Osho - Love letters to life: 150 life-transforming letters by Osho

150 Life-Transforming Letters by Osho

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Letters 1 150

Love.

I received your letter when I returned from Delhi the day beforeyesterday. I am happy to know that you are experiencing bliss and contentment.

Bliss lives within us, but we do not find it because we arelooking for it on the outside. Once the inner journey begins, new sources ofbliss are continuously opening up.

In the kingdom of the inner, there is neither sorrow, nor pain,nor death. Once you reach this state of deathless you will be reborn, and youwill cut all that binds you.

Reaching this liberated state is the very goal of life. In thisstate, the self and the other drop, and only isness remains: withoutboundaries, indescribable; formless and figureless.

Before, there was the isness of I; now, there is the isness ofthe whole. Once this is attained, everything is attained. Once this is known,everything is known. Once you are in this state, violence and hatred, sorrowand pain, death and darkness all will disappear, and what will remain will besat chit anand: truth, consciousness, bliss.

May you attain sat chit anand. That is my wish.

Love.

Truth is manifesting in every moment, in everything that ishappening. It is being perpetually expressed. All that is needed are the eyesto see it; its light is ever-present.

I planted a sapling a year ago, now it has begun to flower.Before this happened there was a year of waiting. Spiritual life is the same.

Be prayerful and wait sow the seeds and wait for the flowers tocome. Patience is the life-breath of meditation. Nothing can happen before itstime. Everything takes time to grow.

I have received your letter. As you move on your journey you areforging a path between hope and despair. I am very happy to know this. The pathof life is very winding and it is good it is so. It creates a challenge foryour courage and energy, and adds joy to the victory.

Only those who never set out on the journey can be calleddefeated. The one who sets out has already won half the battle. And the defeatsthat come in between are not defeats; they are only the backdrops against whichthe victories can stand out in their greater glory.

Existence is with you each and every moment; that is whyattainment of the goal is certain.

I am in bliss.

Love.

I am in bliss. I received your letter some time ago. Since then Ihave been away, hence my delay in replying. I have now returned after speakingin Indore and Shajapur.

One truth I witness every day is that one cannot live withoutspirituality. Without spirituality something in a person remains empty andunfulfilled. This emptiness will start to ache, but you will find no way tofill it.

This is the state of modern man. I am not worried about itbecause in this state may lie the only hope for mankinds future and safety.Out of this very pain a thirst will be born, which, if given the rightdirection, can become a worldwide spiritual regeneration. For just as a darknight is followed by the rising sun, so the soul of man is very close to a new dawn.

News of this impending dawn has to be brought to every singleperson because it has to happen within each and every one of us. And we allhave to make an effort for this dawn to occur. It will only come if we all makean effort. It cannot come by itself.

The birth of consciousness demands effort and patience. It islike birth pangs. This effort and waiting, these birth pangs, are not painfulbecause through them the infinitesimal can open to the infinite. There is nogreater bliss than giving birth to the vastness within oneself.

I am happy to know that you are moving toward the goal of life.If we just keep moving we are bound to reach.

May the divine be with you, that is my wish.

Love.

I have received your letter and I am very pleased. It fills mewith joy that you are touching new depths of peace and bliss! On lifes journeythere is nothing worth attaining other than this. When all else is lost, thiswealth will still be with you. That is why it is, in fact, the only wealth; andthose who have everything but this wealth are paupers even with all theirriches.

That is why one can be poor while having great riches, and richwhile living in poverty, because such riches only give the illusion ofdestroying ones poverty. They dont destroy it, they only hide it, and thisself-deception is very costly in the end, because a life that could have beenan opportunity to gain some real treasure is spent uselessly living under thisillusion.

It is very important to remain alert to the kind of wealth thatis found on the periphery of life. For only those who realize its illusorynature will set out to search for the treasure that is hidden at the verycenter of life.

Finding this wealth will destroy poverty forever, because suchwealth can never be taken away from you, and only that which cannot be takenaway from you is your own wealth, your personal wealth.

That which cannot be taken away cannot be found either, becausethat which can be found can also be lost. Inner wealth simply is. It iseverywhere; one simply has to recognize it. In fact, to recognize it is toattain it.

May every step you take in life lead you toward this wealth ofwisdom that is my wish.

I am in bliss. Give my love to all the beloved ones there.

Love.

I am pleased with your very loving letter. May your flame of liferise smokelessly toward the truth that is my only wish.

One has to turn ones life into a blazing fire in order to reachgodliness. May you always remember this.

Asleep or awake, if this longing, this thirst, this remembrance,is in your every breath if it is the whole focus of your vision thennothing else needs to be done. Thirst, and thirst alone, is enough to attainit.

The ocean is so close, but there is no thirst in us. Its gate isso close, but we dont even knock. All that is needed is the ability to seethat godliness is always present. But our eyes focus on other things, and ourminds are filled with everything that is useless; that is why we are unable tosee that which is.

The heart is covered with the other; that is why the self isforgotten. This covering has to be removed: the pondweed and the garbage strewnover the pure, clear waters of the lake have to be removed. Then we will seethat we have never lost anything, that it cannot be lost.

I am constantly living in truth, in isness. I am it. And so areyou: