... gifted it, these [the recipients] certainly entered it [the distrained estate] originally with the intention of [possessing] the land, not the money.16  If it was appraised in favour of a woman [creditor], and she married:17  or if a valuation was made of a woman's [estate] and she married, and then died: the husband ranks as a purchaser in respect to a wife's property: he neither returns...

.... supra, p. 99. But if an article is distrained because a debtor cannot repay, it may be that it is not returnable even if he subsequently acquires money. Deut. VI, 18. I.e., the debtor's goods were assessed, distrained, and given to the creditor. Just as he would have had to return the goods if the debtor could repay the loan, so must you too. Therefore it is not returnable to the debtor. The creditor...

... himself would have had to return it on account of the verse quoted, for it is applicable to him, since in the first place he demanded money, not land. But it is inapplicable to these recipients, seeing that their thought was land, not money. And this seized estate became either the husband's, as 'property of iron flock,' or remained the wife's, the husband enjoying its usufruct, as 'property of plucking...

... existence. Our situation is that of a small child in the forest who has lost his mother and is searching in the forest, not knowing where to go. This situation allows many exploiters... this helplessness is used by those who are in power, by those who have money. The helplessness is used to convert you into a slave, into dependence. Hence, all the religions have developed particular programs. They begin...

... tree cannot give anything more - she cannot give money, she cannot give gold - but she can give beautiful flowers, as big as possible, to a loving heart. She can give juicier fruits. Love has never been thought of as food, but it is a very subtle kind of food. And now psychologists have concluded that if a child gets everything necessary - all chemicals, all hormones, food, exercise, fresh air, rest...

... safe principles we do not apply them to human beings - this has been the idea prevalent in the masses. Even the medical professionals - doctors, physicians - also believe in it. But the truth is something very different. Just a few days ago.... For almost two years, a group of senators in America were investigating about a certain amount of money... not a small amount of money; two hundred million...

... dollars is there in the books, but where has it been spent, where has it gone? The cabinet went on denying any knowledge of it, the president went on denying. The suspicion was that the government of America today is the greatest terrorist. And the money is going to the terrorists in a small country in the middle portion of the Americas, between South America and North America. Just like Cuba, another...

... American country because it had gone into the hands of the communists. And after two years of continuous struggle, only now has the president accepted that, "Yes, that money has gone to the terrorists." And the whole world is silent, nobody has criticized it! Governments are to save people from terrorism, and here governments are supplying money and arms and food to terrorists. And then they go...

... reflection, you are already in love with it. It is just like a photograph.... Once in a while it happens. I have received a few letters saying that somebody has seen my picture and has fallen in love. He had no money to come; it took ten years to reach here, but for ten years he has been a sannyasin. For ten years he has meditated and now he has come - a mature person. Even the photograph has helped...

...; something in the photograph turned him on. And it must have made a great impression because for ten years he was earning money just to come here. The way, the path, is very simple and can be made even more simple. But simplicity is against the priests, they want it to be complex - so complex that they are needed to interpret it; so complex that without a mediator it is impossible to grow in your...

... teach me morality? What relationship has morality with geography?" I remember the poor man who was my geography teacher. He was in trouble because I had taken something from the pocket of the student who was sitting by my side. I had taken his money from his pocket and this teacher was telling me, "Don't do that." I said, "That's not your business. You are a geography teacher and...

... this is a question of morality. If you want, I am ready to go to the principal; you come with me. Nowhere in the geography syllabus... I have read it and nowhere is it said that you cannot take somebody else's money. And money is simply money; whoever has it, it is his. Right now it is mine. A few moments before it may have been his, but he has lost it. He should be more alert. If you want to give...

... advice, give advice to him. "In the first place, what is the need to bring so much money to the geography class? There is nothing to buy, nothing to purchase; there is not going to be any shopping. Why did he bring his money here? Then if he has brought the money, he should be alert. It is not my fault, it is his fault, and I have simply taken advantage of it, which is my right. To take advantage...

