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... 23: ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH SWISS CURRENCY? I am not familiar with any currency. I have not touched money for thirty years. My people take every care of me. I don't even have pockets in my robe. When I first told my tailor thirty years ago, "Don't make pockets," he said, "What are you saying? Then when you need to carry some money or something, where will you keep it?" I said...
..., "From now on money is dead to me." He said, "You are crazy and you drive ME crazy. Money is dead? But the pockets are harmless; let them remain because by chance you may need to carry something." I said, "No." For thirty years I have not touched money. For five years I have been in America and I have not even seen a dollar bill. There is no need. I have never purchased...
... be finished. If you start confessing directly to God, then what are thousands of bishops and cardinals and priests going to do? Their whole business is to be mediators between you and nobody. In India there is a place, Surat, where there is a local, small religion, but of very rich people. Their high priest takes the money whenever somebody dies and writes a note in the name of God saying, "...
...;This money will be delivered to you when you reach paradise." The man dies and the written note is put in the pocket of the dead man, so when he reaches he can cash the money. I used to stay in Surat in the house of a friend who belongs to that religion.... I said, "You must be utterly stupid. All that money is going to your high priest's pocket." He said, "No, this is not...
... of going to Australia, coming to India? Perhaps the taste may be a little different, but how much money is wasted? Each tour costs eight million dollars. Even when Queen Elizabeth went to Australia, it cost only three million dollars. When the pope went it cost eight million dollars - and they are all coming out of your pockets. God is not getting anything! God is the creation of the priests to...
... been caught. Whatever judgement you feel right, I will not complain." Lao Tzu waited for a moment and then said, "Both of you, you and the man whose house you have been stealing from, are criminals." "Both?" the rich man asked. "Are you in your senses?" Lao Tzu said, "You have collected so much money, that almost fifty percent of the wealth of the city is in...
... emperor owes money to me. Whenever he wants, I have been giving money to him." And he went to the emperor and said what had happened. "And I have come to remind you that soon you will be in jail also! If this man is going to remain the supreme judge of the empire, you cannot remain out of jail long. We are small criminals according to him. You are the biggest criminal." The emperor said...
... giving them pensions without any work. Naturally when you get money without any work what will you do? Then you will be into alcohol, drugs, gambling, prostitutes. What else will you do with your money? "So those Red Indians have been completely destroyed. They cannot even fight for freedom because to fight for freedom means losing the pension. And it is so good to have a pension! Just create more...
...;... because they were all poor people, they had no money, they were slaves. They were not paid, and whatsoever they had brought... small things. That caravan of Moses is worth remembering. What had people carried with them? Somebody was bringing his donkey, somebody was bringing a cart, somebody was carrying two earthen pots, a few clothes.... There was nothing valuable. They had nothing. And on the way...
... - because in those days people were caught and sold as slaves, and he looked very promising. He was very healthy and had a certain personality. They were certain that they would get good money if they could keep hold of him. They were three; he was alone, but they were not certain that even three would be able to keep hold of him. He might kill all three. So they followed him, afraid whether to try or...
... say yes, he is going to jump on us." But Diogenes said, "Don't be afraid. I am going myself to the market. You can come with me, you can sell me. One thing I know: nobody can make me a slave. So you will get money, and you will be happy. And I know for certain that nobody can make me a slave, so why should I be worried about it? You just come along with me." They could not even say...
... myself, but I have promised three thieves, so the money will go to them. They are hiding there. They have followed me. Really I have forced them to come here - they were trying to escape in the middle of the journey, and just now they are trying to disappear in the crowd. They are the three. You will have to give the money to these people. And I will come with you. As far as ownership is concerned, I...
... saying. They were thinking his judgment would show his wisdom; it shows that he is mad! What wrong has the rich man done? The rich man said, "I cannot believe my ears. My money is being stolen and I am being punished? The same punishment as you are giving to the thief?" Lao Tzu said, "You are the first criminal - the thief comes number two. It is just my compassion that I am giving you...
... only six months; you should be given a longer time in jail than the thief. You have gathered all the money of the capital, you have made thousands of people hungry, starving, dying - and they are the people who produce. You are the greatest exploiter. The money belongs to them; he was not stealing, he was simply taking the money to where it belongs. You have been the thief, the greatest thief in the...
... capital. So feel grateful that I am not sending you for six years." His reasoning was so absolutely correct: If people go on gathering money on one side, then who is creating the thieves? And if somebody out of hunger, starvation, disease, old age, finds no other way to survive, and if he becomes a thief, who is responsible for it? The whole court was silent. The rich man said, "Perhaps you...
... Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: BELOVED OSHO, HOW IS IT THAT ALL THE PAST BUDDHAS EXPRESSED THEMSELVES AGAINST MONEY AND SEX, WHICH ARE THE SOURCES OF WORLDLY PLEASURES? YOU ARE PERHAPS THE FIRST BUDDHA TO STAND BY ALL OF THEM TOGETHER - PLEASURE, HAPPINESS, AND BLISS - WHICH IS CAUSING SO MUCH MISUNDERSTANDING AND OPPOSITION IN YOUR...
... CASE. DID THE PAST BUDDHAS TRY TO COMPROMISE WITH TRADITION AND TO PLAY FOR SAFETY? Anand Maitreya, there are many things to be understood. One: all the past buddhas came from royal families. They enjoyed money, they enjoyed sex, they lived in the most luxurious way possible; and still they found a deep emptiness inside themselves. They made from their own experience a fundamental principle for all...
... human beings. All human beings are not born in royal families. They don't have the chance to experience money, sex, and other pleasures of the outside world. Because they were frustrated - the money was not fulfilling, the sex was superficial, all the pleasures were repetitive and became routine - they were utterly bored. They renounced the world. Because of their renunciation of the world - going...
