.... For what? - for love itself. If you say you love for the money the person has, you don't love. If you say you love for the prestige that comes from loving this person, then you don't love. Then you are doing something else. Some other activity is going on, but not love - business, politics, maybe something else, but not love at all. Love is an end in itself. You simply love for love's sake. For what...

... created the world and loved it. Just like a painter paints, and then goes far away from the painting and looks at it from this angle and that, and feels happy, tremendously happy. Not that the painting is going to give him much money - it may not give any at all.... One of the greatest painters, Vincent Van Gogh, lived as a beggar, because he could not sell a single painting. Not only could he not sell...

... sold in his whole life. His own brother, Theo Van Gogh, was very worried. He was a businessman, and he could not think how a man could go on painting when nothing was selling. So he persuaded a friend and gave him money, and told him to go to Van Gogh and at least purchase one painting. He would feel good. The man went. Of course, he was not interested in paintings at all; he was just obliging the...

... brother. The brother had given him the money and he was just to purchase any painting whatsoever. Van Gogh immediately suspected something, because the man was not looking at the paintings. He said, 'Okay, this will do. Take this money." Van Gogh threw the money out of the house and threw the man out also, and he said, 'Never come here again! I suspect this money is not yours and you are not in any...

... was giving him enough money to eat, but he had to purchase colours and canvas and brushes. So for four days he would save the money for colours and paintings, and for three days he would eat. But he was a tremendously happy person. There was nobody to appreciate his work, so he would look at his own paintings. He must have said, just like god said, 'Good. Good, I have done it again." Never ask...

... 'meaning' is not right because it does not fulfil any human concept. But still I would like to call it meaning because there is no other word to substitute. It has tremendous meaning, but the meaning is intrinsic; the meaning is not external. Human meanings are external, never internal. You do something, you earn money, and somebody asks, "What is the meaning of earning money?" And you say...

..., "I would like to have my own house - that's why. That's why I am earning money." The idea of having one's own house gives meaning to the effort that you have to make for earning money. Money in itself seems to be meaningless. The meaning comes from somewhere else. All human activity is like that. The human activity is divided between means and ends. The end has the meaning, and you go on...

... gain something out of it, then it is a worldly activity, then it has nothing to do with religion. Listen to it deeply. If I am talking here to gain something from my talking as an end - money, power, prestige, respectability... anything - then my activity is worldly. If I am talking just out of my love, if I am enjoying talking itself - not that something outside it is waiting for me that will make...

... of it and the zero goes on becoming bigger and bigger, and feels very substantial. That's what we are doing in life. A man is born like a zero. Then put a bank- balance in front of him - he becomes substantial. Then tell him that "You have become the president of our country" - he becomes very substantial. The zero carries much meaning now: he has money, power, prestige, name, fame - then...

... the zero becomes more and more substantial. That's why we hanker after name, fame, money, prestige: to put something so we don't feel empty. But whatsoever you do is in vain, because empty you are. Emptiness is your nature. You can deceive, but you cannot change the reality. So this is my suggestion, that even in your ordinary reality, when you descend from your meditative state, bring that zero...

... Lambs Club. Harry told her: "There are three reasons why I can't go with you. First, I have no money - " The lady interrupted, "Then the other two reasons don't matter. I have also three reasons why I don't go out. The first is: I am not - and the other two do not matter. The sixth question: Question 5: OSHO, FOR THE SAKE OF POSTERITY, YOUR HISTORIANS AND CHRONICLERS, AND FOR MY SAKE...

... have the strangest fame. Before you leave the world, please let me understand the secret of your greatness. Your stealing is not just for money; your stealing is simply to keep your mastery sharpened so you don't forget the art." It is almost like a musician. Once Yehudi Menuhin was asked, "If you don't practice one day, what happens?" He said, "Only I understand that the thing is...

... tonight, finished -- I don't want to learn this art. It is beyond my capacity. The man was doing things, so at home, and he took the boy into the innermost part of the house, opened a big cupboard and there were very costly things inside, valuable diamonds, very costly, and rare clothes. Everything was dazzling. The boy could not believe his eyes, that people have so much money. The old man said, "...

... the stalls except our stall, but the opinion of the people was totally different. An old man used to come every day in the morning; because he had no money, he would sit there and read as much as he could manage until closing time. And he said to Lani -- obviously asking her not to mention his name -- that Russia needs Rajneesh, not vodka! Because people don't have private money they started...

... Italian government has issued a warrant against the manager of the bank, because the bank is doing only one thing: it is turning all Italian mafia money into white money. That is its only source of income. Otherwise from where...? The pope goes on getting the money and wasting it. Now he is going for a tour to America; estimated expenses will be twenty million dollars. When he went to Australia his...

... expenses were more than Queen Elizabeth, who had visited just before him. All this money is heroin money. Now rather than allowing the Italian government to arrest the man... they cannot enter into another country; they have to wait for whenever the manager comes out. The manager was only a bishop, but the pope has raised him into an archbishop, because he has been doing such good work! These people have...

