osho post 9

POWER OVER OTHERS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- always destructive. In a better world anybody who is ambitious, who wants to be more important than others, ahead of others, should be treated psychologically. 

ONLY HUMBLENESS, simplicity, naturalness -- no comparison with anybody... because everybody is unique, comparison is impossible.

HOW CAN YOU COMPARE a roseflower with a marigold? How can you say who is superior and who is inferior? Both have their beauty, and both have blossomed, danced in the sun, in the wind, in the rain... lived their life totally....

NOBODY IS SUPERIOR, NOBODY IS INFERIOR, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.

It is perfectly good to be powerful as a mystic. It is ugly, disgusting, stinking to have even a slight desire for having power over others.

—OSHO—

From Bondage to Freedom

Ch #20: The power of the mystic

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Running away is never the answer. Changing yourself is the answer.

Take a look at your own life and see if it is not true what I'm saying. The changes you've gone through in your life. I know so many people who have left their home and family and gone to India to meditate, to find gurus, teachers. They have come back very depressed, even suicidal. For they've given up everything. Remember, there's nothing you have to give up. Only mentally do you give up attachment.

Always look at the world as a reflection of you. You are the world. The world can be nothing without your approval. It sounds strange, but true. You have to stop identifying conditions apart from yourself. I know it seems hard to do. When you see the riots we've just had, the murders, the looting, it seems really difficult to realize you are one with this. But think about this. Why should you only think you are one with the good things? If you are One, you are One with everything. Never just the good things that you enjoy and you like and bring into your life. 

You are All-Pervading, Omnipresent, and you are One with all there is.

The correct way to observe this is to look at everything in the world intelligently without any comments, without any reactions. Do not be for or against anything. Train yourself to observe, to watch, to look without any reaction. You may start training yourself with the small things. Work on the small things first. As an example, if you go outside and you have a ticket on your car for over-parking, catch yourself reacting to this by not reacting at all. Simply see the situation look at the situation, have no comment, no reaction. Pay the ticket and forget it. Do not think this is good, this is bad, this is outrageous, this is wrong, I don't deserve it. If you didn't deserve it, it wouldn't happen. 

Say you stub your toe. Instead of cursing the chair, getting upset, feel the pain, observe it, watch it, and let it go. Everything that takes place in your life, this is the way you should react. Someone cheats you, and you're thinking of taking them to court to sue them. Think about this carefully. 

Is this what I really want to do? And then your ego will say, of course you do, you were cheated. 

Your business partner cheated you out of $50,000. So you want to take this person to court to sue them. Say you did go to court and you won the case. You think this is good. But something will happen to even it out again. You'll have to go to court again and again and again. 

Sometimes you will win, sometimes you will lose. There are people like that you know. 

I'm thinking of a particular woman right now who makes a habit of going to court at least once a month. She is always suing somebody for something. Sometimes she wins and sometimes she loses, and she's a nervous wreck. She's not a happy woman.

If you begin to understand that everything is in its right place, how can somebody do something to you? No one can hurt you. What is rightfully yours, no one can ever take away. So why worry? Why be upset? It makes life so much easier. You start to worry and you become upset because in your finite mind, in your ego mind, you're thinking, "Well I've been cheated out of $50,000, this is all the money I have. I'm going to go to the poorhouse, I'll become a homeless person," and your mind keeps playing tricks with you. Telling you all the bad things that are going to happen to you. If you can only laugh at yourself and stop thinking of those things, you will find that you have risen higher in consciousness, and you're in control of the situation, and all is well. 

Never allow your mind to play tricks on you, to play games with you, and tell you about all the things that might happen. And then fear comes in and you start running 

around, crying, trying to correct things, trying to make things good, while you keep thinking about all the bad things that are going to happen to you. These things we are talking about are very important, for it keeps you back from thinking of truth and reality. It keeps you back from moksha, from liberation, for you are spending all your time involved in the material world. I'm not saying you should give up thinking about your business, or thinking about your family, or thinking about things in your life. But make them short and sweet. Think a couple of minutes about these things, and 

leave them alone.

- Robert Adams. 

T. 155 @ This Is Your Dharma - May 21, 1992

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Osho

You are asking, "What is beyond enlightenment?" 

And even if something is there -

- "What to do after the goal of living is reached?"

You have never thought about 

what you have done 

as far as your birth is concerned -

- have you done anything? 

What are you doing as far as your life is concerned? 

Do you think you are breathing?

 If it was up to you to breathe, 

you would have been dead long before; just in anger, 

or in some love affair,

 you would forget to breathe. 

Or in the night,

 will you sleep or not?

 Or

 keep yourself awake

 just to continue breathing,

 because 

if you fall asleep and breathing stops,

 in the morning who is going to get up? 

No, breathing you are not doing.

Existence is breathing.

Book : The Invitation #:5

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Osho

You are asking, "What is beyond enlightenment?" 

