MySpace


























MySpace | > rss | Connexion
mars 19, 2009 - jeudi 

9:46  
9 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
mars 1, 2009 - dimanche 



Aloneness is the ultimate reality. One comes alone, one goes alone; and between these two alonenesses we create all kinds of relationships and fighting, just to deceive ourselves - because in life, also, we remain alone. But aloneness is not something to be sad about; it is something to rejoice in. There are two words - the dictionary will say they have the same meaning. but existence gives them totally opposite meanings. One word is loneliness and the other word is aloneness. They are not synonymous.

Loneliness is a negative state, like darkness. Loneliness means you are missing someone ; you are empty, and you are afraid in this vast universe. Aloneness has a totally different meaning: It does not mean that you are missing someone, it means that you have found yourself. It is absolutely positive.

Finding oneself, one finds the meaning of life, the significance of life, the joy of life, the splendor of life. Finding oneself is the greatest finding in man's life, and this finding is possible only when you are alone. When you consciousness is not crowded by anything, by anybody, when your consciousness is utterly empty - in that emptiness, in that nothingness, a miracle happens. And that miracle is the foundation of all religiousness.

The miracle is that when there is nothing else for your consciousness to be conscious of, the consciousness turns upon itself. It becomes a circle. Finding no obstacle, finding no object, it comes back to the source. And the moment the circle is complete, you are no longer just an ordinary human being; you have become part of the godliness that surrounds existence. You are no longer yourself; you have become part of the while universe - your heartbeat is now the heartbeat of the universe itself.

This is the experience mystics have been searching for all their lives, down the ages. There is no other experience that is more ecstatic, more blissful. The experience transforms your whole outlook: Where there use to be darkness, now there is light; where there used to be misery, there is bliss; where there used to be anger, hate, possessiveness, jealously, there is only a beautiful flower of love. The whole energy that was being wasted in negative emotions is no longer wasted; it takes a positive and creative turn.

One the one hand you are no longer your old self; on the other had you are, for the first time, your authentic self. The old is gone, the new has arrived. The old was dead; the new belongs to the eternal, the new belongs to the immortal.

It is because of this experience that the seers of the Upanishads have declared man to be amritasya putrah - "sons and daughters of immortality."

Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death. The fear of death is simply because you are not aware of your eternal source of life. Once the eternity of your being is realized, death becomes the greatest lie in existence. Death has never happened, never happens, never will happen, because that which is, remains always - in different forms, on different levels, but there is no discontinuity. Eternity in the past and eternity in the future both belong to you, And the present moment become a meeting pointy of two eternities: one going toward the past, one going toward the future.

The remembrance of your aloneness has not to be only of the mind; your every fiber of being, your every cell of the body should remember it -  not as a word, but as a deep feeling. Forgetfulness of yourself is the only sin there is, and to remember yourself is the only virtue.






7:09  
23 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
février 16, 2009 - lundi 








In Plato's Symposium, Socrates says:

A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with a reflection, but with truth itself. To know this blessing of human nature, one can find no better helper than love.

I have been commenting my whole life on love, in thousands of different ways, but the message is the same. Just one fundamental thing has to be remembered: It is not the love that you think is love. Neither is Socrates speaking about that love nor am I speaking about it.

The love you know is nothing but a biological urge; it depends on your chemistry and your hormones. It can be changed very easily - a small change in your chemistry and the love that you thought was the "ultimate truth" will simply disappear. You have been calling lust "love." This distinction should be remembered.

Socrates says, "A man who practices the mysteries of love . . ." Lust has no mysteries. It is a simple biological game; every animal, every bird, every tree knows about it. Certainly the love that has mysteries is going to be totally different from the love with which you are ordinary acquainted. 

A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with the reflection, but with truth itself.

This love that can become a contact with truth itself arises only out of your consciousness - not out of your body, but out of your innermost being. Lust arises out of your body, love arises out of your consciousness. But people don't know their consciousness, and the misunderstanding goes on and on - their bodily lust is taken for love.

Very few people in the world have known love. Those are the people who have become so silent, so peaceful . . . and out of that silence and peace they come in contact with their innermost being, their soul. Once your are in contact with your soul, your love become not a relationship but simply a shadow to you. Whenever you move, with whomsoever you move, you are loving.

Right now, what you call love is addressed to someone, confined to someone. And love is not a phenomenon that can be confined. You can have it in your open hands, but you cannot have it in your fist. The moment your hands are closed, they are empty. The moment they are open, the whole of existence is available to you.

Socrates is right: One who knows love also knows truth, because they are only two names of one experience. And if you have not known the truth, remember that you have not known love, either.

