First Lesson of LOVE !

Searching within !

Intolerance !

To tolerate means you have already humiliated the other person, you are already higher, holier, more understanding.

The people who talk about tolerance are the most intolerant people.

OshO ❤ 
Sermons in Stones

Wake up !

Overflowing Energy !

Fish in the sea is not thirsty !

Love is God !

I am available !

The governor of California wanted to meet me. He sent a messenger.

I said, ”I am available.

Rather than sending you, he should have come himself. What prevents him?

If I wanted to see him, I would have gone and knocked on his door; it is just the right thing to do.

He should come and knock on my
door. Everybody is welcome.”

The woman who had come with the message said, ”But he is a governor.”

I said, ”He may be God – then too, if he wants to meet me, he has to come.”

But power, prestige, respectability....

One president of India, Jakirhussain, sent a message with one of the oldest members of parliament, Seth Govinddas –

I was the guest of Seth Govinddas.
He tried to persuade me.

I said, ”Forget it. If he wants to see me and meet me, I’m available, but I don’t have any business to go to the president’s house.”

He said, ”You don’t understand, he can be of immense help.”

I said, ”In my whole life, I have only trusted in existence, not in anybody’s help.”

In fact it was a problem for him, because if he had succeeded in taking me to the president, he would have obliged the president.

But my simple refusal... he said, ”How am I going to convey it to him?”

I said, ”Repeat my words exactly, that it is the thirsty who comes to the well, it is not the well who runs after thirsty people.

The thirsty person may be the president, it doesn’t matter. Beggar or emperor,
whoever is thirsty has to come to the well.”

OshO ❤ 
CHAPTER 5. DISCLOSE US TO OURSELVES

If you don’t want to be miserable, it is so simple – don’t be miserable.

The moment you ask how to drop misery you know perfectly well you don’t want to drop it, because there is no reason.

If you don’t want to be miserable, it is so simple – don’t be miserable.

I simply decided.

And thirty-five years have passed; I have not been miserable – although the whole world is trying to make me miserable.

But they should remember: it is impossible. Once I have decided, I have decided.

As I was coming out of the American jails, the jailer said to me, ”Strange... people enter jail and they look very good. When they come out they look very bad.

But you are looking better!”

I said, ”Twelve days of complete rest, no problem, no disciples... no need of any security” – I was the most secure person inside. I told him, ”Even President Ronald Reagan is not so secure.

If you want him to be really secure, put him in jail! – absolute security!”
He said, ”I have never seen any man...

I am going to retire soon. In my whole life’s experience, you are the first man who has come out of the jail so happy.”

I said, ”I didn’t think it would be so soon; I was planning to rest a little more.”

But it was not only the jailer. My attorneys, as I came to them, said, ”What happened? You are looking far better.”

As I reached my residence, Vivek said, ”Why don’t you look so good here?”

I said, ”This is not a jail. I was practicing for twelve days because I know for certain if there is any hell – I’m going too!”

God is not going to tolerate me.
His priests are not tolerating me anywhere in the world.

Even if I somehow reach heaven, God is not going to allow me in. Perhaps they have already passed a resolution – ”This man is dangerous. If he comes this side, be alert!”

But they need not be worried,
I’m not going to their side.

OshO ❤ 
CHAPTER 1. A DAWN UNTO HIS OWN DAY

Just be now !

Seekers of Truth,
Whatever is born out of time,
you need not be concerned about.
Let life take care of that. Let life take care of life.
Keep quiet and let your mind rest inside your heart.
Don't worry. Right now belongs only to now.
Just be now.
There are no demands, requirements and conditions.
You are simply here. As you confirm this
and pay attention to this simple fact,
the whole world becomes a harmony
right infront of you.

~ Mooji

All inferiority, all superiority, disappear !

