Thursday, June 21, 2012
Osho - Renounce To Enjoy
You
get just as much as you are ready to give up and let go, says OSHO.
Give it up if you want to enjoy it. But no, that is not our belief. On the contrary, we believe that we can enjoy only that to which we hold fast. But the “Upanishadic” sage instructs us to do quite the opposite. He says that they alone can enjoy things who renounce them. The statement is antithetical to our belief. They alone become real masters who refuse to be masters. Everything falls into the hands of those who have no desire to hold onto things.
Renounce To Enjoy
A good analogy is the attempt to hold air in your hand. You can comprehend the real meaning of this “Ishavasya Upanishad” sutra — renounce to enjoy — if you simply try to hold air in your hand. As soon as you tighten your grip, the air escapes. The tighter you clench your fist, the less air you hold, until in the end there is no air left. Loosen your grip and air will rush towards your open hand. There is always air in an open hand, but from the closed fist it flees. One who keeps his hand open has it always full of air; it is never empty, every moment the air is fresh. Have you ever observed this? An open hand is never empty, and a closed hand is always empty; and if a little air remains in the closed fist, it is stale and old and decayed. They alone are able to enjoy who renounce.
Life Is a Paradox
In this world, in this life, we get as much as we are willing to give up & let go. This is paradoxical — but all the rules of life are paradoxical. They are not opposites; they are paradoxes. It only appears that they are opposites. The person, who wishes for honour & respect, is sure to find dishonour & disrespect. An individual desires to be rich, but when he begins to accumulate wealth, he becomes as poor and mean within as he appears rich without. He, who thinks or dreams of immortality, is worried about fear of death 24X7. Death never visits the house of the person who is willing to welcome it: one who is willing to meet death tastes nectar, while one who is afraid of death dies every hour of the day. He dies all the time because he does not know at all what life is.
One who says, “I will become the master,” will soon become a slave; and one who says, “I am willing to be a slave,” will have infinite mastery. But these are contradictory statements so it is very difficult to understand them, and when we try to interpret them, we do so in such a way that we are saved from the paradox in them — and hence we miss the point.
Thus people have misinterpreted these sutras. “Enjoy through renunciation” has come to mean that if you give charity, you will be rewarded with heaven. Give a paisa to a beggar sitting on the bank of the Ganga and you will be rewarded a thousand-fold. Nothing else in this world is as badly treated as are sutras such as these, and similarly, nobody is as unjustly treated as are the sages — because it is difficult to comprehend them in their true spirit. Instead, we interpret them from our own perspective.
We think we understand the sutra: if you give away something in charity, you will go to heaven after death. But pay attention: the sutra says, “He who renounces, receives.” It does not say, “He who gives up with a view to getting, will receive.” In fact, he who gives up with a view to getting does not give up, because he is just working out how to get the reward.
Tightening Of Fists
The person who gives charity here so that he may get the reward in heaven is not renouncing at all. He is simply tightening his fist for the future. If rightly understood, his action is not only a tightening of his fist in this world, but a tightening of it also for the next world. He is telling others by his action, “This action is not very important here, it is quite ordinary, but it is very important there in the next world.” If he is quite sure, if he is one hundred per cent certain that he will be rewarded in the next world for his good actions in this world, then he is prepared to make some investment. He is prepared to risk some of his property if he is assured fully of his reward in the next world.
This sutra makes a straight, simple statement that he who renounces, enjoys. It does not say, “Give up if you desire to enjoy.” It announces that if you can give up, then you can enjoy; but if you are nursing the idea of enjoyment, you can never renounce.
Give it up if you want to enjoy it. But no, that is not our belief. On the contrary, we believe that we can enjoy only that to which we hold fast. But the “Upanishadic” sage instructs us to do quite the opposite. He says that they alone can enjoy things who renounce them. The statement is antithetical to our belief. They alone become real masters who refuse to be masters. Everything falls into the hands of those who have no desire to hold onto things.
Renounce To Enjoy
A good analogy is the attempt to hold air in your hand. You can comprehend the real meaning of this “Ishavasya Upanishad” sutra — renounce to enjoy — if you simply try to hold air in your hand. As soon as you tighten your grip, the air escapes. The tighter you clench your fist, the less air you hold, until in the end there is no air left. Loosen your grip and air will rush towards your open hand. There is always air in an open hand, but from the closed fist it flees. One who keeps his hand open has it always full of air; it is never empty, every moment the air is fresh. Have you ever observed this? An open hand is never empty, and a closed hand is always empty; and if a little air remains in the closed fist, it is stale and old and decayed. They alone are able to enjoy who renounce.
