LZ_predator, revision 3, written by Kaze, in fact a modified LZPRE originally written by Matt Mahoney. HTSIZE: 268435456slots x 4bytes Allocating 768MB ... OK Decompressed stream being delivered at 72 MB/s Compressed stream being decompressed at 19 MB/s Number Of Lines: 2459508 Longest Line: 162 Original/Compressed ratio: 3.81:1 Performance of memcpy() for block 206908949 bytes in length: 3853 MB/s Writing the decompressed stream at once ... Input Pattern (it is case-sensitive; hit only 'Enter' to skip): Lao Context #0,000,000,001 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lternating every month between Hindi and English. His discourses offer insights into all the major spiritual paths, including Yoga, Zen, Taoism, Tantra and Sufism. He also speaks on Gautam Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, and other mystics. These discourses have been collected into over 300 volumes and 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, publis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,002 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...can jump, just like a cat jumps on a mouse and catches hold of it. Truth cannot be delivered, there is no way to deliver it. Once delivered it is dead, it has already become untrue. Lao Tzu insisted on not saying anything about the truth his whole life. Whenever someone asked about truth he would say many things, but he would not say anything about the truth; he would avoid it. In the end he was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,003 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it. In the end he was forced to say something. Disciples, lovers, said he should write because he had known something which was rarely known, he had become something which was unique -- there would be no Lao Tzu again. So he wrote a small book, Tao Te Ching, but the first thing he said in it was, "Tao cannot be said, Truth cannot be uttered. And the moment you utter it, it is already false." And then he said, "Now I ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,004 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... GIVEN WITH WORDS I HAVE GIVEN TO YOU; BUT WITH THIS FLOWER, I GIVE TO MAHAKASHYAP THE KEY TO THIS TEACHING." To all teachings, not only for a Buddha but for all masters -- Jesus, Mahavira, Lao Tzu -- the key cannot be given through verbal communication, the key cannot be delivered through the mind. Nothing can be said about it. The more you say the more difficult it becomes to deliver, because a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,005 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... incident where he behaved illogically, where he did something which was mysterious. He was not a mysterious man at all. You cannot find another master who was less mysterious. Jesus was very mysterious, Lao Tzu was absolutely mysterious. Buddha was plain, transparent; no mystery surrounds him, no smoke is allowed. His flame burns clear and bright, absolutely transparent, smokeless. This was the only thing that seeme...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,006 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ained in it. Those are utterances of tremendous value, but no philosophy is woven around them, no system is created. Those are atomic utterances. And the substratum of them all is that nothing can be said. Just like Lao Tzu's TAO TE KING: The Tao that can be uttered is no longer Tao. The truth that is said is no longer truth. Truth said becomes untrue -- said and it becomes false. Now what to do? How to understand? ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,007 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y else -- Lazarus is not my name. " Let me tell you: Lazarus is your name! And don't think about this story just as a story. That's what Buddha has done, that's what Bodhidharma has done, that's what Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu have done: they have shouted at you, they have taken you by your hands and shaken you. Very few understand. In most of the cases people become angry, they become annoyed, because you are distur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,008 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... somebody who is born in the West and is seeking God is an Indian; and somebody who is born in India and is seeking money is an American. Then there is no trouble -- then Jesus is Indian, Zarathustra is Indian, Lao Tzu is Indian, Chuang Tzu is Indian, Bokuju, Rinzai -- all are Indians. Then 'India' has a totally different meaning. I also say that India is significant, but just as a psychological symbol. Longest India ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,009 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mundane into the sacred. And it is tremendously extraordinary because THIS way life has never been approached before, THIS way life has never been respected before. Zen goes beyond Buddha and beyond Lao Tzu. It is a culmination, a transcendence, both of the Indian genius and of the Chinese genius. The Indian genius reached its highest peak in Gautam the Buddha and the Chinese genius reached its highest peak in L...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,010 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu. It is a culmination, a transcendence, both of the Indian genius and of the Chinese genius. The Indian genius reached its highest peak in Gautam the Buddha and the Chinese genius reached its highest peak in Lao Tzu. And the meeting...the essence of Buddha's teaching and the essence of Lao Tzu's teaching merged into one stream so deeply that no separation is possible now. Even to make a distinction between what belongs t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,011 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f the Chinese genius. The Indian genius reached its highest peak in Gautam the Buddha and the Chinese genius reached its highest peak in Lao Tzu. And the meeting...the essence of Buddha's teaching and the essence of Lao Tzu's teaching merged into one stream so deeply that no separation is possible now. Even to make a distinction between what belongs to Buddha and what to Lao Tzu is impossible, the merger has been so total. It is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,012 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sence of Buddha's teaching and the essence of Lao Tzu's teaching merged into one stream so deeply that no separation is possible now. Even to make a distinction between what belongs to Buddha and what to Lao Tzu is impossible, the merger has been so total. It is not only a synthesis, it is an integration. Out of this meeting Zen was born. Zen is neither Buddhist nor Taoist and yet both. To call Zen "Zen Buddhism...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,013 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an integration. Out of this meeting Zen was born. Zen is neither Buddhist nor Taoist and yet both. To call Zen "Zen Buddhism" is not right because it is far more. Buddha is not so earthly as Zen is. Lao Tzu is tremendously earthly, but Zen is not only earthly: its vision transforms the earth into heaven. Lao Tzu is earthly, Buddha is unearthly, Zen is both -- and in being both it has become the most extraordinar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,014 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... To call Zen "Zen Buddhism" is not right because it is far more. Buddha is not so earthly as Zen is. Lao Tzu is tremendously earthly, but Zen is not only earthly: its vision transforms the earth into heaven. Lao Tzu is earthly, Buddha is unearthly, Zen is both -- and in being both it has become the most extraordinary phenomenon. The future of humanity will go closer and closer to the approach of Zen, because the mee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,015 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is very earthly, the East is very unearthly. Who is going to become the bridge? Buddha cannot be the bridge; he is so essentially Eastern, the very flavor of the East, the very fragrance of the East, uncompromising. Lao Tzu cannot be the bridge; he is too earthly. China has always been very earthly. China is more part of the Western psyche than of the Eastern psyche. It is not an accident that China is the first country in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,016 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... materialist, to believe in a godless philosophy, to believe that man is only matter and nothing else. This is not just accidental. China has been earthly for almost five thousand years; it is very Western. Hence Lao Tzu cannot become the bridge; he is more like Zorba the Greek. Buddha is so unearthly you cannot even catch hold of him -- how can he become the bridge? When I look all around, Zen seems to be the only possi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,017 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e is more like Zorba the Greek. Buddha is so unearthly you cannot even catch hold of him -- how can he become the bridge? When I look all around, Zen seems to be the only possibility, because in Zen, Buddha and Lao Tzu have become one. The meeting has already happened. The seed is there, the seed of that great bridge which can make East and West one. Zen is going to be the meeting-point. It has a great future --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,018 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the opposite: what your society has done to you the Master has to undo. His function is basically anti-social, and nothing can be done about it. The Master is bound to be anti-social. Jesus, Pythagoras, Buddha, Lao Tzu, they are all anti-social. Not that they want to be anti-social, but the moment they recognize the beauty of not knowing, the vastness of not knowing, the innocence of not knowing, the moment the taste of not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,019 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... remained silent out of the awareness that whatsoever you say goes wrong; the moment you say it, it goes wrong. Those who have spoken, they have spoken with the condition: "Don't cling to our words." Lao Tzu says: "Tao, once described, is no more the real Tao." The moment you say something about it you have already falsified it, you have betrayed it. It is such an intimate knowing, incommunicable. "Wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,020 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... power has come that ANY moment the third world war can start, and that will destroy the whole of humanity. And all the work of the ages, of all the Buddhas, will be simply destroyed. Krishna, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Pythagoras, Socrates: these people have worked hard to create this garden. And now we are getting ready to burn it totally. Before it is too late...wake up! At least move to the second state of m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,021 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h the Chinese consciousness. There are a few very wise people who think that Zen is more a rebellion against the Indian seriousness than a continuity of it. And they have a point there; a certain truth is there. Lao Tzu is more Jewish than Hindu -- he can laugh. Chuang Tzu has written such beautiful and absurd stories; nobody can conceive of an enlightened person writing such stories, which can only be called, at the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,022 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... only be called, at the best, entertainment. But entertainment can become the door to enlightenment. Zen is originally connected with Buddha, but the color and the flavor that came to it came through Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu and the Chinese consciousness. And then it blossomed in Japan; it came to its ultimate peak in japan. Japan also has a great quality: of taking life playfully. The consciousness of Japan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,023 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re. Where else have so many saints happened?" I said, "Do you know how many saints have happened in China? Just tell me a few names." He had not even heard of a single name. He does not know anything about Lao Tzu, he does not know about Chuang Tzu, he does not know about Lieh Tzu. He does not know anything of the long long tradition of Chinese mysticism. But he knows about Nanak, Kabir, Mahavira, Kris...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,024 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ional mind cannot understand, he was not crucified for any other reason. He was crucified by the left hemisphere because he was a right-hemisphere man. He was crucified because of the inner conflict. Lao Tzu says, 'The whole world seems to be clever, only I am muddle-headed; the whole world seems to be certain, only I am confused and hesitant.' He is a right-hemisphered man. The right hemisphere is the hemisp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,025 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h has been religious -- not even Indian civilization. Not a single nation has become like a being which is religious -- only rare individuals, here and there, far apart. Somewhere a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu -- islands. Otherwise, ordinarily, the main current of humanity has remained political. Politics is basically ambition. Politics is basically wrong because ambition is wrong. You are not to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,026 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... happens: you have accumulated much rubbish and when you meditate that rubbish starts disappearing, falling away. AND I FEEL MYSELF A STUPID CHILD. That is the way, the way to the kingdom of God. Lao Tzu says, 'Be like an idiot in this world so that you can understand the illogical ways of Tao.' Jesus says, 'Be like a child -- because only those who are like children will be able to enter into the kingdom of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,027 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cases. Ordinarily you are both. In certain ways you are psychotic: you have decided the ultimate, that Jesus is the only Son of God, the only begotten Son -- this is psychosis. Then what about Buddha and what about Lao Tzu and what about Zarathustra? In certain matters you have decided and in certain matters you are completely in confusion. A part of your being is neurotic and a part of your being is psychotic. And because of t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,028 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ere. People go on asking about the Way, and there are millions of ways proposed -- but there cannot be. There is only one Way. The same Way passes before Buddha's eyes, and the same Way passes before Lao Tzu, and the same Way before Jesus. Millions are the travelers but the Way is one, the same. That is the tao, the dhamma, the logos of Heraclitus -- it is one. Millions are the travelers but the Way is one. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,029 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in. Man lives in freedom. Freedom needs insecurity and uncertainty. A real man of intelligence is always hesitant because he has no dogma to rely upon, to lean upon. He has to look and respond. Lao Tzu says, 'I am hesitant, and I move alertly in life because I don't know what is going to happen. And I don't have.any principle to follow. I have to decide every moment. I never decide beforehand. I have to dec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,030 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ergy, such an overflowing of God, that wherever he was, life would move faster. A speed would happen to all the existence around him. He would not be doing anything but things would start happening. Lao Tzu has said that the greatest religious person never does anything, but millions of things happen through him. He is never a doer but much happens through him. He simply goes on sitting and yet the impact of his...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,031 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve come across. We don't have the language, the right language for it, because we have never known it. Now the right language has to be found in the words of the mystics: a Buddha will be helpful, a Lao Tzu will be helpful And scientists ARE looking into the words of the Buddhas to find the right language, because these are the people who have been talking about paradox, mystery. And now science is coming across...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,032 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It makes no difference whether it is a Jewish establishment or a Christian establishment or a Hindu establishment; all establishments function in the same way. Jesus is a rebel, just as Buddha is or Lao Tzu is. When the church starts establishing itself it starts destroying the rebelliousness of Jesus, Buddha, because rebellion cannot go with an establishment. It starts imposing its own ideas -- once Jesus is go...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,033 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing to listen to the priests? Jesus is salvation -- not only that but the ONLY salvation! Just the other night I was looking at a book: JESUS, THE ONLY WAY. Why the only way? Is Buddha not a way? Is Lao Tzu not a way? Is Zarathustra not a way? Is Moses not a way? Is Mohammed not a way? There are infinite ways to reach God. Why make God so poor? -- only one way? But the Christian priest is not in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,034 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r whole history; at the most they create magicians. Their religion consists only of rituals, formalities; it never attains to the heights of prayer and meditation; it never reaches to the heights of a Patanjali or a Lao Tzu or a Mohammed. They have not produced any Koran, Upanishads, Bible; they cannot. They are people who have not yet said no, they are people who have not yet disobeyed. They have not eaten the fruit of knowledg...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,035 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...7 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- with me, you will be in communion with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, with Mahavira, with Mohammed. But this is a totally different approach I become the door, and when you enter in me you find all the Buddhas -- because it is like the ocean: you can taste it from anywhere, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,036 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this is the greatest of all, that you all are potentially Buddhas. It is impossible for your mind to accept it. You can accept somebody far away, a Siddhartha Gautam, being a Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. They are so far away, millions of light years away; they have become mythological. They are no more thought to be real persons. They have lost all substance, they have become pure shadows -- pure poetry with...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,037 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cannot believe it, because that is too dangerous for you, for your established pattern of life. You can't allow me too close; you will create a distance. Pradeepa has asked a question: "Osho, when-ever you quote Lao Tzu as saying, 'Everybody is clear, only I am muddleheaded,' I love it, because I am also muddleheaded. But there must be some difference between my muddleheadedness and Lao Tzu's." There is none,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,038 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed a question: "Osho, when-ever you quote Lao Tzu as saying, 'Everybody is clear, only I am muddleheaded,' I love it, because I am also muddleheaded. But there must be some difference between my muddleheadedness and Lao Tzu's." There is none, Pradeepa. But you cannot believe it. Lao Tzu is exactly as muddleheaded as Pradeepa. Lao Tzu will agree with me, Pradeepa will not agree. There is the problem: how can Prade...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,039 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... clear, only I am muddleheaded,' I love it, because I am also muddleheaded. But there must be some difference between my muddleheadedness and Lao Tzu's." There is none, Pradeepa. But you cannot believe it. Lao Tzu is exactly as muddleheaded as Pradeepa. Lao Tzu will agree with me, Pradeepa will not agree. There is the problem: how can Pradeepa agree that her muddleheadness...? Lao Tzu must be meaning something very mys...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,040 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...am also muddleheaded. But there must be some difference between my muddleheadedness and Lao Tzu's." There is none, Pradeepa. But you cannot believe it. Lao Tzu is exactly as muddleheaded as Pradeepa. Lao Tzu will agree with me, Pradeepa will not agree. There is the problem: how can Pradeepa agree that her muddleheadness...? Lao Tzu must be meaning something very mysterious, something of a totally different dimens...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,041 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...one, Pradeepa. But you cannot believe it. Lao Tzu is exactly as muddleheaded as Pradeepa. Lao Tzu will agree with me, Pradeepa will not agree. There is the problem: how can Pradeepa agree that her muddleheadness...? Lao Tzu must be meaning something very mysterious, something of a totally different dimension. No. Lao Tzu is simply saying there is no need to be a great genius to know God. God is available to all, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,042 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e, Pradeepa will not agree. There is the problem: how can Pradeepa agree that her muddleheadness...? Lao Tzu must be meaning something very mysterious, something of a totally different dimension. No. Lao Tzu is simply saying there is no need to be a great genius to know God. God is available to all, unconditionally to all, categorically to all. You do not have to fulfill certain conditions, you do not have to ris...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,043 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as American and answered, "George Washington." Patrick O'Kelly was next and he said that St. Patrick was the greatest man who ever lived. Then there was an Indian child who said Gautam Buddha, and a Chinese who said Lao Tzu. Then little Abe was next in line and without hesitation he answered, "Jesus." The teacher promptly gave him the shilling and said, "Now tell me how it is that you, being a little Jew, and no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,044 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...E BAUL ATTITUDE. There are two approaches towards God: one is of the male mind -- aggressive, active; the other is of the feminine mind -- passive, receptive. Bauls belong to the second approach. Just as Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu belong to the second approach, Mahavir and Patanjali belong to the first approach. The male mind seeks and searches God as if God is somewhere else and has to be discovered. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,045 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng is needed to be done; simple waiting -- but it needs great trust. Otherwise the mind will say, "What are you doing? If you are not going to seek Him, you will never find Him." Bauls say, just like Lao Tzu, "Seek and you will miss. Seek not and find." He is here; your seeking takes you somewhere else. He has already come. The guest is at the door; He is knocking. But you are so occupied inside the mind -- maybe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,046 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t in the hearts of man belong to a totally different category: they were the people of awareness, people with soul. Their impact has been so deep that it will remain unto the last man. Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Christ, al-Hillaj Mansoor -- these people cannot be forgotten. They will go on living in the deepest parts of your being for the simple reason that they never compromised their awareness for the expec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,047 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Nothing like this has ever existed in the world before. Because I don't have any prejudice -- you can become a Christ here, you can become a Buddha here, you can become a Mahavira, you can become a Lao Tzu. I don't have any prejudice because I know these are only different names. Behind them is the same universal consciousness. So don't be bothered about your beliefs; just drop them. Trust...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,048 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aw in it. It is absolutely right. In fact, he is the first benefactor of humanity. Without him, perhaps there would have been no humanity -- no Gautam Buddha, no Kabir, no Christ, no Zarathustra, no Lao Tzu... just buffaloes, donkeys, and yankees, all eating grass, chewing grass contentedly. And God would have been very happy, that his children are very obedient. But this obedience is poison, pure poison. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,049 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...7 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- This is such a contrast. Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Nagarjuna, Bodhidharma, they talk of blissfulness, of tremendous possibilities of ecstasy, of growing into new dimensions of being. What has happened? Why this diametrical opposition? And Jea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,050 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...TIONS? Milarepa, as far as you are concerned, if a buddha -- as a woman -- meets you on the way, your job is easier. You are a great ladykiller. So kill her lovingly -- what is the problem in it? Lao Tzu has made things very easy for you. It is true that all great qualities are feminine -- love, compassion, sympathy, kindness. All these qualities have a flavor of the feminine. There are ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,051 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...repressing their abnormalities. But it brings no transformation. Even the founders of modern psychology -- Freud or Jung or Adler or Assagioli -- are not people who you can put in the category of Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. You cannot put these people with the seers of the UPANISHADS, with Kabir and Nanak and Farid. These are the sanest people humanity has produced, and they have not bothered about dreams, they have...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,052 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u as to Gautam Buddha, the same moon as to Zarathustra, the same wind as to Mahavira, the same rain as to Jesus -- it makes no difference, it has no idea of discrimination. For existence, Gautam Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Bodhidharma, Kabir, Nanak or you are just the same. The only difference is that Gautam Buddha did not accept the idea of being unworthy, he rejected the idea. It was easy for him to reject i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,053 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mained 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- himself. And all these beautiful names -- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Bodhidharma, Nagarjuna, Pythagoras, Socrates, Heraclitus, Epicurus -- all these beautiful names which have been a great inspiration to many people were themselves never inspired by anyb...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,054 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y the side of a river, which is running so fast that each time I look at it there are new faces to whom I have to speak again. In thirty years so many people have changed. It was not true about Socrates or Buddha or Lao Tzu, they worked with a group their whole life. I have been working with so many new people, and I have always to find out a new mode, a new phase, new expressions, new bottles for the old wine... but the wine is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,055 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...TENED MASTER HAS SPOKEN SO MANY MILLIONS OF WORDS ABOUT THE TRUTH AS YOU HAVE. LAO TZU SAYS, "THE TRUTH THAT CAN BE SPOKEN IS NOT THE TRUTH." BELOVED MASTER, WHAT DO YOU SAY? Lao Tzu is right. The truth that can be spoken is no longer true, because the mechanism of language distorts the experience -- which happens beyond mind, beyond words. To pull it down to the darker valleys of languag...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,056 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stures -- something not from the words but the way the words are spoken, the emphasis, the gaps. The presence of such a man speaking may be just an excuse to allow you to be showered by his presence. Lao Tzu cannot speak truth, but to be with Lao Tzu you may get the right direction. His presence may prove to you that there exists something that you know nothing about, and that it is so precious that all that you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,057 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the way the words are spoken, the emphasis, the gaps. The presence of such a man speaking may be just an excuse to allow you to be showered by his presence. Lao Tzu cannot speak truth, but to be with Lao Tzu you may get the right direction. His presence may prove to you that there exists something that you know nothing about, and that it is so precious that all that you know and all that you have is worth sacrifi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,058 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you may not get the truth, but you may be transported into another world: a world of silence, a world of immense peace, a world of benediction. And all those are immensely helpful for the search. So Lao Tzu is both right and wrong: right because what he is saying is exactly so -- the spoken truth is no longer true. But that is not all. If the truth is spoken by someone, and if it is out of experience -- and it c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,059 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ced that there is something like truth, there is a certain transformation that brings the full flowering of the being, then the word, the language, has done more than can be expected! So I say again, Lao Tzu is right and not right. And my emphasis on not right is more than on his being right; otherwise I would not have spoken millions of words, I would have remained silent. But I saw that it is not only a que...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,060 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...E STADIUM AND SAT SILENTLY WITH EACH OTHER. WHAT HAPPENED TO US? WHY DOES ONE HAVE SUCH DIFFERENT FEELINGS ABOUT DIFFERENT PLACES? People like Pythagoras, Socrates, Plotinus, Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu... the people of such state are continuously radiating -- not with any effort, but effortlessly and spontaneously. Their experience, just like a candle, radiates light; their consciousness has bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,061 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y go on explaining in different ways so the meaning of waking gathers around you. Then ANYTHING... People have become enlightened, awakened, in strange situations -- there is no causal relationship. Lao Tzu became enlightened when he was sitting under a tree and a dry leaf started falling from the tree. There was no strong wind so the leaf was falling very slowly, like a feather, and he simply watched it falling...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,062 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tree its whole life, but not even a look back, no hurry to reach anywhere, just a tremendous let-go, that wherever the wind takes it... A great trust. All these things, with the dropping of the dry leaf, happened in Lao Tzu. From that day he was a different man. The master can only do one thing: he can go on spinning around you meanings of a thousand kinds. Perhaps one of them may trigger the process, but nothing can be sai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,063 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng about the inner mysteries of life. In fact, he denies that there is anything inner. Everything is outer; refine it, polish it, culture it, make it as beautiful as possible. There were people like Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, contemporaries of Confucius, but they were mystics not masters. They could not create a counter movement against Confucius in the hearts of the Chinese people. So there was a vacuum. No...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,064 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...idea that there is no soul inside you, no consciousness, cuts you away from existence. One starts shrinking, one starts feeling suffocated. But Confucius was a very great rationalist. These mystics, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, knew that what Confucius was doing was wrong, but they were not masters. They remained in their monasteries with their few disciples. When Buddhism reached China, it im...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,065 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly. He is throwing dust into their eyes. It is not an answer. But this is not only the case with Bodhidharma. This is the case with everyone ...with Gautam Buddha, with Mahavira, with Confucius, with Lao Tzu, with Zarathustra, with Jesus, with Moses ...with everyone without exception. Whenever they come close to the ultimate question, they start talking nonsense. And these are very sensible people, very intellige...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,066 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ciple say that the words of the master are not right? It is a unique opportunity for you to listen to a man who has no master, and who has a tremendous respect for truth -- whether it comes from Zarathustra, or Lao Tzu, or Buddha, or Moses, or Jesus, or Mohammed. If it is truth which rings bells in my heart, I am in absolute support of it. But if it is not true, I know my heart. The bells don't ring and I immediately know s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,067 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., must have wondered .... "From India an enlightened man has come. We have also heard" -- those Chinese had also heard much about meditation -- "but this is really original!" They have also their own Lao Tzu, and Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- contemporaries of Gautam Buddha, of the same caliber, who know what meditation is. And he is trying to make a definition, an almost unbelievable one. He has just lost his nerve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,068 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erly unintelligent. The intelligent person hesitates, ponders, wavers. The unintelligent never wavers, never hesitates. Where the wise will whisper, the fool simply declares from the housetops. Lao Tzu says, "I may be the only muddle-headed man in the world. Everybody seems to be so certain, except me." He is right; he has such tremendous intelligence that he cannot be certain about anything. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,069 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... greatest contributions of Eastern consciousness to the world. The Western religions still go on hanging around the idea of good and bad. That's why it is so difficult for the Christian to understand the Upanishads, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu; it is impossible for them to understand. They are always looking with the Christian mind, "Where are the commandments?" And there are none! The Upanishads never say what is good and what is wrong...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,070 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ision is very narrow. He can say sannyas is wrong, he can say I am wrong. Still, I cannot say that he is wrong, because I have a wider vision, very inclusive. If I can say Buddha is right, Zarathustra is right, Lao Tzu is right, Tilopa, Atisha, and many many more are right, I can also say Krishnamurti is right. Yes, there are people for whom his vision will be of help, but those people will be very few. In ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,071 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ving mind is the only barrier. They are already here. You have to drop the achieving mind, you have to forget journeying from this point to that, you simply have to relax and be, and all is attained. Lao Tzu calls it wu-wei, action without action. You have not moved a single inch, and you have arrived; this is wu-wei. You have not gone anywhere, you have not even thought of going anywhere, and you are already the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,072 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- But that knowing is not knowledge, that knowing is wisdom. Truth cannot be defined. Lao Tzu says if you define it you have already made it untrue. He lived a long life; it must have been really long because the story is that for eighty-two years he lived in his mother's womb, so when he was born he ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,073 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I cannot become a solo flute player -- not that it is not beautiful, but it is simply not my way. I enjoy being an orchestra. I would like Atisha to play with me, and Bahauddin and Kabir and Nanak and Lao Tzu and Zarathustra and many many more. I would like to play with them all and become part of this orchestra. This is my way. There is nothing higher or lower. Once you are enlightened, there is nothing ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,074 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Science is a tunnel vision. Krishnamurti is a scientific individuality, very scientific. Hence his appeal for all those who love analysis, dissection, who love going into minute details. He is just the opposite of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody seems to be so clear; only I am confused." A man of the quality of Lao Tzu, a man of ultimate enlightenment, saying this: "Everybody seems to be so clear about everything, excep...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,075 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is a tunnel vision. Krishnamurti is a scientific individuality, very scientific. Hence his appeal for all those who love analysis, dissection, who love going into minute details. He is just the opposite of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody seems to be so clear; only I am confused." A man of the quality of Lao Tzu, a man of ultimate enlightenment, saying this: "Everybody seems to be so clear about everything, except me. I a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,076 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l for all those who love analysis, dissection, who love going into minute details. He is just the opposite of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody seems to be so clear; only I am confused." A man of the quality of Lao Tzu, a man of ultimate enlightenment, saying this: "Everybody seems to be so clear about everything, except me. I am so confused, I am so muddle-headed, that I don't know what is what. Everybody walks with such c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,077 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ssing a cold, icy cold stream." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu is just the opposite of J. Krishnamurti. He has no tunnel vision. His vision is so wide, so spread out, it cannot be very clear. It is bound to be hazy, misty, but that too has its own beauty. Krishnamurti's ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,078 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...osite of J. Krishnamurti. He has no tunnel vision. His vision is so wide, so spread out, it cannot be very clear. It is bound to be hazy, misty, but that too has its own beauty. Krishnamurti's statements have logic. Lao Tzu's statements have poetry. My vision is even wider than Lao Tzu's. I include Lao Tzu and many more. Obviously Lao Tzu could not have included me. Twenty-five centuries have passed; in those twenty-five cen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,079 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... spread out, it cannot be very clear. It is bound to be hazy, misty, but that too has its own beauty. Krishnamurti's statements have logic. Lao Tzu's statements have poetry. My vision is even wider than Lao Tzu's. I include Lao Tzu and many more. Obviously Lao Tzu could not have included me. Twenty-five centuries have passed; in those twenty-five centuries great enlightened people have happened on the earth. I claim...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,080 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it cannot be very clear. It is bound to be hazy, misty, but that too has its own beauty. Krishnamurti's statements have logic. Lao Tzu's statements have poetry. My vision is even wider than Lao Tzu's. I include Lao Tzu and many more. Obviously Lao Tzu could not have included me. Twenty-five centuries have passed; in those twenty-five centuries great enlightened people have happened on the earth. I claim the whole heritage, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,081 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ound to be hazy, misty, but that too has its own beauty. Krishnamurti's statements have logic. Lao Tzu's statements have poetry. My vision is even wider than Lao Tzu's. I include Lao Tzu and many more. Obviously Lao Tzu could not have included me. Twenty-five centuries have passed; in those twenty-five centuries great enlightened people have happened on the earth. I claim the whole heritage, as nobody has ever cl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,082 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...have included me. Twenty-five centuries have passed; in those twenty-five centuries great enlightened people have happened on the earth. I claim the whole heritage, as nobody has ever claimed before. Lao Tzu had never heard about Krishna, Lao Tzu had never heard about Patanjali. Patanjali had never heard about Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu or Lieh Tzu. Buddha had no awareness of Zarathustra or Moses. Now ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,083 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have passed; in those twenty-five centuries great enlightened people have happened on the earth. I claim the whole heritage, as nobody has ever claimed before. Lao Tzu had never heard about Krishna, Lao Tzu had never heard about Patanjali. Patanjali had never heard about Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu or Lieh Tzu. Buddha had no awareness of Zarathustra or Moses. Now the world has become a small village, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,084 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e happened on the earth. I claim the whole heritage, as nobody has ever claimed before. Lao Tzu had never heard about Krishna, Lao Tzu had never heard about Patanjali. Patanjali had never heard about Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu or Lieh Tzu. Buddha had no awareness of Zarathustra or Moses. Now the world has become a small village, a global village, and the whole history of humanity is ours. I am in a tot...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,085 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...wareness of Zarathustra or Moses. Now the world has become a small village, a global village, and the whole history of humanity is ours. I am in a totally different situation. I know everything about Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Milarepa, Marpa, Tilopa, Naropa, Bodhidharma, Mahakashyap, Sariputra, Mahavira, Adinatha, Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Francis, Kabir, Nanak, Dadu, Meera, Rabiya -- all. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,086 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the game, I am utterly at your disposal." The saint has character, hence he is respected. The sage has no character, hence it is very difficult to recognize him. Socrates is a sage, Jesus is a sage, Lao Tzu is a sage but they are very difficult to recognize, almost impossible, because they don't leave any trace behind them. They don't fit into any mold, they are pure freedom. They are like birds flying in the sk...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,087 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...derstand rightly, God is not something that has happened, but is happening. God is happening every day. Buddha has created something, Mahavira has created something, Patanjali has created something, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Atisha, Tilopa -- they have all contributed. God is being created. Let your hearts be thrilled that you can become a creator of God! You have been told again and again that God created the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,088 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Everybody seeks, searches for bliss, and almost everybody succeeds in finding just the opposite. I say "almost" because a few people have to be left out of the account -- a Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, an Atisha. But they are so few and far between; they are exceptions, they only prove the rule. So I say almost everybody who searches for bliss finds misery and suffering. People try to enter into heaven, bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,089 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e is like the Ganges near Varanasi -- dirty, dead bodies floating in it, all kinds of garbage being poured into it. But still it is alive. Many have completely disappeared. For example, no commune of Lao Tzu survives, no commune of Zarathustra survives. Yes, a few followers are there, but they are not communes. No commune of Saraha, Tilopa, Atisha, survives. They all had created communes. But the society is reall...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,090 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Y SOCIETY AND RELIGION THAT IT IS SEX THAT BRINGS DEATH. WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT IT? Suresh, can't you see a simple fact, that even your great saints die? Buddha and Christ and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu -- where are they?If it is through sex that death comes, then your celibates must be alive, they will never die. Then all the Catholic monks will live forever and will make the world so ugly. Then all the nun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,091 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... My own suggestion is: act only when it is essential. And even while doing things, don't become a doer, become a non-doer. Let God do things through you, then action and inaction are one. That's what Lao Tzu says: Wu-wei -- action through inaction. Then action and laziness are no more opposite but complementaries. A real man will have both the capacities: he can act; he can be lazy, he can rest. W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,092 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is nothing to create the split. Hitherto, man has been schizophrenic. And I am not saying that a few people have been schizophrenic: the whole humanity has been schizophrenic. Leave a few exceptions -- a Krishna, a Lao Tzu here and there -- you can count them on your fingers. They don't constitute humanity, they are exceptions, and the exceptions only prove the rule. But the greater part of humanity has lived a schizophrenic li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,093 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o be unique in his expressions. They are all saying the same thing, they are all indicating towards the same moon, but their fingers are different. They are bound to be different. The finger of Buddha, the finger of Lao Tzu, the finger of Chuang Tzu, are bound to be different. If you pay too much attention to the finger, there is every possibility you will forget the purpose. The purpose was not the finger, the purpose was the m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,094 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to convince the unconscious masses that the world is moving towards a global suicide. By the end of this century, perhaps, the only planet in the universe which has created people like Buddha and Jesus, people like Lao Tzu and Rinzai, will disappear. In the whole of existence, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Quer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,095 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve thousand years old, it is shown that they had found how to use solar energy. And the Christians go on insisting that "We have civilized the world." Socrates was not civilized? Gautam Buddha was not civilized? Lao Tzu was not civilized? Confucius was not civilized? Even before Jesus Christ was born, three thousand years before, India had discovered the alphabet. China had discovered gunpowder and all kinds ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,096 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have given the sense of morality to the world ...." Then what was Gautam Buddha doing five hundred years before Christ? What was Mahavira doing? What were the twenty-four tirthankaras of the Jainas doing? What were Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu doing? They were all before Jesus Christ. And, in fact, Jesus Christ had come to India, hearing about Gautam Buddha. Although Gautam Buddha was dead, he had left enlighte...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,097 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...shyapa. Of course, Mahakashyapa could not be understood by a nation which had been dominated by intellect and mind and priesthood for century after century. But China was a better ground, because of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu. They had prepared the ground. They were people exactly like Mahakashyapa, so when Bodhidharma reached to China, the ground was ready. There were many people who could understand B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,098 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have grown together, side by side. Zen masters go to Shinto temples and monasteries and live there. Shinto masters come to Zen monasteries and live there. Japan was even more peaceful and innocent. China had Lao Tzu, but it had also Confucius. Confucius has confused the whole problem. He was just a moralist, he knew nothing about the inner, but he was a predominant figure. Kings and princes, emperors, asked his advice. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,099 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s a predominant figure. Kings and princes, emperors, asked his advice. He was a great intellectual. Because of his dominance, China was not so innocent. The small stream of Tao immediately welcomed Bodhidharma as if Lao Tzu had come back, their old master. They saw in Bodhidharma's eyes the same shine, the same depth, the same mystery, the same dance. Tao, and whatever Bodhidharma had brought -- in Pali it is ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,100 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o founded Christianity? You can find Buddhism in the teachings of Gautam Buddha; he was the founder. You can find in the teachings of Mahavira that he was the founder of Jainism. You can find in the teachings of Lao Tzu that he was the founder of Taoism. But it is a very strange thing about Christianity: the founder had no idea at all, was not interested in creating a new religion. The man who founded it -- y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,101 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... courts, which are thought to be just, go on judging people by small actions. Those small actions may have been done for a certain purpose. Nobody looks at the purpose, nobody looks at the cause. I am reminded of Lao Tzu .... The emperor of China wanted the most wise man to be the chief justice of the supreme court of China. People suggested Lao Tzu's name. It was absolutely right, there was no disagreement about it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,102 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... looks at the purpose, nobody looks at the cause. I am reminded of Lao Tzu .... The emperor of China wanted the most wise man to be the chief justice of the supreme court of China. People suggested Lao Tzu's name. It was absolutely right, there was no disagreement about it in his court, and Lao Tzu was called. Lao Tzu came in his own way. He used to ride on a buffalo -- which is a very rare thing. People ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,103 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The emperor of China wanted the most wise man to be the chief justice of the supreme court of China. People suggested Lao Tzu's name. It was absolutely right, there was no disagreement about it in his court, and Lao Tzu was called. Lao Tzu came in his own way. He used to ride on a buffalo -- which is a very rare thing. People ride on horses, and people ride on elephants, but a buffalo ...? But he loved his buffalo; it ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,104 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...most wise man to be the chief justice of the supreme court of China. People suggested Lao Tzu's name. It was absolutely right, there was no disagreement about it in his court, and Lao Tzu was called. Lao Tzu came in his own way. He used to ride on a buffalo -- which is a very rare thing. People ride on horses, and people ride on elephants, but a buffalo ...? But he loved his buffalo; it carried him from one place...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,105 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n horses, and people ride on elephants, but a buffalo ...? But he loved his buffalo; it carried him from one place to another, and it gave him nourishment. No horse can do that. And buffalos are so silent -- and Lao Tzu was in immense love with silence -- they don't chatter. They are so contented, they don't have any grudge against existence. He came into the court riding on his buffalo. The emperor was shocked, but they...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,106 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... He came into the court riding on his buffalo. The emperor was shocked, but they had invited him, and they were well-mannered, well-educated people, so they ignored the buffalo. The emperor asked Lao Tzu, "I want you to be the chief justice of the supreme court of China." Lao Tzu said, "You are choosing a wrong person." The emperor said, "Why?" "Because," Lao Tzu said, "I will be really just." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,107 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut they had invited him, and they were well-mannered, well-educated people, so they ignored the buffalo. The emperor asked Lao Tzu, "I want you to be the chief justice of the supreme court of China." Lao Tzu said, "You are choosing a wrong person." The emperor said, "Why?" "Because," Lao Tzu said, "I will be really just." The emperor said, "That is the very function. Don't say no to your own emper...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,108 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uffalo. The emperor asked Lao Tzu, "I want you to be the chief justice of the supreme court of China." Lao Tzu said, "You are choosing a wrong person." The emperor said, "Why?" "Because," Lao Tzu said, "I will be really just." The emperor said, "That is the very function. Don't say no to your own emperor." Lao Tzu said, "Okay, but it won't last long -- perhaps one day." And it lasted only one ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,109 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e choosing a wrong person." The emperor said, "Why?" "Because," Lao Tzu said, "I will be really just." The emperor said, "That is the very function. Don't say no to your own emperor." Lao Tzu said, "Okay, but it won't last long -- perhaps one day." And it lasted only one day. The first case was about a thief who had stolen money from the richest man in China. The man was so rich that even the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,110 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...one day." And it lasted only one day. The first case was about a thief who had stolen money from the richest man in China. The man was so rich that even the emperor used to borrow money from him. Lao Tzu listened to the whole case and gave his judgment: "Six months jail for both the rich man and the thief." The rich man said, "What?! My money is stolen and you are sending me to jail?" Lao ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,111 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu listened to the whole case and gave his judgment: "Six months jail for both the rich man and the thief." The rich man said, "What?! My money is stolen and you are sending me to jail?" Lao Tzu said, "I am looking at the whole thing as deeply as possible. This thief is a secondary criminal, you are the primary criminal. You have collected all the money of the capital, you have deprived millions of p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,112 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is not ended, this is just the first case!" 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu was given his freedom and told, "You are right. You go on your buffalo wherever you want to go." He was a man of tremendous consideration, of in-depth exploration of everything. Don't judge anybody supe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,113 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... so that God could ascend in them. Both are the possibilities: either you ascend into God or God descends in you. Descendence is easier because you simply wait -- receptive, like a womb. You must have observed: Lao Tzu never talks about fire, he always talks about water. His method of initiation was just like John the Baptist's. That's why he talks about the feminine mind: one has to become feminine to receive. Just like wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,114 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...published and unpublished Query:- not the first. Jesus brought something totally new to the earth; he was the beginning of a new line, of a new search, of a new inquiry. John could not understand. Lao Tzu, if he had been there, would have understood -- but not John. John was a totally different type of man. In his last days he was very worried that something had gone wrong: "Has this disciple betrayed me or wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,115 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s standing here." He had to be pardoned because he had given a reason that was even more foolish. But to find such a reason, the fool must have been very wise. Every great wise man -- Lao Tzu, Jesus -- they have a certain quality of sublime foolishness. This has to be so because a wise man otherwise will be a man without salt, he will taste awful. He has to be a little foolish also. Then things ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,116 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eople, "I am the Son of God." Look at it! He must have been both. People must have laughed: "What are you saying? Saying such things, and behaving in such a way...." But I know that's how perfect wisdom appears. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody is wise, except me. I seem to be foolish. Everybody's mind is clear; only my mind seems to be murky and muddled. Everybody knows what to do and what not to do: only I am confused." What does ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,117 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nothingness the separation disappears: you become the whole. Then the whole exists through you. The rabbi was right who said, "God shouting to man: 'Enthrone Me!' " Jesus, Krishna, Christ, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, all are shouts of God to man: "Enthrone Me!" FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH... Immediately: knowledge needs time, knowing is immediate. If I want to share my knowledge with you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,118 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ises as the only one. That is the only way to understand him. You have to be deeply in love. When I talk about Buddha I forget about Jesus, because even to remember jesus will be a disturbance. When I talk about Lao Tzu I forget about everybody else. He is enough, more than enough. He himself is such a vast sky that you can go on and on and on, and there is no end to it. They all are vast skies. But the stand...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,119 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... risk anything, to search, to inquire. Then, DHAMMA. Then you have to take refuge, you have to surrender and take refuge, only in the pure principle of dharma. The pure principle, the basic law: what Lao Tzu calls tao, what Buddha calls DHAMMA, what Jesus calls the kingdom of God. Then you have to surrender to the unknown. It will be difficult because Buddha is visible; you can touch him. The community is als...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,120 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...something has to be given to them also. Then Jesus says a very paradoxical thing, one of the most paradoxical that he ever uttered -- but very significant. Always remember, whenever you find a paradox in Jesus, Lao Tzu, Krishna, remember, something very, very significant, tremendously significant, is being asserted. The greater the truth, the more difficult it is to assert it in ordinary language. A paradox has to be used f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,121 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hes. Impossible. Jesus was totally a different man -- alive! Churches go on worshipping somebody who was never there. It is their invention. Why do I go on speaking on Jesus, Buddha or Krishna, or Zarathustra or Lao Tzu? This is the reason: I would like to bring you Jesus as he was before the transit: unbroken, complete -- before the priests entered. In one of my friends' house, there's a very valuable painti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,122 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...again, there is no better way to be lost than to have a map. In the world of truth, all maps are false, because the truth is undefined and remains indefinable. Defined, it becomes untrue. That's what Lao Tzu means when he says: "The truth cannot be said. Once said, it is no more the truth." God IS unknown. Or, it would be even better to say, the unknown is God. And that unknown resides in you, abi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,123 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- stupid. They are idiots because they are wise. Yes, I know: Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha, look like idiots. In India we have a word for the idiot which comes from Buddha. It is BUDDHU. The word is derived from Buddha himself. Buddha: BUDDHU. BUDDHU means'idiot' and BUDDHA means'the awaken...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,124 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you call your life is made of the same stuff as dreams. It is dream-stuff. So whenever you become awakened and enlightened, it will always be in a dream. Buddha became enlightened -- or Jesus, or Zarathustra, or Lao Tzu -- they all became enlightened in a dream. The dream was shattered; they awoke out of sleep. They looked around: the dream was never found anywhere; it was a totally different thing. That's what they call God...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,125 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...D HIS SISTERS, ARE THEY NOT ALL WITH US? WHENCE THEN HATH THIS MAN ALL THESE THINGS? AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM. Nobody was so much offended in Buddha, ever; nobody was so much offended in Lao Tzu, ever; nobody was offended, as people were offended with Jesus. Why? A Buddha is a faraway peak. If you cannot understand him, how can you be offended with him? If you cannot understand him, how c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,126 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...said, "I think, therefore I am." COGITO ERGO SUM. And Descartes is the father of modern Western philosophy.'I think, therefore I am.'Just the opposite has been the experience in the East. Buddha, Nagarjuna, Sankara, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, they will laugh, they will laugh tremendously when they hear Descartes' dictum,'I think, therefore I am'; because they say, "I don't think, therefore I am." Because when thinking ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,127 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d only the gateless can be achieved through so many gates. Don't be poor. Become rich, and claim the whole heritage of man! That's why I go on talking of Christ, Mahavir, Krishna, Patanjali, Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. This is nothing but to show-you that the whole of humanity is yours. You are vast! You are not frozen dead particles -- you are alive beings, and life is infinite. I have no particular path. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,128 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...derstood, this distinction. It is very significant. And if you miss it, you will miss the very meaning of the life of Jesus, because he is a rebel -- he is not a revolutionary. Neither is Buddha a revolutionary, nor Lao Tzu. Manu is revolutionary, Marx is revolutionary, Mao is revolutionary, but not Jesus, not Krishna, not Buddha. They are rebels. A revolution is a planning. A revolution thinks of the future; a r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,129 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nocent man who had no power at all; or, his power was not of this world -- his power was that of a meek and humble man; his power was that of a realized man. The power is not violent. His power is that of love, what Lao Tzu calls 'the man of tao'. He is powerful, because he is powerless. He is supremely high, because he lives at the lowest point. He's at the peak, because he lives in the darkest valley. He's great, because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,130 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tical, social; and the attitude of love is non-political, non-social, individual, personal, religious. Moses, Manu, Marx, Mao, these are the legal minds: they have given the law to the world. Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Lao Tzu, these are the people of love. They have not given a legal commandment to the world; they have given a totally different vision. I have heard a story about Frederick the Great, the King of Pru...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,131 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ... FOR I AM FROM HIM, AND HE HATH SENT ME. Always remember: whenever Jesus talks about God, he means the whole. His terminology is not as perfect as Buddha's. Even Buddha's terminology is not as perfect as Lao Tzu's. Terminology does not depend on Buddha, Jesus, or Lao Tzu; it depends on the people to whom they are talking. Jesus was talking to Hebrews, to Jews. They have a terminology. He has to use it; there was ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,132 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...remember: whenever Jesus talks about God, he means the whole. His terminology is not as perfect as Buddha's. Even Buddha's terminology is not as perfect as Lao Tzu's. Terminology does not depend on Buddha, Jesus, or Lao Tzu; it depends on the people to whom they are talking. Jesus was talking to Hebrews, to Jews. They have a terminology. He has to use it; there was no other way. If he had started talking like a Buddha, nobod...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,133 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...terminology of Buddha needs a long heritage of Upanishadic teaching. Buddha was against the Upanishads, but the Upanishads prepared the background. Without the Upanishads he could not have been here. Lao Tzu uses such a beautiful terminology that nobody can ever find a fault with it. But that is the reason he could never become such a great religious leader as Buddha or Jesus: nobody understood him. He talks very...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,134 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...understood him. Nobody even tried to crucify him; nobody threw even a stone at him, because even for that you have at least to be misunderstood. If you don't understand, okay. But you have at least to misunderstand. Lao Tzu was simply neglected. I have heard a story. Once he was going from one town to another on his donkey. A messenger from the emperor came and told Lao Tzu, "The emperor has heard about you and he would like...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,135 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... okay. But you have at least to misunderstand. Lao Tzu was simply neglected. I have heard a story. Once he was going from one town to another on his donkey. A messenger from the emperor came and told Lao Tzu, "The emperor has heard about you and he would like you to become a part of his court. He needs wise men there." Lao Tzu treated the messenger very courteously, but said, "No, it is impossible. I am grate...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,136 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... one town to another on his donkey. A messenger from the emperor came and told Lao Tzu, "The emperor has heard about you and he would like you to become a part of his court. He needs wise men there." Lao Tzu treated the messenger very courteously, but said, "No, it is impossible. I am grateful. Thank the emperor, but it is impossible." When the messenger was going, Lao Tzu washed his ears with water, and wash...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,137 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... He needs wise men there." Lao Tzu treated the messenger very courteously, but said, "No, it is impossible. I am grateful. Thank the emperor, but it is impossible." When the messenger was going, Lao Tzu washed his ears with water, and washed the ears of the donkey also. A man who was standing by the road asked, "What are you doing, sir?" He said, "I am washing my ears, because even the me...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,138 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he understands, because similar donkeys are there. The language is the same." The man laughed. It is said, even when the story was reported to the king, that he also laughed. People laughed about Lao Tzu; at the most, a crazy old man, eccentric, but nobody took him seriously. And he could never influence people to such an extent that they should organize his teaching. No religion, no organization, could come ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,139 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...NDER OR BHAKTI. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT LAO TZU HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EITHER OF THEM -- IS THERE A THIRD TYPE THEN WHO FOLLOW NEITHER OR BOTH? LAO Tzu has no path, or, the no-path is his path. Lao Tzu says,'There is nowhere to go, you are already there.' So the very word 'path' becomes meaningless. A path is needed if you are going somewhere. If you are already there then the path is not needed at all. In ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,140 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...' So the very word 'path' becomes meaningless. A path is needed if you are going somewhere. If you are already there then the path is not needed at all. In fact, to have a path will be dangerous; you will go astray. Lao Tzu says,'Those who follow a path go astray.' By and by, they go further and further away from themselves. 'Seeker, follow no path, because all paths lead there, truth is here.' Lao Tzu is the las...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,141 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u will go astray. Lao Tzu says,'Those who follow a path go astray.' By and by, they go further and further away from themselves. 'Seeker, follow no path, because all paths lead there, truth is here.' Lao Tzu is the last word in spirituality; beyond him there is nothing. Ordinarily it is very difficult to conceive no-path because then you are suddenly thrown to yourself, with nothing to cling to, nothing to do...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,142 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve the world, you leave your family, you renounce everything, but you never renounce the 'other'. In some form or other: in the form of God, in the form of yoga, in the form of a technique, you still have something. Lao Tzu takes that too away from you. He leaves you totally empty. That emptiness needs much courage. In fact, all other paths finally come to the same point. If you follow bhakti, surrender, one day ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,143 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... at the whole ridiculousness of it: that you were surrendering something to your Master that you never had, or you were surrendering something to God that was just a false notion. But this will come in the end; with Lao Tzu it comes in the beginning. With Lao Tzu, the first step is the last. In fact, no-step is the last; there is no beginning and no end. The same is true about Zen. These are not ideologies or philosophies. These...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,144 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... surrendering something to your Master that you never had, or you were surrendering something to God that was just a false notion. But this will come in the end; with Lao Tzu it comes in the beginning. With Lao Tzu, the first step is the last. In fact, no-step is the last; there is no beginning and no end. The same is true about Zen. These are not ideologies or philosophies. These are not scriptures; these are tremendou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,145 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on't have? -- how is it possible? Suddenly the ego has disappeared. Now there is no need to surrender, because there is no ego left. The path of surrender and the path of will both bring you to where Lao Tzu starts. Their end is the beginning of Lao Tzu. His path is of pathlessness. He is the ultimate word, beyond which nothing exists. He is the last word. Buddha can be improved upon, Jesus can be improved upon, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,146 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ego has disappeared. Now there is no need to surrender, because there is no ego left. The path of surrender and the path of will both bring you to where Lao Tzu starts. Their end is the beginning of Lao Tzu. His path is of pathlessness. He is the ultimate word, beyond which nothing exists. He is the last word. Buddha can be improved upon, Jesus can be improved upon, Meera and Mahavir, Krishna and Chaitanya can b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,147 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...athlessness. He is the ultimate word, beyond which nothing exists. He is the last word. Buddha can be improved upon, Jesus can be improved upon, Meera and Mahavir, Krishna and Chaitanya can be improved upon, but not Lao Tzu. You cannot improve upon him; there is nothing to improve. He simply does not play the game. From the very beginning he is a non-participant. The questioner has asked,'Is there a third type of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,148 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... any category. He simply transcends all categories. He is a flood -- he is flowing in all directions, he is spread all over. He is not like a stone, he is like the sky: indefinable, elusive. The third is not a type, Lao Tzu is not a type. He does not belong to the world of types, the world of categories; he is simply beyond. When Confucius went to see him, Confucius became very frightened, because to look into the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,149 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not a type. He does not belong to the world of types, the world of categories; he is simply beyond. When Confucius went to see him, Confucius became very frightened, because to look into the eyes of Lao Tzu is to look into the eternal abyss... bottomless. It is what Buddha calls SHUNYA: eternal void, emptiness. He started trembling, he tried to escape from him. When his disciples said,'Say something about Lao Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,150 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es of Lao Tzu is to look into the eternal abyss... bottomless. It is what Buddha calls SHUNYA: eternal void, emptiness. He started trembling, he tried to escape from him. When his disciples said,'Say something about Lao Tzu, because you have been to see him,' he was still trembling and perspiring. He said,'Don't ask about that man! He is not a man at all; he is a dragon. And never go near him, he is dangerous! He can suck you in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,151 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e the rule. Happiness should be the rule; it has become an exception. I would like a world where buddhas are born, but nobody remembers them because they are the rule. Now Buddha is remembered, Christ is remembered, Lao Tzu is remembered, because they are exceptions. Otherwise, who would bother about them? If there were a buddha in every house, and if there were buddhas all over the marketplace and you could meet Lao Tzu anywher...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,152 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is remembered, Lao Tzu is remembered, because they are exceptions. Otherwise, who would bother about them? If there were a buddha in every house, and if there were buddhas all over the marketplace and you could meet Lao Tzu anywhere, who would bother? Then that would be the simple rule. It should be so. Lao Tzu says,'When the world was really moral there was no possibility of becoming a saint.' When the world was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,153 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...? If there were a buddha in every house, and if there were buddhas all over the marketplace and you could meet Lao Tzu anywhere, who would bother? Then that would be the simple rule. It should be so. Lao Tzu says,'When the world was really moral there was no possibility of becoming a saint.' When the world was really religious there was no need for religions. People were simply religious; religions were not neede...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,154 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that would be an obsession, foolish. Then you can walk in the middle of the road, or whatsoever you like you can do. In your privacy there should be no rules. One should live a life of total freedom -- that is what Lao Tzu is. But where there are others your freedom can become a chaos, and chaos is not freedom. Where others are involved you have to follow certain rules. There is no need to get obsessed about them. There are peo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,155 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has to be a Justice: this is what Confucianism means. Confucius thinks about the relationship between people, the society, the world: etiquette, manners, the law. Confucius is like Moses or Manu: the law-giver. Lao Tzu brings love, freedom to the world. And it is good to move in these two polarities. Don't think that they divide you. They don't divide you. In fact, they give you more freedom, more flow, more possibilities, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,156 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot even relax in your bathroom, that too is obsession. The proverb is perfectly beautiful. I approve of it totally. Be a Confucian in the world, and in your innermost world be a Taoist, a follower of Lao Tzu. And there is no division! There is nothing wrong with it. You simply have a fluidity: when the other comes you follow the rules, because with the other, rules come; when you are alone there is no need for an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,157 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... necessary, but it is a necessary evil; it has to be tolerated. But society does not bother about whether you become enlightened or not. For society, Confucius is enough. For the individual, Confucius is not enough, Lao Tzu is needed. For society, Moses is enough. For the individual, Moses is not enough -- maybe necessary, but not enough -- Jesus is needed. And once you understand, you can create an inner synthesis of the two, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,158 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ible only in an outer chaos. All great religious people are rebels; they have to be. They have to destroy your illusion of order so that you can come to seek and search for the real order. It is what Lao Tzu calls the Tao.'Tao' means the real order which is not man-made, which is just part of reality, intrinsic to it. It is not the laws that man has managed to make, but the Law out of which man is born. Remember,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,159 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...does not contain the present at all. And when there is no mind, all that is left is pure present. You act moment to moment, and each moment is enough unto itself. Hence the beauty of the statements of Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, because each statement is in itself perfect, it needs nothing. You can take any statement from anywhere, and you can meditate over it 10/28/07 Copyright Osho Internationa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,160 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the East and he was introducing something that had never existed in the Jewish tradition before -- that was his crime. The orthodox, the traditional, the conventional mind could not understand him. Lao Tzu was far more fortunate -- he had the right people to talk to. Buddha was blessed -- he could say things in as subtle a way as possible. In that sense Jesus was hoping against hope. It was a great challenge an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,161 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ith, and Christians have been clinging to those half-truths for two thousand years. For example, this statement is only a half-truth: "Seek and ye shall find." The other half, which has been said by Lao Tzu, is far more important; without it the first half becomes not only meaningless but dangerous. Lao Tzu says, "Do not seek and you will find. Do not seek and you have found it already." Both statements will loo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,162 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...or example, this statement is only a half-truth: "Seek and ye shall find." The other half, which has been said by Lao Tzu, is far more important; without it the first half becomes not only meaningless but dangerous. Lao Tzu says, "Do not seek and you will find. Do not seek and you have found it already." Both statements will look contradictory to each other; they are not. The beginning of the pilgrimage starts with searchin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,163 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d so that you become silent, so that the mind disappears, so that the future evaporates and you are simply herenow, neither seeking nor searching. In that stillness of no-search, truth is found. And Lao Tzu is right when he says, "Seek and ye shall miss. Seek not and find immediately." But his statement is the second part of the journey. Jesus was speaking to the beginners; he is like a primary school teacher. L...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,164 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu is right when he says, "Seek and ye shall miss. Seek not and find immediately." But his statement is the second part of the journey. Jesus was speaking to the beginners; he is like a primary school teacher. Lao Tzu is talking to the adepts, to those who have come a long way; he is talking to the initiates. He is talking to people who can understand the joy of not searching, the stillness, the tranquility, the calmness o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,165 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... obtaining an answer. Can you tell me?" Sylvia, the statement of Jesus, "Seek and ye shall find, ask and it shall be given to you, knock and the doors shall be opened unto you," contains religiousness. Lao Tzu's statement: "Seek not and find immediately," or Rabiya al-Adabiya's statement to Hassan.... Hassan was a Sufi seeker; Rabiya was a Sufi master. Every day Rabiya used to pass through the mark...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,166 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n! People are living with painted faces, wearing masks. These people are called religious. Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans, Jainas -- these are religious people. Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Krishna, Lao Tzu -- these people are spiritual. Spirituality belongs to your essential being, and religiousness only to the outermost: actions, behavior, morality. Religiousness is formal; going to the church every Sunda...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,167 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... can allow only a certain type to grow: it is linear. You cannot conceive that in a communist pattern even Karl Marx would be possible; he would not be allowed. You cannot conceive a Jesus, a Buddha, a Krishna, or a Lao Tzu being born in a communist society; they would be destroyed at the very beginning. Before the Russian revolution, Russia produced the greatest novelists in the world. Before the revolution, Rus...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,168 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'S END, IN VIEW OF YOUR VIRTUALLY COMPLETE PHYSICAL INACCESSIBILITY? James, it is true that one should not choose someone as a master JUST because he is famous. Jesus was not famous when he was alive nor was Lao Tzu famous when he was alive. To be famous is one thing; to know the truth is totally another. In fact, there is a greater possibility that the master, the real master, will be notorious rather than famous. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,169 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- is one flower; I love Buddha, that is another flower; somebody else loves Lao Tzu, that is another flower. We are all friends because we love flowers. And I can appreciate your rose, you can appreciate my lotus. There is no need to create any divisions. The divisions come f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,170 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... THE ONE WHO SUFFERS FROM THIS ILLNESS IS NOT ILL. THE WISE IS NOT ILL BECAUSE HE SUFFERS FROM THIS ILLNESS -- THAT'S WHY HE IS NOT ILL." Eiko, Lao Tzu is one of those few masters who have tried to say the truth as accurately as it is humanly possible. He has made tremendous effort to bring the inexpressible to the world of expression, to bring the wordless ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,171 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...; they are meant for ordinary day-to-day use. And the experience that happens in absolute silence is absolutely beyond them. But still it has to be expressed -- if not expressed, at least hinted at. Lao Tzu's words are fingers pointing to the moon. Don't cling to the fingers. Forget the fingers and look at the moon, and great insight will descend upon you. There is no other scripture like the TAO TE CHING f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,172 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce. These words are not ordinary words. Unless you come to them with great meditation it is impossible to figure out what is what. If you come with meditation, then things cannot be more simple than Lao Tzu's words are. He says, "Knowing the not-knowing -- that is high." The highest point is that nothing can be known, that everything is unknowable -- and not only unknown, but unknowable. A distinction has t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,173 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nted. He said, "That's right -- trees are green because they are green!" But only a child can ask such a question, and only a child can receive such an answer. What Lawrence is saying is exactly what Lao Tzu is saying. To say that trees are green because they are green, is to accept the ultimate mystery, that nothing can be said. It is so. That was Buddha's way of answering. His word was TATHATA. Tathata can ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,174 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is, `Such is the nature of things.' So WE can say it to you! This will be his answer to these eleven questions: `Such is the nature of things.' So don't ask these questions." Neither is Buddha a philosopher, nor Lao Tzu; in fact, no one who has KNOWN is a philosopher. Philosophers are blind people thinking about light. You must have heard the ancient Panchtantra story.... Five blind men went to see an e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,175 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the unknowable belongs to the higher world of knowledge. That higher will always remain the same; it will be always there to inquire into, to go into; to merge with, to melt into, to become one with. Lao Tzu says: KNOWING THE NOT-KNOWING -- knowing that life is absolutely mysterious, that there is no way to know it -- THAT IS HIGH. That is the ultimate of experience. There is no beyond to it, nothing more transce...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,176 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...me. The moment you enter the mysterious, you have found the home. No knowledge can satisfy you unless you are merged with the unknowable. NOT KNOWING THE KNOWING -- THAT IS AN ILLNESS. Lao Tzu calls even wisdom an illness, because you are falling from the ultimate health, ultimate well-being. NOT KNOWING THE KNOWING.... Even by saying, "I don't know," you have asserted somethin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,177 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... well-being. NOT KNOWING THE KNOWING.... Even by saying, "I don't know," you have asserted something, you have said something, you have claimed some knowledge. For example, if Socrates had met Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu would have said, "You are ill -- ill with wisdom! A good illness, but you are just a step below," because Socrates' famous statement is: "I know only one thing, that I know nothing." But there is a c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,178 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eing. NOT KNOWING THE KNOWING.... Even by saying, "I don't know," you have asserted something, you have said something, you have claimed some knowledge. For example, if Socrates had met Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu would have said, "You are ill -- ill with wisdom! A good illness, but you are just a step below," because Socrates' famous statement is: "I know only one thing, that I know nothing." But there is a claim: "I ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,179 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ssion. To say that the truth cannot be said means you have said something about it. Your very statement falsifies it; it is self-contradictory. Hence he calls it illness -- it is self-contradictory. Lao Tzu was one of the most consistent men; it is rare to find a buddha so consistent as Lao Tzu. His whole life he never wrote. All the teaching that he gave to his disciples was not a teaching at all; his whole met...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,180 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut it. Your very statement falsifies it; it is self-contradictory. Hence he calls it illness -- it is self-contradictory. Lao Tzu was one of the most consistent men; it is rare to find a buddha so consistent as Lao Tzu. His whole life he never wrote. All the teaching that he gave to his disciples was not a teaching at all; his whole method was VIA NEGATIVA. The disciple would come to him with all his knowledge, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,181 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Tzu. His whole life he never wrote. All the teaching that he gave to his disciples was not a teaching at all; his whole method was VIA NEGATIVA. The disciple would come to him with all his knowledge, and Lao Tzu would start dismantling his knowledge, destroying his knowledge; that was his whole and sole purpose. He would go on taking away your knowledge brick by brick. A moment comes when the whole building of your k...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,182 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his whole and sole purpose. He would go on taking away your knowledge brick by brick. A moment comes when the whole building of your knowledge collapses; then you are left in a vacuum. That is the moment Lao Tzu would say, "Now you can sit by my side -- just sit in this vacuum." And of course in a vacuum you cannot ask any question, you cannot expect any answer. If you can ask, if you can expect, it is not a true vac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,183 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...A true vacuum means no answer, no question; nothing is left, all has disappeared. The very earth beneath your feet has been taken away; you are falling into a bottomless abyss. These were the people Lao Tzu had gathered around himself. They would sit with him, they would walk with him, they would move from one village to another village. But he was not like Buddha or Mahavira, who were teaching, who were trying ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,184 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ight Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- know! Please write something, just a few words for the future generations to know that a man like Lao Tzu has been in existence." But he was very reluctant. He would simply laugh, he would not even say no. Once a disciple asked, "At least just to be polite you can say no!" And Lao Tzu said, "T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,185 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ike Lao Tzu has been in existence." But he was very reluctant. He would simply laugh, he would not even say no. Once a disciple asked, "At least just to be polite you can say no!" And Lao Tzu said, "To say no means you are on the way to saying yes! If they can get a no out of me, sooner or later they will get a yes too, because yes and no are two sides of the same coin." And he is right, he is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,186 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the morning becomes yes in the evening, your yes in the evening becomes no in the morning; they are interchangeable. They are not so contradictory as they appear. Somewhere deep down they are joined. Lao Tzu would not even say no, he would only laugh. Now, what to make of this laugh? You cannot make anything out of it. He is neither saying yes nor saying no; he is not falling from his high state. But at the last ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,187 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r not! Beauty is something higher than truth. Truth is logical, beauty is aesthetic. Truth is of the head, beauty is something deeper -- of the heart. I love the story.... Lao Tzu lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years! It is almost impossible. When he was born he was already eighty-two years old, with a long beard, long hair, and all white. He was already an ancient man -- an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,188 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n he must have lived at least eighty years more. That has been the habit in the East of all the enlightened people. Buddha lived eighty-two years, Mahavira lived eighty-two years, Krishna lived eighty-two years, but Lao Tzu defeated all of them. He lived eighty-two years in the mother's womb first! Then to balance things he must have lived at least eighty-two years outside the womb. He was a man of balance! So by...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,189 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...their master -- that when he said something he meant it. Reluctantly, they gave him the farewell. When he was leaving the country, the emperor of the country ordered all the guards at all the posts: "Lao Tzu is not to be allowed to leave the country unless he writes down his experience in short, to be preserved for future generations." He was caught at the border, and the military guards wouldn't allow him le...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,190 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u remain silent? It is irresistible! But the problem is, the moment you say, "This is the right road," it becomes wrong. Saying it is falsifying it. Truth is infinite and words are very finite. Hence Lao Tzu says: The best is not to say, the next best is to say. The best is to be whole, the next best is to be partially true. But remember: because truth is indivisible, you cannot be partially true. Hence his insis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,191 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut where the sunset is, they have forgotten all about the sunset. It is as if you have seen the sunset through the window. You have forgotten about the sunset, and you are worshipping the frame of the window. Hence, Lao Tzu says that the best is not to say anything about the truth, about your experience. Then what is a master supposed to do? He can say how he achieved, he can say what the pitfalls to be avoided a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,192 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... These are the ways. When you have arrived, only then will you know what it is; it cannot be said. The moment you say it, something goes "ill" -- something goes wrong, something goes sour. But still, Lao Tzu feels that sometimes the masters have spoken out of compassion for those who are still lost in darkness. Hence he says: "The one who suffers from this illness is not ill." He himself is not ill, but what he s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,193 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...istians come to look for a Christ -- I am not. If you have come to look for somebody else in me, you will not be able to recognize me, because I am simply myself. I have no obligation to be a Christ or a Buddha or a Lao Tzu. If Christ is free to be himself, he need not be me, why should I be him? There is no need. Such expectations create a barrier. An elephant is walking through a forest and spies a naked man. He looks at ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,194 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...young people have come to me. This has been always so. The twelve apostles of Jesus were all young people, younger than Jesus. The people who surrounded Gautam Buddha were all young people. The people who lived with Lao Tzu were very young people. It has always been so for the simple reason that the old mind has so many conditionings that unless those conditionings are fulfilled he cannot see. Only somebody who is a fraud is goi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,195 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... only way to remain young is go on dying to the past, go on discarding the old, go on dropping all your accumulated knowledge so you are always in a state of not knowing. That is the highest according to Lao Tzu, and according to me also: remaining in a state of not knowing. "Not even knowing that I know nothing" -- that's the highest, the most beautiful space one can ever be in. And only then can you recognize me; o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,196 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hemselves that they are not inferior, they are superior. But what is the need to prove it if you are superior? The superior man does not try to prove anything, he is so at ease with his superiority. That's what Lao Tzu says: The superior man is not even conscious of his superiority; there is no need at all. It is only the ill person who starts thinking of health; the healthy person never thinks about health. The healthy per...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,197 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... To be an Italian is to be really upside down, and not half-heartedly! I must have been an Italian; otherwise whatsoever I am now today would not have been possible. And I can say the same about Gautama the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Bahauddin: all these people must have been Italian in some of their lives! You cannot bypass being an Italian. If you bypass, you are bypassing it at your own risk; you will have to come back. The Ita...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,198 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g to you; the corpse is in your hands. But when religion is alive and breathing -- that's what I mean by religiousness -- then you are possessed by it, but you cannot possess it. You cannot possess a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Zarathustra. You cannot possess Bahauddin, Jalaluddin, al-Hillaj Mansoor...no, that is not possible. These are people who have known the ultimate freedom -- how can you possess them? They cannot ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,199 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ighting against the slavery imposed by the Egyptians on the Israelis. Hence the color of his revolution was less religious and more political. That's why in Judaism you will not find enlightened masters like Buddha, Lao Tzu or Krishna, but you will find prophets. The word "prophet" is absolutely irrelevant in the Eastern context. You cannot call Buddha a prophet; he has nothing to do with prophecy. You cannot ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,200 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rophets. The word "prophet" is absolutely irrelevant in the Eastern context. You cannot call Buddha a prophet; he has nothing to do with prophecy. You cannot call Mahavira a prophet, you cannot call Lao Tzu a prophet -- the word will not fit -- but all the Jewish religious leaders are prophets. The prophet is a special thing that has happened to Judaism. The prophet is something in between the religious master a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,201 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...TI? MY GOD! HOW CAN YOU HONESTLY ASSERT THAT SOMEONE SO SANE AND SOBER AS KRISHNAMURTI HAS EVER BEEN AN ITALIAN? WE HOPE YOU APOLOGIZE. Svatantra Sarjano, in fact, I myself, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Nanak and Ramana may not have been Italians at all; hence still the attraction. I love the Italians -- that is proof enough I have never been an Italian before! But Krishnamurti? -- it is absolutely certain ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,202 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng a body is so poor. I want the Soviet Union to become richer -- not only richer in objects but richer in consciousness, in enlightenment. I want the Soviet Union also to have awakened people like Gautam Buddha, or Lao Tzu, or Chuang Tzu. I would like to introduce Zen to the Soviet Union. That is my revolution. One of the most famous spiritualists of Europe, Francis Israel Regardie, a famous occult magician w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,203 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eligion. Christians are very anxious, and Christianity is also not worthy to be called a religion. It is just an old cult. I suggest there is only religiousness, which has come as a crossbreed between Buddha and Lao Tzu. And the crossbreed is always better than both the parents. That crossbreed is Zen. Its Sanskrit name is dhyan; its Pali name, which Buddha used, is zhan. When it reached China with Bodhidharma it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,204 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...led by the Christian church than by anybody else. Karl Marx was reacting to these two religions, which are not religions at all but fictions, superstitions, cults. He was not aware of Taoism, he was not aware of Lao Tzu, he was not aware of Gautam Buddha and Mahavira. He was not aware that there are religions in the world which don't believe in God, which don't believe in prayer, which don't believe in heaven and hell. Becau...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,205 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u want to allow people, then allow the people whose religion is based on meditation, not on prayer. That should be the clear-cut distinction, a criterion that can be followed without any fear. Allow Lao Tzu, allow people of Tao, allow people of Zen, allow people who belong to Sufism, allow people who belong to Hassidism. These are all people who in some way or other are meditative. But Zen comes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,206 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... millions of years before. You had to concentrate very much on the board and only then you could figure out, yes it says Paradise. He asked the stationmaster, "Have you heard anything of Socrates, Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Bodhidharma? Are they here?" The stationmaster said, "Never heard. Nobody with those names has ever appeared here. But you can go around, have a look; there are only a few saints playing on t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,207 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., he met the stationmaster, a very nice and beautiful fellow who was just going to the golf course. The archbishop said, "Golf? In hell?" He said, "Since these people have come here -- Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Bodhidharma -- since these people have come here they have changed the whole scene. It used to be very dirty, but now we have the best golf course in the whole world, the be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,208 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is foolish in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of the worldly because it belongs to a different realm. It is not of the world of calculation, cleverness. It is innocent. Jesus looked like a fool. Lao Tzu also looked like a fool. In India for the fool we have a term, BUDDHU -- it comes from Buddha. Buddha must have looked like a fool, tremendously like a fool, hence the term BUDDHU. We call a man BUDDHU if we ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,209 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ch men are foolish. Then what about Alexander the Great? If Alexander the Great is right, then of course Jesus is a fool. And Alexander the Great seems to be right because the crowd believes in him. Jesus is lonely, Lao Tzu is lonely, Zen Masters are lonely -- solitary beings, idiots, they have their own idiom. They live their life according to their own being, they don't bother a bit, they don't fulfil the formalities of the so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,210 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...telligence. Your mind has accumulated all your experiences, your past. And when the past starts withering away and you become fresh and alive in the moment, you are again like a child, again a fool. Lao Tzu said, 'Everybody is clever except me. Everybody seems to be very calculating, I am just muddle-headed.' It is related that Rabbi Hanuk told this story. For a whole year I felt a longing to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,211 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ses, come and go, are born and then die. But there is an inner continuum, an inner continuity -- that is eternal, timeless, deathless. Whenever you can love a master -- a master like Jesus, Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu -- if your passion is total, immediately you are bridged. My talking on Buddha is not just a commentary: it is creating a bridge. Buddha is one of the most important masters who has ever exis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,212 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...parate from you: you are truth. It is your very consciousness, the very ground of your being. You need not go anywhere else to seek and search, to Kashi or to Kaaba. Not even a single step is needed. Lao Tzu says: You can find it sitting in your own house, no need to go anywhere -- because it is already there! When you go on a search, when you move into seeking, you go farther away from it. Each search takes you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,213 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...act. He became enlightened in the forest. Just sitting there, doing nothing, and suddenly it came. It comes like a flood. Mohammed became enlightened on a mountain. And so is the case with everybody: Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Kabir, Nanak...not a single person has ever become enlightened in a temple, church or mosque. Why do you go there? Go early in the morning to see the sunrise. Sit in the middle o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,214 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in any other language. There are things which can be said only in Chinese and cannot be said in any other language. If the world has only one language, many many beautiful things will remain unsaid. Lao Tzu can speak only Chinese. You may not have pondered over the problem: just think of Lao Tzu writing his TAO TEH CHING in English...and the book will be totally different. It will miss something of immense value...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,215 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...id in any other language. If the world has only one language, many many beautiful things will remain unsaid. Lao Tzu can speak only Chinese. You may not have pondered over the problem: just think of Lao Tzu writing his TAO TEH CHING in English...and the book will be totally different. It will miss something of immense value; it will have something different, a totally different color to it, but it will miss the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,216 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oetic, less prosaic. One symbol can mean many things. It is not scientific; it is very difficult to write scientific treatises in Chinese. For that, English is a far more adequate language. But what Lao Tzu has given to the world would not have been possible without Chinese. Each symbol has many meanings, a multiplicity of meanings. You can choose your meaning according to your state of mind. Each symbol has man...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,217 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...all the buddhas of the world agree, this is the theme: that man as he is is asleep, and man as he should be should be awake. Wakefulness is the goal, and wakefulness is the taste of all their teachings. Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Buddha, Bahauddin, Kabir, Nanak -- all the awakened ones have been teaching one single theme, in different languages, in different metaphors, but their song is the same. Just as the sea tastes of salt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,218 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se three dimensions. And if all these three dimensions are meeting, merging, melting into one, of course that synthesis is the fourth. I am speaking on Buddha, on Mahavira, on Jesus, on Patanjali, on Lao Tzu, and many more. But always remember that all these people are one-dimensional. I want to enrich your life through their teachings, but I don't end with them. I would like you to go a little deeper into other ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,219 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- I love Buddha, I love Jesus, I love Zarathustra, I love Lao Tzu, I love Patanjali -- BECAUSE I love...because I love you, because I love the trees, because I love the birds. My love is not less. And you are perfectly right that I am standing apart -- I will be standin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,220 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be a crime against humanity. It is time that somebody should have the guts to say it! Nobody in the whole world is doing it, and the time is ripe that somebody should shout and say that Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali, Lao Tzu, are immensely beautiful people, and they have contributed much -- humanity would not have been what it is without them -- they are our very soul, that is absolutely true, but there is a disadvantage because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,221 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing away from it, because the asking implies that an answer is possible from somebody else. Asking implies that somebody else can tell you what the truth is. Nobody can tell you it, it can't be told. Lao Tzu says: The truth that can be said is no longer truth. Once said, it becomes a lie. Why? -- because the person who knows, knows it not as information; otherwise, it would have been very easy to transfer the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,222 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d, and the Christian knew only about Jesus. Now we have become inheritors of the whole heritage of humanity. Now you know Jesus, you know Zarathustra, you know Patanjali, you know Buddha, you know Mahavira, you know Lao Tzu and hundreds of other explanations, other hints -- and they are all jumbled up in you. Now it is very difficult to pull you out of this confusion. The only possible way is to drop this whole noise, not in par...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,223 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... when Buddhism reached China it met a very profound philosophy -- the polar opposite. The dialectics happened there. Buddhism became the thesis and Taoism became the antithesis: the meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu. The Chinese statue of Buddha is a cross, it is half Gautam Buddha and half Lao Tzu -- they are mingled into each other. That belly belongs to Lao Tzu, that laughter belongs to Lao Tzu, and the silence belong...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,224 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... The dialectics happened there. Buddhism became the thesis and Taoism became the antithesis: the meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu. The Chinese statue of Buddha is a cross, it is half Gautam Buddha and half Lao Tzu -- they are mingled into each other. That belly belongs to Lao Tzu, that laughter belongs to Lao Tzu, and the silence belongs to Buddha. It has been the greatest meeting that has ever happened in the world. O...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,225 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...esis and Taoism became the antithesis: the meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu. The Chinese statue of Buddha is a cross, it is half Gautam Buddha and half Lao Tzu -- they are mingled into each other. That belly belongs to Lao Tzu, that laughter belongs to Lao Tzu, and the silence belongs to Buddha. It has been the greatest meeting that has ever happened in the world. Out of it is born the most profound, the most significant phenomenon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,226 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ting of Buddha and Lao Tzu. The Chinese statue of Buddha is a cross, it is half Gautam Buddha and half Lao Tzu -- they are mingled into each other. That belly belongs to Lao Tzu, that laughter belongs to Lao Tzu, and the silence belongs to Buddha. It has been the greatest meeting that has ever happened in the world. Out of it is born the most profound, the most significant phenomenon in all history: Zen. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,227 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the world. Out of it is born the most profound, the most significant phenomenon in all history: Zen. Zen is neither Buddhist nor Taoist, or it is both together. It is a strange meeting. In fact, Lao Tzu and Buddha, if they had met physically, would not have agreed on ANY point. Lao Tzu was a man of laughter. He used to move from one village to another sitting on his buffalo -- must have looked li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,228 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in all history: Zen. Zen is neither Buddhist nor Taoist, or it is both together. It is a strange meeting. In fact, Lao Tzu and Buddha, if they had met physically, would not have agreed on ANY point. Lao Tzu was a man of laughter. He used to move from one village to another sitting on his buffalo -- must have looked like a clown. And he was almost always laughing, rolling on the ground -- at the whole ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,229 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er sitting on his buffalo -- must have looked like a clown. And he was almost always laughing, rolling on the ground -- at the whole ridiculousness of existence, at the absurdity of life. Buddha and Lao Tzu are polar opposites. Maybe that's why both these philosophies became attracted to each other. Both were incomplete -- the meeting made them more complete. Neither will Lao Tzu agree with Zen nor will Buddha a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,230 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty of life. Buddha and Lao Tzu are polar opposites. Maybe that's why both these philosophies became attracted to each other. Both were incomplete -- the meeting made them more complete. Neither will Lao Tzu agree with Zen nor will Buddha agree with Zen. I have heard a story: In heaven, in a cafe, Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tzu, all the three are sitting, chitchatting. And the woman, the owner of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,231 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r. Both were incomplete -- the meeting made them more complete. Neither will Lao Tzu agree with Zen nor will Buddha agree with Zen. I have heard a story: In heaven, in a cafe, Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tzu, all the three are sitting, chitchatting. And the woman, the owner of the cafe, a beautiful woman, comes. She brings the juice of life. Buddha immediately closes his eyes. He says, "I cannot look at it! It is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,232 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a. But I will again say that Buddha is wrong -- without tasting it, nothing should be said. Although he is right -- I can approve him, on MY witnessing he is right -- but on his own he is not right." Lao Tzu takes the whole flask and before the owner woman can say anything, he takes it down in a gulp. He drinks the whole flask and he becomes so drunk that he starts dancing. He does not say a word -- bitter or swe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,233 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... love is. Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer -- so one day even kings like Bimbisara may feel jealous of you. Become a Mahavira, a Buddha, become a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. Only then have you lived, only then have you known the mysteries of life! Money and sex are the lowest, and people are living only in the world of money and sex -- and they think they are living. They ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,234 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...search of truth is bound to come. It is irresistible, it HAS to happen. That's how it has been happening all along, down the ages. Thousands of people traveled to Buddha, thousands of people traveled to Mahavira, to Lao Tzu, to Zarathustra -- for no reason at all, because whatsoever they were saying was available in the scriptures. What I am saying here you can read in the Bhagavadgita, in the Bible, in the Koran, in THE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,235 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be surprised: all the buddhas become alive because they are all contemporary, time makes no difference. That's my whole effort here: to make you contemporaries of Jesus, of Buddha, of Zarathustra, of Lao Tzu. If you can be contemporaries of these awakened souls, what is the point of remaining contemporaries to your ordinary world and its ordinary citizens, the so-called human beings, who have nothing of humanity ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,236 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e way that helps you to dissolve into the whole. He is not talking about religions, he is not talking about so-called techniques, devices, methods. When he uses the word 'way', he means exactly what Lao Tzu means by 'tao'. Tao exactly means "the way" -- the way to what? The way beyond yourself, the way that leads you out of your confined, imprisoned state, into the open. HOW LONG THE WANDERING O...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,237 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s, you will not find the way to God." That is sheer nonsense! -- because Buddha has found without being a Christian, and Mohammed has found without being a Christian, and Mahavira has found and Krishna has found and Lao Tzu has found...I have found without being a Christian. That is nonsense. But what Jesus really means IS true. Moses asked God when he encountered him...a beautiful story; remember, it is a story...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,238 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nine percent of the people in the world; the East consists of only a few people, they can be counted on the fingers. To me, the East and the West are not geographical -- they are spiritual dimensions. Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Abraham, Moses, Christ, Saint Francis -- the East consists of these people. Where they were born is immaterial, is irrelevant. Certainly Saint Francis was not born in the East, but I count him a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,239 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s is possible only when self-knowledge has happened. Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels, Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong, these are not the real communists. They live in the ego. The real communists are Gautam Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu -- nobody knows them as communists but they are real communists, because if you understand their vision, all comparison disappears. And when there is no comparison, there is communism. Equality is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,240 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... safe, secure. And he does not allow you rest; he gives you great work to do upon yourself. The ordinary humanity has always hated a wise man -- he may be a Buddha or a Socrates or a Zarathustra or a Lao Tzu, it doesn't matter who, but down the ages the wise man has been hated by the ordinary people, by the masses, by the crowds. The wise man has been loved only by a few seekers of truth, a few lovers of truth, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,241 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nswer it. Hence, Chitten, the first thing to be remembered is: truth is simple. That's why nobody has yet been able to say anything about it, and all that has been said about it is superficial. Lao Tzu insisted his whole life that he would not write anything about truth. When finally he was forced to write -- he was really forced to write... that is the only great scripture which has been written at the poi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,242 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at he would not write anything about truth. When finally he was forced to write -- he was really forced to write... that is the only great scripture which has been written at the point of a bayonet! Lao Tzu was leaving China in his very old age... and you can think of his old age, because when he was born the story is he was eighty-two -- when he was born! So you can imagine how much older he must have been when...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,243 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... remember the distance and difference between a child and the one who is childish. When Jesus says, "Those who are like children..." he is not talking about childish people; he is talking about innocent people. Lao Tzu must have been so innocent that the people who wrote about him could not write that he was only nine months old. His innocence was so deep and so profound that it cannot be attained in only nine months; hence...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,244 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to go back to nature, and before he entered into the ultimate he wanted to die amidst trees and mountains and virgin peaks. But the king of the country ordered all the guards on all the boundaries, "Don't allow Lao Tzu to escape. Wherever he is caught, force him to write down his experiences, because he has something invaluable and we cannot allow this man to escape taking it with him." He was caught at one...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,245 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as caught at one of the posts and the policeman insisted, "You have to write it down; otherwise I will not allow you to leave the country." So sitting in the policeman's hut, and the policeman with his bayonet, Lao Tzu wrote TAO TEH CHING. The first sentence is: "Truth cannot be said, and that which can be said is not truth anymore." No great scripture begins with such a beautiful sentence. He is sayin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,246 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e that happens once in a while to a person. The whole humanity up to now has been schizophrenic. It is very rarely, only once in a while, that a man like Jesus, or Buddha, or Mahavira, or Socrates, or Pythagoras, or Lao Tzu, has been able to escape from this schizophrenic pattern of our living. To divide reality into antagonistic, inimical realism is dangerous because it is dividing man. Man is a miniature unive...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,247 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... as spiritualist as Buddha, Mahavira. I am the beginning of a totally new vision. In the new commune, just as there will be a Buddha Auditorium, a Mahavira Meditation Hall, a Jesus House, a Krishna House, a Lao Tzu House, there are going also to be gardens dedicated to Epicurus -- because his school was called "The Garden." There are going to be lakes dedicated to Charvakas. In the new commune the spiritualists and the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,248 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...world would have lacked humanity. It is the serpent and his wisdom that creates this great journey of humanity -- and it has been of immense value; otherwise there would have been trees and animals and birds, but no Lao Tzu, no Zarathustra, no Krishna, no Buddha, no Mohammed, no Christ, no Kabir, no Nanak. Yes, trees would have been there and birds and animals, but the existence would have missed something of immense importance;...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,249 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ssed Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud's insight is very accurate about it. He does not go very far, but he begins rightly, though he becomes stuck in the middle because he was not aware of Buddha and he was not aware of Lao Tzu. He remained basically part of the Judaic-Christian tradition -- which is not very evolved, which is not yet a metaphysics in the true sense of the term. Christianity and Judaism are very ear...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,250 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s if something triggered in one part invisibly affects other sensitive souls everywhere else. When Buddha was alive in India, Greece was rich with Heraclitus, with Socrates, with Pythagoras. China was rich with Lao Tzu, Confucius, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. And all these people have something very similar, although their languages are different. Heraclitus says: You cannot step in the same river twice. Buddha will agree abs...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,251 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t the yielding earth -- soft, humble, surrendering, receptive, womblike -- can give birth to new experiences, can give birth to new visions, new songs, new poetries. The awakened person is not rigid. In the words of Lao Tzu, he is not like the rock but like water. His way is the way of water -- the watercourse way. JOYOUS AND CLEAR LIKE THE LAKE.... The man who is awakened, who is alert, becomes clear; all his co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,252 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t happens between the master and the disciple. The love that happened between John and Jesus, the love that happened between Sariputta and Buddha, Gautama and Mahavira, Arjuna and Krishna, Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu -- these are the real love stories, the highest pinnacles of love. The disciple starts melting into the master. The disciple destroys all distance between himself and the master; the disciple yields, the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,253 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nk I am crazy or something? I am myself. Why should I be Christ or somebody else? Christ is Christ. He is not Krishna and he is not Buddha and he is not Zarathustra. Buddha is Buddha; he is not Yagnavalka, he is not Lao Tzu. And Socrates is Socrates; he is not 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Mah...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,254 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ay is the ancientmost: AES DHAMMO SANANTANO... so ancient that in fact there has never been a beginning. SANANTANO means beginningless -- forever it has been. To represent this there is told another phenomenon: Lao Tzu is said to have been born old. Buddha died when he was eighty-two and Lao Tzu was born when he was eighty-two. He was born eighty-two years old; he lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. A beautiful...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,255 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as never been a beginning. SANANTANO means beginningless -- forever it has been. To represent this there is told another phenomenon: Lao Tzu is said to have been born old. Buddha died when he was eighty-two and Lao Tzu was born when he was eighty-two. He was born eighty-two years old; he lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. A beautiful story. Not that he really lived -- because one has to think of the woman also...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,256 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the same moon. If you can see the moon, will you be worried about the fingers? If you can see the moon, will you be obsessed with the finger -- whether the finger is that of Krishna or Christ or Buddha or Lao Tzu? What does it matter? Once the moon is known, the fingers are forgotten. To become obsessed too much with the finger is a state of pathology. The Hindu is ill, the Mohammedan is ill, the Christian is ill. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,257 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...esus only. Christ is a state of ultimate consciousness: in the East we call it the state of being a buddha, the state of being a JINA. These are the same words. Jesus is only one of the christs -- Buddha is another, Lao Tzu is another, and there have been so many, and there will be so many. It is a long procession of lights. And there is always a living christ somewhere or other. You can call him a buddha, you can call ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,258 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en tree which moves with the wind, dances with the wind, bows down to let the wind pass and then stands back. The real religious man is like a green tree -- in fact, more like green grass. That's how Lao Tzu defines the religious man: he is like the grass. Let the wind come, and the grass bows down, falls on the earth, is not in any way fighting with the wind. Why fight it? We are part of one organic unity; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,259 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave arrived -- and you can see people arriving from the other door also; there is no need for you yourself to go and experiment. You will meet there Meera and Mahavira, both sitting together. You will meet there Lao Tzu and Krishna and Mohammed and Christ sitting together... sipping tea and gossiping! What else is left? But if you are interested, if you want to really inquire whether the other way also comes to the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,260 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... FOR AN UNWOUNDED HAND MAY HANDLE POISON. THE INNOCENT COME TO NO HARM. If you become aware of folly and mischief.... Remember, Buddha is not saying avoid; he is saying beware. Lao Tzu says: A man of wisdom walks as if at each step there is danger. A man of wisdom walks as if in cold winter he is crossing a frozen stream, that is what Lao Tzu says. Yes, exactly, it is so: the man of wisdom ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,261 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not saying avoid; he is saying beware. Lao Tzu says: A man of wisdom walks as if at each step there is danger. A man of wisdom walks as if in cold winter he is crossing a frozen stream, that is what Lao Tzu says. Yes, exactly, it is so: the man of wisdom walks alert. Each step is full of dangers, because your mind can any moment assert. Your mind is very ancient, its habits are very deeply ingrai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,262 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the whole edifice falls. But I am possible without there ever being a Christ. I am possible not because there has been a Mahavira or a Patanjali, not because there has been a Buddha or a Confucius or Lao Tzu. Religion is not a continuum; it is an individual phenomenon, it is an individual flowering. You can become awakened even if you are not aware of anybody ever becoming awakened before. You are not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,263 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a little, wait." And I tell many people, "Go on bringing them!" Now Niranjana is going especially to the West to bring as many fountain pens as possible. But if I have to keep all these egos it will be impossible -- Lao Tzu House is too small! 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- I a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,264 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ali, a Krishna -- who were utterly spiritual. But such people have been everywhere! Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plotinus, in Greece -- the same type of people, the same quality, the same fragrance. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Mencius, in China -- the same perfume. Christ, Eckhart, Francis, Bohme -- the same dimension. Spiritual people have been everywhere; it is nobody's possession. But Indians brag about it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,265 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... people to remain poor; it has helped them to remain contented as they are, hoping for the best in the next life. In that way he is right. But he is not right if we take into consideration a Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu -- then he is not right. And these are the really religious people, not the masses; the masses know nothing of religion. I would like you to be enriched by Newton, Edison, Eddington, Rutherfo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,266 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are doing what you should have done on your own. A witness is not a spectator. Then what is a witness? A witness is one who participates yet remains alert. A witness is in a state of WU-WEI. That is Lao Tzu's word: it means action through inaction. A witness is not one who has escaped from life. He lives in life, lives far more totally, far more passionately, but yet remains deep down a watcher; goes on remember...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,267 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d the helped, the guide and the guided are all in the same boat. Unless you can find a buddha you will be following some other blind person. Unless you are with a man like Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, you will be with people who are just like you. That is one of the greatest calamities that is happening to the modern mind, to the modern man. The spiritual guides have disappeared -- long ago they disappear...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,268 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... immensely. I agree with him totally. These two persons, Friedrich Nietzsche and D.H. Lawrence, are beautiful people. It was unfortunate that they were born in the West; hence they were not aware of Lao Tzu, of Chuang Tzu, of Buddha, of Bodhidharma, of Rinzai, of Basho, of Kabir, of Meera. It is unfortunate that they knew only the Jewish and the Christian tradition. And they were very much offended by the whole ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,269 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... reflection is not needed. These are the two basic types of work. Buddha says: YOUR WORK IS TO DISCOVER YOUR WORK. The first thing is to discover exactly what type of person you are. Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu, these are meditation types, meditative people. But Jesus, Chaitanya, Kabir, these are love types; they need a dialogue with existence. In meditation there is no prayer because there is no other; in prayer th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,270 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...! Go upstairs and remove your father's clothes before he comes in and catches you!" They cannot understand you. In fact, nobody can understand you except an enlightened person, a Buddha, a Jesus, a Lao Tzu -- but not Freud, Jung, Adler, they cannot understand. They don't have that light in their being yet; they cannot shower that light on you. They are not really authentic people; they are as inauthentic as you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,271 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...EN IT WANTS OR IS THERE SOMETHING WE DO, LET DOWN, OPEN UP, TO ALLOW IT? Madhuma, positively, nothing can be done; negatively, much can be done. You will have to learn what negative action is. Lao Tzu calls it WU-WEI: doing without doing, action without action, effort without effort. It is one of the most significant things to learn. We know how to do things; that is a positive, aggressive, masculine way....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,272 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...MASCULINE PEOPLE? I AM CONFUSED AS BUDDHA, LAO TZU AND ALL THESE PEOPLE SEEM TO BE MORE FEMININE. PLEASE EXPLAIN. Anand Dharmen, you are right and yet wrong. You are right because Buddha and Lao Tzu ARE feminine, but they are feminine when they have attained to the ultimate peak of meditation -- at the peak they are feminine. At the peak everybody is feminine, only God is masculine. At the peak only ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,273 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a thing ever before, but I can see it, I can feel it -- it is the truth." At the highest peak, whether you follow the path of love or meditation, you become feminine. So you are right, Dharmen, that Buddha and Lao Tzu, all these people seem to be feminine, because you know them only when they have reached the highest peak. But you don't know their path, you don't know their journey. Their journey was masculine, it was not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,274 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...all, you create walls which become imprisonments for you. You are your worst enemy. Life is hard, but the hardest thing is to hear of the way: to find a buddha, a master -- a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. It is very hard to find a buddha, and harder to hear him and to understand what he is saying. It is easier to misunderstand him, it is easier not to recognize him. You can find a 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,275 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... They have to use words -- words which have YOUR meanings, so they have to be very very alert in choosing their words, but even then those words are inadequate. The word 'path' is so inadequate that Lao Tzu always uses "the pathless path." Now what is the sense of saying "pathless path"? It is empty paper. "Gateless gate," "effortless effort," "action in inaction" -- WU-WEI: all these contradictions together, pa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,276 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...statement, he makes it a universal thing: Whosoever is awakened, this is going to be his teaching. And this is very rare, this is unique. Awakening can happen to anybody: it has happened to Jesus, it has happened to Lao Tzu, it has happened to Basho -- it can happen to anybody. Buddha is saying that whosoever is awakened, this is going to be his teaching. MASTER YOURSELF ACCORDING TO THE LAW. THIS IS THE SIMPLE T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,277 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...w people create stupid stories. There have been many buddhas. Mahavira's mother did not die, but if you ask the Buddhists they will say, "That simply proves that Mahavira is not a buddha." Jesus' mother did not die, Lao Tzu's mother did not die -- but to the prejudiced mind that simply proves that these were not buddhas. Whenever there is a buddha the mother has to die; that has become the definition. The real re...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,278 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of man and the Son of God. He knows the dark valley, he also knows the sunlit peak -- and he has a very human heart. That humanity remains with him to the very end. All the buddhas are unique. In the same situation Lao Tzu, looking back, would have laughed at the foolishness, at the ridiculousness, at the absurdity of human beings. And in the same situation Gautama the Buddha would not even have cared to look back; that is his ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,279 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...will not weep, because it helps nobody. If you weep for the world, it does not help the world. If you weep at the stupidity of people it makes you look silly, that's all. It does not help people. But Lao Tzu would have certainly laughed because looking at people's absurdity, their ridiculousness, what else can you do? Lao Tzu used to ride on a water buffalo, moving from one place to another. He was a jolly fellow...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,280 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... stupidity of people it makes you look silly, that's all. It does not help people. But Lao Tzu would have certainly laughed because looking at people's absurdity, their ridiculousness, what else can you do? Lao Tzu used to ride on a water buffalo, moving from one place to another. He was a jolly fellow, telling jokes, telling stories to people, always in a laughing state. If you see the statues of Buddha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,281 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rble statues you can see the belly laughing, there are ripples of laughter on the belly. It has been conceived according to the Taoist idea; because China could understand only if Buddha was presented in the form of Lao Tzu. They knew Lao Tzu, they were acquainted with this enlightened man, and he was always laughing. To him there is nothing to weep for. What reason is there to weep at the ridiculousness of man? ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,282 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n see the belly laughing, there are ripples of laughter on the belly. It has been conceived according to the Taoist idea; because China could understand only if Buddha was presented in the form of Lao Tzu. They knew Lao Tzu, they were acquainted with this enlightened man, and he was always laughing. To him there is nothing to weep for. What reason is there to weep at the ridiculousness of man? Three college boys...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,283 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The model said, "I would love to." Just then the artist heard familiar footsteps approaching the door. "Oh my gosh," he gasped. "Here comes my wife. Get your clothes off -- quick!" Lao Tzu would laugh; Jesus wept. Now it is for you to choose. I love both the men; in fact laughing and weeping are two sides of the same coin. And because of this story that Jesus wept, I say something which Christi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,284 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e lotus will need a lake, a different situation to happen in, it will have a different fragrance. But all kinds of flowers enrich the garden. The garden of buddhahood is full of strange, unique, incomparable beings: Lao Tzu, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Zarathustra, Mohammed, Mahavira, Buddha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,285 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...me is true about the inner world; so many possibilities of growing, so many different, unique expressions when you become mature -- different flowers. The world is richer because there is a Buddha and a Christ and a Lao Tzu. The world would have been really very poor if there were only Ramas, just Ramas; the world would have been very poor. In each village and town you can find a few Ramas, carrying their bow. Or if there were m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,286 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...FREE YOURSELF FROM IT. BE PURE. The first myth of man is that he exists. Man is only a possibility. Rarely has man become an actuality. Only once in a while a Gautam Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra -- the names are not many, they can be counted on the fingers. They are the only proof that man is not impossible. But the so-called ordinary humanity is only a myth, a belief in something whic...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,287 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o understand this situation, we have to transcend this situation. Buddha has to be revived, resurrected in such a way that you can recognize him again, and I have been doing the same with Jesus, with Lao Tzu, with Kabir and with other enlightened ones. Their names are different, but their taste is the same. Buddha is reported to have said: You can taste the ocean from anywhere, and you will find the taste always ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,288 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is worse -- worse than being driven in a plumber's or a pimp's car!" So I told Laxmi, "Now, for a poor man like me, only a Rolls Royce will do!" Now, please don't make any objection to it... because coming from Lao Tzu to Buddha Hall, a helicopter won't do. Don't create troubles for me! The fourth question: BELOVED MASTER, I KNOW NOW THAT I AM ALRIGHT JUST AS I AM, BUT HOW CAN I MAKE SURE T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,289 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d their heredity. They never cross the limit of what is allowed by their instincts; they never do anything beyond the instinctive, beyond the unconscious. It is only man who has been able to produce a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus, a Bahauddin. It is because of the buddhas that we can say man has the capacity to be a god. It is in the buddhas that we have found the link between man and God. Darwin and his followers have not be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,290 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... whatsoever he says is not what he knows. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says: The tao cannot be said, and if you say it, it is no more tao. Read instead of tao, "dhamma," and it becomes the statement of Buddha. Read instead of tao, "truth," and it becomes a statement of Socrates....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,291 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n. If you want to study the feminine psychology, then the best examples will be the mystics -- the purest examples will be the mystics. Then you will have to learn about Basho, Rinzai, Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu. You will have to learn about these people, because only through their understanding will you be able to understand the peak, the highest crescendo of feminine expression. Because the woman has been domin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,292 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ord. He is a seer who has seen. And because he has seen he has become free: free of mind. Mind is needed only if you are a thinker. Plato and Kant and Hegel and Marx and Bertrand Russell, these are philosophers. Lao Tzu, Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Eckhart, these are not philosophers; these are seers. These are two totally different currents. Belong to the seers. Be a seer, because wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,293 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has still the perfume of the beyond, that the earth has salt. Otherwise the crowds are dead. If you look at the crowds the earth is a big cemetery. Only these few people -- a Zarathustra, a Jesus, a Lao Tzu, a Buddha, a Kabir, a Nanak... these people who can be counted on the fingers keep the flame burning. But you can become the flame any moment, your heart is ready to burst into flame. But rather than looking ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,294 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- not philosophers at all, not in the sense of Socrates, Buddha, Lao Tzu. George Bernard Shaw had been wearied by the tedious conversation of a philosopher who was trying to impress him with his knowledge. Finally Shaw cut in, "You know, between the two of us...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,295 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut if it happens INvoluntarily, then the fast is not broken. Then for centuries people go on discussing such stupid nonsense -- sheer nonsense! They will miss a Mohammed, they will miss a Moses, they will miss a Lao Tzu; and then for centuries they will discuss useless things. Useless things are not dangerous. The real danger comes from people who are awake, because to be in their presence it is possible that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,296 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... West is absolutely unaware of that dimension. That's why Jesus could not be understood, Socrates could not be understood. In the East, crucifying a Buddha has not been our practice; giving poison to Lao Tzu has not been our way. Why were Jesus, Socrates and Mansoor killed? For the simple reason that they were trying to bring something absolutely Eastern to the West. They were trying to bring a new insight ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,297 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is only absence of light. You can wake up any moment, the candle can be lit any moment, and all dreams and desires will disappear; hence devices have been invented. What Buddha says, Patanjali says, Lao Tzu says, is that these are only devices to wake you up, alarms and nothing else. Secondly, whether you want it or not, if you remain asleep next lifetime you are going to be a woman. Even if you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,298 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it, Krishna had it, Mahavira had it, Nanak had it; that does not mean that all Indians have it. Socrates had it, Pythagoras had it, Heraclitus had it, Plotinus had it; that does not mean that all the Greeks have it. Lao Tzu had it, Chuang Tzu had it, Lieh Tzu had it; that does not mean that all the Chinese have it. These rare people have happened everywhere; it is nothing special to you. So stop bragging about it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,299 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be more skillful, more productive, and less creative. It wants you to function like a machine, efficiently, but it does not want you to become awakened. It does not want buddhas and christs -- Socrates, Pythagoras, Lao Tzu. No, these people are not needed at all by the society. If sometimes they happen, they don't happen because of the society; they happen in spite of the society. It is a miracle how a few peopl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,300 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he will do something wrong if he is alive, he will do something wrong if he has eyes -- he will see something wrong. Unless you are conscious you are going to do wrong. That's why in the East, Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu and people like them have never done any miracles -- or they have done only one miracle, and that miracle is the transformation of unconsciousness into consciousness -- because unless that happens everything ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,301 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nreachable. When Buddhism was introduced into China they brought it down to the earth. Chinese are very down-to-earth people. They have never given birth to any men like Buddha. They had their own awakened people -- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu -- but they are full of laughter, full of joy, full of gratitude. They belong to this existence; they are not in any way escaping from it. They are living it in its totality. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,302 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...w nothing. No maps exist; no maps can exist, in the very nature of things. Hence it is very rare to find the awakened master. In hundreds of years it happens only once that there is a man like Jesus or Buddha or Lao Tzu. There are thousands of pretenders and they are easily available and they are very cheap. In fact, even if you don't find them, they will find you. They are constantly searching for followers. Their whole bus...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,303 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Travel you must. If you can find a master, a companion, a friend, you are blessed, you are fortunate. If you cannot find, just don't make it an excuse that what can you do? -- there is nobody like Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu available. "What can I do? I have to live the ordinary life. I cannot go into the unknown on my own." No, you CAN go. It will be a little bit difficult, hazardous, risky, but the risk is worth taking. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,304 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the joy that was felt in existence itself. Whenever there is a man like Buddha, the whole humanity takes an upward surge; it soars higher. Just take two dozen names from human history -- Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Mohammed, Bahauddin, Kabir -- just two dozen names. Take them out of human history and you will not be human at all; you will lose all your humanity. It is through these few people that great con...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,305 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rsonal. Your misery is YOUR misery; it defines you. It is nobody else's misery, it is especially yours; it gives you a certain uniqueness. But bliss? Bliss is universal. Hence Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Lao Tzu, these people have disappeared into bliss. They don't have any personality. They are no-persons, they are nonentities. They are tremendously alive, but they are not separate from the whole. They have allowed ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,306 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it is Mohammedan, but just because it is a beautiful piece of objective art. I praise the Upanishads not because Hindus have written them but because they are so immensely valuable, intrinsically valuable. I praise Lao Tzu in the same way, I praise Jesus in the same way, I praise Mohammed in the same way. Wherever truth has happened, whomsoever it has happened to -- to Bahauddin or to Buddha -- it does not make any difference t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,307 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...descending from heaven will have the color of the earth on which it falls, will have the taste of the earth on which it falls. Exactly the same is the case with the words falling from Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. It depends on your earth -- on your mind. And what is the state of your mind? Can you think anything original? Can you understand anything original? Your mind only repeats that which it has heard or ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,308 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... prove that their master is extraordinary; he is not an ordinary human being. In fact, the truth is that you cannot find a more ordinary human being than Buddha, Mahavira, Jesus, Moses, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. They are so simple! They have accepted themselves as they are. They live in suchness, in TATHATA. They don't hanker for any perfection. They are perfectly at ease with the imperfect world, utterly contented ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,309 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ooted in lies and the truth hurts, it shatters. And the masses are vast, the blind people are millions. The people with eyes are rare, few and far between. Only once in a while comes a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus, a Moses, a Buddha. They are doing something unimaginable. They are trying to explain light to the millions who are blind. The blind people can hear the word 'light', but they cannot understand it --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,310 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- have to learn how to go with the river, how to go with the wind. Lao Tzu says: Be like a dead leaf, so wherever the wind blows the leaf goes with it. It has no destiny of its own, it has no private goals of its own, it has no will of its own. It is utterly surrendered. That is the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,311 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the society, moreover, is not interested in it at all. In fact, it is afraid of it because whenever a REALLY good person has happened in the world he has created trouble for the society. A Jesus, a Lao Tzu, a Buddha, a Kabir, these are the greatest rebels for the simple reason that they were so conscious that they could see through the whole stupid game that we go on playing. They could see through our lies, th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,312 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s invention, pure invention. It has never been there, it has never existed. Yes, there have been people like Krishna and Mahavira and Buddha, but they are not Indians at all. Jesus is not Jewish and Lao Tzu is not Chinese. These people are universal; nobody can claim them. The whole earth belongs to them; they are our common heritage, so you cannot brag about them. But every country has to inven...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,313 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... CONVERTING PEOPLE TO YOUR OWN RELIGION? Christina, I don't have any religion at all: a certain kind of religiousness, but no religion in particular. That's why it is so easy for me to absorb Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Moses, Mohammed, Mahavira. If I had a religion, then it would not be possible for me to be so universal. To have a religion means to become limited. To have a religion means you have define...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,314 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y, Shakespeare. They are one-dimensional: beauty is their god. And there have been moral people, absolutely moral people, virtuous people whose whole life was devoted to being just as virtuous as possible: Mahavira, Lao Tzu. But all are one-dimensional. Humanity has come now to a crossroads. We have lived the one-dimensional man, we have exhausted it. We need now a more enriched human being, three-dimensional. I call them th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,315 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...become awakened are contemporaries; it does not make much difference at all." That's why I say I am a contemporary to Buddha, a contemporary to Jesus, a contemporary to Zarathustra, a contemporary to Lao Tzu. Once you know, you become contemporary to all the knowers. All small time gaps simply disappear, they are so tiny. Twenty-five hundred years make no difference at all. That's why in the East ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,316 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ommit suicide or actually commit suicide. The man who lives life becomes a buddha. How many buddhas do you have? They can be counted on your fingers. Only once in a while is there a man like Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. Centuries pass; millions of people come and go, then only is there a man who really lives, authentically lives, lives to the utmost, lives fearlessly. Then what are the others doing? Their life is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,317 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Man, I'm really nervous. I've never screwed a cop before!" Misunderstandings and misunderstandings.... Buddhas have been misunderstood so much that whatsoever you think about Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Lao Tzu, be very cautious -- ninety-nine percent of it is going to be a misunderstanding. If you ask me, "Who are Christians?" I say "The people who have misunderstood Christ." If you ask me, "Who are Buddhists?" I w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,318 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have become interested in the cross are pathological. They are not interested in Christ, they are interested in the cross. If they were really interested in Christ they would have also been interested in Buddha, in Lao Tzu, in Krishna, in Kabir. But they are not interested in Christ, they are interested in the cross. Hence I don't call Christianity "Christianity," I call it "Crossianity." If Jesus had not been ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,319 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you. And he evolved a new technique of meditation. His greatest contribution to the world is vipassana; no other teacher has given such a great gift to the world. Jesus is beautiful, Mahavira is beautiful, Lao Tzu is beautiful, Zarathustra is beautiful, but their contribution, compared to Buddha, is nothing. Even if they are all put together, then too Buddha's contribution is greater because he gave such a scientific m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,320 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ose who are meditating. HOW GLADLY YOU FOLLOW THE WORDS OF THE AWAKENED. Then all the awakened ones suddenly become your contemporaries. Then only can you understand Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mahavira, Lao Tzu. Then only, when you meditate, suddenly mysteries open up, closed doors open and things which were never clear to you suddenly become clear. But it happens through meditation and there is no other way. Not by...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,321 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... without any maps and you are going into the ocean. The other shore, the farther shore is not visible; there is no guarantee that you will ever reach it. By loving a Buddha, a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Krishna, a Lao Tzu, a deep trust arises in you about the farther shore -- that it exists: "If I search with my total being there is a possibility I may discover it." But the risk is great and everything has to be done by you. Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,322 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Buddha would have appreciated them. If Adam and Eve had not rebelled, had not eaten from the tree of knowledge, there would have been no humanity -- and there would have been no Christ, no Buddha, no Zarathustra, no Lao Tzu. Adam and Eve would be still roaming naked like animals in the Garden of Eden. There would have been nothing like humanity. This consciousness, this awareness, this inquiry -- nothing would have been there. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,323 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t has become hell." I agree absolutely with the dream. I can visualize that your so-called saints, wherever they are, will create hell. But if a man like Buddha or Socrates or Mahavira or Jesus or Lao Tzu or Zarathustra is in hell, then hell has to change. It is not a question of the place; the question is of who is there. BUT DAY AND NIGHT THE MAN WHO IS AWAKE SHINES IN THE RADIANCE OF THE SPIRIT. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,324 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... language that you understand. They are just people like you; they live in the same kind of sleep. Hence there is a communication between you and them which is missing between you and a Buddha, between you and a Lao Tzu. Buddha stands on the Everest and you live in the dark valleys far below. You don't look up, you have forgotten how to look up. You crawl in the mud. Those who are crawling by your side can be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,325 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... inner being blooms into a one-thousand-petaled lotus. That day you have also become a buddha, and only then will you be able to understand the meaning of Jesus' life, the meaning of Buddha's sayings, the meaning of Lao Tzu, Zarathustra. Before that whatsoever you try to understand is just your mind interpreting, and that interpretation has been one of the greatest causes of mischief. Drop the mind -- the only th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,326 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...statue. He will say, "This is not right, Buddha was not like this, with such a big belly...." The Chinese Buddha looks like a clown -- but I have great respect for the Chinese Buddha. The Chinese Buddha has absorbed Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. He is pregnant with Lao Tzu, that's why that big belly. Inside his belly there is Lao Tzu. And you cannot keep Lao Tzu quiet. He must be laughing and kicking and doing things; hence the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,327 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this, with such a big belly...." The Chinese Buddha looks like a clown -- but I have great respect for the Chinese Buddha. The Chinese Buddha has absorbed Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. He is pregnant with Lao Tzu, that's why that big belly. Inside his belly there is Lao Tzu. And you cannot keep Lao Tzu quiet. He must be laughing and kicking and doing things; hence the ripples on the belly. Lao Tzu has ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,328 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...looks like a clown -- but I have great respect for the Chinese Buddha. The Chinese Buddha has absorbed Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. He is pregnant with Lao Tzu, that's why that big belly. Inside his belly there is Lao Tzu. And you cannot keep Lao Tzu quiet. He must be laughing and kicking and doing things; hence the ripples on the belly. Lao Tzu has the sense of humor. Maybe because of that Lao Tzu could not be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,329 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...spect for the Chinese Buddha. The Chinese Buddha has absorbed Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. He is pregnant with Lao Tzu, that's why that big belly. Inside his belly there is Lao Tzu. And you cannot keep Lao Tzu quiet. He must be laughing and kicking and doing things; hence the ripples on the belly. Lao Tzu has the sense of humor. Maybe because of that Lao Tzu could not become the founder of a great r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,330 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...egnant with Lao Tzu, that's why that big belly. Inside his belly there is Lao Tzu. And you cannot keep Lao Tzu quiet. He must be laughing and kicking and doing things; hence the ripples on the belly. Lao Tzu has the sense of humor. Maybe because of that Lao Tzu could not become the founder of a great religion. There exists no religion in his name. Yes, a few rare people have followed his path, but there is no org...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,331 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... his belly there is Lao Tzu. And you cannot keep Lao Tzu quiet. He must be laughing and kicking and doing things; hence the ripples on the belly. Lao Tzu has the sense of humor. Maybe because of that Lao Tzu could not become the founder of a great religion. There exists no religion in his name. Yes, a few rare people have followed his path, but there is no organized church, for the simple reason that Lao Tzu seem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,332 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use of that Lao Tzu could not become the founder of a great religion. There exists no religion in his name. Yes, a few rare people have followed his path, but there is no organized church, for the simple reason that Lao Tzu seems so nonserious. He used to ride on a buffalo. Now, can't you find a horse? Anybody could have afforded at least a donkey -- but a buffalo...? And that too, not in the right position, but sitting backward...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,333 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to ride on a buffalo. Now, can't you find a horse? Anybody could have afforded at least a donkey -- but a buffalo...? And that too, not in the right position, but sitting backwards! The buffalo is going one way and Lao Tzu is looking the other way. He must have created laughter wherever he passed. People must have gathered to see the scene, what is happening. And Chuang Tzu far surpassed his master. There has never been suc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,334 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to laugh at? Hence they attracted the people who are incapable of laughter, of living, of loving. My effort here, Amitabh, is just the opposite. I want you to learn as much from Buddha, as much from Lao Tzu, as much from Krishna, as much from Chuang Tzu as possible. I would like you to absorb all the great experiences that have happened in the past, so that a higher synthesis becomes possible. In that higher syn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,335 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is no change ever in my food. Thirdly, I don't know where my kitchen is! So, Pantha, even if I want I cannot find it. I know only my room, and the way from the room to Buddha Hall and back. I will get lost into Lao Tzu House. And after many many lives somehow I have found the way. Please don't make me get lost again. The sixth question: BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS THE DIRTIEST FOUR-...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,336 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in an ordinary way. You can behave like an enlightened person. What can we do about it? We are made in this way. The responsibility is God's, not ours. It is not our fate to be a Buddha or to be a Krishna or to be a Lao Tzu. It is not our destiny to be a Zarathustra. They were destined and we are not destined. So if something happened to them it was bound to happen, and if nothing is happening to us, nothing is 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,337 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve that 'This man is my master.'" Now, what do my shoulders have to do with my being a master or not? This is something new! I have come across thousands of definitions of what a master means, but neither Buddha nor Lao Tzu nor Zarathustra nor Jesus, nobody has said anything about the shoulders! And he was looking at my shoulders, not looking into my eyes -- I had asked him to look into my eyes. But this is how t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,338 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...iven to you with no preprogram; now it is up to you what you want to make out of it. You can become an ugly monster -- a Genghis Khan, a Tamerlane, a Nadirshah -- or you can become a Gautam Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra. It all depends on you, it is your freedom. Choose! But you can choose only when you are conscious; you can choose only when you are aware, alert. The more aware you are, the mo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,339 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y "nature," if "God" has lost its appeal for you. If the word 'God' has lost its appeal for you, 'nature' is as beautiful, or 'existence', or whatsoever you want. Buddha likes the word 'dhamma' -- the universal law. Lao Tzu loves the word 'tao' -- the harmony of existence, the inner order. The universe is not a chaos, that much is certain. Whether there is a God or not is irrelevant, the universe is not a chaos. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,340 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng. And it is time that you wake up! The master cannot force you to wake up; the master can only create a situation in which a process can be triggered in you. And ANY situation can be helpful. Lao Tzu became enlightened just by seeing a leaf, a dry leaf falling from a tree. As the leaf started falling towards the earth, he became enlightened. Now what happened? Seeing the dead leaf falling on the wings of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,341 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...able to us, it has no relevance to our world. We live in an ordinary world and they come from some extraordinary existence -- from the beyond." Every country, every race has convinced itself that Moses, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed are not ordinary people. In some way or other we have been trying to prove that they are extraordinary. Not that we are much interested in their being extraordinary, we are simply int...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,342 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is exalted through him. One of its members has reached the ultimate peak of awakening; through him the whole existence has moved a little ahead in evolution. Just cancel a dozen names from the history of humanity -- Lao Tzu, Moses, Abraham, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Christ, Kabir, Nanak... just a dozen names, cancel them, and where will mankind be? You would all have been Reverend Bananas or Reverend Tomatoes, Rever...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,343 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tween, in a limbo. It is uncomfortable, but just wait. Things will settle by themselves. In the inner world, action is not needed; only inaction is helpful. Inaction is the action of the inner world. Lao Tzu calls it wu wei -- inactive action, passive action. You don't do anything, you simply wait and things happen just by your waiting. It is good that you are freed from the opinions of others. It is better t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,344 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- that there is a dhamma, a natural law, which is immaterial. He will not say spiritual; he simply says WHICH IS IMMATERIAL. What is this dhamma? What is this law? It will be easy if you understand Lao Tzu's concept of tao, or if you understand the vedic concept of rita. There must be something like a law which holds everything together. The changing seasons, the moving stars... the whole universe goes on so sm...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,345 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ona' means sound. 'Persona' means you can have a contact only with their sounds, not with their faces. They are hiding somewhere. From that comes the word 'personality'. In that sense Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, have no personalities. They are just there in front of you, not hiding anything. They are naked, confronting you in their absolute purity. There is nothing to hide. You can see them through and through, they...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,346 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his is human anxiety. No, never do all these three layers agree on any point. There is no agreement ever. Now there are teachers who believe in the child. They emphasize the child more. For example, Lao Tzu. He says, 'The agreement is not going to come. You drop this parental voice, these commandments, these Old Testaments. Drop all 'shoulds' and become a child again.' That's what Jesus says. Lao Tzu and Jesus, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,347 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ample, Lao Tzu. He says, 'The agreement is not going to come. You drop this parental voice, these commandments, these Old Testaments. Drop all 'shoulds' and become a child again.' That's what Jesus says. Lao Tzu and Jesus, their emphasis is: become a child again -- because only with the child will you be able to gain your spontaneity, will you again become part of the natural flow, tao. Their message is beautifu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,348 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...You will follow the ten commandments of Moses without ever having heard about them; you will naturally follow them. That's where Moses got them -- not on the mountain but on the inner peak. And you will be following Lao Tzu and Jesus -- and you may not have heard about Lao Tzu and Jesus. That's where they got their childhood again, that's where they got born. And you will be following Manu and Mahavir and Mohammed, very naturall...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,349 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ever having heard about them; you will naturally follow them. That's where Moses got them -- not on the mountain but on the inner peak. And you will be following Lao Tzu and Jesus -- and you may not have heard about Lao Tzu and Jesus. That's where they got their childhood again, that's where they got born. And you will be following Manu and Mahavir and Mohammed, very naturally, and still you will not be irrational. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,350 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll over the world, people have talked about the devil, because in fact the devil is more a reality in people's experiences than god. God has happened to only few people. Somewhere a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Mahavir -- it has happened very rarely. The devil is everybody's experience, so there are people you can find, atheists, who don't believe in god -- but even atheists believe in the devil. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,351 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...appy will be irrelevant. Then priests and temples and churches will not be needed. Then by and by people will start forgetting about Jesus, Buddha, Christ, Krishna. There will be no need. That's what Lao Tzu says. 'When in the ancient days people were really religious, nobody had ever heard of religion.' True. Says Lao Tzu, 'In the ancient days, when people were simple, nobody had ever heard about saints, because...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,352 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...orgetting about Jesus, Buddha, Christ, Krishna. There will be no need. That's what Lao Tzu says. 'When in the ancient days people were really religious, nobody had ever heard of religion.' True. Says Lao Tzu, 'In the ancient days, when people were simple, nobody had ever heard about saints, because everybody was a saint, a saintly soul. When people became ill, evilish, then saints became important in contrast.' ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,353 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... intelligent to become aware that 'maybe it is just my style, not life itself'. They think of suicide and they sometimes commit suicide. Then there are the pinnacles of intelligence -- a Buddha, a Christ, a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra -- who immediately see the point: 'I am missing because my ways are wrong.' And they change their ways. They change their life pattern radically. That radical transformation is sannyas. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,354 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to be ambitious. People are habitually in discord with the way, and he becomes naturally in accord. Pythagoras calls this state harmonia. That is the right word -- in accord. Harmonia, in harmony.... Lao Tzu calls this tao. Buddha calls it dhamma. To be in accord... as if you are not swimming, not struggling; you are completely relaxed and floating with the river. You are so one with the river that there is n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,355 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...into matter? The only possible way is to deny it, say it is not. Nietzsche says god is not, god is dead, because if god is, then you have to accept Jesus, you have to accept Buddha, you have to accept Patanjali, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra. They are like rainbows... bridges between the known and the unknown. But you have to raise your eyes towards the sky. If you look down into the earth and you go on digging there, you cannot ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,356 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... wave of the whole. Now there is no possibility of your ever being defeated. It looks paradoxical, because the meek person is one who does not want to conquer. The meek person is one who is ready to be defeated. Lao Tzu says, 'Nobody can defeat me because I have accepted defeat already. Now how can you defeat a defeated person? Lao Tzu says, 'Nobody can 10/28/07 Copyright Osho Internation...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,357 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...k person is one who does not want to conquer. The meek person is one who is ready to be defeated. Lao Tzu says, 'Nobody can defeat me because I have accepted defeat already. Now how can you defeat a defeated person? Lao Tzu says, 'Nobody can 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- defeat me because I a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,358 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s not hurt at all. He was not even aware of what had happened, he was snoring. He had fallen on the ground. The others were crying and weeping and he was fast asleep. Chuang Tzu said, 'Seeing this, I understood what Lao Tzu means when he says "let go".' Children are doing this every day. You watch children. The whole day they fall here and there, but they are not hurt. You do the same. It will be impossible for ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,359 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re like a fool. There is a beautiful novel of Feodor Dostoevsky, 'The Idiot'. Read it, meditate upon it. In that novel the main character is a fool... but a fool like St. Francis, a fool -- but like Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. He has dropped, or he has no calculating mind. Of course, if you are a fool you will be cheated. Of course, if you are a fool you will not be an achiever in this world. If you ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,360 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...her really looked after him -- because he was born when the father was very old; he was his only hope. And suddenly one night he escaped. To all practical purposes he is a fool. Jesus is a fool. So is Francis, so is Lao Tzu, so is Chuang Tzu. Dayal, listen to your heart, and be simple. Be a fool. Let that be your very style of life, and more and more god will penetrate you. EMPATHY COMES AND GOES. W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,361 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rs will reflect each other, but nothing will be reflected. Two mirrors -- just think of two mirrors facing each other. If Christ comes to see Buddha, or Buddha somewhere on the roads of life comes across Lao Tzu, they will be absolutely silent -- there will be no echo. So when Buddha is speaking, remember it. He is not saying anything in particular. He is simply reflecting the people. That's why a Buddha can nev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,362 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... quiet. What can he do? He simply reflects. He reflects whatsoever is the case. So buddhist sayings are very contradictory. Jesus is contradictory, Buddha is contradictory, Krishna is contradictory, Lao Tzu is tremendously contradictory. Hegel is not contradictory, Kant is not contradictory, Russell is not contradictory, Confucius is not contradictory, Manu is not contradictory. They have a certain dogma. They d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,363 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ht that is unthinkable. It is a contradiction, a paradox. Now, no logician will ever utter such nonsense. It is from the very beginning nonsensical. That's why logicians go on saying that Buddha, Jesus, Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra -- these people are all nonsense. Their propositions are meaningless -- because they say one thing and in the next breath they contradict. Now look at this sentence: MY SIDDHANTA IS TO THINK THE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,364 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y, a date with god. THE THOUGHT THAT IS UNTHINKABLE -- only that is worth thinking. All else is just wasting life energy. TO PRACTISE THE DEED THAT IS NON-DOING. This is what Lao Tzu calls wu-wei. Action in inaction -- again another paradox. But a siddhanta has to be paradoxical. TO PRACTISE THE DEED THAT IS NOT DOING... Ordinarily we know only deeds which we can ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,365 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e other name who is also so hesitant 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- and he is Lao Tzu; these two persons are very hesitant. Sometimes, because of their hesitance, you may not be impressed by them -- because you are confused you need somebody to be so confident that you can rely on him. He...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,366 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aim absolutely, unconditionally, never hesitate! And that is one of the qualities of fools: they never hesitate. To hesitate you need some intelligence. A very intelligent person is always hesitant. Lao Tzu says: "I hesitate on every step. I must be confused. My whole town, everybody that I know, is so absolute; people are so clever -- I must be muddleheaded, because I feel so shaky. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,367 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...or example: in ancient China, three thousand years ago, a man who could compose poetry was thought to be more intelligent than a man who could devise a machine -- because the society existed on different principles. Lao Tzu had said that machines are not needed; Lao Tzu had said that machines are a way to cheat nature, to exploit nature. They are aggressive. Man does not need any mechanical things; poetry, painting, sculpture, m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,368 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an who could compose poetry was thought to be more intelligent than a man who could devise a machine -- because the society existed on different principles. Lao Tzu had said that machines are not needed; Lao Tzu had said that machines are a way to cheat nature, to exploit nature. They are aggressive. Man does not need any mechanical things; poetry, painting, sculpture, music, is more valuable. So a child who was a bo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,369 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ould claim the whole heritage of humanity as one's own -- we are unnecessarily poor. Somebody says, "I am Christian." He is saying, "I claim only Jesus. I don't claim Buddha, I don't claim Zarathustra, I don't claim Lao Tzu." How poor a man! The whole humanity, the whole history of man, is yours. Jesus is as much yours as Lao Tzu, as Buddha, as Mohammed. They are all yours: claim them all together, that is your heritage. But tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,370 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ristian." He is saying, "I claim only Jesus. I don't claim Buddha, I don't claim Zarathustra, I don't claim Lao Tzu." How poor a man! The whole humanity, the whole history of man, is yours. Jesus is as much yours as Lao Tzu, as Buddha, as Mohammed. They are all yours: claim them all together, that is your heritage. But that is possible only if you are not conditioned to be a Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan. Good, yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,371 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y a corner -- and lives in that corner, crippled and paralyzed. In fact, the corner is so narrow you cannot move. It is not spacious enough. A religious person will claim all -- Buddha, Mahavir, Christ, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Nanak, Kabir, etc., etc. He will claim ALL. They are all part of me; they are all part of you. Whatsoever has happened to human consciousness, you carry the seeds of it in you. This is the o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,372 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The word "God" is not God, but people have been fighting about it. All that you say about God has nothing to do with God because those who have known, they all have said nothing can be said about God. Says Lao Tzu, "If you say something about truth, it becomes untrue." The moment you assert, you falsify; truth cannot be said. But people go on discussing, arguing, "My God is right and your God is wrong." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,373 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...create one saint, you will need millions of sinners. It is very costly and uneconomical. I would like a world where the sinners and the saints have disappeared. They are two aspects of the same coin. Lao Tzu says in his TAO TE CHING, "When the world was really natural and religious, there was not a saint and not a sinner." When the saints entered in the world, sin entered. When you say somebody is a saint, you ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,374 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Yes, it is how it happens. Sometimes just a hit from the Master, or sometimes just a look from the Master, and it can happen. And not only that, sometimes it can happen without the Master. It is said about Lao Tzu that he was sitting under a tree when he became enlightened, but he was not doing anything. Buddha was meditating; Lao Tzu was not doing anything, not even meditation. He was just sitting, and an old leaf fel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,375 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... happen. And not only that, sometimes it can happen without the Master. It is said about Lao Tzu that he was sitting under a tree when he became enlightened, but he was not doing anything. Buddha was meditating; Lao Tzu was not doing anything, not even meditation. He was just sitting, and an old leaf fell from the tree, started falling, slowly, lazily, like a feather, and he watched it falling, and it settled on the ground.....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,376 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f Chuang Tzu is beautiful. He says that a wise man is like an empty boat. SUCH IS THE PERFECT MAN -- HIS BOAT IS EMPTY. There is nobody inside. If you meet a Chuang Tzu, or a Lao Tzu, or me, the boat is there, but it is empty, nobody is in it. If you simply look at the surface, then somebody is there, because the boat is there. But if you penetrate deeper, if you really become intimate wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,377 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is the deepest religion that has existed on this earth. There is no comparison to it. There have been glimpses, there are glimpses in the sayings of Jesus, in Buddha, in Krishna -- but only glimpses. Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu's message is the purest -- it is absolutely pure, nothing has contaminated it. And this is the message: it is all because there is somebody in the boat. This whole hell is all because there is s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,378 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This is unique. Chuang Tzu is saying that the halo of saintliness around you shows that you are still there. The halo that you are good is sure to create calamity for you, and calamity for others also. Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu -- master and disciple -- have never been painted in pictures with halos, auras, around them. Unlike Jesus, Zarathustra, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, they have never been painted with an aura aro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,379 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...there are many foxes around you. Beware of them -- philosophers, theologians, logicians, professors all around you -- foxes. They ask you questions and they create a disturbance. Chuang Tzu's master, Lao Tzu, said: When there was not a single philosopher, everything was solved, there were no questions, and all answers were available. When philosophers arose, questions came and answers disappeared. Whenever there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,380 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erfect sage is absolutely useless. NO SELF IS TRUE SELF. When you feel that you are not, for the first time you are, because the self is nothing but a synonym for the ego. That is why Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, they all say there is no self, no ATMAN. Not that there is not -- they say there is no atman, there is no self, because your ego is so cunning it can hide behind it. You can say, AHAM BRAHMASMI, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,381 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... mind is ambitious or nonambitious. Your whole search will be futile, because ambition can never lead to the divine. Only non-ambition can become the door. Modern psychology also agrees with Chuang Tzu, with Lao Tzu, with Buddha, with all those who have known, that inferiority creates ambition. Hence politicians come from the worst stuff in humanity. All politicians are SUDRAS, untouchables. It cannot be otherwise, becau...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,382 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...The police searched and searched for many days and couldn't find him. You can find only that which you are. You always find yourself in others, because others are just mirrors. To catch Chuang Tzu, a Lao Tzu was needed. Nobody else could catch him, for who could understand him? A Buddha was needed; Buddha would have guessed where he was. But a policeman? -- impossible! Only if he were a thief would it be possible...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,383 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h, not an event in the outer world; it belongs to the inner. "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE BIRD THAT LIVES IN THE SOUTH?" To China, India is the south, and that bird lives here. It is said that when Lao Tzu disappeared, he disappeared into the south. They don't know when he died...he never died. Such people never die, they simply go to the south -- they disappear into India. It is said that Bodh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,384 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... much that the river keeps fighting with itself. Nothing is left to move, no energy is left; you are so tired fighting with yourself, how can you move towards the sea? One of the basic laws of Tao, of Lao Tzu, of Chuang Tzu, is that if you are spontaneous it is the highest prayer; you cannot miss God, whatsoever you do you will reach him. So Chuang Tzu never talks about God; talk is irrelevant, it isn't needed. He...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,385 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... mystical. And remember, Hindus have one theology, Mohammedans another, Christ-ians again another, but religion, the mystic religion, is the same; it cannot be different. Buddha and Jesus and Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu, they are the same because they are not theologians. They are not talking from the head, they are simply pouring from their heart. They are not logicians, they are poets. They are not saying something from th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,386 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- IS FREE OF ALL FORMALITY. It happened that Confucius came to see Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu's master. And Confucius was the image of formal politeness. He was the greatest formalist in the world, the world has never known such a great formalist. He was simply manners, formality, culture ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,387 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...And Confucius was the image of formal politeness. He was the greatest formalist in the world, the world has never known such a great formalist. He was simply manners, formality, culture and etiquette. He came to see Lao Tzu, the polar opposite. Confucius was very old, Lao Tzu was not so old. The formality was that when Confucius came in, Lao Tzu should stand up to receive him. But he remained sitting. It was impo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,388 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... formalist in the world, the world has never known such a great formalist. He was simply manners, formality, culture and etiquette. He came to see Lao Tzu, the polar opposite. Confucius was very old, Lao Tzu was not so old. The formality was that when Confucius came in, Lao Tzu should stand up to receive him. But he remained sitting. It was impossible for Confucius to believe that such a great master, known all o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,389 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st. He was simply manners, formality, culture and etiquette. He came to see Lao Tzu, the polar opposite. Confucius was very old, Lao Tzu was not so old. The formality was that when Confucius came in, Lao Tzu should stand up to receive him. But he remained sitting. It was impossible for Confucius to believe that such a great master, known all over the country for his humbleness, should be so impolite. He had to me...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,390 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to believe that such a great master, known all over the country for his humbleness, should be so impolite. He had to mention it. Immediately he said, "This is not good. I am older than you." Lao Tzu laughed loudly and said, "Nobody is older than me. I existed before everything came into existence. Confucius, we are of the same age, everything is of the same age. From eternity we have been in existence, s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,391 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of the same age. From eternity we have been in existence, so don't carry this burden of old age, sit down." Confucius had come to ask some questions. He said, "How should a religious man behave?" Lao Tzu said, "When the how comes, there is no religion. How is not a question for a religious man. The how shows that you are not religious but that you want to behave like a religious man -- that is why you ask how...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,392 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that he has been in love. It may be that only when love has gone does he become aware that he has been in love. He simply loves. It happens. It is a happening, not a doing." Whatsoever Confucius asked, Lao Tzu replied in such a way that Confucius became very much disturbed: "This man is dangerous!" When he returned, his disciples asked, "What happened, what manner of man is this Lao Tzu?" Confuc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,393 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Whatsoever Confucius asked, Lao Tzu replied in such a way that Confucius became very much disturbed: "This man is dangerous!" When he returned, his disciples asked, "What happened, what manner of man is this Lao Tzu?" Confucius said, "Don't go near him. You may have seen dangerous snakes, but nothing can compare with this man. You may have heard about ferocious lions, they are nothing before this man. Thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,394 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... small. He is dangerous, vast like an abyss. Don't go near him, otherwise you will feel dizzy and you may fall. Even I felt dizzy. And I couldn't understand what he said, he is beyond understanding." Lao Tzu is bound to be beyond understanding if you try to understand him through formality; otherwise he is simple. But for Confucius he is difficult, almost impossible to understand, because he sees through forms an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,395 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu is bound to be beyond understanding if you try to understand him through formality; otherwise he is simple. But for Confucius he is difficult, almost impossible to understand, because he sees through forms and Lao Tzu has no form and no formality. Nameless, without any form, he lives in the infinite. THE GREATEST POLITENESS IS FREE OF ALL FORMALITY. Lao Tzu is sitting, Confucius is w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,396 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... sees through forms and Lao Tzu has no form and no formality. Nameless, without any form, he lives in the infinite. THE GREATEST POLITENESS IS FREE OF ALL FORMALITY. Lao Tzu is sitting, Confucius is waiting for him to stand up. Who was really polite? Confucius waiting for Lao Tzu to stand up and welcome him and receive him because he is older, is just egotistical. Now the ego has...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,397 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the infinite. THE GREATEST POLITENESS IS FREE OF ALL FORMALITY. Lao Tzu is sitting, Confucius is waiting for him to stand up. Who was really polite? Confucius waiting for Lao Tzu to stand up and welcome him and receive him because he is older, is just egotistical. Now the ego has taken the form of age, seniority. But Confucius could not look directly into the eyes of Lao Tzu, beca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,398 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... waiting for Lao Tzu to stand up and welcome him and receive him because he is older, is just egotistical. Now the ego has taken the form of age, seniority. But Confucius could not look directly into the eyes of Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu was right. He was saying: We are of the same age. Really, we are the same. The same life flows in you that flows in me. You are not superior to me, I am not superior to you. There is no quest...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,399 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Tzu to stand up and welcome him and receive him because he is older, is just egotistical. Now the ego has taken the form of age, seniority. But Confucius could not look directly into the eyes of Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu was right. He was saying: We are of the same age. Really, we are the same. The same life flows in you that flows in me. You are not superior to me, I am not superior to you. There is no question of superiorit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,400 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...am not superior to you. There is no question of superiority and inferiority, and there is no question of seniority and juniority. There is no question, we are one. If Confucius could have looked into the eyes of Lao Tzu he would have seen that those eyes were divine. But a man whose own eyes are filled with laws, rules, regulations, formalities, is almost blind, he cannot see. PERFECT CONDUCT IS FREE OF CONC...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,401 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave laughed within, because he knew the total. And he yielded. Only a wise man yields. A foolish man always resists. Foolish people say it is better to die than to bend, better to break than to bend. Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu always say: When there is a strong wind the foolish egoistic trees resist and die, and the wise grass bends. The storm goes by and again the grass stands straight, laughing and enjoying. The gr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,402 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecause he thinks life is a riddle and a solution can be found. He works on life with his mind, and he gets more and more serious. The more he misses life, the more he gets serious and dead. Taoists, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, say that if you can laugh, if you can feel belly laughter that comes from the very core of your being, that is not just painted on the surface, if you can feel laughter that comes from the dee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,403 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... CONFUCIUS SENT A DISCIPLE TO HELP THE OTHER TWO CHANT HIS OBSEQUIES. Confucius is the man of manners par excellence. Nobody can transcend him. So he is always the butt of Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu. They bring Confucius into their stories just to laugh at his foolishness. What was his foolishness? He lived by a system, he lived by a form-ula, by theories and beliefs. He was the perfectly...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,404 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ks according to the rule. He laughs, and he laughs according to the rule. He never moves beyond the boundary, he lives in a constant bondage of his own making. So he is the butt of their laughter, and Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu very much enjoy bringing him into their stories. THEN ONE FRIEND DIED. CONFUCIUS SENT A DISCIPLE TO HELP THE OTHER TWO CHANT HIS OBSEQUIES. Neither life ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,405 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... work, any duty. This is very difficult because our whole emphasis is on the useful. If somebody asks you what a house consists of, you will say, walls. And Chuang Tzu would say, just like his master Lao Tzu, that a house consists not of walls but of doors and windows. Their emphasis is on the other part. They say that walls are useful, but their use depends on the useless space behind. A room is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,406 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO. He is searching. I have seen him here many times wandering around you, just waiting, waiting. If you forget the words he will talk to you. And not only Chuang Tzu -- Krishna, Christ, Lao Tzu, Buddha, they are all in search of you; all the enlightened people are in search of the ignorant. But they cannot talk because they know a language which is of silence, and you know a language which ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,407 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it to be otherwise; be in a letgo, and allow the whole to function. And when you allow the whole to function and you are not a barrier, a resistance, then you cannot be defeated. In Japan, through Buddha, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, a particular art has been developed called ZENDO. Zendo means the Zen of the sword, the art of the warrior -- and nobody knows it like they do. The way they have developed it is supreme. It ta...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,408 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... That is why I insist again and again that Jesus is from the East; that is why he could not be understood in the West. The West has misunderstood him. The East could have understood him because the East knows Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Buddha, and Jesus belongs to them. He says: Those who are last will be the first in my kingdom of God. The humblest, the meekest, will possess the kingdom of God. The poor in spirit is the goal. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,409 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...IDE IN SECRET TAO. HIS NATURE SINKS TO ITS ROOT.... The ego exists in the head, remember, and you carry your head very high. The root is just at the other pole of your being. Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu used to say: Concentrate on the toe. Close your eyes and move into the toe and remain there. That will give you a balance. The head has given you much imbalance. The toe...? It looks as if they are joking. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,410 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...onresistant; yes makes you vulnerable. God is dead or dying because man has not yet grown. There have been millions of Adams and Eves, and only very rarely Christs -- a Buddha here, a Christ there, a Lao Tzu -- only few and far between. The people who have really said yes, they give life to God. By saying no, you give life to yourself. By saying yes, you give life to the total, to the whole; you pour your life in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,411 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he goes on saying that "Rajneesh holds the foolish view that through meditation man can'feel the very core of existence'." If this is the foolish view, then Buddha is a fool and so is Krishna and so is Christ, so is Lao Tzu, so is Chuang Tzu, so is Zarathustra, and so is Mohammed, because they all hold the view that through meditation you can come to the very core of existence -- because through meditation you come to your inner...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,412 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...et, and they will never try, because they don't believe in scriptures. They say it is beyond the scriptures; it is a transmission beyond the scriptures. But if they ever write a Bible, or if they are forced to, like Lao Tzu was once forced to write the Tao Te Ching because the king wouldn't allow him to leave the country unless he wrote his experiences.... Lao Tzu wanted to go to the Himalayas, to die there; cer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,413 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...they ever write a Bible, or if they are forced to, like Lao Tzu was once forced to write the Tao Te Ching because the king wouldn't allow him to leave the country unless he wrote his experiences.... Lao Tzu wanted to go to the Himalayas, to die there; certainly there cannot be any more beautiful a place to die. Those eternal peaks, those snow -- covered virgin peaks, where can you find a better place to disappea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,414 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ause of variety. Yes, it is good sometimes a Mahavir keeps silent, and it is good sometimes a Meera goes mad, dancing. It is good to have a Christ and a Krishna. It is good to have a Zarathustra and a Mohammed and a Lao Tzu. All are so different and so unique, and yet the message is the same. Those who have eyes to see, they will see the same truth being expressed in millions of forms. And those who have ears to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,415 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sm, met with Buddhism. These are two of the greatest flowerings of human consciousness. Never again has humanity reached such a peak as Buddhism, as it reached in Buddha; and never again has it reached anything like Lao Tzu. And just think: Zen is a crossbreeding of Taoism and Buddhism. It is a meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu. It is a meeting of two of the highest peaks. Naturally Zen goes still higher. Zen goes higher than ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,416 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s humanity reached such a peak as Buddhism, as it reached in Buddha; and never again has it reached anything like Lao Tzu. And just think: Zen is a crossbreeding of Taoism and Buddhism. It is a meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu. It is a meeting of two of the highest peaks. Naturally Zen goes still higher. Zen goes higher than Buddhism and higher than Taoism because it contains all that was beautiful in these two cultures, the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,417 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...na is also 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- like Christ; Mahavira, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, all are like Christ... the world would look very sad, boring. Wherever you go, you meet Christ. You will get tired. It is good that once in a while the cross disappears and the flute appears, and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,418 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...They miss all opportunities. And three are the great opportunities in life. The first is birth. Only once in a while is a man so intelligent that he uses that opportunity -- only very rarely. Maybe a Lao Tzu -- hence the story. It is said Lao Tzu lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. Now this is nonsense, but it has some truth in it. It is not factual, but it has some truth in it. And that is the d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,419 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And three are the great opportunities in life. The first is birth. Only once in a while is a man so intelligent that he uses that opportunity -- only very rarely. Maybe a Lao Tzu -- hence the story. It is said Lao Tzu lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. Now this is nonsense, but it has some truth in it. It is not factual, but it has some truth in it. And that is the difference between the Western way of thinki...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,420 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...les; there is no other way to express truth. Truth can only be expressed through metaphors, through poetry, not through history. It is poetry, pure poetry, and of tremendous power. It means that when Lao Tm was born he was already so mature, so ripe, that he used his first opportunity to wake up. Ordinarily it takes eighty-two years for a person to wake up, and even then, how many people wake up? People wake up a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,421 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ortunity to wake up. Ordinarily it takes eighty-two years for a person to wake up, and even then, how many people wake up? People wake up at the time of death, but how many? -- that too is very rare. Lao Tzu must have been of immense intelligence, must have carried the intelligence from his past lives -- maybe just a little bit was missing, just the last straw on the camel. He used the opportunity. The first oppo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,422 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ished and unpublished Query:- all his comfort and security. He knows he is dying! Hence the birth trauma -- because the birth enters into the child's consciousness as death. He dies and is reborn. Lao Tzu used his first opportunity. And the same is the case with Zarathustra, another beautiful story. It is said that Zarathustra is the only child in the whole history of man who laughed when he was ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,423 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And the most important thing will be to bring a little more femininity, a more soft heart to human beings -- men and women both. A little more liquidity. You need not be like rocks: please be like water. Lao Tzu says that his path is that of the watercourse way -- liquid, fragile, feminine, non-resisting, flowing, dynamic OTHER WOMEN WHO MANAGED TO GET UP EARLY HAVE ALREADY FOUND AN ELEPHANT OR A ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,424 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...." Remember love. Love is the quintessence of the whole of religion, the very perfume of all the flowers that have bloomed in the name of religion -- Buddha, Krishna, Christ, Mohammed, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Farid, Nanak, Meera -- all the flowers in all the ages that have ever bloomed, they have the same fragrance and that fragrance is love. If you can love, then everything is allowed -- because a lov...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,425 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g life misery, it rationalizes its own clinging to misery. I have heard a beautiful story -- I don't know how far it is correct, I cannot vouch for it: In paradise, one afternoon, in the most famous cafe, Lao Tzu, Confucius and Buddha are sitting, and talking sweet nothings. The bearer comes and in a tray brings three glasses of the juice called life and offers them. Buddha immediately closes his eyes ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,426 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aviourist the world has known, very logical. And it looks perfectly right: he says, "First I will have a sip and then I will say." He takes a sip and he says, "Buddha is right -- life is misery." Lao Tzu takes all the three glasses and he says, "Unless one drinks totally how can one say anything?" He drinks all the three glasses and starts dancing! Buddha and Confucius ask him, "Are you not go...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,427 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Unless you taste totally, you cannot say. And when you taste totally, you cannot say because what you know is so much that no word is adequate. Buddha is on one extreme, Confucius is in the middle, Lao Tzu has drunk all the three glasses. The one that was brought for Buddha he has drunk, and the one that was brought for Confucius he has drunk, and the one that was brought for him he has drunk -- he has lived li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,428 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uddha he has drunk, and the one that was brought for Confucius he has drunk, and the one that was brought for him he has drunk -- he has lived life in its three-dimensionality. My own approach is that of Lao Tzu. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Gregg Johnson, live life in all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,429 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- My own experience is this, that all those who have become enlightened in the world -- and Moses is enlightened, and Zarathustra is enlightened, and Lao Tzu is enlightened and Mohammed and Jesus and Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Kabir, and many many more -- what they have experienced is the same. But still their personalities are so different, their individuality is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,430 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ARE different, they are unique. And I respect their uniqueness. In fact, the world is richer because there is a Koran and there is a Gita and there is a Dhammapada. The world is richer because Zarathustra happened, Lao Tzu happened, Buddha happened; the world is richer because there is Nanak and Kabir and Farid. So many different flowers! The world is a beautiful garden. And the rose is not the lotus, and the lo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,431 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Enjoy life. Act, but act in a relaxed way. The greatest art in life is to learn how to act in a relaxed way. Action is a must -- you cannot live without action -- but action can be almost inaction. That's what Lao Tzu means when he uses the word WU-WEI. That is very fundamental to Lao Tzu and that is very fundamental to me too: I would like you to learn WU-WEI. WU-WEI means action without action -- doing a thing in such a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,432 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e is to learn how to act in a relaxed way. Action is a must -- you cannot live without action -- but action can be almost inaction. That's what Lao Tzu means when he uses the word WU-WEI. That is very fundamental to Lao Tzu and that is very fundamental to me too: I would like you to learn WU-WEI. WU-WEI means action without action -- doing a thing in such a way that you are not tense in doing it, doing a thing in such a way ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,433 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., doing a thing in such a way that you are playful about it, doing a thing in such a way that you are not worried about it, doing it and yet remaining detached, doing it and yet remaining a witness. Lao Tzu seems to be the way out for Jews and Hindus. And this is strange that no tradition arose out of Lao Tzu, no religion. Jews have created three great religions, Hindus have created three great religions -- all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,434 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t worried about it, doing it and yet remaining detached, doing it and yet remaining a witness. Lao Tzu seems to be the way out for Jews and Hindus. And this is strange that no tradition arose out of Lao Tzu, no religion. Jews have created three great religions, Hindus have created three great religions -- all the six great religions belong to these two peoples. Lao Tzu remained an individual. Yes, a few people f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,435 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...And this is strange that no tradition arose out of Lao Tzu, no religion. Jews have created three great religions, Hindus have created three great religions -- all the six great religions belong to these two peoples. Lao Tzu remained an individual. Yes, a few people followed him; down the centuries, a few individuals have moved into the world of Lao Tzu, but only individuals -- no religion came out of it, because the whole Taoist...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,436 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at religions -- all the six great religions belong to these two peoples. Lao Tzu remained an individual. Yes, a few people followed him; down the centuries, a few individuals have moved into the world of Lao Tzu, but only individuals -- no religion came out of it, because the whole Taoist approach is such that it cannot create fanatics. And unless you can create fanatics, you cannot create a religion. The whole of La...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,437 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu, but only individuals -- no religion came out of it, because the whole Taoist approach is such that it cannot create fanatics. And unless you can create fanatics, you cannot create a religion. The whole of Lao Tzu's philosophy is such that it gives you such balance, such tranquillity, such serenity, that you cannot become a fanatic -- Hindu, Christian, Mohammedan. It is impossible. These things happen only to neurotic ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,438 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eate another kind of neurosis, and both have created great religions in the world. And I absolutely agree with Sigmund Freud that these so-called religions are nothing but collective obsessions. A Buddha, a Jesus, a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra, they are not religious people in the sense Christians, Mohammedans and Buddhists are. They are very balanced, they are so whole, they are so tranquil, they cannot become parts of crowds, they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,439 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Then you are neither Eastern nor Western -- that's what I call the new man. He will not be Eastern, he will not be Western, or he will be both together. It has never happened before: my sannyasin has to prove it. Lao Tzu talked about it and a few people have tried it, but I am making an effort to create such a big space that millions of people can try it. It is such a blessing to know how to act without acting that everybody ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,440 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing to them -- that means nothing special is happening to them. All that is happening is so superficial that language is adequate to express it. The deeper the happening, the more dumb you will feel. Lao Tzu says: "People can say whatsoever they want to say -- except me. Compared to them I look a little muddle-headed. People are very clear, but I am vague." People are clear because they don't have any experience ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,441 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oever they want to say -- except me. Compared to them I look a little muddle-headed. People are very clear, but I am vague." People are clear because they don't have any experience of the mysterious. Lao Tzu is joking. Lao Tzu is saying: "You are poor because you can say everything that you know and you are so clear about your life -- how can you be so clear about the mysterious?" The mysterious remains in the mi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,442 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...say -- except me. Compared to them I look a little muddle-headed. People are very clear, but I am vague." People are clear because they don't have any experience of the mysterious. Lao Tzu is joking. Lao Tzu is saying: "You are poor because you can say everything that you know and you are so clear about your life -- how can you be so clear about the mysterious?" The mysterious remains in the mist. One only feels ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,443 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...manity. You never ask, Who was Jesus trying to become? Who was Gautam Buddha trying to become? If you are really understanding, one thing is clear: Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Jesus Christ, or Moses, or Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- they were not trying to become anybody else. That is the basic reason why they could become what was their own potential. If you have to learn something from their lives, this is the most f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,444 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... somebody was Mohammedan, somebody was Christian. There was not a single person who was freely available to me. Then naturally I started speaking on Jesus, Krishna, Mahavira, Buddha, Sufis, Zen mystics -- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Milarepa, Marpa.... I covered the whole range, and got hold of many customers from other shops. It was necessary. Now I have got my own customers, and I can say to you the truth. And you are...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,445 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...understand that there is no way to express truth in words? Not a single enlightened person in the whole history has said that truth can be said. So whatever can be said will be a lie. Lao Tzu, one of the greatest masters, never wrote any book. He continuously avoided his disciples persuading him, asking him, "Soon you will be gone; you are too old, and you have not given us anything written that w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,446 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er wrote any book. He continuously avoided his disciples persuading him, asking him, "Soon you will be gone; you are too old, and you have not given us anything written that we can remember, understand." And one day Lao Tzu left. Even the emperor of China was a disciple of Lao Tzu. When he heard that Lao Tzu had left towards the Himalayas -- that was his long, long dream, to die in the peace, the eternal peace of the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,447 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ading him, asking him, "Soon you will be gone; you are too old, and you have not given us anything written that we can remember, understand." And one day Lao Tzu left. Even the emperor of China was a disciple of Lao Tzu. When he heard that Lao Tzu had left towards the Himalayas -- that was his long, long dream, to die in the peace, the eternal peace of the Himalayas -- he immediately sent messengers to all checkposts on the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,448 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you will be gone; you are too old, and you have not given us anything written that we can remember, understand." And one day Lao Tzu left. Even the emperor of China was a disciple of Lao Tzu. When he heard that Lao Tzu had left towards the Himalayas -- that was his long, long dream, to die in the peace, the eternal peace of the Himalayas -- he immediately sent messengers to all checkposts on the roads which lead to the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,449 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Himalayas -- that was his long, long dream, to die in the peace, the eternal peace of the Himalayas -- he immediately sent messengers to all checkposts on the roads which lead to the Himalayas to say that, wherever Lao Tzu is found, he should be prevented from leaving. Unless he writes his experience he cannot leave China. And he was caught at one of the posts on the border. The man on the post also happened to be a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,450 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd, he should be prevented from leaving. Unless he writes his experience he cannot leave China. And he was caught at one of the posts on the border. The man on the post also happened to be a lover of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was a man worth loving. He said, "It is difficult for me to prevent you, but these are orders from the emperor. And my own feeling also is that you should write the essential experience of your t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,451 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ould be prevented from leaving. Unless he writes his experience he cannot leave China. And he was caught at one of the posts on the border. The man on the post also happened to be a lover of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was a man worth loving. He said, "It is difficult for me to prevent you, but these are orders from the emperor. And my own feeling also is that you should write the essential experience of your truth -- j...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,452 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... experience of your truth -- just a small treatise and you will be allowed to go. So rest in my cottage and start writing, because otherwise you cannot go to the Himalayas." Under such circumstances, Lao Tzu wrote his only book, TAO TE CHING. The first sentence he wrote is, "The truth cannot be said, cannot be written. Please remember it while you are reading this book. "This is a reminder that ev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,453 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... outside. That's how you have come into the world, that's how everybody else has come into the world. It is good that Gautam Buddha's father was not a monk. Just a few people: Gautam Buddha's father, Lao Tzu's father, Chuang Tzu's father, Moses' father -- if all these people were monks, there would have been no religions, except Christianity... because the poor father of Jesus had nothing to do with Jesus' birth ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,454 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... kinds of crimes; but they believed, they had faith, and they will be saved? You have to answer me." The bishop was in a difficulty. He could not say that men like Socrates, Gautam Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, will go into hell. No intelligent man can say that. Certainly they were not believers; they were very much seekers, searchers. They doubted everything, they were skeptical. Unless they came to so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,455 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d to Edmund Burke, "Please forgive me. It is not a question of who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. We have to look at the whole question from a different angle. Wherever people like Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu are, they create heaven. And wherever dull, retarded, idiotic saints are, they create hell. So it is not a question of you going to hell, it is a question of what you can create. You bring your heaven and hel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,456 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the way, how you have arrived, how you have been able to experience it. It is a taste on the tongue -- very sweet. I am reminded of a story.... In a cafeteria in paradise, Gautam Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu are all sitting around a table talking about great things of life. A naked, beautiful woman comes with a jar in her hands, and she says, "This jar contains the very juice of life. Would any of you like to tas...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,457 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...temptation is so great -- he looks at her. And the woman says, "Perhaps you would like...?" He says, "First I will have just a sip to taste what it is." He takes a sip and says, "It is bitter!" Lao Tzu is sitting with wide open eyes, enjoying the beauty of the woman. He takes the whole jar, and drinks it completely. The woman says, "What are you doing?" He says, "Keep quiet! I never do anyt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,458 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t about it? All the enlightened persons had to rebel against the organized religions; only then could they become enlightened. It seems organized religions are the greatest barrier to enlightenment. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Gautam Buddha, Bodhidharma, Baal Shem Tov -- all these people had to go out of the organized religion for the simple reason that the organized religions exist for the mob, and the mob has no desi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,459 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s sixty thousand times bigger than the earth. And this sun is a very mediocre one; there are very big suns that you see as stars. There are millions of solar systems, but no solar system can claim a Gautam Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Bodhidharma, a Kabir. This earth has done something immensely great, it has made the whole universe rich. It cannot be destroyed. War should be stopped -- and it is within our hands to do so. Don't be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,460 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...reedom, to total newness, freshness, a new birth. Because of this phenomenon all religions have failed, because they were trying just to imitate somebody's enlightenment. The Taoists are still trying to imitate Lao Tzu -- after twenty-five centuries doing the same things, eating the same things, living the same way, thinking that they will become Lao Tzu. But in twenty-five centuries not a single man has been able to attain...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,461 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mitate somebody's enlightenment. The Taoists are still trying to imitate Lao Tzu -- after twenty-five centuries doing the same things, eating the same things, living the same way, thinking that they will become Lao Tzu. But in twenty-five centuries not a single man has been able to attain the goal. Jainas are doing it, Buddhists are doing it, all religions are doing a single thing: they have seen somebody w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,462 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #1 Chapter title: Who says humanity needs saving? 28 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502285 ShortTitle: DARK01 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 116 mins BELOVED OSHO, HOW CAN WE SAVE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,463 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #2 Chapter title: Innocence: the price you pay for the failure of success 1 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503015 ShortTitle: DARK02 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 129 mins BELOVED OSHO, HOW DID...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,464 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #3 Chapter title: Help your child -- protect him from yourself! 2 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503025 ShortTitle: DARK03 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 143 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,465 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #4 Chapter title: The death penalty: not punishment but revenge 3 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503035 ShortTitle: DARK04 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 136 mins BELOVED OSHO, WOULD YOU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,466 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #5 Chapter title: Successful criminals and cowardly politicians 4 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503045 ShortTitle: DARK05 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 124 mins BELOVED OSHO, HOW COME ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,467 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #6 Chapter title: Every child's original face is the face of god 5 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503055 ShortTitle: DARK06 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 129 mins 10/28/07 Copy...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,468 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #7 Chapter title: Time is very short but my methods are very quick 6 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503065 ShortTitle: DARK07 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 110 mins BELOVED OSHO, HOW DO YO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,469 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #8 Chapter title: Agony is missing yourself, ecstasy is finding yourself 7 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503075 ShortTitle: DARK08 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,470 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #9 Chapter title: Your suffering makes you special 8 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Archive code: 8503085 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,471 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #10 Chapter title: Not spiritual guidance but spiritual presence 9 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503095 ShortTitle: DARK10 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 108 mins BELOVED OSHO, IS NOT SP...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,472 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #11 Chapter title: Science and religion -- two petals of the same rose 11 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503115 ShortTitle: DARK11 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 127 mins BELOVED OSHO, ISN'T A S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,473 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #12 Chapter title: A single humanity rejoicing 12 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503125 ShortTitle: DARK12 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 123 mins BELOVED OSHO, THE EUROP...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,474 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #13 Chapter title: Truth is found in your own boutique 13 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503135 ShortTitle: DARK13 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 109 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHY SHOUL...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,475 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #14 Chapter title: The best government is no government 14 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503145 ShortTitle: DARK14 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 119 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,476 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: The sweet taste of corruption 15 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503155 ShortTitle: DARK15 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 105 mins BELOVED OSHO, THE OTHER...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,477 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #16 Chapter title: Till you live life totally 16 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503165 ShortTitle: DARK16 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,478 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #17 Chapter title: Love is a very unscientific idea 17 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503175 ShortTitle: DARK17 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 117 mins BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,479 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #18 Chapter title: Meditation: the door from slavery to freedom 18 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503185 ShortTitle: DARK18 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 93 mins 10/28/07 Copy...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,480 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #19 Chapter title: Where nothing is right and nothing is wrong 19 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503195 ShortTitle: DARK19 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 101 mins BELOVED OSHO, YOU HAVE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,481 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #20 Chapter title: Don't drop -- transform! 20 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503205 ShortTitle: DARK20 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 96 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHY DO I C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,482 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #21 Chapter title: I am a man who hopes against hope 22 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503225 ShortTitle: DARK21 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 89 mins BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,483 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #22 Chapter title: Truth is here but you are not 23 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503235 ShortTitle: DARK22 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 108 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,484 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #23 Chapter title: Our way is of humour our way is of bliss 24 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503245 ShortTitle: DARK23 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 107 mins BELOVED OSHO, IF PEOPLE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,485 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #24 Chapter title: The third alternative: the whole man 25 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503255 ShortTitle: DARK24 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 87 mins BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,486 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #25 Chapter title: The bell always tolls for somebody else 26 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503265 ShortTitle: DARK25 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 120 mins BELOVED OSHO, I KNOW IT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,487 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #26 Chapter title: The enlightened and the endarkened 27 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503275 ShortTitle: DARK26 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 122 mins BELOVED OSHO, HISTORY S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,488 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- not more than that -- but it seems that even in three years he became utterly tired. Impatient people become really tired very soon. Buddha was teaching for forty-two years; Mahavira was teaching for forty years; Lao Tzu was teaching for sixty years -- but not a single statement of impatience. Even in the time after teaching for sixty years, Lao Tzu is not impatient. In these centuries, which are crystal-clea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,489 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oon. Buddha was teaching for forty-two years; Mahavira was teaching for forty years; Lao Tzu was teaching for sixty years -- but not a single statement of impatience. Even in the time after teaching for sixty years, Lao Tzu is not impatient. In these centuries, which are crystal-clear before me .... I don't have any suicidal instinct because to me the suicidal instinct means that something in you has still remai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,490 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: This time it can be one earth 28 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503285 ShortTitle: DARK27 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 137 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHY HAS I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,491 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #28 Chapter title: Either politicians remain or humanity remains 29 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503295 ShortTitle: DARK28 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 115 mins 10/28/07 Cop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,492 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #29 Chapter title: History repeats itself, unfortunately 30 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503305 ShortTitle: DARK29 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 127 mins BELOVED OSHO, AMERICA H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,493 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n and on. But that needs intelligence; to break out of this law of mediocrity you need intelligence to understand how it has been happening up to now. The East was very rich. Then its Gautam Buddhas, Lao Tzus, Mahaviras, they condemned riches; it became poor, it became dependent on other people. Now it has reached the very depths of poverty. Talking in India about meditation I have felt as if I am committing ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,494 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Darkness to Light Chapter #30 Chapter title: Does a flower need religion? 31 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8503315 ShortTitle: DARK30 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 105 mins 10/28/07 Cop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,495 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... universe. Life certainly -- perhaps there are trees, perhaps some kind of animals, but there is no indication that consciousness exists. And certainly there is no indication that people like Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Bodhidharma exist -- people who have attained to their self, who have realized their truth. Without consciousness this is not possible. This earth is the richest in the whole universe, and t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,496 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... choose from one hundred and twelve methods. This is for the first time that anybody is making one hundred and twelve methods available to his disciples. Buddha had one method, Mahavira had one method, Lao Tzu had one method, Patanjali had one method. I am not a man who is linear; I am multi-dimensional. Those single methods were enough for self-realization, but if you move through different 1...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,497 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rba so that you can become the Buddha." I am telling you, "Live the Zorba so completely that the Buddha has to follow." I have heard a beautiful story. In a restaurant in paradise Gautam Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu -- they were all contemporaries -- were just sitting and chitchatting. What else can you do in heaven? Everybody is wise; you cannot teach. You can only chitchat -- small gossip, small talk. And as they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,498 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ife; and he was teaching his disciples to renounce life, and he has renounced life himself. A great stir in him -- perhaps it is worth tasting? But to go against his own philosophy, and that too before Confucius and Lao Tzu. No, it was against his ego. He is the suprememost Buddha and he cannot fall just because of a naked woman with a flask containing the juice of life. Confucius was a very practical man. He lo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,499 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... poisoned millions of people, convinced them not to live. The bitterness is not in the juice, it is in the tongue of Confucius. His tongue has become bitter through all that condemnation, hatred.... Lao Tzu was a totally different man. He stood up, touched the woman, went through her geography, said, "Really groovy! Now give me the flask" -- and he drank the whole flask. And he said to Confucius, "To know t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,500 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the juice of life is also gone. I have drunk it completely." Now this is the man I want to be. Whatever is available to you, live totally. You may not get a woman of such proportions as Lao Tzu got. It does not matter, just put the light off -- and then drink as much as you can. But dying, you should be grateful to the life which gave you so many opportunities. And you can be gratef...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,501 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...inuity with my thirty years' work in the past. I had spoken on Jesus, but only on chosen parts which I could appreciate. I have spoken on Krishna, but given my own interpretations. I have spoken on Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, but I was using their statements for my message. They all must be freaking out, wherever they are. This break has had tremendous significance. Now I am speaking exactly the truth. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,502 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #1 Chapter title: Pseudo-religion: the stick-on soul 29 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411295 ShortTitle: IGNOR01 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 106 mins OSHO, WHY IS HUMANITY ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,503 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #2 Chapter title: The other cheek: the masochist's slap-up feast 30 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411305 ShortTitle: IGNOR02 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins OSHO, WHAT DO YOU THIN...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,504 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #3 Chapter title: The nuclear family -- the imminent meltdown 1 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412015 ShortTitle: IGNOR03 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 111 mins OSHO, SENATOR BOB SMIT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,505 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #4 Chapter title: Danger: truth at work 2 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412025 ShortTitle: IGNOR04 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 102 mins OSHO, WHY ARE THE COMM...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,506 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #5 Chapter title: Ecstasy is now -- why wait? 3 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412035 ShortTitle: IGNOR05 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 106 mins OSHO, WHAT IS RENUNCIA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,507 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #6 Chapter title: Renunciation: mortgage today for a tomorrow that never comes 4 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412045 ShortTitle: IGNOR06 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 107 mins OSHO, IS THERE REALLY ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,508 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #7 Chapter title: Shame is the name of their game 5 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412055 ShortTitle: IGNOR07 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 103 mins OSHO, WHY HAVE ALL THE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,509 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #8 Chapter title: God is not a solution but a problem 6 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412065 ShortTitle: IGNOR08 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 92 mins OSHO, DO YOU REALLY BEL...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,510 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #9 Chapter title: I teach a religionless religion 7 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412075 ShortTitle: IGNOR09 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins OSHO, I WAS SHOCKED TO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,511 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #10 Chapter title: God -- the nobody everybody knows 8 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412085 ShortTitle: IGNOR10 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 126 mins OSHO, GOD DID NOT CREA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,512 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #11 Chapter title: Truth: not a dogma but a dance 9 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412095 ShortTitle: IGNOR11 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 113 mins OSHO, 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,513 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #12 Chapter title: Faith: the suicide of intelligence 10 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412105 ShortTitle: IGNOR12 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins OSHO, WHAT IS THE GREA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,514 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ppening. It is time that we got rid of all this nonsense which the past has left over our heads. If you can become Adam and Eve again -- no Moses, no Mahavira, no Mohammed, no Jesus, no Confucius, no Lao Tzu.... If you are Adam and Eve, just born, just getting out of the garden of Eden -- nobody to ask what to do, nobody to ask what discipline is right, no priest, no rabbi, no pope is available -- what are you go...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,515 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #13 Chapter title: Ecstasy is knowing that nobody is holding your hand 11 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412115 ShortTitle: IGNOR13 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 103 mins OSHO, WHAT IS MORE I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,516 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #14 Chapter title: Society crowds you out; religon outs your crowd 13 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412135 ShortTitle: IGNOR14 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 111 mins OSHO, WHY, IN THE FIRS...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,517 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #15 Chapter title: They say believe; I say explore 14 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412145 ShortTitle: IGNOR15 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 134 mins OSHO, IS IT POSSIBLE F...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,518 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #16 Chapter title: Let's not face it -- you're absolutely alone 15 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412155 ShortTitle: IGNOR16 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 121 mins OSHO, IS THE HYPOTHE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,519 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #17 Chapter title: Jesus, the only forgotten son of god 16 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412165 ShortTitle: IGNOR17 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 127 mins OSHO, YOU SAY GOD IS N...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,520 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #18 Chapter title: One god, one messenger, one book -- one big lie 17 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412175 ShortTitle: IGNOR18 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 103 mins OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIFF...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,521 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... being into their being, the people were avoiding him. But once he was dead, the priests were not going to miss the opportunity. The priests immediately gather around the dead body of a Buddha, of a Jesus, of a Lao Tzu, and they immediately make the catechism. They start making a church on the dead body. If Jesus comes back, the pope will be the first person to ask for his crucifixion again, because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,522 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #19 Chapter title: Religion is rebellion 18 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412185 ShortTitle: IGNOR19 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 124 mins OSHO, IS IT NOT POSSIB...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,523 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #20 Chapter title: Surrender: the ego upside down 19 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412195 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,524 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #21 Chapter title: Personality: the carbon cop-out 20 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412205 ShortTitle: IGNOR21 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 102 mins OSHO, WHY WERE YOU SO ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,525 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #22 Chapter title: The commune: the distillation of rebellious spirits 21 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412215 ShortTitle: IGNOR22 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 118 mins OSHO, YOU HAVE BEEN SP...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,526 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #23 Chapter title: Conscience: a coffin for consciousness 22 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412225 ShortTitle: IGNOR23 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 130 mins OSHO, IS THERE ANY POI...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,527 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #24 Chapter title: Imitation is your cremation 23 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412235 ShortTitle: IGNOR24 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 125 mins OSHO, YOU HAVE BEEN SA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,528 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ago. But in the East, in India, psychology goes as far back as Patanjali -- five thousand years. And Patanjali cannot be said to be the source because he quotes more ancient sources. In China it goes as far back as Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu quotes at least five-thousand-year-old sources: five thousand years before Lao Tzu, who is twenty-five centuries before us. Eastern psychology says that when the mother is pregnan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,529 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the East, in India, psychology goes as far back as Patanjali -- five thousand years. And Patanjali cannot be said to be the source because he quotes more ancient sources. In China it goes as far back as Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu quotes at least five-thousand-year-old sources: five thousand years before Lao Tzu, who is twenty-five centuries before us. Eastern psychology says that when the mother is pregnant, those nine...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,530 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... And Patanjali cannot be said to be the source because he quotes more ancient sources. In China it goes as far back as Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu quotes at least five-thousand-year-old sources: five thousand years before Lao Tzu, who is twenty-five centuries before us. Eastern psychology says that when the mother is pregnant, those nine months are the most important period in the life of the child who is not born yet....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,531 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter #25 Chapter title: Jesus -- the only savior who nearly saved himself 24 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412245 ShortTitle: IGNOR25 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 140 mins OSHO, YESTERDAY AFTER ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,532 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #26 Chapter title: Meditation: watchfulness, awareness, alertness -- the real trinity 25 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412255 ShortTitle: IGNOR26 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 147 mins OSHO, HOW DOES ONE EXP...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,533 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #27 Chapter title: Baptism: wading for godot 26 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412265 ShortTitle: IGNOR27 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 117 mins 10/28/07 Cop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,534 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #28 Chapter title: Science plus religion -- the dynamic formula for the future 27 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412275 ShortTitle: IGNOR28 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 113 mins OSHO, IT SEEMS THAT AL...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,535 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #29 Chapter title: Positive thinking: philosophy for phonies 28 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412285 ShortTitle: IGNOR29 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 153 mins OSHO, I AM A FIRM BELI...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,536 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...have acted in evil ways, and this is the outcome of that. The crucifixion of Jesus does not prove to the Hindu or the Jaina or the Buddhist that he is a messiah. But to the Christian, Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu -- nobody seems to be comparable to Jesus. In fact to a Christian mind they all look very selfish: they are just working for their own redemption while Jesus is working for the redemption of the whole of huma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,537 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Ignorance to Innocence Chapter #30 Chapter title: Surrender: the ego upside down 29 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412295 ShortTitle: IGNOR30 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 116 mins OSHO, WHAT IS THE PLAC...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,538 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #1 Chapter title: Your birthright: to take flight 29 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501295 ShortTitle: MISERY01 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 155 mins OSHO, SEEING AND HEAR...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,539 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ants you immediately, and he also says,'Bring a mala and the sannyas form.' I don't know what has happened to him." He had been sitting for three hours; he was staying in the room where afterwards Laxmi stayed -- in Lao Tzu house in Poona, the same room. He had just come for a few days, so Laxmi had moved out and he was staying there. I went into the room. He said, "Now the time has come: give me sannyas. After t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,540 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #2 Chapter title: Meditation -- jumping board to your being 30 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501305 ShortTitle: MISERY02 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 117 mins OSHO, 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,541 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #3 Chapter title: Initiation: when one and one add up to none 31 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501315 ShortTitle: MISERY03 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 130 mins OSHO, WHAT IS INITIAT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,542 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #4 Chapter title: Above all, the truth of man -- beyond that, nothing 1 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502015 ShortTitle: MISERY04 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 136 mins OSHO, WHAT IS INTUITI...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,543 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #5 Chapter title: Sex to ecstasy 2 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502025 ShortTitle: MISERY05 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 146 mins 10/28/07 C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,544 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g, only on the second level. As you reach the third level... these things will help you to move to the third. Then things are beyond description. It is on the third level, the highest level -- intuition -- where Lao Tzu feels nothing can be said. Only up to the second can something be said, because intellect is still functioning. On the third, you have gone beyond intellect. Now things cannot be said, but can only be showed....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,545 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #6 Chapter title: From pseudo-faith to your original face 3 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502035 ShortTitle: MISERY06 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 121 mins OSHO, 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,546 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #7 Chapter title: Politics brings out the beast in you 4 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502045 ShortTitle: MISERY07 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 150 mins OSHO, WOULD YOU LIKE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,547 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is true, what is the meaning of life. Why are we here? At the time of Gautam Buddha, perhaps around the whole world, the second level of consciousness came to its highest peak. In China, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Chuang Tzu, Lieh 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Tzu -- thes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,548 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...shed and unpublished Query:- Only on the third level, when intuition starts functioning, is there no fight at all. Buddha never went to anybody to conquer them, Mahavira never went to anybody to conquer them, Lao Tzu never went to anybody to conquer them. People came; whosoever was thirsty came to them. They were not even interested in those who came to challenge them for an intellectual discussion. Many c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,549 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #8 Chapter title: From idiotocracy to meritocracy 5 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502055 ShortTitle: MISERY08 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 147 mins OSHO, HOW CAN THE IDE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,550 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u can graduate in two years, you can graduate in three years, four years. But four years is too much. Any imbecile, if he just sits for one hour every day doing nothing for four years is bound to find what Buddha or Lao Tzu have found, what I have found. It is not a question of intelligence, talent, genius. It is only a question of patience. So from the university meditation institute you get a degree, a bach...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,551 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #9 Chapter title: Courage is a love affair with the unknown 6 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502065 ShortTitle: MISERY09 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 155 mins OSHO, YOU WERE MORE A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,552 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: Drop god, drop guilt -- become religious 7 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502075 ShortTitle: MISERY10 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 101 mins OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIF...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,553 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #11 Chapter title: Consciousness: the only criterion of virtue 8 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502085 ShortTitle: MISERY11 Audio: Yes Video: Yes 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,554 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #12 Chapter title: God: an idea whose time has come -- and gone 9 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502095 ShortTitle: MISERY12 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 111 mins OSHO, ARE YOU AGAIN...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,555 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #13 Chapter title: Real love is real wild! 10 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502105 ShortTitle: MISERY13 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins OSHO, YOU SAY THAT LO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,556 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #14 Chapter title: Don't walk on water -- jump into consciousness 11 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502115 ShortTitle: MISERY14 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins OSHO, DO MIRACLES REA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,557 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #15 Chapter title: From oy-veh to ole 12 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502125 ShortTitle: MISERY15 Audio: Yes 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,558 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I am reminded of a beautiful story; it is so beautiful that one wants.... It would have been good if it was true too; but it is very close to truth. In paradise, in a restaurant, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, all four are sitting gospeling. And then an apsara, a beautiful dance girl, comes dancing with a flask in her hands -- it is full of wine -- looks at them and says, "You are talking about life, and listening...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,559 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a practical man. I cannot say anything without tasting -- give me a little taste of the juice you call life." He tasted it a little, gave the cup back and said, "No, it is bitter. Those two fellows are right." Lao Tzu said, "Unless you drink the whole of it you cannot pass any judgment, because there are things which are bitter in the beginning and sweet in the end. And moreover, one has to learn tasting too. Just taking o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,560 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...matism is this, that just by tasting a little bit you make a judgment about the whole? By knowing the part you don't know the whole. Yes, by knowing the whole you know the part, but not vice versa." Lao Tzu took the whole flask -- he was not a man to drink from a cup -- drank the whole flask, emptied the flask, thanked the lady, and told all those great friends of his, "You are all idiots! It is tremendously bea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,561 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nds of his, "You are all idiots! It is tremendously beautiful, delicious, but one has to experience it in its totality. Less than that won't do." This is the whole approach of the pagan. Lao Tzu is a pagan. That's why in his writings you will not find God mentioned, or heaven and hell talked about. He is solely concerned with here and now. He lived that way. Once Confucius had asked him, "People...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,562 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ask me about death but I don't know anything about death. Perhaps -- you are older and wiser, and you love to move into dangerous spaces of consciousness -- perhaps you have some idea about death." Lao Tzu said, "Without dying, there is no way to know death. Commit suicide; go and jump from the hill and you will know what death is. The only way to know is to live it. Asking about death, trying to find an answer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,563 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hem cannot say that they were bad people. It is difficult to find better people than those -- but they were without faith. What about these people? And there have been many like that: Mahavira, Epicurus, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- what will happen to these people? "And we know there are, in your congregation, all kinds of sinners. In fact you even go to the 10/28/07 Copyright Osho ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,564 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #16 Chapter title: The Master: a gesture to the light within 13 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502135 ShortTitle: MISERY16 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 80 mins OSHO, I HEARD ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,565 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #17 Chapter title: Religion begins where ideas end 14 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502145 ShortTitle: MISERY17 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 99 mins OSHO, WHY ARE YOU DE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,566 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #18 Chapter title: In the silences, the semi-colons and the full stops... 15 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Archive code: 8502155 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,567 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #19 Chapter title: Man: the greatest problem -- and the only solution 16 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502165 ShortTitle: MISERY19 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 111 mins OSHO, WHAT IS THE GRE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,568 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #20 Chapter title: The pagan: chrysalis of consciousness 17 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502175 ShortTitle: MISERY20 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 128 mins OSHO, WERE PAGANS REL...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,569 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #21 Chapter title: My message -- a matter of life and death 18 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502185 ShortTitle: MISERY21 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 122 mins OSHO, WHY ARE PEOPLE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,570 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #22 Chapter title: Exactly how do you do it! 19 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502195 ShortTitle: MISERY22 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 112 mins OSHO, EXACTLY HOW DO ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,571 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #23 Chapter title: You'll never find a lion in the lion's club 20 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502205 ShortTitle: MISERY23 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 126 mins OSHO, WHY ARE PEOPLE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,572 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #24 Chapter title: The key to unawareness: keep thinking 21 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502215 ShortTitle: MISERY24 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 124 mins OSHO, I WAS SHOCKED T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,573 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #25 Chapter title: Religions, like diseases, are many: truth, like health, is one 22 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502225 ShortTitle: MISERY25 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 146 mins OSHO, WHAT IS RELIGIO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,574 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #26 Chapter title: Innocence -- the natural outlaw 23 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502235 ShortTitle: MISERY26 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 119 mins OSHO, WHAT IS CORRUPT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,575 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #27 Chapter title: One ma, one swami -- and we can start the whole game again 24 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502245 ShortTitle: MISERY27 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 116 mins OSHO, IS THE WORLD GO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,576 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #28 Chapter title: AIDS: disease of the existential orphan 25 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502255 ShortTitle: MISERY28 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 123 mins OSHO, WOULD YOU PLEAS...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,577 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #29 Chapter title: Rebel or robot? 26 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502265 ShortTitle: MISERY29 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 117 mins OSHO, YOU SAY THE RAJ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,578 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter #30 Chapter title: Rebellion: hallmark of the new man 27 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8502275 ShortTitle: MISERY30 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 106 mins OSHO, YOU HAVE BEEN P...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,579 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #1 Chapter title: Man is born with a question mark in his heart 30 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412305 ShortTitle: PERSON01 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 140 mins OSHO, WHAT PLACE HAS ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,580 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sts, "If you know, then give me the answer," and you are a true, honest man, you will say, "I have a sense of knowing but I also have another sense that it cannot be reduced to knowledge." That's why Lao Tzu refused to write anything his whole life... for the simple reason that the moment you write it, it is something else. But this can be detected only by one who has some acquaintance with mystery. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,581 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... moment you write it, it is something else. But this can be detected only by one who has some acquaintance with mystery. It is not a question of scholarship: a scholar cannot detect anything wrong in Lao Tzu. Confucius was a great scholar in Lao Tzu's time, his contemporary. The world knows Confucius more than Lao Tzu, naturally: he was a great scholar, a well-known wiseman. Great emperors used to visit him for ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,582 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... But this can be detected only by one who has some acquaintance with mystery. It is not a question of scholarship: a scholar cannot detect anything wrong in Lao Tzu. Confucius was a great scholar in Lao Tzu's time, his contemporary. The world knows Confucius more than Lao Tzu, naturally: he was a great scholar, a well-known wiseman. Great emperors used to visit him for advice. The emperor of China, who must have...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,583 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntance with mystery. It is not a question of scholarship: a scholar cannot detect anything wrong in Lao Tzu. Confucius was a great scholar in Lao Tzu's time, his contemporary. The world knows Confucius more than Lao Tzu, naturally: he was a great scholar, a well-known wiseman. Great emperors used to visit him for advice. The emperor of China, who must have been the greatest emperor of those days -- because China ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,584 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... those days -- because China has always been a continent unto itself -- appointed Confucius to be his prime minister, so that he was always available to him for advice. But when Confucius went to see Lao Tzu, do you know what happened? He came back with almost a nervous breakdown. Lao Tzu was known at least to those people who were in search. And when the disciples of Confucius came to know that he was going to L...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,585 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Confucius to be his prime minister, so that he was always available to him for advice. But when Confucius went to see Lao Tzu, do you know what happened? He came back with almost a nervous breakdown. Lao Tzu was known at least to those people who were in search. And when the disciples of Confucius came to know that he was going to Lao Tzu they waited outside -- Lao Tzu was living in a mountain cave. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,586 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu, do you know what happened? He came back with almost a nervous breakdown. Lao Tzu was known at least to those people who were in search. And when the disciples of Confucius came to know that he was going to Lao Tzu they waited outside -- Lao Tzu was living in a mountain cave. Confucius did not want anybody else to accompany him because he knew that that man was strange, unpredictable. How he may behave, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,587 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e back with almost a nervous breakdown. Lao Tzu was known at least to those people who were in search. And when the disciples of Confucius came to know that he was going to Lao Tzu they waited outside -- Lao Tzu was living in a mountain cave. Confucius did not want anybody else to accompany him because he knew that that man was strange, unpredictable. How he may behave, what he will do, what he will say, nobody k...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,588 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e was trembling. The disciples said, what happened?" He said, "Just take me home. I am not myself That man is a dragon, never go to that man." What had happened there inside the cave? Lao Tzu's disciples were there, that's why we know what happened, otherwise a great meeting would have been missed. Lao Tzu's disciples were also very shocked even his disciples, because Confucius was older than Lao ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,589 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot myself That man is a dragon, never go to that man." What had happened there inside the cave? Lao Tzu's disciples were there, that's why we know what happened, otherwise a great meeting would have been missed. Lao Tzu's disciples were also very shocked even his disciples, because Confucius was older than Lao Tzu, far more well-known, respected. Who knew Lao Tzu? -- very few people. And the way Lao Tzu behav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,590 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve? Lao Tzu's disciples were there, that's why we know what happened, otherwise a great meeting would have been missed. Lao Tzu's disciples were also very shocked even his disciples, because Confucius was older than Lao Tzu, far more well-known, respected. Who knew Lao Tzu? -- very few people. And the way Lao Tzu behaved with Confucius was simply outrageous. But not for Lao Tzu. He was a simple man, neither arrog...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,591 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... what happened, otherwise a great meeting would have been missed. Lao Tzu's disciples were also very shocked even his disciples, because Confucius was older than Lao Tzu, far more well-known, respected. Who knew Lao Tzu? -- very few people. And the way Lao Tzu behaved with Confucius was simply outrageous. But not for Lao Tzu. He was a simple man, neither arrogant nor humble, just a pure human being. And if it hit hard --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,592 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...been missed. Lao Tzu's disciples were also very shocked even his disciples, because Confucius was older than Lao Tzu, far more well-known, respected. Who knew Lao Tzu? -- very few people. And the way Lao Tzu behaved with Confucius was simply outrageous. But not for Lao Tzu. He was a simple man, neither arrogant nor humble, just a pure human being. And if it hit hard -- his purity, his innocence, and his ordinarin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,593 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d even his disciples, because Confucius was older than Lao Tzu, far more well-known, respected. Who knew Lao Tzu? -- very few people. And the way Lao Tzu behaved with Confucius was simply outrageous. But not for Lao Tzu. He was a simple man, neither arrogant nor humble, just a pure human being. And if it hit hard -- his purity, his innocence, and his ordinariness -- if it hit hard on Confucius, what could he do? 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,594 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fore the mirror forget everything else. It is very difficult to take a woman away from the mirror. She goes on looking in the mirror. It must be something in the mirror, otherwise people are just homely. Lao Tzu's disciples said, "What did you do?" He said, "I have not done anything, I simply reflected; it was my response. That idiot thinks he knows, and he is only a scholar. Now what can I do if I made it clear ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,595 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sponse. That idiot thinks he knows, and he is only a scholar. Now what can I do if I made it clear to him that all scholarship is rubbish, and told him,'You don't know anything at all'?" And when you face a man like Lao Tzu you cannot be dishonest either, at least in front of him. Confucius remained just like a statue, frozen, because what Lao Tzu was saying was right. Scholarship is not knowing. You are quoting ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,596 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rubbish, and told him,'You don't know anything at all'?" And when you face a man like Lao Tzu you cannot be dishonest either, at least in front of him. Confucius remained just like a statue, frozen, because what Lao Tzu was saying was right. Scholarship is not knowing. You are quoting others, have you anything to say on your own?" And Confucius had nothing to say on his own. He was a great scholar he could have quoted all th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,597 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e was a great scholar he could have quoted all the old ancient scriptures but on his own? He had never thought about it, that anybody was going to ask, Have you something to say of your own? And when Lao Tzu looked at him Confucius knew that that man could not be deceived. Confucius asked him about something. Lao Tzu said, "No, I don't know anything." Then Confucius asked, "What happens after death?" ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,598 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...about it, that anybody was going to ask, Have you something to say of your own? And when Lao Tzu looked at him Confucius knew that that man could not be deceived. Confucius asked him about something. Lao Tzu said, "No, I don't know anything." Then Confucius asked, "What happens after death?" And Lao Tzu was just like a flare, became aflame, and he said, "Again! Are you going to drop your stupidity...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,599 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...looked at him Confucius knew that that man could not be deceived. Confucius asked him about something. Lao Tzu said, "No, I don't know anything." Then Confucius asked, "What happens after death?" And Lao Tzu was just like a flare, became aflame, and he said, "Again! Are you going to drop your stupidity or not? You are alive -- can you say what life is? You are alive -- can you reduce your experience of life into ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,600 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...makes them capable of tasting death too. And because they know life, they can know death. If living, you miss life; dying, you are going to miss death. "And you are wasting your time; just go out and live!" said Lao Tzu to Confucius. "And one day you will be dead. Don't be worried: I have never heard of anybody living for ever, so one day you will be dead. Death takes no exceptions -- that you are a great scholar or a prime ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,601 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...othing else is predictable but that much can be predicted easily -- that you will die. And in your grave, silently, meditate on what death is." Confucius was trembling. The king also asked him, "You have been to Lao Tzu -- what happened?" Confucius said, "All that I was afraid of happened. He made me look so idiotic that even after forty-eight hours I am still trembling. I am still afraid of that man's face -...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,602 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #2 Chapter title: To define is to confine -- existence has no boundaries 31 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8412315 ShortTitle: PERSON02 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 132 mins OSHO, WHY DO I FEEL T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,603 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #3 Chapter title: Beware! I am here to destroy your dreams 1 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501015 ShortTitle: PERSON03 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 140 mins OSHO, I HAVE HEARD YO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,604 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s all made in pure marble, and he made the statues of all the religious people, forgetting completely that you cannot make the statue of Mohammed. He thought he was doing a great work. He made Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Moses, Zarathustra. About them there was no problem. Even if no actual photograph exists, some kind of description is available. It just needed a creative artist, imaginative enough to figure it out. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,605 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #4 Chapter title: Jealousy: society's device to divide and rule 2 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501025 ShortTitle: PERSON04 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,606 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #5 Chapter title: Sannyas: the odyssey of aloneness -- a journey to the center of your being 3 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501035 ShortTitle: PERSON05 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 147 mins OSHO, OUR COMMUNE IS ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,607 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #6 Chapter title: Anxiety: Who are you? Anguish: Who am I? 4 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501045 ShortTitle: PERSON06 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 127 mins OSHO, WHAT IS ANGUISH...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,608 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #7 Chapter title: Conditioning: socially-sanctioned child abuse 5 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501055 ShortTitle: PERSON07 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 128 mins OSHO, IS J. KRISHNAMU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,609 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #8 Chapter title: Rajneeshism: womb for transformation 6 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501065 ShortTitle: PERSON08 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 129 mins 10/28/07 C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,610 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #9 Chapter title: The law of karma: A conspiracy of the priests to manipulate your mind 7 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501075 ShortTitle: PERSON09 Audio: Yes 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,611 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ge situation happens: bad people reach good positions, become respectable or honored, not only in their time but throughout history. It is full of their names. In history, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Kanad, Gautam, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu -- people like these you will not find even in the footnotes. And Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Nadirshah, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler -- they make up the major port...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,612 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #10 Chapter title: Christianity: just a nice Jewish boy's hang-up 8 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501085 ShortTitle: PERSON10 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 133 mins 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,613 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #11 Chapter title: God -- the phantom fuehrer 9 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501095 ShortTitle: PERSON11 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 135 mins OSHO, ALAN WATTS ONCE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,614 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #12 Chapter title: Death: The ultimate orgasm 10 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501105 ShortTitle: PERSON12 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 134 mins 10/28/07 C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,615 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #13 Chapter title: The new man: intellect in harmony with the heart 11 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501115 ShortTitle: PERSON13 Audio: Yes Video: Yes 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,616 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #14 Chapter title: The only hope: the enlightenment of humanity 12 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501125 ShortTitle: PERSON14 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 142 mins OSHO, WOULDN'T IT HAV...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,617 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #15 Chapter title: Truth said, truth dead 13 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501135 ShortTitle: PERSON15 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 140 mins OSHO, WHAT ARE YOU PR...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,618 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #16 Chapter title: Superman: the fantasy for the inferior 14 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501145 ShortTitle: PERSON16 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 128 mins OSHO, ISN'T THE VISIO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,619 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #17 Chapter title: Holy Scriptures: wholly Bullshit 15 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501155 ShortTitle: PERSON17 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 127 mins OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIF...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,620 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #18 Chapter title: The good shepherd -- the butcher's friend 16 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501165 ShortTitle: PERSON18 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 159 mins OSHO, ARE YOU ESPECIA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,621 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... crusade. But what actually happens behind it? All atomic weapons, nuclear weapons, are produced in the Christian context. It is not that the world lacks intelligence. If China can produce Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Mencius, Lieh Tzu, there is no reason why China cannot produce an Albert Einstein, a Lord Rutherford. There is no reason at all, because Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,622 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce. If China can produce Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Mencius, Lieh Tzu, there is no reason why China cannot produce an Albert Einstein, a Lord Rutherford. There is no reason at all, because Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius -- any of them is a thousand fold wiser than Jesus or Moses. They are simply pygmies compared to these people. If such geniuses can be created by China, then there is no reason why China c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,623 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... like a Christian scorned 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- 17 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501175 ShortTitle: PERSON19 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 116 mins OSHO, TODAY, I OVERHE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,624 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #20 Chapter title: Fear of hell, greed for heaven, the saviors soft sell 18 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501185 ShortTitle: PERSON20 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 130 mins OSHO, IS IT WRONG TO ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,625 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #21 Chapter title: Priest and politicians: from genesis to genocide 19 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501195 ShortTitle: PERSON21 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 143 mins OSHO, ALL THE OTHER M...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,626 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If it cannot &d it, then at least it can imagine it. So that little fragment which has been found is surrounded by imagination, and it is made complete. All these people -- Jesus, Moses, Mahavira, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu -- had come to a certain aspect of truth, but they could not resist the temptation to complete it by imagination. That temptation is a great temptation. It is just like you remember three lines of poetry...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,627 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #22 Chapter title: Countdown to catastrophe: global suicide, or sannyas 20 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501205 ShortTitle: PERSON22 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 124 mins OSHO, WHY DO YOU THIN...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,628 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #23 Chapter title: Bored to death? -- you're on the trail to transformation 21 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501215 ShortTitle: PERSON23 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 140 mins OSHO, WHAT IS BOREDOM...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,629 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #24 Chapter title: Infallibility: just a popedream 22 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501225 ShortTitle: PERSON24 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 126 mins OSHO, WHY ARE YOU AGA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,630 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #25 Chapter title: My day: the juice, the whole juice, and nothing but the juice 23 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501235 ShortTitle: PERSON25 Audio: Yes Video: Yes OSHO, YOU GOT AS FAR AS BREAKFAST. TO COMPLETE OUR RELIG...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,631 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #26 Chapter title: Only one sin -- to forget your being. Only one virtue -- to remember it 24 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501245 ShortTitle: PERSON26 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 139 mins OSHO, COULD YOU SAY S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,632 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #27 Chapter title: Seek and ye shall miss; relax and ye shall find 25 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501255 ShortTitle: PERSON27 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 152 mins OSHO, IT SEEMS THAT Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,633 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Hearing that I am abnormal, Professor Shrivastava said, "Abnormal?" My professor said, "Not below normal, above normal. That is his definition: he counts all these people as abnormal -- Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Confucius, all are abnormal -- and we cannot argue with him. But he belongs to the same type of people." Professor Shrivastava became even more interested. He wanted me to be introduced to him. My ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,634 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #28 Chapter title: Knowledge is information; knowing is transformation 26 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501265 ShortTitle: PERSON28 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 141 mins OSHO, YOU SAID THAT Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,635 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #29 Chapter title: Belief -- just a blind man's bluff 27 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501275 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,636 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Personality to Individuality Chapter #30 Chapter title: The only authentic democracy: the dictatorship of the enlightened ones 28 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8501285 ShortTitle: PERSON30 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 168 mins OSHO, WHY ARE YOU AGA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,637 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #1 Chapter title: Silence, the Pull of the Innermost Zero 30 October 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8410305 ShortTitle: UNCONC01 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 97 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHY DO Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,638 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...was to give new meanings to their words, give my meaning to their words. It was not their meaning. If Mahavira comes he will be angry; if Jesus comes he will be angry. If this whole crowd of Jesus, Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu somewhere meets me they will all be mad at me because I have made them say things they would never have dreamed of. They could not. Sometimes I have even put meanings into their words ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,639 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve said perhaps it may be the last religion too, for the simple reason that I have not given you anything which can be argued against. I can argue against Jesus. I can argue against Mahavira. I can argue against Lao Tzu. I can argue against Buddha. Nobody can argue against me, because in the first place I have not given you any dogma which can be argued against. I have given you only methods. Methods you can try or you may n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,640 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #2 Chapter title: Don't Follow Me -- Because I am Lost Myself 31 October 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8410315 ShortTitle: UNCONC02 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 91 mins BELOVED OSHO, JESUS SA...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,641 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #3 Chapter title: Godliness, but there is no God 1 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411015 ShortTitle: UNCONC03 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 84 mins BELOVED OSHO, IF THERE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,642 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #4 Chapter title: The Opium Called Religion 2 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411025 ShortTitle: UNCONC04 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 110 mins BELOVED OSHO, ARE YOU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,643 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... from outside sources, hence he looked very new to the Jews; but to me he cannot look new. Before him, Buddha had been talking about love, and Mahavira had been talking about love -- five hundred years before Jesus, Lao Tzu in China was talking about love. And what Jesus is saying is almost the same. It would have been new if he had added something through his experience. For example, I would like to say to you.....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,644 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #5 Chapter title: To be Rebellious is to be Religious 3 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411035 ShortTitle: UNCONC05 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 109 mins BELOVED OSHO, YESTERD...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,645 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uld like you to live as long as possible so that what you want to happen can happen." No, they were just dumb guys. I feel sorry for Jesus. Buddha was far more fortunate; he had really great giants as his disciples. Lao Tzu was fortunate. Jesus is the most unfortunate in this whole company of messiahs, avataras, tirthankaras -- most unfortunate. Fishermen -- what can they do and what do they understand? Do you k...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,646 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #6 Chapter title: The so-called holy books are just religious pornography 4 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411045 ShortTitle: UNCONC06 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 98 mins BELOVED OASHO, WHAT DO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,647 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #7 Chapter title: From Crossianity to Jonestown 5 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411055 ShortTitle: UNCONC07 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 96 mins BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,648 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #8 Chapter title: Will-to-power: The Cancer of the Soul 6 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411065 ShortTitle: UNCONC08 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 92 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHY ARE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,649 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #9 Chapter title: Just to be Born is Not Enough to be Alive 7 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411075 ShortTitle: UNCONC09 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 98 mins BELOVED OSHO, THE PEOP...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,650 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #10 Chapter title: Your Childhood -- an Education in Psychological Slavery 8 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411085 ShortTitle: UNCONC10 Audio: Yes 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,651 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #11 Chapter title: Yes, I Teach You Selfishness 9 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411095 ShortTitle: UNCONC11 Audio: Yes 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,652 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d moved on. A Taoist old man stops. He is thirsty, and looks in the well. The man is still crying for help. The Taoist says, "This is not manly. One should accept everything as it comes -- that's what the great Lao Tzu has said. So accept it! Enjoy! You are crying like a woman. Be a man!" The man said, "I am ready to be called a woman but first please save me! I am not manly. And you can say anything that y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,653 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #12 Chapter title: Live Now, Pray Later 10 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411105 ShortTitle: UNCONC12 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 89 mins 10/28/07 Co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,654 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: Ready-to-wear Religion at the Secondhand Store 11 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411115 ShortTitle: UNCONC13 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 116 mins BELOVED OSHO, ARE YOU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,655 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #14 Chapter title: I am a gnostic 12 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411125 ShortTitle: UNCONC14 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 78 mins BELOVED OSHO, JUST A F...