“…happiness is your innermost nature. It needs no outside condition: it is simply there; it is you. Bliss is your natural state; it is not an achievement. If you simply get out of the mechanism of the mind, you start feeling blissful”
Osho was an Indian Philosopher whose real name was Rajneesh and he was best known by the name Acharya Rajneesh Or Osho. He was a Godman who guided the way to spirituality.
On his spiritual means, he started the Rajneesh movement and neglected the religion taught by institutions. He believed religion is all about relaxation and consciousness, not about rituals. Osho taught religion by meditation and spirituality.
In this movement, he wrote many books that were an actual guide to Inner engineering. One of the best books that tells the real meaning of success is Fame, Fortune and Ambition.
Five best teachings of Fame, Fortune and Ambition
- “…happiness is your innermost nature. It needs no outside condition: it is simply there; it is you. Bliss is your natural state; it is not an achievement. If you simply get out of the mechanism of the mind, you start feeling blissful”
Explanation: This quote states that true happiness is not bounded by materialism instead it is the inborn nature. If a person gets out of the desire to achieve happiness and blocks the mechanism of mind, he is naturally happy as an innate state of being.
- “Have you ever seen a bird poor? Animals in the forest—nobody is poor, nobody is rich. In fact, you don’t even see fat birds and thin birds. All the crows are almost identical; you cannot even recognize which is which. Why? They enjoy; they don’t hoard”
Explanation: In this statement, Osho explains that where there is balance, there is peace and no discrimination, everyone leads the life of dignity. And, where there are piles of money or materialistic desire and discrimination grows, hence man doesn’t live a life of equity and dignity.
- “Sexual energy is a wastage if it remains only confined to sex, but it becomes a great blessing if it starts transforming its quality. Enter into sex not for sex’s sake—use sex as a communion of love. Use sex as a meeting of two souls, not only of two bodies. Use sex as a meditative dance of two persons’ energies. The dance is far richer when man and woman are dancing together, and sex is the ultimate in dance: two energies meeting, merging, dancing, rejoicing.”
Explanation: Sex is not just a connection of bodies, not just getting into intimate relations but to feel each other’s soul and energy. The sex is a meditative dance and the union of two souls.
- “Heaven is not a goal; heaven is the presence right now. If you are present, the divine is available. If you live in the moment, you are enlightened; there is no other enlightenment. And then ordinary life is so extraordinary. Then to be just a nobody is so fulfilling. I call this whole approach sannyas: dropping the goals, the purposes, the future—becoming part of existence this very moment, not postponing it. Then in this very moment, a great explosion is possible in you: the ego disappears, you are no more, but the divine is. And that is bliss and that is truth.”
Explanation: To live in the present, to live life to the fullest is living in heaven. Being silent, being what you are is the actual enlightenment and the purpose of the one life a human is gifted with. The true happiness lies in enjoying the present.
- “Become a little more aware, and try to bring your consciousness more and more to the facticity of existence. See this flower; don’t think about that flower. Listen to this word I am uttering, not to that word that I am going to utter. Look right now. If you postpone even for a single, split moment, you miss. And then it becomes a habit, an ingrained habit. Tomorrow also you will miss, and the day after tomorrow also, because you will remain the same.”
Explanation: In this statement, Osho states that delaying the chores and tasks never lead to completion of that particular work. Procrastination, unconsciousness and unawareness of ownself becomes a habit that never lets a person be successful.
