Guest guest Posted August 25, 2003 Report Share Posted August 25, 2003 - Friends of Osho osho_flowering Monday, August 25, 2003 5:09 AM A rebellious person is one who says: "I'm not going to wait, I'm going to live right now."The revolutionary hopes for the future. He says: "I am going to wait. I will wait for the right moment." The rebellious person says: "The right moment is here-now, and I'm not going to wait for anybody, I'm going to live right now." A rebellious person lives in the present.And one thing more to be understood: a rebellious person is not against anybody. He may appear against because he is trying to live his own life, but he is not really against anybody. He may not go to the mosque but he is not against Mohammedans. He may not go to the temple but he is not against Hindus. He simply says: "I am not concerned; it is irrelevant." He simply says: "Please leave me alone. You do your thing and let me do my thing. Don't interfere with me and I will not interfere with you."The vision of the rebellious mind is very realistic. Life is short. Nobody knows whether tomorrow will come or not. The future is not certain, and this is the only moment one can live. Why waste it in fighting with others? Why waste it in trying to convince others? Enjoy it, delight in it. A Baul is a hedonist; he is epicurean. He starts living: he loves, he lives, he delights.When a Baul dies, he is not afraid of death -- he is ready. He has lived his life. He is ripe. The fruit is ripe and ready to fall to the ground, with no hesitation.You will be afraid. You are already afraid of death because you have not been able to live. You have not lived yet and death has come or is coming. You have not yet had time to live and death has knocked at the door. How can you accept death? How can you welcome?A Baul is ready to die any moment because he has not wasted a single moment of life. He has lived it as deeply as it was possible to live. He has no complaint, he has no grudge against life, and he has nothing to wait for. So if death comes, he is ready to live death also. He embraces death. He says: "Come in." He becomes a host to death also.If you live rightly, you will be ready to die peacefully, blissfully. If you are not living rightly, if you are postponing, if you are simply putting aside your life and doing other things rather than enjoying life, doing a thousand and one things rather than delighting in life, then of course, naturally, you will be afraid of death. And when death comes, you will be a coward in front of death.A Baul dies dancing, a Baul dies singing, a Baul dies playing his aektara and his duggi. He knows how to live and how to die. And he is not worried about God; he is only worried about the adhar manush, the essential man that resides in him. His whole search is to find this essential man that he is. "Who am I?" is his essential search. And he is very respectful about other human beings because they all belong to that essential nature. All other forms are of that formless essential nature; all the waves belong to the ocean. He is very respectful, tremendously respectful. A Baul never condemns anything.To me, that is the very criterion of a religious man: he has no condemnatory attitude.He accepts everything, his world includes everything. It does not exclude anything. Sex is accepted, samadhi also. His world is very rich because nothing is excluded from it. He says: "Everything comes from that essential core of your being, so why deny it? And if you deny it, how will you be able to reach to the source?" Wherever you deny something, you cling there, you stop there. Then the journey cannot move to the very core.Life, as it is, is totally accepted. That does not mean that a Baul is a man of mere indulgence, no. He knows the alchemy of how to transform the baser into the higher. He knows how to transform iron into gold. He knows how to transform sex into samadhi; he knows the secret. And what is the secret of transforming life into eternal life, time into eternity? The secret is love. Between sex and samadhi, the bridge is love. Love is participated in by both: on the one hand sex, on the other hand samadhi. It is the bridge. One bank is sex, the other bank is samadhi. Love includes both, comprehends both. Through love, the Bauls say, one reaches to the eternal home. So that is the only provision for the path: love. Love is their worship, love is their prayer, love is their meditation. The path of the Baul is the path of love. He loves tremendously.There are two traditions in India: one is the tradition of the Vedas, the other is the tradition of the Tantras. Vedas are more formal, more of the nature of rituals. Vedas are more social, organizational. Tantras are more individual -- less concerned with rituals, forms, habits, more concerned with the essential; less concerned with the forms, more concerned with the soul.Vedas are not all-inclusive. Much is excluded; it is more puritan, more moralistic. Tantras are non-puritan, all-inclusive, more human, more earthly. Tantras say that everything has to be used and nothing is to be denied.Bauls belong more to the Tantras than to the Vedas. There is only one improvement on Tantras; that is the only difference. Tantra is all-inclusive, more feminine than male. The Vedas are more male-oriented, the Tantras are more feminine. Of course, woman is more inclusive than man. Man is included in woman, but woman is not included in man. Man seems to be a sort of specialization. Woman seems to be more general, more fluid, more round.Osho: The Beloved, Volume 1 For more information: http://oshoflowering.onlyhere.net Question to Osho: http://oshofriends.tkPost message: osho_flowering Subscribe: osho_flowering- ********************************Words must be used like stepping stones: lightly and with nimbleness,because if you step on them too heavily, you incur the danger of fallinginto the intellectual mire of logic and reason. -Balsekar******************************** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2003 Report Share Posted August 25, 2003 Whether you . . . .. . . dance as a Baul .. . . stare at the wall .. . . shop at the mall .. . . or just sit back in awe of it all May you live forever in the Peace of the moment. Love, David , "shantiprod" <philippeplantey@f...