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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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

Man has four planes. One is the bodily plane.

Mm? -- that is the most superficial

The material plane, the objective plane. Millions only live on this first plane

The gross. They don't know that they have Other possibilities inside them

Other heights inside them

They are not aware at all. The second plane is

That of the mind, of thoughts.

A few people move into the second plane. They become great thinkers, philosophers Idealists, scientists

They use the faculty of their mind The live in the mind.

The third plane is that of the heart The world of feelings.

Even less people move to that. Those are the poets, the painters

The sculptors, the dancers, the musicians -- The people who live in a world of feelings Of sensitivity, not of thoughts.

And beyond these three is the fourth,

The world of consciousness, pure consciousness Only the mystics move into it. And that is where the sannyasins have to go.

All the other three

Have to be slowly slowly left behind So you can move to the fourth.

Turiyo means the fourth

It means pure consciousness, your very being, 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Neither the body nor the mind nor the feeling

But simple being Your pure existence, your isness. It is called the fourth for the simple reason

That it is not advisable to give it any name. Hence 'the fourth's it is not a name

Just a number, to keep it unlimited and open Because any name will become a limitation. The fourth is only an indicator.

Go beyond the three which have names -- The physical, the mental, the emotional They have names, they have their definitions But the fourth has no definition.

It is indefinable

Hence it is called the fourth.

But that is the goal of the mystics Of the sannyasins

That is the goal of Christ, Buddha Krishna, Lao Tzu

And that is the goal here.

Gautam the Buddha was called well-gone Because he would not be coming back again, That was his last life.

One becomes a well-gone

Only when one becomes enlightened Then there is no more birth, death

No more the vicious circle of birth and death The wheel of birth and death.

One has gone beyond, to the farther shore Beyond the beyond.

One has disappeared into the universal One need not be born in a body again. People are born in a body again and again Because they have desires.

It is because of desires

That they have to come into the body Because those desires can be fulfilled Only through the body.

Once all desires have been seen for What they actually are

Once their meaninglessness is understood One withdraws oneself from all desiring One stops desiring.

Seeing the futility of desire, seeing that

It always brings pain and anxiety and anguish Seeing that desire is hell One becomes free of desire

One simply lives with no desire for the future, Neither in this world nor in the other.

Then one becomes a well-gone. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- That is the ultimate category.

Remember it -- everybody has to become a well-gone.

If one puts one's total energy into meditation It is bound to happen, it is inevitable.

Only a man of meditation lives in freedom. Others pretend, others believe

But the belief does not correspond to reality. Political freedom is not real freedom

Economic freedom is also not real freedom. They are good -- I am not against them

But one should not be satisfied with them. The real freedom is spiritual freedom

And spiritual freedom comes only through one way, There is no alternative way to arrive at it,

And that is creating

More and more meditative energy in yourself Becoming more silent, alert, watchful.

Ordinarily man lives like a machine. The meditator has to learn

Not to live as a machine

He has to de-automatise himself

He has to become something more than a machine Something more than a computer.

And that miracle can happen.

It has happened to a few people in the past It can happen to many more people now Because humanity has come of age.

If in the past there could be only A few Buddhas and a few Christs

Now there can be many more. The time is ripe

For a great explosion of consciousness.

It has never been ripe, because life is evolving And we are coming to a climax.

If we don't attain to a radical transformation Then this same state of evolved humanity

Will become a strain on us. Man is no more a child

And if he continues to wear the old clothes Which were made for children

He is bound to be in difficulty.

He will remain unnecessarily crippled

For the simple reason that the clothes are small And he has become big. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Mohammedanism These are all clothes Made for another state of humanity

When man was more childish.

Now they don't fit, they are utterly out of date It is ridiculous to see Christians and Hindus

And Mohammedans -- absolutely ridiculous! They are not contemporaries

They are living a thousand years back

And trying to fit themselves into clothes Which are not meant for them.

They have grown huge, they have become adults Those clothes were right for a certain time

Now they are not right at all. But we have become so attached To the old, to the traditional

We love antiques so much!

That anything old seems like gold. Anything new we are suspicious of. That's why people are suspicious of me Because I am saying something new Which has never been said in this way. The time is right to change all clothes

The time is ripe to change the whole of man A total overhauling is needed.

And that's what sannyas is all about.

One is strong really, only when one is not. This is one of the paradoxes of life:

The ego is never strong.

It pretends to be strong but it is very weak.

It is bound to be weak because it is false.

It has no substance to it, it is only a shadow. How can the shadow be strong?

Man cannot be strong on his own.

He will remain weak, he will remain poor. He can be strong only if he disappears And gives way to god.

If he allows god to descend in him Then he is as strong as god himself.

Then a totally different quality of strength Arises in you, which is yours in a way 1/08/07

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And yet it is not yours Because it is coming from god.

You are just a vehicle, a medium.

A sannyasin has to become a medium for god.

He has to be utterly empty so there is no hindrance To god's energy flowing through him.

He has to remove all the rocks

So that the stream of god's energy. Can flow through him unhindered. Then you are strong

But there is no claim of strength on your part There is no bragging on your part There is no pride on your part.