Life Is a Paradox
In this world, in this life, we get as much as we are willing to give up & let go. This is paradoxical — but all the rules of life are paradoxical. They are not opposites; they are paradoxes. It only appears that they are opposites. The person, who wishes for honour & respect, is sure to find dishonour & disrespect. An individual desires to be rich, but when he begins to accumulate wealth, he becomes as poor and mean within as he appears rich without. He, who thinks or dreams of immortality, is worried about fear of death 24X7. Death never visits the house of the person who is willing to welcome it: one who is willing to meet death tastes nectar, while one who is afraid of death dies every hour of the day. He dies all the time because he does not know at all what life is.
One who says, “I will become the master,” will soon become a slave; and one who says, “I am willing to be a slave,” will have infinite mastery. But these are contradictory statements so it is very difficult to understand them, and when we try to interpret them, we do so in such a way that we are saved from the paradox in them — and hence we miss the point.
Thus people have misinterpreted these sutras. “Enjoy through renunciation” has come to mean that if you give charity, you will be rewarded with heaven. Give a paisa to a beggar sitting on the bank of the Ganga and you will be rewarded a thousand-fold. Nothing else in this world is as badly treated as are sutras such as these, and similarly, nobody is as unjustly treated as are the sages — because it is difficult to comprehend them in their true spirit. Instead, we interpret them from our own perspective.
We think we understand the sutra: if you give away something in charity, you will go to heaven after death. But pay attention: the sutra says, “He who renounces, receives.” It does not say, “He who gives up with a view to getting, will receive.” In fact, he who gives up with a view to getting does not give up, because he is just working out how to get the reward.
Tightening Of Fists
The person who gives charity here so that he may get the reward in heaven is not renouncing at all. He is simply tightening his fist for the future. If rightly understood, his action is not only a tightening of his fist in this world, but a tightening of it also for the next world. He is telling others by his action, “This action is not very important here, it is quite ordinary, but it is very important there in the next world.” If he is quite sure, if he is one hundred per cent certain that he will be rewarded in the next world for his good actions in this world, then he is prepared to make some investment. He is prepared to risk some of his property if he is assured fully of his reward in the next world.
This sutra makes a straight, simple statement that he who renounces, enjoys. It does not say, “Give up if you desire to enjoy.” It announces that if you can give up, then you can enjoy; but if you are nursing the idea of enjoyment, you can never renounce.
Osho - Suffer Joyfully & Observe
You don’t have to be
a masochist, says OSHO
When I say suffer joyfully, it looks paradoxical and your
mind starts thinking how to compromise both, because to you they are
contradictory. They are not, they only appear contradictory. You can enjoy
suffering.
The Secret
What is the secret? How to enjoy suffering? The first thing
is: if you don’t escape, if you allow suffering to be there, if you are ready
to face it, if you are not trying somehow to forget it, then you are different.
Suffering is there but just around you; it is on the periphery. It is
impossible for suffering to be in the centre; it is not in the nature of
things.… A subtle joy spreads all over your being because you have realised one
of the basic truths of life: that you are bliss and not suffering.
So when I say enjoy it, I don’t mean become a masochist. There are people of that type and many of them have become ascetics, and they are creating suffering for themselves. They are masochists, they are ill. They are very dangerous people. They wanted to make others suffer but they are not so courageous, so their whole violence has turned within. Now they are torturing themselves, and enjoying it.
So when I say enjoy it, I don’t mean become a masochist. There are people of that type and many of them have become ascetics, and they are creating suffering for themselves. They are masochists, they are ill. They are very dangerous people. They wanted to make others suffer but they are not so courageous, so their whole violence has turned within. Now they are torturing themselves, and enjoying it.
Just Watch It
Suffering is already there; life by its very nature creates
suffering. Look at it with a very dispassionate eye. Don’t escape. Immediately
the mind says, “Escape from here, don’t look at it.” But if you escape then you
cannot be blissful.
Next time you fall ill and the doctor suggests to remain in bed, take it as a blessing. Close your eyes and rest and just look at the illness. Watch it, what it is. Don’t try to analyse it, don’t go into theories, just watch it, what it is. The whole body is tired and feverish — watch it. Suddenly, you will feel that you are surrounded by fever but there is a very cool point within you; the fever cannot touch it, cannot influence it. The whole body may be burning but that cool point cannot be touched. Watching, you will recede towards the source. Watching, not doing anything.... What can you do? The fever is there, you have to pass through it; it is no use unnecessarily fighting with it. You are resting, and if you fight with the fever, you will become more feverish, that’s all. So watch it.
The Unbridgeable Gap
Next time you fall ill and the doctor suggests to remain in bed, take it as a blessing. Close your eyes and rest and just look at the illness. Watch it, what it is. Don’t try to analyse it, don’t go into theories, just watch it, what it is. The whole body is tired and feverish — watch it. Suddenly, you will feel that you are surrounded by fever but there is a very cool point within you; the fever cannot touch it, cannot influence it. The whole body may be burning but that cool point cannot be touched. Watching, you will recede towards the source. Watching, not doing anything.... What can you do? The fever is there, you have to pass through it; it is no use unnecessarily fighting with it. You are resting, and if you fight with the fever, you will become more feverish, that’s all. So watch it.
