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27 April 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:-

[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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

The only experience on the earth Which can be called divine or godly

Is that of meditation; it is the only experience That is not of the world, it is of the beyond

Hence it is the only bridge Between the world and the beyond. It is something that joins this shore With the farther shore.

Everything else is worldly.

Unless one enters deeply into meditation One knows nothing of god.

One may believe but belief is a lie. One may believe very staunchly

But that does not make much difference:

Deep down doubt will always persist. You can repress it

In such deep corners of your unconscious That you yourself will become unaware of it. But still it is there and at any moment

In any situation, it can surface again. Hence god is not a question of belief. Those who believe

Are simply deceiving themselves. God has to be experienced.

Prayer requires that you first believe in god, Meditation has no such requirement. Meditation is a scientific procedure.

It simply says: Become more silent More conscious, more aware.

No implication is there that you have to

Believe in god, in heaven, in an afterlife.

No belief is required, no prerequisite. Just become more quiet and calm More centred in yourself

And then slowly slowly

Glimpses start arriving, windows start opening. And the first glimpse of god is enough --

You are overwhelmed, you are transformed A new man is born.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Meditation is both a flowering --

A flowering of your consciousness A flowering of your inner being -- And it is also humbleness because

In meditation the ego dies and disappears. What is left is humbleness.

Meditation is a miracle, In fact the only miracle

Because it transforms you totally from

An unconscious being into a conscious being From machine to man and from man to superman. And because the first thing that happens

In meditation is the death of the ego Many things disappear from your life

Of their own accord: anger, greed, jealousy Possessiveness -- they are all tentacles

Of the octopus called the ego. Once the ego is dead

All these different expressions of it disappear. Life becomes tremendously humble

And tremendously beautiful.

In humbleness the ultimate descends in you In humbleness god knocks on your door

In humbleness you become the host And god becomes the guest.

All that you have to do

Is go deeper into meditation, into awareness. Shift your energy from mind to no-mind From sound to silence

And the miracle will start happening.

Man remains just a rosebush without any roses

If there is no love. And a rosebush without roses Is empty, is unfulfilled. Its essential. most important, significant

Contribution to existence is missing. It is impotent, it is frigid.

When the rosebush is full of roses there is joy There is dance, there is celebration.

And the same happens to man. Man is certainly a rosebush Capable of millions of roses:

Roses of consciousness. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- But they all bloom when you are full of love.

It is the climate of love

That functions like spring -- suddenly one blooms. Those who live without love

Have not known what Spring is

They have not known the peak of their life. They have dragged, they have vegetated

But they have not truly lived. Remember, it is through love

That you will bloom, that you will grow That you will attain to your glory

And to your splendour.

Never forget love, never neglect love Never miss an opportunity to be loving

Use every possible opportunity to be loving So that slowly slowly, you become love.

When you are love, you are really a rose! Love brings grace.

Love makes you capable

Of receiving grace from god. If you give love to the world God gives you grace.

Love is the price for attaining grace.

Without giving love, you will not attain to grace. Empty yourself totally in love

And you will be filled again and again With more and more grace.

Suddenly one day you discover

The inexhaustible source. And the more grace you have

The more love you can give to the world. And the more you give

The more god goes on pouring in you. Suddenly you become a vehicles

God starts loving the world through you. That's what grace is.

Your hands become god's hands Your eyes become god's eyes Your heart becomes god's heart.

You disappear, you are no more -- only god is!

That is grace, that is beauty, that is freedom 1/08/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- That is truth. All that we can conceive

And all that which is inconceivable Is contained in it.

It is the most mysterious phenomenon. But learn to love!

Nobleness is a by-product of blissfulness

A natural consequence.

One need not practise nobleness.

A practised nobleness is false, superficial It is only a mannerism, etiquette

Nothing much more than that. It is not even skin-deep

It is just something painted on your face. A little hit, a little insult

And you will forget all about your nobleness. There is another kind of nobleness

That happens when you are blissful. It comes as a shadow of bliss.

