All that’s valuable grows only in freedom, says OSHO
All that is valuable becomes
possible only in the climate of freedom. Love also grows only in the soil of
freedom; without freedom, love cannot grow. Without freedom, what grows in the
name of love is nothing but lust. Without freedom there is no God. Without
freedom what you think to be God is only your imagination, your fear, your
greed. There is no heaven without freedom: freedom is heaven....
Freedom is the goal. Awareness is
the method to reach that goal. And when you are really free, you are a master;
the slavery disappears. Ordinarily we may appear free, but we are not free. It
may appear that we are the choosers, but we are not the choosers. We are being
pulled, pushed by unconscious forces….
All great values of life grow in the climate of freedom;
hence freedom is the most fundamental value and also the highest pinnacle. This
freedom... is spiritual, a state of consciousness unhindered by any desire,
unchained to any desire, ‘unimprisoned’ by any greed, by any lust for more. It
is utterly empty, because if there is something, it will hinder freedom; hence
it is utter emptiness.
This word ‘emptiness’ has been so very misunderstood by
people, because the word has a connotation of negativity.... Emptiness is
absolutely positive, more positive than your so-called fullness, because
emptiness is full of freedom; everything else has been removed. It is spacious;
all boundaries have been dropped. It is unbounded — and only in an unbounded
space, freedom is possible. This emptiness is not ordinary emptiness; it is not
only absence of something, it is a presence of something invisible. For
example, let’s say you are about to empty your room: As you remove the
furniture and paintings and the things inside, the room becomes empty on the
one hand because there is no more furniture, no more paintings, no more things,
nothing is left inside; but on the other hand, something invisible starts
filling it. That invisible ‘thing’ that you now perceive is ‘roominess’,
spaciousness; the room becomes bigger.
As you remove the things, the room is becoming bigger and
bigger. When everything is removed, even the walls, then the room is as big as
the whole sky. Freedom is the ultimate goal of true religion. Freedom is the
highest, the summum bonum; there is nothing higher than that.
Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha.
courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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