Attachment - Spiritual Slavery !

whatever you do comes back to you !

One day you comprehend that the
sorrow we give others makes us equally sad; the joy we give others makes us equally happy.

But we think in opposite terms – saving joy for ourselves and wishing sorrow on others. And we feel, perhaps, that in that way our own quota of happiness will be greater.

The end result is that you find your own life filled with sorrow because whatever you give returns to you. If you have sown thorns
for others, your own life gets surrounded by thorns. And if you go about sowing flowers unconcerned with what others are doing, your life becomes filled with flowers.

You reap what you sow.

But we do not seem to understand this formula of life.

A woman came to me wanting to divorce her husband.

I will never forget what she asked of me.
She said, ”Show me a way of getting a divorce so that my husband remains miserable for all time to come.”

She knows very well that her husband will be the happiest person in the world the day she
divorces him; she has pestered him
endlessly.

Now she wants that he be made miserable even after she leaves.

When we are together we wish to give sorrow; when we are apart we wish to give sorrow.

Together or apart, if our aim in life is to create sorrow and pain for others, then it can only gradually create a painful wound within ourselves.

The wound is of our own making. It comes out of constant attention to provoking pain.

This is what we call karma, the process of actions. Fate, destiny, only mean that whatever you do comes back to you.

Though there may be a certain lapse of time, eventually it is bound to bounce back to affect you.

Therefore do only what you want to obtain for yourself.

If you find yourself in a veritable hell, it is of your own making – the fruit of what you have been doing for countless births.

People come to me and say, ”Bless us so that we may attain happiness.” There would be no problem if it were so easy, if one man could just bless everyone and they would find happiness.

How could my blessings wash away your misery?

Try to understand me and not ask for blessings; that would be mere deception.

You have given pain and suffering to others, now you must reap the fruits of your actions; and you come to ask for blessings?

And your attitude is that you suffer because I do not give you my blessings.

No blessings can remove your suffering.

If somebody’s blessings help to improve your understanding and sow seeds of love within you, that is more than enough.

Sins can be washed away only with love, and suffering can end only when you give happiness to others.

OshO ❤️ 
CHAPTER 9. DYED IN HIS HUE
The True Name, Vol 1

Nobody knows from where the help will come !

It happened: Vivekananda, before he went to America and became a world-famous figure, stayed in Jaipur Maharaja’s palace. The Maharaja was a lover of Vivekananda and Ramakrishna. As maharajas go, when Vivekananda came to stay in his palace he made a great festival out of it, and he called prostitutes to dance and sing in reception… as maharajas go: they have their own minds. He completely forgot that to receive a sannyasin with the singing of prostitutes and dancing of prostitutes doesn’t suit. But he couldn’t know anything else. He always knew that when you have to receive somebody, drinking, dancing has to be done.

And Vivekananda was still immature; he was not a perfect sannyasin yet. Had he been a perfect sannyasin, then there was indifference — no problem — but he was not indifferent yet. He has not gone that deep into Patanjali even. He was a young man, and a very suppressive one who was suppressing his sex and everything. When he saw the prostitutes, he simply locked his room and would not come out of it.

The Maharaja came and he asked his forgiveness. He said, ‘We don’t know. We have never received any sannyasin. We always receive kings, so we know the ways. So we are sorry, but now it will be too much insulting, because this is the greatest prostitute in the country — and very costly. And we have paid, and to say her to move and go will be insulting to her, and if you don’t come she will feel very much hurt. So come out.”

But Vivekananda was afraid to come out; that’s why I say he was still immature, still not a seasoned sannyasin. Still indifference is not there — a condemnation: “A prostitute?” — he was very angry, and he said, “No” Then the prostitute started singing without him, and she sang a song of a saint. The song is very beautiful. The song says that “I know that I am not worthy of you, but you could have been a little more compassionate. I am dirt on the road; that I know. But you need not be so antagonistic to me. I am nobody — ignorant, a sinner. But you are a saint — why are you afraid of me?”

It is said Vivekananda heard from his room. The prostitute was weeping and singing, and he felt — he felt the whole situation of what he is doing. It is immature, childish. Why he is afraid? Fear exists only if you are attracted. You will be afraid of women if you are attracted of women. If you are not attracted, the fear disappears. What is the fear? An indifference comes without any antagonism.

