Love never reduces the other to a thing; on the contrary love raises the other to divinity. Love transforms ordinary human beings into gods. gods. The world is the form of god and god is the formlessness formlessness of the world. Form and formlessness are both together. together. - OSHO
All creativity is a by-product of playfulness. Seriousness is barren. Nothing is ever born out of seriousness... except destruction. destruction. - OSHO I f f there is love there is
compassion and service. I f f there is love there is non-violence non -violence and humanity. humanity. I f f
there is love one cannot cheat or deceive. deceive. C reate reate the quality of love in all that you do. Even if it is just day-to-day da y-to-day ordinary work, do it with great love, with care, with a kind of caressing. caressing. Knowledge ends, becomes conclusions. Love never ends and never becomes a conclusion; it remains flowing, hence it is never exhausted. exhausted. - OSHO
A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience. experience.
Osho Quotes and Sayings
1. Power n Power never corrupts anybod anybody, y, but but only corrupted corrupted peop peoplle are attr acted acted towa towards power rds power . And And when when they they have power ve power , then then of c of course they they use it for all for all thei their des r desiires and and pa passi ssio ns. 2. Do wha whatsoever you feel feel you you enjo njo y, and and enjo njo y it it totally. totally. In those few mo ments, ts, the p the paast and and future will disa ppea ppear an r and d you will be be heren herenow. ow. And And those mo ments will br br ing ing the f irst good news, ews, the f irst gospel ospel of g of god. od. 3. Goals als have been een give given n to you, ou, and and because cause of those of those goals als and and those perfe those perfecct ionist nist ideal dealss you remain remain co condemn demned ed and and crushed. rushed . How How can you you rec receive the messag essagee tha that God is within thin you, ou, tha that you are alre alreaady hom home, tha that you have never left it in the f irst p rst plac lacee, tha that all is is ok ay ay as as it is? Just relax relax and and it is yours. ours. Not Not tha that you have to sea sear ch and and seek , but but just relax relax into into it and and it is yours. ours. 4. When hen the mind mind has co me to a stop and and is no longer nger in interested terested in att attaining aining anyth anything, ing, then then it attain ttainss buddha uddhahood. hood. Whe When n the mind mind has come to a full full stop and and is not going anywhere anywhere,, it sta starts going inw inwards, rds, it it sta starts f alling alling into into one¶s own own be being, tha that abyss abyssmal mal abyss abyss.. Fu Full em ptin pt iness ess is attain ttained ed by a no non-att n-attainm ainmeentness. ess. So So don don¶t become ach achievers, evers, don don¶t sta start thin think k ing ing in ter ms of ac of ach hievem evement ² th ² thaat you have to ach achieve thi this and and tha that, tha that you have to attain ttain God God.. These These are games; games; the mind mind is again dec deceiving you you.. The The name name of the of the game game changes anges but the game game, the su bt bt le game game, remain remainss the same ame. 5. Not Not for a for a single ingle mo ment be suspici suspicious ous about about your b our buddha uddhahood. hood. Your Your b buddha uddhahood is your nature nature,, act act accord accordingly. ingly. The The more you act act accord accordingly, ingly, the more is the poss the possibili ibilitt y of a of a growing rowing trust in your your being a buddh buddha. a. The The more inte intellig lligeent can inst instan anttly p ly paass throug through the
tr ansfor ansfor mat mation. The The old sel self d f dies away, and and a totally totally fresh new being is is bor n ± inno innocent, pure. pure. 6. Death is beauti ut iful, ful, as as beauti ut iful ful as as life life ² if if y you just k now how to commu mmunicate nicate with dea death. th. It It is beauti utiful ful be because cause it is relaxa relaxatt ion. It It is beauti utiful ful be because cause the perso the person n has f alle allen back back into into the sour ce of e of existe xistenc ncee ² to ² to relax, relax, to rest, rest, to be rea ready to come back back again. again. 7. Talk Talk ing ing to you, ou, I feel feel nour nour ished. shed. After After talk alk ing ing to you I feel feel more more ener gy gy than than ever ² be because cause it is my love love.. I enjo njo y it! it! It is not work . You You can get get tired if y f you are work ing. ing. If If you are p re playing, laying, how can you you get tired? No bod body y has ever hea heard tha that peopl peop le get tired by playing playing 8. R emember mber , anyth anything ing new new co ming in your your life life is a mess messag agee from from God God.. If If y you accept accept it you are religi religious ous.. If I f y you re je ject it you are irreligi rreligious ous.. Man needs needs just to relax relax a litt littlle more to accept accept the new; to open open up a litt littlle more to let the new in. Give Give way to God enter ing ing you you.. 9. A dou bt bting mind mind cannot cannot relax. relax. A dou bt bting mind mind cannot cannot surren surrender . A dou bt bting mind mind can never be total total;; a pa part goes on f ight ighting, ing, a p a paart goes on saying no no. A dou bt bting mind mind cannot cannot say an abso absollute yes, es, and and tha that is the fun fundame amental of b of beco ming a stream streamw winner inner ² ² to to say yes to life life,, to say yes yes unco ncondit io nally, to say yes yes sim ply, ply, with your whol whole being. Th That is pr ayer ayer eenoug ough. If I f y you can sim ply ply sit sile ilent ly and and can say yes yes to existe xistenc ncee, enoug ough ² nothing oth ing more more is needed, eeded, no no r itual. tual. 10. Some bod body y insu insullts you. ou. It It is ver y easy to be hurt. hurt . It It is mechanical; anical; you are not needed for it; no inte intellig lligeence nce is needed for i for it. It It is ver y easy to get into into a r age age, anger anger , f ire. re. No No inte intellig lligeence nce is needed for i for it. Eve Even n animals animals do it, so nothing othing is is special special in it it. Do Do som something ething special. special. R emain calm and and quiet and and colle llected. ted. R elax, watch ins inside tha that the mechanical thing thing does not possess you. ou. Be Become a litt littlle loose from from your your mechanical habits abits and and your be benef it will be be trem tremendous. dous. You You will sta start becoming more more and and more aware. re. 11. Life Life destroy destroys no bod body, y, but but if y f you f ight ight with it you will be be destroy destroyed by your your own own vio lence nce. Life Life is not against against you. ou. How How can it it be? Life Life is your mother . It It is life life tha that has broug rought you here. here. You You are bor n out of i of it. You You are a r ay ay of i of its light light,, a wave of i of its ocean. You You are intr intr ins insic and and or ganic ganic to it, you you are not sepa separ ate. te. But But if y f you sta start f ight ighting ing your your ow own n sour ce of e of ener gy, gy, you you will be be destroy destroyed. ed. Your Your ver ver y co concept ncept of f of f ight ight will po ill poiison son you you.. And And of course, ourse, the more you feel feel tha that you are losing osing the batt battlle, the harder you will f ight ight.. The The harder you f ight ight,, the more frustr ated you beco me. 12. The religi religious ous perso person n is is one who wants ants to be in suc such a deep har mony tha that there is no questi uest ion of c of conf lict lict. He He is seek ing ing love love.. He He is seek ing ing a love love aff air air w with the universe niverse.. He He never asks about about power . He He asks how to lose sepa separ ation, how to mer ge. He He asks, sks, µHow µHow to be be in suc such a total total surren surrender th der thaat I don don¶t move in any way against against the whol whole or sepa separ ate from from the whol whole, so tha that I can move move with the r iver of ver of li life fe.. And And wherever the r iver of ver of li life fe goes, oes, I can go go with it¶. t¶. 13. The ego is just hoya, hoya, a misu misun nderstan derst and ding. It It is non-e n-existe xisten ntial ² yet yet the dirti rt iest thing thing possibl possiblee. The The ver y ide ideaa tha that µI am sepa separ ate from from existe xistenc nce¶ e¶,, is is dirty. rt y. The The ver y ide ideaa tha that µI ight with my own gy sour ce¶, is fooli and absurd absurd.. have to f ight own ener gy e¶, is foolish sh and 14. God is not a person, perso n, it it is a deep ex per ience nce when when you you are not doing doing anyth anything ing and and existe xistenc ncee sim ply ply f lows in you« you« the imme immensit y of i of it, the beauti utitude of i of it, the gr ace ace of i of it. You are not doing anything, ing, you you are not even anything, ing, you you are not wait ait ing for doing anyth even ex pec pecting anyth anyth anything. ing. You You have no moti ot ive. ve. You You are just there like like a tree stan stand ding in the winds inds,, or li or like ke a roc rock j k just sile ilent ly sitting tt ing by the side of a of a r iver . Or Or li like ke a cloud cloud per per ched on the hilltop illtop ² just just there, there, no no movem ovement of y of your ow our own. n. In tha that moment you are not a sel self , in tha that moment
