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10 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103105 ShortTitle: CLAPP10

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meditation transforms you

into a beloved of the whole existence as the meditator becomes centred, silent, aware the whole existence starts converging upward the same world but no more the same before it was cold, alien

now it is cosy, a home

a man without meditation

lives in the world as a stranger as you enter meditation

you enter a love affair with existence and for love everything is possible even the impossible is not impossible all that is needed is

a deep, profound silence in your being that becomes a magnetic pull then whatsoever is beautiful in existence starts moving towards you

meditation creates gravitation for truth for beauty, for love

for freedom, for godliness for all that is really valuable one need not go searching for anything one has simply to rest in one's being and all that is needed follows in its own course 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- meditation is the only magic that has yet been known

and i don't think it can ever be transcended there will not be any magic greater than meditation meditation cannot be a logical enquiry you cannot study it from the outside it is not an object hence no scientific enquiry is possible by its very nature it is a matter of love not of logic the head is incapable of meditation so those who start thinking about meditation studying meditation

go on missing the point

they are starting from a wrong space their very first step has gone wrong and the first step is the most important step it is almost half the journey because the next step follows the first the next step is implied in the first so i want my sannyasins to be reminded again and again

to let meditation be your love affair don't think about it don't philosophise about it take a plunge

just as one falls in love, fall into meditation then all the mysteries are yours just a moment's thought

and you are thousands of miles away from it no thought and you are it one cannot expect, one cannot desire one cannot demand

as far as meditation is concerned expecting, demanding, desiring are barriers one can simply wait, utterly relaxed it comes but it comes like a sudden breeze it comes and refreshes you it comes and rejuvenates you it comes and it transforms you but it does not come according to your ideas it does not come according to your prejudices that is something significant never to be forgotten

because the whole functioning of our mind is such that whatsoever we do we do with a motive if we are meditating then we look sideways looking at the clock, expecting 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- now it is going to happen

it is time enough

it should happen now

i have been meditating for three days or three months or three years how long can one go on meditating?

enough-is enough

if all these things are going on then you are creating a barricade meditation should be done for its own joy it is an end unto itself

not a means to something else and then the miracle happens but you cannot do it, it happens it comes like a breeze

it surprises you, it wakes you up for a moment you miss a heartbeat because the guest has come so unexpectedly and it is so glorious, so fulfilling so tremendously blissful

its whole beauty depends on its unexpectedness, its surprise millions of people have meditated but very few have reached

for the simple reason that only very few have meditated for its sheer joy meditation is a state of suspendedness a state of interval

before meditation

you live in the darkness of the mind with all its desires, greeds, angers, jealousies after meditation you live in the world of bliss benediction, truth, freedom but there is a gap between the two when one is in fact nowhere neither here nor there

and that is the most significant passage the mind tries to go back

because that twilight zone is frightening because suddenly all your ideas, all your notions your very ego is getting lost a fear grips one, one

wants to fall back and cling to all the old things at least there was something to cling to meditation is emptiness

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hence the master is needed the most significant function of the master is in the twilight zone

because when the disciple starts falling back which is a natural thing nothing extraordinary about it it happens to everybody

because the known, the familiar was at least the known and the familiar and now one is simply melting and one knows not what is going to happen next it is almost like death

the death of the old and the new is not born yet that is the moment when the master can go on holding your hand and he can say don't be worried -- the dawn is not far away just look at the east, the sun is rising sometimes the master has to devise things just to keep you occupied in the twilight zone some toys to cling to, some methods, some words so you are not utterly empty as the twilight zone passes by you will be able to see that these are toys and that they have served their function mind is full

full of all that is ugly, it is full of hell and the soul is full full of all that is beautiful it is full of heaven

between these two fullnesses there is a gap of utter emptiness that's what meditation is

it takes you from the fullness of the ugly mind to the fullness of the beautiful soul but there is no way to escape the gap one has to pass through it and if one knows one can pass joyously then one can even enjoy the interval its silence, its emptiness, its nothingness meditation can be thought of either as silence or as song it can be thought of as silence if you compare it with the mind compared to

