Osho From Bondage To Freedom

Love is not surrender. Love does not ask you to surrender. Love does not ask for anything. Love simply gives. And the miracle is, that when you give out of love the whole existence returns it a thousandfold, as if, from all over around you, roses start showering on you. You cannot imagine, cannot conceive of it, unless you experience it. But give it a try. You will not be losing anything.

Love is not something like a commodity, that if you give it you will have less of it. It is not money, that you had ten dollars and five you have given; now you have only five dollars left.

Love is not a commodity. It is not a quantity; it is a quality.

Give it, and you will be surprised that from unknown sources, from everywhere, love is flowing towards you.

Give it unconditionally, and once you have known the taste and the joy of giving unconditionally, you will also know that the existence is very generous.

But it gives only to the givers, and you are always begging. That's why I am against prayer, because all prayer is begging. "Give me this. Lord, give me today's bread." What nonsense! You cannot even create today's bread?

And Jesus is thought to do miracles - turning stones into bread, walking on water, making dead people alive. And he also goes on asking, "Lord, give us our bread for today."

What about small, simple human beings, who cannot walk on water, and cannot make bread out of stones, and cannot revive dead people? Naturally, they will be simply beggars.

All the religions of the world have turned humanity into beggars, and they have all praised poverty to make you really beggars.

I am against poverty, and I am against begging. You have intelligence, you have physical strength; you can create. And if you cannot even create enough bread for yourself, then what is the point of going on living, dragging?

I believe in creativity, and I want every human being to be a creator. And we can create as much wealth as is needed. There is no need to be like the Soviet Union - to distribute poverty. We can create so much wealth that nobody needs to hoard it. There is no need, because it is available, and you are capable of creating it.

Love will give you the secret key, the golden key, the master key.

Love unconditionally, and flowers will be showering on you from all the directions. And once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

You are part of such an opulent, luxurious abundance. Can't you see existence is luxurious?

To create one child, the male releases millions of sperms. This I call luxury! Existence is not miserly.

Only one out of millions will become a child, and that too, once in a while.

And that too, only if you are still listening to the idiots - Ayatollah Khomeiniac, Pope the Polack, Shankaracharya the Idiot - if you are listening to these people, only then. Otherwise, the Pill will prevent even that invading army, one million people - just a small pill.

This is a real miracle, not making one dead man alive. This is a miracle: a small pill preventing millions of people.

But as far as existence is concerned, it is really opulent in every way. It goes on flowering. How many flowers? And how many species of flowers? How many animals? And how many species of animals? How many birds? And how many species of birds?

In everything, existence creates luxuriously. It is not miserly.

Giving love unconditionally you will understand, and that understanding will be a transformation of you. It will make you a new man.


Osho From Bondage To Freedom