RO - Osho Once you have come in contact with me, no teacher, ..

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Friends, one sannyasin has asked: he has been to the Dalai Lama, he has been to many Zen masters in Japan, but when he comes here he feels perfectly at home. Why?

Thinking about his problem, I remembered ….
A man went to the psychiatrist and said, “I am feeling so happy. Why?” The psychiatrist was at a loss. He had seen miserable people, sick people, and he could answer the `why' – why they are miserable, why they are in despair, why they are sad – but how to answer a man who asks, “I am feeling very happy. Why?”

Happiness has no cause. It simply arises in your being without any
cause. If you feel at home here, this is your home. From where comes the question, “Why?”

But I can understand what you wanted to ask but could not phrase it rightly. You have been to the Dalai Lama …. The Dalai Lama is not enlightened. He still has the great desire to be the political head of Tibet. That desire is preventing his enlightenment. I feel sorry for him – a nice man – but any desire is going to become a tremendous obstacle.

I had sent him the message that, “It is time you dropped the very idea of being the political head of Tibet.”* He is in tremendous anguish. In this state he cannot become enlightened. If he drops the desire, the longing to be the political head of a country, perhaps as the desire disappears like smoke, he may see the light for the first time. He has not seen it yet. And moreover, even if he becomes enlightened, his language, his way of answering you will be out of date. He is too learned in the Buddhist scriptures: he will repeat those scriptures, and they are very ancient, they are no longer contemporary.

The same is the situation in Japan. You have been hearing me speak on Zen masters; that creates a great desire in you to go to Japan. But don't go to Japan, you will be frustrated.

While I am speaking on Zen masters, I am speaking in a way which is
absolutely contemporary; you can understand it. They are still
speaking the language of the past.

It is a calamity that the so-called religious people get caught up in
a certain moment in history. Then they don't progress from that place.
The Buddhists are caught up with Gautam Buddha, twenty-five centuries back. Everything has changed, but their ideology remains twenty-five centuries old. It does not ring bells in your heart, hence you cannot feel at home.

Never think for a moment that what I am saying about Zen has been said by the Zen masters themselves. I am constantly improving, improvising. With me religion is not something static. It is an evolutionary process. It grows like a tree, hundreds of feet high, it moves like a river, thousands of miles; not for a single moment does the movement stop. Since eternity rivers have been moving and moving and moving.

I am not a pond; and when you go to Japan you will find ponds. I make every effort to make the ponds flow like a river. A pond knows nothing but death; it is dying every moment, the water is evaporating. Soon there will be just mud left.

A river is always alive, singing and dancing, and moving into the
unknown territories without any map, without any guidance, without a guide – just trusting in existence. It knows that the ocean has to be somewhere. “If the thirst for the ocean is in me, that is enough proof, enough evidence that somewhere the ocean is waiting for me. He has called me, otherwise why this thirst, why this longing to meet with the unlimited?” Your thirst is a proof, an argument, a valid evidence.

With me, nothing is static. That creates a puzzle in many static
minds, because whatever I have said yesterday was yesterday. Today I am absolutely fresh and new. Even I don't know what I am going to say to you. When you hear it, I will also hear it.

You get puzzled, confused: “The other day you were saying this, and
today you have changed completely.” I go on improving on devices, I go on improving on parables, on stories, so you will find the same story told in different ways in my literature. Sometimes I take a different standpoint, sometimes I look at it from a different angle. Sometimes I drop something out of it – it does not fit the moment. Sometimes I add something which I have never said before. And it is easy for me because I don't remember what I have said before; otherwise it would be difficult, even for me! But it is not. The past is past, that which is gone is gone. I am just here to respond to your thirst.

I don't care whether it is consistent with my past statements. I am
still alive. Only dead people are consistent because they cannot
change anything, they are in their graves. If a person remains consistent while living, that means at some moment
of time he died. He is living a posthumous life, a ghost life. He is
no more a reality; reality has stopped at a certain point.

Hippies used to say, “Don't believe anyone who is more than thirty
years old.” I can see a certain truth in it. As a person becomes more
experienced in the world, he becomes more and more cunning.
The world is cunning. You have to face a cunning world, and the only way is to be more cunning than the others. You have to compete with all kinds of ugly people. You have to be hard, you cannot remain nice, compassionate. As one becomes more and more experienced in the world, he is more and more corrupted, he loses his innocence; he has died.

