No Fault finding !

Renunciation

Mulla Nasrudin had been pulled from the river in what the police
suspected was a suicide attempt.
When they were questioning him at headquarters, he admitted
that he had tried to kill himself. This
is the story he told:

”Yes, I tried to kill myself. The world is against me and I wanted to
end it all. I was determined not to do a halfway job of it, so I bought
a piece of rope, some matches, some kerosene, and a
pistol. Just in case none of those worked, I went down by the river.
I threw the rope over a limb
hanging out over the water, tied that rope around my neck,
poured kerosene all over myself and lit
that match. I jumped off the river and put that pistol to my head
and pulled the trigger. And guess
what happened? I missed. The bullet hit the rope before I could hang myself and I fell in the river
and the water put out the fire before I could burn myself.

AND YOU KNOW, IF I HAD NOT BEEN A GOOD SWIMMER,
I WOULD HAVE ENDED UP
DROWNING MY FOOL SELF.”

202 (Jokes of Mulla Nasrudin) 

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You are not the Mind

Answer to all problems !

Truth & Lies

3 Things Kids Do That Can Lead to Self-Love & Happiness

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” ~Jean Shinoda Bolen

As we grow older, a lot of us fall out of love with ourselves, and as a result, have a hard time figuring out what we value and what lights us up.

Self-love is crucial to creating a life that aligns with our desires because it serves as our inner compass, empowering and enabling us to steer our life in a direction that makes us happy. Otherwise, we end up turning to external sources for love and happiness.

Recently, I’ve been spending time with my niece and nephew, who are between the ages of two and six. It dawned on me that there’s a lot we can learn from children when it comes to re-learning how to love ourselves.

So what can we learn from children?

Say what’s on your mind.

Often, children say exactly what’s on their mind because they haven’t yet formed the belief that it’s wrong to be honest. For the most part, there is no hidden agenda in what they say. If there is, we can easily see through it, as we listen and work with them to find a compromise.

Depending on your upbringing and your experiences, you may have developed certain rules or beliefs about speaking your mind. As an adult, you now have a choice. Instead of operating like you would have in the past, you can decide if you would like to change your rule or belief.

With my cultural upbringing, I was taught that it is impolite and disrespectful to question elders or people of authority. So I did what I was told because I would get reprimanded when I asked why.

I carried this belief throughout my school years, and when someone pushed me to speak up in class or in work settings, I always felt guilty and uncomfortable.

One day, I decided to give myself permission to not feel guilty when someone asked what I thought. I changed my belief to I feel valued and safe when someone asks for my opinion.

Slowly, I realized that you can simultaneously respect someone and speak up.

So why not honor that little voice inside of you and say what you’re thinking? In doing so, you are expressing your truth, and this is an act of self-love.

Likewise, if you are the receiver in the conversation, practice listening to the speaker with compassion and openness, as you would with a child.

In creating a safe, respectful space for mutual sharing, you’re creating the opportunity to connect with others on a deeper level, strengthening your relationships and your self-love at the same time.

Incorporate more playtime into your life. 

As adults, our work tends to get in the way of play. I am certainly guilty of this.

My definition of play is doing something big, like a night out of town with friends, or traveling. As such, I often go a long period of time without ‘play.’ In hanging out with my niece and nephew, I realized my definition of play is too rigid.

Like children, we need to incorporate playtime or break time into our day-to-day life. Not only does playing provide health benefits, but there are also studies that have shown it increases creativity, connection, and productivity.

So bring out your inner child and look for simple ways to create opportunities to laugh, relax, and have fun in your life.

This could be going to the park and getting on a swing, getting a game of Candy Crush in, organizing game nights, having a dance party with your kids, or going for a coffee break with colleagues.

When you incorporate play in moderation into your life, you are giving yourself permission to relax, clear out your mind, and reap the health benefits. This action in itself is a form of self-care and self-love.

Smile at yourself instead of criticizing yourself.

Children adore themselves. They love looking in the mirror and seeing themselves, just the way they are. They smile, they blow kisses to themselves. There are no judgments.

As human beings, we are love. It is our birthright to be loved and to give love. It is what keeps us alive and what gives us hope and helps us grow.

But over time, we start to dim our lights and build walls around our heart. When this happens, we not only close the pathways to love, but also make it hard for others to love us.

Next time when you look in the mirror, challenge yourself to look in your eyes and refrain from being critical. Be kind to yourself.

Smile at the person you see, even if you need to imagine yourself as a younger version of you. Acknowledge your inner spirit with your eyes.

This was always hard for me to do. I found it uncomfortable to look into my eyes, as I knew I would start criticizing myself.

I’d say things like you look fat, look at the black circles underneath your eyes, look at that zit, you need to take better care of yourself. What are you looking at? There’s nothing to look at.

At that moment, I’d look away, take a few deep breaths, and remind myself of where that voice was coming from. It was a combination of my own and my parents’.

They criticized me because of the way they were brought up, and it was how they showed their love and care, but I knew I could choose to say “thank you but no thank you.”

I would then take another deep breath and look up again.

At first, it felt kind of like a peek-a-boo game. But once I locked eyes with myself, I acknowledged myself and said, “See this isn’t too bad. I just want to say hi. I see you and I love you. Thanks for playing. Let’s see where this goes after a month. If nothing changes, I’ll stop, I promise.”

Things did change, though. I felt more peaceful and grounded, and I noticed I smiled more when I was out and about.

So what are you waiting for? Rekindle your connection with your inner child and you will soon feel the self-love you once had when you were a kid, and you’ll love your life a lot more as a result.

World is a Gift

We come empty-handed in the world and we go empty-handed.

The world is a gift, so enjoy while it is there.

And remember, the universe always gives you that which you need.

A Sufi mystic used to say every day in his prayers, 
”Thank you, God, for all that you go on doing for me.

How can I repay?
I feel so grateful!”

Once it happened that he was traveling and for three days they were refused shelter because they were thought to be heretics, they were thought to be anti religious, rebellious.

They were not given food, not even water, and no shelter. For three days, hungry, thirsty...

And the third day when he was praying, again he was saying to God, ”Thank you! How I can repay you?
I feel so grateful! ”

Now it was too much His disciples said, ”It is time to say something!”

They said, ”Wait – just a moment!
For what you are thanking?

For three days we have been hungry, thirsty, no shelter, in the desert, at the mercy of wild animals.

For what you are being thankful?”

And the Sufi laughed and he said, ”You don’t understand – this is what I must have needed for these three days!

God always gives to me whatsoever I need. This must have been my need,otherwise he would not have given it to me.

I am thankful for it. He always takes care.

He does not bother what I desire; he always gives what he feels is right.

I am thanking him... three days fasting, three days no shelter, three days the open sky with stars in the desert, sleeping in the desert, and no wild animal has attacked us.

And why you are looking so sad?
It must have been our real need!”

This is trust, and this is the joyful attitude.

This is real sannyas!

OshO 
I Am That

Love never obliges anybody.

Love never obliges anybody.

Love is always obliged that you allowed the heart to shower upon you its flowers, its joys, its songs.

Love is obliged to you for your receptivity.

Responsibility always thinks, ”I have done well and everybody should know it. And everybody should feel obliged.

I have sacrificed so much for the freedom of the country; I have done so much in the war in defending the country; I am working so hard so that my children can be educated, can be well-nourished, so that I can provide facilities for my grandparents or my parents.”

But you find this a burden. You are crushed under it. It is not a joy, it is not blissfulness, it is not ecstasy.

My grandfather loved very much. He was old, very old, but he remained active to the very last breath. He loved nature almost too much.

He lived in a faraway farm. Once in a while he would come to the city, but he never liked it. He always liked the wild world, where he lived.

Once in a while I used to go to him and he always liked somebody to massage his feet.

He was becoming so old and he was working so hard, so I would massage his feet. But I told him,”Remember, I am not fulfilling any responsibility. I don’t have any responsibility towards anyone in the world.

I love you, and I will
massage your feet but only up to the point where it is not troublesome to me.

So when I stop, never ask me to do a little more. I will not. I am doing it out of my joy, not because you are my grandfather. I could have done the same to any beggar, any stranger, just out of love.”

