BEING ON PAST AND FUTURE DISTORTS THE VISION AND TAKE AWAY FREEDOM.''OSHO''

BELOVED BHAGWAN,YOU SAID IN AN INTERVIEW LAST WEEK OR THE WEEK BEFORE THAT WHEN YOU DIE YOU WANTED TO BE FORGOTTEN AS AN (INAUDIBLE).
DID YOU REALLY SAY THAT?

That's true. That simply means my whole approach to life is that the past should not be a

the burden on the present.

The past is like dust covering a mirror. It distorts the vision and it becomes

heavier and heavier and does not allow you to live in freedom in the present and

the same is true about the future.

If you think too much of the future while you are thinking of the future the

present is slipping by from your hands which is the only reality.

If this is my approach about others, that the past should be forgotten, I don't

want to be a burden for anybody in the future, because then I will be a past. I

would like to be forgotten completely as if I had never been here. Just the way a

bird flies in the sky and leaves no footprints in the sky, I would like to disappear

like those footprints. So that I am no more a burden on anybody.

This is simply part of my philosophy and the very logical conclusion of it.

I BELONG TO THIS EARTH.''OSHO''

BELOVED BHAGWAN, DO YOU THINK OF YOURSELF AS AN INDIAN?

 No. I never think in terms of any division: of nation, of religion, of caste, of

color... no. I belong to this earth and the whole earth belongs to me.

UNCONSCIOUSNESS ALWAYS LEAD TO ACCIDENT.''OSHO''

BELOVED BHAGWAN,WHY WAS YOUR SECRETARY ARRESTED IN GERMANY?

I was for three and half years in silence and isolation. I was not meeting

people, my secretary was the only communication between me and my people.

If there was any spiritual need, any spiritual guidance for somebody then she

would bring the question to me. Otherwise she was having all the power... and

power corrupts.

And particularly because she was a woman, it corrupted more. Because women

have been repressed for centuries and have not been given any power, so it is

there in their unconscious hungry... there is great lust for power in women.

They try in their own small way nagging the husband, crying and throwing

things, and tantrums... these are simply feminine power tricks.

But my secretary was a woman. When I had chosen her she was an innocent

woman as any woman, but you cannot say what is hidden in people's

unconscious mind.

When she got the power and the power was big -- three hundred million dollars

we were using to create the commune, and she came from a poor family, she was

only a waitress in a hotel when she came to me. She may have never dreamt of

three hundred million dollars. Naturally, lust for money arose in her. She stole

fifty-five million dollars and opened a bank account in Switzerland in her own

name.

Then there was this great power because my people love me and she was my

representative so whatsoever she said, they accepted it, they thought it was

coming from me. She always managed to say that it is coming from Bhagwan.

Whatever she wanted them to do was coming from me. And whatever she was

afraid to say to them, even if I had told her, she remained silent. And it was

impossible for me to figure out whether she is telling to the people the things I

am saying or not. And there was no reason to suspect.

She bugged my own room just out of fear that perhaps somebody, the cleaner,

my personal physician, my dentist -- somebody may say to me, inform me... she

was afraid because she was doing something wrong. Not only she bugged my

own room, she bugged almost two hundred other sannyasin's houses. All the

intelligent people in the commune: the chancellor of the university, the vicechancellor

of the university, the professors, the psychologists, the therapists -- all

the intelligentsia she bugged everybody's house because she was afraid these

were the people who could be competitors to her.

Now bugging is a crime. Just for one house bugging you can go for jail for five

years and she bugged two hundred houses. One thousand years' jail just for

bugging.

She was taping all the phones going out of the commune or coming in the

commune, just out of fear because she has stolen the money, she has made a

small gang and then this is how crime leads to more crime. Now she was afraid

of her own husband because he knew that she has stolen fifty-five million

dollars. She tried to kill him, to poison him in a cup of coffee. She tried to kill my

personal physician -- four times she poisoned him. She wanted her own person

to be my personal physician. She was asking me continuously, that "We have

better doctors."

I said, "It is not a question of better doctor -- he has been looking after me for ten

years and I am perfectly happy. And he has taken absolute care about my health

and I am perfectly healthy. So there is no need to change."

Then she started thinking of killing the person so she can put her own person as

my physician, in case she wants to kill me. Then that man will be able to poison

me.

