When the Shoe Fits- Symphony For A Seabird
JESUS used to say: I LOOK AT YOU AND I FEEL THAT YOU ARE LIKE GRAVES, white-washed -- inside dead, outside a white-washed wall. It may look beautiful and clean, all your rules can give you an outer cleanliness, but inside you remain the old fool. And remember, ONLY FOOLS FOLLOW RULES; a wise man tries to understand and forget the rules.
A wise man is free to move; A MAN WHO HAS RULES CANNOT MOVE, he always has to follow the rule. And life changes every moment -- from moment to moment, it goes on changing, it does not wait for you or your rules.
EVERY MOMENT IS NEW. And if the rule is old, you will always miss your step and you will always be a misfit. Whenever there is a man who follows rules, HE WILL ALWAYS BE A MISFIT EVERYWHERE -- because life goes on flowing and you are stuck with the rule.
As I see within you, YOU ARE ALL STUCK WITH RULES. In your childhood, rules were given to you and you are stuck there. Since then you have never moved. You may have been jogging on the same spot but you have not moved. You may become old -- seventy years old -- but deep down you remain stuck.
THE WHOLE EFFORT TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT is how to get unstuck, how to move, how to become a flow again and not be frozen. Don't be like ice -- frozen; become like water, a river -- flowing. Rules will never allow you that. Remember that life goes on renewing itself and only understanding can respond...
—OSHO—
When the Shoe Fits
Ch #6: Symphony For A Seabird
am in Buddha Hall
A wise man is free to move; A MAN WHO HAS RULES CANNOT MOVE, he always has to follow the rule. And life changes every moment -- from moment to moment, it goes on changing, it does not wait for you or your rules.
EVERY MOMENT IS NEW. And if the rule is old, you will always miss your step and you will always be a misfit. Whenever there is a man who follows rules, HE WILL ALWAYS BE A MISFIT EVERYWHERE -- because life goes on flowing and you are stuck with the rule.
As I see within you, YOU ARE ALL STUCK WITH RULES. In your childhood, rules were given to you and you are stuck there. Since then you have never moved. You may have been jogging on the same spot but you have not moved. You may become old -- seventy years old -- but deep down you remain stuck.
THE WHOLE EFFORT TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT is how to get unstuck, how to move, how to become a flow again and not be frozen. Don't be like ice -- frozen; become like water, a river -- flowing. Rules will never allow you that. Remember that life goes on renewing itself and only understanding can respond...
—OSHO—
When the Shoe Fits
Ch #6: Symphony For A Seabird
am in Buddha Hall
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