Riding on a Miracle

If you can allow your flame of life to reach the third eye, you will see there is no death. And you will suddenly see that you are no more attached to the world.

Now, the difference has to be remembered. The old sannyas, the so-called, old religious way of life, has been teaching people to renounce the world. I don't teach renunciation, I teach you to bring your life energy to the optimum. And once you have seen the true in your own being, the world carries no meaning anymore. The higher has happened, the lower becomes insignificant. You need not renounce it; it has already dropped. You need not escape anywhere. You can live in the world, but you have overcome it. And remember, escaping and overcoming are two totally different things.

The real sannyasin has to overcome the world, not renounce it.

And once you have seen the light inside, then you will become aware that it is not only inside, it is also on the outside. It is not confined to you. Remember, darkness is individual, light is universal. Death is individual, life is universal. Misery is individual, bliss is universal. For misery to exist, you have to exist - you have to exist as separate. And for bliss to come into existence, you have to become part of the whole, in harmony with the whole.

Once you have seen it on the inside you will recognize it everywhere: in the moon, in the sun... All light is the same - inner and outer makes no difference.

It is the same light that you see in the moon, and that you see inside yourself in the third eye. Once you have seen that it is the same light, the inner and the outer are no longer distinct. The inner is the outer, the outer is the inner. That's why the Zen Masters say that SAMSARA is NIRVANA, the world - this very world - is enlightenment. This very body the Buddha, this very earth the paradise.

That's why when Buddha became enlightened, he said, 'It is incredible, it is unbelievable that the moment I became enlightened, the whole existence became enlightened with me.'

Down the centuries Buddhist meditators have been meditating over it, 'What does he mean? What does he want to say - "The moment I became enlightened the whole existence became enlightened"? But how can it be? - because there are still so many unenlightened people. What can he mean?'

The meditator himself thinks, 'I am as yet unenlightened, so how has the whole existence become enlightened?' It has become enlightened for the Buddha because he has seen that the distinction between the inner and the outer was nothing but the ego - the small thin curtain of the ego. Once that curtain has fallen there is nothing inner, nothing outer.

So Buddha cannot say, 'I have become enlightened.' He says, 'The whole has become enlightened.'

All the trees, and all the rivers, and all the mountains, and all the people, and all the animals, and all the planets - all have become enlightened, because now he has no separate identity. He does not mean that you have become enlightened, he is simply saying, 'I cannot say that I have become enlightened. I was in bondage, that much I can say. I was ignorant, that much I can say. I was in misery, that much I can say. But now, I am no more.'

Existence is blissful. Existence is full of light. And the inner and the outer light are the same - there is nothing inner, there is nothing outer. All distinctions disappear when the light enters into the third eye - the one eye, the single eye. All distinctions disappear. The rainbow again becomes a single ray of white light.

Just the other day there was a question, 'Osho, why do you tell us to wear orange when you wear white?'

It is just symbolic, just to tell you that you have to come to the point where colours disappear and the single white ray remains without any distinctions.

It is neither outside nor inside, it is everywhere - inside too, outside too. And it is the same light - the same light that you see shining on the greenery and the flower, and dancing on the lotus. It is the same light that becomes clarity inside - enlightenment, perception, understanding.

And remember, the Master says, understanding, not knowledge. The Master says, clarity, not answers. One simply becomes so clear that the questions disappear. Not that you attain to some answers, only you are so clear that the confusion is no more there, that's all. It is absence of questions, not the presence of answers, hence it is called understanding, not knowledge.

Just the other day, Aniruddha also asked, 'What is the difference between our knowledge and your knowledge? I don't see any difference,' he says.

The difference is not in knowledge. He must have been thinking that I know more than he knows. Just the contrary is the case. I don't know more than you know; in fact, you know and I have no knowledge. I am only clear - a clarity, an understanding, not knowledge. Here are many people who know more than me, and that is their problem. They will have to drop that knowledge.

