Sex Love Prayer

Sex is animal. Love is human. And to go beyond love is divine. Then arises prayer. Sex, love prayer: these are the three stages of life. If you die without knowing prayer, you have lived in vain.

Meditation Is Relaxation

Meditation is rest, absolute rest, a full stop to all activity - physical, mental, emotional. When you are in such a deep rest that nothing stirs in you, when all action as such ceases, as if you are fast asleep yet awake, you come to know who you are. Suddenly the window opens. It cannot be opened by effort, because effort creates tension, and tension is the cause of our whole misery. Hence this is something very fundamental to be understood that meditation is not effort.

One has to be very playful about meditation, one has to learn to enjoy it as fun. One has not to be serious about it - be serious and you miss. One has to go into it very joyously. And one has to keep aware that it is falling into deeper and deeper rest. It is not concentration, just the contrary, it is relaxation. When you are utterly relaxed, for the first time you start feeling your reality; you come face to face with your being. When you are engaged in activity you are so occupied that you cannot see yourself. Activity creates much smoke around you, it raises much dust around you; hence all activity has to be dropped, at least for a few hours per day.

That is only so in the beginning. When you have learnt the art of being at rest you can be both active and restful together, because then you know that rest is something so inner that it cannot be disturbed by anything outer. The activity goes on at the circumference and at the center you remain restful. So it is only for beginning that activity has to be dropped for a few hours. When one has learned the art then there is no question : for twenty-four hours a day one can be meditative and one can continue all the activities of ordinary life.

But remember, the key word is rest, relaxation. Never go against rest and relaxation. Arrange your life in such a way, drop all futile activity, because ninety per cent is futile; it is just for killing time and remaining occupied. Do only the essential and devote your energies more and more to the inner journey. Then that miracle happens when you can remain at rest and in action together, simultaneously. That is the meeting of the sacred and the mundane, the meeting of this world and that, the meeting of materialism and spiritualism.

Festivity in life each moment

Look at Nature: In Nature the colours flow afresh every day, new flowers bloom each morning. Even before the old leaves have fallen, the new buds burst and new shoots spring up. The festival goes on. Such is the life of a religious person. He will be festive each moment and grateful that he is. His every breath is an expression of gratitude and benediction.

Power Vs Peace

The will to power and to dominate arises only in the sick mind. It arises out of the inferiority complex. People who are not suffering from an inferiority complex do not care about power; their whole endeavour is for peace, because the meaning of life can be known only in peace - power is not the way.

THE SPIRIT OF INDIA

India is not a country but a mystery. A mystery of a rising lotus as chaste as the morning dew, delicate and sublime. India is the immanent and the transcendental manifested simultaneously leaving deep feelings of wonder & amazement, just as those experienced by a child. So distant and high as the Himalayas and as close and as near as our breath, ethereal like the rainbow and yet so real and alive.

Concentration is human, meditation is divine

"Meditation is a single lesson of awareness, of no-thought, of spontaneity, of being total in your action, alert, aware. It is not a technique, it is a knack. Either you get it or you don't." - Osho

One thing has to be remembered about meditation; it is a long journey and there is no shortcut. Anyone who says there is a shortcut is befooling you. It is a long journey because the change is very deep and is achieved after many lives - many lives of routine habits, thinking, desiring. And the mind structure; that you have to drop through meditation. In fact it is almost impossible - but it happens.A man becoming a meditator is the greatest responsibility in the world. It is not easy. It cannot be instant. So from the beginning never start expecting too much and then you will never be frustrated. You will always be happy because things will grow very slowly.Meditation is not a seasonal flower which within six weeks is there. It is a very very big tree. It needs time to spread its roots.-OSHO

Meditation is not concentration

MEDITATION is not concentration. In concentration there is a self concentrating and there is an object being concentrated upon. There is duality. In meditation there is nobody inside and nothing outside. It is not concentration . There is no division between the in and the out. The in goes on flowing into the out, the out goes on flowing into the in. The demarcation, the boundary, the border, no longer exists. The in is out, the out is in; it is a no-dual consciousness.