Most people die at the age of thirty, and hippies themselves have
given the proof; they have all died. What happened to the hippies? They simply disappeared. By the time they had looked around the world, they saw that everybody is competitive; in this competitive world you cannot survive. Now all the hippies are good managers in great corporations. They are now called with a new name: Yuppies.
I have been searching for a hippy; there are no hippies anymore. It is not that they have all died; they have all shaved their beards,
dropped their ideology of being dirty, they have started taking
showers. They have got married, they have forgotten all about great love affairs under the moon.
Now they have their own houses, a small garden, a beautiful car, a
wife, two or three children, a good job. Now they cannot afford the
old lifestyle of being a hippy; they will be thrown out of the office.
Now they use ties, shoes. They have mixed with the rotten society that they had condemned before. But in a way, their old statement was right: Don't believe a man who is over thirty.
It is very rare to find a man who remains his whole life like a child,
utterly innocent and uncorrupted by the world.

When you come here, when you face me, you are facing a man who belongs to eternity, not to time. And eternity is your home, your eternal home. With me you will learn how to go on growing, how to go on flowing, how to go on with existence without bothering with your mind and its consistencies, without bothering that “This is contradictory to what you said yesterday!” It has to be. If you are a living being, your today is going to contradict all your yesterdays. That means you are fully alive, nothing has gone dead in you.

People die partially; slowly slowly nothing of life remains in them.
Then they become absolutely consistent. But don't listen to a man who is consistent. He is dead. Beware of it.
Your feeling at home here simply means you have entered into the river which goes on flowing. It is always fresh, it never becomes dirty. It is always singing songs, and its waves go on dancing in the sun, in the moon. But it is always on the go.

It was customary with Gautam Buddha that whenever somebody became enlightened, he was sent away to share his experience with those who were stumbling on the path. Obviously, those disciples who had become enlightened would ask him for his last message so that they can carry it in their heart.
You will be surprised what his last message was to every disciple who was departing. He would call the disciple close, so nobody else could hear – because it was the same message for every one. In the ear of the disciple he would say, “Always remember: charaiveti, charaiveti, go on, go on, never stop. Existence never stops; why should you stop? charaiveti, charaiveti.”

Because it was always said into the ear of the disciple in secrecy,
everybody wondered what the last message was. But you could get it only when you became enlightened.

I give it to you even without enlightenment. Buddha was very miserly. Why wait for your enlightenment? Why not tell you the truth right now? charaiveti, charaiveti – go on, flowing, flexible, at rest with existence.

You have been to the Dalai Lama, you may have been to other masters. They are great teachers, they are not masters. That's why you have not felt at home. Teachers don't have the charisma, the magnetic force, The buddhafield around them. They have only mere words, unlived, unexperienced. They have great scriptures with them, they are argumentative, they can convince you about a certain philosophy.
I don't have any philosophy because existence has no philosophy at
all. It has flowers, it has stars, it has rivers, it has oceans,
mountains. But I have never come across existence having any
philosophy, any religion, any dogma, any theology, any creed, any
cult. It is absolutely open and free.
Every philosophy becomes an imprisonment. Every religion chains you, handcuffs you. Every cult and creed is poisonous.

You must have come across the teachers. They are repulsive. They try in every way to attract you, and maybe for a small time you may be attracted by their great learning, but soon you will discover that learning is only paper-thick. Inside, the man is as ignorant, perhaps more ignorant, than you are. Soon you will have to desert him. Here we don't have any philosophy.
Life is our philosophy.
Existence is our philosophy.

To be in tune with the world, to be in harmony with the cosmos, is our religion. And the whole existence is continuously flowing: charaiveti charaiveti. It goes on and on. There is no end and there is no beginning.

Unless you find such a master, multidimensional, without beginning,
without end, you will not feel at home. You will feel in a prison.
Only the vast sky of a master can allow you to feel at home, because the basic necessity of every consciousness is freedom.

