Aloneness is Our Very Nature
Talk #6 from The Golden Future
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"The question that you have asked is the question of every human being. We are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of..."
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"The question that you have asked is the question of every human being. We are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of..."
Osho continues:
"In this crowd, the basic effort is that you will be able to forget your loneliness.
"But nobody has ever succeeded in forgetting it. That which is natural to you, you can try to ignore – but you cannot forget it; it will assert again and again. And the problem becomes more complex because you have never seen it as it is; you have taken it for granted that you are born lonely.
"The dictionary meaning is the same; that shows the mind of the people who create dictionaries. They don't understand at all the vast difference between loneliness and aloneness. Loneliness is a gap. Something is missing, something is needed to fill it, and nothing can ever fill it because it is a misunderstanding in the first place. As you grow older, the gap also grows bigger. People are so afraid to be by themselves that they do any kind of stupid thing. I have seen people playing cards alone; the other party is not there. They have invented games in which the same person plays cards from both sides.
"Somehow one wants to remain engaged. That engagement may be with people, may be with work. There are workaholics; they are afraid when the weekend comes close – what are they going to do? And if they don't do anything, they are left to themselves, and that is the most painful experience.
"You will be surprised to know that it is on the weekends that most of the accidents in the world happen. People are rushing in their cars to resort places, to sea beaches, to hill stations, bumper to bumper. It may take eight hours, ten hours to reach, and there is nothing for them to do because the whole crowd has come with them. Now their house, their neighborhood, their city is more peaceful than this sea resort. Everybody has come. But some engagement.
"People are playing cards, chess; people are watching television for hours. The average American watches television five hours a day; people are listening to the radiojust to avoid themselves. For all these activities, the only reason is – not to be left alone; it is very fearful. And this idea is taken from others."
"But nobody has ever succeeded in forgetting it. That which is natural to you, you can try to ignore – but you cannot forget it; it will assert again and again. And the problem becomes more complex because you have never seen it as it is; you have taken it for granted that you are born lonely.
"The dictionary meaning is the same; that shows the mind of the people who create dictionaries. They don't understand at all the vast difference between loneliness and aloneness. Loneliness is a gap. Something is missing, something is needed to fill it, and nothing can ever fill it because it is a misunderstanding in the first place. As you grow older, the gap also grows bigger. People are so afraid to be by themselves that they do any kind of stupid thing. I have seen people playing cards alone; the other party is not there. They have invented games in which the same person plays cards from both sides.
"Somehow one wants to remain engaged. That engagement may be with people, may be with work. There are workaholics; they are afraid when the weekend comes close – what are they going to do? And if they don't do anything, they are left to themselves, and that is the most painful experience.
"You will be surprised to know that it is on the weekends that most of the accidents in the world happen. People are rushing in their cars to resort places, to sea beaches, to hill stations, bumper to bumper. It may take eight hours, ten hours to reach, and there is nothing for them to do because the whole crowd has come with them. Now their house, their neighborhood, their city is more peaceful than this sea resort. Everybody has come. But some engagement.
"People are playing cards, chess; people are watching television for hours. The average American watches television five hours a day; people are listening to the radiojust to avoid themselves. For all these activities, the only reason is – not to be left alone; it is very fearful. And this idea is taken from others."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 79 mins |
| File Size | 20.1 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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