He understood the point. He said, ”I never thought that responsibility and love are two things. But you are right.

When I am working on the field, I always feel I am doing it for my children and their children, as a duty.

It is heavy on my heart. But I will try to change this attitude of responsibility.

I may be too old to change – it has become a fixation in my mind – but I will try to change.” I said to him, ”There is no need. If you feel it is becoming a burden on you, you have done enough.

You rest. There is no need to continue working, unless you enjoy the open sky and the green field and love these trees and the birds. If you are doing it out of joy and you love your children and you want to do something for them, only then continue.

Otherwise stop.”

OshO 
CHAPTER 30. BE ADAM AND EVE
Sat Chit Anand

Everyone is a masterpiece

You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way.

Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed.

Everyone is a masterpiece because God never gives birth to anything less than that.

Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, not knowing who they are, and just trying on the
surface to become someone.

Drop the idea of becoming someone because you already are a
masterpiece.

You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

God has Himself created you, you cannot be improved.

Here, I’m not teaching you to improve your life – no, not me.

I am simply teaching you to know the
life that is already there, that has already always been there, that is already the case.

Just put yourself aside, so your eyes are not filled with the ego, your being is not cloudy, and the sky becomes open. Suddenly, not only you, but the whole Existence says:

A masterpiece! This is ’the
first principle’.

OshO 
Returning to the Source

Worth is not significant.

Whether you are worthy or not is not a question for love.

As you are, you can become a love object, but from your childhood you have been wrongly conditioned.

Every child is wrongly conditioned because parents go on using this need of the child – the need to be loved, the need to be hugged, the need to be cuddled.

They use it as a technique to educate him. They exploit this need. They are in trouble as to what else they can do and how to educate the child, so they make a bargain with him.

They say, ’If you do things we like you to do, then we will love you. You have to deserve it. If you are good in the school, if you are good in the house, if you are good with the neighbours, with the guests, with your mother, with your father, then you will receive love.

If you are not good, if you are not worthy, then you will starve. We will not love you; we will withdraw ourselves.’

And the need of the child is so much. It is just like food. He cannot survive without food, and he cannot survive without love.

In fact the need for love is even deeper than food, because without food, only his body will wither away; without love, his very soul.

So the child has to compromise.

He cannot say, ’Just love me as I am.’ He cannot demand that – and even if he
demands, nobody is going to supply it.

So by and by he has to force himself to do things which he never wanted to do, which he does not like to do.

But there is a bait – that he can get love; mother’s love, father’s love, brother’s love.

They will approve of him, they will make him worthy. So he works hard in the school, he tries to be dutiful. He tries to fetch a little more love from you, and then he learns something which is very dangerous.

He learns that unless you are worthy, you will never be loved.

Now this is absurd.

OshO 
The Passion for the Impossible

Life consists of very small things.

One man was asking me – I was in Calcutta, and he was one of the richest men of India, Sahu Shanti Prasad; he had the greatest palace in Calcutta.

We were walking in his big garden... because he has, in the middle of Calcutta, at least a hundred acre green garden. The palace once used to belong to the viceroy of India, when Calcutta was the capital.

When the capital shifted to New Delhi,the palace was sold. Now the president of India lives in the same kind of palace in New Delhi, with
a one hundred acre garden.

So we both were walking and he asked me, ”I always wanted to ask you what happens after death.”

I said, ”Are you alive or not?”
He said, ”What kind of question is this? I am alive.”
I said, ”You are alive. Do you know what life is?”
He said, ”That I cannot answer. Honestly, I don’t know.”
I said, ”When you are alive, even then you don’t know what life is. How can you know death when you are not dead yet? So wait.

While you are alive, try to know life; and soon you will be dead, then in your grave contemplate about death. Nobody will be bothering you.

But why are you concerned what happens after death? Why are you not concerned what happens before death?

That should be the real concern. When death comes we will face it, we will see it, we will see what it is. I am not dead so how can I say?

You will have to ask somebody who is dead what happens. I am alive. I can tell you what life is, and I can tell you how to know what life is.”

