MY WAY IS TO AWAKE YOU.NOT TO GIVE YOU A WAY.''OSHO''

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU SPOKE OF THE THREE WAYS: BEAUTY, GRANDEUR AND POWER.

WHICH IS YOUR WAY? OR IS IT ALL THREE?

It is neither. I have no way, because I am not leading you anywhere. I am trying to wake

you up herenow. You are already wandering all over the earth. My effort is to bring you

home. And of course your wandering is only in a dream.

It is as if you sleep in Poona and you dream of Philadelphia. In the morning you are again

in Poona. So if I see that you are dreaming of Philadelphia, what am I supposed to do?

Should I give you a path to come back to Poona? Should I arrange for a ticket so that you

can travel back to Poona? I can only give you a shock, so you jump out of your bed and

here you are. You have never been to Philadelphia, you were simply dreaming.

That's why in the East we call the world a dream, maya, illusion. It is a beautiful term. It

simply says you are dreaming. It simply says that nothing is to be done except that you

become aware, awake.

You have never gone away from the home, you have always been here; that is the only

way to be. You cannot go anywhere else, that is not permitted. In the very nature of

things everybody is there where he belongs. But everybody is dreaming and in dream one

has drifted very very long -- many lives of dreaming, and one has been drifting and

drifting and drifting, and one thing leads to another and one goes on and on.

You may have reached millions of miles away from the home, but still you are here,

because in the very nature of things nobody can go anywhere else than his own being.

Nobody can go away from his nature, his tao, his dhamma. That which you cannot lose is

your god. Howsoever hard you try, that which cannot be lost is your law, it is your tao.

So as far as I am concerned you are sleeping and you have to be awakened. There is no

path to travel, no way, because you have never gone anywhere else.

A master has to devise methods to awaken. Zen people have the right word; they call

their path 'pathless path', 'gateless gate'. Paradoxical, but exactly expressive of the reality.

And if you awake herenow, you will be full of beauty, full of grandeur, and full of power.

Those three are the qualities of the awakened soul.

The awakened soul is beautiful, nothing ugly can exist in an awakened soul. Awareness is

the only beauty there is. The awakened soul is in a tremendous grandeur, grace. It is a

mystery. You can enter into it, but you can never come to know it. It becomes known and

yet remains unknown. One is simply struck with awe, one simply is wonderstruck.

And when you are awakened you are tremendously powerful. Not powerful in the sense

that you can destroy, not powerful in the sense that you can dominate, not powerful in the

sense of the politician's use of the word, or the scientist's use of the word.

Powerful in the sense that suddenly you don't feel any limitation, you don't have any

boundary, you are infinite.

Powerful in the sense that you don't have any death, you are deathless.

Powerful in the sense that your bliss is tremendous, incredible.

Powerful in the sense that now your discipline is impeccable, perfect, and you don't have

to force it; it's simply there.

Powerful in the sense that now you are a god, nothing less.

And powerful in the sense that now there are all gods and goddesses in the world and you

are not separate, you are one with the universe, one with existence.

These three things happen to you when you are awakened. You are already that, but you

feel very impotent. You feel impotent because you don't know who you are. You feel

impotent because you don't know your treasures. You are almost drunk with ignorance.

I have heard:

Mulla Nasrudin, on his way home, accidentally staggered into the zoo, and ended up in

front of the hippopotamus' cage. He was absolutely drunk. 'Don't look at me in that way,'

he begged. 'I can explain everything.'

He thought it was his wife.

When you are drunk you see things which are not there -- a hippopotamus may look like

your wife, or your wife may look like a hippopotamus. By the morning when you are no

more drunk and the hangover is gone, things appear in their true colour.

We are drunk with ignorance, drunk with unawareness... drunkards stumbling on the path

of life for many years, for many lives. The only thing you need to do is to become a little

more alert. Get out of this hangover.

That's what meditation is all about -- to give you a little awareness. If you can become

aware even for a few moments you will be able to see what reality is, and that experience

of the reality will start transforming you. Then more and more of those moments will be

coming to you, and more and more you will become real. Right now you are unreal, that's

why you have created an unreal world around you. When you become real, a real world

arises in your vision.

God is the experience of those who are real. The world is the experience of those who are

unreal -- unreal because of unawareness. The more real you become, the more aware you

become.