The Unbridgeable Gap
Watching fever, you become cool; watching more, you become
cooler. Just watching, you reach a peak, such a cool peak, even the Himalayas will feel jealous; even their peaks are not so
cool. This is the Gaurishankar, the Everest within. And when you feel that, the
fever has disappeared.... It has never really been there; it has only been in
the body, very, very far away.
Infinite space exists between you and your body — infinite space, I say. An unbridgeable gap exists between you and your body. And all suffering exists on the periphery. Hindus say it is a dream because the distance is so vast, unbridgeable. It is just like a dream happening somewhere else — not happening to you — in some other world, on some other planet.
Infinite space exists between you and your body — infinite space, I say. An unbridgeable gap exists between you and your body. And all suffering exists on the periphery. Hindus say it is a dream because the distance is so vast, unbridgeable. It is just like a dream happening somewhere else — not happening to you — in some other world, on some other planet.
Get Centred
When you watch suffering, suddenly you are not the sufferer,
and you start enjoying. Through suffering, you become aware of the opposite
pole, the blissful inner being. So when I say enjoy, I am saying: Watch. Return
to the source, get centered. Then, suddenly, there is no agony; only ecstasy
exists.
Those who are on the periphery exist in agony. For them, no ecstasy. For those who have come to their centre, no agony exists. For them, only ecstasy.
When I say break the cup, it is breaking the periphery. And when I say be totally empty, it is coming back to the original source, because through emptiness we are born, and into emptiness we return.
So when I say enjoy, I mean watch, and you will enjoy. When I say enjoy, I mean don’t escape.
Those who are on the periphery exist in agony. For them, no ecstasy. For those who have come to their centre, no agony exists. For them, only ecstasy.
When I say break the cup, it is breaking the periphery. And when I say be totally empty, it is coming back to the original source, because through emptiness we are born, and into emptiness we return.
So when I say enjoy, I mean watch, and you will enjoy. When I say enjoy, I mean don’t escape.
Osho - Money Mania
The more you hoard, the more futile it is, for we
simply cannot take it with us, says OSHO
Wealth means all that
which you go on collecting or accumulating according to your desire, even
knowledge. One person goes on counting how much money he has put in his locker,
another one is counting how much knowledge he has accumulated, how much
information he has gathered and how many scriptures he has read, but both of
them are accumulating.
Don’t Accumulate
The third person may
be accumulating renunciations, counting how many fasts he has done. The fourth
may be accumulating fame — he may be counting how many people have faith in
him, how many worship him and how many follow him.
Whatever you
accumulate and whatever can be accumulated is wealth. And this wealth is very
deceptive because outside you may go on accumulating, but you remain poor
within.
Whatever is accumulated outside cannot be taken inside, and death will snatch away what you cannot take inside, because you alone can go through death and nothing else.
Only your being will pass; flames will not be able to burn it, arrows will not be able to pierce it. Only you will be able to pass through the gate of death, you in your purity and nothing else.
Whatever is accumulated outside cannot be taken inside, and death will snatch away what you cannot take inside, because you alone can go through death and nothing else.
Only your being will pass; flames will not be able to burn it, arrows will not be able to pierce it. Only you will be able to pass through the gate of death, you in your purity and nothing else.
Outside Wealth
If you have accumulated
only outside wealth, you will remain poor while passing through the gate of
death. If death proves you to be poor, then it means that the wealth
accumulated during life was nothing but a deception. Wealth is only that which
can go with us; otherwise the rest is nothing but trouble.
What you are
accumulating appears like wealth to you, but actually it is not so, it is only
trouble. You also come to know after accumulating that the trouble has
increased. The real wealth would bring contentment; the real wealth would bring
peace, relaxation and fearlessness, and would resonate a paradise in your life.
It would bring the relief of reaching the destination, of reaching home; a
perfume of relaxation would arise in your life.
But there is no such
thing in you. With the increase of wealth, your life stinks more. It becomes unhappy
and more fearful. The amassing of wealth creates thousands of worries. Wealth
does not bring peace; it only disturbs peace. Why are people so mad about
accumulating?
Meditate For Awareness
Really, there is big
emptiness inside which has to be filled, and it has to be filled up with
anything, otherwise one feels very empty. If one possesses nothing then one
feels very empty inside. Just think: if you have nothing to possess, you will
be free and empty inside.
People come to me for
meditation. When they have meditated for some time, they start seeing that
emptiness inside themselves. That emptiness was always there but it was not
noticed.
Meditation makes you
more aware — awareness increases and then one becomes aware of the emptiness. A
very peculiar thing then happens. Whosoever feels that inner emptiness, starts
eating a lot. One or two cases of this type come to me every day. They say,
“What are we to do? We never used to eat so much food. The effect of the
meditation is such that we want to eat all the time.”
