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The Open Secret: A Darshan Diary
357 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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September 2, 2021
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"It is easy to be non-tense when you are not active. It is easy to be active but then you are tense, you are not relaxed. Relaxation alone is easy, action with tension is easy, and the whole point is to be active and yet relaxed. That is the synthesis that is needed."
"My teaching is: live as passionately as possible. Live a little hot, and yet deep down in the innermost core remain cool."
"That understanding has happened to you but your body, your physical energies, are still not finished with it. So no need to force any fasting on the body, otherwise you will feel horny. You will feel high because psychologically there will be less complication. So you will feel high. Your psychological being will be able to soar"
"Life should be taken in a very relaxed and easy way. I am all for nature but always against faddism "because that is an ugly phenomenon. That is man not in his senses. So learn Naturopathy but never become a naturopath. It is good as a life-style but that too has to be taken in small doses. And to keep balance it is always good to go against nature sometimes, beyond nature."
"For example, you are talking to a friend. Relax and become very open, very receptive. You are holding somebody's hand. Don't remain hard, become very soft. Don't remain frozen, protective, defensive. "
"Unless you participate your own sound cannot start working. It cannot work just by listening. It has to become active, moving, alive. So start humming, chanting. Every morning, early in the morning, get up at five o'clock before the sunrise and for half an hour just sing, hum, moan, groan. Those sounds need not be meaningful. Those sounds have to be existential, not meaningful. You should enjoy them, that's all, that is the meaning. You should sway."
"So from tonight start one experiment: just for ten minutes plan a dream. Visualize how you would like the dream to come into your night and visualize that dream every night."
"Hypnosis is going to be the future psychoanalysis. The hypnotist does nothing else but create that interval between sleep and waking. If he gives any suggestion in that moment it goes to the deepest root of your being."
"If one has to suffer, one should suffer through compassion."
"Suicide indicates a great attachment to life. People who commit suicide are very much attached to life."
"You are on the street and there is nobody else; it is early morning and you are alone. You are walking a certain way; then suddenly a person appears at the corner and there is an immediate change. When somebody is observing, you become more alert, more aware. When somebody is watching you cannot remain lethargic, unconscious. And if this feeling that God is watching becomes part of your being you will find a great awareness arising in you."
"That's what happens to small children. They are orgasmic, their whole body is orgasmic. Their sexuality is not centred at the genitals; their whole body functions in a sexual way. Sucking his thumb he attains to orgasm."
"Buddha has said that there are three forms of fire which are destructive: desire, anger and greed. Obstructed desire becomes anger.
"All rationalization is a kind of repression; reason is repression. Be thrilled by it, be shaken by it, let the whole body be possessed by it."
"Osho goes on to say that a monogamous relationship without a few casual encounters here and there is boring."
"Somebody asked Picasso, 'What is the meaning of this painting?' And he said, 'But nobody asks the rose flower what is its meaning, and nobody asks the river what is its meaning, so why am I supposed to answer?' And I think he is right. If a rosebush is free to create a rose flower and there is no need to give any answer to anybody, a Picasso should be free. His painting is his rose flower."
"Don't call it confusion, because to label it confusion is to name it wrongly. And whenever you name something wrongly you start reacting to it according to your labelling. If you call it confusion then it is something bad, something which has to be got rid of. If you call it creative chaos then there is no need to be worried about it. Call it creative chaos, call it a state of transformation. It is as if you change your house. You go from one house to another house. Everything goes topsy-turvy. You are just on the truck in the middle of moving. Everything packed and you are sitting on your suitcases. The new house has not arrived yet, the old has been left; you are on the road. Naturally, you will be in a confusion."
"So a wise man who is just wise and nothing else is not very wise. A really wise man allows foolishness also to have its say; he is unafraid of foolishness. He can absorb foolishness too, he can use foolishness too."
"The mineral kingdom is simply existence, the vegetable is existence plus life, the animal kingdom is existence plus life plus consciousness. The human kingdom is existence plus life plus consciousness, plus self-consciousness... but even self-consciousness is not enough. Witnessing has to be grown; that will be the fifth and the final stage of growth."
"When something needs to be done, understanding is needed. Understanding is a tool for doing
something, otherwise it is meaningless. When something is going beautifully nothing needs to be done,
understanding is not needed. Try to understand a thing when you want to do something; then it is a must. But when nothing is needed to be done you are just to float with it. No effort is needed but a kind of surrender. Then understanding is dangerous."
"A different kind of understanding will arise one day through experience, not through intellect; it will be existential."
"Musicians say that incomplete symphonies are the greatest because when something is complete it is dead too."
"Something unfinished keeps a thing alive. Something unfinished keeps energy flowing."
"If a woman is standing naked, utterly naked, soon you become disinterested in her. What is the message? Why do you become disinterested in a naked woman? If she is wearing some clothes, just a bikini, that will do to keep you interested. Everything is complete in her nakedness and your imagination cannot go on flowing. How long can you look? That nakedness is complete and there is no point anywhere about which you can imagine."
