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Book of the Secrets 2
"These techniques will not mention any religious ritual. No temple is needed, you are quite enough of a temple yourself. You are the lab; the whole experiment is to go on within you. This is not religion, this is science. No belief is needed. Only a daringness to experiment is enough; courage to experiment is enough.
These 112 methods are for the whole of humanity-for all the ages that have passed, and for all the ages that have yet to come. I will go on describing each method from as many angles as possible. If you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. If you feel that it fits, that something clicks in you, continue it for three months.
Life is a miracle. If you have not known its mystery, that only shows that you do not know the technique for how to approach it." --Osho
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
These 112 methods are for the whole of humanity-for all the ages that have passed, and for all the ages that have yet to come. I will go on describing each method from as many angles as possible. If you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. If you feel that it fits, that something clicks in you, continue it for three months.
Life is a miracle. If you have not known its mystery, that only shows that you do not know the technique for how to approach it." --Osho
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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392 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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Osho
4,358 books6,787 followersRajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
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• -Page 1001
• "You will be able to use the false as a social convenience, a convention, but you will not be identified with it. Now you know you can be spontaneous, free. Self-remembering transforms you because it gives you the opportunity to be yourself again — and to be oneself is the ultimate and to be oneself is the absolute."
• -Page 1004
• "You cannot be adventurous when you are unhappy. Adventure needs a subtle happiness in you. Then you can leave the known. You are so happy that you are not afraid of the unknown."
• -Page 1005
• "With happiness, one wants to move into the unknown happiness because the known gets boring. You never get bored with the known misery; you enjoy it. Look at people talking about their misery: they enjoy it, they magnify their misery; they have a subtle happiness."
• -Page 1008
• "Krishnamurti goes on talking about choicelessness, and the audience is negative. They listen, but they never understand. And when they are not understanding, Krishnamurti gets disturbed because they are not understanding him."
• -Page 1008
• "To talk to the negative mind about choicelessness, about going beyond duality, about living both negative and positive, is meaningless. Not that this is untrue — it is true, but meaningless. The one who is listening must be taken into account. He is more important than the one who is talking. As I see it, you are negative. First you need a transformation towards positivity. From your "no-saying" you must become a yea-sayer. You must look at life with a "yes" attitude, and with a "yes" attitude this very earth is totally transfonned. Only then, when you have attained a positive attitude, can you take a jump towards choicelessness"
• -Page 1011
• "A guru is not a giver of doctrines. He is a giver of methods — of methods which can help you to come out of your sleep."
• -Page 1019
• "You trust your surgeon. He makes you unconscious because things are such that in your conscious state surgery would be impossible to do; your consciousness would interfere. That is why trust is blind."
• -Page 1033
• "Sex is one of the most imaginary centers in the body, so just by imagining, you can have a sexual orgasm. You can deceive the body. In dream, you can have a sexual release; even in dream, the body is deceived. You are not making love to anyone; just in dream, in fantasy, in imagination, you are making love. But the body can release sexual energy,"
• -Page 1038
• "prohibition becomes an invitation,"
• -Page 1042
• "There is a secret law: when the pendulum is going to the left, it appears to be going to the left, but it is gathering momentum to go right. When it is going to the left, it is gathering energy, momentum, to go right; when it is going right, it is gathering momentum to go left. So what appears is not the whole. When you are becoming happy, you are gathering momentum to be unhappy. So whenever I see you laughing, the moment is not far away when you will be weeping."
• -Page 1042
• "Now psychoanalysts say that when a child is weeping and screaming, don't stop him, don’t try to persuade him, don't distract him. Don't try to focus his mind somewhere else; don’t bribe him to stop. Don’t do anything. Just remain silent near him, and allow him to weep and cry and scream so that he can move easily to happiness. Otherwise, neither will he be able to weep nor will he be able to be happy. That is how we all have become. We cannot do anything. The smile is half-hearted, the tear is also half-hearted; everything is confusion."
• -Page 1043
• "Remain with it. You will disturb the whole natural mechanism. You have a headache: remain with it. Close your eyes, meditate on the headache; remain with it. Don't do anything. Just be a witness; don’t try to escape."
