CONTENT OF: HAVE WE FORGOTTEN HOW TO LIVE

LIVE AND LEARN: REAL LIFE ONLY BEGINS ABOVE INERTIA AND MECHANISM

I see humanity immersed in inertia. Their lives have become completely mechanical. Gurdjieff rightly used the term “human machine” to describe them. Whatever we do, we are not doing it, it is being done to us. Our actions are not conscious and aware. They are not actions, but merely reactions.

Humans love, they are angry, and desires flow. But these are not their actions; they are unconscious and mechanical flows. They do not do them; they happen to them. They are not their doer, but are done by them.

In this state, humanity is merely an opportunity through which nature performs its work. They are merely a tool. They have no existence, no being of their own. They are not conscious life, but only unconscious mechanism.

This mechanical life is equivalent to death.

Real life begins only by rising above inertia and mechanism. 

CONTENT Of  “HAVE WE FORGOTTEN HOW TO LIVE?/AMRIT VANI

NO BELIEF: THINK!
NO KNOWLEDGE: INNOCENCE!
NO SUFFERING: BLISS!

• No Belief, No Knowledge: Osho emphasizes that true spirituality is not about clinging to dogmas, beliefs, or borrowed knowledge. Instead, it is about shifting from the mind’s constant thinking to pure, childlike innocence. [1]

• The Present Moment: The text challenges readers to live completely in the “now.” The past is gone, the future is an imagination, and true existence happens only in this exact moment. [1]

• Meditation in Action: Far from traditional ascetic isolation, Osho promotes active meditations (e.g., OSHO Dynamic Meditation) to help you bring meditative awareness into everyday life. [1, 2]

• Transcending Suffering: He teaches that identifying with desires, fears, and the past is the root of human suffering. By dropping attachments, one awakens to a state of spontaneous bliss