Only a few people in the world are capable of being silent, meditative..Osho International Foundation

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE says:  All that is needed is to know the art of listening.  Listening to the winds and listening to the clouds and listening to the dancing trees, the falling leaves - utterly in silence, you mind weaving no thoughts, no thinking - is the very foundation of listening.

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It does not mean you have to agree.  There is no question of agreement, because a man like Nietzsche is not so mean that he wants you to agree with him.

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He simply wants you to understand him, and then it is up to you what you do with it.  Agree or don't agree - but at least listen!  There are only very few people in the world who are capable of being silent, meditative, capable of listening.  It is a strange phenomenon: if you can learn the art, it is not a question of listening to my words.  It is a question of the art of listening.  It is within you.

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BEST SILENT IS MEDITATION

Said differently, I call it meditation - just being silent.  Even listening does not give you the accurate description of the state that is needed for you to find the truth of your own self.  But listening is certainly one of the easiest processes of meditation.  And as you become able to listen, you listen to the winds and the rain and the clouds and the whole heartbeat of the universe.  In that listening, you will open up; your bud will become an open rose.

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"I KNOW AND YOU DON'T KNOW" IS INHUMAN

The very idea that "I know and you don't know" is inhuman.  It is uncultured, it is uncivilised.  It may be that I have experienced something that I can share with you, but I cannot denounce you as ignorant.  I can only say, "Perhaps you have missed it, perhaps you have bypassed it.  Perhaps you are innocent and you have not looked at it."  I cannot call you ignorant and propose that I am the knower and you are ignorant and take your dignity, your freedom, your inquiry, and ask you just to believe.

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TRUST IS ANOTHER NAME OF LOVE

Love yourself and love all that is all around you.  there is no need to create chains, there is no need to create prisons.  Love is enough.  But love is not a belief, love is a reality.  It is in your very Heartbeat, it is your experience.  It is not in the scriptures; it is not Christian and it is not Hindu, it is not Mohammedan.  Love is the blossoming of your inner being just like a rose....

                                                                                 Courtesy Osho International Foundation.......