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Part VII : The New Phase of Osho's Work
In June 1974, Osho introduces the first Meditation Camp with
the announcement that the new phase of his work begins. From now
on he will work only with authentic seekers. Osho develops this
new phase throughout his seven years in Poona. For the first time,
Osho does not lead the meditations in person. Instead his empty
chair is brought in to the Meditation Hall.
This Samadhi Sadhana Shibir, this camp for inner ecstasy and
enlightenment, is just going to be a help for you so that which
you have carried like a seed up to now can come out of your soil
and become an alive thing, an alive plant. But the basic thing
will be that if you want to be with me you cannot be with your
mind. Both cannot happen simultaneously. Whenever you are with
your mind you are not with me; whenever the mind is not there,
you are with me. And I can work only if you are with me. Empty
the cup. Throw the cup away completely; destroy it.
This camp is going to be in many ways different.
This night I start a completely new phase of my work. You are
fortunate to be here because you will be witnesses to a new type
of inner work. I must explain it to you because tomorrow morning
the journey starts….(Here Osho explains the three camp meditations:
dynamic, kirtan, whirling, see ps. )
Another new thing, I will not be there; only my empty chair will
be there. But don't miss me because in a sense I will be there,
and in a sense there has always been an empty chair before you.
Right now the chair is empty because there is no one sitting in
it. I am talking to you but there is no one who is talking to
you. It is difficult to understand, but when the ego disappears
processes can continue. Talking can continue, sitting and walking
and eating can continue, but the center has disappeared. Even
now, the chair is empty. But I was always with you up till now
in all the camps because you were not ready. Now I feel you are
ready. And you must be helped to get more ready to work in my
absence, because feeling that I am there you may feel a certain
enthusiasm that is false. Just feeling that I am present you may
do things which you never wanted to do; just to impress me you
may exert more. That is not of much help, because only that can
be helpful which comes out of your being. My chair will be there,
I will be watching you, but you feel completely free. And don't
think that I am not there because that may depress you, and then
that depression will disturb your meditation.
I will be there, and if you meditate rightly whenever your meditation
is exactly tuned, you will see me. So that will be the criterion
of whether you are really meditating or not. Many of you will
be able to see me more intensely than you can see me right now,
and whenever you see me, you can be certain that things are happening
in a right direction. So this will be the criterion. By the end
of this camp I hope ninety percent of you will have seen me. Ten
percent may miss because of their minds. So if you see me don't
start thinking about it, what is happening, don't start thinking
whether it is imagination or a projection or am I really there.
Don't think, because if you think immediately I will disappear;
thinking will become a barrier. The dust will come on the mirror
and there will be no reflection. Whenever the dust is not there,
suddenly you will become aware of me more than you can be aware
here right now. To be aware of the physical body is not much awareness;
to be aware of the nonphysical being is real awareness.
You must learn to work without me. You cannot be here always,
you will have to go far away; you cannot hang around me forever,
you have other works to do. You have come from different countries
all over the world; you will have to go. For a few days you will
be here with me, but if you become addicted to my physical presence
then rather than being a help it may become a disturbance, because
then when you go away, you will miss me. Your meditation should
be such here that it can happen without my presence, then wherever
you go the meditation will not be in any way affected.
And this too has to be remembered: I cannot always be in this
physical body with you; one day or another the physical vehicle
has to be dropped. My work is complete as far as I am concerned.
If I am carrying this physical vehicle, it is just for you; some
day, it has to be dropped. Before it happens you must be ready
to work in my absence, or in my nonphysical presence which means
the same. And once you can feel me in my absence you are free
of me, and then even if I am not here in this body the contact
will not be lost.
It always happens when a Buddha is there: his physical presence
becomes so meaningful, and then he dies. Everything is shattered….
My chair can be empty; you can feel my absence. And remember,
only when you can feel my absence can you feel my presence. If
you cannot see me while my physical vehicle is not there, you
have not seen me at all.
This is my promise: I will be there in the empty chair, the
empty chair will not really be empty. So behave! The chair will
not be empty, but it is better that you learn to be in contact
with my nonphysical being. That is a deeper, more intimate touch
and contact.
