To become a OSHONIST and to miss ⓄⓈⒽⓄ is not worth it.

There is only One Golden Rule –
That there are no Golden rules.

Learn, grow in understanding, but don’t follow rules.

Rules are dead, understanding is alive; rules will become an imprisonment, understanding will give you the infinite sky.

And every man is burdened with rules, every religion becomes nothing but rules.

Because jesus attained, because Buddha attained, because ⓄⓈⒽⓄ attained, their life became a rule for everybody else to follow.

But nobody else is a Gautam Buddha; nobody else is a Jesus Christ;nobody else is a ⓄⓈⒽⓄ. So at the most you can become a decorated carbon copy, but you will never be your authentic self.

If you follow ⓄⓈⒽⓄ too much you will become a OSHONIST but never a ⓄⓈⒽⓄ, and that is the danger.

To become a OSHONIST and to miss ⓄⓈⒽⓄ is not worth it. You can become ⓄⓈⒽⓄ, but then ⓄⓈⒽⓄ cannot be your rule, only your own understanding will be the law.

No man of understanding can follow rules strictly.

Only people who are dead can follow rules strictly because no rule is for you, you are your own rule.

Understand, learn from others, just to find your own rule, but remember, never impose that rule on anybody else – that is violence.

Your so-called mahatmas go on enforcing rules on others because through rules they killand destroy, and they enjoy violence.

Their violence is very subtle, they don’t kill you directly, they kill you very indirectly.

If somebody attacks you directly you can defend yourself. When somebody attacks you indirectly – for your own sake – you become completely a victim, you cannot even defend yourself.

Many gurus are nothing but violence, but their violence is subtle.

So whenever you come near a man who wants to impose his rules on your life, wants to give you a fixed frame, wants to give youa window to look at the truth through, escape from him.

There is danger.

ⓄⓈⒽⓄ will not give you a window to look at the truth through, he will bring you out under the sky.

ⓄⓈⒽⓄ will not give you a pattern to live by, he will simply give you the feeling, the understanding, and understanding will help you to move; understanding is free and your own.

Remember.... Because you don’t want to understand, because understanding is difficult andarduous, because understanding needs courage and understanding needs transformation, you simply become victims of those who want to give you rules.

But rules are substitutes, you can get them easily. You can easily make your life a disciplined life but this will be a false thing.

You maybe acting, pretending, but this cannot be real.

OshO 💕
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