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Chapter 7 - The mysterious one
The art of meditation
is the art of listening with your total being. This very moment, in this silence,
your boundaries drop, your defenses drop.
You become one whole.
There are not ten thousand people, but just one ocean of consciousness.
Just listen so deeply that you disappear,
and only the essential and the eternal in you remains.
THIS ONE -- the listener -- HAS NEITHER FORM NOR SHAPE -- space -- AND
NEITHER ROOTS NOR BRANCHES; THIS ONE HAS NO PLACE OF ABODE; AND
THIS ONE IS LIVELY AND ACTIVE AND PERFORMS ITS FUNCTION ACCORDING
TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND ALL CONCEPTIONS OF LOCATION. IF YOU
SEARCH FOR HIM, HE WILL FLEE AWAY FROM YOU, AND IF YOU LONG FOR
HIM, HE WILL OPPOSE YOU. SO HE IS CALLED THE MYSTERIOUS ONE.
A very great statement. Such statements come only rarely in the world. They make the mystic a miracle. What he is saying is: if you try to seek it, you will not find it, because it is not an object. Secondly, if you try to find it you are being very foolish, because it is within you; the seeker himself is the sought. Once you start seeking it somewhere else you are going on wrong paths, of which there are thousands. There is only one path which is the right path, and on the right path you have not to go anywhere, but to remain home.
Just be -- no search, no desire, no longing. And in that silent and peaceful moment there is a possibility you will find your buddha. It is there, but if you start looking for him here and there you are going to be a failure. Search for him, he will flee away. And if you long for him he will oppose you. Neither seek nor desire nor long -- just be at ease. You are already it! You don't need any improvement, any refinement, and you don't need to go somewhere else. And you don't have to become somebody else; as you are, existence is expressing itself in you with all its glory. Don't go anywhere, and don't long for anything, because everything is already given to you.
Because of this situation Rinzai says:
SO HE IS CALLED THE MYSTERIOUS ONE.
The mystery is: if you seek it, you will never find it. And if you long for it, you are lost.
Just no seeking, no longing, no desire; sitting at ease, becoming more and more settled and centered, and you have it -- because you are it.
IF YOU GIVE RISE TO A THOUGHT OF LOVE IN YOUR MIND, YOU WILL BE
DROWNED BY WATER. IF YOU GIVE RISE TO A THOUGHT OF ANGER IN YOUR
MIND, YOU WILL BE BURNED BY FIRE. IF YOU GIVE RISE TO A THOUGHT OF
DOUBT IN YOUR MIND, YOU WILL BE OBSTRUCTED BY EARTH.
Osho - The Miracle 93
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