The first force is totality, intensity. If
you really want to have a transformed life, if you really want to be a light
unto yourself, if you really want to know the ultimate mystery of existence and
the ultimate joy of being alive, then the first force is intensity, totality.
Don't be lousy, don't be lazy, don't be partial.
...
If you dance, dance
so totally that the dancer disappears and only the dance remains, and it will be
a transformation. If you love, love so totally that there is no lover found.
That which you are holding back becomes the lover. If you are holding back, that
which you are holding back becomes the dancer, the singer. If you are totally in
the dance, in the song, in the love, who is left behind to say "I am the lover,
I am the dancer?" Nothing is left.
And totality transforms. It is only at one hundred degrees intensity that one
evaporates from the material into the spiritual, from the earth to the sky, from
the ordinary to the extraordinary.
The second force is familiarization: do and be what you really want to do and
be. Life is lived according to gestalts that you have created around yourself.
If you really want to be something else, then familiarize yourself with it. If
you want to play the guitar, practice. If you want to dance, practice. If you
want anything to happen in your life, imbibe more and more of it and drop all
that is against it.
The third force is the force of white seeds. "White seeds" is a metaphor. Atisha means: drop
all that is black. Don't go on cultivating the black seeds of anger, jealousy,
hatred, possessiveness, domination. Even if they arise, watch, absorb them into
your heart, and they will become white seeds. And what are the white seeds?
Love, compassion, service, sincerity, sensitivity, awareness: these are the
white seeds. If one day you want to have white flowers in your life, you will
have to sow white seeds.
And the fourth force is reproach - to completely abjure ego-oriented
thoughts. Watch - whatsoever arises out of the ego, whatsoever is an ego trip,
immediately disconnect yourself from it. Even to linger with it for a while is
dangerous, because lingering will give it energy. The moment you know it is an
ego trip, immediately disconnect yourself... whenever pride arises, whenever the
ego raises its head, you know it. Cut that head immediately with a single blow.
And the fifth force is the force of the dedication of all virtue to the
welfare of others . Whatsoever good happens to you, immediately share it. This is
one of the most fundamental things in Buddhism. If love has arisen, share it,
shower it. If you cannot find people, shower it on the trees, the rocks, but
shower it. Don't hoard it - because if you hoard it, it turns into poison; if
you hoard it, it goes sour and bitter. Share it.... Give, and you will have it;
give more, and you will have more of it.
From The Book
of Wisdom, by Osho
Used by kind permission of Osho Foundation
International