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Part IX : World Tour - Osho visits Uruguay, and creates a Mystery
School
On 19 March, Osho flies to Montivideo, Uruguay. He stays in the
hotel Hosteria del Lago for a week, and then moves to a private
residence in Punte del Este. On 12 April 1986, Osho gives discourses
and explains the new phase of his work which is his Mystery School
around the world.
Nobody had any commune the way we tried, and both the experiments
have given great insights into human nature, so nothing has been
a failure. We have learned much. So now I am not going to create
a commune. I am going to create a totally different thing: a mystery
school…forty, fifty people will be there to take care of
the school, and two hundred, three hundred, five hundred people
can come for a one month course, or a two month course, or a three
month course, and move on. And slowly, slowly we can train people
so that they can open mystery schools around the world. A school
is a different thing. You come for three months to learn something,
to go through some experiences, and then you are back in the world,
to your work, to your job….
So my new phase of work is a mystery school. You work in the
world, where roads are already there, houses are already there,
you need not make them. Factories are already there…in thousands
of years the world has created all that. So you can manage—five
hours work five days a week is enough. On the weekend you can
meditate, you can go into silence or you can go to some isolated
spot and just relax. And in a year you will be able to earn so
much money, save so much money, that you can come here for one
month, two months, three months…as much as you can manage.
Then being with me has no connotations of work. Then being with
me is simply joy, celebration, meditation, singing, dancing. Those
three months are simply holiday. You forget the world for those
three months. They are pure search for the truth. And after three
months, whatever you have learned, continue it at home; there
you have time. Five hours you work—you have enough time;
you can get at least two hours for yourself.
Not only this…when you start living with me there is a
possibility that you may start taking me for granted, that I am
always here. Nine months being away will bring you closer to me,
because distance creates longing, creates love, creates understanding.
So each year you will be coming, then going. Whatever you can
manage…you can come twice. You will not be a burden on anybody,
and there is no need for anybody to dominate you; there is no
need for any strict discipline—work needs that. There is
no need for coordinators, so we can avoid the power trip.
But both our communes have helped to bring us to this point
where we can start a mystery school. Without those two communes
it would have been impossible. This is my way of looking at things.
Even failures bring you closer to success, because each failure
gives you insight into what went wrong, how it went wrong. So
both the experiments have been immensely significant.
Now we are in a position to create a totally different kind
of place, which is simply a festival all the year round. People
will be coming and going. They will take whatever they learn and
they will practice it in the world, and they will come again to
renew, to refresh, to go further, deeper. Only a skeleton crew
will be here to take care of you. psycho38
In the land of money, power, designer drugs like "ecstasy"
and enlightened insurance, many of your sannyasins are now working
with a job, and earning their livelihood. Laughter, a sense of
humor, and a deep love and gratitude towards you, keep us all
connected with each other somehow. With your people in the world
now and physically so far away, has your work with us taken on
a new significance?
It has certainly taken on a new significance, a new turn.
I always wanted my people to be in the world, occasionally coming
to me, being with me, refreshing themselves, then going back again
to the world—because the world has to be changed. We are
not the ones who renounce the world….
This world is not to be renounced. There are beautiful people,
there are immensely capable people; they just have never come
across a person who could have triggered a process of mutation
in their life. So my idea has always been: come to me whenever
you start feeling, "Perhaps I am living in an illusion."
Then come and just touch me. Let yourself be showered by my presence,
my love, so that you can regain confidence, courage, and you can
go back to the world.
But the world is where the work is.
This is a mystery school.
We prepare people to send them to change the world.
That was from the very beginning my idea of a commune, but because
I was silent and in isolation, things went not according to my
idea. The commune, rather than becoming a refreshing place, a
place for holiday, became just another world of work, of hierarchy,
of bureaucracy. All those things that we wanted to change evolved
in the commune itself.
So my new phase of work will be that there will be a mystery
school. It will live like a commune, but the people will be changing.
People will be coming whenever they can manage, whenever they
need. There will be a certain number of people who will be permanent,
to take care of all the visitors. But the commune will be a continuous
pilgrimage place—where you learn something, where you drink
something, and go back to the world.
We are not the renouncers—we are the revolutionaries.
We want to change the whole world.
And in changing the world, you will change yourself. You cannot
change anything else unless you go through the change simultaneously….
It is good to be only for a few days with me and then go into
the world. Take the music, take the ecstasy with you, spread it,
and whenever you feel thirsty, come back again.
