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AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WARREN BUFFET:
3rd RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD in 2016:-
1) Warren bought his first share at age 11
and he now regrets that he started too late!
2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with
savings from delivering newspapers.
3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom
house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought af-
ter he got married 50 years ago. He says that
he has everything he needs in that house.
His house does not have a wall or a fence.
4) He drives his own car everywhere and does
nothaveadriverorsecuritypeoplearoundhim.
5) He never travels by private jet, althoughhe
owns the world’s largest private jet company.
6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns
63 companies. He writes only one letter each
year to the CEOs of these companies, giv-
ing them goals for the year. He never holds
meetings or calls them on a regular basis.
7) Warren Buffet has giv-
en his CEO’s only two rules.
Rule number 1: Do not lose any
of your share holder’s money.
Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
8) He does not socialize with the
high society crowd. His past time af-
ter he gets home is to make himself
some pop corn and watch television.
9) Bill Gates, the world’s richest man met him
for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates
did not think he had anything in common with
Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meet-
ing only for half hour. But when Gates met
him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill
Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell
phone, nor has a computer on his desk.
11) His advice to young people: Stay away
from credit cards and invest in yourself.
12) He has donated $31 bil
lion (85% of his fortune) to charity.
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4. One thing I often see when people believe
they are on a spiritual path is they throw
around terminology to describe aspects
that are not in their experience, and conse-
quently have misconceptions about them.
“Awareness” and its related terms are
some such examples. Awareness is often
mixed up with alertness, though they are
not the same. Alertness is a quality of the
mind and the body. Awareness is not of the
mind or the body – it is the nature of life.
Most people do not make this distinction.
The root of everything is one, but it is the ba-
sis of all complexity. No mind can ever fathom
the sophistication of what we call awareness
or the being. These two are not different
things. You could also call it atman or self,
paramatman or the supreme self, anda and
pinda or a piece of life, brahmanda or cosmos
– but these are all just words. Essentially, we
try to refer to that which defies definition. No
word can describe this limitless phenomenon.
Definition needs a form, a shape, and a qual-
ity. Awareness has no quality of its own. That
is why we describe it in negative terms. We
call it nirgun, which means “that which has
no quality.” This is as close as you can get to
a definition. The logical mind cannot grasp
that which has no quality. And since it is ev-
erywhere, you cannot battle with it either.
There is a beautiful incident in the life of
the great sage Allama Prabhu, who lived in
northern Karnataka and is revered as one of
the pillars of the Veera Shaiva community.
One day, a yogi named Goraksha came seek-
ing Allama because he had heard great things
about Allama and wanted to compete with
him. They say Goraksha was a little over two
hundred and eighty years at that time. With
very rigorous yoga, mastering the elements
within the system, he had hardened his body
in such a way he defied age. Everybody he
knew had fallen dead, but he was still alive
and strong like a youth. That was his pride.
Goraksha met Allama on a river bank and
told him, “I’m the real yogi. If you want to
test me, take your sword, hit me on the head,
and see what happens.” Allama agreed, took
his sword, and smashed it on the yogi’s head.
It bounced back as if it hit a rock. Goraksha
said, “This is my strength. No sword can slice
me. I am practically immortal. What can
you do?” Allama laughed and said, “Well,
you can also use your sword.” The yogi hes-
itated at first because Allama did not look
strong or rock-like, but Allama encouraged
him to go ahead. Goraksha took the sword
and hit Allama’s head with full force. The
sword went straight through Allama’s body,
as if through air. Goraksha lost his balance
and fell. He asked, “What is this?” Allama
said, “This is not this or that. This is Shiva.”
When something is neither this nor that, it
has no qualities. This is Shiva – “that which is
not.” This is the nature of awareness – it has
no quality of its own, no resistance, nothing.
This is also the nature of life and that which
is the source of life. But if at all people have
any experience of awareness, it is mostly
through the filters of their minds. There is no
mind without quality. At the most, you can
calm the mind in such a way that it becomes
mirror-like, without attributes, for a peri-
od of time. The mind cannot function with-
out attributes and information. If you bring
the mind to a certain level of calmness, you
touch the dimension that we call awareness.
We can also call it life, the source of life, the
Divine, nirgun, or atman – it is all the same.
For most people, awareness is heavily
blurred by the mind, because awareness re-
flects through the mind. If the mind is still
for some time, awareness will be clear. But
a bit of activity, thoughts, and emotions,
and immediately, awareness will be taint-
ed. The very fact that you are awake and
you read this now means you are aware.
Trying to understand the language, the im-
portance, and the meaning behind it – all
this comes from the mind. The mind can-
not exist without outside input and support.
If you go by the nature of your mind, whose
content is largely based on social input, you
will automatically seek bondage. You want to
bond with people and hold on to things you
come in contact with. By contrast, the nature
of awareness is freedom. When the mind be-
comes absolutely still, you become free. Right
now, awareness or the source of life is stuck
to your body because of karmic glue. If you
dissolve the karmic glue, which could hap-
pen if your meditation becomes very deep,
you could leave the body. That is why I make
sure no one gets enlightened right here. Not
because I am avoiding competition. The prob-
lem is you may rise in awareness, but you can-
not rise in knowing and wisdom that easily.
If you do not create any obstructions, you
can easily rise in awareness, beyond the
limitations of your psychological and phys-
iological framework, because that is its na-
ture. Right now, you are holding it down
with so many obstructions. For awareness
to rise and at the same time to keep your
physiological structure and the psycholog-
ical framework intact, you need to under-
stand the nuts and bolts of how it is all made.
This is a learning process that will take time.
Awareness never has a quality of its own.
Only because you perceive everything
through the tinted glass of your mind, it looks
like there are different kinds of awareness,
while it actually is one. The air around you,
the life within you, and what is spreading
across the cosmos are essentially of the same
quality, or rather, beyond quality – nirgun.
NIRGUN
As there is nothing that
I truly call as mine, neither
this Body nor Anybody, neither
this World nor the Other
Neither Friends nor Foes belong.
No fear of Losing, no anticipation
of Gain. Here i am a Transparence
without Substance. A Presence
without Persona. A Being
without Self.
Hence activity has become Stillness
The Din of the world my Silence
The very Cosmos my Being.
Source:
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/
spot/nirgun-awareness-is-freedom/
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