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will give you great ecstatic experiences, and that is their reward. Not that you do good here and your reward will be after you die, in paradise; you do evil here and your punishment will be in hell, after death. These are all bogus theories, having no evidence in fact, having no science behind them.
Each act brings its reward or punishment immediately.
Try to be a little aware, and out of your awareness let things happen and see: you are so full of joy, for no reason -- just because you have removed a stone which was lying on the street and may have hurt somebody, may have caused an accident. No religious scripture tells you to do it. It is not one of the commandments, but your alertness, your humanness, feels in the moment to remove it.
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people -- people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of -- and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will slip out of your hand, and that will be an act of awareness. And you will feel tremendously blissful that it happened; even if you are being shot your death will be a glory, a peace, an adventure, a journey into a new world.
So as far as I am concerned, all dualities are part of the materialist world, part of the mind of man. But unless you get a little higher than matter and mind -- which is again a duality... So I don't teach materialism, I don't teach spiritualism. I teach a synthesis, something which is higher than both and which has no opposite to it. And this is the criterion: if you reach to a quality which has no opposite to it, then you can be certain you have attained something in your life.
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
WHAT ARE THE MAJOR MISTAKES IN BRINGING UP CHILDREN?
The major mistakes in bringing up children are many, but I will talk only about the most important. First: the idea that they belong to you. They come through you; you have been a passage, but they don't belong to you. They are not
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