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RevolutionThere can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And if millions of individuals change, then the society will change as a consequence, not vice versa. You cannot change the society first and hope that individuals will change later on.From Osho International Foundation------------ --------- --------- The IndividualAs you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I" --- you don't have one. You are many "I"s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual.This word 'individual' is beautiful; it means indivisible. Right now as you are, you are divided. You are only many fragments clinging together anyhow without any center being there, without any master in the house, with

only servants. And for a moment any servant can become the master.Every moment you are different because you are not--- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.From The Book of Secrets------------ --------- --------- ------JudgmentPeople have judged you;you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny.And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,and you are throwing those judgments on other people.And this game has become out of proportion.The whole humanity is suffering from it.If you want to get out of it, the first thing is:Don't judge yourself.-From Osho International Foundation------------ --------- --------- ---FoolsThe majority consists of fools, utter fools. Beware of the majority.If so many people are following, that is enough a proofthat something is wrong.Truth happens to

individuals, not to crowds.From Osho International Foundation------------ --------- --------- ---------DreamsPeople come to me and I look at them, and I seethat they are fast asleep, dreaming. Their problemsare out of their dreams, and they want to solvethem. They cannot be solved because they are not real. How can you solve an unreal problem? If it exists, it can be solved-- but itis nowhere; it cannot be solved. An unreal problem-- how can it be solved? It can be solved only by an unreal answer. But that unreal answer will create other problems which again will be unreal. And then you fall ad nauseam; there is no end to it.If you want to come to meet reality..... And to meet reality is to meet God. God is not something hiddden somewhere in the sky, it is the reality around you. God is not hidden; you are hidden in an unreality. God is the nearest immediate presence, but you are hidden in a

capsule of your own unreal world and you go on protecting it-- and the center of it is the ego.-Nothing real can be dissolved. How can you dissolve it? If something is real, it cannot be destroyed; it will remian. And it will remain whatsoever you do. Only unreal things can be dissolved. They can disappear, they can simply evaporate into nowhere, into nothingness. Your ego can dissolve because it is unreal. It is just a thought, a notion; it has no substance to it.-From The Book of Secrets pg. 776------------ --------- --------- -----Second Birth"The first birth is not the real birth. One certainly comes out of the physiological womb of the mother, starts functioning as an independent, physiological unit, but there is still a deeper womb -- the psychological. Unless one comes our of that too, the real birth has not happened.""Meditation is the process of coming out of the psychological womb, coming out of the

mind. The moment you are out of the mind, you are free of all limitations. There are only two kinds of limitations: the limitations imposed by the body and the limitations imposed by the mind. These are the only prisons, the only chains. Once you are out of these two you are as vast as the universe itself. Then you are just pure awareness, with no beginning, no end."From Nirvana, Now or Never Ch 5------------ --------- --------- ------MirrorsYou are the cause of whatsoever is happening toyou. You are the cause, and the world is just amirror. But it is consolatory always to find thecause somewhere else. Then you never feel guilt,you never feel self-condemned. You can alwayspoint out that here is the cause, and unless thiscause changes, "How can I change?" You can escape into it; this is a trick. So your mind alwaysgoes on projecting causes somewhere else.-From The Book of

Secrets------------ --------- --------- -------GodPeople come to me and they say, "We want to know God -- where is God?" Now, the question is just absurd. WHERE IS HE NOT? You ask WHERE He is; you must be dead blind. Can't you see Him? Only He is! In the tree and in the bird, in the animal, in the river, in the mountain, in man, in woman... everywhere He is. He has taken so many forms to surround you, to dance around you. From everywhere He is saying "Hello!" and you don't listen. From everywhere He is calling you. From everywhere He is inviting you: "Come to me!" But you are somehow keeping your eyes closed, or you have got blinders on -- you don't look anywhere.------------ --------- --------- --------- --Osho on himself:"If you really want to know who I am, you will have to be absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored.Infinite emptiness

will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me."------------ --------- --------- ----OnenessI am one with all things- in beauty, in ugliness, for whatsoever is- there I am.Not only in virtue but in sin too I am a partner,and not only heaven but hell too is mine.Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu - it is easy to be their heir,but Ghengis, Taimur, and Hitler?They are also within me!No, not half - I am the whole of mankind!Whatsoever is man's is mine- flowers and thorns, darkness as well as light,and if nectar is mine, whose is poison?Nectar and poison - both are mine.Whoever experiences this I call religious,for only the anguish of such experiencecan revolutionize life on earth.-From Otoons------------ --------- --------- -------AuthenticityKnow what is the real, your fact, because only

