Why the Hero was always Present during Rehearsals? Osho stories -4

I have heard about a small drama company. They were rehearsing. The real drama was getting postponed every day because the rehearsal was never complete. One day the heroine was not there, another day some other actor was not there, one day something else happened- the electricity failed or something – and it went on being postponed.

But the manager was happy for at least one thing: that the hero of the drama had always been present, he had never been absent.

The last rehearsal day he thanked the hero. He said, “You are the only person who can be relied upon. All these other people are unreliable. You are the only one who has never been absent. Summer or winter, cold or hot, you have always been here.”

The hero said, “There is something I would like to say. I am going to get married on the day the real drama is going to be placed, so I thought that I should al least attend the rehearsals. I will not be here on that day – that’s why I have never absented myself.”

source..." Come Follow To You" - by OSHO

LOVE & FEAR ... OSHO Stories. 3.

It happened: a young man, recently married, was going on his honeymoon. He was a Samurai, a Japanese warrior. They were going on a boat to an island when suddenly a storm came. The boat was small and the storm was tremendously terrible, and there was every possibility that they would be drowned.

The wife became very much afraid, started trembling. But she looked at the samurai, her husband. He was sitting silently as if nothing was happening. And they were in the throes of death! And any moment the boat would be gone under the sea.

The woman said,"What are you doing? Why are you sitting like a statue?"

The samurai pulled his sword out of its sheath - the wife could not believe it, what was he doing? - and he put his naked sword just near the throat of the wife. She started laughing and he said, "Why are you laughing? The sword is so near your throat - just a little move and your head will go."

The wife said, "But it is in your hands, so there is no problem. The sword is dangerous, but it is in your hands."

The samurai put his sword back and said, "The storm is in my God's hands. The storm is dangerous, but it is in the hands of somebody whom I love and who loves me. That's why I am unafraid."

When the sword is in your master's hand and he is going to kill you, if you trust him, only then will you die peacefully, lovingly, gracefully. And out of that grace ....... and out of that peace ....... and out of that love ....... you will create the possibility where the new arrives. If you die afraid, the new will not arrive. You will simply die.

source .....'Come Follow to You' .... OSHO.

Why did Marilyn Monroe commit suicide? OSHO stories -2

" One of the most famous actresses, Marilyn Monroe, committed suicide, and psychoanalysts have been brooding on the reason why. She was one of the most beautiful women ever, one of the most successful. Even the President of America, Kennedy, was in love with her, and she had thousands of lovers. One cannot think of what more you can have. She had everything. But she was public and she knew it. Even in her love chamber when President Kennedy would be there she used to address him as Mr. President- as if one was making love not to a man, but to an institution.

She was an institution. By and by she became aware that she had nothing private. Once somebody asked her- she had just posed for a nude calendar and somebody asked, "Did you have anything on while you posed for the nude calendar?"

She said," Yes, I had something on. The radio."

Exposed, nude, no private self. My feeling is that she committed suicide because that was the only thing left she could have done privately. Everything was public, that was the only thing left she could do on her own, alone- something absolutely intimate and secret.

Public figures are always tempted towards suicide because only through suicide can they have a glimpse of who they are.

All that is beautiful is inner, and the inner means privacy.

...... Source.. Come Follow To You... by OSHO..

A busy Psychiatrist & a busy Patient. -- OSHO stories 1

" A very high powered New York Psychiatrist was talking to one of his new patients and he told the patient,

"I am very busy, in fact too busy. It will be good if you can help me. The first interview is always one-sided: you will be telling me all that you want to tell me. If I can get it down and look at it, and study it later on at my own convenience, it will be a great help. So here is the tape recorder. I will leave the tape recorder- put the machine on and talk to the tape recorder. Whatsoever you have to say ....... Say all that you would like to say to me and later on I will listen to it." The Psychiatrist asked: "Are you willing?"

The man said,"Of course. It is perfectly alright."

The tape recorder was put on and the Psychiatrist left, but after just two minutes he saw the man leaving the office. He ran after him, stopped him and said, "So soon? You could not have talked much to the tape recorder."

The man said, "Listen, I am also a very busy man. In fact more busy than you. And you are not the first psychiatrist I have consulted. Go back to the consulting room and you will see sitting just by the side of your tape recorder my small dictaphone- talking to the tape recorder."

Osho continues his explanation.

Knowledge is just like this. Nobody is present: dictaphones talking to tape recorders. Your mind is just a tape recorder and scriptures are old dictaphones- an old medium, but still the same. Somebody has said something, it is recorded there. Then you read it and it becomes recorded in your own tape recorder. But there is no personal touch.

Knowing is personal, knowledge mechanical. Through a mechanical approach you can never come to discover the reality, the truth. It is going to be a dead affair. You will attain much information, but you will never attain to transformation.

You may come to know many things, but you will never know the thing which needs to be known: the being that you are and the being that surrounds you - and that which surrounds you is the same as that which is within you. A deep personal contact is needed."

........source - Come follow to You - by OSHO.