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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

HAPPINESS IS IN-STEPNESS

Meditation is the art of slipping out of the mind. The child is born in a meditative state, but meditation is of no use to society; society needs the mind because mind can be used in every possible way. The mind makes the person a commodity, a means, and then the establishment can exploit him. Without the mind a person cannot be exploited, cannot be manipulated, cannot be enslaved.

Mind is the subtle strategy of creating a spiritual enslavement. Society makes every effort to create the mind as quickly as possible; so things are not allowed to get out of hand. As the child is born, the church, the priest, get hold of the child -- he is baptised or he is circumcised. Hindus have done the most in-depth study of the whole phenomenon because Hinduism is the oldest religion on earth. They don't even wait for nine months for the child to be born; their religion starts with the impregnation of the mother. In fact the oldest method -- which looks ugly to the modern mind -- was that four priests would stand in the four corners of a room chanting mantras while the couple made love. So they could start even before the child was born, before the woman was even impregnated; even before that they were creating Hinduism -- the atmosphere, the vibe.

They get hold of the person even before birth and they continue the hold even after death, particularly in Hinduism. When the person dies the last rites have to be performed by the priests, and even when he has been dead for years his children have to go on performing certain rites each year for the welfare of the soul that has departed. This is the complete programme of the conditioning of man. And mind is nothing but the conditioning that has been put in you by the society.

So there are Hindu minds, Mohammedan minds, Christian minds, Jewish minds

-- all kinds of minds --

atheist, theist, communist, capitalist, socialist, fascist. There are political parts of your mind and religious parts of your mind, and man is completely imprisoned in all these ideologies, theologies and philosophies.

Meditation is a rebellion so that you can get out of the hold of the vested interests of both the priest and the politician and can be yourself again.

And Keith is a beautiful name. It has two meanings: one is a wood-dweller and the second is wind. On the surface they don't seem to be connected at all but they are connected, particularly in Gaelic mythology.

Wood represents paradise. The word "paradise" comes from the Persian "firdaus"; firdaus means a beautiful walled-garden.

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profound peace. And the universal breath means you are in tune with the whole, you are not breathing separately; there is a synchronicity between your breath and the universal breath. The moment you are in tune with the universe you have come home. To lag behind is to remain miserable, not being in step with the universe is what misery is all about. To be in harmony with the whole is to be

blissful.

Meditation opens the doors; the doors to silence, peace, paradise, the doors to falling in tune with the whole.

YOU JUST CAN'T BEAR BUDDHA

(... at any rate, not until you're full of light. Osho explains the meaning of Chaitanya Chris's name.) Chaitanya means consciousness, ultimate consciousness, where all darkness has disappeared. The whole unconscious has been transformed into consciousness; there is no part in your being which is any longer dark or unconscious -- it is full of light. Only in that light can one know the Christ within.

Chris means one who bears the Christ within his heart. It has nothing to do with any denomination --

Catholic, Protestant, etcetera -- it has nothing to do with belonging to any established church. It is a love affair; it is not a question of doctrine, dogma, creed or cult.

Christ is not a person, the name of the person is Jesus. Jesus is not synonymous with Christ. There was a moment when Jesus was not a Christ and then that enlightening process came when his unconscious disappeared and he became fully conscious and aware. At that moment he became a Christ -- it is a state of consciousness.

In the East we call the same state the state of Buddhahood. It does not matter what word is used. Buddha was not always a Buddha; his original name was Siddhartha, then one day he became awakened. The word

'buddha' means the awakened. Up to that moment he was as fast asleep as everybody else is; he lived in a groping way, in a blind way. The moment he attained to his inner vision his insight opened up and became a thousand-petalled lotus; he could see things as they were -- he became a Buddha. The Buddha means the awakened and the Christ means the crowned one.

Certainly that ultimate consciousness makes you an emperor; before that you are just a beggar. Christ or Buddha are just names of that ultimate peak which is the deepest longing in every heart.

My work here consists of only one thing: to teach you the alchemy of transforming unconsciousness into consciousness of giving you the knack to create the situation in which you can wake up, giving you devices so that you can wake up on your own... because if somebody else wakes you, you will fall asleep again, because you have not removed the root causes of your sleep.

Somebody shakes you, wakes you, but the inner causes are there -- you will fall asleep. In fact you will feel very angry with the person who wakes you up while you still needed sleep. So unless you remove the causes of sleep nobody can wake you up. All the efforts made by others to wake you up are doomed. After each effort you will fall into deeper sleep, you will take revenge.

The function of the master is not to force you to wake up, but to persuade you, to seduce you, to learn the art of removing the inner causes which are creating your unconsciousness. And they can be removed from the very roots, root and all. Once you have removed them yourself only then does the real awakening happen. Even in physical sleep this can be done.

For example, while you are falling asleep at night there comes a moment, a gap, a small gap, very small gap, when you are neither awake nor asleep or, you are both -- a little bit awake, a little bit asleep. We pass through that interval every night but it is such a small interval that we don't take any notice of it. If you take notice of it, it is or great significance.

It is like changing gears in a car. When you change the gear the gear moves through neutral, it has to go through neutral. When you have been awake in the day and are falling asleep, your whole being is changing gears and there is a moment which is neutral -- when you are neither awake nor asleep -- and that is the most significant moment because in that moment you are nowhere, or now here. In that moment there is no past, no future, because you are in a neutral state. You are just in the present, absolutely in the present. That is a moment of meditation. And in the ancient traditions all over the world, in the mystery schools which have always existed around the world, that gap has been used.

