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Namaste! Osho Tapoban’s Volume IV magazine is dedicated to a deeper understanding of Osho worldwide. Since our last issue, Osho Tapoban coordinator, Swami Anand Arun has travelled tirelessly all over the world, initiating thousands into neo-sannyas, a mad love affair with Enlightened Master Osho. This issue focuses on the Master/disciple relationship. In only a few years, hundreds of Osho meditation centers have blossomed like wildflowers all over the world. While centers start out small, their influence on the community is infinite. As one Russian sannyasin said, she wanted to provide a place of warmth and a taste of Osho’s divine love. These heartfelt commitments by individuals are the small seeds that become the blessed roots of what will later become huge trees. Together, we can realize a new humanity and a unified planet. We are especially grateful to have the blessing of Nepal’s President, the Right Honorable Dr. Ram Baran Yadav. As the world’s premier spiritual destination of amazing beauty, Nepal is rapidly becoming a “maroon” Osho country. Tapoban’s popularity is evidence that the Osho resurgence is becoming an international renaissance of the oceanic spirit. Many enjoy the heart flames they once felt in Osho’s presence. Book in advance! See you soon!
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Who is master
Master An address of God A Death A Fire, A Vehicle A Mirror, A Door A Wakeup Call Ultimate Flowering Disciple What Does It Mean to be a Disciple? Ready to Change, Receptive Ready to Die, A Surrender Buddha & His Disciples The Master & Disciple Relationship What is Master & Disciple Relationship? The Zen Master & Disciple Relationship Everybody would like to be a Master The Way a Master Functions A Master Removes the Rubbish A Mad Game Miniature of the Whole A Taste of All Masters Osho Mind to No Mind Around The Work is Worship World Sudi’s Corner USA & Canada 94 Laughter
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Communes Articles from Friends Reconnecting in Nepal 70
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o word is adequate enough to define a master. All words do injustice to the master because words are meant to describe the ordinary and the master has transcended the ordinary. Words belong to the world; the master is in the world and yet he is no more of it. He exists here and still he does not exist here. He is only a reflection in the lake. He is only a shadow lingering on this shore; the real one has already reached the other shore. OSHO, Dhammapada, Ch5
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MASTERGOD AN ADDRESS OF
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he very word “guru” is meaningful. The “master” doesn’t carry that significance. The master seems to be someone who has mastered a thing, gone under a long training, has become disciplined, has become a master. “Guru” is totally different. The word “guru” means one who is very very heavy, a heavy cloud just waiting for your thirst to pour down; a flower heavy with perfume just waiting for your nostrils to be there and it will penetrate. The word “guru” means heavy, very heavy - heavy with energy and the unknown, heavy with the divine, heavy like a woman who is pregnant. A master is pregnant with God. That’s why in the East we call the guru, God itself. He is pregnant with the divine; he is heavy with the divine. He is ready to pour down; only your thirst, a thirsty earth is needed. A guru is a totally Eastern phenomenon. The West is not yet aware of it. In the West it is difficult to feel. Why go and bow down to a guru? Why put your head at his feet? Looks humiliating. But if you want to receive, you have to bow down, otherwise you won’t receive it. When a disciple with total trust bows down at the feet of his master, something is happening there which is not visible to the eyes. An energy is falling from the master, entering the disciple. Something invisible to the eyes is happening there. If you become aware you can see it also - the aura of the master, his rainbow, pouring himself down into the disciple. The master is heavy with divine energy. And he has infinite energy now; he can pour it down to infinite disciples. He can with millions of disciples alone. He is never exhausted because now he is connected with the whole; he has found the source of all. Through him you can also take the jump into that abyss. Surrender towards God is difficult because you don’t know where God is. He has never given his address to anybody ever. But a guru can be found. If you ask me what a guru is, I will tell you: the guru is the address of God. OSHO, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Ch6
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MASTER A
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he meeting with the master has always been a kind of death, death to all that you have been, death to your past, death to your ego, death to your personality. But it is not only death, it is also resurrection: the birth of the new, the birth of the fresh and the innocent, a new sunrise on the horizon, a new unfoldment of your being. But naturally, first you have to meet the death; you have to pass through it. Resurrection can only be afterwards.
The ancient most scriptures in the world are the VEDAS. They describe the master as death, but a death which opens the door to the divine, certainly a death which happens only to the blessed ones.
It is no ordinary death, it is not the death of your body; it is the death that transforms you. Everything remains the same - the body, the world - yet nothing remains the same because your vision, your perspective, your way of looking has gone through such a deep mutation that although superficially everything is the same, in depth everything has changed. You have entered a new dimension of life - the dimension of eternity, the dimension of ecstasy, the dimension which is beyond time and space.
But this much courage is needed: You will have to come close to the master, you will have to go through this fire which burns only that which is false in you. Out of it, you come as twenty-four karat gold. The function of a mystic school is to encourage you: “You need not be worried. We have passed through the test; the fire is cool and the death is a blessing.”
But if you don’t have any guts, then perhaps the time is not ripe for you, perhaps in some other life with some other master the death will happen. But why postpone? What is possible right now should not be postponed for tomorrow. Why remain in misery even for one day, even for one minute, even for one second?
The death of the ego, the death of your personality, the death of all that you have been thinking about yourself, immediately opens a door. New flowers start blossoming, new songs start stirring in your heart, new dances.
You don’t walk anymore, you simply dance; you fly. The ecstasy is such, the blissfulness is such... gather just a little bit of courage. OSHO, Beyond Enlightenment , Ch22
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MASTER is.... a fire
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irst a master is a fire, and then infinite coolness happens through him. But the beginning is fiery, and that creates fear. It is easy to approach a priest he is as false as you. There is no danger, you know it well. It is easy to pass through a ritual, you know it is mock. But to come to Jesus is difficult: you are coming near a fire; the nearer you come, the more you will feel burned. When a disciple comes really close - that’s what a disciple does: gathers courage, and comes nearer and nearer, and allows the fire to work - he passes through a furnace. Jesus is a furnace. But when he comes out of it, the disciple is totally different: the crowd has gone, now he is a different, totally different metal. The baser metal has changed into the higher, the iron has become gold - it has been a transformation. When I say it has been a transformation, I mean it is discontinuous with the past. If there is a continuity there is no mutation, only modification. That’s what you have been doing. OSHO, The Mustard Seed, Ch16
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he master is the vehicle of the universal forces - just like a hollow bamboo that can become a flute. But the song is not of the hollow bamboo; the hollow bamboo can have the credit only of not destroying the song, of allowing it. The master is a medium of the universal consciousness. If you are available, suddenly the universal consciousness stirs in you the sleeping, dormant consciousness. The master has not done anything. The disciple has not done anything. It is all a happening. The ordinary father and mother have given birth to your body - that is one life, which will end in death. Your father and mother are responsible for your birth and for your death. The master also gives a new birth, but it is the birth of consciousness, which knows only a beginning - and there is no end to it. All that is needed is an atmosphere of absolute trust - and in that trust, things start happening on their own; neither does the disciple do them nor does the master. The disciple receives them. OSHO, The Supreme Doctrine, Ch17
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a mirror
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t is very significant. A Master reflects mirrors. A Master simply gives you back again and again. A master does not improve upon you. He does not give you a should, because all shoulds create guilt. A Master does not give you any ideal, because all ideals create tension, anguish. A Master never says, “This is bad and that is good.” He never creates values, because all values create splits. A Master never teaches judgement, he teaches you to live without judging, without condemning, without saying good or bad. Let life flow as it is. OSHO, The Path of Paradox, Ch1
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hen there is no “I” and no “thou,” love blossoms. It does not exist in the lover, it does not exist in the beloved, it exists in the disappearance of their separation. The same is the situation between the disciple and the master. Something higher than love, something deeper than love and togetherness exists in those moments of silence, those moments of communion, when the disciple forgets that he is separate from the master, when the disciple melts and merges into the master. The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond. And the beyond exists in the organic unity, in the communion, in the merger, in the melting of the master and the disciple. It is the highest form of love. It is the greatest prayer, the deepest gratitude, and the most ecstatic experience available to human consciousness. OSHO, The Golden Future, Ch14
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MASTER:
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he first: the Masters do not tell the truth. Even if they want to they cannot; it is impossible. Then what is their function? What do they go on doing? They cannot tell the truth, but they can call forth the truth which is fast asleep in you. They can provoke it, they can challenge it. They can shake you up, they can wake you up. They cannot give you God, truth, NIRVANA, because in the first place you already have it all with you. You are born with it. It is innate, it is intrinsic. It is your very nature. So anybody who pretends to give you the truth is simply exploiting your stupidity, your gullibility. He is cunning - cunning and utterly ignorant too. He knows nothing; not even a glimpse of truth has happened to him. He is a pseudo Master.
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Truth cannot be given; it is already in you. It can be called forth, it can be provoked. A context can be created, a certain space can be created in which it rises in you and is no more asleep, becomes awakened. The function of the Master is far more complex than you think. It would have been far easier, simpler, if truth could be conveyed. It cannot be conveyed, hence indirect ways and means have to be devised.
The New Testament has the beautiful story of Lazarus. Christians have missed the whole point of it. Christ is so unfortunate - he has fallen into the wrong company. Not even a single Christian theologian has been able to discover the meaning of the story of Lazarus, his death and resurrection. Lazarus dies. He is the brother of Mary Magdalene and Martha and a great devotee of Jesus. Jesus is far away; by the time he gets the information and the invitation, “Come immediately,” two days have already passed, and by the time he reaches Lazarus’ place four days have passed. But Mary and Martha are waiting for him - their trust is such. The whole village is laughing at them. They are being stupid in others’ eyes because they are keeping the corpse in a cave; they are watching day in, day out, guarding the corpse. The corpse has already started stinking; it is deteriorating.
The village people are saying, “You are fools! Jesus cannot do anything. When somebody is dead, somebody is dead!”
Jesus comes. He goes to the cave - he does not enter into the cave - he stands outside and calls Lazarus forth. The people have gathered. They must be laughing: “This man seems to be crazy!” Somebody says to him, “What are you doing?” He is dead! He has been dead for four days. In fact, to enter into the cave is difficult - his body is stinking. It is impossible! Whom are you calling?” But, unperturbed, Jesus shouts again and again, “Lazarus, come out!”
And the crowd is in for a great surprise:
Lazarus walks out of the cave - shaken, shocked, as if out of a great slumber, as if he had fallen into a coma. He himself cannot believe what has happened, why he is in the cave.
This in fact is just a way of saying what the function of a Master is. Whether Lazarus was really dead or not is not the point. Whether Jesus was capable of raising the dead or not is not the point. To get involved in those stupid questions is absurd. Only scholars can be so foolish. No man of understanding will think that this is something historical. It is far more! It is not a fact, it is a truth. It is not something that happens in time, it is something more: something that happens in eternity. You are all dead. You are all in the same situation as Lazarus. You are all living in your dark caves. You are all stinking and deteriorating... because death is not something that comes one day suddenly - you are dying every day. Since the day of your birth you have been dying. It is a long process; it takes seventy, eighty, ninety years to complete it. EACH MOMENT something of you dies, something in you dies, but you are absolutely unaware of the whole situation. You go on as if you are alive; you go on living as if you know what life is. The function of the Master is to call forth: “Lazarus, come out of the cave! Come out of your grave! Come out of your death!”
The Master cannot give you the truth but he can call forth the truth. He can stir something in you. He can trigger a process in you which will ignite a fire, a flame. Truth you are - just so much dust has gathered around you. The function of the Master is negative: he has to give you a bath, a shower, so the dust disappears. That’s exactly the meaning of Christian baptism. That’s what John the Baptist was doing in the River Jordan. But people go on misunderstanding. Today also baptism happens in the churches; it is meaningless. John the Baptist was preparing people for an inner bath. When they were ready he would OSHO TAPOBAN
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take them symbolically into the River Jordan. That was only symbolic - just as your orange clothes are symbolic, that bath in the River Jordan was symbolic - symbolic that the Master can give you a bath. He can take the dust, the dust of centuries, away from you. And suddenly all is clear, all is clarity. That clarity is enlightenment.
Masters don’t teach the truth; there is no way to teach it. It is a transmission beyond scriptures, beyond words. It is a transmission. It is energy provoking energy in you. It is a kind of synchronicity.
The Master has disappeared as an ego; he is pure joy. And the disciple sits by the side of the Master slowly slowly partaking of his joy, of
his being, eating and drinking out of that eternal, inexhaustible source: ES DHAMMO SANANTANO. And one day...and one cannot predict when that day will come; it is unpredictable. One day suddenly it has happened: a process has started in you which reveals the truth of your being to you. You come face to face with yourself. God is not somewhere else: he is now, here.
The Masters illuminate and confirm realization. They illuminate in a thousand and one ways. They go on pointing towards the truth: fingers pointing to the moon. But there are many fools who start clinging to the fingers. By clinging to the fingers you will not see the moon,
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remember. There are even greater fools who start biting the fingers. That is not going to give you any nourishment. Forget the finger and look at where it is pointing.
