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Meet Your Soul

Give and Take

Osho

I t is not true that all that When Gautam Buddha was Man is a house that has no
appears to be tiny is only a unhappy he went into the doors and no windows - he is a
receiver, a beggar, and all forest. and when he became closed house. And Leibniz used
that appears to be immensely blissful he returned to town. to say that even if you stretch
vast is only a give. Giving and When Mahavira was unhappy out your arms in this closed
receiving, the beggar and the he too went into the forest, house, they do not stretch far,
emperor are simultaneously and when he became blissful they reach only to the walls of
there in all. he returned to town. Have your own house. You Simply do
Shrinking and Expanding: you asked why a sad man not reach as far as the other. A
A French scientist developed goes to the forest? He shrinks, sad man is a monad.
a small instrument that The antonym of
measures the amount of monad is the word
energy that is entering man 'opening'. Monad means
each moment from the windowless, doorless.
cosmos. Interestingly, when If we coin a word for a
you are happy this energy mediator, we will have
enters into you more, and to say 'wall-less'. There
when you are sad, it enters arises no question of
less. If you are sad, your windows or doors ;
doors and windows are a mediator turns the
closed and shrunken; less whole house into a door.
energy penetrates you. He removes all the walls
Sadness causes shrinking. he is afraid of even meeting and comes under the open sky,
This is why a sad man says, someone. A happy man flows so that the whole may shower
"Don't talk to me, don't disturb like the current of a river, he directly upon him... It becomes
me. Let me sit in a corner, longs to share with all. Without one with him. Yoga's emphasis
let me curl up in a corner, let sharing, happiness becomes is on peace, bliss, silence, on
me die." He closes the door, heavy. Sadness wants to shrink; selflessness as paths to realise
darkens the room. A sad man hence a sad man remain alone. godliness, because through
shrinks. A blissful man likes to Are You a Monad? them you become more open.
share. A happy man becomes Mathematician Leibniz Energy Input And Output :
restless if he is alone; he would say that man is a The French device not only
runs to someone to share his 'monad'. Monad is his word records that energy is coming
happiness. and it means 'windowless'. from without, it also records

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