Prayer is something that you cannot do, but that you can be.
"Prayer is something that you cannot do, but that you can be.
..."It is not a question of doing, it is a question of being.
..."A man can become a prayer. Nobody can do prayer –what will you do? But one can become prayer, one can be prayer-full.
..."The idea that prayer can be done has misled people. It has created the sunday religion, that once a week you go to the church and do prayer and you are finished with religion.
..."That's a very easy way to get rid of religion.
..."You feel good: you have done the prayer, or at the most if you are very sincere, you can do it every night before you go to bed.
..."You can just say a few ritualistic words which have been taught and which you have learned like a parrot.
..."It is parrot-like, it is not prayer.
..."You can repeat it mechanically, fall into bed and go to sleep. You can finish it in a hurry, but it doesn't change your being, it doesn't change your style, it doesn't bring any light to your life, it does not create any love.
..."If this type of prayer was really creating love then the world would have been totally different.
..."There would have been no Christian wars, Mohammedans would have been peaceful people, then Hindus would not have fought and killed.
..."But that has not been the case.
..."Hindus and Mohammedans and Christians and all, they have been killing each other –and they are all people of prayer!
..."They all go to the temple and to the mosque and to the church.
..."In fact they fight because of the mosque, because of the church, because of the temple; they fight because they are people of prayer!
..."This is absurd, this is patent nonsense –if any nonsense can be patent, this is it!
..."Prayer has not changed the world –that simply means that prayer has not existed yet.
..."There have just been a few people sometimes, here and there, few and far between.
..."Those few people have really been the solace of humankind, but their way of prayer is not of ritual, it is not parroting.
..."They live it, they move into it, they breathe it!
..."So when I am giving you the name 'deva archan', it is an indication to be more prayerful.
..."Walking, walk prayerfully. Talking, talk prayerfully –because you are talking to a god!
..."Listening to the wind passing through the trees, listen carefully –because you are listening to god. Listen prayerfully.
..."Because all is god, and all ground is holy ground, so each step has to be taken very very carefully, very lovingly, very respectfully.
..."So whatsoever you do, do it prayerfully.
..."You are always in the temple –the whole earth is a church of god! We are never out of it anywhere; we are always in it.
..."This remembrance ..."That god is everywhere –will change you."
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🍁Osho,
For Madmen Only (Price of Admission: Your Mind)
Chapter #28.
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