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heartbeatsalute · 23-05-2013, 01:45 AM

And of course, no ruler wants to be thrown out of his power. The body plays politics — that’s what is happening. When she creates imaginary pain, itching, ants creeping, the body is trying to distract you. And it is natural, because the body has remained in rule for so long; for many lives it has been the emperor and you have been the slave. Now you are changing everything upside down. You are reclaiming your throne, and it is natural the body will try whatsoever it can do to disturb you. If you get disturbed, you are lost. Ordinarily, people suppress these things. They will start chanting a mantra; they will not look at the body.

I am not teaching you any sort of suppression. Only awareness I teach. You just watch, pay attention, and because it is false, immediately it will disappear. When all the pains and itches and ants have disappeared and the body has settled in its right place of being a slave, suddenly arises so much bliss you cannot contain it.

Suddenly arises so much celebration in the being, you cannot express it; you are overflowing with a peace that passeth understanding, a bliss which is not of this world.

---OSHO---

heartbeatsalute · 23-05-2013, 05:01 PM

Osho,
“There is so much magnificence in the ocean…Waves are coming in, waves are coming in….” and once again I seem to be desperately running for dry land! My sweet Osho, how about yet another intensive lesson on drowning?

Radha, when the invitation of the ocean comes don’t run away from it.

The ocean is the very beginning of life, not only metaphorically, but factually. We are from the ocean, physically. And we are from a vaster ocean, invisible to the bare eyes, spiritual. And when the invitation comes, running towards dry land is running towards your own grave.

Only the graveyard is outside the ocean.

Life is in being oceanic.

William James has given this word, oceanic to the world. The ocean has always been there, but once in a while a man of insight gives it a totally new dimension. He is the first man to use the word oceanic in the sense of vastness, infinity, eternity, immortality. It is always there; waves upon waves go on coming. Just as in the ordinary ocean, so in the ocean of consciousness: waves upon waves, unending joy, unending dawns, unending celebration.

Why should you think of running? But it is not rare; almost everybody thinks of running away from the ocean, from anything that is bigger than you, because the fear is you will be overwhelmed, you will disappear.

You don’t need any lesson in drowning; the ocean will do the whole work. You simply don’t run. You simply go on sitting silently and let the ocean take you over. Don’t be worried that this is going to be your death. That is the fear that comes to every mind the moment it is close to the infinite. It is a very small, very tiny thing. It has made its own cozy life, although it is dark and miserable, poor, spiritually poor.

But it seems to be safe in a way, that you are not being overwhelmed by something bigger than you. And unless a man learns how to be overwhelmed, he will miss everything that is of value. He will miss love; he will run away from love, because love is bigger than you and very overwhelming. Such a person will run away from truth. Lies are good; they are smaller than you. They are your own creation; how can they be bigger than you? But truth is not your creation; in fact, you come from the sources of truth. Naturally, the fear arises when you come across truth.

Silence is overwhelming; all noise is yours.

Silence belongs to existence.

From Osho, The Invitation, Chapter 16

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heartbeatsalute · 23-05-2013, 05:08 PM

heartbeatsalute · 24-05-2013, 01:02 AM

These anecdotes belong to the heights that Buddhism reached, together with Taoism in China. Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu were contemporaries, and both were of the same insight and clarity. They both belong to the universal sense of humanity. So when Buddhist monks reached China, they were welcomed. There was no conflict between Taoism and Buddhism. This is a strange fact of history, it has never happened anywhere else. Christians have been fighting with Mohammedans, Mohammedans have been fighting with Hindus, Christians have been fighting with Jews – everywhere, all so-called religions have been in conflict. And it is not only verbal conflict: killing each other in millions.

The meeting of Buddhism and Taoism is exceptional, unique. The Taoist monks received the refugee Buddhists with great love; and slowly a new phenomenon, a by-product of the meeting of Buddhism and Taoism came to birth: that is Zen. These anecdotes have the quality of Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu both. Two of the greatest human beings who have passed this earth, their meeting has produced the most significant and the most fragrant religiousness. But it is a little difficult to understand because Buddha spoke in a totally different language, Lao Tzu spoke in a totally different language…and the meeting of the two became even more complicated. But it is a joy to enter into this complication and to find out the diamond hidden behind these words.

Kyogen was asked by a monk, “What is the way?”
He answered, “A dragon singing in a withered tree.”