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,656 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: The Priest and the Politician -- the Mafia of the Soul 13 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411135 ShortTitle: UNCONC15 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 102 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHY IS ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,657 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #16 Chapter title: God Is the Greatest Fiction Ever 14 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411145 ShortTitle: UNCONC16 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 93 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHERE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,658 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #17 Chapter title: The Immaculate Deception 15 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411155 ShortTitle: UNCONC17 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 97 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHY DID ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,659 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #18 Chapter title: Marriage -- the Coffin of Love 16 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411165 ShortTitle: UNCONC18 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 113 mins BELOVED OSHO, YOUR RE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,660 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...opyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: Meditation -- the Science of Awareness 17 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411175 ShortTitle: UNCONC19 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,661 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #20 Chapter title: You Cannot Manufacture Enlightenment 18 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411185 ShortTitle: UNCONC20 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 123 mins BELOVED OSHO, ARE YOU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,662 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #21 Chapter title: Enlightenment -- The Only Way Home 19 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411195 ShortTitle: UNCONC21 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 118 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,663 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #22 Chapter title: Theology -- The Jungle of Lies 20 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411205 ShortTitle: UNCONC22 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 119 mins BELOVED OSHO, YOU SAY...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,664 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #23 Chapter title: The Only Way to Fail Me is Not to Be Yourself 21 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411215 ShortTitle: UNCONC23 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 124 mins BELOVED OSHO, HAVE WE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,665 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #24 Chapter title: The Psychology of Being -- The Golden Key 22 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411225 ShortTitle: UNCONC24 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 98 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,666 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #25 Chapter title: I Am Against Religions, but I Am For Religion 23 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411235 ShortTitle: UNCONC25 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 114 mins BELOVED OSHO, WITH NO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,667 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #26 Chapter title: Your Actions Are not My Concern -- Your Consciousness Is 24 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411245 ShortTitle: UNCONC26 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 116 mins BELOVED OSHO, IN YOUR...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,668 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #27 Chapter title: Religion -- The Last Luxury 25 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411255 ShortTitle: UNCONC27 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins BELOVED OSHO, ARE YOU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,669 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #28 Chapter title: Commandments, No -- Just a Few Requests 26 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411265 ShortTitle: UNCONC28 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 117 mins BELOVED OSHO, WHAT DO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,670 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e anybody? If you have just a little intelligence, a very little intelligence, that will do; it is not that you need genius to understand the simple fact. Whom has Christ imitated? Whom has Buddha imitated? Whom has Lao Tzu imitated? Nobody. That's why they have flowered. But you are imitating. The first thing to learn is that nonimitation is one of the fundamentals of religious life. Don't be a Christian and do...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,671 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #29 Chapter title: I Teach You Reverence For Life 27 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411275 ShortTitle: UNCONC29 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 134 mins BELOVED OSHO, MOSES G...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,672 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From Unconciousness to Consciousness Chapter #30 Chapter title: The Only Golden Rule is There are No Golden Rules 28 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8411285 ShortTitle: UNCONC30 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 104 mins BELOVED OSHO, YOU HAV...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,673 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter #1 Chapter title: It all depends on the disciple 1 April 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8504015 ShortTitle: FALSE01 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 98 mins BELOVED OSHO, IS IT POS...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,674 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...onship; it is a far more crazy love affair. It cannot happen between somebody who is living and somebody who has been dead for thousands of years; the distance is too much. But people prefer to make Jesus, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, their master, for the simple reason that the master is not present, he cannot say no. He cannot tell you, "First you have to go through a transformation." It is a one-way affair; the other party...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,675 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... say no. You can accept all the masters of the world, be a disciple of all the masters of the world. There are people who are following Zen, who are following Sufism, who are following Tao, anything. Neither Lao Tzu can prevent them, nor Bodhidharma can prevent them, nor Jalaluddin Rumi can prevent them. Those people are gone, just words echoing are left. But I am yet in the flesh. I am yet not only a word. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,676 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... From the False to the Truth Chapter #2 Chapter title: Here we call work, worship 2 April 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8504025 ShortTitle: FALSE02 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 77 mins BELOVED OSHO, IS WORSHI...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,677 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a retarded person cannot do that. He cannot even understand anything higher. He cannot even understand Leonardo da Vinci, he cannot understand Kalidasa, he cannot understand Rabindranath Tagore, he cannot understand Lao Tzu. He can only understand third-rate newspapers -- the OREGONIAN. Yes, that he can understand. He can follows a man like Reverend Jim Jones. Only a retarded man can do that. It is not a surpris...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,678 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...shna, on Buddha, on Mahavira. I was speaking on all other traditions of religion: Hassidism, Zen, Sufism. I had spoken on almost all important people who had contributed something to human consciousness: Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Bodhidharma, Bokuju, Socrates, Pythagoras, Zarathustra, Kabir, Shankara, Dadu, Milarepa, Marpa Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu. I covered almost the whole world. Wherever I found a man who has co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,679 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e if he respects me he will expect me to remain respectable" -- and that I cannot promise. It is better to be notorious, because it gives you immense freedom. I am a notorious man. Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu -- none of them was courageous enough to drop the desire for respectability. People go on condemning me. The moment I come to know that they are condemning me for a certain thing, then I go on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,680 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not ordinary. I want you to be higher than your disciples." Why? My being higher simply makes it difficult to communicate. That's why all these people have failed. Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Confucius, Lao Tzu -- they all have failed, for a simple reason: they were there sitting on the clouds, and you were crawling on the earth. What communication is possible? They maintained the distance; it was the fulfillment of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,681 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... He was not an awakened being, he was not an enlightened being. Gautam Buddha also does not have a God, nor does Mahavira have a God, but they never went mad. All the Zen masters and all the great Tao masters -- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu -- nobody went mad, and they don't have any God. They don't have any hell or heaven. What is the difference? Why did Gautam Buddha not go mad? And it is not only Gautam B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,682 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it. But none of those were awakened ones. They were great scholars who had gone and translated... And the scriptures were beautiful. China had nothing compared to it. It had only one book written by Lao Tzu on Tao, but that too does not come to the height of Gautam Buddha's sutras, because it was a written book, and written under force, compulsion. He had never written in his whole life, and he never spoke. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,683 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce, good. If nothing happened, "What can I do?" That was his answer. A few people became enlightened, but very few. One Chuang Tzu, one Lieh Tzu -- just two persons became enlightened sitting silently by the side of Lao Tzu. To understand silence is not easy, you have to reach to that same depth. Otherwise you may be sitting by the side of Lao Tzu, but your mind will be going in circles, a continuous rush of thoughts. You may be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,684 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu, one Lieh Tzu -- just two persons became enlightened sitting silently by the side of Lao Tzu. To understand silence is not easy, you have to reach to that same depth. Otherwise you may be sitting by the side of Lao Tzu, but your mind will be going in circles, a continuous rush of thoughts. You may be silent from the outside, but inside there is too much talk going on. When for the first time talking movies c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,685 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...come beggars. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- It was only in China, under Lao Tzu's influence, that for the first time a new method was introduced. It was out of Lao Tzu's great compassion that he went to the emperor and said, "The whole medical profession is basically wrong, because the d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,686 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- It was only in China, under Lao Tzu's influence, that for the first time a new method was introduced. It was out of Lao Tzu's great compassion that he went to the emperor and said, "The whole medical profession is basically wrong, because the doctor lives on the diseases of the people, and he is supposed to cure them. You are putt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,687 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...terless because I am not living according to their scriptures. I am living according to my own consciousness. And my understanding is that all the great people of the world -- Socrates, or Buddha, or Lao Tzu, or Chuang Tzu, or Rinzai, or Sekito -- lived according to their own light. That's what makes them great and brings a great splendor to their life. Their contemporaries were as much against them as my contemp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,688 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e lotus flowers, have all denied God. There are three religions in the world... one that arose out of Gautam Buddha's inspiration, another that arose out of Adinatha's inspiration, and a third that arose out of Lao Tzu's inspiration, Tao. These three are the highest peaks ever arrived at, and all three have no God. Compared to these three, Mohammedanism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism are just very 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,689 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ht. You are responding to me as deeply as your nature allows in this moment. Forcing anything is going against nature. Accepting, relaxing, contented, allowing the flow of nature to take you, is what Lao Tzu used to call `the watercourse way.' Sometimes the river flows fast. Sometimes it flows very slowly. Sometimes it falls with great speed in waterfalls from the mountains to the plains. But one thing is certain...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,690 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tzsche is right; he must have said what he had experienced himself. It was unfortunate that he was born in the West. In the East he would have been in the same category as Gautam Buddha or Mahavira or Bodhidharma or Lao Tzu. In the West he had to be forced into a madhouse. He himself could not figure it out. It was too much: on the one hand his great philosophical rationality, on the other hand his insights into ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,691 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... make a little effort. And the effort has to be very relaxed -- that is the secret. We know efforts, but they become tensions, anxieties, worries. You have to learn a different kind of effort -- what Lao Tzu calls effortless effort -- utterly relaxed, because you are not going anywhere. You are simply relaxing within yourself. You are not going to find some goal, some achievement far away which creates worries --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,692 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...can be called only playfulness, that can be called only loving radiation. And existence itself is eager to open its heart to the loving child, to open its secrets to the wondering eyes of the child. Lao Tzu says, "The moment you drop knowledge, you become wise." The moment you stop inquiring into the mysteries of existence, existence itself opens up all its doors, invites you. And to enter the mysteries of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,693 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not only people, like Friedrich Nietzsche who have missed the journey towards their own selves; they were great intellectuals, geniuses unparalleled -- but all that belongs to the mind. And to be a Gautam Buddha, a Lao Tzu, or a Zarathustra is to get out of the mind, to be in a state of mindlessness. It does not matter whether you had a big mind or a small mind, a mediocre mind, or a genius; the point is that you should be out ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,694 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Soviet Union, not in China. The only place where communism exists is when somebody becomes a Gautam Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. Suddenly all distinctions, talents of the mind, disappear. There is only pure sky where you cannot make any distinctions of higher and lower. And you are asking, "What was it that in their previous live...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,695 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ers. And it is not a question of finding it in somebody else's house; it is there within you. There are no doors for you to knock on. You have just to be utterly centered, and the doors are always open. This is what Lao Tzu would say, and this is what Chuang Tzu would say. I know if Jesus had been born in the East, he would have said the same thing. It is the Western atmosphere, where all search is for the object and nobody care...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,696 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...shed and unpublished Query:- is right." If strong winds take you hither and thither, don't resist; they appear strong because of your resistance. Relax, go with them. Go with them, with totality. Lao Tzu became enlightened sitting under a tree, seeing an old dead leaf falling from the tree, slowly. Winds were taking it this way and that way, and it had no resistance. It was totally willing to go anywhere -- b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,697 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r spiritual growth, freedom for inner search, freedom for knowing the secrets and the mysteries of life. If Gorbachev can introduce the Soviet Union to Gautam Buddha, to Mahavira, to Zarathustra, to Lao Tzu... why be so confined to Karl Marx? Why be so poor? Why not make the whole sky yours? -- all the stars and the whole beauty of the night, yours. Why remain confined? If he can open the doors for the spiritual...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,698 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you don't need the arrows; your eyes are enough. If you are a perfect musician, you don't need instruments; your silence is music enough." It is a beautiful story, very ancient, almost three thousand years old. Lao Tzu used to tell the story to his disciples, and that was twenty-five centuries ago. The story must have been far older. As you become more and more in tune with me, just being here with me, there is music, t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,699 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... which is really insane. Because the world is insane, the sane people will appear as if they have gone mad. The sane people are so few, and they happen once in thousands of years -- a Gautam Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Socrates, a Jesus. Centuries pass, and humanity goes on living in a lukewarm madness. But because everybody is in the same boat, nobody recognizes that anybody is doing something insane. C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,700 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng beyond thinking, and coming to a space where the sky is absolutely without clouds. And then no question arises, and no answer is needed. People think that Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Zarathustra, or Lao Tzu have found the answer. They are wrong. They have lost both -- the question and the answer. They have found a silence, undisturbed either by questions or by answers. When I said this to Tibeta...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,701 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...starting in the wrong direction from the very beginning. Zen is not Buddhism -- the essential core of the heart of Buddha, certainly, but it is the essential core of Moses too, the essential core of Zarathustra too, Lao Tzu too. It is the essential core of all those who have become enlightened, of all those who have awakened from their dream, of all those who have seen that the goose is out, that the goose has never been in, tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,702 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It has happened that in the company of a pseudo Master somebody has become enlightened; in a situation where no Master was present, just a natural accident, and somebody has become enlightened. Lao Tzu became enlightened through seeing a dead leaf falling from a tree. He was sitting under a tree meditating for years, and nothing was happening -- and he had been to great Masters. Something was missing. He wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,703 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... more closed it is, the more tight it is, the less is the possibility of anything being there. Enlightenment has to be achieved with open hands, by relaxed, calm, quiet resting in your being. It happened to Lao Tzu that way. For years he was trying to grasp and grasp, and nothing was happening. That morning he simply forgot all about it. It was so beautiful, so sunny, there was so much delight all around, who cared abou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,704 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s so much delight all around, who cared about enlightenment? For a moment that ambition was put aside. And just by coincidence a dead leaf, which must have been hanging off the tree, started falling. Lao Tzu saw it falling from above, slowly slowly. He watched it, he became just a watcher; there was nothing to do. He observed it; he remained aware of the swaying, and the leaf falling in the subtle breeze of the m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,705 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hed it, he became just a watcher; there was nothing to do. He observed it; he remained aware of the swaying, and the leaf falling in the subtle breeze of the morning. As it settled on the ground something settled in Lao Tzu too. Suddenly the feeling of "Eureka!" Suddenly a great outburst of joy: "Aha!" He danced... the goose was out! When the goose is out, what else can you do except dance, sing, laugh -- laugh at the whole...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,706 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s never come. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx says religion is the opium of the people. It is true, ninety-nine point nine percent it is true; just point one percent it is not true. A Buddha, a Jesus, a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra, just these few people can be counted in that point one percent, otherwise Karl Marx is ninety-nine point nine percent right, that religion has proved the opium of the people. It has 10/28/07...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,707 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...were ready to kill, but when the time for real action came -- one man had become really angry, had lost his cool -- why did the crowd disappear?" The crowd said, "They are both Taoists, followers of Lao Tzu, and this is the criterion in Taoist schools; that the moment a person becomes angry he is defeated. There is no need to fight -- he has shown his impotence, he has shown his fear. That's enough! His anger sh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,708 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... benefactor of humanity, the first true messiah, because he seduced Adam and Eve and told them to disobey. He was the first Master Without him there would have been no humanity, no Jesus, no Buddha, no Confucius, no Lao Tzu. The whole credit goes to the poor serpent. And the cause of the whole sin was God himself -- he prohibited.... The Garden of Eden was a big garden. There were only two trees; he was afraid Adam and Eve ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,709 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...all because comparison is basically a wrong approach. I am myself! I don't want to be compared even with Jesus, what to say about the Pope. I don't want to be compared with Buddha, with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, because all comparison is basically wrong. Lao Tzu is Lao Tzu, I am who I am; there is no question of comparison. How can you compare a rose bush with a cedar of Lebanon? There is no question of comparis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,710 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ong approach. I am myself! I don't want to be compared even with Jesus, what to say about the Pope. I don't want to be compared with Buddha, with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, because all comparison is basically wrong. Lao Tzu is Lao Tzu, I am who I am; there is no question of comparison. How can you compare a rose bush with a cedar of Lebanon? There is no question of comparison. How can you compare the lotus with t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,711 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h. I am myself! I don't want to be compared even with Jesus, what to say about the Pope. I don't want to be compared with Buddha, with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, because all comparison is basically wrong. Lao Tzu is Lao Tzu, I am who I am; there is no question of comparison. How can you compare a rose bush with a cedar of Lebanon? There is no question of comparison. How can you compare the lotus with the marigold...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,712 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to a distant star. I rushed... by the time I had reached there he had gone further ahead. It went on and on. Finally I arrived at a door, and on the door there was a signboard: "This is the house where God lives -- Lao Tzu House." Rabindranath says, I became very worried for the first time. I became very troubled. Trembling, I went up the stairs. I was just going to knock on the door and suddenly, in a flash, I saw the whol...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,713 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ached the bottom of the steps I have not looked back. Since then I have been running and running for thousands of years. I am still searching for God, although now I know where he lives. So I only have to avoid that Lao Tazu House and I can go on searching for him everywhere else. There is no fear.... But I have to avoid that house -- that house haunts me; I remember it perfectly. If by chance I accidentally enter that house, th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,714 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be easier for you to be closer and closer to me. EVERY TIME LIEH TZU WAS NOT BUSY, YIN SHENG TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEG FOR SECRETS. Lieh Tzu was one of the masters of the school of Lao Tzu, one of the enlightened disciples of Lao Tzu. And Lieh Tzu was not an ordinary master, not concerned with your small problems, your actions, not concerned with small teachings. Lieh Tzu was concerned only wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,715 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... EVERY TIME LIEH TZU WAS NOT BUSY, YIN SHENG TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEG FOR SECRETS. Lieh Tzu was one of the masters of the school of Lao Tzu, one of the enlightened disciples of Lao Tzu. And Lieh Tzu was not an ordinary master, not concerned with your small problems, your actions, not concerned with small teachings. Lieh Tzu was concerned only with the ultimate. He had many disciples. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,716 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...imply allows the master to be; a sincere seeker allows a master to choose him. A foolish seeker tries to choose the master, and then, from the very beginning, trouble arises. Lieh Tzu and his master, Lao Tzu, had a totally different quality of relationship. Lao Tzu had chosen Lieh Tzu. This Yin Sheng had chosen Lieh Tzu, and when a disciple chooses he is aggressive -- because of the very choice the aggression sta...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,717 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r allows a master to choose him. A foolish seeker tries to choose the master, and then, from the very beginning, trouble arises. Lieh Tzu and his master, Lao Tzu, had a totally different quality of relationship. Lao Tzu had chosen Lieh Tzu. This Yin Sheng had chosen Lieh Tzu, and when a disciple chooses he is aggressive -- because of the very choice the aggression starts. And a master cannot reject you, even if you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,718 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...RNT FROM MY OWN MASTER. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- His own master, was Lao Tzu, the source of the Taoist tradition, one of the greatest beings who has ever walked on the earth. Says Lieh Tzu: THREE YEARS AFTER I BEGAN TO SERVE THE MASTER, MY MIND NO LONGER DARED TO T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,719 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... AGAIN SPEAKING OF BENEFIT AND HARM. FOR THE FIRST TIME THE MASTER'S FACE RELAXED INTO A SMILE. Not that the master was continuously sad for these eight years. Hard, serious? No! A master like Lao Tzu is always laughing. He is not a serious man. Seriousness is a disease. An enlightened man is always playful, his whole life is nothing but a play. How can he be serious? What happened? For these eight yea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,720 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is always laughing. He is not a serious man. Seriousness is a disease. An enlightened man is always playful, his whole life is nothing but a play. How can he be serious? What happened? For these eight years, did Lao Tzu never laugh nor smile? No, that is not the point: he must have laughed many times, and he must have smiled many times. But for Lieh Tzu, in his innermost being, something happened on that day: for the first t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,721 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a smile. A master has to haunt the disciple continuously; he has to be very hard; out of compassion, he has to work continuously. This is about the inner face, not about the outer face. For these eight years Lao Tzu must have followed the innermost being of Lieh Tzu with a very hard face, very hard, for the inner discipline. Then seeing that Lieh Tzu's own conscience had evolved, he must have smiled, for the first time. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,722 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ey remain there. Eastern mysticism takes the final jump -- `I' and `Thou' also disappears. The dialogue disappears. There is only silence. EVERYTHING WAS THE SAME. Now Lieh Tzu was not even aware whether Lao Tzu was his master or not. He was not aware whether he was a disciple or not. In such moments many unbelievable things have happened in the history of Zen. The master always hits the disciple many times in ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,723 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Many people ask me how it happened that such a religious country like China could fall a victim to communism, to an absolutely materialistic philosophy. It is not an accident. Buddha entered China with his teaching; Lao Tzu lived there; Chuang Tzu lived there -- but they could never become the central force. The central force has remained Confucius, and Confucius and Marx are fellow-travellers so there is no problem. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,724 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... remain silent. He must have read it in the scriptures where it is said millions of times that one who knows, never says; one who says, has not known yet. But these are very, very paradoxical things. Lao Tzu says, in the very beginning of'Tao-Te-Ching', that truth cannot be uttered, and that which can be uttered is not true. But Lao Tzu uttered this -- so what to think about it? Is it true, or not? It is the utte...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,725 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... says, has not known yet. But these are very, very paradoxical things. Lao Tzu says, in the very beginning of'Tao-Te-Ching', that truth cannot be uttered, and that which can be uttered is not true. But Lao Tzu uttered this -- so what to think about it? Is it true, or not? It is the uttered word, it has been said. Now you will be in very deep trouble, Lao Tzu says that truth cannot be said, but this much he is sayin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,726 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...annot be uttered, and that which can be uttered is not true. But Lao Tzu uttered this -- so what to think about it? Is it true, or not? It is the uttered word, it has been said. Now you will be in very deep trouble, Lao Tzu says that truth cannot be said, but this much he is saying. So is this saying true or not? If it is not true that will mean that truth can be uttered; if it is true then even this cannot be uttered. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,727 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Query:- compromises with the world, compromises with the ordinary, mediocre mind, bringing religion to the ordinary mind. When religion speaks in its purity it is paradoxical, like the TAO TE CHING of Lao Tzu, or the fragments of Heraclitus, or these Zen stories. In its purity religion transcends logic, imagination, both. It is the very beyond. Now, a few things about the "very beyond", then we can enter int...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,728 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ened ones. It is not right to forget; in fact he had no idea -- and they are the highest creators. Poets and sculptors and musicians and dancers are very low categories in comparison to a Gautam Buddha, Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. What he is saying is absolutely right: sex is the only energy you have. But you can use it in a destructive way -- and that too he has forgotten. An Adolf Hitler or a Joseph Stal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,729 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d these idiots' hands. They don't know anything about it; otherwise they might have tried to keep it also undernourished. Devageet, your soul is as rich as any Gautam Buddha or as any Jesus or as any Lao Tzu. Your soul does not need anything -- except discovery. Never think for a moment that the soul is poor; it is the richest exploration. The finding of it will make you far richer than the richest man in the wor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,730 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that anybody can go beyond Gautam Buddha, just as the contemporaries of Gautam Buddha could not believe that he has gone beyond the VEDAS and beyond the seers of the UPANISHADS, just as contemporaries of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu could not believe that they have gone far beyond Confucius. And if just out of humbleness I don't say the truth, I will be committing a crime against truth. I don't care about such humblen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,731 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here so much insanity? Even your great peaks, your highest suns behave like children. Jesus goes on declaring that he is the only son of God. Naturally, he cannot accept Gautam Buddha or Confucius or Lao Tzu or Basho or Bodhidharma -- not even as cousins. The family is very closed, and a very strange family at that!There is no woman in the family. And in fact the woman is the very center of a family; without a wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,732 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ct, he throws away his instruments; whenever a swordsman becomes perfect, he throws away his sword. It is a very strange saying and goes back almost five thousand years, because it has been quoted by Lao Tzu as an ancient saying. What does it mean? Chuang Tzu was asked, "This seems to be a very strange kind of proverb. When the musician becomes perfect we should have thought that he would have purchased perfect m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,733 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... alone, not by following somebody else's footsteps. The world of truth is something like the sky where birds fly but don't leave any footprints. The world of truth also has no footprints of Jesus or Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu. It is the world of consciousness: where can you leave the footprints? All followers, without exception, are wrong. They are following someone because they are not courageous enough to seek a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,734 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... belonging to different religions and different paths; they are all repeating beautiful words, but because they come from them, they lose all beauty. They are the same words spoken by Zarathustra, by Lao Tzu, by Jesus Christ, by Gautam Buddha; they are the same words, but the man who is speaking is not the same. And those words have significance only if they are supported by an existential individual standing beh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,735 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... against my experience." A man of enlightenment is so full of love, so full of joy, that he shares it. Sharing comes to him without any effort -- it is not an effort, it is not an action. That's why people like Lao Tzu say "actionless action," and "effortless effort." But people like Ta Hui cannot understand that. To them, "effortless effort" and "actionless action" will look like illogical, absurd statemen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,736 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y in support; when things are wrong, I am absolutely against them. My commitment is towards truth. My commitment is not towards anybody else. Even if Jesus Christ or Buddha or Mahavira or Lao Tzu -- the great masters -- commit something which looks to me to be against my experience of truth, I am going to criticize it. That does not mean that I am against them. It simply means that I am totally for tr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,737 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not the disease of a beginner entering the path. It is purely a human curiosity, whether all living beings have the same potential to blossom into the ultimate ecstasy that only very few people -- a Gautam Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra -- have achieved. I consider it absolutely normal, not a disease. Ta Hui quotes Gautam Buddha, which needs some explanation because you will not understand it. And I don't thin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,738 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...... you can't feel those same silent gaps. The presence of the master, his charisma, his energy is missing in the written word. The written word is absolutely dead. No master has ever written except Lao Tzu -- and that too under imperial pressure. His whole life he refused to write, and in the end he was going to leave China and go towards the Himalayas for his ultimate rest. The emperor of Chin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,739 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... pressure. His whole life he refused to write, and in the end he was going to leave China and go towards the Himalayas for his ultimate rest. The emperor of China ordered the armies on the boundary, "If Lao Tzu passes through that area" -- because that was the only gate towards the Himalayas, he was bound to pass by there -- "imprison him. Take good care of him, but make it clear to him he cannot go out ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,740 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., he was bound to pass by there -- "imprison him. Take good care of him, but make it clear to him he cannot go out of China unless he writes his experiences. This is an order from the emperor." Poor Lao Tzu was not aware what was going on. He simply went to the place where it was easiest to move out of China. There was an army waiting, and he was caught immediately. Respectfully, with great honor, they told him,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,741 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ping all so-called knowledge. A simple criterion has to be used: whatever is not your experience is not true. It may be the experience of Gautam Buddha, it may be the experience of Jesus, it may be the experience of Lao Tzu -- but it is not your experience. When a Buddha eats, his hunger disappears, not your hunger. If Buddha finds the truth, his darkness disappears, not your darkness. Nobody can help anybody els...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,742 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... awe. Those few moments are knowing. Tomorrow you will tell somebody what a beautiful sunset you have seen the day before -- that will be knowledge. Now it is only words. I have told you the story of Lao Tzu. He used to go for a morning walk in the mountains. An old friend used to follow him, and one day the friend told him, "I have a guest in my house, and he also wants to come for the morning walk." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,743 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...zu. He used to go for a morning walk in the mountains. An old friend used to follow him, and one day the friend told him, "I have a guest in my house, and he also wants to come for the morning walk." Lao Tzu said, "I have no objection, just make sure that he does not start talking. Knowing should remain knowing, it should not be converted into dead knowledge." The friend said, "I will take care of it." He con...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,744 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... remain knowing, it should not be converted into dead knowledge." The friend said, "I will take care of it." He convinced his guest that it is a great opportunity to be for two hours in the morning with Lao Tzu. "It is rare and invaluable, but the condition is that you should not speak." The guest said, "That is not a problem. I will keep completely silent." And then they started. It was still dark a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,745 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... all around, wild flowers opened their petals and their fragrance. The man forgot that he was not supposed to speak -- and he did not think that this was much speech. He simply said, "How beautiful." Lao Tzu looked at his old colleague and friend with such stern eyes... When they were back home he told his friend, "Please don't bring your guest again tomorrow because he is too talkative" -- and in two hours he ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,746 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... stern eyes... When they were back home he told his friend, "Please don't bring your guest again tomorrow because he is too talkative" -- and in two hours he had said only two words, "How beautiful"! Lao Tzu said to his friend, "I was present, he was present, you were present, the sun was present, the songs of the birds were present, the fragrance of flowers was present -- there is no need to say anything. I was ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,747 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- HAVE NOT STOPPED LAUGHING." Remember that Master Shui Lao is not an ordinary disciple; he is already recognized as a great master, although he is only a great teacher. But the difference is very subtle and can be known only by those who are beyond the master and the tea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,748 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not just a teacher; he had come gradually closer and closer to being a master but he needed a last push. He was fluttering his wings... he was waiting, but just on the verge of flying into the sky. Master Shui Lao asked Ma Tsu... Ma Tsu is one of the strangest masters in the assembly of strange masters of Zen. Shui Lao is asking a simple question: "Why did Bodhidharma come to China? What special transmission was there that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,749 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e was fluttering his wings... he was waiting, but just on the verge of flying into the sky. Master Shui Lao asked Ma Tsu... Ma Tsu is one of the strangest masters in the assembly of strange masters of Zen. Shui Lao is asking a simple question: "Why did Bodhidharma come to China? What special transmission was there that he had to deliver?" MA TSU THEN KNOCKED HIM DOWN WITH A KICK TO THE CHEST: SHUI LAO WAS GREATLY ENLIGHTENE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,750 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m on the chest and knocking him down may have completely stopped the functioning of his mind, because it was so unexpected and so strange. In that stopping of the mind is the release. Suddenly the goose is out! Shui Lao became enlightened. HE GOT UP, CLAPPING HIS HANDS AND LAUGHING LOUDLY, AND SAID, "HOW EXTRAORDINARY! HOW WONDERFUL! INSTANTLY, ON THE TIP OF A HAIR, I HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE ROOT SOURCE OF MYRIAD ST...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,751 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...otherwise, who cares? -- he could have just answered the question and the whole thing would be over. He took so much effort, hit the man, knocked him down... And it is not only Ma Tsu who is compassionate: Shui Lao also knows tremendous 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- understanding. If it ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,752 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e then." Something that is not visible to the eyes must have happened in that moment. As Ma Tsu reached and knocked him, perhaps -- most probably -- he may have knocked him out of his body, and Shui Lao must have witnessed the whole scene, standing outside his own body. The first experience of being outside your own body is one of the most exquisite, sweet, marvelous experiences: you are released. Yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,753 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n an echo of your authentic experience. And these are ordinary realities: beauty, love, gratitude. Enlightenment is the ultimate experience of being one with the whole. There is no way to say it. Lao Tzu refused his whole life to say anything about it: "You can talk about everything, but don't mention the ultimate experience" -- because he cannot lie, and to say anything about the ultimate truth is a lie. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,754 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r friends, listen. SAI MILE SUKH HOY. There is only one possibility of bliss, and that is when the beloved has been found. And what is the way to find the beloved? Search is not the way. Lao Tzu says, "Seek, and you wi]l not find. Do not seek, and find." Seeking is not the way, because seeking is again the male mind. Non-seeking, a passive waiting, just ready, the door open, the house prepared for th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,755 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Then you can read Shankara and you can read Nagarjuna and you can read Nimbarka, and you can read so many more in the West. But if you are really interested in transformation then Buddha will be of great help, Lao Tzu will 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- be of great help, Jesus will be of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,756 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the world, the most cowardly. It needs no guts. But to commit psychological suicide needs great courage -- to be and yet not to be, to drop the ego. Yes, there are a few people who even manage to do the first. Lao Tzu must have been one of those few people who were born and yet not born, who came into the world utterly egoless. Hence the story that Lao Tzu lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. Until he became ri...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,757 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Yes, there are a few people who even manage to do the first. Lao Tzu must have been one of those few people who were born and yet not born, who came into the world utterly egoless. Hence the story that Lao Tzu lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. Until he became ripe, until he became capable of existing in the world without the ego, he resisted the temptation to come out of the womb. He allowed himself,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,758 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ithout the ego, he resisted the temptation to come out of the womb. He allowed himself, permitted himself, to be born only when there was no possibility of any ego arising. What Buddha attained under the Bodhi tree, Lao Tzu must have attained in the mother's womb. Yes, there is a way to be aware even in the mother's womb. Then a person is born, but is born without the ego; Jesus must have come that way. A few ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,759 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f you love it is not news, but if you hate and you destroy, it becomes news. Buddhas are really not counted in your history books. That's why it still remains a problem whether men like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, ever existed, or whether they are only just mythology. Nobody is suspicious about Alexander the Great, and Napoleon, and Tamurlaine, and Genghis Khan, and Nadir Shah; nobody is suspicious about t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,760 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...abindranath's GITANJALI. 'Gitanjali' means 'offering of songs'. It has some totally different quality, not of this world. It echoes something of the Upanishads. It has some reflections of Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. But Rabindranath was not a mystic, he was only a poet. A poet is one who becomes a mystic once in a while, who enters into the world of the mystic once in a while but comes back because he h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,761 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re people. This is how it has happened here. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says that you need not go outside your room; everything can happen just living inside your room. But Lao Tzu had to go out. He used to go on his buffalo, moving from one village to another. I have simply foll...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,762 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rnational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says that you need not go outside your room; everything can happen just living inside your room. But Lao Tzu had to go out. He used to go on his buffalo, moving from one village to another. I have simply followed his advice -- I never go outside my room. Little Hasya lives in Lao Tzu. Other kids ask her, "Do yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,763 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... inside your room. But Lao Tzu had to go out. He used to go on his buffalo, moving from one village to another. I have simply followed his advice -- I never go outside my room. Little Hasya lives in Lao Tzu. Other kids ask her, "Do you see Osho sometimes moving in the house?" but she has not seen me yet, so what can she say? I am just living in my room, and you have all come from different corners of the w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,764 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ome bells are ringing, and nobody is ringing them. Some music, some melody, is there, but I can't see anybody creating it. This music is known by the Christian mystics as 'the Word', LOGOS. Nanak calls it NAM, Lao Tzu calls it Tao, Buddha calls it DHAMMA. But to call it music is the best, to call it NAD is the best, because it is a tremendous orchestra. All the planes of existence are involved in it. It is not only ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,765 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o misunderstand. It is expected. It is nothing unexpected, because what I am saying is not according to their tradition. What I am saying is according to Buddha, Krishna, Christ, Kabir, Farid, Bahaudin, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, but not according to any tradition. These people are not part of any tradition. These are Himalayan peaks, alone. A Zarathustra is a Zarathustra and a Buddha is a Buddha. They don't belong to any coun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,766 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...- is bound to retaliate, react. It is not an accident that Jesus is crucified, the real accident is why Buddha is NOT crucified. It is understandable why Socrates is poisoned, the more problematic thing is why Lao Tzu is not poisoned. How did they manage to escape? Maybe the only reason was that Lao Tzu was very mild 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,767 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e real accident is why Buddha is NOT crucified. It is understandable why Socrates is poisoned, the more problematic thing is why Lao Tzu is not poisoned. How did they manage to escape? Maybe the only reason was that Lao Tzu was very mild 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- in his expression, hence ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,768 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ted, mild, all manners, etiquette. Jesus was the son of a carpenter. He had that same raw quality of wood, and the same smell of raw wood. But one thing is certain: that whenever a man like Buddha or Jesus or Lao Tzu is there, he is bound to be misunderstood, because the crowd belongs to the tradition, to a certain tradition: Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Jew, Jaina, Buddhist, and the tradition cannot tolerate any new rev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,769 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ttle difference is needed to know the sweetness of the sugar. The mystic becomes the sugar. Once in a while the mystic is also a poet; that is a coincidence. Whenever it happens -- as in the case of Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Mohammed -- then we have something of the beyond available to us. But a mystic is not necessarily a poet; to be a poet is a different talent. One can be a mystic without being a poet, one can be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,770 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat difference can there be? Buddha in his deep meditation is not different from Mahavira. Mahavira in his deep meditation is not different from Zarathustra. Zarathustra in his deep silence is not different from Lao Tzu. And I call THIS the Sanatan Dharma. The word SANATAN means eternal, and DHARMA means Tao -- the law, the ultimate law. Ais DHAMMO SANANTANO, Buddha repeats again and again: This is the eterna...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,771 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hen one day you have to do it before me! Just seeing your belly dance, I will really enjoy it!" Jesus would have enjoyed Radha's belly dancing too. Buddha may have closed his eyes, but not Jesus! not Lao Tzu! The rumor is that one day Lao Tzu, Buddha and Confucius, all three were sitting in a restaurant in heaven, and a beautiful woman came with a big beautiful jar and told them, "This is the juice of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,772 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ust seeing your belly dance, I will really enjoy it!" Jesus would have enjoyed Radha's belly dancing too. Buddha may have closed his eyes, but not Jesus! not Lao Tzu! The rumor is that one day Lao Tzu, Buddha and Confucius, all three were sitting in a restaurant in heaven, and a beautiful woman came with a big beautiful jar and told them, "This is the juice of life! Would you like it?" Con...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,773 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it is bitter!" Buddha closed his eyes. He said, "There is no need for me to taste it. Many people have tasted it -- just now Confucius has tasted it. I declare it is bitter!" She went to Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu drank the whole jar. He said, "Unless you drink it totally you have no right to make any comment, any judgment on it." And when he had drunk the whole jar he started dancing, he started laughing. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,774 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is bitter!" Buddha closed his eyes. He said, "There is no need for me to taste it. Many people have tasted it -- just now Confucius has tasted it. I declare it is bitter!" She went to Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu drank the whole jar. He said, "Unless you drink it totally you have no right to make any comment, any judgment on it." And when he had drunk the whole jar he started dancing, he started laughing. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,775 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ess you drink it totally you have no right to make any comment, any judgment on it." And when he had drunk the whole jar he started dancing, he started laughing. Buddha and Confucius left: "This man Lao Tzu is giving a bad name to all of us enlightened people!" And of course he was not dancing alone, he started dancing with the woman! When you are full of life... Jesus was a man of the earth. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,776 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that has its own beauty. Beauty is not found only in one color and one size; it comes in all shapes, an sizes, all colors. There have been people who have loved deserts more than gardens. I live in Lao Tzu House and my garden is a forest. Mukta, my gardener, was very reluctant to make it that way -- obviously, she is a Greek and thinks logically, and this is very illogical. No symmetry, no pruning is allowed. S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,777 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to happen, but nothing is going to happen! The moment I saw him, the moment he saw me, everything was clear. He knows, I know, and we know the same thing! So what is the point of saying?" It is like Lao Tzu. A man asked Lao Tzu, "Can I follow you when you go on your morning walk?" Lao Tzu said, "Yes, but with one condition: no talking." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,778 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., but nothing is going to happen! The moment I saw him, the moment he saw me, everything was clear. He knows, I know, and we know the same thing! So what is the point of saying?" It is like Lao Tzu. A man asked Lao Tzu, "Can I follow you when you go on your morning walk?" Lao Tzu said, "Yes, but with one condition: no talking." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,779 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... was clear. He knows, I know, and we know the same thing! So what is the point of saying?" It is like Lao Tzu. A man asked Lao Tzu, "Can I follow you when you go on your morning walk?" Lao Tzu said, "Yes, but with one condition: no talking." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,780 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n started rising. The valley was so beautiful with the sunrise that he forgot that he was not to talk and he didn't think that this was much talk either: he simply said, "What a beautiful dawn!" And Lao Tzu said, "That's the end! Never again come with me -- you chatter too much!" The man said, "What?! I have simply said 'What a beautiful dawn!' after one hour, and you are telling me, 'You chatter too much!"...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,781 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t's the end! Never again come with me -- you chatter too much!" The man said, "What?! I have simply said 'What a beautiful dawn!' after one hour, and you are telling me, 'You chatter too much!" Lao Tzu said, "Yes, you chatter too much and unnecessarily, because I have got eyes, I am also seeing the beautiful dawn. What is the point of repeating it? Do you think I am blind? Do you think I am insensitive? Do ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,782 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- remain with those who are silent. One of the greatest sayings of Lao Tzu is: The most beautiful company is when you can be with someone as if you are alone. See the insight of Lao Tzu: . . . when you can be with someone as if you are alone, when he allows you so much silence and s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,783 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... unpublished Query:- remain with those who are silent. One of the greatest sayings of Lao Tzu is: The most beautiful company is when you can be with someone as if you are alone. See the insight of Lao Tzu: . . . when you can be with someone as if you are alone, when he allows you so much silence and so much freedom that you are absolutely alone, as if actually alone. His presence is not a hindrance; his presen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,784 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...usly; then only will you be whole. And to me, to be whole is to be holy. Man has not been holy up to now because he has not been whole -- how can he be holy? Yes, once in a while a person may have attained -- a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra. Once in a while a person may have attained to wholeness, but the more I look I feel even Buddha's wholeness can be enriched a little more, even Lao Tzu's wholeness can become a lit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,785 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...once in a while a person may have attained -- a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra. Once in a while a person may have attained to wholeness, but the more I look I feel even Buddha's wholeness can be enriched a little more, even Lao Tzu's wholeness can become a little more than it is; something can be added to it. Even Jesus' wholeness can have a few more dimensions to it. My effort here is to give you a multi-dimensional ex...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,786 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... possibility: the moment the hearer starts telling it to others, what he has heard... All the Buddhist sutras begin with: "I have heard the Blessed One say this...." Buddha never wrote a book, neither did Christ nor Lao Tzu; they all depended on the spoken word. There is a reason for it: because while I am speaking, the word is one thing, but the pauses are far more pregnant, the silences are far more meaningful; my gestures may...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,787 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ere is only one kind of religiousness. There cannot be many. Just as science is one, the scientific approach is one, so is religion, so is the religious approach. Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, they all belong to one kind of religiousness. Of course, they speak different languages -- that is another matter. They are bound to speak different languages. Lao Tzu will speak in Chinese, Jesus will speak...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,788 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, they all belong to one kind of religiousness. Of course, they speak different languages -- that is another matter. They are bound to speak different languages. Lao Tzu will speak in Chinese, Jesus will speak in Aramaic, Buddha will speak in Pali, and of course they will use the idiom of their day. But that is the difference of expression. And one should not be deceived by e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,789 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing the known behind and moving into the unknown. To repeat somebody else is nothing but pretending, cheating, deceiving. It is beautiful to know Christ, it is beautiful to love Buddha, it is beautiful to understand Lao Tzu, but it is ugly, humiliating to repeat them, to be imitators. But for centuries man has been conditioned to be somebody else. There are vested interests against you being yourself. The vested ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,790 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sted interests. The SAME people who had killed Jesus started worshipping him! And it has been happening almost all over the world. It happened with Mahavira, it happened with Buddha, it happened with Lao Tzu, it happened with Nanak, it happened with Mohammed -- the SAME people. They are not different people -- the SAME unconscious humanity.... One thing can be concluded: the unconscious humanity always worshi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,791 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...love. Knowing about love is not knowing love. Knowing about God is not knowing God. By knowing about God you will become a great theologian but not a mystic. You will not be a Christ or a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Zarathustra. You will be simply a pundit who has become capable of repeating the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran, the Bible, the Dhammapada, the Talmud, but the pundit knows nothing. He has not tasted God; he h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,792 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y feel fits with them. And no two persons are the same, hence no single path is applicable to everybody, no single hypothesis. That's why I speak here on Jesus, on Buddha, on Mahavira, on Krishna, on Lao Tzu, on Chuang Tzu, and Dionysius and Heraclitus, and I have been speaking on almost all kinds of mystics. And people think I am eclectic -- no, I am not. I am simply making you aware of the millions of paths to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,793 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cowards. Religion is not a mass phenomenon; it is not for the crowds. The crowds can only be Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans; the crowds can never be religious. Only very courageous people like Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha -- only very courageous people can be religious. It is not for the cowards. Cowards create a pseudo religion for themselves, a toy religion; they go on playing with it. They go every S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,794 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the disciple. Now people have completely forgotten those beautiful moments and those beautiful days and those beautiful people. It is said about Chuang Tzu that when for the first time he entered the hut where Lao Tzu, his would-be master, was living, Lao Tzu looked at Chuang Tzu and said, "Remember one thing, never ask me how to become enlightened." The poor fellow had come for that very purpose. But Lao Tzu m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,795 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se beautiful moments and those beautiful days and those beautiful people. It is said about Chuang Tzu that when for the first time he entered the hut where Lao Tzu, his would-be master, was living, Lao Tzu looked at Chuang Tzu and said, "Remember one thing, never ask me how to become enlightened." The poor fellow had come for that very purpose. But Lao Tzu made it clear, "Only on this condition will I accept yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,796 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntered the hut where Lao Tzu, his would-be master, was living, Lao Tzu looked at Chuang Tzu and said, "Remember one thing, never ask me how to become enlightened." The poor fellow had come for that very purpose. But Lao Tzu made it clear, "Only on this condition will I accept you as my disciple." There was a moment of silence. Chuang Tzu thought, "It is strange. I have come to become enlightened, that is the very...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,797 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... existence that this planet is so precious that to allow it to be destroyed will be sheer nonsense. Existence will have to wait again for fifty million years to bring such people, such consciousnesses as Buddha, Lao Tzu... Do you see my point? Make it so valuable that even existence withdraws, and destroys all that is being prepared for global suicide. You don't have to act! You have simply to meditate, be silent, be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,798 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ons, for exploitation, and they have done it for so many centuries that it has become almost an inbuilt program in us. In China a strange experiment was done. The emperor was very much impressed by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. He lived long enough to be in contact with the master Lao Tzu, then his disciple Chuang Tzu, then his disciple Lieh Tzu. These three people impressed on the emperor a very n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,799 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... almost an inbuilt program in us. In China a strange experiment was done. The emperor was very much impressed by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. He lived long enough to be in contact with the master Lao Tzu, then his disciple Chuang Tzu, then his disciple Lieh Tzu. These three people impressed on the emperor a very novel, original idea, but it has not been followed. The moment the emperor died the old vested ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,800 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...emperor a very novel, original idea, but it has not been followed. The moment the emperor died the old vested interests came back and destroyed something of tremendous value. Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu had a strange idea: that no doctor should be paid by his patients, because if the patient has to pay the doctor, knowingly or unknowingly the doctor would like the patient to remain sick as long as possible -...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,801 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o has paid all your expenses in medical college. She was going to pay for your two other brothers. She was rich enough, there was no need for her to be healthy. And she was my main source of income." Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu impressed on the emperor that if the patient has to pay the doctor, you are creating a very dangerous situation. The doctor's interest will be that the patient remains a patient as long as poss...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,802 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...The doctor's interest will be that the patient remains a patient as long as possible. And he will apparently show concern that he wants to cure you. He will be in a dilemma himself. The emperor asked Lao Tzu, "Then what is your suggestion? -- because this has been always the case." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, pu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,803 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hole individuality has been erased. Then you are a Christian and you are a Jew, but you are not you. The phenomenon of the master and the disciple happened in the East in its golden days, when there were people like Lao Tzu and Zarathustra and Gautam Buddha. They created a totally new kind of relationship. Everybody cannot paint like a Picasso; neither can everybody be a Michelangelo. The West has missed having a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,804 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Jesus is not at all a comparison to him. Jesus is simply a Jew, believing in all the Jewish dogmas. He is faithful -- in fact, a little too much. Gautam Buddha is a rebel; he is not a follower of anyone. Neither is Lao Tzu a follower of anyone. They don't have any scriptures, they don't have any belief systems. They have searched on their own, alone -- risking, because they are moving away from the crowd on the lonely path,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,805 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ause of its mysteriousness. The next great name is Bodhidharma. His master told him to go to China, not to convert China to Buddhism... "But in China there is already a fragrance existing, created by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. Truth is nobody's monopoly. It will be good if you take the treasure that Mahakashyapa has given, from generation to generation, to China. And let these two beautiful streams of mystics...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,806 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...shyapa, Bodhidharma, they all used centering: going within to the point where nothing remains, just a pure presence, no person. The same became even more beautiful with the great heritage of Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu and Lao Tzu. They were also people of centering. They were exploring their interiority to find themselves, and what they found was an absolute absence of anybody -- even the finder disappeared. Out of that state came nei...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,807 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... There have been a few other women -- Sahajo... but they are very few. It is a condemnation of men that you did not allow a woman to become a Gautam Buddha, that you did not allow a woman to become a Lao Tzu. The crime is so big that it is incalculable. And, Milarepa, you are asking, "Theoretically speaking, enlightenment and women are just great. But what about practically speaking?" Practically...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,808 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...inding your truth you may be able to see different expressions in different people, but with a certain quality which joins them all. I have heard a story... In paradise Gautam Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tzu, all three are sitting in a restaurant and a naked woman comes with a jar and tells them, "I have brought the juice of life, would you like to taste it?" Buddha immediately closes his eyes, bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,809 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ny judgement." He was a very calculative, mathematical man, so he just tasted a little and said, "No, it is all illusory, made of the stuff dreams are made of. I am not interested." She looked at Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu said, "Give me the jar." She said, "The whole jar?" He said, "Unless I have drunk it completely I cannot say anything about it. I am a man of totality." And he drank it before... Buddha and Confu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,810 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ent." He was a very calculative, mathematical man, so he just tasted a little and said, "No, it is all illusory, made of the stuff dreams are made of. I am not interested." She looked at Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu said, "Give me the jar." She said, "The whole jar?" He said, "Unless I have drunk it completely I cannot say anything about it. I am a man of totality." And he drank it before... Buddha and Confucius look...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,811 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ow, hence the question. So don't be befooled by the mind's toys. It supplies toys: it says, "Look, it is written in the Bible. Look, it is written in the Upanishads. This is the answer. Look, this is written by Lao Tzu, this is the 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- answer." The mind can throw...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,812 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ndian mind is predominantly hooked with the second type of ego. That's why Buddhism could not survive in India. Within five hundred years, Buddhism disappeared. It found better roots in China, because of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu had created really a beautiful field for Buddhism there. The climate was ready -- as if somebody had prepared the ground; only the seed was needed. And when the seed reached China it grew into a grea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,813 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d is predominantly hooked with the second type of ego. That's why Buddhism could not survive in India. Within five hundred years, Buddhism disappeared. It found better roots in China, because of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu had created really a beautiful field for Buddhism there. The climate was ready -- as if somebody had prepared the ground; only the seed was needed. And when the seed reached China it grew into a great tree. B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,814 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eautiful field for Buddhism there. The climate was ready -- as if somebody had prepared the ground; only the seed was needed. And when the seed reached China it grew into a great tree. But from India it disappeared. Lao Tzu had no idea of any permanent self, and in China people have not bothered much. There are these three cultures in the world: one culture, called the materialist -- very predominant in the West;...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,815 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t and don't bother for the future, because to bother about heaven and hell and paradise and moksha is basically to be continuously concerned about yourself. It is very selfish, it is very self-centered. According to Lao Tzu, according to Buddha too, and according to me also, a person who is trying to reach heaven is a very, very self-centered person, very selfish. And he does not know a thing about his own inner bein...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,816 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there is no conclusion behind it. You are not doing anything in particular, you are simply being. It has no past to it, it is uncontaminated by the past. It has no future to it, it is pure of all future. It is what Lao Tzu has called wei-wu-wei, action through inaction. This is what Zen masters have been saying: Sitting silently doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Remember, 'by itself' -- nothing is b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,817 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...said, "I will disappear into existence. If you taste existence, you will taste me." And yes, that is true: if you taste existence you will taste all the Buddhas -- Krishna, Christ, Buddha, Mahavira, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Nanak -- you will taste all the Buddhas. The day you enter into that nothingness, you will be welcomed by all the Buddhas. The whole existence is throbbing with buddhahood because so many Buddhas have...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,818 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ld have been totally different. But he was not understood at all. He became more and more separate from the main current of Western thinking and the Western mind. Heraclitus was like Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu or Basho. The Greek soil was absolutely not good for him. He would have been a great tree in the East: millions would have profited, millions would have found the way through him. But for Greeks he was just o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,819 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use at that peak the river itself is flowing in that direction; everything is fluid, nothing is fixed. Twenty-five centuries ago there were born in India, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira the Jaina; in China, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu; in Iran, Zarathustra; and in Greece, Heraclitus. They are the peaks. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, publis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,820 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s no trouble; he has avoided the paradox, he has made a neat and clean doctrine -- it appeals. You will be scared to face Heraclitus because he opens the door of life, and life is paradoxical. Buddha is paradoxical, Lao Tzu is paradoxical; all those who have known are bound to be paradoxical. What can they do? If life itself is paradoxical, they have to be true to life. And life is not logical. It is a logos, but it is not logic...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,821 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Illness is not bad: it is through illness that you regain health. Everything fits in the harmony -- that's why Heraclitus is called the Riddler. Lao Tzu would have understood him deeply, but Aristotle could not understand him. And, unfortunately, Aristotle became the source of Greek thought. And Greek thought, even more unfortunately, became the whole base of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,822 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ent. You cannot see the movement because the movement is very subtle and fast. Now physicists agree with Heraclitus, not with Aristotle, remember. Whenever any science reaches nearer to reality, it has to agree with Lao Tzu and Heraclitus. Now physicists say everything is in movement. Eddington has said that the only word which is false is rest. Nothing is at rest, nothing can be; it is a false word, it doesn't correspond ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,823 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s Spake Zarathustra consists of oracular maxims -- but since Heraclitus, only Nietzsche. In the East, everybody who has been enlightened has written in that way. That is the way of the Upanishads, the Vedas, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Basho: just maxims. They are so small that you have to penetrate them, and just by trying to understand them you will change and your intellect cannot cope with them. Says Basho in a small haiku:...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,824 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here exists a harmony -- between the opposites? Opposites are opposites. There is no harmony. Life is life and death is death. Be clear about it, don't mix things -- this man seems to be a muddler." Lao Tzu also felt the same. Lao Tzu said, "Everybody seems to be wise except me. Everybody seems to be very clever except me -- I am a fool!" Lao Tzu is one of the greatest, one of the most wise persons ever born, bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,825 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ween the opposites? Opposites are opposites. There is no harmony. Life is life and death is death. Be clear about it, don't mix things -- this man seems to be a muddler." Lao Tzu also felt the same. Lao Tzu said, "Everybody seems to be wise except me. Everybody seems to be very clever except me -- I am a fool!" Lao Tzu is one of the greatest, one of the most wise persons ever born, but he feels amidst you that h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,826 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it, don't mix things -- this man seems to be a muddler." Lao Tzu also felt the same. Lao Tzu said, "Everybody seems to be wise except me. Everybody seems to be very clever except me -- I am a fool!" Lao Tzu is one of the greatest, one of the most wise persons ever born, but he feels amidst you that he is a fool. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody seems to be so clear a thinker, I am muddle-headed." What Aristotle says to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,827 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... "Everybody seems to be wise except me. Everybody seems to be very clever except me -- I am a fool!" Lao Tzu is one of the greatest, one of the most wise persons ever born, but he feels amidst you that he is a fool. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody seems to be so clear a thinker, I am muddle-headed." What Aristotle says to Heraclitus, Lao Tzu says about himself. Lao Tzu says, "When somebody listens to my teaching withou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,828 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ne of the greatest, one of the most wise persons ever born, but he feels amidst you that he is a fool. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody seems to be so clear a thinker, I am muddle-headed." What Aristotle says to Heraclitus, Lao Tzu says about himself. Lao Tzu says, "When somebody listens to my teaching without the mind, he becomes enlightened. If somebody listens to my teaching through the mind, then he finds his own ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,829 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ons ever born, but he feels amidst you that he is a fool. Lao Tzu says, "Everybody seems to be so clear a thinker, I am muddle-headed." What Aristotle says to Heraclitus, Lao Tzu says about himself. Lao Tzu says, "When somebody listens to my teaching without the mind, he becomes enlightened. If somebody listens to my teaching through the mind, then he finds his own explanations -- which have nothing to do with m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,830 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- there are people who listen without listening -- when somebody listens as if he is listening without listening, then he laughs at my foolishness." And the third type of mind is the majority. And says Lao Tzu, "If the majority doesn't laugh at you, you must be aware that you must be saying something wrong. If the majority laughs, only then are you saying something true. When the majority thinks you are a fool, onl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,831 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Indian or Greek. Truth cannot be private. Dreams are private. Whatsoever is private, remember, it must belong to the world of dreams. Truth is an open sky, it is for all, it is one. That's why when Lao Tzu speaks, the language may be different; Buddha talks, the language is different; Heraclitus talks, the language is different -- but they mean the same, they indicate towards the same. They don't live in a priv...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,832 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... otherwise you will fall into an abyss, you will get dizzy and the mind will simply crack, and it will be difficult to repair it. These are the problems, and this is why man listens to Heraclitus, to Lao Tzu, to Buddha, to Jesus, but never tries. Only a few try it. If you are ready to try it, you have to be aware of what it means. Just a desire to be happy won't help -- a desire to know the truth, not a desire to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,833 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ished Query:- will suggest just the opposite. Be alert: when the mind suggests just the opposite to you, don't follow it! Always find the golden mean. Don't listen to the mind, know where to stop. Lao Tzu has said, "Three treasures I give to you. One treasure is love. The second treasure is never go to the extreme. And the third treasure is be natural." And he says everything will take care of itself. Why will...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,834 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss. WISDOM CONSISTS IN SPEAKING AND ACTING THE TRUTH, GIVING HEED TO THE NATURE OF THINGS. Heraclitus is just like Lao Tzu, exactly the same. He says: WISDOM CONSISTS IN SPEAKING AND ACTING THE TRUTH.... Try, because to know the truth it is going to be a long journey. Much preparation will be needed. Bef...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,835 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... never penetrated to that depth. It is in you also, near the center, but you have lived on the periphery so you don't know about it. Heraclitus says, "But listening to me" -- listening to a Buddha, to Heraclitus, to Lao Tzu -- "it is good to acknowledge that all things are one." This is not your experience yet. Here enters trust, SHRADDHA, faith. And religion cannot exist without trust, because you don't know th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,836 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., you will never feel any contradiction. And if you feel, not just think, you will start feeling, by and by, that whatsoever I say is the same. Whether I say it through Heraclitus or through Jesus or through Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- whatsoever I say, I always say the same thing. The language differs, words differ, but not the logos of it. LISTENING TO ME... IT IS WISE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,837 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the only God, and Mohammed is the only prophet.'" What do you mean? Is God exhausted in Mohammed? Then God is very poor. Then what about Mahavira? Then what about Buddha? Then what about Jesus, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Heraclitus? And what about all of you who are some day or the other going to become the prophets? What about the whole? Mohammed is beautiful, but Mohammedans claim that he is the only prophet, and then ugli...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,838 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y book. The word bible means the book. They have not named it because for them this is the only book, all else is rubbish. What about the Upanishads? What about the sayings of Buddha? What about the Tao Teh Ching of Lao Tzu? Why should The Bible be the only book? It is beautiful, but when it becomes the only book it has become ill. This is the sacred disease. When you claim for your truth that it is the whole and all, the e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,839 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tive; just to protect himself he becomes insulated -- that is not the point. You have to be like a child -- alive, elegant, graceful, agile -- and yet dry like an old man. This is what is said about Lao Tzu, a beautiful story, that Lao Tzu was born already an old man. When he was born, he was eighty-two years old; he lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. This is a beautiful phenomenon! It is said that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,840 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... becomes insulated -- that is not the point. You have to be like a child -- alive, elegant, graceful, agile -- and yet dry like an old man. This is what is said about Lao Tzu, a beautiful story, that Lao Tzu was born already an old man. When he was born, he was eighty-two years old; he lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two years. This is a beautiful phenomenon! It is said that he was born with gray hair -- ei...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,841 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...AGAINST IT. HOW CAN ANYONE HIDE FROM THAT WHICH NEVER SETS? The logos is the logic of the whole, the logic of the existence itself. The logos is the ultimate law. It is the same as what Lao Tzu calls tao, what the Upanishads and Vedas have called the RIT: the cosmic harmony where opposites meet and disappear, where two become one, where no polarity exists, where all paradoxes are dissolved, all cont...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,842 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... meet. In him, sound and silence meet. And if you have a musical ear and a heart, then you will see the harmony in such a person. And such a person is rare, because he himself has become a logos. Such are Krishna, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Heraclitus, Jesus: they live in the logos, they are miniature logoi. The working of their beings is the same as existence; in their beings the same existence mirrors. They don't reject anything, they...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,843 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l that theology is. Not a single problem has been solved. The most useless effort that man has made ever is theology. And it starts with: "God created the world." Men like Heraclitus, Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, they don't talk about these things. They simply say: "Existence is God. Nobody has created it. There is no creator who is responsible for it, so don't raise unnecessary questions. And don't wast...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,844 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... will say, "Exactly, precisely because there is no controller, things cannot fall apart." When you control, you mismanage. You cannot find greater mismanagers than managers -- they mismanage. That's what Lao Tzu says. He says: When there were no rulers everything was beautiful; when there was no law there was no crime, and when there was no wise man there were no fools. Things moved in their cosmic beauty. Then enter...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,845 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...You cannot think of a more boring situation: God sitting there and you sitting there and nothing changing, nothing to say even. Even one moment will look like eternity -- so boring. No, for Heraclitus and Buddha and Lao Tzu, the soul of existence is change. And change beautifies everything. A young woman -- you would like her to remain always young and the same. But if it really happens you will be bored. If it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,846 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...onsciousness there is no regularity. Sometimes it happens at one point of history that there are a dozen enlightened people. For example, it happened at the time of Gautam Buddha. Just at the same time there was Lao Tzu in China, and Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu; in Greece, there were Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Plotinus; in India, Mahavira and eight other teachers of the same status. And perhaps in other countr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,847 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ple looked so happy, so joyous. He said, "My god, is there something wrong or what?" He enquired, "Is this really hell?" They said, "It used to be. Before Gautam Buddha, Socrates, Epicurus, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, people like these came here, it used to be hell. But now they have transformed the whole place." He entered hell and he could not believe -- it was sheer joy! The very air was full of blissfulness. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,848 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...one such great harm. Half of humanity has been completely prevented even from entering the area of religion. This was done out of fear. So you have Gautam Buddha and you have Jesus and you have Mahavira and you have Lao Tzu, but you don't have women of parallel height, because all chances were taken away, all possibilities were destroyed. My own experience is that women can enter into meditation more easily than men. Man ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,849 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... more beautiful flowers can come out of crossbreeding, and more beautiful children are born out of crossbreeding, the same has happened with Zen. Zen is a crossbreeding between Buddha's thought and Lao Tzu's thought. It is a great meeting, the greatest that ever took place. That's why Zen is more beautiful than Buddha's thought and more beautiful than Lao Tzu's thought. It is a tare flowering of the highest pea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,850 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Zen is a crossbreeding between Buddha's thought and Lao Tzu's thought. It is a great meeting, the greatest that ever took place. That's why Zen is more beautiful than Buddha's thought and more beautiful than Lao Tzu's thought. It is a tare flowering of the highest peaks and the meeting of those peaks. Zen is neither Buddhist nor Taoist, but it carries both within it. India is a little too serious about religion -- a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,851 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... peaks. Zen is neither Buddhist nor Taoist, but it carries both within it. India is a little too serious about religion -- a long past, a long weight on the mind of India, and religion has become serious. Lao Tzu remained a laughingstock -- Lao Tzu is known as the old fool. He is not serious at all; you cannot find a more non-serious man. Then Buddha's thought and Lao Tzu's thought met, India and China met, and Z...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,852 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t nor Taoist, but it carries both within it. India is a little too serious about religion -- a long past, a long weight on the mind of India, and religion has become serious. Lao Tzu remained a laughingstock -- Lao Tzu is known as the old fool. He is not serious at all; you cannot find a more non-serious man. Then Buddha's thought and Lao Tzu's thought met, India and China met, and Zen was born. And this So...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,853 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ia, and religion has become serious. Lao Tzu remained a laughingstock -- Lao Tzu is known as the old fool. He is not serious at all; you cannot find a more non-serious man. Then Buddha's thought and Lao Tzu's thought met, India and China met, and Zen was born. And this Sosan was just near the original source when Zen was coming out of the womb. He carries the fundamental. His biography is not re...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,854 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you forgot about the whole project... suddenly it is there. This is the law of reverse effect. With the unconscious, remember, will is of no use -- not only of no use, it is also dangerous, harmful. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Bodhidharma, Sosan -- they are the Masters of this law of reverse effect. And this is the difference between Yoga and Zen. Yoga makes every effort and Zen makes no effort, and Zen is truer than a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,855 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ignificant things, one of the foundations -- that whether you go back or you go ahead, you reach the same goal. The question is not of backward or forward, the question is of not being on the bridge. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, they say fall back into nature, Tao. Shankara, Buddha, Jesus, they say go ahead, pass through the bridge, reach the divine. This will look very paradoxical, but it is not -- because both the bank...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,856 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dy was not feeling to, they would not eat, and they never fell ill because of eating. And one more thing which no one ever suspected came to be understood, and that was miraculous. Only Sosan can understand, or Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu, because they are the Masters of Tao. This was such a discovery! They came to understand that if a child was ill, then he would not eat particular foods. Then they tried to understand why he was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,857 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en I am taking my supper, she comes to see me -- she did not come. She really wanted to avoid me because I have seen something which she was hiding. Not only did she not come to me, but she even removed herself from Lao Tzu House to Krishna House, with an excuse that she was getting a cold. She phoned Nirvano to say that she was getting suspicious, and that by dedicating the new series to her, "Osho is trying to blackmail me." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,858 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng -- teaching, expounding. And even they are saying that Buddha has expounded the truth of The Diamond Sutra. Hyakujo says that such a man will never understand what I mean'. It is something like...Lao Tzu wrote a small treatise under compulsion. His first statement makes it clear. He says "Truth cannot be said. And that which can be said, can never be true. Now whatever I say, remember my first statement." You...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,859 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... consciousness, beauty. But all these words denote one oceanic feeling of awareness in which you are not separate from the cosmos. But the difficulty with man is, he makes everything into an ism. So when Lao Tzu died, people started making an ism. And his whole life he had been teaching that there is no ism, no philosophy, no theory. You have to drop all these mind activities. You have to attain to a silent and empty...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,860 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on't know who you are, you don't know the meaning of your life, of your existence. You have to approach somebody who has arrived home, who has found the way. You have to approach a Buddha, an enlightened Master -- a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra, a Jesus, a Mohammed. You have to approach somebody who is afire with God, aflame, who is radiating godliness, in whose presence you feel bathed, refreshed, in whose presence something starts f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,861 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sty for it and help them to get it... it is a rare gift. Krishnamurti is an ARHATA, he is not a BODHISATTVA. His enlightenment is as great as anybody else's enlightenment; he is a Buddha, a Jesus, a Lao Tzu. In enlightenment there are no degrees; either one is enlightened or one is not. Once a person is enlightened he has the same flavor, the same fragrance as anyone who has ever become enlightened or will ever ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,862 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kalidas, Bharbhuti, Rabindranath, Kahlil Gibran. If you have not been acquainted with Tolstoy, Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, something in you will remain missing. The same is true if you have not read Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Gautam Buddha, Bodhidharma, Baso, Lin Chi, Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus. These are very different, unique perspectives, but they will all help you to become wider. S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,863 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., "Got any American cigarettes on you?" He is right about ninety-nine percent gurus, but he is wrong about one percent, and that one percent is really what matters. He is wrong about Buddha, he is wrong about Lao Tzu, he is wrong about Jesus. But to find a living Master one has to search, and in fact, all those false gurus help you in a way because experiencing them you become aware of that which is false...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,864 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h -- millions of years. First you were like a fish and finally you were like a monkey -- and very few people grow out of that stage! Darwin may be right about a few people -- a Buddha, a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu... in fact, I cannot count even Darwin! He may be right about a few people, that they have evolved beyond the monkeys, but as far as others are concerned they have only descended from the trees -- that is tru...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,865 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to fight for every single inch, then no work would have been possible. He had to compromise. He accepted many things which I know were accepted very unwillingly. And the same is true about Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Jesus, Mohammed. But they had to function in a particular society, which was given, already there, and it had existed for thousands of years. And they decided it is better to work silently and h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,866 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y the same as the other. But man is not a machine, and to reduce man to be a machine will be destroying humanity from the earth. Do you think in Soviet Russia Gautam Buddha is possible, Jesus Christ is possible, Lao Tzu is possible? And what to say about Buddha, Jesus and Lao Tzu? I ask you: is even Karl Marx possible? Even Karl Marx is not possible, because Karl Marx has an intelligence of his own and he will not be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,867 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e a machine will be destroying humanity from the earth. Do you think in Soviet Russia Gautam Buddha is possible, Jesus Christ is possible, Lao Tzu is possible? And what to say about Buddha, Jesus and Lao Tzu? I ask you: is even Karl Marx possible? Even Karl Marx is not possible, because Karl Marx has an intelligence of his own and he will not be tolerated. He is not an ordinary person; certainly he is not a part ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,868 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Christian. Love is a totally different phenomenon. If you become a Christian you are addicted with Christ, you become dependent on Christ. If you are a Christian you are bound to be anti-Buddha, anti-Mahavira, anti-Lao Tzu, anti-Zarathustra, anti-Patanjali.Just choosing Christ and becoming anti to all the other great awakened individuals who have walked on the earth is becoming poor, unnecessarily poor. When you can claim the w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,869 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uthfulness, rebellion, adventure, never happens. And with me only young people -- young in the spirit, I mean -- can have any communion. And not only with me: it has always been so. With Buddha, with Jesus, with Lao Tzu, it was always the case: only very few youthful adventurers went with these dangerous people. They attained great treasures, but those treasurers are not certain, not guaranteed; there is no insurance. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,870 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er or later they want to be left alone. They are finished! Their dreams are shattered, they are disillusioned. It is the great work of woman; the whole credit goes to women. The Buddha, the Mahavira, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, they were possible only because the woman was continuously forcing them: either become enlightened or go crazy! And they decided to become enlightened. they said, "It is better to become enlig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,871 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e; their whole religion has remained extrovert. Jesus was recognized only by very few people; those few people can be counted on fingers. It happened again and again around these precious diamonds -- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Lin Chi, Baso, Bahauddin, Jalaluddin, Kabir, Nanak -- again and again. But the problem is: when the Master dies, the commune starts withering away. Maybe for a time being a sequence of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,872 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rs! I don't know who is living where, how many people are living in the commune. I have not visited the other houses of the commune. I simply know the way to my room! I cannot find even in my own house where I live, Lao Tzu House, the rooms of other sannyasins who are living with me Vivek has heen telling me that, "One day give us a surprise -- come to the kitchen!" I have never been there; I really don't know where it is. So in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,873 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... experienced it, you have just thought about it. Yes, if you think about emptiness it will look boring, it will look dull, it will look dead. But the people who have experienced it -- Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Mahavira, Bodhidharma, Bahauddin, Nanak, Kabir -- not a single person has said that it is boring. You are really an exception! If you have experienced it then you are denying all the awakened peo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,874 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se other routes are not named, because no ancient teaching used them. But there are other routes. Mahavira never talked about kundalini, never. Buddha never talked about kundalini, never. Christ never knew about it, Lao Tse never heard about it. They had been through other routes. The way Buddha went could not have been through kundalini. His sex had become absolutely a boredom to him, he was not in the least interested in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,875 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...inary fathers on the earth would love their children to be immortals. What kind of God was this? And if this is God -- who prevents his children from becoming wise, from becoming Socrates, and Gautam Buddha, and Lao Tzu, this is not a god worth having. If he has not died by himself, then somebody has to murder him. He has tortured humanity enough. And strange is the fact that it was the Devil who persuaded Eve to eat fro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,876 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to explore for truth. Prayer is not the way; meditation is the way. And those who have come to the ultimate experience of meditation -- a Gautam Buddha, a Bodhidharma, a Mahakashyapa, a Mahavira, a Lao Tzu, a Chuang Tzu, a Ma Tzu, a Sekito ... they all don't even talk about God. That which does not exist -- what is the point even to say that he does not exist? It is simply out of the question to discuss God, to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,877 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e does not exist? It is simply out of the question to discuss God, to discuss heaven and hell. Hence I want you to understand that Zen has come as a flowering out of the meeting of Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu. It is the meeting of Dhamma and Tao. It is a crossbreed of Bodhidharma and Chuang Tzu. These two religions have reached to the highest peak, and they are unorganized religions. Where they have become organiz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,878 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on destroys the individual, sacrifices the individual, and the individual is the only one who can know the highest peaks of consciousness and the depths of consciousness. Out of the meeting of Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu, Zen is born. Zen is neither Buddhism, nor is it Tao; it is both, just as you are both your mother and your father. You are neither -- something of your father, something of your mother is flowing in you. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,879 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... morality, behavior, all are based on creating a better society. It is because of Confucius that China easily became communist, although Confucius lived twenty-five centuries ago, a contemporary of Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu and Socrates. China's conversion to communism is strange, because it was a poor country, it did not have a capitalist class to exploit. It was still feudal with landlords; it was an agricultu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,880 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a man like Jesus can become a proof for him. The Gospel carries all that is beautiful in Jesus' flowering, the Beatitudes. Those statements are the most beautiful ever made. Not even Buddha, not even Lao Tzu, have spoken that way. Buddha is very philosophic, very refined; Jesus is very plain, simple. Jesus speaks like a villager, a farmer, a fisherman. But because he speaks the way common people speak, his words ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,881 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. It was not possible for the caveman to give these things. The caveman could not have given us an Albert Einstein either, or a Dostoevsky or a Picasso. The caveman could not have given us a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Jesus. It needs time, and it needs preparation, and it needs a certain milieu in which to grow, only then is Jesus possible. For Jesus to exist many things are needed; he can only exist in those cir...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,882 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who has no ideas, who is simply like a mirror, can understand everybody and can become very much enriched by it. If you can understand Buddha, and Jesus and Moses and Mohammed and Mahavir and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu, your richness is growing. Because Lao Tzu will bring a new breeze in your being which only he can bring, because he opens a door which nobody else can open. He is a Master, a master technician. He knows how ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,883 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e a mirror, can understand everybody and can become very much enriched by it. If you can understand Buddha, and Jesus and Moses and Mohammed and Mahavir and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu, your richness is growing. Because Lao Tzu will bring a new breeze in your being which only he can bring, because he opens a door which nobody else can open. He is a Master, a master technician. He knows how to open a certain door, and at that door, n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,884 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... compassion. Why be so poor? Why not claim the whole history of man? Why not claim ALL the enlightened people as yours? That's my work here. That's why one day I speak on Buddha, another day on Jesus, another day on Lao Tzu -- I go on changing. My effort here is to make you enriched, to make you available to all the joys possible 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,885 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecstasy: the ecstasy that comes through intelligence. And Jesus brings another kind of ecstasy: the ecstasy that comes through love. Krishna brings another kind of ecstasy: the ecstasy that comes through action. And Lao Tzu brings another kind of ecstasy: the ecstasy that comes through inaction. These are very very different paths, but they all come into you, and they all meet you in your innermost core. Be simp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,886 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Wagner is born there or a Mozart. No country can be sacred because a Buddha or a Mahavir is born there. Jesus was not born in India. Mohammed was not born in India. Zarathustra was not born in India. Lao Tzu was not born in India. Sacred people have been coming to the world in different places. Places have nothing to do with it -- places are just places. Buddha is born, but only one in a million. And what about t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,887 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... THEY WRITE IN MAGAZINES ABOUT YOU. They are very very understandable. There is nothing special about them. If they didn't write those crude remarks about me, that would not be right. Lao Tzu has said: When I talk about Tao, very few are there who understand it. Those who understand -- they become silent. Many are there who feel offended -- they become angry. And the angry people there are more of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,888 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u has said: When I talk about Tao, very few are there who understand it. Those who understand -- they become silent. Many are there who feel offended -- they become angry. And the angry people there are more of. And Lao Tzu says: If people don't become angry, then what I am saying is not truth. One mystic used to stay with me. He was really a beautiful old man, very strange, very eccentric, but always to the poin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,889 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gle with you. You are the last already. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu used to say 'I am the last, that's why I am the most peaceful, because nobody comes to fight with me.' Who is ready to fight with the last? Everybody has compassion for the last; everybody feels 'Poor man.' A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,890 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... been tried on a large scale. And whenever it has been tried on a small scale, it has always succeeded. With Buddha it succeeded: thousands of people went through rebellion, became new. With Jesus it succeeded, with Lao Tzu it succeeded, with Krishna it succeeded. success has always been with rebellion, but very few people... It has never been on a large scale. It has never gripped the soul of humanity. And that is where work is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,891 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Jesus goes to the masses, Jesus goes very active! Buddha's rebellion is inactive, passive. Jesus' rebellion is very active, and that is the problem. Mahavir's rebellion was also very passive, so was Lao Tzu's. These are people who are utterly at ease, silent in themselves, happy with themselves. If somebody comes and partakes of their being, good; if nobody comes, they are not going to invite. Jesus DRAGS you in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,892 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... stand on the tops of the houses and shout... because people are deaf. You will have to shout. Give the good message, the good news, that I have come. shout from the housetops!' Buddha cannot say that. Lao Tzu... not at all. It was even difficult to find where Lao Tzu was, people had to search for him for months together. And once he would come to know that somebody is searching for him, he would escape, he would r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,893 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ause people are deaf. You will have to shout. Give the good message, the good news, that I have come. shout from the housetops!' Buddha cannot say that. Lao Tzu... not at all. It was even difficult to find where Lao Tzu was, people had to search for him for months together. And once he would come to know that somebody is searching for him, he would escape, he would remove himself from one village to another. He w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,894 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...me. In this state of freedom the master and disciple can come closest, and naturally energy flows from the higher to the lower. It is just like water coming from a mountaintop towards the valley. Lao Tzu has actually called his philosophy of life "the watercourse way." When the master and disciple are so deeply in tune, because they are not in any bondage, both are meeting out of their freedom -- and an authe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,895 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to you, it is me -- and you are afraid of me. You have long been associated with me and now the spring is close and the hesitancy and the fear... What will the unknown bring to you? I informed you to come into Lao Tzu and work in the library. You became frightened, because to be too close to me is dangerous. You have chosen to continue to work in the kitchen making spaghetti. You know that spaghetti is a protection; I will...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,896 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g exactly as it is without any distortion because he has no prejudices to distort. The state of the sage has no preconceived ideas to mix and to mess and to disfigure. There is a story in the life of Lao Tzu. I have loved it very much... He used to go for a morning walk deep in the mountains very early before the sunrise when it was dark and there were still stars in the sky. And he used to go to the peak ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,897 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... listening to the birds, seeing the trees dancing with joy and life, opening their flowers, releasing their fragrance. And then he would come back. One of his neighbors used to come with him. And he knew that Lao Tzu did not want to talk at all, because that would be a disturbance in his deep communion with nature. He had told him, "If you don't use any words not even hello, you can come. Silently you can join me, silentl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,898 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... existence, the life again coming back from its sleep as the sun has set the day before. There is everywhere celebration, in the trees, in the flowers, in the birds. The man was immensely grateful to Lao Tzu that he allowed him to be with him for so many years. Lao Tzu said, "But I had implored you not to use language. Why are you using language today after so many years?" He said, "A problem has ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,899 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...un has set the day before. There is everywhere celebration, in the trees, in the flowers, in the birds. The man was immensely grateful to Lao Tzu that he allowed him to be with him for so many years. Lao Tzu said, "But I had implored you not to use language. Why are you using language today after so many years?" He said, "A problem has arisen. A guest is staying with me and he also wants to come t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,900 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mplored you not to use language. Why are you using language today after so many years?" He said, "A problem has arisen. A guest is staying with me and he also wants to come tomorrow." Lao Tzu said, "The condition you have to tell him. He should remember that nothing has to be said on the way, then he can come." And the guest thought, It is a strange condition. Not a single word, not even hello...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,901 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...could see the sun rising just underneath, deep down in the valley, he forgot the condition; it was so beautiful. He had never seen such a thing, not even in a dream. He was so overwhelmed that he said to Lao Tzu, "It is so beautiful." Lao Tzu looked at the host. Suddenly the guest remembered that words are not to be used. Nothing was said. But as they reached home Lao Tzu told his neighbor, "From tomorrow don't ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,902 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...neath, deep down in the valley, he forgot the condition; it was so beautiful. He had never seen such a thing, not even in a dream. He was so overwhelmed that he said to Lao Tzu, "It is so beautiful." Lao Tzu looked at the host. Suddenly the guest remembered that words are not to be used. Nothing was said. But as they reached home Lao Tzu told his neighbor, "From tomorrow don't come." He said, "But...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,903 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e was so overwhelmed that he said to Lao Tzu, "It is so beautiful." Lao Tzu looked at the host. Suddenly the guest remembered that words are not to be used. Nothing was said. But as they reached home Lao Tzu told his neighbor, "From tomorrow don't come." He said, "But you are punishing me too much, and I have not spoken a single word. This guest is new; he does not know you. And he has also not sa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,904 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e." He said, "But you are punishing me too much, and I have not spoken a single word. This guest is new; he does not know you. And he has also not said much, just that it is a beautiful sunrise." Lao Tzu said, "You say it was just a little? That fellow is very talkative. Although he was not saying I could hear his chattering mind. All the way he was chattering: This is beautiful, that is beautiful, and finall...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,905 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he same. Thinking is talking with yourself inside. People don't hear it because they are engaged within themselves; they don't hear even when you talk to them. How can they hear your inner chattering. But a man like Lao Tzu, in the deepest meditativeness, is able to catch your chattering almost like whispering. Even that much is a disturbance and you will not be able to listen to what is being said. Gautam Buddha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,906 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ndhand. They wanted to know everything about him because the people who were going to him were changing so miraculously. He was one of the highest categories of consciousnesses. The same category as Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu or Mahavira. You reminded me of him by saying, "You know nothing and yet I put all my questions at your feet." Knowing that I know nothing, if you still put your questions at my feet, you are sure to find...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,907 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...itation for you to live intensely, totally, to squeeze every drop of juice from every moment. Death is a tremendous challenge and invitation. Without death there would not have been any Gautam Buddha, any Jesus, any Lao Tzu, any Tilopa. There would not have been any Kabir, any Raidas, any Mansoor, any Sarmad. It is death and its awareness that makes you live as totally, as deeply, as consciously as possible. Bef...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,908 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... no-mind, of meditation, of a transcendence of mind. Perhaps I am the first man in the whole history of mankind who has been using jokes as a preparation for meditation. Jesus would not laugh; Buddha will not laugh; Lao Tzu is not heard to have ever laughed... They were serious people, and they were doing serious work! It will be good to understand a small incident which began the tradition of Zen. Those are the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,909 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... preventing the mad powers from destroying this beautiful planet -- this planet which has produced a Gautam Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Zarathustra; this planet which has given birth to a Krishna, to a Mahavira, to a Lao Tzu. And these are just the beginnings of spring; there are higher possibilities in the future. If man goes on living on the earth, we will be producing even higher peaks than we have produced in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,910 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is the Festival of Lights. If somebody asks you, "What is truth?", show him your silence. Show him your fragrance, show him your love. Share with him your presence. It is said about Lao Tzu... He used to go every morning for a walk in the mountains. A neighbor asked him, "Can I come with you?" Lao Tzu said, "The road does not belong to me. But if you want to come with me, then there is a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,911 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., show him your love. Share with him your presence. It is said about Lao Tzu... He used to go every morning for a walk in the mountains. A neighbor asked him, "Can I come with you?" Lao Tzu said, "The road does not belong to me. But if you want to come with me, then there is a condition: you cannot speak a single word." And the neighbor managed. He gained enough insight just by following int...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,912 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to come with me, then there is a condition: you cannot speak a single word." And the neighbor managed. He gained enough insight just by following into the deep forest in silence. Just the presence of Lao Tzu slowly slowly became more and more intimate. Soon he understood why Lao Tzu had put the condition "no talk," because talk would have disturbed this great benediction, this great blissfulness that was arising ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,913 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And the neighbor managed. He gained enough insight just by following into the deep forest in silence. Just the presence of Lao Tzu slowly slowly became more and more intimate. Soon he understood why Lao Tzu had put the condition "no talk," because talk would have disturbed this great benediction, this great blissfulness that was arising from both the hearts -- these small flames, this radiation of light. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,914 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because talk would have disturbed this great benediction, this great blissfulness that was arising from both the hearts -- these small flames, this radiation of light. But one day the neighbor asked Lao Tzu, "A friend has come to stay with me for a few days. Can I bring him also with me?" Lao Tzu said, "With the same condition." But the friend was not aware that it was not to be taken casually. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,915 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m both the hearts -- these small flames, this radiation of light. But one day the neighbor asked Lao Tzu, "A friend has come to stay with me for a few days. Can I bring him also with me?" Lao Tzu said, "With the same condition." But the friend was not aware that it was not to be taken casually. He kept silent as far as he could, but there were many moments when he was just going to say something a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,916 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mself. But when the sun started rising, it was so beautiful -- and the songs of the birds -- that he could not contain it. He forgot the condition, and he said, "What a beautiful morning!" It was not much... but Lao Tzu looked at his neighbor. And back home Lao Tzu said, "Your friend cannot come with me. He talks too much." The neighbor said, "He has only spoken one single sentence in two hours: `What a beautiful ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,917 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... so beautiful -- and the songs of the birds -- that he could not contain it. He forgot the condition, and he said, "What a beautiful morning!" It was not much... but Lao Tzu looked at his neighbor. And back home Lao Tzu said, "Your friend cannot come with me. He talks too much." The neighbor said, "He has only spoken one single sentence in two hours: `What a beautiful morning!'" Lao Tzu said, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,918 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...And back home Lao Tzu said, "Your friend cannot come with me. He talks too much." The neighbor said, "He has only spoken one single sentence in two hours: `What a beautiful morning!'" Lao Tzu said, "You only hear what he has said, you don't hear what he is talking inside and controlling. Because of him my whole morning has been contaminated. And if he feels the morning is beautiful... are we blind...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,919 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... care of. Keep an eye out, because this man is not going to stay unenlightened long. He is going to become a buddha very soon. So it is not a question Maneesha, that special treatment means "moving into Lao Tzu and having private, daily chats with the master." If you are aware of what you are asking... do you see your jealousy? Do you see your woman? How do you know that the people who are allowed to come to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,920 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...called because of their work. It is not that they have the right to come to me to chitchat. What will I chitchat about? They have their work just as you have your work. Others are jealous of you. You are also in Lao Tzu and you have the special work of collecting my words, of editing my words. When we are all gone, Maneesha's collections will be remembered for centuries. But it is very difficult to get rid of our...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,921 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he state of dhyan, or zen. I am reminded of a story. Twenty-five centuries ago it was a great coincidence that in Greece there was Socrates and in India were Gautam Buddha and Mahavira, and in China there were Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu -- all expressing the existential truth, indicating towards it. It is very strange 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Os...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,922 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ience has been destructive. It is not needed. Or, a totally different type of science is needed, based more on Kropotkin and less on Darwin. A totally different science is needed based on love, not on hate, based on Lao Tzu and not on Aristotle. Science has to be Eastern if it is to be right. It need not be so logical. It has to be a little more loving, then it is not against nature, then it is not a rape, rather it is a co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,923 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...vel on the path, because who will help give you courage? Who will say, "Just two miles more..."? Who will say that you are almost at the end of the journey, you have almost reached, just a little bit more...? And as Lao Tzu says, a thousand-league journey is completed by taking only one step at a time. You take one step, then another, then another, and a thousand-mile journey is completed. Chaos is going to be th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,924 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...iser. You can give such wise 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- counsel that even Lao Tzu will feel jealous. Such a great wise man! But when the problem is yours, suddenly you become childish. Suddenly you lose your bearings, you lose balance. Why does it happen? -- because now it is too close...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,925 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ee, Sardar Gurudayal Singh... he will have to go and provoke him, that is the problem. Because Maitreya won't listen to anybody, he will have to be dragged out. And once in a while he comes, still knocks on doors in Lao Tzu House. For a few days Anando was very much terrified 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,926 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ointing to the truth. RINZAI SAID: FOLLOWERS OF THE TAO... Now, this is... from the very beginning he commits a mistake. Not intentionally -- he is a great lover of Buddha and Lao Tzu, of Tao and Dhamma. Dhamma is Buddha's finger pointing to the moon, and Tao is Lao Tzu's finger pointing to the same moon. Only the fingers differ. That's why Buddhism never came to clash with Taoism when it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,927 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Now, this is... from the very beginning he commits a mistake. Not intentionally -- he is a great lover of Buddha and Lao Tzu, of Tao and Dhamma. Dhamma is Buddha's finger pointing to the moon, and Tao is Lao Tzu's finger pointing to the same moon. Only the fingers differ. That's why Buddhism never came to clash with Taoism when it reached China. This is a rare incident in history. Whenever one religion travels th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,928 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Don't get identified, because this body will change, this mind will change. A thousand times they have already changed. Only this watcher is your treasure, which always remains... eternity to eternity. Lao Tzu calls it Tao. Buddha calls it Dhamma. Whatever the name, this is your pure existence. It opens the doors of all the mysteries -- mysteries that you can feel, but you cannot say; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,929 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ple, Jesus, Moses or Mohammed were not enlightened themselves. But there have been many: for example, Kabir, in India; Farid, a Mohammedan in India; Bodhidharma, an Indian in China; ChuangTzu, a Chinese; LaoTzu, a Chinese. It has happened around many people in different countries, and I have spoken on all these people. There are at least 350 books that I have spoken and I have talked about these people, their methods...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,930 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...interpretation on Jesus, I can have a certain communication with the Christian. We can come close. Now I have my own people so I don't take the trouble to interpret Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu. On the contrary, all the things that I left unsaid before my silence began I am saying now. And the interpretations that I had managed through Jesus's mouth I am taking back and putting Jesus in his own plac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,931 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... smile come to his face. You may be a stranger, but you smiled at the person, you waved at the person. You have changed the person without his knowing it, without you intending it. Great Masters like Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu -- have called this action without action. You are not taking any action, yet something is happening. And when things happen on their own they have a beauty, because deep down there is f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,932 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...isdom, life, beauty, health. We want those people's sympathy. That's enough, and the revolution will be on its way. Without any effort to create a revolution, the revolution has already started. This is what old Lao Tzu called effortless effort. We are not making any effort for the revolution; our whole work is meditation. But the outcome is going to be a tremendous revolution, the only revolution which can change this earth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,933 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...OF SPIRITUALITY RISING AGAIN IN CHINA? 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- A: Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, were certainly great Masters that have walked on the earth -- rare human beings -- but they have not made a clear-cut way so that others can also follow. No religion came into being bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,934 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And these three great Masters remained individuals. Once in a while somebody was impressed by their writings, but it remained intellectual, so there is no hope in the near future of Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu or Lao Tzu being born again in China, or their influence in any way changing the course of China's history, because in fact they have never been of any great importance in China's mind. Confucius and Lao Tzu were c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,935 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Chuang Tzu or Lao Tzu being born again in China, or their influence in any way changing the course of China's history, because in fact they have never been of any great importance in China's mind. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Confucius had even gone to meet Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu was certainly a man of tremendous qualities. Confucius was a great thinker, but only a thinker. He had nothing as far as his own i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,936 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...luence in any way changing the course of China's history, because in fact they have never been of any great importance in China's mind. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Confucius had even gone to meet Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu was certainly a man of tremendous qualities. Confucius was a great thinker, but only a thinker. He had nothing as far as his own inner consciousness is concerned, no experience, no ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,937 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e course of China's history, because in fact they have never been of any great importance in China's mind. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Confucius had even gone to meet Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu was certainly a man of tremendous qualities. Confucius was a great thinker, but only a thinker. He had nothing as far as his own inner consciousness is concerned, no experience, no idea who he is, but he had ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,938 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a thinker. He had nothing as far as his own inner consciousness is concerned, no experience, no idea who he is, but he had planned for the society perfectly well, a very mannered, cultured society. Hearing that Lao Tzu was nearby, living in a cave beyond the lake, he went to see him. A few of his disciples also went, but he told them, "You wait outside the cave." They said, "Why? It will be good, we can listen." He said, "Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,939 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...It will be good, we can listen." He said, "You don't understand. I will tell you the reason later on. Let me go first. If I feel it right I will call you in." They stayed outside, Confucius went in. Lao Tzu was sitting silently. He did not say to Confucius even to sit down, and Confucius was man of manners, etiquette. He had not expected that a great sage, Lao Tzu, would not even ask. He did not say hello or eve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,940 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... They stayed outside, Confucius went in. Lao Tzu was sitting silently. He did not say to Confucius even to sit down, and Confucius was man of manners, etiquette. He had not expected that a great sage, Lao Tzu, would not even ask. He did not say hello or even hi -- even that short form, "hi." He simply sat down, looking at Confucius, and Confucius said, "Sir, don't you believe in manners?" Lao Tzu ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,941 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t sage, Lao Tzu, would not even ask. He did not say hello or even hi -- even that short form, "hi." He simply sat down, looking at Confucius, and Confucius said, "Sir, don't you believe in manners?" Lao Tzu laughed. He said, 'I thought you knew an the manners -- what is the need for me to tell you? If you feel like sitting, you will sit down! You are not a man who does not know manners. If you like to stand up, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,942 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ke sitting, you will sit down! You are not a man who does not know manners. If you like to stand up, it is my etiquette not to disturb you. You can stand up!" Confucius said, "But you... you did not even say hello." Lao Tzu said, "I said it. You could not hear it. It was a test: I said it silently. I wanted to know whether the famous philosopher Confucius understands silence or not. So you understand only words -- that much is d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,943 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... say it? It is not my cave, nothing belongs to me. Just the way I am sitting, you can sit down. You are not a child to be told." Confucius had never met such a man. And on each point he was rebuffed badly. Then Lao Tzu said, "If you really want to learn anything, first go and renounce all the idiots you have collected as your disciples. You don't know anything and you have thousands of disciples. It is hilarious! You ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,944 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lone!" Confucius came out, and he had not the courage to say to his disciples that he did not know. He had thousands of disciples, he was the most famous man at that time. Very few people knew about Lao Tzu. Confucius has remained a shadow over the whole of Chinese history. It is only somewhere in the footnotes you can find the name of Lao Tzu. Confucius was not courageous enough to say "I do not know." The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,945 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sciples, he was the most famous man at that time. Very few people knew about Lao Tzu. Confucius has remained a shadow over the whole of Chinese history. It is only somewhere in the footnotes you can find the name of Lao Tzu. Confucius was not courageous enough to say "I do not know." The disciples said "You didn't ask us to come in. He said, "It was good that I didn't ask you to come in. And please don't ask the reason. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,946 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...iring. It was a cold morning and the cave was very cool, but he was perspiring. The disciples said, "But why are you perspiring?" He said, "I am alive -- that's enough! Just take me away from here." Lao Tzu has never been a great influence. He was a silent man. Once in a while somebody would come who was courageous enough to be with him He was not ready to come down to meet you, to be with you and to be amongst ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,947 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng to the stars, but beyond human intelligence. They never were influential in China. In fact, listening to me you have become aware of their names. Otherwise, ordinarily nobody bothers about Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu or Lao Tzu. Nobody has written commentaries on these people. I am the only man who has spoken for years continuously... I spoke for one year continuously on Lao Tzu, every day. His book is very small, he wrote it in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,948 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., ordinarily nobody bothers about Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu or Lao Tzu. Nobody has written commentaries on these people. I am the only man who has spoken for years continuously... I spoke for one year continuously on Lao Tzu, every day. His book is very small, he wrote it in three days. I spoke on it one year in Hindi, and then when people from outside started coming, I spoke again on a few chosen parts. And you know me -- my mem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,949 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to remain consistent with it. Certainly, what I said in English is more up to date, because it is five years afterwards. And this gives me an immense freedom. Any day if it happens to me, I can start speaking on Lao Tzu again, because I don't know now what I have spoken on him -- whether in Hindi or English. Both are forgotten. I can give you a third commentary. Otherwise, these peoples'names are not known --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,950 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t win over the rock? But finally, that's what happens. Just somebody who has seen it happen has to help you, that "Don't be discouraged by the rock and its strength. It is nothing before the water." Lao Tzu used to call his way the watercourse way -- a beautiful name, so soft, so liquid, no rigidity. You can put it into any form. It is always ready, gives no resistance. If you put it in a bottle, it takes the sh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,951 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...htened. Q:* BUT DON'T YOU THINK THAT THERE IS WISDOM CONTAINED IN THE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA AND LAO TZU AND SOME OTHER... I MEAN, ALL OVER THE RANCH HERE THERE IS.... A:* Nothing. Lao Tzu begins his book -- he wrote only one book and that to be under compulsion. His whole life he never wrote. Q:* DO YOU THINK THE BUDDHA WAS AWAKENED, WAS ENLIGHTENED? A:* Yes. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,952 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aid. So you have to read the truth between the words and between the lines, but never read it in the words and in the lines. There you will find only lies -- beautiful lies. When a man like Buddha or Lao Tzu speaks, even he is speaking a lie, he is a Master-mind. He speaks a beautiful lie. Q:* SO BASICALLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS, THE FACT OF SPEAKING IT MAKES IT A LIE, THE FACT OF EXPRESSING IT. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,953 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y can't drink, they can't smoke. What they can do? Just go on praying and nagging God. They must have killed that poor fellow long before. But in hell I can see all the beautiful people of the world. Lao-Tzu will be there. Chuang-Tzu will be there, Gautam Buddha will be there -- because he did not believe in God, he was an atheist. Bertrand Russell will be there, Socrates will be there, Plato and Heraclitus, all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,954 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat anybody has asked, but he has never asked anything from anybody. He remained naked, but this is not necessarily a stage that every enlightened person has to go through. Buddha never became naked, Lao Tzu never became naked, Kabir never became naked. So it has been a very significant problem for religions. They cannot accept other enlightened people for small reasons, because they don't suit with their ide...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,955 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ligence does not mean anything. (Tape side C) And as far as being a heretic is concerned, I consider it a compliment because Socrates was considered a heretic, Gautam Buddha was considered a heretic, Lao Tzu was considered a heretic. I would immensely enjoy to be in their company. Even if it means to be insane, I would still like to be heretic. Q: I ALSO HAPPEN TO BE MODERN PAINTER. I NEVER HEARD...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,956 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... corpses, do you think you will remain alive? You yourself will become a corpse. These religions have been the most poisonous thing that has happened to humanity. Yes, once in a while a man like Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu experienced. And the fragrance of his experience, without saying a single word, started drawing people towards him as if some invisible magnetic force was working. People loved to be near Gaut...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,957 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has become really sacred. We will not allow this earth to be destroyed. Temples and churches and synagogues are not sacred, but this earth is because it gave birth to a Socrates, to a Gautam Buddha, to a Lao Tzu, to a Bodhidharma. This earth has done something which is unique. It is suspected that in the whole universe, where are at least two million solar systems. In those two million solar systems, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,958 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Q: AMONG THE ENLIGHTENED PERSONS IN THE WORLD -- TRUE, (INAUDIBLE) -- YOU FIND RAMAKRISHNA MOST (**UNINTELLIGIBLE) BEING, OR WHAT? A: No, there are many. Gautam Buddha is there, Mahavira is there, Lao Tzu in China is there, Chuang Tzu in China is there, Basho in Japan is there, Nagarjuna in India, Vasbandhu* in India.... Enlightenment has happened only in the East, for the simple reason because the whole Ea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,959 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lowly they feel that this is how human beings are -- they kill, they murder, they war. They do all these things and this is natural, this is just how human beings are. Why, when you can have Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Kabir and beautiful people...? So these people can feel that there is something greater than they are; and that greater has to be achieved, otherwise they would have failed. Q: WOULD YOU ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,960 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o much attached. Although they are the causes of your misery, they are like cancer which needs to be operated. And operation is going to be painful but it is going to save your life. Buddha, Mahavir, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Nanak -- they all have said some truths, but those truths were not against your whole conditioning. They were simply talking about your spirituality. If I was also talking only about spirituality ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,961 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cure people and they can earn money. This is not only the situation about doctor/patient relationship, this is the situation about so many things in our life. One of the great philosopher, Lao Tzu, was asked by the emperor of China to become his chief of the justice department. Lao Tzu tried to persuade him that, "It is better you leave me out." But he insisted, that "You are the wisest man." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,962 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r/patient relationship, this is the situation about so many things in our life. One of the great philosopher, Lao Tzu, was asked by the emperor of China to become his chief of the justice department. Lao Tzu tried to persuade him that, "It is better you leave me out." But he insisted, that "You are the wisest man." Finally Lao Tzu accepted and the first case appeared. A man has stolen a large sum of money ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,963 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ked by the emperor of China to become his chief of the justice department. Lao Tzu tried to persuade him that, "It is better you leave me out." But he insisted, that "You are the wisest man." Finally Lao Tzu accepted and the first case appeared. A man has stolen a large sum of money from the richest man of the capital. Lao Tzu gave both the people six years of jail: the thief and the rich man. The rich man said, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,964 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ter you leave me out." But he insisted, that "You are the wisest man." Finally Lao Tzu accepted and the first case appeared. A man has stolen a large sum of money from the richest man of the capital. Lao Tzu gave both the people six years of jail: the thief and the rich man. The rich man said, "Are you mad? I have been robbed and now I am being punished! I have not done anything." Lao Tzu said, "Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,965 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of the capital. Lao Tzu gave both the people six years of jail: the thief and the rich man. The rich man said, "Are you mad? I have been robbed and now I am being punished! I have not done anything." Lao Tzu said, "You have accumulated so much money that it is bound to be sooner or later robbed. You have created the situation, you are the source. This thief is just a by-product and I cannot punish the by-product ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,966 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Soon you will be in jail because whatever you have, you have in the same way I have. It is better to dismiss this man, his idea is dangerous, although he is logical. I can understand what he is saying." Lao Tzu was dismissed. But this is the situation in the whole world. On the one hand we create solutions and on the other 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,967 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e individual and existence. No prayer, no priest, you alone are enough to face the sunrise, you don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is. It is said that every morning Lao Tzu used to go for a walk in the hills. One friend asked him, "Can I come with you one day? I would particularly like to come tomorrow, because I have a guest who is very much interested in you, and he will be im...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,968 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d particularly like to come tomorrow, because I have a guest who is very much interested in you, and he will be immensely glad to have the opportunity to be with you for two hours in the mountains." Lao Tzu said, "I have no objection, just one simple thing has to be remembered. I don't want anything to be said because I have my eyes, you have your eyes, he has his eyes, we can see. There is no need to say anythi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,969 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eflection of all the colors, the birds singing and the lotuses blossoming, opening, he could not resist, he forgot. He said, "What a beautiful sunrise." His host was shocked because he has broken the condition. Lao Tzu did not say anything, nothing was said there. Back home he called his friend and told him, "Don't bring your guest again. He is too talkative. The sunrise was there, I was there, he was there, you were there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,970 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...W AND LEGAL SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD, SO AS TO MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVE AND ABIDING? A: I would like to start from a small story. It happened twenty five centuries before in China. There was a wise man, Lao Tzu. The emperor of China appointed him as supreme-most judge of the whole empire. And Lao Tzu tried to persuade the emperor that he will repent: "Don't do this; I am not going to fit with your legal systems, bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,971 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... A: I would like to start from a small story. It happened twenty five centuries before in China. There was a wise man, Lao Tzu. The emperor of China appointed him as supreme-most judge of the whole empire. And Lao Tzu tried to persuade the emperor that he will repent: "Don't do this; I am not going to fit with your legal systems, because it is basically wrong. It does not need reformation; it needs revolution." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,972 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fore him in the court -- a thief has stolen from the richest man of the capital almost half of his treasures. It was a great crime. The legal system that was prevailing in the country would have given him death. But Lao Tzu called the rich man also to the court and said that "Both these people are criminals. And they both should be sentenced to jail for six months." The rich man said, "What kind of justice is this? I have b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,973 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ld be sentenced to jail for six months." The rich man said, "What kind of justice is this? I have been robbed. My half treasure has been stolen by this man, and you are punishing me; for what?" Lao Tzu said, "Because you have accumulated so much money that it is bound to create thieves in the country. You are a criminal first. This man comes in a secondary category." The rich man rushed to the king and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,974 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The rich man rushed to the king and said that "What kind of man you have chosen to be your supreme judge? He is dangerous. Today I am going to jail, tomorrow you will go to jail!" Of course, immediately Lao Tzu was removed. You are asking me what improvements, what changes, are needed in the legal system. As I see it, it is basically wrong. It needs nothing less than a revolution; because down the centuries you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,975 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ion 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- from the earth, because man does not need anybody to mediate between himself and existence. I am reminded of a great master, Lao Tzu. He used to go every day for a morning walk. One of his neighbors asked him, "A friend has come to visit me. He is a poet, a lover of beauty, and he is also very much interested in you. He wants to accompany ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,976 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his neighbors asked him, "A friend has come to visit me. He is a poet, a lover of beauty, and he is also very much interested in you. He wants to accompany you tomorrow morning on your morning walk." Lao Tzu said, "I have no objection, except a simple condition: that he should not speak while we are walking in the mountains." The friend said, "That's acceptable." All three started the next day bef...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,977 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e flowers started opening and the birds started singing. The poet forgot about the condition. He said, "How beautiful!" Just two words, and then he remembered. He didn't say anything more. Back home, Lao Tzu called the neighbor and said, "Your friend is too talkative; I cannot afford to have him again. And he is stupid too. I was there, listening to the songs of the birds, seeing the sun rising, listening to the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,978 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lished and unpublished Query:- He will have great ideas, he will make great systems, but his own personality, his own individuality, will remain very ordinary. He cannot become a Gautam Buddha, he cannot become a Lao Tzu, he cannot become a Chuang Tzu, because these are not philosophers; these are people who have tried to see within, to reach to the very center of their being. And the center of my being is als...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,979 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The Last Testament, Vol 6 Chapter #16 Chapter title: None 21 July 1989 am in LaoTzu House, Poona, India Archive code: 8907210 ShortTitle: LAST616 Audio: Yes Video: No [NOTE: This is a typed tape transcript and has not been edited or publi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,980 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- yet even in those religions man is not free. He was not aware of Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism -- the most profound religions of all. For all these three religions there is no God. For the same reason Lao Tzu, Mahavira and Gautam Buddha have denied God -- because they could see that with God, man is just a puppet. Then all efforts for enlightenment are meaningless; you are not free, how can you become enlightened?...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,981 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he has no function. There is no organized religion in which he can be a pope or a shankaracharya or Ayatollah Khomeini. He has no God whom he can represent; his function is finished. Buddha, Mahavir, Lao Tzu dropped God in the same way as Friedrich Nietzsche -- not knowing, not aware that if religion remained even without God, the priest would manage to keep man in slavery. And he has kept man in slavery. 10/28...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,982 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If you have understood the meaning of the empty heart and its becoming just a mirror, Ma Tzu has not been a failure to you. These people like Ma Tzu, or Gautam Buddha, or Lao Tzu, they don't belong to different centuries. They are all contemporaries. The moment you enter into this emptiness, this mirrorlike reflection, a silence that knows no bounda...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,983 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... How do you know you are Christian? You have never been with Christ. You were not given the choice, the opportunity to choose whether you would like to be in love with Christ or Gautam Buddha or Mahavira or Lao Tzu or Zarathustra. Your religion is your bondage. It is your imprisonment. Your Christianity, your Hinduism, your Mohammedanism, your Jainism -- they are all chains which you cannot see, because they are not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,984 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ener, younger, juicier. If they go on clinging to their old leaves, there will be no space, no possibility for the new leaves to appear. Have you ever wondered why, in the contemporary world, people like Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Basho, Kabir, Jesus, Zarathustra -- are not born? What has happened? Is humanity a spent force? No -- humanity is more powerful, has more energy than ever. But the past goes on becoming ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,985 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... going to learn meditation," the visa is denied. I would love to know -- is there another way of becoming wise? Has Rajiv Gandhi found some other key which Buddha missed, Mahavira missed, Patanjali missed, Lao Tzu missed? For ten thousand years, all the great masters have missed that which Rajiv Gandhi has found -- the key to wisdom. Then at least distribute those keys to people. It is very easy to use ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,986 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es of history that only the East knows the secret of meditation; the West has no awareness of it. If Kahlil Gibran had been in the East, he would have touched the same heights of consciousness as any Lao Tzu, as any Bodhidharma. And he was more articulate than Gautam Buddha or Mahavira. If he had touched all those heights and remained on them, he would have been the greatest man on the earth, because neither Budd...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,987 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rections, finding a path of which it has no knowledge and moving towards the ocean without any map, any guide. So is, just like a river, the river of your life. It happened: The emperor of China made Lao Tzu his supreme court chief justice. Lao Tzu tried to persuade him, but in vain: "You will repent if you make me the chief judge of your supreme court, because my ways of understanding and seeing are totally diff...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,988 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...no knowledge and moving towards the ocean without any map, any guide. So is, just like a river, the river of your life. It happened: The emperor of China made Lao Tzu his supreme court chief justice. Lao Tzu tried to persuade him, but in vain: "You will repent if you make me the chief judge of your supreme court, because my ways of understanding and seeing are totally different from yours." But th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,989 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...om yours." But the emperor was very insistent, because he had heard so much about the wisdom of this man. He said, "I have decided. And you cannot refuse it." The first case on the first day when Lao Tzu was in the seat of the chief justice, was about a man who was found red-handed, stealing from the house of the richest man in the capital. In fact there was no case -- he was caught red-handed. There were eye...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,990 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing from the house of the richest man in the capital. In fact there was no case -- he was caught red-handed. There were eyewitnesses, and he himself confessed that "Whatever they are saying is true." Lao Tzu gave his famous judgment -- so unique and so full of understanding that it has never been given by anyone before or after. The judgment was that the thief had to go to jail for six months -- and with him, the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,991 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t 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 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,992 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s sympathy, but nobody will ever think that he has to be punished. Your whole gang makes all the laws, which are favorable to you and unfavorable to the poor whose blood you all have been sucking."' Lao Tzu was relieved from his duties, and the emperor said, "You were right. Please forgive me. Our ways of thinking are totally different." Lao Tzu said, "Have you ever thought about it? You are saying our ways of t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,993 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and unfavorable to the poor whose blood you all have been sucking."' Lao Tzu was relieved from his duties, and the emperor said, "You were right. Please forgive me. Our ways of thinking are totally different." Lao Tzu said, "Have you ever thought about it? You are saying our ways of thinking are totally different... if you had ever thought about it they would not have been different. They are different because I try to see...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,994 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... hand, empty, spent. These are only metaphors. I am saying a child is born full of possibilities -- he need not be jealous of anyone. I have never felt jealous of anyone; however great they may be -- Lao Tzu or Moses or Krishna or Buddha -- I have not felt jealous. I have simply felt immensely happy that at least a few people realized their potential. And it has given me the incentive: "You are also a man belongi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,995 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... starts growing on its own accord. Kahlil Gibran is saying something immensely beautiful. But, poor fellow, he does not know that he is using wrong words. But that is not his fault; he never came in contact with Lao Tzu, with Chuang Tzu, with Basho, with Kabir, with Nanak. His whole upbringing remained Christian -- all that he knows is Christianity; and Christianity is a very poor religion. It is not accidental that only ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,996 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave himself been condemning it, but he has never tasted it. A beautiful story I would like to tell you: One day in paradise, in one of the ZORBA THE BUDDHA restaurants, Gautam Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tzu were sitting and chitchatting. A beautiful naked woman -- it is my restaurant, nobody else's, and it is not in the territory of the Poona Police Commissioner -- came with a big jug and asked the three, "Would...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,997 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve a little taste, because without tasting it I cannot say anything about it." She poured into a cup some juice of life. Confucius just sipped it, gave it back to her, and said, "It is very bitter." Lao Tzu said, "Give me the whole jug." The woman said, "The whole jug? Are you going to drink from the jug?" He said, "That's my approach to life: unless you have drunk it in its totality, you cannot say anything abo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,998 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... drank of it, the sweeter it became. First it was only pleasant; in the end it became ecstatic." Buddha could not stand this praise of life. He simply stood up and moved out of the ZORBA THE BUDDHA restaurant. Lao Tzu said, "What happened to this fellow? He has been sitting with closed eyes. In the first place, there is no need to close your eyes -- the woman is so beautiful. If there was something ugly you can close your ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,000,999 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ity, is to show humiliation, condemnation, is to show some deep-rooted fear. Perhaps that fellow is very repressed, and he is afraid his repression may surface." Confucius was not ready to listen to Lao Tzu, because he was going too far from the golden mean, so he left. And Lao Tzu started dancing. I have heard he is still dancing.... Life has to be lived before you decide anything about it -- for or agains...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,000 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Perhaps that fellow is very repressed, and he is afraid his repression may surface." Confucius was not ready to listen to Lao Tzu, because he was going too far from the golden mean, so he left. And Lao Tzu started dancing. I have heard he is still dancing.... Life has to be lived before you decide anything about it -- for or against. Those who have lived it in its intensity and totality have never been aga...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,001 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he whole: `Make any song out of me, any music; I am at your disposal, totally without any conditions.'" That's why he says: was it i who spoke? was i not also a listener? People like Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Kabir, Nanak, Al-Hillaj Mansoor, or thousands of other mystics, will agree with Almustafa, that whatever they have said, they have not said it -- they were also a listener, not a speaker. And whe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,002 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are so closed, no seed can enter there. It is not for the first time that you have come to a man like me; you are ancient wanderers. Perhaps a few of you have been with Gautam Buddha, a few of you have been with Lao Tzu, a few may have been with Jesus. But you went on missing, because you never allowed your heart to be receptive. They were showering seeds on you, but unless you receive them, their showering is not of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,003 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... For example, the printing machine was first developed in China three thousand years ago. Gunpowder was also developed in China three thousand years before, but they never used it. They listened to Lao Tzu, and Chuang Tzu, and Lieh Tzu who said "These are ugly and inhuman things. It is better to stop this kind of research; it is going to lead ultimately to the destruction of the whole humanity." This was said t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,004 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...om of this world. And Jesus explained and explained but it was difficult to make people understand. He said, "In my kingdom of God the poorest will be the richest, the last will be the first." He talked exactly like Lao Tzu, and he was a man like Lao Tzu. "The last will be the first in my kingdom of God." He was saying that the humblest will be the most significant, the poorest will be the richest, and one who is not recognized ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,005 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lained and explained but it was difficult to make people understand. He said, "In my kingdom of God the poorest will be the richest, the last will be the first." He talked exactly like Lao Tzu, and he was a man like Lao Tzu. "The last will be the first in my kingdom of God." He was saying that the humblest will be the most significant, the poorest will be the richest, and one who is not recognized at all here will be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,006 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m of heaven cannot be explained directly, immediately. It is impossible. Unless you enter it there is no way to say anything about it. Whatsoever is said will be wrong. The truth cannot be said. Then what are Jesus, Lao Tzu and Buddha doing continuously, for years? If the truth cannot 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,007 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... time was of a different quality; after Jesus time became of a different quality. With Jesus, history starts. His attitude, his approach towards the human mind, is very different from that of a Buddha or a Lao Tzu. The ultimate goal is one, the ultimate flowering is going to be one, but Jesus' approach is absolutely different. He is unique. What is he saying? He is saying that through conflict growth is achieved; t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,008 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on chattering. Look at the flower and make it a meditation. Look at the tree and don't name it, don't say anything. There is no need; the tree is there -- why say anything? I have heard it happened: Lao Tzu, one of the greatest Chinese mystics, used to go for a walk in the morning every day. A neighbor used to follow him, but the neighbor knew that Lao Tzu was a man of silence, so for years he followed him on th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,009 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- why say anything? I have heard it happened: Lao Tzu, one of the greatest Chinese mystics, used to go for a walk in the morning every day. A neighbor used to follow him, but the neighbor knew that Lao Tzu was a man of silence, so for years he followed him on the morning walk but he never said anything. One day there was a visitor at the neighbor's house, a guest, and he also wanted to come. The neighbor ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,010 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... so for years he followed him on the morning walk but he never said anything. One day there was a visitor at the neighbor's house, a guest, and he also wanted to come. The neighbor said, "Don't say anything, because Lao Tzu wants to live directly. Don't say anything!" They went out, and the morning was so beautiful, so silent, the birds were singing, and just out of habit the guest said, "How beautiful!" Just this much, not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,011 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the morning was so beautiful, so silent, the birds were singing, and just out of habit the guest said, "How beautiful!" Just this much, nothing much; for a one hour walk, this is not very much: "How beautiful!" But Lao Tzu looked at him as if he had committed a sin. Back home, going in his door, Lao Tzu said to the neighbor, "Never come again! And never bring anybody else -- this man seems to be so talkative." And he had o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,012 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the guest said, "How beautiful!" Just this much, nothing much; for a one hour walk, this is not very much: "How beautiful!" But Lao Tzu looked at him as if he had committed a sin. Back home, going in his door, Lao Tzu said to the neighbor, "Never come again! And never bring anybody else -- this man seems to be so talkative." And he had only said, "How beautiful!" -- too talkative. And Lao Tzu said, "The morning was beautif...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,013 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Back home, going in his door, Lao Tzu said to the neighbor, "Never come again! And never bring anybody else -- this man seems to be so talkative." And he had only said, "How beautiful!" -- too talkative. And Lao Tzu said, "The morning was beautiful, it was so silent. This man disturbed the whole thing." "How beautiful!" It fell like a stone in a silent pool. "How beautiful!" fell like a stone in a silent ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,014 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e, now don't hide it: ... NOR DOES HE PUT IT IN A HIDDEN PLACE, BUT HE SETS IT ON THE LAMPSTAND SO THAT ALL WHO COME IN AND GO OUT MAY SEE ITS LIGHT. This has always been a problem: Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mohammed, Zarathustra, they always have to insist continuously that the disciples go and tell others. The opportunity will not be forever -- Jesus will not be there in his physical body forever, and i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,015 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...itself, but not a wise man -- because you can be wise without becoming enlightened There are wise men: Confucius was a wise man, but not enlightened. Manu was a wise man, but not enlightened. Buddha was enlightened, Lao Tzu was enlightened: their wisdom comes from a totally different source. They have reached the very center of life -- they have known. Their knowledge is not through intellect, their knowledge is through being. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,016 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... even as much as Thomas has said. He came closest, he became the marrow. Jesus was not so fortunate. There are reasons: the climate was not good, the situation was absolutely different. China had known Lao Tzu, but the Jews have never known a man like Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu created the very soil in which Buddha's seed could sprout beautifully. When Bodhidharma went to China the soil was ready. It had been tilled by Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,017 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... closest, he became the marrow. Jesus was not so fortunate. There are reasons: the climate was not good, the situation was absolutely different. China had known Lao Tzu, but the Jews have never known a man like Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu created the very soil in which Buddha's seed could sprout beautifully. When Bodhidharma went to China the soil was ready. It had been tilled by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- rare phenomena! -- a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,018 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he marrow. Jesus was not so fortunate. There are reasons: the climate was not good, the situation was absolutely different. China had known Lao Tzu, but the Jews have never known a man like Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu created the very soil in which Buddha's seed could sprout beautifully. When Bodhidharma went to China the soil was ready. It had been tilled by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- rare phenomena! -- and then Buddha's seed...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,019 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nown Lao Tzu, but the Jews have never known a man like Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu created the very soil in which Buddha's seed could sprout beautifully. When Bodhidharma went to China the soil was ready. It had been tilled by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- rare phenomena! -- and then Buddha's seed was carried by Bodhidharma. It flowered beautifully, it blossomed beautifully. Jesus was not so fortunate, the soil was not ready. There have been prop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,020 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hen Buddha's seed was carried by Bodhidharma. It flowered beautifully, it blossomed beautifully. Jesus was not so fortunate, the soil was not ready. There have been prophets in the Jewish culture, but not sages like Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, no. There have been saints, so Simon Peter was available. There have been moralists, because Moses put morality at the very base of Jewish culture: the Ten Commandments -- they are the base. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,021 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an accident, a long history is needed behind him. Moses is the deepest cause, the root from where Simon Peter came: the Ten Commandments, the moral attitude towards the world, towards life. But there was no man like Lao Tzu who says, "All distinctions are false: the moment you say, 'This is good and that is bad,' you have divided life and killed it" -- a man who was for the whole, not for the division. Bodhidharma was fortunate,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,022 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the world, not renouncing it -- and yet totally renounced. Where contradictions meet, the ultimate appears. If you choose one, you have missed, you have sinned, you have missed the mark. Don't choose! That's why Lao Tzu, Jesus and others say, "Don't choose!" Choose and you miss. Be choiceless -- let movement be there, and let rest be there, and let movement and rest rest together. Become a symphony, not a single note. A sing...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,023 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... everything must be known, no secret should be allowed to remain a secret. So they -- men -- devised all the methods: Buddha is a man, Jesus is a man, Zarathustra is a man, Mahavira is a man, Krishna is a man, Lao Tzu is a man. No woman comparable to them has ever existed who devised any methods. There have been women who became enlightened, but even then they could not devise methods, even then they followed. They cannot,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,024 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have been exactly with me; many times you were with a Buddha and that was to be with me. Many times you were with a Jina, with a Mahavira, and that was to be with me. Many times you were around Jesus, or Moses, or Lao Tzu -- that was being with me. A Lao Tzu or a Buddha cannot be defined in any way; they are two emptinesses, and two emptinesses have no qualities to differ. You may have been with a Lao Tzu and I say you wer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,025 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es you were with a Buddha and that was to be with me. Many times you were with a Jina, with a Mahavira, and that was to be with me. Many times you were around Jesus, or Moses, or Lao Tzu -- that was being with me. A Lao Tzu or a Buddha cannot be defined in any way; they are two emptinesses, and two emptinesses have no qualities to differ. You may have been with a Lao Tzu and I say you were with me, because there is nothing t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,026 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ound Jesus, or Moses, or Lao Tzu -- that was being with me. A Lao Tzu or a Buddha cannot be defined in any way; they are two emptinesses, and two emptinesses have no qualities to differ. You may have been with a Lao Tzu and I say you were with me, because there is nothing to make any distinction. A Lao Tzu is an emptiness. Two emptinesses are just the same, you cannot make any distinction. But you missed. You have been missi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,027 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... defined in any way; they are two emptinesses, and two emptinesses have no qualities to differ. You may have been with a Lao Tzu and I say you were with me, because there is nothing to make any distinction. A Lao Tzu is an emptiness. Two emptinesses are just the same, you cannot make any distinction. But you missed. You have been missing many times. You can miss again. And remember, you are wise, clever, calculating. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,028 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll-power around him, just to hide the fact. A person who is really strong will be unaware that he is strong. Strength will be flowing, it will be there, but he will not even be conscious of it. Says Lao Tzu: A man of real virtue never knows that he is virtuous. A man who is really moral is never aware that he is moral. But a man who is aware that he is moral has immorality hidden deep down. A man who thinks he i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,029 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...de that you are in the head. In old Japan thinking from the belly really worked, but now they are shifting from the belly to the head. There have been other traditions that have thought from other parts of the body. Lao Tzu says you think from the soles of your feet. So there are techniques in Taoist yoga to get out of the soles of your feet -- because THERE the thinking is going on. What is the reality? The real...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,030 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g of nature and the divine, a meeting of the created and the creator, a meeting of body and soul, a meeting of that which is below and of that which is above, a meeting of the earth and the sky. Says Lao Tzu: Tao happens when earth and heaven meet. This is the meeting. Witnessing is the basic source. But it will be difficult to become a witness in the sex act if you are not trying to become a witness in other...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,031 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... rich -- you can drop it, you can become poor, you can become a beggar like Buddha. And then your poverty is rich; then your poverty has a kingdom of its own. And the same happens with everything. Upanishads or Lao Tzu or Jesus or Buddha -- they all teach that knowledge is useless. Just getting more and more knowledgeable is not much help. Not only is it not much help, it can become a barrier. Knowledge is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,032 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thoughts. When you are silent, what is good and what is bad? The moment the idea arises: This is good, that is bad, the silence has been lost. In deep meditation there is nothing -- no good, no bad. Lao Tzu is reported to have said: A hair's distinction, and heaven and hell are set apart. In the mind of a meditator, if even a slight distinction arises then the whole world is divided. Meditation is non-distinctio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,033 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'m against morality for the simple reason that it gives you prejudices, superficial prejudices. Anything going against it you immediately take the idea that it is wrong, it is right. It happened to Lao Tzu, the source of Taoism, that he was made the chief justice of the Supreme Court of China. He begged the emperor, "You are committing a mistake; I'm not the right man. You will repent." But the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,034 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he right man. You will repent." But the emperor knew that he was the wisest man alive, and he was, there was no doubt about it. He said, "Why should I repent? You are the wisest man." Lao Tzu said, "That is the problem. My judgement will come from my wisdom. And your judgements will never be adjustable with my judgements." But the emperor was stubborn; he said, "Let us see." So the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,035 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd your judgements will never be adjustable with my judgements." But the emperor was stubborn; he said, "Let us see." So the first case came: a thief was caught red-handed in the richest man's house. Lao Tzu listened to the whole story. The thief himself confessed that, "In front of you, I cannot lie. If there was another judge, it would be a different matter, but I have always respected you and l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,036 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l right, I will not 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- 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, "Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,037 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... 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 your hands, with the other fifty percent in the whole city's hands. This situation creates the possibility of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,038 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...according to him. You are the biggest criminal." The emperor said, "Perhaps he was right that I would repent. Don't be worried, I will release him from the service immediately." He called Lao Tzu and said, "This is a very strange judgement." Lao Tzu said, "It is not. If people were living in harmony with nature, if people were compassionate to each other, if they felt a certain brotherhood with ea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,039 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The emperor said, "Perhaps he was right that I would repent. Don't be worried, I will release him from the service immediately." He called Lao Tzu and said, "This is a very strange judgement." Lao Tzu said, "It is not. If people were living in harmony with nature, if people were compassionate to each other, if they felt a certain brotherhood with each other, then how could there be rich people and poor peo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,040 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be rich people and poor people? There should only be people. And there is enough." At least in those times it was perfectly true, there was enough for everybody to live comfortably. At that time when Lao Tzu said that, in India the population was only two million. Now the population is nine hundred million, and by the end of this century, if humanity survives -- the chances are very slim -- India will have one th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,041 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... anybody to be rich or poor. Things could be easily, comfortably enjoyed by all. But it was not the case, neither in India nor in China nor anywhere else. Now it has become absolutely impossible. But Lao Tzu was right when he said, "A man who collects so much wealth that thousands of people become undernourished -- they don't have houses, they don't have jobs, they don't have enough to eat... What do you want? Sh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,042 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uditorium is not part of your so-called world. It is an island in itself where only buddhas dwell. For you as meditators time does not matter. The deeper you go, the more contemporary you become to Gautam Buddha, to Lao Tzu, to Chuang Tzu, to all those who have experienced the ultimate. You meet them at the very source of your being. It is the same taste, it is the same flavor, it is the same goal. You are right ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,043 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This tuning becomes possible if you surrender yourself to the whole. Why is man not in tune with the infinite? Because you go on living according to your own mind, not according to the mind of the whole. Lao Tzu calls the mind of the whole tao: the law, the cosmic law. We create our own laws; every society creates its own laws. Those laws are artificial. They are not universal, they are local. And bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,044 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en become afraid of life. We cannot live, because to move in life is to move into the unknown. Religion is the most unknown dimension. Even those who have known it cannot say anything about it. Says Lao Tzu: "Truth cannot be said. And if it is said, it is no longer the truth." The ultimate cannot be named. If you name it, you have missed it. It remains inexpressible. Those who have gone to the inner space -- and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,045 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l be nothing then but a methodology to prepare the ground for you to jump from unconsciousness into consciousness. And that is the greatest quantum leap. Buddha is not dead; neither is Jesus nor Zarathustra nor Lao Tzu nor Nanak. Anybody who has lived with full consciousness goes on living without any form. Because there is no form, there is no disease; because there is no form, there is no death; because there is no form, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,046 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hing clicked. And although Dhyan Om calls himself not an ordinary nut, but a coconut, something clicked in his mind also. Because what I was saying was so clear to everybody except these two persons. In the whole of Lao Tzu House everybody was worried what to do, because they are suffering so terribly just by being together. Whenever they are away from each other, they look happy, they look healthy. The moment they see each othe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,047 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the moment someone leaves you, you immediately rush to anybody who is close by. Now poor Shunyo was close by ... he had not even gone a little further, to Krishna House or Jesus House. Here, just in Lao Tzu House, immediately ... and not even bothering that she is already in love with someone. It is not good to interfere. It is not gentlemanly. It is not in any way compassionate to interfere wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,048 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cunningness, a calculativeness. It was not purchased for Shunyo. It was purchased because it was certain that sooner or later he and Latifa will have to separate, because they are creating a constant scene in Lao Tzu House. So he brought the sari in case they have to separate and he will have to find another woman immediately. It is just a coincidence that he found Shunyo. If it was purchased for Shunyo, he would have...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,049 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re, if Ronald Reagan allows. Ronald Reagan is just a representative of all the mad politicians of the world. If they allow, then we still have twelve hours to evolve. If in fifteen seconds Gautam Buddha, Pythagoras, Lao Tzu, Mahavira, Jesus, Ramakrishna, Raman Maharishi, J. Krishnamurti, Gurdjieff -- if all these people have happened just in fifteen seconds, then the coming twelve hours, if man remains on the ear...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,050 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Half of the population of the world has been deprived of all kinds of spiritual growth. Women have asked again and again why there are not women as great as Gautam Buddha or Jesus or Zarathustra or Lao Tzu. Man has not allowed women even to be educated. He has not allowed women to have any financial independence. He has not allowed the woman free movement in society. At the most she can go to church. The only m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,051 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n is a demolishing of the personality. There was a great clash between meditation and Confucian philosophy, which was predominant in China. It was a long struggle. There was a small stream of Tao -- Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu -- but it was a very small stream. It had no national impact because the people who were impressed by Confucius remained in their heads, and Tao was the philosophy of the heart. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,052 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Confucius. Mao is a Confucian, and they have destroyed all the Taoist monasteries; their scriptures; they have forced the Taoist meditators to go to the fields and work there. China has gone against Lao Tzu, who was its greatest son. It has gone with Confucius, who is just as ordinary as Manu in India -- just a social thinker, creating ways for having a better culture, better civilization, without thinking at al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,053 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nu in India -- just a social thinker, creating ways for having a better culture, better civilization, without thinking at all about consciousness. The West has many philosophers of the same quality. Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu are rare flowers, exotic ... but they were the people who understood Bodhidharma without a single word being said to them. They were the people who simply accepted Gautam Buddha and his immense...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,054 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hed by the Taoist approach. They melted into each other, they made each other brighter, lovelier, deeper, higher. In fact it was a miracle. Meditation has never reached to such heights as when Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu's philosophies met in an eternal communion. What reached Japan was Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu both together. China had made Gautam Buddha's approach more refined, had given it new dimensions, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,055 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... higher. In fact it was a miracle. Meditation has never reached to such heights as when Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu's philosophies met in an eternal communion. What reached Japan was Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu both together. China had made Gautam Buddha's approach more refined, had given it new dimensions, made it more pure. Japan was fortunate that it was in a state of vacuum. It simply absorbed this new philosoph...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,056 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...osophy without any resistance. Hence dhyan, or meditation, came to the highest flowering in Japan. The flowering of Zen has left even the original master, Gautam Buddha, far behind. It has also left Lao Tzu far behind. It went on improving because there was no resistance, no argument against it, nobody to fight with it. Everybody was immediately in an agreeable receptivity. Zen became such a flowering that nothi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,057 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- If you can also forget Confucius and Karl Marx and Mao Tse-Tung, it will be a great step towards Gautam Buddha, towards Lao Tzu, towards me -- and in the final analysis, towards yourself. "You must help me, doctor," said Hymie to his psychiatrist. "I can't remember anything for more than a few minutes. It is driving me crazy." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,058 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ords. You can force the infinite into the words but then it is no more infinite; that is the falsification. All that is beautiful, all that is lovely, all that is good and true, remains unexpressed. Lao Tzu has said, 'Truth cannot be expressed. The moment you express it, it is no more truth.' This is one of the most fundamental things to be understood. Truth can be shown, but cannot be said. You can show tr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,059 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is possible only through death. Resurrection happens only after crucifixion. If you really want to be alive, be as if you are dead. If you really want to be intelligent, live as if you are an idiot. Lao Tzu has said, 'The whole world is wise except me. I am an idiot.' The word 'idiot' is beautiful. It comes from the same root as the word 'idiom'. Idiom is a personal style. Idiom means personal style and an i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,060 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...k macrobiotic people will agree with him, because he has destroyed the whole thing. He says: MACROBIOTICS IS PURE TAOISM. No principle, no theory, can be pure taoism. Even taoism is not pure taoism. Lao Tzu resisted for his whole life. He denied his disciples, he rejected all appeals to him to make a theory about his whole principle, because he said, 'Once tao is said, it is no more tao. Truth cannot be said, ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,061 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nally to India. India is not a geographical point; it is the very source of all human consciousness. Everyone who wants to be reoriented has to come to the orient. 'Orient' simply means orientation. Lao Tzu.... Of course, chinese scholars never say that he was going to India; that offends their ego. They say he was going to the south, but India is the south. They say he moved towards the south, but India is the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,062 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he was going to India; that offends their ego. They say he was going to the south, but India is the south. They say he moved towards the south, but India is the south for China. And of course, it seems meaningful -- Lao Tzu coming back to India. That seems absolutely relevant. Everybody has to come. India is everybody's home. He was caught on the boundaries of China by the government officials and they said, 'We will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,063 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... don't desire even the next moment. Plop. This moment is enough. Buddha's saying, 'going nowhere', is a better expression. But don't be caught in words. All buddhas mean the same -- jesus, Mahavir, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu or Gautam Buddha. Whatsoever their expressions, they all mean the same. Don't by to be scholarly, and don't be a word-chopper. It is all the same. You can call it coming in, or you can even c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,064 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...w, don't be blind. Blindness won't help. Chiyono became enlightened, and this way has never been so with anybody else. Buddha was not carrying a pail of water, neither was Mahavira, nor Krishna, nor Lao Tzu, nor Zarathustra -- nobody was carrying a pail of water. And after Chiyono many have carried because it seems so simple. You can manage it, it seems so simple, no difficulty is involved. Fullmoon night comes ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,065 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...per than love, because the other is still there in love -- you have something to cling to. And when you can cling, something of you survives. But in meditation there is no other. That is why Buddha, Mahavira and Lao Tzu, they deny the existence of God. Why? They know very well God is, but they deny the existence so that you have no support left for meditation. If the other is there, your meditation can become at the most lov...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,066 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cause they never created any following. Exactly at the same time in Greece there was Socrates, Plato, Aristotle -- the three who created the whole Western mind. Exactly at the same time in China there was Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Mencius. It seems at that peak, all over the world, mind was at its Everest. There are only three cultures: one is Chinese, another is Indian, and the other is Greek. Only three ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,067 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hree cultures exist, all the others are just byproducts. The whole West originated with the Greek mind in Athens. The whole Chinese civilization, a totally different type of civilization, arose out of Confucius' and Lao Tzu's confrontation, and all that is beautiful in India came out of Buddha, Mahavira. And all these people existed at a single moment of history. Historians say that history moves like a wheel: there are mom...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,068 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uth, you don't need to have any memory at all. Lies are so complex, they need a very complex bio-computer which you call memory. Truth is so simple, it does not even need to be said. I am reminded of Lao Tzu. He used to go every day for a morning walk, early, before the sun rises. Just by the side of his village there was a small hillock which was the most beautiful spot to see the sun rising. One of his neighbor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,069 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y, before the sun rises. Just by the side of his village there was a small hillock which was the most beautiful spot to see the sun rising. One of his neighbors asked him, "Can I also come with you?" Lao Tzu said, "Whether you can come with me is not the right question. The road does not belong to me; neither the mountains, nor the sunrise. If you can come by my side but not with me, everything is okay. But remem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,070 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntains, nor the sunrise. If you can come by my side but not with me, everything is okay. But remember: you are alone, I am alone. Nothing has to be said; no word has to be uttered." The man had known Lao Tzu for a long time. He agreed. But one day the neighbor had a guest and the guest was also excited and wanted to follow his host, to go with Lao Tzu on his morning walk. The neighbor explained to him: "Lao Tzu h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,071 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e said; no word has to be uttered." The man had known Lao Tzu for a long time. He agreed. But one day the neighbor had a guest and the guest was also excited and wanted to follow his host, to go with Lao Tzu on his morning walk. The neighbor explained to him: "Lao Tzu has no other conditions except that you are alone; he does not want to become a crowd. Language is prohibited. You should not say anything, and I d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,072 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ad known Lao Tzu for a long time. He agreed. But one day the neighbor had a guest and the guest was also excited and wanted to follow his host, to go with Lao Tzu on his morning walk. The neighbor explained to him: "Lao Tzu has no other conditions except that you are alone; he does not want to become a crowd. Language is prohibited. You should not say anything, and I don't think he will object." He did not object...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,073 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...said, "What a beautiful sunrise!" And then suddenly he remembered: you are alone, you are not supposed to use words. Only mad people use words when they are alone. They came back. Reaching the house, Lao Tzu said to his neighbor, "Please tell your guest never to come again. He is too talkative." In a two-hour morning walk he had uttered only that small sentence -- "What a beautiful sunrise!" But s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,074 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...zu said to his neighbor, "Please tell your guest never to come again. He is too talkative." In a two-hour morning walk he had uttered only that small sentence -- "What a beautiful sunrise!" But still Lao Tzu is right. Because the guest tried to argue with him -- he said, "I simply expressed my feeling." Lao Tzu said, "I was also present, I was also experiencing the sunrise and the beauty. We were ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,075 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... morning walk he had uttered only that small sentence -- "What a beautiful sunrise!" But still Lao Tzu is right. Because the guest tried to argue with him -- he said, "I simply expressed my feeling." Lao Tzu said, "I was also present, I was also experiencing the sunrise and the beauty. We were all surrounded with the same blessing, the birds singing and the flowers opening. I am not blind; I also have a heart. Yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,076 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ful sunrise' -- do you think I cannot understand the beauty? And moreover you forgot your promise. You are not a man who can be relied upon, you are not a man of your word." These strange people like Lao Tzu or Diogenes are the authentic people of the world. And they have known the truth not by conquering the world, not by becoming astronauts, not by climbing Everest; they have known the truth just by sitting sil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,077 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...end. Years of preparation for what? To know that there was no need of any preparation. Milarepa, I also told Amrito about a tremendously beautiful pack of cards that existed in China, in the days of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. It has ten cards describing the search, the pilgrimage. Those ten cards are called The Ten Bulls of Zen. In the first picture, the bull is lost. And naturally, the owner is looking all around,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,078 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o end to this infinite regress. My own silence is, that there is no observer and there is no observed. Hence nothing can be said about it. The moment you say it, you lie. It is one of the reasons Lao Tzu never said anything, never wrote anything. He had a great following, but a very strange following. Every disciple had come to listen, to understand, to know, but Lao Tzu insistently, his whole life long, refu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,079 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lie. It is one of the reasons Lao Tzu never said anything, never wrote anything. He had a great following, but a very strange following. Every disciple had come to listen, to understand, to know, but Lao Tzu insistently, his whole life long, refused to say anything about truth, or to write anything about truth. He was ready to talk about anything else -- but the people had come to know about the truth.... ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,080 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...life long, refused to say anything about truth, or to write anything about truth. He was ready to talk about anything else -- but the people had come to know about the truth.... Finally the day came. Lao Tzu left for the Himalayas to enter into the eternal peace of those beautiful mountains. But the emperor of China was also interested to know what Lao Tzu had been hiding and not telling, not even giving a hint a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,081 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o know about the truth.... Finally the day came. Lao Tzu left for the Himalayas to enter into the eternal peace of those beautiful mountains. But the emperor of China was also interested to know what Lao Tzu had been hiding and not telling, not even giving a hint about what truth is. He ordered all the borders to be closed to Lao Tzu: "He cannot leave China unless he writes something about truth." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,082 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... beautiful mountains. But the emperor of China was also interested to know what Lao Tzu had been hiding and not telling, not even giving a hint about what truth is. He ordered all the borders to be closed to Lao Tzu: "He cannot leave China unless he writes something about truth." Lao Tzu was caught crossing the border towards the Himalayas -- respectfully, lovingly; the emperor was not an enemy but a disciple. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,083 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ao Tzu had been hiding and not telling, not even giving a hint about what truth is. He ordered all the borders to be closed to Lao Tzu: "He cannot leave China unless he writes something about truth." Lao Tzu was caught crossing the border towards the Himalayas -- respectfully, lovingly; the emperor was not an enemy but a disciple. The emperor himself was present there, because that was the route they assumed ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,084 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uation -- loaded guns in the hands of the disciples! And we can understand the situation of the disciples: they wanted to preserve the most important experience of truth for future generations. Under compulsion, Lao Tzu closed himself in the house and wrote a small book. The first sentence in that book says, "That which can be said cannot be true. That which can be written is bound to be a lie. Remember these two statements ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,085 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an be written is bound to be a lie. Remember these two statements while you read my book." Even loaded guns cannot force a master to say something which cannot be said. When the emperor got the book, Lao Tzu was released. But he had deceived them. If you remember these 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,086 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... statements, that truth said becomes untrue, truth expressed loses the quality of being true -- if these conditions have to be remembered while reading the book, in fact there is no point in reading it! But Lao Tzu was gone. What had been the difficulty for Lao Tzu? because every Tom, Dick, and Harry is talking about truth. Only Toms, Dicks and Harrys can talk about truth because they know nothing about it. To ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,087 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d loses the quality of being true -- if these conditions have to be remembered while reading the book, in fact there is no point in reading it! But Lao Tzu was gone. What had been the difficulty for Lao Tzu? because every Tom, Dick, and Harry is talking about truth. Only Toms, Dicks and Harrys can talk about truth because they know nothing about it. To enter that silence where the two disappear.... ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,088 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oner or later. A man comes to me and says, "I experienced bliss." It is nonsense. Either you can be or bliss can be. Both cannot be together. And if there is only bliss, who is going to report it? Lao Tzu's greatest disciple was Chuang Tzu. He was moving on the path. He was reporting every day his experiences -- arising of spiritual phenomena, experiences of light, lotuses flowering -- but Lao Tzu never paid a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,089 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu's greatest disciple was Chuang Tzu. He was moving on the path. He was reporting every day his experiences -- arising of spiritual phenomena, experiences of light, lotuses flowering -- but Lao Tzu never paid any attention to what he was saying. The only thing that he could see from Lao Tzu's face was, "Don't waste my time. Just go, start meditating again." But one day Chuang Tzu never came -- he used t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,090 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...was reporting every day his experiences -- arising of spiritual phenomena, experiences of light, lotuses flowering -- but Lao Tzu never paid any attention to what he was saying. The only thing that he could see from Lao Tzu's face was, "Don't waste my time. Just go, start meditating again." But one day Chuang Tzu never came -- he used to come early in the morning. Lao Tzu waited for him. It was time for sunset and he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,091 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ion to what he was saying. The only thing that he could see from Lao Tzu's face was, "Don't waste my time. Just go, start meditating again." But one day Chuang Tzu never came -- he used to come early in the morning. Lao Tzu waited for him. It was time for sunset and he inquired, "Where is Chuang Tzu?" They said, "He is sitting under a tree. From the morning he has been sitting there." Lao Tzu said, "It seem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,092 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...early in the morning. Lao Tzu waited for him. It was time for sunset and he inquired, "Where is Chuang Tzu?" They said, "He is sitting under a tree. From the morning he has been sitting there." Lao Tzu said, "It seems I will have to go and see what is happening. Something is certainly happening for the first time." And he went, shook the body of Chuang Tzu and said, "Aha! But keep your mouth shut! Now there...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,093 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he first time." And he went, shook the body of Chuang Tzu and said, "Aha! But keep your mouth shut! Now there is no need every day to come to me to describe all that rubbish." And Chuang Tzu fell at the feet of Lao Tzu with tears of joy and he said, "Your compassion is great. How many years have I tortured you? And your compassion was so great, you never said anything. You simply said, `Continue.' You never denied. And toda...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,094 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ill bring the spring to your being, and the flowers will start opening their petals. But you are never at home. You are looking into other people's homes. Somebody is in Gautam Buddha's, somebody in Lao Tzu's, somebody in Jesus Christ's, somebody in Moses'... it is a very strange situation that you have been diverted in such a way that everybody is somewhere else, where he is not expected to be, and he is not wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,095 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r million years for this earth to create man. It is so precious ... and the future is much more valuable, because inside you the possibility of a Gautam Buddha, the possibility of a Zarathustra, the possibility of a Lao Tzu is there. You can also blossom in the same silence, in the same peace, in the same beauty, in the same ecstasy. ... I forgot to look at my watch! Ronald Reagan, his cabinet...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,096 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... It is a long journey for the sperm. According to sperm size, the tunnel they have to pass through before they reach the mother's egg is almost two miles long. We could have missed lazy people like Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- and how many we have missed there is no way to know. Genetics is going to be the most important science in the future. All our old habits have to be changed; they are absolutely out of dat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,097 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...published Query:- single name will do, who was great and not controversial?" He has not answered. Then we published the letter -- but he is hiding; there is no answer. Every great man, Gautam Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu... were to their contemporaries the most controversial people. Only people who are making shoes, who are cleaning the streets are not controversial. The moment you say something original, it h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,098 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... powerful positions. Corruption leads to power. And in return power gives you more capacity to corrupt. The past as a whole is ugly and criminal. Just because there has been a Gautam Buddha, or a Lao Tzu, or a Kabir does not matter. The past is so vast that these people can be counted out. The mainstream of humanity has been moving on wrong paths, and you are always in a crowd and the crowd loves ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,099 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lebrate the small things of life and make this whole planet alive. It is only one, as far as we know, where people can love, where people can meditate, where people can become buddhas, where people like Socrates and Lao Tzu can exist. We are most fortunate to be on this small planet. It is one of the smallest planets in the universe, but even the greatest stars, millions of times bigger than this earth, cannot claim a singl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,100 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has carried the essential message of Buddha. It has discarded all that was mere commentary. It has cut all rubbish out of the way. It is the very essence of Buddha's experience -- and that is also the experience of Lao Tzu, of Tao. Zen is paving the path for the future humanity of one religiousness. Zen is the only authentic gold that has come out of the whole past of humanity. My love for it is not in vain. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,101 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...body, which will be put on a funeral pyre, or in a grave, and will disintegrate into the earth, into its basic elements." I am reminded of a disciple of Confucius. He asked Confucius, "I have heard so much about Lao Tzu...." They were contemporaries. Sometimes it happens almost like a chain-reaction.... In China there was Confucius, a great thinker but materialist; Lao Tzu, a great buddha; Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,102 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fucius. He asked Confucius, "I have heard so much about Lao Tzu...." They were contemporaries. Sometimes it happens almost like a chain-reaction.... In China there was Confucius, a great thinker but materialist; Lao Tzu, a great buddha; Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. In India there were Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, and six others whose scriptures have been burnt by the Hindus, whose statues have been destroyed; just their names remain in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,103 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rds of Mahavira. At the same time, in Greece there were Socrates, Heraclitus, Dionysius, Diogenes. Suddenly the whole world was afire with a new insight. Confucius' disciple asked him, "You must have heard about Lao Tzu. He talks about a space inside where there is only peace and nothing else, utter silence and no disturbance. Will you teach me how to enter inside?" Confucius was very angry. He said, "Stop al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,104 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hen you die you will have eternity for that in the grave. You can search and meditate and find what is inside. But right now, don't waste my time." That was his attitude. But, by and by, many people talked about Lao Tzu. Finally Confucius gathered courage. He was very much afraid, because the stories that he had heard about Lao Tzu were so strange: "The man can do anything. He rides on a buffalo, facing backwards -- a danger...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,105 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... right now, don't waste my time." That was his attitude. But, by and by, many people talked about Lao Tzu. Finally Confucius gathered courage. He was very much afraid, because the stories that he had heard about Lao Tzu were so strange: "The man can do anything. He rides on a buffalo, facing backwards -- a dangerous fellow." But the more he wanted to avoid him, the more he became interested. That's how the human ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,106 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...id him, the more he became interested. That's how the human mind functions. Whatever you want to avoid you will come across again and again. You will become enchanted. Finally he decided to meet him. Lao Tzu was not far away, just outside the capital in the mountains in a cave. Confucius went there. He stopped his disciples who had followed him outside the cave, because he was afraid: "That man can do anything. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,107 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he cave, because he was afraid: "That man can do anything. He may hit me, and I don't want my disciples to see what happens to me." He said, "I will tell you. First let me go and encounter that man." Lao Tzu was sitting in the deep cave in darkness, very silently. He did not bother at all that Confucius had come. He did not say hello to him, he did not say, "Sit down, please." He did not take any notice. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,108 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Confucius had come. He did not say hello to him, he did not say, "Sit down, please." He did not take any notice. Confucius said, "This is strange. At least you should behave like a gentleman." Lao Tzu said, "I thought that you would not have the guts to enter into my cave. Here we don't teach morality or gentlemanship. Here we teach how to die and get resurrected. Are you ready?" -- looking into his eyes -...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,109 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u said, "I thought that you would not have the guts to enter into my cave. Here we don't teach morality or gentlemanship. Here we teach how to die and get resurrected. Are you ready?" -- looking into his eyes -- and Lao Tzu pulled his sword. Confucius said, "Please forgive me. I will never again come in your cave!" -- perspiring, and the cave was very cool. He came out and he told his disciples, "This man is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,110 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ver again come in your cave!" -- perspiring, and the cave was very cool. He came out and he told his disciples, "This man is dangerous. He is a dragon. He would have killed me." He did not understand Lao Tzu at all. He was not talking about ordinary death, he was talking about the death of the ego. And unless the ego dies, you are not your authentic self, you are not your original face. Confucius missed. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,111 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nexpressible. He is trying his best. I say a child can awaken accidentally, for example, if a rat runs over the child. And if, for example, the child is Anando, can you think what will happen? -- an explosion in Lao Tzu house! The rat is not concerned with your enlightenment, but you will become enlightened... at least for the 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,112 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us. It is dangerous because all the vested interests want humanity to remain retarded, so that the human mind does not evolve to its ultimate potential. Because once there are individuals of the caliber of Socrates, Lao Tzu, Gautam Buddha, then there is no possibility of any exploitation, physical or psychological; no possibility of any oppression, no possibility of enslaving the human soul. And all the politicians need slaves, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,113 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...master has to be alert not to give you impossible goals, because those impossible goals will make you feel, "It is not for me. It is too much, too big. I am too small." A Taoist parable is: There is a statue of Lao Tzu, the founder of Tao. And a young man has been thinking for years to go to the mountains and see the statue of Lao Tzu. He loves the words, the way Lao Tzu has spoken, the style of life that he has lived, but ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,114 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... for me. It is too much, too big. I am too small." A Taoist parable is: There is a statue of Lao Tzu, the founder of Tao. And a young man has been thinking for years to go to the mountains and see the statue of Lao Tzu. He loves the words, the way Lao Tzu has spoken, the style of life that he has lived, but he has never seen any of his statues. There are no Taoist temples, so there are very rare statues and they are all in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,115 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..." A Taoist parable is: There is a statue of Lao Tzu, the founder of Tao. And a young man has been thinking for years to go to the mountains and see the statue of Lao Tzu. He loves the words, the way Lao Tzu has spoken, the style of life that he has lived, but he has never seen any of his statues. There are no Taoist temples, so there are very rare statues and they are all in the mountains -- standing in the open...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,116 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... dangerous too. So he thinks, "It is better to wait till the morning. At least there will be light, and I can see better; otherwise I will fall somewhere off this small footpath. And without seeing the statue of Lao Tzu, simply be finished. Why commit suicide?" So he was sitting just outside the town, and as the sun was rising an old man came by. He saw this young man sitting; he asked, "What are you doing here?" The yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,117 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...kes you a cloud -- of consciousness. Then there is no goal. Never ask a meditator "Why are you meditating?" because that question is irrelevant. Meditation is in itself the goal and the way together. Lao Tzu, one of the most important figures in the history of non-doing.... If history is to be written rightly then there should be two kinds of histories: the history of doers -- Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Nadirshah, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,118 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Hitler, Benito Mussolini; these are the people who belong to the world of doing. There should be another history, a higher history, a real history -- of human consciousness, of human evolution: the history of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Bodhidharma; a totally different kind. Lao Tzu became enlightened sitting under a tree. And a leaf had just started falling -- it was in the fal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,119 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... history, a higher history, a real history -- of human consciousness, of human evolution: the history of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Bodhidharma; a totally different kind. Lao Tzu became enlightened sitting under a tree. And a leaf had just started falling -- it was in the fall, and there was no hurry; the leaf was coming zig-zag with the wind, slowly. He watched the leaf. The leaf cam...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,120 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., law giver, Confucius. Confucius belongs to the other history, the history of the doers. Confucius had great influence over China -- and has even today. Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu were the disciples of Lao Tzu. These three people have reached to the highest peaks, but nobody seems to be impressed by them. People are impressed when you do something great. Who is impressed by somebody who has achieved a state of non-...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,121 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... highest peaks, but nobody seems to be impressed by them. People are impressed when you do something great. Who is impressed by somebody who has achieved a state of non-doing? But Confucius had heard the name of Lao Tzu, and was interested -- "What kind of man is this who says that real things can be achieved only by non-doing? Nothing can be achieved by non-doing; you have to do, you have to become a great doer." And hearin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,122 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., and was interested -- "What kind of man is this who says that real things can be achieved only by non-doing? Nothing can be achieved by non-doing; you have to do, you have to become a great doer." And hearing that Lao Tzu was very close by in the mountains, Confucius went with his disciples to see him. He had many disciples -- kings, princes. He was a great teacher. But he stopped everybody outside. He said, "Let me go inside...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,123 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are so cool in the mountains, and you are perspiring." He said, "You should be glad I am alive. That man is not a man, he is a dragon. He is really dangerous. Avoid him!" We don't know from Lao Tzu's side what happened in the cave, but we know what Confucius reported. He said, "As I entered in, he did not even look at me. I went around him, but he did not take any note of me. Even that w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,124 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uest.'" Seeing that there was no way to have a nice, gentlemanly conversation with this man, Confucius said, "I have come from a long distance" -- thinking that he would feel a little compassion. Lao Tzu said, "That shows that you are stupid. You don't know anything about me; otherwise, you would not have come. Now you are wanting some compassion from me. A man who is absent, how can he be compassionate?" ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,125 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you would not have come. Now you are wanting some compassion from me. A man who is absent, how can he be compassionate?" Confucius said, "At least give me some advice -- how to relax, to rest." Lao Tzu said, "For that you will have to wait. Death will come, and in your grave you will relax and rest, not before that. Because if you want to rest before that, then forget that crowd that you have left outside. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,126 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ome back to this cave again. You rest and relax." So Confucius said, "No, don't do that. They are my disciples. Some are kings, some are princes, some are great, rich people. I cannot afford it." Lao Tzu said, "That's why I said that in life you cannot afford relaxation; only death can help. Those who understand can relax in life and rest in life. And the miracle is: for them there is no death, 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,127 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... me, you have to understand: I am going to be a death to you. Without that -- unless I kill you, destroy you -- there is no way of saving you." Confucius somehow said, "I will come again." Lao Tzu laughed. He said, "Don't lie. You will never come again. This time you came because you had no idea what kind of man you were going to meet. But I enjoyed it. Now go and tell the crowd all the lies you want."...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,128 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... go and tell the crowd all the lies you want." So we don't know exactly what transpired in that cave. This much is from Confucius. Much more must have happened there, which needs guts even to report. Lao Tzu's whole teaching was the watercourse way: just go with the water wherever it is going, don't swim. You are blessed that the tide has brought you to the shore. But the mind always wants to do s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,129 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d so meaningless. But about the transcendental world, all words are lies. So it is not a question that I lie once in a while -- the moment you utter a word about the ultimate you have uttered a lie. Lao Tzu never wrote in his whole life, not even a single letter. And he was known, it was felt by many that he had found the treasure and he was not saying anything about it -- what a miser! Even the emperor called h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,130 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lose, and we can feel the coolness, the silence, the beauty. You are pregnant with something that is not of this world. Say it, write it, so that those who are groping in the dark can find the way." Lao Tzu simply said, "Do you think I have not thought about it? I have been crying and weeping; I have shed tears in the darkness of the night when nobody could see that I was crying and weeping, because I know it. B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,131 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ame close to him. Although he had not spoken, they heard it. This is the mystery -- they heard it like a silent music, they heard it like a fragrance arising, they heard it in the beauty and the depth of the eyes of Lao Tzu. But this was possible only for very few people. Those who can understand without words don't need any devices. Prem Luca, you are not one of them. You will need words. You are no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,132 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e only possible way is to tell you lies which point towards the truth. Slowly slowly, the moment you see the truth you will understand the compassion of the person who was ready even to lie for you. Lao Tzu was not so compassionate as I am. Lao Tzu was more concerned about the purity of truth; I am more concerned about the evolution of your being. Without your evolution, the truth will disappear from the world. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,133 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ich point towards the truth. Slowly slowly, the moment you see the truth you will understand the compassion of the person who was ready even to lie for you. Lao Tzu was not so compassionate as I am. Lao Tzu was more concerned about the purity of truth; I am more concerned about the evolution of your being. Without your evolution, the truth will disappear from the world. But if you need a few devices I don't hesi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,134 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...evolution, the truth will disappear from the world. But if you need a few devices I don't hesitate at all. I am ready to tell you anything that can help to bring you even a single step closer. At the last, when Lao Tzu was going to leave China and go into the Himalayas to die there, the emperor gave orders all over the country that wherever he crosses the boundaries he should be caught, and forced -- unless he writes his ex...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,135 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ht Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- boundary -- I will not let you go. You can rest in my cottage and write down your experience." Lao Tzu had to write it down. In three days he completed his only book -- just a small book, only a few pages. The first sentence is, "The truth cannot be said; the moment you say it, it becomes a lie. So reading my ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,136 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he train, went to the inquiry office -- there was nobody. He tried to find out.... "I want to inquire about a few people, whether they are here -- Gautam Buddha, Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Epicurus, Mahavira, Lao Tzu." People said, "Never heard of them." And he saw people... just dry bones, as if all juice had been taken out of them, skeletons. He inquired, "Who are these people? And somebody was a great s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,137 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Now there is only pure consciousness, just light, eternal light. Dhyan was taken by the Buddhists to China, but in China a great transformation took place because China was under the great impact of Lao Tzu, and his whole teaching was "let-go." Gautam Buddha fights to enter into his own being; at the ultimate point he comes to let-go, but that is the last thing. Tired of the efforts, the struggle, the ascet...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,138 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e last thing. Tired of the efforts, the struggle, the ascetic practices, finally he drops everything. And in that let-go, that which he has been desiring for years happens. It happens when there is no desire for it. Lao Tzu begins with "let-go" -- so there has been a beautiful meeting. Religions have met in other places, but it has been ugly: Mohammedans with Christians, Mohammedans with Hindus, Christians with Hindus, but ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,139 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d. Perhaps in those conditions you would have stolen too. Perhaps in those conditions stealing was not bad... because every act is relative to conditions. I have told you many times the story of when Lao Tzu was made the supreme judge of China. The first case was against a thief who had taken almost half the treasures of the richest man in the capital. And he was caught red-handed, so there was no question about ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,140 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who had taken almost half the treasures of the richest man in the capital. And he was caught red-handed, so there was no question about his stealing. He had confessed too, that he had stolen. Still, Lao Tzu called the man whose house the thief had broken into and stolen from, and told the man, "According to me, you are both criminals. Why in the first place have you accumulated so much wealth? The whole capital ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,141 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mber is going to be up, because from where have you gathered all this money, all this empire? According to that man you are a bigger thief than me. If you want to save yourself, throw that man out." Lao Tzu was relieved immediately. He said, "I told you before that I would not be suitable, because I don't function through the mind. To function through the mind is judgmental. I function through silence. I simply ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,142 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e to you, but those politicians are not aware that even if they can prevent my physical presence, they cannot prevent the experience of my presence in my people. That is beyond their power. In China, Lao Tzu -- a great master -- has been dead for twenty-five centuries now, but a small stream of followers has remained. They don't refer to Lao Tzu in the past tense, but in the present tense. To them Lao Tzu cannot ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,143 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ence of my presence in my people. That is beyond their power. In China, Lao Tzu -- a great master -- has been dead for twenty-five centuries now, but a small stream of followers has remained. They don't refer to Lao Tzu in the past tense, but in the present tense. To them Lao Tzu cannot be past because they can still feel the rhythm, the silence, the beauty, the peace. What more is needed? Ramakrishna died. I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,144 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... In China, Lao Tzu -- a great master -- has been dead for twenty-five centuries now, but a small stream of followers has remained. They don't refer to Lao Tzu in the past tense, but in the present tense. To them Lao Tzu cannot be past because they can still feel the rhythm, the silence, the beauty, the peace. What more is needed? Ramakrishna died. In India, whenever a husband dies his wife has to break her bangles, take ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,145 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s no interest in interfering in your possessions. And, moreover, China thinks that women have no souls; only man has a soul. That's why in the history of China you will not find a single woman of the caliber of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Confucius, Mencius -- not a single woman. If you don't have a soul you are just a thing; you cannot compete with man. Half of humanity, in every country, in every civil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,146 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ginning. You already have an A PRIORI prejudice. Now you are looking for Buddha and Buddha is never repeated. Now you are looking for Zarathustra and Zarathustra is only once and never again. Now you are looking for Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu never comes again. Once is all. Nothing is ever repeated. God's creativity is infinite. He is not repetitive. And if you read a Buddhist, a Confucian, a Taoist, then you will be more confused...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,147 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...already have an A PRIORI prejudice. Now you are looking for Buddha and Buddha is never repeated. Now you are looking for Zarathustra and Zarathustra is only once and never again. Now you are looking for Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu never comes again. Once is all. Nothing is ever repeated. God's creativity is infinite. He is not repetitive. And if you read a Buddhist, a Confucian, a Taoist, then you will be more confused -- because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,148 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...isciple -- and there were people like Jung, Adler and others -- the only way for them was to escape from the master. His presence was not nourishing but poisoning. And this man goes on giving judgments on Buddha and Lao Tzu and Zarathustra and Jesus and Mohammed. And these are the few people who were really healthy. Just think of one thing: if illness exists, that is proof enough that health is also possible -- at least ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,149 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uth is one and the true path is one. It does not belong to anybody. It is nobody's property. It is not my path and Buddha's path and Krishna's path and Zarathustra's path -- it is just THE path. Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, they have all walked on it. It is only ONE! There are not many paths really. Many people walk on the path, but the path is one. And it is so vast that they may not even meet each other. The d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,150 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pragmatic reality, then problems arise. There is a famous statement of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Don't look for the meaning, look for the use. And in the same way, thousands of years before Wittgenstein, Lao Tzu says: The mean-ing is the use. The use is the meaning. When you look for it, you cannot see it. When you listen for it, you cannot hear it. But when you use it, it is inexhaustible. A Master ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,151 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d cut into pieces. Only parts can be defined: the whole cannot be defined. But the moment you cut the whole into pieces, it is no more real. The whole remains the whole. Just listen to these words of Lao Tzu: THE GREAT TAO FLOWS EVERYWHERE, TO THE LEFT AND TO THE RIGHT. ALL THINGS DEPEND UPON IT TO EXIST, AND IT DOES NOT ABANDON THEM. TO ITS ACCOMPLISHMENTS IT LAYS ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,152 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...south, but ultimately, when you reach to the peak, you will have come to the same place. At the peak, Buddha is Christ, Christ is Krishna, Krishna is Mohammed, Mohammed is Zarathustra, Zarathustra is Lao Tzu. At the peak ALL distinctions dissolve. So, Kavita, right now be Zen, be Sufi, and when you have roached to the peak be Zen/Sufi -- then forget all about it! But on the path... one has to move on some pat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,153 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tatements. They are ecstatic ejaculations, assertions of mad mystics. You cannot become knowledgeable by reading the Upanishads. They don't argue, they don't prove -- they simply declare! That's what Lao Tzu does, Buddha does, Plotinus, Eckhart, Rumi, Al-Hillaj -- all the mystics have been doing that. What they say is not knowledge: what they say is just an overflowing joy. When Aristotle says something, it i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,154 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lso sitting exactly in front of me as you are sitting in front of me. You are sitting in front of me in space, they are sitting in front of me in time. So when I say something about Buddha, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, I am not talking about historical figures -- I am talking about my contemporaries. And life is immensely enriched when you can have Buddha on your one side and Lao Tzu sitting on the other side, and sipping ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,155 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o when I say something about Buddha, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, I am not talking about historical figures -- I am talking about my contemporaries. And life is immensely enriched when you can have Buddha on your one side and Lao Tzu sitting on the other side, and sipping a cup of tea. Life is immensely rich. I am not saying burn the books. They are valuable, but they are valuable only for those who know how to cater into ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,156 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y." "By Jove," the speaker blurted out, "you will have to excuse me. I forgot the name of the bloomin' woman." That is happening. You remember this -- Plato has said this. And you remember that -- Lao Tzu has said that. And you remember what Jesus has said, and what Mohammed has said... and you remember many things. And they have all got mixed up. And you have not said a single thing on your own. U...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,157 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the leaf goes south. If the wind stops, the leaf waits and rests on the ground. The leaf has no idea of any destiny, no direction, no goal, nowhere to go. That is the ultimate surrender. Lao Tzu became enlightened watching a dry leaf falling from a tree. He was sitting under the tree. The leaf was ripe, a breeze came, and the leaf dropped. It fluttered, came slowly slowly like a feather, rested on th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,158 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ame, and the leaf dropped. It fluttered, came slowly slowly like a feather, rested on the ground... then a stronger wind came and it was taken up... it moved with the wind with no resistance. And the truth happened: Lao Tzu became enlightened. From that moment, he became a dry leaf in the wind. Yes, without a Master also it is possible -- but to trust a LEAF will take real guts. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,159 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...urney is an inward journey! You need not go to Baghdad. You need not go anywhere. All that is needed is: you have to STOP going, and you have to fall into your own original source. You have to go in. Lao Tzu has said: To know God one need not even leave his room... because God is in your innermost shrine. "MY SON HAS CARRIED OUT LONG AND DIFFICULT JOURNEYS, AND AT THE SAME TIME TO HIS KNOWLEDG...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,160 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...el. Meditate over what Jesus has said, what Buddha has said. Tell stories of these strange visitors to the earth. Talk about these strange revolutions in consciousness. Talk about Buddha and Krishna and Mohammed and Lao Tzu and Zarathustra, and you will be immensely enriched. Create a milieu of the spiritual. AS SOON AS NIGHT FELL, IBRAHIM INVITED THE TRAVELERS TO BE HIS GUESTS AT A MEAL. IMMEDIAT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,161 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- and that is the only point worth seeing. If there is anything worth seeing, it is God. And those who have not seen God, they are all blind. If there is anything worth hearing, it is a Buddha, or a Lao Tzu -- and those who have not heard a Buddha, they are deaf. And if there is any life, it is to live moment-to-moment in trust, in love, in joy, in celebration, in prayer, in thankfulness. In shor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,162 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u need 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- not even go outside your room... so says Lao Tzu. It is SO easy that you need not even open your eyes. It is so easy that it can happen in a single moment. It is so easy that you need not compete, need not practice, need not cul-tivate.... Just WATCH inside...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,163 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., you are miserable. Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires -- and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature. Lao Tzu calls this nature Tao. Buddha calls this nature Dhamma. Mahavir has defined religion as the nature of things. Nothing can be done. Fire is hot and water is cool. Don't try to impose your will on the nature of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,164 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ightened, the search stops, the seeking disappears. There is no point. Buddha became enlightened... then he never went to any other Master. Jesus became enlightened... then he never went to any other Master. Or Lao Tzu, or Zarathustra, or Moses.... Hence Pythagoras is something unique. No parallel has ever existed. Even after becoming enlightened, he was ready to become a disciple to anybody who was there to reveal some asp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,165 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... they were only vehicles, just instruments, mediums. The same happened in Egypt to Hermes: many scriptures, all written by the disciples. And the same happened with Orpheus in Greece, and the same with Lao Tzu in China and Confucius in China. The disciple loses his identity. He becomes utterly one with the Master. But something of immense value has been destroyed by the stupidity of people. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,166 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t, and nobody else has done it afterwards either. It needs a mind which is both -- scientific and mystic. It is a rare phenomenon. It happens once in a while. There have been great mystics -- Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra. And there has been great scientists -- Newton, Edison, Einstein. But to find a man who is at home with both worlds, easily at home, is very difficult. Pythagoras is that kind of man -- a class u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,167 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... It is only in such great times of chaos that great stars are born. Pythagoras was not alone. In Greece, Pythagoras and Heraclitus were born. In India, Buddha and Mahavira and many others. In China, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Lieh Tzu, and many more. In Iran, Zarathustra. In the brahmin tradition, many great Upanishadic seers. In the world of Judaism, Moses.... All these people, these great Masters...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,168 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot be.... Or, there is a possibility that we can take a quantum leap. Either man can commit suicide, or man can be reborn. Both doors are open. If such times can create people like Heraclitus and Lao Tzu and Zarathustra and Pythagoras and Buddha and Confucius, why can they not create a great humanity? They can. But we go on missing the opportunity. The ordinary masses live in such unconsciousn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,169 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s a life great and sublime is to know truth, is to know God, is to BE truth, is to be God. But the journey is very alone. ... REVERE THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES... ... of Buddha, of Lao Tzu, of Krishna, of Christ, of Moses, of Mohammed, of Mahavira. Remember! That's WHY I am talking on so many Masters: so you can remember that you are not alone on the path. Many have succeeded before you. You wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,170 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e?! It starts with 'I' -- 'I' never becomes enlightened; 'I' is the barrier. It is 'I' that is preventing. When you become enlightened you are not; there is nobody to claim. The Upanishads say -- and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu and Jesus all say the same thing again and again in different ways.... The Upanishads are very clear; they say: If somebody says, "I am enlightened,'' then know well he is not. Enlightenment is something that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,171 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing to you. The SAME process! Hindus are against, Mohammedans are against, Jainas are against, Buddhists are against, Christians are against. Why? And I am bringing Christ and Buddha and Mahavira and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu and Krishna into the highest possible synthesis. Still they are all against it. The reason is: they are divided within themselves. They can only understand THAT WHICH THEY ARE. YOU can never ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,172 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gs of Jesus or sculptures of his face all look a little ugly. They don't have that joy that is expressed by Krishna -- his flute, his dance. They don't have that laughter that you will see in Bodhidharma's pictures, Lao Tzu's pictures. They don't have that superb quality that you will find in a genius like Chuang Tzu -- the genius of the absurd. Jesus must have laughed, because he was a very earthy man. He loved good food, h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,173 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ild walking seven steps and declaring, "Nobody is higher than me, here or anywhere else...." To declare such nonsense, one needs seventy years of experience -- seven steps won't do! It is said about Lao Tzu that he lived in his mother's womb for eighty-two yearS. Now, just think of the mother also, poor mother. Nine months is too much -- eighty-two years! He was born with white hair, an old man. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,174 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ugh Jesus. That's what Christians have been trying to prove to the world: "Jesus says, 'Anybody who ever comes, comes only through me' -- so you cannot come through Buddha and you cannot come through Lao Tzu. You have to come only through Jesus!" That is utter nonsense. When Jesus says, "You come only through me," his 'me' is not his. He has been used only as an empty vehicle. It is the same 'me' that Krishna...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,175 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., music arises which has nothing material in it, which is utterly spiritual. In the same way, Pythagoras says, these two fundamental laws, the law of necessity and the law of power, are rooted in one primordial law. Lao Tzu calls that law TAO, Jesus calls that law LOGOS, Buddha calls that law dharma. Moses calls that law TORAH. There is a fundamental law where all dualities dissolve and become non-dual -- that one is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,176 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sided way. Even philosophers lost hold of that great vision of unity, of oneness, of existence being a home. The modern philosopher has no beauty compared to Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Buddha, Socrates, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra. The modern philosopher is very ordinary; he is nothing but a professor of philosophy. His philosophy is not a delight in his being, it is not a song, it is not a music. All that he goes on doing...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,177 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lished Query:- truth. One wing has to be science, another wing has to be religion. Those were the days of great philosophers; the world came to know REALLY great philosophers. In China, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Mencius, Lieh Tzu -- all close contemporaries of Zarathustra. In India, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Prakuddha Katyayana, Sanjay Vilethiputta, Makkhli Goshal, Poorna Kashyapa, and many more. In Greec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,178 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n life, it is the immeasurable that brings dance and celebration in life. And it is there! -- just by denying it, it is not destroyed. By denying it, only one thing happens: you become closed to it. Lao Tzu says, "Except me, everybody seems to have a clear understanding of life. Except me," he says, "everybody seems to have a very clear understanding of life. I am muddy-headed." He is stating a fact of trem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,179 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And life blooms only when it is rooted in the mysterious. I teach you the mystery of life, not a clearcut understanding of it. I lead you deeper and deeper into the world where you can also enjoy being muddy like Lao Tzu. The second question JESUS SAID, 'WHOEVER IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME. 'NOW THE QUESTION ARISES: IS THE SAME STATEMENT TRUE IN CONNECTION WITH YOU? OR COULD THERE BE A THIRD ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,180 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...RISES: IS THE SAME STATEMENT TRUE IN CONNECTION WITH YOU? It is always true in connection with all enlightened people, whoever they are, wherever they are. It is true with Krishna, it is true with Lao Tzu, it is true with Pythagoras, it is true with Patanjali, it is true with Buddha, it is true with me. And it will be true with you if you disappear too, if you drop this ugly idea that you are separate from exi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,181 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd the rabbis who managed to murder this man, they were healthy. Jesus is neurotic: Pontius Pilate is healthy, normal. If Jesus is neurotic, then Buddha is neurotic, Mahavira is neurotic, Pythagoras, Patanjali, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, all are neurotics. Socrates is neurotic -- and the judges, those stupid judges who decided that he should be poisoned and killed, they are normal. The whole earth is a madhouse,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,182 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... total war. It will destroy all life -- not only human life but all life, life as such. Before it happens, please give one opportunity to those who have been saying again and again -- Krishna, Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra -- that the individual has to be transformed. And once the individual is transformed, society automatically changes; that is a consequence. So we are not proposing here any social revolution....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,183 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...HING, THE SPRING COMES, AND THE GRASS GROWS BY ITSELF? IT IS REALLY TRUE It is my own experience. I say it as an eye-witness to it. I say it with absolute authority. I am not saying it because Lao Tzu has said it -- I am saying it because I have known it, this way, to happen to me. Truth is something that happens of its own accord. All that is needed from your side, from your end, is receptivity, a relaxed...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,184 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ey are created by us so we can bear our suffering, so hope remains. But this is very unfortunate. It is because of this hope that you remain in a hopeless state. It is because of this seeking that you go on missing. Lao Tzu says: "Seek and you will miss." Why? -- "Seek and you will miss." Because it is INSIDE you. It can be found only when all seeking ceases. Seeking means you are running after something, some shadow, some i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,185 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...heard it. If the kingdom of God is within you then you need not go anywhere, a single step outside and you will be going away from the kingdom. You will not be coming closer to the kingdom. Seeking means going away. Lao Tzu is right: "Seek and you will miss. Do not seek and find immediately," he says. Just think of those beautiful moments when you are not doing anything. Yes, everybody has tasted it a little bit....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,186 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ir unconscious disappeared, they became only consciousness. In that consciousness is the transcendence. They remembered themselves. Pythagoras belongs to the same path as Mahavira, Buddha, Patanjali, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. He does not belong to the other path: Krishna, Zarathustra, Jesus, Mohammed, Meera. But both paths are valid, and each one has to choose his own path, each one has to decide what his type is. Eac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,187 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m the very beginning the seed of intelligence has to be destroyed, almost completely burnt, so there is no possibility of any sprouts coming out of it. It is a miracle that a few people like Zarathustra, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha, escaped from the social structure, from the family conditioning. They seem to be great peaks of consciousness, but in fact every child is born with the same quality, with the same potential. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,188 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h the truth disappears, because truth needs an embodiment. It is an experience; it has to exist in the person who has realized it. When the person is no more, the truth is no more. If Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Mohammed, while they are alive are only creating cults and sects, then the definition of religion is: the corpse of truth -- rotten, stinking. Jews were also very impartially inquiring abou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,189 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be taught. It is like an infection: when you are with a Buddha you can get infected -- if you are not too resistant, if you are not too much on guard. If you remain vulnerable with Jesus, with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, something of their being can penetrate your being. The being of the Master can overlap the being of the disciple. A moment comes when the Master and disciple start merging into each other; that is the moment...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,190 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s human evolution is concerned. One of my friends, a great poet, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar went to China. He was talking to a great Chinese philosopher, Lin Yu-Tang. Ramdhari had heard much from me about Lao Tzu; he had become immensely interested in the Taoist approach to reality. He said to Lin Yu-Tang, "I love Lao Tzu." Lin Yu-Tang looked at the poet, puzzled, and said, "But the source of Lao Tzu is in the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,191 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...China. He was talking to a great Chinese philosopher, Lin Yu-Tang. Ramdhari had heard much from me about Lao Tzu; he had become immensely interested in the Taoist approach to reality. He said to Lin Yu-Tang, "I love Lao Tzu." Lin Yu-Tang looked at the poet, puzzled, and said, "But the source of Lao Tzu is in the Upanishads!" And Lin Yu-Tang is right, sincerely right: the whole mysticism of the East, wherever it h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,192 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...heard much from me about Lao Tzu; he had become immensely interested in the Taoist approach to reality. He said to Lin Yu-Tang, "I love Lao Tzu." Lin Yu-Tang looked at the poet, puzzled, and said, "But the source of Lao Tzu is in the Upanishads!" And Lin Yu-Tang is right, sincerely right: the whole mysticism of the East, wherever it has happened -- in India, in China, in Japan -- has its source in the Upanishads....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,193 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e think that every morning we are awake when we come out of sleep. That is only pseudo awakening, that is only so-called awakening. The real awakening is when one becomes a Jesus, a Buddha, a Mahavira, a Lao Tzu. When one has come to see the merger of the within and the without, when one has come to see the oneness of life and death, when there is no division left, that state is awakening. Before that everybody is a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,194 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... turn the children will do the same thing. That's how diseases go on being transferred from one generation to another. Progress seems to be impossible. It is really miraculous that a few people like Buddha, Lao Tzu, Mahavira, Krishna, escaped from this programming, conditioning process of the society. It is certainly a miracle! I don't call it a miracle when Jesus walks on water -- even if he does, so what? -- but I cal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,195 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... statements have a beauty and a deep aesthetic sense about them. Jesus was the son of a poor man, a carpenter. His words don't have THAT flavor which the words of Mahavira, Yagnavalka, Patanjali, Buddha and Lao Tzu have. These people have a totally different height and a multi-dimensionality. Jesus' words are simple, as simple as a poor man's can be. Of course they have a certain straightforwardness, but they are not li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,196 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- rich people of the West are finding insights in the words of Buddha and Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Bokuju, Rinzai. The height is appealing. Jesus seems to be plain -- beautiful words but with no sophistication. Why is the East turning closer to Jesus and the West turning close...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,197 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...solutely non-essential" -- and then begins the search for the essential. Gerrit Huiser, I don't agree with Jesus Christ. I have tried my best to agree with Jesus, with Buddha, with Patanjali, with Mahavira, with Lao Tzu. Now my new phase of work starts. I am fed up with agreeing, tired of it! So now I will simply say the truth. Enough is enough! The second question OSHO: I AM A DRUNKARD, A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,198 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... those words represent reality or just empty wishes you have to look into the life of the man. Kahlil Gibran has written tremendously beautiful words. They come so close to Christ, to Zarathustra, to Lao Tzu, to Gautam the Buddha, and there is every possibility many people will think that Kahlil Gibran is enlightened. He may even surpass Lao Tzu and Buddha and Christ as far as expression is concerned; his express...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,199 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mendously beautiful words. They come so close to Christ, to Zarathustra, to Lao Tzu, to Gautam the Buddha, and there is every possibility many people will think that Kahlil Gibran is enlightened. He may even surpass Lao Tzu and Buddha and Christ as far as expression is concerned; his expression may be far more beautiful because he is a skilled poet, a very skilled painter. He has the sensitiveness to appreciate beauty, but howso...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,200 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...SERVE THE POOR AND THE DOWNTRODDEN. CAN I DO IT WITH YOUR BLESSINGS? Sangam Lal Pandey YES, THESE PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE for the poverty in the world. Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, are as much responsible as Jesus Christ, for the simple reason that they all insisted on the inner AGAINST the outer. And the outer has to be developed as much as the inner, otherwise man loses balance If yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,201 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... one aspect of the coin, but the neglected aspect is bound to take its revenge. And humanity has lived up to now in a very lopsided way. It hurts, I know, when I say that Jesus Christ Krishna, Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu, are responsible for the poverty of the world, but what can I do? I have to say the truth AS it is. I feel sorry for you because it is going to hurt you, but MY responsibility is towards truth, my commitment...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,202 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...where is the blood going to come? They should not die, they should be kept alive! To keep them alive, go on giving them a little bit in donations; then they ARE alive and you can go on sucking them. Lao Tzu says to remain in a let-go. It is beautiful for the inner growth, but not good for the outside world. Let-go means no struggle, no revolution, no rebellion, just going with the river wherever it is going, not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,203 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ppies -- they are not. The real hippies are the people who renounce the world, they are the REAL dropouts. The word'hippie' means one who has shown his hips to the world and escaped. In that sense, Mahavira, Buddha, Lao Tzu, all 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- are hippies -- literally! They all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,204 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there. The people who called the world illusory stopped all scientific growth. The first technological devices were invented in China, but science did not develop there. And the sole cause was Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu said that to invent a machine is to cheat nature. The story is that an old man, a gardener, was drawing water from a well with his young son. Both were perspiring -- it was a hot summer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,205 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The people who called the world illusory stopped all scientific growth. The first technological devices were invented in China, but science did not develop there. And the sole cause was Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu said that to invent a machine is to cheat nature. The story is that an old man, a gardener, was drawing water from a well with his young son. Both were perspiring -- it was a hot summer day -- and they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,206 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd you go away from here before my son comes back. If HE hears you talking about a device, he is so young -- he may become seduced by your idea. Get lost immediately! I have heard about that device, but I believe in Lao Tzu. He is my Master and he says machines are devices to cheat nature, and I don't want to cheat nature. Nature means Tao! If you cheat nature...." And of course, in a way it is right: when you invent a mac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,207 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the work of a hundred people that simply means you have cheated nature. It is not good. This is a famous story and significant, because China developed the first devices five thousand years ago but because of Lao Tzu and his influence all that growth was stopped. Certainly if you relax with nature you can grow inwards easily, very easily. Let-go is the secret of growing inwards, but that is not the secret of growing outwa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,208 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d only when you are rich on both the sides does a great harmony, a great balance arise in you. Sangam Lal Pandey, you must have thought that I would not speak so about Mahavira, Krishna, Buddha and Lao Tzu. I have no commitment to any individual. I respect truth wherever it is found, but ONLY truth, and if something untrue is hanging around it I am the last person to allow it -- I will destroy it immediately. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,209 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stroying our past. Before he succeeds it is better to destroy him." They killed him; he was only thirty-three when he was killed. Jews found him out far more quickly than anybody else has ever been. Lao Tzu lived long, Buddha lived long, Mahavira lived long. They went on saying things, but in such a way that you could not find them out -- it was impossible for you to find them out. I wanted to say the naked...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,210 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nobody was even ready to listen. Then I changed the whole strategy, I became a little more diplomatic. Then whatsoever I wanted to say I started saying through Mahavira, through Buddha, through Zarathustra, through Lao Tzu, through Jesus.... I continued to say things but I was using other people's names. And Christians became very much interested when I said the same things in the name of Jesus! Whatsoever I said in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,211 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...siring the far off. It's beside us, and we go on a long pilgrimage. It follows us like a shadow, but we never see it because our eyes are far away in the distance. Life must be in the being. There is a saying of Lao Tzu: "Seek, and you will lose. Do not seek, and find." The Psychology of the Esoteric Chapter #10 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,212 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yond mind come to you." This concept is not Western. It belongs to the East. Confucius, on the other hand, is a Western mind. Those in the West can understand Confucius, but they can never understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says, "You are a fool because you are only rational. To be rational, reasonable, is not enough. The irrational must have its own corner to exist. Only if a person is both rational and irrational is h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,213 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... come to you." This concept is not Western. It belongs to the East. Confucius, on the other hand, is a Western mind. Those in the West can understand Confucius, but they can never understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says, "You are a fool because you are only rational. To be rational, reasonable, is not enough. The irrational must have its own corner to exist. Only if a person is both rational and irrational is he reasona...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,214 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... said, "The fruits are not yet ripe. And who cares about fruits which are not ripe?" There have been many sannyasins who used to live on the campus, in other houses, and sometimes they were moved to Lao Tzu. And they wrote a letter to me saying, "We owe an apology to You, because living in other houses, we were always thinking, `Who cares to live in Lao Tzu.' But now that we have come to live in Lao Tzu, we know...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,215 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the campus, in other houses, and sometimes they were moved to Lao Tzu. And they wrote a letter to me saying, "We owe an apology to You, because living in other houses, we were always thinking, `Who cares to live in Lao Tzu.' But now that we have come to live in Lao Tzu, we know perfectly well that we were repressing our desire, our longing, to be in Lao Tzu, and just consoling ourselves, `Who cares.'" Parigyan,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,216 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y were moved to Lao Tzu. And they wrote a letter to me saying, "We owe an apology to You, because living in other houses, we were always thinking, `Who cares to live in Lao Tzu.' But now that we have come to live in Lao Tzu, we know perfectly well that we were repressing our desire, our longing, to be in Lao Tzu, and just consoling ourselves, `Who cares.'" Parigyan, don't be like the fox in Aesop's parable. Don't say, "Who ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,217 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...because living in other houses, we were always thinking, `Who cares to live in Lao Tzu.' But now that we have come to live in Lao Tzu, we know perfectly well that we were repressing our desire, our longing, to be in Lao Tzu, and just consoling ourselves, `Who cares.'" Parigyan, don't be like the fox in Aesop's parable. Don't say, "Who cares for the ocean." The whole dance of the river is for the ocean. It is moving from the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,218 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nge kind of genius -- even to invent those stories is not easy -- but his teaching was very simple. And those who remained with him; all became enlightened. That is a rare phenomenon. He defeated even his own master Lao Tzu -- a few people became enlightened, but most of Lao Tzu's disciples remained in their old ignorance. He defeated Gautam Buddha -- a few of his disciples became enlightened, but that was a very small ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,219 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t easy -- but his teaching was very simple. And those who remained with him; all became enlightened. That is a rare phenomenon. He defeated even his own master Lao Tzu -- a few people became enlightened, but most of Lao Tzu's disciples remained in their old ignorance. He defeated Gautam Buddha -- a few of his disciples became enlightened, but that was a very small proportion, because he had thousands of disciples and not more th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,220 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. A film director can get a Nobel prize. A scientist can get a Nobel prize. A politician can get a Nobel prize. But there is no category in the Nobel prize for a man like Jesus, or Gautam Buddha, or Zarathustra, or Lao Tzu. And even if these people are given Nobel prizes, they will laugh. To them your Nobel prizes are just like toys; they are good for children to play with. In what way can they enhance Gautam Bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,221 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ated -- why have I been given life? I can understand, he was a troubled man, but nobody else is responsible for it. He never tried to find a simple fact: " What is the secret of the peaceful life of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Mahavira, Bodhidharma, Tilopa? All these Eastern mystics who have lived so joyously and so dancingly, what is their secret? Western philosophers have remained almost blind; even ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,222 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you never bother about God. God is a creation of man's fear. If a man is fearless, he does not have any conception of God. Gautam Buddha has no conception of God. Mahavira has no conception of God. Lao Tzu has no conception of God. Where has God disappeared? As their fear disappeared, the projection of their fear, God, also disappeared. One of the fundamentals of sannyas is: Go on dropping your fear, don't...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,223 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lpower is something against your spontaneity -- then you cannot be at ease, restful. Do you think flowers have to do much to blossom? Are trees taking bold action to grow? There is no action at all. Lao Tzu used to say, "Look at the trees, look at the rivers, look at the stars, and you will understand `actionless action.'" Certainly the river is flowing towards the ocean but you cannot call it action becaus...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,224 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...him to be born sooner, because the longer he remains inside, the more pain she has to suffer. But the child clings, and he is always born crying -- every child, without exception. Only about one man, Lao Tzu, is it said that he was born laughing. It is possible; he was an exceptional man, crazy from the very beginning. Not knowing exactly what to do, that this is the time to cry, he laughed. And he remained that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,225 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eness begins with the laughter. Everybody was shocked because no child has ever done that. But that is the only exception -- which may be simply a myth, which may be just a retrospective idea. Seeing Lao Tzu's whole life, the people who wrote about him must have thought that his beginning could not be the same as everybody else's; it has to be a little crazy. His whole life... his beginning has to be consistent w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,226 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l have to be aware about every ideal, howsoever ancient, and will respond according to his awareness and understanding -- not according to the conditioning of the society. That is true renunciation. Lao Tzu, an authentic rebel -- more authentic than Gautam Buddha and Mahavira, because he remained in the world and fought in the world -- lived according to his own light, struggling, not escaping. He became so wise...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,227 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not see that there was any problem. The very first day in his court a thief was brought in; he had been caught red-handed, stealing from the richest man in the capital -- and he confessed that he was stealing. Lao Tzu gave six months in jail to both the rich man and the thief. The rich man said, "What? I have been robbed, I am a victim and I am being punished? Are you mad or something? There is no precedent in history that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,228 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ich man said, "What? I have been robbed, I am a victim and I am being punished? Are you mad or something? There is no precedent in history that a man whose money has been stolen should be punished." Lao Tzu said, "In fact, you should be given a longer term in jail than the thief -- I am being much too compassionate -- because you have gathered all the money of the city. Do you think money showers from the sky? W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,229 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rt you will be behind bars just like me -- because from where have you got all your treasures? If I am a criminal, you are a far bigger criminal." The emperor saw the logic of the situation. He told Lao Tzu, "Perhaps you were right that it will be difficult for us to come to the same conclusions. You are relieved from your services." This man was a rebel; he lived in the society, he struggled in the society...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,230 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ands of years in your temples. Buddha simply means `the awakened one.' It is an adjective; it is not a personal name. Jesus can be called the buddha; Mahavira was called, in Jaina scriptures, the buddha; Lao Tzu can be called a buddha -- anybody who is enlightened is a buddha. The word buddha simply means `the awakened one.' "Now, awakening is nobody's property; everybody who can sleep can also awaken. It is jus...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,231 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e credit for it -- it is a universal law of the inner world. You have to simply understand the law and allow it to function without hindering it. Any effort on your part is a hindrance. This is what Lao Tzu has called "action by inaction," and the Zen people have called "effortless effort." If you have followed what I have been saying to you, you will understand the beauty of effortless effort, and actionless ac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,232 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ow myself what I am going to say. Yes, just like Almustafa, I am not "speaking" anything, I am also a listener. And the one who is speaking has spoken through Mahavira, through Buddha, through Confucius, through Lao Tzu -- through millions of mystics. Because the mystery is the same: that the mystic becomes a hollow bamboo and allows existence to sing its songs. Jivan Mary, you are blessed; and you will be mo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,233 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sies, anger, rage, violence, destructiveness; if your craziness becomes a light unto yourself... then all the buddhas in the world were crazy. And it is better to be in the good, crazy company of Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Nanak, Mahavira, than to be in the so-called mob, millions of people who all think that they are not crazy. One has to be very clear-cut: if Gautam Buddha is right, then the whole world is crazy; and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,234 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e reached the center are all ready to welcome you. Not only will I be there, you will also find all those people whom I have been talking about. Just reach to the center, so I can introduce you to Chuang Tzu, to Lao Tzu, to Kabir, to Gautam Buddha, to Eknath, to Hotei, to Tilopa, Naropa... unique people; every one a unique flower, with a fragrance of his own. And it is not only a promise to Surabhi, it is a p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,235 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...which is not natural, then life becomes an uphill task. But if you are not trying to achieve anything unnatural, then life becomes a let-go, then you start flowing downwards with the stream of life. Lao Tzu has called it the watercourse way, and I think that is the right concept for anyone who wants to live a relaxed, silent, peaceful and joyous existence. Never try to go against the current -- you cannot win. N...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,236 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... You are not so small as you appear. You are not confined to the body. You are vast enough, you can contain all. Your capacity for containing is oceanic. "While my feet walked on their own towards Lao Tzu Gate and my being was only a river-like whisper, murmuring: `Osho, Osho, Osho....' But Your hand was not there." It was there. And next time something like this happens, just look at your hand and you will no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,237 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... But it was not his fault. In his time Athens was one of the most sophisticated, intellectual cities in the world. He was unaware that exactly at the same time Buddha was teaching meditation in India, Lao Tzu was teaching meditation in China, Mahavira was teaching meditation.... It was at exactly the same time, twenty-five centuries ago. Socrates had inherited logic from his forefathers; Greece was full of so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,238 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- be shown, indicated. There is no way to say it directly, but there are millions of ways to indicate it indirectly. Lao Tzu says that the Truth cannot be said, and the moment you say it, you have already falsified it. The words, the language, the mind, are utterly incapable. Truth defies reason; it defies the head-oriented persona...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,239 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...- all around, but you were not empty. You are just like a house without doors -- just walls and walls and layers and layers of walls. And remember, a house is in fact not the walls but the doors. Lao Tzu says: What is a door? -- a door is nothing, it is an emptiness; and from the door you enter. The wall is something, the door is nothing. And have you observed that the house is not the walls but the emptiness...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,240 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d have gone to Ceylon, he could have gone to Afghanistan, he could have gone anywhere in the world. Why China particularly? There was a particular reason -- China had the right soil at that moment. Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu had made the soil there. They had created a particular atmosphere, a milieu, because they lived like ordinary people. If you had come across Chuang Tzu you would not have been able to recognize...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,241 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ld not have been able to recognize him unless you had a very deep understanding, unless you had passed through a satori, a glimpse of the Eternal. Only then would you have been able to realize that a Chuang Tzu or a Lao Tzu was there, otherwise not They didn't have any outward show. You can recognize a Pope, he has the outward paraphernalia all around him; nothing inside -- everything outward. If a Pope came in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,242 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ordinary man: fishing, cutting wood, doing this and that -- whatsoever life needs, he will do it. He is nobody special. Buddha's teaching flowered in China -- it came to perfection. Nansen is a meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu, the meeting of Buddhism and Taoism, and Zen is the meeting of all that is beautiful in Buddha and all that is beautiful in Lao Tzu. That's why there is nothing like Zen, because two streams, tremendously ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,243 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed in China -- it came to perfection. Nansen is a meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu, the meeting of Buddhism and Taoism, and Zen is the meeting of all that is beautiful in Buddha and all that is beautiful in Lao Tzu. That's why there is nothing like Zen, because two streams, tremendously powerful, tremendously beautiful, utterly of the Unknown, came to a meeting. There has never been such a meeting. Other religions have ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,244 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s is what the disciple did. I BOUGHT THIS AXE FOR TWO PIECES OF COPPER. He is bringing him from his mind to the reality. Zen is absolutely earthbound. Buddha is like the sky, and Lao Tzu is like the earth, and where earth and sky meet, there is Zen. This Nansen is the meeting of the earth and the sky. Buddha is like wings, and Lao Tzu is like roots, and this Nansen is like a tree with both ro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,245 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eality. Zen is absolutely earthbound. Buddha is like the sky, and Lao Tzu is like the earth, and where earth and sky meet, there is Zen. This Nansen is the meeting of the earth and the sky. Buddha is like wings, and Lao Tzu is like roots, and this Nansen is like a tree with both roots and wings. Rare reality -- the earth, the solid earth, meets the inner sky. That can be recognized only if you use the situation. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,246 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... politics and religion are opposite poles. Politics is the effort to be somebody in the hierarchy, somewhere at the top, and religion is the search to stand just at the very end of the queue, just to be nobody. Says Lao Tzu: Nobody can insult me, nobody can bring me down, because I am already there. Nobody can defeat me, not that I am very strong, but that I am already defeated. Nobody can defeat me. The ordinar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,247 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... can a lie work? Why are people such liars? -- a lie has a fragment of truth in it. You cannot invent an absolute lie, impossible. And you cannot talk about the Absolute Truth -- that too is impossible. That's why a Lao Tzu goes on saying: If you speak, you have already entered into the world of lies. The Truth cannot be said. The moment you say it, a fragment of it is bound to be a lie. Existence is not divide...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,248 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... your split being, nothing is to be done. Simply drop helping this split to continue. By and by, move from the extremes to the middle. Hence, Buddha called his path 'The Middle Way,' madhyam nikaya. Hence, Lao Tzu says his path is 'The Golden Mean.' It is said of Confucius that he was passing through a village, and he asked a villager: Have you got any wise men in this town? The villager said: Yes, we have our ow...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,249 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ociety. Now everything becomes a cosmos, not a chaos; a new order arises. But this is no longer the order of the society -- it is the very order of existence itself. It is what Buddha calls dhamma, Lao Tzu calls tao, Heraclitus calls logos. It is not man-made. It is the very order of existence itself. Then everything is suddenly beautiful again, and for the first time really beautiful, because man-made things c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,250 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ion. You don't mean anything to them -- now they have attained. They can be humble; they can afford to be. That's why great leaders are always humble. But that humility is not the humility of a Buddha, not that of a Lao Tzu; that humility is false. When you are no one, then to be humble is very difficult. When you are defeated, then to be humble is very difficult because the ego is so hurt -- it needs food, it is hungry. Wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,251 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ody is being unjust. Who bothers about you? Who has time to do injustice to you? Who cares? But you feel that the whole world is being unjust to you. Nobody is being unjust to you; it is your claim. Lao Tzu says: If you want to be the first in the world, you will find yourself to be the last. And if you are able to stand at the back, just to be the last, you may find yourself to be the first. Efface yourse...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,252 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to renounce the world. Jains have insisted that you have to renounce the world. Even Buddha insisted. Buddha in fact had no householders as his disciples. The whole Indian tradition is for renouncing the world. But Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, they lived in the world; they lived fully aware. Chuang Tzu's wife died and the corpse was lying there. People were gathering, the neighbors, waiting to take the body, and he was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,253 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n the fool. Remember, while moving in the company of Kabir, that the enlightened man is not other than the fool. What makes a man enlightened is the realization that he is as a fool. 'My mind is that of a fool' says Lao Tzu. Kabir will agree perfectly, totally. 'How empty it is' says Lao Tzu ' -- as empty as the mind of a fool.' Emptiness takes nothing seriously, raises no one thing up over another. Worship ping nothing, it cele...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,254 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...enlightened man is not other than the fool. What makes a man enlightened is the realization that he is as a fool. 'My mind is that of a fool' says Lao Tzu. Kabir will agree perfectly, totally. 'How empty it is' says Lao Tzu ' -- as empty as the mind of a fool.' Emptiness takes nothing seriously, raises no one thing up over another. Worship ping nothing, it celebrates all. Kabir is a celebrant. He celebrates all -- all color...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,255 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing God -- godliness, rather. Love gives you eyes to see that this whole existence is full of divinity. Then you don't call God 'The Father' or 'The Mother'; in fact then you don't give it any name. Lao Tzu says 'I don't know His name, so I will call it Tao. But this is just to indicate. I don't know His name.' Godliness has no name, no limitation. Wherever you pour your love you will discover it. Pour ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,256 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re public, your scriptures are public. And the truth is a secret. Not that somebody is keeping it a secret, not that somebody is hiding it -- its very intrinsic nature is such that it cannot be said. Lao Tzu says: The Tao cannot be said. And the moment you say it, you have falsified it. THERE IS A SECRET ONE INSIDE US. THE PLANETS IN ALL THE GALAXIES PASS THROUGH HIS HANDS LIKE BEADS. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,257 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you.' This is the beginning of the journey -- intensity, intention, search. But this is only the beginning. The second step is, Lao Tzu says 'Seek and you shall not find. Don't seek, and find.' These are not two separate paths, these two steps are on the same path. So Kabir drives the point deep into your heart that first a great flame-li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,258 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n looking there is no one -- looking is a state of emptiness, as listening is. Truly listening, we are nothing; truly looking, we are nothing. It is not a matter of doing, but of being. 'The way to do is to be' says Lao Tzu. The way to do is to be -- no other doing is needed on the path of love. Just be; calm and collected, just be. Wait. Let your eyes be full of tears, let your 10/28/07 Cop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,259 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... There have been only two religions which are not hypothetical, Buddhism and Taoism. Zen is a crossbreed of these two, and the crossbreed is always better than both the parents. It is the meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu; out of this meeting is born Zen. It is not Buddhism, it is not Taoism; it has its own individuality. It carries everything beautiful that comes from Buddha and everything great that comes from Lao Tzu. It is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,260 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Buddha and Lao Tzu; out of this meeting is born Zen. It is not Buddhism, it is not Taoism; it has its own individuality. It carries everything beautiful that comes from Buddha and everything great that comes from Lao Tzu. It is the highest peak that man has ever reached. Hinduism is a mess: thirty-three million gods! -- what do you expect? Hinduism has remained a philosophical, controversial, hypothetical religion. It has...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,261 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... else is female. Because everybody is female and there is a great burning to meet the lover, the god, they sleep with a statue of Krishna in their bed. But these are all mind games. Except for Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu, and the people who became enlightened from their lineages, the whole of humanity is living in hypotheses. I appreciate the poetry of Rumi, I appreciate the beauty of many Sufi mystics, but I cannot say that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,262 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as. This very moment he will find himself standing beside Gautam Buddha and Rinzai. I am reminded of a small anecdote. In Zorba the Buddha Rajneesh Restaurant in heaven, Gautam Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tzu are all sitting around a table, and a very beautiful young sannyasin carrying a very beautiful jar comes along and asks, "Would you like to have a taste of life?" Confucius immediately closed ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,263 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Buddha said, "I would like to have a sip first to see how it tastes" -- Buddha was always on the middle path. So he took a sip and he said, "It is very bitter." The girl was going to ask the same to Lao Tzu, but before she could say anything he took the whole jar and drank all the juice, and he said, "Unless you drink it wholly and totally, how can you know? This Confucius is behaving as much like an idiot as he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,264 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Tao is exactly at the same height of understanding as Buddha. The word `tao' does not mean anything. It was under compulsion that Lao Tzu called it tao -- a meaningless word -- just as Buddha has called it dhamma. His whole life Lao Tzu never wrote. Even the emperor insisted that "You should write down your experiences. They wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,265 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ight of understanding as Buddha. The word `tao' does not mean anything. It was under compulsion that Lao Tzu called it tao -- a meaningless word -- just as Buddha has called it dhamma. His whole life Lao Tzu never wrote. Even the emperor insisted that "You should write down your experiences. They will be valuable for the coming centuries." Lao Tzu said, "You don't know what you are asking for. Nobody can writ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,266 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ddha has called it dhamma. His whole life Lao Tzu never wrote. Even the emperor insisted that "You should write down your experiences. They will be valuable for the coming centuries." Lao Tzu said, "You don't know what you are asking for. Nobody can write it, nobody can pronounce it. One can live it, love it, one can be dissolved into it, one can be resurrected into it, but nothing can be said abo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,267 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an pronounce it. One can live it, love it, one can be dissolved into it, one can be resurrected into it, but nothing can be said about it. Words are too far away, too much misleading." His whole life Lao Tzu denied every proposal from the disciples that "You have lived a great life of utter silence, of peace and blissfulness; it will be a great loss to humanity if you don't write down just a small treatise, a few...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,268 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oss to humanity if you don't write down just a small treatise, a few sutras, a few footprints that can show how you reached to this height, in what direction we have to move -- just to guide us." But Lao Tzu said, "I would love to say, but I cannot corrupt the purity of the experience. The moment I say it, it will be corrupted. The words are too small and the experience is immense. Please just forgive me!" ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,269 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... My death is not far away, and I would like to meet my death and welcome her in the right place" -- and there cannot be any more right place than the eternal silence of the Himalayas. It is not only Lao Tzu, but many have moved in their last days to the Himalayas and disappeared in the eternal snow. The Himalayas have a mysterious attraction: because of the height, because of the untrodden paths, there are still...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,270 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rious attraction: because of the height, because of the untrodden paths, there are still thousands of places where man has not reached, which are absolutely unpolluted by man and his ugly radiations. Lao Tzu took leave of his disciples, but he got into trouble, because the emperor informed the guards on all the ways that go to the Himalayas. There were guards on every way that led to the Himalayas going out of Ch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,271 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...into trouble, because the emperor informed the guards on all the ways that go to the Himalayas. There were guards on every way that led to the Himalayas going out of China. He informed the guards, "Wherever you find Lao Tzu crossing the Chinese border, hold him prisoner. Be very respectful, but make a deal with him that if he wants to go to the Himalayas, he has to write the treatise of his experiences -- just the essential hint...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,272 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rite down the essential experience and the steps towards it -- we are under strict orders -- you will not be allowed to leave China and move into the Himalayas." Under such loving compulsion, finding no way out, Lao Tzu wrote his book, THE BOOK OF TAO. He starts from the very first line, "Truth cannot be said. The moment it is said, it becomes untrue." All those who read this small treatise are warned from th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,273 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are their heartbeats, they are their very life -- started flowing through them. But there are other people who have attained to the ultimate: for example, Gautam Buddha or Socrates or Pythagoras or Lao Tzu. They are not poets. They don't have that talent of being a poet, either in the beginning or at the end of their experience. Their definition is bound to be different. The experience, remember, is always...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,274 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Gautam Buddha's, another is Mahavira's, and the third is Lao Tzu's. When for the first time Christian missionaries came into contact with Buddhist scriptures they could not even conceive the idea that a religion could be without a god. What kind of religion will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,275 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ome accustomed, the woman has become accustomed. And they think nothing can be done about it: in fact I am the first man who is saying something can be done about it. Neither Gautam Buddha, nor Jesus, nor Moses, nor Lao Tzu -- none of them even thought about it. Yet it is one of the greatest problems. Every house is full of this conflict. Children grow up in the atmosphere of this non-communication. And naturall...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,276 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to remind you of death. Just a few days before it was so green and so young, so beautiful. It used to dance in the morning sun. What has happened? A dying leaf falling from the tree was the cause of Lao Tzu's enlightenment. Because seeing the dry leaf falling, he accepted his death so totally that there was no question of any fear. If this is how life functions, then there is no question of fear. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,277 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...appear, criminals will disappear without much effort. They are simply shadows of the politicians. The politicians have created a society which is basically criminal. I have told you the story about Lao Tzu. He was made the chief justice by a Chinese emperor who thought that he was the most wise and the most respected human being in the whole empire. He could not find a better chief justice. Lao ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,278 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...out Lao Tzu. He was made the chief justice by a Chinese emperor who thought that he was the most wise and the most respected human being in the whole empire. He could not find a better chief justice. Lao Tzu told him, "It won't last long. If you say so, I will accept the post. But you don't know me, you have just heard about me." But the emperor was stubborn as emperors are supposed to be. He said, "No. You h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,279 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...don't know me, you have just heard about me." But the emperor was stubborn as emperors are supposed to be. He said, "No. You have to accept this post." The first case that came before Lao Tzu was about a great thief who had stolen a lot of money and armaments from the richest man of the empire. The man was so rich that he was lending money to the emperor. He was far richer than the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,280 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to the emperor. He was far richer than the emperor himself. And naturally, he had never expected what happened. The man -- the thief -- was caught red-handed. So there was no question that he should not be punished. Lao Tzu heard the whole thing, both sides, and gave the judgment that, "The thief and the rich man, both, should be sent to jail for six months." The rich man could not believe his ears. He said, "Wha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,281 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be sent to jail for six months." The rich man could not believe his ears. He said, "What is going on, what kind of justice is this? I have been robbed and you are sending me to jail?" Lao Tzu said, "According to me, you are the real criminal. He is just your shadow. You have accumulated the whole wealth of the country, you have left everybody poor, beggars. You have exploited so much that now it i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,282 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ary risk by appointing me your chief justice.'" 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu was relieved immediately. BELOVED OSHO, WHY DO YOU ALWAYS LAUGH AT THE POPE? ARE YOU AGAINST HIM FOR ANY PERSONAL REASONS? Dhyan Yogi, I have no antagonism against...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,283 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... imprisonment is your imagination, that your fetters are nothing but your thoughts, that your bondage is nothing but your own unconscious way of living. Otherwise you are as oceanic as any Gautam Buddha, as any Lao Tzu, as any Kabir, as anyone who has ever realized his ultimate, his sachchidanand. We are not separate. We belong to one existence without any demarcation lines. All limitations are mind projecti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,284 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uddha never laughed. And you can see Jesus ... it is impossible that that face can laugh. Mahavira cannot laugh. There is only one man ... and because of his laughter all the houses I have stayed in have been called Lao Tzu House. Lao Tzu is the only man who was born laughing. Every child is born crying. That is absolutely unique about Lao Tzu. There are many things in his life which are unique, but nothing to be compared with t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,285 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ghed. And you can see Jesus ... it is impossible that that face can laugh. Mahavira cannot laugh. There is only one man ... and because of his laughter all the houses I have stayed in have been called Lao Tzu House. Lao Tzu is the only man who was born laughing. Every child is born crying. That is absolutely unique about Lao Tzu. There are many things in his life which are unique, but nothing to be compared with the fact that he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,286 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...only one man ... and because of his laughter all the houses I have stayed in have been called Lao Tzu House. Lao Tzu is the only man who was born laughing. Every child is born crying. That is absolutely unique about Lao Tzu. There are many things in his life which are unique, but nothing to be compared with the fact that he was born laughing. Everybody was shocked. His mother and father could not believe it. Even a smile would h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,287 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n the whole world literature can be compared to him. The stories are so complicated and so absurd, you cannot figure out the meaning. But certainly they tickle you. There are points when you suddenly start laughing. Lao Tzu loved Chuang Tzu for the simple reason that he was an absolutely nonserious man. Except these two enlightened ones, nobody has laughed. But because of their strangeness they have not been abl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,288 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o them. What is important to them is Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism. But you should remember, thousands of years have passed and we have not been able to produce another Gautam Buddha, or another Jesus, or another Lao Tzu. And it is not that millions of people have not tried the same path, but the path that leads Gautam Buddha to his highest consciousness does not lead anybody else anywhere except to a certain ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,289 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...for one exceptional story, in the whole of history there is no incidence where somebody has lived longer than ten months at the most in the mother's womb. Just one man lived there for eighty-four years. His name was Lao Tzu. He is a strange man. You cannot predict a man like Lao Tzu, what he will do. For eighty-four years he lived in his mother's womb. And when he was born he was already so old, all his hairs white, a long beard...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,290 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...no incidence where somebody has lived longer than ten months at the most in the mother's womb. Just one man lived there for eighty-four years. His name was Lao Tzu. He is a strange man. You cannot predict a man like Lao Tzu, what he will do. For eighty-four years he lived in his mother's womb. And when he was born he was already so old, all his hairs white, a long beard, and the strangest thing ... he came out laughing. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,291 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...was already so old, all his hairs white, a long beard, and the strangest thing ... he came out laughing. From the very start he behaved in a way that nobody has ever done. Nobody has even tried. This story about Lao Tzu cannot be historical, because you have to think about the mother too. Carrying a child for eighty-four years, the mother would have been dead long before. The scientific fact is that every human child is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,292 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... think of yourself surrounded by saints. It will be so suffocating. Heaven is no longer the place to go. If you want to meet Leo Tolstoy and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, if you want to meet Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, if you want to meet Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Turgenev, if you want to meet Van Gogh, Picasso, then hell is the place. So the first thing, I am not going where Jesus went or where Mohammed asce...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,293 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...kness starts disappearing. A civilization can be based only on meditation. The only people who have been civilized were people who were in touch with their own being: a Gautam Buddha, a Socrates, a Pythagoras, a Lao Tzu; these people are civilized. Only individuals once in a while have been found civilized, but the collective mass is still far below the standard of civilization. It has to happen! ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,294 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntaries, he is not only part of the whole, he becomes the whole. And let me tell you the final absurdity. Once in a while -- in a man like Gautam Buddha, or in a man like Mahavira, or Chuang Tzu, or Lao Tzu -- it happens that the part becomes bigger than the whole. Absolutely illogical, absolutely unmathematical -- but still absolutely right. A Gautam Buddha not only contains the whole but because of his tr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,295 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...even in the existence of God, but lived one of the greatest lives you can conceive. You cannot find a single fault in his life. "Have they gone to hell? And if the law of your God sends Socrates, Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu into hell, your God cannot be said to be just, cannot to be said to be compassionate -- seems to be absolutely ugly and cruel. All that he wants is belief in him. And I know millions of people who ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,296 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... will be the situation in hell?" never heard of these people here." He inquien his eyes, and who he said, "We have never heard of these people here." He inquired of another man who said, "Gautam Buddha? Socrates? Lao Tzu? From where did you get these names? These fellows are not here." He was shocked because even though he was an archbishop, a fanatic Christian, still, to put Gautam Buddha in hell seemed to be too...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,297 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...inquired of the stationmaster, "Are you certain this is hell?" The stationmaster said, "Absolutely certain. What is your problem?" The archbishop said, "My problem is, I want to know whether Gautam Buddha, Socrates, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, all these people who never believed in God, who never believed in Jesus -- are they here?" The stationmaster said, "You see all this greenery and all these flowers and all these crops and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,298 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...elieved in Jesus -- are they here?" The stationmaster said, "You see all this greenery and all these flowers and all these crops and you see all this singing and dancing? It started when Gautam Buddha, Socrates, Lao Tzu and people like that started coming into hell. They transformed the whole face of it. Now there is nobody in hell who wants to go to heaven." This was even more shocking, and the very shock of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,299 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... "What happened? Out of the blue without any hint of warning, my wife walked in." Just be alert. There are dangers on every step. A man who decides to be a meditator has to be very cautious. Lao Tzu's statement is that a man of meditation walks always as if he is passing through an ice-cold stream in winter, very careful, very alert. Unless you are very careful and very alert, the millions-of-years-o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,300 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t you have asked has been asked for centuries. Perhaps it is one of the oldest questions mankind has raised whenever there was a man who has come to know himself. It was felt around Gautam Buddha, it was felt around Lao Tzu, it was felt around Mahavira, and thousands of others who were more blessed than the ordinary humanity. But it has been felt only by those who were receptive, those who were in deep love; it has not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,301 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- I feel sad about it -- but my responsibility is not for the dead. My responsibility is for those who are alive and for those who will be coming. So I have to make it clear. Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Adinatha, Lao Tzu, Kabir, all these people who became enlightened attained to tremendous beauty, to great joy, to utter ecstasy -- to what I have been calling satyam, shivam, sundram, the truth, the godliness of the truth and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,302 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...verything has become beautiful -- the clouds in the sky, and the song of the woodsman. The real saint becomes like a small child: simple, almost like an idiot. Saint Francis used to call himself the fool of God. Lao Tzu says: The whole world is clever except me. I am an idiot. One becomes like small children -- with no logic; tremendously alive, but not hung up in the head. Energy becomes a flow; now there are no blocks,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,303 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Query:- WHY SHOULD ONE SEARCH FOR THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE PATRIARCHS? Now there is no need. Why should one bother about buddhas, the knowers, the enlightened people? Jesus and Krishna and Lao Tzu -- why should one be worried about them? The search is finished. You have come home. Why should one search for the footprints of the patriarchs? Now there is no need. Once you are back to your innermost natur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,304 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it is not said in the same sense as when we say, "the great philosopher G.E. Moore," no. It is in the same sense as when We say, "the great philosopher Jesus", "the great philosopher Buddha", "the great philosopher Lao Tzu. " It has the meaning of a wise man, and that is really the meaning of the word sophia -- one who loves wisdom. Saadi is also a great poet. That's how it should be; it has always been so. Wher...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,305 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the parrot. What Morarji Desai knows about scriptures is just parrot-like. What I am saying to you has arisen in me. I am a witness to Buddha and to Krishna and to Christ and to Zarathustra and to Lao Tzu and to all those who have become awakened. But his anger has, deep down, another reason too. Indira Gandhi has always liked my thoughts; she has always been in a kind of love towards my way of thinking. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,306 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r you are. Then whatsoever happens happens, whatsoever is happening is happening, and all is good, because God is. I am not saying, let me repeat again, that you will necessarily become inactive, no. Lao Tzu will become inactive, Krishna will not become inactive, but both are men of trust. Then where do they meet? -- because their personalities are totally different, not only different but diametrically ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,307 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... become inactive, but both are men of trust. Then where do they meet? -- because their personalities are totally different, not only different but diametrically opposite. Krishna lives a life of intense activity and Lao Tzu lives a life of tremendous passivity, but both are men of trust. Lao Tzu has trusted and relaxed and this is what he finds happening to him, that he falls deeper and deeper into passivity. He ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,308 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rsonalities are totally different, not only different but diametrically opposite. Krishna lives a life of intense activity and Lao Tzu lives a life of tremendous passivity, but both are men of trust. Lao Tzu has trusted and relaxed and this is what he finds happening to him, that he falls deeper and deeper into passivity. He becomes just a presence, a silent presence. If something happens at all through him, it i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,309 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...self and in that very relaxation he has exploded into a thousand and one actions. If sometimes you find him inactive, that simply means action is getting ready, action is pregnant in his inaction. If Lao Tzu is action through inaction, then Krishna is inaction through action. But both are men of trust. As far as trust is concerned there is no difference at all, both have relaxed. When a rose relaxes it become...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,310 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...activity; it is not. So simply relax into your own self. And a third possibility is also there, because Jesus is both. Sometimes he is active and sometimes very inactive. He is just standing between Lao Tzu and Krishna. If Krishna is all action and Lao Tzu all inaction, Jesus is just exactly in the middle -- a great synthesis. Sometimes he is very active, and then he goes to the mountains for forty days to fast,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,311 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nto your own self. And a third possibility is also there, because Jesus is both. Sometimes he is active and sometimes very inactive. He is just standing between Lao Tzu and Krishna. If Krishna is all action and Lao Tzu all inaction, Jesus is just exactly in the middle -- a great synthesis. Sometimes he is very active, and then he goes to the mountains for forty days to fast, to sit silently with the trees, to meditate, to b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,312 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve in God can trust, and a man who believes in God may not trust; God is not so important, not necessarily needed. For example, Buddha trusts; he does not believe in God. Mahavira trusts; he does not believe in God. Lao Tzu trusts; he neither believes in God nor disbelieves in God; he never talks about God, God is almost irrelevant. Then trust is something which happens in you, it has no outer reference. Trust is your relax...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,313 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And remember, this has been happening to all of you, because many of you were there when Buddha was on the earth, and many of you were there when Jesus was crucified, and many of you were there when Lao Tzu was alive, and many of you must have come across many Masters, because you are not new ones. You have been here as long as the existence has been here; you are ancient ones. But you have missed. A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,314 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... thousand wives... Certainly I have a different personality than what Krishna had, but personality is not the essential thing. It is just the outer frame of the mirror. Buddha had a different personality, so had Lao Tzu. All Masters have different personalities if you look from the outside. Certainly, they lived in their time, in their own way. They did their thing, I do my thing. This is why Morarji Desai th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,315 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... receive it; the disciple is nothing but a welcome. The disciple is "feminine", a receptivity, a womb. This too is a mysterion, a secret ceremony. It was happening again and again, with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, with Jesus, in different ways. This is what is happening here. While I am talking to you, if you are just a curious person who has come here to listen and to see what is happening, you will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,316 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ew spiritual people in India, as there have been everywhere. There is nothing to claim, nothing special to claim about it. Yes, Buddha has been here and Mahavira has been here and Krishna has been here. But so what? Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu have been in China; and Zarathustra and Moses and Ezekiel and John the Baptist and Jesus and Mohammed and Saint Francis.... You can go on counting hundreds of names from all over t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,317 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fis does not make much difference, because whatsoever one Sufi says will be said by all the Sufis. So you can bring ten thousand Sufis; it counts only as one. " That's a beautiful story. Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Mohammed, Bahaudin, Bayazid... they are not saying different things... maybe in different ways, but not different things. They are witness to a single truth, and the truth is that the kingdom of God is withi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,318 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is sabr. SHE ASKED A CERTAIN DERVISH, WHOM WE SHALL CALL SABAR, "HOW CAN I FIND THIS FRUIT?..." Now she is asking a wrong question. She says, "How can I find this fruit?" Remember Lao Tzu's famous statement: "Seek and you will never find; do not seek and it is already found." In seeking you go astray, because seeking means "my will", non-seeking means let-go, disappearance of the ego. And when...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,319 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...: "Seek and you will never find; do not seek and it is already found." In seeking you go astray, because seeking means "my will", non-seeking means let-go, disappearance of the ego. And whenever you are not, God is. Lao Tzu is right: seek and you will miss; do not seek and find. Non-seeking is the way to find. It will look very strange, illogical, but this is how it is. This existence is illogical; that's why we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,320 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ounder of this esoteric circle is said to have been the well-known Taoist adept, Lu Yen. Where did Lu Yen get this secret teaching? He himself attributes it to Master Kuan Yiu-hsi, for whom, accord-ing to tradition, Lao Tzu wrote down his TAO TE CHING. Lao Tzu never wrote a single word in his whole life. He declined again and again the invitation to write anything. He conveyed to his disciples what he had come to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,321 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he well-known Taoist adept, Lu Yen. Where did Lu Yen get this secret teaching? He himself attributes it to Master Kuan Yiu-hsi, for whom, accord-ing to tradition, Lao Tzu wrote down his TAO TE CHING. Lao Tzu never wrote a single word in his whole life. He declined again and again the invitation to write anything. He conveyed to his disciples what he had come to know, but he was not ready to write, because he said...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,322 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... He was going into absolute aloneness in the Himalayas. But he was caught on the border. And the man who caught him on the border was Master Kuan Yiu-hsi. He was a guard at the last post of the Chinese border. Lao Tzu had to pass that post; there was no other way to get out of the country. And Kuan Yiu-hsi persuaded him: 'You are going to die, you are leaving the country forever, and soon you will be leaving the body. Plea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,323 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aving the country forever, and soon you will be leaving the body. Please write just a few words. And I won't allow you to get out of the land if you don't write them. This price you have to pay.' And Lao Tzu had to sit in Kuan Yiu-hsi's hut for three days, and there he wrote the TAO TE CHING. The tradition of THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS said to have originated with Lu Yen. Lu Yen himself at...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,324 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... wrote the TAO TE CHING. The tradition of THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS said to have originated with Lu Yen. Lu Yen himself attributes it to Master Kuan Yiu-hsi for whom, according to tradition, Lao Tzu wrote down his TAO TE CHING. Kuan means 'the Han-ku pass', hence he is called Master Kuan, that is 'Master of the Han-ku pass.' And he must have been a great adept, otherwise it would have been im...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,325 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rote down his TAO TE CHING. Kuan means 'the Han-ku pass', hence he is called Master Kuan, that is 'Master of the Han-ku pass.' And he must have been a great adept, otherwise it would have been impossible to persuade Lao Tzu to write. His whole life he had declined -- he could not decline the invitation of this man. This man must have had something that it was impos-sible even for Lao Tzu to say no to. This is how...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,326 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erwise it would have been impossible to persuade Lao Tzu to write. His whole life he had declined -- he could not decline the invitation of this man. This man must have had something that it was impos-sible even for Lao Tzu to say no to. This is how the tradition of THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS connected with Lao Tzu. But it didn't start with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu himself says that whatsoever he is saying has been said ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,327 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... could not decline the invitation of this man. This man must have had something that it was impos-sible even for Lao Tzu to say no to. This is how the tradition of THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS connected with Lao Tzu. But it didn't start with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu himself says that whatsoever he is saying has been said before, again and again, down the centuries. He is not bringing a new truth in the world but only a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,328 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his man. This man must have had something that it was impos-sible even for Lao Tzu to say no to. This is how the tradition of THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS connected with Lao Tzu. But it didn't start with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu himself says that whatsoever he is saying has been said before, again and again, down the centuries. He is not bringing a new truth in the world but only a new expression. It is always so. Truth is t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,329 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...This man must have had something that it was impos-sible even for Lao Tzu to say no to. This is how the tradition of THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS connected with Lao Tzu. But it didn't start with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu himself says that whatsoever he is saying has been said before, again and again, down the centuries. He is not bringing a new truth in the world but only a new expression. It is always so. Truth is the same, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,330 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...soever he is saying has been said before, again and again, down the centuries. He is not bringing a new truth in the world but only a new expression. It is always so. Truth is the same, only expressions differ. What Lao Tzu said is the same as what Krishna had said before him. What Krishna said is the same as what Buddha said later on. What Buddha has said is the same as Mohammed, as Jesus, as Zarathustra have said although ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,331 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou will not become aware of it. IT IS CONTAINED IN THE TWO EYES. But you cannot see it unless they become one, then it is released. Then there is a great explosion of light. Zarathustra calls it 'explosion of fire'. Lao Tzu calls it 'explosion of light'. It is the same. You must have come across the statement of John the Baptist. He used to say to his disciples, 'I baptize you with water. After me shall come one ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,332 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the essence is always rebellious, the essence is always individualistic. And the world does not need any individuals, it needs sheep. It does not need rebellious people, it does not need people like Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, no; these people are dangerous. It wants people who are obedient -- obedient to the status quo, obedient to the vested interests, obedient to the organized church, obedient to the state and the stupid politi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,333 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...will have to change your whole pattern of thinking. You will have to change your very language of life; otherwise you will misunderstand. These rules are for a certain purpose. Madhuri was living in Lao Tzu House, and suddenly I sent her to live in Jesus House. She cried, but accepted. And she has come closer to me -- closer than she ever was -- in that very acceptance. More love will be showering on her from my...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,334 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the 'two'. The world is dual. And the moment you can manage to make this duality disappear in oneness, you will become invisible. It has great significance, but it is a metaphor. It does not mean that you cannot see Lao Tzu or you cannot see me. You are seeing me already, but still you are not seeing me. That part has become invisible. The polarity has disappeared inside, the duality is no more there. Only the dual can be seen, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,335 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d its impact should disappear so that he could read what ultimate truth he had come upon. He was thinking that he had become a Buddha or a Christ, seen God or seen something which the seers of the Upanishads saw, or Lao Tzu, or Zarathustra, or Mohammed -- something, but of that importance. But he was very puzzled and surprised when he came back to his senses and looked at his notebook. What he had written was th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,336 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... made more comfortable, that's all, but happiness is impossible. It is not impossible -- it is impossible through psychoanalysis -- because there have been happy people; we have seen them. A Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Krishna -- we have seen these dancing people Freud is not happy, that is true, and he cannot be happy unless he drops psychoanalysis and moves into some meditative process; he will not be happy. It will ta...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,337 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... When the spring comes it starts with one flower. But when the one flower is there, then one can be certain: that spring is not faraway -- it has come. The first flower has heralded its coming: Zarathustra, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Jesus -- these were the first flowers. Now the new man is going to be born on a greater scale. According to me, this new consciousness is the most important thing that is happening to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,338 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has created the story of Buddha WAS Buddha. Whether the story existed or not doesn't matter. Hence I use so many parables. The parable embodies the hope, the danger, and the possibility held out by Lao Tzu or Zarathustra. If all the Bibles were destroyed, if the name of Jesus were forgotten, it would not matter anymore, so long as the fire kindled the hope, the beauty, and the possibility still went on burning....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,339 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dled the hope, the beauty, and the possibility still went on burning. If it is proved, absolutely proved, that Buddha never happened, Jesus was never born, Mohammed never walked on the earth, Mahavira was a myth and Lao Tzu an invention of some fictitious writers, if the hope continues and if man continues to hope to surpass 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,340 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ready to receive their message they are still ready to take you to the other shore. The moment a Master dies he becomes part of that infinite energy which Buddha has joined, Mahavir has joined, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mohammed. Whenever a Master dies, more energy is redeemed -- and it is becoming a tidal wave. So many enlightened people have existed; it is becoming a continuous tidal wave. You are fortunate. If you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,341 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of it! all knowledge put aside. Your heart responds, your mind reacts. Responsibility is of the heart. You may not say anything; in fact, there is no need to say, "This is beautiful." I have heard... Lao Tzu used to go for a morning walk. A neighbor wanted to be with him. Lao Tzu said, "But remember, don't be talkative. You can come along, but don't be talkative." Many times the man wanted to say something, b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,342 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sponsibility is of the heart. You may not say anything; in fact, there is no need to say, "This is beautiful." I have heard... Lao Tzu used to go for a morning walk. A neighbor wanted to be with him. Lao Tzu said, "But remember, don't be talkative. You can come along, but don't be talkative." Many times the man wanted to say something, but knowing Lao Tzu, looking at him, he controlled himself But...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,343 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d to go for a morning walk. A neighbor wanted to be with him. Lao Tzu said, "But remember, don't be talkative. You can come along, but don't be talkative." Many times the man wanted to say something, but knowing Lao Tzu, looking at him, he controlled himself But when the sun started rising and it was so beautiful, the temptation was so much that he forgot all about what Lao Tzu had said. He said, "Look! What a beautiful morn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,344 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...any times the man wanted to say something, but knowing Lao Tzu, looking at him, he controlled himself But when the sun started rising and it was so beautiful, the temptation was so much that he forgot all about what Lao Tzu had said. He said, "Look! What a beautiful morning!" And Lao Tzu said, "So, you have become talkative You are too talkative! You are here, I am here, the sun is here, the sun is rising -- so what is the p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,345 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e controlled himself But when the sun started rising and it was so beautiful, the temptation was so much that he forgot all about what Lao Tzu had said. He said, "Look! What a beautiful morning!" And Lao Tzu said, "So, you have become talkative You are too talkative! You are here, I am here, the sun is here, the sun is rising -- so what is the point in saying to me 'The sun is beautiful'? Can't I see? Am I blind?...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,346 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the doors are needed; only then will the temple be rich. And even if all the doors are accepted, then too truth has not been told in its fullness, because it is infinite. You can put Buddha, Christ, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Mahavir, Mohammed together, still truth has not been told in its totality. It can never be told. It is infinite. All words are small. All human efforts are limited. And then, it cannot be told straight....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,347 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...was not concerned with politics at all. It has always happened: the higher you go, the more dumb you feel. And whatsoever you say, you can IMMEDIATELY see it has been misunderstood. Lao Tzu has said, "If I say something and people understand it, then I know it was not worth saying. If I say something and people don't understand, then I know that there must have been some truth in it." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,348 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Gautam Buddha walked, and a Mahavir and a Krishna, and millions of others... No other country can claim this. Jesus is very alone in Jerusalem; Mohammed is very very alone in the Arabian countries; Lao Tzu has a very small company, Chuang Tzu and a few others. They tried hard to create something. But India has the longest spiritual vibe: for at least five thousand years the search has been deepening, and still ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,349 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st in a certain context; when the context is gone they are gone. That is where Buddhas are different: their context is eternity. Their context is not a part of time. This is where Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, remain eternally meaningful: because they are not part of time their message is eternal. Their message exists in the context of human misery, human ignorance. Unless the whole existence becomes enlightened, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,350 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he whole existence becomes aflame. And the third: IN THE WATER BLOWS THE WIND OF THE GENTLE. Water, in Taoism, represents the ultimate source of things. It represents the Tao itself. Lao Tzu has called his path 'The Watercourse Way' for many reasons. First, the water is soft, humble, seeks the lowest place. Just as Jesus says, "Those who are the last in this world will be the first in my ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,351 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the real history consists of Buddhas, Christs, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzus. That's what I am trying to do here! Now talking about Lu-tsu -- you may not even have heard his name -- now talking on this tremendously beautiful book, THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER, I a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,352 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eeting has happened within you, you are whole. This is what is called the man of Tao. The man of Tao is neither man nor woman. He has come back to his oneness. He is alone... all one. You cannot call Lao Tzu a man or a woman, or Buddha a man or a woman, or Jesus a man or a woman. Biologically they are, spiritually they are not. Spiritually they have gone beyond. Buddha has no unconscious in him, no division. He's...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,353 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...te. She is the meeting of the polar opposites. Lu-tsu is not a male chauvinist. Be a little more careful when you start talking about people like Lu-tsu. Be a little more alert. People like Lu-tsu or Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu, or Buddha or Krishna or Christ are neither men nor women. They have gone, gone beyond. They have transcended all 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Founda...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,354 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...comparable to hypnosis or to meditation. Christianity, Judaism, Mohammedanism -- these three religions are very poor. They don't deserve even the name of `religion'. They don't have anything of what you will find in Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Gautam Buddha, Bodhidharma, Nagarjuna, Shankara. You will not find anything of any fundamental value in them. The science of hypnosis and the science of meditation are two sides ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,355 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. It is not his effort, but on the contrary his no-effort, allowing existence to reveal its secrets to him. This is not new. The East has known it for at least five thousand years. Lao Tzu has even given it a name: `effortless effort', `action without action'. And he was trying to explain that whatever man has come to know is not through effort, although there is much effort involved; hence the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,356 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sus says "Man cannot live by bread alone." I say to you, a man can live without bread but not without the newspaper. The newspaper is his whole wisdom. These are people who cannot argue against Jesus, Zarathustra or Lao Tzu. For example, Jesus says, that God is love, God is just, always fair, always compassionate. The Old Testament's God is a very angry God -- never forgiving, never forgetting; nobody is going to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,357 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rly weird to yourself: "What are you doing here?" Life is the way. Life has no goal. That's why I love the word Tao. Tao means the way, with no goal. Simply the way. It was courageous of Lao Tzu, twenty-five centuries ago, to tell people that there is no goal and we are not going anywhere. We are just going to be here, so make the time as beautiful, as loving, as joyous as possible. He called his phi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,358 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the darkness, with your own ego, with all that is ugly in you. Karate is connected with Tao, is connected with Gautam Buddha, is connected with Confucius. But neither Confucius nor Gautam Buddha nor Lao Tzu were aware that their meditative techniques would bring such a transformation that even martial arts, which have been developed to destroy man, to murder, to commit suicide... but they can be used because the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,359 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re -- he has passed the examination of life. BELOVED OSHO, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT GANDHI'S FOURTH MONKEY? In China, based on almost twenty-five centuries of the teachings of Lao Tzu, some sculptor made a statue of four monkeys. Lao Tzu used to say, "Don't see anything wrong, because even by seeing it, you become in some subtle way a participant. And moreover, just by seeing it, it leaves...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,360 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...LOVED OSHO, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT GANDHI'S FOURTH MONKEY? In China, based on almost twenty-five centuries of the teachings of Lao Tzu, some sculptor made a statue of four monkeys. Lao Tzu used to say, "Don't see anything wrong, because even by seeing it, you become in some subtle way a participant. And moreover, just by seeing it, it leaves an impression in you which may become a seed and some...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,361 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou will find him somewhere as a sannyasin, because I don't see any other place to escape to. But it shows the level of understanding of Mahatma Gandhi. He was sex-repressive. He could not understand Lao Tzu. He was worried that people would see this naked monkey. So it is better from the very beginning if people don't know anything about it. In India, those statues don't exist; It is better to cut the fourth mon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,362 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- does not try to bring a rope and get me out." Just at that moment, a Lao Tzu monk, a Taoist monk came by. He also heard. He looked in and he said, "Listen man -- my master used to say that you should act in awareness, walk in awareness. Now you see? -- you have not been aware." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,363 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eat genius as far as mind is concerned. They have impressed millions of people for thousands of years and they are still fresh. But there is an different line of people like Gautam Buddha, Bodhidharma, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu -- these are not philosophers. What they are saying is not coming from the mind. It is coming from beyond the mind. They have put the mind aside. To understand them, just intellect is not eno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,364 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- that it never happens again. There have been great people on the earth, but Socrates has something unique. There is Gautam the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu -- in Greece itself there has been Pythagoras, Heraclitus; in Persia, Zarathustra... and many others, but none of them had a certain quality which only Socrates has. And that is a scientific appro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,365 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...jority voting, then Gautam Buddha would never have been chosen, because he was a rebellious person amongst the Hindus. He was condemning the VEDAS -- which are worth condemning. He would not have got any votes. Then Lao Tzu would not have been chosen as a great enlightened man, because he was against Confucius, who had immense power over the whole land of China and all the politicians. Truth stands on its own aut...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,366 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... they were enemies to Jesus, then too there would have been some report. Buddha is reported in Hindu scriptures. Buddha is reported in Jaina scriptures, Mahavira is reported in Hindu scriptures, in Jaina scriptures. Lao Tzu is reported in Confucian scriptures. Confucius is reported in Lao-Tzuan scriptures. They were contemporaries. And the man who did such unnatural things would have dominated the whole scene. But the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,367 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... reported in Hindu scriptures. Buddha is reported in Jaina scriptures, Mahavira is reported in Hindu scriptures, in Jaina scriptures. Lao Tzu is reported in Confucian scriptures. Confucius is reported in Lao-Tzuan scriptures. They were contemporaries. And the man who did such unnatural things would have dominated the whole scene. But the reward that he got was crucifixion. Jesus himself was uned...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,368 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not left any organization, he has not left any church. These are the beauties of the man. He remains alone, and yet the most influential person in the whole world. I love a few other people... I love Lao Tzu in China, who has also not left any following, who was not even ready to write a book, because that may become a holy scripture; people may start worshiping it -- and also for the simple reason that truth can...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,369 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cause of human beings; otherwise, those big stars, millions of solar systems, are just dead. It is to the credit of this earth, that we have been able to produce people like Socrates, Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Pythagoras. To destroy humanity means to destroy the effort of millions of years that existence has been making. Existence is trying to become conscious through us; it is trying to become aware through us. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,370 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and he used to fall into a coma for a few minutes, unconscious, his mouth foaming -- and this man is the founder of psychoanalysis. Can you think of Gautam Buddha being afraid of death in this way? Can you think of Lao Tzu being afraid of death in this way? All his psychoanalysis is nothing but his own sexual repression -- because everything that you bring to him becomes a sexual symbol, anything... you cannot ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,371 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...let man evolve, to let man grow to a point where they become useless. There are many situations which will help you to understand. It happened in China, twenty-five centuries ago... Lao Tzu became very famous, a wise man, and he was without any doubt one of the wisest men ever. The emperor of China asked him very humbly to become his chief of the supreme court, because nobody could guide the cou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,372 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- am not the right man," but the emperor was insisting. Lao Tzu said, "If you don`t listen to me... Just one day in the court and you will be convinced that I am not the right man -- because the system is wrong. Out of humbleness I was not saying the truth to you. Either ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,373 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I can exist or your law and your order and your society can exist. So let us try it." The first day a thief was brought into the court who had stolen almost half the treasures of the richest man in the capital. Lao Tzu listened to the case and then he said that the thief and the richest man should both go to jail for six months. The rich man said, "What are you saying? I have been stolen from, I have been robbed -- and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,374 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... months. The rich man said, "What are you saying? I have been stolen from, I have been robbed -- and what kind of justice is this, that you are sending me to jail for the same time as the thief?" Lao Tzu said, "I am certainly being unfair to the thief. Your need to be in jail is more, because you have collected so much money, deprived so many people of money that thousands of people are down and you are colle...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,375 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y people of money that thousands of people are down and you are collecting and collecting money -- for what? Your very greed is creating these thieves. You are responsible. The first crime is yours." Lao Tzu's logic is absolutely clear. If there are going to be too many poor people and only a few rich people, you cannot stop thieves, you cannot stop stealing. The only way to stop it is to have a society where eve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,376 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... just out of greed. The rich man said, "Before you send me to jail I want to see the emperor, because this is not according to the constitution; this is not according to the law of the country." Lao Tzu said, "That is the fault of the constitution and the fault of the law of the country. I am not responsible for it. You can see the emperor." And the rich man said to the emperor, "Listen, this man should ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,377 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...: what he is saying is right -- I can understand it -- but he will destroy us." The king understood it perfectly well. "If this rich man is a criminal, then I am the greatest criminal in the country. Lao Tzu will not hesitate to send me to jail." Lao Tzu was relieved of his post. He said, "I had told you before, you are unnecessarily wasting my time. I was saying I am not the right man. The reality is, your s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,378 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- but he will destroy us." The king understood it perfectly well. "If this rich man is a criminal, then I am the greatest criminal in the country. Lao Tzu will not hesitate to send me to jail." Lao Tzu was relieved of his post. He said, "I had told you before, you are unnecessarily wasting my time. I was saying I am not the right man. The reality is, your society, your law, your constitution are not the rig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,379 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this vast universe where life exists, where consciousness exists, and where a few people have been able to become Gautam Buddhas. I would like everybody to reach to those heights of Gautam Buddha, of Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, so that all fear of death disappears and everybody knows that his inner being is part of eternity. Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,380 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... The person who lives in your time may not be your contemporary, but the person you feel, experience, the person who moves your heart into a dance is a contemporary. To me Buddha is a contemporary, Lao Tzu is a contemporary, Bodhidharma is a contemporary, Zarathustra is a contemporary. I can still taste their experience because it is my own experience too. Rajneeshism is dead. I wanted it to be dead before...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,381 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the society and the civilization and the religion. They are dead. Do you think any religion is alive? The religion that blossomed with Gautam Buddha died with Gautam Buddha. The song that arose with Lao Tzu disappeared with the death of Lao Tzu. The dance of Meera died with Meera. This is the natural course of things. All religions are organized around corpses. Don't worry about them; they don't have any pow...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,382 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the religion. They are dead. Do you think any religion is alive? The religion that blossomed with Gautam Buddha died with Gautam Buddha. The song that arose with Lao Tzu disappeared with the death of Lao Tzu. The dance of Meera died with Meera. This is the natural course of things. All religions are organized around corpses. Don't worry about them; they don't have any power, they don't have any li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,383 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s never believed in any messiahs. You will be surprised to know that the idea of messiahs is Western. In the East the very idea of messiahs has never existed. There have been people like Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, pinnacles of wisdom, but they don't proclaim themselves messiahs, prophets. They simply say what they are: they are human beings who have realized their innermost potential, and that you can do it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,384 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... happening deep down in your consciousness -- and every other consciousness around you is going to be affected by it. You will see it in different spheres. For example, when Gautam Buddha appeared in India, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Confucius appeared in China; Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras appeared in Greece -- at the same time, the same flame, the same truth. And there was no communication -- even the Himalayas, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,385 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- at the same time, the same flame, the same truth. And there was no communication -- even the Himalayas, the highest mountains between China and India, were not able to prevent it. What is happening to Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu passes on, moves on. If you look at the time before the communist revolution in Soviet Russia, it produced the greatest number of the highest quality novelists, the most creative. And not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,386 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... right time and the right place. This generation gap is the right time. Buddha was working with the old people, with the old tradition, with all the orthodox minds and wanting them to be rebellious. So was Lao Tzu and so was Zarathustra. They could not see that the people they were talking to were so deeply rooted in the past that they could not move away from it. They could listen, they could worship them -- they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,387 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...very idea of a circle has completion intrinsic to it. Only a complete circle is a circle and only absolute understanding is understanding. That's why there is no way to compare Buddha, Mohammed, Mansoor, Christ, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra -- there is no way. You cannot compare; they are all circles and all are complete. You cannot say that Buddha is more of a circle than Zarathustra, or Zarathustra is more of a circle than ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,388 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...zu, Zarathustra -- there is no way. You cannot compare; they are all circles and all are complete. You cannot say that Buddha is more of a circle than Zarathustra, or Zarathustra is more of a circle than Lao Tzu. You cannot use the words 'more' and 'less' as far as enlightenment is concerned. Enlightenment is never more or less. People come to me sometimes and they ask who is more enlightened -- Buddha or Mahavir...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,389 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... uttered, not a single word! There was no need. Both looked into each other's eyes and found the same reality. Yes, that will happen;. If Jesus comes to meet Buddha, that will happen. If Zarathustra comes to see Lao Tzu, that will happen. What is there to say? You know, the other knows, there is no way to talk, there is nothing to talk about. The third possibility is that one knows and one does not know, then whosoeve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,390 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fe. Look at a rose flower and just go on looking at it. Don't think. Don't verbalise. Don't bring language in. Don't say it is a beautiful flower. Then you have missed. I have heard.... Lao Tzu was going for a morning walk. A neighbour who used to go with him, knew him -- knew that he was a very silent man and did not like talking. Once the neighbour mentioned that the morning was beautiful -- i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,391 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ning walk. A neighbour who used to go with him, knew him -- knew that he was a very silent man and did not like talking. Once the neighbour mentioned that the morning was beautiful -- it was a beautiful morning. Lao Tzu looked very puzzled. He looked at him as if he had said something mad. The man became restless. He said, 'What is the matter? Why are you looking at me in such a way? Have I done anything wrong?'...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,392 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...looked very puzzled. He looked at him as if he had said something mad. The man became restless. He said, 'What is the matter? Why are you looking at me in such a way? Have I done anything wrong?' And Lao Tzu said, 'I am also looking at the morning, so what is the point of saying that it is beautiful? Do you think I am dead, I am dull or asleep? The morning is beautiful, but what is the point of saying it? I am al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,393 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t what is the point of saying it? I am also here, as much as you are.' Since then the neighbour stopped talking. He used to follow him, walk with him, and after years of going for a morning walk with Lao Tzu he also became alert about what meditation is. Then a visitor came to the neighbour and he also wanted to come for a walk. And the visitor said that day, 'It is a beautiful sunrise.' That day the neighbou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,394 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s. Then a visitor came to the neighbour and he also wanted to come for a walk. And the visitor said that day, 'It is a beautiful sunrise.' That day the neighbour understood. He looked puzzled as once Lao Tzu had looked puzzled at him, and he said, 'Why should you mention it? I am also here.' And Lao Tzu said, 'Now do you understand?' There is a way of being in contact with reality without words. In fact, t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,395 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r said that day, 'It is a beautiful sunrise.' That day the neighbour understood. He looked puzzled as once Lao Tzu had looked puzzled at him, and he said, 'Why should you mention it? I am also here.' And Lao Tzu said, 'Now do you understand?' There is a way of being in contact with reality without words. In fact, that is the only way there is. Words don't help, they hinder. So sometimes, sitti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,396 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ning in Krishna. Or, if you are too fixated on Krishna you will not be able to see what is happening in Christ. God manifests in millions of ways -- in Christ and Mahavira and Buddha and Mohammed and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu -- millions of ways. And all ways are his. But to recognise that you will need great intelligence. and the first step towards intelligence is to drop all a priori ideas, prejudices, to drop al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,397 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing in your mind, with no clouds. You should just look into him, and then you will be surprised. Masters are unique in their manifestation and they are one in their innermost core. Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna, Christ, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra -- they are all one in their innermost core. Their circumference is really very, very unique, and their centre is one. But to see the centre you will have to be utterly silent. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,398 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Then only is there a possibility of contacting God. God is not a person -- that is the second thing to remember. It is human to think about God as a person. When we think about God as a person it looks warmer. Lao Tzu says 'Tao', but Tao doesn't seem so warm. You cannot hug Tao. Tao cannot hug you. Buddha says 'Dhamma' -- the law. But the law seems to be cold. You need some warm embrace, you need a God who can love you, wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,399 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l it, they have tried to tell it, but it goes on slipping. That's what I go on doing. I go on telling it but it goes on slipping. No word ever does any justice to truth; all words falsify. Sufis agree perfectly with Lao Tzu when he says, 'The Tao that can be said is Tao no more. The truth that can be uttered has already become a lie.' You will have to experience it on your own. But man is imitative, so entirely imitative, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,400 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the sought. To know the one who is hidden inside you is all that is needed, and for that you need not go anywhere. For that you need not even open your eyes. For that you need not even take a single step. That's why Lao Tzu says, 'If you seek, you will miss. Don't seek, and you will find.' Seeking is desiring. And once you start seeking you will go on going astray -- from one goal to another goal. Sometimes it is money that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,401 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... may start getting high just by being in contact with him -- a contact-high. Just because he is so turned on, you will start feeling turned on. That is religiousness, that is IMAN -- what Hindus call DHARMA and what Lao Tzu calls Tao and what the Jews call TORAH. That is the most fundamental law of religion -- to be drunk with the unknown, with the invisible; to be drunk with something that is not of this world, not available he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,402 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...olitics? Will it help me to win the coming election? Will it help me to have a bigger balance in the bank? Is it going to help me become more famous? If not, then what is the point? Why waste time?' Lao Tzu is passing; he is going on a pilgrimage. You may ask 'Pilgrimage -- to where? Is he going to Mecca or to Kailash, or is he coming to Kashi?' No. Pilgrimage to nowhere. Just enjoying -- in the mountains and th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,403 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ollowing him. They come into a forest where all the trees have been cut except one tree, and that one tree is so big and its branches so high and so long that one thousand bullock carts can rest under its shade. And Lao Tzu sends one of his disciples there who is a philosopher. 'Enquire what has happened, because the whole jungle has been cut and thousands of workers are still cutting the remaining trees, but why are they not cu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,404 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y are not straight. Its leaves are such that no animal will eat them. When you burn the wood of this tree, only smoke comes out, no fire. It is utterly useless, that's why they have not cut it.' And Lao Tzu laughed a hearty laugh and said 'You see the use of the uselessness? Now, this tree has survived because it is useless. See the beauty of the tree. Because it is useless it is enjoying the sun and the clouds;...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,405 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- you will be able to enjoy, you will be able to dance. Look at the dance of the tree!' Lao Tzu is saying that use is not all that there is in life, and to think that use is all is to be a materialist, is to be irreligious. The man who is always asking about the use and meaning is an irreligious person....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,406 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d in a flash of illumination'. The world has remained the same. Jesus has come and gone, and the world is not saved, so he was not the messiah. Who was the messiah? Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu? -- nobody, because the world remains the same. Yes, they transformed a few people's lives, but that is not the point, The messiah is an impossible ideal. It has to be impossible; if it is made possible, then...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,407 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Even something which carries a very very far echo will help them to change. It is not that Buddha is very happy with what he says. Whatsoever he says, he feels is not true. He feels the same way as Lao Tzu felt. Lao Tzu says, "That which can be said cannot be true. The moment it is said it is falsified." But still, those who live in worlds of many many illusions, those who are deeply asleep, fast asleep, for th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,408 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g which carries a very very far echo will help them to change. It is not that Buddha is very happy with what he says. Whatsoever he says, he feels is not true. He feels the same way as Lao Tzu felt. Lao Tzu says, "That which can be said cannot be true. The moment it is said it is falsified." But still, those who live in worlds of many many illusions, those who are deeply asleep, fast asleep, for them even a fals...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,409 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...' became `Christ' and the followers became `Christians'. Jesus was never aware that he was creating a new religion. Certainly he has a few very beautiful sayings, but not many compared to people like Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, or the seers of the Upanishads. They are very small in number, but they only look beautiful. I will have to analyze a few sayings so that you can understand what I mean. He says, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,410 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... hand clapping... What can the poor mystic do? And it is not only one mystic's experience. Down the ages, whenever anybody has experienced truth it is the same problem, that it cannot be said. When Lao Tzu was in China he experienced it. He never spoke about it; he spoke about other things. And his disciples asked again and again, "Why don't you tell us about the real thing?" And he would say, "To say anyth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,411 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ples asked again and again, "Why don't you tell us about the real thing?" And he would say, "To say anything about it is to betray the experience." They asked him to write it down for the coming generations. Lao Tzu said, "It is impossible, it cannot be written down." When he became eighty, he started traveling towards the Himalayas because he wanted to die in the silence of the Himalayas --the last momen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,412 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... traveling towards the Himalayas because he wanted to die in the silence of the Himalayas --the last moments in the pure world of the Himalayas. The emperor of China ordered the guards on the boundary of China: "Lao Tzu is coming and he will have to pass through the gates. You stop him there. Unless he writes down his experience, don't let him go out. That experience is valuable for the coming centuries; otherwise the coming...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,413 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there. Unless he writes down his experience, don't let him go out. That experience is valuable for the coming centuries; otherwise the coming centuries will not be able to forgive us ever." And poor Lao Tzu was stopped at the gate. With great respect the guards touched his feet but they said, "We cannot allow you... this is our cottage, you remain in it and you write down your experience." And he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,414 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...naturally all their faith will disappear. When I call Christianity a third-rate religion, this is my reason: it depends on third-rate things. Buddha has never walked on water, Mahavira has never walked on water, Lao Tzu has never raised any dead man back to life... If they are remembered, they are remembered for some essential qualities of life: their compassion, their love, their silence, their attainment, their fulfillment...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,415 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as a little bit of intelligence. Life is to rejoice, life is to dance. Life is to drink the juice of it as totally as possible. I am reminded of an incident in paradise, in a restaurant.... Lao Tzu, Confucius and Gautam Buddha -- all three were sitting around a table discussing great things. Just at that moment a naked woman, immensely beautiful, came with a jar to the side of the table and asked them, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,416 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...D-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- would just like to taste, not to drink. I would just like to know how it tastes." So he had taken just a sip and he said, "It is bitter. You take it away." Lao Tzu took the whole jar from the girl's hands and drank it completely in one gulp. Even the girl was surprised. Emptying the jar, he said, "Great. It was delicious. But to know anything really, one has to go total...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,417 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ise out of nothingness? This is one of the greatest contributions of Buddha to the world. As far as the idea of no-self is concerned, he has surpassed all other masters -- Krishna and Christ and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu -- he has surpassed all. This is one of the most fundamental meditations. If it can settle in you that "I am not," then suddenly the world disappears. To know that "I am not" is to know that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,418 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is a pinned butterfly in an album, dead . You have transformed its quality completely, you have destroyed it. When I say illogical I mean unnameable, I mean no word will be able to express it. Lao Tzu says: Truth cannot be said. The moment you say it, it becomes untrue. This is what I mean by calling reality illogical, irrational. It is beyond the comprehension of mind. Call it supra-logical, and you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,419 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... more that I am. Then listening has started. And you will understand me only by listening. You will understand me only when you have forgotten all about understanding what I am saying. All statements are lies. Lao Tzu is true. He says: Tao cannot be said, and the moment you say it you have betrayed it. He is absolutely true. Truth is so infinite and words are so finite. Only when you have something infinite in you......] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,420 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stand, then there is no need to go to such statements which apparently look arrogant. People who don't understand or don't want to understand can find arrogance anywhere. Once it happened, I read these words of Lao Tzu to a professor: "When the superior man hears of the Tao, he practises it; when the ordinary man hears of the Tao, he ignores it; when the inferior man hears of the Tao, he laughs at it. If it were not laughed...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,421 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rs of the Tao, he ignores it; when the inferior man hears of the Tao, he laughs at it. If it were not laughed at it would not be the true Tao." And do you know what the professor said? He said, "How arrogant of Lao TZU -- who does he think he is to know? He thinks himself the superior man? the sage? that he knows? How arrogant of him to claim that he knows Tao! So Lao Tzu thinks," he said, "he is one of the superior who rea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,422 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you know what the professor said? He said, "How arrogant of Lao TZU -- who does he think he is to know? He thinks himself the superior man? the sage? that he knows? How arrogant of him to claim that he knows Tao! So Lao Tzu thinks," he said, "he is one of the superior who really understands the Tao, while lesser people ignore or laugh at it? How arrogant!" Now it is not very apparent. You could not have thought this way, bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,423 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll those who have been searching in the world have been failing and failing. Only frustration comes in the end, and failure. Just think of those people -- a Gautama Buddha, a Krishna, a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu -- think of those people, how blissful they look, what fragrance they have. From where does it come? Just sitting silently by their side and one is thrilled, enchanted. These people have some magic, some ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,424 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ace! To me, it is not a problem at all. I can see through and through how it happened. Adolf Hitler was dogmatic. Whatsoever he said, he said it absolutely. Only a foolish person can be dogmatic. Lao Tzu hesitates. Lao Tzu says: I walk as one walks in cold winter in a cold stream. Everybody is certain except me. I am uncertain, I hesitate. I cannot claim knowledge, because all is so mysterious. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,425 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... To me, it is not a problem at all. I can see through and through how it happened. Adolf Hitler was dogmatic. Whatsoever he said, he said it absolutely. Only a foolish person can be dogmatic. Lao Tzu hesitates. Lao Tzu says: I walk as one walks in cold winter in a cold stream. Everybody is certain except me. I am uncertain, I hesitate. I cannot claim knowledge, because all is so mysterious. Now, Lao Tzu is n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,426 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... hesitates. Lao Tzu says: I walk as one walks in cold winter in a cold stream. Everybody is certain except me. I am uncertain, I hesitate. I cannot claim knowledge, because all is so mysterious. Now, Lao Tzu is not going to convince people. If you hesitate, nobody is going to follow you. People ARE in deep confusion. People need somebody to shout loudly in their ears -- so loudly that they are convinced: "This ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,427 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...When I say 'melt' I mean love. Create as much love heat in you as possible. Only that can melt you. When I say 'become water' I mean become a flow -- don't remain stagnant. Move, and move like water. Lao Tzu says: The way of the Tao is a watercourse way . It moves like water. What is the movement of water? or of a river? The movement has a few beautiful things about it. One, it always moves towards the depth, it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,428 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sk me about Buddhas, just ask one question: 'Who am I?' and you will know who the Buddha is -- because everyone is carrying the potential of being a Buddha; there is no need to look outside yourself. Lao Tzu says: To find truth, one need not go out of his room. One need not even open the door, one need not even open his eyes -- because truth is your being. To know it is Buddhahood. Remember it: the statements...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,429 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...for the rare, the courageous, to be in contact with a Buddha. The ordinary mind cannot bear it; the presence of a Buddha is unbearable. Why? Why have people been so much against Buddha and Christ and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu? For a certain reason: these are the people who don't allow you the luxury of the untruth, the comfort of the lie, the convenience of living in illusions. These are the people who don't allow you; these are t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,430 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re all yours, you need not be a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan. The whole past is yours: use it, but don't be used by it. Use it, and go ahead. Use Buddha and Christ and Krishna and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu, but don't be confined by them. You have to go ahead. There is more to life -- there are still unexplored realities. The mystery is infinite. Man is in a kind of neurosis. This is a very pregnant situatio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,431 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hink you have fallen into a trap, you are hypnotized, you are wasting your life. And the people who will say this are in the majority -- they have always been in the majority. They laughed at Christ, they laughed at Lao Tzu, they ridiculed Buddha, they were against Mahavir, they are against me. And they will take all kinds of revenge on you; they will not allow you to live peacefully. This is very strange. Buddh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,432 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r. Not that his achievement of Enlightenment is greater than anybody else's -- Enlightenment is neither less nor more -- he has attained to the same quality of consciousness as Mahavir, as Christ, as Zarathustra, as Lao Tzu. There is no question of any Enlightened man being more Enlightened than anybody else. But as far as his being a Master is concerned, Buddha is incomparable -- because, through him, thousands ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,433 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... eighty-five percent, eighty percent.... The day I feel at least fifty percent of people can understand silence, then words can be dropped. I am not very happy about them. Nobody ever was: neither was Lao Tzu, nor was Saraha, nor was Buddha -- nobody ever was. But they all had to use words, not because silence cannot be a communion -- silence can be a communion, but for that a very higher consciousness is needed....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,434 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eligion gives you a certain style, a discipline. Tantra takes all disciplines away. When there is no discipline, when there is no enforced order, a totally different kind of order arises in you. What Lao Tzu calls Tao, what Buddha calls DHARMA -- that arises in you. That is not anything done by you; it happens to you. Tantra simply creates space for it to happen. It does not even invite, it does not wait; it simp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,435 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...earth and they are broadcasting more and more thoughts. The further back you go, you find the earth the more and more peaceful -- less and less broadcasters. In the days of Buddha, or in the days of Lao Tzu, the world was very very peaceful, natural; it was a heaven. Why? The population was very very small, one thing. People were not thinkers too much, they were more and more prone to feeling rather than thinkin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,436 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... through all metaphors, symbology, all languages. People ask me, "What are you doing here? Sometimes you talk on tantra and Tilopa, and sometimes you talk on yoga and Patanjali, and sometimes you talk on Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, the taoists and the tao, and sometimes you jump to Heraclitus and Jesus -- what are you doing here?" I am talking about the same thing. I am not talking about anything else. Heraclitus or Tilo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,437 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are trying to burn others' lights? You may blow them off, you may put them off -- your own inner being is dark. You cannot help, you cannot give, you have nothing to give. Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Lao Tzu, Mahavira and Siddhartha Gautam can help you out of it, but Tilopa says don't be satisfied even with that indifference, silence, a detached standing, aloofness, because it is still not a happening, still you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,438 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tural; more cultured, more civilized -- more unnatural. When a society becomes too cultured then comes religion to balance it. It is a subtle balancing. A natural society doesn't need religion. Says Lao Tzu, "I have heard from the ancients that there was a time when people were natural, there was no religion. When people were natural they never thought about heaven and hell. When people were natural they never t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,439 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there was no religion. When people were natural they never thought about heaven and hell. When people were natural they never thought about moral precepts. When people were natural there was no code, no law." Lao Tzu says because of the law people have become criminals, and because of morality people have become immoral, and because of too much culture.... And China has known too much culture; no other country has known t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,440 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... known too much culture; no other country has known that much culture. Confucius has made an absolute discipline of how to culture a man -- three thousand three hundred rules to discipline. Suddenly Lao Tzu came into being to balance, because this Confucius will kill the whole society -- three thousand three hundred rules? This is too much. You will culture the man so much that the man will disappear completely....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,441 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ance, because this Confucius will kill the whole society -- three thousand three hundred rules? This is too much. You will culture the man so much that the man will disappear completely. He will not be a man at all! Lao Tzu erupts and Lao Tzu throws all the rules to the dust, and he says the only golden rule is to have no rules. This is a balancing. Lao Tzu is religion, Confucius is culture. Religion is needed l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,442 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... will kill the whole society -- three thousand three hundred rules? This is too much. You will culture the man so much that the man will disappear completely. He will not be a man at all! Lao Tzu erupts and Lao Tzu throws all the rules to the dust, and he says the only golden rule is to have no rules. This is a balancing. Lao Tzu is religion, Confucius is culture. Religion is needed like a medicine, it is medicinal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,443 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an so much that the man will disappear completely. He will not be a man at all! Lao Tzu erupts and Lao Tzu throws all the rules to the dust, and he says the only golden rule is to have no rules. This is a balancing. Lao Tzu is religion, Confucius is culture. Religion is needed like a medicine, it is medicinal. You are ill, you need medicine; the more ill, of course, the more medicine. A society becomes ill when the natural ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,444 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ural, somebody gives something to you and you take, natural. But don't make out of it a profession. Don't make out of it an anxiety. ... FOR MAHAMUDRA IS BEYOND ALL ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION. Lao Tzu teaches acceptance. And Tilopa teaches something beyond rejection and acceptance both. Tilopa is really one of the greatest masters. You reject something and you become unnatural -- that we can understand...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,445 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ords -- they are no more. they have disappeared long before; it is the whole pouring through them. Their expressions may be different, but the source is the same. The words of Jesus, Zarathustra, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Krishna, Mohammed are not ordinary words; they are not coming from their memory, they are coming from their experience. They have touched the divine, and the moment you touch the divine you evaporate, you ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,446 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... "Before writing down these words I contemplated ten thousand times whether to write or not, because I was taking a dangerous step." Nobody had gathered that much courage before. Ko Hsuan was preceded by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. Even they had not written anything; their message was remembered by their disciples. It was only written after Ko Hsuan took the dangerous step. But he also says, "Ten thousand times I ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,447 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s the essential wisdom -- not any particular person, but simply the principle. Nothing is known about Ko Hsuan, nothing at all. Hence for at least a few centuries it had been thought that these words belonged to Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu has a different way of speaking, a totally different way; these words can't be coming from Lao Tzu. We have gone into the words of Lao Tzu; he is even more mad than Ko Hsuan, he is even more myst...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,448 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...al wisdom -- not any particular person, but simply the principle. Nothing is known about Ko Hsuan, nothing at all. Hence for at least a few centuries it had been thought that these words belonged to Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu has a different way of speaking, a totally different way; these words can't be coming from Lao Tzu. We have gone into the words of Lao Tzu; he is even more mad than Ko Hsuan, he is even more mystical. And it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,449 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an, nothing at all. Hence for at least a few centuries it had been thought that these words belonged to Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu has a different way of speaking, a totally different way; these words can't be coming from Lao Tzu. We have gone into the words of Lao Tzu; he is even more mad than Ko Hsuan, he is even more mystical. And it is a well known fact that he never wrote anything other than TAO TE CHING, and that too he wrote un...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,450 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... few centuries it had been thought that these words belonged to Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu has a different way of speaking, a totally different way; these words can't be coming from Lao Tzu. We have gone into the words of Lao Tzu; he is even more mad than Ko Hsuan, he is even more mystical. And it is a well known fact that he never wrote anything other than TAO TE CHING, and that too he wrote under pressure, at the last mo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,451 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a grave. I simply want to disappear as if I had never existed." When he was passing through the country he was stopped at the border because the king had alerted all the borders and ordered that "If Lao Tzu passes out of the country through any gate he should be prevented unless he writes down whatsoever he has experienced." His whole life he had avoided it. In the end, it is said, because he was caught on the b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,452 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd unpublished Query:- go to the Himalayas, he stayed in a guard's but for three days and just wrote down the small treatise, TAO TE CHING. So this cannot be that THE CLASSIC OF PURITY belongs to Lao Tzu. But because nothing much is known about Ko Hsuan, people used to think that they must be words of Lao Tzu and Ko Hsuan must be a disciple of Lao Tzu who has simply written them down -- the notes of a discipl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,453 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n the small treatise, TAO TE CHING. So this cannot be that THE CLASSIC OF PURITY belongs to Lao Tzu. But because nothing much is known about Ko Hsuan, people used to think that they must be words of Lao Tzu and Ko Hsuan must be a disciple of Lao Tzu who has simply written them down -- the notes of a disciple. That's not so. Ko Hsuan himself is a Master in his own right. In his preface to this sm...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,454 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... So this cannot be that THE CLASSIC OF PURITY belongs to Lao Tzu. But because nothing much is known about Ko Hsuan, people used to think that they must be words of Lao Tzu and Ko Hsuan must be a disciple of Lao Tzu who has simply written them down -- the notes of a disciple. That's not so. Ko Hsuan himself is a Master in his own right. In his preface to this small treatise he says a few things which have to be reme...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,455 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tely one. It has not happened in the history of Christianity or in the history of Judaism or in the history of Mohammedanism, their history is full of ugliness. It has happened only in the of tradition of Buddha and Lao Tzu: a very rare phenomenon -- no argumentation. They simply tried to understand each other and they laughed and they hugged and they said, "Perfectly true!" A Christian missionary went to see ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,456 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s no question of converting. The whole idea of converting anybody is ugly, is violent. They never argued -- yes, they communed, they nodded at each other's understanding and they said, "Yes, that's true. That's what Lao Tzu also says. That's what Buddha has said in his own words." And out of this meeting -- which is the rarest in the whole of humanity -- Zen was born. Out of the meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu, out...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,457 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...That's what Lao Tzu also says. That's what Buddha has said in his own words." And out of this meeting -- which is the rarest in the whole of humanity -- Zen was born. Out of the meeting of Buddha and Lao Tzu, out of the meeting of Buddha's insight and Taoist insight, out of the meeting of Dharma and Tao, Zen was born. Hence Zen is a rare flowering. Nowhere else has it happened that way -- so silently, without blo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,458 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the secret of the kingdom of God, but he did not know the secret of remaining happy in marriage. He remained unmarried. Mahavira, Lao Tzu Chuang Tzu, they all remained unmarried for the simple reason that there is no secret; otherwise these people would have discovered it. They could discover the ultimate -- marriage is not such a big thing, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,459 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...le life. He did not discover through marriage the secret of remaining happy; he simply discovered that it would have been better if he had not got married. But in Greece there had never been such incidents as Jesus, Lao Tzu -- Jesus had yet to come, five hundred years after Socrates. Socrates was a contemporary of Lao Tzu, Mahavira, but he knew nothing about them because the world in those days had no communication. So whatsoeve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,460 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at it would have been better if he had not got married. But in Greece there had never been such incidents as Jesus, Lao Tzu -- Jesus had yet to come, five hundred years after Socrates. Socrates was a contemporary of Lao Tzu, Mahavira, but he knew nothing about them because the world in those days had no communication. So whatsoever was conventional happened in his life. Mohammed married not one woman, he married...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,461 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...bh is a Polack Jew! That is the most dangerous combination you can find -- Polack and Jew! Of course, he loves me and loves me tremendously -- he is here, he is one of my topmost therapists, he lives in my house, in Lao Tzu -- but hangovers are hangovers! Very excited, Isaac calls David, "Come immediately, David, I have an incredible bargain. Three hundred trousers for only fifty dollars!" David runs to Isa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,462 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he will have to sacrifice his religiousness. Religions have not left any other choice. Because of this, only uncreative people became interested in religion. I am not talking about Gautam the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira, Krishna, Kabir, Nanak; leave aside these few names. They are immensely creative, they are poets of existence. They are far greater poets than your so-called poets -- t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,463 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ss as such because that means you have made organized religion synonymous with religiousness; it is not so. Condemn the priests, condemn the Pope, condemn the Shankaracharya, but don't condemn Buddha and Lao Tzu and Jesus and Mohammed. They have contributed immensely to man's inner growth; they are absolutely creative. Of course, they have been interpreted by wrong people, but what can they do about it? They need peo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,464 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...neither too loose nor too tight. This is the whole art of religion, or the whole science of religion. Tao does not believe in miracles; it believes in scientific methods to transform your life. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu were walking together along a forest path one day when they came upon a fast-flowing river which barred their way. Immediately Lieh Tzu sat down on the bank of the river and meditated...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,465 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he stood up and proceeded to walk on the water to the other side. Next, Chuang Tzu sat in the lotus posture for twenty minutes, whereupon he stood up and also walked across the river. Lao Tzu, watching this in amazement, shrugged his shoulders, sat down on the river bank like the others and meditated for over an hour. Finally, with complete trust in the Tao, he closed his eyes, took one step into ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,466 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Borrowed knowledge is always going to create that kind of state in you. You can repeat Jesus, you can repeat Krishna, you can repeat Moses, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, but repetitions won't help; you have to learn on your own. Yes, imbibe the spirit of the Masters, of the awakened ones, but remember it is not knowledge that is going to help you but wisdom. And wisdom comes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,467 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce we go on conditioning children, and the question arises... Your question is relevant, Gautami, because it is not only I who am saying that children are intelligent, it has been said by Buddha, by Lao Tzu, by Jesus, by all the awakened ones. Jesus says: Unless you are like a small child there is no hope for you. Again he says: Unless you become like small children you cannot enter into my kingdom of God. Again...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,468 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ous people have uniqueness. One Buddha absolutely differs from another Buddha. If you have to listen to the story of Jesus it is going to be tremendously different from the story of Gautam the Buddha or the story of Lao Tzu. They are unique people. But unconscious people, what is their story? The same sexuality, the same repression, the same greed, the same anger, the same hatred, destructiveness, suicidalness, possessiveness, j...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,469 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t away from you. Then you can remain a judge, you can become a doctor, you can be whatsoever you want to be; it does not matter. There are great stories... One Chinese parable says: Lao Tzu used to send his disciples to learn the art of meditation from a butcher. The disciples were very puzzled -- why the butcher? And Lao Tzu would say, "You go and see. The man lives exactly the way one should l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,470 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...atter. There are great stories... One Chinese parable says: Lao Tzu used to send his disciples to learn the art of meditation from a butcher. The disciples were very puzzled -- why the butcher? And Lao Tzu would say, "You go and see. The man lives exactly the way one should live, always herenow. It does not matter what he is doing. He is not the doer at all; he is just a watcher, he is a witness. It is a role t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,471 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a role that he is playing -- he is acting as a butcher." And he was no ordinary butcher; he had been especially appointed by the Emperor of China to his own kitchen. The Emperor asked Lao Tzu, "How to learn to be herenow? -- because you are always talking about herenow." Lao Tzu said, "You need not ask me; your butcher is the right person. Even I send many of my disciples to watch ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,472 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he had been especially appointed by the Emperor of China to his own kitchen. The Emperor asked Lao Tzu, "How to learn to be herenow? -- because you are always talking about herenow." Lao Tzu said, "You need not ask me; your butcher is the right person. Even I send many of my disciples to watch him." The Emperor was shocked. He said, "My butcher! What does he know about it?" Lao Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,473 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu said, "You need not ask me; your butcher is the right person. Even I send many of my disciples to watch him." The Emperor was shocked. He said, "My butcher! What does he know about it?" Lao Tzu said, "You watch him work." And the Emperor watched. And it was really a tremendously ecstatic experience even to watch him working. His instrument, his knife, was so sharp, so shining, as if it was absol...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,474 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...imply allow the river to take you to the ocean; you need not push the river. But when such great truths are put into language, difficulties arise because our language is made by us. It is not made by people like Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Ko Hsuan, it is made by the mediocre people the world is full of. Obviously, language is their invention and it carries their meanings, their attitudes towards life. So whatsoever you s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,475 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... What happened? Where had his power gone? And he was always talking about being the son of God... But to be the son of God simply means to be utterly powerless. How we go on misunderstanding people like Jesus, Lao Tzu, Ko Hsuan! Our misunderstanding is almost infinite. He surrendered to God. Yes, for a moment he himself had become aware of all the expectations. Almost one-hundred thousand people had gathered to see; friend...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,476 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t he simply went. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Only Jesus can do it, or Lao Tzu or Ko Hsuan or Bodhidharma or Basho. These are people who have dropped the whole power trip, the whole number. Ko Hsuan cannot mean what the translation will create in your mind. It says: ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,477 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ssess anything. You enjoy more because your energy is free and your senses are more clear, more transparent. Nobody can see beauty more clearly than a Buddha, nobody can hear music more deeply than a Lao Tzu, nobody can taste better than Jesus. All their senses become truly sensitive, they are real senses. Your senses are dull. Your society helps you to keep them dull because the society is afraid: if your senses...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,478 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... politics, in the name of literature, art. Each child is distracted, is diverted. Hence so much stupidity, Hein. It is really a miracle how few people have escaped from this prison -- a Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus, a Pythagoras -- very few people. It is almost impossible to escape from this prison because the prison is all around and it begins from the very beginning; from your very childhood you are condition...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,479 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... consciousness. Hence there is no more any veil, no more any obstruction. The teacher is so full of thoughts that he is just the opposite end of the Master. Never call Buddha a teacher or Jesus a teacher or Lao Tzu a teacher -- they are Masters. Moreover, they don't teach at all -- why call them teachers? They don't impart any new knowledge to the world. Albert Einstein can be called a great teacher, Newton can be calle...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,480 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Einstein can be called a great teacher, Newton can be called a great teacher. Darwin can be called a great teacher, Marx, Freud -- these people can be called great teachers: they have taught many things. What Lao Tzu has taught? What Buddha has taught? What Zarathustra has taught? Nothing at all! But they have imparted a new vision, a new style of life. They have touched people's heart, and they have transformed those hea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,481 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u information, they give you transformation. What they say is not important, what they are is important. What they say is only a device; their silence is important. If you want to understand Buddha, Lao Tzu, Ko Hsuan, Kabir, Nanak, you will have to learn how to read between the lines. You will have to learn how to understand silence and the music of silence. You will have to be silent. It is a totally different ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,482 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ar a size 8 shoe on a size 11 foot!" All your beliefs are like that. You are wearing clothes which were perfectly good for a Buddha but are not good for you. You are wearing shoes which were perfectly good for Lao Tzu but are not good for you. You are living in houses made by others for a totally different purpose, which is not your purpose. Your whole life is a long, long misery for the simple reason that if you have a si...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,483 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...henever anybody asked Buddha about his ultimate experience he will say, "Don't ask absurd questions, ask practical questions. Ask how to reach it, don't ask what has happened. It cannot he conveyed." Lao Tzu says: Truth said becomes a falsehood Truth unsaid remains true: uttered, becomes false. The Upanishads say: Those who say that "We know," know not. Socrates in his last stage of life said. "I know onl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,484 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he way Greeks could have understood. He cannot speak in paradoxes, he speaks logically. Hence he says, I know only one thing, that I know nothing." Ko Hsuan will not even say that; Buddha will not say even that: Lao Tzu will not even say that. WHEN this NETHERMOST NOTHINGNESS IS REACHED, THERE IS MOST TRULY TO BE FOUND A DEEP AND UNCHANGING STILLNESS. Now for the first time a deep, unchanging stillness ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,485 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e same ut they are not same; they can never be the same. Innocence is a state of meditativeness. When you are silent, aware, open, in contact with the whole, in tune with Tao, then you are innocent. Lao Tzu is innocent, Buddha is innocent, Krishna is innocent, Jesus is innocent. These are not knowledgeable people. Of courss what they have said out of their knowing we have changed it into knowledge; what they hav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,486 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...portance to understand, because we are brought up through words with the idea as if everything can be said -- and we try to say it. And by saying those things which are not sayable, we falsify them. Lao Tzu says: Tao cannot be said; the moment you say it you have already falsified it. Truth cannot be communicated, no word is adequate enough, big enough to contain it. It is so vast, vaster than the sky, and words...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,487 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- And in your history books you will not find names of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Ko Hsuan -- not even in the footnotes. And these are the people who are the real foundations of human consciousness, these are the people who are the real hope. But you will not find th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,488 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hese three are always standing. These three persons are responsible in many ways for the deterioration of human consciousness in this age. Because of these three persons, Buddhas have almost disappeared. People like Lao Tzu are not possible anymore even in China; communism won't allow them. Taoist monasteries have been destroyed, converted into schools and hospitals. Taoist meditators have been forced to work in the fields or in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,489 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...esus has something beautiful which Krishna has not got, and Krishna has something else which is beautiful which is missing in Jesus. And you will be far more complete if Jesus, Krishna, Mohammed, Moses, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Ko Hsuan, Kabir, Bahauddin, all become part of your inner being. There is no need to be so miserly. Your consciousness is so vast it can contain the whole universe, it can contain the whole sky. Even ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,490 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erve that Jesus happened only once? And for two thousand years, how many people have tried to imitate him? Millions. And how many have become Jesus Christ? Not a single one. The same is true about Zarathustra, about Lao Tzu, about Buddha, about Mahavira, about Krishna. Not even a single person has been able to repeat, and it is not that people have not tried; people have tried in every possible way. Millions of people have tried...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,491 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed twelve now positions they had invented. Gurdjieff drank twenty bottles of brandy, then walked on his hands on a tightrope over the plenum void, smiling with the left side of his face and grimacing with the right. Lao Tzu had a good belly laugh at all these antics. Mansoor would not stop shouting, "Ana'l Haq! Ana'l Haq!" and finally had to be put in a straitjacket and given a couple of valium. Vatsyayana gave himself a blow jo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,492 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now, a great hunger to know; if these parables lead you on an unknown journey, on a pilgrimage -- then only, only by treading the path, will you become acquainted with the path. Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, the three Taoist Masters, only talk about the Way 'Tao' means the Way -- they don't talk about the goal at all. They say: The goal will take care of itself; you need not worry about the goal. If you know the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,493 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...athless path. It is not ready-made, available; you cannot just decide to walk on it, you will have to find it. And you will have to find it in your own way; nobody else's way is going to function. Buddha has walked, Lao Tzu has walked, Jesus has walked, but those ways are not going to help you because you are not Jesus, and you are not Lao Tzu, and you are not Lieh Tzu. You are you, a unique individual. Only by walking, only by ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,494 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l have to find it in your own way; nobody else's way is going to function. Buddha has walked, Lao Tzu has walked, Jesus has walked, but those ways are not going to help you because you are not Jesus, and you are not Lao Tzu, and you are not Lieh Tzu. You are you, a unique individual. Only by walking, only by living your life, will you find the Way. This is something of great value. That's why Taoism is not an org...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,495 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing easily, one who is glowing with God, streaming with his energy... just by the side of him, sitting silently, waiting, some day you are overflooded. Let me tell you one Taoist story. A disciple of Lao Tzu said 'Master, I have arrived.' Lao Tzu said 'If you say you have arrived. then it is certain that you have not arrived.' The disciple waited for a few months, then one day he said 'You were right, Mas...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,496 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... his energy... just by the side of him, sitting silently, waiting, some day you are overflooded. Let me tell you one Taoist story. A disciple of Lao Tzu said 'Master, I have arrived.' Lao Tzu said 'If you say you have arrived. then it is certain that you have not arrived.' The disciple waited for a few months, then one day he said 'You were right, Master. Now, it HAS 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,497 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...published Query:- ARRIVED.' First he had said 'I have arrived'. and the Master denied. And then after a few months, one day. suddenly he burst open, and he said 'It has arrived.' Lao Tzu looked with tremendous compassion and love and patted his head. And he said Now it is right. Now, tell me what has happened. Now I would like to listen. What has happened?' He said 'Up to that day when y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,498 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ey don't call it by any personal name they simply say 'it'. 'It' is non-personal, it is the name of the whole: 'Tao' means it. 'Tao has arrived' he said 'and it came only when I was not there.' Lao Tzu said 'Tell the other disciples the situation in which it happened.' And he said 'The only thing that I can say is that I was not good, I was not bad, I was not a sinner, I was not a saint, I was not this, I w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,499 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ree stages in the life of a religion. When religion is born -- the childhood of religion, when a Master is alive, fresh, and the energy is flowing from the source and the fragrance is coming, when Buddha is alive or Lao Tzu is alive or Jesus is alive -- then religion has its first, virgin, innocent state: the childhood. It is as fresh as the dewdrops in the morning, fresh as the rose flower, fresh as the stars, innocent; it know...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,500 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to go above. To go to nature against nurture: that's what the message of Tao is. There is no discipline in Tao -- Tao is not Yoga. Tao is just the diametrically opposite standpoint to Yoga. If Patanjali and Lao Tzu met, they would not be able to understand each other -- impossible; Patanjali would talk about discipline. If Patanjali met Confucius, they would become friends immediately; Confucius also talks about discipl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,501 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot be able to understand each other -- impossible; Patanjali would talk about discipline. If Patanjali met Confucius, they would become friends immediately; Confucius also talks about discipline, control, character. Lao Tzu talks about characterlessness. Remember the word 'characterlessness' because Lao Tzu says that the real man has no character -- cannot have a character; character means something of the past. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,502 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ine. If Patanjali met Confucius, they would become friends immediately; Confucius also talks about discipline, control, character. Lao Tzu talks about characterlessness. Remember the word 'characterlessness' because Lao Tzu says that the real man has no character -- cannot have a character; character means something of the past. A real man lives in the moment. He does not live through the past, he has no ideas to live -- he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,503 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...they are fellow-travellers. Einstein could have understood Patanjali very easily, and Patanjali could have understood Einstein very easily. But neither Einstein nor Patanjali would have been able to conceive of what Lao Tzu is saying. He would look mad, he would look absurd. He brings a totally different dimension into the world -- the dimension of the feminine. Man is aggressive, woman is receptive. Woman is a womb: recept...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,504 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is saying. He would look mad, he would look absurd. He brings a totally different dimension into the world -- the dimension of the feminine. Man is aggressive, woman is receptive. Woman is a womb: receptivity. Lao Tzu says that truth has to be received, not sought. Seek, and you will never find, says Lao Tzu. Wait, wait in openness, wait in vulnerability and you will find, because truth will come to you. Invite, and wait. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,505 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... into the world -- the dimension of the feminine. Man is aggressive, woman is receptive. Woman is a womb: receptivity. Lao Tzu says that truth has to be received, not sought. Seek, and you will never find, says Lao Tzu. Wait, wait in openness, wait in vulnerability and you will find, because truth will come to you. Invite, and wait. Love, and wait. Be in a let-go. That is the meaning when I say 'sublime laz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,506 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nactive person accumulates, so it is not lethargy. A person who is lethargic is inactive and has no energy; he is impotent. Just a few days ago I was talking about Ashtavakra. Yes, he is exactly like Lao Tzu; he also praises the quality of sublime laziness. He calls it ALASI SHIROMANI. the emperor of laziness, a great king of laziness, the highest peak of laziness. But remember, inactivity plus energy, plus ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,507 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e here-now, and love the small things of life, is to become spiritual. That is the difference between the so-called 'ordinary spirituality' and the spirituality that is of Tao. If you go and you find Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu or Lieh Tzu, you will not be able to recognise them.; they will be very ordinary. You will have to be with them to feel. They don't impose any extraordinariness, they will not show you miracles, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,508 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there is no problem -- you should ask Oscar. I am not jealous. You can love me, and you can love a thousand and one Masters -- there is no problem. In fact, my whole effort here is to make you fall in love with Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Buddha, Krishna, Christ, Gurdjieff, Krishnamurti, Ramana. Ramakrishna -- a thousand and one. I am not jealous. I am vast, I can contain all your loves; so as far as I am concerned, ther...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,509 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Taoism is the profoundest non-conformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion. So there has been a rebellion and the Taoist mystics, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu, go on ridiculing the Confucian attitude. This is a parable of ridicule. You will understand it when I explain it to you. Their ridicule is also very subtle, not gross. First let us u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,510 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...find out the reason. But when the joy is truly there, it is so mysterious, it is so primal, that you cannot find any reason in it. If you ask a Buddha 'Why are you happy?' he will shrug his shoulders. If you ask Lao Tzu 'Why are you blissful?' he will say 'Don't ask it. Rather than asking why I am blissful, enquire why you are not.' It is like a small spring in the mountains: when there is no hindrance, the s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,511 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and the Taoist attitude. The Hindu, the Jain, the Buddhist -- they all say: Past lives, KARMA, has to be removed. Much has to be done, great discipline is needed -- only then will you be able to attain. Ashtavakra, Lao Tzu, Bodhidharma, Lin Chi say: Nothing is needed, just allow it. Relax, allow it, and this very moment it will start pouring in you. Confucius says 'MASTER, WHAT IS THE REASON FOR YOU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,512 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tre, are the reality. Everything else is illusory. To know this reality one has to come to a moment of total inactivity because whenever you are acting. you are outside yourself. That's why Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, emphasised passivity so much; when you are active, you are relating with the outside world. What is activity? Activity means relating with the outside. When you are passive, you are not relat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,513 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o into it very slowly, trying to understand each sentence in it, each word actually. The Confucian approach is a mind approach. The Taoist approach is a no-mind approach. Confucius thinks about life. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, don't think about life because they say: You can go on thinking and thinking about and about, and you will go round and round and you will never reach to the centre. About and about is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,514 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nobody else is needed to rediscover it now. What may have taken fifty years for a scientist to discover, a schoolchild can learn within five minutes. But that is not the way of religion. What Buddha discovered, what Lao Tzu discovered, Lieh Tzu discovered, you will have to discover again. Confucius is on the wrong track. Confucius is used in Taoist tales as a laughing stock. CONFUCIUS, WHO WAS ON A JOURNEY T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,515 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o he says 'He knows a little bit, but not all of it.' This happens. A man of knowledge always goes on protecting his ego. This statement is as absurd as a statement can be. You ask a Buddha, you ask Lao Tzu. you ask Jesus, you ask Krishna and they will all say: Truth cannot be divided. It is not a thing that you can divide. It is an experience -- when it happens, it happens. When it happens, it happens totally. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,516 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d I do my work -- beyond that I don't know what is going on', then there is no problem. I am not against intellect as such. I am against the intellect which claims to be the whole. And that is the standpoint of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. They are not against intellect. How can they be? They are not against anything. My hand is a part of my body, but if the hand starts claiming 'I am the whole', and if the hand starts sa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,517 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st intellect. reason? The only thing that Tao wants you to understand is that life is more than reason, vaster than reason. Reason covers a small space, but that is not the boundary of the totality. Lao Tzu is big and Confucius can be included in him, but Confucius is very narrow and Lao Tzu cannot be included in him. Lao Tzu is Tao. Confucius is Torah. 'Torah' is a Hebrew word, but I like it because it goes wel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,518 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat life is more than reason, vaster than reason. Reason covers a small space, but that is not the boundary of the totality. Lao Tzu is big and Confucius can be included in him, but Confucius is very narrow and Lao Tzu cannot be included in him. Lao Tzu is Tao. Confucius is Torah. 'Torah' is a Hebrew word, but I like it because it goes well with Tao. Tao means love, Torah means law. In the word 'tarot' is the word ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,519 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n. Reason covers a small space, but that is not the boundary of the totality. Lao Tzu is big and Confucius can be included in him, but Confucius is very narrow and Lao Tzu cannot be included in him. Lao Tzu is Tao. Confucius is Torah. 'Torah' is a Hebrew word, but I like it because it goes well with Tao. Tao means love, Torah means law. In the word 'tarot' is the word 'torah'.'Tarot' comes from two words: TORAH ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,520 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...because he brought a very foreign climate which had never been part of the Jewish mind. Jesus is indefinable; Moses is perfectly definable. Moses will easily agree with Confucius, will not agree with Lao Tzu. The Ten Commandments are the foundation of the law-abiding mind, and of course the law-abiding mind can always find ways and means and loop-holes in the law. A woman, a married woman, fell in love with a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,521 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... man will see that his life always uses the law for love. Torah is a stepping stone towards Tao. This ashram, naturally, has to be run according to Confucius, but Confucius here is in the service of Lao Tzu. You see this mad man here? Confucius is in the service of Lao Tzu: Torah in service of Tao. Then there is no problem. Vice versa, then things go wrong; then you are standing on your head and something has to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,522 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a stepping stone towards Tao. This ashram, naturally, has to be run according to Confucius, but Confucius here is in the service of Lao Tzu. You see this mad man here? Confucius is in the service of Lao Tzu: Torah in service of Tao. Then there is no problem. Vice versa, then things go wrong; then you are standing on your head and something has to be done immediately. YESTERDAY, ALTHOUGH SITTIN...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,523 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...your life is meaningless. You have to compete, you have to struggle -- only then can you leave your mark on history. If you remain silent and restful, how are you going to leave your mark on history? Lao Tzu has not left any mark on history: Tamburlaine has left his mark on history. Chuang Tzu has not left his mark on history; Nadir Shah. Alexander. Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin. Mao they have left their marks on hist...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,524 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... become ugly and dark. Selfishness is natural. And the self that I am teaching you is what Tao is: your nature. Listen to it, follow it. Your nature is saying to you 'Be happy.' If this Tzu Kung had asked Lao Tzu, he would have said 'Great congratulations. You are tired of study? Very good. So drop all thinking, now meditate. You want rest? It is possible right now.' Lao Tzu would not say 'You shall.' Future is meanin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,525 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to you 'Be happy.' If this Tzu Kung had asked Lao Tzu, he would have said 'Great congratulations. You are tired of study? Very good. So drop all thinking, now meditate. You want rest? It is possible right now.' Lao Tzu would not say 'You shall.' Future is meaningless, it is a trick -- a trick to console you, that though you don't have right now, but you shall. You can hope, and through hope you can poison your w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,526 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you are born. From one door you enter, from another door you are back to life again -- and of course the same rut, the same wheel moves. 'GREAT IS DEATH!' -- but not on the lips of Tzu Kung. Yes, if Lao Tzu were saying it, it would be okay. Not even on the lips of Confucius is death great, because the whole approach is wrong. 'THE GENTLEMAN FINDS REST IN IT...' Remember this word 'gentle...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,527 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...- only mean persons don't find rest in death. And don't hanker for rest in life' because that too is meanness according to Confucius. Rest is not possible, rest is escapism. Confucius was always worried about Lao Tzu and his teachings. It is said that once he went to see Lao Tzu. Of course, he was older than Lao Tzu so he wanted Lao Tzu to behave in a mannerly way, as an old man expects. But Lao Tzu was sitting and he wou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,528 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... life' because that too is meanness according to Confucius. Rest is not possible, rest is escapism. Confucius was always worried about Lao Tzu and his teachings. It is said that once he went to see Lao Tzu. Of course, he was older than Lao Tzu so he wanted Lao Tzu to behave in a mannerly way, as an old man expects. But Lao Tzu was sitting and he would not even stand to greet him and he would not even say 'Sit d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,529 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...meanness according to Confucius. Rest is not possible, rest is escapism. Confucius was always worried about Lao Tzu and his teachings. It is said that once he went to see Lao Tzu. Of course, he was older than Lao Tzu so he wanted Lao Tzu to behave in a mannerly way, as an old man expects. But Lao Tzu was sitting and he would not even stand to greet him and he would not even say 'Sit down, sir' and he didn't pay much atten...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,530 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Confucius. Rest is not possible, rest is escapism. Confucius was always worried about Lao Tzu and his teachings. It is said that once he went to see Lao Tzu. Of course, he was older than Lao Tzu so he wanted Lao Tzu to behave in a mannerly way, as an old man expects. But Lao Tzu was sitting and he would not even stand to greet him and he would not even say 'Sit down, sir' and he didn't pay much attention to him. He becam...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,531 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cius was always worried about Lao Tzu and his teachings. It is said that once he went to see Lao Tzu. Of course, he was older than Lao Tzu so he wanted Lao Tzu to behave in a mannerly way, as an old man expects. But Lao Tzu was sitting and he would not even stand to greet him and he would not even say 'Sit down, sir' and he didn't pay much attention to him. He became very angry. 'What type of Master is this?' And he said 'Don't ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,532 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stand to greet him and he would not even say 'Sit down, sir' and he didn't pay much attention to him. He became very angry. 'What type of Master is this?' And he said 'Don't you follow any manners?' Lao Tzu said 'If you feel like sitting, you sit; if you feel like standing, you stand. Who am I to say anything about it? It is your life. I don't interfere.' Confucius was shocked. Then he asked something about...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,533 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f you feel like standing, you stand. Who am I to say anything about it? It is your life. I don't interfere.' Confucius was shocked. Then he asked something about the superior man, the gentleman, and Lao Tzu laughed and he said 'I have never come across any "superior" or "inferior". Men are men as trees are trees and everything participates in the same existence. Nobody is superior and nobody is inferior and it i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,534 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... inferior and it is all nonsense and rubbish!' He became very much afraid. And the man had tremendous silence around him; he was a pool of silence. Confucius came back. His disciples asked 'What about Lao Tzu?' He said 'Never go near this man, he is dangerous. If you come across a tiger, you can save your life in some way. If you come across a lion, you can save yourself. But this man is very dangerous. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,535 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a tiger, you can save your life in some way. If you come across a lion, you can save yourself. But this man is very dangerous. He is like a dragon, a flying dragon! He will kill you! Never go! Whenever you hear that Lao Tzu is around, escape!' Confucius was very much worried about Lao Tzu's teaching. The teaching is so utterly different, so utterly true, so utterly amoral, so utterly rebellious and so utterly i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,536 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... yourself. But this man is very dangerous. He is like a dragon, a flying dragon! He will kill you! Never go! Whenever you hear that Lao Tzu is around, escape!' Confucius was very much worried about Lao Tzu's teaching. The teaching is so utterly different, so utterly true, so utterly amoral, so utterly rebellious and so utterly individual. It believes in no man-made laws, only in nature. Trust in nature is Tao....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,537 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...The teaching is so utterly different, so utterly true, so utterly amoral, so utterly rebellious and so utterly individual. It believes in no man-made laws, only in nature. Trust in nature is Tao. And Lao Tzu says: You can rest in life, because even while you are walking you can remain unmoving. Your innermost centre can remain unmoving; you can become the centre of the cyclone. The wheel moves but the hub remains...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,538 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ain in silence deep within. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says: Let contradictions meet. Let paradoxes dissolve. Be paradoxical, because life is paradoxical. Live, and yet live as if you were dead. Then, when you die, die as if you were entering into another life --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,539 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...radoxes meet, mingle, fuse, into one unity. Confucian thought is of division, classification, categorisation: Life is life, life is struggle. Death is death, death is rest -- clear-cut divisions. Lao Tzu says: There are no distinctions, no clear-cut distinctions. Life is death, death is life. A man can live tremendously and yet deep down remain absolutely transcendental, away, far away, distant, not involved ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,540 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nterfere with your own life, if you have some ideal of how it should be, the ideal brings interference. The 'should' is the interference. If you have some ideal: that you have to be like Jesus or like Buddha or like Lao Tzu, that you have to be a perfect man or a perfect woman, that you have to be this and that, then you will interfere. You have a map, you have a direction, you have a fixed future. Your future is already dead, y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,541 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...D, IMPERSONAL CONCEPTS? The real cannot be talked about. The moment you talk about the real it becomes an abstract concept. The moment something is expressed it becomes a concept. That's why Lao Tzu says The Tao that can be talked about is no longer Tao. The truth that can be uttered becomes a lie. The real cannot be talked about, the real can only be experienced. And it is good that the real cannot be t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,542 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lking about Tao, rather I have been criticising Confucius. He is the trap; he has to be broken, demolished completely, with no compassion. He has to be smashed to pieces and bits, and thrown. Once Confucius is gone. Lao Tzu enters. You would like to invite Lao Tzu but Confucius is sitting on the throne; he has to be dethroned first. Once he is dethroned, suddenly you will see Lao Tzu has always been there -- the pres...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,543 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cising Confucius. He is the trap; he has to be broken, demolished completely, with no compassion. He has to be smashed to pieces and bits, and thrown. Once Confucius is gone. Lao Tzu enters. You would like to invite Lao Tzu but Confucius is sitting on the throne; he has to be dethroned first. Once he is dethroned, suddenly you will see Lao Tzu has always been there -- the presence of Confucius was hiding him. NET...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,544 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pieces and bits, and thrown. Once Confucius is gone. Lao Tzu enters. You would like to invite Lao Tzu but Confucius is sitting on the throne; he has to be dethroned first. Once he is dethroned, suddenly you will see Lao Tzu has always been there -- the presence of Confucius was hiding him. NETI NETI -- the negative approach: my approach is negative. I will never talk about reality because it cannot be talked abou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,545 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... foolish one, but he is not. Childishness is foolishness, stupidity: idiotic it is. Child-likeness is totally different: it is a flowering of innocence. St. Francis is child-like, Jesus is child-like, Lao Tzu is child-like. THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE I SAW MYSELF AS A BEGGAR; THIS TIME A THIEF. PLEASE COMMENT. You are growing well! This is the spiritual path. A disciple, when he first ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,546 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut a bundle of lies. That's why people don't look at themselves, because it is horrible to look at: the whole thing is just a lie. Socrates says 'Know thyself.' The Upanishads say 'Look within.' Jesus and Buddha and Lao Tzu they all go on teaching 'Close your eyes and go within.' But you cannot go, because whenever you look within there are lies and lies, queues upon queues of lies. It is horrible to look at those lies that you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,547 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... one has to put oneself at stake. In modern times, Gurdjieff, Ramakrishna-they followed the path of affirmation, VIA AFFIRMATIVA. The other path is VIA NEGATIVA, through negation, through the 'no'. Lao Tzu, Buddha, Nagarjuna -- they followed the path of negation. In modern times, Ramana Maharshi, J. Krishnamurti -- they follow the path of the 'no'. These two paths have to be understood as clearl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,548 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stand it: value comes when something is useful. How can you value something which is not? Not only that it is not useful, it IS NOT -- how can you value it? But that is the approach of the negative. Lao Tzu says: The room is valuable not because of the walls, but the emptiness within. You use the room not the walls. Of course, when you make the house you make the walls, not the emptiness; nobody can make the emp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,549 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it has no value. A man-made thing is a commodity. Of course if you go into the market-place and you start selling emptiness, nobody will purchase it. There is no value in it and people will laugh. Lao Tzu is passing through a forest, and the forest is being cut. Thousands of carpenters are cutting the trees. Then he comes near a big tree -- a very big tree, one thousand bullock carts can rest underneath it -- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,550 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And they say 'It is useless. You cannot make anything out of it: furniture cannot be made, it cannot be used as fuel -- it gives too much smoke. It is of no use. that's why we have not cut it.' And Lao Tzu says to his disciples 'Learn from this tree. Become as useless as this tree then nobody will cut you.' Uselessness has great value. He says: Look, and watch this tree. Learn something from thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,551 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... why It is gone. It must have been very egoistic, straight, proud of being somebody -- it is gone. This tree is not straight, not a single branch is straight. It is not proud at all. hence it exists. Lao Tzu says his disciples: If you want to live long, become useless. But remember, his meaning of the word 'useless' is; don't become a commodity, don't become a thing. If you become a thing you will be sold and pur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,552 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n reduce you to a means. You will never be insulted, because in this life there is no greater insult than to become a means: somebody or other is going to use you -- your body, your mind, your being. Lao Tzu says: Become a nonentity so that nobody looks at you and you can live YOUR LIFE as YOU want to live it. Nobody comes to interfere with you. It happened that Lao Tzu's disciple, Chuang Tzu, became very fa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,553 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... body, your mind, your being. Lao Tzu says: Become a nonentity so that nobody looks at you and you can live YOUR LIFE as YOU want to live it. Nobody comes to interfere with you. It happened that Lao Tzu's disciple, Chuang Tzu, became very famous and the Emperor sent his ministers to invite Chuang Tzu to become his prime minister. Lao Tzu was very angry. He said 'You must have done something wrong, otherwise ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,554 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...YOU want to live it. Nobody comes to interfere with you. It happened that Lao Tzu's disciple, Chuang Tzu, became very famous and the Emperor sent his ministers to invite Chuang Tzu to become his prime minister. Lao Tzu was very angry. He said 'You must have done something wrong, otherwise why should the Emperor become interested in you? You must have proved yourself of some use. You must have missed my teaching, otherwise h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,555 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... come that the Emperor has become interested in you? Now you will never be at rest.' Be a nonentity so nobody comes even to think that you can be of any use. There is a uselessness which is of tremendous use. Lao Tzu calls it 'the use of uselessness'. But certainly there is no value 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,556 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...can forget about it: nothing will be lost. Whatsoever I am saying is direct. Just to help you, because you are not capable of listening to the direct truth, you need a few witnesses. So Jesus, Krishna and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- they are just witnesses to me. I am not to adjust with them. they have to adjust with me. And this should always be so: the dead should exist and adjust with the living and for the living...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,557 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... A woman can be a perfect disciple, and this is how it should be. Woman is receptive, an opening, a womb. They have never been Masters in the sense that men have been Masters -- like Mahavir, Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. No, they have never been Masters like that. But there have never been disciples like women; no man has ever been able to equal them as far as disciplehood is concerned. And let me tell you this, that as far ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,558 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an has to drop all barriers.of nation and religion and church. That's what I am doing here: trying to bring together all the fragrances released in different centuries by differing flowerings of human consciousness. Lao Tzu is a flower, so is Buddha, so is Jesus, so is Mohammed, but now we have to melt all their fragrances into one -- a universal fragrance. Then, for the first time, man will be able to be religious and yet undiv...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,559 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- A lazy person can be sane. Sometimes the laziest people have been found to be the sanest. I have the feeling that if Anand Prem comes across Lao Tzu, she will think he is lazy. He will look lazy to all purposes. If she comes across Diogenes, she will think he is lazy. If she comes around Buddha she will think he is lazy. Sitting under the Bodhi Tree...'wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,560 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tter. '... well-established, has a bank account, is a gentleman, a squire, has prestige, respectability. Here these people are just hobos, wanderers, vagabonds.' She would have refused Buddha, she would have refused Lao Tzu: they were not straight. She writes to me: '... these long-haired people!' With such disgust she writes, and because of this disgust she has become a very disgusting person and she will not find. For one ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,561 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... The moment you are will-less, then there is no problem: all blocks removed... and deep inside you the superhuman rises to its optimum height. Yes, he looked like a man. Buddha also looked like a man, so looked Lao Tzu, so looked Krishna, so looked Christ. They were all men, but still something of the beyond had penetrated them. Because of that BEYOND we have given different names: Jesus is called Christ, 'the only begotten...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,562 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ood, bones, marrow, circulates in your being; you breathe it in and out. Then, remember always, the statement in itself does not mean much, but from whom it comes. Sometimes you will be surprised listening to me: if Lao Tzu says the thing I will support it, if 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,563 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... your own, good -- at least I will be very happy if you can wake up on your own: you will save me much trouble. But it has never happened. Krishnamurti is the purest statement of the negative path as pure as Lao Tzu, as pure as Ashtavakra. A very pure statement, but pure statements become very difficult because you cannot understand them; they are so far away. You can only misunderstand them. So he has been m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,564 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gious people, you will find that their insight is not very deep and the ego comes up in different forms again and again. About the ego only two persons have touched the very substratum and these two persons are Lao Tzu and Gautam Buddha. Religions go on saying 'Drop the ego. Be egoless', but in a subtle way, somehow, they go on protecting it too. They say 'If you drop the ego, you will become spiritual. If you d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,565 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it will become the ego of the humble person, it will hide behind humbleness. So a practised humbleness, a cultivated humbleness, is not going to help. Then what is to be done? If you ask Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu or Lao Tzu, they will say that nothing has to be done because whatsoever you do will create the ego; ego is created out of doing. Nothing is to be done. One has just to see the ways of the ego, the subtle ways of the eg...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,566 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be more powerful than the others and there is a continuous struggle, and in that struggle your energy starts flowing out: it becomes a sort of aura. Remember, this is not the aura that happens to a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or to Jesus. An aura happens to Buddha, but that aura is not energy coming out -- no. His whole being has become so luminous, that even from his body you can see the subtle rays of his luminosity. It is as if...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,567 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ks are so hard, what can the river do, what can this waterfall do?' But if you come after a few years, you will find those rocks are gone; they have become sand. The soft water has become victorious over hard rocks. Lao Tzu calls it 'the watercourse way', the way of the soft, the way of the feminine. What happens when a man, a very strong man and a very fragile beautiful woman come across each other, what happens...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,568 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n have a certain victory, but you cannot really defeat the soft. It is impossible to defeat the soft. The soft is so fragile, so ready to disappear... that's why it cannot be FORCED to disappear. Lao Tzu says 'Nobody can defeat me because I am already defeated. Nobody can defeat me because I don't hanker for victory at all.' How can you defeat him who has no desire to be victorious? The way of the hard, what ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,569 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...LD LIKE TO FIND.' But there is nothing to find. 'THE TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS AND MO TZU ARE WHAT I HAVE IN MIND.' Hui Ang is a disciple of Confucius and Mo Tzu. Mo Tzu is a disciple of Confucius. Just as Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu were the two top-most Taoists, so Confucius and Mo Tzu were the two top-most Confucianists. 'CONFUCIUS AND MO TZU BECAME PRINCES WITHOUT OWNING TERRITORY.... ' ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,570 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s disturbed my sleep forever. Yes, the Master is there to disturb your sleep. The sleep is nothing but the mind; mind is another name for your sleep. This is the distinction between the Confucian thought and the Lao-Tzuan thought. Confucius is an ordinary moralist, a puritan, one who believes in conditioning people, in disciplining people. Lao Tzu is a rebellious man who believes in taking people beyond all condi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,571 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... name for your sleep. This is the distinction between the Confucian thought and the Lao-Tzuan thought. Confucius is an ordinary moralist, a puritan, one who believes in conditioning people, in disciplining people. Lao Tzu is a rebellious man who believes in taking people beyond all conditionings -- unconditioning people. Only in freedom is God possible, only in utter freedom is 10/28/07 Cop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,572 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... He represents tradition. I am destroying tradition, convention, the legal mind, the structure of the conformist. Confucius is the conformist par excellence. And you all have him in your minds. Lao Tzu rarely enters into your mind. He is rebellious. He is going beyond tradition. He is going beyond past. He is going beyond all structure. Confucius is a structure, Lao Tzu is no-structure. Confucius is charact...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,573 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce. And you all have him in your minds. Lao Tzu rarely enters into your mind. He is rebellious. He is going beyond tradition. He is going beyond past. He is going beyond all structure. Confucius is a structure, Lao Tzu is no-structure. Confucius is character, Lao Tzu is characterlessness, freedom. Remember it. All character is imprisonment enforced on you by the society, enforced on you by the state, by the priest, by the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,574 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Tzu rarely enters into your mind. He is rebellious. He is going beyond tradition. He is going beyond past. He is going beyond all structure. Confucius is a structure, Lao Tzu is no-structure. Confucius is character, Lao Tzu is characterlessness, freedom. Remember it. All character is imprisonment enforced on you by the society, enforced on you by the state, by the priest, by the politician. This character that you carry around y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,575 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...racterlessness, freedom. Remember it. All character is imprisonment enforced on you by the society, enforced on you by the state, by the priest, by the politician. This character that you carry around you is a cage. Lao Tzu says there is a different character which is not imposed by the society; a different discipline which is not enforced from the outside but comes through inner awareness. Only that is true. Follow only that. F...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,576 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...comes through inner awareness. Only that is true. Follow only that. Follow only your own inner, small, still voice. Confucius says, 'Listen to the scripture, listen to the ancient masters, listen to tradition.' Lao Tzu says, 'Listen only to your own inner voice and follow it, wherever it leads. It is God's voice. It is Tao.' You ask me: I DOUBT IF ANYONE IN THE ASHRAM WOULD DEFEND CONFUCIANISM. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,577 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and this is good. Choose the good against the bad.' Then what will you do? You will have to repress the bad and enforce the good. You will become a hypocrite. Follow Confucius and you will become a hypocrite; follow Lao Tzu and you are not following anybody, you are following yourself. And you will become an authentic being. To be authentic is the only rest there is. The fifth question: I LIKE T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,578 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...blished Query:- can open a new vista. it can open a door in your being, it can give you a vision of reality. But the fundamental rule is: do not interfere. That is real non-violence. If you go to Lao Tzu and you say that somebody is a thief, he says, 'So what! Somebody is a thief. Let it be so.' Lao Tzu is unworried about reality. If somebody is mad. Lao Tzu will say, 'So what! Let it be so. If that's how the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,579 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f reality. But the fundamental rule is: do not interfere. That is real non-violence. If you go to Lao Tzu and you say that somebody is a thief, he says, 'So what! Somebody is a thief. Let it be so.' Lao Tzu is unworried about reality. If somebody is mad. Lao Tzu will say, 'So what! Let it be so. If that's how the whole wills it then that is how it has to be. Who are you'. Who has given you the authority to chang...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,580 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot interfere. That is real non-violence. If you go to Lao Tzu and you say that somebody is a thief, he says, 'So what! Somebody is a thief. Let it be so.' Lao Tzu is unworried about reality. If somebody is mad. Lao Tzu will say, 'So what! Let it be so. If that's how the whole wills it then that is how it has to be. Who are you'. Who has given you the authority to change anything, to transform it? Leave reality to itself and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,581 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... goes beautifully. rhythmically. Interfere, and everything is disturbed.' You have heard about the non-violence of Mahavir, you have heard about the non-violence of Buddha, but they are nothing compared to Lao Tzu. In their non-violence there is a subtle violence still: the violence of interference. The good has to be brought in, the bad has to be destroyed; the immoral has to be changed into moral, the wrong has to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,582 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... schools and colleges and universities are needed. It is a great achievement. Idiocy is not natural; it has to be learned, it has to be earned. Great effort has to be made before you can become stupid. A Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Jesus are people who somehow escaped from society, who somehow managed it that society did not change them into stupid people. They look rare because the whole society has become stupid otherwise they wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,583 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...U AND TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL HIM ABOUT HIS SON'S SYMPTOMS. One thing to be remembered at this moment of this parable is that the mind always looks for the Confucian. It comes across the 'Lao Tzu' only accidentally. Mind is basically Confucian. Mind looks for a structure. an ideology. Mind looks for a principle. Mind looks for some technology so that it 10/28/07 Cop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,584 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- can become more powerful in controlling. Mind looks for power. It is only accidental that you come across a Lao Tzu: you were not really looking for Lao Tzu, you were looking for Confucius. For example: you have come here. You were not looking for me, you were looking for a mahatma. You have come across me only accide...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,585 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- can become more powerful in controlling. Mind looks for power. It is only accidental that you come across a Lao Tzu: you were not really looking for Lao Tzu, you were looking for Confucius. For example: you have come here. You were not looking for me, you were looking for a mahatma. You have come across me only accidentally. You may have been in search of a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,586 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ybody, when you drop all judgements, suddenly the whole of life looks so beautiful, so immensely beautiful, so divine. The Devil disappears the moment your judgement disappears. This man came across Lao Tzu by accident so he TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL HIM ABOUT HIS SON'S SYMPTOMS. He was not aware of whom he was talking to. Lao Tzu is superb, unsurpassed. Unsurpassed before, unsurpassed after. There has nev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,587 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...moment your judgement disappears. This man came across Lao Tzu by accident so he TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL HIM ABOUT HIS SON'S SYMPTOMS. He was not aware of whom he was talking to. Lao Tzu is superb, unsurpassed. Unsurpassed before, unsurpassed after. There has never been such a clarity in any man ever, anywhere. Such total understanding, such absolute transparency! Even in a Buddha, ever in a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,588 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...been such a clarity in any man ever, anywhere. Such total understanding, such absolute transparency! Even in a Buddha, ever in a Mahavir, even in a Krishna, you will find a little judgement -- but not in Lao Tzu. 'HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOUR SON IS ABNORMAL?' SAID LAO TZU. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,589 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has come back!' If the whole crowd is mad, the sane person will look mad. How do you know that all people are not mad? The exceptional looks mad; the common seems to be the norm. Lao Tzu asked, 'HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOUR SON IS ABNORMAL?' I have heard. A Britisher was having tea on his lawn when a spaceship appeared in the sky. He watched calmly as it circled and came to ear...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,590 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on.' The exceptional seems to be abnormal. He may be normal on another planet. If you go some day to some other planet you will be abnormal; they will send you to a plastic surgeon immediately. Lao Tzu says, 'HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOUR SON IS ABNORMAL?' What criterion is there? What standard do you follow? Norm means the standard. But how do you decide who is normal? Is Buddha normal? Is Jesus normal? Jesus ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,591 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... should not be talked about. Socrates -- was he normal? Athens poisoned him because he was abnormal. If you look down the ages, all great people were abnormal. The ordinary seems to be the normal. Lao Tzu wants to destroy the criterion. He wants to tell you that there is no criterion to judge. Each individual is unique -- that is the Tao vision. Each individual is so unique, so incomparably unique, that there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,592 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...npublished Query:- any problem. Now you have confused me. Now I will never be able to walk correctly. The problem will haunt me. Which one first? Which one second? And there are one hundred legs!' Lao Tzu says that mind is confusion. The moment you think, you are confused. Thinking is confusion, hence nobody can go out of confusion by thinking. Thinking will make you even more muddled. One comes out of confusi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,593 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... harm to you may do good. Things are very complex; in fact, almost incomprehensible by the human mind. Life is so deep and so complex and we are so small, so tiny. There is no way to figure it out. So what does Lao Tzu say? Lao Tzu says, 'NOWADAYS EVERYONE IN THE WORLD IS DELUDED ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG AND CONFUSED ABOUT BENEFIT AND HARM.' How do you decide what is right? What is the criterion? Wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,594 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you may do good. Things are very complex; in fact, almost incomprehensible by the human mind. Life is so deep and so complex and we are so small, so tiny. There is no way to figure it out. So what does Lao Tzu say? Lao Tzu says, 'NOWADAYS EVERYONE IN THE WORLD IS DELUDED ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG AND CONFUSED ABOUT BENEFIT AND HARM.' How do you decide what is right? What is the criterion? Was Mohammed ri...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,595 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... blessed him. He would have said, 'Right. For the first time reality has dawned upon you.' But Krishna says, 'You are an escapist, a coward. This is cowardice.' Now who is right and who is wrong? Ask Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says that even the distinction between right and wrong is not possible. You simply live, whatsoever. As naturally as possible for you. I have heard. A man hired a taxi to the statio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,596 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...him. He would have said, 'Right. For the first time reality has dawned upon you.' But Krishna says, 'You are an escapist, a coward. This is cowardice.' Now who is right and who is wrong? Ask Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says that even the distinction between right and wrong is not possible. You simply live, whatsoever. As naturally as possible for you. I have heard. A man hired a taxi to the station. From t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,597 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...correct? Law is limited and life is excessive. If you live according to the law you may be correct but you may not be right. If you live according to life you may be right but you may not be correct. Lao Tzu's standpoint is that to make the distinction. to bring the distinction in, creates confusion. One should live spontaneously, naturally, and one should not try to follow any right and any wrong. One should rem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,598 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... worried? He cannot overturn the whole world. He can be accepted the way he is. Why try to change him? IF THE WHOLE WORLD WERE ABNORMAL HOW COULD ABNORMALITY OVERTURN IT? And then, as far as Lao Tzu's own vision is concerned, he says the whole world is abnormal. People may be abnormal in different ways but the whole world is abnormal. But nobody looks at one's own abnormality. It is very easy to think ab...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,599 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... don't understand, Doctor,' the woman said. 'He isn't getting the sheets clean!' Whenever you think about somebody as mad, wait a minute. There is a greater possibility that you are mad. A really sane man like Lao Tzu says that nobody is mad. People are simply different. Many people are suffering unnecessarily in hospitals, in madhouses, in mad asylums -- suffering unnecessarily. They are not mad, they are different. C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,600 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nt to be? Would you like to be a Buddha or would you like to be just a part of a mob? Even if Buddha is abnormal one would like to be a Buddha because he is so happy, so serene, so calm, so tranquil. Lao Tzu is saying to drop these ideas; they are meaningless. Those distinctions and judgements are foolish. JOY AND SORROW, MUSIC AND BEAUTY, SMELLS AND TASTES, RIGHT AND WRONG -- WHO CAN STRAIGHT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,601 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aining. What is music? Nobody has yet been able to define it. All that is significant remains indefinable. WHO CAN STRAIGHTEN THEM OUT? I AM NOT EVEN SURE.... LOOK at the beauty of it. Says Lao Tzu: I AM NOT EVEN SURE THAT THESE WORDS OF MINE ARE NOT ABNORMAL.... What can I say? This is Lao Tzu's absolute health. Only such a healthy person can say, 'I am not certain that my word...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,602 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...CAN STRAIGHTEN THEM OUT? I AM NOT EVEN SURE.... LOOK at the beauty of it. Says Lao Tzu: I AM NOT EVEN SURE THAT THESE WORDS OF MINE ARE NOT ABNORMAL.... What can I say? This is Lao Tzu's absolute health. Only such a healthy person can say, 'I am not certain that my words are abnormal or not. There is no way to say.' Only a really sane person can say, 'Maybe I am mad.' Rece...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,603 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... they believe it? You only believe that which you are. More than that looks impossible, cannot be, should not be. You think that you are the limit of existence, or, you are the definition of existence. Lao Tzu says: I AM NOT EVEN SURE THAT THESE WORDS OF MINE ARE NOT ABNORMAL LET ALONE THOSE OF THE GENTLEMEN OF LU WHO ARE THE MOST ABNORMAL OF ALL. About Confucius and his followers he is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,604 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the freedom to do his thing. All judgement is immoral and all effort to change somebody is destructive and violent. And that's what your mahatmas and your saints have. been doing up to now. That's why I say that Lao Tzu is incomparable, unique, unsurpassed before and after. His vision is the ultimate vision of spontaneity, suchness, nature. If you understand him your life will start moving in a totally different rhythm. You...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,605 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erence, WU-WEI. And only when you don't interfere in another's life do you respect life that's what reverence of life is all about. My teaching is exactly the same. I cannot say that about anybody else but about Lao Tzu I can say that my teaching is exactly the same. With Buddha I have differences -- although I may not tell them. With Mahavira I have many, many differences -- although I may not talk about them. But with ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,606 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...I can say that my teaching is exactly the same. With Buddha I have differences -- although I may not tell them. With Mahavira I have many, many differences -- although I may not talk about them. But with Lao Tzu I am absolutely in agreement. The agreement is unconditional and absolute because he seems to be the only one who has looked at life without any mind, who has looked at life straight, who has no idea, no ideo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,607 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecame naked when he became enlightened, Buddha continued to use his clothes. Mahavir's nakedness is beautiful -- such innocence. Krishna is totally different, Christ is totally different. And then there is this man, Lao Tzu. No two enlightened persons have ever been the same, cannot be. Even unenlightened people are not the same, how can enlightened people be the same? Even unenlightened people, imitating each other, cannot dest...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,608 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ties too. All the possibilities are not exhausted by me, cannot be exhausted by me. Nobody can exhaust all the possibilities. And it is beautiful that nobody can exhaust all the possibilities otherwise Buddha or Lao Tzu or Mahavira or Buddha would have exhausted all the possibilities. Then what would we have been doing here? The fourth question: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING SPECIAL AN...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,609 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...less religious than you -- religion is non-comparative. when religion is there it is simply there. Can you say Buddha was more religious than Jesus? Can you say Mahavira was more religious than Mohammed? Can you say Lao Tzu was more religious than Krishna? It would be absurd, the very statement would be absurd -- because religion is not quantity, it is quality of being. You cannot have more or less. There are no degrees. You can...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,610 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has been discovered, when you have become an integrated soul and you have come to know your centre, self-confidence follows like a shadow. You cannot throw it away. A Buddha has it, a Mahavir has it, a Lao Tzu has it -- you don't have it. Hence you are always afraid it may be taken away. And sometimes you even start thinking about dropping it. It cannot be taken away if it is there; it cannot be dropped if it is th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,611 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eply, infinitely, you will by and by become aware that even the trees are not the other, even the stars are not the other. This is what I call becoming a sannyasin -- to fall in love with the total. That's what Lao Tzu calls Tao -- to fall in love with the total, to make love to God. That is the ultimate tantra -- to make love to God, to be in love with the whole. Naturally, when you make love to a woman or...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,612 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ople to go back to sleep again. It has been the most sensational thing in the whole history of humanity. Jesus has left the deepest mark. Buddha has not left such a deep mark, neither has Mahavir, nor Patanjali, nor Lao Tzu. Jesus has left the deepest mark -- it is as if with the crucifixion history was split in two: before and after. All that was before Jesus became irrelevant and all that was after Jesus took on a new signific...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,613 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this and that. That is his concept of the room. If everything is taken out he will say, 'What has happened to this room? Everything is empty. This is just empty.' This is no longer a room for him. To Lao Tzu this will be room, to me this will be room. Now one can expand in this room, one can be in this room. there is space, there is spaciousness. So when for the first time your mind goes off you suddenly feel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,614 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng and I am nothing, where do you make a definition? How do you demark where your Master ends and Jesus begins? There is no fence between me and Jesus so if you enter into me you have entered Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu -- you have entered all . If you enter Jesus, you have entered me. So drop these foolish ideas. But it will certainly be easier for you to be related to me. I am here alive, present, Jesus has not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,615 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erve two Masters he means you cannot serve the outer and inner together. He is not comparing Buddha and Krishna and himself. Beware of interpretation. Whenever you are reading words of Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, be very careful. Your mind can play tricks with you. Your mind can colour them with your own prejudice. I understand why this problem arises. This problem arises because our minds are very narrow, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,616 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...can love Buddha also, his Christianity will go very deep and if a Buddhist can understand Jesus also he will understand Buddha far more, far better. And if you can understand Mahavir and Mohammed and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu all together, and you can love them all together as a different expression of the same divine certainly your life will be the life of an emperor. Right now it 10/28/07 Copy...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,617 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now the whole totally, the part can only know so far. A man of knowing understands the mystery of life. That's why Buddha is silent about life. He does not say a single word about it. Lao Tzu kept quiet for his whole life until he was forced, really forced, to write his experiences. He was getting old and he was moving towards the Himalayas and he wanted to disappear in the Himalayas but he was pr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,618 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Himalayas and he wanted to disappear in the Himalayas but he was prevented at the last boundary post of China. The guards would not allow him to pass because they had received a message from the emperor not to allow Lao Tzu to escape out of the country unless he wrote a book about his experiences. So for three days, at that outer boundary post, he remained in a tent and wrote the book -- because he wanted to get out of the count...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,619 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... world has become golden. Watching that, in that coolness, in that purified air, on that high altitude, what better space to die in? You cannot find a better graveyard. It is tremendously beautiful. Lao Tzu was very old and he was in a hurry so he said, 'Okay. If you insist, I will write.' But the first sentence he wrote in the TAO TE CHING IS: 'The Tao, the truth, that can be said is not the real Tao. The Tao t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,620 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... so strong and the water is so soft that you cannot ever logically imagine that one day the water will destroy the rock, that it will disappear as sand and the water will still be there. This is what Lao Tzu calls 'the water-course way' -- the strength of the feminine. The energy of the masculine is that of the chopper, the wood-cutter. Have you watched a wood-cutter chopping wood? That is the energy of the m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,621 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the ultimate truth. BRAHMA is the ultimate truth. By knowing it one becomes a BRAHMIN. When I say Krishna is a BRAHMIN I mean Mahavira is a BRAHMIN, Buddha is a BRAHMIN -- so is Moses, so is Jesus, so is Lao Tzu. I don't mean the caste BRAHMIN. By birth nobody is a BRAHMIN, nobody can be. I also know that he was a KSHATRIYA a KSHATRIYA by birth. That is meaningless. That is formal, accidental. I don't talk about acci...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,622 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... will be ready to say that he is mad. They think the whole world is mad except themselves. This is a criterion of a mad person -- he thinks the whole world is mad except himself. What about a sane person? Lao Tzu says, 'The whole world seems to be very intelligent except me. The whole world seems to be very clear except me -- I am confused. The world seems to have clarity, transparency of mind, I am muddle-headed. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,623 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... me. The whole world seems to be very clear except me -- I am confused. The world seems to have clarity, transparency of mind, I am muddle-headed. The whole world is clever and wise, I am an idiot.' Look what Lao Tzu is saying. This is the indication of a sane man -- the sanest ever. So, Satisha -- this is a question from Satisha -- you are coming closer to sanity because you are becoming aware of your madness. Watch ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,624 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...om the Koran and a few from the Gita -- and making something out of it. This is a hotchpotch, a KHICHARI, it is not unity, it is not the total vision. I am not putting Christ and Mohammed and Mahavir and Krishna and Lao Tzu together. No, as I see them they are one. It is not a question of putting them together, I am not making any effort to put them together, I am not trying to find some synthesis in them. They ARE one -- that i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,625 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Mussolini or Napoleon or Alexander all died frustrated, failures. What happened to them? They exhausted their energies by fighting, by being aggressive. A Buddha dies a conqueror. Without fighting he conquers. A Lao Tzu is victorious. Without making any effort his victory is ultimate. The great horse has the quality of non-aggressiveness. Nobody can defeat him. That is the meaning of 'mare'. A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,626 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Tao you will have to drop the ego. Dropping it, you come home; dropping it, the benediction is there. Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 1 Talks on Fragments from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Talks given from 11/06/75 am to 20/06/75 am English Discourse series 10 Chapters ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,627 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... but still, a distance remains. It always remains in the phenomenon of love -- you come closer and closer and closer, but even in closeness there is a distance. That is the misery of all lovers. I speak on Lao Tzu totally differently. I am not related to him because even to be related a distance is needed. I don't love him, because how can you love yourself? When I speak on Lao Tzu I speak as if I am speaking on my own...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,628 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is the misery of all lovers. I speak on Lao Tzu totally differently. I am not related to him because even to be related a distance is needed. I don't love him, because how can you love yourself? When I speak on Lao Tzu I speak as if I am speaking on my own self. With him my being is totally one. When I speak on Lao Tzu it is as if I am looking in a mirror -- my own face is reflected. When I speak on Lao Tzu, I am ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,629 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use even to be related a distance is needed. I don't love him, because how can you love yourself? When I speak on Lao Tzu I speak as if I am speaking on my own self. With him my being is totally one. When I speak on Lao Tzu it is as if I am looking in a mirror -- my own face is reflected. When I speak on Lao Tzu, I am absolutely with him. Even to say "absolutely with him" is not true -- I am him, he is me. Histo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,630 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...urself? When I speak on Lao Tzu I speak as if I am speaking on my own self. With him my being is totally one. When I speak on Lao Tzu it is as if I am looking in a mirror -- my own face is reflected. When I speak on Lao Tzu, I am absolutely with him. Even to say "absolutely with him" is not true -- I am him, he is me. Historians are doubtful about his existence. I cannot doubt his existence because how can I doubt ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,631 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I became possible, he became true to me. Even if history proves that he never existed it makes no difference to me; he must have existed because I exist -- I am the proof. During the following days, when I speak on Lao Tzu, it is not that I speak on somebody else. I speak on myself -- as if Lao Tzu is speaking through a different name, a different NAMA-RUPA, a different incarnation. Lao Tzu is not like Mahavir,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,632 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r existed it makes no difference to me; he must have existed because I exist -- I am the proof. During the following days, when I speak on Lao Tzu, it is not that I speak on somebody else. I speak on myself -- as if Lao Tzu is speaking through a different name, a different NAMA-RUPA, a different incarnation. Lao Tzu is not like Mahavir, not mathematical at all, yet he is very, very logical in his madness. He has...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,633 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...owing days, when I speak on Lao Tzu, it is not that I speak on somebody else. I speak on myself -- as if Lao Tzu is speaking through a different name, a different NAMA-RUPA, a different incarnation. Lao Tzu is not like Mahavir, not mathematical at all, yet he is very, very logical in his madness. He has a mad logic! When we penetrate into his sayings you will come to feel it; it is not so obvious and apparent. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,634 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...obvious and apparent. He has a logic of his own: the logic of absurdity, the logic of paradox, the logic of a madman. He hits hard. Mahavir's logic can be understood even by blind men. To understand Lao Tzu's logic you will have to create eyes. It is very subtle, it is not the ordinary logic of the logicians -- it is the logic of a hidden life, a very subtle life. Whatsoever he says is on the surface absurd; dee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,635 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is the logic of a hidden life, a very subtle life. Whatsoever he says is on the surface absurd; deep down there lives a very great consistency. One has to penetrate it; one has to change his own mind to understand Lao Tzu. Mahavir you can understand without changing your mind at all; as you are, you can understand Mahavir. He is on the same line. Howsoever much ahead of you he may have reached the goal, he is on th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,636 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d at all; as you are, you can understand Mahavir. He is on the same line. Howsoever much ahead of you he may have reached the goal, he is on the same line, the same track. When you try to understand Lao Tzu he zigzags. Sometimes you see him going towards the east and sometimes towards the west, because he says east is west and west is east, they are together, they are one. He believes in the unity of the opposit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,637 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...owards the east and sometimes towards the west, because he says east is west and west is east, they are together, they are one. He believes in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is. So Lao Tzu is just a spokesman of life. If life is absurd, Lao Tzu is absurd; if life has an absurd logic to it, Lao Tzu has the same logic to it. Lao Tzu simply reflects life. He doesn't add anything to it, he doesn't ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,638 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st, because he says east is west and west is east, they are together, they are one. He believes in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is. So Lao Tzu is just a spokesman of life. If life is absurd, Lao Tzu is absurd; if life has an absurd logic to it, Lao Tzu has the same logic to it. Lao Tzu simply reflects life. He doesn't add anything to it, he doesn't choose out of it; he simply accepts whatsoever it is. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,639 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er, they are one. He believes in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is. So Lao Tzu is just a spokesman of life. If life is absurd, Lao Tzu is absurd; if life has an absurd logic to it, Lao Tzu has the same logic to it. Lao Tzu simply reflects life. He doesn't add anything to it, he doesn't choose out of it; he simply accepts whatsoever it is. It is simple to see the spirituality of a Buddha, v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,640 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...elieves in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is. So Lao Tzu is just a spokesman of life. If life is absurd, Lao Tzu is absurd; if life has an absurd logic to it, Lao Tzu has the same logic to it. Lao Tzu simply reflects life. He doesn't add anything to it, he doesn't choose out of it; he simply accepts whatsoever it is. It is simple to see the spirituality of a Buddha, very simple; it is impossible to mi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,641 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... out of it; he simply accepts whatsoever it is. It is simple to see the spirituality of a Buddha, very simple; it is impossible to miss it, he is so extraordinary. But it is difficult to see the spirituality of Lao Tzu. He is so ordinary, just like you. You will have to grow in understanding. A Buddha passes by you -- you will immediately recognize that a superior human being has passed you. He carries the glamor of a super...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,642 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...passes by you -- you will immediately recognize that a superior human being has passed you. He carries the glamor of a superior human being around him. It is difficult to miss him, almost impossible to miss him. But Lao Tzu... he may be your neighbor. You may have been missing him because he is so ordinary, he is so extraordinarily ordinary. And that is the beauty of it. To become extraordinary is simple: only e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,643 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... effortlessness is needed. No practice will help, no methods, no means will be of any help only understanding. Even meditation will not be of any help. To become a Buddha, meditation will be of help. To become a Lao Tzu, even meditation won't help -- just understanding. Just understanding life as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,644 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fe as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell. It is very difficult to be a Lao Tzu or to recognize a Lao Tzu. In fact, if you can recognize a Lao Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,645 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell. It is very difficult to be a Lao Tzu or to recognize a Lao Tzu. In fact, if you can recognize a Lao Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,646 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rom it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell. It is very difficult to be a Lao Tzu or to recognize a Lao Tzu. In fact, if you can recognize a Lao Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. It is said that Confucius went to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,647 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ith courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell. It is very difficult to be a Lao Tzu or to recognize a Lao Tzu. In fact, if you can recognize a Lao Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. It is said that Confucius went to see Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was an old man, C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,648 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... It is very difficult to be a Lao Tzu or to recognize a Lao Tzu. In fact, if you can recognize a Lao Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. It is said that Confucius went to see Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was an old man, Confucius was younger. Lao Tzu was almost unknown, Confucius was almost uni...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,649 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...very difficult to be a Lao Tzu or to recognize a Lao Tzu. In fact, if you can recognize a Lao Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. It is said that Confucius went to see Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was an old man, Confucius was younger. Lao Tzu was almost unknown, Confucius was almost universally known. Kings and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,650 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. It is said that Confucius went to see Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was an old man, Confucius was younger. Lao Tzu was almost unknown, Confucius was almost universally known. Kings and emperors used to call him to their courts; wise men used to come for his advice. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,651 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu, you are already a Lao Tzu. To recognize a Buddha you need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. It is said that Confucius went to see Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was an old man, Confucius was younger. Lao Tzu was almost unknown, Confucius was almost universally known. Kings and emperors used to call him to their courts; wise men used to come for his advice. He was the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,652 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... need not be a Buddha, but to recognize Lao Tzu you need to be a Lao Tzu -- otherwise it is impossible. It is said that Confucius went to see Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was an old man, Confucius was younger. Lao Tzu was almost unknown, Confucius was almost universally known. Kings and emperors used to call him to their courts; wise men used to come for his advice. He was the wisest man in China in those days. But by and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,653 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d a secret search. He sent his disciples to find someone who could be of help to him, and they came with the information that there lived a man -- nobody knew his name -- he was known as the old guy. Lao Tzu means "the old guy." The word is not his name, nobody knows his name. He was such an unknown man that nobody knows when he was born, nobody knows to whom -- who his father was or who his mother wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,654 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...derstand him. He was only for the rarest -- so ordinary a man, but only for the rarest of human minds. Hearing the news that a man known as The Old Guy existed, Confucius went to see him. When he met Lao Tzu he could feel that here was a man of great understanding, great intellectual integrity, great logical acumen, a genius. He could feel that something was there, but he couldn't catch hold of it. Vaguely, myste...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,655 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t do you say about morality? What do you say about how to cultivate good character?" -- because he was a moralist and he thought that if you cultivate a good character that is the highest attainment. Lao Tzu laughed loudly, and said, "If you are immoral, only then the question of morality arises. And if you don't have any character, only then you think about character. A man of character is absolutely oblivious o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,656 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... emperors, and they had never seen any nervousness in him. And he was trembling, and cold perspiration was coming, pouring out from all over his body. They couldn't believe it -- what had happened? What had this man Lao Tzu done to their teacher? They asked him and he said, "Wait a little. Let me collect myself. This man is dangerous." And about Lao Tzu he said to his disciples: "I have heard about great animals like elephan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,657 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y. They couldn't believe it -- what had happened? What had this man Lao Tzu done to their teacher? They asked him and he said, "Wait a little. Let me collect myself. This man is dangerous." And about Lao Tzu he said to his disciples: "I have heard about great animals like elephants, and I know how they walk. And I have heard about hidden animals in the sea, and I know how they swim. And I have heard about great b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,658 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...im, too close, you will feel afraid, a trembling will take over. You will be possessed by an unknown fear, as if you are going to die. It is said that Confucius never came again to see this old man. Lao Tzu was ordinary in a way. And in another way he was the most extraordinary man. He was not extraordinary like Buddha; he was extraordinary in a totally different way. His extraordinariness was not so obvious -- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,659 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e Jesus; he could laugh, he could laugh a belly laugh. It is said that he was born laughing. Children are born crying, weeping. It is said about him that he was born laughing. I also feel it must be true; a man like Lao Tzu must be born laughing. He is not sad like Jesus. He can laugh, and laugh tremendously, but deep down in his laughter there is a sadness, a compassion -- a sadness about you, about the whole existence. His lau...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,660 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in his laughter there is a sadness, a compassion -- a sadness about you, about the whole existence. His laughter is not superficial. Zarathustra laughs but his laughter is different, there is no sadness in it. Lao Tzu is sad like Jesus and not sad like Jesus; Lao Tzu laughs like Zarathustra and doesn't laugh like Zarathustra. His sadness has a laughter to it and his laughter has a sadness to it. He is a meeting of the oppo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,661 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... sadness about you, about the whole existence. His laughter is not superficial. Zarathustra laughs but his laughter is different, there is no sadness in it. Lao Tzu is sad like Jesus and not sad like Jesus; Lao Tzu laughs like Zarathustra and doesn't laugh like Zarathustra. His sadness has a laughter to it and his laughter has a sadness to it. He is a meeting of the opposites. He is a harmony, a symphony. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,662 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... THE TAO THAT CAN BE TOLD OF IS NOT THE ABSOLUTE TAO. LET ME FIRST tell you the story of how these sutras came to be written, because that will help you to understand them. For ninety years Lao Tzu lived -- in fact he did nothing except live. He lived totally. Many times his disciples asked him to write, but he would always say: The Tao that can be told is not the real Tao, the truth that can be told be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,663 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that he was a man of absolute silence, the neighbor always kept silent. Even a "hello" was not allowed, even to talk about the weather was not allowed. To say "How beautiful a morning!" would be too much chattering. Lao Tzu would go for a long walk, for miles, and the neighbor would follow him. For years it went on, but once it happened that a guest was staying with the neighbor and he also wanted to come, so the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,664 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... miles, and the neighbor would follow him. For years it went on, but once it happened that a guest was staying with the neighbor and he also wanted to come, so the neighbor brought him. He did not know Lao Tzu or his ways. He started feeling suffocated because his host was not talking, and he couldn't understand why they were so silent -- and the silence became heavy on him. If you don't know how ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,665 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...id, when the sun was rising: "What a beautiful sun. Look...! What a beautiful sun is born, is rising! What a beautiful morning!" That's all he said. But nobody responded because the neighbor, the host, knew that Lao Tzu wouldn't like it. And of course Lao Tzu wouldn't say anything, wouldn't respond. When they came back, Lao Tzu told the neighbor, "From tomorrow, don't bring this man. He is a chatterbox." And ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,666 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Look...! What a beautiful sun is born, is rising! What a beautiful morning!" That's all he said. But nobody responded because the neighbor, the host, knew that Lao Tzu wouldn't like it. And of course Lao Tzu wouldn't say anything, wouldn't respond. When they came back, Lao Tzu told the neighbor, "From tomorrow, don't bring this man. He is a chatterbox." And he had only said this much: "What a beautiful sun," ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,667 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...!" That's all he said. But nobody responded because the neighbor, the host, knew that Lao Tzu wouldn't like it. And of course Lao Tzu wouldn't say anything, wouldn't respond. When they came back, Lao Tzu told the neighbor, "From tomorrow, don't bring this man. He is a chatterbox." And he had only said this much: "What a beautiful sun," or "What a beautiful morning." That much in a two-or three-hour-long walk....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,668 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...zu told the neighbor, "From tomorrow, don't bring this man. He is a chatterbox." And he had only said this much: "What a beautiful sun," or "What a beautiful morning." That much in a two-or three-hour-long walk. But Lao Tzu said "Don't bring this chatterbox again with you. He talks too much, and talks uselessly -- because I also have eyes, I can see that the sun is being born and it is beautiful. What is the need to say it?" ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,669 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Don't bring this chatterbox again with you. He talks too much, and talks uselessly -- because I also have eyes, I can see that the sun is being born and it is beautiful. What is the need to say it?" Lao Tzu lived in silence. He always avoided talking about the truth that he had attained and he always rejected the idea that he should write it down for the generations to come. At the age of ninety he took l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,670 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- The disciples felt very, very sad, but what could they do? They followed him for a few hundred miles, but by and by Lao Tzu persuaded them to go back. Then alone he was crossing the border, and the guard on the border imprisoned him. The guard was also a disciple. And the guard said: "Unless you write a book, I am not going to all...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,671 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you write a book, I am not going to allow you to move beyond the border. This much you must do for humanity. Write a book. That is the debt you have to pay, otherwise I won't allow you to cross." So for three days Lao Tzu was imprisoned by his own disciple. It is beautiful. It is very loving. He was forced -- and that's how this small book, the book of Lao Tzu, TAO TE CHING, was born. He had to write it, because the disc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,672 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave to pay, otherwise I won't allow you to cross." So for three days Lao Tzu was imprisoned by his own disciple. It is beautiful. It is very loving. He was forced -- and that's how this small book, the book of Lao Tzu, TAO TE CHING, was born. He had to write it, because the disciple wouldn't allow him to cross. And he was the guard and he had the authority, he could create trouble, so Lao Tzu had to write the b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,673 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at's how this small book, the book of Lao Tzu, TAO TE CHING, was born. He had to write it, because the disciple wouldn't allow him to cross. And he was the guard and he had the authority, he could create trouble, so Lao Tzu had to write the book. In three days he finished it. This is the first sentence of the book: THE TAO THAT CAN BE TOLD OF IS NOT THE ABSOLUTE TAO. THIS IS THE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,674 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f mind can attain, mind can express; if mind cannot attain to it, mind cannot express it. All language is futile. Truth cannot be expressed Then what have all the scriptures been doing? Then what is Lao Tzu doing? Then what are the Upanishads doing? They all try to say something which cannot be said in the hope that a desire may arise in you to know about it. Truth cannot be said but in the very effort of saying...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,675 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g the source, by and by you have tried to suppress your thirst itself. That is the only way, otherwise it is too much, it will not allow you to live at all. So you suppress the thirst. A Master like Lao Tzu knows well that truth cannot be said, but the very effort to say it will provoke something, will bring the suppressed thirst in you to the surface. And once the thirst surfaces, a search, an inquiry starts. A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,676 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...il? God is simply good and he cannot be bad, and there is much that is bad in life -- where to put that badness? So a devil is created. The moment you create a god, immediately you create a devil. I must tell you -- Lao Tzu never talks about God, never. Not even a single time does he use the word "god," because once you use the word "god" the devil immediately enters through the same door. Open the door -- they both come in toge...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,677 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve the puzzle. What is the matter? Why is it happening?" The Master called all his disciples and said, "You also come, because this is really something to be understood." And he said exactly what Lao Tzu is saying. To his disciples he also said, "Don't be proud that you know. If you know that you know, you are ignorant. If you know that you don't know, you are wise. An absolutely simple man does not know eith...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,678 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ego. He is humble. He cannot believe that he has come to heaven." It is possible that a sinner can reach and a saint can miss. If the saint is too filled with his saintliness, he will miss. Lao Tzu says: WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH ALL KNOW BEAUTY AS BEAUTY, THERE ARISES UGLINESS. WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH ALL KNOW THE GOOD AS GOOD, THERE ARISES EVIL... ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,679 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... LONG AND SHORT INTERDEPEND IN CONTRAST; HIGH AND LOW INTERDEPEND IN POSITION; TONES AND VOICE INTERDEPEND IN HARMONY; FRONT AND BEHIND INTERDEPEND IN COMPANY. Lao Tzu is saying that opposites are not really opposites but complementaries. Don't divide them, division is false; they are one, they interdepend. How can love exist without hate? How can compassion exist without a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,680 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...symphony of the opposites, and that is the greatest life possible. It will be most ordinary in a way, and most extraordinary in another way. That's why I say Buddha moves in the sky, he has no earth part in him. Lao Tzu is both, earth and heaven together. Buddha, even in his perfection seems to be incomplete; Lao Tzu, even in his incompletion is complete, perfect. You understand me? Try to dig it! ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,681 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y, and most extraordinary in another way. That's why I say Buddha moves in the sky, he has no earth part in him. Lao Tzu is both, earth and heaven together. Buddha, even in his perfection seems to be incomplete; Lao Tzu, even in his incompletion is complete, perfect. You understand me? Try to dig it! Buddha in his perfection is still incomplete, the earth part is missing. He is unearthly like a ghost, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,682 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the body part is missing; he is unembodied, a tree without roots. You are roots, but only roots; it has not sprouted, the tree has not come to bloom. Buddha is only flowers, and you are only roots -- Lao Tzu is both. He may not look as perfect as Buddha, he cannot, because the other is always there -- how can he be perfect? But he is complete. He is total. He may not be perfect but he is total. And these two word...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,683 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... perfect, try to be total. If you try to be perfect you will follow Buddha, you will follow Mahavir, you will follow Jesus. If you try to be total only then can you have the feeling of what it means to be near Lao Tzu, what it means to follow Tao. Tao is totality. Totality is not perfect, it is always imperfect -- because it is always alive. Perfection is always dead -- anything that becomes perfect is dead. How can it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,684 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ugh the tension of the opposites, the meeting of the opposites. If you deny the opposite you can become perfect but you will not be total, you will miss something. Howsoever beautiful Buddha is, he misses something. Lao Tzu is not so beautiful, not so perfect. Buddha and Lao Tzu are both standing before you; Lao Tzu will look ordinary and Buddha extraordinary, superb. But I tell you: thousands of Buddhas exist in Lao Tzu. He...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,685 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eny the opposite you can become perfect but you will not be total, you will miss something. Howsoever beautiful Buddha is, he misses something. Lao Tzu is not so beautiful, not so perfect. Buddha and Lao Tzu are both standing before you; Lao Tzu will look ordinary and Buddha extraordinary, superb. But I tell you: thousands of Buddhas exist in Lao Tzu. He is deeply rooted in the earth -- he is rooted in the earth,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,686 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecome perfect but you will not be total, you will miss something. Howsoever beautiful Buddha is, he misses something. Lao Tzu is not so beautiful, not so perfect. Buddha and Lao Tzu are both standing before you; Lao Tzu will look ordinary and Buddha extraordinary, superb. But I tell you: thousands of Buddhas exist in Lao Tzu. He is deeply rooted in the earth -- he is rooted in the earth, and he is standing high in the sky; h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,687 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...something. Lao Tzu is not so beautiful, not so perfect. Buddha and Lao Tzu are both standing before you; Lao Tzu will look ordinary and Buddha extraordinary, superb. But I tell you: thousands of Buddhas exist in Lao Tzu. He is deeply rooted in the earth -- he is rooted in the earth, and he is standing high in the sky; he is both, heaven and earth, a meeting of the opposites. There are three words to be rememb...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,688 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y -- he is beautiful. But his beauty exists only because of your ugliness. If you disappear Buddha will disappear. He looks wise because of your stupidity; if you become wise he will no more be wise. Lao Tzu is the phenomenon of interdependence -- because life is interdependent. You cannot be dependent, you cannot be independent -- both are extremes. Just in the middle, where life is a balance, is interdependence...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,689 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Hurt a flower and you hurt a star. Everything is interconnected, nothing exists like an island. If you try to exist like an island -- it is possible, but it will be an unearthly phenomenon, almost a myth, a dream. Lao Tzu believes in interdependence. He says: Take everything as it is, don't choose. It seems to be simple and yet the most difficult thing, because the mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,690 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hing as it is, don't choose. It seems to be simple and yet the most difficult thing, because the mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- to drop the mind? -- don't choose! ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,691 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ow. TONES AND VOICE INTERDEPEND IN HARMONY; FRONT AND BEHIND INTERDEPEND IN COMPANY. THEREFORE THE SAGE: MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOUT ACTION... This is what Lao Tzu calls Wu Wei: the sage manages affairs without action. Three are the possibilities -- one: be in action and forget inaction. You will be a wordly man. The second possibility: drop action, move to the Himalaya...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,692 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... He does not escape to the Himalayas. He remains in the world. He manages affairs but without any action. He is not active inside, the action remains on the outside. At the center he remains inactive. That is what Lao Tzu calls Wu Wei -- finding the center of the cyclone. The cyclone is on the outside but in the center nothing moves, nothing stirs. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,693 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pes. He never rejects. He never renounces. And that is the meaning of my sannyas. The word sannyas means renunciation, but I don't preach renunciation. Then why do I call you sannyasins? I call you sannyasins in the Lao Tzuan sense: renounce and yet don't renounce, remain in the world but yet out of it -- this is the meeting of the opposites. So I don't tell you to move, to drop, to leave your families. There is no need. You be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,694 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... NOT APPROPRIATE; ACCOMPLISHES, BUT CLAIMS NO CREDIT. IT IS BECAUSE HE LAYS CLAIM TO NO CREDIT THAT THE CREDIT CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM. This is the absurd logic of Lao Tzu. He is absolutely logical, but he has a logic of his own. He 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,695 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...prove it and nobody can compete with it. If you try to be victorious you will be defeated. Ask the Alexanders and the Napoleons and the Hitlers: if you try to be victorious you will be defeated. Says Lao Tzu: Don't try to be victorious, then nobody can defeat you. A very subtle logic, the logic of life itself: don't claim, and your claim is absolutely fulfilled; don't try to be victorious, and your victory is abs...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,696 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ying that if you want to be successful don't try -- no, I am not saying that. It is not a result, it is a consequence. And you have to understand the difference between a result and a consequence. When you listen to Lao Tzu or to me, of course you understand the logic that if you try to be victorious, you will be defeated because there are millions of competitors. How can you succeed in this competitive world? Nobody ever succee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,697 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., you will be defeated because there are millions of competitors. How can you succeed in this competitive world? Nobody ever succeeds. Everybody fails. And everybody fails absolutely, there is no exception. And then Lao Tzu says that if you don't try to succeed you will succeed. Your mind becomes greedy, and your mind says: That's right! So this is the way to succeed! I will not claim, I will not be ambitious so that my ambition...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,698 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd your mind says: That's right! So this is the way to succeed! I will not claim, I will not be ambitious so that my ambition can be fulfilled. Now this is asking for a result. You remain the same -- you have missed Lao Tzu completely. Lao Tzu is saying that if you really remain without any claim, without asking for any credit, fame, name, success, ambition, then as a consequence success is there, victory is ther...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,699 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this is the way to succeed! I will not claim, I will not be ambitious so that my ambition can be fulfilled. Now this is asking for a result. You remain the same -- you have missed Lao Tzu completely. Lao Tzu is saying that if you really remain without any claim, without asking for any credit, fame, name, success, ambition, then as a consequence success is there, victory is there. The whole existence pours down in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,700 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...king about it. It happens as part of the inner law of existence. That law is called Tao. IT IS BECAUSE HE LAYS CLAIM TO NO CREDIT THAT THE CREDIT CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM. Understand Lao Tzu. And understand your inner greed. Because the greed can say.... It happens every day, almost every day -- people come to me and I tell them: Meditate, but don't ask for results. They say: If we don't ask for ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,701 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the desire. And if the desire is there, the consequence will never happen. Don't desire and it happens. Don't ask and it is given. Jesus says: Ask, and it shall be given. Knock and the door shall be opened. Lao Tzu says: Ask not, and it shall be given. Knock not, and the door has always remained open -- just look! And I say to you: Lao Tzu goes the deepest, nobody has ever gone deeper. Lao Tzu is the gre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,702 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us says: Ask, and it shall be given. Knock and the door shall be opened. Lao Tzu says: Ask not, and it shall be given. Knock not, and the door has always remained open -- just look! And I say to you: Lao Tzu goes the deepest, nobody has ever gone deeper. Lao Tzu is the greatest key. if you understand him, he is the master key; you can open all the locks that exist in life 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,703 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... shall be opened. Lao Tzu says: Ask not, and it shall be given. Knock not, and the door has always remained open -- just look! And I say to you: Lao Tzu goes the deepest, nobody has ever gone deeper. Lao Tzu is the greatest key. if you understand him, he is the master key; you can open all the locks that exist in life 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,704 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tenment or unenlightened persons. This old guy is total. You exist in him, and Buddhas also. He is both. And if you can understand him, nothing is left to be understood. You can forget Mahavirs, Buddhas, Krishnas -- Lao Tzu alone is enough. He is the master key. Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 1 Chapter #2 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,705 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ance, of foolishness, of madness. But a total man is totally different. He is wise in his foolishness; he is foolish in his wisdom. He knows that he is ignorant -- that is his wisdom. In him opposites meet. Says Lao Tzu: Everybody seems to be wise except me. I appear to be a fool. Everybody is trying to be wise, trying to be knowledgeable, trying to be intelligent -- cutting out, hiding, suppressing foolishness. But ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,706 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of its own -- if it can be joined together with wisdom. Then wisdom is total. And the greatest wise men in the dimension of totality are always fools also. They are so simple and so innocent that they look foolish. Lao Tzu must have looked foolish to many people. He was; he was both. And that is the difficulty: mind seeks perfection. Who will go to Lao Tzu? Nobody wants to be both foolish and wise. And you cannot even understan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,707 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e always fools also. They are so simple and so innocent that they look foolish. Lao Tzu must have looked foolish to many people. He was; he was both. And that is the difficulty: mind seeks perfection. Who will go to Lao Tzu? Nobody wants to be both foolish and wise. And you cannot even understand how one can be both. How can one be both? It is reported that a Sufi mystic was traveling and came to a town. And hi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,708 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ch a balance that your wisdom carries a certain quality of foolishness, and your foolishness carries a certain quality of wisdom. Then you are total. That's why: rarest are the seekers who will go to Lao Tzu. He will seem to be absurd because sometimes he will behave like a wise man and sometimes he will behave like a foolish man. And you cannot rely on him, and he is not predictable, and nobody knows what he is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,709 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to be in a deep participation with his being, only then will you be able to understand the totality. Buddha is wise, Mahavir is wise. You cannot find a single bit of foolishness in them, they are perfection. Lao Tzu is not, Chuang Tzu is not, Lieh Tzu is not. They are contradictory, paradoxical, but that is where their beauty is. Buddha is monotonous. If you understand Buddha today you have understood his yesterday and y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,710 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ha is monotonous. If you understand Buddha today you have understood his yesterday and you have understood his tomorrow also. He is a consistent thing -- clean, logical, moving in a line, linear. But Lao Tzu is zigzag, he runs like a madman. You will understand, as we go into his sayings; you will understand that he runs like a madman. His assertions don't make sense on the surface. They are the most sensible utt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,711 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou will have to change completely. Buddha is on the surface -- logical, rational; you can understand him without becoming a meditator; without flowing into his being you can understand him. He is understandable; not Lao Tzu. This totality.... Lao Tzu accepts this world and the other, and he accepts totally. He is not bothered about the other world; he knows that the other is going to grow out of this -- that is going to grow out...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,712 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ha is on the surface -- logical, rational; you can understand him without becoming a meditator; without flowing into his being you can understand him. He is understandable; not Lao Tzu. This totality.... Lao Tzu accepts this world and the other, and he accepts totally. He is not bothered about the other world; he knows that the other is going to grow out of this -- that is going to grow out of this, so why bother abo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,713 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to grow out of this, so why bother about it? Live this as beautifully as possible, as totally as possible, and the other will come out of it naturally. It is going to be a natural growth. If you meet Lao Tzu he will be puzzling. Sometimes he will say something, another time he will say something else; he will assert a sentence and in the next sentence he will contradict it. That's why only very rare seekers reach...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,714 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g, another time he will say something else; he will assert a sentence and in the next sentence he will contradict it. That's why only very rare seekers reach to him; that's why there exists no organized religion for Lao Tzu. It 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- cannot exist. Only individual seekers...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,715 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cording to the mind, has to be according to you; because organized religion means a religion more interested in the crowd, more interested in the mob. It has to exist with the mob and with the crowd. Lao Tzu can remain uncontaminated, pure. He does not compromise. His totality becomes incomprehensible -- that's why rare seekers reach him, because he is total. The more total a person is the more incomprehensib...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,716 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and everything. But in a wild forest you don't have any symmetry, you don't see any logic. If God is the gardener, he must be mad. Why does he grow such a forest? Buddha is like a garden, a garden of a royal palace; Lao Tzu is like a wild forest: you can be lost in it. You will feel fear and danger will lurk at every step and every shadow will scare you to death. That's why Confucius said: Don't go near him. No one knows his way...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,717 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- and a suppression. And who told you that you are separate and you need to be merged? You have never been separate, so why are you chasing yourself? You are merged. Look at the difference of the point of view. Lao Tzu says you are merged in existence, you are not separate. You have never been, you can never be separated. How is it possible? You exist in the ocean of the divine, or Tao, or whatsoever you name it. How can yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,718 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...practical, that's certain -- Mohammed or Moses -- absolutely practical because with your mind they fit. That's why they look practical. Whatsoever you think is practical they also think is practical. Lao Tzu is totally different from your mind and that is the possibility of transformation. With Mohammed you will not be transformed. You may become a Mohammedan, you may become a good man, you may become virtuous ev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,719 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us even, but you will remain on the same track -- the dimension will not change. With Mahavir you will remain the same -- better but the same, modified but the same, refined, painted, renovated -- but the same. With Lao Tzu you will be destroyed completely and will be reborn. He is death and resurrection. Try to understand why it is so. You can understand Mahavir; his calculation is of your mind -- his logic is n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,720 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he three persons who have ruled this whole century are all Jews: Marx, Freud, Einstein. Three persons who have ruled the whole world -- they are all Jews. Why does it happen so? Simple. They are not impractical. Lao Tzu is impractical. Lao Tzu in 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- fact praises...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,721 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e ruled this whole century are all Jews: Marx, Freud, Einstein. Three persons who have ruled the whole world -- they are all Jews. Why does it happen so? Simple. They are not impractical. Lao Tzu is impractical. Lao Tzu in 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- fact praises impracticalness. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,722 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- fact praises impracticalness. There is a story: Lao Tzu was passing with his disciples and they came to a forest where hundreds of carpenters were cutting trees, because a great palace was being built. So the whole forest had been almost cut, but only one tree was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,723 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use a great palace was being built. So the whole forest had been almost cut, but only one tree was standing there, a big tree with thousands of branches -- so big that ten thousand persons could sit under its shade. Lao Tzu asked his disciples to go and inquire why this tree had not been cut yet when the whole forest had been cut and was deserted. The disciples went and they asked the carpenters, "Why have you not cut this t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,724 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it. You cannot make furniture out of it. You cannot use it as fuel because the smoke is so dangerous to the eyes -- you almost go blind. This tree is absolutely useless. That's why." They came back. Lao Tzu laughed and he said, "Be like this tree. If you want to survive in this world be like this tree -- absolutely useless. Then nobody will harm you. If you are straight you will be cut, you will become furniture...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,725 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be sold in the market, you will become a commodity. Be like this tree, absolutely useless. Then nobody can harm you. And you will grow big and vast, and thousands of people can find shade under you." Lao Tzu was passing through a town. All the young men of the town were forced to be enlisted in the military. They came across a hunchback. Lao Tzu said, "Go and inquire why this man has been left and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,726 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ast, and thousands of people can find shade under you." Lao Tzu was passing through a town. All the young men of the town were forced to be enlisted in the military. They came across a hunchback. Lao Tzu said, "Go and inquire why this man has been left and not enlisted into the military." The hunchback said, "How can I be enlisted? You see, I am a hunchback. I am of no use." The disciples ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,727 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aid, "Go and inquire why this man has been left and not enlisted into the military." The hunchback said, "How can I be enlisted? You see, I am a hunchback. I am of no use." The disciples came and Lao Tzu said, "Remember. Be like this hunchback. Then you will not be enlisted to murder or to be murdered. Be useless." Lao Tzu has a logic altogether different from your mind. He says: Be the last. Move in th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,728 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sted? You see, I am a hunchback. I am of no use." The disciples came and Lao Tzu said, "Remember. Be like this hunchback. Then you will not be enlisted to murder or to be murdered. Be useless." Lao Tzu has a logic altogether different from your mind. He says: Be the last. Move in the world as if you are not. Remain unknown. Don't try to be the first, otherwise you will be thrown. Don't be competitive, don't...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,729 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a dance, a flower by the side of the road, flowering for nobody in particular, sending its fragrance to the winds, without any address, being nobody in particular, just enjoying itself, being itself. Lao Tzu says: If you try to be very clever, if you try to be very useful, you will be used. If you try to be very practical, somewhere or other you will be harnessed, because the world cannot leave the practical man ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,730 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... says: If you try to be very clever, if you try to be very useful, you will be used. If you try to be very practical, somewhere or other you will be harnessed, because the world cannot leave the practical man alone. Lao Tzu says: Drop all these ideas. If you want to be a poem, an ecstasy, then forget about utility. You remain true to yourself. Be yourself. Hippies have a saying: Do your thing. Lao Tzu is the first hippie in the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,731 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the practical man alone. Lao Tzu says: Drop all these ideas. If you want to be a poem, an ecstasy, then forget about utility. You remain true to yourself. Be yourself. Hippies have a saying: Do your thing. Lao Tzu is the first hippie in the world. He says: Be yourself and do your thing and don't bother about anything else. You are not here to be sold. So don't think of utility, just think of your bliss. Be blissful, an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,732 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ur bliss it is okay -- share it. But don't force yourself just to be a utility because that is how suicide happens. One kills oneself. Don't be suicidal. All the teachers of the world will be more practical than Lao Tzu, that's why they have much appeal. That's why they have great organizations: Christians -- almost half the world has become Christian -- Mohammedans, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs -- they are all utilitarians. Lao Tzu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,733 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l than Lao Tzu, that's why they have much appeal. That's why they have great organizations: Christians -- almost half the world has become Christian -- Mohammedans, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs -- they are all utilitarians. Lao Tzu stands alone, aloof. Lao Tzu stands in a solo existence. But Lao Tzu is rare and unique. If you can understand him you can also become rare and unique. And the way is to be ordinary -- then yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,734 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... appeal. That's why they have great organizations: Christians -- almost half the world has become Christian -- Mohammedans, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs -- they are all utilitarians. Lao Tzu stands alone, aloof. Lao Tzu stands in a solo existence. But Lao Tzu is rare and unique. If you can understand him you can also become rare and unique. And the way is to be ordinary -- then you become extraordinary; the way is to be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,735 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tions: Christians -- almost half the world has become Christian -- Mohammedans, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs -- they are all utilitarians. Lao Tzu stands alone, aloof. Lao Tzu stands in a solo existence. But Lao Tzu is rare and unique. If you can understand him you can also become rare and unique. And the way is to be ordinary -- then you become extraordinary; the way is to be just the last, and then suddenly you find yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,736 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...IT AND IT SERVES YOU WITH EASE. ON THE CHARACTER OF TAO THE WORLD OF LAO TZU is totally different from the worlds of philosophy, religion, ethics. It is not even a way of life. Lao Tzu is not teaching something -- he is that something. He is not a preacher, he is a presence. He has no doctrine for you -- he has only himself to offer and share. Had he been a philosopher, things would ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,737 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r. He talks, he argues, he discusses in the same way as any philosopher. He discusses against philosophy, argues against philosophy, but the argument is the same. And logic is a whore. There is a story; one of Lao Tzu's greatest disciples, Lieh Tzu, reports it... Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- they are the three pillars of the world of Tao. Lao Tzu goes on talking in epigrams, maxims; he does not even elaborate. But L...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,738 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s any philosopher. He discusses against philosophy, argues against philosophy, but the argument is the same. And logic is a whore. There is a story; one of Lao Tzu's greatest disciples, Lieh Tzu, reports it... Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- they are the three pillars of the world of Tao. Lao Tzu goes on talking in epigrams, maxims; he does not even elaborate. But Lieh Tzu and Chuang Tzu, being disciples of Lao Tzu, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,739 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he argument is the same. And logic is a whore. There is a story; one of Lao Tzu's greatest disciples, Lieh Tzu, reports it... Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- they are the three pillars of the world of Tao. Lao Tzu goes on talking in epigrams, maxims; he does not even elaborate. But Lieh Tzu and Chuang Tzu, being disciples of Lao Tzu, cannot argue. They go on telling parables, stories, analogies. This word has to be con...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,740 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...orts it... Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- they are the three pillars of the world of Tao. Lao Tzu goes on talking in epigrams, maxims; he does not even elaborate. But Lieh Tzu and Chuang Tzu, being disciples of Lao Tzu, cannot argue. They go on telling parables, stories, analogies. This word has to be continuously remembered: Tao cannot be explained, only analogies can be given -- indications. Tao cannot be disc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,741 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e else -- they will have to yield." Logic is a whore, a prostitute. It can be for, it can be against. It belongs to nobody. So logic can be for philosophy and logic can be against philosophy. Lao Tzu is not an anti-philosopher because he is not a logician at all. Buddha is anti-philosophic: he argues against it. Nagarjuna is anti-philosophic: he argues against it. Not Lao Tzu. He does not argue at all, he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,742 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ogic can be against philosophy. Lao Tzu is not an anti-philosopher because he is not a logician at all. Buddha is anti-philosophic: he argues against it. Nagarjuna is anti-philosophic: he argues against it. Not Lao Tzu. He does not argue at all, he simply states. He is not after you to convince you -- no, not Lao Tzu. Everybody else seems to be in some way trying to convince you but not Lao Tzu. He simply states and does no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,743 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... at all. Buddha is anti-philosophic: he argues against it. Nagarjuna is anti-philosophic: he argues against it. Not Lao Tzu. He does not argue at all, he simply states. He is not after you to convince you -- no, not Lao Tzu. Everybody else seems to be in some way trying to convince you but not Lao Tzu. He simply states and does not bother whether you are convinced or not. But his seduction is great. He seduces. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,744 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ilosophic: he argues against it. Not Lao Tzu. He does not argue at all, he simply states. He is not after you to convince you -- no, not Lao Tzu. Everybody else seems to be in some way trying to convince you but not Lao Tzu. He simply states and does not bother whether you are convinced or not. But his seduction is great. He seduces. He persuades. Not trying to convince, he convinces you deep down in the heart a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,745 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you, she chases you. She haunts you in your dreams -- never knocks on your door, but haunts you in your dreams; never shows any interest but becomes the deepest fantasy in your being. That is the feminine trick. And Lao Tzu is a great believer in the feminine mind. We will come across it. So remember... Lao Tzu's world is not of logic but analogy. Logic is apparent, direct -- either you have to be convinced or y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,746 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eams; never shows any interest but becomes the deepest fantasy in your being. That is the feminine trick. And Lao Tzu is a great believer in the feminine mind. We will come across it. So remember... Lao Tzu's world is not of logic but analogy. Logic is apparent, direct -- either you have to be convinced or you have to convince the opponent; either you have to follow it, become a follower, or you become the enemy...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,747 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gic your mind has to be active. It is easy, nothing is difficult about it. Everybody argues. More or less, everybody is a logician; good or bad, everybody is a philosopher. If you want to understand Lao Tzu that old way won't help. You will have to put your logic aside because he is not chasing you as a logician, he is not arguing against you -- if you argue against him, it will be ridiculous because he has not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,748 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...feet are found, you can find the whole God. That's why Jesus says, "Love is God." Not that love is God, but in your experience nothing else exists through which an analogy can be made. So don't take Lao Tzu verbally and literally; these are all analogies. If he says "The spirit of the valley," this is an analogy. He is saying something -- not exactly about the valley, because the valley you know -- through the v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,749 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and the whole sexual energy is transformed into ecstasy -- if you have known that love then "love is God" will have a different meaning for you. So analogy depends on you. And a book of analogy like Lao Tzu's has to be read again and again -- it is a life work. You cannot simply read it in a paperback and throw it away. It is a treasure to be carried; it is a lifelong work; it is a lifelong discipline to enter t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,750 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is a treasure to be carried; it is a lifelong work; it is a lifelong discipline to enter the analogy. Logic is superficial. You can understand Aristotle, there is nothing much. But when you come to Lao Tzu... for the first time you may even miss that there is something, but by and by Lao Tzu will haunt you. His attraction is feminine. By and by he will catch hold of your being -- you have only to 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,751 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pline to enter the analogy. Logic is superficial. You can understand Aristotle, there is nothing much. But when you come to Lao Tzu... for the first time you may even miss that there is something, but by and by Lao Tzu will haunt you. His attraction is feminine. By and by he will catch hold of your being -- you have only to 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,752 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... allow him. In logic you have to fight; in analogy you have to be sympathetic, you have to allow it, only then can the analogy flower. So only in deep sympathy and reverence, in deep faith and trust, can Lao Tzu be understood. There is no other way. If you come to Lao Tzu through your mind you will never come to him. You will go round and round and round -- you will never touch his being. Come to him through the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,753 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... sympathetic, you have to allow it, only then can the analogy flower. So only in deep sympathy and reverence, in deep faith and trust, can Lao Tzu be understood. There is no other way. If you come to Lao Tzu through your mind you will never come to him. You will go round and round and round -- you will never touch his being. Come to him through the heart. Analogy is for the heart; logic is for the mind. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,754 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... through your mind you will never come to him. You will go round and round and round -- you will never touch his being. Come to him through the heart. Analogy is for the heart; logic is for the mind. Lao Tzu is more a poet. Remember that. You don't argue with a poet -- you listen to the poetry, you absorb the poetry, you chew it, you let it move inside your being, you let it become a part of your blood and bones,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,755 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rance becomes part of you. You may not remember what that poet was singing but the song has been retained: the flavor of it, the fragrance, the significance has entered you. You have become pregnant. Lao Tzu can be understood only if you become pregnant with him. Allow him. Open the doors. He will not even knock, because he is not aggressive. He will not try to argue because he does not believe in argument. He is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,756 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...villager -- but alive, radiant, vital. If you allow him, suddenly you will be transformed -- just an understanding, a heart-understanding, and you will be transformed by him. The second thing to remember is that Lao Tzu is not a religious man in the ordinary sense. He is not a theologian. He is not a religious man at all in the way you understand the word. He has never gone to the temple, never worshiped, because he found th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,757 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... religious at all -- a deception. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu is not religious in that way at all. He is a simple man. He is not even aware that he is religious -- how can a religious man be aware that he is religious? Religion is like breathing to him. You become aware...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,758 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... wrong, when it is hard to breathe, when you have asthma or some other type of breathing trouble. Otherwise you never know, never become aware that you breathe. You simply breathe, it is so natural. Lao Tzu is naturally religious, he is not even aware of it. He is not like your saints who are practicing religion. No, he doesn't practice: he has allowed the total to take possession. He lives it, but he does not p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,759 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... do you hanker to live longer? Not even a single moment is needed. Then fear disappears. Your religion is based on fear. It is not in fact religion. It is pseudo, it is false, it is just a deception. Lao Tzu is not religious in the sense that you are religious or you feel other people are religious. Lao Tzu is religious in a totally different way. His quality is different. He is simple, he lives innocently moment...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,760 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Your religion is based on fear. It is not in fact religion. It is pseudo, it is false, it is just a deception. Lao Tzu is not religious in the sense that you are religious or you feel other people are religious. Lao Tzu is religious in a totally different way. His quality is different. He is simple, he lives innocently moment to moment. He also does not talk about God -- because what is the use? God is not a word. How can yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,761 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is simple. You talk about things you don't know. I talk about things I don't know. It is simple. Why should I talk about God? I know. Why should you talk about kingdom? You are a king. You know." Lao Tzu doesn't talk about God, doesn't even mention him, not even once. Has he forgotten him? Is he against him? No. He lives him so totally that even to remember would be a sacrilege. To talk about God would be tal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,762 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not known. Lovers keep quiet. Lovers don't talk about love at all. There is nothing to talk about -- they know it. And by knowing it they know also that it cannot be talked about; it would be a betrayal. Lao Tzu is religious in a totally different way. Now, try to enter this sutra with me: TAO IS A HOLLOW VESSEL, AND ITS USE IS INEXHAUSTIBLE, FATHOMLESS. HOLLOWNE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,763 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lly different way. Now, try to enter this sutra with me: TAO IS A HOLLOW VESSEL, AND ITS USE IS INEXHAUSTIBLE, FATHOMLESS. HOLLOWNESS IS ONE OF THE KEY WORDS in Lao Tzu. He talks about hollowness again and again. Hollowness means space; hollowness means vastness; hollowness means inexhaustibleness. You live in a house, but your concept of the house is the wal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,764 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Tzu. He talks about hollowness again and again. Hollowness means space; hollowness means vastness; hollowness means inexhaustibleness. You live in a house, but your concept of the house is the walls. Lao Tzu's concept of the house is the space within, not the walls. He says: Walls are not the house. How can you live in the walls? You live in the emptiness, not in the walls. The hollowness -- that is the real hous...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,765 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot in the walls. The hollowness -- that is the real house. But when you think about the house you think about the structure that is around the hollowness. That's why a palace and a hut look different to you. Not for Lao Tzu -- because the hollowness is the same. If you look at the walls then of course a hut is a hut and a palace is a palace. But if you look at the innermost hollowness, which is the real house -- because only hol...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,766 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hollowness. A body can be beautiful, ugly, ill, healthy, young, old, but the inner hollowness is always the same. Then you don't look at the bodies, then you look at the hollowness within. Everywhere Lao Tzu finds the analogy. You go to the market to purchase an earthen pot or a golden pot. The golden pot differs from the earthen pot -- just the walls differ -- but the inner hollowness is the same. And when a poo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,767 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the poor man with an earthen pot -- they go with the same hollownesses. They carry the same water and when they fill their pots, not the walls are used but the inner hollowness, the inner emptiness. Lao Tzu says: Look at the inner, don't look at the outer. And the inner hollowness is your being; the inner hollowness, the inner emptiness is your being. That means your being is a non-being, because the word "being...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,768 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you cut me with a sword, you cut my body but not me, because "me" means the inner emptiness. If I do something I do it with the walls, but the inner emptiness is a nondoer. Remember this analogy. It is a key word in Lao Tzu. TAO IS A HOLLOW VESSEL, AND ITS USE IS INEXHAUSTIBLE, FATHOMLESS. If Tao or God were not empty then their use could not be inexhaustible, then some day they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,769 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are irrelevant because Tao is a vast hollowness, a vast space, emptiness. Your logic will immediately arise in the mind: then how are things there? Ask the physicists; now they have come to the same understanding as Lao Tzu. Now they say that as we enter deeper and deeper into matter, matter disappears. Finally it disappears completely. Now we don't know. Inside, it is a hollowness. They were searching for the substance of matte...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,770 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... where did they come? From where did they arise? And now where have they gone? You never think about the phenomenon of the dream. If it can happen in the night, why not in the day? One of the disciples of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, one night dreamed that he had become a butterfly, fluttering, flying amidst flowers. And the next morning when he awoke he was very sad. His disciples asked, "What is the matter, Master? We h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,771 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ther. That is the only difference. There is a possibility of a greater awakening -- when you awake out of the public dream also. That is what enlightenment is. Then suddenly the whole world is maya. This is what Lao Tzu is saying. TAO IS A HOLLOW VESSEL, AND ITS USE IS INEXHAUSTIBLE, FATHOMLESS. It is a vast emptiness and everything arises out of it and goes back to it, f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,772 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y come out of it, they grow out of it. This whole existence comes out of zero, a hollowness. Why this emphasis on hollowness? It is not a philosophical doctrine, remember, it is simply an analogy -- Lao Tzu is trying to show you something. He is trying to show you that unless you become hollow you will suffer, because hollowness is your reality. With unreality you will suffer. And that is the meaning of med...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,773 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a woman is a receptivity. A man tries to do, a woman simply waits for things to happen. IT IS CALLED THE MYSTIC FEMALE. These words have to be understood -- the mystic female -- because for Lao Tzu that is the ultimate. Lao Tzu feels that the nature of existence is more like a woman than like a man, because man comes out of woman, woman comes out of woman. Man can even be discarded but woman ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,774 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...do, a woman simply waits for things to happen. IT IS CALLED THE MYSTIC FEMALE. These words have to be understood -- the mystic female -- because for Lao Tzu that is the ultimate. Lao Tzu feels that the nature of existence is more like a woman than like a man, because man comes out of woman, woman comes out of woman. Man can even be discarded but woman cannot be discarded. Woman seems to be a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,775 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tense, he has to do something or other. If he becomes frustrated with this world he starts doing something with the other world, but he has to do. He is never here and now, he cannot be here and now. Lao Tzu has this analogy that the nature of existence is more feminine, it is more balanced. Look at the trees, look at the birds singing, look at the rivers flowing, look all around and watch -- you will find more f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,776 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y husbands come to me and always their complaint is that their wives are lazy. They are not lazy; they are enjoying! Whatsoever is the case, they are not in a hurry. But comparatively they look lazy. Lao Tzu says the nature of the existence is more like the female, more feminine. And the analogy is beautiful. He is not saying that existence is female -- remember this. This is not logic, he is not trying to prove ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,777 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this. This is not logic, he is not trying to prove that existence is female. He is not for the lib movement -- no. He is simply giving an analogy. A man can also be feminine. A Buddha is feminine, a Lao Tzu is feminine, a Jesus is feminine. Then he lives, he lives in the moment, unhurried; he enjoys the moment unhurried. Jesus says to his disciples: Look at the lilies in the field. How beautiful they are! Ev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,778 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e secret of feminine being. When I say this there are two possibilities of misunderstanding: women can misunderstand and think that they have nothing to do; men can misunderstand and think that this Lao Tzu is not for them. No, it is for you both. But remember... women are not pure women, they have lost the feminine mystique themselves. They have to gain it again. It will be easier for them of course to gain ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,779 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... women, they have lost the feminine mystique themselves. They have to gain it again. It will be easier for them of course to gain it than men, because man has gone farther away. And don't think that if you are a man Lao Tzu is not for you -- he is particularly for you, otherwise you will go farther and farther away from existence and life's ecstasy. Everybody has to come back to the mother; that is the feminine mystique. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,780 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. This is man-oriented religion. Buddhism has not killed, Jainism has not killed, Hinduism has not killed, because they are more and more inclined towards the feminine mystique. And you cannot complain against Lao Tzu at all, with him there exists no organized religion. Once a religion becomes organized, violence enters into it. Organization is going to be violent, it has to fight its way, it is bound to become male. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,781 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Bodhidharma carried the essential Buddhism to China, for the greatest phenomenon to happen there. Because of Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu's whole standpoint -- the Lao Tzuan way of life -- and Buddha's realization met, and one of the most beautiful things was born. Nothing like it exists anywhere in the world -- that is Zen. Zen is a meeting, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,782 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Bodhidharma carried the essential Buddhism to China, for the greatest phenomenon to happen there. Because of Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu's whole standpoint -- the Lao Tzuan way of life -- and Buddha's realization met, and one of the most beautiful things was born. Nothing like it exists anywhere in the world -- that is Zen. Zen is a meeting, a crossing between Buddha and Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,783 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the Lao Tzuan way of life -- and Buddha's realization met, and one of the most beautiful things was born. Nothing like it exists anywhere in the world -- that is Zen. Zen is a meeting, a crossing between Buddha and Lao Tzu. Bodhidharma was the midwife who carried the seed to the womb of Lao Tzu. When he reached China he was a very famous mystic, his name was known all over the East. When he reached China the emp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,784 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e most beautiful things was born. Nothing like it exists anywhere in the world -- that is Zen. Zen is a meeting, a crossing between Buddha and Lao Tzu. Bodhidharma was the midwife who carried the seed to the womb of Lao Tzu. When he reached China he was a very famous mystic, his name was known all over the East. When he reached China the emperor himself came to receive him on the border. The Emperor asked a few q...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,785 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd moralists. They have all tried to make you live on one pole. That pole they call God, compassion, love -- all that is good, all goodie-goodie. The other pole they call the devil, all that is bad. Lao Tzu or I -- we are not in favor of this division, this dichotomy, this schizophrenia. We are for both. And then a sudden transformation happens: destruction becomes part of creation -- it is! -- and hate becomes ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,786 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sappear. Then only will you be able to understand that you are interdependent -- you can make the tree happy and the tree can make you happy. And the whole of life is interdependent. This interdependence I call God, Lao Tzu calls Tao -- this whole interdependence. God is not a person somewhere, this whole interdependence is God, Tao, dharma. The Vedas call it rit, the law. Whatsoever you like to call it, call it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,787 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it never comes to an end. The balance goes on and on, it is eternal. A man of understanding never comes to any conclusions, he cannot. When life itself is non-conclusive how can a wise man be conclusive? If you ask Lao Tzu for any conclusive answer he will laugh. He will say you are foolish. He lives according to life, and the most basic note, if you live according to life, is balance. Never move to one opposite, don't cling to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,788 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it. It is solved. Science is a public phenomenon: one man solves something; then it is solved for everybody; one man invents something, it is invented for all. It is a mass phenomenon. In religion thousands of Lao Tzus may have happened, but nothing is solved. You have to know it again and again on your own. It is not science. Science can create scriptures, theories, but religion cannot create scriptures and theories. It i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,789 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... which can be imitated. Even Picasso can be imitated. But religion can never be imitated; it is nothing outside, it is something within. You can imitate a Picasso, a Michelangelo, but how can you imitate a Lao Tzu? You feel something is there but it is elusive. You know that he knows something but you cannot pinpoint it, you cannot figure it out. It is a knack. Then what is a knack? A knack comes when ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,790 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...remember it, it is still not a knack, it is something in the mind. If it is a knack it goes into the blood, into the bones, into the very marrow, into the very being. Then you can forget about it. A Lao Tzu has not to remember how he has to walk, how he has to be. It is not a discipline. Once you know, you know. You can forget, you can simply drop it out of the mind. But you will follow it, you will follow it wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,791 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...owards left and right. Only then can you remain, because the middle is not a fixed point. The middle in fact is nothing outside you. The middle is something inside you: a balance, a music, a harmony. Lao Tzu says: Beware of the extreme. Don't go to the extreme, otherwise you will fall. Everything on the extreme changes to its opposite. If you are in love and twenty-four hours a day you are after your lover, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,792 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he greatest possibility of attaining peaks of bliss is possible only when in-breathing and out-breathing are completely balanced. You are not leaning to any side too much -- suddenly you are beyond both. Lao Tzu says: STRETCH A BOW TO THE VERY FULL AND YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD STOPPED IN TIME. BECAUSE THE BOW will break. Stretch a bow to the full -- it could have served you for long if ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,793 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... useless -- life will throw you into the rubbish heap, you are no more needed. Remain imperfect, and you will be alive and life will support you from everywhere. That's why perfection is not the goal for Lao Tzu or for me -- but totality. You can be total without being perfect and you can be perfect without being total. In fact, you can only be perfect if you are not total, because perfection will choose either ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,794 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is the beauty of it because then it is never old, never boring, never flat, never stale. Each moment it arises out of nothingness; each moment it is fresh like the morning dew. It is ever-fresh. A Lao Tzu lives in an ever-freshness, an ever-greenness. If he had attained something, attained it forever, guaranteed -- then it would become stale. Then dust would gather on it, then the past would gather on it and s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,795 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... STRETCH A BOW TO THE VERY FULL AND YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD STOPPED IN TIME. Just a few days ago I was reading a German poet. In his introduction he writes: Had Hitler known this sentence of Lao Tzu... STRETCH A BOW TO THE VERY FULL AND YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD STOPPED IN TIME. Hitler was successful but he did not know Lao Tzu. People like Hitler never do. STRETCH...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,796 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tion he writes: Had Hitler known this sentence of Lao Tzu... STRETCH A BOW TO THE VERY FULL AND YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD STOPPED IN TIME. Hitler was successful but he did not know Lao Tzu. People like Hitler never do. STRETCH A BOW... Now Indira has stretched the bow too much. Don't succeed too much, otherwise you will fail. You have heard the proverb, that nothing fail...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,797 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... AND THE EDGE WILL NOT LAST LONG. Only balance lasts, nothing else, and balance is the most difficult thing in existence, in life, because balance needs tremendous wisdom. It happened: Lao Tzu's disciple, Chuang Tzu, lived in a town for many years. Then one day, suddenly, he told his disciples, "We are leaving." They said, "But what has happened that you are leaving? We don't see any point. Why ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,798 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...LONG. WHEN GOLD AND JADE FILL YOUR HALL YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP THEM SAFE. When everything is too much, it is bound to be taken away. It happened once: a follower of Lao Tzu was made a judge. The first case that came before him in the court was about a thief. The thief had confessed that he had stolen. The case was clear -- the thief had confessed, the things had been found -- bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,799 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... judge. The first case that came before him in the court was about a thief. The thief had confessed that he had stolen. The case was clear -- the thief had confessed, the things had been found -- but the follower of Lao Tzu took a very very strange approach and attitude to the case. He jailed the thief for six months and he also jailed the man from whom he had stolen the things. Of course the rich man could not b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,800 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... man from whom he had stolen the things. Of course the rich man could not believe it. What nonsense! His things had been stolen and he was being sentenced -- for what? The disciple of Lao Tzu said, "Because you have gathered too much. Now if I go to the very root of the problem you have provoked this man to steal. In the whole village people are poor, almost starving, and you go on piling up riche...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,801 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed from his post. The emperor said, "This is too much. This man is dangerous. Someday he will catch me -- because if he goes to even deeper roots, he will find me. This man has to be removed." But Lao Tzu has to be heard. He touches the very nerve of the whole disease: if you gather too much it will be stolen, it will be unsafe. Remain in the limits, remain balanced. Too much poverty is bad, too much rich...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,802 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e whole disease: if you gather too much it will be stolen, it will be unsafe. Remain in the limits, remain balanced. Too much poverty is bad, too much richness is bad -- too much is bad. In fact for Lao Tzu too much is the only sin. Don't do too much, don't overdo, and then life is a flow. And life is moral. TO BE PROUD WITH WEALTH AND HONOR IS TO SOW THE SEEDS OF ONE'S OWN DOWNFALL. 10/28/...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,803 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... future, neither is heaven. Each act carries its own heaven or hell. Remain balanced and you are in heaven; become unbalanced and a hell is created -- nobody else is creating it for you. Lao Tzu has no God, no personal God, to punish anybody. It is simply Tao. Tao is just a law, a universal law. If you move according to it you are happy, if you move against it you become unhappy. In fact, unhappiness...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,804 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The poor barber said, "I don't know. In fact I have never heard the word `secret' before. What do you mean? I am simply happy. I earn my bread and that's all... and then I retire." He must have been a Lao-Tzuan. Then the king asked his vizier, his prime minister -- and he was a man of knowledge, a very very knowledgeable man. He asked him, "You must know the secret of this barber. I am a great king. I am ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,805 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the present you are in the middle, whenever you are in the middle you are in the present. The middle is not a position outside you. It is an inner phenomenon just like the present. So when I say or Lao Tzu says, "Be balanced," we are not saying make balance a static phenomenon in your life. It cannot be static, you will have to continuously maintain it, moving to the left and the right. In that movement sometim...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,806 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n it is dead. You can pin it down but it is no more a butterfly, the life has left it. Just like a butterfly is the inner balance, you cannot pin it down. That's why it is indefinable, elusive. Says Lao Tzu: The Tao that can be said is no more Tao. The truth that can be uttered has already become untrue. Indian scriptures say "That" cannot be known by scriptures. nayam atma pravachanen labhya. You cannot underst...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,807 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of the unknown penetrates into love, into the phenomenon of love. Inner balance cannot be pinned down, you will have to find the knack of it. And you can find it -- because if I can find it, why not you? If Lao Tzu can find it, why not you? If one man finds the inner balance, the inner tranquility, the inner still small voice, the inner knack that passeth all understanding, then every human being becomes capable of it. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,808 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu can find it, why not you? If one man finds the inner balance, the inner tranquility, the inner still small voice, the inner knack that passeth all understanding, then every human being becomes capable of it. In Lao Tzu is your future, your possibility. You can also do it. You say: MY MIND IS IN SUCH A STATE OF CONFUSION THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMAIN IN THE MIDDLE. Don't try to r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,809 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that with ignorance and a sleeping mind there is no hope. Become alert. It happened: Alexander was coming towards India. He met Diogenes on the way. Diogenes was a rare Being -- if Diogenes had met Lao Tzu, they both would have sat and laughed and laughed and laughed. They are of the same quality. Alexander was passing. He heard that Diogenes was just nearby so he went to see him. Even Alexander...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,810 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s going to happen, it is going to happen. I have talked to you many times about the law of reverse effect. It is a very deep psychological law: do something and just the reverse happens. That's the whole teaching of Lao Tzu. He said: Talk about order and there will be disorder. Try to make people moral and there will be immorality. Try to make people be good and they will be bad. And you all know that this happens. Try to m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,811 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- first revolt in him against you. He will go against you; he will do exactly what you wanted him not to do. It never happened with Lao Tzu because he was never worried about it. If it happens it is okay -- what can you do? When I am gone, I am gone. Whatsoever happens is none of my business. So don't be worried about it. If it h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,812 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... The fifth question: IS CARLOS CASTANEDA'S GURU, DON JUAN, AN ENLIGHTENED MASTER? IF THERE WERE someone like Don Juan he would be enlightened, he would be like a Buddha or a Lao Tzu -- but there is nobody like Don Juan. Carlos Castaneda's books are ninety-nine per cent fiction -- beautiful, artful, but fiction. As there are scientific fictions, there are spiritual fictions also. There ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,813 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sorbed and nothing will be heard of it ever again. These black holes are the other part of existence: they are nonexistence. And it has to be so, because existence has to be balanced by nonexistence. Lao Tzu believes in nonexistence tremendously. He is the first to bring the utility of nonexistence to its ultimate glory. Of course he didn't know about black holes, otherwise he would have talked about them. He was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,814 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- near your navel, the Japanese say there exists a point called hara. The hara is the black hole in your body. Japan has discovered, following Lao Tzu's idea, that somewhere in the body death must have a home. Death doesn't come from the outside, it is not an accident as people think. People say death is coming. No, death is not coming, death is growing wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,815 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eply you will feel rest flowing all over your body -- a relaxation, a non-tense state of affairs. Have you ever watched a small child breathing? He breathes from the belly. You can watch and you will see. That's how Lao Tzu wanted everybody to breathe. That is the Taoist yoga: just like a child, the belly goes up and down and the chest remains absolutely unaffected, as if the chest has nothing to do with breathing -- and it has ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,816 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...have can be taken away. And that which you don't have, you don't have; it has already been taken away, you cannot carry it for long -- and if you carry it you simply carry a burden. Try to understand Lao Tzu's sayings. On the utility of not-being he says: THIRTY SPOKES UNITE AROUND THE NAVE; FROM THEIR NOT-BEING (LOSS OF THEIR INDIVIDUALITY) ARISES THE UTILITY OF THE WHEEL. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,817 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...LITY OF THE HOUSE. THEREFORE BY THE EXISTENCE OF THINGS WE PROFIT. AND BY THE NONEXISTENCE OF THINGS WE ARE SERVED. This is how one can become total and whole, and to be whole is holy for Lao Tzu. There is no other holiness. It is not a cultivation of religious ritual, and it is not even a cultivation of morality. It has nothing to do with character. Holiness means a life that is whole, a life that ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,818 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...icasso to him, a painting of Picasso's, a distortion. In the I Ching you will find a mirror. If a Buddha reads the I Ching it is going to be totally different, because the mirror will show Buddha. If Lao Tzu reads the I Ching, it will show Lao Tzu. If you read, of course you will see yourself. You can see only your face. So don't be bothered. Become a Buddha, then it will be worth looking at the mirror. But n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,819 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a distortion. In the I Ching you will find a mirror. If a Buddha reads the I Ching it is going to be totally different, because the mirror will show Buddha. If Lao Tzu reads the I Ching, it will show Lao Tzu. If you read, of course you will see yourself. You can see only your face. So don't be bothered. Become a Buddha, then it will be worth looking at the mirror. But no Buddha bothers to look at ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,820 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...every moment more and more total you will become and growth will happen on its own. But if you are too concerned about growth then you miss this moment, and that is the only time one can grow in. So Lao Tzu doesn't talk about growth, because he knows that the very talk about growth will become postponement. Then one thinks, "I will grow tomorrow. Today is not the time for me. Many other things have to be done; g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,821 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing moment has to be used so intensely, absorbed so intensely... then it becomes growth. Growth is not an ideal in Tao, it is a byproduct. And about spirituality Tao does not concern itself at all -- if you ask Lao Tzu he will laugh. If you talk about spirituality he may slap your face, he may throw you out and say to you, "Go somewhere else. Don't bring such stupid things to me." Why? Because the moment you say spiritual ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,822 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d to appreciate themselves. God is total, but the God of the so-called spiritual people is not total. Their God is just an abstraction, a thought, a pure thought with no life in it. Lao Tzu is not spiritual in that sense, and he won't allow any spirituality into his vicinity. He is simply for the whole; he is simply for no division. I am also for no division. When I initiate you into SANNYAS I a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,823 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are not a no-sayer, you have said yes to the whole of life as it is, with no conditions attached. You have said yes to the whole life -- this to me is what a religious man is. And the same is true with Lao Tzu: he does not bother about growth, growth will take its own course -- you just live the moment. He does not bother about spirituality -- you just live totally, and spirituality will take care of itself. It wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,824 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- people. There is a story about Confucius. The story is as old as Lao Tzu. Confucius was traveling, passing through a village, and he saw an old man, a very old man, pulling water from a well and watering his field. It was hard work and the sun was burning hot. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,825 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e hands. One remains humble." Confucius came back to his disciples. The disciples asked, "What were you talking about with that old man?" Confucius said, "It seems he is a disciple of Lao Tzu. He hit me hard, and his argument seems to be correct. " When you work with the hands no shadow of the head arises, a person remains humble, innocent, natural. When you start using cunning d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,826 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...professors of philosophy. This is something absurd. A professor of philosophy is not a philosopher; a professor of philosophy is just a teacher -- a man of knowledge but not a wise man -- not like Socrates, not like Lao Tzu, not like Buddha. They are not professors. They are not professing anything, they are not teaching anything to anybody. They are just there -- like the sun is there, you open your eyes and the darkness disapp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,827 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is quenched. They are not professors, they are alive people. They are more alive than anybody else, and then they become more and more mysterious. A few things more before we enter these sutras of Lao Tzu. In the East the past has been always revered; with deep respect we remember the past. In the West respect for the past has completely disappeared; rather, on the contrary, a certain respect for the future ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,828 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o direct way to reach it. Only old people can be wise. That's why whenever there is somebody who is wise and young, in the East we know that he is old, he is ancient. There is a beautiful story about Lao Tzu that he was born old; when he was born he was eighty-four years of age -- he had remained in his mother's womb for eighty-four years. Absurd, unbelievable, but a beautiful story -- says something, says someth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,829 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here is no more to it, no less to it. In knowledge more and less exist. Knowledge is relative, wisdom is absolute. You cannot be more wise, and in fact if you are wise you will feel very very humble. Lao Tzu feels so humble about himself and about his own age that he always talks about the wise ones of old. And if you go to the wise ones of old you will find them talking about the wise ones of older days again. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,830 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... move very cautiously; you can miss it. A little aggression and you will miss it. Love, happiness, meditation, truth -- or you name it -- whatsoever that is beautiful can be attained only in a subtle way. That's why Lao Tzu says: THE WISE ONES OF OLD HAD SUBTLE WISDOM AND DEPTH OF UNDERSTANDING. What is depth of understanding? Depth of understanding is when you can stand in others' shoes, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,831 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t somehow everybody has to be right in some sense or other. It happened: A Sufi mystic was made a kazi; he was made a justice, a judge. He was a wise man, a man of understanding -- what Lao Tzu calls of deep understanding. The first case was brought before him. The first party argued. He listened intently, and then he said, "Right, absolutely right." The clerk of the court was wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,832 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to remain confined to your alertness. If you want to understand wise men, you will have to grow into awareness. The more your awareness, the more you can penetrate them. When you are perfectly aware, only then is a Lao Tzu totally open to you. Not that he was closed, he was always open -- but you could not enter him. You were not yet capable of it. AND BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD, PERFOR...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,833 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., rather he is openness. But to us, from the outside, if we try to understand a wise man, these things will happen. That's why anything that is written about Buddha goes wrong, anything written about Lao Tzu goes wrong, anything written about Mahavir or Jesus goes wrong. Because people who write, write through their understanding, and a man like Jesus or Lao Tzu is so profound that whatsoever you understand about...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,834 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is written about Buddha goes wrong, anything written about Lao Tzu goes wrong, anything written about Mahavir or Jesus goes wrong. Because people who write, write through their understanding, and a man like Jesus or Lao Tzu is so profound that whatsoever you understand about him... be a little alert and hesitant, there is every possibility you will misunderstand him. Love him, but don't try to understand him. Then one day you ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,835 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e murky water mixing freely, because for him there is nobody pure and nobody impure. A man of wisdom never thinks that he is pure and you are impure. It is reported of Lieh Tzu, a great follower of Lao Tzu, that he had many disciples in his ashram. A certain disciple was found stealing again and again and he was creating a nuisance, but he was always forgiven by the Master. But there came a point where it becam...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,836 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...scended. A man of wisdom lives in oneness, that's why he mixes freely. There is no barrier for him. WHO CAN FIND REPOSE IN A MUDDY WORLD? BY LYING STILL, IT BECOMES CLEAR. Says Lao Tzu: WHO CAN FIND REPOSE IN A MUDDY WORLD? THE WORLD IS MUDDY. How will you find repose in it? How will you find peace in it? By lying still. You don't do anything, don't try to purify it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,837 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hosoever comes to know that Tao is balance, religion is balance, God is balance, GUARDS AGAINST BEING OVER-FULL. Don't move too much to one side, otherwise the balance will be lost, and imbalance is the only sin for Lao Tzu. To be balanced is to be virtuous, to be imbalanced is to be in sin. BECAUSE HE GUARDS AGAINST BEING OVER-FULL, HE IS BEYOND WEARING OUT AND RENEWAL He is always fresh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,838 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o do with the nature of enlightenment. Remember this. The second question: DO TAOISTS AGREE WITH THE HAPPENING OF SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT OR THE GRADUAL ONE? THEY DON'T BOTHER. Lao Tzu does not bother, because he says: Just to be ordinary is to be enlightened. It is not something special that one has to achieve, it is not an achievement, it is not something that one has to reach. It is you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,839 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f you can become a Hitler, good; or if you cannot become a Rockefeller or a Hitler, then renounce the world and think of becoming a Buddha. But become someone, someone special, a historic phenomenon. Lao Tzu is not bothered about enlightenment and all that nonsense. He says: Just be ordinary. Eat when you feel hungry, drink when you feel thirsty and go to sleep when sleep comes. Just be as natural as the whole ex...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,840 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r you go to throw it, when you come home, it is already there. Or sometimes you may get lost and then you will have to follow it, because only it knows the way." The ego is very wise -- wise in its cunningness. Lao Tzu does not give the ego any foothold, any ground to stand on, so he does not talk about enlightenment. So if you meet Lao Tzu don't ask him, "Do you believe in sudden enlightenment or in gradual enlightenment?"...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,841 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...w it, because only it knows the way." The ego is very wise -- wise in its cunningness. Lao Tzu does not give the ego any foothold, any ground to stand on, so he does not talk about enlightenment. So if you meet Lao Tzu don't ask him, "Do you believe in sudden enlightenment or in gradual enlightenment?" He will not answer you. He 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,842 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- will laugh at you: What foolishness! There is no need for any enlightenment. That word doesn't occur for Lao Tzu, it is not part of his vocabulary. He is very simple. He says: Just be ordinary. Why this hankering to be extraordinary, to be someone? And if you cannot be someone in the world then become enlightened at...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,843 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mediately produces, supplies them. You create the demand and the magician supplies the things to you. You want something special, he gives it to you. He exploits you. He lives on your absurd desires. Lao Tzu is absolutely simple. He has no bag. He says: Why not just be? What is wrong? What is wrong in that which you are? Why make an effort? And who will make the effort? You will make the effort. Your effort canno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,844 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nothing will be attained. Accept yourself. That is the only reality there is, that is the only possibility there is. Accept yourself as you are and suddenly everything is transformed. Acceptance is the word for Lao Tzu, not enlightenment -- total acceptance, whatsoever the case is. Nothing else is possible. This is how things are. This is how you have happened into this vast universe. This vast universe want...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,845 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ment, nirvana; you would like to become a Buddha; you would like to possess God; you would like to live in infinite bliss. This is how you reject in a religious way. These are both rejections and both are wrong. For Lao Tzu both are equally absurd. Your marketplace is a marketplace; your temple is also part of it. Your this-worldly desires are worldly desires; your other-worldly desires are also desires and worldly. In fact ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,846 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re means rejection of something -- you would like to be something else; desirelessness means acceptance -- you are happy as things are. In fact, things are irrelevant, you are happy. You are happy, that's the point. Lao Tzu says: Be content as you are, nothing else is needed -- and then suddenly everything happens. In deep acceptance the ego disappears. Ego exists through rejection: whenever you reject something ego exists. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,847 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ITSELF. HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO MEDITATION? ARE THE TWO INCOMPATIBLE? ERHARD IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, but you can misunderstand him because whatsoever he is saying is as profound as anything that Lao Tzu can say. You can misunderstand him. Try to understand it. Profundities are dangerous, and listened to by ignorant people they can become very very dangerous. Joined with your stupidity, a profundity can b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,848 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o delight in ordinary things, in eating, sleeping, drinking, the breeze that passes you.... Enjoying ordinary things, delighting in them, the whole of life becomes a celebration. Erhard is right. He is saying a Lao Tzuan thing: "Problems that you have been trying to change or put up with clear up in the process of life itself." Live life, live in its totality, move in all its dimensions -- indulge in every dimension, indulg...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,849 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll about such nonsensical questions. "Was Jesus really born out of a virgin?" It is a beautiful symbol. "Was Jesus really resurrected when he was dead, crucified?'' This is a beautiful symbol. "Was it a reality that Lao Tzu was born old, eighty-four years old, remained in his mother's 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,850 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- womb for eighty-four years?" It is a beautiful Lao Tzuan joke. I suspect that Lao Tzu must have spread the rumor -- nobody else could do that, it is so subtle. If you understand the joke, you understand. If you don't understand please don't ask questions. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,851 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- womb for eighty-four years?" It is a beautiful Lao Tzuan joke. I suspect that Lao Tzu must have spread the rumor -- nobody else could do that, it is so subtle. If you understand the joke, you understand. If you don't understand please don't ask questions. Forget about it, beca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,852 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... man or you trust other people who are laughing and not to feel stupid you join in the laughter. Whenever a joke is told you can immediately sort out these three kinds of laughter. This is just a Lao Tzuan joke. Nobody can live in the mother's womb for eighty-four years. Even if Lao Tzu could, think of the mother also! Lao Tzu may be enlightened and could live, but the mother... poor mother, think of her also...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,853 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he laughter. Whenever a joke is told you can immediately sort out these three kinds of laughter. This is just a Lao Tzuan joke. Nobody can live in the mother's womb for eighty-four years. Even if Lao Tzu could, think of the mother also! Lao Tzu may be enlightened and could live, but the mother... poor mother, think of her also. Even nine months is too much, but eighty-four years.... The mother would have been...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,854 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oke is told you can immediately sort out these three kinds of laughter. This is just a Lao Tzuan joke. Nobody can live in the mother's womb for eighty-four years. Even if Lao Tzu could, think of the mother also! Lao Tzu may be enlightened and could live, but the mother... poor mother, think of her also. Even nine months is too much, but eighty-four years.... The mother would have been dead long before. No, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,855 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uld live, but the mother... poor mother, think of her also. Even nine months is too much, but eighty-four years.... The mother would have been dead long before. No, it is a subtle humor. It says that Lao Tzu was born wise. It is a symbolic thing. From his very childhood he was wise. That is the only meaning. He was so wise that the rumor spread that he was 10/28/07 Copyright ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,856 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Talks on Fragments from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Talks given from 21/06/75 am to 30/06/75 am English Discourse series 10 Chapters...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,857 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...two stages of the final disappearance. The first one is not to be afraid of death. And once you are not afraid of death the second step is not to have any deep lust for life. Then you go beyond. And Lao Tzu said this is the eternal law -- to know it is to be enlightened, not to know it is to 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, pub...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,858 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... at least once in a while become completely inactive. Think as Mulla thought: For one hour I am dead. Then let the world do whatsoever it is doing, for one hour you be completely dead to it. Why does Lao Tzu say UTMOST IN PASSIVITY? Will not passivity be enough? UTMOST has a meaning to it: when you start being passive you even make efforts to be passive -- because you 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,859 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is a happening. You have to allow him to happen -- you cannot force him. You cannot attack him, you cannot be violent with him -- and all activity is violent -- you can simply allow him. That's why Lao Tzu says that those who want to reach the utmost truth have to attain to a feminine mind. A feminine mind is non-doing: the man does, the woman waits, the man penetrates, the woman simply receives. But the greate...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,860 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing happens to the woman, she becomes the new home of a new life. A new god is to be born and she becomes the temple. Man remains the outsider -- and man is the doer, woman is only on the receiving end. That's why Lao Tzu says that if you want to receive the ultimate, be feminine, be receiving, be passive. HOLD FIRM TO THE BASIS OF QUIETUDE. If you are passive you will remain in a deep silence, in collectednes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,861 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...reach. I entered my center. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- This is what Lao Tzu says. HOLD FIRM TO THE BASIS OF QUIETUDE. If you are passive by and by you will become aware of the center within you. You have carried it all along, it has always been there, only you don't know it, you are ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,862 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...side on the periphery, and the center remains untouched, pure, innocent, virgin. THE MYRIAD THINGS TAKE SHAPE AND RISE TO ACTIVITY, BUT I WATCH THEM FALL BACK TO THEIR REPOSE. Lao Tzu says: I watch, I observe life, and see what is happening. LIKE VEGETATION THAT LUXURIANTLY GROWS BUT RETURNS TO THE ROOT (SOIL) FROM WHICH IT SPRINGS. Everything goes back to the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,863 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...OUR FINAL SHOWDOWN? The first thing. Small Siddhartha is not so small, he is one of the ancient ones. His words may be that of a child but his wisdom is not. Watching small Siddhartha, you can understand why Lao Tzu was thought to have been born old. Siddhartha is born old. When he says something he knows something exactly, that's why he says it. He is right. The final showdown is always of a woman, the f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,864 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at's why he says it. He is right. The final showdown is always of a woman, the form of the body does not matter. The form of the inner being is always that of woman -- whether it is Buddha, Zarathustra Christ or Lao Tzu, it makes no difference, the final showdown is always that of the feminine being, the feminine mystique. All aggression disappears, all violence disappears, one becomes total receptivity -- that's ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,865 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...N THE WORLD CAN CONTEND AGAINST HIM. IS IT NOT INDEED TRUE, AS THE ANCIENTS SAY, `TO YIELD IS TO BE PRESERVED WHOLE'? THUS HE IS PRESERVED AND THE WORLD DOES HIM HOMAGE. Lao Tzu is a paradox. His whole teaching is paradoxical, and unless you understand the nature of paradox you will not be able to understand Lao Tzu. What is the nature of paradox? The first thing is that it is no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,866 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...THUS HE IS PRESERVED AND THE WORLD DOES HIM HOMAGE. Lao Tzu is a paradox. His whole teaching is paradoxical, and unless you understand the nature of paradox you will not be able to understand Lao Tzu. What is the nature of paradox? The first thing is that it is not logical, it is illogical. On the surface you see that two opposites are being forced to meet together, two opposites are put together. Log...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,867 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be here as a paradoxical life. If you can understand the paradox the mind disappears because the mind cannot cope with it; paradox is a poison to mind, it kills it with absolute certainty. That's why Lao Tzu uses paradox to kill the mind completely. Once the mind is not there you have achieved the whole; once the mind is not there enlightenment has already happened. So for Lao Tzu, to understand paradox is the wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,868 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e certainty. That's why Lao Tzu uses paradox to kill the mind completely. Once the mind is not there you have achieved the whole; once the mind is not there enlightenment has already happened. So for Lao Tzu, to understand paradox is the whole process of meditation. That is his way, his device to meditate. Logic has an appeal for the mind because it is mind-created, manufactured by the mind. With...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,869 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d of. If you move into life you will never find logic growing anywhere, it is just a nightmare in the human mind. Trees live very illogically, birds live very illogically, rivers flow very illogically -- they follow Lao Tzu. In fact the whole of existence exists without any logic. It may be a poetry but it is not a syllogism -- hence it is so beautiful. Logical syllogism is a dead 10/28/07 C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,870 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...don't wait any more -- because logic has nothing to do with life. Life is illogical and if you become too logical you become closed to life. Then you move in a mental direction, not in an existential direction. Lao Tzu is not logical, he is a very, very simple man, not a scholar at all. He is not a brahmin, not a pundit. He does not know anything about arguments: he simply watches life, he is a great watcher of life, a witn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,871 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to be illogical because if a man wants to succeed, he should succeed. That is logic. If a man wants success but fails, we can understand that if he was not doing things rightly that may have caused his failure, but Lao Tzu says that the idea of success itself is the cause of failure. If ten persons are making an effort to succeed in life we can understand logically that a few will fail because they will not be able to cope, to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,872 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and more energy and more gusto -- they will succeed. So we say that a few will succeed who fulfil all the conditions to succeed and others will fail because they couldn't fulfil the conditions. This is logical. But Lao Tzu says that all will fail, all will certainly fail, because the very idea of succeeding is the seed of failure. This is illogical. You will say: Then what logic is there? This is paradoxical. He says: If yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,873 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ay: Then what logic is there? This is paradoxical. He says: If you have too much you will be poor, if you resist you will be broken, if you don't yield you will not survive. It would have been good if Darwin had met Lao Tzu. Darwin says: Survival of the fittest. This is logic, simple, clean logic, mathematics -- everybody can understand, you can make it understood by even a primary-school boy. It is simple -- life is a struggle ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,874 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...This is logic, simple, clean logic, mathematics -- everybody can understand, you can make it understood by even a primary-school boy. It is simple -- life is a struggle and the fittest survive. If Charles Darwin met Lao Tzu somewhere, he missed, because Lao Tzu would have laughed loudly. He says that the humblest survive, not the fittest; in fact, the unfittest survive, not the fittest -- they are doomed to fail. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,875 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thematics -- everybody can understand, you can make it understood by even a primary-school boy. It is simple -- life is a struggle and the fittest survive. If Charles Darwin met Lao Tzu somewhere, he missed, because Lao Tzu would have laughed loudly. He says that the humblest survive, not the fittest; in fact, the unfittest survive, not the fittest -- they are doomed to fail. This is his whole base: whatsoever yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,876 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r your logic says is not going to happen. Life does not listen to your logic, it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life, life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic. Lao Tzu is one of the keenest, and he is keen because he is very innocent -- with childlike eyes he has observed life. He has not put any of his own ideas into it, he has simply observed whatsoever is the case, and r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,877 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...orm has gone the small plants and the grass are again dancing high. The grass has almost no roots, it can be pulled out by a small child, but the storm was defeated. What happened? The grass followed Lao Tzu and the big tree followed Charles Darwin. The big tree was very logical, it tried to resist, it tried to show its strength. If you try to show your strength you will be defeated. All Hitlers, all Napoleons, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,878 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... logical, it tried to resist, it tried to show its strength. If you try to show your strength you will be defeated. All Hitlers, all Napoleons, all Alexanders are big trees, strong trees. They will all be defeated. Lao Tzus are just like small plants, nobody can defeat them because they are always ready to yield. How can you defeat a person who yields, who says: 'I am already defeated,' who says: 'Sir, you enjoy your victory, t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,879 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou defeat a person who yields, who says: 'I am already defeated,' who says: 'Sir, you enjoy your victory, there is no need to create any trouble. I'm defeated'? Even an Alexander will feel that he is futile before a Lao Tzu, he cannot do anything. It happened, it happened exactly like that.... A SANNYASIN by the name of Dandani existed in the days of Alexander, in the days when Alexander was in India. His friends...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,880 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou to make others slaves before they can try to make a slave out of you. A man who is fearless is neither afraid of anybody nor makes anybody afraid of him. Fear totally disappears. Lao Tzu watched life in all its dimensions and he saw that in life there is no struggle. The very idea of struggle is false and human. It is the human mind that says that there is struggle in life, it is the human mi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,881 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d a higher stage in the lion, nothing else. There is no problem. The tree is eating the earth and it has become flowers, red flowers. It is a transformation. It is beautiful. Nothing is wrong in it. Lao Tzu moved into life, watched silently, observed, and saw things, many things; but the base of them all is that everything is moving to its opposite. The river is going to the ocean where it will disappear, go to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,882 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an, because it is a question of survival. If you don't fight you won't survive, you will be eaten by those who are stronger, you will be destroyed by those who are stronger. Violence has been taught. But Lao Tzu says: TO YIELD IS TO BE PRESERVED WHOLE. Don't bother to fight, because the whole is not the enemy, it is your mother, it is the source from where you come. Why fight unnecessarily? With whom are you fighting...