" Every child is born ecstatic. Ecstasy is natural. It is not something that happens only to great sages. It is something that everybody brings with him into the world; everybody comes with it. It is life’s innermost core. It is part of being alive. Life is ecstasy. Every child brings it into the world, but then the society jumps on the child, starts destroying the possibility of ecstasy, starts making the child miserable, starts conditioning the child. You cannot control an ecstatic man; it is impossible. You can only control a miserable man. An ecstatic man is bound to be free. Ecstasy is freedom. Once the child knows the taste of freedom, he will never become part of any society, any club, any political party. He will remain an individual, he will remain free and he will create pulsations of freedom around him. His very being will become a door to freedom. But the child is not allowed to taste freedom. If the child asks the mother, ”Mom, can I go outside? The sun is beautiful and the air is very crisp and I would like to run around the block,” immediately – obsessively, compulsively – the mother says, ”No!” The child has not asked much. He just wanted to go out into the morning sun, into the brisk air, he wanted to enjoy the sunlight and the air and the company of the trees – he has not asked for anything! – but compulsively, out of some deep compulsion, the mother says no. Whenever the child feels happy, doing whatsoever, somebody or other is bound to come and stop him – ”Don’t do this!” By and by the child understands, ”Whatsoever feel happy in is wrong.” And of course he never feels happy doing whatsoever others tell him to do, because it is not a spontaneous urge in him. So he comes to know that to be miserable is right, to be happy is wrong. If it is a beautiful night and the sky is full of stars, the child wants to sit outside, but it is time to go to sleep. He is not feeling sleepy at all; he is wide awake, very, very much awake. The child is puzzled. In the morning when he feels sleepy, everybody is after him – ”Get up!” When he was enjoying, when it was so beautiful to be in the bed, when he wanted to take another turn and have a little more sleep and dream a little more, then everybody was against him”Get up! It is time to get up.” Now he is wide awake and he wants to enjoy the stars. It is very poetic, this moment, very romantic. He feels thrilled. How can he go to sleep in such a thrill? He is so excited, he wants to sing and dance, and they are forcing him to go to sleep – ”It is nine o’clock. It is time to go to sleep.” Now, he was happy being awake but he is forced to go to sleep. When he is playing he is forced to come to the dining table. He is not hungry. When he is hungry, the mother says, ”This is not the time.” This way we go on destroying all possibility of being ecstatic, all possibility of being happy, joyful, delighted. Whatsoever the child feels spontaneously happy with seems to be wrong, and whatsoever he does not feel at all seems to be right. In the school a bird suddenly starts singing outside the classroom, and the child is all attention towards the bird, of course – not towards the mathematics teacher who is standing at the board with his ugly chalk. But the teacher is more powerful, politically more powerful than the bird. Certainly, the bird has no power, but it has beauty. The bird attracts the child without hammering on his head, ”Be attentive! Concentrate towards me!” No, simply, spontaneously, naturally, the consciousness of the child starts flowing out of the window. It goes to the bird. His heart is there, but he has to look at the blackboard. There is nothing to look at, but he has to pretend. Wherever there is happiness the child starts becoming afraid something is going to be wrong. The same was done to the parents by their parents; the same they are doing to their children. This way one generation goes on destroying another. This way we transfer our neurosis from one generation to another. The whole earth has become a madhouse. Nobody seems to know what ecstasy is. It is lost. Barriers upon barriers have been created. You need not go anywhere to find what ecstasy is. It is already there. It is your very core, your very being. If you decide to find it, you can find it this very moment. It does not need a single moment’s postponement. An intense thirst can open the door. A great urgency can right now make you free. Ecstasy is the ultimate freedom Whenever you are totally into something, you are ecstatic. When you are partially into something, you will remain miserable, because a part will be moving separately from the whole. There will be a division – a split, a tension, anxiety. Be natural, be spontaneous, be aware. The world is full of music, melody, harmony, ecstasy. Just if you become natural you will fall in tune with it. If you become spontaneous you will become sensitive and responsive to it. If you become aware you will be able to hear it. Look at the nature. The trees are happy; otherwise they would have stopped blooming. They still bloom; the spring still comes. They still dance, they still sing, they still pour their being into the feet of the divine. Their prayer is continuous, their worship is always happening. In the wind, in the rain, in the sun, God comes to them. God is all around; it is only that you are not sensitive enough to feel him. God is within and without; you just have to shake yourself and come to your senses. You are in your head too much. Come down to your senses, become more sensitive. When you become more sensitive you are bridged with reality, you start dancing with reality, you start singing with reality... a great benediction arises in you. And only then can you say a thank you to God, never before it. Only then do you feel how grateful you are, how much has been given to you and has not even been appreciated by you. This existence is fantastic, it is marvelous, it is incredibly beautiful." Excerpts from the book " ECSTASY -THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE" By OSHO

" Every child is born ecstatic. Ecstasy is natural. It is not something that happens only to great sages.
It is something that everybody brings with him into the world; everybody comes with it. It is life’s
innermost core. It is part of being alive. Life is ecstasy. Every child brings it into the world, but then
the society jumps on the child, starts destroying the possibility of ecstasy, starts making the child
miserable, starts conditioning the child.