• -Page 1043
• "Buddha has called his whole philosophy MAJJHIM NIKAYA — the middle way, because of this technique. He says remain in the middle always; no matter what the polarity,"
• -Page 1048
• "The question is how to change yourself: "How to change myself?" is the religious quest. "How to change everyone else?" is political. But the politician thinks he is okay;"
• -Page 1049
• "If someone commits a sin, a sin in the eyes of the society, you start condemning him, never thinking that you also have the seed to commit that sin within you. If someone commits a murder you condemn him, but have you not always been thinking to kill someone, to murder?"
• -Page 1054
• "You want to know who you really are. And the moment you ask sincerely, "Who am I?" you are on a different journey; you are transcending."
• -Page 1057
• "Unless you become identified, you cannot become unidentified! At least once, one has to become identified."
• -Page 1060
• "Nasruddin was just running round and round. The man was mad. He was crying, "I have been robbed of all my life's riches. I am a poor man! I have become a beggar!" He was weeping — weeping like anything. Then Nasruddin reached the same tree, and he just put the bag before the tree and went behind the tree to hide there. The man came there, he fell on the bag, and started weeping in happiness."
• -Page 1062
• "Once you accept a thing, you are already transcending it."
• -Page 1065
• "IF ONE BEGINS TO FEEL THAT LIFE IS A PSYCHODRAMA, THEN ONE ALSO FEELS DEPRESSED AND LONELY. So feel it! "THUS, THE INTENSITY, SINCERITY AND DEPTH OF LIVING IS LOST." Let it be lost, because the sincerity and depth that can be lost was not real. It was pseudo, false, and it is better that the false thing is lost."
• -Page 1069
• "This very waiting is a transformation."
• -Page 1072
• "People go on a signature campaign: "You think I have become a buddha, so please sign."
• -Page 1074
• "The mantra can just give a tranquilizing effect."
• -Page 1079
• "Your humanity is just false, skin-deep. Someone insults you, and the animal comes out — not the human being."
• -Page 1080
• "Everything can become a meditation. And unless everything becomes a meditation, meditation has not happened to you. Meditation cannot be a part, a fragment. Either it is — and when it is you are wholly in it — or it is not."
• -Page 1086
• "With no ego you cannot cling to the wave; you have to fall to the ocean."
• -Page 1091
• "There is no one sitting there in the skies to punish you. There is no record of your sins; there is no need for this. It is just like gravity. If you walk rightly, the gravity is a help. You cannot walk without it. If you walk wrongly, you will fall down, you may get a fracture. But no one is punishing you; it is just the law, the gravity — the impersonal gravity."
• -Page 1096
• "It never happens gradually that one part of your eyes has turned inward and one part is with the outward clouds — nor does it happen in percentages, that now you have become ten percent inner and ninety percent outer, now twenty percent inner and eighty percent outer — no! When it happens it happens a hundred percent, because you cannot divide your focusing."
• -Page 1100
• "Remember, you see THROUGH your eyes. Eyes cannot see; you see through them. The seer is hidden behind, the eyes are just the opening, just the windows. But we go on thinking that we see by the eyes; we go on thinking we hear by the ears. No one has ever heard by the ears. You hear THROUGH the ears, not BY the ears. The hearer is hidden behind. The ears are just receptive organs."
• -Page 1108
• "He cannot say, "Now I am filled with bliss," because even this feeling that "Now I am filled with bliss" is possible only with a background of suffering and anguish."
• -Page 1112
• "Tertullian, one of the greatest Christian mystics, has said, "I believe in God because God is the greatest absurdity. I believe in God because mind cannot believe in God." It is impossible to believe in God; no proof, no argument, no logic can help the belief in God. Everything goes against him, against his existence, but Tertullian says, "That is why I believe — because only by believing in an absurdity can I move away from my mind." This is beautiful. If you want to move away from your mind, you will need something of which your mind cannot conceive. If your mind can conceive of it, it will absorb it into its own system, and then you cannot transcend your mind. That is why every religion has insisted on some point which is absurd. No religion can exist without some absurdity just as a foundation in it. From that absurdity you either turn back and say, "I cannot believe so I will go away." Then you remain yourself — or you take a jump, you turn away from your mind. And unless your mind is killed the enlightenment cannot happen. Your mind is the problem"
• -Page 1114
• "How did the apple reach upwards in the first place? How? That must be explained first — how the apple reached the upward position, how the tree is growing upwards. The apple was not there; it was hidden in a seed, and then the apple travelled the whole journey. It reached the upward position and only then did it fall down. So gravity is a secondary law. Levitation was there first."
