Monday, 14 September 2015
Saturday, 12 September 2015
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
THERE IS NO DEVIL : -
There is an old Hindu Story.
Once darkness went to god and appealed and said, 'I have not done anything wrong, but your sun every morning goes on chasing me, for no reason at all, and I am tired of running away from here to there, and the sun goes on chasing me round the earth! This is unjust.'
God said, 'I will call the sun.' The sun was called, and god asked the sun, 'Why do you go on creating trouble for my darkness?
She has not done anything wrong to you. This is unjust.'
She has not done anything wrong to you. This is unjust.'
The sun was surprised. He said, 'I have never come across her.
What are you talking about?
What do you mean by darkness?
What are you talking about?
What do you mean by darkness?
I have never come across anything like that. Please call her in front of me.'
The case is still in the files.
God has been trying but it is impossible to call darkness in front of the sun.
It is not possible in the nature of things because darkness is not a reality. It exists and yet it does not exist. It is absence.
It is the same with the devil, and it is good that the devil is painted as dark, black. That is just to show that the nature of it is like darkness.
God is called 'light' in the Koran, in the Bible, in the Vedas. In all the scriptures of the world, god is synonymous with light. Meaningful, significant. It simply says that when god is there, the devil cannot be.
The questioner has asked: YOU HAVE SAID THERE IS NO DEVIL BUT ONLY GOD... Yes, but god can be absent, god can be asleep -- then the devil is. God can be fast asleep -- then the devil is very much. Don't fight with the devil because that will be fighting against darkness.
If you really want to destroy darkness just bring light. Don't fight with darkness, that is foolish. Don't fight with the devil, just bring light, just bring god, just become a little more aware and make your god inside a little alert and the devil disappears by itself...
Osho,
The Discipline of Transcendence
vol 1.
The Discipline of Transcendence
vol 1.
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Love- Inner Joy --- At the doorsteps of God - OSHO
The fear comes at the moment when you come to dissolve your last part, because then it will be irrevocable; you will not be able to come back.
I have told many times a beautiful poem of Rabindranath Tagore. The poet has been searching for God for millions of lives. He has seen him sometimes, far away, near a star, and he started moving that way, but by the time he reached that star, God has moved to some other place.
But he went on searching and searching — he was determined to find God’s home — and the surprise of surprises was, one day he actually reached a house where on the door was written: “God’s Home.”
You can understand his ecstasy, you can understand his joy. He runs up the steps, and just as he is going to knock on the door, suddenly his hand freezes. An idea arises in him: “If by chance this is really the home of God, then I am finished, my seeking is finished. I have become identified with my seeking, with my search. I don’t know anything else. If the door opens and I face God, I am finished — the search is over. Then what? Then there is an eternity of boredom — no excitement, no discovery, no new challenge, because there cannot be any challenge greater than God.”
He starts trembling with fear, takes his shoes off his feet, and descends back down the beautiful marble steps. He took the shoes off so that no noise was made, for his fear was that even a noise on the steps… God may open the door, although he has not knocked. And then he runs as fast as he has never run before. He used to think that he had been running after God as fast as he can, but today, suddenly, he finds energy which was never available to him before. He runs as he has never run, not looking back.
The poem ends, “I am still searching for God. I know his home, so I avoid it and search everywhere else. The excitement is great, the challenge is great, and in my search I continue, I continue to exist. God is a danger — I will be annihilated. But now I am not afraid even of God, because I know His home. So, leaving His home aside, I go on searching for him all around the universe. And deep down I know my search is not for God; my search is to nourish my ego.”
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Joy is the antidote to all fear !
Become more and more cheerful, enthusiastic about small things, even very small things….
“ Joy is the antidote to all fear. Fear comes if you don’t enjoy life. If you enjoy life, fear disappears.
Be positive and enjoy more, laugh more, dance more, sing more. Become more and more cheerful, enthusiastic about small things, even very small things. Life consists of small things, but if you can bring the quality of cheerfulness to small things, the total will be tremendous.
So don’t wait for anything great to happen. Great things do happen-it is not that they don’t –but don’t wait for something great to happen. It happens only when you start living small, ordinary day-to-day things with a new mind, with new freshness, with new vitality, with new enthusiasm. Then by and by you accumulate, and that accumulation one day explodes into sheer joy.
But one never knows when it will happen. One has just to go on collecting pebbles on the shore. The totality becomes the great happening. When you collect one pebble it is a pebble. When all the pebbles are together, suddenly they are diamonds. That’s the miracle of life.
There are many people in the world who miss because they are always waiting for something great. It can’t happen. It happens only through small things: eating your breakfast, walking, taking a bath, talking to a friend, just sitting alone looking at the sky or lying on your bed doing nothing. These small things are what life is made of. They are the very stuff of life …. “
OSHO
Source book : EVERYDAY , 365 daily meditations for the here and now , Chapter 120
“ Joy is the antidote to all fear. Fear comes if you don’t enjoy life. If you enjoy life, fear disappears.
Be positive and enjoy more, laugh more, dance more, sing more. Become more and more cheerful, enthusiastic about small things, even very small things. Life consists of small things, but if you can bring the quality of cheerfulness to small things, the total will be tremendous.
So don’t wait for anything great to happen. Great things do happen-it is not that they don’t –but don’t wait for something great to happen. It happens only when you start living small, ordinary day-to-day things with a new mind, with new freshness, with new vitality, with new enthusiasm. Then by and by you accumulate, and that accumulation one day explodes into sheer joy.
But one never knows when it will happen. One has just to go on collecting pebbles on the shore. The totality becomes the great happening. When you collect one pebble it is a pebble. When all the pebbles are together, suddenly they are diamonds. That’s the miracle of life.
There are many people in the world who miss because they are always waiting for something great. It can’t happen. It happens only through small things: eating your breakfast, walking, taking a bath, talking to a friend, just sitting alone looking at the sky or lying on your bed doing nothing. These small things are what life is made of. They are the very stuff of life …. “
OSHO
Source book : EVERYDAY , 365 daily meditations for the here and now , Chapter 120
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