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27 November 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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[Osho explains the meaning of deva vasant. Deva means divine, vasant means spring -- divine spring. If one knows how to live rightly, Osho continues, one constantly lives in the spring. In the inner world it is always spring, things are always blooming; it is never otherwise.]

The change is only on the outside, on the periphery. The seasons change on the periphery but at the centre it is always spring. There nothing ever changes. It is eternal: no past, no present, no future. It is a kind of timelessness. In that timelessness man blooms. All that one needs to do is look inwards, to fall inwards.

At least for a few moments every day, at least once in a while, one should simply drop out of the world into one's own being. It is rejuvenating: one comes back alive, again young, again fresh. One comes back again with gusto and zest. There is again enthusiasm and significance and love. Again one can see with the eyes of wonder, like a child. Each time you go inside yourself you attain to a new childhood, because there inside nothing ever grows old; it is pure childhood. That's why Jesus says, 'Unless you are like a child you will not enter my kingdom of God'. The child lives there... but we forget. Sooner or later the world becomes heavy and it is constantly dragging you out of your being.

It is for that purpose that the schools and the colleges and the universities exist. They exist so that you are not allowed to be yourself, they exist to distract. They

exist to take you away from your innermost core, they exist to falsify you. The whole work of all the politicians and the priests and the pedagogues and the professors and the pundits is how not to allow people their inner being, how to prevent their inward journey, because whenever a man goes inside he becomes unconditioned again and that is very dangerous for the society.

The society lives on your conditioning. It has made you a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Christian, this and that, and it depends on that conditioning, it relies on that conditioning. The moment you go in, when you really reach the centre, you lose all conditioning. You come back clean. There is nothing written on you so all the effort of the society is washed away. Society has a vested interest in seeing that nobody can meditate, or even if people want to meditate they should be supplied false meditations -- just toys so they can play around: a Christian prayer or something like a tranquillizer. Repeat a mantra, TM These

are strategies of the society. First you should not become interested in meditation: it is foolish. The whole attitude of the society is that it is foolish, it is mad. If you talk about meditation you are eccentric, crazy, mm? - everybody becomes suspicious of you.

If you go on persisting then the society has evolved false substitutes down the ages. It says, 'Okay, then do TM', because with TM the society is not in danger because TM does not make you rebellious. In fact, if you were rebellious it would cool you down. It is a conspiracy of the establishment; it helps the establishment just as do other tranquillizers. It gives you a false kind of consolation. Yes, it gives a kind of silence but that silence is not alive. It is not like a glacier coming down from the mountaintop, it is not like a river moving towards the ocean. It is like a man-created swimming pool... going nowhere, having no movement; it is man-made. It is not accidental that the American establishment is favouring TM and things 1/08/07

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like that; even schools, colleges and universities are becoming interested in it. They hope that people can be tranquillized through it, then they will be less rebellious.

To me the real religious person is pure rebellion: rebellion is his very soul. That rebellion comes when you go into your deepest being. Whenever you come back from there you are a new man, a new woman, a new being. You don't belong to this society, to this church, to this book you don't belong to anybody. You belong more to the trees and to the rocks and to the stars; you belong to the eternal. This whole universe is your home.

If you can find a home within yourself you will find that the whole universe is your home.

[A sannyasin says he feels something is about to happen to him. Osho checks his energy.]

That point is close by. Be conscious of it but don't be frightened of it. It is around the corner. Be in a kind of deep welcome to it, a receptivity, an openness. The more open you are, the closer it will come. You don't know what it is; there is no need to know what it is. How can you know what it is unless it happens?

So simply be open, whatsoever it is. For the first time one has to take that risk. Next time it will not be so risky because you will know what it is. This time it is risky: it may be good, it may be bad, it may be the friend, or the enemy. Who knows? -- God or devil. Maybe it will take you to some lighted peaks, sunny peaks or maybe it will drag you into the darkness and depth of the valley. One is not certain.