Just Be, It’s
Fulfilling
I explain to them that
the reason for this is that meditation has shown you the inner emptiness, and
this emptiness hurts so it has to be filled up. You, therefore, fill up this
emptiness with money, position and fame.
By accumulating things and sitting amongst them, one feels that one has
something. Those who do not have anything, have the desire of accumulating. But
those who have something, do not accumulate, they are sufficient unto
themselves.Just ‘being’ is so fulfilling, that there is no need to collect anything.
Osho - First Get To Know Each Other
Going on a honeymoon
before marriage could put things in perspective, says OSHO
Two people, separately
unhappy, create more unhappiness for each other when they come together. That’s
mathematical. You were unhappy, your wife was unhappy and you both are hoping
that being together you both will become happy? This is such ordinary
arithmetic, as two plus two makes four. You both will become unhappy…My
suggestion is that marriage should happen after the honeymoon, never before it.
If everything goes right, only then should marriage happen. The honeymoon after
marriage is very dangerous.
Ninety per cent of marriages are finished by the time the honeymoon is over. But then you are caught, you have no way to escape. Then society, law, courts — everybody is against you if you leave the wife or the wife leaves you. In fact, society should create all barriers possible for marriage and no barrier for divorce. Society should not allow people to marry so easily. The court should create barriers — live together for two years at least; only then the court can allow you to get married. Right now they are doing just the reverse. If you want to get married, nobody asks whether you are ready or whether it is just a whim…. Two people should be allowed to live together long enough to become acquainted, familiar with each other. And even if they want to get married, they should not be allowed to do so until some time has lapsed. Then divorces will disappear from the world.
Divorces happen because
marriages are wrong and forced — and because marriages are done in a romantic
mood.
A romantic mood is good if you are a poet..., poets are almost always bachelors. They fool around but they never get ‘caught’, and hence their romance remains alive. They go on writing beautiful poetry. One should not get married to a woman or man in a poetic mood. Let the prose mood come, then settle, because day-to-day life is more like prose than like poetry. One should become mature enough. Maturity means that you are no more a romantic fool. You understand life and the responsibilities that go with it as well as understand the possible problems of being together with a person. You accept all those difficulties and yet decide to live with the person.…
When you have become alert to all of these problems and still you decide that it is worthwhile to risk and be with a person rather than to be alone, then get married. Then marriages will never kill love, because this love is realistic. Marriage simply brings out whatsoever is hidden in you...I am not saying that love is destroyed by marriage. Love is destroyed by people who don’t know how to love. Love is destroyed because in the first place love is not. You have been living in a dream. Reality destroys that dream. Otherwise love is something eternal, part of eternity. If you grow, if you know the art, and you accept the realities of love-life, then it goes on growing every day. Marriage becomes a tremendous opportunity to grow into love.
Nothing can destroy love. If it is there, it goes on growing. If love is really love... just being in the presence of the other you feel suddenly happy, just the very presence of the other fulfils something deep in your heart. Something starts singing in your heart, you fall into harmony. Just the very presence of the other helps you be together; you become more individual, centered, grounded. Then it is love.
Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion. Love is a very deep understanding that somebody somehow completes you. Somebody makes you a full circle. The presence of the other enhances your presence. .. it is enough to make you happy... a thousand and one lotuses bloom... then you are in love, and then you can pass through all difficulties that reality creates. And your love, by overcoming them, will become more and more strong.
Osho - Your Breathing can not Lie
A good indicator of whether you are living the truth is the way you
breathe, says OSHO
Appearances are very deceptive. They may give you respectability but they cannot give you contentment.
The truth has a way of surfacing. It cannot be repressed forever. If it can be repressed forever, then it is not truth. In the very definition of truth, one should include the fact that truth has a way of bubbling up. You cannot go on avoiding it forever. One day or other, knowingly or unknowingly, it surfaces; it reveals itself.
Truth Reveals Itself
Truth is that which
reveals itself. And just the opposite are lies. You cannot make a lie appear as
truth forever and ever. One day the truth will surface and the lie will be
condemned.
You cannot avoid truth. It is better to face it, accept it and live it. Once you start living the life of truth, authenticity, of your original face, all troubles disappear by and by, because the conflict drops and you are no more divided. Your voice has a unity then, your whole being becomes an orchestra. Right now, when you say something, your body says something else; when your tongue says something, your eyes go on saying something else simultaneously.
You cannot avoid truth. It is better to face it, accept it and live it. Once you start living the life of truth, authenticity, of your original face, all troubles disappear by and by, because the conflict drops and you are no more divided. Your voice has a unity then, your whole being becomes an orchestra. Right now, when you say something, your body says something else; when your tongue says something, your eyes go on saying something else simultaneously.
Watch & Observe
Many times people come
to me and I ask them, ‘How are you?’ And they say, ‘We are very, very happy.’
And I cannot believe it because their faces are so dull — no joy, no delight!
