LAUGHTER N TEARS THERAPY
LAUGHTER
During the first week of Laughter we are able to rediscover our vitality, joy and spontaneity, our childlike innocence that we were born with. Although it may seem impossible to laugh for three hours a day, the dynamic of the collective group energy makes this not only possible, but you will laugh as you have never laughed before. Laughter is a natural therapeutic energy force that breaks through layers of inhibitions, empowers you, and releases negative patterns of behaviour in a very fast, yet playful way. It is a journey of rediscovery into the essence and brilliance of our inner child. Laughter is rebellious and full of freedom. It changes your outlook on life allowing you to see from " the Big Perspective"
TEARS
Moving into the deeper layer of sadness and tears, we are be able to express and release pain and despair that has been buried deep in our psyche and energy for years. In a loving and supportive atmosphere where many around you are crying as well, you will feel the permission to let yourself cry totally. Unexpressed pain causes dis-ease and many of our psychological problems. We all need to cry and release the sadness and misery we carry around inside ourselves and in the collective atmosphere of the group where everyone is crying, painful and fearful experiences will simply dissolve in this great healing of the heart. This unburdening is like a rebirth that releases your natural joy, allowing you to live a more empowered, vibrant and joyous life.
MEDITATION
Meditation, the final phase of Osho's Mystic Rose Meditation is to integrate and assimilate the many experiences and changes we have gone through in the two weeks of laughter and tears. Sitting silently, allowing our energy to settle, we will find this week a beautiful introduction to, or a deepening of our meditation. Meditation allows us to settle into the present moment where peace and centeredness prevail. The power of awareness and a capacity to dis identify from all the dramas of daily life, is the door to personal transformation. This is where you can develop the capacity to live from in the present moment, "The Watcher Within," another name for our higher consciousness
During the first week of Laughter we are able to rediscover our vitality, joy and spontaneity, our childlike innocence that we were born with. Although it may seem impossible to laugh for three hours a day, the dynamic of the collective group energy makes this not only possible, but you will laugh as you have never laughed before. Laughter is a natural therapeutic energy force that breaks through layers of inhibitions, empowers you, and releases negative patterns of behaviour in a very fast, yet playful way. It is a journey of rediscovery into the essence and brilliance of our inner child. Laughter is rebellious and full of freedom. It changes your outlook on life allowing you to see from " the Big Perspective"
TEARS
Moving into the deeper layer of sadness and tears, we are be able to express and release pain and despair that has been buried deep in our psyche and energy for years. In a loving and supportive atmosphere where many around you are crying as well, you will feel the permission to let yourself cry totally. Unexpressed pain causes dis-ease and many of our psychological problems. We all need to cry and release the sadness and misery we carry around inside ourselves and in the collective atmosphere of the group where everyone is crying, painful and fearful experiences will simply dissolve in this great healing of the heart. This unburdening is like a rebirth that releases your natural joy, allowing you to live a more empowered, vibrant and joyous life.
MEDITATION
Meditation, the final phase of Osho's Mystic Rose Meditation is to integrate and assimilate the many experiences and changes we have gone through in the two weeks of laughter and tears. Sitting silently, allowing our energy to settle, we will find this week a beautiful introduction to, or a deepening of our meditation. Meditation allows us to settle into the present moment where peace and centeredness prevail. The power of awareness and a capacity to dis identify from all the dramas of daily life, is the door to personal transformation. This is where you can develop the capacity to live from in the present moment, "The Watcher Within," another name for our higher consciousness
OSHO ON LAUGHTER TEARS AND MEDITATION
Laugh your stress off!
Laughter is a powerful meditative tool. When you laugh, tension disappears and you can feel deep pleasure and relaxation. Consciously laughing for a period of time brings you back, clean and luminous, to the here and now.
