Here and Now: The Only Time, the Only Place
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Osho,
Can you throw some light on the feeling of nostalgia? Freud called it regressive and a seeking of the womb. This does not satisfy me.
Sometimes the perfume of a flower, sounds, a place or an incident from childhood, can evoke a few seconds of feeling and yearning that are so sad and so sweet, it can choke me with its intensity.
My childhood was not so happy, nor is the womb so appealing that mere sentimentality for 'the old days' can explain it.
Could you help with some indications?
Can you throw some light on the feeling of nostalgia? Freud called it regressive and a seeking of the womb. This does not satisfy me.
Sometimes the perfume of a flower, sounds, a place or an incident from childhood, can evoke a few seconds of feeling and yearning that are so sad and so sweet, it can choke me with its intensity.
My childhood was not so happy, nor is the womb so appealing that mere sentimentality for 'the old days' can explain it.
Could you help with some indications?
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Osho,
Can you throw some light on the feeling of nostalgia? Freud called it regressive and a seeking of the womb. This does not satisfy me.
Sometimes the perfume of a flower, sounds, a place or an incident from childhood, can evoke a few seconds of feeling and yearning that are so sad and so sweet, it can choke me with its intensity.
My childhood was not so happy, nor is the womb so appealing that mere sentimentality for 'the old days' can explain it.
Could you help with some indications?
Osho continues:
Can you throw some light on the feeling of nostalgia? Freud called it regressive and a seeking of the womb. This does not satisfy me.
Sometimes the perfume of a flower, sounds, a place or an incident from childhood, can evoke a few seconds of feeling and yearning that are so sad and so sweet, it can choke me with its intensity.
My childhood was not so happy, nor is the womb so appealing that mere sentimentality for 'the old days' can explain it.
Could you help with some indications?
"Neither the past exists nor the future: the past is no more, the future not yet. All that exists is this moment, only this moment. Now is the only real time and here the only real space.
"But whenever you become obsessed with the past or the future it simply shows one thing, an escape from the present, an escape from the existential. And why should one want to escape from the existential? Why should one want to escape into memories or into fantasies? There can be only one reason – you don't know how to live now, you don't know the art of getting in tune with reality. Because your present is so empty, so meaningless, you have to compensate for it with something.
"The easier way is to compensate for it with the past because the past once existed; it has left its footprints in the sands of your memory, so it is easier to fall back. The past seems more substantial than the future, hence ninety-nine percent of people fall toward the past. Only one percent – the poets, the visionaries, the artists – look toward the future, they compensate for their present with the future. But basically both are doing the same, more or less everybody is doing it in his own way.
"Nostalgia means non-meditativeness, unawareness, unconsciousness, and it is an utterly futile exercise, an absolutely futile exercise. You cannot be nourished by the past, there is no way to live it again, but you can live in memories. Living in memories is an empty gesture.
"So the first thing is to remember that it is not only you who is suffering from nostalgia, everybody is, relatively – although there may be differences. And the people who live in the future are also projecting their past, because where else can they get the material to make future dreams? They will get it from the memories. They will modify their past, decorate their past, make new combinations of the past and create a future – a future heaven. This is true about individuals and about societies too.
"The old societies, for example, India, live in the past. India's golden age has passed."
"But whenever you become obsessed with the past or the future it simply shows one thing, an escape from the present, an escape from the existential. And why should one want to escape from the existential? Why should one want to escape into memories or into fantasies? There can be only one reason – you don't know how to live now, you don't know the art of getting in tune with reality. Because your present is so empty, so meaningless, you have to compensate for it with something.
"The easier way is to compensate for it with the past because the past once existed; it has left its footprints in the sands of your memory, so it is easier to fall back. The past seems more substantial than the future, hence ninety-nine percent of people fall toward the past. Only one percent – the poets, the visionaries, the artists – look toward the future, they compensate for their present with the future. But basically both are doing the same, more or less everybody is doing it in his own way.
"Nostalgia means non-meditativeness, unawareness, unconsciousness, and it is an utterly futile exercise, an absolutely futile exercise. You cannot be nourished by the past, there is no way to live it again, but you can live in memories. Living in memories is an empty gesture.
"So the first thing is to remember that it is not only you who is suffering from nostalgia, everybody is, relatively – although there may be differences. And the people who live in the future are also projecting their past, because where else can they get the material to make future dreams? They will get it from the memories. They will modify their past, decorate their past, make new combinations of the past and create a future – a future heaven. This is true about individuals and about societies too.
"The old societies, for example, India, live in the past. India's golden age has passed."
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| Editore | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 58 mins |
| File Size | 15.84 MB |
| Type | Colloquio Individuale |
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