Wisdom of Osho

Work should be considered as play, not as work. Work should be considered as play, just a game. You should not be serious about it; you should be just like children playing. It is meaningless, nothing is to be achieved; just the very activity is enjoyed. You can feel the distinction if you play sometimes. When you work it is different: you are serious, burdened, responsible, worried, anxious, because the result, the end-result, is the motive. The work itself is not worth enjoying. The real thing is just in the future, in the result. In play there is no result, really. The very process is blissful. And you are not worried, it is not a serious thing. Even if you look serious, it is just pretending. In play you enjoy the very process; in work the process is not being enjoyed — the goal, the end, is important. The process has to be tolerated anyhow. It has to be done because the end has to be achieved. If you could achieve the end without this, you would drop activity and jump to the end. But in play you would not do that.

The businessman is not playful. And if you are not playful, you cannot be meditative. Be more and more playful. Waste time in play. Just playing with children will do. Even if there is no one, you can jump and dance alone in the room and be playful. Enjoy. But your mind will go on insisting, “What are you doing, wasting time? You can earn something out of this time. You can do something, and you are just jumping, singing, and dancing. What are you doing? Have you gone mad?

Try it. Snatch whatsoever time you can get out of your business, and be playful. Whatsoever. You can paint, you can play on a sitar, anything you like — but be playful. Look for no profit out of it, see no future in it, just the present. And then, then you can be playful inside also. Then you can jump on your thoughts, play with them, throw them here and there, dance with them, but not be serious about them.

Osho, The Book of Secrets , Talk #79

JEWISH WISDOM

A Jewish woman goes to see her Rabbi and asks, “Yankele and Yosele are
both in love with me, who will be the lucky one?”
The wise old Rabbi answers: ” Yankele will marry you. Yosele will be
the lucky one.

If a married Jewish man is walking alone in a park and expresses an
opinion without anybody hearing him, is he still wrong?

My father says, “Marry a girl who has the same beliefs as the family.”
I said, “Dad, why would I marry a girl who thinks I’m a schmuck?”

Jewish Marriage advice “Don’t marry a beautiful person. They may leave
you. Of course, an ugly person may leave you too. But who cares?”

Morris went to his rabbi for some needed advice. “Rabbi, tell me is it
proper for one man to profit from another man’s mistakes?”
“No Morris, a man should not profit from another man’s mistakes”
answered the rabbi.
“Are you sure Rabbi?”
“Of course, I’m sure, in fact I’m positive” exclaimed the Rabbi.
” Ok, Rabbi, if you are so sure, how about returning the two hundred
dollars I gave you for marrying me to my wife?”

The Italian says, “I’m tired and thirsty. I must have wine.” The
Frenchman says, “I’m tired and thirsty. I must have cognac.” The
Russian says, “I’m tired and thirsty. I must have vodka.” The German
says, “I’m tired and thirsty. I must have beer.” The Mexican says,
“I’m tired and thirsty. I must have tequila.” The Jew says, “I’m tired
and thirsty. I must have diabetes.”

Jewish proverb: “A Jewish wife will forgive and forget, but she’ll
never forget what she forgave.”

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Through the eyes of a child

Imagine that everyone looks at you like a child looks at his parents: in admiration and devotion, as only a child can look. Looks that a full of child imagination at the world in which everything is possible and with full confidence in the adult world: Mature, secure, world full of possibilities. If everyone around you would see you like that, how would it really be? What would you say about yourself and what would you think about yourself? How would your place in the world would be, how would you really look at yourself? What would you tell yourself? Would it help you to assist, and show gratitude? What would happen to your self-confidence, your self-esteem, your love, and how would the world around you look like? I wonder why we often choose to look at ourselves with an eyes of grownups, or in the worst cases with the eyes of our parents. These inner mirrors are so real and so secure that we take them for granted. Nobody have given us another example, nobody have taught us that there multiple ways in which the world and me in the world can be perceived. Even if we look at the world and our own image from our own perspective it still might be influenced by our past experience. Only a child innocence is pure and not yet troubled by any layer of resistance or impurity. Take some time to play with this idea and enjoy together with your inner child.