THE SHIVA SUTRA: MEDITATION IS THE SEED.''OSHO''

BELOVED BHAGWAN OSHO,COULD YOU PLEASE SPEAK ON SHIVA SUTRA:MEDITATION IS THE SEED.

This sutra of Shiva says: MEDITATION IS THE SEED.

Therefore we have to start with meditation. Right now, in sleeping and in wakefulness, in consciousness and unconsciousness, the mind has you in its grip. Thoughts invade you in the day and dreams in the night. All the twenty-four hours the mind argues and debates and the most amazing thing is: it all leads to nothing. What have you attained by all your reasoning and thinking? Where has it taken you? What goals have you reached?

The great philosopher, Immanuel Kant, was returning home one evening when a small boy stopped him on the road and said, "Good evening, uncle. I have just been to your house. Tomorrow a few boys are going for a picnic, and I came to borrow your camera. You were out so I asked your servant. He refused me flatly. Is it right, uncle, that a servant should say no like that?" The child was boiling with anger. Kant said, "The servant was certainly not right. Who is he to refuse when I am here? Come along with me." The child was pleased. They reached Kant's home. The servant was called and reprimanded before the child. Then Kant turned to the child and said, "Now I shall tell you. The fact is, I don't own a camera." All the joy, the thrill, the hope that the child was nourishing of getting the camera, all vanished into thin air when he learned that his uncle didn't even own one.

This is the state of your mind. All your life you toil, you slave, you groan with the load that you carry because you still hope. In the end the mind will admit that it does not possess what you seek. This has always been the story. It does not have what you are actually seeking, but it keeps hoping: "Maybe today, or tomorrow... tomorrow." No one can give you such seductive sweet-talk as the mind. And you are a fool. If the mind had anything to give, it would have given it by now. The very fact is that it keeps putting you off again and again and you still believe it. How many times have you believed the mind? Every day it says, "Tomorrow", and when tomorrow comes the mind again says, "Tomorrow". Now it has become your unconscious habit, and the habit is so deep-seated that you hardly think about it. Even in your sleep the mind beguiles you with fresh assurances about the future.

Mulla Nasruddin was in bed with a very high fever. I went to see him. I asked his wife how long he had been in that condition. The wife said, "For an hour he has been running a fever of 105 degrees." The Mulla was unconscious. I put a thermometer in his mouth to see what the temperature was. At once he spoke, "A match, please!" He was a chain-smoker and the habit was so deep-rooted that even in that unconscious state the thermometer reminded him of a cigarette.

And when you die your condition will be exactly like the Mulla's. "A match, please!" Your mind keeps weaving its webs even in your unconsciousness. At the moment of death you will be filled with the mind. Whether you perform worship or pray or go to the temple or to the holy places... the mind is with you and whenever the mind is with you, you cannot establish contact with religion.

There lived a Moslem fakir by the name of Haji Mohammed. He was a sadhu. One night he dreamed that he had died and was standing at the crossroads between heaven and hell. One road led to the world and the other to moksha. An angel stood at the crossroads, guiding and directing people according to their actions. Haji Mohammed had nothing to fear. All his life he had been a good and pious man. He offered his prayer five times a day, and he had been on the holy pilgrimage, the Haj, sixty times. In fact, that is how he came to be known as 'Haji' Mohammed. When his turn came he stood with his chest out before the angel. "Haji Mohammed!" the angel called. "Yes," said Haji. "This is the way to hell." said the angel, pointing at a road. "There is surely some mistake," said Haji. "Perhaps your ledgers are mixed up. I have been to Haj sixty times during my life on earth." "That has all gone to waste," said the angel, "for you made it a matter of prestige and began calling yourself 'haji'. You have reaped the benefits of your Haj already. What else did you do?" Now the Haji was not so sure of himself. When sixty pilgrimages counted as nothing, what else had he to show? Yet he persisted, "I have said my prayers religiously five times a day." "That too was fruitless," said the angel, "for you; you prayed louder and longer when people were around and made a short job of it when there was no one around. Your attention was on people, not on God. You wanted to be known as a religious man, a pious man. Have you anything else to show?" The Haji was now so terrified that he woke up! This dream changed his life. He became plain Mohammed from Haji Mohammed; he also began to pray in secret so that no one would know. Word went around the village that the Haji was no longer religious. Why, he had even stopped his prayers! So he reached his dotage. The Haji never refuted what people said. His prayers began to be meaningful and sincere. It is said that he had no trouble reaching heaven.

