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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Meditation
at end of discourse
The gibberish, silent sitting, and let-go meditation at the
end of discourse becomes longer. Osho draws attention to the experience
itself
Nivedano… (Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
Nivedano… (Drumbeat)
Be silent.
Let your body be completely frozen.
Close your eyes, and look inwards with as much urgency and totality
as possible.
Deeper and deeper…you are entering the space we call the
buddha.
This beautiful evening can become a great radical change in your
life, if you are courageous enough to go on, just like an arrow,
to the very center of your being.
You are just a witness, an empty mirror.
To make it more clear, Nivedano… (Drumbeat)
Relax.
Watch—the body is not you, the mind is not you.
Only the watching, only the witnessing is you.
This witnessing is your eternity.
With this witnessing comes all the ecstasies, all the blessings
that existence can offer to you.
The deeper you are, the more watchful you are—the more silent,
the more peaceful.
It is a great event.
Every evening you go a little deeper into your buddhahood.
Look around this empty space within you; you have to remember
it, twenty-four hours, when you come back from the inner journey.
Nivedano… (Drumbeat)
Come back, but come back as buddhas—peaceful, silent, graceful,
with a beatitude.
Sit down for a few moments just as mirrors; remembering your inner
world, collecting the experience so that it can become an undercurrent
in your daily life.
I don't want anybody to escape from life; I want everybody to
make life richer, more blissful, more ecstatic.
I am all for life, because to me life is the only God.
The buddha is another name for life.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Can we celebrate the ten thousand buddhas?
Yes, Beloved Master. matzu01
The evening was beautiful on its own, but your presence, your
silence, your witnessing, your melting into each other…This
Buddha Auditorium is no more filled with ten thousand people.
It has become just a lake of consciousness.
Losing the boundaries is the greatest joy; melting into the universe
is the greatest splendor.
Before I call you back, have a good look at this space where you
are, because you have to visit this space again and again.
Take a good look at the path you have followed to reach to your
center from the circumference. The same path, you will be traveling
again coming back. It is a small path, just one step. But what
a miracle in a single step! The ordinary becomes extraordinary,
the nobody becomes a buddha.
Nivedano…
Come back, but come back as buddhas without any fear and without
any doubt. The buddha is your essential self. Sit down silently
for a few moments just to recollect the experience you have gone
through. And live it out in your gestures, in your activities,
in your words, in your silences. nansen05
Before Nivedano calls you back, look at the space you have reached,
look at the path that you have traveled. This path will be traveled
again and again, back and forth till your buddhahood grows from
the center to the circumference. At the center it is a seed, at
the circumference it will become a full-fledged buddha. nansen07
I have been using the word `arrow' purposely so that you can
understand that going into yourself is not a morning walk—that
you can return from anywhere. It is not something that you can
do in parts; you have to do it one day in a single quantum leap.
Whenever you decide, then don't look back, just go ahead.
Certainly it needs guts and courage because you are moving in
a dark and unknown space. You don't have with you even a lamp—no
companion, you don't have any map. And meditation demands that
you go with the speed of light, so fast that the journey of thousands
of lives is completed in a single moment. exist02
But my effort here is exactly that you should go inside. And
there is no need to be afraid. You will meet no one else but yourself.
And the sooner you do it the better, because nobody knows about
tomorrow. At least know yourself in authenticity. nansen08
You don't know your center…and I go on insisting, "Go
to the center." And I know perfectly well that you don't
know your center. So where will you go? But I know that wherever
you go, just go—if you go with your full energy, then you
are going to end up at the very source of your being. This is
such a valid experience of thousands of mystics that there is
no anxiety about it.
I have not told you where the center is. I know only one thing,
that if you go inwards with your totality and urgency, you will
reach it. Nobody has ever missed. The moment you are total and
there is urgency the center pulls you—the center itself
pulls you towards itself. You don't go, you are being pulled.
It is just that you have to be together. That togetherness is
the problem. People are so fragmentary that even when I say totality,
urgency, you think perhaps it is for somebody else—"I
am not going to die this moment." But that somebody else
may be you! Some moment you are going to die—why not this
moment? Who knows?
And in the moment of death, if you have not been going and coming,
in and out, and you have not made the path clean from the circumference
to the center, you will not be able to in the moment of death.
It has to be done when you are alive, so fully alive that you
can gather all your energy and go towards the center. Totality
and urgency are the absolute prerequisites. If you go in a lousy
way, just with a curiosity in the mind—"Let us see,
what is in?"—you will not enter in.
A curious mind has no way inwards. To reach your center a tremendous
intensity is needed. You have to gather yourself, all that you
have, into a single spearhead. Then don't be worried: go with
speed, and wherever you reach will be the center of your being.
You cannot go anywhere else. joshu01
It hurts me to disturb your silence by using words, but I hope
a day will arrive when we will be sitting together allowing the
silence to become deeper—because whatever can be said only
touches the periphery, it never goes beyond the periphery. No
word has ever reached to the center. kyozan04
Be as if you are dead and you have found the way—just surging
inside you, a tremendous awareness, the very existence. It sings
in the cuckoos, it blossoms in the roses, it has flowered in you
as human beings; it can flower in you as buddhas.
Hence I address you as my buddhas. Perhaps a few of you may realize
like lightning, but a few of you may have a little more sleep.
But tomorrow we will try again. If you have come here, you are
caught in a net. Unless you become a buddha, you don't leave this
place. Unfortunately, such places have almost disappeared from
the world. bolt03
That's why I say, every night, these few moments are the most
valuable moments in your life. And every evening, when so many
living buddhas gather here, this place becomes the most important
in the whole world—the spiritual capital of the world. Because
nowhere are so many people meditating together. Nowhere are so
many people digging so deep that they can find the very life source,
the eternity, the deathlessness. dogen07
You have to look into your life, where you can find some natural
experience of let-go. Listening to me you can experience a let-go.
