#Sannyas

[picsofsannyas]

OSHO is asked

Another discourse, another silly question. why do you refer to your sannyasins as "the chosen few" when any lost soul who can make it to Poona with a willingness to participate in some trendy gestalt-oriented therapy groups and do some meditating, can apparently take Sannyas? Whoever gets refused Sannyas and on what grounds? p.s.: bob Dylan says, "I never got into any of them guru trips. I never felt that lost!"

Dick Blackburn, nobody is ever refused, no Tom, Harry or Dick. That does not mean that all are accepted. Nobody is ever refused, that's true, but that does not mean that all are accepted. Only those are accepted who surrender. Only those are accepted who are utterly committed, who have fallen in love with me, who can trust, and whose trust is unconditional and absolute. They are accepted.

Sannyas is not denied to anybody, because Sannyas is an opportunity. A few people surrender even before taking Sannyas, a few surrender after taking Sannyas, a few surrender after being Sannyasins for months or for years. Hence Sannyas is not denied; it creates a space, a context, for surrender.

But as to who is really received, who is really accepted, it is a totally different matter. It is not declared; it remains esoteric. Only I know. And, slowly, slowly, the person who is accepted starts knowing it -- but very slowly. Sometimes it takes years for the person to understand that he has been accepted. It is never said; not even to the person is it said that he has been accepted. It has to be understood; that is the beauty of it. Only then is it significant.

But it starts happening. If I accept a person, slowly, slowly his energy starts giving messages to him that he has been accepted. One day it becomes such an absolute certainty, so self-evident, that there is no need for any other declaration, validation, or any certificate. Sannyas I give to all. But only those are accepted who REALLY take Sannyas. That's why I say Sannyasins are the chosen few. It is out of my compassion that I don't reject anybody. The most unworthy is also to be respected, loved, received, welcomed. And who knows? The unworthy may change. Man is unpredictable; the baser metal can any day become gold.

And about the P.S.: "Bob Dylan says, 'I never got into any of them guru trips. I never felt that lost!'"

To find a master is not for those who feel that they are lost. It is for those who start feeling that there is a way and that there is a ray, that they are not lost; that they can find somebody who will help them, who will make things more clear and transparent.

Enough for today.

Osho.

The Book of Wisdom Chapter #6 Sannyas is for Lions 16 February 1979 am in Buddha Hall

[neon-lights-stardust-nights]

Showing off each trollsona's typing quirk

Savmir - brokenHallelujah

Sannya - fauxGills

Dmitry - fangedJester

[felafitzgerald]

Human Condition.

Humans are unique on Earth

in that we are Carriers.

We are Collectors, Curators,

generating our future through

what we save; what we dismiss.

We share suffering when in crisis,

we share balance when we dance

What makes us unique among humans

is what we choose to carry,

what we choose to release,

where we live and who with,

what cannot be left behind

when we must leave our home.

how hard it is, the decision to say goodbye

and how stark true loneliness is,

what it means to have no choice,

What it means to be desperate,

What it means to be told to leave,

and for there to even be a place

where you are not welcome anymore.

-david patrone

#napkindiaries

This may not necessarily be true. I can imagine that there may be higher beings here on Earth which almost all of us are not aware of. I'm almost positive that the megaliths, pyramids and other inexplicable phenomena of the ancient world indicate the existence of advanced technology and beings of greater ability and intelligence at some point in the past. If they were able to do things 12,000 years ago that we are not able or willing to do today; then, I'm sure their technology is so advanced by now that they could easily be hiding in plain sight, manipulating and cultivating humans as a workforce to achieve their goals, whoever THEY may be. The reality is that humans are probably not unique on earth when it comes to cognitive ability and these other factors; but, if there are higher beings on Earth and they don't reveal their existence and help us solve our problems here, then what good is their intellect? if they are not utilizing this superior ability to help society to benefit it's members, then they don't really get to be acknowledged as being a part of this world do they? They are an adversary to the advancement of our world. It would indicate that we are just some colony to them. If they don't contribute to the solution to the human condition, they're just another obstacle aren't they?

