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20 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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]

BRIDGE OR BLOCKADE?

(Osho talks on the relationship between existence and the person of ecstasy, as opposed to the misery-maker.)

The blissful person is always preferred by the whole existence. The miserable at the most is tolerated or ignored. The miserable cannot really be part of existence; he himself creates barriers, he makes walls around himself. The blissful person creates bridges, he relates with life, he relates because he rejoices in relating.

He is open, available. Out of his bliss comes his trust. And remember, when you trust existence, existence trusts you.

Existence always pays you in the same coin. A sannyasin has to learn the art of being continuously blissful, irrespective of the situation. That's the difference between happiness and bliss. Happiness depends on a certain situation. The moment the situation disappears, happiness disappears; it is situational. Bliss is non-situational, it is always there. Whatsoever happens on the outside makes no difference.

One is blissful in life, one is blissful in death too, in success, in failure, in richness, in poverty, in sickness, in health. The polarities make no difference; one remains balanced exactly in the middle. To remain balanced like a tightrope walk is the whole meaning of sannyas.

TO VERBALISE IS TO FALSIFY

(Deva means god, or even better, godliness, Osho explains to Swami Deva Tony.) God is not a person but a presence, not a flower but a fragrance; hence no statue can do justice to god.

He has no boundary, no shape, no form.

The word 'god' can mislead one, because it gives one the feeling that he is a person; then he must be somewhere, then he must be someone. The whole idea of god the father, the supreme self, the creator -- all these attributes have arisen because of a misinterpretation. To think of god as a person is to miss the point.

God is an experience like love. You cannot visualise love, you cannot visualise god either; you can experience both.

And the word 'Tony' means beyond praise. There is no possibility of praising god because what can we say about the ultimate? Whatsoever we say will be wrong. Lao Tzu says that to say the truth is to falsify it.

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temples, in the mosques, are nothing but praises of god: 'You are great, you are compassionate, you are this, you are that...' and god is beyond praise. All our words fall short, they are bound to fall short. They are needed for a hum an dialogue, they are useful, but the whole language is man's creation.

God knows no language. So to be in utter silence is the only true prayer. To say

anything is to destroy it.

And silence has one beautiful thing about it: it is neither Christian nor Hindu nor Mohammedan.

Whatsoever you say will be either Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan, because words have associations; words come from the past, from tradition. The Hindu praises god in one way, the Mohammedan in another, the Christian in still another. But silence cannot be different -- it is one. Then the Mohammedan and the Christian and the Hindu and the Jew and the Jaina and the Buddhist are all silent; then all religions have disappeared. Religions belong to the world of words, now what remains is religiousness. God has disappeared, what remains now is godliness -- the fragrance, the presence. It is felt in silence.

My whole effort here is to help you to be blissfully silent. And remember that condition -- blissfully, because one can be silent in a dead way, in a cold way, in a kind of indifference. That silence is not prayer, it is not alive at all -- how can it be prayer? It cannot breathe, it has no heartbeat; it is ice-cold.

The silence must be at the same time a song, it should have the flavour of the song. It will not have words but it will have a tune. It will be pure music, it will be dance. Only then, when silence is blissful, does one come in contact with godliness.

(Jutta happens to follow next. Before he hands her the name-sheet Osho pauses and grins.) Now your name creates a trouble for me. Jutta means praise of the lord -- but I have my own ways!

This will be your full name: Ma Shanti Jutta. Shanti means silent -- silent praise of the lord. Jutta is Hebrew and I am also a Jew so I know how to trick them! (laughter) There is no possibility of praising god. Whatsoever we say will come out of our minds because only the mind speaks; the heart is always silent. And it is the heart that has to communicate with god, not the head.

The head is needed for the world and the heart for the further shore, for the beyond. The head has no possibility of even comprehending the beyond. It is beyond it, that's why it is called the beyond, but it is within the heart. What is beyond the head is not beyond the heart. What is beyond the head is within the heart, it is pulsating there already.

God is our very heartbeat, our life! To me life and god are absolutely synonymous; they don't mean two different things -- perhaps they are different petals of the same lotus.

