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... ZORBA THE GREEK. She was a rebellious woman; Pappas played the part of the widow and she continued to have love affairs. Life means love. If you cannot love, you are not allowed to breath. Love is to your inner being, exactly what breathing is to your body. Irene Pappas has never met me, but she feels a deep communion with me, and she is going to be here amongst you. She is not yet a buddha, but I...
... longer breathing perhaps has experienced what death is. I say perhaps because most of the people, out of fear, become unconscious before they die. Only a few people who have been experiencing something of meditation, something of awareness, who have experienced in some way the distance between themselves and their body and mind, remain alert when death comes. They simply laugh within themselves - which...
... you cannot hear, because the body is no longer functioning. They cannot say to you, "It is just a great joke; death does not happen. That which was really alive remains alive." The body was only alive because of something present in it, and that presence is moving out of it. That presence, if it has died with a desire will take another birth; if it has died without any desire it will...
... only relic left from the body of Mohammed. Nobody knows whose hair it is, and there is no way to prove that it is Mohammed's hair. But a few years back it was stolen. Then there was great fuss all over the world amongst the Mohammedans. That mosque, Hazrat Bal...bal means hair; even the bal is to be called Hazrat, Osho - "revered hair." And it was such a difficult situation. Riots started...
... the Polacks, who are very unintelligent people. They cannot make a joke themselves, that is impossible. But they are good in a way; they allow the whole world to make jokes about them. Nice guys! Nivedano... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes and feel your body to be completely frozen. Now, look inwards. Gather all your consciousness as a spear, piercing towards...
... remembrance deepens, as your awareness becomes clear, as you dissolve into your witnessing, the buddha spontaneously arises - in your actions, in your words, in your silences. He becomes your whole life, and a life of great joy, a life of blessings, a life which is pure poetry, essential music, an eternal dance. But keep the witness clear, because in your whole body only the witness is eternal; everything...
... else is mortal. Sooner or later it will be in some grave. It has come from the earth, it will go back to the earth. Only the witness will fly, without leaving its footprints in the blue sky, to become part of the cosmos. Buddha is simply a name for your witnessing. To make it clear, Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Relax. Witness the body lying there almost dead. The mind is there - maybe chattering a little...
... assertions are still relevant, still fresh; not rotten, not old. His time is coming now. It is as if he came two thousand five hundred years before his time. Vincent van Gogh's paintings are now becoming great paintings; great appreciation has arisen for him. He came a little early. They always do. His brother used to give him enough money just to keep his body and soul together, because his paintings...
..., so very afraid, that a kind of coma surrounds them and protects them. It is a natural anaesthetic. When you go for an operation, you need an anaesthetic - and death is the greatest operation there is: the soul and body will be torn apart. So nature has some built-in mechanism - before you start dying you go into a coma; all consciousness disappears. In the first place your consciousness was not...
... for you I go on giving swami and ma according to your biological body. But sometimes it is very clear that to call this person 'swami' seems absolutely wrong. He has such a feminine heart and his path is going to be love. He is so receptive. Just the other night Prabha was here. Now he has a heart of a woman. He is a very big man physically, but he has a very, very soft vulnerable heart of a woman...
... need not be afraid. For twenty-five years I have been that way. In the beginning it really was difficult to walk. I was very much afraid myself that I might fall any moment. Somehow the body had become so distant and there was such a gap - earth and sky apart. It took time for me to settle down. Although everything has settled down, that drunkenness is still there. This is God-drunkenness. Once you...
... against life or anything that life implies - neither sex nor food, neither the body nor bodily pleasures. I am not averse to comfort, I am not against luxuries either. Just the other day there was a question. Somebody has asked - he must be a newcomer and an Indian - he has asked, "Are you not a hypocrite? Why do you live in luxury?" He does not know the meaning of the word 'hypocrite'. I may...
... other: that to be ill, starved, ugly, is to be holy." I am not teaching these things. I would like my whole commune to live in as much comfort as possible. The commune has to become a model - a model for the whole world. My sannyasins are to live in every possible joy: physical, psychological, spiritual. The joys of the body and the joys of the mind and the joys of the spirit - all have to be...
.... And to eat is healthy, nourishing, good; to dream about it is ugly and pathological. Dreaming about food simply says that you are somehow depriving your body of what it needs. Who dreams about food? Only a person who represses his desire for food. You can try it: fast for one day and then see what happens.... The whole day you will think about food; from everywhere the mind will come again and again...
... ask: Why is a marigold a marigold? How are you going to be satisfied? If life does not exist, will you be satisfied? Just conceive of yourself without body, without mind, a ghost, asking the question: Why doesn't life exist? What happened to life? Why did it disappear? The same question will persist and persecute you. Life is a mystery. There is no why, no purpose, no reason. It is simply here. Take...
... body grows old, but the being knows nothing of time - how can it grow old? It is always young, it is always youthful. It is as fresh as dewdrops in the early morning sun, it is as fresh as lotus leaves in the lake. IF THE TRAVELER CANNOT FIND MASTER OR FRIEND TO GO WITH HIM, LET HIM TRAVEL ON ALONE RATHER THAN WITH A FOOL FOR COMPANY. The best thing is to find a master, because the master is the...
... says, "What do you mean that you are not the same? Can't I recognize my son? Don't I know you? I have given birth to you, my blood flows in your veins, you are made of my blood and bones - and I don't know you? You have some nerve to say this!" And Buddha again says, "Excuse me, but I say again that my body may be a part of your body - I am not. Now I know that I am not my body, not my...
