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16 April 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer. It is for reference purposes only.]

Sannyas is a growth process. Very few people grow at all.

The average mental age is only twelve years. The person may be eighty

But he carries the mind of a twelve-year-old. This is a very strange situation:

He only appears mature

Deep down he remains immature, utterly immature. Without meditation there is no way.

It is only through meditation

That one becomes really mature, integrated.

It is through meditation

That one becomes really mature, integrated. It is through meditation

That your consciousness starts rising upwards That you start creating a bridge to the beyond. A man is really grown up

When he starts feeling the presence of god. That is the only criterion.

Remember that as a goal And put your total energy 1/08/07

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It can still be achieved, it is never too late. All that is needed is a great intensity.

And if one can know god before death comes Then death never comes.

The body dies

But now you know that you cannot die. You are eternal.

Everyone brings a truth in his being. The truth has not to be invented

It has only to be discovered Or rather, REdiscovered.

We are already in possession of it

But we have become completely oblivious Of the fact.

We have only fallen asleep And forgotten who we are.

All that is needed is a remembering. George Gurdjieff used to teach his disciples

Only one method, the method of self-remembering. Buddha calls it right-mindfulness

Krishnamurti calls it awareness Christ calls it watchfulness Shankara calls it witnessing.

But it is the same phenomenon. You have to become alert

You have to become more conscious. Nothing is missing

It is only that you are dreaming

Dreaming that you are a beggar And you are not a beggar.

Once the dream is broken, once you wake up Suddenly you find what ridiculous dreams You have been in.

The greatest treasure is yours The eternal life is yours

The kingdom of god is yours The ultimate truth is yours.

And we have brought it with ourselves.

We are it!

So it is not a question

Of seeking and searching somewhere else It is simply a question

Of putting your total energy into waking up. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Life is like a nightmare:

If you are suffering in a nightmare

All that you need is to put your total energy

Into waking up. Nothing else is needed.

If you are being chased by a lion You need not kill the lion Because there is no lion at all.

If you are being crushed under a rock You need not remove the rock.

It may be just your own pillow. All that you need is to wake up!

A middle-aged American woman presents herself for sannyas. She had written to Osho earlier in the year telling of her eight years's involvement with a community of Gurdjieff followers.

Something was still missing, she felt; now she was reaching out and 'planning for a miracle.'

Osho explains that her sannyas name, Anubhuti, means experiencing. Truth cannot be contemplated on

It can only be experienced. It is nothing intellectual

It is something existential.

You have to know the taste of it.

You cannot conclude by philosophising. There are thousands of people in the world

Who go on thinking about truth And about and about they go

Around and around they go in circles. Their conclusions are futile.

Howsoever beautiful those conclusions may appear They don't have any life, any soul in them.

To be a sannyasin means

You are dropping philosophising

You are renouncing the ways of the mind and

You are moving into a totally different gestalt: The ways of the heart The way of love, not of logic.

Singing is far closer to truth Than the process of thinking. It looks very absurd:

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Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- How can you come to know truth by dancing?

But there have been people

Who have come to know truth through dancing. Jalaluddin Rumi came to know truth

Simply by dancing.

He danced and danced and he danced for hours; It is said, for thirty-six hours

Without any break.

He fell into a kind of total drunkenness. He became so drunk from dancing!

And when he came back

He was totally a different man. Hence he invented a new method. The whirling dervishes

Are the followers of Jalaluddin Rumi. Through dancing he arrived.

Nobody before had arrived through dancing. Rumi stumbled upon a new truth.

Dancing is more existential. Through singing many have arrived. Just by sitting silently, doing nothing Many have arrived.

But if you are thinking, you are doing something. A state of no-thought is needed to experience.

So I am giving you the name 'experiencing'

To remind you again and again

Not to go into the old grooves of the mind. Metaphorically, symbolically, be headless! And here you can see so many headless people Running hither and thither!

People like Christ cannot be followed. You can become a Christ

But you cannot be a follower of Christ. To be a follower is to be an imitation. It is not the real thing

So it may look paradoxical but this is how it is: To really be a follower of Christ One has to cease to be a follower

One has to be a Christ oneself. And the same is true about Buddha And Krishna and Zarathustra.

