It means a great master
does not create a following;
He does not make a path
for everybody to follow.
He flies in the sky,
he gives you a longing for flying,
and disappears into
the blueness of the sky ...

OSHO

Osho talks on therapy for love and meditation

Relationship

No woman is made for you and no man is made for any woman.
By the right woman or the right man i mean.
That if you have understood a few relationships,
if you have been in a few relationships, you will understand
what things create miserable situations amongst you
and what situations create a loving, peaceful, happy life.
Living with different people is an absolutely necessary education.
For a right life as far as love is concerned.

You should first graduate from a few relationships.
In your college, in your university
you should pass through a few realtionships.
And you should not be in a hurry to decide – there is no need,
the world is big, and each individual has some unique quality and beauty.

As you go through a few relationships
you start becoming aware of what kind of woman,
what kind of man is going to be a friend to you –
Not a master, not a slave.
And friendship needs no marriage because friendship is far higher.

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Love

Love is the only religion, the only God,
the only mystery that has to be lived, understood.

When love is understood,
you have understood all the mystics of the world.
It is not anything difficult.
It is simple as your heartbeat or your breathing.
It comes with you, it is not given to you by the society.
And this is the point that i want to emphasize:
Love comes with your birth –
But of course it is undeveloped
as everything else is undeveloped. The child has to grow.

The society takes advantage of the gap.
Thee child’s love will take time to grow;
Meanwhile the society goes on conditioning the mind of the child
With ideas about love which are false.
By the time you are ready to explore the world of love,
you are filled with somuch rubbish about love
that there is not much hope for you to be able to find
the authentic and discard the false.
....

For a higher life, for a more playful life,
you need to be flexible.
You have to remember that freedom is the highest value
And if love is not giving you freedom
Then it is not love.

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Male, female and beyond

There is no problem.

Everybody has these two sides;
That is the man and the woman syndrom –
Half of you is man, and the other half is woman.
And it has to be that way because on half has come from your father
And the othe half has come from your mother.
So you are the contribution of two different kind of persons,
two different psychologies.

Naturally they create two sides in you;
The vulnerable, loving, trusting – that is your woman.
And the strong, competitive, efficient – that is your man.
And naturally when you go out of your home,
you have to change your personalty.
You have to hide your vulnerable part,
and you have to put on a harder, steel mask.
You are going into a world of competition.

It becomes a problem when you start thinking
That this dialectics should not be in you;
That is the timewhen it becomes a problem.
If you understand that this dialecticcs is very necessary
....

They are complementaries.
They are both needed, just like day and night, life and death –
The are both needed.

So one need not be worried that there are two sides.
They are your two doors,
and you have to start withnessing yourself as the third.
You are not this, you are not that –
Because you can change them, they are clothes.
You put on the clothes of a woman,
you put on the clothes of a warrior – they are clothes.
Certainly they are not you.
Those two parts in you are really two parts of your mind,
two hemispheres of you mind,
and they are as absolutly necessary as two wings or two hands.

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Meditation techniques

Mind is the block.
And once the mind is no more,
you start seeing things that were always there in front of you
but your eyes were covered with sick layers of thought.
You were not able to see.

You are asking how one can live in this miraculous,
in this unknowable, continuously.

The moment you ask how, you are asking for a technique,
and no technique is possible – all techniques are efforts.
So any technique will do, just do it so whole-heartedly,
that you come to a point where you drop it –
because the real thing is to drop it.

There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation.

But the real thing is not the meditation,
the real thing is that after all those one hundred and twelve methods
the same thing happens.
You have done it exhaustively.
You have staked everything and now –
Seeing that you don’t have any more energy, any more desire –
You relax.
All efforts are dropped, all techniques forgotten.

In this innocence, the miraculous is yours.

Your are part of it, you have been always part of it.
The unkowable is not something separate from you,
it is your heartbeat. Your heartbeat
has a sychronitcity with the heartbeat
Of the whole universe.

But let me remind you again:
First you have to do everything that is possible for you –
Not holding anything back, not thinking
That anyway finally you are going to drop it
So why put so much energy into it?
No, you have to be madly in it,
as if effort is going to give you the truth.
Only then one day – tired, exhausted, finished with effort –
You relax.

You don’t know ... that depth of relaxation
will depend on the depth on the depth of your effort.
If the effort was a hundred percent total,
then the relaxation will be a hundred percent total;
And with the total relaxation you have moved into the miraculous,
into the unknowable.

Then it is your world.

Then you breathe in it, you live in it.

This is what we have called the ultimate realization – enlightenment.

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