Mind is a Disneyland
(Osho)

be happy

be happy!

Just do your best to keep yourself in balance. One of the first things that causes Energy misalignment, is asking or demanding too much of yourself in terms of time and effort. In other words, you just cannot burn the candle at both ends, so that you are physically tired, and then expect yourself to have a cheerful attitude. So, the rule of thumb has to be: "I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that."

--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in West Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, March 6th, 2005 # 76
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther

unlock the door

“Meditation is a key to unlock the door of the mystery of existence.

Mind is very serious and meditation is absolutely nonserious. When I say this you may be bewildered, because people go on talking about meditation very seriously. But meditation is not a serious thing. It is just like play- nonserious. Sincere, but not serious. It is not something like work; it is more like play. Play is not an activity. Play is just pleasure.
But it is difficult, because we are so involved in activity. We have always been so active that activity has become a deep-rooted obsession. We even make relaxation an activity; we make an effort to relax. This is absurd! But it happens because of the robotlike habits of the mind.
So, what to do? Only nonactivity leads you to your inner center, but the mind cannot conceive of how to be nonactive.

I have devised a means. And the means is to be active to such an extreme that activity simply ceases; to be so madly active that the mind that is hankering to be active is thrown out of your system. Only then, after a deep catharsis, can you fall down into inactivity and have a glimpse of the world that it is not the world of effort.
Once you know this world, you can move into it without any effort.

Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, it looks gloomy, it has something of the church in it; it looks as if it is only for people who are dead or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces- who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration. These are the qualities of meditation. A really meditative person is playful; life is fun for him, life is a leela, a play. He enjoys it tremendously, he is not serious, he is relaxed.

Meditation is a function of being happy. Meditation follows a happy man like a shadow. Wherever he goes, whatsoever he is doing, he is meditative.

You have to dance in an ecstatic mood. All your life energy is to be flowing, laughing, singing. Celebrate life.

Only meditation can uncondition you.

I am not saying meditation will solve your life problems. I am simply saying that if you are in a meditative state, problems will disappear- not be solved. There is no need to solve problems. In the first place the problem is created by a tense mind.

Meditation is adventure, the greatest adventure the human mind can undertake.”

OSHO, The Orange Book

He who binds himself a joy 
Does the winged life destroy 
But he who kisses the joy as it flies 
Lives in eternity's sun rise. 

William Blake

relating

I am not against relationship--I am all for it, but before you can relate, you have to be. And if you are miserable and you relate with someone, you are going to create more misery. The misery is bound to be multiplied; not only doubled but multiplied. He is miserable, you are also miserable. He cannot be alone, you cannot be alone, so you depend on each other. And whenever you depend on somebody, you can never forgive that man. He makes you dependent, he makes you feel helpless. He becomes powerful and dominates you. So deep down, every lover is against, hates, the person he loves--because nobody can love slavery.
You can love only freedom. But freedom is possible only when you are free to be happy, and when you can be happy absolutely alone. If there is nobody, then too you can enjoy, dance, sing. That becomes your very quality of being. Then you can relate...then your happiness relates. Your music relates...your singing and dancing relates. Of course you multiply your happiness.
Whatsoever you have will be multiplied in relationship. If you have misery, misery will be multiplied. If you have happiness, happiness will be multiplied. In relationship you will be reflected in millions of ways--but you will be reflected.
Osho

Love is

love is

“Love has nothing to do with somebody else, it is your state of being. Love is not a relationship. A relationship is possible but love is not confined to it, it is beyond it, it is more than that ~ man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing. He starts overflowing, he starts sharing, he starts giving. And when two mature persons are in love, one of the greatest paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena… they are together, and yet tremendously alone; they are almost one. But their oneness does not destroy their individuality.”  (Osho)

being

being

"If you have any intelligence, think of yourself only as a simple human being. And when your intelligence grows a little more you will drop even the adjective 'human'; you will think of yourself only as a being. And the being includes all -- the trees and the mountains and the rivers and the stars and the birds and the animals."
Osho

enjoy!

