MEDITATION
THE SECRET OF SECRET VOL1
The New Man
MEDITATION
THE SECRET OF SECRET VOL1
The New Man
The first question:
Question 1
OSHO, WHAT ACCORDING TO YOU IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THING THAT IS HAPPENING
TODAY IN THE WORLD?
A new man is emerging. The image of the new man is not yet clear, but the
horizon is becoming red and the sun will soon be there. The morning mist is
there and the image of the new man is vague, but still a few things are very
crystal clear about the new man.
And
this is of tremendous importance because since the monkey became man, man
has remained the same. A great revolution is on the way. It will be far more
deep-going than the revolution that happened when monkeys started walking on
the earth and became human beings. That change created mind, that change
brought psychology in. Now another far more significant change is going to
happen that will bring the soul in, and man will not only be a psychological
being but a spiritual being too.
You are living in one of the most alive times ever.
The new man has already arrived in fragments, but only in fragments. And
the new man has been arriving for centuries, but only here and there. That's
how things happen. When the spring comes it starts with one flower. But when
the one flower is there, then one can be certain: that spring is not faraway
-- it has come. The first flower has heralded its coming: Zarathustra,
Krishna, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Jesus -- these were the first flowers. Now the new
man is going to be born on a greater scale.
According to me, this new consciousness is the most important thing that is
happening today. I would like to tell you something about this new
consciousness, its orientations, and its characteristics, because you are to
help it come out of the womb -- because you HAVE TO BE IT. The new man
cannot come from nowhere, he has to come through you. The new man can only
be born through your womb. You have to become the womb.
Sannyas is an experiment to clean the ground so that new seeds can fall in.
If you understand the meaning of the new man, you will be able to understand
the significance of sannyas too. And it is because sannyas is concerned with
the new man that the old orthodoxies of all kinds are going to be against me
and against sannyas, because this will be their end. If sannyas succeeds, if
the new man succeeds, the old will have to go. The old can live only if the
new man is prevented from coming.
It cannot be prevented now, because it is not only a question of the new
man's coming into existence, it is a question of the survival of the whole
earth, of consciousness itself, of life itself. It is a question of life and
death. The old man has come to utter destructiveness. The old man has
reached the end of his tether. Now there is no life possible with the old
concept of man but only death. The old man is preparing for a global
suicide. The old man is piling up atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, in order to
commit a collective suicide. This is a very unconscious desire. Rather than
allowing the new man to be, the old man would like to destroy the whole
thing.
You have to understand, you have to protect the new, because the new
carries the whole future with it. And man has come to a stage where a great
quantum leap is possible.
The old man was other-worldly, the old man was against this world. The old
man was always looking to the heavens. The old man was more concerned with
life after death than life before death. The new man's concern will be life
before death. The new man's concern will be THIS life, because if this life
is taken care of, the other will follow of its own accord. One need not
worry about it, one need not think about it.
The old man was too concerned with God. That concern was out of fear. The
new man will not be concerned with God, but will live and love this world,
and out of that love he will experience the existence of God. The old man
was speculative, the new man is going to be existential.
The old man can be defined in the Upanishadic statement: NETI-NETI, not
this, not this. The old man was negative -- life-negative, life-denying. The
new man will be life-affirming: ITI-ITI, this and this. The old man's
concern was THAT, the new man's concern will be this, because out of this
that is born, and if you become too concerned with that, you miss both.
Tomorrow is in the womb of today. Take care of today and you have taken
care of tomorrow. There is no need to be in any way worried about tomorrow.
If you become too worried about tomorrow you have missed today. And tomorrow
will come as today -- it always comes as today. If you have learned this
suicidal habit of missing today, you will miss tomorrow also. You will go on
missing. The old man was continuously missing, was miserable, sad. And
because he was sad he was against the world, he blamed the world, he blamed
SAMSARA. He said, 'It is because of the world that I am in misery.' It is
not so. The world is immensely beautiful, it is all beauty, bliss and
benediction. There is nothing wrong with the world. Something was wrong with
the old mind. The old mind was either past-oriented or future-oriented,
which are not really different orientations.
The old mind was concerned with that which is not. The new man will be
utterly in tune with that which is, because it is God, it is reality:
iti-iti, this is it. This moment has to be lived in its totality. This
moment has to be lived in its spontaneity, with no A PRIORI ideas. The old
man was carrying ready-made answers. He was stuffed with philosophy,
religion and all kinds of nonsense.
The new man is going to live life without any A PRIORI conclusion about it.
Without any conclusion one has to face existence, and then one knows what it
is. If you have already concluded, your conclusion will become a barrier. It
will not allow you inquiry -- your conclusion will become a blindfold. It
will not allow you to see the truth -- your investment will be in the
conclusion. You will distort reality to fit your conclusion. That's what has
been done up to now.
The new man will not be Hindu, will not be Mohammedan, will not be
Christian, will not be communist. The new man will not know all these
'isms'. The new man will simply be an opening, a window to reality. He will
allow reality as it is. He will not project his own mind upon it. He will
not use reality as a screen. His eyes will be available; they will not be
full of ideas.