I teach you freedom. I share with you my freedom, my love, but without any conditions attached to it.
I am just a well, overflowing. If you are thirsty you can drink. You
need not even thank me. You don't owe anything to me, not even
gratitude. I am already overflowing, whether anybody drinks of me or not.
Even if you all disappear from the Gautama the Buddha Auditorium, I will come every evening at exactly seven o'clock, and I will talk to
my absent disciples.
Just the other day I told Nirvano – because sometimes she comes late by two minutes, just the way of a lady, never in time; I told her, “This won't do. I have to be in my chair on time. Whether anybody is there or not does not matter. I will speak to the trees, to the bamboos – they are such great listeners, they never interrupt.”

These people – the Dalai Lama and others – are fossils, they have
died long ago.

When I give my interpretation, remember always it is my
interpretation. If I meet the master who has written the sutras, I
know perfectly well that there is no possibility of agreement. But
because they are all dead I am completely free to interpret them
according to the times, not according to their creed.
Their background was their background; today that background does not exist, that world is no longer there. Man's concerns have changed, man's conditionings have changed. Man is programmed in different ways.
I have to deprogram the people whom I am facing.

I am exactly in the moment, that's why you feel at home. But rejoice, rather than being worried: “Why am I feeling at home? Why am I happy?” Just be happy! Happiness needs no cause. Only misery can be diagnosed, not happiness.
Go to any doctor and ask him, “I am feeling happy. Diagnose it.” As
far as I know, up to now nobody has been able to diagnose happiness.
Yes, diseases can be diagnosed and cured, but happiness cannot be
diagnosed, and neither can it be cured. Once you have caught fire,
nobody can put it out.
So it is perfectly okay. But I know the problem is that your whole
life you have never been okay, something was always wrong. Somebody
was always pointing out that you are doing wrong, you are behaving
wrongly, that this is not the right etiquette. Some Confucius, some
Manu, some Moses, some Mohammed was telling you how to behave.
Somebody was deciding for you what is right and what is wrong.

This is the only place, for the first time in the whole of history,
where nobody is deciding for you what is right and what is wrong. My effort is to bring your consciousness to the highest peak, so that it can decide on its own what is right and what is wrong.
It may not be in agreement with Manu, five thousand years old, it may not be in agreement with Moses, it may not be in agreement with Mohammed. It will be only in agreement with existence and with you.
To me, religion is an individual love affair with existence. It has
nothing to do with scriptures, nothing to do with knowledge, learning – that is all nonsense.
But because you have become accustomed to being told that you are unworthy, undeserving and you have accepted it, when you come here to a total freedom, with no inhibitions, with no repressions, with nobody to tell you what to do and what not to do, you feel at a loss. It is just like a small child in a fair who loses his mother's hand and feels at a loss where to go.

You remain retarded because of these people who go on telling you what is right and what is wrong. They keep you in dependence, in slavery.
And I have told you, the greatest slavery is spiritual slavery, and
the whole of humanity is living under spiritual slavery.
I teach you rebellion!

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life
according to your own light. Find the light and it will show you the
path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that
is right. What others have been telling may be right for them; it
cannot be right for you.
That's why I am not a moralist, I am not an immoralist. I am
absolutely amoral. I don't consider morality or immorality at all. I
am not a puritan who creates guilt in you.

Just the other day I was telling you about the German scholar who has compared me with Jesus. He has a point. He seems to be a man of very keen intelligence. He says that I am far superior to Jesus, but I will not be able to found a religion. He is right! Why does he say that? He says, “Because you go on teaching freedom, how can you found a religion?”

A religion is founded by slaves, and to create slavery there is a
psychological device.
First, create guilt. Once a person starts feeling guilty that he is
doing something wrong, that he is undeserving, unworthy, then he has a wound inside which will not heal, which will go on growing. He has a spiritual cancer in the name of guilt. But all the religions have been creating that spiritual cancer.
Their purpose is that when you feel guilty, undeserving, you lose your confidence and you have to go to the priest to find confidence. You have to confess to the priest that you have been doing something wrong, that you have been having a love affair with somebody else's wife. Now you feel guilty. You cannot say it to your wife, you cannot say it to the husband of the woman you are in love with. Where to go?
It becomes a constant tension in you. You are hiding like a thief from everybody.
The priest is available. You can go and confess to the priest that
this is happening. He is perfectly happy. He says, “You are forgiven.
I will pray for you to God. Now put ten dollars into the donation box, say five Hail Marys, and you are free of sin.”
Great! First they create the guilt, then they make the arrangement for removing the guilt. And it is worth ten dollars. Now you have found a way: you can have as many love affairs with anybody's wife, and no worry. Just ten dollars.
This is a very subtle exploitation of man.