OSHO
only do that which you enjoy

It is a very simple technique, but in the beginning it looks very hard. If you try, you will find it is simple. If you don't try and only think about it, it will look very hard. The technique is: ONLY DO THAT WHICH YOU ENJOY. If you don't enjoy, don't do it.

Try it -- because enjoyment comes only from your center. If you are doing something and you enjoy it, you start getting reconnected with the center. If you do something which you don't enjoy, you are disconnected from the center. JOY ARISES FROM THE CENTER, AND FROM NOWHERE ELSE. So let it be a criterion, and be a fanatic about it.

YOU ARE WALKING ON THE ROAD; suddenly you recognize that you are not enjoying the walk. Stop. Finished -- this is not to be done.

I used to do it in my university days, and people thought that I was crazy. Suddenly I would stop, and then I would remain in that spot for half an hour, an hour, unless I started enjoying walking again. My professors were so afraid that when there were examinations they would put me in a car and take me to the university hall. They would leave me at the door and wait there: had I reached to my desk or not? If I was taking my bath and suddenly I realized that I was not enjoying it, I would stop. What is the point then? If I was eating and I recognized suddenly that I was not enjoying, then I would stop.

I had joined the mathematics class in my high school. The first day, I went in and the teacher was just introducing the subject. In the middle I stood up and tried to walk out. He said, "Where are you going? Without asking, I won't allow you in again." I said, "I'm not coming back again; don't be worried. That's why I am not asking. Finished -- I am not enjoying it! I will find some other subject which I can enjoy, because IF I CANNOT ENJOY IT I AM NOT GOING TO DO IT. It is torture, it is violence."

And, by and by, it became a key. I suddenly recognized that WHENEVER YOU ARE ENJOYING SOMETHING, YOU ARE CENTERED. Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. Whenever you are not enjoying something, you are off-center. Then don't force it; there is no need. If people think you crazy, let them think you crazy. Within a few days you will, by your own experience, find how you were missing yourself. You were doing a thousand and one things which you never enjoyed, and still you were doing them because you were taught to. You were just fulfilling your duties.

PEOPLE HAVE DESTROYED EVEN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL THING AS LOVE. You come home and you kiss your wife because it has to be so, it has to be done. Now, a beautiful thing like a kiss, a flower-like thing, has been destroyed. By and by, without enjoying it, you will go on kissing your wife; you will forget the joy of kissing another human being. You shake hands with anybody you meet -- cold, with no meaning in it, with no message in it, no warmth flowing. It is just dead hands shaking each other and saying 'hello'. Then you start, by and by, learning this dead gesture, this cold gesture. You become frozen, you become an ice-cube. And then you say, "How to enter to the center?"

The center is available when you are warm, when you are flowing, melting, in love, in joy, in dance, in delight. It is up to you. Just go on doing only those things which you REALLY love to do and you enjoy. If you don't enjoy, stop. Find something else that you will enjoy. THERE IS BOUND TO BE SOMETHING THAT YOU WILL ENJOY. I have never come across a person who cannot enjoy anything. There are persons who may not enjoy one thing, then another, then another, but life is vast. Don't remain engaged; become floating. Let there be more streaming of energy. Let it flow, let it meet with other energies that surround you. Soon you will be able to see that the problem was not how to become integrated, the problem was that you have forgotten how to flow. In a flowing energy, you are suddenly integrated. It happens sometimes accidentally too, but the reason is the same.

SOMETIMES YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN OR A MAN, and suddenly you feel integrated, suddenly you feel you are one for the first time. Your eyes have a glow, your face has a radiance, and your intellect is no longer dull. Something starts burning bright in your being; a song arises, your walk has a quality of dance in it now. You are a totally different being.

