Good morning to all of you..
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
There is only one God, the soul is virtually the same, but the body has two types. A body which we call physical body, which is visible to us; The astral body is a body which is not visible to us. When the body dies, the physical body dies, but the subtle body, he is the Subtle Body, he does not die.
Spirit is dwelling in two bodies, a subtle body and the physical body. At death the physical body falls. It is made ??up of the soil-water body, it is the body of the marrow bones, it falls. Again very subtle ideas, subtle emotions, the body remains Waybreshns subtle, microscopic fibers.
The fibers are surrounded by body started moving again and the new born with the soul then enters into a new physical body. When the soul is new in a mother's womb, then it means the subtle body.
Drops just the physical body at death, the astral body. But the ultimate time of death - which we call salvation - the ultimate death of the physical body and the subtle body falls. No one is born again of the Spirit, then he becomes absorbed in the infinite spirit. He who is infinite absorption, it is the same. As a drop falls into the ocean.
Three things are necessary to be understood. Spirit is one of the elements. Elements of the Spirit are active in relation to body size in two ways - the subtle body and the physical body. We are familiar with the gross body, the subtle body is familiar with the yogi. And yoga are also up, they are familiar with the soul. Normal eye is able to see the body. Yoga-sight, is able to see the attention to the subtle body. But in Samadhi, Beyond Yoga, subtle cross, which remains ahead of him, he is experienced in the mausoleum. Even when the individual is carefully lifted up, then leads to samadhi. And that which is experienced in samadhi, he is a divine experience. Ordinary human experience of body experience, the experience of ordinary astral body experience Yogi, Yogi ultimate experience is the experience of the divine. God is one, are endless subtle body, the gross body are endless. - Osho
Whatever is in your heart that is not clean, not true, will ultimately
begin to act like a wall, obstructing the natural flow of love.
People who say that there is no love in their life,
are being blocked by this wall.
Actually there is love, but they just can't accept it.
Ego is the clearest example of this.
Ego limits the flow of love by placing conditions on the
love you give and receive.
Ego uses love to satisfy its own needs and desires.
It produces a love which is deceptive, one which brings
only temporary satisfaction.
Ego does not allow you to experience true love or share it.
If fact, ego is capable of destroying your ability to
feel love altogether.
A created thing cannot be more than a mechanism; it cannot be an organic reality. A car is created,
man is not created. If man is also created he becomes a mechanism, a robot. You can dismantle
a car, take all the parts apart – the wheels and everything – and you can put them back and the
car will be perfectly okay. But cut a man into pieces and then join them together – with German
glue! – still the man will not be back. An organic phenomenon cannot be dissected. The moment
you dissect it, its very mystery disappears. Then you can join those parts, but you will have only a
corpse, not a living human being.
It is the dignity of existence that it is not created. It is the dignity of man that he is not created. God
is an insult to existence, to man, to consciousness, to everything! God is a humiliation. God is not
a solution for any problem. In fact, he creates more problems in the world and he does not solve
anything.
There are three hundred religions in the world and all are fighting with each other. These are all
created because of the concept of God, because they have all invented their own concepts.
The Hindu god has three heads. Just think of the poor fellow. Imagine you have three heads. I don’t
think you will be able to stand up. One head will be falling this side, one head will be falling that side,
this head will be falling this side, the very weight... I have seen the statues and the pictures of the
Hindu god. His whole body seems to be just like a man; it cannot manage three heads.
I have seen children in circuses who are freaks of nature. I have seen children with two heads, but
they cannot even sit; they are just lying down. The circus is enjoying their tragedy, earning money...
One man had gone to see a circus, and there was a three-headed child in the circus. The man
was very much concerned because all his children – he had twenty children, four wives, he was a
Mohammedan... The fee was one rupee per person, and every child of his insisted on seeing. There
was great trouble. The father was trying to convince them, ”We don’t have twenty rupees. I can stay
out, and I can send you, but we don’t have twenty rupees.”
The owner of the child, who was distributing tickets, heard all this argument between the children
and the father. He said, ”Wait. I will give you twenty rupees. Let me bring the child with three heads.
He can see you are a bigger phenomenon! One man with twenty children.” And he brought the
child in a trolley to look at this man who had twenty children. And he gave him twenty rupees as
a fee, because, ”This boy also needs some entertainment. He gives entertainment to thousands of
people.”