The new man will not live out of belief, he will simply live. And remember,
only those who can simply live, without belief, come to know what truth is.
The believer or the disbeliever never come to know what truth is. Their
beliefs are too heavy on their minds. They are surrounded too much by their
belief systems. The new man will not know any belief system. He will watch,
he will observe, he will see, he will live, and he will allow all kinds of
experiences. He will be available, he will be multi dimensional. He will not
carry scriptures in his head, he will carry only alertness awareness. He
will be meditative.
The old man lived out of fear -- even his God was nothing but a creation
out of fear. His temples, mosques, GURUDWARAS, churches -- they were all out
of fear. He was trembling, he was afraid. The new man will live out of love,
not out of fear, because fear serves death, love serves life. And if you
live out of fear you will never know what life is, you will only know death
again and again. And remember, the person who lives out of fear creates all
kinds of situations in which he has to feel more and more fear. Yom fear
creates situations, just as your love creates situations.
If you love, you will find so many occasions to be loving. If you are
afraid, you will find so many occasions to be afraid.
Love is going to be the taste of the new consciousness. Because fear was
the taste of the old consciousness it created wars. In three thousand years
man has fought five thousand wars -- as if we have not been doing anything
else -- continuous fighting somewhere or other. This is a very mad state of
affairs. Humanity's past is insane.
The new man will become discontinuous with this insane past. He will
believe in love, not in war. He will believe in life, not in death. He will
be creative, not destructive. His science, his art -- all will serve
creativity. He will not create bombs. He will not be political, because
politics is out of hatred. Politics is rooted in fear, hate,
destructiveness. The new man will not be political. The new man will not be
national, the new man will be global. He will not have any political
ambition, because it is stupid to have political ambition. The new man is
going to be very intelligent. The first signs of that intelligence are
rising on the horizon. Those who have eyes -- they can see it. The children
are rebelling.
It is a great moment of rejoicing that all over the world young people are
rebelling against all kinds of orthodoxies -- whether the orthodoxy is that
of church or state doesn't matter. They are not ready to obey -- not that
they have determined to disobey, they are not determined to disobey either.
They will meditate, and if they feel like obeying they will obey. If they
feel like disobeying, they will disobey. They have no fixed ideology. 'My
country right or wrong' -- such stupid statements they cannot make.
Sometimes it is wrong, sometimes it is right. When it is right, the new man
will support it. When it is wrong... Whether it is one's own country or not
will not matter. It may be one's own family, one's own father, mother, but
if it is wrong, it is wrong.
The new man will live not out of prejudices but out of spontaneous
responsibility. The old man was a slave, the new man will be free, the new
man will have freedom at the very core of his being.
The old man was very serious, the old man was a 'workoholic'. The new man
will be playful -- HOMO LUDENS. He will believe in enjoying life. He will
drop words like 'duty', 'sacrifice'. He will not sacrifice for anything. He
will not be a victim to any altar -- that of the state or of the religion,
of the priest or of the politician. He will not allow anybody to exploit his
life -- 'Go and die because your country is at war.'
His commitment is towards life, his commitment is not towards anything
else. He wants to live in joy, he wants to rejoice in all the gifts of God,
he wants to celebrate. Alleluia will be his only mantra.
Jesus says, 'Rejoice, rejoice. I say unto you rejoice.'
Man has not rejoiced yet. Man has lived under a great burden of
seriousness: Work for the country. Work for the family. Work for the wife.
Work for the children. Work for your father and mother. Just go on working
and working and then one day die and disappear into the grave. And then
others will work. And it goes on and on. Nobody seems to have any time to
enjoy life.
And I am not saying that the new man will not work. He will work, but that
will not be his addiction. He will not be a 'workoholic', it will not be a
drug, he will work because he needs a few things, but he will not
continuously work for more and more. He will not be accumulative. He will
not believe in having a big bank balance, and he will not believe in having
a very high post; rather, he will want to sing a song, to play on the flute,
on the guitar, to dance. He will not want to become famous, he will want to
live, authentically live. He will be ready to be a nobody.
And that is already happening. The first rays are already available. It is
still hidden in the morning mist, but if you search you will find it. The
new children, the new generation, are a totally different kind of
generation, hence the generation gap. It is very real. It has never been so
-- never before has there been any generation gap. This is the first time in
the whole of human history that there is a gap. The children are speaking a
different language from their parents. The parents cannot understand because
the parents want them to succeed. And the children say, 'But what is the
point of success if you cannot sing a song, and you cannot dance, and you
cannot enjoy, and you cannot love? What is the point of being successful?
Why? What is going to happen through success? Even if the whole world knows
my name, what is that going to give me?'
The old generation believes in money. And you will be surprised that the
belief in money is so deep that even those who renounce money -- they also
believe in money; otherwise there is no need to renounce it. And those who
praise renunciation -- they also believe in money. The more money you
renounce, the greater you are. So the measurement is of money. Money remains
the criterion. In the world if you have more money you are great. And even
in the world of the monks: 'How much have you renounced?' If you have
renounced more money, then you are more important. Money remains important
even there.
