Fulfillment

 

 

An old man, ninety-five years old. He was asked what was the secret of his long life and his health. He said "I feel a little embarrassed to say the truth. The truth is that I have been getting life from the trees. I huge them and suddenly subtle flows of energies start entering my body. They have kept me alive and full of juice. And my own observation is that he is right. He may not be able to prove it scientifically but sooner or later It will be proved scientifically too: if you love a tree, the tree responds, if you love a rock even the rock responds.

 

Experiment with love in as many ways as possible and you will become richer every day. You will find new sources and new ways to love, new objects to love. And then ultimately a moment comes when one simply sits with no object of love, simply loving -- not loving to somebody, just loving, just full of love, overflowing with love. And that is the state of enlightenment. One is fulfilled, utterly contented, one has arrived.

 

The feeling, the constant feeling that something is missing is, for the first time, no more there.

 

And that is the greatest day in one‘s life, when you can feel nothing is missing, nothing at all. You search and you cannot find anything missing, all is fulfilled. That man has lived life truly. Others are simply wasting it, wasting a golden opportunity.

 

-Osho, "The Miracle, #14“