Osho - Quotes - NomArts

That statue is functioning only as a map

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If you think the statue is Buddha and you just go and put a few flowers there and bow down and forget all about it, then you are in idolatry. But if you go and sit there and you feel the energy, the form of the energy, and you create that form of energy in yourself, in your own being, this is not idolatry, this is pure science. Then that statue is functioning only as a map to remind you of how you should be.

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Waiting is the highest kind of doing

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You can live in a kind of lethargy for ever and ever; nothing will happen to you. And I am not saying that God does not happen to those who wait. He happens only to those who wait! But waiting has a different quality. Waiting has to be aflame, only then does God happen. Every fiber of your being should be awake, alert: any moment it is going to happen, how can you fall asleep? Jesus is reported to have said again and again to his disciples, ”Be awake. Don’t fall asleep.” (...) God can come at any moment – you have to be alert, watchful. Your waiting should be alert, watchful, intense. That is your doing. Waiting is not against doing. Waiting is the highest kind of doing, the subtlest kind of doing. Waiting is the greatest art of doing.

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This is the ego: thinking yourself separate from existence

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You have been thinking and thinking that you are separate, hence the idea hasbecome a fixed phenomenon in you. This is the ego: thinking yourself separate from existence is the ego. Thinking yourself one with the existence is trust.

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The religious person is not interested in impressing others

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The religious person is not interested in impressing others: ”Look, I can create holy ash”, ”Look, I can produce Swiss watches through miraculous power.” Now that man is on a political trip, an ego-trip.

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The real temple

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The real temple is not outside, the real temple is you. If you can enter into your own being you will be entering into existence itself. There is no need to go anywhere, not even a single step is needed.

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The true God and the false God

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The true God is one who has created you, the false God is one that you have created.

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Sanity has become almost synonymous with misery

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Whenever you see a really blissful man, the idea arises in you: ”Has he gone mad?” because the so-called sane are never happy. Sanity has become almost synonymous with misery, long-face, sadness, seriousness. Sanity has become synonymous with a loaded feeling – one is dragging oneself somehow, and dragging for nothing, and there is nowhere to reach except death. Sanity has become synonymous with the idea that life is meaningless, that to be joyous one has to be a fool.

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If I'm not so sexy these days am I geting older or closer to enlightenment?

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If your sexuality disappears and you become more loving, then it is not just old age. If with sexuality your loving quality also disappears, then it is old age.

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The spiritual growth has nothing to do with particular experiences

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The spiritual growth is the growth of this witnessing! The spiritual growth has nothing to do with particular experiences. The spiritual growth is not a search for novel experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experiences as such. In fact to say any experience is ’spiritual experience’ is utterly wrong, because all experiences are non-spiritual. THE EXPERIENCER IS THE SPIRIT. The witness is the only spiritual phenomenon.

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Those who become aware in life, for them, death never comes

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Create that oasis of awareness. And whatsoever is needed for it, do. Whatsoever price has to be paid, pay. Whatsoever has to be risked, risk – because all else is going to be taken away from you anyway. Death will come, and your job and your wife and your children and your name and fame – all will be taken away. Before death comes search for awareness, because those who become aware in life, for them, death never comes. They become deathless. They know what immortality is. Because in your awareness you come to know not the body, but the one who resides in it.

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Only then is the dropping of ego any help

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Each individual has to be taught the ego before he will be able to drop it. Each individual has to come to a very crystallized ego; only then is the dropping of any help, otherwise not.

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He is neither bound by trust nor bound by doubt

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And I call that man a man of understanding who can use both: when working in a scientific lab he uses doubt, skepticism, logic; when praying in his temple, meditating, he uses trust. And he is free – he is neither bound by trust nor bound by doubt.

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The universe is a mothering universe

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What does trust mean? It means that we are not separate from existence, that we are part of it, that this is our home, that we belong to it, that it belongs to us, that we are not homeless, that the universe is a mothering universe! We can be children with the universe just as the child trusts that whenever the need arises the mother will come and take care – when he is hungry she will come and feed him, when he feels cold the mother will come and hug him and give warmth, love, care. The child trusts. All that he needs to do is whenever he is in some need he has to scream, cry so that the mother’s attention is attracted towards him, that’s all. Religion says this universe is our mother or our father.

