A Cup of Tea (159)
‘Freedom from’ is political… ‘Freedom for’ is artistic, creative, scientific. And ‘just freedom’ is religious.
Osho speaks on the subject of ‘Sannyasin’: “My sannyas is an opening, a journey, a dance, a love affair with the unknown, a romance with existence itself, in search of an orgasmic relationship with the whole.”
Beloved Osho, It seems that masters have always been betrayed by their chief disciple. The same has happened to you, with those to whom you have given so much love and attention, and on whom you have worked so hard.
Osho speaks on ‘being aggressive’; “Our only responsibility is that while we are here we live a life of joy, love, blissfulness.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “Wherever human mind finds any barrier, any slavery, any limitation, it fights against it. The whole human history is a fight for freedom…”
“…your soul is intrinsically free. You don’t have to ask for it, and you don’t have to struggle for it. It is already there, this very moment,” says Osho.
“Man… never makes any effort, even in finding one very fundamental thing: who he is, from where he comes, and what is his destiny, where he is going,” states Osho.
“The rebel is in a state of tremendous love with freedom – total freedom, nothing less than that,” states Osho.
Veeno’s Tarot reading: The Jack of Diamonds is the lucky guy! He can be seen as a simpleton who does not know how to handle material goods or as an innocent lad who frees himself from inhibiting burden.
Osho says, “When the society is in a turmoil and everything is in crisis, a chaos pervades – this is the moment, if you want, you can escape from the prison.”
Divakar reflects on finding our own inner wisdom. A way to navigate a path to truth, through an ocean of opinions, beliefs, and information overload.
Osho states, “In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”
:…life itself is rooted in freedom. We are not machines, we are not pre-programmed, we are utter freedoms.” Osho is quoted on the subject of ‘Freedom’.
“The priority should be your attainment of spiritual freedom, because political tyrannies come and go,” declares Osho
Lord Sumption, former Supreme Court judge writes about the coronavirus lockdown. Published in The Sunday Times, April 5, 2020
From Savita’s book ‘Dinner with Osho’: a story told by Shobhana about learning to appreciate what is beautiful in life.
Osho states, “… if there is even a little bit of intelligence in America then it is time to stop now; otherwise, the country is going to have the same fate as that of Rome and Roman civilization.
Freedom once meant something significant for mankind, writes Sir Julian Rose. Published on SOTT on November 5, 2018.
Osho answers a question about why he has come to earth, and says, “My whole message is to see the truth, to see the hell that ego creates in the name of perfection, uniqueness – and to let it drop.”
“Remember that you are alone, there is no God, there are no messengers, and there is no dictator. You have to be decisive about your own life,” states Osho in 1987 after he returns to Pune.
Declare your freedom individually. And that’s my movement. You are here, not as a society, not as a community, you are here as an individual, states Osho
Q: Looking at myself and others here, is it possible there have been others like us – such as Buddha’s disciples? Were they amazed and did they find themselves laughing at how greedy, cunning, inept they appeared and how absolutely unlike what they thought a sannyasin to be – or do we take the cake?
So now scientists are almost in the hands of the politicians. … The world has to be one, and it has to be governed by creative people, not by politicians.
In her brilliant and visionary new novel, ‘The Heart Goes Last’, Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test. Read this excerpt from her book, set in a near-future dystopia.
Osho asserts that society will soon fix an electrode in people’s brains to control them – it will be cheap and easy, and then there will be no possibility for human freedom.
Leela writes that life is not just about being with the other. It is about finding your inner being.
Beloved Osho, I really felt affected when you talked about Rajen the other night, because I feel friendship for him, and I feel he loves you as he did before. I feel that in dropping the mala and the red clothes, he is simply trying to experience something new.
Veeresh asks: Beloved Osho, You have always been an inspiration to me. You give me the courage to continue to do my thing and not compromise in my work, even though I feel like an outcast almost everywhere I go. I need you to say it is okay for me to keep on being a misfit.
Chaitanya Keerti writes in the Deccan Chronicle on April 29, 2014 about forgetting who we truly are.
An open letter to the people of Brazil was published on December 17, 2013 in the Brazilian newspaper ‘A Folha’ in Portuguese; this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Greenwald’s husband David Miranda and posted by Common Dreams.