Seeds of Light Information Service
Osho
Extracts #02
Page
Contents
Intelligence
Intelligence thrives in spontaneity
Intelligence dies in discipline
It is dangerous to allow the child
To be sensitive and intelligent
Contemporary slavery is very subtle
A free man claims back his intelligence and sensitivity
What society values is not a natural value
It is a chosen value
Life is to be happy, to celebrate.
To postpone life is to become unintelligent
Intelligence is a function of living
Instead of living life we have only ideas
About how to life life
You have taken the menu and not the food.
[Top]
Mind
Mind is basically ConfucianMind looks for a structure, an idealogy, a principle, a technology
Never take anything for granted
Thinking makes one confused
One comes out of thinking by non-thinking.
Religion
A person becomes religious
When they are fed up with the mind
You can never be certain with the mind
It is a lying mechanism
To get out of the mind
Is to know the truth.
The Tao
If you allow life to happen to youIf you don't create barriers
If you are ready to go wherever it leads
You will learn the Tao
It is the most dangerous path
Because you are not in control
The Tao says:
Never use anything as a means
The moment you start thinking of somewhere to go
Something to reach
You are not total
You are already in the future.
Truth
To be true, authentic creates real problems
Look straight and be true
In intimacy everything has to be shared
If a relationship helps you to find
Your original face
Then is is meditative
Somehow one can get accustomed to
The inauthenticity of life
And then one consoles oneself.
Acting
If you can play the many games of lifeWithour being serious
Without being identified
Remaining a witness and enjoying
The fun of it
Then you have understood
Nothing is serious
Nothing has to be avoided
Remain alert
Seriousness freezes
Love the world because that is the only way
To love God
Idiocy is not natural
It has to be learned
Love saves and love liberates
Unless you help yourself
No help comes from God.
Change
The only thing permanent is change
When freedom is lost
Everything becomes ugly
Insecurity keeps you alert
Freedom is the goal and should be the foundation of life
Insecurity is growth
Security is growth
In that surrender something of tremendous value happens
In real life nothing is repeated
Authentic response to situations
If you go on controlling
All the control will make the ego very strong
And ego is far more dangerous than anger
Anything in the moment, authentic and spontaneous
Is good
Accumulation is bad, diseased, is illness.
| Top of This Page. |