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1.      There is a morality that comes 4m within u which is always in tune with your heart N in tune with heart of the universe. That’s authentic morality.- Osho

2.       I don’t give u any discipline, any morality. I simple give u a clarity of vision. Out of that clarity whatsoever comes is good, is divine, and is moral. – Osho

3.       Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.-Osho

4.       A witness is not a judge. A witness is only a mirror. It shows u clearly the situation, and it gives u a spontaneous response. – Osho

5.       If u enter heaven because other forced u to act according to certain precepts, certain commandments, u will regret even in heaven – Osho

6.       With fear, hate, jealousy-anything whatsoever- don’t create a problem out of it. Accept it, allow it, pass through it, and u will defeat all suffering.-Osho

7.       The new man will live out of meditation, out of consciousness, out of his own inner light. The new man will be an individual. – Osho

8.       Truth can only arise within you. Nobody else gives it to you and with truth comes beauty, followed by good. Osho

9.       This is the authentic trinity of a truly religious man: truth, beauty, and good. These 3 experiences happen when u enters into your own subjectivity. Osho

10.    Witness is the highest growth of consciousness. There is nothing beyond it.2 remain a witness, awake or asleep, is the whole process of meditation.-Osho

11.    Authentic religion does not need any god, does not need any priest, and does not need any prayer. All that it need is an exploration of your inner world.-Osho

12.    My whole effort is to liberate you from all that binds you. Only when you are liberated from all bindings will you have a tremendous beauty, a splendor.-Osho

13.    Any meditation that is of worth will be alive even in the marketplace. Because a marketplace is nothing once u attain to the meditative state. - Osho

14.    U can't b anybody else than yourself that’s authentic religiousness every individual has his own uniqueness and that gives him dignity and grace.-Osho

15.    You r rich if you have tasted the nectar of your own consciousness. You r rich if you are capable of sharing your love unconditionally – Osho

16.    U needs inner light, a light which has its source in your very being, a light which cannot be extinguished even by death, a light which is eternal.-Osho

17.    U can drop your miseries only when some inner meaning starts flowering in u. Miseries can b dropped only when meditation starts blooming in you-Osho

18.    Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated. - Osho

19.    There are only ways of being here: one is in bondage, another is in freedom. Watchfulness takes you out of the prison and opens the doors of infinity. – Osho

20.    Only the individual can rise to the heights of consciousness and awareness. The more u belong 2 the crowd, the deeper u fall into darkness.-Osho

21.    A man is successful if he follows his own natural way and lives it as totally and intensely as possible.-Osho

22.    Love and freedom are two sides of the coin. It is one flower. And it can blossom only when both are allowed dignity and respect.-Osho

23.    When something inside you grows, it brings new responsibilities, because now you need more meditation, you need more love, you need more joy-Osho

24.    Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is agelessness.-Osho

25.    Contentment is a quality of your centre; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being.-Osho

26.    Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.-Osho

27.    Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.-Osho

28.    Drop comparing--and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures.-Osho

29.    All conditionings are based on belief. And my whole effort is that experience should be the only criterion not belief. – Osho

30.    Celebration is my religion, love is my message, and silence is my truth.-Osho

31.    Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes. Osho

32.    Live d day N live d night 2.Dont miss anything. Make your life such a complimentary whole that everything fits 2gether N makes it a piece of art-Osho

33.    The world is a good place because it gives you an opportunity to test your silence, your meditation your watchfulness. Be in the world but don’t be of it. - Osho

34.    All that is great is going to happen to you-- not by your effort, but by your relaxed openness, availability. Just keep your doors open. Osho

35.    Always remember that to be happy is to bi religious; to be happy is to be virtuous; to be celebrating is to be prayerful. - Osho

36.    You be simply interested in your happiness, in your bless, and one day you will find godliness has entered in you. It is another name for ultimate bliss. – 0sho

37.    Witnessing is a happening, a by-product--a by-product of being total in any moment, in any situation, in any experience. Totality is the key-Osho

38.    Whenever there is no conflict between you and the whole, not even a rumor of conflict, you are healthy. To be whole is to be healthy. - Osho

39.    Life is freedom. It does not impose any meaning on you; it simply gives you an opportunity to create your own meaning. The meaning has to be created. Osho

40.    To discover your being is the beginning of life. Then each moment is a mew discovery, each moment brings a new joy; a new mystery opens its doors. Osho

