... spontaneity. How it happens? If you are spontaneous, if you ea( when you feel hungry -- and if you only eat when you feel hungry and you never eat against your desire, you never eat more than your desire, you always follow your need -- by and by you will settle to a regularity, because the body is a mechanism, a very, very beautiful biomechanism. Then every day at the same time you will find you are hungry...

... contradict myself, I would be consistent; but I am not a philosopher. At the most you can call me a poet. From a poet you never expect any consistency. You know a poet is a poet; he is not a systematizer. He says something today and something else another day. But if you go on understanding me, a moment will come, whatsoever I have said will be contradicted -- by myself -- you will be left in emptiness...

... he remained conscious. This was a secret test and a growth: now you have achieved to such crystallization of consciousness that the whole body is filled with alcohol but it doesn't affect you. This was a point in tantra to go beyond the body; this is going beyond the body -- for tantra. This man comes from that tradition, so he has the permission from the tradition to drink, but if he gets drunk...

... been created for man. With no desire, with no lust, he has to feel towards the woman as if she is his mother. If the Master says, and sees, that he is right -- now he is like a child entering the woman, not like a man, and like a child he remains inside the woman with no sexuality arising: his breathing is not affected his body energy is not affected; for hours he remains together with the woman...

... even for one year and suddenly meat is offered, you will start feeling nausea, vomiting. If that comes that means the man is still living in the thoughts -- because it is only a thought that this is meat and this is vegetable. Vegetable is also meat, because it comes from the body of the tree; and meat is also vegetable, because it comes from the tree of a man's body or an animal's body. This is the...

... transcendence of morality. And then he is prepared to drink strong drugs. If he has really become alert then whatsoever is given will change the chemistry of the body but not his consciousness; his consciousness will remain floating on the chemistry of the body. Gurdjieff used to drink as much as you can imagine -- but was never unconscious, never drunk. He was a tantric Master. If you want to look in the...

... continuously. What President Kennedy missed, Muktananda got! Naturally the disciple thought, "Certainly virtue, renunciation, torturing your body is far more glorious than being the president of America." He rushed, touched the feet of the master, looked all around. Perhaps he can also get some actress, an extra... but there was nobody around. He said, "Master, I always knew you would be...

..., but I cannot possess it because I don't have any desire to possess anything. This way life remains light, unburdened; this way life remains a dance; this way you can go on reaching higher and higher peaks. Because with burdens, possessions, howsoever valuable, you cannot go very high. As the air becomes thinner the burden becomes greater. Just to carry your body becomes a burden. The U.S. government...

... tasted all its joys and all its sorrows. But I continued to search for something that is beyond the mind, because if I cannot find something beyond the mind then the whole life becomes meaningless. Death will destroy everything, because mind is part of the body - so is the heart. Before death knocks on your doors you have to find within you something which is deathless. And once you have found it you...

... intangible. But mind works both ways: on the one hand it goes on destroying the body.... In India there was a great poet, Surdas. He was a great musician; hence his name, meaning that he was the master of the musical notes. Of course he must have been a very sensitive man - all creative people are sensitive. But he was also a monk, and one day he saw a very beautiful woman. He had gone to beg and the woman...

... was allowed in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram, no tea was allowed in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram. Such innocent things... tea or coffee. But because you enjoy them, that is the problem. Your enjoyment has to be destroyed completely. You should live like a corpse, a ghost who has no senses, no body. On one hand the mind destroys the senses and on the other hand it does not allow you to reach to the master of...

... the house. And this enemy is being nourished by all religions, by all governments, by all those who are against man and his evolution. VERILY THE LUST FOR COMFORT MURDERS THE PASSION OF THE SOUL, AND THEN WALKS GRINNING IN THE FUNERAL. How can comfort murder the passion of the soul? If it can do anything it can intensify it. If the body can enjoy so much, how much will be the blissfulness of the...

... soul? The body is the beginning of your search for blissfulness. From pleasure to blissfulness... there is no contradiction. Live the life of your body with totality and intensity. That's what I have called the Zorba. That very joy will make you aware that life cannot be just this much; that very pleasure of the body and the senses will take you on the pilgrimage in the search of something more. And...

... does not mean that when they die you should go on carrying them on your shoulders all your life. I know you will be sad and you will be in deep sorrow, but still - the dead body of your mother or father or beloved has to be given to the fire or to the grave. You cannot keep it in the house. But what about your mind? Your mind is nothing but a graveyard. Thousands of dead people are ruling, dominating...

... world have believed, that the God abides high above in heaven. I say unto you: there is no God anywhere else except within you. God is the very center of your life and your consciousness. Make your body a temple of God. FOR THAT WHICH IS BOUNDLESS IN YOU ABIDES IN THE MANSION OF THE SKY, WHOSE DOOR IS THE MORNING MIST, AND WHOSE WINDOWS ARE THE SONGS AND THE SILENCES OF NIGHT. Beautiful words, but...

... do that." Caught between the conflict of his own inner rift, all man's energy is wasted. He finds himself in a constant nightmare. You are all doing it, because all your religions have been teaching you to do it - not clearly, not openly, but in a very subtle way. Religions say that your body and your soul are separate, not only separate but antagonistic to each other; that the body is the...

... enemy of the soul; that if you want to attain something of spirituality you will have to control your body, you will have to stop listening to its desires, you will have to curtail everything in which the body rejoices. In other words, you have to torture the body - torturing the body will be the way towards spirituality. All the religions have been saying to the world that there are two worlds - this...

... tasting anything. Now you are creating a division in man, you are giving him a false mask which smiles when his whole body wants to vomit. This is how you can ride in two boats. Your whole body wants to vomit - that is one boat. And you smile - that is another boat. And if your whole life becomes like this, you will be the most miserable person in the world. And the same division is created for this...

... having a cozy house, or having a beautiful wife or husband. I don't see anything unspiritual in it. All depends on you. You can make it unspiritual, you can make it spiritual. When shivering cold, sitting in meditation, you cannot meditate - your teeth are chattering, your body is shivering and you are trying to be calm and quiet and collected. Use the right clothes. They will help you in your...

.... There are not two worlds; there is only one world. There is only one existence, and all divisions are dangerous. Avoid them. If you can understand that there is only one world, then it will create oneness in you. Then your body is just the visible part of your soul, and your soul is just the invisible part of your body. Then you can bring both into a communion. And that communion to me is the most...

... fictitious explanations - you cannot do anything to change your past life, you have to go through it. Unbelievable religious sects grew in the East, which no reasonable person can accept, but millions followed them. For example, Jainas believe that a woman cannot attain to enlightenment from a woman's body because she cannot be really celibate. She cannot stop her menstrual period, and that keeps her a...

... towards him, because he will be in the same situation. Men and women are not different species. They may differ, but they belong to the same species. Stop that old nonsense - that the woman cannot become enlightened from her body because she cannot prevent her periods, and that it is the obvious proof that she cannot be celibate. Man can only pretend to be celibate because his period is psychological...

..., their beauty... dress just as man has always dressed. But it is a strange phenomenon that the way you dress changes so much. The Eastern woman's dress has a grace, and it gives a grace to her whole body. The Western woman is trying to compete with cowboys - blue jeans, stupid looking clothes, ugly hairdos. They think perhaps they are taking revenge - they are destroying themselves. But revenge always...

... anew with the new findings, remembering one thing - that the woman should not imitate man, because her attraction, her beauty, has a different dimension. If she imitates man she will become only a carbon copy of man, she will lose her identity - and she is losing it. The body, in a subtle way, follows your mind. The Western woman's body is losing the old grace, the old contours. The Western woman...

... does not have such beautiful breasts as she used to have. What happened? The body follows the mind; she used to have a beautiful curvature, now she is becoming a straight line. And a woman without breasts, a straight line, no curves anywhere, is an ugly phenomenon - it will be such a disgrace. But her clothes will affect her body, her mental attitudes will affect her body. She has not to become a...

.... The doctors were at a loss, because there was no reason for his sickness. They could not find anything wrong with his body. Then one of the friends who had been out of town came back. He looked around and he said, "Don't be worried, I know what is the cause." The doctors said, "We have been searching for the cause and we don't know it. You are not a doctor - how do you know the cause...

... from England, the best surgeons. But they were concerned because it was a major operation, and to do it without giving any anesthesia was unheard of. But there was no way. The maharaja was adamant, and he said, "I tell you that there is no problem. I will simply close my eyes and go into my meditation. Then what happens to my body, I am simply a witness of it." It was not understandable for...

... the surgeons, but to wait was also dangerous; the operation had to be done as quickly as possible. So finally they had to agree. The maharaja closed his eyes, relaxed his body, and the operation was done. It took two hours. The doctors could not believe their own eyes, that the man was there, fully conscious, yet there was no sign of pain on his face. When the operation was over he opened his eyes...

..., and he said, "I loved it. It was a great experience to witness my body being operated on, and just to stand there aloof, far away - as if something is happening to somebody else." That's the mystic's attitude. Anything that happens to his body is not happening to him; he is simply a witness. Even if death comes, he is simply a witness. Socrates was dying - he had been given poison. He was...

