Consciousness Puzzles

By Nitin ARORA (Ozin)

Consciousness is a choiceless choice. You can either exercise it or ignore it. Many seem to be ignoring it since time immemorial else why people still should look for happiness. Some had become wise while some prefer consciousness over wisdom.

 

Consciousness is a silly puzzle, and

Bliss is its reward!

It is the reflecting moon- so far and yet so close

that one yearns for it

as if becoming friendly with Self.

The consciousness puzzles are to be solved by your experiences only.  Each puzzle is inter-connected with other puzzles mystically. Your consciousness growth is the only key to solve these puzzles! As Consciousness puzzles are written from various perspectives and zones of life, everyone will interpret these puzzles from their own mind windows.

 

Spending time to solve it is Karma!

Seeing heaven and hell from a distance is Liberation!

Living a liberated life is called Zen.

O Ozin, walk like a blissful elephant on the road of Zen.

 

Happiness becomes accidental, if you are not conscious but becomes natural if you pay enough attention to it! If solving puzzle needs to find facts, you get a happy life, if solving puzzle needs to live truth, you get a Life.

 

Wind passing by the

sides of my eyelashes

Musically.

 

Bandages over cancer don't work.

Unripe scholars don't create sweetness inside their followers.

 

#ConsciousnessChallenge

I am Tagging your Consciousness. In your lifetime raise your consciousness to the level that all puzzles open up without you making an effort to solve it.

 

Tree without roots is future dead.

Tap the intelligence- Real Intelligence!

A conscious teacher can at the most make you habit free!

 

He can teach you how to be a Master of self !

Destiny is not in the future.

Journey is the only destiny.

 

Every moment  is a fulfillment.

Truth is acidic,

Belief is a drug

 

Happiness by nature is momentary, declining, non-sustainable. To maximize the existing happiness invites more misery that questions the whole process.

 

Existence will be happy if you can solve 1st puzzle with same ease as you solve the last. There is no looking back once you crystallize your consciousness and start living the consciousness puzzles

 

Happiness is a silly puzzle.

Bliss is a mystery!

Consciousness is the moon-so far and yet so close

that one becomes

friendly with it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: OZIN
• Release date: Sep 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393757252

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Praise for the Book

THIS BOOK IS A GIFT FOR all realist generations seeking to crystallize one’s consciousness. It gives them access to the fundamentals of how to live grounded in this world. Interplay of paradoxes before enlightenment, used beautifully to link naturally the here-and-now with the life's duality. This Gift presents guidance in the form of puzzles to raise one’s vibrational energy. Its beauty lies in the thorough account of building blocks for conscious living—a Gift to our young ones.

Maria Pressentin,

Head -L&OD Professional Services (APAC), Ken Blanchard Co.

BRIMMING WITH EXPERIENTIAL knowledge and invaluable insights, Consciousness is a must-read for anyone who seeks to know themselves. A truly unique approach to answer profound questions and a touching motive.

Vishal Singh,

CEO, Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust

This is a lovely piece. Succinct and anecdotal. It drives the point home that whether it’s a mystic or a mistake; it’s all within and conforms to a varying spectrum of thought. May you invoke, happiness and grace. You do light a candle of  joy that inspires

Yogesh Kochhar

Happiness Evangelist , Ex-Director, Microsoft

THIS BOOK IS THE RIGHT mix of the real and the abstract, the worldly pursuits admixed with the spiritual. The author has done a great job of explaining difficult elements in a story telling format, which makes it easy to read, for all ages. The language is colloquial & that makes this book a quick & easy read. Hopefully, this book will allow people to bridge the divide between day to day living & spiritual living, leading to consciousness engineering, benefitting the individuals & society.

Dr. Debraj Shome,

Celebrity Cosmetic Surgeon, Author

Ozin on Zen path speaks pictorial words to fulfill consciousness with bliss. Sadhkas, fulfilled with intensity of urge, to be parallel with the take off, shall glimpse and imbibe the spiritual command of masters: Fully satisfied Being has complete faith with the Creator having made sadhka, of a state in which sadhka is because of one’s own Sadhna. Shraddha & Shabari are twins. Humbleness and urge for further take off, as well follow of their own. Efforts are only an index of dhyaan and the fruit is Vibhuti for Ozin on Zen path to speak pictorial words to fulfill consciousness with Bliss.

Dr. S.K. Cosmic Kapoor

Ved Ratan

Book is marvelous & brings about an elevation of self-fulfillment that can be felt through the heart. 

