You cannot avoid truth..

It is better to face it, 
it is better to accept it, 
it is better to live it. 

Once you start living a life of truth,

authenticity -- of your original face --

all troubles by and by disappear

because the conflict drops
and you are no more divided.

Your voice has a unity then,
your whole being becomes an orchestra.

Right now,
when you say something,
your body says something else;

when your tongue says something,
your eyes go on saying
something else simultaneously.

Many times people come to me

and I ask them,

"How are you?"

And they say,

"We are very, very happy."

And I cannot believe it
because their faces are so dull --

no joy, no delight!

Their eyes have no shining in them, no light.

And when they say,

"We are happy,"

even the word 'happy'

does not sound very happy.

It sounds as if they are dragging it.

Their tone, their voice, their face,
the way they are sitting or standing --
everything belies it, says something else.

Start watching people.

When they say that they are happy, watch.

Watch for a clue.

Are they really happy?

And immediately you will be aware
that some part of them
is saying something else.

And then by and by watch yourself.

When you are saying that
you are happy and you are not,
there will be a disturbance in your breathing.

Your breathing cannot be natural.

It is impossible.

Because the truth was that

you were not happy.

If you had said,

"I am unhappy,"

your breathing
would have remained natural.

There was no conflict.

But you said, "I am happy."

Immediately
you are repressing something --
something that was coming up,
you have forced down.

In this very effort
your breathing changes its rhythm;

it is no longer rhythmical.

Your face is no longer graceful,
your eyes become cunning.

First watch others
because it will be easier to watch others.

You can be more objective about them.

And when you have found clues about them
use the same clues about yourself.

And see --

when you speak truth,
your voice has a musical tone to it;

when you speak untruth,
something is there like a jarring note.

When you speak truth
you are one, together;

when you speak untruth
you are not together,
a conflict has arisen.

Watch these subtle phenomena,

because
they are the consequence
of togetherness or untogetherness.

Whenever you are together,

not falling apart;

whenever you are one, in unison,
suddenly you will see you are happy.

That is the meaning of the word 'yoga'.

That's what we mean by a yogi:

one who is together, in unison;

whose parts are all interrelated
and not contradictory, interdependent,
not in conflict, at rest with each other.

A great friendship exists within his being.

He is whole.

Sometimes it happens that
you become one,
in some rare moment.

Watch the ocean,
the tremendous wildness of it --

and suddenly you forget your split,

your schizophrenia;

you relax.

Or, moving in the Himalayas,

seeing the virgin snow
on the Himalaya peaks,
suddenly a coolness surrounds you
and you need not be false

because
there is no other human being to be false to.

You fall together.

Or, listening to beautiful music,

you fall together.

Whenever, in whatsoever situation,

you become one,

a peace, a happiness, a bliss,

surrounds you, arises in you.

You feel fulfilled.

There is no need to wait for these moments --
these moments can become your natural life.

These extraordinary moments
can become ordinary moments --

that is the whole effort of Zen.

You can live an extraordinary life
in a very ordinary life:

cutting wood, chopping wood,
carrying water from the well,
you can be tremendously
at ease with yourself.

Cleaning the floor, cooking food,
washing the clothes,

you can be perfectly at ease --

because
the whole question is of
you doing your action

totally, enjoying, delighting in it.

~ Osho