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... days seekers were helped by the society in every possible way - with food, clothes, shelter. The whole society seemed to be running around the central longing of becoming a buddha. If circumstances wouldn't allow them now, people were waiting for the right circumstances so they could escape in the blue sky. Today we are very small in that sense. Our desires are for money, our desires are for...
... ordinary life. You don't earn any money, you don't have any power, you live just on begging - just one meal a day. Because the society was so poor, Buddha told his ordained monks, "You should collect your one meal" - only one meal was allowed in twenty-four hours - "from seven houses. Just piece by piece, so you are not a burden on anybody." Now, just one monk going to beg from seven...
... America played a game, forced the Jews, and the Jews thought that they were being favored by America. They had a great hope some day to have their own land, so they rushed there with all their money. And they are still sending money - the other Jews who have remained behind - so all their money is being destroyed in Israel. Now they are in such a difficult position: neither can they go back - they have...
... had been always in his mind, he had told me many times: he was worried about his son because he was a spendthrift and he loved material things, and this old man was a religious man. The last word he said to the son was, "Listen: money is not everything and you cannot buy everything with money. There are things which are beyond money, and money alone cannot make anybody happy." The son...
... listened and said, "You may be right, but with money a person can choose the sadness of his own liking" - it may not purchase happiness but you can choose the sadness of your own liking, you can be miserable in your own way. A poor man has to be miserable through no choice; a rich man can be miserable through his own choice - that's the only difference. He chooses his own misery, there is a...
... this too I have been hearing from my grandfathers - that chakravartins come, and seeing the whole story, just turn back; they don't write their names. You are not new: anybody having a little intelligence would do the same." In this whole world what can you gain? What can you take away with you? Your name, your prestige, your respectability? Your money, your power - what? Your scholarship? You...
... cannot take anything. Everything will have to be dropped here. And in that moment you will understand that all that you possessed was not yours; the very idea of possession was wrong. And because of that possession you were corrupted. To increase that possession - to have more money, to have more power, to conquer more lands - you were doing things which even you cannot say were right. You were lying...
... about George Bernard Shaw. How can you demand, "I want George Bernard Shaw's book, his drama?" So what he used to do the whole day .... He published the book - he himself was the publisher, he put together the money himself - and then he went from one bookstore to another bookstore asking, "Have you got George Bernard Shaw's book?" They said, "George Bernard Shaw? We never...
... whatsoever they want to do after seven years. For seven years he has to be just his natural self, and we are not going to interfere." And her argument was always, "You know the alphabet, so what? You know mathematics, so what? You have earned a little money; do you want him also to earn a little money and live just like you?" That was enough to keep that old man silent. What to do? He was in...
... remain interested in these things sooner or later it will become rich. When it becomes rich then of course its interest changes; it starts thinking of painting, of music, of art, of literature, of poetry. If it goes on becoming richer, which is a simple process ... once you know how to be rich then you go on becoming richer and richer. Money goes on attracting more money, money goes on producing more...
... money. It is something autonomous: once the wheel starts moving then it goes on moving of its own accord. When you are satisfied with all the pleasures of the body, then certainly your psychological needs are there which can be fulfilled by music, art, dance, drama, literature, sculpture. Soon they are also satisfied, because these are limited needs. The body has a limitation, its pleasures are very...
... waiting - he is the director of my garage; he is waiting. I am not going to come, because to see under the bonnet is so disappointing. But when you are rich you open so many bonnets ... and it is nobody's fault, it is just that you have money enough so you can open many bonnets; and under the bonnet it is always the same mechanism. You get fed up with food, with sex. You start looking for something...
... responsibility. And do you know what brahmin scriptures say? To kill a cow is almost equivalent to killing ten brahmins. To kill one brahmin is equivalent to killing ten human beings. So who is going to sell it to a butcher? And you cannot get much money from the butcher either. The best way is to donate it to a brahmin. So people used to donate them. Brahmins knew that this was what was happening. Brahmins...
... house." I said, "If you have promised, then it is okay. But what is the purpose? To me, whatever he does is idiotic. He is wasting an immense amount of money on making marble temples all over the country, and he thinks he is earning virtue for paradise. ... Because that is what the scriptures say: make a temple and you will get a palace, a marble palace, in paradise. So he is calculating...
... - he is a businessman, he is calculating how many marble palaces he is going to get in heaven. He should be the richest there too, if he can manage it - and all this money will be left here when he dies." He never believed in his sons: they would waste the money, and everything would go down the drain. Before that happens, why not transfer the whole money to paradise? This was a simple bank...
.... One person was accumulating money, he was an indulger; one person was renouncing money, he was a renouncer - but for the one whose world itself has disappeared, the wealth itself has disappeared... what is indulgence and what is renunciation? Hence the sages of the Upanishads were not renouncers by your definitions, by your definitions they were not indulgers either. The sages of the Upanishads were...
... anecdote that may give you some idea.... Kabir had a son called Kamal. Kabir did not accept any gifts or money, whereas Kamal was like the sages of the Upanishads. Kabir's disciples asked him to throw Kamal out of his place. They said, "When somebody offers you gifts or money you tell him that you don't need it, just keep this rubbish yourself, but this Kamal sits outside and accepts all those...
... may not have been here. We can imagine a time when there was no science, we can also imagine a time when there were no art forms - when thousands of things were not there - but we cannot imagine a time when man may have been there but no spirituality, because the spiritual thirst is the basic characteristic of man. Even if there is no science, man can be man. Even if there is no money, man can be...
... clothes, somebody loves money. Of course, the house cannot deceive you, the love is not risky. You can love the car -- a car is more reliable than a real person. You can love money -- money is dead; it is always under your control. Why do so many people love things rather than persons?. -- and even if they sometimes love a person, they try to reduce the person to being a thing. If you love a woman, you...
... most important man in the world, and you have to prove it. And we are all trying to do this one way or the other -- somebody by possessing more money, somebody by possessing a beautiful woman, somebody by possessing prestige, power, somebody by becoming a president or a premier, somebody by becoming an artist, a poet, somebody by becoming a MAHATMA -- but we are all trying in some way or other to...
... marketplace and shout, "I am important!" Then you are not ambitious; you don't collect money like an obsession. If somebody loves you, in that love you are dignified, in that love you become a sovereign. Love makes you an emperor, a sovereign. Love fulfills you so deeply and so greatly; then there is no need to perform or do anything. Ego simply does not exist with love. But if that need is...
... money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the "more." And this is the way you go on and on avoiding reality. Reality is a mystery, it is not a question to be asked. It is a mystery to be lived, a mystery to be experienced, a mystery to be loved, a mystery to be dissolved in, to be...
.../or -- to move this way or that? Both roads lead to the same goal, both go to the station, but which one to follow?" And he would stand at the crossroads, thinking, for hours. He lived only in thought; he was really a metaphysician. His father had left a heritage; he had enough money, so there was no need to work either. So the whole day, for twenty- four hours, he was thinking. And when he had...
... drawn the last money from the bank, on the way home, he dropped dead. He did well -- otherwise he would have been in difficulty. My feeling is that he must have been thinking, "To be or not to be? Either/or." Because now there was no money left. He must have suffered a heart attack between that either/or. That had been his whole way of life. There is no need to choose. Why not live...
... 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...
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