The way I look at things, God has never been there, so how can he be dead? He was never born in the first place. It was invented by the priests, and it was invented for exactly these reasons: because man was in anxiety, man was in fear, man was in dread, man was in anguish.
When there was no light, no fire -- just think of those days of humanity -- wild animals all around, and the dark night, no fire, the intense cold, no clothes, and the wild animals searching for their food in the night, and people were hiding in caves, sitting on the trees just to avoid...In the day, at least they could see that a lion was approaching, they could make some effort to escape. But in the night, they were completely in the hands of the wild animals.
And then they found that a time comes, people become old for no reason, and one day somebody dies. They could not understand what was happening. This man was talking,breathing, walking, was perfectly okay. Suddenly he was no longer breathing, he was no longer talking. It was such a shock to the primitive man that death became a taboo: Don't talk about it. Even talking about it created fear, fear that sooner or later you would be standing in the same queue, with the queue becoming smaller and smaller every moment. Somebody dies and you come closer to death; another dies, you come even closer to death.
Even to talk about death became a taboo, and not only to ordinary primitive people, even to the most sophisticated. The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, could not tolerate the word "death." No one was allowed to mention the word in front of him, because just at the mention of the word "death" he would fall into a fit, he would become unconscious and start foaming. Such was the fear of the man who founded psychoanalysis.
Once Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, another great psychoanalyst, were traveling from Europe to America to deliver lectures on psychoanalysis to many universities. On the deck of the ship, Carl Gustav Jung mentioned death. Immediately Sigmund Freud fell on the deck. That was the reason Sigmund Freud expelled Jung from the psychoanalytic movement, and he had to found another school. He called it analytical psychology. Just a different name, but it is the same process. But the reason for his expulsion was the mention of death
"Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life. And this I call a criterion, a touchstone: if you see a saint who is against life, bitter against life, know well he has not understood yet. Otherwise he will bow down to life in deep respect and reverence, because life has awakened him out of his dreams. Life is very shocking, that’s why. Life is painful. The pain comes because you are desiring something which is not possible. It doesn’t come from life, it comes from your expectation." -OSHO????
THE REALLY INTELLIGENT PERSON NEVER LOOKS BACK;
he never bothers about the past..
that which is finished is finished forever.
And he never thinks of the future either,
because that which has not come yet has not come yet.
And he knows that whenever it comes,
he will be capable of responding to it,
so why ponder over it?
Why make ready-made answers to questions which have not even arisen?
And all your ready-made answers are going to be irrelevant because life goes on changing.
Life remains always a surprise;
it is unpredictable....
!! OSHO !!
That is the basic implication of Friedrich Nietzsche's statement: God is dead, therefore man is free.
No theologian, no founder of religions thought about this, that if you accept God as the creator, you are destroying the whole dignity of consciousness, of freedom, of love. You are taking all responsibility from man, and you are taking all his freedom away. You are reducing the whole of existence to just the whim of a strange fellow called God.
But Nietzsche's statement is bound to be only one side of the coin. He is perfectly right, but only about one side of the coin. He has made a very significant and meaningful statement, but he has forgotten one thing, which was bound to happen because his statement is based on rationality, logic and intellect. It is not based on meditation.
Man is free, but free for what? If there is no God and man is free, that will simply mean man is now capable of doing anything, good or bad; there is nobody to judge him, nobody to forgive him. This freedom will be simply licentiousness.
There comes the other side. You remove God and you leave man utterly empty. Of course, you declare his freedom, but to what purpose? How is he going to use his freedom creatively, responsibly? How is he going to avoid freedom being reduced to licentiousness?
Friedrich Nietzsche was not aware of any meditations -- that is the other side of the coin. Man is free, but his freedom can only be a joy and a blessing to him if he is rooted in meditation. Remove God -- that is perfectly okay, he has been the greatest danger to human freedom -- but give man also some meaning and significance, some creativity, some receptivity, some path to find his eternal existence. Zen is the other side of the coin.
It is said that God created Adam but Adam was dead. Then God breathed in him and he became alive.
The same story is told in many creation myths all over the world: Christian, Hindu, Jewish and many others.
The story seems to be very significant. The meaning is that when you breathe, you don't breathe, God breathes in you. The whole breathes in you. This has to be understood very deeply because the whole method of Tao, the whole science of Yoga, depends on breath.The breath is the most important thing. With it life starts and with it life ends. It is the most mysterious thing; without it there is no possibility of life.
