Humanoid– an arrested human life-wave incapable of mobilizing his/her own intentions or self-initiated actions . ., obedient, an ill-eased gang-member (by their paranoia ye shall know them)- Dr Blynd
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According to FUNKTIONARY:
Humanoid – an arrested human life-wave incapable of mobilizing his/her own intentions or self-initiated actions. 2) anyone disposed to seek outside his/herself in order to intend a full action based on willed intent. 3) a self-servient, obedient, outward-looking, fearful, and bridled. 4) an ill-eased gang-member (by their paranoia ye shall know them). 5) a prematurely deadened and stiffened human being. 6) a human being sounding as if were still a spiritual being human. 7) vacuous existence—fearful, suspicious and delusionary. “The consciousness of the humanoid is the consciousness of the slave.” ~ Thomas Hanna. (See: Authoritarian, Obedience, Slavery, HUGG LIFE, Meaning, Fear, Inner Work, Authority, Will, Free Will, Freedom, Awakening, Free-Range Slavery, Cultural Tyranny, Plectonath, Greater Work & WTFU!)
Osho Rajineesh: And Escape to Reality
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The first question:
Question 1
OSHO,
DO YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOR SANNYASINS AND FRIENDS GATHERING AT THE CAFE ROYAL, LONDON, FOR THE ”MARCH EVENT”?
ANAND POONAM,
SANNYAS IS A REBELLION against both the past and the future. Man has either lived in the past or in the future, but never in the present. And the present is the only reality there is; nothing else exists. Existence knows only one time – that is now – and one space – that is here. But mind either lives in the past which is no more or in the future which is not yet. Mind exists in the non-existential, hence mind never comes across the reality; it cannot come by its very functioning.
Sannyas is a rebellion against mind itself. It is a way of life in which mind is not the master, no-mind is the master and mind functions only as a servant. Mind actually is a mechanism; it is good as a beautiful device of nature, but the moment the servant becomes the master there is danger, great danger. Then your life is bound to be a mess, a chaos. The servant is blind, unintelligent, unaware. To live according to the mind is not to live at all; it is sheer stupidity. Mind is never original, never intelligent; it is always repetitive, it is always borrowed, it is always mechanical – hence stupid, hence unintelligent.
My fundamental approach is that of life-acceptance, total life-affirmation. There is no God other than life! The very idea of God other than life is dangerous, because if God is other than life then naturally you will start choosing God against life. You will be pro-God and anti-life, because life is momentary and God gives you the greed of being eternal, forever.
I say to you, there is no other God than life, hence the question of choice does not arise at all. Live! Live totally, live passionately, live intelligently, live lovingly. Become a flame so intense, so total, that each moment starts having the flavor of eternity.
Remember, eternity is not horizontal. It is not like a line going from A to B, from B to c, from c to D – it is not horizontal. Eternity is intensity, it is vertical. It is diving from A to a deeper A, not going to B: from A to Al, from A1 to A2, from A2 to A3... In fact as far as intensity is concerned, A is the only alphabet. In fact, the word ”alphabet” comes from A; it comes from Arabic ALEPH. A is enough! And when you can get A, why bother about B?
Read More'Reality can only be encountered spontaneously. A ready person will miss; this is the contradiction. A person who has not planned anything, who acts spontaneously, reaches the heart of reality.' Osho
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BELOVED MASTER,
HYAKUJO CALLED HIS MONKS TOGETHER AS HE WISHED TO SEND ONE OF THEM TO OPEN A NEW MONASTERY. PLACING A FILLED WATER JAR ON THE GROUND, HE SAID, "WHO CAN SAY WHAT THIS IS WITHOUT USING ITS NAME?"
THE CHIEF MONK, WHO EXPECTED TO GET THE POSITION, SAID, "NO ONE CAN CALL IT A WOODEN SHOE." ANOTHER MONK SAID, "IT'S NOT A POND BECAUSE IT CAN BE CARRIED." THE COOKING MONK, WHO WAS STANDING NEARBY, WALKED OUT, KICKED THE JAR OVER, AND THEN WALKED AWAY.
HYAKUJO SMILED AND SAID, "THE COOKING MONK BECOMES THE MASTER OF THE NEW MONASTERY."