For example you can try a little experiment: just go on watching when you are falling asleep and soon, within a week, you will know when that gap begins -- because it is such a change. If you are alert, just a little alert, through watching you will be able to know it. In that moment you can say to yourself 'Chris, 1/08/07

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wake me up at five o'clock, at exactly five o'clock in the morning.' Say it three times -- more than that you cannot say, the gap is too small. Repeat it three times: 'Chris, wake me up at five o'clock in the morning', and then fall asleep. And at exactly five you will be awake -- not a minute before, not a minute after.

This is a small experiment. It means you can programme your waking, you can even programme your dreams. You can say 'Tonight I don't want to dream at all' then the whole night will be without dreams. Or if you enjoy dreaming, you can create beautiful dreams, significant dreams -- more poetic, more aesthetic.

You can give the whole script. Rather than dreaming something rubbishy, haphazard, neurotic, it is better to give a script, it is better to dream what you want to. At least you are the master of it, you remain the director.

Slowly slowly you can programme your whole sleep and once you have learned the art about physical sleep, the same is true about spiritual sleep. But first you have to begin with the physical, then you can start using that gap for your spiritual awakening. And the same gap happens again in the morning when you are waking up; when sleep is no more and wakening is just going to happen, again the same gap is there.

These two moments are the most important in twenty-four hours time.

This has been the finding of thousands of years of meditators that these two moments are the most significant. If a person can use these two moments he can transform his whole being, he can become enlightened.

Begin with physical sleep so you learn the art then use the same strategy, the same device, for your spiritual awakening. And it is not a far away phenomenon, it is very close by, just around the corner.

DEBATOR AND DANCER

(The synthesis of the two makes for a richer, more blissful, you.) Bliss is not an

achievement but a discovery. You don't have to go anywhere to find it, on the contrary you have to stop going and remain within yourself for a few moments

... just being there inside, doing nothing, just being alert and watchful and seeing what it is, your consciousness. And as your insight deepens as you become more acquainted with your inner world with your interiorities with your subjectivity, you will be surprised that a showering of bliss happens of its own accord.

To know oneself and to be blissful are just two ways of saying the same thing.

Socrates says 'Know thyself'; Krishna says 'Be blissful'. On the surface both are talking about different things -- it is so obvious: knowing thyself is one thing and being blissful is another. But deep down they are exactly two sides of the same coin. One can start either the way Socrates says, by knowing oneself, or as Krishna says, by being blissful.

My own approach is that it is better to use both things together because then your growth is speedier.

Following Socrates or Krishna separately is like walking on one leg: it will not be much of a walk, it will be something like hopping. You will have to learn many tricks, only then will you be able to manage, and you will need crutches also. In a way you will be crippled. You may reach the goAl but it is unnecessary trouble when you can use both your legs. Why not use both? And by using both the walk becomes a beautiful adventure. You are more independent, more wholesome, more together, and your being is more rich.

Socrates is bound to remain a little dry. You cannot hope that he can play on a flute, he can only argue.

He is the greatest arguer the world has known, a perfect arguer, but just arguing is desertlike, it is negative.

It follows the method of elimination: this is not it, that is not it, neither this nor that -- go on denying. It is via negativa. Then when you have denied everything, only that which is left and is undeniable is the truth.

Krishna is like a flowering bush, with a flute, with song, with dance. It is via affirmativa. He does not argue, he proves by his very being. His very presence is proof enough that man is something more than we know about, that man is something far bigger than the mind. But I would like you to be Socrates with a

flute, Socrates in a dancing gesture and Krishna arguing, together -- then life is richer. And I am always for richness. I hate poverty of all kinds. I have no respect for poverty, outer or inner. Man has to be rich on both the sides.

SURRENDER: SUBMITTING THE PSEUDO

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It is inevitable. We are taught to fight, we have been living under a very dark cloud for centuries, and that dark cloud has proved to be the greatest calamity to human beings. The dark cloud is the idea that man has to continuously fight for his survival, as if nature and man are enemies. They are not enemies. Nature is our home, the universe is not antagonistic to us, otherwise we would not have been here at all in the first place.

Just as trees grow... if the universe is not supporting them, how can they grow? In the same way the universe mans the earth, just as it fills it with trees, rivers and mountains. We are part of this tremendously beautiful existence; we are not foreigners, outsiders. But the idea that we have to fight creates a gap between us and the whole -- we become islands. Then there is fear, continuous fear, insecurity and death. And man lives in that fear, insecurity, death -- how can he be blissful? From where can he get any nourishment? He becomes alienated. He starts feeling futile and meaningless and the whole life seems to be just a struggle.

And it is to no purpose because in the end is the grave. For the whole of our life we go on fighting for what?

To reach the grave? And that's the ultimate thing.

It is the ultimate thing for the person who has been fighting with existence, but for the person who is surrendered to existence, is in tune with existence, it is not

the ultimate thing. For him there is no death at all, because in the first place he does not create the ego. It is only the ego that dies, because it is a false entity, somehow put together; it is artificial, arbitrary.

Surrender means dropping all that is artificial and arbitrary, surrender means becoming egoless.

Surrender means feeling the universe with the heart, creating bridges instead of walls, rather than being an island, becoming part of the continent. And immediately there is bliss and that bliss goes on and on increasing. It is an unending process; it begins but it never ends.

Buddha used to say misery has no beginning but an end, and bliss has a beginning but no end -- and he is perfectly right. The name I am giving to you is not just a name -- remember it. It is the key that you have to use in your life. You have to know the beauty of surrender, you have to experience it. It simply means saying yes to the whole, an absolute, unconditional, yes. And with that yes comes the spring and thousands of flowers bloom in your consciousness. The whole of your life becomes fragrant.

Going All the Way

Chapter #29

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