tr ansfor ansfor mat mation. The The old sel self d f dies away, and and a totally totally fresh new being is is bor n ± inno innocent, pure. pure. 6. Death is beauti ut iful, ful, as as beauti ut iful ful as as life life ² if if y you just k now how to commu mmunicate nicate with dea death. th. It It is beauti utiful ful be because cause it is relaxa relaxatt ion. It It is beauti utiful ful be because cause the perso the person n has f alle allen back back into into the sour ce of e of existe xistenc ncee ² to ² to relax, relax, to rest, rest, to be rea ready to come back back again. again. 7. Talk Talk ing ing to you, ou, I feel feel nour nour ished. shed. After After talk alk ing ing to you I feel feel more more ener gy gy than than ever ² be because cause it is my love love.. I enjo njo y it! it! It is not work . You You can get get tired if y f you are work ing. ing. If If you are p re playing, laying, how can you you get tired? No bod body y has ever hea heard tha that peopl peop le get tired by playing playing 8. R emember mber , anyth anything ing new new co ming in your your life life is a mess messag agee from from God God.. If If y you accept accept it you are religi religious ous.. If I f y you re je ject it you are irreligi rreligious ous.. Man needs needs just to relax relax a litt littlle more to accept accept the new; to open open up a litt littlle more to let the new in. Give Give way to God enter ing ing you you.. 9. A dou bt bting mind mind cannot cannot relax. relax. A dou bt bting mind mind cannot cannot surren surrender . A dou bt bting mind mind can never be total total;; a pa part goes on f ight ighting, ing, a p a paart goes on saying no no. A dou bt bting mind mind cannot cannot say an abso absollute yes, es, and and tha that is the fun fundame amental of b of beco ming a stream streamw winner inner ² ² to to say yes to life life,, to say yes yes unco ncondit io nally, to say yes yes sim ply, ply, with your whol whole being. Th That is pr ayer ayer eenoug ough. If I f y you can sim ply ply sit sile ilent ly and and can say yes yes to existe xistenc ncee, enoug ough ² nothing oth ing more more is needed, eeded, no no r itual. tual. 10. Some bod body y insu insullts you. ou. It It is ver y easy to be hurt. hurt . It It is mechanical; anical; you are not needed for it; no inte intellig lligeence nce is needed for i for it. It It is ver y easy to get into into a r age age, anger anger , f ire. re. No No inte intellig lligeence nce is needed for i for it. Eve Even n animals animals do it, so nothing othing is is special special in it it. Do Do som something ething special. special. R emain calm and and quiet and and colle llected. ted. R elax, watch ins inside tha that the mechanical thing thing does not possess you. ou. Be Become a litt littlle loose from from your your mechanical habits abits and and your be benef it will be be trem tremendous. dous. You You will sta start becoming more more and and more aware. re. 11. Life Life destroy destroys no bod body, y, but but if y f you f ight ight with it you will be be destroy destroyed by your your own own vio lence nce. Life Life is not against against you. ou. How How can it it be? Life Life is your mother . It It is life life tha that has broug rought you here. here. You You are bor n out of i of it. You You are a r ay ay of i of its light light,, a wave of i of its ocean. You You are intr intr ins insic and and or ganic ganic to it, you you are not sepa separ ate. te. But But if y f you sta start f ight ighting ing your your ow own n sour ce of e of ener gy, gy, you you will be be destroy destroyed. ed. Your Your ver ver y co concept ncept of f of f ight ight will po ill poiison son you you.. And And of course, ourse, the more you feel feel tha that you are losing osing the batt battlle, the harder you will f ight ight.. The The harder you f ight ight,, the more frustr ated you beco me. 12. The religi religious ous perso person n is is one who wants ants to be in suc such a deep har mony tha that there is no questi uest ion of c of conf lict lict. He He is seek ing ing love love.. He He is seek ing ing a love love aff air air w with the universe niverse.. He He never asks about about power . He He asks how to lose sepa separ ation, how to mer ge. He He asks, sks, µHow µHow to be be in suc such a total total surren surrender th der thaat I don don¶t move in any way against against the whol whole or sepa separ ate from from the whol whole, so tha that I can move move with the r iver of ver of li life fe.. And And wherever the r iver of ver of li life fe goes, oes, I can go go with it¶. t¶. 13. The ego is just hoya, hoya, a misu misun nderstan derst and ding. It It is non-e n-existe xisten ntial ² yet yet the dirti rt iest thing thing possibl possiblee. The The ver y ide ideaa tha that µI am sepa separ ate from from existe xistenc nce¶ e¶,, is is dirty. rt y. The The ver y ide ideaa tha that µI ight with my own gy sour ce¶, is fooli and absurd absurd.. have to f ight own ener gy e¶, is foolish sh and 14. God is not a person, perso n, it it is a deep ex per ience nce when when you you are not doing doing anyth anything ing and and existe xistenc ncee sim ply ply f lows in you« you« the imme immensit y of i of it, the beauti utitude of i of it, the gr ace ace of i of it. You are not doing anything, ing, you you are not even anything, ing, you you are not wait ait ing for doing anyth even ex pec pecting anyth anyth anything. ing. You You have no moti ot ive. ve. You You are just there like like a tree stan stand ding in the winds inds,, or li or like ke a roc rock j k just sile ilent ly sitting tt ing by the side of a of a r iver . Or Or li like ke a cloud cloud per per ched on the hilltop illtop ² just just there, there, no no movem ovement of y of your ow our own. n. In tha that moment you are not a sel self , in tha that moment
you are a no no-sel self . In tha that mo ment you are not a mind mind, you you are a no no-mind -mind. In tha that moment you don don¶t have a ce center . In tha that mo ment you are imme immense« vastn stness with no boun oundar ies ² sudde ² suddenly nly the contact act. Sudde Suddenly nly it it is there! Suddenly uddenly you you are ful fulf illed illed,, suddenly suddenly you you are surroun surrou nded by som some unk nown own presenc prese ncee. It It is trem tremendous. dous. Osho Ran Rando dom m Quotes Quotes Mar Mar 10 10 19
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Osho Quotes and Sayings
1. I want ant you to re be bel against against any effort tha that takes away your your freedom. freedo m. Freedo Freedom m to me is the ult imate imate ex per ience nce, the most beauti utiful, ful, the most divine ine.
2. R espect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life. 3. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only the witness. 4. R espect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others. 5. The man who has tr anscended his mind is in absolute control of his mind. He uses it when needed, and he stops using it when it is not needed; mind becomes an instrument in his hands. But for the ordinar y man the situation is ver y sad. He becomes an instrument in the hands of the mind. 6. Only a playful, childlike, innocent behavior is the r ight behavior , is what I would like to call virtuous behavior , religious, spir itual« not only human but divine. The moment you are as innocent as a child you have tr anscended humanity, you have entered into the wor ld of godliness. 7. My whole teaching is: Just be what you are and don¶t care a bit about the wor ld. Then you will feel a tremendous relaxation and a deep peace within your heart. That is your or iginal f ace, relaxed, without tensions, without pretensions, without hy pocr isies, without the so-called disci plines of how you should behave. Osho Short Quotes and Sayings
1. The only refuge is the perfection of wisdom, the perfection of meditation. 2. Anybody who becomes a Buddha becomes one through meditation. Take refuge in meditation. Take refuge in nothingness. 3. When you cheat some body, you are losing something of your inner being« something which is tremendously valuable. 4. Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness. 5. R enunciation follows awareness like a shadow. 6. You are sim ply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror . 7. You have to relax, you have to stop judging. 8. Go deep in your unha ppiness; it is going to reveal many things to you. 9. To me, ever y day is a holiday. If you love whatsoever you are doing, you are never tired of it; it is nour ishing, it is ener gy-giving, it is vitalizing. 10. Love has to be discovered ² it is already there. And how to discover it? The more you are, the less is the possibility to discover love; the less you are, the more is the possibility to discover it. When the r iver disa ppears into the ocean, it discovers the ocean ² it becomes the ocean. 11. Truth is su bjectivity, it is your inner most core. Only you, and only you, can penetr ate it; no body else can go with you. The path has to be tr avelled in tremendous aloneness. And a Master k nows it ² that he is pushing you in a jour ney where you will be left alone. 12. When you are not rushing anywhere and your inner being is just still, herenow, God ref lects. Then all chaos disa ppears, all questions disa ppear .
Osho Quotes on Education 1.
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My vision of a right education is to teach people how to grow the ego and h ow to be able to drop it; how to become great minds and yet be ready any moment to put the mind aside . You
should be able to just put your personality, your ego, your mind, on and off , because these are good things if you can use them . But you should know the mechanism, how to put them off . Right now you know only how to put them on. Give your children your love, but dont give your ideologies. Dont make them Catholics and communists; that is poisoning them . Dont make them Hindus and Jainas and Buddhists; that is very destructive . Give your love, give your loving nourishment, and give them strength enough to inquire who the y are, what this reality is all about. Give them every support so they can go on in life with an adventurous spirit. Then you are helping them; then you are really educating them. Ordinarily, whatsoever exists in the name of education is nothing but mis-education. Real education is helping the person to be himself . It is possible onl y if you love the person for his own sake, for no other motive . If there is a motive , your love is contaminated. Then you are not a real father or a real mother . Education means drawing your inner being into expression in your living, your day-to-day life. Your honesty, your love, your compassion, should come from your inner being , not from teachings and scriptures, not from rabbis and bishops and shankaracharyas and Ayatollah Khomeini. A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatsoever you are doing, not for the result but for the act itself . Just like a painter or a dancer or a musician. A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first . It will teach you to be creative , to be loving , to be blissful , without any comparison with the other . It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first. That is sheer nonsense. You cant be happy just by being first. And in trying to be first you go through such miser y that you become habituated to miser y by the time you become the first.
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In fact, the moment a child is perfectl y conditioned by you, you are very happy; you call it religious education. You are very happy that the child has been initiated into the religion of his parents. All that you have done is you have destroyed his capacity to know on his own . You have destro yed his authenticity. You have destroyed his very precious innocence. 7.
You will be surprised to know that your education is against intelligence. Society needs imitators. It wants you to be good in memorizing , not in becoming intelligent . It wants you to become good machines , not beautiful people; efficient machines , but machines all the same . It needs you to function well , but it does not want you to be more conscious . Then you would start saying no to man y things; you will not be so obedient .
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There is nothing like education. All your education simpl y makes you capable of worrying about situations everywhere in the world , about everyone except you about all the troubles that are in the world . They have always been there, they will always be there. It is not because you are here that troubles are there . You were not and the y were there; you will not be soon and they will remain there . They change their colors but the y remain. The very scheme of the universe is such that it seems that through trouble and miser y something IS growing . It seems to be a step, it seems to be a necessary schooling, a discipline. 10.
The education that exists in the world is not true education . True education will be a help towards enlightenment because it will make you more meditative , more silent, more aware, more inward-looking. The education that exists in the world makes you more ambitious , outward-looking, more egoistic, more superficial. It gives you all kinds of wrong values . It is a kind of poisoning. It does not help you, in any way, to be yourself . It is destructive . It helps you to be somebody else, and thats its ver y destructive foundation. It is a poisoning , but so slow that you never become aware. It begins the da y you are born and it goes on slowl y slowly destro ying you, distracting you from your nature. 11.
In the coming centur y the whole education s ystem is going to be totall y transformed and changed because of the computer . It will be stupid to teach children histor y, geography unnecessary, there is no need . All that can be done b y a computer; the child can carr y the computer . And my own observation is: the less you depend on memory, the more intelligent you become. Thats why it happens that in the universities you will not find ver y intelligent
people. Professors, chancellors, vice-chancellors I have seen many, but it is ver y difficult to find some intelligent person there. You can find more intelligent people in the farmers , in the gardeners, in the villagers . And the reason is clear: because they are not knowledgeable the y cannot depend on the memor y. They have to respond to reality, they have to respond to challenges, they have to bring their consciousness to respond their consciousness remains more sharp. A farmer, a villager, is far more wise than a professor in the universit y. The professor can depend on the memor y, the farmer cannot depend on the memor y.
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The society is very much afraid of your reality. The church is afraid , the state is afraid, everybody is afraid of your essential person, your essential being, because the essential being is rebellious , intelligent. It cannot be easily reduced to slavery. It cannot be exploited . Nobody can use your essential being as a means; your essential being is an end unto itself . Hence the whole societ y tries in ever y possible way to disconnect you from your essential core, and it creates a false , plastic personality around you and it forces you to become identified with it. Thats what it calls education. It is not education; it is mis-education. It is destructive, it is violent. 14.
Society teaches you, Become this, become that. It teaches you becoming. Its whole education system is based on the idea of becoming . And what I am telling you here is just the opposite of it. I am talking about B EING, not about becoming. Becoming is an invention of the craft y politicians and the priests and these are the people who have poisoned the whole humanit y. They go on giving you goals. If you become tired of the worldl y things money, power, prestige they are there to tell you about paradise, God, samadhi, truth. Again the whole process starts. 15.
The word education is beautiful. It means drawing something out: drawing out that which is within you. In fact, we should not use it for the ordinar y education . It is wrong to use a beautiful word like education for this rotten s ystem of schools, colleges and universities. It is not education in the literal sense even , because instead of drawing out what is within you it forces things from the outside upon you. It is an imposition .Real education is like drawing water from a well, not pouring something into the well . Real education is drawing out your being so that your inner luminosity starts filtering through your body, through your behavior. 16.
D.H. Lawrence was very much against your so-called education it is not education , it is miseducation. Real education can onl y be based on love, not on knowledge. Real education cannot
be utilitarian, real education cannot be of the marketplace . Not that real education will not give you knowledge; first, real education will prepare your heart, your love, and then whatever
knowledge is needed to pass through life will be given to you, but that will be secondar y. And it will never be overpowering; it will not be more valuable than love . And whenever there is a possibility of any conflict between love and knowledge, real education will help you to be ready to drop your knowledge and move with your love; it will give you courage, it will give you adventure. It will give you space to live, accepting all risks, insecurities; it will help you to be ready to sacrifice yourself if love demands it. It will put love not onl y above knowledge but even above life , because life is meaningless without love . Love without life is still meaningful; even if your body dies it makes no difference to your love energ y. It continues, it is eternal, it is not a time phenomenon. To have a loving heart , you need a little less calculating head . To be capable of loving you need to be capable of wondering. Thats why, Nur, I always say that awe and childlike innocence are deeply related with the energ y called love. In fact the y are different names for the same thing .
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Our whole education is rotten. It certainl y makes you clerks, stationmasters , postmen , police commissioners. It gives you a livelihood, but it does not give you life, and it does not give you love. One-third of our education should be concerned with li velihood; one-third of our education should be concerned with our well-being body, health, ways to stay younger and live longer. And one-third the last and the most important should be concerned with love , with death, and the secrets of life itself . Only then will we have a wholesome education. And through that education, we can create a man and a society which will be health y, youthful , loving, soulful, overflowing with jo y, always ready to share with an yone because nobody is a stranger on the earth; the whole earth is one famil y. All education remains part of the mind; it does not make you more alert, more conscious , it simply fills you with information. It treats you like a computer. The societys whole interest is in how to exploit you, how to enslave you, how to use you in a more efficient wa y, almost like a machine . It gives you all the education just for these hidden, secret aims. It prevents you from knowing an ything about meditation . This is what our education goes on teaching our education is i mmensely destructive . In the name of education, it is mis-education. It needs to be completel y changed and transformed. Things like ambition, success , comparison, have to be completel y taken out of the human mind and it is possible. Rather than teaching these ugl y things, education should give people better ways of life, how to live more totall y and more intensel y; better wa ys of loving, better ways of beautif ying existence without an y comparison with others just for your sheer contentment . Your education teaches you to imitate , your religions teach you to imitate . Nobody says to you: Just be yourself thats where your paradise lies. They go on saying to you, Follow this, imitate that. They give you ideals: Become a Gautam Buddha, or a Jesus Christ . But never ,
even by mistake, do they say to you, Just be yourself; relax and enjoy your being, and bring your potential to its maximum unfoldment. 7. A sannyasin has to be both: the peace , the silence, the light, the qualities of his inner being , and a rebel against all injustice, against all inhumanity. But for a creative purpose , to materialize a dream of an authentic human societ y which will be able to give equal opportunit y to all, freedom to all , education which is nonviolent , education which is not onl y informative but also transformative, an education that will make you more of an individual and bring the best in you to its flowering . 8. Education is not bringing peace and si lence and blissfulness to people . There is something missing in it; it is onl y education in subjects which do not touch your interior being at all . They may make you doctors, engineers, professors, but they do not give you the insight that can create a Gautam Buddha in you. The true meaning of the word education is to draw out . But all that your so-called education does is to force in. From outside, borrowed knowledge is being forced into the minds of innocent children . 9. In my vision, education is nothing but another form of meditation. All that usuall y goes on in the name of education is secondary. The priority should be given to meditation education of the inner. Unless you become acquainted with yourself , all your knowledge is useless . 10. So before education I would put meditation . Education is trivia: geography, histor y, arithmetic. It is good as far as the mundane world is concerned, but it is not good as far as your interiority is concerned . You go on accumulating degrees and inside you remain empty. Your degrees can befool people, may even befool yourself , but you cannot have the jo y, the blissfulness, the peace, the silence, the compassion of a Gautam Buddha. And unless education has two wings , it cannot fly in the sky in total freedom. Right now it has onl y one wing; the other wing is missing . Why is it missing? Because the priests dont want you to become meditators. 11. To me, charity first means the education of the inner; and onl y secondarily, it means education of other things . Know thyself must be the most precious education , and then you can become acquainted with everything else. A man who knows himself will never misuse his education in the outer world . Otherwise, when you dont know yourself , you are going to use your education to exploit people , to create povert y. 12. Education is certainl y needed; but before education, meditation is needed . Anybody who becomes a graduate either an engineer or a doctor or a professor should not be able to have his degree unless he also passes his examinations in meditation. Each university and each college should have classes for meditation for the students and for people from outside also; they may not have been able in their youth to learn meditation , but now they can learn. 13. We just have to create people who are evidence of right education . An education is complete when it is inner and outer both . And we have to create people who can change this whole exploitative structure with love and compassion in a democratic wa y. There is no need for an y violence. The poor just have to be made aware: It is time for you to wake up; ever ything belongs to you. 14. We have to find a human kind of education in the world; the education that exists is ver y inhuman. We have to find wa ys so that children can pla y in the sun and still learn a little arithmetic. That can be done once we know that arithmetic is not so important as pla ying in the sun, once that thing has been decided , then we can find wa ys. A little arithmetic can be taught, and a little is needed. Everybody is not going to become an Albert Einstein. And those who are going to become Albert Einsteins, they wont bother pla ying in the sun their jo y is arithmetic, that is their poetr y. Then it is different , then it is totall y different; then the growth is not hindered and guilt is not created.
