MEDITATION is a jump beyond life. It is not getting out of life, it is getting to THE VERY CENTER OF LIFE.
The people who have entered at the very center of life have shown such grace, such beauty, such presence that they have even become A TREMENDOUS INSPIRATION FOR MILLIONS. Just their very presence has transformed people. The question is not of time but of understanding.
—OSHO—
The Original Man
Ch #1: You simply are
pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
The Original Man
Ch #1: You simply are
pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
"...you are asking, " What is beyond enlightenment? "And even if something is there ." What to do after the goal of living is reached?"
You have never thought about what you have done as far as your birth is concerned --- have you done anything? What are you doing as far as your life is concerned? Do you think you are breathing? If it is up to you to breathe, you would have been dead long before; just in anger, or in some love affair, you would forget to breathe. Or in the night, you will sleep or not? Or keep yourself awake just to continue breathing, because if you fall asleep and breathing stops, in the morning who is going to get up? No, breathing you are not doing. Existence is breathing.
What are you doing as far as inner structure of life is concerned? Do you digest? Are you responsible for changing food into blood, into bones, into marrow? These are not your concerns. Your concern ends with the taste buds, and the moment the food is swallowed it goes into the hands of existence; it is no more your concern. One day try to be continuously aware what is happening in your stomach for at least one week! Your consciousness is not needed, the stomach is doing its work on its own. Your brain consists of seven million cells, and each cell is doing its own function, you are not needed --- they don't even ask your advice. Has any part of your body stopped you sometime and asked, "What to do? --- I am at a loss?" They are never at a loss; they are part of the cosmic organism. They have an inbuilt process; they go on doing things.
The moment you become enlightened and disappear into ocean, you will not be asked to do something --- to type, or to dig, or to prepare pasta...or is it pizza! You are not supposed to do anything; you are gone. Now the universal force has taken possession of you. _Things will be happening, but they will not be your doing.
"What do you aim for? You have reached beyond your aim. Aim is a concern of the ego. The ego cannot exist without an aim --- some ambition, some desire, some infatuation, something to be achieved to tomorrow.
The ego is a tension between today and the future. The moment there is no ego, there is no tension. You simply live in a state of let-go.
Then, wherever the river takes you, wherever the life force takes you, you simply go. It is not your goal; you have become part of the whole. Now whatever is the goal of the whole.....and I don't think there is any goal. The whole is perfectly happy in singing and dancing and enjoying; in flowers, in the wind, in the rain, in the sun, in the stars. There is no goal. The whole is perfectly happy just to be, here now. If there is no aim, you start thinking it is like falling into a bottomless pit. Then what to do and what to aim for? "What is beyond the goal?" You are really in trouble! You will not be satisfied unless you are enlightened. All these problems: first, "What is the goal?_ Then, "What is beyond the goal? You want to determine the whole eternity!
Your question should be just about enlightenment. Beyond that, existence takes care. You have come to the right place. _Here we are not giving any goals, any heaven, any paradise. We are not selling any future to you. We are not in any business --- the churches are, the temples are, the synagogues are._ I am teaching you that there is no goal and that there is no meaning, but there is great joy, and great love, and great blissfulness. And all that you have to pay for it is to drop your false ego, your false personality.
Enlightenment is the explosion of a living cell. Certainly it is not destructive at all, but it transforms the whole man. In that way, it is destructive. It destroys the old man, it destroys all that was constituting your personality: your jealousy, your anger, your hate, your lust, your greed ---- all that is simply finished in a single moment. And the same energy that was involved in jealousy, hate, greed, ambition, and a thousand and one desires, is changed into a totally new forms of energy: love, silence, peace, compassion, wisdom --- all that is basic is the search of life itself.
Become silent. In your silence, all questions will disappear. And the dance will begin, whatever the figure! Because as far as your inner being is concerned, it has no figure: it is just a luminous flame which can dance. It has been eternally there, repressed by you. You are the greatest enemy of yourself. My effort is to turn you into the greatest enemy of yourself. My effort is to turn you into the greatest friend of yourself.
You have never thought about what you have done as far as your birth is concerned --- have you done anything? What are you doing as far as your life is concerned? Do you think you are breathing? If it is up to you to breathe, you would have been dead long before; just in anger, or in some love affair, you would forget to breathe. Or in the night, you will sleep or not? Or keep yourself awake just to continue breathing, because if you fall asleep and breathing stops, in the morning who is going to get up? No, breathing you are not doing. Existence is breathing.
What are you doing as far as inner structure of life is concerned? Do you digest? Are you responsible for changing food into blood, into bones, into marrow? These are not your concerns. Your concern ends with the taste buds, and the moment the food is swallowed it goes into the hands of existence; it is no more your concern. One day try to be continuously aware what is happening in your stomach for at least one week! Your consciousness is not needed, the stomach is doing its work on its own. Your brain consists of seven million cells, and each cell is doing its own function, you are not needed --- they don't even ask your advice. Has any part of your body stopped you sometime and asked, "What to do? --- I am at a loss?" They are never at a loss; they are part of the cosmic organism. They have an inbuilt process; they go on doing things.
The moment you become enlightened and disappear into ocean, you will not be asked to do something --- to type, or to dig, or to prepare pasta...or is it pizza! You are not supposed to do anything; you are gone. Now the universal force has taken possession of you. _Things will be happening, but they will not be your doing.
"What do you aim for? You have reached beyond your aim. Aim is a concern of the ego. The ego cannot exist without an aim --- some ambition, some desire, some infatuation, something to be achieved to tomorrow.
The ego is a tension between today and the future. The moment there is no ego, there is no tension. You simply live in a state of let-go.
Then, wherever the river takes you, wherever the life force takes you, you simply go. It is not your goal; you have become part of the whole. Now whatever is the goal of the whole.....and I don't think there is any goal. The whole is perfectly happy in singing and dancing and enjoying; in flowers, in the wind, in the rain, in the sun, in the stars. There is no goal. The whole is perfectly happy just to be, here now. If there is no aim, you start thinking it is like falling into a bottomless pit. Then what to do and what to aim for? "What is beyond the goal?" You are really in trouble! You will not be satisfied unless you are enlightened. All these problems: first, "What is the goal?_ Then, "What is beyond the goal? You want to determine the whole eternity!
Your question should be just about enlightenment. Beyond that, existence takes care. You have come to the right place. _Here we are not giving any goals, any heaven, any paradise. We are not selling any future to you. We are not in any business --- the churches are, the temples are, the synagogues are._ I am teaching you that there is no goal and that there is no meaning, but there is great joy, and great love, and great blissfulness. And all that you have to pay for it is to drop your false ego, your false personality.
Enlightenment is the explosion of a living cell. Certainly it is not destructive at all, but it transforms the whole man. In that way, it is destructive. It destroys the old man, it destroys all that was constituting your personality: your jealousy, your anger, your hate, your lust, your greed ---- all that is simply finished in a single moment. And the same energy that was involved in jealousy, hate, greed, ambition, and a thousand and one desires, is changed into a totally new forms of energy: love, silence, peace, compassion, wisdom --- all that is basic is the search of life itself.
Become silent. In your silence, all questions will disappear. And the dance will begin, whatever the figure! Because as far as your inner being is concerned, it has no figure: it is just a luminous flame which can dance. It has been eternally there, repressed by you. You are the greatest enemy of yourself. My effort is to turn you into the greatest enemy of yourself. My effort is to turn you into the greatest friend of yourself.
—OSHO—
The New Dawn
Ch #16: The only gift to me: Your enlightenment
am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
The New Dawn
Ch #16: The only gift to me: Your enlightenment
am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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