NUDE !

If you go and move naked in the street, you are not hurting anybody, you are not doing any violence to anybody; you are absolutely innocent. But immediately the police will come, the whole surrounding will become agitated. You will be caught and beaten and put into jail. But you have not done anything at all! A crime happens when you DO something. You have not been doing anything – simply walking naked! But why does the society get so angry? The society is not so angry even against a murderer. This is strange. But a naked man...and society is absolutely angry.

It is because murder is still human. No animal murders. They kill for eating, but they don’t murder. And no animal murders his own species, only man. So it is human, the society can accept it. But
nudity the society cannot accept – because suddenly the naked man makes you aware that you are all animals. Howsoever hidden behind clothes, the animal is there, the nude, the naked animal is
there, the naked ape is there.

You are against the nude man not because he is nude but because he makes you aware of your nudity – and the ego is hurt. Clothed, man is not an animal. With eating habits, manners, man is not an animal. With language, morality, philosophy, religion, man is not an animal.

The most religious thing is to go to a church, to a temple, to pray. Why is it so religious? Because no animal goes to a church and no animal prays; it is absolutely human. Going to a temple to pray,
this makes the distinction absolute, that you are not animals.

But sex is animal activity. Whatsoever you do, howsoever you hide it, whatsoever you create around it, the basic fact remains animal. And when you move into it, you become like animals. Because of
this fact many people cannot enjoy sex. They cannot become totally animal. Their ego won’t allow it.

So ego and sex, this is the conflict – sex versus ego. The more egoistic a person is, the more he is against sex. The less egoistic a person is, the more involved he is in sex. But even the lesser egoist feels a guilt – feels less, but still feels something is wrong.

When one moves deeply into sex the ego is lost, and as the moment comes nearer when the ego is disappearing, fear grips you.

So people make love, go into sex, not deeply, not really. They just make a superficial show that they are making love, because if you REALLY make love, all civilization will have to be dropped. Your
mind will have to be put aside – your religion, philosophy, everything. Suddenly you will feel a wild animal is born within you. A roar will come to you. You may start actually roaring like a wild animal – screaming, groaning. And if you allow it, language will disappear. Sounds will be there, just like birds or animals making sounds. Suddenly the whole civilization of a million years is dropped. You are again standing like an animal, in a wild world.

There is fear. And because of that fear love has become almost impossible. And the fear is real – because when you lose the ego you are almost insane; you become wild, and then anything can
happen. And you KNOW that anything can happen. You may even kill, murder your beloved, you may start eating her body, because then controls are removed.

Suppression seems to be the easiest way to avoid all this. Suppress, or allow only as much as will not lead you into danger – just a part of it which can be controlled always. And you remain in control, you manipulate. You allow up to an extent and then you don’t allow. Then you close yourself and shut yourself.

Suppression exists as a protection, as a safeguard, as a security measure, and religions have used this security measure. They have exploited this fear of sex and they have made you more afraid. They have created an inner trembling. They have made sex the basic sin and they say: Unless sex disappears, you will not be able to enter into the Kingdom of God. They are true, in a sense, and still wrong.

I also say unless sex disappears you will not be able to enter into the Kingdom of God. But sex disappears only when you have accepted it totally – not suppressed, but transformed it.

OSHO

The Way of the White Cloud

s.

Life is a mystery !

Just the other day a journalist came here.

He had come to cover what is happening here in this ashram, and he wanted to have both stories -- the people who are for it, and the people who are against it.

So he went around the town. He talked to police officers, he went to see the mayor of Poona.

And what the mayor said was really beautiful, I loved it.

He said, "This man is so dangerous that he should be expelled from Poona -- not only from Poona but from India, not only from India but from the world!

"I loved it.
And I started thinking about it.

Where will they expel me from the world?

That's a really fantastic idea!
If they can manage it, I am willing to go.

Why is there so much anger?
The anger has a reason in it, it has a rationale behind it.

The rationale is that I am trying to give you a totally new vision of religious life -- and if the new vision succeeds, then all the old visions will have to die.

Krishna Prabhu, forget all about what you have been told, "This is right and this is wrong."

Life is not so fixed.
The thing that is right today may be wrong tomorrow, the thing that is wrong this moment may be right the next moment.

Life cannot be pigeon holed; you cannot label it so easily, "This is right and this is wrong."

Life is not achemist's shop where every bottle is labeled and you know what is what.

Life is a mystery; one moment something fits and then it is right. Another moment, so much water has gone down the Ganges that it no longer fits and it is wrong.

What is my definition of right?

That which is harmonious with existence is right, and that which is disharmonious with existence is wrong.

You will have to be very alert each moment, because it has to be decided each moment afresh.

You cannot depend on readymade answers for what is right and what is wrong.

Only stupid people depend on
readymade answers, because then they need not be intelligent.

OshO 
The book of wisdom

If success is there, enjoy it. If failure is there, enjoy it !

WHAT IS YOUR VIEW OF BEING SUCCESSFUL IN ORDINARY LIFE?
I AM AFRAID YOU ARE AGAINST SUCCESS!

I AM NEITHER AGAINST ANYTHING NOR FOR ANYTHING.

Whatsoever happens, happens.

One need not choose -- because with choice is misery.

If youwant to be successful then you will remain miserable. You may succeed, you may not succeed; but one thing is certain: you will remain miserable.

If you want to succeed, AND you succeed by chance, by coincidence, it is not going to fulfil you -- because this is the way of the mind.

Whatsoever you have got becomes meaningless, and the mind starts going ahead of you. It desires more and more and more -- the mind is nothing but the desire for more.