• -Page 1125
• "Buddha is a presence, not a mood. You are moods, not a presence. Sometimes you are hate, one mood, sometimes you are love — another mood; sometimes you are anger, another mood, sometimes you are greed — another mood."
• -Page 1142
• "Just one hundred and twenty years, and suddenly you die? I would not like you to die so suddenly; that is why plus three months.""
• -Page 1149
• "the great Zen master Rinzai is known as one of the greatest archers, so it is asked, "How is Rinzai known as the greatest archer when he never succeeded in any aim and the point was always missed? This archer who was a master technically had to learn, for years under Rinzai, and every day he was one hundred percent accurate in his aiming. Rinzai would say, "No, you are a failure. Technically the arrow leaves rightly. But you are not there, you are not alert. You lose it in your sleep.""
• -Page 1163
• "For example, you can be taught to love your neighbors, to love everyone, to be loving. It can become a moral attitude, but the hate remains within. You force yourself to be loving, and a forced love cannot be real, cannot be authentic."
• -Page 1165
• "You love because you feel blissful in loving. You are not doing anything for your neighbor; you are not obliging anyone else."
• -Page 1166
• "You can create a fear about hell and you can create a profit motive for heaven. Both of these things are possible only while you are asleep. If you are not asleep, you cannot be threatened and you cannot be motivated because of profit. Those two things are meaningful only to the mind that is asleep."
• -Page 1166
• "Try to observe the fact: an immoral person is inconvenient to the society, but he is convenient for himself. A moral person becomes convenient to the society, but he becomes inconvenient to himself."
• -Page 1168
• "Love is natural now, as hatred was before. Love was a pretension before. Now hatred can only be a pretension — if it is needed."
• -Page 1706
• "A feminine mind means a mind who can surrender, who can be receptive like a womb, who can be open, passive. Half of the humanity can be of this type, but the other half is totally opposite."
• -Page 1708
• "The feminine mind exists in the moment. That's why the feminine curiosity is never for the far-away; it is always about the neighborhood. She is not interested in what is happening in Vietnam."
• -Page 1707
• "For the feminine mind there is no goal, and our world is man-oriented. So women cannot be really great in a man-oriented world, because greatness is related to the goal. Some goal has to be achieved; then you become great — and the feminine mind is not after any goal. Here and now she is happy."
• -Page 1716
• "because a man cannot exist without a woman opposing him. There is a deep balance in nature."
• -Page 1718
• "A man cannot understand that a woman, just by being a simple housewife, can achieve something which a Buddha achieves with so much difficulty, so arduously."
• -Page 1718
• "And if you say that you are already on the Everest he will laugh, because Everest is not meaningful — the effort to reach it is meaningful. The moment Everest becomes easy to reach, for the masculine mind all attraction is lost. There is nothing to be achieved on the Everest. When Hillary and Tensing reached there, nothing was there to be achieved,"
• -Page 1725
• "If you come and abuse me, you simply give me an opportunity to bring out whatsoever is in me. If there is hate, hate comes out. If there is love, then love will come out. If there is compassion, then compassion will come out. You are just an opportunity for me to be revealed."
• -Page 1732
• "Animals can be in pain, but they are not in suffering. Pain looks like an accident; they get over it. They don’t carry it. It doesn’t become a wound. It is forgotten and forgiven."
• -Page 1741
• "Because man can commit suicide, only man can grow spiritually. No animal can grow spiritually."
• -Page 1748
• "they come on the stage a fear grips them, because so many eyes are staring; there is so much aggressive energy."
• -Page 1749
• "Because a needle can do something which a sword cannot do."
• -Page 1772
• "where it was asked what the driver of the other vehicle could have done to avoid the accident, he filled it, 'He should have parked the car somewhere else."
• -Page 1800
• "So if you see a beautiful poem, don’t try to see the poet who has written it because you will not meet the same person. You will be disappointed because you will meet a very ordinary man. He had a glimpse. For certain moments reality was revealed to him and he came down to the heart. But he doesn't know the passage."
• -Page 1805
• "You cannot catch a shadow, but you can catch yourself. And the moment you catch yourself, the shadow is caught."
• -Page 1805
• "Suffering is just a shadow of the ego."