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Our whole education system is based on giving read y-made answers. Because of those readymade answers you never develop your intelligence; there is no need . You ask the question and a computer teacher answers them . Education is a bridge between the potentialit y and the actuality. Education is to help you to become that which you are onl y in a seed form . And this is what I am doing here; this is a place of education. The thing that is being done in the ordinar y schools and colleges and universities is not education. It only prepares you to get a good job , a good earning; it is not real education. It does not give you life. Maybe it can give you a better standard of living , but the better standard of living is not a better standard of life; the y are not synonymous. The so-called education that goes on in the world prepares you only to earn bread. And Jesus says, Man cannot live b y bread alone. And thats what your universities have been doing they prepare you to earn bread in a better wa y, in an easier wa y, in a more comfortable wa y, with less effort, with less hardship. But all that the y do is prepare you to earn your bread and butter. It is a ver y, very primitive kind of education: it does not prepare you for life. My vision of education is that life should not be taken as a struggle for survival; life should be taken as a celebration. Life should not be onl y competition, life should be joy too. Singing and dancing and poetry and music and painting, and all that is available in the world education should prepare you to fall in tune with it with the trees , with the birds , with the sky, with the sun and the moon. And education should prepare you to be yourself . Right now it prepares you to be an imitator; it teaches you how to be like others . This is miseducation. Right education will teach you how to be yourself , authentically yourself . You are unique. There is nobody like you, has never been, will never be. This is a great respect that God has showered on you. This is your glory, that you are unique. Dont become imitative , dont become carbon copies . But thats what your so-called education goes on doing: it makes carbon copies; it destroys your original face . The word education has two meanings , both are beautiful. One meaning is very well known, although not practiced at all , that is: to draw something out of you. Education means: to draw out that which is within you, to make your potential actual , like you draw water from a well . Real education will be to bring out what is hidden in you what God has put in you as a treasure to discover it , to reveal it, to make you luminous. Education is to bring you from darkness to light . Thats what I am doing here . Parmar has asked this question because the Indian government is not read y to accept m y work as education. It is natural. They cannot accept it as education , because I dont create clerks and stationmasters and deputy collectors . I am creating new human beings . For them that is dangerous . If this is education, then they cannot allow it to happen . It is rebellion . This I call education: to make people more intelligent . And thats what I am doing here . If this fire spreads, then this old, rotten society cannot survive. It survives on your unconsciousness, it lives on your unconsciousness. Our whole system of education is stupid . It prepares you for a world which is no more in existence and it does not prepare you for a world which is coming, arising, which is dawning so you will remain a misfit . You will never be able to live rightl y. If you follow your education you will feel yourself out of date . If you follow the new world that is happening, then your education will not be of an y help in it. You will be almost uneducated, and that hurts the ego . In a better world children will be thrown upon themselves as fast as possible; the whole effort of the parents should be to make the child use his intelligence . And the whole effort, if education is right if it is education and not MISeducation will be to throw the child again and again to his own intelligence, so that he can function , so that he can use his intelligence. He may not be so efficient in the beginning , that is true the teacher ma y have the right answer , and if the
student has to work out his own answer the answer ma y not be so right but that is not the point at all. The answer may not be so right , it may not correspond to the answers given in the books, but it will be intelligent . And that is the real crux of the matter . 25. Remember this: your whole education prepares you, makes you ready to fight. It does not prepare you for friendship and love, it prepares you for conflict, enmity, war.
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1. Fr iendshi p is possible between equal human beings, totally free from all bondage of society, culture, civilization, only living true to their authentic nature. 2. Only individuals can relate; personalities cannot. Personalities are like shadows. They cannot meet, they cannot mer ge, because they don¶t exist. Personalities are f ake. That¶s why in the whole wor ld people are talk ing of love, but there is no love. They are talk ing of fr iendshi p, but there is no fr iendshi p ² even talk ing of trust. But for that a tremendously powerful individuality is needed. Personalities cannot trust; they are always afr aid ² afr aid that their reality may be ex posed, may be k nown. 3. Fr iendshi p can tur n into enmity, and enmity can become fr iendshi p. You all k now ² ha ppiness can tur n into sadness, and sadness can change into ha ppiness. Although they are polar opposites, they are almost like twins, ver y close. Just a slight change in cir cumstances and one disa ppears «the other was just behind it. So remember the tr anscendent ² existence belongs to the tr anscendental. Don¶t divide it; otherwise you will be continuously tortured by the duality. 4. In this ambitious wor ld, fr iendshi p cannot bloom, love is almost im possible, com passion cannot exist. We have created such an ugly mess, and the root is that we think that there is something to achieve. 5. A man who seeks fr iendshi p, love, com panionshi p, out of loneliness is not going to f ind it. In f act, with whomsoever he will associate he will feel cheated and he will make the other feel cheated. He will feel tired and bored, and he will make the other feel tired and bored. He will feel sucked and he will make the other feel sucked, because both will be suck ing on each other¶s ener gies. And they don¶t have much in the f irst place. Their streams are running ver y thin; they are like summer streams in a desertland. You cannot take any water out of them. But if you seek fr iendshi p and love and com panionshi p out of aloneness, you are a f looded r iver , a r iver in the r ains. You can share as much as you want. And the more you share, the more you will have. 6. The prover b is: A fr iend in need is a fr iend indeed. But deep down that is greed! That is not fr iendshi p, that is not love. You want to use the other as a means, and no man is a means, ever y man is an end unto himself . Why are you so worr ied about who is a real fr iend? 7. The real question has to be: Am I fr iendly to people? Do you k now what fr iendshi p is? It is the highest for m of love. In love, some lust is bound to be there; in fr iendshi p, all lust disa ppears. In fr iendshi p nothing gross remains; it becomes absolutely su btle. 8. Fr iendshi p is absolutely human. It has something for which there is no inbuilt mechanism in your biology; it is nonbiological. Hence one r ises in fr iendshi p, one does not f all in fr iendshi p. It has a spir itual dimension. 9. Fr iendshi p becomes a relationshi p, f ixed; fr iendliness is more f lowing, more f luid. Fr iendshi p is a relationshi p, fr iendliness is a state of your being. You are sim ply fr iendly; to whom, that is not the point. If you are standing by the side of a tree you are fr iendly to
the tree, or if you are sitting on the rock , you are fr iendly to the rock . To human beings, to animals, to birds, you are sim ply fr iendly. It is not something static; it is a f low, changing moment to moment. 10. Fr iendshi p is so valuable that whatsoever the consequence, remain fr iends even with your wife, even with your hus band, and allow absolute and total freedom to each other . 11. Create more fr iends, and as your fr iendshi p goes deeper into different dimensions, you will f ind yourself becoming r icher and r icher; your own heights will start reaching Everest, your own depths will start reaching the Pacif ic. 12. EVERYBODY is your enemy! Even those who are your fr iends are your enemies, because they are also f ighting for the f irst place as you are f ighting. How can you be fr iendly? With the ego there is no possibility of fr iendshi p. Then fr iendshi p is just a mask . The real nature of life is that of the jungle: the big f ish goes on eating the small f ish. Even if you pretend to be fr iendly, that is just show, str ategy, di plomacy. No body can be a fr iend here unless the ego disa ppears. Once the ego disa ppears the whole life has a quality of fr iendshi p, of love. Then you are fr iendly, sim ply fr iendly ² and to ever ybody, because there is no pro blem. You are not tr ying to be the f irst, so you are not more a com petitor . this is real dropping out.
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To me, religion is a love affair. It has nothing to do with intellect, it has nothing to do with reason. It is falling in love. With whomsoever you have fallen in love, that is your way. Go through it that is your door. Love is the door , it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love . Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the onl y redeeming force . Love is the savior. You project beauty, you project a thousand and one things on the poor woman . When you come closer, when you are able to live with the woman, those phantoms will start wearing out . Those imaginations cannot persist against realit y for long, the womans reality will assert. And then you will feel cheated and you will think she has cheated you. She has not done a thing . She herself is feeling cheated b y you, because she has also projected something on you. She was thinking you are a hero, an Alexander or something, a great man, and now you are just a mouse and nothing else. And she was thinking you are a mountain you are not even a molehill! She feels cheated. You both feel cheated , you both feel frustrated. Love is not a relationship between two persons. It is a state of mind within yourself . If you are loving, you are loving to ever ybody not only to persons, but to things as well . Love moves from you to objects also . Even when you are alone, when no one is there , you are loving. It is just like breathing . If I take an oath that I will breathe onl y when I am with you, only death can follow. Breathing is not relationship; it is not tied to an y relationship. And for the etheric bod y, love is just like breathing. It is its breath . Real love is not a function of the ego . The ego is alwa ys asking for power, so even when you love because your love is not real , because it is just a part of the ego it is bound to be violent . Whenever we love it is a violence , a type of war. Father and son, mother and daughter, husband and wife they are not lovers; we have converted them into enemies . They are constantly fighting, and only when they are not fighting do we sa y it is love .