a fact can be changed. If you want to transform yourself, you must know your facticity. You cannot change a fiction. You are violent and you think you are nonviolent-- then there is no possibility of any transformation. That non-violence is nowhere, so you cannot change. And the violence is there, but you are not aware of it, so how can you change it?-First know the facts as they are. How to know the facts? Encounter them without your interpretations.-If this consideration is there, by and by you will become authentic. And this authenticity will not be like that of an animal. This authenticity will be like that of a saint, because the more you know how ugly you are, the more you know how violent you are, the more you penetrate inside your facts and become aware of the nonsense that you are doing, the more this awareness will help you. And by and by your ugliness will drop away, will wither away, because if you are aware of your ugliness

it cannot continue.-You cannot deceive anyone unless someone is ready to be deceived; that is another thing. By authenticity I mean: remember you facticity. Always sort it out from your interpretations. Throw away your interpretations and look at the fact of what you are. And do not be afraid, then you will never be able to change it. If it is there, accept that it is there; consider it.This is what consideration means: consider it, look at it in its total nakedness. Move around it, go to its roots, analyze it. See why it is there, how you help it to be there, how you feed it, how you protect it, how it has grown to be such a big tree. See your ugliness, your violence, your hatred, your anger, how you have protected it, how you have helped it to grow up to now. Look at the roots; look at the whole phenomenon.-It is you who have been helping it to become rooted in you. It is your creation. You can drop it immediately- - just

now. You can leave it, and then there is no need to look again toward it. But before you can do this, you will have to know it-- what it is, the whole mechanism, the whole complexity of it, how you help it every moment.From The Book of Secrets------------ --------- --------- --------- ---Self-ConsciousnessWhen you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you areself-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don'tknow who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that youhave not come home yet.------------ -----Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing thatyou are not conscious of the self at all. You don't know who youare. If you had known, then there would have been no problem---then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried whatothers say about you--- it is irrelevant! In fact, nobody ever says anythingabout you--- whenever people

say something about you, they are sayingit about themselves.------------ ----Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people sayis about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you arestill clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others,so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.And you are always following other people, you are always tryingto satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you arealways trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal.Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you shouldstart looking inside yourself. To know the real self is not so cheap.But people are always hankering for cheap things.It happened:When the pain in Mulla Nasruddin's back became un-bearable, he reluctantly went to a specialist to diagnose hisproblem."Well," said the doctor, "your problem can be curedby an

operation, two weeks in the hospital and six monthstotally horizontal.""Doctor, I can't afford the cost of all that!" shoutedNasruddin."Well then, for twenty-five dollars I can retouch theX ray," suggested the doctor.This is cheap! ---retouch the X ray--- but it is not going to makeyou healthy. That's what we are doing, continuously retouchingthe X ray and thinking that somehow the miracle will happen.When you are decorating your ego you are retouching the X ray.That is not going to help in any way, it is not going to help youbecome healthy. It is cheaper ---no operation is needed, no expenseis involved. But what is the point? Your misery remains.You become respectable and your misery remains. You be-come highly praised by the society--- your misery remains. You aredecorated with gold medals but your misery remains. These goldmedals are not going to destroy your misery; they are like

retouch-ing the X ray. All decoration on the ego, for the ego, is nothingbut deceiving yourself. And you go on becoming weaker andweaker and weaker because the ego goes on becoming weakerevery day. Your body will become weaker, your mind will becomeweaker, and by and by the ego that you have created out of thebody and mind combination will become weaker. Fear will becomegreater and greater; you will be sitting on a volcano that can anyday explode. It will not allow you rest. It will not allow you relax-ation, it will not allow you any moments of peace.Once you understand it then the whole energy is put intoanother direction. One has to know oneself. One has not to beworried about what others say about you.From Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within------------ --------- --------- -------DeathSo whenever fear comes to you, don't suppress it, don't repress it, don't avoid

it, don't get occupied in something so that you can forget about it.No! When fear comes, watch it.Be face to face with it.Encounter it.Look deep into it.Gaze into the valley of fear.Of course you will perspire, and you will tremble, and it will be like a death, and you will have to live it many times. But by and by, the more your eyes become clear, the more your awareness becomes alert, the more your focus is there on the fear, the fear will disappear like a mist. And once fear disappears, sometimes, even for only a moment, suddenly you are deathless.There is no death.Death is the greatest illusion there is, the greatest myth -- a lie.For even a single moment, if you can see that you are deathless.Then no meditation is needed.Then live that experience, then act out of that experience, and the doors of eternal life are open for you.Much is being missed because of fear.We are too attached to the body and

we go on creating more and more fear because of that attachment.The body is going to die, the body is part of death, the body is death -- but you are beyond the body.You are not the body; you are the bodiless.Remember it.Realize it.Awaken yourself to this truth -- that you are beyond the body. You are the witness, the seer.Then death disappears and fear disappears, and there arises the tremendously glorious life -- what Jesus calls 'life abundant,' or 'the kingdom of God.'The kingdom of God is within you.From Ancient Music in the PinesChapter #5------------ --------- --------- ---The InnerQuestion: Last night You said that by changing the outer, the inner remains unchanged, untransformed. But is it not true that the right food, right labor, right sleep, right actions and behaviors are also important factors for inner transformation? Isn't it a mistake to ignore the outer