The Masters illuminate. They shower great light - they are light - they shower great light on your being. They are like a searchlight: they focus their being on your being. You have lived in darkness for centuries, for millions of lives. Suddenly a Master’s searchlight starts revealing a few forgotten territories in you. They are within you; the Master is not bringing them - he is simply bringing his light, he is focusing himself on you. And the Master call focus only when the disciple is open, when the disciple is surrendered, when the
disciple is ready to learn, not to argue, when the disciple has come not to accumulate knowledge but to know truth, when the disciple is not only curious but is a seeker and is ready to risk all. Even if life has to be risked and sacrificed the disciple is ready. In fact, when you risk your sleepy life, you sacrifice your sleepy life, you attain to a totally different quality of life: the life of light, of love, the life which is beyond death, beyond time, beyond change. They illuminate and confirm realization. First the Master illuminates the way, the truth that is within you. And secondly: when you realize it, when you recognize it.... It is very difficult for
you to believe that you have attained it. The most unbelievable thing is when realization of truth happens to you, because you have been told that it is very difficult, almost impossible, and that it takes millions of lives to arrive at it. And you have been told it is somewhere else - maybe in heaven - and when you recognize it within yourself, how can you believe it?
The Master confirms it. He says, “Yes, this is it!” His confirmation is as much needed as his illumination. He begins by illuminating and ends by confirming. The Masters are evidence of truth, not its proof. Meditate over the subtle difference between evidence and proof. The Master is an evidence; he
is a witness. He has seen, he has known, he has become. You can feel it; the evidence can be felt. You can come closer and closer; you can allow the fragrance of the Master to penetrate to the innermost core of your being. The Master is only evidence; he is not proof. If you want any proof... there is no proof. God can neither be proved nor disproved; it is not an argument. God is not a hypothesis, it is not a theory: it is experience. The Master is living evidence. But to see it you will need a different approach than you are accustomed to. You know how to approach a teacher, how to approach a professor, how to approach a priest.
They don’t require much because they simply impart information which can be done even by a tape recorder or by a computer or by a gramophone record or by a book.
You know how to approach a teacher, you know how to approach a book, you know how to approach dead information, but you don’t know how to approach a Master. It is a totally different way of communing. It is not communication, it is communion - because the Master is not a proof but an evidence. He is not an argument for God, he is a witness for God. He does not possess great knowledge about God, he knows. He is not knowledgeable, he simply knows. Jesus says: “Straight is the path....” It does
not go in circles; it is a jump from the periphery to the center. The Master is an evidence of that jump, that quantum leap, that transformation. You have to approach the Master with great love, with great trust, with an open heart. You are not aware who you are. He is aware who he is, he is aware who you are. OSHO, Ah This, Ch1
“The question is not whether or not you are in the presence of the master, but whether or not you are filled with love and trust for the master.”-OSHO At the feet of master Sw. Anand Abhinav
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ULTIMATE FLOWERING OF HUMAN CONCIOUSNESS
Diogenes O
n the way to India, Alexander the Great heard that on a river bank lived a mystic, Diogenes. Alexander had heard about Diogenes, his ecstatic bliss, his silent, mirror like eyes, just like the blue sky without any clouds. And this man lived naked, he did not even need clothes. Then somebody said, “He lives nearby on the river bank, and we are passing, we are not very far
away....” Alexander wanted to see him, so he went. It was morning, a winter morning, and Diogenes was taking his sunbath, lying on the sand naked, enjoying the morning, the sun showering on him, everything so beautiful, silent, the river flowing by....
Alexander wondered what to say. A man like Alexander cannot think except about things and possessions. So he looked at Diogenes, and said, “I am Alexander the Great. If you need something, tell me. I can be of much help and I would like to help you.”Diogenes laughed, and said, “I don’t need anything. Just stand a little to the side, you are blocking my sun. That’s all you can do for me. Remember, don’t block anybody’s sun, that is all you can do. Don’t stand in my way, and you need do nothing else.” Said Alexander, “It makes me happy to see you, I have never seen such a contented man.”
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Diogenes said, “There is no problem! If you want to be as contented as I, come and lie down by my side, have a sunbath. Forget the future, and drop the past. Nobody is hindering you.”Said Alexander, “When I have become victorious, when I have conquered the whole world, I will come and learn from you and sit by your side here on this bank.” Diogenes said, “But if I can lie here and relax right now, why wait for the future? And why go around the whole world creating misery for yourself and others? Why wait until the end of your life to come to me and relax here? I am already relaxing.” But Diogenes said, “You will never return, because this kind of ambition is unending. Nobody comes back.” And strangely, Alexander never came back. He died while he was coming back, before reaching Greece. And a beautiful story has been told since then, because the same day Diogenes also died. It is just a story, but very significant. They died on the same day, but Diogenes must have waited a little so that he could follow Alexander. While crossing the river which divides this world from that, Alexander met Diogenes again, and this second encounter was more dangerous than before. Alexander, hearing the sound of someone behind him in the river, looked back and saw Diogenes there laughing. He was also naked like Diogenes, because you cannot take your clothes to the other world. This time he was absolutely nobody, no emperor. But Diogenes was the same. All that death can take away he had already renounced, so death couldn’t take anything from him. So to be nonchalant, to give himself courage and confidence, Alexander also laughed and said, “Great, wonderful! Again the meeting of the greatest emperor and the greatest beggar.”
Diogenes replied, “You are absolutely right, only you are a little confused about who is the emperor and who is the beggar. This is a meeting of the greatest emperor and the greatest beggar, but the emperor is behind and the beggar is in front. And I tell you, Alexander, it was the same at our first meeting. You were the beggar, but you thought I was. Now look at yourself! What have you gained by winning the whole world?” OSHO, The Empty Boat , Ch6
Socrates S
ocrates was punished by his society. People like Socrates are bound to be punished, because they are individuals and they don’t allow anybody to dominate them. He was given poison. He was lying in the bed and the man who was going to give him poison was preparing it. The sun was setting - that was the right time. The court had given the exact time, but the man was delaying in preparing the poison. Socrates asked the man, “Time is passing, the sun is setting - what is the delay?”
The man could not believe that somebody who is going to die is so particular about the right time for his own death. In fact, he should be thankful for the delay. The man loved Socrates. He had heard him in the court and seen the beauty of the person: he alone had more intelligence than the whole of Athens. He wanted to delay a little more so Socrates could live a little more. But Socrates would not allow him. He said, “Don’t be lazy. Just bring the poison.” The man giving poison to Socrates asked him, “Why are you so excited? I see such radiance on your face, I see such enquiry in your eyes. Don’t you understand? - you are going to DIE.” Socrates said, “That’s what I want to know. Life, I have known. It was beautiful; with all its anxieties, anguishes, still it was a joy. Just to breathe is joy enough. I have lived, I have loved; I have done whatever I wanted to do, I have said whatever I wanted to say. Now I want to taste death - and the sooner the better.
This is the man who loves himself. Even the responsibility of death he has chosen - because the court had nothing against him; it was just public prejudice, the prejudice of the mediocre people who could not understand the great flights of intelligence of Socrates. But they were in the majority, and they all decided on death for Socrates.
They could not answer a single argument proposed by him. I think they could not even understand what he was saying - answering was out of the question. And he destroyed all their arguments; still, it was a city democracy - the people decided that this man is dangerous, he should be given poison. What was his fault? His fault was that “He makes our youth rebellious, he makes our youth skeptical, he makes our youth strange. He creates a gap between the older generation and the younger generation.
They don’t listen to us anymore, they argue about everything -and it is because of “Hence this man.” But the judges were a little better than the common people. They said to Socrates, “We give you a few alternatives. If you leave Athens and promise never to come back again, you can
the significance of a buddhafield. The master creates a field around himself; through his disciples he creates an energy field. To be in that energy field is a transformation in itself.” -OSHO At the feet of master Ma Prem Kusum
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save yourself from death. Or, if you want to remain in Athens, then stop speaking, go into silence. Then too we can persuade the people to let you live. Otherwise, the third alternative is: tomorrow as the sun sets you will have to drink poison.”
What did Socrates do? He said, “I am ready to take the poison tomorrow or today, whenever the poison is ready, but I cannot stop saying the truth. If I am alive I will go on saying it till my last breath. And I cannot leave Athens just to save myself, because then I will feel always a weakling who became afraid of death, who escaped death, who could not take the responsibility of death also. I have lived according to my own thinking, feeling, being; I want to die that way also.” And
don’t feel guilty. Nobody is responsible for my death, I am responsible. I knew that it was going to happen, because to talk about truth in a society which lives on lies, deceptions, illusions, is to ask for death. Don’t blame these poor people who have decided for my death. If anybody is responsible, I am. And I want you all to know that I lived on my responsibility, and I am dying on my responsibility. OSHO, From Death to Deathlessness , Ch8
Rabia T
HE GREAT MYSTIC, Rabia of Basra, was immensely beautiful. And a beauty not of this world. Once a rich young man from Iran comes to Basra. He asks people, “Is there anything that is out of the way, something special here?” “Yes,” they all tell him. “We have the most beautiful woman of the world!” The young man
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naturally becomes interested and he asks, “Where can I find her?” And they all laugh and say, “Well, where else?... in a brothel!”
That repulses the rich young man, but finally he decides to go. And when he gets there, the matron asks for an exorbitant fee. He pays the fee and is ushered in. There, in a silent and simple room, a figure is praying. What beauty she has! He has never seen such beauty and grace, not even in his dreams. Just to be there is a benediction, and the prayerful atmosphere starts affecting him. He forgets about his passion. He is entering into another kind of space. He is drugged. He is turned on to God. An hour passes and he intensely feels he is in a temple! Oh, such joy and such purity! He goes on feasting on her beauty. But it is no more the beauty of a human being - it is God’s beauty. It no more has anything to do with the body - it is utterly other-worldly. And then Rabia opens her eyes, those lotus eyes, and he looks into them, and there is no woman in front of him - he is facing God. And this way the whole night passes, as if it were only a moment.
The sun is rising and its rays are coming through the windows, and he feels it is time to go. He says to Rabia, “I am your slave. Tell me anything, anything in the world that I can do for you.” She says, “I have only one little request.” He asks, “What is it?” Rabia says, “Never tell anybody what you have seen and experienced here. Allow the people to come to me - this beauty is nothing but a trap set for them. I use it as a door for them to enter God. Please, promise me that you will never tell others what you have experienced here tonight. Let them come to a whore and a brothel, because otherwise they will never come to me.” “Oh!” he says, “So this is the secret of this city. The whole city clamours after your beauty, yet nobody tells me about his experience.” Rabia laughs and says, “Yes, I extract the promise, this promise, from all of them.”
Rabia used her beauty as a trap. Buddha used his words as a trap. Krishna used his flute as
a trap. Meera used her dance as a trap.
You have to be trapped. And you can only be trapped in ways that you can understand. You have to be taken from the known into the unknown, but the beginning has to be in the known. Rabia el Adawiya is one of the rarest women in the whole human history. There are only a few names that can be compared to Rabia, but still she remains rare, even among these few names - Meera, Theresa, Laila. These are the few names. But Rabia still remains rare. She is a KOHINOOR, the most precious woman ever born. Her insight is immense.
Hasan is also a famous mystic but on a very much lower scale. And there are many stories about Hasan and Rabia.
One day Rabia is sitting inside her hut. It is early morning, and Hasan comes to see her. And the sun is rising and the birds are singing and the trees are dancing. It is a really beautiful morning. And he calls forth from the outside, ‘Rabia, what are you doing inside? Come out! God has given birth to such a beautiful morning. What are you doing inside?’ And Rabia laughs and she says, ‘Hasan, outside is only God’s creation, inside is God himself. Why don’t you come in? Yes, the morning is beautiful, but it is nothing compared with the Creator who creates all the mornings. Yes, those birds are singing beautifully, but they are nothing compared with the song of God. That happens only when you are within. Why don’t you come in? Are you not yet finished with the without, with the outside? When will you be able to come in?’ OSHO, Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind, Ch8
Kabir T
he great Indian mystic, Kabir, was a weaver. He had thousands of followers and they asked him again and again, “It doesn’t look right that our master should continue to weave clothes, and every market day should go to the market, sit in the street and sell his clothes. We are here; we can fulfil all your needs - whatever
you need.” Kabir laughed and he said, “You don’t understand, because you can only see what is happening outside. When I am weaving the cloth, deep in my heart I know I am weaving it for God. Deep in my heart I know that I have to go to the market, because that unknown God may come in any disguise, as a customer.” He never addressed his customers in any other way than “God.” He used to say, “So You have come? Seven days I have been working for You. And remember, this is not just a cloth - I have woven my very heart into it. Take care of it. I have made it with great love, with great prayer. I had no idea in what disguise You would come, but You have come; whoever comes is a form of God. This is my only religion. I am a weaver; to weave with
silence, with prayer in the heart, is my religion.”
Kabir is a celebrant. He celebrates all - all colors of life, the whole rainbow of it. Kabir is a life-affirmative mystic. He never left his home, his wife, his children. He never went anywhere; he never went to the Himalayas. He lived in his home, just the ordinary life of a householder - and yet became an enlightened one. He never escaped from any situation. He remained rooted in the earth: he “A was earthly and yet godly. master is not And that is the highest communicating synthesis. something about God, My songs, Kabir says, are my orgasmic joy, the meeting, the ultimate meeting of the soul with God, of the lover with the beloved; the merger of the river into the ocean. My
he is communicating God himself.”-OSHO At the feet of master Sw. Gyan Tanmaya
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Kabir lived his whole life in Varanasi. Hindus believe that if you die in Varanasi you will be born in heaven - just a simple panacea. All religions have to find some simple thing, because there are aesthetic practices but they will be followed only by a few idiots; anybody who has a little intelligence is not going to follow them. To those unintelligent people you have to give some recipe, very simple. So if you just die in Varanasi, that’s enough, because from Varanasi you cannot go anywhere else: the route directly goes to heaven. So people come to die in Varanasi. In Varanasi you will find old people, old women, widows, almost on the verge of death. You will not find that kind of; crowd anywhere else in the world. They have all come to die: they are certain now that there is not much time left, so they come to die in Varanasi.