... to talk to you, but remember, only the body is dying, I am not." This is the mystic's attitude, and this is the only healthy attitude. Every human being should attain to it. Question 3: BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIOUSNESS? PLEASE EXPLAIN. Spirituality is something which accepts the duality between matter and spirit. It is against materialism, it is a...

... word that creates schizophrenic people. Religiousness is something far more beautiful. The word "religiousness" comes from religio. It means putting things together. Spirituality means splitting things into matter and spirit, Zorba and Buddha, body and soul. That has been the way of all the religions up to now. But it is basically wrong, because existence is not dual; it is oneness, it is...

... one organic whole. The word "religiousness" simply means that you are feeling a togetherness with body, with mind, with soul; there is no division. In this unity blossoms religiousness. Religiousness is far higher than spirituality. Spirituality can take you into the lower states of consciousness. Religiousness can take you into the higher states of consciousness. Do not divide. All...

... vagina is a blind spot; on the body you have many blind spots. You will be surprised to know that inside your skull where the brain is placed, it is absolutely insensitive. One would never have thought that the brain is our most significant organ and it is in a place, inside the skull, which is absolutely insensitive. It was found in the first world war that a man got shot in his head, and by some...

... has seven hundred centers which control everything in your body, if the inside of your skull was sensitive, life would become impossible. Just any small thing happens in the body and you would be troubled, because the mind would go into a turmoil - you would become sensitive to it. So much is happening inside of which you are not aware. And it is for your sake that you are not allowed to be aware...

.... When you eat, as the food passes down your throat, you don't know how it is digested, how it is transformed into its basic elements. You don't know how it is changed into blood, into bones, into nerves, into brain cells - into a thousand and one things that are needed by the body. If you were aware of all this continuously, life would be impossible. You would be so occupied continuously - so much...

... information inside would be coming to the brain - that you would not be able to live in the outside world at all. For centuries man was not aware that blood circulates. In the old scriptures on medicine - East, West, both - it is depicted that the body is filled with blood, but nowhere is it mentioned that it is in constant circulation. The blood that is in my feet, by the time I have finished the sentence...

..., will have gone around my whole body. It will have passed through my brain and back to my feet; with such great speed the blood is continuously moving. If we were aware of this movement, it would be a great nuisance. Once in a while, sitting in one posture, your legs start feeling pins and needles because the blood is being stopped. It starts making you aware that the circulation is being hampered and...

... obstructed, and if you don't listen to it, then your legs go dead. The circulation has stopped. Suddenly you find you have no control over your own legs. The control was in the circulation of the blood; that was your control. Just sixty years before, just in the beginning of this century, man became aware that not only is the body filled with blood, the blood circulates. For thousands of years, man has...

... hands are immediately in your pockets, and you don't want anybody"s hands in your pockets. What are your friends? Even the people you think you are in love with .... What is your love? Just a biological urge, or something more? Is there anything more than the physical body? Have you ever thought of the spiritual being of the other person? I have heard .... A woman was asking a man before they...

... IT WILL SHINE FORTH - THE DANCING MORNING STAR", WAS NOT A LUCKY MAN EITHER. HE FREAKED OUT. NIJINSKY USED HIS BODY BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES, AND FREAKED OUT AS WELL. IT SEEMS THAT MIND ALONE OR BODY ALONE CAN'T TAKE YOU ANYWHERE. OSHO, IS THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE THE WINGS THAT WILL TAKE MIND, BODY AND HEART TO A NON-SLEEPING CONDITION? ARE YOU THE DANCING MORNING STAR THAT CAME OUT FROM THE EAST...

... the moment you close your eyes - again you are attuned, and the feeling arises that you are rising up. But opening the eyes, suddenly you find yourself sitting just as you were sitting before. Your body remains still on the ground, but your soul, your consciousness, starts rising up beyond the body. This is the beginning. Soon a day will come when meditation will be so deep that with the...

... consciousness rising, your body will also follow. Body is a little slow, in everything. Man learned to stand up in one million years. Between the monkeys and man, just learning to stand up on two feet, there is a gap of one million years. The body learns very slowly, very cautiously; but it learns. If Nijinsky was in the East he would not have been mad, he would have been declared enlightened. His dance was...

... is some way to go inwards. And the human soul, the human spirit, is not a by-product of matter. It has its own existence. The matter in the body seems to be alive, only because of the presence of consciousness in it. Once the consciousness leaves the body, the body is simply dead, a corpse. But because Karl Marx had no experience of meditation... And the West was not the right place for meditation...

