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I pretend to be here
Posted by : OWF - Tuesday, January 1, 2019 |
 Q: You said nobody should dictate what you should do with your life. How does that fit with being available and surrendering to you?
In the first place I am a nobody.
Now listen to the question again: You said nobody should dictate what you should do with your life. Dont surrender to me because I dictate to you. But if you feel like surrendering, what can I do? If you feel like surrendering, it is your feeling. If I am dictating to you to surrender to me, dont listen to me. But if your heart is dictating, then what are you going to do? If I tell you to be available to me, dont listen at all. But if your own understanding says, Be available to this man, then be. |
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Wash your face and have a cup of tea
Posted by : OWF - Tuesday, December 25, 2018 |
 Q: I notice that deep down I want to be loved, accepted, like the greatest man on earth, that I want to be the most famous person. And I feel hurt when someone rejects me. What to do with these dreams?
If you understand that they are dreams then wash your face and have a cup of tea. What is there to be done about it? Dreams are dreams - why be bothered?
But you dont understand that they are dreams. This is borrowed. You know that they are not dreams – that’s why you are worried. Otherwise why be worried? If in a dream you see that you have fallen ill, when you wake up in the morning do you go to the doctor?
In my dream I was very ill and now some medication is needed. You never go. You realize it was a dream - finished! What is the point of going to a doctor?
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Change your focus from having to being
Posted by : OWF - Tuesday, December 18, 2018 |
 Q: What do you have that I havent got? (and I’m not talking about the ashram and car and secretary and all that stuff.)
You must be talking about all that stuff. Otherwise why do you mention it at all? The very mentioning of it shows the mind. You must have been afraid the idea must have crossed your mind.
And I dont have any ashram, and I dont have any car, and I dont have any secretary. In fact, I dont have anything. Having is not the thing... being. I am just here. Being is my wealth, not having.
If the ashram is here, it is for you not for me. If the secretary is there, it is for you not for me. All that exists here is for you. It does not, it has not, anything to do with me.
I am enough alone.
But somewhere, deep in your mind, you must be too attached to things. When you formulate a question, remember it shows much about you. A question is not only a question, it is very symbolic also.
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Millions of lives…
Posted by : OWF - Wednesday, December 12, 2018 |
 India is very, very old the most ancient country in the world. It has existed for thousands of years. The West is very young, the East is very old. And when you talk to an old man, you have to talk differently when you talk to a young man, you have to talk differently - because their attitudes have changed completely. A young man always looks towards the future an old man always looks towards the past, because for an old man there is no future. The death... and then there is no future. An old man looks towards the past only the past exists for an old man. |
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What are you searching for?
Posted by : OWF - Thursday, December 6, 2018 |
 Life is a search, a constant search, a desperate search, a hopeless search... a search for something one knows not what. There is a deep urge to seek but one knows not what one is seeking.
And there is a certain state of mind in which whatsoever you get is not going to give you any satisfaction. Frustration seems to be the destiny of humanity, because whatsoever you get becomes meaningless the very moment you have got it. You start searching again.
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Why not? Because!
Posted by : OWF - Tuesday, November 27, 2018 |
 Q: Why am I here?
This is a very philosophical question, Kirtan.
There is a story about two big beefy American football players in philosophy class, sitting at their final examination. The exam question was just one word: "Why?"
All the students began writing madly, filling exam book after book. The two football players looked at each other and shrugged. The first wrote two words on his exam paper: "Why not?" and left the room. The second fellow wrote one word: "Because." and left with his friend.
Not knowing what to do, the professor gave the first fellow the grade of A, and the second fellow the grade of A minus.
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Create a balance between science and religion
Posted by : OWF - Wednesday, November 21, 2018 |
 Remember: science is intellectual, religion is intuitive. They are basically and fundamentally different. So the man who becomes too much rooted in science becomes incapable of understanding religion. This is one of the problems modern humanity is facing. We are teaching science to every child, and, unknowingly, we are making every child incapable of understanding religion. And I am not saying dont teach science to children - science HAS immense value - but remember to teach religion TOO, so that they can keep a balance. Because science can only give them more power of the outer world - it will not give peace. Science can give riches from the outside, but it will keep them inwardly beggars. |
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You are afraid of missing the train
Posted by : OWF - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 |
 Whether you are afraid or not, everybody is missing the train. It is good that you are afraid, because that may help you to understand why you are missing.
You are not in the moment. You are either in the past or in the future both are non-existent. Neither can you do anything with the past, nor can you do anything with the future. All that you can do is with the present, and the present is such a small, split second that if you are engaged somewhere else, it simply slips by and you have missed the train.
Learn to be in the present.
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Osho, Why am I always living in a kind of hell?
Posted by : OWF - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 |
 Sudhir,
Sudhir, it is always your own creation. Whether you live in heaven or hell, you live in your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. Dont throw the responsibility onto God, fate, KISMET, society, economic structure. Dont throw the responsibility on your past lives, on others. Take the whole responsibility on yourself, because that is the only way to move, to change, to go beyond.
The only cause of hell, the only cause of misery is you and nothing else. Except you, nobody can cause it. And it is not the past you are creating it each moment.
A construction worker is sitting astride a beam on the twenty-fifth story of a New York skyscraper which is being built. The lunch hour bell rings and he takes out a box of sandwiches from his lunch pack. He bites into the first sandwich, then grimaces. |
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