.... If you cannot prevent death, don't try to persuade me. I am going in search of that which never dies." So it is a double fallacy. Buddha renounced and he found the truth; and he also must have thought that it was because of renunciation that he had found the truth. That was not the case. It was because of his luxurious life that the search began - because luxury had failed, money had deceived...
... politicians are drunk with power, with money, with prestige; they can't see clearly. Navin Mehta is from Kutch. His other friends are here: Mavji Savla is here, Nirmal Vaswani is here, and many people from Kutch have started coming to see the ashram. And they are all feeling sorry because we were going to move two years ago to Kutch but because of Morarji Desai it became impossible. He created such a...
... to the Foundation asking for money, saying, "If you give us money we will start writing for you." I have said, "We cannot give a single cent to anybody. Go and write against us! That's my way of spreading my word to people." They are being paid by the priests, by the industrialists, by the rich people, by the munis - they have been paid! Now this is a well-established fact: they...
... bounds. It is greedy for money, and then it is ready to do anything. It is greedy for power, and then it is ready to do anything. If somehow you manage to shift your greed from power and money then it becomes greed for spirituality. Again it is ready to do anything. A rough-looking building worker entered a bank in an expensive part of town and was received at the counter with some distaste by a rather...
... situation. One of the richest men in India was Jugal Kisore Birla. He heard me on the radio and he was very much impressed, so he inquired about me and said he wanted to meet me. When I was in Delhi, he invited me and I went to his palace. He was old. He said, "I can give you a blank checkbook. And as much money as you want, you can always take it out of the bank, you need not ask me. You just have...
... can be destroyed, but the people with money who are in power are managing in every way that poverty should not be destroyed - because once poverty is gone, their richness is gone too. It is a comparative thing. Every year, America goes on dumping billions of dollars worth of food in the ocean. For the last year, Europe has been dumping so much food every six months that each time it costs two...
... said, "It is such a hilarious thing: he was hoping to gain ten lakh rupees in a certain business and he gained only five lakhs. I am saying to him, 'You have gained five lakhs' and he says, 'You be silent, I have lost five lakhs - ten lakhs were certain." These kinds of people are there, who are losing money which is only in their minds. They have gained five lakhs; that is nothing, that is...
... hurt anybody, no fight had broken out. There was no government, yet there was no insecurity. There were no small family units; it was one big family - my idea of the future family, the commune. And people had the best of food. There was no currency, because you could not purchase anything in the commune. All your needs were fulfilled by the commune; money had disappeared. I myself have not seen what...
... have I been fined? I am thinking to sue the attorney general of America, because if he is right, then that money should be returned. But they had to fine me, just to show the world that they had not kept me in jail for twelve days without any reason. They were not ready to go to trial, so before the start of the trial the attorney general called my attorneys: "Why don't we negotiate rather than...
... meditation and end in prayer. This is the right sequence. Nobody can start by prayer because if you start by prayer your prayer will be false, it cannot be true. You will be asking for some ordinary things - money, power, prestige - because that is where you are. Your prayer will be part of your mind, and mind is full of desires, hence your prayers will be full of desires and demands. Go and listen to...
... people who are in prayer in the churches, in the temples. What they are asking? Even a man like the great Emperor Akbar used to pray for more money, more power. Once a great Sufi mystic, Farid, went to see him. He had never gone to Akbar; Akbar used to come to see him. Farid lived very close to Delhi, and Akbar had tremendous respect for Farid. He had asked him to come to the palace, but Farid will...
.... Akbar was not aware that Farid is standing behind - nobody, not even his wife, was allowed to enter in. So he was just praying to God, talking to God, unaware of the fact that somebody is listening. As he ended his prayer he raised his hands towards the sky and said to God, "Give me more money, more power, more kingdom." Farid was shocked: "This man has so much, and still he But as he...
... means you will become a little less richer than you are; a little bit of money will have to be put for the school. No, I cannot ask you. Moreover, if you are asking God, I can ask God myself. Why I should ask through you, through your agency? But," Farid said, "I had never thought of asking anything from God, that's why I am such a fool that I came to you. But you have opened my eyes. I have...
... people or sick people. Their whole effort is how to purchase people through bread, through butter, through medicine, through better hospitals - just how to purchase people through money, how to make more Catholics in the world. Somebody makes people through the sword, somebody makes through money, and somebody simply goes on torturing their children, crippling, paralyzing their intelligence. SO...
... dishing out old recipes which have never worked. I have heard: An illiterate millionaire decided to leave his money to a small local college. The son was not ready to be cut out of the will. He knew that his father was ignorant and a prude, so he said to the old man one day, "Father, I hope you are aware that at that college, the one you've decided to give all your money to, the boys and girls...
... this much money, of course, how can one be happy? But money can be earned." Just being nobody you are feeling that life has no meaning - become somebody and life will start giving meaning and colour. These hopes go on and on pulling you, somehow keeping you together. Hope is the glue that keeps you together: otherwise, you will fall into pieces. And what I am saying is not speculation. Just look...
... grass leaf and in every star. Just see: life IS momentary, and death comes, and death inevitably comes. Seeing it, how can you become possessive? Seeing it, how can you become jealous? Seeing it, how can you become money-minded? Seeing it, how can you become a miser? Seeing it, how can you go on killing each other? Seeing it will be a transformation. Life is so momentary. A silence will descend...
... hold of it, you cannot renounce it either. A dream is a dream. If you know it, it disappears; if you don't know it, it remains. Those people who say they have renounced their children, their wives, their family, their world, their money, their bank balances, are simply saying that those dreams are still real for them. They are escaping from those dreams, but those dreams are following them; those...
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