I can bless your love, but I cannot bless your marriage.....OSHO

Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is ! OSHO

I WANT TO GET MARRIED. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR BLESSINGS.

Have you gone crazy or something? Love is enough; marriage is not going to add anything to it. In fact, why are you in such a hurry to finish some beautiful experience?

Wait. When you see that now love is finished, you can get married.

You are very young, only twenty-two. One should marry only when one is wise enough.

Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle.

My own suggestion is that nobody should marry before forty-two. When you have already had your first heart attack, then marry. Before that it is too early, and foolish. But maybe because you are only twenty-two and foolish the question has arisen.

You are too young; wait a little. When you are tired -- when you are tired of adventures, when you are tired of your freedom, when you are tired of your openness to life and its millions of opportunities -- then you can go to a court and get married. But why now?

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction.

Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is!

I can bless your love, but I cannot bless your marriage. If love itself is your marriage, then all of my blessings are there for you; otherwise wait. There is no hurry. It is better to wait than to repent later on.

OSHO

One Step at a Time, No Not Even One Step - Osho

Digambara, yes, in fact, not even one...because we are not to go anywhere. We are already in God! I say "only one step" just to console you, because without any steps you will be too puzzled. I reduce it to the minimum, only one step, so that something remains for you to do, because you understand only the language of doing. You are a doer! If I say, "Nothing has to be done, not even a single step has to be taken," you will be at a loss how to make any head or tail of it.

The truth is, not even a single step is needed. Sitting silently doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. But that may be too much. Your doer mind may simply ignore it or may think it is all nonsense. How can you achieve God without doing anything? Yes, a shortcut the mind can understand; that's why I say, "a single step." That is the shortest -- it cannot be reduced to less than that.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? --I'M AFRAID WHEN I FEEL YOUR LOVE DEEP INSIDE ME... - OSHO

Love always creates fear because love is death, a greater death than the ordinary death you know of.
In an ordinary death the body dies, but that is not death at all. Body is just like a dress: when it is tatty and old you change for a new one. It is not death, it is just a change: a change of a dress, or a change of a house or abode. But you continue, the mind continues -- just the same old mind in new bodies, just the same old wine in new bottles. The form changes but not the mind, the shape changes but not the mind. So the ordinary death is not a real death; love is a real death: the body does not die but the mind dies, the body continues to be the same but the ego disappears.

If you love, you will have to drop all the conceptions that you have about yourself. If you love, you CANNOT be the ego because the ego will not allow love. They are antagonistic. If you choose the ego you will not be able to choose love. If you choose love you will have to drop the ego. Hence, the fear.

The So Called Eminent Personalities on Beloved OSHO

"I found No Water, No Moon one of the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion."
- Yehudi Menuhin

"These brilliant insights will benefit all those who yearn for experiential knowledge of the field of pure potentiality inherent in every human being. This book belongs on the shelf of every library and in the home of all those who seek knowledge of the higher self.
-"Deepak Chopra, Author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; Quantum Healing and Unconditional Life

"Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy."
- Paul Reps, author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

"Osho is the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ... He's obviously a very effective man, otherwise he wouldn't be such a threat. He's saying the same things that nobody else has the courage to say. A man who has all kinds of ideas, they're not only inflammatory-they also have a resonance of truth that scares the pants off the control freaks."

"Wit and playfulness are a tremendously serious transcendence of evil, and this is one thing that Osho understood better than any contemporary teacher that I can think of. Gurdjieff had an element of that in his teachings, but certainly in the past fifty years there has not existed a teacher in the world who understood the value of playfulness and wit quite so well as Osho. 
- "Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker and Jitterbug Perfume and others.

IF TWO MEN ARE IN LOVE, WHAT IS WRONG IN IT?... ~OSHO~

HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT SUCH A BIG PROBLEM; it is not a problem at all, in fact -- it is part of human freedom. There is nothing wrong if two persons choose a certain style of sexual relationship; IT SHOULD BE NOBODY'S BUSINESS. But the priests and the politicians are poking their noses in everything! They create guilt in you -- absolutely unnecessary!

IF TWO MEN ARE IN LOVE, WHAT IS WRONG IN IT? What harm they are doing to anybody? In fact, they look happier than the heterosexuals; that's why they are called "gay".... Homosexuals become more feminine and they start having a certain beauty, a certain niceness about them, a certain roundness, a grace.... WHY MAKE MUCH OUT OF A SIMPLE THING? If you are enjoying a relationship with a man, enjoy it!