41.    Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness. – Osho

42.    Once meditation settles and you and you fall into rhythm with existence, compassion is a consequence. Suddenly you feel you are in love with the whole.-Osho

43.    Your real being flowers only with love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life, your real destiny.-Osho

44.    At the center we are one. At the periphery of existence we appear to be separate. And to know the truth of your being is to know the whole.-Osho

45.    Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.-Osho

46.    To live a life of truth, ever if it is for a single moment, is far more valuable than to live eternally in lies. - Osho

47.    Meditation has happen first, then character comes as a shadow to it. And if meditation does not happen, then your character is just a hypocrisy.-Osho

48.    The only way to be desire less is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot enter.-OSHO

49.    Whatsoever u do with awareness is right. Right and wrong is not a distinction between objects; right and wrong is distinction between consciousnesses.-OSHO

50.    The ego is the cancer of the inner, the cancer of the soul. And the only remedy--the only remedy I say--is meditation.-Osho

51.    The poison can become medicinal -- you have to know how to transform it. And sometimes the nectar can be poisonous --if you dint know how to use it.-OSHO

52.    Love is the only miracle there is. Love is the ladder from hell to heaven. Love learned well, you have learned all. Love missed, you missed your whole life.-OSHO

53.    Religion has nothing to do with churches and temples and rituals: religion is born only when somebody pulsates with love.-Osho

54.    In Jainism forgiving carries great value, which I need to follow as it helps me to learn art of living, & I sincerely request  you to forgive me if any of my.-Osho

55.    If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration. –Osho

56.    The world of being is the only real world, the world of truth. And unless you have come to it, you on wandering in of rein lands. You can never come home.-Osho

57.    Awareness is the remedy for all ills, because awareness makes you healthy, whole, and of course holy.-Osho

58.    Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.-Osho

59.    When you awaken in your deepest core of being, in the very center of your existence, then there is only silence, immense joy and celebration. Osho

60.    Whenever you create something, you feel enhanced; you reach towards peaks; you get high. All people who are creative are close to religion.-Osho

61.    Religion is the greatest creativity because it is an effort to give birth to yourself, to become a father and mother to yourself, to be born again.-Osho

62.    Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.-Osho

63.    To be in tune, to be harmonious with the universe, is bliss is joy, is music, is poetry. You start blooming the moment you are in tune with the whole. - Osho

64.    Friendliness is one of the most significant qualities for the seeker to develop; it is really sweet. It makes your whole life full of sweet music.-Osho

65.    Sharing is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. The miracle is that the more you share your bliss the more you have it. - Osho

66.    Please watch how you are clinging to your sorrow, your misery. Drop it, let go of it! And your life will have a great sweetness.-Osho

67.    Life is our philosophy. Existence is our philosophy. To be in tune with the world, to be in harmony with the cosmos, is our religion.-Osho

68.    A happy person needs no temple, no church--because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church.-Osho

69.    Only the individual can know what meditation is and only the individual can know the beauty, the ecstasy, and the dance of this immensely beautiful existence. -Osho

70.    One seed can make a whole earth green. One small sparkle of energy in you can fill the whole earth with dance, song, music. -Osho

71.    A single insight into yourself is more valuable than all your scriptures. A single glimpse of your consciousness and you has entered the real temple. - Osho

72.    Meditation is purest blissfulness. As you go deeper, you come across more and more beautiful spaces, more and more luminous spots. They are your treasure. – Osho

73.    Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share. - Osho

74.    If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo. - Osho

75.    Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.-Osho

76.    Make laughter your prayer. Laugh more. Nothing releases your blocked energies as doe’s laughter. Nothing makes you innocent as doe’s laughter. – Osho

77.    To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner. - OSHO

78.    That is my whole teaching: just to be natural. Nature is Dharma, nature is Tao, and nature is Zen. And the moment you are natural, flowers will shower over you- Osho

79.    An intelligent person is not afraid, is not greedy. Greed and fear go together – then is why heaven and hell go together: hell is fear, heaven is greed. – Osho

80.    Listen to your own heart; that is the only scripture I prescribe. Yes listen very attentively, very consciously, and you will never be wrong. – Osho

81.    The greatest good is to be conscious—because all other goods are born out of it. Being conscious is the source of all goodness, all virtue. – Osho
   

