Tag Archives: life

Life belongs to those who can play

December 27, 2017 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories, Sufi

There is an old sufi fable. In a very ancient family there was some musical organ, but people had completely forgotten how to play it. Generations came and people even forgot that it was a musical organ. It was gathering dust. It was a very big organ and it was taking up much space. One […]

A false laughter

August 11, 2012 · by · in Humour, Osho, Spirituality, Stories

  Look at people’s faces. They carry life as a burden — boring, with no meaning. It seems that everything is just a nightmare, a very cruel joke, that somebody is playing a trick, torturing them. Life is not a celebration, it cannot be. With a mind burdened by memory life cannot be a celebration. […]

Same Old Stories

June 16, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

It once happened to a man who was travelling by rail: he noticed that another man who was his sole companion in the compartment was behaving in an unusual way. For some time he seemed to be chuckling to himself very happily, and then a serious look would come over his face and he would […]

All for Name and Fame

June 2, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

The story is that one man became a chakravartin — and it happens only once in thousands of years that a man becomes a chakravartin. Even Alexander the Great was not a world conqueror; there was yet much left unconquered. And he died very young, he was only thirty-three: there was not even time enough […]

Mischievous in Death!!

May 25, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

  When Ikkyu died himself, he collected all his disciples and asked them,” Just tell me some new way of dying, because I am not interested in imitation. People die on their beds; I don’t want to die on the bed.” The bed is the most dangerous thing — 99.9 percent of people die there, […]

All that to rest in the End ?

May 14, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

It is said about Diogenes, one of the contemporaries of Alexander the Great, that even Alexander the Great became jealous of Diogenes. He was just a naked fakir: he had nothing. He had renounced everything; he was searching his own inner world. It is said about him that when he renounced the world, he used […]

Tree that Survived the Carpenters

May 11, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

Taoists say: That which is not created by man is valuable. That which is created may have a relative value, a market value, but really it is not valuable: it has no value. A man-made thing is a commodity. Of course if you go into the market-place and you start selling emptiness, nobody will purchase […]

Lifespan of a man

May 3, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized

I have heard… God is making all the creatures of the earth and is giving out sex lives to each animal. First he turns to the human. “I am giving you ten years of a good sex life,” says God. The man’s face falls. “Is that all?” he asks. “I only have so much to […]

A Servant in Baghdad

April 26, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

An ancient Sufi parable: A rich merchant in Baghdad sent his servant one day to the marketplace to buy food. But after a few minutes the servant returned looking panic-stricken. “Master!” he cried. “You must lend me your best horse immediately, so that I may flee to Damascus and thereby escape my fate.” “Whatever is […]

Yayati and God of Death

April 26, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

There is a beautiful story, a great parable in the Upanishads: One of the great kings, Yayati, was dying. He was a hundred years old, ripe enough to die — one should be ready by that time — but not grown-up enough; the seed of renewing life was not yet burnt. So when death came, […]