• -Page 1817
• "What will you do if I say, "What is yellow?" You may indicate a yellow flower, you may indicate a yellow sun rising, but you are not saying anything, you are indicating. A simple thing can only be indicated; a complex thing can be defined, divided, analyzed. Buddhas are silent, not because they have encountered a very complex reality,"
• -Page 1882
• "fever, but, still, please, keep on trying." That's what I say to you. From the periphery"
• -Page 1911
• "But life is not for use. It is non-utilitarian, purposeless, it is a play, a celebration."
• -Page 1959
• "Really, prison is the most secure place."
• -Page 1966
• "Nietzsche says, "Live dangerously." Not that you have to seek danger positively, there is no need to seek danger positively. Don’t create protections. Don't create walls around you. Live naturally, and that will be dangerous, dangerous enough. There is no need to seek any danger."
• -Page 1983
• "Love is not afraid of life, insecurity, because it is so grounded. If you are not grounded and you feel a cyclone coming, you will be afraid. But if you are grounded you will welcome the cyclone, it will become an adventure. If you are rooted, the passing cyclone will become a challenge."
• -Page 1983
• "You will be shaken to the very roots by it; every fibre will become alive. Then when the cyclone has gone you will not think that it was bad, a misfortune. You will say it was fortunate, a blessing, because all the deadness has been taken away by the cyclone. All that was dead has moved with it and all that was alive has become more alive. Look at the trees after the cyclone has gone."
• -Page 1983
• "lovers never take each other for granted."
• -Page 1991
• "Transcendence means going beyond duality."
• -Page 2003
• "it is not a longing for wealth, it is a longing for freedom. Wealth gives you a feeling of freedom."
• -Page 2037
• "So to me, a right education will consist in creating strong egos, to the very extreme, where a great suffering is born out of them, and then — surrender. Only the is surrender possible."
• -Page 2050
• "because Tantra is the basic search for the rhythm which exists between the opposites,"
• -Page 2052
• "a technique which is used in Tibet. They call it heat yoga. The night is cold, snow is falling, and the Tibetan lama will be standing naked under the open sky. The temperature is below zero. You would simply start dying, you would freeze. But the lama is practicing a particular technique. That technique is that he is imagining that his body is a burning fire and he is imagining that he is perspiring — the heat is so much that he is perspiring."
• -Page 2054
• "When you hypnotize a person, he is really falling into deep imagination, and whatsoever you suggest will start happening."
• -Page 2074
• "Communication happens only when one party has become male and the other party has become female,"
• -Page 2074
• "Speaking is a penetration of you and you are receptive to it. Between a speaker and a listener a sex act is happening because the speaker is trying to penetrate you and the listener is receiving. The energy in the listener has become feminine, and if the listener has not become feminine there will be no phenomenon of listening. That is why the listener has to be totally passive."
• -Page 2079
• "Enlightenment means the point from where you take a jump into the non-dual. Before that point is duality. Everything is divided."
• -Page 2093
• "Hindus and Jews have always been against conversion. Not only against conversion — if someone wants to enter into their religion voluntarily, they will resist. They will say, "No, follow your own path." Because a system is a great unconscious phenomenon; it has to be deep in the unconscious, only then can it help."
• -Page 2096
• "Your mind becomes the Tower of Babel — so many tongues and you cannot understand what is happening. You just feel crazy."
• -Page 2095
• "Hence the great appeal of Krishnamurti in the West. He does not have so much appeal in the East because the East is still not as confused as the West, because the East is still not as educated about others. The West is obsessed about knowing about others. They know too much. Now no system is real, they know that everything is a make-believe, and once you know it, it will not work. Krishnamurti appeals to them because he says leave all systems."
• -Page 2111
• "Be in empathy for at least one hour every day."
• -Page 2129
• "working, they have attained something, and they have a subtle ego behind it. They know something so they are not innocent,"
• -Page 2132
• "This looks paradoxical but this is the case. If you can wait for eternity, you will not need to wait at all. But if you cannot wait for even a single moment, you will have to wait for eternity."
• -Page 2161
• "Buddha says, "Don’t meditate. Be in meditation." Because if you meditate, the doer has come in — you will go on thinking that you are meditating. Then meditation has become an act."
• -Page 2166
• "meditation should be something which becomes your style of life, it should not be a fragment. Otherwise you will gain it and lose it. If you are inactive one hour then for twenty-three hours you will be active. The active forces will be more, and they will destroy whatsoever you attain in your inactivity. The active forces will destroy it. And the next day you will again do the same: for twenty-three hours you will accumulate the doer and in one hour you will have to drop it. It will be difficult. So your mind must change its attitude about work and activity. Hence the second technique."