"...nothing makes you stop your thinking as laughter does. Just for a moment you are no more a mind. Just for a
moment you are no more in time. Just for a moment you have entered into another space where you are total and whole
and healed."-Osho
**Bring a change of soft, comfortable clothing and a bottle of water
"Laughter is one of the easiest ways to free yourself from the constant thought process of the mind and find inner peace. It will make you more alive, more healthy, more creative, and more silent. Simply relax into the enjoyment of it. You will discover in yourself a tremendous natural talent for rejoicing in life. You may even laugh your way to enlightenment. Yes, it's that good. Remember to laugh - a lot - every day." ~ Pragito Dove
"...we go on thinking that someday in the future we are going to be happy, joyful, celebrating. People come to meand if I say to them, 'Celebrate your life,' they say, 'Yes, that's why we have come here, to learn how to create situations in which we can celebrate.' The situation is already there: trees go on celebrating, birds go on singing. What do they have? -- No bank balance, no prestige, no power. They are not presidents or prime ministers. But have you ever seen trees or birds brooding, worried, thinking of the future? No, they simply live. What has happened to man?" ~ Osho
laughter brings some energy from your inner source to surface ,energy starts flowing,when you really laugh,thinkingstops--suddenly the mind disappear....you melt in to existance and existance melts in to you,except man no animal is capable of laughter
tears are most valuable tresure that you have,your eyes are full of tears ,silent exxpression for overflowing overwhelming joy...
experince of love grace beauty,ecstasy is so can not be expressed other way..
This Osho Meditative Therapy has been described as the most important new meditation since the creation of Vipassana.
Laughter is a powerful meditative tool. When you laugh, tension disappears and you can feel deep pleasure and relaxation. Consciously laughing for a period of time brings you back, clean and luminous, to the here and now.
"...nothing makes you stop your thinking as laughter does. Just for a moment you are no more a mind. Just for a
moment you are no more in time. Just for a moment you have entered into another space where you are total and whole
and healed."-Osho
**Bring a change of soft, comfortable clothing and a bottle of water
"Laughter is one of the easiest ways to free yourself from the constant thought process of the mind and find inner peace. It will make you more alive, more healthy, more creative, and more silent. Simply relax into the enjoyment of it. You will discover in yourself a tremendous natural talent for rejoicing in life. You may even laugh your way to enlightenment. Yes, it's that good. Remember to laugh - a lot - every day." ~ Pragito Dove
"...we go on thinking that someday in the future we are going to be happy, joyful, celebrating. People come to meand if I say to them, 'Celebrate your life,' they say, 'Yes, that's why we have come here, to learn how to create situations in which we can celebrate.' The situation is already there: trees go on celebrating, birds go on singing. What do they have? -- No bank balance, no prestige, no power. They are not presidents or prime ministers. But have you ever seen trees or birds brooding, worried, thinking of the future? No, they simply live. What has happened to man?" ~ Osho
laughter brings some energy from your inner source to surface ,energy starts flowing,when you really laugh,thinkingstops--suddenly the mind disappear....you melt in to existance and existance melts in to you,except man no animal is capable of laughter
tears are most valuable tresure that you have,your eyes are full of tears ,silent exxpression for overflowing overwhelming joy...
experince of love grace beauty,ecstasy is so can not be expressed other way..
This Osho Meditative Therapy has been described as the most important new meditation since the creation of Vipassana.
3 STEPS OF MYSTIC ROSE THERAPY
It has three steps. All are designed for a particular purpose: to bring out all the poison from your being that has been injected by every generation for centuries. Laughter is the first step. One of the great writers, Norman Cousins, has just now written of his life-long experiment: that if he laughs for twenty minutes without any reason, all his tensions disappear. His consciousness grows, the dust disappears. You will see it yourself; if you can laugh without any reason, you will see something repressed within you... From your very childhood you have been told not to laugh -- "Be serious!" You have to come out of that repressive conditioning.
The second step is tears. Tears have been repressed even more deeply. It has been told to us that tears are a symptom of weakness -- they are not. Tears can cleanse not only your eyes, but your heart too. They soften you, it is a biological strategy to keep you clean, to keep you unburdened. It is now a well-known fact that less women go mad than men. And the reason has been found to be that women can cry and weep more easily than men. Even to the small child it is said, "Be a man, don't cry like a woman!"
But if you look at the physiology of your body, you have the same glands full of tears whether you are man or woman. It has been found that less women commit suicide than men. And of course, no woman in history has been the cause of founding violent religions, wars, massacres. If the whole world can learn to cry and weep again it will be a tremendous transformation, a metamorphosis.
The third step is silence. I have called it “The Watcher on the Hills.” Become as silent as if you are alone on the top of an Himalayan peak, utterly silent and alone, just watching, listening... sensitive, but still.
Osho, This, This, A Thousand Times This: The Very Essence of Zen, Chapter 1
The second step is tears. Tears have been repressed even more deeply. It has been told to us that tears are a symptom of weakness -- they are not. Tears can cleanse not only your eyes, but your heart too. They soften you, it is a biological strategy to keep you clean, to keep you unburdened. It is now a well-known fact that less women go mad than men. And the reason has been found to be that women can cry and weep more easily than men. Even to the small child it is said, "Be a man, don't cry like a woman!"
But if you look at the physiology of your body, you have the same glands full of tears whether you are man or woman. It has been found that less women commit suicide than men. And of course, no woman in history has been the cause of founding violent religions, wars, massacres. If the whole world can learn to cry and weep again it will be a tremendous transformation, a metamorphosis.
The third step is silence. I have called it “The Watcher on the Hills.” Become as silent as if you are alone on the top of an Himalayan peak, utterly silent and alone, just watching, listening... sensitive, but still.
Osho, This, This, A Thousand Times This: The Very Essence of Zen, Chapter 1
OSHO TALK ABOUT MYSTIC ROSE THERAPY
I have chosen one of my therapists to create a new meditative therapy. The first part will be Yaa-Hoo! ― for three
hours, people simply laugh for no reason at all. And whenever their laughter starts dying they again say, "Yaa-Hoo!"
and it will come back. Digging for three hours you will be surprised how many layers of dust have gathered upon your
being. It will cut them like a sword, in one blow. For seven days continuously, three hours every day... you cannot
conceive how much transformation can come to your being.
And then the second part is "Yaa-Boo." The first part removes everything that hinders your laughter ― all the
inhibitions of past humanity, all the repressions. It cuts them away. It brings a new space within you, but still
you have to go a few steps more to reach the temple of your being, because you have suppressed so much sadness, so
much despair, so much anxiety, so many tears ― they are all there, covering you and destroying your beauty, your
grace, your joy.
In old Mongolia they had an ancient idea that every life, whatever pain is suppressed... and pain is suppressed,
because nobody wants it. You don't want to be painful so you suppress it, you avoid, you look somewhere else. But it
remains.
And the Mongolian idea was ― and I agree with it ― that life after life it goes on accumulating in you; it becomes
almost a hard shell of pain. That's why all the saints and the sages have been telling you, shouting ― "Go into
yourself!" You listen to them, but you don't go. There is a reason why you don't go: you know that going in, you
have to encounter pain; going in, you have to encounter misery, suffering, agony. It is better to remain outside ―
engaged, busy. Never be alone, because in your aloneness you may unconsciously start moving inwards. Being alone,
having nothing else to do you may start looking inwards.
People have invented all kinds of things to escape from themselves: they may smoke cigarettes.… Not that they need
them. I have never felt any need for cigarettes, so I cannot conceive that there is any necessity for anybody to be
so stupid. When pure air is available, he is making his breathing full of poison, and he is paying for it! But there
must be some reason. Why do millions of people go on smoking? The reason is, it keeps you occupied. Even if you are
alone, it does not leave you unoccupied.
These are devices of your mind. There are people who are chewing gum. Now what a nonsense thing to do! ― chewing
gum? Are you sane or insane? Can't you chew anything else? No sane person can do this unnecessary exercise of
chewing gum. But it keeps you occupied, so millions of people are chewing gum.
All your conversations, your so-called busyness is almost without any purpose, without any business. But it helps
just one thing: you don't come across yourself. There is too much pain.
