There is a great law called' the law of affirmation‘: if you can affirm something deeply, totally, absolutely, it starts becoming real. That’s why people are in misery, because of that law: they affirm misery. That’s why people are happy, but only a few people, because only a few people are aware of what they are doing to their lives. Once they affirm joy they become joyous. Make it a point: stop affirming negativity's and start affirming positivities. Within a few weeks you will be surprised that you have a magical key in your hands. For example, if you get sad easily, then every night before you go to sleep affirm twenty times silently, deeply, to yourself but loud enough so that you can hear it, that you are going to be joyous, that this is going to happen, this is already on the way. You have lived your last sadness... good-bye! Repeat it twenty times and then fall sleep. And in the morning when you first become aware that your sleep is gone, don’t open your eyes, repeat it again twenty times and see the change in the day. You will be surprised -a different quality surrounds you. Within seven days time you will have affirmed something and known the result of it. Then slowly, slowly, drop all negativity’s. Choose one negativity for one week then drop it. Choose one positivity and imbibe it.
OSHO
LET GO!
Monday 24 April 1978.

Excerpt from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass:

Have you practised so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun-- there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from yourself. Loaf with me on the grass -- loose the stop from your throat, Not words, not music or rhyme I want -- not custom or lecture, not even the best, Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. When you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible, Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me, Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your lover; Be it as if I were with you. Be not too certain but I am now with you.

Walt Whitman says: "I celebrate myself, I sing myself." That is aloneness. This man Whitman is really a mystic, not just a poet. He should be counted with the ancient rishis of the Upanishads. America has not given birth to many great mystics; Whitman is really one of the most precious gifts of America to the world. He says: "I celebrate myself, I sing myself." That's what a mystic's function is: to celebrate himself. But how you will celebrate? You will have to invite others. You will have to ask others to come and participate. Meditation gives you the insight of your own inner treasures, and in love you share it. That's what I mean when I say that a sannyasin has to be ready to be alone -- so that one day he can be ready to love. Only a man who knows the beauties of solitude can love.
OSHO.
The Book Of The Books, III,
p.176

And always remember: one cannot do many things, otherwise one will not be able to do anything at all. If you want to do something you will have to pinpoint your energies. Life is short and fleeting, energies are limited, desires are infinite and there are a thousand alternatives. Just don't go on hopping from one alternative to another alternative, otherwise nothing will be the outcome. Put all your energy into one and then there may be a little satisfaction --that you did something, that you created something, that you enjoyed something.
OSHO.
LET GO!
DARSHAN DIARY.
SUNDAY 23 APRIL 1978.

When you decide, you decide downhill. It is easy, convenient, you feel very good going down and having not to make any effort. But you are going downhill and I am going uphill -- then you don't fit with me. I would like to make this uphill journey as easy as possible, but still an uphill journey is an uphill journey. And it will become easy if everybody else devotes his whole energies totally and everybody else holds everybody else up. It is difficult for one person to reach the top but it will be easy for 5000 people to reach. But if people start deciding on their own then the commune cannot exist.
OSHO.
LET GO!
DARSHAN DIARY.
SUNDAY 23 APRIL 1978.

I have heard one beautiful story, a Sufi story, "The Golden Door"... Two men prayed, and went their separate ways. One gathered wealth and power, people said he was famous, but there was no peace in him. The other saw the hearts of men -- glowing as lamps even in the darkness of their own secret fears. He too had found richness and power; and his wealth, his power, was love. When simply, kindly, tenderly he touched his fellow men with all the richness and power of this love, the light within grew clear and bright with courage and with peace. Both men one day stood before that golden door through which all men must pass to the greater life beyond. The angel in the soul of each asked, "What do you bring with you? What have you to give?" The one who was famous recounted his exploits. Why, there was no end to the people he knew, and the places he had been, and the things he had done -- and the things he had accumulated. But the angel answered, "These are not acceptable. These things that you did, you did for yourself. I see no love in them." And the famous one sank outside the golden door and wept. He had been too busy to be kind. Then the angel in the soul of the other asked, "And what do you bring? What have you to give?" And he answered, saying, "No one knows my name. They call me the wanderer, the dreamer. I have only a little light in my heart, and that which I have, I have shared with the souls of men." Then the angel said, "Oh, blessed one, you have the greatest gift of all. It is love. Always and always, there is enough and to spare. Enter!" Then said the wanderer, "But first let me give the extra measure to my brother, that we may BOTH walk through the door." The angel was silent; for in that moment a great light shone around the simple wanderer like a radiant mantle, enveloping both himself and his friend. The golden door was opened wide, and they walked through it together!
OSHO.
Yoga: Alpha & Omega

Just look into people's memories: they remember all that has been bad, they remember all that has happened to them which was not good, they remember all the insults that have been done to them and they have forgotten all the compliments. Who remembers compliments? People think compliments are just formal and that insults are very true. If you look back into your past, you can go back to the very childhood and you will remember that somebody laughed at you, somebody called you stupid. Those memories are still alive, those wounds are there. But so many times so many people said good things to you. They have simply slipped out of the memory. People collect thorns and forget the flowers.
OSHO.
LET GO!
DARSHAN DIARY.
SATURDAY 22 APRIL 1978.

