... experience a totally different history from anybody else. They have lived for centuries without a country, they have wandered all over the world, they have lived without security, without a home; naturally that has made them very money-minded. When you don't have a home, when you don't have a country, then all your security becomes focused on money; then it is only money that can save you. And when you...

... become focused on money, naturally you become more clever than others in earning it. Your whole being turns into a money-making machine. That's what a Jew is - a money-making machine. Nobody can defeat him in that because they have lived a totally different past. When you are living in your home surrounded by the same kind of people, the same race, protected by the country, by the society, you need not...

... worry too much about money. Even without money you are not going to die, people will support you, you can depend on that. But the Jews had no way to depend on anything else; hence money became their country, money became their religion, money became their home, money became their security. That was bound to happen. In a country like India where for thousands of years everybody has been told to seek...

... LYING UPON IT? There is no meaning, no purpose, in the sense purpose is understood in the marketplace. But the rosebud is immensely joyful - the dewdrop and the rising sun and the morning breeze. The moment is precious - it is a moment of dance. This dance is not going to bring money; this dance is not going to bring fame; this dance is not going to make the rosebud respectable. This dance is not for...

... students started dancing on those roads. The manager of the university canteen approached me and he said, "I will not take any money from you for your food, for your milk, for your tea - even for your guests. But stop what you have started! These twenty boys used to eat two, three chapatis at the most; now they are eating twenty chapatis. You will kill me; I am a poor contractor: now twenty boys are...

... because you cannot prove why you love. You cannot give any reasonable answer for your love. You can say you do a certain business because you need money; you need money because you need a house; you need a house because how can you live without a house? In your ordinary life, everything has some purpose, but love - you cannot give any reason. You can simply say, "I don't know. All I know is that to...

... about this: the Nobel Prize is being given to people who create peace, who serve the poor, who create great literature, or scientific inventions - and with each Prize goes almost one quarter million dollars. But do you know from where this money has come? The man in whose name the Nobel Prize is being given earned the whole money in the first world war by creating weapons. He was the greatest weapon...

... manufacturer in the world. By his weapons, millions of people were killed. And with all the money that he accumulated, he created a foundation, a charity, and now every year just from the interest on the money, all the Nobel Prizes are given. The original money remains in the bank, just the interest... and nobody bothers that this money is blood-soaked. And the name of Nobel has become one of the greatest...

... names in history. Charity is a strange game: First you cripple people and then you help them. First you destroy their environment, their ecology, and then from the same people, who have been destroying the ecology of the earth, comes the money for charity. The pope goes on teaching against birth control. And it is only the poor people who create more children; rich people don't create more children...

..., because they have other enjoyments in life. The poor man has nowhere else to go when he comes back home, because everywhere - if he goes to a disco, or a restaurant, or a movie - money is needed. Only sex is his entertainment which is free. He creates dozens of children; the pope goes on telling people that to prevent children is an act against God; and then poverty goes on growing; then charity is...

... things out of date. Old factories will close, old industries will close. There are many inventions which are never marketed in the world because the people whose business will be affected by them purchase their patents. And the scientist has not the money to make his own conception into a reality. Now there are... for example, in Japan a few scientists have discovered that railway trains need not go at...

... driver, and it can take thousands of passengers. But it is not being marketed. No country is interested in the invention, because so much money is involved in the old railway trains, old railway stations. If these new trains are accepted, that whole business will go bankrupt. It is just an example. There are at least a thousand inventions which can help humanity to be more comfortable, to be more...

... priests, everybody is against it. Have you gone mad, just for a breakfast and a lunch, staking your life? I will give you the money, just get out!" But those eight persons said, "We are not going to get out. We have seen enough of the world, now let us see what happens if the train does not stop - something is bound to happen. And if the driver is driving, he will also be concerned about...

...: you should be paid, paid more, because now you have vacated the place for a robot which produces a hundred times more. So if your salary is doubled there is no loss. And if the whole world is unemployed and has enough money to enjoy, do you think anybody is going to join the army? People will join carnivals, circuses... All kinds of celebrations will happen, but there is no need for war. And even if...