”But,” he said, ”all the religious teachers I go to listen to talk about death; nobody talks about life.”
They are not interested in life, in fact; they want you all not to be interested in life.

Their business depends on your interest in death. And about death, the most beautiful thing is that you can create any kind of fiction and nobody can argue against it.

Neither you can prove it, nor can anybody disprove it. And if you are a believer, then of course all your scriptures are in support of the priest,
the monk, the rabbi, and he can quote those scriptures.

I would like you to remember: Live, and try to know what life is.
Don’t be bothered about death,
heaven and hell, and this goddammed God.

You simply remain with the life that is dancing in you, breathing in you, alive in you. You have to come closer to yourself to know it.

Perhaps you are standing too far away from yourself. Your concerns have taken you far away. You have to come back home.

So remember that while you are alive it is so precious – don’t miss a single moment.

Squeeze the whole juice of it, and that juice will give you the taste of the existential, and that will be a revelation of all that is hidden from you and will remain hidden from you.

Respect life, revere life.

There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.

And life does not consist of big things.

Those religious fools have been telling you, ”Do big things,” and life consists of small things. The strategy is clear. They tell you, ”Do big things, something great,something that your name will be remembered for afterwards.

Do something great.” And of course
it appeals to the ego. The ego is the agent of the priest.

All the churches and all the synagogues and all the temples have only one agent, and that is the ego. They don’t use different agencies.
There are not other agencies.

There is only one agency, and that is the ego – do something great,something big.
I want to tell you, there is nothing big, nothing great. Life consists of very small things.

So if you become interested in so-called big things, you will be missing life.

OshO 
CHAPTER 29. I TEACH YOU REVERENCE FOR LIFE
From Unconciousness to Consciousness

Living dangerously

Living dangerously means whenever there are alternatives, beware: don’t choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable, the honorable.

Choose something that rings a bell in your heart. Choose something that you would like to do in spite of any consequences.

The coward thinks of consequences:

”If I do this, what will happen?
What will be the result?”
He is more concerned about the result.

The real man never thinks of the consequences. He thinks only of the act, in this
moment. He feels,

”This is what is appealing to me, and I am going to do it.” Then whatever happens is welcome.

He will never regret. A real man never regrets, never repents, because he has never done anything against
himself.

The coward dies thousands of times before death, and continuously regrets, repents: it would have been better if he had done that, married that man, that woman, chosen that profession,Gone to that college....

Thousands of alternatives are always there, and you cannot do them all.

The society teaches you, ”Choose the convenient, the comfortable; choose the well-trodden path

where your forefathers and their forefathers and their forefathers, since Adam and Eve, have been walking.

Choose the well-trodden path.

That is a proof: so many millions of people have passed on it, you cannot go wrong.

But remember one thing, the crowd has never had the experience of truth.

Truth has only happened to individuals.

OshO 
From Unconciousness to Consciousness page 364

Khajuraho Sex

" These temples in Khajuraho have, on the outer side, beautiful women, beautiful men, and all in love postures. Inside there are no love postures. Inside you will find the temple empty, not even a statue of God. The idea is that unless you pass through your sexuality with full awareness, in all its phases, in all its dimensions -- unless you come to a point when sex has no meaning for you... only then you enter the temple. Otherwise you are outside the temple, your interest is there.So that was a symbol that if you are still interested in sex, then the temple is not for you. But the message is not against sex; it is the outer wall of the temple, the temple is made of it, and you have to pass through the door and go beyond. And the beyond is nothing but utter emptiness "
 ~ Osho 
[Book: From Unconciousness to Consciousness,Ch19, Pg 305]

Fictitious !

I used to travel in India for twenty years continuously. And I enjoy all kinds of things.

One day, I got on the train in Bombay and many people had come to see me off.

As I entered my air-conditioned coupe, there was another man inside also. He was watching all the people outside from the window.
He certainly thought that I was a very important person – so many rich people touching my feet.

And as I entered inside the coupe he fell flat on the floor and touched my feet.
I said, ”What are you doing? I am a Mohammedan.” And he was a high-cast brahmin.

He said, ”My God! No, it cannot be true, you must be joking.”
I said, ”I never joke.”
He became very much fidgety.

