NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

Question: OSHO, IF ONE WERE TO MAKE ONLY ONE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST?

"This and only this can be the New Year's resolution: I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments. You decide today for tomorrow? You have destroyed tomorrow.

Allow the tomorrow to have its own being. Let it COME in its own way! Let it bring its own gifts.

Resolution means you will allow only this and you will not allow that. Resolution means you would like the sun to rise in the west and not in the east. If it rises in the east, you will not open your windows; you will keep your windows open to the west.

What is resolution? Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously." And if you cannot live spontaneously, you don't live at all — you only pretend.

So let only one resolution be there: I will never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity.

The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

— OSHO, Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind, Chapter #5 - Fri, 5 January 1978, am in Buddha Hall

Facing An Insult !!!

Buddha was passing through a village and the people came and they insulted him. And they used all the insulting words that they could use – all the bad words that they knew.

Buddha stood there, listened silently, very attentively, and then said, 'Thank you for coming to me, but I am in a hurry. 
I have to reach the next village, people will be waiting for me there. I cannot devote more time to you today, but tomorrow coming back I will have more time. You can gather again, and tomorrow if something is left which you wanted to say and have not been able to say, you can say it to me. But today, excuse me.'

Those people could not believe their ears, their eyes: this man has remained utterly unaffected, undistracted. One of them asked, 'Have you not heard us? We have been abusing you like anything, and you have not even answered!'

Buddha said, 'If you wanted an answer then you have come too late. You should have come ten years ago, then I would have answered you. But for these ten years I have stopped being manipulated by others. I am no longer a slave, I am my own master. I act according to myself, not according to anybody else. I act according to my inner need. You cannot force me to do anything. It's perfectly good:you wanted to abuse me, you abused me! Feel fulfilled. You have done your work perfectly well. But as far as I am concerned, I don't take your insults, and unless I take them, they are meaningless.'

When somebody insults you, you have to become a receiver, you have to accept what he says; only then can you react. But if you don't accept, if you simply remain detached, if you keep the distance, if you remain cool, what can he do?

Buddha said, 'Somebody can throw a burning torch into the river. It will remain alight till it reaches the river. The moment it falls into the river, all fire is gone – the river cools it.

I have become a river. You throw abuses at me. They are fire when you throw them, but the moment they reach me, in my coolness, their fire is lost. They no longer hurt. You throw thorns – falling in my silence they become flowers. I act out of my own intrinsic nature.'

~ Osho

Excerpt from - The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 2, Talk #10

Be happy NOW Here !

No Old Year !No New Year !

Everyday is a  New Begining   that never gets Old !

Be happy in being Now  here ! Because no where you will get it !

E N L I G H T E N M E N T

In a single moment, in one stroke, you can become enlightened. It is not a gradual process, because enlightenment is not something that you have to invent. It is something that you have to discover. It is already there. It is not something that you have to manufacture. If you have to manufacture it, of course, it will take time; but it is already there. Close your eyes and see it there. Be silent and have a taste of it. Your very nature is what I call enlightenment. Enlightenment is not something alien, outside you. It is not somewhere else in time and space. It is you, your very core. [...]

I became enlightened without any master, so there cannot be any problem for you. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. The master is not a must. It has become a must because you are so lethargic, because you are so unwilling to move towards ecstasy, because you are so attached to the ways of sorrow and anguish."

— OSHO,

Ecstasy - The Forgotten Language, Chapter #10 - 20 December 1976 am in Buddha Hall

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D E P R E S S I O N

"One of the most basic laws of life has to be understood.

Life is based on polarity; everything exists with its polar opposite. Otherwise is not possible. [...]

Remember this: Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes.

Nothing lasts forever; the depression will go. And when it leaves you, wait — be aware and alert — because after the depression, after the night, there will be a dawn and the sun will rise. If you can be alert in that moment. you will he happy that you were depressed. You will be grateful that you are depressed because only through your depression was this moment of happiness possible. But what do we do? We move in an infinite regression. We get depressed. Then we get depressed because of the depression: a second depression follows. If you are depressed, that's okay! — nothing is wrong in it. It is beautiful because through it you will learn and mature. But then you feel badly, "Why do I get depressed? I should not get depressed." Then you start fighting with the depression. The first depression is good, but the second depression is unreal. And this unreal depression will cloud your mind. You will miss the moment that would have followed the real depression.

When depressed, be depressed. Simply be depressed. Don't get depressed about your depression.

When depressed, simply be depressed. Don't fight it, don't create any diversion, don't force it to go.

