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14 November 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]

HOME: NOTHING-NEST

(Osho is talking to Shunyo Anne.)

Shunyo means emptiness, nothingness, nobodyness, a state of utter silence where not even the idea of I exists; one is but with no idea of I. It is the state of egolessness, a perfect zero.

That's what meditation is: creating a state of zero inside -- and out of that zero miracles happen.

Anne means three things: prayer, grace, mercy -- and these are the most important miracles that can happen out of that zero-ness.

The first will be prayer -- not of words but a prayer of silent gratitude, a gratitude that says nothing.

Even to say something will be profane, will not be adequate enough. One has to be absolutely silent, but there is gratefulness, overflowing gratefulness, because for the first time one comes to experience the splendour of life. Thousands of flowers bloom within you, suddenly the spring has come. The zero is no more a zero, it is overflowing with fragrance.

The moment you drop all the nonsense from yourself the zero is created, the moment the zero is created the beyond descends into it, because nature abhor, vacuum. You create the vacuum and immediately the beyond fills it.

The first flower will be prayer and the second flower will be grace, because when you are grateful, prayerful, thankful, a subtle grace surrounds you. It is just the opposite of anger: when you are angry, enraged, violent, all your grace disappears, all your beauty disappears. Even a beautiful person becomes ugly while he is violent, when he is possessed by some murderous instinct. When grace descends even the ugly person becomes beautiful because grace means the beyond has touched you, god has touched you. The very touch is transforming; you are no more ordinary. You become ordinary by dropping the ego, but in dropping the ego one earns, deserves to become extraordinary -- that's what grace is.

And the third miracle is mercy, compassion; when you are prayerful that is your inner experience.

Nobody will know about it, but that prayerfulness starts radiating even from your body, your gestures, your words, the way you sit, the way you walk, the way you talk, the way you relate or the way you remain silent. In every possible way that grace will radiate. And whatsoever you do now, all your actions will be out of compassion.

Ordinarily all actions are out of passion, desire for money, power, sex -- and there are millions of things.

Passion is unconscious; you are in the grip of biology. Compassion is consciousness; you are no more in the grip of the instinctive unconscious you are freed from that bondage. You still act, you still go on doing things but the cause is totally different; now it is love.

You have to create the zero -- that is your work -- then these three are the towards. And more one cannot ask for, because those three are enough, more than enough -- uncontainable. When there is gratitude, grace, compassion, one has arrived. One can call it the state of Christ consciousness or Buddha consciousness, enlightenment, nirvana, but they all mean the same thing: one has come home.

A JUMP, NOT A JOURNEY

(Osho speaks on the nature of god, of existence, of us, as being light.) This is the only point on which the physicists and the mystics agree. The physicists say existence consists of electricity and the mystics say it consist of light. Their language may be different but they are 1/08/07

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indicating the same thing: the whole existence is made of the stuff called light.

We are also made of it but the strangest thing is that we live in darkness because we never look within, we never look at the source of our being. We go on searching everywhere else and because we go on searching everywhere3 else we never find the source. The source is within and our search goes on somewhere else.

The farther we go into the search,, the deeper in darkness we are. The Upanishads have a beautiful saying; they say the ignorant are in darkness but the knowledgeable are in deeper darkness. It is one of the very beautiful statements. The ignorant are of course in darkness but they are not in so much darkness as the knowledgeable person, because he has gone very far into the search, into scriptures, into logic, into philosophy, theology, religion, he has gone far away.

The ignorant person at least is very close by, he has not gone anywhere. If the ignorant person turns about, immediately he will become enlightened. It is just a one-hundred-and-eighty degree turn, somebody has to shout to him 'About-turn'

-- and the thing will happen. And that's the function of the master, to go on shouting 'About-turn', a one-hundred-and-eighty degree turn. But because people

cannot be told directly to about-turn, the master first has to say 'Right turn, left turn,' and many other turns and by and by persuades you to about turn. Slowly slowly you start enjoying turning left, turning right -- it is good exercise! And then you become interested: maybe there is something in about-turning too, so why not have a look for a change. Once you look within all is settled. The whole journey is complete in a single quantum leap.

