I will take you out of your womanhood and manhood both! One has to go beyond both because both are imprisonment. One should not be so attached to the biology. One should start freeing oneself from biology, then from psychology and then ultimately even from spirituality. That's the goal of Buddha. Then nothingness arises-when you are freed from all identities, when you are neither body nor mind nor soul. The ordinary person lives identified with the body. He is man, woman, black, white, beautiful, ugly, young, old. Those are his definitions of his being. They are not untrue, a part of truth is in them, but neither are they true because much untruth is also there. Man is far more than his body. The body is more or less accidental. It is just a coincidence that you are in a female body and somebody is in a male body. These are just clothes. If a person gets a little deeper into his being the body is not so important. But then the mind takes hold of him: he becomes a Hindu or Mohammedans or a Christian or a Communist.... ideologies and philosophies. That is a little wider than the body but still, a confinement. If one goes a little deeper than one becomes the soul, self. One is no more Hindu or Mohammedan or Christian-one is simply consciousness.
OSHO
Let Go!
Darshan Diary.
Wednesday 26 April 1978.

Everybody is welcome. Who you are is not relevant-you are welcome. At the gate of an enlightened master, and the gate of Joshu or Buddha, everybody is welcome. The door is, in a sense, open: Come in and have a cup of tea... If you go to the other so-called masters, so-called monks and sannyasins you will become more tense; you cannot relax. Go to a sannyasin. You become more tense, you become more afraid. And he creates guilt. He will look at you with condemnatory eyes, and the very way he will look at you, will say you are a sinner. And he will start condemning-this is wrong, that is wrong; leave this, leave that. This is not the way of a really enlightened person. He will make you feel relaxed.
OSHO
ROOTS and WINGS.

The ego is something that deprives you of your dignity, that deprives you of your pride, because the ego has to depend on others, on the opinion of others, on what people say. The ego is very fragile. The opinion of people can change and the ego will disappear into the air. Ego is a by-product of public opinion. They give it to you; they can take it away. Pride is a totally different phenomenon. The lion has pride. The deer in the forest-just look-has a pride, a dignity, grace. A peacock dancing or an eagle flying far away in the sky-they don't have egos, they don't depend on your opinion-they are simply dignified as they are. Their dignity arises from their own being. This has to be understood, because all the religions have been teaching people not to be proud-be humble. They have created a misunderstanding all over the world, as if being proud and being an egoist are synonymous." "Pride is the dignity of man. Ego is a false entity and one should never think of them as synonymous.
OSHO.
TAROT in the SPIRIT of ZEN.
Page 162

Shift from anger to creativity, and immediately you will see a great change arising in you. Tomorrow the same things will not feel like excuses for being angry. Out of hundred people suffering from anger, about fifty percent suffer from too much creative energy that they have not been able to put into use. Their problem is not anger, but they will go on thinking their whole life that it is. Once a problem is diagnosed rightly, half of it is already solved. Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem; ignore it. Channel your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into something that you love. Rather than making anger your problem, let creativity be the object of meditation. Shift from anger to creativity and immediately you will see a great change arising in you. And tomorrow the same things will not feel like excuses for being angry because now energy is moving, it is enjoying itself, its own dance. Who cares about small things?
EVERYDAY OSHO.

Just the other day I came across a tremendously great discovery It says that every idiot you meet in the world is the end product of millions of years of evolution. Intelligence is certainly rare but the people who have gathered around me-just the fact that they had the courage to be here is enough proof of their intelligence. Now you have to put your intelligence into action." "My God," said Paddy, "I had everything a man could want-the love of a gorgeous woman, a beautiful house, plenty of money, fine clothes." "What happened? Asked Seamus "What happened? Out of the blue, without any hint of warning, my wife walked in.
OSHO.
SATYAM, SHIVAM, SUNDRAM.

Meditation is only a word to you. It has not become a taste, it has not been a nourishment, it has not been an experience for you; hence I can understand your difficulty. But you have also to understand my difficulty: your diseases may be many but I have only one medicine, and my difficulty is to go on selling the same medicine for different patients, different diseases. I don't care what your disease is, because I know I have got only one medicine. What ever your disease I will discuss it, but finally you have to accept the same medicine. It never changes. As far as I know, in these thirty-five years it has never changed. I have seen millions of people, millions of different questions, and even before I hear their questions, I know the answer. It does not matter what their question is; what matters is how to manage to bring their question to my answer.
OSHO
Satyam, Shivam, Sunderam,

Tension begins with a desire for that which is not. It is a tension between the past and future." The Psychology of the Esoteric. "Tension means a gap between what you are and what you want to be. If the gap is great, the tension will be great. If the gap is small, the tension will be small. And if there is no gap at all, it means you are satisfied with what you are. Then your mind exists in the moment. There is nothing to be tense about; you are at ease with yourself. You are in the Tao," "Not only one tension but all possibilities of ever being tense-meditation simply takes all that away and gives you an open and clear sky for your intelligence to grow... as much space as you want.
OSHO.
The New Dawn.

The original source or all tension is' becoming'. One is always trying to be something; no one is at ease with himself as he is. They're being is not accepted, the being is denied, and something else is taken as an ideal to become. So the basic tension is always between that which you are, and that which you long to become.
OSHO
The Psychology of the Esoteric.

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.