freedom in dropping being respectable.

I have found freedom in dropping being respectable.

Respectability is a social strategy to keep you imprisoned. Around the world there are so many rumours.... I don’t care a bit.

Sometimes I have been told by my friends and lovers, ”Why don’t you contradict them? These are absolutely absurd, they destroy your respectability with people.”

I said, ”I don’t want to be respected by anyone, because if he respects me he will expect me to remain respectable” – and that I cannot promise.

It is better to be notorious, because it gives you immense freedom.

I am a notorious man. Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu – none of them was courageous enough to drop the desire for respectability.

People go on condemning me. The moment I come to know that they are
condemning me for a certain thing, then I go on doing the same thing on a bigger scale.

I had only one Rolls Royce.
They started condemning me, so I told my secretary, ”Arrange for two.”

In India it was very difficult, because the Rolls Royce after 1965 became a banned item, it could not enter the country. I was the only man who managed to have two Rolls Royces enter the country.

When I came to America, I said to my secretary, ”Now there is no limit.” I had seven, and they were condemning me – a spiritual man, an enlightened person, having seven Rolls Royces when people are dying of starvation? Now I have ninety.

Now they don’t condemn me. They know that if they continue condemning me, I will go on having more and more Rolls Royces until they are satisfied.

I have my own individuality.

I don’t need anybody’s respect, because I am so full there is no space for anything else.

And it has been a tremendous experience to be so notorious and yet to be loved by millions of people.

That gives a great hope, that even an ordinary man can be loved; you need not to be extraordinary to be loved.

How much love I have received!

I don’t think anybody before me has received so much love.

And certainly I have received more hostility, anger, condemnation than anybody else.

I am richest man in the world – I receive everything!

Love I have received – nobody can come even close to me.

Hatred I have received – nobody can come close to me.

And just for a single, simple thing: that I dropped the idea of respectability.

OshO 
CHAPTER 24. GO TO YOUR BATHROOM DANCING
From the False to the Truth 294/295

Comparison- Jealous

BELOVED MASTER,
DO ALL ORDINARY PEOPLE THINK THAT OTHERS HAVE SOMETHING MORE OR BETTER THAN THEY DO?

That’s the definition of ordinary people. They are continuously comparing themselves with others.

Comparison is their whole life’s work.

Certainly people have... somebody has a better house, somebody has a better nose, somebody has a better body, somebody has a better mind. There are thousands of things. You can find in every person something better than you.

Even a beggar may have something better than you. Just the way he walks may have a grandeur, a
carelessness. He has no worries, he has nothing to worry about. He sleeps in the street better than you sleep on the best mattress in the best house. The better the mattress, the worse the sleep.

It is very strange but that’s how it is, because for sleep what is needed is at least eight hours of hard work. That’s the way your physiology is built. It has a built-in program. If you don’t work eight hours at least, you can’t have eight hours of deep, beautiful sleep.

You will feel jealous, and people are burning with jealousy, because it is not one thing with one person; everybody around you has something better than you: fair color, beautiful hair....

How many things are there? Can you find a person who has nothing better than you? And if you are looking only for ”Who has something better than me?” then this whole world has things better than you.

So many people, and you are burning with jealousy!

This is the ordinary state of humanity. And what creates it?  Comparison.

You have been told from your very childhood to compare. That is poison. You should have been told never to compare.

You are unique, so is the other, and there is no question of comparison. Comparison is possible only if two persons are similar, but there are not two persons similar on the whole earth.

Comparison is not possible.
The moment comparison drops from your mind, all jealousy disappears.

Suddenly you find yourself strangely peaceful, contented, strangely respectful towards yourself, grateful to existence for whatever it has given to you.

And it has given you so much, and without charging you anything.

It has given you life –
which you cannot purchase.
No money can purchase it.

OshO 
CHAPTER 32. THE GREAT ACCIDENT
From Bondage to Freedom

Just Needle Is Enough !

Once a King came to meet a Great Sufi mystic, Farid, He had brought a present for him, a beautiful pair of scissors, golden, studded with diamonds — very valuable, very rare, something unique.

He brought those scissors to present to Farid. He touched Farid’s feet and gave him the scissors.

Farid took them, looked at them, gave them back to the king, and said, “Sir, many many thanks for the present that you have brought. It is a beautiful thing, but utterly useless for me. It will be better if you can give me a needle.

Scissors I don’t need, a Needle will do.”

