The bondage is not coming from anywhere
else: the bondage is coming from your narrow mind. And it goes on being narrower and narrower
and you are very confined. That confinement gives you the feeling of bondage. You have an infinite
soul and an infinite being but that infinite being feels imprisoned. So whatsoever you do, you feel
limitations everywhere. Wherever you move, a point of cul de sac comes. You cannot move beyond
it. Everywhere there is a boundary. There is no open sky to fly. But that boundary is created by you
– that boundary is your own creation. You have created it for certain reasons: for security, safety.
You have created a boundary. And the narrower the boundary, the more you feel secure. If you have
a very large boundary you cannot watch over all of it, you cannot be alert and watchful everywhere.
It becomes vulnerable. Narrow the boundary and you can watch it, you can remain closed, you are
not vulnerable, you feel safe. The safety, the security has created the boundary. But then you feel a
bondage.
[Osho]
This is how the mind is paradoxical. You go on asking for more safety and you go on asking for more
freedom. Both cannot be together. If you want freedom you will have to lose safety, security – in any case the safety is just illusory, it is not really there. Because death is going to happen – whatsoever
you do, you are going to die. All your safety, security, is just a facade, nothing will help. But afraid of
insecurity you create boundaries, you create big walls around you and then the open sky is closed.
And then you suffer! And then you say, ”Where is the open sky?” and ”I want freedom and I want to
move!” But you have created these boundaries.
If you are
too cautious, life cannot be an adventure. If you are protecting yourself too much, hankering after
security too much, you are already dead.
So remember one basic law: life is insecurity. And if you are ready to live in insecurity, only then will you be alive. Insecurity is freedom. If you are ready to be insecure, constantly insecure, you will be free. And freedom is the door to the Divine.
Afraid, you create a prison – you become dead, more and more dead. And then you call, ”Where is
God?” And then you question, ”Where is life? What does life mean? Where is bliss?” Life is there
waiting for you, but you have to meet it on its own terms. You cannot have your own terms, life has its own terms. And the basic term is: remain insecure. Nothing can be done about it. You can
only create an illusion and in that illusion you can waste your life. Nothing can be done about it.
Whatsoever you do is just a deception.
[Osho]
If you fall in love you become afraid that this woman can leave you or this man can leave you. Fear
enters immediately. You were never afraid when you were not in love. Now you are in love: life has
entered and insecurity has entered with it. One who never loves anybody is never afraid that anyone
will leave him. The whole world can leave him, he is not afraid. You cannot harm him. He is secure. The moment you love someone, insecurity has entered because life has entered. And with life,
death has entered. The moment you love you have become afraid: this person can die, this person
can leave, this person can love somebody else! Now to make things secure, you must do something
– you must get married. So a legal bondage is made so that it is now difficult for this person to
leave you. society will protect you, the law will protect you, the policeman, the judge, will all protect
you. Now if this person wants to leave, you can drag him to the court, and if he wants a divorce he
will have to prove something against you. Even then it will take three or five years. Now you have
created safety around you. But the moment you are married you are dead. The relationship is not
alive. Now it has become a law, not a relationship. Now it is a legal phenomenon, not an alive thing.
The court cannot protect life; the law can only protect laws. Now marriage is something which is
dead. It can be defined. Love cannot be defined. Marriage is definable, love is indefinable. Now you
have come under the world of definitions.
But the phenomenon is already dead. The moment you wanted it to be secure, the moment you
wanted to enclose it so that no new thing happens to it, you are imprisoned in it. Then you will suffer.
Then you will say that this wife has become a bondage to you. The husband will say this wife has
become a bondage to him. And then you fight because you have each become an imprisonment for
the other. Now you fight. Now love has disappeared, there is only conflict. That is what happens
because of the hankering for security.
if man were immortal, I say love would be impossible. If man were immortal it would be difficult to love anybody. It would be so dangerous to fall in love. Death is there and life is just like a dew drop on a trembling leaf. Any moment the breeze will come and the dew drop will fall and disappear. Life is just a wavering. Because of that wavering, because of that movement, death is always there. It gives intensity to love. Love is possible only because there is death. Love becomes intense because there is death. Think... if you know your beloved is going to die the next moment, all meanness will go, all conflict will go. And this one moment will become eternity. And there will be so much love that your whole being will be poured into it. But if you know the beloved is going to live, there is no hurry. You can fight and you can postpone the loving for later on. If life is eternal, if the body is immortal, you cannot love.
In heaven there cannot be love because there is no life really. Life exists here on earth, where death exists. Whenever you make anything secure, life disappears. Remain insecure, that is the very quality of life itself. Nothing can be done about it. And it is beautiful!
Just think if your body was immortal – it would be ugly. Sooner or later suicide will be one of the birth rights. You cannot deny it if a person wants to die – not for any reason, just because now life has no meaning. It has been too long already. A person living at a hundred doesn’t feel like living. Not that he is frustrated, not that there is no food. Everything is there, but life has no meaning.
So think of immortality. Life will be totally meaningless. The meaning comes with death. Love has meaning because love can be lost. Then it throbs, vibrates, pulsates. It can be lost! You cannot be certain about it! You cannot think anything about it for tomorrow because it may not be there. You have to love the lover and the beloved with the view that tomorrow may never be there at all. Then love becomes intense.