... pockets? Are you mad or something? Why do you go on bringing all these stones? And we have to throw them out every day." I said, "You don't understand. You can throw them, but if you have any understanding of a simple thing - I feel so ecstatic, so joyous when I see these stones. I am not interested in your money and I am not interested in anything else - I simply collect the stones." But...

... am finished with that. And Kaka is willing, I have asked him. He said he is willing:'Whenever there is no customer you can come and I will shave your head completely, and no question of money.' So you need not be worried. I am his free customer because nobody listens to him; I am the only person who listens." My father said, "But you know perfectly well that now this will create more...

.... For what? - for love itself. If you say you love for the money the person has, you don't love. If you say you love for the prestige that comes from loving this person, then you don't love. Then you are doing something else. Some other activity is going on, but not love - business, politics, maybe something else, but not love at all. Love is an end in itself. You simply love for love's sake. For what...

... created the world and loved it. Just like a painter paints, and then goes far away from the painting and looks at it from this angle and that, and feels happy, tremendously happy. Not that the painting is going to give him much money - it may not give any at all.... One of the greatest painters, Vincent Van Gogh, lived as a beggar, because he could not sell a single painting. Not only could he not sell...

... sold in his whole life. His own brother, Theo Van Gogh, was very worried. He was a businessman, and he could not think how a man could go on painting when nothing was selling. So he persuaded a friend and gave him money, and told him to go to Van Gogh and at least purchase one painting. He would feel good. The man went. Of course, he was not interested in paintings at all; he was just obliging the...

... brother. The brother had given him the money and he was just to purchase any painting whatsoever. Van Gogh immediately suspected something, because the man was not looking at the paintings. He said, 'Okay, this will do. Take this money." Van Gogh threw the money out of the house and threw the man out also, and he said, 'Never come here again! I suspect this money is not yours and you are not in any...

... was giving him enough money to eat, but he had to purchase colours and canvas and brushes. So for four days he would save the money for colours and paintings, and for three days he would eat. But he was a tremendously happy person. There was nobody to appreciate his work, so he would look at his own paintings. He must have said, just like god said, 'Good. Good, I have done it again." Never ask...

... 'meaning' is not right because it does not fulfil any human concept. But still I would like to call it meaning because there is no other word to substitute. It has tremendous meaning, but the meaning is intrinsic; the meaning is not external. Human meanings are external, never internal. You do something, you earn money, and somebody asks, "What is the meaning of earning money?" And you say...

..., "I would like to have my own house - that's why. That's why I am earning money." The idea of having one's own house gives meaning to the effort that you have to make for earning money. Money in itself seems to be meaningless. The meaning comes from somewhere else. All human activity is like that. The human activity is divided between means and ends. The end has the meaning, and you go on...

... gain something out of it, then it is a worldly activity, then it has nothing to do with religion. Listen to it deeply. If I am talking here to gain something from my talking as an end - money, power, prestige, respectability... anything - then my activity is worldly. If I am talking just out of my love, if I am enjoying talking itself - not that something outside it is waiting for me that will make...

... of it and the zero goes on becoming bigger and bigger, and feels very substantial. That's what we are doing in life. A man is born like a zero. Then put a bank- balance in front of him - he becomes substantial. Then tell him that "You have become the president of our country" - he becomes very substantial. The zero carries much meaning now: he has money, power, prestige, name, fame - then...

... the zero becomes more and more substantial. That's why we hanker after name, fame, money, prestige: to put something so we don't feel empty. But whatsoever you do is in vain, because empty you are. Emptiness is your nature. You can deceive, but you cannot change the reality. So this is my suggestion, that even in your ordinary reality, when you descend from your meditative state, bring that zero...