In the East we have called the lotus one-thousand petalled. This one-thousand petalled lotus does not exist anywhere on the outside, it is the lotus of consciousness. And it is one-thousand petalled because consciousness has multi- dimensionality: love is one of the petals, freedom another, bliss still another, truth...

and so on and so forth. All the great values for which we are searching and longing and for which we are thirsty and hungry, are all petals of the same lotus.

And by getting hold of one petal you will be able to reach the centre of the lotus, there is no need to go through all the petals. And once you have reached the centre you will know that all the petals are joined at the centre.

The journey begins in the heart and also ends in the heart. Words, thoughts, ideologies, religions, dogmas, doctrines -- they all belong to the head. The rabbis, the pundits, the popes -- they all belong to the head. The authentically religious person is nothing but a pure heart, an innocent heart; he is a kind of heartfulness, an overflowing heartfulness. But that experience is utterly silent, inexpressible, wordless.

Because it is wordless, it is infinite, vast, immense. Falling into that silence where you can hear your own heartbeat is the praise of the lord.

So learn to be silent, bow down in silence to the earth, to the trees, to the moon, to the sun. It does not matter what the object is, what matters is bowing down -- surrender, that feeling of gratitude. Wherever one is full of gratitude there is a temple. Wherever such a man sits, that place becomes sacred; wherever he moves he transforms the energy because he carries his own Buddhafield around him. His silence, his joy, his love, his compassion -- it is all there, but absolutely silent.

A COP OF YOUR OWN CONSCIOUSNESS

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it transcendental stupidity (laughter)... but it is not meditation.

Meditation is simply watchfulness -- doing nothing but watching. Watching is not something to be done; you are simply there and the mind is moving, and you go on looking at it. In that very looking a miracle starts happening. The more intense your look, the more thoughts disappear. Moments come when suddenly your awareness is at a peak, at the optimum. In that pause the mind disappears completely. Then one comes to know the arithmetic: if the mind is ninety-nine per cent, then awareness is one per cent; if awareness is ten per cent, then the mind is ninety per cent; if the awareness is fifty per cent, then mind is fifty per cent; the moment awareness is ninety-nine per cent the mind is one per cent. And when that fortunate moment comes when awareness is one hundred per cent, mind is nil. That is the moment when your whole energy takes a quantum leap, when for the first time you become aware of the meaning of life and its splendour.

Alfred means wise; that is the moment when one becomes wiser when wisdom explodes because now you have the clarity, the perceptiveness, the silence, awareness -- all that is needed for wisdom to arrive.

You have prepared the ground. Then not even a single moment is lost; immediately, one becomes a Buddha, a Christ. That's what wisdom is: to become a Buddha, a Christ. Then one simply knows; without any knowledge one simply knows. And that knowing starts guiding you. Now you have an inner voice, an inner light, and it never commits any mistake, it never takes you in any wrong direction. It is essentially right; it is impossible for it to be wrong.

YOU CHOOSE THE BLUES

(It's up to us, Osho reminds us again tonight.)

Misery is a sin, and blissfulness is virtue, although for centuries just the opposite has been taught.

People have been told that if you sin you will suffer, and If you are virtuous you will be rewarded by bliss.

That is putting the whole thing upside-down.

I say if you are blissful virtue will follow you. Your life will have a certain sacredness. Your actions will be inevitably beautiful, graceful, in tune with existence, never against the law of the universe, always in accordance with it.

And if you are miserable, whatsoever you do you will do wrong. Out of misery good cannot happen.

The miserable person sometimes intends to do good, his intentions are not suspect, but the ultimate result is always bad.

And you can see it all over the world. All the parents are trying to do good for their children, and they are all destroying them too. Their intentions are good, but they are miserable people; they are blind. They have not lived their life in a celebration. Their very vibe is poisonous, so what can good intentions do? That poison will ride upon their good intentions. Their good intentions will never be fulfilled; just the opposite will be the result. The politicians, the priests, are all full of good intentions but the outcome is this chaos in the whole world.