The new generation is not going to be money-manic. And remember, I am not
saying it is going to be against money, it WILL USE money. In the past money
has used man, in the past man has lived in such an unconscious way that he
thought he possessed things, but things possessed him. The new man will be
able to use things. The new man will use money, will use technology, but the
new man will remain the master. He is not going to become a victim, an
instrument. This, according to me, is the greatest thing that is happening.
A few characteristics. The new consciousness is going to be Counter to all
orthodoxies. Any kind of orthodoxy, Catholic or communist, Hindu or Jaina --
any kind of orthodoxy -- is a kind of paralysis of the mind. It paralyzes.
You stop living. It becomes a rigidity around you. You become a fanatic, you
become stubborn. You become rock-like. You don't behave like a liquid human
being, you start behaving like a mule. That's why for Morarji Desai I have
another name: Mulish-jibhai Desai. One starts behaving in a mulish way,
stubborn, dead set, no possibility of changing, no flexibility, no fluidity.
But in the past that has been praised very much: people call it consistency,
certainty. It is not. It is neither consistency nor certainty; it is simply
deadness.
An alive person has to remain flowing. He has to respond to the changing
situations. And situations are continuously changing. How can you remain
fixed in your attitudes when life itself is not fixed? When life is a river
how can you remain stubborn? And if you remain stubborn you lose contact
with life -- you are already in your grave.
The new consciousness will be non-orthodox, non-fanatic; it will be fluid.
It will not react, it will respond. And the difference between these two
words is great.
Reaction is always rigid. You have a fixed idea, you react out of it.
Before the question is raised, the answer is ready. Response is totally
different. You listen to the question, you absorb the question, you see the
situation, you feel the situation, you live the situation, and out of that
very living your response arises. A responsible man cannot be stubborn,
cannot be certain, cannot be rigid. He will have to live moment to moment.
He cannot decide beforehand, he will have to decide every day, each moment.
And because he has to move continuously with life and its changing
challenges, he cannot be consistent in the old sense. His consistency will
be only one: that he will always be in tune with life. That will be his
consistency -- not that he has a certain idea and he remains consistent with
that idea and goes on sacrificing life for it.
There was a case against Mulla Nasrudin in the court and the magistrate
asked him, 'Mulla, how old are you?'
He said, 'Forty.'
The magistrate said, 'But this is strange. You surprise me, because five
years ago you were in court, and that time also you said forty.'
Mulla said, 'Yes, I am a consistent man. Once I have said something, you
can believe me. I will never say anything else.'
This is one type of consistency.
The new man will find it ridiculous. But the old man has been consistent in
this way: in his character, in his statements, in his hypocrisy. The old man
used to decide once and for all. Psychologists say that almost fifty percent
of your life is decided by the time you are seven years old -- fifty
percent! -- and then you remain consistent with it. And life goes on
changing -- no wonder that you are left behind, that you start dragging,
that you lose joy, that you lose the quality of dance. How can you dance?
you are so far behind life. You are dead wood, you don't grow. An alive tree
grows, changes; as the season changes, the tree changes. An alive person
grows, and to the very moment of death he continuously goes on growing. He
never knows any end to his growth.
Psychologists say the average mental age of man is thirteen. This is the
situation. This is how the old man has lived up to now. A thirteen-year
mental age means: at the age of thirteen people have stopped growing. Yes,
they go on growing old, but they don't grow up. Growing old is one thing,
growing up is totally different. Growing old is a physiological phenomenon;
growing up means maturity, wisdom. And only those who go on flowing with
life grow up.
The new man will not be obedient to stupid ideas that have been given from
the past. And they may not have been stupid when they were born, they may
have been relevant in those circumstances; but as circumstances change,
things become stupid. If you carry them, if you go on persisting in your old
fixed routines, you start behaving in an absurd way.
Now, look. Some religion is five thousand years old. That means five
thousand years ago its rituals were born and since then they have remained
fixed. How dangerous it is! How crippling! How can man be alive if these
five-thousand-year-old rituals surround his soul?
The new man will be creative. Each moment he will find his religion, each
moment he will find his philosophy. And everything will remain growing. He
will not be obedient to the past, he cannot be -- to be obedient to the past
is to be obedient to death, because the past is dead; he will be obedient to
the present. And in being obedient to the present, he will be rebellious
against the past.
To be rebellious is going to be one of his most prominent characteristics.
And because he will be rebellious he will not fit in with a dead society, he
will not fit in with a dead church, he will not fit in with a dead army. He
will not fit anywhere where obedience is a basic requirement.
The new man is bound to create a new society around himself.
First consciousness becomes new, then society becomes new. There is going
to be a long period in which the old will resist the new, will fight with
the new, will try to destroy the new. But the old cannot succeed -- time,
the spirit of time, will not be in its favour. The old has to die. Just as
the old body dies and makes space for some new child, so old societies, old
orthodoxies, have to die. They have already lived overtime. They have lived
too long!
