Onions

Be aware and see the whole beauty of existence.

A cup of tea declares that the night is over, Wake up!

Be aware and see the whole beauty of existence.

The universe has allowed you one day more –

You cannot demand, it is a gift.

One day the sun will rise and the roses will blossom but you will not be there to celebrate this new morning.

And there is no way to complain, it is absolutely in the hands of the cosmos.

But we have not paid our gratitude even for our life.

Do you think there can be anything more precious than life, than consciousness?

And existence gives it to you without asking any payment in return.

At least you can be thankful.

This thankfulness is the only authentic prayer;

All other prayers are childish, they are nothing but hidden demands.

OshO ❤
CHAPTER 6. THE ULTIMATE HERE
Joshu: The Lion’s Roar

Lord Hanuman seen in Jungle !

God Hanuman has the boon of immortality. He is said to be still alive. It is believed that He lives in jungles of Himalayas. He comes to human society to help devotees but He remains invisible for them. However there is a secret mantra which if chanted Hanuman appears before a devotee. The Mantra is:

Kaaltantu Kaarecharanti Enar Marishnu, Nirmukter Kaaletwam Amarishnu

(कालतंतु कारेचरन्ति एनर मरिष्णु , निर्मुक्तेर कालेत्वम अमरिष्णु)

This Mantra works only when the following two conditions are met:

(1) The devotee should be aware of His/Her soul's relationship with Lord Hanuman.

(2) Within 980 meters from the place where this Mantra is chanted, there should not be any human being who does not meet condition number one. That means, either there should be no other human being in the range of 980 meters or if there are human beings in this range, they should all meet condition number one, i.e. they should all be aware of their soul's relationship with Lord Hanuman.

This secret Mantra was given by Lord Hanuman Himself to some tribals who were living in jungles of Piduru Mountain. Piduru (full name "Piduruthalagala") is tallest mountain of Sri Lanka. After Lord Rama ended His human life, Lord Hanuman came back from Ayodhya and started living in jungles. He also visited jungles of  Lanka where Ravana's brother Vibhishana was ruling. He spent many days in jungles of Lanka in memory of Lord Ram. At that time some jungle dwellers served Him.

When He was returning back from there, He gave this Mantra to those jungle dwellers and said, "I am pleased with your service and dedication towards me. Whenever you want to see me, just chant this Mantra. I will come with the speed of light to meet you."

The chief of those tribals said, "Lord, we will keep this Mantra secret but what if someone else gets this Mantra and starts misusing it?"

Lord Hanuman replied, "Do not worry. This Mantra shall not work if the person who chants it is not aware of his/her soul's relationship with me."

The tribal chielf asked, "Lord, You have given us the "Atman Gnan" therefore we know our soul's relationship with you. We know about our past births and we know where will our souls go after our death. But what about our children? They will not have the "Atman Gnan". They will not know their soul's relationship with you. Therefore this Mantra shall not work for them!."

Lord Hanuman said, "I promise you that I will come to stay with your community every 41 years and give the Atman Gnan to your future generations too. Till the end of time your community will be able to chant this Mantra and see me anytime."

This tribal community still lives in a jungle village of Sri Lanka. They have managed to stay disconnected from modern world till now. Nobody knew about their connection with Lord Hanuman until last year when some explorers noticed their "unusual activities".

Later they came to know that those "unusual activities" were part of their ceremony called "Charan Pooja" which happens every 41 years when Lord Hanuman comes to visit them. They were doing those "unusual activities" because Lord Hanuman was with them last year (in 2014). Only they were able to see Him. For others He was invisible. Lord Hanuman departed them on 27th May 2014 after giving Atman Gnan to new members of their community. Now He will come again after 41 years i.e. in 2055. However they can chant the above Mantra and call Lord Hanuman whenever they want to have His Darshan.

Head of their community also maintains a logbook in which they note down minute to minute detail of what all Lord Hanuman did while He stayed with them. They record every word spoken by Lord Hanuman and every deed done by Him. Details of Lord Hanuman's recent 2014 journey are also recorded in this logbook.