But that boy could not see from any of his three faces and six eyes. It was difficult for him even to
turn in the trolley. The Hindu god must be living in a trolley. One head will always be pushing against
the pillow, breathing will be difficult. And walking is out of the question.
And all three gods, who have one body, have three wives. Just see the tragedy. Each god is joined
with two other gods, and each god has a separate wife. Three wives to one man, because the s*xual
machinery is only one. I have never heard that the Indian god has three s*xual machineries. Now, I
cannot figure out how things are managed.
These fictions create three hundred religions, because everybody is free to have his own fiction.
Why borrow anybody else’s fiction? There are religions which think that god has one thousands.
There are religions which think that god has one thousand hands. One thousand hands? They must be growing all over the body just like branches in a tree.
And I don’t think he can manage to do anything. One thousand hands? From the back they will be
growing backwards, from the front they will be growing... there will be no space left for anything else!
And there are gods which have one thousand eyes! I cannot conceive it. Even with no-mind I cannot
conceive it. One thousand eyes in one head? Then there is no possibility for ears, no possibility
for the nose, no possibility for the mouth, no possibility for anything – not even hair. He must be
bald-headed, with eyes all over the head. Even then I don’t think he can manage one thousand
eyes. How will he move? According to which eye will he see? Even if he winks at a woman, which
eye? One thousand eyes winking at one woman! That will be real romance!
God has not solved any problem, God has created thousands of problems. And every religion has
its own idea, because it is a fiction. You don’t have different ideas about the sun. You don’t have
different ideas about the rose. You can have only different ideas about a fiction. It is then up to you,
whichever way you want.
The Bible says God created man in his own image. The reality is just the opposite: man has created
God in his own image. And he has been trying to refine the image of God, finding explanations for
all kinds of absurdities. He needs one thousand hands because he has to care for five billion people.
But if you have to care about five billion people, you need five billion hands. One thousand hands
won’t do. At least, if you want even to shake hands with the whole of humanity, you will need five
billion hands. Just hands and hands and nothing else! And you go on shaking and nobody is there!
They go on finding explanations: he has one thousand eyes because he has to look after the whole
universe. Can’t he move his head, just the way I am moving mine? I can see ten thousand people
without any difficulty, just with two eyes. Does he not move backwards and go in reverse? He has
eyes all over his head, so when he wants to go backwards, the front eyes are closed, the backward
eyes are open. When he wants to go sideways, three sides are closed, the right side is open. Is it a
god or some kind of toy to entertain children?
The very idea of God is because our mind cannot comprehend eternity. Once you rise beyond your
limited mind to an unlimited no-mind, you can conceive all that was inconceivable before. No God is needed.
All answers are mind products. Questions arise out of the mind, and answers are also from the same
mind. Neither the questions lead you towards the truth, nor the answers. Answers only repress your
questions, but they will surface again and again.
A man without God finds himself in total aloneness. He has nowhere to go except withinwards. All
roads leading out are meaningless; they don’t lead you anywhere because there is nobody outside,
no God, no paradise. Removing God is a great rebellion, and an absolute necessity to be awakened,
to be enlightened.
God is holding millions of people outside their own consciousness. And God being a fiction, your
prayer is false, and your religiousness is imposed. Hence, all these religions demand: ”Do this,
don’t do that.” Everything is imposed from the outside. And whenever something is imposed from
the outside, your dignity is destroyed, your individuality is crushed. Your freedom turns into slavery,
and the ugliest slavery is spiritual slavery.
With God you can only be a slave. With God you can never be liberated. Liberation begins with
liberating yourself from God and all the lies that surround him.
Liberation brings you to your own very center, and there you find a totally different experience that
is not of the mind; it is of pure silence, truth and beauty, of eternity, of life as a constant festival.
And because you experience this festivity inside you, it starts overflowing you. In your actions
you become graceful, your eyes start shining with love, with depth, your very movement shows a
centered, balanced, harmonious being. Your words carry something of that which is beyond words.
Your silence is no longer the silence of a cemetery, it is not dead. It is very alive, throbbing, it has
a heartbeat, it is a silent dance of pure awareness. It is a silent song without any sounds, but it is
immensely alive.
