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Osho
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December 29, 2018 - March 27, 2019
Except man … no trees have any habits, nor birds, nor fish. The whole of nature is spontaneous. It simply functions when it is needed, it stops functioning and remains simply silent when it is not needed. In fact, according to me this is sanity: To do only as much as is needed. Even to go a single inch further and you have moved beyond sanity, you have become insane. And there is no end to insanity. This can be understood from many aspects. Except man, no animal is interested in sex all the year round. There is a season, a mating season. And once that season is gone, for the remainder of the
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Let me tell you a beautiful anecdote. A friend has sent it who always sends beautiful jokes! This marine is sent to a distant island outpost where there are no women, but there is a large monkey population. He is shocked to see that without exception his fellow marines all make love with the monkeys. And he swears to them that he will never get that horny. They tell him not to be closed-minded. But as the months
passed by, the marine can hold out no longer. He grabs the first monkey he can and gets caught in the act by his buddies, who start laughing their heads off. Surprised, he says to them, “What are you guys laughing at? You keep telling me to do it!” They answer, “Yeah, but did you have to pick the ugliest one?”
is a bottom to it or not; is it fathomable
“Fear God!” Mahatma Gandhi used to say, “I do not fear anybody but God.” When I heard this I said this is the most stupid statement anybody can make. You can fear everybody, but don’t fear God because God can only be approached through love. God is not a person but the universal heartbeat. If you can sing with love and dance with love—an ordinary activity like whirling with love—joy and celebration are enough to reach to the innermost sanctum of being and existence.
You all have been living out of fear. Your relationships are out of fear. Fear is so overwhelming, like a dark cloud covering your life, that you say things which you don’t want to say, but fear makes you say them. You do things which you do not want to do, but fear makes you do them. A little intelligence is enough to see it. Millions of people are worshipping stones carved by themselves. They have created their gods and then they worship them. It must be out of great fear, because in reality, where can
you find God? The easier way is to carve a god in beautiful marble and worship it. And nobody thinks that this is sheer stupidity, because everybody else is also doing it, in different ways—somebody in the temple and somebody in the mosque and somebody in the synagogue; it does not make any difference. The essential thin...
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Confucius said, “Don’t waste time. When you are in your grave, lie down and think over it, but why bother now?”
Not that insecurity disappears; insecurity remains. That is part of life, it is inbuilt. Those people who think they are secure are simply fools; nobody can ever be secure while they are alive. You will only be secure when you are in your grave, never before that. How can you be secure? Illness is there, death is there, the friend may die, the beloved may go somewhere else. How can you be secure? The bank may fail, you may go bankrupt, your job may be lost, you may lose your eyesight, you may become crippled, paralyzed. A thousand and one things are all around; how can you be secure?