But these are rare moments -- because we don't learn the secret. The secret is: that there be something that you have started to enjoy. That's the whole secret. A painter may be hungry and painting, and still you can see that his face is so contented. A poet may be poor, but when he is singing his song he is the richest man in the world. Nobody is more rich than him. What is the secret of it? The secret is: he is enjoying this moment. WHENEVER YOU ENJOY SOMETHING, YOU ARE IN TUNE WITH YOURSELF AND YOU ARE IN TUNE WITH THE UNIVERSE -- because your center is the center of all.

So let this small insight be a climate for you: DO ONLY THAT WHICH YOU ENJOY, OTHERWISE STOP. You are reading a newspaper and halfway through it you suddenly recognize that you are not enjoying it: then there is no necessity. Then why are you reading? Stop it here and now. If you are talking to somebody and in the middle you recognize that you are not enjoying it, you have just said half a sentence, stop then and there. You are not enjoying, you are not obliged to continue. In the beginning it will look a little weird. But my sannyasins are weird, so I don't think there is any problem. You can practice it.

Nisagar is old, but I can see a childlike quality in her. She can also do it. And I hope she will do it. Within a few days many contacts will be made with the center, and then you will understand what I mean when I go on repeating again and again that THAT WHICH YOU ARE SEEKING IS ALREADY IN YOU. It is not in the future. It has nothing to do with the future. It is already herenow, it is already the case.

The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 4
Chapter #4
Chapter title: Let go of the branch
3 November 1976 am in Buddha Hall

Heaven

Heaven vs. Hell

"If you live consciously, if you try to bring consciousness to every act that you go through, you will be living in a silent, blissful state, in serenity, in joy, in love. Your life will have the flavour of a festival. That is the meaning of heaven: your life will have many flowers in it, much fragrance will be released through you. You will have an aura of delight. Your life will be a song of life-affirmation, it will be a sacred yes to all that existence is. You will be in communion with existence -- in communion with stars, with the trees, with the rivers, with the mountains, with people, with animals. This whole life and this whole existence will have a totally different meaning for you. From every nook and corner, rivers of bliss will be flowing towards you.
Heaven is just a name for that state of mind.
Hell means you are living so unconsciously, so absurdly, in such contradiction, that you go on creating more and more misery for yourself."
OSHO
Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2
Chapter #7
Chapter title: A Bold Experiment
6 January 1979 am in Buddha Hall

Beware

Beware of indulgence and beware of renunciation

You can go and sit in a cave and become a statue, but that which you have repressed will hover
around you, will be the only thing that you will ever think about.
Tantra says: Beware. Beware of indulgence and beware of renunciation. Beware of both: both are
traps. And either way you are trapped in the mind. There where is the way?
Tantra says: Awareness is the way. Indulgence is mechanical, repression is mechanical; both are
mechanical things. The only way out of mechanical things is to become aware, alert. Don’t go to
the Himalayas, bring a Himalayan silence within you. Don’t escape, become more awake. Look into
things deeply with no fear... without fear, look into things deeply. Don’t listen to what your so-called
religious people go on teaching. They make you afraid: they don’t allow you to look into sex, they
don’t allow you to look into death. They have exploited your fears tremendously.
The only way to exploit a person is: first, to make him afraid. Once you are afraid, you are ready to
be exploited. Fear is the basis, it has to be created first. You have been made afraid. Sex is sin, so
is fear. Even while making love to your woman or man, you never look directly into it. Even while
making love you are avoiding. You are making love AND avoiding. You don’t want to see into the
reality of it – what it is exactly, why it infatuates, why it has a magnetic pull over you? Why? What
is it exactly, how does it arise, how does it take possession of you, what it gives, and where does it
lead? What happens in it and what happens out of it? Where do you arrive again and again making
love? Do you arrive anywhere? These things have to be encountered.
Tantra is an encounter with the reality of life. And sex is fundamental. So is death. They are the
two most basic, fundamental chakras – MULADHAR and SWADHISTAN. Understanding them, the
third chakra opens. Understanding the third, the fourth opens, and so on and so forth. When you
have understood the six chakras, that very understanding hits the seventh chakra and it blooms into
a one-thousand-petalled lotus. That day is of superb glory. That day God comes to you, that day
you come to God. That day is the meeting day. That day is the day of cosmic orgasm. That day
you embrace the divine and the divine embraces you. That day the river disappears into the ocean
forever and forever. Then there is no coming back.
But, from each state of your mind, understanding has to be gained. Wherever you are, don’t be
afraid. That is the Tantra message: Wherever you are, don’t be afraid. Drop only one thing – fear.
Only one thing has to be feared, and that is fear. Unafraid, with great courage, look into the reality,
whatsoever the reality is. If you are a thief, then look into that. If you are an angry person, look into
that. If you are greedy, look into that. Wherever you are, LOOK into it. Don’t escape. Looking into it,
go through it. Watching, go through it. If you can walk the path into greed, into sex, into anger, into
jealousy, with eyes open, you will be freed of it. This is the Tantra promise: Truth liberates. Knowing
frees. Knowing is freedom. Otherwise, whether you repress or you indulge, the end is the same.

