Chapter title: None

‌Chapter title: None‌

19 May 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Archive code: 8005195 ShortTitle: ISLAND19 Audio:

No Video:

No 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]

(To Juliane) -- This is your name: Ma Dhyan Juliane. Dhyan means meditation. Juliane means youthful.

Youthfulness has nothing to do with age Youthfulness is a transcendence of time. Whenever you are not in time, you are youthful Whenever you are in time, you are old.

Even a one-day-old child is old enough --

He is no more youthful, he has aged, He has died already twenty-four hours. One day is less in his life

Something has slipped by

He has lost already something Utterly unaware of it. And that's what

Millions of people go on doing their whole life In fact a person becomes aware that he was alive

Only when he dies; when death knocks on the door The shock of it makes him alert for the first time

'What have I missed? I have lost my life And now nothing can be done about it.' The only use of life is to transcend time. Life is an opportunity

In time, to transcend time; A ladder has to be created. Time moves horizontally, Just like an alphabet, a b c, Linear, in one line.

Transcendence is vertical,

It is like a ladder, not linear --

You go higher or deeper

Which ultimately means the same. If you go higher, you go deeper

If you go deeper, you go higher

But you start moving in a totally new dimension. You are no more moving horizontally

You are moving vertically.

That movement happens through meditation Mediation is the ladder I am talking about. It takes you beyond time and suddenly Great youthfulness explodes in you.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

The touch of eternity is youthfulness.

Then you know that you belong to the eternal. The experience of the eternal

Is the experience of god. And these are

The only two possibilities available for man: Either he moves in time,

Then he moves horizontally, linear -- That is the way of the mind,

Time is the way of the mind. Or, one moves vertically -- That is the way of no-mind,

Timelessness it the way of no-mind. And meditation is nothing but an art

Of how to take a jump from mind to no-mind. From horizontal to the vertical.

It is the greatest quantum leap possible It is the most radical phenomenon;

Just a glimpse of it and you are full of god

Just a glimpse of it and you are not more the same. And you will never be the same again.

You will live in the same world But you will live out of it.

You will be in the world

But the world will not be in you. That's what sannyas is all about:

Being in the world yet not of it.

(To Margarita) -- This is your name: Ma Dhyan Sangitamo.

Dhyan means meditation. Sangitamo means music. Meditation is music, the ultimate music:

Music without sound, music of silence. It is far richer, far more deeper

Than any music that we can create through sound Because sound is after all, a disturbance.

Each vibration is a disturbance.

We can make the disturbance lovable But still it is a disturbance.

Silence means no disturbance, nothing stirs But there is great music, there is great harmony In that wordless, soundless state.

Meditation leads into that state of silence And unless a man knows that silence 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

He is not aware

Of what he is carrying in his heart

He remains unaware of his own kingdom

Of his own richness, of his own treasures.

He remains a beggar while he can be an emperor

Any moment -- just a turning in. Silence is alchemical:

Once you have penetrated the barrier of sound Once you have passed the barrier of sound And reached to the very core of your being

You have reached to the very center of existence. Those who have heard it

They have called it by many names. One of the names is god.

Zen people call it the sound of one hand clapping. It is an absurdity:

One hand cannot make any sound But Zen people enjoy absurdities

They express themselves in paradoxes. In fact the ultimate truth

Can only be expressed through paradoxes. It is so vast that

It has to contain all contradictions in it It can't leave anything outside of it.

The outer music is only a remembrance An effort to remind you, of the inner.

Hence I use outside music for all meditations: It can trigger a process inside you

It can create a situation. It is a device.

If you know how to listen to the outer music Just listening it, listening it, listening it, Suddenly the outer disappears and

You are transported into the inner. If the outer music is really beautiful It provokes something in you.

Carl Gustav Jung has the right term for it. He calls it synchronicity. That's true Because it is not like cause and effect, There is no certainty about it.

The outer music may be beautiful,

It may be Beethoven, it may be Mozart But is does not work like a cause;

It may not create the effect at all and sometimes Even the wind passing through the trees 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

Or just dry leaves creating noise in the wind

May be enough -- something may synchronize in you. Something may suddenly start happening.

It happened one, a Zen disciple

Worked for twenty years with the master

And nothing happened. And he had a great master One of the greatest, Rinzai was his master.

Rinzai is one of the very few great masters Very few people who can be counted on fingers But nothing happened because

It is not a question of cause and effect Even Rinzai is there

And whatsoever he could do, he did,

But everything failed, nothing synchronized. The disciple became a great scholar Listening to the master for twenty years,

His beautiful discourses, his tremendously Significant commentaries on Buddhist sutras

But that was all.

Nothing else was happening in him.

He became knowledgeable but not wise.

And one day, he was passing through the market And just by chance he heard a shopkeeper,

A meat-seller, talking to his customer. The customer was asking,

'Is this the best meat that you have got?' And the shopkeeper said,

'Everything I have got here is the best!' Now this has nothing to do with Zen Nothing to do with meditation

But the disciple suddenly became enlightened: 'Everything I have got here is the best!'

