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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Osho advises
sannyasins on living in the world
Can you say something about coming to the master and going back
to the world?
You need not be worried if you have found the master in me. Then
wherever you are you will find me very close, nearby—just
following you like a shadow. But if you get lost into the world,
that will also be a good experience, to understand that you have
not found the master. In any case, these are the only two alternatives—either
you will find me in your gratitude, in your love, in your peace,
in your silence, in your meditations, in your joy, or you will
forget about me in the crowd. In both of the ways it will be a
beautiful experience and a beautiful test.
I want everybody here…those who are essential to run the
commune should remain here; otherwise, people should come and
go. They can manage it to be here for three months—be here
three months and go back into the world.
The day you can start finding me wherever you are is the greatest
day of your life. invita27
I would like my people to remember it: never advise unless it
is your experience. In the world, advice is the only thing which
everybody gives and nobody takes, so why bother? Everybody enjoys
giving advice and nobody ever takes it, and the reason is that
everybody knows that advice is meant for others—not for
yourself.
I would like my people to remember: never advise, unless it
has been your own authentic experience. Then too you can simply
say, "This has been my experience. It is not necessary that
it will be right for you—you can experiment. If you feel
that it brings more harmony to your life, more joy, you can go
ahead. If you feel it is not bringing anything…because individuals
are different. What fits me may not fit you, what is medicine
to me may be simply poison to you."
An absolutely alert man is always alert about what advice to
give and what not to give. Even if he gives advice, it is always
conditional—conditional upon experiment. He says it only
as a hypothesis: "You try a little bit—perhaps it works.
If it works, good. If it does not work, don't go on doing it.
It has helped me, that's true, but that does not mean that it
will help everybody on the earth."
People are different; each individual is unique, and each individual
needs a unique way that suits him. tahui04
The greatest miracle in the world is that you should dance and
disappear in the dance—then let the dance do whatever it
can do. That you should love and disappear in the love—then
let the love do whatever it can do. You cannot claim that you
are doing it—you have already disappeared.
In your disappearance is the whole possibility of some miracle
happening. So please don't guess; otherwise deep inside your love
will remain half-hearted—you are doing it for some purpose.
And when love becomes a purpose it is no longer love. Your joy
will become phony, because if you are joyful so something can
happen in the world, you are not really joyful—you are using
joy. And if your dance is a means towards an end, it cannot be
total. Unless your dance is an end in itself, there is no possibility
of its being total.
And only a total dance, an authentic love, a whole-hearted joy,
perhaps may create some miracles around you. But you will not
be the one who has done them; you will not be the one who can
brag about them. They will happen only when you are not.
God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself
totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The
guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears. splend16
On the surface it seems everything is going perfectly well, but
deep down there is great turmoil in the unconscious layers of
human beings. You are not even aware of your own unconscious nightmares,
but humanity is suffering as it has never suffered before.
It is restless as it has never been before. It has forgotten
the language of relaxation, it has forgotten the language of totality,
it has forgotten the language of intensity. And all those qualities
are needed to make your meditation a revolution in your being.
It is not a question of morality, not a question of character,
not a question of virtue—religions have been concerned with
all those things for thousands of years, and they have not been
successful in changing man. It is a totally different approach,
a different dimension: the dimension of energy and the concentration
of energy.
And just as atomic energy is the explosion of a small atom into
its constituents of electrons, protons and neutrons—it is
not visible tot he eyes, but the explosion is so vast that it
can destroy a great city like Nagasaki or Hiroshima—exactly
parallel is the inner explosion of the living cell. The atomic
energy is outside and destructive—objective and destructive.
The inner energy, the subjective cell of your being, has the same
qualities, the same tremendous power once it explodes—but
it is creative.
It is a chain reaction: one cell inside you explodes, and then
other cells inside you start exploding in a chain. The whole life
becomes a festival of lights. Every gesture becomes a dance; every
movement becomes sheer joy….
I am trying to change the whole pattern of religious thinking.
I am trying to say to you: This is your home; this very moment
is your paradise. It all depends on you. You do not need to be
virtuous to dance totally; you do not need to be learned to dance
totally; you do no need to be pious to dance totally. To dance
totally, all that is needed is that we accept the reality only
of this moment. We will accept the reality of the next moment
when it arrives, but we will not be waiting for it.