You cannot control an ecstatic man; it is impossible. You can only control a miserable man. An
ecstatic man is bound to be free. Ecstasy is freedom.

Once the child knows the taste of freedom, he will never become part of any society, any club, any political party.
He will remain an individual, he will remain free and he will create pulsations of freedom around him.
His very being will become a door to freedom.

But the child is not allowed to taste freedom. If the child asks the mother, ”Mom, can I go outside?
The sun is beautiful and the air is very crisp and I would like to run around the block,” immediately –
obsessively, compulsively – the mother says, ”No!” The child has not asked much. He just wanted
to go out into the morning sun, into the brisk air, he wanted to enjoy the sunlight and the air and
the company of the trees – he has not asked for anything! – but compulsively, out of some deep
compulsion, the mother says no.
Whenever the child feels happy, doing whatsoever, somebody or other is bound to come and stop
him – ”Don’t do this!”
By and by the child understands,
”Whatsoever feel happy in is wrong.” And of course he never feels happy doing whatsoever others tell him to do,
because it is not a spontaneous urge in him. So he comes to know that to be miserable is right,
to be happy is wrong.

If it is a beautiful night and the sky is full of stars, the child wants to sit outside, but it is time to go to sleep. He is not feeling sleepy at all; he is wide awake, very, very much awake. The child is puzzled. In the morning when he feels sleepy, everybody is after him – ”Get up!” When he was enjoying, when it was so beautiful to be in the bed, when he wanted to take another turn and have a little more sleep and dream a little more, then everybody was against him”Get up! It is time to
get up.” Now he is wide awake and he wants to enjoy the stars. It is very poetic, this moment, very
romantic. He feels thrilled. How can he go to sleep in such a thrill? He is so excited, he wants to
sing and dance, and they are forcing him to go to sleep – ”It is nine o’clock. It is time to go to sleep.”
Now, he was happy being awake but he is forced to go to sleep.

When he is playing he is forced to come to the dining table. He is not hungry. When he is hungry, the mother says, ”This is not the time.” This way we go on destroying all possibility of being ecstatic, all possibility of being happy, joyful, delighted.

Whatsoever the child feels spontaneously happy with seems to be wrong, and
whatsoever he does not feel at all seems to be right.

In the school a bird suddenly starts singing outside the classroom, and the child is all attention
towards the bird, of course – not towards the mathematics teacher who is standing at the board with
his ugly chalk. But the teacher is more powerful, politically more powerful than the bird. Certainly,
the bird has no power, but it has beauty. The bird attracts the child without hammering on his head,
”Be attentive! Concentrate towards me!” No, simply, spontaneously, naturally, the consciousness of
the child starts flowing out of the window. It goes to the bird. His heart is there, but he has to look at
the blackboard. There is nothing to look at, but he has to pretend.

Wherever there is happiness the child starts becoming afraid something is
going to be wrong.

The same was done to the parents by their parents; the same they are doing to their children.
This way one generation goes on destroying another. This way we transfer our neurosis from one
generation to another. The whole earth has become a madhouse. Nobody seems to know what
ecstasy is. It is lost. Barriers upon barriers have been created.

You need not go anywhere to find what ecstasy is. It is already there. It is your very core,
your very being. If you decide to find it, you can find it this very moment. It does not need a single
moment’s postponement. An intense thirst can open the door. A great urgency can right now make
you free. Ecstasy is the ultimate freedom

Whenever you are totally into something, you are ecstatic. When you are partially into something,
you will remain miserable, because a part will be moving separately from the whole. There will be a
division – a split, a tension, anxiety.
Be natural, be spontaneous, be aware. The world is full of music, melody, harmony, ecstasy. Just if
you become natural you will fall in tune with it. If you become spontaneous you will become sensitive
and responsive to it. If you become aware you will be able to hear it.

Look at the nature. The trees are happy; otherwise they would have stopped blooming. They still
bloom; the spring still comes. They still dance, they still sing, they still pour their being into the feet
of the divine. Their prayer is continuous, their worship is always happening.
In the wind, in the rain, in the sun, God comes to them.

God is all around; it is only that you are not sensitive enough to feel him. God is within and without;
you just have to shake yourself and come to your senses. You are in your head too much. Come
down to your senses, become more sensitive. When you become more sensitive you are bridged
with reality, you start dancing with reality, you start singing with reality... a great benediction arises
in you. And only then can you say a thank you to God, never before it. Only then do you feel how
grateful you are, how much has been given to you and has not even been appreciated by you.
This existence is fantastic, it is marvelous, it is incredibly beautiful."

Excerpts from the book " ECSTASY -THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE" By OSHO