And even if something is there -

- "What to do after the goal of living is reached?"

You have never thought about 

what you have done 

as far as your birth is concerned -

- have you done anything? 

What are you doing as far as your life is concerned? 

Do you think you are breathing?

 If it was up to you to breathe, 

you would have been dead long before; just in anger, 

or in some love affair,

 you would forget to breathe. 

Or in the night,

 will you sleep or not?

 Or

 keep yourself awake

 just to continue breathing,

 because 

if you fall asleep and breathing stops,

 in the morning who is going to get up? 

No, breathing you are not doing.

Existence is breathing.

Book : The Invitation #:5

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Some persons worship God for the sake of obtaining wealth, others because they want to have a son, and they think themselves Bhâgavatas (devotees). This is no Bhakti, and they are not true Bhagavatas. When a Sâdhu comes who professes that he can make gold, they run to him, and they still consider themselves Bhagavatas. It is not Bhakti if we worship God with the desire for a son; it is not Bhakti if we worship with the desire to be rich; it is not Bhakti even if we have a desire for heaven; it is not Bhakti if a man worships with the desire of being saved from the tortures of hell. Bhakti is not the outcome of fear or greediness. He is the true Bhagavata who says, "O God, I do not want a beautiful wife, I do not want knowledge or salvation. Let me be born and die hundreds of times. What I want is that I should be ever engaged in Thy service." It is at this stage — and when a man sees God in everything, and everything in God — that he attains perfect Bhakti. 

Swami Vivekananda

(The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Lectures from Colombo to Almora/Bhakti 1) 

कुछ व्यक्ति धन प्राप्त करने के लिए भगवान की पूजा करते हैं, अन्य इसलिए कि वे पुत्र प्राप्त करना चाहते हैं, और वे स्वयं को भागवत (भक्त) मानते हैं।  यह कोई भक्ति नहीं है, और वे सच्चे भागवत नहीं हैं।  जब कोई साधु आता है जो दावा करता है कि वह सोना बना सकता है, तो वे उसके पास दौड़ जाते हैं, और फिर भी वे स्वयं को भागवत मानते हैं।  यदि हम पुत्र की इच्छा से भगवान की पूजा करते हैं तो यह भक्ति नहीं है;  यदि हम अमीर बनने की इच्छा से पूजा करते हैं तो यह भक्ति नहीं है;  यदि हम स्वर्ग की इच्छा रखते हैं तो यह भी भक्ति नहीं है;  यदि कोई व्यक्ति नरक की यातनाओं से बचने की इच्छा से पूजा करता है तो यह भक्ति नहीं है।  भक्ति भय या लालच का परिणाम नहीं है।  वह सच्चा भागवत है जो कहता है, "हे भगवान, मुझे सुंदर पत्नी नहीं चाहिए, मुझे ज्ञान या मोक्ष नहीं चाहिए। मैं सैकड़ों बार जन्म लूं और सैकड़ों बार मरूं। मैं जो चाहता हूं वह यह है कि मैं सदैव तेरी सेवा में लगा रहूं।"  यह इस स्तर पर होता है - और जब कोई व्यक्ति हर चीज़ में भगवान को देखता है, और भगवान में सब कुछ देखता है - तो वह पूर्ण भक्ति प्राप्त कर लेता है। 

स्वामी विवेकानंद

(स्वामी विवेकानन्द के संपूर्ण कार्य/खंड 3/कोलंबो से अल्मोडा तक से व्याख्यान/भक्ति 1)

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"If the individual Self merges into the universal Self, how can one pray to God for the uplift of humaniy?"  The question seems to be common among the thinkers of the West.

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi said:

They pray to God and finish with "Thy Will be done!"  If His Will be done why do they pray at all? It is true that the Divine Will prevails at all times and under all circumstances. The individuals cannot act of their own accord. Recognise the force of the Divine Will and keep quiet. Each one is looked after by God. He has created all. You are one among 2000 millions. When He looks after so many will He omit you? Even common sense dictates that one should abide by His Will.

Again there is no need to let Him know your needs. He knows them Himself and will look after them.

Still more, why do you pray? Because you are helpless yourself and you want the Higher Power to help you. Well, does not your Creator and Protector know your weakness? Should you parade your weakness in order to make Him know it?

DEVOTEE: But God helps those who help themselves.

MAHARSHI: Certainly. Help yourself and that is itself according to God's Will. Every action is prompted by Him only. As for prayer for the sake of others, it looks so unselfish on the surface of it. But analyse the feeling and you will detect selfishness there also. You desire others' happiness so that you may be happy. Or you want the credit for having interceded on others' behalf. God does not require an intermediary. Mind your business and all will be well.

D : Does not God work His Will through some chosen person?

M : God is in all and works through all. But His presence is better recognised in purified minds. The pure ones reflect God's actions more clearly than the impure minds. Therefore people say that they are the chosen ones. But the 'chosen' man does not himself say so. If he thinks that he is the intermediary then it is clear that he retains his individuality and that there is no complete surrender.