So you can listen to the sages, to the awakened ones, and you can nod ― "You are right, but my time has not come
yet. Please forgive me; I have still to chew gum, I have still to smoke cigarettes. You are great, you can drop
these things. We are small people, how can we drop cigarettes and chewing gum?"
Just see the stupidity of it all. But behind the stupidity there must be some psychology and the psychology is:
anything that helps you to avoid yourself becomes useful. Football match, volleyball, boxing...somebody else is
doing it, you are just looking, but that looking takes you away from your own inside.
If you go in you will find both, laughter and tears. That's why sometimes it happens that by laughing, suddenly you
find tears also start coming together with it ― very confusing, because ordinarily we think they are contrary. When
you are full of tears it is not a time to laugh, or when you are laughing it is not the right season for tears. But
existence does not believe in your concepts, ideologies. Existence transcends all your concepts, which are
dualistic, which are based on duality. Day and night, laughter and tears, pain and blissfulness, they both come
together.
When a man reaches into his innermost being he will find the first layer is of laughter and the second layer is of agony, tears.
So for seven days you have to allow yourself to weep, cry, for no reason at all ― just the tears are ready to come.
You have been preventing them. Just don't prevent, and whenever you feel they are not coming, just say, "Yaa-Boo!"
These are pure sounds, used as a technique to bring all your laughter and all your tears and clean you completely,
so that you can become an innocent child.
This is absolutely my meditation. You will be surprised that no meditation can give you so much as this small strategy. This is my experience of many meditations, that what has to be done is to break two layers in you. Your laughter has been repressed; you have been told, "Don't laugh, it is a serious matter." You are not allowed to laugh in a church, or in a university class.…
So the first layer is of laughter, but once laughter is over you will suddenly find yourself flooded with tears,
agony. But that too will be a great unburdening phenomenon. Many lives of pain and suffering will disappear. If you
can get rid of these two layers you have found yourself.
Maneesha, there is no meaning in the words, `Yaa-Hoo' or `Yaa-Boo'. These are simply techniques, sounds which can be
used for a certain purpose to enter into your own being.
And you may have felt it ― when you shout, "Yaa-Hoo!" you may have felt a sudden breeze of freshness and joy.
I don't want so many people to cry here; that's why I have not used the other part. That is to be used in special groups.
I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the most essential and fundamental one. It can take over
the whole world. Already from every country news cuttings are coming to me ― "What is this Yaa-Hoo!?" People are
making up meanings of their own, but it has taken over around the world. Now the second thing is Yaa-Boo! And the
whole process of Yaa-Hoo and Yaa-Boo, the couple, married...arranged marriage!
Every society has done so much harm by preventing your joys and your tears. If an old man starts crying you will
say, "What are you doing? You should feel ashamed; you are not a child, that somebody has taken your banana and you
are crying. Have another banana, but don't cry."
Just see ― stand on the street and start crying and a crowd will gather to console you: "Don't cry! Whatever has
happened forget all about it, it has happened." Nobody knows what has happened, nobody can help you, but everybody
will try ― "Don't cry!" And the reason is that if you go on crying, then they will start crying, because they are
also flooded with.…
Those tears are very close to the eyes.
And it is a healthy thing to cry, to weep, to laugh. Now scientists are discovering that crying, weeping, laughter,
are immensely healthful; not only physically but also psychologically, they are very much capable of keeping you
sane. The whole of humanity has gone a little cuckoo, for the simple reason that nobody laughs fully because all
around there are people who will say, "What are you doing? Are you a child? ― at this age? What will your children
think? Keep quiet!"
If you cry and weep without any reason, just as an exercise, a meditation...nobody will believe it. Tears have never
been accepted as meditation. And I tell you, they are not only a meditation, they are a medicine also. You will have
better eyesight and you will have better inner vision.
I am giving you a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused. And it is going to become worldwide, without any
doubt, because its effects will show anybody that the person has become younger, the person has become more loving,
the person has become graceful. The person has become more flexible, less fanatic; the person has become more
joyful, more a celebrant.