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To me, love is a by-product of a meditative mind . It is not related to sex; it is related to dh yana, meditation. The more silent you become, the more at ease with yourself you will be, the more fulfilled you will feel , and the more a new expression of your being will be there . You will begin to love. Not anyone in particular. It may happen with someone in particular , but that is another thing. You begin to love. This loving becomes your way of existing. It can never turn into repulsion because it is not an attraction. 7. Ordinarily when you fall in love with someone, the real feeling is how to get love from him . It is not that love is going from you to him. Rather it is an e xpectation that love will come to you from him. That is why love becomes possessive. You possess someone so that you can get something out of him . But the love I am talking about is neither possessive nor does it have an y expectations . It is just how you behave. You have become so silent, so loving, that your silence goes to others now . 8. Whenever freedom happens in human consciousness, freedom is felt from inside and love is felt from outside. This love, this compassion, is an absence of both love and hate. The complete dualism is absent; there is neither attraction nor repulsion . So with a person who is free and loving, it depends on you whether you can take his love or not. It is not up to me how much love I can give you; it depends on how much love you can take. Ordinarily love depends on the person who is giving. He may give love; he ma y not. But the love I am talking about is not dependent on the giver . He is completely open and giving every moment. Even when no one is present, the love is flowing . 9. The day you realize yourself , your very being becomes love . It is no longer a relationship , it is no longer addressed to an yone in particular; it is simpl y overflowing in all directions and all dimensions. And it is not something on m y part, that I am doing it . Love cannot be done. And the love that is done is false; it is onl y pretension. 10. I teach human love , because it is in the fulfillment of human love that divine love flowers not against it, but in absolute continuit y with it. 11. Whenever there is love the woman blossoms . Without love, the woman shrinks . The men who love power never fall in love . Even if the y fall in love they keep themselves at a distance. 12. Why are men and women constantl y fighting? They are fighting because the y feel a certain dependence on each other. And nobody likes dependence everybody hates it. That hate is there that poisons your love. That hate is there that creates constant conflict . What I am proposing is that if ever y man and woman is brought up with the idea that you have both the wings, you are not alone , that hidden within you is your opposite pole, then you will have a certain balance and your need will change into something new. You will love a woman , but it will not be a need , it will be a jo y, it will be a sharing . You will love a woman who resembles your inner woman; there will be a certain deep connection . You will love a man who resembles your inner man. And if you are not fighting with your inner man , you cannot fight with your outer resemblance. Osho Quotes on Love Dec 09 19
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Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain. You become so intense that you are not there , because if you are there then the intensit y cannot be total; then two are there. If you love and the lover is there, then love cannot be intense. Love so deepl y, so totally, that the lover disappears . Then you are just an energ y moving. Then you will know love, you will know life, you will know death. When you love a woman dont be bothered about what others have said about love , because that is going to be an interference. You love a woman, the love is there, forget all that you have learned about love. Forget all Kinseys, forget all Masters and Johnsons, forget all Freuds and Jungs. Please dont become a language professor. Just love the woman and let love be there , and let love lead you and guide you into its innermost secrets, into its mysteries. Then you will be able to know what love is . You can come to know the truth onl y when you are in love . But love never argues. There is no argument in love , because there is no aggression . If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totall y. Dont be fragmentar y; suffer the consequences . Because of consequences you try to deceive. If you love a woman, you can dominate her . Thats why lovers go on pla ying politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the fear is there that if you dont dominate you will be lost and the other will dominate , so they continuously fight. Husbands and wives, lovers, go on fighting; the fight is for existence, to survive. The fear is there , I may be lost in the other .
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Surrender is just like love. Thats why I say only lovers can become sannyasins because the y know a little of how to surrender . Love is the first step towards the divine , surrender is the last . And two steps is the whole journe y. Dont allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the center , fear always comes from the peripher y; dont allow this peripher y to be dominant. And what have you got to lose? A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and li ve and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no wa y, no space to chatter . Each moment life is flooding you so vitally where is the time to gossip and chatter? Remember, if you cannot love a person you cannot love humanity. That may be a trick. Those who cannot love persons because it is ver y dangerous to love a person the y always think they love humanity. Where is humanity? Can you find it an ywhere? It is just a word . Humanity exists nowhere. Wherever you go you will find a person existing. Life is persons , not humanity. Life is always personified, it exists as an individual . Society, country, humanity, are just words . Where is society? Where is the countr y, the motherland? You cannot love a mother , and you love a motherland? You must be deceiving somewhere. But the word is good , beautiful: motherland. You need not bother about the motherland , because the motherland is not a person, it is a fiction in your mind. It is your own ego. If you love a person, by and by the person becomes the door to the whole. But one has to start with the person, with the small , with the atomic. You cannot take the jump . The Ganges cannot simply jump into the ocean , it has to start in the Gangotri, just a small stream; then wider and wider and bigger and bigger it goes , and then finall y it merges with the ocean . Deep love creates deep fear . It looks like death because the I disappears , the you disappears and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine . I have been continuously surprised by people who come to me and sa y they are afraid of love. What is the fear of love? It is because when you really love somebody your ego starts slipping and melting. You cannot love with the ego; the ego becomes a barrier . and when you want to drop the barrier the ego sa ys, This is going to be a death. Beware! This is the case with millions of people . They talk about love, they know all the poetries about love, but they have never loved. Or even if they thought they were in love, they were never in love. That too was a heady thing, it was not of the heart . People live and go on missing life . It needs courage. It needs courage to be realistic, it needs courage to move with life wherever it leads, because the paths are uncharted, there exists no map. One has to go into the unknown. When you see love between two persons , something is flowing , moving , changing. When there is love between two persons they live in an aura, there is a constant sharing. Their vibrations are reaching to : each other; the y are broadcasting their being to each other . There is no wall between them, they are two and yet not two the y are one also. People have become afraid of love because in love also , death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy, not even talking. Talking is an escape , an escape from love. When two lovers are talking that simpl y shows they are avoiding the intimac y. Words in-between give distance with no words distance disappears , death appears. In silence there is death just lurking around a beautiful phenomenon. But people are so afraid that they go on talking whether it is needed or not. They go on talking about an ything, everything but the y cannot keep silent.
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I am not talking against life . How can I talk against life? I am madl y in love with life! I am so madly in love with life , that because of it I have fallen in love with death also . It is part of life . When you love life totall y how can you avoid death? You have to love death also . When you love a flower deeply, you love its withering awa y also: When you love a woman deeply, you love her getting old also, you one day love her death also. That is part, part of the woman. The old age has not happened from the outside , it has come from the inside . The beautiful face has become wrinkled now you love those wrinkles also. They are part of your woman. You love a man and his hair has grown white you love those hairs also. They have not happened from the outside; they are not accidents. Life is unfolding . Now the black hair has disappeared and the gre y hair has come. You dont reject them , you love them, they are a part. Then your man becomes old, becomes weak you love that too . Then one day the man is gone you love that too . Love loves all. Love knows nothing else than love . Hence I say love death. If you can love death it will be very simple to love life. If you can love even death, there is no problem .
Dont allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the center , fear always comes from the peripher y; dont allow this peripher y to be dominant. And what have you got to lose? Osho Quotes on Love Dec 09 06
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When knowledge exists not, there is love. Knowledge is against love. Knowledgeable people cannot love and people who can love are never knowledgeable. Love makes you wise, but never knowledgeable. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever , but never loving . The known is the mind, the unknown is God. And Jesus says: God is love. Love comes through the unknown, with the unknown , as part of the unknown . To move into the unknown one needs courage, tremendous courage. To cling to the known there is no need to have an y courage: any coward can do it, cowards only do that. To transcend contradictions is to transcend mind , and to transcend mind is to know what love is . Whatsoever you have known up to now as love has nothing to do with love. It is a misuse of the word. `Love has been very much misused. There are onl y a few words which have been misused like `love. `God is another, `peace is another. But `love is at the top of the l ist . Everybody talks about love and nobody knows what it is . People sing about it, people write poetr y about it, and they dont know what love is . Love knows no object, love is not addressed. Love is only of God. When you love your woman, if you really love her, you will see the woman has disappeared and god is standing there . If you love the tree , you will suddenly see the tree has disappeared and God is very green in it , blooming. Love is only of God. Love is never of the part , love is only of the whole. Love is almost synonymous with prayer. Love yourself so that you can love others. People escape to the Himalayas: they are escaping from love , not from the world . They are afraid of love, and their fear has some reason behind it . Whenever you are in love , you are in a turmoil. Whenever there is love there is difficult y; whenever there is love there is conflict;
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whenever there is love there is hell . Says Jean-Paul Sartre, The other is hell . So whenever there is love the other enters your life, and suddenly there is conflict, collision, struggle to dominate each other, to possess each other , to master each other . And the miser y arises. Lovers are rarel y happy. I am not saying that non-lovers are happ y; non-lovers may not be happy, but they are never so unhappy as the lovers. Either move through love , and you will attain to God, or move through God, and you will attain to love. They come together; it is one package . The hen and the egg are not separate the egg is nothing but a wa y for the hen to produce more hens , and the hen is nothing but a wa y for the egg to produce more eggs . They are not separate . The egg is the hen unmanifest , and the hen is the egg manifest . They are two ends of one thing , of one phenomenon. So are God and love. Love is possible onl y if there is no possessiveness and no jealousy. That means love has attained to renunciation. You love the person but you renounce possessiveness; you love the person but you renounce jealousy; you love the person but you dont want to make a slave out of him or out of her; you love the person but you respect his or her freedom; you love the person but your love does not become an imprisonment . You love, and yet you remain unattached. You love, you love tremendously, but still you dont cling: that is renunciation . If your love is so great that it can contain renunciation , only then is it love . This whole existence is in love: these trees are moving tremendousl y in love; these stars , these rivers rushing towards the ocean , are rushing towards a love-affair where they can meet and merge. Watch, and you will find ever ywhere the shadow of love , the thrill, the excitement, the ecstas y of love. Whatsoever the form , if you look deeply, you will always find something throbbing at the center which cannot be an ything other than love .
