Buddha himself was a Zorba 🌹OSHO

🌹 Buddha himself was a Zorba 🌹

⛩ He had all the beautiful women available I his country.

His father had arranged for all the beautiful girls to be around him.

He had the most beautiful palaces – different places for different seasons.

He had ALL the luxury that is possible, or that was possible in those days.

He lived the life of a Zorba the Greek – hence, when he was only twenty-nine he became utterly frustrated.

He was a very intelligent man.

If he had been a mediocre man, then he would have lived in it.

But soon he saw the point: it is repetitive, it is the same.

Every day you eat, every day you make love to a woman... and he had new women every day to make love to.
But how long...?!

Soon he was fed up.

The experience of life is very bitter.

It is sweet only in imagination In its reality it is very bitter.

He escaped from the palace and the woman and the riches and the luxury and everything....

So, I am not against Zorba the Greek because Zorba the Greek is the very foundation of Zorba the Buddha.

Buddha arises out of that experience.

So I am all for this world, because I know the other world can only be experienced through this world.

So I don’t say escape from it, Prabhu Maya; I will not say to you become a monk.

A monk is one who has moved against the Zorba; he is an escapist, a coward; he has done something in a hurry, out of un intelligence.

He is not a mature person.

A monk is immature, greedy – greedy for the other world, and wants it too early, and the season has not come, and he is not ripe yet.

Live in this world because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity.

The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness.

And that awareness becomes the ladder.

Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

But let me repeat again: only Zorbas become Buddhas – and Buddha was never a monk.

A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted by the words of Buddhas.

A monk is an imitator, he is false, pseudo.

He imitates Buddhas.

He may be Christian, he may be Buddhist, he may be a Jain – that doesn’t make much difference – but he imitates Buddhas.

When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it.

It is not a relaxed going.

His whole being is pulled towards the world. He struggles against it.

He becomes divided.

Half of his being is for the world and half has become greedy for the other.

He is torn apart.

A monk is a schizophrenic
basically, the split person, divided into the lower and the higher.

And the lower goes on pulling him, and the lower becomes more and more attractive the more it is repressed.

And because he has not lived the lower, he cannot get into the higher.

You can get into the higher only when you have lived through the lower ⛩

💢 Osho
CHAPTER 4. VIA CONFUSIVA
The Perfect Master, Vol 1 💢