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,883 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... WHOLE. Don't bother to fight, because the whole is not the enemy, it is your mother, it is the source from where you come. Why fight unnecessarily? With whom are you fighting? Jesus must have had a few glimpses of 'Lao-Tzuan' understanding, he could not have had those glimpses from anywhere else. In the Jewish tradition there are no roots, because the Jews say: An eye for an eye is the law. If somebody has taken your ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,884 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to walk with him for one mile, go two miles. This is what yielding means. Jesus says: If somebody robs you of your coat, present him with your shirt also. This is what yielding means. He must have come across some 'Lao-Tzuan' understanding because from the Jewish tradition he could not have got these concepts. Christ is a stranger to the Jews, that's why he was crucified. He was not an insider, to their minds he was simply inco...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,885 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to hide his head. No home exists yet for Jesus. Even Christian churches won't allow him in if he comes again; they will simply close their doors, because this man brings absurdity, illogic, with him. Lao Tzu says: TO YIELD IS TO BE PRESERVED WHOLE. If Lao Tzu and Jesus had had any meeting they would have completely understood each other. TO BE BENT IS TO BECOME STRAIGHT. Don't try to be straight, always remem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,886 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Jesus. Even Christian churches won't allow him in if he comes again; they will simply close their doors, because this man brings absurdity, illogic, with him. Lao Tzu says: TO YIELD IS TO BE PRESERVED WHOLE. If Lao Tzu and Jesus had had any meeting they would have completely understood each other. TO BE BENT IS TO BECOME STRAIGHT. Don't try to be straight, always remember the capacity to bend. Don't be a fig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,887 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou want to be the king, become the beggar -- that is the paradox. We see Buddha descending from his throne and becoming a beggar, Mahavir coming down from his palace and becoming a beggar -- they may have understood Lao Tzu. And no king can now be compared with Buddha. He became the real king. It happened that when Buddha came back to his town his father was very angry. Fathers are always angry. If the son become...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,888 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... possessions; he is not a master in his own home, he is a beggar. He cannot deceive those who can see, he can deceive only blind men, those who cannot see, those who cannot understand. But how can you deceive a Lao Tzu? A Lao Tzu knows deeply, to the very innermost core of your being. Such people have X-ray eyes. Innocent eyes, virgin eyes become X-ray eyes. No X-ray penetrates your being, it penetrates onl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,889 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a master in his own home, he is a beggar. He cannot deceive those who can see, he can deceive only blind men, those who cannot see, those who cannot understand. But how can you deceive a Lao Tzu? A Lao Tzu knows deeply, to the very innermost core of your being. Such people have X-ray eyes. Innocent eyes, virgin eyes become X-ray eyes. No X-ray penetrates your being, it penetrates only your body, but a Buddha, a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,890 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ao Tzu knows deeply, to the very innermost core of your being. Such people have X-ray eyes. Innocent eyes, virgin eyes become X-ray eyes. No X-ray penetrates your being, it penetrates only your body, but a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus, they penetrate to the very core of your being, they can see who you are inside. If you cling to your property, the property possesses you; if you can share, for the first time you become the owner; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,891 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tory than: TO YIELD IS TO BE PRESERVED WHOLE, more contradictory than: TO BE BENT IS TO BECOME STRAIGHT, more contradictory than: TO BE HOLLOW IS TO BE FILLED. TO BE IN WANT IS TO POSSESS. What does Lao Tzu mean by it? I have come across people who have become very rich, they have everything that this world can give -- varieties of food, varieties of things to enjoy. But their hunger is lost, they are not hungry...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,892 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave to get an appetite, you have to get your stomach alive again, throbbing and hungry. Food is needed for the stomach -- that is body hunger; love is needed for the heart -- that is your being's hunger. Lao Tzu says: TO BE IN WANT IS TO POSSESS. TO HAVE PLENTY IS TO BE CONFUSED. People who have plenty -- and by plenty he means who have more than they need -- don't know what to do ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,893 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oes not bother about all the nonsense that is politics, he does not bother about all that rubbish. He simply lives a contented life and his needs are simple. If you want to be contented and fulfilled, listen to Lao Tzu -- TO HAVE PLENTY IS TO BE CONFUSED. Whenever you have plenty you will create much confusion for yourself; because of the plenty you will go on wrong paths. A rich man doesn't know what to do with his riches ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,894 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... How does the sage embrace the One which comprehends both the opposite polarities? He does not choose. Logic is a choice, logic says, 'This is wrong and that is right,' and you choose the right. Says Lao Tzu: THEREFORE THE SAGE EMBRACES THE ONE, without any choice, without any logical distinctions. He chooses the One, the whole, the whole which comprehends all opposites. He chooses life with death, not life again...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,895 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that everything has a reason for being there you don't bother to interfere with nature, you start floating with it. You don't push the river, you simply float with it; that is what Tao is. The whole teaching of Lao Tzu is that there is not a single need to do anything on your part, everything has already been done for you, you simply accept it and float. Let things be as they are. Don't make any effort for any c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,896 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n happen to you; but the desire to be extraordinary, to be spiritual, supermen, not of this world but of the other world, is a mania. Only Tao is a natural religion. All other religions are in subtle ways unnatural. Lao Tzu is the future of the whole of humanity and all possibilities of bliss and benediction lie through him, pass through him. Why can't you just be? Try for a few days -- just be. Once you have the taste it w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,897 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y ever believed that humanity exists. In fact, if we are going to classify, then all the ancient psychologies classify man in three divisions. In India we have divided humanity into three parts: SATWA, RAJAS, TAMAS. Lao Tzu has not given the names but he also divides humanity into three kinds exactly the same. These three divisions are also arbitrary. We have to classify to understand otherwise there are as many ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,898 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...unds are his, all messages are his, everywhere is his signature. For the first-rate mind the path is not a path at all, he simply enters the temple without any path, there is no need for any bridge. Lao Tzu says that when the highest type of man hears the Tao there is immediate perception, immediate understanding. Just by looking at the master who has attained, just by hearing his word, or just by hearing his br...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,899 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nger part of humanity, they become superhuman. Then they are no longer part of the struggling humanity, they are no longer struggling. They appear like men but they are no longer men. When you come across a man like Lao Tzu, he is not a man; when you come across Buddha he is not a man. That's why we have called such people AVATARAS, just to make a distinction from ordinary humanity. We have called Jesus 'son of God' -- not that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,900 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... AVATAR, Krishna a god. These are just symbolic gestures to show that even the first type of man, the man of SATWA, transcends when he drops all effort and moves in accordance with nature. Somebody asked Lao Tzu: How did you attain? He said: I was sitting under a tree and I had done all that could be done, all that was humanly possible and I was completely frustrated. Much had happened through it, but not all; someth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,901 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nison within. The highest type of men can attain unity, the lowest type also has a certain type of unity, but the mediocre type, the 'middler', is in the greatest danger. You can see wise persons like Buddha or Lao Tzu in unity -- a bliss surrounds them, they move surrounded by a subtle ecstasy, if you look at them you can see they are drunk with the Divine, they walk on the earth but they are not here. But...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,902 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...certain balance: one per cent are idiots, one per cent are geniuses, and ninety-eight per cent of humanity is just in the middle. The greatest part of humanity is mediocre. 'The mediocre part,' says Lao Tzu,'seems to be aware and yet unaware of it.' If you talk about truth the mediocre mind understands it intellectually but does not understand it totally. He says: Yes, I can understand what you are saying but st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,903 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the lowest type sometimes comes to me, he comes just to see other people meditating so he can laugh and he can feel very good about himself that he is not as mad or as foolish as these people are. Says Lao Tzu: IF IT WERE NOT LAUGHED AT, IT WOULD NOT BE TAO. Lao Tzu says: If the third type does not laugh when it hears about truth, it will not be truth. So this is a definite indication: whene...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,904 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng so he can laugh and he can feel very good about himself that he is not as mad or as foolish as these people are. Says Lao Tzu: IF IT WERE NOT LAUGHED AT, IT WOULD NOT BE TAO. Lao Tzu says: If the third type does not laugh when it hears about truth, it will not be truth. So this is a definite indication: whenever truth is asserted the lowest type will immediately laugh. It shows two things...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,905 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...HO MOVES ON THE EVEN TAO (PATH) SEEMS TO GO UP AND DOWN. To the greater majority the man of truth is someone with whom something has gone wrong, someone who is not normal, who is abnormal. Jesus is abnormal, Lao Tzu is abnormal, Krishna is abnormal; they don't fulfil the standard of normality. If the vast humanity is normal, then of course Lao Tzu is abnormal. If the first type of man existed in the world...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,906 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g, someone who is not normal, who is abnormal. Jesus is abnormal, Lao Tzu is abnormal, Krishna is abnormal; they don't fulfil the standard of normality. If the vast humanity is normal, then of course Lao Tzu is abnormal. If the first type of man existed in the world there would be no government, no need of one. There would be an anarchy. There would be no need to rule because people would live by their inner disc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,907 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...blished Query:- not know the smell of fresh air -- it feels bad. If you live too much in the dark you become allergic to light; if you live too much in impurity you become allergic to purity. Says Lao Tzu: PURE WORTH APPEARS LIKE CONTAMINATED. So don't be afraid if you appear mad to other people; don't be afraid if when you are meditating you see others laughing -- if they don't laugh it wouldn't be medita...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,908 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pulates you, and through society, the dead, all those who are dead now, manipulate you. Every living being, if he follows a dead ideology, is following dead people. Zarathustra is beautiful, Buddha is beautiful, Lao Tzu is beautiful, Jesus is beautiful -- but they are no longer applicable. They lived their lives, they flowered beautifully: learn through them -- but don't be a stupid follower. Be a disciple, but don't be a st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,909 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ciple, but don't be a student. A student learns the word, the dead word; a disciple just learns the secrets of understanding, and when he has his own understanding, he goes on his own way. He pays his respect to Lao Tzu and says: Now I'm ready, I'm grateful, I go my own way. He will always be grateful to Lao Tzu -- and this is the paradox: people who have been deadly following Jesus, Buddha or Mohammed can never ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,910 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...earns the secrets of understanding, and when he has his own understanding, he goes on his own way. He pays his respect to Lao Tzu and says: Now I'm ready, I'm grateful, I go my own way. He will always be grateful to Lao Tzu -- and this is the paradox: people who have been deadly following Jesus, Buddha or Mohammed can never forgive them. If you miss your joys of life because of them how can you forgive them? How can you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,911 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he died and was reborn in that night. For eighteen years the dervish had remained there and nothing had happened, and in eighteen hours the beggar was a Buddha -- and he had not done a thing. I love the story. Lao Tzu would have loved it, Lao Tzu would have understood it. What is the secret of this? It looks a little irrational: the man who had been praying for eighteen years attained nothing and the man who had never pray...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,912 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... For eighteen years the dervish had remained there and nothing had happened, and in eighteen hours the beggar was a Buddha -- and he had not done a thing. I love the story. Lao Tzu would have loved it, Lao Tzu would have understood it. What is the secret of this? It looks a little irrational: the man who had been praying for eighteen years attained nothing and the man who had never prayed attained everything within...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,913 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ational: the man who had been praying for eighteen years attained nothing and the man who had never prayed attained everything within eighteen hours. What is the secret key to understand this story? Lao Tzu has a word. The word is wu wei. It means: action without action. It means: action like no-action. It means: being active and not being active together. That is the secret key. The dervish was overdoing it; he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,914 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... God comes to you when you are not particularly after him -- when you are after him you are a little aggressive. God comes to you when you are more like a feminine being than like a male mind. That is the meaning of Lao Tzu's feminine being -- you await. In the West one very, very rare woman of this century, Simone Weil, has written a book called 'Waiting for God'. This is the right attitude. What else can you d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,915 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is happening.... 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Now, listen to this sutra of Lao Tzu: THE SOFTEST SUBSTANCE OF THE WORLD GOES THROUGH THE HARDEST. What is the softest substance of the world? There are two: in the outside world the softest substance is water...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,916 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tree will start flowing towards you. It is natural. It is nothing like a miracle; it is just like water: you pour water and it will find the hollowest place to rest. Love is the water of the inner being. Lao Tzu says: THE SOFTEST SUBSTANCE OF THE WORLD GOES THROUGH THE HARDEST. They say that within seven thousand years the Niagara Falls will completely dissolve all the hills that s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,917 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...arsighted mind, the harder seems to win. If you see Buddha and Alexander standing together, can you think that Buddha will win? Of course not -- Alexander will. All logic will say that Alexander will win. If you see Lao Tzu standing by the side of Adolf Hitler, can you think Lao Tzu will win? Lao Tzu will be so humble and Hitler so arrogant. Hitler is a granite rock, but look at the longer range, look with vision, and you will s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,918 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... standing together, can you think that Buddha will win? Of course not -- Alexander will. All logic will say that Alexander will win. If you see Lao Tzu standing by the side of Adolf Hitler, can you think Lao Tzu will win? Lao Tzu will be so humble and Hitler so arrogant. Hitler is a granite rock, but look at the longer range, look with vision, and you will see all Hitlers becoming sands, all Alexanders dissolving int...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,919 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing together, can you think that Buddha will win? Of course not -- Alexander will. All logic will say that Alexander will win. If you see Lao Tzu standing by the side of Adolf Hitler, can you think Lao Tzu will win? Lao Tzu will be so humble and Hitler so arrogant. Hitler is a granite rock, but look at the longer range, look with vision, and you will see all Hitlers becoming sands, all Alexanders dissolving into sands. And Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,920 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...win? Lao Tzu will be so humble and Hitler so arrogant. Hitler is a granite rock, but look at the longer range, look with vision, and you will see all Hitlers becoming sands, all Alexanders dissolving into sands. And Lao Tzu and Buddha... they go on winning. They don't fight and they win, and those who fight, they are defeated. THE SOFTEST SUBSTANCE OF THE WORLD GOES THROUGH THE HARDEST. Have y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,921 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...far as the final victory is concerned it is the soft. Of course you cannot defeat a man if he is also feminine -- a buddha cannot be defeated by a woman, impossible, because a buddha is more feminine than any woman. Lao Tzu cannot be defeated, he is more humble than any woman. If you want to win according to Lao Tzu you should be soft, humble, non-resisting. THAT-WHICH-IS-WITHOUT-FORM PENETRATES THAT-WHIC...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,922 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... feminine -- a buddha cannot be defeated by a woman, impossible, because a buddha is more feminine than any woman. Lao Tzu cannot be defeated, he is more humble than any woman. If you want to win according to Lao Tzu you should be soft, humble, non-resisting. THAT-WHICH-IS-WITHOUT-FORM PENETRATES THAT-WHICH-HAS-NO-CREVICE; Even if a granite rock has no crevice the water will penetrate it, it will...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,923 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...if you are soft -- how can you merge if you are hard? THAT-WHICH-IS-WITHOUT-FORM PENETRATES THAT-WHICH-HAS-NO-CREVICE; THROUGH THIS I KNOW THE BENEFIT OF TAKING NO ACTION. Lao Tzu says: THROUGH THIS I KNOW THE BENEFIT OF TAKING NO ACTION -- because all actions are aggressive, all actions are male. In action there is the odor of male chauvinism, in the very phenomenon of action, aggress...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,924 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... You will never be able to utter a single word about it -- the tongue is not made for that, lips are incapable of that. All that they can say is always about and about and about, it is never the thing. That's why Lao Tzu says: Tao cannot be uttered, and that which can be uttered cannot be Tao. In silence it is heard and known; in silence it is felt and lived; in silence you become it, it becomes you. Not through action wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,925 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dence. Balance between any duality and suddenly the door opens. The door has always remained opened, only you are so much engaged in actions that you don't have the space to see that it is open. Yes, Lao Tzu is true -- THE TEACHING WITHOUT WORDS AND THE BENEFIT OF TAKING NO ACTION ARE WITHOUT COMPARE IN THE UNIVERSE. Tao: The Three Treasures, Vo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,926 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...94 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- because everybody has it; and to have the understanding to be ordinary is very extraordinary, because it rarely happens -- a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus have it. To try to be unique is on everybody's mind; and all these people fail and fail utterly. How can you be more unique than you are already? Uniqueness is already there, you have to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,927 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yes and look at yourself; you have just to stop for a while and rest and look. But you are running so fast, you are in such great haste to achieve it that you will miss it. It is said by one of Lao Tzu's great disciples, Lieh Tzu, that once an idiot was searching for fire with a candle in his hand. Said Lieh Tzu: Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice sooner. He remained hungry the whole ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,928 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the house has space. Much is possible in this space but the moment you call it idiotic, or you say to yourself, 'I am feeling like an idiot,' you have already condemned it. Soon we will come across Lao Tzu's saying: In this whole world only I am an idiot. Everybody seems to be so wise, everybody knows where he is going to, where he is coming from, only I seem to be bewildered. Everybody seems to be so intellige...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,929 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ddha, a Christ, then drop judgements. It is very, very difficult to drop judgements, to remain without judgement, to just watch, to just see, to just allow things to take their own course; but if you don't, what Lao Tzu says, will happen. Lao Tzu says: THE HIGHEST PERFECTION IS LIKE IMPERFECTION. To you, of course. If you come to a perfect man he will look like imperfection. Why? It is very ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,930 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It is very, very difficult to drop judgements, to remain without judgement, to just watch, to just see, to just allow things to take their own course; but if you don't, what Lao Tzu says, will happen. Lao Tzu says: THE HIGHEST PERFECTION IS LIKE IMPERFECTION. To you, of course. If you come to a perfect man he will look like imperfection. Why? It is very subtle but try to understand it. A man...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,931 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...al and the alive. It is of one who has absorbed everything that life has given, who has transformed his whole being, without denying any part -- but then he will not look perfect to you. That's what Lao Tzu means. He says: THE HIGHEST PERFECTION IS LIKE IMPERFECTION. The higher the perfection, the less you will be able to see it, the lower the perfection, the more you will be able to see it. In ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,932 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here is a singing. When he walks there is a song in it. When he sits there is dance in it. In his movement there is dance, in his non-movement there is dance -- he has become one with it. That's why Lao Tzu says: THE GREATEST SKILL APPEARS LIKE CLUMSINESS. It is difficult for you to understand it. To understand Michelangelo is easy, any fool can understand; but to understand Picasso is difficult, only a few...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,933 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tical standards, to judge a Van Gogh? Van Gogh brought a new world to the world. He painted, but no paintings were ever sold -- but that was not the point, he was never depressed about it. If he had come across Lao Tzu he would have said: If people purchase them then they are not real paintings. Because nobody purchases them there must be something in them. Nobody can make head or tail of them. His brother ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,934 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he criteria for himself -- this is really something. A man like Van Gogh has to paint, and also create the criteria for the paintings to be judged because there existed no other criteria. A man like Lao Tzu has to create his truth and then the methods of how that truth can be seen and realized. After Van Gogh's death his paintings became so famous that they were hunted all over Europe, wherever ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,935 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to the masses -- which is impossible, because it cannot happen, it is unnatural -- or the masses reach higher. That is the only possibility and that takes time. That's why even thousands of years pass and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Krishna remain enigmas. The mystery is not solved. THE GREATEST ELOQUENCE SEEMS LIKE STUTTERING. MOVEMENT OVERCOMES COLD, That you have observed. If you go to the physiologists,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,936 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st a dream. Only the dream dissolves -- nothing else; only the ignorance is lost -- nothing else; only sleep dissolves -- nothing else. But the question is relevant. What happens to the uniqueness of a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus? Where does it go? The universe becomes unique through it. Every Buddha enriches the universe -- just as every sleepy man impoverishes it. Every sleepy man is making part of the universe sleepy, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,937 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now it or you may not know it. If you were born before Jesus you would have been born in a totally different world. Jesus has given his quality to the world. It is a historic moment. Mahavir, Buddha, Lao Tzu, are all historic moments. Through them the universe is reaching higher and higher, the universe is reaching to a crescendo. Through them the universe is already reaching; through you it has yet to reach....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,938 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... more you know, the more you will feel that much more is still left to be known. The seventh type of man is absolute mystery, extraordinarily ordinary. Simple, but as mysterious as is possible. A Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Gurdjieff, they are the seventh type of man. But about them nothing can be said. People who belong to the first three categories are almost alike. People who belong to the fourth category ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,939 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... immediately the suspicion arises: You and happy? Impossible. Something has gone wrong somewhere. Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 3 Talks on Fragments from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Talks given from 11/08/75 am to 20/08/75 am English Discourse series 10 Chapters...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,940 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... philosophies, systems, theologies -- all things; subtle, abstract, but still things. You are not growing, you remain the same, and you create a delusion around you that you have come to know. These sutras of Lao Tzu have to be understood in this light. WITHOUT STEPPING OUTSIDE ONE'S DOORS ONE CAN KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD. Because deep down you are the world. World is nothing but you a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,941 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd nothing else is needed. You need not try to settle them because that will disturb them again, you will stir them up more; you simply don't do anything. because that will disturb them again, That is the meaning of Lao Tzu's beautiful phrase WU -- WEI, do by not doing. You simply don't do anything and it happens; that is doing by not doing. Just close your eyes and wait and wait and wait and you see layers of distur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,942 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ional Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- perspective, hands can touch that which is different and distant, ears can hear that which is outside -- that's why Lao Tzu says he understands without seeing, because how can you see yourself? Who will see whom? The seer and the seen are one there, no eyes are needed. Who will do? Who will make the effort? It will be just like a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,943 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e? And if you can know life you will be able to know death, because knowing is the thing. If you have the capacity to know life you will have the capacity to know death. Knowing should be developed, that's what Lao Tzu goes on saying -- not knowledge but knowing. And remember, if you ask me, and if I say Yes, you will survive death, that will be knowledge for you, not knowing. And I am not here to help you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,944 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... more dangerous than power, because knowledge is more subtle. I must tell you the old biblical story OF Adam's expulsion from paradise. That parable has multi dimensional meanings. One of the meanings is Lao Tzuan: God created the world, and he told Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge -- but why particularly the tree of knowledge? In fact it seems absurd. Had he prohibited Adam from 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,945 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e ocean? It can go on fighting, but there is no possibility of it ever conquering the whole. It will be always in defeat, and that is the hell, always defeated, always defeated, always a failure. And Lao Tzu says: Knowledge is the only sin. And all those who have awakened to their inner innocence say the same. Drop knowledge, and become innocent, childlike again. Regain your lost childhood, and su...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,946 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nnot be forgotten. You may not be able to remember the words but you will remember the essence -- and that will not be part of your memory, it will be part of your being. I am saying something here, Lao Tzu is saying something here through me, to reveal a part of your hidden being. He is not feeding you with new information, he is just uncovering you, rediscovering you, just giving you a glimpse of your own bein...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,947 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...edge disappears from you, doing will also disappear. You will become BEING, you can BE then, but you will not be a doer. I don't mean that you will not do anything -- even a Buddha has to go to beg, even Lao Tzu must have tried ways and means to find bread and butter and things like that; when it was raining he must have found a shelter -- he lived a long life, and he lived a very healthy life. No, I don't mean that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,948 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... death, humanity has repressed all that is beautiful in life. Man has been forced to become like an automaton, a robot. All clues, all doors, have been closed towards the unknown. But Lao Tzu is true, and what he says he knowS -- I KNOW it. Things go on happening on their own. For many years I have not done anything, not even thought about them. They go on happening on their own. I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,949 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... own. It has no violence in it. It has a grace. It is lovely. When you do it you force it. The grace is lost, it becomes ugly. Violence cannot be graceful. And to be non violent -- this is the only way, as Lao Tzu says. Simply drop knowledge, the doer. Just be and let things be. And everything starts flowering, and everything starts flowing. Knowledge has made you frozen. BY CONTINUAL LOSING ONE REACHES ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,950 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y they killed themselves. That's all that happened. They existed as a nightmare. Mad people. Neurotics. Murderers. Those people are not the conquerors. They have not conquered the world. Then look at a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus; a different type of flowering. Centuries pass, ages come and go, Lao Tzu remains flowering, his fragrance remains as fresh as ever. It has not lost a bit of its newness -- it has not become old. It ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,951 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Neurotics. Murderers. Those people are not the conquerors. They have not conquered the world. Then look at a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus; a different type of flowering. Centuries pass, ages come and go, Lao Tzu remains flowering, his fragrance remains as fresh as ever. It has not lost a bit of its newness -- it has not become old. It has not become dusty. It is as fresh as a dewdrop of THIS morning. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,952 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... its newness -- it has not become old. It has not become dusty. It is as fresh as a dewdrop of THIS morning. People who have lived in the now always remain in the now. They are never of the past. Lao Tzu is more a contemporary than any Hitler or Mussolini. A Lao Tzu will remain a contemporary for thousands of years to come. He will always be a contemporary. A Jesus is never part of past history, he is always ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,953 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It is as fresh as a dewdrop of THIS morning. People who have lived in the now always remain in the now. They are never of the past. Lao Tzu is more a contemporary than any Hitler or Mussolini. A Lao Tzu will remain a contemporary for thousands of years to come. He will always be a contemporary. A Jesus is never part of past history, he is always part of the present. He dies, but he never dies. He goes on liv...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,954 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...became old. The body comes and goes but their youth remains. Their fragrance, their innocence, has a quality of eternity in it. These are the real conquerors and they have not done anything. One never knows what Lao Tzu has done -- nothing. You cannot find more uneventful a life than Lao Tzu's. Nothing happens. Only one thing has happened -- HE HAS HAPPENED. That's all. Nothing else happens. That's why these ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,955 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nnocence, has a quality of eternity in it. These are the real conquerors and they have not done anything. One never knows what Lao Tzu has done -- nothing. You cannot find more uneventful a life than Lao Tzu's. Nothing happens. Only one thing has happened -- HE HAS HAPPENED. That's all. Nothing else happens. That's why these people are not regarded in history. At the most they become small footnotes, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,956 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...happened around him, only nothing happened within him. Only one thing never happened, and that is his being. Much else happened: you can go on writing and writing thousands of pages, and still much will be left. But Lao Tzu? Just a footnote. You can even drop that footnote. He is not a part of history, not an event at all. But these are the real conquerors -- they go on conquering. Still Lao Tzu goes on throwing his net, and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,957 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l much will be left. But Lao Tzu? Just a footnote. You can even drop that footnote. He is not a part of history, not an event at all. But these are the real conquerors -- they go on conquering. Still Lao Tzu goes on throwing his net, and still people are caught, still people are converted, transformed, resurrected out of their graves. The miracle goes on continuing. HE WHO CONQUERS THE WORLD OFTEN ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,958 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rld will corrupt him, he will move into the ways of knowledge, into the ways of the mind. He is ready like a seed to move into knowledge. Innocence is not there, he is ignorant. But then, a sage like Lao Tzu who has known the world, and come back home, who was corrupted, who was in the ways of sin and knowledge, who tasted the bitter fruit, and now has become mature, has dropped knowledge, has become again childl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,959 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the dictionary. But a dictionary is not existence. It is not a substitute for existence. Samadhi can be known only when you go in it, when you become it; there is no other way to know it. That's why Lao Tzu goes on insisting: Truth cannot be spoken, and that which is spoken cannot be true. But he speaks because THIS much can be said; this is a negation. He says: HE WHO KNOWS DOES NOT SPEAK; HE WHO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,960 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h is spoken cannot be true. But he speaks because THIS much can be said; this is a negation. He says: HE WHO KNOWS DOES NOT SPEAK; HE WHO SPEAKS DOES NOT KNOW. This much can be said. Lao Tzu speaks -- whether he knows or not. According to his own principle, if he knows he should not speak. If he speaks then he is not in the know, then he does not know. Then you will fall into a riddle which canno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,961 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Nothing can be said about being, because even to say something about heart is impossible. Nothing can be said about being. You have to move, you have to know to know. There is no shortcut to it. Says Lao Tzu: HE WHO KNOWS DOES NOT SPEAK; All those who have known have not spoken. You will not believe it, because Buddha spoke for forty years continuously. Every day for forty years he was spea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,962 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his whole philosophy is known as Stoicism. All words at the most can become porches; they lead you towards the inner temple; but if you cling to them then you remain in the porch -- the porch is not the palace. Lao Tzu is saying something which is just like a porch, a door. If you understand it, you will drop all words, language -- in fact the whole mind. Where you leave your shoes in the porch, you should leave your mind a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,963 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. Even absolutely useless knowledge. You cannot even imagine of what use this knowledge is going to be. But mind goes on collecting in the hope some day, maybe, it can use it. That day never comes. Says Lao Tzu: FILL UP ITS APERTURES... If you want to attain to silence, fill up its apertures. Open your eyes only when it is absolutely necessary. Look only when it is absolutely needed; otherwise t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,964 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- become normal, forced to be normal, but you will become a little stupid also. In Zen monasteries they don't do anything. They know a great secret of Lao Tzu's: Don't do, just sit, just watch. Things settle by themselves -- Why? Because to remain unsettled is unnatural. This is the law. If you don't do anything everything is going to settle by itself -- how can so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,965 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed. Buddha could attain without any belief in God. The Taoist Lao Tzu never mentions the word God -- never! There must be a very great difference -- try to understand it. Prayer is a dialogue between two persons: God and you. You are talking to God, it is a dialogue; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,966 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... make it a goal, it is not the goal. That's why Christianity and Mohammedanism don't reach to the height of Buddhism. No, they remain with the second layer. (For the third layer something like Buddha, something like Lao Tzu, is needed.) They remain better than ordinary worldly people, but still not absolutely other worldly, they remain in the middle. Good as far as it goes, but not enough. If you cannot love, pra...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,967 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and there will be no great problems. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says that for a great man there are no great problems. Ordinarily you must be thinking the other way round, that great men exist because they tackle great problems. And Lao Tzu says there are no great problem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,968 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...blished and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says that for a great man there are no great problems. Ordinarily you must be thinking the other way round, that great men exist because they tackle great problems. And Lao Tzu says there are no great problems for a great man because he never allows the problems to become great; he always deals with them when they are small, within his hands; then something can be done. And ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,969 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n comes. Then life is a mystery, it is not a problem to be solved. It has to be lived and lived totally. Then you feel grateful. Then it has been a blessing. Remember this, and then try to understand Lao Tzu's sutras. ACCOMPLISH DO-NOTHING. ATTEND TO NO AFFAIRS. TASTE THE FLAVOURLESS. In action, do nothing -- this is the very deepest secret of Lao Tzu. He says when things can be done by non-d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,970 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g. Remember this, and then try to understand Lao Tzu's sutras. ACCOMPLISH DO-NOTHING. ATTEND TO NO AFFAIRS. TASTE THE FLAVOURLESS. In action, do nothing -- this is the very deepest secret of Lao Tzu. He says when things can be done by non-doing, why do you bother to do? When things can be done by non-doing, if you do, if you try to do, you will create only troubles for yourself. Let me gi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,971 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... A very small enlightenment, but it is of the same quality. A very very small satori, very tiny, nothing much to brag about -- but of the same nature. If you can understand the process you have understood what Lao Tzu means by inaction. There are things you cannot attain by action. This is the criterion: If there is something which you can attain by action, that belongs to THIS world; anything that can be a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,972 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- not possible. If there you relax you will be a beggar like Buddha or Lao Tzu. There, fight is needed, the world belongs to violence, and the world belongs to the egos, and the world belongs to those who are more aggressive than others. You come from the world trained c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,973 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... do and we can do, but you say -- just relax, don't do. That is impossible. Even for a single moment not to do anything seems impossible. Because of old habit, an old deep rooted pattern, always it is: Do something! Lao Tzu says, Do nothing. In the world of being doing is not needed. That is the meaning of being -- where doing is not needed. There you flower in your profoundest depth; there you flower in your greatest height...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,974 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nothing. Whenever you can find some time just close your eyes and do nothing. Soon you will have the taste of the flavourless. Soon you will enter into a different kind of existence where Jesus lives, Krishna lives, Lao Tzu lives. ACCOMPLISH DO NOTHING. ATTEND TO NO-AFFAIRS. Constantly attending to affairs creates anxiety. Sometimes, attend to no affairs; not doing anything. In my childhood m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,975 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...icularly, there has never been a teacher who has said: Do nothing. Jesus tried, but they killed him -- and Jesus also tried very guardedly, because he would not have been understood at all. If he had talked like Lao Tzu nobody would have understood him. Jews are great doers. They accomplish many things. It is difficult to defeat Jews, in anything; never compete with a Jew, he will defeat you. They are great doers. The wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,976 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he Jews but -- nothing; they are standing again stronger than before. Jews are the most worldly race in the world. They believe in doing. They would not have understood Jesus, but still he was talking something like Lao Tzu in a guarded way, in a masked language -- but no other teacher has even tried. On the contrary the proverb goes: When you do nothing you become a workshop for the devil. And Lao Tzu says when you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,977 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ill he was talking something like Lao Tzu in a guarded way, in a masked language -- but no other teacher has even tried. On the contrary the proverb goes: When you do nothing you become a workshop for the devil. And Lao Tzu says when you do nothing then only you become the workshop for God, not for the devil. The devil takes possession of you when you want to do something, then you are in the hands of the devil, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,978 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... He has to drop knowledge. But you can drop knowledge only when you come to know that all that is beautiful, true and good can happen without doing, otherwise you will not be able to drop knowledge. Lao Tzu is trying to make you understanding. He is trying to give you a vision that knowledge has to be dropped. But then you will immediately ask, If knowledge is dropped, how will we be able then to do so many thin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,979 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... then to do so many things? He says: Those 'so many things' are not needed. The innermost being can flower in non doing. ACCOMPLISH DO NOTHING. ATTEND TO NO AFFAIRS. TASTE THE FLAVOURLESS. Lao Tzu never uses the name GOD. He consistently remains with indications, he never uses any direct expressions: the flavourless. God has no flavour, because flavour can exist only in duality. If something is sweet, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,980 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... IT IS BIG OR SMALL, MANY OR FEW, REQUITE HATRED WITH VIRTUE. This is a very revolutionary concept. It has to be understood very very delicately. You have heard the famous dictum of Jesus: Love your enemies. Lao Tzu goes deeper than that. He says: Requite hatred with virtue, not with love. It would have been easier to say: Respond with 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,981 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...esus says: Love your enemies, he is not saying a very very revolutionary thing, it just appears revolutionary -- you already love them in fact; the love is hidden and he wants to bring it up, that's all. Lao Tzu says:... REQUITE HATRED WITH VIRTUE. What is virtue? Virtue is balance. Virtue is compassion not love. The distinction is subtle, but great. When you love a person the emotion is hot. When you hate a pers...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,982 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...S FAITH. HE WHO MAKES LIGHT OF MANY THINGS WILL ENCOUNTER MANY DIFFICULTIES. HENCE EVEN THE SAGE REGARDS THINGS AS DIFFICULT, AND FOR THAT REASON NEVER MEETS WITH DIFFICULTIES. Lao Tzu is saying: Don't promise, otherwise you will lose faith -- because time goes on changing things. Don't say anything certain about the future, because future itself is not certain. At the most for this moment ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,983 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ow from him. He becomes a passage for the divine, for Tao. But one who lightly gives promises, who lightly postpones things, who never thinks that things are difficult.... Try to understand this. Lao Tzu says: Everything is simple if you take it rightly in the beginning. But don't think that it is simple, and don't think that it is easy, because if you think that it is easy there will be a tendency to postpon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,984 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Everybody is capable of solving his problems. Everybody HAS to be capable. When you are capable of creating problems who else is going to be capable of solving them? You create, you can solve. These sutras of Lao Tzu are very significant. Pay attention to them. Meditate over them. Let your being be soaked with them. Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 3 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,985 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you are now trying to rationalize it, that there is much beauty, much happiness, bliss, in waiting. If in waiting there is much bliss, more bliss than in enlightenment then those who attained it were fools. Buddha, Lao Tzu, Krishna, Jesus -- stupid, all stupid! Then what is the point in trying to attain it? No, you are trying to befool yourself. Nowhere does it seem to be coming nearer... and the mind is very c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,986 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you are left totally alone, with no possession, with no body, with no mind. In that aloneness flowers the flower of Buddha. You have come to the Buddhaland. You have come to know the Tao. These sutras of Lao Tzu are methods: How to attain to the inner Buddhaland. Now, try to understand the sutras. THAT WHICH LIES STILL IS EASY TO HOLD; You have been trying, in a thousand and one ways, to hold y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,987 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... also indicates a little difficulty in it, it is a category of difficulty. Difficult and easy have the same quality; they differ in degree, in quantity, but not in quality. No, it is not good to say easy, that's why Lao Tzu says again and again that the truth cannot be said. When it is said it is no more the truth. But he has to use language as I have to use language, and all language is irrelevant to the innermo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,988 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...wing you the moon; the finger is irrelevant, the same thing can be done by a stick, or something else, any pointer can do it, and the pointer has no relationship with the moon. The whole language works as a pointer. Lao Tzu has to say something which is not exactly so: THAT WHICH LIES STILL IS EASY TO HOLD; but he is pointing in the right direction. If you want to hold yourself, if you want to control yourself, if you want ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,989 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rimenting with the astral body. Then only can diseases disappear completely, because they will be treated before they ever come to you, before you ever become aware that they are there. This is what Lao Tzu is saying about the innermost phenomena of your being. There also the same thing is happening. If you slow down the process you can see: anger is coming -- you can see it. Anger has three stages: anger is the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,990 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...THAT WHICH IS BRITTLE (LIKE ICE) EASILY MELTS; THAT WHICH IS MINUTE EASILY SCATTERS. DEAL WITH A THING BEFORE IT IS THERE... Looks absurd. You also deal with a thing when it is not there; and Lao Tzu also says deal with a thing when it is not there; but BEFORE. The difference is of after and before. You deal with the anger when it is not there but gone; and Lao Tzu says deal with it when it is not yet the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,991 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lso deal with a thing when it is not there; and Lao Tzu also says deal with a thing when it is not there; but BEFORE. The difference is of after and before. You deal with the anger when it is not there but gone; and Lao Tzu says deal with it when it is not yet there, has not yet come. Deal with a thing before it is there and you will have a totally different quality to your being. You will have virginity, innocence, an uncorrupt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,992 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oking for the tomorrow, the goal, then you may reach, but the goal will be as dusty as the journey. The goal is not OUT THERE, it depends on you. You have to change your quality of experiencing. So remember, says Lao Tzu: A TREE WITH A FULL SPAN'S GIRTH BEGINS FROM A TINY SPROUT. If you want it, pour your whole being on it. If you don't want it, it is better to cut it now than wait for tomorrow. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,993 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...HOUSAND LI BEGINS AT ONE'S FEET. HE WHO ACTS, SPOILS; HE WHO GRASPS, LETS SLIP. BECAUSE THE SAGE DOES NOT ACT, HE DOES NOT SPOIL; BECAUSE HE DOES NOT GRASP, HE DOES NOT LET SLIP. Continuously Lao Tzu comes to the same thing again and again, that is his basic note: doing without doing, WU-WEI. Action without action. Effortless effort. Difficult to understand, not difficult to do. Because intellectually, if...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,994 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...intellectually, if you try to understand, it is patent nonsense. You are talking gibberish. That's what Arthur Koestler reported to the West. He came to study Zen in the East -- and Zen is Buddha and Lao Tzu together. The highest peak of Indian understanding -- Buddha, and the highest peak of Chinese understanding -- Lao Tzu, and Zen is a cross between these two. A child of both. So there is nothing like Zen -- i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,995 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Arthur Koestler reported to the West. He came to study Zen in the East -- and Zen is Buddha and Lao Tzu together. The highest peak of Indian understanding -- Buddha, and the highest peak of Chinese understanding -- Lao Tzu, and Zen is a cross between these two. A child of both. So there is nothing like Zen -- it is the rarest flower in the world. Nothing reaches to the depth as Zen 10/28/07 C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,996 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the pillow -- and there you go! Enlightenment is a deep rest. Ego is activity, egolessness is inactivity, it is passive, it is not a male attitude, it is not aggressive, it is a feminine phenomenon. And Lao Tzu goes on insisting that all those who attain to the ultimate attain only when they attain to a feminine attitude. What is a feminine attitude? It is a passivity. A woman is never aggressive in love, and i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,997 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...GURDJIEFF SAYS ONLY A SUPERHUMAN EFFORT WILL DO. IS GURDJIEFF'S REALIZATION AS GREAT AS LAO TZU'S? HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE? Yes, there are no degrees of enlightenment; either it is or it is not. Lao Tzu and Gurdjieff are both enlightened, and there are no degrees, so nobody is more enlightened and nobody is less enlightened. But their working is different, their time is different, the age they live in is dif...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,998 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed and nobody is less enlightened. But their working is different, their time is different, the age they live in is different, the people they have to tackle and the disciples they get are different. Lao Tzu lived in a very primitive world. People were very simple, humble, not tense, not in a hurry -- in fact they had no time sense, they were more natural. Gurdjieff lived in a totally opposite time. Lao Tzu lived...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,001,999 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu lived in a very primitive world. People were very simple, humble, not tense, not in a hurry -- in fact they had no time sense, they were more natural. Gurdjieff lived in a totally opposite time. Lao Tzu lived in the East and Gurdjieff lived in the West -- and in the twentieth century -- the maddest century ever; almost everybody is neurotic. Gurdjieff had to devise different things for this different typ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,000 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and in the twentieth century -- the maddest century ever; almost everybody is neurotic. Gurdjieff had to devise different things for this different type of person. This type of man had not existed in Lao Tzu's time. He may sometimes have come across such a man as an exception but now that is the rule; and the man who was the rule at Lao Tzu's time is now the exception. So everything has changed. L...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,001 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nt things for this different type of person. This type of man had not existed in Lao Tzu's time. He may sometimes have come across such a man as an exception but now that is the rule; and the man who was the rule at Lao Tzu's time is now the exception. So everything has changed. LAO TZU SEEMS TO BE THE MOST TRUTHFUL MAN -- he is. And Gurdjieff does not 10/28/07 Copyright Osho I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,002 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- seem to you to be so truthful -- he is also as much truthful as Lao Tzu, but he has compassion for you, and if he needs to lie to help you, he lies. And you are such a liar that Lao Tzu won't be of much help to you. Even a Gurdjieff finds it difficult to help you. He is just the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,003 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... published and unpublished Query:- seem to you to be so truthful -- he is also as much truthful as Lao Tzu, but he has compassion for you, and if he needs to lie to help you, he lies. And you are such a liar that Lao Tzu won't be of much help to you. Even a Gurdjieff finds it difficult to help you. He is just the right type of person for the West. Lao Tzu, in the first place, will not appeal to you because he ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,004 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eeds to lie to help you, he lies. And you are such a liar that Lao Tzu won't be of much help to you. Even a Gurdjieff finds it difficult to help you. He is just the right type of person for the West. Lao Tzu, in the first place, will not appeal to you because he is so simple and so innocent. In fact if he had been born in the twentieth century he would have been called: The idiot. Even in those old days there wer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,005 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ith this lying century; that's their difficulty. Gurdjieff was exactly the right person. He lied very easily. But those lies were meant to help you. You need lies. Gurdjieff says: superhuman effort is needed and Lao Tzu says: no effort. Both are superhuman. When you make superhuman effort you come to a point where Lao Tzu becomes immediately meaningful to you. Only after passing through Gurdjieff will you be able to drop all...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,006 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sily. But those lies were meant to help you. You need lies. Gurdjieff says: superhuman effort is needed and Lao Tzu says: no effort. Both are superhuman. When you make superhuman effort you come to a point where Lao Tzu becomes immediately meaningful to you. Only after passing through Gurdjieff will you be able to drop all effort. Now immediate approach to Lao Tzu is not possible. In fact, you are so cunning and clever t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,007 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... When you make superhuman effort you come to a point where Lao Tzu becomes immediately meaningful to you. Only after passing through Gurdjieff will you be able to drop all effort. Now immediate approach to Lao Tzu is not possible. In fact, you are so cunning and clever that if you listen to Lao Tzu and read Lao Tzu it is not possible that you will drop all effort; it is more possible that you will cling to laziness. I ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,008 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... meaningful to you. Only after passing through Gurdjieff will you be able to drop all effort. Now immediate approach to Lao Tzu is not possible. In fact, you are so cunning and clever that if you listen to Lao Tzu and read Lao Tzu it is not possible that you will drop all effort; it is more possible that you will cling to laziness. I Bee people here, when I start talking about Lao Tzu they start asking questions, the '...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,009 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to you. Only after passing through Gurdjieff will you be able to drop all effort. Now immediate approach to Lao Tzu is not possible. In fact, you are so cunning and clever that if you listen to Lao Tzu and read Lao Tzu it is not possible that you will drop all effort; it is more possible that you will cling to laziness. I Bee people here, when I start talking about Lao Tzu they start asking questions, the 'right' questions ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,010 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cunning and clever that if you listen to Lao Tzu and read Lao Tzu it is not possible that you will drop all effort; it is more possible that you will cling to laziness. I Bee people here, when I start talking about Lao Tzu they start asking questions, the 'right' questions -- Then what about in the ashram where we have to work? Shouldn't we stop working? They want to stop working. Not that they have understood, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,011 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ght' questions -- Then what about in the ashram where we have to work? Shouldn't we stop working? They want to stop working. Not that they have understood, because if they had understood they would not ask that. Lao Tzu is not saying stop working, he is saying stop making effort. DO without making effort, do naturally. He is not helping you to become lazy, saying: Don't do anything and just lie down -- and that too is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,012 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y to you then something is wrong with your reasoning. Go deeper. One day you will come to the stratum where you will see that they are saying the same thing. Gurdjieff says DO as much as you can, and Lao Tzu says don't DO, let things happen -- and both are saying the same thing; because only after doing too much will you able to understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu would have understood Gurdjieff perfectly. If they both h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,013 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are saying the same thing. Gurdjieff says DO as much as you can, and Lao Tzu says don't DO, let things happen -- and both are saying the same thing; because only after doing too much will you able to understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu would have understood Gurdjieff perfectly. If they both had worked in collaboration, that would have been perfect. That's what I am trying to do: Gurdjieff, Lao Tzu, both. That's why ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,014 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing. Gurdjieff says DO as much as you can, and Lao Tzu says don't DO, let things happen -- and both are saying the same thing; because only after doing too much will you able to understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu would have understood Gurdjieff perfectly. If they both had worked in collaboration, that would have been perfect. That's what I am trying to do: Gurdjieff, Lao Tzu, both. That's why you will see many ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,015 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll you able to understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu would have understood Gurdjieff perfectly. If they both had worked in collaboration, that would have been perfect. That's what I am trying to do: Gurdjieff, Lao Tzu, both. That's why you will see many contradictions in me. In Lao Tzu there is no contradiction -- in himself. In Gurdjieff there is no contradiction -- in himself. If you bring them together, then you see the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,016 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...jieff perfectly. If they both had worked in collaboration, that would have been perfect. That's what I am trying to do: Gurdjieff, Lao Tzu, both. That's why you will see many contradictions in me. In Lao Tzu there is no contradiction -- in himself. In Gurdjieff there is no contradiction -- in himself. If you bring them together, then you see the contradiction. But in me you will see contradiction every moment. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,017 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you; you are already too knowledgeable. Drop all this knowledge, otherwise listening to me won't help much. What I am saying is true, but first you have to do much, only then can you understand what it is that Lao Tzu calls: doing by non doing. HOW IS PROGRESS, WHETHER IN CIVILIZATION, CULTURE OR RELIGION, POSSIBLE IF WE ACCEPT LIFE AS IT IS AND DO NOT SEEK TO CHANGE IT IN ANY WAY? ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,018 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rowth comes out of living and progress comes out of sacrificing. Growth is life, progress is suicide. Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 4 Talks on Fragments from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Talks given from 21/08/75 am to 31/08/75 am English Discourse series 9 Chapters ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,019 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tion 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- If you ask me what are my three treasures I will say: First, love; second, love, third also, love. And in fact that is what Lao Tzu is saying -- but we will understand. Man is a trinity, as Christians have called God a trinity. God may be, may not be, but man is a trinity: body, mind, soul. In fact because of his deep understanding of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,020 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here. This is prayer. These are the three layers of man. Christianity, Judaism -- they could reach only to the third. They have no conception of the fourth; but in the East, Buddha, Krishna, Mahavir, Lao Tzu -- they have looked into the fourth, the beyond that goes beyond alI. That fourth, the TURIYA, is ecstasy, exultation, samadhi, nirvana, Tao. In that fourth even the other disappears. First in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,021 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...flowering, with no lover, no beloved; both the shores have disappeared, only the river remains. And when the shores disappear -- the river becomes the ocean. Now, try to follow the very potent, pregnant sutra of Lao Tzu. ALL THE WORLD SAYS: MY TEACHING, TAO, GREATLY RESEMBLES FOLLY. Love always looks foolish: foolish to those who are stuck somewhere, foolish to those who have not known anything higher t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,022 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... extreme to another. It comprehends all extremes. It is so vast, it contains all the contradictions in it. SAYS LAO TZU: ALL THE WORLD SAYS: MY TEACHING, TAO, GREATLY RESEMBLES FOLLY. Because whatsoever Lao Tzu is saying he is saying: Live here and now! This is folly! Because a reasonable man always sacrifices today for tomorrow. He says, I will live tomorrow. When things are put right, when the time is right, and I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,023 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hing to every child: Sacrifice the present for the future. Sacrifice this moment for the next. Sacrifice yourself for something else. This is reasonableness -- to postpone life. Heart says: Live now. That's what Lao Tzu says -- Live now. In fact there is no other way of living. Either you live now, or you just pretend to live. You never live, you just postpone. You only die, you never live. Because to live there is no other ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,024 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...somebody who is living his private life! Not a life of the crowd. Not part of a collective mass. He who is living his own life in his own way is an idiot. Dostoevsky has written a beautiful novel, THE IDIOT. Had Lao Tzu read it he would have appreciated it. The idiot in Dostoevsky's novel is exactly the man who will be called foolish, but who is wise. The world has gone so foolish that if you want to be wise you have to be f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,025 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...GREAT, that's why it looks like folly. Deep down, if you search within yourself you will also see that if suddenly Mahavir comes and stands here naked you will think that he is a fool, what is he doing here? If Lao Tzu comes here you will not be able to recognize him, it will be impossible for you to recognize him. He will look like a perfect fool! Bodhidharma reached China. The whole country was waiting fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,026 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...reat writer and you have written this and that, then who are you? The identity disappears. And without identity you are a nobody. ALL THE WORLD SAYS: MY TEACHING GREATLY RESEMBLES FOLLY. Because Lao Tzu's whole teaching is how to lose the identity, how to forget the labels that the world has given to you, how not to be labels, but to be authentically beings. BECAUSE IT IS GREAT (it is vast), THEREFORE IT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,027 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou become worldly wise, but then you are losing your innocence. Then layers and layers of worldly knowledge, of the so-called worldly wisdom, gather around you. You are encaged. If you can understand Lao Tzu you suddenly drop out of this imprisonment -- which you yourself are carrying around you. Nobody is insisting, nobody is forcing it on you -- you simply drop all the identities and all the deadness that has a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,028 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rry. But let her do whatsoever she wants to do. Reason is not the question, love is the question. IF IT DID NOT RESEMBLE FOLLY, IT WOULD HAVE LONG AGO BECOME PETTY INDEED! And, says Lao Tzu, if it didn't resemble folly it would have become mediocre, petty. But my teaching will never become mediocre because the mind will never be able to comprehend it and convert it into a petty thing. It will al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,029 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r be able to comprehend it and convert it into a petty thing. It will always remain beyond the mind. Even a Buddha can be understood through the mind. Krishna can be understood through the mind. With Lao Tzu it is impossible. Many times people ask me why in the name of Lao Tzu there has not been a great organized religion. It was not possible. The man is impossible. The man is so wisely foolish that it is dif...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,030 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ys remain beyond the mind. Even a Buddha can be understood through the mind. Krishna can be understood through the mind. With Lao Tzu it is impossible. Many times people ask me why in the name of Lao Tzu there has not been a great organized religion. It was not possible. The man is impossible. The man is so wisely foolish that it is difficult to create an establishment around him. He remains a lonely rebel, b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,031 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... needed it should be put aside. But you have become so dependent on the slave that the slave has become the master. And the master has become completely lost. You are not even able to feel where the master is. Lao Tzu says: Drop down towards the heart. Love things, don't THINK things. Love people, don't THINK people. Feel more, think less, and you will be more and more happy. The trees are more happy than man, the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,032 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y be apprehensive: There must be something wrong with this man, has he gone mad? Because men are not meant to do such beautiful things and he is doing this; only mad people do such things -- or sometimes people like Lao Tzu. But allow the rock to get accustomed to you and soon you will find an upsurge of energy from the rock hitting directly to your heart. Go and embrace a tree. Just put your head on a tree...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,033 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d sacred. And if prayer is part of meditation it becomes the ultimate, beyond which there is no goal. The last fulfilment. THE FIRST IS LOVE. THE SECOND IS, NEVER TOO MUCH. Why does Lao Tzu say, Never too much -- the disease I called O/D: overdose, or overdoing? Because mind is fed by overdoing, and heart is always fed by balance. A loving person is always balanced, he is always in the midd...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,034 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the world, I am not telling anybody to move to the monastries. I am insisting -- Remain in the market. If the market and the meditation can both go together there will be an equilibrium attained -- which is what Lao Tzu says: THE SECOND IS, NEVER TOO MUCH. Even too much of God is bad. Too much of meditation is a disease. Too much of anything is wrong. It has happened in the East, we have done too much meditation. In Zen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,035 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...irst. And if you love the whole world -- then you would like to be the last. That's what Jesus says: Those who are first in this world will be the last in the kingdom of my God. And vice versa. Lao Tzu says: THE THIRD IS: NEVER BE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD. The very ambition of being first shows that you missed life. You are not blessed. You are not exalted. You are not fulfilled. Ambition is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,036 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s just coming, it is just by the comer, you cannot see but the Master can see and he bows down to you -- to the morning that is going to happen within you. This Baul Panchuchand is really beautiful. Lao Tzu would have accepted him as a friend. WILL YOU COMMENT ON THE NATURE OF FEAR? Fear is a negativity, an absence. This has to be understood very very deeply. If you miss there you will...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,037 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e you doing here? There are rumours that you are great saints. Do you know how to pray? -- because seeing these three persons the priest could immediately sense that they were completly uneducated; a little idiotic, Lao Tzuan. Happy but foolish. So they looked at each other and they said: Sorry sir, we don't know the right prayer authorized by the church because we are ignorant. But we have created one prayer of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,038 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing as easy you have to be undivided, and to understand a thing which is obvious is to bring the mind to a certain quality of awareness. Otherwise the distant seems near and the near is forgotten. Lao Tzu's teachings are very easy, you cannot find more easy teachings than them. Buddha is a little complex, Jesus also, Krishna, very much, but Lao Tzu is absolutely simple, and because of that simplicity he is the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,039 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se the distant seems near and the near is forgotten. Lao Tzu's teachings are very easy, you cannot find more easy teachings than them. Buddha is a little complex, Jesus also, Krishna, very much, but Lao Tzu is absolutely simple, and because of that simplicity he is the most elusive. People have not been able to comprehend him, not because he is difficult, but because he is so easy. There is noth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,040 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d, not a curiosity for the mind. There is no challenge in it, the mind cannot overcome it, conquer it, there is no point -- the victory is so easy that the mind thinks victory is useless. That's why Lao Tzu has been missed, and he is the most profound. But his teaching is very easy. This has to be understood. Right now your mind can comprehend many complex things. You can understand Hegel: not v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,041 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tand Hegel: Just a little more effort on your part -- but no transformation in your being. They are just ahead of you, you have to walk a few miles more. Their quality is not different. But to understand Lao Tzu you have to pass through a deep mutation, a total revolution. You have to become like children -- innocent. It is not a question of a very intelligent mind, it is a question of a very innocent mind. Inno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,042 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hild. He may not be able to say that he understands because he lacks vocabulary, logic; but just look into his eyes -- everything is reflected, uncorrupted. A childlike consciousness is needed, then.Lao Tzu is so simple -- and there is no one like Lao Tzu; he does not create any problems, he is not a philosopher, not a system-maker, he is someone who has fallen back to the original source of innocence, and from ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,043 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he understands because he lacks vocabulary, logic; but just look into his eyes -- everything is reflected, uncorrupted. A childlike consciousness is needed, then.Lao Tzu is so simple -- and there is no one like Lao Tzu; he does not create any problems, he is not a philosopher, not a system-maker, he is someone who has fallen back to the original source of innocence, and from there he looks at life, and he simply...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,044 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e and become a flower and don't bring in your mind full of questions. Just look with a wondering heart -- and you will know! You will come to know through wonder, not through enquiry. And if wonder is attained, then Lao Tzu is absolutely simple -- so obvious! As obvious as life itself. Truth is simple. Nothing has to be said about it. And, you will understand it because you are part of it. You have never gone ou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,045 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ers. If you drop blinkers there will be no need for any drugs. Then you live each twenty-four hours in such deep wonder that no drug can add to it. On the contrary, if a person who is living a life, a real life like Lao Tzu, is given LSD, or alcohol, or anything, he will feel that he has been pulled down from his high state. He will not be ready to accept it. If Buddha and Mahavir and Krishna and Lao Tzu are agai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,046 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... real life like Lao Tzu, is given LSD, or alcohol, or anything, he will feel that he has been pulled down from his high state. He will not be ready to accept it. If Buddha and Mahavir and Krishna and Lao Tzu are against drugs they are against drugs because they live on such a high peak of consciousness that if you drug that consciousness it falls low, it comes down. Unless man comes to a higher st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,047 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tried so much. The modern man is really in trouble because he is trying too hard to live that which can be be lived easily. You are unnecessarily trying hard and making it impossible. Now the sutras of Lao Tzu: MY TEACHINGS ARE VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND... But if you have understanding, only then. The thing that you now call understanding is not understanding. It may be intelligence but it is not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,048 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... understanding moves vertically. If you want to accumulate knowledge, then intelligence is needed. If you want to BECOME KNOWLEDGE, then understanding is needed. It may be that if you come across Lao Tzu somewhere on the earth you may not find him very intelligent. If you ask him questions he may not be able to answer. But if you watch him you will be able to see his understanding. He may not be a man of know...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,049 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...surface so that you understand them; the very understanding changes you. BUT NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND THEM AND NO ONE CAN PRACTISE THEM. Right nor as you are it will be very difficult to understand Lao Tzu. If he had said: Do something, you could have understood. If he had made a very high target -- to reach the moon, you could have tried. But he says there is no goal, no purpose, no effort is n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,050 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u can move in, lose yourself and celebrate. IN MY WORDS THERE IS A PRINCIPLE. IN THE AFFAIRS OF MAN THERE IS A SYSTEM. These two things have to be understooD -- IN MY WORDS THERE IS A PRINCIPLE. Lao Tzu is saying there is only one principle. Tao is the principle. TAO means to be natural and flowing, to be in a deep let-go, not fighting with life but allowing it, accepting I Not pushing the river but ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,051 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...le. TAO means to be natural and flowing, to be in a deep let-go, not fighting with life but allowing it, accepting I Not pushing the river but floating with the river wherever it leads. This is the only principle of Lao Tzu. Don't fight with life otherwise you will be defeated. Surrender, and your victory is certain. In surrender is victory, in fight is defeat. If you are frustrated, that simply shows you have been fighting hard...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,052 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not fighting. He is floating with life, he is riding on the waves. IN MY WORDS THERE IS A PRINCIPLE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN THERE IS A SYSTEM. But in the affairs of men there is not a principle but a system. Lao Tzu says: If you ask me I have got only one principle, and that principle can be called A DEEP LET-GO, surrender. But in the affairs of men there is not one principle, there is a system, a very complicated thing....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,053 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e people can't understand a simple principle, and they are always interested in complicated systems, that's why 'they know me not' SINCE THERE ARE FEW THAT KNOW ME, THEREFORE I AM DISTINGUISHED. Lao Tzu is simply paradoxical, but his paradoxes are beautiful and indicate many things. He says: SINCE THERE ARE FEW THAT KNOW ME -- only a few can know him; not that he is difficult, but because he is so simple tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,054 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is distinguished. Ordinarily, when many people know you, you think you are distinguished. When the whole world knows about you, you feel you are extraordinary, superb, something superior. In fact Lao Tzu is true. When many people understand you that simply shows that you are very ordinary, otherwise so many people cannot understand -- people are so MAD, you must have some insanity in you, otherwise so many pe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,055 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t inferior quality of human consciousness. But of course, then the majority can understand them, because the majority belongs to the same level. They speak a language that can be understood by all. A Lao Tzu is rarely understood. In a century, if you can find three persons to understand Lao Tzu, that's too much to expect. But he says THEREFORE I AM DISTINGUISHED. Always remember this: if many people recognize...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,056 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...can understand them, because the majority belongs to the same level. They speak a language that can be understood by all. A Lao Tzu is rarely understood. In a century, if you can find three persons to understand Lao Tzu, that's too much to expect. But he says THEREFORE I AM DISTINGUISHED. Always remember this: if many people recognize you, that you are something superior, remember you must be inferior. Otherw...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,057 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st be looking like them. There must be something inferior in you, something base. You cannot be very valuable. Otherwise only a very few jewellers will be able to understand who you are. You can pass Lao Tzu, you may not be able to recognize him. You cannot pass Alexander without recognizing him. How can you recognize so easily an Alexander? Adolf Hitler? Mao Tse-tung? Why is it so easy? Something...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,058 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... same type, the same madness. That madness helps to give you a glimpse that here is a man who is the image of what you would like to be. You appreciate only those people who are your images, your goals, your ideals. Lao Tzu will pass, you may not even be aware that somebody has passed. We have a beautiful word for Buddha; one of his names is TATHAGATA. The word means: who came like wind and passed like wind; thus...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,059 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...then it enters into your consciousness. Otherwise not. That's why people are interested in politics. Politics is madness, the game of the very inferior consciousness in you. You can recognize it. But Lao Tzu says: SINCE THERE ARE FEW THAT KNOW ME, THEREFORE I AM DISTINGUISHED. THEREFORE THE SAGE WEARS A COARSE CLOTH ON TOP AND CARRIES JADE WITHIN HIS BOSOM. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,060 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d when you peel the onion of your own personality, many tears will be there; it is hard, it is arduous, but it HAS to be done, otherwise you live a false life, and you live a sick life. Now this sutra of Lao Tzu. WHO KNOWS THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW IS THE HIGHEST; The innocence of childhood attained. WHO KNOWS THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW IS THE HIGHEST. A child does not know, but he also does not know that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,061 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... dropped into the ocean. and has become the ocean. The wave disappears, individuality is no more, you have become the whole. And when you have become the whole -- only then you are really healthy; that is why Lao Tzu says: The sage is not sickminded. In fact the sage has no mind. How can he be sickminded? And if you ask me, I would like to say that all minds are sick, more or less. To be in the mind is to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,062 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., and you will be there in the end, because you ARE existence. Thinking is a learnt thing. You can learn it, you can unlearn it. It is acquired. You can drop it any day you want to drop it. But your nature, what Lao Tzu calls Tao, your original nature, is not acquired, it has always been there, it is the source. No thought can be original, but NO-THOUGHT can be original. Remember that. WHAT IS THE DIF...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,063 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- THE WEST. CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON? You may be sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu, but just by sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu you cannot become a Buddha or a Lao Tzu. Even just the opposite can happen. Looking into a Lao Tzu you can get so afraid -- because he is an abyss. You can ge...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,064 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- THE WEST. CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON? You may be sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu, but just by sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu you cannot become a Buddha or a Lao Tzu. Even just the opposite can happen. Looking into a Lao Tzu you can get so afraid -- because he is an abyss. You can get such a shock that you can turn about...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,065 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lished Query:- THE WEST. CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON? You may be sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu, but just by sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu you cannot become a Buddha or a Lao Tzu. Even just the opposite can happen. Looking into a Lao Tzu you can get so afraid -- because he is an abyss. You can get such a shock that you can turn about, and escape. This is my observatio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,066 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...G ON? You may be sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu, but just by sitting before a Buddha or a Lao Tzu you cannot become a Buddha or a Lao Tzu. Even just the opposite can happen. Looking into a Lao Tzu you can get so afraid -- because he is an abyss. You can get such a shock that you can turn about, and escape. This is my observation with many people. They come to me with strong desire, with a longing...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,067 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...will be very destructive for you. Simply say: I am afraid. I can understand. It is natural to be afraid. But don't bring big words and philosophies in, that this is outward. You may be in front of a Lao Tzu or a Buddha, and you may not be ready for him. Lao Tzu says that he is ready. If you want to enter me I am ready. But to enter me is to dissolve. To be with me is to lose boundaries. To be with me is by and b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,068 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...id. I can understand. It is natural to be afraid. But don't bring big words and philosophies in, that this is outward. You may be in front of a Lao Tzu or a Buddha, and you may not be ready for him. Lao Tzu says that he is ready. If you want to enter me I am ready. But to enter me is to dissolve. To be with me is to lose boundaries. To be with me is by and by to become faceless, nameless. To be with me is by ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,069 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you have a grace, grace of non-violence, no conflict, no struggle, then you have a beauty, childlike, flower-like, soft, delicate, uncorrupted. If you flow with life you are religious. That's what religion means to Lao Tzu -- or to me. Ordinarily religion means a fight with Life -- for God. Ordinarily it means: God is the goal, life has to be denied -- and fought; life has to be sacrificed and God has to be ach...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,070 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y -- it looks paradoxical but it is true -- that all religions are against God. If life is God, then to deny, to renounce, to sacrifice, is to go against God. But it seems Gurdjieff did not know much about Lao Tzu. Or even if he had known about Lao Tzu he would have said the same thing, because Lao Tzu does not seem to be ordinarily religious. He is more like a poet, a musician, an artist, a creator, rather than like a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,071 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e -- that all religions are against God. If life is God, then to deny, to renounce, to sacrifice, is to go against God. But it seems Gurdjieff did not know much about Lao Tzu. Or even if he had known about Lao Tzu he would have said the same thing, because Lao Tzu does not seem to be ordinarily religious. He is more like a poet, a musician, an artist, a creator, rather than like a theologian, a priest, a pr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,072 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fe is God, then to deny, to renounce, to sacrifice, is to go against God. But it seems Gurdjieff did not know much about Lao Tzu. Or even if he had known about Lao Tzu he would have said the same thing, because Lao Tzu does not seem to be ordinarily religious. He is more like a poet, a musician, an artist, a creator, rather than like a theologian, a priest, a preacher, philosopher He is so ordinary that you cannot think tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,073 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ight, you become hard. If you fight, you surround yourself with a dead wall. Of course, your own being is dead. You lose softness, lucidity, grace, gentleness. Then you are just dragging, not alive. Lao Tzu is for surrender. He says: Surrender to life. Allow life to lead you, don't try to lead life. Don't try to manipulate and control life, let life manipulate and control you. Let life possess you. You simply su...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,074 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...will not find. Look around them: they live in hell. They have succeeded, they have become somebodies, and now only hell surrounds them. You are on the same way if you are trying to be somebody. Lao Tzu says: Be a nobody, and then you will have infinite life flowing in you. For the flow of life, to be a somebody becomes a block; to be a nobody -- vast emptiness; it allows all. Clouds can move, stars can...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,075 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d already. In such a state of being one is ever young. The body of course will become old, but the innermost core of your being remains young, fresh. It never becomes old, it is never dead. And Lao Tzu says: This is the way to be really religious. Float with Tao, move with Tao, don't create any private goals and ends, the whole knows better, you be simply with it. The whole has created you, the whole breath...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,076 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... by new, dead people by young, hard people by soft -- the indication is clear: life loves softness. Because through a soft being life can flow easily. WHEN MAN IS BORN HE IS TENDER AND WEAK; And Lao Tzu insists on the second point also; that life does not believe in strength. Weakness has a beauty in it, because it is tender and soft. A storm comes, big trees will fall -- strong; and small plants -- they wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,077 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y are more alive, younger, fresher, and, the storm has given them a good bath. And the old trees -- very strong, they have fallen, because they resisted, they would not-bend, they were very egoistic. Lao Tzu says: Life loves the weak. And that is the meaning of Jesus' sayings: Blessed are the meek, because they shall inherit the earth; Blessed are the poor, the poor-in spirit; Blessed are those who weep, because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,078 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...all inherit the earth; Blessed are the poor, the poor-in spirit; Blessed are those who weep, because they shall be comforted. Christianity goes on missing the meaning of Jesus' sayings, because those sayings are Lao Tzuan. Unless they are related to Lao Tzu they cannot be interpreted rightly. The whole teaching of Jesus is: Be alive and be weak. That's why he says if somebody hits you on the face give him the other side ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,079 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oor-in spirit; Blessed are those who weep, because they shall be comforted. Christianity goes on missing the meaning of Jesus' sayings, because those sayings are Lao Tzuan. Unless they are related to Lao Tzu they cannot be interpreted rightly. The whole teaching of Jesus is: Be alive and be weak. That's why he says if somebody hits you on the face give him the other side also. If somebody takes your coat, give hi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,080 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...les. He is saying be weak -- Blessed are the meek. What is there in weakness which is blessed? Because ordinarily the so-called leaders of the world, teachers of the world, they go on saying: Be strong. And this Lao Tzu and Jesus, they say: Be weak. Weakness has something in it -- because it is not hard. To be strong one needs to be hard. To be hard one needs to flow against life. If you want to be strong, yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,081 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Weakness has a certain beauty in it. That beauty is that of grace, the beauty is that of non-violence, AHIMSA, that beauty is that of love, forgiveness, the beauty is that of no conflict. And unless Lao Tzu is understood well, and humanity starts feeling for Lao Tzu, humanity cannot live in peace. If you are taught to be strong you are bound to fight, wars will continue. All political leaders in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,082 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eauty is that of grace, the beauty is that of non-violence, AHIMSA, that beauty is that of love, forgiveness, the beauty is that of no conflict. And unless Lao Tzu is understood well, and humanity starts feeling for Lao Tzu, humanity cannot live in peace. If you are taught to be strong you are bound to fight, wars will continue. All political leaders in the world go on saying that they love peace -- and they all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,083 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ARMY IS HEADSTRONG, IT WILL LOSE IN BATTLE. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu looks absurd. He says when an army is headstrong it will lose in battle, and you think whenever you are headstrong you will win. WHEN A TREE IS HARD, IT WILL BE CUT DOWN. THE BIG AND STRONG BELONG ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,084 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e top has become too heavy. Only flowers should be on the top: sages, poets, mystics, not politicians. THE BIG AND STRONG BELONG UNDERNEATH. THE GENTLE AND WEAK BELONG AT THE TOP. Lao Tzu is saying that if you want to belong to the top be gentle and weak. Be so weak and gentle, so soft, like the grass, not strong like big trees. Lao Tzu has a deep interest in all that is useless. He says t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,085 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...AND WEAK BELONG AT THE TOP. Lao Tzu is saying that if you want to belong to the top be gentle and weak. Be so weak and gentle, so soft, like the grass, not strong like big trees. Lao Tzu has a deep interest in all that is useless. He says to be useless is to be protected. To be useful is dangerous, because if you are useful then somebody is going to use you, you will be exploited. If you are ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,086 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be useless is to be protected. To be useful is dangerous, because if you are useful then somebody is going to use you, you will be exploited. If you are strong then you will be forced into the army. Lao Tzu was moving from a village, passing through a village with his disciples. He saw a man with a hunchback. He told his disciples: Go to that hunchback and ask how he is feeling, because I have heard the town has...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,087 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ong men into the army. They went to the hunchback and they asked him. The hunchback said: I am happy! Because of my back they didn't force me. I am useless. That's how I am saved. They reported back. Lao Tzu said to them: Now remember. Be useless. Otherwise you will become fodder in the war. Once passing through a forest they came under a big tree: one thousand bullock carts could have 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,088 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- rested underneath it. The whole forest was being cut down, thousands of carpenters were working there. Lao Tzu said: Enquire what has happened. Why have they not cut this big tree? The disciples went, they enquired; the carpenter said: That tree is absolutely useless. The branches are not straight, you cannot make...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,089 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uch smoke comes out of it that it cannot be used as a fuel. And the leaves are so bitter that not even animals are ready to eat them. So it is useless. That is why we have not cut it down. It is said Lao Tzu started laughing and said to his disciples: Be like that tree, useless. Then nobody will cut you down. And look at this tree, how big it has become, just by being useless! Life can be looked at in two way...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,090 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...bbish, and the non-achieving mind is blissful. So if you start making efforts to attain to that blissful state you will show that you have not understood me. This has always happened: Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu -- were never understood; people never understood them. They were deeply misunderstood. Whatsoever they said was taken in a totally different way. They were saying something else, absolutely different; from a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,091 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... will come, he will come! You be ready to receive, that's all. Not desiring creates receptivity. Desiring makes you aggressive. Desire makes you active, non-desiring makes you inactive -- that's what Lao Tzu says by WU-WEI, action by inaction, doing things by not doing them. Don't desire -- and it happens. Desire -- and you have missed. Don't prefer, and it is there. Seek -- and you go infinitely ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,092 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... moves, it becomes male. If you don't desire, the same energy becomes receptivity, it does not move out, it does not go anywhere, it simply waits, awaits deeply, it becomes feminine. Hence the insistence of Lao Tzu on feminine energy. The world is the manifestation of male energy. And enlightenment, the other world, the other shore, is the manifestation of feminine energy. Wait like a beloved. And an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,093 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Use it as a jumping board, don't use it as an intoxicant. Use me to become yourself. Don't become dependent on me, otherwise this will happen. This has always been happening to Buddha, to Mahavir, to Lao Tzu; this has always been a problem. When people come, in the beginning their desire is burning, their ambition is high. They think: Now something-is going to happen. Then they listen, and then they become greedy...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,094 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...od breathes in you. The whole breathes in you. This has to be understood very deeply because the whole method of Tao, the whole science of Yoga, depends on breath. Because this is going to be the last lecture on Lao Tzu I would like to tell you everything about the system so that if you want you can move into it; not only think about it but become one with it. The breath is the most important thing. With it life starts a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,095 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g tremendous -- and it is just by the corner. And I am for the circle. Move to the very end. Let the circle have a natural ending. Don't try to find any short cut. Then you will be rich -- rich like Lao Tzu rich like Krishna rich like Buddha. Otherwise you can move somewhere from the middle -- but then you will not be rich. Don't be clever with life, You cannot be cunning with life: all short cuts are cunni...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,096 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oing he is always right because there cannot be any wrong for the whole. The whole alone is. This is the circle of Tao: from breath, unconscious breath, to conscious breath. And the emphasis of Lao Tzu is continuously that you can relax. That's why he praises the weak not the strong, because the strong cannot relax. That's why he goes on praising water not rocks, because water is flowing, and water has no s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,097 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...esist. You will have to fight, you will have to cut it, fight it, much fight will be needed -- only then will you be able to give it shape. It has its own mind. Water is mindless. These are symbols. Lao Tzu says: Be like water, don't be like a rock, so that you can complete the circle. Move! If God is hungry within you -- eat! If God feels sleepy within you -- sleep! If God feels like loving -- love! Move with t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,098 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...THAN WATER BUT NONE IS SUPERIOR TO IT IN OVERCOMING THE HARD, FOR WHICH THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE. He is tremendously in love with water. All the qualities of water have very symbolic meanings for Lao Tzu; one: it is soft, has no form of its own. A man should be like water, with no form, no mind, no ideology. If you are a Hindu or a Mohammedan you are like a rock. If I ask you: Who are you? and you shrug y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,099 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s no situation like this before. He is like water. Water is soft. The second thing: Water is always flowing low, 'low-wards', finding, seeking low places, valleys. That too is very very important for Lao Tzu. He says: Never try to go upwards, because then there is fight, because all are going upwards. Never try to go to New Delhi because everybody is going there; there is going to be competition, jealousy, fight,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,100 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... then there is trouble. Even in the Himalayas there is politics. The sannyasins, the old sannyasins, are really politicians of the spiritual. They are moving higher. Their heaven is there, high in the skies! And Lao Tzu says: My heaven is there -- low, the lowest place in the world, where I can be myself, nobody bothers me and I don't bother anybody. This is renunciation. You can live in the world, then there is no probl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,101 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...if you just know not to be a competitor, because competition is for the ego. For the being, for your real being, no competition is needed; you are already that, the highest, so why bother for height? Lao Tzu says this: Only inferior persons, people with inferiority complexes, try to reach the heights. All politicians suffer from an inferiority complex. They need treatment, psychological treatment. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,102 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ference, he is so superior; he IS superior, there is no point in becoming a president of a country. That will not add anything to his stature; rather, it may degrade him. Water has that quality of going low. And Lao Tzu says: THERE IS NOTHING WEAKER THAN WATER AND YET NONE IS SUPERIOR TO IT IN OVERCOMING THE HARD. Water overcomes. Go and see a waterfall. The rocks are so hard and the water so soft but ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,103 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... man would be there. That man said: Wait! Don't be happy so soon. When I was coming my wife said: Don't stand in the crowd! That's why I am standing here. It is natural -- the feminine principle wins. And Lao Tzu is all for the feminine principle. Why does the woman win? She is so soft. In fact she never fights, she persuades. She does not fight directly, her fight is very indirect and subtle. If she wants to say No, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,104 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be mathematical, it cannot be logical: a sort of, a kind of. You know deeply, HEART TO HEART, but you cannot say this is knowledge. That will be too imprudent a word. You know because you love. Says Lao Tzu: NO ONE DOES NOT KNOW; NO ONE CAN PUT INTO PRACTICE. No one KNOWS it, no one can practise it, because to practise such a deep tacit understanding is impossible. Practice is gross. You can live it, you ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,105 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t you cannot practise. And you can become because you already ARE -- just a little understanding.... You are standing in the dark; just a little light, a little illumination, and everything changes. Lao Tzu says you cannot know it, you cannot practise it, but, the sage says: WHO RECEIVES UNTO HIMSELF THE CALUMNY OF THE WORLD IS THE PRESERVER OF THE STATE. Who moves lowest is the sage, and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,106 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Those are the real kings, who are not known to history. History goes on talking about mock kings, false kings. History has not yet become a really authentic phenomenon otherwise it would talk about Buddha, Lao Tzu, it would talk about Kabir and Krishna and Christ, it would talk about Mohammed and Mahavir, it wouldn't talk about Napoleon, Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, Stalin, it wouldn't talk about these people. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,107 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...out foolish, stupid people, mad, neurotic, perverted, and not talking about those who have attained to themselves. They are the real kings of the world. STRANGE WORDS SEEM CROOKED. And Lao Tzu says: these words are very strange. But they will look crooked to people because THEY are crooked. That Art Thou Talks on t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,108 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n the past. A buddha was moving, and thousands and thousands of seekers were around him doing very strange things, going on a very strange journey. A Jesus was there, a Mahavira was there, a Zarathustra was there, a Lao Tzu was there... and many many people were deeply involved in knowing "Who am I?" Now, this question has become absurd -- if you ask, "Who am I?" your neighbors will feel that you have gone mad. Every...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,109 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Your being, your center is here and now. It cannot be made the object of desire. You cannot desire it, and if you desire it, you will miss. Your very desire will become the barrier. Lao Tzu says, "Do not seek; otherwise, you will miss. Do not seek, and find." This looks absurd! Do not seek AND find, looks illogical; it is not. It looks illogical because we know only one logic: the logic desire. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,110 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Knowledge is information. For example, you can know everything about God that has been said anywhere, anytime, by anyone. You can collect information about God through Krishna, Christ, Mohammed, Mahavira, Confucius, Lao Tzu, and thousands of others. You can collect in your mind all the scriptures of the world. You can become THE BIBLE, you can become a GITA, you can become the VEDAS, but you will remain the same. This knowledge ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,111 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It depends only on ignorance. If you ask any Eastern so-called mahatma, you will be surprised that he knows nothing about other spiritual Masters who have existed in other parts of the world. He has not heard about Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Ko Hsuan. He has not heard about Lin Chi, Basho, Bokuju. He has not heard anything about Pythagoras, Heraclitus or Dionysius. WE ARE going to discuss Dionysius in this...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,112 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... tacit assumption: that the East has some monopoly over spiritualism. Nobody has any monopoly. East or West cannot make any difference in man s spiritual growth. Jesus could become a Buddha in Jerusalem, Lao Tzu could become a Buddha in China, Dionysius could become a Buddha in Athens. There is no need to borrow from anybody. Yes, in scientific experimentation we have discovered very recently a strange phenomenon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,113 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uences from the East somehow became available to him. But I am not tempted that way at all. My own experience and understanding is this: that great truths erupt in many places in almost similar ways. Lao Tzu never came to India and nobody from India ever visited Lao Tzu. China and 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,114 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m. But I am not tempted that way at all. My own experience and understanding is this: that great truths erupt in many places in almost similar ways. Lao Tzu never came to India and nobody from India ever visited Lao Tzu. China and 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- India were divided by the g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,115 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- India were divided by the great Himalayan mountains; there was no business going on between India and China, no communication of ANY kind. Still, what Lao Tzu says is so similar to the Upanishads, is so synonymous with the teachings of Buddha, that there is a great temptation to believe that there must have been some communication -- either Buddha has borrowed from...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,116 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ao Tzu says is so similar to the Upanishads, is so synonymous with the teachings of Buddha, that there is a great temptation to believe that there must have been some communication -- either Buddha has borrowed from Lao Tzu or Lao Tzu has borrowed from Buddha. But I say to you, nobody has borrowed from anybody else, they have all drunk from the same source. And when you taste the ocean, whether you taste it on an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,117 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is so similar to the Upanishads, is so synonymous with the teachings of Buddha, that there is a great temptation to believe that there must have been some communication -- either Buddha has borrowed from Lao Tzu or Lao Tzu has borrowed from Buddha. But I say to you, nobody has borrowed from anybody else, they have all drunk from the same source. And when you taste the ocean, whether you taste it on an Indian sho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,118 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ystic without hiding yourself. Because to be a mystic in Russia means you are insane, you have to be hospitalized, you have to be given insulin shocks or electric shocks. It is fortunate that Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mahavira were not born in today's Soviet Russia. Jesus would not have been crucified in Soviet Russia, that is true, but he would have gone through far more sophisticated tortures. Crucifixion is a ve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,119 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... You will be surprised to know: he was the first Bishop of Athens. He must have been a man of rare intelligence. To remain a Bishop of Athens and yet to penetrate the deepest mysteries of life like Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, he must have been a man of rare intelligence. He managed a facade. He deceived the Christian organization. His treatise was not published while he was alive. He must have managed it in such ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,120 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecome attached to the positive or the negative, to the theist or the atheist. A rare man Dionysius is. He is saying these things behind the cover of Christianity, hiding this great mystic approach -- as great as Lao Tzu's or Buddha's. behind the covers of the Bible. Hence he has survived -- he managed well. Christians have never condemned him, otherwise he might have been burnt alive; at least his letters would have been des...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,121 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... In fact, to hold anybody guilty is wrong in itself. The guilty person is not guilty; he has been brought up in a guilt-ridden society. He is not totally responsible for it. To punish him is criminal. Once Lao Tzu was made a magistrate. The Emperor of China, thinking him the wisest man of the country, persuaded him to become a magistrate, the highest magistrate of the country. But only one case was enough and he had to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,122 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rsuaded him to become a magistrate, the highest magistrate of the country. But only one case was enough and he had to be dismissed, because in the first case it became clear to the Emperor and to everybody else that Lao Tzu was dangerous, because he gave six months' jail to a man who had been caught stealing red handed -- and he also gave six months' jail to the person in whose house he had been stealing! Nobody could understand...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,123 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he had been stealing! Nobody could understand what was the matter. The Emperor called him: "Are you mad or something? Why have you punished the man who has been robbed of his money?" Lao Tzu said, "That man has accumulated so much that it is natural that he will be robbed. He should be thankful that he is not murdered! In fact, I am not fair in giving them both a similar kind of punishment. The r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,124 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...phers of this age, Ludwig Wittgenstein, says, "Do not say that which cannot be said." He is right, because saying that which cannot be said is dangerous. It is bound to be wrong, it is falsifying. It is exactly what Lao Tzu says, "Truth cannot be said. The moment you say it you falsify it." But Lao Tzu said it, and Wittgenstein could not control c either. The Upanishads say: "Those who know, they are silent, and those who do...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,125 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aid." He is right, because saying that which cannot be said is dangerous. It is bound to be wrong, it is falsifying. It is exactly what Lao Tzu says, "Truth cannot be said. The moment you say it you falsify it." But Lao Tzu said it, and Wittgenstein could not control c either. The Upanishads say: "Those who know, they are silent, and those who do not know, they speak." But the Upanishads are saying it, so where to put the Up...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,126 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...el compassion and love for him. I can see the man knows. But the people who were in power were utterly ignorant of the truth. And he did not want to be burnt alive so he had to talk in a stupid way. Lao Tzu talks directly, Buddha's statements are absolutely clear; there is nothing airy-fairy about them. Mahavira says whatsoever he wants to say without creating a great camouflage of big words, theories, ideologie...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,127 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... THESE words of Dionysius will look very absurd to you, but there is an undercurrent hidden somewhere that's what I would like you to discover. And then you will be surprised: it is the same truth as Lao Tzu's, as Buddha's, as Zarathustra's, as Jesus'. There is nothing different; it is just that the language, the jargon he uses is that of a theologian -- out of necessity. He must have been surrounded by theologia...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,128 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ent darkness, darkness which is full of light. If he had been free to say it he would have said simply darkness, pure darkness, unadulterated darkness. Why adulterate it with light? You can see it in Lao Tzu: whatsoever he wants to say he says. He says, "I see that everyone in the world seems to be very clear, thoughtful; there is clarity in people's minds. I am the only one who is muddle-headed -- because I cann...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,129 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...all creation? Even God is not above all creation. God is creativity -- how can Jesus be above creation? And if Jesus is above creation, then why not Dionysius, then why not Buddha, then why not Krishna, then why not Lao Tzu? Then every enlightened person is above creation. And then why should the unenlightened ones be under creation, not above creation? -- because they also have the potential of becoming enlightened. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,130 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n just five to ten years, the whole country changed from a strong conviction of theism to a strong conviction of atheism. What happened? China was one of the most religious countries in the East under Confucius, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu -- the great heritage. And then the impact, the great impact of Buddha and Bodhidharma. Thousands of monasteries, thousands of monks, Taoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and at ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,131 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot create it even if they want to because enlightenment happens in silence. How can you bring that silence into words? And whatsoever you do, the words are going to destroy something of that silence. Lao Tzu says: The moment truth is asserted it becomes false. There is no way to communicate truth. But language has to be used; there is no other way. So we always have to use the language with the condition that it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,132 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y are like small children playing, shouting, running, for no reason at all, just the overflowing energy. They are innocent statements. One can see very easily the difference between Jesus and Dionysius, between Lao Tzu and Dionysius, between Zarathustra and Dionysius. It was unfortunate that this tremendously great man had to pass through a theological training. It was just an accident. But his training hangs around him; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,133 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of a very ordinary theologian. Just listen to his statement: I THINK, TOO, THAT YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD HOW THE DISCUSSION OF PARTICULARS IS MORE LENGTHY THAN OF UNIVERSALS. Now, Lao Tzu has not talked about particulars and universals, neither have Buddha nor Jesus nor Kabir nor Farid. It is a philosophical problem: it has some importance in the world of philosophy, but it is utterly meaningl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,134 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gmund Freud helped psychology to become at least something closer to science. Assagioli's idea was good, but he was not capable of fulfilling his idea: he promised something which he was not capable of. He was not a Lao Tzu or a Buddha or a Dionysius. Dionysius knows exactly what happens in these two processes. He was not aware of modern science, but in these words he describes it accurately, precisely. From the universal yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,135 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd wait for the spring. As you move upwards, first comes brevity -- your statements become sutras -- and then comes perfect silence. Even to say a single word seems to be doing something wrong. Lao Tzu says: To say the truth is to falsify it. Hence he avoided doing so his whole life; he never wrote a single word. He indicated in indirect ways, hinted at but never said any direct thing about God, never menti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,136 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...translate, you destroy. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu has been translated many times, many people have translated it, and each translation has something of its own. But when all the translations are read together you will be surprised: it seems that the real thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,137 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- only apprentices. No book reaches that perfection. The same is true about Lao Tzu: his Tao, his approach to the ultimate truth seems to be impossible to improve upon. It very rarely happens that a person gives you the total perfection of a thing, but it happens. It happens ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,138 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ere were priests in the world of birds, no bird would ever fly; they would all remain imprisoned in their nests. No bird would ever gather the courage, except a few crazy birds -- a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. But they would not be the rule; they would only be the exceptions. And the priest will always be against them, remember. The priest was against Jesus, the priest was against the Buddha, the priest was a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,139 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y be the exceptions. And the priest will always be against them, remember. The priest was against Jesus, the priest was against the Buddha, the priest was against Zarathustra, the priest was against Lao Tzu. What was their fault? Why was the priest against them? The priest was against them because they were cutting the very roots of his profession. They were telling people to be free of fear, they were helping p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,140 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e looking to hear some words.' But about silence nothing can be said. And all that is said about silence will be wrong. How can you say anything about silence? To say something will be falsifying it. That's why Lao Tzu says Nothing can be said about Tao -- and if something is said, in the very saying of it, it has become untrue. Tao is silent. But that silence is not the silence of a cemetery. It is the silence of a garden...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,141 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ning out of it. And you are helpless, you cannot do anything. Language is not the right medium to communicate. But people don't know silence, so there is no other way. Even a Buddha has to talk, or a Lao Tzu -- he has to use words which are inadequate, dangerous. The day Buddha died, his disciples divided into thirty-six schools. Just the day he died -- as if they were just waiting. Thirty-six meanings to each of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,142 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t. It created many problems, because he had attained and it was his duty to share it. When you have attained you have to share it. It is intrinsic to attainment to share. That's why Buddha has spoken, and Christ and Lao Tzu. Mahavira kept silent, he found another way. Maybe that is why his religion never became a world religion. His followers remain very few -- even now there are only thirty lakhs Jainas. That is nothing -- afte...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,143 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... wise.' That need exists only because you are afraid of your foolishness. The really wise is one who is relaxed. Yes, he can play like a fool, he can laugh like a fool. Just think of Christ, think of Lao Tzu, think of Bodhidharma. These people are really wise people, but they can act foolishly. Lao Tzu has said 'Everybody seems to be so wise, except me.' And he is the wise man. Lao Tzu says 'Everybody seems to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,144 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who is relaxed. Yes, he can play like a fool, he can laugh like a fool. Just think of Christ, think of Lao Tzu, think of Bodhidharma. These people are really wise people, but they can act foolishly. Lao Tzu has said 'Everybody seems to be so wise, except me.' And he is the wise man. Lao Tzu says 'Everybody seems to be so confident and I am so hesitant. Everybody seems to be so clear about life. And I am so uncle...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,145 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Just think of Christ, think of Lao Tzu, think of Bodhidharma. These people are really wise people, but they can act foolishly. Lao Tzu has said 'Everybody seems to be so wise, except me.' And he is the wise man. Lao Tzu says 'Everybody seems to be so confident and I am so hesitant. Everybody seems to be so clear about life. And I am so unclear, surrounded by a cloud.' What is he saying? He is saying that clarity that has...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,146 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nce is such that intrinsically, it wants to be shared. If you don't know, of course you cannot say it. But if you know, then too you cannot say it; and at the same time you cannot avoid saying it. Lao Tzu did not say a single word to his disciples -- and he had thousands of disciples. Those were the golden days: a thousand disciples sitting with Lao Tzu in utter silence, day by day, year by year -- nothing is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,147 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... at the same time you cannot avoid saying it. Lao Tzu did not say a single word to his disciples -- and he had thousands of disciples. Those were the golden days: a thousand disciples sitting with Lao Tzu in utter silence, day by day, year by year -- nothing is asked, nothing is answered. Everybody knows this is, and there is no need to give it an expression; because the moment you express it, it is no more th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,148 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd it. They try to go to the back, behind the mirror to find the child. Of course there is nobody, it was their own reflection. All that has been said about truth is only a reflection in the mirror. Lao Tzu avoided saying anything. He avoided writing anything and when he was eighty years old, he left towards the Himalayas to rest in eternity; in the deepest silence of the eternal snow of Himalayan peaks. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,149 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the Himalayas to rest in eternity; in the deepest silence of the eternal snow of Himalayan peaks. The emperor of China ordered all the guards around the country to block all the roads, saying that: "Lao Tzu should not be allowed to go out unless he writes down his experience for future generations." He was caught hold of before he crossed the borders -- respectfully. The guard said, "I am not in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,150 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...there is no other place here -- and write down your essential experience. Unless you do it, I cannot allow you out of the country, I cannot allow you to cross the borders." The emperor himself was a disciple of Lao Tzu. Under such circumstances Lao Tzu wrote a small booklet, but the first sentence is all that he really has been not saying all his long life -- for eighty years. The first sentence was, "Truth is, but the mome...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,151 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d write down your essential experience. Unless you do it, I cannot allow you out of the country, I cannot allow you to cross the borders." The emperor himself was a disciple of Lao Tzu. Under such circumstances Lao Tzu wrote a small booklet, but the first sentence is all that he really has been not saying all his long life -- for eighty years. The first sentence was, "Truth is, but the moment you say anything about it, it i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,152 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ness that humanity has not come to a transformation. If all the religious people could laugh rather than just talking about beliefs, arguing about things which cannot be proved.... If Gautam Buddha and Confucius and Lao Tzu and Moses and Zarathustra and Jesus and Mohammed all could have gathered together and laughed, human consciousness would have taken a quantum leap. Their seriousness has become a heaviness on the human heart....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,153 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- there was no hollowness in him. Hollowness is condemned. When you want to condemn somebody you say, "He is just hollow." But in the East it is a totally different thing. The greatest mystics -- Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Bodhidharma -- they all call themselves hollow bamboos. They have disappeared as an ego. There is no one who can say, "I am", and yet the whole structure is there, and inside is pure space. And that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,154 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g millions and millions of planets. Our planet is the only one which has evolved not only life, not only consciousness, but has even produced the ultimate flowering of consciousness in people like Gautam the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Tilopa and many more. We should be proud of this planet earth. All flags need to be burned, and all divisions need to be destroyed, and a single humanity has to be proclaimed. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,155 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ven if he had managed to cover the small kingdom of Judea, that would have been too much. The education of people was very confined. They were not even aware of each other's existence. Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu in China, Socrates in Athens -- they were all contemporaries but they had no idea of each other. That's why I say that before the scientific revolution in the means of communication and in the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,156 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ime. A small flame in the heart of awareness, mindfulness, DHYANA, meditation. A little flame and that's enough. It lights your path a little. Then you walk, then again the light goes further. Says Lao Tzu: 'By taking one step at a time one can walk ten thousand miles.' And God is not that far away. Godot is very far away. You will never reach him. You will have to wait and wait and wait. It is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,157 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ve to do? -- the bird was singing, the grove was green. For a moment you became passive, feminine -- not doing anything. Suddenly it was there. It has always been there. You just have to stop. Says Lao Tzu: 'Seek and you will miss. Don't seek and it is already there.' The treasure that you are seeking is within you. All seeking is futile. Just look at the facticity of it. Existence is celebrating! It is a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,158 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a trained intellectual. By intelligence, I mean the radiance of understanding. An intelligent being always hesitates because life is such a tremendous mystery. How can you be certain about anything? Lao Tzu says: 'When others are absolutely certain, I am the only confused one.' Lao Tzu, a man absolutely enlightened, says: 'While others are sane, I look mad.' He says: 'I walk, but I hesitate, as someone walking i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,159 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rstanding. An intelligent being always hesitates because life is such a tremendous mystery. How can you be certain about anything? Lao Tzu says: 'When others are absolutely certain, I am the only confused one.' Lao Tzu, a man absolutely enlightened, says: 'While others are sane, I look mad.' He says: 'I walk, but I hesitate, as someone walking in a winter stream. I walk, but I am afraid, as if someone surrounded by enemies....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,160 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this your life? The mind will say: 'No, this is not my life; it may be of others.' But that is the way of the mind to protect oneself.'Others may be fools; I'm not.' The wise man thinks in a different way. Says Lao Tzu: 'Everybody seems to be very very wise; I am the only idiot here.' The wise man looks like an idiot. Let me tell you a Hassidic tale. It happened: from Poland, a group of Jews were migrating to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,161 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a Buddha says is bound to be misunderstood. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says: 'When people don't understand me, I know well, I have said something true. When they understand, then I know well that something has gone wrong.' 'Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera....' You have your own lan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,162 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ey can change camps very easily; there is no problem. Ordinarily, they change. The difference is just like that of cold and heat -- only of degrees. But a Buddha and Krishna, a Christ and Mohammed, and a Lao Tzu and Mahavir -- their difference is not of degrees. They can never meet. And this is the paradox: they have come to Oneness, and yet they can never meet. The difference is not of degrees. The difference is of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,163 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... about a particular saint. I have heard that he can walk on water and fly in the sky, that gravitation has no effect on him and he can produce things from out of the blue. So I want to ask, Leih Tzu, can your Master Lao Tzu also do such miracles?" Leih Tzu said, "Yes, he can do them. He is capable of doing any miracle." Then the emperor said, "But I have never heard that he has ever done any. Why is he not doing ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,164 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re upward; the more outward you go, the more downward. These two are different symbols. The Chinese mind has always used "downward" as synonymous with "inward", and "upward" as synonymous with "outward". So whenever Lao Tzu would speak he would never use "upward"; he would say, "Come downward," and by down he means come within. So the within for Lao Tzu is just like an abyss: you fall in. Indian symbology is dif...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,165 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s with "inward", and "upward" as synonymous with "outward". So whenever Lao Tzu would speak he would never use "upward"; he would say, "Come downward," and by down he means come within. So the within for Lao Tzu is just like an abyss: you fall in. Indian symbology is different. We use upward for inward. For us the inward is not like an abyss, it is like a peak. Both can be used because symbols are just symbols, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,166 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed because symbols are just symbols, they indicate; more than that is meaningless. So it has always been a problem. The Upanishads always talk of upward, and the symbol is fire -- fire constantly running upward. For Lao Tzu and Taoists, water is the symbol -- water running downward, finding the most downward position possible. It can rest only when the deepest abyss has been found. But fire will rest only with the sun. It will g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,167 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...only when the deepest abyss has been found. But fire will rest only with the sun. It will go upward, upward, to the invisible upwardness. But there is no contradiction. Really, whenever persons like Lao Tzu or Zarathustra or Jesus speak, they may use contradictory terms but they are never contradictory. They cannot be, that is impossible. So if their words are contradictory, that only shows their type, their cho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,168 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...right. When Buddha says, "To believe in a self is to be ignorant," he is right. And Mahavir is also right when he says, "To know the Self is the ultimate wisdom." The contradiction is just apparent. Lao Tzu says, "To go down to the last is to reach the basic Existence." He begins from the beginning: "Drop down back to the very beginning, to the original source. The original source is deep down." The Upanishads s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,169 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e basic Existence." He begins from the beginning: "Drop down back to the very beginning, to the original source. The original source is deep down." The Upanishads say, "Go up to the last where the peak is achieved." Lao Tzu says, "Go down to the original source," and the Upanishads say, "Go up to the ultimate possibility, to the very end. Achieve the potentiality to the very end; make the potentiality absolutely actual." The beg...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,170 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a circle, the point of beginning will be the point of the ending also. Life moves in a circle, so you can say the same point is the beginning and the end both. So the upward is not contradictory to the downward. The Lao Tzuan downward and the Upanishadic upward -- both mean the same. Only the words differ. If we can penetrate to the meaning beyond the words, only then can we conceive of and comprehend these mind...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,171 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t at ease, because Rana now is a downward flow. This upward flow is bound to be an effort for us. Unless you will it, you will not achieve it. Now, again, you will find a conflict between Tao and the Upanishads. Lao Tzu says, "Effortlessness is the means," and the Upanishads says, "Effort, total effort, is the means." When Lao Tzu says "effortlessness", he means be so still that not a single movement is there, because any ef...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,172 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it, you will not achieve it. Now, again, you will find a conflict between Tao and the Upanishads. Lao Tzu says, "Effortlessness is the means," and the Upanishads says, "Effort, total effort, is the means." When Lao Tzu says "effortlessness", he means be so still that not a single movement is there, because any effort is a movement, any effort is a tension, any effort means that you are outside. So when Lao Tzu says ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,173 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is the means." When Lao Tzu says "effortlessness", he means be so still that not a single movement is there, because any effort is a movement, any effort is a tension, any effort means that you are outside. So when Lao Tzu says "effortlessness", he is using it to mean an absolutely relaxed state of mind -- do not do anything. It is not so easy. It is as difficult as the upward flow -- rather, even more difficult, because we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,174 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r; you have come to the last limit. The tension has come to its ultimate, the maximum; it cannot go further. When tension comes to a total climax, you suddenly relax and you reach the point which is meant by Tao, by Lao Tzu -- effortlessness. You come to the center. So there are two ways: either relax directly as Tao implies, or relax indirectly as the Upanishads say. Create the tension to its ultimate, and then there will b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,175 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sions. The title should rather be YOU MUST NOT RELAX, if you want to relax. Relaxation cannot come directly to us. We are tense, so much tense. Relaxation doesn't mean anything; we have not known it. Lao Tzu is right, but to follow him is very difficult. And he looks simple. Always remember -- whenever something looks very simple it must be very complex, because in this world the most simple is the most complex. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,176 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because in this world the most simple is the most complex. And because it looks simple you may deceive yourself. So I can say, "Just relax!" -- it will not happen. I was working for ten years continuously with Lao Tzuan methods, so I was continuously teaching direct relaxation. It was simple for me so I thought it would be simple for everyone. Then. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,177 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...will be given more, and those who have not, even that will be taken away." This is illogical. This is absolutely illogical! What does he mean? He is using some Zen words. If you look in the words of Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, you will find that they are not logical. If you ask a Buddha, "I will be good, virtuous, I will follow -- what will I gain?" he will say, "Nothing! You will not gain anything -- nothing!" Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,178 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es the ditch -- only because it is called sin! Call anything sin, and you have created a point by which you will be hypnotized. Auto-hypnosis is now possible. Deny something, and you are in the trap. Lao Tzu says, "An inch's distinction between earth and heaven, and everything is set apart. An inch's distinction between good and bad, and everything is set apart." No distinction should be made. That's why reli...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,179 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that is, your mind is arrowed totally towards That -- in that total tension, on that climax and peak, will dissolves, because perfection is death. The moment anything is perfect it dies. That is why Lao Tzu says, "Never be perfect. Stop half way -- never go to the end!" If you go to the end, success will become failure and life will become death. If you go to the very end, love will turn into hate, friendship wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,180 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed chose green as the color for his fakirs. Islam has green as the symbolic color. That is the color of their flag. Green is both -- silent, still, but also active. Blue is just silent and inactive. So a person like Lao Tzu will first begin to feel blue; a person like Mohammed will begin to feel green first. So the symbolic system of colors is a fixed thing, but the sequence is not fixed. Another thing has to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,181 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... A dry leaf falls down from the tree, and someone sees it and achieves -- and achieves! These people are just on the verge. Anything absolutely irrelevant-looking can do it. How does it make sense? Lao Tzu achieved his Enlightenment. He was just sitting under a tree and a dry leaf fell down. He looked at the fallen leaf, and he began to dance. And if anyone would ask him he would say, "How can I teach you? It i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,182 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he cannot be in anything in which he cannot be total. It is not a question of good and evil; it is not a moral question. Really, for a sage. it is a question of being total. He cannot be otherwise. Lao Tzu says, "I call that good in which you can be total and that bad in which you can never be total." Partiality is sin. If you look at it in this way, then mind becomes sin -- mind is the faculty of being partial...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,183 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you know it or not, but within five hundred years everything great as far as religion is concerned happened. Within five hundred years! Buddha -- Gautam the Buddha -- Mahavir, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Jesus, they all happened within five hundred years, in a particular period when everything was rising high. Every great religion was born within those five hundred years. Somethi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,184 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ber, this is not so only in this age. This has always been so and this always will be so. I am also asked whether I feel the present generation is capable of creating Enlightened Ones like Krishna, Lao Tzu and Christ. Spirituality is not concerned with time at all -- time or age. A Lao Tzu is born not because of a particular time; a Buddha is born not because of a particular age. There were so many in Buddha's ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,185 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ways will be so. I am also asked whether I feel the present generation is capable of creating Enlightened Ones like Krishna, Lao Tzu and Christ. Spirituality is not concerned with time at all -- time or age. A Lao Tzu is born not because of a particular time; a Buddha is born not because of a particular age. There were so many in Buddha's age, but only one became the Buddha. The age was the same to all, time was ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,186 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ion he was just entering the moon center. On that very day he entered -- on the very day of the crucifixion. So that is the next thing to understand. Jesus in the Bible is not like Buddha, Mahavir or Lao Tzu. He is not! You cannot conceive of Buddha going into the temple and beating the money-lenders -- you cannot conceive of it! But Jesus did it. He went into the temple; the annual festival was on. Many things w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,187 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...FORE, ISN'T IT OBVIOUS THAT DISCONTENTMENT AND NON-ACCEPTANCE IS THE PRINCIPLE FOR EVOLUTION AND GROWTH AND NOT TOTAL ACCEPTANCE? PLEASE EXPLAIN. MANY things win have to be understood. One: Lao Tzu, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, they are not the total East. They were Teaching acceptance, but no one in the East has followed it. And those who followed, they evolved: Lao Tzu evolved into a perfect human possib...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,188 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ANY things win have to be understood. One: Lao Tzu, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, they are not the total East. They were Teaching acceptance, but no one in the East has followed it. And those who followed, they evolved: Lao Tzu evolved into a perfect human possibility -- to the maximum possibility which a human being can reach; Buddha evolved to be a Divine person through acceptance and contentment. But the East has not followed the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,189 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ved -- now, when the West has succeeded in its ambition -- the disparity becomes more clear-cut. Man has remained empty, unevolved. That is why now Western thinkers, the Western avant-garde, are thinking in terms of Lao Tzu, Buddha and Mahavir. Now they have known the futility of discontentment. It leads you to more discontentment, and contentment becomes impossible. From one discontentment you go to another, and from another to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,190 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are incomparable. Thousands, millions, have followed discontent; the whole world, the whole of humanity, follows it -- but the followers of discontent have not produced a single Buddha, a single Jesus, a single Lao Tzu. Really, outward growth depends on discontent, inward growth depends on contentment. Now it is your choice! If you want to pile up things more and more, you can go on, but then you are simply a se...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,191 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ieve it. Then a world of anxiety surrounds you. You live in anxiety; you become an anxiety. Kierkegaard has said that man is anxiety. He is! An animal is not anxiety, but man is anxiety! A sage like Lao Tzu or Buddha is, again, no-anxiety. These two no-anxieties -- animal-like and Buddhalike -- are absolutely different, qualitatively different. One has to pass through anxiety to gain again a state of no-anxiety....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,192 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Language depends on duality, as the whole of life depends on duality. Language arises out of life experiences; it is utterly rooted in life experiences. That's why truth is inexpressible. And Lao Tzu is right when he says, "The moment you utter the truth it becomes a lie. Say it, and 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,193 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... WHAT IS CREATIVITY? Deva Mohan, action is not creativity, inaction also is not creativity. Creativity is a very paradoxical state of consciousness and being: it is action through inaction, it is what Lao Tzu calls WEI-WU-WEI. It is allowing something to happen through you. It is not a doing, it is an allowing. It is becoming a passage so the whole can flow through you. It is becoming a hollow bamboo, just a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,194 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nternational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- The essence of wisdom is to act in harmony with nature. That is the message of all the great mystics -- Lao Tzu, Buddha, Bahauddin, Sosan, Sanai -- to act in harmony with nature. Animals act unconsciously in harmony with nature. Man has to act consciously in harmony with nature, because man has consciousness. Man can c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,195 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e sound of music within and without. This is the state of creativity. This can be called the basic quality: being in harmony with nature, being in tune with life, with the universe. Lao Tzu has given it a beautiful name, WEI-WU-WEI: action through inaction. You can call it "creative quietude" -- a process that combines within a single individual two seeming incompatibles: supreme activity and su...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,196 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... becoming the first in the world. Yet love becomes the first, the conqueror. Jesus says: Those who are the last in this world will be the first in my kingdom of God. And vice versa. Lao Tzu preaches the way of water, the watercourse way. He says: The rock is strong, is in every way trying to conquer, is aggressive, resistant, but ultimately is defeated, is destroyed, becomes the sand and disappe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,197 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ove conquers you, you are enthroned, you are crowned, you are victorious. But only when love conquers you. Never resist. Resistance is doomed to fail, because resistance dissipates your energy. Lao Tzu again says: Don't be like a big strong tree -- because when the storm comes and the great wind blows, the big tree will resist, and because of that resistance, will fall down. The fault is not of the great wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,198 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ARE YOU AGAINST ALL OTHER GURUS? Then who has been speaking on Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu, Bahaudin, Rabiya, Sanai, Bodhidharma, Rinzai, Bokuju, Milarepa, Marpa, Tilopa, Saraha, Kabir, Nanak, Meera, Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Mahavira? Who has been speaking about all these g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,199 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...one judgment to another. If you ever want to get out of the mind -- and without it there is no possibility of your inner growth -- then, `Judge ye not.' I will tell you a small story. It happened in the days of Lao Tzu in China, and Lao Tzu loved it very much. For generations the followers of Lao Tzu have been repeating the story and always finding more and more meaning in it. The story has grown; it has become a live facto...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,200 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r. If you ever want to get out of the mind -- and without it there is no possibility of your inner growth -- then, `Judge ye not.' I will tell you a small story. It happened in the days of Lao Tzu in China, and Lao Tzu loved it very much. For generations the followers of Lao Tzu have been repeating the story and always finding more and more meaning in it. The story has grown; it has become a live factor. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,201 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...there is no possibility of your inner growth -- then, `Judge ye not.' I will tell you a small story. It happened in the days of Lao Tzu in China, and Lao Tzu loved it very much. For generations the followers of Lao Tzu have been repeating the story and always finding more and more meaning in it. The story has grown; it has become a live factor. The story is simple: There was an old man in a village, very poor, but even...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,202 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...It is simply unbelievable that things like this exist on earth -- people who carry a degree of doctorate about Divinity. God is not a theory. It is an experience. You cannot be taught about It. Says Lao Tzu, The Old Boy... the word `Lao Tzu' means The Old Boy. Another parable: It is said Lao Tzu was born old -- when he was eighty-four years of age. For eighty-four years he lived in the womb of the mother. When h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,203 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ngs like this exist on earth -- people who carry a degree of doctorate about Divinity. God is not a theory. It is an experience. You cannot be taught about It. Says Lao Tzu, The Old Boy... the word `Lao Tzu' means The Old Boy. Another parable: It is said Lao Tzu was born old -- when he was eighty-four years of age. For eighty-four years he lived in the womb of the mother. When he was born, he was already absolut...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,204 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e of doctorate about Divinity. God is not a theory. It is an experience. You cannot be taught about It. Says Lao Tzu, The Old Boy... the word `Lao Tzu' means The Old Boy. Another parable: It is said Lao Tzu was born old -- when he was eighty-four years of age. For eighty-four years he lived in the womb of the mother. When he was born, he was already absolutely ancient -- all his hair white, wrinkled. What is the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,205 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he was born, he was already absolutely ancient -- all his hair white, wrinkled. What is the meaning? The meaning is that whenever religious consciousness is born, it is always ancient: new and ancient, both. Hence, Lao Tzu's name: The Old Boy. Lao Tzu means The Old Boy -- old, yet young. Says Lao Tzu: `Truth cannot be said. And all that can be said will not be true.' A teacher is one who teaches truth whic...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,206 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...absolutely ancient -- all his hair white, wrinkled. What is the meaning? The meaning is that whenever religious consciousness is born, it is always ancient: new and ancient, both. Hence, Lao Tzu's name: The Old Boy. Lao Tzu means The Old Boy -- old, yet young. Says Lao Tzu: `Truth cannot be said. And all that can be said will not be true.' A teacher is one who teaches truth which cannot be taught. He teache...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,207 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ning? The meaning is that whenever religious consciousness is born, it is always ancient: new and ancient, both. Hence, Lao Tzu's name: The Old Boy. Lao Tzu means The Old Boy -- old, yet young. Says Lao Tzu: `Truth cannot be said. And all that can be said will not be true.' A teacher is one who teaches truth which cannot be taught. He teaches about truth. He goes round and round. He beats around the bush. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,208 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r is said, your reason starts working around it. Whatsoever you read here becomes food for your reason. Religious discourses are really poisons, they are poisonous food. Buddha talks, Krishna talks, Lao Tzu goes on preaching to the disciples. What are they doing? They are doing only one thing: they are giving you poison which looks like food to reason. Reason immediately absorbs it, but it is poison, and reason ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,209 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cannot think in that way, that door is closed. Put reason aside, start functioning in a loving way. Bring more heart into your behavior, into your actions, into your movements. Then whatsoever Krishna and Jesus and Lao Tzu have said, that will become a truth to you, it will be revealed. You just need fresh eyes which can see it, hence so much emphasis on trust. The third question: BELOVED OSHO, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,210 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the divine as much as I, but the rock cannot express it through language. You need language. The fear is because of you, the fear is because of the very medium of language. Truth said becomes untrue. Lao Tzu has said, "The Tao that can be said is no more Tao. The truth that can be said is no more true." Why? -- because language, the very mechanism of language, depends on duality. For example, if you ask me whethe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,211 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oined together just like man and woman, positive and negative, day and night, life and death. Both approaches are mine. That's why I go on talking about Buddha with as much love as I go on talking about Patanjali or Lao Tzu or Jesus or Mahavira or Mohammed. I contain all. Remember that -- that will help you to be less confused. Enough for today. Vedanta: Seven Steps to Sam...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,212 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mstances. You have created a karma, a pattern; now it will follow you. But why move into a discussion unnecessarily? Why create an argument? I have heard one Chinese Taoist parable. Three Taoists, followers of Lao Tzu, went into a forest to meditate. They decided that they were not going to chatter, discuss anything. One year passed in 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 199...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,213 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll see that you have to thank the whole universe. Just think: if Buddha was not there, if he had not happened, if Jesus was not there, if he had not happened, if the Upanishads were never written, if Lao Tzu had not accepted to write down the Tao Te Ching, if there was no Bible, no Koran, no Vedas, where would you have been? You would have been just in the trees, you would have been monkeys. The whole universe ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,214 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Chinese moves from up to down, into the depth, so Chinese symbols can express things no other language can express -- because every language is linear, and Chinese is in the depth. So if you have read Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching in translation, you know that every translation differs. If you read ten translations then all the translations will be different; you cannot say who is wrong and who is right, because Chinese ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,215 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o fight, the attitude to conquer, the attitude to struggle. Will is the force of violence in you. Bertrand Russell has written a book, Conquest of Nature. This is impossible to conceive in the East. Lao Tzu cannot use these words, conquest of nature, because who will conquer nature? You are nature. Who will conquer nature? You are not separate from it. But the West has lived for these twenty centuries with this ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,216 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s struggle to be a witness has dropped; when even the idea that "I am a witness" has dropped, when there is no more conflict between you and existence. No more any conflict, you simply flow with it. Lao Tzu is reported to have said, "I struggled hard but I was defeated again and again, fortunately." He says, "Fortunately I was defeated again and again. No effort succeeded, and then I realized -- against whom am ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,217 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I am fighting, against the greater part of my own being I am fighting. It is as if my hand is fighting against my body, and the hand belongs to the body. It can fight, but the hand has the energy through the body." Lao Tzu says, "When I realized that I am part of this cosmos, that I am not separate -- the cosmos breathes in me, lives in me, and I am fighting it -- then the fight dropped. Then I became like a dead leaf." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,218 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to the ground she is not frustrated. A dead leaf simply has no will of her own. "Thy will be done." She moves with the wind, wheresoever it leads. She has got no goal, she has no purpose of her own. Lao Tzu says, "When I became like a dead leaf, then everything was achieved. Then there was nothing to be achieved any more. Then all bliss became mine." ALL THE MODIFICATIONS OF WILL COME TO AN END. ONE WHO PRACT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,219 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cut space. And you can use the inside only because of the doors; otherwise you cannot use the inside. And from the door it continues to be the same, from the door the inside and the outside are one. Lao Tzu uses this symbol very much. He goes on saying that the room is valuable not because of the walls but because of the doors. The room has value not because of the walls but because of the doors -- and doors mea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,220 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... can exist only amidst sinners. They are not two -- the more saints, the more sinners. If you want sinners to disappear you will have to destroy saints first; when saints disappear sinners disappear. Lao Tzu says in Tao Te Ching that when the world was really religious there were no saints. When there were saints immediately sinners appeared. So the saint cannot exist without the sinner. That means they are joine...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,221 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...orgotten, it ceases. And when truth also drops you have reached something, not before it. The sixth is the door, the real door, to the infinity. The sixth is the door, the real door, to the ultimate. Lao Tzu says -- and whatsoever he says belongs to the sixth and seventh -- he says, "If you are good you are still bad. If you feel that you are a saint you are still a sinner. If you look in the mirror and feel you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,222 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ego is a cloud, it is part of the world of the clouds. It is just like a rainbow in the clouds -- false, dreamlike. When you become aware of the soul you are not an egoist; you become egoless, you become humble. But Lao Tzu says that if you are still humble the ego exists somewhere; otherwise, how can you feel that you are a humble person? Go to somebody who is humble, watch him, and you will feel that his ego is very subtl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,223 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave moved away from the present, away from yourself, because YOU are always in the present. The seeker is always in the present and the seeking is in the future, you are not going to meet whatsoever you are seeking. Lao Tzu says, "Seek not; otherwise you will miss. Seek not and find. Don't seek and find." All these techniques of Shiva's are simply turning the mind from the future or the past to the present. That...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,224 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he turning is just a by-product. If you do a technique, your mind will turn from its journey into the future or the past. Suddenly you will find yourself in the present. That is why Buddha has given techniques, Lao Tzu has given techniques, Krishna has given techniques. But they always introduce their techniques with intellectual concepts. Only Shiva is different. He immediately gives techniques, and no intellectual ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,225 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d from an innocent attitude. Jesus says, "Unless you become like children, you cannot enter into my kingdom of God." Unless you become like children... this is the purity of tantra. Lao Tsu says, "One inch of division, and heaven and hell are set apart." No-division is the mind of the sage -- no division at all! A sage doesn't know what is good or what is bad. He is like children but unlike them...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,226 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sions. So really, in the whole history of human growth we know nothing about tantric sages. Nothing is mentioned or recorded about them because it is so difficult to recognize them. Confucius went to Lao Tsu. Lao Tsu's mind is that of a tantrically awakened sage. He never knew about the word `tantra'; the word is meaningless for him. He never knew anything about tantra, but whatsoever he has said IS tantra. Confu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,227 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... really, in the whole history of human growth we know nothing about tantric sages. Nothing is mentioned or recorded about them because it is so difficult to recognize them. Confucius went to Lao Tsu. Lao Tsu's mind is that of a tantrically awakened sage. He never knew about the word `tantra'; the word is meaningless for him. He never knew anything about tantra, but whatsoever he has said IS tantra. Confucius is r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,228 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ive of our mind, he is the arch-representative. He continually thinks in terms of good and bad, of what should be done and what should not be done. He is a legalist -- the greatest legalist ever born. He went to see Lao Tsu, and he asked Lao Tsu, "What is good? What ought one to do? What is bad? Define it clearly." Lao Tsu said, "Definitions create a mess, because defining means dividing: this is this, and that is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,229 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... arch-representative. He continually thinks in terms of good and bad, of what should be done and what should not be done. He is a legalist -- the greatest legalist ever born. He went to see Lao Tsu, and he asked Lao Tsu, "What is good? What ought one to do? What is bad? Define it clearly." Lao Tsu said, "Definitions create a mess, because defining means dividing: this is this, and that is that." You divide and say A is A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,230 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e and what should not be done. He is a legalist -- the greatest legalist ever born. He went to see Lao Tsu, and he asked Lao Tsu, "What is good? What ought one to do? What is bad? Define it clearly." Lao Tsu said, "Definitions create a mess, because defining means dividing: this is this, and that is that." You divide and say A is A and B is B... you have divided. You say A cannot be B; then you have created a div...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,231 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...alth. So where can you demark them as separate? Life is one movement, and the moment you define you create a mess, because definitions will be dead and life is an alive movement. So definitions are always false. Lao Tsu said, "Defining creates non-truth, so do not define. Do not say what is good and what is bad." So Confucius said, "What are you saying? Then how can people be led and guided? Then how can they...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,232 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...efine. Do not say what is good and what is bad." So Confucius said, "What are you saying? Then how can people be led and guided? Then how can they be taught? How can they be made moral and good?" Lao Tsu said, "When someone tries to make someone else good, that is a sin in my eyes. Who are you to lead? Who are you to guide? And the more guides there are, the more confusion. Leave everyone to himself. Who are ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,233 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re confusion. Leave everyone to himself. Who are you?" This type of attitude seems dangerous. It is! Society cannot be founded on such attitudes. Confucius goes on asking, and the whole point is that Lao Tsu says, "Nature is enough, no morality is needed. Nature is spontaneous. Nature is enough, no imposed laws and disciplines are needed. Innocence is enough; no morality is needed. Nature is spontaneous, nature i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,234 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s asked, "Tell us something about the meeting. What happened?" Confucius answered, "He is not a man, he is a danger, a dragon. He is not a man. Never go to that place where he is. Whenever you hear about Lao Tsu, just escape from that place. He will disturb your mind completely." And that is right, because the whole of tantra is concerned with how to transcend the mind. It is bound to destroy the mind. Mind lives...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,235 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd to destroy the mind. Mind lives with definitions, laws and disciplines; mind is an order. But remember, tantra is not disorder, and that is a very subtle point to be understood. Confucius could not understand Lao Tsu. When Confucius left, Lao Tsu was laughing and laughing and so his disciples asked, "Why are you laughing so much? What has happened?" Lao Tsu is reported to have said, "The mind is such a barrier to unde...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,236 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ives with definitions, laws and disciplines; mind is an order. But remember, tantra is not disorder, and that is a very subtle point to be understood. Confucius could not understand Lao Tsu. When Confucius left, Lao Tsu was laughing and laughing and so his disciples asked, "Why are you laughing so much? What has happened?" Lao Tsu is reported to have said, "The mind is such a barrier to understanding. Even the mind of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,237 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...int to be understood. Confucius could not understand Lao Tsu. When Confucius left, Lao Tsu was laughing and laughing and so his disciples asked, "Why are you laughing so much? What has happened?" Lao Tsu is reported to have said, "The mind is such a barrier to understanding. Even the mind of a Confucius is a barrier. He could not understand me at all, and whatsoever he will say about me will be a misunderstan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,238 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be a misunderstanding. He thinks he is going to create order in the world. You CANNOT create order in the world. Order is inherent in it; it is always there. When you try to create order you create disorder." Lao Tsu said, "He will think that I am creating disorder, and really, he is the one who is creating disorder. I am against all imposed orders because I believe in a spontaneous discipline which comes and grows automa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,239 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ence it in a different way. Then there is no common ground. And everyone will express it in a different way. Buddha says something, Mahavir says something, Krishna says something else, and Jesus, Mohammed, Moses and Lao Tsu, they all differ -- not in methods, but in the way they express their experience. Only on one thing do they all agree, that whatsoever they are saying is not expressing that which they have felt. Only on that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,240 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e who know have remained silent -- or even if they say something they hurriedly add that whatsoever they are saying is just symbolic, and whatsoever they are saying is not exactly true: it is false. Lao Tsu said that that which can be said cannot be true, and that which is true cannot be said. He remained silent; for most of his life he would not write anything. He said, "If I say something it will be untrue, be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,241 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l feel you have the same well within you, the same depth. And then a strange, very strange feeling will come to you: you will feel wonder-filled. Chuang Tzu was passing over a bridge with his master, Lao Tsu. Lao Tsu is reported to have said to Chuang Tzu, "Remain here. Go on looking down from this bridge to the river until the river stops and the bridge starts flowing. Then come to me." The river is flowing; the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,242 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u have the same well within you, the same depth. And then a strange, very strange feeling will come to you: you will feel wonder-filled. Chuang Tzu was passing over a bridge with his master, Lao Tsu. Lao Tsu is reported to have said to Chuang Tzu, "Remain here. Go on looking down from this bridge to the river until the river stops and the bridge starts flowing. Then come to me." The river is flowing; the bridge n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,243 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ucture of the bridge. He waited and waited, and the fixed mind dissolved. Then he saw that the bridge was flowing - and the movement was so fast that the river was just static in comparison to it. He came running to Lao Tsu and Lao Tsu said, "Okay! Now do not ask me. The thing has happened to you." What had happened? No-mind had happened. In this technique, AT THE EDGE OF A DEEP WELL LOOK STEADILY INTO ITS DEPTH...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,244 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e bridge. He waited and waited, and the fixed mind dissolved. Then he saw that the bridge was flowing - and the movement was so fast that the river was just static in comparison to it. He came running to Lao Tsu and Lao Tsu said, "Okay! Now do not ask me. The thing has happened to you." What had happened? No-mind had happened. In this technique, AT THE EDGE OF A DEEP WELL LOOK STEADILY INTO ITS DEPTH ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,245 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the unknown is absolute. So even our talk about the absolute is not absolute, because the moment we say "the absolute," it has become known. Whatsoever we know, even the word `absolute' is relative. That is why Lao Tsu insists so much that truth cannot be said. The moment you say it, it has become untrue because it has become relative. So whatsoever word we use -- the truth, the absolute, PARA-BRAHMA, Tao -- wha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,246 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is near. He is far away and he is also near. Why contradictory statements? The Upanishads say, "You cannot see him, but unless you see him you have not seen anything." What type of language is this? Lao Tsu says that "Truth cannot be said" -- and he is saying it! This too is a saying. He says that "Truth cannot be said, if it is said it cannot be true," and then he writes a book and says something about the trut...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,247 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he world, not alien to it. Then the existence becomes your home. And with that feeling that "Now I am at home in the existence," all worries are lost. Then there is no anguish, no struggle, no conflict. This is what Lao Tzu calls Tao, what Shankara calls ADVAITA. You can choose your own word for it, but through a deep love embrace it is easy to feel it. But be alive, shaking, and become the shaking itself. The t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,248 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to exist. So what is Buddha's experience? Whatsoever we know, it is not that. It is neither negative nor positive, neither this nor that. And whatsoever can be expressed, it is not that. That is why Lao Tzu insists so much that truth cannot be said, and the moment you say it you have falsified it. Already it is untrue. Truth cannot be said because of this: it cannot be divided into polar opposites, and language ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,249 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... enemy? The enemy is created by your denial. The death cannot harm you, because the harm is your interpretation. Now no one can harm you; it has become impossible. This is the secret of Taoist teaching. Lao Tzu's basic teaching is this: if you accept, the whole existence is with you. It cannot be otherwise. If you deny, you create the enemy. The more you deny, the more you defend, the more you protect, the more enem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,250 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...reading, becoming bigger and bigger. Because when you are not doing anything, the whole energy goes to the etheric. Remember this. When you are doing anything, the energy is taken out of the etheric. Lao Tzu says, `Non-doing, no one is stronger than me. Not doing anything at all, and no one is stronger than me. Those who are strong by doing can be defeated.' Says Lao Tzu, `I cannot be defeated, because my energy ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,251 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hing, the energy is taken out of the etheric. Lao Tzu says, `Non-doing, no one is stronger than me. Not doing anything at all, and no one is stronger than me. Those who are strong by doing can be defeated.' Says Lao Tzu, `I cannot be defeated, because my energy comes from non-doing.' So the secret is not doing anything. What was Buddha doing under the Bodhi tree? -- not doing anything. He was not doing in that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,252 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ne wrong. The son doesn't believe in the father, the wife doesn't believe in the husband. Darkness has set. Where are those days, the days of the past, those golden days? This is a six thousand-year-old inscription! Lao Tzu says that in the days of the past, in the days of the ancients, everything was beautiful. Then Tao prevailed, then there was nothing wrong, and because there was nothing wrong, no one preached. There was noth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,253 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nothing wrong, and because there was nothing wrong, no one preached. There was nothing wrong to be changed, transformed, and there was no priest, no preacher, no moral leaders, because everything was so right. Lao Tzu says that in those days, those old days, there was no religion. There was no need because Tao prevailed. Everyone was so religious that there was no need for religion. There were no sages then, because there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,254 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... throne. Whenever they get the chance they do everything. Just a moment ago they were friendly, but their friendliness is a strategy. Their friendliness is a tactic. A man who is in power cannot have friends. So Lao Tzu says, "If you want friends, don't be in power." Then the whole world will be friendly to you. If you are in power, then you are your only friend, everyone is your enemy. .... So the king was very afraid....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,255 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ished Query:- So love becomes a SADHANA if you fall in love with a Buddha. It becomes a SADHANA, the greatest SADHANA that is possible. Because of this, whenever there is a Buddha or a Jesus, or a Lao Tzu, many around them are able to reach to peaks in one life that they could not have reached in many lives. But the secret is if they can fall in love. It is not unimaginable, it is imaginable. You may have been...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,256 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...joy with you, he will have to use words to call you closer and closer. Now, it is HIS choice to use certain words. Christ chooses different words; that is his choice. Patanjali chooses still others, Lao Tzu still others. They don't agree about those words, they can't agree. There is no need -- they are all arbitrary. They agree about only one thing: drop the ego, drop the mind. About that they all agree. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,257 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... brought, but when you bring some fragments from the unknowable you transform the whole quality of human consciousness on the earth. He IS creative. I will call him the artist. Or a Buddha, or a Krishna, or a Lao Tzu -- these are real 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- artists! They make the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,258 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... his heart, something is disturbing him. He does not want to get disturbed; he wants to pretend all is good. These pretensions won't help. ALL IS CERTAINLY good! but there is no need to say it. Lao Tzu has said: There was a time when people were religious, but then there was no religion. Then came religion, and people became irreligious. A strange statement, but of great significance and of great profu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,259 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...IS LIKE FALLING INTO ANOTHER WORLD -- I CAN FEEL IT. AND TO LIVE THERE WITH YOU MUST BE LIKE A MIRACLE. MEANWHILE, I EAT MY HEART OUT. PREM GARJAN, YOU ARE FORTUNATE that you are not in the Lao Tzu house -- for many reasons. One is: those who are in the Lao Tzu house, I torture them very much -- you don't know about it outside. They are continuously crucified. Sooner or later, I am going to make my whol...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,260 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...IVE THERE WITH YOU MUST BE LIKE A MIRACLE. MEANWHILE, I EAT MY HEART OUT. PREM GARJAN, YOU ARE FORTUNATE that you are not in the Lao Tzu house -- for many reasons. One is: those who are in the Lao Tzu house, I torture them very much -- you don't know about it outside. They are continuously crucified. Sooner or later, I am going to make my whole campus Lao Tzu house so everybody will be inside -- and then y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,261 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...many reasons. One is: those who are in the Lao Tzu house, I torture them very much -- you don't know about it outside. They are continuously crucified. Sooner or later, I am going to make my whole campus Lao Tzu house so everybody will be inside -- and then you will know. Meanwhile, enjoy as much as you can. And secondly, what almost always happens is: when you are too close to me you start forgetting ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,262 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... achievement than that of Gurdjieff or Ramakrishna because their achievements are in a way limited. Buddha is very liquid; he is not solid like a rock, he is more fluid -- like a river. So was the case with Lao Tzu: he never depended on anybody else, he said whatever he had to say. He said it himself, and as beautifully as it could be said. And their philosophies are bound to be far more pure because they come from the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,263 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ogists don't think there is any difference between rats and man, and about ninety-nine point nine percent of people they are right, there is not much difference. Only once in a while a Socrates, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Buddha may not fit their idea, but they never come across such people. And even if they do come across a Buddha they will not be able to persuade Buddha to come to their lab so that they can experiment on ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,264 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dventurous. They were not bourgeois. The bourgeoisie is never courageous and judges are always in the service of the vested interests. And who knows really what is right and what is wrong? Once Lao Tzu was made a magistrate. Knowing that he was one of the wisest men in the country, the Chinese emperor appointed him a magistrate. He wanted to escape, he wanted to be forgotten, but the emperor was very insist...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,265 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... but the emperor was very insistent. He said, "No. You are the wisest man, you should be my greatest magistrate." He said, "Okay." The first case came to court: a thief had been caught red-handed. And Lao Tzu gave him six months jail and also gave six months jail to the rich man from whom he had stolen. The rich man said, "Are you in your senses? Six months jail for me too? For what?" Lao Tzu s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,266 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ded. And Lao Tzu gave him six months jail and also gave six months jail to the rich man from whom he had stolen. The rich man said, "Are you in your senses? Six months jail for me too? For what?" Lao Tzu said, "In fact I am being very lenient with you -- you should get one year's jail. You have accumulated the whole wealth of the town -- you are the original criminal. This man comes only second. If you had no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,267 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sense is this? Have you ever heard of this before? Is there any precedent?" And the king was also worried because if this rich man was a criminal, then what about the emperor? He immediately relieved Lao Tzu from his duties. He said "You may be a wise man, but you are not needed. You are not able to be a judge. A judge has to follow the rules." Lao Tzu said, "I am following the ultimate law." The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,268 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...al, then what about the emperor? He immediately relieved Lao Tzu from his duties. He said "You may be a wise man, but you are not needed. You are not able to be a judge. A judge has to follow the rules." Lao Tzu said, "I am following the ultimate law." The king said, "There is no question of ultimate law. The law that I have decided, that has to be followed." Lao Tzu said, "Your law is all nonsens...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,269 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...has to follow the rules." Lao Tzu said, "I am following the ultimate law." The king said, "There is no question of ultimate law. The law that I have decided, that has to be followed." Lao Tzu said, "Your law is all nonsense. I follow the Tao. You are also one of the criminals." Now who were those judges? Whom were they serving? Whom were they representing? They were representing the vested ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,270 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... even Buddhism; Buddhism is also a philosophy. Zen is a very rare flowering -- it is one of the strangest things that has happened in the history of consciousness -- it is the meeting of Buddha's experience and Lao Tzu's experience. Buddha, after all, was part of the Indian heritage: he spoke the language of philosophy; he is perfectly clear, you can understand him. In fact, he avoided all metaphysical questions; he was ver...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,271 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...has been taken out both thorns can be thrown away and you will be beyond mind. But when Buddha's teachings reached China a tremendously beautiful thing happened: a cross-breeding happened. In China, Lao Tzu has given his experience of Tao in a totally non-philosophical way, in a very absurd way, in a very illogical way. But when the Buddhist meditators, Buddhist mystics, met the Taoist mystics they immediately c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,272 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the same fragrance. And they came closer, and by their coming closer, by their meetings and mergings with each other, something new started growing up; that is Zen. It has both the beauty of Buddha and the beauty of Lao Tzu; it is the child of both. Such a meeting has never happened before or since. Zen is neither Taoist nor Buddhist; it is both and neither. Hence the traditional Buddhists reject Zen and the tra...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,273 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot inflamed in you, you will never feel frustrated. A non-ambitious man never feels frustrated. Why should he feel frustrated? He never expected anything in the first place; you can't frustrate him. Lao Tzu says: You cannot defeat me because I don't want to be victorious at all. Jesus says: Blessed are those who are the last. Now such people are dangerous; they have to be crucified because they will destroy the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,274 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s Rothschild. He laughed, and said: These Rothschilds, they know how to live. Culture kills you, culture is a murderer, culture is a slow poison -- it is a suicide. Chuang Tzu and his old master, Lao Tzu, are against culture. They are for nature, pure nature. Trees are in a better position than you, even birds, fishes in the river, are in a better position because they are more alive, they dance more to the r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,275 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... happy in your sadness. Then you are old in your youngness and you are young in your oldness. Then you are a child at the time of death and then you are an old man at the time of birth. It is said of Lao Tzu, the master of Chuang Tzu, that he was born old, eighty years old, that he remained in his mother's womb for eighty years. It is a beautiful story. And it is said that he was born old with a white beard, and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,276 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...said that he was born old with a white beard, and white hair -- snow-white. This is just the other aspect of the coin. Jesus says: If you are a child again you will enter into the Kingdom of God. This is one aspect. Lao Tzu has another aspect; He says: If you are born old you have already entered. But both are the same -- and this is the problem for the mind to understand: one who is born old will be a child when he dies. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,277 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the ocean will have to be put in a well, but the ocean will not go, so everything will become false. That is why Buddhas go on saying: Whatsoever we say, just by saying it, it becomes untrue. Says Lao Tzu: The truth cannot be said. And that which can be said is no longer true. This is the problem -- not the truth. You are the problem, and your language of the well is the problem, not truth. Truth can be said, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,278 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re from the inside. Chuang Tzu is against both types of conflict. So-called science and so called religion are not enemies, they are partners, they have a deep affinity. To understand Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu, to understand Tao, you will have to understand that they don't believe in fighting of any sort. They say: Don't fight, live Just be in a let-go, so nature can penetrate you and you can penetrate nature. They...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,279 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d that rules are human, there is no divineness about them and they are arbitrary, relative, you can change them. One has to follow them but there is nothing divine about them, no absoluteness about them. That is why Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu could live without being crucified. But one thing you have to remember. If Chuang Tzu had also been crucified, there would have been a great following. There is none. Chuang Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,280 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nnot even teach my own son.' And it is really difficult to teach your own son. Have you ever heard that Buddha could teach his own son? Have you ever heard what happened to Chuang Tzu's own son, what happened to Lao Tzu's son? It is very difficult for a father to teach his own son because their egos are always antagonistic. It is very difficult, because a son is always fighting with the father. He wants to prove ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,281 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...arma Buddha was as contemporary as Buddha is contemporary to me. On the surface you are my contemporaries, but between me and you there is a long long distance. We live on different planets. In reality, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Pythagoras, Bahauddin, Bodhidharma -- these are my contemporaries. Between them and me there is no gap either of time or of space. Superficially there is a one thousand years' gap between Buddha and B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,282 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y exists that there is a window through which he can escape, even though it happens only once in a while.... Many times people ask me why women have not become great masters like Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Bodhidharma, Jesus -- why? One of the fundamental reasons is that man has denied women the experience of orgasm. You will be surprised by my answer. You will not have imagined that that would be the root cau...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,283 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- awakened you yet. You are not new here -- nobody is new. You are all ancient pilgrims, very ancient. You have seen Buddhas, Christs, Zarathustras, Lao Tzus. You have seen the whole evolution of human consciousness, you have been part of it. You have been here many times and death has happened again and again. It has not helped in any way. It can't help, because...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,284 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...logers said that he should never be allowed to see an old man, because that could raise the question in his mind: Am I also going to become old? "Never allow him to see anybody dead, not even a dead leaf"... because Lao Tzu had become enlightened by seeing a dead leaf falling from the tree. That was a very shaking incident, a tremendously important incident for Lao Tzu. Seeing the dead leaf he immediately thought, "I am also goi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,285 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ver allow him to see anybody dead, not even a dead leaf"... because Lao Tzu had become enlightened by seeing a dead leaf falling from the tree. That was a very shaking incident, a tremendously important incident for Lao Tzu. Seeing the dead leaf he immediately thought, "I am also going to die one day like this leaf -- dust unto dust. Before that something has to be done. Before that I have to know if there is more to life, or on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,286 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you to appreciate the rose? Why repeat this in the mind? Can't you simply see the beauty of the rose and absorb it and drink out of it? Is language needed? It happened: A man used to go for a morning walk with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu said to the man, "Remember one thing -- no talking -- then you can come with me." The man used to know Lao Tzu, and when he said something he meant it, so he kept quiet. Many times he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,287 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...preciate the rose? Why repeat this in the mind? Can't you simply see the beauty of the rose and absorb it and drink out of it? Is language needed? It happened: A man used to go for a morning walk with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu said to the man, "Remember one thing -- no talking -- then you can come with me." The man used to know Lao Tzu, and when he said something he meant it, so he kept quiet. Many times he would ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,288 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Is language needed? It happened: A man used to go for a morning walk with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu said to the man, "Remember one thing -- no talking -- then you can come with me." The man used to know Lao Tzu, and when he said something he meant it, so he kept quiet. Many times he would have liked to say something about the weather and the sunrise and the beautiful flowers and the birds, but he repressed it. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,289 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the weather and the sunrise and the beautiful flowers and the birds, but he repressed it. One day a guest was staying with the man and the guest was also interested in coming along just to accompany Lao Tzu -- he had heard much about the man. So they both accompanied Lao Tzu. The guest was unaware what the condition was, and his host had not told him; he had completely forgotten to tell him. For hours they went ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,290 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d the birds, but he repressed it. One day a guest was staying with the man and the guest was also interested in coming along just to accompany Lao Tzu -- he had heard much about the man. So they both accompanied Lao Tzu. The guest was unaware what the condition was, and his host had not told him; he had completely forgotten to tell him. For hours they went into the hills silently. Then the sunrise, and the guest said, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,291 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ndition was, and his host had not told him; he had completely forgotten to tell him. For hours they went into the hills silently. Then the sunrise, and the guest said, "What a beautiful sunrise!" And Lao Tzu stopped then and there and said to his neighbor, "Finished! No more coming with me. Take your guest away immediateIy -- he talks too much!" After three hours of walking, just one sentence: "What a beautif...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,292 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., "Finished! No more coming with me. Take your guest away immediateIy -- he talks too much!" After three hours of walking, just one sentence: "What a beautiful morning! What a beautiful sunrise!" And Lao Tzu says that he talks too much and that it is absolutely unnecessary: "I have eyes, I can see the beauty, I can feel the sunrise. Why should he say it? Does he think I am blind? This is very insulting!" ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,293 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at he talks too much and that it is absolutely unnecessary: "I have eyes, I can see the beauty, I can feel the sunrise. Why should he say it? Does he think I am blind? This is very insulting!" And Lao Tzu is right. What is the need? Can't you simply feel the warmth of the sun rising? Have you to say something? Even if you are alone you go on talking to yourself. You can't stop this constantly chattering ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,294 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Jesus' disciples asked him, The last night before he departed from his disciples, this was the question uppermost in their minds. I always feel sorry for Jesus: he was not so fortunate as Buddha, as Mahavira, as Lao Tzu, as far as disciples are concerned. He had a very poor lot! Jesus is going to be crucified tomorrow. He has told them that this is the last night and that he will be caught; he predicts it. An...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,295 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ditation; third, love; and fourth... cannot be expressed in words. It can only be called the fourth, turiya. If you live life totally, meditatively, lovingly, you come to experience something which is inexpressible. Lao Tzu calls it Tao, Buddha calls it Dhamma, Jesus calls it Logos: different names indicating towards the nameless experience. If you prefer you can call it Cod. My own liking is to call it "godliness", not "God", b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,296 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uture. It is so clear! Twenty-five centuries have passed since Gautam the Buddha and no other Buddha has happened; five thousand years have passed since Krishna and no other Krishna has happened either. Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Moses, all the awakened ones have remained unrepeated. What to say about the awakened ones? -- even the unawakened ones are unique. There is not anybody like you anywhere in the world -- there has never ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,297 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he is immensely happy. It is the same room where Vimalkirti had lived, and one should be aware: Francis House has given two enlightened persons -- watch out for Vinod! And from today he is going to start work in Lao Tzu garden -- a man who has been earning lakhs of rupees per month, living the most luxurious life possible in India. Now he will be under Mukta's charge -- and Mukta is a hard master! Vimalkirti was also under h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,298 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es of knowing, but I will not believe unless I see." Seeing should be the only cause of believing; no other way belief should enter in you. Then you can be a Christ, but then you are also a Buddha and you are also a Lao Tzu and you are also a jina -- because these are different names, different languages, indicating towards the same ultimate consciousness. Premraj, tell those people that it is not a free universi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,299 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...belong to a fourth category: the crazies, the mad! And they are the most beautiful people on the earth -- they are the real people! In fact, these mad people were around Jesus, around Socrates, around Buddha, around Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. These are the people who have created the greatest flowers of mysticism, because mysticism is a kind of madness -- a madness with a method -- it is going beyond mind. When somebo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,300 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng people's blood. and his whole trade secret is creating fear. All the religions have been fear-oriented. And when I say "all the religions" I don't include Gautam the Buddha, Jesus Christ, Zarathustra, Mahavira or Lao Tzu. These individuals don't belong to any religion at all. Religions are a collective phenomenon, and the moment a collectivity, a crowd gathers around a dogma, exploitation immediately starts. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,301 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... means Krishna. Christ simply means the ultimate flowering of consciousness, the one-thousand-petaled lotus opening. Jesus is only one of the Christs; there have been many before him. Abraham was one, Moses was one, Lao Tzu was one, Chuang Tzu was one, Zarathustra was one, Krishna was one, Buddha was one. And after Christ there have been many Christs -- Nanak, Kabir, Al-Hillaj Mansoor, Saint Francis, Eckhart, Ramakrishna, Raman ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,302 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as never closed it." Since then Hasan was not seen on the mosque door. Since then he disappeared in the communion of Rabiya. Finally he became a great mystic, a realized soul, a Buddha himself. Lao Tzu also says: Seek and ye shall never find it; do not seek and right now you have found it. Seeking implies the seeker, and the seeker is the ego, and the ego is the only barrier; the ego can never become th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,303 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... He talks the language of the old prophets of the Old Testament; that language is political. For example, "the kingdom of God" Buddha has never used such expression, Mahavira has never used such expression, Lao Tzu has never used such expression. It was impossible. "The kingdom of God" -- it stinks of politics! Jesus had to speak the language that Jews could understand. He was born a Jew, he lived a Jew, he died a Jew. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,304 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...id -- just a little opportunity and he will see. The old metaphor is that don't see anything evil. But it is a beautiful statue. It is beautiful because it was carved by Taoists, by the followers of Lao Tzu, and they have made it very clear that if you repress something the deep desire will be to do the against. So both are there: the monkey is repressing his desire to see and yet you can see on his face a treme...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,305 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Not only into blood and bone: it makes out of that crap your brain. Out of your icecream, Coca-Cola, it goes on making your brain, a brain which can create a Rutherford an Albert Einstein, a Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. Just see the miracle! A brain, such a small thing, enclosed in a small skull... A single brain can contain all the libraries of the world. Its capacity is almost infinite. It is the greatest...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,306 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...way to be found, and there is nobody to find it. And this is what is happening here. This is the miracle that is happening here! This is the miracle that has always happened whenever there was a man like Buddha, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Bodhidharma... Rami must have misunderstood Bodhidharma if she had had an encounter with that great Master. Even the Emperor Wu of China could not understand him. Exactly these were the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,307 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eet? I have got two hundred thousand sannyasins... they will kill me if they are all standing on my feet. And you say they are not sure -- only ignorance, stupidity is sure. Wisdom is never sure. Lao Tzu says, "The wise man walks as if passing through a very cold stream" -- very cautious, hesitant, not sure. The stream is very cold, ice cold, unknown. Who knows? -- the next step and you will fall into a deep ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,308 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., not sure. The stream is very cold, ice cold, unknown. Who knows? -- the next step and you will fall into a deep pool, or you may stumble into a rock. The wise man walks very cautiously, very alert. Lao Tzu also says that, "Everybody is sure except me. Everybody seems to be very certain about everything, but I am very muddle-headed." And these are the words of one of the most significant men who has ever walked ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,309 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erything, but I am very muddle-headed." And these are the words of one of the most significant men who has ever walked on the earth. If I have to choose between Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira and Lao Tzu, that only one person can exist, then I will choose Lao Tzu, because nobody has been so close in his expression of truth. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,310 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f the most significant men who has ever walked on the earth. If I have to choose between Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Mohammed, Mahavira and Lao Tzu, that only one person can exist, then I will choose Lao Tzu, because nobody has been so close in his expression of truth. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,311 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...omenon of Christ-consciousness is universal. It has happened to many people before Jesus and to many people after Jesus; Jesus is only one of the Christs. Buddha is a Christ Zarathustra is a Christ, Lao Tzu is a Christ and there have been many many Christs after Jesus: Bodhidharma Lin Chi Kabir Nanak -- the long long river of Christ-consciousness continues. and the young, the fresh will always be seeking for the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,312 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ny moment will start singing, in the middle of the night, anywhere. Whenever the divine possessed him he will sing, and immediately Mardana will have to play. There have been people like Buddha who never danced, Lao Tzu, who never danced, Bodhidharma, who never danced. But that does not mean that they were against dancing. My own understanding is that they had found a subtler dance of their inner being; there was no need for...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,313 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...time when you are around, coming out of the mother's womb, have a good belly-laugh. Let that become the sign that a Rajneesh sannyasin is born again! Zarathustra cannot be enlightened according to Krishnamurti. Lao Tzu cannot be enlightened, because he was a very non-serious man. He used to ride on a buffalo, and that too backwards -- just to make everybody laugh. Just his passing from a town and a crowd will gather and the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,314 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ible way: I am facing you, you are facing me, and the journey is continuing, the donkey is going. Let the fools laugh, but we have our own philosophy and we have to live according to our philosophy." Lao Tzu never gave the reason -- nobody knows why, but perhaps this was his reason too, because his disciples Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, and others, were always following him, and he was making a laughing stock of everybo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,315 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., but perhaps this was his reason too, because his disciples Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, and others, were always following him, and he was making a laughing stock of everybody. Krishnamurti will not accept Lao Tzu as enlightened and certainly not Chuang Tzu, because Chuang Tzu will look very absurd to him. Chuang Tzu has written such absurd stories -- that's the only reason I love him. He is the most absurd Master in t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,316 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...me schizophrenic because of your saints, your churches, your scriptures. And I'm not saying that there have never been real saints; there have been: Jesus or Diogenes, Buddha and Krishna, Zarathustra and Lao Tzu -- these people loved life. And the tradition that says something else is created by the pathological. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,317 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cannot achieve that, wolves cannot achieve that; they depend on themselves. Their height is their height. In your height, Buddha is assimilated, Christ is assimilated, Patanjali is assimilated, Moses is assimilated, Lao Tzu is assimilated. The greater the assimilation the higher you stand. You can look from the peak of a mountain, your vision is great. Assimilate more. There is no need to be confined by your own people. Ass...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,318 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou if you speak the language of the camel. You can gather intelligentsia around you if you speak in the language of the lion. Krishnamurti gathers intelligentsia around himself -- he speaks the language of the lion. Lao Tzu or Ramana, they speak the language of the child. Nobody understands them, but they are not killed, remember; they are not crucified either. Nobody understands them, nobody follows them, nobody bothers about t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,319 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...them, nobody bothers about them. They are thought to be good people, poets, a little eccentric, crazy. People can sometimes go to them, it is beautiful to be around them, but they don't create any stir in the world. Lao Tzu comes and disappears, leaves no trace. Ramana came and disappeared, left no trace behind. These are the three languages. I speak all the languages! So you will find camels and lions and child...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,320 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntinuity -- the past is dropped and you start creating yourself anew -- but it is also a process because this is just a beginning. You have started moving inwards, but you will have to go on moving. Lao Tzu says, "The journey of ten thousand miles starts in the first step." The first step is a great moment. Just thing: the larva becomes the caterpillar... a great moment, because the larva was static, and the cat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,321 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g for truth, if you have moved into the search, you will need a Master. And remember, I repeat again: it is not that it cannot happen alone. It has happened to me alone, so how can I say that it cannot happen alone? Lao Tzu says, "You need not go out of your house, you need not even open your windows and doors, and all can be found there sitting inside your room." And he is right, but it happens very rarely. You...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,322 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th? That is the true name -- which cannot be pronounced, which cannot be uttered. To utter it would be a profanity. How can the ultimate be uttered? And once uttered, how can it remain the ultimate? Lao Tzu says, "I don't know His name -- nobody knows -- hence I will call Him Tao." It has to 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, pub...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,323 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., yet so strong. Have you not watched a roseflower in the morning playing with the winds? -- so delicate yet so strong, having a love affair with the sun; so delicate, raising its head high, delicate and yet strong. Lao Tzu calls it the strength of water. The ego has the strength of a rock, the humble person has the strength of water. And Lao Tzu says, "Become like water" -- 'the Watercourse Way'. Become soft like water and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,324 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ove affair with the sun; so delicate, raising its head high, delicate and yet strong. Lao Tzu calls it the strength of water. The ego has the strength of a rock, the humble person has the strength of water. And Lao Tzu says, "Become like water" -- 'the Watercourse Way'. Become soft like water and you will win, finally. Remember, hardness brings defeat. Your very resistance to life sooner or later destroys you. I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,325 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... go deep into silence because Buddha exists in silence, Buddha exists in no-time. He exists in eternity. That's why even TODAY you can become a contemporary with Buddha, even today you can become a contemporary with Lao Tzu, and for centuries to come you can at any time become contemporary with a Christ. Whenever you transcend time you become contemporary with enlightened people. Just by agreeing with my thoughts...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,326 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... much, you cannot see them. When the sun has gone down they will start appearing again. Not that they start coming; they have been there the whole day, but great darkness is needed for them to shine. Lao Tzu says that there was a time when people were so religious that there were no religions at all. There was a time when people were so innocent that they had not even heard the word 'innocence'. They were so simp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,327 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And Buddha will be very happy because no work is left for him, he can rest and relax. But he will not be recognized at all. You can count your enlightened people on fingers: a Buddha, a Christ, a Krishna, a Lao Tzu. Why? -- because the greater mass of people have remained immensely dark, immensely ugly, immensely barbarian. Remember this: a Buddha, his existence, does not make a country enlightened. The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,328 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...your mind. I'm not here to strengthen it. I have to uproot it, I have to destroy it, root and all. So one day I say nothing can be said, and I go on speaking. Now this will baffle you. You quote Lao Tzu. You say "TAO SAYS, 'THE ONE WHO KNOWS DOES NOT TALK."' But do you think Lao Tzu was silent? Then who said this? To say that the one who knows does not talk is saying something, something of immense ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,329 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it, root and all. So one day I say nothing can be said, and I go on speaking. Now this will baffle you. You quote Lao Tzu. You say "TAO SAYS, 'THE ONE WHO KNOWS DOES NOT TALK."' But do you think Lao Tzu was silent? Then who said this? To say that the one who knows does not talk is saying something, something of immense importance. You would not have heard of Lao Tzu at all if he had not said something...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,330 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...S NOT TALK."' But do you think Lao Tzu was silent? Then who said this? To say that the one who knows does not talk is saying something, something of immense importance. You would not have heard of Lao Tzu at all if he had not said something. And there are millions of ways of saying. Even when you go to a Zen Master and you ask a thousand and one questions and he keeps silent, and then suddenly says, "Have a cu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,331 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f tea," he's saying, "Better become more aware, don't go into all this nonsense. This is not going to help you at all." But don't think that he is silent. He's speaking, he's speaking with a hammer! Lao Tzu says, "The one who knows does not talk." Then what about Lao Tzu? -- because he has talked, whether he knows or not. It will be a problem. It will baffle you. What really is meant is: the one...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,332 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... all this nonsense. This is not going to help you at all." But don't think that he is silent. He's speaking, he's speaking with a hammer! Lao Tzu says, "The one who knows does not talk." Then what about Lao Tzu? -- because he has talked, whether he knows or not. It will be a problem. It will baffle you. What really is meant is: the one who knows talks and knows well that it cannot be talked about. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,333 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ns, I give you so many processes, that sooner or later you will lose all sense of direction. You will be simply confused -- great is that confusion. You will be muddled -- great is that muddledness. Lao Tzu has said, "Everybody seems to be clever except me. I am confused." And he is the man to be. He says, "Everybody seems to be so clever, only I am a fool." And he's the person to be. He knows. By being a fool h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,334 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... wise. But remember, when you become wise, the world will not think you are wise. The world will think you are an idiot! Jesus was thought to be idiotic. So was it the case with Buddha. And people must have told Lao Tzu again and again, "You are an idiot!" He himself writes that in TAO TE CHING: "Everybody seems to be intelligent except me. I am an idiot." The idiots exist in such a great majority that when you b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,335 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing a society civilized -- where a poet, a painter, a musician, a meditator, a lover, lives long. That is the highest kind of society. Why? -- because the uselessness is respected. There is a story about Lao Tzu. He went into the mountains with his disciples. They went into a forest where all the trees were being cut. Thousands of people were cutting the trees, the whole forest was being destroyed. But ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,336 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... big tree, so big that one thousand people could have sat underneath it, in its shade. Its foliage was great, it was a huge tree! They had never come across such a tree, and nobody was cutting it! So Lao Tzu said to his disciples, "Go and inquire. They have destroyed the whole forest. Why have they not cut this tree?" And the disciples went and inquired of people, and the people said, "That tree is useless! F...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,337 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at people start weeping and crying, tears start rolling down their cheeks. Its leaves are so bitter that no animal is ready to eat them. It is a useless tree! That's why it has not been cut." When they came back Lao Tzu laughed and he said, "Look! I have been teaching you always the use of uselessness! Now see the beauty of this tree -- it is saved because it is useless." Lao Tzu said to his disciples, "If you want to be sav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,338 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s why it has not been cut." When they came back Lao Tzu laughed and he said, "Look! I have been teaching you always the use of uselessness! Now see the beauty of this tree -- it is saved because it is useless." Lao Tzu said to his disciples, "If you want to be saved, be useless. Otherwise you will be cut sooner or later. Never become useful, otherwise you will be in trouble. Be useless like this tree and you will live ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,339 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aved, be useless. Otherwise you will be cut sooner or later. Never become useful, otherwise you will be in trouble. Be useless like this tree and you will live long and your foliage will be great." Lao Tzu has something immensely important in that message. That's my own experience too: remain in your deepest core. Use is only on the surface. Yes, one has to do something for a livelihood, to have a shelter, to h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,340 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o category to which I can belong. Neither do I want any of you to be imitative. Life is not a dance when you are just an imitation. It is a dance when you are yourself. I am not like anybody -- Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu. I love these people; I love them because they were unique -- but I am myself and I love my uniqueness just as I love their uniqueness. 10/28/07 C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,341 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... OSHO, WHAT IS THIS? Nivedano, Kabir was a poor man. As far as the outside world is concerned, he was nobody. But as far as the inner world is concerned, he belongs to the same category as Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra. His statements of course cannot be in the language of the learned and the scholarly. And it is not unfortunate in any way; on the contrary, it is very fortunate that he speaks th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,342 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... But these things are going to happen. The only literature that women read is catalogues -- who bothers about old Shakespeare, and all those days that are gone? If you want to talk about Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu the woman will say, "Stop, don't dig up graves. Those people are dead. Those who are gone, are gone. Say something about real people -- what is happening to the neighbors? The wife is trying to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,343 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Schweitzer, a person we can expect to know certain things, even he is in the confusion. He thinks the whole East is pessimistic. And this is a great criticism for him. The whole East -- Buddha, Patanjali, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, they are all pessimists for him. They appear! They appear because they say your life is meaningless. Not that they say life is meaningless -- life that you know. And unless this life becomes absolutely meani...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,344 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... When you are not, only then it can become possible. If you are, then it cannot become possible. If you are not, if the host has completely disappeared, then the guest becomes the host. So the guest may be Lao Tzu, the guest may be Patanjali. The host is not there, so the guest takes place completely, he becomes the host. If you are not, then you can become Patanjali; there is no difficulty. You can become Krishna, you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,345 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... case has happened in this century with Gurdjieff. For thirty years continuously, he was preparing one book. A man of the caliber of Gurdjieff can do that work in three days. Even three days may be more than enough. Lao Tzu had done it: in three days the whole TAO TEH CHING was written. Gurdjieff can do it in three days; there is no difficulty. But for thirty years he was writing his first book. And what he was doing? He will wr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,346 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erfect consciousness -- but no effort implied of being conscious. There will be no self-consciousness -- pure consciousness. You have accepted yourself and existence as it is. A total acceptance -- this is what Lao Tzu calls Tao, the river flowing toward the sea. It is not making any effort; it is not in any hurry to reach the sea. Even if it doesn't reach, it will not get frustrated. Even if it reaches in millions of years...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,347 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... KNOWING THE INNERMOST NATURE OF PURUSHA, THE SUPREME SELF. How it happens? Just by knowing the innermost core of yourself, the purusha, the dweller within. Just by knowing it! Patanjali says, Buddha says, Lao Tzu says, just by knowing it all desires disappear. This is mysterious, and the logical mind is bound to ask how it can happen just by knowing themselves all desires disappear. It happens because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,348 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...world, so this is bound to be so in the beginning. Whoever moves within, he will carry the same weapons, the same attitudes, the same fighting, the same defense. Machiavelli is for the outside world; Lao Tzu, Patanjali and Buddha are for the inside world. And they teach different things. Machiavelli says attack is the best defense: "Don't wait. Don't wait for the other to attack, because then you are already on t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,349 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... aggressive. Deceive, because that is the only way." These are the means that Machiavelli suggests. And Machiavelli is an honest man; that's why he suggests exactly whatsoever Is needed. But if you ask Lao Tzu, Patanjali or Buddha, they are talking of a different type of victory -- the inner victory. There, cunningness won't do, deceiving won't do, fighting won't do, aggression won't do, because whom you are going ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,350 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e will do inside. So read Machiavelli's PRINCE. That is the way for outside victory. And just make a reverse of Machiavelli's PRINCE, and you can reach inside. Just make Machiavelli stand upside down, and he becomes Lao Tzu -- just in shirshasan, in the headstand. Machiavelli standing on his head becomes Patanjali. So read his PRINCE; it is beautiful -- the clearest statement for the outside victory. And then rea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,351 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu -- just in shirshasan, in the headstand. Machiavelli standing on his head becomes Patanjali. So read his PRINCE; it is beautiful -- the clearest statement for the outside victory. And then read Lao Tzu's TAO TEH CHING or Patanjali's YOGA SUTRAS or Buddha's DHAMMAPADA or Jesus' SERMON ON THE MOUNT. They are just the contradictory, just the reverse, just the opposite. Jesus says, "Blessed are ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,352 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... sly. All science is cunningness. This has to be understood, and I am not saying it in any derogatory sense, remember; I am not condemning. All science is cunningness! It is said that one follower of Lao Tzu -- an old man, a farmer -- was drawing water from a well, and instead of using bullocks or horses, he himself -- an old man -- and his son, they were working like bullocks and carrying the water out of the we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,353 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cunningness you can exploit, then I don't know where he will stop. You please go from here, and never come back again to this road. And don't bring such cunning things to this village. We are happy." Lao Tzu is against science. He says science is cunningness. It is deceiving nature, exploiting nature -- through cunning ways, forcing nature. And the more a man becomes scientific, the more cunning; has to be so. An...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,354 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is not known yet and will not be known ever. Whatsoever we know will be just a modification of it. You may call it electricity, you may call it sound, you may call it fire like Heraclitus, you may call it water like Lao Tzu: that depends on you. But all these are modifications -- forms of the formless. That formless will always remain unknown. How can you know the formless? Knowledge is possible only when there is a form. W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,355 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... acupuncture was born almost when Patanjali was alive. As I told you, that after two thousand five hundred years there comes a peak of human consciousness. It happened in the time of Buddha; in China Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Confucius in India Buddha, Mahavira and others; in Greece Heraclitus; in Iran Zoroaster: the peak phenomenon happened. All the religions that you see now in the world derive from that moment of h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,356 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ill continue because new ones will be coming. This has to be so; this has been always so. It is not for the first time that you have asked me this. The same was asked to Buddha; the same was asked to Lao Tzu; the same will be asked again and again, because whenever there is a Master, that means he uses death as a method for resurrection. You must die; only then you can be reborn. Chaos is beautiful because it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,357 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the whole reality is before you. Materialization of things becomes possible. Just whatsoever you want to do, immediately it happens; action is not needed. Action was needed because of the body. That's what Lao Tzu means when he says, "The sage lives in inactivity and everything happens." Millions of things happen around a sage without his doing anything. He looks at you and suddenly there is a transformation -- suddenl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,358 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... through the practice your senses will harden. Practice of anything makes you hard; the softness is lost, the flexibility is lost. Then you are no longer flexible like a child. Then you become rigid like an old man. Lao Tzu says, 'Rigidity is death, flexibility is life.' A simple life is not a cultivated, poor life. Don't make poverty your goal and don't try to cultivate it. Just understand that the more simple, unloaded your bo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,359 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l live in misery because you are the negation of life ego is the negation of life. Negate the ego and life will happen to you. Hence the insistence of all great ones -- Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Mahavir, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu -- they all insist on only one thing: negate the ego and life will happen to you in abundance. But you cling to the ego. Clinging to the ego is clinging to darkness, to misery. These sutras are very beautiful...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,360 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Mussolinis, Napoleons, Alexanders. All mischief-mongers come from the second category because they have energy, a disproportionate energy. Then there is a third kind of people, which is rare to find: somewhere a Lao Tzu just sitting silently -- not lazy, passive. Not active, not lazy -- passive: full of energy, a reservoir, but sitting silently. Have you watched somebody sitting silently, full of energy? You feel a field aro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,361 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...much, only a person who is not aware, can remain without confusion. A really aware person will feel, hesitate -- every step he will take and he will hesitate -- because all certainties are lost. Says Lao Tzu, "The wise man walks so cautiously, as if he is afraid of death on every step." A wise man becomes aware of confusion; that is the first step. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho Inte...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,362 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Query:- Meditation is an inner bath of consciousness, and bath is a meditation for the body. WHY CAN YOU NOT CONTINUE TALKING ON LAO TZU? If you understand me I am always talking on Lao Tzu. If you don t understand me, even while I am talking on Lao Tzu it will be of no use. In fact I am never just to anybody else -- Patanjali. Jesus. Mahavir, Buddha. No, I am never just; I cannot be. The Lao Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,363 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... bath is a meditation for the body. WHY CAN YOU NOT CONTINUE TALKING ON LAO TZU? If you understand me I am always talking on Lao Tzu. If you don t understand me, even while I am talking on Lao Tzu it will be of no use. In fact I am never just to anybody else -- Patanjali. Jesus. Mahavir, Buddha. No, I am never just; I cannot be. The Lao Tzu goes on coming in. I am continuously talking on Lao Tzu. When ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,364 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng on Lao Tzu. If you don t understand me, even while I am talking on Lao Tzu it will be of no use. In fact I am never just to anybody else -- Patanjali. Jesus. Mahavir, Buddha. No, I am never just; I cannot be. The Lao Tzu goes on coming in. I am continuously talking on Lao Tzu. When I am talking on Lao Tzu, when I am talking on Patanjali, when I am talking on Buddha or Jesus; if you can understand me, Lao Tzu remains the conti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,365 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...am talking on Lao Tzu it will be of no use. In fact I am never just to anybody else -- Patanjali. Jesus. Mahavir, Buddha. No, I am never just; I cannot be. The Lao Tzu goes on coming in. I am continuously talking on Lao Tzu. When I am talking on Lao Tzu, when I am talking on Patanjali, when I am talking on Buddha or Jesus; if you can understand me, Lao Tzu remains the continuous undercurrent. But if you don't understand me, then...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,366 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be of no use. In fact I am never just to anybody else -- Patanjali. Jesus. Mahavir, Buddha. No, I am never just; I cannot be. The Lao Tzu goes on coming in. I am continuously talking on Lao Tzu. When I am talking on Lao Tzu, when I am talking on Patanjali, when I am talking on Buddha or Jesus; if you can understand me, Lao Tzu remains the continuous undercurrent. But if you don't understand me, then the question arises, "Why can...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,367 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r just; I cannot be. The Lao Tzu goes on coming in. I am continuously talking on Lao Tzu. When I am talking on Lao Tzu, when I am talking on Patanjali, when I am talking on Buddha or Jesus; if you can understand me, Lao Tzu remains the continuous undercurrent. But if you don't understand me, then the question arises, "Why can you not continue talking on Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu to me is not a subject matter; Patanjali i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,368 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... when I am talking on Buddha or Jesus; if you can understand me, Lao Tzu remains the continuous undercurrent. But if you don't understand me, then the question arises, "Why can you not continue talking on Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu to me is not a subject matter; Patanjali is. When I speak on Patanjali I speak on Patanjali. When I speak on Lao Tzu I don t speak on Lao Tzu; I speak Lao Tzu. And the difference is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,369 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing on Buddha or Jesus; if you can understand me, Lao Tzu remains the continuous undercurrent. But if you don't understand me, then the question arises, "Why can you not continue talking on Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu to me is not a subject matter; Patanjali is. When I speak on Patanjali I speak on Patanjali. When I speak on Lao Tzu I don t speak on Lao Tzu; I speak Lao Tzu. And the difference is vast, tremendous. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,370 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stand me, then the question arises, "Why can you not continue talking on Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu to me is not a subject matter; Patanjali is. When I speak on Patanjali I speak on Patanjali. When I speak on Lao Tzu I don t speak on Lao Tzu; I speak Lao Tzu. And the difference is vast, tremendous. IS WERNER ERHARD ANYWHERE NEAR TO BEING ENLIGHTENED? This is from Madhuri. Erhard is as near as M...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,371 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on arises, "Why can you not continue talking on Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu to me is not a subject matter; Patanjali is. When I speak on Patanjali I speak on Patanjali. When I speak on Lao Tzu I don t speak on Lao Tzu; I speak Lao Tzu. And the difference is vast, tremendous. IS WERNER ERHARD ANYWHERE NEAR TO BEING ENLIGHTENED? This is from Madhuri. Erhard is as near as Madhuri. Everybody is as n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,372 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an you not continue talking on Lao Tzu?" Lao Tzu to me is not a subject matter; Patanjali is. When I speak on Patanjali I speak on Patanjali. When I speak on Lao Tzu I don t speak on Lao Tzu; I speak Lao Tzu. And the difference is vast, tremendous. IS WERNER ERHARD ANYWHERE NEAR TO BEING ENLIGHTENED? This is from Madhuri. Erhard is as near as Madhuri. Everybody is as near as Erhard. In...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,373 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... When I talked about his few sentences last time, I okayed them all. They are all perfectly true, but I have not said anything about the person. Whatsoever he has said is perfectly true; but you can study Lao Tzu -- intellectually you can understand and you can say the same things. As far as the words go they are true, but the man seems to be much too intellectually in it, not totally in it. And that's the problem. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,374 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is not clear we may go on talking about what liberation is, but that will remain a talk. The beginning has to be absolutely clear -- every step clean-cut so that you can move from where you are. If you listen to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu talks from the peak, the highest peak possible to human consciousness; if you ask Tilopa, he answers from where he is. If you ask Patanjali, he talks from where you are. He does not say anything abou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,375 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t clear we may go on talking about what liberation is, but that will remain a talk. The beginning has to be absolutely clear -- every step clean-cut so that you can move from where you are. If you listen to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu talks from the peak, the highest peak possible to human consciousness; if you ask Tilopa, he answers from where he is. If you ask Patanjali, he talks from where you are. He does not say anything about himself...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,376 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you ask Tilopa, he answers from where he is. If you ask Patanjali, he talks from where you are. He does not say anything about himself; he simply talks from where you are, the beginning. He is more practical; Lao Tzu is more true. Patanjali is more practical. The other day somebody asked why I cannot continue talking on Lao Tzu. Because of you. If I were alone that would be good, perfect; but you are also there, and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,377 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... anything about himself; he simply talks from where you are, the beginning. He is more practical; Lao Tzu is more true. Patanjali is more practical. The other day somebody asked why I cannot continue talking on Lao Tzu. Because of you. If I were alone that would be good, perfect; but you are also there, and I cannot forget you. When I am talking about Lao Tzu I have to leave you far behind. Then. immediately I start talking...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,378 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The other day somebody asked why I cannot continue talking on Lao Tzu. Because of you. If I were alone that would be good, perfect; but you are also there, and I cannot forget you. When I am talking about Lao Tzu I have to leave you far behind. Then. immediately I start talking about Patanjali, or somebody, who talks about you and your first steps. There is a vast difference. Lao Tzu you can enjoy but you cannot ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,379 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... When I am talking about Lao Tzu I have to leave you far behind. Then. immediately I start talking about Patanjali, or somebody, who talks about you and your first steps. There is a vast difference. Lao Tzu you can enjoy but you cannot practice, because he doesn't say anything about practice. He has achieved and he talks about his achievement -- from that vision. Things are totally different. You may be hypnotiz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,380 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...vision may have a great appeal to you, but it will remain a poetry. It will remain a romance: it will not become empirical; it will not become practical. You will not be able to find the way from where to go through Lao Tzu. Everything is perfectly true, but from where to go? The moment you become aware of yourself, Lao Tzu is somewhere so far, so distant.... Patanjali is just by your side. You can move with him...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,381 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not become empirical; it will not become practical. You will not be able to find the way from where to go through Lao Tzu. Everything is perfectly true, but from where to go? The moment you become aware of yourself, Lao Tzu is somewhere so far, so distant.... Patanjali is just by your side. You can move with him hand in hand. He talks about the beginning. "The disassociation of the seer and the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,382 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here, I would never speak on Patanjali; because that would be absolutely absurd. If only you were there and I were not, then I would continuously speak on Patanjali; because then it would not be possible to speak on Lao Tzu. But because you are there and I am here it is a fifty-fifty case -- on condition that if you hear me on Lao Tzu I will talk on Patanjali. You have to hear me on Lao Tzu, then I will talk on Patanjali; and be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,383 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e not, then I would continuously speak on Patanjali; because then it would not be possible to speak on Lao Tzu. But because you are there and I am here it is a fifty-fifty case -- on condition that if you hear me on Lao Tzu I will talk on Patanjali. You have to hear me on Lao Tzu, then I will talk on Patanjali; and because you want to hear me on Patanjali. you will have to hear me on Lao Tzu also. Your whole mind...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,384 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use then it would not be possible to speak on Lao Tzu. But because you are there and I am here it is a fifty-fifty case -- on condition that if you hear me on Lao Tzu I will talk on Patanjali. You have to hear me on Lao Tzu, then I will talk on Patanjali; and because you want to hear me on Patanjali. you will have to hear me on Lao Tzu also. Your whole mind would like to think in gradual steps. That what I mean when I say Pa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,385 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... case -- on condition that if you hear me on Lao Tzu I will talk on Patanjali. You have to hear me on Lao Tzu, then I will talk on Patanjali; and because you want to hear me on Patanjali. you will have to hear me on Lao Tzu also. Your whole mind would like to think in gradual steps. That what I mean when I say Patanjali. I'm not saying anything about Patanjali -- don't misunderstand. Patanjali means that you would like to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,386 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s not saying to you, "Just now, right now, jump." He is very, very logical, scientific, gradual -- does not talk nonsense; he talks sense. You can understand him easily; he starts from where you are. Lao Tzu is simply absurd: looks more like a poet and less like a scientific mind; looks more like you can delight in him, but you cannot do anything with whatsoever he is saying. How can you do it? The distance is so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,387 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...delight in him, but you cannot do anything with whatsoever he is saying. How can you do it? The distance is so vast. I talk to you on Patanjali so that you become, by and by, aware, alert; and I go on talking on Lao 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Tzu also: that if you are really understandi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,388 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y go on earning, earning, and they die. Patanjali can become an addiction -- then you prepare, then you go on earning money, methods, but you are never ready to dance and enjoy. That's why I go on talking about Lao Tzu, so that whenever you feel that now you are ready, suddenly Lao Tzu hits deep in the heart and you take the jump. When I talk on Lao Tzu I say I "talk Lao Tzu,' because from where he is talki...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,389 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... addiction -- then you prepare, then you go on earning money, methods, but you are never ready to dance and enjoy. That's why I go on talking about Lao Tzu, so that whenever you feel that now you are ready, suddenly Lao Tzu hits deep in the heart and you take the jump. When I talk on Lao Tzu I say I "talk Lao Tzu,' because from where he is talking, I am standing there. Whatsoever he says I would like to have sai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,390 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er ready to dance and enjoy. That's why I go on talking about Lao Tzu, so that whenever you feel that now you are ready, suddenly Lao Tzu hits deep in the heart and you take the jump. When I talk on Lao Tzu I say I "talk Lao Tzu,' because from where he is talking, I am standing there. Whatsoever he says I would like to have said myself. I have never come across a single point where I can say I disagree with him....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,391 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...enjoy. That's why I go on talking about Lao Tzu, so that whenever you feel that now you are ready, suddenly Lao Tzu hits deep in the heart and you take the jump. When I talk on Lao Tzu I say I "talk Lao Tzu,' because from where he is talking, I am standing there. Whatsoever he says I would like to have said myself. I have never come across a single point where I can say I disagree with him. I agree totally. With...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,392 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e to have said myself. I have never come across a single point where I can say I disagree with him. I agree totally. With Patanjali I agree conditionally, relatively, not absolutely, because Patanjali is a means and Lao Tzu is the goal. If you can drop the means and right now take the jump, beautiful. If you cannot, then prepare a little. That preparation is not preparing you to take the jump; that preparation only prepares...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,393 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you can drop Patanjali completely. Patanjali his to be dropped someday -- the journey has to be dropped when the goal is achieved; the means have to be dropped when you have reached the end -- but you can never drop Lao Tzu; that is the very goal. So it is a fifty-fifty arrangement. You will be surprised that sometimes you also like Lao Tzu very much, but liking is not the question. You can look at the stars in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,394 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eans have to be dropped when you have reached the end -- but you can never drop Lao Tzu; that is the very goal. So it is a fifty-fifty arrangement. You will be surprised that sometimes you also like Lao Tzu very much, but liking is not the question. You can look at the stars in the night, and you like them, but what to do? How to reach? They are so far away.... One has to start from where one is. Patanjali is us...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,395 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u very much, but liking is not the question. You can look at the stars in the night, and you like them, but what to do? How to reach? They are so far away.... One has to start from where one is. Patanjali is useful. Lao Tzu is absolutely useless. Use Patanjali so that someday you can use the useless Lao Tzu also; that is a luxury, a let-go. Yes, Lao Tzu is a luxury, a let-go. Remember the "I's" -- he is a luxury, a let-go. If yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,396 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and you like them, but what to do? How to reach? They are so far away.... One has to start from where one is. Patanjali is useful. Lao Tzu is absolutely useless. Use Patanjali so that someday you can use the useless Lao Tzu also; that is a luxury, a let-go. Yes, Lao Tzu is a luxury, a let-go. Remember the "I's" -- he is a luxury, a let-go. If you can afford, beautiful. If you cannot afford, it simply creates a desire and a frust...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,397 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... They are so far away.... One has to start from where one is. Patanjali is useful. Lao Tzu is absolutely useless. Use Patanjali so that someday you can use the useless Lao Tzu also; that is a luxury, a let-go. Yes, Lao Tzu is a luxury, a let-go. Remember the "I's" -- he is a luxury, a let-go. If you can afford, beautiful. If you cannot afford, it simply creates a desire and a frustration and nothing else: a desire, of how thing...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,398 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ire arises. You feel him so near in your desire, but you cannot take the jump because the courage is not there; and, suddenly, he is so far away, like a star. Frustration falls on you. Patanjali-and-Lao Tzu is a deep balance between means and ends, between the way and the goal. IF WE ARE ALL BUDDHAS WHY DID WE FALL INTO IGNORANCE AND UNAWARENESS? Because you are Buddhas. A rock cannot fall into un...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,399 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you love, the universe responds -- responds absolutely. If you take one step towards the universe, the universe takes a thousand and one steps towards you; but that's a response. You will have to understand what Lao Tzu says: that the nature of existence is feminine. A woman waits; she never initiates. The man has to go and initiate. The man has to come and woo and court and persuade. Existence is feminine -- it waits You ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,400 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... why every child looks so innocent. Whenever you can again get to the hara you will again become innocent, a mirror with no dust. The feminine is not the goal -- the feminine is nearer to the no-mind. That's why Lao Tzu goes on insisting, "Become passive. Wait, patience. Don't be in a hurry. And don't be aggressive," because truth cannot be conquered. You can Only surrender to it. So the ashram will be run by...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,401 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...That's why you are always ready for unhappiness. No preparation is needed, no Patanjali is needed -- no eight steps to become unhappy. Everybody is ready to jump. As far as unhappiness is concerned everybody follows Lao Tzu and nobody ever asks how. Nobody comes to me and asks how to be unhappy; everybody knows. Nobody has been teaching you unhappiness -- nobody, not at all. You know it by instinct. You are already masters in th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,402 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...DIFFERENT. AND WHY HAS THERE NOT BEEN A MASTER BEFORE YOU IN ALL THE AGES WHO HAS COMBINED AND SYNTHESIZED ALL THE TEACHINGS OF PAST BUDDHAS? The question is in three steps. First step: "If Lao Tzu and Patanjali met today could they reconcile their teachings about spiritual growth?" If they meet they will not find that there is anything to be reconciled -- everything is reconciled. They ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,403 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...achers are not. There exists only one teacher. Teachings are different because students are different, disciples are different. Patanjali was talking to a different category of people -- you have to understand this. Lao Tzu was talking to a different quality of people. In India even mysticism is a very, very logical phenomenon. India is a very, very thinking country: it thinks about "unthinkables" also; it theori...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,404 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ind is interested to do something. India is an impractically thinking country; it goes on thinking. The whole business of life seems to be to think. Lab Tzu's China was totally different, and the disciples that Lao Tzu had gathered around him.... And this was not a new tradition which Lao Tzu was propagating. It had existed for at least five thousand years before Lao Tzu. It was very, very ancient. China in those days was a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,405 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on thinking. The whole business of life seems to be to think. Lab Tzu's China was totally different, and the disciples that Lao Tzu had gathered around him.... And this was not a new tradition which Lao Tzu was propagating. It had existed for at least five thousand years before Lao Tzu. It was very, very ancient. China in those days was a nonthinking country: less contemplative and more meditative. It was not co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,406 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ab Tzu's China was totally different, and the disciples that Lao Tzu had gathered around him.... And this was not a new tradition which Lao Tzu was propagating. It had existed for at least five thousand years before Lao Tzu. It was very, very ancient. China in those days was a nonthinking country: less contemplative and more meditative. It was not concerned about thinking, theorizing, philosophizing. China has not given beautifu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,407 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not practical. China is totally different. They were not interested in contemplating about theories; rather, they were interested in living. They were interested in being, more than in thinking. And Lao Tzu is the pinnacle. When Bodhidharma went to China these two currents met -- the Lao-Tzian meditation and Buddha's contemplation. They met, and one of the most beautiful things was born, that is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,408 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...bout theories; rather, they were interested in living. They were interested in being, more than in thinking. And Lao Tzu is the pinnacle. When Bodhidharma went to China these two currents met -- the Lao-Tzian meditation and Buddha's contemplation. They met, and one of the most beautiful things was born, that is Zen. It has the quality of Buddha and it has the quality of Lao Tzu. It is neither Buddhist nor Lao-is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,409 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nt to China these two currents met -- the Lao-Tzian meditation and Buddha's contemplation. They met, and one of the most beautiful things was born, that is Zen. It has the quality of Buddha and it has the quality of Lao Tzu. It is neither Buddhist nor Lao-ist; it is both. It is the greatest crossbreeding that has ever happened on the earth. Patanjali is very logical, logical in the world of the mysterious. Step by step he m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,410 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...- the Lao-Tzian meditation and Buddha's contemplation. They met, and one of the most beautiful things was born, that is Zen. It has the quality of Buddha and it has the quality of Lao Tzu. It is neither Buddhist nor Lao-ist; it is both. It is the greatest crossbreeding that has ever happened on the earth. Patanjali is very logical, logical in the world of the mysterious. Step by step he moves, analytical. He cou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,411 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ding that has ever happened on the earth. Patanjali is very logical, logical in the world of the mysterious. Step by step he moves, analytical. He could have satisfied any Einstein, any Wittgenstein or Russell. Lao Tzu could not have satisfied Einstein, he could not have satisfied Russell or Wittgenstein, because he would have looked absurd. He was talking patent nonsense. But Patanjali would have satisfied any scientific m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,412 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o scientifically and he moves so gradually, step by step, showing every link. The teachings are different because Patanjali was born in India, was talking to Indians -- a very contemplative country. Lao Tzu was talking to mystics, a very meditative country in those days. Both were talking to different people; different types of disciples gathered around them. Teaching differs because teaching is for the taught. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,413 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y in those days. Both were talking to different people; different types of disciples gathered around them. Teaching differs because teaching is for the taught. Teachers don't differ. If you leave Patanjali alone and Lao Tzu alone they will be just the same, but if Patanjali is with his students and Lao Tzu with his disciples, they will be different. If Patanjali and Lao Tzu are silent, they are the same, but if they talk ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,414 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... gathered around them. Teaching differs because teaching is for the taught. Teachers don't differ. If you leave Patanjali alone and Lao Tzu alone they will be just the same, but if Patanjali is with his students and Lao Tzu with his disciples, they will be different. If Patanjali and Lao Tzu are silent, they are the same, but if they talk to somebody they will be different. A teacher has to teach according to the disciple -- his...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,415 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aught. Teachers don't differ. If you leave Patanjali alone and Lao Tzu alone they will be just the same, but if Patanjali is with his students and Lao Tzu with his disciples, they will be different. If Patanjali and Lao Tzu are silent, they are the same, but if they talk to somebody they will be different. A teacher has to teach according to the disciple -- his understanding, his training, his aptitude, his intelligence, his con...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,416 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ating, will make every certainty about what is going to happen, about the consequence and the result; only then will he move. Patanjali has appeal to those who would like to be convinced before the jump. Lao Tzu is for those who don't bother for any conviction; they are ready to jump. For these tWo different types two different teachings exist, but the teachers are the same. The third part: "And why has there no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,417 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that. No method should become the goal. The whole of Patanjali has to be dropped one day because it is all methodology. And when the whole of Patanjali has been dropped then suddenly you will discover a Lao Tzu hidden behind -- he is the goal. The goal is to be. The goal is not to do anything; the goal is 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on C...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,418 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t his presence may work as a magnetic force; the possibility exists that even you in all your madness may be changed and transformed. That's why people have always been avoiding Buddhas -- Mahavir, Patanjali, Jesus, Lao Tzu. They don't come near them. They gather things about them in the marketplace and they start believing in rumors, but they won't come near. They won't come to see what has happened. And by the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,419 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... always hidden behind, that is the truth. To be that is the meaning: satya pratishthayam, one who is established in truth. "... he attains to the fruit of action without acting." Here you can understand what Lao Tzu has been saying. If you become attuned to the truth of your being, you need not do anything -- things happen. Not that you just lie down on your bed and sleep, no, but you are not the doer. You do ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,420 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d Query:- dream, and maybe in their dream they heard me saying, "Your film, Vijay, will be a super success." Then they misunderstood the point. I must have told them in their dreams "super success" in Lao-tzian terms. Lao Tzu says, "Because few people understand me, I am dignified." So, if you translate it, super success means: if nobody goes to see the film. Because masses are so foolish they cannot understand it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,421 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... dream, and maybe in their dream they heard me saying, "Your film, Vijay, will be a super success." Then they misunderstood the point. I must have told them in their dreams "super success" in Lao-tzian terms. Lao Tzu says, "Because few people understand me, I am dignified." So, if you translate it, super success means: if nobody goes to see the film. Because masses are so foolish they cannot understand it, it is dignified...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,422 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ss. It must be something which goes beyond ordinary mind. That's what a super success is. A Hitler is not a super success; masses worshipped him. That shows he belonged to the masses. He was an ordinary, stupid man. Lao Tzu is a super success: nobody knows, nobody heard about him -- not even a rumor. He comes and moves silently. He was a super success, and he knew it. He says in his TAO TE CHING, "I am dignified, because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,423 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be writing on a white wall with white chalk. A very dark humanity is needed. So, if you ask me, I hope for a world where there will be no need for a Buddha... things will be so balanced. That's what Lao Tzu says again and again, "There was a time in the past there were no saints -- because there were no sinners." There was a time in the past when things were so natural and so balanced that there was not even a c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,424 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...time in the past there were no saints -- because there were no sinners." There was a time in the past when things were so natural and so balanced that there was not even a concept of what is wrong and what is right. Lao Tzu says, "Bring the concept of right, and wrong enters immediately." Opposites are together. They come together; they go together. They are aspects of the same coin, two aspects of the same thing. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,425 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ess, either it has to be put as an object or as a subject. It has to be divided to say anything about it is to divide it. Patanjali chooses the scientific terminology: Buddha also chooses the scientific terminology. Lao Tzu, Jesus, they choose the poetic terminology. But both are terminologies. It depends on the mind. Patanjali is a scientific mind, very rooted in logic, analysis. Jesus is a poetic mind; Lao Tzu is a perfect poe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,426 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...scientific terminology. Lao Tzu, Jesus, they choose the poetic terminology. But both are terminologies. It depends on the mind. Patanjali is a scientific mind, very rooted in logic, analysis. Jesus is a poetic mind; Lao Tzu is a perfect poet, he chooses the way of poetry. But remember always that both ways fall short. One has to go beyond. "Samadhi is when the mind becomes one with the object." When the mind ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,427 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...WADED ACROSS TOGETHER. THIS is from Yatri. The story is true, but Yatri, you have missed the most important point in it. Let me tell you the whole story again: I have heard that Patanjali and Lao Tzu came to a stream. Patanjali began to cross the stream by walking on the surface of the water. Lao Tzu stood on the bank and called him to come back. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,428 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ost important point in it. Let me tell you the whole story again: I have heard that Patanjali and Lao Tzu came to a stream. Patanjali began to cross the stream by walking on the surface of the water. Lao Tzu stood on the bank and called him to come back. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,429 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- "What's the matter?" Patanjali inquired. Said Lao Tzu, "There is no need to cross the stream, because this shore is the other shore." That's the whole emphasis of Lao Tzu: There is no need to go anywhere; the other shore is here. There is no need to do anyth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,430 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ished and unpublished Query:- "What's the matter?" Patanjali inquired. Said Lao Tzu, "There is no need to cross the stream, because this shore is the other shore." That's the whole emphasis of Lao Tzu: There is no need to go anywhere; the other shore is here. There is no need to do anything. The only need is just to be. Effort is irrelevant because you are already that which you can ever be. Go nowhere. Fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,431 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sing the point because everything is available here already. I will tell you another story, one of the most important stories in the world of human consciousness. The story is concerned with Zarathustra, another Lao Tzu, who believed in being natural, who believed in being easy, who believed in being just to be: Once, when Vishtaspa, king of Persia, was returning from a victorious campaign, he came near to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,432 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s growing in you. In fact, this shore is the other shore. There is no need to go anywhere. All that you need is to go within. All that you need is to take a jump into your own being, to be in tune with yourself. Lao Tzu would not show a way how to go to the other shore. We can manage the story in a different way. Let there be three persons: Patanjali, Buddha, Lao Tzu. Patanjali will try to walk on the surface...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,433 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...take a jump into your own being, to be in tune with yourself. Lao Tzu would not show a way how to go to the other shore. We can manage the story in a different way. Let there be three persons: Patanjali, Buddha, Lao Tzu. Patanjali will try to walk on the surface of the water -- he can. He is a great scientist of the inner world of consciousness. He knows how to defy gravity, Buddha will say what Yatri says in the story. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,434 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Can be done so easily." Buddha will say this. And Lao Tzu? He will laugh, and he will say to Buddha and Patanjali, "What are you doing? If you leave this shore you will go astray because this is the other shore. Here, this very moment, everything is as it should be....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,435 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tray because this is the other shore. Here, this very moment, everything is as it should be. There is nowhere to go. Seeker of truth, follow no path, because all paths lead where, the truth is here." Lao Tzu says simply relax into yourself. It is not a journey; it is simply a let-go. No preparation is needed because it is not a journey. As you are, just as you are, relax. Relax into your nature. Drop all nonsense...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,436 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing else. It is very difficult to understand me because out of your fear you would like me to give you a pattern of life, a discipline, a style, a way of life. Persons like me have always been misunderstood. A Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra, an Epicurus, have always been misunderstood. The most religious people were thought to be irreligious because if someone is really religious, he will teach you freedom, he will teach you love....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,437 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This conclusion of the anecdote would be loved by Zen Masters. They will see the point, because they are also drunkards -- drunk with God. Again the same happens categories disappear, distinctions disappear. Says Lao Tzu, "Everybody is clearheaded, only I am muddled." Lao Tzu and muddled? Says Lao Tzu. "Everybody knows what is what only I don't know. Everybody is wise, only I am ignorant." The very word "Lao Tzu" means either...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,438 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Masters. They will see the point, because they are also drunkards -- drunk with God. Again the same happens categories disappear, distinctions disappear. Says Lao Tzu, "Everybody is clearheaded, only I am muddled." Lao Tzu and muddled? Says Lao Tzu. "Everybody knows what is what only I don't know. Everybody is wise, only I am ignorant." The very word "Lao Tzu" means either "the old fellow" or "the old idiot." Maybe ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,439 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ause they are also drunkards -- drunk with God. Again the same happens categories disappear, distinctions disappear. Says Lao Tzu, "Everybody is clearheaded, only I am muddled." Lao Tzu and muddled? Says Lao Tzu. "Everybody knows what is what only I don't know. Everybody is wise, only I am ignorant." The very word "Lao Tzu" means either "the old fellow" or "the old idiot." Maybe enemies were calling him Lao Tzu and m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,440 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ions disappear. Says Lao Tzu, "Everybody is clearheaded, only I am muddled." Lao Tzu and muddled? Says Lao Tzu. "Everybody knows what is what only I don't know. Everybody is wise, only I am ignorant." The very word "Lao Tzu" means either "the old fellow" or "the old idiot." Maybe enemies were calling him Lao Tzu and meaning the old idiot and friends were calling him Lao Tzu meaning the old fellow; but he was both. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,441 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uddled? Says Lao Tzu. "Everybody knows what is what only I don't know. Everybody is wise, only I am ignorant." The very word "Lao Tzu" means either "the old fellow" or "the old idiot." Maybe enemies were calling him Lao Tzu and meaning the old idiot and friends were calling him Lao Tzu meaning the old fellow; but he was both. Remember, there is nowhere to go. You carry your here and now around you. Wherever you go it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,442 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ybody is wise, only I am ignorant." The very word "Lao Tzu" means either "the old fellow" or "the old idiot." Maybe enemies were calling him Lao Tzu and meaning the old idiot and friends were calling him Lao Tzu meaning the old fellow; but he was both. Remember, there is nowhere to go. You carry your here and now around you. Wherever you go it is always here; wherever you go it is always now. Here and now are th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,443 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to come close so that the science can be understood. Man understands only that which he wants to understand. His understanding is dominated by his desires. That's why Patanjali, Buddha. Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, they always feel they have come too early. Because man is still asking for toys to play with. He is not ready to grow. He does not want to grow. He clings to stupidities. He has invested too much in his igno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,444 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng astray, they become paralyzed. They never move. And life is risk because life is alive; it is not dead. Only in a grave is there no risk. When you are dead there is no risk. One disciple asked Lao Tzu, "Is it not possible to be at ease, comfortable in life?" Lao Tzu said. "Wait. Soon you will die, and in the grave you can be at ease and comfortable forever and forever -- for eternity. D...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,445 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...k because life is alive; it is not dead. Only in a grave is there no risk. When you are dead there is no risk. One disciple asked Lao Tzu, "Is it not possible to be at ease, comfortable in life?" Lao Tzu said. "Wait. Soon you will die, and in the grave you can be at ease and comfortable forever and forever -- for eternity. Don't waste life for that, because that is coming. These few moments live. And ther...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,446 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eat experiment to give stability. A man was born in a shoemaker's house: he remained a shoemaker. The marriage, the family, the job, the town -- people were born in the same town and they would die in the same town. Lao Tzu remembers, "I have heard that in the ancient days people had not gone beyond the river." They had heard dogs barking on the other side, the other shore. They had inferred that there must be a town because in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,447 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... all the Tao and tantra exercises are to make the moon so magnetic that it pulls all the energy that is created by the sun center and transforms it. That's why a Buddha or a Mahavir or a Patanjali or Lao Tzu, when they attain to their total, absolute flowering, look more feminine than like men. They lose all the comers that men have; they become more round. Their body becomes more feminine. They attain to a certa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,448 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ee a flower: don't say it is beautiful. There is no need. It is beautiful without your saying so. You don't add any more beauty to it by saying so. So what is the point? There is a small story about Lao Tzu. He used to go for a morning walk. A neighbor used to follow him, knowing well that Lao Tzu doesn't want to talk much; he always kept himself silent. But once a friend was staying with the neighbor, and he al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,449 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g so. You don't add any more beauty to it by saying so. So what is the point? There is a small story about Lao Tzu. He used to go for a morning walk. A neighbor used to follow him, knowing well that Lao Tzu doesn't want to talk much; he always kept himself silent. But once a friend was staying with the neighbor, and he also wanted to come, and he came. Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu's neighbor remained quite silent. The fr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,450 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ning walk. A neighbor used to follow him, knowing well that Lao Tzu doesn't want to talk much; he always kept himself silent. But once a friend was staying with the neighbor, and he also wanted to come, and he came. Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu's neighbor remained quite silent. The friend was a little embarrassed, but he also kept himself silent because the neighbor had told him not to say anything. Then the sun was rising, and it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,451 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed to follow him, knowing well that Lao Tzu doesn't want to talk much; he always kept himself silent. But once a friend was staying with the neighbor, and he also wanted to come, and he came. Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu's neighbor remained quite silent. The friend was a little embarrassed, but he also kept himself silent because the neighbor had told him not to say anything. Then the sun was rising, and it was so beautiful. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,452 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ause the neighbor had told him not to say anything. Then the sun was rising, and it was so beautiful. He forgot and he said, "So beautiful a morning." Only this much. Nobody commented on it -- neither his friend nor Lao Tzu. Back home Lao Tzu told the neighbor, "Don't bring this man again. He is too talkative." Too talkative? Even the neighbor said, "He has not said anything; he simply said, 'How beautiful ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,453 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o say anything. Then the sun was rising, and it was so beautiful. He forgot and he said, "So beautiful a morning." Only this much. Nobody commented on it -- neither his friend nor Lao Tzu. Back home Lao Tzu told the neighbor, "Don't bring this man again. He is too talkative." Too talkative? Even the neighbor said, "He has not said anything; he simply said, 'How beautiful a morning.' " Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,454 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...home Lao Tzu told the neighbor, "Don't bring this man again. He is too talkative." Too talkative? Even the neighbor said, "He has not said anything; he simply said, 'How beautiful a morning.' " Lao Tzu said, "I was also there, so what is the point of saying it? And it was beautiful without saying it. Why bring the mind in? No, this man is too talkative; don't bring him." He destroyed the whole morning?...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,455 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... expression is both sun plus moon. And then, you have moon plus beyond: Narad, Chaitanya, Meera, Jesus. The experience is of the beyond, but the expression is of the moon. And then there is just beyond: Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Zen. They don't believe in expression, so they don't need sun or moon expression; they say it cannot be said. Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be said is no longer Tao. The truth that can be utter...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,456 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yond, but the expression is of the moon. And then there is just beyond: Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Zen. They don't believe in expression, so they don't need sun or moon expression; they say it cannot be said. Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be said is no longer Tao. The truth that can be uttered is already a lie; it cannot be expressed." These are all the possibilities, but they have not yet been actualize...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,457 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ties, colleges, schools, exist for it. And every man has it more or less. It is tremendously useful in the outer world. Without intellect it will be difficult for you to be of any utility. That's why Lao Tzu says to his disciples, "Become useless." Unless you are ready to become useless you will not be ready to leave intellect behind, because intellect gives you utility. You become a doctor -- you become useful t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,458 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ius is: "If you want to reach, never run." If you really want to reach, there is no need even to walk. If you really want to reach, you are already there. Go so slow! If the world had listened to Mencius, Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Chuang Tzu there would be a totally different world. If you ask them how to manage our olympics, they will say, "Give the prize to the one who gets defeated fast. Give the first prize to one who is the s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,459 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...laxed, perfectly relaxed, their face has a beauty. No tension, nothing to do, completely at ease, at home. Just watch them. If you can sit for one hour like an idiot every day, you will attain. Lao Tzu has said, "Everybody seems to be so clever except me. I look like an idiot." One of the most famous novelists, Fyodor Dostoevski, has written in his diary that when he was young he had an epileptic fit, and a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,460 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... FLOWER HAS ALREADY ANSWERED; THERE IS NO NEED FOR ME." -- Michael Wise (Stupid) Again, Michael Wise; now "Stupid" is in brackets. Already you have fallen from your wisdom. And you are not Lao Tzu. If you were, you would not be here in the first place. For what will you be here? And I tell you one thing: if I say so to Lao Tzu, he will take sannyas. But I am not going to say to him. Wha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,461 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...kets. Already you have fallen from your wisdom. And you are not Lao Tzu. If you were, you would not be here in the first place. For what will you be here? And I tell you one thing: if I say so to Lao Tzu, he will take sannyas. But I am not going to say to him. What is the point? Why disturb the old man? YOU ARE NOT MY GURU, BUT YOU ARE MY MENTOR. YOU AND I THINK ALIKE, FEEL ALIKE. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,462 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e bliss is so oceanic that one is possessed by it and taken over. One is no longer oneself, once you transcend the third eye. Ramkrishna tried and failed, could not describe it. Many others have not even tried. Lao Tzu resisted, for his whole life, saying anything about the world of tao because of this. Nothing can be said about it, and the moment you try to say it, you are plunged into an inner whirlwind, whirlpool. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,463 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rnational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- that. But Buddhism has. All the organized religions have been teaching people to become perfect. Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, they told something totally different; they say, "Become whole." What is the difference between "whole" and becoming "perfect?" Becoming perfect is the horizontal line; perfection is somewhere in the future....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,464 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r. All RED BOOKS are worth being burned. Anything that solves your life's puzzle is your enemy because the puzzle solved, you will plop into unconsciousness. The puzzle has to be made more complicated. That's why if Lao Tzu cannot do, I bring Patanjali. If Patanjali cannot do, I bring Bud&a. If he fails, Jesus, Mahavir. And then I find people -- Tilopa, Naropa -- nobody has bothered much about them. And I will go on puzzling you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,465 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... simply shows that you are going wrong somewhere. Put it all right, put yourself right; bring yourself in harmony, come back, tune yourself. When every misery disappears one is in tune with one's nature. That nature Lao Tzu calls tao, Patanjali calls kaivalya, Mahavir calls moksha, Buddha calls nirvana. But whatsoever you want to call it -- it has no name and it has no form -- it is in you, present, right this moment. You have l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,466 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who could laugh with him, and who were not serious, not great scholars and philosophers, and this and that. No, China has not created great philosophers like India has. It has created a few great mystics like Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, but they all are laughing Buddhas. It must be that Bodhidharma's search towards China was a search for people who were non-serious, light. My whole effort here is to make you light, non-s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,467 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rld, there was a great renaissance: In India, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, Goshalak, Sanjay Bilethiputta, Ajit Keshkambal, and others, had reached to the same peak of awakening; in China, Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu and many others; in Greece, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plotinus, Heraclitus; and in Iran, Zarathustra. It is a strange coincidence that suddenly, all over the world, there came a flood o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,468 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ys and means, of how to transcend physiology, biology, and yet remain capable of moving into deeper orgasmic experiences. From twenty-eight to the age thirty-five, all these people -- Gautam Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Jesus -- all have moved in higher planes of being. And just not to be bothered, not to be hindered by people, not to be distracted, they moved into the mountains -- into aloneness. Ac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,469 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is the heaviest thing in you. In the moment when Nijinsky felt that he himself had disappeared -- only the dance was there, the dancer no more -- he touched on the same experience as Zarathustra or Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu, but from a very different dimension. His dance became a mystic experience. PAUSE JUST A MOMENT AND LISTEN TO ME. `HE WHO SEEKS MAY EASILY GET LOST HIMSELF. IT IS A CRIME TO GO APART AND BE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,470 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ply split, repressed, retarded; people who have not been able to live their lives fully -- the unlived parts of their lives become their dreams. These are not the true dreamers. Zarathustra is, Gautam Buddha is, Lao Tzu is. They have nothing to repress, they don't have any inhibitions, they live their life moment to moment with totality; hence, no residue remains in their unconscious to become dreams. Their unconscious is a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,471 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd he wants humanity to sacrifice its reality for a fictitious idea -- and people have sacrificed. Zarathustra is not alone in condemning the priests. Gautam Buddha is with him, Mahavira is with him, Lao Tzu is with him. Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, and Lao Tzu condemn the priests, but very mildly. Zarathustra calls a spade a spade. He is absolutely realistic. He does not care about etiquette, manners, culture. He sa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,472 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a fictitious idea -- and people have sacrificed. Zarathustra is not alone in condemning the priests. Gautam Buddha is with him, Mahavira is with him, Lao Tzu is with him. Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, and Lao Tzu condemn the priests, but very mildly. Zarathustra calls a spade a spade. He is absolutely realistic. He does not care about etiquette, manners, culture. He says whatsoever he experiences as the truth. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,473 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... go on lingering the way he has been for thousands of years. For thousands of years there has not been any evolution as far as man's consciousness is concerned. Yes, once in a while a Gautam Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu have blossomed; but they are not the rule, they are the exceptions. But even their existence has been of tremendous help -- to go on hoping that if it can happen to Zarathustra it can also ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,474 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ple heard him because they were accustomed to meditation and silence. He looked down and said, "What is the matter? Why are you shouting? At such a moment, when one is dying, one should meditate. Listen to the great Lao Tzu, he says: Never fight against the current, go with the flow -- relax!" The man said, "This is a strange place. First let me out and I will show you what relaxation is." The monk said, "My ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,475 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se he did not believe in the VEDAS, upon which the whole Hindu religion is based. You will find Mahavira, because he did not believe in the Hindu caste system; he condemned it. You will find Bodhidharma, Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu. You will find all the great people who have contributed to life -- all the great scientists and artists who have made this earth a little more beautiful. What have your saints contributed? T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,476 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dhidharma and Tao, a totally new concept. Zen is not just Buddhism; in fact, the orthodox Buddhists don't accept Zen even as Buddhism, and they are right. Zen is a crossbreed between Gautam Buddha's insight and Lao Tzu's realization, the meeting of Buddha's approach, his meditation, and Tao's naturalness. In Tao, sex is not a taboo; Tao has its own Tantra. The energy of sex has not to be destroyed or repres...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,477 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on claiming itself as the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, Buddhism disappeared completely. These anecdotes belong to the heights that Buddhism reached, together with Taoism, in China. Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu were contemporaries, and both were of the same insight and clarity. They both belong to the universal sense of humanity. So when Buddhist monks reached China, they were welcomed. There was no conflict between...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,478 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed the refugee Buddhists with great love. And slowly a new phenomenon, a by-product of the meeting of Buddhism and Taoism came to birth: this is Zen. These anecdotes have the quality of Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu both. Two of the greatest human beings who have lived on this earth, their meeting has produced the most significant and the most fragrant religiousness. But it is a little difficult to understand because Bud...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,479 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...who have lived on this earth, their meeting has produced the most significant and the most fragrant religiousness. But it is a little difficult to understand because Buddha spoke in a totally different language, and Lao Tzu spoke in a totally different language. And at the meeting of the two it became even more complicated. But it is a joy to enter into this complication and to find the diamond hidden behind these words. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,480 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y have a totally different logic. It is not Aristotelian logic, which divides things, which created the dialectics which culminated in the work of Karl Marx as dialectical materialism. Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, and the great masters of Buddhism and Taoism don't believe in dialectics, they believe in oneness. There are no two's, there is nothing other than one. That one has expressed itself in millions of forms, but...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,481 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mething very miraculous, that the whole of Oregon, which we had put on the map of the world ... otherwise who has ever heard of Oregon? No Socrates was ever born there, no Jesus was crucified there, they have had no Lao Tzu, no Confucius. The University of Oregon itself has come out with a survey showing that the Oregonians have only half the intelligence of the people of Rancho Rajneesh. They have a mental age of seven and the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,482 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r name for a silent, patient waiting for the right moment. In that right moment, anything -- which may be absurd to outsiders, which may make no sense as far as reason and logic are concerned .... Lao Tzu was sitting under a tree when an old leaf fell, just wavering; and he watched the leaf falling down from the tree, and he became enlightened. Now you can sit under any tree and you can watch thousands of leav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,483 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Now you can sit under any tree and you can watch thousands of leaves dropping, and you will come back home as much an idiot as you were before, because that falling of the leaf has nothing to do with enlightenment. Lao Tzu was meditating under that tree, and his meditation was ready -- any slight opportunity for opening the inner lotus, and the immense experience will explode. What happened with this leaf? The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,484 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this leaf? The leaf was falling with such grace and such beauty, although it was dead. Soon it would disappear into the earth, from where it had come. Instantly, a tremendous awareness, like lightning, flashed into Lao Tzu's mind, that our consciousness has also come from a source, just as this leaf has come; it has manifested, and is going again into unmanifestation. Our consciousness has come from the eternal source; one day ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,485 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t the past was not as great a past as you think. If it was great, from where have you come? You are a descendant of that great past. The world would not have been in such a mess. In China, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu... nobody objected to the idea that women have no souls. For centuries in China women have not been considered as spiritual beings -- they don't have any soul, hence they are just like the furnitu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,486 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s in China women have not been considered as spiritual beings -- they don't have any soul, hence they are just like the furniture. If a husband killed his wife, it was not a crime. And these people -- Confucius, and Lao Tzu, and Chuang Tzu -- all tolerated it. This tolerance is a silent acceptance. They could have objected, but nobody wants to risk his prestige. Nobody wants to be condemned by the blind masses. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,487 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sts want me to be arrested? First, get the people arrested who are still holding such scriptures as religious and holy. Thirteen, liberation. But everybody around the world has been liberating: Lao Tzu in China, Chuang Tzu in China -- you don't call them Bhagwan. I am the first man to introduce Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu and thousands of others to this country; otherwise people have never heard...