Words of Osho

Words of Osho........ .......
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My effort is to give you the dignity of being a master. And unless
each of my sannyasins is a master unto himself, he is going to remain
in different kinds of slaveries, consciously or unconsciously.
Nobody in the whole history of man has tried to give man his dignity.
Yes, Jesus says to people, "You are my sheep, I am your shepherd."
And I sometimes wonder: not a single man stood up to say, "Shut up,
please! I am also a shepherd."
Gautam Buddha's story is that he was born while his mother was
standing under a saal tree. It is a strange way of being born, and
not only that, he stood directly on the earth coming out of the womb.
Ordinarily the head comes first. Once in a while the feet also come
first, but nobody has ever heard that a just-born child stands on the
earth and walks seven feet and declares to the world, "I am the most
enlightened person in the whole existence."

My problem is that for twenty-five centuries nobody has criticized
this man, what kind of nonsense... we have become so enslaved that we
have lost the courage. Even when we see absolutely patent nonsense,
we don't raise a question. We simply accept it. We are left in such a
situation that we have lost all our intelligence. And the profit goes
certainly to the vested interests; they would like you to remain in
the same situation.
I would like you, Amrito, just to forget all about spiritual growth.
Forget all about spiritual goals. Existence has no goal; existence is
simply a tremendous playfulness of energy, not going anywhere.
Rejoice in this dance, be part of this dance, and flowers of
tremendous bliss will shower on you.
Nobody has to lead you and nobody has to save you. All those people
were nothing but very subtle egoists. They have dominated humanity up
to now, and this is the result that we see all over the world -- just
misery. People go on living, because what else to do. They go on
dragging themselves knowing perfectly well that in the end is the
grave. Hoping, dreaming, imagining, but not living.
I teach you life, and life is now and here.
It is always now and always here and except drowning yourself into
life in all its dimensions, in all its colors, there is no paradise.
There is nothing else but this sheer dance.
People go on changing their illusions.
When they are young somebody has the illusion of love; perhaps love
will open the doors of all the mysteries. It opens the doors, not of
the mysteries, but of the miseries. Somebody is running after money.
And a man like Henry Ford, when asked, "You have earned more money
than anybody else in the world. Now, at the top, how do you feel?"
said, "Utterly frustrated, because at the top there is nothing. All
that I have learned in my whole life is climbing ladders. I went on
climbing hoping that on the next rung may be the fulfillment. .. but
the fulfillment never comes."

I have said to Amrito that when people are finished with their
worldly hopes, illusions, dreams, then they change and they start
hoping about spiritual growth, about God, about paradise. These are
the same people and this is the same mind which has not learned
anything at all.
Unless you are completely disillusioned -- that means now you don't
think of tomorrow at all -- you will not know the pure truth of
existence, which just exists in this moment. You will not fall in
tune with it. You are always moving away, postponing. You are going,
you are always on the go.
It is time for you to be completely disillusioned -- of worldly
illusions, of otherworldly illusions, of love, of money, of
enlightenment. Just simply be whatever you are, and you have arrived
home.
In fact you have never left it.

You have always been here.

Just to bring you back to your senses....

Grandma Faginbaum, out walking her dog, goes into the local
supermarket and leaves the dog tied to the railing outside.
Immediately, the dog is surrounded by all the neighborhood dogs who
come to sniff.
A cop, standing close by, watches this and calls to the old
woman, "Lady, you can't leave your dog alone like that, she's in
heat."
"Eat?" says Grandma Faginbaum. "She'll eat anything."
"No, no!" shouts the cop. "The dog should be bred."
"Bread, cake, biscuits," calls out Grandma, "she'll eat anything you
give her."
Becoming frustrated, the cop yells out, "Your dog should be screwed!"
"So screw her," calls back Grandma. "I always wanted a police dog."

Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.

THE END.