Reality cannot be known through thinking, it can be known through action. Thinking is just a dreamlike phenomenon, but the moment you act you have become part of the reality. Reality is activity, action; thinking is fragmentary. When you act you are total; whatever the action your whole being is involved in it. Thinking goes on in only a part of the mind, your whole being is not involved; without you thinking can continue as an automatic process.
This has to be understood deeply. This is one of the most basic things for those who are in search of truth and not in search of anything else. Religion and philosophy are distinct in this sense: religion is action, philosophy is thinking.
Read More"On Calm Quietude" - Osho Rajineesh
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Osho Rajineesh
Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 2. Talks on Fragments from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching
29 June 1975 am in Buddha Hall
ON CALM QUIETUDE:
THE HIGHEST PERFECTION IS LIKE IMPERFECTION,
AND ITS USE IS NEVER IMPAIRED.
THE GREATEST ABUNDANCE SEEMS MEAGRE,
AND ITS USE WILL NEVER FAIL.
WHAT IS MOST STRAIGHT APPEARS DEVIOUS,
THE GREATEST SKILL APPEARS LIKE CLUMSINESS,
THE GREATEST ELOQUENCE APPEARS LIKE STUTTERING. MOVEMENT OVERCOMES COLD,
(BUT) KEEPING STILL OVERCOMES HEAT
WHO IS CALM AND QUIET BECOMES THE GUIDE FOR THE UNIVERSE.
It's easier for a frog to jump out of his well than for you to come out of your Conditioning. Unlike the frog, You live in an invisible well that surrounds you; whatsoever you see, you see through it
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THE AUTUMN FLOODS HAD COME. THOUSANDS OF WILD TORRENTS POURED FURIOUSLY INTO THE YELLOW RIVER. IT SURGED AND FLOODED ITS BANKS UNTIL, LOOKING ACROSS, YOU COULD NOT TELL AN OX FROM A HORSE ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THEN THE RIVER GOD LAUGHED, DELIGHTED TO THINK THAT ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD HAD FALLEN INTO HIS KEEPING.
SO DOWNSTREAM HE SWUNG, UNTIL HE CAME TO THE OCEAN. THERE HE LOOKED OUT OVER THE WAVES TOWARD THE EMPTY HORIZON IN THE EAST, AND HIS FACE FELL.
GAZING OUT AT THE FAR HORIZON HE CAME TO HIS SENSES AND MURMURED TO THE OCEAN GOD. WELL, THE PROVERB IS RIGHT. HE WHO HAS GOT HIMSELF A HUNDRED IDEAS THINKS HE KNOWS MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE. SUCH A ONE AM I. ONLY NOW DO I SEE WHAT THEY MEAN BY EXPANSE!
THE OCEAN GOD REPLIED: CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SEA TO A FROG IN A WELL? CAN YOU TALK ABOUT ICE TO DRAGONFLIES? CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE WAY OF LIFE TO A DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY?
Read MoreThe People are Sleeping - Osho Rajineesh
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PHOTO IS THE PROPERTY OF THE UNDECEIVER VINCENT BROWN
HASAN ASKED AJAMI, ’HOW DID YOU REACH YOUR PRESENT HEIGHTS OF SPIRITUAL ATTAINMENT?’
AJAMI SAID, ’THROUGH MAKING THE HEART WHITE IN MEDITATION, NOT BY MAKING PAPER BLACK WITH WRITING.’
LITTLE boy was playing with his blocks when his father entered the room.
’Quiet, Dad, I am building a church.’
The father, thinking that he would test his son along the lines of religious knowledge said, ’Why do we want to be quiet in church?’
’We have to, because the people are sleeping.’
The basic strategy to destroy you is to create a mind, impose a mind on you to manipulate, enslave you, make you obedient, keep you as unintelligent as possible b/c an intelligent person is dangerous
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Osho Rajineesh
The Goose is Out. Responses to Disciples Questions
Talks given from 01/03/81 am to 10/03/81 am
Chapter 1
'The 1st essential is to understand that You're Asleep. If you think you're not asleep then you will never be awake. The greatest trick of the mind is to give you the idea of that which you are not'
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HASAN ASKED AJAMI, ’HOW DID YOU REACH YOUR PRESENT HEIGHTS OF SPIRITUAL ATTAINMENT?’