The Tantra Vision, Vol 2 43 Osho
CHAPTER 3. BREAKING THE FOUR SEALS

No-Mind

no-mind

Contemplate – but not through thoughts, just through transparency. Watch, look, be – not through
analysis, not through logic. Relate through silence. That is stainless contemplation. Relate through
silence, relate through love. Relate. Relate to this cuckoo. Relate to the trees, to the sun, but don’t
think about them. Don’t become a thinker.
... AND NO-MIND.
So first, think of the world as a dream, and then think of the dreamer also as a dream. First the
object is a dream, then the subject is a dream. When the subject and the object are both dropped,
when the dream disappears and also the dreamer, then there is no-mind.
Osho

disappearing

when the observer and the observed disappear

When you have come to a state of silence where both the observer and the observed have
disappeared, then you will come to know what this sutra means:
MIND, INTELLECT, AND THE FORMED CONTENTS OF THE MIND ARE IT...
Existence is one. It is all a unity. There are not two things in existence – it is oneness, it is one
ocean. All divisions are there because we are divided inside: our divisions inside are projected onto
the outside, and things look divided. When the body is pure, the senses open and the mind is silent,
inner divisions disappear; inside there is pure space. When there is pure space inside, you become
capable of knowing that the outside is also the same pure space it is the same sky outside and in.
In fact, there is no ’out’ and no ’in’ any more, it is all one.

MIND, INTELLECT, AND THE FORMED CONTENTS OF THE MIND ARE IT...

Now you will recognise that even thoughts were not enemies, even desires were not enemies. They
were also forms of the same divinity, of the same one existence. Now you will recognise that
NIRVANA and SAMSARA are not two. Now you will have a very, very deep laugh: that there is
no difference between bondage and enlightenment: that to know and to be ignorant are not different
because division is not possible: that between a Buddha and a man who is not yet enlightened,
there is no difference.