He opened the door: he couldn’t contain himself, he was defeated by the prostitute. The prostitute became victorious; he had to come out. He came and he sat, and he wrote in his diary that “A new revelation has been given to me by the divine. I was afraid… must be some lust within me. That’s why I was afraid. But the woman defeated me completely, and I have never seen such a pure soul. The tears were so innocent and the singing and the dancing were so holy that I would have missed. And sitting near her, for the first time I became aware that it is not a question who is there outside; it is a question what is.”

That night he wrote in his diary that ‘Now I can even sleep with that woman in the bed and there will be no fear.” He transcended. That prostitute helped him to transcend. This is a miracle. Ramakrishna couldn’t help and a prostitute helped him. So nobody knows from where the help will come. Nobody knows what is evil and what is good. Who can decide? Mind is impotent and helpless. So don’t take any attitude: that is the meaning of being indifferent.

-OSHO, 
(Yoga : The Alpha and the Omega)

A CONSCIOUS DEATH IS ONE OF THE MIRACLES OF LIFE………

Enlightenment only means that your whole being is conscious: there are no dark corners left inside you.
Dying in such consciousness the body, the mind, the brain can be taken away from you, because you know now – not just as a theory, but as your authentic experience – that you have always been separate.
The involvement with the body was broken the day you became enlightened…..

Questioner : “ Is it possible to die consciously without being enlightened?”

OSHO : “ Nirah, existence follows certain laws – and there are no exceptions. If one wants to die consciously, the only way is to be enlightened.

Death is such a great surgery: your soul is being taken apart from the body and mind, with which it has been involved for seventy or eighty years. Even for a small operation you need anaesthesia; and this is the greatest operation in existence.

Unconsciousness is nothing but nature’s way of giving you anaesthesia. Unless you are completely unidentified with body and mind, you cannot die consciously – and a death which is not conscious is a great opportunity missed.

Enlightenment is an absolute necessity.

Enlightenment only means that your whole being is conscious: there are no dark corners left inside you. Dying in such consciousness the body, the mind, the brain can be taken away from you, because you know now – not just as a theory, but as your authentic experience – that you have always been separate. The involvement with the body was broken the day you became enlightened.

In the ancient scriptures of the Buddhists, enlightenment is called the “great death” – not that you are going to die, but the death is great because you will be able to see it happening, you will be a witness. Now you are no longer attached to the body, no clinging, and you have become aware of your immortality.

You can die consciously only when you know that you are immortal, that you belong to eternity, not to time; that deep within you is the beginning of existence and the end of existence – if there is any beginning or if there is any end. In fact there is no beginning and no end; you have always been here, and you will always be here.

A conscious death is one of the miracles of life, because after that you will not be born again in any form – as a man, as a bird, as a tree. You will remain in the eternal consciousness of the universe, spread all over the ocean. Hence, it has been called the “great death.”

But there are no exceptions. Existence follows absolutely definite laws, and this is a law of the highest order, because it concerns your consciousness, your life, your death.”

OSHO
The Rebellious Spirit. Chapter 17.

”Eat, drink and be merry,” was not enough !

There have been two traditions in the world. One consists of those who are life-negative, life condemners, life poisoners. They have been in the majority, because most people love the negative. To condemn anything is very easy. To criticize anything is very easy. But to appreciate anything needs intelligence.

THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL STORY by Turgenev, THE FOOL.

A sage came to a village where the village idiot was condemned by everybody; the moment he opened his mouth people would start laughing, expecting him to say something stupid. The poor man came to the sage and told his misery, that he is the laughingstock of the whole village. As far as possible he keeps completely quiet, but even his quietness is condemned: ”Look at that idiot. He thinks that we are all fools who are talking and
he is something spiritual; being silent, meditative!” ”If I talk, I am condemned; if I don’t talk, I am condemned. Show me the way to get out of this miserable state.”

The sage said, ”I will give you the secret. And after one month I will be coming back; then you can tell me what happened in this month.”

