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9 April 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Archive code: 8004095 ShortTitle: 84POEM07 Audio:

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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer.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 can live life either as prose or as poetry. If you live life as prose

Life remains business, arithmetic. If you live life as poetry

Life becomes an incredible experience

Of beauty, of love, of joy and ultimately of god. Poetry is a way towards god.

Prose takes you away from all that is significant From all that is intrinsically beautiful.

It keeps you engaged with the utilitarian .

But beauty has no utility, love has no utility 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Bliss has no utility, meditation has no utility.

They are all part of a poetic vision. Poetry is non-utilitarian.

I would like my sannyasins

To be absolutely non-utilitarian Because that is the only possible door To enter into the divine.

Life can be lived either

As a downhill phenomenon or as an uphill task. If you are moving downhill

It is convenient, comfortable.

No effort is needed on your part, no risk No challenge -- but no gain either.

You simply drift from birth to death. Life remains a vast emptiness.

Now you have to make it a point To be constantly blissful.

That is the meaning of anand.

Life should be a dance, a song, a celebration.

And come back -- this is your home!

Man is homeless in this world unless he finds god. Man is homeless unless he becomes enlightened Because only in ultimate awakening

Is there shelter.

Otherwise we go on passing From one caravanserai to another From one life to another.

It is a long, long weary pilgrimage Utterly futile, meaningless;

We almost go on in circles Reaching nowhere, finding nothing; Always hoping, dreaming

But ultimately

There is only frustration in the hands. The home certainly exists

But only very few people have found it up to now.

And the few who have found have found it in the most unexpected place: They have found it within themselves.

And everybody is searching for it Everywhere else except within themselves.

That's why we remain homeless. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- We are not aware of how precious we are.

We are not aware of the inexhaustible treasure That we are carrying within us. And because we are not aware of it

We go on desiring small things Quarrelling about mundane things Fighting, competing for something trivial. The moment you become aware

Of your own inner beauty

All this struggle on the outside disappears. Life becomes calm and cool

Life attains to a grace.

One is no more interested in the non-essential. That's what sannyas is all about:

Awareness of the inner, and the transformation That it brings on the outside. Inside you become more and more meditative

Outside you become more compassionate. The universe is vast, unbounded

And so are we because we are part of it.

And the part is indivisibly one with the whole So whatsoever is the quality of the whole

That is the quality of th part too. Just remember a very small formula: That if all the parts are finite

Then the total cannot be infinite. If the total is infinite

Then all the parts must be infinite too. And we are part of this infinite existence We are also infinite.

Hence the Eastern seers have declared 'Aham Brahmasmi' -- I am god.

Al Hillaj Mansoor says 'Ana'l Haq' -- I am truth. These are tremendously important declarations. They have declared it

On behalf of the whole humanity. These are not egoistic assertions They are simply statements of facts. And just to feel it,

That you are part of an infinite existence

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Which begins nowhere, ends nowhere

You immediately feel uplifted, weightless. Your small worries and small problems drop. they become so insignificant

Compared to the vastness that you are. They lose all meaning

They simply become irrelevant. So remember it again and again:

Seeing the sky know that you are also the sky. Seeing the stars know that the stars are within you. As much as you are within the sky

The sky is within you.

Slowly slowly your whole gestalt will change And in that next gestalt

Small problems can't arise They become ridiculous. Somebody has insulted you --

Now can anybody insult the sky?

If you spit on the sky

The spit will fall upon you. It is absurd, it is ridiculous,

The person is stupid, that's all.

You will feel all compassion for the person You will not be angered by his insult.

That's how the real man of religion Passes through life:

Unaffected, calm and cool and tranquil Centred and rooted in his being.

Nothing can make him waver, not even death Because even death

Cannot take anything away from him. He has become one

With that which is eternally abiding. Rosemary is a flower

Which symbolises remembrance. It is very significant to understand The word 'remembrance'.

The whole religion

Is contained in that small word.

God is not lost but only forgotten. We have only to remember him.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- It is not a question of seeking and searching.

He is already here, he is with us He is our very life, our very being.

We cannot lose him, there is no way to lose him. The only possiblility is that we can

Forget all about him and he is so close That it is very easy to forget him.

There is no distance, hence we become oblivious. All meditations, all prayers, all methods Developed down the ages are nothing but Devices to make you remember

That which you have forgotten.

The moment you remember it you cannot believe How for so long you remained in darkness

While the light was waiting within you. How did it happen in the first place

That you remained a beggar

When the whole kingdom of god was yours? It is the ultimate puzzle, with no solution.

But it is a fact that we have forgotten.

Buddha was asked again and again ' How have we forgotten?'