A Zen Master was sitting in SATSANG, his disciples were there, and a very proud man, a warrior, a samurai, came to see him. The samurai was a very famous one, well-known all over the country, but looking at the Master, looking at the beauty of the Master and the grace of the moment, he suddenly felt inferior. Maybe he had come with an unconscious desire to prove his superiority. He said to the Master 'Why am I feeling inferior? Just a moment before everything was okay. As I entered into your court suddenly I felt inferior. I have never felt like that. My hands are shaking. I am a warrior, I have faced death many times, and I have never felt any fear -- why am I feeling frightened?'
The Master said 'You wait. When everybody has gone, I will answer.' People continued coming, and the man was getting tired more and more tired, and by the evening the room was empty, there was nobody, and the samurai said 'Now, can you answer it?' And the Master said 'Now, come out.'
A full moon night -- the moon was just rising on the horizon... And he said 'Look at these trees, this tree high in the sky and this small tree. They both have existed by the side of my window for years, and there has never been any problem, the smaller tree has never said "Why do I feel inferior before you?" to the big tree. How is it possible? This tree is small, and that tree is big, and I have never heard any whisper.' The samurai said 'Because they can't compare.' The Master said 'Then you need not ask me; you know the answer.'
Comparison brings inferiority, superiority. When you don't compare, all inferiority, all superiority, disappear. Then you are, you are simply there. A small bush or a big high tree -- it doesn't matter; you are yourself. You are needed. A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star. Without the grass leaf God will be less than he is. This sound of the cuckoo is needed as much as any Buddha; the world will be less, will be less rich if this cuckoo disappears.
Just look around. All is needed, and everything fits together. It is an organic unity: nobody is higher and nobody is lower, nobody superior, nobody inferior. Everybody is incomparably unique.
If you cannot feel this in my presence, where are you going to feel it? Every day, morning, evening, I bow down to you just to remind you that you are perfect, that nothing is lacking, that you are already there -- not even a single step has to be taken, that from the very beginning  everything is as it should be.
~OSHO, The Sun Rises in the Evening.

Happy Diwali !

Dear Divine soul , 

"Your soul is deeply connected to Lord Hanuman and Lord Hanuman is in turn connected deeply to Shri Lakshmi (Mata Seetha). Therefore, your soul is connected to Devi Lakshmi as deeply as Lord Hanuman is connected to her. I cannot deliver bad luck to a soul when the soul is connected to Shri Lakshmi. To such a soul, I can only deliver riches, beauty, happiness, grace and splendor; I cannot deliver the opposite." 
-- Lord Indra in chapter 11

living your life joyously, playfully, totally !

What meditation is all about ? 

It is living your life joyously, playfully, totally, and with no purpose at the end, with no purpose in view, no purpose there at all. Just like small children playing on the sea beach, collecting seashells and coloured stones…..
“ If you hug a tree lovingly the hug is returned. The moment you start creating a friendship with existence you become a real sannyasin. To be at home in the world, to be rejoicingly part of this tremendous drama is to be a sannyasin. It is not renunciation of life, it is rejoicing in life, with life. It is a deep deep let-go, it is saying yes to all that is. “

“ Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked.
The whole idea of purpose is wrong – it comes out of greed. Life is a sheer joy, a playfulness, a fun, a laughter, to no purpose at all. Life is its own end, it has no other end. The moment you understand it you have understood what meditation is all about. It is living your life joyously, playfully, totally, and with no purpose at the end, with no purpose in view, no purpose there at all. Just like small children playing on the sea beach, collecting seashells and colored stones – for what purpose?
There is no purpose at all. “ 
OSHO
(Zen: Zest Zip Zap and Zing

Freedom or Moksha !

