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Can the phrase 'I'm going to squeeze the juice out of this moment' be considered a new oath for rewriting the constitution?

Squeeze the juice out of this moment now; to say 'I'm going to' is to postpone your awareness and let the moment slip away.

— Osho
According to Osho, no: sannyasins will not write any constitution - constitutions belong to power-seeking politics and preserve divisions. His movement aims to dissolve all such boundaries. And even hypothetically, your phrase cannot be an oath; 'going to' postpones awareness. His teaching is immediacy: squeeze the juice of this moment now, act first, then speak - otherwise the moment is already gone.

No—he rejects constitutions, and the phrase is wrong because it postpones living; just squeeze the moment now.

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From Death To Deathlessness · Discourse 11Question 4 1985-08-12 Rajneeshmandir English

Beloved Osho, the other morning I woke up with these words on my mind: "I'm going to squeeze the juice, the whole juice, and nothing but the juice, out of this moment." can this be the new oath when we rewrite the constitution?

You woke up with this sentence: "I'm going to squeeze...." Still "going..."? You should have squeezed then and there! "Going to squeeze the whole juice of this moment"? When? When this moment is gone? And you started wondering about the world constitution that sannyasins will write: "Can this be the oath in that constitution?" No! In the first place sannyasins are not going to write any constitution. Constitutions are written by politicians. Constitutions are written by people who are power-lusty, ambitious. Constitutions are needed because they are all nations. I am trying to destroy all divisions between man and man. In my commune nobody knows who is a German, who is an Italian, who is an American. And soon I'm going to suggest to my commune people to create dresses which don't make any distinction between man and woman. So in the first place we are not going to make…
Question: First question: Osho, I want to take sannyas; when should I take it? I have heard an amazing story. There was a wondrous true master named Fachang. His entire teaching was only this: “Now, here.” Just two words. The emperor had invited him to Japan to give discourses. He stood on the platform—the emperor seated, his courtiers present, a great arrangement; Fachang was a famous master. He struck the table loudly and said, “Now, here.” He stepped down and left. The emperor was startled. He asked his ministers, “What is this? What kind of discourse is this—banging the table and saying ‘Now and here’? What does it mean?” The ministers said, “Your Majesty, that is his whole teaching. In it he has said all that the Buddhas of all times have said.” If you are to do the auspicious—now and here.

A friend has asked, Osho, if all human beings become non-doers, accept the Gita’s teaching, then what juice would be left in life and in the world?

What juice is there in life right now? Right now you are doers, contrary to the Gita—what juice is there in life? And if life is already juicy, then what need is there to read the Gita? What need to hear it? If life is already juicy, why even raise the question of religion? Why talk of God, liberation, meditation, samadhi? If there is juice in life, the matter is finished. Juice itself is God. Then nothing remains to be done. Then become even more of a doer so that you get even more juice. Plunge deeper into the world so that you find deeper sources of juice. And if, by being a doer, you are already getting juice, then offer the Gita and the rest into the fire. There is no need. And do not listen to Krishna and the others—otherwise they will destroy your juice. You are in…
Far Beyond The Stars · Discourse 5Para 1 1977-07-07 Chuang Tzu Auditorium English
First, a few things about sannyas.... It is an initiation into the formless. It is not an initiation into some rigid form, it is not giving you a certain discipline -- on the contrary it is an initiation into freedom, into a formless creative chaos. The old concept of sannyas all over the world was to give you a rigid discipline, to give you a character, to give you a certain form, a pattern, a life style. My sannyas is not like that at all; it is a radical charge. I don't give you any character, because to me the man of character is a dead man. I would like to take all character from you so you are left in a creative chaos... so each moment one has to respond to life, not out of a certain pattern.

Osho, for the practice of the five great vows—ahimsa (nonviolence), aparigraha (non-possessiveness), achaurya (non-stealing), akam (desirelessness), and apramad (alertness)—to bear fruit, and for the all-round development of the individual and society, what can your proposed new vision of sannyas contribute? Please explain in detail.

Ahimsa, aparigraha, achaurya, akam, and apramad are the fundamental sutras of the “art of sannyas.” And sannyas is an art. All of life is an art. Only those who master the “art of living” become available to sannyas. Sannyas is the art that takes you beyond life. Those who experience life in its totality naturally enter sannyas; it must be so—it is simply the next step in life. God is the temple reached by climbing the very staircase of the world. So first let me make it clear: there is no conflict between “the world” and “sannyas.” They are two stations on one journey. It is in the world itself that sannyas develops and blossoms. Sannyas is not the hostility of the world; it is the deep experience of the world. The more deeply one experiences the world, the more one finds one’s feet moving toward sannyas. Those who do…
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