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Osho Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh
Never Born | Never Died | Only visited
this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and
January 19, 1990. With these literally immortal
words, osho both dictates his epitaph and
dispenses with his biography. Having previously
removed his name from everything, he finally
agrees to accept "osho, explaining that it is
derived from William James" "oceanic." "It is
not my name," he says, "it is a healing
sound."
Osho Thoughts
Existence
You are not accidental. Existence needs you.
Without you something will be missing in
existence and nobody can replace it. Thats what
gives you dignity, that the whole existence will
miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees
and birds and earth - everything in the universe
will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be
filled by anybody except you. This gives you a
tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related
to existence, and existence cares for you. Once
you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous
love falling on you from all dimensions.
Traveling
Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just
the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal--just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving
joyously, without bothering about any destination. What will you do by getting to a destination? Nobody has asked
this, because everybody is trying to have some destination in life. But the implications... If you really reach the
destination of life, then what? Then you will look very embarrassed. Nowhere to go...you have reached to the final
destination--and in the journey you have lost everything. You had to lose everything. So standing naked at the final
destination, you will look all around like an idiot: what was the point? You were hurrying so hard, and you were
worrying so hard, and this is the outcome.
Transformation
A master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions there are only teachers. They teach you about
subjects which you dont know, and they ask you to believe because there is no way to bring those experiences into
objective reality. Neither has the teacher known them - he has believed them; he transfers his belief to somebody
else. Zen is not a believers world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls who can drop all belief,
unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their pure existence without boundaries. But it brings a
tremendous transformation. Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in
metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from base metal into gold. But its
language has to be understood, not with your reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just
listening, not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see it, which has been
eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha called "eighty-four thousand doors" open.
Past Lives
The child can become conscious only if in his past life he has meditated enough, has created enough meditative
energy to fight with the darkness that death brings. One simply is lost in an oblivion and then suddenly finds a new
womb and forgets completely about the old body. There is a discontinuity. This darkness, this unconsciousness
creates the discontinuity. The East has been working hard to penetrate these barriers. And ten thousand years'
work has not been in vain. Everybody can penetrate to the past life, or many past lives. But for that you have to go
deeper into your meditation, for two reasons: unless you go deeper, you cannot find the door to another life;
secondly, you have to be deeper in meditation because if you find the door of another life, a flood of events will
come into the mind. It is hard enough even to carry one life....
The Mind
This is the situation of your head: I see cycle-handles and pedals and strange things that you have gathered from
everywhere. Such a small head...and no space to live in! And that rubbish goes on moving in your head; your head
goes on spinning and weaving - it keeps you occupied. Just think what kind of thoughts go on inside your mind. One
day just sit, close your doors, and write down for half an hour whatsoever is passing in your mind, and you will
understand what I mean and you will be surprised what goes on inside your mind. It remains in the background, it is
constantly there, it surrounds you like a cloud. With this cloud you cannot know reality; you cannot attain to spiritual
perception. This cloud has to be dropped. And it is just with your decision to drop it that it will disappear. You are
clinging to it - the cloud is not interested in you, remember it.
Thunderbolt
What meditation does slowly, slowly, a good shout of the master, unexpectedly, in the situation where the
disciple was asking some question, and the master jumps and shouts, or hits him, or throws him out of the door, or
jumps over him.... These methods were never known. It was purely the very creative genius of Ma Tzu, and he
made many people enlightened. Sometimes it looks so hilarious: he threw a man from the window, from a two-storey
house, and the man had come to ask on what to meditate. And Ma Tzu not only threw him, he jumped after him, fell
on him, sat on his chest, and he said, "Got it?!" And the poor fellow said, "Yes" - because if you say "No," he may
beat you or do something else! It is enough - his body is fractured, and Ma Tzu, sitting on his chest, says, "Got it?!"
And in fact he got it, because it was so sudden, out of the blue - he could never have conceived it.
Exhaustion
A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft.
Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry
his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested
in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question,
his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good
computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is
predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a
response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to
it....
Succes
Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you
are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both--dont get addicted to one. Dont say:
I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened
and it will never happen. It is simply impossible--not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it
lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a
relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.
The Lovers
These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of
love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle. Very few people
know what love is. Ninety-nine percent of people, unfortunately, think sexuality is love - it is not. Sexuality is very
animal; it certainly has the potential of growing into love, but it is not actual love, only a potential.... If you become
aware and alert, meditative, then sex can be transformed into love. And if your meditativeness becomes total,
absolute, love can be transformed into compassion. Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.
Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation. When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your
love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when
your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give - to give for the sheer joy of giving - then
add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released. That is compassion; compassion is the highest
phenomenon.
Maturity
The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as between you not knowing that you are a
buddha, and the moment you know that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise. Buddha is
completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals, have come to a completion.... Certainly, to be full of
spring yourself is far more beautiful than the autumn dew falling on the lotus leaves. That is one of the most
beautiful things to watch: when autumn dew falls on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real pearls.
But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises, the autumn dew starts evaporating.... This temporary
beauty cannot be compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look back as far as you can and it
has always been there. You look forward as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being.
Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to shower on you. This is spiritual
spring.
Slowing Down
Meditation is a kind of medicine - its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you
need not do any particular meditation; then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Walking is Zen, sitting is
Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully, alert, joyously, unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful..... After a long walk, you sit under
a tree and the breeze comes and cools you. Each moment one has to be at ease with oneself - not trying to improve,
not cultivating anything, not practicing anything. Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Talking or silent, moving, unmoving,
the essence is at ease. The essence is at ease: that is the key word. The essence is at ease: that is the key
statement. Do whatsoever you are doing, but at the deepest core remain at ease, cool, calm, centered.
New Vision
When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being -
you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate -
you have found your roots. Otherwise, ordinarily, everybody is moving without roots, not knowing from where their
heart goes on receiving energy, not knowing who goes on breathing in them, not knowing the life juice that is
running inside them. It is not the body, it is not the mind - it is something transcendental to all duality, that is called
bhagavat - the bhagavat in the ten directions .... Your inner being, when it opens, first experiences two directions:
the height, the depth. And then slowly, slowly, as this becomes your established situation, you start looking around,
spreading into all other eight directions. And once you have attained to the point where your height and your depth
meet, then you can look around to the very circumference of the universe. Then your consciousness starts unfolding
in all ten directions, but the road has been one.
Friendliness
First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and
being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent
on you. Then it is always a friendship, a friendliness. It never becomes a relationship, it is always a relatedness. You
relate, but you dont create a marriage. Marriage is out of fear, relatedness is out of love. You relate; as long as
things are moving beautifully, you share. And if you see that the moment has come to depart because your paths
separate at this crossroad, you say good-bye with great gratitude for all that the other has been to you, for all the
joys and all the pleasures and all the beautiful moments that you have shared with the other. With no misery, with no
pain, you simply separate.
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