So both things happen in such a state: one hankers for it and one stops it also. There is a kind of ambiguity: one part of you will like to go into it and one part will say: 'Be alert, beware. It may be dangerous; yoU may repent later on.' If you become divided this point will be missed.

So don't be divided, this is not the time to be divided; you can't afford division in this moment. Simply welcome it whatsoever it is; call it 'x'.

[A sannyasin asks: The point is more to watch it or... pour more energy?]

No, no, no, don't watch it; pour energy. Watching will keep you distant, watching always keeps you distant. When you want to remain away from something, watch it. If you go on watching that watching will keep you away. For example, watch anger and you will never be angry; but don't watch love, otherwise love will disappear. Watch the negative; never watch the positive. Otherwise,

whatsoever you watch will go away from you, because the watcher cannot be one with the watched, the observer cannot be the observed.

How can you be both, mm? the observed remains there like an object and you remain here like a subject; there is a distance. The more you watch, the more subjective you become and the more the thing becomes an object. That won't help.

Get drunk with it; don't become a watcher: be absorbed. And that's what energy wants -- it wants to become drunk. Just go headlong, mm? This moment is not the moment to be wise but to be an utter fool.

Mm? only fools can go into it, only mad people can go into it. But something beautiful is around the corner.

Just be drunk with it, grope for it, go into it, search for it. Let it be a search from the heart and not from the head. If you watch it becomes a head thing; the watcher is in the head. The lover is never a watcher. The lover abandons himself, loses himself.

[A sannyasin has written to Osho about her mother's visit. She is disturbed because her mother is not interested in Osho.]

It is nothing... it is nothing. Mm? it is just that your mother's presence is disturbing you too much, that's all. Just accept your mother's presence. What can she do? Whatsoever she is, she is. Don't expect that she can change easily; there is no need. You both have the same kind of expectations: she thinks that you will change and that she will be able to change you; you think that she will change and that you will be able to change her. You are working exactly like her daughter!

There is no need to change either yourself or her; nobody need change. She remains herself, you remain yourself. And don't get disturbed, mm? -- make her stay as cheerful as possible. There is no need to be cold

-- be warm. Don't be worried because she is not with me or against me; that doesn't matter. That is her standpoint, that is her choice. You need not in any way punish her, knowingly or unknowingly. f you become cold that is a kind of punishment.

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sannyasin should not come in between you and your mother; that is not the point at all. Simply accept and just tell her 'There is no need to be worried; I am not going to convert you or change you Then she will feel more open.

And let her try: if she wants to change you, let her try. It is a good chance for you to see whether anybody can change you or not... a good opportunity ! But, be loving towards her and be warm, and there is no problem.

But be warm to her and help her and make her happy. She must be feeling lonely, and so many orange people.…

[A sannyasin says that during the Zazen group he felt sensations of heat and cold, of energy rushes to his head and felt separate from everything, from his feelings.]

Zazen can do it. If it really happens, feeling can disappear completely, because it is not a feeling method; it is a method of awareness. t is not of the heart, it is not of love -- it is of awareness. So it can happen. It has been good: it indicates that it has been really good. You went into it. Now don't start creating a conflict in yourself. Wait. The feeling will come back and will come back very very fresh, but you will have to wait a little. And don't miss these days through feeling miserable because the feeling is not there.

Enjoy awareness while these days last and when feeling comes enjoy feeling too. And then one can move between these polarities.

When you are alone, just move into a zazen space. Forget all feeling, all love, all emotions, all sentiments -- just remain a pure kind of awareness. And when you are with people, move into love, feeling, and forget that pure kind of awareness; attain to a pure kind of love and relating. I see the possibility.

That's why you were feeling hot and cold both. To a few people it happens -- both hot and cold, otherwise either it is hot or it is cold. If it is cold, then the man is meant to walk on the path of awareness. If it is hot he is meant to walk on the path of love. But if both happen that means that the man can easily move between the both. Then the man has to become a river and these two, love and awareness, have to become like two banks.

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