These people can easily be followed. Their personalities are hypnotic

They have a magnetic charm, a charisma. 1/08/07

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One would like to follow in their footsteps. But they are unique people,

Nobody can follow in their footsteps. All followers look pathetic.

Mm? -- you wearing the shoes of Christ Or his garments and carrying his cross... It may be okay in a drama but in life You will be simply crazy!

You have to be a Christ yourself.

And remember: Christ does not mean a Jesus. Christ simply means one who has come home One who has attained

The full flowering of consciousness. You can call Buddha a Christ

And you can call Christ a Buddha. There is no difference.

Remember it

Love Christ, love Buddha, love Lao Tzu Imbibe their spirit

But don't follow their lives in detail. Never be a follower.

Always be authentic, true, yourself.

And I say that is the only way to follow them. God can be your strength only if you surrender. If you dissolve yourself totally

If you are no more, then god is your strength. Then he is the one who exists within you.

He is your consciousness

And he is your life and he is your love. He is all in all.

But you have to disappear, you have to give way. We are so full of ourselves;

That's why god is not our strength. And we cannot be strong on our own. How can a leaf be strong on its own? Without the nourishment

The constant nourishment of the tree? How can the tree be strong on its own Without being nourished

By the earth and the sun and the moon? We are part of this immense existence 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- But we go on keeping ourselves separate.

We create a boundary around ourselves -- We defend that boundary.

We say, "Trespassers will be prosecuted."

We don't allow anybody to trespass across our boundary. Even if god comes, if he want to come in

You won't allow him.

Because his coming in means only one thing:

Your going out.

You both cannot occupy the same space. You can be there only if he is not allowed in. He is vast.

When he comes, he comes like a storm. When he comes, he comes like a flood.

It takes away all garbage, all rubbish from you; It cleanses you of yourself -- Of the very idea of the ego.

But then a beautiful phenomenon starts happening: For the first time you don't feel weak

For the first time you are nourished

By inexhaustible sources.

You are as strong as god himself Because you have become part of him. Peace is something that you have lost. It has been stolen by the world,

You have to steal it back.

It has been destroyed by the world, You have to claim it back.

George Gurdjieff used to say

That the true seeker has to be a little sly

Because the world is very cunning, very deceptive.

If you are not alert it will go on deceiving you, It will go on cheating you. It has cheated you of all your treasures,

And it has handed over to you All kinds of rubbish instead.

You have to be alert, Very alert and a little sly,

So that you cannot be deceived any more So that you can detect

Whenever the world is trying to deceive you. And you also have to be sly

To escape from all kinds of entanglements, Without creating too much fuss.

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Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- It is like a prisoner trying to escape

From goal.

If he makes too much fuss he will be caught. He has to be very silent, utterly silent

As if nothing is happening. And he has to do much; He has to break the wall,

Maybe he has to cut the bars of the window. He has to make some connections outside. Maybe he has to throw a rope over the wall, Beyond the wall,

Climb the rope and jump from the wall. And everything has to happen

In such a silent way, as if nothing is happening, As if everything is normal. Of course he has to be sly --

He has to be a thief!

Of course he is only trying

To gain what has been robbed from him. But he has to be a thief,

To steal that which belongs to him.

Hence all the methods need great intelligence. Stupid people cannot get out of the world, Cannot get out of the traps.

Tremendous intelligence is needed. And meditation

Certainly releases great intelligence. It is the only method

Which releases intelligence in you, Which makes you bright,

Which sharpens your consciousness, Which helps you to see clearly,

Which makes you more alert, more conscious. Which keeps you always on guard.

-- How long will you be here?

-- One week

-- Then come back again. One week is not enough to get out of the jail.

One week is enough if you want to get into the jail but to get out of it takes time!

Sadhvi means one who is innocent. That is the secret of knowing the truth:

To be innocent, innocent like a child. Unlearning is the whole process.

We have learned too much

We are burdened with knowledge And that is all rubbish

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Because it is all borrowed.

Unless something is your own It has no value, no meaning So put aside all that is not your own experience.

Save only that which is your own experience, Howsoever little it is. But it is enough.

Base your life on that

And you will be putting down a right foundation. Basing your life on borrowed knowledge

Is making a house on the sands:

It is bound to fall.

It is trying to get to the farther shore

In a paper boat. Scriptures are paper boats. And now the time has come

When you have to know something on your own Because only that will be going with you.

All that is borrowed

Will have to left on this shore But that which is known by you Cannot be taken away from you.

Even death cannot destroy it -- it is eternal. And the only way to become innocent

Is to be watchful of the mind -- Non-judgmental watchfulness.

Don't judge: 'This is good, this is bad' Because the moment you judge

You lose your awareness.

Simply watch the whole process of the thoughts Whatsoever is passing has nothing to do with you.

You are separate from it. Don't get identified

Either with good or with bad. Simply remain aloof, distant A watcher on the hill

And slowly slowly the procession of thoughts And memories and desires start disappearing. One day it happens, the road is empty

There is no traffic.

In that very moment turning in happens. When there is nothing to observe in the mind The observer turns upon itself.

That is the meaning of the ancient symbol... Many mysteries schools have used that symbol: The snake swallowing itself.

It represents this process. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- When there is nothing to swallow

The snake swallows itself.

When there is nothing to observe

The observer starts observing himself.

And that is the beginning of enlightenment. Then for the first time

Your light falls upon yourself And it liberates

It liberates you from all kinds of bondage. So innocence has to be your golden key.

For centuries the religious person Has been missing a sense of humour.

The saints have not laughed for centuries. Laughter has lost all connections with spirituality. Laughter has not been a loser

But spirituality has lost much. Spirituality has become dull, sad Serious, ill, pathological.

It has become more and more deathlike It has lost aliveness.

Without laughter there is no life

And without laughter there is no love either. My whole effort here is to bring laughter Back to the spiritual dimension.

The saints should be able

In fact only he should be able to laugh totally. But the so-called saints

Are very afraid of laughter. They go on keeping long faces

Long faces are being worshipped. To laugh seems to be mundane.

In fact, laughter

Is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. In deep laughter the ego disappears

Just as in deep dance the ego disappears. When you really have a belly laugh

You are no more there, only laughter is happening You are not there as an observer

You are totally immersed in it.

And that gives you a taste of meditation. That's how your whole life should be: Whatsoever you are doing

You should be totally immersed in it

Then only can meditation become like breathing. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- It can spread all over your life.

Even in sleep it remains with you Like a subtle undercurrent

Of joy, of peace, of silence. The ultimate law itself is god.

There is no god as a person somewhere. 'God' is only a way of speaking.

What really is, is a fundamental law That keeps the whole existence together. The universe is a great harmony.

It is not a chaos, it is a cosmos. There is great order

And this order is possible only

If there is something that keeps everything Connected and joined together.

That something is called dharma, the law. To know it and to be in tune with it

Is to be blissful.

Not to know it is to be miserable Because without knowing it

You cannot be in tune with it. Maybe once in a while Accidentally you may be in tune

Then there will be a little glimpse of happiness But that is accidental -- you cannot depend on it.

Meditation brings you a clear vision of the law And helps you to surrender to the law

Helps you to drop all resistance to the law. And once you are consciously in tune With the ultimate law

Your life is bliss, pure bliss And nothing but bliss.

The moon represents two things

Which are very essential for a sannyasin. One is that the moon is a mirror:

It simply reflects the rays of the sun. A sannyasin has to be a mirror

Just a clean mirror so he can reflect That which is.

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And the second thing is that the moon Not only reflects the rays of the sun,

In reflecting them it transforms their quality. The very process of reflecting is such

That those rays go through an alchemical change. When they come from the sun

They are hot, burning hot

When they come reflected through the moon They are cool. That is the miracle of the moon.

The world is very hot -- it is hot because of lust Because of anger, because of hatred.

It is hot because of a thousand and one passions. It is boiling.

A sannyasin has to live in this world

But he can live in it only if he comes to know The alchemical process Of transforming everything

That comes to him Into a cool experience.

You can insult the Buddha

But when it is reflected back to you It comes as a fragrance of a flower.

You can throw an arrow at the Buddha But when it comes back to you

It is a rose flower.

That's what a sannyasin has to be, These two things: a mirror...

And not only a mirror but also an

Alchemical process of constantly transforming Al that is hot, ugly, violent, into cool energy.

The sannyasin lives in tremendous coolness. He lives in the fire of the world

But he remains cool. The day it happens

Then you know that your meditation has succeeded You have achieved the fruit of meditation.

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