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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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

The coward is bound to live in lies. Lies are comfortable, cozy, because they don't ask you for any transformation. You need not change yourself. Lies fit with you; you need not fit with them.

Truth needs courage because truth never compromises. You have to fit with it. You will have to drop many things. You will have to become more open, more silent, more loving, only then can truth be yours.

You will have to go through a thorough cleaning. A total transformation is a basic requirement for truth, and that needs courage.

Hence millions have chosen to live the life of a coward. It is comfortable; you

remain the way you are.

And the lies are very compromising; they are ready to be according to you. They fulfill your desires, your requirements, but because they are lies your whole life is wasted. Ultimately you will find you have deceived yourself. But that comes only at the end; that comes only when death knocks on the door. Then you become aware of what you have done, but then it is too late.

Entering into sannyas means you are ready to drop the lies, howsoever comfortable, and you are ready to risk everything for truth, because the final victory is with truth. Small battles you can win through lies, but the ultimate victory is only with truth. And for that sannyas prepares you. But much has to be changed.

Many prejudices have to be dropped. Your whole mind has to go through an upheaval, a revolution, a radical change.

Be ready for it, because once you start having a glimpse of truth, even a glimpse of truth, your life becomes so blissful, such a benediction, so meaningful, that one starts feeling grateful to existence. Out of that gratefulness arises prayer. Only that gratefulness makes a person religious.

(The two meanings of her name are very significant and also happen to be related to each other, Osho told Jonda, because humbleness is needed by the lover of truth.) The ego is a barrier: it does not allow you to know that which is. It keeps you ignorant because it can exist only in darkness; when there is light it dies. It is like darkness: the moment light comes in, darkness disappears. Hence the investment of the ego is in keeping you in the dark.

Humbleness means only one thing: drop the ego. Don't think in terms of separation. No man is an island; we are all together, we are part of one organic whole. We are not separate, hence the very idea of ego is stupid. Only the whole can use the word "In; the parts cannot use the word. The parts exist only through the whole; there is no life in separation. Hence to live with an ego is to live a very superficial life, pseudo, without roots. And that brings misery.

The moment one drops the ego all blocks disappear and light starts penetrating you. The doors are open, the windows are open. The sun is yours, the moon is yours, the stars are yours. Suddenly you become vast.

And that's what truth is: the experience of one's vastness, one's infinity, one's eternity. And the moment one knows "I am eternal," there is bliss because there is no more any death, no more any misery, no more any fear. One has attained to immortality. Bliss is just a shadow of immortality.

(Love is holy because it makes you whole. It is a bridge, Osho reiterated tonight.) A man without love lives disconnected from the whole. And one needs many bridges because life is multi-dimensional, and the more bridges you have, the more rich you are. When all the dimensions and all the planes of life are connected with you, naturally you have immense richness -- immeasurable, inestimable.

That richness Jesus calls the kingdom of god. His expression is beautiful. It is a kingdom, and not an ordinary kingdom, not the kingdom of this world, not the kingdom that exists in time and one day disappears but a kingdom that once attained is forever yours.

Hence my definition of religion is love. Love in as many ways as possible. Don't be a miser in love.

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groundedness. It creates a temple out of you. And only when the temple is ready can god be invited.

Many people search for god but in vain, because they never make the place ready to receive him. You need a certain inner space for god to come in, for truth to come in. That space is created by love.

His name meant an image of meditation, the Master told the next initiate -- and you have to look at a statue of Buddha to see that.

It is not historically true; it does not represent Buddha in an ordinary sense; it does not resemble his physical appearance at all. But still it is true, far more true than any photograph can be. It is not pictorial; it has nothing to do with the body. It represents something of the inner: the stillness, the silence, the unwavering quietness, the state of no-mind.

It is not an accident that Buddha's statues were the first to appear on the scene, on the earth. And they were made of white marble. Only white marble can represent Buddha; the coolness of the marble, the whiteness of the marble, the stillness of marble, the stillness of a marble statue. They represent something that happened to Buddha's interiority. They are not physiological but symbolic, metaphoric -- poetry written in marble -- a depiction, a scripture, a sermon.

Create a silent space within you where no thought exists; no desire, no mind. One is simply a pure being, a witness, a silent watcher. There is no past, no future. Time has stopped because mind has stopped; without mind there is no time. Mind is time, and the moment you get beyond mind you get beyond time; you are simply in the present. The present is not part of time. Now is not part of time. Time consists of past and future, and the reality is between the two. Neither the past is real nor is the future.