The Mystic

So if you find a mystic afraid of moving in a crowd, then know well that he is still a child, growing.
Otherwise why should a mystic be afraid of moving in crowds? Nothing can be done to him by the
crowd, by the noise, by the world, by the objects of the world. With all this madness around him,
nothing can be done to him. He cannot be touched. He can move and he can live – anywhere it
happens for his emptiness to live, he can live.
But in the beginning it is good to be alone, to be in a harmonious, natural surrounding. So remember,
don’t think that because you live in a noisy Bombay you are a mystic, or you have grown up and
have become a SIDDHA. If you want to grow you will also have to move sometimes, for some definite
periods, into loneliness – out of the crowd, out of the concerns of the world, relations of the world,
objects of the world – into such a place where you can be alone and not disturbed by others. As you
are now you can be disturbed, but once you have the strength, once you have the inner power, once
you are crystallized and you know that now no one can shatter your inner center, you can move
anywhere. Then the whole world is lonely. Then wherever you are is wilderness. Then the space
of silence moves with you because you are the creator of it. Then around you, you create your own
inner silence, and wherever you move, you are in silence. No one can penetrate that silence. No
noise can disturb it.
But unless the crystallization has happened, don’t believe that you will not be disturbed. You are
disturbed, whether you know it or don’t know it. Really, you are so disturbed that you cannot know
it. You have become accustomed to disturbance. Every nerve is on edge; you are continuously
disturbed. Right now you don’t feel the disturbance – to feel the disturbance sometimes you need
to be not disturbed. Only then can you feel it in contrast. You are continuously disturbed but you
have become accustomed to it, habituated to it. You think this is how life is. It would be good if you
move into the Himalayas for some time. It would be good to go into some remove village, a remote
forest, and be alone for a few days’ silence – as if the whole of humanity has disappeared. Then
come back to Bombay. Then you will know what disturbance you have been living in. You will be
suddenly disturbed. Now you have a contrast. You had an inner music, now it is shattered. For
seekers solitariness is good; for SIDDHAS it is irrelevant.
And there are two types of wrong people. With the first type, if you say to them that it is they who
are disturbed, the situation is irrelevant, then they will never go into solitariness to have a glimpse
of what silence is. Then they will remain here and they will say, ”Nothing disturbs us. It is us really,
not the surrounding. So we remain here.” And they are disturbed but their theory will become a
rationalization. Then there are other people, the other type of wrong people, who, if you tell them
to move into silence, to solitude, because it will help, they will move – but then they will never come
back. Then it becomes an addiction and they will remain weak forever, they will always feel afraid
of coming back to the world. Then their solitariness has not been a help; rather, it has become a
hindrance. They are not stronger through it, they have become weaker. Now they cannot move in
the world. Both these types are wrong.
Be the third type, which is the right type. In the beginning, know well that you are disturbed by
circumstances; so sometimes try, manage, to move out of them. Then when you are out of them,
whatsoever silence you attain, bring it back to your circumstances and try to preserve it. If you can
preserve it in the circumstances, then only will the theory have become an experience. Then you
know that nothing disturbs. Then you know it is you ultimately who are disturbed or not disturbed.
But make it an experience – just as a theory it is useless

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 538 Osho
CHAPTER 40. ALL AND NOTHING MEAN THE SAME

authentic being

Don’t pay much attention to what others say and remember only one thing: don’t force and cultivate
stillness. A cultivated stillness will be serious, ill, tense. But how can a real silence come to you? Try
to understand this. You are tense, you are unhappy, you are depressed, angry, greedy, violent. A
thousand diseases are there. Still, you can practice silence. These diseases will be within you, and
you can create a layer of silence. You can do transcendental meditation; you can use a mantra. The
mantra is not going to change your violence, neither is it going to change your greed. It is not going
to change anything deep. The mantra can just give a tranquilizing effect. Just on the periphery,
you will feel more silent. This is just a tranquilizer, a sound tranquilizer, and tranquilizing is possible
through many ways – many ways. When you repeat a mantra continuously, you become sleepy. Any
continuous repetition of a sound creates boredom and sleep. You feel relaxed, but this relaxation is
just on the surface. Within, you remain the same.
Go on practicing a mantra every day, and you will feel a certain stillness – but not really, because your
diseases have not changed, your personality structure remains the same. It is just whitewashed.
Stop the mantra, stop the practice, and all your diseases will come up again.
This is happening everywhere. Seekers move from one teacher to another. They go on moving,
practicing, and when they stop their practice they find they are the same; nothing has happened.
Nothing will happen in this way. These are cultivated silences. You have to go on cultivating them.
Of course, if you go on cultivating them, they remain with you just like a habit, but if you break the
habit they disappear. A real silence comes not by just using some superficial technique, but by being
aware of all that you are – not only being aware, but remaining with the fact of what you are.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 1 540 Osho
CHAPTER 38. TOWARD THE AUTHENTIC BEING

Silence

silence

There are two types of silence: one of the mind, in which the mind is silent, and another silence
when the mind is no more. The silence when the mind is no more, is altogether different from
mental peace. In mental peace the mind is there, only not very mad. The madness is slowed down
– that is all.
 .......