If somebody says' You are beautiful' your mind doesn't believe it because from the very childhood everybody has been telling you' Become this, be that, otherwise you will be left behind -- nobody will take care of you' You have listened to all those things, you have believed in them and you have been trying to improve upon yourself. Still you know that the goal is far away -- you are not yet beautiful. In your deepest mind you don't think that you are beautiful. You think you're horrible, you think you are ugly, you think this, you think that. So when somebody says that you are beautiful how can you believe it? It doesn't fit, it simply goes against your whole structure; you reject it. But when somebody says that you are horrible it simply goes into your structure, becomes part of it."
OSHO.
LET GO!
Darshan Diary.
Saturday 22 April. 1978.

When people say something positive about me it's really hard to believe them but when people say something negative about me at once I feel that they are right."

OSHO replies:

Just change the old pattern: when people say anything positive, believe it. Howsoever extravagant, exaggerated, believe it! And when people say anything negative, just laugh at it. Just change the whole pattern because your pattern is wrong. Always believe the positive because it will help. It will make you more open, it will be more exhilarating to your life energies. But this is what everybody is doing. It is nothing special, everybody is doing that: when somebody says something negative you immediately accept it. Even if on the surface you deny it, deep down you accept it. And when somebody says something positive, even if on the surface you smile and say' Thank you' -- deep down you reject it. The reason is that nobody loves himself. So when somebody says something negative it fits with your idea of yourself. When somebody says something positive it doesn't fit with your image of yourself. You have been taught to hate yourself so the negative fits and the positive simply looks absurd.
OSHO.
LET GO!
DARSHAN DIARY.
Saturday 22 April 1978

It is always good to be exposed to doubts. It strengthens you, it becomes a challenge. And if you trust because you are not exposed to doubts, that trust is not of much value. Trust has to exist amidst doubts, in doubts. Trust has to be an island in the ocean of doubts; then it has beauty, life, strength. Never be afraid of exposure. Doubt is not against trust. In fact it is in a search for trust, it is a groping for trust. Use doubt to! And that is always my approach: use what so happens in life. Don't think of blocks, always think of stepping stones.
OSHO.
Let Go!
Darshan Diary.
Saturday. 22 April 1978.

When you compare, you miss; then you will always be looking at others. And no two persons are the same, they cannot be. Every individual is unique and every individual is superior, but this superiority is not comparable.
OSHO
TAROT in the SPIRIT of ZEN.
Page 147

Once it happened that a disciple came to a Zen master and asked, " Why are a few people so intelligent and a few so stupid? Why are a few people so beautiful and a few so ugly? Why this inconsistency? If God is everywhere, if he is the creator, then why does he create one ugly and another beautiful? And don't talk to me about karmas. I've heard all those nonsensical answers -- that because of karmas, past lives, one is beautiful and another is ugly. I'm not concerned with past lives. In the beginning, when there was no yesterday, how did the difference come? Why was one created beautiful and another ugly? And if everyone was created equal, equally beautiful and intelligent, how can they act differently, how can they have different karmas? "
The master said, " Wait! This is such a secret thing that I will tell you when everybody has left. " So the man sat, eager, but people kept coming and going and there was no chance. By the evening everybody had left, so the man said, " Now? " And the master said, " Come out with me." The moon was coming up and the master took him in the garden and said, "Look, that tree there is small, this tree here is so tall. I have been living with these trees for many years and they have never raised the question of why that tree is small and this tree is big. I used to ask the same question sitting under these trees. Then my mind dropped, and the question dropped. Now I know. This tree is small and that tree is big; there is no problem. So look! There is no problem.
OSHO
TAROT in the SPIRIT of ZEN.
Page 147.

There is a very old Egyptian saying: Even the right thing becomes wrong in wrong hands. And the contrary is also true; Even the wrong thing becomes right in right hands. Ultimately things are decided by the quality of your being- not what you do but what you are; that has to be remembered.
OSHO.
Far Beyond the Stars:
Darshan Diary.
Monday July 25. 1977.

