But it has become a tradition that some of the biggest events take place in September, October, and November, so we have started using that expression. They would ask: Okay, whatsoever you say is okay, but what is YOUR standpoint? He would say: I don't have any standpoint.In recent years, Fall has become the “Season of Stoicism.” Of course, every part of the year is a good time to study and practice Stoicism! And there are events throughout the year these days.

There has been a great man in India, a very rare being: men like him you can count on your fingers. All words are used by knowers to pull out other words which have already settled within you. Once the first thorn is out, the second is also useless - you throw both of them. All that I am saying is like another thorn to pull out the thorns that are already in your beings. You have a thorn in your foot - another thorn is needed to pull it out. He simply wants to create a vacuum within you, and of course words can be destroyed by words only. He does not want to say something in it, he simply wants to destroy all the words within you - his speech is destructive. Even if he speaks, he speaks only against speaking. Then only you enter the innermost shrine of being.Įven if he speaks, he speaks Only to say this much. Where you leave your shoes in the porch, you should leave your mind also. If you understand it, you will drop all words, language - in fact the whole mind. Lao Tzu is saying something which is just like a porch, a door.

From the word STOA, porch, his whole philosophy is known as Stoicism.Īll words at the most can become porches they lead you towards the inner temple but if you cling to them then you remain in the porch - the porch is not the palace. His whole life he was teaching in the porch and people would say: You have such a beautiful house, why do you teach in the porch.' He said: All teaching is just like the porch when you are ready to listen to the silence you enter the temple - then there is no talk. The word 'stoic' comes from a Greek word STOIKAS, which in turn is from STOA, which means porch.

Just like me, he used to teach in the porch. The name of a Greek wise man, Zeno? He was the founder of the Stoic philosophy. Book Name: Tao - The Three Treasures, Vol 3

Osho on stoicism