I have told you …. In a small school, the teacher was talking about
Jesus as the greatest man in history. For half an hour or more she
talked about Jesus, around and around, not exactly making the
pronouncement that he was the greatest man in history, but all her
arguments pointed to that statement.
Then finally she asked a small boy – he was American – to stand up.
“Who is it?”
He said, “Abraham Lincoln.”
She was shocked. She said, “It is good, but not perfect. Sit down.”
She asked another boy. He said, “Winston Churchill.”
She said, “Not bad, but not right either. Just sit down.” And that way she went around the class.
It was an international school, so everybody was talking – somebody about Lenin, somebody about Mao Zedong, somebody about Mahatma Gandhi. She was puzzled. She had been talking about Jesus and nobody was answering, “Jesus.” Then finally she came to a small boy, Jewish. She was worried that he would say Moses.
But you know Jews ….
The little boy stood up and said, “Jesus Christ.”
She said, “Absolutely perfect!” But she was puzzled a little; this boy
was a Jew. So after the class she took him aside and asked him, “Are you not a Jew?”
He said, “Yes, I am a Jew.”
“Then why did you say that Jesus Christ was the greatest man in history?”
He said, “In my heart of hearts I know Moses was the greatest man in history, but business is business!”

All the religions, all the societies, are corrupting people. So when
you come here and find no corruption, no morality, no puritanism, and find absolute acceptance as you are, nobody interfering in your
lifestyle, you feel good, but a little confused. You are coming from a world which has been guiding you on every step.

Do you know, Gautam Buddha's scriptures have thirty-three thousand principles for the Buddhist monk. Even to remember them is impossible.
Thirty-three thousand principles, for every detail of life! The
smallest detail of life is determined. You have to follow it,
otherwise you are guilty.
You can have only three pieces of clothing. It may be a very cold
winter and you may need something warmer, but that is not in
accordance with the principles, because all woolen things come from the hair of animals.
While taking that hair from the animals you are hurting those animals, and you are leaving them without fur in winter. Only in winter does that hair grow to protect them from the cold. All the year round they don't care about their fur, but just as winter starts coming closer, the fur becomes thicker. It is a natural protection for the poor animals, and you are cutting their fur exactly in the middle of the winter when it is the biggest and the best. You are leaving them without fur in the cold winter of the mountains, in the Himalayas, where snow is falling.
Buddha prohibited it: you should not use any woolen clothes.
Now, minute details: you cannot have two baths every day, that is
luxurious. You should not eat in the night, and you should not drink
in the night. At night all animals sleep, all trees sleep, you should
sleep. Only between sunrise and sunset can you eat – and only one
time.

The smallest details …. You should not wear shoes because in those
days they were made only of animals' skins. It was violent. In the hot summer, the followers of Buddha would be walking with naked feet on the burning earth. They could not have even an umbrella. In the rains they were soaking wet, and even in the hot summer they could not have an umbrella, because that is a luxury.

And it is not that Buddha was the most ascetic; according to Mahavira, Buddha was living in luxury because he had three pieces of clothing. Mahavira lived naked, this is real asceticism. Buddha was a luxurious fellow, having three pieces of cloth. It is all relative, what is luxurious and what is not.
You think having two meals a day is luxurious? Not for the Americans, who are having at least five meals per day – and tea break and coffee break and ice-cream break and Coca-Cola break. The American is doing only one thing: watching the television and swallowing all kinds of junk, getting fatter and fatter and fatter. And the ultimate result? He is taken to the hospital.

Three million people are in hospitals just because they are too fat
and it is dangerous to their hearts. They are suffering very much
because they want to go home, they are missing the fridge!
Only the American misses the fridge. Other people miss other things: the wife, the children, the house, the garden; the American misses the fridge. Even in the night he will get up one or two times; that is normal. I am not talking about abnormal people – almost asleep they will move directly to the fridge.