I have to explain to you – the dragon is a mythological animal, it does not exist. But Kyogen is saying that the way is, “A dragon singing in a withered tree.” A tree that has withered and a dragon that does not exist – if you can understand this, you have found the way. Just like the dragon, disappear as an ego; and just like a withered tree, drop all your thoughts, as the leaves have fallen from the tree. And you will have found your heart, singing a song. And you will find the way to reach to the very heart of existence.

There is no God in Buddhism or Taoism. All religions that believe in God are childish. The whole universe is divine, it is only a question of awakening to your divineness. The way does not lead you somewhere else, the way simply leads you into your own heart. The ego is a fiction, like a dragon, and your thoughts, your mind, should become a withered tree. Only then can you find, hidden inside, your life juice. That is your truth, and to find it one starts singing and dancing with joy because you have found the eternal.

The monk said, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Obviously, the monk was trying to understand the words; he was not able to see that Kyogen has not answered his question but only symbolically indicated toward it. Neither the dragon exists…and the tree is withered.

Kyogen said, “If you cannot understand this, let us try it another way”:

"The pupils of the eyes of a skull.”

From Osho, Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt, Chapter 3

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heartbeatsalute · 24-05-2013, 04:21 AM

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heartbeatsalute · 24-05-2013, 04:13 PM

The mastery of one’s self comes when one realizes, “I am absolutely responsible for whatsoever happens to me, whatsoever happens, unconditionally. I am responsible, absolutely.” In the beginning it will make you very, very sad and depressed because if you can throw the responsibility on the other, you feel good that you are not in the wrong. What can you do when the wife is behaving in such a nasty way? You have to be angry. But remember well, the wife is behaving nastily because of her own inner mechanisms. She’s not nasty to you. If you were not there she would have been nasty to the child. If the child were not there she would have been nasty to the plates – she would have thrown them on the floor. She would have broken the radio. She had to do something; nastiness was coming up. It was just coincidence that you were found reading your newspaper and she became nasty to you. It was just coincidence that you were available in a wrong moment.

You are angry not because the wife is nasty. She may have supplied the situation, that’s all. She may have given you a possibility to be angry, an excuse to be angry, but the anger was bubbling up. If the wife were not there you would have been angry all the same – with something else, with some idea, but anger had to be there. It was something that was coming from your own unconscious.

Everybody is responsible, totally responsible for his own being and behavior. In the beginning it will give you a very depressed mood that you are responsible, because you have always thought that you want to be happy – so how can you be responsible for your unhappiness? You always desire blissfulness, so how can you be angry on your own? And because of this you throw the responsibility on the other. If you go on throwing responsibility on the other, remember that you will always remain a slave because nobody can change the other. How can you change the other? Has anybody ever changed the other? One of the most unfulfilled wishes in the world is to change the other. Nobody has ever done that. It is impossible because the other exists in his own right – you cannot change him. You go on throwing responsibility on the other but you cannot change the other. And because you throw the responsibility on the other, you will never see that the basic responsibility is yours. The basic change is needed there inside you.

This is how you are trapped: if you start thinking that you are responsible for all your actions, for all your moods, in the beginning a depression will take over. But if you can pass through that depression, soon you will feel light because now you are freed from the other, now you can work on your own. You can be free, you can be happy. Even if the whole world is unhappy and unfree it makes no difference. Otherwise, how is a Buddha possible? And how is a Patanjali possible? How am I possible? The whole world is the same. It is just the same as it is for you, but a Krishna goes on dancing and singing; he’s freed. And the first freedom is to stop throwing responsibility on the other, the first freedom is to know that you are responsible. Then many things become immediately possible.

The whole philosophy of karma is that you are responsible. Whatsoever you have sown in the past you are reaping. You may not be able to follow the link between the cause and the effect, but if the effect is there, the cause must be there somewhere in you.

