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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 come across a man who has not much to share. If you want to share, you have too much to share. If you don't want to share, you may have enough, more than enough, but you are poor, you don't have anything."

 

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

 

 

 

 

“Those who have gone inside have never come empty handed. They have come with so much bliss, so much ecstasy, with such an abundance that they start sharing, because as they share they come to understand the inner economics.

The more you share the more you have. If you don't share, you won't have even that which you had. Jesus says, "Those who have shall be given more, and those who have not, even whatsoever they have will be taken away." I cannot agree with him. I say unto you, the more you give, the more you will have; the less you give, the less you will have. If you don't give at all, you won't have anything left.

Sharing is the only compassion.
Sharing is the only service.


Sharing is the only way the awakened one lives. That is real character. That is authentic morality. That is true religiousness.”

 

- Osho, "I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here, #2"

 

 

 

 

"Live truly, authentically, sincerely -- that is the most funda-mental thing. I teach you life! I don't teach you service. Service comes as a shadow. A really alive person is continuously sharing his energy -- whatsoever he has -- because he knows that the more you share, the more you have."

 

- Osho, "Blessed Are the Ignorant, #5"

 

 

 

"If you know how to share, you are mature; if you don't know how to share, you are immature. This sharing goes on on all levels, in all directions, in all dimensions. So one of the most basic things to understand is the more you share something, the more it grows in you. Share whatsoever you have and it will grow; cling to it, become afraid of sharing, of friendship, of love, and it will shrink'. Life knows only one law and that law is of expansion and sharing."

 

- Osho, "Ancient Music in the Pines, #2"

 

 

 

"The ordinary love is just a masquerade; something else is hiding behind it. The real love is a totally different phenomenon. The ordinary love is a demand. The real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand; it knows the joy of giving."

 

- Osho, "God's Got a Thing About you, #15"

 

 

 

"Meditation makes you capable of being alone and joyous, with no need of the other, and love makes you capable of sharing your joy with others. Meditation is inner, love is outer. Meditation is of the interiority and love is of the exterior."

 

- Osho, "Theologia Mystica, #15"

 

 

 

"Love is sharing; greed is hoarding. greed only wants and never gives, and love knows only giving and never asks for anything in return; it is unconditional sharing."

 

- Osho, "Be Still and Know, #3"

 

 

 

"Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. it asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. love is a spiritual phenommenon;  lust is physical. ego is psychological; love is spiritual."

 

- Osho, "Come, Come, Yet Again Come, #9"

 

 


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    None of My Sannyasins are to Become Saviors

    Question 2 : Osho, Though your emphasis has been for us, as individuals, to go within to save ourselves, I guess I am still naïve enough to feel that our love, our dancing, our joy could still save this beautiful planet. Can you please say something about this?...
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    Speak the truth, whatsoever the cost.

    SPEAK THE TRUTH, GIVE WHATEVER YOU CAN, NEVER BE ANGRY. THESE THREE STEPS WILL LEAD YOU INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE GODS. Speak the truth, whatsoever the cost. It is going to cost you much, because the world lives in lies. People are brought up in such a way that ...
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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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    They never understand that receiving is far greater, it needs a far greater heart than giving

    I have a friend in Jabalpur, who is the richest man in that state, and the biggest manufacturer of beedies in the whole world. He used to come here, he used to come to my camps, and then he became a minister. Then he started becoming afraid of me. All politicia...
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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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    All that you put into the lives of others comes back into your own

    Question : Osho, Someone once told me the saying: “all that you put into the lives of others comes back into your own. “it has been with me ever since, and i feel it to be true. Can you please talk about this? it keeps coming up a lot for me. Prem Kendra, the s...
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    on difference between helping others and trying to change others

    Question : You said, “Teaching is the best way of learning but you have also said, “The world is irreligious because of too many preachers. “Would you please speak on the subtle difference between helping others and trying to change others. THERE IS A VAST DIFF...
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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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    Hoarding poisons the heart. All hoarding is poisonous

    The real thing is not what you are giving — pearls and holiness and love — and TO WHOM you are giving; that is not the point. The point is that you are giving. When you have, give it. Gurdjieff used to say, “All that I hoarded was lost, and all that I gave is m...
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    on Charity – Charity is a beautiful flowering of one who has

    Whenever you are unable to share, whenever you are unable to practise charity, note down — you must be poor. You may have much in the eyes of others, but deep down you must be poor if you cannot share. You possess only that which you can give. Only by giving do...
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    on Beggars and Begging – What can i do with a Beggar?