But when he was sick and old, and was just on the verge of death, Kabir asked his disciples to move him from Varanasi and take him to Magahar. Magahar is a poor village, a very small village on the other side
“A disciple is a living painting of his master.” -Osho
of Varanasi. I don’t know how it came about, but the story is that if you die in Magahar, the road directly goes to hell. Perhaps just parallel to Varanasi you have to manage a road to hell too. And Magahar is just on the other side of Ganges; on this side is Varanasi. Kabir said, “I want to go to Magahar.” be!”
His disciples said, “Are you mad? You must
He said, “I have always been mad; but I cannot die in Varanasi, because if I die in Varanasi and reach heaven then what credit is it to me? The whole credit goes to Varanasi. I am going to die in Magahar and I am going to see how they can take me to hell. I am going to die in Magahar and I am going to heaven; otherwise I am going to create hell there.” And he insisted on moving; he forced his disciples and finally they had to take him in a boat to Magahar on the other side. He died there - the only man who ever came to die in Magahar in the whole of history. His samadhi is in Magahar, and on it is written: “I am going to heaven directly from Magahar.” OSHO, The Messiah, Vol 2 & Personality to Individuality, Ch18
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DISCIPLE...... T
o be a disciple means to be ready to learn, ready to go into the unknown with someone who has been in it. Alone, very rarely one has attained to truth. Not that it has not happened - alone, also, it has happened, but very rarely, just an exception; otherwise one has to learn in communion with a master. Then too, it does not happen easily. It is an arduous journey. Dropping the clinging to the known is not easy. That is our whole investment that is our whole identity. Dropping the clinging to the known is dropping the ego, is committing a kind of spiritual suicide; alone, you will not be able to do it. Unless you see somebody who has committed that suicide and still is - in fact for the first time is.... You will have to look into those eyes which have seen truth, and a glimpse of the truth will be caught through those eyes. You will have to hold hands with someone who has known, receive the warmth and the love... and the unknown will start flowing into you. That’s what it means to be with a master, to be a disciple. If you are really committed to truth you are bound to become a sannyasin. If your commitment to truth is an inquiry then you will have to learn the ways of learning. And the first thing to learn is to surrender, to trust, to love. The sannyasin is one who has fallen in love with a person, or a no-person, where he feels a gut feeling: “Yes, it has happened here.” To be with someone who has known is contagious - and truth is not taught, it is caught. OSHO, The Book of Wisdom, Ch28 OSHO TAPOBAN
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A
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t is one of the most delicate mysteries. No definition is possible of a disciple, but a few hints can be given, just fingers pointing to the moon. Don’t cling to the fingers - look at the moon and forget the fingers. A disciple is a rare phenomenon. It is very easy to be a student because the student is searching knowledge. The student can only meet the teacher, he can never meet the master. The reality of the master will remain hidden to the student. The student functions from the head. He functions logically, rationally. He gathers knowledge, he becomes more and more knowledgeable. Finally in his own turn he will become a teacher, but all that he knows is borrowed, nothing is really his own.
His existence is pseudo; it is a carbon-copy existence. He has not known his original face. He knows about God, but he does not know God himself. He knows about love, but he has never dared to love himself. He knows much about poetry, but he has not tasted the spirit of poetry itself. He may talk about beauty, he may write treatises on beauty, but he has no vision, no experience, no existential intimacy with beauty. He has never “When danced with a rose flower. love and The sunrise happens trust meet, their there outside, but nothing ultimate by product happens inside his heart. is surrender. You relax That darkness inside him into the master, into his remains the same as it being, without holding was before. anything.�-OSHO At the feet of master Sw. Atmo Prabin
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He talks only about concepts, he knows nothing of truth - because
truth cannot be known through words, scriptures. A student is interested only in words, scriptures, theories, systems of thought, philosophies, ideologies.
A disciple is a totally different phenomenon. A disciple is not a student; he is not interested in knowing about God, love, truth - he is interested in becoming God, in becoming truth, in becoming love. Remember the difference. Knowing about is one thing, becoming is totally different. The student is taking no risk; the disciple is going into the uncharted sea. The student is miserly, he is a hoarder; only then he can gather knowledge. He is greedy; he accumulates knowledge as the greedy person accumulates wealth knowledge is his wealth. The disciple is not interested in hoarding; he wants to experience, he wants to taste, and for that he is ready to risk all. The disciple will be able to find the master. The relationship between a student and a teacher is that of the head, and a relationship between a disciple and a master is that of the heart - it is a love relationship, mad in the eyes of the world, utterly mad. In fact, no love is so total as the love that happens between the master and the disciple. The love that happened between John and Jesus, the love that happened between Sariputta and Buddha, Gautama and Mahavira, Arjuna and Krishna, Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu - these are the real love stories, the highest pinnacles of love.
The disciple starts melting into the master. The disciple destroys all distance between himself and the master; the disciple yields, the disciple surrenders, the disciple effaces himself. He becomes a nonentity, he becomes a nothingness. And in that nothingness his heart opens. In that
absence his ego has disappeared and the master can penetrate into his being.
The word ‘disciple’ is also beautiful - it means one who is ready to learn. Hence the word ‘discipline’ - discipline means creating a space for learning. And disciple means being ready to learn. Who can be ready to learn? Only one who is ready to drop all his prejudices. If you come as a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan, you can’t be a disciple. If you simply come as a human being, with no a priori prejudice, with no belief, then only you can become a disciple.
You have lived through the ego, and your life has been just a misery and nothing else. The day one realizes that “The ego is the root cause of my misery,” one starts searching for a place where the ego can be dropped. The master is an excuse to drop the ego. You can drop your ego only if you come across a person who catches hold of your heart so tremendously that his being becomes more important than your own being, that you can sacrifice all that you have for him. The disciple is ready. In fact to say that he is ready to die is something less than the truth. The disciple has already died into the master; it is not going to happen in the future, it has already
happened. It has happened the day the disciple accepted the master as his master: since then he has been no more, only the master lives in him.
Slowly slowly, the presence of the master overfloods the disciple. And the presence of the master is not really the presence of the master himself: the master is overflooded with God. The master is only a vehicle, a passage, a messenger; it is God flowing through the master. When the disciple surrenders to the master totally he is really surrendering to God in the guise of the master. God he cannot see yet, but the master he can see, and in the master he can see something godly. The master becomes the first proof of God to him. Surrendering to the master is surrendering to the visible God. And, slowly slowly, as the surrender deepens, the visible disappears into the invisible. The master disappears. When the disciple reaches into the innermost heart of the master, he does not find the master there but God himself, life itself indefinable, inexpressible. To be a disciple means death and it means resurrection. It means dying into the master and being reborn through the master. OSHO, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3
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A DISCIPLE is.... ready to change
A
disciple means one who is ready to change himself to know the truth... because as you are you cannot know it; otherwise, you would have known it. As you are, something is basically wrong, upside down, not in the right place. The disciple is one who is ready and available and gives himself to the Master, saying “Do whatsoever you want to me. If you want to cut my head off, cut it, but I have come in order to know the truth.� A disciple is ready to pay the price whatsoever it is, because at any cost, truth is cheap. Even if you give your whole life, then too you get it for nothing. What is your life? What value has it? It is just a soap bubble soon it will burst. But truth will transform you from a mortal into an immortality. From time, it will take you into eternity. From all that is tense, full of anguish, a hell, it will pull you out into a state of blissfulness. The disciple has to be ready to change. OSHO, The Misery to Enlightenment, Ch 1
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receptive
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he greatest art in the world is to be a disciple. It cannot be compared to anything. It is unique and incomparable. Nothing like it exists in any other relationship, nothing like it can exist. To be a disciple, to be with a master, is to move into the unknown. You cannot be very aggressive there. If you are aggressive, the unknown will never be revealed to you. It cannot be revealed to an aggressive mind. The very nature of it is such that you have to be receptive, not aggressive. The search for truth is not an active search, it is a deep passivity - in your deep passivity you will receive. But if you become too active and concerned, you will miss. It is like being a womb, it is feminine, you receive the truth as a woman receives a pregnancy. Remember this... then many things will become easier to understand. The disciple has to be ready to change. OSHO, The Grass Grows By Itself, Ch 2
ready to die
A
disciple is a totally different phenomenon. A disciple is not a student; he is not interested in knowing about God, love, truth - he is interested in becoming God, in becoming truth, in becoming love. Remember the difference. Knowing about is one thing, becoming is totally different. The disciple is receptive, vulnerable, unguarded; he drops all armour. He drops all defence measures. He is ready to die. If the master says, “Die!� he will not wait for a single moment. The master is his soul, his very being; his devotion is unconditional and absolute. And to know absolute devotion is to know God. To know absolute surrender is to know the secret-most mystery of life.
a surrender
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To be a disciple is something of immense value. It means surrender. It means putting your ego aside. It means a heart-to-heart communion with the master. It is a love affair. It is not a question of being convinced by the ideas of the master. It is being convinced by the presence, by the divine presence of the master. It is being convinced that the master is no more But god is flowing through him, Then only can one become a disciple. OSHO, Eighty Four Thousand Poems, Ch 15
A disciple is the rarest flowering of human consciousness, because beyond the disciple there is only one peak more the master. And one who has been totally a disciple one day becomes a master. Disciplehood is a process of becoming a master. But one should not start with the idea of becoming a master; otherwise one is going to miss, because then it is again an ego trip. One should come simply to evaporate. OSHO, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Ch2
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BUDDHA
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HIS DISCIPLES -Swami Anand Arun
The Buddhist literature talks about Buddha’s 80 senior disciples, amongst which Sariputra is considered as Buddha’s right hand and Mahamodgalyan his left hand. Buddha himself has praised these many times. Buddha used to say, ‘These two are my religious commanders who will go ahead with the job of transforming the religious consciousness which I have begun.’
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Sariputra With the descent of the avataras, disciples with higher consciousness also take birth. In the spiritual language they are called Lila Sahacharis, without whom the purpose of an enlightened master cannot be fulfilled. If it were not for disciples like Vivekananda, Arjun and Radha, Laxman and Hanuman, Mardana, Magdelena and Martha, the purpose of masters like Ramkrishna, Krishna, Ram, Nanak and Jesus respectively, wouldn’t have been fulfilled. Even amongst the enlightened beings, Buddha is exceptional. The number of excellent meditators and Lila Sahacharis that were Buddha’s disciples is higher than that of any other master. We shall delve into his main disciples Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan.
Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan were born on the same day near south Nalanda of Rajgriha, the capital of Magadh. Both of them came from two affluent Brahmin families that maintained a good relationship with each other. At a very young age these two became detached from worldly pleasures and became the disciples of an influential acharya, Sanjaya Bethaliputra. One day when Buddha was spending his second monsoon retreat in Gridhakut Parbat, Bhikhshu Aswajit, one of Buddha’s first five disciples, reached Nalanda while begging for alms. When Sariputra saw Aswajit, he experienced an unknown attraction and started following him. Seeing Aswajit radiate peacefulness, Sariputra asked, ‘All your senses seem to be peacefully in bliss. For which master did you leave this world? What does he preach?’ Aswajit replied, ‘I’m the disciple of Shakya Prince Tathagat Buddha. His teachings are based on his four noble truths, five disciplines and the eight fold path. I don’t really know much, why don’t you meet
Swami Anand Arun
the master himself. He’s residing at the Griddhakut Parbat.’
Aswajit’s words shook the deepest core of Sariputra’s heart and he felt like he had finally gotten the key to life, he rushed to his close friend Mahamodgalyan. Seeing Sariputra’s delight, Mahamodgalyan asked him, ‘Today you seem to be extremely blissful, have you found the truth?’ Sariputra told him about the meeting with Aswajit and asked Mahamodgalyan to come with him to meet Buddha. ‘Let’s ask acharya Sanjaya Bethaliputra to come with us.’ said Mahamodgalyan and both reached the ashram of the acharya where he lived with his two hundred fifty disciples. After hearing the invitation of Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan, Bethaliputra felt jealous and said, ‘Where will you go leaving me alone? You are young and I’m already old. Stay here and take care of the ashram and I’ll give you the highest positions in the Ashram.’ But this impressed neither Sariputra nor Mahamodgalyan.
‘We are going to meet the Buddha; if anybody wants to come along, they can join us,’ they replied and walked away. All the disciples in the Acharya’s ashram followed Sariputra. When Buddha saw Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan descending from the Griddhakut hill along with other 250 meditators, Buddha said, ‘Look, my religious commanders are coming.’ They came and sat near Buddha and listened to his sermon which melted their hearts. Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan along with the other meditators became a part of the Buddha Sangha. Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan had been meditating OSHO TAPOBAN
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for many lives. In his Jatak Kathas, Buddha has said that Sariputra had been meditating deeply for his last 60 lives. With Buddha’s grace and their virtue from past lives, after initiation, Mahamodgalyan attained arhatwa in seven days and Sariputra in six weeks. Politeness and thankfulness was Sariputra’s best qualities. Even though he was the main Acharya of the Buddha sangha, he lived a very simple life. An anecdote from the Buddhist literature states: Once the Buddha sangha was coming to Shrawasti. On the way it became dark and all the Bhikshus had already looked for the best shelters. As all the shelters had already been occupied, Sariputra decided to sleep under a tree. At night Buddha heard someone coughing due to the cold and came out of his hut. Buddha asked, ‘Who’s there?’ ‘Bhante, it’s me, Sariputra,’ said the voice.
