Spiritualizing everyday Life

 

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Spiritualizing everyday Life

 

So, the detachment comes. Detachment means you are not particularly attached to someone and not attached to others. All begin to have another meaning for you. In the beginning of course, you will not be much fun, but later you become great fun. What happens? Another quality becomes revealed through you, another quality of being; it is a strange religious phenomenon. At first all your friends and relatives oppose you and try to dissuade you, they even hate you actually hate you with grate anger in their heart. Next, they become indifferent; they have given up hope for you. Finally, they begin to be drawn towards you and to be very proud of you, talking about you and saying. ‘You know. I knew him when. “Very proud of you they become, with sincere pride. If you should then give up spiritual life, they would become your bitterest critics. I used to puzzle over this until I found the answer: many things we do not possess but enjoy though others. I may to be able to sing, but if you can sing and I can hear you sing. I enjoy music thereby. So I may not have spirituality, but if you have become spiritual, I enjoy spirituality though you; and if you fail, you deprive me of something most precious, and in my disappointment I become critical of you.

 

A time comes after the period of struggle is over, when a new quality reveals itself in the smile of the mother, and the children dote on her. She talks to them in a new way and there is something in it that goes deep into their hearts. The husband feels it, too. And so do the relatives and friends. True, it is not fun in the old way, but to all it is a source of attraction, and all-find it good to be with her. You might say it is too good to be true. Well, I don’t think it is too good to be true. I think it is good and equally true. You just have to practice this and you will find that people who have a little worth in them will come like bees to a full-blown flower to sip the honey. Afterwards, in fact, this attraction becomes an obstruction for the spiritual man. A wonderful beauty of appearance and of character comes, and it is a source of such tremendous attraction that all kinds of people are drawn to him. Of course, those who are attracted are benefited; but the spiritual person himself cannot find the peace and quiet and solitude necessary for spiritual practice. So for a period he has to run away and live by himself.

 

 

Save the world from war, spread meditativeness

By Osho

 

Only one thing can save the world from the coming war – which will be a total war – this is going to destroy the whole of life on the earth. Trees, birds, animals, man – anything living will simply be gone.

 

There is one way only, and that is to spread to people more meditativeness, more love, more friendliness, and more rejoicing. If we can make the earth sing songs and dance in joy, in gratitude because existence has given so much – otherwise, it would have been impossible even to purchase one sunrise.

 

And a sunrise is a big thing – the whole wealth of the earth would not be able to produce a single rose. And all this is given to man without his asking. You don’t deserve it, you are not worthy of it. It is out of the compassion of existence, the overflowing joy of existence, the continuous creativity of existence that you are so rich. Millions of stars in the night.

 

 

Make people aware of their gratitude towards life, and make people love, sing, dance. If we can spread this at-ease around the world, the third world war will be prevented. We need not bother about it. Joyous people don’t want war; it is only those who are already dead who would like everybody else to be dead.

 

They are really suffering because they are dead. They cannot laugh, they cannot enjoy, they cannot love, they cannot feel. They don’t have any heart, and others have. It is making them so jealous! It will be far better that everything is finished. At least there will be no grounds for their jealousy – they will also be finished in it.

 

So I don’t say that there is any direct way to prevent the third world war. That is what the pacifists of the world say: “Protest. Have protest marches to Washington, to Moscow” – but nobody listens to those protest marches. And I have seen those pacifists shouting and screaming against the war – I could not see any difference between them and the people who are getting ready to fight.

 

The weak, the powerless, scream. The powerful takes his gun, puts his army on alert. The pacifists continually go on protesting. This helps nobody.

 

I am not a pacifist, and I don’t want my people to be pacifists. That is fighting with those who are preparing for war – but you are doing the same on a small scale. No, that won’t help. We want to create our own movement which has nothing to do with the third world war.

 

Do you see my point? If we can make humanity happier, more loving, more silent, more peaceful, we will create a real barrier against the third world war. The leaders cannot go without their people. If the people refuse, the armies refuse, if everybody refuses and says, “I am so happy, I don’t want to die. And I love humanity, so I don’t want to kill. If you can manage on your own, you do it.” A peaceful and happy man does not want to die and does not want to kill. (Abridged from ‘From Bondage to Freedom’, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com)

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

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