This logbook is now in possession of a spiritual organization called Setu Asia. Setu Masters are trying to decipher this logbook in their Ashram in foothills of Piduru mountain. However their work has been very slow. In last 6 months or so they have deciphered only three chapters till now. Whenever they decipher a new chapter, their Colombo office publishes it on their website www.setu.asia. Thousands of devotees across the globe wait for new chapters desperately because every new chapter takes them closer towards fulfilling condition number 1 of this Mantra. Once the condition is fulfilled, a devotee can call Lord Hanuman anytime merely by chanting this Mantra.

Here is the summary of three chapters available on www.setu.asia

Chapter 1 : The Immortal Lord Hanuman arrives: describes how Lord Hanuman was seen on top of Piduru mountain last year. Lord tells story of past birth of a child who was born from two mothers.

Chapter 2 : Hunting Honey with Lord Hanuman: Next day Lord Hanuman goes on a honey hunting trip with the jungle dwellers. What happens there is very thrilling.

Chapter 3: Lord Hanuman in web of Time: This is most enlightening chapter. This shloka's meaning is enshrined in this chapter. For example, when we human beings think of time, we think of a clock. But when Gods think of time, they think of "strings of Time". In this mantra the word "kaal tantu kaarecharanti" means "the one who moves in web of strings of time."

The Art of Dying !

When a Sufi mystic, Bayazid, was dying, people who had gathered around him -- his disciples -- were suddenly surprised, because when the last moment came his face became radiant, powerfully radiant. It had a beautiful aura.

Bayazid was a beautiful man, and his disciples had always felt ar aura around him, but they had not known anything like this; so radiant.

They asked, 'Bayazid, tell us what has happened to you. What is happening to you? Before you leave us, give us your last message.'

He opened his eyes and he said, 'God is welcoming me. I am going into his embrace. Goodbye.'

He closed his eyes, his breathing stopped. But at the moment his breathing stopped there was an explosion of light, the room became full of light, and then it disappeared.

When a person has known the transcendental in himself, death is nothing but another face of God. Then death has a dance to it.

And unless you become capable of celebrating death itself, remember, you have missed life. The whole life is a preparation for this ultimate.

This is the meaning of this beautiful story.

WHEN RABBI BIRNHAM LAY DYING, HIS WIFE BURST INTO TEARS.

HE SAID, 'WHAT ARE YOU CRYING FOR?

MY WHOLE LIFE WAS ONLY THAT I MIGHT LEARN HOW TO DIE.'

His whole life had been just a preparation, a preparation to learn the secrets of dying.

All religions are nothing but a science -- or an art -- to teach you how to die. And the only way to teach you how to die is to teach you how to live. They are not separate. If you know what right living is, you will know what right dying is.

OSHO...☆☆☆
The Art of Dying

Anger

Make an experiment !

You can make an experiment as I suggest.

Three of you can go into a room, close it from inside and sit quietly with your eyes closed and hands folded in the way of namaskar -- salutation.

Then say prayer fully that if there are any souls in this room, they should contact you all in the way you suggest -- say by knocking at the door.

And soon you will hear a knock at the door where there is no one with a body. You can suggest to the invisible soul present in the room to answer your questions through a paperweight Lying on the table before you, and you will see that within three to four days the spirit will begin to answer your questions through the medium of the paperweight.

Then you can carry the experiment further; it is not that difficult. There are many number of bodiless spirits hanging around you everywhere and always, who are willing to communicate with you, but they have no way to do so, because we are aware of only one way of communication and that is through our physical bodies.

And there is no bridge what soever between us and the bodiless souls. But there are simple devices, which form a part of occultism, to come in contact with them.

You also want to know if man's soul can leave his physical body, travel astrally and then return to his body again.

It is quite possible that you leave your body, go out of it, travel astrally and then return to your body as you like.

The physical body is only an abode and you can go out of it if you know the right techniques to do it.