When Buddha inquired why Sariputra was sleeping outside, he said that he didn’t find any other shelter. The next morning Buddha scolded the whole Buddha sangha and asked them to give Sariputra the same respect as they bestowed on him. Even while sleeping under the tree, Sariputra had no complaints. His modesty was such that when other Bhikshus had gone to collect alms, he would clean the Ashram by himself and take care of the sick ones. Since Sthiwir Aswajeet had inspired Sariputra to meet Buddha, he was thankful to Aswajeet for his entire desire. Whatever direction Aswajeet went in, Sariputra would bow down towards it everyday and express his gratitude. He never had any particular wish. He used to say, ‘I do not have the desire to live or die. Anything that comes my way, I’ll accept it with gratitude.’ Buddha himself was a great admirer of Sariputra. When Buddha had meditated continuously for six years under a tree in Bodhgaya, he used to suffer from arthritis and sometimes his back pain would trouble him while he would be giving the sermons. At such moments Buddha would ask Sariputra to continue the sermon and would leave for rest. Once when Buddha fell ill in Shrawasti, Sariputra was asked to give the sermon. When Sariputra was giving the sermon Buddha
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himself came out of his hut, Gandhakuti, and praised him, ‘Sadhu! Sariputra Sadhu! You have explained the gist of dhamma better than I.’ On the concrete foundation of such influential, devotional and creative Lila Sahacharis, the Buddha sangha came into existence.
Mahamodgalyan
Not only did Sariputra understand Buddha’s teachings thoroughly but he was also adept in conveying his message, which is why he is considered the Buddha after Buddha. Mahamodgalyan has his own speciality, even though constant practice of intense meditation had made him the master of many Siddhis, he never exhibited his powers. Constant practice of meditation makes the mind calm and balanced and Siddhis develop naturally in a meditator. Mahamodgalyan was skilled with all the eight siddhis of yoga. Buddha was against the practice of using Siddhis to influence people as exhibition of such powers can lead to the fall of the meditator. When Buddha was residing in Nalanda, his disciples said to him, ‘Bhante, if you give Mahamodgalyan the permission to use his Siddhis, the whole of Nalanda will merge into the Buddha sangha.’ Buddha denied this request and said, ‘People should be interested in my religion through understanding, not through magic.’ During the times of Buddha, there was a huge predominance of yogis who used to charm the general mass with their Siddhis and earn a lot of money and prestige. One day Mahamodgalyan and Pindola Bhardwaj were coming to Rajgriha. After seeing them, a rich businessman raised a golden begging bowl to the top of a long bamboo and challenged, you are Siddha Bhikshus, if you can take this bowl using your Siddhis, I will donate this bowl full with gold coins. This didn’t interest Mahamodgalyan but Pindola Bhardwaj got provoked by the challenge and did get the bowl using his siddhis. After this, wherever Pindola went, he started to receive a lot of respect. When
Buddha heard this, he called him and scolded, ‘You have committed a big crime. For an irrelevant cause you exhibited your divine siddhi like a professional woman exhibiting her inner garments for a small amount of money. Those people who choose the spiritual path to attain Siddhis, cannot walk on it consistently, they always expect for magic.’ By saying this, Buddha prohibited all kinds of exhibition of Siddhis from the Buddha Sangha.
All the disciples of Buddha used to serve him in turns. Later, as the condition of Buddha’s health started to decline, a decision was made to give the responsibility of taking care of Buddha’s health to someone who was well acquainted with his ways, habits and needs. The care taker had to walk with Buddha like his shadow and had to be available to him twenty- four hours a day. Seeing the intensity of the job, no one was ready to take the responsibility, but Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan were the first to express that they were willing to take it. But Buddha said, ‘These two are like my shadows, they have to reach those places where I cannot go. I cannot keep them bound with me.’ After this Buddha chose his extremely polite and compassionate disciple Anand as his personal care taker. Sariputra and Mahamodgalyan were both older than Buddha in age. When Sariputra was in Magadh for the sermon, his health condition deteriorated, so he went to Shrawasti and requested to Buddha, ‘Bhante, now my body wants to take rest forever, please give me the permission of mahaparinirvan.’ Buddha asked, ‘Where do you want to leave your body?’ Sariputra replied, ‘I want to go to my homeland Nalanda and attain Mahaparinirvan in front of mother.’ ‘yassa dani twan Sariputta kanl manyyasiti’ said Buddha. (meaning, “Whatever you consider relevant is accepted.”) Then Sariputra said, ‘In my past life when I saw Anomdarshi Buddha, I desired to be a disciple of Buddha like him. With your grace my desire has been fulfilled. In many past lives I got the opportunity to serve you and meditate with you. Now I wouldn’t have that fate, for this is your last life and the last life of most of us. I’m sad that we
cannot take birth anymore and see your lila again. If my words and action have harmed you or the Buddha sangha in any way then please forgive me.’ ‘Sariputra, nothing that you’ve done has ever been against me,’ replied Buddha.
The whole Buddha Sangha started to cry as they bid farewell to Sariputra. Buddha himself came to the main door of Jetwan to see off Sariputra. Sariputra encircled Buddha three times and then left for Nalanda with his younger brother Chund. Sariputra’s mother Rupsari was very angry with Buddha for all her sons Sariputra, Chund, Upasen, Rewat and all her daughters Chala, Upachala and Sishupala had become Bhikshus. When she saw Sariputra coming she thought that finally his brains have come back in old age, and she became very happy. But when she came to know that Sariputra had come to leave his body, she became very sad. With his arrival, all the respected people of Nalanda along with the emperor Ajatsatru came to see him with gifts. This changed her attitude towards Buddha and she took initiation from Sariputra. In this way Sariputra got free from the debt of his mother. In his last dasrshan when Bicchus came to see him he advised them, ‘Bhikshus! We are very fortunate to have a great master like Tathagat. Never be careless towards him.’ In the early morning of Kartik Purnima, Sariputra attained Mahaparinirvan and left his body. After finishing the funeral, Chundak reached Shrawasti in fifteen days with Sariputra’s robe, ashes and begging bowl, and stood in front of Buddha. Buddha said, ‘Bhikshus! Wise, forgiving and compassionate Sariputra who was beyond his desires has attained Mahaparinirvan. Let’s remember him After hearing this, the whole of Buddha sangha mourned. When Mahamodgalyan came to know that his dear friend had attained Mahaparinirvan, he left his body. These two dharmasenapatis were born on the same day and left their bodies between a gap of fifteen days. Seeing this Buddha said, ‘When all the branches fall off a huge tree, the tree becomes naked. In the same way, after the death of these two dharmasenapatis I have become alone.’
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Sacred World Heritage Site in Lumbini - Maya Devi Temple, where Buddha was born.
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he Master/disciple relationship is the relationship between a caterpillar and a butterfly, a friendship between a caterpillar and a butterfly. The butterfly cannot prove that the caterpillar can become a butterfly; there is no logical way. But the butterfly can provoke a longing in the caterpillar - that is possible. The Master helps you to reach your own experience. He does not give you the Vedas, the Koran, the Bible; he throws you to yourself. He makes you aware of your inner sources. He makes you aware of your own juice, of your own godliness. He liberates you from the scriptures. He liberates you from the interpretations of others. He liberates you from all belief. He liberates you from all speculation, from all guesswork. He liberates you from philosophy and from religion and from theology. He liberates you, in short, from the world of words - because the word is the problem. You become so much obsessed with the word “love” that you forget that love is an experience, not a word. You become so obsessed with the word “God” that you forget that God is an experience, not a word. The word “God” is not God, and the word “fire” is not fire, and the word “love” is not love either. The Master liberates you from words, he liberates you from all kinds of imaginative philosophies. He brings you to a state of wordless silence. The failure of religion and philosophy is that they all become substitutes for real experience. Beware of it! OSHO, Ah This, Ch 1
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irst of all, a guru is not a teacher; a guru is a person who has attained to a religious mode of living. Religion is not information, it cannot be taught because religion is a way of living. The very presence of the guru is a communion. And to one living in contact with him, something is communicated - though not through words. The relationship is so intimate that it is less like teacher and pupil and more like lover and beloved.
The guru must himself be enlightened, he must himself have attained, because one cannot communicate that which one has not realized. Religious experience can be communicated only when it is firsthand. A teacher need not be selfrealized, but a guru must be. A teacher can give secondhand information from scriptures or traditions, but a guru cannot. A guru is a person who has realized truth. Now he is the original source; he himself has encountered reality, he is face to face with it. And the disciple comes in contact with a firsthand knowing because whatsoever is said or communicated to him by the guru is on his own authority.
Secondly, a guru is not aware of his guruship; he cannot be. A guru cannot claim that he is a guru - there is no claim like that. A person can only know whether or not he has fulfilled the condition of egolessness; otherwise he cannot encounter truth. Truth is encountered only when the ego is absolutely absent. I always say that in religion, in spirituality, only disciples exist - because the guru is not present, he is only a presence. His very nonclaiming, his nonegoistic, nonteaching attitude, and his living the truth, are the communion. So a person who claims to be a guru is only a teacher, he is not a guru. There is no word in English to translate the word guru because the relationship between guru and disciple is basically Eastern. No such relationship has ever existed in Western culture and tradition, so no one in the West can understand what a guru is. At the most they can understand what a teacher is. The relationship between guru and disciple is so intimate... it is
like love. The reverence that is felt is like love, but with one difference: love is parallel, and reverence is for one who is above, one who is higher. Love creates friendship because the lover and the loved one are on the same level. Reverence too is a kind of love but with a great difference: it is not on the same level; one person is higher. If there is a loving intimacy with the higher personality, reverence is automatically created around a guru. But it is not expected, it is not demanded. A disciple means one who has an open mind, a receptive mind so he is not just learning but receiving. That is why trust is a basic component of being a disciple.
The relationship between the disciple and the guru is a relationship of intimate trust. That doesn’t mean blind faith, because the guru never expects you to believe in him - that is not an expectation. But the very nature of the unknown is such that you cannot go a single step further without trust. Trust is required of the disciple because he will not be able to take a single step into the unknown without trusting the guru. The unknown is dark, the field is uncharted - it is not bliss, it is not the ultimate - and the guru is always saying, “Jump into it! Do it!” But before you can jump, trust is needed or you will not jump. And knowledge can only come through a jump. You will not be doing the experiment from outside, you will be the experiment. You will have to jump in and become part of it. Great trust is needed.
So the relationship between guru and disciple is one of great trust, intimate love, reverence. But these things are not demanded. The moment “Being they are demanded they with a become exploitation; master in deep the moment they are love and trust things forced they become start happening, just violent, because no one as the spring comes and should force himself flowers start on anybody. It is not blossoming.” an enforcement on the -OSHO At the feet of master part of the guru, it is Sw. Ashok Priyadarshi a willingness on the OSHO TAPOBAN
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part of the disciple to allow the guru to work.But ordinarily, the disciple is unwilling and the guru is forcing. Then everything becomes nonsense. The moment the guru tries to force something on someone, it cripples, it destroys, it kills, because it is a violent act against someone else’s ego. But if the disciple is willing, if he gives the guru his complete trust - if it is not forced, if it is his own willing surrender - then a great transformation happens: the disciple is transformed by his very surrender. This is a very decisive act: to surrender oneself to someone else completely, totally. It is not just faith in someone else, it is basically faith in oneself. You cannot surrender yourself if you are not confident enough about your decision, because it is a great decision - total and unconditional. Whenever a disciple surrenders himself his will is involved, and out of his will a decision is born. The disciple becomes a crystallized personality through surrender because the decision is so great and so total, so absolute and unconditional. No surrender can be conditional; there can be no condition with the guru. You cannot say, “If you do this then I will surrender.” Then it will not be surrender. There is no “if” - you surrender totally. You say, “Do whatsoever you like. I am in your hands. Ask me to jump into a wall, and I will jump!”This very decision to surrender totally is transforming and crystallizing. The attitude of the disciple is always one of total surrender. Then the guru is able to do anything because, through your total receptivity to him, you can be in communion
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with him. Then by and by you change.
The matter is delicate, it is very sensitive. To change a living being, to change a human personality, is the greatest, most arduous, most delicate thing. The human personality is so complex, it is in so much conflict, with so much that is suppressed and perverted, that to change it and to make it flower in ecstasy, to make it a worthy present for the divine, is the greatest art or science possible. But you must remember that what I have been talking about always comes from the disciple, never from the guru. If it comes from the guru then Krishnamurti is right: then gurudom is one of the most subtle and destructive exploitations. But Krishnamurti is not right really, because surrender has never been a demand of the guru; it is a basic condition for discipleship. Without the guru or a relationship of trust, it is very difficult to progress spiritually. In fact, it is not possible.
There is every possibility that a person may flower without any guru, but that person too will have to surrender, he will have to trust - if not a particular person then the whole. The basic requirements must be fulfilled. Whether they are fulfilled in connection with a person or not is immaterial. It is easier to trust a person than to trust the whole. If you cannot trust a person you can never trust existence as such. If you cannot surrender in a personal relationship, you can never surrender to the impersonal divine. So the guru is a step toward the impersonal, a way to help one toward
surrender to the whole, to existence itself.