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[mountain-sage]

Life becomes a life only when your heart starts singing songs of love, when a poet is born in you and when a love affair starts with existence. That’s what sannyas is all about: it is a love affair with existence. It is not a philosophical effort to understand what it is all about, it is not a head trip. It is not trying to figure out the mysteries of life and existence — no, not at all. It is simply a love affair. We are not concerned with knowing what it is; we are concerned with living it whatsoever it is — XYZ. Our concern is to live it in its totality, because ultimately that is the only way to know it.

Osho

[iskconchd]

One who has got a helpful wife at home does not require to accept sannyas. Letter to Krishnadevi, October 29, 1967

[thevachak]

A youth, Prince Shrona, was initiated by Buddha. The people in the capital could not believe it. No one had ever imagined that Shrona would become a bhikkhu, a monk. Buddha’s monks could not believe it either, their eyes were popping out when Shrona came and fell at Buddha’s feet and said, ”Initiate me, make me a bhikkhu.”

Shrona was an emperor, and a famous emperor. He was famous for indulgence. His royal palace had the most beautiful women of that era. His palace had the finest wines, gathered from every corner of the world. Celebration went on all night long, he slept all day. He was so drowned in indulgence that no one had ever thought he could imagine becoming a sannyasin. When he climbed the steps he didn’t have railings put up, but had naked women stand there. He would climb the stairs putting his hand on their shoulders. He made his house into a heaven. His palace was such that gods in heaven would be jealous.

The bhikkhus asked Buddha, ”We can’t believe it, Shrona being initiated!”

Buddha said, ”Whether you believe it or not, I knew he was going to take sannyas. To tell you the truth it is for him that I came to the capital today. What goes to one extreme will go to the other extreme too. Indulgence is one extreme, he did that completely. Now there is no way to move further there, no way to satisfy the ego. He has whatever is possible in that world. Now a wall has come in front of the ego, where can the ego go now? The ego demands more. Now there isn’t any more, so the ego must return, must go back in the opposite direction. When the pendulum of a clock goes all the way to the right, it must return towards the left. Then it goes all the way to the left and has to return again to the right. When the pendulum of a clock is going to the left, remember that it is gathering momentum to go to the right. And when it is going to the right it is gathering momentum to go to the left. One who has a subtle vision will be able to see this. One who goes into extreme indulgence will one day go into extreme yoga.

Buddha said, ”Wait a few days, you will see the truth of what I am saying.”

And people saw. The other bhikkhus walked on a well paved road, but Shrona walked through thorns and brush, his feet became drenched in blood. When the sun was hot the other bhikkhus sat in the shade of the trees. Shrona would stand in the sun. The other bhikkhus wore clothes, he used only a loin cloth. And it seemed as if he was eager to drop the loin cloth too. Then one day he did drop it. The other bhikkhus ate once a day, Shrona ate only once in two days. The other bhikkhus ate sitting down. Shrona ate standing up. The other bhikkhus kept a bowl, Shrona didn’t keep even a bowl, only his hand… he ate only the food that fit in his hand. His beautiful body shrivelled. Previously people used to come from miles around to see his body. His face had been very charming, immensely beautiful. After he had been a bhikkhu for three months anyone who saw him would not recall that this was Emperor Shrona. His feet became blistered, his body became black, he shrivelled and became just bones. And he went on disciplining himself.

Buddha said, ”Do you see bhikkhus, I had told you that what goes to one extreme, will go to the other extreme! It is difficult to stop in the middle, because the middle is the death of the ego.”