Anything imposed from outside destroys you, your freedom, your individuality. Your inner space is
completely closed, and it is closed in such a beautiful way that you never think that your parents, your
teachers, your priests, your leaders, politicians – all kinds of so-called wise men – are poisonous.
With all good intentions they are poisoning every child. And God is the original sin, original sin
because we created a great lie, the ultimate lie.
Once I was in a court for the first time, in a strange case. There used to be a Christian church, a very
beautiful church with a vast ground around it, huge ancient trees... You will be surprised that Indian
Christianity is the oldest Christianity in the world. One of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples, Thomas,
came to India directly. His gospel is not included in the Bible, because his gospel was written in
India, but it is the most beautiful gospel. Those four gospels included in the New Testament are
nothing compared to it.
Thomas became a transformed man here, because he started seeing the difference between Godoriented
religion and a religion without a God. A religion without a God gives man dignity, because
man becomes the ultimate evolved consciousness in the whole of existence. It gives man freedom
from a burden imposed by the priest in the name of God.
And you have asked, ”Could one summarize the difference between a God-oriented religion and the
quality of religiousness as the difference between a judge external to us...?”
The difference between God-oriented religions and the religions without God is immense. The Godoriented
religions are simply fiction. But lies told again and again and again start appearing to be
almost true. God as the ultimate lie creates many lies around itself, because no lie can stand alone.
Because no lie is self-evident, it needs other lies to support it; hence, all God-oriented religions have
created many lies to support God.
Truth can stand on its own legs, but not a lie. Truth needs no argument, but not a lie; a lie needs
many arguments, many fabricated proofs, many imaginary evidences. Truth is utterly naked – either
you know it or you don’t.
God-oriented religions are a disease of the soul, a sickness of the mind, because God is only your
fear, your dread, your anxiety, your insecurity. And then comes prayer, and then comes the priest,
and then comes the organized religion, the church. True religiousness cannot be God-oriented. True
religiousness is your own interiority, your own inner space.
And you can see the differences between these two kinds of people. Those who follow a Godoriented
religion don’t show any compassion, don’t show any ecstasy, don’t show any blissfulness.
On the contrary, they are very violent, they are very much against freedom. They are in constant
fear that somebody will object to their lies and they will not be able to answer, because all that they
have is only a belief system. A belief system can help you to forget your ignorance, but it does not
destroy it. So the God-oriented man lives in ignorance and believes that he knows.
And mere words, theories, hypotheses, are not going to change your character. They can at the
most make you a hypocrite. They can give you a beautiful mask but not the original face. They can
create a very convenient personality, but they cannot create or discover your beautiful individuality.
And the personality, however convenient, is a heavy weight on your chest, on your heart, because
you are living a lie. Nobody can feel at ease when he is living a lie.
The man who has no belief system, but has encountered truth itself, suddenly finds himself changing
into a new man. There is no effort involved. Grace comes by itself, compassion comes by itself,
violence disappears, fear disappears, death and birth disappear. One starts feeling at home with
the universe. There is no tension, one is absolutely relaxed.
This is our home. One stops searching and seeking, one starts living, dancing, loving. Knowing
one’s own interiormost center is also knowing the center of the universe itself. Doors of all the
mysteries open – not that you start getting answers, you become more mysterious
Fear invented God.
The priest is as much a victim as you are.
But he is more cunning than you are.
Man’s fear of darkness, man’s fear of sickness, man’s fear of old age, man’s fear of death needed
somebody to protect him. He could not find any protection anywhere. When you can’t find any
protection anywhere you have to invent one, as a consolation.
We know perfectly well the truth about your paradise, but it is good as a consolation. We know it
is not there, we know it is a lie, but to console yourself that after death angels will be there waiting,
playing on their harps, ”Alleluia,” that receiving you at the pearly gates will be Saint Peter, and God
will be waiting for you... Ghalib is right. DIL KE BAHLANE... just as a consolation it is a good idea.
The priests know perfectly well, perhaps more than you, that there is no God. But the priest is in
the most cunning profession in the world – the worst and the most ugly profession, far worse than
prostitution. Prostitution is the product of the priest; it is number two. First comes the priest, then
comes the prostitute, and then come all kinds of pathologies in the world.
The priests saw that everybody was afraid and wanted some protection.
So the fear created God, as a security, as an insurance after you die. Otherwise, it seems that after
death all is darkness for eternity. What will happen? Where you will be? All your friends will be left
behind, your family will be left behind, nobody will come with you, you can carry no money beyond
death. Utterly a beggar, naked, just a skeleton, you will be moving into death. And then, for eternity...
It creates a great anxiety – what kind of life will there be after death?
So our fear, our dread, our death created God. The priest immediately saw a good excuse to
exploit people. He became the middle agent. You can’t see God, so there is every possibility that if
there was no priest to continuously persist that there is God – philosophizing, creating theologies,
scriptures, temples, statues, rituals, prayers, the whole drama... He stands between you and God,
and he says to you, ”I have a direct line to God. You don’t have a direct line. You tell me, you confess
to me your sins, and I will tell God to forgive you.”
You cannot see God, obviously. You feel it a great relief that somebody knows, somebody is there
who has a direct connection.
And you feel it is cheap. You commit a sin, and you are afraid you will have to suffer in hell, and the
priest is there; you just go and confess your sin and the priest says to you, ”Put five dollars into the
charity box and I will pray for you.”
And God is very compassionate; he always forgives. So your sin is forgiven for five dollars – those
five dollars are pocketed by the priest; they never reach anywhere else because there is no God to
whom he can give those five dollars.
And what will God do with five dollars? He is alone, there is no shopping mall, what will he do with
five dollars? And up to now he must have collected billions and trillions of dollars – all useless junk.
What will he do with those dollars, notes and bills? He does not come to the world to purchase
things. And I have never heard and never come across in any scripture that there are shopping
markets in paradise. Saints don’t need anything. In paradise you don’t need food, in paradise you
don’t need anything. Everything is fulfilled; you simply live an eternal life. You are no longer a body,
you are just a spirit. And spirits don’t need food, don’t need water, don’t need medicine. The spirit
never becomes sick, it never becomes old, it never dies. So what will God do with those five dollars?
But every Sunday the Catholic priest collects a good amount, and all other priests have their own ways..
The great cathedrals of Europe -- they are the longings of the earth to reach to the sky. Just seeing those great creations, a great song is bound to arise in your heart, or a great silence is bound to descend on you. Man has lost the poetic, the creative urge, or it has been killed. We are too interested in commodities, in gadgets, in making more and more things. Production is concerned with quantity, and creation is concerned with quality. The quality has disappeared and with the quality, God has disappeared -- because God is the ultimate quality of creation.
You will have to bring the heart back. You will have to be aware again of nature. You will have to learn to watch roses, lotuses again. You will have to make a few contacts with the trees and the rocks and the rivers. You will have to start a dialogue with the stars again. Otherwise God cannot be brought back to humanity, and without God humanity is doomed, is lost.
Yes, T. S. Eliot is right: "... something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left GOD not for other gods..."
That was very usual in the past; people used to move from one god to another. That was really very significant, it was an evolution. The God of Moses is less sophisticated than the God of Jesus, naturally; there are thousands of years between these two enlightened persons. Moses was as enlightened as Jesus, but Moses had to talk the language which could be understood by his people, and those people were very primitive. Hence Moses spoke in the language of law, commandments: do this, don't do that. Law was his central emphasis.
By the time Jesus arrived man had evolved. Jesus talked about love, not about law. Love was his law. Now love is a higher value than law, certainly holier than law. Law is mundane. The God of the Jews was a jealous god... because we make our God in our own image. The God of the Jews was a very angry god; for small reasons he would destroy cities. A person just commits a sin -- and what is sin in the ancient concept? He just disobeys a certain commandment -- and God can destroy the whole town! It was a very angry, violent god.
It was not really the god that was violent and angry, it was the people. Their eyes were full of violence and anger, they could not see the real God.
But religions have a great investment in
creating in you anxiety, fear, dread and anguish, and nature was already producing it.
Religions, and particularly the priests all over the world, whatever their denomination, have exploited
man’s fear, have given him God, a fiction, a lie – which at least temporarily covers the wound. ”Don’t
be afraid, God is taking care of you. Don’t be in any dread or anxiety, there is God, and everything is okay. All that you have to do is believe in God and believe in the representative of God, the priest,
and believe in the holy scripture that God has sent to the world. All that you have to do is to believe.”
