OSHO (TO MANFRED): Peace cannot be cultivated from the outside, it has to grow within you. It has to be your fragrance; not your character, but your conscience. One can become a man of peace by cultivating a certain character, by imposing a certain discipline, but deep down there will be turmoil, and all that is repressed will wait to take revenge.
If something is cultivated from the outside it always divides you into two. Then the outer and the inner are always in conflict; that is the root cause of all schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is not a disease that happens to a few unfortunate people, it is almost the normal state of humankind. And the reason is that we have been told to cultivate good qualities: virtue, peace, love -- but all these things are impossible to cultivate, you can only pretend. You will be phony, and to be phony is to be in hell, to be phony is to be as far away from God as possible.
Hence I give you the name, Dhyan Manfred. The peace has to arise out of deep meditation. You are not to bring it, it has to happen to you. And if you can be meditative, if you can learn how to be silent, without thoughts, then peace is a natural atmosphere around you. It is a climate that follows you wherever you go. It becomes your shadow.
ANAND LESLIE, A DWELLER NEAR THE FORT OF BLISS.
OSHO: Without bliss one is like a boat without anchor or course, tossed about on the ocean of life. Without bliss a man is almost without any shelter. Without bliss a man is accidental, driftwood. Without bliss a man lives a life of unrootedness. Without bliss a man is without light, without love, without God. It is bliss, the milieu of bliss, that makes all great things possible.
Bliss creates a citadel around you. It protects you, and it protects you in such a way that it never hinders your freedom. Otherwise protection can be had at a great cost. One can be protected but one may lose one's freedom. One can be secure but one may be dead because of the security arrangement.
Bliss keeps you alive, more alive than ever, flowing, more flowing than ever. Bliss is a very paradoxical state: it is security in insecurity. It is action in inaction. It is love without love falling to the state of relationship. It is joy unmixed with unhappiness. It is pure paradise. It is innocence that knows; it is ignorance that is full of light.
The whole effort of sannyas is to help you discover your bliss. It is there inside you. You have not lost it, nobody can lose it; it is our intrinsic nature. We are born with it but we have forgotten it, we have lost track of it. We don't know where we have hidden it. It is hidden somewhere inside us, in our deep unconscious. It is hidden like a treasure -- it has to be unearthed.
That's the whole process of sannyas: unearthing the treasure that you are and that you are meant to be.
OSHO (TO LEELA DEVI): The Western idea of God is that of a creator, a serious creator. The Eastern idea of God is that of a player, a nonserious player. Existence is a play of consciousness. It has not to be taken seriously, it is fun. That's why in Eastern religion there is no idea of original sin. There cannot be, they won't fit together. The idea of leela and the idea of original sin cannot fit with each other.
Original sin means God is very serious about things. If he is disobeyed he is going to punish you. It is not fun, it is serious work. And it is not only that he punished Adam and Eve, he has been punishing humanity since then. He must have felt really offended, the wound has not healed yet. It seems he cannot forgive, it seems that he cannot even forget. The whole concept is ugly, and because of that concept Western religion and the saints that it has created are very serious, sad, somber people, people with long faces. They cannot dance, they cannot sing -- because it is a question of life and death. God has to be obeyed word for word: a little mistake and you fall from grace.
But in the East there is no idea of God as a dictatorial force: he is just a player. And he is not outside you, he is inside you; he is inside everybody. The whole of life is taken as a game; hence Eastern religion has the quality of sportsmanship. There is no question of original sin, there is no question of sin at all. Yes, mistakes are possible in a game but you cannot commit sins. Errors are possible but you cannot be condemned for errors and mistakes -- they are human. Hence the Eastern God is tremendously compassionate.
The Old Testament God says: "I am a very jealous God." That is impossible for the Eastern mystic to understand -- that God can say such a thing: "I am a very jealous God." If God too is jealous, then what to say about man and his jealousies?
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.
In Japan they make a particular doll; the doll is called a daruma doll. Daruma is the Japanese name of one of the greatest buddhas of the world, Bodhidharma; from dharma comes daruma. The doll has a beauty about it: you can throw it any way but it always lands up in a buddha posture. Its bottom is heavy so you cannot topple it. You cannot put it sideways -- it will sit up again. You can throw it upside down but it will always come rightside up. That doll is a beautiful message. It says that that's how a buddha behaves: you cannot offend him, you cannot topple him. Whatsoever you do he is always okay. He is always in his stillness, in his silence.
