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Prodigal Son
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Life is
a dream
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Its Already Here
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Real
Contentment
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Svetaketu story
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Ask Desirelessness
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Story of Every Man
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Siddha
Shaikh Farid
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You are Enlightened
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Akbar
and Tansen's Guru
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Transformation is Sudden
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Ashtavakra & King Janak
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Osho - Transformation is never gradual, it is
always at once
Osho : There is a Jaina story:
A man came home tired after the whole day’s work. His wife was giving him a
bath – it is an old story, now no wife gives a bath to the husband. His wife
was giving him a bath, and while pouring water on his body and cooling his
tired limbs, she talked and she said, ”My brother has become a follower of
Mahavira, and he is thinking to renounce the world.”
The man laughed and said, ”Thinking? – then he will never leave the world!”
The wife felt hurt, because it was a question of HER brother. She said,
”What do you mean? And I have never seen you going to Mahavira or to Buddha
or anybody, and you think you understand?
He is a great scholar and he understands what Mahavira says. And he
meditates, worships, and he is a religious man. And you? I don’t see any
religiousness in you. I have never seen you praying or meditating. And you
have the courage and you dare to say such a thing – that he will never
renounce?”
The man stood – he was naked, taking his bath – came out of the bath, went
onto the street. The wife cried, ”Are you crazy? What are you doing?”
He said, ”I have renounced.”
He never came back. This is the man – he understood. He never prepared for
it; nobody ever knew about him that he was a religious man, but this
quality... He reached to Mahavira, he surrendered himself, he became a naked
fakir.
The wife came, weeping and crying. Even the wife’s brother came to convince
him that ”There is no hurry. Look at me! I have been thinking for twenty
years. And you are a madman – is this a way to renounce?”
The man said, ”I don’t bother, is there any other way? For twenty years you
have been thinking, for twenty lives you will continue thinking. And
whenever you renounce you will renounce this way, because this is the only
way – at once!”
You see a thing clearly and it happens. The question is of clarity. An
immediate look into the nature of things, then there is no question of
changing somewhere in the future. No one changes in the future –
transformation is always here and now. This moment is the only moment
something can happen. There is no other moment.
Source: "Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing" - Osho
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