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Science depends on doubt, religion depends on trust

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Science depends on doubt. That’s why the whole of education has become the education of doubt. Science DEPENDS on doubt, it cannot grow without doubt. Religion depends on trust, it cannot happen without trust. These are diametrically opposite directions.

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Knowledge means the past, knowledge means the old and the told

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Knowledge means the past, knowledge means the old and the told, knowledge means that which you have gathered; and every new situation is NEW, no knowledge is applicable to it. I’m not talking about engineering or technology: there the past is applicable because a machine is a machine. But when you are behaving in a human atmosphere, when you are communicating with alive beings, no situation is a repetition of any other. Each situation is unique. If you want to function rightly in it you will have to function through a state of ignorance, like a child. Don’t bring your knowledge into it, forget all knowledge. Respond to the new as new, don’t respond to the new from the old. If you respond from the old you will miss: there will be no bridge between you and what is happening around you. You will always be late, you will always go on missing the train.

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By uncontrol I do not mean a life of licentiousness

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By uncontrol I do not mean a life of licentiousness. The life of uncontrol can be of great discipline, but the discipline is not imposed from the outside. It is not an adopted attitude. (...) Control is ugly, discipline is beautiful.

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God has no hands other than your hands

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God has no hands other than your hands. Trust in Allah, trust in God, but that should not be an excuse for becoming lousy, lazy.

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How can you say, ”This is my child”?

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How can you say, ”This is my child”? All children are God’s children. If you are in your senses, how can you claim that ”This child is mine”? He comes through you, that is true, you have been a passage for the child, but you can’t own him, you can’t possess him. You can love him, you can celebrate his coming to you, but you can’t become in any way a power over the child.

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There is no need to decide what is sin and what is virtue

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There is no need to decide what is sin and what is virtue. You only need a transparent mind, a clarity, a thoughtless mind, a no-mind, a mirror-like consciousness. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER HAPPENS is virtue. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER CANNOT HAPPEN is sin.

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Jesus is not Christian, Buddha is not Buddhist

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A true religious person cannot be Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian. He’s simply religious. Jesus is not Christian, he’s religious; I call him a Sufi. Buddha is not Buddhist, he is simply religious; I call him a Sufi. A Sufi is a person who has looked into the very essentials of religion and has discarded all that is non-essential.

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You don’t believe in life, you trust in life

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Sufism is freedom. It does not create any system around you. It does not tell you to believe in a certain system. Yes, it talks about trust, but not of belief. Trust is a totally different thing. Belief is belief in a theory, in a philosophy, in a world-view: you believe in Islam, you believe in Hinduism, you believe in Christianity. But when you trust, you trust in life. You don’t believe in life, you trust in life.

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A world-view is an aggressive stance, a vision is a love stance

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Sufism is not a world-view. It is a vision, not a world-view. A world-view means you remain the same and you start believing in a philosophy, in certain explanations about reality. You remain the same, you are not changed at all. The world-view adds some knowledge to you – you become more knowledgeable. A vision transforms you. A vision is possible only when you are transformed, when you are taken to other altitudes, other heights, other depths of life. (...) A world-view is an aggressive stance, a vision is a love stance.

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Dialogue is not just talking, it is not discussing, it is not arguing, it is not a debate

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Dialogue is not just talking, it is not discussing, it is not arguing, it is not a debate. A dialogue has a different quality. A dialogue is the meeting of two beings, meeting in love, trying to understand each other. Not trying to argue, not trying to discuss - just a very sympathetic attitude. Dialogue is participating in the being of the other: two friends or two lovers talking with no antagonism inside, with no effort to prove you right,and the other wrong.

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To be courageous means to live with the heart

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A poet is very courageous. To live with the heart takes the deepest courage. The word"courage" is very interesting. It comes from a Latin root "cor", which means the heart. The word courage comes from the root "cor". Cor means the heart - so to be courageous means to live with the heart.

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If poetry does not lead you to meditation, it is not poetry

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If poetry does not lead you to meditation, it is not poetry. At the most, it may be a clever composition of words, but there will be no poetry in it. You may be a good linguist, a good composer, a good grammarian, one who knows all the rules about how to write poetry, but you are not a poet - because poetry in its deepest core is meditative.

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