...? I don't have any money." The doctor will think, "It is better to cure him and get rid of him." But when a rich man is sick, then it becomes professionally a very strange dilemma in the mind of the physician: to cure him or to have him linger on - because the more he lingers on, the more money you get. If you cure him, you don't get that money. But if computers can manage, then many...

... Gogh's first works are just coal sketches - but they are tremendously beautiful. Now even those coal sketches have a value of millions of dollars. But his parents would not give him money for paints, for canvases, and finally they had to turn him out. One of his friends took pity on van Gogh and asked him to stay with him until he got some employment. And he fell in love with the sister of the friend...

... his hand for his whole life - and he was turned out of the house the next day. A man of great sensitivity - but no woman was ready to love him, because he looked crazy. Nobody was buying his paintings, and still he went on painting. His brother was employed - his younger brother - and was sending van Gogh the exact amount of money so that he could have his food every day. Each week he would send...

... money - enough for one week only. And Vincent van Gogh would only eat four days in the week, and three days he would fast and purchase canvases and paints. And nobody was buying his paintings. People were simply laughing and saying, "He is simply mad! We have never seen such paintings. What is he doing?" But it seems whatever he was doing is going to come true, slowly, slowly. If his vision...

... they also could see the stars but they didn't see spirals. This tremendous sensitivity... but he was misunderstood everywhere. And finally. when he was only thirty-three, they drove him mad. Hungry, starving, and everybody laughing and condemning... not a single painting was sold. His brother tried to send a man with money and said, "At least purchase one painting. He will have the consolation...

... that somebody has purchased one painting." The man went - he had no idea about painting. Van Gogh was so ecstatic that somebody had come finally to purchase a painting - so he was showing him all his paintings. And the man said, "Don't waste my time - any will do. This is the money." You can understand how much van Gogh would have been shocked. He simply said, "That means this...

... money has been given to you by my brother - because you are not even looking at the paintings. I cannot sell any painting to you. These paintings are not for people who cannot understand them. And just tell my brother never to do such a thing to me - it hurts more." And it was found actually that that was the case. Van Gogh died without selling a single painting. Now only two hundred paintings...

... have anything that makes us not worry, and we have everything that would make you commit suicide." Don't argue - simply make it clear to them, "We are homeless, we don't have any money, we don't belong to any society, we have abandoned all the nations, all the religions. Still, we are happy. We don't know what is going to happen tomorrow, but today is enough. When tomorrow comes it will...

.... By money, by power, by prestige, by social conformity, by belonging to a herd -- religious, political -- by being part of a family, a nation, what are you seeking? Just an unknown fear surrounds you, and you start creating as many barriers as possible between you and the fear. But those same barriers are going to prevent you from living. Once this is understood, you will know the meaning of sannyas...

... a dance becomes involved in creating more money, more power, more ambition, more security. The same energy that could have been a tremendously beautiful flower of love becomes just an imprisonment in a marriage. Marriage is secure -- by law, by social convention, by your own idea of respectability and what people will say. Everybody is afraid of everybody else ... so people go on pretending. Love...

... people can do ... the community is very rich and very intelligent; all are educated people. Just talking to him I came to know that in their society, when somebody dies, his friends and his family give money to the high priest. Sometimes lakhs of rupees are given to the priest as a representative of God; because the man is going on a pilgrimage, his life after death should be taken care of. The priest...

... writes a letter to God, a letter of recommendation: "This man has to be taken care of. A good place" -- according to the donations -- "should be arranged for him in heaven." That letter is put in the pocket of the dead man, the dead man is put in the grave, and the money -- of course -- goes in the pocket of the priest. I asked the friend, "Do you think that money in some...

... whole life's money to have a secure place in the other world, but they have not lived HERE." He could not deny it to me: "This is not good -- but I am just a representative of a long heritage. My father was a priest, my grandfather was a priest. It is our family profession." I said, "It may be your family profession, but it is more of a crime than a profession. You are an...

