Prayer
If you talk to a rose , which is more alive than any stone image, which is more divine than any stone image.. If you talk to a tree, which is more deeply rooted in God. A tree is alive, with roots deep into the earth, branches high into the sky, connected with the whole, with the rays of the sun, with the stars talk to the trees! That can be a contact point with the Divine.
But if you talk that way people will think you are mad. Spontaneousness is thought to be a madness. Formalities are thought to be sanity. Just the opposite is the reality. When you go into a temple and you simply repeat some memorized prayer, you are simply foolish. Have a heart-to-heart talk! And prayer is beautiful, you will start flowering through it.
Prayer is to be in Love_to be in love with the whole. And sometimes you get angry with the whole and you don't talk..That's beautiful! You say "I will not talk, enough is enough and you have not been listening to me!" A beautiful gesture. And sometimes you drop praying completely, because you go on praying and God is not listening. It is a relationship with deep involvement in it. You get angry. Sometimes you feel very good, feel thankful, grateful. Sometimes you feel put off. But let it be a living relationship. Then prayer is true. If you just go on like a gramophone and repeat the same thing every day, then is not a prayer.
Prayer should be a lived experience, a heart-to-heart dialogue. And soon if it is heart-full, you will feel that not only you are talking but the response is there. Then prayer has come into its own, come of age. When you feel the response, it becomes a dialogue. You not only Speak, you listen.
And I tell you the whole existence is ready to respond. Once your heart is open the whole responds.
excerpt from the Book " Courage - The joy of living Dangerously" by Osho
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