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... Then you become totally independent. It is independence one needs. Outwardly will be gained in any occupation. But an occupation like gardening or farming will do much good. Bodily, mentally and spiritually -- on all layers of life, it will be helpful. Because you will be independent, totally independent, and when you are occupied in some work if you maintain simultaniously an awareness... while doing, acting, working; simultaneously there must run a current of awareness within you. Then the occupation itself becomes an object of meditation.
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Rather to choose some artificial object of awareness, it is better to choose some type of occupation which is in both ways helpful; helpful as an object for meditation, and helpful as to your maintenance, economic maintenance and independence. It will do much good. If you go somewhere to some farm, and to remain there working for three or four hours per day, and then for twenty hours you are completely free... To remain unoccupied for twenty-four hours, necessarily means to be dependant on someone, to some institution or to some person, or to live on some charity. But that charity or that institution or some person automatically, they create a sort of bondage....
QUESTIONER: OBLIGATION.
Osho: Obligation. An obligation is so heavy that it necessarily creates a situation where independence is lost and it's particular type of anxiety is created. And that anxiety is so much inner that it obstructs the inner current of awareness. So it is double. Better to go to some farm or some garden, but it is better if you choose farming or gardening than any other occupation. Because other occupations are so much involved; and either (way) you will be mechanical or other types of routine work. And routine work which is the same every day creates boredom. And that boredom too becomes an obstruction in the inner current of awareness. But an occupation like farming -- it is so living, it is so new every day, it is not a work, rather it is a pleasure: to be growing plants and all that atmosphere that
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