The miserable person cannot be noble, He radiates misery, he radiates complaint

He radiates negativity, he radiates darkness. All around him there is a black hole.

You will not find a white aura around him. It is impossible

Because if the heart is not dancing, from where Can he get that white aura of being noble?

So my effort here is

Not to teach you anything cultivated

But to transform you from your very roots. Learn to dance, sing, enjoy, love

And slowly slowly, you will be surprised:

You are becoming noble

You are becoming less miserly, less greedy You are becoming more kind-hearted

You are becoming more compassionate You have started enjoying sharing Giving, just for giving's sake.

And that's what a ..noble spirit is. It never harms anybody, it helps

It never hurts anybody, it always soothes.

It is a blessing to be noble, a blessing to all 1/08/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- A blessing to existence itself.

Sunrise is exactly the colour of sannyas That's precisely the meaning of sannyas. It is a declaration

That the night is over:

Prepare for the day

The sunrise has knocked on the door. Come out of your sleep.

Don't go on hiding yourself under the blanket Any more, howsoever cosy it feels

And howsoever much your mind says, 'Just turn over a little more

Just a little more, a few minutes.' Don't listen to the mind because Those few minutes will never end The mind always goes on postponing. It wants you to remain asleep because

Mind can exist only when you are asleep. When you are awake, mind disappears

Just like dreams disappear when you are awake. Mind is a dream phenomenon

Made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. So no more postponement -- wake up!

A loyal heart is what is required. Sannyas is a commitment,

Not a commitment to me

But a commitment to your own growth.

A commitment, a decision that you will make Every possible effort to change yourself.

And of course, a deeply loyal heart Will be needed.

The cunning mind cannot do it because

The cunning mind goes on changing every moment It is not reliable; one moment it is one thing Another moment it is another thing.

It goes on changing its colours.

You cannot make a solid foundation On the basis of your mind

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Because mind consists of sand

And to make a sandcastle is dangerous, It is going to collapse sooner or later.

And the danger is

You may be destroyed when it collapses Because you will be living in it.

Never live in a house made by the mind.

But the loyal heart

Can become the right foundation. It is like a rock, unchanging.

So let your sannyas be a decision Of the heart, not of the mind.

I am not interested

In people who become convinced intellectually That what I am saying is right.

They are not the right people. Today they are convinced

Tomorrow they may be unconvinced again. The mind is a flux.

I only trust people

Who come to me through the heart. Who have a conviction of the heart Who are in a deep love affair.

It has nothing to do with intellectuality.

It is closer to love than to logic

far closer to love. Once the heart is ready

Then nothing can prevent it.

Then it goes on risking everything. It can pass through all kinds of fire

And it will come out of all fires purified, More glorious, more victorious.

Each fire makes it more and more pure And each risk gives it

A new dimension, a new quality. Sannyas is fire

But that is the only way to purify the gold. Sannyas is a search for the truth.

Not a direct search for god

Because we don't know whether god is or is not. To start searching for god means

You have already believed that there is a god. The search is unscientific

From the very beginning, 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- You have taken something a priori --

That is not the right way to enquire.

The right way to enquire is:

One should search for truth Whatsoever the truth is.

Maybe there is no god -- that may be the truth Or maybe there is a god -- that may be the truth.

Truth is vast.

It can either be the existence of god Or it can be the non-existence of god. Truth is bigger than god because

It can contain even the non-existence of god, So it is an open thing.

Searching for truth needs no a priori belief. Seek and search for the truth.

Of course when you find truth

You will find god -- but that is another matter! That we can leave for the time being

We can put it aside, that happens on its own. When you have found truth

You have found god too.

But those who start searching for god From the very very beginning,

Are never going to find truth

And they are never going to find god either. Their very first step has gone wrong.

So I am here to help you to enquire But not to believe

Because I trust so much in truth that

There is no need to believe -- you can enquire You can go deep in exploration And you will find it.

