... - thinking is thinking. The object does not make any difference. The only transformation happens when you drop thinking, when suddenly you are in a state of no- thought, no-mind. There are people who think about money, and people who think about power, and people who think about success; and there are people who think about God, prayer, meditation - but there is no difference at all. The object of thinking...

... does not change the process of thinking - let it sink deep into you - otherwise people simply go on changing their objects. If somebody is thinking of money we say he is a worldly man, and if somebody is thinking about God we say, "Look, what a religious man!" Both are worldly. The man who is thinking about God is also as afraid of no-thought, of aloneness, as the man who is thinking of...

... money; no difference at all. Your gods and your ghosts, all are created out of fear. The people you find in the temples and churches and mosques praying, bowing down to the statues they themselves have made, are not in prayer, they are simply trembling with fear. It is out of fear that they have created the temples, it is out of fear that they have created a God. God is their ultimate companion. They...

... that happens only to people who are ready to be alone. Aloneness brings you to your own divinity. Beware of the gods that you have created out of fear ! A story: Three men went up to a haunted house because they had heard there was a fortune there. The first man went in while the two others remained outside. He saw some money on a table and started to put the money in his pocket, when he heard a...

... voice say, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table !" The man ran out the back door. The second man entered because the first took so long. He also saw the money on the table. As he started to put the money in his pocket, a strange voice said, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table!" This man also fled out the back door. The...

... third man got tired of waiting, and he went inside. He saw the money. As he began to put the money in his pocket, a strange voice said, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table!" But instead of running away, the man said, "I am the ghost of Davy Crockett, and I will put the money in my pocket!" The ghost disappeared, and the man went out the front door a...

... are seeking the good opinion of others, then you are in a very competitive madhouse. Many are doing the same. Whatsoever you do, you can never rely on it succeeding, and even if it succeeds, it brings nothing. It brings only more projects, more plans. If you earn money, by the time you have earned it the desire has arisen for more money, so you invest that money to earn more money and again you...

... invest and go on investing. By the time death arrives you have much money and an unlived life. And the second thing: happiness is not something that happens to you. It is already happening - you have just to be receptive. It is not that it happens sometimes and it doesn't happen sometimes. It is a decision on your part. Every morning when you get up, decide whether you want to be happy or unhappy today...

..., "Mamma mia! We are so poor, we need-a the money. So tomorrow you-a go and make love-a to this gorilla, or don't-a come home to-a mamma." The next morning, at the zoo, the Italian is about to climb into the gorilla's cage when he turns to the zookeeper and says, "Look, I will make-a love to this-a gorilla on three conditions: First-a, I don't-a have to kiss it. Second-a, I do it once...

... FOR THE RIGHT TO BE INDIVIDUALS IN A SOCIETY WHICH LABELS TRUTH AS LIES, AND CALLS LIES THE TRUTH? I HAVE JUST READ DAVID YALLOP'S BOOK, "IN GOD'S NAME", IN WHICH HE CLEARLY LAYS OUT THE ROLE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MURDER, TERRORISM, EMBEZZLEMENT, DRUG RUNNING, AND MAJOR AND CONTINUING SWINDLING OF INCREDIBLE SUMS OF MONEY; MANIPULATION OF POLITICS IN AMERICA, ITALY, SOUTH AMERICA...

... manager of the Vatican's bank is in hiding, because the Italian government has an arrest warrant against him. But they cannot enter the Vatican, it is an independent country - and his crimes have been found to be great. The pope runs perhaps the greatest mafia in the world. And the pope's bank in the Vatican turns all the income from drugs into legitimate money - the black money into white, millions of...

... dollars per week. And the head of the bank is now being sought by the Italian government. There is an unbailable arrest warrant, and the police are waiting around the Vatican for him. But the pope has rewarded him, he has been made a cardinal; he was only a bishop. The pope has been spending money on his world tours as no other pope has ever done before. Just a few months ago, in Australia, he spent...

... more on his tour than the queen of England did when she went there. Almost every year he has been spending millions of dollars for his worldwide tours. And all this money comes from heroin and other drugs. It is strange how blind humanity is. And these people go on speaking beautiful words; they preach against drugs, yet their whole empire depends on drugs! They condemn everything which they...