The same thing can be right to one person and wrong to another, because it more or less depends on the person. The same thing can be right in one moment for a person, and in another moment it can be wrong, because it depends on the situation. You've been taught in Aristotelian categories. This is right and that is wrong. This is white and that is black. This is God and that is the devil. These categories are false. Life is not divided into black and white. Much of it is more like grey. And if you see very deeply, white is one extreme of grey, and black is another extreme, but the expanse is of gray.Reality is grey. It has to be so, because it is not divided anywhere. There are no watertight compartments anywhere. This is a foolish categorization, but it has been implanted in our minds. So right and wrong go on changing continuously. Then what is there to do? If somebody wants to decide absolutely, he will be paralysed; he will not be able to act. If you want to act only when you have an absolute decision about what is right, you will be paralysed. You will not be able to act. One has to act, and to act in a relative world. There is no absolute decision, so don't wait for it. Just watch, see, and whatever you feel is right, do it.
EVERYDAY OSHO.
Number. 82.

Truth is beyond argument. It cannot be proved, it cannot be disapproved either. All argumentation about truth is utterly futile. Hence philosophy goes on missing the point. That's the difference between philosophy and religion: philosophy argues, religion experiences. Through argument you go about and about, round and round in circles, but you never penetrate the core of the problem. You do much speculation but it is all verbal, chattering of the mind. You can be very convinced by your own chattering but it doesn't transform you. Truth Liberates but truth enters into ones being only when argumentation ceases, when there is no argument inside. One is utterly silent, one has no prejudice this way or that, for or against. One has no knowledge, because all knowledge is based on argumentation. One does not know whether God is or is not. One simply knows not. In that pure state of not- knowing, truth happens. To function from that state of not - knowing is be in meditation.
OSHO
Let Go.
Darshan Diary.
Thursday. April. 20. 1978.

It is possible that some day in the future psychoanalysts will say that in the past people had fixations -- somebody was a homosexual, fixed; somebody was a heterosexual, fixed -- now people are more free. That will become the normal, healthy consciousness -- freedom. That to is a freedom. Always look at things so that you can find something good to be happy about. Life is short, and happiness is very difficult, so don't miss any opportunity to be happy. Ordinarily we go on doing the opposite: we don't miss any opportunity to be unhappy -- everything makes us unhappy! Heterosexual are not happy and homosexuals are not happy. The homosexual is worried: how to get out of it? And do you think that heterosexual are very happy? They don't seem to be happy at all. They are burdened with a thousand and one problems. People who are bachelors are unhappy, they feel they are lonely. And people who are married are unhappy -- they think why did they get tied in the first place? Everybody is unhappy here; and my whole approach is to make you happy. Now there are two ways: either I should tell you' Do this, then you will be happy.’ Then you will never be happy -- this is what has been done to humanity. There have been people who have been saying’ You can be happy, but do this first. First be heterosexual then you will be happy.' Now they have created unhappiness for you. For the heterosexual they say' Become celibate, then you will be happy.’ They always have clues for people.’ Whatsoever you are not' they go on saying' be that and you will be happy.’ And you cannot be that, so you are never happy. And you never see the trick of it, that this is the whole process of making you unhappy. I want you to be happy right now, so I cannot say' Be that.’ I can simply say’ Whatsoever you are, be happy in it‘! If out of happiness it changes, good; if it doesn't change, very good. Relax!
OSHO.
FOR MADMEN ONLY.
Price of Admission your Mind.
DARSHAN DIARY.
FRIDAY.APRIL 22 1977 ..

People have been taught to hide. They have been taught not to trust. They have been taught that man is naturally bad, that life is naturally dangerous, that unless you keep very alert you are going to be cheated and deceived. If you don't protect yourself you will be lost. These things have been put into the unconscious from the very childhood. They have become part of our foundation and because of them we go on hiding. The reality is just the opposite: man is not naturally bad, man is naturally good. Nobody really wants to do bad, and if somebody is doing bad it simply means that she has been the victim of circumstances and situations so he has been forced to do that. No thief is happy to be a thief and no murderer is happy to be a murderer. They have been forced. In fact they are victims; they have been compelled by the logic of situations. They have been brought up in such a way that their whole being has been poisoned.
OSHO.
LET GO!
DARSHAN DIARY.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL. 19th. 1978.

My interest is in you! And when I see that you are filled with a certain prejudice I have to bring that prejudice to the surface so you can see it. All kinds of moral, puritan programming -- I have to fight so many enemies that you are nursing within you! But my whole concern is to make you utterly empty. So I am not preaching anything; I am not supporting anything. I don't have any doctrine, no philosophy, no cult, no creed. My whole effort is to clean your inside completely from all that the society, the education, the religion, the family, have forced into you. Unless you get rid of it you cannot grow in meditation. You cannot become a Buddha I am not a politician, but that does not mean that I am not interested in human welfare. And I will say things which may hurt your prejudices. I want to destroy your prejudices completely. I want to create a vacuum. That vacuum is absolutely needed; otherwise you don't have space to grow to your potential. You are filled with religious rubbish, you are filled with political rubbish, you are filled with economic rubbish, all kinds of ideas that you have borrowed. You are not having your own insights -- that rubbish prevents it, it keeps you blind, it gives you a sense of fulfilment which is false. So remember it. It will be very difficult for outsiders to understand me, almost impossible. Misunderstanding is the only possibility for me as far as the outside world is concerned. But at you should not misunderstand me.
Osho
Rajneesh Times.
June 1.1989.