If your mind prays it will not allow prayer to happen. It will make prayer yet another way of filling its ego. Don't talk about your meditation. Hide your meditation as you would hide your precious jewels. You always protect your valuables from the gaze of others: do the same with meditation. Don't talk about it, don't fill your ego with it, or the creeper of the mind will reach there also and suck it away. Whenever the mind reaches, religion is not. Where the mind is not, religion is. The mind is always outgoing, extraverted; its attention is on the other, and not on itself. Meditation is in-going. It is introverted. Meditation means: the focus is on one's own self and not on the other. Mind means the focus is on the other. Observe yourself: when you give a two paise coin to a beggar you look around to see if people are looking at you or not. When you build a temple you take care to inscribe your name in bold letters on a marble slab right at the entrance. You give to charity, but you see to it that it is mentioned in the newspapers. Everything you do is in vain. You cannot reach by becoming 'Haji' Mohammed. Don't keep an account of your fasts and austerities. God's realm is not a place of business. God is not impressed by your balance sheet. Now look at the Jain munis. Every year they announce in writing how many vows they have undertaken, how many fasts they have observed in the rainy season. They keep a ledger of all of this." They are shopkeepers who just happen to be occupying our temples; they are still not rid of the habit of keeping accounts. All their fasts and meditations go to waste; they are becoming 'Haji' Mohammeds. Don't worry about the outside world; don't worry whether people know you are religious or not. What others say is of no consequence and not worth giving a thought to, for it is your mind that relates to other people, not you. The day the mind is no more, you shall become disassociated from every one. It is the mind that binds you together. As long as the mind ties you to the world, you will remain torn away from God. The day you are divorced from your mind, the mind annihilated, you will be united with God. You disassociate on one side, while you begin to associate on the other. You break relations here, you establish relations there. Once the eyes close here they open there. MEDITATION IS THE SEED, and meditation means: the thoughtless consciousnes

THE WAY YOU ARE.THE WAY YOU THINK.''OSHO''

BELOVED OSHO,

WHY CAN'T WE JUST SIMPLY ACCEPT OURSELVES AND OTHERS JUST THE

WAY WE ARE?

Because you have been conditioned to reject, not to accept. You have been conditioned to

deny, you have been conditioned to say 'no'. You have not yet known how to say 'yes'.

You have been conditioned to condemn. You were condemned and the same you are

doing to others. You go on condemning yourself also, and of course the same you have to

do with others. You cannot do otherwise.

Your parents were telling you, 'You are wrong, this is not right, this should never be

done,' and a thousand and one times they have repeated it. And you have gathered one

message: that you are not accepted as you are, you are not loved for your simple being.

If you fulfill their desires they love you; their love is a bargain. If you follow them like

shadows, they appreciate, they approve. If you just become a little free and you try to be

an individual, they are against you -- their eyes, their behaviour, everything changes. And

every child is so helpless -- just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept

whatsoever the parents are saying.

Then there is society, then there is the establishment of education. And by and by you go

deeper and deeper into the mess, and everybody is there to force you to follow him. Then

there are priests and politicians, all do-gooders, and they all want you to follow them, and

they all have trained you. Your mind is a conditioned mind. That's why you cannot accept

yourself and you cannot accept others.

But the possibility exists. If you understand this -- that this is just conditioning -- you can

drop out of it clean, right now! Don't get identified with it, that is the only way. Don't

think that this is you; just remember that this is society speaking through you. Don't call it

your conscience, it is not your conscience. It is a pseudo-conscience created by the

society. It is a trick, it is a very dangerous trick. But the society has put inside you its own

ideas and they function as your conscience. In fact, they don't allow your real conscience

to surface, they don't allow your own consciousness to come and take charge of your life.

Society is very political. Outside it has posted the policeman and the magistrate; inside it

has posted the conscience. That is the inner policeman, the inner magistrate. And it is not

even satisfied with this arrangement -- above it has posted a god, the super-policeman,

the head constable. So he is looking from there; even in your bathroom he is watching

you. Somebody is following you continuously, you are never left alone to be yourself.

Drop this -- this is your idea, you are clinging to it. It has been given to you by others. It

has been given so early that you don't remember, but it is a political arrangement. It is not

religious.

Religion is an unconditioning. The very process of religion is to make you unconditioned,

to free you of all conditions, and to allow you whatsoever you are meant to be, to allow

you your destiny.