..., jihads and other religious wars. David Yallop's book, IN GOD'S NAME, is a great contribution, "in which he clearly lays out the role of the Roman Catholic church in murder, terrorism, embezzlement, drug-running, major and continual swindling of incredible sums of money; manipulation of politics in America, Italy, South America, Poland...." Recently the pope declared that the church should not...

... mutters to herself. "No money to buy pants, but he is driving a white motorbike!" Now, Avirbhava, bring your gods. (THE MASTER LAUGHINGLY BECKONS AVIRBHAVA FORWARD. AVIRBHAVA COMES FORWARD WITH A BULL DRESSED AS THE POPE, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY SHEEP AND MICE START DANCING IN FRONT OF THE MASTER ON A STRING, AND AN APE IS BOUNCING UP AND DOWN WILDLY ON A PIECE OF ELASTIC.) Great! (AVIRBHAVA...

... argument is given by Charvakas, the Indian atheists. They say, "Everything is fleeting, so don't waste time in temples, in rituals, just eat, drink and be merry. And if you don't have money, borrow money, because after death everyone is finished, nobody is going to ask for his money back. After death, in the graveyard everybody sleeps soundly. The man who borrowed the money and the man who gave the...

... money both are dead. So don't miss a single moment. Enjoy it, even if it is to be enjoyed on borrowed money." The statement in Sanskrit is very beautiful. The statement says, no one who has gone beyond death has ever come back. This is enough proof, more than enough, that death is the end. And if death is the end, then why be worried about small things? It may be your own pocket or somebody...

... else's pocket, it does not matter. Death will not differentiate between the sinner and the saint. There is no one to make the judgment. RINAM KRITVA GHRITAM PIBET. Even if you have to borrow money, borrow it, but drink refined butter. Don't be worried about tomorrow. It was a great school, not only in India but in Greece also. These were the two countries at that time which were touching the peaks of...

... to pay for it; if meditation was free, I don't think anybody would like not to have it. But it is more arduous than paying for something with money. You have to pay with mind, you have to drop your ego, you have to drop your unconsciousness - because these things are inner and not visible to the eyes; hence your question has arisen. You are also saying, "We seem to take them for granted, as if...

... it is unreadable. Only one hundred pages are cut and open; nine hundred pages are still joined and uncut! The book begins with a statement. The statement is, "you read first one hundred pages - it is the introduction. If you feel you can manage to understand what is being said, you can open the other pages. If you feel it is beyond you, you can return the book and take your money back."...

...; And how much money was he charging for that book in those days? One thousand dollars - because Gurdjieff and Ouspensky both believed that unless a person pays for something, he is not going to be deeply involved in it. When a person pays one thousand dollars, he has to read the book. And because there were nine hundred uncut pages, even people who could not understand the introduction were curious...

... materialistic way. One countess was introduced to Gurdjieff by another of his rich followers, and the same evening Gurdjieff sent a message to the countess, "You give all your ornaments, diamonds, and money and everything, so that from tomorrow your teaching can start." She was worried, "What kind of teaching is this? Even if there is some fee I can pay, but all my diamonds and all my ornaments...

...?" She was very rich, and she had very valuable stones. She asked her friend, "What to do? What kind of man is this Gurdjieff? He wants everything, and then only tomorrow morning will the teaching begin." The other woman laughed; she said, "Don't be worried. He also asked me for all. I gave all my ornaments, all my money, everything that I possessed, and next day, when the teaching...

... started, the first thing he did was he returned all the money, the whole bag. So you need not be worried." So the countess collected all her diamonds and ornaments and money in a bag, and sent them to Gurdjieff. The next morning she was waiting, that before the teaching starts... but the bag never came back. She was very much puzzled - he has taken everything, she is now a pauper. She asked her...

... tomorrow morning, but three days have passed. The teaching has started, but I cannot concentrate on the teaching; my whole mind is thinking about my money and my diamonds and my ornaments, because that was all that I had." Gurdjieff said, "The first woman's things were returned because she offered them with love and trust. Yours will not be returned because you offered them with the idea that...

