Add something to your BEING

I don't teach renunciation of your wealth or of anything. Let anything be as it is. Just add one more thing to your life. Up to now you have been adding only things to your life. Now add something to your being--add that will do the music, that will do the miracle, that will do the magic, that will create a new thrill, a new youth, a new freshness...

The man who lives totally becomes unambitious. Because he is so happy right now, he cannot conceive that there is the possibility of more. The ordinary madness of man's mind -- of desiring for more and more -- is because you are not living totally. There is always gap, something is missing. You know things could have been better. Out of this partial living all ambitions arise, and then the whole game of the society goes on: people want to become rich, people want to become famous, people want to become politicians, people want to become presidents and prime ministers...

Osho: From meditation to meditation

The origin of tense

The original source of tense is becoming. One is always trying to be something, no one is at ease with himself as he is. The being is not accepted, the being is denied, and something else is taken as an ideal to become. So the basic tension is always between that which you are and that which you long to become. You desire to become something. Tension means that you are not pleased with what you are, and you long to be what you are not. Tension is created between these two. What you desire to become is irrelevant. If you want to become wealth, famous, powerful, or even if you want to be free, libertated, to be divine, immortal, even if you long for salvation, moksha, then too the tension will be there... Tension means a gap between what you are and what you want to be. If the gap is great, the tension will be great. If the gap is small, the tension will be small. And if there is no gap at all, it means you are satisfied with what you are. In other words, you don't long to be other than what you are, then your mind exists in the moment. There is nothing to be tense about, you are at ease with yourself. To me, if there is no gap you are religious...Only if we accept ourself totally is there no tension. This total acceptance is the miracle, the only miracle. To find a person who has accepted himself totally is the only surprising thing.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Good and evil

Good is near Truth, but is not yet Truth. After learning not to be disturbed by evil, we have to learn not to be made happy by good. We must find that we are beyond both evil and good; we must study their adjustment and see that they are both necessary. The idea of dualism is from the ancient Persians. Really good and evil are one (Because they are both chains and products of Maya) and are in our own mind. When the mind is self-poised, neither good nor bad affects it. Be perfectly free; then neither can affect it, and we enjoy freedom and bliss. Evil is the iron chain, good is the gold one; both are chains. Be free, and know once for all that there is no chain for you. Lay hold of the golden chain to loosen the hold of the iron one, then throw both away. The thorn of evil is in our flesh; take another thorn from the same bush and extract the first thorn; then throw away both and be free. . . .

Swami Vivekananda

A really enlightening insight about the meaning of life

Life may not have any real "meaning" other than the one that you have superimposed upon it.

In short, life will tend to mean for you whatever you say that life means. For example, when you say that:

"Life is a drag!"
"Life is a challenge."
"Life is terrible."
"Life is a dance."
"Life is a Game."
etc. etc. etc.

then Life won't disappoint you.

Life will mysteriously show up for you in ways that fully support your heart's definition of it. No matter how self-limiting that definition might be.

But you'll have to take some position on it.

If you're not willing to give your life any meaning at all, then your inner fear that "My life is probably meaningless!" will automatically win by default.

- Chuck Hillig, Seeds for the Soul

A really sane person

A really sane person is one who can live between sanity and insanity in absolute balance. A really sane person always has some insanity in him--he accepts it. A really rational person is one who respects irrationality too--because life is such... my Suggestion is to remain choiceless. "Choiceless awareness" is the key word. Remain choiceless, aware, and wherever you see something is going off balance--lean to the other side. Bring the balance again, and this is how one moves? Life is like tightrope walking.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Relaxation

Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena--very rich, multi-dimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the way of relaxation. Your so-called religions have made you very tense, because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of all guilt and all fear. I would like to tell you: there is no hell and there is no heaven. So don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven. All that exists is this moment. You can make this moment a hell or heaven-- that certainly is possible --but there is no hell or heaven somewhere else: Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed.

Total relaxation is paradise.


Osho: From meditation to meditation

Non-tense moment

If you can feel this non-tense moment in your body, you will know a well-beiing that you have never known before, a positive well-being...Your body can be non-tense only when you are living a moment-to-moment exitence. If you are eating and the moment has become eternity, then there is no past and no future. The very process of eating is all that is. You are not doing something, you have become the doing, there will bo no tension, your body will feel fulfilled. Or if you are in sexual communion and the sex is not just a relif from sexual tension, but rather, a positive expression of love--if the moment has become total, whole, and you are in it completely--then you will know a positive well-being in your body.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

I Believe

I received this touching poem from a mailing list, I hope it is touching for you too.



I Believe



I believe that the sun shines after the rain
I believe if you don't get hurt you'll never gain
I believe in not doing things the easy way
I believe that being selfish doesn't pay

I believe in a second chance
I believe in a life long romance
I believe there is life after death
And standing up to a life of mess

I believe in love at first sight
I believe that revenge isn't right
I believe that first impressions last
And there is nothing better then a good laugh

I believe that dreams do come true
I believe there's destiny for me and you
I believe that good things come to those who wait
I believe love never arrives too late

I believe something good comes from something bad
I believe that for tears of happiness there are tears of sad
I believe everyone has a guardian angel
And the good you do will be rewarded well

I believe sometimes there is no explanation
I believe money can't buy people's affection
I believe you don't know what you've got until it's gone
I believe a new day arrives with every dawn

I believe a smile can be contagious
I believe in being very outrageous
I believe in living with no regrets
I believe that life is as good as it gets

I believe that God watches over us
I believe the little things are worth the fuss
I believe you have each friend for a reason
I believe you will get punished for treason

I believe that what comes first is family
I believe we should all live in harmony
I believe in making the most of a beautiful day
And it's not the end until everything's okay

I believe absence makes the heart grow fonder
I believe you will lose if you sit and wonder
I believe every experience teaches you a lesson
And nothing cures better than a drinking session

I believe everyone has one true love
I believe sometimes we need a little shove
I believe the whole world is a stage
I believe we only get better with age

I believe that to learn you have to live
I believe that to love someone you have to give
I believe one moment can change your life
And there's still help when you're in strife

I believe everyone has one true friend
I believe love helps a broken heart mend
I believe in the power of a song
And things will change before too long

I believe living is the best experience
I believe in not laughing at other people's expense
I believe it's hard to watch a lover leave
And when they're gone all you can do is breath

I believe to always look on the bright side
I believe that life is just one big ride
I believe when I die people will grieve
But it's ok because I believe

Paint something on it!

Life in itself is not meaningful. It is meaningful only if you can sing a song of the eternal, if you can release some fragrance of the divine, of the godly, if you can become a lotus flower--deathless, timeless. If you can become pure love, if you can beautify this existence, if you can become a blessing to this existence, only then does life have significance; otherwise it is pointless, it is like an empty canvas: you can go on carrying it your whole life and you can die under its weight, but what is the point? Paint something on it!

Osho: From meditation to meditation