... taught that it is not necessary that he must eat whenever he is hungry; it is necessary to control hunger This is an inevitable arrangement of life. The child needs to be taught self-control. He has to learn that it is not incumbent on him to satisfy his bodily needs as and when they arise. It is not essential that he must sleep when he is sleepy or quench his thirst as soon as it arises. As soon as a...

... child learns self-restraint, he begins to feel himself to be apart from his body. The body feels hungry and he restrains is hunger; the body feels sleepy and he forbids it to sleep. Then he believes himself to be apart and different from that which he controls. As the child develops the power to control, the unison of the body and soul develops a crack. As the control increases, the split becomes...

.... Many times, untruth turns out to be more useful. This untruth is very useful. So it has to be cultivated. But if our minds are forever in control and we find it difficult to extricate ourselves from these useful untruths, they will prove suicidal. It is necessary to develop restraint and forbearance. Necessities of the body arise and the power to control them needs to be developed. By and by the one...

... person is never freed from it. We find ourselves going further and further away from what we desire. The more we suppress ourselves, the greater the distance is between us and the desired goal. Lao Tzu says: "Entwine yourself in an embrace. Accept your animal senses in their totality." You become the master of your senses the moment you accept them. The duality is destroyed and the essence is...

... going to do about it? Sensational interview with rabbi Abe Finkelstein about Jewish control of the world Contents 1. John Becomes a Nazarite 2. The Death of Zacharias 3. The Life of a Shepherd 4. The Death of Elizabeth 5. The Kingdom of God 6. John Begins to Preach 7. John Journeys North 8. Meeting of Jesus and John 9. Forty Days of Preaching 10. John Journeys South 11. John in Prison 12. Death of...

... teaching was based upon the current Jewish idea and concept of the Messiah as the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation from the domination of their gentile rulers. (1499.4) 135:4.4 Throughout this period John read much in the sacred writings which he found at the Engedi home of the Nazarites. He was especially impressed by Isaiah and by Malachi, the last of the prophets up to that time. He read and...

... over; the discipline of God’s chosen people was about finished; God’s patience with the gentile foreigners was about exhausted. The end of Roman rule was synonymous with the end of the age and, in a certain sense, with the end of the world. These new teachers leaned heavily on the predictions of Daniel, and they consistently taught that creation was about to pass into its final stage; the kingdoms of...

... this world were about to become the kingdom of God. To the Jewish mind of that day this was the meaning of that phrase — the kingdom of heaven — which runs throughout the teachings of both John and Jesus. To the Jews of Palestine the phrase “kingdom of heaven” had but one meaning: an absolutely righteous state in which God (the Messiah) would rule the nations of earth in perfection of power just as...

... he ruled in heaven — “Your will be done on earth as in heaven.” (1500.3) 135:5.3 In the days of John all Jews were expectantly asking, “How soon will the kingdom come?” There was a general feeling that the end of the rule of the gentile nations was drawing near. There was present throughout all Jewry a lively hope and a keen expectation that the consummation of the desire of the ages would occur...

... seats of honor and authority with the Son of Man, who would rule over the redeemed nations in God’s name. And this latter group even believed that many devout gentiles might be admitted to the fellowship of the new kingdom. (1501.1) 135:5.6 Some of the Jews held to the opinion that God might possibly establish this new kingdom by direct and divine intervention, but the vast majority believed that he...

... preacher: He baptized every one of his believers in the Jordan “for the remission of sins.” Although baptism was not a new ceremony among the Jews, they had never seen it employed as John now made use of it. It had long been the practice thus to baptize the gentile proselytes into the fellowship of the outer court of the temple, but never had the Jews themselves been asked to submit to the baptism of...

... hand, all that energy becomes his creative expression. And one thing should be remembered as a fundamental rule: if a person finds a way to express himself, in tune with his destiny, he will be always joyous. He will be bubbling with happiness. He has found the right path, but again I would like you to remember, it cannot be done with the masses. These methods should be kept confined to the world of...

