I AM NOT FOR AVOIDING ANYTHING IN LIFE — not even materialism. Life
\nhas to be transformed, not avoided. IF YOU AVOID LIFE, you will remain
\nimmature. Life is a great blessing, an opportunity to grow, a
\nchallenge, a constant challenge that helps awareness, centering,
\ngrounding. Nothing has to be avoided. THAT IS THE ANCIENTMOST
\nSTUPIDITY. Man has been living under its shadow for so long that it has
\nbecome almost part of his blood, his bones, his very marrow.
\nMATERIALISM IS PERFECTLY GOOD IN ITS PLACE. If there is matter, matter
\nhas to be absorbed in a total life view. It has not to be avoided; it
\nhas to be used as a steppingstone towards spirituality. THERE IS NO
\nCONTRADICTION BETWEEN MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALISM, although it has
\nbeen told again and again for thousands of years. You have been
\nconditioned so much — the conditioning has gone deep — that nobody
\never thinks about it again. It is one of the greatest calamities that
\nhas happened to humanity. MATTER IS THE OUTER SIDE OF SPIRIT,
\nSPIRIT IS THE INNER SIDE OF MATTER. They are not separate. The outside
\nand the inside cannot be separate, they are inseparable, they are
\ninevitably together. Hence, a right vision, a total vision of life will
\nbe a synthesis, a synchronicity between matter and consciousness.
\nMATERIALISM HAS ITS OWN BEAUTY, its own significance, just as
\nspiritualism has its own beauty. But don’t make “isms” out of them.
\nLIFE IS ONE — IT IS SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL. In fact, to use the word
\n“and” between spiritual and the material is not right; but languages
\ncome from the past. Better will be to make one word out of the two:
\n“spirit-matter”. AND THEY ARE EXISTING TOGETHER IN PERFECT
\nHARMONY. In you they are existing together — your body, your mind,
\nyour soul, they are all existing in deep at-onement, attunement. There
\nis a subtle rhythm. They are all part of one dance. OSHO
\nThe Wild Geese & The Water
\nCh #9: Bon Voyage Baby!
\nam in Buddha Hall
\n[part 1 of 3]<\/p>\n
THE BODY IS NOT AGAINST THE SOUL — it is the temple of the soul.
\nBut the so-called religious people go on condemning materialism. AND
\nWHEN THEY CONDEMN, THEY CREATE GUILT IN YOU; you start feeling that
\nwhatsoever you are doing is wrong. And the moment you feel that
\nwhatsoever you are doing is wrong, you are trapped, YOU ARE IMPRISONED
\nIN A DICHOTOMY. If you follow the so-called gurus, lamas, etc., you
\nwill be constantly in trouble, in conflict, because you will be
\navoiding something which is unavoidable. IF YOU FOLLOW THE BODY,
\nYOU WILL FEEL GUILTY; if you don’t follow the body, you will feel
\nunnatural. Something in you will remain missing if you don’t follow the
\nbody. If you don’t nourish the body, if you don’t respect the body, if
\nyou don’t love the body, then something in you will remain like a
\nwound: rejected, condemned. And it is part of you: you cannot throw it
\naway, you cannot get rid of it. It is going to be there. And it is
\ngoing to be heavy on you because you have a deep condemnation for it.
\nAND SOONER OR LATER THE BODY WILL TAKE REVENGE, the matter will take
\nrevenge. You have created an enmity, a conflict, an unnecessary
\nstruggle between yourself; you have created a deep tension. Hence the
\nso-called religious people live in immense tension, in immense anxiety
\nand anguish. What is their anguish? –The “shoulds” and the
\n“should-nots”…. BUT THESE FOOLS INFLUENCE MANY PEOPLE —
\nbecause there is a long tradition supporting them. Don’t be a
\nhypocrite! Both are ugly. To feel guilty is bad, it is a state of
\nsickness. But these are the only alternatives your religions leave for
\nyou: EITHER FEEL GUILTY OR BE A HYPOCRITE. THE CUNNING ONES
\nAMONG YOU WILL BECOME HYPOCRITES. And the simple — the innocent ones
\namong you — will become guilty. AND THE HYPOCRITES WILL DOMINATE THE
\nSIMPLE-HEARTED. The hypocrites become the priests, the leaders of
\npeople. They say one thing and they do exactly the opposite of it. They
\nhave masks; they are hiding behind their masks. THEY HAVE DOUBLE LIVES
\n— but they are cunning. They are simply befooling you. So there is no
\nproblem for them. Their only problem is that they should not be caught.
\nIf they are caught, then they are in difficulty. So it is only a
\nquestion of how much cunning they are. The more cunning they are, the
\nsafer. BUT MANY OF THEM ARE BOUND TO BE CAUGHT SOONER OR LATER. You can
\ndeceive few people for few days, but you cannot deceive all the people
\nforever. How can you? Somebody is bound to know. Somebody is bound to
\nbe aware of your dichotomy, aware of your double standards — that you
\nuse a different standard for other people than you use for yourself.