OSHO:How are you?

DIVYANANDA. Okay -- a little confused, but... There’s a part of me that keeps looking at the whole sexuality and wants to go' Agh! Enough!' But I don't know how to get out of it.

OSHO. [With a chuckle] There is no need to get out of anything.

DIVYANANDA. Okay.

OSHO. Enjoy it! Why get out of it? If, by enjoying it, one day you are out of it, that too his okay -- but there is no need to get out of it. Whatsoever comes natural is good -- easy is right.

DIVYANANDA. I was in the garden the other day, I was looking around, and suddenly there was something about it.... I was looking at it and suddenly something that isn't natural.... The homosexuality -- I suddenly looked at it as not being natural.

OSHO. No, no, no. The unnatural cannot happen -- that's my definition of nature. How can the unnatural happen, just tell me? If it happens it must be natural [With a chuckle] -- otherwise how can it be? And it is happening only to man because man is more alert and conscious, because man is more intelligent -- he finds out new ways to relate So nothing to be worried about! In fact when you are in love with a woman or a woman is in love with a man, it is a biological phenomenon. When a man is in love with a man or a woman is in love with a woman, it is more psychological than biological. In fact it shows that you have, in a way, gone beyond the ordinary biology. You have taken a step aside -- you are fed up with the ordinary biology, you want to relate in a certain new way which only man can do. So always look at things in a very positive attitude. It has happened to you, it must be something in you that has evolved into it. Now don't bother what others say -- nobody has the right to interfere with your life. It is your life, and if you decide to be homosexual it is perfectly okay. Accept it in deep love and gratitude. Always look at things so that you can find something good to be happy about. Life is short, and happiness is very difficult, so don't miss any opportunity to be happy.
OSHO
For Madmen Only.
Darshan Diary.
Friday April 22.1977.

One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make -- how much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred. Just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate -- all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.
OSHO
Take it Easy.
Volume 1. Chapter 13.

You can understand only as much as you have experienced; understanding never goes beyond your experience. Words you can accumulate, you can become scholars, great scholars. And you will be in a new kind of illusion, the illusion that information creates. The more information you have, the more you start feeling you know. Information is thought to be synonymous with knowing-it is not. Knowing is a totally different affair. Knowing is experiencing; information only accumulates in the memory system. A computer can do it, there is nothing special about it; there is nothing especially human about it. Two large rats walked into a movie house one day and went straight to the projection room. Once inside they ate the entire reel of film. After eating, one rat looked at the other and asked' Did you like the movie?' To which the other replied,' No, I liked the book better.' These are the scholars -- the rats! They go on eating words, they go on accumulating words. They can have mountains of words and they become very articulate about words. They can deceive others; that is not so bad because they can deceive only people who are already deceived; You can not do much more harm to them. But by deceiving others, slowly they become deceived themselves, and that is the greatest problem.
OSHO.
Tarot in the Spirit of Zen.
Page 98.

To forgive one's parents is one of the most difficult things, because they have given birth to you-how can you forgive them? Unless you start loving yourself, unless you come to a state in which are thrilled by your being-how can you thank your parent's? It is impossible. You will be angry-they have given birth to you, and they didn't even ask you first. They have created this horrible person. Why should you suffer because they decided to give birth to child? You were not a party to it. Why have you been dragged into the world? Hence the rage. If you come to a point where you can love yourself, where you feel really ecstatic that you are, where you're gratefulness knows no limitation, then suddenly you feel great love arising for your parents. They have been the doors for you to enter into existence. Without them this ecstasy would not have been possible- they have made it possible. If you can celebrate your being -- and that is the whole purpose of my work, to help you to celebrate your being -- then suddenly you can feel gratitude for your parents, for their compassion, their love. You can not only feel grateful, you also forgive them.
OSHO
EVERYDAY OSHO.
Number 48.

A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who live through consciousness remains soft. Why?-because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armour; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person-he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well-established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it.
OSHO
Take it Easy.
Volume 1.
Chapter 13.