The king said, “I don’t understand. If you need a needle, you will need scissors too.”

Farid said, “I am talking in metaphors. Scissors I don’t need because scissors cut things apart.

A needle I need because a needle puts things together. I teach love. My whole teaching is based on love — putting things together, teaching people communion.

I need a needle so that I can put people together. The scissors are useless,they cut, they disconnect. Next time when you come, just an ordinary needle will be enough.”

~ Osho

Excerpt from "Uno Mystica”

Kashmir problem?

In India I knew many politicians, but I have not seen any brains in them.
Simple things that anybody will understand, things which don’t need great genius, politicians will miss.

One of my friends was commander-in-chief of the Indian armies.

When Pakistan invaded India, this man – his name was General Chaudhuri – asked permission of the prime minister to counter attack;

it was needed, just being defensive would not help.
That’s a simple military strategy:

if you become defensive you are already defeated; the best way is to be aggressive.

If Pakistan has invaded one part of Kashmir, Chaudhuris idea was that we invade Pakistan from four or five fronts. They will be confused, they will run amok; they will not be able to decide where they have to send their armies.

Their attack will become a failure because they have to defend all the
borders of their country.

But politicians. The prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, informed him, ”Wait till six o’clock in the morning.”

General Chaudhuri told me that he was thrown out of the army – not publicly: publicly he retired honorably, but he was kicked out.

He was told, ”Either you resign or we will throw you out.”

The reason was that he attacked Pakistan at five o’clock in the
morning, one hour before the order.

That was the right time; by six o’clock it would be sunrise, people would be awake. Five o’clock was the perfectly right time – everybody was asleep – to drive them crazy.

And he did what he was saying – he made the whole of Pakistan tremble. He was just fifteen miles from Pakistan’s biggest city, Lahore.

The whole night Jawaharlal and his cabinet were discussing this way and that way, to do it or not to do it.

And even by six o’clock in the morning they had not come to any conclusion; they just heard on the radio that ”General Chaudhuri is entering Lahore.”

That was too much for the politicians. They stopped him just fifteen miles away from Lahore. And I can see that was sheer stupidity.

If the man had taken Lahore, the problem of Kashmir and India
would have been solved forever.

It is not ever going to be solved, the problem of the territory of Kashmir which Pakistan has occupied – and it was because General Chaudhuri was told to come back, ”because India is a non-violent country and you did not wait for the order.”

He said to them, ”I do understand military strategy; you don’t. Even by six o’clock – where was your order?

Pakistan has already occupied a certain territory, the most beautiful part of Kashmir – and you were just discussing the whole night.

This is not a question to be discussed, this has to be decided in the warfield. If you had allowed me to take over Lahore then we would have been in a position to bargain.

Now we are not in a position to bargain. You pulled me back, I had to come back.”

The U.N. decided for a cease-fire line. So now for forty years, U.N. armies have been there patrolling; on the other side Pakistans armies are patrolling, on this side Indian armies are patrolling.

For forty years – just nonsense!

And in the UNO they go on discussing and nothing comes out of it.And the territory that has been occupied by Pakistan you cannot take back because of the cease-
fire.

They have really decided in their parliament that the territory occupied by them is combined with Pakistan.
Now they show it on their maps. It is no longer occupied territory, it is Pakistan’s territory.

I had told General Chaudhuri, ”This was such a simple thing, that you have to be in a bargaining position.

If you had taken Lahore they would have immediately agreed to leave Kashmir because they could not lose Lahore.

Or if a cease-fire was to come, okay, then Lahore remains with us when
we cease fire.Either way there will be something to bargain.

India doesn’t have anything to bargain with – why should Pakistan bother?”

But politicians certainly don’t have brains.

OshO 
CHAPTER 28. EITHER POLITICIANS REMAIN OR HUMANITY REMAINS pg 385-386
From Darkness to Light

Solution for Rape ???

