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...: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. The first question: Question 1: YOU HAVE SAID MUCH LATELY ABOUT INNER SILENCE AND EMPTINESS. AFTER TWO YEARS AS YOUR DISCIPLE, MUCH OF THE TIME, PARTICULARLY DURING THE MEDITATIONS AT THE ASHRAM, MY MIND SEEMS MORE THAN EVER TO BE OUT OF CONTROL AND WORKING LIKE A COMPUTER GONE MAD. I TRY TO BE A WITNESS TO THE WHOLE...
... knows what is going to happen. And you are always afraid. You love a person; you are afraid to be angry with him or her because you don't know really whether you love or not. You don't know really if love will be able to withstand anger. Will it be possible that love will survive anger? So you have to suppress anger, because you are afraid. You are not really certain that your love is there. You have...
... a certain feeling - maybe it is, maybe it is not - a vague feeling. You live in a mist, always surrounded by smoke; nothing is ever clear, your perception is always clouded. So you are afraid: this much anger may dissolve the whole relationship, may destroy the whole relationship. No! Suppress anger! Then you suppress anger; anger becomes part of you - then when you love, in your love the anger...
... layers. Now, when he is in the body he is in the body, he does not allow emotions to interfere with it or the head to control it. When he is in his emotions he does not allow his head or the body to interfere in it. He is not a mixture, he is not adulterated; everything is clean and clear in him. You can rely on him. When he thinks he thinks, he doesn't allow his emotions to interfere - because...
...? What will people say? The head interferes in the emotion. Now you suppress it and you try to fall in love with a woman who is a Brahmin of your own caste. Nobody can fall in love with effort. With forced effort it can at the most be a marriage, never a love affair. It will always be impotent, it won't have that intensity. You are continuously interfering. The body says: 'I'm hungry,' but you say...
..., the three layers, and makes them function according to their original nature with no interference, no outside domination. The fifth man becomes aware of it. The fourth man can work without awareness, the fourth man can work through a teacher, or through a discipline, or through a methodology and sort them out. Much awareness is not needed, a little understanding will do. The fifth type is the man of...
... understand. What are you saying? A veena is an instrument, there is no need to ask. You can force, you can command - but there you miss. You can force, and there will be a certain kind of music; but it will not be a response, it will be a reaction. If you hit the veena there will be a reaction, of course. But it will not be a response. A reaction is a rape of a woman; a response is the response of your...
..., the third is Christianity. Gandhi wanted all these three religions to follow his fight against the British rule. And it was possible only if all these three were not religiously antagonistic to each other. So it was a political strategy, and Haridas proved it perfectly. When he was abandoned by Gandhi, disinherited, Haridas became converted to Mohammedanism. The word 'haridas' means 'servant of God...
... even managed to dominate after death! Certainly his mind must have been really full of hate. It happened only once.... Where I used to live in Jabalpur, there is a junction railway station, Katni, a hundred miles away, where - just by chance - Gandhi was traveling in one train and Haridas was traveling in another train from another direction. Both trains had to wait at Katni for another train from a...
...; India became independent. The army was not dissolved; the question was not even raised. On the contrary, India and Pakistan started a war. The three war planes - the first to go over the Pakistan borders to bomb citizens - were blessed by Gandhi. This is a strange kind of nonviolence. When India was under British rule, nonviolence was a good policy because India could not have managed any armed...
... burned. All over India there was freedom to kill. There was no rule, no government; nobody could prevent it. But psychologists have not looked into why it happened, who is responsible for it. I make Mahatma Gandhi responsible for it. That's why I had compared Mahatma Gandhi with Adolf Hitler. If you look just at the sentences where I compare them, you may be confused. But if you go into all the details...
... in another direction. Life becomes absolutely simple once you start functioning from something that is higher than your mind. In the beginning for any seeker the whole search is to find a space above the mind. Once you have found a small space above the mind, all dualism disappears, all tensions, all anxieties disappear. And strangely enough, the mind which was never in your control, suddenly...
... person becomes a teacher in a school. He wants domination. He is not strong enough to become a terrorist, but he can become a teacher and can torture thirty small boys and girls." It seems there is some truth in what he is saying. Everybody chooses a particular profession; there must be a psychology behind it. It has been found in many surveys that the people who study medicine are the people who...
... poetry, and now there is no work for me.'" The comment of his son is, "He still wants to dominate. The desire for having thirty students has nothing to do with education because in his whole life he was never interested in education; he never opened great universities or colleges or anything. He never did anything for poetry or literature. Now, in jail, he wants thirty students so that he can...
... dominate. He can still remain an emperor although the empire will be very small - only thirty students." But people are even satisfied with one person - one woman, one man. Just a small empire confined in a small flat. Adler was saying that politicians are all suffering from an inferiority complex. They feel inferior for any stupid reason. For example, Lenin, the man who created the Soviet...
... dominate someone. You cannot do it in the world, but this small child, at least you can dominate him, possess him. You are being a politician to the child. You want to fulfill some unfulfilled desires through the child - domination, dictatorship. At least you can be a dictator to the child; he is so weak, he is so young and helpless. And he depends on you so much that you can force anything on him. But...