Then Shrona stopped eating. Then he stopped taking water. He continued from one extreme to another. It seemed he would be a guest on this earth only two or three more days, then die. This is when Buddha went to his door, to the tree under which he had built a hut to rest in. He was lying down. Buddha said to him, ”Shrona, I have come to ask you something. I have heard that when you were an emperor you had a passion for playing the veena, and that you were very skilled at playing it, that you took great interest in the veena. I have come to ask you a question: when the strings of the veena are very loose, will music arise or not?”

Shrona said, ”What are you talking about? You know it well if the strings are very loose music cannot arise, they cannot even sound a twang.”

Buddha said, ”Then I ask you this: if the strings are tightened too much will music arise or not?”

Shrona said, ”If they are tightened too much the strings will snap, music will not arise, only the sound of snapping strings will arise. How can music arise from the sound of an instrument breaking?”

Then Buddha said, ”I have come to remind you. Just as you have experienced the veena, I experience the veena of life. I say unto you, if the strings of life are very tight music does not arise, and if the strings of life are very loose, again music does not arise. The strings need to be in the middle Shrona, neither too tight nor too loose. The greatest skill of a musician is in bringing the strings exactly to the middle, this is what is meant by tuning an instrument.”

This is why when you see Indian classical music, it takes half an hour or an hour to tune the instruments. Tuning instruments is a great art. To bring the strings to that middle point where it cannot be said that they are too loose or too tight, one needs great skill, a very sensitive ear. Only a connoisseur of music is able to tune.

”The veena of life is exactly the same,” Buddha said, ”It is enough Shrona, wake up now. I was waiting to let you come to the extreme. At first your strings were very loose, now you have tightened them too much. Music didn’t happen then, nor does it happen now: are you experiencing samadhi? What is all this that you are doing? Previously you stuffed yourself, now you are fasting to death. Previously you never went barefoot, if you went anywhere the road was covered with velvet. And now if the path is good you will not move on it. You move in the brush, in the thorns, on rough, rugged paths. Perhaps previously you had never drunk water but only wine. Now you are afraid to drink even water! Now you want to avoid water too. Previously at your house incomparable meat dishes were prepared, now you are not ready even to eat dry bread. See how you have moved from one extreme to the other? That extreme was unmusical, this too is unmusical. I call out to you: Now is the time, come to the middle.”

Tears began to flow from Shrona’s eyes. He became alert. He saw his situation.

And as soon as someone comes to the middle, the ego dies – it cannot live. The ego is a disease, the ego can exist only if your mind is sick. The life of the ego comes out of your being sick, and extremes are the secret of your being sick.

[simonettiwalter]

Verità dolorosa, sconvolge l’esistenza,

In nome, un’origine, una filiazione,

Changeling, un doppelganger in luce,

Fate ghermivano, segreto regno fatato.

Conseguenze cariche, condizione indispensabile,

L’anima del doppio, segreto regno fatato,

Simonetti Walter, la reincarnazione,

Luce della verità, la condizione per essere.

Verghe di betulla, nove volte colpito,

Acqua bollente, sospeso e minacciato,

Un forno riscaldato, nove legni diversi,

Cuoio e ferro incandescente, il veleno da bere.

Conseguenze cariche, condizione indispensabile,

L’anima del doppio, segreto regno fatato,

Simonetti Walter, la reincarnazione,

Luce della verità, la condizione per essere.

Bello e strano, distante il changeling,

Leggende di doppelgänger, dare un senso,

Follia e negazione, lucida rinascita,

La Cultura Fondazione, illuminati in ombra.

Un agente provocatore, la morte replicante,

Clonazione dis-umana, il movimento del 77,

Il sannyas innamorato, la verità di Osho,

Avvelenato e cacciato, nella lista nera di un’altra vita.

Conseguenze cariche, condizione indispensabile,

L’anima del doppio, segreto regno fatato,

Simonetti Walter, la reincarnazione,

Luce della verità, la condizione per essere.

Un ritornante, la vita segnata,

Il destino nella pelle, la morte affrontata,

La mente vola via, in un UFO sospesa,

Verità dolorosa, Simonetti Walter, l’eco silente.

