Life is a Pilgrimage

 Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowhere is the now-here. Nowhere consists of two words: now, here.

Between these two nowheres is the now-here Each day brings its own problems, its own challenges and each moment brings its own questions. And if you have ready-made answers in your head you will not be able even to listen to the question.
You will be so full of your answer, You will be incapable of listening. You will not be available.

“Life has everything that it needs in itself; it is intrinsic, not outside. It is an unfoldment of more and more joy, of more and more blissfulness, of more and more ecstasy.

But the unfoldment is in the present. As you go deeper and deeper, and higher and higher, you become more and more playful. And to be playful takes all seriousness away.

"Experience life in all possible ways -- Good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, Summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become."

~OSHO

Life is CHANGE.

 Misery arises because we don't allow change to happen; we cling, we want things to be static. If you love a woman you want her tomorrow too, the same way as she is yours today. That's how misery arises. Nobody can be certain about the next moment. What to say about tomorrow?

A man of awareness knows that life is constantly changing. Life is change. There is only one thing permanent and that is change. Everything else except change changes. To accept the nature of life, to accept this changing existence, with all its seasons and moods, this constant flow which never stops for a single moment, is to be blissful! Then nobody can disturb your bliss. It is your hankering for permanency that creates trouble for you. You want to live in a life with no change, and that is not possible. You are asking the impossible ...

A man of awareness becomes courageous enough to accept the phenomenon of change.

In that very acceptance is bliss; then all is good, then you are never frustrated-because in the first place you never asked for anything.

~Osho♥

This Pain is not to make you Sad... Remember!

"This pain is not to make you sad, remember.
That's where people go on missing....
This pain is just to make you more alert -
because people become alert only when the
arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them.
Otherwise they don't become alert.
When life is easy, comfortable, convenient,
who cares?
Who bothers to become alert?
When a friend dies,
there is a possibility.
When your woman leaves you alone -
those dark nights, you are lonely.
You have loved that woman so much
and you have staked all,
and then suddenly one day she is gone.
Crying in your loneliness,
those are the occasions when,
if you use them,
you can become aware.
The arrow is hurting:
it can be used.
The pain is not to make you miserable,
the pain is to make you more aware!
And when you are aware,
misery disappears." [♥]
[♥] OSHO [♥]

Be a fool, drop the ego.

A fool is one who goes on trusting;
a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience.
You deceive him, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you.
Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn.
His trust is tremendous;
his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it.

Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense.
Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you.
Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen,
and then go on dropping it.
Go on cleaning your mind continuously;
go on dying to the past so you remain in the present,
herenow, as if just born, just a babe.
In the beginning it is going to be very difficult.
The world will start taking advantage of you...let them.
They are poor fellows.
Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you,
that which is really yours nobody can steal from you.
And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you,
that opportunity will become an integration inside.
Your soul will become more crystallized.

_OSHO_

Ten COMMANDMENTS of OSHO

 You have asked for my Ten Commandments. It's a difficult matter, because I am against any kind of commandment. Yet, just for the fun of it, I write:

1. Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

2. There is no God other than life itself.

3. Truth is within you, do not search for it elsewhere.

4. Love is prayer.

5. To become a nothingness is the door to truth. Nothingness itself is the means, the goal and attainment.

6. Life is now and here.

7. Live wakefully.

8. Do not swim – float.

9. Die each moment so that you can be new each moment.

10. Do not search. That which is, is. Stop and see.

~OSHO

Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison.

Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

Remember, freedom is a higher value than love. That's why in India, the ultimate we call MOKSHA; MOKSHA means freedom. Freedom is a higher value than love. So if love is destroying freedom, it is not of worth. Love can be dropped; freedom has to be saved: freedom is a higher value. And without freedom you can never be happy -- that is not possible. Freedom is the intrinsic desire of each man, each woman -- utter freedom, absolute freedom. So anything that becomes destructive to freedom -- one starts hating it.

Don't you hate the man you love? Don't you hate the woman you love? You hate. It is a necessary evil; you have to tolerate it. Because you cannot be alone you have to manage to be with somebody, and you have to adjust to the other's demands. You have to tolerate, you have to bear them.

Love, to be really love, has to be 'being-love', 'gift-love'. 'Being-love' means a state of love. When you have arrived home, when you have known who you are, then a love arises in your being. Then the fragrance spreads and you can give it to others. How can you give something which you don't have? To give it, the first basic requirement is to have it.

OSHO
The Tantra Vision
Vol 2, Ch #2: Freedom is a higher Value than Love

Have You Ever Thought About It?

 Have you ever thought about it? Is your wife (or husband) really known to you? Is there really a way to know the wife or the husband or the child? A child is born to you. Do you know him -who he is? But you never ask such uncomfortable questions. You immediately give him a name so that you know who he is...To forget that some stranger has come, you label him...Then you start managing his character -what he should do, what he should not do -so that you know, and you can predict him...

There are moments, some rare moments, in which you suddenly become aware of this. Sitting by the side of your beloved, suddenly you become aware that you are far apart. Suddenly you look at the face of your beloved and you cannot recognize who she is or who he is. But you avoid such moments immediately. You start talking: you say something, you start planning...That's why people don't sit in silence -because silence creates a restlessness. In silence, the fiction of familiarity is broken.

OSHO