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Osho (to Burkhard): Prem means love; sudharma means the ultimate law.
Man can either live in conflict with existence, or in love. To live in conflict with existence is to live irreligiously. It is pushing the river, it is going against the current. And all struggle is egoistic, struggle as such is egoistic.
The moment you start flowing with the river, going with existence relaxedly, in tune with it, in accord with it, religion is born. Religion is not Christian, Hindu or Mohammedan: a religion is a way of life in accord with the ultimate law.
And love
is the
ultimate law.
Be in tune with love, never go against love. Let love be the criterion; judge everything on that criterion. If it goes against love, drop it, forget the whole idea. If it fulfills love, go into it; do it, and do it totally.
If you can remember love in your actions you will be moving in the right direction. You will find the temple of God, it is absolutely certain.
Those who
have loved
have never missed.
Osho
Don’t Let Yourself Be Upset By The Sutra, Rather Upset The Sutra Yourself, Initiation Talks, Thursday August 30, 1979 https://t.co/YW98Rqj9uR
(Sidney becomes Anand Swagata, and Osho instructs him in the art of receiving bliss: all you need is a welcoming heart)
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You have to open all the doors and all the windows, because you never know from where the wind will start blowing, you never know from where the sun will start sending its rays into your darkness.
One never knows—it is unpredictable—from what side, in what moment, God will knock on your doors. Always keep them open so that he need not knock, he can simply walk in.
We live very closed lives. A closed life is the life of a coward. The open life—open to rain, wind and sun, open to all that life contains…
Yes, it is dangerous to be so open, but unless you live dangerously you never live. Those who want God to happen to them have to live at the climax of danger, have to live in insecurity.
They have to rest in insecurity, and they have to relax in danger. Only when you have that much courage, is truth possible. It is not for cowards.
Becoming a sannyasin is getting committed to the ultimate adventure of life.
How long will you be here?
SWAGATA: Not very long.
Then come again.
SWAGATA: Can I ask you one thing, Osho?
I have been seeing this purple light in my meditation, and I was just wondering what it means.
Continue. Don’t think about it. Just go on seeing, remain a witness. Just don’t make any judgment about it, good or bad, because any judgment becomes identification. Simply watch.
It is a good sign. Just watch it: it will do its work and disappear. Many more things will be happening—keep this key always: never think about them. Let them be mysterious, let them remain unanalyzed, unknown; just watch them.
They are there and they will do some work, they will make a few changes in you, they will prepare some ground for future happenings, and then they will disappear.
If you start thinking about them, if you become obsessed with them, you stop their work. Then they cannot function well. This is something to be always remembered.
It is like when you eat: one day, for twenty-four hours, try to eat, then just go on thinking “The food has gone into the stomach, now what is happening? Now where is it? Is it moving or not moving, is it being digested or not, are juices flowing or not? Where is it now?”
Just for twenty-four hours go on thinking about it and you will have an upset stomach! (laughter) You will stop the whole natural process. You will disturb the whole thing that goes on silently.
And that’s how it is for higher things also: let them happen, don’t think about them, accept them joyously, receive them joyously. No need to label them; just let them work, and they work better if you leave them totally untouched.
It is good. Continue watching it. Good, Swagata!
Osho
Don’t Let Yourself Be Upset By The Sutra, Rather Upset The Sutra Yourself, Initiation Talks, Tuesday September 4, 1979 https://t.co/YW98Rqj9uR
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Osho (to Yvonne): But there are things which cannot be achieved through effort, which are achieved only through effortlessness.
Those are the things of the inner world, the other world; they don’t belong to this shore. Bliss, love, prayer, God—they can’t be achieved through human effort.
Human effort is so small, it cannot contain such vast experiences. The human effort has to cease totally, only then do bliss, love, prayer, meditation, become possible.
They come only when you are an absolute nothingness, when you don’t exist at all, when you are no more present: you are just an opening, a vulnerability, a receptivity, a trust, a surrender. Bliss comes only as a grace—that is the meaning of grace.
The Zen people say: Sitting silently, doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
That’s how it happens as far as the inner, the spiritual, is concerned. It is not that you have to do anything, just the contrary: the doer has to disappear. You have just to be; not a doer but simply a being, just a being, with no effort, with no desire, nowhere to go, nothing to achieve… here and now.
When effort ceases you are bound to be here and now, because effort can cease only when desiring ceases; they are all interconnected.
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears.
Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it—effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace.
Prayer simply means asking for grace. Prayer means “I am helpless, I cannot do anything, it is beyond me. I can only be at the receiving end. Come! I am ready to welcome you!” That’s what prayer is all about.
And that’s what sannyas is all about. Sannyas is prayer. It is prayer spread all over your life—not done in the morning and then finished with, or in the night and finished with, or done a few times a day and finished with.
Sannyas means that your very lifestyle is transformed into prayer: you live it, you breathe it, it becomes your heartbeat. And then bliss comes, bliss comes like a flood! It explodes. You just have to be in a state of non-doing.