.... The Soviet citizen is the poorest, as far as consciousness is concerned. But Karl Marx has given it a right foundation. That foundation is missing in the East. This has been the dilemma of the whole of humanity.... In the East people have condemned the body, condemned matter, called matter "illusory," maya -- it does not really exist, it only appears to exist; it is made of the same stuff...

... as dreams are made of. They denied the world, and that is the reason for the East remaining poor, sick, in starvation. Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world. The other half of humanity has been accepting the material world and denying the inner world. Both are half, and no man who is half can be contented. You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in...

.... This is my contribution to humanity: THE WHOLE PERSON. The East has denied the body and the outside world, and the West has denied the soul and the inner world; both have lived half. And just as there is no half-circle in the world... a circle means a complete circle. A half-circle is only an arc, it is not a circle. So the West has remained half, an arc; the East has remained half, an arc. And a man...

..., immediately moved to India and he remained in South India, learned all the arts of yoga and meditation. And you will be surprised: he is the only person in the whole world whose body is still intact... it is in Goa. Every year the body is taken out and you can see it -- it is as if he has just died. And it is not by any scientific method that it has been preserved. Scientists have been observing it...

..., watching it with amazement: two thousand years ago, how did those people manage? Because there is no sign of anything, and the body seems to be still flushed with blood. After two thousand years it has not deteriorated. The body usually starts deteriorating immediately; within three days it is stinking. But every year the body of Thomas is taken out -- this is a real miracle -- and it is the only body in...

... you enjoy, everything that is needed for humanity has been created because these two hands were free. No animal can do these things: all four legs are engaged in walking. This is one revolution: the gorilla becomes man -- from horizontal to vertical. A similar kind of state exists inside. Your consciousness is still horizontal. Your body is vertical; your consciousness is still moving in time...

... -- horizontally. The function of meditation is to turn your consciousness also in a vertical direction. When your body and consciousness are together, vertical, you are an enlightened one. The vertical consciousness knows the ultimate truth, the beauty, the good, the godliness of existence. The sutras: OUR BELOVED MASTER, THE MONK IN CHARGE OF THE MONASTERY ONCE SAID TO YAKUSAN, "I HAVE RUNG THE BELL...

... bowl yourself? When did you lose your arms and legs? Even Ungan, who finally became enlightened, could not understand the meaning. The meaning was that the discourse is nothing but a nourishment. It is a spiritual nourishment. Just as the body needs food, your spirituality needs nourishment. Carrying the bowl behind him, he was giving the monk an insight: "Think of all your meditations and...

... companion. "And by the way, she is my daughter." "I am sorry, sir," says the flustered Fumble. "Do forgive me -- I would never had said anything had I known you were her father." "I'm not, you idiot!" says the other. "I am her mother!" Nivedano... (Gibberish) Nivedano... Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right...

... identification; just watching as if you are only a mirror. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. Just pure consciousness.... And suddenly you come in touch with your eternal life, with your immortal being. Suddenly you have come very close to the heartbeat of the cosmos. Your being a buddha is the door to the cosmos. To make this witnessing...

... more clear, Nivedano... Relax... Let go of the body, but keep remembering one thing: that you are a buddha. And the buddha has only one quality; he is made up of only one thing -- that is witnessing. The whole religious experience can be reduced to a single word: witnessing. And as you get deeper into witnessing, you start melting like ice into the ocean; the Buddha Auditorium suddenly turns into an...

.... STUFFING YOURSELF, SEXUAL DESIRE ARISES, WHY WASTE THIS BODY BORN OF PASSION? DON'T ATTACK YOUR FOOD, DON'T DIE OF HUNGER, CONTEMPLATE THE SECRET OF BRAHMAN DAY AND NIGHT DON'T OVERWORK, DON'T LIE AROUND, THUS SAYS GORAKH DEVA OVER EATING STRENGTHENS THE SENSES, DESTROYS CONSCIOUSNESS, FILLS THE MIND WITH SEX. SLEEP OVERTAKES, DEATH CLOSES IN THE HEART ENTANGLED. THE MILK DIETER MONK'S MIND ON OTHERS...

... is no experience of being. To experience being the ego must be lost. DIE, OH YOGI, DIE! DIE, SWEET IS DYING. Gorakh says, the death I am telling you about is very sweet. If one dies this death, life is nothing but sweetness. Truth is very sweet when you experience it. It is the taste of nectar. It spreads in the body and heart, you are filled with it. It begins overflowing. Certainly one who has...

