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21 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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.) God is only for the lions

He is not for the crowd, for the sheep. He is only for the courageous ones Not for the cowards.

Cowards cannot know god; they can believe in god But their belief is also because of fear.

That too is part of their cowardice.

Courage is needed to love, courage is needed To change yourself so that you can love.

Courage is needed to accept your responsibility Courage is needed to drop all that is rotten,

And almost ninety-nine per cent is rotten.

The coward clings to it, he protects it He feels secure with it.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Only the courageous have enough guts

To drop all that is rubbish

To drop all that is rotten, to slip out of it To risk all for the unknown.

To risk the known for the unknown -- That's exactly what courage is.

Each sannyasin has to be a lion of god. The ultimate goal of all meditation is

To hear the unhearable, to see the unseeable To touch the untouchable

To experience the unexperiencable.

The ultimate experience of life is a paradox. It is the sound of silence.

Now, logically that is absurd: either something Can be sound or it can be silence

It can't be both together.

But those who have known all agree about it That it is the sound of silence

It is the sound of one hand clapping. All those who have known agree about

The paradoxical nature of the ultimate reality Because it contains the polar opposites.

It is night and day simultaneously It is life and death together.

Logic divides, experience unites. Logic creates opposites Experience makes you aware that

There are no opposites at all, not at all. All opposites are just complementaries. Bliss is really the search of everyone Not only of human beings

But of animals, of trees, of rivers, of stars. Knowingly or unknowingly

Everybody is groping for bliss. A sannyasin is one

Who makes it a conscious, deliberate search. And only those few people have arrived

Who have made it a conscious search. Unconsciously you can seek bliss

But you will find misery. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- It is only through a conscious search that

One can avoid misery and can attain to bliss. Become a conscious seeker of bliss.

Let meditation be your nest, your home Your refuge, your shelter

Because without meditation One simply gropes in darkness

One goes on stumbling, one goes on falling In the same ditches again and again.

Without meditation one is blind.

It is meditation that gives you eyes Inner eyes to see, and a clarity.

It creates a perspective, the right perspective In which things can be seen as they are.

You are no more clouded

The sky is clear, unclouded.

The sun is bright. You are full of light. Without meditation you live in thoughts

Without meditation you make your home in the mind There is no other place. These are the only two alternatives available: Mind or meditation.

Either make your nest in the mind Or make your nest in the meditation. If you make your nest in the mind

As millions have chosen -- because it is cheap It is easy, it is not arduous, it is downhill...

But then you will miss something

That can give your life meaning, significance Grandeur, splendour: you will miss godliness. You will simply drag from one event to another. Your life will be such boredom,

A tiring phenomenon.

Nothing will ever happen to you Which can make you ecstatic.

You will live at the minimum, a very lukewarm life. One can say only that you will not be dead

You will just be living somehow, managing somehow But there cannot be any rejoicing.

Make meditation your nest, your home:

Move from mind to meditation. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Mind is the process of thought

Meditation is awareness, simple awareness. Just be aware of your mind

And the process of thoughts And slowly slowly

You will move away from the mind

And you will enter into a new world of no-mind. That is meditation.

The day you enter meditation

You have entered the temple of god. Meditation creates ecstasy in you Such joy that you cannot contain it. It starts overflowing.

It is so much that you disappear in it. You are no more -- there is only joy. That is rapture.

The ego drowns in the rapture And is never found again:

It dissolves, disappears, evaporates.

You are left with only a deep joy in the heart A joy which is not of time A joy which is not of this earth

A joy which belongs to the beyond To the farther shore.

And only out of that joy, that rapture That ecstasy, does reverence arise:

Reverence for existence. In religious terms

You can call it reverence for god.

Reverence is far more important than god itself. Without reverence there is no god

If there is reverence, god is bound to happen It is inevitable.

So my effort here is to create reverence in you. If reverence arises in your heart, god is:

Suddenly you start feeling his presence. Everywhere, all around, within and without.

In the moment of reverence the whole existence Is transformed into godliness.

Then trees are divine and rocks are divine.

Wherever you look with a heart full of reverence You can only find god and nothing else.

Without reverence

Everything is there except god. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- With reverence

Only god is there and nothing else. The nectar which makes you immortal Is meditation, it is nothing chemical.

It is your inner awareness.

Once you become awake, you know you are immortal. It does not make you immortal in reality,

You are immortal;

It simply reveals the fact to you. It makes you aware of it.

It is a revelation, it is a discovery

Of something that has always been there. But people are profoundly asleep.

They know not who they are

They know not what they are doing. They go on doing something or other Just to keep themselves engaged.

By becoming a sannyasin you have to learn

The art of being UNengaged, of being unoccupied Of remaining alone. Whenever you can find time

Don't waste it in unnecessary occupations. Don't kill time,

It is the most precious thing in life. Once gone, it gone forever.

There is no way to recapture it. Whenever

You can find time to be alone, to be silent Be silent, be alone.

Dive deep within yourself Because it is by knowing yourself

That you will know you are beyond time You are eternal, you are deathless.

Knowing it, one becomes free of all fear And to be free af fear is freedom.

Abraham is one of the most important names In the history of human consciousness.

The mythology is that god chose Abraham To be the father of a new race of man.

It is as if with Abraham humanity reached

A new height, a new peak: Abraham became 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- The end of the old and the beginning of the new.

That has to be remembered.

Each sannyasin in a certain sense IS Abraham: He has to end the old and begin the new.

He has to move into the unknown Into a new dimension

Into something which has no map, no measure Into something which is not conceivable

To the mind.

Each sannyasin has to herald a new consciousness. And particularly

At this moment in the history of man

Something tremendously radical is needed. The whole humanity is rotten

It has lived its course, it is finished. There is no hope for it, it has to die. The hope lies in something new.

Before the old dies, the new has to be born. And that's my whole effort here:

To create as many Abrahams as possible. They will release humanity from the bondage Of the old, the traditional, the conventional. They will free humanity

From all kinds of beliefs and ideologies. Man needs a new impetus to live

A new meaning to live for

A new poetry to resound in his being And a new dance and a new celebration. Eighty Four Thousand Poems

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