Being: The Most Beautiful Flower in Existence

Individual Talk

From:Sermons in Stones

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"It is one of the most significant questions for a seeker: the difference between doing and being.
"You are born as beings. In your mother's womb, you are just a being. Then life begins to..."
"It is one of the most significant questions for a seeker: the difference between doing and being.
"You are born as beings. In your mother's womb, you are just a being. Then life begins to..."

Osho continues:
"You have to forget all great values of life, you have to concentrate only on one thing: your ambition for power. And you have to do everything – right or wrong, good or bad, anything that helps you to achieve your ambition. You are not to be worried about means and ends; once you are successful, whatever you have done will be known as right. Your success changes the wrong means into right means, and your failure changes your right means into wrong means.

"Seeing the situation, one starts following the ways of the world. One starts running for goals, for recognition, for respectability – one is ready to do anything. But the more one gets involved in doings, the more one starts going away from oneself.

"Each act takes you away from yourself, and the further away the goal is, the further away you have gone from yourself.

"No doing can help you to realize yourself, to know yourself, to be yourself. It is not a question of doing; you have to learn a totally different art than the arts which are based on doing. You have to learn just to be – silent, not running anywhere, no goal in the future, no desire to possess mundane things.

"Relaxing into yourself – to such an extent that time stops, mind stops – you simply are. A kind of isness…this is your being. In its purity, it is the most beautiful flower in the whole existence. Lotuses and roses are very jealous of it.

"The moment you have tasted just a little bit the nectar of being silent, cool, centered…your whole life is going to change from this moment. Because this taste is not something that anybody has ever been able to forget; on the contrary, this taste of your own being makes you forget the whole world.

"In fact, right now you don't have any inner world, or even if you have, you are not aware of it – which is almost the same. Whether it is there or not makes no difference to you; you know only the world of matter and objects. You know everything around you, except yourself.

"You are illusory and the whole world is real; money is real, power is real."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 154 mins
File Size 34.83 MB
Type Individual Talks