82.    All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious. – Osho   

83.    Meditation is the shortest way possible because you don’t go anywhere; you simply close your eyes and dive deep within your own being—where you already are-Osho

84.    Whenever you feel a problem look within your heart. If you are at ease, you are on the right path. Your heart is the criterion.-Osho

85.    Just as on a rosebush roses blossom, on the bush of awareness roses also blossom—roses of goodness roses of beauty, roses of grace. - Osho

86.    Always off with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation. – Osho

87.    Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you. - Osho

88.    One need not go anywhere to be blissful. One can sit silently, be alone, and be blissful. Nothing else is needed just the pulsation of life is enough. - Osho

89.    You create yourself moment to moment. You are mot born as a fixed entity, but only as an infinite. You are born as a seed, not as a tree. -Osho

90.    The being is not a static thing waiting to be discovered by you. The being has to be created moment to moment. That is the only way to discover it. - Osho

91.    Wherever you are, reality is. You are part of reality and you exist only as an organic part to reality. You cannot go away. You cannot separate yourself. -Osho

92.    Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right. Osho

93.    Life is in understanding your innermost being. Because only then can you become a constantly overflowing source of beauty, love and joy. - Osho

94.    Once you know meditation, you don’t have to follow anybody. You have your own eyes   open, and you have your light just ahead of you showing the path. Osho

95.    You are right now at the very source, and you have never left it for a single moment. Just recognize it, just open your eyes and see it! - Osho

96.    When one wants to come to oneself no path is needed because one is already there. Just recognition – and the revolution happen! Just a remembrance! - Osho

97.    The lover is an emperor; the creator is an emperor – without invading the whole world. He has invaded the whole universe out of sheer loving creativity. – Osho

98.    Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates. - Osho

99.    A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it. Osho

100. If you can say yes with the totality of your heart, you have said all that can be said. To say yes to existence is to be     religious. – Osho

101. If a person can go into his sorrow deeply, he will find that all sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is  joy, is bliss. – Osho

102. If you can fine our original man, you have found everything that this existence contains—the entire splendor, all the  glory, all the ceremony, all the joy. – Osho

103. It is only out of totality that one blooms, that the spring comes, and your life starts having color and music and poetry.  –Osho

104. Man has to create himself. He is not ready- made, he is no given. And the creation has to be a self- creation – nobody else can make you. – OSHO

105. The real religious man has to contribute to the world. He has to make it a little more beautiful than he found it when he came into the world. Osho

106. Meditation comes automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a person who can celebrate, who can delight in life. – Osho

107. Love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love. - OSHO

108. Is the celebrator celebrating! Already there is too much – the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky – celebrate it! – Osho

109. Unless you find your spontaneity, unless you find your element, you cannot be happy. And if you cannot be happy, you cannot be meditative. – Osho

110. Life is very precious and the greatest treasure is hidden in it – and that treasure is of becoming a witness, -Osho

111. There is no other god than life. So allow yourself to be possessed by life in all its forms, colors, dimensions – the whole rainbow, all the notes of music. – Osho

112. Only by knowing oneself does one become capable of knowing the ultimate, because at the very core of your being the ultimate is present. – Osho

113. Everything borrowed is ugly. Beliefs are borrowed, hence they are ugly. And when you live according to borrowed beliefs you create chaos in the world. –Osho

114. Beware! You are creating suffering every moment. By being unaware you create suffering; by being aware you create bliss. - Osho

115. Only lovers know the unity, thinkers cannot know unity. And in the unity of the whole one finds love and one finds wisdom. - Osho

116. If you can really see a beautiful rose of a beautiful sunset with your totality there is no need of any other discipline to become a Buddha. – Osho

117. Love, sing; dance not as a competitor, but as a man who wants to share his joy, his songs and his dances with his fellow human beings. - Osho

118. Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity. – Osho

119. Whatsoever you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth have to become your very center - Osho

120. Each individual has to create his own consciousness and conscience—only then will we be able to create a better world.-Osho

121. Truth can whisper its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is purity.  – Osho

122. As you become more and more sensitive, more and more sensuous, you will see more and more beauty around deeper you’re in side, the greater the beauty. - Osho   

123. When you say that hole existence as a tremendous dance as a celebration you are liberate by it. It is celebration that celebration, it is love that liberate. - Osho

