Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Sunday, 29 May 2016
Friday, 27 May 2016
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Saturday, 21 May 2016
Friday, 20 May 2016
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Monday, 16 May 2016
Sunday, 15 May 2016
Friday, 13 May 2016
Thursday, 12 May 2016
Respect !
Lao Tzu has said, ”Wish for success and you will fail. If you really want success, never wish for it.
Then no one can make you a failure.”You say you wanted respect, but you are getting insults.
A person who wants respect has no respect for himself, yet he wants respect from others.
He who has no respect for himself wants others to cover it, to hide his lack of respect.
This desire for respect is the sign that within, you feel disrespect for yourself. You have the feeling that you are nothing.
Others should make you into something, should put you on a throne, should raise banners for you, should hoist flags in your name – others should do something!
You are a beggar.
You have already insulted yourself when you wanted respect. And this insult goes on deepening.
Lao Tzu says, ”No one can insult me because I don’t want respect.” This is what receiving respectis.
Lao Tzu says, ”No one can defeat me because I have dropped the very idea of winning.
How can you defeat me?
You can only defeat one who wants to win.” It is a strange fact.
You can only defeat one who wants to win.” It is a strange fact.
In this world those who do not desire respect receive it. Those who do not want success get it,because those who do not want success already accept that they are successful: what more success do you want?
You are already honored by the being within you: what more do you want?
Existence has already given you respect by giving birth to you: who else’s respect do you want?
Existence Has given you enough glory.
It gave you life. It has blessed you with eyes – open them and see these green trees, the flowers, the birds.
It gave you life. It has blessed you with eyes – open them and see these green trees, the flowers, the birds.
It has given you ears – listen to music, to the splashing of a water fall.
It has given awareness so you can become a buddha: what more do you want?
You Have already been honored.
Existence has certified you: who are you asking, like a beggar, for a certificate?
Those who beg a certificate from you?
It is a very hilarious situation, two beggars face to face begging from each other.
How can you get anything?
Both are beggars. From who are you asking respect? Who are you standing in front of?
Both are beggars. From who are you asking respect? Who are you standing in front of?
You are insulting yourself this way.
And the insult will deepen.
Contentment means: Look at what you have!
Open your eyes a little and see what you’ve already got.
OshO ❤️
CHAPTER 1. ASHTAVAKRA: THE PUREST EXPRESSION OF TRUTH
The Mahageeta, Vol 1
CHAPTER 1. ASHTAVAKRA: THE PUREST EXPRESSION OF TRUTH
The Mahageeta, Vol 1
Monday, 9 May 2016
Sunday, 8 May 2016
Is marriage meaningful or not?
Just the other day a young man came – very sensible very sensitive – and he asked me that ”I have come to ask a very significant question – because my whole life depends on it.
My parents are forcing me to get married, and I don’t see any meaning in it so I have come to ask you: Is marriage meaningful or not?
Should I move into marriage or not?”
I told him that ”When you feel thirsty, do you ask whether drinking is meaningful or not?
Should I drink water or not?
The question of meaning doesn't arise.
The question of meaning doesn't arise.
It is a question of whether you are thirsty or not. Maybe there is no meaning in water and no meaning in drinking, but that is irrelevant.
The relevant thing is whether you are thirsty or not.
And I know that even if you drink again and again, you will become thirsty.
So the mind can say:What is the meaning in it, what is the purpose of it – drinking again and again, and again becoming thirsty? – it seems to be just a rut.
There seems to be no meaning in it.’ ”This is how the conscious mind has been trying to dominate your whole being, because meaning belongs to conscious mind.
The unconscious knows no meaning. It knows hunger, it knows thirst,it knows needs; it knows no meaning. In fact, life has no meaning. If you ask, you are asking for suicide.
Life has no meaning; it simply exists, and exists so beautifully without meaning that there is no need. What is the meaning of a tree existing, or the sun rising every day in the morning, or themoon in the night?
What is the meaning when a tree comes to bloom? And what is the meaning when the birds sing in the morning, and the stream goes on flowing, and the waves, tremendous waves of the ocean go on shattering on the rocks again and again and again?
What is the meaning?
Meaning is not of the whole. The whole exists so beautifully without meaning. In fact, if there was any meaning the whole would not have been so beautiful.
Because with meaning comes calculation, with meaning comes cunningness, with meaning comes reason, with meaning comes division: thisis meaningful, that is meaningless, this is more meaningful, that is less meaningful.
The whole exists without any distinctions. Everything is absolutely beautiful not because of any meaning, but just by being there. There is no purpose.
So I told to the young man that ”If you ask about meaning, you are asking a wrong question, and you will be led in a wrong way.”
That’s how priests became so powerful: you asked wrong questions,they supplied wrong answers.
I told him, ”You just watch your own being. Do you need a woman to fulfill you?
Does your whole being hanker for love? Because love is a hunger, a thirst.
Does your whole being hanker for love? Because love is a hunger, a thirst.
When you see a beautiful woman passing by, does something suddenly happen in you? – a wave, something invisible, a change? Or happens nothing?
you go on moving the same way as you were moving as if the woman had not passed. If you move on a road and a beautiful woman passes, and you go on moving the same way as you were moving before she came, nothing has happened, no wave inyour being, not even a ripple, then there is no need for marriage.
But don’t ask about the meaning.
If something happens, you start walking a little faster, or you start humming a tune, or you start looking at the beautiful woman, or you start avoiding her... if something happens this way or that –
I Am not concerned whether you start moving in the same direction the woman is going, or you start running into the opposite direction, it is not relevant – if something happens then you have a need,and that need is to be fulfilled.
Because a need exists to be fulfilled.
There may come some day when you will pass on the road and a woman makes no difference.
That too is good, but this too is good.
Everything is holy and sacred.
There is a time to be in love and there is a time to move beyond it.
There is a time to be related and enjoy the relationship, and there is a time to be alone and to enjoy the beauty of being alone.
And everything is beautiful.”
OshO ❤️
CHAPTER 1. DROPPING OUT OF THE WHEEL
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3
CHAPTER 1. DROPPING OUT OF THE WHEEL
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3
IF YOU CHANGE, THE WORLD CHANGES !
"It is awareness that brings change , not your effort . Why does it happen through awareness ? - because the awareness changes you . And when you are different the whole world is different . It is not a question of creating a different world , it is only a question of creating a different you . YOU ARE YOUR WORLD , SO IF YOU CHANGE, THE WORLD CHANGES . If you don't change , you can go on changing the whole world - nothing changes ; you will go on creating the same world again and again . You create your world . It is out of you that your world is projected."
"Happiness is man’s nature.You need not worry about happiness at all, it is already there. It is in your heart you just have to stop being unhappy !appiness at all, it is already there. It is in your heart you just have to stop being un
OSHO , Tantric Transformation , Chapter # 3 : Breaking the Four SealsSaturday, 7 May 2016
Death - Mustard seeds - Buddha
A woman came to Buddha crying,
weeping, carrying the dead body of her
only son. People had told her that if she
goes to the Buddha, he is such a
compassionate man, he may do some
miracle. Buddha asked the woman, "You
do one thing: you go into town -- bring
some mustard seeds. One condition has
to be fulfilled: they should be brought
from a house where nobody has ever
died."
The woman was very happy; this was
not a problem because their whole
village was growing mustard seeds. So
every house was full of mustard seeds.
She rushed from one house to another,
but in her excitement that her son is
going to be revived again she forgot
completely that the condition is
impossible, it cannot be fulfilled.
By the evening she had knocked on all
the doors, and everybody said, "We can
give you as many mustard seeds as you
want, but they will not help because we
cannot fulfill the condition: somebody
has died in our family -- not only one
but many persons really. My father died,
my father's father died... and thousands
of others before." Somebody's wife has
died, somebody's mother, somebody's
brother, sister, somebody's son.... She
could not find a single family where
nobody had ever died.