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,488 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...holy. Thirteen, liberation. But everybody around the world has been liberating: Lao Tzu in China, Chuang Tzu in China -- you don't call them Bhagwan. I am the first man to introduce Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu and thousands of others to this country; otherwise people have never heard their names. They all talk about ultimate liberation. Thousands of Zen masters have lived liberation, but do you call ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,489 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., it was full of light. That is the meaning of his enlightenment -- he had attained to light. This light is wisdom. How can this light come just by age? Sometimes it has happened to children -- about Lao TZU it is said that he was born enlightened. The story is that he was born old, he was born so old that he was almost eighty-two years and his hair was pure white, snow white, and he had a beard. This beautiful s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,490 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uation. The woman has remained powerful. And there is a reason.... The feminine is more powerful than the masculine; the soft is more powerful than the hard; the voter is more powerful than the rock. You an ask Lao Tzu who is a man of knowing. He knows. He is not a man of knowledge but he knows. And he says that if you want to become infinitely powerful become feminine, become passive. The passive is always more powerful, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,491 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here a little they always keep their feet on the earth, rooted in the earth. They don't fly like a bird, they go into the sky like a tree. They keep their roots in the earth, they always keep a very deep proportion. Lao Tzu is very practical, so is Confucius. When Bodhidharma went to China with the great message of zen there happened a great meeting, a great synthesis between the Indian genius and the Chinese genius. Zen is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,492 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...olve the boundaries again, how not to cling to these boundaries, how to become open again, how to be vulnerable, how to be available to existence so that it can penetrate you to your very core. Says Lao Tzu, 'Everybody seems to be so certain of himself except me. Everybody seems to be so well-defined except me. I remain very undefined, I remain kind of ambiguous. I don't know exactly where I am or what I am or w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,493 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... difficulty at each step. How to express it? How to say the unsayable? The experience is ineffable; it is so vast it cannot be contained in small words. No container can contain it. The man who knows, hesitates. Lao Tzu says, 'Everybody seems to be very certain except me.' He says, 'I hesitate as a man who, coming to an ice-bound river, stands on the bank, thinks twice -- and then walks very, very carefully. Everybody is wal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,494 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Bhagwan. As you have come to India you go to him, otherwise you will miss a Buddha. You go and you look into him, have a little taste of his air, of what light he lives in. You think about Buddha, you think about Lao Tzu, you think about Christ -- why not go to Raman Maharshi?' But he avoided him. He went to see the Taj Mahal but would not go to see Raman. My feeling is that if Buddha had been alive he would not h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,495 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there have been people who are as Eastern as any Easterner can ever be -- for example: Mr. Eckhart,Jacob Boehme, Plotinus, Pythagoras, Heraclitus. They are as Eastern as any Buddha, any Nagarjuna, any Shankara, any Lao Tzu. And there have been Western minds in the East which are as Western as any Westerner can be: a Charvaka is as Western as a Bertrand Russell. It is not a question of East and West. All kinds of people exis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,496 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is differs, that's all -- only emphasis. It is not very essential. Emphasis differs -- and emphasis is very very accidental. The moment you see that the essential is the same.... Otherwise how do you explain why Lao Tzu has so much appeal in the West And why Karl Marx has so much appeal in the East How do you explain it? Why is Buddha becoming more and more prominent in the West? Why is Zen becoming enormously si...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,497 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Gurdjieff says that the real psychology us yet to be born. In a sense he is right, in a sense he is not. If we think about Freud, Jung, Adler and company then he is right, but if we think about Patanjali, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Hui Neng, then he is wrong. The real psychology has existed for millennia. The real psychology has existed for so long that we have forgotten about it. The new, the so-called psychology is very immature. It ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,498 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...world. A lazy person cannot become an Adolf Hitler or a Khan. A lazy person cannot become Tamurlaine, a lazy person cannot become a Nadirshah, a lazy person cannot become this and that. A lazy person can only become Lao Tzu. If he wants to become anything, he can become only Lao Tzu. Laziness, in itself, has nothing wrong in it. But we are dominated by an ethos of action, work, aggression. We are dominated by pe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,499 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... A lazy person cannot become Tamurlaine, a lazy person cannot become a Nadirshah, a lazy person cannot become this and that. A lazy person can only become Lao Tzu. If he wants to become anything, he can become only Lao Tzu. Laziness, in itself, has nothing wrong in it. But we are dominated by an ethos of action, work, aggression. We are dominated by people who should be called 'The Achievers'. Of course, if you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,500 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I am not in favour that you should become anybody else that you are not. I accept you as you are. If you are lazy, perfectly good, there is a way for the lazy man too. You have to choose your guides rightly -- Lao Tzu or me. Then don't choose Mahavira, he won't help. He was a warrior, he was a KSHATRIYA, and he knew only how to fight. So when he finally came across God, he fought with God too. Hence his name, Mahavira -- '...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,501 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...od through surrender than through will. It is not an accident that Mahavira could not get many followers; it is not accidental that through Mahavira many people have not attained to truth. Many more attained through Lao Tzu, many more attained through Buddha. Buddha is a strange case. For six years he was just like Mahavira. For six years he tried hard, he went almost half the way on the path of will. Mahavira ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,502 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed all effort, he relaxed, he became lazy. That night he slept, without any desire to attain anything; he accepted his hopeless state. And in that hopelessness is born his enlightenment. He is half Mahavira and half Lao Tzu. And Buddha has helped millions of people -- more than anybody else. The reason may be this, that for a few people those six years may be helpful -- so they go on that, and a path called HINAY...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,503 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e who want to be feminine, womb-like, and would like to receive the truth whenever it comes, and are ready to relax and wait -- yes, they can also attain through Buddha. Mahavira is one pole, will. Lao Tzu is another pole, surrender. Buddha is just in the middle -- half Mahavira, half Lao Tzu. That's the reason he has been able to help many more people -- many more than Lao Tzu, many more than Mahavira. He is a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,504 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mes, and are ready to relax and wait -- yes, they can also attain through Buddha. Mahavira is one pole, will. Lao Tzu is another pole, surrender. Buddha is just in the middle -- half Mahavira, half Lao Tzu. That's the reason he has been able to help many more people -- many more than Lao Tzu, many more than Mahavira. He is a great synthesis. A few people who want to struggle, they follow his first six years, th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,505 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Mahavira is one pole, will. Lao Tzu is another pole, surrender. Buddha is just in the middle -- half Mahavira, half Lao Tzu. That's the reason he has been able to help many more people -- many more than Lao Tzu, many more than Mahavira. He is a great synthesis. A few people who want to struggle, they follow his first six years, they don't talk about the last night. Hence, there are two kinds of stories. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,506 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you are in love, language looks almost impotent. Even to say 'I love you' looks so flat, pale, dead. The wrong can be expressed by language, but the right cannot be expressed by language. That's why Lao Tzu says: That which can be said is already untruth. Because it can be said, or it has been said, it has become untrue. Truth cannot be said. Truth can be showed, but cannot be said. Fingers pointing to the moon ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,507 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ever happen here." SO REMAIN IN A STATE WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS, is what DHYAN is, meditation is. Meditation is heaven. Buddha talks about it, Jesus talks about it, Zarathustra talks about it, Lao Tzu talks about it. And they are talking about the SAME phenomenon. It is the same energy, the same kind of experience. That's why Divya IS right. When I am talking, I am talking about the same thing again a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,508 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ull of great flowers, and you will be full of a fragrance that is not of this world. Only when that fragrance has come to you will you know what the seers of the Upanishads are saying; you will know what Lao Tzu means in the TAO TE CHING; you will know what the Koran is; and you will be able to enter into the world of the Vedas -- never before it. So the last thing today I would like to say to you is: One never c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,509 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If Bodhidharma enters China now, he will be put in jail. He did well -- he entered many many hundreds of years ago. Now if he enters Maoist China, he will be put in jail. There are many Buddhist monks and Lao Tzuan monks in jail -- for being lazy, for not doing anything that THEY call creative or useful. This is happening! This has happened in China, this has happened in Russia. Monasteries have been deserted, people ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,510 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lf without any hindrance. That is real morality. That is to be really religious. Yes, a few people will remain lazy, but nothing to be worried about. There are lazy men's guides to enlightenment too! Lao Tzu is the highest priest for the lazy man. Active people do something in the world which is important. Lazy people also do something beautiful in the world which is needed. They create a balance, harmony, eq...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,511 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a child, or like a fool, or like an imbecile. This is the highest state: of being a simpleton. It was exactly like this that it happened to St. Francis of Assisi. He was a simpleton. It is exactly the same case with Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu; and particularly in Tao, this is the highest state: to become a simpleton -- not knowing what is what, not knowing at all. When ALL selves have disappeared, there is utter s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,512 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e absolutely gives the explanation about himself. He was a great scholar, perhaps the greatest that China has produced, and the most influential man in China's whole history. He was a contemporary of Lao Tzu and had thousands of students. He was really a great intellect: he created the whole Chinese logic, and made all the social rules, ethos, morality. He controlled Chinese politics, and taught the kings and pri...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,513 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es, ethos, morality. He controlled Chinese politics, and taught the kings and princes how to rule. He was a great man in every way. But his students many times told him, "A great desire arises in us. You should meet Lao Tzu." Lao Tzu was unknown: a very small group of drop-outs followed him. He was such a strange fellow that no straightforward man was ever going to be close to him. He had his own way which ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,514 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntrolled Chinese politics, and taught the kings and princes how to rule. He was a great man in every way. But his students many times told him, "A great desire arises in us. You should meet Lao Tzu." Lao Tzu was unknown: a very small group of drop-outs followed him. He was such a strange fellow that no straightforward man was ever going to be close to him. He had his own way which eventually merged with Bodhidhar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,515 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d him. He was such a strange fellow that no straightforward man was ever going to be close to him. He had his own way which eventually merged with Bodhidharma's. Zen is the product of Bodhidharma and Lao Tzu: it is a crossbreed. Lao Tzu created great 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,516 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... fellow that no straightforward man was ever going to be close to him. He had his own way which eventually merged with Bodhidharma's. Zen is the product of Bodhidharma and Lao Tzu: it is a crossbreed. Lao Tzu created great 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- disciples like Chuang Tzu a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,517 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...knowledgeable person is afraid, because basically he knows all his knowledge is borrowed. When an authentic person stands in front of him, the knower is absolutely naked, all his clothes drop off. He was afraid that Lao Tzu may be a dangerous experience, so he told his disciples to wait outside the cave. First he would go alone, get acquainted with Lao Tzu and then he would come out and take all the disciples in to meet Lao Tzu....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,518 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...im, the knower is absolutely naked, all his clothes drop off. He was afraid that Lao Tzu may be a dangerous experience, so he told his disciples to wait outside the cave. First he would go alone, get acquainted with Lao Tzu and then he would come out and take all the disciples in to meet Lao Tzu. Within a few seconds he came out perspiring and told his disciples, "We are not going to see him again. And never ask ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,519 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...id that Lao Tzu may be a dangerous experience, so he told his disciples to wait outside the cave. First he would go alone, get acquainted with Lao Tzu and then he would come out and take all the disciples in to meet Lao Tzu. Within a few seconds he came out perspiring and told his disciples, "We are not going to see him again. And never ask me again. That man is dangerous, very dangerous. He is not a man but a dr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,520 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e are not going to see him again. And never ask me again. That man is dangerous, very dangerous. He is not a man but a dragon. Never even touch his shadow." What had transpired in that cave? What did Lao Tzu do to Confucius? The same as what happens when you encounter a lion. Lao Tzu was not a man of social conformity: he was not orthodox. He did not believe in any religion; he did not believe in any God; he did ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,521 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us, very dangerous. He is not a man but a dragon. Never even touch his shadow." What had transpired in that cave? What did Lao Tzu do to Confucius? The same as what happens when you encounter a lion. Lao Tzu was not a man of social conformity: he was not orthodox. He did not believe in any religion; he did not believe in any God; he did not believe in any morality. He told Confucius, "You are confused and you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,522 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...I was thinking one day to come and hit you on your head." Confucius could not say a single word because it was all quite right: he had no idea who he was. Standing bare, naked before the disciples of Lao Tzu, he felt very much ashamed; he started perspiring. Lao Tzu shouted at him, "Get out if you cannot get in." He escaped immediately to his disciples where he was a great man, a great scholar -- even kings ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,523 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Confucius could not say a single word because it was all quite right: he had no idea who he was. Standing bare, naked before the disciples of Lao Tzu, he felt very much ashamed; he started perspiring. Lao Tzu shouted at him, "Get out if you cannot get in." He escaped immediately to his disciples where he was a great man, a great scholar -- even kings were his followers. He told his disciples, "Never, never com...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,524 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...these mahatmas are good: they help me to get rid of stupid people. Physical immortality... Now for millions of y ears man knows that everybody has to die and everybody dies. Buddha died, Mahavira died, Krishna died, Lao Tzu died, Jesus died, Mohammed died -- everybody dies! Some foolish mahatma, some insane man still can attract people. That simply means people are mad. And this is not new -- this type of people have ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,525 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ple, taught by other mad people, conditioned by other mad people. He is bound to become mad; just to survive he has to become mad. Only once in a while there has been a sane person -- a Buddha. a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus. And the strangest thing is that these sane people look mad because the so-called mad are not really mad. The really mad are the so-called sane. The people who are put in the madhouses are simply ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,526 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s here. Meditation reveals to you your Buddhahood. It will not make you Alexander the Great, it will not make you a Rockefeller or a Ford or a Morgan, but it will make you a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. And these are the people who have really known fulfillment. When Alexander the Great died, he died like a dog, died like a beggar. And he recognized the fact, he had to recognize it, because twice he wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,527 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...been called forth by him; Lazarus is only a representative, but that does not mean a factual phenomenon. Avoid facts as much as possible when you are trying to understand Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu -- avoid factuality. They are not concerned with facts, and that does not mean that what is being said is fiction either; it is neither fact nor fiction. It is a poetic way of expressing things which are inex...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,528 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eautiful words of Buddha, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. But when Buddha says something it has a totally different significance, because it comes from his experience, it is rooted in his being. It is alive! It is a rose flower still on the rosebush. The juice from...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,529 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... They will quarrel, argue, fight and waste their time. And the man who sits on the top will simply laugh at the whole stupidity All the religions have been quarreling, but there is no quarrel between Buddha and Lao Tzu, Zarathustra and Mohammed, Bahauddin and Ramakrishna, Raman and Krishnamurti; there is no quarrel. The quarrel exists only amongst philosophers. Yes, Buddha has also argued against the fools, but ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,530 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...led wisdom, which is not wisdom at all but only knowledge, mere knowledge. He created many scholars, but he could not create a single man of enlightenment, a single man of the calibre of Gautam Buddha, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu or Zarathustra. But many scholars have followed the footprints of Dayananda. Satyavrata is certainly one of the most respected leaders in the Arya Samaj, so these are the two reasons why he ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,531 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... shouldn't rely!' You can exclude me! I am not responsible at all for creating this world and I don't think there is anybody who will take the responsibility. I am as much an atheist as Mahavira, as Buddha, as Lao Tzu. I don't believe in any God who has created the world. The world is a self-creative process; no creator is needed. The world is creativity. There is no division between the creator and the created; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,532 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ts' -- and the Master belongs to that third category which is almost non-existent. Only once in a while, at times which are far and few between, do you come across a Jesus, a Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Chuang Tzu, but then you don't have any way to understand these people. And if a person wants prestige, power, respectability, then he has to follow you . Your leaders are not really leader...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,533 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n read Chuang Tzu -- so absurd, with such a great sense of humour that each line of Chuang Tzu will tickle you to laughter. And his stories are simply far out! He has defeated all the Masters -- even his own Master, Lao Tzu, pales before Chuang Tzu. If Lao Tzu had come back and looked at what Chuang Tzu was writing he would have been angry: 'This is too much! This is going too far!' Of course, Lao Tzu himself was a very lovely m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,534 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... sense of humour that each line of Chuang Tzu will tickle you to laughter. And his stories are simply far out! He has defeated all the Masters -- even his own Master, Lao Tzu, pales before Chuang Tzu. If Lao Tzu had come back and looked at what Chuang Tzu was writing he would have been angry: 'This is too much! This is going too far!' Of course, Lao Tzu himself was a very lovely man, a beautiful man, but Chuang Tzu w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,535 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he Masters -- even his own Master, Lao Tzu, pales before Chuang Tzu. If Lao Tzu had come back and looked at what Chuang Tzu was writing he would have been angry: 'This is too much! This is going too far!' Of course, Lao Tzu himself was a very lovely man, a beautiful man, but Chuang Tzu would even have made him object: 'This is going too far!' Chuang Tzu's stories are the first absurd stories in the world. Kafka and Sartre an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,536 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and many times he came very close to the door. But obviously, not being enlightened himself, whatsoever he says about the door, his experience of being dose to it, does not have that clarity which only a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Jesus can have. He uses words which can be very easily misunderstood. His words are ordinary, his insights very extraordinary. It is almost a miracle that a man who knows nothing of meditation, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,537 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nly be a dog and nothing else. You cannot say to a dog that 'You are not a perfect dog' -- each dog is perfect in his doghood! Man is only an opportunity, multi-dimensional. He can be a Genghis Khan, he can be a Lao Tzu -- poles apart. He can be a Tamburlaine, he can be a Gautam Buddha; there is nothing in common between these two persons -- they are unbridgeable. Both are men, but they have moved in different di...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,538 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If it is a low energy group, just imagine that there are women all around you. Forget about men -- and start courting and persuading them. Tao is basically for low energy people. The whole philosophy of Lao Tzu, the whole standpoint of Tao, is a feminine standpoint. Persuade, don't force. Lao Tzu says, 'When the king is best, nobody knows who the king is.' People tend to forget. When people don't even remember ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,539 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... men -- and start courting and persuading them. Tao is basically for low energy people. The whole philosophy of Lao Tzu, the whole standpoint of Tao, is a feminine standpoint. Persuade, don't force. Lao Tzu says, 'When the king is best, nobody knows who the king is.' People tend to forget. When people don't even remember the name of the king, then the king is the best. When people know who the king is, he is num...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,540 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... makes him famous. Then he belongs to the second category, not the first. When the people are afraid, and not only know and respect the person but are afraid of him, then he is of the third category, the worst. Lao Tzu says that when the king is of the first category, he goes on doing things and people think they are doing those things, because he is so silent and soft that even if he is doing something, others think it is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,541 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e body is like roots. These are the roots. The legs are the roots and they connect you with the earth. So people are hanging like ghosts, unconnected with the earth. One has to move back to the feet. Lao Tzu used to say to his disciples, 'Unless you start breathing from the soles of your feet, you are not my disciples.' Breathing from the soles of your feet. . .and he is perfectly right. The deeper you go, the de...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,542 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...quality of life, the more fragile it is. So the deeper you go, the softer you become, or the softer you become, the deeper you go. The innermost core is absolutely soft. That is the whole teaching of Lao Tzu, the teaching of Tao: be soft, be like water; don't be like a 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,543 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd perfectly... You are clever enough -- and that is your burden. Drop all cleverness. Just be simple, almost idiotic, and then enjoy life. Only idiots can enjoy life. So you just try to be an idiot. Lao Tzu says that the whole world is clever, only I am an idiot. Above All Don't Wobble Chapter #9 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,544 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... In that moment your acceptance is total, and when acceptance is total all wounds are healed. One attains to the calmness of a Buddha, to the innocence of a Jesus, or to the superb perfect perfection of a Lao Tzu -- ordinary and yet extraordinary. One loves the same life and yet it is not the same life at all... it has a different dance. So use that clarity, mm? Enjoy it, delight in it. [Another group...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,545 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...issipate energy. In non-resistance you absorb energy. That is the whole eastern attitude about life: accept and don't resist, surrender and don't fight. Don't try to be victorious, and don't try to be the first. Lao Tzu has said that nobody can defeat me because I have accepted defeat and I am not hankering for any victory. How can you defeat anyone who is not hankering for any victory? How can you defeat a non-ambitious man...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,546 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...made it rotten, mm? The word corrupts. Just show it by your full being. Enjoy it. Let the other feel it... but don't say anything about it. Once uttered, beautiful and great experiences become trivial. That's why Lao Tzu says 'The Tao that can be said is no more Tao'. The truth that can be said is already untrue. Keep quiet and go back, mm? (chuckling) Good, Prem. [Osho speaks to another sannyasin:] ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,547 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is not a very refined state of being. That raw energy is still there. So I would like you to be less clever. In the days that you are here, forget about cleverness; be more muddleheaded. That's what Lao Tzu says: I am a muddle-headed man. When everybody is clear only I am unclear; when everybody seems to be intelligent, I am stupid. What he means is that he does not calculate about his life: he lives it. He ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,548 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...will your vulnerability; as your vulnerability grows so will your strength. At the highest peak of strength one is like a child -- delicate like a rose flower. It looks paradoxical but that is how it is. That's what Lao Tzu means when he says to become waterlike, not rocklike, because water is strong yet vulnerable. The rock looks strong but is weak, that's why it is closed. It is not fluid. It is afraid: it cannot afford that m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,549 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... get through to the meaning of Jesus has become almost impossible. There are so many mediators standing between Jesus and you... and Jesus is a simple man, a mad poet. So is Buddha, so is Zarathustra and so is Lao Tzu. But they have not been understood as great poets, and that has been a great calamity. Poets don't think that they belong to the same dimension as Jesus, otherwise they would be enriched by it. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,550 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it leaves marks in the temporal. But there is also a life which we live beyond time -- it leaves no marks anywhere. It is not just an accident that the existence of Jesus is doubtful, so is the existence of Krishna, Lao Tzu and Zarathustra. Why is their existence doubtful? They have not really left any mark in time. They lived a life of interiority, they lived in themselves. Their life had no visible, tangible impact, but they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,551 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ves out. From one door it takes in, from another door it gives out. It is pure glass, transparent. It is different; it is not like a white surface. It is beyond the immoral and the moral. This is the man of Tao: Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu. They are simple, almost simpletons; transparent. This is the 'idiot' of Dostoevsky, but in a very respectful sense. He is so simple that he is almost like an idiot. It is very difficult to recogn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,552 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... was shot dead, Rama was the last word he uttered. That was his heart's voice. He was also very much influenced by Mahavir. But all his ideals are confined to the second dimension. If you come across Lao Tzu, it will be very difficult to catch hold of him. He is very elusive and you may not recognise him. That's why no religion has arisen out of Lao Tzu, or from a modern parallel, Raman Maharshi. Organisation is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,553 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ideals are confined to the second dimension. If you come across Lao Tzu, it will be very difficult to catch hold of him. He is very elusive and you may not recognise him. That's why no religion has arisen out of Lao Tzu, or from a modern parallel, Raman Maharshi. Organisation is difficult for that type. One can learn from such a person, but he does not teach. He is not a teacher. His influence is subtle and is almost like a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,554 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the religious man. He is not a revolutionary. He is revolution. Zen came out of the meeting of the second and the third. Therefore it is richer than both. Zen is a synthesis, an organic synthesis between Buddha and Lao Tzu. Then there is a fourth man whom I call the spiritual man. He functions like a mirror. Light comes on top of the mirror and is refracted; not renounced, refracted. If you come near a mirror, you will be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,555 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Then this is your victory. If you become a perfect loser, this is your winning. Be a perfect loser! Never win -- let that be your goal. And if you succeed in it, you are victorious. You understand me? Read Lao Tzu 'Tao Te Ching'. Lao Tzu is the perfect man to help you lose more and more. There are two types of different possibilities -- the male and the female mind. The male mind wants to win, to be aggressive, com...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,556 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...our victory. If you become a perfect loser, this is your winning. Be a perfect loser! Never win -- let that be your goal. And if you succeed in it, you are victorious. You understand me? Read Lao Tzu 'Tao Te Ching'. Lao Tzu is the perfect man to help you lose more and more. There are two types of different possibilities -- the male and the female mind. The male mind wants to win, to be aggressive, competitive; the will to po...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,557 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e West not a single philosophy exists for the feminine mind. So the will to power seems to be the only possibility. The western psychology and everything is full of the will to power. Only the East, and particularly Lao Tzu, developed the philosophy for the other kind -- of relaxing and losing; of not fighting at all, of giving way, of no resistance, no struggle. Lao Tzu almost praises the possibility of becoming a driftwood. He...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,558 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing is full of the will to power. Only the East, and particularly Lao Tzu, developed the philosophy for the other kind -- of relaxing and losing; of not fighting at all, of giving way, of no resistance, no struggle. Lao Tzu almost praises the possibility of becoming a driftwood. He praises it tremendously. That too is beautiful. If you can do it you will be more in tune with yourself. [The group leader] has simpl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,559 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e life is so vast -- how to figure it out? Life is so complex and so tremendously huge -- how can you figure it out? Hence the confusion, hence the mixedness. It is a good quality, a good indication. Lao tzu says in his tao te ching, 'Everybody seems to be certain -- only I am confused. Everybody seems to be confident -- only I am hesitant.' But that is the quality of intelligence.... And that's what has happened...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,560 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and the water seems to be very weak, but one day you will find that the water is still there -- the rock is gone. The rock has become sand -- the water has broken it into millions of pieces. This is the Lao Tzu-ean concept of strength -- and that's what I teach. To me Lao Tzu remains the greatest world teacher who has ever really penetrated the very innermost core of human beings. Be soft and t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,561 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e water is still there -- the rock is gone. The rock has become sand -- the water has broken it into millions of pieces. This is the Lao Tzu-ean concept of strength -- and that's what I teach. To me Lao Tzu remains the greatest world teacher who has ever really penetrated the very innermost core of human beings. Be soft and that will bring you strength. Be feminine and that will bring you strength. Be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,562 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng well that the effort is doomed to fail, knowing well it cannot be said, knowing well that one is going to fail. But the failure is never complete, and that is the only hope....' A Buddha spoke, a Lao Tzu spoke, Jesus spoke... and they knew that they were saying something which cannot be said, but they still said it. They tried hard their whole life to say it in so many ways. They used a thousand and one devic...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,563 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...him in. That very effort is of the ego, and because of that ego, one goes on missing. So become a great receptivity, an empty vehicle, an empty vessel. This is a taoist attitude, and my whole attitude is taoist. Lao tzu says that a room is not valuable because of the walls -- no! The room is valuable because of the inner roominess, the emptiness inside. You live in the emptiness of the room -- you don't live in the walls. Wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,564 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [....... the insideness of it. A vessel is important not because it is made of gold, or made of silver, or made of earth; that doesn't matter.... A vessel is important because of the inner emptiness. And Lao Tsu says a very important thing. He says that whether the vessel is made of gold or is made of mud, the emptiness remains the same. The emptiness never becomes golden. And the emptiness has to be used. So whe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,565 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... out of you. Then I will tell you to become active again. But one should be active only if one has attained to passivity, not before it. Then you can do many things and yet remain a non-doer. That is what Lao Tzu calls 'action through non-action'. You still do but there is no one as the doer. There is no hankering to do. You simply do it because it is needed. Life needs it -- you do it. So I don't see it as a prob...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,566 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... try to change its shape. And it will not be easy to change its shape. Hammers will be needed, and then too it may shatter into pieces, but it will not flow. So never be rocklike. Be like water. That's what Lao Tzu says, 'Never be like a rock. Be like a river.' And he says, 'Remember, a rock may appear very strong but in the end, water wins over it. The soft wins over the strong, the liquid wins over the solid. The chil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,567 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t, it is the West; it is so materialistic, so communistic. I would count Jesus, Eckhart, Francis, as Eastern. Although they were born in the West, it does not make much difference, they are as Eastern as Buddha, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Nanak. There are people in the West who are Eastern, and there are people in the East who are Western. So symbolically, geography is one thing, but geographical divisions cannot be decisive. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,568 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Christer means a follower of Christ. Love is the message of all the Christs. I am not using the singular word 'Christ', I am using the plural 'Christ' because to me Jesus is only one of the Christs. Lao Tzu is also a Christ, Buddha too, Mohammed, Zarathustra, Socrates -- these are all Christs. Christ is a state of ultimate consciousness, just as Buddhahood is: Christ is synonymous with Buddhahood. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,569 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tra -- their fame arises from a totally different source. It arises from god himself, it is not their fame. They are no more: only god is. Now god is shining forth through them, radiating. The fame of Moses or a Lao Tzu or a Mohammed has nothing to do with Mohammed, Lao Tzu or Moses. It is not personal, it is divine, it is godly, it is universal. These people have become just vehicles, vehicles of truth. They are utterly emp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,570 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. It arises from god himself, it is not their fame. They are no more: only god is. Now god is shining forth through them, radiating. The fame of Moses or a Lao Tzu or a Mohammed has nothing to do with Mohammed, Lao Tzu or Moses. It is not personal, it is divine, it is godly, it is universal. These people have become just vehicles, vehicles of truth. They are utterly empty, egoless. Hence their fame has no stink of ego, it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,571 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n. Look here! (much laughter) Good, Raje. This is your name: Ma Anand Kristen. Anand means bliss. Kristen means a follower of Christ. Bliss is the essential religion. Whether you follow Christ or Buddha or Lao Tzu, it doesn't matter: if you are blissful you are following all the awakened ones, all the Christs, all the Buddhas, all the Krishnas. If you are not blissful you can only be a Christian, a Buddhist and a Hindu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,572 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll forms are his. Everybody is his son, he fathers the whole existence. He it only the father of Jesus Christ. That would be a very poor god who fathers only on son and who cannot father Buddha and who cannot father Lao Tzu and who cannot father Zarathustra. He would be a poor god. When he can father the whole existence, why make him so poor? The report accepts that his man -- it says about me -- is extraordinar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,573 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat is a metaphor, that is saying something about bliss. Heaven is nothing but the ultimate state of bliss. No shadow is cast. One becomes transparent, so transparent that no shadow is possible. A Buddha, a Jesus, a Lao Tzu, these people live in bliss. They don't know its opposite; they don't know what misery is, what pain is. Not that their bodies will not suffer. When Buddha is ill his body suffers, but he is only a watcher of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,574 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly you start exploding, your energy starts spreading. A single blissful person, a Jesus or a Buddha, changes the quality of the whole of the earth. We cannot think of humanity without Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. Just delete one dozen names from the history of humanity and man would be back to the animal stage. Man would have lost all that is valuable. These few individuals became so blissful that they made the whole...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,575 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...idol, an idol of bliss, an image of bliss. The other meaning is Anglo-Saxon, then it means waterfall. That is far more beautiful: a waterfall of bliss. Bliss has some qualities of the waterfall. One, Lao Tzu has said that the way towards god is a watercourse way. The water always seeks the humblest place. It always goes to the place which is the lowest. It is non-ambitious. It stands at the back. It has no ego. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,576 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Man and woman are biological polarities. Exactly in the same way there are two paths; they are polar opposites but they lead to the same goal. One path is of meditation, awareness. Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu -- these are the people who have followed the path of meditation. On the path of meditation love is not discussed at all. There is no reason to discuss love. Not that love does not happen, but is happens only...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,577 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and life has slipped out of your hands in collecting rubbish. Alexander dies as poor as any beggar. So the whole show is just a deception. The true kingdom is of the inner. A Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus -- these are true kings because they rule themselves. Ordinarily we are slaves, pretending to be rulers. Unless one conquers one's unconsciousness one remains a pretender, one remains a slave and goe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,578 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ger. Misery is very common. Misery seems to be part of our earthly experience. It seems to be natural. Bliss seems to be something of a stranger, that's why we have not understood Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha. These were blissful beings. We could not absorb them. There was a gap between us and them, something unbridgeable, for the simple reason that they were talking a 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,579 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If you cannot do this -- and I see that you cannot do it, that is not your way... I can see exactly in you that you cannot do it, hence you are here -- then decide to do something. There are other paths. Lao tzu is not the only way. There are buddha and jesus and a thousand others -- those that say that much can be done and you can be transformed. People have reached through that too. So I am not in favour of any...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,580 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...really, that they can't be expressed. Anything that can be expressed is bound to be superficial. Anything that can be expressed is worthless; just because it has been expressed it becomes worthless. Lao Tzu says, 'That which can be said is no more true. The tao that can be talked about is not the real tao.' The real tao cannot be talked about. You cannot make a problem of it, you cannot find a solution for it. Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,581 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gs. A Taoist life can be lived but cannot be practised. It is a sheer understanding. These trees are Taoists, the animals are Taoists, and they have never heard about Tao, they have not been reading Lao Tzu. They are not following any path, they are not trying to enter into any way: they are simply in it! We are also in it. Relax, rather than practising. A,low nature to take possession of you; don't try to grab ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,582 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lement in existence. It is the bridge from the lowest to the highest. The lowest mind is also in love, maybe with wrong things, the love is contaminated, but it is there. And the highest consciousness -- a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Christ, are also in love. Their love is absolutely pure, uncontaminated, but it is still love. The lowest and the highest are joined together in love; this is the thread that runs through the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,583 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y significant. In life man can have two kinds of splendour. One is that which is found around an Alexander; that is sun glory -- aggressive, hot, violent. Another kind of glory is found around a Buddha or a Jesus or Lao Tzu; that is moon glory -- nonaggressive, non-violent. You can conquer somebody through violence but his heart remains unconquered. You can crush, you can destroy, but you cannot create, through violence. You can...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,584 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- the sannyasin has to be in the center. The sannyasin has to evolve totally different qualities from those of the soldier. The soldier has to be rocklike, and the sannyasin has to be waterlike. Lao Tzu calls his way "the watercourse way"; liquid, flexible, ready to go into any direction, always finding the lowest place, non-ambitious, non-aggressive. So from rock, become water. That is the meaning of yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,585 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing. This makes you a real follower of Christ. And the second thing to remember: Christ has nothing to do with Jesus personally; Jesus is only one of the Christs. Moses is a Christ also, Buddha is a Christ also. Lao Tzu is a Christ also. Christ is a state of being; many have achieved it, many will achieve it. Christ simply means one who has attained to god-hood, one who has been welcomed by God, crowned by God. That is the l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,586 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...long journey and pilgrimage. But the first step is almost half the journey, because the first is the most difficult. The second will be just like the first and the third will be just like the first. Lao Tzu says: If you know how to take one step you can cover ten thousand miles. Then there is 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,587 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou have to become the soil, and the ego has to die in the soil like the seed dies, then you can also know the invisible, then you can also manifest the unmanifested. That's what happens to a Jesus, to a Buddha, to a Lao Tzu: something of the unknown starts surrounding them, becomes their climate, their milieu. And those who are unprejudiced, those who are open, can see in a Buddha God walking on the earth, living in a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,588 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tures, because books cannot deliver the truth even though they have been written by those who have known, because no word can contain truth. The moment you transform truth into words you falsify it. Lao Tzu says: Tao uttered is no more tao. Truth said becomes a lie. So no scripture is religious -- it is an impossibility. One has to rebel against the word, the language, so that one can move into silence. It is on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,589 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m your very being. It starts blooming in you like a flower. Yes, truth is a lotus flower -- in the lake of consciousness it grows. And then a man becomes the very image of truth. A Buddha, a Krishna, a Christ, a Lao Tzu -- these people are not philosophers. They don't talk about truth, they are truth. And fortunate are those who can be in communion with such people, because one lit candle can help millions of unlit candles i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,590 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st and Krishna is one, it is not different. Of course they speak different languages but the message is exactly the same. If one does not get lost in the jungle of words, then the message of Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, is exactly the same... not even a bit of difference. Difference is impossible because they all speak from the same plenitude of being, from the same height of being; they speak from the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,591 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... not even a bit of difference. Difference is impossible because they all speak from the same plenitude of being, from the same height of being; they speak from the same peak of existence. Of course Lao Tzu speaks Chinese, Buddha speaks Pali, Jesus speaks Aramaic, Mohammed speaks Arabic; that is natural. And they use different metaphors, different symbols, different similes. They used whatsoever was available to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,592 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly through bodhi, through awakening, through awareness, through meditation, through enlightenment. Hence I say that only Buddhas are real aristocrats. Jesus is an aristocrat, Buddha is an aristocrat, Lao Tzu is an aristocrat, although Lao Tzu was born poor and Jesus too was born poor. In the ordinary sense only Buddha was an aristocrat, because he was born as a prince, but Jesus was a son of a carpenter and nobod...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,593 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., through awareness, through meditation, through enlightenment. Hence I say that only Buddhas are real aristocrats. Jesus is an aristocrat, Buddha is an aristocrat, Lao Tzu is an aristocrat, although Lao Tzu was born poor and Jesus too was born poor. In the ordinary sense only Buddha was an aristocrat, because he was born as a prince, but Jesus was a son of a carpenter and nobody knows about Lao Tzu's parents; th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,594 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aristocrat, although Lao Tzu was born poor and Jesus too was born poor. In the ordinary sense only Buddha was an aristocrat, because he was born as a prince, but Jesus was a son of a carpenter and nobody knows about Lao Tzu's parents; they must have been absolutely anonymous. At least Jesus' father's name is known -- he must have been a good carpenter at least! But Lao Tzu's father, not even his name is known or where Lao Tzu wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,595 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sus was a son of a carpenter and nobody knows about Lao Tzu's parents; they must have been absolutely anonymous. At least Jesus' father's name is known -- he must have been a good carpenter at least! But Lao Tzu's father, not even his name is known or where Lao Tzu was born, to whom he was born. He must have been absolutely anonymous, poor. But I call them aristocrats, of noble birth because of the second birth. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,596 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ows about Lao Tzu's parents; they must have been absolutely anonymous. At least Jesus' father's name is known -- he must have been a good carpenter at least! But Lao Tzu's father, not even his name is known or where Lao Tzu was born, to whom he was born. He must have been absolutely anonymous, poor. But I call them aristocrats, of noble birth because of the second birth. Sannyas is a preparation for the second birth,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,597 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...totally with Friedrich Nietzsche about this. That will be the most unfortunate day, but that unfortunate day has always been here for the majority. Only a few people have transcended. Those are the Buddhas, Christs, Lao Tzus, Zarathustras. Become a man who is constantly transcending himself. Let every sunrise see something new happening to you. Keep constantly growing. Never be satisfied with the inner growth. Remain in a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,598 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ld that is born. It makes everybody solid. It values solidity very much, while life is always liquid, while life is always moving and flowing. The way of life is the way of the water; it is not the way of the rocks. Lao Tzu calls it 'the watercourse way': always moving, always moving. It is a flux, and hence the beauty ! Solid things can remain solid only if they die. Death is very solid; Life is very liquid. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,599 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... There is nothing higher than love; love is the highest religion there is. All is contained in that small word. All the commandments and all the scriptures, and all the teachings of all the Buddhas -- Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu -- are just streams of the ocean of love. If you understand Jesus you are bound to reach to the ocean of love. Or if you understand the ocean of love you have understood Jesus automatically. And there is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,600 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [....' The water represents the meek, the humble. Jesus again says 'In my kingdom of god, the last should be the first and the first should be the last.' He is again talking about the water element but not directly. But Lao Tzu talks directly -- he calls his way 'the watercourse way'. Be non-ambitious and all is yours. Yours is the kingdom of god. The ambitious simply go mad. Ambition is the beginning of madness; it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,601 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... But they have all failed. We are grateful that they tried Because out of that effort life has been enriched. We have beautiful scriptures: the sayings of Zarathustra, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha Are so beautiful, so precious That without them there would Have been no humanity We would have been utterly poor. But howsoever beautiful they are ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,602 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly possible through awareness. Unless one transforms ones unconsciousness Into consciousness there is no freedom. And that is where only very few people Have succeeded -- a Jesus, a Lao Tzu A Zarathustra, a Buddha Just a few people Who can be counted on one's fingers. They have really lived in freedom Because they lived out of awareness. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,603 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... what aloneness is. Millions know what loneliness is. That is very ordinary As common as the common cold. Everybody suffers from loneliness. But only a Jesus or a Buddha or a Lao Tzu reach to the highest peak of aloneness. The same difference exists between Solitariness and solitude. Solitariness is ugly, solitude is beautiful. Solitariness...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,604 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The full flowering of consciousness. You can call Buddha a Christ And you can call Christ a Buddha. There is no difference. Remember it Love Christ, love Buddha, love Lao Tzu Imbibe their spirit But don't follow their lives in detail. Never be a follower. Always be authentic, true, yourself. And I say that is the only way to follow them. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,605 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...no definition. It is indefinable Hence it is called the fourth. But that is the goal of the mystics Of the sannyasins That is the goal of Christ, Buddha Krishna, Lao Tzu And that is the goal here. Gautam the Buddha was called well-gone Because he would not be coming back again, That was his last life. One becomes a well-gone ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,606 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- At the third stage; only once in a while A Jesus, a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Krishna. But that should remain the goal. Unless you attain to the fragrance of love You have not known life in its totality In its wholeness you have not explored it. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,607 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Naturally the difference becomes greater. The pseudo master is simply suffering from An inferiority complex Hence he tries to prove himself superior. But a Jesus or a Buddha or a Lao Tzu Had immense respect for others. You respect yourself and you respect others too Love yourself and love others too And just this simple change in your attitude Ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,608 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...In fact he has no roof over his head. He makes great systems of thought, he is very skillful with words, but he has not experienced anything. That is the difference between a Hegel and a Buddha, between a Kant and a Lao Tzu, between an Aristotle and a Jesus. Truth has to be experiences, truth has to be lived, and the only way to experience it is to live herenow, to withdraw all your projections from the future. No past has ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,609 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...llions of people have loved but nobody has ever been able to define it. You can meditate, you can become meditation, but you cannot express the real experience of it; nobody has ever been able to, not even Buddha or Lao Tzu or Jesus. Once a disciple asked Jesus, "What is prayer?" Rather than answering him he fell on his knees and started praying. The disciple said, "But I want to understand first." Jesus said, "There is no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,610 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... two kinds of religion in the world: a few religions follow the path of love, a few religions follow the path of meditation. Jesus, Krishna, Chaitanya -- these people follow the path of love. Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu -- these people follow the path of meditation. My effort here is to create the great synthesis, to create a religious consciousness which accepts both as valid. Even Bein' Gawd Ain...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,611 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... (to Riet) : Ego is also powerful but its power is ugly, it is the power of Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin. The power of egolessness is beautiful; it is the power of Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. The power that comes through ego is momentary. The power that comes through egolessness is eternal because it is God's, it is not yours; you are just a vehicle. And the same is true about richness. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,612 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o you. Seek and ye shall find. Again the same thing is there. Jesus is not so fortunate, he could not get the cream. He has to talk to the common crowds and the common crowds did what they could: they crucified him. Lao Tzu was not crucified, Rabiya was not crucified, and they were saying more revolutionary and rebellious things: Do not seek, and find. Seeking is a sure way of missing, says Lao Tzu, because in seeking you have a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,613 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... could: they crucified him. Lao Tzu was not crucified, Rabiya was not crucified, and they were saying more revolutionary and rebellious things: Do not seek, and find. Seeking is a sure way of missing, says Lao Tzu, because in seeking you have already assumed that it is not yours. In seeking you have already accepted that you have lost it. In seeking you already have declared that it is far away. It is within you, it is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,614 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tles if you wait; if you go on doing something the mud will be continuously created by your doing. Once the muddy water is available one need not do anything -- then non-doing is needed. That's what Lao Tzu calls 'wu-wei', non-doing. Sitting silently, doing nothing, the grass grows by itself... if you can sit silently with tremendous trust that the mud will settle on its own accord. All these stages one has...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,615 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...p depending on external things to make her happy. She asks what she can do to help this.] This is a great insight that has happened to you -- now keep to it! Don't forget it the moment you go out of Lao Tzu house, mm? Just one thing -- don't forget it; just remember, that's all. It is such a simple phenomenon if you can remember one thing -- that in life nobody else can make you happy or comfortable or anythi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,616 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The East could not, the East still carries the bullock cart; it is the same bullock cart! In the same bullock cart Buddha was moving, in the same bullock cart Patanjali was moving, in the same bullock cart Lao Tzu was moving, and in the same bullock cart the East is still moving. [The sannyasin asks: How to use the movements to cathart?] Do it alone -- don't talk to any t'ai chi master... the first thing, mm? D...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,617 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u again become conscious and the self enters; that's why I continue to call it the unconscious. It does not function as a conscious entity, it has no self in it. It is what Buddha calls 'anatta', no-self. It is what Lao Tzu calls the void, the emptiness, inner emptiness. So try here, start here: whenever you feel, just remember me. Relax, and you will be surprised how much great wisdom everybody is carrying in h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,618 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot lean too much towards the left not too much to the right, otherwise you will fall. Keep your balance and remain in the middle, and then there is great grace, great beauty. That is the beauty of a Buddha, of a Lao Tzu, of a Jesus. It has nothing to do with their body; it comes from their innermost core, it radiates from there. Of course it affects their body -- their body also becomes luminous with it, bathed in it. But it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,619 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut of it -- simply a frustration, a boredom. That's what has happened to the whole humanity. This is not the way of the Buddhas. The Buddha may be Gautam Siddhartha or Jesus Christ or Zarathustra or Lao Tzu -- it doesn't matter who the awakened one is, but this is the way of all the awakened ones: not to create conflict in you. But the priest lives on it, his whole business depends on it. The more you are in con...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,620 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...happen. Then your whole being is full of flowers, your whole life becomes fragrant. Very few people have been able to reap the crop of bliss... only once in a while a Gautam Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Lao Tzu -- people who can be counted on one's fingers. It is a tragedy that so few people have been able to attain to their ultimate potential while everybody is capable of it. But millions of people remain deserts. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,621 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sciously, people start travelling towards that light, the source of that light. Now all kinds of communications are possible. The earth has become a small village, but in the days of Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu it was not so. Still, from almost every part of the world people travelled to Gautam Buddha. There were no aeroplanes, no trains, no cars, no telephones, no postal system -- nothing of the sort. But in some m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,622 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing in many ways, but as far as the concept of the heart is concerned it has been a curse. The heart has disappeared. The heart that Buddha talked about, the heart that Jesus talked about, the heart that people like Lao Tzu and Zarathustra lived through, has disappeared. Instead there is just something physiological, just a blood-purifying system, a mechanism which can be changed, substituted by something plastic, by something s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,623 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is a miracle. One cannot believe that such dirty mud can create such a beautiful flower. Man in his unconsciousness is nothing but dirty mud. Seeing man, one cannot believe that Jesus or Buddha or Lao Tzu could have been possible. That's why so many people doubt the very existence, the historical existence of Jesus and Buddha and Lao Tzu and people like that. They doubt for the simple reason that all around th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,624 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is nothing but dirty mud. Seeing man, one cannot believe that Jesus or Buddha or Lao Tzu could have been possible. That's why so many people doubt the very existence, the historical existence of Jesus and Buddha and Lao Tzu and people like that. They doubt for the simple reason that all around they see a humanity which is nothing but dirty mud, and they see people throwing dirt on each other, enjoying mud-slinging. How can they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,625 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ast religion has not been creative. That's why religion has existed for thousands of years but has failed, utterly failed. It has not been able to transform human consciousness, not at all. Just a Jesus, a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, here and there -- this is not success. Out of millions of people one person, Jesus... it does not prove anything. The exception simply proves the rule. And what did we do to these people? -- we poisoned them...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,626 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... criticisms was that Jesus is feminine, womanish. And I agree with him. I agree with him, he is right, his insight is right -- but his criticism is wrong. Jesus is feminine, Buddha is also feminine, Lao Tzu even more so. All the great religious people have been feminine -- feminine in a very spiritual sense, not biological. They were receptive people, they made themselves utterly silent and open and they waited....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,627 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...IND HAS TO CEASE FOR THE TRUTH TO BE Knowledge that is borrowed from others is untrue, knowledge that is gathered from scriptures is untrue. It may have come from a very original source, from a Jesus, from a A Lao Tzu, from a Zarathustra -- it does not matter, because truth is untransferable. There is no way to express it. So whatsoever information you gather from scriptures, and from others is all rubbish. One has to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,628 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n by poetry. The mystic is a poet in the ultimate sense. He may not write poetry, that is irrelevant, but he lives in poetry, he is poetry. Where else can you find more poetry than in a Jesus or a Buddha or a A Lao Tzu. Although none of them has written poetry, they lived poetry. My sannyasins have to become living poetry. Forget all about your head. Become headless and heart-full. There are no problems in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,629 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ppiness in it and more joy. Ordinarily our mind always finds faults -- hence it makes us miserable. Misery is an attitude. If you are lazy, then don't find fault with laziness. Find the philosophy of it -- read Lao Tzu, tao, and enjoy laziness! If you are active, then don't find fault with it; forget Lao Tzu and Tao -- that has nothing to do with you, that doesn't relate to you. Then Nietzsche will be good. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,630 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...serable. Misery is an attitude. If you are lazy, then don't find fault with laziness. Find the philosophy of it -- read Lao Tzu, tao, and enjoy laziness! If you are active, then don't find fault with it; forget Lao Tzu and Tao -- that has nothing to do with you, that doesn't relate to you. Then Nietzsche will be good. But always find the thing that will make you more happy; and it is available everywhere! If a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,631 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is of passivity and activity; the difference basically is that of male and female, yin and yang. But for the passive person there are beautiful methods -- as beautiful as those for the active person. Lao tzu is for you, tao is for you. Mm? -- tao is the ancientmost lazy man's guide to enlightenment! (Laughter) There is no problem in it. There are certain methods that will suit you and which are only for the low e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,632 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lem arises only when you fall ill -- then the question of health arises. If the question arses to a healthy person, it simply shows that he must be hiding some illness somewhere which wants to erupt. Lao Tzu has said, 'When I look around, everybody seems to be talented, so intelligent. I am muddle-headed.' And he was one of the most perceptive men in the world ever. He says, 'I am such an idiot that I have nothin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,633 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... mindless as an idiot. So dullness in fact is not bad on the path of Tao. The problem is arising because the very word dull is condemnatory in the western mind. In Tao, to be dull is perfectly good ! Lao Tzu says that everybody is so intelligent; he is so muddle-headed. 'Everybody seems to be so clever and I am just a stupid man.' I could see that you have the capacity... you can become as dull as Lao Tzu (c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,634 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly good ! Lao Tzu says that everybody is so intelligent; he is so muddle-headed. 'Everybody seems to be so clever and I am just a stupid man.' I could see that you have the capacity... you can become as dull as Lao Tzu (chuckling). But your western upbringing is contrary. To be clever is a talent in the West. To be clever on the path of Tao is foolishness. To be intelligent, bright, sharp, is a sacred value in the western w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,635 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t your western upbringing is contrary. To be clever is a talent in the West. To be clever on the path of Tao is foolishness. To be intelligent, bright, sharp, is a sacred value in the western world. Lao Tzu will laugh. He says, 'Just be like an idiot!' The values are so different that when a western mind starts doing T'ai Chi or things like that, this trouble arises. Whenever your energy is flowing, a certa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,636 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... them. They will be coming more and more, and it will come one day that you simply become a long blank. Then they are not like intervals. They become your very life... a deep emptiness, abyss-like. This is what Lao Tzu says is the peak. This is a totally different orientation. That's the eastern way. The West dominated the East for three, four hundred years. The East never even gave a good fight, never. Just think! India's ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,637 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lways to choose one against the other. Politics is conflict. In religion when you come close to one master, you have come close to all. If you understand Jesus, you have understood Buddha and you have understood Lao Tzu. A christian monk visited a zen monastery -- he was one of the early Christians who visited Japan. He went to a zen master and he started reading from the new testament 'The Sermon On The Mount'. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,638 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... You cannot say Buddha was not good because he never opened a hospital and never went to the orphans and to the lepers; you cannot say that only because of this he was not a good man. You cannot say that Lao Tzu was not a good man because he never served anybody. And you cannot say that the people who are serving are good just because of their service. They may be politicians; they may have motivations. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,639 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you; it is your very consciousness, it is your very life. It is at the very center of your being; hence God is beyond search. When all search ends, when seeking ceases, God is found. There is a famous saying of Lao Tzu: "Seek and you will certainly miss. Seek not and it is here and it has always been here." The greatest moment in life is the moment when all seeking disappears, when one is simply herenow -- no desire to find...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,640 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Master and a disciple in a certain moment of intimacy, the transfer.... But there is no way to say it, there is no way to be articulate about it, because whatsoever we can say about it is going to falsify it. Lao Tzu says, The Tao that can be said is not the true Tao." The moment you say it, it has become a lie. Our words are so contaminated with our lies, with our pseudo lives, with our pretensions. Our ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,641 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t. Love is one of the most forgotten things in this world -- although people talk much about it. In fact they talk much about it because it is being missed in their lives; they substitute by talking. Lao Tzu says, "There was a time when nobody used to talk about God because God was so herenow. Life was so full of God that nobody bothered to talk about it. Then there came the days of fallen humanity when people st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,642 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eeling that one is falling upwards? It looks so ridiculous, but it has been found to be so again and again, although not many people have learned the secret of it, only some thousands. Down the ages a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Mahavira, and so on, so forth. A few people have found themselves falling upwards. That dimension is called "urdhwa." And I hope one day you will find yourself falling upwards! It is time t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,643 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gies and all the so-called saints. It has failed, it has not worked. Humanity is enough proof that whatsoever we have been doing in the past has not succeeded. Yes, a few people happened -- a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Buddha -- but they are exceptions and the exception only proves the rule. In fact just the reverse should be the case: we should all be like Buddha and Jesus and Zarathustra; only once in a whi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,644 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll say that the whole world is living in misery and you are meditating? Is this the time to meditate? If they are right then there is never going to be time to meditate; then Buddha was selfish, Krishna was selfish, Lao Tzu was selfish -- because the world has always been in misery. And if one waits to meditate for the time when nobody is in misery that time is never going to come. It needs courage to stand alone...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,645 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- puts truth first and god second. Both attitudes are right, both can lead you to the ultimate goal, but my preference is for truth to be the first thing and god the second. Buddha, Lao Tzu, Mahavira, agree with me -- and these are the three greatest mystics ever. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,646 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Mohammed, Jesus, Krishna -- they belong to the other tradition; god is first, truth is secondary. Why did Buddha, Lao Tzu and Mahavira insist on truth being the suprememost quality, There was a very significant reason and that reason has become even more significant today. After twenty-five centuries of experience it can be said...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,647 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... society, morality is to follow it. Morality simply means obedience to the society and immorality means disobedience. In that sense Jesus is immoral, he disobeyed his society. Socrates is immoral, Buddha is immoral, Lao Tzu is immoral; in fact all the great people who have walked on the earth are immoral in that sense because they disobeyed, they were rebels. But they are virtuous. In fact they rebelled against the morality beca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,648 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rk. Humanity is passing through a very dark space; unless we decide to flower in darkness there is no possibility of flowering. Individual flowers have happened -- a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu -- but that is not going to change humanity. That is just like your pouring a spoonful of sugar into the ocean and hoping, that the ocean will become sweet. It is hoping against hope. We need ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,649 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e a saint. If he were a saint the Jews would not have crucified him. He was a sage, certainly, but not a saint. But that word does not exist in the Christian vocabulary. Sage is a Taoist terminology; Lao Tzu is a sage, Chuang Tzu is a sage. They don't talk about saints, saints are just very ordinary people. Sinners are against the social rules and saints are fulfilling the same rules. They are not very different;...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,650 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at love is the only quality that making man different from everything else in existence. But very few men are loving. So all men are not distinguished, they are ordinary. Only once in a while a Christ -- a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, has experienced the ultimate peak of love and they are the salt of the earth. My sannyasins have to move deeper into the phenomenon of love, they have to explore it in every possible way and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,651 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ise god either; you can experience both. And the word 'Tony' means beyond praise. There is no possibility of praising god because what can we say about the ultimate? Whatsoever we say will be wrong. Lao Tzu says that to say the truth is to falsify it. The moment you utter it, it is no longer the truth, it becomes a lie. And all our prayers in the churches, in the temples, in the mosques, are nothing but praises ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,652 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eard, because in hearing it one comes to know the beauty, the grace, the benediction, the bliss of existence. In hearing it one has heard all the scriptures. In hearing it one has heard the Buddhas, the Christs, the Lao Tzus. Going All the Way Chapter #21 Chapter title: None 21 Nove...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,653 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...physiological will remain gross, but even the psychological is not the ultimate height, and those who remain on the psychological are still missing the original face. There is one higher plane where only a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus -- a few people -- have entered, and that is the world of the eternal, avinasho. And to know it is to know all. Jesus calls it the kingdom of god, Buddha calls it nirvana; they are different nam...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,654 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Christ. Christ was never a follower of anybody else; if he had been a follower the Jews would not have killed him -- he was authentically himself. Buddha was not a follower of anybody; he was authentically himself. Lao Tzu was not a follower of anybody. If one wants to be really whole, sane, blissful, then one has to continuously remember not to fall into the trap of following. My sannyasins are not my follo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,655 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...wake Osho reiterates.) For thousands of years the stupid religious people have been arguing about whether Buddha knows more or Jesus whether Krishna knows more or Buddha, whether Buddha knows more or Lao Tzu. There are all fools, blind people arguing about light. They can go on arguing for eternity and they will not come to any conclusion because light has to be seen, not argued about. There is no que...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,656 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and Mohammed, but nothing to do with any established church, established religion. And as your love grows you will find that your love becomes so absorbing that it can absorb Krishna and Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. And your love is so vast, it can contain all these people with no contradiction, with no problem at all. Jesus says 'The house of my god is huge, it has many rooms.' In his house Krishna can be a guest....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,657 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is so vast, it can contain all these people with no contradiction, with no problem at all. Jesus says 'The house of my god is huge, it has many rooms.' In his house Krishna can be a guest. Buddha can be a guest, Lao Tzu can be a guest -- they are welcome. In my house too, all are welcome -- but not the priests, not the popes, not the shankaracharyas, not the immams. These are the most irreligious people on the earth, the ene...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,658 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o say it, no way to express it. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says 'Truth cannot be said, and the moment you say it, you have already falsified it.' Man can exist in two ways. Either he can exist in time... That's where we ordinarily exist, but in time there is de...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,659 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...im, and you will not see the purity and the innocence of Buddha. But he contains the purity of Buddha, the innocence of Mahavira, the rebellion of Jesus, the song and the dance of Krishna, and the infinite wisdom of Lao Tzu. He contains everything that has ever happened to any human being in the world. But a certain science is needed, and that's the science of meditation. It is not a complicated science at all, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,660 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nly a potential; hence both alternatives are open: he can fall below the animals, he can rise above the gods. He can become an Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan, Tamerlaine; he can become a Gautam Buddha, a Jesus Christ, a Lao Tzu. Man is a ladder -- there are many possibilities in him; hence it is both a danger and a dignity, a glory and an agony. It is easier to fall; falling is always easier, no effort is needed for it. To rise...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,661 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to know that we don't exist as separate entities, that we are not islands; we are part of the infinite continent -- call it god, call it truth, the ultimate, the absolute or whatsoever name you choose. Lao Tzu says 'It has no name, hence I will call it tao.' It has no name, so you can choose your own, or you can choose some name used by Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna... but the basic secret of being victorious is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,662 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t truth, the ultimate, the absolute or whatsoever name you choose. Lao Tzu says 'It has no name, hence I will call it tao.' It has no name, so you can choose your own, or you can choose some name used by Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna... but the basic secret of being victorious is disappearing totally as an individual. And the moment there are no desires, no dreams, no thoughts, how can you be? Who are you except a bundle ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,663 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll, man is so stupid, he goes on doing the same thing again and again. And the people who have explored within have always found it -- that too, without exception. A Jesus, a Buddha, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu -- anybody who has ever gone in has always found it. Nobody has ever failed there. But such is the stupidity of man that he never listens to these people. It is good that you are here and you are ready to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,664 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecret, neither the theory of gravitation, nor the theory of Einsteinian relativity. These are nothing compared to the insight that man has discovered through meditation. Buddha, Christ, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu -- all these people have come to know only one thing: a simple art of going to your very centre and seeing the world from there... Because the perspective is totally different. Your whole world becomes differ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,665 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nsane. Of course people differ in degrees: a few people are more insane and a few are less, but a difference of degree is not much of a difference. Only very few people -- once in a while a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Basho, a Jesus -- only very few people have been able to become guides of all their elementary forces and have been able to play, not solo, but to become part in an orchestra. These few people who have bee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,666 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sh, young. And with that welcoming heart one becomes aware slowly slowly of something which has been called god, truth, nirvana, enlightenment -- different names for the same thing But the best name has been used by Lao Tzu; he calls it tao. He says 'It has no name, hence I have chosen an arbitrary name: I will call it tao.' He is very clear about it. He says 'It is an arbitrary name, t has no name -- I will call it tao' Tao...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,667 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...each the temple, suddenly you see that all others who were trying and working on other doors have also arrived, and you have arrived at the same centre. Jesus and Buddha and Krishna and Mohammed and Lao Tzu and Zarathustra all meet at the very centre. The doors were so different and they were knocking on different doors and they were arguing when they were at the doors that 'I am right' or 'You are right' or 'Wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,668 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...arching. Jesus was talking to beginners when he said 'Seek, and ye shall find; knock and the doors shall be opened unto you, ask and it shall be given.' It is perfectly right for those who are just in the beginning. Lao Tzu says 'Seek and ye shall never find, seeking is the sure way of missing.' He is also right, perfectly right, as right as Jesus. And there is no contradiction. He is talking to the adepts, he is talking to thos...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,669 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eak relax, forget all about truth -- and suddenly you find it within yourself. Both are true. Now, the Taoists don't believe in Jesus, they will argue against him; and the Christians won't believe in Lao Tzu, they will argue against him. Both are in a state of ignorance. As I see it these are two aspects of the same coin. But I want you to remember the end; the beginning has already begun. Sannyas is an initi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,670 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a prison. Jesus was never a Christian, remember. And he rebelled against the Jews, that's why they crucified him. He rebelled against all boundaries, against all that was past, He was a rebel. So was Buddha, so was Lao Tzu, and so is the case with everyone who has ever experienced bliss. Drop the boundaries, definitions, identities and the doors are open -- there is nobody barring the path -- and one immediately...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,671 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... never been such a holy man on earth as he was: so godless and so godlike. His godlikeness is superb, unique. Nobody even comes close to him. Jesus is beautiful, Zarathustra is beautiful, Mahavira is beautiful, Lao Tzu is beautiful, Moses is beautiful, but Buddha has some tremendous beauty around him, some inexplicable grace, something very much of the beyond. And it became possible only because he never believed in the stu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,672 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e the very salt of the earth. Remove them and man will be hanging from the trees, he will be a monkey again; all evolution will disappear. Even Charles Darwin will be hanging from the trees. It is because of Buddha, Lao Tzu, Bahauddin, Basho, these few people, that humanity has slowly slowly come to a point of growth. But it is still individual effort that can make you a Buddha; it has not become a universal phenomenon. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,673 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing to become, what the end result of it all is going to be. By being a sannyasin you are choosing a certain possibility against other possibilities. You are choosing to become a Buddha, a Christ, a Lao Tzu. You are moving in the most exalted dimension; everything else is superficial compared to this dimension, mundane. This dimension is sacred. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho Interna...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,674 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- why be confined to Christ or Krishna? Why be confined at all? Why not claim the whole heritage of humanity? Why not become oceanic? When one can absorb Krishna and Christ both, Mohammed and Mahavira both, Lao Tzu and Zarathustra both, then why choose, why choose at all? -- because they all bring tremendous richness to you. They are like beautiful rivers falling in the ocean bringing different chemicals, different colo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,675 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll feel it as a sort of relaxation -- the whole attitude changes. Then you will not call it dullness, you will call it a non-ambitiousness. And it makes a lot of difference what you call it. There is a saying of Lao Tzu that the whole world seems to be very sharp and intelligent -- only he is dull. But he was joking. He was saying that the whole world seems to be foolishly interested -- running and rushing here and there -- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,676 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...your work, and the remaining time simply sit and rest, close your eyes. If you welcome this state, this state will give you great benefit. Great is going to be the pay-off, so don't reject it. And read more and more Lao Tzu in these three months; that will be the right background. Just read a few lines from anywhere. His whole tape is that whatsoever is, is good -- his renunciation is tremendous. Even Buddha and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,677 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n is tremendous. Even Buddha and Mahavir, their renunciation is not so total because they are still interested in achieving something -- maybe not in the world; they are interested in enlightenment. Lao Tzu says, 'All nonsense! The world is nonsense -- enlightenment too!' He simply sits there doing nothing. Just see the beauty of it. No interest means no desire. No enthusiasm means no passion, no fever, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,678 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ful -- but don't make it a belief, so if Buddha comes across your path, you can love him also. In fact your love for Jesus will make you capable of loving Buddha. Your love for Buddha will make you capable of loving Lao Tzu. Your love for me will make you capable of loving the whole. So love -- don't believe. Love is trust -- belief is not trust. Underneath the belief there is always doubt. That's why you are ask...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,679 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r secret, more esoteric -- that to be loved one has just to be. And the ultimate success happens to those who simply pray and wait and don't do anything. In these moments I will suggest that you read Lao Tzu. Meditate on Tao Te Ching. Just read a few lines, just savour them -- there is no need to think about them... just have a taste of it -- the taste of Tao. Your energy is at a point where Lao Tzu can be very h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,680 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uggest that you read Lao Tzu. Meditate on Tao Te Ching. Just read a few lines, just savour them -- there is no need to think about them... just have a taste of it -- the taste of Tao. Your energy is at a point where Lao Tzu can be very helpful. So just get hold of Tao Te Ching and open it anywhere, because it is not a book -- one dimensional. Anywhere it opens, that's right. Just read a few lines, taste it, and close the book. J...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,681 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e focussed outwards, so god has fallen in the shadow, and the obvious has become impossible and the impossible has become our very search. God is very obvious. 'One does not even have to go outside one's room,' says Lao Tzu, 'to find him.' And I say 'One does not even have to go outside one's body.' One is it. That is the meaning of svarupo: it is your very nature, your very ground. 'Thou art that' -- when this recognition arise...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,682 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing they remain beggars, because a king without a kingdom is nothing but a beggar. And a kingdom without a king is a real kingdom. Even that interference of the presence of the king is no more there. Lao Tzu says 'The greatest king is one about whom the people never come to know.' The greatest king is one who goes on doing things for the people, but people think that they themselves are doing them, one who remain...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,683 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hom the people never come to know.' The greatest king is one who goes on doing things for the people, but people think that they themselves are doing them, one who remains absent, who remains subtle. Lao Tzu is right: when you are really the king, you don't brag about yourself. There is no need to beat the drums, there is no need to shout and to make the world feel your presence. The idea of making the world ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,684 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se -- that's why you had to leave. If you had relaxed and accepted you would have passed through it very easily. You became resistant. Have you sometimes seen? -- a drunkard falls but he is not hurt. Lao Tzu is very fond of saying again and again that if a bullock cart falls into a ditch, everybody else is hit; only the drunkard in the bullock cart remains unharmed. When everybody is crying and weeping and people...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,685 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...onsciousness is Christ-consciousness. Jesus is only one of the Christs -- there have been many, there will be many; but Christians are not so generous as to recognize it. Buddha is a Christ, Krishna is a Christ, Lao Tzu is a Christ and there have been thousands. Buddhists are more generous in recognizing Christ as a Buddha, recognizing Lao Tzu also as a Buddha. 'Buddha' is the Indian word for Christ. They are not personal ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,686 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not so generous as to recognize it. Buddha is a Christ, Krishna is a Christ, Lao Tzu is a Christ and there have been thousands. Buddhists are more generous in recognizing Christ as a Buddha, recognizing Lao Tzu also as a Buddha. 'Buddha' is the Indian word for Christ. They are not personal names, they indicate the ultimate state of consciousness. So your name will mean: blissful ultimate state of consciousness. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,687 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... can happen through anything, but the most potential situation is love. Enlightenment is possible in any kind of situation, in any state of mind; sometimes it has happened in very absurd situations. Lao Tzu became enlightened by seeing a dry leaf falling from the tree. He must have been in a very very silent state, ready... just somewhere near about ninety-nine point nine degrees, and that falling leaf added onl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,688 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t it is just like the child takes nine months in the mother's womb, mm? If the mother is in a hurry there will be a miscarriage and the child will be born dead. Wait! There is an ancient story about Lao Tzu, a beautiful story -- utterly false but of immense significance -- that he lived in his mother's womb for sixty-two years. So slow! The mother must have been a woman of guts (laughter) obviously, otherwise sh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,689 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y false but of immense significance -- that he lived in his mother's womb for sixty-two years. So slow! The mother must have been a woman of guts (laughter) obviously, otherwise she couldn't give birth to a man like Lao Tzu. Sixty-two years -- by the time he was born he was already old; all his hair was white. He was born wise, enlightened; nothing was left. He was born mature, absolutely mature. What I take from thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,690 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...istian monks and saints, not Hindu nor Jaina nor Buddhist. My sannyasins are of a totally new category, it has never existed before. Only once in a while have a few people been like my sannyasins -- a Bodhidharma, a Lao Tzu, a Chuang Tzu -- but it has been such a rare thing in the past. I would like it to become the very quality of the humanity that is going to come, the very future of humanity. Religion should learn the ways of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,691 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... all his victory was simply violence, murder, arson, destruction. He was a calamity to humanity. All the great conquerors, the so-called great conquerors of course, have been calamities, curses. But a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Krishna -- they are pure blessings to humanity. But their rule was of a totally different world: they ruled themselves. They were in absolute inner discipline. There was no conflict within them, they had c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,692 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Humanity up to now has lived in a very stupid way. And that's why as far as I am concerned I don't consider the past of humanity worth anything. Just a few names I respect: a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu, a Krishna -- just a few names, they can be counted on one's fingers. And the millions have lived only in a false way, pseudo. They have only been carbon copies of carbon copies, of carbon copies, of carbon c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,693 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nactive. They come to beautiful conclusions but those conclusions are impotent because they never act on them. And the fools are very active; they never think. So Adolf Hitlers and Joseph Stalins and Lao Tse Tungs -- these are very active people and these are the fools. So it has been a strange history. The people who think and come to beautiful 10/28/07 Copyright Osho Internat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,694 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...would like to be, nobody takes any not of the child's individuality. Up to now humanity has been very murderous. It is strange, very strange, that a few people somehow escaped -- a Buddha, a Jesus, a Lao Tzu. There are very few people, but it is almost a miracle that they escaped and society could not manage to cut their roots and they grew to their full height. But they are proofs enough that everybody can grow ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,695 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... at the cost of bliss. I want to create a synthesis in my sannyasins because my observation is that the whole man has not yet existed on the earth or has existed only very rarely, once in a while -- a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Jesus. But these are exceptional people, they don't represent humility. They are so exceptional that; whether they existed or not makes not much difference. The vast humanity has remained in a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,696 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd, neither is Joseph Stalin, nor is Alexander the Great, nor Ivan the Terrible. These are people full of thoughts, great thoughts of changing the whole world, of bringing a revolution. Buddha is an empty mind, Lao Tzu is an empty mind. And out of these empty people -- Buddha, Lao Tzu, Basho -- god has been experienced. They have been able to sing songs of joy. Their life is a festival, a festival of lights; their life is a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,697 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... These are people full of thoughts, great thoughts of changing the whole world, of bringing a revolution. Buddha is an empty mind, Lao Tzu is an empty mind. And out of these empty people -- Buddha, Lao Tzu, Basho -- god has been experienced. They have been able to sing songs of joy. Their life is a festival, a festival of lights; their life is a continuum of celebration. Meditation means making the mind em...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,698 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Mystics have been aware for centuries: more people have become enlightened on the full-moon night than on any other night. I have never heard of anybody becoming enlightened in the day. Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu -- they all became enlightened in the night. It cannot be just coincidence. Night is feminine, day is masculine and enlightenment happens only in a very receptive mood, in a very feminine moo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,699 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f the West was Dionysius. He has been very much misunderstood in the West. If he had been is the East he would have been one of the Buddhas. We would have respected him as much as we have respected Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, not a bit less. But in the West he was laughed at for the simple reason that there was no context in which to understand him. He was a very rare exception; he had no relevance to the society in which he was ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,700 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tle dry, desert-like; love is an oasis. Love is full of song, joy, dance and celebration. Millions of woman have missed for the simple reason that they have been following Jesus, Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu -- and they all talk about truth, obviously. Their very language is male-oriented, and to a woman the very word 'truth' falls flat; it has no meaning. Just utter the word 'love' and suddenly a bell starts rin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,701 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Jesus has not got more potential than you have got, neither has Buddha nor Lao Tzu. As far as spiritual possibility is concerned everybody is absolutely alike, we just have to prepare the ground, uproot the weeds, remove the rocks, so that roses can grow in it. (Osho makes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,702 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... listener, you are just on the receiving end. That's how all the great scriptures are born. The Upanishadas, the Koran, the beatitudes of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching -- these great documents are not written by somebody, they have been heard. The people who were writing were not writing on their own, they were just vehicles, they were writing on behalf of go...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,703 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es people mediocre, stupid, because society needs the mediocres and the stupids. The mediocres become the heads and the stupids become the hands. But society is very much afraid of a real genius -- of a Buddha, of a Lao Tzu, of a Jesus. It is very much 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- afraid. A ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,704 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e ultimate truth -- not the truth of the philosophers but the truth of the mystics, not the truth of Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Hegel, Bradley, Russell, but the truth of Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Nanak, Kabir. These are two different approaches. Philosophy thinks about truth, but what can you think about truth? Either you know it or you don't know it. Thinking about truth is like a blind man thin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,705 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ars in the East. They are suffering from the same disease. The disease is that they don't recognise that they are blind. The mystics' approach is totally different. 'Socrates, Plotinus, Heraclitus, Pythagoras or Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Jesus -- their approach is totally different. It is not a question of thinking about truth -- because thinking can lead you nowhere, it goes round and round in circles. Their approach is to see...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,706 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... So they have not mentioned that they are doing something which is not possible. That is the second category of enlightened people. And the third category is the most paradoxical -- it consists of people like Lao Tzu, Buddha. They speak and simultaneously they also say that it is not sayable. Hence Lao Tzu has not been able to find many followers, because he looks a little crazy: he goes on saying things and at the same t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,707 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... category of enlightened people. And the third category is the most paradoxical -- it consists of people like Lao Tzu, Buddha. They speak and simultaneously they also say that it is not sayable. Hence Lao Tzu has not been able to find many followers, because he looks a little crazy: he goes on saying things and at the same time he goes on saying that nothing can be said. He defines truth and says it is indefinable...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,708 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll, Jesus does not mention it at all. they belong to the second category. But because they don't mention that truth cannot be said their ideas have been reduced to dogma, and doctrines and churches. Lao Tzu's ideas cannot be made into a dogma, his philosophy cannot be reduced to a creed. He has put enough dynamite in it; that dynamite will destroy all structures that are created around it. It is self-sabotage; h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,709 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e has made every effort to sabotage himself. But the third category of the enlightened people is the most honest and sincere. Of course they have to be very paradoxical and contradictory, almost illogical and crazy. Lao Tzu has been thought to be a madman. His disciple Chuang Tzu went even further. Nobody has surpassed Chuang Tzu in craziness; he is the craziest Buddha that has ever walked on the earth. That's why I call th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,710 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ieve. Cowards become Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans; courageous people are seekers, they don't belong to any dogma or creed. They enquire, they are inspirited by all the awakened ones -- Jesus, Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu -- but they don't belong to any church as such. And because they don't belong they can get inspiration from all sources; there is no problem for them. The Christian feels afraid to be influe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,711 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... through the empty person all the beauty and the benediction and the blessing of God flows through. The empty person becomes his messenger, he brings truth to the world. Jesus is an empty person, so is Buddha, so is Lao Tzu. And everybody can become that empty. Meditation makes you empty on the one hand and on the other hand it makes you blissful. They happen simultaneously. Bliss is our home. I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,712 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- phenomenon of love. Then it has also a beauty, if it is part of a love energy. And only once in a while ever fewer -- a Buddha, a Jesus, a Lao-Tzu -- reach to the third. The third is not a relationship at all. Divine love is a state, not a relationship. In the first you are not concerned with the individual. You can see it in animals. There is no ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,713 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on which gives the fallacious appearance that man is evolving. But for centuries man has not evolved. Only a few individuals here and there have evolved. You can come across a Buddha or a Jesus or a Zarathustra or a Lao Tzu, a Francis, a Kabir, a Bahauddin; there are very few people. Those who have really tasted the nectar of bliss are evolved human beings. Evolution has happened only to a few people. Just getting down from...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,714 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... human beings, ordinary human beings.' They cannot say they are wrong. It is impossible to deny those people because what they say you can feel in their life. People have seen Jesus, Gautam Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, and they have seen their bliss and their luminousness and they have heard their song... It is impossible to deny it. They have seen Jesus full of compassion and love even for the crowd. Even for all of those...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,715 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... for this ultimate goal. One should become an intense longing to achieve samadhi, to achieve superconsciousness. It is possible, because it has happened to other human beings; to Jesus, to Buddha, to Zarathustra, to Lao Tzu. It can happen to you, it can happen to everybody. It is everybody's birthright, we just have to claim it. To be a sannyasin means the beginning of the claim, the beginning of the pilgrimage. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,716 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n, but it is the same greed, no difference at all. If their greed disappears their god will disappear. Hence many religions have not risen above human psychology. That's why I love these two people, Lao Tzu and Buddha: they are the only persons in the whole history of humanity who have talked in terms of maturity. Buddha has said that fearlessness is a prerequisite for a real religion; greedlessness has to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,717 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... respect and love towards god because god himself has said 'I am a very jealous god.' Now god jealous? -- that is absolutely contradictory, that is impossible to conceive. Buddha would have laughed. Lao Tzu would have burned the Talmud immediately for the simple reason that this is just creating fear in people. The Talmud says: God is not nice, he is not your uncle; be afraid of him. That's why he is called...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,718 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pens the door of the divine and brings the divine into your life without any effort, without any imposition from the outside. And my kind of approach cannot be exploited by priests; it is impossible. Lao Tzu has not been exploited by the priests -- there are no churches and no priesthoods. Jesus has been very exploited, Krishna has been exploited, Mohammed has been exploited for the simple reason that they did no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,719 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cannot be the observed. Those thoughts are there; you are here, a witness. You are no more part of it; the no-mind has started growing in you. This is the way a man becomes a Christ or a Buddha or a Zarathustra or a Lao Tzu. The word 'Marie' is very beautiful. It has three meanings which define the whole process of meditation. The first meaning is bitterness. Meditation starts in a very bitter state. The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,720 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...then you have to go on doing the same, slowly slowly deepening the process. And one day, the ultimate flowering happens: the inner lotus opens up. That's the state of the awakened one, the state of a Buddha, Christ, Lao Tzu. Unless we achieve it there is no possibility of rest. something inside will go on goading us. And it is good that something inside goes on goading us. If it stops goading us we will remain unfulfilled,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,721 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou aware of certain things inside, but in a very vague sense. It can give you the confidence that 'Yes, there is a world inside, no doubt about it, because so many people cannot be lying. Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Mahavira, Krishna, Mohammed, such beautiful people cannot all be lying. They cannot be in a conspiracy -- for what? They never existed together -- they lived in different ages, in different countries -- yet ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,722 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ers. Either people have arrived through love -- Meera, Chaitanya, Farid, Bahauddin, Jesus, Mohammed... All these people have arrived through the path of love. And the other path is of meditation -- Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. These people have followed the path of meditation. Both arrive at the same goal; but up to now nobody has tried to create a higher synthesis of the two. My effort here i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,723 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- their names can be counted on one's fingers -- have attained to the ultimate peak. Sahajo is one of them. In India we have known only five women who can be compared to Buddha, Christ, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu and Nanak. One is Meera, whose name is well known all over the world. The second is Lalla -- she was born in Kashmir, and Kashmir has tremendous respect for the woman. In Kashmir there is a saying that they k...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,724 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ttled wherever it is, whatsoever it is. Only man is in a chaos, but that chaos is beautiful,:out of that chaos stars are born. It is only man who gives birth to a Christ, to a Buddha, to a Moses, to a Mohammed, to a Lao Tzu. It is out of this chaos that man tries to rise above, to go beyond. Man is not only the earth, he is far more, but ordinarily he is born as part of the earth although he contains the whole sk...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,725 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... one arrives at one's own innermost core. And that is where one finds the truth. There is nowhere else one can find the truth. The philosopher goes everywhere, the mystic simply sits in his own home. Lao Tzu says that you need not even go out of the room; all that you want you can find inside. And he is right! Being initiated into sannyas means being initiated into meditation. So now learn to drop the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,726 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... awkward, that's all; one wants to hide somewhere. And one feels as if one has come to the ultimate peak of evolution -- what more can you do? Monkeys have done great work. Buddha is a monkey, Jesus is a monkey, Lao Tzu is a monkey -- what else can you think of? Monkeys have done miracles! But this is just an absurd idea, utterly unscientific. Science is burdened with many superstitions; this is one of the superstitions of s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,727 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... humanness. But the past is dominated by the soldiers, the generals. Alexander to Great, Tamerlane, Nadir Shah. Genghis Khan. Our whole history is ugly. Even if we mention Christ and Buddha and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu, we mention them in the footnotes they don't make our main current of history. They are just a few astray people, exceptions; they need not be counted. In fact the whole of history should be r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,728 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ini was, Stalin was. These people should be erased from history, their memory should not be continued. History should be written with a view to giving the idea of the evolution of consciousness. It should consist of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu. Confucius, Ma Tzu, Buddha, Mahavir. Patanjali, Nagarjuna, Nanak, Kabir, Jesus. Plotinus, Heraclitus, Pythagoras -- people who have really contributed, who are the very salt of the earth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,729 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fford god. They can go on playing with words, theories, philosophies, ideologies, but their life will not have the fragrance of a divine experience. They will never know what Buddha tasted, they will never know what Lao Tzu became drunk with. They are the most unfortunate people on earth. One has to shift one's energies from logic to love. They are polar opposites. Logic is reason, love is absolutely irrational. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,730 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ans will go on writing treatises. And the miracle is that nobody reads those treatises, only other theologians read them and they refute them. For five thousand years the followers of Krishna, Patanjali, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mohammed, Nanak, Kabir, they have all been arguing -- I have looked into their argument: all their arguments are about the finger. Nobody is talking about the moon. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,731 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll be absolutely dumb. And that is the most precious experience. It is experienceable but not expressible. That's why it cannot become part of the known. Many people have experienced it -- Buddha experienced it, Lao Tzu experienced it, Patanjali experienced it, Kabir experienced it, but nobody has ever been able to say anything about it. All that they say is how to find it, but they never say anything about that which you ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,732 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... experienced it, Kabir experienced it, but nobody has ever been able to say anything about it. All that they say is how to find it, but they never say anything about that which you are going to find. Lao Tzu begins his book, TAO TE CHING: 'Truth is that which cannot be expressed. Remember this,' he says 'and then you can read my book. Don't forget it -- because truth you will not find in the 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,733 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... everything that is. Veet Thomas. Veet means transcending, Thomas means a seeker of truth. The very idea of seeking the truth has to be transcended; the very idea is basically wrong. Lao Tzu says if you seek the truth you will not find it because truth is already in you. It has not to be sought; it is in the seeker himself. The idea of seeking means it is somewhere else: you are the seeker and th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,734 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e destroyed, their courage is crippled. And whenever there has been a blissful person he has been a danger to the establishment. The society has learned that. Jesus was a danger, Buddha was a danger, Lao Tzu was a danger. So it is better to cut from the very roots all possibilities of somebody ever becoming a rebel. And the best way that they have found is to keep people in misery. In misery they cannot bring the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,735 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cannot remain without choosing. One kind of conqueror is represented by Alexander, Napoleon, Nadir Shah, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin. The other kind of conqueror is represented by Gautam Buddha, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Krishna. These are two diametrically opposite dimensions. The first category tries to conquer others, and to conquer others is to be violent, is to be aggressive, is to be destr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,736 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f the calamities in the world, that the diligent people are not intelligent and the intelligent people are not diligent. For example, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Alexander, are very diligent but not intelligent. Buddha, Lao Tzu, Kabir, are very intelligent but not diligent. My sannyasin has to create a synthesis. It is beautiful that a few Buddhas have happened in the world, but if they had been creative also, if th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,737 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r standard of living, better devices, gadgets, more technology, but it cannot give you a better quality of life; it can only increase the quantity. The quality comes from intelligence. The Buddha or Lao Tzu or Jesus are not very intellectual people, but they are utterly intelligent. And their very life shows it, their spontaneity, their totality, their joy. Their life is a festival of lights. And that's how...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,738 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an understand that which is missing. The East is living in such poverty, in such an ugly state of affairs that it has no time to think of higher things. It pays lip-service to the Buddha, to Krishna, to Mahavira, to Lao Tzu, but it is only lip-service. It has lost track of its own inheritance, so it doesn't feel that it is missing something on the inner. You can only feel that something is missed on the inner whe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,739 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ich they had completely forgotten about. To me, East does not mean just the East of today; to me it symbolizes all the great spiritual experiences that happened in the East. And tremendous is the contribution of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna, Kabir -- tremendous is the contribution. But the East is not in a state to understand it. The West is in a state now to understand it. For the first time in t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,740 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., Mahavira, Krishna, Kabir -- tremendous is the contribution. But the East is not in a state to understand it. The West is in a state now to understand it. For the first time in the West it is possible to understand Lao Tzu, Zen, Yoga, Tantra. The East has to rise in the West. It looks very contradictory but that's how it is: the sun has to rise 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Founda...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,741 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...experience of immortality. You can call it god, you can call it nirvana, but the basic thing is that you have experienced something which is beyond time. Whatsoever name one wants to use one can use. Lao Tzu says 'It has no name, hence I will call it tao.' A very beautiful statement, because it has no name some name has to be given -- xyz. Tao means xyz -- it does not mean anything at all. He says 'So any name wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,742 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uses -- like Albert Einstein or Leonardo da Vinci or Shakespeare or Mozart -- they live at the most near about fifteen per cent. Of course psychologists have not yet thought about people like Gautam the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra, Jesus. In fact they don't have any way to measure these people. They cannot accept that they are lacking the methodology, so rather than accepting their own limitations, they condemn Jesus ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,743 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e the beginning of a new life, but all depends on you. The first step is the most difficult, then everything else is easy because the second step is almost the same as the first, and so is the third. Lao Tzu says that by knowing how to take one single step one can travel ten thousand miles, because it is the same step again and again and again. Be surrendered. Forget that you exist separately from me. This is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,744 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...last straw on the camel, remember -- anything. One never knows which thing is going to become the last straw. Just a small thing... sometimes very small things have caused tremendous transformations. Lao Tzu was sitting under a tree -- he had struggled hard and nothing had happened -- and then 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,745 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... within yourself which is never repeated. It is yours and only yours. So remember: the greatest calamity that can happen to a person is that he starts imitating somebody. Respect Jesus and Buddha and Krishna and Lao Tzu and Zarathustra -- and there have been many other people of tremendous insight. Respect them, listen to their music, try to understand their hints, but never be an imitator, never be a follower. Just be yours...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,746 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is to free you from religions and help you to become religious. I don't want you to be a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan or a Buddhist -- these are religions. I want you to be a Christ, a Buddha, a Krishna, a Lao Tzu, a Mohammed -- these are religious people. Never forget for a single moment that Buddha was not Buddhist and Jesus was not Christian. Hence those who are Christians have nothing to do with Jesus. They hav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,747 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l miss the flower, and without the flower there is no fragrance. If you search for the flower the fragrance comes of its own accord. Hence the really great are not Alexanders, the really great are Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu. They were very simple people, with no desire to be anybody in particular -- humble. Jesus says "Blessed are the meek for theirs is the kingdom of god." That's exactly the meaning of your name. That ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,748 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... what meditation is all about: a discovery of one's own centre. And the moment you know who you are, there is a great explosion of intelligence. Buddha is not an intellectual, neither is Jesus nor is Lao Tzu, but they are tremendously intelligent. They have the clearest insight into things, a direct insight, an immediate insight. They don't go via anything, their eyes are unclouded. There is no smoke in their min...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,749 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r's words without attaining the consciousness that the master had. It is beautiful to be a lover of Christ because love is vast; you can be a lover of Christ and at the same time a lover of Buddha and a lover of Lao Tzu and a lover of Zarathustra and a lover of me. Love is so vast that it can contain all the masters. But following is very narrow. The follower of Christ cannot be a follower of Buddha, the follower of Budd...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,750 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mebody's are black -- that is immaterial. Look at what the fingers are pointing at, don't be bothered by the fingers. And you will be surprised: Buddha is indicating towards the same moon as Jesus, as Moses, as Lao Tzu. And the moment you realise this, who wants to be a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan? Then one just wants to be freedom, awareness, love, bliss, celebration. And the moment you are free you will find ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,751 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u realise this, who wants to be a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan? Then one just wants to be freedom, awareness, love, bliss, celebration. And the moment you are free you will find Christ in you, Buddha in you, Lao Tzu in you, Moses in you -- all together! In that inner freedom and silence the whole heritage of humanity becomes yours. So don't cling to the past. This is a second birth. The first birth has been missed b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,752 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t," and we try to look, but we don't find light, we start thinking that he must be crazy, because millions of people agree with you that there is no light, only darkness. Only very few people -- a Jesus, a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Rinzai -- very few people have disagreed with the majority. Of course they are so few that we can easily ignore them, but the truth is with those few people. This is my experience too: whe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,753 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...failed, the Russian Revolution failed, the Chinese Revolution failed. All revolutions have failed. And rebellion has always succeeded, but it is individual. A Jesus is a rebel, a Buddha is a rebel, a Lao Tzu is a rebel. We need more rebels in the world and less revolutionaries. And that's my effort through sannyas, to create rebels. Each sannyasin has to be a rebel, but that rebellion is individual. You are n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,754 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ound the meditator. The meditator is like a flower which has opened, and godliness is a fragrance that surrounds the meditator. God exists only once in a while when there is a Buddha, when there is a Christ or a Lao Tzu. Then god disappears and becomes invisible again. He becomes visible only when there is somebody like a Buddha. Buddha becomes the opening, and from Buddha's window god can start looking into the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,755 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t go anywhere else; in being herenow, all starts coming to you. That is the miracle of tada, the magic. The East has learned only one thing about life -- that is tada. The whole experience of Buddha, Lao Tzu, Krishna, and thousands of others can be reduced to only these words 'just this', this is it... [A cuckoo sings out in the garden.] ... this calling of the cuckoo.... When out of your silence 'tada' arise...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,756 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- fourth. You can call it the soul, the self, god or whatsoever you want to call it, that is up to you; any name will do because it has no name of its own. Lao Tzu says "Because it has no name I have chosen to call it tao." You can choose anything -- X Y Z, but to attain it is the ultimate goal of life. And in that moment all is light -- your inner eye has opened. It is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,757 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a seed, a potential and very few people up to now have been able to actualise that potential. And the people who have actualised it have always actualised it through the same process. Jesus or Buddha, Zarathustra or Lao Tzu, Krishna or Mahavira, Mohammed or Kabira -- they have followed the same process with different names. Jesus called it "becoming aware"; he used the word "beware" -- that simply means be aware. It is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,758 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oy, of god. And the moment you know god is within you, you may not have anything as far as worldly things are concerned but your very demeanour will be that of a king. Jesus or Buddha, Zarathustra or Lao Tzu, they had nothing compared to Alexander the Great or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler, but one can see clearly who the king is. Meditation releases your kingliness because it makes you aware of the kingdom of god wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,759 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cause the ordinary birth is the same -- whether you are born in the royal family or in the poor man's family, it doesn't matter. The real birth happens through meditation. Buddha is noble, Zarathustra is noble, Lao Tzu is noble, but their nobility, their aristocracy, is authentic, true. It has nothing to do with their ordinary birth. They have attained to a new life, they have given birth to themselves. That's what Jesus me...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,760 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., he still hopes. He thinks maybe up to now things have not been good, but tomorrow something is bound to happen. And once in a while, even in the past, it has happened! Buddha fulfilled the promise, Lao Tzu fulfilled the promise, Kabir fulfilled the promise, Farid fulfilled the promise -- a few people have fulfilled the promise. On the day Kabir died he sat in his deathbed, looked upwards and sai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,761 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ate yoga, the ultimate method: dropping all methods, dropping all effort and just relaxing in the moment, not doing anything, allowing things to be whatsoever they are, going wherever life takes you. Lao Tzu says, "If you can become just like a dry leaf which has fallen from the tree you will attain to the ultimate, you will know tao." "Tao" is his word for god. What is the secret of the dead leaf? The secret...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,762 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...suicide in a third world war, or if he wants to survive he will have to decide to bring a new birth. In fact in Jesus' time the misery was not so much. Jesus was a little earlier than his time, so was Buddha, so was Lao Tzu. I feel that I am very close to the point where it can happen because man has never been in such despair, in such deep emptiness, as he is now. This crisis is something totally new, its intensity is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,763 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d the most. Buddha never says rejoice so 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- much, Lao Tzu never says rejoice, Zarathustra never says rejoice; it is only Jesus who says it again and again. I love him for the simple fact that he loved ordinary humanity, that he lived like an ordinary ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,764 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...versities -- now thousands of universities exist on earth -- naturally everybody is becoming more and more knowledgeable. This is one of the causes why now it is so difficult to find a wise man like a Buddha or Lao Tzu or Jesus or Moses or Mohammed. It has become very difficult to find a man like that for the simple reason that everybody has become knowledgeable. And with the toy which is not the real thing, with ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,765 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s, arises, the whole mind disappears, the whole traffic disappears. There is great silence of infinite depth and out of that silence is the rebellion. Out of that silence one becomes a Buddha, a Christ, a Krishna, a Lao Tzu. [Osho talked on the difference between knowledge and wisdom last night. Tonight he expanded on that.] Become ignorant if you want to know. Two things are needed: become ignorant and bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,766 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you are disappearing on the one hand, and you are appearing in a totally new vision, on the other hand. The experience is so remarkable so unique, so inexpressible; hence we have given it some names. Lao Tzu calls it tao -- that is one of the most beautiful names ever given to it, far better than god, because the very word "god", particularly in Judaic and Christian and Mohammedan tradition, has become associated...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,767 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- jealous god." Jealous simply means Jewish, nothing else! (laughter) Lao Tzu says "I would like to call it tao," and the reason he gives "Why I should call it tao, because it has no name." Tao does not mean anything. It is just like calling something xyz. He says I will call it xyz be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,768 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es not mean anything. It is just like calling something xyz. He says I will call it xyz because it has no name and something has to be called. So I call it tao. In India we have called it aum -- that exactly is what Lao Tzu means by tao. Aum is just a sound, not even a word. Tao at least is a word; aum is just a sound, a humming sound. Actually it is very representative: when the person disappears into the impersonal existen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,769 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...na is called Christo and from Christo to Christ it is very easy. There is every possibility that the word "Christ" has its origin in the word "Krishna". Mohammed is a Christ, Zarathustra is a Christ, Lao Tzu is Christ. There have been many Christs but only one Jesus. You can never be a Jesus but you can be a Christ -- that is everybody's birthright. To be a Christ simply means to reach to the ultimate peak of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,770 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ting even his own master, John the Baptist. He was living according to his own intelligence, that's what brought him to the ultimate peak of consciousness. And the same is true about Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Nanak, to all the awakened ones. But the strange thing is that the people who never imitated anybody are being imitated by millions! There are Hindus, there are Mohammedans, there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,771 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And once you know the prayer of silence, once you know the music of silence you have known all that is worth knowing! It contains all the scriptures in it, it contains Christ and Buddha and Zarathustra and Lao Tzu. It contains the experience of all the awakened ones; hence I don't teach you any scripture and I don't give you any doctrine and I don't enforce any discipline. I simply persuade you to be silent because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,772 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a freedom that cannot be taken away. It releases immense courage. He can fight with the whole world. In fact all the great meditators have been fighting this stupid world, all alone, single-handedly. Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Kabir -- down the ages the meditator has stood there fighting the collective stupidity of humanity. he has been butchered, crucified, killed, poisoned, but that makes no difference. Whenever ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,773 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hesitantly, reluctantly, but soon he will learn the art that the more you give, the more you have it. True love transforms people. If Buddha transformed so many people it was because of his love. If Lao Tzu transformed many people it was because of his love. It is not a question of sermonizing great philosophies; what really transforms people is love. Love is my fundamental message. First know what love is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,774 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f jealousy would be supported and the husband condemned as immoral. But this is not the Vatican and here the support will be for freedom to move. ] [A primal group member says: There is a saying in Lao Tzu's teaching that anyone who is disturbed by the five colours, five tastes, five sounds, cannot reach truth. But I wanted to eat something delicious and I felt like listening to really good music or singing a s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,775 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stes, five sounds, cannot reach truth. But I wanted to eat something delicious and I felt like listening to really good music or singing a song... and then I felt like starting to paint.] Very good! Lao tzu is not your master. I am your master! You can enjoy; there is no problem. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,776 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- By becoming a sannyasin You have to change all priorities. Lao Tzu says, 'Don't be hard like a rock But be soft like water.' He calls his way of life the watercourse way. And he says, 'Ultimately the soft Wins over the hard, The rock ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,777 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is unearthly;; it can appear on the earth but is does not belong to the earth. It happens only when one is ready To receive god into one's heart -- To a Jesus, to a Buddha, to a Lao Tzu. Once you become empty of yourself God rushes in, fills you, starts overflowing Because we are too small and he is so vast. That overflowing divineness Is fe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,778 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... A follower of Christ Cannot be a follower of Buddha -- obviously Because both the philosophies Are different, totally different. A follower of Christ Cannot be a follower of Lao Tzu -- it is impossible To make any syntheses out of these two Unique persons. But a lover of Christ can be a lover of Buddha Can be a lover of Zarathustra Can be a lover ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,779 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu -- it is impossible To make any syntheses out of these two Unique persons. But a lover of Christ can be a lover of Buddha Can be a lover of Zarathustra Can be a lover of Lao Tzu. Love is vast enough to contain contradictions Love is vast enough to contain inconsistencies. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,780 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Charles Darwin knew nothing of surrender. He has seen only the superficial history of life He has not looked into the depths. There have been people Like Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu Who have lived without any struggle With no idea to survive Who were ready to die any moment Who were so surrendered to the whole that There was no question to protect...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,781 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hing like that. Jesus just have travelled really Towards individuality, total freedom. I call Jesus a real sannyasin. And so is the case with Buddha And Zarathustra and Lao Tzu, all the great ones They have not followed the masses. To follow the mass, to follow the crowd Is to remain stupid, is to remain adjusted to The lowest intelligence Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,782 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ey are nothing but words And all words are alike. No word is holy, no word is profane. Silence is holy. Disturbance is profane. And all words are a kind of disturbance. Hence Lao Tzu says: 'Truth cannot be said. The moment you say it you falsify it. Truth can be talked only in a roundabout way. You cannot say it directly Because no word is adequate enough ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,783 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the ultimate too. Hence there are so many expressions, different expressions, but they are all aspects of the same phenomenon of the same reality. Once this is understood then the message of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra is only verbally different, conceptually different -- not in reality. Their words are different because they have entered from different doors. Their language is different but not the content. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,784 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...live thing, crystal-clear. No. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says that 'Everybody seems to be clear. Only I am muddle-headed'. A man of understanding is muddle-headed because he looks so deeply that he cannot figure out, mm? People always manage to find out immediately...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,785 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... transmission beyond scriptures, beyond words, beyond philosophies. Hence the true religion can only be experienced with an enlightened, awakened master, with a Jesus, with a Buddha, with a Zarathustra, with a Lao Tzu you can experience it, but not through the words. Although the words belong to Buddha, still, the moment something is said -- something which cannot be said -- it becomes false. And this is on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,786 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d think you mad. The world is living in such an insane way that to be called insane by the world is a certificate that you are sane. It is really a great compliment! The world has called Buddha insane, Jesus insane, Lao Tzu insane, because the world consists of insane people. One of my friends became mad and he was imprisoned in a madhouse. He was mad, so one day he drank something that was kept there to clean t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,787 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ray and can reach to the very source of light. Love is like a ray and when we reach to the source you can call it god, godliness, nirvana, liberation, truth, or whatsoever one chooses to call it. Lao Tzu says 'I call it tao because it has no name.' Tao is just like xyz; it means nothing. In India we have called it aum. Aum also is like tao, it means nothing, it is not a word at all. Hence aum cannot be writte...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,788 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it aum. Aum also is like tao, it means nothing, it is not a word at all. Hence aum cannot be written alphabetically. It is only a pictorial phenomenon. That is the only symbol in India which is written pictorially. Lao Tzu had noa difficulty in writing tao, because the whole Chinese language is written pictorially, there is no alphabet at all. Even other words are written pictorially. For example, 'fight' or 'war', 'quarrel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,789 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es can be melted and remoulded into yes. It is not so difficult as people think. Certainly it is not impossible. It has happened to many people -- to Buddha, to Zarathustra, to Jesus, to Pythagoras, to Dionysius, to Lao Tzu. Around the globe it has happened to many people; it can happen to you. It should happen to everyone. In fact we are here for it to happen. And that's what I call the shift from a prose lifestyle to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,790 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... becomes twice born, one lives in vain. Life has to be used as a jumping board for the beyond. It is an immense opportunity, but very few people have used it up to now. Once in a while a Jesus, a Buddha, a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra, a Bahauddin -- only once in a while a few people have used this life for reaching to a higher plane, to another life. All that is needed is that you have to die to your past; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,791 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...resist the temptation to believe; the temptation is always there because belief is cheap. The mind says 'What is the point of investigating, enquiring, exploring? Why bother? Just believe! Buddha knows, Jesus knows, Lao Tzu knows, Zarathustra knows, so what is the point? If they are all saying that it is so, it must be so.' But if Zarathustra drinks, his thirst is quenched, not yours. If Zarathustra knows, he knows, not you. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,792 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ery:- will be the blessed ones, because only they will be able to understand. Sannyas makes you a blessed one. It gives you the opportunity to live side-by-side with a Buddha, with a Christ, with a Lao Tzu, with a Zarathustra! It is the greatest opportunity, the greatest blessing that can ever happen to any man. There is nothing greater than that. This is the greatest gift of existence. Respect it a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,793 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd and then that conditioning will control his whole life. This conditioning cannot have any dignity. It will give you a certain character, but it will not give you dignity; you will not be a Christ or a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a Zarathustra. For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,794 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are... But ninety-nine per cent, the people who have lived like sheep are bound to hate you. They hate you because it is a deep-felt insult to them, it is humiliating. When they see a rebel like Socrates, Buddha, Lao TZu, they feel humiliated, because they can see for the first time, in comparison to these people, what they could have been but are not, and they don't have guts enough to risk and to grow. So the best way is to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,795 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...false, illusory world which in India we call maya. The mind creates a magical world of its own, a dream world, and then the real world is lost and the dream world becomes the only reality. Hence Jesus and Buddha and Lao Tzu all go on harping a single note again and again, 'Awake!' So here, for these two months, listen to the energy and try to vomit the apple that Adam ate, throw it out of your system. That's what...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,796 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...! And there is no problem, all problems are just tricks of the mind. There cannot be any religious problem because you are becoming religious for the first time! And my religion includes all -- Jesus and Krishna and Lao Tzu and all!... But you think... if you want to think, think, but you will miss by thinking! For the few days you are here, think. If you want to remain in trouble, remain in trouble. Otherwise I can relieve ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,797 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And you have come in the right moment. You need me and it will be good if you are close by. The jump will be easier. So nothing to be worried about.... [A sannyasin has been invited to live in Lao Tzu house with the condition she is indoors by eleven at night and settles with one lover for six months, instead of running around with many men. She says she feels at a turning point. Osho checks her energy.] ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,798 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed, regimented; that will not come natural to you. There are two types of people in the world and the type is decided by the way God happens to them. To a few people he happens in utter inactivity, as it happened to Lao Tzu or Buddha -- utter inactivity, almost as if they were dead, no excitement, no wave, no ripple even. Their being is absolute nothingness; then God happens. And to the other type God happens wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,799 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... within you. How can there be a path to the kingdom of God when it is within you, when it is already the case, when it has always been the case, when it has never been otherwise? Buddha or Zarathustra or Lao Tzu simply remind you of your reality; they don't give you any path. All philosophies are tricks of the mind so that you can escape from reality -- not to reality, but from reality. All religions are lies, lies t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,800 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s Francis' rebellion. He is the first man in the West to call rivers sisters and mountains brothers... but he has not been listened to. He is more a Taoist than a Christian; he has the same spirit as Lao Tzu, a kind of great rapport with nature. That is his message. So start talking to trees and rivers and mountains. They are your sisters and brothers because we all come from the same source. A di...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,801 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...enise. Prem means love; that contains my whole approach to life and existence. That single word is my whole message. It contains all that is significant in all the religions of the world. Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Krishna, they are all essentially contained in the word "love". Those who cannot love, they become Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans. Those who can love, they don't need any other doctrine, don't need any ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,802 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as nothing to do with the Bible, it has nothing to do with Jesus even. It has something to do with awakening, with becoming more conscious. Jesus is only one of the Christs; Buddha is another, so is Lao Tzu, so is Zarathustra, and many more. What is called samadhi in India is called Christ-consciousness in the West. The moment you know consciousness in yourself without any thought, any desire, any memory, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,803 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h. Many people have become enlightened, but the exact place of their enlightenment is rarely known. One does not know when and where Jesus became enlightened. One does not know where and when exactly Lao Tzu became enlightened. But Buddha's place of enlightenment is absolutely known: the tree under which he was sitting, the spot, the place where he walked before he became enlightened, and after he became enlighte...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,804 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th yourself there is nobody to protect you. You can kill yourself... and the so-called saints have all been suicidal, leaving aside a few exceptions which I don't count as saints: a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu -- these are far beyond the sinner and the saint both. Be a sannyasin, with no war. Let peace prevail, in each act, in each gesture... and slowly slowly that peace will become more and more d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,805 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... way beauty, in the same way grace, in the same way meditation, and in the same way finally, god. So learn more and more how not to interfere. The greatest art in life is the art of non-interference. Lao Tzu called it wu wei: action without action, doing something without doing it. And my whole work consists of wu wei. You have to just be a participant, you have to fall in step with all that is happening and then...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,806 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...urrender, passive. But finally water wins over rocks. And that's the power of love. Once one knows how to be humble, how to be surrendering, how to be loving, one is victorious, without making any effort for it. Lao Tzu calls it wu wei; action without action. Love is the magic, the secret of action without action. You don't do anything, but it starts happening. Deva means god, kanta means be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,807 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... somebody who is deeply contented can be loving. Out of contentment love starts flowing: love is a sharing of your contentment. Love is the only way to become a follower of Christ or of Buddha or of Lao Tzu or of any enlightned Master. They are all the same. Essentially their message is never different, it cannot be because the truth is one. Lies are many, thruth is one; hence religions must be based in some lie...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,808 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tery school and the beginning of a new spirituality. All the old spiritualities have become irrelevant. Man has progressed much, man has come of age; those spiritualities that were created by Abraham, by Krishna, by Lao Tzu, by Phytagoras, by Heraclitus, by Jesus have all become out-of-date. They need a rebirth; they need to be given a new form, a new shape. They require a new language, a new expression. Too much dust has gather...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,809 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h deep silence that you become capable of not distorting the messages that are arriving every moment. God goes on pouring his messages from everywhere. The leaf falling from the tree is his message. Lao Tzu became enlightened seeing a dry leaf falling from the tree. He must have been a man of tremendous silence. Just seeing the pale, old, dead leaf falling from the tree he realized that all is momentary, that li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,810 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat its message is. All the Bibles, all the Vedas, all the Gitas, all the Korans, are hidden in your heart. Every heart has all that is worth knowing; one need not go anywhere else. Lao Tzu says, "To know truth you need not go outside your room," and by room he really means your body. You need not go out of your house -- by house he means your body -- "You are already provided for." Truth is our...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,811 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a mystery to be lived. Premo. Love is the very essence of all religion. It contains all. It is the seed out of which Bibles, Korans and Gitas have grown. It is the seed out of which Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu have blossomed. There is no need to think fo god. That is unnecessary. There is no need to be worried about life after death. That whole thing is for stupid people. The really religious perso...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,812 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r disappears; instead meditation becomes significant. That's why in the West meditation never became the central core of religion. It was Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali -- these three persons in the East, in India; and Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- three persons in China. These six persons arc the most important people because they changed the whole shape of religion from the very foundation. Instead of prayer, meditation bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,813 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...imate, one who has touched God, or one who has been touched by God. Beyond it there is nothing; one has reached the goal, one has arrived home. So don't be confined to Jesus alone. Jesus is beautiful, but so is Lao Tzu and so is Mohammed. One should not be narrow, because the narrower one is, the less religious. One should be open and wide, and open to all kinds of Buddhas, Christs, Krishnas. Then you become richer, because...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,814 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... child who can throw a rock. Fragile, because by the evening it will be gone. But when it is there it can face wind, it can face sun it can face the whole world! This is a totally different kind of strength. Lao Tzu calls it the strength of the weak, the richness of the poor, the knowledge of the ignorant, the wisdom of the fool. This is a totally different thing. The strength you used to feel was nothing but ego-str...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,815 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... But in due time the rocks will be gone and the water will still be there. If momentarily you think that the rock is very strong and the water is very weak... can you find anything weaker than water? Lao Tzu calls his way the watercourse way. He says not to be like a rock. In the moment you will look very strong, but in the long run the rock is bound to disappear into sand, and the water is going to win. Finally ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,816 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a humble step towards that goal. But by small steps one can travel very long. Thousands of miles can be covered; and they have to be covered. The truth that East had discovered -- in a Buddha, in a Krishna, in a Lao Tzu -- has to be rediscovered. Dust of centuries has settled on it. Because the moment is coming close when the East and West are going to meet... a great marriage and a great feast And you can se...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,817 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hing dies, another is born. Change is the passage between death and birth. But deep inside you, where Newton never looked, otherwise he would have found... because Buddha has found, Jesus has found, Lao Tzu has found, Zarathustra has found, why not Newton? But he never looked within. It can be found only in the world of the within. If you go deeper, you go farther and farther away from change. And there is a poi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,818 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... linguists say that the word "christ" has come from the word "krishna," it is a form of Krishna. Christ simply means one who has arrived, one who has been crowned by God with glory. Many have been crowned -- a Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra, a Mohammed; many have been crowned. Jesus is only one of the Christs, remember it. To confine Christhood only to Jesus is to make humanity very poor. That means only one flower ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,819 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...usness. This upheaval comes only after twenty-five centuries; it is a cycle. The highest peak of that cycle was when buddha was alive. In India was Gautam Buddha, Mahavira and many other great teachers. In China was Lao Tzu, Lieh Tzu and Chuang Tzu and many other great teachers. In Iran was Zarathustra and in Greece was Socrates and Heraclitus, Pythagoras and many other great teachers. The world has never known a moment like tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,820 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... news is news. Have you ever heard about good news? It doesn't exist! A good man has nothing to say, a good man has nothing to do, a good man lives silently; there is a kind of passivity. That's why Lao Tzu says 'I am a fool. My mind is as empty as that of a fool.' Where he says 'fool', read 'wise', because only a wise man's mind is empty. Only a foolish man's mind is full of thoughts and desires and plans and i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,821 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ossibility. The day hate dies will be the death of love too. Compassion cannot live without anger, god cannot live without the world and the soul cannot live without the body. That's how things are. Lao Tzu has called it 'the way of things'. Tao simply means the way of things, how things are. There is no choice in it; we cannot change it. We can either accept it or we can start denying a few things in it which d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,822 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...xistence is becoming more and more divine every day. Whenever a single individual becomes divine he imparts new godliness to existence! Just think of a humanity which has not known Jesus, not known Buddha, not known Lao Tzu, not known Mohammed; just think of a humanity which has not known these few people. Where will man be? These few people have imparted so much godliness. So when a man becomes a buddha it is not only that he b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,823 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...k has ever been able to destroy water. But it takes time! So the heart is very soft -- it is just like a flower -- but the way of the heart is the way of the water. The watercourse way -- that's what Lao tzu calls it. And the mind is like a rock: on the surface very strong, deep inside just bogus. The heart ultimately wins over it. It is happening -- I can hear your heart and you will also hear it, but you wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,824 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... becomes alert, aware, paradise cannot be found. Paradise simply means that all those who were potential Buddhas have become actual Buddhas. That is the ultimate utopia. Buddha and Christ and Krishna and Lao Tzu have all been working for that ultimate utopia. That's my work too, to help your Buddha to be awakened, to persuade your 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 19...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,825 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... beyond it. Each moment then has a radiance, a transcendence. That is the meaning of 'arpito': to live a life of surrender, trust, let-go, to live a life of no striving. That is the whole secret of tao. Lao Tzu has said 'Seek and you will miss. Do not seek and find.' Now this is one of the most significant statements ever made: 'Seek and you will miss.' In the very seeking you have missed. In the very seeking you ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,826 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hidden. The seeker is the sought -- that is the problem, the only problem, that man has been trying to solve and about which he has been getting more and more puzzled. The sanest attitude is that of Lao Tzu. He says 'Stop searching and be... just be... and you will be surprised: you will find it! By not seeking, by not searching, it is found. It is a still small voice within you, what T. S. Elliot calls 'the sti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,827 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and you are meditation -- I am not saying you are in meditation, I am saying you are meditation -- that moment is the moment of Christ-consciousness. One contacts the eternal. Christ and Buddha and Krishna and Lao Tzu are all just expressions of the same, the same truth in different forms. By becoming a sannyasin you are entering into the essential core of all religions. This is not A religion: this is the religion. I ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,828 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o find it is to find joy, to find it is to find real life, to find it is to find something that transcends death. All meditations are a search for the inner star. Nirjharo. It means the waterfall. Lao Tzu says that the best way to reach truth is to follow the watercourse way. The water has a great secret in it. First: it is liquid, and only liquid things can have a flow. Only they can move, only they can have ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,829 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Jesus says 'Those who are first in this world will be the last in my kingdom of god. And blessed are those who are the last in this world, because they will be the first in my kingdom of god.' He is talking like Lao Tzu, and Jesus has some quality of Lao Tzu. Remember these three things. Be liquid, don't be hard and holding, don't control; remain in a state of uncontrol. And when one is liquid, in a state of uncontrol, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,830 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this world will be the last in my kingdom of god. And blessed are those who are the last in this world, because they will be the first in my kingdom of god.' He is talking like Lao Tzu, and Jesus has some quality of Lao Tzu. Remember these three things. Be liquid, don't be hard and holding, don't control; remain in a state of uncontrol. And when one is liquid, in a state of uncontrol, the ego starts disappearing. The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,831 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... First become feminine, then allow the masculine. First become passivity, then allow action in it. And when action comes out of inaction, it is a flowering of such beatitude; it is something of the beyond. Lao Tzu calls it wu-wei: action through inaction. But inaction has to be learned first only then action. Then that action is not at all, in any way, aggressive, and that makes it beautiful, that gives it grace, that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,832 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sses of your own being. The seed is there but we have never cared about it. We have never prepared the field, we have never watered it; we have not been good gardeners to it. Hence wisdom is missing. Lao Tzu says that to know the truth you need not go outside your room, you need not ask anybody, because truth is given to you from the very beginning. You are it. The only secret to be learned is how to go in, how t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,833 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...because his values are totally different, but in fact, in reality, he is the only sane person. But a sage can be understood only by another sage, otherwise to be misunderstood by people is his fate. Lao Tzu has said that if something of the truth is said and people understand it, then it is not true; if people mis understand it, then it is true. Because people exist in the world of lies they cannot understand tr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,834 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...have remained very uncreative. That's why they have remained dull, dead, and they have not contributed anything to existence. In fact they have been an unnecessary burden. Only once in a while a Buddha, a Krishna, a Lao Tzu, a Christ, has contributed something. Otherwise so many saints, the long chain of saints, have just been unfertile. Art of any kind has to become prayer and creativity has to become worship. It is only in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,835 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l remain repressed. One has to go beyond good and bad, then real goodness happens. So I use three words: the sinner, the bad; the saint, the good; and the sage; the sage is beyond both. Jesus is a sage, not a saint. Lao Tzu is a sage, not a saint. Mahatma Gandhi is a saint; Adolf Hitler is a sinner. And the sinners and the saints are two aspects of the same coin. They are not different; they only appear different. Somewhere ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,836 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as if he is asleep. A great metaphysical sleep surrounds the earth. In the night we are asleep, in the day too; what we call waking is fake. Only once in a while has a person become awakened -- a Buddha, a Christ, a Lao Tzu, otherwise people are somnambulists. Of course they can manage to do the daily routines of their life but that doing is just as a machine goes on doing things; the machine needs no awareness. That's how man g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,837 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ember that it has to be in the way of the poetry. Significant, certainly, but don't bother about its meaningfulness in the ordinary, mundane world. In the world of utility it may not be of much use. Lao Tzu says again and again, 'Truth is known only by those who have come to know the usefulness of the useless.' Mm? that's what poetry is: the usefulness of the useless. And that is what a song is, so let singing b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,838 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e garden of god because he had eaten from the tree of knowledge. And man cannot enter god again unless he eats from the tree of ignorance. That's the whole teaching of jesus and the whole teaching of Lao Tzu: be ignorant and innocent... be children again. [Osho suggested groups and added... ] 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,839 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...le of life, he is there. That is the meaning of deva: the divineness. It is the human will that creates disturbance, interference. When this will is completely gone, there is harmony. Mm? that's what Lao Tzu calls 'tao'. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- When the person has lo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,840 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ur life: you will have to learn the ways of being soft. As much as possible, you will have to learn the ways of being vulnerable, open, available. You will have to learn the ways to bend, surrender. Lao Tzu says: When great winds come, big trees fight, but they are uprooted, they are thrown on the ground. And the grass? -- it simply bends, with no resistance. Once the wind is gone, the grass is back up -- but th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,841 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... very presence becomes a discipline for others, one's very presence creates obedience in others -- not that one wants others to obey one, but wherever one is, a great desire arises in people to obey. Lao Tzu says that the real ruler is one who has no idea that he is a ruler. The real ruler is one whose presence itself creates obedience. We have known such rulers -- a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu: the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,842 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says that the real ruler is one who has no idea that he is a ruler. The real ruler is one whose presence itself creates obedience. We have known such rulers -- a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu: these are the real ones, the salt of the earth. Not Alexander the Great and Ivan the Terrible, not Tamerlane, Nadir Shah -- these are not the real people. They are the most degraded human beings; they are in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,843 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... remember; you are simply blissful. That is what sannyas is all about: living life blissfully without any effort, without cultivating it; living bliss spontaneously, uncultivated, unpractised, effortlessly. Lao Tzu calls it wu-wei, action without action. Miracles can be done without any doing, and this is the first miracle. If this happens, then everything else becomes possible. Then god becomes possible...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,844 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng to travel such a long journey with such a small lamp? -- because it throws light out only three feet ahead.' That is enough; when you have moved three feet, it again throws light three feet ahead. Lao Tzu says that with a small lamp the distance of ten thousand miles can be crossed. Sannyas is a small lamp, a small step, but it carries within it the infinity. Anand means blissful; nicolee is Greek, i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,845 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- to be with Christ. Christ is not the name of any person. Jesus is only one of the Christs; there have been many, there will be many. Christ is not a personal name, it is a state of consciousness. Lao Tzu is a Christ, Jalaluddin is a Christ, and the day you become enlightened you are a Christ. But meanwhile, when you are not enlightened and you are not a Christ, the best thing to be, the next best thing to be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,846 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eligion moves into the second. To be strong is good, but in the feminine way. The rock is strong in the masculine way, the water is strong in the feminine way, and ultimately the water wins over the rock. Hence Lao Tzu says: My message is, follow the watercourse way. In the beginning the rock seems to be so unconquerable and the water so humble, so polite, so liquid. But in the end, the rock will be gone, it will turn into ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,847 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... no way of getting up, but the grass will be back again when the wind is gone. The wind has not done any harm to it, on the contrary, it has been a blessing because it has taken all its dust. Again, Lao Tzu says: Be like the grass -- don't be like a proud cedar -- bending, surrendering, liquid. Prem means love, geraldine means a spear -- love's spear. Love penetrates the heart like a spear, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,848 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...spirit of Krishna, the spirit of Buddha, naturally, because at that level of understanding there is no difference between Krishna and Christ, no difference between Christ and Buddha, no difference between Christ and Lao Tzu. At that ultimate peak all the awakened ones meet, they become one. Understand, don't believe! Try to enquire with great trust but without clinging to any belief, and slowly slowly you become ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,849 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hrist-consciousness is the ultimate state of consciousness. In the East we call it Buddha-consciousness; it is the same. It has nothing to do with Jesus Christ as such. Buddha is a Christ and Krishna is a Christ and Lao Tzu is a Christ. Everybody is potentially a Christ and can actually become a Christ. Jesus is one of those who became one; who came to know himself, who became actualised, who was not contented to remain as a see...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,850 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...water: if the water goes on falling on the rock sooner or later the rock will be gone. In the beginning is very hard, and even to conceive of the soft water being able to destroy it seems improbable; but it happens. Lao Tzu calls it the watercourse way -- the power of the feminine, the power of the soft. Surrender is a feminine phenomenon, the ego is a masculine phenomenon. But the ego is like a rock: on the surface very hard, b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,851 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Great Non-Thinkers of the World' and that will be far more important. Because whom do you count as great thinkers? -- Hume, Kant, Berkeley, Aristotle, Plato. They are nothing to be compared with Buddha, Bodhidharma, Lao-Tzu, Lien Chi, Nagarjuna, Shankara... nothing to be compared. The highest peak of thinking and intelligence is non-thinking. When the energy moves rightly and you are very balanced it will be ver...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,852 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- We have gone too far in technology; we didn't listen to Lao Tzu. He said three thousand years ago, 'Don't move into any technology,' but for three thousand years we have denied him. Now it is too late. Now going back is not possible. The only thing that I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,853 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ret of let-go, of surrender, of trusting existence. That is the meaning of prasado: god comes as a gift and all that is great always comes as a gift. Don't strive for it, otherwise you will miss. Lao Tzu says: Seek and you will never find, do not seek and find it immediately. Lao Tzu's statement is of great import, the very foundation of tao: relax, be in a let-go, go with the river, don't push the river. All...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,854 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eaning of prasado: god comes as a gift and all that is great always comes as a gift. Don't strive for it, otherwise you will miss. Lao Tzu says: Seek and you will never find, do not seek and find it immediately. Lao Tzu's statement is of great import, the very foundation of tao: relax, be in a let-go, go with the river, don't push the river. Allow the river to take you, and you will arrive. Anand means blis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,855 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...He said 'It is a good idea -- somebody should try it!' So is the case with religion: it is a tremendously beautiful idea but it has not been tried yet. Yes, there have been a Jesus and a Buddha and a Lao Tzu and a Zarathustra, but they are people who can be counted on one's fingers. I initiate you into the world of celebration, into the world of natural spontaneous wholeness and health. That's the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,856 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as not yet become part of history. Jesus is still a myth. There are millions who doubt that he ever existed; there is no historical proof. Buddha also seems to be a myth. And the farther back you go -- Krishna, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra -- the more mythological they become. The reason is because they represented the divine in man, and our whole history takes note only of the violent, of the inhuman, of the subhuman, of the anima...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,857 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... become love, you have really become a man. Only man is capable of love -- and not all men, because many remain only capable, they never make it actual. Only once in a while, a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarasthustra, a Lao Tzu, become real lovers. But they know the peaks, they know the treasures of life. Sannyas is the world of love. I initiate you into sannyas so that I can initiate you into love. Sannyas is the d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,858 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uls, that a chain of births comes to pass for the good. At the same time as Buddha and Mahavira, Socrates was born in Greece, followed after a time by Plato and Aristotle. At about the same time in China, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Mencius, Meng Tzu, were born. Some incredible people took birth all at once in different parts of the world at approximately the same time. The whole world was filled with some fascinating peo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,859 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... worry over its disappearance is gone, because then the wave knows it existed before its extinction and it will continue to exist even after it has vanished -- not as the 'I', but as the boundless ocean. When Lao Tzu was about to die, somebody asked him to reveal a few secrets of his life. Lao Tzu said, "The first secret is: no one has ever defeated me in my life." Hearing this, the disciples became very excited. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,860 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fore its extinction and it will continue to exist even after it has vanished -- not as the 'I', but as the boundless ocean. When Lao Tzu was about to die, somebody asked him to reveal a few secrets of his life. Lao Tzu said, "The first secret is: no one has ever defeated me in my life." Hearing this, the disciples became very excited. They said, "You never told us this before! We also wish to be victorious....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,861 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s: no one has ever defeated me in my life." Hearing this, the disciples became very excited. They said, "You never told us this before! We also wish to be victorious. Please show us the trick." Lao Tzu answered, "You made a mistake. You heard something different. I said no one could ever defeat me, and you are saying you too want to be victorious. The two things are totally opposite, although they look simi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,862 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ious. Get out of here! You will never understand what I am saying. The disciples pleaded, "Even so, please explain to us. Please show us the technique. How were you never defeated?" Lao Tzu said, "No one could defeat me because I always remained defeated. There is no way to defeat a defeated man. I was never defeated because I never wished for victory. In fact, no one could 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,863 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...und and say, "Come on, sit on me. You have come for that, haven't you? So go ahead. Don't take too much trouble, don't bother too much; there's no need to exert yourself -- just come and sit on me." Lao Tzu went on to say, "But you are asking something else. You want me to tell you the technique of winning. If you think of winning, you will lose. One who harbors the thought of winning is always the loser. In fac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,864 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... else. You want me to tell you the technique of winning. If you think of winning, you will lose. One who harbors the thought of winning is always the loser. In fact, defeat begins with the very idea of victory." And Lao Tzu said further, "And no one has ever been able to insult me." "Please tell us its secret also, because we do not like to be insulted either," a disciple said. "Once again you are making a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,865 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ter that is hard to say. Even to this day, the inner doors of the majority of people have remained shut. But once in a while a courageous person breaks through the inner walls. A Mahavira, a Buddha, a Christ, a Lao Tzu breaks through the wall and enters within. But the possibility of such a phenomenon happening again is decreasing every day. I say: Only life is, death is not. But it may be that in the next ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,866 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou can hardly imagine. Twenty-five hundred years ago India saw the advent of Buddha, Mahavira, Prabuddha Katyayana, Makkhali Gosal, Sanjaya Vilethiputta. In Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus were born. Lao Tzu, Confucius and Chuang Tzu appeared in China. Twenty-five hundred years ago ten or fifteen people of such precious quality happened that, during the span of a hundred years, man's consciousness touched the hea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,867 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e ultimate agreeability of the inner life, the uttermost harmony, the most profound of all. Meditation means that, from within, one is now in complete harmony with the ultimate law of life. The word Lao Tzu has used for it is beautiful. He calls it Tao. Tao means the law. Or the name given by the Vedic seers is also appropriate. They call it rit. Rit means the law. Similarly, dharma also means the law. Dharma me...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,868 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... was called hopeless. Hope -- less, no hopes. Along with hopes hopelessness also disappeared. How can someone fail who has no ambition to succeed? And how can you disappoint someone who has no hopes? Lao Tzu has said, "Nobody can defeat me, because there is no desire to win in my mind. Come anybody, and defeat me. No one can defeat me because I have no desire for victory." If you attack Lao Tzu he will lie fl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,869 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...opes? Lao Tzu has said, "Nobody can defeat me, because there is no desire to win in my mind. Come anybody, and defeat me. No one can defeat me because I have no desire for victory." If you attack Lao Tzu he will lie flat on his own and say, "Come brother, sit on top of me. Enjoy declaring your victory a little and go back home. I have no desire at all for victory, so how can you defeat me?" You can only defea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,870 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hori because he drinks his own urine -- innocent? It means they are are insulting him. Aghor can be used only for a few Buddhas. Gautam Buddha is an Aghori, Krishna is an Aghori, Christ is an Aghori, Lao Tzu is an Aghori. It can only be used for such people. Gorakh is an Aghori. Simple, innocent, straightforward... So simple that there is no opportunism in his life. The very mode of manipulating is gone. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,871 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this happens, if that happens. When I have all this I will be happy." And I want to say to you, and enlightened persons have always said this, that if you want to be happy, then there is no need to go anywhere. Lao Tzu has said there is no need to even leave your room. Happiness is your treasure. This is the fundamental truth of religion: that happiness does not have to be earned, you already have happiness, happiness is gr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,872 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... through experiment. What else could be the requirement of science? Marx says religion is unscientific. But fulfill the requirement of experimentation. Buddha meditated. Mahavira meditated. Jesus meditated. Lao Tzu meditated. Gorakh meditated. Whosoever has meditated has said the soul is. If you go within how can it be denied? When it is, how can it be denied? How can one who opens his eyes deny the sun? Yes, one who si...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,873 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... moments that I am most deeply revealing Krishna you will begin to feel that I am talking about my own self. It is in those moments that I am speaking only about me. The same thing is true with Mahavira, Christ, Lao Tzu or Mohammed. For me, what differentiates one of them from another is only a difference in name. They are different lamps, but 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,874 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., Mahavira, Mohammed and Jesus used only one of the tree gunas as a medium of their expression. Rajas was the predominant medium of expression for Jesus and Mohammed. Tamas was the predominant quality of Lao Tzu and Raman Maharshi. But Krishna made use of all the three qualities simultaneously as his medium for expression. There is one more possibility, and I have been making use of it in my own experiments. All...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,875 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he other two qualities are dormant, and the personality of such a person shows consistency. But you cannot find in the personality of Krishna the consistency which you can find in the personality of Lao Tzu. The underlying note which is in one word of Lao Tzu is similar to that which is in all his words. In the statements of Buddha also there is close consistency. Buddha said, "Just as the taste of sea water is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,876 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... personality of such a person shows consistency. But you cannot find in the personality of Krishna the consistency which you can find in the personality of Lao Tzu. The underlying note which is in one word of Lao Tzu is similar to that which is in all his words. In the statements of Buddha also there is close consistency. Buddha said, "Just as the taste of sea water is salty everywhere, in the same way, from wheresoever y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,877 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and the dome of that temple is ultimate bliss. To me, this is the structure of life. That is why I have practiced inactivity in the first part of my life. The first years of my life were spent, like Lao Tzu, in experiencing the mysteries of the tamas guna. My attachment with Lao Tzu is, therefore, fundamental. I was inactive in everything; inactivity was the achievement sought by me. As far as possible, nothing ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,878 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f life. That is why I have practiced inactivity in the first part of my life. The first years of my life were spent, like Lao Tzu, in experiencing the mysteries of the tamas guna. My attachment with Lao Tzu is, therefore, fundamental. I was inactive in everything; inactivity was the achievement sought by me. As far as possible, nothing was done -- only as much as was unavoidable or compulsory. I did not so much ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,879 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ain the same. Accept it, and you are transformed. This is the contradiction of all mysticism. Socrates says, "people call me wise because I am the only one who has become aware of his ignorance." And Lao Tzu says, "You cannot defeat me because I am already defeated. None can defeat me. My victory is settled because I have accepted 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,880 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...was I good nor a saint, and the matter is over." We call this being religious! The woman believes she is religious. In this universe there is a law, an inner discipline that we have called rit in the Vedas, and Lao Tzu called Tao. There are no exceptions under that law. Whatever you do, you will have to endure its fruit. If this understanding goes deeper in you, you will have to change your way of living and you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,881 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m Mahavir -- the great victor. The glory of brahmacharya in him was such that people prostrated themselves before him, before this Godman. Occasionally a Buddha is born, occasionally a Christ is born, occasionally a Lao Tzu is born. We can barely count more than a few names like these in the whole history of mankind. The day children are born out of celibacy, out of a divine communion -- you probably don't like ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,882 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- logic. Common logic analyses, special logic synthesizes. Buddha, Mahavir, Shiva, Lao Tzu -- they all use logic, but it is a specialized logic. There is one more kind of logic, which is a logical fallacy. There arr three possibilities. Logic fragments, analyses; but its intentions...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,883 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f your house, just once, you will surely reach your goal -- no matter how far the place of pilgrimage may be. The real difficulty is getting out of the house -- the first step is always the hardest. Lao Tzu has said that a man completes a thousand-mile journey by taking one step at a time. Who can take two steps at once? When you take a step you can only raise one leg at a time. And eventually, one step at a tim...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,884 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...unce back easily. They know the art of yielding. They know how to be humble. The big trees that stood erect and fought against the storm were defeated and broken; they were unable to stand up again. Lao Tzu said to behave as the plants do; he said if a storm comes, yield. Who are you going to fight? What are you fighting? You will find that the storm cleanses you, washes away your dirt, and that after the passin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,885 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... became enlightened. The incident seems so insignificant: the pot falls and breaks -- and samadhi happens! There seems to be no logical connection. There is another such event, this one in the life of Lao Tzu. He was sitting under a tree during autumn and the dry leaves of the tree were falling. Watching them, Lao Tzu became enlightened. There is no relationship between enlightenment and leaves falling, but such t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,886 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pens! There seems to be no logical connection. There is another such event, this one in the life of Lao Tzu. He was sitting under a tree during autumn and the dry leaves of the tree were falling. Watching them, Lao Tzu became enlightened. There is no relationship between enlightenment and leaves falling, but such things happen when because of work done in past lives your spiritual journey is almost completed and the third-e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,887 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nce of Bihar. Besides, there were thousands of others at the time who were endowed with genius. Such was the condition of Greece at the time of Socrates and Plato; such also was the condition of China at the time of Lao Tzu and Confucius. What is even more wonderful to note is the fact that all these luminous beings existed within a period of five hundred years. Within those five hundred years the development of the third body i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,888 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It is not proper to ask them; it is not proper that they should be known." He would say that a certain subject was indefinable and hence should not be discussed. It would be improper to discuss it. Lao Tzu said, "Please do not ask me to write, because whatever I write will become false. I will never be able to convey what I want to convey; I can only write that which I do not want to convey. But what is the use...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,889 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he is already established in his eminence, there is not even a shade of inferiority in him to disprove by resorting to winning. It will be easy to understand if we look at it from the Taoist viewpoint. One day Lao Tzu told his friends, "No one could defeat me all my life." One of his friends rose from his seat and said, "Please tell us the secret which made you invincible, because each one of us wants to w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,890 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...all my life." One of his friends rose from his seat and said, "Please tell us the secret which made you invincible, because each one of us wants to win and no one wants to be defeated in life." Lao Tzu began to laugh, and he said, "Then you will not be able to understand the secret, because you don't have the patience to hear the whole thing. You interrupted me when I had not 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,891 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- completed my statement. Let me complete it. I say, no one could defeat me because I was already defeated. It was difficult to defeat me because I never wanted to win." Then Lao Tzu told them they were mistaken if they thought they could understand his secret. Your very desire to win is going to turn into your defeat. It is the craving for success that ultimately turns i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,892 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a flux; he moves with the winds. He goes eastward with the east wind; he goes westward with the westerly. He has no choice of his own to be here or there or anywhere; he goes with life totally. There is a saying of Lao Tzu: Be like the winds; move with the winds; go wherever they take you. And don't choose. I am reminded of a small Zen parable: There is a river which is flooded. It is rushing toward the ocean w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,893 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., whether you do it through silence or a dance or a smile, it all amounts to saying something. But it is true that despite everything we do to say that which is, it remains unsaid and unsayable. What Lao Tzu says in this context is much more profound than Wittgenstein's maxim. He says, "Truth cannot be said, and that which is said is not truth." This much can he said. Therefore those who know often become silent....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,894 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Take a coin from any side, front or back, you will have the whole coin in your hand. There is a beautiful Taoist story which will help you to understand this point very easily. Sages in the line of Lao Tzu have gifted us with some of the most extraordinary stories of the world. They are rare. A sage lives in a forest. He has raised a number of pets -- all monkeys. One morning a seeker comes with...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,895 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... God I lost myself." This is the miracle of the spiritual search: the day one loses himself the search is complete. As soon as the seeker disappears, God, the sought, appears. In fact, the seeker is the sought. Lao Tzu's words in this context are of tremendous significance. He says, "Seek and you will not find. Do not seek and you will find, because Tao is here and now." One really misses God or truth or whatever you call i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,896 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s consciousness is without object, without thought, without focus, this experience is what we call self-realization. In this realization neither ego nor object exists. Nor is there any word for this experience. Lao Tzu has said, "Whatsoever you may say about truth, it becomes a lie as soon as you have uttered it." Yet, is there anything man has said more about than truth? When we say it is indescribable we are a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,897 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e will be knowledge and not faith. Religion will become the science of consciousness. Authentic religion has always been scientific. The experiences of Mahavira, of Buddha, of Christ, of Patanjali of Lao Tzu were all based on experimentation, on investigations conducted with discrimination, with awareness. Belief followed, but there was no belief in their beginnings. Their experiments were based on knowledge; fai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,898 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Even today most people's inner doors are locked, but every once in a while a courageous person breaks through the solid inner wall and rushes inside -- a person like Mahavira, Gautam Buddha, Christ or Lao Tzu. These men penetrated their inner beings and gained first-hand experience of the soul. But the possibility of this kind of happening decreases day by day. Perhaps after two thousand years or so man may be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,899 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hts. Twenty five hundred years ago Gautam Buddha was born in India; Prabuddha Katyayana, Makkhali Goshal and Sanjaya Vittaliputra were also born in this country. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were born in Greece and Lao Tzu, Confucius and Chuang Tzu were born in China. Twenty-five hundred years ago some ten or fifteen men out of the entire population of the world, some ten or fifteen men of towering stature appeared on the scene...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,900 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oclaimed that life is suffering, that it is possible to be free from suffering, that there is a way to become free of suffering, that there is a state free of suffering -- the state of nirvana. About Lao Tzu the story is that he was born old, that he was born eighty years old, that he remained in the womb eighty years. Since he had no desire to do anything, he had no desire to leave the womb. Since he had no want...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,901 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...topped on the eighth. There are eight parts in all; the last step is that of right samadhi, and only in that state of samadhi is the whole truth of life known. So he proclaimed the four noble truths. Lao Tzu was born old. People live eighty years, still they don't have the understanding Lao Tzu had at birth. Do you see people becoming intelligent just by getting old? Getting old and becoming intelligent are not s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,902 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... right samadhi, and only in that state of samadhi is the whole truth of life known. So he proclaimed the four noble truths. Lao Tzu was born old. People live eighty years, still they don't have the understanding Lao Tzu had at birth. Do you see people becoming intelligent just by getting old? Getting old and becoming intelligent are not synonymous. At a ripe old age even hair can ripen to pure white. Lao Tzu'...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,903 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tanding Lao Tzu had at birth. Do you see people becoming intelligent just by getting old? Getting old and becoming intelligent are not synonymous. At a ripe old age even hair can ripen to pure white. Lao Tzu's story simply says that if there is urgency, intensity in one's life, then what might take eighty years can happen in one moment. If one's understanding is intense it can happen in one moment and without pur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,904 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing success, you have wished for failure. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu has said, "Wish for success and you will fail. If you really want success, never wish for it. Then no one can make you a failure." You say you wanted respect, but you are getting insults. A person who wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,905 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...raise banners for you, should hoist flags in your name -- others should do something! You are a beggar. You have already insulted yourself when you wanted respect. And this insult goes on deepening. Lao Tzu says, "No one can insult me because I don't want respect." This is what receiving respect is. Lao Tzu says, "No one can defeat me because I have dropped the very idea of winning. How can you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,906 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y insulted yourself when you wanted respect. And this insult goes on deepening. Lao Tzu says, "No one can insult me because I don't want respect." This is what receiving respect is. Lao Tzu says, "No one can defeat me because I have dropped the very idea of winning. How can you defeat me? You can only defeat one who wants to win." It is a strange fact. In this world those who do not desire ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,907 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he one who sees. The first thing, separate what is happening from the observer. "... separate yourself from the physical body, and rest in consciousness..." There is nothing else worth doing. Just as Lao Tzu's key sutra is surrender, Ashtavakra's key sutra is rest, relaxation. There is nothing to do. People come to me and ask how to do meditation. The very question they ask is wrong. They ask a wr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,908 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...can come and beat a drum and all will get up, or strike a bell and all will get up. But why couldn't this happen when Buddha was here, when Mahavir was, Ashtavakra was, Krishna was, Christ was, Zarathustra was, when Lao Tzu was here? Why couldn't they have rung a bell loudly and awakened the entire earth? They rang the bell loud and long. If anyone were really sleeping they would have awakened -- but here people are faking sleep...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,909 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of clay, your belief will pull you back here again and again. No one else brings you into the world. Your fixation that you are a pot brings you back. Once you know that you are the emptiness inside the pot.... Lao Tzu's statement is meaningful. Lao Tzu says, "What is the meaning of the sides of the pot? The real meaning is in the emptiness inside the pot. If you fill it with water, the water fills the space, not the sides....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,910 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... back here again and again. No one else brings you into the world. Your fixation that you are a pot brings you back. Once you know that you are the emptiness inside the pot.... Lao Tzu's statement is meaningful. Lao Tzu says, "What is the meaning of the sides of the pot? The real meaning is in the emptiness inside the pot. If you fill it with water, the water fills the space, not the sides. When you make a house, do you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,911 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...waken those who are ready to awaken. For them there is no need to call out or shout. A bird will sing his song, a breeze will pass through the trees -- it will be enough." ... And that has happened. Lao Tzu was sitting under a tree when a dry leaf fell from the tree: he attained total awareness watching the dry leaf falling from the tree. The dry leaf became his master. He just watched everything -- in that dry ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,912 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u are very ancient. It could well be that you have heard them from Ashtavakra. There are certainly some among you who have heard him. Some have heard Buddha, some Krishna, some Jesus, some Mohammed, some Lao-Tzu, some Zarathustra. On this earth there have continuously been such men, you have passed near all of them and gathered here. So many lamps have been lit, it is impossible that the light of some lamp has not co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,913 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... never happened before. It is not that there were not intelligent people before -- there were very intelligent people, it is difficult to find anyone to compare them with. There were people like Buddha, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Ashtavakra. What greater peak of intelligence can there be? What great brilliance can there be? But none of them ever said there is no meaning in life. Intelligent people in the modern age -- whether it is S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,914 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o this is enlightenment conceived of by the mind. When the mind has gone, then the real enlightenment comes. Now you have transcended, but you cannot talk about it, you cannot say anything about it. That is why Lao Tzu says, "All that can be said cannot be true. That which can be said will not be true, and the truth cannot be said. Only this much can be said, and only this much is true." And this is the las...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,915 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who knows nothing, while all the pundits and scriptures and religions, all the monks and saints are annihilated. What would this mean? There is a certain security in innocence which is missing in cleverness. Lao Tzu says that he once saw a bullock cart in which some people were riding, overturn. Two of the people were killed, and a third was half-dead, his limbs broken. But there was a fourth man who received no injuries...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,916 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and a third was half-dead, his limbs broken. But there was a fourth man who received no injuries at all. When the cart turned over he was thrown off and landed on his back in the road, and there he lay. Lao Tzu was surprised at the man's relaxed manner and approached him to find out how he was. The man, he discovered, was drunk. The three who were in their right senses were dead or injured, while the man so out of h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,917 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o put on an air of bravado. Having no resistance, the drunkard simply fell; the others, resisting the fall, had to come to grief. People must have regarded this drunkard as being under the protection of God's grace. Lao Tzu says, "Only the drunkard is saved, the sober man breaks." The reason the drunkard is saved is that he is not aware of himself. In this story everyone dies except for a small child. All who wanted to sav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,918 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...arlier you could never win, the victory was impossible, now the defeat is impossible; because now you are one with the whole. You are no longer a wave, you are the ocean now. Who can defeat you now? Lao Tzu says, "The man who is set on winning will lose, and the man who has accepted defeat cannot be defeated." Over and over again Lao Tzu says that you cannot defeat him because he is already defeated. There is no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,919 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... no longer a wave, you are the ocean now. Who can defeat you now? Lao Tzu says, "The man who is set on winning will lose, and the man who has accepted defeat cannot be defeated." Over and over again Lao Tzu says that you cannot defeat him because he is already defeated. There is no way to fight against the defeated, so how can you defeat him? The man who has accepted defeat is, in that accepting, a sannyasi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,920 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ugh the front door. From the day this board was placed there in the museum, there was no congestion because people were directly put on the highway in their curiosity to see wonderful things. Once Lao Tse asked Confucious: 'Do you know of that age when people were so religious-minded that none talked about religion?' One has to talk about religion only in an irreligious society. Where is the need of talking ab...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,921 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the same ground again and again without going anywhere. So far nobody has ever been able to reach the truth by thinking. Those who have reached that destination have come some other way. I do not consider Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Buddha or Jesus as thinkers. None of their attainments was the result of thinking. Then how did they reach their goal? It was not by walking along the path of thought but by taking a jump away from it. You c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,922 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t ways to part. Whosoever we made ours, we only created means and facilities to become alien. In asking for renown, one only sows the seeds for his dishonour. In winning, one only invites the defeat. Lao Tzu once told his friends that he could not be defeated by anyone in his life. Naturally his friends kept quiet. Then they asked him to tell the secret to them also why no one could defeat him because they also d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,923 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d not be defeated by anyone in his life. Naturally his friends kept quiet. Then they asked him to tell the secret to them also why no one could defeat him because they also did not want to be defeated by anyone. But Lao Tzu started laughing loudly and he said, "I will not tell the sutra to wrong people." They asked, "How are we wrong? You must tell us how we too may not be defeated." Lao Tzu said, "You are bound to be defeated b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,924 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o did not want to be defeated by anyone. But Lao Tzu started laughing loudly and he said, "I will not tell the sutra to wrong people." They asked, "How are we wrong? You must tell us how we too may not be defeated." Lao Tzu said, "You are bound to be defeated because one who does not want to be defeated, has already invited defeat. This is my sutra that no one could ever defeat me, because I never wanted to win. One who wants to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,925 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cause one who does not want to be defeated, has already invited defeat. This is my sutra that no one could ever defeat me, because I never wanted to win. One who wants to win, he will be defeated." Lao Tzu was passing through a forest, along with his disciples. The whole forest was being cut. Thousands of carpenters were cutting the trees but there was one tree that was standing. No one touched it. Lao Tzu said...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,926 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu was passing through a forest, along with his disciples. The whole forest was being cut. Thousands of carpenters were cutting the trees but there was one tree that was standing. No one touched it. Lao Tzu said, "Go and ask that tree what is the secret of its being safe. Does it somehow know the sutra of Yoga? Does it know Tao? When the whole forest is being cut, then why is only this tree not cut?" Since Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,927 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it. Lao Tzu said, "Go and ask that tree what is the secret of its being safe. Does it somehow know the sutra of Yoga? Does it know Tao? When the whole forest is being cut, then why is only this tree not cut?" Since Lao Tzu had told them to, the disciples went, but they were in a fix as to what to ask of a tree? They walked around the tree but how to ask the tree? It was true, not a single leaf was picked, not a single branch wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,928 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... "What is the secret of this tree's being safe? Why are you not cutting it?" The carpenters told them that that tree was strange. Its wood was so cross-wise that it could not be made into furniture. The disciples of Lao Tzu said -- "At least this tree can be used as fire-wood?" The carpenters said, "This tree is so strange, it emits so much smoke that it cannot be made into fire-wood." They said, "This tree is useless. To cut ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,929 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- it is a waste of energy." The disciples returned and told Lao Tzu, "The secret is that the tree is useless. The wood is not straight and also it emits much smoke. Even the leaves are not useful as any medicine. Even animals do not eat these leaves. This tree is absolutely u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,930 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..."The secret is that the tree is useless. The wood is not straight and also it emits much smoke. Even the leaves are not useful as any medicine. Even animals do not eat these leaves. This tree is absolutely useless." Lao Tzu told them, "Blessed is this tree. Its branches did not try to become straight and hence they are saved from being cut. The trees that are making efforts to become straight... can you see? They are being cut. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,931 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that are making efforts to become straight... can you see? They are being cut. The leaves of this tree have not tried to become something, did not try to become tasteful, and hence they are, and are in total bliss. Lao Tzu said, "This is my method too. No one could ever defeat me because I did not want to win. For ever and ever I am defeated and hence it is difficult to defeat me. Once Lao Tzu said, "One man, hearing that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,932 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are, and are in total bliss. Lao Tzu said, "This is my method too. No one could ever defeat me because I did not want to win. For ever and ever I am defeated and hence it is difficult to defeat me. Once Lao Tzu said, "One man, hearing that Lao Tzu could not be defeated by anyone, challenged me in a village." Lao Tzu was staying in the village. He must have said to someone that he could never be defeated by anyone. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,933 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Lao Tzu said, "This is my method too. No one could ever defeat me because I did not want to win. For ever and ever I am defeated and hence it is difficult to defeat me. Once Lao Tzu said, "One man, hearing that Lao Tzu could not be defeated by anyone, challenged me in a village." Lao Tzu was staying in the village. He must have said to someone that he could never be defeated by anyone. The news spread in the village. Some w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,934 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use I did not want to win. For ever and ever I am defeated and hence it is difficult to defeat me. Once Lao Tzu said, "One man, hearing that Lao Tzu could not be defeated by anyone, challenged me in a village." Lao Tzu was staying in the village. He must have said to someone that he could never be defeated by anyone. The news spread in the village. Some wrestler considered it to be a challenge! He came in front of Lao Tzu's...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,935 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...illage." Lao Tzu was staying in the village. He must have said to someone that he could never be defeated by anyone. The news spread in the village. Some wrestler considered it to be a challenge! He came in front of Lao Tzu's door and challenged him saying, "I will defeat you." Lao Tzu said, "You cannot defeat me". The wrestler said, "I will defeat you now." A crowd gathered there. The wrestler put on his wrestling gear, remembe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,936 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to someone that he could never be defeated by anyone. The news spread in the village. Some wrestler considered it to be a challenge! He came in front of Lao Tzu's door and challenged him saying, "I will defeat you." Lao Tzu said, "You cannot defeat me". The wrestler said, "I will defeat you now." A crowd gathered there. The wrestler put on his wrestling gear, remembered his deity and he came to fight. But Lao Tzu fel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,937 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., "I will defeat you." Lao Tzu said, "You cannot defeat me". The wrestler said, "I will defeat you now." A crowd gathered there. The wrestler put on his wrestling gear, remembered his deity and he came to fight. But Lao Tzu fell flat in front of him and said to him, "Come, sit on me." The wrestler said, "What kind of man are you? The interest in defeating you is gone." Lao Tzu said, "I had already said that no one co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,938 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stling gear, remembered his deity and he came to fight. But Lao Tzu fell flat in front of him and said to him, "Come, sit on me." The wrestler said, "What kind of man are you? The interest in defeating you is gone." Lao Tzu said, "I had already said that no one could defeat me up till now because I have already accepted the defeat. I don't want to win. Come and sit on my chest and make it public by beating a drum that you have d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,939 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ted the defeat. I don't want to win. Come and sit on my chest and make it public by beating a drum that you have defeated me. The wrestler said, "It is useless to sit on such a man." The wrestler touched the feet of Lao Tzu and left for his home. He said fighting was useless. Yoga says, it is futile to choose between the dualities. Yoga says do not make a choice between what is always seen as two in life. They a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,940 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ies infiltrate and take over your meditation. Then how can you possibly become tranquil? There is only one formula for this: Accept whatever is. If you grasp it, you have understood the entire quest of the East from Lao-Tzu to Nanak. The ancient name for this is fate or destiny. The words have been spoiled as all words are through long usage, because the wrong kind of people use them and hence attribute wrong meanings. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,941 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Love, compassion, pity, prayer follow in the wake of a weightless person. So the primary issue is to annihilate the ego within. There is only one way to annihilate the ego. The Vedas have referred to it as rit; Lao Tzu calls it tao; Buddha has called it dhamma; Mahavira's word is dharma; Nanak refers to it as hukum -- divine order. He who conducts himself according to His command without making a single movement on ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,942 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...feel they could not say what they wanted to say; and they have said what should not have been said. For what they tried to convey the listener could not follow, and what he understood had no meaning. Lao Tzu has said, ''Nothing can be spoken about Truth." And whatever is spoken becomes an untruth. The more you know, the more difficult you will find it to express yourself. Each word becomes a challenge to utter fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,943 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ction with religion, not with some creed or sect. It is religion that Buddha calls dharma. It is religion that Mahavir and Nanak talk about. Religion -- dharma -- means nature, the natural order of things. What Lao Tzu means by Tao, so Nanak means by religion. To be removed from one's nature is to be lost. To return to one's own nature is to return homewards. To be established in one's own nature is to be established in God...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,944 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erything happens as it should. The universe is not a chaos, but a cosmos; it is not happening by chance but by a well-determined law working all the time. This law is referred to as dhamma or dharma. Lao Tzu calls it tao, the way; Nanak calls it hukum, divine order. When Nanak says hukum do not imagine that He is standing somewhere issuing orders. Hukum means the universe is an order, not a chaos. Things do not h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,945 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Knowledge, Shame and Grace. The section of religion deals with the expression of dharma, the law, the rule, that governs the whole of existence. The Vedas refer to it as rut, which means unchangeable law -- what Lao Tzu calls Tao. From rut is derived rutu, the seasons. At the time of the Vedas, the seasons were so regular and clear-cut that there was not a moment's difference from one year to the next. Spring would come ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,946 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h it. If you ask a goldsmith or blacksmith they will tell you that hammers often break as they strike, but the anvil remains intact. The anvil even begins to shine more and more as the hammers break. Lao Tzu asked why the anvil does not break. He answered that it is because it bears the blow, and the hammer breaks because it attacks. Aggression always breaks by itself. You need not worry about it, just develop th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,947 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...HANGING TAO. THE NAME THAT CAN BE NAMED IS NOT THE ENDURING AND UNCHANGING NAME. Those who have known, not by words, not by scriptures but by actually living life, from amongst those very few, Lao Tzu is one. And from amongst those yet fewer persons, who having known, have ceaselessly endeavoured to reveal what they have known, Lao Tzu is one. But the very first experience of those enlightened ones, who ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,948 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s, not by scriptures but by actually living life, from amongst those very few, Lao Tzu is one. And from amongst those yet fewer persons, who having known, have ceaselessly endeavoured to reveal what they have known, Lao Tzu is one. But the very first experience of those enlightened ones, who have tried to express what they have known is, that: whatever is expressible is not Truth. That which can assume form, invariably loses its...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,949 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to express Truth is, that no sooner Truth is converted into words, it becomes Un-Truth. It becomes just what it is not. Then what was to be conveyed, remains unsaid; and what was not to be conveyed, is given voice. Lao Tzu starts his very first line with this statement. Tao is a peerless word. Try to understand its full meaning so we can proceed with ease. There are many meanings of Tao. The deeper a thing becom...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,950 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Regulation in Life and which is present every moment and appears suddenly, without a cause, we cannot leave outside of Life and Existence. So then, what shall we call Tao? In his very first Sutra, Lao Tzu says! "The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao." Now a path means that which can be trodden upon. But Lao Tzu says, "Not the path that can be trodden upon; not the path on which you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,951 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. So then, what shall we call Tao? In his very first Sutra, Lao Tzu says! "The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao." Now a path means that which can be trodden upon. But Lao Tzu says, "Not the path that can be trodden upon; not the path on which you can walk!" Now if we cannot tread this path, what is the point in calling it a path? If only we can walk on it, could it be a path. But ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,952 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Lao Tzu says, "Not the path that can be trodden upon; not the path on which you can walk!" Now if we cannot tread this path, what is the point in calling it a path? If only we can walk on it, could it be a path. But Lao Tzu says otherwise -- "That which can be trodden is not the enduring, unchanging Tao!" There are many things to this small sutra. First and foremost, the path that can be trodden, on which the i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,953 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he Self. In fact, no path is required to reach the self, for paths are required to reach 'the other'. He reaches his own self who leaves all paths and steps aside. He who does not walk, reaches! It is therefore that Lao Tzu says: "The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao." Lao Tzu says two things: One is, that it is not eternal and enduring. In fact, whatever path we can tread upon, wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,954 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...He reaches his own self who leaves all paths and steps aside. He who does not walk, reaches! It is therefore that Lao Tzu says: "The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao." Lao Tzu says two things: One is, that it is not eternal and enduring. In fact, whatever path we can tread upon, will be formed by ourselves and since it is formed by ourselves, it cannot be enduring. It will be creat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,955 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s to put down the slush, will only help to raise the remaining slush from below. The more desperately he tries, the more turbid the water becomes, for more slush rises to the surface, making the water more dirty. If Lao Tzu happens to pass by, he would tell him, "Friend, come out! That which you try to purify, becomes impure, for you yourself are impure. Please come out. Leave the water alone. Sit on the shore, the water will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,956 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...esire, is a mind filled with tension. Where there is the urge to reach; where there is the eagerness, the expectancy, there is born the madness of wandering. And then all sicknesses gather together. Lao Tzu says: "THE PATH THAT CAN BE TRODDEN IS NOT THE ENDURING NOR THE UNCHANGING PATH." Is there then, such a path which cannot be trodden? Is there a path on which one does not walk and on which one can only stand...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,957 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Musalman. Those who know not, cannot name Him for they know not whom to name. And those who know, also cannot name Him, for they know all names are His. Everywhere, it is He and He and He! Therefore Lao Tzu says: "Tao cannot be named." No name can be given that can be memorised. But names are given for remembrance. Names are given so that we can call, we can remember! If there is such a name, that cannot be reme...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,958 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...embered, it would be wrong to call it a name. What is a name for after all? A father names his son so that he can call out to him, refer to him. The usefulness of a name is in calling out that particular object. But Lao Tzu says: "The name that can be named, is not the Name." But it is for this very remembrance that names are given! Some call Him Ram, some Krishna, some Allah -- so that we may remember Him, call out to Him, whom...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,959 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Him 'Ram', new whom he was calling, there would be no quarrels. But we know nothing. We have only the 'name' and the One, whom we have named, we know nothing about Him at all! The condition laid down by Lao Tzu is a very strange condition: "The name that can be named is not His name." All names can be named (remembered). But is there a name that cannot be named? And if you cannot name, how will you know of it? ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,960 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... "As long as I knew," replied Bodhidharma, "I knew nothing. Ever since I have known, I cannot even say that I know." For that which is known, that which is recognised and named -- is that any name? Lao Tzu says, "That which can be remembered, is not the name." That which can be named, does 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, pub...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,961 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...He who does not want to get wet, will have to stand at the shore. Whoever is within the flow of Time, will have to change. The unchanging, perpetual world starts only when you stand outside of Time. Lao Tzu says, "The name that can be named, is not the Name." Remembrance is always within Time; it takes time to pronounce words. We cannot pronounce even a single word within the period of one moment. We pronounce t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,962 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not be named. You can know it, you cannot express it. You can live it, you cannot express it. You can live it, you cannot pronounce it. You can be in the Name but you cannot place it on your tongue. Lao Tzu says at the same time: "It is neither the enduring nor the unchanging Tao." And if God also changes, can we call Him God? And if the Path also changes, can it be called a Path? And if Truth changes, can it be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,963 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...profound and priceless joke! If ever God plays an instrument, He too must be playing just one single note. His Hand cannot be moving either this way or that -- there can be no flow, no change there. Lao Tzu says: "It is not the same -- that which we can pronounce. That which man can pronounce, is not His Name." Finally, there is one more thing to be understood in this Sutra. Words and names, are...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,964 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... on the paths that are made by man. They stagnate at the Shastras that are man-made. They stagnate at those names that have no connection with God whatsoever. At the very outset of his original utterance Lao Tzu destroys all possibilities. He snatches away all props and supports. He destroys the complete foundation of all that the mind can do. We may well ponder -- if this is so, what is now left for Lao Tzu to write...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,965 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ginal utterance Lao Tzu destroys all possibilities. He snatches away all props and supports. He destroys the complete foundation of all that the mind can do. We may well ponder -- if this is so, what is now left for Lao Tzu to write? What will he say? How will he say That, which cannot be expressed? How will he indicate the path that cannot be trodden? How will he bind the Changeless and Timeless ONE, he tries to suggest with wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,966 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... What will he say? How will he say That, which cannot be expressed? How will he indicate the path that cannot be trodden? How will he bind the Changeless and Timeless ONE, he tries to suggest with words? Lao Tzu's complete method is that of negation. Therefore, it is necessary to understand a few things in connection with negation so that it is easier to understand Lao Tzu further. There are two ways of suggestio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,967 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...NE, he tries to suggest with words? Lao Tzu's complete method is that of negation. Therefore, it is necessary to understand a few things in connection with negation so that it is easier to understand Lao Tzu further. There are two ways of suggestion in this world. One is the way of positive suggestion. You ask me, "What is this?" and I reply: "This is a wall, or this is a door"..I take a name. The positive finger...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,968 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rything in the room is spent, you catch hold of yourself, you catch me and begin to ask: "Is this He?" And I still keep on denying. Then when there is nothing more to ask and when there is nothing left to deny, then Lao Tzu will say, "This is it!" But then you will be in difficulty. You will say, "You have denied all! Now?" In fact, that which cannot be denied even by denial -- that is he. We deny something and it is negated -- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,969 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t period between the line's formation and extinction, God knows how many words we create, how many Shastras and Organisations we create! We spread a whole web of our mind within such a short period. Lao Tzu cuts this web. 'Not this, not this', is his way of telling. In fact, he who wants to talk in connection with the Absolute will have to say, that nothing can be said in connection with it. And then efforts wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,970 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y that: No path is a path; no name is a name. So what you will understand directly, is only this: that which is a way, is not the way at all; that which is a name, is not a name at all! This is what Lao Tzu is trying to convey. He says, "If you wish to reach, beware of all paths, or you will go astray. If you wish to know him, call out to Him -- take no name or you will go amiss." And the slightest error is an i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,971 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...opped walking! Then we could have met! One has to be silent if one wants to convey something about him. If you want another to tread his Path, you have to halt." These statements seem contradictory. Lao Tzu too is like this. At every step he discards each and everything He takes you to that point where there is nothing left to discard -- not even you! Only all emptiness remains. And this Emptiness is the Unalter...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,972 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... No-Thought state continuously, the idea gets fixed in the mind that one should become 'Thought-less'. Remember -- "that I should become 'thought-less'" is also a thought. This thought may be the result of hearing Lao Tzu or hearing me or by reading books but what have you of this no-mind state save a thought? There is no thought to take you into No-Thought. There is no need to commit this error. To be 'thought-less' is also a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,973 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en the knower, then there is no difficulty. This seems very difficult to us; and this was the greatest difficulty in understanding Buddha in this country. The reason why Buddha was understood in China was because of Lao Tzu. Because of Lao Tzu, Buddha was understood in China. Lao Tzu had said all that Buddha said later. Therefore when Buddha's tidings reached China and the people heard his words that the soul does not exist -- p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,974 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...there is no difficulty. This seems very difficult to us; and this was the greatest difficulty in understanding Buddha in this country. The reason why Buddha was understood in China was because of Lao Tzu. Because of Lao Tzu, Buddha was understood in China. Lao Tzu had said all that Buddha said later. Therefore when Buddha's tidings reached China and the people heard his words that the soul does not exist -- people understood. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,975 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us; and this was the greatest difficulty in understanding Buddha in this country. The reason why Buddha was understood in China was because of Lao Tzu. Because of Lao Tzu, Buddha was understood in China. Lao Tzu had said all that Buddha said later. Therefore when Buddha's tidings reached China and the people heard his words that the soul does not exist -- people understood. Lao Tzu's teachings were based on the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,976 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... was understood in China. Lao Tzu had said all that Buddha said later. Therefore when Buddha's tidings reached China and the people heard his words that the soul does not exist -- people understood. Lao Tzu's teachings were based on the statement: "There is nothing." This was difficult to be digested by Indians. We are ready to concede that thoughts should be extinct -- but 'I' should exist! Liberation is very g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,977 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. Name is the boundary-line of isolation. To name a thing is to separate it from the rest. As long as no name is given, everything is one. No sooner a name is given, things break up and fall apart. Lao Tzu says, "Name-less is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. He is the Original Source. The Name or the Named, is the mother of all objects." First and foremost, we must understand that things would have been ju...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,978 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... We say, 'the eye' and the eye at once separates from the ear. We say, 'the hand,' and the hand falls apart from the legs. As soon as we give a name, we draw a line and things separate, fall apart. Lao Tzu says: "It is without a name." As long as we attribute no name, it is the Origin of all existence. Lao Tzu has given two names for existence -- Heaven and Earth. Within man's knowledge and experience, the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,979 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rt from the legs. As soon as we give a name, we draw a line and things separate, fall apart. Lao Tzu says: "It is without a name." As long as we attribute no name, it is the Origin of all existence. Lao Tzu has given two names for existence -- Heaven and Earth. Within man's knowledge and experience, there are two very deep-seated sensations -- one of happiness, the other of pain. The experience of Existence...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,980 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...efore; it is familiar or unfamiliar. At once, the flower as such, is left aside and a web of words is created. Then when we view Existence through the mesh of words, it appears broken and distorted. Lao Tzu says, "Name-less is the creator of Existence the Origin of all Existence; and 'The Name' is the Mother of all objects." Therefore we cannot give a name to Parmatman (God) for as soon as we name Him, He become...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,981 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th love -- 'my son, my mother, my wife.' -- Then this throbbing heart becomes a dead piece of stone. Name converts consciousness into object. Leave names, and objects turn into living consciousness. Lao Tzu breaks Existence into two parts in order to explain. He divides it into Heaven and Earth. By Earth he means matter; by Heaven he means, experience, perception, consciousness, understanding. So according to hi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,982 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e, perception, consciousness, understanding. So according to him, the creator of all matter and all consciousness. is Name-less. Heaven is an experience whereas Earth is a state of order, a condition. In the days of Lao Tzu, Earth was Meant to convey the meaning of matter and heaven was used to convey the meaning of consciousness, for the experience of heaven was felt by understanding. Lao Tzu has used these two term...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,983 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tate of order, a condition. In the days of Lao Tzu, Earth was Meant to convey the meaning of matter and heaven was used to convey the meaning of consciousness, for the experience of heaven was felt by understanding. Lao Tzu has used these two terms in this context. Matter conveys the meaning of rigidity, immovability; heaven conveys the meaning of consciousness, feeling. The primal source of all matter and all consciousness is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,984 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... turn each other into passive objects. That which we call family or society, is much less a group of individuals and more a collection of objects. If we search deep within our own condition we will find exactly what Lao Tzu says. In fact, where there is a name. the individual disappears, consciousness is lost and only the object remains. If I even assert to someone that I am your lover I become an object. I give a name to a livi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,985 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t will push from within day by day. It will try all means to come out. Naturally then, hatred will develop towards the one I have loved. Then I will try all means to escape from the one I have loved! Lao Tzu says, "Man has erred by giving names." When I confessed my love to someone, did I understand well the meaning and the implications of being a lover? I gave a permanent name to a 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,986 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are bound to cause obstructions. Life, existence, is very vast, all planks of denominations are swept away in its current. But then a trail of the sting of misery, sorrow and remorse is left behind. Lao Tzu says: "Give no designation." Give a name and an object is born. Let us assume for a moment that all of us here were to forget all language -- just for an hour. Will that have any effect on the earth or the sk...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,987 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...meone is a foe, for these require language. Then only a vast Existence remains. And in this Existence, there will be only two kinds of experiences (Remember, Experiences, not names) that Lao Tzu refers to as Heaven and Earth; or it would be better to name them as Matter and Consciousness, according to the world of today. There will be two domains only -- that of matter and consciousness and it is the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,988 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er or individual Ownership starts as soon as you say "This is mine." Then that particular thing loses its existence and becomes an object. We live, surrounded by objects; and the progenitor of all objects, says Lao Tzu, is the process of nomination. There is a very sweet story about Lao Tzu, that I often refer to: Lao Tzu went out for a walk with a friend one morning. He was an old friend of Lao Tzu and kne...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,989 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing loses its existence and becomes an object. We live, surrounded by objects; and the progenitor of all objects, says Lao Tzu, is the process of nomination. There is a very sweet story about Lao Tzu, that I often refer to: Lao Tzu went out for a walk with a friend one morning. He was an old friend of Lao Tzu and knew very well his love tor silence. This particular morning, he happened to bring a guest al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,990 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...comes an object. We live, surrounded by objects; and the progenitor of all objects, says Lao Tzu, is the process of nomination. There is a very sweet story about Lao Tzu, that I often refer to: Lao Tzu went out for a walk with a friend one morning. He was an old friend of Lao Tzu and knew very well his love tor silence. This particular morning, he happened to bring a guest along with him. Now this friend be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,991 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... objects, says Lao Tzu, is the process of nomination. There is a very sweet story about Lao Tzu, that I often refer to: Lao Tzu went out for a walk with a friend one morning. He was an old friend of Lao Tzu and knew very well his love tor silence. This particular morning, he happened to bring a guest along with him. Now this friend began to feel uncontrolable after a while for neither Lao Tzu spoke nor his host....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,992 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g. He was an old friend of Lao Tzu and knew very well his love tor silence. This particular morning, he happened to bring a guest along with him. Now this friend began to feel uncontrolable after a while for neither Lao Tzu spoke nor his host. At last he could hold out no longer. He said: "Look, the morning is so beautiful!" Neither Lao Tzu heeded him nor his friend. He became all the more restless. It would have been better if ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,993 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng a guest along with him. Now this friend began to feel uncontrolable after a while for neither Lao Tzu spoke nor his host. At last he could hold out no longer. He said: "Look, the morning is so beautiful!" Neither Lao Tzu heeded him nor his friend. He became all the more restless. It would have been better if he had not spoken at all! Then they all turned back home. Before they left, Lao Tzu whispered to his friend: "Do not br...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,994 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ook, the morning is so beautiful!" Neither Lao Tzu heeded him nor his friend. He became all the more restless. It would have been better if he had not spoken at all! Then they all turned back home. Before they left, Lao Tzu whispered to his friend: "Do not bring your friend 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,995 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gain. He is very talkative." The friend was also taken aback by this remark, for after all, the poor man spoke only one small sentence in the course of one and a half hours! In the evening the friend returned to Lao Tzu and said: "Forgive me for asking but I was upset by your request this morning; My guest made a single remark -- that it was a beautiful morning -- and you said he talked too much?" Lao Tzu replied: "Give all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,996 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing the friend returned to Lao Tzu and said: "Forgive me for asking but I was upset by your request this morning; My guest made a single remark -- that it was a beautiful morning -- and you said he talked too much?" Lao Tzu replied: "Give all attribute and things are destroyed. The morning was very very beautiful -- as long as your friend did not speak!" It will be difficult to understand this. Lao Tzu says, "The morning was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,997 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you said he talked too much?" Lao Tzu replied: "Give all attribute and things are destroyed. The morning was very very beautiful -- as long as your friend did not speak!" It will be difficult to understand this. Lao Tzu says, "The morning was very beautiful as long as your companion did not speak. Till then the beauty of the morning was vast and endless. There was no end to it. it spread and spread into the vast space hut as...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,998 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n experiences. There were wordless gaps in his life now for the first time and then he realized that the Eskimos lived in a completely different type of a world from his. We have destroyed everything. The world that Lao Tzu talks about, the people he refers to, the possibilities that he speaks of, are the possibilities of word-less experiences. The world of objects forms together with denomination. Drop the words and the object ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,002,999 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... unmanifested. The utmost that can be said about it, is "Two". That is nearest to Truth. Beyond speech there is only one. Language however, cannot speak of anything without breaking it into two. Even Lao Tzu, when he speaks, when he writes, commits the least error but he cannot do better than this. And even if we want to deny his expositions, we shall have to use words. Then we may say, "the Absolute, not two." B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,000 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y one without creating the idea of two. The idea of 'Two' forms within the mind of the speaker also. In fact, 'One' has no meaning without 'two'. 'One' is only a step to reach 'two' and nothing more. Lao Tzu makes use of two words; because the most that can be expressed in words is 'Two'. The diverse and the manifold can be reduced only up to two. Beyond this is the inexpressible realm of No-Word. Beyond this, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,001 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the most that can be expressed in words is 'Two'. The diverse and the manifold can be reduced only up to two. Beyond this is the inexpressible realm of No-Word. Beyond this, it is not possible to say even as much as Lao Tzu says. It cannot even be said to be inexpressible, the One without a name. That One cannot be expressed. Whatever we say breaks into two, as soon as we give expression to it. Just as when we throw a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,002 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the same manner, as soon as words are placed in speech, the radiation changes. Then the word that depicts One, will at once bend and convey the idea of Two no sooner it is transformed into language. Lao Tzu knows that whatever he is saying conveys the idea of duality; but there is no other way. So even when Lao Tzu speaks, he has to speak in duality. It is so difficult that if Lao Tzu remains silent and tries to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,003 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., will at once bend and convey the idea of Two no sooner it is transformed into language. Lao Tzu knows that whatever he is saying conveys the idea of duality; but there is no other way. So even when Lao Tzu speaks, he has to speak in duality. It is so difficult that if Lao Tzu remains silent and tries to convey by remaining silent, even then the duality sets in. The attempt at expression brings in the duality. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,004 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is transformed into language. Lao Tzu knows that whatever he is saying conveys the idea of duality; but there is no other way. So even when Lao Tzu speaks, he has to speak in duality. It is so difficult that if Lao Tzu remains silent and tries to convey by remaining silent, even then the duality sets in. The attempt at expression brings in the duality. Try to understand this. This has happened many a time. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,005 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... created, distinction is formed. Therefore do not make me say that I am answering with my silence. I am silent and you should understand. Raise no words." But how can it be explained by silence only? Lao Tzu has written this one and only book. This book he wrote at the fag end of his life. He never wrote anything else, though people were always after him. From ordinary men to kings, they all begged him to write d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,006 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his one and only book. This book he wrote at the fag end of his life. He never wrote anything else, though people were always after him. From ordinary men to kings, they all begged him to write down his experiences. Lao Tzu always laughed and waved off their question. "When has anyone ever been able to write this? Do not force me into this foolishness. People have tried before but those who know laugh at their effort, for they h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,007 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h at their effort, for they have failed. And those who know not, have caught hold of their failures, taking them to be the Truth. Pray, force me not to commit the same error. Those who know, will laugh and say, "See Lao Tzu is doing exactly what he should not. He is trying to tell what cannot be told. What cannot be written, he writes. 'No, No, I will not do that!'" All throughout his life he eluded them. Then he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,008 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...very few had known and experienced so deep! Therefore it was natural that those around him should insist that he should write for posterity. When their insistence began to be stronger and death had yet not come, Lao Tzu found himself in difficulty. Then one night, he quietly left his home and the people who were clamouring for him to write. When in the morning, his disciples found his hut empty, they ran to the king and told...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,009 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in difficulty. Then one night, he quietly left his home and the people who were clamouring for him to write. When in the morning, his disciples found his hut empty, they ran to the king and told him that Lao Tzu had gone away. The King sent his men in search of him. He was stopped at one of the check-posts on the borders of China. Lao Tzu was told that it was the King's order that no one crosses the border without pa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,010 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the morning, his disciples found his hut empty, they ran to the king and told him that Lao Tzu had gone away. The King sent his men in search of him. He was stopped at one of the check-posts on the borders of China. Lao Tzu was told that it was the King's order that no one crosses the border without paying the toll. But Lao Tzu argued that he was carrying nothing outside the country. "What tax shall I pay when I have nothing to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,011 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ay. The King sent his men in search of him. He was stopped at one of the check-posts on the borders of China. Lao Tzu was told that it was the King's order that no one crosses the border without paying the toll. But Lao Tzu argued that he was carrying nothing outside the country. "What tax shall I pay when I have nothing to declare?" And do you know what the officers replied? "The King has sent word that never before has a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,012 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And do you know what the officers replied? "The King has sent word that never before has a man tried to escape with so much treasure. Await here and write all that you have known." This book was thus written by Lao Tzu at a check-post, under the vigilance of the police to clear his taxes before leaving the country. This TAO-TEH-KING, is a peerless book. Never has a book been written in this fashion. Here was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,013 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ao Tzu at a check-post, under the vigilance of the police to clear his taxes before leaving the country. This TAO-TEH-KING, is a peerless book. Never has a book been written in this fashion. Here was Lao Tzu running away from writing anything. It seems very harsh on the part of the King to have forced him to write when he did not want to; but there is evidence of compassion also. If this book had not been? And th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,014 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...writing anything. It seems very harsh on the part of the King to have forced him to write when he did not want to; but there is evidence of compassion also. If this book had not been? And there have been others like Lao Tzu who did not write. But what is the use of those that have written and what have we gained from those who have not written? There can be no debate on those that have not written whereas we can discuss and deli...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,015 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er one we choose, it is a choice of duality. One chooses to be silent as he is opposed to writing and one chooses to write as he is opposed to silence. There is, no way to escape duality. Duality creeps in even when Lao Tzu talks and therefore he deliberately says 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,016 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd Earth and is the sole Originator of all denominated objects." Duality comes perforce with words. But it is with the hope that the seeker is pushed into the No-word state through the use of words, that people like Lao Tzu make use of words. This is possible. Duality appears to be, it does not actually exist. If it did exist there would have been no presumptions. Now supposing I move my fingers across the string...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,017 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it will not take you long to find that with the help of the musical note, you too have reached the Non-Resonant state. With the help of words, you have reached the No-Word. It is with this hope that Lao Tzu, Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna or Christ speak. It is with the hope that perhaps through their words, they may be able to lead you into the No-word state. It is just a contrivance, a device, they make use of. Bud...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,018 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Brahma and Maya; and then bondage and freedom became two forms of the same thing. But it is the experience that gives knowledge of the ONE: as soon as it manifests it splits into two. And it is only to manifest that Lao Tzu says -- "The earth and Heaven; Matter and Consciousness." QUESTION: BHAGWAN SRI: YOU SAID YESTERDAY THAT WHATEVER CAN BE NAMED, IS NOT 10/28/07 Copyrigh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,019 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...EACHED THE 'NAME-LESS' BY THE SADHANA OF NAM-SUMIRAN (REPETITION OF NAME). PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOU SAY THAT WITH THE HELP OF THE CHANGING NAME, ONE CANNOT REACH THE CHANGELESS. Bhagwan Sri: Lao Tzu prefers the method of the jump. He is not in favour of going step by step. Actually a step is also a jump -- a small jump. When you climb the steps you are actually taking small jumps. You have divided the ju...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,020 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... one man takes one step to cross the same distance whereas another takes twenty steps to do so. We can also say, this man takes twenty jumps. Now this depends on each individual and the amount of courage he has. Now Lao Tzu's method is the Jump. He says: "Why should we catch hold of that which has to be left?" From the changing one has to reach the change-less -- and only by leaving the Transient can we reach the Intransient. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,021 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Therefore leave it and reach! Those who prefer the step-by-step method, believe in gradual progress, just like those who believe in Nam-Smarana (repetition of Name), like Meera and Chaitanya. They also reach where Lao Tzu reaches. They too say, that leave, you have to but leave gradually step by step. Now for instance, Nanak exhorts his followers to practise Japa (repetition of Name) and at the same time says,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,022 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t this is not the destination, it is only a step -- then you step into the A-Japa -- the Unrepeated. Now there is no Japa, now there is the 'Name-less'. But this has to be reached in four steps. Now Lao Tzu says, "That which has to be left, why should it be left so gradually?" He further says "The very fact you are leaving gradually, shows that you have no mind to leave it. You want to hold on to it, and so keep...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,023 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... hold on to it, and so keep on postponing." First you start with the lips, then let-go of the lips and begin with the throat, then let-go the throat and proceed into the heart. When the goal is the 'A-Japa', Lao Tzu says. "Let it be here and now." Why waste time? Let-go -- take the Jump. It is not necessary. that everyone finds this method easy. Sometimes, in some cases. it is better to leave gradually. There are types a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,024 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntrary, he will not even go step by step. He will give up saying "This is not for me". But there must be a way for such people to reach the Name-less. So for this type there is the method of proceeding step by step. Lao Tzu's method is only for those of his type. Remember this always or else it will be difficult for you to understand what I say. My own nature is such, that when I speak on Lao Tzu, I speak as Lao Tzu, I will...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,025 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...method of proceeding step by step. Lao Tzu's method is only for those of his type. Remember this always or else it will be difficult for you to understand what I say. My own nature is such, that when I speak on Lao Tzu, I speak as Lao Tzu, I will completely forget that there was such a person as Chaitanya or Mira or there was a Krishna who expounded the Gita. I shall not bring in the person of the individual, when I talk on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,026 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... step by step. Lao Tzu's method is only for those of his type. Remember this always or else it will be difficult for you to understand what I say. My own nature is such, that when I speak on Lao Tzu, I speak as Lao Tzu, I will completely forget that there was such a person as Chaitanya or Mira or there was a Krishna who expounded the Gita. I shall not bring in the person of the individual, when I talk on them. Therefore, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,027 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aitanya or Mira or there was a Krishna who expounded the Gita. I shall not bring in the person of the individual, when I talk on them. Therefore, it would be better not to raise other questions when I am speaking on Lao Tzu, for it will only be harmful and there will be no gain. Similarly, do not question me about Lao Tzu when I am speaking on Krishna, for when I speak on Krishna, I become Krishna and speak. Do not bring someone...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,028 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e individual, when I talk on them. Therefore, it would be better not to raise other questions when I am speaking on Lao Tzu, for it will only be harmful and there will be no gain. Similarly, do not question me about Lao Tzu when I am speaking on Krishna, for when I speak on Krishna, I become Krishna and speak. Do not bring someone else in between. I have no attachment of my own therefore I can be one with anybody. If I had any p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,029 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e path, it would not have been possible for me to be completely at one with other paths. For instance, if I was specially attached to Nam-Smaran, -- that that is the only way -- I would not have been able to explain Lao Tzu to you. Then I could not have done him justice. I say, what Lao Tzu says is absolutely correct -- a 100% correct but when I speak on chaitanya, I will say, Chaitanya is absolutely correct. You can reach ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,030 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hs. For instance, if I was specially attached to Nam-Smaran, -- that that is the only way -- I would not have been able to explain Lao Tzu to you. Then I could not have done him justice. I say, what Lao Tzu says is absolutely correct -- a 100% correct but when I speak on chaitanya, I will say, Chaitanya is absolutely correct. You can reach step by step. But do not bring in this subject right now, for then it wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,031 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...orrect -- a 100% correct but when I speak on chaitanya, I will say, Chaitanya is absolutely correct. You can reach step by step. But do not bring in this subject right now, for then it will not be easy to understand Lao Tzu. Forget this completely. You have gathered here to understand Lao Tzu, so hear everything in detail about the Jump. Our mind is such th;lt when I am talking about the Jump. your mind raises questions of the s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,032 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aitanya is absolutely correct. You can reach step by step. But do not bring in this subject right now, for then it will not be easy to understand Lao Tzu. Forget this completely. You have gathered here to understand Lao Tzu, so hear everything in detail about the Jump. Our mind is such th;lt when I am talking about the Jump. your mind raises questions of the steps; and when I begin to 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,033 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d to you: and the least you can do is to hear me out genuinely and completely on whatever subject I talk. Do not bring in another subject: it is foreign, alien. So do not bring in Japa and Nam-Smaran when we talk on Lao Tzu. Do not raise the question of Kirtan -- it then becomes so much trash, for in the order of Lao Tzu they are not useful at all. It is just as one would try to fix a cart-wheel to a car. It is not that a b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,034 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... talk. Do not bring in another subject: it is foreign, alien. So do not bring in Japa and Nam-Smaran when we talk on Lao Tzu. Do not raise the question of Kirtan -- it then becomes so much trash, for in the order of Lao Tzu they are not useful at all. It is just as one would try to fix a cart-wheel to a car. It is not that a bullock-cart does not move. It moves alright. Or conversely, if we try to fix a car-wheel to a cart....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,035 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l to a cart. it will not work. This does not mean that the car wheel does not work; it does. Within its own self, a system works and progresses smoothly but out of the system, it becomes useless. To Lao Tzu, everything is insignificant and Lao Tzu is correct he is not wrong. In fact, Truth is so vast that it can contain all the opposite truths within itself. Truth is so great, it can accommodate all the reverse ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,036 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not mean that the car wheel does not work; it does. Within its own self, a system works and progresses smoothly but out of the system, it becomes useless. To Lao Tzu, everything is insignificant and Lao Tzu is correct he is not wrong. In fact, Truth is so vast that it can contain all the opposite truths within itself. Truth is so great, it can accommodate all the reverse and contrary within itself. Untruth is ve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,037 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...very insignificant, it cannot contain that which is contrary to it. In the mansion of Truth, there are many rooms. Jesus says "There are many rooms in the house of the Lord." And each room is big enough to house one Lao Tzu, one Krishna, one Mahavira and thousand others like them. All these rooms belong to the temple of God. But when I show you the door to Lao Tzu's room, do not turn round and say; "This door is red, the door of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,038 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the house of the Lord." And each room is big enough to house one Lao Tzu, one Krishna, one Mahavira and thousand others like them. All these rooms belong to the temple of God. But when I show you the door to Lao Tzu's room, do not turn round and say; "This door is red, the door of Krishna you showed yesterday was yellow. You had said we could enter through the yellow door. Now you are talking of a red door!" Now the fun ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,039 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... On reaching the destination the traveller forgets the path. The way is remembered as long as the goal is not reached. Therefore, do not raise this question of paths or else, it will be difficult to understand Lao Tzu. Also, such questions will not make it easier to understand Meera or Chaitanya either. If you are out to know Lao Tzu be absolutely one with him and understand what he says. What he says, is absolutely correc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,040 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ached. Therefore, do not raise this question of paths or else, it will be difficult to understand Lao Tzu. Also, such questions will not make it easier to understand Meera or Chaitanya either. If you are out to know Lao Tzu be absolutely one with him and understand what he says. What he says, is absolutely correct, that some have reached his way. Some people can reach his way. There must be some among you also who can reach this...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,041 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... L.S.D. has opened a new trend of thought. The new thought is: when the consciousness gets expanded, however little, the world becomes a different place altogether. But when a consciousness like that of Mahavira or Lao Tzu expands completely (and not in small measure) due to the fall and complete extinction of ego, then what difference can there be between you and the chair? It is still very difficult for you to understand, for...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,042 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that can be investigated, is not the Truth. The Creator of Existence is without any name and the Name is the mother of all substance. After the first two sutras (quoted above) the third sutra of Lao Tzu starts with Therefore. This therefore is first to be understood before we proceed to the sutra. It looks strange -- the first two sutras bear no relationship with the third sutra, which could justify the use ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,043 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that cannot be trodden, which cannot be given a name, to a mind filled with passion? This is not apparently clear; it is inevident. Therefore, it will be very difficult to understand this word therefore, as used by Lao Tzu. Let us first examine the connection. Actually, he who is filled with desires, wishes to reach somewhere. The very desire to reach is passion. If I am happy to be myself and accept myself as I ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,044 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... gains or seek the doors of beatitude and God through that path. If our desti-nation is outside and away from us, we have to make a path to join us to our goal. Then the path becomes inevitable. And Lao Tzu says: "The path that can be trodden upon, is not the Path." But a mind filled with desires, is bound to tread on paths. So it means, that whatever path a desire-ridden mind follows, is not the real Path. It i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,045 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ally am; where I am not, I cannot relax. It is necessary however, that in order to be where I am, my mind should not desire to be elsewhere -- it should not be taking flights to distant lands! Hence Lao Tzu says: "Therefore a mind filled with passion, a mind filled with desires, cannot open the doors to the deep mysteries of existence." It can only be acquainted with the outer fringe; the inner mysteries remain ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,046 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Before reaching, it seems that everything will be attained by reaching the goal and on reaching we find it was only the beginning -- there is much farther to go. Therefore we are never at peace, even for a moment. Lao Tzu has purposely used the word 'therefore' to imply a calculated inference. And the conclusion arrived at is that: "ALWAYS STRIPPED OF PASSION WE MUST BE FOUND," with all passions, uprooted, uncovered. We should...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,047 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h emptiness within ourselves, till then, we cannot enter the acme of the mystery of existence. The castle of existence will remain unknown and unfamiliar to us. "Rip off the layers of desires," says Lao Tzu. Not a single layer should remain. We do 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,048 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of prison he has created -- beautiful, inlaid with gold, filled with flowers but a prison all the same. Actually desires cannot lead us outside of prison. Wherever there is desire, there is bondage. Lao Tzu says: "Remove, tear off each layer of your passionate desires." Why? for it you want to measure the bottomless depths where lie the mysteries of existence, you shall have to be desire-less. To be desireless m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,049 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he desire of Ravindranath. What is the worth of his desire when compared to Ravindranath's? Ravindranath says: "I want nothing save desirelessness." This is the ultimate desire, last and very subtle. And Lao Tzu says "Be desireless. Rip off all desires -- rip them off to the last breath of your life." A Sadhaka once approached Lao Tzu and said: "I want peace." "You will never get it," Lao Tzu replied...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,050 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e desirelessness." This is the ultimate desire, last and very subtle. And Lao Tzu says "Be desireless. Rip off all desires -- rip them off to the last breath of your life." A Sadhaka once approached Lao Tzu and said: "I want peace." "You will never get it," Lao Tzu replied. The youth was startled, "What have I done, what is there in me such that I cannot attain peace?" Lao Tzu then explained: "As long as you wis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,051 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ry subtle. And Lao Tzu says "Be desireless. Rip off all desires -- rip them off to the last breath of your life." A Sadhaka once approached Lao Tzu and said: "I want peace." "You will never get it," Lao Tzu replied. The youth was startled, "What have I done, what is there in me such that I cannot attain peace?" Lao Tzu then explained: "As long as you wish for peace, you will not get it. I too desired for ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,052 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... A Sadhaka once approached Lao Tzu and said: "I want peace." "You will never get it," Lao Tzu replied. The youth was startled, "What have I done, what is there in me such that I cannot attain peace?" Lao Tzu then explained: "As long as you wish for peace, you will not get it. I too desired for a long time and ultimately discovered that the desire for tranquility becomes so great a dissatisfaction. that no restles...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,053 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...into the nature of desirelessness, we shall know that everything is acceptable (in that condition) as it is and how it is. There is not the slightest desire for it to be otherwise. "In the absence of such a desire," Lao Tzu says, "the mysteries of existence and its bottomless depths can be touched." And it is in the depths that Existence actually is. On the surface is the mere fringe of existence, the outer lines. If supposing I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,054 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...by their outward appearance, it is pardonable. We see our own selves also only from the outside. We feel and touch our own selves also from the outside. We can feel the whole existence only from the outside and Lao Tzu says, "It is because of the passion-ridden mind." It is important to understand this well. Why can not a mind filled with passion, go deep? There are three reasons: One is, -- A mind filled with passion canno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,055 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...raveller's clothes get filled with dust, so also the dust that collects as we pass through existence, forms the mind. And it is with this collection of piles of dust, that we think about the future. Lao Tzu wants to cut out the very roots of the mind. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "Freedom from desires," for where desires are not, the mind cannot exist. Desire is the root. If you ask Buddha, he will say: "Avarice". Wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,056 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... collects as we pass through existence, forms the mind. And it is with this collection of piles of dust, that we think about the future. Lao Tzu wants to cut out the very roots of the mind. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "Freedom from desires," for where desires are not, the mind cannot exist. Desire is the root. If you ask Buddha, he will say: "Avarice". Where ambition is not where avarice is not, there everything is. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,057 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es," for where desires are not, the mind cannot exist. Desire is the root. If you ask Buddha, he will say: "Avarice". Where ambition is not where avarice is not, there everything is. It is an apt word -- Avarice and Lao Tzu refers to it as desiring, passion. Mahavira calls it 'Distraction, error'. Different words have been used by different people but the roots that have to be destroyed, are the same. He who des...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,058 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... beyond the mind. the mind quickly comes forward with a hundred plausible suggestions to put us back to sleep. The door of paradise does open but the mind quickly puts us off with a thousand excuses. Lao Tzu says: "Desire is the mind. There is no way of entering the depths of existence without becoming desireless." QUESTION: BHAGWAN SRI, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHETHER THESE STATEMENTS OF LAO TZU ARE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,059 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...LLY, CAN THIS NOT BE CALLED A PURE THEORETICAL IDEALISM? THESE TEACHINGS ARE NOT AT ALL PRACTICAL. THERE ARE NO MEANS OF ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM DESIRES OR OF AWAKENING IN THEM. Bhagwan Sri: Lao Tzu does not believe in remedies for he says, "Only desires require remedy". No remedy is required for desirelessness. Remedy means a device followed to reach somewhere. A path means an arrangement to connect wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,060 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...medy". No remedy is required for desirelessness. Remedy means a device followed to reach somewhere. A path means an arrangement to connect with a destina-tion -- a bridge or some means of connection. Lao Tzu says "It is only desires which require a device, a path, effort, struggle." For desireless-ness, understanding is enough. No device, no method is necessary -- according to Lao Tzu. He who understands Lao Tzu'...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,061 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ge or some means of connection. Lao Tzu says "It is only desires which require a device, a path, effort, struggle." For desireless-ness, understanding is enough. No device, no method is necessary -- according to Lao Tzu. He who understands Lao Tzu's teachings in their entirety needs no methods or principles to go by. All concepts are toys given to the non-understanding; an arrangement to help them to let-go step ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,062 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says "It is only desires which require a device, a path, effort, struggle." For desireless-ness, understanding is enough. No device, no method is necessary -- according to Lao Tzu. He who understands Lao Tzu's teachings in their entirety needs no methods or principles to go by. All concepts are toys given to the non-understanding; an arrangement to help them to let-go step by step as they are incapable of doing s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,063 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tirety needs no methods or principles to go by. All concepts are toys given to the non-understanding; an arrangement to help them to let-go step by step as they are incapable of doing so all at once. Lao Tzu says: "Understanding alone!" If you become conscious of the labyrinth of the mind, you will step out of it this moment. No other method is necessary. If I know that this cup contains poison, it will automatic...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,064 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nds methods. It cannot exist without them. Comprehension requires no such thing. You understand -- and there the matter ends. It is enough that you understand. There is a reason for this. People like Lao Tzu think that actually, we are not bound; we only are under an illusion of being bound. We are not ill -- we are simply ignorant. There are two things: One man is ill, he is really ill. An actual illness has cau...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,065 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n only needs to understand that he is not ill, he is only suffering from an illusion. If such a man has to be treated, he can be given only sugar pills and water as medicines to console him that he is being treated. Lao Tzu's opinion is -- and it is the right opinion -- that life's difficulty is ignorance. Life itself is not difficult to understand. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,066 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... We are not really estranged from God -- we only think so. We have not really gone away from life, we only think so. We have not lost the treasures of life, we have only forgotten them. If this is so, then Lao Tzu says, "Where is the need for devices?" There is no question for remedy. Understanding is enough. Understanding is the remedy. Buddha has said: "For those who do not understand, I have devised methods. Fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,067 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...anding, he manages to step out of his illness; if not he remains within his hallucinations. The problem of life is not a veritable problem of illness. It is a problem of a pseudo-illness. Therefore, Lao Tzu does not talk of remedies. He says, "Be without help -- without resources -- that is the only remedy. Know, understand and be settled -- this is the only way." Lao Tzu's instructions are not for the defe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,068 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f a pseudo-illness. Therefore, Lao Tzu does not talk of remedies. He says, "Be without help -- without resources -- that is the only remedy. Know, understand and be settled -- this is the only way." Lao Tzu's instructions are not for the defeated or the despondent. This is interesting and needs to be understood for this question does arise in the mind. People like Lao Tzu sound as if they are escapists. They say...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,069 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d and be settled -- this is the only way." Lao Tzu's instructions are not for the defeated or the despondent. This is interesting and needs to be understood for this question does arise in the mind. People like Lao Tzu sound as if they are escapists. They say: "Desire nothing". If we do not desire, how will we Progress? But how many have progressed by their ambition -- can we count them? Someone asked Aldou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,070 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aid, 'Yes'. If you had asked my father, he would have hesitated. But I -- I can give no reply!" No: Man is neither happy, nor peaceful nor blissful. There has been a lot of progress otherwise." From Lao Tzu's talks, it seems all progress will stop; but is man required for progress or progress required for man? If man is required for progress than it is alright that he be sacrificed at the altar of progress. If m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,071 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hour vehicle must be replaced with the a 100m/ hour vehicle. It does not matter if man lives or dies. The stars and the moon are to be conquered, no matter if the travellers live or die. If progress is the goal then Lao Tzu is wrong. But if man is the goal, his bliss, his savour is the aim, then what Lao Tzu says is 100% correct. The fact is, no matter how much distance is covered-by ambition, we reach nowhere. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,072 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... lives or dies. The stars and the moon are to be conquered, no matter if the travellers live or die. If progress is the goal then Lao Tzu is wrong. But if man is the goal, his bliss, his savour is the aim, then what Lao Tzu says is 100% correct. The fact is, no matter how much distance is covered-by ambition, we reach nowhere. Remember, by running it does not mean that you have reached. By running alone one does not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,073 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce is covered-by ambition, we reach nowhere. Remember, by running it does not mean that you have reached. By running alone one does not reach but the logic of the mind says, if you do not run, you do not reach! Lao Tzu says, "The supreme wealth of Existence can only be experienced and known by he who halts and not by he who runs." It is not Lao Tzu alone who says this. Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali are of the same opinion. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,074 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... reach but the logic of the mind says, if you do not run, you do not reach! Lao Tzu says, "The supreme wealth of Existence can only be experienced and known by he who halts and not by he who runs." It is not Lao Tzu alone who says this. Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali are of the same opinion. All those who have known have said the same thing. If that is so, all enlightened people are escapists and all ignorant people are pro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,075 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d people are escapists and all ignorant people are progressive. It is also very interesting that all these ignorant people, who are seemingly progressive, ultimately seek shelter at the feet of some Lao Tzu, begging for peace; whereas, Lao Tzu never goes begging at the fed of the ignorant, for progress. The progressive has always ended up at the feet of the escapist but the escapist has never approached a progre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,076 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d all ignorant people are progressive. It is also very interesting that all these ignorant people, who are seemingly progressive, ultimately seek shelter at the feet of some Lao Tzu, begging for peace; whereas, Lao Tzu never goes begging at the fed of the ignorant, for progress. The progressive has always ended up at the feet of the escapist but the escapist has never approached a progressive in search of happiness. This is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,077 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... at the fed of the ignorant, for progress. The progressive has always ended up at the feet of the escapist but the escapist has never approached a progressive in search of happiness. This is true without exceptions. Lao Tzu has eyes to see, so has Buddha; they can see how far the progressive has reached, whereas they have lagged behind. And yet, it is the progressive man who seeks refuge at the feet of Buddha or Lao Tzu, and beg...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,078 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...out exceptions. Lao Tzu has eyes to see, so has Buddha; they can see how far the progressive has reached, whereas they have lagged behind. And yet, it is the progressive man who seeks refuge at the feet of Buddha or Lao Tzu, and begs to be shown the way to peace and happiness. No, this is not escapism. It is a matter of condition. Words are not dangerous, their connotations make them so. If my house catches fire and I run o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,079 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... stand before a truck in full speed. He who steps aside at the honk of a speeding truck, is an escapist, for in the hour of trial he is losing courage! If we understand well the conditions of life, we will know that Lao Tzu is not runn-ing away from life. He only steps aside from the follies of life, he is only stepping aside from the fire, the disease. He goes deep within life. We who think that we are going ahead in life are p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,080 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ase. He goes deep within life. We who think that we are going ahead in life are progressing in sheer ignorance alone and are being cheated out of life. What is the ultimate test? We should compare our face with Lao Tzu's. Lao Tzu is not worried even at the time of death and we are filled with anxiety even when we are alive! Lao Tzu is happy to 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Found...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,081 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s deep within life. We who think that we are going ahead in life are progressing in sheer ignorance alone and are being cheated out of life. What is the ultimate test? We should compare our face with Lao Tzu's. Lao Tzu is not worried even at the time of death and we are filled with anxiety even when we are alive! Lao Tzu is happy to 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,082 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e and are being cheated out of life. What is the ultimate test? We should compare our face with Lao Tzu's. Lao Tzu is not worried even at the time of death and we are filled with anxiety even when we are alive! Lao Tzu is happy to 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- embrace death and we canno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,083 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- embrace death and we cannot even embrace life. Lao Tzu laughs in illness, we cry even when we are well. What is the proof? If Lao Tzu is offered thorns, he is filled with gratitude; if someone places a flower in our hands, we do not even feel grateful. No; What i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,084 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- embrace death and we cannot even embrace life. Lao Tzu laughs in illness, we cry even when we are well. What is the proof? If Lao Tzu is offered thorns, he is filled with gratitude; if someone places a flower in our hands, we do not even feel grateful. No; What is the way through which we can know? What is the measure? Lao Tzu is not an esc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,085 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat is the proof? If Lao Tzu is offered thorns, he is filled with gratitude; if someone places a flower in our hands, we do not even feel grateful. No; What is the way through which we can know? What is the measure? Lao Tzu is not an escapist. And if Lao Tzu is an escapist, everyone should be an escapist. Then escapism should be our religion for Lao Tzu escapes from the futile and enters the purposeful-ness and meaning of li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,086 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is filled with gratitude; if someone places a flower in our hands, we do not even feel grateful. No; What is the way through which we can know? What is the measure? Lao Tzu is not an escapist. And if Lao Tzu is an escapist, everyone should be an escapist. Then escapism should be our religion for Lao Tzu escapes from the futile and enters the purposeful-ness and meaning of life. It seems as if there is defeati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,087 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...No; What is the way through which we can know? What is the measure? Lao Tzu is not an escapist. And if Lao Tzu is an escapist, everyone should be an escapist. Then escapism should be our religion for Lao Tzu escapes from the futile and enters the purposeful-ness and meaning of life. It seems as if there is defeatism and despondency in his words. Is he afraid of life? Has he no strength to fight? Perhaps he is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,088 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It seems as if there is defeatism and despondency in his words. Is he afraid of life? Has he no strength to fight? Perhaps he is weak and therefore he steps aside. But there is no sign of weakness in Lao Tzu. The strength that effuses from people like Lao Tzu, Christ and Buddha is unsurpassable. Those whom we call progressive gradually begin to show signs of nervousness. Their limbs begin to tremble and they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,089 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d despondency in his words. Is he afraid of life? Has he no strength to fight? Perhaps he is weak and therefore he steps aside. But there is no sign of weakness in Lao Tzu. The strength that effuses from people like Lao Tzu, Christ and Buddha is unsurpassable. Those whom we call progressive gradually begin to show signs of nervousness. Their limbs begin to tremble and they are filled with a thousand fears. The psychologists ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,090 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ta of society. As we go to the higher classes, we find the number of sick people increasing proportionately with the amount of progress. What is the reason? No progressive man can sleep as soundly as Lao Tzu nor can he eat with such joy and relish -- nor can he digest his food so efficaciously. He does not enjoy Lao Tzu's health, nor his fearlessness. He cannot enjoy the silence that is within Lao Tzu nor the eve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,091 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... with the amount of progress. What is the reason? No progressive man can sleep as soundly as Lao Tzu nor can he eat with such joy and relish -- nor can he digest his food so efficaciously. He does not enjoy Lao Tzu's health, nor his fearlessness. He cannot enjoy the silence that is within Lao Tzu nor the ever-flowing stream of bliss within him, which gives no indication of defeat or despondency. He is no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,092 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...leep as soundly as Lao Tzu nor can he eat with such joy and relish -- nor can he digest his food so efficaciously. He does not enjoy Lao Tzu's health, nor his fearlessness. He cannot enjoy the silence that is within Lao Tzu nor the ever-flowing stream of bliss within him, which gives no indication of defeat or despondency. He is not a defeated man -- this Lao Tzu. On the contrary he says: "No one has ever defeated ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,093 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... fearlessness. He cannot enjoy the silence that is within Lao Tzu nor the ever-flowing stream of bliss within him, which gives no indication of defeat or despondency. He is not a defeated man -- this Lao Tzu. On the contrary he says: "No one has ever defeated me." And when someone asks the reason why, he says: "Because I have never wished to conquer anyone. I can only be defeated if I am out to conquer somebody. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,094 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eated me." And when someone asks the reason why, he says: "Because I have never wished to conquer anyone. I can only be defeated if I am out to conquer somebody. I wish to conquer no one." We might think Lao Tzu is afraid to fight but Lao Tzu says: "I do not wish to fight for there is nothing worth fighting for in your world. The paltry, things you set out to conquer are too ordinary for my consideration. Then why cr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,095 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... someone asks the reason why, he says: "Because I have never wished to conquer anyone. I can only be defeated if I am out to conquer somebody. I wish to conquer no one." We might think Lao Tzu is afraid to fight but Lao Tzu says: "I do not wish to fight for there is nothing worth fighting for in your world. The paltry, things you set out to conquer are too ordinary for my consideration. Then why create this fuss of conquering tr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,096 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there was nothing worth conquering." The question that rises within our mind is but natural. We feel this can only be the view-point of a pessimist but then a pessimist is a sad and unhappy person whereas Lao Tzu is not an unhappy man. We, the so-called optimists appear unhappy. When the scriptures of Buddha were translated for the first time in the West, they branded him as a pessimist par excellence! For they say he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,097 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e place where we have erred. Buddha says, "Life is sorrow. He who realises this, attains bliss. He who thinks life to be blissful, attains nothing but misery." This calculation of Buddha is very profound. Buddha and Lao Tzu both say: "He who takes life to be happiness, ends up in sorrow, for life is sorrow." If I look upon a thorn as a flower, the thorn is bound to prick me and cause pain, for it is a thorn a nd not a flower; bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,098 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a says: "Life is sorrow -- know this. Then no one can snatch your joy away from you." But if you take life as happiness, you will fall into unhappiness for you will have started a chain of illusions. Lao Tzu is not a pessimist. He is an extreme optimist. He is at the pinnacle of supreme bliss. There was a famous disciple of Lao Tzu by the name of Chwang-Tse. He was called by the emperor of China to come and b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,099 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... will fall into unhappiness for you will have started a chain of illusions. Lao Tzu is not a pessimist. He is an extreme optimist. He is at the pinnacle of supreme bliss. There was a famous disciple of Lao Tzu by the name of Chwang-Tse. He was called by the emperor of China to come and be his prime-minister. Chuang-Tse sent back a message to him: "There is no happiness beyond the joy I am in. By making me your prim...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,100 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- fall for there is nothing further beyond it. When Lao Tzu or Chuang-Tse or anyone else talks of Tathata (That which Is), when they talk of acceptability, it is not out of frustration or distress. It is not also because it is a good thing to be contented in life. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,101 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... It is not also because it is a good thing to be contented in life. The attitude of acceptance comes about for two reasons: One is, a man accepts because there is no way out. Then at least there is consolation. But Lao Tzu's acceptability, is not this explanation of Tathata (That which Is). Lao Tzu says, "The man who says there is satisfaction in acceptance is as yet refusing to accept, for if there is no denia...