Just Striptease Your Desires

Peel off your longings one by one, says  OSHO

1.Where there are desires there is passion; where there is passion there is a goal and a path

2. But when you reach your destination, you are not satisfied and your goal post moves

3.Get rid of all desires and experience nothingness by peeling them off like an onion 

             He who is filled with desires, wishes to reach somewhere.The very desire to reach is passion. If I am happy to be myself and accept myself as I am, all paths become useless for me. If I don’t have to go or reach anywhere, then there is no need no purpose,............

for a path, for me. Only when we want to take a journey, paths become meaningful. Whatever paths we create are all paths of desires, of passions but the desire is not concerned with the passage; it is concerned only with the destination. Passion is the aspiration to reach somewhere. A distant star keeps  shining on the horizon of a passion-ridden mind  and beckons to it "Come hither,there is happiness there is joy, there is peace, where I am Where you stand, there is no jog no peace." Now there is a great distance between us and the skies, and we have to perforce, End a way to connect the two. Then it makes no difference whether we pave the path with wealth or with religion, whether we travel inward or outward. It makes no difference whether we aspire for worldly gains or seek the doors of beatitude and God through that path. If our destination is outside and away from us, we have to make a path to join us to our goal. Then the path becomes inevitable.

                                                                       Treading Paths

         Lao Tzu says: “The path that can be trodden upon, is not the Path.” But a mind filled with desires is bound to tread on paths. So it means that whatever path a desire-ridden mind follows, is not the real Path A mind filled with passion is never: where it is but keeps forever wandering where it is not. This 

is an impossible situation. I am not where I am but wandering where

I am not. Naturally I am filled with anguish. I am tense, for I can only be at ease where I actually am; where I am not, I cannot relax. It is necessary however, that in order to be where I am, my mind should not desire to be elsewhere— it should not be taking flights. to distant lands!

                                                                 Palace Of Existence

         Hence Lao Tzu says: “Therefore, a mind filled with passion and desires cannot open the doors to

the deep mysteries of existence? It can only be acquainted with the outer fringe; the inner mysteries remain unknown. The palace of existence remains unknown and the desiring mind lives out its life taking the outer walls to be authentic. It is bound to do so.For the palace is here and now; and the desirous mind is always somewhere else. It is never here and now. It is lost in dreams. It is not that if the mind satisfies a particular desire there will be any sizable change in the situation. if  I am here today, I think of being somewhere else; then when I reach that place, the mind will sow fresh seeds of desire for some other place. So we keep running. 

                                                           Temporary Encampment 

          Actually that which we thought to be the destination, we discover to be a temporary en comment. Before reaching, it ·‘seems that everything will be attained by reaching the goal and on reaching we End it was only the beginning  there is much farther to go. Therefore, we are never at peace, even for a moment Lao Tzu has purposely used the word “therefore’ to imply a calculated inference. And the conclusion arrived at is that: "Always stripped of passion we must be found,” with all passions, uprooted, uncovered. We should strip ourselves of desires as one would peel an onion, layer by layer, till-nothing remains in the end. :`If all your layers are removed like the layers of an onion, what will you be but a zero? You ale what you have desired to be a collection of your desires. Think what will remain if all your desires

fall oil`-- a mere emptiness; nothing! But it is this “I\Io-thing' from which the door to Existence opens. In fact, all doors open through the void Tao: The Pathless Path, courtesy Osho International Foundation.