OSHO: The Philosophical Frog and the Centipede

[tomek92pl]

"The centipede was happy quite

Until the toad, for fun,

Said, "Pray, which leg goes after which?"

Which wrought his mind to such a pitch,

He lay distracted in a ditch

Considering how to run!"

[McLaReN212]

why are they laughing

[Noise509]

your breathing is now manual. have a nice day folks.

[dressedinblack25]

Awesome Osho as allways,love and peace to you :) *****

[eftrichard]

love and thanks...

[slow1motion]

h's amazing

[divinita1000]

Great person!

[bowiefan5]

45 frogs disliked this video

[merkaba011235813]

Find your center...........acceptance isn't to far away from love....... accept your self and move peacefully, not forcibly, into yourself.............they call it meditation, but it is more than just a word! ........Love and peace to alll..........

[VarlaQuest]

mortality...politics....heirar­chy...money...sexual control..."then its far too late, and they pass away"

[machandxb]

***don't be guided by fixed ideas / don't take the criteria from others what is true and not true***

...if so, why should I believe what you are saying to be true?

Then what you have said has no value at all.

You have contradicted yourself.

[watsuanmokksha]

@machandxb - precisely - he just gave you an insight to your own freedom and are now truly free - life is full of contradictions - that is the beauty of it's mysteries

[TheJoshJman]

@machandxb damn, you sure weren't paying attention. you forgot he mentioned, "experience life for yourself...and find out!" ..if anything you should take his word as a reminder of embracing life in general. i don't understand how you could not get this simple point. see what just happened here? i became that frog, and you CHOSE TO BE the centipede.

[hpudgp]

@machandxb no. what he is talking about can everybody search for his own. intellectual understanding before you experienced something going on in yourself, it will just hinder you to search for your own. he is talking to get the people to this point to searth for themselves.

[eaglerock999]

@machandxb What Osho says is until we are indoctrinated with religious and society's ideas and rules we are free open consciousness, childlike ,not childish, trusting in what is our true inner nature,nothingness.

Everybody is programmed conditioned,messed up.

Osho is trying to free us from the mess.

I thought this was brilliant and very funny too.

[SupPongo1]

human centipede

[sundhukumar]

@123 u are missing the essence of the story............it is not about centipede....context is different.....it is about philosophy......it is about logical mind........that act as obstacle

for meditation......like cinema has no logic but we enjoy ...isn't it......or do we analyse cinema like a scientist........so just enjoy the story and understand the subtle message....forgive me if u find offended....thanks and regards......

[123popbottles123]

i dont agree with the point he got to,, i think the centapede would still be able to walk, he would be able to walk and also be aware of its dynamics forcing mental evolution.. it then would come to study and be curious about other things dynamics and become a wise little centaped..

[101011001]

@123popbottles123 no, wisdom is part of our being--he may become a knowledgeable centipede, but not a wise one--he already is wise, if only he would realize.

[Sith90lord]

"hell is far away... you will fall here!" haha

almost choked on my milk & biscuits xD

[Aaronandfabs]

... idk what this is but this guy is one of my favorites :D i love his indian accent, his awesome clothes, his beard is awesome and his long pauses are...envigorating :)

[behzad500bc]

i tried to meditate but i find myself kinda fighting with myself as im meditating and i get scared that what if i go crazy and i stop i was wondering if anybody had any advice th.ank you .

[ArsArtRinzai]

@behzad500bc try to do osho's dynamic meditation first, it has a phase of catharsis, i think it will help you to clear your mind a little before going on with other meditations (:

[RogerThatFilip]

@behzad500bc Yes, meditation is at first just dumping your subconscious... so yes, you will fight, your mind will run, you will want to jump up and do things... But still the body, watch the breath... deepen it and listen... and your breath will start to change your mental patterns... this is meditation... Do a segmented breath - 4 sniffs in to fill yourself and 4 sniffs out to empty. 3 minutes changes your EM field. 11 minutes starts to change your glands and nerves. 40 days makes a new habit.