... Lambs Club. Harry told her: "There are three reasons why I can't go with you. First, I have no money - " The lady interrupted, "Then the other two reasons don't matter. I have also three reasons why I don't go out. The first is: I am not - and the other two do not matter. The sixth question: Question 5: OSHO, FOR THE SAKE OF POSTERITY, YOUR HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS, AND FOR MY SAKE...

... have the strangest fame. Before you leave the world, please let me understand the secret of your greatness. Your stealing is not just for money; your stealing is simply to keep your mastery sharpened so you don't forget the art." It is almost like a musician. Once Yehudi Menuhin was asked, "If you don't practice one day, what happens?" He said, "Only I understand that the thing is...

... tonight, finished -- I don't want to learn this art. It is beyond my capacity. The man was doing things, so at home, and he took the boy into the innermost part of the house, opened a big cupboard and there were very costly things inside, valuable diamonds, very costly, and rare clothes. Everything was dazzling. The boy could not believe his eyes, that people have so much money. The old man said, "...

... the stalls except our stall, but the opinion of the people was totally different. An old man used to come every day in the morning; because he had no money, he would sit there and read as much as he could manage until closing time. And he said to Lani -- obviously asking her not to mention his name -- that Russia needs Rajneesh, not vodka! Because people don't have private money they started...

... Italian government has issued a warrant against the manager of the bank, because the bank is doing only one thing: it is turning all Italian mafia money into white money. That is its only source of income. Otherwise from where...? The pope goes on getting the money and wasting it. Now he is going for a tour to America; estimated expenses will be twenty million dollars. When he went to Australia his...

... expenses were more than Queen Elizabeth, who had visited just before him. All this money is heroin money. Now rather than allowing the Italian government to arrest the man... they cannot enter into another country; they have to wait for whenever the manager comes out. The manager was only a bishop, but the pope has raised him into an archbishop, because he has been doing such good work! These people have...

... desire will flower, you have to attain to self-realization. Again the future enters in, again you can dream. Before, it may have been money, power, prestige. It may have been God, moksha, nirvana, the kingdom of God. Now it is self-realization. But you have to keep some goal there. And Hakuin says all is here. You want to have something on the other shore. And Hakuin says this is the only shore. The...

... woman, their man. They don't know how to read - but what is there to read? They know how to read nature, they know how to talk to trees, they know how to have a dialogue with the sky. They know REAL reading, because they read the book of life and nature. Yes, they will not accumulate much money. They will not become Fords and Andrew Carnegies and Morgans, they will not become so rich. There is no need...

... have happiness. Somebody has asked a question: 'Osho, you say that children should listen to the birds and not look at the black-board. Then what will happen?' Then beautiful things will happen, then great things will happen. If for one hundred years all the universities are closed, and all the colleges and all the schools, man will again become alive. Yes, I know there will not be so much money to...

... grab, money will disappear. But there will be more life - and that is what is needed. And you cannot purchase life with money, you cannot purchase love with money. Money you have. And the person who has asked has also asked how they will earn their living. Do you think that five thousand years ago when people were not educated they were not able to earn their bread and their butter? They were. Living...

... desires - money, power, prestige - then naturally there is poverty, starvation, war. The wars and the starvation and the poverty exist because of your schools. Your schools teach ambition. Your schools teach people to be jealous of each other, to be competitive of each other. What do we teach in our schools? For example, a teacher asks a question and the small boy cannot answer it. He may not have done...

... only hope. And one thing more: the person has asked what will happen to people's life if they don't know arithmetic and if they don't know geography and history. How will they earn their living? And what kind of a society will it be? Yes, there will not be much money. There may not be big palaces, there may not be rich gadgets, technology. But there will be joy. And the whole technology is not worth...

... same word being used for both desire as such, and for sexual desire, has a tremendously important message in it. All desire is basically sexual desire; that is the message in it. Desire as such has the flavor of sexuality in it, and you can observe it. This understanding is based, rooted in great observation. A man who is mad after money - watch his behavior, his being, look into his eyes, and you...

