5 forces

These are the five forces.

The first force is intensity, totality. If you really want to have a
transformed life, if you really want to become a light unto yourself,
if you really want to know the ultimate mystery of existence and the
ultimate ecstasy of being alive, then the first force is intensity,
totality. Whatsoever you do, do it intensely, to the optimum. Don't be
lousy, don't be lazy, don't be partial. Go into it wholeheartedly, let
it become a total absorption.

If you dance, dance so totally that the dancer disappears and only the
dance remains, and it will be a transformation. If you love, love
totally, so totally that there is no lover found. The lover is found
only if you are holding something back. That which you are holding
back becomes the lover. If you are holding something back, that which
you are holding back becomes the dancer, the singer. If you are
totally in the dance, in the song, in the love, who is left behind
there to say, "I am the lover, I am the dancer"? Nothing is left.
And totality transforms.
It is only at one hundred degrees intensity that one evaporates from
the material into the spiritual, from the earth into the sky, from the
ordinary into the extraordinary.



The second force is familiarization: do and be what you really want to
do and be. Life is lived according to gestalts that you have created
around yourself. If you really want to be something else, then
familiarize yourself with it. If you want to play the guitar,
practice. If you want to dance, practice. If you want anything to
happen in your life, imbibe more and more of it and drop all that is
against it. And the way to drop it is not to use it, because by using
it you create ways for it to come into you again and again and again.



The third force is the force of white seeds. "White seeds" is a
metaphor. Atisha means, drop all that is black. Don't go on
cultivating the black seeds of anger, jealousy, hatred,
possessiveness, domination. Drop all black seeds. Even if they arise,
watch, absorb them in the heart, and they will become white seeds. And
what are the white seeds? Love, compassion, service, sincerity,
sensitivity, awareness -- these are the white seeds. If one day you
want to have white flowers in your life, you will have to sow white
seeds.



And the fourth force is reproach -- to completely abjure ego-oriented
thoughts. Watch: whatsoever arises out of the ego, whatsoever is an
ego trip, immediately disconnect yourself from it. Even to linger with
it for a little while is dangerous, because lingering will give it
energy. The moment you know it is an ego trip, immediately disconnect
yourself.
And everybody knows when they are going on an ego trip. It is not an 
art to be learned, everybody is born with it. You know it; you can go
with it in spite of your knowing -- that is another matter -- but you
know it. Whenever pride arises, whenever the ego raises its head, you
know it. Cut that head immediately in a single blow.



And the fifth force is the force of the dedication of all virtue to
the welfare of others. Whatsoever good happens to you, immediately
share it. This is one of the most fundamental things in Buddhism.
Don't hoard it, don't be a miser. If love has arisen, share it, shower
it. If you cannot find people, shower it on the trees, on the rocks,
but shower it. Don't hoard it -- because if you hoard it, it turns
into poison; if you hoard it, it goes sour and bitter. Share it.

And the more you share, the more will be coming into you from unknown
sources. Slowly slowly, you will be able to know the ways of inner
economics. The outer economics is hoard if you want to have things.
And the inner economics is just the opposite: hoard, and you will not
have it. Give, and you will have it; give more, and you will have more
of it.

OSHO,
The Book of Wisdom
Chapter #5
Chapter title: Sowing White Seeds .,._