Life seems just a shadow of breath. When breath disappears, life disappears. So this phenomenon of breathing has to be understood.
Every child born is not really alive until he breathes. He has just a few moments left. If he breathes after the birth, in those few moments life enters. If he does not breathe he will remain dead.
Those first few moments of life are the most important. The doctors, the parents, all become concerned when a child is born. Will he breathe? Will he cry and start breathing? Or will he remain dead? Again, as in all the myths created, in every man Adam is born again.
This first breath is taken by the whole. And if the first breath is taken by the whole then everything else which depends on breathing cannot be your act. If you think you are breathing then you have taken a very wrong step. And because of this wrong step ego will be created. Ego is accumulated ignorance.
You missed. You have not been breathing, the whole has breathed into you, but you have taken it as if you are breathing.
The first act of breath bridges you with the whole, makes you one with the whole, and all that follows will not be your activity; all that is going to happen after this first breath till you die, till the last breath, is going to be the activity of the whole. The whole will live within you.
You can think that you are doing all those things -- then you live in ignorance. If you become aware that the whole is doing everything, you are being possessed by the whole, breathed by it, you are just a hollow bamboo, a flute, the sound comes from the whole, the whole life comes from it -- then you live a life of enlightenment.
Good morning to all of u from india...?
Wherever I am is wherever I am meant to be,
whatever I am doing is whatever I am meant to be doing
and whatever everyone else is doing is exactly what they are
meant to be doing -this is contentment.
If you do want to change where you are, or what you are doing,
the first thing is to be content with wherever you are and
whatever you are doing right now!
Paradoxically that's what attracts opportunities and invitations to be somewhere else!
Why?
Because you are a living magnet, and contentment is one of your most attractive qualities.
And the law of attraction says that according to your dominant thoughts so you will
attract the people and circumstances into your life.
Being content right now attracts the best possible future.
The World Is Your Mirror
The good you find in others, is in you too.
The faults you find in others, are your faults as well.
After all, to recognize something you must know it.
The possibilities you see in others,
are possible for you as well.
The beauty you see around you, is your beauty.
The world around you is a reflection, a mirror
showing you the person you are.
To change your world, you must change yourself.
See the best in others, and you will be your best.
Give to others, and you will give to yourself.
Appreciate beauty, and you will be beautiful.
Admire creativity, and you will be creative.
Love, and you will be loved.
Seek to understand, and you will be understood.
Listen, and your voice will be heard.
Teach, and you will learn.
~ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT
BUT TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NONE..
~THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD
BUT ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS..
~WISE MEN THINK ALIKE
BUT FOOLS SELDOM DIFFER..
~THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
BUT THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH..
~SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE
BUT TIME WAITS FOR NONE..
~LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
BUT STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT..
~DO IT WELL, OR NOT AT ALL
BUT HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NONE..
~BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER
BUT OPPOSITES ATTRACT..
~DON'T CROSS YOUR BRIDGES BEFORE YOU COME TO THEM
BUT FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED..
~DOUBT IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
BUT FAITH WILL MOVE MOUNTAINS..
~GREAT STARTS MAKE GREAT FINISHES
BUT IT ISN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER..
~PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
BUT ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY..
~SILENCE IS GOLDEN
BUT THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE..
~YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN
BUT YOU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS..
~WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER
BUT ONE MAN'S MEAT IS ANOTHER MAN'S POISON..
~ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER
BUT OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND..
~TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH
BUT MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK..
~HOLD FAST TO THE WORDS OF YOUR ANCESTORS
BUT WISE MEN MAKE PROVERBS AND FOOLS REPEAT THEM....
Anand means bliss, mahbuba means beloved. God creates the world out of his love. The world flows out of his love – it is an expression of his love, an explosion of his love. He loves every creature… from stones to stars. We are all protected by his love, we are all continuously showered on by his love. Everyone has to consciously become a beloved of god. Once this recognition penetrates the heart, it transforms your whole being. It is as if suddenly a light comes into darkness and darkness is gone.
Just the idea ’God loves me’, just the feel of it – ’He surrounds me like a caress, his lips are on my lips, his heart is in my heart. I am not abandoned by existence; I am loved, cherished by existence. I am not worthless, I am not unworthy…’ and the dignity and the splendour starts growing in one.