And this belief has been covering your anxiety, fear, dread, anguish.
So when you hear God is dead, the very idea of his death creates intense anxiety. That means your
wound has been uncovered. But a covered wound is not a healed wound; in fact for the healing
process it has to be uncovered. Only then in the sun’s rays, in the open air, will it start healing. A
wound should never be covered, because covering it you start forgetting about it. You want to forget
about it. Once it is covered, not only do others not see it, you yourself don’t see it. And under the
cover it goes on becoming a cancer.
Every wound has to be healed, not covered. Covering is not the way. God was the cover, that’s why
the very concept that God is dead creates fear. Whatever comes to your mind, intense anxiety, fear,
dread, and anguish – these were the things priests were covering with the word ‘God’.
But by their covering, they have stopped man’s evolution towards buddhahood, they have stopped
man’s healing process, they have stopped man’s search for truth. A lie was handed to you as truth;
naturally you need not search for truth, you have it already.
It is absolutely necessary that God should be dead. But I want you to know my understanding.
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead. I declare that he has never been born.
It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between
invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is
man-manufactured fiction.
Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It
keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly – seventy years will be gone
soon.
Friends, a new series of talks begins today: "God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth." The series is dedicated to Friedrich Nietzsche, who was the first man in the history of mankind to declare: "God is dead, therefore man is free."
It was a tremendous statement; its implications are many. First I would like to discuss Nietzsche's statement.
All the religions believe that God created the world and also mankind. But if you are created by someone, you are only a puppet, you don't have your own soul. And if you are created by somebody, he can uncreate you any moment. He neither asked you whether you wanted to be created, nor is he going to ask you: "Do you want to be uncreated?"
God is the greatest dictator, if you accept the fiction that he created the world and also created mankind. If God is a reality, then man is a slave, a puppet. All the strings are in his hands, even your life. Then there is no question of any enlightenment. Then there is no question of there being any Gautam the Buddha, because there is no freedom at all. He pulls the strings, you dance; he pulls the strings, you cry; he pulls the strings, you start murders, suicide, war. You are just a puppet and he is the puppeteer.
Then there is no question of sin or virtue, no question of sinners and saints. Nothing is good and nothing is bad, because you are only a puppet. A puppet cannot be responsible for its actions. Responsibility belongs to someone who has the freedom to act.
It is one extreme to believe in God; it is another extreme not to believe in God, and you have to be just in the middle, absolutely balanced. Atheism becomes irrelevant, theism becomes irrelevant. But your balancing brings a new light, a new joy, a new blissfulness to you, a new intelligence which is not of the mind. That intelligence which is not of the mind makes you aware that the whole existence is tremendously intelligent. It is not only alive, it has sensitivity, it has intelligence.
Once you know your inner being is balanced and silent and peaceful, suddenly doors that have been closed by your thoughts simply move, and the whole existence becomes clear to you. You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth -- everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.
You are the highest evolution of existence, of intelligence, and it is dependent on you. If you grow higher than the mind and its intelligence, towards no-mind and its intelligence, existence is going to celebrate: one man again has reached to the ultimate peak. One part of existencehas suddenly risen to the highest possibilities of the intrinsic potential in everybody.
There is a parable that the day Gautam Buddha became enlightened, the tree under which he had become enlightened, suddenly without any wind, started moving. He was amazed because there was no wind, no other tree around was moving, not even a single leaf was moving. But the tree under which he was sitting was moving, as if it was dancing. It does not have legs, it is so rooted in the earth, but it can at least show its joy.
It is a very strange phenomenon that certain chemicals which make you intelligent, which give you a better mind, are found in the bodhi tree in greater amounts than in any other tree. So it is not just coincidence that the tree under which Gautam Buddha became enlightened is still called according to his name. Bodhi means enlightenment. And the tree, scientists have found, has a larger amount of intelligence than any other tree in the world. It has so much of those chemicals it is overflowing.
When Manjushri, one of Gautam Buddha's closest disciples, became enlightened, the story is that the tree under which he was sitting suddenly started showering with flowers, and it was not the season for the tree to bring flowers.
It may be just a parable. But these parables indicate that we are not separate from existence, that our joy will be shared even by the trees, even by the rocks, that our enlightenment will be a festival for the whole of existence
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