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Osho
... being will take revenge on you. it will sabotage your life. It will not allow you to live peacefully; you will be in a constant civil war. If you deny the body, the body will be angry with you. If you deny the soul, the soul will be angry with you. And d house divided against itself cannot be whole, cannot be at peace, cannot be at ease. That's why you see millions of people in such great misery. The...
..., hence the question. The total man will be rooted in the body like a tree rooted in the soil, and he will be growing into the sky like the branches of a tree - he will be moving into the inner sky. And he will have something more too, something transcendental to this duality, a third dimension. The first dimension is very visible, it is material. It can be measured: it is the world of mathematics, the...
... total man. And that's my teaching too: I would not like you to be partial, I would not like you to be lopsided. I would not like you to live only in the body, or only in the soul. People have tried that! And because of those efforts, man has not become what he has the birthright to become. Man has not bloomed, has not flowered. He cannot. Unless all the three dimensions are together, something will be...
... contented man can pray: contentment is prayer. Prayer is the perfume of absolute contentment. Live in the body as Epicurus lived in the body. Live in the soul as all the mystics have always tried to live in the soul, but don't deny Epicurus. My vision of the whole man implies Epicurus too, as much as Jesus, as much as Zarathustra. And the poet is just between the two, the meeting-point of the mystic and...
... missing because you have completely forgotten that twenty-five centuries' gap is a big gap. You need for Pythagoras to be reborn. That's what I am doing by commenting on him. This is giving him a new meaning, a new body of words - words that you can understand, words that make sense to you, words that can relate to you. A backwoods inn boasted a modest sign on the porch: "Rooms to let. Food...
... old. He was eighty years old when he died. It is not that Buddha never became old; he was eighty-two years old when he died, very old, ill, the body in a very bad shape. Mahavira became very old. But still we have not carried the stories of their old age, because those stories are not true about their beings - they are true only about their outer periphery, not about their centers. And the center is...
... benefits. You may not be aware of the benefits, you may be unconscious of the benefits, so you go on thinking, "Why do I go on creating misery?" And you are not aware that your misery is giving you something which you want. For example, whenever you are miserable, people are sympathetic towards you. If you are miserable, your wife comes and puts her hand on your head, massages your body, is...
... happened on one level only - on the level of the body. On the level of the body you have become one, your mother and your father have melted - on the plane of the body. You have become one body. Out of two bodies a new unity has arisen, but it is only on the body, in the body, not deeper than the body. Deep in your mind you are split. And if you are split in your mind there is no way to go beyond the...
..., financial security, then it is prostitution. Why do you condemn a prostitute? Because she sells her body for money? But if a wife just thinks to make love to the husband because he has money and with him there is security and the future is not uncertain, and she goes on staying with him with no love, with no love in her heart, and she sleeps with this man, then she is prostituting herself. Then in her...
... the river, tremendously happy, but he has not been yet able to gather courage to take a jump. He has still much involvement with the bank, in the world. He has much involvement in ordinary, mundane things - money, power, prestige, family, body, health - a thousand and one things. He is not yet courageous enough to let go. Srotapanna means one who has surrendered, who has entered the stream...
... name of Vashishta is: OULUKYA DARSHAN - the philosophy of The Owl. Why? Why is this man known as The Owl. He is known as The Owl because even in darkness he could see light; even in the world, God; even in death, the eternal; even in the moment, the infinite; even in the body, the bodiless, even in misery, the blissful. Because he could see so deep, hence the symbolic name: Oulukya - The Owl. I love...
... become a great ascetic - if you torture your body, every morning you whip yourself - then you are going to become headline news. So Vasubandhu was known very much as the greatest holy man - and he was not yet enlightened. Gayata was not known; only known to a few people who could understand and who could see. Gayata wanted to remove this one-sided view of Vasubandhu - this sadistic, masochistic...
... THROUGH IT? IT SEEMS MY MIND AND BODY WILL NEVER STOP ASKING FOR IT? BUT WHY ARE YOU IN SUCH A HURRY TO DROP IT? If you are in such a hurry to drop it, you will never be able to drop it. The very hurry, the very desire to drop it, will not allow you to understand it totally. How can you understand something which you have already decided is wrong, that it has to be dropped7 You have already judged, you...
... been in down the ages. I have heard about Jerome, a very famous Christian saint. He was so much against the body that he used to whip his body every day. Blood would flow from his body, and thousands of people would come to see this great austerity. Now both are ill: Jerome is a masochist, and the people who gather together to see this great phenomenon are sadists. They want to torture people, they...
... have a great desire to torture. They cannot, and this man is doing it on his own - they are very happy watching it. Both are pathological. Jerome condemned the body as the 'vile body', the 'sack of excrement'. He was tormented in his cave by visions of bevies of girls. He grudgingly permitted marriage, very grudgingly - because it was the only way of producing virgins. The reason is: virgins - the...