[kuhuchan]

yo kuhu, would you please translate the bangla for me, I’m south indian, I don’t understand bangle :(

Hehe it's sannyas or you know renouncing this material world hehe

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[philophi9999]

Osho Neo Sannyas Ceremony At Osho Tapoban Kathmandu Nepal .Bodhisattva S...

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[alittlebitoftruthcan]

‘Osho, aren’t you ever afraid that instead of the creation of a new kind of man, this is the creation of a new kind of sheep?’

I am not afraid at all because even if a new sheep is created, it is better than the old sheep—at least it will be new! To be new is good, to be new is fresh, to be new opens new possibilities. Hence, I am not afraid. But you must be attached to the old kind of sheep, hence you are afraid.

I can only try to give birth to a new man, but the birth cannot be absolutely guaranteed. I will do my best. It does not matter to me whether I succeed or fail. What matters is whether I tried my best or not—and I am trying my best. And that’s all that I am interested in. I am enjoying my work. Who cares about the result? The people who care too much about the result simply waste their energy because caring about the result takes much of their energy. Then they become worried about the result—that is a distraction. Then the end becomes far more important than the journey itself. To me the journey itself is enough, the search itself is more than enough. To me the means and the ends are not separate, they are inseparable. Hence, what I am doing, I am enjoying. What happens, that is not at all a question to me. But why are you worried? You must be interested in keeping people in their old traps.

I can do only one thing… You have heard the old proverb—this is a new edition of that old proverb: ‘You can lead a hippie to water, but you cannot make him bathe.’ I will lead the hippie to the water—that much I can do—I will persuade him, but then it is up to him to take a jump into the river or not. Who am I to throw him into the river? I can show him the way to the river, I can even lead him to the river, then it is HIS freedom. If he chooses to remain the same, I am not going to disturb his freedom, I am not going to do anything against him. I love every person as he is. I love my work; it is not work to me at all because I love it—it is just a play. But with you there seems to be some problem inside you. Your question has nothing to do with my work, it has something to do with your prejudices.

You ask me, ‘Aren’t you ever afraid that instead of the creation of a new kind of man, this is the creation of a new kind of sheep?’ I am trying to create the new man. Even if out of one hundred, one new man is created, that will bring the whole consciousness of humanity a step forward, a step upward. There is a possibility many will become only a new kind of sheep, but then too it is not bad, that too is a gain. It is better to be alive, young, fresh, new, even though you are a sheep. But you must somehow be deeply interested in keeping people in their old patterns, your investment must be there. Your prejudices must be those of a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, a Mohammedan.

Two musicians were walking in a street, when a large bell from a building being demolished fell nearby with a loud clang. ‘What’s that?’ asked one. ‘I’m not sure,’ said the other, ‘but I think it was B flat.’

People have their own languages, their own prejudices, and they cling to their prejudices. Even though their prejudices have been a sheer misery for them, still they cling.

If you are an old sheep, at least become a new sheep—orange! It will not be a very great revolution, but even a little change is good. Just for that little change—and a little change may open doors for greater changes.

Two hobos sat with their backs against an old oak tree. Before them flowed a rippling stream. It was a delightful day, yet one of them was disconsolate. ‘You know, Slim,’ he said, ‘this tramping through life is not what it used to be. Things are getting tougher every year. I used to hop a freight chugging up a steep grade very easy, but these diesels go like mad. And I’m getting tired of spending my nights in a cold barn and on park benches, wondering where my next meal is coming from. And odd jobs are getting scarcer all the time…’ His voice trailed off as he sighed. His companion turned to face him. ‘If that’s the way you feel, why don’t you hang it all up and find yourself a real job?’ The first tramp raised his head and opened his mouth in amazement. ‘What!’ he cried. ‘And admit I’m a failure?’ Even a tramp, a hobo, a beggar does not want to accept that he is a failure.

