奧修演講文章

71
Love.
Man becomes a slave because he is afraid to be
alone, so he needs a crowd, a society, an organization.

Fear is the basis of all institutions, and how can
a frightened mind know the truth?
Truth requires fearlessness and fearlessness comes
from sadhana, not from societies, that is why all
religions, institutions and organization, bar the path
of truth.

72
Love.
Don't be in a hurry.
So often, hurrying causes delay.
As you thirst, wait patiently -- the deeper the
waiting the sooner it comes.

You have sown the seed, now sit in the shade and
watch what happens.
The seed will break, it will blossom, but you
cannot speed the process.
Doesn't everything need time?
Work you must, but leave the results to God.
Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps
taken towards truth.

But at times impatience comes,
impatience comes with thirst,
but this is an obstacle.
Keep the thirst and throw the impatience.

Do not confuse impatience with thirst.
With thirst there is yearning but no struggle with
impatience there is struggle but no yearning.
With longing there is waiting but no demanding with
impatience there is demanding but no waiting.
With thirst there are silent tears with impatience
there is restless struggle.
Truth cannot be raided, it is attained through
surrender not through struggle.
It is conquered through total surrender.

73
Love.
Your letter has been received.

Why seek at all for a purpose?
If you seek this you will never find it because it
is eternally hidden in the seeker.

Life is without purpose -- life is its own purpose,
therefore he who lives without purpose truly lives.
Live! Isn't living itself enough?

The desire to have more than just life is a result
of not properly living -- and that is why the fear of
death grips the human mind, for what is death to one
who is really alive!
Where living is intense and total there is no time
to fear death -- and there is no time for death,
either.

Do not think in the language of purpose -- that
language is diseased in itself.
The sky exists without purpose.

God is without purpose
flowers bloom without purpose
and stars shine without purpose --
what has happened to poor man
that he cannot live without purpose!

Because man can think he gets into trouble.
A little thinking always leads to trouble.
If you must think, think completely, utterly!
Then the mind whirls so fast with thoughts that
freedom from thoughts is attained.
Then you begin to live.

74
Love.
Rest is the supreme goal, work is the medium.
Total relaxation, with complete freedom from
effort, is the supreme goal.
Then life is a play, and then even effort becomes
play.

Poetry, philosophy, religion are the fruits of
repose.
This has not been available to everyone
but technology and science will make it so in the
near future.
That is why I am in favour of technology.

Those who attribute intrinsic value to labour
oppose the use of machines -- they have to.
For me, labour has no such intrinsic value: on the
contrary, I see it as a burden.
As long as work is a prerequisite for rest it
cannot be blissful.
When work flows out of a state of rest voluntarily
then it is blissful.
So I cannot call rest a sin.

Nor do I support sacrifice.
I do not want anyone to live for anybody else, or
one generation to sacrifice itself for another.
Such sacrifices turn out to be very costly -- those
who make them expect an inhuman return.
This is why fathers expect the impossible from
their sons.
If each father lives for his son who will live for
himself?
For every son is a potential father.
No, I want everyone to live for himself -- for his
own happiness, his own state of rest.

When a father is happy he does much more for his
son -- and easily, because it comes out of his
happiness.
Then there is neither sacrifice nor renunciation;
what he does comes naturally out of his being a
father --
and a happy father at that.
Then he has no inhuman expectations of his son and
where there is no pressure from expectations,
expectations are fulfilled -- out of the son being a
son.

In short, I teach each person to be selfish.
Altruistic teachings have taught man nothing but
suicide. and a suicidal man is always homicidal; the
unhappy sow their sorrow amongst others.

I am also against the sacrifice of the present for
the future, because what is is always present; if you
live in it totally the future will be born out of it --
and when it comes it too will be the present.
For he who has the habit of sacrificing the present
for the future the future never comes because whatever
comes is again always sacrificed for that which has not
yet come.

Finally, you ask why i too work for others and for
the future.
First of all, I do not work.
Whatever I do flows out of my state of rest.
I do not swim, I just float.
No one can ever do anything for another
but if something happens to others out of what I
am,
that is something else,
and there too I am not the doer.

As for the future --
for me, the present is everything.
And the past too is also a present -- that has
passed away;
and the future too -- that is a present that is yet
to come.
Life is always here and now
so I do not bother about past and future.
And it is amazing that ever since I stopped
worrying about them they have begun to worry about me!

My regards to all there.

75
There is a music which has no sound;
the soul is restless for such silent music.
There is a love in which the body is not;
the soul longs for such unembodied love.
There is a truth which has no form;
the soul longs for this formless truth.

Therefore melodies do not satisfy,
bodies do not satisfy
and forms cannot fulfil the soul.

But this lack of fulfillment,
this dissatisfaction has to be understood properly,
for such understanding ultimately brings about
transcendence.

Then sound becomes the door to the soundless, the
body becomes the path to the unembodied, and form
becomes the formless.

76
Love.
God is our only wealth.
Do not depend on any other wealth,
riches of any other kind bring only disaster.

St. Theresa wanted to set up a large orphanage but
at the time she had only three shillings.
She wanted to start this enormous project with just
this small amount.
Friends and admirers advised her: Get the funds
together first.
What can you do with just three shillings?
Theresa laughed and said: Naturally Theresa can do
nothing with three shillings, but with three shillings
PLUS GOD -- nothing is impossible!

77
Love.
Samsara is nirvana.
sound is mantra,
and all living beings are God.

It depends on how you look.
The world is nothing but how one sees it.
See! Open your eyes and see!
Where is darkness?
-- there is only light.
Where is death?
-- there is only deathlessness.