Osho : desire of life

CHAPTER 2: DESIRE FOR LIFE

A desire for life means the future. All desires are related to the future, no desire occurs in the present. This is a very strange thing: you cannot immerse yourself in any desire if you are in the present moment. Desire is always for the future, it is always in the tomorrow. For desire, time is needed; for its fulfillment time is needed, space is needed. Whenever you desire something, that very desiring is in the future.

If there is no future then the desire dies, and if there is no desire then the future comes to an end.

There are two possibilities: either the desire has to be dropped and then the person can be in the present, or, if the person moves into the present then too the desire is dropped - because there is no way to generate a desire here and now, in the present. What do you need right here and now? Think about it a little. What desire can you have in this moment? As soon as you desire you have moved into the future. There can be no connection between desire and the present. The moment you desire, you have left the present. You have removed yourself to tomorrow, to the coming day; your mind has run away.

So the meaning of “desire of life” is also that you are searching for life in the future. But life is here and now, life is you. You are standing in the middle of it, but your eyes are on tomorrow. That is why the present day cannot be seen, it is overlooked. That is why the sutra says to remove the “desire of life” - so that you can get to know life itself. Drop the desire for comfort; so that comfort may be yours.

Everyone is unhappy, comfortless - not because it is in the nature of life to be unhappy but because we do not know the art of being happy, being in comfort. We know the art of making ourselves unhappy, uncomfortable - to an unimaginable degree. We seek suffering. The man who desires for the future, and all desire is about the future, is bound to fall prey to unhappiness because the future never comes, it only appears to be coming. What actually comes is the present; what never comes is the future. No matter what you do, what you get is the present. And if your mind is in the habit of living in the future, then today you will live in the future, tomorrow too, and the day after. Whatever day comes, you will stay in the future. And how can you get what you want in the future? If the future never comes, when will your future wishes be fulfilled? The result will be unhappiness. That is why the fruit of desire is always unhappiness.

Life is not unhappiness, desire is unhappiness. The more desires there are, the more suffering there is. If you are very unhappy, don’t think it is because existence is angry with you. If you are very unhappy that only indicates that you are full of desires. And when those desires remain unfulfilled, then wounds of unhappiness grow in your heart.

If you are very unhappy, don’t try to drop unhappiness. Instead, drop desires - because unhappiness is only the fruit. It is desire that is the seed. The one who has sown the seed has shot his arrow. The arrow can be stopped only up to the point until it is released from the bow. After releasing it there is no way to stop the arrow.

Osho

Relationship

RELATIONSHIP

IT is a fact of life, whether we like it or not, that the relationship is not between two people but between two images which each has created about the other.  There is relationship only when two of us can look at each other without the image of memory, of insults and all the rest.

To be related means being in contact, something direct and not between two images.  It requires a great deal of honesty, of attention, of an awareness to look at another without the image which I have about that person, based on my memories.

This can happen only if we are deeply aware that what we consider as someone’s ‘action’ - oneself or the other - is really in fact a happening according to God’s Will or Cosmic Law, and not any individual’s action.

- From CELEBRATE THE WIT & WISDOM, The Mysterious Way In Which Understanding Happens by Ramesh S. Balsekar  https://advaita.3dcartstores.com/CELEBRATE-THE-WIT-WISDOM-The-Mysterious-Way-In-Which-Understanding-Happens-by-Ramesh-S-Balsekar_p_282.html

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Consciousness

Consciousness is the One without the second - the Source of everything.

The “who,” the “what,” the “where,” and the “when” are all conceptual images in Consciousness. They are all “real” as any mirage or dream. …The totality of manifestation, and everything therein, is Consciousness Itself, the Unicity. All there is is Consciousness, not aware of Ittself in Its noumenal Subjectivity, but perceived by Itself as phenomenal manifestation in Its objective expression. If this is understood in depth, there is nothing more to be understood. Why? Because such understanding must comport the realization that there is no individual entity as such. What we think we are is merely an appearance, an insubstantial shadow, whereas what we really and truly ARE, is Consciousness Itself, the formless Brahman.
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WHO CARES?! by Ramesh S. Balsekar​ (1999) ​

Who cares

IS there a step just prior to enlightenment or Self-realization? Yes. That step is the individual not caring whether enlightenment happens or not. That is the penultimate step for the final understanding to happen. No “one” to care. Who cares? A thought will arise, “Will there ever be enlightenment in this body-mind organism?” And promptly, “Who cares?” You see? So “who” cares? There is no “who” to care!

~ WHO CARES?! by Ramesh S. Balsekar

World illusion

The world doesn't exist and we just come to see that clearly.
It's all an illusion. It never did exist. There is no way it can exist—it's all the reflection of a concept attached to inside.

There is No One and Nothing. It’s literal. Are you ready to
live without a world? Is that what you really want? Are you willing to lose the moon?

—Byron Katie

Deathlessness

“Deathlessness is our real nature, and we falsely ascribe it to the body, imagining that it will live for ever and losing sight of what is really immortal, simply because we identify ourselves with the body. It says in the Upanishads that the jnani looks forward eagerly to the time when he can throw off the body, just as a laborer carrying a heavy load looks forward to reaching his destination and laying it down.”

- Bhagavan in 'Day by Day'

Pure consciousness

Pure Consciousness wholly unrelated to the physical body and transcending the mind is a matter of direct experience. Sages know their bodiless, eternal existence, just as an unrealised man knows his bodily existence. But the experience of Consciousness can be with bodily awareness as well as without it. In the bodiless experience of Pure Consciousness the Sage is beyond time and space, and no question about the position of the Heart can arise at all. Since, however, the physical body can not subsist (with life) apart from Consciousness, bodily awareness has to be sustained by pure Consciousness. The former, by nature, is limited and can never be co-extensive with the latter which is Infinite and Eternal. Body-consciousness is merely a miniature reflection of the pure Consciousness with which the Sage has realised his identity. For him, therefore, body-consciousness is only a reflected ray, as it were, of the self-effulgent, infinite Consciousness which is himself. It is in this sense alone that the Sage is aware of his bodily existence.