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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Memorable
discourses
In March 1987, Osho comments on Neitzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra
and, in July, gives two memorable series on zen masters Bodhidharma
and Ta Hui. Osho was heard to say that his discourse on Ta Hui's
sutra 'The Inescapable' was the best he had ever given. Below
is an excerpt:
The inescapable…it is one of the most significant problems
for every meditator.
There are things which will disappear as your meditation deepens.
All that is false will be gone, all that is illusory will no longer
exist; all that you have projected, expected, or dreamt will have
no reality. But still there will be something left which is not
your dream, which is not your projection, which is not the creation
of your mind: this is called the inescapable. In other words,
the real will remain—only the false will be gone….
Ta Hui is making an immensely important point, and only a man
who has come to this experience can make that statement. Otherwise
it is very simple, ask anybody: to go with means to be in harmony,
and to go against is to be in discord.
But Ta Hui says, "Even to go with is a discord, very subtle,
very hidden, but you are keeping yourself separate. Real harmony
is neither to go with nor to go against. Let reality possess you.
Just be overwhelmed by that which is inescapable, and you will
find immense peace."
These sutras are important for every meditator on the path….
Meditation has to be only a watchfulness, then it is possible
to have it twenty-four hours a day. Even while going to sleep,
be watchful. To the last moment, when you see that now sleep is
taking you over—the darkness goes on growing, the body is
relaxing and the point comes when suddenly from wakefulness you
move into sleep—watch up to that moment. And first thing
in the morning, as you become aware that the sleep is finished,
immediately start watching; soon you will be able to watch even
while you are asleep. Watchfulness will become a lamp that goes
on burning day and night inside you.
This is the only authentic meditation. All else that has been
told to you in the name of meditation is simply a toy to play
with, to deceive yourself that you are doing something spiritual.
With this meditation you will come across the inescapable. Everything
illusory will disappear.
But everything in existence is not illusory. That which is not
illusory is inescapable, and what are you going to do with the
inescapable? Perhaps you have never thought about it.
This very inescapability itself is meditation.
If you go on watching even the inescapable, you will be able
to see clearly that that which disappears while watching is illusory;
that which becomes even more clear, more crystal clear, which
was before hidden behind the cloud of your illusory dreams, desires,
now stands absolutely clear….
Ta Hui is saying, This very inescapability itself is meditation.
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