... will be surprised that he loves money in the same way somebody else loves a woman or a man. Now psychologists have performed a few experiments. They have made a few cards, one hundred cards, ordinary playing cards. Just two or three cards are there, inside the whole pack, of naked women. They give you the whole pack, shuffled in such a way that the psychologist himself is not aware where the cards...

... the doors. The same happens with people who are mad after money, money maniacs. Seeing a hundred-rupee note their pupils become immediately big. They may not be interested in a woman - and women are aware of it, hence so many ornaments, beautiful saris and all kinds of arrangements for these foolish people. They may not look at the face of the woman but they will be immediately interested in her...

... necklace. They may be immediately interested in her earrings, her hair clip; if it has a diamond, a big diamond, they become interested in the diamond, and via the diamond they become interested in the woman. Their sexuality has become perverted, it has become focused on money. And so is the case with power-hungry people, those who are after political power, those who want to become presidents and prime...

... MIND IS BOUND AS CLOSELY AS A CALF TO ITS MOTHER. In fact, Buddha does not mention women. What he is trying to say is: WHILE A MAN desires, HIS MIND IS BOUND AS CLOSELY AS A CALF TO ITS MOTHER. Any desire is a bondage. Desire AS SUCH is a bondage, because when you desire, you become dependent on the other, on the desired object. Whether it is a woman, money, a man, power, prestige, it does not matter...

... his bow and arrow, so you cannot escape." He was shocked. He said, "What are you saying? Are you joking? I have been doing a religious act. Everybody has praised it, great saints have come and praised it." I said, "Those people must have been fools just like you." Mind can desire anything. Now, he is not collecting money, but more and more names of Rama.... It is the same...

... me he has been out with my wife and her sister, too, and there ain't a nickel's worth of difference between them." Every desire is the same. The objects differ, but not the quality of desiring. You desire money, somebody else desires God; you desire power, somebody else desires paradise. It is all the same. Hence there are no religious desires, remember. Nondesiring is religious. Desiring is...

... already gave at the office!" The Jew is a Jew. He has fallen into a deep pit and the danger of death is all around, but he is more interested in saving a little money. Just hearing the name 'Red Cross' reminds him only of one thing: they must have come for donations. T.S. Eliot has written these beautiful lines: WHERE IS THE LIFE WE HAVE LOST IN LIVING? WHERE IS THE WISDOM WE HAVE LOST IN KNOWLEDGE...

... not pay the shekel, he still shares in the public sacrifices; also, when his debts are settled, the debtor personally receives nothing. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Nedarim 33b Hanan's view.1  Raba said: You may even say that it agrees with all: [We suppose that] the man who is interdicted by vow not to benefit from his neighbour was lent [money] without obligation to repay.2...

... What is [the ruling of] Hanan? — We learnt: If a man departed overseas, and another arose and supported his wife: Hanan said: He has lost his money.3  But the sons of the High priests4  disputed this and maintained: He must swear how much he expended and is reimbursed [by the husband]. R. Dosa b. Harkinas ruled as they did; whilst R. Johanan b. Zakkai said: Hanan has ruled well &mdash...

...; it is as though he had placed his money upon a deer's horn.5 Now, Raba did not say as R. Hoshaia, because he interpreted our Mishnah to harmonize with all views. R. Hoshaia did not say as Raba: [to settle a debt] that need not be repaid is forbidden as a preventive measure on account of [a debt] that must be repaid.6 AND RETURN A LOST ARTICLE TO HIM. R. Ammi and R. Assi [differ thereon] — one...

... directors and scripts, but they never mention their affiliation publicly or why they are doing this. Money talks, and especially in Hollywood. If you have money, you can get about anything made, and they know this. They can also channel money intoadvertising campaigns, etc. for their films (how many Christian films have had major ad campaigns in the past twenty years? Very few. How many occult movies have...