... but you need eyes to see it. Today's sutra is about how this sweet death happens. What is the process? What is its essential discipline? ... sutras about this. How can we die? What is Gorakh's death like? DIE THAT DEATH... Everyone dies. But there are differences in dying. You will die, Buddha also dies, but there is a difference between your dying and Buddha's. You will die only from the body and...

... when you start being born again. The ego hides all your diseases inside itself, enters a new womb, and starts taking a new body. But the desires are old, the diseases are old, the miseries are old, the ruts are old. You move ahead, get tired again, fall again, die again, this has happened many times. Buddha also dies, but there is a difference between his dying and your dying. Your ego does not die...

..., it only abandons the body. He dissolves his ego, burns up his ego. Before the body is abandoned he abandons his ego. One who dies before dying, experiences the ultimate life. Then he has no need to come back again, because the very thread that used to pull him back has died. Being has no birth, no death. The ego is born, only the ego dies. And one who is released from ego is eternal. Then he...

... down. Shrona ate standing up. The other bhikkhus kept a bowl, Shrona didn't keep even a bowl, only his hand... he ate only the food that fit in his hand. His beautiful body shrivelled. Previously people used to come from miles around to see his body. His face had been very charming, immensely beautiful. After he had been a bhikkhu for three months anyone who saw him would not recall that this was...

... Emperor Shrona. His feet became blistered, his body became black, he shrivelled and became just bones. And he went on disciplining himself. Buddha said, "Do you see bhikkhus, I had told you that what goes to one extreme, will go to the other extreme! It is difficult to stop in the middle, because the middle is the death of the ego." Then Shrona stopped eating. Then he stopped taking water. He...

... city that besides city nothing remains of you, because desire will catch you there. But how to live? Live in the city like someone living in the jungle, this is the middle. Live at home like one lives in the forest. Live in the world but don't let the world inside of you. Live as a lotus leaf in the water. ... WHY WASTE THIS BODY BORN OF PASSION? Then you will know how this body created from egg and...

... remain with it very long, because the needs of the opposite will begin to pull you, will begin to attract you. So eat the right amount of food - what is sufficient for meditation, sufficient for worship and prayer. Eat rightly, give to the body what is needed for natural functions. Don't dump more, otherwise the extra amount will put you in trouble. Don't go to extremes. There are some people who...

... the universe the closer he reaches to god. All this beauty is his. DON'T OVERWORK, DON'T LIE AROUND, THUS SAYS GORAKH DEVA And don't be stubborn. Don't try to force the body more than necessary. DON'T OVERWORK... Don't make too much effort otherwise you will become tired and broken. But also don't do the reverse: ... DON'T LIE AROUND... Don't become lazy. Don't just lie there thinking: "We...

... so unconsciousness does not overtake you. This is why to one who fasts sleep doesn't come at night. Or sleep becomes less. In old age sleep becomes less because food becomes less. The body cannot digest so much food. Life is finishing so now there is no need for sleep either. Unconsciousness takes over in sleep. For sleep it is necessary that your body remain more powerful than your being, only...

... then can sleep take over. When you eat the body grows, the being becomes weak. If you eat too much then the body becomes very burdensome, you start getting drowsy. When consciousness increases, you will find simultaneously that sex desire has started becoming less, because the pressure of the body becomes less on the being. This is why Gorakh and I do not tell you to fight against sex desire, we tell...

... yourselves to each other: you both are offering yourselves to the god of love. The woman is just a via-media, the man too. Both are offering to the god of love through each other, because it is very difficult to find the god of love directly - it is so invisible. In India we have the myth that the god of love has no body. His name is Ananga, bodiless. There is a beautiful story behind it.... Shiva was...

... have any relationship. He was a little disturbed so he started tempting Shiva. Shiva was very angry - somebody disturbing his meditation - so he opened his third eye. It was so fiery that the god of love was burned, his body was destroyed. Since then he is without a body. He still roams around, far more easily now; he comes and goes and nobody can see him. It is difficult to see the god of love...

... end.... It is an old habit but it will disappear. And this is the greatest opportunity for you to let it disappear. Start communicating with people, meeting with people. Come down from your ego, hold hands, hug people. Don't talk about love: be loving. Don't say, 'I love you'; show it! Don't say it, show it! Be more bodily about it rather than mental. Say it in different gestures, body postures...

... - touch people. If you feel like loving a woman, touch her. Touch her face and cry and let your tears say it and let your touch say it, and don't utter a single word. With words you are clever, and that is your undoing. Just think that you are dumb and you want to love a woman; what will you do? You will have to find some ways to communicate. Use language less, the body more, words less, gestures more...