The meditator drops both, past and future both, memory and imagination; he simply exists now and here. In that state one penetrates into the ultimate core of existence, one comes to know what truth is, and truth liberates. There is no other way of liberation. Truth makes you free of all bondage; the bondage of the body, the bondage of the mind. All kinds of prisons simply evaporate. You are as vast as the sky -- no limitation. Not even the sky is the limit.

Unless that unlimited vastness is experienced one remains miserable, because that is our nature and that has to be fulfilled.

Only then is there contentment. Only then is there joy, rejoicing.

(Accumulate knowledge and you have a head that's overloaded; experience knowing and you have a heart that's overflowing. The only proof of truth is blissfulness, Osho reminded us.) The knowledgeable person is not blissful. He knows about truth but not truth itself. He knows about God, but to know about God is not to know God. To know about God is information; to know God is

transformation, it is a totally different phenomenon.

And the moment you know on your own -- not because Jesus says so or Buddha says so or I say so --

when you know on you own, great bliss explodes. Thousands of flowers open up within your being. For the first time your inner world is no more a desert, it becomes an oasis. For the first time you experience what life is all about and the splendor of it and the glory of it and the tremendous beauty of it. It is ecstatic. And the moment you know, you are bound to radiate bliss; it is just natural.

Truth is experienced at the innermost core, but bliss starts overflowing you. That's the only proof that truth has been experienced. If the saint is sad he is not a saint. There must be rejoicing, there must be laughter, there must be singing and dancing and celebration. His whole life is a celebration; moment to moment it is a continuum of celebration. These so-called saints with long faces are just stupid people deceiving others, and not only others -- they are so stupid that they manage to deceive themselves too. They start believing that they have arrived, but nothing has happened to them. Their desert is so clear, there seems to be no oasis in their being.

My whole effort here is to make you a garden, to make you cheerful in every possible way. But that can happen only when you have experienced something of truth on your own. It is not going to help if one goes on reading the Bible and the Koran and the Gita. Unless you read your own being you will not know what truth is. Truth is hiding there -- of course it is in a seed form. Once you go there your very going transforms the seed into a flower. Your very presence is enough to bring a revolution.

So my sannyasins have to do only one thing, I ask only for one thing: put your energy together for an inner journey. Move inwards, because unless you know who you are, all knowledge is useless. The only knowledge worth having is your experience of yourself. That opens the door towards more mysterious 1/08/07

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experiences. That is the beginning of an eternal pilgrimage.

(Sannyas is the search for truth, Osho stressed again in his address to Satyaprem.) Man has lived for centuries in lies -- beautiful lies, but all lies. We go on believing in heaven and hell, we go on believing in god, in immortality, in the soul, but these are all beliefs -- beliefs are lies. You don't know anything on your own, whether there is a soul within you or not. And it is not a question of argumentation; even if it is proved logically that you have a soul it will not make any difference to the quality of your life. Or if it is proved there is no soul, that will also not make any difference.

There are theists, there are atheists, and they are all living almost the same life -- the same stupid life, with no qualitative change. There are people who believe that god exists and there are people who believe that god does not exist, but if you look into their lives there is no difference. So what is the point of all these argumentations? It is futile. The only thing that matters is experience, not argument.

And if you don't even know whether the soul exists within you or not, what else can you know? How can you know god and heaven and hell and all that nonsense? The closest thing to you is your soul, and you have not even explored that! And you are talking about some heaven somewhere above, in the sky and some hell somewhere deep down. You have no idea what you are talking about! In churches and temples and mosques people are continuously arguing, discourses are being given about great things, and nobody bothers about the most simple thing -- knowing who you are.

So I don't teach any philosophy here and I don't teach any dogma, creed. My whole teaching consists of experimenting, of experiencing, of going within yourself with an open mind, with no belief -- because every belief will be an obstruction to knowing the truth. Every belief is inimical to the enquiry for truth. So don't be a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan; don't be theist or an atheist. There is no need, because you don't know anything. Just know "I don't know" and go inside with that state of mind, just like an innocent child who knows nothing. If one can enter into one's being like a child, innocent, and if one can function from a state of not-knowing, then it is not far away; it is very close by.

And the moment you know your being you have found the key, the master key

which can unlock many many doors. In fact that one key is enough to unlock all the doors. I call that key the truth, your truth, your experienced truth.

So drop all beliefs, drop all lies which others have taught you, and go innocently, empty, knowing nothing. And soon you will find a great treasure, a great wisdom, within yourself. It is already there just waiting for you to come empty- handed.