The new consciousness will not be moralistic, will not be puritan; not that
it will not have any morality, but it will have a different kind of morality
-- a morality that arises out of one's own feeling for life, one's
sensitivity, one's own experiences -- not a morality learned from others,
borrowed. The new man will not be a man of character in the old sense,
because all character is binding. It creates an armour around you. The new
man will be characterless in the sense that he will not have any armour. The
new man will be characterless in the sense that he will not have a prison
cell around him. Not that he will not have character, but he will give a new
definition to character. He will not be a hypocrite.
The old puritanism, the old moralistic attitudes have created hypocrisy in
the world; they have made man schizophrenic: on the surface one thing, deep
within something else -- almost the opposite. The old man lived a double
life. The new man is going to live in a unitary way. He will live a single
life. Whatsoever is inside him will also be his outside. He will be
authentic. Remember this word 'authenticity' -- that is going to be the new
man's religion. That is going to be the new man's truth, his temple, his God
-- authenticity. And with authenticity neurosis disappears. The old man was
neurotic because he was constantly in conflict: he wanted to do one thing
and he was always doing something else, because something else was required.
He was taught to do something against himself; he was repressive. His own
authenticity was repressed, and on top of it a bogus character was imposed.
We have praised these phony people too long. Now the time has come -- their
phoniness should be exposed. We have praised these mahatmas and saints so
long, now we have to see their neurosis. They were all psychologically ill,
they were pathological. A healthy person is a whole person. His inside and
his outside are the same. If he loves, he loves passionately. If he is
angry, he is angry passionately. His anger has truth in it as much as his
love has truth in it. The old man boils within and smiles on the outside. He
lives without passion, without energy. He lives without any flame. His whole
life is an exercise in phoniness and, naturally, he suffers. A long futile
story is all that his life is '... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound
and fury, signifying nothing.'
The new man will not be a tale told by an idiot, but will be a poem sung
out of wholeness, will be a dance of immense joy for God's gift of life and
being, for the flowers and the trees and the birds, and the sun and the sand
and the sea.
The new man will not look somewhere faraway for God, he will look here,
close-by. Now will be his only time, here will be his only space.
The new man will be earthly. And by 'earthly' I don't mean materialistic.
The new man will be a realist. He will love this earth. Because we have not
loved this earth and our so-called religions have been teaching us to hate
this earth, we have destroyed it. It is a beautiful planet, one of the most
beautiful, because one of the most alive. This planet has to be loved, this
planet has to be rejoiced in. It is a gift. This body has so many mysteries
in it that even a Buddha is possible only because of this body. This body
becomes the temple of the greatest possibility: Buddhahood, nirvana. This
body has to be loved. This earth has to be loved.
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The new man will find his religion in nature -- not in dead stone statues,
but in living dancing trees in the wind. He will find his religion surfing
on the sea, climbing on the virgin mountain. He will find his prayer with
the snow, with the moon, with the stars. He will be in dialogue with
existence as it is. He will not live with abstract ideas, he will live with
realities. His commitment will be to nature, and through that commitment he
will come to know super-nature. God is hidden here in this earth, in this
very body. This very body, the Buddha. This very earth, the paradise.
The new man will read the scripture of nature. This will be his Veda, his
Koran, his Bible. Here he will find sermons in the stones. He will try to
decipher the mysteries of life, he will not try to demystify life. He will
try to love those mysteries, to enter in those mysteries. He will be a poet,
he will not be a philosopher. He will be an artist, he will not be a
theologian. His science will also have a different tone. His science will be
that of Tao, not an effort to conquer nature, because that effort is just
foolish. How can you conquer nature? -- you are part of nature. His science
will be of understanding nature, not of conquering nature. He will not rape
nature, he will love and persuade nature to reveal its secrets.
The new man will not be ambitious, will not be political.
Politics has no future; politics has existed because of the neurosis of
humankind. Once the neurosis disappears, politics will disappear.
Ambition simply means you are missing something and you are consoling
yourself that you will get it in the future. Ambition is a consolation.
Today it is all misery, tomorrow there will be joy. Looking at tomorrow you
become capable of tolerating today and its misery: today is always hell,
tomorrow is heaven. You keep on looking at heaven, you keep on hoping.
But that hope is not going to be fulfilled ever because tomorrow never
comes. Ambition means you are incapable of transforming your today into a
beatitude; you are impotent. Only impotent people are ambitious: they seek
money, they seek power. Only impotent people seek power and money. The
potential person lives. If money comes his way, he lives the money too, but
he does not seek it, he is not after it. He is not afraid of it either.
The old man was either after money or afraid of money, either after power
or afraid of power; but in both ways his whole focus was on power and money.
He was ambitious. The old man is pitiable. He was ambitious because he was
unable to live, unable to love. The new man will be able to live and able to
love. And his herenow is going to be so beautiful, why should he be worried
about tomorrow? His concern will not be with having more, his concern will
be with BEING more -- another very important distinction to be remembered.
His concern will be with being more, not having more. Having more is just a
substitute for being more. You have more money, so you think you are more.
You have more power, so you think you are more. Deep down you remain the
same beggar.
Alexander dies as empty-handed as any beggar.