... being unfair to the thief. Your need to be in jail is more, because you have collected so much money, deprived so many people of money that thousands of people are down and you are collecting and collecting money - for what? Your very greed is creating these thieves. You are responsible. The first crime is yours." Lao Tzu's logic is absolutely clear. If there are going to be too many poor people...

... to fight against these people, because they are powerful, they have armies, they have money, they have everything. You cannot fight with them, you will be destroyed. The only way out of this mess is to silently start growing your own consciousness, which they cannot prevent by any force. In fact they cannot even know what is going on inside you. I give you the alchemy of inner transformation...

... family has to disappear and give place to the commune. A commune means that we have pooled all our energies, all our money, everything into a single pool - which will be taking care of all the people. The children will belong to the commune, so there is no question of individual heritage. And it is so economical... I have seen in my commune: five thousand people were there; that means two thousand five...

... a chemist to look at what kind of food is being given to people. If you pool all your energies, all your money and all your resources, every commune can be rich and every commune can enjoy being alive equally. Once individuals are growing and communes are growing side by side, society will disappear, and with society all the evils that the society has created. I will give you one example. Only in...

... naturally he will keep him healthy because he is being paid for it. If he falls sick, he loses money. When there are epidemics the doctor goes bankrupt. Right now it is just the opposite. The doctor - I have heard the story - came to Mulla Nasruddin and said, "You have not paid and I have been again and again coming and reminding you that I cured your child of smallpox, and you don't listen."...

...; Mulla said, "You had better listen; otherwise I am going to sue you in the court." The doctor said, "This is strange... I treated your child." He said, "Yes, that I know - but who spread the epidemic in the whole town? Your child - and all the money that you have earned you have to divide with me." He was right. His child had done a great job, and since that day the...

... doctor never came back again to ask for the money for the treatment that he had given to the child. It was right, Mulla's argument was correct. The doctor had earned enough out of the epidemic. But this is a very wrong system. The commune should pay the doctor to keep the commune healthy, and if anybody gets sick in the commune the doctor's salary is cut. So health is the business of the doctor, not...

...?" 9. "I don't know why your father does not like me," she said to Mulla Nasrudin at their wedding reception. "Neither do I," replied Nasrudin. "AFTER ALL, MONEY, BRAINS AND LOOKS ARE NOT EVERYTHING." 10. After three weeks of marriage she accused Mulla Nasrudin of not loving her as much as he did when they were first married. "You used to get up and light the...

... see you carrying a light through the streets?" "ONLY TO PREVENT OTHER PEOPLE FROM COLLIDING WITH ME." 24. Mulla Nasrudin went to see a rich man. "Give me some money." "Why?" "I want to buy an elephant. "If you have no money, you can't afford to keep an elephant." "I CAME HERE," said Nasrudin, "TO GET MONEY, NOT ADVICE." 25. When a...

.... Mulla Nasrudin was always too busy to he with his family. His excuse was that he had to keep on making more money. One day his wife's pet parrot died and she brought another one, although the pet-store man told her it was from a tough gambling joint that had been closed down. The bird was likely to say anything, coming from a place where there were booze and girls and burns. "It's right,"...

... MORE, SEE A DOCTOR." 31. 'Darling," said Mulla Nasrudin to his wife, "have you got a good memory for faces?" "Why do you ask a question like that?" "BECAUSE I HAVE JUST BROKEN YOUR MIRROR." 32. Mulla Nasrudin and his wife were window-shopping for furniture for their new house. "I wish I had enough money to buy an elephant," said the Mulla. "Why...

... on earth do you want an elephant?" asked his wife. "I DON'T," came the reply. "I JUST WISH I HAD THE MONEY." 33. Moving along a dimly lighted street, a man was suddenly approached by Mulla Nasrudin who had slipped from the shadows nearby. "Please, Sir," said the Mulla, "would you be so kind as to help a poor unfortunate fellow who is hungry and out of work...