Dr. Sam Suhail,

Resident Physician –Psychiatry,  Loretto Hospital, USA

...THE TERRAIN OF LIFE is never easy for any one person but the writer manages to create a smooth and understandable path to follow. The book will take you through the right journey to follow to awaken your senses and gives an insight to a greater happiness of oneself. The book stretched my mind to understand happiness in a unique way and enabled me to conquer and realize my own addictions. It was really a good adventure that created a forever grounding in my mind.

Prof. Mansoor Alaali

President, Ahlia University, Bahrain

A splendid opus that resonates with all of us at so many different levels making us to desire to leave a timeless legacy to our children consciously. A magnificent literature which is quite mind-teasing, combined with a poetic narration and introduction to the power of meditation, both strategies so efficient in building the ultimate life skill of consciousness. Don’t wait, just immerse yourself in this paternal love journey! It is a beautiful life roadmap, full of the unconditional love from a father to his cherished daughters.

Dr. Patricia Burlaud

Founder of P. Burlaud Consulting,  Life & Career Coach, USA

Consciousness is a puzzle for all, but if it could be presented like this is, it’s definitely a piece of fine art. I am intrigued by how boundless experiences can be knitted effortlessly in 43 puzzles. The breeze with which the author’s mind moves in this book will help build bonds between parents and children. It’s a required reading for any parent looking to develop a timeless bonding with their children consciously. If you read Ozin strictly from the scriptural and dogmatic perspective, this one might disappoint. But if you want freshly baked scripture with a heart having fatherly touch, in these hollow times, this is the One.

Dr. Vipin Checker

Gynecologist, Obstetrician & Infertility Specialist

It is a wonderful book, more so because of the intent behind it. Dr. Arora has given an opportunity to lay people like me to connect with our inner-self. Go ahead solve the mystery that’s you!

Khurafati Nitin,

RJ (92.7 Big FM), Content Strategist, Angel Investor

AN OUTSTANDING PRACTICAL book on Consciousness. Thanks for bringing this book for humankind in difficult times where corona affected the life & people started thinking about self, God & Consciousness. Neurons have their own consciousness. Puzzles give a chance to neurons to develop pathways & helps developing wisdom. I strongly recommend to all who want to grow in life and solve these life enhancement puzzles.

Dr. Alok Mishra,

Jt. Secretary, Association of Indian Universities

An outstanding amalgamation of life experiences & is a treasure. It’s fresh appealing will take you to the journey of finding your true happiness which is within you. It will trigger your inquisitive minds

Dr. Asif Iqbal,

President, Indian Economic Trade Organization

I started reading the book with the purpose of giving you some feedback. What I gained from the process was an awakening of my own consciousness, in ways that I hadn’t imagined any book could ever do.  Reading this book created an amazing space around me, which I didn’t know existed, before where one can accept & live with the rationality (or irrationality) of others, and also enjoy the freedom to explore one’s irrationality.  Reading the book was like suddenly discovering hidden inner sensory organ within me, which I never imagined existed, but with which, I can now look deep within.

Prabhat Labh,

CEO, Grameen Foundation

Congratulations! The gift of book you have given to your daughters is counted in a blessing to them. You have made an amazing effort to build the consciousness of the community. We inhabit the society which is constantly changing, and your book will surely be a guiding light! You have adopted a very fresh and encouraging approach to express otherwise scary thoughts.

Yogacharya Dhakaram,

Founder of  Yogapeace  & Ekamyoga

Dr Nitin Arora delivers a wonderful set of practical tools to help young people explore in a deliberate way the concept of happiness.  What greater gift could we give our children?  Too often our pedagogic practices focus on knowledge acquisition and transfer – this book with its intriguing set of puzzles equips its readers with a reflection and growth mindset – an essential skillset for a fast changing future.

Sarah Schawb, CEO, Experience Accelerator,

Ex-G.M., Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA

Consciousness Puzzles

A Father’s Gift to his two timeless Daughters

Ozin

Dedication

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To all children who are -

Looking for new methods to demystify Happiness Consciously;

Finding ways to relish the Wondrous Hidden Truth;

Flipping past & future to gift oneself the ‘Present’!

PRAYER

I know in you,

Wisdom is overflowing,

Light ever-shining&

freedom ever-inviting.

I know you told-

in thief too flows relative sweetness; &

in Master lies absolute poison.

I know you forewarned -

Truth gets killed by choice;&

Enlightenment is lived in a choiceless lifestyle!

I know you gave the mantra-

With world comes choice; &

With God comes open-mindedness.

Despite all these blessings I fell many times –

trapped by stagnant knowledge,

promising me of sweet heavens,

if I act under the security of closed-mind!

