Death

Bliss- Vegeterian

Freedom - Responsibility

A man came to Junnaid, a Sufi mystic, and asked him, ”What do you say about pre-determination,kismet, fate, and the freedom of man?

Is man free to do whatever he wants to do?

Or is he simply a puppet in the hands of an unknown puppeteer, who simply dances the dance that the puppeteer chooses?”

Junnaid is one of the few beautiful mystics.

He shouted at the man, ”Raise up one leg!”
The man was a very rich man;
Junnaid knew it.

All the disciples, the whole school knew about it – and he had shouted so loudly and so rudely, ”Raise one leg up!”

And the rich man had never
followed anybody’s orders; he had not gone there to follow orders.

And he could not conceive even a far off, far-fetched, off-the-wall
relationship between his question and this answer.

But when you are facing a man like Junnaid you have to follow him.
He raised his right leg.

Junnaid said, ”That is not enough. Now raise the other, too.”
Now the man was at a loss, and angry also.

He said, ”You are asking absurdities!

I had come to ask a
philosophical question – that you simply dropped without answering.

You asked me to raise one leg, I raised my right leg. And now you are asking me to raise the other, too. What do you want?

How can I raise both legs?”
Junnaid said, ”Then sit down.

Have you received the answer to your question or not?”
The man said, ”The answer to my question has not been given yet. Instead you have been training me in this parade!”

Junnaid said, ”See the point: when I said, ‘Raise one of your legs’ you had the freedom to choose either the right or the left.

Nobody was determining it, it was your choice to raise the right leg.

But once you had chosen the right leg you could not choose the left too.

It is your freedom that has determined the fact of your bondage. Now your left leg is in bondage.”

Man is half free and half in bondage, but he is free first.
And it is his freedom, how he uses his freedom, that determines his bondage.

There is nobody sitting there writing in your head or making lines on your palms.

Even an omnipotent God must be tired by now, doing this stupid thing of making lines on people’s hands.

And so many people are coming... writing in everybody’s head what he is going to be, where he is going to be born, when he is going to die, what disease, what doctor is going to kill him. All these details!

Either God must have gone mad doing all this work – just think of yourself, if you have to do this kind of work, and for no reason – or he must have committed suicide.

Even if he were mad he would have to do his work; so for a few days he may have been mad, while he made this humanity, and then he committed suicide – because he does not want to see the world evaporate because of nuclear weapons.

But he has written those nuclear weapons in your heads; He is responsible.

Nobody is responsible, and there is no God.

These are our strategies to throw responsibility into others’ hands.

You are free, but each act of freedom brings a responsibility – and that is your bondage.

Either call it ‘bondage’, which is not a beautiful word, or call it
‘responsibility’.

That is what I call it.

You choose a certain act –
That is your freedom –

But then the consequences will be your responsibility.

OshO ❤
CHAPTER 11. FROM SOMEBODY TO NOBODY... A JOURNEY FROM FICTION TO REALITY
The Osho Upanishad

Discover Yourself !

Better Sleep !

"To err is human and to forgive is also human."

Remember: Man is frail and weak, and to err is human.

And the people who invented the proverb, "To err is human," have also invented the proverb, "To forgive is divine."

I don't agree with the second part.

I say, "To err is human and to forgive is also human."

And to forgive oneself is one of the greatest virtues, because if you cannot forgive yourself, you cannot forgive anybody else in the world --

It is impossible.

You are so full of wounds, of guilt -- how can you forgive anybody?

Your so-called saints go on saying that you will be thrown into hell.

The reality is, they are living in hell! They cannot allow even God to forgive you.

One great Sufi poet, Omar Khayyam, has written in his RUBAIYAT, his world-famous collection of poetry:

"I am going to drink, to dance, to love. I am going to commit every kind of sin because
I trust God is compassionate --

He will forgive.

My sins are very small; His
forgiveness is immense."

When the priests came to know about his book -- because in those days books were written by hand, there were no printing presses...

When the priests discovered that he was writing such sacrilegious things, that he was saying, "Don't be worried, go on doing anything you want because God is nothing but pure compassion and love.

How much sin can you commit in seventy years of life? --

In comparison to his forgiveness, it is nothing."
He was a famous mathematician too, renowned in his country.

The priests approached him and
said, "What kind of things are you writing?

You will destroy people's
religiousness!

Create fear in people, tell people that God is very just: -- if you have committed a sin, you will be punished.

There will be no compassion."

Omar Khayyam's book was burned in his day.

Whenever a copy was found, it was burned by the priests, because this man was teaching such a dangerous idea.

If it spreads among human beings and everybody starts rejoicing in life, what will happen to the priests?

What happen to the saints?
What will happen to their mythologies of hell and heaven and god?
All will disappear in thin air.

At least with me, Omar Khayyam is one of the enlightened Sufi mystics, and what he is saying has immense truth in it.

He does not mean that you should commit sin. What he means simply is that you should not feel guilty.

Whatever you do -- if it is not right, don't do it again.

If you feel it hurts somebody, don't do it again.

But there is no need to feel guilty, there is no need to be repentant, there is no need to do penance and torture yourself.

OshO ❤
The Hidden Splendor
Chapter 11 - A noah's ark of consciousness

Three Essentials for Meditation

"Meditation has a few essential things in it, whatever the method, but those few essentials are necessary in every method.

The first is a relaxed state: no fight with the mind, no control of the mind, no concentration. Second, just watching with a relaxed awareness whatever is going on, without any interference- just watching the mind, silently, without any judgment, any evaluation.
These are the three things: relaxation, watching, no judgment."
Excerpted from, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom, Osho