Be a Light unto Yourself

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From:Moving into the Unknown

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"Life can be lived in two ways. One is that of the soldier, and the other, that of the sannyasin. Either you can fight with life or you can relax with life. Either you can..."
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"Life can be lived in two ways. One is that of the soldier, and the other, that of the sannyasin. Either you can fight with life or you can relax with life. Either you can..."

Osho continues:
"Life is not against you. How can it be? Life is your mother. It is life that has brought you here. You are born out of it. You are a ray of its light, a wave of its ocean. You are intrinsic and organic to it, you are not separate. But if you start fighting your own source of energy, you will be destroyed. Your very concept of fight will poison you. And of course, the more you feel that you are losing the battle, the harder you will fight. The harder you fight, the more frustrated you become.

"The soldier's way is the ordinary way. Almost ninety-nine point nine percent of people follow it – hence there is so much misery, hence there is so much hell. It is created by you, by your wrong approach to life. Once you understand it, you start getting in tune with the whole, you start getting into a dance with the whole. You lose fighting, you start cooperating.

"The moment you decide to cooperate, you have become a sannyasin.

"The religious person is one who has no idea of separation from the wholewho never thinks, never dreams that he is separatewho has no private goal of his ownwho simply moves with life in total trust. If you cannot trust life, who are you going to trust? If you cannot allow life to flow through you, you will be missing – you will be missing this tremendous opportunity to be alive. Then you will get worried, then you will be caught in your own mind. And then misery is the natural outcome.

"To understand that conflict is not the way to be happy, is the greatest understanding. To understand that cooperation is the way to be blissfuland your dark night of the soul is over and the morning has come, and the sun is rising on the horizon. You will be transformed.

"This very understanding is a transforming force – that cooperation is the key, not conflict. Trust is the key, not doubt. Violence is not the waylove. This is the basic framework.

"Now the sutra:
A monk asked the Buddha: What is most powerful and what is most illuminating?
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 96 mins
File Size 55.73 MB
Type Individual Talks