"If water is heated to the boiling point it turns into vapor, so there is a causal connection between vapor and heating. But the spiritual life is not subject to the law of cause and effect. And that is why spiritual life can be absolutely free. Freedom is NOT possible within the chain of cause and effect. The law of cause and effect is a kind of bondage: every effect is tied in with its cause. Cause and effect are dependent on each other one cannot be without the other. And as a cause turns into an effect,
so an effect turns into a cause for some other effect. So everything is bound up with everything else, and-there is no end to it. It is a kind of cause-and-effect continuum.
When water turns into vapor it becomes subject to the law of vapor as it was subject to the law of water a little while ago. And in the same way, when it turns into ice it becomes subject to the law of ice. So it is bounded at bothends; it is in bondage.
What we call moksha or freedom is non-causal. Freedom is not subject to the law of cause and effect. It is not caused it cannot be. Freedom is causeless. You cannot say that someone attained to freedom because of this or that reason – because he fasted for so many days. If it is so then
anybody can become a Mahavira if he fasts. But it is not so. Mahavira had fasted and he became free, but it does not mean his freedom was the result of fasting. Mahavira lived naked, so every body who goes naked should be free. Any number of poor people are going without clothes, but they are not going to be free. Freedom has nothing to do with nakedness.
The truth is that freedom means going beyond the chain of cause and effect. The transcendence of the law of cause and effect is freedom. Really, whatever is subject to the law of cause and effect is called matter, and what goes beyond the frontiers of this law is known as God.
But where is the frontier, the limit that you are going to cross and go beyond? We are used to connecting everything with the law of cause and effect. The experiencing of freedom is beyond the world of cause and effect. Buddha attained to nirvana not because of the efforts he made for it, but in spite of those efforts. Mahavira achieved moksha not because of the severe sadhana he is said to have followed, but in spite of it all. If someone imitates Mahavira totally from A to Z, he is not going to achieve liberation. Nothing will happen to him even if, by way of a sadhana, he does everything as perfectly as Mahavira did.
Freedom is a kind of explosion totally outside the chain of cause and effect. There is absolutely no connection between the two.
Krishna says that if you only understand it for yourself,  you can be free here and now. Whether one deserves it or does not deserve it is not the question. It is not a matter of worthiness or otherwise. It is also not a question of any sadhana.
In Krishna’s vision, man does not have to recover a lost treasure that he once had – it is still with him, but he has forgotten that he has it. So it is only a matter of recalling, of remembering what is hidden in the basement of his consciousness. It is nothing more than that. Therefore Krishna tells
you to go straight to remembering it. And this remembering is sudden; it is not a gradual process. Krishna does not prescribe any discipline, any moral codes, any rituals that religions in general do. Krishna asks you just to wake up and open your eyes and see."

 OSHO  Krishna The Man And His Philosophy

Needs & Desires !

Needs are very few and a man who understands what is needful will always be happy and blissful.

Desires are many, needs are few.

Needs can be fulfilled; desires, never.

A desire is a need gone crazy. It is impossible to fulfill it. The more you try to fulfill it, the more it goes on asking, asking,
asking.

There is a sufi story that when Alexander died and he reached heaven, he was carrying all his weight – his whole kingdom, gold, diamonds – of course not in reality, but in an idea.

Ideas have as much weight; in fact an idea is the real weight.

He was burdened too much by being Alexander.
The gatekeeper started laughing and he said ’Why are you carrying so much of a burden?’

Alexander said ’What burden?’ because really he was carrying nothing.

Everything was in the head, but the head was very heavy.
The gatekeeper gave him a scale and put an eye on one side of the scale. He told

Alexander to put all his weight, all his greatness, treasures, kingdom, on the other side of the scale.

Alexander put all his kingdom, all his wealth, his victories, and everything there.

That one eye still remained heavier than all his kingdom, so finding no other way, he himself jumped onto the scales, but still the one eye remained heavier.

He said to the gatekeeper, ’I cannot understand how such a small eye can be so weighty.

What is it? Are you playing some trick, some magic with me?’
The gatekeeper said, ’This is a human eye.

It represents human desire... the outgoing desire.’
’It cannot be fulfilled, howsoever great the kingdom and howsoever great your efforts. Even a single human eye full of desires cannot be fulfilled.’

