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If you are schizophrenic , you can't begin with 'do nothing'. You can sit very easily when you are doing something else but the moment you are just sitting and doing nothing, it becomes a problem. And after you have been doing other things that are easier, then you can sit. Begin from where beginning is easy. If you begin with sitting, you will feel much disturbance inside. The more you try to just sit, the more disturbance will be felt; you will become aware only of your insane mind and nothing else. A person is schizophrenic, split, divided. Psychoanalysis will deal with this split — with how to make this split workable, with how to adjust this man so that he can function, so that he can live in the society peacefully. It is just super fear, touching here and there, and soon the man will be same again. If this man comes to Buddha, Buddha will not talk about the schizophrenic state. He will say, “Meditate so that the inner being becomes one. When the inner being becomes one, the split will disappear on the periphery.” Buddha is not interested in adjusting you in the society, he is interested in your enlightenment. The anarchy within must be exploded. It should not be stilled or pushed down, it must he expressed in total intensity. Calmness, serenity, nirvana, come not by stilling the mind but by explosion. Then the stillness comes by itself; it is not a cultivated composure. Let Dynamic Meditation be tried as an experiment.

Remember one basic law: anything that is complete drops, because then there is no meaning in carrying it; anything that is incomplete clings, it waits for its completion. And this existence is really always after completion. The whole existence has a basic tendency to complete everything. It does not like incomplete things – they hang, they wait; and there is no hurry for existence. If you are conscious, you can watch.Move backwards. Every night for one hour before you go to sleep, move into the past, relive. Many memories by and by will be unearthed. With many you will be surprised that you were not aware that these things are there – and with such vitality and freshness, as if they had just happened! You will be again a child, many things will come. Move slowly, so everything is completed. Your mountain will become smaller and smaller – the load is the mountain. And the smaller it becomes, the freer you will feel. A certain quality of freedom will come to you, and a freshness, and inside you will feel you have touched a source of life. For example .– Close your eyes; again be the child who has committed something, done something against the father, wants to be forgiven but cannot gather courage – now you can gather courage! You can say whatsoever you wanted to say, you can touch his feet again, or you can be angry and hit him – but be finished! Let the whole process be completed.

You can skip you dinner once a week , don't start with longer duration fasting.

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Many methods have to be used to remain alert, because whenever you are fasting you cannot fall asleep easily. The body energy is completely free -- there is no need to digest anything. The free energy moves all over the body. It is no longer concentrated in the stomach. In fact it is available, so your mind goes on functioning: you remain alert. Sleep is difficult. Fasting is a way to create awareness. If you fast for a long time, you will attain to a certain awareness which is difficult to attain while you go on eating. It can be attained, but it will take a longer time. Fasting is a shortcut to achieve it. Many people who fast have completely forgotten the goal. The goal was awareness. Now they keeps on doing the means, using the means, not knowing the goal. They simply suffer. So the fasting is no longer a fasting; it is just a starvation. To fast is to try to discover in hunger the other dimension. Fasting means an effort to move into the desire of hunger and to come to know that; the divine. That's why fasting became so important in so many religions. It can give you a glimpse. Fasting also creates chemical changes. After the seventh or eighth day of fasting, one feels tremendously jubilant, weightless, very glad for no reason, delighted - as if all burden has disappeared. Your body is creating a certain chemical change.

It is good to have great technology; certainly it helps man to get rid of stupid work, certainly it helps man to get rid of many kinds of slavery. Technology can help man and animals both. Animals are also tortured; they are suffering very much because we are using them. Machines can replace them, machines can do all the work. Humanity should be totally free from stupid work, because in that state you will start growing - in aesthetic sense, sensitivity, relaxation, meditation. You will become more artistic and you will become more spiritual because you will have time and energy available. Science brings prosperity. The poor man has to think about bread and butter - he cannot even manage that. He has to think about a shelter, clothes, children, medicine, and he cannot manage these small things. His whole life is burdened by trivia; he has no space, no time to devote to God. And even if he goes to the temple or to the church, he goes to ask only for material things. Poverty is not spiritual. Spirituality has a totally different dimension. It is the ultimate luxury - when you have all and suddenly you see that, although you have all, deep inside there is a vacuum which has to be filled, an emptiness which has to be transformed into a plenitude. One becomes aware of the inner emptiness only when one has everything on the outside. Science can do that miracle. Use science, but don't be used by it.

