The new man will not be like me in the sense that he will not be my carbon copy. But in a way, in a very different way, he will be like me. I am independent; he will be independent. I am my own self; he will be his own self. I have never accepted anything just as a belief unless I have experienced it. Then there is no question of belief—I know it. So either I know something or I don't know, there is nothing in between….
I have doubted everything. I have never accepted anything because it is written in the holy scriptures, because the great founders of religions have said it, because great saints verify it. I have insisted my whole life that nothing else can prove it to me except my own experience. And when it comes as your own experience, it brings tremendous rejoicing, great blessings, flowering. Your being finds its home. The wandering is finished, you have arrived.
Now my wandering and your wandering will be different. The point where I started and the point where you will start will be different. I will arrive to my own innermost core; you will arrive to your innermost core. The ultimate experience of blossoming will be the same, but the path will be totally different. Everybody has to search and seek in his own way….
Yes, I am the new man and I am preparing the way for you to become the new man. That's why I go on insisting that you keep yourself intelligent, meditative, silent. Keep yourself alert, aware. Change every stone on the path into a stepping-stone. Don't think, "Now the stone is blocking the way." No stone blocks the way. You just have to know that every stone can be turned into a stepping-stone….
The new man will have communes, but the agreement will be freedom. You can look into my eyes and you can see my silence, my depth. You can feel my presence, my joy, my song. But you are not to repeat anything. I am simply indicating to you that what has happened to me can happen to you. There will be differences, there will be uniquenesses. I may be just a marigold flower and you may be a lotus—so don't imitate me. You may be a rose and I am just a marigold, a very poor flower who has nothing. But whoever named it marigold must have had great insight; it is the poorest flower, but there is great merriness, great joy in it—and it is pure gold, twenty-four carat….
I am the new man. You have to be the new man. I am not ordering you, I am simply saying so loudly so you can hear. And we have to create more opportunities for the new man for more people around the world.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Osho On Changing Moods
By and by, one comes to realise that it is something inside you that goes on changing, and that it has nothing to do with outside circumstances. It is something inside you, a wheel inside you, that goes on moving.
Just watch it – and it is very beautiful, because in being aware of it, something has been attained.Now you understand that you are free from outside excuses, because nothing has happened on the outside and yet your mood has changed within a few minutes from happiness to unhappiness.This means that happiness and unhappiness are your moods and don’t depend on the outside.
This is one of the most basic things to be realised, because then much can be done. So the first thing to do is to realise that moods are not dependent on outside circumstances. The second thing to understand is that they depend on your unawareness. So just watch and become aware. If happiness is there, just watch it and don’t become identified with it. When unhappiness is there, again just watch.
It is just like morning and evening. In the morning you watch and enjoy the rising sun. When the sun sets and darkness descends, that too you watch and enjoy.
Don’t use these words ’happiness’ and ’unhappiness’, because they carry judgements. Simply watch without judging – this mood ’A’, and this mood ’B’, mm? do you follow? ’A’ mood has gone,now ’B’ mood is here, and you are simply a watcher. Suddenly you will realise that when you call happiness ’A’, it is not so happy, and when you call unhappiness ’B’, it is not so unhappy. Just by calling the moods A and B, a distance is created.
When you say ’happiness’, much is implied in the word. You are saying you want to cling to it, that you don’t want it to go. When you say ’unhappy’, you are not just using a word; much is implied in it. You are saying that you don’t want it, that it should not be there. All these things are said unconsciously.
So use these terms for the moods for seven days, and then tell me. Just be a watcher – as if you
are sitting on top of the hill, and in the valley clouds and sunrises and sunsets come... sometimes it is day and sometimes night, mm? Just be a watcher on the hill far away.
Just watch it – and it is very beautiful, because in being aware of it, something has been attained.Now you understand that you are free from outside excuses, because nothing has happened on the outside and yet your mood has changed within a few minutes from happiness to unhappiness.This means that happiness and unhappiness are your moods and don’t depend on the outside.
This is one of the most basic things to be realised, because then much can be done. So the first thing to do is to realise that moods are not dependent on outside circumstances. The second thing to understand is that they depend on your unawareness. So just watch and become aware. If happiness is there, just watch it and don’t become identified with it. When unhappiness is there, again just watch.
It is just like morning and evening. In the morning you watch and enjoy the rising sun. When the sun sets and darkness descends, that too you watch and enjoy.
Don’t use these words ’happiness’ and ’unhappiness’, because they carry judgements. Simply watch without judging – this mood ’A’, and this mood ’B’, mm? do you follow? ’A’ mood has gone,now ’B’ mood is here, and you are simply a watcher. Suddenly you will realise that when you call happiness ’A’, it is not so happy, and when you call unhappiness ’B’, it is not so unhappy. Just by calling the moods A and B, a distance is created.
When you say ’happiness’, much is implied in the word. You are saying you want to cling to it, that you don’t want it to go. When you say ’unhappy’, you are not just using a word; much is implied in it. You are saying that you don’t want it, that it should not be there. All these things are said unconsciously.
So use these terms for the moods for seven days, and then tell me. Just be a watcher – as if you
are sitting on top of the hill, and in the valley clouds and sunrises and sunsets come... sometimes it is day and sometimes night, mm? Just be a watcher on the hill far away.
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