the mind it is silence but compared to the soul it is a song it is not something dead, it is very alive 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- it is not the silence of the cemetery but the silence

of the high altitudes of mountains in that silence

if you have enough sensitivity you can decipher many songs all the creativity that has happened in the world has come through meditation knowingly or unknowingly

all the poetry, all the music, all the dance is possible only if something deep inside you starts bursting forth in celebration you have to come out of seriousness there is no need to be so serious no need to be so sacred, holy learn to laugh, learn to sing and that will help you immensely because the whole existence is a celebration if we are serious then we are not part of the universe the old proverb is right

if you laugh the whole world laughs with you it you weep, if you cry you weep and cry alone

people have their own problems more than are needed who wants to participate

with someone who is sad and serious?

so make it a point to drop your seriousness wherever it exists

and it can be dropped because it is unnatural no child is born serious, it is taught by others and my function here is to help you to become a child again

nobody has ever defined meditation as a sense of humour

but to me the sense of humour is the most significant religious quality the person who cannot laugh cannot pray either the person who cannot see existence with

all its incredible beauty and also with all its infinite ridiculousness cannot understand life

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and life is god, there is no other god the more you become silent the more you will be able to see things in clear perspective

and then you will be surprised that things are so incredibly beautiful that the whole existence is giggling except foolish man and his foolish saints who are sitting like mummies dead, holding themself together afraid that if they lose control if they start laughing

they will lose all respectability i don't teach my sannyasins to be respectable i teach them to be alive

whatsoever it costs be totally alive even if you have to risk your life it is worth it in fact when a man has something to die for only then has he something to live for always look at the humorous side of existence and you will start getting more and more in tune with yourself and with the world the sense of humour makes a man very ordinary but to me that ordinariness is in fact the most extraordinary phenomenon the desire to be extraordinary is very ordinary everybody wants that

to relax into ordinariness is a very rare phenomenon, very extraordinary and the sense of humour brings you many gifts it is not only a question of laughing at others more fundamentally it is a question of laughing at oneself too if you see your own life and its ridiculousness you will start laughing

what have you been doing? what are you doing?

and if you can start laughing at your own actions a tremendous relief happens and when you can laugh at yourself you cannot be hard on others your so-called saints are very hard on others just for small things

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for example, somebody loves smoking he has to be thrown into hell this is too much... and for eternity he will be thrown alive into hellfire and for eternity he will have to burn there just because he was smoking so he has to smoke for eternity now and what was so wrong with it?

it is everybody's right

if one wants to take smoke in and out it is nobody else's business, nothing is wrong in it but our saints have been too hard for the simple reason

that they had no sense of humour they created hell i cannot conceive hell

the whole of existence is paradise your silence should not only be silence it should also be laughter it should also be a dance

it should have many dimensions to it and if you meet god anytime tell him a few jokes and he will be far happier with you than with jesus carrying his cross than with your saints going to him with sad faces friedrich nietzsche said god is dead but i suspect he must be hiding from the so-called saints

just look at your saints -- they are such a torture if he is dead

then it cannot have been a normal death he must have committed suicide surrounded by all kinds of saints particularly the christian saints and all the popes and all the priests...

i cannot conceive god alive in such wrong company god needs better company, he deserves it i am preparing better company for god meditation is the last boundary beyond which nothing can be said beyond which starts the inexpressible beyond which is the truth

but you can reach to that beyond only through meditation meditation is an antidote

mind is the disease 1/08/07

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meditation is the antidote the moment mind is dropped meditation is also dropped you have come to the ultimate boundary now begins real experiencing so remember

my people are not to cling to meditation it is only medicine

in fact the words meditation and medicine come from the same root: that which cures

that is the meaning of the root word medicine cures your physical diseases meditation cures your psychological diseases but a medicine is needed only if the disease is there when the disease is finished medicine is of no use there comes a point in the life of a meditator when he drops meditation

because the mind is no more there and there is no need to meditate at all that is the ultimate line

the moment mind and meditation are both dropped you have come home

for the first time you are whole for the first time you are really holy and from this moment real things start happening but nothing can be said about them nothing has been written about them it is the world of the inexpressible meditation is only a pointing of the way a milestone, an arrow

showing you, go on, go on

and then the milestone comes with a zero on it miles have disappeared, arrows have disappeared now the zero has come

that zero is the ultimate search of all sannyas and to achieve it is to achieve all because the zero is synonymous with the whole meditation is a transcendence a

transcendence of three things the body, the mind and the heart the body consists of actions the mind of thoughts, the heart of feelings ordinarily we think we are just a combination of these three 1/08/07