124. If you are really in love, you are no more the same as your were before. Something has love. You are no more the same as you were before. Something has disappeared; you are reborn. Love is a rebirth. - Osho

125. When life is really harmonious lived kinds of dreams disappear. Your whole sleep becomes dreamless. - Osho

126. Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed. – Osho

127. In the death of the ego love is born, divine is born, light is born, in the death of the ego you are transformed, all misery disappears. –Osho

128. Misery arises only when you try the impossible, because it can’t happen in the nature of things and you want it to happen. – Osho

129. Start enjoying that which you are, and then this very ordinary life suddenly becomes extraordinary. Then these ordinary days have such tremendous poetry. – Osho

130. Truth is not somewhere in the future. It is not goal but the source. You are coming from truth. Of you can find the source again you will know what truth in. – Osho

131 .Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering. -Osho

132 .I don’t want you to worship Buddha’s; I want you to become Buddha’s. That is the only right worship. If you love become it. - Osho

133. Intellect and meditation meeting together, growing together, give you the wholeness of being. - Osho

134. Being playful is one of the great secrets of inner transformation. Learn to be playful. If all seriousness disappears from your life, you are religious. -  Osho

135. Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself. – Osho

136. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence. – Osho

137. Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no mere an outsider here, but utterly needed. – Osho

138. This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness. - Osho

139. Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity. – Osho

140. Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation. – Osho

141. To bring the beyond is creativity. To bring the beyond into the known is creativity. To help divine to be manifested in some form is creativity. - Osho

142. When two lovers meet not out of some bondage but out of freedom, there is benediction. – Osho

143. We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation by love, not by struggle. - Osho

144. Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality. – Osho

145. Each moment is an end unto itself. Enjoy It., die into it, disappear into it, and then something miraculous happens: great eternal life descends in you. - Osho  


146. Every man, every woman is born with a bird in the heart. The heart has wings, but the heart can open its wings only in the sky if silence. - Osho

147. Use the opportunity of this to celebrate as much as possible. Don’t waste it in struggling and fighting. - Osho 

148. If you want to get rid of misery, get rid of the lust for happiness. And when there is no misery, there is happiness. - Osho

149. When peace starts dancing. It is bliss. When peace becomes active, overflowing, it is bliss. - Osho

150. The world is a garland of millions of flowers, but running through all those flowers is a thread that keeps it together: that thread is love. - Osho

151. Through meditation ultimately one finds the being. And the moment you have found the being there is nothing more to be found – you have come home. – Osho

152. You are the temple and the master of the temple. You need not go anywhere. If you need go anywhere it is only inwards, into your own interiority. – Osho

153. First principle of an authentic religious man is to accept himself as he is, without any judgment—and only from there does your authentic pilgrimage begin -Osho

154. When there is no desire there is no past, no future. When there is no desire you are utterly contented here now. And to be contented here now is joy. Osho

155. First face your own problem an counter then first try to transform your being, only a transformed person can process of transformation in trigger others.- OSHO

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Osho – Effort comes when you are against the current

Osho - A choiceless awareness simply means whatever happens to you is perfectly the right thing to have happened. You don’t have any judgment about it. It does not mean that you will stop doing things; you will continue doing things but your doing things will be more like a man flowing in the current of the river, not swimming, not swimming against the current.
The effort comes when you are against the current, so that existence wants you to move north and you want to move towards the south. There comes the struggle, there comes your effort, there comes your separate existence as an ego. But if you are simply flowing with the river wherever it is going, you don’t have a goal, because a man with a goal cannot be choiceless. You don’t have a destination, because a man with a destination cannot relax and cannot be choiceless. He has already chosen.