So she has committed many crimes. She has tried to kill one of the judges of the

Wasco County because he was voting against some of the proposals that she was

making, she wanted to finish him. She tried to kill the attorney of another county

-- Jefferson county, because our commune was a big land -- one hundred twentysix

square miles. Half was in Wasco county, half was in Jefferson county. That

Jefferson county attorney was creating trouble. Rather than fighting legally she

started fighting in a criminal way -- finish the person.

She burnt the planning office of the Wasco county because it has some papers

against her, she burnt the whole office completely, with all their records of

hundreds of years.

When I started speaking then people started coming to me to inform me that,

"Strange things have been happening here." The moment she became aware that

I am being informed about things, she escaped with her clique and she was

hiding in Black Forest in Germany where she has been arrested.

Because I asked law enforcement authorities, the state police, the federal police,

F.B.I.; I invited them to the commune, I gave a press conference -- an open

invitation to the government that they should come and look into everything that

my people want to inform and testify. And we gave them... they remained for

one month our guest and we supplied every testimony for all the crimes that she

has committed. And the most insane(*) is that they tried.... I was the person to

invite them, I was the person who was their host for one month. We took every

care of them, we... otherwise there was no way for them to know of anything that

has happened unless we were going to testify. And in the court they started

throwing all those crimes on me. I had simply to laugh.

My attorney told them that "This is sheer nonsense because I have been bringing

sannyasins on Bhagwan's suggestion to the F.B.I. to report all these crimes and

you are throwing all those crimes, dumping on the same person who has invited

you and made all those crimes available to you."

Now they have caught Sheela and two, three other persons, but few more

persons are missing. I feel sorry for her because when I had chosen her my

secretary she was an innocent person, very capable of doing things but this is the

tragedy that we are all carrying an unconscious of which we are not even aware.

That what kind of animality, criminality will come up from the unconscious

when the opportunity is there.

And this is my whole work, I call it meditation.

That the unconscious should be changed into consciousness so that nothing

remains inside you that you don't know. That is the only possibility that you may

not fall into darkness and you may not do things which are inhuman, that you

will not go in the ways of evil. The only possibility is that your whole mind is

simply consciousness -- there is no unconscious part at all.

And this is one of the greatest contribution of the East to the world. Sigmund

Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Alfred Adler and other psychologists in the West, only

in this century have been able to find that there is something like unconscious.

In the East for five thousand years we have been aware of the unconscious. Not

only that, we have been aware how to transform it into consciousness. The West

has accepted now that there is a unconscious but it has not yet been able to find

how to transform it into consciousness. The East has the methods but the ego of

the Western psychology prevents it to accept the methods which are already

available.

Thousands of people have been meditating with me and have come to the same

experience of illumination that the darkness disappears, that one becomes full of

light. And after that it is impossible to fall.

I SPENT TWELVE DAYS IN JAIL WITH LOVING,BEAUTIFUL,VERY HUMAN PEOPLE.''OSHO''

Q: BELOVED BHAGWAN, WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WERE IN JAIL WITH YOU?

They were very beautiful people. Better than the bureaucracy, better than the
politicians. And I was really surprised that the criminals are far better than the
people who think they are maintaining justice.
They were more human, more loving. They took care of me in every way.
Whatever they could bring: soap, toothpaste, or a toothbrush... and they will say
that it is absolutely new, we have not touched it, we have not used it. And I will
ask the authority's for the same things, I will ask and after twenty-four hours,
toothpaste will appear, then there will be no toothbrush. And I will ask them,
that "What kind of stupidity is this? What I will do with this toothpaste? Where
is the brush?" Then again twenty-four hours I have to wait for the brush to
appear.
I will ask for vegetarian food -- it is not available. I will ask for fruits -- they are
not available.
And the inmates in the jail will bring fruits for me and they will say, "They are
available for us, but for you they are not available. So we can give you our share
because we can eat everything else, you cannot eat anything else." And I saw a
very human, loving heart in the prisoners.

One thing more I was surprised to know. They took me in five jails in twelve
days. I could not come across a single white prisoner, all were black.
That simply means that those jails are not really to prevent crime and those
black people are rebellious people and they are a threat to the government and
they are in jail six months, eight-month, nine months, without any trial.
And they all ask me that "Tell to the press that they don't give us any trial. They
don't show us what crime we have committed except that we are black, we are
not aware of any other crime."
So it seems that all those jails are maintained to prevent the blacks becoming a
power.

