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Osho on Celebration

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Osho on Celebration


 

 

When You Celebrate, the Whole Existence Participates with You

 

“I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?

 

“The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration.

 

“When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. In celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.”

 

- Osho, I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here, Talk #4

 

 

 

 

Your Celebration, Your Dance, Will Be Enough to Prevent the War

 

“Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

 

“That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

 

“Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create as many vibrations of laughter, joy, celebration, as possible; dance, sing, let the whole of humanity by and by catch the fire of Zen and the wind of Zen.

 

“Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your ecstasy, your meditation, will create a tremendous force which will be far higher because it is life-affirmative.”

 

- Osho, Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind, Talk #5

 

 

 

 

Everybody Knows What Celebration Is

 

“ ‘What is celebration?’ Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: ‘What is celebration?’

 

"Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in your being, just rejoicing in this moment, this tremendous universe. You had not asked for it, you have simply been given a universe which is infinite and eternal. You have not asked and you have been given a consciousness which is eternal, which can become festive. If you allow it, it can make you the sanest, the most graceful, the most loving…

 

“A man of many seasons and many rainbows – there are so many dimensions of celebration.”

 

- Osho, YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, Talk #26

 

 

 

 

The Whole Existence Is a Celebration

 

“I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

 

“I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.”

 

- Osho, Sat-Chit-Anand: Truth-Consciousness-Bliss, Talk #21

 

 

 

 

 

Your Celebration Is the Only True Religion

 

“Let this be the criterion always: Anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration…is the only true religion I know of.

 

"No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.”

 

- Osho, The Rebellious Spirit, Talk #24

 

 

 

 

True Celebration Cannot Be According to the Calendar

 

 

“Have you ever thought about why, all over the world, in every culture, in every society, there are a few days in the year for celebration? These few days for celebration are just a compensation – because these societies have taken away all celebration in your life, and if nothing is given to you in compensation, your life can become a danger to the culture. Every culture has to give some compensation to you so that you don’t feel completely lost in misery, in sadness. But these compensations are false.

 

“These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a nuisance. But in your inner world there can be a continuity of lights, songs, joys. Always remember that society compensates you when it feels that the repressed may explode into a dangerous situation if it is not compensated. Society finds some way of allowing you to let out the repressed. But this is not true celebration, and it cannot be true.

 

“True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety.

 

“Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom. Transform small things into celebration."

 

- Osho, Beyond Enlightenment, Talk #28

 

 

 

 

God Appears Only in Deep Celebration

 

“To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is not far away; if one is not able to celebrate life, then God does not exist for him. God appears only in deep celebration, when you are so full of joy that all misery has left you, all darkness has left you.

 

“When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available.”

 

- Osho, Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol. 2, Talk #9

 

 

 

 

Celebration Is a Natural State

 

“Celebration is not because some desire is fulfilled – because no desire is ever fulfilled. Desire as such cannot be fulfilled. Desire is only a way to avoid the present moment. Desire creates the future and takes you far away. Desire is a drug; it keeps you stoned, it does not allow you to see the reality – that which is herenow.

 

“When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

 

“Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That’s our natural state – to celebrate – as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state.

 

“It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.”

 

- Osho, The Secret of Secrets, Talk #8

 

 

 

 

Whenever You Are Total in Something There Is Celebration

 

“With the disappearance of the future, the only thing that remains in your hands is now. Then you can go deep into this now – whatsoever you are doing. You can be eating or dancing or making love to a woman or singing or digging a hole in the ground – whatsoever you are doing. This is the only time you have, why not do it totally? Why not celebrate it? Celebration and being total mean the same thing. You celebrate only when you are total in something, and when you are total in something you celebrate it.

 

“Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.”

 

- Osho, Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol.1, Talk #11

 

 

 

 

We Should Be Joyous and Happy In this Moment

 

“We need not worry about the future, we need not be prophetic about the future, we need not say a single thing about the future. We should be joyous and happy in this moment, and the next moment will be coming out of this moment. It will be suffused with the celebration of this moment, and naturally it will lead you into a higher celebration. The future is going to come out of this present.

 

“There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool’s imagination. I don’t think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don’t think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

 

“My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous, how to give them a little glimpse of blissfulness, how to bring laughter to their life. Then the future takes care of itself. You need not think of the tomorrow, it comes. It comes out of this moment. Let this moment be of great celebration.”