And this desire can never be fulfilled, because whatsoever you have got you can always imagine for more.

And the distance between that 'more' and that which you have got will remain constant.

This is one of the most constant things in human experience: everything changes,but the distance between that which you have and that which you would like to have remains constant.

So if you want to succeed, you may succeed, but you will not be content.

And what is the meaning of a success if you are not content? And this, I say, is only coincidence that you may succeed; the greater possibility is that you will fail,because you are not chasing success alone -- millions of people are chasing.

In a country of six hundred million people only one person can be the prime minister -- and six hundred million people are wanting to be the president or the prime minister.

So only one succeeds, and the WHOLE crowd fails. The greater possibility is that you will fail; mathematically that seems to be more certain than success.

If you fail you feel frustrated; your whole life seems to be a sheer wastage. If you succeed, you never succeed; if you fail, you fail -- this is the whole game.

You say that you suspect that I am against success -- no, I am not.

Because if you are against success, then again you have another idea of being successful; that is:how to drop this nonsense of being successful.

Then you have another idea...again the distance, again the desire.

Now, this is what makes people monks, makes people move into monasteries.

They are AGAINST success. They want to go out of the world where there is competition -- they want to escape from it all so that there will be no provocation, no temptation; they can rest in themselves.

And they try not to desire success --but this is a desire!

Now they have an idea of spiritual success: how to succeed and become a Buddha, how to succeed and become a Christ, how to succeed and become a Mahavir.

Again an idea, again the distance, again the desire -- again the whole game starts.I am not against success; that's why I am in the world, otherwise I would have escaped. I am not for it, I am not against it.

I say: Be a driftwood -- whatsoever happens, let it happen.

Don't have a choice of your own. Whatsoever comes on your way, welcome it.

Sometimes it is day, sometimes it is night; sometimes it is happiness, sometimes it is unhappiness -- you be choice less, you simply accept whatsoever is the case.

This is what I call the quality of a spiritual being. This is what I call religious consciousness.

It is neither for nor against -- because if you are for, you will be against; if you are against, you will be for.

And when you are for something or against something you have divided existence into two.

You have a choice, and choice is hell.

To be choice less is to be free of hell.

Let things be. You just go on moving, enjoying whatsoever becomes available.

If success is there, enjoy it. If failure is there, enjoy it -- because failure also brings a few enjoyments that no success can ever bring.

Success also brings a few joys that no failure can ever bring.

And a man who has no idea of his own is capable of enjoying everything, whatsoever happens.

OshO 
The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 3

Lust for life is always in the future.!

"People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future." Lust for life is always in the future.

It is a postponement. They are saying, “We cannot enjoy today so we will enjoy tomorrow.” They are saying, “Right this moment we cannot celebrate, so let there be a tomorrow so that we can celebrate.”

Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration.

A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment, he lives it totally. Out of that total living arises the next moment, but it is not out of any lust. Of course, when out of celebration the next moment arises, it has more capacity to bless you.

When out of celebration the future arises, it goes on becoming more and more rich. And a moment comes when the moment is so total, so whole, that time completely disappears.

~ #Osho
The Alchemy of Yoga.

Every moment is Diwali !

We have a few festive days.

Once a year we celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, and light many lamps in the darkness.

But our life is dry and dull; and it is just because this is so that man has had to create festivals.

The birds, the beasts, the plants, the rivers, the waterfalls – they have
neither Holi nor Diwali.

It is because man is sick that he is satisfied with just one Diwali.

One Diwali is just a consolation.

So on that day the new clothes, the firecrackers, the lighted lamps – and then

we return to the same gloominess, the same prison, the same misery, the same anxiety.

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

Gratitude !

Start the day with a great decisiveness.

And in the evening again feel gratitude that the day was given to you, and feel gratitude for all that happened.

Good and bad both, happiness and unhappiness both, because they are all teachers.

Everything is an opportunity.

Taken rightly, every moment is a stepping-stone.

Failure as much helps you to become alert as success; sometimes in fact failure helps you to become more aware than success.

Success helps you to fall asleep.
In happiness people forget; in happiness nobody remembers God.

In unhappiness suddenly the remembrance comes.

Fortunate is the man who can remember even when he is happy; fortunate is the man who can remember when everything is going good and smooth.

When the sea is rough,everybody remembers God; there is nothing special in it, it is just out of fear.

It happened: In the sea there was a ship, a ship which was carrying many Mohammedans to Mecca.

They were on a pilgrimage.
They were all surprised by one thing: because they were all pilgrims going to the holy of holies, each was praying all the five prayers prescribed for a Mohammedan every day -- except a Sufi mystic.

But the mystic was so radiant with joy that nobody dared to ask him why.

Then one day the sea was very rough and the captain declared, "There seems to be no possibility that we can be saved, so please do your last prayer.

The ship is going to sink.
"And everybody fell in prayer except the Sufi mystic.

Now this was too much. Many people gathered around the mystic.

They were really angry and they said, "You are a man of God. We have watched you, you have never prayed.

But we didn't say anything; we felt that this would be disrespectful -- you are thought to be a holy man.

But now it is unbearable.
The ship is sinking, and you are a man of God -- if you pray, your prayer will be listened to.

Why are you not praying?"
The mystic said, "To pray out of fear is to miss the whole point, that's why I am not praying.

"And then they asked, "Then why did you not pray when there was no question of fear?

"He said, "I am in prayer, so I cannot pray.

Only those who are not in prayer can pray.

But what is the point of their prayer?

Empty rituals!

I am in prayer, in fact I am prayer.

Each moment is a prayer.

OshO
The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 1

21 Ways to be Happy !