Osho – Philosopher Hedonist
March 11, 2009 at 5:52 pm | Posted in hedonists? | 2 Comments
Controversial philosopher and lover of life, Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Osho and his thoughts:
On Truth:
If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.
Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don’t ask about the path.
The ‘truth’ is only a way of speaking; there is not something labeled ‘Truth,’ that one day you will find and open the box and see the contents and say, ‘Great! I have found the truth.’ There is no such box. Your existence is the truth, and when you are silent you are in truth. And if the silence is absolute then you are the ultimate truth. But don’t think of the truth as an object -it is not an object. It is not there, it is here.
On Courage:
You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first… and everything else follows.
On Dreams:
Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.
On Ecstasy:
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That’s why you look to tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature.
On Love:
Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.
You can love as many people as you want – that does not mean one day you will go bankrupt, and you will have to declare, ‘Now I have no love.’ You cannot go bankrupt as far as love is concerned.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
On Fun, Joy, and Laughs:
Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun – because that’s precisely what it is!
Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.
Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor — according to me — is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.
On Variety:
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
On Independent Thought:
To be alone in the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you.
Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.
On Wonder:
Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
On Risk:
Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it – because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That’s the beauty of risk, the gift of risk
King Solomon – The Original Hedonist
March 8, 2009 at 1:08 am | Posted in hedonists? | Leave a commentTags: hedonism, Solomon
We remember King Solomon for his wisdom. But it was his hedonism that was his distinctive philosophy:
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility. I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?” I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives. I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself; I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees; I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees. I bought male and female slaves and I had homeborn slaves. Also I possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. Also, I collected for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I provided for myself male and female singers and the pleasures of men–many concubines. Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.
All that my eyes desired
I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.
(Ecclesiastes 2:1-11,12:8-13)
A Hedonist’s Guide To Life
March 8, 2009 at 12:54 am | Posted in hedonists? | Leave a commentTags: guide
75 Hedonist essays which include:
- Eat Lobster in a Warzone
- Rule Like a Drag Queen
- Handle a Hooker
- Blag Your Way Backstage
- Infiltrate a Cult
- Join the Jet Set
- Sweet Talk the Cops
- Survive Prison
- Freeloaders Will Save The World
- How to visit a Lap Dancing Club Without Losing your Self-respect
- A Field Guide To Magic Mushrooms
- Live Like a High-Roller on a Lowlife Budget
- Psychoactivity in the Strangest Places
- Party SOS
- How to Rescue a Shite Night
- Sex Party Etiquette
- How to experience Religious Ecstasy
Check it out here.
Hugh Hefner – Happy Hedonist
March 7, 2009 at 9:21 pm | Posted in hedonists? | Leave a commentTags: Hugh Hefner, quotes
Some quotes from our idol:
On dreams:
Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.
On fantasies:
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
On civilization:
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
On colors:
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
On age:
The big surprise for me is that age is just a number, … It’s a number without meaning. A person who dies at 40 — through cancer, a car accident, what have you — how old is that person, really, at 38? He’s near the end of his life, whether he knows it or not. And what about a person who dies at 100? How old is that person, really, at 78?
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