{"id":773,"date":"2018-02-14T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruquote.net\/?p=773"},"modified":"2018-02-14T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:08:49","slug":"desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guruquote.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/14\/desires\/","title":{"rendered":"Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-text-obj\">\n<p>All other problems arise out of Desiring<\/p>\n<p>Osho : Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl taking a stroll through the woods. All at once, she saw an extremely ugly bullfrog seated on a log. And to her amazement, the bullfrog spoke to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Maiden,\u2019 croaked the frog, \u2019would you do me a big favour? This will be hard for you to believe, but I was once a handsome, charming prince; and then a mean, ugly old witch cast a spell over me and turned me into a frog.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Oh, what a pity!\u2019 exclaimed the pretty girl. \u2019I\u2019ll do anything I can to help you break such a spell.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-image-obj motopress-text-align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruquote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Osho_desiring.jpg?fit=604%2C421&ssl=1\" title=\"Osho\" alt=\"The child when he is born functions from the center; we teach him how to function from the circumference. That is our whole educational system all over the world: teaching the child how to function from the circumference. We pull him away from his center, we make him more and more accustomed to the circumference, to living on the circumference... twenty-five years of conditioning, education: good names we have given to ugly things. We call it education -- it is not education, nothing can be a greater mis-education. The very word 'education' means drawing something out, to draw something out. When you draw water out of the well it is education. Just like that, when something is drawn outwards from your center it is education. But this is not what is going on in the name of education; it is forcing things upon you. It is not bringing your center to function. It is not sharpening your center; it is dulling it, making it more and more sleepy, dozy. The society succeeds the day your center goes into a coma and your circumference remains functioning. Then you are a robot, a machine, no more a man.\" class=\"motopress-image-obj-basic mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right mpce-dsbl-margin-top mpce-dsbl-margin-bottom\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-text-obj\">\n<p>\u2019Well, Miss,\u2019 replied the frog, \u2019the only way that this spell can be taken off and I can be returned to a handsome young man again is for some lovely and pretty young girl to take me home and let me spend the night under her pillow.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The young girl took the ugly frog home and placed him beneath her pillow that night when she retired. When she awoke the next morning, sure enough, there beside her in the bed was a very young, handsome man, and plainly of royal blood. And so they lived happily ever after, except that to this day her father and mother still do not believe her story.<\/p>\n<p>And all your life is nothing but such stories, because all desiring creates only fantasies. All desiring is fabulous, all desiring creates illusions. You go on changing \u2013 you change one illusion to another, you go from one illusion to another, but you go on changing illusions. Always from one illusion to another illusion is your movement. When you understand the very mechanism of illusions as such, there is a break, a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>An insight dawns on you. In that moment, not only this world becomes meaningless, ALL worlds become meaningless. In that moment, there is nothing to be desired. You don\u2019t desire even desirelessness; there is nothing to be desired. Suddenly desire is not there, that smoke is not there, and the flame burns bright.<\/p>\n<p>Remember not to change problems, from one illusion to another. It does not help much.<\/p>\n<p>A little girl was deeply impressed by the clergyman\u2019s sermon as to the separation of the sheep and the goats. That night after she had gone to bed she was heard sobbing, and the mother went to her to ask what was the matter. \u2019It\u2019s about the goats!\u2019 Jenny confessed at last. \u2019I\u2019m so afraid I am a goat, and so I\u2019ll never go to heaven. Oh, I\u2019m so afraid I\u2019m a goat.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2019My dear,\u2019 the mother assured her weeping child, \u2019you\u2019re a sweet little lamb. If you were to die tonight, you would go straight to heaven.\u2019 Her words were successful in quieting the little girl, and she slept.<\/p>\n<p>But the following night Jenny was found crying again in her bed, and when the mother appeared she wailed, \u2019I\u2019m afraid about the goats.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2019But Mother has told you that you are a little lamb, and that you must never worry over being a goat.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jenny, however, was by no means comforted, and continued her sobs. \u2019Yes, Mamma,\u2019 she declared softly, \u2019I know that. But I\u2019m afraid \u2013 awfully afraid you\u2019re a goat.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>From one problem to another&#8230; but the basic problem remains This is not the way to solve problems \u2013 one has to look at the very root from where the problems arise.<\/p>\n<p>So Zen does not call anger the problem, Zen does not call sex the problem, Zen does not call greed the problem, Zen does not call aggression, violence, the problem. Zen calls the root problem desiring \u2013 and all other problems arise out of desiring. Cut the root, and the whole tree disappears.<\/p>\n<p>Source: &#8221; Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 2 &#8221; &#8211; Osho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,165,166,174],"tags":[253,255,254,2,31],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourses","category-osho","category-stories","category-wisdom","tag-desires","tag-desiring","tag-illusions","tag-osho","tag-zen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Desires - Guru Quote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So Zen does not call anger the problem, Zen does not call sex the problem, Zen does not call greed the problem, Zen does not call aggression, violence, the problem. 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