To the human mind, all relationships are personal. It may be love, it may be respect, it may be anything, but it is personal. So the first step toward the realization of truth or of cosmic being is also bound to be personal. Someone will have to be used as a jumping board.
And there are other things also.... Words cannot communicate much that is meaningful as far as spirituality is concerned. The very phenomenon is such that it is inexpressible.
Spiritual things are so impeccable, so silent, so infinite, that language destroys them. Words confine them to such a narrow sphere that the meaning cannot be conveyed. That is why I said that religion cannot be taught. Religion cannot be taught. Then how is it conveyed? There are other methods. When you are in love with someone, gestures become meaningful for the first time. A slight twinge in the face is detected, a slight waver in the eyes is known and understood.
Unless you are in love you never pay attention to such minute things; you just see a face but you don’t see its total complexity, you don’t see its constantly changing patterns. You see the face as an external thing; you never see the content in it. But when you love someone the face is not just a figure but a living pattern. Minute things and subtle changes in expression are detected and known. Even before the lover has said something, you have known it. Even before the lover comes
to know that he has felt something, you can detect it. And reverence is even more subtle than love. The very existence of the guru is a communication. Everything that he is constantly delivers messages which are caught, known, decoded, and understood by the reverent mind. These gestures, these living gestures, are a language.
The communication is even deeper when the relationship becomes ripe. When the disciple has blossomed into disciple hood and he understands completely the meaning of his guru’s words and gestures, he is ripe. Then a silent communication, without gestures, without any linguistic symbols, is possible. This telepathic communication is the secret of the relationship. It is the most secret key of communion between guru and disciple. Only when this becomes possible has the disciple been accepted. Then there is no question of time and space. Then, wherever the disciple is, things can be communicated to him. All these things have to be waited for patiently. It is a great waiting. You can never be in a hurry as far as spiritual learning is concerned because a hurried mind cannot go so deep, it cannot be so silent. The disciple should not be in a hurry to know, he should await the right moment - trusting, waiting, and preparing himself. The guru/disciple relationship is an understanding of the heart. The East has so many secret keys, but even a single key is enough because a single key can open thousands and thousands of locks. The relationship between guru and disciple is one such key. OSHO, The Great Challenge, Ch7
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The story really tells what Zen is like - without defining, it indicates. A definition is not possible because Zen in its basic quality is indefinable. You can taste it but you cannot define it; you can live it but language is not sufficient to say it; you can show it but you cannot say it. But through a story a little bit can be transferred. And this story really indicates, indicates perfectly the quality of what Zen is like. This is just a gesture, don’t make it a definition, don’t philosophize around it, let it be like lightning, a flash of understanding. It is not going to increase your knowledge but it can give you a shift, a jerk, a change of gestalt. You can be thrown from one corner of the mind to another...and that is the whole point of the story.
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Zen master was saying goodbye to one of his disciples, and the night was very dark. And the disciple was a little bit afraid, scared, because he had to pass a jungle of at least ten miles. And it was wild. And wild animals were there, and it was night - and a dark night with no moon. And it was getting late, almost half the night had passed. Talking to the master, he had completely forgotten. Seeing him a little afraid, the master says, ‘You look a little afraid, so I will give you a lamp.’ He puts a small paper lamp into his hand, lights the lamp. The disciple thanks him, goes down the steps, and the master calls him and says, ‘Stop!’ And the master comes close and blows the flame out. And he says, ‘A real master gives courage; he does not help cowardice. Go into the dark, be your own light. And remember, nobody else’s light will be of any help; you will have to attain to your own light. Be a flame to your own being. Go into the dark, be courageous.’ He says a real master never helps any cowardice. In a small act, by blowing the flame out,
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disciple came to a Zen Master and said, “Now I have realized! Now I know I am a Buddha!”The Master was very angry and said, “Get out of here!” The disciple had come with great hopes that the Master would reward, recognize. And the Master was very angry. He had been angry before, but never so much. And the disciple said, “What is the matter? Why are you getting so angry? I was thinking you would be happy because you were always telling us, ‘You are Buddhas, you are Buddhas! Right now you can become Buddhas!’ And now, when I have become, I say to you I have become a Buddha!” And the Master took his staff and he said, “I will beat you! I will beat the Buddha out of you! You get out of here! First throw this Buddha away!” - because to think you are not a Buddha is wrong; so is it when you start thinking you are a Buddha!
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t happened that a disciple was with a Zen master for many years and nothing happened. He tried to do whatsoever the master said but still nothing happened because in fact he was not trying, he was pretending to try. He was just showing that he was trying; he was playing a game, he was not sincere. Then he started asking others: What to do? I do everything, whatsoever the master says, and nothing happens. Somebody said: It will not happen, it is difficult, it is almost impossible. If you really want it to happen the only way is to die. The man had by this time become such a practitioner of pretensions that he said: I will do it. He went to the master to see him. Suddenly when the master looked at him, he fell on the ground, closed his eyes and pretended that he was dead. The master had a hearty laugh, because you can pretend many things but how can you pretend that you are dead? It is the last of absurdities. The master said: Right, you did well, but one question before you disappear completely. What about the koan, the problem I have given you to solve? The master had given him a problem to meditate upon, the very basic problem that if you want to create sound with one hand, how will the sound of one hand sound?
The pretender opened his one eye and said: Master, that I haven’t solved yet. The master hit him hard, kicked him, and said: You hypocrite, don’t you know this much, don’t you know that dead men don’t answer any questions? You are dead, but immediately you answer a question.
If you are really ignorant then all the other words that you have written are false, useless, futile, meaningless, gibberish. But if they are meaningful then whatsoever you have said in the beginning is a pretension. That’s why I say the question is complex. Don’t play the game with yourself because nobody else is going to be deceived by it except yourself.
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here is a Zen story. A great master woke up in the morning. He called his chief disciple and said, “Come to me. I had a dream, I will tell it to you. Interpret it.” If the disciple was a Freud or a Jung or an Adler, he would have been tremendously happy, and he would have immediately started interpreting the dream. But the disciple was a meditator, not a Jung, not a Freud. He said, “You wait. Don’t talk rubbish. I will bring water so you can wash your face.” He brought a bowl of water. While the master was washing his face, another disciple passed. The master said, “Come here. I had a dream. Would you like to interpret it?”
The disciple looked. He said, “Wait. The tea is ready and I will bring you a cup of tea. Then you will come to your senses!” A dream is not worth even interpretation. The master was happy. It is said he danced that day. He said, “At least two disciples....” He
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said, “If you had interpreted my dream, I would have thrown you out of my monastery” - because a dream is nonsense, and then trying to interpret it is even a higher nonsense.
What the disciples did was the best interpretation. The first one brought a bowl of water and said to the old master, “You just wash your face so that you become more awake.”The other brought tea. “Just drink tea, a little hot tea, and that will bring you back to your senses. You will be more conscious.” Consciousness is needed, not interpretation. All dreams are the same: there are not good dreams and bad dreams. How can there be good dreams and bad dreams? Both are unreal. In unreality you cannot make a distinction between good and bad. Moral, immoral; sinner, saint - all are dreams. Don’t try to change one dream for another. All are chains. Steel or gold, it doesn’t matter. Wake up! All the awakened ones are just standing there with bowls of water and a hot cup of tea.... OSHO,Come Follow to You, Ch/2
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ne Zen Master went to his disciple. The disciple was a real authentic seeker, and he was continuously doing meditation and he has attained to the last point where meditation has to be dropped. All techniques have to be dropped. They are just toys, because you cannot be without toys. They are supplied in the hope that someday you will realize they are just toys. You yourself will throw them and sit silently.
The Master went because now the right moment has arrived, and the disciple still goes on continuing his chanting of the mantra. He has become addicted. Now he is obsessed. He could not leave it. It is just like sometimes you find a certain line of a song goes on and on in the mind. Even if you want to drop it, you cannot drop. It haunts inside; again and again it comes. This is nothing you don’t know. When a person does a mantra for years, it is almost impossible to drop it - it becomes his very marrow - he cannot even in sleep. While he is asleep his lips you can watch doing Ram,
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Ram, Ram. It becomes an undercurrent. It is a toy of course, a teddy bear, but becomes so much closer that the child cannot go to sleep without it.
The Master went and just sat before the disciple, and he was sitting Buddha-like, doing his mantra. The Master took a brick with him and started rubbing the brick on a stone: grrr, grrr, grrr. He went on and on just like a mantra. First the disciple resisted the temptation to look who is doing this disturbance, but then he went on and on; hours passed. The disciple opened his eyes and said “What are you doing?” The Master says, “I am trying to polish this brick, to make a mirror out of it.” The disciple said, “You are stupid. I never thought that you, a man who has a reputation of being enlightened, should do such a foolish thing. The brick will never become a mirror, howsoever hard you may rub it on the stone. It may disappear completely, but it will not become a mirror. You stop this nonsense!” The Master laughed and said, “You also stop, because howsoever you rub the brick of the mind, it will never become the innermost self. It may get polished and polished and polished, but still it will not become your inner reality.” Mind has to be dropped. Meditation techniques are a trick to help that dropping, and then meditation also has to be dropped. Otherwise, that becomes your mind. It is just like there is a thorn in your feet, and you get another thorn to take the first thorn out of your feet. The second thorn helps, but the second thorn is as much a thorn as the first. The second is not a flower. And when the first has been taken out by the help of the second, what you will do? Will you put the second in the wound because this helped so much and this thorn was so great you have to worship it? Will you worship the second thorn? No, you will throw them both together. This has to be remembered: mind is a thorn; all techniques are thorns to bring the first thorn out. Meditation is also a thorn. When the first thorn is out, then both have to be thrown together. Even if for a single moment you miss, then the second thorn will be in the place of the first thorn, and you will be in the same trouble. OSHO, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3
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t happened once in a zen monastery: a man came; he wanted to be initiated. The master said, ‘We have two categories of initiates here. I have five hundred inmates in the ashram, in the monastery, and we have two categories: one is that of disciple, and one that of master. So which category would you like to join?’ The man was absolutely new, he even felt a little hesitation. He said, ‘If it is possible then I would like to be initiated as a master.’
The master was just joking. He was just joking - and wanted to look to the deeper unconscious. Everybody would like to be a master, and even if you become a disciple you become one only as a means, just as a means to become a master: you have to pass through it, it is a compulsion; otherwise how can you become a master? So you have to be a disciple, but the search of the ego is to be the master. The ego would like to teach, not to learn, and even if you learn it is learning with the idea of how to get ready to teach. You listen to me. With listening I have two categories also: you can listen like a disciple; you can listen like a would-be master. If you listen like a would-be master you will miss, because you cannot listen with that attitude. If you are just waiting, getting ready, and wondering how to jump into being a master and teach others, you cannot be receptive. You can learn only if you are a disciple with no thought of becoming a master.
There was one disciple of Buddha who remained for many years with him; his name was Purna. He became enlightened and he still remained with Buddha. After his enlightenment he would also come every day in the morning to listen to Buddha. He himself was now a buddha; nothing was lacking, he stood now in his own right, but he continued to come. One day Buddha asked Purna, ‘Why do you go on coming? Now you can stop.’And Purna said, ‘Unless you say so, how can I
stop? If you say so, it is okay.’
Then he stopped coming to Buddha’s lectures, but he remained just like a shadow moving with the SANGHA, with the order. Then after a few years, again said, ‘Purna, why do you go on following me? You go and teach people! You need not be here with me.’ And Purna said, ‘I was waiting. When you say so, I will go. I am a disciple, so whatsoever you say I will do. If you say so, it’s okay. So where should I go? Which direction should I go? Whom should I teach? You simply direct me and I will follow! I am a follower.’ This man must have listened to Buddha totally, because even when he becomes enlightened he remains a disciple. And there are people who are absolutely ignorant - and they are already ‘masters’. Even if they are listening, they are listening with an attitude that sooner or later they have to teach. You listen just to tell others what you have learned! Drop that idea completely from the mind, because if that idea is there, if the would-be master is there, the disciple cannot exist with that idea; they never coexist. A disciple is simply a disciple. One day it happens that he becomes a master - but that is not the end, that is just a consequence. Just by being a learner one becomes wise. That is a consequence, not the goal. If you learn simply to become wise you will never learn, because to be wise is an ego-goal, an ego-trip. And if you are just waiting to ripen, mature, and become a master, and this disciplehood is just a passage to be passed through - the sooner the better, it has to be finished, you are not happy in it, you would like to end it - then you are not a disciple, and you will never be a master. ... Because when a disciple ripens, he becomes a master spontaneously. That is not a goal to be followed, it happens as a byproduct. OSHO, And The Flowers Showered , Ch 2
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am reminded of a very significant awakened man. He was a potter; his name was Gora. He uses this image very significantly, because when a potter makes a pot he has to do two things: inside he pecks and outside he taps. That is the whole art of pottery, but that’s also the whole art of the master and disciple relationship. This is the whole art of the master. If he cannot peck from inside when he starts tapping from the outside, he will destroy the disciple. And most of the so-called teachers of the world exactly do that. They don’t even know their own inside - how can they help somebody else’s growth with this art of pecking from inside and tapping from outside? Tapping from outside is very easy, even Zen Master Niskriya can do it. But the real question is the support from inside. Great things can be said to you which will not be of any help, which on the contrary may pollute you and poison you, because they will make you knowledgeable. A master is your enemy if he makes you knowledgeable. But from the outside only knowledge can be given. You become more and more filled with knowledge. The real master has nothing to do with knowledge. He hits deep inside you. His compassion sometimes seems to be very hard, but he goes on showering from the outside, with great love. Inside he has to be a surgeon; outside he has to shower flowers of blessings. Unless a master can do both he is not a master, he is only a teacher. OSHO, Live Zen, Ch3
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his is the real work of a master, a mystic, that sooner or later the people who are with him start feeling questionless. To be questionless is the answer. There is no answer... it is not that when you are questionless all your questions have been demolished. It is not that you come upon a hidden answer. No, there is nothing hidden. All the rubbish has been removed. You feel just a clean and clear consciousness. This is the answer... Not the answer to any question, but the state of no question is the answer that we are seeking and searching. Every question is a burden, every question is a wound, every question is a tension. And to be questionless, to be completely free of all questions... There is a story in the life of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. He was working with his disciples in the desert, in a small monastery. A few travelers passing by, just out of curiosity stopped and went in. They saw that in the courtyard the students were sitting, the disciples were sitting, and Mevlana - Mevlana means the beloved master - Mevlana Rumi was answering them.