[Osho]
The bondage is not coming from anywhere else: the bondage is coming from your narrow mind. And it goes on being narrower and narrower and you are very confined. That confinement gives you the feeling of bondage. You have an infinite soul and an infinite being but that infinite being feels imprisoned. So whatsoever you do, you feel limitations everywhere. Wherever you move, a point of cul de sac comes. You cannot move beyond it. Everywhere there is a boundary. There is no open sky to fly. But that boundary is created by you – that boundary is your own creation. You have created it for certain reasons: for security, safety. You have created a boundary. And the narrower the boundary, the more you feel secure. If you have a very large boundary you cannot watch over all of it, you cannot be alert and watchful everywhere. It becomes vulnerable. Narrow the boundary and you can watch it, you can remain closed, you are not vulnerable, you feel safe. The safety, the security has created the boundary. But then you feel a bondage.
[Osho]
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This is how the mind is paradoxical. You go on asking for more safety and you go on asking for more freedom. Both cannot be together. If you want freedom you will have to lose safety, security – in any case the safety is just illusory, it is not really there. Because death is going to happen – whatsoever you do, you are going to die. All your safety, security, is just a facade, nothing will help. But afraid of insecurity you create boundaries, you create big walls around you and then the open sky is closed. And then you suffer! And then you say, ”Where is the open sky?” and ”I want freedom and I want to move!” But you have created these boundaries.
If you are too cautious, life cannot be an adventure. If you are protecting yourself too much, hankering after security too much, you are already dead.
So remember one basic law: life is insecurity. And if you are ready to live in insecurity, only then will you be alive. Insecurity is freedom. If you are ready to be insecure, constantly insecure, you will be free. And freedom is the door to the Divine.
Afraid, you create a prison – you become dead, more and more dead. And then you call, ”Where is God?” And then you question, ”Where is life? What does life mean? Where is bliss?” Life is there waiting for you, but you have to meet it on its own terms. You cannot have your own terms, life has its own terms. And the basic term is: remain insecure. Nothing can be done about it. You can only create an illusion and in that illusion you can waste your life. Nothing can be done about it. Whatsoever you do is just a deception.
[Osho]
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If you fall in love you become afraid that this woman can leave you or this man can leave you. Fear enters immediately. You were never afraid when you were not in love. Now you are in love: life has entered and insecurity has entered with it. One who never loves anybody is never afraid that anyone will leave him. The whole world can leave him, he is not afraid. You cannot harm him. He is secure. The moment you love someone, insecurity has entered because life has entered. And with life, death has entered. The moment you love you have become afraid: this person can die, this person can leave, this person can love somebody else! Now to make things secure, you must do something – you must get married. So a legal bondage is made so that it is now difficult for this person to leave you. society will protect you, the law will protect you, the policeman, the judge, will all protect you. Now if this person wants to leave, you can drag him to the court, and if he wants a divorce he will have to prove something against you. Even then it will take three or five years. Now you have created safety around you. But the moment you are married you are dead. The relationship is not alive. Now it has become a law, not a relationship. Now it is a legal phenomenon, not an alive thing. The court cannot protect life; the law can only protect laws. Now marriage is something which is dead. It can be defined. Love cannot be defined. Marriage is definable, love is indefinable. Now you have come under the world of definitions.
But the phenomenon is already dead. The moment you wanted it to be secure, the moment you wanted to enclose it so that no new thing happens to it, you are imprisoned in it. Then you will suffer. Then you will say that this wife has become a bondage to you. The husband will say this wife has become a bondage to him. And then you fight because you have each become an imprisonment for the other. Now you fight. Now love has disappeared, there is only conflict. That is what happens because of the hankering for security.
if man were immortal, I say love would be impossible. If man were immortal it would be difficult to love anybody. It would be so dangerous to fall in love. Death is there and life is just like a dew drop on a trembling leaf. Any moment the breeze will come and the dew drop will fall and disappear. Life is just a wavering. Because of that wavering, because of that movement, death is always there. It gives intensity to love. Love is possible only because there is death. Love becomes intense because there is death. Think... if you know your beloved is going to die the next moment, all meanness will go, all conflict will go. And this one moment will become eternity. And there will be so much love that your whole being will be poured into it. But if you know the beloved is going to live, there is no hurry. You can fight and you can postpone the loving for later on. If life is eternal, if the body is immortal, you cannot love.
In heaven there cannot be love because there is no life really. Life exists here on earth, where death exists. Whenever you make anything secure, life disappears. Remain insecure, that is the very quality of life itself. Nothing can be done about it. And it is beautiful!
Just think if your body was immortal – it would be ugly. Sooner or later suicide will be one of the birth rights. You cannot deny it if a person wants to die – not for any reason, just because now life has no meaning. It has been too long already. A person living at a hundred doesn’t feel like living. Not that he is frustrated, not that there is no food. Everything is there, but life has no meaning.
So think of immortality. Life will be totally meaningless. The meaning comes with death. Love has meaning because love can be lost. Then it throbs, vibrates, pulsates. It can be lost! You cannot be certain about it! You cannot think anything about it for tomorrow because it may not be there. You have to love the lover and the beloved with the view that tomorrow may never be there at all. Then love becomes intense.
[Osho]
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