Osho's perspective on Duality
When Osho Spoke About Duality
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Osho, yesterday you said that jealousy is included in respect. I have immense respect for you, but the jealousy inherent in it keeps poisoning it, and I feel guilt and pain. Does reverence transcend this poison-laced respect?
It needs a little explaining—it's a delicate point. Whenever you respect someone, you do so because you see in that person something you do not have. You respect because you glimpse in the other something you would also like to possess. A beggar respects an emperor because he, too, longs to be an emperor. So on the one hand he respects, and inside he also envies. Because he is not yet an emperor but wants to be. You have attained what he wants to attain. He respects you as skillful, successful: “I stand far back in the line; you have gone ahead to where I should have been.” So you are powerful, clever, intelligent, strong—he respects you. But inside a fire of jealousy also burns—if he gets the chance, he would like to be in your place and push you aside. And if the beggar gets that chance, he will…
तीसरा प्रश्न: ओशो, आपने कल कहा, आदर में ईर्ष्या सम्मिलित है। आपके प्रति मुझमें अपार आदर है, लेकिन उसमें निहित ईर्ष्या उसमें जहर घोलती रहती है और मैं ग्लानि और पीड़ा का अनुभव करता हूं। क्या श्रद्धा इस विष-भरे आदर का अतिक्रमण करती है?
भिखारी सम्राट का आदर करता है, क्योंकि उसकी भी आकांक्षा है कि सम्राट हो। तो एक तरफ आदर भी करता है, भीतर ईर्ष्या भी करता है। क्योंकि सम्राट अभी वह है नहीं, सम्राट होना चाहता है। तुम हो गए हो, तुमने वह पा लिया है जो वह पाना चाहता है। इसलिए तुम्हें आदर भी करता है कि तुम कुशल हो, सफल हो, मैं पंक्ति में बहुत पीछे खड़ा हूं, तुम आगे पहुंच गए हो, तुम उस जगह पहुंच गए हो जहां मुझे होना चाहिए था। इसलिए तुम शक्तिशाली हो, होशियार हो, बुद्धिमान हो, बलशाली हो, तुम्हारा आदर करता हूं। लेकिन एक भीतर ईर्ष्या की आग भी जलती है--अगर मुझे मौका मिले तो उस जगह मैं होना चाहूंगा, तुम्हें हटाना चाहूंगा। और जब मौका मिल जाएगा इस भिखारी को तो यह सम्राट को हटा कर धक्का दे देगा, सिंहासन पर बैठ जाएगा।
Beloved Osho, yesterday you explained that pranayam is the method which expands the bio-energy and pratyahar is to return to the original source. First it is expansion, then it is return to the source. Why is it so?
Because life is made of contradiction and there is no other way for life to exist. Breath goes out, then goes in -- did you ever ask why it is so? When the breath has to go in then why is it taken out? But if the breath remains in and does not come out then the result will be death and not life. If the breath remains out and does not go in, even then it will be death and not life. Life is movement, movement between two opposites. It is like the flowing of a river between two banks. Breath goes out, goes in; comes in then goes out. Every moment it is pranayam and every moment it is pratyahar. When breath goes out it is pranayam; when the breath goes in, it is pratyahar. If your consciousness gets used to this type of rhythm, if this type…
What is the relationship between life’s dualistic evolution and the state beyond duality?
Here there is spring and there is autumn; there is the flower’s blooming and the flower’s falling. Here everything is in twos. There is birth and there is death; youth and old age; today all is well and tomorrow all is ruined; today all is ruined and tomorrow all is well. Here life goes like the teeth of a wheel going from below to above and above to below. In this duality nothing is stable. And because nothing is stable there remains great restlessness—for whatever is, cannot be relied upon. Today it is; will it be tomorrow? Position is there today; will it be tomorrow? Wealth is there today; will it be tomorrow? The loved one is near today; will they be tomorrow? Here everything is changing so swiftly that you cannot trust it. Only the blind can trust that what is today will be there tomorrow. Those with eyes…
छठवां प्रश्न: जीवन के द्वंद्वात्मक विकास में और निर्द्वंद्व अवस्था में कैसा संबंध है?
सुमन सदा श्रृंगार करेंगे नाश और निर्माण एक है बीज वृक्ष के अंतर्गत है वर्तमान गत पर आधारित भावी इनका ही अनुगत है यहां तो वसंत है, पतझड़ है; फूल का खिलना है, फूल का झड़ना है। यहां हर चीज दो में है। जन्म है और मौत है, जवानी है और बुढ़ापा है, आज सब ठीक है और कल सब खराब हो गया, आज सब खराब है और कल सब ठीक हो गया। यहां तो चाक के आरे जैसे नीचे से ऊपर होते रहते हैं, ऐसा ही जीवन होता रहता है। यहां इस द्वंद्व में कुछ भी थिर नहीं है। और थिर न होने के कारण बड़ी बेचैनी बनी रहती है, क्योंकि जो भी है उसका भरोसा नहीं है, आज है, कल होगा कि नहीं होगा! पद आज है, कल होगा कि नहीं होगा। धन आज है, कल होगा कि नहीं होगा। प्रियजन आज पास है, कल होगा कि नहीं होगा। यहां तो सब चीजें इतनी तीव्रता से बदल रही हैं कि भरोसा किया ही नहीं जा सकता। यहां तो अंधे ही भरोसा कर सकते हैं कि जो है, वह कल भी रहेगा। आंख वाले तो देखेंगे कि परिवर्तन ही परिवर्तन है, थिर तो कुछ भी नहीं है। तो फिर हम उसकी तलाश करें जो परिवर्तन के पार है। …
Beloved Osho, to be disobedient and to surrender seem to me polar opposites. Please explain how the two can be lived.
They are not polar opposites. Just a little awareness.... Be disobedient to your ego -- that is the meaning of surrender. If you want to be disobedient to the person you are surrendering to, then they are opposite, polar opposites. Then why surrender? Surrender simply means you trust the person more than your ego, you trust the person more than your own mind. Surrender happens only in a situation where you have found someone whom you can trust more than you can trust yourself. Then disobey your ego. But people never think in that way. They never think of disobeying their ego, they are always disobeying others. And they don't understand that disobeying others may be just obeying their own ego. This is what has happened with J. Krishnamurti. For his whole life he has been a teacher of thousands of people, telling them to disobey, to be rebellious, not…
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