The secret was very simple. The secret was: ”Do not say anything on your own account, but whenever somebody says something, immediately criticize. If somebody says, ‘Look, how beautiful
is the full moon,’ don’t miss the opportunity. Immediately say, ‘What is beautiful in it? Prove what is beautiful in it. Do you know what beauty is?’

”It is very difficult to define it. Everybody knows that the full moon is beautiful. But perhaps you have never asked yourself, ‘Do you know what beauty is?’ And if you don’t know what beauty is, how can you say anything is beautiful? The statement that something is beautiful implies that you know the definition of beauty. So immediately jump in and ask, ‘What is the definition of beauty?’”

Not even the greatest philosophers who have been thinking all their lives about beauty and nothing else, like Croce who has written volumes upon beauty, end up with anything definable. The whole effort, hundreds of pages, and the conclusion is that it is indefinable.

”Just go on this way. If somebody says, ‘That man is very virtuous,’ immediately ask, ‘What is virtue? How do you know, on what grounds, what authority?’

”Never make any statement of your own, so nobody can criticize you. And you go on criticizing everybody, don’t miss a single opportunity, and ask for a definition.”

And after one month the sage came and the idiot fell at his feet and said, ”Your secret has done miracles. Now I am supposed to be the wisest man in my village. In just one month!”

To negate, needs not much intelligence. To affirm, needs tremendous intelligence. So there has been a majority tradition of condemners. That is the easiest way to prove yourself superior. They condemn everything, they condemn the whole world.

There has been a small stream of affirmers also. But they are looked upon in a very derogatory way. These are the materialists. The majority thinks itself spiritualist. Yet there is a small stream which says, ”Eat, drink and be merry. This is all. There is nothing else to seek and search for.”

My situation is a little complex. I accept the materialist as far as he is saying, ”Eat, drink and be merry.” But I deny that this is all. I accept the spiritualist’s search for something higher, but I refute
the spiritualist for his condemnation of life, enjoyment, the small joys of life.

I am a materialist-spiritualist. Begin with this very earth and rise up to the sky, to the highest stars. This is one single universe. There are not two universes, one materialist and one spiritualist. Matter and spirit are continuously meeting with each other, dancing hand in hand.

You have to be a materialist to begin with. But don’t stop there. That is only a beginning. The second thing that will make your journey complete is the search for significance. Otherwise every enjoyment is going to become boredom sooner or later. If you don’t know the significance, if you don’t know the eternal meaning of life, if you simply live superficially – I am not saying it is evil, I am saying it is incomplete. It is getting lost in the very beginning. It is very superficial.

Life has depths beyond depths, and unless you reach to the very bottom and touch something eternal, you will not know the significance of existence, the splendor and the glory and the
abundance of blessings. Your enjoyment will pay well for a long time. But then you will know that, ”Eat, drink and be merry,” was not enough. It was good enough, but not enough.

-OSHO.
(CHAPTER 26. NOBODY IS A GERMAN, Sat Chit Anand)

Money matters !

Mulla Nasrudin's daughter came home and she said she was pregnant and the richest man of the town was the father of the unborn child. Mulla Nasrudin was, of course, mad. 

He rushed with his gun towards the rich man's house; he forced the rich man into a corner and said, "Now you can breathe your last, or if you have any prayer to say to God, say it!" 

The rich man smiled and he said, "Listen, before you do anything neurotic. Yes, I know your daughter is pregnant by me -- but if a boy is born I have kept one lakh rupees in the bank for the boy. If a daughter is born I have kept fifty thousand rupees in the bank for the daughter."

Mulla took his gun away and said, "Sir, if something goes wrong, if there is a miscarriage or something, are you ready to give her another chance?"

Once the money is there, then suddenly you are no more yourself; you are ready to change.

This is the way of the worldly man. I don't call those people worldly who have money -- I call those people worldly who change their motives for money. I don't call those people unworldly who have no money they may be simply poor. I call those people unworldly who don't change their motives for money.

Just being poor is not equivalent to being spiritual; and just being rich is not equivalent to being a materialist.

-OSHO
A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Life is your security !

Remember, life goes on providing.

The child is born; before the child is born the mother’s breasts are swelling with milk.