... intelligent man, you should expose this hypocrisy." But he said, "I have thought about it many times. As far as I'm concerned, I'm already too rich ... centuries of accumulation. I can expose it -- that the whole money goes into the pocket of the priest -- but I stop myself because this gives people great consolation and security. I don't want to disturb their consolation and their security."...

... THERE'S SOMETHING CONSIDERED IMPORTANT, IT BECOMES A NEST." The moment you think something is important -- money, knowledge, power -- it becomes a cozy nest, and you start living within that small nest. You become a prisoner. A man of ambition cannot be a free man. A man of desires cannot taste the beauty of freedom. His desires are his chains. And whatever has become important -- Yen T'ou is right...

... forgotten themselves. Words have become their whole life; they go on accumulating more and more beautiful quotes, statements, but what they are? -- just imprisoned in scriptures. THOSE WHO TAKE DELIGHT IN THE VERBAL MEANING OF THE SCRIPTURES TAKE THE SCRIPTURES AS THEIR NEST. It does not matter what it is -- it may be money, it may even be enlightenment -- if you make it a distant goal, something to be...

... been prohibited by Prophet Mohammed that interest is a sin, so never give money on interest, one thing. Never take money on interest. This is the reason they are poor, because they cannot take money on interest and they cannot give money on interest. And the whole economy functions on interest. You take money from the bank on interest, you take loan from the government on interest, but they cannot...

... cannot do anything, they cannot be well educated because the money is not there. They have to do very unskilled work which cannot pay much. Now who is responsible for this? And why Mohammedan priests go on telling them to marry four women? Because that increases the number of Mohammedans. That's how they have become the second biggest religion in the world. Christianity is first, Mohammedanism is...

... efficiently, in a far better way. And only very few people are involved in the work. Few people can take care of the whole commune's laundry. There is no need for them to worry about it. Few people can take care of the cleaning of the whole commune. Economically it saves much. Economically money becomes irrelevant. In the commune there is no transfer of money. There is no need. Clothes we purchase wholesale...

... because they know they are working for themselves. If they are making houses, they are making for themselves. In the outside world everybody is working for somebody else. That makes work a burden, a necessity, a slavery. You have to work because you need money. Here you work because you want your commune to live more comfortably, have all modern equipments available. The world has passed the family. It...

... going to attend any class or anything. My father is going to send me the money and I am going to enjoy, and I am going to ask him for more and more. He has enough, and I am the only son so I am not wasting anybody else's money. It is my own, I am going to inherit it anyway." I gave him my fountain pen and he filled in the form. He even had to look at my form for the spelling of the words that he...

... was filling in. But this way we became friends. I liked the boy, he was sincere, and not a hypocrite in any way. We became friends. He needed me and I needed him, because I needed so much money for books and he had so much money that I said, "This is good." And he was not interested in books at all. But I was his first friend in the college. And he had everything: a car, a driver, a...

... founded the university was acquainted with all the best professors around the world. Sagar was his birthplace; Doctor Harisingh Gaud was his name. He was a world-famous authority on law, and earned so much money - and never gave a single pai to any beggar, to any institution, to any charity. He was known as the most miserly person in the whole of India. And then he founded the university and gave his...

... work is really a piece of art. Single-handedly, with his own money, he put himself at stake. So I loved the place. I said, "You need not be worried, I will be coming - but you have seen me only in the debate competitions. You don't know much about me; I may prove a trouble for you, a nuisance. I would like you to know everything about me before you decide." Professor S.S. Roy said, "I...

... don't want to know anything about you. The little bit that I have come to know, just by seeing you, your eyes, your way of saying things, your way of approaching reality, is enough. And don't make me frightened about trouble and nuisance - you can do whatsoever you want." I said, "Remember that financially I am always broke, so I will be continuously borrowing money from you and never...

