Osho Quotes on Desire
- Only those
people are really sane who have transcended the mind, who have gone beyond
it into silence where no thoughts, no desires, no emotions, nothing
exists. Only in that peace is your real health.
- Buddha says this
is how one should be -- no desire, because all desires are futile. They
are about the future; life is in the present. All desires distract you
from the present, all desires distract you from life, all desires are
destructive of life, all desires are postponements of life. Life is now
and the desire takes you away, farther and farther away from now. And when
we see that our life is misery we go on throwing the responsibility on
others, and nobody is responsible except us.
- This is a very
fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative -- or why very few men
have dared to become meditative. Our training is of the mind. Our
education is for the mind. Our ambitions, our desires, can only be
fulfilled by the mind. You can become president of a country, prime
minister, not by being meditative but by cultivating a very cunning mind.
The whole education is geared by your parents, by your society, so that
you can fulfill your desires, your ambitions. You want to become somebody.
Meditation can only make you a nobody.
- The moment one
starts sharing one`s being without any motive life becomes a sweet
fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains the same, yet nothing
is the same any more. When your heart beats in harmony, in love, in joy,
when you are no longer greedy, when there are no desires and
no ambitions, and when there are no ego trips any more, one is simply,
ordinary, but sweet. That taste is the taste of god.
- Mind knows how
to think; you will have to know how not to think. Mind knows how to go on
creating, manufacturing more and more noise, words upon words, theories,
philosophies, ideologies -- it is very skilful in that.
It is a factory which goes on creating abstractions. You will have to
learn how to stop this constant flow of words, thoughts, concepts, dreams,
desires. Mind knows how to be ambitious; you will have to learn how not to
be ambitious. Mind is always on some ego trip; you will have to learn how
not to be on an ego trip. This is a great transformation. So much is
involved in it that you will be born anew, you will have a new life if you
go through all this transformation; that`s the ultimate adventure. Getting
out of the mind is the only challenge worth accepting. Getting beyond mind
is the most arduous but the most beautiful journey too, because it is
through this journey that you come back home.
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