The child is yet only on the way, the child is not born yet, but the breasts are getting ready.

Before the hunger of the child, the food is ready.

If you look deeply into life you will find it happening everywhere: Life provides.

And once you know it, great trust arises in life.

That trust is religious.
Trust does not mean believing in a book, in a certain ideology.

Trust means SEEING that life provides, FEELING that life cares, that it is not against you, that it is all for you, that it is not indifferent to you, that it loves you, that it protects you, that you need not be worried, too worried about security.

Life is your security.

OshO ❤️ 
CHAPTER 7. THIRSTY
The Wisdom of the Sands, Vol 2

”What Happens after death?

Indians are always thinking about life after death.

Indians come to me and they ask, ”What Happens after death?

”I tell them, ”Don’t talk nonsense – ask what happens before death.

The real question is before death, not after death. And whatsoever happens before death will continue to happen after death.

Don’t be worried about it.”But I can understand why they don’t ask about life.

They have all settled for the ugliness of it, they are not ready to change it.

This is hell, and created by the people themselves.

No devil is responsible for it.
You can change it.

Even if there is a hell, if the right people go there they will change it.

I have heard a story: An atheist asked a priest... because the priest had said in his discourse that day that people who believe in God and who do virtuous deeds go to heaven, and people who don’t believe in God and who are sinners go to hell.

An atheist raised his hand and asked, ”Sir, one question has to be solved then.

What about those people who don’t believe in God and yet do virtuous deeds, where will they go?

And what about those people who believe in God and yet are sinners, where will they go?”

The priest was at a loss, naturally.

If he says that the virtuous people will go to hell because they don't believe in God, it doesn’t look right.

Then what is the point of being virtuous? Then just believe in God and enjoy all the sins you can enjoy.

Why bother about being virtuous?

If he says that those people will go to heaven who believe in God and who are still sinners, then just belief is enough.

So God is not interested in what you do, he is not interested in your acts. You can kill, you can be a Genghis Khan or an Adolf Hitler, if you still believe in God.

And Adolf Hitler believed in God, remember. Genghis Khan believed in God, remember: before massacring thousands of people, every day in the early morning he would recite the Koran.

The first thing was namaz, prayer, and then he would go into all kinds of ugly things, unimaginable butchery.

The priest must have been a very sensitive person, alert.

He said, ”Please give me time.

The Question is difficult, it is not so easy. Next Sunday I will answer.”Those seven days were really hell for the priest; he tried this way and that, but nothing was going to work.

Sunday arrived, and he knew the atheist would be there, but not to turn up would be humiliating.

So he came a little early to pray to Jesus Christ, ”Help me! I am your servant, I have been speaking on your behalf.

Now help me – what is the clue?

This man has created such trouble!

”Praying to Christ – and for seven days he had not slept, thinking the whole night, thinking the whole day – he fell asleep before the statue of Christ and he had a dream.

In the dream he saw a train ready to leave for heaven. He jumped in. He said, ”This is perfectly right.

Why shouldn’t I go there and see with my own eyes? If I see Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan, Tamburlaine, in heaven, then the question is solved.

Or if I see Socrates, who did not believe in God but was one of the most virtuous of men, if I see Gautama the Buddha, who did not believe in God but was one of the most godly persons who ever walked on the earth, then the question is solved.”

He rushed into the train and the train left.
He reached heaven.

He was a little surprised, puzzled,because heaven did not look very heavenly; it was very sad, dull and damp – no joy, nothing sunny,no song.

He had heard so much about the angels who go on playing on their harps and singing and dancing. No harps, no singing, no dancing.

Just a few stupid-looking saints sitting underneath their trees covered with dust.

He inquired – he went to the stationmaster and asked, ”Is there some mistake?

Is this really heaven?”

The stationmaster said, ”Yes, and there is no mistake.”But the priest said, ”It looks more like hell!

Is there any train leaving for hell? – because I would like to see hell, too, then I can compare.”

He got a reservation, went to hell – and he was really more surprised than he was seeing heaven.

There was joy, there was song and music – all was sunny and bright. People were working, people had lights in their eyes.

No devil, no hellfire, nobody torturing – nothing.