There is a special discipline, a whole science about it. Sometimes it happens accidently without any efforts on your part.

In moments of deep meditation you will find that you are out of your physical body and watching it from a distance.

There is a whole occult science, and we can go into it separately at some different time.

OSHO...☆☆☆
Krishna - The Man and His Philosophy

Gautam Buddha was burning

The Zen story is:

A Zen monk is staying in a Buddhist temple.

The night is cold – and in Japan the statues are made of wood – so he takes one of Buddha’s statues and creates fire.

The priest was asleep, but he heard the crackling of the fire and saw the light.

He came up from his room.
He could not believe...

Gautam Buddha was burning and that man was sitting by his side enjoying!

He said, ”You seem to be mad.

You have burned one of my beautiful statues of Gautam Buddha.

You should be ashamed of yourself. I gave you shelter in the temple and this is the reward?– you have burned Gautam Buddha!”

The monk said, ”Wait!” And he took a small piece of wood and started searching in the ashes, but the Buddha was completely burned.

The priest asked, ”Now what are you looking for?”

He said, ”I am looking for the bones.” Actually he said, ”I am looking for the flowers” – because in the East the bones of a dead man are called ”flowers.”
”I am looking for the flowers.”

The priest said, ”You are certainly mad.
How can a wooden statue have flowers?”

The monk said, ”That means you agree with me.

Then please bring one more, because you have already too many and the night is long and it is too cold.

And you have understood that it is just wood – there are no bones, and

Buddha cannot be without bones. Just pick up one more.”
But the priest was mad. He said, ”I will not let you stay inside for a single moment more.
You just get out of the temple!”

While he was pushing him out the monk said, ”Listen, you are worshipping dead Buddhas and you are throwing out a living Buddha. 
You will repent for it.”

Only a Zen master could have done that.

No Christian bishop, or cardinal, or even a pope can burn Jesus Christ’s wooden statue.

He knows it is wooden but he cannot gather courage to burn it. No Hindu can do it.
Nobody in the whole world.

Zen has gone far beyond where Buddha left it.

If he comes back he will be rejoiced, but these scholars cannot understand that this is the ultimate growth.

Now there is nothing more than Zen.

There is no possibility I can conceive that can go beyond it. It has left everything possible behind; now only the essential has remained –

Pure consciousness.

OshO ❤
CHAPTER 5. THE MOMENT TRUTH COMPROMISES, IT DIES
The Path of the Mystic

Existence Takes Care !

Just today Vivek was crying and saying, ”You say that existence takes care, but existence is not taking care.”

It has to be understood because that question may be in many people’s minds.

Whenever we think such things we always have a demand, and if it is fulfilled then existence is taking care.

Vivek gave examples where existence did not take care: ”Socrates, Jesus, al-Hillaj Mansoor...

They were crucified and killed and existence did not take care.

Soon you will be crucified.

How can we believe that Existence takes care?”

The problem is very significant.

I would like to say to you: this is the way existence took care.

Socrates had no demand.

And perhaps this was the best way for Socrates to die – because if he had died in another way his teaching would have died too.

His teaching is far more important than his physical body.

And that physical body was going to die any day; it was not going to last forever.

Perhaps it was going to die exactly the same day without poisoning.

But the poisoning made one thing clear to the whole world – that his teaching will be preserved, that his teaching has been recognized as dangerous to all old rotten lies.

And it is still contemporary.

Many great thinkers have happened after Socrates, but they are not still contemporary.

Existence has taken care – but it takes care in its own way, not
according to your desires, because if you have desires, demands, you are not trusting existence.

Trust simply means that whatever is happening and is going to happen is perfectly right.

Existence is wiser than any individual, because an individual has a small consciousness.

Even if he is enlightened he is still just a dewdrop in this vast ocean of existence.

And what existence feels
is right.

If it feels that al-Hillaj Mansoor should be killed, it is right. If it feels that Jesus should be crucified, it is right.

