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Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by Nityaprem

Nityaprem — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:32:02 +0000

A good laugh is also a moment of no-mind, which is why it is difficult to see your own state of being. Afterwards it tends to be quickly forgotten, except if you yourself look at the memory and keep it alive.

A good laugh brings pure joy, sheer dance, a delighted playfulness. It is an overflowing of energy, connectedness with a realm of pleasure and joy. My mothers’ sniff of Parmesan cheese had me in tears of laughter.

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by Nityaprem

Nityaprem — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:13:18 +0000

I was thinking a little on the nature of laughter. Osho said that laughter was never acknowledged as a spiritual device because it gives you a glimpse of what it is like to be a buddha, and the many religions are against people getting such glimpses.

I think it’s quite true, a really good laugh does provide a glimpse of an extraordinary state of lightness of being. It’s difficult to examine while laughing, but immediately afterward you can look at the memory of what you experienced, and get some idea of how awe-inspiring it is.

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by Nityaprem

Nityaprem — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:50:22 +0000

I enjoyed a video about Kyoto’s forest temples a few months ago, and its beautiful gardens and walking paths in the rain stuck with me. It was a very refined energy, very meditative. So I thought I would share…

https://youtu.be/U_17EqTHUIo

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by satchit

satchit — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:33:15 +0000

There are not two: you and your meditation

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by Nityaprem

Nityaprem — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:18:00 +0000

Sometimes it is good to make a change, and I have stopped a long habit of reading Osho books, for about a week now. It is almost as if I have lost my meditation, but not quite, thankfully.

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by satchit

satchit — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:40:48 +0000

Words are a finger pointing to the moon.
So it is not pointless.

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by Nityaprem

Nityaprem — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:06:12 +0000

Did you know that in the 1900s America had many herbal medicine colleges, and their graduates were called doctors, just like graduates from the universities? These were all bought up with money from the Rockefellers, Carnegie and so on, and subsequently closed. Big money didn’t want their competition to the new pharmaceutical industry.

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by Nityaprem

Nityaprem — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:59:38 +0000

“This is a book that proclaims that enlightenment is a sudden, immediate and energetic insight that is constantly available. It is the open secret that reveals itself in every part of our lives. No effort, purification path, method or teaching of any kind can bring you there. Because the open secret has nothing to do with an effort to change your way of life. It is about the renewed discovery of what it is that lives.

No idea or system of ideas can express what enlightenment is. Attempts to share through words the rediscovery and the miracle of what we are is just as pointless as writing a recipe for plumpudding and then expecting someone who reads it to be able to taste it.”

( Tony Parsons, ‘The Open Secret’ )

Just wanted to mention this as the most sensible thing I’ve read about enlightenment in a while. I think most people have an impression of what belongs with these words.

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by satchit

satchit — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:23:47 +0000

“Anyway, enough of that old stuff, it just disturbs the peace.”

Osho disturbs the peace.
This is something new. LoL

Comment on Shantam Iqbal on Spiritual Intelligence by Nityaprem

Nityaprem — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:59:29 +0000

Being a light unto yourself is also discovering how to be free from the master. How to make use of what teachings remain, without being attached to the man who originated them.