... WITH THE INEVITABLE." 97. "And have you made your will, Mulla?" "INDEED I HAVE," said Mulla nasrudin. "ALL OF ME FORTUNE GOES TO THE DOCTOR THAT SAVES MY LIFE." 98. Mulla Nasrudin supervised the building of his own tomb. At last, after one shortcoming after another had been righted, the mason came for the money. "It is not right yet, builder," said the...

... Mulla. "Whatever more can be done with it?" asked the mason. "WE STILL HAVE TO SUPPLY THE BODY," said Nasrudin. 99. Before his death, Mulla Nasrudin wrote this will. "The law prescribes that my dependents must receive certain fixed proportions of my possessions and money. "I HAVE NOTHING: LET THIS BE DIVIDED ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARITHMETICAL FORMULAE OF THE LAW. THAT WHICH...

.... And money gives more power than anything else, because even the politicians are commodities in the market - you can purchase them. In fact, every politician is sold into the hands of the super-rich. But the super-rich is the poorest person on the earth. He has succeeded in being important, in being powerful, but he has lost his soul. Inside, there is just emptiness and darkness. Why does it happen...

... you have forgiven me only if you tell me the secret of your begging bowl, where the whole empire has disappeared. All my wealth - where has it gone? Is it a magic bowl? Are you a magician?" The poor beggar laughed. He said, "No, I am not a magician. By accident, because I don't have any money even to purchase a begging bowl, I found this skull of some dead man. I polished it, cut it in the...

.... There is no way to let the flowers of love grow in you - you have become dry and hard and dead, because the competition is tough and to be successful you have to be tough. That toughness destroys all your beautiful values - love, joy, ecstasy. You never think of meditation. Money is your only meditation. The first question comes from a rich man: THEN SAID A RICH MAN, SPEAK TO US OF GIVING. He's asking...

... "Yes, what these priests are saying is right." All that money that you give goes to the priests. But the desire to be rewarded blinds you to a simple truth: In the very giving, you feel so joyful... what more reward is needed? This is one of the principles I insist on most: that each act comes with either its reward or with its punishment. There is no need of any God who is twenty-four hours...

... doing? He went and asked, "Dear sir, what are you doing?" The bishop said, "Baptism; now the car is Christian." The rabbi was very much offended by the new Chevrolet, but a rabbi is a Jew, intelligent as far as money is concerned. He managed that night to collect enough money to purchase a beautiful Lincoln Continental, a much higher-class car than the Chevrolet. The Chevrolet in...

... first day of each month, the money order was there but there was no name, no address. Only when the person died... and he was no one other than the founder of the university in which I was a student. I went to his home. His wife said, "I am worried - not because my husband has died; everybody has to die. My concern is, from where am I going to get two hundred rupees to send you?" I said...

..., "My god, your husband has been sending it? I never asked, and there was no need because I am getting a scholarship from the university, free lodging, free boarding - everything free." The wife said, "I also asked him many times: Why do you go on sending two hundred rupees to him? And he said, 'He needs it. He loves books but he has no money for books. And his need for books is greater...

... giving; secondly, whoever is going to inherit your money will miss the chance of earning it himself. You have destroyed two persons - yourself and your children. Okay, Vimal? Yes, Osho. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... man looked at me and he said, "Did you like THE BOOK OF MIRDAD?" I said, "I not only liked it - I have read thousands of books; none is comparable to it." He gave me fifty rupees back. He said, "You have wasted fifty rupees - you are a student; you don't have much money, I know about you. You keep the books. And I agree with you that the books have reached to the right man...

... anybody; no wife, no children, and enough pension and I don't have any expenses - you are always welcome to come to me. If you don't have money to purchase books I am here. "Your love for MIRDAD has made you a man of my family. I have loved MIRDAD my whole life, and I have tried hundreds of my friends, but nobody could get him. And you are ready to fight for a stolen book, you are ready to go to...

... that you can give to humanity. It is the ugliest phenomenon. You can be a con man, cheat people out of their money, their belongings, their houses, their wives, their husbands, anything; that is immaterial, that does not matter much. But a con man as far as enlightenment is concerned is cheating you about your consciousness, about your very being. He is doing some kind of violence, which is invisible...