Trust simply means that whatever happens we are with it, joyously, not reluctantly, not unwillingly –

Then you miss the whole point – but dancingly, with a song, with laughter, with love.

Whatever happens is for the good.

Existence cannot go wrong.

If it does not fulfill our desires, that simply means our desires were wrong.

OshO❤
CHAPTER 3. ENCHANTED WITH THE UNKNOWN
The Path of the Mystic

Love God

The drop has disappeared in the ocean.

This Gautam the Buddha used to call anatta, no self, no mind, no you, no I. This in fact can be said in another way....

I have told you about Kabir, one of the great mystics of India. When he was young he became enlightened, and he wrote a small poem, in which comes the line: The drop has disappeared in the ocean.

When he was dying, he called his son Kamaal and told him to change that line. Kamaal said, "It is so beautiful -- the dewdrop has disappeared in the ocean. Why are you changing it? And what is the substitute?"

Kabir said, "These are my last breaths; don't argue, simply do what I am saying. You write instead: The ocean has disappeared in the dewdrop. That was my first impression, this is my last impression." And he closed his eyes.

But both the impressions are beautiful. In the beginning, of course, you will see the dewdrop is disappearing in the ocean. But finally you will realize the ocean has disappeared in the dewdrop.

OSHO...☆☆☆
One Seed Makes the Whole Earth Green

Non Violence

Door of Paradise !

The prime minister of the country was visiting a psychiatric hospital, and the superintendent of the hospital was explaining to him about every inmate. One man was just crying and crying and beating his head against the wall.

The prime minister asked, "What is the matter? What happened to this poor fellow?"

He said, "He used to love a woman but could not get married to her. His suffering is intense."

And in the next room, another man was doing the same act -- beating his head, tearing his hair. The prime minister said, "What happened to him?"

The superintendent laughed. He said, "He married that same woman."

Misery is bound to be there whether you marry the woman or you don't marry the woman, or the man; whether you go into this profession or into that profession.

Everywhere you will find yourself miserable, because always you want more, and life is fleeting. Moment to moment, death is coming closer, and you have not achieved your goal.

Outside there is nothing but misery. We can try to put on masks, we can try to smile, but in fact we want to weep.

Friedrich Nietzsche has written exactly that sentence: "Don't be fooled by my smiles; I smile only when I want to hide my tears. I don't want to expose my wounds to anyone -- it is so humiliating."

And it becomes even more painful to see how close is the door of your paradise -- you are carrying it. A Sufi story makes it clear:

Mulla Nasruddin was carrying the door of his house. Somebody asked, "What are you doing?"

He said, "I am going into another town for some work."

They said, "You can go, but why are you carrying this door?"

He said, "You are absolutely unintelligent. If there is no door to my house, how can any thief enter? I always take my door with me."

It is a Sufi way of saying that the door of your paradise is not somewhere beyond the clouds; it is right within you. And except you, nobody else can enter into it.

OSHO...☆☆☆
Zen - The Diamond Thunderbolt

Lemon makes u happy !

What happens,when continuously thinking of money !

here is an ancient parable in India about a very rich man, very successful; he was so rich that even the king had to borrow money from him.

He had everything that was possible, but he was always very sad and miserable, always a long face.

A young man used to come every day to give him massage, who was always happy. He had nothing to be happy about -- and that was the problem for the rich man. The poor fellow got one rupee per day. In those days, a rupee was really a rupee.

The word `rupee' means `gold'. One rupee was enough for one day, to live happily. That poor man was not poor -- he was living so joyously, and playing on his flute in the middle of the night.

The rich man was worried because this fellow had nothing except one rupee every day. "Why is he always so happy, so smiling, so laughing, playing on his flute, singing, dancing?" The poor man lived close by, in a small room that the rich man had provided for him.

The rich man asked his friend, who was as rich as he was, "What could be the reason for this poor fellow's being so happy?"

His friend said, "I will give you the answer." And that night, suddenly, the poor fellow woke up. Somebody had thrown a bag from the roof containing ninety-nine rupees. That was the last day of his happiness.