... desire will flower, you have to attain to self-realization. Again the future enters in, again you can dream. Before, it may have been money, power, prestige. It may have been God, moksha, nirvana, the kingdom of God. Now it is self-realization. But you have to keep some goal there. And Hakuin says all is here. You want to have something on the other shore. And Hakuin says this is the only shore. The...

... woman, their man. They don't know how to read - but what is there to read? They know how to read nature, they know how to talk to trees, they know how to have a dialogue with the sky. They know REAL reading, because they read the book of life and nature. Yes, they will not accumulate much money. They will not become Fords and Andrew Carnegies and Morgans, they will not become so rich. There is no need...

... have happiness. Somebody has asked a question: 'Osho, you say that children should listen to the birds and not look at the black-board. Then what will happen?' Then beautiful things will happen, then great things will happen. If for one hundred years all the universities are closed, and all the colleges and all the schools, man will again become alive. Yes, I know there will not be so much money to...

... grab, money will disappear. But there will be more life - and that is what is needed. And you cannot purchase life with money, you cannot purchase love with money. Money you have. And the person who has asked has also asked how they will earn their living. Do you think that five thousand years ago when people were not educated they were not able to earn their bread and their butter? They were. Living...

... desires - money, power, prestige - then naturally there is poverty, starvation, war. The wars and the starvation and the poverty exist because of your schools. Your schools teach ambition. Your schools teach people to be jealous of each other, to be competitive of each other. What do we teach in our schools? For example, a teacher asks a question and the small boy cannot answer it. He may not have done...

... only hope. And one thing more: the person has asked what will happen to people's life if they don't know arithmetic and if they don't know geography and history. How will they earn their living? And what kind of a society will it be? Yes, there will not be much money. There may not be big palaces, there may not be rich gadgets, technology. But there will be joy. And the whole technology is not worth...

... same word being used for both desire as such, and for sexual desire, has a tremendously important message in it. All desire is basically sexual desire; that is the message in it. Desire as such has the flavor of sexuality in it, and you can observe it. This understanding is based, rooted in great observation. A man who is mad after money - watch his behavior, his being, look into his eyes, and you...

... will be surprised that he loves money in the same way somebody else loves a woman or a man. Now psychologists have performed a few experiments. They have made a few cards, one hundred cards, ordinary playing cards. Just two or three cards are there, inside the whole pack, of naked women. They give you the whole pack, shuffled in such a way that the psychologist himself is not aware where the cards...

... the doors. The same happens with people who are mad after money, money maniacs. Seeing a hundred-rupee note their pupils become immediately big. They may not be interested in a woman - and women are aware of it, hence so many ornaments, beautiful saris and all kinds of arrangements for these foolish people. They may not look at the face of the woman but they will be immediately interested in her...

... necklace. They may be immediately interested in her earrings, her hair clip; if it has a diamond, a big diamond, they become interested in the diamond, and via the diamond they become interested in the woman. Their sexuality has become perverted, it has become focused on money. And so is the case with power-hungry people, those who are after political power, those who want to become presidents and prime...

... MIND IS BOUND AS CLOSELY AS A CALF TO ITS MOTHER. In fact, Buddha does not mention women. What he is trying to say is: WHILE A MAN desires, HIS MIND IS BOUND AS CLOSELY AS A CALF TO ITS MOTHER. Any desire is a bondage. Desire AS SUCH is a bondage, because when you desire, you become dependent on the other, on the desired object. Whether it is a woman, money, a man, power, prestige, it does not matter...

... his bow and arrow, so you cannot escape." He was shocked. He said, "What are you saying? Are you joking? I have been doing a religious act. Everybody has praised it, great saints have come and praised it." I said, "Those people must have been fools just like you." Mind can desire anything. Now, he is not collecting money, but more and more names of Rama.... It is the same...

... me he has been out with my wife and her sister, too, and there ain't a nickel's worth of difference between them." Every desire is the same. The objects differ, but not the quality of desiring. You desire money, somebody else desires God; you desire power, somebody else desires paradise. It is all the same. Hence there are no religious desires, remember. Nondesiring is religious. Desiring is...

... already gave at the office!" The Jew is a Jew. He has fallen into a deep pit and the danger of death is all around, but he is more interested in saving a little money. Just hearing the name 'Red Cross' reminds him only of one thing: they must have come for donations. T.S. Eliot has written these beautiful lines: WHERE IS THE LIFE WE HAVE LOST IN LIVING? WHERE IS THE WISDOM WE HAVE LOST IN KNOWLEDGE...

... not pay the shekel, he still shares in the public sacrifices; also, when his debts are settled, the debtor personally receives nothing. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Nedarim 33b Hanan's view.1  Raba said: You may even say that it agrees with all: [We suppose that] the man who is interdicted by vow not to benefit from his neighbour was lent [money] without obligation to repay.2...

... What is [the ruling of] Hanan? — We learnt: If a man departed overseas, and another arose and supported his wife: Hanan said: He has lost his money.3  But the sons of the High priests4  disputed this and maintained: He must swear how much he expended and is reimbursed [by the husband]. R. Dosa b. Harkinas ruled as they did; whilst R. Johanan b. Zakkai said: Hanan has ruled well &mdash...