And remember a great paradox: the real dignity has no ego in it; the real splendour has no idea of any superiority. In fact, the ego is just a cover-up for our worthlessness. Because we think ourselves worthless, we try to prove in every way that we are not worthless. That effort is our ego trip – ’I am a president of a country, I am not worthless. I have so much education; I am not worthless.’ ’Look, I have got so many lovers; I am not worthless.’ But deep down we are constantly nagged by our worthlessness. Deep down we know we are worthless, dust unto dust.
That has been taught to us down the centuries. Our souls have been corrupted and poisoned. The priests and the politicians have conspired against the whole of humanity. This is their whole conspiracy: to create the feeling of worthlessness in human beings. If they feel worthless they can be dominated by the politician, they can be dominated by the priest. If they feel worthless they will seek some authority figures to depend on. If they feel worthless they cannot not be independent. That is the secret trick in it. If they feel worth, if they feel loved by god, if they are nourished and cherished by existence, they will not look up to any father-figure, to any authority – political, religious, or any other.
So the basic conspiracy has been created in every child – the idea that you are absolutely worthless, that you are not up to the standard, that you are not as intelligent as you should be, that you are not as beautiful as you are supposed to be, that your behaviour is ugly, to improve yourself, to prove yourself. That’s what improvement is: an effort to prove ’I am somebody.’ The ego is nothing but an effort to cover this inner worthlessness that has been created by the society. My effort here is to give back the dignity that really belongs to you
"There are three layers of the human individual: his physiology, the body; his psychology, the mind; and his being, his eternal self. Love can exist on all the three planes, but its qualities will be different. On the plane of physiology, body, it is simply sexuality. You can call it love, because the word love seems to be poetic, beautiful. But ninety-nine percent of people are calling their sex, love. Sex is biological, physiological. Your chemistry, your hormones – everything material is involved in it…
"Only one percent of people know a little bit deeper. Poets, painters, musicians, dancers, singers have a sensitivity that they can feel beyond the body. They can feel the beauties of the mind, the sensitivities of the heart, because they live on that plane themselves. But a musician, a painter, a poet, lives on a different plane. He does not think, he feels. And because he lives in his heart, he can feel the other person's heart. That is ordinarily called love. It is rare. I am saying only one percent perhaps, once in a while.
"Why are many people not moving to the second plane because it is tremendously beautiful? But there is a problem: anything very beautiful is also very delicate. It is not hardware, it is made of very fragile glass. And once a mirror has fallen and broken, then there is no way to put it together. People are afraid to get so much involved that they reach to the delicate layers of love, because at that stage love is tremendously beautiful but also tremendously changing. Sentiments are not stones, they are like rose flowers…"
"Poets are known, artists are known to fall in love almost every day. Their love is like a rose flower. While it is there it is so fragrant, so alive, dancing in the wind, in the rain, in the sun, asserting its beauty. But by the evening it may be gone, and you cannot do anything to prevent it. The deeper love of the heart is just like a breeze that comes into your room, brings its freshness, coolness, and then it is gone. You cannot catch hold of the wind in your fist. Very few people are so courageous as to live with a moment-to-moment, changing life. Hence, they have decided to fall into a love on which they can depend.
"I don't know which kind of love you know – most probably the first kind, perhaps, the second kind. And you are afraid that if you reach your being, what will happen to your love? Certainly it will be gone – but you will not be a loser. A new kind of love will arise which arises only perhaps to one person in millions. That love can only be called lovingness."
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
It is perfectly good to be powerful as a mystic.
It is ugly, disgusting, stinking to have even a slight desire for having power over others. "Osho"
When you start judging yourself
By looking through the eyes of your
Parents, husband, friends, or boss,
You end up running around doing
More and more in an effort to gain their approval.
It does not take long before you end up
Feeling exhausted, resentful and ready to give up.
Trying to live your life by the expectations of others
Disconnects you from your own desires.
It leaves you feeling empty and unmotivated.
The gratification that comes from
Fulfilling the expectations of others
Is very little and short-lived.
Reclaim the energy and happiness
That is rightfully yours!
Be your own judge and
Live by your own expectations.
As you reclaim your potential,
You will thrive and feel energized,
Because you are accomplishing things
That are important to you.
Start today!
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