Concentration is a dual consciousness; that's why concentration creates tiredness; that's why when you concentrate you feel exhausted. And you cannot concentrate for twenty-four hours, you will have to take holidays to rest. Concentration can never become your nature. Meditation does not tire, meditation does not exahaust you. Meditation can become a twenty-four hour thing - day in, day out, year in, year out. It can become eternity. It is relaxation itself.

Concentration is an act, a willed act. Meditation is a state of no will, a state of inaction. It is relaxation. One has simply dropped into one's own being, and that being is the same as the being of All. In Concentration the mind functions out of a conclusion: you are doing something. Concentration comes out of the past. In meditation there is no conclusion behind it. You are not doing anything in particular, you are simply being. It has no past to it, it is pure of all future, It what Lao Tzu has called wei-wu-wei, action through inaction. It is what Zen masters have been saying: Sitting silently doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Remember, 'by itself - nothing is being done. You are not pulling the grass upwards; the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. That state - when you allow life to go on its own way. When you don't want to give any control to it, when you are not manipulating, when you are not enforcing any discipline on it - that state of pure undisciplined spontaneity, is what meditation is.

Meditation is in the present, pure present. Meditation is immediacy. You cannot meditate, you can be in meditation. You cannot be in concentration, but you can concentrate. Concentration is human, meditation is divine.

How Meditation Flowers

Meditation is not something that you do. It is, only when your doer has gone and you are totally relaxed and not doing anything, in a deep state of let-go, rest - there is meditation. Then meditation flowers. It is the flowering of your being. It has nothing to do with becoming. It is not an achievement, it is not an improvement; it is just being that which you already are.

Inner Power

INTOXICATION WITH POWER
Power is dangerous without meditation. Any kind of power is bound to become destructive if there is no meditation involved in it. Lord Acton’s famous statement is basically true, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, because power means energy. What is one going to do with energy if one has not the understanding to use it rightly, if one has not the perspective to see clearly where to go, what to do, what not to do? Then power gives a certain intoxication. The unconscious person becomes even more unconscious, the mad person becomes even more mad.
Latest researchers into psychiatry have come to a very significant conclusion: that many people who are insane are really insane because they have so much power that it is beyond their control. They cannot cope with it. Basically they are not bad people, not evil, but their power is like a sword, a naked sword in the hands of a child. What is the child going to do with a sword? Either he will harm somebody or he will harm himself; hence power either becomes murderous or it becomes suicidal. These are the only two possibilities without meditation.
But once meditation becomes the foundation, then power is creative, then it brings great poetry and great music and great dance in your life. And not only in just your life; it starts overflowing you, it starts reaching others.
Osho in: The Old Pond - Plop!

BLESSED ARE THE MEEK
When power is gentle, it has a beauty; then it is nothing but the power of love. In other words it is no more power, it is simply gentleness. It is in this context that Jesus’ statement can be rightly understood: Blessed are the meek for theirs is the kingdom of God.
Osho in: Going All the Way

A RESERVOIR OF POWER
When you try to possess, your power becomes invested in meaningless things. When you desire, your power becomes desire and desires are infinite. Each desire becomes a leakage of your power.
When all possessiveness and all desires have been understood as futile, and dropped, you become a reservoir of power. And to be a reservoir of power is the only experience that gives you the feeling that God is - because God is power. When you also experience power within yourself, overflowing, abundant power, you know God is.
If you are empty, with no power, tired, wasted in your desires, no proof that God exists can help you. All these proofs are for impotent people.
The real person needs no proof for God. He comes to know God from the experience of inner power, from his inner glow.
Osho in: The Book of the Books, Vol. XII

Every error is an opportunity to learn

Every error is an opportunity to learn. Commit as many new mistakes as you are capable of- don’t be afraid because that is the only way nature allows you to learn.

sex energy

Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya (celibacy), and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through suppression. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.

NOW

The past is only history, the future is only a prediction. Your opportunity is NOW. Right now, at the same moment you are reading this, you can start doing things you never thought you had time to do before. This phenomenon I call the Challenge of Nows. In the world of great expectations, time consists of infinite Nows. Each Now contains an instantaneous opportunity. Right after you finish this, remember to take advantage of every Now, possible and miracles shall happen to your life. The Nows are infinite so basically you have got time to accomplish EVERYTHING that is humanly conceivable and maybe even more. This I call the Challenge of Nows because each Now is available to all of us so don't waste anymore and DO what you have to do, NOW.