I don't know anything, there is only clarity. When you ask me a question, it is not that I have an answer for it, but I just focus my clarity on it - try to understand - and whatsoever response comes out of the clarity, I give to you. It is not knowledge, it is just a capacity to see.

Knowledge makes people blind. Their eyes become so full of knowledge they cannot see. Even before you have asked the question they have the ready-made answer there. They are ready to answer it. They don't listen to your question, they don't listen to the questioner, they don't listen to his being, they don't look into him to see what he means, they have a ready-made answer. They are in a hurry to answer you - and they must prove the answer with arguments and scriptures, and they must give all kinds of support to it.

I have only a kind of understanding, a vision, a capacity to see. That's why the Master says:

It is not knowledge, it is just an utterly cloudless sky within.

It is a light-flower, this whole existence. This is the experience of the mystics: that existence is made of nothing other than light. It is all light; light is the basic constituent of existence. And modern physics agrees with it. They call it electricity. 'Light' is much too poetic a word for them, they have to drag it down to earth; it becomes 'electricity'. But what they are saying is exactly the same.

Matter has disappeared from modern physics, matter is no more. At the deepest core of matter is nothing but electricity, electrons, electrical particles dancing, energy particles dancing, with no matter in them, no weight. This has been experienced by mystics down the centuries, unexceptionally; whether the mystic was born in India or in China or in Tibet makes no difference.

This has been the most fundamental experience of all the mystics: that the existence is made of light and nothing nothing else.

THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER says, 'This light, this flower of light, these petals of light fill all the spaces outside and also inside.'

The same thing that Buddha said is said in different words. The moment you see light circulating in you, you will be able to see the dawn of light all over. Stars moving, and mountains and rivers - all will be nothing but streams of light, a tremendous dance of light energy.

The Master Lu-tsu says only fifteen minutes in twenty-four hours will do. If you can sit silently for fifteen minutes, concentrated in the third eye, that will be enough to change your whole future. You will not need to be born into the body again. You will not need to be thrown into the world again. You have learned the lesson, you have become worthy of moving without the body and the limitation of the body. Your soul will be free, unentangled, without any bondage. And then there will be no death, no birth. You will be an eternal flowering of light in this infinite existence.

Only fifteen minutes? Yes, only fifteen minutes can do the miracle. But people are not even ready to give fifteen minutes to quietness, to silence.

I have heard...

When Ignatius Loyola heard the news that an unfriendly man had been elected Pope, he was asked what he would do if the new head of the Church should order the Society of Jesus dissolved, the work in which Loyola had invested his whole life. He replied, 'Fifteen minutes in prayer and all will be the same.'

An immensely significant reply.

An unfriendly Pope had come into power and there was every possibility that Loyola's whole work would be dissolved. He had created a small society of mystics. The work was esoteric, and Christianity has always been against esoteric work, has always been afraid of the mystics because these are the dangerous people. They bring truth to the world, and once they bring truth to the world, people are no longer interested in rituals, impotent rituals. Who cares about the Church then?

So Christianity has consistently been destroying all mystic schools so that nobody can go outside the Church, so that nobody can have any other door to reach God, so that everybody has to come to the priest. Whenever the desire to seek and search for God arises, no alternatives are to be left.

Because of this stupid idea, Christianity destroyed religion in the whole world, because there are different people and they need different types of schools, and they need different types of techniques. And those who are really sincere in their search have to find esoteric groups. They cannot become part of the formal religion - that is not enough for them; it is very lukewarm, it is very superficial .

In the West, real religion had to go underground because of the Church. People have to create many false facades to hide behind. Alchemy was one of the facades. The real work was something else: the alchemist was trying to create around himself the idea that he was working to transform baser metal into gold. This was allowed. The Church was very happy. If you are trying to turn baser metal into gold, it is perfectly okay, you can do it. If you succeed, the Church will have more gold, that's all; there was no fear about it. But this was just a facade, it was not real alchemy; it was just on the outside. Behind the curtain the real work was totally different: it was transforming the lower being into the higher being. It was exactly the secret of the Golden Flower: how to transform your sexuality, the baser metal, into spirituality, the gold.

But unnecessary trouble had to be taken, they had to make arrangements on the outside such that the society remained convinced that their work was something to do with gold. And everybody is interested in gold. The Church is very interested in gold, not in God.

Loyola was a great mystic. He had created the Society of Jesus. And a very antagonistic Pope was in power. Somebody said to him, 'What will you do? What will happen now? The Society can be dissolved by the order of the Pope.'

Loyola said, 'Fifteen minutes in prayer, and all will be the same. It will just take me fifteen minutes to go deep into meditation, that's all. Because whenever I am there, nothing matters. Nothing matters at all.'

Master Lu-tsu says: Just fifteen minutes...

Remember it. Whatsoever the method, the goal is the same: quietness, utter silence inside, thoughtlessness, only consciousness without any content.

It is an unfathomable depth. When thoughts disappear and you are simply silent, then the silence is a bottomless abyss; it cannot be fathomed. The Pacific Ocean can be fathomed - it has a five-mile depth; but the Pacific Ocean inside you cannot be fathomed - it is infinite. You can go on digging and digging and diving deeper and deeper and you will not come to fathom it, you will not come to the bottom of it at all.

Only thoughts can be measured, thoughtlessness is immeasurable. Hence, thoughtlessness is another name for God. But remember, thoughtlessness should not be a kind of sleep, because that is very ordinary. It happens every day: deep in sleep, when dreams disappear, you fall into that abyss. That's why deep sleep is so rejuvenating, so refreshing. In the morning you feel alive again, new, reborn. But that is unconscious. Patanjali has said deep sleep and SAMADHI are very similar, with only one difference: in sleep you are unconscious, in SAMADHI you are conscious. But you go to the same space, the same unfathomable, magical space within you, where there is no thought, no desire, no vibration in your mind, all is quiet. All methods lead to it - Yoga, Tantra, Tao, Hassidism, Sufism - all methods lead to it from different angles; they have been devised for different people.

In the beginning great effort is needed. One MUST press on from the obvious to the profound. What is obvious? - the obvious is your continuous process of thought. And what is profound? - just a state of no-thought. What is gross? - all contents of the mind are gross. And what is subtle? - a state of no-content is subtle. One must go pressing on. In the beginning, great effort will be needed.

In the beginning, you have to be utterly committed to the work, only then does the blissful moment arise when meditation becomes effortless.

First, meditation has to be masculine energy. Only then, in the end, can it become feminine energy.

That's why my insistence is on dynamic methods in the beginning. Bring all your effort to the maximum. Put all that you have at stake, don't hold anything back, and then, one day, you will be able to relax without effort. Just by closing your eyes you will be able to reach the third eye.

And make it a regular phenomenon.

The real mastery is when no effort is needed, when all efforts can be dropped. The real mastery is when no method is needed, when all methods can be dropped. The real mastery is when meditation is no longer a thing to do but has become your very state. You live in it, you walk in it, you sit in it:

'Sitting in Zen, walking in Zen.' You eat in it, you sleep in it. You ARE it.

That moment also comes. But in the beginning one has to go with all one's energy. Remember, just as water evaporates at a hundred degrees' heat - not at ninety-nine, not at ninety-nine point nine, but exactly at a hundred degrees - so whenever you put your total energy, one hundred degrees, at stake, immediately the baser metal turns into gold. Immediately the sexual energy has penetrated into the spiritual world. Immediately the energy that was going out has taken a one-hundred-and- eighty-degree turn, and the two eyes become one eye. And then all that is inner and all that is outer is enlightened.

Jesus has said, 'Cleave the wood and you will find me. Strike the stone and I am there.' This is the ultimate state: when you cleave the wood and you find God, and you strike the stone and you find God. Then you walk on God, in God, as God. Then you breathe God, then you eat God, you drink God, because all is God.

This ultimate experience is what Master Lu-tsu says is released. And it is in the third eye.

 

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