From Osho, The Alchemy of Yoga, Chapter 7

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Copyright © 2012 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All Rights Reserved

heartbeatsalute · 24-05-2013, 05:50 PM

23-05-2013, 01:45 AM	#6641
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	And of course, no ruler wants to be thrown out of his power. The body plays politics — that’s what is happening. When she creates imaginary pain, itching, ants creeping, the body is trying to distract you. And it is natural, because the body has remained in rule for so long; for many lives it has been the emperor and you have been the slave. Now you are changing everything upside down. You are reclaiming your throne, and it is natural the body will try whatsoever it can do to disturb you. If you get disturbed, you are lost. Ordinarily, people suppress these things. They will start chanting a mantra; they will not look at the body. I am not teaching you any sort of suppression. Only awareness I teach. You just watch, pay attention, and because it is false, immediately it will disappear. When all the pains and itches and ants have disappeared and the body has settled in its right place of being a slave, suddenly arises so much bliss you cannot contain it. Suddenly arises so much celebration in the being, you cannot express it; you are overflowing with a peace that passeth understanding, a bliss which is not of this world. ---OSHO--- __________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual. Last edited by heartbeatsalute; 23-05-2013 at 04:58 PM.

23-05-2013, 05:01 PM	#6642
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	Osho, “There is so much magnificence in the ocean…Waves are coming in, waves are coming in….” and once again I seem to be desperately running for dry land! My sweet Osho, how about yet another intensive lesson on drowning? Radha, when the invitation of the ocean comes don’t run away from it. The ocean is the very beginning of life, not only metaphorically, but factually. We are from the ocean, physically. And we are from a vaster ocean, invisible to the bare eyes, spiritual. And when the invitation comes, running towards dry land is running towards your own grave. Only the graveyard is outside the ocean. Life is in being oceanic. William James has given this word, oceanic to the world. The ocean has always been there, but once in a while a man of insight gives it a totally new dimension. He is the first man to use the word oceanic in the sense of vastness, infinity, eternity, immortality. It is always there; waves upon waves go on coming. Just as in the ordinary ocean, so in the ocean of consciousness: waves upon waves, unending joy, unending dawns, unending celebration. Why should you think of running? But it is not rare; almost everybody thinks of running away from the ocean, from anything that is bigger than you, because the fear is you will be overwhelmed, you will disappear. You don’t need any lesson in drowning; the ocean will do the whole work. You simply don’t run. You simply go on sitting silently and let the ocean take you over. Don’t be worried that this is going to be your death. That is the fear that comes to every mind the moment it is close to the infinite. It is a very small, very tiny thing. It has made its own cozy life, although it is dark and miserable, poor, spiritually poor. But it seems to be safe in a way, that you are not being overwhelmed by something bigger than you. And unless a man learns how to be overwhelmed, he will miss everything that is of value. He will miss love; he will run away from love, because love is bigger than you and very overwhelming. Such a person will run away from truth. Lies are good; they are smaller than you. They are your own creation; how can they be bigger than you? But truth is not your creation; in fact, you come from the sources of truth. Naturally, the fear arises when you come across truth. Silence is overwhelming; all noise is yours. Silence belongs to existence. From Osho, The Invitation, Chapter 16 www.osho.com Copyright © 2012 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All Rights Reserved __________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual. Last edited by heartbeatsalute; 23-05-2013 at 05:04 PM.

23-05-2013, 05:08 PM	#6643
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	__________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual.

24-05-2013, 01:02 AM	#6644
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	These anecdotes belong to the heights that Buddhism reached, together with Taoism in China. Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu were contemporaries, and both were of the same insight and clarity. They both belong to the universal sense of humanity. So when Buddhist monks reached China, they were welcomed. There was no conflict between Taoism and Buddhism. This is a strange fact of history, it has never happened anywhere else. Christians have been fighting with Mohammedans, Mohammedans have been fighting with Hindus, Christians have been fighting with Jews – everywhere, all so-called religions have been in conflict. And it is not only verbal conflict: killing each other in millions. The meeting of Buddhism and Taoism is exceptional, unique. The Taoist monks received the refugee Buddhists with great love; and slowly a new phenomenon, a by-product of the meeting of Buddhism and Taoism came to birth: that is Zen. These anecdotes have the quality of Gautam Buddha and Lao Tzu both. Two of the greatest human beings who have passed this earth, their meeting has produced the most significant and the most fragrant religiousness. But it is a little difficult to understand because Buddha spoke in a totally different language, Lao Tzu spoke in a totally different language…and the meeting of the two became even more complicated. But it is a joy to enter into this complication and to find out the diamond hidden behind these words. Kyogen was asked by a monk, “What is the way?” He answered, “A dragon singing in a withered tree.” I have to explain to you – the dragon is a mythological animal, it does not exist. But Kyogen is saying that the way is, “A dragon singing in a withered tree.” A tree that has withered and a dragon that does not exist – if you can understand this, you have found the way. Just like the dragon, disappear as an ego; and just like a withered tree, drop all your thoughts, as the leaves have fallen from the tree. And you will have found your heart, singing a song. And you will find the way to reach to the very heart of existence. There is no God in Buddhism or Taoism. All religions that believe in God are childish. The whole universe is divine, it is only a question of awakening to your divineness. The way does not lead you somewhere else, the way simply leads you into your own heart. The ego is a fiction, like a dragon, and your thoughts, your mind, should become a withered tree. Only then can you find, hidden inside, your life juice. That is your truth, and to find it one starts singing and dancing with joy because you have found the eternal. The monk said, “I don’t know what you are talking about.” Obviously, the monk was trying to understand the words; he was not able to see that Kyogen has not answered his question but only symbolically indicated toward it. Neither the dragon exists…and the tree is withered. Kyogen said, “If you cannot understand this, let us try it another way”: "The pupils of the eyes of a skull.” From Osho, Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt, Chapter 3 www.osho.com Copyright © 2012 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All Rights Reserved __________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual. Last edited by heartbeatsalute; 24-05-2013 at 01:03 AM.