Rape is one of the problems which is not so easy to decide and judge; there are so many complexities. But first, just for argument’s sake, let us accept that it is certain that he committed the rape. The question arises: why did he have to go to such lengths to fulfill such a simple desire? Sex is such a simple phenomenon. There is no lack of men or women, there is no necessity for anybody to rape.
But the way the society has been against sex, they have made it a serious problem. It should be simple playfulness – and that’s exactly what it is. Two people are playing tennis, there is no problem. Nobody ever hears that somebody raped… there is no question of raping in tennis. You can play; there is no need to rape. When two people are playing tennis they are using their bodies, their minds. What are they doing when they are making love? – it is just there is not a net in between. And all the contraceptives are nothing but the net! The contraceptives make it really a game, with the net.
The net was missing. God did not supply it to Adam and Eve. Perhaps out of anger he simply kept the net to himself; otherwise, in throwing those two poor people out of the garden of Eden he should at least have given them all the provisions for life.
The society goes on making you very serious about sex. It goes on making you repress your energies. There is a limit to repression; after that limit, the energy takes over. Whenever a man commits rape, he is not in his senses, for the simple reason that the rape cannot help him to solve his problem. The rape cannot give him the joy that his whole physiology is asking for. Rape cannot give him the warmth, the love, the receptivity that he needs. It is simply not the answer to his need.

But you have left no other ways. You have forced the man into such a condition that he simply explodes like a volcano. Seeing a woman in a lonely spot he forgets the consequences. He forgets hell, God, The Bible, church, court, constitution; he forgets everything. He is not in his real self, he is not himself; he becomes almost like an animal.
And this is not a way of making love: the woman is screaming, she is shouting and trying to escape. You can call it a fight, you cannot call it love. And he forces himself upon the woman by sheer physical violence. He interferes with the independence of another human being and he gets nothing out of it – he gets castration, or fifty years of imprisonment. This is the orgasm that he gets. And the society is responsible for the whole thing: the court and the judge and the law – they all represent the society.
This is a very cunning way of destroying individuals. On one hand you force them to be criminals, on the other hand you are ready to punish them. But your punishment does not seem to be compassionate; your punishment seems to be a kind of revenge.
If the man has raped, and that is a crime, then the judge who orders his castration – in what category are you going to put that judge? He is not in any way different from a rapist. The society is taking revenge. The society is not being fair, it has not looked into the whole phenomenon.
Osho, 

From Misery to Enlightenment, Ch 26, q#1

Meditation Is Not Escapism !

Desire means your whole mind. Desire means not to be here now. Desire means moving somewhere in the future which is not yet. Desire means a thousand and one ways of escaping from the present. Desire is equivalent to mind. In Buddha's terminology, desire is mind.

Desire is time too. When I say desire is time too, I don't mean the clock time, I mean the psychological time. How do you create future in your mind ? by desiring.

You want to do something tomorrow, you have created the tomorrow, otherwise the tomorrow is nowhere yet, it has not come. But you want to do something tomorrow, and because you want to do something tomorrow you have created a psychological tomorrow.

People are creating years ahead, lives ahead. They are even thinking about what to do after life, after death. They are even preparing for that !

These people are thought to be religious, they are not religious at all. Desire takes you away from the now-here, and now-here is the only reality.

Hence Buddha says, He never gives in to desire,He never moves into the future, he lives in the present. To live in the future is to live a false life, a pseudo life.

The man who lives in the future, lives a counterfeit life. He does not really live, he only pretends to live. He hopes to live, he desires to live, but he never lives. And the tomorrow never comes, it is always today.

Whatsoever comes is always now and here, and he does not know how to live here-now. The way to escape is called "desire."

Tanha - that is Buddha's word for what is an escape from the present, from the real into the unreal.

The man who desires is an Escapist !

Meditators are thought to be escapists. That is utter nonsense. Only the meditator is not an escapist - everybody else is.

Meditation means relaxing in the moment, in the present. Meditation is the only thing in the world which is not an escapist thing.

People who condemn meditation always condemn it with the argument that it is escape, escaping from life. They are simply talking nonsense, they don't understand what they are saying.

Meditation is not escaping from life ! it is escaping into life. Mind is escaping from life, desire is escaping from life.

~ Osho

Excerpt from - The Dhammapada - The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 1, Talk #7

When Buddha Enlightened !

" When Buddha became enlightened, he placed his hands together in salutation and bowed his head until it touched the ground. The story goes on to say that the gods came from heaven to pay their respects to Buddha because he had found the ultimate truth, but upon seeing him with his head touching the ground, they were surprised. They asked Buddha to whom he was bowing.They said that they had come from heaven to offer greetings to him because he was enlightened and that they did not know that there could be something to which even Buddha had to offer salutations, as enlightenment is the ultimate attainment. Buddha then opened his eyes and said, "In whatsoever has happened to me, I am not alone, the world has also participated. So I bowed down to the earth in thanksgiving to the whole world ".

Osho:
Hidden Mysteries,Ch 6 ]