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Osho
... this was not because of the feet themselves. If, in fact, the feet are big, you can walk better, run better and you are much stronger. The body also can be properly balanced. But that was not the question. The suitability of the place did not depend on its fitness but rather in the fulfillment of the ego. A woman who could walk without support was not considered of a genteel family. The same...
... piety." The piety of a person is judged from her amount of abstinence from all rules of cleanliness! The Jains had one set of value: that he who bathes is a materialistic person. His emphasis is on the body. To keep the body clean, to drape it with fineries, are the characteristics of a materialist. The spiritualist should not worry about the body at all. Some people went even a step further than...
... company of the saints - this placing of the head on the Guru's feet! Everything gradually becomes a formality but this in no way reduces its value. But he who thus comes and places his head on the Master's feet, conveys by his body gesture, that he is ready to shake off everything, to destroy his ego, if he were to obtain his Master's grace! Association - association with a sage - is an unequalled...
... significant statements which can become the foundation of a new humanity, but he has to be understood with great sympathy. He has to be heard not only by your mind, but by your being too. Unless every cell of your body is thrilled by what he is saying, you will not understand him. Do not depend only on the mind: mind - rather than understanding - always creates misunderstanding, because mind has already its...
... rational service to humanity. Now I want rational proofs. All kinds of distortions of the body, how they are going to help man's spiritual growth? What relationship is there? And if spiritual growth happens through these distortions, then the head of the department of yoga, who knows all yoga exercises to perfection, he should be a giant like a Gautam Buddha, or a Mahavira. "But he is a stupid man...
.... He is a proof that all those distortions of the body do not help spiritual growth; perhaps they destroy spiritual growth." And I have reasons to believe that they destroy. Standing on your head for hours is going to destroy your very fragile brain cells, because so much blood will be coming to the mind, like a flood. And your small head has millions of cells, so tiny and so fragile. Animals...
... have not been able to develop intelligence, for the simple reason their head and their body is in the same horizontal line. Too much blood runs through their head and does not allow the delicate framework of a brain to develop. Because man is standing on his feet, blood has to go against gravitation towards the head, so a very small amount reaches. That is enough for the nourishment of those cells...
.... It is not a flood, it is just the right proportion. I asked him, "Do you use a pillow when you sleep, or not?" He said, "I use a pillow, but what does that have to do with yoga?" I said, "It does have something to do with it. It keeps your head intact from the flood that will come if it was horizontal with the body. You cannot sleep without a pillow, for the simple reason...
... inquired: "I want to know, what is the matter?" Buddha said, "That's how he will avoid looking at a woman, at least a woman's face -- at the most he will see her feet." But Ananda said, "There may be situations when a woman is in a danger. For example, she has fallen into a well and is shouting for help. What is your disciple supposed to do? He will have to see her face, her body...
... she cannot eat well, she throws up, she is carrying such a load in her belly. And every day the child needs more and more food. It is a very strange situation: the woman cannot eat, and the child wants more food because he is growing. Hence nature has made woman's body capable of collecting more fat for emergency measures. So even if she does not eat, the child can get as much as he needs from the...
... what happens to their body proportions; they are no more interested in any beauty competition. The man asked his doctor, "What has to be done?" The doctor said, "You do one thing: take a beautiful picture of a naked woman and paste it inside the fridge, so whenever your wife opens the fridge for more ice cream she will think, `What a beautiful body!' And she may start thinking about...
... takes her whole life. It destroys her beauty, makes her body ugly. In a richer country the woman is not going to allow it. She is now educated; she is now demanding liberation. And why should she destroy her body by producing children, when children can be produced in test tubes? Why destroy a beautiful woman, her proportionate body, her beautiful breasts? In no cultured country will a woman be ready...
... the man, to give the child a better life, a beautiful body, more intelligence. This should be simply a part of intelligent people's lives. Why insist that your child should be YOUR child? What difference does it make? Can you recognize your child when he is just a living atomic cell? Can you recognize which is your child? Man's function in producing children is not more than a syringe. In each...
..., and that is an experience within you of a deathless consciousness. Nothing else -- no money, no power, no prestige -- nothing can be an insurance against death except a deep meditation... which reveals to you that your body will die, your mind will die, but you are beyond the body-mind structure. Your essential core, your essential life source has been here before you and will remain after you. It...
... a quantum jump from one body, from one form into another form. But it is not an end to you. You were never born and you never die. You are always here. Forms come and go and the river of life continues. Unless you experience this, the fear of death will not leave you. You are asking, "Will meditation help me overcome my fear of death?" There is no other way. Only meditation... and only...
...." He said, "Then remember, nobody should interfere." They knew their master; he was such a man that if you interfered, he might open his eyes. He had been beating them his whole life, and they did not want him to beat them again, even after death. So, they simply followed. And what had he done? -- he had played the last joke. As the fire caught his body -- he had hidden firecrackers...
... YOUR LOVE DEEP INSIDE ME. Love always creates fear because love is death, a greater death than the ordinary death you know of. In an ordinary death the body dies, but that is not death at all. Body is just like a dress: when it is tatty and old you change for a new one. It is not death, it is just a change: a change of a dress, or a change of a house or abode. But you continue, the mind continues...