In silence there is no mind – that is why there is so much insistence on silence. Silence is a no-mind
state.
Ordinarily we say, ”My mind is silent.” This is absurd, meaningless, because mind means absence
of silence. So you cannot say that the mind is silent. If mind is, there cannot be any silence, and
when silence is, there is no mind. So there is no such thing as a silent mind; there cannot be. It is
just like saying that someone is alive-dead. It makes no sense. If he is dead, then he is not alive. If
he is alive, then he is not dead. You cannot be alive-dead.
So there is nothing like a silent mind. When silence comes, mind is not there. Really, mind goes out
and silence comes in; silence comes in and mind goes out. Both cannot be there. Mind is sound. If
the sound is systematic you are sane, if the sound has gone chaotic you are insane; but in both the
cases sound is there, and we exist at the point of the mind.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 1 410 Osho
CHAPTER 29. SOUND METHODS FOR THE DROPPING OF MIND

Be Undivided

be undivided!

Tantra says don’t divide, be undivided; only then will you be victorious. How to be undivided? You
don’t condemn, don’t say ”this” is good and ”that” is bad. Just withdraw all conceptions of purity and
impurity. Look at the world, but don’t say what it is. Be ignorant, don’t be too much wise. Don’t label,
remain silent, non-condemnatory, non-justifying. If you can remain silent about the world, by and by
this silence will penetrate within. And if the division is not there outwardly, the division will disappear
from the inner consciousness, because both CAN exist together.
But this is dangerous for society. That is why tantra was suppressed. This is dangerous! Nothing is
immoral, nothing is moral; nothing is pure, nothing is impure. Things are as they are. A real tantric
will not say that a thief is bad; he will say that he is a thief; that is all. And by using the word ‘thief’
there is no condemnation in his mind. This ”thief” is just a fact, not a condemnation. If someone
says that ”Here is a man who is a great saint,” he will say, ”Okay! He is a saint.” But there is no
evaluation in it. He will not say, ”He is good”, he will say, ”Okay! He is a saint and that man is a thief,”
just like this is a rose and that is not a rose, this tree is high and that tree is low, night is dark and
day is light – but without comparison.
But this is dangerous. Society cannot exist without condemning one thing and without appreciating
the other – society cannot exist! Society exists on duality. That is why tantra was suppressed. It was
thought to be anti-social, but it is not. It is not! But that very attitude of non-duality is transcendental.
It is not anti-society, it is transcendental; it is beyond society.
Try this. Just move in the world without any values, just with natural facts: someone is this, someone
is that. And then, by and by, you will feel a non-division within yourself. Your polarities will be coming
together, your ”bad” and your ”good” will be coming together. They will merge into one, and you will
become one unity. There will be nothing as pure, nothing as impure. Know the reality.
”THE PURITY OF OTHER TEACHINGS IS AN IMPURITY TO US:” Tantra says that ”What is basic
for others is poisonous for us.” For example, there are teachings which are based on non-violence.
They say violence is bad, non-violence is good. Tantra says that non-violence is non-violence,
violence is violence; nothing is good and nothing is bad.
There are teachings which are based on celibacy – BRAHMACHARYA. They say that
BRAHMACHARYA is good, sex is bad. Tantra says sex is sex, BRAHMACHARYA is
BRAHMACHARYA. One is a BRAHMACHARI and one is not. But these are simple facts, no values
are attached to them. And tantra will never say that BRAHMACHARYA is good – the celibate is good
– and that the one who is in sex is bad. Tantra will not say that. Tantra accepts things as they are.
And why? Just to create a unity within you.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 14 Osho
CHAPTER 1. BE A WITNESS NOT A JUDGE