[puneetblog]

@behzad500bc YOU DON'T NEED TO MEDITATE IF YOU DON'T FIND IT FUN.

[funnystarchild]

Bruce Lee said similar things. He said that you shouldnt think when you fight. You should just act and the body will do the right thing at the right moment. You dont hit. It hits all by itself. Be like water and go with the flow. My way is no way.

[juansjovis]

Or just accept you're ugly then the problem's over too!

[KoreaRwkz]

Sorry if anyone would feel pissed at me whining about my problems online. I think the only real problem I have is with my looks. I'm not handsome and shit, in fact I think I look ugly. I wish there would've been a video of Osho talking about such topic. This problem's making me angry, and hating on people, and sometimes depressed. Sorry I just felt this is the best place to lift it off my chest and talk about it since I'm sure Osho's words make everyone understanding and he make me feel that way

[abusnnh]

@KoreaRwkz see I'll tell you something, it is about what you feel about ur self , u think u ugly , or u think u r not , try to just change the beleife

[funnystarchild]

@KoreaRwkz Outer beauty is not everything. Many of the most important and intellectual people in history have been rather ugly. I hear that Confusious was verry ugly. Still he had followers and people who loved him. You can have inner beauty.

[earthkeyper]

@KoreaRwkz Choice is our divine power , change is constant and beauty is only perspective. Choose to change your perspective. Who is to say what is beauty? Is the standards set by the media or society? Or is the one who sees divine light within all of us. The frog thinks he is beautiful and I bet the centipede does too.

[ArmenianBeatboxer]

@KoreaRwkz Hey there! Just a little tip... besides inner beauty and all that shit one has to be realistic. If you wanna be more attractive face is not everything it is a bingo but not everything... Have your OWN unique style which is a combination of cool + classy. Then always be properly groomed. A groomed ugly dude is better then a dirty stinky handsome one. Also the way you ACT makes attraction and makes other people like you. Hope this helps message me if you need more help bud! Good Luck!

[dhertzberg]

@KoreaRwkz

Your mind is FAR more important that your face. Consider your looks a gift from nature: it will train you (if you have the will and the subtlety of mind to be trained) to be without vanity or ego; to simply offer your gift to the world without pretension or presumption, even if you may be turned down from time to time by the superficial (re: weak and degenerate) forces in the world. This is extremely powerful; don't underestimate it.

[liofabio]

@dhertzberg not mind just life. your mind have lot of things to say only leave it away and just live all matters are in mind and the solutions too. only keep away the mind, do not hear it so no problems no solutions just life in your mirror.

cant speak much inglish jajaja. thats not a problem jaja. love you

[JazzyKat2009]

@KoreaRwkz I was always under the impression that I too was ugly because growing up in a family of five beautiful siblings made me feel ugly. It was only when I started to feel that I was goodlooking did changes take place. No one is ugly, only the thoughts that come into our minds make us feel that way and that makes us ugly.

[Calvero416]

Great!

[soheiljerusalem]

O MY GOD How true...

[nytk33p3r]

i agree with burntcatmedia, live in the breath. and accept it's time to change your ways or be lost in the system........ great story osho

[tanpm0620]

to know the truth, don't believe in me, don't believe in yourself, and don't believe in others. See and experience for yourself the truth.

[RoboRimes]

can i get one of those toques

[handsomelyerrr]

in th emovie " the dark knight" the joker says..."You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I dont make plans...I just... do things.

[samaz2u]

My mind keeps lookign for a excuse to stop internal speaking. I need to transform this negative beliefs, this lie I am living in or this thing that I am choosing to believe. My imagination is jacked up in creating my reality. I just have to simply stop, I have all the power to do it but for some annoying reason that is unkown to me I don't. Maybe because this is what I have come to known, and to go into the unkown my mind will not accept. This sucks

[BurntCatMedia]

Which is why you have to stop dealing with the mind, the mind is actually a symptom of your body not being a perfect balance... we must become awareness of the breathe only and realize that we are simply awareness. It is through stupidity that we believe we are the mind simply because we are aware of it.

[totallyremiss]

I love this one! Hell is far away, you will fall here!!!