Osho Quotes on Living Totally, Living Intensely moment to moment

Osho Quotes on Living Totally

1. One can live as intensely and totally in one second as people live in their whole life. But their living is very thin, spread all over a long time. That does not mean that they are the fortunate ones, because authentic living needs great intensity and great totality, not a thin layer. A lukewarm survival is not living. But if you know that the next moment you are going to die you will drop everything that you were involved in, and the only priority will be to know yourself.
2. Live as totally and passionately as possible, because it is through intense living that you will find God. God is nothing but life lived at the optimum, with total abandon, a dance danced so totally that the dancer disappears; only the dance remains. Then you have found and you have come home.
3. The greatest courage in life is to live totally, in spite of all the priests and all the people who want you not to be joyous, not to be living totally.
4. Anything that is totally lived is equal to meditation. You don’t need meditation. And a man who is living moment-to-moment, absolutely naturally, according to himself, has nothing to regret, is not a failure. Hence, a happy man, a blissful man, needs no God.
5. How to live each moment totally…. It is not a question of duration, the question is of depth. Only those who live in depth know what life is all about. Those who live in duration live horizontally, superficially. Their life is a mask; there is no authenticity in it. Hence, I say Indian culture is neither alive nor dead but living in a kind of suspension, in a kind of limbo. It is a ghost culture: all that is significant, all that makes life a joy, has been dropped because it is dangerous, and all that is stable, permanent, plastic, has been gathered because it is safer.
6. God is not found by praying on your knees; God is not found in the temples and churches. God is found in intense living — a life of depth, depth and totality, and a death also of depth and totality. Live totally and die totally, and God is yours and truth is yours.
7. God is not found by praying on your knees; God is not found in the temples and churches. God is found in intense living — a life of depth, depth and totality, and a death also of depth and totality. Live totally and die totally, and God is yours and truth is yours. You are always given a single moment; you are not given two moments together. If you know the secret of living one moment, you know the whole secret of life. Because you will always get one moment — and you know how to live it, how to be totally in it.
8. I don’t want anybody to die for me — I am not a sadist. I want you to live for me. I want you to blossom and flower for me. I want you to eat, drink and be merry for me. I want you to celebrate for me. I want you to live your life as totally, as fully as possible.
9. Live deeply, live totally, live wholly, so when death comes and knocks at your door you are ready — ready like a ripe fruit to drop. Just a small breeze comes and the fruit drops; sometimes even without the breeze the fruit drops from its own weight and ripeness. Death should be like that. And the readiness has to come through living.
10. My people are rejoicing, dancing, singing, enjoying every moment to its fullest. And that is my approach, that: squeeze the juice of every moment, so that you have never to repent that that moment went away unlived. Don’t bother about the past and don’t bother about the future. The present is all there is, so live it totally.
11. Religion is living. Living totally, living intensely, without any purpose because purpose is always in the future and living is always in the present. If you have a purpose to live your life is divided between present and future — you cannot be total. And without being total you cannot experience what life is. The only way to be total is to forget all about purpose. It is a meaningless question.
12. If you live in the moment totally, then there is no need to worry for the future. A rightly lived childhood brings you to a right, ripe youth — flowing, vital, alive, a wild ocean of energy. A rightly lived youth brings you to the very settled calm and quiet life. A calm and quiet life brings you to a religious inquiry: What is life? Living is not enough, one has to penetrate the mystery. A calm and quiet life brings you to meditative moments. Meditation brings you to renounce all that is useless now, just junk, garbage. The whole life becomes garbage; only one thing remains always eternally valuable, and that is your awareness.

