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Part VII : Darshan: Sharing Osho's Vision
To a sannyasin leaving for the West:
Travel and spread my word!
Every sannyasin has to do it now. Let it be your joy to share
me with people. You have something immensely valuable to share,
you are fortunate; don't be a miser and don't hold it. And it
is needed immensely; people are in a desperate search for something,
and because they are in a desperate search they become victims.
There are many people around who are exploiting the spiritual
urge of people.
The urge is so new: for many centuries there has not been such
an upheaval in human consciousness. This upheaval comes only after
twenty-five centuries; it is a cycle. The highest peak of that
cycle was when Buddha was alive. In India was Gautam Buddha, Mahavira
and many other great teachers. In China was Lao Tzu, Lieh Tzu
and Chuang Tzu and many other great teachers. In Iran was Zarathustra
and in Greece was Socrates and Heraclitus, Pythagoras and many
other great teachers. The world has never known a moment like
that. It was a great upsurge of human consciousness. That moment
is again coming close by; twenty-five centuries are complete.
This age is going to touch its climax, hence so much search,
particularly in the young people because they are the first to
herald a new age. They are always the first to understand and
to receive the new. The churches are dead and the people who go
to the churches are dead. They don't belong to the future and
the future does not belong to them. They cannot understand what
is happening. They go on reading their bible or their gita and
they don't understand that god is penetrating the world again,
that a great climax is coming. And after that, humanity will enter
a totally new kind of space, a new age.
It entered a new age after Buddha. Religion was completely transformed:
a new quality was brought to it, the quality of love. Before Buddha,
religion was very cruel; that's why prophets who preceded Buddha
look a little primitive. Their god was very vengeful, jealous,
envious, angry, unforgiving. After Buddha, religion became soft
and feminine; it became more aesthetic. It was no more masculine,
aggressive, primitive, barbarian. God was no more an angry god;
god was love. That's what Buddha and Christ brought to the world.
Now again, a new step has to be taken and humanity will have
to prepare before it can take the jump. This time it is going
to be celebration that will enter into religion. Love is good
but unless it is a dancing love and a celebrating love, it is
mild, it has no passion in it. Now religion has to become celebration:
celebration of life, reverence for life.
First god was masculine, then god became feminine. Now god will
no more be separate; god will not be a creator as opposed to creation.
The next step in human evolution is that god will be creativity,
not separate, not a person at all, neither male nor female. God
will be simply godliness - no more god…a fragrance,
not something concrete, very elusive and mysterious.
Celebration is going to be the virtue. The non-celebrating person
will be the sinner. So help people to become more celebrating.
That is the message of sannyas - spread it! sunsun15
A sannyasin, returning to the west, had previously written to
Osho about starting a centre there - she wants to share Osho
without coming on as a missionary.
When I say don't be a missionary, I mean don't impose yourself
upon others. Share, but don't impose. Sharing is totally different,
it is very respectful towards the other person. Sharing is not
violent, imposing is. You are not respectful towards the other
person, you are simply using the other person as a means; you
are only interested in converting him. That is wrong. Never use
a person as a means to anything, because each person is an end
unto himself.
The missionary is very disrespectful towards the person. His whole
idea is how to convert him, how to make one more person part of
his sect. He is not really interested in sharing. Sharing is totally
different: you share because you have experienced something, because
you have seen something. You share unconditionally. If the person
becomes converted that is just a by-product but that is not the
motive of it. If he does not become part of it, you are perfectly
happy: happy, because you shared. Your work is finished. You are
not looking for any result.
You meet a person and you share whatsoever you have seen, and
there it is finished! Now, how the person responds to it is up
to him. He may forget all about it; that's perfectly good, he
has the right! He is not obliged to remember it. If he does not
even thank you, that's perfectly okay, because even to ask for
a thank you is ugly. You shared out of your joy, not for anything
else. Or he may jump into the boat with you. That too is okay.
Sharing is not result-oriented; the missionary is result-oriented:
he shares only to convert. Sharing converts sometimes; that is
an altogether different matter.
I saw in your letter that you are too worried that you may become
a missionary. And it is good to be conscious about the possibility,
otherwise one tends to become a missionary. Just share and forget
about it. Sow the seeds and go on moving and don't look back to
see what is happening to those seeds. In their time, when the
spring comes, something will happen.
The founder of the Theosophical movement, Blavatsky, used to
carry two bags on both her shoulders, big bags, full of seeds.
