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Chapter 7 - The mysterious one
Bunan wrote:
REMAIN APART,
THE WORLD IS YOURS -- A BUDDHA IN THE FLESH.
Just remember the buddha in your flesh and the world is yours. You don't have to conquer it, it is already yours. But find out the buddha in the flesh. Just a few words, and a whole philosophy ... REMAIN APART ... That is what I mean when I say, be a witness. Remain apart, just a watcher on the hill. REMAIN APART, THE WORLD IS YOURS -- A BUDDHA IN THE FLESH.
This remaining apart brings two things. One, a buddha inside awakens; and the other, a new mastery over the whole existence. It is not political, it is existential. It does not need to have any map, it has no boundaries.
Finding the buddha in you, you have found the emperor. Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
I HAVE UNDERSTOOD YOU TO SAY LATELY THAT THE BUDDHA, THE
"MYSTERIOUS ONE" WITHIN US, IS ALWAYS THERE, CONSTANT, UNAFFECTED
BY WHATEVER WE DO.
I ALWAYS HAD THE FEELING THAT THE MORE OFTEN WE ARE CONSCIOUS, THE MORE WE NOURISH THE INNER BUDDHA; BUT IF NOTHING WE CAN DO
NEGATIVELY CAN DIMINISH HIM, THEN MY FEELING MUST BE JUST IMAGINATION. IS IT?
Maneesha, neither can you do anything negative to harm the buddha inside you, nor can you do anything positive to nourish the buddha inside you. It is complete and perfect in itself.
All that you can do is: by being conscious in your actions you can recognize it; by unconscious actions you can forget it. But you cannot do anything to it. Either you can remember and recognize and be transformed, or you can go on doing things which take you away from it and completely forget the way back. But whether you are positive or negative, your innermost buddha remains the same. You cannot do anything favorable or unfavorable to it. It is your transcendence.
Before we enter into the temple to have a look whether the buddha is there or not
... a few little laughs, just to prepare the ground. Laughter takes away much of your seriousness, which is a hindrance. It takes away your burden. In a deep laughter you become total. It is not that you laugh fifty percent, that this time you laughed thirty percent. When you really laugh, remember Sardar Gurudayal Singh: he laughs a hundred percent. And it does not matter whether it is time to laugh or not. Laughter in itself is such a healthy, enjoyable phenomenon, that you don't have to have some reason for it.
Osho - The Miracle 97
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