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- Entry for July 04, 2009
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In the outside world, there are people who want to dominate and there are people who want to be dominated. The responsibility is not one-sided. There are people who want to be enslaved, because slavery has one thing about it: it takes all responsibility away from you. Then the responsibility is of your owner. You are just instrumental: whatever he says, you do, but you don’t feel any burden. So most human beings deep down want to remain slaves.
Slavery in religion means you remain a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Christian. And you are afraid also, because your slavery is based only on beliefs. So everybody is trying to protect his flock from coming in contact with others.
Why not have all the people of the planet be emperors? What is the problem? It is a question of understanding the world — and if you understand yourself, to understand the world is not difficult, it is the simplest thing.
Once you have understood that to be an emperor or to be a slave is your decision, who is going to choose to be a slave? When you can put your whole energy into creating something that will give you satisfaction, that will give you a deep sense of fulfillment, a sense that you have not been here unnecessarily, you have contributed something; you have made the world a little more beautiful. Afew more flowers you have added to it. If everybody is adding a few more flowers, this whole world can again become a garden.
There is no need to fight. There is no need for you to be superior to anybody, because I am giving you something which is far higher than superiority. I am making you unique individuals.
Sermons in StonesOshoSaturday July 4, 2009 - 08:41am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for July 03, 2009
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All children are right-hemisphered. They see ghosts and fairies all around, but you go on talking to them and putting them in their places and saying to them, “Nonsense. You are stupid. Where is the fairy? There is nothing, just a shadow.” By and by you convince the child, the helpless child. By and by you convince him, and he moves from the right-hemisphered orientation to the left-hemisphered orientation; he has to. He has to live in your world. He has to forget his dreams, he has to forget all myth, he has to forget all poetry, he has to learn mathematics. Of course he becomes efficient in mathematics – and becomes almost crippled and paralyzed in life. Existence goes on getting farther and farther away and he becomes just a commodity in the market, his whole life becomes just rubbish…although, of course, valuable in the eyes of the world.
A seeker is one who lives through the imagination, who lives through the dreaming quality of his mind, who lives through poetry, who poeticises about life, who looks through visions. Then trees are greener than they look to you, then birds are more beautiful, then everything takes a luminous quality. Ordinary pebbles become diamonds; ordinary rocks are no longer ordinary – nothing is ordinary. If you look from the right hemisphere, everything becomes divine, sacred. Religion is from the right hemisphere.
A man was sitting with his friend in a cafeteria drinking tea. He studied his cup and said with a sigh, “Ah, my friend, life is like a cup of tea.”
The other considered that for a moment and then said, “But why? Why is life like a cup of tea?”
The first man replied, “How should I know? Am I a philosopher?”
The right-hemisphere brain only makes statements about facts, it cannot give you reasons. If you ask, “Why?” it can only remain silent, there comes no response from it. If you are walking and you see a lotus flower and you say, “Beautiful!” and somebody says, “Why?” what will you do? You will say, “How am I to know? Am I a philosopher?” It is a simple statement, a very simple statement, in itself total, complete. There is no reason behind it and no result beyond it, it is a simple statement of fact….
The right hemisphere is the hemisphere of poetry and love. A great shift is needed; that shift is the inner transformation.Excerpted from Osho, Ancient Music in the PinesFriday July 3, 2009 - 08:37am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for July 02, 2009
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Just a clarity of vision dispels all darkness out of which all the monsters are born.
Here with me, whether you are a man or a woman, whether you are white or black, it does not matter; nobody even takes note of it. It is enough that you are a human being. And it is your freedom to choose your own lifestyle; it is your basic right how you want to blossom. Those who love you can help in taking care of the garden in which you are growing — watering your roots, showering their warmth.
It has now been scientifically proved that even the plants know who are their friends and who are their enemies. They have developed something like a cardiogram which is attached to the tree, and if a man comes with the idea to cut a branch of the tree or to uproot the tree — he just has the idea — suddenly the graph that is being made by the cardiogram on the tree starts trembling. It loses the rhythm it had;.now you can see how fear is felt by the tree.
Remember that the tree has telepathic sensitivity; otherwise she could not know the thought in the man’s mind. He has not done anything; visibly, nothing has happened. And when the gardener comes — with his warmth, with his love — suddenly the graph becomes the most harmonious. Now the tree is no longer afraid, the tree is immensely blissful.
Loving warmth is not only a poetic phenomenon. It is a reality of great importance.
Now the flowers will be bigger, the fruits will be juicier; the tree will respond. Except for man, perhaps there is no ingratitude in this whole existence. The tree cannot give anything more — she cannot give money, she cannot give gold but she can give beautiful flowers, as big as possible, to a loving heart. She can give juicier fruits.
OshoThursday July 2, 2009 - 08:29am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for July 01, 2009
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The moment you start feeling your inner light, your whole perspective starts changing. You will feel compassionate towards human beings even if they are doing stupid things. And you will feel immensely joyous, celebrating, even though you don’t have anything to celebrate. Nothing is needed to celebrate — nly excuses...my birthday is just an excuse! But if you want to celebrate, you will find a thousand and one excuses.
It is your life, and whatever becomes of it is your creation. Remember, there are hidden signatures on it. You cannot disassociate yourself from what you create, from the way you live, the way you respond.
Once you are overflowing with love and blissfulness, you cannot, even in your dreams, act in a way which is humiliating to another. Because the other is not really the other, it is just part of us.
We are one consciousness filling the whole universe. But a little experience will help...and you will start seeing the same light in others. And to see light within yourself and light within others is to live the whole year round surrounded with a festival of lights.
OshoWednesday July 1, 2009 - 08:03am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for June 30, 2009
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There is only one possibility for sanity to exist in relationships so they don’t turn into inferiority and superiority games, so they don’t become sado-masochistic tortures. And that only possibility is in the presence of an unconditional love.
Love is the greatest alchemy.
It transforms base metals into gold. Your ingredients are the same — the murderer and the Gautam Buddha are not different as far as their ingredients, their intrinsic potentialities are concerned. It is just that man is not a one dimensional machine.
Man is not one-dimensional; otherwise, his whole world would be sheer boredom. And man’s search is basically to be one with existence — separation hurts.
In our other loving relationships, in small measures we are searching for the same unity. In love with a woman, in love with a man, in love with a friend, in love with some creative activity — dance, music, poetry — we are trying to have a certain synchronicity with existence.Loving warmth is not only a poetic phenomenon. It is a reality of great importance.
Now the flowers will be bigger, the fruits will be juicier; the tree will respond. Except for man, perhaps there is no ingratitude in this whole existence. The tree cannot give anything more — she cannot give money, she cannot give gold but she can give beautiful flowers, as big as possible, to a loving heart. She can give juicier fruits.
Love has never been thought of as food, but it is a very subtle kind of food. And now psychologists have concluded that if a child gets everything necessary — all the chemicals, all the hormones, food, exercise, fresh air, rest; everything that is necessary for life — still he will die in three to six months unless there is someone to pour love on him. He will not feel that life is worth living without love; he will simply shrink and die. And in thousands of labs around the world, many animals have died in these experiments.
OshoTuesday June 30, 2009 - 07:56am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
