OSHO RAJNEESH: You Are in Prison and You Think You Are Free

Osho Rajneesh: You Are in Prison and You Think You Are Free

I can clearly remember lines from the movie "The Matrix" after watching this video. According to my view, the movie reflected some realities about our life. Though, the movie did not mean it as they just treated it as science fiction but unknowingly the movie presented something which is happening in real life with us. The lines from the movie were "You are in prison that you cannot touch and smell. It is a prison for your mind." We all are trapped in our present situations. We cannot call ourselves free from any bondage but our life itself is full of bondage.



We have been given a false reality and we have been given a belief that we have a choice but in reality we do not have any choice. Our mind is shaped in such a way since our childhood that it creates a false world in front of us. All our sufferings and rejoicings come from mind where mind is something which is unreal. It is just combination of your thoughts, experience and beliefs. Anything contradicting with your mind will make you suffer and supporting your mind will make you rejoice whereas this rejoicing and suffering are fake. It is possible to alter mind and if different minds can treat one thing in opposite ways then mind cannot be trusted at all.

Osho Rajneesh is talking about a prison of our mind. Nobody feels contented in our world but still we are sticking with the same lifestyle and beliefs. We only hear what we want to hear. We need to realize first that we are in prison otherwise it is impossible to escape from it. The process of escaping is the next step where one needs to break mind and leave all the fake experience collected. Osho Rajneesh is talking about George Gurdjieff too who was very significant man in his time.

Osho Rajneesh: There Is No Tomorrow Youtube Video

Osho Rajneesh: There Is No Tomorrow Youtube Video

The talk presented here by Osho Rajneesh is similar to the Osho's Hindi video present on youtube. I have already translated that video from Hindi to English. In the beginning of the video, Osho Rajneesh is talking about the difference between philosophy and life itself. No doubt, I would also say that every individual today try to be a philosopher. These people are so certain in themselves that they are ready to teach you that how life should be lived. Mixture of different philosophies lead to misery in life because through philosophies, people try to be somebody and it makes them to suffer.



Life is meant to be lived. Life is jumping into the deep mystery. Life is not being certain about how to live but it is uncertainty about being uncertain. That is why, people who attain truth are unable to say anything. I was listening to one of the discourses of Osho Rajneesh. He was talking about Mahatma Buddha. People would come to him and would ask big questions about life. He would never answer such questions because the one who attains the truth jumps into the mystery of the whole existence. He is left with questions and the amazement of this whole existence where, all the answers disappear. People would think that Mahatma Buddha knows nothing about God but he was one of them who knew more than all of us. He knew that it could not be said. The time you say it, you tried to explain its mystery but the mystery itself is so big that it cannot be explained. The people who say after attaining the truth always put stress on not sticking to the words.

Osho Rajneesh later says in the video that there are no tomorrows and yesterdays. I would like to say that in other words that there is no today. The two statements appear to be contradictory but they are not in other sense. We always stay in future ambitions or in past memories. Today, we are never in today. There are different reasons behind this happening. The structured society has made it worst. Children are told to make ambitions for the future and they keep on chasing the time and that day never comes. When they achieve the first target, the next ambition comes into the picture and they continue following the future. Osho Rajneesh beautifully explained things in this video. Listen to it carefully and think for a minute that how much time do you spend in present as compared to future and past.