THE CHRISTIAN GOD HIMSELF SEEMS TO BE HOMOSEXUAL -- the whole trinity consists of three men. How they are managing, nobody knows -- not a single woman! Only the Holy Ghost is a little suspect -- maybe Holy Ghost is bisexual? Ghosts can do any kind of things! Otherwise the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost -- what kind of trinity is this? It is very homosexual! They have not allowed a single woman in it, just to keep out of trouble. One woman would have destroyed the whole trinity, it would have become a real triangle!

SO HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A PROBLEM. We should start looking at real problems, and should not be concerned about unreal problems. There are real problems to be solved. And this is a trick of human mind: to create unreal problems so that you become occupied with them while real problems go on growing. And this is an old strategy: politicians, priests, so-called religious leaders go on giving you pseudo-problems to solve, so that you become occupied with the pseudo.

THE PROBLEM IN ITSELF IS MEANINGLESS, the problem is not a problem at all; but how much fuss has gone on down the ages about homosexuality! There are countries where still people are killed for homosexual acts, murdered, sentenced to jail for their whole lives. Strange world! This is a 21st Century world? Homosexuality is not a problem at all; there are thousands of real problems to be solved -- but man has to be kept engaged into toys.

My effort is to withdraw all your attention from toys, so that you can focus on the real problems of life; and if you focus on the real problems of life, they can be solved. Now, I don't see how homosexuality becomes a problem. How does it become a problem? WHY IT SHOULD BE OF CONCERN TO ANYBODY? A love affair is two individuals' private concern; it is their intimacy, it is not a social phenomenon.

And in fact, IT WILL HELP THE WORLD POPULATION IF MORE PEOPLE TURN HOMOSEXUAL. It will be good, very good for the world: less people will be born. The earth will be less burdened, there will be less poverty. Of course, less orphans and less Mother Teresas! There will be less need for contraceptives, birth control methods, sterilization; and of course the whole business of the Polack Pope will go out of his hands. That is his whole business! For one year continuously, he has been talking against contraceptives, against birth control, sterilization, abortion. Homosexuality can simply solve all these problems!

So I don't see there is much problem in it.... DON'T MAKE UNNECESSARY PROBLEMS FOR YOURSELF, so that your whole energy can become focused on the essential problem. And the essential problem is only one: KNOW THYSELF!

OSHO
The Goose is Out
Ch #3: No peaks, no valleys
am in Buddha Hall

I WILL BE WITHIN YOU, I WILL BE A PART OF YOU... ~OSHO~

I HAVE WORKED IN SUCH A WAY that nobody can criticize me -- because I have not exploited anybody, I have not enslaved anybody, I have not indoctrinated anybody, I have not converted anybody.

I had started my journey alone. And people started coming and joining me, AND THE CARAVAN BECAME BIGGER AND BIGGER. Now it is all around the earth, and it is going to become bigger and bigger.

But nobody is my follower. Nobody is going to be my successor. EACH SANNYASIN IS MY REPRESENTATIVE. When I am dead, you all -- individually -- will have to represent me to the world. There is not going to be any pope. There is not going to be any shankaracharya. Each sannyasin, in his own capacity, has to represent me.

This has never happened -- but it is going to happen! YOU ARE ALL MY SUCCESSORS.

When I am dead, that simply means I have left this body and entered all the bodies of my people. I WILL BE WITHIN YOU, I will be part of you.

-Osho

Love and Meditation - Osho

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself.

Both are two aspects of the same coin. A person who does not know how to be with himself cannot truly relate with others, his relationship will be awkward, graceless, ugly, haphazard, accidental. One moment everything is going well and another moment everything is gone. It will always be going up and down; it will not gain depth. It will be very noisy. Certainly it will give you an occupation, but it will not have any melody to it, and it cannot take you to the heights of existence or depths of being, and vice versa: the person who is not capable of being with others, of relating, will find it very difficult to relate with himself, because the art of relating is the same: whether you relate with others or you relate with yourself does not make much difference, it is the same art.

Both these arts have to be learned together, simultaneously; they are inseparable. Be with people, and not unconsciously, but very consciously. Relate with people as if you are singing a song, as if you are playing on a flute; each person has to be thought as a musical instrument. Respect, love worship – because each person is a hidden face of God.