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‌CHAPTER 14

14 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

[To a sannyasin couple leaving:]

Help my people there and continue to meditate. If you can make it a point to meditate every day for at least one hour you will not miss me at all. For that one hour you will be here, because meditation is my taste my atmosphere. And whenever, wherever, you meditate, you are close to me.

Uddipo means the act of lighting, the act of kindling a light.

Man is born with all that is required to become light. Nothing is missing; it is just that all that is there has to be brought close together, into a certain order. You have the matchbox, but unless you strike the matchstick there will be no flame. And the flame is there – hiding, latent, potent – but it has to become manifest.

Man is born to become a Buddha, with all that is needed to become a Buddha; everyone is supplied the same material. That’s what birth is, that’s what life is. And the existence is very fair: it has not been given more to a few people and less to a few people. Enlightenment, Buddhahood, is not a talent. Everybody is not a musician, and cannot be; and everybody is not a mathematician, and cannot be; but everybody can become a Buddha. It is so natural an act, just like breathing. Whether you are a mathematician or a musician or a poet or a dancer, it doesn’t matter: you have to breathe. Breathing is not a talent, it is given to all; so is Buddhahood, so is becoming enlightened.

The function of the Master is to bring all that is in disorder in you into a certain order, where the flame can erupt. That eruption of the flame is uddipo.

[A sannyasin says: After Rebirthing I have no feeling it this (her right) leg; I don’t know what it is. Osho checks her energy.]

If you touch it you don’t feel it?...

And has it remained the same for these two weeks or has it changed?...

It will go, don’t be worried. It is just because of a certain breathing technique that it happened. But there is nothing to be worried about: it will go by itself. Massage will be helpful, but it will go by itself.

Good!

Madito means drunk with the divine, and that is your path to be followed. Become more and more drunk and drowned and lost; that has to be your meditation.

There are two possibilities of meditation: one is self-remembrance; the other is self-forgetfulness. If you remember yourself, then the false self immediately starts disappearing and the true self arrives. If you forget yourself, then too the same thing happens: in forgetting. your false self disappears and the true self arrives. So the methods look very different, polar opposites, but the result is the same.

And there are two types of people in the world: one will arrive through self-remembering and one will arrive through self-forgetfulness. Self-forgetfulness is going to be your way.

[The name Christina] It is beautiful because it reminds one of Christ, and there have been very few people so wonderful, so beautiful. Just to remember them is a benediction, just to have some kind of association with them is a blessing, because whatsoever they are, everybody else is too. They have become aware of it, others are not aware of it; that is the only difference. The difference between you and a Christ is not much, and yet it is very much. It is not much, because you are a Christ asleep – awakened there will be no difference at all; but still there is a difference, because the sleep can go on and on for lives together. Unless one makes great effort to wake up, one can go on sleeping for millions of lives. Hence it is a great difference and yet basically there is no difference.

Keep it in mind that your name has to become your reality too. It is possible, it is within our reach; it is not impossible, it is not beyond reach. Just a little intensity, a deep longing to grow, and things start changing. The very intensity to grow towards heights starts you moving towards heights. And when the intensity becomes one hundred per cent, that very intensity is the height! You have arrived on Everest.

And the Everest of consciousness is what is meant by Christ-consciousness or Krishna- consciousness or Buddhahood: different names for the same state of total awakening.

Shabnam means a dew-drop.

Man is a dew-drop but he contains the ocean within. That is the miracle of man, the paradox, the mystery, of being a man: so small, yet so vast; so finite, yet so infinite; confined between birth and death, and yet beyond both. The small is not small. because even the smallest pebble contains all the secrets of matter, and the small dew-drop contains all the secrets of the oceans. Man is a small universe; all that the universe contains is contained by man in a miniature way. Man is a map. If one understands oneself, one will have understood all.

Hence, down the ages, the seers and the sages have been teaching people: Know thyself, because in knowing yourself you will have known all that is worth knowing, all that is there to know.

Udgiti means singing – not a song but singing. A song is a finished product: it is already defined, it has a beginning and an end. Singing is a process: undefined, still growing, still flowing, still unpredictable. Life is not a song but a singing. It has no beginning, no end; it is a continuity from one mystery to another mystery, from one peak to another peak. Life is not an experience but an experiencing.

In fact, all nouns are false; only verbs are true. Some day it is going to happen: there will be a language which will not have nouns at all. That will be the most scientific language, it will have only verb, because in life nothing is static, everything is a flux.

Heraclitus says: You cannot step in the same river twice. And I say: You cannot step in the same river even once. It is such a flow, it is a continuous flow.

Change is the only reality, the only truth, and problems arise when we don’t understand this. Then we start clinging; we try to change the verb into a noun, and that cannot be done. Loving is true, love is not true. And the moment you try to change loving into love, you are getting into difficulty, you are going against life, because life is not life but living.

If one can remember this, and slowly slowly can imbibe the spirit of flow, problems disappear. because they are no more created. Clinging disappears, attachments disappear and life becomes such a freedom, such a joy, that it knows no hounds.

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