That is why I say a new phase of my work starts with this camp,
and I am calling it a Samadhi Sadhana Shibir. It is not only meditation,
it is absolute ecstasy that I am going to teach to you. It is
not only the first step, it is the last. Only no mind on your
part is needed and everything is ready. Just be alert not to think
much. The remaining time between these three meditations, remain
more and more silent, don't talk. If you want to do something,
laugh, dance: do something intense and physical but not mental.
Go for a long walk, go jogging on the grounds, jump under the
sun, lie down on the earth, look at the sky, enjoy, but don't
allow the mind to function much. Laugh, cry, weep, but don't think.
If you can be without thinking for these three meditations and
the time between them, then after three, four days you will feel
suddenly a burden has disappeared. The heart has become light,
the body weightless and you are ready to take a jump into the
unknown. wing01
At the start of the camp You said You were moving into a new
phase of Your work. We've felt it in meditation, but most important,
You've changed the way You speak to us. At one time, for example,
You never admitted to being an enlightened master, and now You
do. Could You tell us more about this new phase of Your work?
I can only say things which you have become capable of hearing.
It depends on you. If you have become a disciple, then I can easily
say that I am a master; but if you are not a disciple it will
be just meaningless saying to you that I am a master. If somebody
comes who is just curious about me, I will not say this to him;
it would be pointless. He will not understand; rather, he will
misunderstand.
When you are ready to receive, only then can I give. And now
that you are ready I can say many things which cannot be said
to casual visitors. They are curious; their curiosity is shallow,
they have not come to receive something. Their mind functions
in a childish way: they just want to know everything, and they
are not going to penetrate deeper into it.
Now I can say many things to you, because I know that you will
not misunderstand. Even if you don't understand this much is certain:
you will not misunderstand.
This will be a new phase; it has already started. I will be
working only with those who are sober, not fooling around. I will
be working only with those who have really come to a point where
they need transformation—who are really sincere, authentic
seekers and are ready to do whatsoever I say. To them I can say,
"I am a master" to them I can say, "Come to me
and drink out of me, and you will not be thirsty, ever."
But this cannot be said to everybody; this cannot be said to
somebody who is just passing, who you meet on the street. The
more you get ready the more I can pour myself into you. Before,
your pots were there but upside down; even if I had poured it
would have been a wastage. Now many of you are in a situation
where now your pots are not upside down, now they are right side
up. Now I can pour, now I can trust that you will take it as a
treasure, that you will hide it, that you will share it only with
those who are sincere, who are in search. Many more secrets will
be following, but they will only follow as you get more ready.
The phase, a new phase, has started. I will not be working with
the masses now, and I will be dropping all those who are just
hanging around for other reasons, and not for their spiritual
growth. There are many types of people, and even they are not
aware why they are hanging around—but I know. I will be
dropping them. Fewer and fewer will be accepted now. If I drop
you, you will not be able to know that I have dropped you because
you will go on thinking that you dropped me. That's how the ignorant
mind always consoles itself.
Now I will be working only with a few, a chosen few, and as
you get ready many more secrets can be given to you, and I will
be able to talk easily. Then I can be true, I need not say a lie
to you then. I will not say what you want to hear; no, I will
say what is really to be said to you.
And don't wait for the future, because no one knows about the
future. This very moment open yourself as much as you can so you
can receive me….
Right this moment I am here, available. Don't wait for the future,
because nobody knows…. Open your heart, become more receptive,
get attuned. Everything is possible. At this very moment I can
give you the key.
A new phase has started. Now get ready for it, because it is
not a question concerning me, it is a question concerning you.
How much you can get, you will get; your capacity will be the
limit. If you are totally open there is no limit. The whole ocean
is ready to fall into the drop, but the drop is afraid. It is
trying to protect itself….
Meditation will make you ready, compassion will make you perfect.
So carry these two mantras: pragya, meditation, karuna, compassion—let
these two be the goals. Let your whole life revolve around them,
and very soon you will be attuned. Then I can pour myself into
you. wing11
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