Drop out of this conditioning. That's what a real drop-out has to be. It is not just dropping

out of the society -- that won't help because where will you go? Even if you become a

hippie and you drop out of the society, you will create an alternate society, and again

there will be rules, and again there will be conditionings.

If you move in the ordinary society, the establishment, you are expected not to have long

hair. And if you move amidst hippies you are expected not to have short hair. But it is the

same.

If you are moving in the established society, you are expected to take a bath every day.

And if you are living with hippies and you take a bath every day, they will think

something is wrong with you. But it is the same thing, upside down.

You cannot move out of the society. Many times it has been tried, but only alternative

societies are created, and they become their own establishments.

You can move out of the society only in a very subtle way, there is no gross way. The

subtle way is to drop inside, out of the layer of conditioning. Just remember that now you

are mature enough,..you need not bother what others say; you have to be yourself. And

enjoy, start enjoying this freedom, and then you will be able to impart freedom to others

also. Because if you want your freedom to grow you will need people who are free

around you, because freedom can prosper only with free people.

GOOD FOR GOODNESS,BAD FOR BADNESS.''OSHO''

Who is a bad man and who is a good man? What is the definition? The bad man is one

who is inconsiderate of others. The bad man is one who uses others and has no respect for

others. The bad man is one who thinks he is the center of the world and everybody is just

to be used. Everything exists for him. The bad man is one who thinks that other persons

are just means for his gratification.

Keep this definition in mind because you ordinarily think the bad man is the criminal.

The bad man may not be the criminal: all bad men are not criminals. All criminals are

bad, but all bad men are not criminals. A few of them are judges, a few of them are very

respectable people, a few of them are politicians, presidents and prime ministers, a few of

them are even parading as saints.

So when we will be talking about this sutra, remember the definition of a bad man --

Buddha says a bad man is one who has no consideration for others. He simply thinks

about himself only -- he thinks he is the center of existence and he feels the whole

existence is made for him. He feels authorized to sacrifice everybody for his own self. He

may not be bad ordinarily, but if this is the attitude, then he is a bad man.

Who is a good man? Just the opposite of the bad man: one who is considerate of others,

who gives as much respect to others as he gives to himself, and who does not pretend in

any way that he is the center of the world, and who has come to feel that everybody is the

center of the world. The world is one, but millions of centers exist. He is very respectful.

He never uses the other as a means. The other is an end in itself. His reverence is

tremendous.

Watch, watch your own life. Are you using your wife just for your sexuality? You may

not go to a prostitute. Ordinarily you think that a person who goes to a prostitute is bad --

that is a very gross definition. If you are using your wife just as a sexual object, you are

as bad as anybody else. The only difference between you and the person who goes to a

prostitute is that you have a permanent prostitute, that your marriage is a permanent

arrangement and the other man makes arrangements day by day. You have a car in your

garage and he uses a taxi.

If you don't respect your wife, then your wife is a prostitute -- if you don't respect her as a

person in her own right. What does it mean? It means if she is not feeling, if she is not in

the mood to make love, you will not enforce her; you will not say, 'I am your husband

and I have the right, legal right...' No, you will respect. You will respect her intention.

Good if you both agree. If the other is not agreeing, you will not coerce in any way. You

will not quote scriptures that a wife has to sacrifice to the husband, you will not say that a

wife has to believe in the husband as if he is a god. All this is nonsense, all this is a maleoriented

trip.

If a wife is using her husband only as an economical thing, financial security, then it is

prostitution. Why do you condemn a prostitute? Because she sells her body for money?

But if a wife just thinks to make love to the husband because he has money and with him

there is security and the future is not uncertain, and she goes on staying with him with no

love, with no love in her heart, and she sleeps with this man, then she is prostituting

herself. Then in her idea the husband is nothing but his money, his bank balance.

When Buddha says who a good man is, he defines the good man as one who respects the

other as much as he respects himself. Jesus says, 'Love the other as you love yourself --

that is the definition of a good man. His respect is tremendous, his reverence is

tremendous.

Even if a child is born in your house, you don't enforce your ideology on him. You may

be a Mohammedan, you may be a Hindu. A child is born in your home; you don't enforce

the child to become a Hindu or a Mohammedan. Because if you enforce the child, you are

not respectful towards the child. You are just using an opportunity because the child is

helpless, and the child has to depend on you. He has to follow you. If you take him to the

temple or to the church he has to come, because it is necessary for his survival to say yes

to you, whatsoever you say. If you are using this opportunity, then you are exploiting a

helpless child. Maybe it is your child, but you are exploiting him.

