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... fallen very low. If you have any higher need, you will suffer, if you have any higher need you will not find a right partner; if you have a higher need you will remain alone. That was the problem with the woman. And this I see as the problem of all human beings who are intelligent, who have some understanding. People have reduced everything to money or to sex. These two things seem to be the real gods...
... - either money or sex. And people are after money also only for sex, because money can help. I have heard: A Jew went to a whorehouse and told the madam that he wanted the cheapest chippie in the place. 'We have a black girl for ten dollars,' she told him. 'But I only have four dollars,' he protested. After a long argument the madam consented to take him on herself for four dollars. The Jew did not...
... replied. 'My god!' exclaimed the boy, 'you mean I am jewish?' 'Don't knock it, boy,' he replied. 'If I had had six dollars more ten years ago you would have been black too.' The whole thing seems to be either money or sex. And everybody seems to be reducing life to be just a whorehouse. All sacredness of life is damaged. And then it is natural that if you have a heart which is waiting for love you will...
... provides them with their daily bread. "Every Sunday after the plate has been passed around in church, I empty it in a box with a hole in the bottom," explains the priest. "Whatever falls through it is for me; the rest is for God." The minister has a different way of withdrawing his weekly pocket money. "I draw a line on the floor," he tells, "and then I drop Sunday's...
... collection from one meter above - the money that lands on the left side is mine, the right side is for God." 'Well," says the rabbi, "my system is much easier. I simply throw the money in the air and whatever God needs he can grab...." The fifth question: OSHO, I WAS BORN A NEW YORK JEW AND FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS IN CALIFORNIA I HAVE BEEN A PROMISING TOURIST IN FOUR DIFFERENT LEARNED...
...." I agree with him ninety-nine percent; only about one percent I will not agree with him. He was an atheist, but he is ninety-nine percent true. Ninety-nine percent of people who are religious are religious for wrong reasons - because their marriage fails, their ambition brings frustration, they waste their whole life in earning money, power and prestige and then the same emptiness, the same...
... because the way you are made and conditioned will not allow even moments. You are supposed to be miserable. Ambition, ego, marriage, money, power - all these ideas are bound to make you miserable; you can't be blissful here. And the only thing that can make you blissful is never taught anywhere. That is meditation, that is Zen; that is not taught anywhere. People are really afraid of meditation - afraid...
... friends, old friends, discussing many things. Then they saw the mayor's big car pass by and the mayor waved his hand and said: Hello! Now there was trouble. The first one said: Don't get so happy; he said 'hello' to me - and he has to. The two asked: What do you mean? The first one said: I have taken ten thousand dollars from him; I borrowed the money, and for two years he has been waiting and waiting...
.... He had to say 'hello' to me. The other one said: You are wrong, the 'hello' was said to me - and he had to. The reason is that I have lent him ten thousand dollars. He owes money to me and he is always afraid of me. The moment he sees me, he gets scared - he has to. The third laughed and the two others turned to him and said: What do you mean? Why are you laughing? He said: He had to say 'hello' to...
... me, not to you - there you are both wrong. He neither owes money to me nor do I owe money to him. Why shouldn't he give me a clean 'hello'? Once you start looking at reality through the mind then everything becomes a problem; then the ego start interpreting and then you have only interpretations. You may have proofs for them, and those proofs may look reasonable, but only to you, not to anybody...
... - just at the very source, not very big or vast. Then streams fall into it, you gather many experiences, much knowledge, certificates, money, wealth, prestige, respect. You go on gathering. Thousands of torrents fall in and the river goes on becoming vaster and vaster, bigger and bigger. This is the autumn flood that comes when you are young - then you think no one is comparable to you, you are...
.... The first step is: CESSATION FROM SELF-INDULGENCE IN THE THIRST FOR SENSUOUS PLEASURES, WITH CONSCIOUS EFFORT. What to do? Whenever you are in any state of pleasure - sex, food, money, power, anything that gives you pleasure - meditate on it. Just try to find it, from where it is coming. You are the source, or the source is somewhere else? If the source is somewhere else, then there is no...