• -Page 2166
• "Work should be considered as play, not as work. Work should be considered as play, just a game. You should not be serious about it; you should be just like children playing."
• -Page 2194
• "The question is irrelevant; the questioner is relevant." You cannot ask for consistency from an enlightened person. Only unenlightened, ignorant persons can be consistent, because they don't have to look. They just follow some ideas."
• -Page 1001
• "You will be able to use the false as a social convenience, a convention, but you will not be identified with it. Now you know you can be spontaneous, free. Self-remembering transforms you because it gives you the opportunity to be yourself again — and to be oneself is the ultimate and to be oneself is the absolute."
• -Page 1004
• "You cannot be adventurous when you are unhappy. Adventure needs a subtle happiness in you. Then you can leave the known. You are so happy that you are not afraid of the unknown."
• -Page 1005
• "With happiness, one wants to move into the unknown happiness because the known gets boring. You never get bored with the known misery; you enjoy it. Look at people talking about their misery: they enjoy it, they magnify their misery; they have a subtle happiness."
• -Page 1008
• "Krishnamurti goes on talking about choicelessness, and the audience is negative. They listen, but they never understand. And when they are not understanding, Krishnamurti gets disturbed because they are not understanding him."
• -Page 1008
• "To talk to the negative mind about choicelessness, about going beyond duality, about living both negative and positive, is meaningless. Not that this is untrue — it is true, but meaningless. The one who is listening must be taken into account. He is more important than the one who is talking. As I see it, you are negative. First you need a transformation towards positivity. From your "no-saying" you must become a yea-sayer. You must look at life with a "yes" attitude, and with a "yes" attitude this very earth is totally transfonned. Only then, when you have attained a positive attitude, can you take a jump towards choicelessness"
• -Page 1011
• "A guru is not a giver of doctrines. He is a giver of methods — of methods which can help you to come out of your sleep."
• -Page 1019
• "You trust your surgeon. He makes you unconscious because things are such that in your conscious state surgery would be impossible to do; your consciousness would interfere. That is why trust is blind."
• -Page 1033
• "Sex is one of the most imaginary centers in the body, so just by imagining, you can have a sexual orgasm. You can deceive the body. In dream, you can have a sexual release; even in dream, the body is deceived. You are not making love to anyone; just in dream, in fantasy, in imagination, you are making love. But the body can release sexual energy,"
• -Page 1038
• "prohibition becomes an invitation,"
• -Page 1042
• "There is a secret law: when the pendulum is going to the left, it appears to be going to the left, but it is gathering momentum to go right. When it is going to the left, it is gathering energy, momentum, to go right; when it is going right, it is gathering momentum to go left. So what appears is not the whole. When you are becoming happy, you are gathering momentum to be unhappy. So whenever I see you laughing, the moment is not far away when you will be weeping."
• -Page 1042
• "Now psychoanalysts say that when a child is weeping and screaming, don't stop him, don’t try to persuade him, don't distract him. Don't try to focus his mind somewhere else; don’t bribe him to stop. Don’t do anything. Just remain silent near him, and allow him to weep and cry and scream so that he can move easily to happiness. Otherwise, neither will he be able to weep nor will he be able to be happy. That is how we all have become. We cannot do anything. The smile is half-hearted, the tear is also half-hearted; everything is confusion."
• -Page 1043
• "Remain with it. You will disturb the whole natural mechanism. You have a headache: remain with it. Close your eyes, meditate on the headache; remain with it. Don't do anything. Just be a witness; don’t try to escape."
• -Page 1043
• "Buddha has called his whole philosophy MAJJHIM NIKAYA — the middle way, because of this technique. He says remain in the middle always; no matter what the polarity,"
• -Page 1048
• "The question is how to change yourself: "How to change myself?" is the religious quest. "How to change everyone else?" is political. But the politician thinks he is okay;"
• -Page 1049
• "If someone commits a sin, a sin in the eyes of the society, you start condemning him, never thinking that you also have the seed to commit that sin within you. If someone commits a murder you condemn him, but have you not always been thinking to kill someone, to murder?"
• -Page 1054
• "You want to know who you really are. And the moment you ask sincerely, "Who am I?" you are on a different journey; you are transcending."