... his senses. It is no longer localized in the genitals, it has gone all over the body. Hence, Buddha is so beautiful - the grace, the unearthly grace - from where is it coming? It is SEX - transformed, transfigured. It is the same mud that you were decrying and condemning which has become a lotus flower. So never be against sex; it is going to become your lotus flower. And when sex is really...
..., significance - just the way the birds are doing. For the first part, leave language and mind aside. Out of this will arise the second part, a great silence in which you have to close your eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather your energy within yourself. Remain here and now. Zen cannot be understood in any other way. This is the last part of the series LIVE ZEN. In the third part I will say...
..., let go. Then you relax your body and let it fall without any effort, without your mind controlling. Just fall like a bag of rice. Each segment will begin with the drum of Nivedano. Before Nivedano gives the drum, there are a few more things I have to say to you.... I am extremely sorry that I have not been physically here for many days, but I am also extremely happy that you never missed my presence...
... Jainas... in the same temple you will find twenty- four statues all alike, exactly alike. In my childhood I used to ask my father, "Can you explain to me how it is possible that twenty-four persons are exactly alike? -- the same size, the same nose, the same face, the same body...." And he used to say, "I don't know. I am always puzzled myself that there is not a bit of difference. And...
.... And we have not bothered about the outside; we have insisted that only the inner should be paid attention to. The outer is unimportant. Somebody is young, somebody is old, somebody is black, somebody is white, somebody is man, somebody is woman -- it does not matter; what matters is that inside there is an ocean of silence. In that oceanic state, the body takes a certain posture. You have observed...
... it yourself, but you have not been alert. When you are angry, have you observed? -- your body takes a certain posture. In anger you cannot keep your hands open; in anger -- the fist. In anger you cannot smile -- or can you? With a certain emotion, the body has to follow a certain posture. Just small things are deeply related inside. So those statues are made in such a way that if you simply sit...
... silently and watch, and then close your eyes, a negative shadow image enters into your body and you start feeling something you have not felt before. Those statues and temples were not built for worshipping; they were built for experiencing. They are scientific laboratories. They have nothing to do with religion. A certain secret science has been used for centuries so the coming generations could come in...
... it a beautiful religious festival, and everybody comes out of it nourished, fresh, feeling younger, feeling juicier. And what can be done with tea can be done with everything -- with your clothes, with your food. People are living almost in sleep; otherwise, every fabric, every cloth has its own beauty, its own feel. If you are sensitive, then the clothing is not just to cover your body; then it is...
..., others will start feeling changes. All that is to be remembered is a simple word: witnessing. Q: HOW TO BALANCE THE INNER AND OUTER WORLDS? HOW TO BECOME A CHARVAKA? A: There is no need to balance, they are balanced. Just the religions have created the split. They have told you that your body is separate, your soul is separate, that the world is matter, God is spirit.... All these ideas have created a...
... schizophrenic state. Otherwise you are already functioning together. Your body, your mind, your soul -- all are functioning together, there is no problem in it. Just those ideas you have to get rid of, they are rubbish. Existence is one, the body is as much spiritual as the soul is material. The body is the visible soul and the soul is the invisible matter. But it is the same energy. Condensed it becomes...
... you who are the soul and the body who is the CHARVAK, the Zorba, has to be forced. No, just drop the divisions. Live simply -- then eating is spiritual, then having a bath is spiritual, then making love is spiritual, then whatever you do your everything is involved in it: your body, your mind, your soul. The society will be creating disturbance because they cannot conceive that eating can be...
.... He begins with the body, because that is the easiest to witness. It is easy to witness my hand moving, my hand being raised. I can witness myself walking on the road, I can witness each step as I walk. I can witness while I am eating my food. So the first step in vipassana is witnessing the actions of the body, which is the simplest step. Any scientific method will always begin from the simplest...
.... And while witnessing the body, you will be amazed at the new experiences. When you move your hand with witnessing, watchfulness, alertness, consciousness, you will feel a certain grace and a certain silence in the hand. You can do the movement without witnessing; it will be quicker, but it will lose the grace. The Buddha used to walk so slowly that many times he was asked why he was walking so...
.... Now you move into a more subtle world - watching your thoughts. If you have been successful in watching your body, there is not going to be any difficulty. Thoughts are subtle waves - electronic waves, radio waves - but they are as material as your body. They are not visible, just as the air is not visible, but the air is as material as the stones; so are your thoughts, material but invisible. That...
..., but the essential point is to be a witness. And my feeling is that what I have described as three steps is the most easy, most simple - everybody can do it. It needs no scholarship, no austerity, no great understanding. And after these three steps comes the real experience. These three steps take you to the door of the temple, which is open. When you have become perfectly watchful of your body, mind...