With every suffering, you are creating the possibility of some ecstasy. The ecstasy will follow right after it. But if you are too engaged with the suffering, you may miss it. If you are ill, after that illness a moment of health, a moment of well-being, will come to you. But you can be too concerned with the illness so that when the moment comes you may miss it – you are too involved with the past illness that is no more. The moment is momentary; you can miss it very easily. After every pain, the moment comes and visits you. After every suffering, ecstasy comes to your door and knocks; but you go on missing it because the past is so heavy. You are still ill even after the illness has gone. It continues in the memory, it clouds your mind, and you miss that atomic moment. Remember this: Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes. Nothing lasts forever; the depression will go. And when it leaves you, wait – be aware and alert – because after the depression, after the night, there will be a dawn and the sun will rise. If you can be alert in that moment. you will he happy that you were depressed. You will be grateful that you are depressed because only through your depression was this mint of happiness possible But what do we do? We move in an infinite regression We yet depressed. Then we yet depressed because of the depression: a second depression follows. If you are depressed. that’s okay! – nothing is wrong in it. It is beautiful because through it you will learn and mature. But then you feel badly. ”Why do I get depressed? I should not get depressed.” Then you start fighting with the depression. The first depression is good, but the second depression is unreal. And this unreal depression will cloud your mind. You will miss the moment that would have followed the real depression. When depressed, be depressed. Simply be depressed. Don’t get depressed about your depression. When depressed, simply be depressed. Don’t fight it, don’t create any diversion, don’t force it to go. Just allow it to happen; it will go by itself. Life is a flux; nothing remains the same. You are not needed; the river moves by itself, you don’t have to push it. If you are trying to push it, you are simply foolish. The river flows by itself. Allow it to flow. When depression is there, allow it to be. Don’t get depressed about it. If you want to remove it sooner, you will get depressed. If you fight it, you will create a secondary depression that is dangerous. The first depression is beautiful, God-given. The second depression is your own. It is not God-given; it is mental. Then you will move in mental grooves. They are infinite. If you get depressed, be happy that you are depressed and allow the depression to be. Then suddenly the depression will disappear and there will be a breakthrough. No clouds will be there and the sky will be clear. For a single moment, heaven opens for you. If you are not depressed about your depression you can contact, you can commune, you can enter this heavenly gate. And once you know it, you have learned one of the ultimate laws of life: that life uses the opposite as a teacher, as a back-ground.

@Michael119 Many times, that in meditation, many people experience that they have levitated off the ground. When all the emotions have been released from the body , you feel so light , as if body is floating above the ground.

Links to audio discourses on Jesus (free download) Come Follow Yourself http://www.oshoworld.com/discourses/audio_eng_cat.asp?album_id=30 http://www.oshoworld.com/discourses/audio_eng_cat.asp?album_id=31 http://www.oshoworld.com/discourses/audio_eng_cat.asp?album_id=32 http://www.oshoworld.com/discourses/audio_eng_cat.asp?album_id=33 I Say Unto You http://www.oshoworld.com/discourses/audio_eng_cat.asp?album_id=34 http://www.oshoworld.com/discourses/audio_eng_cat.asp?album_id=35 Excerpts from Osho's book 'I Say Unto You, Vol 1') No other book starts that way, no other book can start that way. The Bible is 'the book of the books': that is the exact meaning of the word 'Bible' -- the Book. It is the most precious document that humanity has. That's why it is called 'The Testament', because Jesus has witnessed to God in it: Jesus has become the witness to God, a testament. It is the only proof possible. God cannot be argued, but only a man like Jesus can become a proof for him. The Gospel carries all that is beautiful in Jesus' flowering, the Beatitudes. Those statements are the most beautiful ever made. Not even Buddha, not even Lao Tzu, have spoken that way. Buddha is very philosophic, very refined; Jesus is very plain, simple. Jesus speaks like a villager, a farmer, a fisherman. But because he speaks the way common people speak, his words have a solidity, a concreteness, a reality. Buddha's words are abstract; they are very very high words, philosophical. Jesus' words are down-to-earth, very earthly. They have that fragrance of the earth that you come across when the rains have started and the earth is soaking up the rains and a great fragrance arises -- the fragrance of the wet earth, the fragrance that you find on a sea beach, the fragrance of the ocean, the trees. Jesus' words are very very earthbound, rooted in the earth. He is an earthly man, and that is his beauty. Nobody else can be compared with that beauty. The sky is good, but abstract, far away, distant. So I say to you, no other book starts the way the Gospel starts; no other book talks the way the Gospel talks. The word 'gospel' comes originally from a word GODSPEL. God has spoken through Jesus. Jesus is just a hollow bamboo. The song is of God, and Jesus' metaphors are very true to life. He is not spinning concepts, he is simply indicating the truth as it is.