Then Alexander said ’Then what is the way to fulfill it?’
The gatekeeper threw a little dust into the eye.

The eye immediately blinked and lost all its weight.
It was immediately weightless.

The story is beautiful. A little dust of understanding has to be thrown into the eye of desire.

The desire disappears and only needs remain, and they are not weighty.

Needs are very few... needs are beautiful.

Desires are ugly and they make monsters of men.

They create mad people.

OshO ❤ 
CHAPTER 5. MAN HAS TO LIVE IN YES
Beloved of My Heart

Grace is always available !

If you feel helplessness, you will feel grace reaching to you.

If you feel that you are already strong, the door is closed. You don’t need grace.

There is a very ancient story. Krishna is sitting down. His wife, Rukhamani, has brought food for him, and he was just going to take the first bite.

He dropped it and rushed towards the door. Then he stopped at the door for a single moment, came back, and started eating.

Rukhamani was puzzled.
She said: ’What is the matter?

You rushed towards the door as if there
is some great emergency, as if the house is on fire or something, or somebody is going to die.

And then you stopped, and then you came back. I’m puzzled. Tell me, what is the secret?’

Krishna said: ’One of my devotees, a lover, was passing through a big city. He is almost mad in love with me.

People were throwing stones at him. They thought he was crazy. And when the stones hit him and the blood flowed, he just said: ’Krishna, Krishna,’ and danced.

He was so helpless, I was needed.

So I rushed.’ Rukhmani asked: ’Then what happened?
Why did you come back from the door?’
Krishna said: ’By the time I reached the door, he had taken one stone in his hand.

He was throwing stones himself.
Now I am not needed. He has taken the whole situation in his own hands.

I am not needed.

God comes to you when you are helpless. When you are strong, God is not needed.

The divine reaches to you when you are empty. When you are too full of yourself, there is no need.

Helplessness is the capacity to call, to invite grace.

Grace is always available; you only have to be helpless.

But in your ego, you feel you are strong. You feel you are the master. You feel nothing can harm you.

You feel everybody else dies, not you. You feel very superior, and nothing is there in that superiority; it is just a bubble, a soap bubble – inside, nothing but emptiness.

And you know it, because anybody can touch the bubble and it is no more there; it explodes.

Feel helpless and you will never be helpless again.

Feel empty and you will be full with the divine.

That’s the secret.

OshO ❤ 
CHAPTER 6. THE PERFECT SWIMMER – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The True Sage

When nothing works....... Just simply REST !

Live naturally !

I always say that Nietzsche’s dictum is to be followed. It is a very religious dictum. Nietzsche says, ”Live dangerously.” Not that you have to seek danger positively, there is no need to seek danger positively. Don’t create protections. Don’t create walls around you. Live naturally, and that will be dangerous, dangerous enough. There is no need to seek any danger…
So first, withdraw your efforts to create a secure life. Just by withdrawing, your walls around you will fall. For the first time you will feel rains coming to you directly, the wind blowing at you directly, the sun rising to you directly. You will be under the open sky. It is beautiful. And if it looks horrible to you it is only because you have become accustomed to living in a prison…
Remain alive, live dangerously, live a vulnerable life, open, so that everything can happen to you. And let everything happen to you. The more that happens to you the richer you will be…

OSHO : Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2.
CHAPTER 31. FORGET THE PERIPHERY.

You are beyond the body !

The body is going to die, the body is part of death, the body is death -- but you are beyond the body. You are not the body; you are the bodiless. Remember it. Realize it. Awaken yourself to this truth -- that you are beyond the body. You are the witness, the seer. Then death disappears and fear disappears, and there arises the tremendously glorious life -- what Jesus calls 'life abundant,' or 'the kingdom of God.' The kingdom of God is within you.

Osho
Ancient Music In The Pines
Chapter # 5

Ego !

Paradox of Love !

Be True to Love !