In a moment of feeling, you function as a totality. When you think, you function only as the head. When you are sentimental, you function only as the heart. Remember, sentimentality is not feeling, emotionalism is not feeling. Thinking, you are a head-just a part pretending to be the whole. Of course it is false. This perspective is false. Emotional, sentimental, you are the heart- again another part pretending to be the whole, another servant pretending to be the master. Again it is false. Feeling is of the total-of the body, of the mind, of the soul. Feeling knows no division; feeling is indivisible. When you feel, you function as a totality. When you function as a totality you function in tune with the totality. Let me repeat it: when you function as a totality you function in tune with the totality. When you function as a part you have fallen apart; you are no longer in tune with the total. When you are no longer in tune with the total, what so ever you think you know is false, illusory. When you are in tune with the total, you know that you don't know anything. But even this' not knowing' is a knowing it is a feeling, it is a love affair with the whole.
OSHO.
Tarot in the Spirit of Zen.
Page 89.

Self improvement is the way to hell. All efforts to make something out of yourself-something of an ideal-are going to create more and more madness. Ideals are the base of all madness, and all of humanity is neurotic because of too many ideals. Animals are not neurotic because they don't have any ideals. Trees are not neurotic because they don't have any ideals. They are not trying to become somebody else. They are simply enjoying what ever they are.

You are you. But somewhere deep down you want to become a Buddha or Jesus, and then you go around in a circle that will be unending. Just see the point if it-you are you. And the whole, or existence, wants you to be you. That’s why existence has created you, otherwise it would have created a different model. It wanted you to be here at this moment. It did not want Jesus to be here in place of you. And existence knows better. The whole always knows better than the part. So just accept yourself. If you can accept yourself, you have learned the greatest secret of life, and then everything comes on its own.

Just be yourself. There is no need to pull yourself up; there is no need to be a different height from what you are already. There is no need to have another face. Simply be as you are, and in deep acceptance of it, and a flowering will happen and you will go on becoming more and more yourself. Once you drop the idea of becoming somebody, there is no tension. Suddenly all tension disappears. You are here luminous, in this moment. And there is nothing else to do but to celebrate and enjoy.
Everyday OSHO.
Number 44.

Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both-don't get addicted to one. Don't say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible-not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement..
OSHO.
Returning to the Source.
Chapter 4.

Always do whatever you want to do, but do it totally. If it is good it will become part of you. If it is not good, you will come out of it. That is the beauty of being total... that is the secret being total. I don't say don't commit a sin. I have no commandments. I don't say,' Do this. This is moral and virtuous'-nothing like that. I say whatever you want to do, do. If you want to be a thief, be a total thief. If it is virtue it will become part of you. If it is not virtue you will come out of it. If you want to be angry, be totally angry. If it is worthwhile you will enjoy it. If you feel it is simply nonsense, it will simply drop of its own accord. Totality is the criterion.
OSHO.
Tarot in the Spirit of Zen. Page 75.

Response to a question from Italian TV in 1989.

Yes, it is possible you can feel my presence. In fact, I am surrounding each of my sannyassins. You may feel it, you may not feel it. In a certain moment of attunement you will feel it. Then it doesn't matter whether you are in England or Japan-it does not matter; space, distance, make no difference. By giving you sannyas I am making you entitled to feel me wherever you are. Now it all depends on you. My presence will be with you, surrounding you; in life, in death, I will be with you just by your side.
OSHO.
The Fish in the Sea is not Thirsty.

I believe and trust absolutely in existence. If there is any truth in what I'm saying, it will survive. The people who remain interested in my work will be simply carrying the torch, but not imposing on anyone, either by sword or bread. I will remain a source of inspiration to my people, and that is what most sannyasins will feel. I want them to grow, on their own, qualities like love, around which no church can be created; like awareness, qualities which are nobody's monopoly; like celebration, rejoicing, and maintaining childlike fresh eyes. I want people to know themselves, not be according to someone else; and the way is IN.
OSHO

Zen says truth has nothing to do with authority, truth has nothing to do with tradition, truth has nothing to do with the past- truth is a radical, personal realization. You have to come to it. Knowledge is certain; the search for personal knowledge is very very hazardous. Nobody can guarantee it. If you ask me if I can guarantee anything, I say I cannot guarantee you anything. I can only guarantee danger, that much is certain. I can only guarantee you a long adventure with every possibility of going astray and never reaching the goal. But one thing is certain: the very search will help you to grow. I can guarantee only growth. Danger will be there, sacrifice will be there; you will be moving every day into the unknown, into the uncharted, and there will be no map to follow, no guide to follow. Yes, there are millions of dangers and you can go astray and you can get lost, but that is the only way one grows. Insecurity is the only way to grow, to face danger is the only way to grow, to accept the challenge of the unknown is the only way to grow.
OSHO
Dang Dang Doko Dang.
Chapter 7.

All the meditation techniques that I have given you are not dependent on me-my presence or absence will not make any difference- they are dependent on you. It is not my presence, but your presence that is needed for them to work. It is not my being here but you're being here, you're being in the present, you're being alert and aware that is going to help.
OSHO
Beyond Enlightenment.