If he doesn't likes to read , audio books are available for free download. For example : Come follow to you Volume1 http://www.oshoworld.com/discourses/audio_eng.asp?album_id=30

Download and tell him to read following books. (Osho talks on Jesus) Come Follow To You http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/western_mystics/Come_Follow_To_You_Volume1.pdf http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/western_mystics/Come_Follow_To_You_Volume2.pdf http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/western_mystics/Come_Follow_To_You_Volume3.pdf http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/western_mystics/Come_Follow_To_You_Volume4.pdf I Say Unto You http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/western_mystics/I_Say_Unto_You_Volume1.pdf http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/western_mystics/I_Say_Unto_You_Volume2.pdf The Mustard Seed http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/western_mystics/The_Mustard_Seed_My_Most_Loved_Gospel_on_Jesus.pdf

You have to move on unknown path, path is not predetermined. You can move only by accepting and doing mistakes, being deceived. You will learn by doing mistakes, but remember don't repeat same mistake again and again. You can inquire only by experimenting and experiencing, if you will inquire intellectually , you will not know.

You sense a trap with spirituality and mysticism. On this path, trust is needed. Trust is a quality in you. A man of trust. it does not mean in what he trusts, but he trusts; that is his innocence. Even if he is cheated because of his trust, that does not matter, because trust is more valuable than any small thing that he has been cheated of. You can take everything from him, but you cannot take his trust. From their very childhood they have been told, ‘Don’t trust, because if you trust you will be cheated. The world is full of cunning people, so remain alert, don’t trust. Trust only when you have found someone, checked all the possibilities of the person and found that yes, he is trustworthy. Then trust.’ But to trust a trustworthy person has no meaning at all. It is not your quality it is his trustworthiness. But to trust a person who is not trustworthy, you know perfectly well that he is not trustworthy, still you trust, because trust in itself is such a great value that it cannot be lost because of this person’s unworthiness. The man of trust simply lives out of his trust; whatever happens does not matter. If he is being deceived continuously, then too, it does not matter. Nothing happens to his trust. His trust is something invincible, and that gives integrity. So there is no question of accepting anything or not. The question is of growing trust as a quality of your being. This path is not for a businessman, this path is for gamblers.

Those who are open minded are not wrong, but great courage and patience is needed. Lot of people are attracted towards spirituality, but few succeed. Still I will say from my experience, it is better to fail in spiritual journey, you will gain something, rather than succeeding in mundane life, where you will gain nothing even after you succeed.

Meditation is not for losers , suffering types, but people are attracted in the search of something miraculous, they do want to work hard, they are trying to reach ultimate without risking anything, instantly. Truth is not cheap, to get something higher, courage to lose lower is necessary. For me , meditation is ultimate luxury, if you are already in a valley , journey will be long and arduous.

I was a student of science , raised in an educated atheistic family, fortunately I met few mystics, my suspicions were eradicated.

No, everything is perfect. Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. That’s why Buddhists call it wheel of time.

Existence is not a business, it is a play. And a play has no purpose really, it is nonpurposeful. Or you can say play is its own purpose, to play is enough. It is not evolving towards some ultimate; this very moment, here and now, it is ultimate. Life as it is, is accepted in the East. It is not moving towards some end, because if there is some end who will decide the end and why? If God decides it, then you can ask the same question about God: ”What is the purpose of creating a world with purpose?” or, ”Why should he create a purposive world?” or even more deeply, ”What is the purpose of God’s existence?” Maybe life has a purpose and God decides the purpose, but then God’s existence has to be questioned – why he exists – and that way the question is simply pushed one step ahead. In India we have always depicted God as a dancer, not as a creator -- God as 'Nataraj', the Master Dancer. Why? There is something immensely meaningful in that concept. God is not the painter, because when the painter does a painting, the painting becomes separate from the painter. When the painter has finished with the painting, the painting has its own existence. The painter may die, the painting can live. And when the painter has finished the painting, it may be a beautiful painting, but it is dead because the painter cannot put his breath into it. That is not possible. He cannot pour his vitality into it, his life into it. The painting may be beautiful but a painting is a painting -- it is dead. God is not a painter, God is not a potter; God is a dancer. What is the meaning of it? In dance, the dancer and the dance are one, they can never be separated. That is the beauty of the dancer. The poet is separate from the poetry, the potter is separate from his pottery, the painter is separate from his painting, the sculptor is different, separate from his creation, and so on and so forth. Only the dancer is not separate. The dancer is the dance.