My insistence is: first, drop your misery -- and it can be dropped, just like that. It is only a question of not choosing it. It is your choice. You can decide not to be miserable, and then nothing can affect you. You can decide to be blissful. Try tomorrow (laughter). From the very morning decide to be blissful, and see whether what I am saying is possible or not.

Sometimes the old habits may come in; then immediately remind yourself that today you have decided to be blissful. Follow the decision. And if you can do it for one day, you can do it for your whole life.

In fact, if a person can be blissful for a single moment, he knows the art. Because you will not get two moments together; you will always get one moment at one time -- and that much of the secret you know!

Right now you are blissful (laughter)... this is the secret -- just don't forget it! CRIMINAL OR CHRIST

(Either way, you've got it coming to you because you're a threat to society, Osho warns Ma Prem Amrita.)

The only thing in existence that is immortal, that defies death, is love. The body dies, the mind dies --

everything that begins ends. Only love never dies, because it is our very nature. It never begins, hence it cannot end. It has always been with us; it's our very being.

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The strange thing is, the society is very much against love. It tries in every possible way not to allow your loving nature to surface; it represses it. And then, instead of a humanity we have only a crowd of subhuman beings. And they are really in a mess... because they are no more animals. Animals are in a way happy. At least they don't have the popes to destroy their happiness, to give them commandments. to tell them what to do and what not to do. They live spontaneously; nobody disturbs their spontaneity.

Man is no more an animal and he is not yet a human. He has been prevented from being human by the vested interests. They don't want him to become animal again so in every way they punish the criminals so nobody falls from this subhuman state. And they punish Buddhas also. It is a strange world: they punish the criminals and they punish the saints, the sages.

The real saints are always punished. It is significant that when Jesus was crucified he was crucified just in between two criminals. On that day there were three crosses; on both sides of him there was a thief also crucified with him.

Society crucifies the person who falls below humanity because he becomes animal-like, and the society also crucifies the person who goes beyond subhumanity because he becomes godlike. Society is afraid of both, society wants you to be just in the middle. But to be in the middle is a very tense state.

One is neither here nor there -- in a limbo, torn apart, one cannot be at ease, one cannot be at home.

Society is afraid of the criminal because he will create chaos. Society is afraid of the Christs and Buddhas also because they will also create chaos. In different ways they are both going to create chaos. The animal will create chaos because he will bring violence, aggression, destruction; and the Buddha will create chaos because he will release the energies of love.

Of course, the chaos created by the Buddhas is beautiful because out of that chaos all the stars are born, out of that chaos is creativity. But the society is against both. Society is going to be against me, too, and against my sannyasins too. So anybody who dares to be with me has to be absolutely ready: ready to risk, ready to gamble. And that is possible only if the relationship with me is of love.

Two types of people come to me: a few come intellectually convinced that what I am saying is right --

their relationship with me is very fragile; they will not be able to sacrifice or risk. Whenever things are going good they will be with me, and when things start going bad they will not be with me. Not only that; they can even be against me just to protect themselves.

But the real sannyasins happens not out of intellectual conviction but out of a heartfelt longing. With the real sannyasin it is a love affair. Then one can sacrifice everything, even life itself, because love is far higher than life. Life is only an opportunity to achieve love, life is only a ladder towards love. Life is mortal, love is immortal, the mortal can be sacrificed for the immortal.

(Osho seems to pause for a split second, then adds something that makes one look twice new sannyasin.) Remember it -- you will need it in your life.

GIVE YOUR EGO THE BOOT

(... and become god's flute. His name, Prabhupad, means at the feet of the lord -- surrendered, dedicated, Osho tells another new sannyasin.)

All that we have to surrender is the ego. It is in fact rubbish, but we don't have anything else. Everything else is god-given; only ego is what we have created.

That which is already god-given cannot be surrendered, only that which we have created can be surrendered.