All the religions have been teaching you to wait. I am teaching
to live, to love, to dance, to sing—and don't wait. splend15
I used to be very hopeful. Still, I go on hoping against hope
that perhaps, in a very dangerous situation, man may awaken. But
there seems to be a sadness in my heart because I can see that
if nothing is done, then this century is going to be our end.
And not only our end, but the end of the whole of existence's
dream of creating consciousness….
My sadness is not about myself. I am absolutely contented. Death
cannot take anything from me. My sadness is concerned with the
whole of humanity, because their death will take away any opportunity
of their becoming enlightened, of their becoming blissful, of
their knowing meaning and significance. They have lived in darkness.
Are they going to die in darkness too?
I would like my people, at least, not to waste time in postponing
their own growth, because politicians are absolutely prepared
to destroy each other—to destroy all and everything. Their
lust for power has come to the climax. Before they succeed in
committing a global suicide, at least you should have known the
god that exists within you.
You should spread your joy and your silence and your laughter
to anybody you come in contact with. You cannot give a better
gift to your friends, to your acquaintances, to your lovers, to
your children.
The time is very short and the work is tremendous, but if you
have courage, the challenge can be accepted. Don't depend on politicians;
they cannot do anything; they are not even aware of where they
have been leading humanity—into what darkness….
I was hopeful, but as the days have passed and I have become more
and more acquainted with the stupidity of man…I still hope
but just out of old habit; really my heart has accepted the fact
that only a few people can be saved. The whole of humanity is
determined to destroy itself. And these are the people…if
you tell them how they can be saved, they will crucify you. They
will stone you to death. Going around the world, I still laugh,
but there is a subtle sadness in it. I still dance with you but
it is no longer with the same enthusiasm as it was ten years ago.
It seems that the higher powers of consciousness are helpless
against the lower and ugly powers of politicians. The higher is
always fragile, like a roseflower; you can destroy it with a stone.
That does not mean that the stone becomes higher than the roseflower;
it simply means the stone is unconscious of what it is doing.
The crowds are unconscious of what they are doing, and the politicians
belong to the crowd. They are their representatives. And when
blind people are leading other blind people, it is almost impossible
to wake them up; because the question is not only that they are
asleep—they are blind too.
There is not time enough to cure their eyes. There is time enough
to wake them but not enough time to cure their eyes. So now I
have confined myself completely to my own people. That is my world,
because I know those who are with me may be asleep, but they are
not blind. They can be awakened. splend07
Enlightenment is the greatest revolution you can conceive of
because it destroys all fictions, all rituals, all gods, all traditions,
all scriptures. It leaves you with only the essential consciousness
of your own being. Its trust in consciousness is so total that
there is no need of anything else.
It has not been said as clearly as I am putting it…I want
to make it absolutely clear that the very idea of enlightenment
is against all religions. Or, in other words, the only authentic
religion is that of enlightenment. All other religions are part
of the marketplace; they are businesses exploiting human helplessness,
exploiting human weakness, exploiting human limitations.
Enlightenment is a rebellion against all traditions, against all
priests, against all religions, because it declares that there
is nothing higher than man's consciousness. And man is not suffering
because some stupid man in the past disobeyed a fictitious God;
man is not suffering because of millions of lives of evil acts.
Man is suffering for the simple reason that he does not know himself.
His ignorance about himself is the only cause of his suffering,
misery, torture.
Enlightenment brings everything to a very simple and scientific
conclusion. It pinpoints that all that you need is to learn the
art of awareness….
Enlightenment is the key, the only key which opens all the realities
and all the blessings and all the potentials which have been hidden
within you. You are a seed: enlightenment is nothing but finding
the right soil and waiting for the spring to come.
Enlightenment is such a radical standpoint.
It is not another religion.
It is the only religion.
All other religions are pseudo….
Enlightenment is the very essence of human dignity, human grandeur.
It is certainly the key…. It is the golden key. And for
anybody in the world who really wants to be religious, except
enlightenment there is no other way. tahui34
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