Atisha's  Heart Meditation  And the method is, when you breathe in - listen carefully, it is one of the greatest methods - when you breathe in, think that you are breathing in all the miseries of all the people in the world. All the darkness, all the negativity, all the hell that exists anywhere, you are breathing it in. And let it be absorbed in your heart. You may have read or heard about the so-called positive thinkers of the West. They say just the opposite - they don't know what they are saying. They say, "When you breathe out, throw out all your misery and negativity; and when you […]

It is not a question of what is true and what is untrue. The question is always, what works?   The atheist who simply denies the soul -- as the communists are doing all over the world -- is immensely harmful because he stops man's possibility of growth. He gives the idea that you are material and you are going to remain material -- there is nothing more. You are born matter, you will die matter, and nothing will be left; life is only between birth and death, neither before or after.   It is a dangerous creed, and half of the world has accepted it. It seems it fulfills some inner necessity […]

The politicians become afraid only when something really significant is happening -- and they are becoming afraid all around the world. It is a good sign. It is immensely beautiful that my sannyasins are not being ignored, that's the ugliest thing that can happen to anybody.   What the German chancellor has said is right: sannyasins are very dangerous people! Religion is always dangerous. The moment it is not dangerous it is no more religion at all. Jesus is dangerous, christianity is not dangerous -- hence christianity has nothing to do with Jesus. Buddha is dangerous, buddhists are not […]