 

- Osho, Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol. 1, Talk #10

 

 

 

 

Existence Is Not a Journey, It Is a Celebration

 

“Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a journey, it is a celebration. Think of it as a celebration, as a delight, as a joy! Don’t turn it into a suffering, don’t turn it into a duty, a work. Let it be play.

 

“This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind…just being herenow…being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.”

 

- Osho, The Tantra Experience, Talk #4

 

 

 

 

The Serious Person Becomes Handicapped

 

“Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life. And the serious person becomes handicapped, he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration disappears from his life. He becomes desert-like. And if you are a desert, you can go on thinking and pretending that you are religious but you are not.”

 

- Osho, A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Talk #9

 

 

 

 

Celebration Is Unconditional

 

“To me, life in its totality is good. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate; otherwise not. Celebration means: whatsoever happens is irrelevant – I celebrate. Celebration is not conditional on certain things: ‘When I am happy then I will celebrate,’ or, ‘When I am unhappy I will not celebrate.’ No. Celebration is unconditional; I celebrate life. It brings unhappiness – good, I celebrate it. It brings happiness – good, I celebrate it. Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

 

“But a problem arises because whenever I use words, those words have connotations in your mind. When I say 'Celebrate', you think one has to be happy. How can one celebrate when one is sad? I am not saying that one has to be happy to celebrate. Celebration is gratefulness for whatsoever life gives to you. Whatsoever existence gives to you, celebration is a gratitude; it is a gratefulness.”

 

- Osho, The Alchemy of Yoga, Talk #10

 

 

 

 

A Really Celebrating Person Has No Future

 

“People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always in the future. It is a postponement. They are saying, ‘We cannot enjoy today so we will enjoy tomorrow.’ They are saying, ‘Right this moment we cannot celebrate, so let there be a tomorrow so that we can celebrate.’

 

“Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration. A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment, he lives it totally. Out of that total living arises the next moment, but it is not out of any lust. Of course, when out of celebration the next moment arises, it has more capacity to bless you. When out of celebration the future arises, it goes on becoming more and more rich. And a moment comes when the moment is so total, so whole, that time completely disappears.

 

“Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time – time disappears.”

 

- Osho, The Alchemy of Yoga, Talk #6

 

 

 

 

A God Is One Who Celebrates

 

“Who is a god? A god is one who has learned the secret of being happy with the whole universe, with every flower and with every river and with every rock and every star; who has become one with this continuous eternal celebration; who celebrates, who doesn’t bother whose celebration this is. And wherever there is a celebration, he participates.

 

“This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.”

 

- Osho, Yoga: The Science of the Soul, Talk #9

 

 

 

 

Only Silence Can Laugh

 

“These two are the parts. The inner silence – the silence so deep that there is no vibration in your being. You are, but there are no waves. You are just a pool without waves, not a single wave arises. The whole being silent, still. Inside, at the center, silence, and on the periphery, celebration and laughter. And only silence can laugh, because only silence can understand the cosmic joke.

 

“So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and eating becomes a celebration; you take a bath, and bathing becomes a celebration; you talk, and talking becomes a celebration; relationship becomes a celebration. Your outer life becomes festive, there is no sadness in it. How can sadness exist with silence?

 

“Your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing; whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and eating becomes a celebration; you take a bath, and bathing becomes a celebration; you talk, and talking becomes a celebration; relationship becomes a celebration. Your outer life becomes festive, there is no sadness in it. How can sadness exist with silence? But ordinarily you think otherwise: you think if you are silent you will be sad. Ordinarily you think, how can you avoid sadness if you are silent? I tell you, the silence that exists with sadness cannot be true. Something has gone wrong. You have missed the path, you are off the track. Only celebration can give proof that the real silence has happened.”

 

- Osho, A Bird on the Wing, Talk #10

 

 

 

 

The Whole Universe Is Celebrating

 

“Participation is bliss because the whole universe is celebrating. Every moment it is celebrating. It is a great celebration, a constant celebration. Only we are not part of it. We have detached ourselves and are in misery. Man is in misery because of the mind. The flowers are participating in the celebration, the moon is participating, the stars are participating, the earth is participating, the oceans are participating, the air and the clouds – everything is participating in that continuous, eternal celebration.

 

“Only man has become an outsider – and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.”

 

- Osho, The New Alchemy: To Turn You On, Talk #20

 

 

 

 

Work Is Preparatory to Celebration

 

“It does not mean that there will be no work if we turn life into a celebration. It is not that the wind does not work; it is always moving, blowing. It is not that the stars are idle; they are constantly moving. It is not that flowers don’t do anything when they bloom; really, they do a lot. But for them, doing it is not that important; what is important is being.