[cacaolover1]

this is a beautiful talk

[inannarising1]

You aren't posting videos fast enough to appease my hunger for Osho. Please, please keep the postings going. And thank you so much for the ones already posted! it's medicine for the soul!!

[Simon0]

i am also goign through an osho phase! I just discovered i really like his videos the other day.

Mooji and adyashanti are also great. For some reason i feel close to Osho, not sure why.

[GothicBarbie001]

he's rite, hell is soooooo far away

[neofuturist23]

@inannarising1 I agree i feel very greedy !! pls post more. Thanks so much for feeding hungry me

[itsabomberscope]

this man has a wonderous way of imparting wisdom.

[scilonthreat]

If only he was here today, I can't even imagine how much knowledge he would dispense and absorb with the world wide web.

[valconstantin]

So true :)

[HereIIHere]

Just fantastic. OshoRocks!!

[shion255]

lol

[mgrace10]

We 've got the message...

Thanks for posting

LIFE IS GOOD!!!

Grace

[Ypipable]

Truth is Mary the elephant, and that wasn't funny.

[Ypipable]

All I know is that Kingsport owes Mary a HUGE apology.

[shh11cricket]

he looks so luminous in this video...very inspiring

[chocolate6123]

this guys a genious

[RearAdmiralFridge]

Socrates was accused of the same thing as the frog: confusing people with questions they had never thought about. They called him the "torpedo fish" (stingray) who paralyses with words. He would say that the centipede was better off after the frog's question, because before he did not realize his ignorance, but now he can look for an answer... Osho seems to prefer blissful ignorance.

[shion255]

You say that because you mistake intellectual knowledge for true knowledge. Philosophical answers are pointless in comparison with the feelings provided by experience.

[hrbear]

(continued) reads and writes in order for you not to have much CPU usage and so to use the CPU for other things. As for these gurus, I watched a documentary from a journalist who concluded that they finally care for the money, and not for the spiritual life. Hopefully, people in India started to discover of who is who, and many don't believe some gurus who are not spiritual ones, while they accept the real philosophers. I had read the book of Sintarta, and yes Sintarta was a real philosopher and

[hrbear]

This example is not as much philosophical as I expected. The centipede doesn't think in order to move it's feet, because the motion is automatic. In human, if one wants to walk he walks, the movement of many muscles and the cooperation between them is also automatic, it's written in our brain's ROM by the nature through the evolution, and the baby just learns the basic desire of walking. The motion is automatic here too. Like in your PC, the hard disk controller takes care of disk (continued)

[Yagamimoon]

While I not fully agree with everything he says at the end, i gotta admit he has a very good point about love and living life =)

[whobe4me]

WOW

[nadamohamednour]

WHERE IS TRANSLTION

[kryon4466bluekids]

truth is fun!

[TheRocknRollZebra]

Thankyou for your wisdom Osho!

[bakhos555]

but mr osho, the animals lives by instict and we human being we use our brain we can organize by our logic our lives we are not animals. ok i agree with u i wont ask the centipede a question like this because he is an animal but i will keep ask myself those questions sorry you are naive or good comedian

[billyspurr]

its a fable. you're supposed to gather a lesson from a figurative story. of course he doesnt want you to talk to centipedes. I really hope you didnt miss the point of his story and you were just trying to be funny.

[peacemaker185]

I grew up in Pune and this false image of OSHO was created how he is damaging the society by insecure religious pundits. Especially westerners would come in their kinky clothes, snog in public places as India during 80s was not ready especially in cultural city as Pune. But his philosophies are very enlightening.

[GCensorship]

These people need to stay silent. My goodness.

[aretecool]

Your teachings have been wisely helpful

Thank you master osho

[kazearaki]

In all honesty, i prefer to listen to serious scholars and dissents such as Chomsky, Finkelstein, Fisk, Mearsheimer etc.

Their insight is important for us in understanding how the world works.

[darksack]

Then go and listen, like he said... experience what you need to experience and live what you want to live.

This fable is not about not thinking... is about doubt and how paralizing can be.