... in his own house, with friends, with warmth - no, that is illegal. There is a danger that if the child is from the very beginning in the hands of the bureaucrats, they can implant an electrode in the head of any child, or all children, and that electrode in the head can be controlled from far away - remote control. It can be helpful, but not in these ugly politicians' hands. They are going to make...

... dangerous use of that. No revolution would be possible, because your mind would no more be in your own control. It has never been, but at least you had the idea that your mind is free - it never was. It was Christian, it was Hindu, it was Mohammedan - it was never free. But there was a possibility, because the old method of conditioning the mind was a very long process; but putting an electrode in the...

... mind is a simple process, and the control is in the hands of the government, or it can be in the hands of a computer. It can enslave people, it can force people to go to fight - it can do anything, and you will feel that you are doing it. The same is the thing with hypnosis. Even without electrodes children are in the hands of the government. In the schools they could enforce one hour of hypnotic...

.... She is afraid because of her own murders, her own crimes. She cannot give a single evidence that I have ever killed anybody. And I was in silence for three and a half years, and in isolation. She was in total control of the commune. And if there was drug use, then she is responsible, because this was my instruction, that no drugs should be entered even in the campus of Rancho Rajneesh. I have seen...

... a chance. And they are doing perfectly well. Q: BHAGWAN, YOU'VE SAID IN THE PAST THAT IN YOUR OPINION, SUCH PEOPLE AS MOTHER TERESA -- AND THIS IS QUOTING DIRECTLY FROM YOU -- "SHOULD BE HANGED FOR HER VIEWS ON BIRTH CONTROL." DO YOU STILL FEEL THAT WAY? A: Still I am right; they should be hanged as many times as possible. Q: WHAT IS YOUR POLICY AS FAR AS BIRTH CONTROL GOES HERE ON THE...

... COMMUNE? A: In this commune, in four years, not a single child has arrived. The earth is already too much overpopulated. In Ethiopia people are dying, in India people are dying, everywhere there is starvation. Even in America 30 million people are undernourished. Now, anybody who teaches against birth control is a criminal. Q: YOU'VE ALSO SAID, QUOTING AGAIN: "THE PEOPLE OF OREGON ARE GETTING VERY...

...-THREE YEARS OF LIFE YOU ARE THE FIRST LOVE RELATIONSHIP WHICH HAS MADE ME INDEPENDENT. HOW HAS THIS HAPPENED? Paritosh Lore, love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love. Love is not domination. How can you dominate someone you love? How can you make him dependent, and still be loving? But that's what goes on happening in the world in the name of love -- something else -- a...

... lust to power, to dominate the other. Naturally independence cannot be allowed. Every effort is made that the other should be a carbon copy of you. You are afraid of the freedom of the other, because freedom is not controllable, and freedom is not predictable. So all so-called love tries in every way to destroy freedom -- and the moment freedom is destroyed, love dies. Love is very fragile, just like...

... cut its wings, you have taken away its sky. And the birds don't bother about your gold. However precious may be your cage, it is imprisonment. And that's what we are doing with our love: we create golden cages. We are afraid because the sky is vast. The fear is that the bird may not return. To keep it under your control it has to be imprisoned. That's how love becomes marriage. Love is a bird on the...

... it either. So rather than crying to control it, allow it - one thing. It will be a good catharsis before a silence descends on you. And the second thing: what is happening to you has to be told too. And it has to be told from the housetops! You have to become my messenger too. And it has always been so: who wants to listen to truth? People like gossips, not gospels. People are afraid of anything...

... that you have to do something - to control or to shut yourself. No need to control. Find more and more expression, more ways to express yourself. And don't create a contradiction in your energy. If it wants to say something to somebody - allow it, totally go with it. Be in it and don't withhold yourself. Once a person is not withholding himself and goes totally into his words, those words become fire...

.... Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. INQUIRE OF THE INMOST, THE ONE, OF ITS FINAL SECRET WHICH IT HOLDS FOR YOU THROUGH THE AGES. THE GREAT AND DIFFICULT VICTORY, THE CONQUERING OF THE DESIRES OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL, IS A WORK OF AGES; THEREFORE EXPECT NOT TO OBTAIN ITS REWARD UNTIL AGES OF EXPERIENCE HAVE BEEN ACCUMULATED. WHEN THE TIME OF LEARNING THIS RULE IS REACHED, MAN IS ON...

... AND DIFFICULT VICTORY, THE CONQUERING OF THE DESIRES OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL, IS A WORK OF AGES; THEREFORE EXPECT NOT TO OBTAIN ITS REWARD UNTIL AGES OF EXPERIENCE HAVE BEEN ACCUMULATED. WHEN AT THE TIME OF LEARNING THIS RULE IS REACHED, MAN IS ON THE THRESHOLD OF BECOMING MORE THAN MAN. When you enter within, toward the one, you are reaching a new state of existence and being. You are becoming more...

... claim, you are betraying it. MISUSE YOUR KNOWLEDGE.... You can misuse it. You can use it to exploit others, you can use it to dominate others, you can use it for ends which are not spiritual, but then you will fall back. Knowledge is dangerous because knowledge is power, and if you use it for ends which are not right, you will lose the grip; you will fall back. That which has been given to you can be...

... of Zen Chapter #: 6 Location: pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, "IN ANCIENT TIMES, THERE WERE SIXTEEN BODHISATTVAS. AT THE MONKS' BATHTIME, FOLLOWING THE RULE, THEY HAD BATHS. THEY SUDDENLY EXPERIENCED REALIZATION THROUGH THE TOUCH OF THE WATER. YOU REVEREND ZEN STUDENTS, DO YOU...

... by being silent or just by being so loving that your hands melt into love; or by being so total in any act that your 'I' disappears and only isness remains. Isness is another name of buddhahood. It is always within you, the question is which door you are going to enter into. This anecdote says: "IN ANCIENT TIMES, THERE WERE SIXTEEN BODHISATTVAS. AT THE MONKS' BATHTIME, FOLLOWING THE RULE, THEY...

... THEIR REALIZATION. FOURTH, BADDABARA AND THE FIFTEEN OTHER BODHISATTVAS IN THIS ANECDOTE RISE AND MAKE OBEISANCE TO THE BUDDHA, AND BADDABARA SAYS, "WE FORMERLY HEARD THE PREACHING OF ION-O, THE FIRST BUDDHA, AND BECAME MONKS. AT THE MONKS' BATHTIME, FOLLOWING THE RULE, WE ENTERED THE BATHROOM. WE SUDDENLY EXPERIENCED REALIZATION THROUGH THE TOUCH OF THE WATER. WE DID NOT WASH OFF DIRT, DID NOT...

.... On the basis of all these small things their ego gets great status. Who will give up ego and worship that are received so cheaply? What is man not willing to do for ego? This is a very cheap renunciation, what's in it? If someone in the family in the family is doing something degrading then the others find it easy to dominate him. I said to that woman, "I cannot say that no problem will come...

...: according to the rule. The man slapped the other cheek too - and hit him even harder. He thought this is a great opportunity, if the idiot offers the other cheek then why leave it? He hit him harder. But as soon as he had hit hard he was very surprised. More surprised than when the other cheek was offered because then the monk immediately pounced on him, sat on his chest and began beating. The man said...

..., "Brother, you are a monk, a Christian monk, what are you doing?" The monk said, "There is no third cheek, now I"ll give you a taste of fun. Jesus' rule is fulfilled now. Now it is me against you." The monk was very zestful. He have him a good thrashing. He said, "Jesus said the other cheek, the other cheek is finished, now I am on my own." If you are offering the...

