Nothing is Boring, Nothing is Repetitive and Monotonous – you are, and you bring your quality to everything that you do.
No act is boring in itself, and no act can be non-boring in itself – it isyou who make it boring or non-boring.
And the same act can be a boredom to you this moment and the next moment it may become a blissful thing.
Not that the act has changed; your mood, the quality you bring to the act, has changed.
So remember, you are not bored because repetitive acts have to be done.
Rather, on the contrary, you are bored – that’s why they appear repetitive.
Is the act itself boring, or is something wrong with your mode of being,your mode of consciousness?
Look at it from another angle.
Two lovers will go on repeating the same acts every day. They will kiss and they will hug – they are the same acts.
And they would like to go on doing that ad infinitum.If you give them time, they will go on repeating to the very end of existence.
Looking at two lovers,you will get bored. What are they doing? – the same thing every day? And if you give them the whole day, they will go on hugging, loving, embracing, kissing. What are they doing?
Lovers have again become children. That’s why love is so innocent – it makes you a child again.
Now they are enjoying the game. They are again children.
The whole nonsense of maturitythey have thrown. They are planing with each other’s body, and to them nothing is repetitive.
Each kiss is something absolutely new, unique. It was never so before, it will never be the same again.
Each moment of love has its own individual existence, non-repetitive; that’s why they go on enjoying.
The economic law of diminishing returns doesn’t apply to it.
For love, there is no law of diminishing returns; rather, increasing returns.
That’s why economists cannot understand love, mathematicians cannot understand love.
All those who are efficient in calculation cannot understand love,because this is absurd: it defies all laws, all mathematics – it goes on increasing.
When I was a student, when my teacher of economics explained to us about the law of diminishing returns, I asked him about love, ‘What do you say about love?’
He became disturbed, and when I said that just the contrary – the law of increasing returns – applies to love, he said to me, ‘You go out of the class.
You cannot understand economics.’ He said, ‘This law is universal.’
I said,‘Don’t say it is universal, because what about love?’
Two lovers appear to us as if they are repeating. To them, they are not repeating.
But to a prostitute the law of economics will apply, because for her, love is not love, it is a commodity – something to be sold, something which can be purchased.
So if you go and kiss a prostitute, for her it is boredom,repetition, and some day she will say. ‘This is nonsense.
I am bored of being kissed and kissing the whole day.
It is intolerable.’ She will say that it is a repetitive act.
That’s what I want to show you – the distinction.
For a lover it is not repetitive; for a prostitute it is repetitive.
So, really, the act itself is not repetitive; it is your quality that you bring to it.
Whatsoever you do, if you love it, it will never be repetitive.
If you love your doings, your acts, there will be no boredom.
But you don’t love.
I go on talking to you every day.
I can go on ad infinitum. I love it.
It is not repetitive for me.
From eternity to eternity I can go on talking with you.
Communication, to communicate with your heart, is love to me.
It is not a repetitive act, otherwise I would get bored.
OshO ❤️
CHAPTER 24. CHOICELESSNESS IS BLISS
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2
Anandamayee 