Osho
quotes on Desires
- Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that
leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within.
- Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are
natural, desires are perverted.
- Misery has only one meaning, that things are not
fitting with your desires -- and things never fit with your desires, they
cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.
- Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life
should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you
need food, you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need love, you need
relationship. Perfectly good, nothing wrong in it. Needs can be fulfilled;
desires are basically unfulfillable. Desires create complexity. They
create complexity because they can never be fulfilled. You go on and on
working hard for them, and they remain unfulfilled, and you remain empty.
- The more desires you have, the more misery you will
create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring -- and you go on
desiring. In fact, you think that if your desires are fulfilled your
miseries will disappear. In the first place they are never fulfilled; in
the second place, if they are fulfilled, nothing is fulfilled by their
fulfillment. You remain as empty as you have always been -- or even more,
because up to now you were occupied with a certain desire; now even that
is fulfilled. A deep deep emptiness comes to you.
- You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is
you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want
misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art
-- even for few moments -- of being desireless, and you will be surprised.
Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears.
And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your
blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole
existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.
- Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless. Any goal, and you can`t be simple. Any goal and you can`t be herenow. Any goal and the desire will rock you. Any goal, and you are on the way, again moving -- you cannot enjoy this moment, the grace of this moment, the benediction of herenow.
- See what your misery is, what desires are causing it,
and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first
time that you are clinging to those desires; this has been the pattern of
your whole life and you have not arrived anywhere. You go on in circles,
you never come to any real growth. You remain childish, stupid. And you
are born with the intelligence that can make you a buddha, but it is lost
in unnecessary things.
- If you have desires, try to look -- are those desires
the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to
drop the desires -- and they are together, they cannot be separated. This
is one of the greatest insights that has come from all the enlightened
people in the world -- that desire is the root of all misery, and
desirelessness is the cause of all that is beautiful and blissful.
- And desires are never here and now -- they are
non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be
fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.
- Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The
more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more
unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future.
But it is just in your mind.
- Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death.
- That is Buddha`s meaning of nirvana: to be free from
life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from all
desires... remember, I repeat, ALL desires. The so-called religious,
spiritual desires are included in it, nothing is excluded. All desires
have to be dropped because every desire brings frustration, misery,
boredom. If you succeed it brings boredom; if you fail it brings despair.
If you are after money there are only two possibilities: either you will
fail or you will succeed. If you succeed you will be bored with money.
- The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as
ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving
their heritage to their children -- their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete
ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.
- Every child is being destroyed by his own people. They
don`t know consciously what they are doing. Parents are projecting their
own unfulfilled desires onto their children. The father wanted to be a
doctor but could not; he ended up being something else. He could not pass
the examinations and became just a chemist, but he imposes the desire to
become a doctor onto his son. He sends him to school with great hope that
his child will achieve what he could not achieve. He is doing it all out
of his unconscious love, but unconscious love is not love -- it is blind.
With all good intentions, it does harm. The child who is being forced to
become a doctor, if he was left alone to grow according to his own
nature... one never knows what kind of beauty or joy, what kind of
individuality, he would have contributed to the world.
- Why do you dream? -- because there are so many desires
unfulfilled, and to live with unfulfilled desires is painful. In dream you
try to fulfill them; in dream you create a false feeling of fulfillment.
Hence your dreams show much about you: what your desires are, what you
want to become. But if you want to become anything in life, you are
asleep.
- There are urges and urges; you are exploding with
urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only
that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is
fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you
are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains
unfulfilled.
- 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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