OREGON;FROM DESERT TO OASIS.''OSHO''

BELOVED BHAGWAN,TO GO BACK TO AMERICA AGAIN, APART FROM THE CHRISTIAN

PRESSURE ON YOU, WHAT OTHER PRESSURES DO YOU THINK WERE ON

YOU?

 The political pressure was there because I had created a commune which was

really a far more superior form of communism that exists anywhere else in the

world because there was no dictatorship, no government at all, yet five thousand

people were living, working, meditating.

These five thousand people transformed a desert into an oasis, made it capable of

feeding all the people, made the houses for all the people -- beautiful houses with

all modern facilities. The whole city was centrally airconditioned, perhaps the

only city in the whole world.

Five thousand people were eating into one restaurant, one kitchen for all. There

was no use of money in the society and that was my basic idea: to drop poverty,

richness, without any dictatorship, without any enforcement.

Everything that you needed was provided by the commune. Money could not be

used. You can donate to the commune but you cannot purchase anything by

money. Money was just useless.

People started to come to see because this land has been lying dead for almost

fifty years. Nobody was ready to purchase it. And it was not a small piece, it was

one hundred twenty-six square miles. It was almost a small country.

And they were all thinking that we are going to fail, we cannot make that land to

produce anything. And we produced everything. Food, vegetables, fruits, milk

products... and our people lived with such comfort and luxury that it became

necessarily a target for jealousy of the neighbors. They have been working in

their ranches which were better lands, for generations and they could not

manage to have such luxury. And the government became aware that we don't

have any power, we don't have much money, and yet we have been able to

manage a society for four years without any crime, without a single beggar. No

rape, no murder, no suicide, nobody going mad.

The politicians certainly became aware that soon this will become a comparison:

`What you are doing?'

And we had invited the president, the governor, the attorney-general -- all the

people concerned, to come and be our guest and see what we have done. And we

are ready to teach the other ranchers in Oregon whatever we have done.

But not a single politician dared to come. On the contrary they started hundreds

of legal cases against us, unbased because we won almost in all the cases but it

was sheer wastage of energy. Four hundred sannyasins were continuously

engaged in legal battles with the government and soon they became aware that

legally they cannot defeat us. Then they started being illegal, and arresting me

was absolutely illegal.

They had no warrant, they could not show me any reason why they are arresting

me and they arrested me with twelve guns surrounding me, a man who has

nothing but a robe on his body, and in the court for three days they could not

prove anything against me. The U.S. attorney accepted on the last day that "We

failed to prove anything, but still we will not give bail to Bhagwan here, we

would like him to appear in Oregon's court... the bail will be decided there."

Now this was very strange because six of my companions were given bail. To me

they will not give bail and they have not proved any crime.

IT IS TO YOUR HAND BE CONSCIOUS OR DISAPPEAR WITH PLANET.''OSHO''

Perhaps the planet will not be saved--OshO

 Man has always lived in unconsciousness, but the darkness was never as much as it is today. There have been nights, but always the dawn has come. THIS TIME IT SEEMS TO BE DOUBTFUL WHETHER THE DAWN WILL COME OR NOT.

I am not a pessimist, but I am no longer an optimist either. I used to be -- now, I am simply a realist. And the reality is: PERHAPS WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE END OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET, with all its beauty, all its life, and all its great achievements. There seems to be no ray of hope from anywhere. And perhaps when I am saying this, it is not me who is saying it; perhaps it is existence itself who has lost hope about humanity and its future.

THE ONLY THING THAT I STILL GO ON DREAMING FOR IS MY PEOPLE. Perhaps the planet will not be saved, but those who have come to me, if they make a little effort to become conscious, to create a longing for enlightenment, at least they can be saved. But if you go on behaving like the masses of the world, you are also a lost case.

IMMENSE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS ON YOU because nowhere else in the whole world are people trying, even in small groups, to achieve enlightenment, to be meditative, to be loving, to be rejoicing. We are a very small island in the ocean of the world, but it does not matter. If these few people can be saved, the whole heritage of humanity, the heritage of all the mystics, of all the awakened people, can be saved through you.

IF THIS PLANET DIES, PERHAPS ON ANOTHER PLANET.... There are fifty thousand planets which can sustain life; perhaps civilization has to begin from ABC on some other planet. But who will be the pioneers? These dark masses, utterly unconscious, cannot be. Only a few chosen ones who have strived hard to make themselves deserving of light, of eternal life, of some experience of godliness -- perhaps they will be the ones who will be starting a new civilization somewhere in the universe, on some new planet.