 

“Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

 

“If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night.”

 

- Osho, Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy, Talk #7

 

 

 

 

Entertainment Is Different from Celebration

 

“The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life of its moments of celebration and festivity. It is because of them that there is so little festivity in the world, and every day it is becoming more and more dull and dreary and miserable.

 

“In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.

 

“But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid for it. You work hard during the day, and when you are tired in the evening you go to a concert to watch others dancing. It is all you can do, but it is not even an apology for celebration.”

 

- Osho, Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy, Talk #7

 

 

 

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    My religion is a religion of celebration, festivity.

    Become both love and meditation. Allow that synthesis to happen in you. The old religions are religions of renunciation. They teach people anti-life attitudes, they are life-negative. they encourage people to renounce life, to escape to the monasteries, to the ...
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    How can i serve you?

    Question : How can i serve you? Just be yourself. There is no other service to me. Just be yourself; that's how you can serve me. That's how you have already served me -- if you are yourself. My whole effort is to help you to be yourself. If you are centered, r...
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    What is Innocence, What is Beauty?

    Question : Osho, What is Innocence, What is Beauty? Ram Fakeer, to live in the moment is innocence, to live without the past is innocence, to live without conclusions is innocence, to function out of the state of not knowing is innocence. And the moment you fun...
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    The way to trust is DOUBT, and doubt to the very end.

    And the second thing to remember: trust is not belief either. Belief is again a trick of the mind to repress doubt. Man is born with many doubts, millions of doubts, and it is natural, it is a gift of God. Doubt is a gift of God, but it creates trouble for you....
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    Acceptance : Tathata means saying ’Yes’ totally

    ACCEPTANCE "Acceptance is one of the most beautiful words. Buddhists, the followers of Buddha, have a term for it which is even deeper than the English word ’acceptance’; it is tathata. Tathata means saying ’yes’ so totally that in your being there is no divisi...
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    Be yourself, authentically yourself. Respect yourself.

    Your body contains the soul, matter contains mind. The world contains God. Dust contains divineness. You have to discover it, and the first step towards discovery is to accept yourself, rejoice in being yourself. You are not to be a Jesus, no, you are not to be...
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    Surrender is Understanding

    Question : My surrender is goal-oriented. I’m surrendering in order to win freedom, so it is not real surrender at all. I’m watching it, but the problem is: it is always “I” who is watching. Therefore, every realization out of that watching is reinforcement of ...
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    Perfect sincerity belongs to the being, not to the mind

    All guarantees are because of insincerity. You guarantee, you promise, you say: This is the guarantee, I will do this. While you are giving the guarantee, at that very moment the insincerity is there. Perfect sincerity offers no guarantee because perfect sincer...
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    My whole message is: Accept the you that you are

    My whole message is: Accept the you that you are, because God accepts it. God respects it, and you have not respected your being yet. Be immensely happy that God has chosen you to be, that God has chosen you to exist, to see his world, to listen to his music, t...
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    A sensitive person would prefer to die than to become a slave

    The conditioning of all the cultures is to make everybody insensitive, dull, numb, because sensitivity can be a trouble. To allow people to be sensitive is dangerous. If they are sensitive to beauty then marriage will be on the rocks. If marriage is to be saved...
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    Doubt is trust on the way. Doubt is inquiry and trust is the fulfillment of the inquiry.

    Question 1: Lately several friends have asked me if i was sceptical towards sannyas, the ashram and you. i had to admit to the truth and said, 'yes, at times i am.' This left me with a feeling of guilt. have i committed some unforgivable, sacrilegious crime or ...
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    Hinduism in its early stages was a very natural

    It is a long story.... Zen has moved from one country to another country, from one climate to another climate. It was born in India. Hinduism, as such, in its early stages, was very natural, very existential. It had no taboos about sex, its seers and saints had...
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    The difference between following you and surrendering

    Question 3 Please explain the difference between following you and surrendering to you. There is a great difference. Following me, you are still on the path of will; surrendering to me, the will has disappeared. Following me, you are important. You are. This is...
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    Jesus is a BHAKTA, a devotee

    Jesus is a BHAKTA, a devotee - Knows no techniques. Love is not a technique - Question : Osho, The Gospels provide no techniques for developing a loving heart. The gospels are also too difficult for ordinary people. Perhaps this is why the Christian message has...
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    I doubt, therefore, I am. But this is just an opening