The way you have asked the question simply shows that you are an old sheep—Catholic, Protestant—and you are afraid of the new sheep. You are not concerned about the new man. The old sheep is worried because what is going to happen to the old prejudices, the old conclusions, the old ideology? It seems as if it will be a deep discontinuity with the past, as if one dies and is reborn. But those who are ready to drop the old are not sheep. The very courage to drop the old is enough to prove that they are lions. The very courage that they are ready to come out of their old skins, their old prejudices, old ideologies, religions, philosophies, shows one thing very clearly, categorically: they are not sheep. And that very courage is the hope for the birth of a new man.

Just put your old prejudices aside, and then try to understand what is happening here. Get a little bit involved, participate in what is happening here. You have lived according to your old beliefs. If you are contented, I will be the last person to disturb you; but if you are contented, why are you here? For what? You must be discontented. This is one of the strangest things about man: even if he is discontented, he goes on believing, pretending that he is contented. And whenever there is an opportunity to change—and he is LOOKING for an opportunity to change, this is the strangeness—when he finds the opportunity to change, he clings to the past.

A doctor was consulted by a prizefighter, who was troubled with insomnia. ‘Have you tried counting sheep?’ asked the doctor. ‘Yes, but it doesn’t help. Every time I get up to nine, I jump up!’ An old prizefighter! The moment he gets to nine he cannot resist. Instead of giving him a good sleep it will disturb him—he jumps up.

People function mechanically, unconsciously. Your question has come out of your unconsciousness.

The tavern was near an army camp, and the pretty barmaid was popular with the enlisted men, especially since she preferred them to the overbearing officers. One night a polite young private was sitting next to a cocky first lieutenant who tried to date her. When the lieutenant went to the men’s room she put her face close to the private and whispered, ‘Now is your chance, soldier!’ The private looked at the tempting red lips and then cried, ‘That’s right!’ And he hastily drank the officer’s beer.

You are here, but not really here. And the way I talk must be so difficult for you to understand. If you have been listening to the sermons by the priests in the churches or in the temples or in the mosques, then what I am saying here will look very irreligious, will look very strange to your ideas of what spirituality should be. But I cannot talk the way you are accustomed to hearing. You may be waiting for some esoteric bullshit!

Kohn was home from seeing his doctor and meets his friend who asks, ‘Wha-wha-what is wrong wi-with you?’ ‘I’ve got prostatitis,’ replies Kohn. ‘Wha-what…wha-wha-what is that?’ ‘I piss the way you talk!’

The new man can only be created with everything new: the way I talk, the way my people live, the way they behave, all has to be totally different from the old man.

The new man cannot believe in your rotten morality—your morality has only created hypocrites. The new man can live only authentically, he cannot be concerned with your moral and immoral ideas. He can live only meditatively. He cannot be thought as a man of character, the way you have become accustomed to think of religious people. The new man will not be a man of character, the new man will be utterly characterless. But when I say, ‘characterless,’ please don’t misunderstand me. I am not talking the way you understand. To me the characterless man is the only man who has character. I call him characterless because he does not follow any dictates from the outside; he lives according to his own light, he lives meditatively. His character does not come from his conscience.

Conscience is an agency implanted in you by the society; it is not yours. Don’t say the conscience is yours—it is not yours. It belongs to the Christian church, it belongs to the Hindu religion, it belongs to the Jain philosophy, it belongs to the communist ideology. It has nothing to do with you. It is implanted by others in you. It is a very subtle strategy to dominate you from within. On the outside they have put a policeman, the magistrate, the court, and on the inside, they have created a conscience.

The real man, the new man, will live according to consciousness, not according to conscience. Of course, whatsoever HIS consciousness feels right, he will do, whatsoever the risk, whatsoever he has to pay for it. Even if he has to pay with his life, he will be ready to pay it because there are higher things than life itself. Consciousness is far higher than life. But he will not follow conscience. The man of conscience is known as a man of character—that’s why I call the new man characterless because he will not have any conscience, he will function out of consciousness. His commandments will be coming from his own center, and when they come from your own center, they give you freedom. Out of freedom life takes a new flavor, a new beauty. You do right, but now the right is not decided by others; it is no longer a slavery, it is absolute freedom. The new man will live out of meditation, out of consciousness, out of his own inner light.

The new man will be an individual, not part of any collectivity. My sannyasins here are not a collectivity. Each of my sannyasins is related to me directly. It is not a church, it is not an organization, it is a love relationship. And because they all love me, of course they start feeling love for each other too. That is secondary. Their love toward me is primary, then their love for other sannyasins is secondary, they are fellow travelers. But nobody is bound to follow me or to follow anybody else. It is a commune of fellow travelers, fellow seekers.

There is no qualitative difference between me and my sannyasins. The only difference is a very slight one, very small one—I am aware of my inner world, they are not aware, but they have the inner world as much as I have it. I don’t have it more; they don’t have it less. They have the whole kingdom of God within themselves. I am not special in any sense. I am not claiming that I am the Son of God, I am not claiming that I am an avatar of God, I am not claiming that I am a TIRTHANKARA. I am simply saying one thing: that I was asleep, now I am awake; you are asleep, and you can be awake also. I have known both states—the state of being asleep and the state of being awake—and you know only one state, of being asleep. But remember, the person who is capable of sleeping is capable of awakening. The very fact that he can sleep is an indication that he can be awake. There is no difference at all.

I will go on trying to help people to be awake. The awakened man will be the new man: he will not be Christian, he will not be Hindu, he will not be Mohammedan, he will not be Indian, he will not be German, he will not be English. He will simply be an awakened being.

But it is possible that there may be a few people who will only turn into a new kind of sheep, but that too is not bad. As far as being the old sheep is concerned, it is better than that. So if you are an old sheep, become a new sheep, and from there the journey starts, a possibility. If the old sheep can become a new sheep, it is a radical change. The sheep deciding to be new—it is a revolution. And if this much is possible, then much more is possible too.

— Osho (I am That: Talks on the Isha Upanishad)

[picsofsannyas]

Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, IN SPITE OF DREADFUL POLITICAL CATASTROPHES, POLITICAL ACTION SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY MEANS TO FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE IN THE WORLD. DOES THE SEARCH YOU ARE INSPIRING EXCLUDE POLITICAL ACTION?

Jean-Francois Held, I am in love with life in its totality. My love excludes nothing; it includes all. Yes, political action too is included in it. That's the worst thing to include, but I can't help it! But everything that is included in my vision of life is included with a difference.

In the past, man has lived without awareness in all the aspects of life. He has loved without awareness and failed in it, and love has brought only misery and nothing else. He has done all kinds of things in the past, but everything has proved a hell. So has been the case with political action.

Each revolution turns into antirevolution. It is time we should understand how this happens, why this happens at all -- that each revolution, each struggle against injustice, finally turns into injustice itself, becomes antirevolutionary. In this century it has happened again and again -- I am not talking about a faraway past. It happened in Russia, it happened in China. It is going to happen if we continue to function in the same old way. Unawareness cannot bring more than that.

When you are powerless, it is easy to fight against injustice; the moment you become powerful, you forget all about injustice. Then repressed desires to dominate assert themselves. Then your unconscious takes over, and you start doing the same things that were done before by the enemies against whom you had been struggling. You had staked your very life for it!

Lord Acton says that power corrupts. It is true only in a sense, and in another sense it is absolutely untrue. It is true if you look at the surface of things: power certainly corrupts, whosoever becomes powerful becomes corrupted. Factually it is true, but if you dive deep into the phenomenon then it is not true. Power does not corrupt: it is the corrupted people who become attracted towards power. It is the people who would like to do things which they cannot do while they are not in power. The moment they are in power, their whole repressed mind asserts itself. Now there is nothing to bar them, nothing to prevent them; they have the power. Power does not corrupt them, it only brings their corruption to the surface. Corruption was there as a seed; now it has sprouted. The power has proved only the right season for it to sprout. Power is only the spring for the poisonous flowers of corruption and injustice in their being.