He said,'Don't ask that Ask how to remember.'

When you have remembered

Then you can enquire how you forgot

Because nobody knows how we have forgotten. But there are methods to remember.

And that is the real thing.

Sannyas means now it is going to be

A twenty-four-hour-a-day remembrance In every possible way.

Seeing a flower remember god.

Not only rosemary, but each flower and each tree And each cloud and each person

Should represent him

Because in fact only he exists and nothing else.

One has to learn to see Divineness even in darkness. It is easy to see light as god

It does not need much intelligence. But to see darkness as god

Needs tremendous insight.

It is easy to see life as divine 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- But to see death as divine needs

A total transformation of your vision.

Only very few religions have achieved that peak. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zorastrianism -- They all remain confined to the duality

The fight between good and evil, god and devil. They have not been able to reconcile this conflict.

And this conflict has to be reconciled Because the universe is one It can't be divided into two.

Darkness and light are not two different forces. Darkness simply beans less light,

Light simply means less darkness; The difference is only of degree. The difference is exactly like that Between cold and hot.

They are not two things.

It is the same phenomenon, so you can measure it By the same method, by the same thermometer.

The good and the bad, the sinner and the saint Are not separate but two sides of the same coin.

This is one of the greatest synthesis That has been achieved in the East. This is the ultimate synthesis Where god and the devil

Are no more thought to be enemies; They disappear into each other They become one energy.

And that's what I would like you To see, feel, understand:

That darkness too is divine, death too is divine. Even the sinner is a phase of divine energy.

There is nothing bad in existence Because all is god

All are manifestations of one energy. The cloud represents a few things.

One: it represents absolute freedom. It is not tethered to anything.

It is completely free, it floats in freedom. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- That's how a sannyasin has to be:

Like a cloud, untethered.

Secondly, the cloud has no fixed form. It is not static

It is constantly moving and changing.

Not even for the consecutive seconds is it the same. That represents something very essential:

Life is movement; only death is not a movement. Only dead thins don't change

Things which are alive are constantly changing. That's how a sannyasin has to be:

Always on the move, changing REaching for newer horizons

Exploring for newer pastures.

A sannyasin is as unpredictable as a cloud; Nobody can say what form

It is going to take next moment.

And thirdly, the cloud has no ego of its own. It is utterly surrendered to the winds

So wherever the winds take the cloud It moves without any resistance.

It has no will of its own It does not insist that

'I want to go to the East or to the West' It simply goes with the wind Wherever the wind goes.

That also has to be an essential quality Of a sannyasin.

He should not have his own will. His will is surrendered to god.

He says to god, every moment, with every breath 'Thy will be done.'

Gratitude is in essence

The very foundation of all religion.

Gratitude is prayer. It is trough gratitude

That one becomes aware of the presence of god; Not vice versa.

People thing that when they become aware of god They will feel very grateful towards him.

That's nonsense! It can't happen that way. First you have to learn how to be grateful 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Only then can you become aware

Of the presence of god.

Gratitude means that you have become Aware of one thing:

That the existence has done so much for you And you have not even thanked it.

On the contrary

You have been continuously complaining. This is my experience here

Working with thousands of sannyasins: You go on doing everything for them

But they don't have any sense of gratitude. And every day I receive letters of complaint That this has not been done for them

That they are not being taken care of That nobody is taking any note

That they are here. But very rarely

Does somebody come to feel gratitude.

We have lost the very sense of gratefulness. So whatsoever happens to us we accept it

As if we deserve it. We don't deserve a thing! But we start taking everything for granted.

I am always surprised

By the insensitivity of human beings.

For a few people I have done so much for years But no sense of gratitude ever arises in them.

And there seems to be no possibility That it will ever arise.

And if whatsoever has been done for them Is dropped, if something is no more done Then they are there immediately

To make a complaint. They take it for granted

They think they have earned it:

It has to be given to them.

And man has not earned anything We have not earned these trees And these flowers and these birds

And these stars and these mountains. This immensely beautiful existence Has been given to us.

Start feeling grateful for it!

It is not a question of to whom, 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- That is not the point, it is irrelevant.

Just start feeling grateful

That you have been showered with so many gifts From some unknown energy, x y x,

Whatsoever it is.

Call it god, or if that word annoys you

Then call it something else. But some unknown force

Has been showering its love on you. Start feeling grateful

And soon you will be connected with it And soon you will be bridged

And more will start happening. And you will be surprised

That one cannot feel grateful enough.

It is never enough because the existence Goes on doing so much for you.

We cannot repay it

But at least we can be thankful. That is prayer and that is sannyas. Eighty Four Thousand Poems Chapter #8

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