Being more is a totally different dimension. Being more means getting in
touch with your reality, getting in tune with your being, and helping
yourself to fall in harmony with the universe. To be in harmony with the
universe you become more. The more you are in tune with existence, the more
you are. If the harmony is total, you are a god. That's why we call Buddha a
god, Mahavira a god -- utter total harmony with existence, no conflict at
all. They have dissolved themselves into the whole, they have become the
whole -- just as a dewdrop disappears into the ocean and becomes the ocean.
They have died in their egos, now they live as existence itself.
The new man will have no use for sham, facade or pretense, he will be true,
because only through truth is there liberation. All lies create bondages.
Tell a single lie and you will have to tell a thousand and one to defend it
-- you will have to tell lies AD NAT(SEAM. Then there is no end to it. A
single lie sooner or later will spread all over your being. It is like
cancer.
Be truthful and you need not hide, you can be open. Be truthful and you
need not protect yourself against existence, you can be vulnerable. In that
vulnerability existence penetrates you, God reaches your heart.
Tell a lie and you are afraid. You will be afraid of God too, you will be
afraid of facing him. You will be afraid of facing yourself. You will be
continuously escaping from yourself, from others, from God. You will be
constantly hiding behind your pretensions. Hypocrisy will become your life
style, and that's where hell exists. Hypocrisy creates hell. Authenticity is
the only joy -- the ONLY joy, I say. And if you are not authentic you will
never be joyous.
The new consciousness will not put up with double-talk. The new
consciousness will hate this kind of thing with a passion. This hatred for
phoniness is the deepest mark of the new man. The new man will be opposed to
structured, inflexible and infallible systems, because life is a beautiful
flow. It is not structured, it is freedom. It is not a prison, it is a
temple. He will want organizations to be fluid, changing, adapting and
human. Our states are inhuman, our armies are inhuman, our churches are
inhuman. They dehumanize man. They reduce man into a thing because they
don't respect man's freedom. The new man will respect his freedom and
respect others' freedom, too.
The old man is constantly interfering, poking his nose into everybody's
affairs, trying to manipulate, criticizing, condemning, rewarding,
punishing. The old man is continuously concerned with others: 'What are you
doing?'
I was staying in Bombay once. A Parsee woman came to me because just the
day before I had criticized Satya Sai Baba and had called him a phony guru.
She came to see me and she said, 'I have come to tell you a few more
things.' She was thinking that I would be very happy because she had brought
some information against Satya Sai Baba. She said, 'He is a homosexual. And
I know it from reliable sources.'
I said, 'But why should you be concerned? Homosexual or heterosexual --
that is his business. It is his life. Who are you? Why should you be
bothered about it?'
She was very shocked when I said that. She had come feeling that I would be
very grateful to her, because she was giving me such great information.
Why should you be concerned? Can't you leave people to their own life? I
criticize only when the other's life is concerned; otherwise there is no
question of criticism. What Satya Sai Baba is doing with his sexuality is
his business, it is nobody else's business.
But the old woman was constantly poking her nose into everybody's affairs.
It happens here every day. The old kind of people come and they are very
much in agony because some man is holding some woman's hand. Why? -- he is
not holding your hand. And if those two persons have decided to hold hands,
they have absolute freedom to do that. And if they are enjoying, who are you
to interfere? If the man is holding some woman's hand against her will, then
maybe your help is needed; but if they both are willing then you should not
be concerned at all.
But this is the old consciousness. It is always trying to find ways and
means to manipulate others, to be dominant over others.
The new consciousness will leave everyone to his own life. Unless somebody
is harming others, he should not be prevented. Unless somebody is a danger
to others, he should not be prevented. Unless somebody is interfering in
somebody else's freedom, he should not be interfered with.
The old world remained without individuality. It hated individuality, it
liked only sheep, crowds -- people behaving in the same way with everybody
following the same routine and the same structure. The new man will allow
all kinds of possibilities. The new man will love liquid structures. He will
be human, he will respect human beings. His respect will be almost
religious.
The new man will have to find new forms of community, of closeness, of
intimacy, of shared purpose, because the old society is not going to
disappear immediately. It will linger, it will put up all kinds of fight to
the new society -- as it always happens. It has so many vested interests, it
cannot go easily. It will go only when it becomes impossible for it to
remain in existence.
Before it goes the new man will have to create new kinds of communes, new
kinds of families, new communities of closeness, intimacy, shared purpose.
That's why I am trying to create a small commune where you can be totally
yourself -- away from the structured and the rotten world -- and you can be
given absolute freedom. It will be an experiment, because the future is
going to move on those lines. It will be a small experiment but of immense
significance.
The new consciousness will not have anything to do with institutions like
marriage. The new man will have a natural distrust of marriage as an
institution. A man-woman relationship has deep value for him only when it is
a mutually enhancing, growing, flowing relationship. He will have little
regard for marriage as a ceremony or for vows of permanence which prove to
be highly impermanent. He will love the moment and live it in its totality.
Marriage has no future. Love has a future.
