Thursday 27 November 2014

Remember:Never be attached.

Now, even the so-called religious people are very much attached.
If a Hindu passes by a church, he does not bow down to the church – his God does not live there.
If he passes by a Hindu temple, he immediately bows down with such reverence. But his reverence is false, pseudo; his reverence is impotent.
If the reverence was real then why didn’t it happen when he was passing by a mosque or a church or a gurudwara?
God is everywhere. Why this confinement?
Does God only exist in a Hindu temple? Then God is a prisoner.
Because people are prisoners, their gods have also become prisoners.
The reverence is not true, it has not happened yet: it is just an empty gesture. If he has come to see the beauty, the existence of God, then he will bow down everywhere, anywhere – wherever he has an occasion to bow down, he will not miss the opportunity.
He will bow down beside a rosebush, because God has happened as a rose. And he will bow down to a child who is giggling, because it is God and nobody else who is giggling.
Real reverence has nothing to do with the OBJECT of reverence. Real reverence is something inside you, flowing.
Don’t be attached to the things of the world, and don’t be attached to the things of the other world,because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world
Attachment is the problem.
OshO 
Take It Easy, Vol 2

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