The right to life is possible only in a certain, different atmosphere that
is not present on the earth at the moment. Animals are killed, birds are
killed, sea animals are killed, just for game. You don't have any

for life.

The right to life is possible only in a certain, different atmosphere that
is not present on the earth at the moment. Animals are killed, birds are
killed, sea animals are killed, just for game. You don't have any

for life. And life is the same whether it is in human beings or in other
forms. Unless man becomes aware of his violence towards animals, birds, he
cannot be really alert about his own right to life. If you are not caring
about others' lives, what right have you got to demand the same right for
yourself?

When you eat meat you are not only taking food, you are allowing a
certain
animal from which the meat has come to enter in you. The meat was part
of a particular body, the meat was part of a particular instinct pattern.
The
meat was the animal just a few hours before, and that meat carries all
the impressions of the animal, all the habits of the animal. When you are
eating meat your many attitudes will be affected by it.

Non-vegetarian food is one of the basic causes of the whole society
being
almost in a continuous fight.

hard,
it makes you a stone. And it creates things in you - anger, violence -
which
can be easily avoided.

The right to life is possible only in a certain, different atmosphere that
is not present on the earth at the moment. Animals are killed, birds are
killed, sea animals are killed, just for game. You don't have any reveren=

for life. And life is the same whether it is in human beings or in other
forms. Unless man becomes aware of his violence towards animals, birds, he
cannot be really alert about his own right to life. If you are not caring
about others' lives, what right have you got to demand the same right for
yourself?

But the whole of humanity is non-vegetarian; they are all eating other li=

forms. There is no reverence for life as such. Unless we create an
atmosphere of reverence for life, man cannot realize the goal of getting =

fundamental right of life.


When you eat meat you are not only taking food, you are allowing a
certain
animal from which the meat has come to enter in you. The meat was part
of a particular body, the meat was part of a particular instinct pattern.
The
meat was the animal just a few hours before, and that meat carries all
the impressions of the animal, all the habits of the animal. When you are
eating meat your many attitudes will be affected by it.

Non-vegetarian food is one of the basic causes of the whole society
being
almost in a continuous fight. It makes you insensitive, it makes you
hard,
it makes you a stone. And it creates things in you - anger, violence -
which
can be easily avoided.

Copyright 2002 Osho International Foundation

http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=3DMagazine&Language=3DEnglish

Body Dharma - on health
Eating a dead animal's flesh we are absorbing the emotions it felt as=

was

killed. The chemistry of emotions - neurotransmitter substances - are
identical in man and beast.
Osho describes, "all the body glands (the dying animal's) release

poisons

because the animal is dying very unwillingly. And when you eat the me=

that meat carries all the poisons that the animal has released." Bon

apetit!

VEGETARIANISM



Man, naturally, should be a vegetarian, because the whole body is made

for

vegetarian food. Even scientists concede to the fact that the whole
structure of the human body shows that man should not be a

non-vegetarian.

Man comes from the monkeys. Monkeys are vegetarians, absolute

vegetarians.

If Darwin is true then man should be a vegetarian.

Now there are ways to judge whether a certain species of animal is
vegetarian or non-vegetarian: it depends on the intestine, the length=

the

intestine. Non-vegetarian animals have a very small intestine. Tigers,
lions - they have a very small intestine, because meat is already a

digested

food. It does not need a long intestine to digest it. The work of

digestion

has been done by the animal. Now you are eating the animal's meat. It=

already digested - no long intestine is needed. Man has one of the

longest

intestines: that means man is a vegetarian. A long digestion is neede=

and

much excreta will be there which has to be thrown out.

If man is not a non-vegetarian and he goes on eating meat, the body is
burdened. In the East, all the great meditators - Buddha, Mahavir - h=

emphasized the fact. Not because of any concept of nonviolence - that=

a

secondary thing - but because if you really want to move in deep

meditation

your body needs to be weightless, natural, flowing. Your body needs to

be

unloaded; and a non-vegetarian's body is very loaded.

Just watch what happens when you eat meat: when you kill an animal wh=

happens to the animal when he is killed? Of course, nobody wants to be
killed. Life wants to prolong itself; the animal is not dying willing=

If

somebody kills you, you will not die willingly. If a lion jumps on you

and

kills you, what will happen to your mind? The same happens when you k=

a

lion. Agony, fear, death, anguish, anxiety, anger, violence, sadness -

all

these things happen to the animal. All over his body violence, anguis=

agony spreads. The whole body becomes full of toxins, poisons. All the

body

glands release poisons because the animal is dying very unwillingly. =

then you eat the meat; that meat carries all the poisons that the ani=

has

released. The whole energy is poisonous. Then those poisons are carri=

in

your body.