In the past love was not a reality, marriage was a reality. In the future
love is going to be the reality and marriage is going to become more and
more unreal. In the past people were married to each other, hence by and by
they started liking and loving. In the future people will love and like each
other, only then will they live together. In the past to live together came
first and, naturally, when you live together, a liking arises, a dependence
arises. It was a need phenomenon. The husband needed the wife, the wife
needed the husband, and then the children needed the parents to be together.
It was, more or less, an economic phenomenon; but it was not out of love.
The future will know a different kind of relationship which is based purely
on love and which will remain in existence only while love remains. And
there will be no hankering for its permanence, because in life nothing is
permanent; only plastic flowers are permanent.
Real roses are born in the morning and are gone by the evening. And that is
their beauty: they are beautiful when they come, and they are beautiful when
their petals start withering away. Their life is beautiful, their birth is
beautiful, their death is beautiful, because there is aliveness. A plastic
flower is never born, never lives, never dies.
Marriage has been a plastic flower in the past. The new consciousness can
have no respect for marriage. It will have to create a new kind of intimacy
-- friendship. And it will have to learn to live with the impermanent
phenomenon of love and of everything.
It needs guts to live with the impermanence of life, because each time
something changes you have to change yourself again. One wants to remain
fixed -- it seems safer, more secure. That's how the old man has lived. The
old man was not adventurous; his whole concern was security. The new man
will have the spirit of adventure; his concern will not be security, his
concern will be ecstasy.
He will not believe, because belief is a search for security, he will
explore. He may not have neat answers to every question, but he will accept
every challenge to inquire, to explore. He will go as far as life can take
him, he will try to reach to the stars; but he will remain open. He will not
start with a belief, with a conclusion, he will start only with a quest, a
question. To start with a belief is not to start at all. To start with a
belief is just playing a game with yourself. You have already believed, how
can you explore? To explore one has to be agnostic. And that is going to be
the religion of the future: agnosticism.
One will be capable and courageous enough to say, 'I don't know, but I am
interested in knowing. And I am ready to go into any dimension, into any
adventure.' The new man will be ready to risk. The old man was very
businesslike, never ready to risk. Risk was anathema; security was his goal.
But with security you start dying. It is only in adventure, continuous
adventure, that life grows to higher and higher plenitudes, that it reaches
to the Himalayan peaks.
The new person will be a spontaneous person, unpredictable, willing to risk
newness, often willing to risk saying or doing the wild, the far-out thing.
He will believe that everything is possible and anything can be tried. He
will not cling to the known, he will always remain available to the unknown,
even to the unknowable. And he will not sacrifice for any future because he
will not be an idealist. He will not sacrifice for any abstract ideas,
ideals, ideologies.
He will have a trust in his own experience and a profound distrust of all
external authority. The new man will trust only his own experience. Unless
he knows something he will not trust it. No external authority can help the
new man. Nobody can say, 'I say so, so you have to believe. Because we have
always believed, so you have to believe. Because our forefathers believed,
so you have to believe. Because it is written in the Vedas and the Bible,
you have to believe.' The new man is not going to have anything to do with
such nonsense, the new man will believe only if HE knows.
This is real trust -- trust in one's own possibilities, one's own
potential. The new man will respect himself. To believe in external
authorities is disrespectful towards one's own being.
And, finally, the new man will like being close to elemental nature: to the
sea, the sun, the snow; flowers, animals, birds; to life, growth, death.
This, according to me, is the most important phenomenon that is happening
today. A new man is coming into existence. The first rays are already on the
horizon. Prepare yourself to receive the new man. Get ready. Become a host
to the guest who is just about to knock on your doors at any moment. And
that's what sannyas is all about: a preparation -- getting ready to receive
the new man.
It is going to be a great adventure to receive the new man. It is going to
be risky, too, because the old will not like it.
Now you can understand why the orthodox mind is against me. I am preparing
their graveyard, and I am preparing for something new. I am preparing a
garden for the new. You are to open your hearts for the new. Uproot all the
weeds of the old, drop all the conditionings that the old has given to you,
so you can receive the new.
And remember, the days of the messiahs are over. Don't wait for Christ's
coming again, and don't wait for Buddha's coming again. Nobody comes again,
at least not Buddha and Christ. Those who come again are the people who live
without learning anything from life. Buddha has learned the lesson; he will
not be coming again. Christ has learned the lesson; he will not be coming
again. Don't wait for any messiah to come; wait for a new consciousness, not
for a messiah to deliver you. That is what the old man used to believe --
somebody will come. Hindus think Krishna will come: 'When things are really
dark and difficult and dismal, Krishna will come and deliver us.' All
nonsense! All holy cowdung!
A new consciousness is going to deliver you, not some person -- Buddha,
Krishna, Christ. They were here and they could not deliver you. No single
person can do it -- it is impossible. Only a new consciousness can deliver
man from his bondage. And the new consciousness can come only through you.
You have to become the womb, you have to accept it, receive it, prepare
yourself for it.
Sannyas is nothing but getting ready for something immensely valuable, so
that when the gift comes you are not fast asleep, so that when the new
consciousness knocks on your door you are ready to embrace it.
