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swaha
Lebanon
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 Posted - Feb 10 2011 : 08:09:54 AM
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From Osho ...
We live in lies. We talk about the truth but we live in lies.
In fact talking about the truth is just a camouflage to hide
the lies of life. And we have become so accustomed to it,
so skillful in it that we are not even aware of those lies. We
go on playing those games absolutely unconsciously. It is
not even deliberate, it has become just a habit.
Start watching when you are lying . , . and stop it immediately!
You will be surprised to discover the whole day we
are lying, sometimes for some motivation but more often
without any motivation, for no reason at all! It has just
become our natural way of behavior. Somebody comes and
you smile. The smile is a lie—polite, formal, but still it is
a lie. You say something to somebody—maybe it is just etiquette
but it is still a lie all the same. Slowly, slowly, drop
all those things, and you will see great transformations coming.
Because the energy that is involved in the lies will be
released and only that energy can become truth. Our whole
energy is invested in lies so we have no more energy left
for truth. People go on searching for truth and they go on
pouring their energy into lies. That contradiction should no
more be allowed.
LET GO!
People start telling lies because that gives them a specialty:
they can pretend that they know things which nobody else
knows. Truth is universal, the lie is private. It is your own
creation, nobody else knows about it; you become very
special, the knower . .
People love gossiping, people love telling lies, inventing
lies. By inventing lies they have some special knowledge
that nobody else in the world has; it is their own invention,
so nobody knows about it. They can decorate it in different
ways, they can rationalize, they can create many many
strategies to protect it. And it always brings joy to people
when they can befool others, then they know they are wiser
than others.
This is an ego trip. The ego is the greatest lie in the world,
and the ego always feels good whenever it can feel special.
And it is not a question of whether you are telling a lie or
not, the whole question is whether the other is believing it
or not. If the other is believing, at least for the moment it
looks like the truth. And when you create many believers
in you, it gives you power.
Truth needs no believers . .
First: when you are lying to somebody, if you become
aware, immediately, in the middle of it, ask to be forgiven.
Tell him immediately: "This was a lie, and I was getting into
my old trick again. Forgive me please." It will be hard, but
there is no other way. When a habit has become very deeprooted,
it has to be hammered.
Second: become aware when you are just preparing to
tell a lie. It is just on the lips, just on your tongue: stop it
then and there, absorb it then and there.
And third: become aware when a lie starts arising in your
feelings, in the heart.
If you can create these three awarenesses, lying will disappear.
The moment lying disappears, truth arrives. And truth
is the only thing worth seeking and searching for, because
truth liberates.
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