A man never comes to know what life is unless he comes to desire something which is more valuable than life itself; then only does he come to know what life is. Unless you have something more valuable than life you will never know the meaning of life.
OSHO.
Let Go!
Darshan Diary.
Saturday, April 15. 1978

If you listen to your likings, you are listening to your old mind. One has to do some things against one's likings, and then one grows. Growth is not as smooth as people think. It is painful.... And the greatest pain comes when you have to go against your likes and dislikes. But who is this that goes on saying,’ This I like and this I don't like?’ This is your old mind, not you. If it is allowed, there is no way to change. The mind will tell you to stay in the old rut, because it likes that. So one has to come out of it. Sometimes one has to be against likings and disliking. Whenever one changes an old-style, it is painful, it hurts. It is like learning a new skill. You know the old very well, so everything goes easily. When you learn a new skill, it is difficult. And it is not only learning a new skill, it is learning a new being. It is going to be hard. The old has to die for the new to be born. The old has to go for the new to come. If you go on clinging to the old, there is no space for the new to come in."
Everyday OSHO.
Number 233.

And this is my promise: I will try to linger on this shore as long as possible. And even when my ship is gone, whenever your tears will call me, or your laughter, I will be with you. And whenever you will dance and sing, you will find my shadow also present their.
OSHO
The Rebellious Spirit.

This is the situation of your head: I see cycle-handles and pedals and strange things that you have gathered from everywhere. Such a small head.... and no space to live in! And that rubbish goes on moving in your head; your head goes on spinning and weaving-it keeps you occupied. Just think what kind thoughts go on inside your mind. One day just sit, close your doors, and write down for half an hour whatsoever is passing in your mind, and you will understand what I mean and you will be surprised what goes on inside your mind. It remains in the background, it is constantly there, it surrounds you like a cloud. With this cloud you cannot know reality; you cannot attain to spiritual perception. This cloud has to be dropped. And it is just with your decision to drop it that it will disappear. You are clinging to it-the cloud is not interested in you, remember it.
OSHO
The Sun Rises In The Evening.
Chapter 9.

I have heard of many people in India and outside India who have remembered their past lives, but strangely enough, somebody in his past life was Alexander the Great, somebody in his past life was Ivan the Terrible, somebody in his past life was Napoleon Bonaparte. It seems in his past lives everybody has been some great historical figure, and it is strange to see that Alexander the Great is a beggar today. One goes on evolving from Alexander the Great you will become a greater Alexander-but you are a beggar. These are all imaginations. These are all peoples wish fulfilments, and peoples unconscious minds are such that they can supply any idea to console you. If you are very inferior in this life, it is hurting. You are not rich, you are not beautiful, you are not a great celebrity; you are just a nobody. It hurts. It starts hurting so much that the unconscious mind creates an imagination, a projection that' Don't be worried, in a past life you were Cleopatra-the most beautiful woman ever born. You have enjoyed it, now let others enjoy. Don't suffer, just remember your past life.' This gives great consolation. One feels,' That's perfectly right. I have already enjoyed. Other people also need some chances.' It helps you forget your inferiority.
OSHO
Christianity: The Deadliest Poison and Zen: The antidote to all Poisons.

Controlled persons are always nervous because deep down turmoil is still hidden. If you are uncontrolled, alive, then you are not nervous. There is no question of being nervous-whatsoever happens, happens. You have no expectations for the future, you are not performing. Then why should you be nervous? To control that mind one has to remain so cold and frozen that no life energy is allowed to move into your limbs, into your body. If energy is allowed to move, those repressions will surface. That's why people have learned how to be cold, how to touch others and yet not touch them, how to see people and yet not see them. People live with clichés-' Hello, How are you?' Nobody means anything. These are just to avoid the real encounter of two persons. People don't look into each others' eyes, they don't hold hands, they don't try to feel each others' energy, they don't allow each other to pour-very afraid, somehow just managing, cold and dead, in a straitjacket.
OSHO.
Dang Dang Doko Dang.
Chapter 5.

To become a sannyasin means to be initiated into the citizenship of love... to become part of a melody that cannot be heard only by ears, that can be heard only through the heart. It is to become aware of a cosmos, of a whole, that holds everything together. That whole is called God. You can call it the melody of existence, the music of the spheres. Whenever two people are in love a little of that music is heard, just a little. When three people are in love, a little more. When more people are in love, God becomes more and more available. So you are entering into a love community-that is the meaning of sannyas. From now onwards, you will be part of the'....' people. Lose your self in them, and that is the way to find yourself..
OSHO
Let Go.
Darshan Diary.
Thursday, April 13. 1978

Judging has to be dropped. It is an illness that will never allow you any peace. When you judge, you can never be in the present-you are always comparing, always moving backward or forward, but never here and now. Because the here and now is simply there; it is neither good nor bad. And there is no way to tell whether it is better, because there is nothing with which to compare. It is simply there in all its beauty. But the very idea to evaluate it has something of the ego in it. The ego is a great improver; it lives on improvement. It keeps torturing you:' Improve, improve!' And there is nothing to improve. Whenever a judgment comes, drop it then and there. Drop it. It is a habit. Don’t torture yourself unnecessarily.
Everyday OSHO.
Number 154.