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. Laughter and tears
can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is
preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised: why has this not been told
up to now? There is a reason: nobody has wanted humanity to have the freshness of a rose flower and the fragrance
and the beauty.
I have called this series of lectures The Mystic Rose. "Yaa-Hoo!" is the mantra to bring the mystic rose in your
very center, to open your center and release your fragrance. Your life becomes for the first time significant, not
just useful. Right now it is only useful ― you are a father, useful. Without you what will your children do? You are
a mother, useful; you are a wife, useful ― without you what will your husband do? He may go astray.
He is already going astray, so you have to hang around! If the husband is too joyous the wife cannot believe that he
is joyful because of her. There must be some other woman: "Just tell us, what is her name? Who is the other woman?
Why are you laughing!?"
The husband cannot cry, because the wife will say, "What is the matter? I have been telling you continually, these
love affairs won't do. Has the woman gone, leaving you behind crying and weeping?"
Two old people appeared in the court, husband and wife ― the husband was ninety-five years old, the wife ninety
years old, and they wanted a divorce. The magistrate could not believe it. He said, "My god, at this age! For what?
How long have you been married?" They said, "Who remembers? Maybe sixty years, seventy years, but we cannot give you
a certain date. It was long before."
The magistrate said, "If you have lived together so long that you cannot even remember when you started living
together, then why are you divorcing now? If life was not good, and things were not going well, you should have
appeared before the court long ago!" The old man said, "We wanted to come, but the children... Now all the children
are dead, so we decided there is no point in torturing each other. Now we should get a divorce: you torture somebody
else if you can find anybody; I will torture somebody else if I can find. Otherwise we can be alone far better than
we are together. Together we become so sad that `This woman destroyed my life' or, `This man destroyed my life.' "
People marry not because of love ― love knows no marriage, because love will not create any contract. It is not
business. Love knows no marriage because it is not business, it is not law. It won't reduce the freedom of the
other. If anything, it will increase and enhance the freedom of the other.
Love cannot cut the wings of the other. It will give you more wings, more skies, vast spaces to fly and to be.
But that does not happen. Marriage is a utility. It is a need, it is not a celebration. Everything in life has
become so mundane, so burdensome, but you don't know what else to do, where to go. Everybody is suffering his own
suffering. You cannot change places. Even if it were possible to change places you would not change, because our own
misery is at least ours and we are well acquainted.
I would like people to understand it absolutely that unless you become blissful on your own accord, unless your rose opens within your own being, you are just a commodity, just a thing, an object. Meditation reveals your subjectivity. Subjectivity is your consciousness, and your consciousness and its experience makes your life significant, meaningful, eternal, immortal, without any beginning and without any end. A celebration, moment-to-moment a dance.
And unless you have transformed your life into a moment-to-moment dance you have missed the opportunity that existence gives you.
Osho, YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, Chapter 30
hours, people simply laugh for no reason at all. And whenever their laughter starts dying they again say, "Yaa-Hoo!"
and it will come back. Digging for three hours you will be surprised how many layers of dust have gathered upon your
being. It will cut them like a sword, in one blow. For seven days continuously, three hours every day... you cannot
conceive how much transformation can come to your being.
And then the second part is "Yaa-Boo." The first part removes everything that hinders your laughter ― all the
inhibitions of past humanity, all the repressions. It cuts them away. It brings a new space within you, but still
you have to go a few steps more to reach the temple of your being, because you have suppressed so much sadness, so
much despair, so much anxiety, so many tears ― they are all there, covering you and destroying your beauty, your
grace, your joy.
In old Mongolia they had an ancient idea that every life, whatever pain is suppressed... and pain is suppressed,
because nobody wants it. You don't want to be painful so you suppress it, you avoid, you look somewhere else. But it
remains.