(Devapriyo -- beloved of god -- was one of the names of Gautam Buddha, Osho tells the new swami to whom he has given the name.)

A man becomes beloved of god only when he becomes a Buddha, when he becomes awakened, conscious, alert, then he deserves all love from the existence, and love showers in torrents.

There is a beautiful story about a Buddhist disciple, a direct disciple of Buddha, Subhuti who was the first disciple of his to become enlightened. He was sitting under a tree doing nothing. Just sitting silently and suddenly flowers started showering. He looked: what was the matter? -- because this was not the time, the tree was not blooming. From where were the flowers coming? Then he saw the gods showering flowers; he asked 'What is the matter? Why are you showering flowers on me?' They said 'Because of your great sermon on silence.'

Subhuti said 'What are you talking about? I have not uttered a single word -- what sermon? The gods laughed and they said 'That's what we call the sermon of silence: you have not uttered a word and we have not heard a word; this is what is called the great sermon of silence. You have not spoken, we have not heard.

To honour this silent moment we are showering | these flowers. This moment you have become a beloved of existence. This is just a gesture to show the love of existence towards you.'

Remaining unconscious is remaining without the love of existence. Become conscious, alert, aware, and you will be surprised: this existence has so much to give, it is just that we are not ready to receive it -- the whole fault is ours.

DATE WITH THE ULTI-MATE

There are two kinds of anxieties; one is about the past, which is no more, and the other is about the future, which is not yet. Between these two anxieties our whole life is wasted. And both anxieties are exercises in sheer futility because

nothing can be done about the past; it is finished, you cannot undo it.

There is no need to waste a single moment about it. I even say there is no need to repent about it, what has happened has happened -- slip out of it, erase it, and nothing can be done about the future now. When it comes it will come as now. Tomorrow never comes, it always comes as today. So learn to act in the now.

There is no need to be full of anxiety about the future.

Once these two anxieties are removed life becomes a dance, a celebration. So much energy is released in you that you have to dance, you have to sing a thousand and one songs. You have to share your joy, it starts overflowing. It is because of anxieties that we are living a very low-energy life. Anxieties are like parasites: they go on sucking your blood.

My sannyasins have to learn how to get rid of all anxieties and just to be herenow. And the moment you are herenow god is -- suddenly, the experience of the beyond, suddenly the experience of the ultimate. Less than that is not going to satisfy and one should not settle for less than that -- it is our birthright.

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REVELATION, NOT INFORMATION

(Wisdom isn't the same as knowledge, Osho tells Vedama.) Knowledge can be taught, wisdom cannot be taught. Wisdom arises within you, it is a growth; it cannot be forced from the outside. And the only way to help it grow is to remove all the knowledge that has been stuffed into you.

All people are stuffed with such unnecessary things.

A very fat woman went into a restaurant. She ordered something and waited and waited and finally she became very and she called the waiter and said to him 'Have you forgotten me?' The waiter said 'No, I remember -- you are the stuffed

tomato!' (laughter) That's the way waiters know who is who. But that's how people are really: somebody is a stuffed tomato, somebody is something else, but all are stuffed. And my work is to somehow bring out whatsoever is stuffed. So you are empty, clean, as empty as the moment you were born, as clean as a clean slate on which nothing is written. And then scriptures start appearing on that clean slate of their own accord. That is wisdom.

When you are empty you give space for your inner being to grow -- that is wisdom. And only wisdom can liberate. Knowledge creates bondages. And the knowledgeable person is a stupid person pretending that he is not stupid but a scholar. The knowledgeable person is a mediocre person pretending that he is a genius.

But how can you be a genius with borrowed knowledge? Genius is an inner revelation, it is authentically your uniqueness that makes you a genius. That's the meaning of Vedama, and that has to become your experience of life too.