- from Talk-594 🕉

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WHEN YOU ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL -- bodily, mentally, on no level -- when all activity has ceased and you simply are, just being, that's what MEDITATION is. You cannot do it, you cannot practice it; you have only to understand it.

And whenever you can find time for just being, DROP ALL DOING. Thinking is also doing, concentration is also doing, contemplation is also doing. Even if for a single moment you are not doing anything and you are just at your center, utterly relaxed -- that is meditation. AND ONCE YOU HAVE GOT THE KNACK OF IT, you can remain in that state as long as you want; finally you can remain in that state for twenty-four hours a day.

Once you have become aware of the way your being can remain undisturbed, then slowly you can start doing things, keeping alert that your being is not stirred. That is the second part of meditation. FIRST, LEARNING HOW JUST TO BE, AND THEN LEARNING LITTLE ACTIONS: cleaning the floor, taking a shower, but keeping yourself centered. Then you can do complicated things. For example, I am speaking to you, but my meditation is not disturbed. I can go on speaking, but at my very center there is not even a ripple; it is just silent, utterly silent.

SO MEDITATION IS NOT AGAINST ACTION. It is not that you have to escape from life. It simply teaches you a new way of life: YOU BECOME THE CENTER OF THE CYCLONE. Your life goes on, it goes on really more intensely -- with more joy, with more clarity, more vision, more creativity -- yet you are aloof, just a watcher on the hills, simply seeing all that is happening around you. You are not the doer, you are the watcher.

That's the whole secret of MEDITATION, THAT YOU BECOME THE WATCHER. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do all small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, YOUR CENTERING SHOULD NOT BE LOST. That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded, undisturbed. Meditation is a very simple phenomenon.

—Osho—

From Misery to Enlightenment

Ch #2: Meditation -- jumping board to your being

pm in Lao Tzu Grove

(via Bodhisattva Shree Amitabha Subhuti 🙏🏽💓🙏🏽🌹🙏🏽💓)

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Learn to be silent, peaceful, still. Learn to be a no-mind. That has to be the beginning for all Sannyasins. Nothing can be done before that and everything becomes easier after that. When you find yourself utterly happy and blissful, then even if the third world war happens and the whole world disappears leaving you alone, it won’t affect you. You will be still sitting under your tree doing vipassana.

The day that moment comes in your life you can share your joy — now you are able to give love. Before that it is going to be misery, hopes and frustrations, desires and failures, dreams… and then dust in your hand and in your mouth. Beware, don’t waste time. The earlier you become attuned to no-mind, the better it is. Then many things can flower in you: love, creativity, spontaneity, joy, prayer, gratitude, God." Osho

post 1

 BHAGAVAN:  Sri Krishna also says in the Gita, whether Arjuna liked it or not he would be forced to fight. When there is work to be done by you, you cannot keep away; nor can you continue to do a thing when you are not required to do it, that is to say, when the work allotted to you has been done. In short, the work will go on and you must take your share in it - the share which is allotted to you.

Questioner:  How is it to be done?

BHAGAVAN:  Like an actor playing his part in a drama - free from love or hatred.

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Osho Says:  "Every love-affair is on the rocks. Sooner or later, every love-affair becomes very poisoned. And how does it become so poisoned? Both pretend that they are loving, both go on saying that they love. 

The father says he loves the child; the child says he loves the father. The mother says she loves her daughter, and the daughter goes on saying the same thing. Brothers say they love each other. The whole world talks about love, sings about love -- and can you find any other place so loveless? 

Not an iota of love exists -- and mountains of talk! Himalayas of poetry about love. It seems all these poetries are just compensations. Because we cannot love, we have somehow to believe through poetry, singing, that we love. What we miss in life we put in poetry. What we go on missing in life, we put in the film, in the novel. 

Love is absolutely absent, because the first step has not been taken yet. The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don't carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn't belong to you -- you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality and have the courage to sign your own signature. 

Don't go on copying others signatures. You are not expected to become a Jesus or a Buddha or a Ramakrishna -- you are simply expected to become yourself. 

It was good that Ramakrishna never tried to become somebody else, so he became Ramakrishna. It was good that Jesus never tried to become like Abraham or Moses, so he became Jesus. It is good that Buddha never tried to become a Patanjali or Krishna -- that's why he became a Buddha."

A sudden Clash of thunder

Osho

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Our real nature is liberation, but we imagine we are bound. We thus make strenuous efforts to become free while, all the while, we are free.

There is no greater mystery than this – that being Reality ourselves we seek to gain Reality. We think that there is something hiding our Reality, and that it must be destroyed before the Reality is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will yourself laugh at your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now.

The ever present state is the natural state.

The state in which the awareness is firm, even when objects are sensed, is called the natural state.

~ Sri Bhagavan Via Dear Sir Ishvara Bhatta ♥️🙏🏼