Marriage is dead

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Marriage is dead. It is a fixed entity, it is a commodity, it is like a thing --

it is furniture.

 

 

It is not like a rosebush growing: today it is full of flowers, tomorrow all the

flowers are gone; today it is so green, and tomorrow the leaves start getting

yellow and they start falling. He will see all the seasons, all the moods, all

the conflicts, all the agonies, all the ecstasies, and he will become more

centered, grounded. He will know that life is not a fixed phenomenon. He will

not expect anything because life is not fixed. He will be available to all kinds

of changes. He will be able to change with life, he will never fall out of step.

He will be always in tune with life.

 

And that's what is needed to make humanity more wholesome, more healthy, more

loveful, more blissful. Of course the church will disappear, nations will

disappear, races will disappear, but they need to disappear -- they have already

lived too long. They are living a posthumous kind of existence; they need to be

burnt and buried. We are carrying corpses, and those corpses are stinking. You

can go on sprinkling perfume on them and somehow trying to manage to live with

the corpses in the house. And I know that they did have some purpose in the

past; of course, when your father was alive it was one thing, but now the father

is dead. So cry and weep a little, but get rid of them! And if you are my

sannyasins, then there is no need even to cry and weep -- celebrate a little and

get rid of them! But there is no need to carry the corpse on your shoulders your

whole life. And there is not only one corpse but many corpses; there are so many

dead people in your house that there is no space for the living ones to live.

The living ones are living outside the house and the dead are keeping the whole

place full. We need space!

 

The family is a dead thing, but we somehow go on patching it up.

 

What is a divorce? It is a patching-up. People go on living in misery thinking

that, "Next life I will find another woman -- or another husband -- but this

life nothing can be done. It is better to accept." So people remain somehow

satisfied, whatsoever the situation is, and they call it contentment -- it is

only consolation. And they have rationalized all these ugly things in many ways.

 

 

 

Osho, Philosophia Ultima

 

 

 

 

 

 

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