A man was complaining to his psychoanalyst, that his wife was becoming fatter and fatter and fatter.
“Now she simply sits and watches television and goes on eating. It is
disgusting to see her. I remain late in the office unnecessarily, I go
to the pub unnecessarily, just not to see the face of that woman. Late in the night, completely drunk, I return. You have to do something!” The analyst said, “You do one thing. Take this beautiful picture of a naked woman” – absolutely proportionate, could have won the world beauty contest. “Take this and paste it inside the fridge. Whenever your wife opens the fridge, she will see the beautiful woman and she will see herself – just a bag, no curves, no slopes, no high peak points, nothing. She will become jealous of this picture, and she will start dieting.”
The man said, “Perfectly right. It seems logical.”
On the way home he looked at the picture. He said, “My God! What a woman!” He went and pasted the picture in the fridge.
After six months the psychoanalyst met him on the sea beach. He could not believe it; it was as if somebody had puffed air into him. He had become a balloon!
The psychoanalyst asked, “What happened?”
He said, “Everything backfired. My wife does not care a bit about that bitch you have given me but I fell in love with the picture; so
whenever I have any time I immediately run to the fridge to see the
picture. But when you see the picture you also see the ice-cream ….
So, because of that picture, this is my situation. You ditched me, you are responsible. And my wife is still the same.”
The psychoanalyst said, “I had never thought that this would happen.
Now it is beyond psychiatry, you need to get hospitalized.”
He said, “I cannot. I cannot lose my fridge and my beloved's
photograph.” She had become his beloved.

According to Buddha these people will be thought monsters. But in
America it is average: seven and a half hours of television is
average. And what will you do sitting in the chair? The mouth also
needs to move – a little exercise … not to get too disturbed –
because if you go to the fridge you will miss something on the
television.
And it is all rubbish! Fifty percent is advertisement; the other fifty
percent is just to allure you, to keep you watching to see the
advertisement. And what is being advertised? They are advertising more food, better ice-cream!
The whole country is getting insane. Food seems to be God. In fact, in the Hindu scriptures food is called God. But it was because people were so poor, starving, that food was God; not the American style. America has made food God: eat, drink, be merry – for the first time the whole country is living a hedonistic life. Buddha would have condemned it totally.
Who is right? If this is the only life and there is no life after
death, then perhaps the American is right and Buddha is wrong. If this is the only life, then why not eat, drink, be merry? There is nothing else ….

But Buddha is not wrong. There have been lives before and there are going to be lives afterwards. Even now a new branch of psychology, parapsychology, is investigating all over the world in many universities, and finding valid evidence of past lives and
possibilities of future lives. If there have been past lives, that
makes it certain that you will have future lives.

Under hypnosis people are remembering many lives in the past. And it is not imagination, because you can hypnotize them a second time and they will remember the same thing. It is not dreaming. You cannot repeat a dream, it is not under your will. And if it is only
remembering, that is not so great an achievement. The East has always talked about it, has methods how to remember; and not only to remember – but how to live it again.

Parapsychologists are interested that when a person goes backwards and remembers past lives, many of his sicknesses, psychological tensions, anxieties which he has carried, disappear. They belong to his past lives, and unless you go to the very roots you cannot cut the tree.

Once he remembers from where this anxiety comes, he simply starts laughing. It is an anxiety about a woman he was married to in the past life. She tortured him, and that memory is still carried in his mind. Because of this memory he cannot look at his own wife; that memory comes between them. He is afraid, he is afraid of women. Once he finds this out, he starts laughing and giggling: “This is nonsense. That was another woman and that is finished.” Suddenly all anxiety disappears.
For the first time he looks at his wife as she is. That old film of
the past life is no longer a hindrance.

Parapsychology is going to be of great importance in future. When
psychoanalysis and psychology are dead, parapsychology will be of
immense help to humanity.

We are doing everything here in hypnosis to take you backwards in
time. If you can go completely into thousands of lives, all your
psychological problems will disappear, and meditation will be so
simple that you need just close your eyes and you will have reached to the center. We are trying to reach to the center of your very being. This is your home.

Once you have come in contact with me, no teacher, no learned scholar is going to satisfy you. You will not find another man who is not only contemporary to you, but almost one century ahead. I will remain relevant for at least one century.

Osho,
Yakusan: Straight to the Point of Enlightenment
Chapter #4
Chapter title: The sutra is long, the night is short
20 January 1989 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium

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