    Question 2 Yesterday you referred about a western thinker who started doubting everything that can be doubted, but could not doubt himself. you said that this is a great achievement in opening towards divine. how? The opening toward higher consciousness means y...
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    on steady wisdom

    Question 16 What you say is possible only in a state of enlightenment, and we find everything of that enlightenment in you. you are utterly humble, but when you come out as a relentless critic, we are assailed by doubt and confusion. I am not going to do anythi...
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    Knowing is experience. Knowledge is information

    Many things have to be understood - and not only to be understood, but to be lived. The first is that knowledge is not knowing. Knowledge and knowing are different dimensions. Knowledge is information. You can collect it, you can accumulate it; you can become a...
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    To be authentic means: to remain true to your own being

    Truthfulness means authenticity, to be true, not to be false -- not to use masks: whatsoever is your real face, show it... and at whatsoever the cost. Remember, that doesn't mean that you have to unmask others. If they are happy with their lies it is for them t...
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    Is knowing an intellectul experience?

    Question 4 Osho, Is knowing an intellectul experience? The experience of knowing has two dimensions to it. One is objective knowing, the other is subjective knowing. Objective knowing is intellectual. That's what all of science goes on doing. It is intellectual...
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    The Great Dance of Suchness

    Brahman is well known by the name Tatvanam – that – so it is to be meditated upon as Tatvanam – that. All beings love him who know Brahman as such. “Sir, teach me the Upanishad.” “The Upanishad has been imparted to you. We have, verily, imparted to you the Upan...
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    Real renunciation means unconditioning the mind.

    Real renunciation means unconditioning the mind. LIFE IS DIALECTICAL. It is more Hegelian than Aristotelean because it consists of the opposites. Without the opposites existence is impossible -- day and night, life and death, summer and winter. Life is so vast ...
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    When you feel that you are filled with bliss, express it. Share it

    The spiritual search starts as a seeking for eternal bliss, as a seeking for eternal liberation, as a seeking for divine light and divine life. But the center remains with you. In the beginning it is a self-centered search. Whatsoever you are seeking you are se...
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    Is there quality in nothingness?

    Question 1 Osho, Is there quality in nothingness? Nothingness can either be just emptiness or it can be a tremendous fullness. It can be negative, it can be positive. If it is negative it is like death, darkness. Religions have called it hell. It is hell becaus...
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    Why do great philosophers and so forth, say such beautiful things and yet remain such a mess?

    Question 2 Why do great philosophers and so forth, say such beautiful things and yet remain such a mess? Philosophers are like fences -- they run round a lot without getting anywhere at all. Yes, they are exactly like a fence -- it goes on running round and rou...
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    Chaos is the very nature of existence

    Question 4: Osho, Fritjof Capra contends that, "modern physics goes far beyond technology. The way - or tao - of physics can be a path with a heart, a way to spiritual realization." Do you agree? Maneesha, the question is not of agreeing or not agreeing, becaus...
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    Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence.

    Question : Osho, Can the intellect be a door to enlightenment, or is enlightenment only achieved through surrender? Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need gr...
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    Dharma simply means your intrinsic nature

    The first thing to understand is the meaning of dharma. Unfortunately, the Sanskrit word ‘dharma’ – or the Pali word which Buddha used, ‘dhamma’ – has been wrongly translated as ‘religion’ by the theologians, and by scholars it has been translated as ‘law’, the...
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    Truth : One can be it, but one cannot say it.

    Truth Question 1: Osho, Sometimes while just sitting, the question comes up in the mind: what is truth? But by the time i come here i realize that i am not capable to ask. but may i ask what happens in those moments when the question arises so strongly that had...
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    Prayer is nothing but the most refined form of love.

    Prayer is nothing but the most refined form of love. A love unaddressed to anybody, a love for the whole. -Osho, "The Messiah, Vol 1, #5"
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    Choicelessness is Bliss

    Question 1 Is it that there are only two alternatives before man - a life of abiding sorrow and suffering or one of divinity and bliss - and this choice lies with him? How is it that most have chosen the path of sorrow and suffering? It is a very significant qu...
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    Knowledge is not wisdom.

    People go on collecting knowledge and get mixed up and start thinking that this knowledge is wisdom. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom comes through your growth of consciousness, and knowledge comes through collecting from the scriptures, from learned people, and...
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    Can someone who is not open wake up?

    Question 2: Osho, Can someone who is not open wake up? Deva Ashoka, it is impossible to wake up if you are not open. Opening to existence is what waking up is all about: open to the sun, to the moon, to the rain, to the wind, open to this whole celebration of t...
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    Self-knowledge means: the knower is not, the known is not, the knowledge is not.