"It is easy to be non-tense when you are not active. It is easy to be active but then you are tense, you are not relaxed. Relaxation alone is easy, action with tension is easy, and the whole point is to be active and yet relaxed. That is the synthesis that is needed."
"My teaching is: live as passionately as possible. Live a little hot, and yet deep down in the innermost core remain cool."
"That understanding has happened to you but your body, your physical energies, are still not finished with it. So no need to force any fasting on the body, otherwise you will feel horny. You will feel high because psychologically there will be less complication. So you will feel high. Your psychological being will be able to soar"
"Life should be taken in a very relaxed and easy way. I am all for nature but always against faddism "because that is an ugly phenomenon. That is man not in his senses. So learn Naturopathy but never become a naturopath. It is good as a life-style but that too has to be taken in small doses. And to keep balance it is always good to go against nature sometimes, beyond nature."
"For example, you are talking to a friend. Relax and become very open, very receptive. You are holding somebody's hand. Don't remain hard, become very soft. Don't remain frozen, protective, defensive. "
"Unless you participate your own sound cannot start working. It cannot work just by listening. It has to become active, moving, alive. So start humming, chanting. Every morning, early in the morning, get up at five o'clock before the sunrise and for half an hour just sing, hum, moan, groan. Those sounds need not be meaningful. Those sounds have to be existential, not meaningful. You should enjoy them, that's all, that is the meaning. You should sway."
"So from tonight start one experiment: just for ten minutes plan a dream. Visualize how you would like the dream to come into your night and visualize that dream every night."
"Hypnosis is going to be the future psychoanalysis. The hypnotist does nothing else but create that interval between sleep and waking. If he gives any suggestion in that moment it goes to the deepest root of your being."
"If one has to suffer, one should suffer through compassion."
"Suicide indicates a great attachment to life. People who commit suicide are very much attached to life."
"You are on the street and there is nobody else; it is early morning and you are alone. You are walking a certain way; then suddenly a person appears at the corner and there is an immediate change. When somebody is observing, you become more alert, more aware. When somebody is watching you cannot remain lethargic, unconscious. And if this feeling that God is watching becomes part of your being you will find a great awareness arising in you."
"That's what happens to small children. They are orgasmic, their whole body is orgasmic. Their sexuality is not centred at the genitals; their whole body functions in a sexual way. Sucking his thumb he attains to orgasm."
"Buddha has said that there are three forms of fire which are destructive: desire, anger and greed. Obstructed desire becomes anger.
"All rationalization is a kind of repression; reason is repression. Be thrilled by it, be shaken by it, let the whole body be possessed by it."
"Osho goes on to say that a monogamous relationship without a few casual encounters here and there is boring."
"Somebody asked Picasso, 'What is the meaning of this painting?' And he said, 'But nobody asks the rose flower what is its meaning, and nobody asks the river what is its meaning, so why am I supposed to answer?' And I think he is right. If a rosebush is free to create a rose flower and there is no need to give any answer to anybody, a Picasso should be free. His painting is his rose flower."
"Don't call it confusion, because to label it confusion is to name it wrongly. And whenever you name something wrongly you start reacting to it according to your labelling. If you call it confusion then it is something bad, something which has to be got rid of. If you call it creative chaos then there is no need to be worried about it. Call it creative chaos, call it a state of transformation. It is as if you change your house. You go from one house to another house. Everything goes topsy-turvy. You are just on the truck in the middle of moving. Everything packed and you are sitting on your suitcases. The new house has not arrived yet, the old has been left; you are on the road. Naturally, you will be in a confusion."
"So a wise man who is just wise and nothing else is not very wise. A really wise man allows foolishness also to have its say; he is unafraid of foolishness. He can absorb foolishness too, he can use foolishness too."
"The mineral kingdom is simply existence, the vegetable is existence plus life, the animal kingdom is existence plus life plus consciousness. The human kingdom is existence plus life plus consciousness, plus self-consciousness... but even self-consciousness is not enough. Witnessing has to be grown; that will be the fifth and the final stage of growth."
"When something needs to be done, understanding is needed. Understanding is a tool for doing
something, otherwise it is meaningless. When something is going beautifully nothing needs to be done,
understanding is not needed. Try to understand a thing when you want to do something; then it is a must. But when nothing is needed to be done you are just to float with it. No effort is needed but a kind of surrender. Then understanding is dangerous."
"A different kind of understanding will arise one day through experience, not through intellect; it will be existential."
"Musicians say that incomplete symphonies are the greatest because when something is complete it is dead too."
"Something unfinished keeps a thing alive. Something unfinished keeps energy flowing."
"If a woman is standing naked, utterly naked, soon you become disinterested in her. What is the message? Why do you become disinterested in a naked woman? If she is wearing some clothes, just a bikini, that will do to keep you interested. Everything is complete in her nakedness and your imagination cannot go on flowing. How long can you look? That nakedness is complete and there is no point anywhere about which you can imagine."
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