The people who preach belief

Are the people who are not really trusting. They are afraid that if people don't believe Then they will become godless

They will become irreligious They will become immoral.

These are cowards -- they don't know that

God does not exist, because you believe in him God exists whether you believe in him or not.

So why believe? Enquire.

If he is there, you will discover him.

I know he is there, but that is my knowing And my knowing cannot be your knowing.

And I have stumbled upon this knowing; 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Through enquiry, not through belief.

So one has to be courageous enough So drop all beliefs.

Go utterly empty and naked, open, available With no prejudice for or against

And you are bound to find the truth Whatsoever it is, x y z,

Right now it is x y z; ultimately it is god. When you have arrived, then it is god Not before that.

Anugito

A sannyasin is supposed to be a song. The only requirement from my side is that you become a song, rejoice in life, dance with the wind and the sun and the rain.

It is sacred ground you are walking on -- it is all divine, all around. Not to be a song is to be ungrateful. Not to dance is to be ungrateful.

All that we can do in thankfulness to God is to sing small songs, to dance small dances.

We can celebrate in our own small way.

So let life become a celebration, a rejoicing, an "Hallelujah!"

[ Osho had mentioned astrology in the morning discourse in response to a sannyasin who said that an astrologer told him he wouldn't become enlightened this lifetime.

Enlightenment is unpredictable, Osho said, and neither the stars nor the astrologer are enlightened anyway. And, he said, for the fools who are interested we have our own astrologer in sannyasin, Kabir, so why bother going further afield?]

And now you can help them more! First talk about astrology and then finally tell them to go beyond it. So help them to go beyond.

It is good -- for whatsoever reason they come. Don't be bothered by their reason, use that opportunity to help them to go beyond. I will be helping you!

Today you are becoming god's own. Up to now it has been only a name Now it can be a reality.

All that is required on your part

Is to drop the ego -- that's the only hindrance That keeps people away from god. And the farther away you are

The more miserable you are.

My measuring a person's misery, the distance Between him and god can be inferred.

As you come closer, misery starts disappearing. When you really become god's own

There is no misery -- all is bliss and joy.

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Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Make it a reality.

It is not difficult,

Just a little courage is needed To let the ego drop.

And it is absolutely worthless

Hence any intelligent person can do it. I don't teach any philosophy here

I only help you to be a little more intelligent Because once you are a little more sharp

You can see it for yourself -- I need not say it to you.

You can see the utter futility of the ego And in that very seeing it drops.

And that is the greatest moment in one's life Because from there real life begins.

Joachim

Everyone is appointed by God. Everyone is given a certain message which has to be fulfilled, although everybody has forgotten the message. Not only has the message been forgotten we have even forgotten the message-giver. We have forgotten that we are messengers, that we bring a seed of great potential into the

world; that the world needs our contribution, that we have to bloom, that we have to release our fragrance. And unless we release our fragrance our life mission is unfulfilled.

Once this is understood life starts taking on meaning. Then it is no more the same meaningless jumble of accidents. It starts becoming a rhythm, it starts having a sense of direction.

Sannyas is to give you a sense of direction, a togetherness, a rootedness, an awareness of what you are and what you can be. It is immensely significant to remember that sannyas is not a formality. It is not just a formal thing like being a Christian - because you were born in a Christian home; or a formal thing like being a Hindu.

Sannyas is exactly like when Jesus was on the earth, and a few people started walking with him started moving into danger with him; or when Buddha was on the earth and a few people gathered together around him and risked all! The same drama is being played here again.

You are fortunate to become part of it. Feel blessed. And then slowly slowly you will start remembering what the meaning is of being appointed by God, what the meaning is of every man bringing a message into the world. No man comes empty-handed but very few people ever deliver the message. Those who do are the buddhas, the awakened ones.

My effort here is to make thousands of Buddhas. Less than that won't do!

Eighty Four Thousand Poems

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