Their eyes have no light. And when they say, ‘We are happy,’ even the word
‘happy’ does not sound very happy. It sounds as if they are dragging it. Their
tone, their voice, their face, the way they are sitting or standing —
everything says something else. Start watching people. When they say they are
happy, watch for a clue. Are they really happy?
By and by, watch yourself. When you say that you are happy but you are not, there will be a disturbance in your breathing. Your breathing cannot be natural. It is impossible, because the truth is that you are not happy. If you had said, ‘I am unhappy,’ your breathing would have remained natural. There was no conflict. But you said, ‘I am happy’. Immediately you are repressing something — something that was coming up, you have forced down.
In this very effort, your breathing changes its rhythm; it is no longer rhythmical. Your face is no longer graceful, your eyes become cunning.
First, watch others because it will be easier to watch others. You can be more objective about them. And when you have found clues about them use the same clues about yourself. And see —when you speak truth, your voice has a musical tone to it; when you speak untruth, there’s a jarring note. When you speak truth you are one, together; when you speak untruth you are not together, a conflict has arisen.
Watch these subtle phenomena, because they are the consequence of togetherness or un-togetherness. Whenever you are together, not falling apart; whenever you are one, in unison, suddenly you will see you are happy. That is the meaning of the word ‘yoga’. That’s what we mean by a yogi: one who is together, in unison; whose parts are all interrelated and not contradictory, interdependent, not in conflict, at rest with each other. A great friendship exists within his being. He is whole.
When You Become One
Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the
ocean, the tremendous wildness of it — and suddenly you forget your split; you
relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the
virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly coolness surrounds you and you
need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You
fall together. Or, listening to beautiful music, you fall together.By and by, watch yourself. When you say that you are happy but you are not, there will be a disturbance in your breathing. Your breathing cannot be natural. It is impossible, because the truth is that you are not happy. If you had said, ‘I am unhappy,’ your breathing would have remained natural. There was no conflict. But you said, ‘I am happy’. Immediately you are repressing something — something that was coming up, you have forced down.
In this very effort, your breathing changes its rhythm; it is no longer rhythmical. Your face is no longer graceful, your eyes become cunning.
First, watch others because it will be easier to watch others. You can be more objective about them. And when you have found clues about them use the same clues about yourself. And see —when you speak truth, your voice has a musical tone to it; when you speak untruth, there’s a jarring note. When you speak truth you are one, together; when you speak untruth you are not together, a conflict has arisen.
Watch these subtle phenomena, because they are the consequence of togetherness or un-togetherness. Whenever you are together, not falling apart; whenever you are one, in unison, suddenly you will see you are happy. That is the meaning of the word ‘yoga’. That’s what we mean by a yogi: one who is together, in unison; whose parts are all interrelated and not contradictory, interdependent, not in conflict, at rest with each other. A great friendship exists within his being. He is whole.
When You Become One
Whenever, in whatsoever situation, you become one, at peace; happiness, bliss surrounds you, arises in you. You feel fulfilled.
Osho - Women's Breats
OSHO comments on Sankara’s sutra: ‘Do not be
infatuated by the beauty, the breasts, the navel and the waistline of a woman’
Man is attracted to woman and woman is attracted to man. The opposite always attracts; it is hypnotic. A newborn’s first contact with this world is the breast of the mother; his journey in this world begins with the mother’s breast. Hence man’s obsession with woman’s breasts; that’s the first impact. That is why all paintings, pictures statues, films, stories, all go on revolving around the breasts of women. Women keep trying to hide the breasts and men keep trying to uncover them.
Indigenous People
Tribal people who live
close to nature — who we call “primitive” — have no attraction to the breasts
because their women’s bodies and breasts are not covered. Every child is free
to suck milk from the breast of his mother as long as he wants. Sometimes he
does so until the age of 10, even. In so-called “civilised” societies, they try
to wean away the child from the breast of the mother as early as possible. The
sooner they wean the child away from the breast, the deeper becomes the
attraction for it.
People go on writing poetry, painting pictures & making statues depicting beauty of breasts. Their mind is totally obsessed with breasts. This means that the child was not satiated, he remained dissatisfied. “Sankara” says to remember this continuously — the earlier impact can only be removed by remembering this again & again.
Story of a Chicken
People go on writing poetry, painting pictures & making statues depicting beauty of breasts. Their mind is totally obsessed with breasts. This means that the child was not satiated, he remained dissatisfied. “Sankara” says to remember this continuously — the earlier impact can only be removed by remembering this again & again.
Story of a Chicken
One scientist was
experimenting with chickens. When a chicken was born of a hen’s egg, he did not
let the chicken see the hen but kept it with a duck. When the chicken opened
its eyes it saw the duck, & this was its first imprint. It would run after
the duck & it would not recognise the hen. The duck could not tolerate the
chicken running after her all the time so she used to kick it, beat it; despite
this it would follow her everywhere. The hen tried her best to win it over, to
get it near her, but it would be frightened of her & stand far away. At
night also the chick wanted to sleep in the same place where the ducks were
kept, but the ducks would throw it out. The hen wanted to take it to the hen
house, but it was not ready to go there. The first imprint, the first
conditioning, is very important. It goes on haunting you the whole of your
life. The first event of life, whatever it is, always haunts a person, and you
keep dreaming about it.