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They got fed up, because strange questions and strange answers... they went on their way. After years of traveling, they came back, and stopped again to see what was happening. Only Mevlana Rumi was sitting there, and there were no disciples. They were really shocked - what had happened? They went to Mevlana and they said, “What happened?”
Mevlana laughed. He said, “This is my whole work. I crushed all their questions, and now they have no questions so I have told them, `Go and do the same to others: crush their questions. And if you find somebody you cannot manage, send him here!’” A master simply makes you aware of your potential. If he has achieved, you can achieve. He is just like you - the blood and the bones and the body. He is just like you. If something is possible in his being, if his bud can become a flower, then why can’t you become? This very idea sinks deep into the heart, stirs your whole being, and energies start surfacing, your bud starts opening. OSHO, Beyond Psychology, Ch12
“That’s what it means to be with a master, to be a disciple. If you are really committed to truth you are bound to become a sannyasin. If your commitment to truth is an inquiry then you will have to learn the ways of learning. And the first thing to learn is to surrender, to trust, to love.”- Osho OSHO TAPOBAN At the feet of master Sw. Prem Sariputra & Ma Prem Pratika
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ertainly, it is a play. I am not serious. And if you are serious, there is not going to be any meeting with you. Seriousness does not cross my path at all. I am absolutely non-serious. This is a play. And I would like to call this play ‘the mad game’.
The word ‘mad’ I have coined so: ‘m’ stands for the master and ‘d’ stands for the disciple. The master-and-disciple game! It is a mad game! I am an expert in being a Master. If you are also ready to become a disciple, here we go! And it is none of anybody else’s business. It is a game between me and you. If you decide to be a disciple, as I have decided to be a Master, then we can play the game. And those who have decided to be disciples are enjoying it tremendously!
Once you decide to be a disciple, you enter into another world - a totally different world of the heart, of love, of trust. Then it is a play. You are not serious but still you are very sincere. Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.
Rojoice that I am here! If you decide to be a disciple, then only can you understand what I am doing here, then only can you understand this mad game, this madly mad game. It is a play; in fact, it is the ultimate game in life. You have played many other games, this is the last. You have played being a lover, being a friend; being a father, being a husband, being a wife, mother, brother, being rich, being poor, being a leader, being a follower - you have played all the games. And only those who have played all the games can play this game, because they will be mature enough to play it. This is the last game. After this game, games stop, game-playing stops. Once you have played the game rightly - the Master-disciple game by and by you come to a point where all playing disappears. Only you are left - neither the Master nor the disciple exists there. This is just a device.
Between the Master and the disciple - if the rule of the game is followed rightly - devotion arises. That is the fragrance, the river that flows between the two banks of the Master and the disciple. OSHO, The Art of Dying, Ch 8
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THE MASTER:
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HAS A MASTER. SOMETIMES I THINK THAT CHOOSING A MASTER MEANS TO PREVENT ONE’S OWN ENLIGHTENMENT. I MEAN, THE NEED OF ONE’S OWN WAY, THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GUIDANCE. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU MEAN.
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never asked anybody any such question. To ask the question is to search for guidance, is to seek for guidance. A question is always a need for an answer from somebody else. If you have questions to ask, you will have to choose a Master. A Master is one who is ready to answer you. A disciple is one who is not only asking from curiosity but is ready to stake his whole being on his questioning, is ready to transform his life according to the answer given. If you really ask the question you have already become a disciple. That is the meaning of being a disciple: to ask. Jesus says, ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you. Knock, and the door shall be opened unto you. Seek, and ye shall find.’’Ask, and it shall be given unto you...’ Asking is the beginning of disciplehood. And unless you are a disciple, the Master will not take much note of you, because many come just as curiosity seekers - out of curiosity but not really ready to inquire. Inquiry needs commitment, inquiry needs involvement, inquiry is risky, dangerous. It is not only intellectual, it is existential. So if you really want to ask, remember, let me make you alert, you are already becoming a disciple. And if you think that to choose a Master is to prevent one’s enlightenment, please don’t ask questions. And I was surprised, because Andreas has asked at least seven questions today. The largest number of questions is from him. Secondly, you say, ‘You had no Master.’That is true, I had no Master. That does not mean that I was not a disciple. I accepted the whole existence as my Master. It needs more courage to accept the whole existence as your Master. If you cannot accept even a single man as your Master, how can you accept the whole existence as your Master
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man who was trying to make a hole in the wall of a house. I asked him where I could stay, and he said, “I am a thief, and you look like a Sufi mystic to me.”’ His robe, his aura. ‘And the thief said, “Right now it will be very difficult to find any place to stay, but you can come to my home. You can stay with me - if you can stay with a thief.” ‘
Hassan said, ‘I hesitated a little bit. Then I remembered. If the thief is not afraid of a Sufi, then why should the Sufi be afraid of a thief? In fact, he should be afraid of me. So I said, “Yes, I will come.” And I went, and I stayed with the thief. And the man was so lovely, so beautiful, I stayed for one month! And each night he would say to me, “Now I am going to my work. You rest, you pray, you do your work.” And when he would come back I would ask, “Could you get anything?” He said, “Not tonight. But tomorrow I will try again.” And he was never in a state of hopelessness.
- the trees and rocks and the rivers and the clouds? If you cannot love a single human being, how can you love the whole? It is true I had no Master, but that does not mean that I was not a disciple. My disciplehood was a greater involvement than your disciplehood is. I trusted the clouds - which is very difficult. I trusted the trees which is almost impossible. I trusted existence as such. If that is possible then you need not have any Master in particular, because then everything is your Master. When a great Sufi mystic, Hassan, was dying, somebody asked, ‘Hassan, who was your Master?’
He said, ‘Now it is too late to ask. Time is short, I am dying.’ But the inquirer asked, ‘You can simply say the name. You are still alive, you are still breathing and talking, you can simply tell me the name.’ He said, ‘It will be difficult because I had thousands of Masters. If I just relate their names it will take months and years. It is too late. But three Masters I will certainly tell you about.
‘One was a thief. Once I got lost in the desert, and when I reached the village it was very late. Half the night was already gone; shops were closed, caravanserais were closed. There was not a single human being on the roads. I searched for somebody to inquire of. I found one
‘For one month continuously he came emptyhanded, but he was always happy. And he said, “I will try tomorrow. God willing, tomorrow it is going to happen. And you also pray for me. At least you can say to God, ‘Help this poor man.’”And then Hassan said, ‘When I was meditating and meditating for years on end, nothing was happening, and many times the moment came when I was so desperate, so hopeless that I thought to stop all this nonsense. There is no God, and all this prayer is just madness, all this meditation is false - and suddenly I would remember the thief who would say every night, “God willing, tomorrow it is going to happen.”
‘So I tried one day more. If the thief was so hopeful, with such hope and trust, I should try at least one day more. And many times it happened, but the thief and the memory of him helped me to wait one day more. And one day, it happened, it DID happen! I bowed down. I was thousands of miles away from the thief and his house, but I bowed down in his direction. He was my first Master.
‘And my second Master was a dog. I was thirsty and I was going towards the river, and a dog came. He was also thirsty. He looked into the river, he saw another dog there - his own image - and became afraid. He barked and the other dog barked, too. But his thirst was so much that he would hesitate and go back. He would come again and look into the water and find the dog there. But the thirst was so much that he suddenly jumped into the water, and the image disappeared. He drank the water, he swam in the water - it was a hot summer. And I was OSHO TAPOBAN
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watching. I knew that a message had come to me from God. One has to jump in spite of all fears.
‘When I was on the verge of jumping into the unknown, the same fear was there. I would go to the very edge, hesitate, and come back. And I would remember the dog. If the dog could manage, why not I? And then one day I jumped into the unknown. I disappeared and only the unknown was left behind. The dog was my second Master.
‘And the third Master was a small child. I entered into a town and a small child was bringing a candle, a lit candle, hiding it in his hands and going to the mosque to put the candle there. Just joking, I asked the boy, “Have you lit the candle yourself?” He said, “Yes, sir.” And I asked, jokingly, “Can you tell me from where the light came? There was a moment when the candle was unlit, then there was a moment when the candle was lit, can you show me the source from which the light came? And you have lit it, so you must have seen the light coming - from where?” And the boy laughed and blew out the candle, and said, “Now you have seen the light going, where has it gone? You tell me!” And my ego was shattered, and my whole knowledge was shattered. And that moment I felt my own stupidity. Since then I dropped all knowledgeability.’
Hassan talked about three Masters. And he said, ‘There have been many, and no time is left for me to talk about them all.’Yes, this is true, I had no Master because I had millions of Masters. I have learnt from every possible source. If you can be that kind of disciple you need not
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have a Master. But remember, it is not that you do not have a Master. Either you choose one or you choose all, but in any case you have to be a disciple.
The Master is just a miniature of the whole. Coming closer to the Master you start becoming aware of the beatitude, of closeness, of love, of intimacy, of involvement, of commitment. And slowly slowly you see the point that if just being so close to one single person can be such a tremendous joy, how much more it will be when you are close to the whole. The Master is just the beginning, the Master is not the end. And the true Master is only a door - through him you pass and go beyond. The true Master helps you to go beyond him. You say, ‘You had no Master. No Buddha has a Master. Sometimes I think that choosing a Master means to prevent one’s own enlightenment.’
Enlightenment is simply enlightenment; it is neither mine nor yours. The ego is separate, the essence is not separate. To think in terms of your own enlightenment is to be caught in the net, in the trap of the ego again. You miss the whole point. If you think of ‘your own’ enlightenment, just as you think of your own car, your own house, your own wife, you are starting to think of enlightenment also as something that you will possess. You will not be there to possess it. You will be possessed by it. And to surrender to a Master simply means an experiment in being possessed by somebody. You drop yourself and the other enters you and fills you. You learn
surrender. It is just the ABC of surrender. But you cannot learn the XYZ if you have not even learned the ABC of it. When you go to learn how to swim you don’t go directly to the ocean, you don’t go to deep waters, you learn in shallow water near the bank or you learn in a swimming pool.
have to leave it. You need not carry it on your head. If you carry it on your head you are stupid. And you have not reached anywhere. You must be dreaming, because such stupid people never reach to the other shore.
‘Sometimes I think that choosing a Master means to prevent one’s own enlightenment.’
The ordinary so-called masters just teach you one thing: how to become attached to them and then to remain attached to them. That’s the definition of a pseudo master. Avoid the pseudo masters.
The Master is like a swimming pool where you can learn how to swim. Once you have learned, all the oceans are yours, then you can go anywhere. Then this whole existence belongs to you. But you are no more there. In fact, it will be better to say you belong to the whole existence - not that you possess enlightenment, enlightenment possesses you. You don’t have a Master yet, so who has prevented you from becoming enlightened? Why are you not enlightened yet? Then those who don’t have Masters must be enlightened. If choosing a Master prevents enlightenment, then those who don’t have Masters must be enlightened. Choosing the Master does not prevent enlightenment. Getting caught by the Master and getting caught into the Master - which prevents enlightenment - these are two different things. That is why Buddha says, ‘If you meet me on the way, kill me immediately.’ And I say to you too: If you see me on the way, kill me immediately. The Master is a ladder. You have to use it and you have to go beyond it. The Master is a boat. You have to use it, and when you have reached the other shore you
Choosing the Master does not prevent enlightenment; but a moment comes when you have to go beyond the Master, then don’t cling - clinging to the Master will prevent you. But if there is a real Master he will not allow you to cling to him. That is the definition of a real Master. He teaches you to get involved, he teaches you to become committed, and one day he teaches you to become uncommitted again, to become uninvolved again. Then the Master is perfect.
But to find a true Master is not going to prevent your enlightenment. You will not become enlightened without him. It is a paradoxical phenomenon. You have to choose the Master and you have to go beyond the Master. If you understand this paradox, my answer will be clear to you.
OSHO, The Great Challenge, Ch7
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HE FIRST THING: to be a disciple does not mean to be monogamous. To be a disciple simply means to be ready to learn. A real disciple becomes connected through one Master to every other Master possible. Your Master becomes a link to all the Masters of the past, present and future.
But human mind is very narrow. We turn everything into jealousy and possessiveness. At least don’t do that with the Master. It is difficult for you to conceive of how you can love two Masters but the problem arises because you consider two Masters as two. If you have really loved me you have loved Jesus through me, you have loved Buddha through me, you have loved Zarathustra through me. If you have really loved me and you have seen me, you have seen all the Masters. If you have not loved and not seen me then the problem will arise. Then there will be a choice - whether to choose Jesus or Buddha or me.