24-05-2013, 04:21 AM	#6645
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	http://www.dailymotion.com/OSHOInternational __________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual.

24-05-2013, 05:12 AM	#6646
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	http://www.oshoworld.com/onlinemag/s...m/In_Focus.asp __________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual.

24-05-2013, 04:13 PM	#6647
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	The mastery of one’s self comes when one realizes, “I am absolutely responsible for whatsoever happens to me, whatsoever happens, unconditionally. I am responsible, absolutely.” In the beginning it will make you very, very sad and depressed because if you can throw the responsibility on the other, you feel good that you are not in the wrong. What can you do when the wife is behaving in such a nasty way? You have to be angry. But remember well, the wife is behaving nastily because of her own inner mechanisms. She’s not nasty to you. If you were not there she would have been nasty to the child. If the child were not there she would have been nasty to the plates – she would have thrown them on the floor. She would have broken the radio. She had to do something; nastiness was coming up. It was just coincidence that you were found reading your newspaper and she became nasty to you. It was just coincidence that you were available in a wrong moment. You are angry not because the wife is nasty. She may have supplied the situation, that’s all. She may have given you a possibility to be angry, an excuse to be angry, but the anger was bubbling up. If the wife were not there you would have been angry all the same – with something else, with some idea, but anger had to be there. It was something that was coming from your own unconscious. Everybody is responsible, totally responsible for his own being and behavior. In the beginning it will give you a very depressed mood that you are responsible, because you have always thought that you want to be happy – so how can you be responsible for your unhappiness? You always desire blissfulness, so how can you be angry on your own? And because of this you throw the responsibility on the other. If you go on throwing responsibility on the other, remember that you will always remain a slave because nobody can change the other. How can you change the other? Has anybody ever changed the other? One of the most unfulfilled wishes in the world is to change the other. Nobody has ever done that. It is impossible because the other exists in his own right – you cannot change him. You go on throwing responsibility on the other but you cannot change the other. And because you throw the responsibility on the other, you will never see that the basic responsibility is yours. The basic change is needed there inside you. This is how you are trapped: if you start thinking that you are responsible for all your actions, for all your moods, in the beginning a depression will take over. But if you can pass through that depression, soon you will feel light because now you are freed from the other, now you can work on your own. You can be free, you can be happy. Even if the whole world is unhappy and unfree it makes no difference. Otherwise, how is a Buddha possible? And how is a Patanjali possible? How am I possible? The whole world is the same. It is just the same as it is for you, but a Krishna goes on dancing and singing; he’s freed. And the first freedom is to stop throwing responsibility on the other, the first freedom is to know that you are responsible. Then many things become immediately possible. The whole philosophy of karma is that you are responsible. Whatsoever you have sown in the past you are reaping. You may not be able to follow the link between the cause and the effect, but if the effect is there, the cause must be there somewhere in you. From Osho, The Alchemy of Yoga, Chapter 7 www.osho.com Copyright © 2012 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All Rights Reserved __________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual.

24-05-2013, 05:50 PM	#6648
heartbeatsalute Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 10,228	__________________ The belief that society exists has sabotaged every effort to change mankind. It is the reason why revolutions have failed. It is about a totally different revolution: the revolution in the heart of the individual.