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Osho International Foundation presents
Osho- Amazing Capacity of the Human Being
Truth is a truth is a truth -11
Human being
is a unique state.
and remember the word-
state.
There is a world below that of the humans and that is of the animals.
They are born as a whole;
What they have to become,
they are born that way.
And there is a world above that of the human, of the Buddhas.
The way they have to be
they have become that way.
Now there is nothing left to be.
And between these two
there is a world of man's worries(concerns)
What he has to be
he has not yet become;
what he should not be
he still is.
That is why there is tension, stress
It drags backwards
The world of animals,
the world of birds,
the world of trees,
the world of rivers and mountains.
pulls us forward.
The world of Buddhas,
the world of Jinns,
the world of prophets,
the world of Avatars
Both of the attractions are strong.
The strength of the attraction of that is behind is,
that it is our experience -
Drowned in unconsciousness.
From all these origin we have
travelled
they are well known to us
they are acquainted to us;
to return into them
seems easy for us.
That is why alcohol
and other stupefying drugs like alcohol
are so effective
The effectiveness of alcohol is that
for time being
from your being human
It drops you down
It makes you once again
a part of the world of animals
-- the same peace,
the same silence,
the same tension free state
seems blissful
but you will have to return back again.
For a little while staying drowned in intoxication
then you will come back to the same place where you were
and in more worries than ever.
Because the time you remained unconscious,
worries kept growing.
Worries don't care for your unconsciousness.
Then each day more and more alcohol
more drugs you will have to take, becuase
you will start to become addicted to them.
People can be so addicted
that you will not even know
that they are drunk at all.
A friend of mine,
He is a accomplished/old drunkard,
He is a great boozer
He got married.
After five years his wife got to know
that he drinks alcohol,
because one day he got home without drinking.
The day he came without drinking
that day it was known.
Everyday he used to drink and come
so he seemed very natural every day.
But without drinking he would wobble a bit,
he was a slightly frayed
he was a little restless.
The day he came without drinking
that day the wife got suspicious
that something is wrong.
I am know him from many years.
How much ever you got him drunk
by assessing him from surface
you can't tell
that he is drunk,
he was been addicted
The body is used to this new chemical.
And then,
no matter how much ever you try to forget,
by forgetting, worry is not erased.
Worry is at its place.
And worry is not even an enemy for the human being
It is his friend.
It is the thorn of worry that moves him forward
that is his challenge.
From Somras of Rigved,
Upto Aldous Huxley's L.S.D
Man has consistently
explored this matter
that how should I return back.
The hearts of poets have a lot of attraction
of flying in the sky like birds- the free sky!
for blossoming like flowers in the sun!
The greenary of trees
The babbling sound of the river
The storms that rise in the ocean!
The clouds that roar in the sky
and the crackling lightning!
And poets become eager --
let us return back!
And it is not a coincidence that poets,
painters, musicians commonly
become keen about intoxicating drugs.
Behind this
there is a reason.
They want to return back.
And there is only one way to go back;
How can we forget that place
where we are!
But
one cannot go back in time at all.
A father was explaining to his small son
the famous saying of Napolean
that nothing is impossible in this world.
The son said, wait,
wait for a minute,
I will get back to you
I will prove to you right now
one thing is surely impossible.
I have been trying it for several days,
it is not possible.
He ran towards the bathroom
and he got back a pack of toothpaste from there.
He got the tube out
and then squeezed that with force
and got the toothpaste out
and told his father,
now put this back in and show,
then I will agree that
Napolean is right that
nothing is impossible in this world.
I tried a lot and I have lost it
What has come out is out,
it does not go back again.
This little child
conveyed an important thing in his own way.
Little children sometimes
say very important things.
This thing has made one thing clear
few things never return back.
And time definitely does not return back.
There is no way.
to go back in the journey of time.
So man can only go forward, not backwards.
In the attempt of going back
whatever time was lost, was wasted.
That much time if we
spend in the search of the way ahead
then we can be beyond worries,
we can surpass the worries.
Human being , within him
there is potential to be Buddha.
He has come from the world of animals,
but he has got with him the song of the Buddhas.
He sings the same song.
Only then misery will be wiped away.
Only then worry will be destroyed
Only then this fragmentation will move away
We are surely in this world,
but we are not of this world.
We have to go ahead.
We have to go beyond this
The call from beyond is coming each moment.
The shore of the beyond
is sending letters after letters
How long will you ignore it?
How long will you keep you back turned to it?
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