That meat which you are eating belonged to an animal body. It had a

specific

purpose there. A specific type of consciousness existed in the animal=

body. You are on a higher plane than the animal's consciousness, and

when

you eat the animal's meat your body goes to the lowest plane, to the

lower

plane of the animal. Then there exists a gap between your consciousne=

and

your body, and a tension arises and anxiety arises.

One should eat things which are natural, natural for you. Fruits, nut=

vegetables - eat as much as you can. The beauty is that you cannot eat

more

of these things than is needed. Whatsoever is natural always gives yo=

satisfaction, because it satiates your body, saturates you. You feel
fulfilled. If some thing is unnatural it never gives you a feeling of
fulfillment. Go on eating ice cream: you never feel that you are

satiated.

In fact the more you eat, the more you feel like eating. It is not a

food.

Your mind is being tricked. Now you are not eating according to the b=

need; you are eating just to taste it. The tongue has become the

controller.

The tongue should not be the controller. It does not know anything ab=

the

stomach. It does not know anything about the body. The tongue has a

specific

purpose to fulfill: to taste food. Naturally, the tongue has to judge,

that

is the only thing, which food is for the body, for my body and which

food

is

not for my body. It is just a watchman on the door; it is not the

master,

and if the watchman on the door becomes the master, then everything w=

be

confused.

Now advertisers know well that the tongue can be tricked, the nose can

be

tricked. And they are not the masters. You may not be aware: much food
research goes on in the world, and they say if your nose is closed
completely, and your eyes closed, and then you are given an onion to

eat,

you cannot tell what you are eating. You cannot tell onion from apple=

the

nose is closed completely because half of the taste comes from the

smell,

is

decided by the nose, and half is decided by the tongue. These two have
become the controllers. Now they know: whether ice cream is nutritious

or

not is not the point. It can carry a flavor, it can carry some chemic=

which fulfill the tongue but are not needed for the body.

Man is confused, more confused than buffaloes. You cannot convince

buffaloes

to eat ice cream. Try!

A natural food...and when I say natural I mean that which your body

needs.

The need of a tiger is different; he has to be very violent. If you e=

the

meat of a tiger you will be violent, but where will your violence be
expressed? You have to live in human society, not in a jungle. Then y=

will

have to suppress the violence. Then a vicious circle starts.

When you suppress violence, what happens? When you feel angry, violen=

a

certain poisonous energy is released, because that poison creates a
situation where you can be really violent and kill somebody. The ener=

moves towards your hands; the energy moves towards your teeth. These =

the

two places from where animals become violent. Man is part of the anim=

kingdom.

When you are angry, energy is released - it comes to the hands and to

the

teeth, to the jaw - but you live in a human society and it is not alw=

profitable to be angry. You live in a civilized world and you cannot

behave

like an animal. If you behave like an animal, you will have to pay too

much

for it - and you are not ready to pay that much. Then what do you do?

You

suppress the anger in the hand; you suppress the anger in your teeth -

you

go on smiling a false smile, and your teeth go on accumulating anger.

I have rarely come to see people with a natural jaw. It is not natura=

blocked, stiff - because there is too much anger. If you press the jaw

of

a

person, the anger can be released. Hands become ugly. They lose grace,

they

lose flexibility, because too much anger is suppressed there. People =

have been working on deep massage, they have come to know that when y=

touch the hands deeply, massage the hands, the person starts becoming

angry.

There is no reason. You are massaging the man and suddenly he starts

feeling

angry. If you press the jaw, persons become angry again. They carry
accumulated anger. These are the impurities in the body: they have to=

released. If you don't release them the body will remain heavy.


Yoga: The Alpha and Omega

To read more on this subject, go to Library

Copyright =A9 2004 Osho International Foundation

The right to life is possible only in a certain, different atmosphere that
is not present on the earth at the moment. Animals are killed, birds are
killed, sea animals are killed, just for game. You don't have any reveren=

for life. And life is the same whether it is in human beings or in other
forms. Unless man becomes aware of his violence towards animals, birds, he
cannot be really alert about his own right to life. If you are not caring
about others' lives, what right have you got to demand the same right for
yourself?

But the whole of humanity is non-vegetarian; they are all eating other li=

forms. There is no reverence for life as such. Unless we create an
atmosphere of reverence for life, man cannot realize the goal of getting =

fundamental right of life.


When you eat meat you are not only taking food, you are allowing a
certain
animal from which the meat has come to enter in you. The meat was part
of a particular body, the meat was part of a particular instinct pattern.
The
meat was the animal just a few hours before, and that meat carries all
the impressions of the animal, all the habits of the animal. When you are
eating meat your many attitudes will be affected by it.

Non-vegetarian food is one of the basic causes of the whole society
being
almost in a continuous fight. It makes you insensitive, it makes you
hard,
it makes you a stone. And it creates things in you - anger, violence -
which
can be easily avoided.

Copyright 2002 Osho International Foundation

http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=3DMagazine&Language=3DEnglish

Body Dharma - on health
Eating a dead animal's flesh we are absorbing the emotions it felt as=

was

killed. The chemistry of emotions - neurotransmitter substances - are
identical in man and beast.
Osho describes, "all the body glands (the dying animal's) release

poisons

because the animal is dying very unwillingly. And when you eat the me=

that meat carries all the poisons that the animal has released." Bon

apetit!

VEGETARIANISM



Man, naturally, should be a vegetarian, because the whole body is made

for

vegetarian food. Even scientists concede to the fact that the whole
structure of the human body shows that man should not be a

non-vegetarian.

Man comes from the monkeys. Monkeys are vegetarians, absolute

vegetarians.

If Darwin is true then man should be a vegetarian.

Now there are ways to judge whether a certain species of animal is
vegetarian or non-vegetarian: it depends on the intestine, the length=

the

intestine. Non-vegetarian animals have a very small intestine. Tigers,
lions - they have a very small intestine, because meat is already a

digested

food. It does not need a long intestine to digest it. The work of

digestion

has been done by the animal. Now you are eating the animal's meat. It=

already digested - no long intestine is needed. Man has one of the

longest

intestines: that means man is a vegetarian. A long digestion is neede=

and

much excreta will be there which has to be thrown out.

If man is not a non-vegetarian and he goes on eating meat, the body is
burdened. In the East, all the great meditators - Buddha, Mahavir - h=

emphasized the fact. Not because of any concept of nonviolence - that=

a

secondary thing - but because if you really want to move in deep

meditation

your body needs to be weightless, natural, flowing. Your body needs to

be

unloaded; and a non-vegetarian's body is very loaded.

Just watch what happens when you eat meat: when you kill an animal wh=

happens to the animal when he is killed? Of course, nobody wants to be
killed. Life wants to prolong itself; the animal is not dying willing=

If

somebody kills you, you will not die willingly. If a lion jumps on you

and

kills you, what will happen to your mind? The same happens when you k=

a

lion. Agony, fear, death, anguish, anxiety, anger, violence, sadness -

all

these things happen to the animal. All over his body violence, anguis=

agony spreads. The whole body becomes full of toxins, poisons. All the

body

glands release poisons because the animal is dying very unwillingly. =

then you eat the meat; that meat carries all the poisons that the ani=

has

released. The whole energy is poisonous. Then those poisons are carri=

in

your body.

That meat which you are eating belonged to an animal body. It had a

specific

purpose there. A specific type of consciousness existed in the animal=

body. You are on a higher plane than the animal's consciousness, and

when

you eat the animal's meat your body goes to the lowest plane, to the

lower

plane of the animal. Then there exists a gap between your consciousne=

and

your body, and a tension arises and anxiety arises.

One should eat things which are natural, natural for you. Fruits, nut=

vegetables - eat as much as you can. The beauty is that you cannot eat

more

of these things than is needed. Whatsoever is natural always gives yo=

satisfaction, because it satiates your body, saturates you. You feel
fulfilled. If some thing is unnatural it never gives you a feeling of
fulfillment. Go on eating ice cream: you never feel that you are

satiated.

In fact the more you eat, the more you feel like eating. It is not a

food.

Your mind is being tricked. Now you are not eating according to the b=

need; you are eating just to taste it. The tongue has become the

controller.

The tongue should not be the controller. It does not know anything ab=

the

stomach. It does not know anything about the body. The tongue has a

specific

purpose to fulfill: to taste food. Naturally, the tongue has to judge,

that

is the only thing, which food is for the body, for my body and which

food

is

not for my body. It is just a watchman on the door; it is not the

master,

and if the watchman on the door becomes the master, then everything w=

be

confused.

Now advertisers know well that the tongue can be tricked, the nose can

be

tricked. And they are not the masters. You may not be aware: much food
research goes on in the world, and they say if your nose is closed
completely, and your eyes closed, and then you are given an onion to

eat,

you cannot tell what you are eating. You cannot tell onion from apple=

the

nose is closed completely because half of the taste comes from the

smell,

is

decided by the nose, and half is decided by the tongue. These two have
become the controllers. Now they know: whether ice cream is nutritious

or

not is not the point. It can carry a flavor, it can carry some chemic=

which fulfill the tongue but are not needed for the body.