Power is not the cause of corruption, but only the opportunity for its expression. Hence I say: basically, fundamentally, Lord Acton is wrong.

Who becomes interested in politics? Yes, with beautiful slogans people go into it, but what happens to those people? Joseph Stalin was fighting against the injustice of the czar. What happened? He himself became the greatest czar the world has ever known, worse than Ivan the Terrible! Hitler used to talk about socialism. He had named his party the Nationalist Socialist Party. What happened to socialism when he came into power? All that disappeared.

The same thing had happened in India. Mahatma Gandhi and his followers were talking about nonviolence, love, peace -- all the great values cherished down the ages. And when power came he escaped. Mahatma Gandhi himself escaped because he became aware that if he took power in his hands he would no longer be the mahatma, the sage. And the followers who came into power were all proved as corrupted as anywhere else -- and they were all good people before they were in power, great servants of the people. They had sacrificed much. They were not bad people in any way; in every possible way they were good people. But even good people turn into bad people -- that is something fundamental to be understood.

I would like my sannyasins to live life in its totality, but with an absolute condition, categorical condition: and that condition is awareness, meditation. Go first deep into meditation, so you can cleanse your unconscious of all poisonous seeds, so there is nothing to be corrupted and there is nothing inside you which power can bring forth. And then do whatsoever you feel like doing.

If you want to become a painter, become a painter. Your painting will have a difference; it won't be like Picasso. Picasso's paintings are insane -- he IS insane! In fact, if he had been prevented from painting he would have been in a madhouse. Through his paintings he is catharting, throwing out his insanity onto the canvas, getting rid of it. Yes, he feels better -- it is a kind of vomiting! After vomiting you feel better, but what about others who look at your vomit! But the world is so stupid that if Picasso vomits, people say, "What a great painting -- something never seen before, something unique!"

Vincent van Gogh really went insane, had to be hospitalized for one year, and then he committed suicide. And he was not more than thirty-seven. Now, what kind of paintings had this man been doing? Certainly he had the art, the skill, but the art and the skill were in the hands of a madman, suicidal. Watching his paintings you will feel restless, uneasy. Keep a Picasso painting in your bedroom and you will have nightmares!

A meditator can become a painter, but then something totally different will come out of him -- something of the beyond, because he will be capable to receive God. He can become a dancer; his dance will have a new quality to it: it will allow the divine to be expressed. He can become a musician... or he can go into political action, but his political action will be rooted in meditation. Hence there will be no fear of a Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler or Mao Zedong coming out of it; that is impossible.

I don't tell anybody to go in a certain direction; I leave my disciples totally free. I simply teach them meditation. I teach them being more alert, more aware, and then it is up to them. Whatsoever their natural potential is they will find it, but it is going to be with awareness. Then there is no danger.

Jean-Francois Held, I am not against political action -- I am not against anything. I am not life-negative; I affirm life, I am in absolute love with life! And of course, when millions of people are on the earth, there is going to be some kind of politics or other. Politics cannot just disappear. It will be like dissolving the police, the post office, the railway -- it will create a chaos. And I am not an anarchist and I am not in favor of chaos. I want the world to be more beautiful, more harmonious, more of a cosmos than of a chaos. Sometimes I praise chaos, only in order to destroy that which is rotten. I praise destructiveness also, only in order to create. Yes, sometimes I am very negative -- I am against conventions, conformities, traditions -- only to make you free so that you can create new visions, new worlds, so that you need not remain imprisoned with the past, so that you can have a future and a present. But I am not destructive. My whole effort is to help you to be creative.

A few people out of my sannyasins are bound to go into political action, but I will allow them only when they have fulfilled the basic condition: when they are more alert, aware, when their inner being is full of light. Then do whatsoever you want to do -- you can't bring harm to the world. You will bring something good, something beautiful; you will be a blessing to the world. Without it, without that awareness, even if you do something good, it is going to turn into something harmful.

Osho

The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 6 Chapter #4 Chapter title: This too will pass 24 October 1979 am in Buddha Hall

[neon-lights-stardust-nights]

Okay, now I have the "off-canon deep lore and story" insert, and the "indulging my npd and being in line for the throne" insert.

[mountain-sage]

The scholar has decided that first he has to understand intellectually, then he will move. Now this is no way to move. First you have to move and then comes understanding.

How can you think about sannyas? What will you think about? It is an inner experience, it is something of the inner space, it is a contact with me of the inner; nobody can watch it. You can watch sannyasins, but you cannot know anything about sannyas by watching sannyasins. Even if the sannyasin himself tries to figure it out intellectually, he will not be able to. Sannyas has to be tasted even then it is very difficult to explain it intellectually. But to think about it without moving into it is impossible. It is as if somebody says 'First I will have to know about love and then I will love.' How are you going to know about love? The only way to know about love is to fall in love, there is no other way. You can go to the library, you can ask many people, you can consult books and encyclopaedias, and you will find a thousand and one things about love, but not love. You may become too much of a scholar, your mind may become stuffed with information; but information is not knowing.

Osho

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@spdailyquotes One who has got a helpful wife at home does not require to accept sannyas. Letter to Krishnadevi, October 29, 1967 ऐसा व्यक्ति जिसके घर पर सहयोगी पत्नी है, उसे संन्यास लेने की आवश्यकता नहीं है। कृष्णदेवी को पत्र, 29 अक्तूबर 1967 #krishna #iskconphotos #motivation #success #love #vaishnav #india #creativity #inspiration #life #spdailyquotes #devotion

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"Serpent Power." From the Yoga Chudamani Upanishad, the Exploration of the Mysteries of the Jewel in the Crest.

The Upanishads say the mind must become pure through meditation upon the Parabrahman, the unmodified Self. This is done through meditation and the realization certain qualities and attributes of embodied life are here to stay. Delusions evaporate, realities remain during the process of finding the Self. One such find is what is called the sushumna, "The main artery."

The sushumna is the vital energy channel of the body associated with the giving and receipt of affection. No matter how adept one becomes at annihilating the not-Self from the makeup of the mind, one will still know the desire to give and receive affection. During sannyas, a period of extreme asceticism, the sushumna asserts its presence more and more. It is inalienable.

Western religions demonize the need of the body to intercourse with others. Everyone needs to experience penetration (one way or the other) and climax frequently. There is no such thing as memory extinction for the experience of orgasm called Vyana in Sanskrit. It will always be as good the first time as the last.

The Upanishad says upon discovery of the Self one will find the Serpent [the male penis], the Mool [the female flower], and the Sushumna, the places where orgasm culminate within the body and also within the self. It goes so far to say "put the lock into the key!"

The experience is called Kundalini, "the power of the serpent" or "moonseed":

36. The Kundalani power which is above the mooladhara, in its eight studded form would always be covering the mouth of Sushumna which is the gate of Brahman.

37. The Kudalani Parameshwari (goddess of the universe) who should go through the disease less gate of Brahma, closes this gate with her mouth and sleeps.

38. Because of the heat generated by the practice of yoga, because of the speed of wind, and because of her mental power, she stands up and using her needle shaped body, she would go up through the Sushumna Nadi.

39. Similar to opening the doors of the house by using the key, the yogi should open the gate to salvation using Kundalini.

Only one who comprehends the importance of Kundalini Power, who submits to the heat and speed of the wind can attain to salvation. It is never owned by persons who demonize or try to control the sex of others.