I was reading this sad news from Florida where a trainer was accidentally killed by a whale (Killer whale?) at Sea World resort. While the story is sad and I feel so sorry for the trainer and her family, I also think (and feel sad) of the poor animal that was some how forced to became an entertainer in front of human beings.
The spiritoons below were done last year for a book published in Kerala (Southern Indian State) that illustrate interactions between elephants and human beings. Though I enjoy being around domestic elephants and participate in festivals where ornamented elephants were used extensively, I often feel sorry for these giant animals and wonder how much of their wild instincts have suppressed deep down into their unconscious.
Like the whale story from Florida, elephants attacking (and killing) their keepers is so common in Kerala. You can view some videos here
Here are some words from my beloved master and mystic OSHO who's view on LOVE and FREEDOM is so profound and often comes as a cool breeze to humanity indulged in violence (against fellow humans, animals), sex, false love, power politics, bogus religions, gods etc etc.
Love gives freedom. Love that doesn't give freedom, is not love.
"Love is not thirst for power. How can you dominate someone you love? How can you make him dependent and still be loving? But what happens in the world in the name of love is something else: the lust for power, wanting to control others. Of course independence is inadmissible then. You do everything to make the other identical to yourself. You are afraid of the other person's freedom, because freedom escapes control and freedom is unpredictable. So all so-called love tries to kill freedom in any way it can - and as soon as freedom is destroyed, love dies.
Love is very fragile, like a rose. You have to allow her to dance in the rain, in the wind, in the sun.
.... Love is like a bird in the sky, and its freedom occupies all of the sky. You can catch the bird, you can put it in a magnificent gilded cage, and it only appears to be the same bird that flew free and had the sky to itself. It just appears to be, but it's not: you have killed it. You have clipped its wings. You have taken its sky from it. And birds do not care for your gold - no matter how precious your cage is, it is still a prison."
Keeping an animal dependent is wrong
"Dependency is a form of lack of freedom that some people impose on pets and circus animals in exchange for affection and for doing tricks. These animals depend on man for their food. If an animal were free and able to find its own food, hardly a single animal would spontaneously show affection to people. Showing affection in exchange for food has been forced on animals. Animals (like people) have the right to be safeguarded from this. When people (children and adults) are looking for affection, it is better and more honest to find it in other people. Finding affection from animals is particularly wrong in the case of pets that have to be locked up. This of course doesn't include dogs and cats, which have had centuries to get used to people. It is mainly the animals that belong in the open that we should leave in peace. "
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Florida Killer Whale - A Killer? - Cartoon on LOVE and FREEDOM
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Spiritoon - Love, Honey
Spiritoons are created with immense love and with inspiration from my Beloved Master OSHO and reflects his vision for a new way of living based in Awareness and the 'Here and Now'.
Live Love Laugh
Swami Anand Teertha (Sudi)
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy 2008 - Are you the Man on the Beach ??
"A camel keeper once came across a man walking across the Sahara Desert, wearing only a bathing costume.
”How far is it to the sea?” asked the man.
”About five hundred miles to the north,” said the camel keeper.
”Bugger me,” said the man, ”I will have to stay on the beach!”
You can either go on projecting your fantasies, dreams, expectations on life and remain fast asleep OR see the very point and be awake. If you are awake, you have the quality of a Buddha,Jesus,Krishna or Mohammed.
Then things will be different, totally different. And there will not be any need to find anything special, to find any meaning. In the small things of life there is meaning, there is great significance. Each pebble on the seashore becomes a diamond. Then there are sermons in every stone and songs hidden in every rock and scriptures everywhere, because the world is full of God, overflowing with godliness. Yes, for the first time, you will know what life is and how beautiful it is and how blissful it is and what a benediction and a gift of God it is." ~OSHO
May 2008 bring more awareness into your life...creating an opportunity for your own awakening!!
Love to you all... Happy 2008!!!
Maya, Nimmi & Sudi Narayan
& Art of Sudi Team.
Atlanta
http://www.artofsudi.com (Art of Sudi - An Incredible Spiritual Journey!)
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Sudi Narayan's Spiritoon - Meditation is a Mirror
and the most faithful one.
Whoever goes into meditation
risks a confrontation with himself:
The mirror of meditation never lies,
and it does not flatter.
It is impartial and innocent
and it never projects anything.
It only faithfully shows your real original face,
the face we never show to the world,
the face that we ourselves have forgotten.
So it is possible
that you yourself
may not be able to recognize it the first time!
But do not escape from it.
Face it and you will come to know it and recognize it.
This confrontation is the first test of courage on
the inner way.
So when it comes to happen –
rejoice and feel blessed"
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Jesus !! The LOVE that is
"On the path of love celebration grows of its own accord, and dancing and singing, and life is no more a struggle but a let-go. And there are things which happen only when you are in a let-go. All that is great happens only when you are in a let-go. If you are in an effort to conquer, you will conquer only small things.
Conquerors can become at the most Adolf Hitlers, Napoleons or Alexanders. They never become Buddhas – they cannot. To become a Buddha or to become a Christ, one has to be not in the mood of conquering at all, but, on the contrary, to be conquered by god one has to be feminine. That is the secret of love: to be feminine, to be passive, to be open, vulnerable, ready to absorb, ready to be pregnant, just to be a womb, and all that is needed comes. That’s what I call trust – that it comes; whenever your real need is there, it comes. It never comes by your search. It comes only when your real need is there. When you are really thirsty, your thirst will be quenched.
That’s what Jesus means when he says ’Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Ask and it shall be given. Seek and ye shall find.’ But by ’seeking’ he does not mean an active search, because he says ’The kingdom of god is within you.’
How can you seek it actively? Where can you go to search for it? There is nowhere to go. One has to relax into oneself. The seeking has to be passive,
the knocking has to be passive. It has to be a kind of prayer in love. "
Friday, December 21, 2007
Sudi Narayan's Spiritoon - Bringing in Space!
Spiritoons are created with love and inspirations from my Beloved master Osho and reflects his vision for a new way of living based in 'Awareness' and the 'Here & Now'
http://www.artofsudi.com/ (Art of Sudi - An Incredible Spiritual Journey!)
Monday, November 19, 2007
Sudi Narayan's Spiritoon - Loving Thoughts !
" THE MORE YOU TALK AND THINK ABOUT IT, THE FURTHER ASTRAY YOU WANDER FROM THE TRUTH.
THINKING IS AWANDERING AWAY, going astray. Whenever you think about anything, immediately
you have started going away. I am here, you can be with me – but if you start thinking about me you are on a journey going on and on, and the more you get into thinking the further away you will be.
Thinking is a way to escape from reality; it gives you an inner direction, it makes you a path in your
mind and you move on it. A thinker is never here and now, he is never in the present, he is always somewhere else. A meditator is always here and now, he is nowhere else. That’s why thinking is the only barrier in meditation. You have to become aware, and by and by, the more you become aware, the more you stop cooperating with thinking.
