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Chapter 4 - This harvest moon
Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS IT ABOUT MAN TODAY THAT HE IS NOT ONLY LACKING IN THE
SIMPLICITY AND INNOCENCE OF THE PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT IN THESE ZEN
DISCOURSES, BUT THAT HE IS SO WARY OF COMMITMENT?
IT IS AS IF WE ARE AFRAID TO HAVE ALL OUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET; OR
ARE OBSESSED WITH EXPERIENCING SIMPLY EVERYTHING THAT IS
AVAILABLE. SO WE END UP HAVING TASTED EVERYTHING AND NOT BEING
NOURISHED BY ANYTHING.
Maneesha, as far as man's inner pilgrimage is concerned, time is not a consideration. In every age, in every time, the same was the problem -- and the same was the solution. We are not in any way encountering something new. It is the same old sleep, the same old unconsciousness, the same old mind full of thoughts which does not allow us to move beyond it.
Nothing has changed as far as discovering the buddha is concerned. It is not relative to time or to space. Any time, in any space, it is available. And the hindrances are the same: your mind weaving thoughts day and night, dreaming, imagining, hallucinating. You are caught up in this hole, so badly entangled that it seems difficult to get out of it. But the way is simple --
you don't have to get out of it. You simply don't cling to it, and it will drop on its
own accord.
That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.
It is not without any reason that I want you to end up your meditation every day with celebration, with rejoicing. Slowly slowly, as meditation becomes deeper, your celebration will have more splendor, it will become more majestic, more miraculous.
Before we enter into our daily meditation, just to wake up the sleeping and snoring buddhas ...
The third world war is just starting, and after two thousand years Jesus Christ arrives, unannounced, in New York. He has come to give a speech to the United Nations Assembly.
It is late and he is tired after his journey. He looks around for a hotel, but finds that none of them has a room. Finally, in a little back street, Jesus sees a sign which reads, "The Camel and Cow Inn -- Vacancy."
He ties his donkey to a lamppost, goes inside, and walks up to the receptionist. Putting his hand in his pocket, Jesus pulls out some old, rusty nails and throws them on the desk.
"Excuse me," he asks, "can you put me up for the night?"
Chester Cheese walks into the American Express Bank. "I want to open a goddamn current account," snarls Chester.
Osho - The Miracle 62
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