... returning it. Things have to be made clear beforehand; otherwise later on you can say, 'This you never said.' You will have to lend me money whenever I want. I am not going to return it, although it will be said I am borrowing - but on your part you have to understand that that money is gone, because from where can I return it? I don't have any source. "Second, you have to make arrangements in the...

... doing perfectly well. When I last saw him in 1965, I had just gone to inaugurate a social gathering. I had no idea that he was a professor in that college, and when he greeted me there, I said, "What are you doing here?" He said, "What am I doing here? - the same." I said, "What, the same? Now nobody can help you." He said, "Money can do everything. I never bother to...

... teach, I pay people to teach for me. I never examine people's papers, I pay teachers to examine their papers. Money can do everything." Perhaps by now he may be a principal, one day may rise to become a vice-chancellor. If money can do everything, there is no problem. And I have seen people .... I told this boy when we were departing after six years of being together, "Umakant, have you ever...

... hundred dramas. And he was not capable of writing a single drama! He was not capable of even writing a single speech - his speeches were written by that poor Shrivastava. Govindadas has published one hundred dramas. By and by I came to know those people who had written them - for money - poor people, poor teachers, professors. So I told Govindadas, "I know what your D.Litt is: one hundred dramas...

... he is a spiritualist, but I will call him a materialist, and a very primitive materialist. His concern is food and sex. Whether you are for it or against it doesn't matter - your concern shows where your ego is hanging. And I will include the capitalist in it also: his whole concern is how to gather money, hoard money - because money has power over matter. You can purchase any material thing...

... through money. You cannot purchase anything spiritual, you cannot purchase anything that has any intrinsic value; you can purchase only things. If you want to purchase love, you cannot purchase; but you can purchase sex. Sex is the material part of love. Through money, matter can be purchased, possessed. Now you will be surprised: I include the communist and the capitalist both in the same category, and...

... they are enemies, just as I include Charvaka and Mahatma Gandhi in the same category, and they are enemies. They are enemies, but their concern is the same. The capitalist is trying to hoard money, the communist is against it. He wants that nobody should be allowed to hoard money except the state. But his concern is also money, he is also continuously thinking about money. It is not an accident that...

... Marx had given the name 'Das Kapital' to his great book on communism, 'the capital'. That is the communist Bible, but the name is 'the capital'. That is their concern: how not to allow anybody to hoard money so the state can hoard, and how to possess the state - so, in fact, basically, ultimately, you hoard the money. Once I heard that Mulla Nasruddin had become a communist. I know him... I was a...

... ages, but we don't yet have that insight to see into things. The fourth door was self-extension. The word 'mine' is the key word there. One has to extend oneself by accumulating money, by accumulating power, by becoming bigger and bigger and bigger: the patriot who says, "This is my country, and this is the greatest country in the world." You can ask the Indian patriot: he goes on shouting...

.... And I never miss a chance - if I can hit you, I hit! The fourth question: Question 4: BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEARD YOU SAY REPEATEDLY THAT WE SHOULD REMAIN IN THE WORLD, IN THE MARKETPLACE. YET MOST OF THE PEOPLE I MEET HERE ARE PLANNING TO LIVE WITH YOU IN GUJARAT, ONLY RETURNING TO THE WEST TO GATHER ENOUGH MONEY TO DO SO. A LARGE COMMUNITY IS BEING PLANNED. PLEASE COMMENT. YOU EMPHASIZE THE...

... to him, "I wait for you but you do not come. I expect you daily." The boy said, "What do you have? Why should I come to you? Have you any money? I am looking for money." The ego is always motivated. Only if there is some purpose to be served will the ego come. But love is motiveless. Love is its own reward. The startled tree said, "You will come only if I give something...

...?" That which withholds is not love. The ego amasses, but love gives unconditionally. "We don't have that sickness, and we are joyful," the tree said. "Flowers bloom on us. Many fruits grow on us. We give soothing shade. We dance in the breeze, and sing songs. Innocent birds hop on our branches and chirp even though we don't have any money. The day we get involved with money, we...

