Thought Shots

Question: What is the saddest truth in life? Answer: I have been meaning to write you my answer for a few days now, but I was caught up with some silly exam papers. Nevertheless, and here we go... On the surface, your question seems like a sad question but it is not. In fact, it is a question that can open the doors of happiness for us. Only when we become aware of the sources of our grief can we begin to avoid them. So, what is the saddest truth in life? The saddest truth in life is that we hope where there is no hope. We want what is not achievable. We are after what cannot be chased. We want and go on wanting.  Buddha spent years meditating and when it all ended, he postulated his teachings and concluded the sum of it all, which was that desire is the source of all suffering. And the conclusion was relevant then and it is relevant now. That is the beauty of the Buddha. The things he taught are still as applicable as they were when he walked this earth. A lot of other teachin

Question: What are some of the best ideas told by OSHO Rajneesh? Ans: Osho is an ocean. And within this ocean, you have so many invaluable gems that it will be difficult to make a count. But you have asked what are some of the best ideas told by OSHO Rajneesh? I can understand the intention behind your question. You want a quick-fix. You want an instant band-aid that you can wrap around whatever it is that your life needs at the moment. And you are not to be blamed for it. This is the kind of age we live in. We tweet instead of talk. We google instead of read. And so on and so on. And not that there is anything wrong with it. It is just that the quest has to be taken to the next level. It is one that will require you to experience it.  Buddha always asked his disciples to believe in experience instead of faith. He said, "Do not believe anything I say unless you yourself have experienced it." He was against blind faith. Which is why he never even mentioned the word '

What if it were true that life is meaningless? What if life really had no purpose to it? What if everything that we do was nothing, meant nothing, resulted ultimately in nothing? How would such a realization impact our way of life? Will it mean that we begin to see the pointlessness of having to live this tardy life? Will it mean that we finally decipher why sometimes people can seem so despaired, why sometimes we despair and why we can, at times, look half-dead, half-alive? Albert Camus said, “The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions,” he said in  The Myth of Sisyphus , but “I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning.” As for death, Camus said, “We know it ends everything,” and results in  eternal nothingness . Eternal nothingness , yes. And it comes to everyone, eventually. Whatsoever one may possess, one may attain, one may achieve. So, how are we to deal with this?  I think that the answer is hidden in the question itself. If life means not