I would like you to live moment-to-moment, not according to a set pattern given by me
or given by the society, the church, the state.
I would like you to live according to your own small light of awareness,
according to your own consciousness.
Be responsive to each moment.
OSHO
MY WHOLE EFFORT is to give you a consciousness, not a character. Consciousness is the real thing, character the false entity. Character is needed by those who don't have consciousness.
If you have eyes, you don't need a walking-stick to find your way, to grope your way. If you can see you don't ask others, "Where is the doer?" Character is needed because people are unconscious.
Character is just a lubricant; it helps you to run your life in a smooth way
My work consists of transformation.
This is an alchemical school: I want to transform you from unconsciousness into consciousness, from darkness into light. I cannot give you a character; I can only give you insight, awareness.
I would like you to live moment-to-moment, not according to a set pattern given by me or given by the society, the church, the state.
I would like you to live according to your own small light of awareness, according to your own consciousness. Be responsive to each moment.
Character means you have a certain ready-made answer for all the questions of life, so whenever a situation arises you respond according to the set pattern.
Because you respond according to the ready-made answer it is not a true response, it is only a reaction.
The man of character reacts, the man of consciousness responds: he takes the situation in, he reflects the reality as it is, and out of that reflection he acts. The man of character reacts, the man of consciousness acts. The man of character is mechanical; robotlike he functions. He has a computer in his mind, full of information; ask him anything and a ready-made answer rolls down from his computer.
A man of consciousness simply acts in the moment, not out of the past and out of the memory. His response has a beauty, a naturalness, and his response is true to the situation.
The man of character always falls short, because life is continuously changing; it is never the same. And your answers are always the same, they never grow — they can't grow, they are dead.You have been told a certain thing in your childhood; it has remained there.
You have grown, life has changed, but that answer that was given by your parents or by your teachers or by your priests is still there. And if something happens you will function according to that answer which was given to you fifty years before. And in fifty years so much water has gone down the Ganges; it is a totally different life.
OSHO