Fwd: One doesn't need to move or work to 'Be'

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GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote:

 

Wasting Time?

 

 

The linear concept of non-repetitive life creates anxiety, so when

you go into silence, alone, you become worried. One thing is; time is

wasted. You are not doing anything, you are just sitting. Why are you

wasting your life? And this time cannot be regained, because people

go on teaching: " Time is wealth. " It is absolutely wrong, but we go

on teaching, " Time is wealth, don't waste it. Once wasted it never

comes again. " So if you go into aloneness and sit - you cannot sit

there for three years, you cannot sit there for three months, even

three days are too much – you have wasted three days! And what are

you doing? The problem arises because (especially in the West), being

is not regarded as valuable, doing is valuable. They ask, " what have

you done? " – because time has to be used in doing something. They say

in the West that a vacant mind is the Devil's workshop. And you know

it, in the mind you also know it, so when you are sitting alone you

become afraid. Wasting time, not doing anything, you go on

questioning, yourself, " What are you doing here? Just sitting?

Wasting?! " – as if just being is a waste! You feel you have to do

something to prove that you have utilized your time!

 

In ancient days, (particularly in the East), just to be was enough;

there was no need to prove anything else. No one was going to

ask, " What have you done? " Your being was enough and accepted. If you

were silent, peaceful, blissful, it was okay. That's why in the East

it was never demanded that sannyasins (those who had renounced) work;

in fact it was thought that sannyasins were actually better than

those occupied in work. Being was respected, so no-one was going to

ask, " What you have you done? " Instead everyone asked, " What are

you? " If you were silent, peaceful, loving, and compassionate, if you

had flowered, it was enough. Then it was Society's duty to help and

serve you. No one would say you should work, you should create or be

creative. In the East it was thought that to be oneself was the

highest creativity, and the presence of such a man was valuable.

[Osho - Fragments of a Golden Past (abridged)]

 

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