There are two types of creators in the world: one type of creator works with objects-a poet, a painter, they work with objects, they create things; the other type of creator, the mystic creates himself. He doesn't work with objects, he works with the subject; he works on himself, his own being. And he is the real creator, the real poet because he makes himself into a masterpiece. You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed. Everyone is a masterpiece, because God never gives birth to anything less than that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, not knowing who they are, and just trying on the surface to become someone. Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you already are a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God has himself created you, you cannot be improved.
OSHO
Returning To The Source.
Chapter 8.

It is always worth considering,' Am I blissful the way I am living?' If one is not then one must take risks. New paths, new lifestyles, a new search will have to be undertaken. This much is certain: you have nothing to lose. You did not find bliss through your old lifestyle. If you had there would be no need for the new. The old has become meaningless, this much is certain. The new can turn out to be meaningful or it can turn out to be meaningless. But at least in the new there is a possibility of it being meaningful. The old has been through the press. You have seen it, understood it, and lived it without receiving anything. As if one had been trying to extract oil from sand. How long will you wrack your brains trying to get oil from sand? I do not say that the new will definitely give you bliss, because bliss is less dependent on the path than on the traveller, the one who travels on it. Hence the real change is not in the path, the real change is in the traveller. But to change paths is a beginning. You are outside, so the transformation also has to begin from the outside. If you gather courage to change the outside it will strengthen your courage to change inside. And if a few drops of bliss start showering on you then the search for the new will begin with joy and eagerness."
OSHO
Tarot in the spirit of Zen.
Page 31.

If you can function as if you have no problems, you will find that you don't have any problems! All problems are make-believe; you believe in them, and that's why they are there. It is autohypnosis: You go on repeating that you are this way and that way, that you are inadequate or incapable. You repeat this, and it becomes a mantra; it sinks into your heart and becomes reality. Just try to function as if you have no problems, and suddenly you will see that you have a totally different quality: you don't have any problems! And then it is up to you whether you take up the problems again or you drop them forever. A problem can be dropped so easily if you understand it is you holding the problem, not the problem holding you. But we cannot live without problems, so we go on creating them. One feels so alone without problems- there is nothing left to be done. With the problem you feel very happy-something has to be done, and you have to think about it, it gives you an occupation. This continuous idea that you are inadequate and you are incapable and you are this and that-this is basically very egoistic. You want to be so adequate, but why? You want to be really tremendously capable, but why? Why can't you be satisfied with all the inadequacies and limitations that are there? Once you accept them, you will see that you start to flow more easily.
Everyday OSHO.
Number 32

Buddhahood is not something like a goal far away: it is your very nature. In fact, you are all Buddha’s-although unaware of the fact. All that happens in attaining Buddhahood is: one becomes aware of it! The treasure is there-it is always there, you cannot lose it even if you want to lose it! It is your very being, hence there is no way to drop it-who will drop it? But you can forget about it. And Buddhahood simply means a remembering, a recognition.
OSHO.
The Wild Geese And The Water.

I am here not to make you understand me, I am here to help you to understand yourself. Watch your own actions, your relationships, your moods more closely: how you are when you are alone, how you are when you are with people, how you behave, how you react, whether your reactions are past-oriented, fixed patterns of thought; or you are spontaneous, responsible. Watch all these things, go on watching your own mind, heart. That's what has to be understood, that is the book to be opened. You are the unopened book.
OSHO
The Guest.

The world cannot be renounced. Renunciation is a desperate effort of a person who has indulged too much. Indulgence is foolish, renunciation too. The wise man finds the harmony. He neither indulges nor renounces. He simply becomes aware of the whole situation. He does not bother to escape from the world; He starts becoming aware his ego which projects world." " Remember, renunciation is of the same stupid mind. Nothing has changed. One day you were seeking more and more indulgence- more and more money, more and more women and men. Now you have become afraid and you start escaping, running away from the world, but your stupidity has not changed.
OSHO
Ecstasy-The Forgotten Language.

It is a new family growing on the earth; it needs every kind of help possible. Devote your energies to it. It is one of the greatest creative possibilities that is opening. Contribute all that you can contribute to this. Because right now you may not be aware but later on you will feel tremendously happy that you had also contributed toward something which is going to become so meaningful. It is very difficult to see the future. It is very easy to be wise when things have passed." "Something of great import is happening. Don’t miss it! Participate in this growing movement. And you will feel happy later on that you contributed something to it, that your hands were there in it..
OSHO
Let Go.
Darshan Diary.
April Tuesday. 11th.