What is so attractive
in a man’s or a woman’s body? Every person is half woman & half man. Your
whole existence is incomplete. The womanly half in you goes on yearning for the
man and the manly half in you goes on yearning for the woman.
Psychologists say that in the unconscious mind of every man is hidden the woman & in the unconscious mind of every woman is hidden the man. They go on searching outside till their inner man & inner woman meet. Until this happens, until your conscious & unconscious minds become one, attraction for the opposite will always be there. A man will be attracted towards a woman and a woman will be attracted towards a man.
Psychologists say that in the unconscious mind of every man is hidden the woman & in the unconscious mind of every woman is hidden the man. They go on searching outside till their inner man & inner woman meet. Until this happens, until your conscious & unconscious minds become one, attraction for the opposite will always be there. A man will be attracted towards a woman and a woman will be attracted towards a man.
In a statue of “Ardhanarishawara”,
Shiva is shown as half woman & half man. Until the half man & half
woman within you become the image of “Ardhanarishawara”, until you become whole
within yourself, you will go on searching outside feeling lost & thinking
that meeting a woman will bring fulfilment. But the woman is there in your
unconscious mind. That is why all the yogas & tantras are basically the
process of uniting your inner energies. When you become united & one within
you, then your outer desire ceases to exist. At the same time, when the outer
desire ceases to exist, only then can you become one. These two things are
interdependent.
Inner Man & Woman
No, it is not a question of a man or a woman. The attraction for the
opposite is of no use. You must contemplate that these are perversions of flesh
and thereby remove this imprint in the mind.Inner Man & Woman
Continuous remembrance is like the waterfall which breaks the stone. Eventually, the stone turns to sand granules and water continues falling in the same way. This imprint is very strong and deep but if the thought continues like the trickle of water, one day the stone will break and disappear. And the day your imprints disappear, you become free.
Osho - Three Levels Of Sleep
Osho - Three Levels Of Sleep
How deep is your slumber, asks OSHO
Buddha’s path is the
negative path, his assertions are negative. That’s why Hindus called him a nastik;
they called him an atheist, an absolute nihilist. But he is not. When things
disappear, thoughts disappear, and the witnessing disappears — that which
remains is truth. It liberates. It is nirvana, enlightenment.
Deny & Transcend
Buddha is very deep.
He never asserts a single positive. If you ask about any positive, he simply
remains silent. He never says God is, he never says the soul is; in fact he
never uses the word is. You ask and he will use the word ‘not’. ‘No’ is his
answer for everything. And if you can understand, if you can feel a rapport,
you will see that he is right. When you deny everything, that doesn’t mean you
have destroyed everything. That only means you have destroyed the world that
you had created. The real remains because the real cannot be denied. But you
cannot assert it. You can know it, but you cannot state it. When you deny all
this, when you transcend all this, you become a buddha. You are enlightened.
Deep Sleep
Buddha says you are
awakened only when three sleeps are broken. One sleep is the sleep with things:
many people are asleep there; that is the grossest sleep. Millions of people,
98 per cent of them are asleep there. One goes on thinking about his bank
balance, one goes on thinking about the house, about clothes, about this and
that — and one lives in that. There are people who only study catalogues for
things. Then, there is the second sleep, the sleep of the mind. There are
people who are not concerned with things — only one per cent of people — who
are concerned with the mind. They don’t bother about what type of clothes they
use — artists, novelists, poets, painters; they are not worried about things in
general, they live in the mind. They can go hungry, or they can go naked, they
can live in a slum, but they go on working in the mind. The novel they are
writing...they go on thinking, ‘I may not be immortal but the novel that I am
going to write is going to be immortal; the painting that I am doing is going
to be immortal.’ But when you cannot be immortal, how can your painting be
immortal? When you are to perish or die, everything that you create will die,
because how is it possible that from death something immortal can be born?
The Subtle Ego
Then there are people
who go on thinking of philosophy, thoughts, oblivious of things, not worried
much about them. And then there is a third sleep: monks, those who have
renounced the world, and also the mind, who have been meditating for many years
and they have stopped the thought process. Now no thoughts move in their inner
sky, now no things are there; they are not concerned with things, not concerned
with thoughts. But a subtle ego, the ‘I’ — now they call it Atman, the soul,
the self, the Self with a capital ‘S’ — is their sleep; they are asleep there.
