[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

The mind divides. It cannot see the whole, it always thinks in terms of duality. Mind is dualistic. Or,
mind is dialectical: it thinks in terms of thesis, antithesis. The moment you talk about love, hate is
present. The moment you talk about compassion, anger is present. The moment you talk about
greed, the opposite is present, charity is present. Talk about charity and greed is present; they go
together. They come in one package, they are not separate. But the mind continuously creates that.
You say 'beautiful' and you have said 'ugly' too. How can you say beautiful if you don't know what
ugliness is? You have divided. Say Divine' and you have divided, you have said 'profane'. Say 'God'
and you have proposed a Devil too. How can you say God without a Devil there? They go together.
Mind divides, and reality is one, indivisibly one. Then what to do? Mind has to be put aside. Don't
look through the prism. Push away the prism and let the white light, the oneness of existence
penetrate your being.
He who thinks of the mind in terms of one or many,
Casts away the light and enters the world.
If you think of one or many, dual or nondual, if you think in concepts, you have entered the world,
you have cast away the light. There are only two possibilities: either cast away the mind or cast
away
the light. It is your choice.
A man came once to Ramakrishna. He was praising Rama krishna very highly, and he was touching
Ramakrishna's feet again and again, and he was saying, "You are simply great - you have renounced
the world. You are such a great man! How much you have renounced!"
Ramakrishna listened, laughed and said, "Wait! You are going too far, the truth is just the opposite."
The man said, "What do you mean?"
Ramakrishna said, "I have not renounced anything. You have renounced. You are a great man!"
The man said, "Are you kidding? I have renounced? I am a worldly man, I indulge in things, a
thousand and one greeds are there. I am very ambitious, I am very money-oriented. How can I be
called great"? No, no, you must be joking!"
And Ramakrishna said, "No. There were two possibilities before me, and two were the possibilities
before you. You have chosen the world and renounced God; I have chosen God, renounced the
world. Who is the real renouncer? You have renounced the greater, more valuable, and chosen the
meaningless. And I have renounced the meaningless and chosen the valuable. If there is a great
diamond and a stone, you have chosen the stone and renounced the diamond; I have chosen the
diamond and renounced the stone - and you call me a great man, a great man of renunciation? Have
you gone mad? I am indulging in God. I have chosen the precious one."
Yes, I too agree with Ramakrishna, Mahavira, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Saraha, they have not
renounced. They have indulged. they have truly indulged. They have really enjoyed, they have
celebrated existence. We who are running after ordinary stones, we are the great renouncers.
There are only two possibilities: either renounce the mind and choose the light, or renounce the
light
and choose the mind; it is up to you.
He who thinks of the mind in terms of one or many
Casts away the light and enters the world.
Into a raging fire he walks with open eyes -
Who could be more deserving of compassion?
Saraha says: Sir, you have come to help me. You think you are compassionate towards me.
Certainly your whole kingdom will think that way, that the king has gone to the cremation ground:
how much is his compassion for Saraha! You think you have come because of compassion? You
make me laugh! In fact it is I who am feeling compassion for you, not otherwise. It is I who am
feeling sorry for you. You are a fool!
Into a raging fire he walks with open eyes...
Your eyes appear to be open, but they are not open. You are blind! You don't know what you are
doing...living in the world, do you think you are enjoying? You are just in a raging fire.
Exactly that happened when Buddha left his palace and left the boundaries of his kingdom, and told
his driver, "Now you go back. I am going into the jungle; I have renounced."
The old driver said, "Sir, I am old enough, I am more aged than your father; listen to my advice.
You
are doing something utterly foolish! Leaving this beautiful kingdom, this palace, a beautiful wife,
all
the luxuries for which each human being hankers - where are you going and for what?"
Buddha looked back at that marble palace and he said, "I see there only fire and nothing else, a
raging fire. The whole world is burning with fire. And I am not renouncing it because there is
nothing
to renounce in it. I am trying just to escape from the fire. No, I don't see any palace and I don't see
any joy there."
Saraha says to the king:
Into a raging fire he walks with open eyes -
Who could be more deserving of compassion?
You think, sir, you have come because of compassion to help me? No, the situation is just the
reverse: I feel compassion for you. You are living in a raging fire. Beware! Be alert! Be awake! And
get out of it as soon as possible, because all that is beautiful, all that is truthful, all that is good, is
known and experienced only through the no-mind.
Tantra is a process of creating no-mind in you.
No-mind is the door of nirvana.
Enough for today.
Chapter 10
Hingle de Jibbity Dangely Ji
Hingle de je, bipity fang dang - do run nun, de jun bung.
Is prayer useful?
Historically, a lot of men need two types of women while very few women seem to need more
than one man at a time...?
The carrot and the donkey.
Now I am miserable with some degree of awareness. What's new?
What should I do when you upset me?
What is samsara?
The first question - it is from Prabha:
Beloved Osho. Hingle de je, bipity jang dang - do run nun, de fun bung. Hingle de jibbity
dangely ji.
This is wonderful, Prabha! This is beautiful, this is just far out, baby! I am driving you sane. Just a
step more ...and the enlightenment.
The second question:
Beloved Osho, Is prayer useful If so, teach me how to pray. I mean, prayer to receive God's
love, to feel his grace.
First, prayer is not useful, not at all. Prayer has no use, no utility. It is not a commodity. You cannot
use it, it is not a thing. It is not a means to anything else, how can you use it?
I can understand the questioner's mind. The so-called religions have been teaching people that
prayer
is a means to God. It is not! Prayer is God. It is not a means towards anything: to be prayerful is the
end in itself. When you are prayerful, you are divine. Not that the prayer leads you towards the
divine; in prayerfulness you discover your divinity.
Prayer is not a means. It is the end unto itself.
But this fallacy has persisted down the centuries in man's mind, Love is also a means, so is prayer,
so
is meditation: all that is impossible to reduce to means has been reduced, and that's why the beauty
is
lost.
Love is useless, so is prayer, so is meditation.
When you ask, "Is prayer useful?" you don't understand what the word prayer means. You are
greedy, you want God, you want to grab God. Now you are finding ways and means to grab, and
God cannot be grabbed!
You cannot possess God. You cannot contain God. You carmot interpret God. You cannot [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]