OshoSpeak – 2009: #4

From ‘Beyond Enlightenment’


You will be surprised to know that the English word ‘love’ comes from a very ugly root in Sanskrit. It comes from ‘lobh’. Lobh means greed.
And as far as ordinary love is concerned, it is a kind of greed.





……..please talk about the sadhana based on holding as much as possible to the “I” thought or the sense of “I am”, and on asking oneself the questions, “Who am I?”

………….It is an ancient method of meditation, but full of dangers. Unless you are alert, the greater possibility is that you will be led astray……..

The method is simple – concentrating yourself on the concept of I, closing your eyes and inquiring, “Who am I?”
The greatest problem is that………who is going to answer you? Most probably the answer will come from your tradition, from your scriptures, from your conditioning.
………If you want to go rightly into the method, then the question has not to be verbally asked………..it has to remain just a vague idea, just like a thirst.
……………..Not knowing oneself hurts, it is a wound. Not knowing oneself makes the whole of life meaningless…….
The emphasis is on watching, watchfulness. All those points are just excuses. You can watch the breath at the tip of the nose where the breath goes in, you can watch it while it is going in, you can watch it when it returns – you can watch it anywhere…………..The important thing is that you are watchful…………..and slowly slowly, as the watcher becomes more and more solid, stable, unwavering, a transformation happens. The things that you were watching disappear.
For the first time, the watcher itself becomes the watched, the observer itself becomes the observed.
You have come home.





……………………………….in the East, it has been known for centuries that a man of meditation can see if somebody is going to die within six months or not………….you yourself can know………….the day you stop seeing the tip of your nose, that means only six months are left – because at the time a person dies, his eyes turn up, and they start turning up six months before that, very slowly, very slowly




……….my philosophical standpoint………ten non-commandments
The first: freedom
The second: uniqueness of individuality
The third: love
The fourth: meditation
The fifth: non-seriousness
The sixth:playfulness
The seventh:creativity
The eighth:sensitivity
The ninth: gratefulness
tenth: a feeling of the mysterious
These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.




Raman Maharshi is a mystic, but not a master.
The mystics have never travelled because the mystics are not making any effort of any kind to transfer their experiences to others. They have decided that what they have experienced is untransferable, that it cannot be communicated
……………
Buddha, Mahavira, Bodhidharma, Shankara, Nagarjuna, Mohammed, Jesus, J.Krishnamurti, they were all travelling, going continuously………
These are masters…..Not that they are against the mystics; basically they agree that it is difficult, almost impossible to communicate, to say anything about the truth, about self-realization. It is beyond words………
But still the masters say that some indirect ways can be always tried, and there is no harm


Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavira
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnamurti,_J.




From ‘Tantra Vision: Beyond the Barriers of Wisdom’ – Diamond Pocket Books


Tantra takes all disciplines away. When there is no discipline, when there is no enforced order, a totally different kind of order arises in you. What Lao Tzu calls Tao, what Buddha calls dharma – that arises in you. That is not anything done by you; it happens to you. Tantra simply creates space for it to happen………….and when the space is ready, the whole flows in.




Tantra says: If you are in order, then the whole world is in order for you.




Tantra says: there is no way to be satisfied with the outer; you will have to move inward. You will have to find your inner woman and inner man. You will have to attain to a sexual intercourse inside. That is a great contribution…………….When the energy moves outside, you need a woman outside. You have a little glimpse for a moment……….For a single moment you can lose yourself into each other. Again you are thrown back to yourself……with a vengeance.




In the moment of orgasm, forget the woman or the man completely. Close your eyes and be in, and let it be a meditation. When energy is stirred, don’t miss this opportunity




Tantra does not say that to make love to the outer is sin, it simply says it is not very far-going. It does not condemn it, it accepts its naturalness.




You are holding your sex centre very tightly. The society has made you very much aware of the sex centre; it has made you obsessed with it……….Relax it………drop the fear. Sex is beautiful, its not a sin, it is a virtue.




……..sex is not the ultimate in pleasure………it is not the bliss supreme………When the sex centre feels a little happiness, it is just a far-away echo of sahasrar




…………when a Master is dead he finds more disciples than when he is alive. With a dead Master the disciples are completely at ease……..Jesus had only twelve disciples – now, half the earth………..He is no more alive; he cannot destroy your dreams and imaginations………




Tantra is not against lovemaking……….it is all for it, but not just for it. It is the first rung of the ladder, a seven-runged ladder…………The first rung is sex and the seventh rung is sahasrar-samadhi. The first rung joins you with samsara, the world, and the seventh rung joins you with nirvana, the beyond. With the first rung; you move in a vicious circle of birth and death again and again………with the seventh rung, you go beyond birth and death. Life eternal is yours…the Kingdom of God




The Ultimate Scripture has no word in it. The Sufis have a book. The Book of the Books. It is simply empty – not a single word written in it………The Vedas are not so beautiful, the Bible is not so beautiful because something is written there. The Book of the Books is really of tremendous value.
The Western world can understand the word: the black ink spread on the white page; it cannot see the white page directly……………..Thoughts are just like black ink on white paper; thoughts are just the written message. When thoughts disappear, you will become the Book of the Books – empty. But that is the voice of God




What is sex? Just two persons meeting at the maximum point – not holding hands, not only hugging each others bodies, but penetrating into each others energy realm. Why should you hate sex?..................Sex is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world. Of course, the lowest, that is true, but the higher moves through the lower – the lotus comes out of the mud. Don’t hate the mud, otherwise how will you help the mud to release the lotus?




It is very easy for the mind to indulge. The opposite is also very easy to renounce. To move to the extreme is very easy for the mind. To remain in the middle…….is the most difficult thing for the mind. The mind dies in the middle, and the no-mind arises. That’s why Buddha has called his path majjhim nikaya – the middle path




Tantra is an encounter with the reality of life. And sex is fundamental. so is death. They are the two most fundamental chakras – muladhar and swadhistan. Understanding them, the third chakra opens. Understanding the third, the fourth opens, and so on………….When you have understood the six chakras, the very understanding hits the seventh chakra and it blooms into a one-thousand-petalled lotus………That day God comes to you……that day is the day of cosmic orgasm……..that day the river disappears into the ocean forever and forever. Then there is no coming back.



Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_tzu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahasrara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%C4%81dhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muladhara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadhisthana