Chapter #21
Even Bein Gawd Ain T A Bed Of Roses #21
Date:
1979-10-21
(pm)
Place:
Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Osho's Commentary
OSHO (To Atha): The other is there, and the very presence of the other makes one tense. And one is afraid: the other may start dominating, so it is better to dominate than to be dominated. The other may start being possessive; it is better to possess than to be possessed. That's how the mind calculates and the conflict starts. Lovers are intimate enemies.
But love is a good learning. It is just as when one goes to learn swimming: one cannot immediately jump into the deep river, one has to learn in shallow water first. Once you have learned how to swim you need not remain confined to the shallow waters, you can go to the deepest part of the river.
Love as relationship is a shallow phenomenon. Learn something from it, learn swimming and then go to the deepest experience of love: love as being. That is the meaning of your name -- let it become your experience too.
OSHO (to Erma): This is your new name: Ma Prem Erma. Prem means love. Erma means noble. It is love that makes one noble. Nobility has nothing to do with nation, caste, religion; it has nothing to do with these accidents. These are all accidents: birth, race, caste, family.
Nobility has to be earned, it is not already given. One has to become worthy of it -- love makes one worthy. Love prepares you because love helps you to drop the ego. Ego is the most ignoble thing in existence. Love helps you to surrender the ego. and in surrendering the ego a great grace arises. One becomes noble not by birth but by a new birth in love.
STANLEY MEANS A STONY FIELD, AND "VEET" MEANS BEYOND...
You can't find anything harder than logic, arithmetic, calculation. The head represents all that is hard, rocky in man. The heart is a flower, the head is a stone; and to be a sannyasin means moving from the hard towards the soft, moving from logic to love.
So go beyond the stony field and enter into the soft soil of love. Live through love, not through calculation. It is a gamble, but it is worth gambling. Even if you lose all in love you gain. You may gain everything through calculation, through the head, but ultimately you will be a loser.
PREM AILEEN, STANLEY'S WIFE
It is love thats brings both light and joy. Love is the key to the door of the divine.
Remember it, remember it constantly. And not only in the head, let it spread all over your being: every fibre, every cell of your being should be able to remember. Then only does one become suffused with love. Then each act is a love act; then each contact is a love contact. Then walking, you walk in love; sitting, you sit in love; sleeping, you sleep in love. Then love becomes your climate. The day it happens is the greatest because that is the day that one becomes aware of God.
THE OLDER DAUGTHER, ANAND MARIANNE: BLISS, REBELLION AND PRAYER.
If one really wants to be blissful one has to learn how to be a rebel and one also needs to know how to pray. Rebellion without prayer becomes egoistic: rebellion with prayer becomes religious. It becomes humbleness, humility. Bliss is very close by if one is ready to rebel against the stupid traditions, conventions. But rebellion has to be with prayer -- otherwise it becomes political and a political rebellion is not a true rebellion.
(To Abbigail): Come here! You can open your eyes now! (chuckles) It was really too long!
This is your name: Ma Prem Abbigail. Prem means love. Abbigail means source of joy. Love is the source of all joy in life. Become love!
DEVA SUNDERAM: DIVINE BEAUTY
OSHO: Sannyas means inner enquiry. It is the beginning of a great journey into one's own being, into one's own life source.
As you go more deeply in, you come across three things: satyam, shivam, sundaram. Satyam means truth, shivam means virtue, sundaram means beauty. Sundaram is the last stage. Satyam comes first, truth comes first: one becomes authentic, sincere, true. Then comes goodness, virtue -- shivam. Being authentic transforms your character, makes you good. And the moment truth and goodness have arrived you are ready to receive the ultimate. The ultimate is beauty.
The poets are far closer to the ultimate than the philosophers because te philosophers go on thinking in terms of truth, and that too, intellectual truth. Poets think in terms of beauty. God is more beauty than truth; he is truth only because he is beauty.
Love beauty in all its aspects. That is your worship, that is your prayer. Live beauty and you can't go astray.
Osho's Commentary
But love is a good learning. It is just as when one goes to learn swimming: one cannot immediately jump into the deep river, one has to learn in shallow water first. Once you have learned how to swim you need not remain confined to the shallow waters, you can go to the deepest part of the river.
Love as relationship is a shallow phenomenon. Learn something from it, learn swimming and then go to the deepest experience of love: love as being. That is the meaning of your name -- let it become your experience too.
OSHO (to Erma): This is your new name: Ma Prem Erma. Prem means love. Erma means noble. It is love that makes one noble. Nobility has nothing to do with nation, caste, religion; it has nothing to do with these accidents. These are all accidents: birth, race, caste, family.
Nobility has to be earned, it is not already given. One has to become worthy of it -- love makes one worthy. Love prepares you because love helps you to drop the ego. Ego is the most ignoble thing in existence. Love helps you to surrender the ego. and in surrendering the ego a great grace arises. One becomes noble not by birth but by a new birth in love.
STANLEY MEANS A STONY FIELD, AND "VEET" MEANS BEYOND...
You can't find anything harder than logic, arithmetic, calculation. The head represents all that is hard, rocky in man. The heart is a flower, the head is a stone; and to be a sannyasin means moving from the hard towards the soft, moving from logic to love.
So go beyond the stony field and enter into the soft soil of love. Live through love, not through calculation. It is a gamble, but it is worth gambling. Even if you lose all in love you gain. You may gain everything through calculation, through the head, but ultimately you will be a loser.
PREM AILEEN, STANLEY'S WIFE
It is love thats brings both light and joy. Love is the key to the door of the divine.
Remember it, remember it constantly. And not only in the head, let it spread all over your being: every fibre, every cell of your being should be able to remember. Then only does one become suffused with love. Then each act is a love act; then each contact is a love contact. Then walking, you walk in love; sitting, you sit in love; sleeping, you sleep in love. Then love becomes your climate. The day it happens is the greatest because that is the day that one becomes aware of God.
THE OLDER DAUGTHER, ANAND MARIANNE: BLISS, REBELLION AND PRAYER.
If one really wants to be blissful one has to learn how to be a rebel and one also needs to know how to pray. Rebellion without prayer becomes egoistic: rebellion with prayer becomes religious. It becomes humbleness, humility. Bliss is very close by if one is ready to rebel against the stupid traditions, conventions. But rebellion has to be with prayer -- otherwise it becomes political and a political rebellion is not a true rebellion.
(To Abbigail): Come here! You can open your eyes now! (chuckles) It was really too long!
This is your name: Ma Prem Abbigail. Prem means love. Abbigail means source of joy. Love is the source of all joy in life. Become love!
DEVA SUNDERAM: DIVINE BEAUTY
OSHO: Sannyas means inner enquiry. It is the beginning of a great journey into one's own being, into one's own life source.
As you go more deeply in, you come across three things: satyam, shivam, sundaram. Satyam means truth, shivam means virtue, sundaram means beauty. Sundaram is the last stage. Satyam comes first, truth comes first: one becomes authentic, sincere, true. Then comes goodness, virtue -- shivam. Being authentic transforms your character, makes you good. And the moment truth and goodness have arrived you are ready to receive the ultimate. The ultimate is beauty.
The poets are far closer to the ultimate than the philosophers because te philosophers go on thinking in terms of truth, and that too, intellectual truth. Poets think in terms of beauty. God is more beauty than truth; he is truth only because he is beauty.
Love beauty in all its aspects. That is your worship, that is your prayer. Live beauty and you can't go astray.
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