"Psychologists say that love is nothing but a foreplay to sex.

*They Do Not Know Any Other Type Of Man*

They are right – because they have no other specimen to study. They study you and then they come to conclude that love is nothing but a foreplay – just creating a situation in which sex can happen, nothing else. So when sex has happened, love disappears.

It is just like when you feel hungry you gravitate toward food and look at food with enchanted eyes. But when your hunger is satiated, you look away from the food.

All the enchantment is lost.

"So when you love your wife or your husband, the love is just an etiquette to enter into sex – because it will be too rude to start…

So it just plays like a lubricating agent.

And when sex is satisfied, the husband moves to his own side of the bed and goes to sleep.

He is finished; all the enchantment is gone. It will come again only when he feels a type of hunger.

Psychologists say that love is nothing but a foreplay – just a mannerism. And they are right, because they do not know any other type of man."

OSHO...☆☆☆
The Supreme Doctrine, Talk #5

OSHO about Ramana Maharshi !

One of the most enlightened people of this century, Raman Maharishi, had only a simple meditation .... He was uneducated; he left his home when he was seventeen. father, had died and the shock was so much that for him, the whole world became meaningless.
Rather than going to the funeral with the others, he simply escaped into the mountains. The fact – that death is going to take you over any day – made him aware, ”I have to know myself before death comes.” He was just a boy, uneducated – he knew nothing of scriptures, he knew nothing of
meditation techniques, but out of his innocence, he simply sat in the hills asking only one question: Who am I? He wanted to know before death came. He was not willing to die without knowing himself. WHO AM I? became his only concern, the ultimate concern.

At first it was only a question in the mind. Slowly, slowly, it penetrated his blood, his bones, his marrow. A moment came when it was no longer a question – his whole being became thirsty; it became a thirst, a quest. Even the question went beyond words and he was no longer asking,
Who am I? His whole being was transformed into the question: Who am I? It was no longer a mental exercise; it became an existential experience.

And the day it happened, the clouds dispersed and he knew the ultimate glory of his being. He became famous all over the world. People from all over the world started coming, just to sit by his feet. He was not an orator; he had no knowledge as such. All that he could teach was simply one
thing that had helped him, and that was, ”Sit silently with me and just ask the question – 
‘Who am I?’ Go on asking. It automatically comes to a point where words disappear but the question remains – just a feeling, a mood, an overwhelming sense of enquiry. And when it becomes so intense that
you can only say that now it is a thirst of every fiber of your being, then, unpredictably, the explosion happens.”

OSHO

Chapter 10 Deja vu – a small fragment from the past
The New Dawn

S E X Is the Source !

"Sex can give you the answer to what the reality of life is because sex is the most alive thing in you.

Mind is the most dead thing in you and sex is the most alive thing in you. That is why mind is always against sex, and mind is always for suppressing it. They are enemies.

Mind is a dead thing and sex is the life force; they go on fighting. And whenever you move into sex, the mind feels frustrated and the mind says, "This is wrong. Do not move into it again.

"The mind becomes the moralizer, the mind becomes the puritan, the mind becomes the priest.

The mind goes on condemning. All that is alive the mind goes on condemning and all that is dead the mind goes on worshipping.

And sex is the most alive thing in you because life comes through it: you are born through it, you can give birth through it. Wherever there is life, aliveness, sex is the source."

OSHO...☆☆☆
The Supreme Doctrine

who am i ?

'Are there no other means for making the mind quiescent?'

Other than inquiry, there are no adequate means. If through other means it is sought to control the mind, the mind will appear to be controlled, but will again go forth. Through the control of breath also, the mind will become quiescent; but it will be quiescent only so long as the breath remains controlled, and when the breath resumes the mind also will again start moving and will wander as impelled by residual impressions. The source is the same for both mind and breath. Thought, indeed, is the nature of the mind. The thought “I” is the first thought of the mind; and that is egoity. It is from that whence egoity originates that breath also originates. Therefore, when the mind becomes quiescent, the breath is controlled, and when the breath is controlled the mind becomes quiescent. But in deep sleep, although the mind becomes quiescent, the breath does not stop. This is because of the will of God, so that the body may be preserved and other people may not be under the impression that it is dead. In the state of waking and in samadhi, when the mind becomes quiescent the breath is controlled. Breath is the gross form of mind. Till the time of death, the mind keeps breath in the body; and when the body dies the mind takes the breath along with it. Therefore, the exercise of breath-control is only an aid for rendering the mind quiescent (manonigraha); it will not destroy the mind (manonasa).

Like the practice of breath-control. meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, restriction on food, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

Through meditation on the forms of God and through repetition of mantras, the mind becomes one- pointed. The mind will always be wandering. Just as when a chain is given to an elephant to hold in its trunk it will go along grasping the chain and nothing else, so also when the mind is occupied with a name or form it will grasp that alone. When the mind expands in the form of countless thoughts, each thought becomes weak; but as thoughts get resolved the mind becomes one-pointed and strong; for such a mind Self-inquiry will become easy. Of all the restrictive rules, that relating to the taking of sattvic food in moderate quantities is the best; by observing this rule, the sattvic quality of mind will increase, and that will be helpful to Self-inquiry.