I have never said this before but, going around the world, I have felt such a wound in my heart that the people who need to be saved are the people who are creating every kind of barrier to being saved. Even to approach them has become impossible. And seeing the whole world, I started feeling that THERE IS NOW ONLY ONE POSSIBILITY, and that is to create in the consciousness of those few who have come close to me, a Noah's Ark. It will not be a physical thing, but A NOAH'S ARK OF CONSCIOUSNESS which moves a small group of conscious people to another planet. That seems to be the only possibility to save the great heritage of humanity.

You cannot depend any longer on the politicians and on the priests, and on the masses who seem to be willing, deeply desiring, to die. DEATH SEEMS TO BE THE GREATEST DESIRE IN THE WORLD TODAY, and because I have been talking about life and love and laughter, I have been condemned from every corner.

I can understand the reason: to spread the message of life, love and laughter amongst people who, deep down, are getting ready to commit a global suicide... this is very contradictory to them.

PERHAPS WE WILL HAVE TO MEET ON SOME OTHER PLANET -- this planet seems to be spent. And it is not new: planets are born, planets die; stars are born, stars die -- so it is not something strange. And the preparations are going so well that it seems almost an impossibility for life to survive here on this earth. The whole blame goes on those vested interests which have kept humanity unconscious, and don't want man to become intelligent and conscious, alert and aware. Anyway, it seems too late.

TIME OF CRISIS IS THE NEED OF TIME FOR CHANGE.''OSHO''

“Times of crisis are both dangerous and immensely important. They are dangerous for those who have no courage to explore new dimensions of life. They are bound to disintegrate into different kinds of madness, because their minds were made by the society. Now the society is disintegrating, the mind cannot remain; its roots are in the society. It is constantly nourished by the society. Now that nourishment is disappearing.

“Because the society is disintegrating, a great suspicion, a doubt that was never there before, is bound to arise in the individuals. If they were just obedient people who have never gone beyond any limit that society has decided, who have always been respected, honorable citizens – in other words, just mediocre – they will immediately go mad.

“They will start committing suicide, they will start jumping from high buildings; or even if they live, now they don’t have a mind which can help them to figure out the situation for their lives. They will become retarded, stupid, idiotic, may become schizophrenic, split into two persons – or perhaps a crowd. In times of crisis, the danger is for those who have enjoyed the times when the society was settled, when there were no problems, everything was at ease, they were honored, respected. These were the people who had enjoyed the obedience of the mind, and they are going to be the sufferers. It is a simple arithmetic. They will go psychotic, they will go neurotic. And these words don’t make much difference; I have heard a definition:

“A psychoanalyst was asked, ‘What is the difference between psychosis and neurosis?’

“The psychoanalyst said, ‘The psychotic person believes that two and two are five. And the neurotic person knows that two and two are four, but is not at ease with the fact that two and two are four.’

“So the difference is very fine. Both are in trouble.

“But times of crisis are of tremendous significance for those daring souls who have never bothered about society’s respectability, its honors; who have never bothered about what others think about them, but have done only that which they felt right to do; who have in a certain way always been rebellious, individualistic. For those people the times of crisis are just golden, because the society is disintegrating. Now it cannot condemn anybody – it is itself condemned, cursed. It cannot say to others that they are wrong. It is itself proving wrong; its whole wisdom is proving just foolish, superstitious.

The daring individual can use this opportunity to go beyond mind, because now the society cannot prevent him, cannot hinder him. Now he is free.

HUMANITY CAN BE MOVED TO OTHER PLANETS.''OSHO''

The old man has lived with all kinds of divisions – nations, races, religions. The New Man will live an undivided humanity, with all the sources pooled into one. And that will enable him to explore the universe.

We have the capacity, but our whole energy is being wasted in fighting amongst ourselves on this small planet, earth. We have not explored this vast universe that surrounds us, which is such a challenge. And exploring it, the New Man is going to realize things which the old man could not even imagine.

For example, if the whole earth is one, there is no question of wars. And if all the energy that has always been wasted in wars is available for some creative purposes – and it is immense energy… with that energy man can explore the whole universe.

…we may come
across beings
who have more senses
than we have.

