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