AJAMI SAID, ’THROUGH MAKING THE HEART WHITE IN MEDITATION, NOT BY MAKING PAPER BLACK WITH WRITING.’
LITTLE boy was playing with his blocks when his father entered the room. ’Quiet, Dad, I am building a church.’
The father, thinking that he would test his son along the lines of religious knowledge said, ’Why do we want to be quiet in church?’
’We have to, because the people are sleeping.’
Man is asleep. This sleep is not the ordinary sleep, it is a metaphysical sleep. Even while you think you are awake, you remain asleep. With open eyes, walking on the road, working in your office, you remain asleep. It is not only in the church that you are asleep, you are asleep everywhere. You are simply asleep.
This metaphysical sleep has to be broken, this metaphysical sleep has to be completely dropped. One has to become a flame of awareness. Only then does life start being meaningful, only then does life gain a significance, only then is life not the so-called day-to-day, ordinary, dull routine – life has poetry in it and a thousand and one lotuses flower in the heart. Then there is God.
God is not a theory, it is not an argument. It is an experience of significance in life. And the significance can only be felt when you are not asleep. How can you feel the significance of life in sleep? Life is significant, immensely significant. Each moment of it is precious. But you are asleep. Only awakened eyes can see this significance, live this significance.
Just the other day there was a question. Somebody asked: OSHO, YOU GO ON TELLING US TO CELEBRATE LIFE. WHAT IS THERE TO celebrate? I can understand. His question is relevant. There seems to be nothing to celebrate. What is there to celebrate? His question is your question, is everybody’s question.
But reality is just the contrary. There is everything to celebrate. Each moment is so immense, is so fantastic, each moment brings such an ecstasy.... But you are asleep. The ecstasy comes, hovers around you and goes. The breeze comes, dances around you and goes. And you remain asleep. The flowers bloom and the fragrance comes to you, but you are asleep. God goes on singing in a thousand and one ways, God dances around you; but you are asleep.
You ask me: WHAT IS THERE TO CELEBRATE? What isn’t there to celebrate? Everything that one can imagine is there. Everything that one can desire is there. And it is more than you can imagine. It is in abundance. Life is a luxury!
Just think of a blind man. He has never seen a rose flower bloom. What has he missed? Do you know? Can’t you feel any compassion for him? That he has missed something, something divine? He has not seen a rainbow. He has not seen the sunrise or the sunset. He has not seen the green foliage of the trees. He has not seen colour. How dull his consciousness is! And you have eyes and you say: WHAT IS THERE TO CELEBRATE? The rainbow is there, the sunset is there, the green trees are there, such a colourful existence.
And yet I understand. Your question is relevant. I understand that this question has some meaning. The rainbow is there, the sunset is there, the ocean, the clouds, all are there – but you are asleep. You have never looked at the rose flower. You have passed by, you have seen the rose flower – I am not saying you have not seen it, you have eyes so you see – but you have not looked at it, you have not meditated upon it, you have not given a single moment of your meditation to it, you have never been in tune with it, you have never been by the side of it, sitting close by, in communion, you have never said ’hello’ to it, you have never participated with it. Life passes by, you are just there, not participating. You are not en rapport with life, that’s why your question is meaningful. You have eyes and yet you don’t see, you have ears yet you don’t hear, you have a heart yet you don’t love – you are fast asleep.
This has to be understood, that’s why I go on repeating it again and again. If you understand that you are asleep, the first ray of awakening has entered you. If you can feel that you are asleep then you are no more, then you are just on the verge of where the day breaks – the morning, the dawn.
Read More'Whosoever tries to distract you from your being is your enemy. Whoever helps you to remain yourself – determinedly, whatsoever the cost, whatever the consequence - is your friend' - Osho
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BELOVED OSHO,
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MOSES’ TEN COMMANDMENTS? DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMANDMENTS FOR US?