It happens every day, but you are not aware. I can see your faces
changing, I can see your silences deepening. I can see when you
laugh that your laughter is no longer chained and handcuffed,
that your laughter is now your freedom. I can observe every day:
you go on becoming more and more relaxed, as if you are not listening
to a talk, but listening to soft music, not to words but to my
silences. satyam05
I make the atmosphere available to you. All kinds of people,
in this atmosphere, can have a little experience. And that little
experience starts growing just like a seed grows into a huge cedar,
aspiring to the stars.
Those who were more concerned with non-essentials have come and
gone. In these thirty years thousands of people have passed—but
now, as we are coming to the most precious experience, deeper
and deeper, only those who are authentically interested in digging
for the gold have remained.
Now this assembly has become one of the greatest assemblies of
seekers that has ever been on the earth. miracl09
The very mastery, the art of being a master is to create an atmosphere
in which things start happening on their own. What are we doing
here? I don't know many of you, I don't know your names, I don't
meet you personally. I simply create an atmosphere in which you
can drown, in which you can drink the very juice of life. There
is no need for me to work on individuals—that is a very
poor and primitive way. I work by creating an atmosphere, an energy
field, and every day that energy field becomes more and more powerful.
Every one of you contributes to it. You are not just on the side
of taking; you are also a giver.
Here your presence, your consciousness, certainly creates a chain
reaction. Just the man sitting by your side…you may not
know him at all, but in your silence you meet with him. When everybody
becomes silent there is simply a lake of buddhahood—one
consciousness, one existence, one dance. You are not in tune with
existence, you are it….
You see the miracle every day. The new person comes and as he
joins in this energy field he becomes as old as you are. His laughter
is as deep as yours. Perhaps one day he may hesitate, but the
next day he will see that everybody is laughing—"Why
should I hesitate?" Perhaps one day he will not die, but
when he sees another day that everybody here dies and comes back,
then there is no fear in dying…one can die.
The newcomer becomes very soon an old disciple, just within days.
I can see when the newcomer for the first time enters the Buddha
Hall he is hesitant, worried what is going to happen, cannot understand
how he is going to do gibberish. But any child can do gibberish,
it doesn't need any training. From the very first moment you are
almost trained. Gibberish needs no training, nor does laughter
need any training.
If you can do the gibberish you are cleansing your mind of all
kinds of dust that goes on gathering. And as the mind becomes
silent…there is nowhere to go other than inwards. All roads
are forgotten, there remains a single one-way traffic.
Just for a day or two you may hesitate to go that much inside.
Who knows whether you will be able to come back or not? That's
the whole purpose of creating an energy field—so that you
can see that so many people are coming and going, becoming enlightened,
unenlightened. It is a playful, joyful exercise; there is nothing
to be worried about, you can go as deep as you want. miracl02
In ordinary life go on remembering that you are a buddha. Nothing
else is needed, this very remembrance that you are a buddha is
going to transform all your activities. exist07
There is nowhere to go. You are already there, where you needed
to be. And once you recognize it, then you carry your consciousness
wherever you go. Then time makes no difference, nor does space.
You are a buddha in the temple and you are a buddha in the shop;
you are a buddha sitting silently, deep in meditation, and you
are a buddha having a good laugh…. miracl10
I can say to you, it is true: every day you become a buddha.
I see you coming back from your home, resurrecting. You are a
totally different man—so silent, so peaceful, so fragrant,
such a beauty to see.
But I know you will forget. Forgetfulness has been your habit
for millions of years. So this one moment of buddhahood will become
a beautiful memory, and then the forgetfulness comes like a flood
of old habit and the whole moon disappears behind the black clouds.
But the moon is there; we will discover it again. There is no
harm in discovering your buddhahood again and again.
One can hope, one can trust that one day these old habits will
become weakened and your whole buddhahood will become a simple
matter, just like breathing….
So when I say to you after your meditation that now we should
celebrate the ten thousand buddhas, I am not joking. I am making
a certain point again and again to you that you may forget after
a few minutes, and rush to a party somewhere in a hotel! Buddhas
are not supposed to do that! But times have changed—modern
buddhas always do that. After having a good experience they celebrate
it in many ways. And where to go to celebrate, to have a real
Italian party?
Nothing is wrong in it if you go on remembering that you are a
buddha. Nothing is wrong in the world if your remembrance remains
there in the background. turnin04
When one becomes absolutely centered, one is almost drunk, drunk
with an inner ecstasy.
Many have reported to me that when you get up after your meditation,
"We feel a little drunk." You start moving towards the
canteen, but you can see people standing by the side; they are
wobbly, they don't know what is happening. Because everybody is
going towards the canteen they join them, but not absolutely certain
whether they want to go there or not. But because everybody else
is going there, it is better to keep company….
It is dangerous to go out of the ashram. The police can get
hold of you: "You are drunk!" You may say that, "I
have been in ecstasy," and they will say, "Yes, that's
what we are saying. You have taken the drug ecstasy. Just come
along with us to the police station!"…
I teach you drunkenness. There is no need for a man who has
tasted his own inner being to take any drugs or alcohol.
There is only one way to stop people from drugs and alcohol,
and that is meditation—to pass through all the layers of
the body and enter into a space which is no-body, no-mind. Then
you are so full of contentment, so fulfilled that you don't need
anything anymore. poetry03
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