Sannyas means surrendering the ego and relaxing, feeling at home with existence, dropping all conflict and struggle, being in a let-go. And then immense bliss follows, infinite benediction showers; flowers and flowers rain, for the simple reason that you have removed the barrier. They were already showering; it is just that your barrier was not allowing you to have a contact, your eyes were closed. The sun rays were knocking on the doors.

The moment you drop the ego you open your eyes, you open your doors, and the sun comes rushing in, and the wind and the rain, and the whole existence suddenly starts flowing through you. You become a flute, and god starts singing beautiful songs on you.

That's how a sannyasin has to be -- a hollow bamboo flute. That's my symbol for a sannyasin, the hollow bamboo flute.

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GRATEFUL OR GRUMPY

(The first is the attitude of the really religious person.) One of the greatest mistakes in life is to take life for granted. It is a gift and one should be grateful for it; one should not take it for granted. We don't deserve it, we have not earned lt; it has simply been given to Us.

We are not even worthy of it. And not only has life been given to us, love has been given to us, joy has been given to us, awareness has been given to us. Thousands of gifts are contained in the one gift of life.

To feel grateful towards existence is to be religious. But instead of feeling grateful people are continuously complaining. That's the only difference between the irreligious and the religious. The irreligious person is continually

complaining; he is grumpy. And the religious person is contented. He is always thankful because he feels more has been given to him than he could ever ask for.

And that is the way of the sannyasin. LOVERLESS LOVE

(Love can exist in three ways Osho begins in his address to Ma Premal.) The first is love as a relationship. One is loving only to a certain person, and that too at certain moments.

When the person agrees with you, is according to you, is fulfilling your expectations, when he is just a shadow to you and you can possess him, then you are loving.

There are a thousand and one conditions in relationships. The moment any single condition is not fulfilled love disappears. Love turns into hatred any moment. The same person for whom you would have died -- you can kill him. So that is the lowest kind of love, love as relationship.

Your name, Premal, means the second kind of love. It is not a relationship; one is simply loving. It has nothing to do with somebody in particular, one is loving whether one is alone or with someone. One is loving with the trees, with the river, with the mountains. Sitting alone in one's room one is loving. Then love is just like the fragrance of a flower -- whether somebody is present or not does not matter.

This is transforming love from something very ordinary and animal into something extraordinary and human. Now love becomes a quality. That is the meaning of Premal.

There is one stage more, higher than that, but first one has to attain this second. And the second is the most important, even more important than the third, the highest, because once the second is there the third is bound to follow. You need not do anything about it.

The first is love as a relationship, the second is lovingness and the third is when one becomes love itself, so one is not even conscious that one is loving. In the second there is consciousness a certain self-consciousness that one is loving. That is the only flaw left. But you cannot remove it yourself, because if you do

then again you will be there. Then more self-consciousness will arise: 'Look how great I am -- I have removed the last flaw! Now I am love, pure love.' But that 'I' is still there.

You cannot do anything; once you have attained to the second, you have to wait for the third -- it comes as a gift from god. It always comes. You deserve it because you have attained the second. Then one day suddenly the self- consciousness disappears and only pure love is left. Everybody will feel it; only you will not be conscious of it. And the more you are without self- consciousness, the more others will feel it.

So attain the second, and leave the third for god. We always have to leave something for him to do, otherwise he will be completely unemployed (laughter). And it won't be a good scene: god standing before an employment office in the queue.… That won't be a good sight. We have to leave a few things for god!

THE MELODY OF MINDLESSNESS

(That's the meaning of Omkar, Osho tells the last sannyasin.) It is heard only when all other noise has been dropped, when the mind is without thoughts, without desires; the heart is without feelings, without emotions. When the mind and heart are both absolutely empty, then suddenly you hear something which was always there but which you had never heard; you were so preoccupied with other things.

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whole body, mind and soul are in a subtle dance, as if each of your cells and fibres is pulsating and humming. That humming sound is called omkar. And that has to be heard, because in hearing it one comes to know the beauty, the grace, the benediction, the bliss of existence. In hearing it one has heard all the scriptures. In hearing it one has heard the Buddhas, the Christs, the Lao Tzus.

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