Divine play - OSHO

🥀 Osho 🥀

🌹 Divine play.

And that
is one of the most
fundamental secrets
of the eastern
teachings – that life
should not be taken
as work but as play.

God has not created the world...

 Because
the word
’creation’
 seems to be too
serious – he is
playing.
 It is his leela,
 His play.

The eastern concept
is very simple,

non serious, more
joyous... closer to the
great beauty that
surrounds – the
flowers, the birds, the
rivers, the ocean.

Everything seems to
be in tremendous
play.

 And god is not doing
something – it is a
game...

It is hide and seek.

Once you take
life as a play the
total concept
changes.

Then the anxiety, the
tension of reaching somewhere, is
dropped....

There
is nowhere to arrive.

Life is not going
anywhere – it is
simply here.

 There is no goal. It is
not goal-oriented –
each moment is the
goal.  The journey is the
goal, and each
moment is of
tremendous
celebration.

There
is no need to wait for
tomorrow – that
tomorrow we will
celebrate...  when we have
become buddhas
or christs then we will
celebrate – no!

Then you will never
celebrate. Each
moment we have to
celebrate...
 as if we are buddhas
already.
In the beginning it
is’as if, but soon you
realise that it is not
an’ -as if
 – it is a reality.
 We have not
recognised ourselves
as we are.
 ’Deva vilas’ means to
take life as fun...
divine fun, a beautiful
joke!

Theologians are very
serious
people, and
seriousness is an
illness – it is a sort of
neurosis.  More laughter is
needed, more
humour is needed.

And I am trying to
create here a totally
new kind of religion –
where laughter is not
against prayer.
 You can laugh and
pray together. Your
laughter can become
prayer – your prayer
can because
laughter. Then – only
then – does each
moment become
luminous, glorious.

Then a splendour enters your life
 from very small things.

Eating can become a
sacrament and taking a bath can
be meditation.

Just going for a morning walk is
incredibly holy

And there is no need
to go to the church or
to the temple,

Because the whole
existence is his
temple.

And there is
no need to be against
your body,

Or anti life in any way,

Because your body is his
temple – he is hiding here.

A great life affirmation arises.

Serious people become negative.

Serious people become so much obsessed with god

That they are ready to sacrifice life
for it – but god is in life

He is as much immanent as he is
transcendent.

He is in life – of course he is more than life, too,

But the way goes through life.

He is in love – he is
more than love too,

But the way goes through love.

It does not go against life,

It does not go against
love.

So a great affirmation
is needed.

Make yourself less serious.

Think less,feel more.

Do less, dance more.

Act less, play more.

Acting will do,

But to act is not good.

And once this is understood, things
start changing 🌹


♥ Osho
The Buddha Disease ♥