Hope & Trust?
Here and Now
I just change my mind
And take the jump
to Meditate and Celebrate my Life
-Nirad-

I spent a lifetime
Waiting for the right time
Now that I'm here
My mind is clear:

It's Now or Never
To be a light
Unto myself
Shining so bright
Tomorrow
Will not be mine
It's Now or Never
My light will shine

Nirad (1943)

This is a part of the song "It's Now or Never" with lyrics by Nirad
Below Gyanam sings the complete song

Osho Zen Tarot - 10 of Rainbows
"We are The World"

Commentary:

Humanity is depicted here as a rainbow of beings, dancing around the mandala of the earth with their hands joined together in joy and gratitude for the gift of life.
This card represents a time of communication, of sharing the riches that each of us brings to the whole. There is no clinging here, no grasping. It is a circle without fear of feelings of inferiority and superiority.

When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence.
When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation.

Osho's vision - "I celebrate myself" - chapter 4:

When thousands and thousands of people around the earth
are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine,
there is no possibility of any global suicide.
With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health,
with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?...

Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.
When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone.
When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal.
Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

- Osho -

“Drop all conflicting tendencies
- violence, aggression, fear –
be loving, prayerful, meditative.”
Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 4, Ch 2, Q 6

Osho, do you believe mankind will some day evolve into a higher plane
- a world free from war, injustice, etc?

I don't think of the morrow at all, of what will happen tomorrow.
People who will be here tomorrow - they will think about it.
This moment is enough for me.
And this is the only moment we can live,
you cannot live in the future.
Don't waste your time on it.

And don't be worried about mankind:
you will never meet anywhere any mankind or humanity;
all that you will meet will be human beings.
Humanity is an abstraction; non-existential; just a word.
Don't be bothered about it.
You have a small life span you will be living with human beings;
just see how you can live so you can be fulfilled.

Whether in the future there will be wars or not,
who are we to decide?
And why should we bother?
But there are utopians who go on thinking about the future.
They miss their lives in thinking about the future.
And that future never comes.
The word utopia means: that which never comes.
Go on thinking about it:
a world without wars, without famine, without poverty,

But what is the point? - you are dreaming!
Rather, be more realistic.
Create a human being inside you
who has no warring tendencies,
no conflicting tendencies, no violence, no aggression;
that's all that can be done.
That is feasible.
Create a human being within,
don't think about human kind.
How can you manage that?
That is not possible.
Leave all that to foolish politicians.
They will think about it.
You can do something for the human being that you are.
Drop all conflicting tendencies: violence, aggression, fear -

Be loving, prayerful, meditative.
Create at least one human being as you would like the whole humanity to be.
At least create a model within you
so that your fragrance spreads
and gives a vision to people that this too is possible,
that man is divine.
Love more - Delight more - Celebrate more - Dance more - Sing more:
that's all that you can do.

Leave a dream around you - actualized.
If somebody loves it, he may follow.
I cannot say that the whole humanity will follow -
it is such a vast thing.
And there is no need of that because
your happiness may not be others' happiness.
Your singing may be just noise for somebody else.
Your dance may be nothing but a nuisance.

So who is to decide?
Don't take the responsibility that you will decide for the whole - no.
You drop out of these roles of decider.
You are not the decider.
You simply live your life in the small corner that you have got.
Whatsoever you can do for yourself, do it.
And if somebody feels good, attracted, magnetized - help him,
but out of love, not out of any missionary spirit.
That is poison.

- Osho -

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