If the world consists of good people, children will be totally free, not enforced into any

religion. There will not be Christians and Hindus and Mohammedans in the world: there

will be only good people, growing people, and they will choose wherever they feel their

heart fits. Maybe it is a temple, or it is a church or a mosque or a gurudwara. They will

choose their religion, that is their freedom. They will choose their life, that is their

freedom.

You don't enforce. You love your child, but you don't give your knowledge to him. You

love your child but you don't poison his being with your ambitions. You love the child

but you don't possess him. You help the child not to grow according to you, but to grow

according to his being, to be himself. Then you are a good person.

IT IS BETTER TO FEED ONE GOOD MAN THAN TO FEED ONE HUNDRED BAD

MEN... because if you feed bad men you feed badness; if you feed good men you feed

goodness. Help the world to become better. Don't leave the world just the same as you

have found it -- make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful. Let there be a few

more songs, a few more celebrations, let there be a few less wars, a few less politicians,

let there be more love, less hatred. That is the meaning when Buddha says FEED ONE

GOOD MAN -- that is better, far better, than feeding one hundred bad men

LISTENING DEPENDS ON LISTENER.''OSHO''

BELOVED BHAGWAN,

SO MUCH GRACE WITH A TALK ON GRACELESS MINDFULNESS. I WONDER

IF THE BUDDHA'S LISTENERS BENEFITED SIMILARLY.

It depends on the listeners. It has nothing to do with Buddha or with me. It depends on

the listeners. If you are en rapport with me, then you feel grace; if you are en rapport with

Buddha, then you feel grace. If you are en rapport, that is the thing.

You can listen to me with a very logical mind, then you may be even annoyed. You can

listen with your accumulated knowledge, then you may even feel disturbed -- because if I

am contradicting whatsoever you know, you will be disturbed. Or, you can listen with

argumentativeness: then here I am speaking and there you are also speaking inside your

mind -- contradicting, saying yes, no, arguing. Then there will be no grace.

If you are just listening... the knowledge has been put aside and you are listening to me as

one listens to a musical instrument, to a melody; as one listens to wind passing through

the trees; as one listens to dead leaves falling on the ground, whispering to the ground... if

you are listening to me en rapport, in tune with me, grace will arise. It depends on the

listener.

And it also depends on the listener what you hear. It is not so important what I am saying,

the more important thing is what you are hearing. It is not necessarily the same thing. I

may be saying something else, you may be hearing something else.

I have heard:

Two men were walking along a crowded sidewalk in a downtown business area.

Suddenly one exclaimed, 'Listen to the lovely sound of that cricket!' But the other could

not hear. He asked his companion how he could detect the sound of a cricket amidst the

din of people and traffic. The first man, who was a zoologist, had trained himself to listen

to the voices of nature, but he did not explain. He simply took a coin out of his pocket

and dropped it on the sidewalk, whereupon a dozen people began to look about them.

'We hear,' he said, 'what we listen for.'

There are people who can listen only to the sound of a falling rupee on the ground --

that's their only music. Poor people. They think they are rich, but they are poor people,

whose whole music consists only in the sound of a rupee falling on the ground. Very poor

people... starving. They don't know what life consists of. They don't know the infinite

possibilities, they don't know the infinite melodies surrounding you -- the

multidimensional richness. You hear only that which you listen for.

If you listen en rapport, in a deep merger with me, then grace will happen. The same

grace has been happening always to all those who, whenever a Buddha, a Jesus, a

Krishna was walking on the earth, were courageous enough to walk with these people. If

you walk with me, if you sit with me en rapport, then you will be fulfilled. I am pouring

something in you, but if you don't open your heart I cannot fulfill you, I cannot fill you.

But if you open your heart soon you will be overflowing and that overflowing will make

you a lotus out of the mud.

The lotus is nothing but an overflowing energy. Hence in the East we have respected the

flower of lotus like nothing else. It has become the ultimate symbol of growth. We call

the last center in your being, sahasrar -- one thousand-petalled lotus. Sex is the lowest

center, sahasrar the highest. By sex you become joined with nature, by sahasrar you are in

tune with god, or with the whole. Move from the mud, transcend the mud, and hope and

pray and wait for the lotus to open and flower in you.

It is possible. These moments that you are here with me are of tremendous import -- but

you can hear only that which you listen for.

