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Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu QUOTES

Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu QUOTES

1 " Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao. "

― Osho , Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu

2 " Just understanding life as it is, and living it with courage; not escaping from it, not hiding from it, facing it with courage, whatsoever it is, good or bad, divine or evil, heaven or hell. "

― Osho , Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu

3 " He believes in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is. "

― Osho , Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu

4 " Then meditation would be a dead thing – like a stone, not like a flower. And meditation is not like a stone, not even like a plastic flower. It is a real lotus. It blooms. It changes. With the sun it opens, in the night it closes. There is a continuous balance, and you have to find the balance every moment. Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it. By "

― Osho , Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu

5 " Watch children, because they are pure beings and they reflect things absolutely clearly; they are mirrorlike. In the villages, if a child laughs too much mothers say, “Don’t laugh too much, otherwise you will weep.” There is some wisdom in it. If a child laughs too much he is bound to weep. You can see – he is laughing, he is laughing, he is laughing – and suddenly he has started crying. The laughter came to the extreme and became crying. You cannot be happy twenty-four hours a day; unhappiness is a relaxation. You cannot be unhappy for twenty-four hours; happiness is a relaxation. It is tightrope walking. And man is foolish because man is too logical. You "

― Osho , Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu

6 " You can be total without being perfect and you can be perfect without being total. In fact, you can only be perfect if you are not total, because perfection will choose either the right or the left; then you become a perfect rightist, or you become a perfect leftist, or you become a perfect middler. But perfection means you are fixed; perfection means no change moves within you; perfection means now you are frozen, not flowing. And perfection is always partial. The "

― Osho , Absolute Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu