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"My message is very simple: live life as riskily as possible. Live life fully, intensely, passionately, because there is no god other than life. Friedrich Nietzsche says: “God is dead.” That is not true, because God, first of all, never existed. How can he? Life exists, has always existed, and always will. Allow yourselves... I repeat, allow yourselves to be obsessed with life. The so-called religions of the past told you the exact opposite.
They say: “Renounce.” I say: “Enjoy.” They reject life, I affirm it. They say that life is something wrong, illusory, and they create an abstract idea of God, which is nothing more than a projection of their own minds. And they worship this projection. It is so irrational, so unimaginably foolish, that it is simply amazing how millions of people have come to believe in this utter nonsense.
That which exists is denied in favor of that which is only an abstraction of the mind. God is just a word, but they say that God is real. But life is real! You feel it in the beating of your heart, it pulsates in your blood, it is everywhere—in the flowers, in the rivers, in the stars. And they say that all this is maya, all this is an illusion. They say that it is made of the same stuff that dreams are made of. And they create a god... of course, everyone creates a god according to their own idea, so there are thousands of gods. It is your imagination. You can create a god with four heads, you can create a god with a thousand hands. It is up to you, it is your game. And these people talked about God and poisoned the minds of others. They said: Brahma satya—"God is truth," and jagat mithya—"the world, life is a lie."
I tell you: life is the only truth there is. There is no other god than life. So allow yourselves to be obsessed with life in all its forms and dimensions—in all the colors of the rainbow, in all the musical notes. If you can do this simple thing... It is simple because the whole question is just to allow everything to happen. Don't push the river, let it carry you to the ocean. It is already flowing there. Relax, don't strain, and don't try to be spiritual. Don't create any separation between matter and spirit. Existence is one, matter and spirit are just two sides of the same coin.
Relax, rest, and move with the river. Be players, not businessmen, and you will learn more about God, because the player knows how to take risks. The player is not calculating; he can put everything he has at stake. But the player's excitement, when he puts everything at stake and waits... what will happen now?
At that very moment, a certain window may open. At that very moment, the inner gestalt may change. Be drunkards, intoxicated with life, with the wine of Existence. Don't stay sober. A sober person remains dead. Drink the wine of life. There is so much poetry in it, so much love, so much juice. You can invite spring at any moment. Just call for spring and let the sun, the wind, and the rain enter you. It is because of this message that spiritualists speak out against me, as they think that I deny God. I am not denying God. For the first time, I am bringing God closer to reality, I am making him alive, I am bringing him closer to you, closer than your own heart, because he is your very being. God is not something separate, not something remote, not something up there in the heavens; he is here and now.
I am trying to destroy the very idea of there and then. All my vision is here and now, because there is no other space than here, and there is no other time than now. Spiritualists are against me because they think I am making people materialists. And materialists are against me because they think I am leading people into meditative intoxication. Shankaracharya would not agree with me, as he says: “God is truth, and everything else is false.” I cannot agree with him. And Karl Marx would not agree with me because he says: “Religion is the opium of the people,” he says that religion is something extremely false, that there is no God, no spirit, no life, there is only matter, and what you think of as your consciousness is only a superficial phenomenon, only a byproduct. At the moment you die, everything dies. I tell you: you were born, and you will certainly die, but inside you there is something that existed before your birth and that will remain after your death. And that something is life.
Life is eternal.
Osho
They say: “Renounce.” I say: “Enjoy.” They reject life, I affirm it. They say that life is something wrong, illusory, and they create an abstract idea of God, which is nothing more than a projection of their own minds. And they worship this projection. It is so irrational, so unimaginably foolish, that it is simply amazing how millions of people have come to believe in this utter nonsense.
That which exists is denied in favor of that which is only an abstraction of the mind. God is just a word, but they say that God is real. But life is real! You feel it in the beating of your heart, it pulsates in your blood, it is everywhere—in the flowers, in the rivers, in the stars. And they say that all this is maya, all this is an illusion. They say that it is made of the same stuff that dreams are made of. And they create a god... of course, everyone creates a god according to their own idea, so there are thousands of gods. It is your imagination. You can create a god with four heads, you can create a god with a thousand hands. It is up to you, it is your game. And these people talked about God and poisoned the minds of others. They said: Brahma satya—"God is truth," and jagat mithya—"the world, life is a lie."
I tell you: life is the only truth there is. There is no other god than life. So allow yourselves to be obsessed with life in all its forms and dimensions—in all the colors of the rainbow, in all the musical notes. If you can do this simple thing... It is simple because the whole question is just to allow everything to happen. Don't push the river, let it carry you to the ocean. It is already flowing there. Relax, don't strain, and don't try to be spiritual. Don't create any separation between matter and spirit. Existence is one, matter and spirit are just two sides of the same coin.
Relax, rest, and move with the river. Be players, not businessmen, and you will learn more about God, because the player knows how to take risks. The player is not calculating; he can put everything he has at stake. But the player's excitement, when he puts everything at stake and waits... what will happen now?
At that very moment, a certain window may open. At that very moment, the inner gestalt may change. Be drunkards, intoxicated with life, with the wine of Existence. Don't stay sober. A sober person remains dead. Drink the wine of life. There is so much poetry in it, so much love, so much juice. You can invite spring at any moment. Just call for spring and let the sun, the wind, and the rain enter you. It is because of this message that spiritualists speak out against me, as they think that I deny God. I am not denying God. For the first time, I am bringing God closer to reality, I am making him alive, I am bringing him closer to you, closer than your own heart, because he is your very being. God is not something separate, not something remote, not something up there in the heavens; he is here and now.
I am trying to destroy the very idea of there and then. All my vision is here and now, because there is no other space than here, and there is no other time than now. Spiritualists are against me because they think I am making people materialists. And materialists are against me because they think I am leading people into meditative intoxication. Shankaracharya would not agree with me, as he says: “God is truth, and everything else is false.” I cannot agree with him. And Karl Marx would not agree with me because he says: “Religion is the opium of the people,” he says that religion is something extremely false, that there is no God, no spirit, no life, there is only matter, and what you think of as your consciousness is only a superficial phenomenon, only a byproduct. At the moment you die, everything dies. I tell you: you were born, and you will certainly die, but inside you there is something that existed before your birth and that will remain after your death. And that something is life.
Life is eternal.
Osho