Moses is one of the most charismatic leaders that the world has known, but he is not a religious man. He is a lawgiver. But to be a law giver is one thing, and to be religious is totally different. He decides what is right, what is wrong for his people. But right and wrong are not eternal things. Something is right this moment, and the next moment it is not right. Something is right in one context, in another context it becomes just its opposite. Laws are dead. Once you have decided them, then they are fixed. They don’t change with the context, with the situation, with the time. They cannot change, they are not living beings.
Moses guided his people out of slavery, gave them great hope for the future, inspired them, but he could not make them religious. Because he could not make them religious, he had to substitute religion with laws. Laws are a poor substitute for consciousness. But when consciousness is missing, there is nothing else to do except to give laws, and follow the laws.
Why could Moses not make his people religious? He himself was not a religious person. His encounter with God is nothing but an hallucination. God exists not, so those who have encountered God have encountered their own imagination. Wandering in the hot, burning, fiery desert for years; hungry, thirsty, his people dying, their hope dying – there seems to be no end to this search for the promised land.
He goes to the mountains to think, to contemplate, to pray to God. He must have been in a hopeless situation. Now the people were asking – and there was no answer – they were asking, ”Where is the promised land? It seems you don’t have any idea where it is. You uprooted us. Of course we were slaves, but at least we were surviving. Now we are dying.”
People choose slavery for the simple reason that if the alternative is death, then it is better to be a slave. At least you are alive and there is a possibility someday you may get out of the slavery. But when you are dead, the possibility disappears. So it is not wrong to choose slavery when it is an alternative to death.
Moses brought these people out of slavery, giving them all kinds of dreams, and slowly those dreams started turning into desert dust. Days went by, months went by, years went by, and people were dying as they had never seen people dying. Forty years he was wandering in the desert of the Middle East. In forty years, out of every four people, three had died. Three quarters of the original people were no longer there; and those who remained, you could not call them alive either. These forty years had been such a suffering that it would have been a lot better if they had died. They were skeletons.
Naturally, Moses was in a tremendous anguish, a great turmoil. He had not thought that this was going to happen. He was not deceiving his people; he was very sincere, his intention was good. There was no way to get these people out of Egyptian slavery unless they were given a great hope that pulled them out of slavery.
Read MoreWatch anger in all its phases, be alert to it so it doesn't catch you unaware; remain watchful, seeing every step of the anger. As awareness about the ways of anger grows, it starts evaporating - Osho
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You will have to understand one of the most fundamental things about meditation -- that no technique leads to meditation.
The old so-called techniques and the new scientific biofeedback techniques are the same as far as meditation is concerned.
Meditation is not a byproduct of any technique.
Meditation happens beyond mind. No technique can go beyond mind.
But there is going to be a great misunderstanding in scientific circles, and it has a certain basis. The basis of all misunderstanding is: When the being of a person is in a state of meditation, it creates certain waves in the mind. These waves can be created from the outside by technical means. But those waves will not create meditation -- this is the misunderstanding.
Meditation creates those waves; it is the mind reflecting the inner world.
You cannot see what is happening inside. But you can see what is happening in the mind. Now there are sensitive instruments... we can judge what kind of waves are there when a person is asleep, what kinds of waves are there when a person is dreaming, what kinds of waves are there when a person is in meditation.
But by creating the waves, you cannot create the situation -- because those waves are only symptoms, indicators.
It is perfectly good, you can study them. But remember that there is no shortcut to meditation, and no mechanical device can be of any help. In fact, meditation needs no technique -- scientific or otherwise.
Meditation is simply an understanding.
It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.
Mind is only a mechanism, but when that awareness arises it is bound to create a certain energy pattern around it. That energy pattern is noted by the mind. Mind is a very subtle mechanism.
And you are studying from the outside, so at the most you can study the mind. Seeing that whenever a person is silent, serene, peaceful, a certain wave pattern always, inevitably appears in the mind, the scientific thinking will say: if we can create this wave pattern in the mind, through some biofeedback technology, then the being inside will reach the heights of awareness.
This is not going to happen.
It is not a question of cause and effect.
Read MoreDid Jesus Really Call Back Lazarus from Death? - Osho Rajineesh
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OSHO,
DID JESUS REALLY CALL BACK LAZARUS FROM DEATH?