I sat there. After two minutes he again said, ”No, you are just joking.”
I said, ”I am not joking, I am a Mohammedan.”
He said, ”My God, in this cold night I will have to take a bath.”
I said, ”You go and take a bath.”

So he went and took a cold bath and came back shivering, and I started laughing. He said, ”Why are you laughing?”

I said, ”I was just joking.” And he fell again to my feet.
He said, ”I knew from the very beginning.”
I said, ”No, not that time. This time I am joking. I am a Mohammedan.”
He said, ”You will drive me crazy!

Now I have to take another shower.”
I said, ”It is up to you, I don’t say anything. You are doing all these things on your own.”
He said, ”That’s true.” He took another bath and came in.

I closed my eyes and did not say anything to him. But he could not sit restfully.

He again asked, ”Tell me the truth. Were you joking?”
I said, ”If I tell you the truth, you will have to take another bath. So it is better I keep my eyes closed.”

But he could not... because it is such a sin for a high-cast brahmin in India to touch the feet of a Mohammedan.

He said, ”But if you are a
Mohammedan, then why did all those people – none of them was a Mohammedan – come to see you off?”
I said, ”I am a Mohammedan mystic.
I tell people which horses are going to win in the race.”
He simply jumped up again and touched my feet.

He said, ”Forget about
Mohammedanism or Brahmanism, just give me a number. I am in a financial difficulty.”

I said, ”You don’t understand at all. You again will have to go to the shower. It is not easy for me to give the number of the horse that is going to come first in the coming race, and I cannot give it to somebody who distrusts me.”

He said, ”No, I will trust you. If you say, I will not take a shower again.”
I said, ”Promise?”
He said, ”I promise.”

I gave him a certain number – just any number. He said, ”But what is the guarantee?”
I said, ”When the race happens, then you will know the guarantee.

Right now, it is just a fictitious
number. That is my business – I cheat people.”
He said, ”What? So this horse is not going to win?”

I said, ”In my whole life, I have not been in any contact with horses. I don’t understand their language,
they don’t understand my language.

But if people want to be exploited, I go on giving numbers. And before the horse race I move to another place.”

He said, ”My God, so this is useless?” He threw it out of the window. ”I will have to take another bath.”I said, ”You promised.

As a high-cast brahmin, breaking a promise is a sin.”
He said, ”You will kill me! And we have to travel for twenty-four hours together.”

People have been cheated by the priests, by the politicians, by the pedagogues for centuries.

They were giving them fictitious numbers; those horse races don’t happen.

OshO 
CHAPTER 29. NOBODY IS MISSING ANYTHING
Hari Om Tat Sat

ABOUT TOMORROW

IS IT EASY NOT TO HAVE FUTURE PLANS? I MEAN, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD WORRIES ABOUT TOMORROW. YOU DON’T, BECAUSE YOU ARE BEING TAKEN CARE OF.

I was not worrying even when I was not being taken care of. It has not been always so.

I left my family when I was seventeen because I was not ready to go to a science college as my family
wanted.

They were not willing to support me financially to study philosophy. And they were right,because what are going to do when you become a philosopher? – you can only be a beggar.

In this world philosophy has no value.

So I told them, ”You don’t worry; you just leave me alone – I don’t think of tomorrow.”

And since that day I have never thought about tomorrow.

OshO 
CHAPTER 3. THE WELL IS GOING TO THE THIRSTY
Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries

HOW SHOULD LIFE BE LIVED?

Life is to be lived as if it were a mirror.

Welcome everybody and every thing, but hold on to nothing.

That life is pure in which the mind does not cling to influences and impressions.

Let bygones be bygones; and worry not for what is yet to come. This is the path of ’sadhna’, wherein the individual associates himself with the present, and his what is yet to come.

This is the path of ’sadhna’, wherein roots are anchored firmly in his true being.

The past and the future are the domains of the mind; he who is engrossed in, or engulfed by the past and the future, can not know life.

Life is, after all, Here and Now; not There and Then.

He who seeks life not in ’Here and Now’ is wasting time.

OshO 
CHAPTER 13. BETWEEN DEATH AND REBIRTH
The Great Challenge