... intellect alone and the education being given is only of the intellect. The rest of the man remains untouched and incomplete; the rest of the man remains undeveloped, only the intellect develops. It is just as if someone's whole body shrinks and wastes, only his head goes on becoming bigger. That man will be only an ugliness, and that man will be unable to walk. It will be difficult for him to live...
..., because his big head will not be in balance with the rest of his body. And this is exactly what has happened in the name of education. We decided that man is only intellect, and then for the past three thousand years we have been doing everything only to develop man's intellect. The intellect has developed but the rest of the man is left far behind; the rest of the man is left three thousand years...
... behind, and his intellect has gone three thousand years ahead. The tension, the gap that is created between the two is what is killing us. This has given birth to an inverted crippledness. A man has all parts of his body intact and only his eyes are missing; then we say one part of his body is crippled, undeveloped. If a man has all his parts but his two legs, we call him crippled. An opposite type of...
... crippledness is also possible of which we are not aware - a man having only two legs and nothing else. This man is an inverted cripple. Education has not made man healthy, it has crippled him. Only his intellect has developed and all the remaining parts of his body have remained undeveloped. The intellect has become bigger and bigger, and his connection with all the sources of life have been cut off. What do...
... age, all efforts should be made for the growth of the child's body and feelings. The first fourteen years in the child's life are the most formative years. As the child attains sexual maturity, only after that is the right development of his intellect easy and appropriate. Before that, there are other precious parts of his life which should develop. The child's health should develop, the child's...
... weeping and all this hullabooloo will continue. And if this man stays long, he will start stinking. There is no value in him; if you take him to the market you will be beaten. I'm reminded of Diogenes again: he used to live naked; he was a very healthy and beautiful man. Even Alexander the Great felt a little jealous. He had everything, but the beauty of Diogenes, his marble-like body, his statue-like...
... MOUNTAIN. Nansen used to live on a mountain. Sekiso is one of his followers. He is saying there is something beyond happiness. Happiness is of the body, of the physiology, of the biology. But there is something beyond happiness, which is not of the body at all, neither of the mind, but of your innermost empty heart. A bliss arises there, mysterious and miraculous. But it makes everything in existence...
... that he can have the secretary all to himself. After a week, the two American executives and their secretary are still waiting for instructions from head-office in Texas. But after two days, the two British businessmen shoot their secretary, so that they can have each other! Nivedano... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel the body to be completely frozen...
... fulfilled your potentiality. You are not born to be just mediocre human beings. Your destiny is to be gods. Less than that won't do. And it is not a question of becoming a buddha, it is simply a question of remembering. It is your very nature. To make it absolutely clear, Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Relax. Remain a witness of the body and the mind, just a witness because that is the only quality that belongs...
... to eternity. That is the only quality, that is your nature. It is not given to you. It is your very self. Just watch silently and peacefully. You are neither the body nor the mind. And then suddenly a great explosion happens, your witness takes the form of the buddha. This evening has been beautiful on its own. But thousands of stars have been added to it by your witnessing selves. At this moment...
... his whole life and his whole future. He had got this idea that while he was sleeping - he used to sleep with his mouth open - two flies had entered his mouth, and they were going around inside his body. Now they are here, now they are there, now they have moved towards the head. The whole day the boy could not do anything else, there was no way to get rid of those two flies. He was examined, there...
... nonsense. You don't know anything about flies when they enter into somebody's body. And these are the flies, as a proof.' "I inquired of him, 'Who has caught them?' "He mentioned your name, very respectfully, and he said, 'He is the only man in the whole city who treated me as a human being, not as a madman - who realized my difficulty. And once he accepted my difficulty, it was not much...
... trouble because they were roaming all over my body. He simply said, 'When they come close to your mouth, just tell me. Keep your eyes closed, so I can catch hold.' And I was thinking there were only two... there were three!'" Imagination can create a kind of insanity if it starts believing in its own daydreams - it can create hallucinations. As far as I'm concerned, your so-called saints, great...
... monastery. Only when they die... then their dead bodies are put through a hole, and other Christians who are outside - who are not monks - make a grave for them. But insiders cannot even come with the dead body. The body has to be forced through a hole to fall out of the monastery, and it is on a high mountain. Now what are these people doing? - just chanting, "Ave Maria." The monastery is...
... followed him for a few minutes through small streets, and then lost track. In the morning, the police phoned me that my friend was in their custody; so I went. By then he had come a little bit to his senses, yet there was a hangover. But he recognized me, and said, "I'm sorry that I did not listen to you." He had wounds on his body because people had thrown stones. I brought him back, and since...
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