“The master becomes the first proof of God to him. Surrendering to the master is surrendering to the visible God.”
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And if the question arises it means that you are not yet a disciple, you are not related to me at all. If you are related to me then there is no problem. Then suddenly you will feel for the first time that you are related to all known and unknown
Masters. They will all become alive through me. That is the meaning of a Master. If a Master closes your mind and makes you narrow, he is not a Master at all. Remember it. You can still call on Jesus, you can still call on Krishna. There is no competition between me and them. In fact, my whole effort here is to make you able to call them more intensely. When you call Jesus, really you have called me; when you call me, really you have called Jesus. These are just names. Jesus is an emptiness, the emptiness we were talking about just the other day. His whole heart - all the seven holes of the heart - are open. He is a door. So is Buddha, so is Krishna. How can you make a distinction between two emptinesses? Can you?
If you have chosen me - let me say it to you - if you have chosen me you have chosen all. Through me you will be able to understand all those who have lived before and all who are going to live after. I can promise about the future even, because the taste of emptiness is never going to be different. Many more enlightened people will walk on the earth - tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, centuries after centuries. We don’t know their names but that doesn’t matter because whenever there is an enlightened man on the earth the taste will be the same. You try to taste me. The taste is so clear - it is the taste of hot chilies - you cannot miss it! OSHO, Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 2 Ch/10
“If a disciple is ready, even a dead master can be alive. If the disciple is not ready, then even a living master cannot do anything. It all depends on the disciple.�
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21 Days in the Hospital of the Soul Mystic Rose Therapy, The Most Powerful Healing on Earth I came to from the USA to practice Enlightened Master Osho’s Mystic Rose Therapy, the definitive therapy for modern man. I thought it would be another great inner purification and deepening like Osho’s many other powerful meditations, but I had no idea of the total transformational healing power of this 21-day offering, said to be Osho’s finest therapy for healing the contemporary psyche. The intense 3-week therapeutic process is divided into 7 days of laughing for 3 hours per day; 7 days of crying for 3 hours a day, and 7 days of witnessing meditation for 3 hours a day. Well-trained facilitators, poignant audio discourses, and carefully selected music support the non-invasive, rapid-healing environment. Mystic Rose is a radical meditation therapy, accessing our deepest primal emotions. Participants go on a remarkable inner journey and vision quest, revealing past lives and unconscious contents that heal their deepest wounds. The process works much like a shamanic quest but it’s much more powerful. Mystic Rose Therapy is like an “intelligent tornado” of inner cleansing
for those deeply depressed, sick of life careertired, confounded by their relationship, unable to progress spiritually, and fed up with the world. Bored with God? Calling the Depressed, the Lonely, the Overweight.
Most mature seekers I know are not happy or fulfilled, so why not try the therapy that is going to shatter those hidden, inner icebergs and melt the fat held in place by suppressed grief and rage! Ask yourself if you really want more love and energy flowing through you. It’s possible with Mystic Rose therapy. About Mystic Rose, Beloved Osho said “You cannot believe your own eyes. You hay never dreamed that you contain so much, that your potential is so valuable, that your interiority is a treasure inexhaustible, that you need not be in debt to existence forever. You can return to existence a million fold what existence has given to you. That moment is of great joy, not only on your side but on the side of the whole cosmos.”
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dimension our group experienced was different from a dream, daydream, and fantasy. In nonordinary states of consciousness and altered state, we effortlessly accessed inner content of the unconscious mind that needed expression. It seemed that my contents for healing were “cued up,” in a sense, and spontaneously spilled forth from the deepest core of my being. In Mystic Rose, sacred altered states allow the Self to witnesses the deepest healing possible of core issues. Mystic Rose goes all the way to roots of each issue. This level of healing cannot be accessed any other way, in my experience. I highly recommend this practice, especially for middle-age cynics, stale sannyasins, and the depressed, the overweight, the lost, the lonely. Much to my surprise, the long sessions of primal emotions were safe and comfortable to express for both male and female participants. Osho Tapoban is literally a “Hospital for the Soul” and the very safest place on Earth to do the difficult release of divorce, death of loved ones, broken dreams, tainted careers, selfhate, crippling past lives, and the horrendous effects of abuse. The following journal excerpts describe highlights of my experience. Much of this journal is written while in a “non-ordinary state of consciousness” or “altered state” brought about through the Mystic Rose therapy. Please understand that what happens is beyond words
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and too sacred to be put into words, but here are just a few words about the mysterious process to offer a taste. WEEK 1-Day 1-Suspicious of Fun without a Goal.
Mystic Rose begins with a riotous pillow fight amongst 16 participants, total strangers from all over the world. The orderly set up of foam mats and pillows on the floor quickly gave way to total mayhem. Non-verbal, non-stop laughter for 3 hours was the only guideline. Day 2-Doubting the Pillow Fight but I Trust Osho.
More non-verbal, non-stop laughter...I really do not like being face to face with so many strangers. After yesterday’s wildness, my clever strategy is to be self-contained today. Within the first 5 minutes we were all completely crazy again with laughing, throwing pillows, and crawling on the floor like babies. I feel my negative mind kick on with thoughts like,’ This is so stupid”...”What’s the use...” Day 3-Solid Starbucks Disciple
Feeling very raw and ragged- no Starbucks Coffee within a thousand mile radius. Very disturbing nightmares and brutal discoveries showed me that my old junk and fantasies are on their way out.
Day 4-Are the Enlightened Ones Really Sleeping Alone?
WEEK 2-Day 8-Perky Capitalist Plans Escape from Spiritual Path.
I am certain to fail at this laughter experiment. Yesterday I collapsed in sleep for 18 hours. I could hear evening satsang celebration outside my window, but not a single muscle would move to get me out of bed.
Quite to my surprise, I suddenly feel a wave of love for capitalism. Quick mind creations to avoid the week of crying that starts today!
Day 5-Is it Insanity or is it Healing?
Last night I awoke with my head on fire. I dreamed of visiting Osho Himself. The visit imprinted my soul with truth. I woke up with my head in a fever and glands on fire, only to face another laughter session. Almost unbearable! Day 6-Organic Laughter Costs More but It’s Better for You.
Being with people today, I felt zero fear-much to my surprise. We were encouraged to find our real “organic” laugh, deep in the center of our bellies. Everyone is vulnerable here. Day 7-Call the Ambulance, I’m Feeling Feelings! The life force simply left my body. I lay in a heap almost dead, terrified. Everyone else began laughter. I then felt the old dead energy catalyze in the back side of my lungs as if one-inch thick, and preparing to exit. I truly appreciate the gentle male companions who came to my side and brought me back.
Day 9-The Unspeakable Wound Opens— Toxic Family System Busted! Weeping and wailing, I knew the “big one” was meant to be healed today: It is safe to feel suppressed emotions of grief, rage, horror. I lived!
Day 10-Lost Love Review and a New Destiny. I cried for lost parts of my self, lost loves, lost dreams. I really cried that my life is interweaving deeply with Osho in ways that I cannot yet know. My ego wants the details. Day 11-Sweet, Fierce Tears for Bhagwan.
When oceanic love comes up, it feels like the love is so strong that tears come from the back of my heart, very deep within. Tears shoot out in a flash of love, no warning. Sitting at Tapoban’s Osho Samadhi, always a luxurious surprise. Day 12-Letting Go of Letting Go and Screaming Soul Screams.
As soon as the session started with Osho’s tender voice, I was swirled away into a huge ocean of tears and visceral weeping. Suddenly, I was back reliving the most heartbreaking night of my life. There was a mandate from my soul to LET GO. Big
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Day 1 9—Bamboo Rod in This Century?
Day 13-Reparented by Grace!
My vision quest takes me to a jungle dimension. Suddenly I am a tiny infant. I lay on a furry blanket with my father LORD SHIVA as my father, and a beautiful leopard as my mother. It is the safest and most loved I have ever felt in my life. Day 14-Conversations Enlightened Scapegoats.
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The word “SCAPEGOAT” is whispered through vast canyons of my mind. Jesus and Osho took on the shadows of systems that were not ready to evolve, or could not afford to lose power to change to a better reality. It is the highest privilege to be here at Tapoban. WEEK 3-Day 15-Plenty of Past Lives
Silent witnessing meditation begins. My experiences demonstrate that past life memories are stored in the mind that is somehow compounded to the soul across time. Past lives today...mysterious work that frees one’s life energy in present time. Day 1 6-I Am a Purple Velvet Orchid.
My vision quest started instantly. I somehow learn that my flower is not a rose but a brilliant purple, velvety orchid. I became the receptive consciousness of the entire flower plant growing deep in the jungle. Day 17—Sacred Images Visioning
“It is always the Master who finds the disciple. Whenever the disciple is ready the Master appears, never before it. All directions have to be dropped.”
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Again: It’s too sacred to put into words. Day 18-Sacred Transformation
In a non-ordinary state of consciousness, I witness images of Osho. I feel his beauty and energy. Too sacred for words. Beyond words.
So much joy, excitement, and energy today that I could hardly silence my mind at all. I feel one with the Divine Current of Creativity. All things are fascinating. I am feeling so much joy. A facilitator bops me on the head with the bamboo stick. It makes me laugh to high heaven and then I settle in. Day 20-Goddess Gifts and New Light Body!
In silent meditation, images and names of Mother Goddesses. I feel crowned. Incredibly delicate, gorgeous white-blue light, so stunning to behold. Too sacred for words. Cannot be explained. Day 21-Surrender Here Contentment of the Cosmos”
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The last day of Mystic Rose was utter peace. When it was over, our group spontaneously burst into tears of joy and gratitude. Even though we participants did not speak much for 3 weeks, our heart bonds would last forever. I have memorized everyone’s face eternally. We danced and danced around Osho’s Samadhi, so grateful for his gift of Mystic Rose, eternally grateful for the love, kindness, and watchful gaze of Swami Anand Arun and all he has made possible at Osho Tapoban. Finally, in Osho’s words, the meaning of the Mystic Rose: “The symbol of the mystic rose is that if man takes care of the seed that he is born with, gives it the right soil, gives it the right atmosphere and the right vibrations, moves on a right path where the seed can start growing, then the ultimate growth is symbolized as the mystic rose - when your being blossoms and opens all its petals and releases the beautiful fragrance.”
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sho first introduced the No-Mind meditation as part of his evening discourses on Zen. Later on, it became a group process, lasting for two hours a day for seven days. For the first hour, participants do gibberish. For the second hour, they sit silently, doing nothing. Here is an excerpt from the talk where Osho first introduced the meditation: The first part is gibberish. The word ‘gibberish’ comes from a Sufi mystic, Jabbar. Jabbar never spoke any language, he just uttered nonsense. Still he had thousands of disciples because what he was saying was, “Your mind is nothing but gibberish. Put it aside and you will have a taste of your own being.”
To use gibberish, don’t say things which are meaningful, don’t use the language that you know. Use Chinese, if you don’t know Chinese. Use Japanese if you don’t know Japanese. Don’t use German if you know German. For the first time have a freedom - the same as all the birds have. Simply allow whatever comes to your mind without bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning, significance - just the way the birds are doing. For the first part, leave language and mind aside. Out of this will arise the second part, a great silence in which you have to close your eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather your energy within yourself. Remain here and now.
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Osho Tapoban members with President of Nepal at His office
Welcoming NRN delegates at Osho Tapoban
Renowned Bollywood actor and an Osho Sannyasi Sw. Binod Bharti (Binod Khanna) at Osho Samadhi
Sw. AmarJyoti from Mahaavatar Ashram, Kangada India at Osho Tapoban
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President of Nepal Dr. Ram Baran Yadav visits Osho Tapoban
I am trying to create a space where God can descend more and more. The commune will become a connection. The world has lost the connection. God is no more a reality. This commune is an experiment to create the bridge.
