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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

(God can only hear that which isn't uttered, Osho tells Mouno David.)

... hence anything said in any language other than silence never reaches god. All prayers fall down --

they are futile. But in silence the miracle happens: you have not said a single word, god has not heard a single word but the message is conveyed; you have poured your heart, you have offered your being. That offering is true prayer.

Learn silence because that is the ultimate language. And only those who know how to be silent become beloveds of god.

(Osho adds 'Santosh' to 'Toby' and then links the two parts of the name together in his address to the actor from America.)

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is discontent. It is a facade. They are simply consoling themselves, they are repeating Aesop's fable of the sour grapes. Because they cannot reach anything more than what they have they start saying 'It is not worth reaching for. We are perfectly contented. We don't want money, we don't want power, we don't want prestige.' Not that they don't want those things -- they do -- but they know that they are not strong enough to fight for them all.

Just to hide their cowardliness, their weakness, they pretend, but that pretension is not real contentment.

A real contentment arises out of gratitude. God has given you life and you have not thanked him for it.

He has given you the capacity to love and you have not thanked him for that. He has given you intelligence to know and you have not thanked him for it. He has given a thousand and one things which we go on accepting as if we deserve them, as if we have a right to have them. We don't have any right. All is a gift. To know that brings a totally different kind of satisfaction. It comes out of gratitude. You feel grateful for so much that has already been done -- you cannot ask for more. Even that which is given to you is more than you are worthy of.

And Toby means god is good. When you start feeling this contentment a tremendous experience happens -- that life is good, that everything is good.

God simply means the whole. And to feel that god is good is to be religious. Now there is no complaint, no desire. One is utterly attuned with whatsoever is.

Contentment arises out of gratitude, and out of contentment arises the experience of god's goodness, his unconditional goodness. He gives to us and he asks for nothing in return.

This is the way of the sannyasin. (To Beryl Osho adds Dhyan.)

Meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness: one is fully aware but the mind

has ceased to function.

Ordinarily two things are known to us. One is when the mind is functioning but you are not aware. It goes on functioning, thoughts go on moving, but you are not aware of what is happening inside you. You never witness it, you never watch, you never observe. That's how we all function. This is a state of sleep.

And the second thing is when the mind stops functioning. In deep dreamless sleep the mind stops functioning. It happens almost every night at least for two hours -- in small gaps but the whole time is near about two hours every night, sometimes ten-minute fifteen-minute intervals when you dive deep into sleep.

Even dreaming stops; dreaming is also a functioning of the mind. But then too you are asleep. When the mind functions you are asleep, that is one state. When the mind does not function you are still asleep, that is another state. These are our ordinary experiences of the so-called waking state and sleep.

Meditation brings a third state: mind is non- functioning, just as it is in deep dreamless sleep -- that is one part of meditation, the circumference of meditation. And the second part is when you are not asleep, you are fully awake, alert, a flame of witnessing -- that is the centre of meditation. Whenever these two things happen -- you are aware and there is no mind, no thought, no desire, no dream passing through the screen of consciousness -- you attain to ultimate clarity. That is the meaning of Beryl: crystal clear.

In that crystal clarity one knows what truth is, what bliss is, what beauty is. And to know it is to have attained the ultimate flowering, to know it is to have come to the highest peak. Then one feels at home, at rest. Now finally there is nowhere to go, nothing to attain. One has arrived.

We in the East call it samadhi. Samadhi means a state of ultimate realisation, of truth, beauty, bliss, consciousness, freedom -- of all the higher values.

(Annamaria from Italy is next.)

This is your name: Ma Prem Sujato. Prem means love. Sujato means well-born.

The first birth is very ordinary, it is animal. It is nothing peculiar to human beings. Donkeys are born the same way (laughter) monkeys too. Only the second birth makes man special, and the second birth happens through love.

In the first birth you come out of the womb of your mother. It was a shelter for nine months, it protected you, but beyond nine months it is dangerous. If a child insists on remaining in that protected, secure space for longer than nine months he will be dead. For nine months it is perfectly beautiful, but then one has to come into the world.

In the same way the ego is also a shelter, a protection. In the beginning it is good, but there is a moment when one has to come out of the egg of the ego. That's what love is: dropping the ego.

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(And more about love to Prem Michael.)

There are a few things in life which can be called godly. Love is one of those very rare experiences.