The function of the master is precisely that: to call the disciples to the real life – ordinarily they are dead. Ordinarily you only appear to be alive; don’t be deceived by the appearance. You function like a robot, efficiently, but it is not life. You have not tasted life yet. Life has the taste of eternity, not of time. Time is death.
In Sanskrit we have one word for both, for time and death – kal. It is very significant. It must have been because of the mystics’ experience. time is death. To live in time is not to live at all; to go beyond time is the beginning of life.
That is the meaning of the parable; it is a metaphor. Lazarus represents all the disciples, Jesus represents all the Masters. and what transpired between Jesus and Lazarus transpires again and again between every Master and every disciple. The disciple lives in his grave; the Master calls him forth, wakes him up.
But the Christians have tried to prove the parable to be something historical; that’s where they are wrong. One should not stretch metaphors too far, otherwise they lose all meaning. Not only that they lose meaning, they lose beauty, poetry. They become ugly, they become nonsense, they become silly. And then people start laughing at them, and only the very gullible people, very stupid people can believe in them.
Never take metaphors as factual. They have nothing to do with history, but they have something to do with the inner world of man. The problem with the inner world is: it cannot be expressed without using metaphors. The poetry has to be used to express it; even then it is only expressed partially, it is never expressed totally. One needs a very sympathetic ear and a very sympathetic heart to understand these beautiful parables. You need not be a believer.
Believers create trouble: they stretch the metaphor too far and then they themselves give reasons for the non-believers to criticize. They themselves become the victims and then they cannot defend themselves rationally. If this is understood, then there is no problem at all; if this is not understood, then either you believe and you are stupid or you disbelieve, then too you are stupid. In both the ways you miss the significance, you miss the finger pointing to the moon. You start arguing about the finger, as if the finger is the moon. Few people start trying to prove this is the moon, and naturally they provoke antagonism; and there are people who start proving this is not the moon. And remember, the people who try this is not the moon are bound to be more rational, more appealing to the mind.
That’s why theists have been fighting a losing battle and atheists have being growing every day. Now almost half the earth belongs to the atheists; all the communist countries are atheists. Religion has become something of the past; it has no significance at all for half the world, and the remaining half is not religious either. Even people who are Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans, Jains, Buddhists are only formally so – because they are born in a certain religion, brought up in a certain ideology, and they are not courageous enough to get out of the fold. It needs guts – it is dangerous to go against the crowd. They compromise; deep down they know that it is all nonsense. Even the Christians know that this is nonsense. The story of Jesus’ virgin birth is sheer nonsense! The story of Lazarus coming back to life is not a fact.
”Lazarus, Lazarus, wake up!” – silence.
”Lazarus, Lazarus, wake up!” – no answer.
”Lazarus, Lazarus, wake up!!”
There is a groan and then a voice from tomb:
”Christ! You know that unless you bring the fucking coffee I am not going to get up!”
This seems to be far more factual, rather than the stupid story Christians go on telling and elaborating and discussing.
But I love the parable as a parable. As a parable it has significance, tremendous significance. That’s what is happening here! You come to me as dead; life in you is only in a seed form. It has to be called forth, provoked.
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rhetoritician: one whose capacity to express prevents them from ever truly experiencing or desiring to do so. 2) one drunk on the wine of one’s own words devoid of experience or insperience -Dr Blynd
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rhetoritician – one whose capacity to express prevents him or her from ever truly experiencing or desiring to do so clearly and directly. 2) one drunk on the wine of one’s own words devoid of experience or insperience. 3) one who has not discovered the reality covered by truth, but capable of expressing (their distortions of it) anyway. 4) one who is hypnotized or mesmerized by his/her own words—suffering from rigor-rhetoric. (See: True Believer, Witchcraft, BK BURGER & Material Realist)
robot-valet: our subconscious auto-pilot inner-doer. We are slaves to our robot-valet who does things for us while we are not present in the moment.“ FUNKTIONARY
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robot-valet – our subconscious auto-pilot inner-doer. We are slaves to our robot-valet who does things for us while we are not present in the moment. “Escape from our robothood happens when we learn to take control of our nervous system and to reprogram our individual realities.” ~Timothy Leary. (See: MIA, Self-Remembering, Self-Awakening, Rolebot, The Moment, Present, Asleep, Triune Slavery, Subconscious & Breaktrance)
The Only Sin is Unawareness. Sin Doesn't mean to do something wrong; It means to be Absent, Doing Something Without Being Present. The Only Virtue is Doing Something While You're Fully Alert- OSHO
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MEN ARE AS FORGETFUL AND HEEDLESS IN THEIR WAKING MOMENTS
OF WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND THEM AS THEY ARE DURING THEIR SLEEP.