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we are not -- we are the fourth these three are there surrounding us but the centre is beyond all three and to find that centre of the cyclone is the whole art of meditation so first one has to transcend the body and it is simple

by just watching and remembering i am not the body slowly slowly

the remembrance becomes an undercurrent then you don't remember it is there, you know it

and the same has to be done with the mind i am not my thoughts

thoughts are like birds who come in the evening for an overnight stay in the tree and in the morning they are gone thousands of thoughts

have been taking shelter in your mind and have left

they don't belong to you, they come and go you abide, they don't abide they are changing, you are eternal the remembrance that i am not my thoughts slowly slowly seeps deep into you and becomes a realisation

and then nothing has to be done the body goes on doing its work the mind goes on doing its work only our identification is no more there we attain to a certain detachment a deep aloofness, a certain coolness the most difficult is the third because feelings are very close emotions are very close, moods are very close but if one succeeds with the first two it is not difficult to succeed with the third one should start with the first, the body then with the mind, then with the heart once all these three are transcended for the first time you experience who you are and that experience is liberation liberation from misery

liberation from death

liberation from everything 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- from every limitation

to know oneself as transcendental is to know oneself as divine the only problem in front of man is the ego it is the ancientmost problem there is no other problem

and the problem is soluble because it is our own invention, it does not really exist ego is a put-together phenomenon we have manufactured it for certain purposes the society has supported it, the society needs it the simple process is that if you have a false centre it can be controlled

if you have a real centre it cannot be controlled reality cannot be enslaved hence the society has invented a false centre and before the child becomes aware of his real centre

he is handed over a false centre and the false centre is useful for the society politicians, priests, pedagogues they will all be using it

the man who lives with the false centre never becomes aware

of what has gone wrong with him he always feels something is missing he is not what he should be there is a constant subtle awareness that he is false, pseudo, that he is wearing a mask but because he has never seen his original face he cannot discard the mask either because he is afraid

maybe there is no face at all it is better to have a false face than to be faceless who knows what is behind the mask?

behind the mask is the real, original face behind the ego is the real centre but unless we discard the false the real cannot be found

discarding the false is the only way to find the real meditation is a process of elimination go on eliminating whatsoever is false mercilessly go on peeling

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and soon you will come to a source which is authentically yours and the moment that source is found life has a different juice to it a different perfume, a different freedom then nothing is felt to be missing there is great contentment, fulfilment one has come to flowering

in the state of egolessness one starts hearing the celestial music the music of the stars

one starts hearing the message of the whole it is wordless but it is heard and understood it is

the Sound of one hand Clapping

in fact it is soundless because one hand clapping cannot create any sound

but still there is a music to that silence a subtle rhythm in that silence and that rhythm is the rhythm of the universe once you have found it you are no more separate all walls disappear and become bridges these are the two ways to live your life either surrounded by walls disconnected from the whole that is the way of the ego, the way of the mind and the other style of life is making all the walls into bridges connected, part of the whole that is the way of meditation, the way of egolessness the first person lives in hell and only he is responsible, nobody else and the second person lives in heaven again he is responsible, nobody else it is our choice

so don't ever blame stars, don't ever blame fate don't shirk your responsibility don't throw it on anybody else's shoulders 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- this is one of the fundamentals of sannyas that i am responsible

for whatsoever is happening to me only i am responsible and nobody else once this responsibility is totally accepted life goes through a revolution a revolution that brings

thousands of blessings and benedictions The Sound of One Hand Clapping

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