By the evening when she came she was a
totally different woman -- she came
laughing. In the morning she had come
crying and weeping; she was almost
mad because the only son had died.
Buddha asked her, "Why are you
smiling?"
She said, "Now I know -- you tricked me,
you befooled me, but I could not see the
point at that time. Everybody has to die,
so it is not a question now that my son
has died. He had to die one day or other.
And it is good, in a way, that he has died
before me: if I had died before him, he
would have suffered. It is better for me
to suffer than for him to suffer. So it is
good, perfectly good.
"Now I have come for initiation. Initiate
me into sannyas, because I would like to
know: is there anything beyond death or
not? Is death all or does something
survive? I am no longer interested in the
son."
Buddha said, "That was the purpose of
sending you, so that you can be
awakened."
OSHO
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha,
Vol-3, Chapter-3
weeping, carrying the dead body of her
only son. People had told her that if she
goes to the Buddha, he is such a
compassionate man, he may do some
miracle. Buddha asked the woman, "You
do one thing: you go into town -- bring
some mustard seeds. One condition has
to be fulfilled: they should be brought
from a house where nobody has ever
died."
The woman was very happy; this was
not a problem because their whole
village was growing mustard seeds. So
every house was full of mustard seeds.
She rushed from one house to another,
but in her excitement that her son is
going to be revived again she forgot
completely that the condition is
impossible, it cannot be fulfilled.
By the evening she had knocked on all
the doors, and everybody said, "We can
give you as many mustard seeds as you
want, but they will not help because we
cannot fulfill the condition: somebody
has died in our family -- not only one
but many persons really. My father died,
my father's father died... and thousands
of others before." Somebody's wife has
died, somebody's mother, somebody's
brother, sister, somebody's son.... She
could not find a single family where
nobody had ever died.
By the evening when she came she was a
totally different woman -- she came
laughing. In the morning she had come
crying and weeping; she was almost
mad because the only son had died.
Buddha asked her, "Why are you
smiling?"
She said, "Now I know -- you tricked me,
you befooled me, but I could not see the
point at that time. Everybody has to die,
so it is not a question now that my son
has died. He had to die one day or other.
And it is good, in a way, that he has died
before me: if I had died before him, he
would have suffered. It is better for me
to suffer than for him to suffer. So it is
good, perfectly good.
"Now I have come for initiation. Initiate
me into sannyas, because I would like to
know: is there anything beyond death or
not? Is death all or does something
survive? I am no longer interested in the
son."
Buddha said, "That was the purpose of
sending you, so that you can be
awakened."
OSHO
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha,
Vol-3, Chapter-3
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Sexual suppression and freedom from sex?
What is the
difference between great sexual suppression and freedom from sex? On the
surface, both have no interest in sex. How does suppressed sex bubble up?
First, suppressed sex has more interest than expressed sex can ever have. The interest is not direct - it is indirect, it is vicarious, it is cunning; the interest is there, immensely there.
If your sex life is
normal, unrepressed, uninhibited, the interest cannot be so much, because you
will have a kind of satisfaction, a contentment.
It is like when you
have taken your food, you forget about food. But if you fast, then you
continuously think about food. Fast one day and then go to the market, and you
will see only hotels, restaurants, food stores, and you will smell only food
smells coming from everywhere. And you had been to this place before many
times. It had never happened like that.
Repression cannot
free you from interest. The repressed person becomes more interested in sex
than anybody else. Maybe he shows antagonism, that’s possible, but antagonism
is interest.
That’s why your
so-called religious scriptures are full of antagonism towards sex,
condemnation. Your so-called mahatmas go on cursing sex. That simply shows
their interest, nothing else. They are still haunted by it. They may be sitting
in their caves in the Himalayas, but they are condemning sex. Why?
It is deep inside
them, in their very guts, they are fighting with it.