You will not find answers of most of your questions on the internet. No theoretical knowledge is helpful. When you have some theoretical knowledge, you begin to impose it on yourself. You begin to visualize things to be the way you have been taught. In fact, knowledge has been very destructive as far as the inner world is concerned. The more knowledge gained, the less the possibility of feeling the real, the authentic, things. All that is within is not necessarily real or true, because imagination is also within, dreams are also within. The mind has a faculty – a very powerful faculty – to dream, to create illusions, to project. Do not imagine, do not think about it, do not make any intellectual effort to understand beforehand. No pre-notion is needed; not only is it not needed, it is positively harmful.

This is a model that facilitates spiritual growth but this a deep metaphysical truth too. From the smallest blade of grass to the biggest star, everybody is needed, equally needed. There is no hierarchy in existence. You are not accidental. Existence needs you. One cannot avoid action. Action will certainly be there as long as we live. But you can live your life without getting affected by karma. Remember, actions can be of two kinds: one in which there is a doer, and the other in which there is an actor. If the actor replaces the doer, the action will continue on the surface, but there will be total transformation within. Acting does not bind you to the action, it does not affect you. It remains entirely outside, it does not enter within.

One of the objectives of martial arts is to develop the mind and body to a point where the path of life can be walked fearlessly and courageously. All of us bear the potential to live the way of the warrior – martial arts provides us with the opportunity and tools for recognizing and unfolding this potential. Martial arts, which have been developed to destroy man, to murder, to commit suicide, but they can be used because the situation of death facing you in any form makes you alert, aware. Martial arts enhances flexibility, strength and stamina as well as coordination, presence and calmness – all at the same time. This purifies the energetic system of the body, removes blockages and frees energy. That's why in Japan particularly, many martial arts were developed by meditators. Practicing tai chi , aikido... slowly slowly you become more and more silent, more and more peaceful. The question of war and destruction disappears. Understand meditation in such a way, that you can use it not only while you are meditating but while you are doing anything. Just do it more consciously, more gracefully, more lovingly and you have changed the very quality of the action. And once you know to change the qualities of your actions, your whole life becomes the life of a meditator. I believe that tai chi is the best for spirituality.

If God himself creates the Devil, then he is responsible. And if the Devil is something independent, not related to God, then he himself becomes a God, a supreme power. And that other force must be stronger than God. The Devil can provoke and seduce and God cannot protect. The Devil seems to be a stronger God.

Any path of devotion is Bhakti Yoga, Christianity, Islam follow the path of emotions, BHAKTI yoga. From the heart they enter. If you are a devotional man, then Bhakti will be easy for you. Bhakti is not a promise that you will attain everything without doing anything. Bhakti demands your totality. You have to surrender yourself totally. Anything you like. Prayer is a state of being, not something that you do. It has nothing to do with words. Prayer is not a complaint or demand. Prayer is a surrender. Prayer is pure love - no desire attached to it, no conditions. It is sheer gratefulness. There is no higher spirituality than this -- to live in God in utter surrender. Prayer can only mean: "I am here, surrendered to you, do whatsoever you like.

There are other ways too. There are two types of religions in the world: prayer-oriented religions and meditation-oriented religions. On the path of prayer, one has to give up the ego at the outset, at the initial stage. Ego is a state of no-prayer: egolessness is a state of prayer. Prayer arises out of helplessness. And that helplessness will help your ego to drop. Prayer is a cry, a deep cry, of helplessness. People who pray become silent. Just praying, a certain kind of attitude arises in them; they put aside their ego, they put aside everything else. They become pointedly concentrated on the idea of God. If you really know what prayer is, prayer itself is its own reward. There is nobody else to reward you. The reward is not there in the future, not in the afterlife. But praying itself is such a beautiful phenomenon that who cares about the future and who bothers about the reward? That is greed, the idea of reward. Prayer in itself is such a celebration, it brings such great joy and ecstasy, that one prays for the prayer’s sake. One does not pray out of fear and one does not pray out of greed. One prays because one enjoys it. Prayer means surrender. Prayer means bowing down to existence. Prayer means gratitude. Prayer means thankfulness. Prayer means silence. Prayer means, “I am happy that I am.” Prayer simply means, “This tremendous gift of life is so much for such an unworthy man like me.” Seeing it, gratitude arises. Once you have learned to pray, prayer itself is enough, more than enough.

A friend is more than a acquaintance, they listen to us, we like them as a human being, so we call them a 'friend'.