    Question : What can i do with a beggar? whether i give him a rupee or not, he will remain a beggar all the same. THE beggar is not the problem. If the beggar was the problem then everybody who passes by would feel the same. If the beggar was the problem then be...
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    on Temptation to help others

    Remember this. It is impossible to help others till you have obtained some certainty of your own. Resist the temptation to help others. It is evil unless you have obtained some certainty of your own. Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper. because you...
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    on Helping Others – When you help others you have moved out of your own Ego

    [Osho suggested to a sannyasin to start a small meditation centre.] It will be good for you also. This is my observation, that there are many things that you learn only when you start teaching them. The best way to learn a thing is to teach it. And you grow mor...
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    on Mercy – Unless mercy is absolutely egoless it is not authentic

    Mercy can be of two kinds. It can be very egoistic, then it only appears as mercy but is not; unless mercy is absolutely egoless it is not authentic. And the difference is very subtle: from the outside there is no difference at all but one can feel the differen...
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    The courage to leap into the void is man's only true courage

    26 Evening has merged into night. Some people have come. They say, "You teach nothingness. But the thought of nothingness. terrifies us. Is there nothing we can hold on to?" I tell them that courage is certainly essential for a leap into the void. But those who...
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    Every giving has to be unconditional.

    Question 2 : Osho, Someone once told me the saying: “all that you put into the lives of others comes back into your own. “it has been with me ever since, and i feel it to be true. Can you please talk about this? it keeps coming up a lot for me. Prem Kendra, the...
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    The people who are miserly will remain miserly, even in their sharing

    The people who are miserly will remain miserly, even in their sharing. If you look deep down you will find they are trying to bargain for something, there is some business hidden in it. The priests go on telling people, “If you give to poor people here, you wil...
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    Generosity is the real richness.

    Generosity is the real richness. And to be generous, to share, you don’t need many things. To be generous, you just have to share whatsoever you have. You may not have much – that is not the point. Who has much? Who can ever have enough? It is never much, it is...
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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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    Start giving more. You will get, but one gets only by giving

    [A woman sannyasin says: I’m miserable. I want to keep being cuddled by a woman and I’m not getting it. I keep withdrawing from everything around me.] You have to learn to give. You only ask – and that creates the trouble. It is not a question of man or woman; ...
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    Before you start helping others, live it in all possible ways

    Before you start helping others, live it in all possible ways. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively, sit meditatively, even sleep meditatively. Let meditation be spread all over your life. It should become a twenty-four-hour phenomenon, like breathing — so much ...
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    Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life

    Question 5: Osho, I know I should be unattached. Now I judge myself for having bought beautiful orange material rather than having the courage to run around like some do in some dirty rag. Now at least have the courage to wear those beautiful orange things. I’m...
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    Don’t be a do-gooder

    Now, two more diseases, two more complexes, two more illusions. We discussed three in the night: mind, lust for life, and desiring. Now the fourth is sattva – it means virtue. It means an inner accumulation of being good. This feeling of being good is also a di...
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    The help can only be indirect; it can never be direct.

    [A sannyasin who is returning to the west says she is afraid about meeting her old friend who is a marxist: He is in search of truth and I too. He has found something and I have found something. He has known me for so long and has given me so much love… ] I kno...
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    Give, give for giving's sake. Share for sharing's sake.

    Question 1: Osho, What is the source of your infinite spring of giving? The source is always the same. We are just like rays of the same sun. The source of existence is what we call God; it is better to call it the ultimate source. From there everything comes, ...
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    Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper.

    Meditation is nonsocial. It is not concerned with anyone else; it is concerned only with yourself. So no mask is needed; you can be authentic. But you cannot be authentic because you don't know the distinction. Even in meditation I feel that you are doing many ...
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    Be Altruistic only when your own self is fulfilled

    Buddha says There are needy people all around. There are ill people, there are poor people, there are paralyzed people and blind and deaf and lame. If you start serving all these people you will forget the real work. That’s what has happened to the Christian mi...
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    Help people to attain a loving insight into their lives, help people to love themselves

    [A sannyasin expresses concern about being a sannyasin in the West. She works in a personnel at a university. Osho says that is good work, and love is needed more than expertise…. ] The therapist, the counsellor, has to love the patients so deeply, so totally, ...
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    on missionaries and sharing – Never try to think in terms of missionaries

    Question 6: To follow jesus a deep trust, surrender and love is needed but today a deep skepticism is prevalent all over the world. what is the way? This is from Swami Yoga Chinmaya. Think about yourself. Is deep skepticism within you? That’s the question to be...
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    Share more, and let sharing be the only law. To be a miser is to be a sinner

    [A sannyasin says he has a tension in his head and: ’I am not very loving and… I don’t feel very good about myself’.] Mm… that may be the tension – because love is a release. If you are loving you remain relaxed. If you are not loving you become tense. Tension ...
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