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Osho Quotes
- Be more poetic about life and less philosophic. Allow poetry to
enter in you and stop philosophizing. All philosophy is borrowed.
Poetry need not be borrowed. Every child is born as a poet. Every
child is a poet. To be a poet is natural, it is a gift of nature.
- Bliss is the ultimate experience of your coming home, of your
feeling at ease with existence, relaxed, in a total unity and
harmony.
- In the East, the genius had first
preference for the inner journey. Only second-class, mediocre people
would work for the outer, material things; real intelligence would
always move into meditativeness.
- All the religions, without exception, are against life. My
business is to destroy the conditionings that have been forced upon
you against life; to give you a joy in life, to make you love life,
sing, dance -- because life is a celebration. My business is to
create this whole existence into a celebration.
- 'Mindfulness' is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he
means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always
remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of
sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you
should move with a sharp consciousness.
- Right food, right quantity, eaten with awareness, is enough. You
need not eat too much, you need not fast. Remember the middle and
you will always be right.
- Because you are not aware of the inner
kingdom, you always feel that something more is needed, some
victory, to prove that you are not a beggar.
- What is enlightenment? -- the insight that
desire is futile, that ambition is illness. Then suddenly you are
thrown back to the present moment. To be in the present is to be
enlightened. To be now and to be here is to be enlightened. You are
all buddhas -- dreaming, desiring. Understand the desire and let it
go.
- Real experiences always make you more
innocent rather than making you more knowledgeable. Problems are not
solved here but dissolved.
- A child is born intelligent, not clever.
He looks at the world with clear eyes; his perception is absolutely
clear, unclouded. When I say innocence is sannyas, I mean your
perception should be clear, with no thoughts to become barriers. You
should look. You should become a look. You should observe, but there
should be no observer behind you manipulating. This innocence is
possible and only this innocence goes beyond time and space. Only
this innocence reaches to the ultimate, to moksha, the absolute
freedom.
- Remember this as a conclusion: don't move
to the future. Whenever you feel your mind moving to the future jump
back to the present immediately. Don't try to complete it.
Immediately, the moment you think, the moment you become aware that
the mind has moved into the future, into the desire, jump back to
the present. Be at home. You will lose the present. Again and again
you will miss it because it has become a long habit; but sooner or
later, more and more, you can be at home. Then life is fun, it is a
play. And then you are so full of energy that you overflow, a flood
of vitality. And that flood is bliss.
- My approach is that of life-affirmation. I
teach my sannyasins to be loving, to be joyous, to be creative, to
be aesthetic. The old so-called religions have all been sad and
serious. I teach my sannyasins to love and to laugh and to
celebrate. Celebration is the only true prayer; it is the only way
we can show our gratitude to God. Renouncing life is complaining
against God. God gives you life as a gift and you renounce it! Life
is a great gift; you have to be thankful for it. And that
thankfulness brings spirituality.
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