You have immense intelligence available Great insight is yours, but you remain humble. The more the strength flows through you

The more humble you become.

The more you become aware that god

Is penetrating you, the more grateful you feel. Through meditation one dies as an ego

And allows god to live through one. That's my whole work heres

To help you die as an ego. That's the only way to know god

And that's the only way to be in communion With the whole.

And the only way to be blissful, to be peaceful. The courageous person always leaves the known

For the unknown, each moment. And then his life goes on widening.

Goes on becoming vast as the ocean, as the sky. And when there are no boundaries left

When you have not only left the known

But you have even gone beyond the unknown Into the unknowable...

That is the last ultimate step of courage:

Taking the jump, the plunge into the unknowable Knowing perfectly well that it cannot be known That i is impossible to know it,

Nobody has ever known it

That its very nature is unknowable That it is intrinsically unknowable

There is no way to reduce it to the known. 1/08/07

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To move from the known towards the unknown And your life will become a great excitement A great joy, a great surprise,

Every moment there is something new happening. And then take the ultimate risk one days

Love from the unknown to the unknowable. The difference is that

The unknown will become known

And the unknowable will never become the known. That unknowable is god.

But first learn to

Move from the known to the unknown. That is learning to swim in shallow water. And when you have learned swimming Then go into the ocean with no fear

With absolute fearlessness

And then your life will know what ecstasy is. With the unknown

You will know excitement With the unknowable

You will come to know ecstasy. One of the most essential qualities

For a sannyasin is to be anonymous, a nobody To forget all desire for name and fame

To live ordinarily, naturally authentically, spontaneously Not to bother about what others say

Not to be worried about other's opinions; Their opinions carry no value at all.

They are all asleep, fast asleep.

In sleep they go on saying something They don't know what they are saying.

They don't mean it either; it is all gibberish. They are blind, they see nothing.

That is the value of their opinion? But people hanker for name and fame They hanker to convince blind people That 'I am beautiful.'

They hanker to convince madmen That 'I am a great creator.'

If you understand the situation

In which humanity is and has always been 1/08/07

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There is no need to put any effort into it. Just live your life

As peacefully and silently as possible As if you are non-existent.

To live anonymously, to live like a nobody Is the exact definition of sannyas.

It is dropping the whole ego trip.

And all trips are ego trips -- remember it. The moment you drop the ego trip

All trips are dropped you relax You start resting in your being

And in that very rest great joy arises Overflooding bliss arises

Life becomes a benediction, a sacred phenomenon. Remember only one thing:

My idea of sannyas is very simple It has nothing esoteric about it,

It is very scientific Nothing is hidden in it,

Everything is an open secret. There is no ritual

But a simple process of meditation -- That is its foundation.

Not even prayer is needed, just meditation. Prayer is not scientific

And can never be scientific.

But meditation is utterly scientific. Just as the scientist

Watches, observes the objective phenomenon

The meditator watches the psychological phenomenon. It is the same process: a detached watching

Unprejudiced observation, with no conclusions, Because if you have a conclusion already

Then there is no point in watching.

Then you will manage to prove your conclusion Then the whole process is unscientific.

The essential core of science is that

It depends not on prejudices but on experiments Experience, on facts, observed facts.

Hence a person who is trained scientifically Can very easily understand meditation.

It has no superstition about it

It is as simple as two plus two is four.

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The only difference between science and religion Is that science is concerned with the objective With that which is outside. There.

And religion is concerned with who observes With that which is inner, the subjective.

The same process of observation

Has to be turned towards your own mind.

One becomes oneself a lab, a great experiment Of observation: one watches one's thoughts Desires, memories, anger, greed, lust

With no a priori conclusion, with no judgement: This is good, this is bad,.. non- judgmental

Then a miracle happens.

When you are absolutely non-judgmental, With no prejudice, no conclusion,

When your observation is pure, simple, innocent, That which you observe starts disappearing.

That's where science and religion Start differing:

The more you observe in science The more real the fact becomes.

It was not so real before observation. You may have missed it

But now you cannot miss it, it is there. It becomes more solid.

When you watch your mind this is the difference: If you watch your anger it starts evaporating

It cannot exist.

Slowly slowly the whole mind ceases to be. When there is no mind left to watch,

The watcher turns upon itself. That is the moment of realisation Self-realisation, samadhi.

That if the ultimate goal Of all mystical approaches.

To know oneself is to know all.

And that is the only thing that I emphasise: No belief, no dogma, no creed

No church, no religion.

By a simple process of inner observation You come to realise yourself.

And the moment you know who you are

Immediately you know the essential core Of the whole existence, of life itself 1/08/07

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If we can understand a single drop of water We have understood all the water

That exists anywhere.

And each man is a dewdrop of god If we can understand one man And the easiest and the closest

Is your own existence.

Once the mystery is understood Once the door is open

You know now that you are just a dewdrop Of the same ultimate reality

That pervades the whole existence.

Then there is no death, no fear, no greed, no lust. One lives in absolute freedom

Bliss and benediction.

So make it a point that now meditation

Has to be your constant work upon yourself.

Eighty Four Thousand Poems

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