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Inside you there is a witness, eternal witness. Before that eternal witness all dance continues. The body goes on dancing in thousand and one ways. The dance when you were a child. And the dance when you were young… and in love… and in passion. And the dance when you become old…. And the passion disappears... And wisdom arises. And so many dances.

But all these dances are of the mortal body. The body that is made of physical elements. And will disappear. It is only a combination for a time being. It is a compound. It cannot last forever. It is a machine. But behind the machine, behind this mortal body there is something immortal… deathless. That is your consciousness. Call it god. Call it soul. Call it whatsoever you feel like.
This innermost core of your existence is god. He’s the breath inside the breath.

What has death and a thick body dances before what has no thick body and no death

This is your real life.
You are too much attached to the body… identified with the body. That is why you are so much afraid of death. Otherwise to be afraid of death is ridiculous. Because you cannot die. You in your innermost core cannot die. You only go on changing the houses. From one body to another. You have lived in many bodies. You have passed through many bodies.

When Buddha became enlightened, the first thing he said to nature was this, he looked at the sky and he said, “Now, you will not need to make another house for me”. Strange words. To whom was he talking?
Just saying to nature in general, at large, “You will not have to trouble yourself again. You will not need to make another body for me… I have understood who I am.”
In that understanding one is freed from the body of death.

In that moment the trumpet says I am you.
In that moment the whole existence, god, says I am you.

The spiritual Master arrives and bows down to the beginning student.

And now this has happened for the first time to you. You are just a beginning student. Just on the threshold of the temple of god. But when it happens, the spiritual Master arrives and bows down to the beginning student. God comes and bows down to you. The whole existence comes and bows down to you. The great miracle has happened. You are no more. The self has disappeared. The whole existence celebrates it, worships it, bows down to you.

The spiritual Master arrives and bows down to the beginning student. Try to live to see this.

Kabir says: try to live to see this. Don’t go without seeing it. Realize this. This is the goal of all spirituality.

And remember, these words of Michael Adam:
Life is a dance. The dance goes on with us and without us. The dance is. It always is.

Stones dance as surely as stars. A rock is a slow dance. A flower is a little faster. The choice is ours. To dance with the quick or to join the procession of the dead.
The way of the dead brings security, comfort, fame so that there can be no good reason to join the dance. To give motive to this way of life, which is the way of love, is to belittle it. The whole point is its pointlessness. One dances for no reason, as the rose opens in the morning, and for no reason red. There is no virtue in it.

The dance of life is god’s dance. You can participate with it, or you can withhold yourself. There is every reason to withhold. Because the society is afraid of those people who start dancing with god because they become dangerous. they become rebellious. They become free. They are no more slaves. They throw their chains. To get out of the prison... political, social, religious, to get out of all prisons, they dance in the street. They dance under the stars. They participate in god's dance. They are not afraid of death. So they cannot be reduced to be slaves.

The fear of death is the root cause that you can be converted into being a slave. Without fear, who can reduce you to being a slave. A fearless man cannot be reduced to being a slave. So society tries in every way to make you afraid. The society does not want you to know that you are life eternal. It does not want you to know that death is illusory, that it really doesn’t happen… that it only appears to happen… that death is utterly false... that it is a lie. The society does not want it.

The society wants you to live in illusions. The truth is too much.

The choice is ours to dance with the quick or to join the procession of the dead.
But the society is the procession of the dead. Corpses walking around… moving around… manipulating each other… bossing around.

The choice is ours…
Remember, if you respect life, you should not allow any death to settle in you. You should not allow any fear to settle in you. And you should not compromise. There is no need. But the way of the dead brings security, comfort, fame… so that there is no good reason to join the dance.
The society respects the crippled, the paralyzed, the dull, the stupid, the dead… they are good people. They are civilized people. It kills a Christ, it poisons a Socrates, it tries in every way to destroy a Buddha. But it respects the ordinary, the mediocre, the bourgeoisie, the middle class. There is investment in it.

If you want to enjoy the dance of life, and without enjoying it, you will be missing the whole opportunity, a great opportunity, a great benediction. If you want to enjoy the dance of life, you will have to take this risk. You will have to drop all desire for fame. You will have to drop all desire for respectability. If you can drop desire for respectability, one day it happens… the miracle…

the spiritual master arrives and bows down to the beginning student. Try to live to see this. — Kabir
From: The Revolution Discourse #3 — Osho

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Inside there is a witness, an eternal witness. It is utterly silent. To become more and more identified with this witness is what meditation is all about. It liberates one from the body, from the mind mechanism.... To free oneself from society, from government, from all oppression... to get out of all prisons, go inside and become familiar with this witness...

then all else that goes on is outside... all influences are from without... once one becomes rooted deeply within... outside influences become less and less of a disturbance.

-turiya -*-

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