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Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
One of the best book of Osho.
306 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2019
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October 29, 2022
My fav quotes (not a review):
- "Whenever you feel frightened, Accept the fact that fear is there, Watch the body. Fear comes, it will come like a wave... it will not get roots. That watching should not be of interest – indifferent. One just accepts that it’s okay. The day is hot – what can you do? The body is perspiring... one has to pass through it. The evening is coming close, and a cool breeze will be blowing.... So just watch it and be relaxed."
- "A serious mind can never be in the present. Only a playful mind, only children, are in the present. So be more childlike... play more."
- "The very idea of shame and guilt is ego-oriented. Simply feel that you were foolish, and then you will not help your ego."
- "Whenever you feel any pain – even an ordinary headache – just sit silently and focus your whole mind on the headache. Listen to it... almost touch the texture of it. And intensify it;- make it more and more tense, and pinpoint where it is. The more you concentrate, the more it will go on shrinking. Then it will come to a point, a needle-point. It will not be the whole head. First you will feel just the front part, then you will feel that it is shrinking just in the middle. Then it becomes just a needlepoint – but a very sharp pain. Just remain with it. If you can remain with that sharp-pointed pain, suddenly you will see that it has disappeared. Try it with ordinary pain – headache, stomach ache, or anything. And by and by try psychological pain. Somebody has insulted you and you feel hurt, or you have come across something inside you and a pain arises, a memory, a wound from the past. Just go into it. Accept it and go into it totally, and when it has become just a needle-point, suddenly it will disappear."
- “Each thought is a potential possibility. Just drop it inside your consciousness and forget about it. In the right time, the right season, suddenly it will surprise you. It has been collecting energy, momentum, choosing, directing, and suddenly one day you see it is there."
- "Planning is wrong, and being accidental is as wrong as planning. Just between the two somewhere, there is a balance – no planning, but no drifting also."
- "In fact no problem is ever solved – you grow out of them. This has to be very very deeply understood. Trying to solve problems is almost futile, because no problem is ever solved. Problems exist because of a particular consciousness. When the consciousness changes, they drop."
- "If success is more valuable than failure you cannot be tranquil."
- "Living is hard, loving is harder. But fantasising about love is easy – that’s what people misunderstand for love."
- "That’s where Freud missed. He was very cold. He would not show his real face to the patients – in fact he would hide behind a curtain, with the patient lying on the couch. And whenever you make somebody lie down, you make him feel helpless. ... always be face to face, and sometimes be shoulder to shoulder. Touch the patient, and let him touch you. Allow him to feel that you are human also – working hard to help, but with darkness there."
- "So continue sitting for at least one hour every day... just sitting facing the wall with half-closed eyes, just looking at the tip of the nose. You will notice by and by that the centre you felt above the navel will slip downwards... it has to go below the navel. If it slips down, just go on watching – you need not do anything. When it comes below the navel, come and tell me. Then it will be at the hara – just two inches below the navel."
- "when those moments of emptiness come, enjoy them and see. If you enjoy them they will be longer; the interval will be bigger. When those moments come, close your eyes and relish them... take a deep interest in them. Something which is not of the mind is happening – and this is what meditation is all about."
- "vagabond, who is fluid. Today he is here, tomorrow he is gone somewhere else, and he can take his tent with him, within minutes. But you cannot take a concrete structure with you that way. Sometimes the vagabond will fix his tent by the side of the river... sometimes on a hillock... sometimes in a desert. The tent does not resist. It has no prejudices, no likings and dislikings. Wherever you nail it, it is ready. Within minutes it is ready for you to sleep in."
- "In the eastern languages, particularly in the mid-eastern languages – arabic, urdu, hindustani – we have a word for a vagabond... very beautiful. The word is ’khanabdast’. It means ’one whose house is on his shoulders’. It is very beautiful – one whose house is on his shoulders. The house moves with him... he is totally free."
- "Clothes give you a feeling that the body doesn’t exist – just the face, the head, the eyes. That is the whole mechanism of the mind located there. So when they are naked, people suddenly feel that they are bodies – and that doesn’t feel good."
- "The misery becomes the background and it helps like a blackboard. Whatsoever white lines you draw on it, they show perfectly clearly. You can draw those white lines on a white wall, but they won’t. If you really want to be blissful, create hell. This is one thing.... And the other thing to be remembered: when you create something, you remain the master. When you can shift so easily from hell to heaven, suddenly you will have a tremendous power; you will feel it. Immediately you will feel, ’I am the master. I can shift from suffering to bliss very easily – just like changing a gear in a car.’"
