Best Quotes On Sin
- Sin is a kind of unconsciousness. You become angry. In that very anger you suffer, not that you will suffer afterwards. Anger is fire, anger is poison. It poisons your whole system: it disturbs your health, it disturbs your mind, it disturbs your tranquillity, it disturbs your soul; and then it hangs with you for days together. The disturbance has to settle again, and before it settles, you become angry again. Then it becomes chronic. Then it hangs with you. My approach is that in the very act is the punishment, and in the very act is the reward, obviously. When you are loving, there is heaven; when you are hateful, there is hell.
- Sannyas is
celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are
unconscious -- what else can you do? In unconsciousness, sin is bound to
happen. Sin simply means that you don't know what you are doing, you are
unaware, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. But to recognize that "I am
a sinner" is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. To recognize that
"I am a sinner" is the beginning of real virtue. To see that
"I am ignorant" is the first glimpse of wisdom.
- Right awareness
is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all
that is bad. But as you become aware, the bad starts disappearing -- just
as when you bring light into the room, the darkness disappears. When light
is in the room, darkness cannot exist there. Sin is darkness,
forgetfulness, unconsciousness.
- According to
great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one
thing: that is awareness. If you are aware, you can do anything you want
and it is not sin. If you are not aware, you may do so-called virtuous
acts, but there is no virtue in them. Out of unconsciousness virtue cannot
blossom. It blossoms only when you are full of light, full of love, full
of consciousness.
- To be aware is
to be virtuous. And to remain in unawareness is the only sin. You may be
doing good things without awareness. But those good things are no longer
good, because they come out of darkness, unconsciousness, blindness. And
as far as awareness is concerned, a man who is full of awareness, alert,
cannot do anything wrong. It is intrinsically impossible. Awareness brings
so much clarity, so much perception, so much understanding that it is
impossible to do anything that can be harmful to anyone. It is impossible
to interfere with somebody's freedom or somebody's life. You can only be a
blessing to existence, nothing else.
- Man ordinarily
is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks,
he acts, but it is all as if in sleep -- not conscious of what he is
doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that
surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness.
According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live
unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin'
comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are
not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide
us.
- To my
understanding, sex is your only energy, it is life energy. What you do
with it depends on you. It can become sin, and it can become also your
highest peak of consciousness. It all depends on you how you use the
energy.
- As your
consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What
religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they
have called virtue will automatically flow from your being, from your
actions. But they have been doing just vice versa: first change the
acts... It is as if you are in a dark house, and you are stumbling over
furniture and over things, and you are told that unless you stop
stumbling, light is not possible.
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