• -Page 1057
• "Unless you become identified, you cannot become unidentified! At least once, one has to become identified."
• -Page 1060
• "Nasruddin was just running round and round. The man was mad. He was crying, "I have been robbed of all my life's riches. I am a poor man! I have become a beggar!" He was weeping — weeping like anything. Then Nasruddin reached the same tree, and he just put the bag before the tree and went behind the tree to hide there. The man came there, he fell on the bag, and started weeping in happiness."
• -Page 1062
• "Once you accept a thing, you are already transcending it."
• -Page 1065
• "IF ONE BEGINS TO FEEL THAT LIFE IS A PSYCHODRAMA, THEN ONE ALSO FEELS DEPRESSED AND LONELY. So feel it! "THUS, THE INTENSITY, SINCERITY AND DEPTH OF LIVING IS LOST." Let it be lost, because the sincerity and depth that can be lost was not real. It was pseudo, false, and it is better that the false thing is lost."
• -Page 1069
• "This very waiting is a transformation."
• -Page 1072
• "People go on a signature campaign: "You think I have become a buddha, so please sign."
• -Page 1074
• "The mantra can just give a tranquilizing effect."
• -Page 1079
• "Your humanity is just false, skin-deep. Someone insults you, and the animal comes out — not the human being."
• -Page 1080
• "Everything can become a meditation. And unless everything becomes a meditation, meditation has not happened to you. Meditation cannot be a part, a fragment. Either it is — and when it is you are wholly in it — or it is not."
• -Page 1086
• "With no ego you cannot cling to the wave; you have to fall to the ocean."
• -Page 1091
• "There is no one sitting there in the skies to punish you. There is no record of your sins; there is no need for this. It is just like gravity. If you walk rightly, the gravity is a help. You cannot walk without it. If you walk wrongly, you will fall down, you may get a fracture. But no one is punishing you; it is just the law, the gravity — the impersonal gravity."
• -Page 1096
• "It never happens gradually that one part of your eyes has turned inward and one part is with the outward clouds — nor does it happen in percentages, that now you have become ten percent inner and ninety percent outer, now twenty percent inner and eighty percent outer — no! When it happens it happens a hundred percent, because you cannot divide your focusing."
• -Page 1100
• "Remember, you see THROUGH your eyes. Eyes cannot see; you see through them. The seer is hidden behind, the eyes are just the opening, just the windows. But we go on thinking that we see by the eyes; we go on thinking we hear by the ears. No one has ever heard by the ears. You hear THROUGH the ears, not BY the ears. The hearer is hidden behind. The ears are just receptive organs."
• -Page 1108
• "He cannot say, "Now I am filled with bliss," because even this feeling that "Now I am filled with bliss" is possible only with a background of suffering and anguish."
• -Page 1112
• "Tertullian, one of the greatest Christian mystics, has said, "I believe in God because God is the greatest absurdity. I believe in God because mind cannot believe in God." It is impossible to believe in God; no proof, no argument, no logic can help the belief in God. Everything goes against him, against his existence, but Tertullian says, "That is why I believe — because only by believing in an absurdity can I move away from my mind." This is beautiful. If you want to move away from your mind, you will need something of which your mind cannot conceive. If your mind can conceive of it, it will absorb it into its own system, and then you cannot transcend your mind. That is why every religion has insisted on some point which is absurd. No religion can exist without some absurdity just as a foundation in it. From that absurdity you either turn back and say, "I cannot believe so I will go away." Then you remain yourself — or you take a jump, you turn away from your mind. And unless your mind is killed the enlightenment cannot happen. Your mind is the problem"
• -Page 1114
• "How did the apple reach upwards in the first place? How? That must be explained first — how the apple reached the upward position, how the tree is growing upwards. The apple was not there; it was hidden in a seed, and then the apple travelled the whole journey. It reached the upward position and only then did it fall down. So gravity is a secondary law. Levitation was there first."
• -Page 1125
• "Buddha is a presence, not a mood. You are moods, not a presence. Sometimes you are hate, one mood, sometimes you are love — another mood; sometimes you are anger, another mood, sometimes you are greed — another mood."
• -Page 1142
• "Just one hundred and twenty years, and suddenly you die? I would not like you to die so suddenly; that is why plus three months.""