completely?Osho: The outer cannot change the inner, but the outer can help, or it can hinder. The outer can create a situation in which the inner can explode more easily. ------------ --Remember this: that the inner is important, significant. The outer is helpful, it is good, but you must not become focused on it. It must not become so important that the inner is forgotten. The inner must remain the inner and the central, and the outer, if possible, should be changed just as a help.Don't ignore it completely. There is no need to ignore it, because really the outer is also part of the inner. It is not something opposite to it, it is not something contrary to it, it is not something imposed upon you -- it is you. But the inner is the central, and the outer is the periphery. So give as much importance as a periphery needs, as a circumference needs, as a boundary needs -- but the boundary is not the house. So take care of it,

but don't become mad after it.Our mind is always trying to find escapes. If you can become involved with food, with sex, with clothes, with the body, your mind will be at ease, because now you are not going towards the inner. Now there is no need to change the mind. Now there is no need to destroy the mind, to go beyond the mind. With the change of food, the same mind can exist. You may eat this or that -- the same mind can exist. Only when you move inwards... the more inside you reach, the more this mind which you have has to cease. The inward path is the path towards no-mind.The mind becomes afraid. It will try to find some escape-- something to do with the outer. Then the mind can exist as it is. Whatsoever you do makes no difference. It is irrelevant what you do -- this mind can exist, and this mind can find ways for how to remain the same. And sometimes, when you struggle with the natural outlet, your mind will find some perverted

outlets which are more dangerous. Rather than being a help, they will become hindrances.This is what everyone is doing. If one outlet is blocked, then a perversion is bound to happen. And you don't know the ways of the mind-- they are very cunning and subtle. ------------Someone is smoking too much and he wants to stop it. But smoking in itself is not a problem; the problem is something else. You can stop smoking, but the problem will remain, and it will have to come out in something else. When do you smoke? When you are anxious, nervous, you start smoking, and smoking helps you. You feel more confident, you feel more relaxed.Just by stopping the smoking, your nervousness is not going to change. You will feel nervous, you will feel anxious; the anxiety will come. Then you will do something else. And you can find something which is a beautiful substitute; it looks so different. You can do anything. You can just use a

mantra instead of smoking, and whenever you feel nervous you can say "Ram Ram Ram":-- anything continuously.------------ --The problem has not changed; only you have changed the trick. Previously you were doing it with smoke; now you are doing it with a word.--------You can do anything on the surface, but unless deeper roots are changed, nothing happens. So with the outer remember this: be aware of it, and move from the surface towards the roots and find the root -- why are you nervous?-----------Once you come to know the roots, once the roots are exposed.... Remember this law: the roots can exist only in darkness -- not only the roots of trees, but the roots of anything. They can exist only in darkness. Once they are brought to light, they die.So move with your periphery; dig deep and go to the roots, and bring the roots to consciousness, to light. Once you have come to the root, it simply disappears. You

have not to do anything about it. You have to do something only because you don't know what the problem is. A problem rightly understood disappears.From The Book of Secrets------------ --------- --------- ----You Already Are!If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are.You are gods who have forgotten who they are. You are emperors who have fallen asleep and are dreaming that they have become beggars. Now beggars are trying to become emperors, in dreams they are making great efforts to become emperors, and all that is needed is to wake up!-From Osho International Foudnation------------ --------- --------- --------Beyond Belief-- Trusting Your Own ExperienceMy Truth cannot become yours, otherwise it would have been very cheap. If my truth could be yours then there would be no problem.That is the

difference between a scientific truth and a religious truth. A scientific truth can be borrowed. A scientific truth, once known, becomes everybody else's property. Albert Einstein discovered the theory of relativity. Now there is no need for everybody to discover it again and again and again. That would be foolish. Once discovered, it has become public. Now it is everybody's theory. Once discovered, once proved, now even a school child can learn it. Now no genius is needed--- you need not be an Albert Einstein. Just a mediocre mind will do; just an ordinary mind will do. You can understand it and it is yours. Of course, Einstein had to work for years--- then he was able to discover it. You need not work. If you are ready to understand and put your mind to it, in just a few hours you will understand.But the same is not true about a religious truth. Buddha discovered, Christ discovered, Nanak and Kabir discovered, but their discovery cannot become

your discovery. You will have to rediscover it again. You will have to move again from ABC; you cannot just believe in them. That won't help. But that is what humanity has been doing: mistaking religious truth for scientific truth. It is not scientific truth, it can never become a public property. Each individual has to come to it alone, each individual has to come to it again and again. It can never become available in the market.From: New Man for the New Millennium------------ --------- --------- ------IntuitionYou have to save yourself from so many good-intentioned people,do-gooders, who are constantly advising you to be this, to be that.Listen to them, thank them.They don´t mean any harm -- but harm is what happens.You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.From Osho International Foundation------------

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