It was a blazing afternoon. Temperature was rising to unbearable levels. The sun was terrorizing the earth as if fumes were coming out of the ground. Every living being was screaming for some relief. In the midst of this boiling afternoon, an old beggar was looking around for some aide. He was tired, hungry and […]
I lost my Mother on Tuesday, 16th March 2021. She was 83. It was so sudden – Heart Failure. Within minutes she departed peacefully. I went into a deep silence. Life time memories flashed before my eyes and there also emerged this story by Osho. I wish to share today. “A man who has attained
LIFE is in living. It is not a thing; it is a process. There is no way to attain to life except by living it, except by being alive, by flowing, streaming with it. If you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, in some philosophy, in some theology, that Is the sure
WHY DO I MAKE FUNNY FACES?First, an anecdote…A person was frighteningly ugly. Once he was asked how he could go on living with such a terrible face?“Why should I be unhappy?” answered the man. “I never see my own face. Let others worry.” So you simply throw your mirrors — that’s all. And this is
Osho says, “I will not tell you to drop the ego. I am fully aware how cunning the ego is. It can even play the game of dropping itself, and you can say, ”Look, I am the humblest person in the world, the most egoless.” It has come in from the back door again; now
“I am sorry! — but I have never regretted in my life, for the simple reason that whatever I do, I do it wholeheartedly. You regret because you never do things wholeheartedly, you are always divided. Some part of you wants to do it, some part of you is against doing it. If you do
“You can live in the world and yet not be of the world. You can live in the world and not allow the world to live in you. All that is needed is a little watchfulness. A small story …. Just as you have heard the name of Cleopatra — one of the most beautiful
“The original word SIN means “to miss”. It doesn’t mean to commit something wrong; it simply means to miss, to be absent. The Hebrew root for the word sin means ‘to miss’. That exists in a few English words: mis-conduct, mis-behavior. “To miss” means not to be there, doing something without being present there — this is
THERE WERE TWO FRIENDS OF THE KING,AND BOTH WERE PROVED GUILTY OF A CRIME.SINCE HE LOVED THEM THE KING WANTED TO SHOW THEM MERCY,BUT HE COULD NOT ACQUIT THEM BECAUSE EVEN A KING’S WORDCANNOT PREVAIL OVER THE LAW.SO HE GAVE THIS VERDICT:A ROPE WAS TO BE STRETCHED OVER A DEEP CHASM,AND, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, THE
One can be either Rama or Ravana, but there is no way to be in between. Our trouble is that we know perfectly well that we are not Rama, but it is a big hurt to the ego and the mind does not want to agree to it. It is hard enough for the mind