Life is something more

Life is not mathematics, it is not logic, it is not science. It is something more, and that something more is the most valuable. The mystics have called that something more than the “ultimate truth”. They can be forgiven for calling it ultimate. But you have to understand the reason they are callling it ultimate is because there are people who are calling every truth relative-not only scientists, not only people who are working with matter. Mahavirs says that truth itself is ralative: he has no ultimate. Buddha has no ultimate truth. Again the difficulty is that Buddha and Mahavir can be misunderstood when they say that there is no ultimate truth but that every truth is ralative: it can be one thing in one situation, another thing in another situation, and because it is related to situations it cannot have any ultimacy. This gose against all the great mystics.

NEITHER EASY NOT DIFFICULT, JUST NATURAL

Love is natural state of consciousness. It is neither easy nor difficult; those words don't apply to it at all. It is not an effort; hence, it can't be easy and it can't be difficult either. It is like breathing! It is like your heartbeat, it is like blood circulating in you body.
Love is your very being...but that love has become almost impossible. The society does not allow it. The society conditions you in such a way that love becomes impossible and hate becomes the only possible thing. Then hate is easy, and love is not only difficult but impossible. Man has been distorted. Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man-and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.
Love is dangerous because it makes you an individual. And the state and the church... they don't want individuals, not at all. they don't want human beings, they want sheep. They want people who only look like human beings but whose souls have been crushed so utterly, damaged so deeply, that it seems almost irreparable. And the best way to destroy man is to destroy his spontaneity of love. If man has love, there can't be nations; nations exist on hate.
The Indians hate the Pakistanis, and the Pakistanis hate the Indians- only then can these two countries exist. If love appears, boundaries will disappear. If love appears, then who will be a Christian and who will be a Jew? If love appears, religions will disappear.
If love appears, who is going to go to the temple? For what? It is because love is missing that you are searching for God. God is nothing but a substitute for your missing love. Because you are not blissful, because you are not peaceful, because you are not ecstatic, you are searching for God--otherwise, who bothers? Who cares? If your life is a dance, God has been attained already. The loving heart is full of God. There is no need for such search, there is no need for any prayer, there is no need to go to any temple, to any priest.
Hence the priest and the politician, these two, are the enemies of humanity. They are in a conspiracy, because the politician wants to rule your body and the priest wants to rule your soul. And the secret is the same: destroy love. Then a man is nothing but a hollowness, an emptiness, a meaningless existence. Then you can do whatsoever you want with humanity and nobody will rebel, nobody will have courage enough to rebel.
Love gives courage, love takes all fear away--and the oppressors depends on your fear. They create fear in you, a thousand and one kinds of fear. You are surrounded by fears; your whole psychology is full of fears. Deep down you are trembling. Only on the surface do you keep a certain facade; otherwise, inside where are layers and layers of fear.
A man full of fear can only hate--hate is a natural outcome of fear. A man full of fear is also full of anger, and a man full of fear is more against life than for life. Death seems to be a restful state to the fear-filled man. The fearful mind is suicidal, he is life-negative. Life seems to be dangerous to him, because to live means you will have to love-how can you live? Just as the body needs breathing to live, the soul needs love to live. And love is utterly poisoned.
By poisoning your love energy they have created a split in you; they have made an enemy within you, they have divided you in two. They have created a civil war, and you are always in conflict. And in conflict your energy is dissipate; hence your life does not have zestfulness, cheerfulness. it is not overflowing with energy; it is dull, insipid, it is unintelligent.
Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?- because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.
Scientific researchers say that the ordinary man uses only five percent of his potential intelligence in his whole life. The ordinary man, only five percent what about the extraordinary? What about an Albert Einstein, a Mozart, a Beethoven? The researchers say that even those who are very talented don't use more than ten percent. And those whom we call geniuses use only fifteen percent.
Think of a world where everybody is using one hundred percent of his potential...then the gods will be jealous of earth, then gods would like to be born on earth. Then the earth will be a paradise, a super-paradise. Right now it is a hell.
If man is left alone, unpoisoned, then love will be simple, very simple. There will be no problem; it will be just like water flowing downward, or vapor rising upward, trees blossoming, birds singing. It will be so natural and so spontaneous!
But man is not left alone. As the child is born, the oppressors are ready to jump on him, to crush his energies, to distort them to such an extent, to distort them so deeply that the person will never become aware that he is living a false life, a pseudo life, that he is not living as he was meant to live, as he was born to live; that he is living something synthetic, plastic, that this is not his real soul. That's why millions of people are in such misery-because they feel somewhere that they have been distracted, that they are not their own selves, that something has gone basically wrong...