...; it is as though he had placed his money upon a deer's horn.5 Now, Raba did not say as R. Hoshaia, because he interpreted our Mishnah to harmonize with all views. R. Hoshaia did not say as Raba: [to settle a debt] that need not be repaid is forbidden as a preventive measure on account of [a debt] that must be repaid.6 AND RETURN A LOST ARTICLE TO HIM. R. Ammi and R. Assi [differ thereon] — one...

... directors and scripts, but they never mention their affiliation publicly or why they are doing this. Money talks, and especially in Hollywood. If you have money, you can get about anything made, and they know this. They can also channel money intoadvertising campaigns, etc. for their films (how many Christian films have had major ad campaigns in the past twenty years? Very few. How many occult movies have...

... changed. And what is the point of going again and again, giving money and playing the same kind of games? These therapists who had been working here in the world of the sannyasins will soon feel frustrated, tremendously frustrated. One thing, sannyasins will stop going to them, knowing that it is no longer part of a spiritual movement. Secondly, those who go will see that it is pointless. Just again and...

... else to be released on bail but Osho should not be released on bail." This must be something unprecedented! They have not proved anything against me. Why should I not be granted bail? The reasoning was that I was capable of jumping the bail, whatever the bail would be -- ten million dollars or twenty million dollars. Does it mean nobody in America who has money will ever be allowed bail? Strange...

...! The people who don't have money cannot be allowed bail because from where will they get money for bail? And the people who have money cannot be allowed bail because they can jump. So bail is simply out of the question in America. Simple logic can show the stupidities. Then finally they had to drop the case, but they had taken three persons on bail -- Jayesh, Devaraj, Vivek -- at twenty-five thousand...

... these people should be sent for any day; our attorneys were waiting there. They said, "You give us the time and the date, and we can call our people and they will be here." But because they had dropped the case, now they were afraid that they would have to return the seventy- five thousand dollars. To keep that money, this letter has been sent: Because these three people have not appeared...

..., their bail money is to be taken up by the U.S. government. And they have confiscated my things, which they had said would be released when I am released -- they were not given back. Then they told my attorneys, "After three days we will be releasing them." They were not released; then seven days... months have passed and they go on postponing. Now the case is dropped. Even the bail money has...

... married. It was such a trouble, because girls could be married only if you gave enough money, land with the girl to the man whom she was going to marry - unless the girl was exceptionally beautiful, which was rarely the case. And people were so poor, they could not afford to have one dozen girls. It was simply impossible for them to manage. You cannot blame them for killing the girls. It was better than...

... animals every day. I once met a man, an African, who himself was not a cannibal - but in Africa there are a few small tribes of cannibals still in existence. The tribes go on becoming smaller and smaller because they go on eating their own people. They will disappear. This man was caught by a cannibal tribe and they were going to eat him. But he happened to have so much money - he told them, "I can...

... give you much money if you spare me." The money was so much, those poor cannibals could not resist the temptation; they said, "Okay, we can spare you, but we cannot trust you; the money has to arrive first. Our man will go with your letter. The money has to be here and then we will release you." So he had to stay three days with them, and while he was with them he had to eat what they...

... it. He said, "But you are supposed to be a saint." Kabir said, "Not supposed to be - I am! If I was only 'supposed to be' a saint then I would not have participated in this act of stealing. And I would not have murdered my own son if I were only 'supposed to be' a saint. I am really a saint, and at my peak of consciousness, nothing matters. "Your money is not your money, so what...

.... But these so-called seers were accumulating immense money. They were in favor of the ugly caste system of India - in fact they created it. One fourth of the country is condemned to live like cattle, and the responsibility goes to the VEDAS. They were very ordinary people; if you look at the prayers that they have written in the VEDAS, you can see their utter ordinariness. And that has continued to...

..., because it is a blessing to work for Osho." Jayesh was very much influenced, but in the next sentence the man said, "I will work just for the sheer joy and the blessings that will come to me from working for Osho. But money also is needed...." Jayesh asked me what to do with such people. "He knows you not, he has never read you, he has never heard you. He talks about blessings, looks...

... very spiritual - and ends up with the sentence that money is also needed." I said to him, "Ask him to choose between the two: either the blessings or the money." He said, "Osho, you will destroy my whole work. He is the man I am depending on." I said, "But make it clear... because he cannot have both." He said, "It was better I should not have told you. Now I...

... am in a fix. I know he needs money, I know he is working for money. And if I ask this question, he will certainly be very much annoyed." This greed, this money infatuation, this materialism comes exactly down from the seers of the RIGVEDA. It still constitutes the unconscious of the Hindu mind. On the surface, everything is spiritual; underneath, everything is so ugly, so obscene. And the...

... such a man will provoke many egos, will hurt those who think they are very important and powerful people. The presidents and the queens and the prime ministers and the kings will become immediately worried, concerned. A man who has no power has suddenly become the focus of attention of the people, attracts more people than the people who have power and money and prestige. Such a man cannot be...