... food and you are asking me what Brahman is. Right now, except food nothing is Brahman." The father said, "So your whole knowledge is just because you were not starved. Because you were taken care of, your body was nourished, it was easy for you to talk about great philosophy. Now is the real question. Now bring your knowledge!" Shvetketu said, "I have forgotten all. Only one thing...
... dissolve. And the deeper you will go... then deeper questions will come: first sociological, theological, then biological. You have a man's body or a woman's body: the question will arise, "Am I a man or a woman?" The consciousness is neither. The consciousness cannot be male or female. The consciousness is simply consciousness; it is just the capacity of being a witness. Soon you will pass...
... control - they think they are suprahuman. Because they can control their instincts, they can go on long fasts, they can remain sexually starved for years or for their whole life, they can remain awake for days together, not a single moment's sleep - because they can have such control over the body, over the mind, it naturally gives them a great ego. It feeds their idea that, "I am somebody special...
... ready to drop his style of life, his way of thinking; he was ready to drop his body - that's not much. No, nobody can disturb my way of life, because it is not an outer thing, it is something deep inside me where nobody can enter except me. In fact just the reverse is the case: I disturb people's lives and it is natural that they react with antagonism. I have no complaint against them, no grudge, I...
... within his heart - one day it explodes. More men are in madhouses. And if you look at the society, men are interested in politics, not women. Sometimes a few women are interested, but they must have male hormones in their body. Some scientific research is needed. And the women who are interested in politics, and reach to the top, have never been very womanly, they have never loved their husbands, their...
..., this is not for you, this is for cowards. You are a brave man. It is not for cowards. Allow fear. Only one thing is to be understood: when you allow fear and you tremble - watch it, enjoy it; and in that watching you will transcend it, you will see the body is trembling, you will see the mind is trembling, but you will come to feel a point within you, a deep centre, which remains unaffected. The...
... storm passes by, but somewhere deep within you is a centre which is untouched: the centre of the cyclone. Allow fear, don't fight with it. WATCH what is happening. Go on watching. As your watching eye becomes more penetrating and intense - the body will be trembling, the mind will be trembling - deep within you will be consciousness, which simply is a witness, which only watches. It remains untouched...
... are, who you are. It is a tremendous relaxation of all definitions, of all limitations, Woman is always known as the dark one, the night, the earth. Buddha became a woman that night; he became enlightened. Bauls say, MY HEART, DRESS YOURSELF IN THE SPIRIT OF ALL WOMEN... Become a woman. They mean of course, psychologically, spiritually. It has nothing to do with your body, but your attitude. Woman...
... but full of energy, hence the feminine beauty. The roundness of the feminine body is not only a physical thing -- the same is so in her psychology also. She has a round shape, smooth, warm, ready to dissolve, but not aggressive. Passivity means non-aggressiveness, non-violence. It is not laziness. I have heard.... The Swiss people, especially those from their capital, Berne, are said to be as slow...
... this is uncreative activity; or somebody can stand for hours in the hot sun -- now this is good in a circus, but life is not enriched by it; or somebody can lie on a bed of thorns. What is the point in it? What are you creating? One can become very insensitive and lie down on thorns. And the body has dead spots on it, so if you try to find out you will be able to find out. Just tell your wife or your...
... husband to take a thorn or a needle and push many spots on your back. You will see that a few spots you will feel, and a few you will not feel; those are the spots. There are dead spots on the back. One has just to find where they are, then you can lie down on a bed of thorns. And by and by, the body becomes immune, resistant, hard. But these people lose all sensitivity: they have never produced a song...
... THIS TRUTH.... Truth needs no trust, no belief. You simply know it. And once you have come to know it, you have attained freedom. This knowing is not something like knowledge. This knowing is a transformation. You have moved from the mind to no-mind. You have moved from the body to no-body. You have moved from form to formlessness. It is a transformation. There is no question of believing or trusting...
... you can start by helping me with your wallet!" Nivedano... Nivedano... Be silent. Close your eyes, feel your body to be completely frozen. Look inwards, as deeply as you can reach. At the very end you will find your life source. This life source is connected with the universal life. To experience this is to be a buddha, utterly empty of the world but absolutely full of blissfulness, of...
... that "I am the buddha" is going to change your whole life pattern. To make it more clear, Nivedano... Relax. Just watch the body, the mind. They are not you, you are the watcher. And the watcher is another name for the buddha. This is a blissful evening -- ten thousand people just drowned in an oceanic consciousness of watchfulness. Ten thousand buddhas -- there has never been such an...
... whole? How can the part go before the whole? Explanation means that you must transcend that which you are trying to explain - you must be there before it existed, you must be there when it has ceased to exist. You must move around it so you can define it, and you must dissect so you can reach the heart. A surgeon can find the explanation, not for life, but for a dead body. All medical definitions of...
... be able to know it. Life can open to you only in a certain moment of maturity. But people live and die childishly. They never really grow, they never attain to maturity. What is maturity? Just becoming sexually mature does not mean you are mature. Ask the psychologists: they say that the average adult mental age remains nearabout thirteen or fourteen. Your physical body goes on growing but your...
... is the difference. A man who lives through manners is always thinking of respect, never of love. And what is respect in comparison to love? Love is something alive; respect is absolutely dead. THE DISCIPLE FOUND THAT ONE FRIEND HAD COMPOSED A SONG WHILE THE OTHER PLAYED THE LUTE. This was unbelievable! This was disrespectful to a person who is dead! The dead body was lying there, and one friend had...
... nothingness and then one dies and moves into nothingness. The boat was empty when you were born and when you die the boat will be empty again. Just a flash of lightning. For a few moments you are in the body and then you disappear. Nobody knows from where you came and where you go. They don't claim any knowledge. They say, "This much we feel: Sung Hu, you have gone to the place from where you came, and...
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