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am trying to change the whole pattern of religious thinking. I am trying to say to you: This is your home; this very moment is your paradise. It all depends on you. You do not need to be virtuous to dance totally; you do not need to be learned to dance totally; you do no need to be pious to dance totally. To dance totally, all that is needed is that we accept the reality only of this moment. We will accept the reality of the next moment when it arrives, but we will not be waiting for it.
All the religions have been teaching you to wait. I am teaching to live, to love, to dance, to sing -- and don't wait.
It is Easter and a priest is getting cost estimates for the church flower arrangements. A Catholic florist says, "Three hundred dollars."
"Much too much," says the priest... but the florist is one of the flock.
A Protestant florist offers to do the arrangements for two hundred and fifty dollars.
"Cheaper," thinks the priest, "but he is not of the flock, and the difference is not that great."
While he is pondering, Solly Goldberg gives him a price of seventy-five dollars.
"That settles it; Solly gets the contract."
On Easter morning, the flock files into a church filled with magnificent azaleas, camelias, carnations and roses, and above the altar, spelled out in daffodils is the Easter message:
"Christ has risen, but Goldberg's prices never vary."
Okay, Vimal? Yes, Bhagwan.
The Hidden Splendor
Chapter #16
Chapter title: Love is always an emperor
20 March 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8703200
ShortTitle: SPLEND16
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 101 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
A SHORT TIME AGO YOU SAID THAT SPRING HAS COME AND MANY SANNYASINS ARE READY TO FLOWER. DO "FLOWERING," "AWAKENING" AND "SELF-REALIZATION" ALL MEAN ENLIGHTENMENT, THE ULTIMATE TRUTH? OR IS THERE A DIFFERENCE? AND CAN A PERSON, AFTER ATTAINING, FALL BACK INTO IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MIND?
Mukto, there is a difference between flowering, awakening, self-realization, and enlightenment. Enlightenment is the ultimate
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