This is possible only if life is taken as a leela, a play. Your name means goddess of play. Let it become a reality, let it become your very lifestyle.
OSHO (TO INGE): Close your eyes!
LOVE, THE SOURCE OF CREATIVITY -- PREM INGE.
If you are in love you are naturally, spontaneously, creative; if you are not in love you are not only uncreative, you become destructive.
Millions of people live without love; hence there is so much destruction in the world, so much anger, violence, hatred. Very rarely do you come across a person who is really creative. Even people who are known as creators are not real creators. Out of one hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really creators... composers maybe, but not creators. Maybe they are clever with words, able to arrange words in rhythms, but they are not creative.
Creativity means that you become a vehicle to God. You are no more there. God functions through you. You allow him space to function -- that's what creativity is. When something starts flowing through you which comes from the above, from the beyond, which you cannot claim as your own, then you are creative. But the door to the beyond only opens in love. Then the whole sky is yours and all the stars start dancing in you.
Love deeply. It is not a question of relationship. Love is a way of life. Be loving -- to the trees, to the animals, to the birds, to the rocks, to the pebble. It is not a question of to whom, it is a question of your heart throbbing with love. It has nothing to do with the object of love but with the subjectivity of love.
Then suddenly you have the Midas touch: whatsoever you touch becomes golden. Small things in your hands become extraordinarily beautiful. Your actions, ordinary actions, start having the quality of the extraordinary. Then whatsoever you say is poetry and whatsoever you live is music. Even while you are asleep your energy is in a celebration.
Love is my fundamental approach towards life. If life can be looked at through the eyes of love, life disappears and God is found. If life is looked at through the eyes of logic, even life disappears and there is only matter left. These are three possibilities: through logic the world becomes just matter; through love it becomes divine, it becomes consciousness; and between the two, it is life, a little bit of matter and a little bit of consciousness, because we are in a state of hesitation, divided.
It is because we are divided that life is divided in two: matter and mind. It is our division reflected by life, echoed by life. When we are undivided... and there are two ways to be undivided: either be undivided through logic... but then you will miss all that is beautiful, then life becomes very grey; it loses all color and all joy. It is all matter, and matter is meaningless. Matter can't have any meaning. Meaning needs consciousness.
Look through love and matter disappears and we are living in an ocean of consciousness. With that vision, oceanic joy arises in you -- unbounded, infinite. Out of that joy is creativity. How long will you be here?
Osho's Commentary
If something is cultivated from the outside it always divides you into two. Then the outer and the inner are always in conflict; that is the root cause of all schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is not a disease that happens to a few unfortunate people, it is almost the normal state of humankind. And the reason is that we have been told to cultivate good qualities: virtue, peace, love -- but all these things are impossible to cultivate, you can only pretend. You will be phony, and to be phony is to be in hell, to be phony is to be as far away from God as possible.
Hence I give you the name, Dhyan Manfred. The peace has to arise out of deep meditation. You are not to bring it, it has to happen to you. And if you can be meditative, if you can learn how to be silent, without thoughts, then peace is a natural atmosphere around you. It is a climate that follows you wherever you go. It becomes your shadow.
ANAND LESLIE, A DWELLER NEAR THE FORT OF BLISS.
OSHO: Without bliss one is like a boat without anchor or course, tossed about on the ocean of life. Without bliss a man is almost without any shelter. Without bliss a man is accidental, driftwood. Without bliss a man lives a life of unrootedness. Without bliss a man is without light, without love, without God. It is bliss, the milieu of bliss, that makes all great things possible.
Bliss creates a citadel around you. It protects you, and it protects you in such a way that it never hinders your freedom. Otherwise protection can be had at a great cost. One can be protected but one may lose one's freedom. One can be secure but one may be dead because of the security arrangement.
Bliss keeps you alive, more alive than ever, flowing, more flowing than ever. Bliss is a very paradoxical state: it is security in insecurity. It is action in inaction. It is love without love falling to the state of relationship. It is joy unmixed with unhappiness. It is pure paradise. It is innocence that knows; it is ignorance that is full of light.
The whole effort of sannyas is to help you discover your bliss. It is there inside you. You have not lost it, nobody can lose it; it is our intrinsic nature. We are born with it but we have forgotten it, we have lost track of it. We don't know where we have hidden it. It is hidden somewhere inside us, in our deep unconscious. It is hidden like a treasure -- it has to be unearthed.
That's the whole process of sannyas: unearthing the treasure that you are and that you are meant to be.