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,102 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e comes about for two reasons: One is, a man accepts because there is no way out. Then at least there is consolation. But Lao Tzu's acceptability, is not this explanation of Tathata (That which Is). Lao Tzu says, "The man who says there is satisfaction in acceptance is as yet refusing to accept, for if there is no denial then where is the dissatisfaction?" I say there is a thorn in my foot. If I am to accept thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,103 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...when the night is at its darkest, morn is close by -- but my eyes search only for the dawn! By keeping the desire of dawn, I try to lessen the darkness of the night. I am trying to be contented. But Lao Tzu does not talk of this Tathata. He says, "Acceptability not for the sake of contentment, rather because non-acceptability is foolishness." Non-acceptance does nothing but drag a man into hell. Lao Tzu stresses...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,104 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... But Lao Tzu does not talk of this Tathata. He says, "Acceptability not for the sake of contentment, rather because non-acceptability is foolishness." Non-acceptance does nothing but drag a man into hell. Lao Tzu stresses more the need to under-stand non-acceptability rather than acceptability. The day I understand clearly that I create my own hell by non-acceptance, that very day non-acceptance will vanish. What then...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,105 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I console the mind: "Death happens. It has always been happening. We cannot escape it." These two things go on simultaneously. I try to dress the wound from with-out but it remains bleeding within. Lao Tzu does not advocate such acceptance, or Tathata. He says, "I am not pained at the death of my friend. I only wonder how he remained alive all this time!" Life is an impossible happening. Death is a natural happ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,106 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..."I am not pained at the death of my friend. I only wonder how he remained alive all this time!" Life is an impossible happening. Death is a natural happening. Death is no wonder whereas Life is a wonder. Lao Tzu says: "How do we manage to remain alive so long?" I have mentioned Chuang-Tse to you. His wife died. The emperor went to condole him. He found him playing a tambourine on his door-step. His legs out-stre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,107 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...npublished Query:- optimism and pessimism is very strange. We are pessimists, for we are filled with pain and sorrow all the twenty-four hours. Chuang-Tse is one from among the extreme Optimists. Lao Tzu does not ask us to accept out of helplessness. No, he says accept with all your strength all your power, all your might. It requires great strength and valour to accept life as such. Someone throws a stone at...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,108 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u abuse, I worry more about my understanding of the reaction within me, anger becomes impossible. You abuse me and I do not watch myself within, then only is anger possible. This is why, people like Lao Tzu say that there is no need to take measures to remove anger. No mantras or charms, no oaths or vows are necessary. Understand anger and anger becomes impossible. A Western friend is practising...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,109 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat once understanding is born within us, all that is wrong stops happening on its own. Without understanding, even with your best efforts, you will not be able to do the right thing. This is why the whole stress of Lao Tzu is on understanding, knowledge and wisdom. The rest tomorrow. The Way of Tao, Volume 1 Chapter #4 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,110 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ite joy. But Existence says, "He who calls happiness, invites unhappiness also and he who tries to escape unhappiness, has perforce to forego happiness also." The opposites are one in Existence. And Lao Tzu says: "UNDER THESE TWO ASPECTS, IT IS REALLY THE SAME." That which is within the named and that which is within the unnamed, are one and the same. Lao Tzu in the beginning vehemently affirms that th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,111 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he opposites are one in Existence. And Lao Tzu says: "UNDER THESE TWO ASPECTS, IT IS REALLY THE SAME." That which is within the named and that which is within the unnamed, are one and the same. Lao Tzu in the beginning vehemently affirms that the Path that can be trodden is not the Path and the Name that can be named is not the Name. And now Lao Tzu says: "That which is within the named and that which is wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,112 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and that which is within the unnamed, are one and the same. Lao Tzu in the beginning vehemently affirms that the Path that can be trodden is not the Path and the Name that can be named is not the Name. And now Lao Tzu says: "That which is within the named and that which is within the unnamed are one and the same" -- they are in actuality, the same. It is again the duality of our own intellect that says that this is the wor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,113 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the world of names and that is the world of the un-named; that this is the world of forms and that is the world of the formless; that this is the world of the individual and that is the world of the non-individual. Lao Tzu says, "No, they both contain the One in actuality." The Un-named also resides within the one we name and the one we call un-named, we have given a 10/28/07 Copyright Osho ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,114 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- name already! What difference does it make if we call it Un-named? We have named it Un-named! This will be rather difficult to understand as Lao Tzu has said most expressly in the beginning that these to are absolutely apart. "Give no name," he has said, "for as soon as you name it, it becomes a falsity. Do not express. it, for the very expression deforms...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,115 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it. Walk not on it, for it is a changeless path. THE PATH CANNOT BE TRODDEN" -- and now, soon after, he says. "It is the one and the same that resides in both. It is One alone." It is hard to follow Lao Tzu's logic, for this statement is even more profound than the previous ones. The same is in name, the same is in form. When I look out of my window, I see the skies in a particular form but this very limited for...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,116 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...skies, it would be mightier than the skies. So, that which the mind has known by giving a name is the same as that, which the wise have know by going beyond the mind, as without a name: 'Name-less'! Lao Tzu says, "You cannot reach there by travelling on this Path, you have to halt." He who halts reaches, whereas one who journeys keeps plodding. There is no difference between the two, no distance. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,117 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu says, "You cannot reach there by travelling on this Path, you have to halt." He who halts reaches, whereas one who journeys keeps plodding. There is no difference between the two, no distance. Lao Tzu has dealt a heavy blow to dualism with this short statement; a final blow, in which he has tried to contain the opposites in one. It should be understood once for all, that all dualities are the creation of t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,118 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... We say, "So and so is a wrathful man" or "So-and-so is very forgiving". We can never bring ourselves to say that anger in itself, is forgiveness. The intellect breaks all things on all levels of existence. And Lao Tzu says that the One is hidden behind all these sections and fragments. No matter how many parts the intellect tries to make, the One remains indivisible and whole -- always. No matter how many lines we draw, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,119 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s the intellect tries to make, the One remains indivisible and whole -- always. No matter how many lines we draw, it remains boundless. Whether we name it, or do not name it, it is still One. So the first thing that Lao Tzu says is: "Within the entire duality and divinity, it is this One alone, that resides." Here we are sitting within this room. There are these four walls around us that have separated the space...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,120 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of our mind or else, there is nothing that is within and nothing that is without. One alone is and it is this one only that we sometimes say is within and sometimes without. The duality mentioned by Lao Tzu, Buddha, is very superficial. Within, at the very core, in the profound depths of Existence, there is only One just as when a tree emerges from the soil, it is only one, in the beginning. Then soon the branch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,121 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...very core, in the profound depths of Existence, there is only One just as when a tree emerges from the soil, it is only one, in the beginning. Then soon the branches begin to shoot out and these keep multiplying. So Lao Tzu says "As Evolution proceeds, as there is further expansion, the many are born and myriads of names come into being." The Hindus had visualised life as a tree, some 5,000 years ago, and Libera...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,122 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to less and less branches till we ultimately reach the trunk of the tree. Then from this one, we travel downwards to the seed form which everything was born and from which everything was developed. Lao Tzu says that as soon as unfoldment occurs, as soon as development begins and things start appearing, they become many. The seed is always one, but the tree that comes out of it develops and divides itself into s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,123 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ingle seed. In exactly the same manner, Existence is One and is without Name (Anam). Then many branches of names spring out of it. Truth is One -- 'Wordless'. Then many leaves and branches of words spring out of it. Lao Tzu says, "Yet That which is in One is the very same that which is in many." That which is in the seed is also in the leaves. How can it be another? There is no way for it to be another. There is no other. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,124 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d that this world also has been formed from a single cell, just like the human cell and that the life-principle is only one, Then as things develop and unfold, they begin to diversify and fall apart from each other. Lao Tzu is saying the same thing. He says: "People call it by different names." As I too, have been telling you: "Truth is One but those who have known, have known it in different ways." The Secret is One but the sag...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,125 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ateness forms within our minds. Then the error is committed of viewing things as distinct from each other. It is only when the delusion breaks that we can conceive of the 'Indivisible', the Absolute. Lao Tzu says, "The Conception of such an Indivisible is the Absolute itself." It is recollected by different names, yet it is one and the same. It is this multitude of names that is the secret -- the mystery. What is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,126 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... What we do not know, we consider a mystery. The mystery ends as soon as we know. And what does Science do in order to know? If we understand correctly, we shall find that Science says just the opposite of what Lao Tzu says. What does Science do? It goes about giving names to things. As soon as it is able to name a thing, it considers it has known it fully. It gives a technical term to whatever it discovers and feels it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,127 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n divisions. And these will again be broken more and more into lesser fragments. Science is thus now reaching from the roots towards the leaves, thus going further and further away from the Mystery. Lao Tzu says: "To be the One that is between the name and the nameless, is the mystery. That is called the mystery." In fact, he who journeys towards the 'Indivisible', travels towards the mystery and he who travels ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,128 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lower. As soon as we begin to know all the facts of a particular thing and give it names, the Indivisible that resides within the thing, disappears. It gets lost and with it is lost all the mystery. Lao Tzu says: "That which has been given countless names by us and which still is One, that alone is the mystery. That which is One inspite of being the many, that alone we call the Mystery. That which appears as sev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,129 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... for this period of Time. Yet if someone asks, "What is life?" we are stumped! What is the reason? When we have lived our lives for a number of years, we should know what life is and be able to tell. Lao Tzu says, "It is this very thing what we call 'The Mystery'." We know and yet we do not know. We know everything and yet find that everything is unknown. Existence is present all around us, within, without, in ev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,130 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly a superficial acquaintance and this cursory acquaintance, we call knowledge. To know this shallow acquaintance as knowledge causes many illusions, which deprive us of the knowledge of the Mystery. Lao Tzu says, "Do not call this superficial acquaintance, knowledge. Rather know it as cursory information. Then you will experience the presence of the Mystery all around you, every minute of the hour. The Mystery i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,131 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll further, the world of mystery begins. Then in that state, having full knowledge, you will still have a complete knowledge of ignorance. Knowledge and ignorance, become one in Rahasya (Mystery). So Lao Tzu says, "Within both these sides there is the One." He experiences Rahasya, who experiences the One both in knowledge and in ignorance and who Knows that there is not much difference between the wise and the ig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,132 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es, who are wandering in pitch-darkness?" Which wise man can this be? We have always been told that the ignorant go astray and never the wise! Then what does this Rishi of Ishavasya say? It is definite he knows what Lao Tzu knows. He says, "The ignorant goes astray for he does not know but the wise go astray for they think they know. And remember," the Rishi says, "the ignorant wander in darkness but the pseudo-wise wander in ut...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,133 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lso, there is an intrinsic discipline. Behind all this child-like actions runs the stream of the Prime Experience. And yet, he is outside of knowledge and experience. And yet, he is above knowledge. Lao Tzu says, "This is what we call the perfect mystery." If this mystery deepens and becomes more intense, it opens the magic doors of life. It becomes dense only in proportion to the extinction 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,134 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...most in our age and therefore there are bound to be the highest number of suicides. It is filled to the brim with ego, therefore it says, "There is no God, there is no religion, there is no mystery." Lao Tzu says, "He who attenuates his ego and intensifies Rahasya, for him are open the subtle and wonderful gates of life." These two words: Subtle and wonderful, are to be understood properly. What we understand by ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,135 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ntensifies Rahasya, for him are open the subtle and wonderful gates of life." These two words: Subtle and wonderful, are to be understood properly. What we understand by 'subtle', is not the meaning that people like Lao Tzu take. When we say subtle, we mean less gross, less massive. We say, the wall is massive, solid and air is subtle but air also is solid -- it is less solid. The difference between a wall and air is not very mu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,136 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us creating a vacuum which makes you fall. The atmosphere has its own solid form. What things do we call subtle or rare? All that we call subtle is a transformation of the solid. When people like Lao Tzu make use of the term 'subtle', they mean that which is well beyond the grasp of the five senses. It is important and necessary that you understand the right meaning of the word 'subtle'. The eyes do not see t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,137 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...my hands, -- then this is subtle. There is nothing in-between then -- neither my hand nor any instrument -- no mediator. If my consciousness gets a direct experience, that is a subtle experience. So Lao Tzu says: "He whose knowledge of Rahasya becomes intense, opens the door to the subtle." When the feeling of Rahasya reaches its peak, the ego falls. Then we have no use for the faculty of senses. Really speaking...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,138 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- peep; rather, we are deceived in the subtle. Then we live in the subtle. Then the subtle begins to happen all around us for all the twenty-four hours. Lao Tzu says: "The door of the subtle opens and of the wonderful and the miraculous!" What is the miraculous? -- Let us understand. Ordinarily, what we look upon as miraculous is also something. We call a happening a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,139 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y enters the body by a mere touch and gives a shock, so also the magnetic principle enters and changes the other person. So it is not a miracle when the cause and causality can be traced. The miracle Lao Tzu talks about, is something quite different. That miracle is there where the ego is zero -- a complete naught. When the ego is completely destroyed, a rare phenomenon takes place and that is we see no differenc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,140 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., we do not see the old man in him. We shall have to wait, 70 years to see the old man and by the time we see the old man, the child will have long disappeared. We shall never be able to see them both together. That Lao Tzu calls a miracle when the ego is reduced to naught and the mystery becomes intensely deep. Then the old man becomes visible in the babe and death in birth. The whole tree becomes visible in the seed, together ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,141 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the wall were to break, I would see all A,B,C,D simultaneously. Then this would be a miracle. If I can see the birth of creation and its death, its annihilation simultaneously, it is a miracle. Lao Tzu says when a person enters into Rahasya with all intensity, he finds the door of the subtle and finally the door to wonder and miracles open. Then he sees the world coming into being and ending at the same tim...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,142 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... our senses. If our senses were to step aside, we shall be able to behold the flower in the bud. Then the miracle will have taken place. To enter into this world of miracles, is the aim of Religion. Lao Tzu has said a great deal in few words. But this is a code. If it is merely read, you will gain nothing. But if you unfold every word and lay bare each layer, perhaps you shall touch -- though every so slightly -...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,143 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a great deal in few words. But this is a code. If it is merely read, you will gain nothing. But if you unfold every word and lay bare each layer, perhaps you shall touch -- though every so slightly -- the spirit of Lao Tzu. Enough for today, we shall talk again tomorrow. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Q...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,144 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ES (THE RECOGNITION OF) EVIL. The acquaintance of beauty, the experience of beauty, is a forerunner of our familiarity with ugliness. Good cannot be experienced without the knowledge of evil. Lao Tzu reiterates what he has said in the first chapter but in a different dimension. He says: "He who experiences the beautiful cannot do so without having experienced the ugly." A person can experience beauty to t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,145 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o knowledge of ugliness he has no knowledge of beauty also. He who tries to be good has very much the evil present within him. A man cannot desire to be good if he is initially not evil. According to Lao Tzu -- and what he says is very significant -- "SINCE THE DAY MAN HAS KNOWN WHAT BEAUTY IS, THE NATURAL BEAUTY WHERE UGLINESS WAS ABSENT, WAS LOST AND SINCE THE DAY MAN HAS KNOWN WHAT GOOD IS, THE NATURAL ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,146 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...here is no knowledge of ugliness also. There we will not find incorruptible people, for dishonesty was not possible. There it was impossible to detect a sinner for there were no virtuous people. What Lao Tzu is trying to explain in this Sutra is that our lives have always been formed with dualities. If a community becomes too eager to become honest it shows that its members have become very corrupt. If parents te...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,147 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... become very corrupt. If parents teach their children that to speak the truth is a virtue, it shows that the natural truthfulness is absent in the society and untruthfulness has become the order of the day. Lao Tzu says, "We always stress that, the opposite of which is already present." If we tell our children "Do not tell lies", it proves that untruthfulness is predominantly prevalent. If we tell them to be honest it m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,148 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en "Do not tell lies", it proves that untruthfulness is predominantly prevalent. If we tell them to be honest it means that dishonesty has become firmly rooted within us. There is an account of a meeting between Lao Tzu and Confucius. Confucius was the greatest moral thinker on earth -- moral thinker and not religious thinker. He is from among those who have been pre-occupied with the problems of how to make man good. When h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,149 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...onfucius. Confucius was the greatest moral thinker on earth -- moral thinker and not religious thinker. He is from among those who have been pre-occupied with the problems of how to make man good. When he heard that Lao Tzu was very religious man, it was but natural that he was eager to meet him. He requested Lao Tzu to advise people to be good and honest that they should not steal and they should refrain from the urge to steal,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,150 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thinker. He is from among those who have been pre-occupied with the problems of how to make man good. When he heard that Lao Tzu was very religious man, it was but natural that he was eager to meet him. He requested Lao Tzu to advise people to be good and honest that they should not steal and they should refrain from the urge to steal, that they should shun anger and be forgiving, and how violence can be destroyed and non-violen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,151 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an be established. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Seated outside his hut, Lao Tzu replied: "How can man be good unless there is evil? When there is evil, then alone can man be good. I always advise people how not to be evil, I do not worry about virtue and goodness. I visualise a state in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,152 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ualise a state in which goodness also is not detected and it is impossible to tell who is good?" Confucius could not understand, "Man has to be taught to be honest for he is dishonest," he repeated. Lao Tzu replied, "Dishonesty increased from the day you began talking of honesty. I look forward to the day when people no longer talk of dishonesty." Confucius still could not understand him. This sutra is difficult...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,153 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd him. This sutra is difficult for any moral thinker to follow, for he thinks good and evil to be two different and opposite qualities and that one has to destroy the evil and preserve the good. Whereas Lao Tzu maintains that good and evil are the two aspects of the same thing. It is not possible to destroy one in favour of the other. If you discard one, you will have to drop the other. They both have to be dropped ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,154 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... little knows that the recognition he gets is only on account of the reprobates. The saint will be lost in the absence of the sinners; his existence can only be around and on account of the sinners. Lao Tzu says, "Religion existed in the world when there was no sign of the saint." His words are very profound. He says there was Religion on earth when virtue was unknown, when goodness was not heard about, when no ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,155 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of truth, when no one exhorted people against violence. When non-violence is installed as virtue and Truth is acclaimed as Religion, the opposite attributes come into being-in their full magnitude. Lao Tzu told Confucius: "All you good people of the world relax and be peaceful. Stop all talks of goodness and you will find that if you are strong enough to let go of goodness also, evil will fall of itself. Confuc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,156 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...elax and be peaceful. Stop all talks of goodness and you will find that if you are strong enough to let go of goodness also, evil will fall of itself. Confucius could not understand him. No moral thinker understands Lao Tzu, for he thinks this would make things worse. As it is, he feels he somehow with great effort and persuasion, manages to preserve virtue. Lao Tzu says, "When you try to save goodness, the evil is preserved ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,157 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...self. Confucius could not understand him. No moral thinker understands Lao Tzu, for he thinks this would make things worse. As it is, he feels he somehow with great effort and persuasion, manages to preserve virtue. Lao Tzu says, "When you try to save goodness, the evil is preserved automatically." These two are connected. It is impossible to keep any one of the two. Either both will remain or none. Lao Tzu says...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,158 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rve virtue. Lao Tzu says, "When you try to save goodness, the evil is preserved automatically." These two are connected. It is impossible to keep any one of the two. Either both will remain or none. Lao Tzu says: "The state of Religiousness is where neither exists." This state he used to call "The Simple (Unrestrained) Tao." This he used to call the realm of Religion, of Nature. If a man is completely establishe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,159 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se of both, starts at the same time. If I say: "To be such is beautiful," then everything contrary to this, becomes ugly. The slightest decision on one side results in an equal decision in the alternative. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH KNOW BEAUTY AS BEAUTY THERE ARISES THE RECOGNITION OF UGLINESS. WHEN THE PEOPLE OF EARTH KNOW THE GOOD AS GOOD THERE ARISES THE RECOGNITION OF EVIL." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,160 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t be recognised without ugliness. Similarly the sinner has got to be brought within the definition of the saint, just as much as ugliness is necessary to form the boundaries for realizing beauty. So Lao Tzu says: "When beauty is not recognised as beauty it is very much there but is not labelled as such. When beauty exists without a name, then ugliness cannot come into being. Similarly when the good is not labell...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,161 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- as Beauty, for there is no way of expressing these. To be silent, is the only way to express them. Lao Tzu says to Confucius: "Go Back! Your moral thinkers are the ones who have deformed the world. You are the mischief-makers! Go and be merciful enough not to worry about the morals of man! The more you try to make...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,162 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ncreases, the simplicity of his consciousness is destroyed and duality is born. But we go about creating dualities all around us and think nothing about it. We think it is for our good that we do so. Lao Tzu was a great revolutionary from this point of view. He says: "This is the evil. Whenever we give birth to evil it is with the excuse of the good." Actually, evil is never born directly. Whenever an evil is bor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,163 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y are both her sons and therefore they are beautiful. Their beauty emerges from the fact that they are her sons. Primarily, there is the mother's love, and from this love, their beauty shines. The primeval mind that Lao Tzu talks about is the mind that lives in natural simplicity, beyond the pair of opposites and their differences. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,164 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... opposites and their differences. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Thus Lao Tzu says: "Evil has got to be eradicated but as long as you try to save the good, you will not be able to destroy evil." The sinner has to be destroyed but as long as you hail the saint, the sinner is bound to re...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,165 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... palace itself but on the misery and pain in the hutments surrounding it. The pleasure of the saint is not in his saintliness, but in the strength the ego finds in the stark comparison with the unsaintly. Lao Tzu says, "Leave both. We call that Religion where there is no good and no evil". Generally what is defined as Religion is absolutely different. You will say, "Religion means the good. "Lao Tzu says, "No". You wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,166 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... with the unsaintly. Lao Tzu says, "Leave both. We call that Religion where there is no good and no evil". Generally what is defined as Religion is absolutely different. You will say, "Religion means the good. "Lao Tzu says, "No". You will say Religion is that which is auspicious, Religion is Truth. But Lao Tzu will still say "no"; for where there is truth, there is also untruth, where there is auspiciousness there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,167 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ood and no evil". Generally what is defined as Religion is absolutely different. You will say, "Religion means the good. "Lao Tzu says, "No". You will say Religion is that which is auspicious, Religion is Truth. But Lao Tzu will still say "no"; for where there is truth, there is also untruth, where there is auspiciousness there is also inauspiciousness. So Lao Tzu says, "Where both are not, where there is no duality, where the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,168 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou will say Religion is that which is auspicious, Religion is Truth. But Lao Tzu will still say "no"; for where there is truth, there is also untruth, where there is auspiciousness there is also inauspiciousness. So Lao Tzu says, "Where both are not, where there is no duality, where the mind is devoid of duality and established in the indivisible One where there is not an inch of separation, there is Religion." So to Lao Tzu, Re...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,169 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...usness. So Lao Tzu says, "Where both are not, where there is no duality, where the mind is devoid of duality and established in the indivisible One where there is not an inch of separation, there is Religion." So to Lao Tzu, Religion is transcendental -- where there is neither darkness nor light. If we were to tell Lao Tzu that God is Light, he will deny it. "Then what will happen to the darkness?" He will ask....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,170 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lished in the indivisible One where there is not an inch of separation, there is Religion." So to Lao Tzu, Religion is transcendental -- where there is neither darkness nor light. If we were to tell Lao Tzu that God is Light, he will deny it. "Then what will happen to the darkness?" He will ask. "Where will it go?" Then your God will forever be surrounded by darkness for light is always encircle...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,171 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...amp and its brightness will be surrounded on all sides by an ocean of darkness. It is in the midst of darkness that light exists. Remove the darkness and the light will be gone immediately; it will be found nowhere. Lao Tzu will say, "No, God is not light. Ne is where both darkness and light are not; where dualism and duality are not." The fundamental difference between moral thinking and religious thinking is this alone. M...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,172 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f Ethics stands on the ego. Now it is strange that it never occurs to us how moral scriptures can stand on the ego! What can be more immoral than the ego? But it is a fact that ego is at the base of all ethics. When Lao Tzu says this, he pulls down the entire frame-work of ethics. He says, "We do not accept good and evil, we do not accept sin and virtue. We desire that state of mind in which there is no idea of duality." But the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,173 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the harm? So ethics ultimately prove to be a fraud only. Those who are clever and skilful, find clever ways of being immoral while making a show of virtuosity to the world. They appear what they are not. Lao Tzu says: "we do not believe in such ethics." When the Upanishads first reached the Western World, people were very much concerned; for the Upanishads are very near to Lao Tzu. Nowhere in them is mentioned t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,174 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... appear what they are not. Lao Tzu says: "we do not believe in such ethics." When the Upanishads first reached the Western World, people were very much concerned; for the Upanishads are very near to Lao Tzu. Nowhere in them is mentioned that a man should not steal, that a man should not commit violence. The West was familiar only with the Ten Commandments which said -- Do not commit adultery, do not steal, do no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,175 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that a man should not commit violence. The West was familiar only with the Ten Commandments which said -- Do not commit adultery, do not steal, do no lie etc. Therefore when the Upanishads were translated, when Lao Tzu's TAO-TEH-KING was first rendered into English, the Western people thought the Orientalists to be immoral. Such are their sages? Not a single truth of Religion do they utter! The duty of religion is to teach ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,176 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd peaceful by being virtuous -- and so he is virtuous. A theist is a theist only if he is religious and not by being virtuous. A righteous man may become an atheist and yet be better than a theist. Lao Tzu is propounding the most fundamental sutra of theism. He says, "Do not divide existence into the opposites. Be beyond them." Our minds that are bound by ethics will be caught with fear, and then surely we shal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,177 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ys, "Do not divide existence into the opposites. Be beyond them." Our minds that are bound by ethics will be caught with fear, and then surely we shall become immoral! The first thought that comes to mind on hearing Lao Tzu is: If we are to go beyond both then why not steal? We feel, if we leave both, the world will become evil, for we know we are good only on the surface. Our insides are filled with evil. If we relax even 10/...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,178 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- the slightest bit, the superficial goodness will break and the evil within will spread outside. This is an actual fear within all of us. But Lao Tzu says: "He who is ready to go beyond the good will never be ready to fall into evil." He who is even ready to forgo the good, how will you throw him into evil? In truth, ego is the cause for man's falling into...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,179 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., how will you throw him into evil? In truth, ego is the cause for man's falling into evil. We have made our ego the stepping stone into the good and this is the very cause of our falling into evil. Lao Tzu says: "He who is not even eager to rise up to the good, will not be prepared to go even into evil. And he who is eager to rise up into the good can always be lured into evil." If he feels that evil is more fr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,180 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...go could be more satisfied by it, he will promptly go into evil, for it is the result he is after and not the ethics. If he embraces the good it is to satisfy his ego; if he embraces the evil it is only for his ego. Lao Tzu says: "He who goes beyond both good and bad, for him there is no contrivance to rise and no means to fall." He climbs no heights and falls into no abyss. He lives on the smooth and straight plane of existence...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,181 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the smooth and straight plane of existence. This straight level of existence is called the 'RIT' or 'TAO', where he goes not an inch up or down. This plane level of existence is called Religion. So Lao Tzu in this priceless sutra says: "I do not say unto you, shun evil; I do not say unto you hold on to the good. What I say is, understand that good and evil are two names of the same thing. Recognise that they ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,182 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thout the interference of your mental images, then it has a beauty all its own, which transcends both beauty and ugliness. Remember, I say, it has a beauty all its own that is beyond our conception. Lao Tzu says: "That alone we call beauty where ugliness has no existence." But then there is no 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,183 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have to waste our precious time inventing fresh abuses for retaliation? No, this matter would have ended there and then. We made no decision of the right or wrong. It was a fact, we knew it as such and moved on! Lao Tzu says this is according to him -- the good. Now remember, there are very subtle differences. Now Jesus says, "If a person slaps you on the right cheek, offer him your left." Lao Tzu says, "Do not do that."...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,184 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...such and moved on! Lao Tzu says this is according to him -- the good. Now remember, there are very subtle differences. Now Jesus says, "If a person slaps you on the right cheek, offer him your left." Lao Tzu says, "Do not do that." For according to Lao Tzu, when you offer the left check, you will have made a decision and you have reacted! Agreed that you did not abuse but you did hit back by offering the other ch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,185 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is according to him -- the good. Now remember, there are very subtle differences. Now Jesus says, "If a person slaps you on the right cheek, offer him your left." Lao Tzu says, "Do not do that." For according to Lao Tzu, when you offer the left check, you will have made a decision and you have reacted! Agreed that you did not abuse but you did hit back by offering the other cheek! Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Lao ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,186 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cording to Lao Tzu, when you offer the left check, you will have made a decision and you have reacted! Agreed that you did not abuse but you did hit back by offering the other cheek! Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Lao Tzu says, "Don't." For when you manifest love towards your enemy, you accept him as an enemy. Lao Tzu's exposition is very, very transcendental. Lao Tzu says, "To love the enemy, is to know him as...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,187 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you did not abuse but you did hit back by offering the other cheek! Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Lao Tzu says, "Don't." For when you manifest love towards your enemy, you accept him as an enemy. Lao Tzu's exposition is very, very transcendental. Lao Tzu says, "To love the enemy, is to know him as enemy." Then whether you abused or showed hatred or professed love, these are secondary things. One thing becomes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,188 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... by offering the other cheek! Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Lao Tzu says, "Don't." For when you manifest love towards your enemy, you accept him as an enemy. Lao Tzu's exposition is very, very transcendental. Lao Tzu says, "To love the enemy, is to know him as enemy." Then whether you abused or showed hatred or professed love, these are secondary things. One thing becomes clear by this act that the enemy remains the enemy...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,189 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rebuked him saying, "Nasruddin, it was only yesterday that you were reading 'One should love even one's enemy!'" Nasruddin replied, "That is true father, but he is no enemy, he is my brother." "Accept the enemy" Lao Tzu says, "And the decision is made." Then he says, "You agree that this man has done wrong and therefore he is to be answered not by evil but by goodness." Jesus says, "Return goodness for evil." But the fac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,190 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Jesus says, "Return goodness for evil." But the fact remains that you have decided the quality of the act as bad. Then if we react to this with goodness, it will be a righteous act but not a religious one. Lao Tzu says, "No answer! for you make no decisions about the happening." The matter ends there. You refuse to think beyond this. You do not allow any thought of this incident to rise within you. A man slapped you, t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,191 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ould you do, what you should not do -- you start no reflections within your mind. The incident finished, the door is closed, the chapter is over. You call it the end, you do not draw it further in your mind. "Then," Lao Tzu says, "You are religious." If you even say this much, "This should not have happened, now what shall I do?" Then you will have missed. To differentiate is to fall from Religion. Decision brings the fall in Re...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,192 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eligious." If you even say this much, "This should not have happened, now what shall I do?" Then you will have missed. To differentiate is to fall from Religion. Decision brings the fall in Religion. Lao Tzu's whole endeavour is to awaken you to the deep-seated habit of the mind of breaking things into two. You should be wide awake before the mind breaks a thing into two; for once it succeeds in breaking a thing,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,193 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...before the mind breaks a thing into two; for once it succeeds in breaking a thing, it is difficult for you to step out of the circle. So wake up and do not let the mind catch you napping! This is why Lao Tzu raises the question of Beauty and the Good. These two alone, are the fundamental differences. On the differences of Beauty stands all our sense of the Aesthetic. On the differences of the good and the evil st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,194 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and the Good. These two alone, are the fundamental differences. On the differences of Beauty stands all our sense of the Aesthetic. On the differences of the good and the evil stand our entire principles of ethics. Lao Tzu says, "Religion is within neither of these, Religion is beyond both of these -- lovable-unlovable, desirable-undesirable, beautiful-ugly, good-evil, auspicious-inauspicious -- beyond all these differences is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,195 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... within neither of these, Religion is beyond both of these -- lovable-unlovable, desirable-undesirable, beautiful-ugly, good-evil, auspicious-inauspicious -- beyond all these differences is Religion." Lao Tzu will never say, "To forgive is divine." He will say, "You forgave, so you admitted the 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,196 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ished and unpublished Query:- rising of anger." No, when anger or forgiveness arises within you, be alert and observe that now the contradictory part of the duality is rising within you. Therefore, we cannot call Lao Tzu forgiving. If we ask Lao Tzu "You forgive everybody?" He will reply "I have never been angry with anyone." If someone abuses Lao Tzu, he will say nothing and just go his way. We might think he has forgiven ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,197 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... rising of anger." No, when anger or forgiveness arises within you, be alert and observe that now the contradictory part of the duality is rising within you. Therefore, we cannot call Lao Tzu forgiving. If we ask Lao Tzu "You forgive everybody?" He will reply "I have never been angry with anyone." If someone abuses Lao Tzu, he will say nothing and just go his way. We might think he has forgiven the man but we are mistaken. La...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,198 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... contradictory part of the duality is rising within you. Therefore, we cannot call Lao Tzu forgiving. If we ask Lao Tzu "You forgive everybody?" He will reply "I have never been angry with anyone." If someone abuses Lao Tzu, he will say nothing and just go his way. We might think he has forgiven the man but we are mistaken. Lao Tzu is not angry with the man so the question of forgiveness does not arise. Forgiveness is possible o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,199 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...k Lao Tzu "You forgive everybody?" He will reply "I have never been angry with anyone." If someone abuses Lao Tzu, he will say nothing and just go his way. We might think he has forgiven the man but we are mistaken. Lao Tzu is not angry with the man so the question of forgiveness does not arise. Forgiveness is possible only when anger comes and once anger comes, where is the forgiveness? That is a mere cover, a dressing to hide ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,200 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not angry with the man so the question of forgiveness does not arise. Forgiveness is possible only when anger comes and once anger comes, where is the forgiveness? That is a mere cover, a dressing to hide the wound. Lao Tzu says, "I did not get angry in the first instance, so I did not have to undergo the trouble of forgiving. That is the second step I would have had to take if I had been angry." Lao Tzu's comple...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,201 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hide the wound. Lao Tzu says, "I did not get angry in the first instance, so I did not have to undergo the trouble of forgiving. That is the second step I would have had to take if I had been angry." Lao Tzu's complete stress is on alertness towards the pairs of opposites. One should be alert and watchful before they arise so that one remains care-free and impartial. Do not enter into the turmoil of the dualities...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,202 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sion and witness its manifestations. Be a witness. Catharsis will take place and you will also be well acquainted with it. Then you will begin to feel more a master of yourself. If you remember what Lao Tzu says when you are passing through this process, it will become easier and simpler for you. If you want to know anger only to be rid of it, it is very difficult, for the attitude of being rid of anger creates ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,203 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...greed' is good. If you raise such distinctions, you will find a lot of difficulty to know the traits in actuality. Then even if you transcend them, it will only be repression. If in this connection, we remember Lao Tzu's words, there is no need to connect anger with 'no-anger'. It is not at all necessary to think that anger is bad. Initially, we do not even know what anger is. Then how can we decide it is bad? This is a bor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,204 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...THAT BEING BEFORE AND BEHIND GIVE THE IDEA OF ONE FOLLOWING ANOTHER. That which is opposing, that which is contrary, is also allied. The enemy is also the friend, the relative. Lao Tzu does not see the opposing as the hostile; he does not consider the far away to be far away; and he does not understand the contrary to be the opposite. Lao Tzu maintains: "All distant things are measured by t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,205 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...enemy is also the friend, the relative. Lao Tzu does not see the opposing as the hostile; he does not consider the far away to be far away; and he does not understand the contrary to be the opposite. Lao Tzu maintains: "All distant things are measured by their proximities. All proximities are the diminutive forms of the distant things." If you want to draw a white line, you need a black background. Therefore, he ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,206 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hed and unpublished Query:- white in all its distinction. He who says the morning destroys the night, is mistaken. The truth is, the morn is born out of the night. Things which we see as contrasting and opposite, Lao Tzu sees as united joined. It is a complete gestalt; his manner of seeing things, is absolutely contrary to ours. Where we see tension in between things, Lao Tzu sees an attraction; where we see clearly that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,207 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ght. Things which we see as contrasting and opposite, Lao Tzu sees as united joined. It is a complete gestalt; his manner of seeing things, is absolutely contrary to ours. Where we see tension in between things, Lao Tzu sees an attraction; where we see clearly that someone is trying to destroy us, Lao Tzu says, it is impossible for us to exist without them. He illustrates his points with many examples. He say...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,208 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is a complete gestalt; his manner of seeing things, is absolutely contrary to ours. Where we see tension in between things, Lao Tzu sees an attraction; where we see clearly that someone is trying to destroy us, Lao Tzu says, it is impossible for us to exist without them. He illustrates his points with many examples. He says, "If there are not two, there is no place for one." This is an arithmetical example. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,209 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e had only the figure of 1, what will it means? Nothing. It will be meaningless. Its meaning construes from its expansions into 2, 3, 4.....9. If we remove all figures after 1, 1 becomes meaningless. Lao Tzu says: "One is not apart from Two. It is a part of Two." He says, if we remove the heights, what will become of the depths? If we remove the mountains, will the valleys remain? How? And yet the valleys look ju...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,210 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... mountains, will the valleys remain? How? And yet the valleys look just the opposite of the mountain-tops. The peaks of the mountains seem to touch the skies whereas the valleys plunge deep into the netherlands. But Lao Tzu says, "The valleys are formed near and only because of the mountains." In fact, the valley is the other part of the peak of the mountains -- its other dimension. Destroy the one and you destroy the other. If ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,211 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of the peak of the mountains -- its other dimension. Destroy the one and you destroy the other. If we destroy the peaks, the valleys are destroyed. But we always see them as opposites of each other. Lao Tzu says, "The valleys are the support of the peaks. The peaks are creators of the valleys, "Both these are connected -- one -- and there is no way of separating them. And Lao Tzu says: "How can we call that oppo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,212 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ee them as opposites of each other. Lao Tzu says, "The valleys are the support of the peaks. The peaks are creators of the valleys, "Both these are connected -- one -- and there is no way of separating them. And Lao Tzu says: "How can we call that opposing which we cannot tear apart?" How can we call that contrasting, which we cannot separate? A life-long enemy of Napoleon died. Napoleon's eyes were filled wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,213 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., "I do not understand myself. Today seeing him dead, he whom I had no hope of ever befriending, I feel a part of me is lost. I shall now no longer be what I was during his life-time." This feeling of Napolean makes Lao Tzu's theory absolutely clear. Napoleon says, "Something died within me at the death of my enemy; something that could only be when he was alive. I am now the poorer to that extent. There was some...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,214 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...longer is and within me also, it is not the same." This means that even enemies have a hand in making your personality and not your friends alone. Without enemies you will be less, you will be empty. Lao Tzu says there are no opposing forces on this earth. They only appear so. Illness is not the opposite of health. If we ask the medical science, it too will say that illness is part of health. It is necessary to b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,215 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing up a fight for your well-being, so much so, that it is tired. In existence, illness and good-health, are two parts of the same thing. All contradictions and all oppositions are no contradictions according to Lao Tzu. If a man wishes never to be insulted, he must remember he will never be respected either. He who expects to be honoured, should be ready for insults. And only he is revered who has passed through many ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,216 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... wishes never to be insulted, he must remember he will never be respected either. He who expects to be honoured, should be ready for insults. And only he is revered who has passed through many indignities. So also Lao Tzu says, "He who does not wish to be insulted should also not aspire for honours. Then only can he not be insulted." Lao Tzu has said: "I always sat there, from where no one could displace me. I sat in the v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,217 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ults. And only he is revered who has passed through many indignities. So also Lao Tzu says, "He who does not wish to be insulted should also not aspire for honours. Then only can he not be insulted." Lao Tzu has said: "I always sat there, from where no one could displace me. I sat in the very last seat, where people placed their sandals. I sat where there was no further lower place I could be pushed into." "No on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,218 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ys sat there, from where no one could displace me. I sat in the very last seat, where people placed their sandals. I sat where there was no further lower place I could be pushed into." "No one ever insulted me, says Lao Tzu, "For I never craved for honour." Desire 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,219 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nsult, there is no means for honour and esteem. He who dreams of rising up is sure to fall. He who is afraid to fall should not venture to climb up and he who has the courage to fall, may endeavour to climb up. What Lao Tzu means to say is, that it is wrong to try to escape the opposite and it is in our effort to do so that we find ourselves in trouble. Either forsake them both or be prepared for both. Existence ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,220 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... stands supported by the pairs of opposites. The opposites help each other. The bricks that are placed in opposite directions are not enemies but friends and their very contrariness forms the basis. So Lao Tzu gives examples and says, "SO IT IS THAT EXISTENCE AND NON-EXISTENCE GIVE BIRTH THE ONE TO THE IDEA OF THE OTHER." Existence gives the idea of non-existence. Non-existence gives the idea of existence. In other...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,221 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t existence would be like without non-existence. We cannot think what life would be like if there were no death. If there is life there is bound to be death. There is no way for life to exist without death. Why does Lao Tzu say this? He says this so that once this comes within your understanding, your mind will be filled with the feeling of acceptance. Then you no longer will be afraid of death. Then you will know it to be a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,222 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty and an useless tension. To choose one and leave the other, is the cause of all grief and sorrow. Accept both or reject both. Then alone the state of absolute bliss and supreme contentment is born. Lao Tzu wants to show that whether you deny or whether you accept, the pairs cannot be broken apart. They are united. To call them united is an expression of language. Actually, they are one. They are the two ends of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,223 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l not breathe out." This man will surely die for the in-going breath is also the out-going breath. Either both should remain or both should not. There is no way of keeping one and dropping the other. All Lao Tzu's illustrations are to explain this point. He says that EXISTENCE AND NON-EXISTENCE BOTH JOIN AND GIVE BIRTH TO THE IDEA OF ONE ANOTHER. They are comrades, friends and not enemies. They are not against ea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,224 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ter how much of non-violence he cultivates. If someone decides to become ego-less, to wipe off his ego, his state will be like that of Diogenes. His ego will peep out from every tear in his garment. Lao Tzu says "Simplicity and complexity give birth to the supposition of each other." If you come to know that you are simple, then know for certain you have become complex. If you feel you have become non-violent, k...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,225 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. "There is no difference between the body and the Universe," so say the Rishis of the Upanishads. "There is no difference between the big and the small; everything and nothing is one and the same." Lao Tzu says, "All the differences we behold are nothing more than illusion." If we question a scientist, he will agree with Lao Tzu. You will be surprised to know that many young Western Scientists are now very ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,226 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... no difference between the big and the small; everything and nothing is one and the same." Lao Tzu says, "All the differences we behold are nothing more than illusion." If we question a scientist, he will agree with Lao Tzu. You will be surprised to know that many young Western Scientists are now very interested in Lao Tzu. They are debating the possibility of a new science being evolved on the basis of Lao Tzu's ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,227 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ferences we behold are nothing more than illusion." If we question a scientist, he will agree with Lao Tzu. You will be surprised to know that many young Western Scientists are now very interested in Lao Tzu. They are debating the possibility of a new science being evolved on the basis of Lao Tzu's teachings. A very important thinker and mathematician has written a book called. "Tao and Science." Can an entirely ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,228 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., he will agree with Lao Tzu. You will be surprised to know that many young Western Scientists are now very interested in Lao Tzu. They are debating the possibility of a new science being evolved on the basis of Lao Tzu's teachings. A very important thinker and mathematician has written a book called. "Tao and Science." Can an entirely new kind of science be evolved from the Teachings of Lao Tzu? It will beca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,229 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cience being evolved on the basis of Lao Tzu's teachings. A very important thinker and mathematician has written a book called. "Tao and Science." Can an entirely new kind of science be evolved from the Teachings of Lao Tzu? It will because the science of the West up-to-date, has evolved on the Greek ideology that accepts the corresponding idea. All Western Science is Aristotle-oriented. It stands on the doctrines ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,230 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...p-to-date, has evolved on the Greek ideology that accepts the corresponding idea. All Western Science is Aristotle-oriented. It stands on the doctrines of Aristotle. There is no greater an opponent to Aristotle than Lao Tzu. The Eastern Ideology is that of Lao Tzu whereas, the Western Ideology is that of Aristotle. If we understand the differences between them, we shall be able to comprehend better. Aristotle...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,231 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... accepts the corresponding idea. All Western Science is Aristotle-oriented. It stands on the doctrines of Aristotle. There is no greater an opponent to Aristotle than Lao Tzu. The Eastern Ideology is that of Lao Tzu whereas, the Western Ideology is that of Aristotle. If we understand the differences between them, we shall be able to comprehend better. Aristotle says, "Darkness is darkness; light is light. Both ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,232 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Aristotle maintains that light is light and darkness is darkness and the two never meet anywhere. The topic of his ideology is based on this: A is A, B is B and A cannot be B. If we want to explain Lao Tzu's ideology in the language of Aristotle it will be like this: A is A and A is also B; and A cannot remain A, without becoming B. Aristotle's ideology is a solid ideology. Lao Tzu's, ideology is fluid. Lao Tzu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,233 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If we want to explain Lao Tzu's ideology in the language of Aristotle it will be like this: A is A and A is also B; and A cannot remain A, without becoming B. Aristotle's ideology is a solid ideology. Lao Tzu's, ideology is fluid. Lao Tzu says, things are in such a fluid state that they flow into their opposites and change. The valley becomes the peak of the mountain and the peak becomes the valley. Life becomes d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,234 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...xplain Lao Tzu's ideology in the language of Aristotle it will be like this: A is A and A is also B; and A cannot remain A, without becoming B. Aristotle's ideology is a solid ideology. Lao Tzu's, ideology is fluid. Lao Tzu says, things are in such a fluid state that they flow into their opposites and change. The valley becomes the peak of the mountain and the peak becomes the valley. Life becomes death and from death evolves li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,235 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h evolves life again. Youth changes into old age and the old are reborn into children. No, darkness is not darkness and light is not light. Darkness is the dim form of light and light is the bright form of darkness. Lao Tzu or Aristotle -- such is the decisive state of the world today. So the scientists of the West think that if science is developed on the basis of Lao Tzu's ideology, it will have an entirely different dimension...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,236 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... form of light and light is the bright form of darkness. Lao Tzu or Aristotle -- such is the decisive state of the world today. So the scientists of the West think that if science is developed on the basis of Lao Tzu's ideology, it will have an entirely different dimension. Up to now, all their knowledge is based on the Greek ideology and Aristotle is the father of Greek Ideology. His doctrines have been developed over a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,237 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r of Greek Ideology. His doctrines have been developed over a period of two thousand years. Aristotle and Einstien are the two links of the same chain. Their logic, their way of thinking is the same. Lao Tzu is absolutely opposite. If Lao Tzu becomes the father of a Science, it will be a different science altogether. We cannot imagine what its vision will be. 10/28/07 Copyright...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,238 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...have been developed over a period of two thousand years. Aristotle and Einstien are the two links of the same chain. Their logic, their way of thinking is the same. Lao Tzu is absolutely opposite. If Lao Tzu becomes the father of a Science, it will be a different science altogether. We cannot imagine what its vision will be. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,239 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... death, the more of life will be preserved. If some day we succeed in annihilating death completely, we shall be able to preserve absolute life. The there will be life and life alone. But according to Lao Tzu, it is just the opposite. If we annihilate death, we destroy life also. If death is completely destroyed, life will be no more. Let us examine this properly in context with the happenings of today. Now this i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,240 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... happenings of today. Now this is interesting that the more cures we have found for man's ailment, the more ill man has become. His health has not improved by the advance of medical sciences. In the times of Lao Tzu there were not so many cures to fight the diseases, as they are today. Even today, the Adivasis in the jungles do not have so many medicines to fight diseases; but they are much more healthier than us. The pr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,241 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it, which may have no meaning medically. The Adivasi or the African jungle man is surrounded on all sides by disease. He has no means of medicine or medical research, yet his health is extraordinary! Lao Tzu can be correct. He says, the more you try to eradicate disease, the more you will destroy health. If the universe stands on duality, if you remove the bricks from one side, the opposite bricks on the other si...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,242 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y health. If the universe stands on duality, if you remove the bricks from one side, the opposite bricks on the other side are bound to fall. Now the Western scientists have begun to apply their minds to Lao Tzu for they feel he may be right. There is an ancient story: It is said that an old follower of Lao Tzu, who was 90 years old, was busy pulling water from the well, together with his young son. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,243 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... on the other side are bound to fall. Now the Western scientists have begun to apply their minds to Lao Tzu for they feel he may be right. There is an ancient story: It is said that an old follower of Lao Tzu, who was 90 years old, was busy pulling water from the well, together with his young son. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. There was as much difference between them as between Aristo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,244 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...feel he may be right. There is an ancient story: It is said that an old follower of Lao Tzu, who was 90 years old, was busy pulling water from the well, together with his young son. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. There was as much difference between them as between Aristotle and Lao Tzu. Confucius' way of thinking is Aristotalean, therefore. the West honoured Confucius very much these last 300 yea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,245 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who was 90 years old, was busy pulling water from the well, together with his young son. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. There was as much difference between them as between Aristotle and Lao Tzu. Confucius' way of thinking is Aristotalean, therefore. the West honoured Confucius very much these last 300 years. It is only now that Lao Tzu is rising in their esteem. This is because Science now finds its...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,246 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ies. There was as much difference between them as between Aristotle and Lao Tzu. Confucius' way of thinking is Aristotalean, therefore. the West honoured Confucius very much these last 300 years. It is only now that Lao Tzu is rising in their esteem. This is because Science now finds itself in a strange predicament and is faced with great difficulty. To continue our story: Confucius happened to pass by. He saw th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,247 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now that there are machines that do this job as well. But then, what will my son do? What will happen to his health, his constitution?" What we do on one hand has an immediate effect on the other. If Lao Tzu is correct, the result will be disastrous. For example: We want to sleep soundly. He who wishes to sleep soundly is, inveritably fond of rest. And he who does not toil, cannot sleep soundly. Lao Tzu says, "Wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,248 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If Lao Tzu is correct, the result will be disastrous. For example: We want to sleep soundly. He who wishes to sleep soundly is, inveritably fond of rest. And he who does not toil, cannot sleep soundly. Lao Tzu says, "Work and rest are both united. If you wish to relax, toil hard." Strive so hard that relaxation falls on you. Now if we think the Aristotalean way, work and rest are different and opposite. If I am fon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,249 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecome sleepless, the more he rests the next day in order to make up for lost sleep. Then the more restless his nights become. Then he finds himself in a vicious circle, where rest becomes impossible. Lao Tzu says: "If you wish for rest, go the opposite way -- work hard!" This is because rest and work are not opposite but associated, they are co-operators. The more you toil, the deeper you shall sleep. The opposit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,250 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ility to work, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- "Once we understand this," says Lao Tzu, "then the question remains not of destroying the opposite but of making use of it." Aristotle says, "Nature causes illnesses, so fight nature." Therefore all of the Western Science is based ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,251 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es, so fight nature." Therefore all of the Western Science is based on fighting nature. Its whole language is of conflict. Bertrand Russell has written a book: "Conquest of nature", It is all in the language of war. Lao Tzu would laugh! He would say, "You have no idea you are a part of nature. How will you win?" What will happen if my hand sets out to conquer me; if my leg wishes to defeat me? It would be rank foolishness. Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,252 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...war. Lao Tzu would laugh! He would say, "You have no idea you are a part of nature. How will you win?" What will happen if my hand sets out to conquer me; if my leg wishes to defeat me? It would be rank foolishness. Lao Tzu says, "Nature cannot be conquered because you yourself are nature." He who sets out to fight nature is an integral part of nature himself and so he only succeeds in creating tensions and turmoils within his o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,253 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Live in Nature, do not try to conquer it. Do not fight nature in order to know her secrets. Love her, be absorbed in her and she will reveal all her mysteries. If the structure of Science is based on Lao Tzu, it will be a different Science altogether. Its language will be one of co-operation, then only can we think in a different dimension. He who thinks in terms of conflict, his logic is always that A is A and B...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,254 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d himself! Then when he becomes more cold and cannot perspire, he falls ill. He himself was amazed at what he was doing! The language of conflict is such that it puts us into trouble and perplexity. Lao Tzu says, "That which we consider to be inverse and contrary, is not actually so." If you wish to enjoy the cold, you cannot do so without enjoying the sun. This may seem contrary but I say, Lao Tzu is correct. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,255 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty. Lao Tzu says, "That which we consider to be inverse and contrary, is not actually so." If you wish to enjoy the cold, you cannot do so without enjoying the sun. This may seem contrary but I say, Lao Tzu is correct. The cold cannot be enjoyed without the heat and he who has not enjoyed the pleasures of perspiration, is not capable of enjoying the cold weather, for then it will become an illness for him. He wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,256 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ctually, he who does not know it is to be hot, cannot know what coolness is. This is not opposed to each other, this is conjoined. it is the alliance of both that forms the melody of life. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "The concepts of high and low are interdependent." The notes and sounds of music co-ordinates with each other to create a harmonious melody. The notes of music, that are inverse and opposite, combi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,257 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d to make a harmony sounds that seem contrary and conflicting. Then only is music born. The Aristotalean concept that has been imbued within our minds since childhood has to be wiped out if we are to understand Lao Tzu. Our gestalt of observing things is always in the opposite. Whenever we see a thing, we at once weigh it in terms of the opposite. Wherever you find a man criticizing you, you at once look upon him as your en...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,258 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... His remarks will prove useful for your self-perception. His words may etch out the path that leads you to discover yourself. You will do well to keep him with you." Now Kabira speaks the language of Lao Tzu: Do not hold enmity towards him who maligns you. There is no need. Perhaps his slander may become useful, perhaps his defamation may provide the opposite notes of the melody! But our nature is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,259 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ose who look to be friends are merely lesser enemies. Some are immediate foes some are distant foes. The former are a little thoughtful, the latter are not. The enmity is the constant factor in both. Lao Tzu based his foundation on a completely different gestalt. Would that his concept came within the understanding of man! Then we would create an entirely new world! He says, "You are not a separate entity. Then w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,260 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gate Whole. The individual cannot exist without the Total Aggregate. You are because everything else is. The tree at your gate is also a part of the reason for your existence. I here is a story about Lao Tzu: One day one of his disciples was sent by someone to break a few leaves from a tree. He broke a full branch and was taking it when Lao Tzu stopped him. "Don't you know you fool," He told the disciple, "If any...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,261 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... also a part of the reason for your existence. I here is a story about Lao Tzu: One day one of his disciples was sent by someone to break a few leaves from a tree. He broke a full branch and was taking it when Lao Tzu stopped him. "Don't you know you fool," He told the disciple, "If any part of this tree is destroyed, you too become less to that extent? When this tree stood before us, full and green, we too in a manner, we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,262 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and green, we too in a manner, were also full and green. Today, its wound has caused a scar within us also. We are not apart, we are one." But even with full knowledge, we have cut off so many trees! Lao Tzu objected to a single branch being broken from the tree but we have destroyed full jungles! Now we realise it was a terrible mistake. We had cut off the jungles because we thought them to be our foes. Man was ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,263 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gles! If we cut down the jungles our towns will be no more. All over Europe now, there is a stir against the cutting of trees. It is a crime to break a single leaf for man will fall with the extinction of trees. Lao Tzu said 2,500 years ago that when a tree is denied of a single branch, we too are lessened somewhat, within ourselves. The tree is very much a part of us, a part of existence. It is just as if we were to remove ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,264 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s in the Oceans; the menstrual cycle of women would become erratic. It will not move in a cycle of 28 days, as it does now. Then everything will change. A slight difference -- and everything changes. Lao Tzu says, "Let things be as they are." Accept them, they are your companions. Do not segregate the opposite. That which seems hostile and unfriendly, let even that be where it is, for the pattern of nature is dee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,265 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that you yourself produce? Then the quantity of Oxygen will grow less and less day by day. Ultimately, all life will come to a stop for the trees that give us the life-giving Oxygen, are no more. Now Lao Tzu had no knowledge of Oxygen. He did not also know what part the trees played in our lives and yet he said -- "All things are connected. There is one integrated Existence. The moment you effect the slightest ch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,266 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ual change within your own selves." There is One Integrated Existence and the Non-Existence is very much a part of it. Everything is connected within this existence -- death, illness: everything! And Lao Tzu says, "If there is the attitude of friendship, of companionship, between the various parts of Existence, if there is the feeling of one-ness with each other, instead of over-powering each other, a wonderful m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,267 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... friendship, of companionship, between the various parts of Existence, if there is the feeling of one-ness with each other, instead of over-powering each other, a wonderful music is created in life." This very music Lao Tzu calls Tao; that very music is Religion; that very music is 'Rit'. It is now becoming more and more clear that as the understanding of Ecology expands, our understanding of Lao Tzu, will also b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,268 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e." This very music Lao Tzu calls Tao; that very music is Religion; that very music is 'Rit'. It is now becoming more and more clear that as the understanding of Ecology expands, our understanding of Lao Tzu, will also become more profound. The more we begin to understand the unity within the diversity, the less we shall be in a hurry to change the order of things. I was reading somewhere the other day, that ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,269 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... We use detergents because soap costs more. It seems alright now -- we are being thrifty but remember; whatever we do, is inter-related. The slightest modification causes a great deal of difference. Lao Tzu was against change of any kind. He used to say: "Accept life as it is. Accept the Opposite also, for there is a secret to it also. Embrace death when it comes. It too, has its secret. Do not fight with life; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,270 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...any struggle 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- with it. And it is Lao Tzu's contention that if you surrender whole-heartedly, there will not be trace of anxiety in your life. What worry can surrendered mind have? What anxiety is left for one, who has no enmity with nature? Why shou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,271 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...What worry can surrendered mind have? What anxiety is left for one, who has no enmity with nature? Why should he be afraid to lose when he is not out to conquer? His victory is certain for his defeat is his victory. Lao Tzu's aphorisms all tend towards surrender. In the last line he says: "... AND THAT BEING BEFORE AND BEHIND GIVE THE IDEA OF ONE FOLLOWING ANOTHER." That which has gone and that which follows, determines our...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,272 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...so the poor child is hound to go mad. It is necessary that the old should depart so that children are ushered in. When children are born, the older generation will depart automatically. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "All order is inter-connected." If youth comes childhood must depart. When old age comes, youth has to depart. All this is joined, united; but we try to segregate this also. What we like, we strive to s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,273 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...possibility of non-reverence towards me. Non-reverence has also to be fulfilled in the order of totality for life is made up out of the cohesion of the opposites. He who has revered me, will also show non-reverence. Lao Tzu with his profound 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- understanding knows...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,274 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e is such. When a person is born, it is only to die. If a person dies, it is only to be reborn. If we understand the harmony of the inter-connection of the opposites in this vast law, it will be easier to understand Lao Tzu. This is the meaning of this sutra. QUESTION: MODERN SCIENCE HAS TAKEN THE HUMAN RACE AWAY FROM THE NATURE AND DEVELOPED VERY MANY DIMENSIONS OF LIFE. PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW THE INTRICATE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,275 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ASE EXPLAIN HOW THE INTRICATE PATTERN OF THE SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM OF LIFE CAN BE BALANCED WITH THE NATURAL LIFE OF THE TAO-AGE? Bhagwan Sri: It is not a matter of striking a balance, between Lao Tzu and the present day Science. If Lao Tzu's view-point comes within the understanding of man, a completely new Science can come into being. This is because his way of looking at life is entirely different. The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,276 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...N OF THE SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM OF LIFE CAN BE BALANCED WITH THE NATURAL LIFE OF THE TAO-AGE? Bhagwan Sri: It is not a matter of striking a balance, between Lao Tzu and the present day Science. If Lao Tzu's view-point comes within the understanding of man, a completely new Science can come into being. This is because his way of looking at life is entirely different. The Science that developed on the basis of t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,277 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his will stop coming. Mosquitoes can be useful to life in other respects also but this we can only know after their compete annihilation. Then perhaps we shall have to try and replace them again! If Lao Tzu was faced with the problem of eradicating Malaria, he would never think in terms of destroying the mosquitoes. He would have suggested two methods. He would have suggested a change of attitude towards the mos...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,278 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ible to change the composition of the mosquitoes' body system by which it would not be an enemy of man but rather a friend. Either or both of these methods can be implemented. If we had followed the Lao Tzu method, we would have worked out an accord between the two. If it is possible to annihilate the mosquito completely, why should it be difficult to annihilate the poison within it? And if the mosquito can be c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,279 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... poison within it? And if the mosquito can be completely destroyed or its poison removed from its system, then there is no reason why man's resistance cannot be built up to withstand the poison of the mosquito? Lao Tzu would definitely be in favour of increasing man s power of resistance. There are always two ways to any problem. Now for instance, it is sunny outside. One way is, that I use the Umbrella to keep the sun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,280 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... keep the sun away. In that case, I treat the sun as my enemy and I prevent its rays from reaching me. There is another way also -- I can make my body so strong and healthy that it can withstand the rays of the sun. Lao Tzu would say: "Make your bodies strong. Then you will feel the sun to be your friend for it is never so sunny as to be unbearable to a healthy body. The sun seems a foe only to weak and unhealthy bodies. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,281 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ms of co-existence only between man and man. Co-existence should be complete. The same principle should hold good vis-a-vis all existence. Our attitude should be one of friendliness even towards disease and illness. Lao Tse's language, is the language of co-existence -- towards the Total Existence -- . And we cannot differentiate and choose to co-exist with one and not with the other, for if the element of hostility remains, we ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,282 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to co-exist with one and not with the other, for if the element of hostility remains, we may become hostile towards those with whom we are in amity. A new Science will be born -- in accordance with Lao Tzu's way of thinking. And if we understand Lao Tzu thoroughly Lao Tzu implies the Eastern mind -- the Eastern way of thinking. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,283 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r if the element of hostility remains, we may become hostile towards those with whom we are in amity. A new Science will be born -- in accordance with Lao Tzu's way of thinking. And if we understand Lao Tzu thoroughly Lao Tzu implies the Eastern mind -- the Eastern way of thinking. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,284 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... hostility remains, we may become hostile towards those with whom we are in amity. A new Science will be born -- in accordance with Lao Tzu's way of thinking. And if we understand Lao Tzu thoroughly Lao Tzu implies the Eastern mind -- the Eastern way of thinking. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Qu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,285 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the western way of thinking is Logic and the Eastern way of thinking is Experience. All Science today, stands on the basis of the object. It is research in the field of objects. If ever a science is evolved based on Lao Tzu. Yoga, Patanjali, Buddha, it will be based on the search within the mind of man and never any search outside of him. There can be no accord, no union between these two. If and when the Lao-Tseian Science begi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,286 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce is evolved based on Lao Tzu. Yoga, Patanjali, Buddha, it will be based on the search within the mind of man and never any search outside of him. There can be no accord, no union between these two. If and when the Lao-Tseian Science begins to evolve, the present day science will gradually merge into it, for it is only a part of science. The Science of Experience will be vast and total. This modern science will be absorbed into...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,287 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rt of the whole, it will lose its sting and all that is precious within it, will come to light. There are many indications now in the West that clearly show the beginning of the onslaught on present day science. Lao Tzu is penetrating from many sides. The meaning of Lao Tzu is -- the East. Now there is an architect in America named Wright who has designed a house on the Lao-Tseian style. The whole house is so designed as to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,288 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... precious within it, will come to light. There are many indications now in the West that clearly show the beginning of the onslaught on present day science. Lao Tzu is penetrating from many sides. The meaning of Lao Tzu is -- the East. Now there is an architect in America named Wright who has designed a house on the Lao-Tseian style. The whole house is so designed as to look a part of the ground outside and the very mountain...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,289 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the beginning of the onslaught on present day science. Lao Tzu is penetrating from many sides. The meaning of Lao Tzu is -- the East. Now there is an architect in America named Wright who has designed a house on the Lao-Tseian style. The whole house is so designed as to look a part of the ground outside and the very mountains and trees around it. Now if a tree comes in the way of his building, Right will not remove the tree, he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,290 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ppens to come in the sitting Room, he would so design it that the whole room is in harmony with the tree. So the houses this man builds become a part of nature. Viewed from afar, these houses cannot be seen as such. Lao Tzu feels that houses that stand out are violent. They are violent, like this building 'Woodlands'. If a house goes up to 26 floors, where will the trees be, where will the mountains be and where man? They are al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,291 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a unique beauty all their own. There is a rare experience to sit within the shadows of his house. To sit in one of these houses is not to be torn away from nature but to be in the midst of nature. So the Lao-Tseian way of thinking is capturing the Western mind in a thousand ways. The new poet of today is not concerned about the rhyme or the grammar in his poetry; for Lao Tzu says, does the wind worry about the fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,292 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ture but to be in the midst of nature. So the Lao-Tseian way of thinking is capturing the Western mind in a thousand ways. The new poet of today is not concerned about the rhyme or the grammar in his poetry; for Lao Tzu says, does the wind worry about the form and rhythm as it blows by? Or do the clouds consider the alliteration and the cadence of their thunder? And yet there is a rhythm in that thunder -- a meas...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,293 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing seems to be continuing on and on. So the painters no longer bind their work in frames. They say that is a man-made thing. Also, it is not necessary that everything should come within the picture. The Lao Tzu type of painting was born in China, thousands of years ago. The Tao School of Painting is a different form of painting altogether. Whenever a man like Lao Tzu appears, all functions of the world begin to take...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,294 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sary that everything should come within the picture. The Lao Tzu type of painting was born in China, thousands of years ago. The Tao School of Painting is a different form of painting altogether. Whenever a man like Lao Tzu appears, all functions of the world begin to take shape according to his concept. So the Lao-Tseian types of painting came into being. These pictures have a charm of their own. These pictures bear no frames, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,295 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...na, thousands of years ago. The Tao School of Painting is a different form of painting altogether. Whenever a man like Lao Tzu appears, all functions of the world begin to take shape according to his concept. So the Lao-Tseian types of painting came into being. These pictures have a charm of their own. These pictures bear no frames, they have no beginning and no end. In life also, there is no beginning and no end. All things are...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,296 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... pictures bear no frames, they have no beginning and no end. In life also, there is no beginning and no end. All things are beginningless and endless. Only the things that we make have a beginning and an end. So the Lao-Tseian type of pictures start from anywhere and end anywhere. This new vogue is now gaining ground in modern art, be it painting or poetry or story-telling. The older stories always started with -...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,297 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...." Everything was contained in a particular frame-work. The modern stories of today, start from anywhere and end anywhere. In fact, the modern story has a beginning but no end. It is a fragment, for according to the Lao-Tseian Theory, whatever we say, is no more than a fragment; it cannot be whole. We ourselves are not complete. When all things are thus fragmented. incomplete, let them remain so. Do not indulge in the useless ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,298 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...und. The hold of the West is very superficial. A single concept succeeds in a hundred years and it is lost also that quickly. But the East can wait. It can wait a long time for the right opportunity. Lao Tzu is the innermost wisdom of the East. The essence of the East lies hidden in Lao Tzu. There cannot be an accord? there cannot be an union between the two methods of life-perception. An entirely new science...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,299 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d years and it is lost also that quickly. But the East can wait. It can wait a long time for the right opportunity. Lao Tzu is the innermost wisdom of the East. The essence of the East lies hidden in Lao Tzu. There cannot be an accord? there cannot be an union between the two methods of life-perception. An entirely new science can be born on the concept of Lao Tzu and this birth will take place very ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,300 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of the East. The essence of the East lies hidden in Lao Tzu. There cannot be an accord? there cannot be an union between the two methods of life-perception. An entirely new science can be born on the concept of Lao Tzu and this birth will take place very soon. There are many things that do not strike the mind immediately. For instance, Euclid's Geometry was the mainstay of the West. All the mathematics involved in Science w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,301 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... involved in Science was Euclidean. No one could have ever dreamt that any non-Euclidean Geometry would one day nullify it but since the last 150 years, non-Euclidean Geometry has come into being which is absolutely Lao-Tseian even though people do not know it. Euclid says, "Two parallel lines never meet." The non-Euclid Geometry says, "Two parallel lines are already connected." This is a Lao-Tseian sutra that th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,302 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing which is absolutely Lao-Tseian even though people do not know it. Euclid says, "Two parallel lines never meet." The non-Euclid Geometry says, "Two parallel lines are already connected." This is a Lao-Tseian sutra that they are already joined. If we keep drawing these lines till the very end, we find that they meet. The trouble is we do not draw them enough. We see them from close quarters, we do not see far e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,303 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... THEREFORE THE SAGE MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOUT ACTION; AND CONVEYS HIS DOCTRINE WITHOUT WORDS. Existence is dual. Whatever we do, the opposite also begins to happen simultaneously. Lao Tzu has talked about Existence in his first two sutras. Now in the third sutra, Lao Tzu says: "THEREFORE, THE SAGE MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOUT ACTION." We shall have to go 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,304 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... DOCTRINE WITHOUT WORDS. Existence is dual. Whatever we do, the opposite also begins to happen simultaneously. Lao Tzu has talked about Existence in his first two sutras. Now in the third sutra, Lao Tzu says: "THEREFORE, THE SAGE MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOUT ACTION." We shall have to go 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-R...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,305 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...w if a sage tells a person that he loves him, he gives rise to hatred also. If he says he works for the good of people, much harm will also follow. If he says, "I am giving you Truth", he gives rise to untruth also. Lao Tzu has said in the very beginning that everything is filled with the opposite. Whatever we do, the opposite also takes place immediately. There is no way to escape the opposite. We do one thing and give rise to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,306 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lso happens at the same time. Whether we know or we do not know, whether we recognise this fact or not but it never can be -- it is impossible -- that we give rise to one and the other does not take place. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "THEREFORE THE SAGE MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOUT ACTION." If they wish you well, they do not actively go about doing so for if they do, they give rise to your non-wellbeing also. This...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,307 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ficult, intricate and deep. Generally we think that if we wish for the good fortune of a person, we have to actively work for his prosperity. If we wish to serve others, we have to actually serve them. But what Lao Tzu explains in his Sutra is that when you serve a person, you will create the mechanism of making him a slave. When you love a person you make arrangements to give rise to hate towards him for hatred is born ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,308 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to hate towards him for hatred is born the moment love appears; and as soon as service is put into action, it becomes enmity. Then what is the sage to do? Is he not eager to serve? If he is a sage, Lao Tzu says, "HE MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOUT ACTION." Even when he loves, he does not make his love active. His love will never manifest actively. Leave aside action, he will not even give expression to it. He does not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,309 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to step aside from this ocean. I light a small lamp amidst the encircling darkness; and the wonder is, the lamp makes the dark-ness more outstanding, more clear, more strong. In this precious sutra, Lao Tzu says "The love of the sage is not active love," even not so much as to say he loves. His love is inactive. His love is not declaration but his very existence. Love is his very soul. Nay, he is love itself. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,310 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at way, nor rested under the same tree, nor go to Magdalene's house? So this statement of Jesus was never converted into action, nor was it a declaration towards some person. Then what did ;t mean? If you understand Lao Tzu you will know what it means. Perhaps Lao Tzu may not have said this much also -- that, 'I alone am capable of loving'. For this too, would have been saying too much. Even this much gives rise to a form, a sha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,311 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o to Magdalene's house? So this statement of Jesus was never converted into action, nor was it a declaration towards some person. Then what did ;t mean? If you understand Lao Tzu you will know what it means. Perhaps Lao Tzu may not have said this much also -- that, 'I alone am capable of loving'. For this too, would have been saying too much. Even this much gives rise to a form, a shape. Things get manifested even by this much a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,312 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his much also -- that, 'I alone am capable of loving'. For this too, would have been saying too much. Even this much gives rise to a form, a shape. Things get manifested even by this much and enter the flow of time. Lao Tzu would have given no answer. He would have just picked up his bundle and walked away. Lao Tzu says that as soon as something is manifested, the opposite takes birth along with it. It is just a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,313 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s much gives rise to a form, a shape. Things get manifested even by this much and enter the flow of time. Lao Tzu would have given no answer. He would have just picked up his bundle and walked away. Lao Tzu says that as soon as something is manifested, the opposite takes birth along with it. It is just as the voice echoes back from the mountains. You say 'love' here and hate begins to gather there. On one side y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,314 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ite of whatever we do. Therefore, a strange thing happens: We are tormented by the very person we love. This should not have been so. But we find that love creates hate no sooner it is born and hate gives pain. Lao Tzu says, "Those who know, those who are wise, they know the secret -- when anything is created in Existence, its opposite is also formed automatically." There is no way of escape from it. It cannot be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,315 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...RDS." He manifests his personality without actions, he conveys his view-point, his philosophy without words. We shall have to ponder over this; for there has not been a single sage who has not made use of words. But Lao Tzu insists that the sage never conveys his doctrine through words. This can have two meanings: One is, that whoever has spoken was not a wise man; and that we have no knowledge of the real sages. Then ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,316 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... insists that the sage never conveys his doctrine through words. This can have two meanings: One is, that whoever has spoken was not a wise man; and that we have no knowledge of the real sages. Then it follows that, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Jesus, Mahavira and Krishna cannot be counted among the wise. The second meaning can be (and that is the correct interpretation) that, whatever Buddha has said does not contain the quintessence ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,317 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- be lured to open a book. Then gradually these are taken away and words are introduced. In just the same manner when Lao Tzu or Buddha talk, they speak only for those who understand words alone. Then when these people begin to draw near, when they develop the ability to come close to them, when they develop the taste for the compan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,318 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o understand words alone. Then when these people begin to draw near, when they develop the ability to come close to them, when they develop the taste for the company of Sages, then people like Buddha and Lao Tzu begin to go into silence. Then the one who came for the greed of words, leaves with a message from Silence. The wise have never 'said' anything. This I say, knowing fully well that they have spoken a lot....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,319 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ces to attract the children towards studies. There was no vestige of knowledge in the playthings. They were only an invitation for the children. We accumulated whatever Buddha or Krishna, Mahavira or Lao Tzu said. But there was no way of conserving what was conveyed unspoken. That which was not spoken, that was conveyed in silence or that which was told without being spoken; and that which was conveyed in the pre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,320 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as only when books began to be printed that they came within the reach of the masses. Then all that was significant gradually began to be lost for lack of the personal and direct touch of the Master. Lao Tzu speaks in the period when THE WISE CONVEYED THEIR DOCTRINES WITHOUT THE USE OF WORDS. This should be understood from different angles. As we go back in history, we shall find that Sadhana is not learning ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,321 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because my silence was not strong and capable enough to take it. I asked in words, they replied in words. When someone enters the absolute silence, only in that state can Truth be revealed to him." Lao Tzu says, "THE SAGE PERFORMS NO ACTIONS." This does not mean they do nothing. Do not make this mistake. Non-doing does not mean idleness. It is not that the sage does nothing. It means something very different. I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,322 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rk in hospitals, open schools -- do something! Do something! -- start the GARIBI HATAO (Remove Poverty) Movement! Where is the sense in sitting doing nothing? Buddha would have to face greater difficulties today and Lao Tzu should not even dream of being born into the world of to-day! God knows what work we would tell him to do! Those whom we look upon as Mahatmas today, are no Sages. His title of 'Mahatma' depends on ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,323 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sonality. His being a Mahatma depends not on his being but on his doing. The question today is not what he is but what he does -- what is the distinction of his work? If today we question: "What did Lao Tzu do?" We shall get no details of his work. His life was completely devoid of action. If we judge action-wise, then a mere village-hand of today, does much more than what Lao Tzu did. But in the olden days, thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,324 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If today we question: "What did Lao Tzu do?" We shall get no details of his work. His life was completely devoid of action. If we judge action-wise, then a mere village-hand of today, does much more than what Lao Tzu did. But in the olden days, this question was never asked. He was never asked what he was doing; rather, he was asked -- what he was. And it is a well-known fact, that when such a great spiritual power descen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,325 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e was doing; rather, he was asked -- what he was. And it is a well-known fact, that when such a great spiritual power descends on the earth, things happen by themselves, they have not to be done. If Lao Tzu is present in this village -- that alone is enough. Whatever could be possible for that village, happens by his mere presence. He who has to perform actions, is a weak sage. The presence of the sage is action...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,326 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is being that they would more effective? Now see it from another angle: If Buddha were to beg on his knees and tell the thief not to steal, then is his action greater than his being Buddha? No. What Lao Tzu says, "There is nothing greater than Existence." There is nothing greater than our very being. Actions etc., are all small and superficial things. If the quintessence of the Spirit cannot do anything, nothing...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,327 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing greater than Existence." There is nothing greater than our very being. Actions etc., are all small and superficial things. If the quintessence of the Spirit cannot do anything, nothing else can. Lao Tzu says, "Therefore, you create one and the opposite is born." Therefore, the sage arranges his work without involving action in his manner and transmits his philosophy in silence. What they have known, they con...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,328 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed, they spread through their presence. This a very silent and serene happening. The sage moves about as if he were naught as if he does not exist. It is an interesting fact that nothing is known of Lao Tzu s death. No one knows when he died, where and how he died. There is however a popular story that the last man to see Lao Tzu, asked him 10/28/07 Copyright Osho Internatio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,329 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... if he does not exist. It is an interesting fact that nothing is known of Lao Tzu s death. No one knows when he died, where and how he died. There is however a popular story that the last man to see Lao Tzu, asked him 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- where he was going. Lao Tzu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,330 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to see Lao Tzu, asked him 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- where he was going. Lao Tzu replied, he was returning to where he came from. The man said however, "But people will worry about you; where you have gone and what happened to you?" Lao Tzu said, "When I was born, I was ignorant. So there...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,331 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ublished and unpublished Query:- where he was going. Lao Tzu replied, he was returning to where he came from. The man said however, "But people will worry about you; where you have gone and what happened to you?" Lao Tzu said, "When I was born, I was ignorant. So there was a little noise about my birth. Now that I have attained wisdom, there shall be no sound about my death. "The happening of death will not ta...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,332 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y, in my case. There shall be no account of my death in the world of happenings for the sage lively silently and departs in silence." And thus he departed-silently. All that the people know was, that Lao Tzu was and is no more. The happening of death did not take place in the sense that no one saw him die. His last words to some traveller were: "Now I have attained wisdom, therefore, my death shall produce no sou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,333 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... signs of its foot-steps, when the Void walks, there are no signs of its foot-prints -- as the birds fly in the air and leave no trail behind them. It is difficult to explain in words this statement of Lao Tzu! that the sage performs his task without action. Actually, the sage makes no active effort to manage his affairs. Things get conducted by themselves. So instead of saying that: THE SAGE MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOU...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,334 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...al being. Whoever revealed them, had no idea of doer-ship. And wherever the doer is cons-cious of his action, truth becomes changed and deformed; then beauty turns into ugliness and love into hatred. Lao Tzu says that the sage performs no action nor conveys his message through words and yet he works. Lao Tzu stands, sits, he walks, he sleeps, he begs for alms and goes from place to place. If anyone asks of him he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,335 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...action, truth becomes changed and deformed; then beauty turns into ugliness and love into hatred. Lao Tzu says that the sage performs no action nor conveys his message through words and yet he works. Lao Tzu stands, sits, he walks, he sleeps, he begs for alms and goes from place to place. If anyone asks of him he gives him knowledge. Lao Tzu accomplishes all tasks but he does not delude himself that he is doing s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,336 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sage performs no action nor conveys his message through words and yet he works. Lao Tzu stands, sits, he walks, he sleeps, he begs for alms and goes from place to place. If anyone asks of him he gives him knowledge. Lao Tzu accomplishes all tasks but he does not delude himself that he is doing something for the world. Let us try to understand this further: Whenever some one asked Lao Tzu, "You eat, sleep, you walk and talk, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,337 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... anyone asks of him he gives him knowledge. Lao Tzu accomplishes all tasks but he does not delude himself that he is doing something for the world. Let us try to understand this further: Whenever some one asked Lao Tzu, "You eat, sleep, you walk and talk, you even explain to people, then actions you do perform!" Then Lao Tzu would reply, "My actions are like the dry leaves of a tree. When the wind blows east, they go east, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,338 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat he is doing something for the world. Let us try to understand this further: Whenever some one asked Lao Tzu, "You eat, sleep, you walk and talk, you even explain to people, then actions you do perform!" Then Lao Tzu would reply, "My actions are like the dry leaves of a tree. When the wind blows east, they go east, when the wind blows west, they go west. When the whirlwind whirls them up into skies, they fly high up in th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,339 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...4 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- have been, if I had a will of my own. Then I could have directed the wind where to go but I have no desire of my own." Lao Tzu says, "I am not the doer of whatever is happening. Things are happening by themselves. And therefore let the result be what it will, I am not interested," If people understand him, it is alright, if not, it i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,340 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f the answer rises within the sage gives; if it does not, he remains silent. There also, is not the attitude that 'I have given the answer'. It is not necessary that you will get an answer to your question from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu will say, "If the answer comes, I shall give. If it does not -- forgive me." Many a time people felt themselves in difficulty with Lao Tzu. Someone walks many miles to put him a question and Lao Tzu ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,341 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...wer rises within the sage gives; if it does not, he remains silent. There also, is not the attitude that 'I have given the answer'. It is not necessary that you will get an answer to your question from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu will say, "If the answer comes, I shall give. If it does not -- forgive me." Many a time people felt themselves in difficulty with Lao Tzu. Someone walks many miles to put him a question and Lao Tzu says, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,342 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is not necessary that you will get an answer to your question from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu will say, "If the answer comes, I shall give. If it does not -- forgive me." Many a time people felt themselves in difficulty with Lao Tzu. Someone walks many miles to put him a question and Lao Tzu says, "Friend, the answer won't come!" The man pleads, he has came a long way but Lao Tzu pleads his inability to answer, if the answer will not ris...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,343 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu will say, "If the answer comes, I shall give. If it does not -- forgive me." Many a time people felt themselves in difficulty with Lao Tzu. Someone walks many miles to put him a question and Lao Tzu says, "Friend, the answer won't come!" The man pleads, he has came a long way but Lao Tzu pleads his inability to answer, if the answer will not rise within. At the most he would advice the man to tarry a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,344 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...orgive me." Many a time people felt themselves in difficulty with Lao Tzu. Someone walks many miles to put him a question and Lao Tzu says, "Friend, the answer won't come!" The man pleads, he has came a long way but Lao Tzu pleads his inability to answer, if the answer will not rise within. At the most he would advice the man to tarry a little. Then if the answer came, he would give it. If it did not, he was helpless. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,345 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...did. The sun is not responsible. His task is to rise every morning and set in the evening. Let the flowers bloom or not, it is entirely their look-out. The sun comes and goes. So also do people like Lao Tzu -- they come and they pass away. They make no arrangements, they give no message. Yet if someone is ready for it, he gets the message. If someone wants to establish himself in the Self, it can be brought abou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,346 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...all live. And then we set about redressing our ills! This tormented man, filled with confusion and turmoil, then sets about finding remedies for peace and creates more confusion in the bargain. Lao Tzu says, "Be at peace and peace will spread all around you." And yet it is not inevitable. A person sitting at Buddha's feet can contemplate murder. Buddha's step-brother who stayed for years with him was always...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,347 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...doors closed. You have that much freedom. You can live with the poison within you. You can put up your umbrella even when it is raining nectar. Keep this in mind when this is being said. A sage with Lao Tzu's understanding, will be tranquil on his path and will emit rays of tranquility. Yet only those who are receptive will be affected by them and those who are not, will remain unaffected. Under no circumstances...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,348 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...standing, will be tranquil on his path and will emit rays of tranquility. Yet only those who are receptive will be affected by them and those who are not, will remain unaffected. Under no circumstances however, will Lao Tzu be a partner in their non-tranquility. This could only be, if he were throwing rays of non-tranquility. Now at least, he does not increase their restlessness. If a person is non-receptive to his rays of tranq...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,349 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... dawns on him, the strength and power of all the sages are at one with him. We do not exist in this world as an indi-vidual. Rather, we exist as a small drop in the vast net-work of humanity. This is why Lao Tzu says "Everything becomes silent. Silence also conveys and there can be action-less action." The individual is an atom of consciousness just as science has discovered the atom to be the ultimate particle of ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,350 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dual is an atom of consciousness just as science has discovered the atom to be the ultimate particle of matter. We have to go within the individual and this going within is what is called religion. All the sutras of Lao Tzu point to this alone: that we should go within. We say "Things do not happen by action, they happen by our very being." But actions are on the periphery whereas being is within. Doing is outside whereas be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,351 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his alone: that we should go within. We say "Things do not happen by action, they happen by our very being." But actions are on the periphery whereas being is within. Doing is outside whereas being is inside. So Lao Tzu says, "You become immaculate and purity spreads all around. Do not try to purify others." What he means is "Go within." He says, "You will not be able to express truth in words, you can only express it in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,352 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...one. Those who know, achieve everything effortlessly. Those who know, speak even in silence and those who do not, are unable to convey anything even with the help of thousands of words. This sutra of Lao Tzu, is very subtle. He was a very subtle person himself. Whatever he says appears very small on the surface. It was only this morning that a friend came and said, "Today's sutra is very short". It is not a short...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,353 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... BITTER CRITICISM OF HIS VIEW-POINT? AND IF MANY FOLLOWED ARISTOTLE, IS THAT NOT THE PROOF OF THE EXCELLENCE OF HIS SCIENCE? PLEASE ENLIGHTEN US ON THIS. Bhagwan Sri: Very few people know Lao Tzu. The higher the peak, the lesser will be the number of eyes that can see it. The greater the depth, the lesser will be the number of those who dive to the bottom of it. The waves of the ocean are visible to t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,354 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eyes that can see it. The greater the depth, the lesser will be the number of those who dive to the bottom of it. The waves of the ocean are visible to the naked eye, not so the pearls within the ocean. The depth of Lao Tzu is the depth of the ocean. Some rare diver alone can reach it. The world is not 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, publish...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,355 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...long run but it seems very gratifying in the beginning. The core may be poisonous but the upper crust is sweet. You see, it is easier to under-stand Aristotle because Aristotle's sutras show the way to obtain power. Lao Tzu's sutras show the way to obtain tranquility. Peace, tranquility however, is the ultimate form of energy whereas power alone in its ultimate form is nothing more than restlessness. This is not so t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,356 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s power alone in its ultimate form is nothing more than restlessness. This is not so though in the initial stages. Walk on the path of Aristotle and it will lead you up to the atom bomb. The path of Lao Tzu leads you not to the atom bomb but up to Lao Tzu alone. So for those who wish to travel, Aristotle is the answer for they will be reaching somewhere or the other always -- to the moon and then further ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,357 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... than restlessness. This is not so though in the initial stages. Walk on the path of Aristotle and it will lead you up to the atom bomb. The path of Lao Tzu leads you not to the atom bomb but up to Lao Tzu alone. So for those who wish to travel, Aristotle is the answer for they will be reaching somewhere or the other always -- to the moon and then further and further! Those alone. however, can tread the path of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,358 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ao Tzu alone. So for those who wish to travel, Aristotle is the answer for they will be reaching somewhere or the other always -- to the moon and then further and further! Those alone. however, can tread the path of Lao Tzu, who do not want to travel at all. They can reach up to Lao Tzu alone and not up to the moon or some other star or the atom bomb -- nowhere else. Besides, there is the desire, the ambition fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,359 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...answer for they will be reaching somewhere or the other always -- to the moon and then further and further! Those alone. however, can tread the path of Lao Tzu, who do not want to travel at all. They can reach up to Lao Tzu alone and not up to the moon or some other star or the atom bomb -- nowhere else. Besides, there is the desire, the ambition for power within all of us. We desire wealth, power, status, fame,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,360 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the moon or some other star or the atom bomb -- nowhere else. Besides, there is the desire, the ambition for power within all of us. We desire wealth, power, status, fame, pride, egotism. If we hear Lao Tzu, we will run away as fast as we can for he talks of snatching all these away from you. Lao Tzu offers us nothing; rather he takes everything away from us. But we are beggars. We are out to beg. We cannot stan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,361 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s the desire, the ambition for power within all of us. We desire wealth, power, status, fame, pride, egotism. If we hear Lao Tzu, we will run away as fast as we can for he talks of snatching all these away from you. Lao Tzu offers us nothing; rather he takes everything away from us. But we are beggars. We are out to beg. We cannot stand a second before Lao Tzu, for fear he might snatch even our begging bowl away! ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,362 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...un away as fast as we can for he talks of snatching all these away from you. Lao Tzu offers us nothing; rather he takes everything away from us. But we are beggars. We are out to beg. We cannot stand a second before Lao Tzu, for fear he might snatch even our begging bowl away! There is a story about Diogenes. It is said he used to go about with a lantern in the streets of Athens, even in the bright day light. Wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,363 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e has succeeded in his search, he replied, "Is it less that I have yet got my lantern with me? Many tried to snatch even my lamp away from me." When a person is prepared to lose all, then only can he approached Lao Tzu. how many are prepared to lose? Everyone is ready to snatch. So the science of snatching evolved from Aristotle's theories. This is why the East was conquered. It could not produce an Aristotle and so it rema...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,364 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nything. Things change at the second step and by the time the end is reached, everything can change. And it is bound to change. It seems the East has suffered a great loss. If however, the East stands confidently by Lao Tzu and Buddha, the West will come to understand its foolishness. What it had snatched were mere toys that hardly made any difference What it had lost. it would realise, was its very soul. What the East had lost,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,365 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...atched were mere toys that hardly made any difference What it had lost. it would realise, was its very soul. What the East had lost, was a mere toy and what it had retained was the soul. If the East stands firmly by Lao Tzu, it is bound to be victorious. The name of Lao Tzu reached only to a very few: and the reason for that is no one wants to go up to Lao Tzu. If we chance to meet him, we will try and avoid him, we will sa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,366 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st. it would realise, was its very soul. What the East had lost, was a mere toy and what it had retained was the soul. If the East stands firmly by Lao Tzu, it is bound to be victorious. The name of Lao Tzu reached only to a very few: and the reason for that is no one wants to go up to Lao Tzu. If we chance to meet him, we will try and avoid him, we will say -- "Not now, later; when the time comes, we shall come...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,367 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it had retained was the soul. If the East stands firmly by Lao Tzu, it is bound to be victorious. The name of Lao Tzu reached only to a very few: and the reason for that is no one wants to go up to Lao Tzu. If we chance to meet him, we will try and avoid him, we will say -- "Not now, later; when the time comes, we shall come to you. As yet we are seeking worldly wealth." This is one reason. Another reason ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,368 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...If we chance to meet him, we will try and avoid him, we will say -- "Not now, later; when the time comes, we shall come to you. As yet we are seeking worldly wealth." This is one reason. Another reason is, what Lao Tzu says is a different matter altogether. There are two types of knowledge in this world. One is that which comes within the understanding of the very common man. The other type is such that unless the person ch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,369 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...required, his very instinct tells him what is what. Then there is the other type of knowledge which does not come within the understanding of a person unless he is fully learned and transformed. And Lao Tzu's knowledge is not for the simple man. The man must be transformed, that is to say, a certain alchemy has to be passed through. Then only can Lao Tzu be understood. Otherwise, he cannot be understood. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,370 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... person unless he is fully learned and transformed. And Lao Tzu's knowledge is not for the simple man. The man must be transformed, that is to say, a certain alchemy has to be passed through. Then only can Lao Tzu be understood. Otherwise, he cannot be understood. It is like this: Supposing we tell a little child to pick out red and green pebbles. he will do so. But if you tell him to pick out the diamonds, he wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,371 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ry stone. After a great deal of effort, it appears in its full lustre. So the child will he unable to discern. The child has also to prepare in order that he may be able to discern and discriminate. Lao Tzu talks of diamonds, of maturity. When a person becomes mature, he is able to understand Lao Tzu, whereas a school-going child's intelligence is adequate enough to understand Aristotle. He requires no special q...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,372 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ble to discern. The child has also to prepare in order that he may be able to discern and discriminate. Lao Tzu talks of diamonds, of maturity. When a person becomes mature, he is able to understand Lao Tzu, whereas a school-going child's intelligence is adequate enough to understand Aristotle. He requires no special qualifications. Even up-to-date, the human race has not reached the stage where greater number o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,373 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l-going child's intelligence is adequate enough to understand Aristotle. He requires no special qualifications. Even up-to-date, the human race has not reached the stage where greater number of people can understand Lao Tzu. Even now, only one in a million can understand him. Remember all that is significant in life, is aristocratic, whatever is excellent, is majestic; it can be understood by a few only. Knowled...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,374 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that is significant in life, is aristocratic, whatever is excellent, is majestic; it can be understood by a few only. Knowledge has its own conditions. It climbs down for nobody; rather, you have to reach up to it. Lao Tzu will not step down for you; you will have to climb up for him. Knowledge is all ascent -- a steep ascent. Science can be achieved right where you are. Knowledge is achieved only when you proceed forward....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,375 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...p for him. Knowledge is all ascent -- a steep ascent. Science can be achieved right where you are. Knowledge is achieved only when you proceed forward. Therefore, it is true that very few understand Lao Tzu. But those who have understood, were most excellent flowers of wisdom. Aristotle is useful for everyone but those who followed him, are not the flowers of humanity. The deeper the knowledge the much earl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,376 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f wisdom. Aristotle is useful for everyone but those who followed him, are not the flowers of humanity. The deeper the knowledge the much earlier it dawns -- much before its time. For instance, what Lao Tzu has said it will take another 2,500 years to become contemporary. Then people will understand him right from where they are. Let me put it this way, it will be easier to understand. A man composes a poem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,377 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...only are these people appreciated and rediscovered. And yet people like Vincent Van Gogh and Soren Kierkegaard are not people who have reached the Rights of the Everest. They have attained smaller mountains, whereas Lao Tzu can be said to belong to the heights of Gourishankar. It is always a numbered few who ever reach that height. Now if we hope that even a small part of the human race would some day dwell on these heights, we ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,378 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... always a numbered few who ever reach that height. Now if we hope that even a small part of the human race would some day dwell on these heights, we shall have to wait for thousands of years. Therefore it is, that Lao Tzu's influence is so little. But time and again such people have to found. Their vibrations are never lost. They forever keep echoing. Sometimes it happens that such people are completely forgotten. Then if some...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,379 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eir vibrations are never lost. They forever keep echoing. Sometimes it happens that such people are completely forgotten. Then if someone begins to talk like them, we feel he is saying something new. Lao Tzu's disciple Chuang-Tse has said, "Every discovery is a rediscovery." There is nothing in the world that was not known before. But those who knew were on such a high plane, that their teachings could not become...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,380 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s not live on the mountains. He lives on the plains and therefore the wisdom of the peaks get lost and forgotten. Then after a long time someone comes along and brings them back and they appear new. These sayings of Lao Tzu are a few of the supreme statements that Man has given before. They are the statements that are on the boundary-line, the very last words that can be spoken. And Lao Tzu stands tottering at the verge of this ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,381 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...em back and they appear new. These sayings of Lao Tzu are a few of the supreme statements that Man has given before. They are the statements that are on the boundary-line, the very last words that can be spoken. And Lao Tzu stands tottering at the verge of this boundary-line, beyond which is the realm of No-Word. Lao Tzu speaks from this ultimate boundary-line. So he alone can understand him, who has reached this boundary wherea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,382 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...has given before. They are the statements that are on the boundary-line, the very last words that can be spoken. And Lao Tzu stands tottering at the verge of this boundary-line, beyond which is the realm of No-Word. Lao Tzu speaks from this ultimate boundary-line. So he alone can understand him, who has reached this boundary whereas those who have not do not understand him. This is no fault of Lao Tzu. Then there...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,383 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ond which is the realm of No-Word. Lao Tzu speaks from this ultimate boundary-line. So he alone can understand him, who has reached this boundary whereas those who have not do not understand him. This is no fault of Lao Tzu. Then there are a few things which you will not understand until you have experienced them. If we tell a child things that are beyond his sphere of experience, he will hear alright but he will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,384 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... all. The matter will not register in his remembrance. Only that registers in the mind, which is within the boundary of experience and coincides with it. So our experience should also tally somewhere. Now whatsoever Lao Tzu says does not tally with our experiences at all. Therefore Lao Tzu's book remains untouched -- and this is a boon! Now here Lao Tzu says, "Those who are capable of action-less action, are the wise. Those ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,385 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gisters in the mind, which is within the boundary of experience and coincides with it. So our experience should also tally somewhere. Now whatsoever Lao Tzu says does not tally with our experiences at all. Therefore Lao Tzu's book remains untouched -- and this is a boon! Now here Lao Tzu says, "Those who are capable of action-less action, are the wise. Those who speak without words are the exponents of truth." He...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,386 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h it. So our experience should also tally somewhere. Now whatsoever Lao Tzu says does not tally with our experiences at all. Therefore Lao Tzu's book remains untouched -- and this is a boon! Now here Lao Tzu says, "Those who are capable of action-less action, are the wise. Those who speak without words are the exponents of truth." He does not move and yet does everything. His lips do not open and yet the message ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,387 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... after so much talk, the message is not conveyed; the same message is repeated to the ends of our lives and still it does not go home! We make so many arrangements and yet we die the beggars we were. Lao Tzu says, "Make no arrangement, do not manage your affairs." Just be and all arrangements will take place duly. We will say -- "What madness! we refuse to be mad with you!" Only those will be willing to follo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,388 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu says, "Make no arrangement, do not manage your affairs." Just be and all arrangements will take place duly. We will say -- "What madness! we refuse to be mad with you!" Only those will be willing to follow Lao Tzu, who are well-acquainted with the madness of our so-called society. Those who are so badly filled with melancholy because of us, those who have understood well that what we call sensibility is pure ignorance ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,389 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dly filled with melancholy because of us, those who have understood well that what we call sensibility is pure ignorance and that what we call wisdom is utter foolishness, those alone will be willing to step towards Lao Tzu. And to step along with Lao Tzu, is to step into danger for he gives no assurance of protection. The path he shows is so dangerous that you will be lost; you shall be no more. Lao Tzu says...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,390 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...who have understood well that what we call sensibility is pure ignorance and that what we call wisdom is utter foolishness, those alone will be willing to step towards Lao Tzu. And to step along with Lao Tzu, is to step into danger for he gives no assurance of protection. The path he shows is so dangerous that you will be lost; you shall be no more. Lao Tzu says, "This is a path of extinction, annihilation is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,391 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tep towards Lao Tzu. And to step along with Lao Tzu, is to step into danger for he gives no assurance of protection. The path he shows is so dangerous that you will be lost; you shall be no more. Lao Tzu says, "This is a path of extinction, annihilation is the way." He alone will be prepared to go with him who knows for certain that by achieving he achieved nothing, now he should lose and see. When by running...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,392 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...THE CREDIT CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM. Therefore the sage arranges his affairs in an effortless attitude and conveys his Teachings through silence. Then in the following Sutra, Lao Tzu says, "Everything happens by itself." Among the basic doctrines of Tao, there is this one which says, "All things happen by themselves." There is nothing that requires our presence to be necessary to hap...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,393 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng takes place, even without us. Sleep comes, so does hunger, birth happens, so does death; all these happen by themselves. But we presume all that happens by itself as motivated by us. According to Lao Tzu, the biggest delusion of Man is, that he claims himself the doer of all that happens. To become the doer of that which happens, is the biggest of ignorance. Also, Lao Tzu does not say, "Do not steal, commit n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,394 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s by itself as motivated by us. According to Lao Tzu, the biggest delusion of Man is, that he claims himself the doer of all that happens. To become the doer of that which happens, is the biggest of ignorance. Also, Lao Tzu does not say, "Do not steal, commit no fraud". He says, "Neither can you do anything, nor can you leave anything." You are free to leave a thing only if you are the doer. If I have done something, I can leave...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,395 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I have done something, I can leave it also. If I am not the doer, there is no way to leave it. It is necessary to understand this well for all the concepts of the theory of renunciation stand against this theory of Lao Tzu. He who renounces, believes that he can renounce. Lao Tzu says, "When you cannot do anything, there is no question of leaving it." He says, "There is no possibility of either doer-ship or ren...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,396 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is no way to leave it. It is necessary to understand this well for all the concepts of the theory of renunciation stand against this theory of Lao Tzu. He who renounces, believes that he can renounce. Lao Tzu says, "When you cannot do anything, there is no question of leaving it." He says, "There is no possibility of either doer-ship or renunciation in actions." The only freedom you have is, of becoming the doer. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,397 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... actions." The only freedom you have is, of becoming the doer. That you may not be the doer, even that freedom you have. Whatever is to happen will keep on happening. There is a joke prevalent since the time of Lao Tzu, which makes an interesting story: A youth was sitting on the sea-shore with his beloved. It was a moonlit night and the waves were rising high in the ocean and rushing towards the shore. The youth lifted his...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,398 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th, I did not know!" She says, "I could never have dreamt that the mighty ocean obeys you! You ordered the waves to rise and they rose. You beckoned them to the shore and to here they were!" This story circulated in Lao Tzu's time. And Lao Tzu says, "Such are our affairs in life." The waves rise and fall but we stand on the shore and pass an order and believe within ourselves that it is we who have caused the waves to rise! ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,399 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... She says, "I could never have dreamt that the mighty ocean obeys you! You ordered the waves to rise and they rose. You beckoned them to the shore and to here they were!" This story circulated in Lao Tzu's time. And Lao Tzu says, "Such are our affairs in life." The waves rise and fall but we stand on the shore and pass an order and believe within ourselves that it is we who have caused the waves to rise! Lao Tzu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,400 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. And Lao Tzu says, "Such are our affairs in life." The waves rise and fall but we stand on the shore and pass an order and believe within ourselves that it is we who have caused the waves to rise! Lao Tzu says, "You can neither be the doer nor the renunciate." If you get acquainted with this little truth, that things happen by themselves, it is enough. They require no one's presence to happen. It is in th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,401 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s and experiences this, is a sage, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- according to Lao Tzu. At the same time Lao Tzu says, "But the saint is not indifferent or opposed to the happenings; for when things happen of themselves, the saints are not opposed to them." The question of opposition ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,402 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.../07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- according to Lao Tzu. At the same time Lao Tzu says, "But the saint is not indifferent or opposed to the happenings; for when things happen of themselves, the saints are not opposed to them." The question of opposition or renunciation or apathy, arises on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,403 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I could have eaten but did not eat! I had my suspicions that I could eat much more t4an I did." The ignorant man thinks, he is eating. There is another type of ignorant man who thinks he is fasting. Lao Tzu would call both these ignorant, for both take themselves to be the doer -- the one in doing, the other in non-doing. Lao Tzu would say, "He is wise who is against neither." He does not feel he is doing the ea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,404 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... man thinks, he is eating. There is another type of ignorant man who thinks he is fasting. Lao Tzu would call both these ignorant, for both take themselves to be the doer -- the one in doing, the other in non-doing. Lao Tzu would say, "He is wise who is against neither." He does not feel he is doing the eating of the food. He keeps watching -- when he feels hungry he eats; when he does not, he does not eat. When there is no hung...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,405 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of pain and anguish. Takwan says, "I do not know what sadhana is. All I know is, that from the day I have known that things happen by themselves and I play no part in it, I have known no misery." Lao Tzu says, "They are not hostile. They know things happen by themselves." To understand this it will be useful to understand Mahavira. A sutra of Mahavira is very close to this sutra. And it is a priceless sut...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,406 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecause we fight our Nature. If the body gets old, we struggle to retain youth. If the body is diseased, we fight The disease. But this is the nature of the body. Whatever happens in this world, is natural phenomena. Lao Tzu says, "All that happens, happens by itself but the wise do not oppose any happening." There is no reason for opposition. By opposing, I am only trying to prove that I can oppose. No, Lao Tzu s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,407 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...enomena. Lao Tzu says, "All that happens, happens by itself but the wise do not oppose any happening." There is no reason for opposition. By opposing, I am only trying to prove that I can oppose. No, Lao Tzu says, "The wise do not even desire liberation because all desires prove a bondage." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, publ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,408 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... my own decision." When a man conforms with the nature of things, success is his; when he does not conform with the nature of things, he fails. If you see this truth in the right perspective, you will understand Lao Tzu when he says he does not oppose. He stands firm in life and takes it as it comes. He does not run away because he knows it is not possible to run away from life. And if a situation occurs which requires him t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,409 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...current goes, he goes. And he says unto the current, "Wherever you take me, that is my destination", verily whatever happens in the life of a person who has acquired this state of being,. is wonderful and unique and Lao Tzu has given us news of him. "HE GIVES THEM LIFE BUT DOES NOT TAKE POSSESSION OF THEM." The sage gives life to whatever comes in contact with him but he does not become the possessor thereo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,410 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...S NOT TAKE POSSESSION OF THEM." The sage gives life to whatever comes in contact with him but he does not become the possessor thereof. He gives all he has to give but does not assert his right over them. For Lao Tzu says, "You assert your right and you insinuate the other into rebellion." You make an enemy of the person you take possession of. You take away his freedom and you instigate him to be self-willed. The wise ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,411 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...esting thing: Possessor-ship brings nothing but pain. It never brings pleasure for it is taken for granted that it should yield pleasure. If it does not bring the pleasure it should have brought, it becomes painful. Lao Tzu says, "THE SAGE GIVES THEM LIFE BUT DOES NOT TAKE POSSESSION OF THEM." In fact, the sage knows the secret of happiness. His condition is exactly the opposite of ours. Since he does not assert his right, he is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,412 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s not mean that an answer is absolutely incumbent. If I am free to write you are free not to reply. But the mind makes such subtle arrangements of ownership and then it becomes very sad and unhappy. Lao Tzu says, "They pass through all processes." What we know as life is a long span of processes. Every moment a process is on, either of love or hate, of wealth or friendship, one or the other is always in process....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,413 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...mes and goes, we eat, we come, we go. But in all this net-work of processes, the sage does not become the owner. Therefore they never fall. No one can remove or drop him from his mastery of himself. Lao Tzu says, "HE ACTS BUT DOES NOT APPROPRIATE!" They do what they deem proper but take no credit. They never say: "Say that I have done this, accept the fact." Nasruddin is bathing in a river. The river is dee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,414 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... beat of drum; and this very act shows this was a transaction and not an action on our part. We experienced no joy out of it, rather there also, we bargained, there also we calculated. In this sutra Lao Tzu says, "They perform the act but take no credit." When the task is done, they leave silently. When the performance is over, They leave without a sound. They do not wait, even so much as you can thank them. It ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,415 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rtunity to experience bliss. He however, expects no thanks from you. IT IS BECAUSE HE LAYS CLAIM TO NO CREDIT THAT THE CREDIT CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM. In the final utterance Lao Tzu says that since they claim no credit they cannot be deprived of the credit. Only he can be refuted, who asserts credit. Claims can be disclaimed but how can he be rebutted, who lays no claims? Lao Tzu says th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,416 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...inal utterance Lao Tzu says that since they claim no credit they cannot be deprived of the credit. Only he can be refuted, who asserts credit. Claims can be disclaimed but how can he be rebutted, who lays no claims? Lao Tzu says therefore, that he who lays no claim to credit cannot be deprived of it. Those who demand credit, only they can be refuted and the thing is, that they are already deprived of the credit f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,417 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... All claims in life are born out of remorse. Psychologists of today affirm the truth of this fact, specially Adler. He is one of the three most acclaimed psychologists in the world. He accepts this statement of Lao Tzu very profoundly. Adler says, "He who makes a claim, does so because within himself he feels he is not worthy of it." It is an inferior man who is always ambitious; and always the fearful makes a show of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,418 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...them also to believe the fallacy. But the feeling of nothingness remains within. It cannot be wiped out that easily. Only a self-deception can be maintained. Try to understand this statement of Lao Tzu, that the sage makes no claim to credit, in this context. The real claimers make no claim. Their claim is so righteous, so authentic that it requires no saying. Their claim is so sound that even God cannot de...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,419 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Their expectations were great, they were disillusioned. For 2,000 years, the lovers of Christ have pondered upon this. Jesus should have proved that he was the son of God. If however, they could understand Lao Tzu, they will be able to understand Jesus. Jesus is so much the son of God, the claim is so very authentic that there is no need to prove it. Had Jesus performed a miracle, he would have fallen ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,420 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oks on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- God. In fact, the one whose right it is to acclaim, is never the acclaimer. Christianity has not understood this fact even up to now, for Christianity knows not of Lao Tzu and without knowing Lao Tzu, you cannot understand Jesus. The Jew religion has no sutras whereby it can understand Jesus and there has never been a personality like Jesus, ever in their history. To the Jew, J...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,421 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... unpublished Query:- God. In fact, the one whose right it is to acclaim, is never the acclaimer. Christianity has not understood this fact even up to now, for Christianity knows not of Lao Tzu and without knowing Lao Tzu, you cannot understand Jesus. The Jew religion has no sutras whereby it can understand Jesus and there has never been a personality like Jesus, ever in their history. To the Jew, Jesus was a forei...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,422 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and prevent the blood from flowing. People were filled with expectation but nothing happened. This man must have been unique! His thus dying without a sound, is a miracle in itself. If you understand Lao Tzu. you will understand Jesus. There are many sayings of Jesus that cannot be understood without understanding Lao Tzu. Jesus says, "Blessed are those who have nothing for they shall own the Kingdom of heave...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,423 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ust have been unique! His thus dying without a sound, is a miracle in itself. If you understand Lao Tzu. you will understand Jesus. There are many sayings of Jesus that cannot be understood without understanding Lao Tzu. Jesus says, "Blessed are those who have nothing for they shall own the Kingdom of heaven." This is difficult to understand unless we understand Lao Tzu. Jesus says, "Blessed are the humble, for they ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,424 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yings of Jesus that cannot be understood without understanding Lao Tzu. Jesus says, "Blessed are those who have nothing for they shall own the Kingdom of heaven." This is difficult to understand unless we understand Lao Tzu. Jesus says, "Blessed are the humble, for they shall have the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the ones who are poor in the Spirit for all the treasures of the Lord are theirs." The source of these statements i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,425 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ays, "Blessed are the humble, for they shall have the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the ones who are poor in the Spirit for all the treasures of the Lord are theirs." The source of these statements is no other than Lao Tzu. They have no place in the Jew scriptures. The Jewish tradition says, "If a man takes away your one eye, you take away both of his." If a man blinds another in one eye, the community punished ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,426 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ur shirt also." -- Perhaps out of embarrassment he could not take it away from you! -- "And if someone tells you to carry his load for two miles, you carry it for three." This viewpoint is completely Lao-Tsein: "Take no credit and credit can never be taken away from you." Ask for acclaim and a thousand will gather round you to snatch it, for Lao Tzu says the opposite occurs at once. Desire praise and you get blam...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,427 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... two miles, you carry it for three." This viewpoint is completely Lao-Tsein: "Take no credit and credit can never be taken away from you." Ask for acclaim and a thousand will gather round you to snatch it, for Lao Tzu says the opposite occurs at once. Desire praise and you get blame, Desire respect and contempt is certain. You aim at a throne and you will roll in the dust. Lao Tzu says, "Sit in a place from where there is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,428 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... thousand will gather round you to snatch it, for Lao Tzu says the opposite occurs at once. Desire praise and you get blame, Desire respect and contempt is certain. You aim at a throne and you will roll in the dust. Lao Tzu says, "Sit in a place from where there is no lower to go. Then no one can drop you, and it is then that you are on the throne." According to Lao Tzu, a throne is that which cannot be moved. And who sits o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,429 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... You aim at a throne and you will roll in the dust. Lao Tzu says, "Sit in a place from where there is no lower to go. Then no one can drop you, and it is then that you are on the throne." According to Lao Tzu, a throne is that which cannot be moved. And who sits on the throne? You sit at a place below which there is no other. Then no one can displace you. Then you are on the throne for there is no question of disp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,430 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ich cannot be moved. And who sits on the throne? You sit at a place below which there is no other. Then no one can displace you. Then you are on the throne for there is no question of displacing you. Lao Tzu never claimed knowledge. If someone went up to him and said, "I have heard that you are a wise man". Lao Tzu would reply, "You have definitely heard wrong. Believe me. Others do not know about me as I do. I a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,431 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e can displace you. Then you are on the throne for there is no question of displacing you. Lao Tzu never claimed knowledge. If someone went up to him and said, "I have heard that you are a wise man". Lao Tzu would reply, "You have definitely heard wrong. Believe me. Others do not know about me as I do. I am utterly ignorant." Those who could not understand him went away thinking it was an unnecessary waste of tim...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,432 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... anyone but humility expresses the feeling of being behind everyone! Jesus has said, "Blessed are those who are always last, for in my kingdom of heaven, they shall be first." All this is a Row of the Lao-Tsein current. Claim no credit but ignorance will make claims -- even as far as the Franciscan fakir claimed! He could have easily said, "We claim no credit," but no, he said, "In humility we are at the top." In ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,433 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ignorant therefore the mind can also claim to be ignorant. But this does not mean anything. Then we just turn round and say the same things and the mind keeps turning round and round. The idea behind Lao Tzu's view-point is, to break and destroy the intricate wheel of life. What is this intricate wheel of life? It is this, that we invariably miss whatever we set out to do. It is just like a person who tries hard ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,434 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is, that we invariably miss whatever we set out to do. It is just like a person who tries hard to sleep and misses sleep altogether. Sleep never comes by effort. When there is no effort, sleep comes. Lao Tzu says, "Claim credit and you deprive yourself of it. Lay no claim and the credit is already yours." If you try to be the master you will fall into slavery; or else, who is snatching your ownership from you? As...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,435 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nothing and you already have everything. Those sutras that appear contrary, are not contrary. It is we who are topsy turvy. Therefore they appear topsy turvy to us. Whatever we see appears, reversed. Lao Tzu will appear inverse to us -- as a man standing on his head. The logical sutra would be -- if you want credit, work for it; if you want fame, happiness, work to attain them. It is as simple as that. But here i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,436 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... desire to be happy! Then we shall never attain it. Watch -- where all the mind's logic makes us wander! The mind says, "If with so much effort we cannot attain then without any effort how is it possible?" But Lao Tzu says, "You are deprived of it because you desire it." Try once not to desire and see. You have desired enough. You have desired for hundreds of lives and found that you attained nothing. Yet we keep on and on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,437 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... desired enough, you have not striven enough.' And the mind is never tired of goading you thus. And its logic seems very sound. If you have not reached the peak of the mountain, you will have to strive yet more. But Lao Tzu says, "It is your desire that is the obstruction. Stop desiring." What is the meaning of this? What makes Lao Tzu say so? Lao Tzu says this because, whatever is worth attaining in life has already been gi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,438 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s very sound. If you have not reached the peak of the mountain, you will have to strive yet more. But Lao Tzu says, "It is your desire that is the obstruction. Stop desiring." What is the meaning of this? What makes Lao Tzu say so? Lao Tzu says this because, whatever is worth attaining in life has already been given to us. But we are so preoccupied and harassed by our desires that we fail to see this. Many a time we fail to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,439 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ached the peak of the mountain, you will have to strive yet more. But Lao Tzu says, "It is your desire that is the obstruction. Stop desiring." What is the meaning of this? What makes Lao Tzu say so? Lao Tzu says this because, whatever is worth attaining in life has already been given to us. But we are so preoccupied and harassed by our desires that we fail to see this. Many a time we fail to see the thing Lying ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,440 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... anything. When, the happening took place, Newton was not thinking. He was thoughtless. The greatest discoveries of the world took place only in the moments of relaxation and No-thought. Lao Tzu's fundamental philosophy is, that if man does not desire, does not strive, does not become the doer, does not acclaim, he is bound to attain the treasures he is seeking. By seeking nothing is found. You too, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,441 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... will realise this some day in a moment of relaxation. And it is not necessary that you should realise this as I am saying. Perhaps some day, you languish under a tree, a fruit falls and you will suddenly understand Lao Tzu. When I am explaining, your mind is tensed up to understand. This effort to follow what I say, becomes a barrier. When you are absolutely desireless you, can understand. In Scandinavia, Sweden...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,442 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...low what I say, becomes a barrier. When you are absolutely desireless you, can understand. In Scandinavia, Sweden and Switzerland, a new method of education is being evolved. This method I shall call Lao-Tsein. According to this method the children are not coerced into studying. In our schools the children sit all tensed up. If a child were to throw his head back and put his feet on the table, the teacher would r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,443 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., there is no tension and the child is just floating in sleep. Then whatever is conveyed, goes straight to the heart and he never forgets. The intellect is not brought into play at all. All these are Lao-Tsein methods. If we understand this well, then you will know what I meant when I told you that Lao Tzu is invading the world from all sides. Many people do not know that these are Lao Tzu-oriented methods. Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,444 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ght to the heart and he never forgets. The intellect is not brought into play at all. All these are Lao-Tsein methods. If we understand this well, then you will know what I meant when I told you that Lao Tzu is invading the world from all sides. Many people do not know that these are Lao Tzu-oriented methods. Lao Tzu used to say. what will you learn by learning? Do not learn. The attempt to learn is wrong. You ju...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,445 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... All these are Lao-Tsein methods. If we understand this well, then you will know what I meant when I told you that Lao Tzu is invading the world from all sides. Many people do not know that these are Lao Tzu-oriented methods. Lao Tzu used to say. what will you learn by learning? Do not learn. The attempt to learn is wrong. You just pass through it. Whatever is worthy of imbibing, you will learn. You pass through,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,446 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are Lao-Tsein methods. If we understand this well, then you will know what I meant when I told you that Lao Tzu is invading the world from all sides. Many people do not know that these are Lao Tzu-oriented methods. Lao Tzu used to say. what will you learn by learning? Do not learn. The attempt to learn is wrong. You just pass through it. Whatever is worthy of imbibing, you will learn. You pass through, silently and in a recepti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,447 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hatever is worthy of imbibing, you will learn. You pass through, silently and in a receptive attitude. Do not endeavour for that decreases the receptivity and you become closed to influence. Whatever Lao Tzu has said, in whichever direction he has tried to explain, is this only -- that the feeling of do-ership is an illusion. Things happen. If man gives up his doer-ship, he will come to know a great deal, for the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,448 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... INACTIVE, ALSO ESTABLISHES A GOAL. AND CAN WE CALL IT WISDOM TO LET OURSELVES LOOSE ON UNKNOWN AND UNFELT WAYS? IS THIS THE CHARACTERISTIC OF A WISE MAN OR AN UNWISE MAN? Bhagwan Sri: Lao Tzu does not believe in method for he says, "Whatever is attained by method will not be natural." Try to understand this a little: That which is attained by practice, cannot be natural and that which is inculcate...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,449 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f smoking, another can develop the habit of praying. Both are habits and all habits overspread the character just as leaves spread over water. The character, the quality of the person, is suppressed. Lao Tzu says nothing is to be practised. What you already have, what you have already attained, that which is you, that alone has to be known. Therefore develop no new habits. Lao Tzu is neither in favour of Yoga nor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,450 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ality of the person, is suppressed. Lao Tzu says nothing is to be practised. What you already have, what you have already attained, that which is you, that alone has to be known. Therefore develop no new habits. Lao Tzu is neither in favour of Yoga nor Sadhana or anything. Lao Tzu says, "Without imposing habits on yourself, know that which you were before birth and which you will be after death. Seek Him who is even ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,451 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s to be practised. What you already have, what you have already attained, that which is you, that alone has to be known. Therefore develop no new habits. Lao Tzu is neither in favour of Yoga nor Sadhana or anything. Lao Tzu says, "Without imposing habits on yourself, know that which you were before birth and which you will be after death. Seek Him who is even now present deep within you. Also, whatever method you practise, will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,452 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nything to know your nature. But remember -- not to do anything, is a very big doing. Not to do anything is not a small thing. When we hear this we say, "But we are doing nothing!" This is absolutely alright and Lao Tzu also says, "As we are -- doing nothing." But Lao Tzu is not talking about you. You are doing a lot of things. If you are not attaining God you are attaining the world. Your practice continues!...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,453 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is a very big doing. Not to do anything is not a small thing. When we hear this we say, "But we are doing nothing!" This is absolutely alright and Lao Tzu also says, "As we are -- doing nothing." But Lao Tzu is not talking about you. You are doing a lot of things. If you are not attaining God you are attaining the world. Your practice continues! If you are not out to seek God, you are out to loss him and you are ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,454 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ttaining the world. Your practice continues! If you are not out to seek God, you are out to loss him and you are straining every nerve towards that end. So do not think you are doing nothing and this is exactly what Lao Tzu says. Your not doing anything is no 'No-Doing'. Rather, it is doing a great deal in the direction of the mundane world and nothing in the direction of God. Lao Tzu is against you, as you are. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,455 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hink you are doing nothing and this is exactly what Lao Tzu says. Your not doing anything is no 'No-Doing'. Rather, it is doing a great deal in the direction of the mundane world and nothing in the direction of God. Lao Tzu is against you, as you are. Lao Tzu says only one in a million from worldly men set out to attain God-realisation, but here again he applies methods as is his habit. To attain God, he uses the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,456 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Lao Tzu says. Your not doing anything is no 'No-Doing'. Rather, it is doing a great deal in the direction of the mundane world and nothing in the direction of God. Lao Tzu is against you, as you are. Lao Tzu says only one in a million from worldly men set out to attain God-realisation, but here again he applies methods as is his habit. To attain God, he uses the same method that he used to achieve wealth. First h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,457 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...In the same way he toils and 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- strains his body. Lao Tzu says, "You of course are wrong but even this man is wrong." If that which is to be attained is somewhere in the future. then effort is necessary. But it is already attained. It has only to he discovered, unco...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,458 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ned. It has only to he discovered, uncovered. And all methods will only cover it more and hide it. Now you may ask, "Then what do the various orders of Sadhana do? Are they wrong?" According to Lao Tzu, they are absolutely wrong, for Lao Tzu says "Do nothing. Let go! And you will know." According to you the methods are correct because you understand the language of 'doing' only. You do not understand the me...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,459 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...vered, uncovered. And all methods will only cover it more and hide it. Now you may ask, "Then what do the various orders of Sadhana do? Are they wrong?" According to Lao Tzu, they are absolutely wrong, for Lao Tzu says "Do nothing. Let go! And you will know." According to you the methods are correct because you understand the language of 'doing' only. You do not understand the meaning of the language of 'No-doing'. One...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,460 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you will know." According to you the methods are correct because you understand the language of 'doing' only. You do not understand the meaning of the language of 'No-doing'. One in a million understands what Lao Tzu is trying to convey -- No-doing. He who grasp the meaning of No-Doing, is liberated that very moment. There is no need for him to wait for another moment. But the rest of the people do not understand. Then wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,461 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng of No-Doing, is liberated that very moment. There is no need for him to wait for another moment. But the rest of the people do not understand. Then what is to be done about them? Then is it, that Lao Tzu should keep on saying and the rest of the people keep on doing what they like? No, Then those who understand only the language of action, must be made to do something; and they have to be so involved in the d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,462 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...le on an open palm, for you have to do nothing. Liberation is man's very nature. The mundane world (Samsara) is unnatural to man. Samsara is like the closed fist and liberation is like an open palm. Lao Tzu, here would ask "You ask about opening the palm"? If you had asked about clenching the fist that could be understood. For opening you have to do nothing -- just open it! We find this very difficult -- ho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,463 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rstood. For opening you have to do nothing -- just open it! We find this very difficult -- how can we open? The truth is, we do not want to open. We feel there is a Kohinoor tucked away within our hands. Now if Lao Tzu says, "Open!" Then the Kohinoor will drop! And we do not want even Lao Tzu to know about it. So we ask him, "How shall we go about it? What shall we do? Show us a way!" These are mere postponements to cling o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,464 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is very difficult -- how can we open? The truth is, we do not want to open. We feel there is a Kohinoor tucked away within our hands. Now if Lao Tzu says, "Open!" Then the Kohinoor will drop! And we do not want even Lao Tzu to know about it. So we ask him, "How shall we go about it? What shall we do? Show us a way!" These are mere postponements to cling on to the Kohinoor. Your condition is, "I must first learn to open the fist ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,465 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ask him, "How shall we go about it? What shall we do? Show us a way!" These are mere postponements to cling on to the Kohinoor. Your condition is, "I must first learn to open the fist properly." Now Lao Tzu does not know what we are hiding. So he urges us, "Friends, open your fists, you have to do nothing!" He is not aware that something will have to be done for man is under an illusion of grasping something wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,466 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... method, the way to get rid of our tensions? These methods we ask only to postpone the day. "We shall try your methods, then we shall see," you say. "Right now it does not open. When it opens, we shall see." Now Lao Tzu cannot for the life of him understand what you are talking about. What have you to do, to open the fist? Just nothing! You have to do nothing for that which is natural to you, which is your very nature. All y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,467 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and see for fear that it might fall or the neighbour might know about it! Then you feel all the effort of holding on to it, was in vain. So the method says, "Clench your fist!" The methodless way of Lao Tzu says, "You will not attain till vou open. Open when you will, now or later." Lao Tzu says, "Open now!" He knows there is no Kohinoor but we do not and hence all the trouble. Other methods also have the same g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,468 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...el all the effort of holding on to it, was in vain. So the method says, "Clench your fist!" The methodless way of Lao Tzu says, "You will not attain till vou open. Open when you will, now or later." Lao Tzu says, "Open now!" He knows there is no Kohinoor but we do not and hence all the trouble. Other methods also have the same goal in view but they work according to your understanding. Lao Tzu's method is accord...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,469 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... now or later." Lao Tzu says, "Open now!" He knows there is no Kohinoor but we do not and hence all the trouble. Other methods also have the same goal in view but they work according to your understanding. Lao Tzu's method is according to his understanding. Therefore he is bound to go over your head. The second way says, "If you cannot open the palm, clench it and it will open." Then it shows methods o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,470 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en the palm, clench it and it will open." Then it shows methods of clenching harder and harder. They say, "Swim yet further, yet further!" But where does the ocean end? Then how long will you swim?" Lao Tzu says, "Do not stress uselessly for the Ocean is shoreless. Do not strive, just float." Lao Tzu says, "There is no destination. The Ocean is the destination." You have to dip into it, be one with it. If you sw...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,471 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and harder. They say, "Swim yet further, yet further!" But where does the ocean end? Then how long will you swim?" Lao Tzu says, "Do not stress uselessly for the Ocean is shoreless. Do not strive, just float." Lao Tzu says, "There is no destination. The Ocean is the destination." You have to dip into it, be one with it. If you swim, you will be fighting it. Then how will you be one with it? You will always be a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,472 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll protect ourselves. We shall fight the waves. And the shores and reach the destination. This is our dimension -- where we want to reach, which is our goal. The other dimension is of one who floats and that is what Lao Tzu says, "There is no destination save the ocean; there are no shores except the mid-ocean, there is nowhere to reach except where you are!" So let go! Do not swim. Flow away; to flow with the current is the des...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,473 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nothing but waves. Lives upon lives we keep swimming and all we find is the ocean -- nothing else. Then at last when we are tired, we give up. And in this giving up, the happening takes place, that Lao Tzu spoke of, many births before. The day this happens, you will feel sorry you did not listen to Lao Tzu earlier. It was not possible for you, as you are, to believe Lao Tzu however. You are clever people and it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,474 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Then at last when we are tired, we give up. And in this giving up, the happening takes place, that Lao Tzu spoke of, many births before. The day this happens, you will feel sorry you did not listen to Lao Tzu earlier. It was not possible for you, as you are, to believe Lao Tzu however. You are clever people and it is the characteristic of clever people that until they try out all their cunning, they will not belie...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,475 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s giving up, the happening takes place, that Lao Tzu spoke of, many births before. The day this happens, you will feel sorry you did not listen to Lao Tzu earlier. It was not possible for you, as you are, to believe Lao Tzu however. You are clever people and it is the characteristic of clever people that until they try out all their cunning, they will not believe. When his cunning and cleverness run out and he is completely spen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,476 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ey try out all their cunning, they will not believe. When his cunning and cleverness run out and he is completely spent, then alone does a person heed. In any case, the happening takes place as soon as you let go as Lao Tzu says. Will you tire yourself out and reach there or will you use your understanding? That which can happen now this very moment by understanding takes a number of births by the tiring-out pro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,477 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... We never know how sometimes, someone becomes carefree, relaxed! Either it is a mistake of Nature or a boon from the Gods! The rule seems to be: As we are, we are diseased, ailing harassed. This sutra of Lao Tzu is unique. He says the cause of restlessness in so many people, is the make-up of the human mind, the fundaments of his culture, the mode of thinking of his civilisation, the very structure of his society. Ea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,478 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are of poison. Your elders pour poison into your roots and you pour poison into your children's roots. Naturally every father does to his son what his father did to him and so the vicious circle goes on. Lao Tzu has said a few things in connection with this poison. To understand this we have first and foremost to understand that what has been fed to the human 10/28/07 Copyrigh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,479 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... frustrated and what is this frustration? They find that inspite of all their toil and labour they have not reached the peak and those they left far behind, suddenly appear right in front of them! Understand Lao Tzu's sutra in this context. Lao Tzu says that if there are no quality-grades of talent and aptitude, there would be no struggle and no envy or rivalry. "Why should we make talent a grade to judge people?" a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,480 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...They find that inspite of all their toil and labour they have not reached the peak and those they left far behind, suddenly appear right in front of them! Understand Lao Tzu's sutra in this context. Lao Tzu says that if there are no quality-grades of talent and aptitude, there would be no struggle and no envy or rivalry. "Why should we make talent a grade to judge people?" asks Lao Tzu. Why should we not take it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,481 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Tzu's sutra in this context. Lao Tzu says that if there are no quality-grades of talent and aptitude, there would be no struggle and no envy or rivalry. "Why should we make talent a grade to judge people?" asks Lao Tzu. Why should we not take it as the nature of the person? Understand the difference for many things depend upon it: Why should we not consider the capability of a person as his characteristic and why should ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,482 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be tall is a natural phenomena. With height there is valuation, quality, grade. There is no valuation with tallness for that is a gift of nature but with the question of height, of stature, valuation comes in Lao Tzu says, "If there is no quality-grade with talent, there would be no strifes and no struggles." Would that we would begin to see that things have their own specific nature and act accordingly; and they are not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,483 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nt. But what is behind all this? One man is born an Einstein, what is Einstein's qualification in that? He has not brought about his genius. One man is born an idiot -- what is his fault in that? Lao Tzu says, "Nature makes one person in one way and another in another. It is because we do not accept nature and attribute quality-status to one and quality-deficiency to the other that we give birth to all strugg...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,484 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ive birth to all struggle and rivalry." This means we are unable to see what is natural, what is the characteristic qualities of a person. We pile our expectations on to nature and think accordingly. Lao Tzu believes in 'Nature-ism'. He believes in the natural characteristics. Tao means the natural disposition. "I am such", he says, "not only this but also that the other is such." "Then this would mean, we must a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,485 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ief, a cheat as a cheat for nature has made them so?" We might argue, "If nature has made them so, what can be done? Should we accept fraud and let it work its way in life?" This is the fight between Lao Tzu and the moralist. The moralist would undoubtedly say that this sutra is dangerous. Suppose we go even so far as to accept that one man is an idiot, one man is a genius and nature has made them so; but if a ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,486 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that one man is an idiot, one man is a genius and nature has made them so; but if a man is a fraud, if he is a thief, a murderer, what are we to do? Should we accept them as being created such by nature? If you ask Lao Tzu, he will say, "When you did not accept them for what they are, how many murderers did you reform? How many cheats did you convert into honest men? You punished the male-factor by whipping him, putting him 1...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,487 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ght Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- in jail and even executing him. Were you able to reform people this way?" "The truth is," says Lao Tzu, "When you punish a person, you make him stronger in his short-comings." You never rid him of his fault, you only make him more competent. The person who visits the jail once, becomes a jail-bird by and by, f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,488 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n him. So his knowledge of his art improves. Also, if once a man is branded a criminal, you stamp a seal on him. Then be has no way also, of improving his ways. Even if he means to be honest, no one will accept him. Lao Tzu says, "You cannot make a saint out of a sinner." In England, about 150 years ago, thieves were punished by being flogged in the market-square. Large crowds would gather to witness the flogging. This was d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,489 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to dissuade people from stealing, at that very time pockets were being picked! In spite of all the punishments, we have not been able to change man in the least. He is getting worse and worse everyday. According to Lao Tzu: as the laws increase, the law-breakers increase also. Every new law becomes a sutra to create new criminals. Every sentence creates a new crime. Lao Tzu says, "You may keep saying 'What will happ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,490 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e least. He is getting worse and worse everyday. According to Lao Tzu: as the laws increase, the law-breakers increase also. Every new law becomes a sutra to create new criminals. Every sentence creates a new crime. Lao Tzu says, "You may keep saying 'What will happen to man if he does not change!' The fact remains you have not changed a single man." The number of courts and jails and the numerous law-books have failed miserably...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,491 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng so much status and dignity about it, depends entirely on thieves, cheats and men of the underworld. If we look deep with in these people, we shall find that all this class of law-givers would not be happy to hear Lao Tzu. They will argue, "Then it means accept a thief as a thief. Do nothing about it. Then what will happen to the law-givers?" And the most interesting thing that the psychologists have discovered is that only ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,492 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n standing on the cross-roads dressed as a police-man. He asked him, "Nasruddin you have become a police-man?" "Yes" said Nasruddin. "This is the only job I found where the customer is always wrong." Lao Tzu's statements are difficult to understand and follow. Not only the judiciary but also the sadhu find it ungratifying for the Sadhu considers his piety to be a cultivated quality and not a part of his nature. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,493 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...iders his piety to be a cultivated quality and not a part of his nature. He says, "With great penance and sadhana and with arduous practice, I have attained piety. You are not a sadhu for you have done nothing." But Lao Tzu's piety and goodness are supreme. He says, "If I am a good man, it is no attainment on my part, I deserve no credit for it. If you are not a good man you deserve no contempt. My being good is my nature, you n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,494 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ifying to be a sadhu and when the society is particularly sinful, saintliness pays great dividends, for then your ego, your ambition and your pride get the best nourishment. A sadhu never approves of Lao Tzu. Therefore, the words of Lao Tzu proved very revolutionary 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Q...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,495 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... society is particularly sinful, saintliness pays great dividends, for then your ego, your ambition and your pride get the best nourishment. A sadhu never approves of Lao Tzu. Therefore, the words of Lao Tzu proved very revolutionary 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- for China. E...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,496 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- for China. Even now after 2,500 years, they are revolutionary and 2,500 years hence also, they will be revolutionary. There is no greater revolution than the Lao Tzu philosophy. Lao Tzu says, "I am like the bitter leaf of the neem tree. It is no fault of the neem tree that its leaves are bitter! The mango bears sweet fruit, what is the greatness of the mango tree in that?...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,497 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... published and unpublished Query:- for China. Even now after 2,500 years, they are revolutionary and 2,500 years hence also, they will be revolutionary. There is no greater revolution than the Lao Tzu philosophy. Lao Tzu says, "I am like the bitter leaf of the neem tree. It is no fault of the neem tree that its leaves are bitter! The mango bears sweet fruit, what is the greatness of the mango tree in that? Why should the neem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,498 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n and the moralists. Their argument is, that society will fall still lower but they do not realise that society has already fallen low and can go no lower. The society is degenerated -- not will be. Lao Tzu however says, "It is you who have caused the society to be degenerated. You revile a thief and destroy the possibility of his changing." You shut all doors of reform. In fact, whenever you praise or condemn, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,499 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...He looks upon himself as a person fated for damnation. Then slowly the thought gets strengthened within him. "Then why should I not be an expert in my badness?" This then becomes his life-adventure. Lao Tzu says, "Do not call the bad, wicked, nor the good, good. Put no labels. Just know this, that each man lives according to his nature." What is the meaning of this? This means, there should be no category n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,500 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This means, there should be no category no hierarchy in Society. There should be no high and no low. Does this mean there should be communism? This needs to be understood a little. The type of society Lao Tzu talks about, if it is accepted that way, then all people will be uncommon and each person will be according to his nature. Therefore, there will be no feeling of inequality. Lao Tzu says, "If a man is ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,501 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... type of society Lao Tzu talks about, if it is accepted that way, then all people will be uncommon and each person will be according to his nature. Therefore, there will be no feeling of inequality. Lao Tzu says, "If a man is capable of earning, he will earn and if a man is capable of losing, he will lose and if a man is capable of begging only, he will beg." But in no way will the beggar be lesser than the rich...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,502 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...reat crowds gathered around him, but when they did he used to try and evade them. This is a most interesting thing: those who have not gathered crowds are distressed and those who have, they too are distressed, Lao Tzu says, "It is because we do not accept nature that we experience this difficulty." And this also we do not see, that many more things come together with one thing. They cannot be dropped out. I take great prec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,503 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...one thing. They cannot be dropped out. I take great precautions to see that no one insult me. But where there is reverence, irreverence is bound to be. But this we do not see. If we can see this part of nature, then Lao Tzu says, "If you do not wish for insult, do not wish for respect either." If you aspire for honour be ready for dishonour also. Then there is no difficulty, then there is no conflict within. Ano...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,504 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hen you have to say something more dangerous than words can express. Then you become silent for you do not have words that weigh so much as to express your feelings. Why is it like this? According to Lao Tzu, this is because we have not given our acquiescence to nature. We have played games with nature, the game of quality -- grades. We say, "So and so is low, so and so is high in standing." This is according to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,505 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...have risen in esteem? As the value for work decreases, the value of relaxation rises. It is the utility that decides who should be at the top and who should not be. By nature, no one is high or low. Lao Tzu says, "By nature, you are as you are." If we once accept this fact then there is no strife, no struggle, either within or without. If no importance is given to things that are hard to attain, people will...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,506 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... always wishes that there is a publicity of honesty or else their business will suffer. If honesty prevails then alone dishonesty can work or else it cannot. Machiavelli or Chanakya are the absolute opposite of Lao Tzu. They are the opposite pole of Lao Tzu. Machiavelli says "Preach honesty, then only dishonesty will prosper. Tell people to be simple to be plain and undeceitful, then only will you succeed." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,507 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y of honesty or else their business will suffer. If honesty prevails then alone dishonesty can work or else it cannot. Machiavelli or Chanakya are the absolute opposite of Lao Tzu. They are the opposite pole of Lao Tzu. Machiavelli says "Preach honesty, then only dishonesty will prosper. Tell people to be simple to be plain and undeceitful, then only will you succeed." In his book "THE PRINCE", Machiavelli ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,508 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... situation. They should be promoters of ethics and keep all outside appearances. But be alert and never practise morality for it is immorality that always prospers in life. This man is just the opposite of Lao Tzu. He is a great intellectual and presents one face of man as it really is -- this much we must allow him. Machiavelli has a deep insight within man and what he says about man is true to a great extent -- 99% c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,509 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... precious. Verily we give value to things that are rare. If a thing is not rare, then no matter how valuable it is, the very fact that it is easily available reduces its value. Rarity creates the value. Lao Tzu says, "If rare commodities are not given importance the element of theft can be eradicated." Then no one will be a thief or a dishonest person. Remember, no dishonesty is required to live life but if you aspi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,510 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...itting. Actually, he will also be always in a constant state of strain and stress for he fears he might be brought down any moment by others who will keep trying to get at the chair in the same way. Lao Tzu's insight is very profound. He says "Give no significance to things that are not easily available." That is, give no importance to things that are rare and there shall be no theft, no dishonesty in the world....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,511 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- dishonest. But if merely covering the body is not enough and with what it covered is of more importance, then honesty alone will not do. The meaning of Lao Tzu's sutra is that Life, Existence alone, does not accept dishonesty as necessary. It is only our tendency to give significance to things that are rare that spreads the whole web of dishonesty. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,512 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lict and ultimately die. Nothing is attained by reaching but in the effort of reaching a great deal is lost. You lose the opportunity oS life from where the rays of bliss could have emanated. All this stress of Lao Tzu is negative, not only so that you may not be despondent, that is not the meaning. What he means is, that if you are not despondent, then the state of non-despondency, will open the gates of positive bliss. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,513 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...life in the pursuit of God? Now even if you attain God a person like Buddha will say, "What is so great about it? He is already attained!" Mahavir will say, "So what if you attained? It is your very nature!" So Lao Tzu says also there is no need to give it in the papers. Thousands have attained and thousands will attain him. There is no need to be proud, there is no need to be made with joy. There is no need to plant a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,514 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the judiciary are against the first 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- sutra of Lao Tzu, so the economists oppose the second sutra of Lao Tzu. Actually, the economists say that the very law of economics is that there is conflict for the rare, for that which is not available in big quantities. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,515 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- sutra of Lao Tzu, so the economists oppose the second sutra of Lao Tzu. Actually, the economists say that the very law of economics is that there is conflict for the rare, for that which is not available in big quantities. In fact only that thing has economic val...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,516 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his or it would have affected the home-market adversely. And millions of people go naked in the world! But the science of economics requires that this should be done or else the economy will fall. If Lao Tzu had his way, there would be no economics in the world and no science of economics. For Lao Tzu says, "Why do you attach value to the deficient? Set your eyes on that which is in plenty." Give value and place ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,517 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... world! But the science of economics requires that this should be done or else the economy will fall. If Lao Tzu had his way, there would be no economics in the world and no science of economics. For Lao Tzu says, "Why do you attach value to the deficient? Set your eyes on that which is in plenty." Give value and place to that which is easily available to all. Do not heed that which is in short supply. If one per...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,518 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ldren and let them notice the futility and stupidity of this man. Then this world can be made desireless. We can then take man's mind away from restlessness and into a world of peace and tranquility. Lao Tzu used to say, "I have heard that in the times of my father and grandfather, they could hear the bark of dogs across the river. There was some village there. When the skies were clear, they could see the smoke ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,519 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... agitation within him. He will not invite unnecessary and useless storms or cyclones within himself. So he will not indulge in useless inquiry. Education should have entirely different foundations, according to Lao Tzu -- non-ambitions foundations, desireless. If someone can tackle mathematics, good; if he cannot, then also it is good. Try to find out what he is good in and do not hammer the fact that he is not good at math...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,520 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll images of the day keep returning again and again -- the people you met, the conversations you had. The excitement of the day continues in the night and therefore you cannot sleep. Hence we see why Lao Tzu talks of a non-distressed mind. He is a different man altogether -- non-distressed. He hankers after nothing and is happy with what he has. Rather, he feels it is more than enough. He is grateful for what he ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,521 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... upset, now that I have lost it? Nothing has come to an end, none of my activities have stopped but this is the way of our mind -- the loss is always greater and what we have, we hardly are aware of. Lao Tzu says, "If we create minds that are desireless, if we do not draw the attention of people towards desirous things, their hearts will be calm, unruffled." But we attract attention. In the olden ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,522 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cannot display, where is the sense in earning it? Then where is the sense in making palaces in which we are never going to stay? And that is the use of keeping that which we cannot exhibit? This is how we think. But Lao Tzu says, "If you do not draw people's attention, they can live in supreme peace." This exhibitionist is a diseased person, for it is healthy to enjoy what you have but very unhealthy to display i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,523 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ary to display food. As long as one has hunger, one eats food and does not display it. So whatever things we exhibit, are those things that we cannot, or are unable to enjoy. This is the sign of a diseased mind. And Lao Tzu says, "If people's attention is not drawn towards the rare and the unattainable (and hence useless for they have no intrinsic value) then people will not be distressed but they will remain cool and calm." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,524 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... No CHAPTER 3: SUTRA 2 THEREFORE THE SAGE, IN EXERCISE OF HIS GOVERNMENT, EMPTIES THEIR MINDS, FILLS THEIR BELLIES, WEAKENS THEIR WILLS AND STRENGTHENS THEIR BONES. Lao-Tze's talks seem upside down -- or so it appears to us. The reason is not that they are upside down, the reason is that we are upside down. A disciple of Lao Tzu, Chuang-Tse was on his death-bed. His friends ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,525 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ILLS AND STRENGTHENS THEIR BONES. Lao-Tze's talks seem upside down -- or so it appears to us. The reason is not that they are upside down, the reason is that we are upside down. A disciple of Lao Tzu, Chuang-Tse was on his death-bed. His friends who had gathered round him asked, "What is your last wish Chuang-Tse?" He replied, "I have only one desire. In this world I stood on my legs, in the next, I wish ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,526 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...head. Perhaps things will then be right." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says, "The awakened Ones, fill the stomachs of those in their governance alright and satisfy their hunger but empty out their minds." They take care to see that all their bodily needs are satisfied but work c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,527 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are forever ready to sacrifice the body at the altar of the mind's desires. Our whole life is one long story of the murder of the body to satisfy the desires of the mind. And this normally, we call wisdom. But Lao Tzu says, "The stomach of man should be full but his mind should be empty." What does he mean by an empty mind? What does he mean by a full stomach? People should be healthy and strong and well-n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,528 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... intent on filling the mind. This is our life-long effort -- to fill the mind with thoughts, desires, ambitions! Gradually, the body remains small but the mind keeps growing. The body only drags behind the mind. But Lao Tzu says, "The mind should be empty, -- like an empty vessel." Now what do we mean by the vessel? Do we mean the outer walls or the empty space within the walls? Normally, we refer to the walls as the vessel. Lao...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,529 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut Lao Tzu says, "The mind should be empty, -- like an empty vessel." Now what do we mean by the vessel? Do we mean the outer walls or the empty space within the walls? Normally, we refer to the walls as the vessel. Lao Tzu says you are wrong. The walls are useless. It is the space within that comes of use -- No one buys a filled vessel! What do you mean when you refer to a house: the four walls or the space within? We, as ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,530 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e -- No one buys a filled vessel! What do you mean when you refer to a house: the four walls or the space within? We, as a rule refer to the walls. When we think of building a house, we think of building walls. Lao Tzu says, "Your thinking is very inverse." The house is the empty space within the walls, for no man lives in the walls. Man lives always in the empty space within. Now if this empty space is filled up, it is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,531 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d not the atman. You will come across some thought, some desire, some condition, for that is what the mind is full of. Go within the house and there is nothing but furniture -- the owner is missing. Lao Tzu says, "Those who know say that the body should be healthy and well-nourished but the mind must be empty." The mind should be as if it did not exist. An empty mind, according to Lao Tzu, is a No-Mind -- as if ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,532 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- the owner is missing. Lao Tzu says, "Those who know say that the body should be healthy and well-nourished but the mind must be empty." The mind should be as if it did not exist. An empty mind, according to Lao Tzu, is a No-Mind -- as if it is not. The supreme art of existence, unfolds itself from such an empty mind and the supreme visions of life, begin to appear therefrom. 'THEY STRENGTHEN THEIR BONES...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,533 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o appear therefrom. 'THEY STRENGTHEN THEIR BONES BUT WEAKEN THEIR WILL.' We always endeavour to increase our will-power. We always say, "Have you no will-power? If so, you are a spineless worm!" But Lao Tzu says, "The sage weakens the will-power." This is very strange! We always exhort our children to develop their will-power. The wise men of today feel that man's will-power should develop still further. Ni...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,534 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...West, lay great stress on a strong will-power. Your will-power should be an immutable wall of stone. Let the world stagger, you should not. You may break, you may die but never bow down! But here is Lao Tzu, who says, "Let the bones be strong but destroy the will-power -- wipe it off as if it never existed!" Why? Because man has to choose from only two -- Will Power or Surrender. He who strengthens his resolve, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,535 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lve should never break. This is our state of affairs and we call it a very straight and logical arrangement; for we say, "What a weak man you are? Can't you fight, have you no strength?" And here is Lao Tzu who says you should not have this strength! It is not that you break or that 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,536 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th! It is not that you break or that 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- you stoop. Lao Tzu says, "You be so that you do not even know when you bent." Even the air should not feel that you have resisted. You bend before the breeze that blows, just as the lowly grass does. The haughty tree stands fir...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,537 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t as the lowly grass does. The haughty tree stands firm in the wind and does not bend. It resists the storm. And the fun is, the small weed overcomes the storm whereas the big tree loses the battle. Lao Tzu says if you fight, you lose for you do not know with whom you are fighting. Every single individual when he fights, he fights with the infinite power. When we fight we fight with the infinite that resides all...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,538 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... if you fight, you lose for you do not know with whom you are fighting. Every single individual when he fights, he fights with the infinite power. When we fight we fight with the infinite that resides all around us. Lao Tzu says, "Do not fight." Let not the question of resistance arise. Do not count yourself so apart that you believe you will have to fight. You drop yourself low. You become one with the storm, co-operate with it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,539 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... do not wish to fight, one thing is certain -- I shall call no one my enemy. If I wish to fight, I shall create my foes. All enmity is born out of will-power. All struggle is born out of will-power. Lao Tzu says, "You be as if you are not." As the air passes the sword or the sword passes through the air. The air is not cut anywhere by the sword because it does not resist the sword. Pass a sword through water, it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,540 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...The air is not cut anywhere by the sword because it does not resist the sword. Pass a sword through water, it cuts nowhere. As the sword cuts, the water joins again. The water does not resist. You too do not resist. Lao Tzu says, "Be like the water, be like the air." Let the force that cuts asunder, pass off. If you do not resist it, you will find that no sooner it is gone, you are one again. You did not break whereas if you fig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,541 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... asunder, pass off. If you do not resist it, you will find that no sooner it is gone, you are one again. You did not break whereas if you fight, you are bound to break. As much importance as we give will-power, Lao Tzu's description of it, is just the opposite. We are bound to respect will-power for the frame-work of our existence is cast in the Ego and stands on ambition. We have to rush somewhere, reach somewhere attain s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,542 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r whole life is a struggle. Our very way of looking at things is from the view-point of struggle and not of giving in. If we give in. If we bow to someone, it is a matter of great shame and disgust. Lao Tzu says, "This way of looking at life leads to illness and disease. You be as if you are not." In this being as if you are not, the will-power will not be. The entire art of Ju-Jitsu or Judo in Japan, stand...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,543 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... way of looking at life leads to illness and disease. You be as if you are not." In this being as if you are not, the will-power will not be. The entire art of Ju-Jitsu or Judo in Japan, stands on this sutra of Lao Tzu. It will be useful to understand this for then what Lao Tzu says will become clear. Now if I give you a blow, the natural reaction is, that you will oppose it. You can oppose in two ways: either you will obst...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,544 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re not." In this being as if you are not, the will-power will not be. The entire art of Ju-Jitsu or Judo in Japan, stands on this sutra of Lao Tzu. It will be useful to understand this for then what Lao Tzu says will become clear. Now if I give you a blow, the natural reaction is, that you will oppose it. You can oppose in two ways: either you will obstruct my attack or you will box me in return. If you cannot d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,545 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... such an emptiness is created within that there is no resistance to any attack because there is no will-power within to resist, then this emptiness unfolds an energy which has no equal in this world. Lao Tzu says "Be devoid of resolutions." This means be resolve-less, be empty within. Do not try to be something. That cat says to her friends, "You are cats and you are trying to be a cat? Have you got to toil to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,546 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in his abuses and weakening him till ultimately he falls himself. Judo says, 'the enemy falls by his own weakness'. There is no need to throw him down. Judo was developed from this very sutra of Lao Tzu. And with the sutras of Lao Tzu and thoughts of Buddha, Zen was born. The concepts of Buddha reached China from India. At that time Lao Tzu's thoughts were prevailing in the atmosphere of China and the conflu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,547 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eakening him till ultimately he falls himself. Judo says, 'the enemy falls by his own weakness'. There is no need to throw him down. Judo was developed from this very sutra of Lao Tzu. And with the sutras of Lao Tzu and thoughts of Buddha, Zen was born. The concepts of Buddha reached China from India. At that time Lao Tzu's thoughts were prevailing in the atmosphere of China and the confluence of these two pr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,548 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... throw him down. Judo was developed from this very sutra of Lao Tzu. And with the sutras of Lao Tzu and thoughts of Buddha, Zen was born. The concepts of Buddha reached China from India. At that time Lao Tzu's thoughts were prevailing in the atmosphere of China and the confluence of these two produced an absolutely new religion -- the Zen religion. Buddha had also said on a different level and in different words,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,549 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... by the foes within him, with whom he fought for a long time. He could not overcome them. And then when he gave up all fight, he realised he had never lost! When these thoughts of Buddha coincided with the sutras of Lao Tzu a completely new science came into being -- the science of winning without fighting. That science is: Fight not and win. Victory without struggle. Success without will-power! We cannot imagine...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,550 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t struggle. Success without will-power! We cannot imagine this for we have always believed that where there is competition and rivalry, there is victory; and where there is war, there are garlands of triumph. So Lao Tzu will appear contrary to us for he says "THE BONES SHOULD BE STRONG BUT THE WILL-POWER ABSENT." Why does he differentiate between bones and will-power? If I were to attack you, your bones should be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,551 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ruth is, it is always the weak who spoil for a fight. I have been told that when the first American stepped out of the port of Hong Kong, he saw two Chinese fighting. These Chinese were connected to the order of Lao Tzu. For ten minutes he stood looking at them. Both men brought their faces close to each other, brought their clenched fists right up to each other's nose, hurled abuses and made a lot of noise then they withdre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,552 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- the winner. Now each is trying to instigate the other. Let us see who loses." A very strange sutra indeed -- He who attacks, loses the fight. This is Lao Tzu's trend of thought -- the weak attacks first. I mentioned Machiavelli yesterday. The philosophy of Lao Tzu and Machiavelli are parallel. Machiavelli says, "The best remedy for protection is to attack fir...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,553 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... us see who loses." A very strange sutra indeed -- He who attacks, loses the fight. This is Lao Tzu's trend of thought -- the weak attacks first. I mentioned Machiavelli yesterday. The philosophy of Lao Tzu and Machiavelli are parallel. Machiavelli says, "The best remedy for protection is to attack first." The best form of defence is to attack first. And Machiavelli is right for the weak should have one over his...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,554 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... attack first. And Machiavelli is right for the weak should have one over his adversary then only are there chances for him to win. This message is for the weak. In fact, only the weak think in terms of defense. Lao Tzu says, "When the attack comes, drink it in!" The question of attack does not arise -- either first or last. Take it within yourself. "If the body is healthy, the mind is void and the bones strong -- the walls ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,555 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n of attack does not arise -- either first or last. Take it within yourself. "If the body is healthy, the mind is void and the bones strong -- the walls should be strong and the owner with in as if he is not. Then," Lao Tzu says, "the Perfect Man is born." This concept is just the reverse of our way of thinking; and it is because all our standards of judgments our very way of thinking is opposed to Lao Tzu. We w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,556 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not. Then," Lao Tzu says, "the Perfect Man is born." This concept is just the reverse of our way of thinking; and it is because all our standards of judgments our very way of thinking is opposed to Lao Tzu. We would say, it is a sign of weakness, of cowardice, not to resist an attack. Life challenges at every step and you stand where you are! The storm summons and you lie flat on the ground; or the river carrie...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,557 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... thing. I know her for the last 30 years. She could not be down the river if you say all who fall in the river go down-stream. She must have gone upstream!" There are just such inverse stops between Lao Tzu and us. Therefore it is difficult to understand him. His science of logic is completely inverse to our reasoning. What we look upon as cowardice, Lao Tzu calls strength. He says, "The greater the ability you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,558 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...!" There are just such inverse stops between Lao Tzu and us. Therefore it is difficult to understand him. His science of logic is completely inverse to our reasoning. What we look upon as cowardice, Lao Tzu calls strength. He says, "The greater the ability you have to fight, the lesser will be the eagerness to fight. And if a man's strength and power is complete, there shall be no fight at all!" Take it thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,559 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... response. The atheists are vilifying God since thousands of years, yet not once has it happened that God has made known His Presence. Does He not feel it is cowardice not to prove Himself? But He is silent. And Lao Tzu says "He is silent because He is the Supreme Power." There is no resistance there. If the Atheist acclaims "There is no God," an echo comes back, "There is no God!" He co-operates with the non-believer also -...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,560 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the state of our mind. We subjugate those we can suppress, we trouble those whom we can trouble, we hurt those whom we can safely hurt and when we cannot, we resort to Scriptures to explain it away. Lao Tzu says, "Let not that centre remain within you that thinks in terms of big and small, high and low; that thinks and plans how to behave with whom, that plans every situation. In other words, let there be no res...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,561 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat centre remain within you that thinks in terms of big and small, high and low; that thinks and plans how to behave with whom, that plans every situation. In other words, let there be no resolve." Lao Tzu does not respond even if a small child slaps him. He also does not respond if the King attacks him! If you understand this sutra well, it becomes a great sutra for sadhana. Try out an experiment of non-r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,562 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Then you will find it very difficult to waste this energy. We have no idea how we dissipate our energies! I am walking along the road. A small child laughs at me; at once the resistance begins! Once Lao Tzu was attacked by someone in his village. Lao Tzu did not even look back to see 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,563 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to waste this energy. We have no idea how we dissipate our energies! I am walking along the road. A small child laughs at me; at once the resistance begins! Once Lao Tzu was attacked by someone in his village. Lao Tzu did not even look back to see 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- who the mi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,564 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tion 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- who the miscreant was. The villain came back running to him and said, "Please look back at least or my effort will go in vain!" Lao Tzu replied, "Sometimes by mistake our own nail hurts us. Then what do we do? Or at times we fall down and break our limbs -- and it is all our own fault! What do we do then!" Lao Tzu said, "Once ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,565 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t will go in vain!" Lao Tzu replied, "Sometimes by mistake our own nail hurts us. Then what do we do? Or at times we fall down and break our limbs -- and it is all our own fault! What do we do then!" Lao Tzu said, "Once I was sitting in a boat. An empty boat came and bumped against my boat. Then what could I do? Had there been a boat-man in the boat. there would have been trouble. Since that day I decided that if...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,566 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to rule. If it does not come back, we feel restless. If I love someone, I take it for granted my love will be returned. If it is not, I am disturbed. We decide the give and take coins for everything. Lao Tzu says, "Change these coins. Become naught within, remove the will-power and let whatever happens, happen." We will then say, "We might contract some illness, we might die, we might be looted, we shall be ruine...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,567 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ings, we do not even attain any of them. If there was something to be attained, it would not be destroyed. Try out the above mentioned experiment for seven days. For me the meaning of sannyas is what Lao Tzu says. He says, "A sannyasin is one who gives up all resolve and accepts surrender; he gives up all fight with the world and becomes co-operative. He declares he has enmity towards none; wherever the winds tak...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,568 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s. There is no goal that he wants to reach. Wherever he reaches, that is his destination. Such a person is a sannyasin. Such a sannyas-attitude opens the doors to the supreme treasures of the world." Lao Tzu says, "THE SAGES IN THEIR GOVERNMENT..." This word needs pondering over for sages have no government. At least, we have never heard of it! But this is a very ancient truth. There was a time when the sage rule...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,569 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eptors) said was compiled in books that came to be known as shastras (Scriptures), shasan (Government) means that which given such rules, by the observance of which, a man reaches his destination. So Lao Tzu says, "That saints in their rules and in their declarations create such scriptures by which they try to empty the mind of man and fill his belly. They break their will-power and strengthen their bones." All t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,570 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f we are sensitive towards aggression, if we feel the whole life to be a struggle, a war, then we shall find such people who can be enemies and we shall find such conditions which can lead to strife. Lao Tzu gives us the other gestalt, the other sensitivity, the other way of looking at things. He says, "Seek co-operation." And he who sets out with this feeling, will begin to find friends wherever 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,571 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tion there. But man's jungle, which he calls, culture, society, is absolutely a den of conflict. This is not apparent: but all the while this web of enmity is spreading all over. Kropotkin says what Lao Tzu has said on an altogether different and deeper level. Lao Tzu says, "Co-operation," but only that person can co-operate whose will-power is extinct. Conflict is possible by only those whose will-power is stro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,572 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ure, society, is absolutely a den of conflict. This is not apparent: but all the while this web of enmity is spreading all over. Kropotkin says what Lao Tzu has said on an altogether different and deeper level. Lao Tzu says, "Co-operation," but only that person can co-operate whose will-power is extinct. Conflict is possible by only those whose will-power is strong within. The greater the resolve the greater the conflict. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,573 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er the resolve the greater the conflict. Resolve is the sutra of conflict. If the will-power fades. conflict will disappear, for then the fighting element will be no more. Practise this and see. All Lao Tzu's sayings are worth experimenting upon. If you experiment on it, your understanding of it will be deeper. By merely hearing me, it will not come that clearly to you. You may hear me and feel you understand. Y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,574 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...GOOD ORDER IS UNIVERSAL. Those who know, always endeavour to rid people of empty knowledge. Ordinarily we think that ignorance of knowledge is bad and know edge in itself is good, propitious. Lao Tzu however does not think this way, nor do the Rishis of the Upanishads or any person on this earth, who has attained the supreme knowledge. There is a sutra in the Upanishads which says: "The ignorant are l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,575 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat you too will endeavour to know and not to read." The knowledge obtained by reading merely appears as knowledge. It is a deception. It is pseudo-knowledge. Now this is interesting: People like Lao Tzu who know prevent others from knowing, for they know the easiest path of going astray is gathering information. It is only in our country that this happening has taken place. Nowhere else in the world is s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,576 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ys of Truth should emanate from our very existence and we should be seeing God everywhere. This is not so. We talk a great deal about -- God but we are not even remotely acquainted with Him. This is the mistake that Lao Tzu has described: "Knowledge prevents from knowing." Lao Tzu's disciple Chuang-Tse has said, "If you want to know, beware of knowledge." This statement seems contradictory. Why should one beware ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,577 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... God everywhere. This is not so. We talk a great deal about -- God but we are not even remotely acquainted with Him. This is the mistake that Lao Tzu has described: "Knowledge prevents from knowing." Lao Tzu's disciple Chuang-Tse has said, "If you want to know, beware of knowledge." This statement seems contradictory. Why should one beware of knowing if one wants to know? It should be so if one did not want to kn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,578 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e all the time. If this country is to be made spiritual again, we shall have to rid ourselves of all the religious scriptures. Once we are freed from our knowledge, we can start afresh on our search. Lao Tzu says, "Those who know, save others from knowledge." One reason for this is because knowledge is always borrowed. Lao Tzu is not referring here to the knowledge that springs from within. If you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,579 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ures. Once we are freed from our knowledge, we can start afresh on our search. Lao Tzu says, "Those who know, save others from knowledge." One reason for this is because knowledge is always borrowed. Lao Tzu is not referring here to the knowledge that springs from within. If you understand this clearly, you will find there is a great difference between the two. That which is born within, that whic...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,580 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cumulates but develops as our consciousness. It is more knowing and less knowledge. It becomes your consciousness. It is not that you know more but that you have the ability to know more. Nanak and Buddha, Kabir and Lao Tzu were not people who knew more. Any one of you could beat them in examinations, for their information is less. But their ability to know is so great that if you and he set out to know about a particular thing,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,581 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ich is knowledge does not gather around us but it transforms us. There is no difference between knowledge and the knower, whereas there is a definite distance between acquaintance and the acquainted. Lao Tzu says, "One who knows will save others from knowing." They will save them from knowledge so that some day they too may enter the world where the happening of 'knowing' takes place. It is therefore, that all sa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,582 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tional Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- and remember where information finishes, the one who was informed finishes also. So it is well to take the rest of Lao Tzu's sutra into consideration: that the acquaintance strengthens the knower whereas knowledge destroys the knower. This is the difference between the two. The more you gather knowledge, the more will your Ego be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,583 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r till it ultimately fades. When it fades completely, that happening takes place which Mahavira calls 'Pure knowledge'. This is the only difference between a sage and a learned man. Confucius went to Lao Tzu and asked him for a message by which he could settle his life. Lao Tzu said, "He who tries to settle his life with the knowledge of others, goes astray. I shall not be the one to lead you off the right path."...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,584 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... takes place which Mahavira calls 'Pure knowledge'. This is the only difference between a sage and a learned man. Confucius went to Lao Tzu and asked him for a message by which he could settle his life. Lao Tzu said, "He who tries to settle his life with the knowledge of others, goes astray. I shall not be the one to lead you off the right path." Now Confucius was a genius among geniuses and he was one of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,585 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not be the one to lead you off the right path." Now Confucius was a genius among geniuses and he was one of those who knew a great deal. He said, "I have come a long way. Please give me some knowledge." Lao Tzu replied, "We over here indulge in snatching away all knowledge, we do not commit the crime of giving it. This seems difficult to us." Verily, in spiritual life, the Guru does the work of snatching all kno...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,586 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gnorant, that he does not know, that he knows nothing whatsoever! If a person in all truthfulness, exposes this truth before himself, he stands on the first step of the Temple of Knowledge. Therefore Lao Tzu says that the sage who knows gives no knowledge to people; rather, he snatches away all that they know. Therefore, the real Guru does not appear likeable. You approach a Guru also with a view to get something...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,587 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd also that it is distasteful and disgusting to know that you know nothing. But he also knows that without experiencing and knowing this, no steps can be taken in the direction of the world of knowledge. Hence what Lao Tzu says is correct. Lao Tzu's book did not circulate well enough and his words did not spread wide. Why? Because who is willing to be ignorant? We are all prepared to be learned. Our schools and univ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,588 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... disgusting to know that you know nothing. But he also knows that without experiencing and knowing this, no steps can be taken in the direction of the world of knowledge. Hence what Lao Tzu says is correct. Lao Tzu's book did not circulate well enough and his words did not spread wide. Why? Because who is willing to be ignorant? We are all prepared to be learned. Our schools and universities, our priests and purohits, o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,589 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s are all distributing knowledge. And the fun of the thing is, the more this knowledge spreads, the more ignorance increases. There is definitely something wrong behind this knowledge. And because of this knowledge, Lao Tzu is very 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- difficult to follow. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,590 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Together with this, the sage endeavours to free him from empty knowledge and desires. We hear our Sadhus and Saints talking of freedom from desires. So this does not seem anything new. But even in these words of Lao Tzu, there is something new. Lao Tzu says, "desires not of the mundane world alone"; the desire for beatitude is also a desire. Therefore the sage tries to make people desireless. The common-place Sadhu woul...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,591 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...endeavours to free him from empty knowledge and desires. We hear our Sadhus and Saints talking of freedom from desires. So this does not seem anything new. But even in these words of Lao Tzu, there is something new. Lao Tzu says, "desires not of the mundane world alone"; the desire for beatitude is also a desire. Therefore the sage tries to make people desireless. The common-place Sadhu would say, "The wise stri...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,592 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... means there are unworldly desires also. Verily if beatitude is to be attained, God is to be realised and freedom from birth and death is desired, then these are non-worldly desires. If you are to understand Lao Tzu, you will have to understand this that Lao Tzu says, "All desires are worldly." There are no worldly desires as such. To be desiring is to be in the mundane world. There are no desires through which a man can...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,593 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ily if beatitude is to be attained, God is to be realised and freedom from birth and death is desired, then these are non-worldly desires. If you are to understand Lao Tzu, you will have to understand this that Lao Tzu says, "All desires are worldly." There are no worldly desires as such. To be desiring is to be in the mundane world. There are no desires through which a man can be liberated. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "Desire ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,594 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... understand this that Lao Tzu says, "All desires are worldly." There are no worldly desires as such. To be desiring is to be in the mundane world. There are no desires through which a man can be liberated. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "Desire is bondage." The quality of the desire makes no difference. When you desire wealth, what happens within you? Let us investigate the mechanism of this happening. The desire is he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,595 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...many births and then I shall have to spread mv hand of desire right into these births if I wish to attain God. I shall stretch and strain myself for the purpose. Desire means the process of tension. Lao Tzu says in this invaluable sutra. "The sage frees people of desires." It means, the sage relieves them from their tensions. The wise man says, "Live in the present, here and now." Forget tomorrow. Forget the wea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,596 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...morrow, the Paramatman of tomorrow for if you have anything in the morrow, desire remains. Then you will be tense and if you are tense and the desire remains, you will be in bondage -- restless troubled, distressed. Lao Tzu says, "Forget the very desire to desire." He does not qualify the desires. If you read the ordinary scriptures you will find desires qualified into good and bad. You are exhorted to leave the bad and fill you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,597 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The moment you touch it, it is no more. We show you a way to eternal happiness." This man who speaks is ridden with desire, and he who follows him will also follows him for desire. Lao Tzu says, "Unconditional freedom from desire." It is not a question of which desire but freedom from desire itself. No demands for tomorrow but life for today. Tomorrow is unreliable, Life is today. No dreams spr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,598 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Reality, to live with the Truth, to live in the Fact that is. Lao Tzu says: "They free us from desires, those who know." They do not offer temptations of new desires. They do not say -- "Leave this desire and catch hold of that", for how will this make a difference? But this is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,599 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es empty. It is therefore that each one of us feels life to be emptiness, there is no fulfillment anywhere. Whatever is attained turns out to be useless, whatever is discovered loses its worthiness. Lao Tzu says, "The sage relieves you of all desires." He does not say, "Be free from desires," for if a sage tells you so, you will at once ask, "Why? for what?" Then the sage will have to tell you, "For liberation, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,600 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...?" Then the sage will have to tell you, "For liberation, for eternal bliss, for God, for heaven" -- and a new web of desires starts. Whoever tells you to be free from desires, gives rise to fresh desires within you. Lao Tzu says no such thing. He only explains what a desire is. He says unto you, "This is the wall. If you try to pass through it, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,601 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gh the door, it is entirely your wish." You understand the difference? One way is to tell you clearly -- do this. But whenever you are told positively thus, you will at once ask "Why?" Therefore the thinking of Lao Tzu, Buddha or Mahavira, in a profound sense, is negative. They say, "Do this and this follows. If you fall into desires, pain follows." They do not say, "Do not fall into desires and you will be happy;" for if t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,602 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... happiness, show us how to attain it." Now a new desire starts. This is rather subtle and should be properly understood. It is therefore, that Buddha never raised the topic of Paramatman or Liberation. Lao Tzu too never talked of God. Therefore when his book first reached the West, people questioned whether it was a religious book, for it contained no topic on heaven and hell or God or of good and bad actions. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,603 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... tied with a thousand chains. I know why they are and also how they can be broken. I do not even tell you why you should break them. If you want to break them. this is the path, this is the method." Lao Tzu says, "The sage frees you of your desires." They do not tell you to be rid of your desires; rather they endeavour to free you of your desires. This doing is of two kinds: One is, they lay open the very struct...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,604 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ree you of your desires. This doing is of two kinds: One is, they lay open the very structure of desires. The other is, they themselves lead a desire-free life. I told you about Confucius returning disappointed from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu accompanied him up to his door. He saw him looking sad and said he was not happy to see him sad. Confucius replied, "That I was bound to be for I had come to hear your wise counsel." Lao Tzu said, "T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,605 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f your desires. This doing is of two kinds: One is, they lay open the very structure of desires. The other is, they themselves lead a desire-free life. I told you about Confucius returning disappointed from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu accompanied him up to his door. He saw him looking sad and said he was not happy to see him sad. Confucius replied, "That I was bound to be for I had come to hear your wise counsel." Lao Tzu said, "Turn round...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,606 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sappointed from Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu accompanied him up to his door. He saw him looking sad and said he was not happy to see him sad. Confucius replied, "That I was bound to be for I had come to hear your wise counsel." Lao Tzu said, "Turn round and have a good look at me once again. If that becomes a counsel, you will not have returned empty-handed." People like Buddha and Lao Tzu are living lessons in life. Confuc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,607 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... be for I had come to hear your wise counsel." Lao Tzu said, "Turn round and have a good look at me once again. If that becomes a counsel, you will not have returned empty-handed." People like Buddha and Lao Tzu are living lessons in life. Confucius looked back but it seems he did not get any message for he told his disciples later on, "His talks went right over my head. The man is unique -- he is a veritable li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,608 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hing. When I pressed him too much, he simply said, "Look at me!" It does not seem that Confucius understood him for one must have eyes to see. Confucius had come filled with the desire of attaining knowledge whereas Lao Tzu was present, here 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- and now. Confucius' ey...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,609 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in his sheer Presence. Confucius failed to notice him for his eyes were elsewhere. He had come with the desire to gain something from him which would be useful in the future. Therefore it is not possible that he saw Lao Tzu for what he was. We also miss. It is not that Confucius alone missed. We fail to see many times. If you were to pass by Buddha, or Lao-Tu or Mahavira, there is one in a million chance that you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,610 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the future. Therefore it is not possible that he saw Lao Tzu for what he was. We also miss. It is not that Confucius alone missed. We fail to see many times. If you were to pass by Buddha, or Lao-Tu or Mahavira, there is one in a million chance that you become aware of their presence. Bahauddin was a Sufi fakir. The richest man of the town visited him every day and addressed him thus: "You...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,611 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gnised Mahavira in his own times?" Many a time we pass by him but alas. our eyes are fixed elsewhere! We cannot see what is near us and it often happens, we do not see a thing just because it is too close to us. Lao Tzu says, "The sage frees you from desire so that you can see that which is closer than the closest, that which is Paramatman." Lao Tzu does not say there is no liberation. He says you cannot desire liberation. L...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,612 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... us and it often happens, we do not see a thing just because it is too close to us. Lao Tzu says, "The sage frees you from desire so that you can see that which is closer than the closest, that which is Paramatman." Lao Tzu does not say there is no liberation. He says you cannot desire liberation. Lao Tzu does not say there is no God. He says you cannot desire God. When there is no desire, when all desires are extinct, then what...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,613 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says, "The sage frees you from desire so that you can see that which is closer than the closest, that which is Paramatman." Lao Tzu does not say there is no liberation. He says you cannot desire liberation. Lao Tzu does not say there is no God. He says you cannot desire God. When there is no desire, when all desires are extinct, then what remains, is God. Buddha too, does not say there is no salvation. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,614 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... close to us, desires are far away. Therefore God and desire never meet. Desire is away, God is close by; desire is in the future, God is in the present; desires are for the morrow God is for today. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "They liberate you from knowledge and desires." And where there are people who are filled with sheer blank knowledge, they try to prevent them 10/28/07 Copyright ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,615 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...After his discourse, the Sadhu invariably says, "Do not leave behind here what I have told you. Keep it carefully with you and act accordingly." He presses them to take a vow that they would. And here is Lao Tzu who says, "The sage takes care that the Sadhaka does not stray into knowledge. He tries to save him from acting according to his information." For all information is borrowed. It is like a bird trying to fly ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,616 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll not do this and they will not do that are people who are acting on information. Someone tells them, anger is bad so they try to curb anger. Someone says desires are bad so they curb their desires. Lao Tzu says, "The sage tries as much as is in his power to refrain people from acting on information." They can only tell them as much as is in their power. There is no way to force anyone. They can only point at th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,617 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nse that will stand by his stead in his time of need. But words that we hear, stick within the mind. Then we make these words form the pivot of all our actions so much so, that we even swear by them. Lao Tzu says. "It is therefore that the saint restrains them from acting on their information." They say, "Do not go by your acquired information. Attain knowledge, actions will then follow." When this state of N...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,618 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uld he not be felicitated? Knowledge is non-active, it is absolutely serene -- not a wave of action -- like a river that is still. Absolutely void -- such is the state of a man of knowledge. Says Lao Tzu, "When such a state of non-action is attained then the order that forms is universal." Then it is beyond censure and beyond contradiction. There are three things to be known: One is that knowledge is a st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,619 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... lose his life?" Fear makes you do a lot of things. All your life is filled with fear. The order that comes into being through fear is no order, for the volcano keeps rumbling within. People like Lao Tzu speak of a different quality of order. There is quite another rule, another law of life, that does not come by any arrangement; it cannot be implanted. It is not born out of fear or desire, nor is it caused b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,620 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... mistake in his rules, for here are no rules. Understand this well. You might be thinking that his laws are so strong that there cannot be a slip. That is no so for a rule however strong, is liable to slip. Lao Tzu says, "The wise man's rules never slip for he has no 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,621 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that which is full, remains empty, whereas that which is empty, is filled up. The lake has only one quality -- that it is empty and the mountains have only one disqualification -- that they are full. Lao Tzu says, "Religion is like an empty vessel." Tao is the other name for Religion, and he who wants to attain Religion has to guard himself against all fullness. This is a very strange thing -- from 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,622 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s? You were born imperfect will you die imperfect also? Do you not want to be perfect? You shall have lived in vain if you have not attained fullness. Attain something. Do not be empty." And here is Lao Tzu who says that he who wants to attain Religion has to guard himself against all fulness. He has neither to become perfect nor remain imperfect. He has to become Empty. If we try to understand it this way, it w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,623 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce, are all in-between. On one side is the Emptiness and on the other is Perfection and we are in-between. And the order of our arrangement is to progress from this midpoint towards perfection. Lao Tzu says, "We have to proceed towards the Void from this mid-point." So all our efforts is towards perfection from this imperfection. The woe of our lives is this only, that there is no fulfillment anywhere: our ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,624 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ver imperfect for then, imperfection has no meaning. This is the state of affairs. All man's efforts, all his endeavours -- no matter in which direction -- are all aimed at attaining perfection. But Lao Tzu says, "Be empty!" He says, "Be on guard against any thought of being perfect for that is the trap; that alone is the plague that destroys man." Therefore -- understand yourself, understand that you are not to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,625 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ullness, whereas in emptiness, perfection takes place. Emptiness is Perfect. Hence there is only one perfection in man's existence and that is, perfect emptiness -- to be completely empty. Therefore Lao Tzu says in this sutra that Tao is like an empty vessel -- not a full vessel, mind you. Therefore whoever has a longing for Religion or for Tao, should avoid all temptations of perfection of any kind. Ego will tr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,626 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou want to be empty you require no help from any God! Your own self is enough. There is no need to ask. This is why prayers have no place in religions that are based on the order of emptiness. People like Buddha and Lao Tzu whose teachings are based on Emptiness, have given no credence to prayers. Prayers hold no meaning for them. There is nothing to be asked for, then who is to be prayed to and for what? We shall discard all th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,627 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...closed in your house but that would merely be your desires. For this to happen, depends on thousands of factors and not you alone. Therefore you have to ask for help. There is no place for prayers in Lao Tzu. He says there is no question of prayers -- just leave all that you have. There is another interesting factor and the mathematics thereof is worth noting. Supposing a million rupees is the target for perfecti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,628 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ous. Actually, Emptiness happens outside of Time, whereas fulness happens within Time. The moment you are empty, you are outside of Time and it requires no time to become empty. Therefore, when anyone went up to Lao Tzu and said, "I am a sinful man, I have committed many sins, how long will it take me to attain liberation?" and Lao Tzu would say, "You can be liberated here and now." Lao Tzu can say this for he knows you have...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,629 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re outside of Time and it requires no time to become empty. Therefore, when anyone went up to Lao Tzu and said, "I am a sinful man, I have committed many sins, how long will it take me to attain liberation?" and Lao Tzu would say, "You can be liberated here and now." Lao Tzu can say this for he knows you have not to be anything. Rather, you have to leave even that which you are! 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,630 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Therefore, when anyone went up to Lao Tzu and said, "I am a sinful man, I have committed many sins, how long will it take me to attain liberation?" and Lao Tzu would say, "You can be liberated here and now." Lao Tzu can say this for he knows you have not to be anything. Rather, you have to leave even that which you are! 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,631 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o leave even that which you are! 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Therefore Lao Tzu has not pondered over the question of how many years and how many lives it will take. He says, "Here and now." Therefore, the nirvana that Lao Tzu has talked about is 'Sudden Enlightenment.' It can take place...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,632 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Therefore Lao Tzu has not pondered over the question of how many years and how many lives it will take. He says, "Here and now." Therefore, the nirvana that Lao Tzu has talked about is 'Sudden Enlightenment.' It can take place this very minute. There is no question of losing even a minute but if you do not desire, it is a different matter. There is no other hindrance sav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,633 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'Sudden Enlightenment.' It can take place this very minute. There is no question of losing even a minute but if you do not desire, it is a different matter. There is no other hindrance save yourself. Lao Tzu says, "There is no other obstacle. If you yourself do not desire it, then it is a different matter. There is no other hindrance. All else are excuses." It will be difficult for the mind to understand that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,634 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...own evasion and not to attain nirvana, is also our own contrivance. No sin keeps us away. It is only we ourselves who do not desire it and hence seek explanations, to explain ourselves away. According to Lao Tzu, there is no intervention of time -- be empty this moment, open your fists here and now! Lao Tzu also says that fulfillment can never be peaceful. A half-filled vessel always makes a lot of sound. A vesse...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,635 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...we ourselves who do not desire it and hence seek explanations, to explain ourselves away. According to Lao Tzu, there is no intervention of time -- be empty this moment, open your fists here and now! Lao Tzu also says that fulfillment can never be peaceful. A half-filled vessel always makes a lot of sound. A vessel 3/4th filled also makes a sound. Lao Tzu says, "No matter how full the vessel is, it makes a sound....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,636 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f time -- be empty this moment, open your fists here and now! Lao Tzu also says that fulfillment can never be peaceful. A half-filled vessel always makes a lot of sound. A vessel 3/4th filled also makes a sound. Lao Tzu says, "No matter how full the vessel is, it makes a sound." Only an empty vessel is silent -- Why? You might argue that a vessel can be so full, there is no sound. But Lao Tzu says 'no'. He says if a vessel i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,637 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...vessel 3/4th filled also makes a sound. Lao Tzu says, "No matter how full the vessel is, it makes a sound." Only an empty vessel is silent -- Why? You might argue that a vessel can be so full, there is no sound. But Lao Tzu says 'no'. He says if a vessel is full, one thing is proved that there are two things. One is the vessel and the other, its contents. And where there is duality, perfect serenity is impossible. So the person ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,638 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... world -- makes no difference. The duality remains. In fact, we can only be filled with 'the other'. If you want to be purely yourself, then there is no other way than becoming empty. Therefore Lao Tzu says that Tao is like an empty vessel; and in its use, it is required that we are on guard against all kinds of perfections. If we want to make use of Religion, we have to beware of the chaos of all perfectio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,639 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ering. We shall have to go a little deep into this word 'use'. If Religion is anything, it is the highest use of life. It is the most intrinsic interpretation of life. So if you want to make use of Tao, of Religion, Lao Tse gives only one advice -- Be on guard against all types of perfections. Then the use of Religion will start. For no sooner a man becomes empty, Religion becomes active, dynamic. And as soon as a man is filled ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,640 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is our religion, it is Tao. We keep on adding things to this emptiness, so much so, that it is completely smothered. It cannot do smothered though. What is meant is, it is hidden from view. Then what is to be done? Lao Tzu says, "Be on guard against this desire of fullness." Leave the desire for fullness. Then what will you do? Throw out all the arrangements you have made towards this aim, with your own hands. The day you throw...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,641 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... untold energy within it. In our effort to be perfect, we become beggars by our own hands. No sooner we become empty, we are blessed; we become the masters of the Supreme Wealth. Therefore it is that Lao Tzu says, "IN ITS USE WE HAVE TO BE ON OUR GUARD AGAINST ALL FULLNESS." Lao Tzu says again: "HOW IMPRESSIVE, HOW SOLEMN IS THIS EMPTINESS! HOW VAST AND FATHOMLESS IS THIS EMPTINESS! FOR SOOTH, IT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,642 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sooner we become empty, we are blessed; we become the masters of the Supreme Wealth. Therefore it is that Lao Tzu says, "IN ITS USE WE HAVE TO BE ON OUR GUARD AGAINST ALL FULLNESS." Lao Tzu says again: "HOW IMPRESSIVE, HOW SOLEMN IS THIS EMPTINESS! HOW VAST AND FATHOMLESS IS THIS EMPTINESS! FOR SOOTH, IT IS THE SOURCE OF ALL MATTER! EVERYTHING IS BORN OUT OF IT. OUT OF WHICH EVERYTHING HAS ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,643 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...R! EVERYTHING IS BORN OUT OF IT. OUT OF WHICH EVERYTHING HAS ARISEN, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN BORN -- IT IS LIKE A REVERED ANCESTOR" -- everyone's father, everyone's mother -- "THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD OF ALL!" Lao Tzu has used very strange words that seem contradictory. First he says "RELIGION IS LIKE AN EMPTY VESSEL." Then he says "HOW BOUNDLESS IT IS!" Now we estimate the depth of objects only. You cannot call an empty r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,644 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... depth of objects only. You cannot call an empty river fathomless. You can only call a very full river fathomless, when its waters can be measured. If we call a dry river fathomless, it would be foolish. But Lao Tzu calls just such a river fathomless -- a river without any water -- Why? Now this is very interesting. Lao Tzu says, "The river that is full can be measured no matter how deep and unfathomable it be." We ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,645 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...omless, when its waters can be measured. If we call a dry river fathomless, it would be foolish. But Lao Tzu calls just such a river fathomless -- a river without any water -- Why? Now this is very interesting. Lao Tzu says, "The river that is full can be measured no matter how deep and unfathomable it be." We may find great difficulty in measuring it but it is measurable all the same. We will find its depth, for objects --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,646 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ow will you measure it? That which is not, cannot be measured whereas that which is, can be. Therefore a river filled with water is never unfathomable but a river without water becomes immeasurable. Lao Tzu says, "No matter how full the vessel, it is not unfathomable. An empty vessel is unfathomable, for there is no way of measuring emptiness." Even a very small emptiness cannot be measured, whereas the vas...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,647 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ood. It means -- that which is measurable is maya. And since it can be measured, it is an illusion. That which can be measured, is not the Truth, for Truth is immeasur-able -- it cannot be measured. Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable it is!" This needs to be pondered over for a person like Lao Tzu does not utter a single word without a reason. It is with great difficulty that they speak. Speaking is no pleasure for...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,648 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed, it is an illusion. That which can be measured, is not the Truth, for Truth is immeasur-able -- it cannot be measured. Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable it is!" This needs to be pondered over for a person like Lao Tzu does not utter a single word without a reason. It is with great difficulty that they speak. Speaking is no pleasure for a person like Lao Tzu. It entails a lot of pain and difficulty for he who sets out to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,649 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...How unfathomable it is!" This needs to be pondered over for a person like Lao Tzu does not utter a single word without a reason. It is with great difficulty that they speak. Speaking is no pleasure for a person like Lao Tzu. It entails a lot of pain and difficulty for he who sets out to speak, is beyond all speech. Therefore they do not utter a single word that is meaningless. Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable." He should not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,650 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g is no pleasure for a person like Lao Tzu. It entails a lot of pain and difficulty for he who sets out to speak, is beyond all speech. Therefore they do not utter a single word that is meaningless. Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable." He should not have used the word 'how (much)' for with this, the measure starts. 'How (much)' suggests a measure. Then why does Lao Tzu use this word? If Lao Tzu says -- 'immeasurabl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,651 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... do not utter a single word that is meaningless. Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable." He should not have used the word 'how (much)' for with this, the measure starts. 'How (much)' suggests a measure. Then why does Lao Tzu use this word? If Lao Tzu says -- 'immeasurable' it sounds logical, but he says, "How immeasurable!" and from here the measure starts. Think again -- for Lao Tzu weighs each word he speaks. If Lao Tzu says, "...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,652 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aningless. Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable." He should not have used the word 'how (much)' for with this, the measure starts. 'How (much)' suggests a measure. Then why does Lao Tzu use this word? If Lao Tzu says -- 'immeasurable' it sounds logical, but he says, "How immeasurable!" and from here the measure starts. Think again -- for Lao Tzu weighs each word he speaks. If Lao Tzu says, "This world is immeasurable...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,653 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tarts. 'How (much)' suggests a measure. Then why does Lao Tzu use this word? If Lao Tzu says -- 'immeasurable' it sounds logical, but he says, "How immeasurable!" and from here the measure starts. Think again -- for Lao Tzu weighs each word he speaks. If Lao Tzu says, "This world is immeasurable," then you can turn round and say, "Then you have measured!" If I say this world is immeasurable, it means I have tried to measure...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,654 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Then why does Lao Tzu use this word? If Lao Tzu says -- 'immeasurable' it sounds logical, but he says, "How immeasurable!" and from here the measure starts. Think again -- for Lao Tzu weighs each word he speaks. If Lao Tzu says, "This world is immeasurable," then you can turn round and say, "Then you have measured!" If I say this world is immeasurable, it means I have tried to measure it. I have reached the corners ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,655 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and found there was no bottom" -- this would be an absolutely wrong statement. How can you see to the very bottom if there is no bottom? If you reached the end, you have reached the bottom. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable!" He does not directly call it unfathomable for then it would seem that it has been measured -- at least by Lao Tzu, and he has discovered it is unfathomable. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,656 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you reached the end, you have reached the bottom. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable!" He does not directly call it unfathomable for then it would seem that it has been measured -- at least by Lao Tzu, and he has discovered it is unfathomable. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable!" What he means is, however much you try to measure, it is unfathomable. You measure and it is beyond measure. Wherever you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,657 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Therefore Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable!" He does not directly call it unfathomable for then it would seem that it has been measured -- at least by Lao Tzu, and he has discovered it is unfathomable. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "How unfathomable!" What he means is, however much you try to measure, it is unfathomable. You measure and it is beyond measure. Wherever you reach, it is yet further away; the shores are nowhere in sig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,658 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... try to measure, it is unfathomable. You measure and it is beyond measure. Wherever you reach, it is yet further away; the shores are nowhere in sight. You try infinite ways and yet it is unfathomable! So Lao Tzu does not use the term 'Unfathomable' directly for fear of the illusion of measure. Therefore, many contradictory statements are made, where entirely opposing words are made use of. When we make use of the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,659 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it spreads even beyond the infinite. It is Infinity (Infinity raised to infinity). When a word becomes multi-dimensional, it becomes a very living word whereas a one-dimensional word, is a dead word. Lao Tzu could have said "It is fathomless", but he says, "How fathomless!" This is the same as saying it is infinitely infinite. Then he says, "How deep (profound) it is!" It is void and deep. The void is entirely em...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,660 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rb the river at all. The river flows and its flow is hardly visible to the eye. It flows so silently. Then we say the flow of the river is so deep, so profound, that there is no sound whatsoever. But Lao Tzu refers to emptiness as deep. There is no flow of water here -- everything is void, but this is the very reason for its profoundness. Lao Tzu says, "No matter how slowly a river flows," whether you can hear it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,661 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... deep, so profound, that there is no sound whatsoever. But Lao Tzu refers to emptiness as deep. There is no flow of water here -- everything is void, but this is the very reason for its profoundness. Lao Tzu says, "No matter how slowly a river flows," whether you can hear it or not hear it, where there is a flow there is bound to be noise. The sound may be so less -- almost subtle -- almost inaudible. But where t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,662 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ere is a flow there is bound to be noise. The sound may be so less -- almost subtle -- almost inaudible. But where there is a flow, there is bound to be friction and where there is friction, sound is bound to be. So Lao Tzu says, "Only the Void can be deep for there is no sound there."There is no flow, no friction. There is nowhere to go, nowhere to come, everything is tranquil and stable with in itself. So Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,663 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... So Lao Tzu says, "Only the Void can be deep for there is no sound there."There is no flow, no friction. There is nowhere to go, nowhere to come, everything is tranquil and stable with in itself. So Lao Tzu says, "How deep, how profound!" He makes use of the adverb 'how' and the reason is to convey the stress on the profundity of his statement and also to convey that the matter has not ended with his statement. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,664 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ere the finger points. If you really wish to point at the moon, the finger will have to shift with the moon. The indication will have to be alive and it shall have to move with the moon. People like Lao Tzu, do not consider Truth as a dead unit. They believe it to be a dynamic force. So all their indications are live suggestions. Their finger keeps moving with the moon. In the term 'How', no boundary can be form...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,665 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...', no boundary can be formed, for this 'how' goes beyond all 'how's. It becomes a hint, a suggestion that transcends all words. When Mahavira says 'infinitely infinite' the term does not carry the transcendence that Lao Tzu conveys by using the term 'how'. When Lao Tzu says, 'how', the transcendence goes even beyond. Mahavira repeats the word infinite -- infinitely infinite -- but then the word seems to get fixed, its resonance ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,666 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oes beyond all 'how's. It becomes a hint, a suggestion that transcends all words. When Mahavira says 'infinitely infinite' the term does not carry the transcendence that Lao Tzu conveys by using the term 'how'. When Lao Tzu says, 'how', the transcendence goes even beyond. Mahavira repeats the word infinite -- infinitely infinite -- but then the word seems to get fixed, its resonance becomes somewhat fixed and it seems as if it c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,667 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sion of a boundary. Then it seems to convey a meaning and we tend to feel that we have understood it. But when a person says, "How unfathomable!" you cannot draw a boundary anywhere round the 'how'. Lao Tzu says, "How deep, how unfathomable -- as though it is the source of all matter." Again he makes use of the term 'as though, as if'. He who has to speak of Truth, has to weigh each word before he utters it. He ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,668 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...him such creation could only be of God. He cannot bring himself to believe that such beauty has sprung out from among the stones, just like that. "Therefore", he says, "It is as if God has made it." Lao Tzu says, "It is as if this profound emptiness, this unfathomable depth, is the source of all matter." This addition of 'as if' is very priceless. This is the characteristic of the profound sensitivity of Lao Tzu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,669 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says, "It is as if this profound emptiness, this unfathomable depth, is the source of all matter." This addition of 'as if' is very priceless. This is the characteristic of the profound sensitivity of Lao Tzu's consciousness. This very sensitive statement has not been made just like that. It has not been made in the heat of an argument or with the desire to prove something or convince someone. It is something that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,670 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... like that. It has not been made in the heat of an argument or with the desire to prove something or convince someone. It is something that comes right from within him, something he has experienced. Lao Tzu has explained this somewhere. His disciples have collected many of his statements. Chuang-Tse says that Lao Tzu has said that the greater the sage, the more hesitant he is. An ignorant person makes any statem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,671 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...meone. It is something that comes right from within him, something he has experienced. Lao Tzu has explained this somewhere. His disciples have collected many of his statements. Chuang-Tse says that Lao Tzu has said that the greater the sage, the more hesitant he is. An ignorant person makes any statement without hesitating for he is blissfully unaware of the enormity of the words he utters. When thus he says, s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,672 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ises up and turns ugly in a short time. Here things are mysterious, united; they are not divided. The Universe is misty, it is twilight here -- you cannot say it is light, you cannot say it is dark. Lao Tzu says, "The sage hesitates", and Lao Tzu's each statement is full of hesitation. If an ignorant man reads him, he will say, "Perhaps Lao Tzu did not know or else why should he say, 'as if'? If you know say so,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,673 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Here things are mysterious, united; they are not divided. The Universe is misty, it is twilight here -- you cannot say it is light, you cannot say it is dark. Lao Tzu says, "The sage hesitates", and Lao Tzu's each statement is full of hesitation. If an ignorant man reads him, he will say, "Perhaps Lao Tzu did not know or else why should he say, 'as if'? If you know say so, if you do not know even then, say so. O...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,674 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... -- you cannot say it is light, you cannot say it is dark. Lao Tzu says, "The sage hesitates", and Lao Tzu's each statement is full of hesitation. If an ignorant man reads him, he will say, "Perhaps Lao Tzu did not know or else why should he say, 'as if'? If you know say so, if you do not know even then, say so. One should talk clearly. If you do not know, say 'I do not know'; if you know then say what you know....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,675 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us. Then why attach these labels? But we categorize and become free from anxiety by putting each man in his place. This does not help to change matters in the least. Life proceeds as it is going to. Lao Tzu is very hesitating and there have been very few people in the world who have been as hesitating as Lao Tzu. In India we find this hesitation in Buddha. But Buddha's hesitation was not as much as Lao Tzu's for...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,676 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... place. This does not help to change matters in the least. Life proceeds as it is going to. Lao Tzu is very hesitating and there have been very few people in the world who have been as hesitating as Lao Tzu. In India we find this hesitation in Buddha. But Buddha's hesitation was not as much as Lao Tzu's for Buddha had left it be known that he would not answer certain questions. This is also a certified answer; f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,677 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu is very hesitating and there have been very few people in the world who have been as hesitating as Lao Tzu. In India we find this hesitation in Buddha. But Buddha's hesitation was not as much as Lao Tzu's for Buddha had left it be known that he would not answer certain questions. This is also a certified answer; for Buddha has answered by saying he will not answer. Not to answer is definite on the part of Bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,678 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...estions. This is also a certified answer; for Buddha has answered by saying he will not answer. Not to answer is definite on the part of Buddha, so there is nothing indefinite about these questions. Lao Tzu says 'as if' -- it is hypothetical, imagine, repeat within yourself and it may come within your understanding that all this is born out of the empty Void. All this has come into being through Void, but to exp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,679 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut of it. Then the Emptiness does not remain boundless -- it is no longer fathomless, no longer deep. It has become small enough to be placed on the research table and analysed. Then the mystery is lost. Lao Tzu says, "Suppose, as if it alone is the mother." If Lao Tzu is questioned "Does God exist?" He will never answer in yes or no. People like Lao Tzu live so close to God that they cannot answer in yes or no....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,680 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... no longer fathomless, no longer deep. It has become small enough to be placed on the research table and analysed. Then the mystery is lost. Lao Tzu says, "Suppose, as if it alone is the mother." If Lao Tzu is questioned "Does God exist?" He will never answer in yes or no. People like Lao Tzu live so close to God that they cannot answer in yes or no. There is a case filed against Nasruddin in the court. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,681 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the research table and analysed. Then the mystery is lost. Lao Tzu says, "Suppose, as if it alone is the mother." If Lao Tzu is questioned "Does God exist?" He will never answer in yes or no. People like Lao Tzu live so close to God that they cannot answer in yes or no. There is a case filed against Nasruddin in the court. The magistrate tells him "Nasruddin, you are a great word-twister. You give su...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,682 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... become absolutely useless. There the atheist as well as the Theist proves himself to be a fool. He who answers in yes or no, proves his stupidity. Here things become very fluid and merge into each other. Therefore, Lao Tzu says very hesitatingly, "It seems as if everything is born out of this void." Enough for today -- rest, tomorrow. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,683 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eaching perfection. He has laid out paths for strengthening his ego. He has organised and classified his thoughts and concepts in this direction. But for emptiness? What is one to do to become empty? Lao Tzu has a few things to say on this. He says: "Blunt the sharp edges." There are many sharp edges in the personality of an individual. Where you pierce and pain another, there is a sharp point within you. But it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,684 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e covers are skin-deep only. We cover ourselves with the plaster of sweetness, humility, of refinement and gentility. But the slightest attack and this layer comes off laying bare the sharp edges within. Lao Tzu says: "Brush off all the sharp edges." Then what are we to do? First we shall have to know the locations of these sharp points. Could it not be that through the long live of births, we have remained a mer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,685 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... they too, are always testing and surveying their hold on you. The moment they feel their hold slackening they are filled with fear of losing their grip! All these are our spikes. These are our violences. Lao Tzu says, "Blunt their sharp edges." If you wish to progress towards the void, you shall have to destroy these edges, drop them, cast them aside. But who can do this? Only that person who is willing to live in in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,686 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Then who would break these spikes? He alone can break these spikes, who is prepared to live in insecurity. Alan Watt has written a book called 'WISDOM OF INSECURITY' after understanding the Lao-Tzu trend of thought: Security is a foolish thing. We cannot make anything secure. We destroy ourselves in the effort to do so. One should have the wisdom to live in insecurity. We shall create no spikes, we shal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,687 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... on both sides is of the same quality. In this retaliation, the reflections and images that result become so powerful that man has no control over them. Then everything seems to happen mechanically. Lao Tzu says, "Be insecure!" As it is how can you be secure? If this earth breaks today, where goes all your security? If the sun turns cold, what arrangements have you made to guard against this possibility? And if ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,688 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ternational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- arrangements. But all our arrangements are like those of the ant. I do not say make no arrangements, nor does Lao Tzu say make no arrangements. I do not say do not store a little grain for the rainy weather. I only say: while doing this, remember well these are all arrangements like those of the ant. The gigantic wheel of li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,689 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er comes. If death comes, it is welcome. In this acceptance you do not feel the need of anger or violence or hate or enmity or jealousy or malice any more. Then only can the spikes break. Lao Tzu says, "This our mind, our individuality has become a ganglion." It has become a complex -- like tangled thread. From wherever you pull, it gets more entangled. You try to disentangle in one place and it gets ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,690 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...x -- like tangled thread. From wherever you pull, it gets more entangled. You try to disentangle in one place and it gets entangled in another place. No matter how much you try, you cannot disentangle the knots. And Lao Tzu says -- "Disentangle these knots". How shall we go about it? We are forever trying to disentangle these knots. A man comes and says, "I do not want to be angry. Please show me how I may not be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,691 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... for Rs.10,000." Friend and foe are the two extremities of the same thing. The friend turns into a foe any time and the enemy can become a friend any time. I have said before that Machiavelli is the other end of Lao Tzu. There is great intelligence in both of them. Machiavelli has said, "Never tell a friend what you would never like to tell a foe, for a friend can turn a foe any time. And never say things against an ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,692 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not say about a friend, for that too may turn out to be a bad bargain. The enemy can become a friend any time. We wish that we should have many friends and no enemies. It is an onerous involvement. Lao Tzu says, "Extricate the knots." But how? When we try to unravel one end, the other end becomes more complicated. We are taught -- Eschew anger, learn to forgive. This causes problems. We are told -- Do not hate,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,693 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...w. It was only today that I was reading a book on etiquette. It was then I realised that I was doomed! My wife has no table-manners at all!" When do we become aware of things? When there are expositions on them. Lao Tzu says, "An inch of a distinction, and heaven and hell fall apart." If we bring in the distance of even an inch in our thoughts, it causes a difference of heaven and hell. Lao Tzu says, "Make no distinction." S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,694 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...? When there are expositions on them. Lao Tzu says, "An inch of a distinction, and heaven and hell fall apart." If we bring in the distance of even an inch in our thoughts, it causes a difference of heaven and hell. Lao Tzu says, "Make no distinction." Say not that this is right and that is wrong for the moment you differentiate everything is destroyed. Live in non-distinction. How will these knots disentangle? ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,695 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., we bring in a big dose of forgiveness. If we are violent by nature, we switch over to non-violence in a big way. If we are greedy, we become charitable. But nothing is solved this way. According to Lao Tzu, to disentangle means to view the conditions as they stand. All this confusion is the cause of your differentiations. Your distinction between virtue and sin, truth and untruth, love and hate, has given rise ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,696 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tanglements. Leave all distinctions and live in plain simplicity. Live naturally as you are, flow with your nature. Make no distinctions. Then there are no entanglements -- no knots. If someone asked Lao Tzu whether he had ever made any atonements for his sins, he would say, "No, for I know not what sin is." He does not say he never committed a sin. He simply does not know what is sin! If someone asked, "Have you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,697 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tinction of entanglements means that these threads should fall from my hands and I should forget the entanglement completely. I am rid of them, my hands are empty. The stress is on the annihilation of entanglements. Lao Tzu says "Eradicate all entanglements." Mahavira says, "Be sans-knots. Cast away the knots." Nowadays psychologists have begun to work a great deal on complexes. In the East, the word 'GRANTHI' (k...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,698 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...The mind itself is the complex. It is its nature to be entangled. It is not that the complexes are removed and the mind becomes clear. The mind itself is the complex. The only remedy that people like Lao Tzu offer to be free of these complexes is to break down the foundation, the basis of this mind, which is distinction: the distinction of yours and mine, light and darkness, friend and foe, life and death, body a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,699 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...amp, light a fire and brighten the valley; but stay we must in the valley. We insist on staying where there is illness and try ways and means of eradicating illness. We never try to go beyond illness. The alchemy of Lao Tzu and the philosophy of such as him, is the philosophy of the Beyond. Be separate and free from everything. Remove yourself from where there is confusion and survey everything from a distance. You will laugh. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,700 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ophy of the Beyond. Be separate and free from everything. Remove yourself from where there is confusion and survey everything from a distance. You will laugh. Then nothing binds -- no entanglements. Lao Tzu says, "Remove the knots, disentangle them so that their glare is tempered." The pride that is within us, is like a flame; it burns. Its brightness hurts the eye. There is no splendour, there is fire within it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,701 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...zu says, "Remove the knots, disentangle them so that their glare is tempered." The pride that is within us, is like a flame; it burns. Its brightness hurts the eye. There is no splendour, there is fire within it. So Lao Tzu says, "Temper its brightness. Blunt your edges a little, disentangle the complex a little and you find your ego (AHANKAR) is ego no more. It has become 'ASMITA'. It will be well to understand these two w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,702 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...asmita is buried underneath. When the ego fades away, asmita appears in all its splendour. There is fire in the ego for it is born with the intention of burning the other. Asmita is mild and gentle. Lao Tzu says, "TEMPER THE BRIGHTNESS." Do something so that this sharp brightness within you, this violent, fierce and poisonous form of your being may get less and less and that it may become mild and quite. Let the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,703 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...reas light does not. Fire can bring death, light brings life. There is burning and speed in fire whereas there is mildness alone in light. It is so soft and slow that you cannot hear its foot-falls. Lao Tzu says: "Let its restless waves submerge into water". This poisonous ego, this insane desire to be perfect, let its dangerous waves sink into the ocean. Let them sleep in your life. Then Lao Tzu says,"YET ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,704 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says: "Let its restless waves submerge into water". This poisonous ego, this insane desire to be perfect, let its dangerous waves sink into the ocean. Let them sleep in your life. Then Lao Tzu says,"YET DARK LIKE DEEP WATER IT SEEMS TO REMAIN." And even when this happens, everything is yet mysterious. Do not think you have solved the riddle, do not think you have got all the answers to existence. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,705 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...illed with light, even then it is limited. Light forms a boundary. A small room filled with darkness, makes the room limitless. A small darkness is also infinite and the biggest of light is limited. Lao Tzu says, "When all this happens, it will yet remain dark like deep water." This existence is like the deep waters that are steeped in darkness, boundless and enveloped by Mystery. There is no beginning and no en...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,706 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... whether you come or go; whether the lamp burns or the sun comes out. Darkness exists in its own place, untouched, inviolable, sacrosanct! Light can be defiled, darkness cannot, for it cannot be touched. Lao Tzu says: "Fathomless water, steeped in darkness, steeped in Mystery!" Mystery means, that which we know and yet know that we do not know. Please bear this in mind. Mystery does not mean that which we do not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,707 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... well as the wise. He says, "In some respects I know and in some respects I do not know." The knowledge has revealed my ignorance. As much asI came to know, I found as much yet remained to be known. Lao Tzu says, "The day everything is solved, you will find nothing is solved." Everything is like the dark deep fathomless water, steeped in complete darkness! Now those who are prone to contemplation find it di...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,708 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ach step is filled with wonder and mystery. And each step of this journey can be looked upon as a destination and each step can be taken as a resting-place from where a new journey starts. Therefore Lao Tzu says that when all this happens even then -- this term 'even then' is very meaningful -- even then it is not that the destination is reached. Some one may say "We have reached." Only shallow people say they h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,709 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is attained; it cannot be said it is known; and it cannot also be said that it is not known. It is both -- neither known nor unknown. The Absolute, the All, is so vast that nothing can be said about it. That is why Lao Tzu says 'still'. Solve everything, know all the secrets, remove all complexes, eradicate all your illnesses, yet you will find that the Mystery of the universe remains unknown. On the contrary the Mystery deepen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,710 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed, when man unveils himself fully and knows, even then, that which is ultimate, which is the basis of creation, the most intrinsic, remains unknown. It remains folded in Mystery. In this last sutra Lao Tzu points towards Him and says, "I DO NOT KNOW WHOSE SON IT IS." This that remains unknown when all is known, this that remains unopened when all else is revealed, whose mystery cannot be solved by any knowledge...