• -Page 1149
• "the great Zen master Rinzai is known as one of the greatest archers, so it is asked, "How is Rinzai known as the greatest archer when he never succeeded in any aim and the point was always missed? This archer who was a master technically had to learn, for years under Rinzai, and every day he was one hundred percent accurate in his aiming. Rinzai would say, "No, you are a failure. Technically the arrow leaves rightly. But you are not there, you are not alert. You lose it in your sleep.""
• -Page 1163
• "For example, you can be taught to love your neighbors, to love everyone, to be loving. It can become a moral attitude, but the hate remains within. You force yourself to be loving, and a forced love cannot be real, cannot be authentic."
• -Page 1165
• "You love because you feel blissful in loving. You are not doing anything for your neighbor; you are not obliging anyone else."
• -Page 1166
• "You can create a fear about hell and you can create a profit motive for heaven. Both of these things are possible only while you are asleep. If you are not asleep, you cannot be threatened and you cannot be motivated because of profit. Those two things are meaningful only to the mind that is asleep."
• -Page 1166
• "Try to observe the fact: an immoral person is inconvenient to the society, but he is convenient for himself. A moral person becomes convenient to the society, but he becomes inconvenient to himself."
• -Page 1168
• "Love is natural now, as hatred was before. Love was a pretension before. Now hatred can only be a pretension — if it is needed."
• -Page 1706
• "A feminine mind means a mind who can surrender, who can be receptive like a womb, who can be open, passive. Half of the humanity can be of this type, but the other half is totally opposite."
• -Page 1708
• "The feminine mind exists in the moment. That's why the feminine curiosity is never for the far-away; it is always about the neighborhood. She is not interested in what is happening in Vietnam."
• -Page 1707
• "For the feminine mind there is no goal, and our world is man-oriented. So women cannot be really great in a man-oriented world, because greatness is related to the goal. Some goal has to be achieved; then you become great — and the feminine mind is not after any goal. Here and now she is happy."
• -Page 1716
• "because a man cannot exist without a woman opposing him. There is a deep balance in nature."
• -Page 1718
• "A man cannot understand that a woman, just by being a simple housewife, can achieve something which a Buddha achieves with so much difficulty, so arduously."
• -Page 1718
• "And if you say that you are already on the Everest he will laugh, because Everest is not meaningful — the effort to reach it is meaningful. The moment Everest becomes easy to reach, for the masculine mind all attraction is lost. There is nothing to be achieved on the Everest. When Hillary and Tensing reached there, nothing was there to be achieved,"
• -Page 1725
• "If you come and abuse me, you simply give me an opportunity to bring out whatsoever is in me. If there is hate, hate comes out. If there is love, then love will come out. If there is compassion, then compassion will come out. You are just an opportunity for me to be revealed."
• -Page 1732
• "Animals can be in pain, but they are not in suffering. Pain looks like an accident; they get over it. They don’t carry it. It doesn’t become a wound. It is forgotten and forgiven."
• -Page 1741
• "Because man can commit suicide, only man can grow spiritually. No animal can grow spiritually."
• -Page 1748
• "they come on the stage a fear grips them, because so many eyes are staring; there is so much aggressive energy."
• -Page 1749
• "Because a needle can do something which a sword cannot do."
• -Page 1772
• "where it was asked what the driver of the other vehicle could have done to avoid the accident, he filled it, 'He should have parked the car somewhere else."
• -Page 1800
• "So if you see a beautiful poem, don’t try to see the poet who has written it because you will not meet the same person. You will be disappointed because you will meet a very ordinary man. He had a glimpse. For certain moments reality was revealed to him and he came down to the heart. But he doesn't know the passage."
• -Page 1805
• "You cannot catch a shadow, but you can catch yourself. And the moment you catch yourself, the shadow is caught."
• -Page 1805
• "Suffering is just a shadow of the ego."
• -Page 1817
• "What will you do if I say, "What is yellow?" You may indicate a yellow flower, you may indicate a yellow sun rising, but you are not saying anything, you are indicating. A simple thing can only be indicated; a complex thing can be defined, divided, analyzed. Buddhas are silent, not because they have encountered a very complex reality,"
• -Page 1882
• "fever, but, still, please, keep on trying." That's what I say to you. From the periphery"
• -Page 1911
• "But life is not for use. It is non-utilitarian, purposeless, it is a play, a celebration."
• -Page 1959
• "Really, prison is the most secure place."