Gratitude to the Master!

Gratitude to the Existence for you becoming my Messiah!

Gratitude to all my reasons and excuses,

that attracted your mercy to get me out from the delusive valley!

I feel in you,

Life is relaxing,

Death ever-slipping &

Nectar ever-intoxicating.

I know you told-

in prison too flows relative forgiveness;

in prisoners lies absolute friends.

I know you forewarned -

Anger is a choice; &

Endarkenment lived in a self-enforced lifestyle!

I know you gave the mantra-

With sharp intellect happens division; &

With emotions come biased versions.

Despite all these blessings I fell many times –

trapped by the company of Angels,

promising me of higher intellectual joys,

if I cooperate in shaming the other-mind!

Gratitude to the Master!

Gratitude to the Existence for you becoming my Dharmic Habit!

Gratitude to all my successes and failures

that attracted Your Eye to get me out of the deadly habits!

I see in you,

Om is reverberating,

‘Payal’ rattling on ant’s feet&

devotion ever-deepening.

I know you told-

in alive relationship too flows relative attachment;&

in dead relatives, absolute entanglement.

I know you forewarned -

Divorce is a choice;&

Death lives through an illusive-lifestyle!

I know you gave the mantra-

With the acceptance of mistakes grows wisdom;&

With delusion rises mortal kingdom.

Despite all these blessings I fell many times –

Trapped by methods of concentration,

promising me of desires fulfillment,

if I continue in abusing powerful-mind!

Gratitude to the Master!

Gratitude to the Existence for you becoming my Youthful Saga!

Gratitude to all my restlessness and trust,

That demolished my heavens to get me out from the false faiths!

FOREWORD

Puzzles- From Rational science to irrational spirituality

Meditate on DOG - GOD Koan

A PUZZLE IS A COMBINATION of logical and poetic approaches, mathematical and mystical way of thinking and feeling simultaneously. Thus, it can become a bridge between MIND and NO-MIND. One can easily travel from thoughts to thoughtlessness, by giving a challenge to provoke consciousness within one-self.

In a discourse series titled "Take It Easy" Talking on Zen Buddhist Master IKKYU’s puzzle like KOANS, osho explains these two ways of life as below:

"RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL—by the irrational and for the irrational. Reason cannot contain it; reason is so small.  

Religion is the vast sky of existence. Reason is a tiny human phenomenon. The reason has to be lost, has to be dropped. Only by going beyond the mind does one start understanding what is. That’s the radical change. No philosophy can bring that radical change—only religion.  

Religion is non-philosophic, anti-philosophic, and Zen is the purest form of religion. Zen is the very essence of religion. Hence it is irrational, it is absurd. If you try to understand it logically you will be bewildered. It can only be understood illogically. It has to be approached in deep sympathy and love. YOU CANNOT approach Zen through empirical, scientific, objective concepts. They all have to be dropped.  

It is a heart phenomenon. You have to feel it rather than think it. You have to BE it to know it. Being is knowing. And there is no other knowing. That’s why religion has to choose a different kind of language. Religion has to talk in parables, in poetry, in metaphors, in myth. Those are indirect ways of hinting at the truth—only hinting at the truth, no direct pointing; just whispering, not shouting. It comes to you in a deep rapport.  

Remember this there are two ways of speaking, two levels of linguistic usage. There is a language of clear truths, concepts and formulas, the language of pure logic, objective information, exact science. But that is not the language of the heart, and that is not the language of love, and that is not the language of religion.  

Science and religion are diametrically opposite. They belong to different dimensions of existence. They don’t overlap each other’s grounds, each other’s fields. They simply never meet! They don’t crisscross. And the modern mind has been trained for science, hence religion has become almost out of date, of the past. There seems to be no future for religion.  

Sigmund Freud has declared that there is no future for the illusion called religion. But if there is no future for religion, there is no future for man either. Science is going to destroy humanity—because humanity can live only through the poetic, the metaphoric. Life gathers significance only through the heart. Man cannot live by mind alone. Man cannot live by calculation, mathematics alone. Mathematics can serve, but cannot be the master. The head can only be the servant, and as a servant it is very useful; but when it pretends to become the master it is dangerous, it is fatal.  

The language of objective science lives in the world of facts. Things are as they are; you say what you mean, as precisely as you can, and as unequivocally. Speaking, then, is deciphering a puzzle, defining, prescribing limits—this is this, not that. It is water, not steam and not ice. Here is here, not there. One is one, two equals two, dead is dead. This is the world of facts—dull and dead, stale and stagnant.  