Becoming Mindful
Buddha says sleep has to be broken on these three layers, and when all
the sleeps are broken, nobody is awake, only awakening is there; nobody is
enlightened, only enlightenment is there — just the phenomenon of awareness,
without any centre....When the mind disappears, thoughts disappear. It is not that you become mindless; on the contrary, you become mindful. Buddha uses this word ‘right mindfulness’ millions of times. When the mind disappears and thoughts disappear, you become mindful. You do things — you move, you work, you eat, you sleep, but you are always mindful…. What is mindfulness? It is awareness. It is perfect awareness.
Osho - Channelise Your Anger
When it grips you, meditate, be creative, says OSHO
Learn to transform your poison into
honey. There is a simple process. In fact, to call it transformation is not
right, because you don’t do anything; you only need patience. This is one of
the greatest secrets I am telling you. Try it: when anger comes, you must not
to do anything; just sit silently and watch it. Don’t be against it, don’t be
for it. Don’t cooperate with it, don’t repress it. Let it rise.
Just give it a little time and wait... and you will be surprised. If you can wait enough, anger itself becomes compassion. It is a wheel; it is moving on its own — you are in a hurry. Just as night becomes day if you can wait a little, in the same way, anger becomes compassion if you can wait a little. The same energy — just patience has to be added to it, nothing else. Remember one thing: never do anything in the mood when the poison possesses you; just wait.
Negativity provokes more negativity, anger brings more anger, hostility brings more hostility, and things go on and on and on...and people have been estranged with each other for ages. And they continue!
Just give it a little time and wait... and you will be surprised. If you can wait enough, anger itself becomes compassion. It is a wheel; it is moving on its own — you are in a hurry. Just as night becomes day if you can wait a little, in the same way, anger becomes compassion if you can wait a little. The same energy — just patience has to be added to it, nothing else. Remember one thing: never do anything in the mood when the poison possesses you; just wait.
Negativity provokes more negativity, anger brings more anger, hostility brings more hostility, and things go on and on and on...and people have been estranged with each other for ages. And they continue!
Time To Meditate
Wait. When you are angry, this is
the moment to meditate. Don’t waste this moment when anger is creating such
great energy in you — it can destroy. But energy is neutral — the same energy
that can destroy, can also be creative. The same energy that can shatter, can
shower life — just wait. Waiting and not doing anything in a hurry, one day you
will be surprised, seeing the inner change. You were full of anger, and then
anger goes on and on and comes to a climax... and then the wheel turns. And you
can see the wheel is turning, and the anger is relaxing, and energy is
released, and now you are in a positive mood — the creative mood. Now you can
do something.
Wait & Watch
Always wait for the positive. I am
not saying to repress the negative. I am saying watch the negative. Remember
the difference. I am not saying sit on top of the negative, forget the negative,
do something against it — no. I am not saying when you are angry, smile — no;
that smile is false, ugly, phoney. Don’t smile when you are angry. Close the
room, keep a mirror in front of you, see your angry face yourself. There is no
need to show it to anybody else. It is your business, it is your energy, it is
your life, and you have to wait for the right moment. Go on looking in the
mirror: see the red face, the red eyes, the murderer there.
Have you ever thought that everybody carries a murderer inside? You also carry a murderer inside. Don’t think that the murderer exists somewhere else — somebody else is a murderer who commits a murder — no: everybody has the possibility to commit a murder. You carry the suicidal instinct in you.
Have you ever thought that everybody carries a murderer inside? You also carry a murderer inside. Don’t think that the murderer exists somewhere else — somebody else is a murderer who commits a murder — no: everybody has the possibility to commit a murder. You carry the suicidal instinct in you.
Know Yourself
Just
look in the mirror: these are your climates — you have to be acquainted with
them. This is part of the growth towards self-knowledge. You will see that
anger cannot be there forever. If you don’t do anything, what is going to
happen? Can anger hang there forever and forever? Nothing hangs there forever.
Happiness comes and goes, unhappiness comes and goes.Can’t you see a simple law? — that everything changes, nothing remains permanent. So, why be in a hurry? Anger has come — it will be going. You just wait, have a little patience. Just look in the mirror and wait. Let anger be there, let your face go ugly and murderous — but wait, watch.
Don’t repress and don’t act according to the anger, and soon you will see that the face is becoming softer, the eyes are becoming calmer, the energy is changing — and soon you will be full of radiance. The same redness that was anger, now is a certain radiance — a beauty on your face, in your eyes.
Osho - The Cycle of Birth & Death
It’s the reason why the East conceived of history
in a circular dimension, says OSHO. It reflects the repetitive cycle of birth
and death.
The western attitude is still time-obsessed. There are reasons behind it. Why did time become linear in the West? Because the concept of rebirth never became prevalent. Pythagoras introduced it, but then it was lost; Jesus hinted about it; he talked indirectly about it. He never talked directly, he indicated it. But it could not be understood.
The concept of rebirth is the reason why the East could conceive of history in a circular dimension. If you are to be reborn again & again there will be birth & death — then birth will follow & again there will be death. It will be a repetition. But if there is only life — birth followed by death, but death not followed by birth — then birth becomes absolute, death becomes absolute. Neither will come again. That is why time became so important in the West, and the West became time-obsessed.
