Whenever You Do Something Good

Whenever you do something good, do it out of love – not out of duty.
I used to go to many clubs to speak.
In one Rotary Club they had a motto, which was placed just in front of me, ‘We serve.’ I had not
gone to speak to them about service, but I said, ”Now I have forgotten what I had come for.
I am going to speak about this motto that is in front of me in golden letters, ‘We serve.’
If you are aware of your service, it is not service; it is a very cunning way of
enslaving the other person.
To me, duty is a four-letter, ugly word – obscene.”
Never do anything out of the idea of duty, because it means you are forcing yourself,
it means you are fulfilling a certain demand from the other side,
it means you are following a certain discipline taught by the society to you.
Only act out of love.
Then only your act is beautiful and is a blessing.
You should do things not to be rewarded, not to be remembered, not to have people be grateful to you.
You should do because you enjoy doing – and your reward is complete,
beyond your action you are not expecting anything... otherwise even the best act becomes ugly

OshO

Why Do I Want People to Admire Me

Question :- WHY DO I WANT PEOPLE TO ADMIRE ME?

Answer :-
One wants to be admired because one has no respect for oneself.

We are brought up with guilt feelings deeply rooted in us. From the very beginning we are condemned by the parents, by the teachers, by the priests, by the politicians, by the whole establishment.

A single note is continuously repeated to every child: that ’Whatsoever you are doing is not right.

You are doing what should not be done and you are not doing what should be done.’

Every child is given directly and indirectly
the impression that he is not really wanted, that his parents are tired, that he is being somehow tolerated, that he is a nuisance.

This creates a deep wound in every person, and a rejection of oneself arises.

To cover up that wound we expect
admiration, admiration is a compensation.

If you respect yourself that is more than
enough; if you love yourself there is no need for any admiration, there is no desire at all, because once you start expecting admiration from others you start compromising with them.

You have to fulfil their expectations, only then will they admire you. You have to be according to their dictates, you cannot live a life of freedom.

You become crippled and paralysed, you become retarded, you don’t grow up.

You become so afraid of your own self that you are constantly on guard, because you know if you allow yourself you are bound to do something wrong.

Because all that you have ever done was labelled wrong and now there is a trembling inside. You cannot depend on yourself, you have to depend on others.

This is a very psychological strategy to create slavery.

Condemn the person in his own eyes and he will remain dependent on others.

OshO

Peoples Religion is Only Formal

                               

People don’t really want to be religious; their religion is only formal, it does not mean anything – it is a Sunday religion.

They go to the church, they go to the temple, they go to the mosque – it is
respectable, and they are good meeting places.

Churches are like clubs, very formal; they don’t change anything in you, but they give you a good feeling about yourself, that you are religious.

The people who go to the churches, to the temples, to the synagogues, are going for absolutely wrong reasons.

What are their reasons for going there?

They are going there to pray to God to
grant them some of their wishes, so that some of their desires will be fulfilled.

They have tried hard and they are not succeeding, and they would like God to do some miracles for them.

They are going there in search of some miracles, they are not interested in discovering the truth.

But, yes, they are immensely interested in beautiful lies, consolations, confirmations that they are good, that whatsoever they are and wherever they are is perfectly right.

And the priests have been doing this business: first they create guilt in you and then they console you.

Guilt makes you go to the churches, to the temples, because you feel uneasy, and then the priest consoles you, helps you.

He has created the wound in the first place and then he puts ointment on your wound and you feel very good.

Osho