We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
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Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With mind there is no victory, with no-mind there is no defeat. You have to shift your whole consciousness from mind to no-mind. Once no-mind is there, everything is victorious. Once the no-mind is there, nothing goes wrong, nothing can go wrong.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of transcending mental constructs to achieve true success and peace.
Rajneesh suggests that our thinking mind is a source of conflict and defeat, and that true victory lies in a state beyond thought, termed 'no-mind'. By cultivating this conscious state, one can experience life without attachment to victory or defeat, leading to a sense of peace and fulfillment.
Themes
MindNo-MindVictoryDefeatConsciousnessPeace
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be shared in a meditation class to emphasize the importance of mindfulness.
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