Osho - Weekly Meditation For The Here And Now
Weekly Meditation - Week 27. Philosophy
July 1
Philosophy
It almost always happens that when you are missing something you start thinking about it, you start creating a philosophy about it.
It is my observation that people who have not loved write books about love; it is a kind of substitute. People who have not been able to love write poetry, they write very great love poetry, but they don't have any experience of love, so all their poetry is just speculation.
They may have great flights of imagination, but this has nothing to do with the reality of love. Love's reality is totally different; it has to be experienced.
July 2
Organic Unity
If you are not integrated, whatever you are doing cannot have real integration; it can only be put together superficially.
And the result if that putting together will be just a mechanical unity, not an organic unity. You can put a car together - but you cannot put a flower together in the same way; a flower has to be grown. It has an organic unity, an inner unity - it has a center, and the 'center comes first, then the petals. In a mechanical unity, parts come first, then the whole. In an organic unity, the whole comes first and then the parts.
One can write poetry with no poetry in it. And one can write a story without any center - much ado about nothing, a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing. The significance comes from the person, the poet; it is not in the poetry. If the poet has something overflowing, then the poetry becomes luminous, then it has a glow, it has a subtle unity. It throbs with life, it has a heart, it beats... You can hear the beat of the heart.
Then it lives and grows and it goes on growing. It is almost like when a child is born to you; you may die, but the child keeps on growing. The real poetry will go on growing even when the poet is gone. That's how a Kalidas or a Shakespeare goes on living. The poetry has something organic in it; it is not just put together.
July 3
The Great Ambition
Every human being is love unborn, hence the misery, the anguish.
The seed cannot be contented as the seed. It wants to become a tree, it wants to play with the wind, it wants to rise to the sky - it is ambitious!
Each human being is born with a great ambition-the ambition to flower in love, to bloom in love. So I see each human being as a possibility, as a potentiality, as a promise. Something that has not happened has yet to happen, and unless it happens there can be no contentment, no peace; there will be agony, suffering, misery.
Only when you have come to a blooming where you feel that now you are fulfilled-now you have become that for which you were born, you have attained your destiny, now there is nothing left anymore-only when ambition completely disappears because it is fulfilled, is a person in bliss, never before.
July 4
The Real Question
The real question is just a capsule in which the answer is hidden, a hard shell that protects the soft answer within. It is just a crust that surrounds a seed.
Ninety-nine questions out of a hundred are rubbish, and because of these ninety-nine questions you cannot manage to ask the really valuable question. Because these ninety-nine clamor around you, shout, are very noisy, they don't allow the real question to arise in you. The real question has a very silent, still, small voice, and these unreal ones are great pretenders. Because of them you cannot ask the right question and you cannot find the right answer.
So to know rubbish as rubbish is a great insight. Then it starts slipping out of your hands-because you cannot hold it long if you know it is rubbish. The very understanding that it is rubbish is enough for your hands to start becoming empty, and when your hands are empty of the rubbish, only the one, the real question, is left.
And the beauty is that if only the real question is left, the answer is not far away. It is just inside the question. The very center of the question is the answer.
July 5
Introvert - Extrovert
There are two types of slaves: the extroverts and the introverts.
A person who is not free to move according to the moment and the situation is a slave. There are two types of slaves: the extroverts and the introverts. The extroverts are the slaves of the outer. They cannot go in; they have completely forgotten the route. If you talk about going in, they simply look at you, bewildered. They don't understand what you are talking about; they think that you are talking nonsense.
A person who has become too introverted starts losing relatedness, responsibility, and activity and misses much. He becomes closed in himself; he is like a grave. The extrovert becomes the politician, the introvert becomes an escapist - and both are ill, both are neurotic.
The really healthy person is not fixed anywhere. Going in and going out are just like inhaling and exhaling, just like the breath coming in and going out. You are free in both. By being free in both you are beyond both, you have a transcendence. You are a total person.
July 6
Vulnerable And Strong
There are people who feel strong only when they are not vulnerable; but that strength is just a facade, a camouflage. Then there are people who are vulnerable but feel weak.
Those who feel weak when they are vulnerable cannot feel vulnerable for long: Sooner or later that weakness will make them so afraid that they will close up. So the right approach is to feel vulnerable and strong. Then you can remain vulnerable and each day your strength will grow, and you will become courageous enough to become more and more vulnerable.
A really brave person is absolutely open-that is the criterion of courage. Only a coward is closed, and a strong person is as strong as a rock and as vulnerable as a rose, it is a paradox-and all that is real is paradoxical.
So always remember: When you feel something paradoxical, don't try to make it consistent, because that consistency will be false. Reality is always paradoxical: On the one hand you feel vulnerable, on the other hand you feel strong-that means a moment of truth has arrived. On the one hand you feel you don't know anything, on the other hand you feel you know all - a moment of truth has arrived.
On the one hand you always feel one aspect, and on the other hand the exact opposite aspect, and when you have both these aspects together, always remember that something true is very close by.
July 7
Schizophrenia
Guilt always creates schizophrenia. If guilt goes very deep, it can create a real split.
There is no division between the world and spirituality. But a division arises because of the phenomenon of guilt. So guilt has to be dropped. Not that you have to bring spirituality and the world together; they are together. There is no way to separate them. You have to understand your guilt and drop it, otherwise guilt always creates schizophrenia. If guilt goes very deep, it can create a real split. A person can really become two-so much so that one may not be aware of the other at all. The split can become so great that the two aspects never meet; there is no encounter.
You have to understand your guilt. Just move as naturally as possible and don't categorize something as "spiritual" and something else as "worldly." The very categorization is wrong, because then division starts. Once you label something as spiritual, suddenly you have condemned the world. When you say something is worldly, the division has come in. There is no need.
You don't divide when you see the moon in the night and you enjoy it, and then one day you see a child smiling and you enjoy that. Which is spiritual - and which is material? You see a flower opening and something opens in you and you delight in it. The food is being cooked and it smells delicious, and suddenly there is joy in it. Which is spiritual and which is worldly?