FOOLS, ALTHOUGH THEY HEAR,
ARE LIKE THE DEAF;
TO THEM THE ADAGE APPLIES
THAT WHENEVER THEY ARE PRESENT THEY ARE ABSENT.
ONE SHOULD NOT ACT OR SPEAK AS IF HE WERE ASLEEP.
THE WAKING HAVE ONE WORLD IN COMMON; SLEEPERS HAVE EACH A PRIVATE WORLD OF HIS OWN.
WHATEVER WE SEE WHEN AWAKE IS DEATH, WHEN ASLEEP, DREAMS.
Read MorePeople are watching only others; they never bother to watch themselves. Superficial. Watching has to be arrowed towards your own inner feelings, thoughts, moods, and finally the watcher itself - OSHO
/From [Sat Sangha Salon] How can I tell the difference between one part of the mind observing another part of the mind, and the watcher? Can the watcher watch itself? One time I thought I had got it and then the same day I heard you say in a discourse, “If you think you’ve got the watcher, you’ve missed.” Since then, I try watching feelings in the body, thoughts, and emotions. Mostly, I’m just caught in them. But, once in a while, rarely, I feel tremendously relaxed and nothing stays – It just keeps moving is there anything to do?
Deva Waduda, one has to start watching the body – walking, sitting, going to bed, eating. One should start from the most solid, because it is easier, and then one should move to subtler experiences. One should start watching thoughts, and when one becomes an expert in watching thoughts, then one should start watching feelings. After you feel that you can watch your feelings, then you should start watching your moods, which are even more subtle than your feelings, and more vague.
The miracle of watching is that as you are watching the body, your watcher is becoming stronger; as you are watching the thoughts, your watcher is becoming stronger; as you are watching the feelings, the watcher is becoming even more strong. When you are watching your moods the watcher is so strong that it can remain itself – watching itself – just as a candle in the dark night not only lights everything around it, it also lights itself.
To find the watcher in its purity is the greatest achievement in spirituality, because the watcher in you is your very soul; the watcher in you is your immortality. But never for a single moment think, “I have got it,” because that is the moment when you miss. Watching is an eternal process; you always go on becoming deeper and deeper, but you never come to the end where you can say “I have got it.” In fact, the deeper you go, the more you become aware that you have entered into a process which is eternal – without any beginning and without any end.
But people are watching only others; they never bother to watch themselves. Everybody is watching – that is the most superficial watching – what the other person is doing, what the other person is wearing, how he looks . . . Everybody is watching; watching is not something new to be introduced in your life. It has only to be deepened, taken away from others, and arrowed towards your own inner feelings, thoughts, moods – and finally, the watcher itself.
A Jew is sitting in a train opposite a priest. “Tell me, your worship,” the Jew asks, “why do you wear your collar back to front?”
“Because I am a father,” answers the priest.
“I am also a father, and I don’t wear my collar like that,” says the Jew. “Oh,” says the priest, “but I am a father to thousands.”
“Then maybe,” replies the Jew, “it is your trousers you should wear back to front.”
People are very watchful about everybody else.
Two Polacks went out for a walk; suddenly it began to rain. “Quick,” said one man, “open your umbrella.”
“It won’t help,” said his friend, “my umbrella is full of holes.”
“Then why did you bring it in the first place?”
“I did not think it would rain.”
You can laugh very easily about the ridiculous acts of other people, but have you ever laughed about yourself? Have you ever caught yourself doing something ridiculous? No, you keep yourself completely unwatched; your whole watching is about others, and that is not of any help.
Use this energy of watchfulness for a transformation of your being. It can bring you so much bliss and so much benediction that you cannot even dream about it. A simple process, but once you start using it on yourself it becomes a meditation. One can make meditations out of anything.