Love is simple if the child is allowed to grow, helped to grow, in natural ways. If the child is helped to be in harmony with nature and in harmony with himself, if the child is in every way supported, nourished, encouraged to be natural and to be himself, a light unto himself, then love is simple. One will be simply loving!
Hate will be almost impossible because before you can hate somebody else, first you have to create the poison within yourself. You can give something to somebody only if you have it. You can hate only if you are full of hate, and to be full of hate is to suffer hell. To be full of hate is to be on fire. To be full of hate means you are wounding yourself first. Before you can wound somebody else, you have to wound yourself. The other may not be wounded; it will depend on the other. But one thing is absolutely certain: that before you can hate, you have to go through long suffering and misery, the other may not accept your hatred, may reject it. The other may be a Buddha - he may simply laugh at it. He may forgive you, he may not react. You may not be able to wound him if he is not ready to react. If you cannot disturb him, what can you do? You will feel impotent before him.
So it is not necessarily so that the other is going to be wounded. But one thing is absolutely certain, that if you hate somebody, first you have to wound your own soul in so many ways; you have to be so full of poison that you can throw poison on others.
Hate is unnatural. Love is a state of health; hate is a state of illness. Just like illness it is unnatural. It happens only when you lose track of nature, when you are no longer in harmony with existence, no longer in harmony with your being, with your innermost core. Then you are ill psychologically, spiritually ill. Hatred is only a symbol of illness, and love one of health and wholeness and holiness.
Love should be one of the most natural things, but it is not. On the contrary, it has become the most difficult thing-almost the impossible thing. Hate has become easy; you are trained, you are prepared for hate. To be a Hindu is to be full of hate for Mohammedans, for Christians, for Jews; to be a Christian is to be fulled of hate for other religions. To be nationalist is to be full of hate for other nations.
You know only one way of love, which is to hate others. You can show your love for your country only be hating other countries and you can show your love for your church only by hating other churches. You are in a mess!
These so-called religions go on talking about love, and all that they do in the world is create more and more hate. Christians talk about love and they have been creating wars, crusades. Mohammedans talk about love and they have been creating jihads, religious wars. Hindus talk about love, but you can look in their scriptures-they are full of hate, hate for other religions. And we accept all this nonsense! And we accept it without any resistance because we have been conditioned to accept these things; we have been taught that this is how things are. And then you go on denying your own nature.
Love has been poisoned but not destroyed. The poison can be thrown out; out of your system-you can be cleansed. You can vomit all the society has enforced upon you. You can drop all your beliefs and all your conditionings-you can be free. The society cannot keep you a slave forever if you decide to be free.
It is time to drop out of all old patterns and start a new way of life, a natural way of life, a non repressive way of life, a life not of renunciation but of rejoicing. Hate will become more and more impossible. Hate is the polar opposite of love; in the sense the illness is the polar opposite of health. But you need not choose illness.
Illness has a few advantages that health cannot have; don't become attached to those advantages. Hate also has a few advantages that love cannot have. And you have to be very watchful. The ill person gets sympathy from everybody else; nobody hurts him, everybody remains careful what they say to him, he is so ill. He remains the focus, the center or everybody-the family, the friends-he becomes the central person, he becomes important. Now, if he becomes to much attached to this importance, to this ego fulfillment, he will never want to be healthy again. He himself will cling to illness. And psychologists say there are many people who are clinging to illness because of the advantages illnesses have. And they have invested in their illness for so long that they have completely forgotten that they are clinging to those illnesses. They are afraid if they become healthy they will be nobody again.
You teach that, too. When a small child becomes ill, the whole family is so attentive. This is absolutely unscientific. When the child is ill, take care of his body but don't pay too much attention. It is dangerous, because if illness and your attention become associated.... which is bound to happen if it is repeated again and again.
Whenever the child is ill he becomes the center of the whole family: daddy comes and sits by his side and inquires about his health, and the doctor comes, and the neighbors start coming, and friends inquire, and people bring presents for him....Now he can become too much attached to all this; it can be so nourishing to his ego that he may not like to be well again. And if this happens, then it is impossible to be healthy. No medicine can help now. The person had become decisively committed to illness. And that's what has happened to many people, the majority.
When you hate, your ego is fulfilled. The ego can exist only if it hates, because in hating you feel superior, in hating you become separate, in hating you become defined. In hating you attain a certain identity. In love the ego has to disappear. In love you are no longer separate - love helps you to dissolve with others. It is a meeting and a merger. If you are too much attached to the ego, then hate is easy and love is most difficult. Be alert, watchful: hate is the shadow of ego. Love needs great courage. It needs great courage because it needs the sacrifice of the ego. Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love. Only those who are ready to become nothing, utterly empty of themselves, are able to receive the gift to love from the beyond.

