Only Loving Existence Can Fulfill You

Talks on the Sayings of Jesus
Individual Talk

From:Come Follow to You, Vol. 2

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"Thomas Carlyle once said about one of his friends that he was born a man and died a grocer. Everybody is born great and dies very small. Everybody is born like a god and almost..."
"Thomas Carlyle once said about one of his friends that he was born a man and died a grocer. Everybody is born great and dies very small. Everybody is born like a god and almost..."

Osho continues:
"That is his greatness, that is his vastness. He is one with existence; he is not yet separated. He has no boundary, no finitude.

"A child has no character; that is his beauty. Character kills. The more character you have, the smaller you have become. Character is an armor around you. It defines you – and every definition is a death. Let me repeat: Every definition is a death. Only the undefined is alive.

"The child has a body but he has no form. In his consciousness no form yet exists. Even if you put a mirror before the child he will not recognize himself. He will look at the mirror but he will not recognize that he is reflected there, because he does not yet know who he is. That is his innocence. Then things start gathering around: the name and it becomes an imprisonment. The form, the identity, the religion, the society, the color, the nation – they all become confinements.

"Now the child is shrinking; the vastness of the sky is disappearing. Clouds are gathering and they go on suffocating your being. By the time you die, you were already dead long before.

"This is the meaning of these sutras: that if one is to attain to one's real glory again, one has to become indefinable, one has to lose character.

"It will be very difficult to understand me. I say one has to lose character, because character is what gives you limitations. Character is a fixity, a frozenness. Unless the character melts and you start feeling again, and you become unknown to yourself and unpredictable. Nobody, not even you yourself, knows what is going to happen in the next moment. You start living from moment to moment. The calculation is gone, the planning disappears. You float like a white cloud in the sky, moving but without any motivation; moving but not knowing where you are going; moving but remaining in the moment – so totally herenow that past and future make no sense, only the present is meaningful.

"Then what will be your identity? Who will be you? You cannot say anything about it; it is unutterable. That is what Buddha calls the inner emptiness: anatta, no self."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 76 mins
File Size 22.68 MB
Type Individual Talks
Edition/ Version 2