Anything that leads you to yourself is meditation. And it is immensely significant to find your own meditation, because in the very finding you will find great joy. And because it is your own finding – not some ritual imposed upon you – you will love to go deeper into it. The deeper you go into it, the happier you will feel – peaceful, more silent, more together, more dignified, more graceful.
You all know watching, so there is no question of learning it. It is just a question of changing the object of watching. Bring them closer.
Watch your body, and you will be surprised. I can move my hand without watching, and I can move my hand with watching. You will not see the difference, but I can feel the difference. When I move it with watchfulness, there is a grace and beauty in it, a peacefulness, and a silence. You can walk, watching each step; it will give you all the benefit that walking can give you as an exercise, plus it will give you the benefit of a great simple meditation.
The temple in Bodhgaya where Gautam Buddha became enlightened has been made in memory of two things . . . one is a Bodhi tree under which he used to sit. Just by the side of the tree there are small stones for a slow walk. He was meditating, sitting, and when he would feel that sitting had been too much – a little exercise was needed for the body – he would walk on those stones. That was his walking meditation.
When I was in Bodhgaya, having a meditation camp there, I went to the temple. I saw Buddhist lamas from Tibet, from Japan, from China. They were all paying their respect to the tree, and I saw not a single one paying his respect to those stones on which Buddha had walked miles and miles. I told them, “This is not right. You should not forget those stones. They have been touched by Gautam Buddha’s feet millions of times. But I know why you are not paying any attention to them, because you have forgotten completely that Buddha was emphasizing that you should watch every act of your body: walking, sitting, lying down.”
You should not let a single moment go by unconsciously. Watchfulness will sharpen your consciousness. This is the essential religion – all else is simply talk. But Waduda, you ask me, “Is there something more?” No, if you can do only watchfulness, nothing else is needed.
My effort here is to make religion as simple as possible. All the religions have done just the opposite: they have made things very complex – so complex that people have never tried them. For example, in the Buddhist scriptures there are thirty-three thousand principles to be followed by a Buddhist monk; even to remember them is impossible. Just the very number thirty-three thousand is enough to freak you out: “I am finished! My whole life will be disturbed and destroyed.”
I teach you: just find a single principle that suits you, that feels in tune with you, and that is enough.
-Osho
From The Golden Future, Discourse #18, Q3
'You can change words or behavior, but deep down you remain the same. The real thing is how to change your being, not your behavior, not your words, not your clothes, how to change your being.' OSHO
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YOU CANNOT PUT A BIG LOAD IN A SMALL BAG, NOR CAN YOU, WITH A SHORT ROPE, DRAW WATER FROM A DEEP WELL.
HAVE YOU NOT HEARD HOW A BIRD FROM THE SEA WAS BLOWN INSHORE AND LANDED OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL OF LU?
THE PRINCE ORDERED A SOLEMN RECEPTION, OFFERED THE SEA BIRD WINE IN THE SACRED PRECINCT, CALLED FOR MUSICIANS TO PLAY THE COMPOSITIONS OF SHUN, SLAUGHTERED CATTLE TO NOURISH IT. DAZED WITH SYMPHONIES, THE UNHAPPY SEA BIRD DIED OF DESPAIR.
HOW SHOULD YOU TREAT A BIRD? AS YOURSELF, OR AS A BIRD? OUGHT NOT A BIRD TO NEST IN DEEP WOODLAND OR FLY OVER MEADOW AND MARSH? OUGHT IT NOT TO SWIM ON RIVER AND POND, FEED ON EELS AND FISH, FLY IN FORMATION WITH OTHER WATERFOWL, AND REST IN, THE REEDS?
BAD ENOUGH FOR A SEA BIRD TO BE SURROUNDED BY MEN AND FRIGHTENED BY THEIR VOICES! THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH! THEY KILLED IT WITH MUSIC!
WATER IS FOR FISH, AND AIR FOR MEN. NATURES DIFFER, AND NEEDS WITH THEM.
HENCE THE WISE MEN OF OLD DID NOT LAY DOWN ONE MEASURE FOR ALL.
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