Osho Rajneesh Book "The Rebellious Spirit"

The Rebellious Spirit

Work can produce, silence can create

21 February 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Question 1

BELOVED OSHO,

MOVING INTO ALONENESS, INTO SUCH SILENCE, PEACE AND BLISS, I SUDDENLY

REALIZED THAT AT THE SAME TIME I WAS COMING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO YOU.

DANCING WITH YOUR LOVE, NEVER BEFORE HAVE I BEEN IN SUCH A SPACE – COMING

HOME AT LAST. BUT I HAVE TO GO SOON, AND I AM SO AFRAID TO LOSE IT. I FEEL SO

FRAGILE, SO VULNERABLE. HOW CAN I TAKE CARE OF THIS TREASURE, HELP IT TO GROW AND SHARE IT AT THE SAME TIME OVER THERE?

Prem Vishva, the joy, the love, the blissfulness, the feeling of coming home – if this is true, you need

not worry about losing it. The truth can only be found; it cannot be lost. That which can be lost was

only your imagination. In any case, going away will be of tremendous help in understanding yourself.

Either you will find that whatever you were feeling here you are feeling wherever you are, or you will

find that back in your own world, all that blissfulness and all that love disappears. Then it was just

a figment of your imagination. Even to understand that is good, so next time when you come here

you can avoid falling into the trap of imagination. As far as I can see, you have come to a space

which you cannot lose even if you want to. And the only way to grow deeper into it is to share it with

people.

Life needs continuous growth. The moment you stop its growth, it starts dying. So go into the world

full of songs, full of dance and abundant love, and give it unconditionally, without any judgment, to

anybody who is receptive – and you will go on growing in the experience both deeper and higher.

Something has happened – that much I can say to you. Now it depends on you to let it grow or not

to let it grow. And the way of growth is very simple: share it. But the sharing should not be with

any judgment on your part; the sharing is not to be done with those who deserve it. Love knows

no discrimination between the deserving ones and the nondeserving ones. Love enjoys giving itself

– it does not matter to whom. And the miracle of love is that whomsoever you give it to, becomes

deserving.

Question 2

BELOVED OSHO,

I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT GUILT. I CAN’T SEE IT, OR TASTE IT, OR TOUCH IT, BUT

SOMEHOW IT IS ALWAYS THERE – ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM DOING NOTHING. IT ONLY

DISAPPEARS WHEN I AM WORKING, AND RETURNS IMMEDIATELY AT THE THOUGHT OF DANCING, OR SINGING, OR MEDITATING. WHAT IS THE MECHANISM OF GUILT AND WILL IEVER BE FREE OF IT?

Prem Prasado, the mechanism of guilt is very simple. You have been conditioned from your very

childhood to believe that doing something is better than doing nothing – and meditation is going into

nothingness. The idea has been imposed on you for so long it has taken roots in your mind. But

because the idea is basically false, it can be dropped.

First you have to understand there is no guilt in existence anywhere; there may be mistakes, but no

guilt at all. Guilt is a by-product of the idea of sin: that you are committing something sinful. The

world wants you to be extroverts – workaholics, it wants you to continuously work and work and

work. The world has no need, apparently at least, of those who sit silently, doing nothing. They also

are needed – immensely needed – but to see it needs great understanding.

A man of silence, a man who can sit without any movement of his body or his mind, creates a certain

vibration all around him which is very infectious. It helps people to be silent, to be relaxed. He is

almost like an oasis in the desert. But because it is not visible, the world has never taken note of it.

You always feel guilty when doing nothing – and that is the greatest virtue in the world, not only in

your body, but even in your mind. All doing stops: you are simply a presence.

So you have to drop that idea, which has been implanted in you by others. They wanted you to work

because work is productive. They could not understand that doing nothing, being silent, has its own

way of creating a certain atmosphere – which is far more valuable than any production.

Work can produce, silence can create.

But it is very difficult, because the whole world around you is insisting that you do something. Don’t

just be useless. Remember the words of Rabindranath that we were talking about the other day: ”I

am useless; I can only sing, and my songs are purposeless.” But Rabindranath has enriched this

country more than any other individual in this century. Flowers don’t have purposes, but a world

without flowers will be a very mundane world.

Roses bring something of the beyond into the world – the beauty, the fragrance. They all have no

purpose. But purpose is not the only thing life is for. Purpose is necessary for survival, but survival

is not living. Living needs songs and dances and love and peace.

Flowers show that existence is so abundant with colors and fragrance, that it goes on sharing. A

world without flowers, without poetry, without music, without painting, would not be worth living in.

But for centuries the wrong people have ruled over humanity. In Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram roses

were not allowed. Even in the flower pots wheat was sown – because wheat has a purpose. Roses

don’t have any purpose. Mahatma Gandhi had the mind of a businessman.

Jesus says, ”You cannot live by bread alone; something more is needed.” Of course he means God

is needed – but if you cannot even enjoy a rose flower, God is very far away from you. Have you

ever thought, What is the purpose of God? Is there any utility in God? Even if you find him, what are

you going to do with him? Decorate your sitting room? 

Life needs work for survival, and to celebrate – silence, songs, music. They are higher values. You

want to live for them – the work is for you to survive. But you want to survive because there are roses,

and there are songs, and there are meditations, and there are worlds unknown and challenging to

be explored.

So I am not saying, don’t work. But work is the minimum of life, and the state of not doing anything

and just being a silent pool of energy is the maximum of living, because out of this silent pool

everything that is beautiful arises.

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