Osho Quotes on Life, Osho Sayings on Life

Osho Quotes on Life

1. This moment, here and now, is the time to taste life.
2. Death is the ultimate mystery. That gift is given only to those who have lived really intensely, who have burned their torch of life from both the ends together. Only then it happens sometimes that in a single moment of intensity the whole life is revealed. In a single moment of total intensity, the whole eternity opens its doors to you, you are welcomed by God.
3. Life is an absurdity — it is a mystery. You need not search for meaning, you have just to live it, enjoy it.
4. Life is not a fasting, it is a continuous feast — a celebration, a festival of lights. Love transforms your life into a festival of lights. And unless your life becomes a feast and a festival, remember: you have not done the thing you have come for on this earth.
5. Life should not be taken as a problem. Once you start that way you are lost. Once you think life is a problem it can never be solved. That’s how philosophy moves — and that’s how philosophy always moves wrongly. There are no right philosophies: there cannot be. All philosophies are wrong. Philosophizing is wrong, because philosophy takes the wrong basic step of thinking of life as a problem. Once life is a problem there is no solution to it. Life is not a problem but a mystery, which is how religion takes it.
6. Life knows only one moment, and that is the present. Life knows only one space, and that is here. Now and here: these two words are the most significant words in the human language; they represent reality.
7. Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music, poetry, dance, sculpture. All that is creative, all that is life-affirmative, is born out of meditation. All that is life-negative — hate, anger, jealousy, violence, war — is born out of the mind. Man has two possibilities: mind and meditation.
8. To make everything certain is a deep urge in the mind because mind is afraid of life. Mind creates science just to kill every possibility of life. Mind tries to find explanations once an explanation is found, the mystery is dissolved.
9. Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look — in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river — wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it.
10. A man of meditation simply enjoys the flowers, the birds, the trees, the rain, the sun, the moon, the people. It is good that we are all engulfed in a mysterious whole. Life will be utterly boring if every mystery is decoded.
11. When I say ‘to die’ I really mean: live intensely; I really mean: live passionately. How can you die unless you have lived totally? In total life there is death, and that death is beautiful. In a passionate, intense life, death comes spontaneously — as a silence, as a profound bliss. When I say ‘to die’, I am not saying anything against life; in fact, if you are afraid of death you will be afraid of life also.
12. Move with life with a deep trust, wheresoever it leads. Don’t create your own goal; if you create your own goal you will become false. Life has no goal; if YOU have a goal you are against life. Life moves not like a business, it moves like poetry; life moves not from the head, it moves from the heart — it is a romance. Trust is needed, doubt won’t be helpful. Life is not scientific, it is irrational. Life doesn’t believe in Aristotles and the logicians, it believes in love, in the poets, it believes in the mystics. It is a mystery to be lived, not a riddle to be solved — it is not a puzzle, it is not a problem. The secret is open, only you are closed. It is revealed everywhere: in each tree, in each leaf, in every ray of the sun it is revealed — but you are closed.
13. All that is needed is a certain deepening of your consciousness, and that happens through meditation. Then all your actions, your behavior, your life starts changing on its own accord; you start seeing things clearly. Right now you see things through such smoke that nothing seems to be clear.
14. Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. And you can live life in celebration only if you know there is no death. If you know that it is going to be eternal, that there is no beginning and no end, only then can you live without misery.
15. No society wants individuals so powerful in themselves. Every society wants you to remain dependent on it. Your independence is being curtailed in every possible way. And because your independence, your individuality is being curtailed, death comes before meditation comes. Life has been a wastage. Unless you attain to meditation, you have not really lived.
16. Life is immediate, life is always now and here. And live it with all the frailty of a human being, with all the frailty of a rose flower, and you will come to know the greatest splendor in the moment — not in eternity. It is always now and it is always here! Don’t condemn the momentary, rejoice in it, rejoice to abandon.
17. It is up to you to make whatsoever you want out of your life. An enlightened consciousness makes even death beautiful. An unenlightened consciousness makes even life ugly. For an enlightened consciousness, only beauty exists — only beauty; only bliss exists — only bliss.
18. Live here now! Living in hope is living in the future, which is really postponing life. It is not a way of living, but a way of suicide. There is no need for any hope and there is no need to feel hopeless. Live here now. Life is tremendously blissful, it is showering here and you are looking somewhere else. It is just in front of your eyes, but your eyes have moved far away, they look at the horizon. It is within you, but you are not there.
19. The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these are fictions just for you to survive somehow. But this survival is not how you are supposed to be. Existence has not given you birth just to live in hopes. You can be really ecstatic this moment, and there is no other moment. Meditation is, Zen is living now and here.
20. Now and here put in your total energy, and you will be enlightened. Enlightenment is your nature, so you are not to find it somewhere else. You don’t have to go on any pilgrimage. You don’t have to go to any holy place. You don’t have to believe in any theology, in any religion. You just have to dig deeper into yourself, in the present moment, and suddenly the whole of life springs up.
21. Look at people’s faces. They carry life as a burden — boring, with no meaning. It seems that everything is just a nightmare, a very cruel joke, that somebody is playing a trick, torturing them. Life is not a celebration, it cannot be. With a mind burdened by memory life cannot be a celebration. Even if you laugh, your laughter carries boredom. Look at people laughing: they laugh with an effort. Their laugh may be just to be mannerly, their laugh may be just etiquette.
22. Just live your life with as much joy and celebration, as a gift of God. Dance with the trees in the sun, in the rain, in the wind. Neither do the trees have any scriptures, nor do the animals have any scriptures; neither do the stars have any scriptures, nor do they have any saints. Except man, nobody is obsessed with the dead. This obsession I call one of the greatest mistakes which has been committed over thousands of years. It is time it should be stopped completely.