A Bird on the Wing by Osho

Author:Osho [Osho]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OSHO Media International
Published: 2013-06-30T14:00:00+00:00

A mother was saying to her child, “I don’t want neighbors to tell me that you have started smoking. Be truthful, and whenever you start smoking, tell me.”

The child said, “Don’t bother mom, I have already stopped. It is one year now since I have stopped smoking. It is one year now so don’t bother, don’t get worried about it.”

Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old child, or even an eight- or nine-year-old child, will continue. Then there is a satisfaction and smoking will not be so necessary. That’s why in primitive communities men are not so much interested in women’s breasts. They have had enough – no need! Women go without covering their breasts; there is no problem that somebody will attack them. Nobody looks at the breasts.

If you had been given the breast for ten years continuously, you would get fed up and bored; you would say, “Stop now!” But every child has been taken away from the breast prematurely, and that remains a wound. So all civilized countries are obsessed with breasts. Even an old man, dying, is obsessed with breasts, goes on searching for breasts. This seems mad – and it is. But the basic cause is, children should be given the breast. Otherwise they will become addicted to it, and the whole life they will be in search of it. You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else and that other thing may be more harmful.

Don’t go on escaping from problems – face them. The problem is that you are tense, so the goal should be how to be non-tense, not whether to smoke or not. Meditate. Relax your tensions without any object – into the sky. Allow catharsis to happen. When you are non-tense these things will become absurd, foolish, and they will drop. Food will change, your styles of living will change.

But my insistence is on you. Character is secondary, behavior is secondary. The essential you is the primary thing. Don’t pay too much attention to what you do, but pay much attention to what you are. Being should become the focus, and doing should be left to itself. When being changes, doing follows.

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