..., not seven times. Seventy-seven times. But what will happen, what will happen even with seventy-seven times? If this is the inclination then on the seventy eighth time? No, nothing will happen even from seven hundred and seven times. Although the whole world has so many good rules, there is no result: because each rule has its limit. Every rule has its restriction. This is why a rule is called a...

... restriction. Restriction means it has a limit. No rule can be unlimited, only being can be unlimited. Hence this is not a rule. You have to understand it with your whole being. LIVE IN THE HEART, DON'T TALK OF THE SECRET, SPEAK NECTAR-SOAKED WORDS. WHEN OTHERS BECOME FIRE, O AVADHU, YOU BECOME WATER, This should become your inner mood, not following any rule. This feeling has to be awakened from your love...

... getting very angry. Moralists get angry very easily. He got so angry at this mischief that when the character played his last trick Ishvarchandra could not tolerate it. The last antic was to catch hold of a woman passing through the jungle, he started pulling, taking off her sari. Now it was beyond Ishvarchandra's control... As in the story of Draupadi's sari starting to be pulled off, Krishna...

.... Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. THE BUDDHA SAID: "THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO, BEING IN DESPAIR OVER HIS INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS PASSIONS, WISHED TO MUTILATE HIMSELF. THE BUDDHA SAID TO HIM, 'BETTER DESTROY YOUR OWN EVIL THOUGHTS THAN DO HARM TO YOUR OWN PERSON. THE MIND IS LORD. WHEN THE LORD HIMSELF IS CALMED, THE SERVANTS WILL OF THEMSELVES BE YIELDING...

... life a little more convenient - through scientific technology, through social change, through better economy, and through other things - but man will remain miserable all the same. How can Freud believe that a Buddha has ever existed? Such serenity seems to be just a dream. Humanity has been dreaming about Buddha. This idea arises because Buddha is so rare, so exceptional. He is not the rule. Why has...

... was looking somewhere else. It was there, inside, outside. It is how the universe is made. It is blissful, it is truth, it is divine. Man remains miserable because man goes on missing this fundamental truth about his desiring. This has to be understood, then these sutras will be very simple. THE BUDDHA SAID: "THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO, BEING IN DESPAIR OVER HIS INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS PASSIONS...

... anti-body. That is absolutely wrong. He was never anti-body. He was not FOR the body, that's true; but he was never anti-body. This sutra will make it clear. He says: "THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO, BEING IN DESPAIR OVER HIS INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS PASSIONS, WISHED TO MUTILATE HIMSELF." And there have been many persons like that, not only one person. Millions of people have destroyed their...

... you become aware. You are not yet so aware that you can see it when it is in the mind. When it enters into the body, it becomes very solid - then you become aware. Your awareness is not sharp. You cannot catch it in the cause. When it has already moved into the effect, then you catch it. You catch it when it is already beyond control. You catch it only, you become alert about it only, when it has...

... tree will be difficult. And when the tree has sent its millions of seeds into the air, then it is almost beyond your control. The winds have taken the seeds to faraway fields; now it is impossible to find out where they have fallen. Now the tree is not one; it has created many possibilities of its own being. It will be imitated in many fields. BUDDHA SAYS THAT DESTROYING THE BODY IS NOT GOING TO HELP...

...;THERE WAS ONCE A MAN WHO, BEING IN DESPAIR OVER HIS INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS PASSIONS WISHED TO MUTILATE HIMSELF." Buddha is not against the body; he is not anti-body. He cannot be! - because the body is so innocent. It has never done anything wrong. It is so pure; you cannot find a purer thing in existence. Yes, one thing is certain, that whatsoever you want to do, the body follows you. It is a...

... birth control? This looks absurd, and creates fanaticism. Then the Christians think they are superior because they are the followers of the only son that God has. Others are prophets, at the most, if they recognize them at all. But theirs is the only son of God. That creates ego, superiority. Hindus say they have only twenty-four AVATARAS. A few centuries ago they had the idea of ten avataras. Then...