To know this blessing of human nature, one can find no better helper than love.








Actuellement Je lis:
Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
Par Osho
1:36  
23 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
janvier 17, 2009 - samedi 


















It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory. When you are enjoying others, enjoy and enjoy to the fullest; there is no need to bother about aloneness. And when you are fed up with others, then move into aloneness and enjoy it to the fullest.

Don't try to choose -- if you try to choose you will be in difficulty. Every choice is going to create a division in you, a kind of split in you. Why choose? When you can have both, who have one?



My whole teaching consists of two words, "mediation" and "love." Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

It has been one of the greatest problems down the ages: meditation and love, aloneness and relationship, sex and silence. Only the names are different; the problem is one. And down the ages man has suffered much because the problem has not been understood rightly -- people have chosen.

Those who have chosen relationship are called the worldly, and those who have chosen aloneness are called the monks, the otherworldly. But both suffer, because they remain half, and to be half is to be miserable. To be whole is to be healthy, happy; to be whole is to be perfect. To remain half is miserable because the other half goes on sabotaging, the other half goes on preparing to take revenge. The other half can never be destroyed because it is your other half! It is an essential part of you; it is not something accidental that you can discard.

It is like a mountain deciding that "I will not have any valleys around me." Now, without valleys, the mountain cannot be. The valleys are part of the mountain's being; the mountain cannot exist without the valleys, they are complementary to each other. If the mountain chooses to be without valleys, there will be no mountain any more. If the valleys choose to be without the mountains, their will be no valley, either. The mountain of aloneness rises only in the valleys of relationship.



In fact, you can enjoy aloneness only if you can enjoy relationship. It is the relationship that creates the need for aloneness, it is a rhythm. When you have moved in deep relationship with somebody, a great need arises to be alone. You start feeling spent, exhausted, tired--joyously tired, happily tired, but each excitement is exhausting. It was tremendously beautiful to relate, but not you would like to move into aloneness so that you can again gather yourself together, so that you again you can become overflowing, so that again you become rooted in you own being.

In love you moved into the other's being, you lost contact with yourself. You became drowned, drunk. Now you will need to find yourself again. But when you are alone, you are creating a need for love. Soon you will be so full that you would like to share, you will be so overflowing that you would like somebody to pour yourself into, to whom to give yourself.

Love arises out of aloneness. Aloneness makes you overfull, love receives your gifts. Love empties you so that you can become full again. When you are emptied by love, aloneness is there to nourish you, to integrate you. And this is a rhythm.

Great music is a synthesis between sound and silence. And the greater the synthesis, the deeper the music goes. The sound creates silence, and the silence creates receptivity to receive sound, and so on. Sound creates more love for music, more capacity to become silent.  Listening to great music you will always feel prayerful, something whole. Something integrates in you. You become centered, rooted. The earth and the sky meet, they are no longer separate. The body and soul meet and merge, they lose all definitions.  

And that is the great moment, the moment of the mystic union.

It is an ancient battle, and foolish, utterly foolish, so please beware: Don't create any battle between sex and silence. If you create a battle, your sex will be ugly, sick, and your silence will be dull and dead. Let sex and silence meet and merge. In fact the greatest moments of silence are those which are followed by love, great peaks of love. And peaks of love are always followed by great moments of silence and aloneness. Meditation leads to love. Love leads into meditation. They are partners. It is impossible to divide them. It is not a question of creating a syntheses -- it is impossible to divide them. It is a question of understanding, seeing that they are indivisible. They are one!



Religiousness has not become the neosphere of the earth; religiousness has not yet become a very vital, tidal force in the world. And what is the reason? --this division. Either you have to be worldly or you have to be otherworldly, choose! And the moment you choose, you loss something. Whichever you choose, you are going to be a loser.

I say, don't choose. I say, live both in their togetherness. Of course it needs art to live both. It is simple to chose and be attached to one. Any idiot can do it -- in fact, only idiots do it.  The man of intelligence would like both. And that's what sannyas is all about. You can have the cake and eat it, too -- that is intelligence.

Be alert, aware, intelligent. See the rhythm and move with the rhythm, without any choice. Remain choicelessly aware. See both extremes. On the surface they look opposite, contradictory, but they are not. Deep down there is a complementariness. It is the same pendulum that goes to the left and to the right.



