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Responsibility : To be in tune with the present moment. This ability to respond is responsibility.

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You don't understand even the meaning of the word responsibility. The society has been so cunning. It has destroyed our most beautiful words, given them distorted meanings. Ordinarily in your dictionaries `responsibility' means duty, doing things the way you are expected to do them by your parents, by your teachers, by your priests, by your politicians, by somebody else.

 

Your responsibility is to fulfill the demands made upon you by your elders and your society. If you act accordingly, you are a responsible person; if you act on your own -- individually -- then you are an irresponsible person. And your fear is: in acting spontaneously, here and now, there is a danger -- you may start acting individually. What will happen to your responsibility?

 

The fact is that `responsibility', the very word, has to be broken into two words. It means `response ability'. And response is possible only if you are spontaneous, here and now. Response means that your attention, your awareness, your consciousness, is totally here and now, in the present. So whatever happens, you respond with your whole being. It is not a question of being in tune with somebody else, some holy scripture, or some holy idiot. It simply means to be in tune with the present moment. This ability to respond is responsibility.

 

But without experience you will not be able to see the contradiction in your question. Yes, I say you will be able to act with absolute response-ability. But it will not be the responsibility that you have been taught and conditioned for. It will be a totally new phenomenon.

 

It will be just like a mirror. If you come in front of it, it responds, it reflects you. The moment you have gone out of its focus, it is again silent. It is not a photographic film that catches your reflection. It remains always clean and available. Whoever comes in front of it -- it will respond with totality and reflect the reality. The consciousness which is in the present is just like a mirror.

 

-Osho, “Sat Chit Anand, #20, Q2”

 

 

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Osho Dictionary

A Spiritual Dictionary for the Here and Now

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No. Category Subject
63 R Rain : You can just relax and let the rain fall. You can start enjoying the music, the raindrops falling on you
62 R Rationalisation : A pseudo reasoning - it looks like reason, but is not
61 R React : We always think out of the past. That is how everybody reacts.
60 R Reading : when somebody is reading an ordinary book it is called 'reading'; but whenever somebody is reading the Gita we have a special term for it: we call it path.
59 R Reality : The reality that we know is not the true reality
58 R Reality : When your awareness is real you live in reality
57 R Reasoning : Pseudo reasoning, rationalization, explanations, excuses. All are borrowed. Not a single one is your own authentic experience
56 R Rebirth : Jesus says to Nicodemus, "Unless you are born again you will not enter into my kingdom of God."
55 R Receptivity : Dropping the garbage that you go on carrying in your head.
54 R Receptivity : Meditativeness is simply a deep receptivity
53 R Receptivity : Truth cannot be sought -- one can simply be receptive, that's all.
52 R Recreation : Whenever you are playing and you are on a holiday, something is created in you - it is actually recreation, it is not just fun.
51 R Reflection : Reflecting is nothing but a beautiful word for 'thinking'.
50 R Reincarnation : Memory travels into a new womb - not the self.
49 R Reincarnation : To me it is true, to you it is not - not yet.
48 R Rejoicing : That is closer to life; that's how life is and should be.
47 R Relating : Relationship is ugly, relating is beautiful.
46 R Relating : That's what relating is: you drop all that is ugly in love - possessiveness, exclusiveness, domination, suspicion, doubt
45 R Relationship : Osho on Relationship
44 R Relationship : Relationship is beautiful because it is a mirror.
43 R Relationship, Men and Women : When you are with your woman, put your mind aside. Become more existential and less intellectual.
42 R Relativity : The theory of relativity is that time is elastic.
41 R Relaxation : Relaxation comes to you when there is no urge to activity
40 R Relaxation : Relaxation is just being natural
39 R Religion : Religion is reuniting with your own source. Religion is remembering, becoming again a part of the organic unity that you are. It is nothing to do with the others.
38 R Religious Leaders : Promises are always for tomorrow, and tomorrow never comes.
37 R Religious War : The idea of the crusade, of a religious war, is a great contribution of Christianity. Mohammedanism learned it from Christianity
36 R Religious Warfare : The whole history consists only of two things: war and preparation for war.
35 R Remembering : It really means becoming part again of the whole, becoming a member again of the family that existence is
34 R Renunciation : Coming to know that you cannot possess anything.
33 R Renunciation : People renounce the world, they don't renounce the mind - and the mind is a byproduct of the world!
32 R Repent : 'Repent' has nothing to do with repentance. 'Repent' means: Turn in! Return back! Come to the source of your being!
31 R Repentance : To err is human, there is nothing to be worried about.
30 R Repression : Repression of any kind is destructive
29 R Repression : Repression is to live a life that you were not meant to live.
28 R Resolution : Totality, commitment, involvement, a quantum leap into something, into something which is not yet clearly known.
27 R Resort : My commune is, in the first place, non-ascetic.
26 R Respect : If you don't respect yourself you cannot respect anybody else in the world.
25 R Response : Response is unprogrammed experiencing in the moment.
24 R Responsibility : Responsibility means: ability to respond. It does not mean a duty.
» R Responsibility : To be in tune with the present moment. This ability to respond is responsibility.
22 R Responsibility : To be responsible means to be alert, conscious
21 R Rest : A meditator has to learn how to relax, how to rest, and enjoy rest.
20 R Resurrection : There is no resurrection. Resurrection is possible only if first you DIE! You never die.
19 R Resurrection : Whenever your ego is crucified there is a resurrection, a rebirth. You are born again, and this childhood is eternal, because this is a rebirth of the spirit, not of the body.
18 R Retirement : When you have enjoyed a moment it is retirement, it is through retirement
17 R Revenge : Just twenty-four hours, try not to react, not to reject, whatsoever happens
16 R Revolution : Revolution is possible only in the individual soul. The social revolution is a pseudo phenomenon
15 R Rewards : The really mature person lives in such a way that each moment in itself is a reward. It is not that the reward will be coming later on.
14 R Right and Wrong : Right and wrong is not a distinction between objects; right and wrong is a distinction between consciousnesses.
13 R Right and Wrong : There is no such thing as right or wrong, because something may be right this moment and it may not be right the next moment.
12 R Right-Mindfulness : Not doing anything mechanically, but doing it with full awareness.
11 R Risk Taking : If you are alive you have to take risks. Life is a risk. Only death is secure, life is never secure
10 R Rituals : The sacred dog ritual has become the most important item in the ceremony.
9 R Rituals : They are not religion, and they cannot be religion. I am against rituals
8 R River : Everything is a process.
7 R Role Playing : Look at the world as a great drama. A thousand and one plays are going on and you have to participate in many games.
6 R Routine : Habits are one of the root causes of dullness. Find out new ways of doing things.
5 R Ruin : There are three ways to be ruined in this world: first is by sex, second is by gambling, and the third is by politics.
4 R Rulers : To rule others is a poor substitute, because the real ruler is one who rules himself.
3 R Rules : Rules exist for the false, not for the real. The real can exist without rules, but the false cannot exist
2 R Rumors : You want to believe that "everybody is far worse than I am." That's the only way to feel good, a little bit good, about yourself.
1 R Running : If you can run then there is no need for any other meditation
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