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,711 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...risen? Perhaps he is the image of that which was before God. This Void, this mystery, is perhaps the reflection of that which was before God. Many things need to be understood in this sutra. The first thing is, Lao Tzu says "I DO NOT KNOW." Yesterday I talked about asmita and ahankara. As long as ahankara (ego) persists, knowledge cannot dawn. As long as ego persists, only ignorance can be. The mystics have looked ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,712 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a is within, wisdom is without. Asmita is -- just to-be-ness. Just to be, without any distinction, without any form -- just being -- pure existence! When there is only asmita, wisdom shall be with it. Here when Lao Tzu says, "I DO NOT 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- KNOW," this 'I' is an ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,713 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...edge of the source of this Void but even wisdom has not the least idea where from it comes. Neither ignorance nor wisdom can tell of the source of the river of Existence. By saying, "I DO NOT KNOW", Lao Tzu is trying to convey the fact that even after knowing all, after knowing the Self in all respects, even now when all complexes are removed and there is no darkness but light and light everywhere, even then he ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,714 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ow from where arises this Void that has revealed itself to him. He does not know where it comes from or what is its journey. This asmita filled with wisdom, it too has no knowledge of it. The 'I' of Lao Tzu, is the 'I' of the sage and this 'I' too, does not know. The 'I' of the ignorant does not know anything but even the 'I' of the wise does not know anything. This distinction should be understood. Beyond this,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,715 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...omes Void. In ignorance, the knower is too much: in Supreme ignorance or Supreme knowledge, the knower is completely absent and in wisdom the knower and the known are even. The plane from which Lao Tzu speaks and says he does not know, is the plane of knowledge where asmita still is. So Lao Tzu says, he does not know whose son it is. From where has come this Void? Perhaps, he says, it is a reflection of tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,716 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e, the knower is completely absent and in wisdom the knower and the known are even. The plane from which Lao Tzu speaks and says he does not know, is the plane of knowledge where asmita still is. So Lao Tzu says, he does not know whose son it is. From where has come this Void? Perhaps, he says, it is a reflection of that which existed even before God! Man's imagination has gone up to God. Man has no concept...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,717 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Man's imagination has gone up to God. Man has no concept beyond God. God is the ultimate boundary of man's conception. The highest flight of imagination has taken man up to God, the Universal Spirit. And Lao Tzu says, "This seems to be the image of that which is beyond God." Here Lao Tzu hints at one or two things: The first thing is that the boundary of conception is not even the outermost boundary of Truth. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,718 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he ultimate boundary of man's conception. The highest flight of imagination has taken man up to God, the Universal Spirit. And Lao Tzu says, "This seems to be the image of that which is beyond God." Here Lao Tzu hints at one or two things: The first thing is that the boundary of conception is not even the outermost boundary of Truth. The ultimate boundary of perception does not lead to even the first step of Tru...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,719 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The ultimate boundary of perception does not lead to even the first step of Truth. Philosophy goes up to Parmatman but as yet the ocean has not begun! Therefore Shankara -- it will be easier to understand Lao Tzu through Shankara -- has described God also as a part of maya (Illusion) and not Brahma (The Absolute). This is because the concept of the Universal Soul is the ultimate concept of the mind; and illusion goes ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,720 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... discovers, will be bounded by illusion. Shankara has made a very courageous statement by calling God a part of maya. Brahma is beyond maya, beyond Ishwara (God). This is exactly what Lao Tzu says. He says, "That which was before God and which was naturally before creation and was also before the creator." But he does not say "It is the very same." He says, "This is His very art." Lao Tzu says, "T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,721 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is exactly what Lao Tzu says. He says, "That which was before God and which was naturally before creation and was also before the creator." But he does not say "It is the very same." He says, "This is His very art." Lao Tzu says, "Take this to be its image." He does not say, "This is it," for the mind cannot know it. AHANKARA (ego) will never know it nor also asmita. At the most asmita will know its reflection. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,722 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and unpublished Query:- these reflections and these reflections alone the fish can see. The mind, a mind filled with asmita, can at the most be capable of seeing such reflections. Therefore Lao Tzu does not say with certainty that 'This is this.' He says, "Perhaps it is the reflection of that which was before God." Actually all that a man can know -- nay, all that can be known, is only the reflecti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,723 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ost Supreme to be known -- but as a reflection. It is incumbent on us then to add the word 'perhaps' when we talk of reflections. Here, a little probe into Mahavira will make it easier to understand Lao Tzu. No one has used the words 'perhaps' as generously as Mahavira has done. Whatever Mahavira said, he prefixed 'perhaps' to it. He always said, "Perhaps...". He never said, "It is like this". Therefore the thin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,724 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of Truth but only its reflection. So we say, "This is how I see it." We do not say "This is how it is." What I see can be wrong also, can be different; something entirely opposite can be the Truth. Lao Tzu says, "This Void that is manifest, is perhaps the reflection of that which was even before God and from where God also could have been born." A lot of work has been done in connection with 'the original ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,725 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you appeared in the world and which will be with you when you disappear from this world. That face alone is authentic; all the rest is mere clothing that is given to you and taken away from you." And Lao Tzu says -- "That which was even before God, that alone is the authentic face of Truth" -- when everything was unmanifest. When nothing had manifested". The Vedas and the Upanishads have testified to three st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,726 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tate -- where there is neither creation nor annihilation. There should be something which is not created during creation and which is not destroyed during annihilation. And that is the Original face. Lao Tzu says, "It is the reflection of that which was even before God." Now Lao Tzu's each word needs to be pondered upon. He does not say, "This is it". He says, "It is only a reflection." Where there is the Seer, t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,727 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...should be something which is not created during creation and which is not destroyed during annihilation. And that is the Original face. Lao Tzu says, "It is the reflection of that which was even before God." Now Lao Tzu's each word needs to be pondered upon. He does not say, "This is it". He says, "It is only a reflection." Where there is the Seer, the Speaker, the I the ego -- even if it be the gentle ego (asmita) -- wherev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,728 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is the Seer, the Speaker, the I the ego -- even if it be the gentle ego (asmita) -- wherever 'I' exists, there can only be the reflection. But is this less -- that we are able to see Truth even by means of a mirror? Lao Tzu takes care to see that we do not overlook the fact that this Truth is the Truth reflected from the mirror, -- it cannot be any other. Another word he uses, is 'perhaps' as against insistence. This also is wor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,729 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fault -- and I am never at fault! This insistence on our own being right, dies together with the ego. Therefore the truths born of asmita, like the words of Buddha or Mahavira or Krishna or Christ or Mohammed or Lao Tzu, are not the outcome of the ego. They are therefore most non-insisting. They are the last word in giving: there is not the attitude in them to convince the listener and to make him believe. It is like words ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,730 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ble thought, to add the word 'perhaps', is a very brave act; for we can never dream of saying perhaps about that which we hold authentic! We never use this word even to express our untruths! But here are people like Lao Tzu who insert this word even to the truth they have known! We cannot use perhaps for our untruths for then the untruth will die. If you are questioned in court, "Did you commit theft?" what will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,731 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... authenticity. Untruth has no soul of its own. It is entirely dependent on the strength of your proofs and insistences to keep it alive. But Truth needs no help from you. Therefore it is, that people like Lao Tzu and Mahavira could use the word perhaps. If Mahavira was asked, "Does the soul exist?" he would say, "Perhaps". Who could know better than Mahavira about the authenticity of the soul? He who knows so definite...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,732 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...should depend on his answer. That even without him, the soul is. He says 'perhaps' for he feels his knowing can be wrong. We cannot say 'perhaps' even for the untruths we utter, whereas a person like Lao Tzu speaks of Truth also as 'perhaps.' The reason is there is no substance matter in what we speak -- only our persistence keeps it alive. There is a very well-known pleader of India by the name o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,733 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are also not quite clear, then what is one to do?" His guru replied, "Then hammer on the table! All depends on how you shake the Court. The harder you hit the table the more will they be convinced." Lao Tzu and Mahavira are absolutely non-hammering people. They do not proclaim by thumping the table. The most certain of truths they express with 'perhaps'. If anyone contradicts against their statements they reply ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,734 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ends with the seventh statement." No eighth statement is logically possible. All that has to be said is completed in these seven statements. Therefore Mahavira's reasoning is seven-folded logic. When Lao Tzu says 'perhaps', he means to say that he makes no claims, nor does he insist that you should believe that what he has known is the Truth. He only means that that is how he experienced it and what is the worth ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,735 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he term, 'perhaps'. "What is the standing of this small vessel before the gigantic, infinite emptiness? Therefore I say, 'perhaps'. What I say could be wrong also. What I have experienced, can only be a dream!" Thus Lao Tzu explains. We try to give the stamp of reality even to our dreams but Lao Tzu has the courage to call his experience of Truth as a dream! The most unique thing about it is, that this courage only comes on...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,736 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... infinite emptiness? Therefore I say, 'perhaps'. What I say could be wrong also. What I have experienced, can only be a dream!" Thus Lao Tzu explains. We try to give the stamp of reality even to our dreams but Lao Tzu has the courage to call his experience of Truth as a dream! The most unique thing about it is, that this courage only comes on the advent of Truth. As long as truth does not dawn on us, we never have this cou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,737 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...truth now stands on its own footing. If it is capable of convincing others, that is enough; and if it cannot convince, then what else can convince you, if even Truth cannot?" This is why people like Lao Tzu, make use of the term 'perhaps', while expounding Truth, the Truth which for them exists completely and about which they are completely assured within themselves. This seems very contrary. Those who expound u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,738 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tamount to an effort to save the individual. The Truth then would not be without urgency and persistence. Then perhaps the thought to save himself could have crossed his mind. So he remained silent. Lao Tzu says, "Perhaps, it is only its reflection." This word 'reflection' has been used with great far-sight by Lao Tzu; for then if there is any error, it will be on the part of Lao Tzu and not on the part of Truth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,739 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rhaps the thought to save himself could have crossed his mind. So he remained silent. Lao Tzu says, "Perhaps, it is only its reflection." This word 'reflection' has been used with great far-sight by Lao Tzu; for then if there is any error, it will be on the part of Lao Tzu and not on the part of Truth. If we say "This is the Truth," then any lapse would be attributed to Truth. It has forever been the characteris...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,740 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s mind. So he remained silent. Lao Tzu says, "Perhaps, it is only its reflection." This word 'reflection' has been used with great far-sight by Lao Tzu; for then if there is any error, it will be on the part of Lao Tzu and not on the part of Truth. If we say "This is the Truth," then any lapse would be attributed to Truth. It has forever been the characteristic of those who know to say that whatever the lapse is entirely du...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,741 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y perhaps there was something amiss in his method of explanation that caused you to misunderstand. There could be no error in Truth. The error is always in the individual. By referring to Truth as a reflection, Lao Tzu conveys, how he has seen Truth -- like a reflection in a mirror. Now the mirror can be faulty. You must have seen mirrors that distort your figure, in some you appear huge, in others, very small. One thing ab...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,742 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is also reflected Truth. Where there is neither the ego nor asmita, where the 'I' is not, there alone can it be known, which is not a reflection but Truth itself. But then the speaker also is lost. Lao Tzu speaks from the outermost boundary, that farthest point where the ego has turned into 'Naught' and where the asmita, which is a pure form of the ego is also about to fade. From this point Lao Tzu says, "I do ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,743 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t. Lao Tzu speaks from the outermost boundary, that farthest point where the ego has turned into 'Naught' and where the asmita, which is a pure form of the ego is also about to fade. From this point Lao Tzu says, "I do not know from where all this is born, who is their creator, whose son he is? Perhaps this is a reflection of that which was even before God!" This is the final statement that is made at the bounda...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,744 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ore God!" This is the final statement that is made at the boundary-line. Thus is the 'Boundary-Statement'. Beyond this, man is lost -- even physically. It is a fact that after making this statement, Lao Tzu was lost -- even physically. I was talking metaphysically when I said a man is lost after crossing this boundary. But there was no trace of Lao Tzu's body after he wrote this book. Where had Lao Tzu gone? Did...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,745 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... physically. It is a fact that after making this statement, Lao Tzu was lost -- even physically. I was talking metaphysically when I said a man is lost after crossing this boundary. But there was no trace of Lao Tzu's body after he wrote this book. Where had Lao Tzu gone? Did he live thereafter or did he die? Did he fall into an abyss? Where is Lao Tzu's grave? Who buried him? When did he die, on which day an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,746 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this statement, Lao Tzu was lost -- even physically. I was talking metaphysically when I said a man is lost after crossing this boundary. But there was no trace of Lao Tzu's body after he wrote this book. Where had Lao Tzu gone? Did he live thereafter or did he die? Did he fall into an abyss? Where is Lao Tzu's grave? Who buried him? When did he die, on which day and date? Nothing is known about this. This is the first and the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,747 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...I said a man is lost after crossing this boundary. But there was no trace of Lao Tzu's body after he wrote this book. Where had Lao Tzu gone? Did he live thereafter or did he die? Did he fall into an abyss? Where is Lao Tzu's grave? Who buried him? When did he die, on which day and date? Nothing is known about this. This is the first and the last book. Mulla Nasruddin's friend, who had become an air-pilot, offered to take h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,748 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ide when Mulla came out of the plane he said to his friend. "Thank you for your two trips." "But that was a single trip!" His friend corrected him. "No", said the Mulla, "It was my first and last also." This is Lao Tzu's first and last book; his first and last statement. He has written nothing before this; and nothing is known of him after he wrote this book. This is the statement on the boundary-line. Lao Tzu speaks from t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,749 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This is Lao Tzu's first and last book; his first and last statement. He has written nothing before this; and nothing is known of him after he wrote this book. This is the statement on the boundary-line. Lao Tzu speaks from the farthermost point from where life is once again lost into the clouds, where even asmita merges in the Void. He speaks from the last moment where the jump is taken into the abyss, from where th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,750 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the last moment where the jump is taken into the abyss, from where there is no return. This is the statement at the border-land -- both physical and spiritual. Perhaps the physical disappearance of Lao Tzu goes to show that there is no point in remaining once the border-line is reached. There is no meaning in existing physically thereafter. After delivering this book at the check-post, Lao Tzu was never seen ag...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,751 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hysical disappearance of Lao Tzu goes to show that there is no point in remaining once the border-line is reached. There is no meaning in existing physically thereafter. After delivering this book at the check-post, Lao Tzu was never seen again. I have told you this book was written on the check-post of China's border. In three days, Lao Tzu finished this book and handed it to the officer-in-charge there and came out. The o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,752 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o meaning in existing physically thereafter. After delivering this book at the check-post, Lao Tzu was never seen again. I have told you this book was written on the check-post of China's border. In three days, Lao Tzu finished this book and handed it to the officer-in-charge there and came out. The officer had barely examined the book (which was initially very small) when he came out and asked the whereabouts of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,753 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu finished this book and handed it to the officer-in-charge there and came out. The officer had barely examined the book (which was initially very small) when he came out and asked the whereabouts of Lao Tzu. No one had seen him even come out of the room -- not even the guards on duty! They tried to track his footsteps. They were nowhere to be seen. Soldiers were sent out to track him down but to no avail. They s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,754 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...amongst them and they did not recognise him! This was because we only can recognise words and not the individual. They searched for him high and low but he was never found. Perhaps it was to convey this message that Lao Tzu disappeared. Such people not only say what they say but demonstrate it in their lives and in their personalities. Lao Tzu's disappearance demonstrates the fact that his statements were given from the pla...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,755 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h and low but he was never found. Perhaps it was to convey this message that Lao Tzu disappeared. Such people not only say what they say but demonstrate it in their lives and in their personalities. Lao Tzu's disappearance demonstrates the fact that his statements were given from the plane where even asmita becomes Void. Even at this point he declares that it is nothing more than a reflection. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,756 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er reach but that your boat can go even a little distance. It is a miracle! As the Mulla says, "The goods were of china. It was good enough as far as they came; and it is a wonder they came so far!" Lao Tzu says that the experience of Truth he had, that too is a dream, for it is the Truth seen in a dream and hence it cannot be the authentic Truth. He says, "As long as the 'I' remains, however slight, all is expe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,757 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he film you saw on the screen. You never think it all came from the projector. It is all a play of the projector and you have your back to it and where you see there is actually nothing! People like Lao Tzu who know say that our ego, our asmita, no matter how pure, is only a projector. It produces dreams. It projects things as we like to see them. This is a matter for the wise to ponder upon. I see here in our e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,758 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ation. In that also he opens his eyes now and then and then he thinks he has Truth on the palm of his hand, just because there is a slight creeping sensation in the spine! And here there is one like Lao Tzu -- Void stands before him, all is emptiness and yet he makes no claim that 'this is Truth.' He says, "This is a reflection of that which was even before God -- a mere shadow!" This path is very ar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,759 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rs do not come with the intention of seeking something. He wants the Guru to be a mere witness that he is something. But these are the projections of a petty mind. Strange and wonderful are these people -- like Lao Tzu! Buddha has said, "As long as I keep seeing things, I shall know I have not reached up to Truth. As long as there are images, there are objects, I shall not halt. I want to reach a place where there are objec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,760 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n you sit silent, it at once begins to weave all kinds of webs before you. Those who are fond of music find humming songs, those who are fond of colour, see various colours and these begin to spread. Lao Tzu's courage is something to be noted. In the very last moment also, he says it is a reflection. It must be a reflection for 'I am' still remaining. Truth is there where even I am not. This chapter finishes with...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,761 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... TRANSFORMATION TAKES PLACE TOGETHER WITH UNDERSTANDING. WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE UNDERSTOOD WELL BUT FEEL NO TRANSFORMATION WITHIN US. WHAT IS THE REASON? KINDLY EXPLAIN. Bhagwan Sri: Lao Tzu says that once a matter becomes perfectly clear, there is nothing more to be done, for then the understanding leads all our actions and makes us do what is worth doing. What is not worth doing, falls of its o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,762 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...one. What should be done, happens on its own, and what should not be done, stops happening also. What is this understanding? Since you say that you feel you understand and yet the transformation that Lao Tzu talks of, does not take place! This then can mean only two things: either what Lao Tzu says is wrong or what we call understanding, is not understanding. What Lao Tzu says is not wrong because not he alon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,763 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing also. What is this understanding? Since you say that you feel you understand and yet the transformation that Lao Tzu talks of, does not take place! This then can mean only two things: either what Lao Tzu says is wrong or what we call understanding, is not understanding. What Lao Tzu says is not wrong because not he alone but all those who have ever known on this earth, have all said the same thing. Whethe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,764 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and yet the transformation that Lao Tzu talks of, does not take place! This then can mean only two things: either what Lao Tzu says is wrong or what we call understanding, is not understanding. What Lao Tzu says is not wrong because not he alone but all those who have ever known on this earth, have all said the same thing. Whether it was Socrates in Greece or Buddha in India, they have said the same thing, where...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,765 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use. So our life-energy is hidden in the innermost part of our being while the intellect stands at the door. It is this intellect with which we read, it is this intellect with which we hear and understand. When Lao Tzu says, "When it comes within your understanding, the transformation takes place," he talks of the centre within you. When it comes within the understanding of that which is within you, the ultimate Master; whe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,766 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hich comes from within. Then remorse and the feeling of lowliness and inferiority catches hold of the mind. Then we fall in our own esteem. Then we feel, "I am nothing. I am not worth anything." So, Lao Tzu is not talking about this understanding. This intellectual understanding is a deception. It is just as if someone tells us that if you sprinkle water on a tree, it will give out flowers. Now we go and sprinkl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,767 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not come from within you. This has to be learnt and known. Now there is a method also to carry your understanding to the innermost centre and for that you have to pass through various processes. When Lao Tzu talked about this, man was very simple as yet. Now things are very different and that is the cause of all difficulty. Lao Tzu's audience comprised villagers, simple, artless folks who had no intellectual trai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,768 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...most centre and for that you have to pass through various processes. When Lao Tzu talked about this, man was very simple as yet. Now things are very different and that is the cause of all difficulty. Lao Tzu's audience comprised villagers, simple, artless folks who had no intellectual training. They had no intellectual treasures. They were very close to nature, they were of innocent minds. If Lao Tzu were to spea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,769 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of all difficulty. Lao Tzu's audience comprised villagers, simple, artless folks who had no intellectual training. They had no intellectual treasures. They were very close to nature, they were of innocent minds. If Lao Tzu were to speak to you, the very first question you would have asked would be the one that has been asked today. You would have said, "Though we understand...." The people who heard Lao Tzu never raised this qu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,770 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... were of innocent minds. If Lao Tzu were to speak to you, the very first question you would have asked would be the one that has been asked today. You would have said, "Though we understand...." The people who heard Lao Tzu never raised this question. In the thousands of memoirs of Lao Tzu and Chuang-Tse, not one man has raised this question, that we have understood but life is the same. It is true that many of them said, "W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,771 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou would have asked would be the one that has been asked today. You would have said, "Though we understand...." The people who heard Lao Tzu never raised this question. In the thousands of memoirs of Lao Tzu and Chuang-Tse, not one man has raised this question, that we have understood but life is the same. It is true that many of them said, "We do not understand, please explain again." Then Lao Tzu would explain ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,772 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ousands of memoirs of Lao Tzu and Chuang-Tse, not one man has raised this question, that we have understood but life is the same. It is true that many of them said, "We do not understand, please explain again." Then Lao Tzu would explain again. Once it so happened that a man came every day for twenty-one days to hear Lao Tzu. Every day he would tell Lao Tzu, "I have forgotten what you said yesterday. Please explain again". T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,773 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... but life is the same. It is true that many of them said, "We do not understand, please explain again." Then Lao Tzu would explain again. Once it so happened that a man came every day for twenty-one days to hear Lao Tzu. Every day he would tell Lao Tzu, "I have forgotten what you said yesterday. Please explain again". This went on for a few days. Lao Tzu's one disciple Ma Tzu could bear it no longer. On the morning of the fi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,774 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f them said, "We do not understand, please explain again." Then Lao Tzu would explain again. Once it so happened that a man came every day for twenty-one days to hear Lao Tzu. Every day he would tell Lao Tzu, "I have forgotten what you said yesterday. Please explain again". This went on for a few days. Lao Tzu's one disciple Ma Tzu could bear it no longer. On the morning of the fifth day, he stopped the man outsi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,775 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Once it so happened that a man came every day for twenty-one days to hear Lao Tzu. Every day he would tell Lao Tzu, "I have forgotten what you said yesterday. Please explain again". This went on for a few days. Lao Tzu's one disciple Ma Tzu could bear it no longer. On the morning of the fifth day, he stopped the man outside Lao Tzu's hut and said, "What is your problem?" The man replied, "I have forgotten what was said yest...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,776 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu, "I have forgotten what you said yesterday. Please explain again". This went on for a few days. Lao Tzu's one disciple Ma Tzu could bear it no longer. On the morning of the fifth day, he stopped the man outside Lao Tzu's hut and said, "What is your problem?" The man replied, "I have forgotten what was said yesterday and so have come to ask again." Ma Tzu said, "Go away, do not enter in for one mad person is you and another ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,777 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s hut and said, "What is your problem?" The man replied, "I have forgotten what was said yesterday and so have come to ask again." Ma Tzu said, "Go away, do not enter in for one mad person is you and another is this Lao Tzu. If you come with the same question for the rest of your life, he will keep on explaining to you. Since the last five days I have noted that you are where you are with your question and he is where he is with...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,778 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the rest of your life, he will keep on explaining to you. Since the last five days I have noted that you are where you are with your question and he is where he is with his answer!" When this talk was going on, Lao Tzu came out of his hut and said, "You have come brother? Come in. Have you forgotten? Then hear again." For twenty-one days this went on. On the twenty-second day, he did not come. The story goes that Lao Tzu we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,779 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...going on, Lao Tzu came out of his hut and said, "You have come brother? Come in. Have you forgotten? Then hear again." For twenty-one days this went on. On the twenty-second day, he did not come. The story goes that Lao Tzu went to his house, fearing he might be ill. "What is the matter? Why did you not come today?" Lao Tzu asked. The man replied. "I have understood. Now I am a different man." Understand the diff...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,780 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hen hear again." For twenty-one days this went on. On the twenty-second day, he did not come. The story goes that Lao Tzu went to his house, fearing he might be ill. "What is the matter? Why did you not come today?" Lao Tzu asked. The man replied. "I have understood. Now I am a different man." Understand the difference: Had we gone twenty-one times to Lao Tzu it would not have been for the sake of understanding. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,781 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ght be ill. "What is the matter? Why did you not come today?" Lao Tzu asked. The man replied. "I have understood. Now I am a different man." Understand the difference: Had we gone twenty-one times to Lao Tzu it would not have been for the sake of understanding. The understanding, according to us, took place the very first day but life did not change. This man however says that: "If I understand what you have said...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,782 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed and unpublished Query:- For this reason, several methods of mantras, dhyana and tantra and various other processes were evolved. All this came later as man began to be more sophisticated. Till the times of Lao Tzu, there was no need, for people were simple, artless. The door of their innermost being was open and there was no sentinel of intellect guarding it. Therefore, whatever was spoken by a person like Lao Tzu, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,783 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he times of Lao Tzu, there was no need, for people were simple, artless. The door of their innermost being was open and there was no sentinel of intellect guarding it. Therefore, whatever was spoken by a person like Lao Tzu, used to penetrate deep within. Arrangements were made to this effect. He alone could approach Lao Tzu, who was ready and willing to have faith in him. If anyone began to debate with Lao Tzu, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,784 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... there was no sentinel of intellect guarding it. Therefore, whatever was spoken by a person like Lao Tzu, used to penetrate deep within. Arrangements were made to this effect. He alone could approach Lao Tzu, who was ready and willing to have faith in him. If anyone began to debate with Lao Tzu, he would tell him, "You go to so-and-so Guru for sometime, and stay with him." I was recently reading t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,785 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...son like Lao Tzu, used to penetrate deep within. Arrangements were made to this effect. He alone could approach Lao Tzu, who was ready and willing to have faith in him. If anyone began to debate with Lao Tzu, he would tell him, "You go to so-and-so Guru for sometime, and stay with him." I was recently reading the life-story of a Sufi fakir -- a wonderful Sufi. A great pundit of the village came to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,786 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., so that in time he became tired of it. He would then be so disillusioned with debate that he would come back and ask if the Guru would show the way. He was tired of argument. Then alone did people like Lao Tzu speak. There is a story about a Sufi fakir. There were two fakirs who stayed opposite each other. The disciple of one of them, approached his guru and said, "The Sufi next door is spreading all kinds of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,787 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f the market-place, then only we shall talk. I cannot work on you directly. First go and get well beaten up so that which lords it over you has fallen. Then only can I talk directly to your within." Lao Tzu talks of the inner depths of understanding. What he says is right; "Throw the bait with the fork of understanding. Then alone is the fish of transformation caught." But what do we do? We sit at home fishing i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,788 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...session in this world. Actions even children perform. There is no labour required for it. It is a natural, ordinary happening. Even animals are active. Not to do anything is a very great thing. So when you hear that Lao Tzu advises inactivity, all efforts are nullified. Surrender is the greatest resolve. Now this seems contrary somewhat. It does not come within our understanding. We feel that by placing our head on s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,789 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...perfection. Then you will find that you have become empty. THE SAME FRIEND HAS ASKED: "IF THE VESSEL BECOMES EMPTY, WILL IT NOT BE DESTROYED?" Now here the point to understand is, what Lao Tzu means by the vessel and what you mean. There is a difference here of language. We look upon the wall of clay that forms the vessel as the vessel. So when we buy a water-pot from the market, we pay for that cl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,790 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of language. We look upon the wall of clay that forms the vessel as the vessel. So when we buy a water-pot from the market, we pay for that clay which the potter has made. That is what the water-pot means to us. Now Lao Tzu means by the vessel, that emptiness within which is surrounded by the wall of clay. The wall of clay only forms the boundary of that emptiness which Lao Tzu calls the vessel. And this boundar...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,791 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. That is what the water-pot means to us. Now Lao Tzu means by the vessel, that emptiness within which is surrounded by the wall of clay. The wall of clay only forms the boundary of that emptiness which Lao Tzu calls the vessel. And this boundary has to be made use of in order to fill the vessel. If it has to be kept empty only, these walls are not required. Now think -- why do we have to creat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,792 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...vessel. When you have nothing to store you do not buy a container. In the same way we need a body as long as we feel the need to fill it. When this need is no more, there is no question of the body. Lao Tzu says that this emptiness is not to be created by you. You only create the vessel. The potter does not create the emptiness within the pot. He merely raises a wall on all sides of emptiness. Therefore it is so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,793 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- an object, it is a flow of matter -- Quantum. Lao Tzu says, "Become empty!" The moment you are empty, the vessel will become useless. The vessel though, can last for some time for it has its own laws. You bring a pot home for filling it but on reaching home you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,794 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...RASS ARE DEALT WITH. THE SAGE DOES NOT ACT FROM (ANY WISH TO BE) BENEVOLENT; THEY DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE AS THE DOGS OF GRASS ARE DEALT WITH. From all the people who have known on this earth, Lao Tzu is matchless, he is unique. A man of ordinary intellect can easily add any of his own ideas to Krishna's GITA. In the same manner, anything can be added to the words of Mahavira, Buddha or Christ; and it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,795 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...man. This is why all the scriptures of the world have become interpolated. Each generation adds something new of its own. Thus it has not been possible to preserve the purity of these scriptures. But Lao Tzu's book is one of those very few books on earth which has preserved its purity. Nothing can be added unto it. The reason is, only a person of the calibre of Lao Tzu can ever add anything to it. The things Lao ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,796 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the purity of these scriptures. But Lao Tzu's book is one of those very few books on earth which has preserved its purity. Nothing can be added unto it. The reason is, only a person of the calibre of Lao Tzu can ever add anything to it. The things Lao Tzu talks of are so contrary and opposed to the general common understanding, that an ordinary man cannot add anything of his own. To add anything to his works, a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,797 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...But Lao Tzu's book is one of those very few books on earth which has preserved its purity. Nothing can be added unto it. The reason is, only a person of the calibre of Lao Tzu can ever add anything to it. The things Lao Tzu talks of are so contrary and opposed to the general common understanding, that an ordinary man cannot add anything of his own. To add anything to his works, a man has to become like Lao Tzu. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,798 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nything to it. The things Lao Tzu talks of are so contrary and opposed to the general common understanding, that an ordinary man cannot add anything of his own. To add anything to his works, a man has to become like Lao Tzu. This statement is also a typical statement of Lao Tzu. You must never have heard that saints are never compassionate. All that you have heard about saints goes to show that they are filled with ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,799 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to the general common understanding, that an ordinary man cannot add anything of his own. To add anything to his works, a man has to become like Lao Tzu. This statement is also a typical statement of Lao Tzu. You must never have heard that saints are never compassionate. All that you have heard about saints goes to show that they are filled with compassion -- and Lao Tzu says: "THE SAINT HAS NO WISH TO BE BENEVOL...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,800 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This statement is also a typical statement of Lao Tzu. You must never have heard that saints are never compassionate. All that you have heard about saints goes to show that they are filled with compassion -- and Lao Tzu says: "THE SAINT HAS NO WISH TO BE BENEVOLENT." Now to add anything to this statement is very difficult. Lao Tzu says, "SAINTS DEAL WITH US AS WE DEAL WITH DOGS OF GRASS." This seems very strange, therefore i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,801 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sionate. All that you have heard about saints goes to show that they are filled with compassion -- and Lao Tzu says: "THE SAINT HAS NO WISH TO BE BENEVOLENT." Now to add anything to this statement is very difficult. Lao Tzu says, "SAINTS DEAL WITH US AS WE DEAL WITH DOGS OF GRASS." This seems very strange, therefore it needs to be understood. No one understood saints better than Lao Tzu. Actually, what we say abo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,802 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...add anything to this statement is very difficult. Lao Tzu says, "SAINTS DEAL WITH US AS WE DEAL WITH DOGS OF GRASS." This seems very strange, therefore it needs to be understood. No one understood saints better than Lao Tzu. Actually, what we say about saints is according to our understanding: and what Lao Tzu says about saints is according to the saint's understanding. Let us understand this sutra from the v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,803 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...EAL WITH DOGS OF GRASS." This seems very strange, therefore it needs to be understood. No one understood saints better than Lao Tzu. Actually, what we say about saints is according to our understanding: and what Lao Tzu says about saints is according to the saint's understanding. Let us understand this sutra from the very beginning. HEAVEN AND EARTH DO NOT ACT FROM (THE IMPULSE OF) ANY WISH TO BE BENEVOLENT. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,804 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to bloom. But neither do flowers bloom in moonlight nor does the moon become sad. The moonlight is oblivious of my presence or of anybody else's. It will be the same whether we exist or not. When Lao Tzu says that nature is not benevolent, what he means is, do not spread your palms before nature unnecessarily. No mercy is obtained either from the skies or the earth. Do not fold your hands before a temple or a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,805 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., then my praise is hound to melt His heart and persuade him. If I can induce God to be compassionate then He can be made to be cruel also. Then God does not remain God but a puppet in our hands. Lao Tzu says, "Things are just the other way round. We are puppets in his hands." If he is benevolent, we could play with him. Therefore Lao Tzu says that nature is not benevolent nor does he say that nature is cruel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,806 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... also. Then God does not remain God but a puppet in our hands. Lao Tzu says, "Things are just the other way round. We are puppets in his hands." If he is benevolent, we could play with him. Therefore Lao Tzu says that nature is not benevolent nor does he say that nature is cruel. The cruelest of men can be compassionate, then be it Tamer or Genghis or Hitler, there are weak spots in their hearts also. He can love...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,807 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...life is split into two. I he man who loves, hates also. The man who is wrathful, can also forgive. And as morning is followed by even tide, so do these dualities come and go across the mind of a man. Lao Tzu says, "Nature is non-dual." Nature follows the law of one-ness. There everything is similar. And there is never any fluctuation in this law. Nature is neither kind nor cruel. It neither punishes the bad nor r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,808 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l or whether there is music all around me, it is entirely my doing. Nature however, is impartial. It is not interested in you at all. It should not be or else there would be disorder. Lao Tzu says, "This is nature's arrangement that it is not interested in you at all." If Nature was interested in you, you will not fail to take advantage of it and even misuse it. If it were so, man would keep it un...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,809 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ublished and unpublished Query:- no sign of any temple. This is exactly why it sometimes happens that a mere stone fulfils your prayers, whereas at times even the presence of men of the stature of Lao Tzu or Mahavira or Buddha, fail to be effective. The other is not in the picture at all. The matter rests entirely with you and to make this very clear, Lao Tzu has said that nature is not benevolent. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,810 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... even the presence of men of the stature of Lao Tzu or Mahavira or Buddha, fail to be effective. The other is not in the picture at all. The matter rests entirely with you and to make this very clear, Lao Tzu has said that nature is not benevolent. This statement sounds very harsh and cruel in a way, for then we feel helpless. All our strength oozes out of our hands if someone says nature is not kind. If I fal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,811 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nds if someone says nature is not kind. If I fall in a pit, no voice from heaven will warn me beforehand. This seems very hard and affects our mind. And because of the jolt that this statement gives to the mind, Lao Tzu is outside of the understanding of many people, for he gives no promises to make good your incapabilities. It is very difficult to form a religion after Lao Tzu. Religions can only be formed if you defects ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,812 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...use of the jolt that this statement gives to the mind, Lao Tzu is outside of the understanding of many people, for he gives no promises to make good your incapabilities. It is very difficult to form a religion after Lao Tzu. Religions can only be formed if you defects can be exploited. If you are told that God wants just what you want, that God is willing to give exactly what you desire, then religions are formed. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,813 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d if you defects can be exploited. If you are told that God wants just what you want, that God is willing to give exactly what you desire, then religions are formed. No religion could be formed after Lao Tzu. He is one of his own kind, who has no church, no order, no religion behind him. How could this be possible? For Lao Tzu says, "Nature is not benevolent." Prayers and praises and even God is n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,814 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you desire, then religions are formed. No religion could be formed after Lao Tzu. He is one of his own kind, who has no church, no order, no religion behind him. How could this be possible? For Lao Tzu says, "Nature is not benevolent." Prayers and praises and even God is nipped in the bud. You stand alone. We are so afraid of being alone that we are even willing to take a false companion to ease the mind. I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,815 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e will spurn it even if he is given for that which is obtained out of pity, is never attained. It never can become a part of us. That which is created by our own effort, that alone is our possession. Lao Tzu maintains that nature is non-compassionate. Then is it cruel? No, it is not cruel either. Nature is only unprejudiced towards you. It is feeling-less towards you. It takes no sides for or against you. It is o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,816 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If God has any son, there is bound to be confusion; and if it is advantageous to speak in favour of the Son of God and if even Existence takes his side, then there is bound to be difficulty. No, Lao Tzu says, "Nature has no sons." Nature has no one of its own, for no one is alien to nature also. Nature accepts no one for it denies nobody. Nature takes no sides and this is a matter of joy in a way. Therefore,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,817 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ill be of my own making. I cannot hold anyone responsible. I cannot therefore thank anyone or abuse anyone that it was because of him that I attained what I attained. The meaning of this statement of Lao Tzu is: "Ultimately, I am responsible. The ultimate 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,818 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- responsibility is mine". Therefore Lao Tzu's second statement seems even more cruel. He says, "HEAVEN AND EARTH DO NOT ACT FROM (THE IMPULSE OF) ANY WISH TO BE BENEVOLENT." Their dealings with all creatures is like a person's attitude towards a dog ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,819 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... obtained from a grass-dog if you do not know it is made of grass. The reason is, we do not live in reality, we live in our conceptions. My conceptions are the realities of my world. In this peerless statement, Lao Tzu says, "NATURE DEALS WITH US AS IF WE ARE DOGS OF GRASS." It is neither directed nor motivated by us. There is a very deep insight in this statement. We are dogs of grass in the eyes of nature, not only metaph...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,820 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... keep taking in grass all the time. Different people take grass in different forms but it is grass all the same. That is our fuel, that is our existence, that is our body. It is not necessary to be annoyed with Lao Tzu when he calls us dogs of grass. We too are not aware whether we are anything more than this. That Nature knows us as such, is reasonable but that we too, know ourselves as this only, is not worthy. But we hav...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,821 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...resence delights me and someone's absence fills me with sorrow. Have I then realized that figures of grass can bring about such a wave of emotions within me merely by their presence or non-presence? Lao Tzu says, "Nature has nothing to do with you. It only knows you as dogs of grass." You do not exist, you are merely a house of cards. Now if we are willing to understand Nature to be such, what Lao Tzu says ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,822 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says, "Nature has nothing to do with you. It only knows you as dogs of grass." You do not exist, you are merely a house of cards. Now if we are willing to understand Nature to be such, what Lao Tzu says further is even more difficult to understand. He says, "The saints, those who know, they too are not compassionate." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,823 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...misery. The devotees of Krishna say that whenever the world is filled with sorrow and grief, Krishna will come and liberate all. So up to now this is our conception of a saint -- all-compassion! But Lao Tzu says, "Saints are non-compassionate, for he is a saint who has united himself with the intrinsic essence of Nature." Otherwise he is not a saint. Then if Existence is non-compassionate, how can a saint be com...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,824 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd the toilet will expand till one day the whole house will turn into a toilet and there will be a sitting room no more. This happens for this is inevitable in the case of a mind filled with duality. Lao Tzu says, "The saints do not live in duality (dwandwa). They love no one and therefore they despise no one." Let us understand this well. Our reasoning is different. We say, "Since I love you, I do not despise yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,825 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...false. Whenever a person says, "I love you," the other part that he leaves unsaid is, "I despise you." This other part is inevitable logic but we hide it. Later on we have to reap the fruits thereof. Lao Tzu says, "They love no one for they hate no one." They are kind to no one for they are not harsh or cruel to anyone. They forgive no one for they are never angry with anyone. Understand these pairs of opposites ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,826 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ainst you. "I do not love you half as much but I have not gone against you," they say. To this also I reply, "It is entirely because of this reason." If you understand this statement, you shall be able to understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says: "The saint is beyond the opposites." So if you feel that Mahavira is kind to you, it is entirely your understanding. Mahavira is not responsible for this. And if you feel Mahavira looks ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,827 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you half as much but I have not gone against you," they say. To this also I reply, "It is entirely because of this reason." If you understand this statement, you shall be able to understand Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says: "The saint is beyond the opposites." So if you feel that Mahavira is kind to you, it is entirely your understanding. Mahavira is not responsible for this. And if you feel Mahavira looks at you with eyes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,828 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... at you with eyes that are sharp and burning, that also is entirely your understanding. This is purely your interpretation. Mahavira has nothing to do with it. The saint never divides himself in two. But Lao Tzu also says, "Saints deal with men as if they were stuffed dogs." A saint looking upon man as a stuffed dog! The saint is always believed to be seeing God within all creatures -- not only men -- that he should ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,829 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in all creatures -- not only men -- that he should see man thus! He should not even look upon a stuffed dog that way! He should see God even in a dog -- that is what we have heard! What is this that Lao Tzu says? He is saying quite the opposite thing. But this is not contrary. It is the other side of the same matter. The man who sees God within you, also sees the grass-stuffed dog within you. Try to understand t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,830 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... had the honour of his being a glance! How filled with love those eyes were -- but these very eyes would turn into stone some day for they are the product of your imagination. This is why people like Lao Tzu did not appeal to the masses. The masses are only attracted towards those who feed their ego, by those who are adept in the art of seducing their ego. Salesmanship, is what pays with human beings. Thousands o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,831 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And what can be easier than this? The other is always ready to succumb to your flattery. In fact he eagerly awaits it. You take one step towards him and he is ready to fall ten times. A person like Lao Tzu cannot be influential for he says that your ego is nothing more than a stuffed dog! Confucius came to meet Lao Tzu. He found there was no place to sit -- no chair, no high platform. Confucius...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,832 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...You take one step towards him and he is ready to fall ten times. A person like Lao Tzu cannot be influential for he says that your ego is nothing more than a stuffed dog! Confucius came to meet Lao Tzu. He found there was no place to sit -- no chair, no high platform. Confucius was a very disciplined person. He looked all around the room to find a place to sit. Lao Tzu said, "Sit wherever you like, it makes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,833 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... dog! Confucius came to meet Lao Tzu. He found there was no place to sit -- no chair, no high platform. Confucius was a very disciplined person. He looked all around the room to find a place to sit. Lao Tzu said, "Sit wherever you like, it makes no difference to the room. I am sitting here since a long time and the room has not looked at me even once." Confucius sat down but he was very ill at ease for he had ne...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,834 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it makes no difference to the room. I am sitting here since a long time and the room has not looked at me even once." Confucius sat down but he was very ill at ease for he had never sat directly on the floor before. Lao Tzu said, "The body has sat down. You too, sit down." The ego is standing erect behind him. Lao Tzu says, "Since you have sat down, let the ego sit also." Confucius sat down but he did not hear a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,835 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ked at me even once." Confucius sat down but he was very ill at ease for he had never sat directly on the floor before. Lao Tzu said, "The body has sat down. You too, sit down." The ego is standing erect behind him. Lao Tzu says, "Since you have sat down, let the ego sit also." Confucius sat down but he did not hear a word of what Lao Tzu had to say. If a hundred words are spoken, ninety-nine will in all probabi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,836 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..."The body has sat down. You too, sit down." The ego is standing erect behind him. Lao Tzu says, "Since you have sat down, let the ego sit also." Confucius sat down but he did not hear a word of what Lao Tzu had to say. If a hundred words are spoken, ninety-nine will in all probability go unheard even in the case of all of you. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,837 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ght of death grips you, the ego gets a jolt, if the thought of wealth or status grips you, the ego falls and the stream is broken and an opening is made. Then you can penetrate within. But how can a person like Lao Tzu enter within you? He talks neither of wealth nor status or standing; nor does he talk of desires. He will only say, "You are a dog stuffed with hay". Who will listen to such a man? After retu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,838 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er within you? He talks neither of wealth nor status or standing; nor does he talk of desires. He will only say, "You are a dog stuffed with hay". Who will listen to such a man? After returning from Lao Tzu, do you know what Confucius told his disciples? He said, "Do not ever go to that old man. He is not a man but a lion! He seems ready to eat you up. I have never come across a man more harsh than him. I was fr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,839 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... harsh than him. I was frightened of him! I did not catch a word of what he said -- not that I did not hear him well. I did not hear him at all! It was a difficult task to look this man in the eye." Lao Tzu is neither compassionate nor harsh. But Confucius found him harsh, for a great thinker like him -- he was much better known than Lao Tzu. It was Confucius who created China. He was well established. Even the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,840 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at all! It was a difficult task to look this man in the eye." Lao Tzu is neither compassionate nor harsh. But Confucius found him harsh, for a great thinker like him -- he was much better known than Lao Tzu. It was Confucius who created China. He was well established. Even the king revered him and gave him all honour. They got up hastily and took him to his seat when he arrived -- and this old fakir tells him, "...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,841 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Existence that carries out all their dealings. It is Existence that bids then stand or sit. The saint does not exist in himself. If this is kept in mind, it will be easy to understand this seemingly strange sutra of Lao Tzu. Would that we can see saints this way, then our entire concept of saints will change completely. Then we shall see differently, think differently. But we take our own particular angle o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,842 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...int agrees with you. If it agrees with you then it is correct otherwise not. Then this man is wrong. You make yourself the criterion. Therefore your meeting with a saint never takes place. The saint Lao Tzu talks of, you shall never meet. You are however, bound to meet saints who distribute sweets! He will place a candy on your tongue and you will become tremendously happy. The grass-dog will wag his tail in app...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,843 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ray water on your head and bless; you that success is bound to be yours. He will give you some talisman, some mantra to win your case in court, to win your lost love. Such saints are plenty in the world but one like Lao Tzu is very hard to come by. He will not come your way unless you are prepared to look upon yourself as a stuffed-dog. And he who is ready and willing to look upon himself as such, finds such a s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,844 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y:- He does not need to set out in search of him for Existence begins to reveal itself -- to us its mysteries, its secrets -- according to our own preparation! Everything rests on our receptivity. Lao Tzu points to that which is the most important part of our preparation. This is not merely metaphysical. Lao Tzu's suggestion is to make us understand what we should do if we want to meet such a saint. We shall h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,845 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... mysteries, its secrets -- according to our own preparation! Everything rests on our receptivity. Lao Tzu points to that which is the most important part of our preparation. This is not merely metaphysical. Lao Tzu's suggestion is to make us understand what we should do if we want to meet such a saint. We shall have to be very clear about ourselves -- as to what we are. If it becomes clear to my understanding as to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,846 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r could ever imagine. This is so within each mother and each daughter. But we suppress these feelings and dress our wounds. We spread flowers without when there is nothing but dirt and filth within. Lao Tzu says, "You are a complex of this filth and nothing more. We consider it no more than a stuffed dog and neither do we forgive nor show any compassion, nor harshness towards them. "We say only this that it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,847 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...night. After years, I was able to make love to my daughter again." But I told her to beware for this love will only gather hatred. Wherever there is (dwandwa) duality, we tend to gather the opposite. Lao Tzu says, "The saint is beyond the opposites. He is apart from both of them. They are neither harsh nor compassionate." Enough for today, the rest tomorrow. The W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,848 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...scandal behind praise. he alone is wise. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu here gives us the most profound news about these opposites. What is the lower-most base of the opposite? Have you seen the bellows in a blacksmith's shop? Lao Tzu has given an example of the bellows. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,849 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hed and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu here gives us the most profound news about these opposites. What is the lower-most base of the opposite? Have you seen the bellows in a blacksmith's shop? Lao Tzu has given an example of the bellows. He says, "When the bellows become empty of air, do not think it has become powerless." The truth is, that the strength of the bellows lie in its emptiness only. There is n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,850 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uck in the life-giving breath of existence, when you have breathed out? When you breathe out, you are powerful and not empty. You are only empty of breath but your ability to suck in life increases. Lao Tzu says, "When the bellows are empty, do not think they are weak. It will suck the air in and also throw it out. The emptiness is a step towards fullness." But we see mere emptiness in emptiness and only fullnes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,851 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are empty, do not think they are weak. It will suck the air in and also throw it out. The emptiness is a step towards fullness." But we see mere emptiness in emptiness and only fullness in fullness. Lao Tzu says: "Emptiness is a step towards fullness, and fulness is the preparation for being empty again." These are the right and the left feet of existence. Life cannot go on on one foot only. The breath that come...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,852 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...wever, does not mean becoming powerless. It means only this: that we are ready again to become powerful. We have thrown the old away and our capability to fill in the new has become sharp and clear. Lao Tzu says "The Existence works like a pair of bellows between heaven and earth." We can understand the full concept of the universe through the working of the system of respiration -- through the incoming and outg...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,853 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...whole Universe throbs with this breathing phenomenon -- like a pair of bellows. And now as a result of ceaseless research by Einstein and others, a new concept has been given to Physics -- a concept Lao Tzu had no knowledge of -- that of the Expanding Universe. Up to now we were under the impression that the universe was a fixed quantity but now the scientists say that the universe is forever expanding. Just as ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,854 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...iculty; and that is: what will be the end to this? Where will this expansion end? And if and when it stops, what will be the cause thereof? The West has yet no answer to this. This answer, however is attainable from Lao Tzu, attainable in the Upanishads. And the answer is -- the expansion of the Universe is the inflating breath. But things that inflate, deflate also -- there will be a deflating breath. The West has reached the c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,855 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ts and everything shrinks to its seed-form. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu says: "Between heaven and earth there is just such a play of bellows. Also, everything between heaven and earth, is surrounded by duality. Where there is expansion, there is contraction". Why does Lao Tzu say...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,856 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says: "Between heaven and earth there is just such a play of bellows. Also, everything between heaven and earth, is surrounded by duality. Where there is expansion, there is contraction". Why does Lao Tzu say this? This he says so that if you wish to expand you must be prepared to contract. If you are very eager to attain life, you must be ready also to die. If you have a great desire for beauty, you are sowin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,857 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ife, you must be ready also to die. If you have a great desire for beauty, you are sowing seeds of ugliness. If you wish for success, you are making the path that leads to failure. Someone went up to Lao Tzu one day and asked him, "Lao Tzu, have you ever known unhappiness?" Lao Tzu began to laugh. "No", he said, "I have never known unhappiness for I have never desired to know happiness." We also w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,858 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ie. If you have a great desire for beauty, you are sowing seeds of ugliness. If you wish for success, you are making the path that leads to failure. Someone went up to Lao Tzu one day and asked him, "Lao Tzu, have you ever known unhappiness?" Lao Tzu began to laugh. "No", he said, "I have never known unhappiness for I have never desired to know happiness." We also wish not to know unhappiness but ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,859 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...you are sowing seeds of ugliness. If you wish for success, you are making the path that leads to failure. Someone went up to Lao Tzu one day and asked him, "Lao Tzu, have you ever known unhappiness?" Lao Tzu began to laugh. "No", he said, "I have never known unhappiness for I have never desired to know happiness." We also wish not to know unhappiness but that is only so that we may keep experiencing ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,860 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...unhappiness for I have never desired to know happiness." We also wish not to know unhappiness but that is only so that we may keep experiencing happiness. We want happiness to be with us forever. But Lao Tzu says he has never known unhappiness for he never aspired for happiness. We shall always experience misery and sorrow for when we sow seeds of happiness the seeds of unhappiness are sown automatically. The des...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,861 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nsion alone is the way towards contraction; and light alone is the door to darkness. But the opposite never occurs to us, while life swings, like the bellows of the blacksmith, between the opposites. Lao Tzu can never be beaten for he has never wished to win! Lao Tzu always said, "No one has ever insulted me for I made no arrangements for praise. Whenever I went to a gathering, I always sat where people kept thei...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,862 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...light alone is the door to darkness. But the opposite never occurs to us, while life swings, like the bellows of the blacksmith, between the opposites. Lao Tzu can never be beaten for he has never wished to win! Lao Tzu always said, "No one has ever insulted me for I made no arrangements for praise. Whenever I went to a gathering, I always sat where people kept their shoes, for there was no way of being jostled further back!...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,863 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu always said, "No one has ever insulted me for I made no arrangements for praise. Whenever I went to a gathering, I always sat where people kept their shoes, for there was no way of being jostled further back!" Lao Tzu used to say, "I have always occupied the foremost place, no body could shift me even to a second position for I was always first in the last. I always stood at the farthest end of the row -- from where there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,864 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is only when there are thousands eager to push you off it and capture it for themselves. The pleasure you have in sitting on the throne is the same that goads the others lo get you off it. Both these are conjoined. Lao Tzu says, "You cannot pull me down for I sit at a place from where you cannot go any lower. Therefore my throne is well-protected." Lao Tzu knows the opposite thing and to know the opposite is the sutra for p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,865 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t goads the others lo get you off it. Both these are conjoined. Lao Tzu says, "You cannot pull me down for I sit at a place from where you cannot go any lower. Therefore my throne is well-protected." Lao Tzu knows the opposite thing and to know the opposite is the sutra for perfect knowledge in this world. If we want to be foremost, we want to be foremost only. We are not aware of this contradiction that only the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,866 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...io, for an equal number of people are pressed down under it. They will not rest till they throw you out. Therefore the first chair is never safe in this world. It is the unsafest place in the world. Lao Tzu says, "Our minds are always eager to attain things quickly and directly for we have no idea of the opposite." If we are aware of the opposite, then we know that greatest of art which is Religion. Religion say...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,867 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty that no one came forward to challenge his position. Who cared to challenge an unknown man? It is the status, the position of a man that attracts others and goads them to bring about his downfall. Lao Tzu says: "Opposing breaths are forever at work in Existence like the pair of bellows in the blacksmith's shop." One thing he stresses very often and that is, that when the bellows are empty, then too its power r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,868 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot come within our understanding. Besides, the atom is a complete Void -- as good as naught; and this naught nurtures such vast energy within itself! But this also is not the absolute Void. The Void that Lao Tzu talks of, is a complete, a perfect Void. Now if an atom, that is not a perfect Void, can give rise to so much energy how much energy can the perfect Void be holding within itself? The Rishis always have s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,869 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ieve that whatever is born is born where it originally is. We think things can come out only from a filled condition. What can come out of emptiness? We think this way for we have no idea of the opposite arithmetic. Lao Tzu is the greatest proclaimer in this world of this opposing mathematics. He says that the perennial energy lies embedded in the state of total Void. Why is Lao Tzu so eager to declare this? Lao ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,870 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... we have no idea of the opposite arithmetic. Lao Tzu is the greatest proclaimer in this world of this opposing mathematics. He says that the perennial energy lies embedded in the state of total Void. Why is Lao Tzu so eager to declare this? Lao Tzu means by this that if you wish to be the owner of this undivided energy, you shall have to become Void -- like the pair of bellows that have been completely emptied of ai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,871 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ic. Lao Tzu is the greatest proclaimer in this world of this opposing mathematics. He says that the perennial energy lies embedded in the state of total Void. Why is Lao Tzu so eager to declare this? Lao Tzu means by this that if you wish to be the owner of this undivided energy, you shall have to become Void -- like the pair of bellows that have been completely emptied of air -- where there is complete vacuum. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,872 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e in these conditions. We do not have an undivided energy within us. Mahavira says, "He who becomes empty, becomes the lord of perennial energy." How can we empty ourselves, how can we become Void -- Lao Tzu explains further on. At present he says only this that it is necessary that we should understand the glory of Emptiness, that we should understand the foolishness of filling ourselves. All the intrinsic a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,873 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it himself but that is how it was. The greatest and best happenings that have taken place in this world, have all happened in the Void -- whether it has happened to Buddha or to Mahavira, whether it has happened to Lao Tzu or to Einstein. Nijinski used to say that: "As long as I am dancing conscious that 'I' am dancing, my dance is ordinary but when the Void within me takes hold of me my dance becomes extraordinary." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,874 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... with the ego cannot get anywhere near it from any direction for we are never empty. We can never fly in the open skies for we are so weighed down with the stones within that keep us bound to the ground. Lao Tzu says, "The emptiness is the perfect, indivisible energy." Lao Tzu always used to tell a story. He used to say, "I heard the name of a great singer who has not sung for years. I set out in search of him f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,875 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... never empty. We can never fly in the open skies for we are so weighed down with the stones within that keep us bound to the ground. Lao Tzu says, "The emptiness is the perfect, indivisible energy." Lao Tzu always used to tell a story. He used to say, "I heard the name of a great singer who has not sung for years. I set out in search of him for I was curious how a person could be famous when he had not sung a si...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,876 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as I had to create the music. Now the music is created by itself. As long as the songs did not come of their own, I had to sing them. Now the songs pour out on their own.'" "But I cannot hear them," Lao Tzu told him. The Singer replied, "Stay a while here. You will have to stay with me for sometime and by and by, you will begin to hear." So Lao Tzu stayed with him. Soon he began to hear the music. Then he w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,877 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...our out on their own.'" "But I cannot hear them," Lao Tzu told him. The Singer replied, "Stay a while here. You will have to stay with me for sometime and by and by, you will begin to hear." So Lao Tzu stayed with him. Soon he began to hear the music. Then he went back. When his disciples asked him, "Did you hear the music? How was it?" He replied, "It was the music of emptiness. There were no words there -...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,878 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly when between its two banks, the river af music flows. The notes, the words form only the banks but those who take the shores for the river, never understand the river. They never reach the river. Lao Tzu says: "Between heaven and earth is the empty space like a pair of bellows. That alone is the indivisible energy." No matter how much of this energy you consume, it is regenerated that much more. The more you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,879 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...le energy." No matter how much of this energy you consume, it is regenerated that much more. The more you use the Void the more life is born. But we know not how to use the Void. We do not also know how to be empty. Lao Tzu shows us how to be the Void and how to make use of this Void. "MUCH SPEECH LEADS TO SWIFT EXHAUSTION." The more words there are within, the more is the intellect wasted away, the more does...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,880 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re the successful people of the world. Therefore this mania of teaching words. All our education is a training in words. The more words a person knows the more hopes there are of his success. But Lao Tzu maintains that excessive words weaken the intellect. The more we fill the mind with words, the weaker the intellect becomes. He speaks in contrary terms. All our endeavour is to learn as many words as possibl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,881 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rrelation between us and words? It is because, we possess nothing else besides words. We have nothing like the being, the spirit, within us. We are absolutely devoid of everything. We are not empty in the sense that Lao Tzu means -- not in the term of Void but we are destitute, beggars. We are not empty in terms of the Indivisible Energy but we are empty in the sense that we have nothing in our hands. not even emptiness! Thus we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,882 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t available?" The examiner asked. "I will promise to give him later and I am sure he will gain his consciousness. It happened to me once," said the Mulla! We live merely on words. And for these words Lao Tzu says, "They only serve to weaken the intellect." Now the fact remains that Lao Tzu also uses the medium of words. When he speaks, he uses words. Then a great delusion is created -- when Lao Tzu himself uses w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,883 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e will gain his consciousness. It happened to me once," said the Mulla! We live merely on words. And for these words Lao Tzu says, "They only serve to weaken the intellect." Now the fact remains that Lao Tzu also uses the medium of words. When he speaks, he uses words. Then a great delusion is created -- when Lao Tzu himself uses words to convey his thoughts, why does he speak against words? It is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,884 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... And for these words Lao Tzu says, "They only serve to weaken the intellect." Now the fact remains that Lao Tzu also uses the medium of words. When he speaks, he uses words. Then a great delusion is created -- when Lao Tzu himself uses words to convey his thoughts, why does he speak against words? It is inevitable fact that when we want to convey something to somebody, we have to make use of words but we have be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,885 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- is only when these superficial layers of words are removed that we can be acquainted with the atman. Lao Tzu says, "Profusion of words causes the intellect to be exhausted. Therefore it is necessary to be established within our own centre" -- within our own centre! Why? -- because the centre is empty. Words are mere...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,886 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... circumference. They are just like the leaves that cover the waters of the lake and thus hide the lake from view. Such is the condition within us due to the abundance of words. The Void lies hidden within. This Void Lao Tzu refers to as the centre. He says, "That is the very centre of our being. But we live only on the circumference and are so badly involved in it that we cannot go within. The circumference joins one word to ano...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,887 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...te void within. Everything is still within, there is no movement. Just as water without ripples; just as a steady flame when the air is still, so when you are still and empty within, you reach up to your centre. And Lao Tzu says, "To be established within one's centre is propitious." Not to wander in words but to be fixed within one's own centre is propitious. Enough food for today, we shall talk again tomorrow. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,888 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Another most interesting fact is, we can create light so we can also end it. We cannot create darkness and hence cannot des-troy it. The power of darkness is infinite. The power of light is not infinite. Lao Tzu says: "THE VALLEY SPIRIT DIES NOT. IT IS EVER THE SAME AS IT IS." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublish...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,889 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... absence. If I am alive, I can be killed but if I die, you can do nothing to my death. Nothing can be done with that which is not. Therefore we can never create darkness nor destroy it. The Valley Spirit is Lao Tzu's nomenclature. What is this Valley-Spirit? The valley does not exist, it only appears between two mountains. This space between the mountains remains the same even long after the mountains are no more. The v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,890 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. When you light a lamp, it merely hides. It becomes invisible because of the light. When the light goes off, darkness appears just as it was. Perhaps darkness is unaware of the existence or non-existence of light. Lao Tzu's entire thinking, his entire philosophy is based on the Negative aspect in the Void, the Emptiness. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "The Female-Mystery, thus do we name." This needs to be understood ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,891 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it was. Perhaps darkness is unaware of the existence or non-existence of light. Lao Tzu's entire thinking, his entire philosophy is based on the Negative aspect in the Void, the Emptiness. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "The Female-Mystery, thus do we name." This needs to be understood and we shall have to go a little deeper for this is the original base of Lao Tzu's tantra. What is meant by the female-mystery. It is t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,892 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the Negative aspect in the Void, the Emptiness. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "The Female-Mystery, thus do we name." This needs to be understood and we shall have to go a little deeper for this is the original base of Lao Tzu's tantra. What is meant by the female-mystery. It is the same mystery of the valley. What is the mystery of a female, is the mystery of darkness. The mystery of a female is a very deep mystery of Existence. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,893 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ckly removed woman from the throne of God-hood and placed the man there. Then those who conceived of God as the father, quickly lost the sutras of feminine-mystery. its secrets were lost to them. Now Lao Tzu talks in the times when there was no concept of God, the father, in the world. This requires to be studied properly. We shall have to see it from many angles. Only the shall we be able to understand it. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,894 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecomes a mother in the true sense of the word, her existence becomes fulfilled in her most inner-most depths. Nature has chosen woman as a source of creation. We shall have to understand the Female-Mystery that Lao Tzu speaks of, in the female body, in order to understand the Female-Mystery of Existence. Our difficulties are manifold because all the effort to understand Existence, has been done by the male. All the philosop...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,895 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ffort to understand Existence, has been done by the male. All the philosophy has been created by men. Not a single religion, up to now, has been found around a woman-prophet. All shastras belong to man. This is why, Lao Tzu had difficulty in finding a partner for he has praised the female-mystery. When a man thinks or does something, he always does so from where he stands himself and so all his creations are male oriented. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,896 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er. Man is born out of woman, he lives all his life with her, he loves her, then also what is that something within a woman that is forever strange and unknown to man? This very strange and unknown element in woman, Lao Tzu calls the Female-Mystery. The mystery of the valley, the mystery of darkness, the excellence of negation! What is within woman? When a woman falls in love, she is never aggressive. She is not aggressive ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,897 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nature has endowed her with the power of creation. The power of creation is so great a power that it can only be contained by those who are strong; for they alone are capable of holding the embryo. Lao Tzu says, "Understand this Female-Mystery well." This Spirit of the Valley never tires, never dies. Understand well this passivity, this art of acting without action, this non-violent aggression, this secret of c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,898 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...well." This Spirit of the Valley never tires, never dies. Understand well this passivity, this art of acting without action, this non-violent aggression, this secret of calling without calling -- understand it well. Lao Tzu says, "Only by understanding this secret, can a man attain the Supreme Truth." We can never attain the Supreme Truth with our male-attitude for no act of aggression can be committed on the Supreme Truth. We ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,899 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his man therefore, her body does not perform the act of suction. Hence all actions of man are aggressive. If a woman loves, her entire biological set up is such that she draws in the man within her. Lao Tzu says, "This is the mystery of woman, that without doing anything she does all." If man wishes to do something, he has to perform the act. The mystery of religion is also feminine. If anyone sets out to attain...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,900 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of this society is happy for him, his peak is reached when he becomes a husband or a father or a lover. The same is not the case with women however. The secret of woman's motherhood is according to Lao Tzu, like darkness. There are many more things we should take into consideration: When a male child is born, there are no sex-hormones within him at birth. His semen begins to be formed later on....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,901 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e runs from one place to another, from earth to the moon. It is the search for that one chromosome, the lack of which he feels in his lack of perfection. This balanced, peaceful, patient personality of a woman, Lao Tzu says, is a profound mystery of Existence. God is in Existence, like the making of a woman and not like a man. Therefore we cannot see God, nor can we catch hold of Him. He is present -- definitely -- but His ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,902 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Remember, when I say, 'feminine', I do not mean only 'woman'. It is quite possible a woman may never enter the feminine mystery and a man may enter. The Feminine Mystery is a Sutra of Existence. Lao Tzu therefore says, "THE FEMALE MYSTERY, THUS DO WE NAME." There is a reason for this simile for it is full of meaning. This mystery cannot be compared to man for this mystery is the Supreme Tranquility. It is so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,903 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... my hand had become visible to you, it would only have meant that my love was lacking, I could wait". So it is not necessary that all women obtain this Feminine-Mystery. This is only a name given by Lao Tzu for this name is symptomatic, suggestive and enables us to understand this term. A man also can attain this Female-Mystery. Actually, only those can establish their identity with Existence who have thus reach...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,904 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this has no connection with the Reality of Existence. More befitting, more proper, is the concept of a Universal Mother. But this can only be understood when you understand the Feminine Mystery, when you understand Lao Tzu. Else it cannot be understood. Have you ever seen the image of Kali? She is the mother, She is terrible! In one hand she holds a human skull! She is the mother -- Her eyes are filled with the ocean of te...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,905 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...The imagination of those who conceived of the Mother as an embodiment both of creation and destruction was a very far-sighted imagination but together with this it was very deep and very near Truth. Lao Tzu says, "That alone is the original source of the Earth and Heaven." Everything takes birth therein. But remember everything is re-absorbed in the same place. That is the ultimate source also. It is altogether ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,906 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... universed in Existence, he is forever young and fresh. He has attained the sutra within him for keeping constantly young: Now he is established indivisibly and ceaselessly in his energy. "Make use of it," Lao Tzu says, "Make use of this constant energy. Make use of this Feminine-Energy and its natural services become available to you." You must know how to use this energy for its doors are always open to you. This fem...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,907 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re mild and the fun of the thing is; the milder he becomes, the less sexual, he is. Then this process of his getting less and less sexual, becomes the path that leads to the Supreme Mystery of life. Lao Tzu says, "USE GENTLY AND WITHOUT TOUCH OF PAIN." Remember this. It needs a little explanation. Whenever a man touches a woman, he wishes to give her many kinds of pain. Actually, the love of a m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,908 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n he pressed the life out 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- of her! Lao Tzu says, 'Use gently'. He is talking of this Supreme Truth, which he says, one must handle very gently "... AND WITHOUT THE TOUCH OF PAIN." Let not Existence feel the slightest twitch of pain through you. Then a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,909 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s aggressive as a man. When she makes love, she should be as violent. She certainly will become like a man if she inculcates such violence and aggression but she will then undoubtedly, miss the Feminine Mystery that Lao Tzu talks about. We must concede however, that Lao Tzu is much much wiser. His wisdom is the ultimate in wisdom. He talks from the plane where there is a wisdom beyond wisdom, where all intellectualism fails and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,910 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uld be as violent. She certainly will become like a man if she inculcates such violence and aggression but she will then undoubtedly, miss the Feminine Mystery that Lao Tzu talks about. We must concede however, that Lao Tzu is much much wiser. His wisdom is the ultimate in wisdom. He talks from the plane where there is a wisdom beyond wisdom, where all intellectualism fails and the Perfect Wisdom is born. He talks from that plan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,911 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- The division of man and woman is not on the basis of sex alone. According to Lao Tzu it is a necessary part of the dialectical evolution of Existence. Not only on the body-level, even on the mental-level man and woman are different. Wherever Existence manifests itself, there is always a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,912 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nly on the body-level, even on the mental-level man and woman are different. Wherever Existence manifests itself, there is always a difference of male and female. What is to be kept in mind however, according to the Lao-Tzu thought is, that the male form is always the temporal form of Existence whereas the female is always the eternal form of Existence. When a wave rises in the ocean, it is momentary. The ocean is present ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,913 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...present whether the wave arises or not. Femininity is the ocean of Existence. Therefore the story of the development of mankind as written by the Jews, is completely false, from the point of view of Lao Tzu. The Jews believe that God made man first. Then from the ribs of man, He created woman. Lao Tzu thinks just the opposite. Lao Tzu believes that the feminine existence is the initial existence. Man is born out...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,914 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...herefore the story of the development of mankind as written by the Jews, is completely false, from the point of view of Lao Tzu. The Jews believe that God made man first. Then from the ribs of man, He created woman. Lao Tzu thinks just the opposite. Lao Tzu believes that the feminine existence is the initial existence. Man is born out of this and he loses himself also into this. There looks to be a depth in Lao Tzu's statement....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,915 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ent of mankind as written by the Jews, is completely false, from the point of view of Lao Tzu. The Jews believe that God made man first. Then from the ribs of man, He created woman. Lao Tzu thinks just the opposite. Lao Tzu believes that the feminine existence is the initial existence. Man is born out of this and he loses himself also into this. There looks to be a depth in Lao Tzu's statement. First and foremos...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,916 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n, He created woman. Lao Tzu thinks just the opposite. Lao Tzu believes that the feminine existence is the initial existence. Man is born out of this and he loses himself also into this. There looks to be a depth in Lao Tzu's statement. First and foremost, "A woman can exist without man. Her restlessness for a man is not so extensive. Therefore, if she wishes, she can stay single all her life. Maidenhood will not prove hard...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,917 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he woman, there is a kind of completeness. This I am saying as an example in order that the feminine Existence be understood. The feminine Existence is very perfect and symmetrical. The circle is complete. Lao Tzu says, "The greater the perfection, the more stable it is." The greater the imperfection, the more unstable it is. "Therefore," says Lao Tzu, "We give the supreme mystery of existence, the name of Feminine ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,918 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...feminine Existence is very perfect and symmetrical. The circle is complete. Lao Tzu says, "The greater the perfection, the more stable it is." The greater the imperfection, the more unstable it is. "Therefore," says Lao Tzu, "We give the supreme mystery of existence, the name of Feminine Mystery." As there is a fundamental difference in the body of man and woman, so also there is a fundamental difference in thei...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,919 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l difference in the body of man and woman, so also there is a fundamental difference in their mental make-up. A man's way of thinking is reasoning, logic. This should be well understood, for this is the basis of the Lao-Tzu concept. A man's method of thinking is logic. A woman's way of thinking is not through logic. It is illogical, we call this intuition. Whatever name we may give, a woman's way of thinking can never be termed ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,920 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... she can be changed anytime. The feminine mind is integrated. I am not talking about the mind of all women, mind you. When I use the word woman, or feminine, I am talking of the feminine-Existence -- that which Lao Tzu refers to as the Feminine Mystery. I do not mean that all women are like this. It is only when women are like this that they are really women and only when a man also becomes like this, does he es...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,921 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed. What Cayce experienced, was intuitive and this is a quality of the female-mind -- no thinking or pondering but a direct manifestation of an answer. All processes of meditation, lead towards this. Lao Tzu says, "If you think, you will go astray." Do not think and the answer will come. Stop thinking and await -- the answer will come. You have only to wait: the question is within you and you wait. The answer is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,922 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nk for what will you attain by thinking? How capable are you? How much can a wave think about an ocean? It is better if it leaves everything to the ocean and awaits for an answer from the ocean. What Lao Tzu means to convey by the feminine-mind is: "Leave everything. Let Existence answer." Do not bring yourself in, for whatever you bring in, will be wrong. What Existence gives, can never be wrong. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,923 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the method of research in those days must have been different. That method of research was the method of the feminine mind. The way research is carried on in our times, is the way of the male-mind. Lao Tzu has said that the science of the female-mind is different from the science of the male mind. The science developed in the West today is the discovery of the male-mind. Logic, dissection, analy...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,924 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... as stated by the Upanishads, hold good even today; and there does not seem to be any possibility of their changing in the future also. What is there in these truths that make them so authentic? What Lao Tzu says will hold good even in the farthest future. There will be no change required in his statements. Tao -- the method of Lao Tzu's attainment must have been something very different. What we attain, is nulli...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,925 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...also. What is there in these truths that make them so authentic? What Lao Tzu says will hold good even in the farthest future. There will be no change required in his statements. Tao -- the method of Lao Tzu's attainment must have been something very different. What we attain, is nullified the next day. As all discoveries of man are based on logic, they are not actual experiences. They are merely mental conjectur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,926 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yourself in a different world altogether. Read 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu -- he gives no explanation, no reasoning. He says, "The Valley Spirit dies not, ever the same." This is a mere statement without any reasoning. He does not go on to explain why the spirit of the Valley never ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,927 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not go on to explain why the spirit of the Valley never dies. He makes a plain and direct statement -- the Spirit of the Valley never dies, it is forever the same. There is no why and wherefore to his statements for Lao Tzu says that only he who has not experienced himself, needs witnesses and reasoning to prove his statement. It is said that Mulla Nasruddin was once found in a court of law. He complained to the judge that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,928 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e wrong. It is a direct statement. If you ask them for proof, they will say: "There is no proof. Our word is enough. If you wish to know, we can show you the way; but we shall not give any reason for our statement." Lao Tzu too says the same. He also says, "The Spirit of the Valley is ever -- abiding and you too can experience it. I can show you the way to penetrate into the Feminine Mystery but I shall offer no proof of its exi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,929 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are different from the conclusions reached by analysis. Remember, where there is analysis, there is aggression. This is why the Western scientists talk in terms of conquering nature. But in the East, people like Lao Tzu say: "We are the children of nature. How can we conquer nature? It would be an act of outrageous oppression on our mother!" Lao Tzu says: "To talk of conquering nature is foolishness. It is enough that we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,930 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ts talk in terms of conquering nature. But in the East, people like Lao Tzu say: "We are the children of nature. How can we conquer nature? It would be an act of outrageous oppression on our mother!" Lao Tzu says: "To talk of conquering nature is foolishness. It is enough that we co-operate with nature and obtain her grace. If we receive her benevolence, that is more than sufficient." The West has started to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,931 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... conquering nature is foolishness. It is enough that we co-operate with nature and obtain her grace. If we receive her benevolence, that is more than sufficient." The West has started to re-think on the lines of Lao Tzu. A wonderful book has been written of late in the West; and it is the first of its kind: "THE TAO OF SCIENCE." Now there is a heated debate going on in the West in favour of getting rid of the Aristotlean sci...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,932 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t; and it is the first of its kind: "THE TAO OF SCIENCE." Now there is a heated debate going on in the West in favour of getting rid of the Aristotlean science and constructing a new science based on the theories of Lao Tzu. Why? Because this language of victory and defeat is the language of violence, and nature cannot be conquered. It is as foolish and impossible an effort as if my small finger were to set out to conquer ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,933 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. When man thinks about nature in terms of aggression, is it a wonder then that a man thinks about another man in the same way? Fighting and aggrandisement become their way of thinking. According to Lao Tzu, wars cannot end in this world unless and until, female consciousness becomes powerful. This appears somewhat true. Women are never keen on war. They never have been. If man has somehow cajoled her into accep...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,934 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ery:- attain Him!" This is his attitude. He sets out in search of Truth as if he has set out to find an enemy. There is no attitude of prayer but the attitude of conquest. As we begin to understand Lao Tzu, we shall understand what he says that... "He who surrenders, he who lets himself go, he alone makes a place within himself to attain the Vast Truth. Logic, struggle and strife are the male characteristics. S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,935 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n trust, is her way of living: it is her manner of existence, her very way of life. Trust is ingrained in every pore of her being. This factor is to be remembered when considering the female mystery. Lao Tzu's hints are all towards the realm of faith. It is the realm of peaceful co-ordination and co-operation with nature. It is a realm where you flow with nature and not go against it. It is not swimming in the ri...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,936 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it. A man jumps in the river with full faith. He makes no effort to swim, he floats. He has no desire to reach anywhere; wherever the river leads him, that is his goal. With such faith, he floats along in the river. Lao Tzu says, "As long as I searched, I did not find Truth. As soon as I stopped all search and just floated, I found that Truth was forever by my side. My search was the impediment and therefore I could not see it."...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,937 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... long as I searched, I did not find Truth. As soon as I stopped all search and just floated, I found that Truth was forever by my side. My search was the impediment and therefore I could not see it." Lao Tzu used to say, "I become like a dry leaf. I went where the winds took me. From that day, my ego had no place to stand; and from that day I have known what the supreme Truth is. Now there was no unrest, no restl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,938 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...oat in order to reach the ocean. The floating wisp of straw also reaches the ocean and it is the river that takes it, it does not go itself. It saves itself the trouble and trails of reaching itself. Lao Tzu says, "If we can let-go of ourselves as a woman lets herself go completely in love; if we give ourselves away to Tao, to the universe, to Existence, to God as a woman in the arms of her lover, then we easily ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,939 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- born, when he died. We also do not know when Lao Tzu was born and when he died. We do not even know who was born first and who after. We kept no chronicle. Actually, time-consciousness was never a factor in the Eastern way of living. Why? Because a male mind is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,940 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sy planning journeys to Mars. The moon has already been dripped -- as if the chapter is closed. Now it is imperative to land on Mars. Why? No one questions. The people of the Upanishads, people like Lao Tzu, the people of India and the East have never been bound by time-consciousness. There was no concept of time, no concept of the distant. Lao Tzu used to say, "I have heard from the elders the my village that t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,941 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Why? No one questions. The people of the Upanishads, people like Lao Tzu, the people of India and the East have never been bound by time-consciousness. There was no concept of time, no concept of the distant. Lao Tzu used to say, "I have heard from the elders the my village that there was a village across the bank of the river. Sometime in the silence of the night we heard their dogs barking. At times when the skies ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,942 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f her car and went up to him and said, "Gentleman, my car will not start. Will you please start it for me. Meanwhile I shall sound your horn for you." There is no haste in the disposition of a woman. Lao Tzu says, "The secret of the female consciousness -- non-haste, patience, lack of time-consciousness -- these are helpful steps in the direction of Truth." One thing you must always remember. When I talk about fe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,943 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... future -- Someday Communism will come. There is no knowledge of space in here. No woman would ever do this for she is joined to here and now. There is no knowledge, no experience of time within her. Lao Tzu believes that if the knowledge of time is lost, you can attain the female consciousness. Therefore Sadhakas all over the world have declared that meditation is attained when time is extinct. Someone asked Jes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,944 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e world is created for his exploitation alone. A religious man lives quite contrary to this -- as if he is not. The world is, he is not. These two ways of life have two different results. Lao Tzu says, "HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE LONG ENDURING" -- eternal. Their life-span is very long. What is the reason that they exist so long? It is because they do not exist for themselves. The more a person lives for him...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,945 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...annot be banished from the world until such time as the whole world becomes ready for meditation. There are only two ways of being rid of the ego. Either you drown yourself in meditation, so much so, Lao Tzu says that you stop living for yourself, or you forcefully make yourself unconscious by chemical drugs, the 'I' cannot be annihilated by intoxicants. It can only be forgotten for some time. As long as it is fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,946 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ore intoxicants it has. Now we have had to discover new things like marijuana, mescaline, L.S.D. Man wants to forget himself somehow. Why after all, does a man take so much trouble to forget himself? Lao Tzu says, "This Creation is so eternal for it is not aware of its existence. The space above is so enduring because it exists for others and not for itself." We exist for our own selves. The more a person lives f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,947 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st stage, is rid of sex. All arrangements of life, like for instance our own life, is all based on a trance. We live in a trance; and the centre of this unconsciousness, is our ego. Lao Tzu says, "Nature is eternal for it lives not for itself." He who has no thought about himself, will not live for himself. We all live for our own selves. There is an astonishing statement in the Upanishads: "The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,948 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ne more humble than myself. My ego will exploit this humility and strengthen itself on it. Ego can even renounce. It can renounce everything but it will always save itself. It never dies. A man like Lao Tzu says, "Life eternal can only be attained when you begin to live for others". But I can live for others only when there is no 'I' within me; or when I begin to see my own self in others. These two happenings a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,949 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If you think in terms of destroying, you will start pedalling again -- devising methods and ways. This does not destroy it. But teachers all over the world say, "Destroy the ego!" for they read people like Lao Tzu. It is easy to read but difficult to understand. On reading only one thought comes to mind -- If the ego. is destroyed, life becomes eternal and we attain immortality. Greed catches hold of our mind. Gre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,950 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ge. Greed -- how to attain the nectar of immortality. How to attain that life where there is no death, no darkness. How to attain the eternal consciousness? Greed catches hold of us. It is this greed that tells us, "Lao Tzu says there should be no ego". Then this greed asks, "How is the ego destroyed?" Then we begin fresh endeavours to destroy the ego. One person leaves the house, another leaves his wife; yet an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,951 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...within and prevent the muscles from relaxing. The more a person gets civilized the greater his ego becomes and the lesser he is able to sleep. There is nothing substantial about the ego. According to Lao Tzu, it is a happening. It is not quite correct to call it a happening also. It is perhaps better defined as a series of events. If this series is broken from anywhere, the happening is destroyed there and then. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,952 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...isit, they suddenly feel hungry! They are not actually hungry. Their egos are learning to pedal. They are endeavouring to gain attention. This childishness exists from childhood to old age. If you remember this, Lao-Tzu's sutra becomes easy to understand. "Do not demand attention from others". He who demands attention from others, creates the momentary ego. But then its existence is momentary. When Lao Tzu says, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,953 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ge. If you remember this, Lao-Tzu's sutra becomes easy to understand. "Do not demand attention from others". He who demands attention from others, creates the momentary ego. But then its existence is momentary. When Lao Tzu says, "Live for others", he means that you focus your attention on others. As soon as you centre your attention on the other, a transformation begins to take place in your life. Then you can l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,954 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...os easily. The secret however is one only. If your is less on your own self, your ego is starved to that extent. the more your attention goes outside of you the more egoless you become. Therefore Lao Tzu has said, "HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE ETERNAL". There immortality is due to the fact that they do not live for themselves. Therefore they are ever-abiding. Their extinction is not necessary. Ego alone becomes extin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,955 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- We have to be alert and awake towards this inner shadow. So Lao Tzu says, "He who is awake and alert towards this inner-shadow establishes his relationship with the reality of Truth; and he who remains bound to this inner-shadow, his relationships remain with all that is mort...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,956 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ity of Truth; and he who remains bound to this inner-shadow, his relationships remain with all that is mortal and momentary." This sutra has been carried further into the next sutra and explained more extensively by Lao Tzu. Therefore the saints keep their person last. Jesus has said, "Blessed are those who are able to stand last." Why does Jesus make this statement? Why are they blessed who are ready to be in the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,957 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Mahavira and Buddha could ask for alms with the majesty of an emperor! There was a reason for this: They were so confident. The day they put themselves last, it became their very nature to be first! Lao Tzu says, "And hence saints put their person last and yet they are found at the very head of the line." They wipe themselves out completely, withdraw themselves in from all sides and yet history bears out that th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,958 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e said, "As long as I had no knowledge of the treasures within me, all outside things seemed valuable. Now since I have found the diamond within, all earthly diamonds have paled into insignificance. Lao Tzu says, "WE FIND HIM YET, RIGHT IN THE FOREFRONT." History is filled with crowds of people in which each is eager to be in the forefront. Then suddenly all the politicians, all the kings and men of wealth fall ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,959 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., all the kings and men of wealth fall in the back line and somehow, as if mysteriously, these people who had kept themselves in the background are found right in front! It is some 2,500 years since Lao Tzu tread the earth. So many people have come and gone within this period but not one has ever stood before Lao Tzu. And this man was such, he kept himself absolutely in the background. There was no question of s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,960 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... had kept themselves in the background are found right in front! It is some 2,500 years since Lao Tzu tread the earth. So many people have come and gone within this period but not one has ever stood before Lao Tzu. And this man was such, he kept himself absolutely in the background. There was no question of standing behind him. He made himself the last! Before his death he left China, so that they may not make his sama...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,961 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- who wipes himself out completely could not be so easily forgotten by us. Centuries will pass but Lao Tzu will be forgotten. He is right when he says, "THE SAINTS KEEP THEMSELVES AT THE BACK, YET THEY ARE ALWAYS FOUND IN THE FRONT." But you do not lag behind so that you can be foun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,962 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...selfish ends, their goals are realized. These words are the most paradoxical words that have ever been spoken in this world and at the same time, they are the most valuable. Each word spoken here can become a Bible. Lao Tzu says, "Since they have no self-interest all their interests are satisfied " What he means to say is that the supreme bliss of life is the very interest of life. He who renounces the ego, attai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,963 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Have you seen a whirlpool in a river? If you throw anything in the whirlpool, it goes round and round and then is pulled down by the whirlpool. If you are caught in a whirlpool and you do not know the philosophy of Lao Tzu, you will be in difficulty. If you know Lao Tzu, you can save yourself. When you fall in the whirlpool, it is but natural that you will try to save yourself. You will resist the whirlpool and refuse to be scr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,964 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...row anything in the whirlpool, it goes round and round and then is pulled down by the whirlpool. If you are caught in a whirlpool and you do not know the philosophy of Lao Tzu, you will be in difficulty. If you know Lao Tzu, you can save yourself. When you fall in the whirlpool, it is but natural that you will try to save yourself. You will resist the whirlpool and refuse to be screwed down by it. The more you fight the more ene...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,965 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e more you fight the more energy you will lose, because the enormous strength of the whirlpool is against you. It will break you. Soon you will be tired, spent. Then it is difficult to save yourself. Lao Tzu says,"If ever you get caught in a whirlpool, do not fight with it. Be prepared to be sucked down by the whirlpool." Then your energy will not be spent. The whirlpool draws a man down very quickly. Now the whi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,966 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd the sea. He has only to know the method -- the method of a dead man. What is meant by the method of a dead man? He must give up all fear. He should take himself to be dead. Then he floats on water. Lao Tzu says: "Those are secure who have no anxiety for security; who have embraced fear and do not escape it. Those who stood right behind are right in front. And those who are prepared to become extinct, to die, ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,967 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h regard to his status, his wealth or his fame. Forever the reason is outside the individual. If the status is no more, if the fame or the wealth vanishes, the excellence of the man vanishes with it. Lao Tzu says: "That excellence which can be taken away, is no excellence." The excellence which depends on some outside object, is the excellence of that object and not the person. If I have wealth and hence my excel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,968 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ely due to the position and not me. If my excellence is because I possess something that makes me excellent, that is not my excellence. If I am excellent without any reason, only then am I excellent. Lao Tzu says: "Excellence lies in the person of an individual, and not in his attainments, rather in his nature." It does not lie in what he has but rather in what he is. How are we to measure this virtue, what crite...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,969 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- No one can be excellent through an outside reason. Lao Tzu is very right when he says this. The truth is, that those who hanker after these outside virtues are the most third-rate people. When a man toils to seek excellence through wealth, one thing is proved that he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,970 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...side of himself, it goes to show that he experiences quite the opposite within him. A great psychoanalyst of the West, Adler, has given a doctrine to the West, which can be called a substitute for Lao tzu's theory. He has said, "Whoever strives to be superior is inferior within." So a very interesting phenomenon takes place. Those who experience on inferiority-complex within themselves strive and attain positi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,971 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ose who are eager to know the working of the minds of others have a deep sense of pain and depression within their own minds. In fact, whatever we set out to do, is because of some reason within us. Lao Tzu says, "Virtue resides within us." It is in our very selves, in our nature. But how shall we know this virtue? How do we recognize it? We are only acquainted with one kind of excellence which Lao Tzu says betr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,972 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu says, "Virtue resides within us." It is in our very selves, in our nature. But how shall we know this virtue? How do we recognize it? We are only acquainted with one kind of excellence which Lao Tzu says betrays the poverty within the man rather than anything else. Lao Tzu says there is a way of knowing. "THE HIGHEST EXCELLENCE IS LIKE THAT OF WATER!" This is the criterion. The nature of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,973 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y selves, in our nature. But how shall we know this virtue? How do we recognize it? We are only acquainted with one kind of excellence which Lao Tzu says betrays the poverty within the man rather than anything else. Lao Tzu says there is a way of knowing. "THE HIGHEST EXCELLENCE IS LIKE THAT OF WATER!" This is the criterion. The nature of water is, that it flows to the lowest level without making any effort. It ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,974 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot have to do anything about it. It merely slips from a higher level to a lower level. So it falls in the valley. And if there were pits and hollows in the valley. it will easily glide into it also. Lao Tzu says: "The supreme excellence is like the water." An excellent man, seeks the lowest level, he does not seek the heights. Why? This seems to be a strange characteristic. No better symbol has been put forth in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,975 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...excellence is like the water." An excellent man, seeks the lowest level, he does not seek the heights. Why? This seems to be a strange characteristic. No better symbol has been put forth in the 2,500 years following Lao tzu. This is the ultimate definition of excellence of virtue. What is the reason? Let us view this from another angle and then we shall be able to follow it. A lowly person always endeavours to r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,976 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ny kind: wealth, status, fame, knowledge, renunciation -- it makes no difference. An inferior man can even declare to attain God and swear not to rest until he can proclaim "I am God!". According to Lao Tzu, the ambition to reach the ultimate state of God-hood is against the nature of water. It can be compared to the nature of fire -- to give an example. The flame always goes up. No matter how much you press it ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,977 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... labour on your part. You will have to make arrangements to pump the water up. Even then, on the slightest opportunity, the water will flow down. This characteristic of flowing down is, according to Lao Tzu, the chief characteristic of Excellence. Only he will be prepared to go down, whose excellence is so indisputable and definite that it is not destroyed by going down. He alone is eager to reach the top who kn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,978 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Nasruddin and said, "I want to settle down in your village and play my trade honestly." Nasruddin replied, "You are welcome. There is no competition in our village, for all tradesmen are dishonest." Lao Tzu says, "That intrinsic excellence stands where there is no struggle." And there is no struggle till the very end. Therefore excellence seeks the ultimate background. That alone is its shield of protection. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,979 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tands where there is no struggle." And there is no struggle till the very end. Therefore excellence seeks the ultimate background. That alone is its shield of protection. The King of China was after Lao Tzu, that he should become his prime-minister, for a wiser person than he, was difficult to find. Had he just accepted the post, that was enough to raise the king's prestige sky-high. The king's men dogged Lao-Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,980 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...after Lao Tzu, that he should become his prime-minister, for a wiser person than he, was difficult to find. Had he just accepted the post, that was enough to raise the king's prestige sky-high. The king's men dogged Lao-Tzu's feet. Lao Tzu would leave the village as soon as he came to know that the king's men had arrived in search of him. With great difficulty, Lao Tzu was caught. He was sitting on the bank of a river catch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,981 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat he should become his prime-minister, for a wiser person than he, was difficult to find. Had he just accepted the post, that was enough to raise the king's prestige sky-high. The king's men dogged Lao-Tzu's feet. Lao Tzu would leave the village as soon as he came to know that the king's men had arrived in search of him. With great difficulty, Lao Tzu was caught. He was sitting on the bank of a river catching fish. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,982 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he king's prestige sky-high. The king's men dogged Lao-Tzu's feet. Lao Tzu would leave the village as soon as he came to know that the king's men had arrived in search of him. With great difficulty, Lao Tzu was caught. He was sitting on the bank of a river catching fish. The captain of the king's party approached him with folded hands and said, "You do not know why we are following you! The king has ordered that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,983 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rty approached him with folded hands and said, "You do not know why we are following you! The king has ordered that you be given the place of the highest honour in the kingdom. You are to become the prime-minister!" Lao Tzu sat quiet, without a word. The leader of the party thought, he had not heard. He shook him and said, "Don't you hear what I say?" Nearby in a hollow filled with slush, there was some movement. Lao Tzu said, "...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,984 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ime-minister!" Lao Tzu sat quiet, without a word. The leader of the party thought, he had not heard. He shook him and said, "Don't you hear what I say?" Nearby in a hollow filled with slush, there was some movement. Lao Tzu said, "Do you see that hollow? What is there in it? Why is it moving?" The leader and his party went up to the puddle and saw a tortoise wallowing in the slush. Lao Tzu says, "I have hea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,985 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...there was some movement. Lao Tzu said, "Do you see that hollow? What is there in it? Why is it moving?" The leader and his party went up to the puddle and saw a tortoise wallowing in the slush. Lao Tzu says, "I have heard that there is a tortoise in the palace of your king which is covered with gold". The gold-encrusted tortoise was the emblem of the king of China in those days. "You have heard right," said...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,986 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...na in those days. "You have heard right," said the headman. "If you were to ask this tortoise to come with you to the palace, be covered with gold and be worshipped once in a year, do you think he will agree?" Asked Lao Tzu. "Or will he prefer to stay in this slush and be free?" "If he has any sense," replied the headman, "he will remain where he is; for to be encrusted in gold is to die. Then what use will all the worship be to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,987 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fer to stay in this slush and be free?" "If he has any sense," replied the headman, "he will remain where he is; for to be encrusted in gold is to die. Then what use will all the worship be to him?" Lao Tzu says, "I have at least as much understanding as this poor tortoise! Please go. I'm happy in my slush. Do not try to encrust me in gold; for then I shall die." In fact, to be encrusted in gold add to die are o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,988 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of water lies in its benevolence towards others and in its humility because of which it occupies with ease, the lowest place, which we look down upon. This is why the nature of water is akin to Tao. Lao Tzu says, "Tao means religion; Tao means nature; Tao means form. The Supreme Law of Existence is Tao. This order of water is very near Tao. He who attains Tao, he who attains this supreme excellence, also like wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,989 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he leaves his place and goes further backwards." There are two types of people in this world: those who go in front and those who prefer to stay behind. The latter are born once in. a while -- same Buddha, same Lao Tzu, same Christ. Those who surge forward, their number is great. Nasruddin went to a meeting. He was late and so there was no place in front. He had to sit on the doorstep. He was very restless ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,990 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- The shocks that mankind has suffered in the last 150 years has managed to destroy the castle of his ego. Lao Tzu says: "There is no need to build a castle. He is a mad man who tells you to." Lao Tzu has not once mentioned God in his statements. This he does knowingly for he says as soon as you mention God, you try to id...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,991 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The shocks that mankind has suffered in the last 150 years has managed to destroy the castle of his ego. Lao Tzu says: "There is no need to build a castle. He is a mad man who tells you to." Lao Tzu has not once mentioned God in his statements. This he does knowingly for he says as soon as you mention God, you try to identify your ego with Him. Lao Tzu does not mention God or the Ultimate, ac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,992 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... need to build a castle. He is a mad man who tells you to." Lao Tzu has not once mentioned God in his statements. This he does knowingly for he says as soon as you mention God, you try to identify your ego with Him. Lao Tzu does not mention God or the Ultimate, achieve -- ment or beatitude. He says, "The ultimate achievement is, that you stand last in the row -- that is beatitude." No one is prepared to stand la...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,993 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the forefront, who stand behind. The ultimate height of beatitude is attained only by those who seek out valleys, may the deepest of abysses like water. Keeping in mind the law of the opposites, Lao Tzu gives one message only: "He who becomes like the water, attains Tao." The excellence of a dwelling depends on the propriety of the place -- but not for us. These statements are not meant for ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,994 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Tzu gives one message only: "He who becomes like the water, attains Tao." The excellence of a dwelling depends on the propriety of the place -- but not for us. These statements are not meant for us. Lao Tzu says: "THE EXCELLENCE OF A DWELLING PLACE, DEPENDS ON THE FITNESS OF THE PLACE." This does not apply to us for when we set out to buy a house we do not consider its worth as a residence, we are more concerned...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,995 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...locality we shall have to start afresh. And who knows what all things the new neighbours might have?" Each one tries to go one over the other and no one is worried about what their actual needs are. Lao Tzu says, "THE EXCELLENCE OF A DWELLING DEPENDS ON THE SUITABILITY OF THE PLACE." It is possible sometimes that a tree is more suitable than a royal palace or a single loin-cloth more befitting than costly clothe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,996 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is enough." Man can stay in one room but even 99 rooms are not enough for the ego. We are not concerned with the utility of the place. "THE MIND'S EXCELLENCE IS IN ITS COMPLETE STILLNESS." Lao Tzu says, "THE MIND'S EXCELLENCE IS IN ITS COMPLETE STILLNESS." But the excellence of our mind lies in its profound garrulousness. The more a man is stuffed with words and thoughts the more superior he appears to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,997 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ays, "THE MIND'S EXCELLENCE IS IN ITS COMPLETE STILLNESS." But the excellence of our mind lies in its profound garrulousness. The more a man is stuffed with words and thoughts the more superior he appears to be. But Lao Tzu says: "In the deepest stillness, where the mind is completely void and silent, there alone lies its excellence." Why? Because where the mind becomes empty, there alone do we encounter Truth. Where the mind be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,998 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this only that its name is well-known and nobody reads it. As long as it is read, it cannot be great. Then there is something wrong with it. "The excellence of association lies in the company of saints," Says Lao Tzu. The greatest of excellence in this world is the excellence of association. To be in the company of a saint, is a golden-opportunity in the world. This however does not mean physical association. It is quite...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,003,999 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... people who plugged their ears so that they may not hear the voice of Mahavira. There were people who were keen to kill Jesus so that his words may not reach the people. Such people were also there. Lao Tzu says, "THE EXCELLENCE OF ASSOCIATION IS THE COMPANY OF THE VIRTUOUS." And who are the virtuous? Whom do we call virtuous? Have we any criterion to measure a saint or a sinner? No, there is only one measure. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,000 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rld say anything, it makes no difference. IF THE EXCELLENCE OF ASSOCIATION IS IN THEIR BEING WITH THE VIRTUOUS, THE EXCELLENCE OF GOVERNMENT IS IN ITS SECURING GOOD ORDER. The good order Lao Tzu speaks about is very wonderful. Lao tzu says: "Good order is that where there is no need of order." Lao Tzu is a strange man! He says, "I call it order when no order is needed." If when the king arrives, his ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,001 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o difference. IF THE EXCELLENCE OF ASSOCIATION IS IN THEIR BEING WITH THE VIRTUOUS, THE EXCELLENCE OF GOVERNMENT IS IN ITS SECURING GOOD ORDER. The good order Lao Tzu speaks about is very wonderful. Lao tzu says: "Good order is that where there is no need of order." Lao Tzu is a strange man! He says, "I call it order when no order is needed." If when the king arrives, his arrival has to be announced by the beat ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,002 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...G WITH THE VIRTUOUS, THE EXCELLENCE OF GOVERNMENT IS IN ITS SECURING GOOD ORDER. The good order Lao Tzu speaks about is very wonderful. Lao tzu says: "Good order is that where there is no need of order." Lao Tzu is a strange man! He says, "I call it order when no order is needed." If when the king arrives, his arrival has to be announced by the beat of drum so that people may stand respectfully, that is no order acco...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,003 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s a strange man! He says, "I call it order when no order is needed." If when the king arrives, his arrival has to be announced by the beat of drum so that people may stand respectfully, that is no order according to Lao Tzu. If however, people became silent when the king enters and the silence conveys that the king has arrived, then that is order. Lao Tzu says: "I call it order when no order is needed". If the G...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,004 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...beat of drum so that people may stand respectfully, that is no order according to Lao Tzu. If however, people became silent when the king enters and the silence conveys that the king has arrived, then that is order. Lao Tzu says: "I call it order when no order is needed". If the Guru has to proclaim: "I am the master, respect me," then it is as good as an insult. So Lao Tzu says, "Guru is he, whom you cannot but...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,005 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce conveys that the king has arrived, then that is order. Lao Tzu says: "I call it order when no order is needed". If the Guru has to proclaim: "I am the master, respect me," then it is as good as an insult. So Lao Tzu says, "Guru is he, whom you cannot but respect; and even you are not aware how you paid your respect. When you lift your head from his feet, then you realize that your head had bowed in obeisance....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,006 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is he, whom you cannot but respect; and even you are not aware how you paid your respect. When you lift your head from his feet, then you realize that your head had bowed in obeisance. This is reverence according to Lao Tzu. All Lao-Tzu's statements are contrary to the general understanding. He says where order is required there is no order. Where police is required to prevent theft, that is a society of thieves. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,007 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pect; and even you are not aware how you paid your respect. When you lift your head from his feet, then you realize that your head had bowed in obeisance. This is reverence according to Lao Tzu. All Lao-Tzu's statements are contrary to the general understanding. He says where order is required there is no order. Where police is required to prevent theft, that is a society of thieves. Where prisons are required t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,008 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...iminals. Order is only where no prisons are required, where there are no policemen and where there are also no sadhus and sannyasins explaining to people; 'Do not steal, do not be dishonest, do not do this or that.' Lao Tzu says, "THE EXCELLENCE OF GOVERNMENT IS IN GOOD ORDER." "THE EXCELLENCE OF THE CONDUCT OF AFFAIRS IS IN ITS ABILITY"; and by this he means exactly what Krishna says: "He alone is proficient in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,009 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you paint for pleasure, your concentration on painting will become meditation. If you play the sitar, not professionally, then it is your own delight. Then the proficiency you attain, is the excellence that Lao Tzu talks about. This is why so much pleasure is derived from a hobby than normal work. This is because in your everyday work the doer is present whereas in your hobby the doer is not required; there is no questi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,010 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eating his words in the modern age, he knows nothing of the logic of life. What Mahavira has said is also of a language 2,500 years ago. It was fruitful because it was the right language of that Age. Lao Tzu himself was a failure in his times. His movement could gain no ground because he spoke in the language of timelessness. He could not succeed because he spoke the language of Eternity. Whenever a person speaks...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,011 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y. Whenever a person speaks in the language of Eternity, his movement does not succeed. For any movement to succeed, the language spoken should be the language of the prevailing time, which can be easily understood. Lao Tzu was aware of this fact but it was beyond him to give rise to any movement; What he spoke pertained to Eternity. Therefore, a curious fact comes to light: All the successful movements ultimately become a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,012 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ond him to give rise to any movement; What he spoke pertained to Eternity. Therefore, a curious fact comes to light: All the successful movements ultimately become a noose round the neck! People like Lao Tzu are never so but then, they give rise to no movement also! People like Lao Tzu never lead the people astray for they do not also speak the proper language to lead them to the right path. Buddha, Mahavira, Kri...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,013 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Therefore, a curious fact comes to light: All the successful movements ultimately become a noose round the neck! People like Lao Tzu are never so but then, they give rise to no movement also! People like Lao Tzu never lead the people astray for they do not also speak the proper language to lead them to the right path. Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna, Christ and Mohammed were successful because they spoke the language of th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,014 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...us and also all the priceless truths. One last thing: A saint is revered and respected only as long as he raises no useless controversy about his low position. This is the last condition Lao Tzu has added. It is quite possible that you may take on the low position and then go about telling others: "See, the sinners are in the forefront while the virtuous are pushed behind. The wicked are victorious a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,015 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...apers whereas the wise go unheeded." There are people all around who wail thus. They always complain: "What is this justice in the world of God that the thief is successful and the good man is not?" Lao Tzu says: "If ever you wrangle about your position, know that you are not an excellent person." All the reverence and respect given to you, will end. Your greatness lies in the fact that you accept with grace and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,016 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er he receives. Enough for today, we shall continue tomorrow. The Way of Tao, Volume 1 Chapter #22 Chapter title: Lao-tse is the most useful in the present state of the world 8 November 1971 pm in Immortal Study Circle Archive code: 7106085 ShortTitle: WAY122 Audio: No Vi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,017 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Video: No QUESTION: WHAT IS THE FORE-SIGHT AND WHAT ARE THE HOPES THAT HAVE INSTIGATED YOU TO RESURRECT THE 2,500 YEAR OLD RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS OF LAO TZU? Bhagwan Sri: Whatever Lao Tzu has said is 2,500 years old. But in a way, it is as fresh as the morning dew. It is new because it has never been put into practice. It is new because the spirit of man has not taken a single step in its dire...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,018 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ched, virgin. It is old 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- because of the fact that Lao Tzu gave news of this path, 2,500 years ago. It is new because his news was not heeded up to now. Today as never before, it has become an urgent necessity to take heed of his message. Man has mad...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,019 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...bitions. Man became more and more miserable day by day. Whatever we desired to attain, we did not attain. Whatever we had, we lost. This was the result of this experiment. We were unsuccessful. When Lao Tzu spoke, the masculine-consciousness had not attained such a failure. Therefore Lao Tzu was not heeded. It would be better to say that Lao Tzu was born 2,500 years be-fore his time. This was his mistake. He sho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,020 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... we did not attain. Whatever we had, we lost. This was the result of this experiment. We were unsuccessful. When Lao Tzu spoke, the masculine-consciousness had not attained such a failure. Therefore Lao Tzu was not heeded. It would be better to say that Lao Tzu was born 2,500 years be-fore his time. This was his mistake. He should have been born today. Today he would have been heeded. It was as if the illness wa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,021 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This was the result of this experiment. We were unsuccessful. When Lao Tzu spoke, the masculine-consciousness had not attained such a failure. Therefore Lao Tzu was not heeded. It would be better to say that Lao Tzu was born 2,500 years be-fore his time. This was his mistake. He should have been born today. Today he would have been heeded. It was as if the illness was not born and the healer came first. Then if he talks ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,022 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e first. Then if he talks of the medicine, no one bothers to hear him, for the illness was not there, the cure of which he was suggesting. Now the illness has been born within these 2,500 years, and its cure is Lao Tzu alone. The experiment With the masculine-mind has failed. It has led us virtually to the door of total war. There seems to be no way ahead. Either the human race will come to an end or man will have to walk o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,023 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... failed. It has led us virtually to the door of total war. There seems to be no way ahead. Either the human race will come to an end or man will have to walk on a different path. Therefore it is useful to rediscover Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu can be elected to lead the world today -- he has to be. If man wants to save himself, the qualities of the Female-Consciousness will have to be established or else there is no hope of survival of the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,024 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...It has led us virtually to the door of total war. There seems to be no way ahead. Either the human race will come to an end or man will have to walk on a different path. Therefore it is useful to rediscover Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu can be elected to lead the world today -- he has to be. If man wants to save himself, the qualities of the Female-Consciousness will have to be established or else there is no hope of survival of the human ra...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,025 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...shall have to make the Female-Consciousness the foundation of our culture. The time has now come when we shall have to make a decision within the next thirty to forty years. Therefore I thought it proper to speak on Lao Tzu. Verily, Lao Tzu appears contrary today. Man is very complex and Lao Tzu talks of simplicity. Man is very arrogant and egoistic and Lao Tzu talks of humility. Man is eager to scale all heights, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,026 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ciousness the foundation of our culture. The time has now come when we shall have to make a decision within the next thirty to forty years. Therefore I thought it proper to speak on Lao Tzu. Verily, Lao Tzu appears contrary today. Man is very complex and Lao Tzu talks of simplicity. Man is very arrogant and egoistic and Lao Tzu talks of humility. Man is eager to scale all heights, reach the moon and the stars an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,027 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... time has now come when we shall have to make a decision within the next thirty to forty years. Therefore I thought it proper to speak on Lao Tzu. Verily, Lao Tzu appears contrary today. Man is very complex and Lao Tzu talks of simplicity. Man is very arrogant and egoistic and Lao Tzu talks of humility. Man is eager to scale all heights, reach the moon and the stars and Lao Tzu talks of the rule of descending into valleys a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,028 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... next thirty to forty years. Therefore I thought it proper to speak on Lao Tzu. Verily, Lao Tzu appears contrary today. Man is very complex and Lao Tzu talks of simplicity. Man is very arrogant and egoistic and Lao Tzu talks of humility. Man is eager to scale all heights, reach the moon and the stars and Lao Tzu talks of the rule of descending into valleys and abysses. Man wants to be first and Lao Tzu says there is no way ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,029 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu appears contrary today. Man is very complex and Lao Tzu talks of simplicity. Man is very arrogant and egoistic and Lao Tzu talks of humility. Man is eager to scale all heights, reach the moon and the stars and Lao Tzu talks of the rule of descending into valleys and abysses. Man wants to be first and Lao Tzu says there is no way of attaining the bliss of existence except by being the very last! So it would seem that in suc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,030 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ry arrogant and egoistic and Lao Tzu talks of humility. Man is eager to scale all heights, reach the moon and the stars and Lao Tzu talks of the rule of descending into valleys and abysses. Man wants to be first and Lao Tzu says there is no way of attaining the bliss of existence except by being the very last! So it would seem that in such a contrary Age, who is going to listen to Lao Tzu? But let me tell you, when you reac...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,031 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... valleys and abysses. Man wants to be first and Lao Tzu says there is no way of attaining the bliss of existence except by being the very last! So it would seem that in such a contrary Age, who is going to listen to Lao Tzu? But let me tell you, when you reach one extreme, we are ready to change to the other. We have reached the end of complexity, now there is nothing beyond this, and now the opposite can come w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,032 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...male consciousness. By doing so, we can strike a balance and create the right conditions. The time is ripe for change. Therefore I do not think on the lines, that we being intricately complex, how will we understand Lao Tzu? Rather, I feel we have reached the peak of complexity. So much, so that anything beyond this point will be beyond our understanding. Now we have reached a stage where we can only understand the language of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,033 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d. If a man keeps running and running and running, he finally falls and stops. Have you ever thought what is the final destination of a race? It is nothing else than a fall. It ends in the opposite. Lao Tzu can now be worked upon. In his own time the world could not understand him for the people of these times, were not so intricately complex for Lao Tzu to be their Physician. People were 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,034 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce? It is nothing else than a fall. It ends in the opposite. Lao Tzu can now be worked upon. In his own time the world could not understand him for the people of these times, were not so intricately complex for Lao Tzu to be their Physician. People were 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- not s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,035 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...understand him. People had not as yet been initiated into the world of competition. No one was hankering for the front position so as to understand the sutra of being the last. Now however, we stand in the front. In Lao Tzu's time people did not have such abundance of wealth so as to understand the joy of being penniless. Now so much of wealth has collected in the world that poverty can now seem a freedom. One in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,036 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ain in your towns. Do not bring them here." But this news of machines could not be stopped from spreading. By and by it spread all over the country and man was replaced by machines. The old man was a follower of Lao Tzu. But it was Confucius who won this time. Now, however, it is Lao Tzu's turn to win, for wherever the machines have taken over completely, this question arises afresh. What is Man to do with the time on his ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,037 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ines could not be stopped from spreading. By and by it spread all over the country and man was replaced by machines. The old man was a follower of Lao Tzu. But it was Confucius who won this time. Now, however, it is Lao Tzu's turn to win, for wherever the machines have taken over completely, this question arises afresh. What is Man to do with the time on his hands? What is he to do with the unused energy? That time and energy th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,038 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to be misused for energy has got to be made of. As Paul Sartre says: "You can choose but you cannot choose not choosing." Energy will have to be used constructively or destructively. For 2,500 years, Lao Tzu's statement lay buried like seeds, waiting for the right moment to sprout. The right moment is now at hand. Now we understand what he means when he says -- that constructive methods for utilisation of man's e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,039 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a small man, is bound to be dangerous. Power is dangerous in the hands of ignorant people. It is better if an ignorant person remains powerless for then he can cause no harm by misusing his strength. Lao Tzu can now be understood for now we have tread the whole long way and seen for ourselves that Lao Tzu was right when he said that this way ultimately ends only in sickness and sorrow. Therefore, I have selected ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,040 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tter if an ignorant person remains powerless for then he can cause no harm by misusing his strength. Lao Tzu can now be understood for now we have tread the whole long way and seen for ourselves that Lao Tzu was right when he said that this way ultimately ends only in sickness and sorrow. Therefore, I have selected to speak on Lao Tzu's 2,500 year old teachings, which are absolutely virgin, so to say, for they ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,041 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now be understood for now we have tread the whole long way and seen for ourselves that Lao Tzu was right when he said that this way ultimately ends only in sickness and sorrow. Therefore, I have selected to speak on Lao Tzu's 2,500 year old teachings, which are absolutely virgin, so to say, for they have never been worked upon. This I do with the hope that perhaps man will now be willing to hear him. I say 'perhaps', because I k...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,042 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... now be willing to hear him. I say 'perhaps', because I know that many a time we are ready to die rather than change ourselves. Death seems easier than a change. Therefore I say perhaps man may be willing to try out Lao Tzu. I am not absolutely sure; for we may readily accept death as that can be taken as martyrdom, whereas bringing about a change within ourselves, is a blow to the ego. We hardly take a step forward, when the fe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,043 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...only one pole and even a blind man could have passed without knocking against it but this man with two eyes, who was however not in his senses, could not make it. We all are people with eyes -- but unconscious! Lao Tzu calls our worst narcosis -- the ego. Lao Tzu says, "Ego is our stupor for it prevents us from being realistic towards this world." It implants its own projections over everything and prevents us from seeing t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,044 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... passed without knocking against it but this man with two eyes, who was however not in his senses, could not make it. We all are people with eyes -- but unconscious! Lao Tzu calls our worst narcosis -- the ego. Lao Tzu says, "Ego is our stupor for it prevents us from being realistic towards this world." It implants its own projections over everything and prevents us from seeing the world as it is. We all see the world ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,045 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... they are. Only he is capable of knowing Reality, whose projector of the ego is completely gone. ONE FRIEND HAS ASKED, "EGO IS ALSO CREATED BY NATURE THEN WHY SHOULD IT BE REMOVED?" Lao Tzu does not tell us to remove the ego, nor does he deny the fact that it is given to us by nature. All illnesses also, are born out of nature. Whatever is in creation, is born out of nature. Lao Tzu only says th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,046 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... REMOVED?" Lao Tzu does not tell us to remove the ego, nor does he deny the fact that it is given to us by nature. All illnesses also, are born out of nature. Whatever is in creation, is born out of nature. Lao Tzu only says this: that if you cling to the malady that is ego, you will suffer. If you want to suffer then go ahead and cling to it! But man is strange! He clings to the ego and craves for bliss...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,047 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu only says this: that if you cling to the malady that is ego, you will suffer. If you want to suffer then go ahead and cling to it! But man is strange! He clings to the ego and craves for bliss! Then, Lao Tzu says, you are doing wrong. If a man wants to die, he can take poison. Poison also is created by nature; but if the man is willing to take poison because it is nature's creation and is yet unwilling to die, th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,048 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... wrong. If a man wants to die, he can take poison. Poison also is created by nature; but if the man is willing to take poison because it is nature's creation and is yet unwilling to die, then it is difficult. Lao Tzu says that if you want to die, take the poison and die. If you do not want to die, then do not take the poison. The happening of death is natural, the taking of poison is also natural but the decision is in yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,049 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... If a man wants to undergo the suffering, the hell thereof, he is free to do so. If he does not want to, he may not. It is in the hands of a man whether to allow or not to allow the seed of the ego to become a tree. Lao Tzu does not talk of removing the ego. He says if you do not want to suffer, you will have to stand apart from the ego. If you wish to undergo suffering, you may increase your ego. We however, are contradictory. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,050 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s are filled with misery. ANOTHER FRIEND HAS ASKED THAT: SAINTS HAVE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT TRANSCENDENCE, OF GOING UPWARDS, WHEREAS LAO TZU TALKS OF GOING DOWNWARDS -- WHY? Lao Tzu talks of going downwards for no one can go upwards without having gone downwards. Those who have talked of going upwards have talked of the goal and not of the means. When Lao Tzu talks of going downwards, he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,051 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... DOWNWARDS -- WHY? Lao Tzu talks of going downwards for no one can go upwards without having gone downwards. Those who have talked of going upwards have talked of the goal and not of the means. When Lao Tzu talks of going downwards, he talks of the method, the means. If you want to go upwards, you will have to go downwards. This seems contradictory. Nietzsche has said that the tree that wishes to go ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,052 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...must send its roots deeper down in the soil below. If the tree wished to grow higher without going deeper into the soil, that cannot be; for without going further down, there is no way to go up. Says Lao Tzu, "if you wish to go up you shall have to make arrangements to go down." Forget all about going up, leave it to nature. You let your roots go deep within the soil and nature will make your flowers bloom high u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,053 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...trate all your efforts on the roots and the flowers will bloom of themselves. Where there a}e roots there are bound to be flowers. The stronger the roots the bigger and more fragrant are the flowers. Lao Tzu says, "Find the lowest place, as the water finds; and your peaks will come to you by themselves." Become the lake and you will find yourself transformed into Mt. Gourishankar. You give up all endeavour to bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,054 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e water finds; and your peaks will come to you by themselves." Become the lake and you will find yourself transformed into Mt. Gourishankar. You give up all endeavour to become Gourishankar for the rule according to Lao Tzu is: He who wishes to go up, is sent down, but he who is willing to go down finds no competitors to wrestle for his 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,055 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the melody, you will be filled with bliss. The flower of bliss does not blossom in tension but in complete relaxation, those who become concerned about the attainment, can never relax. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "You do not worry about the top, you become like water. Come down to the lowest abyss." The heights are invariably attained and so he does not talk about them at all. That is the natural outcome and doe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,056 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the lowest abyss." The heights are invariably attained and so he does not talk about them at all. That is the natural outcome and does not need to be discussed. Yet, we are contrary people. We will listen to Lao Tzu only because he assures us of reaching up if we go down. So we set out confident that this is pure mathematics. We first make quite sure that if we go down, we shall rise up but then we go down but never rise...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,057 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yss, no one has the power to snatch the heights he reaches. He who is prepared to be nothing finds himself to be everything, and he who is ready to annihilate himself, finds that all the wealth of the divine is his. Lao Tzu talks of this sutra. That does not mean he tells you to go downwards. He says there is only one way to ascend and that is you be ready and willing to be the last. ONE FRIEND SAYS, "LAO TZU ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,058 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r have thought that a line of cowards will form behind him! The logic of life is very strange. You can never say anything about it. There is one more rule of logic, which will help you to understand Lao Tzu, and that is: You are always attracted and 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,059 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ill become ordinary and my extraordinary place will shift yet further up! Ego can rise only when it believes that its place is further up and not down. This is the chemistry of the flight of the ego. Lao Tzu says that if you were to know for certain and accept the fact that you are ordinary you are nobody. nothing, you will not try to rise up as soon as the thought of ordinariness spreads over the mind. You will ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,060 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... step back and back till you reach a place where you can go no further back. You will reach a place that no one wants to occupy, where there is no one to be jealous of your position and no one to push you out of it. Lao Tzu says, "Then that very day you attain the extraordinary life." If God is not attained by even such a one who has become so humble then all talk of God is nothing but trash. If even such a perso...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,061 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...how an ordinary person can attempt to become egoless. Every man is ordinary and every man can do it. But each of us is under the illusion that he is extraordinary. This illusion has to be broken. And Lao Tzu does not exhort you to break this illusion. He only says if you do not break it, you shall suffer. You do not want to suffer but you take good care of your maladies lest they leave you. Then you suffer and th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,062 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e path of mathematics is straight and clear; riddles are never straight and clear. The solution of logic lies hidden in its seed. Logic never leads to anything new. Mystery always goes beyond itself. Lao Tzu is investigating this mystery in these sutras. We can understand it in two ways. If we were to imagine a person traversing a path which is absolutely straight, we can see that he will never return to the star...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,063 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rcular. The logic of the West which has influenced the consciousness of man so deeply, does not view existence as circular. In the East, where efforts have been made to understand the mystery of life, whether it was Lao Tzu or Buddha or Krishna, existence has always been viewed in the form of a circle. "Circle" means we return to the starting point. Therefore, the mundane world has been described as a wheel. Sams...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,064 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ends with the out-going breath. The point from which life's journey begins is the very point where death takes its place. Life is a circle. If we understand this in the right perspective, we shall be able to follow Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says: "Do not take success to its ultimate end or else it will become failure." If you carry your success to its last point, you will have turned it into failure with your own hands. If you draw...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,065 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...breath. The point from which life's journey begins is the very point where death takes its place. Life is a circle. If we understand this in the right perspective, we shall be able to follow Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says: "Do not take success to its ultimate end or else it will become failure." If you carry your success to its last point, you will have turned it into failure with your own hands. If you draw the circle of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,066 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lure." If you carry your success to its last point, you will have turned it into failure with your own hands. If you draw the circle of fame, it can only be completed in infamy. If life flows in a straight line then Lao Tzu is wrong, but if its course is circular, then he is right. The East never wrote its own history whereas the West did, because the West believes that whatever event takes place is never repeate...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,067 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... process of going back to the starting position. In a way, youth is the very opposite of old age. Life cannot end otherwise. So as a person progresses in youth he is heading towards old age. This is exactly what Lao Tzu means when he says, "IT IS BETTER TO LEAVE A VESSEL HALF-FILLED THAN TRY AND DRAG IT ALONG WHEN IT IS FULL," -- for when a thing is full, its end begins. This is true for anything, 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,068 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- not just a vessel. The vessel is only an illustration. When anything is full it begins to end. So Lao Tzu says, "If you wish to understand the truth of existence, remember, it is propitious to keep all vessels half-filled." But this is very difficult, because everything in life is designed to be filled. When you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,069 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y, for then it is confident of reaching the goal. But the faster we try to fulfil the goal, the quicker it begins to be destroyed. So whenever an ambition is fulfilled we find it has become extinct. Lao Tzu says, "Stop half-way." To stop half-way is forbearance. But moderation is very difficult, To stop mid-way in all avenues of life is sobriety. This is very very difficult and requires great sacrifice because w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,070 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ossibility of struggle and the lack of courage could also have come in one's way. Man can stop at the very first step, but when the goal is in sight -- one more step and the throne is yours! -- then Lao Tzu says, "Stop!" because the ascent to the throne only leads to descent. What will you do after you have seated yourself on the throne? When the fruit is fully ripe it must fall. When success is complete, death ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,071 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ake things to their logical end for then you destroy them. You become the destroyer of the very thing you set out to complete. Halt! Stop mid-way before the wheel takes its full turn." The second part of the riddle, Lao Tzu says is: "By feeling a thing again and again, you cause it to lose its sharpness. If you keep on feeling the edge of a sword, to be sure if it is sharp, the edge becomes blunt." But this is what we do in life...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,072 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that defies solution. He who takes it to be a calculated science finds himself in difficulty. He who looks upon life as a riddle, a mystery masters all its secrets and attains the highest existence. Lao Tzu says: "WHEN THE HOUSE IS FILLED WITH GOLD AND DIAMONDS THE OWNER CANNOT PROTECT IT." This is contradictory. Actually, a man can protect his treasures only when he is poor, only when it is jus...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,073 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e before 7:00 in the evening. All those who work for you are taking care of someone else's interests for the sake of earning their livelihood, whereas Andrew Carnegie has to guard his own interests." Lao Tzu says, "When the coffers are filled with gold and precious stones, the owner is not capable of guarding them." And when the owner cannot protect his treasure, he is no longer the owner but the slave to his wea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,074 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... possessions as yet are few. The day you realise your slavery to your possessions, know that you are rich in the right sense of the word. This is the only criterion to judge a rich man or a poor man. Says Lao Tzu: "If you desire to be the owner, take care that your possessions need no protection, for then you are no more than a guardian." Lao Tzu also says: "When your task is duly fulfilled make haste to withdraw...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,075 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is the only criterion to judge a rich man or a poor man. Says Lao Tzu: "If you desire to be the owner, take care that your possessions need no protection, for then you are no more than a guardian." Lao Tzu also says: "When your task is duly fulfilled make haste to withdraw into obscurity and thus give no chance for your arrogance to crystallize." Let no one know that you were the doer. When Lao Tzu's fame sprea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,076 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...." Lao Tzu also says: "When your task is duly fulfilled make haste to withdraw into obscurity and thus give no chance for your arrogance to crystallize." Let no one know that you were the doer. When Lao Tzu's fame spread far and wide and people trekked hundreds of miles to come and meet him, Lao Tzu quietly slipped away one day and was no longer heard of. He withdrew into obscurity. He, disappeared from view com...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,077 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rity and thus give no chance for your arrogance to crystallize." Let no one know that you were the doer. When Lao Tzu's fame spread far and wide and people trekked hundreds of miles to come and meet him, Lao Tzu quietly slipped away one day and was no longer heard of. He withdrew into obscurity. He, disappeared from view completely. It was never known when Lao Tzu died or how he died! All that is known is that one fi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,078 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e and people trekked hundreds of miles to come and meet him, Lao Tzu quietly slipped away one day and was no longer heard of. He withdrew into obscurity. He, disappeared from view completely. It was never known when Lao Tzu died or how he died! All that is known is that one fine day he disappeared. This same advice he gives to others: when your labour is crowned with success, step silently into oblivion. But thi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,079 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...his chest out. He goes out of his way to meet even those whom he does not know because now he is very eager that all the world should know of his success. This was the very moment he longed for. But here is this man Lao Tzu who says, "Fade back into obscurity when your work is successful." If the ego becomes established in the moment of success, it paves the way to hell. If you withdraw yourself from the public ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,080 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cannot achieve bliss because the 'I' is the pain, the misery itself. Therefore it is necessary to break our present patterns of life at certain places and also to become alert and awakened in a different sense. Lao Tzu says: "Step back into oblivion in your hour of success." We should also recognise the alternative implication of this statement: Do not hide in obscurity in the hour of defeat. Leave not the s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,081 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he was insane. When the goal was far away, he worked ceaselessly and with a vengeance; but in the hour of success, he turned his back on it. He was mad! His close associates left him one by one. But Lao Tzu calls such a man a wise man. Lao Tzu says: "When success is attained, step quietly into obscurity." If this statement is understood from within, the inner transformation will come. You can try this experi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,082 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... away, he worked ceaselessly and with a vengeance; but in the hour of success, he turned his back on it. He was mad! His close associates left him one by one. But Lao Tzu calls such a man a wise man. Lao Tzu says: "When success is attained, step quietly into obscurity." If this statement is understood from within, the inner transformation will come. You can try this experiment for yourself in small things in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,083 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hings in life. If you pick up an umbrella dropped by a man on the street, you wait expectantly for his thanks. If he does not thank you, you are terribly disappointed. We cannot even let go of a small thank-you. But Lao Tzu says: "When your world reaches the point of fulfillment, when your life's purpose has been served and the goal appears before your eyes, turn your back and disappear." This necessitates a well-integrated atma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,084 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t whereby he is no longer a human being but God himself. He has mastered man's weakness for the ego and this enables him to meet his failures face to face and treat his success as if it were nothing. Lao Tzu disappeared. One of his disciples followed him a long way o ut of the village. Lao Tzu persuaded him to go back, because now he was going to enter into oblivion. He told him, "Go back and you shall attain gre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,085 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n's weakness for the ego and this enables him to meet his failures face to face and treat his success as if it were nothing. Lao Tzu disappeared. One of his disciples followed him a long way o ut of the village. Lao Tzu persuaded him to go back, because now he was going to enter into oblivion. He told him, "Go back and you shall attain great heights of success. Thousands will come to ask about me. "You have to an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,086 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ss. Thousands will come to ask about me. "You have to answer them." This appealed to the reasoning of the disciple. How man indulges in rationalisation! "It is only to do your work that I am going back," he told Lao Tzu. "People will come and you shall not be there to answer their questions. I cannot explain as you do, but I shall try my best." His mind clung to the desire of fame and respect, It was now clear to him tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,087 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ar to him that there was no point 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- in following Lao Tzu. No one knew him in the villages beyond and besides, he was about to die in the wilderness. But the sum total of his life's effort lay behind him. For his whole life he spread his fragrance and not when peopl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,088 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d his fragrance and not when people were drawn by the fragrance, he was running away! Barely a night the disciple spent with him. The next morning he returned to the village. The last person to see Lao Tzu was the guard at the check-post. Thereafter, no one knows what happened to him. Chinese tradition believes that he is still alive. For how can such a man die? Death occurs only to the ego. How can such a man,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,089 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... occurs only to the ego. How can such a man, who never accumulated any ego, die? When the king came to fall at his feet, he left his hut and ran away. Such a man can never die! Two unusual stories exist about Lao Tzu: One is that he was sixty-two years old when he was born... an old man! Those who loved him asserted that such people are always born old. Most of us remain juvenile till the hour of death. We find eigh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,090 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Little things cause us irritation. Little things strengthen the ego, increasing our greed, our fears and desires. Everything remains the same as we grow older; there is no difference. So according to the Lao-Tzu point of view, we all die as children. And here is Lao Tzu who is supposed to have been born old. He was sixty-two when he was born -- such is the legend. There are many such legends in the treasure-che...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,091 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...go, increasing our greed, our fears and desires. Everything remains the same as we grow older; there is no difference. So according to the Lao-Tzu point of view, we all die as children. And here is Lao Tzu who is supposed to have been born old. He was sixty-two when he was born -- such is the legend. There are many such legends in the treasure-chest of the Orient which are very meaningful. The fact is, a Lao Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,092 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re is Lao Tzu who is supposed to have been born old. He was sixty-two when he was born -- such is the legend. There are many such legends in the treasure-chest of the Orient which are very meaningful. The fact is, a Lao Tzu cannot be born unless he is mature. Another story about him is that, no one knows when he died because he never died. Such a one never dies. The mortal thing that dies within us is the ego. We do not di...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,093 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ild waking up from sleep crying because of a doll that was broken in his dreams. The ego is essential to differentiate between the dreams of the night and the reality of the day. When a person like Lao Tzu sheds his ego and views the world, he too finds no difference between dream and reality. This is the reason that Shankara can say, "The world is an illusion." It only means this; that in a manner of speaking,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,094 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...speaking, the world is also, a dream. Once the dream was as real as the world -- before the advent of the ego. Then came the ego and separated dream from reality. This discrimination was created by the ego. Then for Lao Tzu this ego, this 'I' dissolved and the world again began to look like a dream. At the moment of death, this self-created 'I' crumbles and breaks. In every aspect its hold gives way. This is th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,095 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...conforms to calculations. Many times the result turns out to be other than the calculated outcome; even contrary. All the same, riddles have their own rules that are very subtle -- and it is about these riddles that Lao Tzu speak If we wish to understand the workings of a riddle, we will have to first understand its subtle mathematics. Understand it in this way. When a hunter shoots an arrow at a bird that is flying in the air, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,096 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...This is the secret of life also. For a dead bird no calculations are required but for a living bird. you have to calculate. Dead mathematics move on a straight line. The mathematics of life cannot move linearly. Lao Tzu says, "If you wish for success, avoid it. If you desire failure, cling to success." Lao Tzu says, "If you wish to become extinct, it you wish to die, cling to life with all your might. If you wish to live. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,097 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng bird. you have to calculate. Dead mathematics move on a straight line. The mathematics of life cannot move linearly. Lao Tzu says, "If you wish for success, avoid it. If you desire failure, cling to success." Lao Tzu says, "If you wish to become extinct, it you wish to die, cling to life with all your might. If you wish to live. Let go of life, let go of your hold on it." If you wish to be happy, do not se...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,098 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a taste of it. This poor man walked miles to tell me I was a wrathful man. Was it not right that I should at least show him my anger? Now he is satisfied. He will not have to trouble himself again." Lao Tzu speaks of such a man. Only such people can be called sannyasins. A new dimension opens in the life of such men. We shall talk about this new dimension in the sutras that follow. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,099 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... slightest assumption of a difference gives place to duality, so a very contradictory situation takes place: the believer of indivisible oneness, also believes in the duality of things. In this sutra, Lao Tzu is laying the foundation stone of advaita (the indivisible). Lao Tzu says: "God and the universe cannot be one unless there is oneness between the body and the soul." Unless there is an experience of oneness ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,100 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty, so a very contradictory situation takes place: the believer of indivisible oneness, also believes in the duality of things. In this sutra, Lao Tzu is laying the foundation stone of advaita (the indivisible). Lao Tzu says: "God and the universe cannot be one unless there is oneness between the body and the soul." Unless there is an experience of oneness between the body and the soul, there can be no unison between ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,101 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., indivisible whole. The world is the expanded body; consciousness is the enormous universal spirit. If my consciousness is apart from my body, God's consciousness also is bound to be aloof and apart from the world. Lao Tzu says: "If the body and soul can be kept in union, then alone is the Indivisible possible" -- then alone can the integrated whole blossom. How does this discrimination between the body and the soul take pl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,102 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...onnected with our intellect only. The rest of the body we have cast aside as being a victim of our desires. This has produced far-reaching effects about which we shall talk later. In this first sutra Lao Tzu says: "IF THE INTELLECTUAL SOUL AND THE ANIMAL SOUL ARE HELD TOGETHER IN ONE EMBRACE. THEY CAN BE SAVED FROM SEPARATION." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,103 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u. They might as well not be there at all. The sun rises now as it always did, but it no longer fills you with exuberance. The moon comes out in the sky every night too, but it rarely touches you. What has happened? Lao Tzu says, "The embrace is broken." The intellect and the senses stand at different levels. Sensitivity arises in the senses, The intellect experiences it. If these two are separated, sensitivity ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,104 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...xistence. Go where we may, this distance always remains. When we love, this distance remains, when we are friendly or kind, the distance remains; whatever we do, this distance remains and is very difficult to cross. Lao Tzu says: "Duality forms within us because of this disparity between the senses and intelligence." This disparity, however, is also useful. Distance should be formed at one time and broken at another time. That i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,105 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...her and sounder than the advaita of childhood. The experiences of a lifetime add greater dignity to it. What should be done so that we can embrace advaita with ourselves? How can we be one within? In Lao Tzu's method of sadhana there are very easy methods to develop this unison within ourselves. Let us talk of one method and then we shall take up the sadhana in greater detail. Lao Tzu believed that whatever w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,106 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e be one within? In Lao Tzu's method of sadhana there are very easy methods to develop this unison within ourselves. Let us talk of one method and then we shall take up the sadhana in greater detail. Lao Tzu believed that whatever we do -- whether we sit or stand, eat or sleep -- we should be absolutely immersed in our acting, be completely one with it. If you are walking on the road, become the walking itself. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,107 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that we talk about can lead to advaita. At a certain point, even the witness has to be dropped. Krishnamurti talks of awareness, but even this does not lead to advaita; it has to be discarded later. Lao Tzu says, "Neither awareness nor witnessing but oneness, complete absorption. Become the act itself." When you walk, become the walking itself; the walker should not remain. Similarly, when you eat, become the ve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,108 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce as the male element and to the nature of the body as the female element. When the male and the female within become one, bound in a single embrace, the highest peak of samadhi is attained. It is this embrace that Lao Tzu speaks of. The 'I' within me should be totally absent in whatever I do. The act may be as insignificant as possible, but, I should be thoroughly immersed in it; I should be completely one with it. I shoul...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,109 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e noted by you, but which does not strike us normally, is that it is the child s abdomen that goes up and down as he breathes and not his chest which is absolutely relaxed. In our case, we breathe through the chest. Lao Tzu says -- and now even science agrees with him -- that as the animal consciousness and mental consciousness of man begin to separate, the seat of the breath is changed from the navel to the chest. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,110 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... breath has to fill the chest and not be allowed to go down further. This brings about the dangerous state of segregation of the animal level and the mental level. You will be surprised to see paintings of Buddha or Lao Tzu in Japanese or Chinese art. They are shown with big stomachs. unlike our depictions of them where their chests are full and stomachs small. Tao recognises three centres: one is the tanden (th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,111 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... more rationalistic a person is, the higher is his centre of breathing. By observing the point of breath of a person, we can find out his type. The more emotional a person, the deeper his breath will go. "But," says Lao Tzu, "the heart is not the ultimate depth. It is necessary to go down even further -- to the tanden." The breath should arise from tanden. Then a person is united with the existence, just as infants ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,112 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because of the unsatisfied desires which were triggered off in dreams. Dreams of copulation and the satisfaction of the sexual urge cause the organ to stiffen, Freud believed. But further deeper research has proven Lao Tzu to be correct. Lao Tzu says that this happens because in sleep, the breath beats against the tanden and the genitals are affected. It is not necessarily because of sexual dreams. We breathe fully in sleep and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,113 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fied desires which were triggered off in dreams. Dreams of copulation and the satisfaction of the sexual urge cause the organ to stiffen, Freud believed. But further deeper research has proven Lao Tzu to be correct. Lao Tzu says that this happens because in sleep, the breath beats against the tanden and the genitals are affected. It is not necessarily because of sexual dreams. We breathe fully in sleep and this full breath knock...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,114 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at the child experiences in his first movement of pleasure. Then we live, divided within ourselves. Impotency can result if the breath does not reach the tanden. Many research workers who follow the Lao-Tzu theory believe that impotency is the result of the breath not reaching the tanden. Hence, a very interesting thing happens: Wrestlers and body-builders become impotent. The reason is obvious. They breathe :so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,115 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the 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 realised. The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,116 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fficult to make women agree to breathe through their abdomens. Women are obsessed with yet another craze; that of developing big, firm and shapely breasts. This craze is so strong that no women would agree to follow Lao Tzu theory. The fact, is such breasts are biologically unsuited to perform their natural function of nursing a baby because the fear is there that the child may get suffocated. Psychologists say that many men are...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,117 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...receives back a thousand-fold. Another thing: if we give iron, we receive gold in return. Exhale carbon dioxide and fill yourself with the life-giving oxygen. This is a scripture for our whole life. Lao Tzu's second sutra is: Always throw the breath out, forget about taking it in. You only have to empty yourself and leave an empty space. It will get filled by itself. If your emphasis is not on breathing in at al...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,118 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you. When the breath goes out, feel 'I am going out'; when the breath comes in, feel 'I am coming in'. Be one with the life-breath. We feel that the breath has gone out of us and the breath has come within us. Lao Tzu says the opposite. He says, "I go out with the breath; I come in with the breath. It is I who am in and I who am out. With the breath, I enter the body; and with the breath I go out and merge in the vast body...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,119 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... personality in every dimension; it is a complete mirror of you. What you do with your breath is an indication of what you do with yourself; it indicates what kind of person you are. When anyone approached Lao Tzu for sadhana, he would tell the person to stay with him a while so that he could observe his breathing. If the seeker happened to be an intellectual who had come to imbibe Brahma-jnana (the ultimate knowledge)...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,120 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rson to stay with him a while so that he could observe his breathing. If the seeker happened to be an intellectual who had come to imbibe Brahma-jnana (the ultimate knowledge), he would be perplexed. For seven days, Lao Tzu would observe the new comer's every movement and see the state of his respiration. Only when he understood the state of his respiration completely, would he give him any instructions. The whole sa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,121 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s centre becomes tender like a flower, like the stars in heaven, like little babes. His eyes are as liquid and innocent as those of animals." If this liquidity and innocence is to be attained, then, Lao Tzu says in his third sutra; "WHEN HE HAS CLEANSED AWAY THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SIGHTS (OF HIS IMAGINATION), HE CAN BECOME WITHOUT FLAW." The breath should become fluid and it should be based at the hara ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,122 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nal, like Meera. She does not think; she is drowned in her feelings, her emotions. She dances, she sings. But feelings also do not take you very far. It takes you deeper than intelligence and hence it is better, but Lao Tzu says, "The heart is nearer to the mind." I take you where there are no thoughts, no feelings; no mind, no heart; no knowledge, no devotion. I take you to where the intellect becomes flawless, where only ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,123 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r ego. There is no way to uphold the ego at the centre of the navel because the ego is a tension and there is no tension if the breath is at the navel. Then one day we find that all is quiet within. Lao Tzu used to test his disciples from time to time. He would ask them questions. They brought the right answers but Lao Tzu would tear the paper up and throw it away. He would put his hand on their stomach and decl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,124 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on if the breath is at the navel. Then one day we find that all is quiet within. Lao Tzu used to test his disciples from time to time. He would ask them questions. They brought the right answers but Lao Tzu would tear the paper up and throw it away. He would put his hand on their stomach and declare: "The question was asked in vain. The answer is wrong!" One sadhaka told him: "But this is what you taught!" ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,125 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d tear the paper up and throw it away. He would put his hand on their stomach and declare: "The question was asked in vain. The answer is wrong!" One sadhaka told him: "But this is what you taught!" Lao Tzu replied: "Yes, that is what I taught you but the one who answered, his breath does not rise from the navel. This answer can only come from within if the breath is established in the navel. You have merely rep...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,126 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...merely reproduced what you heard from me. You have heard with your intellect and answered with your intellect. There is no experience within you." When Chuang-Tse, who was his most prominent disciple approached Lao Tzu tor the first time, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu gave him the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,127 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...disciple approached Lao Tzu tor the first time, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu gave him the same instructions as he gave to others. When the time of examination approached, Chuang-Tse came and quietly took his seat with others. "Today I shall ask you some questions. But you have brought...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,128 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...structions as he gave to others. When the time of examination approached, Chuang-Tse came and quietly took his seat with others. "Today I shall ask you some questions. But you have brought no pen or paper with you?" Lao Tzu asked him. Chuang-Tse replied: "If I myself am not the answer, what good would my written answers do?" He quietly stripped himself and lay before Lao Tzu: "Examine my breath," he told Lao Tzu. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,129 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... questions. But you have brought no pen or paper with you?" Lao Tzu asked him. Chuang-Tse replied: "If I myself am not the answer, what good would my written answers do?" He quietly stripped himself and lay before Lao Tzu: "Examine my breath," he told Lao Tzu. Remember, if your breath does not genuinely come from the navel and you are merely making an attempt to breathe from the abdomen the moment you become unconscious of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,130 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pen or paper with you?" Lao Tzu asked him. Chuang-Tse replied: "If I myself am not the answer, what good would my written answers do?" He quietly stripped himself and lay before Lao Tzu: "Examine my breath," he told Lao Tzu. Remember, if your breath does not genuinely come from the navel and you are merely making an attempt to breathe from the abdomen the moment you become unconscious of your breath, the breath w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,131 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ician holds your hand to examine your pulse, it is bound to increase because you are now conscious and worried. So the doctor always allows a certain margin when he examines a patient. Chuang-Tse lay down before Lao Tzu like a little child and his stomach was rising and falling rhythmically. Lao Tzu looked at him and said, "You have passed the test. I have no more to ask, because that which has the power to answer is now wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,132 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... conscious and worried. So the doctor always allows a certain margin when he examines a patient. Chuang-Tse lay down before Lao Tzu like a little child and his stomach was rising and falling rhythmically. Lao Tzu looked at him and said, "You have passed the test. I have no more to ask, because that which has the power to answer is now within you." The consciousness has to be shifted and brought towards the navel. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,133 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...have to retrace our steps away from this world where it is useful. To lose the original centre is very dangerous from any point of view and it is comparatively so easy to do. So, regard this sutra of Lao Tzu as a sadhana sutra. Keep an eye on your breath and try to transform it. A change in your breath brings a change within you. A Revolutionary change in the breath brings a revolution in your own personality. As...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,134 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...inus has said, "Man is the measure of all things." Man is a miniature of the vast universe. Whatever is in the universe exists in him. Therefore, when he reaches his own centre, he attains the universal centre. Says Lao Tzu: "When a man fulfils these three requirements of the prana sadhana, he attains the universe as well as advaita." Please note: Lao Tzu's breath sadhana is different from the Indian pranayama, because the l...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,135 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he reaches his own centre, he attains the universal centre. Says Lao Tzu: "When a man fulfils these three requirements of the prana sadhana, he attains the universe as well as advaita." Please note: Lao Tzu's breath sadhana is different from the Indian pranayama, because the latter is based on the intellect. It is an organised endeavour, the breath is controlled by the intellect. Lao Tzu's pranayama is absolutel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,136 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...l as advaita." Please note: Lao Tzu's breath sadhana is different from the Indian pranayama, because the latter is based on the intellect. It is an organised endeavour, the breath is controlled by the intellect. Lao Tzu's pranayama is absolutely natural. It is not mind-oriented. Rather, all the arrangements that have developed between the breath and the intelligence are to be severed. We have to discover the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,137 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the intelligence are to be severed. We have to discover the natural movement of breath within the body, the movement that is with us from birth. So there is a fundamental difference between the Indian pranayama and Lao Tzu's prana sadhana. And Lao Tzu's sadhana is more profound. The Indian pranayama follows man-made calculations: close one nostril, then another, hold the breath for so long in suspension, then so muc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,138 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...evered. We have to discover the natural movement of breath within the body, the movement that is with us from birth. So there is a fundamental difference between the Indian pranayama and Lao Tzu's prana sadhana. And Lao Tzu's sadhana is more profound. The Indian pranayama follows man-made calculations: close one nostril, then another, hold the breath for so long in suspension, then so much exhalation. This is all mind-oriented. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,139 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., then so much exhalation. This is all mind-oriented. It has its uses and advantages, but they are only useful for the body. A person attains g!owing health through pranayama and also gains strength. Lao Tzu's sadhana is totally different. Through it, man attains his true nature -- that which was before his mind and intellect came into being and that which will remain after the mind and intellect are extinct. The...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,140 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...before his mind and intellect came into being and that which will remain after the mind and intellect are extinct. The Indian pranayama is dangerous without the help of a guru because it entails a lot of discipline. Lao Tzu's sadhana can proceed without the help of guru. In his sadhana, there is little to learn and more to forget. We have to drop all the false practices we have learned. Then that which is natural will appear by ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,141 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.../28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- aimless, purposeless life. Viewed in this context, Lao Tzu's statement is shocking. Lao Tzu says, "He who lives with a purpose not only does not achieve his ends but also loses his life. He never achieves his goal and destroys his life in the bargain. He alone lives ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,142 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- aimless, purposeless life. Viewed in this context, Lao Tzu's statement is shocking. Lao Tzu says, "He who lives with a purpose not only does not achieve his ends but also loses his life. He never achieves his goal and destroys his life in the bargain. He alone lives who knows the art of leading an ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,143 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... majestic robes cannot come anywhere near them for beauty and majesty. They neither weave threads for clothes, nor grow cotton; and though they are naked, they are unmatched in their beauty." Jesus says exactly what Lao Tzu said before him; and he is right. But, alas, we are helpless! Man cannot be left alone like the lilies in the field. Neither can he gather grain like the birds. Man has severed his relationsh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,144 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is an infinitesimal part of time, which is never static but is a constantly running process that fades in the void. It hardly comes to hand and it is lost. "If we dedicate this passing moment to any purpose," says Lao Tzu, "we deprive ourselves of life." That purpose may be anything. Whether it is the lowly pursuit of wealth or the high aims of religion, it makes no difference. Whether you aspire to reach a high status here or...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,145 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s a life-time in vain pursuits till death claims him ultimately. Perhaps the simple idiot is better off than him, because it is possible that his vacant mind may have caught a glimpse or two of life. Lao Tzu talks of a third type of man. He talks of a life devoid of ambition and competition. This is a different type of man altogether. He is neither lazy nor obsessed. He neither runs away from life nor is he a lif...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,146 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...burden, the greater the possibility of bliss. The more burdened a person, the heavier life seems to be. It is something to be lived through somehow. We change everything into a task and not a play. If you understand Lao Tzu well, you will find he looks 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- upon life a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,147 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lay for us. We are never so enamoured of anything that, for a moment, we forget the anxiety of what is beyond. Not for a moment are we there where we actually are. Forever the mind rambles elsewhere. Lao Tzu says: "IN LOVING PEOPLE AND RULING THE STATE, CANNOT HE PROCEED WITHOUT ANY PURPOSE OF ACTION"? According to Lao Tzu, even a king can turn the gigantic task of ruling a kingdom into a play. But ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,148 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e there where we actually are. Forever the mind rambles elsewhere. Lao Tzu says: "IN LOVING PEOPLE AND RULING THE STATE, CANNOT HE PROCEED WITHOUT ANY PURPOSE OF ACTION"? According to Lao Tzu, even a king can turn the gigantic task of ruling a kingdom into a play. But we find that even a beggar who is penniless is incapable of looking upon life as a play. We are afraid that if we do not have visio...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,149 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...for the sake of the act and completes each act fully at that very moment when it is required, one who engrosses himself so completely that the sense of being. the doer is lost such a man's entire life is meditation. Lao Tzu says that even a king, if he so wishes, can organise the working. of his kingdom and demonstrate his love towards his subjects and yet act as if in a play -- without a purpose. The statement o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,150 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu says that even a king, if he so wishes, can organise the working. of his kingdom and demonstrate his love towards his subjects and yet act as if in a play -- without a purpose. The statement of Lao Tzu, here, is in the form of a question: "IN LOVING PEOPLE AND RULING THE STATE, CANNOT HE PROCEED WITHOUT ANY (PURPOSE OF) ACTION? IN THE OPENING AND SHUTTING HIS GATES OF HEAVEN, CAN'T HE DO SO AS A FEMALE 10...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,151 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tion 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- BIRD? WHILE HIS INTELLIGENCE REACHES IN EVERY DIRECTION, CANNOT HE (APPEAR TO) BE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE?" Why does Lao Tzu raise those questions? What he means to convey he wants to put forth clearly, but in the form of questions. Knowing human beings as they are, he is very doubtful whether we can ever act without an aim. But we...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,152 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... This means he has filled his whole life with unhappiness or else he would never have asked the question. Living, alone, would then have been enough. But we have filled our lives with sorrow so the question arises. Lao Tzu asks: "Cannot even a king live without ambition?" because the king possesses everything that a man desires. Lao Tzu talks about kings because if a beggar is asked to live without a purpose he will say, "I do ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,153 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lone, would then have been enough. But we have filled our lives with sorrow so the question arises. Lao Tzu asks: "Cannot even a king live without ambition?" because the king possesses everything that a man desires. Lao Tzu talks about kings because if a beggar is asked to live without a purpose he will say, "I do not even have a roof over my head! How can I live without an aim?" But even a king cannot be without ambition. Why? ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,154 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I had great expectations of you and you do not even care to greet me? All our hopes turn into despair. If life is made meaningful for a purpose we will fall into the pit of meaninglessness one day. Lao Tzu says: "Make no aims. Live life without aims". No poisonous fruit will then mar your life. Then you shall be filled with a fresh and new happiness every moment. Lao Tzu is very much against ambition. Leave all...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,155 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the pit of meaninglessness one day. Lao Tzu says: "Make no aims. Live life without aims". No poisonous fruit will then mar your life. Then you shall be filled with a fresh and new happiness every moment. Lao Tzu is very much against ambition. Leave all ambition; ask nothing of life. Then, whatever the future brings consider it a boon. Ask not, because no sooner do you ask than the trouble starts. We always make ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,156 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...bit continues. If I fail in love in one place, I seek my ego in another place. If my ambition fails in one direction, I seek another direction. I never pause to think whether it is possible to live without ambition. Lao Tzu asks, "Is it possible to live without ambition? It is possible but it is difficult, because our whole education prepares us for a life of ambition. Also the society we live in, our very culture prepares us fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,157 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an adopt one. There must be someone to carry on the load of your unsatiated desires even when you are not there. Is this not intriguing? Even when you no longer exist you want your desires to exist. Lao Tzu says "Live but do not let your desires live." But we are such that we would rather not be 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,158 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...shed underneath it. But the unsatisfied desires still scintillate giving the father the hope that perhaps it may be fulfilled some day. Some part of my blood may feel the satisfaction of enjoying it. Lao Tzu says: "Is it not possible that you can live without ambition? You just live." The so-called mahatmas would say: "Animals live in that way!" In a sense they are right, because the animals live in the present. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,159 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...He says, "Time is money. Do not lose it. Utilise it to attain moksha; utilise it to seek the atman. Time never returns, so do something, acquire something. If you do not, you will have lost it." What Lao Tzu says is a profound religious truth. His is not the shopkeepers' language. In fact, when sadhus impress the businessman, the reason is only this; that they both speak the same language. I he trader fully agree...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,160 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... towards earning it should be dedicated to some purpose. Then only can you be wealthy. Whether you are worldly rich or the spiritually wealthy, you can only be rich if you turn your time into wealth. Lao Tzu says, however, "Do not change time into wealth. Time is life. Live it. Be immersed in it, and do not think of attaining something through it." Be so rapt, so engrossed with the present moment, that you are co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,161 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f his life becomes more potent and profound, and his dance of life will become more lithe and graceful. But this happens only in the here and now. So this is the first thing. Now in the second part of the sutra, Lao Tzu says: "IN THE OPENING AND SHUTTING OF HIS GATES OF HEAVEN, CANNOT HE DO SO LIKE A FEMALE BIRD?" This we shall have to understand a little. There is a male mind that works in a particular manner an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,162 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...F HEAVEN, CANNOT HE DO SO LIKE A FEMALE BIRD?" This we shall have to understand a little. There is a male mind that works in a particular manner and there is a female mind that works in an entirely different manner. Lao Tzu is in favour of the female mind. The male mind works in an aggressive manner. When I say 'the male mind', I am not referring to men alone. It is only a symbol of aggression. One method of goin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,163 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r. When I say 'the male mind', I am not referring to men alone. It is only a symbol of aggression. One method of going about things is to be aggressive. If you desire something, go all out for it. This, according to Lao Tzu, is the characteristic of a male mind. There is another type of mind also, which believes not in aggression but in patient awaiting, together with invitation. A woman can never be aggressive by herself. If sh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,164 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sure to his aggressive mind. A woman's mind is non-aggressive. She is receptive. She accepts. Her acceptance is her disposition, her natural attitude towards the world, towards life. According to Lao Tzu, we can have two types of relationships with existence: one is of aggression (enmity) and the other of acceptance, of friendliness. So he says, "Become like a female-bird, like the female mind." Do not push o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,165 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sweetheart, his method of approach is that of a typical male mind in fact, a male mind always wants to do something. He cannot let go of himself because he feels restless if he does not do something. Lao Tzu says: "Let go!" He exhorts us to relax and let things happen as they may. Do not be eager to have things happen. Do not be hasty, do not be insistent on a particular type of result. Cultivate the ability to a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,166 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I be happy. As soon as I give up all insistence, my ego has no place to stand. The 'I' is the link between my persistent aims and plans. The greater our demand of the future, the greater is the ego. Lao Tzu asks: "Can we not, after attaining full knowledge, live as if we know nothing?" It often happened that when Lao Tzu was questioned, he would become silent sometimes for hours. So much so that the questioner f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,167 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stent aims and plans. The greater our demand of the future, the greater is the ego. Lao Tzu asks: "Can we not, after attaining full knowledge, live as if we know nothing?" It often happened that when Lao Tzu was questioned, he would become silent sometimes for hours. So much so that the questioner forgot the question. Then after a long time, Lao Tzu would ask, "What was your question?" The man wou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,168 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ull knowledge, live as if we know nothing?" It often happened that when Lao Tzu was questioned, he would become silent sometimes for hours. So much so that the questioner forgot the question. Then after a long time, Lao Tzu would ask, "What was your question?" The man would reply, "Now I too forgot what I asked. Why did you not answer me then?" Lao Tzu would say, "I did not know the answer. Had I had some ans...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,169 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that the questioner forgot the question. Then after a long time, Lao Tzu would ask, "What was your question?" The man would reply, "Now I too forgot what I asked. Why did you not answer me then?" Lao Tzu would say, "I did not know the answer. Had I had some answer ready, I would have given it to you. I waited silently for the answer to come. I thought perhaps it would come. Therefore I ask again what was your...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,170 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d some answer ready, I would have given it to you. I waited silently for the answer to come. I thought perhaps it would come. Therefore I ask again what was your question?" Throughout this long life, Lao Tzu wrote nothing. This small book is his first and last. His disciples pleaded with him time and again but Lao Tzu would say, "What do I know that I should write? And it I leave my ignorance behind me, it will b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,171 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t would come. Therefore I ask again what was your question?" Throughout this long life, Lao Tzu wrote nothing. This small book is his first and last. His disciples pleaded with him time and again but Lao Tzu would say, "What do I know that I should write? And it I leave my ignorance behind me, it will be dangerous." But the more he refused, the more people pressed him to write. Then one night he ran away from his...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,172 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t. The officer in charge refused to grant him permission to leave without paying his taxes, which he demanded in the form of his writings. He ordered him to stay there for three days and write down all that he knew. Lao Tzu was in a dilemma. He who had remained silent all his life, who had never declared his knowledge, was now constrained to write! He needed to cross the border and leave forever to be one with the solitude of th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,173 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lared his knowledge, was now constrained to write! He needed to cross the border and leave forever to be one with the solitude of the mountains. But this man would not let him go. So for three nights Lao Tzu sat up and wrote this book -- if you can call it a book. The very first thing he said was: "That which can be known cannot be expressed and that which is written is not the truth." So Lao Tzu ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,174 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... nights Lao Tzu sat up and wrote this book -- if you can call it a book. The very first thing he said was: "That which can be known cannot be expressed and that which is written is not the truth." So Lao Tzu asks: "Can it not be that one who knows may be established in the feeling of not knowing?" It is not a question of 'can it not be?' IT IS SO! But so that this may not become a dogmatic assertion, Lao Tzu puts...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,175 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... So Lao Tzu asks: "Can it not be that one who knows may be established in the feeling of not knowing?" It is not a question of 'can it not be?' IT IS SO! But so that this may not become a dogmatic assertion, Lao Tzu puts it in the form of a hesitant question. He says that when a person's understanding is open in all directions, when he is in a position to know all there is to know, when all doors of knowledge and life's ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,176 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ere is to know, when all doors of knowledge and life's mystery, are open unto him, when the light of knowledge falls on him from all directions, can he not seem to be like a person without knowledge? Lao Tzu puts this in interrogative form to convey his hesitancy. This hesitancy is the characteristic of an illumined person. The ignorant man speaks with confidence. Whenever Mahavira was questioned, he never answer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,177 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now well that there is much left to be known yet. To give a clearcut answer leaves much to be developed. This undeveloped part is also alive and if neglected, will not fail to take revenge. Therefore Lao Tzu does not assert anything authoritatively. He could have easily said that the wise should behave like the ignorant. That, too, could have conveyed his meaning; but then, his statement would not have borne the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,178 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...been like the statement of an ordinary ignorant person. It is said that once a famous Sophist debater came to visit Socrates. Socrates is the only Western philosopher who was almost of the calibre of Lao Tzu. He always asked questions but gave no answer himself. One reason why he was poisoned was this habit of not answering. It caused such frustration among his enemies. Socrates always said that he did not know. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,179 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd that what he says is wholly true, he defeated his own statement. Whenever we make such traditional assertions, we completely forget their opposite. This opposite then takes its revenge. Therefore Lao Tzu does not say that one who claims to be wise, is an ignorant person. Such a statement would be akin to an assertion of wisdom. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "It is not possible that he to whom knowledge has opened a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,180 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...et their opposite. This opposite then takes its revenge. Therefore Lao Tzu does not say that one who claims to be wise, is an ignorant person. Such a statement would be akin to an assertion of wisdom. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "It is not possible that he to whom knowledge has opened all its doors, should behave like an ignorant person? This hesitant question Lao Tzu asks. The mild and flexible wisdom, the liquid consciousness...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,181 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... statement would be akin to an assertion of wisdom. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "It is not possible that he to whom knowledge has opened all its doors, should behave like an ignorant person? This hesitant question Lao Tzu asks. The mild and flexible wisdom, the liquid consciousness are the characteristic indications of Lao Tzu's own perfection. These are the three sutras; a life free from ambition, an attitude of complete acce...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,182 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he to whom knowledge has opened all its doors, should behave like an ignorant person? This hesitant question Lao Tzu asks. The mild and flexible wisdom, the liquid consciousness are the characteristic indications of Lao Tzu's own perfection. These are the three sutras; a life free from ambition, an attitude of complete acceptance and invitation, and a preparation to become completely knowledgeless. He who has th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,183 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e it, nor touch it, nor understand it. Now there is a third classification of existence which we also cannot see, nor touch nor understand, and yet whose existence we cannot deny. This third category is God himself. Lao Tzu refers to it as Tao. Tao means religion Tao means the law, Tao means the supreme rule, the ultimate reality. This third Lao Tzu refers to as Tao. Whether we say Ishwara or atman or truth it makes no differenc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,184 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...and yet whose existence we cannot deny. This third category is God himself. Lao Tzu refers to it as Tao. Tao means religion Tao means the law, Tao means the supreme rule, the ultimate reality. This third Lao Tzu refers to as Tao. Whether we say Ishwara or atman or truth it makes no difference because all names are given by man. Buddha has referred to this category as nirvana, the void. Those who lack understandin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,185 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... enthralls your very being. No one is near, and yet someone seems to have gone deep within, to the very core of your being. If you have experienced such a love, it will be easy for you to understand what Lao Tzu says, for God's nature is like love. Unfortunately we do not know love. And one who does not know love can never know God, because love is the way of the supreme power. The first sutra o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,186 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o Tzu says, for God's nature is like love. Unfortunately we do not know love. And one who does not know love can never know God, because love is the way of the supreme power. The first sutra of Lao Tzu is: God gives birth to everything and nourishes it also. And yet, He claims no ownership over it. Man's consciousness has lifted its hands to heavens infinite times, man has bowed low in reverence and worship...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,187 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I would be greater than you, because then it would be in my hands to give evidence to prove or disprove you. My intelligence would then become the deciding factor on which your existence depended." Lao Tzu says, "He is the creator, the preserver, but he is not the acclaimer." He has never proclaimed His ownership. He is so sure and confident of His ownership that He needs no declarations. Because we are not sur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,188 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Anyone can be the owner. You proclaim your ownership of a house because if you do not do so in time, others can snatch it away from you. But if God proclaims, to whom should He proclaim? Therefore, Lao Tzu says, He does not declare His ownership. Tao, Paramatman or religion make no declarations because His claim is confirmed and natural. He is. He does everything and yet does not boast of being the doer. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,189 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and the dancer are one. God can be understood best as a dancer. God and the universe are one. Whatever happens within the universe happens within the order of His disposition. It is, therefore, that Lao Tzu says, "IT (TAO) DOES EVERYTHING AND YET DOES NOT BOAST OF IT." Only one whose acts are stamped with force and violence bouts. Do you know of any act of yours that you have performed without th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,190 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en no such freedom exists, man is not man but a machine which does whatever it is made to do because it is insentient. Man is sentient; he possesses consciousness. Consciousness is not possible without freedom. Lao Tzu says; He is the creator, but not the controller. He has not created a prison for us, where He stands guard at the gate. People like Bertrand Russell say that it is this very reason that creat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,191 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an hell, because such a heaven is a bondage. The good fortune that is not entirely one's own, that has not been sought and attained and experienced by one's own effort is worse than misfortune. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "Tao creates everything but controls nothing. It gives no instructions. It has given us the strength and the means to walk but it does not say, "Walk like this." The power to walk belongs to Tao; the sp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,192 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are holding our begging bowls before each other. Each begs of the other, and neither can give! Freedom is frightening, so we try to look for some kind of slavery. Our so-called God [not the Tao that Lao Tzu speaks of] is also a bondage. We place the onus on Him. We say, "We are in your hands. Take care of us!" Therefore, when a man is happy, he never thinks of God; but when he is unhappy, he always thinks of God...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,193 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it is not without reason that Communism is atheistic. A person cannot be a communist and still believe in God. He has to be an atheist, because the very meaning of God is freedom -- no control. What Lao Tzu said dates back 2500 years before Marx. Independence and freedom can only be in absence of control. Only where there is freedom is there the possibility of development. But then, the responsibility rests with...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,194 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ured and feel confident. We feel there is no need for anxiety; we cannot go wrong. But remember, this is the biggest mistake Whatever we do after surrendering our freedom is an error, a sin, a crime. Lao Tzu says, "THIS IS THE MOST MYSTERIOUS QUALITY OF TAO." That is so. It is, and yet it is not the cause of anyone's bondage. Think this over: If God comes and stands before you here and now you shall no longer be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,195 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f this world. They lived surrounded by crowds and yet they were alone. Mahavira was always surrounded by a crowd, but he was alone within himself because not a single person understood or believed what he said. Lao Tzu also found himself surrounded by thousands of people, yet he was alone. Those who heard him doubted his words because they could not see what he saw. Yet these were lovable persons. Their personality was magn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,196 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... We have torn the mystery of God apart from our consciousness. We have raised our own gods, our Tirthankaras, our avataras, and we go around and around these, because these are what our intellect can grasp, whereas Lao Tzu's mysterious quality of the Tao is beyond our understanding. Remember however, that until such time as the mysterious quality of the Tao comes within your understanding you have not entered the gates of relig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,197 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sitive. But the positivity of life cannot exist for a moment in the absence of its negative aspect. This they cannot see. Let us try and understand this by way of examples. One of the basic sutras of Lao Tzu is that life is based on the rule of opposites. Life does not oppose its contradictions. Rather, it works in collaboration with its counter-forces. Ordinarily it appears that if your enemy dies you will be a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,198 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The opposition of the enemy awakens the challenge within you, and the mutual hostility gives rise to and nourishes those qualities within you which would have otherwise remained dormant. That is why Lao Tzu has said: "Any friend will do, but choose your enemies wisely." Friends do not influence our lives as much as enemies do because a friend can be disregarded but we cannot afford to neglect an enemy. We can fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,199 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...we take away one, the other gets lost simultaneously and there cannot be any electricity. But it is very difficult to accept the opposite. He who accepts the opposite is a Sannyasin according to me. Lao Tzu calls such a person, wise. To accept the opposite means that if, today, you have come and paid respect to me, I should accept the fact that at some level within you, disrespect is also gathering towards ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,200 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing is stable. Life swings from one extreme to the other. The opposites are united in the profound depths of existence; but on its surface they are far apart. He who sees only the surface of life cannot understand Lao Tzu because he talks of the ultimate polarity of existence. Lao Tzu says: "THE THIRTY SPOKES OF THE WHEEL COMBINE AT THE CENTRE, BUT THE USEFULNESS OF THE WHEEL DEPENDS ON THE EMPTY SPACE OF THE ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,201 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ted in the profound depths of existence; but on its surface they are far apart. He who sees only the surface of life cannot understand Lao Tzu because he talks of the ultimate polarity of existence. Lao Tzu says: "THE THIRTY SPOKES OF THE WHEEL COMBINE AT THE CENTRE, BUT THE USEFULNESS OF THE WHEEL DEPENDS ON THE EMPTY SPACE OF THE HUB IN THE CENTRE." Look at the wheel of a cart and you will find that it is the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,202 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave only one experience, of riches which you consider everything. Listen to me. Now know the other. Take this begging bowl and enter sannyas." There is an antithesis, a contrariness everywhere. So Lao Tzu says: "The wheel of the cart moves. The spokes are filled, but the centre is empty. And on this emptiness depends the movement of the cart." We cannot see this emptiness. Emptiness means that...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,203 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is polarity remains everywhere: the visible depends on the invisible, the word is born out of silence, life exists because of death. But the other side is forever invisible. Again, to explain his point further, Lao Tzu gives another example. He says: "A pot is formed out of clay, but its use lies in its emptiness. " We form a pot out of clay, but actually speaking, where is the pot -- in the clay or in the emptiness of the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,204 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pace it contains within itself. No matter how fine or ornamental the clay-work, if the vessel is not empty it becomes useless; it defeats the purpose for which it was bought. Emptiness has its uses. Lao Tzu then goes on to talk about the houses we build. What is a house? We are sitting here. We would say that we are sitting in a house, but if we asked Lao Tzu, he would say we are sitting in emptiness. The house ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,205 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hich it was bought. Emptiness has its uses. Lao Tzu then goes on to talk about the houses we build. What is a house? We are sitting here. We would say that we are sitting in a house, but if we asked Lao Tzu, he would say we are sitting in emptiness. The house consists of the walls on the four sides. No one sits within these walls; they only serve the purpose of dividing the outside space from the space within. T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,206 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ke use of in a house? Its emptiness. The more empty a house, the more useful it is. We cut doors and windows in walls and make balconies, courtyards and rooms, but their usefulness depends upon the emptiness within. Lao Tzu says, "Usefulness is not where it appears to be. The usefulness of a thing depends on the opposite factor." Do you realise that when you build a house, you are building an emptiness? No. You design the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,207 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ent; where only the underlying current, the intrinsic essence of love flows. But where do we take the trouble of seeing and witnessing this emptiness within? We don't. Many times when someone went to Lao Tzu and paid his respects, Lao Tzu would not return his salutation for an hour or more. Often the man would be greeted by Lao Tzu long after he had forgotten that Lao Tzu had not returned his greetings. Perhaps t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,208 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... underlying current, the intrinsic essence of love flows. But where do we take the trouble of seeing and witnessing this emptiness within? We don't. Many times when someone went to Lao Tzu and paid his respects, Lao Tzu would not return his salutation for an hour or more. Often the man would be greeted by Lao Tzu long after he had forgotten that Lao Tzu had not returned his greetings. Perhaps this man had already debated wit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,209 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of seeing and witnessing this emptiness within? We don't. Many times when someone went to Lao Tzu and paid his respects, Lao Tzu would not return his salutation for an hour or more. Often the man would be greeted by Lao Tzu long after he had forgotten that Lao Tzu had not returned his greetings. Perhaps this man had already debated within himself whether it was worth-while coming to a person who did not even have the courtesy to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,210 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n't. Many times when someone went to Lao Tzu and paid his respects, Lao Tzu would not return his salutation for an hour or more. Often the man would be greeted by Lao Tzu long after he had forgotten that Lao Tzu had not returned his greetings. Perhaps this man had already debated within himself whether it was worth-while coming to a person who did not even have the courtesy to accept his greetings. On...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,211 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... One day, a friend questioned him about his strange behaviour with newcomers. "A person comes to you, he greets you, and you take an hour to reciprocate. What sort of courtesy is this?" he asked him. Lao Tzu replied, "I must wait at least till the person's salutations reach me. I must take it within my heart; it must rest there awhile. What is the hurry? I feel it would be very discourteous and the limit of impat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,212 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ask that is finished with, and is no more." This sounds queer on the face of it. An hour is a long period, and the person concerned has already forgotten the incident. But his salutations remained in Lao Tzu's heart all that while; it echoed within his heart for one full hour! It was not a mechanical happening, like you press a button and the fan works. It was a live response not a mechanical reaction which takes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,213 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ore, things rebound from the surface. Space within means patience; it means a state of equilibrium. It means that anything that goes within me will have to take some time to travel within me before it reaches me. So Lao Tzu says, "It takes time for the visitors' greetings to reach my inner being and echo within me; and, also, for the reply to form within, which I can then offer." When we fall in love, we have no ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,214 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...alone, and no atman." There is something within which is contrary to the body, and yet united and blended with it. If we keep in mind this example of what is opposite to the body, we shall be able to understand Lao Tzu's sutras. The example of the pot is just for illustration. Deep within, it pertains to man. About existence he says: "THEREFORE, THAT HAS A (POSITIVE) EXISTENCE SERVES FOR PROFITABLE ADAPTATI...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,215 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- mystery of death does not understand the full mystery. There is nothing in existence to equal death. Death is the absence, the non-existence. Lao Tzu says that positive existence has its uses, but negative existence is in class by itself -- it is the supreme usefulness. It has a different meaning altogether. But we see meaning only in life. We see no meani...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,216 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd by, it seems that all mankind will be unable to sleep. That will be the end of sanity for man. We can never hope to be well and healthy again if we ignore and discard the negative aspect of life. Lao Tzu says: "Sleep is first; waking is secondary." The negative, the relaxation is first; the labour afterwards. The greater the relaxation, the greater will be the energy to work. This negative aspect, this non-ex...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,217 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...worries less about the positive aspects of life and that which is within the reach of the senses, and who cares more for the non-existent void, the negative silence, sets out on the journey for life's supreme truth. Lao Tzu says: "Always seek the depths; do not be entangled at the surface. Always seek the opposite." That is the fundamental root of everything because it is through this alone that the beauty, the essence, the vigo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,218 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ished Query:- This love is not relationship but a state of being. It is this love that made Christ say; "Love is God." It is this love that Mahavira defined as ahimsa (non-violence) and Buddha as compassion. Lao Tzu gave no name to this love for he said all names are defiled. If he said love, people would take it in its ordinary meaning: the way they love. If he said compassion, they would take it to be their type ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,219 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... them. Words have been so much used by people who are sick in the mind themselves that they have become aggressive. Words have become contaminated with the sicknesses of man. No word has escaped the virus. Therefore Lao Tzu preferred to give no names. He said, "I give no words. I only say, where both are not, and yet something remains, that is It. That alone is worth attaining." Let me suggest one more thing bef...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,220 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...wo, and which is beyond them. The indivisible reality is only attained when we are capable of understanding the complete usefulness of the law of the opposites. And this can only be understood, says Lao Tzu, when you seek the negative in the positive. On seeking this, you will find that the positive rests entirely on the negative. And when the positive and the negative are both lost, then that is attained which,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,221 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of hearing. The same happens with the other senses. We die in the process of living. The very act of living is the arrangement for death. It wears us out till ultimately the whole system breaks down. Lao Tzu says: "The various colours blind the eyes." We can never imagine that colour can impair vision. Colours, we think, are the life of vision. To enjoy the multi-coloured vista of nature is the function of the ey...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,222 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... can never imagine that colour can impair vision. Colours, we think, are the life of vision. To enjoy the multi-coloured vista of nature is the function of the eyes. Colour and form are the nourishment of sight. But Lao Tzu declares that they are death to the eyes. This has a double meaning. One is that by looking constantly, the eyes tire, become weak, and finally lose vision. It is not old age that causes weakness of the eyes;...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,223 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he fact is that so much living with colours tires them out and they collapse. Whichever sense organ we use beyond its capacity tires soon and dies. This is one meaning. Another interpretation is that Lao Tzu means to say that we can keep our 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- sense...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,224 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...arp vigil is required for this. We are jolted into feeling and experiencing only when there is tumult and uproar. Then only are we conscious that some sound is going on. Everything within us is dead. Lao Tzu says: "Colour kills our eyes, sound kills the ears and taste kills the ability to taste." This death of our senses encases us in a coffin long before our death. Then we continue to live within our 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,225 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...pable of experiences within, But we are so occupied with the world outside that we have completely forgotten the world within us, which can be experienced by the same senses. This world within remains a closed book. Lao Tzu says that those who perceive colours will not only go blind in the external eyes, but will also fail to open his eyes within. He who rests his external ears begins to hear the music within. He...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,226 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uired for sleep also. These days, we find many people who cannot sleep. The reason is that there is not even that much energy left by the end of the day for them to relax. They are tense throughout. Lao Tzu says, and all the ancient yogas have known, that if you wish to enter the inner senses, it is wrong to use more energy than is necessary for the external senses. This is what is called moderation restraint. M...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,227 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nly because it contains a flash, a shadow, an echo of the ultimate organs within. This is the reason. One should not get carried away by outer gratifications because many doors within can be opened. Lao Tzu says: "HORSE-RIDING AND HUNTING DERANGE THE MIND. THE SEARCH FOR RARE AND STRANGE OBJECTS MAKES MAN'S CONDUCT EVIL." Horse-riding and hunting were the favourite pursuits in Lao Tzu's times. We can add ne...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,228 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n be opened. Lao Tzu says: "HORSE-RIDING AND HUNTING DERANGE THE MIND. THE SEARCH FOR RARE AND STRANGE OBJECTS MAKES MAN'S CONDUCT EVIL." Horse-riding and hunting were the favourite pursuits in Lao Tzu's times. We can add new ones that prevail in our times -- and there are many. In Lao Tzu's time, people indulged in betting on horses or going hunting. Now, almost everything that we do can drive the mind cra...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,229 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... FOR RARE AND STRANGE OBJECTS MAKES MAN'S CONDUCT EVIL." Horse-riding and hunting were the favourite pursuits in Lao Tzu's times. We can add new ones that prevail in our times -- and there are many. In Lao Tzu's time, people indulged in betting on horses or going hunting. Now, almost everything that we do can drive the mind crazy. He who 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,230 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s impossible to attain, cannot be attained. Even when and if it is attained, it is not attained. And no matter how much of it is attained, it is ultimately snatched away. Lieh-Tzu was a disciple of Lao Tzu. Once he asked his guru to allow him leave for some time to go to different places. "You may go," said Lao Tzu, "but be careful. It is easy to set out on a journey but very difficult to come back." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,231 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...how much of it is attained, it is ultimately snatched away. Lieh-Tzu was a disciple of Lao Tzu. Once he asked his guru to allow him leave for some time to go to different places. "You may go," said Lao Tzu, "but be careful. It is easy to set out on a journey but very difficult to come back." Lieh-Tzu did not understand what he meant. Very few fortunate people can understand what people like Lao ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,232 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aid Lao Tzu, "but be careful. It is easy to set out on a journey but very difficult to come back." Lieh-Tzu did not understand what he meant. Very few fortunate people can understand what people like Lao Tzu say. To hear is one thing; to understand is another. Lieh-Tzu was under the impression that he understood because the words were simple. Simple words put us in a quandary. Because they are simple, we feel the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,233 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Their meaning lies in the inner awareness. Lieh-Tzu did not care to clarify. He thought the master's words were too simple not to be understood. But he returned from his trip within twenty days. When Lao Tzu asked why he had returned so soon, he said, "With every step I took forward I began to understand that it would be difficult to retrace my steps. Before I got myself involved more deeply, I thought it best to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,234 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ad returned so soon, he said, "With every step I took forward I began to understand that it would be difficult to retrace my steps. Before I got myself involved more deeply, I thought it best to return." Lao Tzu asked, "What was the involvement that brought you back?" Lieh-Tzu said, "The first rest house I went to, the owner came out and received me with honour and gave me the best of fare. He served me as he wou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,235 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lieh-Tzu said, "The first rest house I went to, the owner came out and received me with honour and gave me the best of fare. He served me as he would serve an honoured dignitary." "Then what was the trouble?" Lao Tzu asked. "Trouble?" Lieh-Tzu exclaimed. "I could not sleep the whole night. My arrogance made me feel that I too was somebody. Or else, why should these people give me such first class treatment? As ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,236 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ame here and kept fidgeting all the time. You see, he cannot sit in one place." Our mind is exactly like this. It cannot sit in one place; it cannot stop; it cannot relax. It is forever running away. Lao Tzu says, "The mind goes insane." One who is incapable of relaxing is insane. If you are able to relax, then you are not mad. If you feel you cannot relax when you wish to, then know that there is some measur...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,237 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... upper hand over you. He looks at you with contempt, as if to say, "You will go straight to hell. There is no redress for you." One cannot set standard of conduct through these base things. At least, people like Lao Tzu do not set their standard of conduct in this manner. Lao Tzu's criterion is wholly different. It is wonderful. Lao Tzu says: "Those who hanker to attain rare and strange objects in the outside...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,238 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ill go straight to hell. There is no redress for you." One cannot set standard of conduct through these base things. At least, people like Lao Tzu do not set their standard of conduct in this manner. Lao Tzu's criterion is wholly different. It is wonderful. Lao Tzu says: "Those who hanker to attain rare and strange objects in the outside world fall in their conduct." This means: those who do not r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,239 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cannot set standard of conduct through these base things. At least, people like Lao Tzu do not set their standard of conduct in this manner. Lao Tzu's criterion is wholly different. It is wonderful. Lao Tzu says: "Those who hanker to attain rare and strange objects in the outside world fall in their conduct." This means: those who do not run after outside objects attain this high demeanour. So a person of high d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,240 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er name for good conduct. So contented is the man within himself that nothing outside stirs him into action. Nothing is of so much significance as to make him go after it. He is so balanced, so fixed within himself. Lao Tzu says, "Such a man has character, such a man has virtue, he has the highest calibre of morality." Truly if a man is so satiated within himself that there is nothing lacking within him, then such a person has a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,241 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s own. We cannot sit quiet in our house for a long time. We always wait for someone to talk to. The state of our mind, the state of our character, is very unsteady. Fluctuation is in our very nature. Lao Tzu says this very trembling, this unsteadiness, is the cause of fallen conduct. To be steady, fixed, is to have character. What does Lao Tzu mean by this steadiness? Does he say, "Don't eat this, don't drink...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,242 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...aracter, is very unsteady. Fluctuation is in our very nature. Lao Tzu says this very trembling, this unsteadiness, is the cause of fallen conduct. To be steady, fixed, is to have character. What does Lao Tzu mean by this steadiness? Does he say, "Don't eat this, don't drink this, don't wear this"? No. He means no food or drink should be such as to disturb the flame; no clothing should be such as to cause a tremor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,243 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e steady does not mean you are to run away. Rather, it means, let all storms keep raging without but the flame of consciousness should steadily become fixed and unswerving. This happens. If we follow Lao Tzu's advice, if we allow our senses to completely relax, if we keep them fresh, if we awaken our inner senses, if we are not inclined to store useless objects, if we are unaffected by the people around us, then ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,244 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... never be satiated because the nature of desires is insatiable. Therefore, the sage seeks to satisfy the hunger that exists in the innermost centre of his being. He is anxious to satisfy this hunger. Lao Tzu says: "Bring down your consciousness from the head to the heart." As soon as it approaches the heart, a transformation of desires takes place. He says: "Take it still further down, towards the navel." Then, d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,245 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the navel. When this hunger is awakened within a person, a new search begins in his life. There can be no search without the craving, without the hunger. We set out to find only that which we desire. Lao Tzu says: "Therefore, the saint does not gratify his hunger for colour or taste or sound or touch. He does not fulfil the hunger of the senses. Rather, he removes his consciousness from the 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,246 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... There is only one supreme hunger: to know existence, to be one with it, to see it unfold before us. Call it truth or God, give it whatever name you please. "Remove your consciousness from the senses," says Lao Tzu. Bring it down into the navel, bring it down from the head. The day it reaches the navel, will be the day of revelation. There will be a new thirst. This very thirst is your prayer, this very thirst is medita...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,247 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Such thoughts rise within one's mind because of our habit of breaking everything into two opposing factors. It never occurs to us that there is a connection between opposites. It is this connection that Lao Tzu talks of. You could say: the contrariness of opposites is only superficial. Lao Tzu says; "Bring down the life-energy from the head to the navel centre. As soon as it reaches the navel centre, it becomes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,248 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o opposing factors. It never occurs to us that there is a connection between opposites. It is this connection that Lao Tzu talks of. You could say: the contrariness of opposites is only superficial. Lao Tzu says; "Bring down the life-energy from the head to the navel centre. As soon as it reaches the navel centre, it becomes one with existence." Yoga says, "Raise the life-energy from the sex centre. As soon as i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,249 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cannot jump from the mid-point however. So, there are the two points from where you can take-off: one, from the head to the navel or; two, from the sex centre to the head. On one point both yoga and Lao Tzu agree: that the life-energy should not remain in the intellect. It should only use the intellect as a means either to reach the navel or to reach the sahasrar. Also, a jump taken from either extremity, leads....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,250 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e body. There, the head and the navel are close to each other. The subtle body is the energy body. It is not made up of matter but of energy. Here, both of these extremities lie close to each other. Lao Tzu says, "Go back to the first extremity." Yoga says, "Go to the final extremity." There are two kinds of people. Therefore both these methods are useful. There are some people who find it very difficult to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,251 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nal extremity." There are two kinds of people. Therefore both these methods are useful. There are some people who find it very difficult to go back to the first extremity, especially those who have a male mind. Lao Tzu is concerned with the feminine mind. Man always wants to go ahead and never turn back. But this does not mean there is no way to reach the truth for the male mind. There is a way, but Lao Tzu does not advocat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,252 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who have a male mind. Lao Tzu is concerned with the feminine mind. Man always wants to go ahead and never turn back. But this does not mean there is no way to reach the truth for the male mind. There is a way, but Lao Tzu does not advocate this way. He is a proponent of the feminine approach. He says, "Retrace your steps, come back." When the idea is to jump why take the trouble to go ahead? Besides, we require no effort to go...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,253 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...almost certain she was a woman, but the traditional trend of thought could not accept that a woman could reach the moksha, because the Indian concept has always been influenced by the masculine mind. Lao Tzu talks of the feminine-mind. He says: if simplicity is attained by sadhana, it can at best be a very crude simplicity. If effort is to be made so that it becomes artless, that is not artlessness. The very mean...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,254 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y will result from it. To be natural also means that the very fact that r do not do anything should result in simple naturalness. But I cannot be natural if I have to make an effort to be natural. So Lao Tzu is a supporter of the other extreme. Both extremes are imperfect, but both are instrumental in reaching the ultimate reality. It is only from the extreme point that the jump can be taken. If y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,255 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...und to be strife, there is bound to be competition. There is no competition if you just sit back. If you announce that you wish to be the last in line, no one will compete with you for your position. Lao Tzu says: "Be so insignificant, such a non-entity, that people are not even aware that you exist." Seek the lowest hollow, the loneliest place where no one would want to be. Sit where people remove their shoes. S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,256 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..." Seek the lowest hollow, the loneliest place where no one would want to be. Sit where people remove their shoes. Seek no position. Have no ambitions because the language of ambition itself is wrong. Lao Tzu is right. Those who are like water -- they also reach. Actually, the first and the last merge into each other at one point. The first is one extremity of the infinite and the second is the other extremity of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,257 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e same point, and are relative to the type of path you are on. If you go backwards, the point will be first; If you go around the full circle, this very point becomes the final point. Yoga says 'up', Lao Tzu says 'down'. The duality of life is evident in the differences between yoga and Tao. So do not worry about it. Choose which ever pleases you. Remember always, what appeals to you that is your path. No matter ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,258 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s, these 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- two great paths; one is the path that Lao Tzu refers to as the feminine path and the other is the path of will, the path of yoga. The feminine path is the choice of all those who are not ego-centered. If you come across a follower of Lao Tzu, you will no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,259 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ne is the path that Lao Tzu refers to as the feminine path and the other is the path of will, the path of yoga. The feminine path is the choice of all those who are not ego-centered. If you come across a follower of Lao Tzu, you will not find him stiff and arrogant like our yogis. He will be very humble. His humility, however, will be very natural. It will not be put on, because he is not pseudo-humble. If a yog...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,260 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ath of fire and he is trying to be like water. He finds himself in difficulty; his humility is false. He has chosen the path of "Aham brahmasmi". He has set out on this path so that one day he can say "I am Brahma." Lao Tzu's path is such that one day the sadhaka can claim, "I am not." If these two paths are clearly understood, either one of them can lead a person to the ultimate goal. You can inflate the ego so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,261 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...universe. Then, it is bound to explode. The day a person finds that he can declare, "I am Brahma," he finds that the ego has collapsed completely. Or, do not feed the ego. Remove whatever air is in the balloon. Lao Tzu says, "Come back!" Have no thought of filling up that which one day is bound to burst. Why labour unnecessarily? But there are people who cannot remain happy without labouring. There was one ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,262 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., "Come back!" Have no thought of filling up that which one day is bound to burst. Why labour unnecessarily? But there are people who cannot remain happy without labouring. There was one disciple of Lao Tzu by the name of Lieh Tzu. Someone said to him, "It is said that Buddha sat under a tree and was enlightened. Also, yogis repeat mantras and attain enlightenment. What do you say?" Lieh Tzu rep...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,263 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... repeat a mantra because this too ultimately proves to be useless. They do not take even this much trouble. Lieh Tzu says, "Do nothing; just sit." But it is very very difficult not to do anything. On the face of it, Lao Tzu's teaching seems very simple, but it is the most difficult thing to do. Even children can be kept busy with the mantra of toys! That is the best way to keep them occupied. There is so much restlessness within...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,264 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Doctors say that the ticking of a clock is a very good tranquilliser. The heart in the embryo does not function like a heart and yet the child is alive. Therefore, the heart also is not the centre. Lao Tzu says, "The navel is the centre and not the heart or the brain." The child is joined to the mother by its navel. The first glimpse of life comes through the navel. This is scientifically correct. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,265 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...el is the centre and not the heart or the brain." The child is joined to the mother by its navel. The first glimpse of life comes through the navel. This is scientifically correct. So, search within. Lao Tzu says, "Keep searching within and bring your consciousness to the level of the navel centre. That is the first step of sadhana." When the authentic centre and the centre of your understanding become one, you w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,266 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e of your mind, the centre of your consciousness and your authentic centre concentrate and converge into a single focus, you will find that your life has changed. You are now a new person altogether. Lao Tzu's disciples have, for ages, been carrying out a simple experiment to prove that you cannot grow unless you locate your centre within. The experiment is this. Take two small tanks of equal dimensions. Fill the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,267 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... while the fish in the second tank has no centre. It swims here and there listlessly in the absence of a centre and is also more prone to illness. This experiment has been religiously carried out by the followers of Lao Tzu for hundreds of years and it has always been found that the fish in the tank with the centre rod has always been well-developed and healthy, whereas the fish in the other tank was stunted in growth and unheal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,268 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has always been found that the fish in the tank with the centre rod has always been well-developed and healthy, whereas the fish in the other tank was stunted in growth and unhealthy. The followers of Lao Tzu maintain that a person who succeeds in locating his centre finds his consciousness revolving around and around this centre. It is only then that his consciousness begins to develop. Those who do not find thei...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,269 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... no base around which they can revolve and develop. They cannot find their direction: where they should go, what they should do. By revolving round the same circumference, the consciousness develops. Lao Tzu says: "Your consciousness becomes concentrated when it discovers the navel centre. Then it begins to revolve around it." Lao Tzu says: "When you walk, keep your attention on the navel. When you sit, keep your...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,270 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...By revolving round the same circumference, the consciousness develops. Lao Tzu says: "Your consciousness becomes concentrated when it discovers the navel centre. Then it begins to revolve around it." Lao Tzu says: "When you walk, keep your attention on the navel. When you sit, keep your mind on the navel; when you get up, be aware of the navel. Do what you will, but let your consciousness always move around the n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,271 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and round the navel, and you will soon discover a new, powerful consciousness arising within you. The results are wondrous! There are many experiments you carry out. You are sitting on a chair. Now, Lao Tzu says your way of sitting on the chair is wrong, therefore, you get tired. He says, "Do not sit on the chair." This does not mean you are not actually to sit on the chair; that you should sit on the ground. La...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,272 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., Lao Tzu says your way of sitting on the chair is wrong, therefore, you get tired. He says, "Do not sit on the chair." This does not mean you are not actually to sit on the chair; that you should sit on the ground. Lao Tzu says, "Sit on the chair but do not put your weight on the chair. Put all your weight on the navel." You can carry out the experiment right away. It is only a matter of emphasis. When we put all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,273 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the chair. The chair becomes the all in all. You are merely like a coat hanging on a peg. If the peg breaks, you fall down, like a coat which has no centre of its own and which depends on the peg for its centre. Lao Tzu says you will tire yourself this way because you are not acting like an animate, conscious being and are depending entirely on an inanimate object. Lao Tzu says: "Sit on the chair but be fixed at your own cen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,274 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... own and which depends on the peg for its centre. Lao Tzu says you will tire yourself this way because you are not acting like an animate, conscious being and are depending entirely on an inanimate object. Lao Tzu says: "Sit on the chair but be fixed at your own centre at the navel." Hang 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,275 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ver the state, your first duty is to return to the navel. Then do whatever you wish. Someone gives you news of the death of a loved one. Go back to the navel. Then let the news go within you. "Then," Lao Tzu says, "No one's death will cause a blow to the mind." You may not have observed, or perhaps you have or may be you realised later on, recollecting the incident -- that whenever you have been given news of gre...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,276 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... always been on the navel. You are walking on the road, or cycling, or going in a car, and suddenly an accident occurs. The first impact is on the navel. It begins to tremble. Then, the whole body begins to tremble. Lao Tzu says, "Whenever anything happens, go back first to the navel centre." Your first work is remembrance of the navel. Then, do what you like. Then happiness will not make you mad with joy, and sorrow...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,277 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... and sorrow will fail to make you unhappy. Then your centre will stand apart from the happenings that take place on the periphery. Then you remain the witness only. Yoga says, "Practice the sadhana of witnessing." Lao Tzu says. "Remember the navel centre constantly and the witness state will result by itself." You will step outside of birth and death the day you become conscious of your navel centre, because th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,278 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r taste, you will withdraw your surrender. We are the givers and we are the withdrawers -- what can God do? But the surrender that can be withdrawn is no surrender; in fact, it was never a surrender. Lao Tzu's method is different. Lao Tzu says: "The day the centre is known and felt, you begin to understand and experience that the centre is the master that does not need your assistance. The breath comes and goes; ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,279 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ithdraw your surrender. We are the givers and we are the withdrawers -- what can God do? But the surrender that can be withdrawn is no surrender; in fact, it was never a surrender. Lao Tzu's method is different. Lao Tzu says: "The day the centre is known and felt, you begin to understand and experience that the centre is the master that does not need your assistance. The breath comes and goes; sleep comes, then awakening; bi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,280 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an almost similar question HE SAYS: "LAO TZU STRESSES INACTION, WHEREAS KRISHNA LAYS STRESS ON ACTION. HOW DO THESE TWO THEORIES COMPARE AND CONTRAST? These two theories are the two ends. Lao Tzu does not tell us to give up action. He tells us to act but act as if not acting. Do your actions as if you are not doing them. Rather, they are happening. Everything is happening -- the breath comes and goes....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,281 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Krishna says the same thing, but from the other end. He says, "Do not run away from action. Do your duty but do not become the doer. Let go of the feeling that you are the doer. God is the doer." In Lao Tzu's system, there is no place for God because he says that even this suggestion gives rise to duality. He says: "By saying even this, that God is the doer, we plant our ego on God." Besides, it suggests some do...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,282 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t even this suggestion gives rise to duality. He says: "By saying even this, that God is the doer, we plant our ego on God." Besides, it suggests some doer, even if it is God and not us. According to Lao Tzu, there is no doer. Actions take place on their own. This is a little difficult to understand. It is easy for us to accept God as the doer. If not us, God is the doer. Our logic remains intact. But Lao Tzu say...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,283 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cording to Lao Tzu, there is no doer. Actions take place on their own. This is a little difficult to understand. It is easy for us to accept God as the doer. If not us, God is the doer. Our logic remains intact. But Lao Tzu says: "Why do you want to involve Him in this business of being the doer, when you yourself are not prepared to be the doer?" There is no doer; there are only happenings. The wind blows, the leaves rustle, th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,284 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... as they will and you merely watch them happening. Then you reach the state that Krishna speaks of. Krishna said to Arjuna, "Leave all this." Perhaps Arjuna was not as worthy a disciple of Krishna as Lao Tzu's disciples. Therefore Krishna had to say, "Leave everything to God. It is He who does everything. Do not interfere in His work. Take yourself only as a means that He employs in order to carry out a particula...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,285 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... had to say, "Leave everything to God. It is He who does everything. Do not interfere in His work. Take yourself only as a means that He employs in order to carry out a particular task." Remember, if Lao Tzu were in Krishna's place he would never have given Arjuna such a long sermon. Lao Tzu, in the first place, would not have spoken at all. If Arjuna could read his silence, well and good. Lieh Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,286 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in His work. Take yourself only as a means that He employs in order to carry out a particular task." Remember, if Lao Tzu were in Krishna's place he would never have given Arjuna such a long sermon. Lao Tzu, in the first place, would not have spoken at all. If Arjuna could read his silence, well and good. Lieh Tzu says: "I have heard of teachers who teach with the help of words. And, there are te...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,287 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... could read his silence, well and good. Lieh Tzu says: "I have heard of teachers who teach with the help of words. And, there are teachers who teach without the medium of words." Lieh Tzu stayed with Lao Tzu for twelve long years. Never did he ask Lao Tzu a single question nor did he receive a single answer. Lieh Tzu would sit in a corner and listen to Lao Tzu when he answered the questions of others. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,288 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lieh Tzu says: "I have heard of teachers who teach with the help of words. And, there are teachers who teach without the medium of words." Lieh Tzu stayed with Lao Tzu for twelve long years. Never did he ask Lao Tzu a single question nor did he receive a single answer. Lieh Tzu would sit in a corner and listen to Lao Tzu when he answered the questions of others. Years later, Lao Tzu himself asked him one day, "Have you n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,289 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...who teach without the medium of words." Lieh Tzu stayed with Lao Tzu for twelve long years. Never did he ask Lao Tzu a single question nor did he receive a single answer. Lieh Tzu would sit in a corner and listen to Lao Tzu when he answered the questions of others. Years later, Lao Tzu himself asked him one day, "Have you nothing to ask?" Lieh Tzu said, "If I have your permission I will ask." "Why did you remain ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,290 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...elve long years. Never did he ask Lao Tzu a single question nor did he receive a single answer. Lieh Tzu would sit in a corner and listen to Lao Tzu when he answered the questions of others. Years later, Lao Tzu himself asked him one day, "Have you nothing to ask?" Lieh Tzu said, "If I have your permission I will ask." "Why did you remain silent all these years?" Lao Tzu asked him. Lieh Tzu replied. "I have 10/...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,291 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the questions of others. Years later, Lao Tzu himself asked him one day, "Have you nothing to ask?" Lieh Tzu said, "If I have your permission I will ask." "Why did you remain silent all these years?" Lao Tzu asked him. Lieh Tzu replied. "I have 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ga...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,292 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- gained so much understanding sitting silently with you that I did not want to cause a disturbance with words." To this, Lao Tzu said, "It is, therefore, that I say that you are now eligible to ask. He who finds speech an obstruction is freed from the illness of speaking. Now we can converse because words will cause no hindrance. He wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,293 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...fore Krishna is a different type altogether. The situation as well as the times are different. It is a time of battle. You could not afford to be silent for twelve years. The situation is very different. Besides, if Lao Tzu were to tell Arjuna, "There is no doer. Things happen," Arjuna would have run away. When there is no doer, there is no deserter. He would have run away although that would have been wrong on his part because ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,294 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... down his bow and arrow and walked away, Krishna would have been the last person to stop him. But then, that going would have been of different kind altogether. Talking of Arjuna, I am reminded of a follower of Lao Tzu by the name of Rong Kong Uneji. He was a very great marks-man. He used to say, "Pull the arrow but do not let the muscles of the arm move", because if the muscle so much as twitches, you become the doer. Then...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,295 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...juna came to this stage where he could say, "It is not I who am going; this going is taking place," then Krishna would never have stopped him. But Arjuna was not in this state. Arjuna was not fit to be a disciple of Lao Tzu. He belonged to the class of warriors, an outright masculine type; whereas all the teachings of Lao Tzu are for the feminine mind. Arjuna is a symbol of masculinity. He was as a man should be. That is wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,296 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Krishna would never have stopped him. But Arjuna was not in this state. Arjuna was not fit to be a disciple of Lao Tzu. He belonged to the class of warriors, an outright masculine type; whereas all the teachings of Lao Tzu are for the feminine mind. Arjuna is a symbol of masculinity. He was as a man should be. That is why, even Krishna, in order to bring his masculinity out to the fore, says, "You talk like an impotent man...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,297 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... down in history as a warrior whose courage failed him in battle. Krishna tried to bring out the pride of the warrior in him so that he would pick up his bow and prepare for battle. The teachings of Lao Tzu are essentially for a feminine mind. Therefore, his disciples are bound to be basically different. Whether feminine or masculine, the result is the same. One may drown one's ego in the service of God and not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,298 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d. Therefore, his disciples are bound to be basically different. Whether feminine or masculine, the result is the same. One may drown one's ego in the service of God and not consider oneself to be the doer; or, like Lao Tzu, follow the path of non-action, where things happen by themselves and the sadhaka says he is not the doer. Lao Tzu does not even ask his followers to act. Why should he? If things are happening, they are...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,299 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n one's ego in the service of God and not consider oneself to be the doer; or, like Lao Tzu, follow the path of non-action, where things happen by themselves and the sadhaka says he is not the doer. Lao Tzu does not even ask his followers to act. Why should he? If things are happening, they are happening. If they are not, they are not. If they stop happening, they stop happening. You are no one to interfere or c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,300 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...things are happening, they are happening. If they are not, they are not. If they stop happening, they stop happening. You are no one to interfere or come in between. This, however, does not mean that the follower of Lao Tzu runs away from action. Nor does it mean that the followers of Krishna are always involved in actions. Those who followed Lao Tzu have also fought wars. Uneji, about whom I spoke, was a warrior. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,301 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o interfere or come in between. This, however, does not mean that the follower of Lao Tzu runs away from action. Nor does it mean that the followers of Krishna are always involved in actions. Those who followed Lao Tzu have also fought wars. Uneji, about whom I spoke, was a warrior. He was well-versed in archery. We know of the so-called sannyasins of our country who run away from the world with the Gita in their hands, and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,302 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... so-called sannyasins of our country who run away from the world with the Gita in their hands, and yet maintain that the Gita is their very life. What is one to do? What you should do is neither in the hands of Lao Tzu nor in the hands of 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Krishna. It is ent...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,303 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Krishna. It is entirely in your hands. It has always been so. Actually, the teacher cannot do anything without your cooperation. And, the teacher can go only that far with you as you are prepared to go. Lao Tzu and Krishna have given the same message, but from very opposite points. One is a message for the male mind, and the other is a message for the female mind. Again, another friend has asked an almost similar ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,304 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gain, then again, in a little while his mind will drop the method unknowingly. And as soon as it drops, he falls asleep. The method was not the cause of sleep and yet it was instrumental in bringing about sleep. All Lao Tzu's sadhanas are such negative methods. For instance, he says, "Find your centre." Now, the centre is there, so there is no need to actually find it. It is there. Whether we find it or not, whether we know it o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,305 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... whether we know it or not, it makes no difference to the centre whatsoever. The centre is the centre. Whether we live by the intellect or live by the heart, life is centred at the navel. All else are our illusions. Lao Tse says: "Search!" Perhaps, while searching the mind will get removed from your illusions and suddenly you will come close to the centre. And it is revealed! There is a Chinese story about a king who became...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,306 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...u have put me in a quandary." The fakir replied, "I have put you in the same quandary as you put your ministers. Now be good enough and come up with me. Let us inspect that place also and then we shall decide." Lao Tzu is saying the same thing. He does not tell you where your centre is. Is it a matter to be decided? It is already a decided fact. But you just come down once and see this centre. Then the question where ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,307 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... already a decided fact. But you just come down once and see this centre. Then the question where and what the centre is will have no meaning. This coming down is actually a coming back, a coming back home. So Lao Tzu says, "Can you call this a sadhana? You are going back home! It has always been your home." It is not an activity either. But man, as he is, bound to his own involvements, needs the excuse of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,308 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because now you shall be able to hear. Now you have become like the open skies. When you came, you were a closed house with no doors or windows." So, all sadhanas, and also the negative sadhanas of Lao Tzu are devices that work towards somehow creating conditions to break, disperse and remove the various blocks within us. It is as if a 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Fo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,309 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... vast, how can we decide what is good and what is bad?" He never, never makes a decision. Such a man attains to a profoundly deep sainthood. Such a man never condemns, never praises. "Such a person," Lao Tzu says, "becomes a veritable child, as sweet as he is tender. He becomes artless, like a child." The Way of Tao, Volume 2 Cha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,310 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ease this centre we count as praise, and all things that give it pain we look upon as disfavour. Since the ego is a false entity in itself, all experiences that take place through it are also false. Lao Tzu says, "When someone praises us, we feel a sense of happiness; when someone criticizes us, we feel pain." It feels as if it is the other who gives happiness or inflicts pain, but the root cause of all pleasure...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,311 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are filled with delight or sorrow. A slight something and our eyes brim with tears; a slight change and our eyes beam with happiness. Our smiles and our tears are controlled by outside agencies. But Lao Tzu says that the cause of this outward control is also deep within us: it is our ego. Because of the ego, we are influenced by others. Whether friend or foe, whether praise or blame, it is the other who influenc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,312 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y ways. There is the ego of the good man, the ego of the bad man, the ego of the sadhu, the ego of the sinner. We form a centre within ourselves that is governed and controlled by the outside world. Lao Tzu says: "Praise and blame appear to be coming from without; but the basic reason is within our own selves." When a person hurls an abuse at me, it is not the foul words that hurt; the fact that these words are ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,313 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ous in politics -- how much hell he gathers around him! But we are not conscious of this, for this hell is not apparent. Only one desire, one obsession, takes hold of man: how to be at the very top. Lao Tzu says however, "Even if you gain the highest position, attain all the fame, you will not yet be rid of misery and pain." Why? Because the more praise a person receives, the more his ego demands. What is receiv...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,314 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d Query:- comes fear -- fear of this praise being snatched away from me; fear of my losing it. So what is attained is to be conserved at all costs. This gives rise to fear and pain if it is lost. Lao Tzu says: "Man does not gain tranquillity even after gaining praise. He becomes more restless, more miserable. And blame fills him with agony and pain." It should also be understood that blame causes pain in the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,315 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ts but the fact that I expected you to respect me and you turned around and abused me. Praise gives rise to pain and fear. The anticipation of praise lends weight to censure and makes it heavy. Says Lao Tzu, "Praise and blame both lead us to despondency." Censure begets pain, that is but natural for it uproots the ego. But praise also begets despondency for it is the root cause of censure. Lao Tzu says, "If you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,316 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Says Lao Tzu, "Praise and blame both lead us to despondency." Censure begets pain, that is but natural for it uproots the ego. But praise also begets despondency for it is the root cause of censure. Lao Tzu says, "If you do not want others to blame you, do not ask them for acclamation." This is a difficult task for the mind. We all wish that no one will censure us, but the mind is not prepared for the other...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,317 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s, but the mind is not prepared for the other part of the condition. It is on this other part of the condition that everything depends. An inch-long expectation of honour becomes a hundred-foot device for dishonour. Lao Tzu says: "Do not ever sit on throne, for you are bound to be overthrown." He also says that one should be prepared for failure for then no one can come in the way of your success. Consider your defeat as ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,318 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that people honour, we conduct ourselves according to custom. We indulge in all the mockery and deceptions that our society approves of so that we may be looked upon with respect and reverence. But, Lao Tzu says, if you follow this practice, you will make things difficult for yourself. No man can build his own personality as required by others. All such build-up is false impersonation, hypocrisy. Time and again,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,319 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... placed between these two thieves so there was no illusion that he was crucified because he was considered to be a messiah. He was crucified as a depraved reprobate, a mischief-maker who was condemned by society. If Lao Tzu was asked why it should have been so, he would have said that it was bound to be. Jesus had nothing to do with this happening. He was neither happy nor sad about it. But it pained his discipl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,320 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...coin came immediately into play to strike a balance. The world is a profound balance. Each thing is balanced constantly; there can be no imbalance. Then what is the remedy? There is only one remedy according to Lao Tzu, and that is to see the opposite in the object of our search. When you seek honour and acclaim, remember that you are seeking dishonour and disgrace also. When you are avaricious, remember that you are giving...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,321 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...also. When you go to seek love, remember that you have sown the seeds of hatred also. When you cling to life with both hands, know that you are clinging to death also. To see the opposite is the fundamental sutra of Lao Tzu. He says, "Be conscious of the opposite every moment." Both sides must be seen and not only one. Life is made up of pairs of opposites. See the opposite properly. How can one escape the opposite? He who ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,322 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s of opposites. See the opposite properly. How can one escape the opposite? He who chooses one chooses the other. He who wants to escape both must not choose either. The king of the land wanted Lao Tzu to be his Prime-minister Lao Tzu fled from one village to another to elude the king's men, who were in search of him. When they reached one village, they got the news that he had already left for some other v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,323 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...properly. How can one escape the opposite? He who chooses one chooses the other. He who wants to escape both must not choose either. The king of the land wanted Lao Tzu to be his Prime-minister Lao Tzu fled from one village to another to elude the king's men, who were in search of him. When they reached one village, they got the news that he had already left for some other village. The king was puzzled. Her...