Osho
quotes on Freedom
- `Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are
simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the
whole. And to melt and merge with the whole is to be holy. Not by fasting,
not by torturing, but by becoming one with the whole, one becomes holy.
- Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than
that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your
habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from
unconsciousness to consciousness.
- Never follow anybody else`s idea -- that is very
dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own
nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to
die following one`s nature than to live following somebody`s else`s
nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one`s nature
is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.
- When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer
lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.
- Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is
only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.
- There is no other revolution except consciousness. It
cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.
- The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is
not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total,
unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every
ideology creates its own slavery.
- Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing,
who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has
attained to ultimate freedom, nirvana -- and that is the goal of life. And
it is only by attaining that freedom that you will know the significance
of being, the song of being, the celebration of being. Your life will
become a continuous bliss, and not only that YOU will be blissful, you
will be able to bless others too. The whole existence will be blessed by
you, by your very presence.
- Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings
wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When
you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in
you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is
of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either
of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to
liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.
- Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything
comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your
consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To
attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you
have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a
great opportunity.
- All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to
the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging
around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death,
you are free from body and mind. You are free -- simply free -- you are
freedom.
- Buddha says the greatest joy in life is freedom:
freedom from all prejudices, freedom from all scriptures, freedom from all
concepts and ideologies, freedom from all desires, freedom from all
possessiveness and jealousy, freedom from all hatred, anger, rage, lust...
in short, freedom from everything, so that you are just a pure
consciousness, unbounded, unlimited. That is the greatest joy, and it is
possible -- it is within everybody`s grasp. You just have to grope for it
a little. The groping will be in the dark, but it is not far away. If you
try, if you make an effort, you are bound to find it. It is your
birthright.
- Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day
out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by
watching them you will become unidentified with them, you will become a
mirror reflecting them. And this brings great freedom. Freedom from dreams
is freedom from the world.
- Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted
your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is
fulfilled when it blooms, and a man is fulfilled when he releases the
fragrance of buddhahood, when he becomes luminous; then he comes to know
who he is. In knowing that, all is known. In knowing that, God is known.
In knowing that, truth is achieved -- you become the truth, and truth
liberates. Truth is freedom.
- The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of
action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new
chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction
is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your
experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the
present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on
interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who
is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS
AWAKE.
- Hell means nothing but misery; it is a psychological
state of misery, a state of negativity, a state of darkness, of utter
loneliness. And heaven is joy, happiness, health, light. But there is a
third word, moksha. Moksha means freedom, freedom from both heaven and
hell, freedom from pain and pleasure -- because pain binds you as much as
pleasure binds you. Pain may be an ugly chain and pleasure may be a
beautiful chain, decorated, maybe made of gold, but it chains you. Hell
may be a poor place and heaven may be a very rich place but poverty and
riches are two aspects of the same coin. One has to be free of both.
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