The second question:
BELOVED OSHO,
Question 2
OH THAT I COULD HAVE DIED OF THE SHAME THAT YOU'VE BEEN NAUSEATED BY ME...
THANK YOU FOR SUCH A DRASTIC REASON TO GIVE UP NON-VEGETARIAN HABITS. IT
HASN'T ARISEN OUT OF MY OWN AWARENESS YET AND I SUSPECT THIS WAS MY
CONDITIONING. MY CHILDHOOD WAS RULED BY JEWISH DIETARY LAWS AND RITUALS --
THERE WERE SO MANY FOODS FORBIDDEN BY MY FATHER, FORBIDDEN BY HIS FATHERS
FOR THE SO-CALLED CHOSEN PEOPLE.
MAYBE AN EXTERNAL, NON-EXISTENTIAL MORALITY IMPOSED ON MY EARLY YEARS
BLUNTED MY SENSITIVITY?
BUT NOW IT HURTS SO MUCH TO HAVE NAUSEATED YOU. THIS DECISION AND A SMALL
LIGHT FILL ME.
Pradeepa, it is not that you nauseated me, something in you... And, of
course, you are unconscious, that is why I have been so drastic and hard on
you -- so that you can become conscious of it. Just a habit.... And when a
person is born in a non-vegetarian family it is natural to learn the ways of
the family, just as vegetarians learn the ways of a vegetarian family. Both
are unconscious. And I don't give any value to the unconscious vegetarian --
he is not superior to the unconscious non-vegetarian -- because both are
unconscious. Only consciousness has value. If you are consciously vegetarian
then there is some value in it, otherwise there is no value.
In India there are so many vegetarians -- unconscious, just because by
accident they were taught vegetarianism in their childhood. They have
learned it. You have learned, in the same way, non-vegetarian habits. You
are both alike. There is no difference -- not at all -- not even the
difference of an inch. Unconsciousness is unconsciousness. What you do out
of unconsciousness is a robotlike phenomenon.
I had to hit so hard on Pradeepa's head so that she could become a little
more alert. I hit you only because I love you. And remember, the more
meditative you become the more nauseating your non-vegetarian habits will
become. When a new person comes to me, a person who has not meditated, who
has no intimacy with me, no love for me, who is not close to me, his vibe is
not nauseating to me. Why? -- because his whole vibe is the same. But when a
person starts meditating, starts becoming more and more silent -- as is
happening to Pradeepa, her energy is moving in beautiful dimensions -- now a
disparity will be felt.
It is like on white cloth just a small speck of dirt will show; on black
cloth it won't show. When your whole being is unconscious and there is no
silence and all is noise, you can be non-vegetarian. It will not make much
difference, it will not show -- there is no contrast to show it up. You can
be a cannibal and it will not show. But when you start getting clean, some
space inside becomes fresh, young, natural, some part of you becomes clear,
is purified, then the dirt shows. Then even small things will show.
Pradeepa, you should be happy that I could see it so clearly that something
inside you, just out of old habit, was poisoning your whole being. You will
take a great leap. Your growth will be immensely enhanced.
I am here only to facilitate your growth, and I will do everything that I
can do. If a shock is needed, I will shock you. If you need hammering on the
head, I will hammer you. Whatsoever is needed has to be done -- nothing has
to be left undone. All possible methods have to be tried, because your
entanglements with the past are deep; there are many many sources, and they
will have to be cut. Slowly slowly you will arise out of your past
completely free. That shock can become a transformation in you. I hope that
it has already changed you. And I hope that next time you come to me that
vibe will have disappeared.
But you will have to remain conscious. Old habits die hard; they persist.
And remember, you cannot deceive me. Your mind can say, 'If once in a while
you eat non-vegetarian food how is Osho going to know?' It is not so. If you
do something your whole vibe will express it: your guilt will show it, your
shame will show it, your face will show it. You will not be flowing when you
are close to me -- you will be afraid you may be caught again.
And remember, I am not against non-vegetarian foods for any other reasons.
If a man is not meditating, if a man is not trying to grow inwards, if a man
is not in search of God, then it is perfectly okay -- he can eat whatsoever
he wants to eat. The higher you are trying to reach, the more and more you
will have to drop any unnecessary luggage. Only then you can fly. This is
unnecessary luggage.
But remember, it is not that you have nauseated me, it is just an
unconscious habit in you that has nauseated me. And you are not your habit.
The habit can be dropped, and you will come closer to me and you will be
able to receive more of my love. And you don't know how much I have to give
to you; you only know that much which you receive. And you receive only that
much which you CAN receive. Become more and more capable of receiving more
and more. There is no end to it. This place can become your absolute
fulfilment.
The third question:
Question 3
I WANT TO SAY MANY THINGS TO YOU. SHOULD I WRITE THEM OR NOT?
Meditate on this small story.
'Have you heard, O Socrates...'
'Just a moment, friend,' said the sage. 'Have you sifted what you are going
to tell me through the three sieves?'
'The three sieves?'
'Yes, my friend. Let us see whether what you mean to tell me will stand the
test. The first of the sieves is that of truth. Have you made sure that all
you are going to tell me is true?'
