04/01/2026
All these three things -- non-violence, non-possessiveness, authenticity and truthfulness -- arise without any effort on your part... IF you succeed in meditation. A man of meditation cannot lie. A man of meditation cannot hurt anybody; hence he is non-violent.
A man of meditation knows perfectly well that all things are ephemeral. You came into the world without anything, and you will have to go from the world without anything; so you can use things -- but you cannot possess them. You can use things just the way you use the railway train. Just because you are sitting in the railway train you don't start declaring that you are the owner of the train! You are using it for a time being; at one station you get in, at another station you get out.
Life should be taken just the same way. Whatever life gives to you -- use it, but don't become the owner.
OSHO: The Great Zen Master Ta hui #02