he speaking tree - Drop Your Seriousness And Turn Playful
Talk: Osho
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The original mind exists without any motivation. It exists without any cause, support or any ground. It exists in itself, it has no outward support. It has to be so because the ultimate cannot have any support because the ultimate means the total nothing is outside it. You can think that you are sitting on the earth, and then the earth is being supported by some magnetic forces in the planetary system, and the planets are supported by some other magnetic force of some super-sun. But the whole cannot have any support, because from where will the support come? The total cannot have any grounding to it.I have heard: A lady was seated on a bus with her son. She bought a single ticket. The conductor addressed the boy , “How old are you, little fellow?“ “I am four,“ answered the lad.
“And when will you be five?“ asked the conductor. The boy glanced at his mother, who was smiling her approval of the conversation, and said, “When i get off this bus.“
He has been taught to say something but still he cannot understand the motivation. He has been taught to say `four years' to save a ticket, but he does not know the motivation of it so he repeats like a parrot. Every child is more in tune with the original mind than grown-ups. Look at children, playing, running around: you will not find any motivation in particular. They are enjoying, and if you ask for what, they will shrug their shoulders. It is almost impossible to comm nicate with grown-ups. Children simply feel it almost impossible; there exists no bridge, because the grown-up asks a very silly question: “For what?“ The grown-up lives with a certain economic mind. You do something to earn something. Children are not yet aware of this constant motivation. They don't know the language of desire, they know the language of playfulness.That's the meaning when Jesus says, “You will not be able to enter into the kingdom of God unless you are like small children.“ He's saying that unless you become a child again, unless you drop motivation and become playful ... Remember, work has never led anybody to godliness. And people who are working their path towards godliness will go on moving in a circle in the marketplace; they will never reach. Godliness is playful, and you have to be playful. Suddenly , communion; suddenly , a bridge.
Meditate playfully , not seriously . When you go into the meditation hall, leave your serious faces where you leave your shoes. Let meditation be fun. `Fun' is a very religious word; `seriousness' is very irreligious. If you want to attain to the original mind, you will have to live a very non-serious, though sincere life; you will have to transfor your work into play; you will have to transform all your duties into love. `Duty' is a dirty word; of course, a four-letter word.
Avoid duty . Bring more love to function. Change your work more and more into a new energy which you can enjoy , and let your life be more of fun, more of laughter, and less of desire and motivation. The more you are motivated, the more you will cling to a certain mind. You have to, because the motivation can be fulfilled only by a certain mind. And if you want to drop all mind and all minds are to be dropped only then do you attain to your innermost nature, your spontaneity .It is totally different, a different language from desire.
“And when will you be five?“ asked the conductor. The boy glanced at his mother, who was smiling her approval of the conversation, and said, “When i get off this bus.“
He has been taught to say something but still he cannot understand the motivation. He has been taught to say `four years' to save a ticket, but he does not know the motivation of it so he repeats like a parrot. Every child is more in tune with the original mind than grown-ups. Look at children, playing, running around: you will not find any motivation in particular. They are enjoying, and if you ask for what, they will shrug their shoulders. It is almost impossible to comm nicate with grown-ups. Children simply feel it almost impossible; there exists no bridge, because the grown-up asks a very silly question: “For what?“ The grown-up lives with a certain economic mind. You do something to earn something. Children are not yet aware of this constant motivation. They don't know the language of desire, they know the language of playfulness.That's the meaning when Jesus says, “You will not be able to enter into the kingdom of God unless you are like small children.“ He's saying that unless you become a child again, unless you drop motivation and become playful ... Remember, work has never led anybody to godliness. And people who are working their path towards godliness will go on moving in a circle in the marketplace; they will never reach. Godliness is playful, and you have to be playful. Suddenly , communion; suddenly , a bridge.
Meditate playfully , not seriously . When you go into the meditation hall, leave your serious faces where you leave your shoes. Let meditation be fun. `Fun' is a very religious word; `seriousness' is very irreligious. If you want to attain to the original mind, you will have to live a very non-serious, though sincere life; you will have to transfor your work into play; you will have to transform all your duties into love. `Duty' is a dirty word; of course, a four-letter word.
Avoid duty . Bring more love to function. Change your work more and more into a new energy which you can enjoy , and let your life be more of fun, more of laughter, and less of desire and motivation. The more you are motivated, the more you will cling to a certain mind. You have to, because the motivation can be fulfilled only by a certain mind. And if you want to drop all mind and all minds are to be dropped only then do you attain to your innermost nature, your spontaneity .It is totally different, a different language from desire.