If your love is so great that it can contain renunciation , only then is it love . Osho Quotes on Love Nov 09 03
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Osho Quotes on Love 1.
Whenever there is love you will be a king . And then you are free because it is a question of love; it does not depend on her . Whenever there is love you will be a king; whenever there is not love you will be a beggar . It is love that gives you the glor y. Yes, the love has come through her window; it can come through an y other window. It can simply shower on you without anybody. It simply needs understanding that it is love , not the person. The person is instrumental . Then you are not imprisoning the person . Love cannot be imprisoned and there is
no need to imprison it . Love is your song you can sing it an y time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it awa y from you; nobody can take it away from you. 2. Love should be without an y expectations; otherwise laughter dies . When you expect, frustration comes in. Nobody can fulfill your expectations, and there is nobody who needs to fulfill them . They come out of a mad , neurotic mind. If somebody fulfills them then too love disappears . Then the other becomes a necessit y, a need, a possession a valuable possession but a possession all the same. 3. We are creating a different kind of world based on love , in love and for love . The ordinary world is against love. It does not give freedom to the individual , it does not have an y respect for the individual, it does not accept the individual and his wa y of life. 4. Become a language of love. Facts are okay, but just okay; they dont make life a rejoicing , they dont create celebration . They can give you a better standard of life but the y cannot give you a new passion for life, they cannot give you intensity of life. They cannot give you quality; they can only give you quantity. Only the language of love starts penetrating you through a different dimension, through the vertical dimension . 5. When you become accustomed to love and you know what is going to happen , it becomes a routine, predictable; it is no more of an y value. Love lives only when it remains unpredictable; one never knows what is going to happen. When nothing can be taken for granted, not even for a single moment, when one can allow and one can accept that this is going to happen , when the next moment remains open with no possibilit y of predicting, then there is laughter because there is constant surprise . 6. Deep contentment is the visible sign of love . Whenever a person is in love , he is in deep contentment . Love cannot be seen, but contentment , the deep satisfaction around himhis every breath, his every movement , his very being content. 7. We think we love . And if you think that you love, then there is no possibilit y for love to happen because if this is love , then everything is closed . Make fresh efforts. Try to find in the other the real being that is hidden . Dont take anybody for granted. Every individual is such a m ystery that if you go on and on into him it is endless . But we get bored with the other because just the periphery, and always the peripher y. 8. Remember alwa ys: in love, you are always wrong. And then the possibility will open and the other will also feel the same . We create the feeling in the other . When lovers are close , immediately thoughts go jumping from one to the other . Even if the y are not saying anything, they are silent, they communicate . 9. Language is for non-lovers , those who are not in love . For lovers, silence is enough language . Without saying anything, they go on speaking. 10. If you take love as sadhana, then dont sa y the other is wrong . Just try to find out: somewhere , something must be wrong in you, and drop that wrongness . 11. These are the two paths . Love means working out your path through relationship. And meditation: working it out in your loneliness. Love and meditation these are the two paths . Feel which will suit you. Then bring your total energies to it , and move on that path. 12. Love, and more love becomes available; use more and you have more . This is the law of life . You can eat the cake and have it also . Compassion, love, activity, whatsoever the dimension, the same rule applies. Whatsoever you want more of , do the same. If you want to become an infinite source of love , then go on sharing love as much as you can. Dont be a miser; onl y misers lose energy. And we are all misers , thats why we always feel dissipated. 13. When you are in love, language is not needed . Gestureseven silence becomes eloquent . 14. Love needs another; meditation can be done alone . Man can achieve through meditation thats why he can achieve directl y. He can be alone. He is alone deep down. Loneliness comes
naturally to man. For a woman, to be alone is difficult , very difficult, almost impossible. Her whole being is a deep urge to love , and for love, the other is needed . How can you love if the other is not there? You can meditate if the other is not there there is no problem . Woman, the female energ y, reaches the meditative state through love; and the male energ y reaches love through meditation. 15. Our love is a relationship . And when love is a relationship, it creates miser y. When love is a state of being, it creates bliss . A Buddha is also in love, but he is not tr ying to love you. Simply because of the way he is, love spreads. Love becomes a perfume and goes to the far comers of the earth .
Osho Quotes on Marriage 1.
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Only fools think in terms of legalit y; otherwise, love is enough. And I am not against marriage I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but dont hope that marriage can bring love . That is not possible. Love can become a marriage . You have to work ver y consciousl y to transform your love into a marriage . Marriage is a totall y different phenomenon: it is the climax of love . Then it is good. I am not against marriage I am for the R EAL marriage. I am against the false , the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment. Marriage has made love disappear badly, marriage has made love disappear from the earth . Because for other considerations marriage is arranged mone y, finance, family, prestige, astrology all absurd. They have nothing to do with the heart of the two persons who are going to be married. So marriage is almost alwa ys a failure; only in rare accidents it is not so but they are accidents, exceptions . They cannot be counted. Marriage is always on the rocks, because it is for wrong reasons. Only love can become the foundation of a real marriage , there is no other way. Because there is no other wa y to find that your wave length is exactly the same as the others , that you vibrate in the same wa y as the other. There is no other wa y to find it out. Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped b y the woman and the woman will be trapped b y you. It is a mutual trap . And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever . The first thing is love: love deepl y. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the jo ys and all the miseries , and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is onl y a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is . It can onl y make it ugl y, it cannot beautif y it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted , things will start going down rather than rising high. I have never said that love is destroyed by marriage. How can marriage destro y love? Yes, it is destro yed in marriage, but it is destro yed by you, not by marriage. It is destroyed by the partners . How can marriage destroy love? It is you who destroy it, because you dont know what love is. You simply pretend to know, you simply hope that you know, you dream that you know, but you dont know what love is . Love has to be learned; it is the greatest art there is . Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics. Love marriage came into existence but is not going to survive , for the simple reason that love comes, happens, and one day suddenly goes. It was not in your hands to bring it; neither is it in your hands to keep it. The old marriage failed because the insistence was that you should love
your wife, you should love your husband. It was a `should. And you could not even conceive how you could love; at the most you could pretend, you could act. But love is not a pretension ,
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is not an acting . You cannot do anything. You are absolutely powerless as far as love is concerned . The old marriage failed. The new marriage is failing because the new marriage is simply a reaction to the old marriage . It is not out of understanding, but only out of reaction , revolt `love marriage . 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 man y ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it , and are now ready to settle. I am all for love , because love fails. You will be surprised I have m y own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage , because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a to y, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, manmade. But I am all for love , and I am against marriage , particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? love can never satisf y you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love , it makes you more and more long for it , it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover , a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is pra yer, meditation , sannyas. I am basically against marriage; obviously the question of divorce does not arise . I am against the accidental birth of people , because that is the basic cause for the earth being burdened with the retarded. I am in absolute agreement that love should be just pla y; the moment you start producing children it becomes business . And I cannot agree to produce this kind of humanit y. I was teaching that whenever a couple of course unmarried , because the law has nothing to do with your love. Love should be a freedom between two persons , and if from even one person love disappears they have to separate, as friends, with gratitude for all the beautiful moments they lived together. Loving affairs ending in the courts are absolutely ugly. You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain . Marriage makes things so dead and dull . Marriage takes all surprise and wonder away. Marriage makes you take your wife for granted , your husband for granted. What is the need to look at your wife? She will be there tomorrow and the da y after tomorrow and forever. You look at people when you know you may not be able to look at them again. Marriage kills; it makes something tremendously beautiful very ugly. I have never heard about any perfect marriage . They say perfect marriages are made in heaven . Nobody comes back from there so ma ybe it is true , but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individualit y in the man or in the woman. They will never collide , they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other . And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularit y, frugality, temperance , forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. Marriage itself never destro ys anything. Marriage simpl y brings out whatsoever is hidden in you it brings it out . If love is hidden behind you, inside you, marriage brings it out . If love was just a pretension, just a bait, then sooner or later it has to disappear. And then your reality, your ugly personality comes up. Marriage simply is an opportunity, so whatsoever you had to bring out will come out.I am not sa ying that love is destro yed by marriage . Love is destroyed by people who dont know how to love. Love is destro yed because in the first place love is not . You have been living in a dream . Reality destroys that dream. Otherwise love is something eternal, part of
eternity. If you grow, if you know the art , and you accept the realities of love-life , then it goes on growing every day. Marriage becomes a tremendous opportunit y to grow into love . 17. Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation , it is not togetherness . That is wh y no happiness comes out of it as a flowering . It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstas y be born? 18. Marriage almost always never happens, because marriage means the celebration of togetherness . It is not a license . No registry office can give you marriage; no priest can give it to you as a gift. It is a tremendous revolution in the being , it is a great transformation in your very style of life, and it can happen only when you celebrate togetherness, when the other is no longer felt as the other , when you no longer feel yourself as I. When the two are not reall y two, a bridge has happened, they have become one in a certain sense . Physicall y they remain two, but as far as the innermost being is concerned, they have become one. They may be two poles of one existence but the y are not two . A bridge exists . That bridge gives you glimpses of togetherness . It is one of the rarest things to come across a marriage . People live together because they cannot live alone. Remember this: because the y cannot live alone, that is why they live together. To live alone is uncomfortable, to live alone is uneconomical, to live alone is difficult, that is why they live together . The reasons are negative. 19. Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial , arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back . You can pretend , but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman , because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute . The only way is to separate in friendship , because you have given each other so much . 20. As I see it , out of a hundred marriages ninet y-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution . They are not marriages . A marriage is onl y a real marriage when it grows out of love . Legal, illegal, does not matter . The real thing that matters is love . If love exists between two persons , it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons , then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict , then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other . They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other , possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial. In a better world , with a better humanit y, things will be different. In a better world , the child born out of love will not be called bastard; the child onl y born out of license, law, will be called bastard. 21. Bring more understanding to it . You will not be able to separate easil y because love is involved. Without love marriage is eas y, divorce is easy. It does not matter either wa y; it is a simple , utilitarian arrangement. If things-are going well , good; otherwise, say goodbye. But when you are involved in each other it is not eas y, it is difficult . A part of your being has become incorporated in his being, a part of his being has become incorporated in your being. You really dont exist as two individuals an y more you exist as a couple. A couple does not mean two persons living together. A couple means: two persons plugged into each other no more reall y two trying to be separate and yet trying to be together . That is the difficult y: one wants to remain dependent and one wants to remain independent . One is asking for two polar opposites. 22. What do marriage vows show? The y show that you may want to separate sometime in the future . If there is love between two people , the thought of taking vows never arises . This is onl y an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth , marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do . We make rules for that which we are not sure of .
Short Quotations of Osho
1. Make yourself more and more alert. 2. The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real pr ayer , gr atitude. 3. Meditation cannot be a fr agmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Ever y moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative. 4. If meditation really ha ppens, whatsoever the cause, com passion has to follow. 5. Mind, and mind¶s hold on you, is the im pr isonment. Get r id of the mind. 6. Individuality is the ver y f lower ing of existence ² nothing is higher than it. 7. No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind. 8. Ha ppiness comes when you are meditative. 9. My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has cour age. 10. Wester n man is missing the f lower ing of life because he k nows nothing about meditation, and Easter n man is missing because he k nows nothing of love. 11. Just as water f lows downwards towards the ocean, beauty, truth, love ² all that is valuable in existence ² f lows towards a person who is no body. 12.
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Death is a quantum jump from one bod y, from one form into another form . But it is not an end to you. Meditation is a wa y of awakening. Go beyond the mind and the wa y beyond the mind is ver y simple just become a watcher of the mind. Meditation is the onl y way to discover your deathlessness. The only alternative is to be more conscious , more alert, more alive, more loving and create a new world with a new man , bring a new dawn to humanit y. Once you know yourself , there is no death. Death was onl y in your ignorance. Mind is a continuous thirst for more . It never finds fulfillment. My effort is to continuousl y emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind , understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning wa ys. My speaking is really one of my devices for meditation. I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with an ybody; all wrongs have been fed into you. Meditation is an effort to get rid of personalit y and to reach to your living sources of life , your individuality, your flame. You are too much identified with the false , the personality. Meditation is the onl y possibility for creating a space where blessings shower .
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What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone , but on your understanding and on how you live your life. Have you not observed that it becomes brahmachar ya, the state of celibac y when it is transformed? bramhacharya is not hostile to passion; brahmacharya is the purification, the transcendence, the sublimation of passion. In the same wa y, the energy that manifests itself in violence becomes peace, serenity and tranquility. It is onl y a question of transformation. Love is not sexual passion. Those who mistake sex for love remain empt y of love. Sex is onl y a passing manifestation of love . It is part of natures mechanism, a method of procreation. Love exists on a higher plane , and as love grows, sex dissipates. The energy that has been manifested in sex is transformed into love . Love is the creative refinement of sex energ y. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love , an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacit y to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is onl y possible through love. The first thing: be a witness of sex too . Dont be the controller of it . Dont try to forcibly bring it under control , remain a witness of it too . Just as you are a witness of ever ything else, remain a witness of sex too . It is difficult, because you have been taught for centuries that sex is sin . That concept of sin has been fixed in your mind. Both are easy: it is perfectly easy to go unconscious in sex , to completely forget what is going on, to get intoxicated is eas y. To control sex, to force it to stop , to prevent yourself is also eas y. But in both you miss. The one who indulges misses, the celibate misses too . The real brahmacharya happens when you stand in the middle between these two , then you are only watching . Then you will find that sex arises in the bod y and reverberates in the body; in the mind a shadow briefly falls and departs. You remain standing far away. How can sexual desire be in you? How can any desire be in you? You are nothing but the observer. See life from a positive viewpoint . If you start being happy then the things that you grabbed onto because of your misery will drop by themselves. If meditation comes then wine will drop . If
meditation comes, then meat-eating will drop . If meditation comes then slowl y slowly sex energy begins to be transformed into brahmacharya. Just let meditation come . 7. Just by condemning nothing is destroyed. If you say sex is bad, you condemn it, but you cannot destro y it. Just by condemning it, it is not destro yed. Rather, it may become a more dangerous force, because when repressed, it may struggle to be expressed . And if you go on struggling with it, not allowing it, it will become perverted . Repression will make you more sexual , and the sex energy will struggle and will tr y to come out in any way, in any form. 8. All the perversions, all over the world homosexualit y or sado-masochist perversions are basically byproducts of so-called religions, particularly christianity: because the more the y repress, the more the energ y has to find paths of its own. Natural sex is beautiful; perverted sex is just ugliness. Natural sex can be made hallowed and holy, but perverted sex cannot be made holy because it is twice removed from the original source. 9. Sex is there: do not condemn it . Accept it. Do not create a division in your being, between parts of your being. Anger is there: accept it . Greed is there , or whatsoever: accept it . I do not mean be greedy. Rather on the contrar y, the moment you accept you go beyond, because acceptance creates a unity, and when you are united within you have the energy to go be yond. 10. You are born of sex . Your every body cell is a sex cell , all your energy is sex energ y. So if religions teach that sex is bad, sex is sin , they have condemned you completel y. And not only have they condemned you, now you will condemn yourself . Now you cannot go beyond it and you cannot leave it, and now it is a sin. You are divided; you start fighting with yourself . And the more this guilt can be created in you over the concept that sex is something unholy the more neurotic you will become. 11. I take sex as the basic problem . And if your sex problem is solved , you are a different man or a different woman, because then all the perversions simpl y are no more. You have resolved the base. And when sex is solved and it is not a problem for you, not a fight, when you have deeply accepted it and said a deep yes to it, then you can transform it because that is the energ y which is alive in you. When you are dead, that energy will go on and on , more and more. You are just a wave in a sex ocean: the o cean continues , and the waves go on, die and disappear. The ocean continues. Sex is the BRAH MAN. If you go deep into sex, then it is the ver y life. If you forget it, then you remain on the surface . Then it is ugl y. If you do not fight with it or sink into it , but drop into it, dissolve into it, melt into it, when you allow sex to become life , then suddenly it is transformed into love. That is how the mechanism automatically works. If you fight it, sex becomes hate. So those who are filled with hatred are those who are fighting with their sex . 12. If you do not fight it , if you accept it and melt into it , it becomes love . So love and hate are two faces of sex. If it is perverted , it becomes hate. If accepted deepl y, it will become love. And you can create love out of your sex energies . If those energies transform into love , then you are at ease in the world, at home with the earth . That at-homeness is basic. 13. This is the beauty: if you accept sex, you will not reject an ything else. That is why there is so much emphasis on it. If you reject sex , you will have to reject man y things . Sex is the root rejection. If you reject sex , you will reject man y things . Food will be rejected, then clothes will be rejected , then everything will be rejected. It is a long sequence , and in that sequence you will have to reject and reject , because the whole life is sexual . If you reject sex you will go on and on rejecting, and ultimatel y you will reject life . Then suicide is the onl y thing worth doing because even to take a breath is sexual . It goes to your sex cells and gives them life . To be alive is to be sexual. If you are against sex , then you will be against ever ything. And a person who is against everything is bound to be neurotic , mad, and you cannot help him . 14. When you are with a woman , if you are of the opposite sex , you begin to feel more alive than with a man. With a man you feel less alive because nothing is pulling you out. You are enclosed,
the opposite energ y pulls you out; the flame flickers , you can be more alive. And whenever you begin to feel more alive , you begin to feel happy. 15. The mechanism of sex is so much a momentar y phenomenon that it onl y functions momentarily; if you do not cooperate at the right moment , it stops. At the right moment your cooperation is needed, otherwise it cannot work . It is onl y a momentary mechanism, and if you do not cooperate with it , it will stop b y itself . 16. First the energ y will try its best to be released sexuall y, because that is its usual outlet, its usual center . So one must first be aware of ones downward doors . Only awareness will close them; only noncooperation will close them . Sex is not so forceful as we feel it to be . It is forceful onl y momentarily: it is not a twenty-four-hour affair, it is a momentar y challenge. 17. One more point, thinking about sex is harmful than sex itself . Sex can be eas y and natural but thinking about it too often is unnatural, is a perversion. After examining the experience of thousands of people, the psychoanalysts tell us that man is taking too much interest in mental sex and he does not derive an y pleasure from the actual sex activit y. The sex that is going on in the mind seems more interesting and colourful . If sex is thus perverted in the mind , confusion will be created within us . To think about sex is not the function of the mind. The intelligence of the person who uses his mind to do the work of sex centre becomes depraved is spoilt . Gurdjieff used to sa y so. The intelligence is bound to get spoilt , because the functions of these two are different. It is like this: If a person tries to take food with his ear , his ear will certainl y be spoilt, and food will not reach the stomach. Both will be harassed . Osho Quotes on Relationship, Osho Quotes on Sex Dec 09 21
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Osho Quotes on Sex 1.
