"And will the sun ever shine in
the blind man's eyes when he cries?"
-MICHAEL
JACKSON
Religion and fear. Man is easily exploited through fear, especially through fear of sin, death and hell.
Sin
is the technique of creating guilt in people.
"Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you."
-OSHO
"They create guilt in you, they create great fear of sin. They condemn you, they make you afraid, they poison your very roots with the idea of guilt. They destroy all possibilities of laughter, joy, celebration. Their condemnation is such that to laugh seems to be a sin, to be joyous means you are worldly."
-OSHO
"You become guilty, you start feeling wrong; you are wrong, you start feeling condemned, you start hating yourself. If you start hating yourself you will never be able to find God, because He is hiding in you."
-OSHO
Every religion creates guilt -- in different ways, but the technique is the same. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness."
-OSHO
"By translating it as "sin," Christians have missed the very message of Jesus. The original Hebrew word for sin is so totally different from your idea of sin, that it will be a surprise to you. The root word means forgetfulness; it has nothing to do with what you are doing."
-OSHO
"To know who you are. You are much more than you ever imagined"
- MICHAEL
JACKSON
Ego and real Self. "The ego is just the opposite of your real self. The ego is not you. The ego is the deception created by the society so that you can continue playing with the toy and never ask about the real thing. "
-OSHO
"When you were
born you had your authentic self. Then they started creating a
false self: you are Christian, you are Catholic, you are white, you
are German and you are the chosen race of God, you are supposed to
rule over the world, and so on and so forth. They create a
false idea who you are. They give you a name and around the name
they create ambitions, conditionings."
"Society teaches
you, "Become this, become that." It teaches you becoming. Its whole
education system is based on the idea of
becoming."
-OSHO
"This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never allows you even a glimpse of your real authentic self, and your life is there, in your authenticity. Hence, this ego only produces misery, suffering, fighting, frustration, madness, suicide, murder — all kinds of crime.
-OSHO
"This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual. It tries in every possible way to destroy you for its own purposes. It needs clerks, it needs stationmasters, deputy-collectors, policemen, magistrates, it needs soldiers. It does not need human beings."
-OSHO
"Look at a child. Every child has grace. All children are beautiful, unconditionally beautiful. They are flowing, and they are true."
-OSHO
"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts. This is so much to teach. If a child wants chocolate ice cream he just asks for it. Adults get tangled up in complications over whether to eat the ice cream or not. A child simply enjoys."
-MICHAEL JACKSON (children, Dancing the Dream)
"What we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us the deeper wisdom of life which is ever-present and only asks to be lived. They know the way to solutions that lie waiting to be recognized within our own hearts."
-MICHAEL JACKSON
"Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him -- we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become part of the great culture, the great church, the great state to which we belong."
-OSHO
"During the first
seven years, every society tries to condition the mind -- and
conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,
tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the
innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can
control him."
-OSHO
"We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means."
-OSHO
"We teach our children the same culture that has tortured us, the same values that have been heavy on us, that have only proved to be subtle chains, imprisonment. But we go on conditioning our children. The same education that has destroyed our grace, our innocence -- we go on stuffing the same knowledge into our children's heads. And we go on lying to our children as our parents lied to us."-OSHO
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"If it is not to make the world better what is money
for?"
-Elizabeth Taylor
The right way or the wrong way. "There are only two ways to live your life, only two ways to be. One is the right way, the other the wrong way. The right is to give, to share, to love. The wrong way is to snatch, to exploit, to accumulate. Love and money are the symbols of these two ways. Money is neurosis, love is ecstasy. Love is the right way and money is the wrong way."
-OSHO
Good and bad. "For
existence, there is no interpretation and no division. Good and bad
are human conceptions, not divine. And every society has its own
conceptions of good and bad. Every age changes and has its own
conceptions of good and bad. There is no absoluteness about good
and bad. Good and bad are relative -- relative to society, to
culture, relative to us. God is absolute. For him,
there is no distinction."
-OSHO
God and Devil. "Without God, the devil cannot exist. You will be surprised to know that the word devil and the word divine have the same root; it is a Sanskrit root. In Sanskrit, divine is deva. From deva comes the English words divine and the devil. In fact, the devil and God are two sides of the same coin."
-OSHO
"There never was a time when I was not or you were not
There never will be a time when we will cease to be"
-MICHAEL JACKSON
Life and death. "Life and
death are two phases of the same energy. Death is not the
end of life. Death itself is part of life, and life goes on. You
have died many times, and still you are alive. Your life is
eternal. Death is a small episode here and there, when you change
your house, but the essential of your being remains the same. How
many times you change houses does not matter, but it is
inconceivable to the mind."
-OSHO
"Because of our mind we always divide everything into opposite polarities. Delusion and enlightenment, night and day, birth and death, they are all one process but the mind cannot conceive it. It is intrinsically incapable of conceiving of the oneness of life and death, of light and darkness."(OSHO)
"Life can be lived in two ways: one – the
mundane,
the ordinary,
the life of desires, possessions, things; the other – the sacred,
the life of non-possessiveness, the life of consciousness,
of love, compassion. If one lives life only in the outside
it remains mediocre and it does
not satisfy. It cannot satisfy unless one starts living from the
inner
springs. Then life
takes a quantum leap. It starts having a new flavor, a new joy – a
joy which is
uncaused,
and a flavor that comes from one’s own innermost core. It is not
given by anybody so it
cannot be taken away. Even death cannot take
it away; it is yours forever."
-OSHO
(The Shadow of the Bamboo)
"Once you have tasted your being, all fear disappears, and life becomes a totally new dimension – no longer mundane, no longer ordinary. For the first time you see the sacredness and the divineness not only of yourself, but of all that exists. Everything becomes mysterious, and to live in this mystery is the only way to live blissfully; to live in this mystery is to live under blessings showering on you like rain. Each moment brings more and more, deeper and more profound blessings to you. Not that you deserve them, but because life gives them out of its abundance – it is burdened, it shares with whomsoever is receptive to it." -OSHO (The Golden Future)
"If you are
living fully, joyously, there is no reason at all to think of the
future. It does not arise at all in your being. And your
contentment, moment to moment, goes on making you more and more
fulfilled, so fulfilled that you could not have imagined, dreamed
of it. With this fulfillment, if death comes you will live
that death-moment too, with joy and ecstasy, because it will be
opening a new door, a new possibility. You will be thrilled. It
will be an adventure and a challenge."
-OSHO
"Just think: if you are going to die tomorrow, then how many things will be important and how many things will be unimportant?"
"The moment you
start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on
your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love -
everything disappears."
-OSHO
"Heaven is Here
Right now is the
moment of
Eternity
Don't fool
yourself.
Reclaim your
Bliss"
-MICHAEL JACKSON
Heaven and hell. "Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are psychological. The mind is heaven, the mind is hell, and the mind has the capacity to become either. But people go on thinking everything is somewhere outside."
-OSHO
"Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven. If you are awake, then you are in a totally different universe; it is as if in your awakening the whole existence becomes awakened. It takes a new color, a new flavor, a new fragrance. When you are asleep, the whole existence sleeps with you. It all depends on you."
-OSHO
"LOVE IS MY MESSAGE"
-MICHAEL JACKSON
"Everything starts with love, remember; love is the ultimate law."
-OSHO
"Society is so much afraid of love that it is not afraid of anything else like it is of love. Love is the most potential and dangerous thing for so-called society, because love will wake up people, love will stir people's hearts. And they will start living through the heart, and they won't listen to the head. And if they don't listen to the head then the society will be at a loss; it will be impossible to dominate people who live through the heart."
-OSHO