So just try to empty yourself as quickly, as fast and as totally, as possible. That is your work. Once you have emptied yourself then the remaining work is god's work, it is nature's work. You throw knowledge out and god helps wisdom to grow. And whatsoever comes from god has beauty.

CHEERFULNESS -- OUR CHURCH

(Osho reiterates tonight that blissfulness is the only true worship.) No other ritual is needed. One need not go to the church or the temple or to the mosque; wherever you are be blissful and there is the temple. The temple is a subtle creation of your own energy. If you are blissful you create the temple around you, a certain aura, a light, a fragrance.

In the temples we are just doing pseudo things. In the temples we offer flowers which are not ours; we borrow them, from the trees. They were already offered to god on the trees and they were alive on the trees; you have killed them, you have murdered something beautiful, and now you are offering those murdered flowers to god and not even feeling ashamed.

I have watched: particularly in India people don't take the flowers of their own plants, they pick them from the neighbours, and nobody can prevent them because this is a religious country and they are picking flowers for religious purposes -- you cannot say no to them. People burns lights and candles, but they

are not theirs; people burn incense and create fragrance but all is borrowed.

The real temple is created by blissfulness and all these things start happening on their own. If you are blissful you will find a few flowers are being offered but those flowers are of your consciousness, there is light but that light is of your own inner flame; there is fragrance but that fragrance belongs to your very being. This is true worship.

My sannyasins are not to become ritualistic. The whole earth is our temple -- all that is needed is a certain inner transformation in you. And nothing outer can trigger it; only you can do it, nobody else can do it for you.

So being here with me learn only one thing, and that is blissfulness -- and you have learned all, you have learned the whole science of religion. In fact the Indian temples were created in the same way; they represent a man sitting cheerfully, silently. When you sit in a lotus posture the way Indians have always prayed and meditated, that is the shape of a temple too: exactly the same base, then the body, then the head.

The temple simply represents a certain gesture within you, as far as art is concerned but it has nothing to do with religion; it is a symbolic piece of art. But one should not be deceived by symbols, only the real can fulfil you, not symbols.

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WITNESSING BLISS-ENINg

(Osho speaks to Prarthi on prayer.)

Prayer is not something that you can do once or twice a day, not something for which you can have a special time. Prayer is a quality that has to be grown so that it remains with you twenty-four hours a day, even when you are asleep.

The man of prayer remains prayerful the whole time. It is not a question of

praying at some certain time.

That means if you pray for one hour every day, for the remaining twenty-three hour, you will be doing just the opposite. Then how is that one-hour prayer going to win? Out of twenty-three hours of no praying and one hour of praying which is going to win?

Unless prayer becomes your very breathing it is not possible for it to happen at all. And only one thing can become a twenty-four hour phenomenon and that's bliss. One can remain blissful. A simple thing has to be understood, and that is witnessing: whatsoever happens in life remain a witness and your bliss will not be disturbed.

Success comes, don't think it is your success, and failure comes, don't think it is your failure. All are accidental, coincidences -- success and failure both, richness and poverty both, fame or no fame.

Whatsoever happens is accidental; only one thing is not accidental and that is your witness, the one who goes on watching the whole scene. Sometimes it is cloudy and sometimes it is sunny: watch both with equanimity, with an equilibrium, with no choice, with no preference. And you will be surprised, if you can do this witnessing you will find a strange thing happening, you are constantly blissful for no reason at all.

Bliss is a by-product of witnessing and once it has started happening then it continues twenty-four hours a day. Even in the night you will be witnessing your dreams. And ultimately you will be able to witness dreamless sleep too. When there are no dreams to witness you will witness the dreamless sleep. But you will remain constantly a witness. And with that witness the fragrance of bliss continuously surrounds you. To be that is prayer: a twenty-four a day offering to existence.

All else that goes on in the name of prayer is pseudo.

Going All the Way

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