…Your thoughts are things, so be careful about them. Handle them carefully! If you are not very conscious, you can create misery for yourself and for other – and you have done that. And remember when you create misery for somebody, unconsciously, at the same time, you are creating misery for yourself – because the thought is a two-edge sword. It cuts you also simultaneously when it cuts somebody else.
… There are fools all over the world who go on saying, “Do something rather done nothing.” And there are perfect fools who have created a proverb all over the world that “An empty mind is a devil’s workshop.” It is not. An empty mind is God’s workshop. An empty mind is the most beautiful thing in t world, the purest – because how can an empty mind be a workshop of the devil? The devil cannot enter into an empty mind, impossible! The devil can enter only in a mind which is obsessed with activity – then the devil can take charge of you, he can show you ways and means and methods how to be more active. The devil never says, “Relax!” He says, “Why are you wasting your time? Do something man! Move! Life is going by – do something!” And all the grate teachers, teachers who have awakened to the truth of life, has come to realize that an empty mind gives space to the divine to enter in you.
Activity can be used by the devil, not an empty mind. How can the devil use an empty mind? He will not dare to come near because emptiness will simply kill him. But if you are filled with a deep urge, mad urge to be active, then the devil will take your charge, then he will guide you – then he is the only guide.
…Remember this, that tantra accepts you in your totality. When you come to me, I accept you in your totality. I am not here to help you deny anything. I am here only to help you rearrange, to get a center of all your energies, to converge them to a center. And I tell you that you will be richer if you have anger absorbed in it; you will be richer if you will have sex absorbed in it; you will be richer if you have hatred, jealousy, absorbed into it –they are the spices of life, and you will taste… You will not become tasteless, you will have an enrichment to your taste. You will need a little salt. Anger is exactly in the same amount as it is needed. When it overpowers you, then it becomes ugly. If you eat only salt you will die. Salt has a proportion, and the proportion it is needed, absolutely needed. Remember this.
…Simplicity needs a very deep and complex experience behind it. A simpleton is simply without experience behind it. He may be a fool, but he cannot be a sage. A sage is one who has lived all the sins of life, who has not denied anything, who has not called anything a sin, who has accepted whatsoever has happened, who has allowed it to happen; who has moved with every wave, who has drifted, who went astray, who fell down to the very hell.
Somewhere Nietzsche says, “If a tree wants to reach to the sky, its roots need to go to the very hell.” He is right. If you want a real flowering into the sky, your roots will need to go to the deepest hell in the earth.
…And when suddenly one moment happens that you accept totally and all the desire have gone, there is a sudden enlightenment. Suddenly, without doing anything on your part, it happens. That’s the greatest gift existence can give to you.
This is the tantra attitude towards life. There is no other life than this, and there is no other world than this. This very samsara is the nirvana. Just you have to be a little more understanding, more accepting, more childlike, less egotistic.
…You sit by the river and you share; you move, your very movement becomes your compassion – it is nothing to be done. If you do, something is wrong. How can you “do” love? It is not an act, it is a state of being. You are in love, you have the light, and your doors are open; then whosoever wants to come in, into the inner shrine of your being, is invited. And whosoever wants to light his own light from your source of light, you are ready.
…When you start doing something, one thing is certain, you are creating a mischief. You will simply poke your nose into others’ affair. Let them be themselves. It is enough compassion on your side that you don’t disturb them. Don’t try to change them. You don’t know what you are doing.
…So whenever a person becomes too interested and eager to calm down the mind, he creates many trouble for himself. It is not possible! And when you try some impossibility, you get frustrated. Then you think a thousand and one causes why it is not happening. The simple fact is it cannot happen! Tantra says, “Watch it! It is none of your business that thoughts come and go. They come in their own accord. Why do you get involved in them? Who are you to calm them down? Then don’t belong to you; they belong to the vast ocean that surrounds you. You were not there, and they were. You will not be one day, and they will remain.”
….from the Spoken words of Osho, Tantra the Supreme Understanding
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