Now he started to think, "How can I save some money and make it at least a hundred?" He had never bothered -- one rupee per day was enough to live as richly as he wanted. But now he had more than he could use for the day; he had to save.

When it became one hundred, the desire jumped up, flared up. If he went on collecting, soon he would have two hundred, three hundred, four hundred.

And as more and more money started accumulating, he became more and more miserable, continuously thinking of money. The song disappeared, the dance disappeared; the flute was heard no more.

One day when the rich man was being massaged, he asked him, "What has happened to you? You don't look happy any more. Has some calamity happened?"

He said, "Yes, a calamity has happened. Somebody threw ninety-nine rupees into my house, and since that day I have not slept well, because the desire to have more and more has been aroused."

Once you have the desire for more of anything, life is misery. It may be knowledge, it may be money, it may be power; you may start desiring anything, but you will become more and more sad. It is such a difficult world ....

OSHO...☆☆☆
Zen - The Diamond Thunderbolt

BODHIDHARMA

Bodhidharma was born fourteen centuries ago as a son of a king in the south of India. There was a big empire, the empire of Pallavas. He was the third son of his father, but seeing everything -- he was a man of tremendous intelligence -- he renounced the kingdom.

He was not against the world, but he was not ready to waste his time in mundane affairs, in trivia. His whole concern was to know his self-nature, because without knowing it you have to accept death as the end.

All true seekers in fact, have been fighting against death. Bertrand Russell has made a statement that if there were no death, there would be no religion. There is some truth in it. I will not agree totally, because religion is a vast continent.

It is not only death, it is also the search for bliss, it is also the search for truth, it is also the search for the meaning of life; it is many more things. But certainly Bertrand Russell is right: if there were no death, very few, very rare people would be interested in religion. Death is the great incentive.

Bodhidharma renounced the kingdom saying to his father, "If you cannot save me from death, then please don't prevent me. Let me go in search of something that is beyond death." Those were beautiful days, particularly in the East.

The father thought for a moment and he said, "I will not prevent you, because I cannot prevent your death. You go on your search with all my blessings. It is sad for me but that is my problem; it is my attachment.

I was hoping for you to be the successor, to be the emperor of the great Pallavas empire, but you have chosen something higher than that. I am your father so how can I prevent you?

"And you have put in such a simple way a question which I had never expected. You say, `If you can prevent my death then I will not leave the palace, but if you cannot prevent my death, then please don't prevent me either.'" You can see Bodhidharma's caliber as a great intelligence.

And the second thing that I would like you to remember is that although he was a follower of Gautam Buddha, in some instances he shows higher flights than Gautam Buddha himself.

For example, Gautam Buddha was afraid to initiate a woman into his commune of sannyasins but Bodhidharma got initiated by a woman who was enlightened.

Her name was Pragyatara.

Perhaps people would have forgotten her name; it is only because of Bodhidharma that her name still remains, but only the name -- we don't know anything else about her. It was she who ordered Bodhidharma to go to China.

Buddhism had reached China six hundred years before Bodhidharma. It was something magical; it had never happened anywhere, at any time -- Buddha's message immediately caught hold of the whole Chinese people.

OSHO...☆☆☆
Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

Shoes & Minds !

Hypocrisy !

I am reminded of a great king who was a lover of archery. He himself was an adept, a master of archery.

He was passing through a village and he saw, on every tree, an arrow stuck exactly in the middle of a circle. He could not believe his eyes, that in this village lives such a great archer.

He stopped his chariot and asked the people, "Who is this master archer?" They laughed and said, "Don't bother about him; he is the village idiot."

The king said, "Whoever he is, he is a great archer."

The villagers said, "You don't understand his strategy. First he shoots the arrow and then he makes a circle round it." Obviously, he is a hundred percent successful; he never fails.

In the inside world, you cannot deceive anyone in such a way. You know your center and then you simply become radiant and fragrant, a dance unto yourself. If you don't know it, you may pretend that you are happy, but it is all hypocrisy.