And I understand the problem; the problem is simple, well known. The problem is that when you start relating, you don't know how to be alone -- that simply shows un-intelligence. It is not that the relationship is wrong, it simply shows that you are still not intelligent enough, so relationship becomes too much and you don't find any space to be alone and you fell exhausted and tired. Then one day you decide relationship is bad, it is meaningless: "I want to become a monk. I will go to a Himalayan cave and live there alone." How beautiful will it be -- nobody encroaching on your freedom, nobody trying to manipulate you; you don't have to think of the other at all.

Jean-Paul Sarte says, "The other is hell." That simply shows that he has not been able to understand the complementariness of love and meditation. "The other is hell" -- yes, the other becomes hell if you don't know how to be alone sometimes. Amidst all kinds of relationships, the other becomes hell. It is tedious, tiring, exhausting, boring. The other has become known. You are well acquainted; now there is no surprise any more.

But you have become attached, and the other has become attached to you. The other is also in misery, because you are her or his hell, just as he or she is your hell. Both are creating hell for each other and both are clinging to each other, afraid to lose because . . . anything is better than nothing. At least something is there to hold onto, and one can still hope that tomorrow things will be better. One lives in despair and goes on hoping.



The sooner or later one starts to feel it would be better to be alone. But if you go into aloneness, for a few days it will be tremendously beautiful, as it is beautiful with the other --- for a few days.  Just as there is a honeymoon in relationship, there is a honeymoon in meditation, too. For a few days you will feel so free, just to be yourself, nobody there to demand, nobody there to expect anything from you. If you want to get up early in the morning, you can get up; if you don't want to get up early, you can go on sleeping. If you want to do something, okay; if you don't want to do anything there is nobody to force you. For a few days you will feel so tremendously happy -- but only for a few days. Soon you will become tired of it. You will be overflowing and have nobody to receive your love. You will be ripe, and the energy needs to be shared. Now, aloneness will look not like aloneness, but loneliness. Now there will be a change -- the honeymoon is finished. You will have a great desire to find the other. In your dreams the other will start appearing.

Go and ask the monks what they dream. They dream only about women; they cannot dream about anything else. They dream about somebody who can unburden them. Ask the nuns -- they dream about men. And the thing can become pathological. You must be aware of the Christian history.

This choice if being alone has created a very sick humanity. And the people who live in the world are not happy, and the monks are not happy -- nobody seems to be happy. The whole world is a constant misery, and you can choose -- from one misery to another, you can choose this-worldly misery or that-worldly misery, but it is misery all the same. For a few days you will feel good.

I am bringing you a new message. The message is no longer to choose -- reaming choicelessly alert in your life, and become intelligent rather than changing circumstances. Change your psychology, becoming more intelligent. More intelligence is needed to be blissful! And then you can  have aloneness together with relationship.



Make your woman or your man also alert to the rhythm. People should be taught that nobody can love twenty-four hours a day; rest periods are needed. And nobody can love on order. Love is a spontaneous phenomenon. Whenever it happens, it happens, and whenever it doesn't happen, it doesn't' happen. Nothing can be done about it. If you do anything, you will create a pseudo phenomenon, an acting.

Real lovers, intelligent lovers, will make each other alert to the phenomenon: "When I want to be alone that does not mean that I am rejecting you. In fact, it is because of your love that you have made it possible for me to be alone." And if your women wants to be left alone for one night, for a few days, you will not feel hurt. You will not say that you have been rejected, that your love has not been received and welcomed. You will respect her decision to be alone for a few days. In fact, you will be happy! Your love was so much that she is feeling empty; now she needs to rest to become full again.

This is intelligence.



If two persons are really respectful -- and love is always respectful, it revers the other ; it is a very worshipful, prayerful state -- then slowly, slowly you will understand each other more and more and you will become aware of the others rhythm and your rhythm. And soon you will find that out of love, out of respect, your rhythms are coming closer and closer. When you feel loving, she feels love, this settles. This settles on its own, it is an synchronicity.

Have you watched. ever? If you come across two real lovers, you will so many things similar in them .Real lovers become as if they are bothers and sisters. You will be surprised -- even brothers and sisters are not so alike. Their expression, their way of talking, of walking, their gestures -- two lovers become alike and yet so different. This naturally starts happening. Just being together, slowly, slowly they become attuned to each another. Real lovers need not say anything to the other -- the other immediately understands, intuitively understands.

If the women is sad, she may not say it is so, but the man understands and leaves her alone -- finds some excuse to leave her alone. Stupid people  do just the opposite. They never leave each other alone -- they are constantly with each other, tiring and boring each other, never leaving any space for the other to be.

