I love Osho's writings. He does come up with some superb stories to explain his points. Here is one of the fantastic stories from Osho on Lao Tzu (supposedly a 3000-year old story). This story is from his book on 'Freedom' where he explains and enlightens us on what is freedom. It is not freedom from something or freedom to do something, it is being oneself. He also talks about how the society and institutions have curbed the evolution of man and how they won't exist if the individual evolves. Read this superb story.
Lao Tzu became very famous, a wise man, and he was without...
I've been wearing spectacles since I was 10. To wear spectacles at that young age is one of the most annoying things to happen. That artificial piece of thing on my body did not please me at all. It's not like your clothes, watches or caps. There's a dependency on glasses. You depend on them and you need them. Without them I could not be effective or useful. As a young boy suddenly you'll feel like you're a bit physically challenged. It's never that easy to play any of the sports with the glasses on. I now feel that may be that's why I was hooked on to chess.
I loved playing cricket. I was...
I'm watching the live telecast of the academy awards as I type this. Every award ceremony is an elaborate celebration of success. It's tough being a loser here, isn't it? You've got little time for the loser unless you're the one who lost it. Think of yourself as a nominee who didn't ultimately get it. You're nominated a month before the actual awards night. You start day dreaming and night dreaming about the awards night. Of course, winning in your day dreams and losing in your night dreams. The press suddenly thinks that you must be the best thing to happen in cinema and people think you...
Do you think sun signs have any significance? I'm a piscean. So I'm an unexciting sober introvert who is not a great company. Well, not entirely true as I was good enough to a find a non-piscean girl. Sun signs do talk about personalities. Some may find it ridiculous to group the whole population in twelve types of personalities. But I don't think it's entirely wrong. I mean, the people I know, I would fit them all in five or six categories, not even twelve.
Sun signs were not invented by Linda Goodman. And sun signs are not a thing of Western Astrology. Sun signs and moon signs are...
Have you ever boarded a train with no destination in mind? I have. Travel for the sake of travel. I think you should love travelling to be able to do that. When you travel with no destination in mind, you can feel lighter (not just from the baggage pov). You can take time to appreciate things better. You have no worry of whether you'll sleep off, you have no doubts of which side to alight etc. If the train gets too crowded or makes you uncomfortable, you can always get down and catch another train. Anyway, it's not that you have a particular direction or destination.
This travel I refer...