> wrote: > - Friends of Osho > osho_flowering > Monday, August 25, 2003 5:09 AM > > > > > > A rebellious person is one who says: "I'm not going to wait, I'm going to live right now." > > The revolutionary hopes for the future. He says: "I am going to wait. I will wait for the right moment." The rebellious person says: "The right moment is here-now, and I'm not going to wait for anybody, I'm going to live right now." A rebellious person lives in the present. > > And one thing more to be understood: a rebellious person is not against anybody. He may appear against because he is trying to live his own life, but he is not really against anybody. He may not go to the mosque but he is not against Mohammedans. He may not go to the temple but he is not against Hindus. He simply says: "I am not concerned; it is irrelevant." He simply says: "Please leave me alone. You do your thing and let me do my thing. Don't interfere with me and I will not interfere with you." > > The vision of the rebellious mind is very realistic. Life is short. Nobody knows whether tomorrow will come or not. The future is not certain, and this is the only moment one can live. Why waste it in fighting with others? Why waste it in trying to convince others? Enjoy it, delight in it. A Baul is a hedonist; he is epicurean. He starts living: he loves, he lives, he delights. > > When a Baul dies, he is not afraid of death -- he is ready. He has lived his life. He is ripe. The fruit is ripe and ready to fall to the ground, with no hesitation. > > You will be afraid. You are already afraid of death because you have not been able to live. You have not lived yet and death has come or is coming. You have not yet had time to live and death has knocked at the door. How can you accept death? How can you welcome? > > A Baul is ready to die any moment because he has not wasted a single moment of life. He has lived it as deeply as it was possible to live. He has no complaint, he has no grudge against life, and he has nothing to wait for. So if death comes, he is ready to live death also. He embraces death. He says: "Come in." He becomes a host to death also. > > If you live rightly, you will be ready to die peacefully, blissfully. If you are not living rightly, if you are postponing, if you are simply putting aside your life and doing other things rather than enjoying life, doing a thousand and one things rather than delighting in life, then of course, naturally, you will be afraid of death. And when death comes, you will be a coward in front of death. > > A Baul dies dancing, a Baul dies singing, a Baul dies playing his aektara and his duggi. He knows how to live and how to die. And he is not worried about God; he is only worried about the adhar manush, the essential man that resides in him. His whole search is to find this essential man that he is. "Who am I?" is his essential search. And he is very respectful about other human beings because they all belong to that essential nature. All other forms are of that formless essential nature; all the waves belong to the ocean. He is very respectful, tremendously respectful. A Baul never condemns anything. > > To me, that is the very criterion of a religious man: he has no condemnatory attitude. > > He accepts everything, his world includes everything. It does not exclude anything. Sex is accepted, samadhi also. His world is very rich because nothing is excluded from it. He says: "Everything comes from that essential core of your being, so why deny it? And if you deny it, how will you be able to reach to the source?" Wherever you deny something, you cling there, you stop there. Then the journey cannot move to the very core. > > Life, as it is, is totally accepted. That does not mean that a Baul is a man of mere indulgence, no. He knows the alchemy of how to transform the baser into the higher. He knows how to transform iron into gold. He knows how to transform sex into samadhi; he knows the secret. And what is the secret of transforming life into eternal life, time into eternity? The secret is love. Between sex and samadhi, the bridge is love. Love is participated in by both: on the one hand sex, on the other hand samadhi. It is the bridge. One bank is sex, the other bank is samadhi. Love includes both, comprehends both. Through love, the Bauls say, one reaches to the eternal home. > > So that is the only provision for the path: love. Love is their worship, love is their prayer, love is their meditation. The path of the Baul is the path of love. He loves tremendously. > > There are two traditions in India: one is the tradition of the Vedas, the other is the tradition of the Tantras. Vedas are more formal, more of the nature of rituals. Vedas are more social, organizational. Tantras are more individual -- less concerned with rituals, forms, habits, more concerned with the essential; less concerned with the forms, more concerned with the soul. > > Vedas are not all-inclusive. Much is excluded; it is more puritan, more moralistic. Tantras are non-puritan, all-inclusive, more human, more earthly. Tantras say that everything has to be used and nothing is to be denied. > > Bauls belong more to the Tantras than to the Vedas. There is only one improvement on Tantras; that is the only difference. Tantra is all-inclusive, more feminine than male. The Vedas are more male- oriented, the Tantras are more feminine. Of course, woman is more inclusive than man. Man is included in woman, but woman is not included in man. Man seems to be a sort of specialization. Woman seems to be more general, more fluid, more round. > > Osho: The Beloved, Volume 1 > > > > > > For more information: http://oshoflowering.onlyhere.net > Question to Osho: http://oshofriends.tk > Post message: osho_flowering > Subscribe: osho_flowering- > > > > > ******************************** > Words must be used like stepping stones: lightly and with nimbleness, > because if you step on them too heavily, you incur the danger of falling > into the intellectual mire of logic and reason. -Balsekar > ******************************** > - ------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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