Silence is one of those experiences; awareness, bliss -- these are the windows of our house. We can keep them closed and remain unaware of the beautiful existence beyond, or we can open them.

The easiest to open is love. All other windows are far more difficult to open, hence my suggestion is to try to open the window which is the easiest because it is very natural.

The desire for awareness is not so natural. It comes only later on at a certain stage of evolution. The desire for freedom is also not immediately available. But love and the desire for love is born with you; hence love can become the key. And once you know how to open one window you know how to open other windows too, then it becomes easy. The art is the same; the method, the technique, is not different.

Start being more loving. Make it a decision not to miss any opportunity to love. And don't ask others to love you -- that is where people go wrong. Love. If love is returned, good; if it is not returned, then too it is good, because to love is good, to love in itself has an intrinsic beauty. It need not be rewarded. If it is rewarded that is something extra.

And the miracle is that if you don't demand, it is rewarded more and more. If you completely forget any demands it is always rewarded.

Everybody wants love. But people go wrong: from the very beginning they start asking for love rather than giving it. And the way to get is to give. So give whole-heartedly and don't be a miser, because it is not something quantitative, that by giving you will have less. It belongs to the higher realm where the more you give, the more you have. It is a totally different economics.

(But bliss is Anand Dwariko's way.)

Bliss is the door to god, so in becoming a sannyasin rejoice, be of great cheer, let the heart dance and sing -- in short, go cuckoo! (laughter) And Italians go cuckoo very easily! I have many Italian cuckoos here (laughter).

My sannyasins are not to be sad people. Enough of sadness! Throughout the whole past of humanity we have created sad saints and sages. It has been a nightmare. Now we need cheerful sages, saints who are capable of love and laughter. God is fed up with your old saints. He is continuously informing me not to send any more of the old type of saints. He needs a few dancers in heaven, the singers, lovers -- the old saints have made heaven look like hell. So I am preparing my people.

Once my orange people enter heaven they are going to make even the old saints turn on! (laughter) Either those old fools will have to leave or they will have to be ready to be turned on. I am trying to smuggle psychedelic people into heaven! (much laughter) Anand Nandan means a garden of bliss.

Man can either be a desert or he can be a garden -- both are the possibilities. But millions have chosen to be desertlike. They all wanted to be gardens but something went wrong and instead of becoming gardens they have just become deserts. Unless that basic wrong is put right one can never become a garden. And without becoming a garden -- full of trees, flowers, birds -- life cannot have any meaning, it cannot have any poetry, any music.

The most fundamental thing to transform life into a garden is meditation, and meditation is not part of our education at all. Neither the parents nor the schools, colleges or universities teach it, not even the churches, the temples, the mosques

-- nobody teaches meditation. And it is only through meditation that the transformation happens.

If you live your life through the mind you will live in a desert, in a meaningless desert. You will feel bored, tired, exhausted, almost always on the verge of committing suicide or going mad.

So my emphasis is on meditation and on nothing else. Learn how to live directly, immediately, not through the mind. Mind can be used as a biocomputer for certain things: for factual memories, for mathematics, geography, history, science. It is a perfectly beautiful computer but you need not live through it, it has to be put aside. When needed you can ask for information but it does not have to be always there.

When you are meeting your girlfriend the computer is there, and there is not only one -- there are two computers between you and your girlfriend. In fact you are hiding behind your computer, she is hiding behind her computer, and those two computers are talking to each other. Now what can happen out of this?

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I have heard about a psychoanalyst who was a very busy man, so busy that one day he told one of his clients, "Today I am so busy I have left my tape-recorder here -- just talk to the tape-recorder. Later on at night when I have time I will listen." The client said, "Okay."

When the client was leaving he came to the office to say goodbye. He came so quickly -- just within a few minutes -- and it should have been a one-hour session. The psychoanalyst said, "Where are you going?"

The client said, "I have left my tape-recorder. In fact I was planning it so I

brought it. Whatsoever I was going to say to you I have put onto my tape- recorder. Now my tape-recorder is talking to your tape-recorder. Why waste time? I am also a busy man and you are busy so this is a beautiful method.

Whenever I have time I will talk to my tape-recorder and whenever you have time you can listen to your tape-recorder. We need not meet again."

But this is what is happening, actually happening. This is not a joke, this is a reality!

Meditation simply means coming in direct contact with reality, face to face -- and that immediately transforms the desert into a garden.