- "Partiality is wrong. Choice is wrong, prejudice is wrong. And I call a man really alive who can move from one polarity to another easily;"
- "Whenever you feel frightened, Accept the fact that fear is there, Watch the body. Fear comes, it will come like a wave... it will not get roots. That watching should not be of interest – indifferent. One just accepts that it’s okay. The day is hot – what can you do? The body is perspiring... one has to pass through it. The evening is coming close, and a cool breeze will be blowing.... So just watch it and be relaxed."
- "A serious mind can never be in the present. Only a playful mind, only children, are in the present. So be more childlike... play more."
- "The very idea of shame and guilt is ego-oriented. Simply feel that you were foolish, and then you will not help your ego."
- "Whenever you feel any pain – even an ordinary headache – just sit silently and focus your whole mind on the headache. Listen to it... almost touch the texture of it. And intensify it;- make it more and more tense, and pinpoint where it is. The more you concentrate, the more it will go on shrinking. Then it will come to a point, a needle-point. It will not be the whole head. First you will feel just the front part, then you will feel that it is shrinking just in the middle. Then it becomes just a needlepoint – but a very sharp pain. Just remain with it. If you can remain with that sharp-pointed pain, suddenly you will see that it has disappeared. Try it with ordinary pain – headache, stomach ache, or anything. And by and by try psychological pain. Somebody has insulted you and you feel hurt, or you have come across something inside you and a pain arises, a memory, a wound from the past. Just go into it. Accept it and go into it totally, and when it has become just a needle-point, suddenly it will disappear."
- “Each thought is a potential possibility. Just drop it inside your consciousness and forget about it. In the right time, the right season, suddenly it will surprise you. It has been collecting energy, momentum, choosing, directing, and suddenly one day you see it is there."
- "Planning is wrong, and being accidental is as wrong as planning. Just between the two somewhere, there is a balance – no planning, but no drifting also."
- "In fact no problem is ever solved – you grow out of them. This has to be very very deeply understood. Trying to solve problems is almost futile, because no problem is ever solved. Problems exist because of a particular consciousness. When the consciousness changes, they drop."
- "If success is more valuable than failure you cannot be tranquil."
- "Living is hard, loving is harder. But fantasising about love is easy – that’s what people misunderstand for love."
- "That’s where Freud missed. He was very cold. He would not show his real face to the patients – in fact he would hide behind a curtain, with the patient lying on the couch. And whenever you make somebody lie down, you make him feel helpless. ... always be face to face, and sometimes be shoulder to shoulder. Touch the patient, and let him touch you. Allow him to feel that you are human also – working hard to help, but with darkness there."
- "So continue sitting for at least one hour every day... just sitting facing the wall with half-closed eyes, just looking at the tip of the nose. You will notice by and by that the centre you felt above the navel will slip downwards... it has to go below the navel. If it slips down, just go on watching – you need not do anything. When it comes below the navel, come and tell me. Then it will be at the hara – just two inches below the navel."
- "when those moments of emptiness come, enjoy them and see. If you enjoy them they will be longer; the interval will be bigger. When those moments come, close your eyes and relish them... take a deep interest in them. Something which is not of the mind is happening – and this is what meditation is all about."
- "vagabond, who is fluid. Today he is here, tomorrow he is gone somewhere else, and he can take his tent with him, within minutes. But you cannot take a concrete structure with you that way. Sometimes the vagabond will fix his tent by the side of the river... sometimes on a hillock... sometimes in a desert. The tent does not resist. It has no prejudices, no likings and dislikings. Wherever you nail it, it is ready. Within minutes it is ready for you to sleep in."
- "In the eastern languages, particularly in the mid-eastern languages – arabic, urdu, hindustani – we have a word for a vagabond... very beautiful. The word is ’khanabdast’. It means ’one whose house is on his shoulders’. It is very beautiful – one whose house is on his shoulders. The house moves with him... he is totally free."
- "Clothes give you a feeling that the body doesn’t exist – just the face, the head, the eyes. That is the whole mechanism of the mind located there. So when they are naked, people suddenly feel that they are bodies – and that doesn’t feel good."
- "The misery becomes the background and it helps like a blackboard. Whatsoever white lines you draw on it, they show perfectly clearly. You can draw those white lines on a white wall, but they won’t. If you really want to be blissful, create hell. This is one thing.... And the other thing to be remembered: when you create something, you remain the master. When you can shift so easily from hell to heaven, suddenly you will have a tremendous power; you will feel it. Immediately you will feel, ’I am the master. I can shift from suffering to bliss very easily – just like changing a gear in a car.’"
- "Partiality is wrong. Choice is wrong, prejudice is wrong. And I call a man really alive who can move from one polarity to another easily;"
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