There is a possibility…. The scientists guess that at least fifty thousand planets have life. Now, what kind of dead and dull men have lived on this earth up to now, that they have not been able to make any contact with other living beings in the universe? It is our universe, but we have not even called this earth ours… just small fragments. And so much is waiting to be revealed that once the new man starts exploring….

For example, if we can move with the speed of light… and I certainly think that there is a possibility. If light can move with a certain speed, why can’t means and methods be found so that man can move with the same speed as light? That is the ultimate speed.

The greatest geniuses have been thinking that if man can move with that speed, then he will not become old. He can go searching, exploring in other solar systems, on other planets for a hundred or two hundred or three hundred years, and then can come back. All his contemporaries on the earth will be dead, their grandchildren will be almost near to death. But the adventurers who had gone on the journey will be just the same age as when they had left the earth. At that speed of light, aging does not happen.

Now, great adventures are there. It is not only that we have this earth, that we have explored it all and we are feeling bored that there is nothing to explore, that there is no America for Columbus. This whole universe is there for millions of Columbuses. For millions of years we are not going to reach the boundary, because there is no boundary. And one never knows – whatever scientific researchers have known is just a small fragment of the whole universe; they don’t have the whole idea of the universe.

The New Man will be finding new ways in every dimension. The old man was always traditional, clinging to the trodden path. Now there are already thousands of inventions which are not being used because of the old man… because the old man is not ready to use anything new. While the old thing is working well, why bother? Why get into dangerous things?

For example, in Japan, it is now fully proved by experiments that at a certain speed, trains rise above the earth 0.4 inches. So they don’t need rails – just in the beginning, at the start, before they take off. And they can go up to four hundred miles an hour very easily. That is the minimum, four hundred – we don’t know the maximum. And if trains can move above the earth, it will be a totally different experience. It will be really comfortable, far cheaper, and so fast.

The trains are ready, but the old man is not willing to use them. It seems dangerous – four hundred miles per hour. It is the same danger…. When the first railway trains were introduced… the first day on the London station nobody was ready to sit in the trains. They were invited free, meals were given, but nobody was going to sit in them. And it was only an eight-mile journey, but nobody was ready to sit in the trains because the churches were saying that God never made trains, so it must be the work of the devil.

This has been the way of the old man.

If we can have contact with living beings, perhaps we may come across beings who have more senses than we have… because why should five senses be the limit? We cannot conceive beyond the five senses – what will be the sixth sense?

We cannot conceive beyond taste, smell, sight, hearing, touch. What could be the sixth or the seventh or the eighth or the tenth? Who knows? – because if we had four senses, we would not have been able to think of the fifth. And on every planet life must have grown differently because the climate is different, the situation is different.

It will be necessary
that we have
other planets available
for people
to be moved to.

There is so much to explore and to learn and to make available to humanity, that the New Man will be basically adventurous in all dimensions. In medicine, in biology, in space travel, in meditations – in every possible dimension the New Man will be an adventurer.

He will be very willing to go into it. He will be ready to risk all for the new. And then a vast world of experiences becomes available.

We are living on a small planet, fighting with each other, quarreling over small things, while the whole universe waits to be discovered. And it may change everything on the earth. It may be that these explorations of the universe, of other planets, will finally help life to survive, because there is a possibility that by the end of this century the earth will change its axis.

Now that will bring tremendous changes – in the climate, in everything on the earth. If just the Himalayan snow starts melting, then all our great cities, which are ports, will be drowned. Just the Himalayan snow is enough to raise our seas forty feet higher, if it melts. It has never melted, it is eternally there – but the change of the earth’s axis can bring it closer to the sun: it can start melting. Then New York and Bombay and Calcutta and Tokyo and San Francisco – all the big cities which are near the ocean will be simply drowned.

Scientists are worried that the sun may be burning itself out. It has been giving light for millions of years, its fuel may be finishing. We may not know exactly when, but they don’t think it can last forever. A few million years is their estimate. But if the sun does not rise one morning, then everything dies as it is.

It will be necessary that we have other planets available for people to be moved to. If any danger to the earth arises, if there is any danger to the sun, then there is no need to be in this solar system. The whole humanity can be moved to other planets. There is no need for this whole evolution up to man to go down into the water or to die out simply because the sun’s fuel is finished.

The old man has nothing to give to humanity in such emergencies.

The New Man will be capable

YOU NEED THE EARTH-THE EARTH DOESN'T NEED YOU.''OSHO''

That is so true! This richly abundant planet is where I live….