... dictates, and if you never dictate, then this goodness and badness will disappear. Then you will love both, your love will flow unconditionally. That's how God's love is flowing to this world - unconditionally. I have heard.... Somebody said to Junnaid, a Sufi mystic: A very evil man comes to listen to you and you allow him too much closeness and intimacy. Throw him out, he is not a good man. Junnaid...
... who make rules for society. For the society the rule is monogamy. Krishna is above rules, he is God's incarnation. So the oppressive society has been deciding rules for the oppressed. All moralities are criminal. Only a man of deep meditation and silence can say anything, but he will not use the words 'right' or 'wrong'. And he will not decide it forever as a criterion; it can only be in that moment...
... had a whole file. I said, "I am something more." He looked a little shocked, because for this there was no rule; he started looking in the file. In America an anarchist cannot enter. An anarchist is one who does not believe in government, who believes that every government is a slavery and unless we are free from all governments, man will go on living in slaveries, changing slaveries and...
... man, they should think about pregnancy first. They should insist on birth control, and they should insist that while they are pregnant society should take care of them, otherwise, they are not prepared to become pregnant. Pregnancy has made them handicapped; and man has exploited the situation very easily. To the man of ultimate consciousness there is nothing right or wrong. Everything is as it is...
... BEGINNING THE FLYING BIRDS HAVE LEFT NO FOOTPRINTS ON THE BLUE SKY. Sekiso is a great poet. He is saying PEOPLE'S ABUSE HAS MELTED WHAT WAS GOLDEN. We have left a golden age behind, we misused it. I am reminded of a very significant incident. In the Himalayan mountain range there are a few tribes, very ancient tribes which have followed a rule, very male-chauvinistic, that if you become a guest in their...
... middlers. If the society is divided and the gap is so big between the rich and the poor, the rich are going to dominate; so don't call it democracy, it is aristocracy. No communist is ready to believe that in America there is democracy, because the first basic thing is not to write in the constitution that "all men are equal," but to make them equal; then democracy is possible. If there are so...
... religions. But they won't understand it; I had to accept their stupidity and call myself a religious leader. They don't have any other category. Just the other day my secretary was saying to me, "Somewhere you have said you are an anarchist. If the American government comes to know about it.... They have a basic rule that no anarchist should be allowed to become a resident of America." They do...
.... Government is not something to brag about. It is an insult. Its existence says to you that you are still barbarous, civilization has not happened; otherwise what is the need of a government to rule you? If all the crimes disappear, if all the fears that others can exploit you, murder you, disappear, what will you do with this whole bureaucracy of government? You cannot continue it, because it is a burden...
... against the need for government. I am not against the courts, I am against the need for the courts. Someday, some time, I see the possibility that man will be able to live without any control - religious or political - because he will be a discipline unto himself. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, YOU SAY WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OURSELVES, AND THAT THERE IS NO GOD. WHAT PART DO FATE AND DESTINY HAVE IN OUR LIVES...
... human beings - there will be no poverty, life will be a bed of roses." But life not only remained the same, it became worse, because the British rulers knew how to rule. In three hundred years they had created a system to control, to keep discipline. Now all that disappeared with them, and the people who came into power had no idea what power was. What to do with power? How to use it? And...
... independence came... and that was the great moment of failure for Mahatma Gandhi, because it is not such a simple affair that just by getting rid of British rule all your problems are going to disappear. Your problems are millions of years old. The British were in India for only three hundred years. Before that you were poor, hungry, uneducated. In fact, the British Empire did everything to raise the...
... commander in the army to give commandments. The very word means that you have to follow it. There is no question to be raised, a commandment cannot be doubted. And a commandment from God - you have to fulfill it. And a commandment from God gives Moses the authority to keep these people quiet, disciplined, under his rule. I am not a commander, and I don't want anybody to be under my authority. I do not...
... object of meditation. It is beautiful. And why smell has disappeared from man? There are many complex things involved in it, but I would like to tell you just by the way so you can remember them. And if you cross those barriers, suddenly your smell capacity will be back. It is suppressed. You must be knowing that smell is deeply concerned with sex. Sex suppression has become the suppression of smell...
... invitation smell. What to do? You want to make love to your wife. She is your wife, so of course when you want to make love she has to make love, but her body gives you the signal of no love, no invitation, repulsion - what you will do? And bodies are uncontrollable; you cannot control them just by mind. Smell became dangerous; it became sexual. It is sexual. That's why on perfume the names are all sexual...
.... Go to a store and look at the labels of perfumes-all are sexual. Perfume is sexual, and the nose is completely closed. Because Islam doesn't suppress sex, accepts it, and Islam doesn't deny sex, accepts it, and Islam is not for renouncing the world of sex, that's why Islam could give a little freedom to the sensibility of smell. No other religion in the world could do that. But smell can become...
... understanding just made people see the situation. But rather than making people understand the situation, you go on praising Mother Teresa, who is against birth control. Whoever is against birth control should be behind bars! - Mother Teresa or father pope does not matter. All these fathers and mothers can get married and get lost! What business do they have? Their business is that if birth control comes...
..., then why should there be double standards? If Sikhs want freedom... it is everybody's right. These politicians go on repeating that "Democracy is for the people, of the people, by the people." And whenever the people ask, "We want to rule ourselves," immediately democracy and the definition of democracy is forgotten. What is the problem? If Punjab wants to be independent... the...
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