It is impossible to live just in the world of facts, because then you will never be able to relax. In fact, it is meaningless to live in the world of facts—from where will you get the meaning? from where will you get the value? Then a rose has no beauty; it is only a botanical fact. Then love has no splendor; it is only a biological fact.  

How can one live in facts? Living in facts, life starts becoming meaningless. It is not an accident that the modern philosophical minds are talking continuously about meaninglessness. We have created it by deciding to live only in one language—the prose language.  

But there is a second language, deep below the first, like a much older structure wide around the first. It is the language of what cannot really be said. Yes, poetry is the language of what really cannot be said. Still it HAS to be said . There is an urgency to say it—and poetry is the language of that which cannot be said.  

That which can be said can be said through prose. How will you say that which cannot be said if you don’t have poetry? It is the language of what cannot really be said, that language that you speak so as not to have to be completely silent, the language of emotion and ecstasy.  

THESE SMALL POEMS OF IKKYU may not be very poetic—in fact, R. H. Blyth, writing about these DOKA of Ikkyu, says: Ikkyu’s little poems are not of great poetical value, yet they portray for us a man of deep sincerity, too honest perhaps to be a great Lyrical poet. The purpose is not poetry. The purpose is to convey something which cannot be conveyed through ordinary language. The poetry is being used as a vehicle, remember it. Don’t think in terms of literature: think in terms of ecstasy.  

A rest on the way back

From the leaky road

To the never-leaking road;

If it rains, let it rain;

If it blows, let it blow.

My self of long ago, In nature non-existent;

Nowhere to go when dead, Nothing at all.

When asked, he answered; No question, no answer;

Then Master Daruma

Must have had Nothing in his mind.

Our mind—

Without end,

Without beginning,

Though it is born, though it dies—

The essence of emptiness!

All the sins committed, in the three worlds

Will fade and disappear, together with myself.

NOTHING’ MEANS NO THING AT ALL. There is a famous Zen anecdote:  A man came to a Zen master and asked, Does a dog have Buddha-nature?  Now you cannot ask such a question anywhere else. If you ask a Christian, Does a dog have Christ-nature? he will be absolutely enraged. You are insulting Christ, the only begotten Son of God. This is not only profane, this is sacrilegious. But in Buddhism you can ask; there is no problem about it.  

The disciple asked the master, Has a dog the same nature as Buddha?  And the master’s answer is very strange and very puzzling, and down the centuries people have been contemplating it; it has become a koan to meditate over.  

The master said, Mu. means nothing. Now the problem is: what does he mean by saying MU? It can also mean no; it can mean nothing, it can mean no. Is he saying that the dog has not the same nature as Buddha? That is not possible from a Zen master. Then what does he mean by MU? He does not mean no—he means nothing. He is saying: Buddha is nothing, so is dog. He is saying yes by saying no.  He is saying: Yes, the dog has the same nature as Buddha, but Buddha is nothing! so is a dog. There is no self, either in Buddha or in a dog. There is nobody there inside! Buddha is empty and so is the dog. Only the forms are different, dreams are different. The dog is dreaming it is a dog—that’s all. You are dreaming you are a man, somebody is dreaming he is a tree. But inside there is nobody—pure silence.  This silence is samadhi. When you start having glimpse of this silence, your life starts changing. Then you live for the first time in a poetic way. Then death creates no fear in you. Then nothing can disturb you or distract you.  

The master’s reply, MU, really means yes. But he didn’t say yes for a certain reason—because the yes will be misunderstood. Then the man would have thought that the dog also has the same self as the Buddha—that’s why he didn’t use the word ‘yes’. He said no. But he does not mean that the dog has not the same nature. He means both have nothingness inside. The form differs. For a Buddhist, and particularly a Zen Buddhist, there is nothing profane and nothing sacred.  Zen has a totally different approach towards life. It does not believe in the sacred, it does not believe in the profane. It does not believe in anything—it is all one. Dog and God—it is all one. Buddha, no Buddha—it is all one. The ignorant, the wise—it is all one. The sinner and saint—it is all one."

Therefore, don’t take this book seriously. Take It Easy.

Solve and Enjoy Solution. Enjoy Even No-Solution.

Swami Shailendra Saraswati (B/o Spiritual Guru Osho)

Founder, Osho Fragrance Foundation  {www.oshofragrance.org}

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A LETTER TO MY TWO DAUGHTERS

MY DEAR DAUGHTERS,

What’s your age now?

Consciousness is a silly puzzle, and

Bliss is its unimaginable reward!

It is the