Choicelessness

It is just like music. You hear some music: there are notes, sounds, and after each sound there is
silence, a gap. Because of that gap, that interval of silence, and the sound – because of both the
opposites – music is created. If you say, ‘I will choose only sounds and I am not going to take the
gaps,’ there will be no music. It will be a monotonous thing, it will be dead. Those gaps give life to
sound. This is the beauty of life – that through opposites it exists. Sound and silence, sound and
silence – that creates music, the rhythm. The same is with life. Suffering and happiness are two
opposites. You cannot choose.
If you choose you have become a victim; you will suffer. If you become aware of this totality of the
opposites and the way that life functions, you don’t choose – the first thing. And when you don’t
choose there is no need to cling, there is no meaning in clinging. When suffering comes you enjoy
the suffering, and when happiness comes you enjoy the happiness. When the guest is at home you
enjoy him, when he has gone you enjoy the suffering, the absence, the pain. I say enjoy both. This
is the path of wisdom: enjoy both, don’t choose. Whatsoever falls upon you, accept it. It is your fate,
it is how life is, and nothing can be done about it.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 321 Osho
CHAPTER 24. CHOICELESSNESS IS BLISS

The Middle Path

the middle path

it is very easy to move to the other extreme – very easy. If you eat too much you can fast
easily, but you cannot diet easily. If you talk too much you can go into silence very easily, but you
cannot talk less. If you eat too much, it is very easy not to eat at all – this is another extreme. But to
eat moderately, to come to a midpoint, is very difficult. To love a person is easy; to hate a person is
easy. To be simply indifferent is very difficult. From one extreme you can move to the other.
To remain in the middle is very difficult. Why? Because in the middle you have to lose your mind.
Your mind exists in extremes. Mind means the excess. Mind is always extremist: either you are for
or you are against. You cannot be simply neutral. Mind cannot exist in neutrality: it can be here or
there – because mind needs the opposite. It needs to be opposed to something. If it is not opposed
to anything it disappears. Then there is no functioning for it; it cannot function.
Try this. In any way become neutral, indifferent – suddenly mind has no function. If you are for, you
can think; if you are against, you can think. If you are neither for nor against, what is left to think?
Buddha says that indifference is the basis of the middle path. UPEKSHA indifference – be indifferent
to the extremes. Just try one thing: be indifferent to the extremes. A balancing happens.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 285 Osho
CHAPTER 21. TECHNIQUES TO BECOME ONE WITH THE WHOLE

I saw myself

I saw myself

In my hallucination, I saw my beloved’s flower garden.
In my vertigo, in my dizziness, in my drunken haze,
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel.
I saw myself as the source of existence,
I was there in the beginning, and I was the spirit of love.

Now I am sober, there is only the hangover, and the memory,
and only the sorrow.
I yearn for happiness. I ask for help. I want mercy,
and my love says: look at me and hear me,
because I am here just for that.

I am your moon, and your moonlight too,
I am your flower garden and your water, too
I have come all this way. Eager for you, without shoes or shawl.

I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries.
To love you, to soothe you, to nourish you.
Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you, and heal you.
I will bring you roses. I, too, have been covered in thorns.
(Rumi)

creatività

creatività
L’infelicità non richiede talenti, tutti possono permettersela. La felicità invece richiede talenti, genialità e creatività.

the garden

When you can put your whole energy into creating something that will give you satisfaction, that will give you a deep sense of fulfillment, a sense that you have not been here unnecessarily, you have contributed something; you have made the world a little more beautiful – a few more flowers you have added to it. If everybody is adding a few more flowers, this whole world can again become a garden.

Osho, Sermons in Stones, Ch 12, Q 1