Wherever she would travel…if she were travelling in a train,
she would sit by the side of the window and go on throwing seeds.
She might never come across that patch of land again. People were
puzzled and they would ask, 'What are you doing?' She would say,
'These are beautiful seeds, and when the rains come they will
bloom.' Those people were naturally puzzled. They would say, 'Will
you be coming this way again?' She would say, 'I am a world traveller,
I may never come again; but that doesn't matter! Somebody will
pass, somebody will see the flowers, somebody will be happy - that
is enough. Just to conceive of it, to contemplate on it, that
next time after the rains and when this train goes by, thousands
of passengers will be able to smell those flowers! To see those
colours is more than enough! What more can one ask?'
This is what sharing is: you simply go on throwing the seeds.
So you travel, mm? and throw the seeds! Good. believ21
There are many of Osho's Meditation Centres and residential
ashrams around the world; he gives names for them
And you can start a small centre in your home.
I don't know if I am able.
Mm! That I will make you. I make people out of nothings - don't
be worried (laughter). That's my whole work.
Just start with a small beginning - don't think of big things.
A small tree sooner or later becomes a big tree, mm? You think
only about the seed and the tree will take care of itself. Just
go there, have a few tapes, books, and ask friends to come. You
will be there in orange, and they will be interested in what has
happened…call them, tell them. Just show them a few meditations,
and a few are bound to be interested. Then things start rolling,
mm? plan12
A new sannyasin says: I'm just a little bit worried about when
I leave here and I go back to Mozambique. There's no sannyas centre
there and no sannyasins.
You will become my centre…you will become my centre. That's
how my centres start. Don't be worried! And soon sannyasins will
be coming - I will manage it! sacyes04
A sannyasins says: I am going to live on a small farm in Ireland.
And I'd like to see it grow into an ashram.
In Ireland? Try! I will give you a name…. So make a small
centre there.
Osho gives the name 'Upashanta' and talks about the qualities
of coolness and stillness: one kind of stillness is dead, another
has life in it; and one should try to attain to the latter. If
one could remain cool, nothing would be able to disturb one….
Then you have a citadel within you and you can move into it any
moment. You can simply go and have a shelter. Many times life
is too much and one needs to move to some shelter. Life is too
much restlessness, particularly so in the west, and one needs
an inner shrine where one can relax and be in rest.
So around this idea create a small ashram, and soon people will
start gathering and they will come.
All over the world there is such a great desire to find the way,
that one just needs to start and people will be coming. When people
will come, and when people grow, you will be rejoiced tremendously.
There is nothing a man can be more happy about than when he sees
somebody becoming silent, growing, meditative, happy, celebrating….
So when you start a centre, a sannyas ashram, you are creating
a field in which many people will come and flower. And each flower
will help you to flower.
It is just as when the gardener sees that one of his trees has
bloomed - he is tremendously happy. But that is nothing compared
to when you see a human being blooming. If you have helped him
in any way, you feel tremendously happy. Your energy has been
used, has been of some use, has helped somebody…has not
been destructive, and has been creative. What more can a man hope
for?
Will it be easy to pronounce? Upashanta. Good! whatis27
Purvodaya - a rambling South German farmhouse, long-time
sannyas centre, a commune of sannyasins, kids, chickens, fruit
trees, continual groups happening there, book and tape distribution
throughout Germany. Massive organisation, sometimes efficient,
sometimes chaotic.
Siddhartha, who runs the centre says: I love my community and
my family, but yet I cannot float totally with the difficulties
there are. So millions of questions arise and no answer satisfies
me.
You are just taking the whole thing too seriously, that's all,
and because of that seriousness you feel it as a burden and you
create a burden for others too. Let things move in a more relaxed
way. Don't make it something that you have to do. Don't make it
a point of prestige. You are not to prove anything by it. Enjoy
it…. Let it be a play. If something happens, good; if nothing
happens, that too is good.
And we are only here on the earth for a few days. Sooner or
later everybody is gone, and Purvodaya will be looked after by
somebody else, so why bother so much? And I am not saying that
if you bother less, less work will happen. More work will happen,
because in a relaxed mind you have more energy, more creativity,
more inventiveness. And when you are relaxed you help others to
relax. When you are playful, you help others to be playful, and
in playfulness much happens. In fact all creativity is a kind
of play. Serious people cannot create anything; their whole energy
is lost in their being serious.
So be a little less German…a little less serious. And
things will be okay - nothing to be worried about.
This robe for you…. leap11
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