He came running to the master

And even before he had said anything

The master hit him in great joy and he said, 'You have got it -- no need to say anything! Keep quiet! How did it happen?'

He said, 'It is very strange

That it should happen in a marketplace

And at a meat-seller's shop; in fact

I should not be passing through that market. Buddhist monks are not allowed

To pass though a market where meat is sold. But I was not aware that it is a meat-market So I was passing from there

And the shopkeeper said, 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

"Everything that is sold here is the best."' And Rinzai said, 'You fool!

That's what I have been telling you For twenty years:

Everything that is being sold here is the best!' But one needs right time...

This is synchronicity: The outer music

Can sometimes give you a glimpse of the inner. But once you have caught the inner thread Then there is no need for the outside help:

You go on following it, then you are on the way. Sannyas is a journey

Towards the innermost core of your being The ultimate silence, the soundless silence The wordless silence -- and the harmony of it!

(To Peter) -- This is your name: Swami Dhyan Pritamo. Dhyan means meditation. Pritamo means beloved.

A man without meditation remains an outsider:

He exists but not as part of existence He exists but exists as a stranger

He exists in deep alienation. There seems to be no bridge Between him and the whole.

He seems to be uprooted

Just like a tree which is uprooted And has lost contact with the soil: It is bound to die

It goes on shrinking every moment. What we call life

It more or less dying than living.

In fact, people take seventy years to die That's all. That is the normal time

People take in dying.

Few people are speedy -- they do it quick. Few people are lazy -- they do it

With a lazy pace: ninety-hundred,

Even sometimes hundred-ten, hundred-twenty. But it is only a question

Of how long you take to die; it is not life. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

Life begins only with meditation Because meditation creates

The bridge between you and the whole It gives you roots in the whole.

But without meditation you are like an island. With meditation you become

Part of the continent, the infinite continent. (line missing)

And remember: No man is an island But ego tries to live like an island.

The ego is very much afraid

Of being lost into something bigger than itself, It keeps aloof, from everything

That is bigger than itself. Hence it is afraid of love

Because love is bigger than ego; It is afraid of losing its identity.

Meditation is far bigger than even love And ego is very much afraid.

Whatsoever is bigger than the ego The ego tries to avoid.

It is always interested in doing small things Smaller than itself. It can control them.

It needs not be afraid of them But then one lives in misery Because joy happens only

When you become connected with something Bigger than yourself.

The leaf is green because it is part of a branch The branch is green because it is part of a tree The tree is green because it is part of the earth

The earth is alive because it is part of the sun And the sun is alive

Because of some other greater sun. The whole is interconnected.

It is only the foolishness of man The stupidity of man

That he tries to live isolatedly

Tries to live in a sort of encapsulated way but Then he is suffering, then he feels suffocated Then he is constantly in misery

But he clings to misery

Because misery goes perfectly well with the ego Bliss is dangerous for the ego.

Misery feeds the ego,

They are partners in the same business. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

And meditation will give you a taste of bliss A taste of something bigger than you

A taste of infinity, a taste of the oceanic. And that immediately transforms you You become beloved of the existence, Otherwise you exist like an enemy.

And to exist as an enemy is an ugly way to exist. Exist like a lover: Love the whole existence

So that the whole existence can love you.

(To Michael) -- This is your name: Swami Dhyan Samarpano. Dhyan means meditation. Samarpano means surrender.

Meditation is a way of surrendering your ego. Meditation is surrender,

The very essence of surrender. Ordinarily we are clinging to our ego: In every possible way we try to prove it.

Meditation means we drop the whole trip We drop the whole number.

We are no more interested in proving the ego Because we can see the falsity of it

And the whole absurdity.

Seeing it, one allows it to drop, seeing The futility and the misery that it brings

One surrenders it and immediately A transformation takes place.

Whenever you are emptied of the ego Something from the beyond rushes in, Immediately fills your inner vacuum.

That rush of energy from the beyond is god. Meditation makes the way

For the rush of the beyond. But we are so full of ourselves That we go on missing.

We have to empty ourselves totally And it has to be a total effort

Not half-hearted, not lukewarm

Because even if a part of the ego remains in

That is enough to keep the beyond away from you. The ego has to be dropped in toto

The emptiness has to be utterly utterly empty And then there is no barrier;

Then the guest comes in

The emptiness becomes the host for god And there is no other way to know god.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished

Query:-

Knowledgeable people never know god In fact, they cannot know god.

Sinners can know, but not knowledgeable people. Hence I love the biblical story

That the original sin was

Eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. It is really of great insight

But Christians have completely missed it, It had fallen into wrong hands.

If it had been in the hands of Zen masters They would have made

Something beautiful out of it. That is the original sin because

Knowledge fills oneself, feeds the ego. One has to be innocent, one has to function From the state of not-knowing,

One has to feel that 'I know nothing'

Then only one can feel the wonder and the awe. And to stand in awe and wonder

Is to face god, is to encounter god Is to be ready for god!

No Man is an Island

Chapter #20

< Previous | Contents | Next >