Of course, in the academic realm, you have scientific approaches to doubt, but one can't live his life the same way.

[sarahdxoxo]

his books are amazing too, def check them out.

self a self-empowering man.

[oiolasim]

loved it!

[adam1301992]

why does he take such long pauses ?

[ewothedeath]

....Knowledge is power....

Mankind achieved what it achieved these days because of asking this types of questions.

[criticalzen]

Not bad info from an old guy. It is when I think about what I am doing, I make mistakes. Mistakes lead to injuries of all sorts. The best example would be in snowboarding. When I disregard all thoughts of possible injury and rules, then I am at my best.

[nyairorokidul2000]

So does this mean that Osho bought a pair of Nike shoes and read the motto, "Just do it"?

[sausay2]

The centipede doesn't lose his ability to walk.

If you ask a really good juggler how he can juggle so many things at once he won't start thinking about it and forget how to juggle.

The moral of the story is that when do a thing often enough it becomes second nature and you can do it without thinking. The story should encourage people to form good habits, not to learn everything from experience. Is being raped such a bad thing? I guess you'll never know until you've experienced it. Smarten up Osh

[ohwahwah]

philosophical frog hahahaha

[meocoli]

why is people laughing?

[spiralviral]

Indian Ronnie Corbett pure magic if every human thought like this can you immagine what a happy place this planet would be

[TheSwiech]

If a Christian saw this he or she would say that he is misleading people. Wait for it. It'll happen.

[egkg75]

cool

[esteban21022]

Hola amigos estoy difundiendo mi musica espero que les guste saludos

[TheFozzie24]

OSHO rocks!!

[yogibear414]

Thank you OSHO!

Poignant and beautifully said.

[CERBERUS300ify]

wow. blown my mind. thank you !!! spread this to the world!

[Nave7]

I've heard that story before, it has a lot of meaning.

[whiteheronsteel]

The centipede walked happily, until a toad in jest said, pray which leg goes after which? This put her mind in such a stitch, she lay helpless in a ditch not knowing which way to walk. This story is the opening for Alan Watts lecture on the thousand arms of Avalokiteshvara. Circa late 60's early 70's!

[mCnAmAra1982]

wise man

[usernameisnogood]

What language is this in?

[johann1234]

Thank you (Merci)

[USAnarchistFront]

Always love listenning to philosphers

[trustyification]

been a long time osho.

[aquisexototal]

acessem meu canal no youtube la voce vai encontrar acidentes fatais ,humor e muito mais

[arstal1]

speaking of silence, the people attending his lectures need to stop laughing and let the wise man speak. its as if they think that every word that comes out of his mouth is the punchline to a joke. Its not, they are pieces of a larger moral teaching which i dont think they understand if they feel the need to laugh through all of it.

[dreamssofblue]

is this man called a swami? seems smart and full of wisdom.

[wXingVinny]

I think there is another interpretation of this story: You can be blinded all life long and keep going well, but I think that someone who is aware or tries to be aware of how he is and what he likes or dislikes, and seek why and set his values and etc, that person will live a more complete and conscious life, and will be more able, by knowing himself, to be usefull to others and happy with himself. A person who knows himself is way happier than a blind one who cannot understand his own actions.

[mtafc91]

Ahhhhhh, such wisdpm he speaks

[xXxopossumxXx]

he speaks wisdom

[semcarteira]

vocês com legenda em português brasil? tanks

[djkalja]

aaahhh good point

[razorlayer]

Thank you Osho!

[wasimkhan321]

who is he

[jusk2ru]

Thanks

[absorbedlotus]

some dumbass frog asked me the same question and now i can't walk nor talk nor do anything... yep, sometimes i fall straight into hell

[oshojohn]

Thanks a lot.Osho!!!

[TEARDUCTER]

very wise man :)

[aravman]

great video...

[buddha8910]

Thanks for posting! I love OSHO! so true.

[duey101]

He was way too ahead of his time, right now would be the time for him to be on earth with such wisdom and humor. :-)

[shauncheng520]

Thank you , OSHO !