... - just the same old mind in new bodies, just the same old wine in new bottles. The form changes but not the mind, the shape changes but not the mind. So the ordinary death is not a real death; love is a real death: the body does not die but the mind dies, the body continues to be the same but the ego disappears. If you love, you will have to drop all the conceptions that you have about yourself. If you...
... opposition at all. The extremes are not opposites, not contradictories, but only complementaries. Life and death are not enemies, they are part of one single process. Death does not end life, it simply renews it. It gives it a new form, a new body, a new plane of consciousness. It is not against life; looked at rightly, it is a process of refreshing life, of rejuvenating life. The day is not against the...
... were bleeding, his whole body had shrunk, and one night after six months Gautam Buddha went to the tree under which he was sleeping. It is one of the rare occasions when Buddha went in the night to any sannyasin for any reason. There is no other incident, at least in the Buddhist scriptures. This is the only incident. He woke Shrona up and asked him a very strange question: "I have heard that...
... middle in every action of your life - always find the middle and you have found the path of meditation and the path of liberation. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, WHEN I ENTER THE GATELESS GATE MY BODY IS FILLED WITH SOME TYPE OF UNCONTROLLABLE VIBRATION. SITTING IN YOUR PRESENCE IN BUDDHA HALL WITH CLOSED EYES MY WHOLE BODY VIBRATES AND TEARS FLOW FROM MY EYES. I FEEL THE VIBRATION DEEPENING AS IF SOMEONE...
... just all praise. Just then, a servant came and said, "Your bath is ready and the supper will become cold." The old man was in a shock. He said, "What? In the evening you take a bath?" The Jaina tirthankara does not bathe at all because that is decorating the body, making it non-smelly. It is in the service of something that is lower than you; it has to be sacrificed for the higher...
... disturb your idea of a god. For example, Jainas think that Mahavira never perspired. Now, I cannot manage that, and I know that neither could Mahavira manage it, because perspiration is a natural process - without perspiration the person will die. Perspiration keeps you at a constant inner temperature. When it is too hot you perspire. The glands all over your body are full of water. In the case of it...
... - it is a movement against the cold. Shivering keeps you at the same temperature. So whether it is hot or cold, your body is capable of maintaining the same temperature, because its life is very limited: it can survive only within twelve degrees of temperature, from 98 to 110. Below 98 you die, above 110 you are finished. The temperature has to be kept constant - it is immensely necessary for the...
... harm you. They will not even touch your body. On the contrary, instructions are that you should be given absolute security, that nothing should happen to you; otherwise we will not be able to show our face to the world." And it was strange that they had to give me the same kind of security as they give to the president of America: five cars following me, five motorcycles following, and the roads...
... and one that leads inward. Man is a duality: he is a body and a soul. And because of this tremendous duality, all the problems of the world have arisen. The duality is not a simple one. It is what I have called a "gestalt duality." In a gestalt duality you can never see both worlds together; if you choose to see one you have to forget about the other. As an example I have told you about a...
... outside - has to deny, because of the inner necessity of the gestalt duality. The West has chosen the outside world and has to deny the inner world. Man is only a body. Physiology, biology, chemistry, but not a consciousness, not a soul; the soul is only an epiphenomenon. And because only the outside is considered to be real, it was possible for science to develop in the West. Technology, thousands of...
... we will be able to create a humanity which can live without poverty, without hunger - a healthier, longer life, which you cannot even think of. The scientific calculation is that the present body that we have is capable of living at least three hundred years - just the right food, right medical care, right ecological environment and these people can live for three hundred years. I cannot conceive...
..., unhealthy, sick and insane past. I don't want to leave you in this silence.... Mendel Kravitz is a fitness freak; he lifts weights and jogs five miles a day. One day, he is admiring his body in the mirror. He notices that he is really suntanned all over, except on his prick, so he decides to do something about it. He goes to the beach, undresses, and buries himself in the sand, except for his prick which...
... comes this life? From where comes this consciousness? As you go deeper within yourself, you will find the center, and not only of yourself. It will be the center of the whole existence. At the center we meet, on the periphery we are separate. We are separate only in our bodies, in our minds, but beyond body and mind we are just an ocean of consciousness. There is no 'I am', there is simply pure...
... not practiced any discipline, you have not tortured yourself by fasting. You have not distorted your body by yoga. How did you become enlightened?" BANKEI REPLIED: IT IS LIKE THE CASE OF TRAVELERS WHO CROSS THE PEAKS OF HIGH MOUNTAINS WHERE THERE IS NO WATER, AND BECOME THIRSTY. SOMEONE SEEKS OUT WATER IN A DISTANT VALLEY, BREAKING HIS BACK SEARCHING HERE AND THERE. FINALLY, HE FINDS WATER AND...
... eyes, feel the body to be completely frozen. Look in. The deeper you can go, the closer you will be to your buddha-nature. It is very simple because it is your own space, you are not trespassing in anybody else's space. You are entering into your own being. Deeper and deeper. You will start feeling a deep silence, a peace that passeth understanding, and a new fresh life energy, a blissfulness that...
... universe. When they become one you have arrived home. To make it more clear, Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Relax ... let go ... just watch. The body is there, the mind is there, but you are not. You are the watcher. This watching witnessing self is the buddha. Rejoice in finding it. Let it sink into every fiber of your being so when you come out you are not the same person as you were going in, you bring...
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