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Nietzsche is right when he says that man cannot live with the truth. He needs lies he lives through lies. Nietzsche says that we go on saying that we want the truth, but no one wants it. Our so-called truths are nothing but lies, beautiful lies. No one is ready to see the naked reality.

This mind cannot enter on the path of yoga because yoga means a methodology to reveal the truth.Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.Yoga means now one is ready not to move into the future. Yoga means one is ready now not to hope, not to jump ahead of one's own being. Yoga means to encounter the reality as it is.

So one can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when he is totally frustrated with his own mind as it is. If one is still hoping that something can be gained through your mind, then yoga is not for you. -- Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1, CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PATH OF YOGA

Day, night, mind goes on moving from no-dream to dream, then from dream to no-dream again. This is an inner rhythm. Not only that we continuously dream, in life also we project hopes into the future. The present is almost always a hell [Nietzsche].

One can live today because of the tomorrow. One hopes that something is going to happen tomorrow – perhaps, some doors of paradise will open tomorrow. Because they never open today. And when tomorrow will come it will not come as a tomorrow, it will come as today, and by this time the mind has moved again - hoping for tomorrow. One can go on moving more & more into future. This is what dreaming means. One is not in this reality, that which is nearby, that which is here & now, one is somewhere else –moving ahead, jumping ahead into the future. [Hoping].

And that future tomorrow... it has many names. People call it heaven, some people call it moksha, nirvana, but it is always in the future. Somebody is thinking in terms of wealth, but that wealth is going to be in the future. And somebody is thinking in terms of paradise, and that paradise is going to be after one is dead – far away into the future. One wastes their present for that which is not: this is what dreaming means. One cannot be here & now. That seems too arduous, to be just in this moment.

One can be in the past because again that is dreaming – memories, remembrance of things which are no more Or one can be in the future, which is projection, which is again creating something out of the past. The future is nothing but past projected again – more colorful, more beautiful, more pleasant, but it is past refined.

One cannot think anything else than of the past. Future is nothing but past projected again, and both are not. The present is, but one is never in the present. This is what dreaming means. And Nietzsche is right when he says that man cannot live with the truth. He needs lies he lives through lies. Nietzsche says that we go on saying that we want the truth, but no one wants it. Our so-called truths are nothing but lies, beautiful lies. No one is ready to see the naked reality.

This mind cannot enter on the path of yoga because yoga means a methodology to reveal the truth. Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here & now. Yoga means now one is ready not to move into the future. Yoga means one is ready now not to hope, not to jump ahead of one's being. Yoga means to encounter the reality as it is. So one can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when he is totally frustrated with his own mind as it is.

If one is still hoping that he can gain something through the mind, yoga is not for this type of individual. A total frustration is needed – the revelation that this mind which projects is futile, the mind that hopes is nonsense, it leads nowhere. It simply closes one's eyes; it intoxicates; it never allows reality to be revealed. It is a protection against reality.

The mind is a drug. It is against that which is. So unless one is totally frustrated with one's own mind, with one's way of being, the way one has existed up to now, if one can drop it unconditionally, then one can enter onto the path.

So many become interested, but very few enter because the interest may be just because of the mind. One may be hoping now, through yoga, that something may be gained, but the achieving motive is there - one may become perfect through yoga, may reach to the blissful state of perfect being, may become one with the brahman, may achieve the satchitananda. This may be the cause why there is an interest in yoga. If this is the cause then there can be no meeting between one's own being and the path which is yoga. Then one is totally against it, moving in a totally opposite dimension.

Yoga means that now there is no hope, now there is no future, now there are no desires. One is ready to know what is. One is not interested in what can be, what should be, what ought to be. One is not interested! One is interested only in that which is, because only the real can free you, only this reality can become liberation.

Total despair is needed. That despair is called dukkha by Buddha. And if one is really in misery, don’t hope, because hope will only prolong the misery. Hope is a drug. It can help one to reach their death only and nowhere else. All hopes can only lead to death. And they are leading.

Become totally hopeless – no future, no hope. Difficult. Needs courage to face the real. But such a moment comes to everyone, some time or other. A moment comes to every human being when he feels total hopelessness. Absolute meaninglessness happens to him. When he becomes aware that whatsoever he is doing is useless, wheresoever he is going, he is going to nowhere, all life is meaningless – suddenly hopes drop, future drops, and for the first time one is in tune with the present, for the first time one is face to face with this reality." -- Osho, CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PATH OF YOGA

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