Man is confused, more confused than buffaloes. You cannot convince

buffaloes

to eat ice cream. Try!

A natural food...and when I say natural I mean that which your body

needs.

The need of a tiger is different; he has to be very violent. If you e=

the

meat of a tiger you will be violent, but where will your violence be
expressed? You have to live in human society, not in a jungle. Then y=

will

have to suppress the violence. Then a vicious circle starts.

When you suppress violence, what happens? When you feel angry, violen=

a

certain poisonous energy is released, because that poison creates a
situation where you can be really violent and kill somebody. The ener=

moves towards your hands; the energy moves towards your teeth. These =

the

two places from where animals become violent. Man is part of the anim=

kingdom.

When you are angry, energy is released - it comes to the hands and to

the

teeth, to the jaw - but you live in a human society and it is not alw=

profitable to be angry. You live in a civilized world and you cannot

behave

like an animal. If you behave like an animal, you will have to pay too

much

for it - and you are not ready to pay that much. Then what do you do?

You

suppress the anger in the hand; you suppress the anger in your teeth -

you

go on smiling a false smile, and your teeth go on accumulating anger.

I have rarely come to see people with a natural jaw. It is not natura=

blocked, stiff - because there is too much anger. If you press the jaw

of

a

person, the anger can be released. Hands become ugly. They lose grace,

they

lose flexibility, because too much anger is suppressed there. People =

have been working on deep massage, they have come to know that when y=

touch the hands deeply, massage the hands, the person starts becoming

angry.

There is no reason. You are massaging the man and suddenly he starts

feeling

angry. If you press the jaw, persons become angry again. They carry
accumulated anger. These are the impurities in the body: they have to=

released. If you don't release them the body will remain heavy.


Yoga: The Alpha and Omega

To read more on this subject, go to Library

Copyright =A9 2004 Osho International Foundation

http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=3DMagazine&Language=3DEnglish

The right to life is possible only in a certain, different atmosphere that
is not present on the earth at the moment. Animals are killed, birds are
killed, sea animals are killed, just for game. You don't have any reverence
for life. And life is the same whether it is in human beings or in other
forms. Unless man becomes aware of his violence towards animals, birds, he
cannot be really alert about his own right to life. If you are not caring
about others' lives, what right have you got to demand the same right for
yourself?

But the whole of humanity is non-vegetarian; they are all eating other life
forms. There is no reverence for life as such. Unless we create an
atmosphere of reverence for life, man cannot realize the goal of getting his
fundamental right of life.


When you eat meat you are not only taking food, you are allowing a
certain
animal from which the meat has come to enter in you. The meat was part
of a particular body, the meat was part of a particular instinct pattern.
The
meat was the animal just a few hours before, and that meat carries all
the impressions of the animal, all the habits of the animal. When you are
eating meat your many attitudes will be affected by it.

Non-vegetarian food is one of the basic causes of the whole society
being
almost in a continuous fight. It makes you insensitive, it makes you
hard,
it makes you a stone. And it creates things in you - anger, violence -
which
can be easily avoided.

Copyright 2002 Osho International Foundation

http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Language=English

Body Dharma - on health
Eating a dead animal's flesh we are absorbing the emotions it felt as it

was

killed. The chemistry of emotions - neurotransmitter substances - are
identical in man and beast.
Osho describes, "all the body glands (the dying animal's) release

poisons

because the animal is dying very unwillingly. And when you eat the meat;
that meat carries all the poisons that the animal has released." Bon

apetit!

VEGETARIANISM



Man, naturally, should be a vegetarian, because the whole body is made

for

vegetarian food. Even scientists concede to the fact that the whole
structure of the human body shows that man should not be a

non-vegetarian.

Man comes from the monkeys. Monkeys are vegetarians, absolute

vegetarians.

If Darwin is true then man should be a vegetarian.

Now there are ways to judge whether a certain species of animal is
vegetarian or non-vegetarian: it depends on the intestine, the length of

the

intestine. Non-vegetarian animals have a very small intestine. Tigers,
lions - they have a very small intestine, because meat is already a

digested

food. It does not need a long intestine to digest it. The work of

digestion

has been done by the animal. Now you are eating the animal's meat. It is
already digested - no long intestine is needed. Man has one of the

longest

intestines: that means man is a vegetarian. A long digestion is needed,

and

much excreta will be there which has to be thrown out.

If man is not a non-vegetarian and he goes on eating meat, the body is
burdened. In the East, all the great meditators - Buddha, Mahavir - have
emphasized the fact. Not because of any concept of nonviolence - that is

a

secondary thing - but because if you really want to move in deep

meditation

your body needs to be weightless, natural, flowing. Your body needs to

be

unloaded; and a non-vegetarian's body is very loaded.

Just watch what happens when you eat meat: when you kill an animal what
happens to the animal when he is killed? Of course, nobody wants to be
killed. Life wants to prolong itself; the animal is not dying willingly.

If

somebody kills you, you will not die willingly. If a lion jumps on you

and

kills you, what will happen to your mind? The same happens when you kill

a

lion. Agony, fear, death, anguish, anxiety, anger, violence, sadness -

all

these things happen to the animal. All over his body violence, anguish,
agony spreads. The whole body becomes full of toxins, poisons. All the

body

glands release poisons because the animal is dying very unwillingly. And
then you eat the meat; that meat carries all the poisons that the animal

has

released. The whole energy is poisonous. Then those poisons are carried

in

your body.

That meat which you are eating belonged to an animal body. It had a

specific

purpose there. A specific type of consciousness existed in the animal's
body. You are on a higher plane than the animal's consciousness, and

when

you eat the animal's meat your body goes to the lowest plane, to the

lower

plane of the animal. Then there exists a gap between your consciousness

and

your body, and a tension arises and anxiety arises.

One should eat things which are natural, natural for you. Fruits, nuts,
vegetables - eat as much as you can. The beauty is that you cannot eat

more

of these things than is needed. Whatsoever is natural always gives you a
satisfaction, because it satiates your body, saturates you. You feel
fulfilled. If some thing is unnatural it never gives you a feeling of
fulfillment. Go on eating ice cream: you never feel that you are

satiated.

In fact the more you eat, the more you feel like eating. It is not a

food.

Your mind is being tricked. Now you are not eating according to the body
need; you are eating just to taste it. The tongue has become the

controller.

The tongue should not be the controller. It does not know anything about

the

stomach. It does not know anything about the body. The tongue has a

specific

purpose to fulfill: to taste food. Naturally, the tongue has to judge,

that

is the only thing, which food is for the body, for my body and which

food

is

not for my body. It is just a watchman on the door; it is not the

master,

and if the watchman on the door becomes the master, then everything will

be

confused.

Now advertisers know well that the tongue can be tricked, the nose can

be

tricked. And they are not the masters. You may not be aware: much food
research goes on in the world, and they say if your nose is closed
completely, and your eyes closed, and then you are given an onion to

eat,

you cannot tell what you are eating. You cannot tell onion from apple if

the

nose is closed completely because half of the taste comes from the

smell,

is

decided by the nose, and half is decided by the tongue. These two have
become the controllers. Now they know: whether ice cream is nutritious

or

not is not the point. It can carry a flavor, it can carry some chemicals
which fulfill the tongue but are not needed for the body.

Man is confused, more confused than buffaloes. You cannot convince

buffaloes

to eat ice cream. Try!

A natural food...and when I say natural I mean that which your body

needs.

The need of a tiger is different; he has to be very violent. If you eat

the

meat of a tiger you will be violent, but where will your violence be
expressed? You have to live in human society, not in a jungle. Then you

will

have to suppress the violence. Then a vicious circle starts.

When you suppress violence, what happens? When you feel angry, violent,

a

certain poisonous energy is released, because that poison creates a
situation where you can be really violent and kill somebody. The energy
moves towards your hands; the energy moves towards your teeth. These are

the

two places from where animals become violent. Man is part of the animal
kingdom.

When you are angry, energy is released - it comes to the hands and to

the

teeth, to the jaw - but you live in a human society and it is not always
profitable to be angry. You live in a civilized world and you cannot

behave

like an animal. If you behave like an animal, you will have to pay too

much

for it - and you are not ready to pay that much. Then what do you do?

You

suppress the anger in the hand; you suppress the anger in your teeth -

you

go on smiling a false smile, and your teeth go on accumulating anger.

I have rarely come to see people with a natural jaw. It is not natural -
blocked, stiff - because there is too much anger. If you press the jaw

of

a

person, the anger can be released. Hands become ugly. They lose grace,

they

lose flexibility, because too much anger is suppressed there. People who
have been working on deep massage, they have come to know that when you
touch the hands deeply, massage the hands, the person starts becoming

angry.

There is no reason. You are massaging the man and suddenly he starts

feeling

angry. If you press the jaw, persons become angry again. They carry
accumulated anger. These are the impurities in the body: they have to be
released. If you don't release them the body will remain heavy.