Meditation means going inside empty-handed, empty of all belief, of all knowledge.

(He was replaced by Satoshi, whom Osho renamed Dharmananda. It means the bliss that arises out of knowing the nature of existence, Osho explained.)

Without knowing it, whatsoever we do is bound to create misery. The most fundamental thing is to know the nature of existence so that we can be in tune with it. Otherwise everybody is out of step, and that being out of step is what misery is. To be in harmony with existence is bliss, to be in deep accord is bliss.

To be in discord with existence is misery.

So the only thing which can bring a total transformation in your life is to become aware of the truth, the nature, the tao, of existence. And the way does not go on the outside, the way goes through you; it is an inner journey. First you have to find your own centre. The moment you have found your centre you have found the centre of existence because they are not two. We differ only as circumference, at the centre we are all meeting and merging. At the centre we are all one: the trees, the mountains, the people, the animals, the stars.

The moment you penetrate your own centre you come to know the tao of all that is. And once you have known the tao, nature, the dharma, you cannot go against it That will be simply suicidal. But without knowing it of course one is bound to stumble, bound to go astray. Meditation is a way to find your centre.

And I have reduced sannyas to the very bare essentials I have dropped all the rituals, all the non-essentials, because modern man has no time for all that nonsense. And the essential is meditation. If you can learn meditation you have learned all.

(We have the intrinsic capacity to love, but society heads us away from realising

it, Osho told Prem Amrito, who sat, or rather knelt on one knee, in front of him as if she were taking her mark and getting set to run.)

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Society has no interest in your love energy. Its whole interest is in your head, in your logical capacity, because that can be used as a commodity in the market. The society only wants you to be efficient -- not meaningful, simply efficient, as efficient as a machine. Now, the machine has no idea of love and will never be able to have any idea of love.

As far as the head is concerned, sooner or later computers are going to replace it. What the head does, computers can do in a far better way. But I don't think that any computer is ever going to fall in love.

Logic is a mechanical capacity -- machines can do it. Love is really the human element in you, but the society is not interested in it, it has no use for it; hence it teaches everybody to be logical. And the more hung up in the head you become, the more you forget your heart.

My work here is to bring you back down to the heart. And your cooperation is needed, that's why sannyas is a requirement. Sannyas means from your side you say, "I am ready, I am willing to come down.

Just show me the way, just show me the ladder." Sannyas is simply a surrender, a let-go, a gesture that "I am ready," that "I will not hesitate," that "I will not resist," that "I will not fight you." That's all. Because unnecessary time is wasted in resistance.

It is as if you go to a surgeon and you start fighting with him, and he is doing surgery on you! You start doing karate chops and things like that -- then how can the surgery be done? That's why the surgeon has to give you chloroform!

I don't give chloroform, but it is surgery, and your total acceptance is required.

That's what sannyas is. It is not a ritual, it is a deep, meaningful gesture. Once I see that somebody is saying yes, then I can start the surgery. And it is the greatest surgery to bring your energy from the head to the heart because it goes against all your conditioning, education, culture, religion. But unless your heart becomes alive again, humming again with the music of love, you will never be able to know anything of significance. God is known through the heart, truth is known through the heart. The heart is the center from where we can take a plunge into existence. It becomes the jumping board to go into the oceanic.

Man is immortal. There is no death, in fact. But how to know it from the head? Hence I say love is the only experience in life which makes you aware of your immorality. And once you know there is no death, your life of course will have a totally different quality to it -- of poetry, of dance, of song, of celebration.

Because there is no death once can shout, "Alleluia!"

(An in-quest is needed to discover the cause of the death of man's happiness; no outer search will help, Osho told Gyandevi.)

Your silence is the only scripture. Your inner journey is the only sacred pilgrimage. And the truth has to be known not with open eyes but with closed eyes, because it is inside. And the moment we withdraw ourselves from all outside activities, bodily activities, mental activities, when we are completely withdrawn as if the world has disappeared, as if there is nobody else left, we are all alone ... in that aloneness wisdom explodes. You become full of light.

Then you can live in the outside world, but now nothing can disturb you, nothing can distract you. That light remains with you and goes on showing you the path. It goes on again and again indicating to you the right way, it goes on choosing for you what is right and dropping what is wrong.

The inner wisdom is an insight, an insight into everything that is going to happen to you. And once you have the insight, naturally all the pitfalls disappear, all the mistakes and errors disappear. Your life starts following a very straight way. It becomes simple, natural, spontaneous.

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