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are two aspects of the same coin. The ultimate flowering happens when you have gone beyond mind, beyond time.
THIS WHOLE CREATION THEN IS NOTHING BUT BRAHMAN.
AND THE SELF,
THIS ALSO IS BRAHMAN.
The consciousness within you and the existence without you are not separate -- it is all one. The Upanishads are not knowledgeable, the Upanishads are not statements of wise guys, not like the great Murphy. Look at his sutras:
The great Murphy, the wise guy, says: The secret of success is sincerity -- once you can fake that, you have got it made.
To err is human -- to blame it on someone else is even more human.
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy man -- he will find an easier way to do it.
The one who snores will fall asleep first.
Most people deserve each other.
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, fattening or married.
If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on.
Now this great Murphy has reminded me of the bathroom, so excuse me, please....!
Philosophia Ultima
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Man is Born as Freedom
12 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 8012120
ShortTitle: ULTIMA02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Q2 and Q4 on video
The first question
Question 1
OSHO: I HEARD YOU SAY ONCE THAT THE MISUSE OF FREEDOM IS HARMFUL.
HOW CAN FREEDOM BE MISUSED?
Prem Tara
THE PHILOSOPHERS HAVE ALWAYS believed that essence precedes existence, that man is born with what he is going to be already determined. Just like a seed he contains the whole program; now the question is only of unfoldment. There is no freedom.
That has been the attitude of all the philosophers of the past: that man has a certain fate, a destiny. One is going to become a certain entity; that is fixed, the script is already written. You are not aware of it -- that's another matter -- but whatsoever you are doing, you are not doing it, it is being done through
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