.... 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...

... giving titles to only a few people. I think he was the only Sir Seth in the whole of India: best amongst the best! He was not a king, but he was given the title of Raja - the king. He owned almost three-fourths of the buildings in the whole city. Even the Maharaja - Indore was a state, a beautiful state - even the Maharaja had to borrow money from Sir Seth Hukumchand. He had a huge amount of money and...

..., near the movie hall, before your customers if you are a shopkeeper, before your friends, before anybody to whom you have been bragging about your kindness and your compassion and your greatness. Beggars know perfectly well ... and it is not only one-sided - that only you are saying something else inside while giving him some money. The beggar is also saying something else inside, he also has masks...

... rupee?" He looked at my robe. There were no pockets. He said, "You are the worst fellow I have come across. And it seems you don't believe in God." I said, "You are right! I neither believe in money nor in God. You have to find somebody else who believes in money and who believes in God and who believes in respectability." I don't believe in anything. All these professors...

... year old. New models have come out.' I have to keep a hard, stony face. That keeps her afraid to mention the new car. If I relax a little bit every child starts asking for money. Servants, if I even just stand a little bit ..." He never looked at his own garden, he never looked at the beautiful flowers. I said, "What is the purpose of this garden? You never go inside the garden, you never...

... can have it for guests or others." So I moved into his house. Then I came to see a totally different man. I told him, "This is an ugly attitude. And you have enough money to purchase a new car, you have enough money to raise those poor servants' salaries a little bit, you have enough money to give some money to your own children for toys or for sweets or something. It is not going to make...

... continue. It will become an unconscious root. So you can go on changing your food - eat this, eat that, don't eat this - but it makes no difference, because the basic root remains there. Then if you stop stuffing yourself with food, you will start stuffing with something else. And there are many ways. If you stop eating too much you may start accumulating money. Then again you have to be filled by...

... something; then you go on accumulating money. Observe deeply, and you will see that a person who accumulates money is never in love, cannot be, because the money accumulation is really a substitute. With money he will feel secure now. When you are loved there is no insecurity; in love all fears disappear. In love there is no future, no past. This moment is enough, this very moment is eternity. You are...

... accepted. There is no anxiety for the future, for what will happen tomorrow - there is no tomorrow in love. But if love is not there, then the tomorrow is there. What will happen? Accumulate money, because you cannot rely on any person. So rely on things, rely on money and wealth. There are people who say, 'Donate your money. Don't accumulate money. Be non-attached to money.' But these are superficial...

.... Where are you going by closing your eyes and watching your navel? You are becoming a fool.' In the West, when they want to condemn the East, they call them 'navel-watchers' or 'lotus-eaters'. One cannot be alive by just eating lotuses. They must be mad people. And when in the East, people want to condemn the West, they call them 'money-oriented' 'materialistic' 'worldly'. But both these types of...

... accidents; you are too worried about them. Your whole time and energy is wasted in them. You become so much occupied with the non-essential that the essential is forgotten. This is the state of the man who is asleep: always focused on the non-essential. Thinking of money, thinking of power, thinking of the house, thinking of the car, thinking of this and that - but never looking at that which is your...

... concerned. One has to eat to live. Eat - but don't make eating your whole business. There are people who continuously think of eating. Money is needed, but don't make money your God. Use it when you have it. When you don't have it, then use that non-having also, because that has its own beauties. When you have money, you can have a place. Have it. When you don't have the money, become a vagabond and live...

... under the sky. That has its own beauty. When you have money, use it. Don't be used by the money. When you don't have it, enjoy poverty. Richness has its own richness, poverty has its own richness also. There are many things which only a poor man can enjoy - never a rich man. There are many things only rich people can enjoy - never a poor man. So, whatsoever opportunity.... When you are rich, enjoy...

.... Intelligence is absolutely lacking. When you have money, enjoy it. Live like a king when you have it. But I see people - they have money and they live like beggars. They are saving it for the future, and when it is lost, then they start thinking about it: 'Why did we waste time? We should have enjoyed.' Poor persons, poor people, always thinking about living in palaces, while they can enjoy the tree where...

... not been said at all. Thirdly, they interpret it according to their own prejudice. Fourthly, they simply go on accumulating it. Just becoming a great encyclopedia is not going to help. Paddy wins some money at the horse races and treats himself to a meal at a fancy restaurant. While his dinner is being served, he notices that the spoons are made of real silver. So he eats quickly, and putting one of...

... gave Kaveesha all her money with the checkbook - that is three and a half million dollars - and said, "You take it." Kaveesha is poor. She thought that this was a good chance in a lifetime to have so much money. But she was not aware that Avirbhava is tricky! She accepted the checkbook, then Avirbhava explained to her, "These are the problems attached to the checkbook - you take them...

... the first time I'm feeling free - free of problems, free of money, unburdened." Kaveesha could not reject the offer because that would be insulting; she could not accept the offer because that would be destructive. So she told Avirbhava, "Wait, first I have to see my master." Just before I came here she came to me and she said, "This Avirbhava has created a trouble. First she...

... said to me, 'I'm giving you three and a half million dollars. You take it. I'm burdened, I want to be free of money. Our Beloved Master has been telling me again and again to be free - I have decided.' "And later on she came back and said, 'But listen, these are the problems attached: there is no cash.'" Kaveesha came to me to ask what to do. I said, "You do one thing. Rejecting is not...

... nice; accepting is dangerous because you have never taken such problems as are attached to those three and a half million dollars. You just go to Avirbhava and say, "I have offered the money and the problems to my master. And he said to me, 'I appoint Avirbhava as my agent to take care.'" In a simple way nobody is harmed. Avirbhava remains with her coal mines and three and a half million...

... or something? There is no precedent in history that a man whose money has been stolen should be punished." Lao Tzu said, "In fact, you should be given a longer term in jail than the thief - I am being much too compassionate - because you have gathered all the money of the city. Do you think money showers from the sky? Who has made these people so poor that they have to become thieves? You...

... are responsible. "And this will be my judgment in every case of stealing; both persons will go to jail. Your crime is far deeper, his crime is nothing. He is poor and you are responsible for it. And if he was stealing a little bit of money from your treasures, it was not much of a crime. That money belongs to many of the poor people from whom you got it. You went on becoming richer and richer...

... and many more people went on becoming poorer and poorer." The rich man thought, "This man seems to be crazy, utterly crazy." He said, "I want one chance to see the emperor." He was so rich that even the emperor used to borrow money from him. He told the emperor what had happened. He said to him, "If you don't remove this man from the court you will be behind bars just...

... compensation for indignity and blemish10  on his own admission.11 Abaye enquired of Rabbah:12  What is the law according to R. Simeon13  where a man said to another, 'You have violated or seduced my daughter, and I have brought you to law and you were ordered to pay me [a stipulated sun, of] money' and the other replied. 'I have neither violated nor seduced her, nor have you brought me to law...

... nor have I been ordered to pay you any money', and after he had taken an oath14  he admitted his guilt? Is [his liability], since his action had been tried,15  civil16  and he consequently incurs thereby a sacrifice for [having taken a false] oath, or is it possible that, though his action had been tried, his liability17  is still regarded as penal?18  — The other...

... not conferred upon the father the right of possession before the money had actually been handed to him; when Rabbah, however, said, 'It is a civil liability in respect of being transmitted as an inheritance to his sons' he was referring to other penal liabilities.22  But then, in the case of a bondman it is written in Scripture, He shall give into their master thirty shekels of silver,23 ...

...; would it here24  also [be maintained that] the Torah has not conferred upon the master the right of possession before the money had actually been handed to him? — The yitten25  cannot be compared26  with we-nathan.27  If so,28  [instead of deducing the exemption from sacrifice] from the Scriptural text, 'And he deal falsely',29  should not the deduction rather be...

... admission that would exempt him. By the first court, and he was ordered to pay. On the ruling of the second court. The money involved being no longer penal but (on account of the ruling of the first court) civil. Though the sum involved was originally penal. A contradiction thus arises between this Mishnah and the Baraithas both of which speak in the name of R. Simeon. From the sacrifice for a false oath...

... sea, and she borrowed money and spent it20  and then21  exercised her right of refusal. Now, the reason [why she is not entitled to maintenance is obviously] because she exercised her right of refusal; had she, however, not exercised her right of refusal, maintenance would have been granted to her?22  — Samuel can answer you: What possibility need we provide against as far as...

... FORWARD43  AND MAINTAINED HIS WIFE, HANAN SAID: HE LOSES HIS MONEY.44  THE SONS OF THE HIGH PRIESTS45  DIFFERED FROM HIM AND RULED: LET HIM TAKE AN OATH AS TO HOW MUCH HE SPENT AND RECOVER IT. SAID R. DOSA B. HARKINAS: [MY OPINION IS] IN AGREEMENT WITH THEIR RULING. R. JOHANAN B. ZAKKAI SAID: HANAN SPOKE WELL [FOR THE MAN] PUT HIS MONEY ON A STAG'S HORN.46 GEMARA. Elsewhere we have learned...

... no legal claim upon the husband who neither instructed him to advance the money nor promised to refund his expenses. Cf. supra p. 672, n. 7. Metaph. He could never recover the money from the stag, nor can he recover it from the woman or her husband (cf. p. 691 n. 12). Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference                        ...