OSHO (TO LEELA DEVI): The Western idea of God is that of a creator, a serious creator. The Eastern idea of God is that of a player, a nonserious player. Existence is a play of consciousness. It has not to be taken seriously, it is fun. That's why in Eastern religion there is no idea of original sin. There cannot be, they won't fit together. The idea of leela and the idea of original sin cannot fit with each other.
Original sin means God is very serious about things. If he is disobeyed he is going to punish you. It is not fun, it is serious work. And it is not only that he punished Adam and Eve, he has been punishing humanity since then. He must have felt really offended, the wound has not healed yet. It seems he cannot forgive, it seems that he cannot even forget. The whole concept is ugly, and because of that concept Western religion and the saints that it has created are very serious, sad, somber people, people with long faces. They cannot dance, they cannot sing -- because it is a question of life and death. God has to be obeyed word for word: a little mistake and you fall from grace.
But in the East there is no idea of God as a dictatorial force: he is just a player. And he is not outside you, he is inside you; he is inside everybody. The whole of life is taken as a game; hence Eastern religion has the quality of sportsmanship. There is no question of original sin, there is no question of sin at all. Yes, mistakes are possible in a game but you cannot commit sins. Errors are possible but you cannot be condemned for errors and mistakes -- they are human. Hence the Eastern God is tremendously compassionate.
The Old Testament God says: "I am a very jealous God." That is impossible for the Eastern mystic to understand -- that God can say such a thing: "I am a very jealous God." If God too is jealous, then what to say about man and his jealousies?
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.
In Japan they make a particular doll; the doll is called a daruma doll. Daruma is the Japanese name of one of the greatest buddhas of the world, Bodhidharma; from dharma comes daruma. The doll has a beauty about it: you can throw it any way but it always lands up in a buddha posture. Its bottom is heavy so you cannot topple it. You cannot put it sideways -- it will sit up again. You can throw it upside down but it will always come rightside up. That doll is a beautiful message. It says that that's how a buddha behaves: you cannot offend him, you cannot topple him. Whatsoever you do he is always okay. He is always in his stillness, in his silence.
This is possible only if life is taken as a leela, a play. Your name means goddess of play. Let it become a reality, let it become your very lifestyle.
OSHO (TO INGE): Close your eyes!
LOVE, THE SOURCE OF CREATIVITY -- PREM INGE.
If you are in love you are naturally, spontaneously, creative; if you are not in love you are not only uncreative, you become destructive.
Millions of people live without love; hence there is so much destruction in the world, so much anger, violence, hatred. Very rarely do you come across a person who is really creative. Even people who are known as creators are not real creators. Out of one hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really creators... composers maybe, but not creators. Maybe they are clever with words, able to arrange words in rhythms, but they are not creative.
Creativity means that you become a vehicle to God. You are no more there. God functions through you. You allow him space to function -- that's what creativity is. When something starts flowing through you which comes from the above, from the beyond, which you cannot claim as your own, then you are creative. But the door to the beyond only opens in love. Then the whole sky is yours and all the stars start dancing in you.
Love deeply. It is not a question of relationship. Love is a way of life. Be loving -- to the trees, to the animals, to the birds, to the rocks, to the pebble. It is not a question of to whom, it is a question of your heart throbbing with love. It has nothing to do with the object of love but with the subjectivity of love.
Then suddenly you have the Midas touch: whatsoever you touch becomes golden. Small things in your hands become extraordinarily beautiful. Your actions, ordinary actions, start having the quality of the extraordinary. Then whatsoever you say is poetry and whatsoever you live is music. Even while you are asleep your energy is in a celebration.
Love is my fundamental approach towards life. If life can be looked at through the eyes of love, life disappears and God is found. If life is looked at through the eyes of logic, even life disappears and there is only matter left. These are three possibilities: through logic the world becomes just matter; through love it becomes divine, it becomes consciousness; and between the two, it is life, a little bit of matter and a little bit of consciousness, because we are in a state of hesitation, divided.
It is because we are divided that life is divided in two: matter and mind. It is our division reflected by life, echoed by life. When we are undivided... and there are two ways to be undivided: either be undivided through logic... but then you will miss all that is beautiful, then life becomes very grey; it loses all color and all joy. It is all matter, and matter is meaningless. Matter can't have any meaning. Meaning needs consciousness.
Look through love and matter disappears and we are living in an ocean of consciousness. With that vision, oceanic joy arises in you -- unbounded, infinite. Out of that joy is creativity.
How long will you be here?
INGE: AS LONG AS NECESSARY.
Good... be here as long as possible!