Do you think it is more worthy to seek enlightenment than to seek money?

OSHO. All ambition is the same. All ambition arises out of an inferiority complex. An intelligent person, by his very intelligence, becomes non-competitive. Intelligence is non-competitive. Intelligence can see the whole absurdity of it. Intelligence can see’ I am myself and there is no need to compare myself with anybody else. I am neither higher nor lower. Not that I am just like others-I am different-but there is no higher and lower.' We are all different and unique human beings, but nobody is lower and nobody is higher-the whole effort to become higher is stupid. A man can go to the monastery. He cannot earn money there, but he can earn virtue. He can become more and more religious, he can meditate more than others-he can become the greatest meditator. He can repress himself more than the others and can become the greatest saint. Again an attitude is bound to arise: The attitude of holier than thou. It is the same politics, the same competition, the same ego. Nothing has changed; only the object of competition has changed, but the subject remains the same. Now there will be politics again. You can see a continuous hierarchy from the lowest priest to the pope. The lowest priest is trying to reach the highest post. Every bishop is trying to become the archbishop. Once they were trying to rise in political power; now they are trying to rise in religious power. But the whole effort is the same.
OSHO.
Ecstasy-The Forgotten Language.

Q. So an enlightened person like yourself would never react to anything? If I got angry and jumped up and down here, or swore at you, you would not react? Might you act, though?

OSHO replies; No. I will respond, I will not react. Reaction is impossible. Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious. For example, Jesus says if somebody hits on your one cheek, give him your other too. Being a Christian, if I hit you on your one cheek, you may remember Jesus' statement and you may give me the other cheek. This is reaction. You are not responding to the moment. Your mind is reminding you what has to be done, what it is right to do. This is the moment when you can prove you are really a Christian. All these things will not take much time-just in a flash. That will be reaction. Response is unpredictable.

Q. It's not conditioned?

Osho replies; No, it is not conditioned. It is unpredictable because it is not Christian, it is not Hindu, it is not Buddhist. It is my individuality, so even I cannot say, if you get angry, what I will do.
OSHO
The Last Testament.

The only problem in life is to get stuck somewhere. If one goes on moving and changing, one is bound to reach the ultimate, just as every river is bound to reach to the ocean if it goes on moving. The problem arises only if it stops moving. And that's what life energy is: a river. God is nothing but that ocean waiting in the beyond. There is no need to do something special in any way to reach to god. All that is to be remembered is: go on changing, go on flowing. Never get stuck at any point-remain -river like. Just remember that change is life. Each moment remain available to the new. Always welcome the new so that change can continue. What people do is just the opposite: they cling to the old; then change stops. The change is with the new. With the old there is no change, But people cling to the old because the old seems to be secure, comfortable, familiar. You have lived with it so you know it; You have become skilful in it, knowledgeable about it. With the new again you will be ignorant; with the new you may commit mistakes; with the new, who knows where it will lead? Hence fear arises and out of the fear people cling to the old. And the moment you start clinging to the old you have stopped flowing. That's what I mean when I say getting stuck..
OSHO
The Tongue Tip Taste of Tao.

Everyone is taking and no one is giving. You just want to take-even with love. You want someone to love you. The basic need is that you should love someone. Both of these poles must be balanced. A normal being is one whose taking in and giving out is parallel, balanced. I call that man abnormal whose taking in is too much and whose giving out is unbalanced. He is not giving out at all. Even if he gives sometimes, it has to be forced. You can snatch something from him, but he will not give. His giving out is like an enema, it is not natural. It is abnormal to go on hoarding everything. There are three types: the abnormal one, who takes in and never gives out; the normal one, whose give and take are balanced; and the supernormal who only gives. A Buddha is a giver; a madman is a taker. If both poles are balanced, you are normal. At least be normal, because if you cannot be normal you will fall and become abnormal. Giving is so emphasized in all the religions. Give-whatsoever it is-and don't think of taking. Then you will become supernormal. But that is a very far-off thing. First be normal, be balanced. Whatsoever you take in, give it back to the world. Just be a passage. Don't hoard. Then you will never become mad, you will never be neurotic, schizophrenic, psychotic or whatsoever you may call it. A normal man is absolutetely balanced. Nothing is retained. He takes a breath in and then he allows it to move out. The incoming breath and the outgoing breath are balanced. Try to be balanced, and always remember that you must give back that which you have received. You will be alive, healthy, silent, peaceful, happy. A deep rhythm will happen to you through a balance of give-and-take. We go on thinking in terms of taking in more and more. Whatsoever you take in without giving out will create disturbance, tension, suffering. You will become a hell. Before you take something in, always think to release something out.
OSHO.
The Book of Secrets.