Great Trust in Life
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Osho,
When I was younger I used to feel a certain pull near open windows, high up in buildings. Many of the people with whom I work now also do. The feeling is if I go any closer, I may have to jump.
My experience is that it is not suicidal. What is it? Can you say more about it?
When I was younger I used to feel a certain pull near open windows, high up in buildings. Many of the people with whom I work now also do. The feeling is if I go any closer, I may have to jump.
My experience is that it is not suicidal. What is it? Can you say more about it?
Osho,
When I was younger I used to feel a certain pull near open windows, high up in buildings. Many of the people with whom I work now also do. The feeling is if I go any closer, I may have to jump.
My experience is that it is not suicidal. What is it? Can you say more about it?
Osho continues:
When I was younger I used to feel a certain pull near open windows, high up in buildings. Many of the people with whom I work now also do. The feeling is if I go any closer, I may have to jump.
My experience is that it is not suicidal. What is it? Can you say more about it?
"You are afraid of losing your hold upon yourself, and everybody is afraid of that in one way or other.
"That's why we live always in control. Control is not only imposed by the society; even if the society removes all control, people will continue to live in control. They will create their own control, their own discipline. Even if society decides to make everybody absolutely free, people will not be free, people will not accept freedom. They will create their own bondage, they will create their own imprisonments, they will create their own chains; they will become their own jailers.
"Freedom is frightening, because freedom simply means you will not be there. It is not that you are going to be free: you are going to be free from yourself. You are the bondage – when the bondage disappears, you disappear.
"Sometimes that fear can come to you when you are close to a window on a high building, or close to an abyss in the mountains. That feeling can take possession of you, that physical situation can become a triggering inside your psyche. It can give you the idea that it is possible to disappear.
"And remember, there is always both fear and attraction: whenever you are attracted by something, you are also afraid of it. That's why man is attracted towards women and is at the same time afraid of them.
"That's why I say your so-called saints who are still afraid of women, are still in love with women. Certainly they are – they are obsessed, because fear and love go together. They may have moved to the Himalayan caves; sitting in their caves they may not be thinking at all that they are in any way interested in women, but they are frightened. If the rumor comes that a beautiful woman is coming to the mountains to visit, something will stir inside them. It will be fear, but fear shows attraction; fear shows that you are still involved.
"Scriptures that say anything against women are scriptures written by people who were obsessed with women. They may have renounced but they have not changed; they are the same people. One day they were rushing towards women, another day they start rushing away from women, but it is the same game played in a different way."
"That's why we live always in control. Control is not only imposed by the society; even if the society removes all control, people will continue to live in control. They will create their own control, their own discipline. Even if society decides to make everybody absolutely free, people will not be free, people will not accept freedom. They will create their own bondage, they will create their own imprisonments, they will create their own chains; they will become their own jailers.
"Freedom is frightening, because freedom simply means you will not be there. It is not that you are going to be free: you are going to be free from yourself. You are the bondage – when the bondage disappears, you disappear.
"Sometimes that fear can come to you when you are close to a window on a high building, or close to an abyss in the mountains. That feeling can take possession of you, that physical situation can become a triggering inside your psyche. It can give you the idea that it is possible to disappear.
"And remember, there is always both fear and attraction: whenever you are attracted by something, you are also afraid of it. That's why man is attracted towards women and is at the same time afraid of them.
"That's why I say your so-called saints who are still afraid of women, are still in love with women. Certainly they are – they are obsessed, because fear and love go together. They may have moved to the Himalayan caves; sitting in their caves they may not be thinking at all that they are in any way interested in women, but they are frightened. If the rumor comes that a beautiful woman is coming to the mountains to visit, something will stir inside them. It will be fear, but fear shows attraction; fear shows that you are still involved.
"Scriptures that say anything against women are scriptures written by people who were obsessed with women. They may have renounced but they have not changed; they are the same people. One day they were rushing towards women, another day they start rushing away from women, but it is the same game played in a different way."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 104 mins |
| File Size | 23.73 MB |
| Type | Conversa Individual |
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