Love gives freedom and love helps the other to be himself or herself. Love is a very paradoxical phenomenon. In one way it makes you one soul in two bodies; in another way it gives you individuality, uniqueness. If helps you drop your small selves but it also helps you attain to the supreme self. Then there is no problem: Love and meditation are two winds, and they balance each other. And between the two you grow, between the two you become whole.



- Osho





 





Actuellement Je lis:
Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
Par Osho
11:00  
30 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
décembre 27, 2008 - samedi 

Even a dancer needs a rest,
even a singer needs a rest.
Even a happy person needs rest.
One cannot remain in one mood continuously --
there is no need. When there are so many climates
available, why get attached to one?
Why not be enriched by all?

A man who has attained to his essential center
moves on dancing in different situations.
Sometimes it is hot, sometimes it is cold;
sometimes it is joy, sometimes it is sadness --
but now everything brings him some message
from the Whole.
Everything has become a messenger.


11:30  
14 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
juillet 23, 2008 - mercredi 


I do not believe in believing. That has to be understood first.

Nobody asks me, "Do you believe in the rose flower?" There is no need. You can see; the rose flower is there or it is not there. Only fictions, not facts, have to be believed.

Belief is comfortable, convenient; it dulls. It is a kind of drug; it makes you a zombie.

A zombie can be a Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan - but they are all zombies, with different labels, but behind the label the same belief system.

Destroy your beliefs. Certainly it will be uncomfortable, inconvenient, but nothing valuable is ever gained without inconvenience.



7:49  
10 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
juillet 1, 2008 - mardi 

           


Reason is an effort
to know the unknown
and intuition is the
happening of the unknowable.
To penetrate the unknowable is possible,
but to explain it is not.
The feeling is possible,
the explination is not.   


 

                       
1:46  
17 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
juin 19, 2008 - jeudi 
   

Western medical science has viewed man as a separate unit-apart from nature. That is one of the gravest errors that has been committed. Man is part of nature; his health is nothing but being at ease with nature.

Western medicine takes a mechanical view of man, so whenever mechanics can be successful, it is successful. But man is not a machine; man is an organic unity, and man needs not just treatment of the part that is sick. The sick part is only a symptom that the whole organism is going through difficulties. The sick part is only visible because it is the weakest.

You treat the sick part, and you seem successful...but then somewhere else the disease appears. You have only prevented the disease from expressing itself through the sick part; you have make it stronger. But you do not understand that man is a whole: either he is sick or he is healthy, there is no in-between. Man should be viewed as a whole organism.



Actuellement Je lis:
Body Mind Balancing: Using Your Mind to Heal Your Body
Par Osho
Date de publication : 2005-04-14
9:48  
7 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
mai 30, 2008 - vendredi 
..



5:35  
5 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
mai 12, 2008 - lundi 
  

 Just be watchful this minute. In this silence you are tasting something which is beyond time.
We are tasting the taste of this minute of eternity….

The silence, this minute, gives you not an explanation—but it gives you an experience.

Dancing and singing, allow yourself to be so completely overwhelmed that nothing is left behind. And you have entered into the temple of God, where you are the mirror, and you are the face mirrored in it; where you are the seeker and you are the sought; where you are the devotee and you are the God at whose feet you are offering yourself.




2:37  
12 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
avril 29, 2008 - mardi 


In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageuos person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unkown in spite of all the fears.


 


1:09  
27 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
mars 31, 2008 - lundi 
..
8:39  
22 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
mars 9, 2008 - dimanche 



4:52  
19 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
novembre 30, 2007 - vendredi 



Disobedience is a great revolution. It does not mean saying an absolute no in every situation. It simply means deciding whether to do it or not, whether it is beneficial to do something or not. It is taking the responsibility on yourself.

It is not a question of hating the person, or hating to be told what to do, because in that hating you cannot act obediently or disobediently; instead, you act unconsciously. You cannot act intelligently.

When you are told to do something, you are given an opportunity to respond. Perhaps what is being asked of you is right; then do it and be grateful to the person who told you at the right moment to do it. Perhaps it is not right-then make it clear. Bring your reason, explain why it is not right; then help the person to understand that what he is thinking is going in the wrong direction. But hate has no place.

If it is right, do it lovingly. If it is not right, then even more love is needed because you will have to tell the person, explain to the person that it is not right.

The way of disobedience is not stagnant, just going against every order and feeling anger and hate and revenge toward the other person. The way of disobedience is a way of great intelligence.

9:50  
8 Comm.
(Ajouter un commentaire) |
Traduire
Osho



Dernière mise à jour : 11/04/2009

> Email
> Message instantané
> Partage avec un ami
> Souscrire

Archive du blog
[Plus ancien      Plus récent]
 /  / 
>