... pulling it or pushing it. Now there is no "I" who can pull and push. Remember this: struggle creates ego. If you struggle in the world, it creates a gross ego: "I am someone with money, with prestige, with power." If you struggle within, it creates a subtle ego: "I am pure; I am a saint, I am a sage," but "I" remains with struggle. So there are pious egoists who...
... the only thing that is needed is power, more power. He will learn, he will go to school, he will grow he will love, but behind everything - his education love, play - he will be finding how to get more power. Through education he will want to dominate, how to come first in the class so he can be dominating, how to get more money so he can be dominating, how to go on growing the influence and the...
... much love that he would feel he is powerful. If you give love, then he will never be asking for power. He will not become a political leader; he will not go for elections. He will not try to accumulate money and go mad after it, because he knows it is useless - he is already powerful; love is enough. But nobody is giving love, then he will create substitutes. All your desires, whether of power, of...
... money, prestige, they all show that something had been taught to you in your childhood, something has been conditioned in your bio-computer and you are following that conditioning without looking inside, that whatsoever you are asking is already there. Patanjali's whole effort is to put your bio-computer in silence so that it doesn't interfere. This is what meditation is. It is putting your bio...
.... When somebody says that he is a sudra, look at him. The very word humiliates; the very word makes him feel guilty. Both are human beings, but just a labeling that a society has accepted destroys their humanity. When you say you are rich, what do you mean? You have a certain account in the bank. But that too is a game, money is a game. Because the society has agreed upon something to believe in, the...
.... Because you were never going to use them in the first place, so whether of gold or of mud, what difference does it make?" You may have money. That does not make any difference. You may not have. That too does not make any difference. You may have great recognition, degrees, awards from the society, praise, certificates. That does not mean anything - it is a game. Once you look into this game...
... his friend, "how about ten million?" The first beggar sat up and said, "That's different. Now you are talking real money." It is just to give you a glimpse. It is not giving you the real money but just to give you a glimpse of the real money so again the long-denied desire, thirst, discontent arises, again repossesses you, you become aflame; and then you can come close to me...
... enjoying the whole scene! One king came up and asked the price. Diogenes said, "I am a priceless being, but you can give whatever you want to give to these poor fellows, these four persons. They have brought me here out of compassion, so you can give them as much as you like." The king gave them the money, took Diogenes in his chariot, and rode towards his palace. He was immensely impressed by...
...; otherwise you would have laughed too." And I told him the whole thing. He said, "This is great! It is good that you had not told me before." And I told him, "As far as I know, all those relatives are simply pretending to be sad, because they never helped that man. When he was sick and he needed medicine, I took medicine to him. I stole money from your pocket for his medicine. Those...
... to me so totally that they would do anything for me. If I were given bail... whatever money I had to deposit - five million dollars, ten million dollars or fifteen million dollars - the government was not going to accept any money, saying that I would leave America. And from behind the scenes they were pressurizing the woman magistrate who was not even a judge. They were bribing the woman by saying...
... as Socrates and al-Hillaj and Sarmad... and that is a great credit. And now they are trying in every possible way, pressurizing the Indian government - because they help with money so they have power over all these poor countries - that no Western media should be allowed to reach me. That's why the Italian television crew were refused - because all the Indian embassies have been informed by the...
...;interest" was nobody's fool.' And the Jew is hidden in everybody: the Jew goes on thinking of money, interest, things... having. The first thing: change your focus from having to being. You can have the whole world and it is not going to help; you will remain a beggar. And I am not saying renounce the world, mind you. I am not saying renounce the world. Don't jump to the opposite conclusion. I am...
... saying you can have the whole world and you will not have anything, that's all I am saying. I am not saying renounce it. Because those who renounce, their mind also remains focused on having. You count money, they also count money. You say 'I have got this many thousand dollars', they say 'I have renounced that many thousand dollars', but the counting continues. You are a book-keeper and they are also...