    I have read somewhere about a Tibetan mystic, Milarepa. It is written that Milarepa was a saint, because sinners could feel at ease with him – at ease, totally at ease. There was no condemnation in his eyes, in his words, in his behavior. Really, a saint means ...
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    Acceptance - To accept all is the highest peak of meditation

    ACCEPTANCE Tathagata is one of the names given to Gautam the Buddha. It means one who lives in the suchness of life—who accepts whatsoever is the case, who accepts everything totally. Even death is absolutely accepted because his trust in existence is infinite....
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    Beware of thinking

    Once a doctor, a very well known historian and an eminent scholar, was staying in a village. The postmaster, the old postmaster of the village, became curious about this old man, this doctor. He was curious to know what kind of doctor he is, so one day he asked...
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    Bliss Beyond All Duality

    A very rich man once wanted to become happy. He had tried all kinds of ways but everything had failed. He went to many saints; nobody could help him. Then somebody suggested, "You go to Mulla Nasruddin. He lives in a certain town -- he is the only man who can b...
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    The authentic man means one who has come out of his personality.

    Question 3: Osho, What is the meaning of an authentic man? what is his nature, and his way of life? Jayantibhai, the authentic man means one who has come out of his personality. You have two words: personality and individuality. Personality is the false identit...
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    Doubt sharpens your intelligence. It is a challenge.

    Doubt sharpens your intelligence. It is a challenge. You are neither saying yes, nor are you saying no. You are saying only one thing, “I am ignorant, and I am not going to trust unless I have experienced, whatsoever the case, unless I arrive at something which...
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    I am not teaching philosophy

    Question 7 What is philosophy? I don't know, and I don't think that anybody else knows either. Philosophy is a useless passion. I am using Jean-Paul Sartre's words, he says 'Man is a useless passion.' I say man is NOT a useless passion but philosophy is. You as...
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    Doubt is closing the door; trust is opening the door.

    Question 2 You talked of moving from faith to trust. how can we use the mind that swings from doubt to belief to go beyond these two polarities? Doubt and belief are not different -- two aspects of the same coin. This has to be understood first, because people ...
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    Share as much as you can, and the more you will be given.

    Share! Share as much as you can, and the more you will be given. Jesus says: If you cling you will lose; if you share you will get. Don't be a miser -- share! And feel grateful: whosoever accepts your energy, feel grateful to him because he could have rejected ...
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    Remain true to yourself and you will remain true to God.

    You should never listen to what others are saying; listen to your feelings. Remain true to yourself and you will remain true to God. He has already given you the key -- the key is in your feelings. Never imitate, because there is no one way for all. If you unde...
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    Osho on Trust

    Osho on Trust Trust Itself Is Such a Blessing When everything is going smoothly and beautifully, you can trust. But you are trusting somebody else -- God, God's only begotten son, any messenger of God, a prophet, a tirthankara or a Gautam Buddha, it does not ma...
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    You are a guest. Leave this earth a little more beautiful, a little more human, a little more lovable, a little more fragrant, for those unknown guests who will be following you.

    Question 2 : Osho, I feel like a guest on earth, as if i don't really belong here at all. in your beautiful gathering, i feel that i am also a guest, staying here only by your grace or by good fortune. i have nothing really to give, except myself. is this enoug...
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    Nothingness : Things disappear, only the ultimate substance remains.

    Nothingness is the fragrance of the beyond. It is the opening of the heart to the transcendental. It is the unfoldment of the one-thousand-petaled lotus. It is man's destiny. Man is complete only when he has come to this fragrance, when he has come to this abso...
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    This whole world outside, the objective world, is utterly empty.

    Emptiness means: this whole world outside, the objective world, is utterly empty. Think of it as empty. Contemplation it as empty and you will be surprised -- the moment you start getting into this idea of the emptiness of the whole world, many things will star...
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    Trust is the ultimate product of doubt

    Question 6 You said that krishna happens to be arjuna's friend, not his master, and therefore he bears with him so patiently and clears his numerous doubts. but in the same geeta krishna says, "sanshayatma vinashyati -- a doubting mind perishes. " he says so lo...
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    Sensitivity can be shared in a thousand and one ways.