OSHO...☆☆☆
Zen - The Diamond Thunderbolt

Heaven & Hell

Unsocial

the first step towards wisdom

It happened: one day, a man knocked at Naftali’s house. Naftali opened the door and, as was his custom, he asked: ’Why have you come?’
The man said: ’I have come to study with you.’
Naftali closed the door and he said: ’Go somewhere else. I am not a teacher. You can find somebody else who can teach you scriptures.’
’Why?’ Naftali’s wife asked. ’Why have you denied that man? He looked like a sincere seeker.’
Naftali said: ’People who are interested in studying scriptures are almost always stupid. They want to hide.’

Another day, another man knocked. Naftali opened the door and he asked: ’Why are you here? What do you want from me?’
The man said: ’I have come to be near you, to learn how to serve humanity.’
Naftali said: ’Go away. You have knocked on the wrong door.’
The wife was very much puzzled. She said: ’He was not asking to study scriptures. He seems to be a great social reformer or something like that. He wanted to serve humanity. Such a pure, pious mind – why have you refused him?’
Naftali said: ’Those who don’t know themselves – they cannot serve anybody else. All their service finally becomes a mischief.’
Social reformers are mischievous people unless they know themselves. How can you serve anybody? And how can you serve humanity? You have not served that small being that is within you. Light it first – then try to light others’ lives. If you are dark within, and you go and start helping
others, you will not help, you will harm – because who is there to help?

Another day, another man knocked. Naftali opened the door and asked: ’Why have you come here?’
The man said: ’I am very stupid. Can you help me a little to get rid of it?’
Naftali kissed the man and said: ’Welcome. I am waiting for you.’

This is the first step towards wisdom: to realize that you are not wise, to realize that no trick of hiding it is going to help.
One who realizes that he is ignorant is already on the path. One who realizes that he is poor is already on the path of the Kingdom of God, the real treasure. One who realizes that he is blind – his eyes are already opening. One who realizes that he is deaf will sooner or later become capable of listening. And then he will know the music, the music of existence.
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OSHO
THE TRUE SAGE
CHAPTER 5. THE PERFECT SWIMMER

FIRST THINGS FIRST: HAVE A CUP OF TEA!

A Zen Story:

Joshu, the Zen master, asked a new monk in the monastery, 'Have I seen you before?'

The new monk replied, 'No sir.'

Joshu said, 'Then have a cup of tea.'

Joshu then turned to another monk, 'Have I seen you here before?

The second monk said, 'Yes sir, of course you have.'

Joshu said, 'Then have a cup of tea.'

Later the managing monk of the monastery asked Joshu, 'How is it you make the same offer of tea to any reply?'

At this Joshu shouted, 'Manager, are you still here?'

The manager replied, 'Of course, Master.'

Joshu said, 'Then have a cup of tea.'

The story is simple, but difficult to understand. It is always so. The more simple a thing the more difficult it is to understand.
To understand, something complex is needed; to understand, you have to divide and analyze. A simple thing cannot be divided and analyzed-there is nothing to divide and analyze; the thing is so simple.

The simplest always escapes understanding; that is why god cannot be understood. God is the simplest thing, absolutely the simplest thing possible.

If you and I are in a room and you ask me, 'Who are you?' I can at least say I am not you. This will become the definition, the indication.
But if I am alone in a room and I ask myself the question, 'Who am I?' the question resounds but there is no answer. How to define it?

I was just reading one Christian theologian's book.
He says God is everything except evil. This, too, is enough to define. He says, 'All except evil'-this much will draw a boundary. He is not aware: if God is 'everything' then from where does this evil come?

It must be coming from 'everything.' Otherwise there is some other source of existence besides God, and that other source of existence becomes equivalent to God.

Then evil can never be destroyed, then it has its own source of existence; then evil is not dependent on God, so how can God destroy it? God will not destroy it. Once evil is destroyed God cannot be defined. To define him he needs the Devil to be there always, just around him.