So he inquired: ”This looks more like heaven!”

And the stationmaster said, ”Yes, now it does, but before it used to be just the way it is described in your scriptures.

Since Buddha, Mahavira and Socrates came here, they have transformed it.”

OshO ❤️ 
CHAPTER 8. UTTERLY LUMINOUS
The White Lotus

”Live consciously, don’t live according to a dead discipline !

It happened: A Sufi mystic, Junnaid, was going for a pilgrimage, a holy pilgrimage to Kaaba.

He told his disciples, ”It will take one month for us to reach Kaaba, and we will fast so that by the time we reach Kaaba our bodies will be absolutely purified.”The disciples agreed.

The journey started. The third day they reached a village. The whole village had come to receive them, because Junnaid had a disciple there who was a very poor man.

Because Junnaid was coming for the first and maybe the last time to his village and was going to be his guest,he sold his field, his house, everything, to give a feast to the whole village.

He was not aware at all that Junnaid was on a fast and that he was followed by hundreds of disciples.

Junnaid saw the joy of the disciple.
He was just ecstatic, although he had gambled everything just to give a feast to the whole village in welcome to his master.

Junnaid did not say anything – he did not even mention that he was keeping a fast.

When Junnaid did not say anything the disciples were also silent, but they were boiling within.

The feast started.
Junnaid ate well and thanked the disciple, blessed the disciple.

The other disciples also had to eat since Junnaid was eating. They could not say, ”We are on a fast,” when the masterhad himself forgotten about the fast.

And moreover the food was delicious, and for three days they had been hungry, too!

But deep down they were feeling angry also: ”What kind of discipline is this?”

When they departed, the first thing they did on the way was to ask the master, ”This we can’tunderstand.

Did you forget all about the fast?
You did not even mention it.”He said, ”No, I never forget anything, but his joy was such and his ecstasy was such... and it would have been such a pain to his heart if I had said, ’I am not going to eat.’

He had prepared the food with such love. There is no problem,” said Junaid, ”we can keep our fast for three more days.

Forget about those three days – we start our fast from today, and we will keep the fast for one month. There is no problem in it.

Why hurt the poor man for a simple thing? We can keep the fast three days more.”But the disciples said, ”But it is a question of discipline: since we had taken the vow we should have followed it.”

Junaid said, ”Live consciously, don’t live according to a dead discipline.

You were feeling irritated –I saw it on your faces. You were angry at me – I was watching – because you were simply following a dead rule: ’

We have taken a vow so it has to be followed.’ We are the masters. We take the vow, we can break it.

And the situation was such that what we did was the right thing.

Our fast is just ordinary; his love was something really holy.

Eating or not eating does not matter much, but his joy you missed, his ecstasy you could not share.

A great opportunity has been lost.

OshO ❤️ 
CHAPTER 2. BECAUSE I LOVE YOU
The White Lotus

Sad - Heaven !

A person who can be patiently sad will suddenly find that one morning a happiness is arising in his heart from some unknown source. 

That unknown source is godliness. 

You have earned it if you have been truly sad; if you have been truly hopeless, desperate, unhappy, miserable, if you have lived in hell, 

you have earned heaven. You have paid the cost.

Osho

, The Art Of Dyning. Vol 10

A Child richness !!!

A child is trying to climb a tree; what will you do? You immediately become afraid – he may fall, he may break his leg, or something may go wrong. And out of your fear you rush and you stop the child. If you had known what joy it is to climb a tree, you would have helped so that the child could learn how to climb trees! And if you are afraid, help him, go and teach him. You also climb with him! Help him learn so he doesn´t fall. Your fear is good – it shows love, that the child may fall, but to stop the child from climbing the tree is to stop the child from growing. There is something essential about climbing trees. If a child has never been doing it, he will remain in some way poor, he will miss some richness – for his whole life. You deprive him of something beautiful, and there is no other way to know about it! And once in a while, falling from a tree is not so bad either. Rather than being deprived forever.