“Everyday stars disappear into black holes and every day new stars are born from white holes. One thing has to be remembered, that anything that is born is going to die. This planet has been here for near about four thousand million years. Perhaps it has become old, perhaps nothing can be done to save it. It needs rest, and death is a rest.”

Maybe it does need a rest, but I feel bad about the way things are going.

"The earth is beautiful. If you start living its beauty, enjoying its joys with no guilt in your heart, you are in paradise. If you condemn everything, every small joy, if you become a condemner, a poisoner, then the same earth turns into a hell – only for you.”

"The future should not be just a hope and opportunity; those are just lousy words. The future should be absolutely ours – it should be a golden future. We have lived with the idea of a golden past – which was never golden! But we can create a future that is really golden. Now is a great moment. We can manage to have one world. This crisis is a golden crisis, because people change only under conditions of such deep stress. As long as the situation is tolerable, people will tolerate it – but now we are at a point where the situation is not tolerable. There is no more time for commissions and their reports. The problems are very simple. It is just that it has to be made clear to the whole humanity that these problems are your creation, and you are still creating them. A great awareness has to be spread: 'These are the problems you are supporting Withdraw your support.' And some practical steps should be taken…for example, if someone wants to be a world citizen, the United Nations should provide world citizen passports, not connected with any nation.…” Osho

BE ALERT TO GET.''OSHO''

BELOVED MASTER...
I DON'T GET IT!

So what! You don't get it! Get it?

One should always be alert: if you get it you get it, if you don't get it you don't get it.
Still, you get it.

I ALLOW THE GOD SINGS THROUGH ME.''OSHO''

BELOVED MASTER,

YOUR IDEAS SEEM TO BE CRAZY!

Thank you for the compliment. They don't SEEM to be crazy, they ARE. But that is the

only way God expresses himself. God's ways are crazy. If the word `crazy' does not look

proper, you can say, "God's ways are miraculous" -- but it means the same. Translated

rightly, miraculous means crazy. God is not a logician -- he may be a singer, a poet. His

ways are crazy. They are not like superhighways, they are more like footpaths in a forest

-- zigzag. On the footpaths you can go astray very easily: freedom is intact. On a

superhighway you cannot go astray: freedom is not allowed -- those milestones

everywhere, they will hinder you.

God is crazy, truth is crazy, because truth is so vast, it cannot be reduced into a syllogism.

You can sing about it, but you cannot argue about it -- the moment you argue about it,

you have falsified it. You can dance it, but you cannot make a dogma out of it. Yes, you

are right. My ideas ARE crazy, because they are not MY ideas. I simply allow myself to

be a hollow bamboo and whatsoever song God wants to sing on it, I allow him total

freedom. I don't stand in judgment. I don't say: Don't sing this sing, this will look crazy. I

say: Okay, if you want to sing it, sing it. If it is crazy, it s crazy.

I have heard a true story, as told by Freeman Dyron...

A few months ago, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli believed that they had made

an essential step forward in the direction of a theory of elementary particles.

Both the names are world-famous: Heisenberg and Pauli -- two of the greatest scientists

of any time, and they were thinking that they had come across the basic theory to explain

the structure of the elements.

Pauli happened to be passing through New York, and he was prevailed upon to give a

lecture explaining the new ideas to an audience which included Niels Bohr -- another

famous name, another great name in science. Pauli spoke for an hour, and then there was

a general discussion during which he was criticized rather sharply by the younger

generation of scientists. Finally, Niels Bohr was called on to make a speech summing up

the argument. "We are all agreed," he said, "that your theory is crazy, Pauli. The question

which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own

feeling is that it is not crazy enough."

And that's how things really are. A very sane theory cannot be right, because a sane

theory will be human. It will be very limited. Only a crazy theory has any possibility of

being right, because crazy means that which transcends human limitations. Crazy means

that which cannot be reduced to human logic, crazy means that which is beyond your

understanding. Yes, right is Niels Bohr. Let me repeat: "We are all agreed, Pauli," he

said, "that your theory is crazy." This much agreement is there. "The question which

divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own

feeling is that it is not crazy enough."