Their condemnation is
a way of their fighting with it: they condemn it so that they can remain on top
of it. If you don’t condemn for even a single day, they start feeling afraid
that the real thing from inside may surface, may throw away them and their
control and their saintlihood and their holiness.
~ OSHO
I Say Unto You , Vol
02
Chapter 4 : Respect
and Accept
Monday, 2 May 2016
Sunday, 1 May 2016
Imagination !
Coue, one of the great psychologists of the West, helped millions of people just through imagination to be cured of many, many diseases.
His formula was very simple.
He will say that, ”Just you start feeling that you are okay. Just go on repeating inside the mind, I am getting better and better.
He will say that, ”Just you start feeling that you are okay. Just go on repeating inside the mind, I am getting better and better.
Everyday I am getting better.” In the night while you fall asleep, go on thinking you are healthy, and you are getting healthier every moment, and by the morning you will be the healthiest person in the world.
Go on imagining.”And he helped millions of people. Even incurable diseases were cured. It looked like a miracle; it isnothing. It is just a basic law: your mind follows imagination.
Now psychologists say that if you say to children that ”You are duffers, dull,” they become dull. You Force them to be dull.
You give their imagination the suggestion that they are dull. Many experiments have been done.
Say to a child, ”You are dull. You cannot do anything; you cannot solve this mathematical problem, and give him the problem and tell him, ”Now try,” he will not be able to solve it.
You have closed the door. Say to the child, ”You are intelligent and I have not seen any intelligent boy like you are; for your stage, your age you are over-intelligent.
You show many potentialities; you can solve any problem. Now try this,” and he will be able to solve it. You Have given imagination to him.
Now these are scientific proofs, now scientific discoverings, that whatsoever imagination catches, it becomes a seed. Whole generations have been changed, whole ages, whole countries have beenchanged, just through imagination.
You go Punjab. I was traveling once from Delhi to Manali. My driver was a Sikh, a sardar.
The way,the road, was dangerous, and the car was very big. And the driver became many times afraid. And Many times he will say, ”Now I cannot go ahead. We will have to go back.” We tried in every way to persuade him.
At one point he became so afraid he stopped the car, got out of the car and said,”No!
Now I cannot move from here. It is dangerous,” he said. ”It may not be dangerous for you; you may be ready to die. But I am not I want to go back.”By chance one of my friends who is also a sardar and was a big police official, he was also coming, following me to attend the camp in Manali.
His car reached, so I told him that ”Do something! The Man has gone out of the car.” That police official came and he said, ”You being a sardar, and a Sikh and a coward?
Get into the car.” The man immediately came into the car and started. So I asked him, ”What is the matter?” He said ”Now he has touched my ego. He says, You are a sardar?
”Sardar means leader of men. ”A Sikh?
And a coward? He has touched my imagination. He has touched my pride.
And a coward? He has touched my imagination. He has touched my pride.
Now we can go. Dead or alive, but we will reach Manali.”And this has not happened with one man.
If you go to Punjab, you will see that it has happened with millions. Look at the Hindus of Punjab and at the Sikhs of Punjab. Their blood is same; they belong to the same race.
Five hundred years before all were Hindus. And then a different type of race,a military race, was born. Just by growing beard, just by changing your face, you cannot become rave.
But you can! Imagination.
Nanak gave the imagination that ”You are a different type of race. You are unconquerable.” And once they believe, once that imagination started to work, in the Punjab, within five hundred years, a newrace, totally different from Punjabi Hindus has come into being.
Nothing is different.
But in India, no one is braver than they. These two world wars have proved that on whole of the earth Sikhs have no comparison.
They can fight fearlessly.
What has happened?
What has happened?
Just their imagination has created a milieu around them. They feel that just being Sikhs they are different.
Imagination works It can make a brave man out of you, it can make a coward.
OshO ❤️
CHAPTER 3. FIVE MODIFICATIONS OF MIND–
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1
CHAPTER 3. FIVE MODIFICATIONS OF MIND–
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)