So it will be a world school of mysticism where people will be
coming and going, taking the message to all the nooks and corners
of the world. And I don't want you to be in any way associated
with anything…road-making, making houses, and creating a
dam—all that is just damned foolery!
I simply want you to remember me as a flower, a fragrance, a flame,
a light; associate me with these things. That is going to be the
purpose of the new mystery school. psycho17
From all over the world messages have come to me that at every
center, even though the whole movement is in a difficulty—I
do not have a home, the movement does not have a headquarters—from
each small center news goes on coming that new people are becoming
sannyasins, people who we have never thought would become sannyasins.
The pressure from all the governments of the world is helping
immensely. Anybody who is courageous, who has some respect for
freedom, some taste of intelligence, has started coming into the
movement.
A few old faces will be lost, and it is good that they are lost.
Perhaps they were no longer in tune; their time was over. You
can be with me only if you are alive. The moment you are dead,
we simply celebrate. We say good-bye to you, and you vacate a
space for some new one, some new blood, new life, a new flower
to take your place. This has been going on….
There are many layers of people who have been with me and have
dropped. Only very few people have remained with me from the very
beginning; they are the most blessed ones. Since they have come
they have broken their bridges, they have forgotten to look backwards.
They know they have come to the home they were searching for and
seeking, and now there is nowhere else to go. transm07
All my life I have been trying to escape. Even living with you
this habit is sometimes there, but it fades completely as soon
as I look into your eyes—then what a tremendous relief.
And when you look into my eyes, the feeling disappears because
you need those kind of eyes; you have been looking for them without
knowing it. Your escape has been a search.
The word `escape' is condemnatory. You have been searching,
and because you were not finding in one place you were rushing
to another place; not finding in one person you were rushing to
another person. And this is happening all over the world: people
are changing places, changing their lovers, changing their friends,
changing their jobs, but somehow, nothing seems to fit. Their
inner thirst remains the same. Not only the same, it goes on increasing
as they grow up.
If it happens looking into my eyes that your desire to escape
disappears, that means you have found the key. You need such a
presence, you need such people, you need such eyes around you.
You yourself need such eyes, with the same depth, with the same
clarity, with the same insight—and you will find yourself
at home….
Looking into my eyes you feel that the fever of escaping from
everywhere has disappeared.
We need more and more people who can give this sense to hundreds
of young people, that they have found a guide, a friend whom they
can trust, who can become their hope. And that's my idea of what
we will be opening in different countries.
First I have to make the model of the mystery schools in one place.
And we will be opening them all over the world, so the young people
who have no guidance and fall into the hands of exploiters, fools,
all kinds of con men…this can be stopped. These mystery
schools can fill the gap—the generation gap. They can create
respect for your parents and they can create the art of bringing
up your own children when the time comes. And they can give you
an experience of your own being.
This is a great necessity. If it doesn't happen, then the younger
generation is going to be terrorist, or all kinds of things they
will do—Hare Krishna movement, which is simply foolish,
Witnesses of Jehovah…but they will be caught somewhere.
If they cannot find the right place they are bound to be caught
somewhere.
They used to become hippies; now that has gone out of fashion.
Now there are punks, skinheads, and all kinds of stupids!—but
really they are in a vacuum, and they want a certain identity.
So any will do, and they will do all kinds of acts which are destructive
for no reason at all, for the simple reason that they are doing
something—something of great importance.
The mystery schools can manage all these people slowly slowly….
All these people can be absorbed in the mystery schools. We just
have to create magnets for every mystery school, which is not
a difficult job. mystic22
Sitting in your presence is such a beautiful experience. We call
it discourse. This word seems to me so poor next to what is happening
here. Is there a word in any language that could point to, if
not describe, what is happening between the Master and the disciple?
There is no word in any language for what transpires between the
master and the disciple. It is the strangest phenomenon in life.
It is not a relationship, it is something far deeper, far greater,
far more eternal. Once you have known the taste of being a disciple,
the last problem for the master will be how to help you drop it—the
idea of disciplehood—because it is so fulfilling, so perfect,
that one doesn't want to stop it….
The culmination of disciplehood is the devotee. When the disciple
is perfect he enters into a new phase, which is that of the devotee.