Just allow it to happen; it will go by itself. Life is a flux; nothing remains the same. You are not needed; the river moves by itself, you don't have to push it. If you are trying to push it, you are simply foolish. The river flows by itself. Allow it to flow.

When depression is there, allow it to be. Don't get depressed about it. If you want to remove it sooner, you will get depressed. If you fight it, you will create a secondary depression that is dangerous. The first depression is beautiful, God-given. The second depression is your own. It is not God-given; it is mental. Then you will move in mental grooves. They are infinite.

If you get depressed, be happy that you are depressed and allow the depression to be. Then suddenly the depression will disappear and there will be a breakthrough. No clouds will be there and the sky will be clear. For a single moment, heaven opens for you. If you are not depressed about your depression you can contact, you can commune, you can enter this heavenly gate. And once you know it, you have learned one of the ultimate laws of life: that life uses the opposite as a teacher, as a back-ground."

— OSHO, The New Alchemy - To Turn You On, Chapter #8 - Fri, 10 April 1973 am in Bikaner Palace Hotel

Man - Woman

Woman has a balanced biology; her chemistry is equally balanced.

Man has a biology which is a little unbalanced: one part is heavier and the other part is a little lighter, and that creates an inner tension in him.

That's why more men go mad than women, more men commit suicide than women, more men commit murder than women.

And if you look at the world you will see it, is dominated by man for the simple reason that the woman is not interested in dominating; there is no need -- she feels a certain kind of fulfillment in her innermost core.

Man is always rushing, going somewhere, always on the go.

All men are American, tourists!
They cannot be here now.

And it starts even in the womb.
An experienced mother who has given birth to one or two children knows perfectly well after a few months whether inside the womb there is a boy or a girl.

The boy starts kicking, he starts becoming an Alexander the Great! The girl remains quiet, at ease, meditative; she does not create much disturbance.

It is because of this that woman was easily dominated by man. It is not because of the superiority of man, it is not because of his power, that he was able to dominate the woman, it is just the opposite.

The woman is superior in many ways, and because man suffers from inferiority he had to dominate the woman; only then could he get rid of a little bit of his inferiority.

Man has dominated the whole of history, he has in every possible way tried to enslave the woman.

But he has not been successful: on the surface it may look as if he has succeeded, but each husband knows perfectly well that the moment he enters the home he is no longer the
lion that he pretends to be on the outside.

He suddenly becomes a dog, a poor dog, with its tail between its legs!

OshO 
Chapter 5 - Perfectly imperfect
The Goose is Out

Religion -Sin

Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions.
A true religion has no need of the concept at all.

The pseudo-religion cannot live without the concept of sin, because sin is the technique of creating guilt in people.

You will have to understand the whole strategy of sin and guilt.

Unless you make a person feel guilty, you cannot enslave him psychologically. It is impossible to imprison him in a certain ideology,a certain belief system.

But once you have created guilt in his mind, you have taken all that is courageous in him. You have destroyed all that is adventurous in him. You have repressed all possibility of his ever being an individual in his own right.

With the idea of guilt, you have almost murdered the human potential in him.

He can never be independent.

The guilt will force him to be dependent on a messiah, on a religious teaching, on God, on the concepts of heaven and hell, and the whole lot.

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors – Sins.

They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics – two plus two, and he concludes it makes five – you don’t say he has committed a sin.

He is unalert, he is not paying
attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework.

He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty.

At the most it makes him feel foolish.

What the pseudo-religions have done – and all the religions of the world have been pseudo-religions up to now – is to have exploited mistakes, errors, which are absolutely human, and condemned them as sin.

Sin means it is not a simple mistake: you have gone against God; that’s the meaning of the word sin.

People think that they are miserable because they have committed sins in the past; that is not true.

By being miserable they are
committing the sin right now, and if you cannot start being happy you become virtuous because a happy person cannot harm.

Only a sad person can harm, only a sad person becomes a sadist: only a miserable person starts looking for other’s misery.

And a miserable person wants everybody to be miserable; only then does he feel good, comparatively.

If he sees that everybody is miserable, then he can relax; then he can say ’So I’m not wrong in some way; this is how things are’.

A happy person creates a happy world around him because happiness can exist only when there are many people happy.

It cannot exist alone like an island.

If you want to be happy you would have to make your husband happy, your children happy, your mother, your father happy, your
neighbourhood,otherwise it will be impossible because we are related with everybody.

A happy person learns one basic thing: that you can remain happy if you create a happy world around you... and that’s what virtue is

OshO 

From Unconciousness to Consciousness