Love : if it happens, it happens !

Love is something that cannot be enforced -- if it happens, it happens; if it does not happen it does not happen.

So the cunning people decide that before you start asking about love it is better to arrange a marriage.

All other relationships are given by birth.

There was only one freedom for you: to choose your wife or your husband.

Even that has been destroyed.
You cannot choose your mother, you cannot choose your father, you cannot choose your brothers and your sisters -- that is all accidental.

You cannot choose your uncles, your aunts; that is beyond your choice.
The only freedom was that you could choose your beloved -- but that too was denied.

People were married when they were so small, six years old, seven years old.

In India marriages used to be arranged even while the child was inside the womb. People used to arrange that "if your child turns out to be a boy, and my child turns out to be a girl, or vice versa,we will marry them."

The marriage was already decided before the birth! This was a strategy to poison love. So the child would grow with the wife or the husband just as one grows with one's
brothers and sisters: he would become accustomed, love would never happen.

The society is very much afraid of love. It condemns love, it calls love blind.

The fact is, love is the only phenomenon which is not blind; everything else is blind. Logic is blind, not love, but you have been told that love is blind, you have been told that love is mad.

In all the languages of the world this type of expression exists: "falling in love" -- as if one falls!

I would like to change it. Whenever you are in love never say, "I have fallen in love," say, "I have RISEN in
love."

It is reaching higher than you have ever been before.

It is not a fall, it is growth.

OshO 
Come, Come, Yet Again Come

Holi - Festive each moment !

When Holi comes, and we sing and dance, breaking all bounds and throwing off our normal codes of conduct.

On that day we throw all our morality, rules and etiquette to the winds; for one day our river flows, breaking all disciplines.

But do you think that a river that flows for one day of the year is going to reach the ocean? And even this one day is only an apology for the real flowing;

it is just a mockery of our real selves!

Look at nature: there is Existence enjoying Holi every day, and celebrating Diwali daily.

In nature the colors flow afresh every day, new flowers open each morning.

Even before the old leaves fall, the new buds are bursting out and the new shoots are springing up.

The festival does not stop even for a moment – it is non-stop, every moment is Diwali.

Such will be the life of a religious person.

He will be festive each moment –
He is grateful that he is.
His every breath is an expression of gratitude and benediction.

OshO 
Nowhere To Go But In

Nanak

I am reminded of a beautiful, historical incident:

Nanak, the master of the Sikhs – the word sikh simply means disciple. It is unfortunate that it became a religion. Nanak had no idea to make a religion, he was only creating disciples to become masters.

He was not creating an organized religion, a church, but that’s what happened.

Such is the unconsciousness of man.

Nanak was passing through Lahore, which is now in Pakistan. And there was a pseudo-mystic, a false Sufi, a pretender, and he had a great
following.

When he saw Nanak, he became afraid... and there was nothing to be afraid of. Nanak was alone with his one disciple Mardana, with a musical
instrument. Mardana would play and Nanak would sing. They were innocent people.

They were staying outside Lahore when the pseudo-teacher was informed that ”A great master has
come. They are staying outside the city and many people have already started going towards them.”

The pseudo-Sufi was certainly
worried. He sent a cup full of milk – so full that you could not put even a single drop more of milk in it.

The disciple who took it said, ”What is the meaning?”
The Sufi said, ”You don’t be worried about the meaning.

Take it to Nanak and let us see what
happens.”
Nanak was offered the cup – a beautiful cup – full of milk and he was told, ”The Sufi master sends
his salutations.”

Nanak asked Mardana, ”Just there, nearby, are wildflowers. Take up one flower” – Mardana could not understand what was happening – and Nanak put that wildflower in the cup and gave it back to the man who had brought it.

He told him, ”Take it to your master.”
He said, ”But I don’t understand – what is the meaning?”
Nanak said, ”Your master will understand.”

The Sufi had sent the cup full of milk to show that ”Here there is no need of any other master; the place is full of Sufis.

You are not welcome – go somewhere else!”

But Nanak floated a flower in the cup, meaning that, ”You need not be worried about me.

I will not disturb anything – even in a full cup I will be simply floating like a flower.

I am above – you need not be worried. You can continue your shop, I will not take your customers.”

The Sufi was exposed completely to his disciples, because they could compare the presence of those two persons.

They sat with Nanak and they immediately saw, as if an arrow had penetrated their being, that some strange joy has arisen in them which has never happened with that Sufi.

Soon the Sufi master himself had to come to Nanak to ask forgiveness.

Nanak said, ”Who am I to forgive you?
Ask forgiveness from existence itself. You have been deceiving thousands of people, delaying their
enlightenment.

Your crime is great, although nobody
will call it a crime because it is so invisible.”

OshO 
CHAPTER 25. A GREAT SURGERY IN THE RIGHT HANDS
YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose