een snufje Osho

Ik weet Osho heeft misschien wel meer vijanden dan vrienden, maar ja zo gaat dat blijkbaar met rebelse meesters. De geest van demonisering door de NWO in de jaren zeventig waart jammergenoeg nog steeds rond in het bewustzijn van veel Westerlingen. Ikzelf heb ook lange tijd gedacht dat Bhagwan een gevaarlijke, enge secteleider was. Ik ben er inmiddels achter dat dat allemaal wel meevalt. Osho kan ons vanuit zijn verlichte visie belangrijke sleutels aanreiken....ik ben in ieder geval erg blij met zijn aanwezigheid!

groet,

samten


The Ordinary mind is interested in the outside.
The outside is intriguing, wondrous, worth exploring. So we explore it for money, for prestige, for
other things, and then one day when we are finished with the so-called worldly thing and we start
looking again for a master, for Buddha, for Christ- still outside!
We start looking for the way, but still outside. And the Buddha is not found outside. And the way is
not found outside. To go seeking outside is to go farther and farther away from the way, because the
way is inside, the Buddha is inside.
And you can go on seeking all night long, this dark night of millions of lives, and you will not find
anything - except this truth.
If you stumble upon it you are forunate. If you can find only one thing out of all kinds of frustrations
- that there is nothing to be found in the outside, nothing at all - and seeing it, realising it, you turn
in, then your own mind is the whole thing, then inside you is all.
By and by, as you go deeper into your own mind, you penetrate from mind to no-mind. The
superficial layer is of the mind, but the inner content is of no-mind. The superficial layer is of the
Ego, the inner-content is of Ego-lessness. If you enter in, first you will come across mind, thoughts,
desires, fantasies, imagination, memory, dreams - and all that stuff. But if you go on penetrating,
soon you will come to silent spaces, thoughtless spaces. Soon you will start coming closer and closer
to the innermost core of your being which is timelessness, which is nowhereness, which has no time
and no space. When you come to a point, where you can't see any time and you can't see any space,
you have arrived. But this arrival is arriving back to your own nature. You have not arrived to
something new: you have arrived to that which was allready given and has been allways yours. And
when you have arrived at this point, now you can understand that there is no need to do anything -
all is happening. That there was never any need to do anything. That all was already happening. You
where unnecessarily worried. You carried all those weights because you where ignorant. Otherwise,
things were happening. The world is running so smoothly and so beautifully and so perfectly, but
because we think we are separate from it the problem arises: How to run our lives? If you know that
you are part of it, there is no need to worry. This cosmos, such an infinite cosmos, running so
perfectly well - can't you remain in it without any worry? But the separation is there. You have taken
one thing for granted: That you are separate.
Going deep inside, that separation disappears. That is the meaning when I say: Egolessness arises.
Ego means separation. Ego means, I am separate from the whole. Ego means the part is claiming to
be the whole in its own right. Ego means the part is claiming, I have my own centre, and I have to
survive and fight and struggle for myself. If I don't fight for myself, who is going to fight for me? If I
don't try to survive I will be killed.
Insecurity arises because of the Ego. When the Ego is gone, there is simply security. In fact, there is
no insecurity and no security; all those dualities have disappeared. To live in that is to live Nirvana, is
to live enlightenment.

(Zen and the art of enlightenment, Osho)