol) then it's but natural that you'd get confused by what some others might think of Osho. If you are able to truly understand him, you'd go even beyond him. You wouldn't feel the need to defend him if some people say bad things about him. I come across stuff like that quite often but have never had to "handle" it.
It is not in my inherent nature to force my opinion on others. I just state the facts as I know them. If others like & believe what I say, then they too get around to my way of thinking. If they don't, even then they leave with a smile and consider me their friend. My advice to you would be to have the strength of character in you where you don't get influenced by other people's opinions (whether good or bad) and just follow the little voice inside your own head.

Cheers and Happy New Year!
Navin

Aachi,

Happy new Year. Lovely post, eloquent as always.

love
Anusheh

dear aachi,
i totally agree with u on enlightment ..we all have to find our own ways ..sometimes religions or our ancestors become road maps giving us a clear destination but we never get the way by following someone else ..there is infinite ways to reach enlightment ..i hope wat ever way we take all reach diviness in its greatest form ..

thats very well said , preethi....tx.

thanks preethi