08.09.2009
Completed reading “Life's Mysteries” – An introduction to the teachings of Osho forwarded by Khushwant Singh.
Very impressive book. Very much informative.
A few notes from the above book as attached:
Osho
Never Born – Never Died
Only visited this planet Earth between December 11,1931 – January 19,1991
A few basic truths have to be recognized. One is that nobody is born for another.The second is that nobody is here to fulfil your ideals of how he should be. The third is that you are master of your own love and you can give as much as you want- but you cannot demand love from the other person,because nobody is a slave.
Love is greed he affirmed tracing its origin to Sanskrit word lobha – greed.
Osho has his own therapy to overcome tension:
And you will be surprised that if you approach any part of your body,it listens,it follows you – it is your body! With closed eyes, go inside your body from the toe to the headsearching for any place where there is a tension.And then talk to that part as you talk to your friend.Let it be a dialogue between you and your body.Tell it to relax, and tell it tthere is nothing to fear.Don’t be afraid.I am here to take care and you can relax.Slowly slowly you will learn the knack of it and then the body becomes relaxed.
What is important and unimportant?
That which can be taken by death is unimportant and that which cannot be taken by death is important. Except meditation,nothing is important
You will be taking with you only whatsoever awareness you have attained; that is your only real wealth
To me death is not the end of life but the very crescendo of life,the very climax.It is the ultimate of life.If you have lived rightly,if you have lived moment to moment totally,if you have squeezed out the whole juice of life,your death will be the ultimate orgasm – Osho
Life has no aim other than itself because life is another name of God.
Except man,the whole existence trusts only in life.There is no other God and there is no other temple.There is no holy scripture
Our whole upbringing is such that it goes against pleasure,against joy,against the sense of humour,against rejoicing in small things of life – singing a song or dancing or playing flute.Nobody is going to call you a saint because you play the flute beautifully except me – Osho..
Receptivity is a state of no-mind
The less you think, the more you are!
In reality, nothing ever repeats
Love is both. It is rich and painful.It is agony & ecstacy because love is the meeting of earth and the sky,of the known and the unknown,of the visible and invisible
Religion has given many things to the world;homosexuality is one of them.All kind of perversions…
It is a fundemental law of life that love brings you to deeper and deeper dissatisfactions.
Love and love more deeply, Suffer and suffer more deeply. Love totally and suffer totally because this is how the impure gold passes through fire and becomes pure gold.
Be like two pillars that support the same roof,but don’t start possessing the other,leave the other independent. Support the same roof – that roof is love – Kahlil Gibran says
Our emphasis will be on verbs,not nouns; avoid nouns as much as possible. In language you cannot avoid,but in life avoid because life is a verb. It is not love,loving. It is not relationship,it is relating,it is not a song,it is singing,it is not a dance,it is dancing
Life knows no fulpoints; commas are okay,but not full points. Resting places are okay,but no destination.
Meditate- Without it,nothing is possible
With it,nothing is impossible
Laughter is part of the highest consciousness achieved by man
& Seriousness is a disease
Although it is just foam,without that foam those waves will look naked
The whiteness of the foam gives a beauty, a life, a certain dance to the wave.
Each effort will become better and better and better ,more and more perfect,but never perfect.
Silence is beautiful – but silence does not mean seriousness.
God never created ordinary persons
Life is significant and there is no purpose in it. It is purposeless significance, like a song or a dance
There is no need to postpone celebration. Immediately,right at this moment you can celebrate
You are,you are not to become..
To me,when a child is happy,jumping,the whole family should be happy and jumping with the child.And when the child is ill,care should be taken of the child but no sympathy should be shown.Care is okay; sympathy, no.
The child should be the first,the priority should be his!
Learn to laugh with the flowers and the stars and you will feel a strange weightlessness coming into your being..as if you have grown wings and you can fly.
The calculative mind is a desert like phenomenon and the non calculative mind is a garden.Birds sing there and flowers bloom…it is a totally different world.
The house is full of guests and the host is missing.You have all the things of the world but you are not.A tremendous misery is the outcome.You have all the pleasures,all the money,all that man has ever dremt of and in the end of centuries of effort,suddenly you find you don’t exist.Your inside is hollow,there is nobody.
It is starange. If everybody is serving everybody else.Why should I not serve myself,you serve yourself? Why create this complexity and make it a burden- that I should serve others and wait for them to serve me?
Duty is a four-letter dirty word.
Make it a point that your life has to be a life of love, and if out of love you respond,that I call responsibility. If you love,you are bound to respond;there is no burden. Duty is a burden.
Love can cancel gravity,love can cancel burden.Out of love any response is beautiful.Without love,responsibility is ugly and simply shows that you have a mind of a slave.
Youw ill have to listen your heart and go with it, whatever the cost-it is always cheap.Whatever you have to lose,lose; but if you have been listening to the heart,you will be the winner in the end,victory is yours.
Responsibility helps you to become more and more free. And only a person who knows the taste of freedom, who knows the beauty of responsibility, is worthy of calling himself a human being; otherwise you are camels and nothing more..
I don’t accept the idea of Mahatma Gandhi that Briton is responsible for India’s slavery. India itself is responsible for its slavery. Otherwise, just in a single hour,all the British people can be thrown into the ocean.India just has to understand that freedom is our birthright.
Everybody wants to be dependent; everybody wants somebody to take responsibility. In freedom, you are responsible for every act,every thought,every movement. You cannot dump anything on anybody else
The indications that you are on right path are very simple: your tensions will start disappearing,you will become more and more cool, you will become more and more calm,you will find beauty in things which you have never ever conceived could be beautiful.
You will feel life not as a problem but as a gift, as a blessing, as a benediction.
Sitting in a public bus or in a railway train,when you have nothing to do just close your eyes.It will save your eyes being tired from looking outside and it will give you time enough to watch yourself. Those moments will become moments of the most beautiful experience.
You don’t know how much you are holding in and that is the cause of tension.
Man can rise above gods and fall below animals.Man has a great spectrum. From lowest to highest,man is a ladder.
People have a certain tendency to be respectful about the dead.The longer they are dead,the more respectful they become. So, I am giving you a recipe; if you want to become respectable,be dead and everybody will be respectful to you…
The ego is a comparison.
Self-respect and pride are non-comparative.
In ego, you are always comparing. I am superior to others, I am better than you, I am higher than you, I am holier than you – I am a saint and you are a sinner..
Self-respect is respect without comparison. Pride is dignity.
I am against ego, but not against pride, not against self-respect. Those are the most important human qualities.
Ego is the root cause of all fear in you. A man who is ego less is also fearless.
Death comes and destroys the whole fiction of your name, your fame. The death comes simply and effaces all;not even footprints are left. Whatsoever we go on making out of our life is nothing but writing on water – not even on sand, but on water. You have not even written it and it is gone.You cannot even read it; before you could read it, it is gone.
Never ask “who is my real friend?’ Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question.Always be concerned with yourself
The proverb is “A friend in need is a friend indeed”. But deep down,that is greed.That is not friendship, that is not love.You want to use the other as a means and no man is a means,every man is an end unto himself.
Friendship is the highest form of love.In love, some lust is bound to be there,in friendship,all lust disappears.In friendship nothing gross remains;it becomes absolutely subtle.
A friend always feels grateful to those people who allow him to love them, to give them whatsoever he has got.
There is not much difference between truth and a lie.the only difference is that truth is a lie repeated so often that you have forgotten that it is a lie – Hitler
Have you ever said hello to a tree? Try it and one day you will be surprised;the tree also say hello to you in her tongue.
So on and so forth…………….
Osho goes on!!!
Fantastic book to read.
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