How long will you be here?

At least three weeks but I'll be back.

Come back. And next time don't bring your tape-recorder!

(Tonight Osho has talked at length of love and of bliss. Now to a student from Germany he talks of the two together as being her path.)

For yourself be blissful, for others be loving. Bliss will take care of your subjectivity, interiority, and love will take care of your external life. And when both are there simultaneously they balance each other, otherwise man becomes lopsided. One has to be constantly balancing between love and bliss. More of love and you become an extrovert, more of bliss and you become an introvert. But when both are balanced, in that balance transcendence happens; you go beyond, beyond the inner and the outer, beyond all dualities.

And that is the target for a sannyasin: to go beyond all dualities -- darkness-light, life-death, matter-mind, this world and that world. One has to go on transcending all dualities.

When all dualities are forgotten, left far behind, then you have come to your ultimate essence. To experience it is to know the truth, and truth liberates.

(Trish becomes Gyan Arpan -- wisdom, offering.)

Wisdom happens only when you have offered yourself totally, when you are

surrendered to the whole, when you relax and drop all your defences, when you withdraw all your boundaries, when you start meeting and merging with the whole like ice melting into the ocean.

Ordinarily we exist in the ocean like icebergs. We are made of water but we exist like icebergs -- cold, hard -- and we cling to our identities.

Sannyas has only one meaning: the dropping of your ego and its identity, the forgetting of the self so that you can experience the whole. And that very experience brings ecstasy, an ecstasy which is eternal. It comes but it never goes. Once it is there it is forever.

(In his address to the last sannyasin whom he names Veet Asmito, Osho reiterates the need to drop the ego.)

Ego can exist in three ways. The grossest exists on the physical plane, like a Mohammed Ali claiming to be the greatest. It is a very gross ego but in a way it is easier to get rid of the gross ego because it is so apparent. It is impossible not to see it, it is just on the surface. The second ego is a little deeper, it is psychological. A painter, a musician, a poet -- these people have a psychological ego. It is far more subtle and also far more difficult to see. From the outside the person may not look egoistic at all, he may seem a very beautiful person, but if you just scratch him a little bit you will find ego exploding.

And the third is the subtlest: the spiritual ego that exists in the so-called saints, mahatmas, yogis, siddhas. The third is so subtle that it wears the garb of humbleness, hence it is very difficult to find.

Thousands of people have lived with it absolutely unaware of its existence and others have worshipped them as humble people, as simple people, as divine, as godly. But if you watch accurately you will see: behind the humbleness there is a desire to claim 'I am the most humble person in the world. Nobody is more humble than me.' It is the ego, the same ego. It has come again but now it has come in such a way that one needs tremendous intelligence to find it.

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beyond the physical and the psychological, but I want you to be more aware of the subtlest because that is where all the old traditional religious people got lost. It wears the mask of humbleness, simplicity, poverty, meekness.

The really egoless person has no humbleness in him, he cannot have. He is neither egoistic nor humble, he is neither proud of anything nor its opposite. Humbleness is nothing but ego standing on its head -- but it is still ego. Whether it is standing on its head or on its feet, it makes no difference. The really egoless person is not egoistic and is not humble either, he is simply whatsoever he is. He claims nothing, not even humbleness.

Jesus says blessed are the meek for theirs is the kingdom of god. Because of such statements Christian saints went wrong. They started cultivating meekness to attain the kingdom of god. Now what kind of meekness is this? It is greed, pure greed, it is an ego-longing to enter the kingdom of god.

Jesus' purpose was totally different. When he said blessed are the meek for theirs is the kingdom of god, he was not talking in terms of cause and effect, he was not saying be meek so that you can attain to the kingdom of god. He was saying that the kingdom of god happens naturally to those who have lost their ego.

But he used the wrong word, 'meek'. His meaning is clear but only for those who understand. He simply wants to say 'egoless'; but 'meek' gives a different sense, it becomes humbleness. But humbleness isn't egolessness, it is ego pretending to be humble.

Egolessness knows nothing of humbleness. For example, I am not a humble man at all. I cannot be humble, there is no way for me to be humble. I am simply the way I am.

If one is simply the way one is, if one simply relaxes into one's nature, into one's spontaneity, then that is the kingdom of god. It is not a reward, it is not that you attain it because of your egolessness. To be egoless is it. It is the kingdom of god.

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