And the Mongolian idea was ― and I agree with it ― that life after life it goes on accumulating in you; it becomes
almost a hard shell of pain. That's why all the saints and the sages have been telling you, shouting ― "Go into
yourself!" You listen to them, but you don't go. There is a reason why you don't go: you know that going in, you
have to encounter pain; going in, you have to encounter misery, suffering, agony. It is better to remain outside ―
engaged, busy. Never be alone, because in your aloneness you may unconsciously start moving inwards. Being alone,
having nothing else to do you may start looking inwards.
People have invented all kinds of things to escape from themselves: they may smoke cigarettes.… Not that they need
them. I have never felt any need for cigarettes, so I cannot conceive that there is any necessity for anybody to be
so stupid. When pure air is available, he is making his breathing full of poison, and he is paying for it! But there
must be some reason. Why do millions of people go on smoking? The reason is, it keeps you occupied. Even if you are
alone, it does not leave you unoccupied.
These are devices of your mind. There are people who are chewing gum. Now what a nonsense thing to do! ― chewing
gum? Are you sane or insane? Can't you chew anything else? No sane person can do this unnecessary exercise of
chewing gum. But it keeps you occupied, so millions of people are chewing gum.
All your conversations, your so-called busyness is almost without any purpose, without any business. But it helps
just one thing: you don't come across yourself. There is too much pain.
So you can listen to the sages, to the awakened ones, and you can nod ― "You are right, but my time has not come
yet. Please forgive me; I have still to chew gum, I have still to smoke cigarettes. You are great, you can drop
these things. We are small people, how can we drop cigarettes and chewing gum?"
Just see the stupidity of it all. But behind the stupidity there must be some psychology and the psychology is:
anything that helps you to avoid yourself becomes useful. Football match, volleyball, boxing...somebody else is
doing it, you are just looking, but that looking takes you away from your own inside.
If you go in you will find both, laughter and tears. That's why sometimes it happens that by laughing, suddenly you
find tears also start coming together with it ― very confusing, because ordinarily we think they are contrary. When
you are full of tears it is not a time to laugh, or when you are laughing it is not the right season for tears. But
existence does not believe in your concepts, ideologies. Existence transcends all your concepts, which are
dualistic, which are based on duality. Day and night, laughter and tears, pain and blissfulness, they both come
together.
When a man reaches into his innermost being he will find the first layer is of laughter and the second layer is of agony, tears.
So for seven days you have to allow yourself to weep, cry, for no reason at all ― just the tears are ready to come.
You have been preventing them. Just don't prevent, and whenever you feel they are not coming, just say, "Yaa-Boo!"
These are pure sounds, used as a technique to bring all your laughter and all your tears and clean you completely,
so that you can become an innocent child.
This is absolutely my meditation. You will be surprised that no meditation can give you so much as this small strategy. This is my experience of many meditations, that what has to be done is to break two layers in you. Your laughter has been repressed; you have been told, "Don't laugh, it is a serious matter." You are not allowed to laugh in a church, or in a university class.…
So the first layer is of laughter, but once laughter is over you will suddenly find yourself flooded with tears,
agony. But that too will be a great unburdening phenomenon. Many lives of pain and suffering will disappear. If you
can get rid of these two layers you have found yourself.
Maneesha, there is no meaning in the words, `Yaa-Hoo' or `Yaa-Boo'. These are simply techniques, sounds which can be
used for a certain purpose to enter into your own being.
And you may have felt it ― when you shout, "Yaa-Hoo!" you may have felt a sudden breeze of freshness and joy.
I don't want so many people to cry here; that's why I have not used the other part. That is to be used in special groups.
I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the most essential and fundamental one. It can take over
the whole world. Already from every country news cuttings are coming to me ― "What is this Yaa-Hoo!?" People are
making up meanings of their own, but it has taken over around the world. Now the second thing is Yaa-Boo! And the
whole process of Yaa-Hoo and Yaa-Boo, the couple, married...arranged marriage!
Every society has done so much harm by preventing your joys and your tears. If an old man starts crying you will
say, "What are you doing? You should feel ashamed; you are not a child, that somebody has taken your banana and you
are crying. Have another banana, but don't cry."