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My whole effort is that all the pleasures of life should be made avail able to man . My own
calculation is that after each seven years, life goes through a completion of a circle , and a change. The first seven years are of childhood, innocence, playfulness, trust. Life is certainl y golden memories of those da ys haunt people to the ver y end, because never again in their lives are the y able to manage to find something better. The next seven years are the maturing of sex energy. At the age of fourteen , one is sexually mature mind starts functioning in a totall y different way; the body starts functioning in a totall y different way. Fourteen is the biological age for man: he is now able to produce children . As far as biology is concerned, man has come of age. If somebodys sex is not fulfilled , he may start eating too much . It is now a well-established fact that after marriage women start becoming fat . Not before marriage strange . It is just that once they get married there is no problem; the y have got a lifelong servant . Now they can eat and rest, and they start becoming fat. And the more fat the y are, the more their husbands start looking at other women. The more the husbands look at other women, the more the y eat because eating becomes a substitute; the y are very much associated. Life begins with sex , but life remains because of food , so sex and food are both associated with keeping life in existence. And it is strange wh y dont you feel attracted to a fat woman , why are you not attracted to a fat man? There must be some basic reason, and the reason is that the fat man is showing clearl y by his fatness that he has replaced sex with food . He is no longer interested in sex , he is interested in food. The fat woman is sa ying she is not interested in sex; her fatness is a signboard: Keep off! she is going towards the fridge .
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I am not against sex , but I am against sexualit y. And let me make a distinction: when you feeling very sexual and being possessed b y the person, this is not the moment to do an ything. Close your doors, meditate on your sexuality. Let it arise , let it come out of the dark night within you. Out of the jungle, let it spread you watch, you simply watch, you become an unmoving flame of awareness. Soon you will see it has settled again, and your consciousness is burning brighter than ever. You have absorbed it , it has become nectar . I am not against sex; when you are feeling ver y prayerful, very loving, go into sex nothing is wrong but never be trapped by passion. And see the difference: when you are feeling loving, it is a totall y different quality. When you are feeling happy, celebrating, and you would like to share your energy with somebody you love, go make love. But this is not a moment of passion , this is a moment of tremendous warmth . A moment of love , share. Natural sex is more meditative . There is less fever more warmth but less fever . Passion is a fever, a state of madness, insanity. Warmth is a state of love . If you can make love, fully alert, your love precesses will help you towards becoming more and more aware , more and more centered . You will be surprised to know: greed y; people have no sexual problem. Thats why Marwadis have to adopt children . Greedy people dont have sex-energ y: their whole energ y moves into greed. Money becomes their love object: the y dont care a bit about women . My views on sexual ethics are against all the views that have been held up to now . They were all repressive of sex; the y were condemnatory and created a split in the human mind . The whole schizophrenia and all the perversions of man are rooted i n those wrong sexual ethics . I conceive of sex as a natural phenomenon. There is nothing profane in it and there is nothing sacred in it . It is purel y natural life energ y of tremendous importance. If you cannot sublimate it, it can destro y you; and it has destroyed humanity. It is the energ y man is born out of; ever ything is born out of it. Naturally there is no higher energ y than sexual energy, but biological reproduction is not its onl y function. The same energy can have different creative dimensions . The same energ y, joined with meditative practices , can be sublimated to the highest peak of consciousness what I call enlightenment. My sexual ethics is not a law , it is love. To me, if sex is the creative force in the world , it must be nearest to the creative center of the world whatever name you give to it. Creative energy must be closest to creation , to the creative source of it all . People should be taught the art of converting sexual energ y into spiritual enlightenment. Those who can understand me see clearly that I am the most anti-sex person in existence , because my whole work is to transform sexual energ y into spiritual consciousness. The pope can be the sex guru, the shankaracharya in India can be the sex guru , because these are the people who are repressing and teaching that sex should be repressed. Whatever is repressed remains in you, and it takes perverted forms . It may become homosexuality, it may become sodomy; it ma y take the form of an y perversion. The more you repress it, the more it will have to find some wa y out. Homosexuality was born in monasteries it is a religious phenomenon because religions segregated their monks and nuns , and they were so adamant that men and women should not touch each other , should not talk to each other , should not even see each other. Where will their sex energ y go? Nobody has bothered about their sex energ y; they have simply been told, You take the vow of celibac y. But the vow will not help because the vow is not heard by your biology. Remember that sex is not in the genitals , it is in your head. There is a center in your head which controls your genitals; so if sex is repressed , it is not a question of the genitals. There have been Christian sects who even cut off their genitals just so that their celibac y was absolute. But that will not make them sex-free , because the real center is in the head , from where sex is just an
extension. Thats why you can just fantasize about sex and your genitals will be immediatel y affected; they are extensions of your mind. And once the mind becomes full of sexualit y, then a new thing appears that your religions have created and are responsible for pornograph y. 12. Those who call me the sex guru are simpl y stupid. They dont understand a simple thing . I repeat again: I am the most anti-sex person in the whole world . If I am listened to there will be no pornography, there will be no homosexuals, there will be no lesbians there will be no perversions of any kind. And you call me the sex guru! Osho Quotes on Sex Dec 09 08
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You are obsessed with sex because you dont know an y other sort of celebration . So the problem is not sex reall y; the problem is that you dont know any other celebration. Nature allows you only one joy, and that is of sex . Nature allows you only one enjoyment, that is of sex . Nature allows you only one thrill , and that is of sex . In the sexual act you have a certain thrill , a moment of forgetfulness , a moment of oblivion . You feel good for a few seconds, only for a few seconds , you drop out of this routine world . Sex gives you a door to escape into some other world which is non-tense; there is no worr y; you are simply relaxed and melting . But have you observed? After each sexual act you feel frustrated . Sex creates neurosis , it is neurotic , because it can never satisf y you. Now, go to the madhouses of the world and just watch the mad people , and you will always find that somewhere or other there is a sexual problem . Thats what Freud sa ys, that ALL patholog y is somehow connected with sex. Too much sex obsession becomes neurotic . If you live in the bod y, you are bound to become neurotic. You have to go a little deeper and higher than the bod y. Whenever a person starts condemning sex , somewhere he must be carr ying a jealousy. Buddha is not condemning . He is simply factual . He simply says whatsoever is the case . And he wants you to come out of it because your destiny is bigger, higher is the potentialit y. Animals have sex but no sexuality. Man has sex plus sexualit y. Sex is ph ysical, sexuality is mental and when you talk, your talk can be sexual . Animals have sex; thats a ph ysiological act. They dont talk, they dont have any language; but man has language , and language is one of the most powerful instruments in the hands of man . You communicate through it , you relate through it . You seduce through words, you insult through words; you show your love through words , you show your hate through words . You repel or attract through your words. In sex there ma y be relaxation. In sex there ma y be physiological health and hygiene. But there is no growth . You remain animal. With love you become human. With love you become upright. With love you stand erect on earth . With sex you are again animal , you are horizontal on the earth, just moving like other animals , crawling . With love you are erect, vertical. Real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you have either to be identified with the male or identified with the female . A real celibate is one who has gone be yond, who is neither. Repression can never bring freedom . Repression makes you a slave. Repress anything, and that will become your master. So the so-called celibates in the monasteries the BRAH MACHARIS they are continuously obsessed with sex. Their whole obsession is sex, their mind is completely sexual it has to be so . Or, if you are mad, and you are REALLY against the body and you start destroying the bod y, the only thing that you can succeed in will be that you will become a eunuch. Love goes beyond polarity, sex remains below polarit y. Sex needs the opposite , love does not need the opposite. Hence, in sex there is alwa ys a subtle conflict, because with the opposite the harmony can never be total . For moments maybe again the conflict comes in . Love is unconditional, sex is conditional. In sex there is a give and take. In love, you simply pour. You dont ask, there is no demand. Not that you dont get you get a thousandfold but that is not asked for. That simply comes on its own accord: the whole existence showers back , echoes back. Now, one thing to be remembered always: if you are not very alert you may go on believing that you are moving into tantra , and you may be simply rationalizing your sexuality it may be nothing but sex , rationalized in the terminology of tantra. If you move into sex with awareness,