Now he feels no distinction from the master. Now there are two
bodies but one soul. Now he even hears things which are not said,
he understands things which are not indicated. He starts feeling
the very vibration of the master's being. The devotee is absolutely
unknown to the West.
You are right: what is happening here is not of this world. It
is in this world but not of this world. We are trying to bring
the other world in—to smuggle it into this world. transm03
It is one of my deep desires that when our mystery schools are
functioning, slowly slowly, we will bring from all over the world
the great mystical scriptures, without any consideration of to
whom they belong, and publish them with the latest commentaries,
so that mysticism does not remain just a word but becomes a vast
literature, and anybody can devote his whole life to understanding
what the mystics have given to the world.
Nobody is taking note of it, and its significance is tremendous—because
it is not only literature, it has secrets for the transformation
of your being. transm25
There are many diamonds in that small group—the Jainas—which
can help many people. They are available, but they are available
in a language which is no longer alive; they are written in Prakrit.
That word is also worth understanding. It is thought that Sanskrit
is the oldest language. There is a consensus amongst scholars
that Sanskrit is the oldest language of the world; only Jainas
don't agree with it—their language is Prakrit—and
I feel that they are right. The very meaning of the word `prakrit'
is `natural', and the very meaning of the word `sanskrit' is `refined'.
Prakrit seems to be the original language which the people were
using, and Sanskrit seems to be the refined form of it which scholars
were using….
All Jaina scriptures are in Prakrit. It is a very beautiful language
because it has the smell of everything simple, unpolished…diamonds
just out of the mine—not cut, not polished, but they have
a beauty of their own, something wild.
It is the duty of the U.N. to bring all this literature—and
it is vast—into international languages, and people will
be simply shocked.
For example, Albert Einstein in this century talks of the theory
of relativity—and Mahavira, twenty-five centuries ago, talks
about the theory of relativity. Of course his conception is philosophical,
he is not a scientist; but the meaning is the same. Albert Einstein
has scientific evidence, Mahavira has philosophical arguments,
but both are trying to say that in existence there is nothing
which is absolute, everything is relative.
Aristotle divides everything into black and white—either
this or that; his logic is either/or. Mahavira divides everything
into seven categories.
It is more complicated, more complex, but shows tremendous insight,
intelligence. Aristotle looks like a pygmy—and the world
must be made aware that there have been giants of which you are
absolutely unaware. transm25
All the techniques that have been developed—are based in
human experiences.
Many of the techniques are based in the innocent child and his
experiences. You have to regain that innocence to make the experience
possible.
It is through centuries that people with keen insight into human
affairs have been watching themselves and others, and finding
methods. But all methods are based on certain experiences that
naturally happen. But nobody takes care of them; on the contrary,
the society tries to repress those experiences, because those
experiences will certainly make the individual rebellious.
For example, Jalaluddin Rumi became enlightened with a very strange
method that he had remembered from his own childhood, whirling….
All the techniques of the world—I have looked into every
technique possible, to see how it must have come. Because they
are not inventions, they are based on some human experience which
was already happening. It just had to be made more acute, more
sharp, more methodo-logical, more clean and more clear, so that
the person is not doing it on any biological basis or physiological
basis for some small gain, but was searching for the ultimate
truth through it.
All methods have happened that way.
I have not come across a single method which is not based in human
experience. It seems that nature provides you already with everything
to transcend the ordinary mind and to reach to the superconscious.
But unfortunately we don't use it, we don't even understand it.
But there have been people who have collected all the possibilities,
made them clean, short, simple so everybody can use them.
It will be really a great job. If I have time I would like to
go into explaining every technique used throughout the world,
from which human experience it has arisen.
But one thing is certain, that there are no techniques for spiritual
growth which can be artificially enforced on a man. Nature has
already provided—you can purify it, make it better, make
it more refined. But there is no way to make an artificial method
work.
With nature, no artificiality is going to help.
And when nature itself is ready to help you, it is simply stupid
to go for artificial methods. transm27
But remember, every technique can only give you an experience;
I want to give you the experiencer, not the experience. Experience
comes and goes; don't rely on it. Unless you have found the experiencer…Who
is feeling joy? Who is feeling pain? Who is feeling well-being?
Who is feeling sad? Who is this consciousness?
Every effort should be to reach to this innermost center of
the cyclone. Your whole life is a cyclone of change, of changing
scenes, changing colors, but just in the middle of the cyclone
there is a silent center. That is you.
My effort is to help you to find yourself. socrat17
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