So Tense About Time
The western attitude is still time-obsessed. There are reasons behind it. Why did time become linear in the West? Because the concept of rebirth never became prevalent. Pythagoras introduced it, but then it was lost; Jesus hinted about it; he talked indirectly about it. He never talked directly, he indicated it. But it could not be understood.
The concept of rebirth is the reason why the East could conceive of history in a circular dimension. If you are to be reborn again & again there will be birth & death — then birth will follow & again there will be death. It will be a repetition. But if there is only life — birth followed by death, but death not followed by birth — then birth becomes absolute, death becomes absolute. Neither will come again. That is why time became so important in the West, and the West became time-obsessed.
So Tense About Time
These are all related
things: history, time, tension. Why has the West become so tense about time?
Not a single moment is to be lost because once lost, you cannot find it again;
it cannot be reclaimed. The East is at ease. Nothing is lost, everything can be
reclaimed. You cannot lose it even if you try. Things will come back. Death
will be followed by birth again, you will be young again. Everything will come
back, will return to itself.
This seems more natural. Every movement is circular — it may be of an atomic particle or it may be of a great star. Everything moves in a circle; there is no movement that is linear. Einstein talks of a limitless circular space. Even space is circular. Not only are things circular, but even nothingness, the vacuum itself, is circular. Even the movement of a vacuum is circular. In fact, that which is not circular cannot move: movement is circular.
The whole of nature moves in a circle. Summer follows again in the same course; each season comes and goes and is followed in repetitive progress. Time cannot be different. Time is nothing but a medium of movement.
Moving In Circles
This seems more natural. Every movement is circular — it may be of an atomic particle or it may be of a great star. Everything moves in a circle; there is no movement that is linear. Einstein talks of a limitless circular space. Even space is circular. Not only are things circular, but even nothingness, the vacuum itself, is circular. Even the movement of a vacuum is circular. In fact, that which is not circular cannot move: movement is circular.
The whole of nature moves in a circle. Summer follows again in the same course; each season comes and goes and is followed in repetitive progress. Time cannot be different. Time is nothing but a medium of movement.
Moving In Circles
You become aware of
time because of movement. We cannot conceive of movement without time. Time
means a sequence between moving events: something is followed by something
else. This passage occurs in time. Since everything is moving in a circle, the
passage of time cannot be non-circular.
History is an
awareness of time: its events and their position in a particular framework —
the framework of linear movement. People in the East became aware of linear
time and of history, only when the East came in contact with the West. Then the
East felt that it was lacking something. We have no history at all; we cannot
create any history. Anyone can say that Buddha is mythological and we cannot
prove that he is not. Anyone can say that Rama is just a story, a myth. We
cannot say that he is not because we have not maintained any record of when he
lived. Where is the proof?
We were not aware that any proof is needed. We became aware of it only when we came in contact with the West. We came to know that they have everything recorded; they have exact proofs. Only then, India began to write its history.
But still, a historic sense is not there. It cannot be, because with a circular time concept, history cannot exist. With an infinite opening toward the future, with an infinite possibility of repetition, a historic sense cannot exist. With the concept that death is just temporary — just a phase and not the end — history cannot exist. History can exist only with the concept of absolute death.
Then, each moment becomes significant. You have to live it, otherwise it will be lost. Tension follows; you cannot be relaxed. The West can never be relaxed unless its time concept changes. How can you be relaxed when a moment is going, passing, and it will not come back? And the paradox is that the more obsessed you become with time, the more tense you become and the less you can live each moment.
We were not aware that any proof is needed. We became aware of it only when we came in contact with the West. We came to know that they have everything recorded; they have exact proofs. Only then, India began to write its history.
But still, a historic sense is not there. It cannot be, because with a circular time concept, history cannot exist. With an infinite opening toward the future, with an infinite possibility of repetition, a historic sense cannot exist. With the concept that death is just temporary — just a phase and not the end — history cannot exist. History can exist only with the concept of absolute death.
Then, each moment becomes significant. You have to live it, otherwise it will be lost. Tension follows; you cannot be relaxed. The West can never be relaxed unless its time concept changes. How can you be relaxed when a moment is going, passing, and it will not come back? And the paradox is that the more obsessed you become with time, the more tense you become and the less you can live each moment.
Water On A Lotus Leaf
The more obsessed you are with time, the more you will write history and
the less you will live it. History, as it exists — and it cannot exist
otherwise — this history, this historic attitude, can never confront those
phenomena that are beyond time. Even life is beyond time. It passes through
time, but is always beyond. It is like a lotus leaf: always in water, but still
beyond water, untouched by it. Life is like that. And the deeper life becomes,
the more lotus leaf-like it is. Always touching somewhere, but never touched.
Always in touch with time, but always beyond time. Untouched, virgin.http://www.facebook.com/samarth.vyas
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