    Question 3 Osho, Why do i get so sensitive? where does it come from and is it possible to share sensitivity? Prem Anugita, every child is born sensitive, utterly sensitive. But the society does not want so many sensitive people in the world; it wants people wit...
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    Whatsoever you have, share it

    Question 3: What role should charity play in the life of a sannyasin? The question is not from a sannyasin - it is from Philip Martin. The first thing, Philip Martin, become a sannyasin. You should not ask questions about others; that is not gentlemanly. You sh...
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    Empathy : Sympathy and apathy are opposed to each other. Empathy is beyond both.

    Question : Osho, Is Empathy the current that brings about the Awareness of our each and every Relatedness, and vice versa? The experience of empathy is very rare. You know what sympathy means, you also know what apathy means; but empathy you do not know. Sympat...
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    Osho on Sharing

    Osho on Sharing "Before death knocks on your door, share -- whatsoever you have. You can sing a beautiful song? -- sing it, share it. You can paint a picture? -- paint, share it. You can dance? -- go and dance, share it. Whatsoever you have -- and I have never ...
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    The innocence of the children is ignorance, it is not true innocence

    Question 3: Osho, Is the innocence of small children just ignorance, or has it got any value too? The innocence of the children is ignorance, it is not true innocence. The true innocence happens only after the second birth. The true innocence happens only after...
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    Innocence means your just being a clear mirror — it is a state of not-knowing

    Nirdosh means innocent. Sannyas is an effort to discover your intrinsic innocence. It is not an effort to gain knowledge. The knowledgeable person is always a stupid person. The knowledgeable starts depending on knowledge, he starts functioning through knowledg...
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    on Innocence and Ignorance - Innocence is a state of meditativeness

    Question 1: Osho, Could you say something about innocence and ignorance? Chitprem, The difference between the two is immense; it is as vast as possible. It is the difference between darkness and light, the difference between death and life, the difference betwe...
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    on Intensity and Seriousness – With seriousness, you can never be Intense

    Question : But certain things have been achieved only because some people have been – maybe the word ’serious’ it is not good, but, rather, ’intense’. Intensity is a very different thing from seriousness. If you are serious, you can never really be intense; you...
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    Knower, Known and Knowing.

    Now the first technique: EACH THING IS PERCEIVED THROUGH KNOWING. THE SELF SHINES IN SPACE THROUGH KNOWING. PERCEIVE ONE BEING AS KNOWER AND KNOWN. Whenever you know something, it is known through knowing. The object comes to your mind through the faculty of kn...
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    We should be proud of this planet earth.

    It is one single whole; and we should be proud that our planet earth is the only planet in this vast universe, where there are millions of solar systems having millions and millions of planets. Our planet is the only one which has evolved not only life, not onl...
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    Satyam, Shivam, Sundramy : Truth, Virtue(Godliness), Beauty

    Satyam, Shivam, Sundram - Truth, Virtue(Godliness), Beauty - Question 1: Beloved Osho, What is the mystic conception of ultimate reality? Maneesha, the mystic's conception of the ultimate reality is the only authentic, real experience. It is not a thought or a ...
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    The Path of Intelligence

    Question 1: Osho, Can the intellect be a door to enlightenment, or is enlightenment only achieved through surrender? Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need g...
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    Doubt : The real foundation of religion is doubt, not trust.

    Osho on Doubt “The very first step to be taught in the search for truth is right doubt. A good beginning of religious education should be that. The real foundation of religion is doubt, not trust. Doubt is the beginning, trust is the end. Doubt is the search, t...
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    Whenever you can find time, move into the forest. Go to the wild sea

    Deva means divine and kanan means a wild forest; a divine, wild forest. And that’s what you have to keep in your heart – that to be wild is to be alive. The more civilised a person is, the less alive. I’m not saying to become uncivilised. I’m not saying to brea...
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    Intelligence is a natural quality of life

    Question 1: Yesterday when you spoke of intelligence becoming meditation, there was such a rush inside. it felt as if my heart would explode. it was as if you had said something i'd been waiting to hear. can you elaborate? The question is from Krishna Prem. Int...
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    Knowledge makes you blind. It closes your eyes.

    LONG AGO, IN JAPAN, A BLIND MAN VISITING A FRIEND ONE NIGHT, WAS OFFERED A PAPER-AND-BAMBOO LANTERN TO CARRY HOME WITH HIM. 'I DO NOT NEED A LANTERN,' HE SAID, 'DARKNESS OR LIGHT IS ALL THE SAME TO ME.' 'I KNOW YOU DO NOT NEED A LANTERN TO FIND YOUR WAY, HIS FR...
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