'Well, no. I just heard the other say it.'
'I see. Of course, insofar as it is not even true we can scarcely bother
with it -- unless it happens to be something that will stand the test of the
sieve of goodness?'
'Oh no, indeed, on the contrary... Hmm, I'm not sure he said it, and what
he is supposed to have said serves no good.'
'Perhaps it is necessary that I know this in order to prevent harm to
others?'
'Well, no. If you look at it in that way...'
'Very well then,' said Socrates, 'since what you have come to tell me about
the case is neither true nor good nor needful, let us forget all about it.
There are so many worthwhile things in life that we can't afford to bother
with what is so worthless as to be neither good nor true nor needful.'
Meditate on this statement of Socrates and you will know what to write to
me, what not to write to me, what to ask, what not to ask.
There are a few people who go on writing letters every day. It is not a
problem for me -- just Amp is troubled. She has to read hundreds of letters,
sometimes late into the night. Look, she is asleep! She has to sleep
sometime... Late in the night she has to go on reading those letters and
summarize them. Don't torture her!
Unless it is really important -- something valuable, something which will
help you or somebody else -- don't write. If you feel it is of some
importance then certainly you can write. And then, too, make it as short as
possible, make it telegraphic. There is no need to write long long letters.
A few people are very much into writing letters -- ten pages, twelve pages.
Just write a few sentences. Just say exactly what you want to say. And,
before you say anything, ponder over this statement of Socrates -- it will
help you: Let them pass through the three sieves.
The last question:
Question 4
WHY DON'T YOU SAY EXACTLY WHAT YOUR PHILOSOPHY IS?
And what am I doing every day? Morning and evening I am continuously doing
that.
But maybe you have some ideas already fixed in your mind and you would like
my philosophy to fit and adjust to those ideas. And it is not going to fit,
hence you feel puzzled, confused. I am not here really to try and give you a
set doctrine, I am trying to provoke something in you. It is not a question
of giving you an exact statement of what my philosophy is; rather, I am a
challenge to provoke you into thinking, into meditating. Something is Lying
dormant in you and it has to be provoked. I am hammering it. It is not that
I have to give you a philosophy and you have to believe in it -- then the
whole point will be missed.
I am not a philosopher and I am not trying to give you a dogma in which you
have to believe. In fact, I am just doing the opposite. I am destroying all
dogmas and all philosophies -- this is my philosophy. I am trying to create
a vacuum in you because when the vacuum is there the dormant energy in you
will start rising. It needs some space to rise.
But you must be having some ideas. People come to me...
There was one Christian missionary who said, 'It will be very good if you
write a small book, a catechism, just as we Christians have done -- just a
few statements of all that you want to teach.'
I cannot give you a catechism because I have none. I respond to your
potential, to your possibilities. This way and that I provoke you. And I
will go on provoking you until you are awakened. But if you have a
Christian-missionary type of mind, you will be waiting for me to deliver you
a few fixed statements so that you can believe in them for ever and ever. I
cannot do that to you because that is harmful, that is poisonous to you. And
if that mind is there, you will not be able to understand what I am doing
here; it is a totally different kind of work.
A famous film star announced that she was about to get married for the
sixth time.
'Oh,' said Mulla Nasrudin. 'Against whom?'
People have their own understandings. Now Mulla's experience of marriage is
such that he can ask only one thing: 'Against whom?'
I said to Mulla Nasrudin one day, 'I hear your daughter has got married. I
am sure you found it hard to part with her.'
'Hard?' he said. 'It was almost impossible.'
People have their own deep-rooted ideas. They listen from those
conclusions. He was trying to get rid of her, he was trying hard to get rid
of her. He was very worried, so when I said, 'I am sure you found it hard to
part with her,' this was his reaction: 'Hard?' he said. 'It was almost
impossible.'
One day I asked Mulla Nasrudin, 'Hi, Mulla, how is your wife?'
He looked at me and said, 'Compared to what?'
You must be listening with your mind all intact. You will have to put it
aside, then you will see it is not a verbal transmission that I am making
here, it is an energy transmission. I am trying to contact you. Your mind is
in between. I am trying in every way to destroy your mind. I am taking away
all your knowledge, making it look ridiculous, absurd.
First you start feeling confused because you were so certain, and when I go
on hitting hard on your knowledge, you start feeling confused. And then
problems arise. You were thinking that you would become clear and now you
are becoming confused. In the beginning it is going to happen: certainty
destroyed, you become confused. But only when you are confused can you drop
all your knowledge, not before it. When the confusion becomes too much,
maddening, one day you simply drop it. It is no longer possible to carry it
any more.
And then you will understand what I am doing here to you. I am not giving
you any philosophy, I am provoking your understanding. It is not a verbal
doctrine, it is a heart-to-heart communion, a soul-to-soul communion. I am
trying to connect with you, and in that connection a spark from my being
will jump into your being and your inside will be lit. Just a small spark is
needed and there will be great light in you, and that light will give you
eyes to see, ears to hear, heart to feel. That light will make you alive.
That light will bloom in you as a Golden Flower.
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