If you look into the modern world of physics, you will be surprised. Those old days of

clear-cut theories are all gone; the days of Darwin, Newton, Edison, are gone. Truth has

erupted, exploded -- in Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli, Niels Bohr, Planck -- and physics

looks more and more like metaphysics; more and more like poetry and less and less like

prose. The deeper scientists have penetrated into the world of physics, the more they are

surprised to find that our logic is just irrelevant. Reality is more than our logic. It's FAR

more than our logic. Our logic is just a small piece of ground that we have cleared and

cleaned, and reality is this great jungle of infinity.

Yes, you are right: my ideas ARE crazy because they are not MY ideas. If they were

mine then there was a possibility I would have made them logical -- it is not very

difficult. I can deny those parts which look illogical, and insist on the logical. I can

remain consistent; I can make a very clean-cut philosophy. That is not difficult -- in fact,

that will be very easy. But I am not interested in consistency. I am not interested at all in

logic, I am interested in truth. And if truth is crazy, I am crazy. If truth is mad, I am mad.

And let that point be remembered by you all, because my whole effort here is to relax you

so you can also become a little crazy; to help you relax, to help you loose the grip of the

mind so the no-mind can penetrate in you; to put the human aside so the divine can have

a chance in your being.

Don't cling to the clear-cut. Truth is not so clear-cut, and cannot be. Truth is so vast, it

contains contradictions. It is crazy.

It is said that Aristotle used to say that God is a mathematician. I cannot conceive how

God can be a mathematician. On the door of his academy it was written: "Those who

don't know mathematics should not enter here, should not dare to enter here." I cannot

conceive what mathematics has to do with God, what mathematics has to do with reality.

If I have to put a sign on Rajneesh Ashram's door, then I will put: "Those who are not

crazy enough should not enter here."

God is mad. If you are ready to be a little mad, only then is there any possibility of any

contact between you and the infinite. It has to be so. When the whole ocean drops into a

drop, the drop is going to get crazy. When the infinite descends into the finite, how can

the finite remain sane? It has to go mad. The old mystics have always called it "the divine

madness."

All meditation is an approach towards divine madness. Stake all human sanity. It is better

to be mad in a divine way than to be sane in a human way.

I am crazy

FACE IS JUST A MASK.''OSHO''

BELOVED OSHO, WHY DO I MAKE FUNNY FACES?

It is from Amida. First, an anecdote...
A person was frighteningly ugly. Once he was asked how he could go on living with such
a terrible face.
"Why should I be unhappy?" answered the man. "I never see my own face. Let others
worry."
So Amida, you simply throw your mirrors -- that's all. And this is others' problem, not
yours. They will come to me -- "What to do with Amida's faces?" But, one thing: all
faces are funny, because deep down you have no face at all. That's why all faces are
funny. Nobody is ever satisfied with their face; even the most beautiful people are not
satisfied. You may think otherwise, but you don't know. Even Cleopatra was worried that
her nose was a little longer than it should be. Marilyn Monroe committed suicide -- a
beautiful woman, but not satisfied, not contented. There is something in it. All faces are
funny because all faces are false. Deep down, your being is faceless. That's what Zen
people call the original face. When a disciple comes to a Zen master, the master says,
"Go and meditate upon your original face." And what is the original face? The face that
you had before you were born and the face that you will have again when you are dead:
find out that original face. It is not a face at all.