Or, the child wants to go out in the rain and wants to run around the streets in the rain, and you are afraid he may catch a cold or get pneumonia or something – and your fear is right! So do something so that he is more resistant to colds. Take him to the doctor; ask the doctor what vitamins should be given to him so that he can run in the rains and enjoy and dance and there is no fear that he will catch cold or will get pneumonia. But don´t stop him. To dance in the streets when it is raining is such a joy! To miss it is to miss something very valuable.

If you know happiness and if you are aware, you will be able to feel for the child, how he feels.

Osho, Walk without Feet, Fly without Wings and Think without Mind, Talk #2

Ecstasy is downhill, misery is uphill !

In the morning for everybody there is a choice. And not only in the morning, every moment there is a choice to be miserable or to be happy.

You always choose to be miserable because there is an investment.

You always choose to be miserable because that has become a habit, a pattern, you have always done that.

You have become efficient at doing it, it has become a track.

The moment your mind has to choose, it immediately flows towards misery.

Misery seems to be downhill, ecstasy seems to be uphill. Ecstasy looks very difficult to reach – butit is not so.

The real thing is quite the opposite: ecstasy is downhill, misery is uphill. Misery is a very difficult thing to achieve, but you have achieved it, you have done the impossible – because miseryis so anti-nature.

Nobody wants to be miserable and everybody IS miserable.

Society has done a great job.

Education, culture, and the culturing agencies, parents, teachers –they have done a great job.

They have made miserable creatures out of ecstatic creators.

Every Child is born ecstatic. Every child is born a god. And every man dies a madman.

Unless you recover, unless you reclaim your childhood, you will not be able to become the white clouds I am talking about.

This is the whole work for you, the whole SADHANA – how to regain childhood, how to reclaim it. If you can become children again then there is no misery.

I don’t mean that for a child there are no moments of misery – there are.
But still there is no misery.

Try to understand this.

A child can become miserable, he can be unhappy, intensely unhappy in a moment, but he is so total in that unhappiness, he is so one with that unhappiness, that there is no division.

The child separate from unhappiness is not there. The child is not looking at his unhappiness separate,divided. The child IS unhappiness – he is so involved in it.

And when you become one with unhappiness, unhappiness is not unhappiness.

If you become so one with it, even that has a beautyof its own.So look at a child – an unspoilt child I mean. If he is angry, then his whole energy becomes anger;nothing is left behind, no hold-up. He has moved and become anger; there is nobody manipulating and controlling it.

There is no mind. The child has become anger – he is not angry, he has becomethe anger. And then see the beauty, the flowering of anger. The child never looks ugly – even inanger he looks beautiful. He just looks more intense, more vital, more alive – a volcano ready toerupt.

Such a small child, such a great energy, such an atomic being – with the whole universe toexplode.And after this anger the child will be silent. After this anger the child will be very peaceful.

After this anger the child will relax.

We may think it is very miserable to be in that anger, but the child is not miserable – he has enjoyed it.If you become one with anything you become blissful.

If you separate yourself from anything, evenif it is happiness, you will become miserable.

So this is the key.
To be separate as an ego is the base of all misery; to be one, to be flowing, with whatsoever life brings to you, to be in it so intensely, so totally, that you are no more, you are lost,then everything is blissful.

The choice is there, but you have even become unaware of the choice. You have been choosing the wrong so continuously, it has become such a dead habit, that you simply choose it automatically.

There is no choice left. Become alert.

Each moment when you are choosing to be miserable remember: this is your choice.

Even this mindfulness will help, the alertness that this is my choice and I am responsible, and thisis what I am doing to myself, this is my doing.

Immediately you will feel a difference.

The quality of mind will have changed.
It will be easier for you to move towards happiness.

And once you know that this is your choice, then the whole thing has become a game.

Then if you love to be miserable, be miserable, but remember, this is your choice and don’t complain.

There is nobody else who is responsible for it.

This is your drama. If you like this way, if you like a miserable way, if you want to pass through life in misery, then this is your choice, your game.

You are playing it.

Play it well!

OshO ❤️ 
CHAPTER 3. TO BE MISERABLE OR ECSTATIC...?
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds

It is a let-go !

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. 

It is not forcing existence your way, 

it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. 

It is a let-go.

– OSHO

Excerpted from : From the False to the Truth. Chapter #2