Just see ― stand on the street and start crying and a crowd will gather to console you: "Don't cry! Whatever has
happened forget all about it, it has happened." Nobody knows what has happened, nobody can help you, but everybody
will try ― "Don't cry!" And the reason is that if you go on crying, then they will start crying, because they are
also flooded with.…
Those tears are very close to the eyes.
And it is a healthy thing to cry, to weep, to laugh. Now scientists are discovering that crying, weeping, laughter,
are immensely healthful; not only physically but also psychologically, they are very much capable of keeping you
sane. The whole of humanity has gone a little cuckoo, for the simple reason that nobody laughs fully because all
around there are people who will say, "What are you doing? Are you a child? ― at this age? What will your children
think? Keep quiet!"
If you cry and weep without any reason, just as an exercise, a meditation...nobody will believe it. Tears have never
been accepted as meditation. And I tell you, they are not only a meditation, they are a medicine also. You will have
better eyesight and you will have better inner vision.
I am giving you a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused. And it is going to become worldwide, without any
doubt, because its effects will show anybody that the person has become younger, the person has become more loving,
the person has become graceful. The person has become more flexible, less fanatic; the person has become more
joyful, more a celebrant.
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. Laughter and tears
can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is
preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised: why has this not been told
up to now? There is a reason: nobody has wanted humanity to have the freshness of a rose flower and the fragrance
and the beauty.
I have called this series of lectures The Mystic Rose. "Yaa-Hoo!" is the mantra to bring the mystic rose in your
very center, to open your center and release your fragrance. Your life becomes for the first time significant, not
just useful. Right now it is only useful ― you are a father, useful. Without you what will your children do? You are
a mother, useful; you are a wife, useful ― without you what will your husband do? He may go astray.
He is already going astray, so you have to hang around! If the husband is too joyous the wife cannot believe that he
is joyful because of her. There must be some other woman: "Just tell us, what is her name? Who is the other woman?
Why are you laughing!?"
The husband cannot cry, because the wife will say, "What is the matter? I have been telling you continually, these
love affairs won't do. Has the woman gone, leaving you behind crying and weeping?"
Two old people appeared in the court, husband and wife ― the husband was ninety-five years old, the wife ninety
years old, and they wanted a divorce. The magistrate could not believe it. He said, "My god, at this age! For what?
How long have you been married?" They said, "Who remembers? Maybe sixty years, seventy years, but we cannot give you
a certain date. It was long before."
The magistrate said, "If you have lived together so long that you cannot even remember when you started living
together, then why are you divorcing now? If life was not good, and things were not going well, you should have
appeared before the court long ago!" The old man said, "We wanted to come, but the children... Now all the children
are dead, so we decided there is no point in torturing each other. Now we should get a divorce: you torture somebody
else if you can find anybody; I will torture somebody else if I can find. Otherwise we can be alone far better than
we are together. Together we become so sad that `This woman destroyed my life' or, `This man destroyed my life.' "
People marry not because of love ― love knows no marriage, because love will not create any contract. It is not
business. Love knows no marriage because it is not business, it is not law. It won't reduce the freedom of the
other. If anything, it will increase and enhance the freedom of the other.
Love cannot cut the wings of the other. It will give you more wings, more skies, vast spaces to fly and to be.
But that does not happen. Marriage is a utility. It is a need, it is not a celebration. Everything in life has
become so mundane, so burdensome, but you don't know what else to do, where to go. Everybody is suffering his own
suffering. You cannot change places. Even if it were possible to change places you would not change, because our own
misery is at least ours and we are well acquainted.
I would like people to understand it absolutely that unless you become blissful on your own accord, unless your rose opens within your own being, you are just a commodity, just a thing, an object. Meditation reveals your subjectivity. Subjectivity is your consciousness, and your consciousness and its experience makes your life significant, meaningful, eternal, immortal, without any beginning and without any end. A celebration, moment-to-moment a dance.
And unless you have transformed your life into a moment-to-moment dance you have missed the opportunity that existence gives you.
Osho, YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, Chapter 30