Have you ever thought about it? The shape of your face is given by the body. It can be
changed by plastic surgery. And you will not be changed by the change of the face: your
nose can be longer, shorter, your eyes can be different, eyebrows can be different -- much
can be done now. And you will remain the same. So the face is not your being, it is just
the shape of your body. It is not YOUR face. Have you got any face? Sometimes with
closed eyes go deep into it... and you will be surprised to see you don't have any face.
God has no face at all -- and you are gods and goddesses.
That's why one is never contented. One can never be contented with this face, howsoever
beautiful. This face is not going to satisfy you unless you come to the original face, the
facelessness of your being: purity with no shape, the formless, the attributeless. The form
is of matter. The form is not of consciousness; consciousness is formless. Your body is a
meeting-place of the form and the formless, of matter and consciousness. Your body is a
container. The contained is you, and that contained has no face. So always, any face is
funny. The very idea of having a face is funny because all faces are false. Face as such is
false.
This hunger to be more than we are reminds me of a four-year-old who met an old friend
of the family who had not seen the little lad for several years. "Oh, John," said the friend,
"I'm surprised at how bit you are!" To which the boy replied, "Oh, but I'm bigger than
this!"
"Bigger than this" -- you always have that feeling that you are bigger than this, that you
are more beautiful than this, that you are more truthful than this, that you are more eternal
than this. And because of this a great problem arises. Everybody looks at your face, and
nobody can look deep into your being. And you are aware, a little aware of your being;
you don't think you end with your face. You may think you start from there, but that is
not the end. But for others that is the end, the terminal point.
You love a woman, and whatsoever you do she will never be satisfied, because she
always feels she is bigger than this, more beautiful than you feel her. And the same is true
about you -- the woman may love you very much but you know she has not yet known
you; just on the periphery. 'I am bigger than this, I am more than this." So no relationship
becomes satisfying -- cannot be. It cannot be, in the very nature of things, because you
know something which is very great, tremendously great, huge, enormous... and the other
knows only the face, the body form. You are reduced to a small thing -- and whatsoever
his praise, it never comes to satisfy you. It cannot.
And, every child makes funny faces. Have you watched? Leave him in the bathroom and
watch from the keyhole, and he will make funny faces. In fact he is enjoying having a
face, trying to manipulate it in many ways, playing with it. And he can play because he is
separate. When he is making a funny face, he knows "I am not this funny man. This face
is only the face; I am behind it. This is just a mask." And even grown-up people do it in
the bathroom. If nobody is watching, everybody is tempted to do a little.... In the mirror,
one wants to make funny faces. Nothing wrong in it -- it simply shows that you cannot
adjust yourself with the body, that the body is not all, that you are far beyond it, that you
can play with the body like a mask. It is a mask.
In fact there are many old meditations which make use of making funny faces. You can
make it a meditation -- in Tibet, it is one of the oldest traditions. Keep a big mirror: stand
naked, make faces, do funny things -- and watch. Just doing it and watching for fifteen,
twenty minutes, you will be surprised. You wills tart feeling you are separate from this. If
you are not separate, then how can you do all these things? Then the body is just
something in your hand -- you can play with it, this way and that. That's why I always say
mimicry, mime, is a spiritual art. And soon we are going to open a small school of mime.
If you can learn how to make faces, if you can act with your body in many ways, you will
be suddenly freed from the body; your identity will be broken.
This is my experience. Many people come to me and ask, "Why do so many actors come
to you?" My experience is this, that acting is one of the most spiritual professions in e
world. Because an actor moves into so many actings -- sometimes he is this, sometimes
that -- so many identities that he becomes loose. Then one day he suddenly starts
thinking, "Who am I? One day I am Abraham Lincoln, another day I am George
Washington, another day I become this and that," and every day he goes on changing. In
one film he is one, in another film he is another. Sometimes he is a saint, and sometimes
he is a sinner. Only then can he be a perfect actor.
You can ask Veeten, Veeten is here. You can ask Vijay Anand, Vinod -- they are my
sannyasins. By and by he comes to know, a good actor comes to know, that all are acts.
"Then who am I?" In ordinary life you are identified with one thing: you are a doctor, so
you are a doctor -- morning, evening, night, you are a doctor; for thirty, forty years, you
are a doctor -- you become fixed with the identity, with the role. It is a role too -- but you
never change, so you become fixed. You forget; the role becomes your being. When a
person has to change many roles, he becomes loose. by and by the question arises: Who
am I? All these are roles -- then who am I? who is this man who some day becomes a
sinner and some day becomes a saint? And some day plays the role of a murderer, and
some day becomes a great lover? Who is this man? Who is this being behind all these
actings?
To me, acting is one of the most spiritual professions. And if you take life as an acting,
you will start moving towards spirituality. Take life as an acting, you will start moving
towards spirituality. Take life as acting, a great drama. The world is a vast stage. You are
a mother -- that is only one role. You are a father -- that is only one role. You are a
businessman -- another role. You are a brother to somebody -- another role. You are a
son, husband -- another role... a thousand and one roles if you watch. And you go on
changing your faces. When your servant comes to see you, you have a different face.
When your boos comes to see you, you have a different face. Watch it, become a little
more alert, and you will see you have a thousand and one faces, continuously changing. It
is automatic. You need not do anything -- they change automatically. You have become
very skillful. Once you understand this, you start moving inwards where there is no face
at all.
Amida, good. You make it a meditation. You start doing this meditation every day for
twenty minutes. Find out new ways to make funny faces, funny postures -- do whatsoever
you can do. And it will give you a great release; and you wills tart looking at yourself not
as the body, not as the face, but as the consciousness. It will be helpful.