WHAT IS INNOCENCE? WHAT IS BEAUTY? To live in the moment is innocence, to live without the past is innocence, to live without conclusions is innocence, to function out of the state of not knowing is innocence. And the moment you function out of such tremendous silence which is not burdened by any past, out […]
OSHO, WHY ARE YOU NOT CONSISTENT IN YOUR STATEMENTS? I cannot be. The purpose of my statements is totally different from that of ordinary statements. I am not telling the truth, because truth cannot be told. Then what am I doing here? If you take my statements as true or untrue, you will miss the whole
Jesus said: BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO HAS SUFFERED; HE HAS FOUND LIFE. From the most ancient days, man has asked again and again why there is suffering in life. If God is the father, then why is there so much suffering? If God is love and God is compassion, then why does existence suffer?
SHIBLI WENT TO VISIT ANOTHER GREAT SAGE, JUNNAID. THE WIFE OF JUNNAID WAS ABOUT TO CONCEAL HERSELF MODESTLY BEHIND A SCREEN. JUNNAID SAID: STAY WHERE YOU ARE – SHIBLI IS ABSENT. AT THAT MOMENT SHIBLI BEGAN TO WEEP. JUNNAID SAID TO HIS WIFE: YOU MUST NOW BE ABSENT, FOR SHIBLI HAS RETURNED. You are filled
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING SPECIAL AND BEING UNIQUE? BEING unique is everybody’s nature, being special is relative. When you start feeling that you are special you are comparing yourself with somebody. Special: in comparison to somebody; unique: there is no comparison. Unique means you are alone as you are – how can you
If you look ‘without’, the world of the ‘many’ exists; if you look ‘within’, then the world of ONE. If you go outside, you may achieve much, but you will miss the one. And that one is the very center; if you miss it, you have missed all. You may attain much but that much
OSHO, HAVE I TO PUSH THE RIVER? First, even if you do, you will not be able to push it. For a moment you may feel powerful – that you are pushing the river – but finally you will be defeated by it. The river is huge, the energy is huge, it will take you.
You act always with impediment; the opposite is always there creating the impediment; you are not a flow. If you love, the hate is always there as an impediment. If you move, something is holding you back; you never move totally, something is always left, the movement is not total. You move with one leg
ARE ALL DESIRES INSANE? Yes, all desires are insane. Desire as such is insane because desire means living in the future, and the future does not exist at all. What exists is the present. Objects of desire are not significant; desiring is significant. You can desire wealth, you can desire God– desiring remains the same,
MY PARENTS KEEP ON SAYING THEY WANT ME TO LEAD A ’USEFUL’ LIFE AND DO SOMETHING ’USEFUL FOR SOCIETY’. AM I? The society wants you to be reduced to a commodity. To say it politely they say, ”Do something useful.’ They are saying, ”Be useful. Function as a commodity so that people can USE YOU.