... will have to go to the temples like you weak men do, to learn how to obtain peace, to learn how to find love. No, we do not have any need for money." The boy said, "Then why should I come to you? I will go where there is money. I need money." The ego asks for money because it needs power. The tree thought for a while and said, "Don't go anywhere else, my dear. Pick my fruit and...

... sell it. You will get money that way." The boy brightened immediately. He climbed up and picked all the tree's fruit; even the unripe ones were shaken down. The tree felt happy, even though some twigs and branches were broken, even though some of its leaves had fallen to the ground. Getting broken also makes love happy, but even after getting, the ego is not happy. The ego always desires more...

.... The tree didn't notice that the boy hadn't even once looked back to thank him. It had had its thanks when the boy accepted the offer to pick and sell its fruit. The boy did not come back for a long time. Now he had money and he was busy making more money from that money. He had forgotten all about the tree. Years passed. The tree was sad. It yearned for the boy's return - like a mother whose breasts...

... more money. I need a boat, to travel." Cheerfully, the tree said, "But that's no problem, my love. Cut my trunk, and make a boat from it. I would be so very happy if I could help you go to faraway lands to earn money. But, please remember, I will always be awaiting your return." The man brought a saw, cut down the trunk, made a boat and sailed away. Now the tree is a small stump. And...

... Oligarch, Mikhail Khordorkovsy is detained in prison 2004 Spy front for Israel, Ashkenazi Jew, Larry Franklin, observed by the FBI giving classified information to two officials of AIPAC, suspected of being Israeli spies The people of the United States are the victims of a deadly hoax, that started a war using the blood and money of American citizens John Ashcroft orders the FBI to stop all arrests in...

... brought down in the manner they were by explosives So-called cartoons about the Muslim Prophet Mohammed published by a Jew to inflame the tensions between the western world and the Muslim community The head of the Kabbalah Centre in Israel, Shaul Youdkevitch, is arrested for extracting money from a cancer patient Robert Stein Jr., an American felon, who was employed as a comptroller for the Coalition...

... Provisional Authority in Iraq is charged with fraud Jewish President George W. Bush has borrowed more money from banks and foreign governments than all the previous 42 United States Presidents combined Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus at the University of Ulster: not a single mention of Nazi, 'gas chambers,' a, 'genocide of the Jews', or of, 'six million' Jewish victims David Cameron, an old favourite of...

... with a similar group in Israel, based in Ariel Sharon's office. The people of the United States are the victims of a deadly hoax, that started a war using the blood and money of American citizens With two suspected Israeli spies (at least) inside the office from which the lies that launched the war in Iraq originated, it soon becomes crystal clear that the people of the United States are the victims...

... of a deadly hoax, a hoax that started a war using the blood and money of American citizens for the purposes of Israeli oppression. The leaking of the investigation of AIPAC by the Jewish media on August 28th, this year, gives advance warning to all the other spies who had been working with Franklin. John Ashcroft orders the FBI to stop all arrests in the case of Israeli spying As if it couldn't get...

...? Flemming Rose, a Jew. The head of the Kabbalah Centre in Israel, Shaul Youdkevitch, is arrested for extracting money from a cancer patient On October 30th, the head of the Kabbalah Centre in Israel, Shaul Youdkevitch, is arrested for extracting money from a cancer patient. Over a period of a few months, the victim donated $36,000 to the Kabbalah Centre after she was told by Youdkevitch that the donation...

... would improve her condition. When her condition did not improve, other Rabbis at the Kabbalah Centre in Tel Aviv, suggested she make a, "significant and painful donation." As a result she donated a further $25,000 and also purchased some holy water from the Kabbalah Centre, at an exorbitant price. She eventually ran out of money, so the Rabbis then suggested her husband give up work and instead work...

... felony fraud in the 1990's." Jewish President George W. Bush has borrowed more money from banks and foreign governments than all the previous 42 United States Presidents combined In November, a group of conservative to moderate Democrats called, "Blue Dog Coalition," that focus on the fiscal responsibility of government, report that Jewish President George W. Bush has borrowed more money from banks and...