Saints need sinners; otherwise they would not be there. How will you know who is a saint? Every saint needs sinners around him; those sinners make the boundary.

''The first thing to be understood is that complex things can be understood, simple things cannot. A simple thing is alone.''

This Zen story about Joshu is very simple. It is so simple it escapes you: you try to grip it; you try to grab it - it escapes. It is so simple that your mind cannot work on it. Try to feel the story. I will not say try to understand because you cannot understand it - try to feel the story.

Many things are hidden within it if you try to feel them; if you try to understand it nothing is there - the whole anecdote is absurd.

Osho, 
A Bird on the Wing, Talk #4

Be True to Love !

Respect oneself !

A person who respects himself never compares. Comparison is a disrespect. 

– OSHO

The Divine Melody Chapter #10

Karma & Religion

Celebration

“Celebration is not because some desire is fulfilled – because no desire is ever fulfilled. Desire as such cannot be fulfilled. Desire is only a way to avoid the present moment. Desire creates the future and takes you far away. Desire is a drug; it keeps you stoned, it does not allow you to see the reality – that which is herenow.

“When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

“Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That’s our natural state – to celebrate – as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state.

“It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.”
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🍁Osho, The Secret of Secrets Talk #8
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The Whole Existence Is a Celebration

“I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

“I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.”

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🍁Osho, Sat-Chit-Anand:
Truth-Consciousness-Bliss Talk #21
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Your Celebration Is the Only True Religion

“Let this be the criterion always: Anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration…is the only true religion I know of.

"No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.”

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🍁Osho, The Rebellious Spirit Talk #24
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True Celebration Cannot Be According to the Calendar

“Have you ever thought about why, all over the world, in every culture, in every society, there are a few days in the year for celebration? These few days for celebration are just a compensation – because these societies have taken away all celebration in your life, and if nothing is given to you in compensation, your life can become a danger to the culture. Every culture has to give some compensation to you so that you don’t feel completely lost in misery, in sadness. But these compensations are false.

“These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a nuisance. But in your inner world there can be a continuity of lights, songs, joys. Always remember that society compensates you when it feels that the repressed may explode into a dangerous situation if it is not compensated. Society finds some way of allowing you to let out the repressed. But this is not true celebration, and it cannot be true.

“True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety.

“Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom."

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🍁Osho, Beyond Enlightenment Talk #28

You cannot address God as ‘thou’ when you have known

Socrates says, ”When I was young I thought I knew all. When I became a little older, I started to understand that I know very little.

When a little more maturity was attained, I came to know that I
know nothing – or, I know only one thing, that I know nothing.”

The day Socrates declared this – ”I know only one thing, that I know nothing” – the oracle at the Delphi temple declared: ”Socrates is the greatest wise man alive.” Those who heard this rushed to Socrates.

They said, ”Now, this is a paradox. You say you know only one thing, that you know nothing. And the oracle of Delphi has declared: ‘Socrates is the wisest man on earth’ – and on the same day! Now please explain it to us; we are puzzled.”

Socrates said, ”Go and ask the oracle again. There must have been some misunderstanding – because I know only one thing, that I know nothing.”

People went back and the oracle was asked. And the oracle said, ”Yes, that’s why I have declared that he is the wisest man in the world – that’s WHY I have declared it. His coming to know, ”I know nothing” is the ultimate knowing. The river has disappeared into the ocean.

There is no knower now, so who can clam? There is no separation left, Socrates is no more. That’s why he is the wisest man alive on the earth.”

The ego is continuously with you like a shadow, it follows you wherever you go. You are in the world, it follows you. You go to the temple, it follows you. You become religious, it follows you. And it is so
clever that whatsoever garb is needed, it puts on.

And remember, unless your reflection in the mirror completely disappears, you have not come face to face with God, because God is not a mirror. God is an ocean to the river: one simply dissolves into him. You cannot address God as ‘thou’ when you have known – because there is no ‘I’ to address him as ‘thou’

~OSHO
CHAPTER 7 #. THE SACRED EXPLOSION.