EGO IS THE PAST.''OSHO''

BELOVED BHAGWAN,

I HAVE GOT A FUTURE-EGO. IT KEEPS TELLING ME WHAT A SUPER PERSON

I AM GOING TO TURN OUT TO BE IN A FEW YEARS' TIME WHEN I AM

FINISHED WITH THIS TRIP. IT IS VERY SMUG AND IN THE MEANTIME, LIKE

RIGHT NOW, IT IS PRETENDING TO BE SO HUMBLE, SO MALLEABLE, SO

ADAPTABLE, AND SO UNTOUCHABLE. COULD YOU HELP ME TO GET AT IT?

IT IS BUGGING ME.

Who is this me?

If you think the ego is bugging you, who are you? It is again an ego trip. Now the ego is

taking a very subtle form. When the ego is not, you are not. Ego is all that defines you,

that makes you say 'i' or 'me'. Ego is your definition, your boundary, ego divides you

from others. It is ego, that's why you can say 'i' and 'you'. If the ego disappears, who is 'i'

and who is 'you'?

Now you are taking a very subtle form. You say the ego is bugging you. Who are you

then? Just see the point. If you don't see the point you can go on playing the game ad

infinitum. You can become humble and the ego will be there. You can even become

egoless and the ego will be there. Ego is very subtle and very cunning are its ways.

A psychiatrist once asked his patient, Mulla Nasruddin, if the latter suffered from

fantasies of self-importance.

'No,' replied the Mulla.'On the contrary, I think of myself as much less than I really am.'

Now you are going on a very pious trip. The ego can become pious. It can become so

humble that nobody can feel it. You may even start feeling,'Now it is not bugging me,'

but if 'me' is there, it is there.

The poison has become very purified but a purified poison is more poisonous. That's why

ordinary people have ordinary egos, but the so-called religious people have pious egos --

they are more dangerous.

And you say, I HAVE GOT A FUTURE-EGO. No, the ego is always of the past, it

cannot be of the future. Even when you are thinking of the future it is nothing but

projected past. Even if you are thinking,'Tomorrow I am going to become the greatest

man in the world,' the idea of the greatest man and the idea of the tomorrow both come

from your past. The past accumulated is the substance of the ego. In the past many things

were happy and many things were unhappy -- in the future you will like to modify. You

would like to drop all that was unpleasant and you would like to collect all that was

pleasant. That is your future ego, but it is not future, it is simply the past reshuffled,

chosen again, selected. In the past there were many things you did not like -- in the future

you will drop them. But the ego belongs to the past, ego IS of the past, ego is a ghost

following you -- it comes from the past. And it is always dead.

Just think: if you have no past, can you have any ego? Meditate over it. If your mind is

suddenly completely washed of the past -- now there are techniques available,

mindwashing techniques -- if your mind is completely washed of the past will you have

any ego? How will you have an ego? You will again become like a child, again innocent,

you will again have to start from ABC. Again you will create an ego because

mindwashing cannot help, the roots are deeper. The seeds are hidden very, very deep

inside you; they will again sprout, again the tree of the ego will start spreading. But it is

of the ego, it is of the past.

You don't know the future so how can you think about it? You can only think about the

past redecorated, refined, modified.

IT KEEPS TELLING ME WHAT A SUPER PERSON I WILL TURN OUT TO BE IN

A FEW YEARS' TIME WHEN I AM FINISHED WITH THIS TRIP. If this is a trip, you

will never be finished with it. You may be finished with this but then you will choose

another trip. Trips never end, they never come to any end -- one changes one train for

another, one town for another, one master for another, one religion for another, but the

trip continues. If this is not a trip, only then can it end. If to be with me has nothing to do

with the future, if to be with me is of the present, if you are here now with me, then it is

not a trip. We are not going anywhere -- at least, I'm not going anywhere. You may be

but I'm not going anywhere. So with me there is going to be no trip. If you want to be

with me you have to drop all trips.

SANNYAS is not a trip. It is an understanding in which you drop all the trips, in which

you say,'Now I have arrived. Finished. Now I am not going anywhere. Now there is no

future and no desire to go anywhere. Now I have to come to terms with the present, now I

will be living in the herenow.'

If SANNYAS is also a trip for you then it is not going to help much. It will become like

other trips, sooner or later you will be fed up with it, frustrated with it. Every trip is going

to end in a frustration, no trip can fulfil you, because the fulfillment is in the herenow. A

trip is directed somewhere else. A trip is desire, hope. And fulfillment is not a desire, not

a hope; fulfillment is just to be herenow and just to accept the way you are, the being you

are.

