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whole left passenger side of my VW Vento (front and back) below foot mat's is soaking wet, what might be the issue?

whole left passenger side of my VW Vento (front and back) below foot mat's is soaking wet, what might be the issue?

whole left passenger side of my VW Vento (front and back) below foot mat's is soaking wet, what might be the issue?

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EGO

Let me tell you first what ego is. Everybody is born without the ego. When a child is born, he is simply consciousness: floating, flowing, lucid, innocent, virgin -- no ego exists. By and by, the ego is created by others. The ego is the accumulated effect of others' opinions about you. Somebody comes, a neighbor, and says,'How beautiful a child,' and looks at the child with a very appreciative look. Now the ego starts functioning. Somebody smiles, somebody does not smile; sometimes the mother is very loving, sometimes she is very angry; and the child is learning that he is not accepted as he is. His being is not accepted unconditionally; there are conditions arouncl. If he cries and weeps and visitors are there in the house, then the mother is very angry. If he cries and weeps and there is no visitor, the mother doesn't bother. If he does not cry and weep, the mother always awards with a loving kiss and caress. When the visitors are there, if he can keep quiet and silent, the mother is tremendously happy and awarding. He is learning others' opinions about himself; he is looking into the mirror of relationship.

You cannot see your face directly. You have to look in a mirror and in the mirror you can recognize your face. That reflection becomes your idea of your face, and there are a thousand and one mirrors all around you -- they all reflect. Somebody loves you, somebody hates you, somebody is indifferent. And then, by and by, the child grows and goes on accumulating the opinions of others. The total essence of the opinions of others is the ego. Then he starts looking at himself the way others look at him. Then he starts looking at himself from the outside -- that s what ego is. If people appreciate and applaud, then he thinks that he is perfectly beautiful, accepted. If people don't applaud and don't appreciate, but reject, he feels condemned. Then he goes on seeking ways and means to be appreciated, to be assured again and again that he is worthy, that he has a worth, a meaning and significance. Then one becomes afraid to be oneself. One has to fit with the opinion of others.

If you drop the ego, suddenly you become a child again. Now you are not worried about what others think about you, now you don't pay any attention to what others say about you. You are not concerned, not even a bit. Now you have dropped the mirror. It is pointless - you have your face, why ask the mirror? And there are many types of mirrors: some make your face look long, some make your face look big, some make your face look small, some make your face look horrible, distorted.

Don't ask the mirror, because then the quality of the glass will always be there in the reflection. And there are millions of mirrors all around you, millions of relationships, and you go on gathering. That's why ego is always inconsistent. It is a crowd; it is a heap with no inner coherence. Somebody says that you are beautiful, then somebody says that you are just homely. Somebody says,'You? -- and beautiful? You make me feel horrible, terrible. You are nauseating. You? -- and beautiful? You are a nausea. I feel like vomiting whenever I see you.' Now what to do? You collect all these opinions -- inconsistent, contradicting each other -- and they all become part of your ego.

Ego is a crowd. It is a marketplace because you have gathered it in the marketplace, because you have gathered it from the crowd. It is not you, it is others' opinions about you. Why be bothered? Drop all opinions of others about you. Why not be direct and immediate? Why not see within yourself, in your own nature? Why not face yourself? Why bring a mediator, a mirror into it? When you start looking into your own nature with closed eyes, you are moving beyond the ego. And once you know who you are -- even a slight glimpse -- then you will start laughing at the whole ridiculousness of it: that you were asking others who you are. They don't know themselves who they are, so why ask them? You become free; a freedom is attained. Without the ego, you come back to your own nature.

-Osho, "Come Follow To You, Vol 4, #3

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Osho and buddha both are enlightened beings. There is no difference for me in them, both are pure consciousness, a deep silence. They were perfect for their own time, both used their own tools to wake people up from this sleep of life. Let's talk about osho for instance, everything he did was to break peoples programming, to break that mind. Everything from discourses to meditation was just a tool to bring u closer to god. If ur still stuck in his discourses thinking wow his message is so vast, so complicated... good that it's making u think from a different perspective, but it's not the reality he wants u to experience. He wants u to experience ur true self, realise the deep silence u are.

​Osho has given us so many tools, way more than buddha, to break our mind, but the core message was always simple: awareness and love. Thats all we need to see our true self, to get out of this prison of mind and look at the real self where u will be truly blissful. A constant peace and relaxation. Once u get even a glimpse of the power of that awareness and silence, there is no going back. The awareness will make u surrender to existence, u will lose ur self image.

​What an irony it is that all these years of life that we grew that ego, the self image "im this, im that", is the exact reason we are miserable. With awareness it will shake u, u will start surrendering and it will bring u closer to the truth with each step. Step after step a light will shine on ur path. Even if u get involved again in this life u will always crave for that peace, cause there is not a single external thing on this earth which will give u that peace which u can experience with urself internally when u see everything as it is.

​A great shift will happen one day. After experiencing awareness u will look in the mirror and u will see ur face, but won't recognise it. U will think, is that truly me? Then a rush of things from past will come, u will see that ego again which disappeared on this path. But soon u will be okay again cause it was just a glimpse of that past, the image which u carried which was nothing but mere opinion of others and u thought it was ur whole existence. But now u've realised it's illusion and there is no going back.

​U will crawl back to the buddha again and again. It's almost like u will crave that bliss and peace, but craving it won't get u that peace. The more u crave, the more it will run. But in that moment u will realise its just a step away. A step where u see urself as it is, a guy who is craving that peace. U see it, catch that feeling with total awareness, and existence will shower u in that moment with bliss and peace. Showing u that ur always there and u never left, it was just mind that's getting u distracted in that past and future which is illusion, not truth.

Hey guys, I'm visiting Nashik to buy a used VW Vento, and I want to get it thoroughly checked before making a decision. Could you please recommend a reliable local mechanic who specializes in Volkswagen cars? I need someone who can inspect it in detail and give me the green light. Thanks!