DON'T BE TOO HARD ON YOURSELF
DON'T BE TOO HARD ON YOURSELF. Be a little more compassionate, a little more loving. So I don't teach a principled life; I TEACH YOU CLEARLY AN UNPRINCIPLED LIFE, A LIFE OF INTELLIGENCE which changes with every change around you. You don't have a principle that creates a difficulty in changing. Be absolutely unprincipled and just follow life. And there will be no misery in your life.
You can live this whole life with so many songs and so many dances, and out of those songs and dances will arise your gratitude. And I call that gratitude your religiousness -- gratitude towards existence. But you don't give a chance for your own life to flower. YOUR PRINCIPLES ARE YOUR PRISONS, and they go on becoming bigger and bigger. You will be surprised to know that FOR A BUDDHIST MONK THERE ARE THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND PRINCIPLES to be followed. Now even to remember them is impossible. To follow them means crippling yourself completely. On each step, at each moment you have to consult your holy book: what to do, what not to do.
JUST DO WHATSOEVER IS PLEASANT -- pleasant to you and pleasant to your surroundings. Just do something which brings a song to you and creates a rhythm around you, of celebration. THIS LIFE I CALL A RELIGIOUS LIFE: IT HAS NO PRINCIPLES, it has no discipline, it has no laws, it has only one single approach, and that is to live intelligently.
—OSHO—
Excerpted from: The Transmission of the Lamp
Ch #15: There are times when you need the open sky
pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
You can live this whole life with so many songs and so many dances, and out of those songs and dances will arise your gratitude. And I call that gratitude your religiousness -- gratitude towards existence. But you don't give a chance for your own life to flower. YOUR PRINCIPLES ARE YOUR PRISONS, and they go on becoming bigger and bigger. You will be surprised to know that FOR A BUDDHIST MONK THERE ARE THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND PRINCIPLES to be followed. Now even to remember them is impossible. To follow them means crippling yourself completely. On each step, at each moment you have to consult your holy book: what to do, what not to do.
JUST DO WHATSOEVER IS PLEASANT -- pleasant to you and pleasant to your surroundings. Just do something which brings a song to you and creates a rhythm around you, of celebration. THIS LIFE I CALL A RELIGIOUS LIFE: IT HAS NO PRINCIPLES, it has no discipline, it has no laws, it has only one single approach, and that is to live intelligently.
—OSHO—
Excerpted from: The Transmission of the Lamp
Ch #15: There are times when you need the open sky
pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
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