The Doubting Mind and The Trusting Heart

Fearful people live from their mind. It takes courage to live from the heart. All that happens in your consciousness can create its reality outside. All that happens outside has to happen first inside. The seed is inside and the tree shows outside.

If your heart believes, nothing is impossible. The mind is incapable of belief. So if you start forcing beliefs on the mind, those beliefs will only hide your doubts. The mind doubts. The heart cannot doubt, it can only believe. When for the first time you believe something there is bound to be great turmoil, chaos, because all that was settled will be unsettled, and all that was established will be de-established, and all that you were feeling secure in is no longer secure, and all you were feeling as meaningful is no more meaningful. Everything will become topsy-turvy because the canter has a totally different approach towards reality than the circumference. When the depth speaks to the surface, there is bound to be trepidation.

If you are a meditative person and the canter-your inner guide-speaks to you and says to you, “Now do this!” and you will do it.

The mind can only create substitutes. You can remain engaged in them but your life will be wasted. You will never know any joy, any celebration.

When I say believing can make impossible things possible, I mean believing in the heart that is child-like which knows only the positive, the way of the head: yes outside, no inside; no outside, yes inside. The head is schizophrenic it is never total and one. When the heart says ‘yes’ it simply say ‘yes’. There is no conflict. There is no division. The heart is integrated in its affirmation; it is trusting. It is not a thought but a feeling, and ultimately it is being, not even feeling.

In the beginning trust is a feeling, in its final flowering it is being. The so-called beliefs remain in the head, they never become your feeling, and they cannot become your being. And unless something becomes your being, it is just a dream. But believing needs risking. You will be surprised to know this: To doubt is to be cowardly.

Doubt arises out of fear; how then can it be brave? Doubt is rooted in fear. Doubt arises because there is a longing to defend oneself, to protect oneself, to be secure. You can trust only if you are ready to go into insecurity; if you are ready to go into the uncharted; if you are ready to sail your boat without any map, into the unknown. Trust means immense courage, and only a courageous person can be religious, because only a courageous person can say ‘yes’.

Doubt is a defense. And even if you are defended by it, you remain stuck; you cannot move -because each movement brings fear because each movement is movement into the unknown, the unfamiliar. Doubt is a by-product of fear. Heartfelt belief requires courage; it fosters trust. On the other hand, belief that germinates in the head generates cowardliness and mistrust.

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Mother borns with Child

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."

Meaning of your life

Nobody can give you the meaning of your life. It is your life; the meaning has also to be yours. Nobody except you can come upon it. It is your life and only accessible to you. Only in living, will the mystery be revealed to you. It can be contacted only there. The temple is not outside, you are the shrine of it.

A significant Secret of life

A significant Secret:

Between Birth and Death

there is nothing else Happens

but LOVE.

If you miss LOVE

then you have missed the whole opportunity of life.

You may gather knowledge,

valuable stones,

money,

prestige and power

but if you have missed

LOVE

then

you have missed

EVERYTHING.