... very poor and the mother was old, and as that young woman was the only child, she had gone to work to earn some money. After a few months she came back with lots of money. The mother was very happy, she asked 'So now, tell me, what did you do there?' And the daughter was really honest, she said 'I have become a prostitute.' 'What!' the mother screamed, and fainted. When she came to after half an hour...
... then can you have much money, much power. But what is the point of having much money and much power? In the first place they are not really needed to be happy, they are not really needed to be contented. Modern psychology goes on teaching people to have strong egos. Modern psychology in fact is still not yet modern, not modern enough; it is still persisting in the old ideology, the old ideas. It has...
..., basic fear - the fear of death. Go into any of your fears and ultimately you will come to the rock-bottom, and that will be the fear of death. You are afraid of losing money? Go deep into it and you will find that money somehow gives you a feeling that you are more protected, that you can resist death more than the poor man; hence you are afraid of losing money. If you are powerful, politically...
... Ethiopia, then there are two alternatives for them. Stop piling up weapons and divert the whole money and energy towards Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will be saved today. Or, if you cannot do that, then at least do one thing: send your medical people to inject these people with something that takes them into eternal sleep. It is better to die than to starve for ninety days and then die. It is compassionate...
... these people who are dying. If you cannot do it -- remember my condition -- if you cannot do it, then don't unnecessarily try to pretend that you are Christians and Catholics and Protestants, and you are sending money and you are sending blankets, and you are sending clothes and food. It is not going to help, it has never helped before. This has been happening again and again through history. Just be...
... very clear and send medical teams so all Ethiopians in one night go into eternal sleep. At least they will not be hungry tomorrow morning. Q: YES. A: And you will be at ease, Ethiopia will not be a troublesome problem for you. So I am giving two alternatives. And remember my first priority is to stop nuclear weapons piling up more and more, and divert the whole money that you are wasting on nuclear...
... to go. I was simply joking. And my people are working hard, twelve hours, fourteen hours a day, transforming a desert into an oasis -- and do you think these people constitute a circus? You will not find anywhere in the world such hardworking people, and they are not being paid, because we don't believe in any way inside the commune that money should be used. There is no need. We fulfill our needs...
..., our food, our clothes, everything, so nobody needs any money. Whatsoever he needs, he can get. These people are working so hard, and for what? To entertain somebody? These people are creative people. They love me and now they want to materialize my vision into reality. And they are ready to do anything for it. In festival times, they are working fourteen, sixteen hours a day with no complaint...
... people, the cunning competitors. But if you succeed, you succeed. A great Sufi story: Mulla Nasruddin took his disciples to an exhibition. Many things were going on at the exhibition. At one place people were staking much money and trying to shoot arrows to reach a certain target. Mulla gathered his disciples and he said, "Come, and I will show you something." That is the Sufi way of teaching...
..., there is a lesson." And Mulla tried the third time... and the arrow went directly into the target. Now the crowd was silent and waiting for what Mulla was going to teach to his disciples. He went to the owner and demanded the money. The owner said, "Why?" He said, "This is me! The first was the arrow of a man who suffers from an inferiority complex; the second the arrow of the man...
... who suffers from a superiority complex -- and this is Mulla Nasruddin's arrow. Where is the money?" This is what we go on doing. In each situation, watch.When you fail, it is God, it is fate, it is society, circumstances... a thousand and one names. But the simple phenomenon is that you don't want to take the responsibility because it hurts the ego. But when you succeed, it is always you -- it...
... is very lonely; hence people go into drugs or into sex, or into any kind of entertainment that keeps them, at least for the time being, forgetful of the loneliness. The wound is oozing with pus. We hide it in many ways -- with great possessions, with a big palace, with much money, with new gadgets -- but the wound continues, gadgets won't hide it. You can have the biggest house in the world and...
... renounce the world and move into the monasteries and the mountains and the deserts. They decided that only to be an introvert is the right way to connect with God -- as if God is not without, but only within. And the other, the worldly person, has remained extrovert. He thinks he has nothing to do with introversion, meditation, prayer. His interest is in money, power, prestige, people, crowds -- the...
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