22 Dec If your mind is fresh, the world is fresh (OSHO)
Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all.
Start looking like a child again. You have forgotten the intimacy, the immediacy
You are no longer bridged. Knowledge functions as a wall: innocence functions as a bridge.
Go to the seashore and again start collecting seashells. See a child collecting seashells — as if he has found a mine of diamonds. So thrilled he is!
See a child making sandcastles and how absorbed he is, utterly lost, as if there is nothing more important than making sandcastles.
Don’t live as if you know. You know nothing! All that you know is about and about. The moment you know something, boredom disappears. Knowing is such an adventure that boredom cannot exist. With knowledge of course it can exist; with knowing it cannot exist.
And let me remind you: I am not talking about some divine knowledge, some esoteric knowledge; I am simply talking about this life.
Just look around with a little more clarity, with a little more transparency, and life is hilarious!
If you look at the world and feel everything is old, it shows you are not meditative.
When you feel everything is old, it shows you have an old mind, a rotten mind.
If your mind is fresh, the world is fresh. The world is not the question, the mirror is the question.
If there is dust on the mirror the world is old; if there is no dust on the mirror how can the world be old? If things get old you will live in boredom; everybody lives in boredom; everybody is bored to death.
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. Even if you laugh, your laughter carries boredom. Look at people laughing: they laugh with an effort. Their laugh may be just to be mannerly, their laugh may be just etiquette.
Boredom
Osho
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