• -Page 1966
• "Nietzsche says, "Live dangerously." Not that you have to seek danger positively, there is no need to seek danger positively. Don’t create protections. Don't create walls around you. Live naturally, and that will be dangerous, dangerous enough. There is no need to seek any danger."
• -Page 1983
• "Love is not afraid of life, insecurity, because it is so grounded. If you are not grounded and you feel a cyclone coming, you will be afraid. But if you are grounded you will welcome the cyclone, it will become an adventure. If you are rooted, the passing cyclone will become a challenge."
• -Page 1983
• "You will be shaken to the very roots by it; every fibre will become alive. Then when the cyclone has gone you will not think that it was bad, a misfortune. You will say it was fortunate, a blessing, because all the deadness has been taken away by the cyclone. All that was dead has moved with it and all that was alive has become more alive. Look at the trees after the cyclone has gone."
• -Page 1983
• "lovers never take each other for granted."
• -Page 1991
• "Transcendence means going beyond duality."
• -Page 2003
• "it is not a longing for wealth, it is a longing for freedom. Wealth gives you a feeling of freedom."
• -Page 2037
• "So to me, a right education will consist in creating strong egos, to the very extreme, where a great suffering is born out of them, and then — surrender. Only the is surrender possible."
• -Page 2050
• "because Tantra is the basic search for the rhythm which exists between the opposites,"
• -Page 2052
• "a technique which is used in Tibet. They call it heat yoga. The night is cold, snow is falling, and the Tibetan lama will be standing naked under the open sky. The temperature is below zero. You would simply start dying, you would freeze. But the lama is practicing a particular technique. That technique is that he is imagining that his body is a burning fire and he is imagining that he is perspiring — the heat is so much that he is perspiring."
• -Page 2054
• "When you hypnotize a person, he is really falling into deep imagination, and whatsoever you suggest will start happening."
• -Page 2074
• "Communication happens only when one party has become male and the other party has become female,"
• -Page 2074
• "Speaking is a penetration of you and you are receptive to it. Between a speaker and a listener a sex act is happening because the speaker is trying to penetrate you and the listener is receiving. The energy in the listener has become feminine, and if the listener has not become feminine there will be no phenomenon of listening. That is why the listener has to be totally passive."
• -Page 2079
• "Enlightenment means the point from where you take a jump into the non-dual. Before that point is duality. Everything is divided."
• -Page 2093
• "Hindus and Jews have always been against conversion. Not only against conversion — if someone wants to enter into their religion voluntarily, they will resist. They will say, "No, follow your own path." Because a system is a great unconscious phenomenon; it has to be deep in the unconscious, only then can it help."
• -Page 2096
• "Your mind becomes the Tower of Babel — so many tongues and you cannot understand what is happening. You just feel crazy."
• -Page 2095
• "Hence the great appeal of Krishnamurti in the West. He does not have so much appeal in the East because the East is still not as confused as the West, because the East is still not as educated about others. The West is obsessed about knowing about others. They know too much. Now no system is real, they know that everything is a make-believe, and once you know it, it will not work. Krishnamurti appeals to them because he says leave all systems."
• -Page 2111
• "Be in empathy for at least one hour every day."
• -Page 2129
• "working, they have attained something, and they have a subtle ego behind it. They know something so they are not innocent,"
• -Page 2132
• "This looks paradoxical but this is the case. If you can wait for eternity, you will not need to wait at all. But if you cannot wait for even a single moment, you will have to wait for eternity."
• -Page 2161
• "Buddha says, "Don’t meditate. Be in meditation." Because if you meditate, the doer has come in — you will go on thinking that you are meditating. Then meditation has become an act."
• -Page 2166
• "meditation should be something which becomes your style of life, it should not be a fragment. Otherwise you will gain it and lose it. If you are inactive one hour then for twenty-three hours you will be active. The active forces will be more, and they will destroy whatsoever you attain in your inactivity. The active forces will destroy it. And the next day you will again do the same: for twenty-three hours you will accumulate the doer and in one hour you will have to drop it. It will be difficult. So your mind must change its attitude about work and activity. Hence the second technique."
• -Page 2166
• "Work should be considered as play, not as work. Work should be considered as play, just a game. You should not be serious about it; you should be just like children playing."
• -Page 2194
• "The question is irrelevant; the questioner is relevant." You cannot ask for consistency from an enlightened person. Only unenlightened, ignorant persons can be consistent, because they don't have to look. They just follow some ideas."
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