So learn how to be silent, how to be still, how to be in a state of non-doing, no effort, and then wait! That waiting is of tremendous importance. Just as in the world effort is of tremendous importance, moving into God, waiting—simply waiting, with no expectation…
Expectant, but without any expectation, not hankering, not saying that it should happen now, that I have waited long enough; a simple waiting and trust that whenever the time is ripe it is going to happen, whenever I am in a state to receive, whenever I deserve it, it is going to happen—trusting this, a moment comes: it happens.
And the moment comes so silently that you cannot hear its footsteps; you know only when it has happened.
Osho
Don’t Let Yourself Be Upset By The Sutra, Rather Upset The Sutra Yourself, Initiation Talks, Saturday September 22, 1979 https://t.co/YW98Rqj9uR
Osho (to Mark): Good. Come close to me. Just look at me.
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Good.
This is your name: Swami Anand Mark. Anand means bliss. Linguistically bliss gives the idea of happiness, joy, pleasure, but existentially it is something higher than happiness, greater than joy, deeper than pleasure. All those three things—happiness, joy and pleasure—are part of it, but it is not just the sum total of them. The total is more than the sum total of all the parts.
Bliss is the state of absolute harmony within you, not only within yourself but with the existence too. Hence within and without, when absolute harmony prevails there is no discord. All is at ease, at home. Then it is bliss. And that’s the goal of all life—to attain it.
Mark means the god of Mars. The ancient people all over the world were always tending to change and transform everything into the divine. The sun became a god, the moon became a god, Mars became a god, mountains became gods, rivers became gods, even trees, rocks… That was a totally different world view in which all was divine, in which dust was divine.
Those were really poetic people—visionaries, dreamers. They had a certain quality of innocence, hence wherever they looked, they penetrated deep; everything became transparent to them. They were childlike.
It was the primitive age of humanity, and when I use the word “primitive” I don’t use it in any condemnatory sense—on the contrary. In fact, to know God one has to be a primitive again: innocent, full of wonder, awe, knowing nothing and exploring everything. In that wonder and awe and innocence, worship naturally arises.
So it is not a question of what you worship: the sun, the moon, mars—it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that deep inside you a great longing to worship arises. It becomes focused on anything: whatsoever you can find, you start worshipping it. That is the state of religious consciousness.
That consciousness has disappeared from the world. Instead we have a very mundane, scientific approach to reality. The poetic has disappeared, the religious seems invalid, the spiritual seems absurd. But for a sannyasin the absurd, the illogical, are the pathways to God. Life itself is illogical, absurd.
And anything is significant if you can use it for worship. If worship can arise in you, if you can become prayerful, then use everything: then let trees be gods, and rivers and mountains and everything be divine. If the poetic vision arises in you then bliss becomes very simple.
When you can see God everywhere you fall in accord. Then the enemy disappears, and with the enemy, all struggle, all conflict. Then all is melody and all is music.
How long will you be here?
MARK: I think about six months.
That’s good!
Mark is assigned four groups and Bhagwan concludes:
Then I will see what else is needed. Anything to say to me?
MARK: No, Osho.
Good, Mark…
Osho
Don’t Let Yourself Be Upset By The Sutra, Rather Upset The Sutra Yourself, Initiation Talks, Wednesday August 8, 1979 https://t.co/YW98RqjHkp
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Osho (to Gitta): This is your name: Ma Anand Gitta. Anand means bliss; gitta comes from a root which means bridge.
Bliss is the bridge. Nobody ever has entered into God without being blissful. The doors are closed for miserable people.
Those who cling to misery will remain without God, because misery disconnects you from existence, it isolates you.
Misery makes you an ego.
The moment you are blissful the ego starts melting. When you are really blissful there is no ego to be found at all, and that’s how one becomes reconnected, bridged.
The ego is the barrier; bliss is the bridge. And they never exist together, they cannot: either you are blissful or you are an egoist.
The egoist is bound to be miserable; misery follows the ego as a shadow. And the blissful person is followed by God.
One of the great Indian mystics, Kabir, has said:
“There were days when I was searching and exploring and enquiring, and I was almost mad in my search and I was calling ‘God, God, where are you?’
And I was constantly crying and weeping, day in, day out, and there was no response—the skies remained silent.
Then one day it happened: I was not crying, I was blissful, as blissful as a bird on the wing, as blissful as an opening lotus in the lake, as blissful as the rising sun, and suddenly God started calling me: ‘Kabir, Kabir, where are you?’”
And Kabir says,
“Since I know the secret I don’t bother at all about God; I remain blissful and he goes on following me, calling ‘Kabir, Kabir, where are you going? What are you doing?’”
Osho
Don’t Let Yourself Be Upset By The Sutra, Rather Upset The Sutra Yourself, Initiation Talks, Sunday August 5, 1979 https://t.co/YW98Rqj9uR
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