And start enjoying. I am not preparing you for any subtle enjoyment in the future, my

whole method is to enjoy it right now. Who knows? There may be no future. Why waste

this moment? Enjoy, delight! There is no need to sacrifice this moment for any other

moment, because any other moment, if it is ever to come, is going to be just like this

moment. So why sacrifice this moment? I am against all sacrifice. I don't tell you to

sacrifice the present for the future -- that has been told to you by your parents, your

teachers, your educational system, your society. They all say sacrifice the present for the

future. I say don't sacrifice anything. Live it, delight in it, so that you can learn how to be

blissful. Once you know it, even in the future you will be able to delight.

Those moments are going to be the same, can't you see the fact? In the past it is the same

time. In fact, the very idea that time is passing is stupid. We are in time, nothing is

passing. It is our desire that gives the delusion of passing time. Once you drop the desire

suddenly you start laughing: nothing is passing, everything IS. It is the same, it has

always been the same, it will always be the same. It is the same eternity surrounding you

like an ocean. Live in it, enjoy it. Through enjoyment you will become capable of more

enjoyment -- more brings more. The richer people become richer, poorer people become

poorer. Says Jesus -- a very Zen saying -- that if you have, more will be given to you, and

if you don't have, even that will be taken away. Very anti-communist, very Zen. If you

have, more will be given to you. And if you don't have, even that will be taken away from

you. It looks unjust.

But Jesus' saying is tremendous truth. Yes, that is the truth, one of the most fundamental.

If you have, more will be given to you because you will create the capacity by having it.

Nobody is going to give unless you have more capacity.

Have you watched? If you don't use a machine, it lasts. If a watch is guaranteed for ten

years and you don't use it too much it will last for twenty years, thirty years.

But just the opposite is the case with life. If you don't use it, it will not last more, it will

simply disappear from you. If you don't use your legs, legs will disappear; if you don't

use your eyes, eyes will disappear; if you don't use your awareness, awareness will

disappear. That's why man is not a machine. Don't use the machine and it lasts longer;

don't use man, don't use your potentiality, don't use your body-mind, and you will start

disappearing.

It is life's nature -- the more you use it, the more you get.

Enjoy, otherwise your capacity to enjoy will disappear, will be atrophied, paralysed. And

tomorrow you will be there paralysed, atrophied -- then who is going to enjoy tomorrow?

Omar Khayam says that he is worried about these religious people. They say that in

heaven wine is flowing in streams -- Mohammedans say that -- but they prohibit wine

here on the earth. So Omar Khayam says,'I am very much worried about these people. If

they don't get accustomed here, how are they going to enjoy heaven? And in heaven there

are beautiful women, but these religious people say don't enjoy them here. That is a sin.'

Omar Khayam seems to be absolutely logical. He says,'What will you be doing there?'

When I was reading Omar Khayam I remembered an anecdote. Two old women were

talking -- eighty years old. One woman said to the other, 'Are you aware or not that your

husband is chasing girls?' She said,'I know it, but let him chase them. He is like a dog

who chases a car but when he gets it, he cannot drive it.'

So these religious people, if they enter heaven some day, they will be like dogs chasing

cars. Once they get it, they don't know what to do, they cannot drive it!

Enjoy. Heaven is not in the future, it is herenow, already present. It is your surround. The

more you enjoy, the more you become capable of enjoying.

Yes, Jesus is right. If you have, more will be given to you; if you don't have, even that

will be taken away from you.

And when I say these things, remember, everything is addressed to you personally. The

mind is very cunning. If I say something you can always rationalise that I am saying it to

somebody else. This is not your question certainly, so I am addressing it to somebody

else -- you can laugh and enjoy. The question may be anybody's but my answer is

addressed to you personally. Never think of the neighbour; think only of yourself.

I will tell you one anecdote.

Father Loran was delivering his Sunday sermon.'Someday' he said,'every man in this

parish will die.'

Suddenly the priest heard MacLean laughing in the third row, but he continued.'As I was

saying, every man in this parish will die.' Again MacLean began chortling.

Father Loran looked at him and said,'Why, why do you laugh when I say everyone in this

parish will die someday?'

'Ha Ha!' exclaimed MacLean.'I am not from this parish.'