\nYOU HAVE TWO DOORS TO YOUR BEING. The front door is just a facade to
\nreceive the innocent ones and to make them feel guilty. And you have a
\nback door, too, where you receive totally different people. But those
\npeople you receive from the back door are bound to be aware of your
\nduality, of your deceptiveness, of your cunningness. SO THE ONLY
\nFEAR THAT THE PRIESTS AND THE HYPOCRITES AND THE MAHATMAS FEEL is that
\nthey may be caught. And they are caught. But the stupidity is such, the
\nunconsciousness of humanity is such, that again and again they are
\ncaught, and again and again we go on listening to the same kind of
\nstupidities. OSHO
\nThe Wild Geese & The Water
\nCh #9: Bon Voyage Baby!
\nam in Buddha Hall
\n[part 2 of 3]<\/p>\n
IT IS TIME TO GET RID OF THIS WHOLE DIVISION BETWEEN MATTER AND
\nSPIRIT; they are not divided anywhere. They are not divided in you;
\nyour body and your soul are functioning totally together in deep
\nsynchronicity. You can experience it. If your body is sick, your
\ninnermost core also becomes sad. And if your innermost core is joyous,
\nyour body also wants to dance. I am not for any escapist
\nattitude. I AM NOT FOR ANY SPLIT IN YOU, I want you to be one. I want
\nyou to be integrated. I want you to be totally natural, accepting,
\naffirming. I teach you a materialist\/spiritualist approach to life. It
\nhas never been done before — that’s why I am so much condemned. I
\naccept it. I don’t feel any trouble with it, because that is natural….<\/p>\n
THE EAST HAS REMAINED POOR, STARVING. Its outside is ugly. It has
\nfound some inner secrets, but its outside is sick, its outside is almost
\nnot worth living. It has committed a suicide on the outside, just as the
\nWest had committed a suicide on the inside.<\/p>\n
THE WEST has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence,
\nenough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace,
\nno silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of
\ngodliness. It is time we should see that up to now humanity has lived
\ndividedly.
\nA NEW HUMAN BEING IS NEEDED ON THE EARTH, a new human being who
\naccepts both, who is scientific and mystic, who is all for matter and
\nall for the spirit. Only then we will be able to create a humanity
\nwhich is rich on both the sides. And if it is possible to be rich on
\nboth the sides, WHY CHOOSE POVERTY IN ANY WAY? — the outer poverty or
\nthe inner poverty. I TEACH YOU RICHNESS: richness of the body,
\nrichness of the soul, richness of this world and that world. And both
\nare possible, there is no problem at all. What I am saying, I am living.
\nAnd I don’t see there is any conflict. I can be as meditative in my
\nRolls Royce… in fact, more meditative than in a bullock-cart. I have
\nbeen in a bullock-cart, I have been on a camel, I have used all kinds
\nof vehicles — and to be meditative on a camel is really difficult.
\nCamels don’t like meditation at all. They are very non-meditative
\nanimals. And in a bullock-cart on an Indian road… I DON’T SEE
\nANY POINT OF DIVIDING THE OUTER AND THE INNER. I have been poor, I have
\nlived in utter poverty, I have lived in richness. And believe me,
\nrichness is far better than poverty. I am a man of very simple
\ninterests: I am utterly satisfied with the best of anything, I don’t
\nask for more…. BEWARE OF ALL THESE LAMAS AND RABBIS AND IATOLAH
\nKOMANIACS. Beware! These are the people who have caused so much misery
\nfor humanity that it is incalculable. Either they have created
\ncunningness or they have created guilt. And both are ill states. One
\nshould neither be cunning nor guilty. In fact, both are related
\ntogether, they have a deep connection: THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE GUILT ARE
\nBOUND TO BE CUNNING. They ARE cunning, that’s why they create guilt.
\nONCE THEY HAVE CREATED GUILT IN YOU, you can be exploited, you are
\nvulnerable. It is to exploit you that they create guilt. We have
\nto put a full stop to all this nonsense — enough is enough! BE SIMPLE,
\nBE NATURAL, BE SPONTANEOUS; FOLLOW YOUR OWN LIGHT. Don’t be bothered by
\nothers’ “shoulds” and “should-nots”. That’s the freedom a sannyasin has
\nto live. MY SANNYASINS have not to be cunning, and they have not
\nto be guilty either. The moment you are free of guilt and cunningness,
\nyou have the door of the divine opened for you; you are welcomed by
\nexistence itself. To me, that is true religiousness. OSHO
\nThe Wild Geese & The Water
\nCh #9: Bon Voyage Baby!
\nam in Buddha Hall
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