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to an ultimate point, to an omega point, where everything will explode and a new being will be born. But these are hopes, ego-trips, not very meaningful. You will be here for a few years, then others will be here and they will think the same.
The crescendo IS reached -- not with the age, but with the individual being. The climax is reached but it is always reached with consciousness, not with a collective unconscious.
YOU can become a religious person. And the time is good, the time is always good. Don't think of others too much because this may be just an escape from yourself. Don't think of the age and don't think of humanity -- because mind is so cunning, human mind is so cunning, you don't know....
I have been reading a letter from a friend, and he says that he became so frustrated with all his love-affairs, whenever he was in love it was such misery, that he stopped loving any individual and started to love the whole of humanity. Now the whole of humanity is easy to love, and those who cannot love will always love the whole of humanity. There is no problem. To love an individual is very, very difficult, it can be hell itself. It can be hell itself because it can become heaven.
We go on avoiding. People start thinking about others just to avoid thinking about themselves. They start thinking about the age, the time, the planets, and what is going to happen to human consciousness, just to avoid encountering the basic problem: What is going to happen to my consciousness?
Your consciousness should be the target. Every time is good, all times are good for it.
Enough for today.
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
Chapter #3
Chapter title: To be Miserable or Ecstatic...?
12 May 1974 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7405120
ShortTitle: CLOUDS03
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 56 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
YOU ONCE TOLD US A STORY ABOUT AN OLD MAN WHO WAS OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. ONE DAY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, HE WAS ASKED WHY IT WAS THAT HE WAS ALWAYS HAPPY. HE REPLIED: EVERY MORNING WHEN I WAKE UP I HAVE THE CHOICE TO BE HAPPY
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