..., thieves can be forgiven, but the people who are playing with your consciousness, with your being, cannot be forgiven. Somebody takes away your money: perhaps he is not doing harm to you, perhaps he is unburdening you. Perhaps from today he will be continuously feeling guilty. And what is he going to do with the money? I have heard... one poor tailor had the habit of purchasing one lottery ticket every...

... a well - because what is the need now? He is not going to open the shop again. Ten lakhs for a poor tailor - it is enough for ten lives! But it was not enough even for two years, because what will you do? - he started drinking, he started gambling, he started going to the prostitutes. He was a healthy man; within two years all money was gone, all health was gone, and he was asking people, somebody...

... key to the shop was found. People collected some money for the tailor's medicine and for his doctor; the poor man really had suffered badly. But again he started purchasing that ticket! Old habits die really hard. And he was continually condemning the lottery: "I don't want to win." "But why do you go on purchasing the ticket?" He said, "If I don't purchase, it seems...

... God, why are you against me? Have I to suffer that hell again?" The whole neighborhood gathered. They said, "If you don't want to suffer, you can reject the money, you can donate it." He said, "Never! It is my earning." He locked the door to his shop and he said, "Now, I really drop the key. There will be no need for it because I cannot survive these two years any more...

.... I don't have enough health... and again those scenes, those nightmares." And he went on the same routine again. After two years he was a completely shattered man. Back to the shop! He asked the neighbors, "Somehow find my key, and I promise you that I will never accept any money from these idiots who have been killing me." They said, "Never accept? That means you will purchase...

.... Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. MATTHEW 21 THEM THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES OF THE MONEY-CHANGERS, AND THE SEATS OF THEM THAT SOLD DOVES, THE HOUSE OF PRAYER; BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES. AND THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE CAME UNTO HIM AS HE WAS TEACHING, AND SAID, BY WHAT AUTHORITY DOEST THOU THESE THINGS? AND WHO GAVE...

... organized. Then Christ disappeared, and Christianity was left behind. Christianity is the corpse, the corpse of Christ. Christianity is again the same establishment against whom Jesus was rebellious. Christianity belongs to the same priests who crucified Jesus. Now the temple has moved. It is not in Jerusalem, it is in the Vatican; but it is the same temple. The money-changers have changed, but the money...

.... AND JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND CAST OUT ALL THEM THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES OF THE MONEY-CHANGERS, AND THE SEATS OF THEM THAT SOLD DOVES. Remember, I tell you, he had not gone there with this idea. He had not planned it, he was not thinking about it, otherwise he would have organized it. He would have gone there with a group organized to do this. Even...

... AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES OF THE MONEY-CHANGERS, AND THE SEATS OF THEM THAT SOLD DOVES. AND SAID UNTO THEM, IT IS WRITTEN, MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER... Tremendously beautiful words - he says, "... My house." When you are deeply centered in yourself, you are no more a man; you become god. That is the meaning of God: a centered consciousness. It...

..., AND SAID, BY WHAT AUTHORITY DOEST THOU THESE THINGS? "Who has given you the authority to overthrow the tables of the money- changers? Who has given you the authority to change the rules and regulations of the temple?" WHO GAVE THEE THIS AUTHORITY? Jesus must have laughed. He didn't answer them because even that is irrelevant; their question is absurd. I have heard a story about Diogenes...

... are related to the world, to existence. Say no and you are cut off, unrelated. Hate is no; love is yes. Money is no; prayer is yes. People who are doubters, sceptical, go on accumulating money because they cannot trust life. They feel so insecure with life that they find security in money, in something dead. People who love, and who have loved tremendously, loved abundantly, loved totally and said...

... yes to life in all the ways life demands, challenges, people who have always been ready to say yes, they don't gather money. There is no need. Life is such a security. In its deepest insecurity there is security. In its deepest challenge there is love; in its deepest hardship there is growth. Once you have said yes you are in a let-go, you have become religious. WHETHER OF THEM TWAIN DID THE WILL OF...