Giving
Who is the spiritual man? The man who knows the joy of giving and who gives for no reason at all, who gives without any discrimination, who does not say 'I will give to you because you are good and I will not give to you because you are bad.' If you discriminate, then again something of the business has entered. God simply goes on giving to the sinners and to the saints, to all alike. When His clouds shower, they don't only shower on the virtuous. When His sun rises it does not rise only for the good: it rises for all.
Imbibe that spirit of sharing, let that become your very style of life. That I call prayer. That is the essential prayer: to be capable of giving without any idea of getting, to be capable of giving without any conditions attached to it, to be capable of giving just out of your abundance.
-Osho, "The 99 Names of Nothingness, #8"
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Love is innocent when you don't demand anything out of it.
Love is innocent when there is no motive in it.
Love is innocent when it is nothing but a sharing of your energy.
You have too much, so you share... you want to share.
And whosoever shares with you, you feel grateful to him or her, because you were like a cloud -- too full of rainwater -- and somebody helped you to unburden. Or you were like a flower, full of fragrance, and the wind came and unloaded you. Or you had a song to sing, and somebody listened attentively... so attentively that he allowed you space to sing it. So to whomsoever helps you to overflow in love, feel grateful.
When love is not motivated, it is prayer. So remember this... and your name will remind you again and again.
Prem prasadam: life is a gift -- we have not earned it....
Hence one has to be grateful for everything -- small things -- and that gratefulness is all that religion is. Once you understand that your life is a gift, a grace, you start feeling grateful.
Ordinarily people feel very complaining. A mind that complains is a non-religious mind. A mind that feels grateful is a religious mind. So this name will remind you to feel grateful... as grateful as possible.
And once you start looking around you find that god has given so much... and we are so blind, so :deaf, that we don't see at all. Such an incredible world, such a wonderful existence, such a tremendous mystery. Each moment of it is an eternity, a diamond -- but we go on losing it and we are not even grateful for it.
Feel grateful, and through gratefulness you will grow. Never complain. If you can drop all complaining, that will be your prayer, your meditation.
So whenever the mind starts creating some complaint, immediately become aware and drop it. And suddenly you will see that once the complaining mind has disappeared and gratefulness has come in, you will start looking at life with different eyes... totally different eyes. You will not see this ordinary world -- you will see an extraordinary existence... luminous! It is delight... all over! It is a benediction, but we are blind and complaints are like screens -- they don't allow us to see.
And once you know that life is a gift, love is a gift, you start feeling more feminine, more receptive. Then you become less aggressive. When god has given life and has given love, he will give heaven too... he will give truth too. When this miracle of life has become possible, why not the other miracle? Then one starts waiting. Even seeking stops. One is simply tremendously trustful that everything has happened, everything will happen, and everything as it is, is good.
To remind you of that I am giving you this name, prasadam. It means everything is graceful, everything is good, everything is a gift, and wrong simply does not happen. All that happens is good. Wrong has never happened. If you feel something is wrong, it is your interpretation; it is your complaining mind. Once you drop the mind, you will suddenly see that everything is as it should be. And in that understanding is relaxation.
It is going to come, and I am going to continue work on you. Mm? now I will be working more.
-Osho, "Blessed Are the Ignorant, #24"