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,324 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... another to elude the king's men, who were in search of him. When they reached one village, they got the news that he had already left for some other village. The king was puzzled. Here he was eager to bestow on Lao Tzu the highest honour of the land, and this man was running away from him! He sent a special messenger to Lao Tzu to tell him not to run away from him and that he should tell the reason why he refused the great ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,325 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ws that he had already left for some other village. The king was puzzled. Here he was eager to bestow on Lao Tzu the highest honour of the land, and this man was running away from him! He sent a special messenger to Lao Tzu to tell him not to run away from him and that he should tell the reason why he refused the great honour he was giving to him. Lao Tzu sent a reply with the messenger saying, "I am not running away from the ho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,326 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the land, and this man was running away from him! He sent a special messenger to Lao Tzu to tell him not to run away from him and that he should tell the reason why he refused the great honour he was giving to him. Lao Tzu sent a reply with the messenger saying, "I am not running away from the honour you want to bestow on me, but from the dishonour that lurks behind it." But we cannot see the opposite. To see t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,327 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ays present. If a man regulates his life so that he sees the opposite behind everything, his desires will fade, disappear. The so-called teachers always exhort us to shun desires, to give up the craving for desires. Lao Tzu's sutra is very very deep. He does not tell us to give up desires. He says, "See well the opposite that is behind the desire. Then the desire will fall of its own accord." If I really begin t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,328 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t, I am its master. Once it leaves my lips, I am no longer its master. The first step of happiness, recognition or power is a step of choice. The other step follows invariably; it cannot be avoided. Lao Tzu says, "What happens if both sides become visible? What will be the result?" When both sides become visible at the same time, when they appear as only one, all desires disappear from our lives. There is no man...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,329 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce within me. Then both these acts will appear as mere acts. They will belong to the other. I shall not be connected with them. And if I do not establish any connection with them, I am free (mukta). Lao Tzu, here, is discussing with great profundity the ties that blind man. If I see happiness and sorrow, insult and favour, praise and blame, as part of one process, if I get a glimpse of the oneness of birth and d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,330 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ad not tried for recognition, what would have been our plight? We tried so hard to gain wealth, and yet remained paupers. Had we not strived at all, we would have certainly been in hell. If, however, Alice had asked Lao Tzu, he would have said, "Do not run. Stop and see! If you find yourself where you were after so much running, you should stop and see." There are only two types of logic in this world. One is the type the q...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,331 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hich always says that so much labour has been done and all that was attained was a few pebbles. "If I had made no effort, my plight would have been even more pitiful." The other logic is that of Buddha, Mahavira and Lao Tzu. They say, "Stop and see. Do not run." Alice asked the queen again, "Then what is to be done to move away from this tree?" The queen's answer was interesting. "If you run with all your strength, you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,332 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the reward. The more we strive for power, the greater is the dishonour and insult, because life is a balance between opposites. Then what are we to do? Should we stand where we are? Should we stop running? Lao Tzu does not tell us to stop. This is a rather subtle statement. According to him, if we stop running it will still mean that we have stopped with some end in view. If we halt, it may be to save ourselves from ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,333 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... mean that we have stopped with some end in view. If we halt, it may be to save ourselves from insult, from slander, from defeat. The greed for honour, fame, success, wealth and immortality will remain as it was. Lao Tzu says, "I do not advise you to halt. I only ask you to realize the futility of running." Then, when you see the worthlessness of your efforts, you will halt by yourself. No effort is required. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,334 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... question. This peace that you desire becomes a subject for your desire. That which remains when all desires die is peace, tranquillity. When all quest for happiness ends, what remains is bliss." This sutra of Lao Tzu's is invaluable. To practise this sutra, no special sadhana is required, nor any rites or rituals. You can practise this sutra while going through your day-to-day activities. Only remember; if you do not take...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,335 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ur first step and you need not worry about the second. Search yourself within; see where you are going before you take the first step. A child was born in Chuang-Tse's house. Chuang-Tse was a disciple of Lao Tzu. When people came to congratulate him on the birth of his son, they found him sitting on the doorstep, beating his chest and wailing loudly. When they asked him the reason he said, "My guru has taught me to b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,336 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...said that the desire for happiness should be renounced. When I was explaining the sutra, many of you must have thought this is what I meant. But I have not suggested renunciation of the desire for happiness Nor does Lao Tzu mean to convey this intention or, for that matter, Buddha or Mahavira. Even Christ's opinion is not in favour of renunciation. But whenever people like Buddha, Christ and Lao Tzu speak on this issue, we tend ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,337 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e for happiness Nor does Lao Tzu mean to convey this intention or, for that matter, Buddha or Mahavira. Even Christ's opinion is not in favour of renunciation. But whenever people like Buddha, Christ and Lao Tzu speak on this issue, we tend to understand it this way. So the first thing to bear in mind is that more often than not we do not understand what people like Buddha say. And what we understand is often what Bu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,338 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is that more often than not we do not understand what people like Buddha say. And what we understand is often what Buddha never said! Renunciation of the desire for happiness is not the contention of Lao Tzu. To know happiness as sorrow -- that is Lao Tzu's contention. There is a difference between the two. A man renounces only to gain something else. Then renunciation becomes a business deal. Deep within such re...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,339 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... what people like Buddha say. And what we understand is often what Buddha never said! Renunciation of the desire for happiness is not the contention of Lao Tzu. To know happiness as sorrow -- that is Lao Tzu's contention. There is a difference between the two. A man renounces only to gain something else. Then renunciation becomes a business deal. Deep within such renunciation we find greed. A man renounces the wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,340 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... someone advises me to renounce them, I am bound to inquire why. Renunciation has no meaning if you cannot explain why. Therefore so-called sannyasins and sadhus advise people to renounce, and hasten to explain why. Lao Tzu does not tell you to renounce. Nor do I. "You hold pebbles in your hands," Lao Tzu says, "Know that they are pebbles, recognise them as pebbles." He does not talk of renunciation at all because in that case t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,341 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o meaning if you cannot explain why. Therefore so-called sannyasins and sadhus advise people to renounce, and hasten to explain why. Lao Tzu does not tell you to renounce. Nor do I. "You hold pebbles in your hands," Lao Tzu says, "Know that they are pebbles, recognise them as pebbles." He does not talk of renunciation at all because in that case the question 'why'? inevitably follows. If you look upon pebbles as ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,342 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be stolen any time but no one can steal the renunciate's wealth. The wealth of the former can be shared by others, but no one can ever touch the renunciate's wealth; his holdings are well-secured. Lao Tzu does not advise us to renounce the desire for happiness. He tells us to know what happiness is. As soon as you become aware of what happiness is, it leaves you and renunciation occurs. Those who make a consci...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,343 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t he has not yet reached the stage of renunciation. If so much as a thought passes the mind that "I have renounced", know that you are still very much within the context of worldly experiences. Says Lao Tzu, "See the unhappiness within the happiness and the death within the birth. Seek out the glimpse of dishonour within honour." You will find it, for it is very much there. All that is needed is to seek carefull...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,344 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is to seek carefully, to probe intently, and the unhappiness will manifest within the happiness, and the thorn will become visible behind the flower. Then, the problem of renouncing does not arise. Lao Tzu, therefore, does not talk of renunciation. The thorn is seen; the flower drops automatically. The first thing to understand, therefore, is that renunciation of the desire for happiness is no relief from unhap...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,345 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g but the suffering of hell. And yet, you are out again seeking new doors to heaven! You should begin to realise this. This realisation will not come to you through my words, nor through the words of Lao Tzu. But when the constant experience of pain and suffering becomes formidable within you, you will begin to realise the futility of your pursuit. But our mind is such that we wish to forget our woes and reme...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,346 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- the ego to be our soul, then where is the fear? This sutra is a little difficult. We shall try to understand it from different directions. Lao Tzu does not believe in an individual soul. This is exactly the belief of Buddha. It is also an interesting fact that, tor this very reason, Buddhism did not hold ground in India; whereas for this very reason Lao...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,347 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu does not believe in an individual soul. This is exactly the belief of Buddha. It is also an interesting fact that, tor this very reason, Buddhism did not hold ground in India; whereas for this very reason Lao Tzu's philosophy held a firm footing in China. Buddha has pronounced the profoundest words that a human being could utter. But his saying was so deep and profound that it was beyond the understanding of those nea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,348 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...because Buddha denied the atman. He said there is no atman. To know that you are not is knowledge -- according to Buddha. This was too difficult to accept. But Buddha's words found a fertile ground in China, because Lao Tzu had already prepared the ground before him. Lao Tzu had taught that man is fearful because of greed, man is fearful because he has taken his ego to be everything. The 'I' within us, this feel...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,349 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... atman. To know that you are not is knowledge -- according to Buddha. This was too difficult to accept. But Buddha's words found a fertile ground in China, because Lao Tzu had already prepared the ground before him. Lao Tzu had taught that man is fearful because of greed, man is fearful because he has taken his ego to be everything. The 'I' within us, this feeling that 'I am'. is the cause of all our greed and sorrow. In fa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,350 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...self alone and apart. Then I have to protect myself against everything else; I have to fight death. And in fighting, man exhausts himself and is finished, for there is no way of escaping death. Says Lao Tzu, "What is meant by the statement 'Insult and honour are both within ourselves?'" We are afraid because we have taken the ego to be our very self. We have fear because we have a 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,351 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...not be. Then fear catches hold. Buddha says, "Know that you are not." Then life holds no fear for you, because the greatest fear in the world is the fear of extinction. All other fears are born out of this one fear. Lao Tzu also says the same: "When there is the self. pride, the feeling that I am, then there is fear." If the 'I' is not, then where is the fear? There is one thing however that must be taken into consideration...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,352 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ne by one, all that we are not. Understand the negation, not this, not this. Recognise it. Then, when you come to the end of this journey of negation, what remains is what is, there is nothing else. Lao Tse says, "What is our fear?" Why do we recoil from criticism and long for praise? Praise means that someone has described you as a big wave, and blame means that someone has described you as a small, insignifica...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,353 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... "What is our fear?" Why do we recoil from criticism and long for praise? Praise means that someone has described you as a big wave, and blame means that someone has described you as a small, insignificant wave. And Lao Tzu says: "You are not." As long as you believe yourself to be the wave, praise will give joy and blame will be painful. Those who seem to be your friends will be those who appreciate your wave, while those who t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,354 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...f, it would soon find that the wave is lost and what it finds is the ocean. In exactly the same manner, when a person delves within himself, he finds that the individual is lost and God is attained. Lao Tzu does not use the name of God, because in the languages of man, this word also proves false. We have spoken His name with so many lips, we have identified His name with such innumerable stupidities and we have...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,355 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...guages of man, this word also proves false. We have spoken His name with so many lips, we have identified His name with such innumerable stupidities and we have caused so many disasters on account of this name, that Lao Tzu chose to be silent on this point. He says, "Know only this: That you are not. Then praise will not affect you, because who is being praised? Then scorn will not hurt you, because who is being scor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,356 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...itional, if it is an act on my part, then I am still the master. This -- the sense that 'I am' -- is what comes in the way of surrender. When this is no longer there, then what happens is surrender. Lao Tzu says: "This sense of 'I am' is the root of all suffering." But how is one to annihilate this? Many people have tried their utmost to destroy it, but have found that all their efforts have made it even stronge...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,357 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... which does not exist toils in vain. It can be understood; it can be explored. Where is this 'I'? The sadhana that Ramana Maharshi taught his disciples to: "Ask yourself, 'Who am I?'" If we were to describe Lao Tzu's method of sadhana, it would be: where am I? When we ask "Who am I?" we have taken for granted that 'I am'. Now, the only thing left is to know who I am. Lao Tzu says, "First find out whether you are. Then ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,358 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...: "Ask yourself, 'Who am I?'" If we were to describe Lao Tzu's method of sadhana, it would be: where am I? When we ask "Who am I?" we have taken for granted that 'I am'. Now, the only thing left is to know who I am. Lao Tzu says, "First find out whether you are. Then find out where you are." So inch by inch, ask at every step, 'Where am I?' The fun of it all is that I am nowhere! Then, when a person seeks everywhere -- the body,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,359 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...still in the capacity of a wave, however big, however deep. He who says he is nothing but the body is an atheist. He who says he is the mind -- he too is an atheist. He who says, "I am the soul," is also an atheist. Lao Tzu and Buddha go a step further. They say, "I am not." When everything is annihilated -- "neti, neti" -- when nothing is left behind, something still remains, something that has no name. As soon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,360 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the 'I' is annihilated, then only can the neighbour be loved as much as thyself. "AND SUCH A PERSON CAN BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD." This is a very difficult arrangement suggested by Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says that such a man can be entrusted with the government of the world because power in his hands can never be dangerous. But such a person does not desire power. Those who desire power are persons i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,361 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the 'I' is annihilated, then only can the neighbour be loved as much as thyself. "AND SUCH A PERSON CAN BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD." This is a very difficult arrangement suggested by Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says that such a man can be entrusted with the government of the world because power in his hands can never be dangerous. But such a person does not desire power. Those who desire power are persons in whose ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,362 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...known when he wields some power. Power gives him the freedom to do what he chooses; he no longer has to pretend. Thus, power does not corrupt a man. Rather, it gives freedom of action to the immoral. Lao Tzu says, "Only he can be entrusted with the government of the world whose ego is annihilated." When the ego and power join together, immorality results. If the 'I' is dissolved, power alone cannot produce immora...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,363 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he ego alone that can become unchaste, immoral. He who loves the world as much as his self can be entrusted to look after the world. But the difficulty is that such a person will not accept power. Then what does Lao Tzu mean? Lao Tzu says, "Do not give power into the hands of those who seek power because it is dangerous. Do not revere those who seek respect, for that too, is dangerous. Do not glorify one who seeks fame becau...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,364 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat can become unchaste, immoral. He who loves the world as much as his self can be entrusted to look after the world. But the difficulty is that such a person will not accept power. Then what does Lao Tzu mean? Lao Tzu says, "Do not give power into the hands of those who seek power because it is dangerous. Do not revere those who seek respect, for that too, is dangerous. Do not glorify one who seeks fame because it is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,365 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ding his illness. Rather, honour one who seeks no honour and entrust power into the hands of one whose ego no longer is." A few things need to be cleared up in connection with this sutra. In the 2500 years after Lao Tzu, many revolutions took place in the world but they were all unsuccessful. All revolutions are failures. Each revolution declares that power is now in the right hands, and each time those hands prove to be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,366 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing more than revolution required for the right type of government, and perhaps revolutions have no connection with it because they all turned out to be failures. No type of revolution can fulfil the conditions of Lao Tzu's sutra, because power goes to him who seeks it. Some people, like Kropotkin or Bukharin (Bakunin?) were so troubled and harassed that they said, "Power should no longer be in anyone's hands. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,367 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to power it becomes clear that the wrong men have been chosen -- and so, the circle continues. When I say for the last 2500 years, it is only because the history of mankind is not clear before that. Lao Tzu says this vicious circle cannot be broken by revolutions but by individuals. Whenever power falls into the hands of such a person, as Lao Tzu is talking about whatever be the direction in which he attains pow...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,368 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., it is only because the history of mankind is not clear before that. Lao Tzu says this vicious circle cannot be broken by revolutions but by individuals. Whenever power falls into the hands of such a person, as Lao Tzu is talking about whatever be the direction in which he attains power -- this power can never be dangerous or harmful; it can never prove too costly. Perhaps that is why the power in God's hands does not prove...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,369 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r the challenge is pride. Pride does not exist in God. So God is forever non-present. This whole vast universe is directed by His hands only because there is no director; there is no ego. People like Lao Tzu believe that such a state of the world as mankind dreams of, can only come to be when we place the affairs of the world in the hands of an egoless person. But Lao Tzu has said this with other things in view a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,370 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is no director; there is no ego. People like Lao Tzu believe that such a state of the world as mankind dreams of, can only come to be when we place the affairs of the world in the hands of an egoless person. But Lao Tzu has said this with other things in view also. His main purpose for saying this is that when there is no ego within, whether one is seated on a throne or on the dusty ground makes no difference. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,371 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... fluctuations within. When the abuses and the garlands create no disturbance within, and the mercury level remains the same, then know that you are balanced. I shall now tell you of a secret sutra from Lao Tzu. It is not written anywhere, but has been handed down by word of mouth to his disciples down the ages. It is a sutra on the method of meditation. Lao Tzu says: "Sit cross-legged. Feel that there is a weighing...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,372 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... I shall now tell you of a secret sutra from Lao Tzu. It is not written anywhere, but has been handed down by word of mouth to his disciples down the ages. It is a sutra on the method of meditation. Lao Tzu says: "Sit cross-legged. Feel that there is a weighing scale within you. Each side of the scale is near each breast. The pointer is between both your eyes, where the third eye is supposed to be. The strings o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,373 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Feel that there is a weighing scale within you. Each side of the scale is near each breast. The pointer is between both your eyes, where the third eye is supposed to be. The strings of the scale are in your brain." Lao Tzu says, "Be conscious of this scale within you for all twenty-four hours of the day and be mindful that the pans on both sides are at the 10/28/07 Copyright Osho Internationa...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,374 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- same level, and the pointer is straight in the middle." Lao Tzu says: "If you can balance these scales within, you have accomplished your sadhana." But it is very difficult. You will find that a slight breath, and the sides of the scale go up and down. Yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,375 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..." But it is very difficult. You will find that a slight breath, and the sides of the scale go up and down. You are sitting quietly. Suddenly a person enters and the weighing scales move up and down. Lao Tzu says, "Balance your consciousness. The opposites should be equalised and the middle hand should remain fixed in the centre." Lao Tzu's disciple Lieh-Tzu was on his death-bed. He was one of the very speci...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,376 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uddenly a person enters and the weighing scales move up and down. Lao Tzu says, "Balance your consciousness. The opposites should be equalised and the middle hand should remain fixed in the centre." Lao Tzu's disciple Lieh-Tzu was on his death-bed. He was one of the very special disciples of Lao Tzu; the other was Chuang-Tse. People were gathered around Lieh-Tzu. They asked questions; he answered. In between, he...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,377 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...consciousness. The opposites should be equalised and the middle hand should remain fixed in the centre." Lao Tzu's disciple Lieh-Tzu was on his death-bed. He was one of the very special disciples of Lao Tzu; the other was Chuang-Tse. People were gathered around Lieh-Tzu. They asked questions; he answered. In between, he shut his eyes and smiled. Those around him were restless. "The time is running out; death is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,378 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eels this way. We all feel the same way. We say that we shall believe in God only if we can. Until we see that He is, He is not. It is necessary for us to be a witness to him in order for Him to be. Lao Tzu says, "GRASPED AT, BUT CANNOT BE TOUCHED..." because he who was to touch is annihilated by then. Hence He is called 'intangible', for he who was to touch has been lost long before. In fact, the seeker can tou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,379 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is desire can be easily exploited. It is hard for a teacher like Buddha to find followers because he says, "Die! Lose yourself, be no more, for your very being is your woe. Become empty, void." Lao Tzu says, "He is called intangible because one who is to touch Him is lost when He appears." As long as we are, we can touch, we can grasp, but. He does not appear. The two (you and God) cannot meet; it is imposs...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,380 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e all through the sense of 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- smell. Lao Tzu says, "He is beyond the grasp of our inquiry because inquiry arises from the known. Inquiry is useful in the investigation of the unknown; but if the unknowable is to be sought, inquiry is useless. Therefore,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,381 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... sets in the evening. There is birth and it ends in death. Each happening has a beginning and an end. But existence always is. There is no morning, nor evening for existence, neither birth nor death. In this sutra, Lao Tzu tells us about the beginningless, infinite continuity of the nature of existence, that is beyond both birth and death. Whatever we know, we can encircle within a limit. On one end of this boundary there ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,382 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it can be examined and defined. The bigger the expanse, the less possible it is for the eyes to Find its ends; and when the intellect cannot measure, it falls into difficulties and goes astray. Says Lao Tzu, "Nothing is illumined when it appears, and nothing is darkened when it disappears." Such is the imperishable, uninterrupted mystery which defies all definitions. It always is; it is eternal. Suns rise and se...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,383 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ehind the flower or shone through the eye. Suns are formed and dissolved, creations come and go, men are born and they die but this being within them, this existence, forever is -- it flows forever. Lao Tzu says, "Its manifestation does not bring light, nor does its disappearance plunge things into darkness" -- because it neither rises nor sets. We do not know it by things that appear and disappear, for it is de...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,384 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m may have been different, the shape may have been different, and also the name, yet there has never been a moment when you and I were not, nor will there ever be. You have been born many times; you died many times. Lao Tzu says, "NEITHER BY ITS RISING IS THERE LIGHT, NOR BY ITS SINKING IS THERE DARKNESS. UNCEASING, CONTINUOUS, IT CANNOT BE DEFINED." You can be defined -- your name, which place you come from, where y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,385 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d when things start and where and when they end. Religion believes only this; that whatever is, is. It neither begins nor ends. Existence is beginningless and endless; it is infinite Thus science has no quarrel with Lao Tzu's views. Lao Tzu says, "We accept the imperishable existence, which never began and which will never cease." That the world began 4000 years ago is a childish statement but the present statement that the worl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,386 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rt and where and when they end. Religion believes only this; that whatever is, is. It neither begins nor ends. Existence is beginningless and endless; it is infinite Thus science has no quarrel with Lao Tzu's views. Lao Tzu says, "We accept the imperishable existence, which never began and which will never cease." That the world began 4000 years ago is a childish statement but the present statement that the world is four thousan...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,387 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h statement but the present statement that the world is four thousand million years old is also childish. The extension of time makes no difference. Whether it is four thousand or four thousand millions, Lao Tzu says that things cannot begin in this world; existence always is. The forms and the shapes may change, but that which lies hidden behind these forms is eternal; it is everlasting. This unknown factor of e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,388 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...istence always is. The forms and the shapes may change, but that which lies hidden behind these forms is eternal; it is everlasting. This unknown factor of existence enters into state of void time and again. For Lao Tzu, the state of non-being is also existence (being). For Lao Tzu the state of being and non-being are the two sides of existence. When people like Lao Tzu and Buddha talk of this state of nothin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,389 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t which lies hidden behind these forms is eternal; it is everlasting. This unknown factor of existence enters into state of void time and again. For Lao Tzu, the state of non-being is also existence (being). For Lao Tzu the state of being and non-being are the two sides of existence. When people like Lao Tzu and Buddha talk of this state of nothingness, we misunderstand them. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,390 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... enters into state of void time and again. For Lao Tzu, the state of non-being is also existence (being). For Lao Tzu the state of being and non-being are the two sides of existence. When people like Lao Tzu and Buddha talk of this state of nothingness, we misunderstand them. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpubl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,391 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ternational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- We think that when they talk of nothingness, it means there is nothing. This is a mistake. When a Buddha or a Lao Tzu talks of non-being, it is a state of existence. To manifest or not to manifest are two forms of the same thing. I speak, and then I become silent. If we ask Buddha he will say, "To speak and to be silent ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,392 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the state of silence; it is just quiet. Not to be is the disappearance of to be, not its extinction. If this is properly understood, many things become clear. Not to be is not to be extinct because, according to Lao Tzu, nothing is ever destroyed in this world. Now, even science concedes that matter is indestructible. You cannot destroy even a grain of sand. You may crush it, but then that which was together in one piece...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,393 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ingle grain can fall out of it. The totality of the universe remains always the same. Forms change, but that which assumes the forms is always the same. Things appear and disappear but existence is the same as ever. Lao Tzu says, "AND IT REVERTS AGAIN AND AGAIN TO THE REALM OF NOTHINGNESS." Existence has two dimensions. Its manifestation means, its assuming various forms, and its reverting to nothingness means it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,394 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Not to be means to be absorbed into nothingness, to be lost once again into nothingness. Not to be means to be unmanifest. Manifestation and unmanifestation are the two sides of existence. A person came to Lao Tzu. He was an atheist. He said to Lao Tzu, "There is no God." One of Lao Tzu's disciples who was a theist was there. He said, "God is." Lao Tzu said, "You both are correct. Each of you is talking about one a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,395 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to nothingness, to be lost once again into nothingness. Not to be means to be unmanifest. Manifestation and unmanifestation are the two sides of existence. A person came to Lao Tzu. He was an atheist. He said to Lao Tzu, "There is no God." One of Lao Tzu's disciples who was a theist was there. He said, "God is." Lao Tzu said, "You both are correct. Each of you is talking about one aspect of God. There can be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,396 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ingness. Not to be means to be unmanifest. Manifestation and unmanifestation are the two sides of existence. A person came to Lao Tzu. He was an atheist. He said to Lao Tzu, "There is no God." One of Lao Tzu's disciples who was a theist was there. He said, "God is." Lao Tzu said, "You both are correct. Each of you is talking about one aspect of God. There can be no opposition, no argument. between you. One as...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,397 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ation are the two sides of existence. A person came to Lao Tzu. He was an atheist. He said to Lao Tzu, "There is no God." One of Lao Tzu's disciples who was a theist was there. He said, "God is." Lao Tzu said, "You both are correct. Each of you is talking about one aspect of God. There can be no opposition, no argument. between you. One aspect of God is His manifestation; another aspect is His non-manifestati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,398 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...anifestation. The atheist is talking about His non-manifestation and the theist is talking of His manifestation. You both are right. But you both are wrong also, for your contentions are incomplete." Lao Tzu says, "God is, and God is not. Both these are true at the same time, because both are His ways of being." Lao Tzu thus becomes difficult for us to understand because it then becomes difficult to define God. O...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,399 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou both are right. But you both are wrong also, for your contentions are incomplete." Lao Tzu says, "God is, and God is not. Both these are true at the same time, because both are His ways of being." Lao Tzu thus becomes difficult for us to understand because it then becomes difficult to define God. One person asserts that God is. He can make a definite statement. Another asserts that God is not. His statement is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,400 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... difficult for us to understand because it then becomes difficult to define God. One person asserts that God is. He can make a definite statement. Another asserts that God is not. His statement is also definite. But Lao Tzu maintains that God is, and is not. This defies all definitions. But what Lao Tzu says is correct. What Lao Tzu says is right, because nonbeing is also a way of being. There is no contradiction and no oppositi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,401 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...One person asserts that God is. He can make a definite statement. Another asserts that God is not. His statement is also definite. But Lao Tzu maintains that God is, and is not. This defies all definitions. But what Lao Tzu says is correct. What Lao Tzu says is right, because nonbeing is also a way of being. There is no contradiction and no opposition between the two. If this becomes clear to us, then we shall understand tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,402 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... He can make a definite statement. Another asserts that God is not. His statement is also definite. But Lao Tzu maintains that God is, and is not. This defies all definitions. But what Lao Tzu says is correct. What Lao Tzu says is right, because nonbeing is also a way of being. There is no contradiction and no opposition between the two. If this becomes clear to us, then we shall understand that birth is a way of being and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,403 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- consciousness. We have to break the hostility that exists between this state of being and not being. Then only shall we be able to understand Lao Tzu. There is absolutely no contradiction, no enmity, between the two. They are two aspects of the same thing. And yet, it becomes difficult to define, because time and again the manifest reverts to the realm of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,404 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...LED THE FORM OF THE FORMLESS." The formless is its form. It is such that it has no form. This also we shall find difficult to understand, for we tend to see things in terms of contradiction, whereas Lao Tzu's way of seeing things is by uniting them. We know of people who believe in the manifestations of God, we know of people who believe Him to be without form, and we know of the quarrels between them. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,405 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou think. That is not so. Any shape is His shape, all forms are His, so any shape will do. This is the idea behind it. These two concepts seem conflicting because to us, form and formless are contrasting terms. Lao Tzu sees no conflict in them. The basic concept of Lao Tzu is the concept of harmony everywhere in life. All qualities are His. He is also the quality-less. He is form and He is the formless. That is we ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,406 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...orms are His, so any shape will do. This is the idea behind it. These two concepts seem conflicting because to us, form and formless are contrasting terms. Lao Tzu sees no conflict in them. The basic concept of Lao Tzu is the concept of harmony everywhere in life. All qualities are His. He is also the quality-less. He is form and He is the formless. That is we say: the form of the formless. We accept His forms because we kn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,407 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es become hazy and definition more difficult. He is an image of emptiness, of nothingness. An image can only be carved out of matter; it means shape, form. How can the formless be depicted in an image? And yet, Lao Tzu says, "HE IS AN IMAGE OF NOTHINGNESS." This is a subtle attempt to join the opposites. He is not. This is also a dimension of His being. It is difficult to understand, because to us if one is, the other is no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,408 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Everything that is near to love accepts the existence of God, while everything that is removed from love finds it difficult to accept His existence. They cannot accept the fact of His being and yet not being, Lao Tzu says: "Nothingness is His image." He is not, and that alone is His being. For these very reasons He is called unapproachable, inaccessible and, hence, unknowable. "MEET IT AND YOU DO NOT SEE ITS FACE. FO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,409 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...OW IT AND YOU DO NOT SEE ITS BACK." These are profound words. Meet Him and you cannot see His form. He has no form. He cannot have, because all forms are His. If He had a form of His own, all forms could not be His. Lao Tzu's famous words are: "He is nowhere, for He is everywhere. He is no one, for He is everyone." And though He has no form, it is possible to meet Him. That is why those who get involved and obse...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,410 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d is manifest, the face is useful. If the beyond becomes unmanifest, the face becomes a hindrance. The image becomes an opening, the gate to the formless, if the remembrance of the formless remains. Lao Tzu says: "MEET IT AND YOU DO NOT SEE ITS FACE. FOLLOW IT AND YOU DO 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpubli...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,411 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...this is what Kabira said, this is what Nanak said. The name is enough, but only for the heart which has love within. And where there is love, the name becomes unnecessary. Love alone is enough. Says Lao Tzu: "MEET IT AND YOU DO NOT SEE ITS FACE. FOLLOW IT AND YOU DO NOT SEE ITS BACK." With the union, all boundaries fall. There is no way to experience the union, try as you will. Therefore when a person says he ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,412 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e face of God, know that his imagination has reached the point of fantasy. No one has ever seen His face and no one ever will because no face is His, no form is His. Existence is devoid of all form. Lao Tzu goes on further to say: "HE WHO HOLDS FAST TO THE TAO OF OLD, IN ORDER TO MANAGE THE AFFAIRS OF NOW, IS ABLE TO KNOW THE PRIMEVAL BEGINNINGS, WHICH ARE THE CONTINUITY (THE TRADITION) OF TAO." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,413 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... we can be one with the present moment. Our union with the present moment is our union with God. Then by and by, the past and the future fade away for us and only the present remains. For people like Lao Tzu and Buddha, there is no past and no future. The present is everything. When a person reaches the stage where the present becomes everything to him, he is united with God; he becomes God. The greater the lengt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,414 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the further away we are from God; the shorter the distance, the nearer we are to Him. The day the past and the future fade away completely, we are one with the absolute. Now let us try to understand Lao Tzu's sutra. He who remembers the eternal, whether he is in a shop or in the market or in the office or in the house, whether eating or sleeping, if he is living in the eternal now, he alone is capable to know th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,415 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th-future; the present is absent. If we wish to go beyond samsara, we have to take the jump from the meeting point of the past and future. The pure present is moksha; the perfect present is Tao. When Lao Tzu was asked, "What is your greatest teaching?" he would reply, "This which I am saying now." When Van Gogh was asked, "Which is your best painting?" he would answer, "The one I am doing right no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,416 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s entirely opposite to our concept of a 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- saint. Lao Tzu does not look at a saint as we do. Lao Tzu's saint is a more integrated individual, more complete. The one whom we look upon asa saint is an imperfect individual. It would be better to call him a good man rat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,417 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...0/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- saint. Lao Tzu does not look at a saint as we do. Lao Tzu's saint is a more integrated individual, more complete. The one whom we look upon asa saint is an imperfect individual. It would be better to call him a good man rather than a saint. We can understand a good ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,418 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...her than a saint. We can understand a good man and an evil man. He who does good is a good man; he who does evil is an evil man. We attribute all that is good to a good man and all that is bad to an evil person. But Lao Tzu talks of a saint as an integrated person. He is not something opposite to the evil man, and he is not only a good man. He is both, and beyond both. He is both good and evil at the same time, and hence he is c...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,419 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...same time, and hence he is capable of being beyond both. We shall have to understand a few things before we try to understand this sutra. Then we shall be able to go into the heart of this sutra. Lao Tzu tells us a significant fact: "THE SKILFUL MASTERS (OF THE TAO) IN OLD TIMES, WITH A SUBTLE AND EXQUISITE PENETRATION, COMPREHENDED ITS MYSTERIES, WHICH WERE SO DEEP THAT THEY ELUDED MAN'S KNOWLEDGE." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,420 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t the truths of religion are neither new nor do they become old, for that which was never new can never be old. Religion is a personal search for the truth that always is. Therefore, whether it be Krishna or Christ, Lao Tzu or Mahavira, they all talk of the rishis who have also attained this truth before them. This is noteworthy. When a scientist talks of his discovery, he will say that no one before him had disc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,421 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re me, the Tirthankaras have known it." Christ also says, and Mohammed also says, that the prophets before them have also known. None among them declares himself the pioneer, the original discoverer. Lao Tzu also says: "THE SKILFUL MASTERS (OF THE TAO) IN OLD TIMES, WITH A SUBTLE AND EXQUISITE PENETRATION, COMPREHENDED ITS MYSTERIES." But he also does not mention their names. This, again, is noteworthy. Lao Tzu b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,422 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Lao Tzu also says: "THE SKILFUL MASTERS (OF THE TAO) IN OLD TIMES, WITH A SUBTLE AND EXQUISITE PENETRATION, COMPREHENDED ITS MYSTERIES." But he also does not mention their names. This, again, is noteworthy. Lao Tzu believes that history has been incapable of remembering those who have penetrated into the deep mysteries of Tao, because history takes note of only those people whom it can understand. There have been many i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,423 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... were forgotten. We have the words of many of them, but the names were lost. There are still others whose names we have but whose words are lost. There are still others whose words and names are both lost. Lao Tzu talks of those saints who are not mentioned in history at all; because they were so deep that they were beyond the understanding of ordinary people. Man's understanding covers a very small circle and what...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,424 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...has got to develop. The stronger the understanding, the easier it is to understand religion. I said that our average age of intelligence is thirteen and a ha!f years. There is a beautiful story about Lao Tzu, that he was born old. This is very symbolic, because from childhood Lao Tzu had the I.Q. of a hundred year old man whose understanding had developed along with his age. Collection of information, and und...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,425 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stand religion. I said that our average age of intelligence is thirteen and a ha!f years. There is a beautiful story about Lao Tzu, that he was born old. This is very symbolic, because from childhood Lao Tzu had the I.Q. of a hundred year old man whose understanding had developed along with his age. Collection of information, and understanding, is the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,426 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...isdom is not possible without developing understanding. Religion talks of a totally different realm which only comes within our understanding when our intellect undergoes a total transformation. Says Lao Tzu: "THE SKILFUL MASTERS (OF THE TAO) IN OLD TIMES, WITH A SUBTLE AND EXQUISITE PENETRATION, COMPREHENDED ITS MYSTERIES, WHICH WERE SO DEEP THAT THEY ELUDED MAN'S KNOWLEDGE." Even today, religion is beyond ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,427 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r is our understanding. The more purposeful a thing, the more dumb our intellect becomes. We are master craftsmen in discerning all the trash in life but when faced with a diamond, we go blind! Says Lao Tzu: "Many have entered the world of religion, but they were beyond the understanding of the ordinary man." Why? He gives reasons also. There were many misunderstandings regarding these men, because they wer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,428 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ordinary man." Why? He gives reasons also. There were many misunderstandings regarding these men, because they were beyond the ordinary intelligence. We shall realise how profound our misunderstandings are when Lao Tzu explains the attributes of the e persons. And because they are beyond our understanding, their attributes cannot be defined clearly. We can only make an effort to understand their behaviour. Why?...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,429 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... lover will not find himself lacking for words when he is filled with anger or hate. He will have enough to say, and more. We have no language to express that which is closest to us. Therefore, says Lao Tzu, we can only endeavour to say something about these people. It is difficult to be precise about them; we can only surmise. And then, too, it will only be a faint inference that is derived after groping in the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,430 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ubtle, so delicate that if your grasp is a little hard it will be lost. To grasp the mystery, your palm should be open. Do not try to tighten your grasp. "CAUTIOUS, LIKE CROSSING A WINTRY STREAM..." Lao Tzu tries to paint a cloudy picture. And knowingly so, so that our intellect may rise and enter into the haziness of that mystery. Lao Tzu gives no precise words; he only gives suggestions. He says, "They are as ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,431 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... grasp. "CAUTIOUS, LIKE CROSSING A WINTRY STREAM..." Lao Tzu tries to paint a cloudy picture. And knowingly so, so that our intellect may rise and enter into the haziness of that mystery. Lao Tzu gives no precise words; he only gives suggestions. He says, "They are as alert as man would be when crossing a frozen stream on a cold wintry morning, when the waters seem to freeze the blood as one steps int...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,432 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t and awake, perhaps for the first time in your life. Each step you take will be taken in full consciousness, with one-pointed attention. The Zen fakirs of Japan, who have been greatly influenced by Lao Tzu, have improvised many methods to teach mao vigilance, alertness. One of these methods is the method of the sword. One cannot imagine the use of a sword in meditation, but this sutra of Lao Tzu's is the reason...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,433 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... greatly influenced by Lao Tzu, have improvised many methods to teach mao vigilance, alertness. One of these methods is the method of the sword. One cannot imagine the use of a sword in meditation, but this sutra of Lao Tzu's is the reason behind it. The Japanese fakirs knew that if you tell a man to sit and be tranquil, he cannot be; he becomes even more restless than he normally is. Those who have tried to quiet the mind this ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,434 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...et for half an hour. That half an hour will be like a mad dance within. People may think you are absorbed in meditation, but you will know that you have gone berserk within. What is the reason? Says Lao Tzu: "Total awareness can only be there in the face of danger." In life there is danger every moment, only we do not know it. Therefore, we go about oblivious, unconscious of this danger. It is as if a man is bli...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,435 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...backward or forward. It should stop that very moment." That is why we see emblems of swords before Zen temples. Where the art of swordsmanship is taught -- such a place is called a meditation class. Lao Tzu says: "Such persons have become alert. This is their first characteristic." If we are asked to define a saint, we would say that saint is one who does not partake of alcohol, who does not eat meat, who d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,436 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...saint is one who does not partake of alcohol, who does not eat meat, who does not eat at night, who lives in a hut, who goes about naked.... We would define him in terms that have nothing to do with saintliness. But Lao Tzu lays stress on awareness. This is the underlying principle of everything that is mentioned in our general definition of a saint, but our definition does not include awareness itself. A man ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,437 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... consider themselves vegetarians, are not upset at the sight of an egg. All this does not depend upon your awareness. Rather, it depends upon your education the way you are brought up. A person like Lao Tzu does not lay much store by what you eat and what you drink, or when you sleep and when you rise. His emphasis is on the deeper facts: do you go through life with such alertness and awareness as comes to a man...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,438 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Whatever I do in full awareness is a deed of virtue. That action for which I must be in a state of unconsciousness is a sin. Non-awareness is sin; awareness is virtue. So in the first definition of saintliness that Lao Tzu makes, he says: "He is extremely alert -- like a man who has to cross a stream in the winter season." Here the emphasis is on quality and not action. The emphasis is entirely on inner wisdom, rather than on t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,439 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d and unpublished Query:- quality of alertness within. How each performs the act is secondary. what is incumbent upon each is the quality of alertness. There was a well-known fakir in the time of Lao Tzu. But by profession, he was the royal butcher. For thirty years, this man used to slaughter animals for the royal table. Lao Tzu would tell his disciples that if they wanted to know what an alert person was Li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,440 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the quality of alertness. There was a well-known fakir in the time of Lao Tzu. But by profession, he was the royal butcher. For thirty years, this man used to slaughter animals for the royal table. Lao Tzu would tell his disciples that if they wanted to know what an alert person was Like, they should see this man. No one could believe him. A butcher -- how could he be alert? One disciple, howev...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,441 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... already dead. That which is alive cannot be destroyed by any weapon." This fakir spoke the same words that Krishna has spoken in the Gita. But Krishna's words we can comprehend; not so the words of this fakir. Lao Tzu's disciple went back and told him, "The man speaks words of wisdom, but his actions do not corroborate his words. Perhaps he is only talking." Lao Tzu told him, "Go with your sword and cut off the butcher's h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,442 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s we can comprehend; not so the words of this fakir. Lao Tzu's disciple went back and told him, "The man speaks words of wisdom, but his actions do not corroborate his words. Perhaps he is only talking." Lao Tzu told him, "Go with your sword and cut off the butcher's hand." The man went as he was bidden. As soon as he lifted his sword, the butcher stopped him saying, "Be careful to strike exactly at the joint, o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,443 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Hence I warn you." The sword fell from the disciple's hand. He left. This fakir was alert not only when he slaughtered animals. When it came to his own hand, he was equally as alert. The emphasis of Lao Tzu is on alertness and not action. To be vigilant is an inner quality, an inner happening, an inner perception, a wakefulness. Actions pertain to the outside; they can be different. Even two saints do not behave...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,444 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ome saint or other. This frame of conduct will never tally with any other saint. Then each of us stands by our own choice and excludes everything else. And so, we become poor and miserable in spirit. Lao Tzu does not discuss outer conduct at all. He talks only of things within. If Mahavira chooses to go about naked and if Buddha chooses to put on clothes, that makes no difference between the two. Buddha is as ale...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,445 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this world. And this is what is happening everyday. Unless and until we accept the inner self and realise its value, we shall never be able to understand the various saints who appear in this world. Lao Tzu is concerned with the inner qualities of a person. He says: "He is extremely alert and wide awake, as a person would be when crossing a stream in the cold season. Within him is a lighted 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,446 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... ONE FEARING DANGER ALL AROUND." This is a priceless sutra. They are always irresolute, like one feeling danger all around. We would normally feel that a saint should be resolute, he should be strong of purpose, but Lao Tzu says the opposite. He says that a saint is irresolute. This is difficult to understand because we do not have a deep perception of life. Let us try to understand this sutra. One man says, "I h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,447 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ak mind makes decisions. It is a general belief that a strong mind is a decisive mind. That is as it should be. If a weak mind makes a decision, it will be stronger than those weak minds which make no decisions. But Lao Tzu talks of saints whose minds are no more. There is no question of a weak mind. There is no mind at all! Weakness remains as long as the mind remains. The mind is the weakness. What have saints ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,448 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is this man?' This is only a trick of the mind in order to keep us insensible. Our religion, our scriptures, our so-called saints -- they all help us and pacify us so that we can remain asleep. Says Lao Tzu: "Undecided, irresolute they are, and extremely alert." Nothing about them is predetermined, so they have to be absolutely alert. The whole universe is unknown, a stranger. No one is acquainted with the other...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,449 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ailor at sea who has no compass to guide him. He has to be alert. The more irresolute a person, the more alert he will be; the more resolute a person, the more secure and insensible he is. Here again Lao Tzu talks of things within: irresoluteness, alertness. To be alert means to be on guard, as if you are surrounded by danger on all sides. Have you ever had a chance to observe a deer in the forest? The slightest ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,450 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nsurance will take care of them. He has no anxiety and fear; everything is taken care of. All this security destroys the sense of alertness. In this respect, animals are better off than human beings. Lao Tzu says: a saint is as alert as a wild animal. He makes no provisions for his security. He lives, keenly alive to the dangers that surround him every moment. And danger there is, always. No matter how many preca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,451 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly. Then, as familiarity develops. all controls are gone. When two people become great friends, it only means that they can freely abuse each other and not take it amiss. All propriety is gone. Says Lao Tzu: "They live throughout their lives as if they were guests." Saints never acknowledge this world as their own. They are never at home in it. Throughout their lives they remain an outsider, a visitor. Colin Wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,452 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...remain an outsider, a visitor. Colin Wilson has written a wonderful book called THE OUTSIDER. He took great pains in this book to show that all the people who have mattered in this world, be it Socrates or Buddha or Lao Tzu, were all outsiders. They lived in the world like a guest would stay in the house of people he did not know. This feeling of being a guest remained with them, for the feeling of the unknown never left them. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,453 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s, "I know so many people" is invariably a person who does not know himself. He who has known himself knows at once that he knows nobody. Such a man lives, throughout life, like a stranger, a guest. Lao Tzu says, "Their life is a profound performance. They are but guests in this world, so their conduct is only play-acting, not real." Let us try to understand this by an example. After twelve long years, Budd...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,454 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...da outside and came along to see me! All my complaints, all my anger towards you, melted away. But now I know it was just an act you put up and it was this that brought about the change in me." Says Lao Tzu: "Such people can never become an intrinsic part of this world, but they always act as if they were." Such people establish no relationships, but always pretend to deep relationships. This acting on their par...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,455 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o; am-ness is the sense of just being. But this am-ness of the saint is melting continuously. The day he loses his am-ness, he himself is lost. The saint is gone. Only ishwara remains -- existence. Lao Tzu says, "Their am-ness melts each moment, like ice melts with the rays of the sun." This is an internal happening. If we examine Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna or Christ minutely, we shall not find this am-ness in t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,456 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... claim for himself. He is like a piece of wood that has not been given any form. There is a chair made of wood, a table, an idol -- all these pieces of wood can claim to be the form they are shaped into. Lao Tzu says: "The saint is like uncarved wood." He makes no assumptions about who he is. He looks upon himself as a freshly cut piece of wood from the jungle which can become anything but as yet is nothing. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,457 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... "The saint is like uncarved wood." He makes no assumptions about who he is. He looks upon himself as a freshly cut piece of wood from the jungle which can become anything but as yet is nothing. Says Lao Tzu, "A saint is always undetermined about himself." He never states that he is such. Remember, as soon as he makes any claim about himself, he draws a boundary. The unacclaimed is always infinite; and the infini...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,458 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y the king of China, "Who are you?" he replied, "I do not know." The king was shocked. "I came to you for self-knowledge, but you do not even know who you are!" It is difficult to understand Bodhidharma. That is why Lao Tzu says, "Saints are beyond our understanding." The king took Bodhidharma's statement as he would take the statement of any ordinary person. Bodhidharma laughed and said to the king, "Stay awhile...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,459 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... most insignificant with as much ease as with the most excellent, the most pure. He does not differentiate between heaven and hell. One last point. A king of Japan was in search of a saint. After reading Lao Tzu, he set out to find a saint who was as vacant as a valley and dull like muddy water. He went to temples that had golden pinnacles. The saints he met there were all like the peaks of mountains. He returned to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,460 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty like a valley and dull like muddy 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- water, as Lao Tzu has described." The fakir laughed and said, "Go on your way." The king said, "It was you who asked. And now you say, "Go away!" The fakir laughed and said again, "Go on your way." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,461 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... king and he saw in my eyes. My guru told me to keep my eyes cast down, lest someone sees the valley. And he told me to don the garb of a beggar so as to live like muddy water." This is a very personal hint given by Lao Tzu. The Way of Tao, Volume 2 Chapter #13 Chapter title: From repose to equality. to attain liberation through the golden mean ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,462 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ST BEING OVERFULL, HE IS BEYOND WEARING OUT AND RENEWAL. The last lines of yesterday's sutra were left half-explained. We shall begin with them today. With regard to a saint's characteristics, Lao Tzu has said in the end that they are empty like a valley and humble like muddy waters. The way we live, our manner of living, is not of being empty but, rather, of being full. Whether we fill ourselves with weal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,463 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... emptiness. Throughout his life he tirelessly filled himself, and yet he remained empty within. The nature of that which we strive to fill is to be empty, and hence it cannot be filled. The last and basic definition Lao Tzu gives of a saint is that he is empty like a valley. He who accepts his emptiness and makes no bid to fill himself -- not out of despair or dejection, or a sense of defeat -- is a saint. The w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,464 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Those who attempt to go against nature are defeated ultimately. They are filled with sorrow and pain; their ego is wounded, their life becomes one long tale of distress and disappointment. According to Lao Tzu, a saint is not one who has resorted to the name of God because he is defeated in life and hence, has resigned himself to accept his lot as it is. Lao Tzu says, "A saint knows that it is our very nature to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,465 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... long tale of distress and disappointment. According to Lao Tzu, a saint is not one who has resorted to the name of God because he is defeated in life and hence, has resigned himself to accept his lot as it is. Lao Tzu says, "A saint knows that it is our very nature to be empty. It is a factual experience that he accepts." He also knows that it is a vain attempt to go against nature. It is foolishness to do so. This is not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,466 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... penetrate into the self; it always remains without. All of life passes by in this mad race to fill the within; all our energy is spent in this pursuit. Ultimately we find that the inside is as empty as ever. Lao Tzu says, "The saint lives in his emptiness." He does not fill himself with the other, no matter what the other is. Lao Tzu says: "The saint does not fill himself with Ishwara (God) either. Nor does he fill himse...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,467 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r energy is spent in this pursuit. Ultimately we find that the inside is as empty as ever. Lao Tzu says, "The saint lives in his emptiness." He does not fill himself with the other, no matter what the other is. Lao Tzu says: "The saint does not fill himself with Ishwara (God) either. Nor does he fill himself with religion or good deeds." It is the saint's religion to be empty, his very God is emptiness; because to be empty ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,468 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll the time is utilised in filling the empty stomach. Today, the West has succeeded in filling the stomach, filling the body. And yet they experience that all is empty; there is nothing within. Says Lao Tzu: "A man knows only two ways to deal with this emptiness: he either tries to fill it, or to forget it." First he tries to fill it, as Sikandar did. When he finds this to be impossible, he tries to forget it by...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,469 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...: he either tries to fill it, or to forget it." First he tries to fill it, as Sikandar did. When he finds this to be impossible, he tries to forget it by taking drugs, by indulging in wine, woman and song. But, says Lao Tzu, it cannot get filled and it cannot be forgotten. Life's rules are very strange. The more you try to forget a thing, the more you remember it. You cannot forget a thing by wishing to forget i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,470 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...haken off and he has harmed his body in the bargain. The feeling of emptiness remains as it was. It is now felt more deeply; it becomes more evident. This emptiness can never be filled or forgotten. Lao Tzu says saints are those who neither fill nor forget. They accept the emptiness within them. And then, a wonderful happening, a miracle, takes place. He who accepts his emptiness finds that he is empty no more....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,471 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...our emptiness is a proof of your ambition to be full; your sorrow is evidence of your yearning for joy. If insult pains you, it is a proof of your madness for honour. If you understand this well, you will understand Lao Tzu when he says it is the saint's intrinsic quality to be empty. Lao Tzu then goes on to say that the saint is humble, like muddy waters. Humility, humbleness, is of two kinds There is one humility which is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,472 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...earning for joy. If insult pains you, it is a proof of your madness for honour. If you understand this well, you will understand Lao Tzu when he says it is the saint's intrinsic quality to be empty. Lao Tzu then goes on to say that the saint is humble, like muddy waters. Humility, humbleness, is of two kinds There is one humility which is only an ornament of the ego. If we wish to symbolise it we may say, "As pu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,473 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...heir hands and bow low, but their humility is nothing but a race to gratify their profound egos. There is this one type of humility that is very conscious of the purity and excellence of humbleness. Lao Tzu talks of the other kind of humility. This humility is such that it is not even aware of its goodness, its purity, its excellence. That is why Lao Tzu has likened it to muddy waters. Muddy water flows anywhere...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,474 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ious of the purity and excellence of humbleness. Lao Tzu talks of the other kind of humility. This humility is such that it is not even aware of its goodness, its purity, its excellence. That is why Lao Tzu has likened it to muddy waters. Muddy water flows anywhere, wherever the earth makes way for it. It is so full of mud that it is not conscious of its purity, its excellence as being the water of the Ganges. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,475 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er sinner than myself. This I know, when I look within myself." So you touch his feet and return fully satisfied that you have met a real saint. This is no more than a two-sided play. The saint that Lao Tzu speaks of will never say he is a very good person, nor will he say he is a very bad person because these are both proclamations of the ego. The Lao-Tzu saint doesn't proclaim anything. He says nothing about h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,476 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... no more than a two-sided play. The saint that Lao Tzu speaks of will never say he is a very good person, nor will he say he is a very bad person because these are both proclamations of the ego. The Lao-Tzu saint doesn't proclaim anything. He says nothing about himself. You may return from him disappointed, for he does not give you a chance to make any decision regarding him, and this leaves you unsatisfied. Had...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,477 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e any decision regarding him, and this leaves you unsatisfied. Had he confirmed his sainthood, you could have determined who he was; had he denied his sainthood, it would have given you a chance to decide about him. Lao Tzu's saint says nothing about himself for, Lao Tzu says, "any kind of knowledge of one's self is brought about by the opposite. Therefore, the saint has no knowledge of himself." One man came an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,478 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d. Had he confirmed his sainthood, you could have determined who he was; had he denied his sainthood, it would have given you a chance to decide about him. Lao Tzu's saint says nothing about himself for, Lao Tzu says, "any kind of knowledge of one's self is brought about by the opposite. Therefore, the saint has no knowledge of himself." One man came and said to Lao Tzu, "We have heard that you are the wisest ma...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,479 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...saint says nothing about himself for, Lao Tzu says, "any kind of knowledge of one's self is brought about by the opposite. Therefore, the saint has no knowledge of himself." One man came and said to Lao Tzu, "We have heard that you are the wisest man in the world; there is no one to equal you in knowledge." Lao Tzu listened in silence to all that he had to say. "Won't you say something?" the man asked. Lao Tzu w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,480 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he opposite. Therefore, the saint has no knowledge of himself." One man came and said to Lao Tzu, "We have heard that you are the wisest man in the world; there is no one to equal you in knowledge." Lao Tzu listened in silence to all that he had to say. "Won't you say something?" the man asked. Lao Tzu was still silent. Then another man came who said, "We are very much disturbed by the wrong knowledge you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,481 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... said to Lao Tzu, "We have heard that you are the wisest man in the world; there is no one to equal you in knowledge." Lao Tzu listened in silence to all that he had to say. "Won't you say something?" the man asked. Lao Tzu was still silent. Then another man came who said, "We are very much disturbed by the wrong knowledge you are spreading. Your talk will disturb the minds of the people and lead them astray." Lao Tzu gave...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,482 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e man asked. Lao Tzu was still silent. Then another man came who said, "We are very much disturbed by the wrong knowledge you are spreading. Your talk will disturb the minds of the people and lead them astray." Lao Tzu gave him a patient hearing also, and held his peace. "Will you say nothing to defend yourself?" the man asked. Then Lao Tzu said, "Both of you decide among yourselves. One of you thinks I am ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,483 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing. Your talk will disturb the minds of the people and lead them astray." Lao Tzu gave him a patient hearing also, and held his peace. "Will you say nothing to defend yourself?" the man asked. Then Lao Tzu said, "Both of you decide among yourselves. One of you thinks I am the wisest man and one of you thinks I am steeped in ignorance. For myself, I know nothing of what I am. You are learned people. Decide among...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,484 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e that our mind is similarly filled with dirt and filth. Is it not then possible to sit on its banks and allow the filth to flow away?" Buddha said, "That is why I had to send you back three times." Lao Tzu's sutra is an apt title to this story: "WHO CAN FIND REPOSE IN THE MUDDY WORLD? BY LYING STILL IT BECOMES CLEAR." There is no need to do anything. It is enough to sit in silence and tranquillity and with pati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,485 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stless it becomes; for who is trying to quiet the mind? You are restless many times more restless. If a person is adamant about disciplining his mind, he may even go mad. Then what is the way? The path shown by Lao Tzu is worth emulating. It is the supreme path. Lao Tzu says: "Sit silently by the stream of thoughts; lie still. Let the stream of thoughts flow; let it be dirty, let it be turbid. Be silent, be patient. Wait, d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,486 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...restless many times more restless. If a person is adamant about disciplining his mind, he may even go mad. Then what is the way? The path shown by Lao Tzu is worth emulating. It is the supreme path. Lao Tzu says: "Sit silently by the stream of thoughts; lie still. Let the stream of thoughts flow; let it be dirty, let it be turbid. Be silent, be patient. Wait, do nothing. Just wait. Make no effort to direct the m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,487 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ore, you can never attempt to be tranquil. To be tranquil, to be serene, to be relaxed means only one thing: that all attempts to gain tranquillity have been abandoned. Then what remains is peace, tranquillity. Says Lao Tzu: "Who can find repose in this world of impurities and unrest? Only he who is fixed within himself, who halts within himself and allows the impurities to flow away, can become tranquil." Do no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,488 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... enemies! People come to me and say, "Show us how to fight these four enemies within us: anger, sex, greed and attachment. How should we overcome them?" And Jesus says, "Fight not evil." Lao Tzu says: Lie low and let the evil flow by. Fight and you shall lose. If you wish to win, give up all resistance, give up all fight. But the superficial and so-called religious thinker tells us, "Do not fight oth...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,489 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rally and accepts it without any struggle, he who allows the mud and dry leaves of desire to settle down, leaving the pool of the mind crystal clear, reaches the state of profound meditation (yoga). Lao Tzu hints at this yoga. "WHO CAN MAINTAIN HIS CALM FOR LONG? BY ACTIVITY, REST COMES BACK TO LIFE." This statement has to be understood properly. WHO CAN MAINTAIN HIS CALM FOR LONG? He who has come to realis...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,490 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lowed to go beyond a certain level, the illusion is created that sex is dead within. This is what many sadhus do. The desire is never extinct, it is the lack of the appropriate amount of energy that keeps it hidden. Lao Tzu contends that this kind of calmness is not calmness; it is death. It is not peace; it is the silence of the grave. Tranquillity is an alive happening. Such desolate silence is a dead thing. If the stilln...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,491 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...wed. We feel they have reached a very high state of consciousness. This is an illusion. A very high state of consciousness is possible; but it is a living state not a dead state. What is its secret? Lao Tzu explains the secret. He says that activity is inevitable in life; it is necessary in life. The meaning of life is activity. But the man who knows that activity is the door to repose -- rather, that activity i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,492 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... quarrels and strifes. A man can withdraw himself from all sides, but this brings no transformation because the man remains the same. He has merely changed his surroundings. He will have no deep experiences. Lao Tzu says if you are plying a trade, do not give it up. Whether shop or market or house, do not run away from your surroundings. Do not stand aside from activity. Do not give up activity. Remember, act...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,493 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o not stand aside from activity. Do not give up activity. Remember, activity is not opposed to repose. He who fully engages himself in activity finds that he can also rest as well. This is one of the basic sutras of Lao Tzu. Let us understand it further. If I do not sleep well at night, I naturally think that I should rest in the day. This seems logical; that the more I rest in the day, the better will I sleep at night. I w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,494 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sire tranquillity, we should be fully present in places of restlessness. There is no need to run away. The more we are present in the fullness of our being, the quicker will be the journey towards repose. Therefore, Lao Tzu says, understand the secret. A certain professor was studying this book, Lao Tzu's TAO-TEH-KING, with me. One day he came to me and said, "It seems there is a misprint. Instead of saying 'by inactivity,'...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,495 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...eed to run away. The more we are present in the fullness of our being, the quicker will be the journey towards repose. Therefore, Lao Tzu says, understand the secret. A certain professor was studying this book, Lao Tzu's TAO-TEH-KING, with me. One day he came to me and said, "It seems there is a misprint. Instead of saying 'by inactivity,' it is printed 'by activity'. It should be, "By inactivity, rest comes back to life." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,496 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...life." It was only natural that he should reason in this way because if we go by words, the answer to the question, "WHO CAN MAINTAIN HIS CALM FOR LONG?" Would be that by his inactivity, a man can maintain his calm. Lao Tzu, however, says, "No. By his activity a man can maintain his calm for long." But activity alone is not enough. We are all active. So there is one more condition: to know that all activities ul...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,497 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in our dreams. When we eat, we eat disinterestedly; therefore even after meals, the thought of food lingers in the mind. Whatever we do, we do so half-heartedly that what is left undone lingers on. Lao Tzu says: "Whatever you do, do it so intensely that the opposite begins to happen." When a person understands this secret, he stops running. Then he is not afraid of activity and the world of activity. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,498 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o it so intensely that the opposite begins to happen." When a person understands this secret, he stops running. Then he is not afraid of activity and the world of activity. Sannyas means the same to Lao Tzu as it did to Krishna. He does not advocate renunciation of the world of activity. Like Krishna, Lao Tzu says: "One who attains non-action through action is a sannyasin." As he performs his actions, with all s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,499 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...unning. Then he is not afraid of activity and the world of activity. Sannyas means the same to Lao Tzu as it did to Krishna. He does not advocate renunciation of the world of activity. Like Krishna, Lao Tzu says: "One who attains non-action through action is a sannyasin." As he performs his actions, with all sincerity and singleness of purpose, he is also aware of the fact that on the completion of his act he sh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,500 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yet another basic rule of Tao. "BECAUSE HE GUARDS AGAINST BEING OVERFULL, HE IS BEYOND WEARING OUT AND RENEWAL." These two sutras contradict each other, but they are not contradictory. In the first sutra Lao Tzu says one should involve oneself totally in whatever work he is engaged in. Remember, we have to enter into the fullness of the activity we are involved in. Then the opposite of that activity ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,501 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...llness of the activity we are involved in. Then the opposite of that activity automatically happens. He who is constantly aware of this, attains calm and collectedness in his life. In the next sutra Lao Tzu says: "HE WHO ATTAINS TAO (OR RELIGION, OR NATURE, OR GOD) ALWAYS GUARDS HIMSELF FROM BEING OVERFULL." The action should be total, but the self should never be overfull. The second sutra is in regard to the s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,502 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...MSELF FROM BEING OVERFULL." The action should be total, but the self should never be overfull. The second sutra is in regard to the self, while the first is in regard to the activities of the world. Lao Tzu says: "The world is a play of opposites. Complete one part fully and you find yourself in the opposite." This happens with such ease that there is no difficulty. When the extremes are 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,503 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...yourself again chained to the cycle of life and death, of wearing out and renewal. This sounds strange because, generally, each one of us wishes to be a perfectionist. Everyone of us is constantly striving to be so. Lao Tzu says, "We do not have to be perfect. We have to be whole." There are two words in the English language, that we must note: one is "perfect" and the other is "whole". To be perfect means to re...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,504 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty-four hours of the day. He shall have to maintain his precarious position by pulling and tugging at the conditions around him. This can be very hard and very difficult. But this is the ego: the ego of his honesty. Lao Tzu says whether you try to be perfect in honesty or dishonesty, you will find yourself in difficulty; for honesty and dishonesty are two sides of the same coin. You are trying to preserve one side of the coin an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,505 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to be perfect in honesty or dishonesty, you will find yourself in difficulty; for honesty and dishonesty are two sides of the same coin. You are trying to preserve one side of the coin and throw away the other side. Lao Tzu says do not aim at perfection at either extremity. Rather, be fixed in the centre of both. You are neither to be honest nor dishonest. This seems difficult. It is easy to be honest and it is easy to be d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,506 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...est and it is easy to be dishonest; but to be in between is very difficult. Why? Because we understand honesty; we understand dishonesty. These two are separate and opposite, and, hence, clear in our perception. But Lao Tzu tells us not to choose perfection in the opposites but to be fixed at the golden mean. Be in the centre between honesty and dishonesty, good and bad, light and darkness, saintliness and sin. He who maintains ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,507 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ains the golden mean is rid of all tensions. All tensions arise from the opposite. Be fully involved in your actions, and be fixed within your centre always. Here we find a lot of similarity between Lao Tzu and Buddha. The reason why Buddha's teachings influenced the Chinese may have been because of this sutra of Lao Tzu's. Buddha has called this the middle way. He was the greatest advocate of the middle path. H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,508 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., and be fixed within your centre always. Here we find a lot of similarity between Lao Tzu and Buddha. The reason why Buddha's teachings influenced the Chinese may have been because of this sutra of Lao Tzu's. Buddha has called this the middle way. He was the greatest advocate of the middle path. He always said: "Be at the centre; never go to the extreme." Let me tell you an anecdote from Buddha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,509 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e learnt from the veena to life also. First you let your life strings be so loose that no music could be born. Now, like a mad person, you have pulled them so tight that there again can be no music." Lao Tzu says: "He who attains the Tao always guards himself from too much perfection." He forever chooses the middle path: neither this way nor that, always in the middle. In the case of the veena, music is creat...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,510 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are dissonant, there is no music. When the mind is at the extremity it exists. When the extremities are lost, there is no mind. Then the consciousness, the spirit, the soul, is what remains. Such a person, says Lao Tzu, is free from the cycle of birth and death. He who establishes himself in this golden mean establishes himself in heaven. Both extremes lead to extinction. But there is no death at the centre....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,511 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...then too they can break. But if the strings are well-balanced, there is no possibility of their breaking. It is tension that breaks them. Where there is no tension, there is no way for the strings to break. So, says Lao Tzu, the wearing out and renewal ends. And where the wearing out ceases, death is impossible. Death is an accumulation of all the wearing out Every day the process of wear and tear takes place and, ultimately, de...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,512 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n: the state of balance. Only when this state is achieved can we know about that for which there is no death. And where there is no death, there is no rebirth. Without talking about life after death, Lao Tzu says in this sutra that this is the only way to get out from the cycle of birth and death. Two things Lao Tzu has told us. One, complete involvement in our activities is necessary if we are to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,513 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... And where there is no death, there is no rebirth. Without talking about life after death, Lao Tzu says in this sutra that this is the only way to get out from the cycle of birth and death. Two things Lao Tzu has told us. One, complete involvement in our activities is necessary if we are to enter the opposite state; and two balance within the self is necessary so that no tensions are formed. Then, disintegration a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,514 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- state of the ego. I am apart from the body: this state is am-ness. To feel that I am one with God is a state that is beyond am-ness. Says Lao Tzu: it is necessary for a saint that his ego should dissolve and he should know that he is not the body, not the mind. This realisation is the indication of a saint. A saint can, however, stop at this and go no ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,515 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the infinite is established, the am-ness also is lost. When I say, 'I am', there are two words: 'I' stands for the ego, and 'am' stands for asmita. The saint's 'I' drops and only the am-ness remains. Lao Tzu says, the definition of a saint is one whose 'I' has dropped but whose am-ness remains. If this am-ness keeps melting like snow in the sun, as Lao Tzu describes it, it will disappear one day. The 'I' was anni...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,516 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... for asmita. The saint's 'I' drops and only the am-ness remains. Lao Tzu says, the definition of a saint is one whose 'I' has dropped but whose am-ness remains. If this am-ness keeps melting like snow in the sun, as Lao Tzu describes it, it will disappear one day. The 'I' was annihilated before. The 'am' is then lost also. What remains is pure existence. Then, says Lao Tzu, to call such a person a saint is meaningless. The ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,517 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...remains. If this am-ness keeps melting like snow in the sun, as Lao Tzu describes it, it will disappear one day. The 'I' was annihilated before. The 'am' is then lost also. What remains is pure existence. Then, says Lao Tzu, to call such a person a saint is meaningless. The wave has become one with the ocean. To be a saint is also to be at a distance from God. A sinner is very far away from God; the saint is near...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,518 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is very far away from God; the saint is nearer to Him. But this nearness is also a distance; it is not oneness. The saint is near God, very near, but however near, the distance remains. The final goal, according to Lao Tzu, is that even this distance should not be. This being near should also end. Then oneness is achieved. Ordinarily we think that when distance is overcome, oneness results. This is not so. In fact, the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,519 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd is united with God, there stands am-ness. There are two connections. The connection between the mind and the world creates the ego; where the mind joins God, am-ness remains. A saint, according to Lao Tzu is one who has broken the first connection. His connections with the world are broken. But his second connection remains to be established. He is still not one with God. The most subtle form of the ego still ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,520 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nsparent wall, feel the saint has become God. This is natural. But the saint experiences this wall that obstructs him every moment. He knows he has not yet become completely annihilated; he still is. Lao Tzu talks from his own experience as a saint when he says: "Not until the am-ness melts away like snow in the sun can you attain the ultimate truth." According to our experience, we say that the saint has att...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,521 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ight in the room. We can say that a man is alive or that he is not yet dead. So there are these two aspects of expression; positive and negative. It depends entirely on the individual which aspect he chooses to use. Lao Tzu and Buddha preferred the negative aspect. Whatever they said, they said in the negative. This had its reasons, many reasons. The most important reason was that Buddha found that, everywhere whatever, was said...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,522 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... declare "I am God" are liars. Man's ego takes pleasure in making this declaration. The ways of the ego are very subtle -- and what could please the ego more than to feel "I am God"? So Buddha, as well as Lao Tzu, felt that this sort of proclamation was very harmful. It is not that this statement is necessarily false. When Mansoor said, "I am God" (ana'l haq), he was telling the truth. On his part, there was no mi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,523 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a madman can declare, "I am God!" He cannot be stopped from doing so. The danger lies in the fact that such people can also impress others and influence them and, consequently, mislead them. So Buddha and Lao Tzu were against all declarations. They said, "A saint makes no claims." But to be silent is also a proclamation. Whatever a man does, proclamation is bound to be there. Now, if people believe that he who makes n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,524 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ion is bound to be there. Now, if people believe that he who makes no claims for himself is a saint, it is easy for a person who wishes to be called a saint. He just has to make no claims. Buddha and Lao Tzu made use of the negative term. But soon it was discovered, both in India and in China, that the ways of the ego are very strange and mysterious. The ego has no difficulty either way. If you come to me and say...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,525 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd replied, "You have no right to make any statement on the play. You were sleeping throughout." Shaw said, "My sleeping is my statement. I say the play was good because I slept well." Buddha and Lao Tzu made a very significant effort but it was not successful, because man can create tools of deception in any direction. Those who proclaimed themselves to be God mislead the people but, after Buddha, his bhiksh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,526 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lamations. Deception is possible from any direction; there is no way to avoid it. This means that it depends upon the natural inclination of each person how he puts forth his views. The propensity of Lao Tzu and Buddha is in the negative: not this, not this. If they have to say something, they will say, "Say only that which is not." If they could do it, they would prefer to speak through their silence. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,527 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nsense. They would argue that when you say further from the furthest, you cannot say nearer than the nearest in the same breath; for both statements nullify each other. These thinkers of the West would also consider Lao Tzu's teachings absurd. Lao Tzu says, "Formless is His form." This makes no sense to them, for form means form to them, and formlessness is formlessness. It is, according to them, like saying, "To be dead is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,528 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rther from the furthest, you cannot say nearer than the nearest in the same breath; for both statements nullify each other. These thinkers of the West would also consider Lao Tzu's teachings absurd. Lao Tzu says, "Formless is His form." This makes no sense to them, for form means form to them, and formlessness is formlessness. It is, according to them, like saying, "To be dead is to be alive," or, "His ugliness ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,529 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...or form means form to them, and formlessness is formlessness. It is, according to them, like saying, "To be dead is to be alive," or, "His ugliness is his beauty." or "His sight is his blindness." They would entreat Lao Tzu not to make use of such statements because blindness is blindness and to have sight is to see. If you use blindness to mean eyes, and eyes to mean blindness, there will be too much confusion. One of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,530 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is a fourth way. Remain silent. But this solves no problems. So language is a necessary evil; and we have to choose. Each one's choice is his personal preference. Jesus and Mansoor prefer positive language. Lao Tzu prefers negative language. No one can say who is right and who is wrong. For Jesus, his own trend of thinking is correct; for Lao Tzu his own opinions are correct. Their trend of thought depends on their own ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,531 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s choice is his personal preference. Jesus and Mansoor prefer positive language. Lao Tzu prefers negative language. No one can say who is right and who is wrong. For Jesus, his own trend of thinking is correct; for Lao Tzu his own opinions are correct. Their trend of thought depends on their own way of thinking. Our trouble is that we are always trying to find similarities between their sayings before we are wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,532 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Our trouble is that we are always trying to find similarities between their sayings before we are willing to accept them as correct. We cannot accept them all as being authentic at the same time. It is either Lao Tzu who is correct or Buddha or Jesus or Krishna. They all cannot be correct. I say unto you, leave this debate as it is. Take whatever appeals to you from all these people and follow it. Do not worry about ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,533 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... who prefer the language of negation 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- will find Lao Tzu interesting and will understand him. Those who prefer positive language will not understand Lao Tzu. There is no need to. Where you start from is not important. What is important is the fact that you finally ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,534 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ternational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- will find Lao Tzu interesting and will understand him. Those who prefer positive language will not understand Lao Tzu. There is no need to. Where you start from is not important. What is important is the fact that you finally reach the destination that both Jesus and Lao Tzu have talked about. The day you reach, you shall fi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,535 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...m. Those who prefer positive language will not understand Lao Tzu. There is no need to. Where you start from is not important. What is important is the fact that you finally reach the destination that both Jesus and Lao Tzu have talked about. The day you reach, you shall find that all roads converge on the same point. Until that time, you have to choose one path for yourself. There is another danger. There are so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,536 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... himself. But we all have abortive minds. We hardly begin a thing before the mind is filled with a thousand statements regarding it. We hardly take a step and we begin to talk of the destination. Lao Tzu is right. So is Mansoor. But this you shall only know when you also reach the same place. So do not be hasty. Whatever path suits, take that to be the path. What seem wrong, take those ways to be absolutely w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,537 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ch should be encouraged. Both the positive and negative statements are correct -- but only for those who have reached, not for you. I talk on Krishna. If you like positive language, you can follow Krishna. I talk on Lao Tzu, because no one else has given such a beautiful rendering of negation. Lao Tzu is superlative on the path of negation. Those who are drawn towards 10/28/07 Copyright Osho I...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,538 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- but only for those who have reached, not for you. I talk on Krishna. If you like positive language, you can follow Krishna. I talk on Lao Tzu, because no one else has given such a beautiful rendering of negation. Lao Tzu is superlative on the path of negation. Those who are drawn towards 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpubli...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,539 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e drawn towards 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- the path of negation may follow Lao Tzu. Do not worry about what is right. What is important is what you feel to be right for you. That is the basic, most valuable question. IN THE LAST SUTRA YESTERDAY IT WAS SAID THAT HE WHO...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,540 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ss. Activity begins and tensions are formed and thoughts awakened. As much work begins within as without. That is the restlessness. Then, work ceases. If we enter into our activities with one pointedness, then, says Lao Tzu, the activity within ceases. Then peace ensues. Our condition is such that we are neither completely restless nor completely at rest. To be completely relaxed we would have to be completely m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,541 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er. He found that a strange, beautiful calm and restfulness pervaded his entire being. Everything became silent and peaceful, like after a storm. So we must first understand this rule of nature that Lao Tzu speaks of. That is that rest is inevitable after each activity, if the activity is complete. But this is not enough in order to remain calm. Maintaining one's calm is a deeper happening that is directly depen...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,542 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...NCE IN THE VERY NATURE OF KRISHNA AND LAO TZU IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. KINDLY EXPLAIN. You will never be able to understand the nature of Krishna and you will never understand the nature of Lao Tzu. Only Krishna can understand Krishna's nature; only Lao Tzu can understand Lao Tzu's nature -- just as you alone can understand your nature. All we can understand of another is his behaviour, his actions. We ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,543 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...O UNDERSTAND. KINDLY EXPLAIN. You will never be able to understand the nature of Krishna and you will never understand the nature of Lao Tzu. Only Krishna can understand Krishna's nature; only Lao Tzu can understand Lao Tzu's nature -- just as you alone can understand your nature. All we can understand of another is his behaviour, his actions. We can only see what Krishna does. How can we see what he is? W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,544 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...TAND. KINDLY EXPLAIN. You will never be able to understand the nature of Krishna and you will never understand the nature of Lao Tzu. Only Krishna can understand Krishna's nature; only Lao Tzu can understand Lao Tzu's nature -- just as you alone can understand your nature. All we can understand of another is his behaviour, his actions. We can only see what Krishna does. How can we see what he is? We can see w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,545 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... likened to the personalities, and the electric current to the energy within. Personalities are different (like the bulbs), but the energy within (like the electric current) is one. Krishna's body is his bulb; Lao Tzu's body is his bulb. These are personalities. The nature within 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,546 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lank. As soon as we stamp our individuality on it, its value changes: Picasso's paper becomes more valuable, and ours gain or lose in value according to our individual personality. Buddha, Jesus and Lao Tzu are blank sheets of paper within, but as soon as we see them from outside they form a picture, the picture of their individuality. This picture does not portray the existence; it is their particular individua...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,547 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...adually begin to search within. And the day you discover your individuality to be apart from your existence, the doors within shall open and you shall be able to look within. Buddha is just the outer clothing. So is Lao Tzu. So is Jesus and Mohammed. That which is hidden within the clothing is completely apart from them. Do not think of existence in terms of outer clothing. But, alas, what can we do? We think only in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,548 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...repose and hence cannot be eternal. Activity has to tire out and return to repose. Only inactivity can be eternal. It is very necessary to understand this sutra. The religious have said that God is the Creator. Lao Tzu does not accept this. He says that creation is an activity. If God is the Creator, someday He is bound to be tired of this activity. Every activity leads to repose. The result of each and every activity ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,549 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lapping and flashes of lightning. Then it rains and the clouds are empty; they are lost. They are bound to be, for all activities have a beginning and an end. That which has no beginning has no end. Lao Tzu's God is inactive. Therefore, Lao Tzu does not refer to Him as God. He calls him the eternal law: Tao. If we see this from different angles in life, it will be easier to see within oneself. Then we shall unde...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,550 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...htning. Then it rains and the clouds are empty; they are lost. They are bound to be, for all activities have a beginning and an end. That which has no beginning has no end. Lao Tzu's God is inactive. Therefore, Lao Tzu does not refer to Him as God. He calls him the eternal law: Tao. If we see this from different angles in life, it will be easier to see within oneself. Then we shall understand Lao Tzu's sadhana. Then we shal...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,551 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s God is inactive. Therefore, Lao Tzu does not refer to Him as God. He calls him the eternal law: Tao. If we see this from different angles in life, it will be easier to see within oneself. Then we shall understand Lao Tzu's sadhana. Then we shall understand what he says, what type of a person can attain this eternal absolute. We saw a seed: a tree is born. Its branches spread on all sides and then the flowers come. Then ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,552 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., then there would be no sky within you. If you could still be, without your parents, without your body, then alone can there be the atman within you. Otherwise there is no meaning in the term atman. Lao Tzu says that within each of us there is the cloud and there is the sky. Just like clouds cannot be without the sky, desires cannot be without the atman. Just like clouds need the sky in order to sail along, so d...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,553 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e two sutras are present simultaneously. There is the world of activity and the atman of inactivity. To know this passivity, this inactivity, is to know the eternal law. Let us understand this sutra. Lao Tzu says that we should attain the supreme state of passivity and hold fast to it with the help of calmness and tranquillity. What is meant by attaining the supreme state of passivity within one's self? This does...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,554 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lie like a corpse, that too becomes an action. If you leave everything and run away to the forest, that too is an activity. A youth came to the Zen fakir Hiutti. He told him to remember this sutra of Lao Tzu: "ATTAIN THE UTMOST IN PASSIVITY." The youth tried to follow his advice. The next morning he went to Hiutti and sat like an image of Buddha: silent, unmoving. Hiutti shook him and said, "We have e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,555 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e atman. There is no sadhana to attain the atman. All efforts, all sadhanas, are meant only to shift our attention from the realm of clouds within us so that we can see the sky behind. This sutra of Lao Tzu says: "ATTAIN THE UTMOST IN PASSIVITY." Because of the words, it creates a misunderstanding. "Attain" means to achieve something. These are the shortcomings of language, Lao Tzu told us in the very beginning ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,556 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ehind. This sutra of Lao Tzu says: "ATTAIN THE UTMOST IN PASSIVITY." Because of the words, it creates a misunderstanding. "Attain" means to achieve something. These are the shortcomings of language, Lao Tzu told us in the very beginning that what he wishes to say can never be said, and whatever he says will inevitably become false. Our language depends entirely on action. Even when a person is dead, we say ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,557 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tained, it cannot become an achievement. All achievements are actions. You can attain wealth, you can attain honor, you can attain a status. These are all actions. But how can passivity be attained? Lao Tzu explains: "There are two layers within us. One is the layer of activity: of clouds, of waves and ripples. Exactly below this, in the lower depths, there is the sky." It is in this sky that all the clouds glid...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,558 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the sky." It is in this sky that all the clouds glide. This sky, this space, is boundless, whereas the clouds are limited. The ability to see beyond these clouds becomes the attainment of passivity. Lao Tzu goes on to say, in the very next part of the same sutra, "ATTAIN THE UTMOST IN PASSIVITY. HOLD FIRM TO THE BASIS OF QUIETUDE." When you know of the sky within, don't wander anymore in the clouds. No matter ho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,559 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ecome active. The cloud takes a form and becomes active. The tree takes a form and becomes active. Desires take form within us and become active. But then we see them reverting back to repose again. Lao Tzu says: "MYRIAD THINGS TAKE SHAPE AND RISE IN ACTIVITY, BUT I WATCH THEM FALL BACK TO REPOSE." If we begin to understand that all forms -- whether beautiful or ugly, whether pleasing or repulsive -- form and di...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,560 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e formless. Without the formless, form cannot be, just as without the sky the clouds cannot be. The formless is inevitable in order for the form to be. But we can see the form only, not the formless. Lao Tzu says that all things become activated as soon as they assume form, but then they return to repose once again. To observe this is religion. "LIKE VEGETATION THAT LUXURIOUSLY GROWS, BUT RETURNS TO THE ROOT ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,561 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... as if it would touch the sky, and then falls quickly into the sea and is no more. But when the plant was in full bloom, with its abundance of foliage and flowers, we did not notice the sky behind it. Lao Tzu says: "All things go back to where they came from." Only one who can see things reverting back is able to touch the ultimate point of passivity. This person alone can become one with the basis of quietude. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,562 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ows that whatever of him is visible -- his body, his mind, his thoughts, his ego, his am-ness, his intellect.... All of him that can be perceived will one day revert back to the soil just as all forms do. Then, says Lao Tzu, "TO RETURN TO THE ROOTS IS REPOSE." He who is filled with this experience returns to his roots this very moment. These words are very precious: "TO RETURN TO THE ROOT IS REPOSE." This knowledge of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,563 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ore. Everything around you changes. This fear of change is what holds a person back. If the courage to change is lacking, a man cannot become religious, even if he hears about religion all his life. Lao Tzu says: "TO RETURN TO THE ROOT IS REPOSE." This basic space, this nothingness within.... And space (AKASH) means nothingness; it means existence. It is not solid; it is not an object, it has no form. It is empt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,564 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... object, it has no form. It is empty space. Everything appears and disappears within it, and it remains untouched, unaffected by everything. "THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED GOING BACK TO ONE'S DESTINY." Lao Tzu says: to fall back to the roots, to revert back to the fundamental source and experience oneness with it, is to go back to one's destiny, back to one's nature, back into creation. This is our destiny. As long...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,565 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it. Approximate truth means that truth which has yet not been proven false. This is only natural. It is very natural because the very subject that science deals in is ever-changing. Lao Tzu says that there is also an eternal law. This law never changes. This is the second law. But to discover this law, we shall have to set aside every thing that changes. So the laws of religion do not change. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,566 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., Mahavira, and Krishna still hold good? These people are right, because what they know as truth is forever changing. They have no knowledge of the truth that Krishna taught; they have no knowledge of the truth that Lao Tzu taught. Lao Tzu talks of that truth where changing truths are dropped completely. That is the first condition that is fulfilled. The stream of constant change has been set aside. Religion has nothing to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,567 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d good? These people are right, because what they know as truth is forever changing. They have no knowledge of the truth that Krishna taught; they have no knowledge of the truth that Lao Tzu taught. Lao Tzu talks of that truth where changing truths are dropped completely. That is the first condition that is fulfilled. The stream of constant change has been set aside. Religion has nothing to do with it. But it ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,568 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he clouds change, the sky must be changing too. The sky is eternal. Whatever changes, changes within the sky; but the sky never changes. This search for the sky, this search for inner space, is what Lao Tzu is talking about. Whenever a person attains this inner space, he attains his destiny. He attains that which after attaining, there is nothing more to be attained. He has reached home. He has found his house. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,569 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...id I not come to this earth to attain something? Was there no order in my being? The time has been spent in amassing wealth and gaining fame. But what was my destiny? What did I come here to attain?" Lao Tzu says that destiny is attained the day a person attains the eternal law, the inner space within himself. "TO ATTAIN ONE'S DESTINY IS TO ATTAIN THE ETERNAL LAW. TO KNOW THE ETERNAL LAW IS ENLIGHTENMENT. AND NOT...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,570 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing, that is one state of your mind. But if you think that you are watching the body walk, the focus changes immediately, the gestalt changes immediately. If you wish to experience the passivity that Lao Tzu speaks of, you shall have to keep a constant eye on the inner space and not on the clouds. I,et the clouds form. Let them glide by. Keep your focus on the sky within. What is this sky within y...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,571 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...k all connections with the doer. Be one with the observer and you will at once feel one with the inner space within, the passive sky. When this happens, all sorrows fade. Death and change become as unreal as dreams. Lao Tzu says: "This alone is the eternal rule." 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,572 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... It was unique in the sense that their findings in the field of science were entirely contrary to all scientific theories of today. They have destroyed the fundamentals of science. What they have proved is very near Lao Tzu; but nowhere near Newton. What they have discovered can tally with the Gita and not with Marx. Their discovery is that if there is matter in the world, there is anti-matter too, because nothing ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,573 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...roton. This energy cannot be seen nor experienced. In this world, the opposite is inevitable. The world is a conjunction of the opposites. Segre and Chamberlain have named this energy "anti-matter." Lao Tzu, Krishna, Buddha and Christ have given it different names: atman, eternal law, beatitude, deliverance, God. In all these names, one fact is common: they all stand for anti-world, anti-matter. The findings of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,574 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Perhaps that is how it should be. In scientific language, the living element is lost and, with it, the fragrance and harmony. The poetry ends and only dead figures remain. If we keep in mind a brief concept of Lao Tzu's eternal law, we shall be able to move into this sutra. Lao Tzu says: there is a world of change, where everything is constantly changing. But this world is not enough. Rather, there must be a world without ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,575 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... is lost and, with it, the fragrance and harmony. The poetry ends and only dead figures remain. If we keep in mind a brief concept of Lao Tzu's eternal law, we shall be able to move into this sutra. Lao Tzu says: there is a world of change, where everything is constantly changing. But this world is not enough. Rather, there must be a world without change, in order to balance this world. There must be an opposite...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,576 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing is fixed, nothing is stable, not even for a moment." We hardly utter a word and the thing has changed: This world is an intense process of change. We can call it a process of change, a flux. And Lao Tzu says: "Right within this world, hidden from it, and exactly the opposite of it, is a principle which is ever fixed, ever stable; where nothing changes; where there are no vibrations, no ripples. This he refer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,577 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...site. Within you is the body. Also within you there is an anti-body: matter as well as anti-matter, proton as well as anti-proton. Within you is change and within you is the changeless, the eternal. Lao Tzu says that he who takes his changing self to be his being is insane. He will be unhappy, restless and frustrated, because that with which he is identifying himself is not stable for a moment. He will be dragge...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,578 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s also eternity. And the emptiness in which the sound vibrated, that too is eternity. Every happening takes place in the void. It appears in the void and it disappears in the void. To know this eternity is Tao, says Lao Tzu. To know this eternity is religion. Now we shall proceed to understand the sutra. "HE WHO KNOWS THE ETERNAL LAW IS TOLERANT." It is not correct to say that he who knows the eternal law bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,579 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ose all power of forbearance. We are all intolerant. We cannot tolerate anything. If I love someone and that someone looks appreciatingly at another, I go mad with jealousy; I cannot tolerate it. Lao Tzu says: "HE WHO KNOWS THE ETERNAL LAW IS TOLERANT" -- because he knows that in this transient world, everything is prone to change. Nothing is fixed, not even love. We cannot pin our hopes on anything here. He ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,580 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lement in all this was constant: the element of knowing. This knowing in itself is eternal, constant. Everything else is inconstant and transient. The witnessing consciousness within is eternal. When Lao Tzu says that he who knows the eternal law becomes tolerant, he means that he who becomes a witness to everything around and within him becomes tolerant. A slight deviation from the witness-state and all ills and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,581 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er. But I have nothing to do with all this. I merely sit on its bank and watch. The knowledge of the eternal law is to sit at the shores of the changing world, fully established in the witness-state. Lao Tzu says, "He who becomes tolerant becomes impartial." This needs to be explained. Actually, we can only take sides when there is a choice. I say a man is good because he behaves as I expect him to. I say a man i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,582 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an is a great sadhu if he totally fulfils your expectations. If he falters, if he laxes, he becomes a lesser sadhu. But who is a saint and who is a sinner in the eyes of one who expects nothing? Says Lao Tzu, "He who attains knowledge of the eternal becomes impartial." For him, there is no difference between Rama and Ravana, because the difference between Rama and Ravana is the difference between our expectations...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,583 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to the world of change; not otherwise. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Says Lao Tzu, "He who becomes tolerant becomes impartial." Impartial means: when there is no expectation within, there is no choice without. If Lao Tzu were told, "This man is bad. Make him a good man," Lao Tzu would say,...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,584 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Says Lao Tzu, "He who becomes tolerant becomes impartial." Impartial means: when there is no expectation within, there is no choice without. If Lao Tzu were told, "This man is bad. Make him a good man," Lao Tzu would say, "I have no expectations. Even less do I know who is good and who is bad. Nor do I know the way to make a person good. And he who becomes g...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,585 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Says Lao Tzu, "He who becomes tolerant becomes impartial." Impartial means: when there is no expectation within, there is no choice without. If Lao Tzu were told, "This man is bad. Make him a good man," Lao Tzu would say, "I have no expectations. Even less do I know who is good and who is bad. Nor do I know the way to make a person good. And he who becomes good for me may not be good for others because others have t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,586 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s world; but if I do not go to her, for fear of slander and accept your invitation, then all the Buddhas that have ever been, will deride me. I would rather be defamed here than despised there." Says Lao Tzu, "Such a person becomes impartial. He does not take sides one way or the other, but lives naturally. He passes no judgment about what is good and what is bad; what should be and what should not be. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,587 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... on, a cultivated impartiality. He learns to be impartial step by step. The impartiality of a religious man is natural, spontaneous. This is difficult. It is very difficult for us even to be ethical. Lao Tzu talks of far-off things. He says that ethicalness is a disease. He says that as long as the opposites, the dichotomy, remains, there is bound to be restlessness. As long as I feel this is good and this is bad...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,588 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ty. His worry causes him restless nights and his whole life is spent in correcting the world. Amidst all this he fails to see that it is his own self that needs correction. It is somewhat difficult to understand Lao Tzu. That is why Lao Tzu has been misunderstood in the West. His thoughts are considered immoral. How can one remain impartial when there is a constant conflict between good and evil? There is a reason for this. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,589 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...him restless nights and his whole life is spent in correcting the world. Amidst all this he fails to see that it is his own self that needs correction. It is somewhat difficult to understand Lao Tzu. That is why Lao Tzu has been misunderstood in the West. His thoughts are considered immoral. How can one remain impartial when there is a constant conflict between good and evil? There is a reason for this. If we view ourselves ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,590 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...en know that you are still asleep. If you realise it was a dream, it makes no difference to you whether Ravana wins or Rama wins. Now you can be sure you are awake, because now you are impartial. For Lao Tzu the world of change is a dream. He who is surrounded by dreams, who is tied to his dreams, will always be partial. Wherever there is partiality, there is intolerance, impatience and sorrow. If you wish to ris...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,591 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... your steps in case someone sees. If you pass a temple, your hands fold automatically in reverence. Our likes and dislikes vibrate through the body continuously. "BEING IMPARTIAL, HE IS KINGLY," says Lao Tzu. Perhaps he could not find abetter simile because kings are not generally impartial. Jesus once told his disciples, "Look at the lilies in full bloom. The majesty of king Solomon seems pale and faded before t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,592 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thy, etcetera. Such forced fixation of consciousness is a false fixation. A slight relaxation and the consciousness begins to flow towards our likes and away from our dislikes. There is another way, the way that Lao Tzu talks of. He says do not worry about the fixation of consciousness. Know the eternal law, recognise the world of change, and you find all bias has dropped off. When impartiality is attained, you become stable...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,593 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lieves he is sitting on his mat: He has safe-guarded his simplicity. He who lives by guarding his ideals makes everything around him ugly and crippled. His consciousness is constantly tremoring. Says Lao Tzu, "BEING IMPARTIAL, HE IS KINGLY." One more thing has to be remembered in this context. To be kingly means: that running after achievements, renouncing things, choosing this or that, -- all these become meanin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,594 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rld is mastery, lordliness. That is why we address a sannyasin as "swami". This does not mean that all sannyasins are swamis. We imply an inner mastery when we say "swami". That is the key to enter the palace: which Lao Tzu refers to as Tao; Buddha as dhamma, the Vedas as rit and Jesus as the Kingdom of God. The difference is only of words. "BEING IN ACCORD WITH NATURE, HE IS IN ACCORD WITH TAO". "BEING IN ACCOR...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,595 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...because we identify ourselves with the transient, the impermanent. The day we break our relations with the impermanent, death no longer is; and that with which you are united is deathless, immortal. Lao Tzu says, "BEING IN ACCORD WITH TAO HE IS ETERNAL." Thus his eternal life goes beyond pain and sorrow. What is unhappiness? It is the shadow of death: a long shadow of death. Wherever death is ap...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,596 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... are happy. Man has knowledge of death therefore he can be most unhappy or can make the most arrangements to forget the unhappiness. There are only these two ways open to him. He cannot be happy until he understands Lao Tzu, until he identifies himself with the eternal. Animals can be happy for they have no feeling of death. Man cannot be as happy as animals are. Because man has gone further alone in his journey ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,597 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e most useful purpose in life. 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Lao Tzu also says, "He who establishes himself in the Tao becomes immortal, deathless". Death no longer exists for him. He who is beyond death is beyond the whole gamut of sorrow and pain, because all pain is the pai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,598 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...can be utilised for the lowest function. The most mysterious happenings of life can sometimes be the screen to hide the lowest acts. That is what this saying you have mentioned is about. Because it is connected with Lao Tzu, it is only proper that we consider it now. Lao Tzu would say, "Whatever happens is the right thing to happen." This is in no way a consolation. Rather, this is Lao Tzu's point of view. He says, "How can ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,599 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ngs of life can sometimes be the screen to hide the lowest acts. That is what this saying you have mentioned is about. Because it is connected with Lao Tzu, it is only proper that we consider it now. Lao Tzu would say, "Whatever happens is the right thing to happen." This is in no way a consolation. Rather, this is Lao Tzu's point of view. He says, "How can that which is wrong ever happen? Whatever happens cannot...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,600 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... about. Because it is connected with Lao Tzu, it is only proper that we consider it now. Lao Tzu would say, "Whatever happens is the right thing to happen." This is in no way a consolation. Rather, this is Lao Tzu's point of view. He says, "How can that which is wrong ever happen? Whatever happens cannot help but be right." This statement is not related to the happening itself but, rather, to the witness of the happeni...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,601 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... point of view. He says, "How can that which is wrong ever happen? Whatever happens cannot help but be right." This statement is not related to the happening itself but, rather, to the witness of the happening. When Lao Tzu says, "Whatever happens is what should have happened",: he means that now there is nothing in the world that is evil for him. This statement speaks of the witness within Lao Tzu himself. Lao T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,602 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to the witness of the happening. When Lao Tzu says, "Whatever happens is what should have happened",: he means that now there is nothing in the world that is evil for him. This statement speaks of the witness within Lao Tzu himself. Lao Tzu says, "Now there is no evil in the world for me. I stand where evil cannot touch. Now, everything is good." Now everything is good because Lao Tzu has attained that bliss which cannot ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,603 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...When Lao Tzu says, "Whatever happens is what should have happened",: he means that now there is nothing in the world that is evil for him. This statement speaks of the witness within Lao Tzu himself. Lao Tzu says, "Now there is no evil in the world for me. I stand where evil cannot touch. Now, everything is good." Now everything is good because Lao Tzu has attained that bliss which cannot be destroyed. For us eve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,604 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... statement speaks of the witness within Lao Tzu himself. Lao Tzu says, "Now there is no evil in the world for me. I stand where evil cannot touch. Now, everything is good." Now everything is good because Lao Tzu has attained that bliss which cannot be destroyed. For us everything is not all right. For us, that which gives happiness is all right, and that, which brings sorrow and pain, is not all right. As long as you...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,605 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lse contentment. Real contentment is experienced by those who have conquered life. They are conquerors in the sense that now there is no way of defeating them, now defeat is no longer defeat to them. Lao Tzu has said, "You cannot defeat me because I stand defeated from the beginning. You cannot displace me because where I sit is the last place. There is no way to go further down. You cannot give me so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,606 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...out to be sour, it will still say they are sweet! One thing we must keep in mind. We must watch out whether our statements come out of our defeat, our failures, because such statements have no value. Lao Tzu does not teach us to put on the mask of contentment. He says that the relationship of contentment with life is one of harmony, of friendliness, and not of disharmony, or enmity and defeat. Lao Tzu says that w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,607 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e. Lao Tzu does not teach us to put on the mask of contentment. He says that the relationship of contentment with life is one of harmony, of friendliness, and not of disharmony, or enmity and defeat. Lao Tzu says that whatever happens is a vast happening and numerous and varied are the reasons for its happening. So vast is its expansion and so mysterious is its being that it would be childish to decide whether it...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,608 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ream -- eternal, infinite. It has no beginning and no end. So God alone can be the judge. And only on the day that the creation comes to an end, can we decide what was right and what was wrong. When Lao Tzu says, "Everything is all right," he means that we are not the ones to decide. He is expressing his oneness with the vast universe. His will is one with the will of the universe. He has no separate will of his...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,609 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of Jesus and destroyed his belief in God. His eyes filled with tears as he begged forgiveness from his Father. "Forgive me, Lord, forgive me!" he cried. "Thy will is my own. Thy will be done!" When Lao Tzu says, "Everything is as it should be," he implies that our statements against the eternal law are foolish. The eternal law is so vast. It is bound to be; everything is born out of it. If I die tomorrow, I wil...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,610 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... good, the death it gives me cannot help but be good. Everything takes birth from one source. The flower and the thorn arise from the same source. If the flowers are good, how can the thorns be bad? Lao Tzu says, "Flowers are His, and thorns are His. Therefore everything is good." This statement tells us of the harmonious rapport that developed between the self of Lao Tzu and the eternal. It is no consolation, b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,611 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...owers are good, how can the thorns be bad? Lao Tzu says, "Flowers are His, and thorns are His. Therefore everything is good." This statement tells us of the harmonious rapport that developed between the self of Lao Tzu and the eternal. It is no consolation, because consolation means that things are not all right, only we are trying to console ourselves that they are. But if there is true knowledge of this fact that things a...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,612 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t. Our worry is that, being waves, we think ourselves to be oceans. Being waves, we stand up against the ocean. Then non-acceptance arises and we become the judges of what is right and what is wrong. Lao Tzu says only this: what decision can a wave take? Where is the wave? It has no separate existence; it is only a part of the ocean. It is born of the ocean and it dies in the ocean. Death should be accepted w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,613 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y, total acceptability is supreme transformation. No transformation is greater than this, for the drop of the individual is lost and only the ocean remains. Now, let us take the sutra. To Lao Tzu, inaction is the ultimate truth. But it is not inactivity that bears no results. Lao Tzu says, "Inaction gives ultimate results." Happenings take place because of inactivity. If a serene person -- within ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,614 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r than this, for the drop of the individual is lost and only the ocean remains. Now, let us take the sutra. To Lao Tzu, inaction is the ultimate truth. But it is not inactivity that bears no results. Lao Tzu says, "Inaction gives ultimate results." Happenings take place because of inactivity. If a serene person -- within whom there is not a single current, within whom there is no movement, who is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,615 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... stands beside you and you feel as if peace is raining on you. Perhaps you are not aware that it is because of this person, much less is the person himself aware of it. His non-action, his emptiness, is so fruitful. Lao Tzu says: the best results come from emptiness. In emptiness, there is no violence. If my tranquillity touches you and you become serene, it is not I who has changed you. You have changed. If I ha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,616 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a little. But there is nothing but complaints about man from our mahatmas: It looks as if there is a fundamental enmity between God's business and that of the mahatmas. Everything is acceptable to God. This sutra of Lao Tzu's indicates this. "Who is the best ruler?" asks Lao Tzu. "He whom the people do not know exists." Even to make your presence felt is violence. If the son is aware of the father's presence, so...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,617 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...: It looks as if there is a fundamental enmity between God's business and that of the mahatmas. Everything is acceptable to God. This sutra of Lao Tzu's indicates this. "Who is the best ruler?" asks Lao Tzu. "He whom the people do not know exists." Even to make your presence felt is violence. If the son is aware of the father's presence, some violence or the other still is coming from the father. If the husband ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,618 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Only that whose presence you are unaware of gives you pleasure. Two lovers sitting in a room are not two different entities for there is no feeling of 'two' there. There is only one consciousness. Lao Tzu says: the best ruler is he whose presence is not felt by his subjects. Perhaps there is no such ruler, except God. God is the one of whom we are least aware. Even when we set out to seek Him, we do not find H...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,619 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tman" is one in whose presence or absence there is not an iota of difference. For Him, absence or presence are both synonymous, they have the same meaning. His mode of being present is being absent. Lao Tzu says, "The best ruler is one whose existence is not known to his subjects." There is no such ruler except God. If a ruler reached anywhere near this state, then alone did he become a ruler. Therefore, in the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,620 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...says, "The best ruler is one whose existence is not known to his subjects." There is no such ruler except God. If a ruler reached anywhere near this state, then alone did he become a ruler. Therefore, in the days of Lao Tzu, and even two thousand years before him, the king was looked upon by his subjects as the incarnation of God. Nowadays it seems as if that was just as ruse, a subterfuge. Now, for the last two or three hundred...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,621 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e have been told that this was a conspiracy of the kings and their ministers. This is true to a great extent, but not entirely true. There have been kings once in a while that people did not know of. Such kings Lao Tzu describes as godly. They were not known or hardly known. People just knew they existed, nothing beyond that. Lao Tzu says: if such a ruler becomes absent within himself, his presence becomes very ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,622 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ue. There have been kings once in a while that people did not know of. Such kings Lao Tzu describes as godly. They were not known or hardly known. People just knew they existed, nothing beyond that. Lao Tzu says: if such a ruler becomes absent within himself, his presence becomes very auspicious for his kingdom. This has become very difficult to understand because today, only a man who is restless to make ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,623 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t, now let him enjoy the same pleasure. It is a matter of give and take. Today, each person knows that he can only make his presence felt from a seat of authority. So it is difficult to understand a person like Lao Tzu. But there have been times when this was an authentic fact: that there were kings whose presence was hardly felt by his subjects. Lao Tzu maintains that this quality pertains only to a king. One is a king who...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,624 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...from a seat of authority. So it is difficult to understand a person like Lao Tzu. But there have been times when this was an authentic fact: that there were kings whose presence was hardly felt by his subjects. Lao Tzu maintains that this quality pertains only to a king. One is a king who has eliminated the ego within him in such a way that he has become empty -- shunya. If emptiness is seated on the throne, the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,625 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ity pertains only to a king. One is a king who has eliminated the ego within him in such a way that he has become empty -- shunya. If emptiness is seated on the throne, the kingdom is bound to be proper. This is how Lao Tzu thinks. But we find today that the ego, in its most condensed form, occupies the seat of authority. When such is the case, prosperity is impossible. Lao Tzu maintains that only he is worthy of wielding ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,626 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... kingdom is bound to be proper. This is how Lao Tzu thinks. But we find today that the ego, in its most condensed form, occupies the seat of authority. When such is the case, prosperity is impossible. Lao Tzu maintains that only he is worthy of wielding power whose 'I' is completely extinct, who no longer is. The bond between ego and power is poisonous. It is fatal. Power should rest only in the hands of an egoles...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,627 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... a beggar who is worthy to be a king; you are a king who is worthy only to be a beggar." He who becomes as nothing, nobody, is worthy of being the topmost. He who is nothing is everything. Therefore, Lao Tzu says, "OF THE BEST RULERS, THE PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY EXIST. OF LESS SUPERLATIVE RULERS, THEIR SUBJECTS LOVE AND PRAISE THEM." If we think over this we shall be perplexed. People should love and respect...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,628 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY EXIST. OF LESS SUPERLATIVE RULERS, THEIR SUBJECTS LOVE AND PRAISE THEM." If we think over this we shall be perplexed. People should love and respect the superlative king, but Lao Tzu says it is the second category of kings who gets love and respect from his subjects. This is because he has to do something in order to earn the love and acknowledgment of the people. And the people love and ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,629 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ery reason. They are not even conscious of the king who is empty, who is void within himself, for he does nothing. A lot takes place through him, but that is not felt by the people. In his last sutra Lao Tzu goes on to say more about the shunya person -- the egoless king. "BUT (OF THE BEST) WHEN THEIR TASK IS ACCOMPLISHED, THEIR WORK DONE, THE PEOPLE ALL REMARK;, "WE HAVE DONE IT OURSELVES'." The superlative man ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,630 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he same ratio. What is the reason? Fear develops: the fear of death. Hands begin to tremble and he feels restless, afraid. But that of which we are afraid is not God. It is an extension of our fear. Lao Tzu says: "People are afraid of the third category of rulers." If we examine the governments of the whole world, we shall find rulers belonging to the third category, for all governments are based on fear, on law...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,631 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...times he has been in jail. Just as a man is revered according to his donation to a temple, another is respected for the fear he creates among people. The ego fulfils itself in many subtle ways. Says Lao Tzu, "The fourth type is the lowest category of ruler. People speak ill of him, but he thrives on their ill-will." When people lose confidence in their ruler, he resorts to oaths and vows. There is a Christi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,632 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of. Says Lao Tzu, "WHEN THEY DO NOT COMMAND THE PEOPLE'S FAITH, SOME WILL LOSE FAITH IN THEM AND THEN THEY WILL RESORT TO OATHS!" Any ruler -- whether it is a king, a president or a guru... Whomsoever we get discipline from, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,633 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- the path of his disciple: that it may occur to him that the guru has done something for him. Guru is also of four types, just like a ruler. Lao Tzu looks upon non-action as the best. As activity increases things begin to become more and more mediocre Emptiness (SHUNYATA) is the best. The more we step out of the void and enter the whirlwind of activity, t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,634 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...WAS (PRAISE OF) 'KIND PARENTS' AND 'FILIAL SONS'. WHEN A COUNTRY FELL INTO CHAOS AND MISRULE, THERE WAS PRAISE OF 'LOYAL MINISTERS'! This sutra deals with the most difficult aspect of life. Lao Tzu is opposed to everything that we look upon as a great ethical doctrine. For his basic doctrine is that a profound balance is constantly being established each moment in life. If we concentrate on goodness, ba...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,635 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...that life is impossible without a balance. And this balance is everywhere, in all directions. Scientists have, of late, developed a unique conception. This conception can fill us with anxiety but not Lao Tzu. A hundred years ago a French scientist was the first to experiment with the measuring of human intelligence. Ever since then Many techniques have been developed. Now we can measure the intelligence quotient ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,636 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e snatching away the intelligence of others. Life is balanced on all fronts. This means that if there is a certain number of healthy people, there are bound to be an equal number of unhealthy people. Lao Tzu says, "We cannot escape this balance in life." If we produce ten good people, we shall 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,637 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ley and the mountain are p;3*rts of one and the same thing. We can do without mountains and valleys only on level ground. Just as this holds good for land, it also holds good for consciousness, says Lao Tzu. Consciousness is also like land. On the level of consciousness, when a person rises to the heights, at once another person falls to the depths and forms the valley -- in order to maintain the balance. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,638 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have always desired that there be light and more light. and darkness be banished forever. We have always wanted life without death, and happiness without unhappiness. All our efforts have been in vain says Lao Tzu, and they are bound to be. The more a man craves happiness, the more miserable he becomes. He who does not crave happiness finds unhappiness avoiding him. You can only escape unhappiness by not desiring happi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,639 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... arrangements of life would go haywire. This is why we notice a unique fact in the history of mankind. As the aspiration for goodness increases, evil also develops to the same extent. Lao Tzu says that there is one state in nature, however, when we do not consider the opposites at all. That is the highest state. He calls it Tao. Tao is the state of one's nature when we are not aware of either good...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,640 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- knowledge a man has of health, the more ill he is. He who is constantly conscious of health cannot be a healthy person. This is a very profound illness. Lao Tzu says that the decline of Tao began with the decline of nature. "ON THE DECLINE OF THE GREAT TAO, THE DOCTRINES OF HUMANITY AND JUSTICE AROSE." Says Lao Tzu: when man was no longer man, the doctrines of hu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,641 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...erson. This is a very profound illness. Lao Tzu says that the decline of Tao began with the decline of nature. "ON THE DECLINE OF THE GREAT TAO, THE DOCTRINES OF HUMANITY AND JUSTICE AROSE." Says Lao Tzu: when man was no longer man, the doctrines of humanity and justice arose. We think the reverse to be the actuality. We believe that if we obey the doctrines of humanity and justice, we shall become human. Lao...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,642 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ys Lao Tzu: when man was no longer man, the doctrines of humanity and justice arose. We think the reverse to be the actuality. We believe that if we obey the doctrines of humanity and justice, we shall become human. Lao Tzu says, these doctrines appeared only when man was man no longer. Then we began to exhort people to be human. Human beings are human beings; there is no question of becoming. To become human implies ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,643 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n man was man no longer. Then we began to exhort people to be human. Human beings are human beings; there is no question of becoming. To become human implies that we have begun to fall from humanity. Lao Tzu says that the great doctrine of humanity and justice was born in the decline of humanity. Otherwise a man is human by nature. Talk of justice begins only when injustice begins. Let us understand this. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,644 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., the more injustice spreads. We say there should be knowledge, because ignorance is deep. The more we strive to increase knowledge, the deeper ignorance becomes. Now the West has begun to understand Lao Tzu. There are many thoughtful people in the West now who feel that their sense of values should be reoriented along the lines of Lao Tzu; they should be reconstructed on the basis of Lao Tzu's teachings. All the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,645 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...knowledge, the deeper ignorance becomes. Now the West has begun to understand Lao Tzu. There are many thoughtful people in the West now who feel that their sense of values should be reoriented along the lines of Lao Tzu; they should be reconstructed on the basis of Lao Tzu's teachings. All the laws that have been constructed so far for mankind are contrary to Lao Tzu's teachings. We have listened to those who said, "Good sho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,646 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...est has begun to understand Lao Tzu. There are many thoughtful people in the West now who feel that their sense of values should be reoriented along the lines of Lao Tzu; they should be reconstructed on the basis of Lao Tzu's teachings. All the laws that have been constructed so far for mankind are contrary to Lao Tzu's teachings. We have listened to those who said, "Good should prevail. There should be justice; there should he ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,647 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hat their sense of values should be reoriented along the lines of Lao Tzu; they should be reconstructed on the basis of Lao Tzu's teachings. All the laws that have been constructed so far for mankind are contrary to Lao Tzu's teachings. We have listened to those who said, "Good should prevail. There should be justice; there should he equality." He listened to those who preached that there should be humanity, freedom, equality." ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,648 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e amount of knowledge that prevails today never before existed in this world and yet man was never as ignorant before as he is today. This seems paradoxical. So much knowledge and so much ignorance at the same time! Lao Tzu would not have been surprised for he said, "The more you increase knowledge, the more ignorance will spread." This is bound to baffle us though, because we feel that the more knowledge we spread, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,649 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ndamental principles on which we have based our life have been proven wrong. Man has followed the logic of Aristotle. He has said that when knowledge increases ignorance will vanish. This is simple mathematics. Lao Tzu's calculations seem topsy-turvy. He says that if knowledge increases, ignorance also increases. No one paid heed to Lao Tzu. What he said seemed illogical, and hence not worthy of notice. It is only natural t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,650 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e has said that when knowledge increases ignorance will vanish. This is simple mathematics. Lao Tzu's calculations seem topsy-turvy. He says that if knowledge increases, ignorance also increases. No one paid heed to Lao Tzu. What he said seemed illogical, and hence not worthy of notice. It is only natural that our mind should understand such a simple thing that when knowledge increases, ignorance should decrease. Therefore, Aris...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,651 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ce should decrease. Therefore, Aristotle became the centre for all humanity. The West has developed its science entirely on the basis of Aristotle. But now, when things have developed more it seems that perhaps Lao Tzu was correct. In the last fifty years, the intellectual people of the West have been experiencing life to be meaningless. There seems to be no reason why we live, why we toil, why the worries and anxieties. Wh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,652 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... through life. This idea of dragging on through life has caught on only in the last fifty years. With the increase in knowledge of the outside world, self-ignorance has increased. The balance is complete. Lao Tzu says, "Self knowledge cannot increase unless we rid ourselves of outside knowledge." If we examine the course of human thinking in the last 300 years, we find a steep increase in doctrines of humanity an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,653 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...also increases. When the growth of one implies the growth of another, the root must be the same. Therefore the same sap that feeds one feeds the other, the same energy flows through one as the other. Lao Tzu's viewpoint is entirely different. He says that it is the evil within you that is the root of all your moral codes and moral concepts. Humanity and justice emerged only on the decline of Tao. "WHEN KNOWLED...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,654 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you realise it is very difficult to save an educated man from being dishonest? We may think the fault lies in our type of education, if we have the right type of education, this would not be. But we err again. Says Lao Tzu: "It is impossible to save an educated person from dishonesty." This is because education makes a person clever, and cleverness leads to cunning. Education gives the power to understand. It does not bring...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,655 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... knocked around in the process. The medicines, however, keep you sufficiently alive so that the fight ,*oes on. There is all interconnection between the cure and the illness somewhere. If we question Lao Tzu on this, he will say that illness will end the day medicines are no more. This *howeve,, is beyond our understanding. His logic is this: when there is no medicine, you yourself will have to fight the illness....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,656 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...row, it may be the cause of death. The more we increase our means of protection, the more vulnerable we become. The more we arrange to protect ourselves, the more we expose ourselves to danger. Lao Tzu says: When knowledge is born, hypocrisy is born. So also dishonesty and deceit. People become frauds and cheats. It is very difficult for a literate person to be honest. In this context, the Biblical sto...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,657 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... the fruit was tasted No sooner had they tasted it than they were thrown out of the Garden. Knowledge became the cause of man's fall -- according to the Bible. This is confounding, but it tallies with Lao Tzu's statement. He too says that ever since man has acquired knowledge he has gone astray. He cannot return to the Garden of Eden till he breaks himself away completely from knowledge. Then only will the doors o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,658 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uld you be -- wise or ignorant? You will only be, there will be no comparison. How will you gauge whether you are moral, or immoral, whether you are good or bad? There will be no criterion to go by. Lao Tzu says: the state of Tao is a simple state -- it is as if each man is the only man in the world. There is no way to measure. There is no good nor bad; no one is wise and no one is ignorant, there is no sadhu or...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,659 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...came the awareness of sin. Knowledge disrupted the full acceptance of the body -- something in it became non-acceptable. Till then Adam and Eve were as innocent as children. With knowledge came sin. Lao Tzu says: "Innocence cannot be achieved till all knowledge is eradicated." Therefore, only one who is capable of renouncing all knowledge attains Supreme knowledge. Then he becomes simple, innocent. Jesus has sai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,660 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o no shamelessness, for this requires an initial knowledge of shame. Shamelessness is a by-product. When a person becomes conscious of shame and then throws shame to the winds, he becomes shameless. Lao Tzu says that there is a state of existence in which the knowledge of the opposites (the duality) is absent; where there is no distinction between black and white, light and darkness. And it is this state that is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,661 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nt; where there is no distinction between black and white, light and darkness. And it is this state that is the supreme religion. All that comes below this state is a decline of religion. Confucius came to meet Lao Tzu. He was the very opposite of Lao Tzu. He was equal to Aristotle, he was like us. He constructed rules and regulations for everything in life. Every inch of life he tried to direct: how one should sit, how one...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,662 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ween black and white, light and darkness. And it is this state that is the supreme religion. All that comes below this state is a decline of religion. Confucius came to meet Lao Tzu. He was the very opposite of Lao Tzu. He was equal to Aristotle, he was like us. He constructed rules and regulations for everything in life. Every inch of life he tried to direct: how one should sit, how one should stand, how one should speak, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,663 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... bullock-cart when he entered the village! When the disciple assured him he had got off the cart and walked the distance, Confucius said, "Now I can die in peace." Such a disciplinarian was Confucius. Lao Tzu was just his opposite. He laid down no rules, no regulations, for all discipline to him is the cause of downfall. When a law is introduced, it means the illness has set in: and now we have to bind ourselves t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,664 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to him is the cause of downfall. When a law is introduced, it means the illness has set in: and now we have to bind ourselves to regulations to somehow save ourselves, somehow go on. Confucius asked Lao Tzu. "I wish to make men good. Please advise me as to what I should do." Lao Tzu replied, "Do not try to make men good. You will only succeed in making them bad. Your contribution to mankind should be only t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,665 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s set in: and now we have to bind ourselves to regulations to somehow save ourselves, somehow go on. Confucius asked Lao Tzu. "I wish to make men good. Please advise me as to what I should do." Lao Tzu replied, "Do not try to make men good. You will only succeed in making them bad. Your contribution to mankind should be only this: that you do not endeavour to make them good." Confucius was confused bec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,666 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...: that you do not endeavour to make them good." Confucius was confused because this was not his say of thinking. "How can this be?" He questioned. "Then there will be nothing but chaos and anarchy!" Lao Tzu replied, "Disorder comes with the effort to bring in order." Confucius said, "People will become irresponsible." Lao Tzu replied, "When there are no regulations where is the lawlessness? People will be n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,667 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e questioned. "Then there will be nothing but chaos and anarchy!" Lao Tzu replied, "Disorder comes with the effort to bring in order." Confucius said, "People will become irresponsible." Lao Tzu replied, "When there are no regulations where is the lawlessness? People will be natural in their behaviour." Laws bring in lawlessness because all laws are opposed to the naturalness of man. Therefore they u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,668 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...thing will be in chaos. Nobody will listen to anybody, the subjects will not listen to the king, the son will not listen to the father, wives will not listen to husbands, nor servants their masters. Lao Tzu says: "the more you try to make sons listen to their fathers, the more they will go against their fathers". And Lao Tzu has proved correct. In the last five thousand years, man has tried to make the son obedi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,669 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to the father, wives will not listen to husbands, nor servants their masters. Lao Tzu says: "the more you try to make sons listen to their fathers, the more they will go against their fathers". And Lao Tzu has proved correct. In the last five thousand years, man has tried to make the son obedient to the father and the result is an increasing abyss between the two. The same is the 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,670 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... more than a servant, for it is the Parliament that decides even her stipend. It is up to the Parliament to increase or decrease it or stop it altogether. What is the reason? The reason is Confucius. Lao Tzu had told Confucius that very day when he came to see him, "You will ruin the world with your philosophy. You will clamp laws on, and lawlessness will prevail. If you try to give direction, society will go hea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,671 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ver, is very difficult, very hard. It is impossible to believe that a patient should not be given medicines and he will recover. Many hospitals in the West, however, have started experimenting in this direction. Lao Tzu is proving right from very many angles. Give an allopathic treatment to one patient, a homeopathic treatment to another with the same illness, a naturopathic treatment to a third with the same com...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,672 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y say that if you catch a cold, take medicine for seven days and you shall be all right: do not take medicine for seven days and you will be all right. Nothing is clear about what really cures a man. Lao Tzu says: Nature cures herself. Leave everything to nature. Do not interfere with nature, you are the cause of all confusion. Leave it to nature and she will find the remedy. That which gave you birth, which gave...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,673 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...et this current take you anywhere, let it make you do anything. If illness comes welcome it, be prepared to live with it. Leave everything to nature; let her do what she pleases. If we understand it in this way, Lao Tzu is the only naturopath. His is pure naturopathy. If you put a bandage on the stomach, apply mud on the stomach or take an enema -- that is not naturopathy. Leave it entirely to nature. Let nature take its cou...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,674 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ure naturopathy. If you put a bandage on the stomach, apply mud on the stomach or take an enema -- that is not naturopathy. Leave it entirely to nature. Let nature take its course and be one with it. Lao Tzu says, "Do not swim. Float." Leave it to the river to take you where it will. Ask not where your destination is. Wherever you reach is your goal. Says Lao Tzu: "In such an arrangement only, do the flowers of r...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,675 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ature. Let nature take its course and be one with it. Lao Tzu says, "Do not swim. Float." Leave it to the river to take you where it will. Ask not where your destination is. Wherever you reach is your goal. Says Lao Tzu: "In such an arrangement only, do the flowers of religion open." "When knowledge and intelligence were born, hypocrisy became activated in its full form. When peace became impossible in relati...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,676 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... peace became impossible in relationships, the glorification of kind parents and obedient sons began to prevail." When we say that so-and-so has an obedient son, we mean that he is an exception. Lao Tzu says: "To be a son is to be obedient." An obedient son is a repetition. If we say a certain mother is very kind, it means kindness is a qualification, apart from the mother. A mother may be kind or may not be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,677 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is an exception if she is kind. Therefore we praise it. When we praise these things we imply that sons are no longer obedient, fathers are no longer kind and mothers are bereft of selfless affection. Lao Tzu says: these are signs of decadence. When a mother has to be praised for her motherly love, when a father has to be extolled for his benevolent affection and when a son has to be praised for his obedience, the...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,678 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed for her motherly love, when a father has to be extolled for his benevolent affection and when a son has to be praised for his obedience, then know that the illness has reached the last stage. This Lao Tzu looks like a topsy-turvy man. But it is quite possible that we are topsy-turvy and only he is standing correct: What he says seems to be true. What is there to talk about in a mother's love? The very being of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,679 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...lest they create a complex in the children. They are afraid the psychologists might say they have damaged the child's psyche and harmed him. The world is in the grip of paralysis today because it has not heeded Lao Tzu. It is Lao Tzu's contention that one should not try to chain the naturalness of life because then it is bound to break. Do not demand obedience lest it turns into contempt. Give no commands for the other has ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,680 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e a complex in the children. They are afraid the psychologists might say they have damaged the child's psyche and harmed him. The world is in the grip of paralysis today because it has not heeded Lao Tzu. It is Lao Tzu's contention that one should not try to chain the naturalness of life because then it is bound to break. Do not demand obedience lest it turns into contempt. Give no commands for the other has his ego ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,681 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...father and son. Turgenev has written a book, FATHERS AND SONS. It is a valuable book, a story of the strife between fathers and sons. Every father is fighting with his son, and every son is fighting with his father. Lao Tzu would say, "What greater state of madness and disease can there be than when fathers and sons fight?" Then what is the remedy? We see this battle taking place in every house, in every family, and at ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,682 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... this battle taking place in every house, in every family, and at each step both are eager to win. The father is the loser and the reason behind his defeat is the working of a profound law of which we are not aware. Lao Tzu reminds us of this very rule. He says that when the father insists that he should be obeyed, when the guru demands that he should be obeyed, the echo of there vibrations is disrespect. When the guru (or the f...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,683 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...h gurus received reverence as a matter of course. They were gurus. Before becoming a guru, one was a father; and before that, one was a celibate. This was a long process but a very natural one. Lao Tzu says, "If life flows in its normal natural flow, the flowers of religion are bound to bloom in it." If we restrict the flow, obstruct it with decorum and propriety, then it will be a great feat if we succeed ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,684 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...COUNTRY FELL INTO CHAOS AND MISRULE, THERE WAS PRAISE OF LOYAL MINISTERS." It is the same thing, said from a different aspect. To shun naturalness is to be irreligious. To be good is not to be religious according to Lao Tzu: to be natural is to be religious according to him. To be good is not to be religious for to be good one has got to be against evil, which is the opposite of goodness. Naturalness, spontaneity has no opposite...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,685 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ternational Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- another will look the bank; yet another will kill someone he hates. Just ponder a while. What would you do if Lao Tzu's doctrine prevailed? In order to improve the quality of the work of his sluggish staff in the office, it is said that a manager, on the advice of a psychologist, put up a notice which read: "Life is shor...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,686 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...decamped with the cash and the office boy beat up the manager with shoe. This is what each wanted to do but were postponing. The notice inspired them to carry out their desires. If you wish to follow Lao Tzu, think less and meditate more. This will make no difference to Lao Tzu, but it will tell you a great deal about yourself. If there is no check on you, what would you do? That is your actual serf, your real ch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,687 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er with shoe. This is what each wanted to do but were postponing. The notice inspired them to carry out their desires. If you wish to follow Lao Tzu, think less and meditate more. This will make no difference to Lao Tzu, but it will tell you a great deal about yourself. If there is no check on you, what would you do? That is your actual serf, your real character. What you do within regulations is just play-acting. It is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,688 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...re is no check on you, what would you do? That is your actual serf, your real character. What you do within regulations is just play-acting. It is not your real self. It is a necessity. If you want to know yourself, Lao Tzu will help you in your self-observation. Imagine for a day that no rules and regulations bind you. You will only do that which happens spontaneously. Just think about this; do not put it in action. Then you wi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,689 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...CE', AND THE PEOPLE SHALL RECOVER LOVE OF THEIR KIN; BANISH CUNNING, DISCARD 'UTILITY', AND THE THIEVES AND BRIGANDS SHALL DISAPPEAR. The greatest difficulty in understanding Lao Tzu is our level of thinking. It is very difficult to understand him through our mode of thinking. Lao Tzu's way of looking at things is contrary to ours, his logic is absolutely opposite. He sees life from a dif...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,690 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...', AND THE THIEVES AND BRIGANDS SHALL DISAPPEAR. The greatest difficulty in understanding Lao Tzu is our level of thinking. It is very difficult to understand him through our mode of thinking. Lao Tzu's way of looking at things is contrary to ours, his logic is absolutely opposite. He sees life from a different dimension altogether. Therefore all the questions you ask are related more to yourselves and ver...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,691 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y of looking at things is contrary to ours, his logic is absolutely opposite. He sees life from a different dimension altogether. Therefore all the questions you ask are related more to yourselves and very little to Lao Tzu. If we wish to understand Lao Tzu, we shall have to set aside our mode of thinking. If we approach Lao Tzu with our view-point, our words, our preconceived notions, it will be difficult to dec...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,692 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... his logic is absolutely opposite. He sees life from a different dimension altogether. Therefore all the questions you ask are related more to yourselves and very little to Lao Tzu. If we wish to understand Lao Tzu, we shall have to set aside our mode of thinking. If we approach Lao Tzu with our view-point, our words, our preconceived notions, it will be difficult to decide whether he is right or not. Set aside your vie...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,693 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ether. Therefore all the questions you ask are related more to yourselves and very little to Lao Tzu. If we wish to understand Lao Tzu, we shall have to set aside our mode of thinking. If we approach Lao Tzu with our view-point, our words, our preconceived notions, it will be difficult to decide whether he is right or not. Set aside your views and concepts. Then only will you understand him. Then you shall be abl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,694 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s and concepts. Then only will you understand him. Then you shall be able to judge whether he is right or wrong, but not before that. Just to comprehend is an obstacle because our manner of thinking is one thing and Lao Tzu's is just the opposite. It is as if we discern things by our sense of touch whereas he uses his eyes and sees Or as if we use our eyes and he uses his ears. Then the language becomes different. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,695 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sterday, if consciousness increases, unconsciousness will also increase. Whatever we understand as consciousness is what Mahavira, Krishna or Buddha have explained to us, and this explanation does not hold good with Lao Tzu. So the questions that arise in you are not your 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,696 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...arnate, could bring such a thing about! It sounds strange that when one person's consciousness develops, another person's consciousness sinks to insensibility through no fault of his. If we question Lao Tzu on this, he will not say that Mahavira's consciousness increased. He will say, "Mahavira went beyond consciousness and unconsciousness." When a person goes beyond both the opposites, there is no trace left of...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,697 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... say that Mahavira's consciousness increased. He will say, "Mahavira went beyond consciousness and unconsciousness." When a person goes beyond both the opposites, there is no trace left of it in the world. If we ask Lao Tzu about Krishna, he will not say he was a man of super-consciousness. If he was a man of super-consciousness, then another man of super-unconsciousness is needed as a counterbalance. According ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,698 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Tzu about Krishna, he will not say he was a man of super-consciousness. If he was a man of super-consciousness, then another man of super-unconsciousness is needed as a counterbalance. According to Lao Tzu, there are people who have gone beyond consciousness and unconsciousness, they are outside of dualities. No reaction takes place in this world because of them. But those who are within the vertex of dual...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,699 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...unconsciousness, they are outside of dualities. No reaction takes place in this world because of them. But those who are within the vertex of dualities are bound to think in terms of balance and counterbalance. Lao Tzu will not call Mahavira a 'sadhu' because a sadhu is opposed to a 'non-sadhu'. Good and bad are dualities. Lao Tzu would say that Mahavira has gone beyond both. He is neither good nor bad, for to be good he mu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,700 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ose who are within the vertex of dualities are bound to think in terms of balance and counterbalance. Lao Tzu will not call Mahavira a 'sadhu' because a sadhu is opposed to a 'non-sadhu'. Good and bad are dualities. Lao Tzu would say that Mahavira has gone beyond both. He is neither good nor bad, for to be good he must be connected with evil. If he is good because he tells no lies, because he does not steal, because he does not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,701 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...vided our flow of thinking into two categories. There is no third category for us, whereas it is this third category which is the authentic category. He who enters this third category attains the absolute state that Lao Tzu refers to as Tao, which is the natural religion. So your trouble is the preconceived flow of your thinking. Set this aside and follow Lao Tzu's stream of thought; try to understand what he is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,702 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y. He who enters this third category attains the absolute state that Lao Tzu refers to as Tao, which is the natural religion. So your trouble is the preconceived flow of your thinking. Set this aside and follow Lao Tzu's stream of thought; try to understand what he is trying to say. It is not necessary to agree with him. You may not. As far as I can see, I do not think anyone who has understood him will eve...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,703 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ary to agree with him. You may not. As far as I can see, I do not think anyone who has understood him will ever say he is wrong. One who thinks he is wrong only says so because he has not understood Lao Tzu correctly. Lao Tzu s way of expressing is different, his reach is different, his method of putting forth is different. If you cling to his method you will find yourself in difficulty. This is the difficulty m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,704 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...im. You may not. As far as I can see, I do not think anyone who has understood him will ever say he is wrong. One who thinks he is wrong only says so because he has not understood Lao Tzu correctly. Lao Tzu s way of expressing is different, his reach is different, his method of putting forth is different. If you cling to his method you will find yourself in difficulty. This is the difficulty man finds himself in...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,705 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... sea, just because my river is flowing to the west. Then I get a glimpse of the ocean in all the rivers. But if the vision is tied down, the difficulty is immense. Then there is no way to understand. Lao Tzu is difficult to understand in this respect, for his way of thinking, his manner of viewing things, his method of expression are all unique. But there is a definite joy in understanding him, and if you do unde...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,706 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e twelve, fifteen. But one who thinks contrary to you opens up new horizons for you. Then, not only do you add something more to your perception, but you enrich your consciousness also. To understand Lao Tzu, you have to set aside your mode of perception a little, otherwise your perception will raise questions which will be meaningless for they will not be based on Lao Tzu's understanding. If you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,707 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... your consciousness also. To understand Lao Tzu, you have to set aside your mode of perception a little, otherwise your perception will raise questions which will be meaningless for they will not be based on Lao Tzu's understanding. If you understand this sutra, it will become clear to you. Leave your intelligence to one side. This seems difficult. To seek knowledge -- this we can understand. But to shake...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,708 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nformation is of no use. However much information you gather, it will all be borrowed. Knowledge is one's own. Therefore leave the borrowed and attain by your own experience." This is quite understandable to us. But Lao Tzu goes a step further and says. "Leave knowledge also; for this knowing and not knowing is a play of duality. It too is a conflict. Leave this also." Even this we can understand. Buddha too has said, "What ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,709 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of flowers, so wisdom is the sum and substance of all knowledge, all experiences. Wisdom is a fragrance. When a thousand experiences and knowledges are compressed, one drop of wisdom is attained. But Lao Tzu says, "Leave your wisdom also." This is too much! Leave information this we can understand because it is all borrowed knowledge. Leave knowledge this too we can understand because there is the duality of know...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,710 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at will be the difference between me and inert matter?" Then, you will argue, "what is the difference between me and the chair I sit on?" These questions raised by the mind become a hindrance in our understanding of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says, "Leave your sagacity, your wisdom." What does he mean? He means that what is grasped can be left also, for it does not belong to you. That which you cannot let go of is your true ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,711 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... between me and inert matter?" Then, you will argue, "what is the difference between me and the chair I sit on?" These questions raised by the mind become a hindrance in our understanding of Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu says, "Leave your sagacity, your wisdom." What does he mean? He means that what is grasped can be left also, for it does not belong to you. That which you cannot let go of is your true wisdom. Whatever you ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,712 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., that very moment you attain true wisdom. The wisdom you are afraid to give up for fear of becoming insentient is no wisdom. Understand well: that which cannot be renounced is true wisdom. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "Leave wisdom" -- for that which you can let go off, cannot be wisdom. Wisdom, according to Lao Tzu, is the very nature of the wise. One cannot leave one s nature. That which we can leave cannot 10/28...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,713 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... insentient is no wisdom. Understand well: that which cannot be renounced is true wisdom. Therefore Lao Tzu says, "Leave wisdom" -- for that which you can let go off, cannot be wisdom. Wisdom, according to Lao Tzu, is the very nature of the wise. One cannot leave one s nature. That which we can leave cannot 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,714 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ave cannot 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- be our nature. Says Lao Tzu, "Only that alone should remain which 'I am'." There should be collection of borrowed information and knowledge. Even if it is my own, it is not worth carrying along. Borrowed experiences are useless. One's o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,715 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dom. It has become the past; it has turned to dust. Live coal turns into ash it was once a part and parcel of a burning fire. But, if the embers are to be kept alive, we have to shake off the ashes. Lao Tzu says: "your wisdom is like ash, covering your nature." It comes from your very self; you are the ember. Keep flicking off the ashes, let the alive ember remain; let only your nature remain. Let nothing cover ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,716 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... you have learned from others is information; what you have known yourself is knowledge. The sum total of this information and knowledge, the essence that creates the fragrance within you, is your wisdom. But Lao Tzu says, "Leave this also. Just be your pure self." Become your naked nature -- that which you are. This is what Mahavira calls the atman and Buddha calls the emptiness. These are just verbal differences. Lao Tz...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,717 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... But Lao Tzu says, "Leave this also. Just be your pure self." Become your naked nature -- that which you are. This is what Mahavira calls the atman and Buddha calls the emptiness. These are just verbal differences. Lao Tzu calls it nature, Tao. "DISCARD KNOWLEDGE, BANISH WISDOM AND PEOPLE WILL BENEFIT A HUNDREDFOLD." If people revert back and become fixed in their pure nature, then sorrow and pain, agony and an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,718 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the load of your experiences is removed from the consciousness, the soul or consciousness, or whatever we choose to call that which is within us -- remains in what Heidegger refers to as its pure being. This is what Lao Tzu is talking about. Then people will prosper a thousandfold. We feel people will prosper as knowledge increases, as experience and information increase, intelligence increases. Lao Tzu says jus...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,719 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...g. This is what Lao Tzu is talking about. Then people will prosper a thousandfold. We feel people will prosper as knowledge increases, as experience and information increase, intelligence increases. Lao Tzu says just the opposite. Actually, as all these increase, their dust begins to gather layer by layer on our nature and the embers within are hidden under their weight. Then it becomes a Herculean task to reach...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,720 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r. You are nothing but a collection of knowledge, experience, information, understanding, education, impressions, culture and tradition. Where you yourself are, you do not know. A man is hidden by his own coverings. Lao Tzu tells us to remove all our coverings and be in that which you cannot remove. Then you shall really profit. The greatest calamity that can happen to a person is to lose his own self. The title...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,721 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...simple' should be noted. It conveys the quality of naturalness, artlessness. Jesus and Socrates both said: "Know thyself". The Upanishads have also used this term. "Know thyself, realise the atman." Lao Tzu says: "Realise the simple self." Not the self that theologians talk of, or learned pundits discuss. Know the simple self that exists even within the ignorant. There is no reference to doctrines, scriptures --...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,722 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hall find an individual. If a person wishes to love a non-individualistic God, he is deceiving himself. He is mistaking the lack of love in himself as love for God and is just deceiving himself. Says Lao Tzu: "Banish humanity so that you can love human beings. Banish all theories and tenets, for they have no worth. Discard all talk of the far-away so that you can love what is near you." If we set ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,723 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e last step can only be taken if the first has been taken. No journey starts with the last step. But theories and doctrines put the last step first. Our minds are filled with high-sounding words, and Lao Tzu is an enemy of words. Our minds are filled with doctrines, so much so that even when we are in the deepest hell we are full of words of heaven and bliss. We hold fast to these words lest they fall away and th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,724 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hell may be hidden from our view, we remain engrossed in talk of heaven. To help us to forget the reality of the hell around us, we have spread this net of words around us. But it is just a delusion. Lao Tzu exhorts us to leave these words, this knowledge, these shastras. If there is no love in your life, never mind. But do not start professing love for mankind. It is an interesting fact and a profound one to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,725 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n your life. You cannot remain the same person any more. Love is a fire; it is bound to change you. If love does not change you, it means you are under the illusion of love. There is no love really. Lao Tzu says: banish all the big, high-sounding words: humanity, God, the universe. Feel that there is no love within you. And remember Lao Tzu's alchemy: you cannot remain without love. If you are honest with yourse...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,726 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... means you are under the illusion of love. There is no love really. Lao Tzu says: banish all the big, high-sounding words: humanity, God, the universe. Feel that there is no love within you. And remember Lao Tzu's alchemy: you cannot remain without love. If you are honest with yourself you will realise that you will have to love those who are near you. Lao Tzu goes on to say: "Leave humanity, discard justice and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,727 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... that there is no love within you. And remember Lao Tzu's alchemy: you cannot remain without love. If you are honest with yourself you will realise that you will have to love those who are near you. Lao Tzu goes on to say: "Leave humanity, discard justice and people will begin to love each other again. They will recover love of each other." Today, we find no one who loves his own people. One who loves other coun...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,728 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... poor man. Man has developed a clever plan for himself. He has created doctrines for things far away so as to save himself from his immediate responsibilities. This is such an abominable fraud. Lao Tzu says: "BANISH HUMANITY, DISCARD JUSTICE, AND THE PEOPLE SHALL RECOVER LOVE OF THEIR KIN." This is quite a different way of looking at life. Lao Tzu exhorts us to stop worrying about distant t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,729 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...sibilities. This is such an abominable fraud. Lao Tzu says: "BANISH HUMANITY, DISCARD JUSTICE, AND THE PEOPLE SHALL RECOVER LOVE OF THEIR KIN." This is quite a different way of looking at life. Lao Tzu exhorts us to stop worrying about distant things. If love is close by it can also spread far and wide. We throw a pebble in the water. It sets off ripples which start close to the point where the pebble touch...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,730 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ere the pebble touches the water and then grow wider and wider till they are lost. Has it ever happened that the wider, more distant circles were formed first, and then the smaller ones? Never. The day this happens, Lao Tzu will be proved wrong and not before that. Life has its rules. Everything starts from the nearest point. If there is love within my heart, it will first touch those around me. Those nearest me...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,731 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ts strength and is not sure how many ripples it will be able to create, if it tries to conserve its ripples till such time that it reaches the other shore, then the current will not rise at all. Says Lao Tzu: "BANISH HUMANITY, BANISH JUSTICE." Please note: Lao Tzu is against justice. It is very perplexing why he should be. We on the contrary, say: "So and so is very just." We never think in the manner of Lao Tzu....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,732 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...it will be able to create, if it tries to conserve its ripples till such time that it reaches the other shore, then the current will not rise at all. Says Lao Tzu: "BANISH HUMANITY, BANISH JUSTICE." Please note: Lao Tzu is against justice. It is very perplexing why he should be. We on the contrary, say: "So and so is very just." We never think in the manner of Lao Tzu. Let us try to understand him. Christiani...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,733 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Says Lao Tzu: "BANISH HUMANITY, BANISH JUSTICE." Please note: Lao Tzu is against justice. It is very perplexing why he should be. We on the contrary, say: "So and so is very just." We never think in the manner of Lao Tzu. Let us try to understand him. Christianity says: "God is just, loving and kind." Lao Tzu would laugh if he heard this because Lao Tzu says, that a lover cannot be kind, nor can he be just. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,734 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t is very perplexing why he should be. We on the contrary, say: "So and so is very just." We never think in the manner of Lao Tzu. Let us try to understand him. Christianity says: "God is just, loving and kind." Lao Tzu would laugh if he heard this because Lao Tzu says, that a lover cannot be kind, nor can he be just. If God is just, He cannot be kind. How can He be? For then, he who has to be punished must be ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,735 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [..., say: "So and so is very just." We never think in the manner of Lao Tzu. Let us try to understand him. Christianity says: "God is just, loving and kind." Lao Tzu would laugh if he heard this because Lao Tzu says, that a lover cannot be kind, nor can he be just. If God is just, He cannot be kind. How can He be? For then, he who has to be punished must be punished. There is no question of mercy. He who should ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,736 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...rciful." If there is compassion, justice is impossible. If there is justice, compassion is impossible. Both cannot exist together. But the majority of religions hold God to be both just and kind. Lao Tzu says: "Discard justice, Love is enough." This is also a fact that is worthy pondering on: that justice comes when love is not. The whole concept of justice is born out of the lack, the absence, of love. Let u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,737 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e for love. When love dies, the same actions are performed by way of duty. When there is love, there is joy in your actions. When it is a duty, it becomes burden, a load that has to be carried. Says Lao Tzu: "Justice is the absence of love." If there is love among people, there cannot be injustice. And there will b. no need for justice. Justice is needed because of injustice. Lao Tzu says: "When injustice exists...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,738 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d that has to be carried. Says Lao Tzu: "Justice is the absence of love." If there is love among people, there cannot be injustice. And there will b. no need for justice. Justice is needed because of injustice. Lao Tzu says: "When injustice exists, you cannot redress it with justice. Let there be no injustice." There are two kinds of medicine. One is preventive medicine and the other is curative medicine. O...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,739 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nds of medicine. One is preventive medicine and the other is curative medicine. One is given before the illness, so that you do not contract the disease and the other is given after the illness, in order to cure it. Lao Tzu says: justice is a cure; a medicine that is given after the illness. Because there is injustice, there is need for justice. Lao Tzu is talking of that religion in which there is no justice and no injusti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,740 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ase and the other is given after the illness, in order to cure it. Lao Tzu says: justice is a cure; a medicine that is given after the illness. Because there is injustice, there is need for justice. Lao Tzu is talking of that religion in which there is no justice and no injustice. Therefore, he says, "Discard justice." Why? -- because if you discard justice, you will be able to see injustice clearly. Injustice i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,741 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because if you discard justice, you will be able to see injustice clearly. Injustice is hidden behind the mist of justice, it does not stop injustice but merely helps it to be hidden. A follower of Lao Tzu by the name of Lieh-Tzu became the minister of a kingdom for a while. The very first case that came before him was of a man who had committed a very big theft in the house of the richest man in town. When Lie...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,742 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ne by you and half by him. I aim at removing injustice from its very roots. To remove injustice is what I call justice." The ordinary course of justice is: the thief is punished and the rich man goes scot-free. Lao Tzu tells us to discard this justice because you are merely covering up the injustice behind it. All our courts, all our laws and ordinances are doing nothing but covering up the constantly occurring ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,743 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...offences because in itself, it is an arrangement to cover and hide them. Crime increases and so do concepts of justice. People raise slogans of justice and crime increases and becomes more intricate. Lao Tzu says: remove hollow words and see the facts of life straight and clear, as they are. Banish the concept of justice. If there is injustice, see it as such. Do not hide it: do not cover it. When injustice stand...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,744 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...a little from here, a little from there. We get a whiff of the awful stench within. Then we seal these cracks as best as we can. But the fact is, there is nothing within except a rotting corpse. What Lao Tzu means is only this: see things as they are. Do not raise a concept against it. What is our usual habit? We do not worry about things as they are; we quickly construct a doctrine against it. This opposing ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,745 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in the present. As time passes, the gap between the two widens so much that the good man in you is totally ignorant of the real you within. But the real you is your very self; it is your true self. Lao Tzu says, "Do not create the opposite. Know yourself as you are and live in it." This is a very profound sutra. If I know the violence within me and know myself to be a violent person, if I do not create any conc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,746 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... pain the cause is the experience of the filth. Violence in itself is not painful. The knowledge, the experience of it is painful. Similarly anger is not painful in itself; the experience of it is painful. Says Lao Tzu: "Live in yourself, as you are." Then all that is false within will fade of its own and all that is true shall remain. So Lao Tzu says: "BANISH HUMANITY, DISCARD JUSTICE AND THE PEOPLE SHALL ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,747 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is not painful in itself; the experience of it is painful. Says Lao Tzu: "Live in yourself, as you are." Then all that is false within will fade of its own and all that is true shall remain. So Lao Tzu says: "BANISH HUMANITY, DISCARD JUSTICE AND THE PEOPLE SHALL RECOVER LOVE OF THEIR KIN. BANISH CUNNING, DISCARD UTILITY AND THIEVES AND BRIGANDS SHALL DISAPPEAR." These two things are to be understood. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,748 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r lament the father's death. They cannot. Perhaps they are happy. The sons of kings have been known to bring about the death of their fathers. All around us there are manipulations and calculations. Lao Tzu says that as long as this cunningness prevails, not only in wrong things but also in right things, life can never step out of its hollow artificiality into simple naturalness. Live not in result but in action...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,749 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ions. Our love is calculated, our prayer is calculated. Not only are our shops and business centres filled with cunning but our temples are also an expansion of our cunning. There also we calculate. Lao Tzu says that this cunning will never let you be simple and spontaneous. Therefore: "BANISH CUNNING, DISCARD UTILITY." This matter of utility goes even deeper. Our cunning is based on utility. We seek utilit...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,750 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... There is one concept of life in which everything becomes a commodity, a thing to be used. A wife is a commodity, a husband is a commodity, a mother, a father, a son, a daughter are all objects, commodities. If Lao Tzu were to read our scriptures he would be shocked. Our scriptures say; a son must be born to every man, or who will perform the last rites? The son's utility is only this: that he performs the last rites for th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,751 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t he is, is of no value. Hence he is a pauper. But when it came to doing, he is a king. Buddha is rich in his being; there is no question of his doing anything. He is established in non-action. Says Lao Tzu: "Because non-action is the highest state, reduce the value of actions and increase the value of your being." Lay stress on what you are, and not on what you are doing. Do not worry what a person does, concer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,752 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ot even sure whether I shall be able to cut grass or not. The other man priced me wrong because he knew my worth. Whatever price he offered was too little. In life there is one value and one price." Lao Tzu says that the value will be discernible only when the cacophony of the marketplace dies down, when prices no longer exist. "DISCARD UTILITY, AND THIEVES AND BRIGANDS SHALL DISAPPEAR." We have turned life into...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,753 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...they try to steal things without paying for them. When everything carries a price and there are people who can pay and people who cannot pay then the latter are bound to obtain things by foul means. Lao Tzu says: "Let value be, but discard pricing. Then there will be no thefts." Let us try to understand this. If the values of things remain but no price is fixed on them, what will be the worth of diamonds? ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,754 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... in exchange for a diamond you will not think twice. That is the value of diamonds. Man has set the price on everything. This makes a worthless thing seem precious and a valuable thing look worthless. Therefore says Lao Tzu: "BANISH CUNNING, DISCARD UTILITY, AND THIEVES AND BRIGANDS SHALL DISAPPEAR." If life is natural and is based on intrinsic values then what Lao Tzu says is hundred per cent correc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,755 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd a valuable thing look worthless. Therefore says Lao Tzu: "BANISH CUNNING, DISCARD UTILITY, AND THIEVES AND BRIGANDS SHALL DISAPPEAR." If life is natural and is based on intrinsic values then what Lao Tzu says is hundred per cent correct. There shall be no thieves and brigands. They exist because of the materialistic concept we have given to life. When life is reduced to the utilitarian then thefts will take p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,756 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of man's efforts for the last 5,000 years have brought all facets of life into the marketplace. Nothing is outside the marketplace, so we know nothing of nature or truth or atman -- we cannot know. Lao Tzu says: "Banish all calculations, discard price. Banish cunning, banish knowledge. Banish all your justice, humanity, morality and doctrines and become natural." When he says: "Know the simple self," he is not ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,757 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... EMBRACE THY ORIGINAL NATURE, CHECK THY SELFISHNESS, CURTAIL THY DESIRES. To discard wisdom and knowledge, humanity and justice, cunning and utility, is the negation. Lao Tzu looks upon these as the three illnesses. It is necessary to leave these, but it is not enough. It is essential, but not adequate. The positive has to be manifested. It is not enough not to be ill in order...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,758 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ithin bliss. To be outside of pain is not to be one with bliss; they are not synonymous. Bliss is an uncovering of an inner benediction and blessing, an unfolding of the spontaneous blooming within. Three things Lao Tzu has talked about are like illnesses. All illnesses come from outside; health comes from within. Illnesses are aggressions, health is our nature. The very word 'swasthya' (health) means to be fixed in one's se...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,759 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...at the door. If he just stands between the two, he will become cheerless, disconsolate. Then neither pain draws him, nor is there the music of bliss within him. Only a dejected indifference is there. Lao Tzu says that if these three illnesses are got rid of -- and it is necessary to be rid of them -- then the inward opening can be affected. We should not take it for granted that by leaving these three we have rea...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,760 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... has discarded the wrong has not necessarily attained the right. The wrong has to be discarded, but merely leaving the wrong and making no further effort does not help one to attain the right. In this sutra, Lao Tzu has tried to reveal the positivity of life, the inner well-being. These three illnesses he has talked about are external and inadequate. People need something to hold on to in their journey. P...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,761 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... justice, religion. He serves mankind. This is his support. One man lives for material gains, for wealth, for status, for fame. This is his support. All these people need a prop, a support, in order to live. But Lao Tzu says, "Leave all three." It is very difficult to be without an anchor. Then we feel, "How should we live?" What should we do?" We let go of the wrong, and the hands become empty. Lao Tzu agrees that empt...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,762 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o live. But Lao Tzu says, "Leave all three." It is very difficult to be without an anchor. Then we feel, "How should we live?" What should we do?" We let go of the wrong, and the hands become empty. Lao Tzu agrees that empty hands need an anchor, need a support, but if this support is from the outside again, it will be no better than the ones that have been discarded. This support should now be an internal suppo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,763 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... if this support is from the outside again, it will be no better than the ones that have been discarded. This support should now be an internal support, your very own from your inner self. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "REVEAL THY SIMPLE SELF. EMBRACE THY ORIGINAL NATURE, CHECK THY SELFISHNESS, CURTAIL THY DESIRES." Let us take these one by one. "REVEAL THY SIMPLE SELF." When our hands are emptied fro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,764 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because of the three things had been mentioned previously. These three outside supports have not broken yet. Because of constant practice and the habit of previous births, the mind keeps running out towards these. Lao Tzu says: "If these three are broken, all the senses can be made to enter within." Close the eyes and concentrate on one thing; that you will not see any external object. Pictures will appear before the mind...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,765 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of the world to you; otherwise you would have no knowledge of the world. But we use the senses as one-way traffic. We only take the news of the outside world from them and never of the inside world. Lao Tzu says: "REVEAL THY SIMPLE SELF." As we see the vast skies above, the moon and the stars, and the flowers and trees and the multitude of faces which are all an experience of the great expanse outside, so also w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,766 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d has to be called back within; it has to come back home. The last resting place of this inward journey is the revelation of the self. It is the revelation of knowledge of the self. Lao Tzu is interested only in the natural. He holds on to it in the same manner as Kabir. Kabir says; "Sadhi sahaj samadhi bhati." In every song, Kabir lays stress on the 'sahaja' (the natural, the spontaneous,). Kee...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,767 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...greatest difficulty is that he proves what he believes. His belief becomes a fact. Our beliefs appear as truths to us and we follow our own concepts. We even construct concepts about our own selves. Lao Tzu and Kabir, or others who have a concept of the natural (SAHAJA), say that to reveal the simple self within, you have to proceed without any preconceived notions. Otherwise you will experience only your precon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,768 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...olour, some already know what kind of an experience it is going to be. If you go within, with any of your expectations, the experience will not be of the atman but of your own projections. Therefore Lao Tzu says: have no conceptions when you go within. Be absolutely empty. Go with a free vision. Wear no coloured glasses or else you will see the same colours in the atman. That is why different religions in the wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,769 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... science has been able to lay down laws whereas. religion cannot. Each man has to enter on his journey alone. And there are very few people who start their inward journey without any preconceptions -- some Buddha or Lao Tzu. Otherwise the Hindu enters the inward path as a Hindu, the Mohammedan as a Mohammedan, the Christian as a Christian. You take all your concepts and teachings along with you and then you see within what you h...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,770 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...cepts and teachings along with you and then you see within what you have set out to see. Illusions are easy to create within oneself because there is no one there but you. Therefore, time and again, Lao Tzu stresses the simple self. By "simple" he means devoid of all concepts. Lao Tzu goes even a step further. He says, "Do not go within even with the belief that the atman is there, for that also becomes a precon...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,771 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...t to see. Illusions are easy to create within oneself because there is no one there but you. Therefore, time and again, Lao Tzu stresses the simple self. By "simple" he means devoid of all concepts. Lao Tzu goes even a step further. He says, "Do not go within even with the belief that the atman is there, for that also becomes a preconception." When anyone asked Buddha, "Does the atman exist or not?" he woul...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,772 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Man gets captured and enslaved within the capsule of his own concepts. Once he is caught within his own beliefs, nothing can free him. The biggest jail-house is that of our own beliefs and ideas. So Lao Tzu or Buddha would say: "Do not believe anything. Simply go within. Whatever is, know that; whatever you meet, see. Do not acquaint yourself with the unacquainted prematurely. Do not cover the unknowable with yo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,773 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...-- there is emptiness within you. Enter the emptiness. Do not ask me what this emptiness is like, for emptiness is that which is not. How can you express that which has no form, no colour, no shape?" Lao Tzu says: "REVEAL THY SIMPLE SELF." Do not heed religious teachers and pundits who educate you about the form of the atman, who say that the atman is like this or the atman is like that. Leave all thoughts about ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,774 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... friends and even by the advertisements of the Coffee Board. Now coffee has become delicious. But this taste is false; it is not authentic. In the same way, the inner taste can also be false. Therefore Lao Tzu exhorts us to embrace the simple self within. If you are impressed by Mahavira -- and people like Mahavira are impressive; it is very difficult not to be impressed by them -- then you sway to...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,775 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s also profitable to be non-influenced. You should be competent enough to arouse the thirst and alert enough not to come within the hold of the words. The guru's words should not become your burden. Lao Tzu says: "Be alert, be natural and embrace your atman. RENOUNCE YOUR SELFISHNESS AND CURTAIL YOUR DESIRES." What is meant by selfishness? Not what we usually mean, because he has told us to discard that long ago...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,776 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ishness does not mean the same thing as we know it to mean. It has a profounder meaning. We discarded selfishness when we gave up our habit of viewing things from a utilitarian angle. Then what does Lao Tzu mean by selfishness? Here, the meaning of selfishness is self-centredness. An ordinary man's trouble in life is that he is self-centred. If he loves someone it is with a purpose. It is this purpose that destr...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,777 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the root of it. We all live in self-interest. A man leaves his house, family and business and goes to the forest. He cannot have any self-interest; he has removed himself from the mundane world. But Lao Tzu says this is height of self-centredness. He is insistent on seeking his self, on attaining liberation, on finding bliss and being rid of pain. This is selfishness concerning the other world. It is plain and s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,778 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... liberation, on finding bliss and being rid of pain. This is selfishness concerning the other world. It is plain and simple self-centredness because this man is also worried only about his own self. Lao Tzu tells us to drop this also, for this too is a hindrance in knowing the self. If I make an investment in knowing my self, if I feel that by attaining the self I shall obtain bliss then my eagerness, my interes...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,779 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to happiness. No matter how contrary these two may seem in their actions, they are not contrary. Their thinking is the same and their journey is also the same. There is not the slightest difference. Lao Tzu says: give up selfishness. If you want to know your self and experience the simple, the natural, do not build any expectations on it; that by knowing the self, I will attain this or that. There should be no t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,780 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... because now your greed has acquired a new dimension where it can expand. But only those who have no greed can enter the realm of religion. They are not interested in liberation, in bliss or heaven. Lao Tzu says: drop your selfishness. This selfishness is of another plane. Here, it is mentioned in connection with self-knowledge. Do not think of bliss. Who knows whether you will attain it or not attain it? Who kn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,781 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o knowing the self. He who does so has still his eyes on some attainment so he will be going around and around outside of himself. He will fail to go within. He alone can go within who has no desires left. Therefore Lao Tzu says: "CHECK THY 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- SELFISHNESS: CURTAIL TH...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,782 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s what is in it for you? They are not opposed to desires at all. The place where you have centered your desires is perishable. So they say remove your desires from there and fix them on the eternal. Lao Tzu does not suggest changing the direction of your desires. He tells you to eradicate them. Understand this difference well. I am running after wealth. Somebody reasons with me, "What is this madness? What ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,783 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th accepts no bribes. I cannot escape death. Then what should I do? I shall run after God." The struggle continues; only the subject changes. The goal is changed; the desire is the same. People like Lao Tzu say, "Do not run!" They do not say: the world is meaningless; God alone is meaningful, therefore, do not run. That would be selfishness. It would mean that those who are more cunning would strive to attain Go...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,784 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r things. "What? You are building a house on earth"? How foolish! Make it in heaven. It will be everlasting. So the whole thing becomes a play between more cunning and less cunning people. Therefore Lao Tzu is very emphatic when he says: "Leave cunning, leave selfishness, curtail your desires." If any desire remains in the spiritual sense, be it in any direction, the wandering remains. Stop! Do not run. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,785 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...are not trying to attain something, why should you run? You will stop. This state is called samadhi. Desire is running outside of ourselves. Therefore desirelessness is necessary for self-knowledge. Lao Tzu says: "CURTAIL THY DESIRES." But this is very alarming! If someone suggests that we change our desires, we will be ready. If we are told, "Leave the women of this world. What is there in them? In heaven there...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,786 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...akes transactions is very much in the world. It does not matter what the commodity -- wealth or heaven -- because a deal is a deal. A spiritual man never negotiates. He lives from moment to moment; he lives totally. Lao Tzu tells us to do away with desires because they do not let you rise above the world of transactions. Then whatever you do is with an eye to some ultimate gain. Someone asked Omar Khayyam, "You ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,787 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...er and one who has gone beyond intelligence. There is some similarity between the mad man and the paramhansa, some qualities within them are the same. This quality is the quality of purposelessness. Lao Tzu says: abandon all these: selfishness, purposelessness, bargaining, desires, and you shall be able to embrace your innate nature. You will be able to become established within yourself. And except for this -- ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,788 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tain wealth, you will gain success, you will gain health." The Americans were satisfied: the transaction was clear. Meditation leads to wealth and success. Then meditation can be sold in the marketplace. People like Lao Tzu cannot be sold in the marketplace. If you ask him what is the attainment he will say, "You are not yet qualified to be given an answer." What are you asking? It is as if you could ask, "What can be attained t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,789 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ays in the mundane world. If we are assured of some solid gain, we shall be ready to run towards God. All we want is to run, to struggle. To stop is very stifling for the mind; it becomes restive. So people like Lao Tzu frighten us. Confucius returned from his visit to Lao Tzu a frightened man. When his disciples asked him what sort of man Lao Tzu was he said, "He is not like a man. He is like a lion! You go ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,790 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ll be ready to run towards God. All we want is to run, to struggle. To stop is very stifling for the mind; it becomes restive. So people like Lao Tzu frighten us. Confucius returned from his visit to Lao Tzu a frightened man. When his disciples asked him what sort of man Lao Tzu was he said, "He is not like a man. He is like a lion! You go to him and each hair on your body trembles, you break into a sweat. Do not...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,791 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...top is very stifling for the mind; it becomes restive. So people like Lao Tzu frighten us. Confucius returned from his visit to Lao Tzu a frightened man. When his disciples asked him what sort of man Lao Tzu was he said, "He is not like a man. He is like a lion! You go to him and each hair on your body trembles, you break into a sweat. Do not ever go to him. He shakes your very soul. One look of his and your life...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,792 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o to him and each hair on your body trembles, you break into a sweat. Do not ever go to him. He shakes your very soul. One look of his and your life-breath trembles like a leaf!" This is bound to be. Lao Tzu makes you tremble, because what he says is the ultimate. He does not care to tarry over lesser things. He never answers petty questions. He will not even say that meditation gives you peace. If you want peace...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,793 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tion to you." Bodhidharma never entered Wu's kingdom. He went to the other side of the river. King Wu was restless. For a long time he had awaited the coming of Bodhidharma, who was of the stature of Lao Tzu and Buddha. How he had disappointed him! He tore his hopes into shreds. If he had only sealed his actions with his approval and told him that the gates of heaven were already open for him, that his liberation...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,794 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o complete our race. No, it will not end. The very running is wrong. Neither the road is wrong, nor the runner, nor the pace of running, nor the goal. Running in itself is wrong. If we understand Lao Tzu we will know that activity in itself is a mistake. To stop, to relax and drown in non-activity, is the correct thing. So no race is the right race -- according to Lao Tzu. To stop is the right thing. No stopp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,795 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ing in itself is wrong. If we understand Lao Tzu we will know that activity in itself is a mistake. To stop, to relax and drown in non-activity, is the correct thing. So no race is the right race -- according to Lao Tzu. To stop is the right thing. No stopping can be wrong. All activities are wrong. Non-activity, passivity, is one's absolute nature. ANOTHER FRIEND ASKS: YOU HAVE PLACED WORLDLY DESIRES AND ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,796 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...RY. WORLDLY DESIRES ARE BASE DESIRES, AND SPIRITUAL DESIRES ARE VERY HIGH DESIRES. BESIDES, WORLDLY DESIRES HAVE TO BE RENOUNCED IN ORDER TO ATTAIN SPIRITUAL DESIRES. If you have understood Lao Tzu, you will know that according to him no desire is worldly and no desire is spiritual. Desire of any kind is worldly; only desirelessness is spiritual. Therefore, worldly desires and spiritual desires have no ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,797 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ment you stop there is moksha. When the mind stops wandering and becomes fixed, moksha is attained. The mind cannot be stable in any desire. The very word "desire" means the wandering of the mind. So Lao Tzu does not differentiate between worldly desires and spiritual desires. The so-called religious people are, therefore, disturbed by Lao Tzu's teachings because they are proud that they have developed higher des...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,798 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ble in any desire. The very word "desire" means the wandering of the mind. So Lao Tzu does not differentiate between worldly desires and spiritual desires. The so-called religious people are, therefore, disturbed by Lao Tzu's teachings because they are proud that they have developed higher desires and renounced the lower ones. No desire is a high desire. No poison is greater, no sin is greater. Poison is poison, sin is sin; desi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,799 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...there is not the slightest stir, not a single ripple. Everything should be silent, serene. The mind should be as tranquil as a lake. Then, that very moment, we see His rejection in the silent waters. Lao Tzu says: desire is the world. Therefore, no desire can be spiritual. Those who paint their desires with spirituality deceive themselves. The worldly man can be forgiven, but the so-called spiritual man cannot be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,800 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...on-ordinary. Have you ever met a person who is ordinary? Even if a person says he is ordinary, he will claim to be very, very ordinary. In other words, I am non-ordinary even among the most ordinary. Lao Tzu says: "Become ordinary and you shall attain. Your non-ordinariness is your only hurdle." What is our non-ordinariness? Some men earn wealth in order to be extraordinary. Some one renounces in order to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,801 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Some men earn wealth in order to be extraordinary. Some one renounces in order to be extraordinary. Our extraordinariness depends entirely on our doing. The more a person does, the more extraordinary he becomes. Lao Tzu says: "All is attained by non-doing." Therefore the extraordinary never attain, because "extraordinary" means one who has attained something, done something. But it is next to impossible to fi...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,802 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The man said, "How can I drop this thought? I am so restless." Bokoju said, "I am showing you the cause of your restlessness. He who compares himself with others is bound to be restless." Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greate...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,803 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...o compare. Thus we create two states of tension. In actuality, we see the abyss; and in our imagination, we see the peak. There is no common point between the two. Life breaks into bits between them. Lao Tzu says: be ordinary. There is nothing better than that. Accept your ordinariness. Since childhood everyone around us has told us, "Be something. Be like this. Be like that." Parents, teachers, are all after us:...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,804 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of the work of these outstanding few? It has passed away like in a dream -- like a line drawn in water. Not a trace remains. But we want to do something significant because we consider it a quality. Lao Tzu says: "Non-doing is a quality." This does not mean that you should do nothing. It does not mean not to earn your livelihood, not to work, not to move your limbs. Lao Tzu says: "Be fixed in non-doing." Let non...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,805 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ificant because we consider it a quality. Lao Tzu says: "Non-doing is a quality." This does not mean that you should do nothing. It does not mean not to earn your livelihood, not to work, not to move your limbs. Lao Tzu says: "Be fixed in non-doing." Let non-doing be your centre. Whatever you do should come out of your acceptance of non-doing and not out of your race for attainment. Then your desires will decline on their ow...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,806 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... not out of your race for attainment. Then your desires will decline on their own. Your necessities will remain, but your desires will drop. Man's necessities are so few! Man's desires are limitless! Lao Tzu says that if you live in your ordinary nature, you will do only that much which is enough for you. The birds and animals also do that much; they also do just enough for themselves. But they are not pained and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,807 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...miss life, we miss the opportunity life offers us. Then we are filled with an inferiority complex. We are filled with despondency, gloom and sorrow. Then life becomes a burden and not a dance of joy. Lao Tzu says: "A life that is filled with dance -- is a natural life." When he says "dance", he does not mean you should become a dancer like Nijinsky or Udaya Shankar. It is enough that you can dance with joy. Whate...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,808 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is no rhythm, no poetry. There is only one demand that existence makes: that it should rise from your heart. The bliss of God showers on the person who is authentically and honestly his own self. Lao Tzu is not at all concerned with the extraordinary man. In other religious traditions, the extraordinary is valued very highly. Lao Tzu values the ordinary man. "Be as if you are not. Why should anyone even know ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,809 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ss of God showers on the person who is authentically and honestly his own self. Lao Tzu is not at all concerned with the extraordinary man. In other religious traditions, the extraordinary is valued very highly. Lao Tzu values the ordinary man. "Be as if you are not. Why should anyone even know of you?" he asks. Lao Tzu says: "You are meaningful in yourself. Your purpose is in your very self". That you are is...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,810 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...th the extraordinary man. In other religious traditions, the extraordinary is valued very highly. Lao Tzu values the ordinary man. "Be as if you are not. Why should anyone even know of you?" he asks. Lao Tzu says: "You are meaningful in yourself. Your purpose is in your very self". That you are is enough to show that God has accepted you. That you are is enough to show that God stands behind you, just as much as ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,811 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ningful in yourself. Your purpose is in your very self". That you are is enough to show that God has accepted you. That you are is enough to show that God stands behind you, just as much as he stood behind Buddha or Lao Tzu. He has given you the same number of breaths he gave them, the same number of heart-beats. He is partial to none. The sun shines as much on you as it shone on them. The winds go past as freely. All existence ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,812 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... of breaths he gave them, the same number of heart-beats. He is partial to none. The sun shines as much on you as it shone on them. The winds go past as freely. All existence accepts you as it accepted Buddha or Lao Tzu. But when you do not accept yourself, what can existence do? Lao Tzu says: all talk of ordinary and non-ordinary is pure babble. All comparisons are meaningless. There are variations in the wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,813 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...es as much on you as it shone on them. The winds go past as freely. All existence accepts you as it accepted Buddha or Lao Tzu. But when you do not accept yourself, what can existence do? Lao Tzu says: all talk of ordinary and non-ordinary is pure babble. All comparisons are meaningless. There are variations in the world, but no qualifications. Understand this well. Nothing is superior and nothing...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,814 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hell itself. To strive to be what one is, is heaven. The day the thought of being something else is destroyed and only the thought of being as you are remains, that day becomes the day of liberation. Lao Tzu is very much in favour of the ordinary man. He is in favour of attributeless man, a 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, publ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,815 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...logy of activity. But to go within one's own nature does not require any education. On the contrary, we need the courage to leave all that we have learned behind. This is an inevitable condition. Lao Tzu says that clothes cover the nakedness of a person. We can ask if there are clothes that do not hide the nakedness of man. Clothes will hide maybe more and maybe less but clothes cover the body. Clothes can be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,816 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s? Is it only this: that you have been to school, that the clothes you wear are a little more expensive? You have hidden your nakedness with expensive garments. He has hidden his with ragged clothes. Lao Tzu says: "All teachings create coverings on the atman within, on the nature within." All past impressions obscure that which I am. Only when these impressions are lifted can a man know his own self. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,817 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... have taken for granted. We always tend to prove what we believe, for that alone satisfies the mind. One friend came and told me: "When you speak on the Gita, I feel very happy; but when you speak on Lao Tzu, I do not feel happy. Rather, I become restless." The Gita pleases because the Gita is an acknowledged subject. The happiness comes from knowing that I am saying just what he knows. The mind finds peace b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,818 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...me other Buddha to give him readymade knowledge. He searched himself and found. Truth is attained when we seek ourselves. It is not so cheap that we can buy it from others. Knowledge can be attained from others, but Lao Tzu tells us to shun all knowledge, all such wisdom, which is borrowed. IS SELF-KNOWLEDGE NOT BLISS-INCARNATE? IF IT IS, WHY DO YOU HESITATE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT AS SUCH? THE SCRIPTURES HAVE CL...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,819 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to neither. You have no knowledge of the atman and no knowledge of bliss, but continuous hearing makes you feel that the atman is bliss. By merely saying that the atman is bliss, nothing happens. Lao Tzu does not say that the atman is not bliss. He only says, "We shall say nothing about the atman. Go and discover for yourself. We can only show you how to go. We shall not say what you 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,820 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Likewise, our friend says: "The scriptures say." What has one man's eyes to do with a blind man? He cannot lend them to him. What he needs is his own eyes. But the blind also learn their lesson by heart. That is why Lao Tzu refuses to discuss the atman. He only shows us how to improve our sight. Once the sight is restored that is enough. ONE FRIEND ASKS: WHY SHOULD WE BE RELIGIONS WHEN WE DO NOT KNOW THE BE...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,821 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...HEN WE DO NOT KNOW THE END; WHEN WE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF GOD OR ATMAN? WHY CAN'T A BUDDHA WHO EXPERIENCES THE TRUTH GIVE THIS EXPERIENCE TO ALL? No one wants you to be religious -- at least Lao Tzu does not tell you to be. Religious people have created such confusion that it is better if they cease to exist. No one wants you to be religious. Lao Tzu says only this: "Be what you are." You may ask, "W...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,822 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... No one wants you to be religious -- at least Lao Tzu does not tell you to be. Religious people have created such confusion that it is better if they cease to exist. No one wants you to be religious. Lao Tzu says only this: "Be what you are." You may ask, "Why should we be what we are?" The answer is that that is all you can be. There is no way of becoming something else. You may try to become something you are n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,823 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to raise this question! One thing is certain -- you are seeking something. Otherwise why did you come? Why did you ask this question? There is some quest. What is it you seek? Buddha calls it dharma, Lao Tzu has named it Tao. Whether you know it or not, you are seeking religion. You do not even know what you seek. Investigate within. What are your expectations, what is your search? We do not even know who we ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,824 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...gious. They have tried to tempt their followers. But everything has its own mechanism. There are things which can happen only in the most natural conditions; they cannot be made to happen. Therefore, Lao Tzu stresses the natural. He says the absolute truth is revealed only in a natural state. The more simple and natural you become, the quicker will you be able to manage the jump. The harder you try to bring it ab...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,825 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...soever is -- there I am. Not only in virtue but in sin too I am a partner, and not only heaven but hell too is mine. Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu -- it is easy to be their heir, but Genghis, Taimur and Hitler? They are also within me! No, not half -- I am the whole of mankind! Whatsoever...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,826 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...enture. So do not waste time -- begin. Do not calculate -- begin. Do not hesitate -- begin. Do not look back -- begin. And always remember old Lao Tzu's words: A tree that takes both arms to encircle grows from a tiny rootlet. A many-storied pagoda is built by placing one brick upon another brick. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,827 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...elf, and then everything begins to flow naturally and spontaneously just like a river flowing to the sea or like a cloud wandering in the sky. Lao-tzu says this is doing by non-doing. One ceases to be one's own master and becomes an instrument of the unknown -- and what nonsense it is to be one's own master ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,828 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... This is the meaning of the penetrating saying of Jesus: He that saveth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life shall keep it unto life eternal. Or that of Lao Tzu in TAO-TE-KING: He who humbles himself shall be saved, 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,829 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Dictated Books I Have Loved Chapter #1 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS01 Audio: No Video: No The guest, the host, the white chrysanthemum... th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,830 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... published and unpublished Query:- THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is the second. Third is THE BOOK OF MIRDAD. Fourth is JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL. The fifth book is TAO TE CHING by Lao Tzu. The sixth is THE PARABLES OF CHUANG TZU. He was the most lovable man, and this is the most lovable book. Seventh is THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT -- only THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT not the ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,831 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ion 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter #2 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS02 Audio: No Video: No I apologize because this morning I did not menti...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,832 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Audio: No Video: No I apologize because this morning I did not mention a few books that I should have mentioned. I was so overwhelmed by Zarathustra, Mirdad, Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, Jesus and Krishna that I forgot a few of the books which are even far more significant. I could not believe how I could forget Kahlil Gibran's THE PROPHET. It is still torturing me. I want to unburden -- tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,833 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...E ZARATHUSTRA. In our world nobody speaks the truth. We are such liars, so formal, so full of etiquette.... THE PROPHET is only beautiful because it echoes Zarathustra. Third, THE BOOK OF LIEH TZU. Lao Tzu I mentioned, Chuang Tzu I mentioned; Lieh Tzu I forgot, and he is the very culmination of both Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Lieh Tzu is the third generation. Lao Tzu was the master, Chuang Tzu was the disciple. Li...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,834 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [....... THE PROPHET is only beautiful because it echoes Zarathustra. Third, THE BOOK OF LIEH TZU. Lao Tzu I mentioned, Chuang Tzu I mentioned; Lieh Tzu I forgot, and he is the very culmination of both Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Lieh Tzu is the third generation. Lao Tzu was the master, Chuang Tzu was the disciple. Lieh Tzu was the disciple of a disciple, perhaps that is why I forgot him. But his book is immensely beau...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,835 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hustra. Third, THE BOOK OF LIEH TZU. Lao Tzu I mentioned, Chuang Tzu I mentioned; Lieh Tzu I forgot, and he is the very culmination of both Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Lieh Tzu is the third generation. Lao Tzu was the master, Chuang Tzu was the disciple. Lieh Tzu was the disciple of a disciple, perhaps that is why I forgot him. But his book is immensely beautiful and has to be included in the list. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,836 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Chapter title: None 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS03 Audio: No Video: No Now my work begins. What a joke! The joke of all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,837 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ng? Books I Have Loved Chapter #4 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS04 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,838 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... poison him, they could not just ignore him. But Pythagoras is completely ignored, and he has the same key as Gautam Buddha, Jesus, or any other enlightened one. One thing more: neither Jesus nor Buddha nor Lao Tzu made so much effort to find the key as Pythagoras. He worked the most. Pythagoras was the most authentic seeker. He risked all and everything. He traveled all around the world that was known in those days; st...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,839 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it now. Books I Have Loved Chapter #5 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS05 Audio: No Video: No Now the work begins. "Athato brahman jigyasa -- no...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,840 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...anity. Books I Have Loved Chapter #6 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS06 Audio: No Video: No Now the postscript. In the last session, when I s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,841 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Chapter title: None 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS07 Audio: No Video: No Okay. I have heard your notebook open. Now it is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,842 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Chapter title: None 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS08 Audio: No Video: No Be a Junnatha -- a seeker. The P.S. continues. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,843 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ax. Books I Have Loved Chapter #9 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS09 Audio: No Video: No Now is my time. I don't think anybody has spoken i...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,844 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ables. Books I Have Loved Chapter #10 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS10 Audio: No Video: No Okay, how many books have I talked about in the postscript -- fort...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,845 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r today. Books I Have Loved Chapter #11 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS11 Audio: No Video: No Okay. How many books have I referred to in the P.S. up to now? "T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,846 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...flection of the reflection. The second, THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS. I don't like Confucius at all, and I don't feel any guilt about not liking him. I feel really relieved that it is now on record. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Lao Tzu was a little older; Confucius had even gone to see Lao Tzu and came back trembling, shaken to the very roots, perspiring. His disciples asked, "What happened in the ca...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,847 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... The second, THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS. I don't like Confucius at all, and I don't feel any guilt about not liking him. I feel really relieved that it is now on record. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Lao Tzu was a little older; Confucius had even gone to see Lao Tzu and came back trembling, shaken to the very roots, perspiring. His disciples asked, "What happened in the cave? ... Because you were both there and n...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,848 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nfucius at all, and I don't feel any guilt about not liking him. I feel really relieved that it is now on record. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Lao Tzu was a little older; Confucius had even gone to see Lao Tzu and came back trembling, shaken to the very roots, perspiring. His disciples asked, "What happened in the cave? ... Because you were both there and nobody else." Confucius said, "It is good th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,849 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...." Confucius said, "It is good that nobody witnessed it. That man, my God, he is a dragon! He would have killed me, but I escaped. He is truly dangerous." Confucius is reporting truly. A man like Lao Tzu can kill you just to resurrect you; and unless one is ready to die one cannot be reborn. Confucius escaped from his own rebirth. I have already chosen Lao Tzu, and forever. Confucius belonged to the very ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,850 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Confucius is reporting truly. A man like Lao Tzu can kill you just to resurrect you; and unless one is ready to die one cannot be reborn. Confucius escaped from his own rebirth. I have already chosen Lao Tzu, and forever. Confucius belonged to the very ordinary, mundane world. But let it be noted that I don't like him; he is a snob. It is strange he was not born in England. But anyway, China in those days WAS Eng...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,851 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nd. In those days England was just barbarious, there was nothing of value there. Confucius was a politician, cunning, clever, but not really intelligent; otherwise he would have fallen at the feet of Lao Tzu, he would not have escaped. He was not only afraid of Lao Tzu, he was 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpub...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,852 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... was nothing of value there. Confucius was a politician, cunning, clever, but not really intelligent; otherwise he would have fallen at the feet of Lao Tzu, he would not have escaped. He was not only afraid of Lao Tzu, he was 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- afraid of silence... because Lao...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,853 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...of Lao Tzu, he was 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- afraid of silence... because Lao Tzu and silence are the same. But I wanted to include one of Confucius' most famous books, just to be fair. ANALECTS is his most important book. To me it is just like the roots of a tree, ugly but very essent...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,854 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...for it, there are many much more important things to do." This was his attitude. You can understand why I don't like him. I pity him. He was a good man. Alas, he came so close to one of the greatest, Lao Tzu, and yet missed! I can only shed a tear for him. Third: Kahlil Gibran wrote many books in his mother tongue. Those that he wrote in English are well known: the most famous, THE PROPHET and T...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,855 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ou. Books I Have Loved Chapter #12 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS12 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,856 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Query:- Books I Have Loved Chapter #13 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS13 Audio: No Video: No The first book today is Irving Stone's LUST FOR ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,857 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e snow-white. She is my washerwoman. She does whatsoever she can, whatsoever is possible. Today I am immeasurably happy finding myself again in the Himalayas. I wanted to die in the Himalayas just as Lao Tzu did. It is wonderful to be alive in the Himalayas, it is even more wonderful to die in the Himalayas. The snow, wherever it is, represents the purity of the Himalayas, the virginity.... Tomorrow never comes, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,858 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...uery:- Books I Have Loved Chapter #14 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS14 Audio: No Video: No I have come to know, Devageet, that you freaked o...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,859 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stic, but not authentic. It is not sincere. Second -- another book by Lin Yutang, THE WISDOM OF CHINA. He has the art of writing so he can write anything, even THE WISDOM OF CHINA, although he knows nothing of Lao Tzu, who contains the whole wisdom not only of China but of the whole world. Of course Lin Yutang includes a few sentences of Lao Tzu, but those sentences are those which coincide with his Christian u...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,860 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... he can write anything, even THE WISDOM OF CHINA, although he knows nothing of Lao Tzu, who contains the whole wisdom not only of China but of the whole world. Of course Lin Yutang includes a few sentences of Lao Tzu, but those sentences are those which coincide with his Christian upbringing. In other words they are not Lao Tzuian at all. He quotes Chuang Tzu, but naturally his selections are very rational, and Chuang Tzu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,861 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...hole wisdom not only of China but of the whole world. Of course Lin Yutang includes a few sentences of Lao Tzu, but those sentences are those which coincide with his Christian upbringing. In other words they are not Lao Tzuian at all. He quotes Chuang Tzu, but naturally his selections are very rational, and Chuang Tzu is not a rational man; he is the most absurd man who has ever lived. Chuang Tzu is one of my lov...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,862 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...is. Books I Have Loved Chapter #15 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS03 Audio: No Video: No Okay. The first book I am going to talk about in ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,863 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ok today. Books I Have Loved Chapter #16 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: ShortTitle: BOOKS16 Audio: No Video: No How many books have I talked about in the P.P.S? Hmmm? 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,864 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...will join their forces again. In friendship, each party's first concern is self-preservation. If there is the slightest danger to personal safety, the snake of selfishness immediately uncoils itself Lao-tse is quoted to have said: "Lucky are those who know equanimity even in defeat, for such people cannot be touched by defeat." The tall trees which refuse to bend at the onset of a cyclone get uprooted in sp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,865 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s Silent Period Chapter #1 Chapter title: None May 1982 pm in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: 8205000 ShortTitle: SILENT01 Audio: No Video: No [NOTE: This was published in THE RAJNEESH TIMES, 5th No...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,866 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Silent Period Chapter #3 Chapter title: None 1983 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: 8300000 ShortTitle: SILENT03 Audio: No Video: No [NOTE: This was published in THE RAJNEESH TIMES, 19th A...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,867 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- those days for religion to be manifested as well as it can be now. Because Jesus did not know about Buddha, Buddha did not know about Lao Tzu, and Krishna was also unaware of Lao Tzu, etc. I have traveled all the paths and have looked at the truth from all the windows. What I am saying is going to last forever because nothing more could be adde...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,868 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...OM, published and unpublished Query:- those days for religion to be manifested as well as it can be now. Because Jesus did not know about Buddha, Buddha did not know about Lao Tzu, and Krishna was also unaware of Lao Tzu, etc. I have traveled all the paths and have looked at the truth from all the windows. What I am saying is going to last forever because nothing more could be added to it. Buddha was not s...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,869 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...n't matter. Silent Period Chapter #4 Chapter title: None 1983 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: 8300000 ShortTitle: SILENT04 Audio: No Video: No [NOTE: This was published in THE RAJNEES...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,870 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...her way. Silent Period Chapter #5 Chapter title: None 1983 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: 8300000 ShortTitle: SILENT05 Audio: No Video: No [NOTE: This was published in THE RAJNEESH TIMES, 28th O...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,871 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...dition or dogma and it allows everybody without any discrimination into its religious fold. Rajneeshism does not ask anyone to renounce their religion and does not have any conflict with Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Lao Tzu, etc. Basically Rajneeshism has the essential core of all religiousness. The other religions are against each other's traditions and attitudes. In fact, these other religions are fanatic and e...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,872 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tuation. Silent Period Chapter #7 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Archive code: 8400000 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpub...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,873 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ctated. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #1 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS01 Audio: No Video: No 10/28/07 Copyright Osh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,874 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... immense perfume. I love the Himalayas. I wanted to die there. That is the most beautiful place to die -- of course to live too, but as far as dying is concerned, that is the ultimate place. It is where Lao Tzu died. In the valleys of the Himalayas Buddha died, Jesus died, Moses died. No other mountains can claim Moses, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Marpa, Tilopa, Naropa, and thousands of ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,875 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... live too, but as far as dying is concerned, that is the ultimate place. It is where Lao Tzu died. In the valleys of the Himalayas Buddha died, Jesus died, Moses died. No other mountains can claim Moses, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Marpa, Tilopa, Naropa, and thousands of others. Switzerland is beautiful but nothing compared to the Himalayas. It is convenient to be in Switzerland with all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,876 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ter.... Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #2 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS02 Audio: No Video: No I just had a golden experience, the feeling of a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,877 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS03 Audio: No Video: No Again and again the miracle of the morning... th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,878 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... came to have the taste 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- of Tao. Lao Tzu says, "Tao is the watercourse way. The water simply flows downwards wherever the earth allows it." That is how those early years were. I was allowed. I think every child needs those years. If we could give th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,879 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ter on. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #4 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS04 Audio: No Video: No I was telling you of the moment when I met the as...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,880 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...to you. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #5 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS05 Audio: No Video: No I was talking about the death of my Nana, my gran...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,881 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... That was enough to allow me to do whatsoever I wanted. Anything one could imagine... like riding on a buffalo backwards with Bhoora following. It was only later on, in the university museum, I saw the statue of Lao Tzu sitting backwards on a buffalo. I laughed so loudly that the museum director came running to me saying, "Is anything wrong?" Because I was holding my stomach and sitting on the floor, he said, "Are you suffer...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,882 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...just reminded of my childhood. This is the way I used to ride on a buffalo." In my village particularly, and all over India, nobody rides on a buffalo. The Chinese are strange people, and this person Lao Tzu was the strangest of all. But God knows, and only God knows, how I discovered the idea -- even I don't know -- to sit on a buffalo in the marketplace, backwards. I assume it was because I always liked anythin...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,883 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...SHANTI. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #6 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS06 Audio: No Video: No Okay. My okay is a little sad b...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,884 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... years. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #7 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS07 Audio: No Video: No Devageet, when you sometimes say "Okay" to Ashu, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,885 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...p. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #8 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS08 Audio: No Video: No I have been talking about an incident that is abs...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,886 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Query:- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #9 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS09 Audio: No Video: No Time cannot go back, but mind can. What a wastage...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,887 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...today...." Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #10 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS10 Audio: No Video: No I was looking at some pictures of the marriage pro...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,888 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... cares! Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #11 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS11 Audio: No Video: No Devageet... really good, and after being hit, you ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,889 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter #12 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS12 Audio: No Video: No I have been working the whole night because of a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,890 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #13 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS13 Audio: No Video: No 10/28/07 Copyright Osho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,891 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...in any language of the world, I am sorry, I would not choose from Jesus Christ; and I am sorry, I would not choose from Gautam the Buddha either; I am sorry, I would not choose from either Moses or Mohammed, or even Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu. I would choose this strange fellow about whom nothing much is known -- Tertullian. I don't know exactly how his name is pronounced, so it is better that I spell it out: T-e-r-t-...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,892 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...beauty. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #14 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS14 Audio: No Video: No 10/28/07 Copyright Osh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,893 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...st." But don't be amazed, those two books are anti-Christ, in fact they are anti-anything that is beautiful: anti-truth, anti-love. It is no coincidence that Nietzsche fell in love with them. Although he never liked Lao Tzu or Buddha, he liked Manu and Krishna. Why? The question is very significant. He liked Manu because he loved the idea of hierarchy. He was against democracy, freedom, equality; in short he was...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,894 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ife. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #15 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS15 Audio: No Video: No I have always loved the story told of Henry Ford....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,895 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Nana, your father's father is Baba. Magga Baba was certainly one of the most remarkable men that may ever have lived on this planet. He was really one of the chosen ones. You can count him with Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu. I know nothing about his childhood or his parents. Nobody knows from where he came -- one day suddenly he appeared in the town. He did not speak. People persisted in asking questions of all ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,896 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS16 Audio: No Video: No There are six great religions in the world. They ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,897 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...nly the Jews who were in a hurry -- because Jews know better -- perhaps the crucifixion of Jesus came from the Romans, who have always been childish and stupid. I don't know of anyone like a Jesus, or a Buddha, or a Lao Tzu, who has ever happened to their race and to their history. Only one man comes to me, he was the Emperor Aurelius. He wrote the famous book, MEDITATIONS. Of course it is not what I call medita...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,898 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e way. My way is simple: to be silent, to experience in one's self that which is always the observer, and never the observed; to know the knower, and forget the known. My way is simple, as simple as Lao Tzu's, Chuang Tzu's, Krishna's, Christ's, Moses', Zarathustra's... because only the names differ, the way is the same. Only pilgrims are different; the pilgrimage is the same. And the truth, the process, is very ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,899 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...top. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #17 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS17 Audio: No 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,900 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s self. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #18 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS18 Audio: No Video: No Sigmund Freud was interviewing one of his patient...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,901 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tation. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #19 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS19 Audio: No Video: No Okay. I said "okay" a little earl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,902 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ars.... Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #20 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS20 Audio: No Video: No 10/28/07 Copyright Os...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,903 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...things. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #21 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS21 Audio: No Video: No Okay.... The man I was talking ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,904 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...abu. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #22 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS22 Audio: No Video: No I was just going to say "okay," but no. One day ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,905 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ven inquire. I simply drove to the town. I never liked that road, and I liked driving, but that road from Jabalpur to Gadarwara was really a sonofabitch! You will not find a worse road anywhere. Our road, connecting Lao Tzu House to Buddha Hall, is a superhighway by comparison. What do they call them in Germany? Autobahn? "Yes, Osho." Okay, if Devageet says it is right, then it must be right. Our road is an autob...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,906 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s too. So be very careful." You see my difficulty, Chetana? Now, if I go on holiday even for a week, or for a weekend, how much will you have to prepare? We would have to make everything exactly as it is here in Lao Tzu House -- it is a huge task. But because you were so happy I thought it would be worth doing. Just to make even a single person happy I can do anything whatsoever. That has been my whole life's very 10/28/07...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,907 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...stance. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #23 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS23 Audio: No Video: No Now, my work upon you.... I was t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,908 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ry:- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #24 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS24 Audio: No Video: No I was saying to you that friendship is a higher v...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,909 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #25 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublishe...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,910 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...:- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #26 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS26 Audio: No Video: No I will have to go in circles, circles within circ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,911 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...he ice. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #27 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Archive code:...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,912 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #28 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS28 Audio: No Video: No Okay. This noise that you are making is enough to ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,913 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...OREVER. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #29 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS29 Audio: No Video: No The whole night the wind went on blowing in the t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,914 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... it. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #30 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS30 Audio: No Video: No I was talking about Pagal Baba and the three flu...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,915 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...the politicians. His flute has its own flavor. The flavor of his flute can only be called balance, absolute balance, as if you were walking in a very strongly flowing stream. The example I am giving you is from Lao Tzu. You are walking across a very strong, flowing, wild stream, and naturally you have to be very alert otherwise you will go with the stream. Lao Tzu also says that you have to walk very fast because the stream...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,916 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...y strongly flowing stream. The example I am giving you is from Lao Tzu. You are walking across a very strong, flowing, wild stream, and naturally you have to be very alert otherwise you will go with the stream. Lao Tzu also says that you have to walk very fast because the stream is very cold, below zero, perhaps even colder. Fast, and yet balanced, that describes what Hari Prasad Chaurasia does with his flute. S...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,917 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Query:- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #31 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS31 Audio: No Video: No Pagal Baba, in his last days was always a little...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,918 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ind. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #32 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS32 Audio: No Video: No I have always wondered that something went right ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,919 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...d. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #33 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS33 Audio: No Video: No 10/28/07 Copyright Osho...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,920 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...se; even dying there has something of the eternal. Perhaps it is the vibe of the saints chanting for thousands of years. The VEDAS were composed there, the GITA was written there, the Buddha was born and died there, Lao Tzu, in his last days disappeared in the Himalayas. And Masto did almost the same. No one knows yet whether Lao Tzu died or not. How can one be decisive? Hence the legend that he is immortal. Nob...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,921 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...S were composed there, the GITA was written there, the Buddha was born and died there, Lao Tzu, in his last days disappeared in the Himalayas. And Masto did almost the same. No one knows yet whether Lao Tzu died or not. How can one be decisive? Hence the legend that he is immortal. Nobody is. One who is born is bound to die. Lao Tzu must have died, but people never came to know of it. At least one should be able...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,922 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...appeared in the Himalayas. And Masto did almost the same. No one knows yet whether Lao Tzu died or not. How can one be decisive? Hence the legend that he is immortal. Nobody is. One who is born is bound to die. Lao Tzu must have died, but people never came to know of it. At least one should be able to have a completely private death, if one wants it. Masto took care of me more efficiently than Pagal Baba co...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,923 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...r that. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #34 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS34 Audio: No Video: No This morning I said a very abrupt goodbye to Mast...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,924 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ver. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #35 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS35 Audio: No Video: No Okay. I have heard Ravi Shankar p...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,925 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...top. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #36 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS36 Audio: No Video: No Just now I was thinking of a story. I don't know w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,926 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...be... once before I was not.... He was, and He will be." In fact, to say "He" is not right. In the East we say "It," and that sounds perfect. IT written in capital letters gives a real meaning to Buddha's words, Lao Tzu's sayings, Jesus' prayers. "He" is again male-oriented, and "He" is not "She" either. I have heard... you may not have heard yet, because it belongs to the future. It's a future story. The pol...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,927 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #37 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS37 Audio: No Video: No Okay. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,928 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e never had a house. Even this house, I cannot call it "my house." From the first one to the last, perhaps this is not the last, but whichever is the last, I cannot call it my house. Just to hide the fact, I call it Lao Tzu House. Lao Tzu has nothing to do with it. And I know the man. I know that if he meets me -- and someday a meeting is bound to happen -- the first thing he will ask will be, "Why did you name your house `...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,929 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ouse. Even this house, I cannot call it "my house." From the first one to the last, perhaps this is not the last, but whichever is the last, I cannot call it my house. Just to hide the fact, I call it Lao Tzu House. Lao Tzu has nothing to do with it. And I know the man. I know that if he meets me -- and someday a meeting is bound to happen -- the first thing he will ask will be, "Why did you name your house `Lao Tzu House'?...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,930 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Lao Tzu House. Lao Tzu has nothing to do with it. And I know the man. I know that if he meets me -- and someday a meeting is bound to happen -- the first thing he will ask will be, "Why did you name your house `Lao Tzu House'?" Naturally, the curiosity of a child -- and nobody could be more childlike than Lao Tzu, neither Buddha, nor Jesus, nor Mohammed, and certainly not Moses. A Jew being childlike? Impossible! ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,931 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ts me -- and someday a meeting is bound to happen -- the first thing he will ask will be, "Why did you name your house `Lao Tzu House'?" Naturally, the curiosity of a child -- and nobody could be more childlike than Lao Tzu, neither Buddha, nor Jesus, nor Mohammed, and certainly not Moses. A Jew being childlike? Impossible! A Jew is born a businessman, with a business suit, just leaving the house and going to the shop. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,932 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ed, and certainly not Moses. A Jew being childlike? Impossible! A Jew is born a businessman, with a business suit, just leaving the house and going to the shop. He comes ready-made. Moses? -- certainly not. But Lao Tzu, or if you want someone even more 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- childl...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,933 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...or if you want someone even more 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- childlike than Lao Tzu, then his disciple, Chuang Tzu.... To be a disciple of Lao Tzu one needed to be more innocent than Lao Tzu himself. There is no other way. Confucius was just refused. In short, he was told to "Get out, an...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,934 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- childlike than Lao Tzu, then his disciple, Chuang Tzu.... To be a disciple of Lao Tzu one needed to be more innocent than Lao Tzu himself. There is no other way. Confucius was just refused. In short, he was told to "Get out, and get lost forever -- and remember, do not return t...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,935 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- childlike than Lao Tzu, then his disciple, Chuang Tzu.... To be a disciple of Lao Tzu one needed to be more innocent than Lao Tzu himself. There is no other way. Confucius was just refused. In short, he was told to "Get out, and get lost forever -- and remember, do not return to this place again." Not actually in these words, but th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,936 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Confucius was just refused. In short, he was told to "Get out, and get lost forever -- and remember, do not return to this place again." Not actually in these words, but that was the very essence of what Lao Tzu said to Confucius, the most scholarly man of that day. Confucius could not be accepted, but Chuang Tzu was even crazier than Lao Tzu, his Master. When Chuang Tzu came, Lao Tzu said, "Great! Are you here to be...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,937 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...s place again." Not actually in these words, but that was the very essence of what Lao Tzu said to Confucius, the most scholarly man of that day. Confucius could not be accepted, but Chuang Tzu was even crazier than Lao Tzu, his Master. When Chuang Tzu came, Lao Tzu said, "Great! Are you here to be my Master? You can choose: either you can be my Master, or I can be your Master." Chuang Tzu replied, "Forget all about ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,938 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...as the very essence of what Lao Tzu said to Confucius, the most scholarly man of that day. Confucius could not be accepted, but Chuang Tzu was even crazier than Lao Tzu, his Master. When Chuang Tzu came, Lao Tzu said, "Great! Are you here to be my Master? You can choose: either you can be my Master, or I can be your Master." Chuang Tzu replied, "Forget all about that! Why can't we just be?" And that w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,939 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...'s the way they started, with him saying, "Can't we forget all about that rot?" -- I add the word "rot" to make it exactly what it would have been. But that does not mean that he was not respectful. Even after this, Lao Tzu laughed and said, "Just great! I was waiting for you." And Chuang Tzu touched the Master's feet. Lao Tzu said, "What!" Chuang Tzu said, "Don't bring anything in between us. If I feel like touc...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,940 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...actly what it would have been. But that does not mean that he was not respectful. Even after this, Lao Tzu laughed and said, "Just great! I was waiting for you." And Chuang Tzu touched the Master's feet. Lao Tzu said, "What!" Chuang Tzu said, "Don't bring anything in between us. If I feel like touching your feet, then nobody can prevent me, neither you nor I. We have just to watch it happen." And ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,941 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...now. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #38 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS38 Audio: No Video: No Okay. I wanted to tell you a simp...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,942 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Query:- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #39 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS39 Audio: No Video: No Devageet, I think you are being affected by somet...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,943 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS40 Audio: No Video: No I am standing... strange, because I am supposed ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,944 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...CH.) Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter 4#1 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS41 Audio: No Video: No Okay. 10/28/07 ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,945 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ind me. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #42 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS42 Audio: No Video: No Okay. What was I telling you? I cann...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,946 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Stop. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #43 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS43 Audio: No Video: No Okay. I have always wondered how ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,947 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ejoice. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #44 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS44 Audio: No Video: No I was wondering yesterday how God created this wo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,948 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ly way. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #45 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS45 Audio: No Video: No Okay. The story of Mahatma Gand...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,949 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...Query:- Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #46 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS46 Audio: No Video: No Okay. I can begin with the second...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,950 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ind. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #47 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS47 Audio: No Video: No I was talking about my primary school. I rarely w...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,951 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...KLING.) Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #48 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS48 Audio: No Video: No I was talking about my visits to school. Yes, I ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,952 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... to do. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #49 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS49 Audio: No 10/28/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,953 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...UGHTER) Glimpses of a Golden Childhood Chapter #50 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Archive code: 0 ShortTitle: GLIMPS50 Audio: No Video: No It is good that I cannot see, but I know what is ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,954 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...tion to not seeing you. He can see where we are going and reach the destination. I don't want to be disrespectful to you, so the best way is for me to sit backwards on the donkey." It is strange, but Lao Tzu also used to sit backwards on his buffalo, perhaps for the same reason. But nothing is known about his answer. The Chinese don't answer such questions, and they don't ask them either. They are very polite peo...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,955 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...CE OF BUDDHA? At the time of the crucifixion he had just entered the moon center. But only on that very day! That has to be understood. The Jesus of The Bible is not like Buddha, Mahavira, or Lao Tzu. You cannot conceive of Buddha's going into a temple and beating moneylenders. But Jesus did it. There were many different activities connected with the great temple of Jerusalem. There was a ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,956 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e that this happens. It has always been so: the human race has survived only because of contact with the higher. You can pick out twenty names from the history of mankind -- Buddha, Jesus, Mahavira, Lao Tzu... twenty names, and you will not be able to conceive how humanity could have survived without them. Darwin may say that we have survived because of the struggle of the animal world, and he is rig...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,957 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...CD-ROM. Notes of a Madman Series #1 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8400000 ShortTitle: NOTES01 Audio: No Video: No Never act out of fear. Don't be worried about my body, it is okay....] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,958 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... my body but my promise to thousands of people in the world. I know these heights, but through the body. Now using chemistry I want to see if it is possible to see the heights seen by Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu. I think that it is. In the library there are thousands of books; there are over one hundred thousand volumes in the beautiful library. I love the library; it contains all the best that has ever been wri...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,959 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... That's why they come to me. I am a dictator with a difference, a dictator with the heart of democracy. I am grateful. Every master has been grateful to his disciples, because they are more cunning. Lao Tzu was grateful to Chuang Tzu because Chuang Tzu was more cunning. I am not saying he was not very beautiful... but more cunning than Lao Tzu. Buddha was grateful to Mahakashyap because Mahakashyap was more cunn...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,960 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ry master has been grateful to his disciples, because they are more cunning. Lao Tzu was grateful to Chuang Tzu because Chuang Tzu was more cunning. I am not saying he was not very beautiful... but more cunning than Lao Tzu. Buddha was grateful to Mahakashyap because Mahakashyap was more cunning. And that has always been the story, and will be the story always. Prove to be my real disciples so I too can say "Thank you." Yes, tha...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,961 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [.... Notes of a Madman Series #2 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu Grove Archive code: 8400000 ShortTitle: NOTES02 Audio: No Video: No Om Mani Padme Hum The Tibetans have got a m...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,962 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e communists; they are destroying it. This is the very essence, the ultimate good. The Book of Mirdad must have been conceived in such moments. There are very few books which have been conceived in such moments: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.... Don't be worried about time. Can you ever be freed from all worries, just like me... free from all concerns? Yes, I know you can -- one day you will be. But for the moment, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,963 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...an? Who hears a wife? That is one of the reasons why I have chosen the women to lead my whole organization, and not the man. I am a man and it would have been logical to choose other men, as it has always been done. Lao Tzu chose Chuang Tzu to be his successor. Chuang Tzu was beautiful, I have nothing against him.... Again, Jesus chose the twelve disciples, and among those twelve there was not a single woman. And...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,964 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...ut the real. What I say, follow it." Magdalena was there. Mary, Jesus' mother was there, and Magdalena's sister was there. All the so-called apostles were absent. But still Jesus chose Peter to be his successor. Lao Tzu was at least right in choosing Chuang Tzu even though Chuang Tzu was a man. But Jesus was not right in choosing Peter.... As you can see, my eyes, my ears and my hands are all so full of Jesus. ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,965 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... I am touching him. So immensely vast. Om Mani Padme Hum Om Mani Padme Hum At this moment I can create Tolstoy... Dostoevsky... Leonardo... Turgenev... Lao Tzu... Chuang Tzu... Buddha... Mahakashyap... Bodhidharma... Kabir... Jesus .... The silence is so beautiful. There are beauties and beauties on every plane, ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,966 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...chanic, technician, scientist, mathematician, but never a mystic. The moment you become a mystic, from he you become she. Now, it will look the very climax of absurdity to call Jesus she, Buddha she, Lao Tzu she. Nobody has called them that, but I have. I am determined to open all doors to all that has remained hidden. I am ready to take every risk. Jesus is a she, it cannot be otherwise. Only the heart knows. Th...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,967 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... artificial the division is between children and the elders! Age does not in fact bring about any difference, and maturity has no connection whatsoever with it. Most of us die as children. There is a story about Lao Tzu that he was born an old man. This seems very unnatural. But is not this phenomenon even more unnatural -- that one may not attain to maturity till the very end of one's life? The body grows but the mind remai...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,968 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...langer Hindi word for anchor langoti piece of clothing; underwear of Hindu monk Lankavatara Sutra Buddhist Scripture Lao Tzu enlightened master of China; Taoist Larkana city on the Indus, Pakistan Lashkariji nickname of Govind Si...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,969 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Levi Yitzhak Hassid master Liebman, Joshua rabbi, wrote "Peace of Mind" Lieh Tzu enlightened master of China; Taoist (disciple of Lao Tzu) Lilith woman created before Eve; Adam's 'first wife,' according to Rabbinic legend Lin Chi see RIN...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,970 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... musician, one of the nine jewels of Akbar tantrika adherent of tantric way Tao Te Ching small book attributed to Lao Tzu, containing the essence of Taoism tapascharya Hindi for 'ascetic torture' Tarasingh, Master leader of Sikh...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,971 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [...e here that we can OR two phrases as easily as two words. gita | geeta for when there may be two alternate spellings for a word. Or: ("lao tzu" | "lieh tzu") & confucius finding LaoTzu OR Lieh Tzu, AND confucius, useful if you have forgotten which of the two had met him. Note the use of brackets to perform the OR part of the search first. More on this later. Or how about: ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/ Context #0,000,004,972 (480bytes or less long) holding the 'Lao' pattern: [... Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- operator is evaluated first, then X-OR and finally AND and NOT. In the Lao Tzu, Lieh Tzu and Confucius query above, the parentheses are not necessary as the X-OR will be evaluated first. However, parentheses can be used to change the default order of precedence, for example: ...] /OSHO.TXT (197MB) discourses/