Prime Minister of Nepal, Mr. Madhav Kumar Nepal visits Osho Tapoban
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Former Prime Minister and Chairman of Nepal Communist Party UM, Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ welcomed at Osho Tapoban
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Ma Govind Prateeksha
A month in Nepal at Tapoban, including a short trip to Upaban, left me feeling in deep gratitude for the nourishing, heartfelt and powerful experience of Osho’s amazing medium, Swamiji Arun in his two splendid meditation camps, and the residents who were such a loving, giving presence. High energy in the commune supported deep meditation to be the easiest, most profound I have experienced, dissolving into the Osho pool of love. What a happening! Since returning to the US, feeling full of love and aliveness, I remember Him saying in Pune 2 that this is exactly what He wanted us to do: Come to the commune, fill up with His love and light, and go back out into the world and share it. Osho Tapoban magic is happening in Osho Fort Worth Center in the DFW metroplex. While our center is new and small, sannyasins are very interested in going next year, as well as attending many of center leader, Rakesh’s Zorba events and our bimonthly Satsangs. Zorba Center is currently the most active center in America, with many events planned for 2012, two of them with Swamiji Arun. In Krishnananda’s East Coast New York Center, more people are participating in the weekend one-day meditation retreats, Arun meditation camps, including awareness fairs. Arun’s Boston Summer meditation cruise is booking now. In northern California, Dhanyam and Avinasho publish the Viha Connection Newsletter, now grown into a world-wide sannyas news magazine. Dhanyam is the top distributor of Osho material in the US. He says that “the US Osho energy was flat until Arun went around the US with his meditation camps, giving sannyas, opening centers, giving juice to everyone. We at Viha have been, for many years in the Bay Area, keeping the flame going, but Arun turned it into a forest fire. He deserves all the credit and love we can give him.” Osho Niranjana Meditation Center in southern California is another fire rekindled by Arun. Center leader Amritanand, says this center has brought together both the novice meditators and Mahasattvas. Under the guidance of Swami Arun, this center strives to create a small oasis of Osho energy. A mini Tapoban if you will. Arun’s Spring LA meditation cruise is booking. The internet also reveals a major upsurge of Osho interest - making Him more accessible via meditation centers, camps, Facebook, Twitter, U-Tube, Meet-Up, Viha Info & Book Center, as well as book stores and libraries. Can Osho America be too far away? I don’t think so! Ma Govind Prateeksha, Osho Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas prateeksha.meditation@gmail.com
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By Sw Anand Yogi
When Greece expelled Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh- now known as Osho, in March 1986 citing “reasons of national interest,” Osho disciples wanted to lodge him at a 20room Georgian mansion at Gislingham village in Suffolk County. The British authorities, however, didn’t allow Osho to enter UK. But within years Osho lovers were bringing the Osho vibes into UK. Swami Dhyano founded Osho Leela in the early nineties in Wimborne, Dorset. The Osho commune later moved to a nearby village of Gillingham in the year 2000. UK now has nearly one dozen meditation centers. Since 2007, Bodhisattva Swami Anand Arun—founder of the Osho Tapoban, Nepal has been conducting meditation camps in and around London and initiating hundreds of people. He also inaugurated Osho Sambodhi Meditation Center and Osho Shubham Meditation Center in South East London. “My vision is to help open an Osho commune in the UK that could work as the center for Osho works across all of Europe,” Swami Arun said. So, why are people turning to Osho at the first place? “I had never done a meditation before, so was quite anxious about it. I made more progress with stress and anxiety (after four days of Osho meditations) than I have with six months of counseling,” said Elise, who took part in meditation sessions conducted by the Osho Meditation, Bristol. “I can’t believe how calmer and clear minded I have become now,” she added. As European countries are passing through prolonged economic crisis and tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs, stress and tension have become a norm rather than exception for many. In such a situation, how could one remain happy, peaceful and even celebrate life? Swami Dhyan Shankar, a civil engineer, arrived in the UK from Nepal more than a decade ago. He found a good job but very quickly got lost into workaholic western society for a few years. After he met Osho friends, his journey towards inner space gathered momentum. “Meditation has helped me to be a nice person amid family and friends. It has also helped me to be an honest and successful professional at my work place,” he said. Hundreds of people like Sw Dhyan Shankar now visit various Osho meditation centers in the UK in search of new meaning of their life. The search continues. Many of them have found new beginnings in the vicinity of Osho. (The author is the coordinator of the Osho Camp UK 2012 and can be contacted at oshocampuk@hotmail.com)
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Swami Arun is coming! It is an autumn tradition already. It is the sixth year that we drop everything in September – for Swamiji’s visit and camp-camp-camp!!! It is impossible to describe how much Swamiji has done for us in these 6 years! He has done so much that cannot be measured! So many camps he conducted, so many people he initiated into sannyas… But most important is all the infinite love, bliss, and silence we receive just being in his presence… Impossible to measure! No thanks is big enough! Swamiji’s first visit to Russia in 2005 was a great event for us all. His alive, vibrant presence demonstrated the true love of Osho, a real devotee. Since then Swamiji has visited Russia and Ukraine 9 times. More than 30 camps in a kaleidoscope of cities with hard-to-pronounce names… It seems that this is difficult even for a young person… But Swamiji is always fresh and smiling – the Master’s love guides him! In these 6 years Swamiji gave sannyas to more than 2,000 people in Russia alone. Unfortunately not all of us remained sannyasins – some were absorbed by daily routine, family, work… But in some people, the sparkle sewn by Swamiji became a flame. These people carry it further and opened meditation centers. In Tyumen – it’s “Amitabh”, in Severodvinsk – “Satori”, 3 centers in Novosibirsk, “Masta” - in Saratov, “Osho Ananta” in Moscow. When Swamiji is asked about Russians, he replies that Russians are very similar to Nepali. Why? Russia is the biggest country, one-third of it is in Europe and two-thirds in Asia. Like the Russian soul – one-third is the West, rational, intellectual. But two thirds belong to the East – with its femininity, openness and huge heart. That’s why in Russia Swamiji’s book “Santa Darshan” was met with such warmth – Russians understand well this language of the heart. Now a group of people translates the next book, “Santa Gatha”, “Santa Darshan” will be republished in 2012. Is there a way to express our gratitude to the Master? Probably the only way is to carry on his word. Sadly, in the past there were times when Swamiji was jailed for selling Osho’s books. But it is easier for us now, and this work is done by publishing giants. We also contribute something. With the efforts of a group of sannyasins, we selected Osho discourses, and translated and dubbed them to Russian – 6 DVDs were released. (The author is one of the coordinators of “Osho Ananta” meditation center in Moscow, please contact ma.deva. amrita@gmail.com)
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On 24th December, 2011 Swami Arun conducted a one day Osho Meditation at the NSW Consulate General’s Hall in North Sydney, which brought 70 people together to share Osho’s love and energy. Some of the participants were the Nepalese Consulate General of NSW, leaders of the Nepalese community and media personnel. Flying north to the Gold Coast, Swami Arun conducted a meditation camp in Byron Bay from 27th – 31st December, 2011.The beauty of the lush green rolling hills and white sandy beaches was a perfect setting for our camp which was held in Coorabell Hall, high on a ridgeline overlooking the whole of Byron Bay. Thirty people attended over the five days and through the meditations and stories of Osho we were transported deeper and deeper into our hearts, higher and higher into bliss. Ma Savitri shared that she had always felt that she had missed out on the energy darshans of Puna One. Now with the arrival of Swami Arun at this camp, she was ecstatically experiencing Osho’s omnipresent energy and love. On 1st January 2012, Swami Arun also conducted the mystical prayer meditation and shared his early stories of Osho at Mevlana Hall at Tyagarah. His final day on 2nd January, at Osho Gondwana Community, was a beautiful sharing of early days with Osho and Ma Laxmi, with an inspiring talk on the different stages of being a disciple. The first being on the periphery, the second following the path of devotion and the third stage being in such total surrender with the master that the disciple becomes one with the master. It was specially moving when Swami Arun played some of Osho’s quotes where he says that after leaving the body he is even more available to his disciples. So far on this part of his journey Swami Arun has initiated four new centres in Australia:Osho Deeksha at Mt. Tamborine, Osho Anugraha in Brisbane , Osho Astha in Sydney.and Osho Amreeta in Byron Bay Twenty four people have been initiated with malas into sannyas. The next stage of his journey takes him to Gold Coast, Brisbane and Melbourne. We are grateful to him for lighting the fire in our hearts again and look forward to his return to our shores in the coming year.
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From Stamford, Connecticut, USA
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OSHO By Sw. Ram Krishnananda
“You need to stay closer to a center and move to NY” is what Swami Arun used to tell me repeatedly when he used to visit us in USA. I took it lightly and was thinking how would that be even possible? But then things changed last year in such a way that we had to move to Stamford, CT; just 30 miles from Osho Sadhana Meditation Center in New York. Osho Sadhana Meditation center has recently been renovated and has become even more active. Dynamic and Kundalini meditation happen every day and every weekend we do 1-day Osho Meditation Retreat which provides an introduction to variety of Osho Meditations. The Center’s website (www.oshonewyork.com) and the meetup group (www.meetup.com/oshonewyork) has been successful in attracting new and old friends for one day meditation experience. To live near an active meditation center has been a blessing. In Stamford, we have started, “Osho Amritam Meditation Center” (www.oshoamritam.com) with the blessings of Swami Anand Arun. Recently we participated in a spiritual fair called “Awaken Fair 2011” in Terrytown, NY. It was a good platform to introduce Osho Books and Osho Meditations. After years of Swami Arun’s untiring efforts, Osho activities have been gaining momentum in US. These four years have been amazing. New York, California, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Canadian Centers are coming up with more Osho activities. With all that is happening, the hope and a dream that we will have a small commune in US will come alive soon. It is so humbling to see the dedication and devotion in the Osho centers and sannyasins which is instrumental in Osho’s work in US. Getting a master like Osho, is the best part of our lives, we are forever indebted. Gratitude to Osho Tapoban and beloved Swami Arun for changing our lives and touching our hearts. Sw. Ram Krishnananda & Ma Prem Chandrika, Stamford, Connecticut, USA samir.khanal@gmail.com
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Presence in RUSSIA By Dhyan Geetesha The history of Tyumen sannyas began in 2005 when Swami Anand Arun came to our city, with only a few sannyasins. A one-day workshop by him forever changed the life of our city. On that day, some people simply came out of curiosity and others came without knowing anything about Osho, but everybody was searching for inner growth. Swamiji helped these people feel the Master and ignite love in their hearts. All 60 people who were present at that memorable meeting took sannyas and accepted Osho as their master. This proved to be the fateful day for Tyumen sannyas movement. Today we have over 300 sannyasin friends and many more Osho lovers. Every year the number is growing. Now in our city there are several places where regular Osho meditations are held. One of them, still small, is Osho Meditation Center “Amitabh”, a name given by Swami Arun. A group of volunteers extends a supporting hand to run events every day. We get together for group meditation and satsangs regularly, and organize various seminars with sannyasins and lovers of Osho. We simply give friends an opportunity to have a “taste” of meditation, through the various Osho techniques of bodywork or just to have a cup of tea to feel the warmth of the company. This way our sannyas family is growing in love for the Master. We feel that Osho is always with us - in our every heartbeat, breath and in our eyes. Each year we look forward to seeing Swami Anand Arun in Russia, and the Tyumen Osho family is always happy to attend his seminar. We are also grateful to Swami Anand Arhat as he comes to our city many times a year, and these visits give us the opportunity of regular practice and fruitful work for our Master and for each of us, too. Thanks to everyone who comes to us from other cities to attend our events with trust and love. We always welcome new people and old friends! The doors of our “Amitabha” are always open. Welcome!
The master is just like a ray of light, an x-ray, and the disciple exposes himself. And the more the master penetrates and knows about the disciple the more the disciple by and by becomes aware of his own hidden treasures.- Osho
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I left Berlin one and a half years ago looking for a place to live, looking for the way I want to live. On my way I heard my friend reading Osho`s words and I meditated for the first time, in the middle of Mongolian- nowhere, at 6 o`clock in the morning, after lighting a fire in the stove. I enjoyed Vipassana meditation - sitting silently next to a fire and then walking on the dew-topped grass. Since these experiences I could not stop meditating, wherever the wind took me. And the wind brought me benevolently to Tapoban, Arun Swamiji, and ... myself. I arrived in Osho Tapoban on the first day of a one-week-meditation camp. Seven days later I knew I had arrived. I never felt so much at home and free at the same time. How on earth would it be possible for me to stay in this marvellous place in the Himalayan jungle - with people who became my family, my mirror. That`s when I started to volunteer for the Tapoban commune. Now, I can take part actively in the life of Tapoban for 4 hours every day and at the same time get a discount on the expenses for meditation, food and accommodation. I love the work, especially when we are busy outside. Every morning there is a tickle of excitement inside me - what are we going to do today? There is no special work, but anything is beautiful. I guess it is because we are working for everybody as well as for ourselves. Many of us volunteers adore sweeping the pathways and flower beds the most - for the meditative sound of the broom, the rushing leaves and the soft and rhythmic movements of our bodies. Every moment, every action during one day has a beauty, a precious value. I started to realize that here. When I look back at a day everything feels right, no matter what feeling was there, no matter what thought arose. I never experienced anything like that in any other place with other people.
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The Master is like a swiming pool where you can learn how to swim. Once you have learned, all the oceans are yours.
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Medicine Paddy is drinking a few beers in the pub, and he has a worried look on his face. “What is the matter?” asks his friend, Seamus. Paddy drinks down his beer and says, “I am totally afraid to go near the highway, day or night.” “Why?” asks Seamus, sipping his beer. “Well,” replies Paddy, “my wife just escaped with a truck driver, and every time I hear a horn I’m afraid he is bringing her back!” The bank robbers rush into the bank and order all the customers and clerks to get behind the corner. Then they tell everyone to take off all their clothes and lie face down on the floor. One nervous female clerk pulls off her dress and lies down, face up. “Turn over, Gloria,” whispers her friend, “this is a robbery not the office party!”
Father Murphy wants to raise money for his church and he has heard that there is a fortune to be made in horse racing. However, he does not have enough money to buy a horse, so he decides to buy a donkey instead and enters him in a race. To his surprise the donkey comes third. The headline on the sports page reads: “Priest’s Ass Shows.” Father Murphy enters it in another race and this time it wins. The headline reads: “Priest’s Ass Out Front.” The bishop is so upset by this kind of publicity that he orders Father Murphy not to race his donkey again. The headline reads: “Bishop Scratches Priest’s Ass.” This is too much for the bishop. So he orders Father Murphy to get rid of the donkey. He gives it to Sister Theresa. And the headline reads: “Nun Has Best Ass in Town.” The bishop faints. He then informs Sister Theresa that she must dispose of the donkey. She sells it to Paddy for ten dollars. The next day the bishop is found dead on the dining room table with a newspaper clutched in his hand. The headline reads: “Nun Sells Her Ass for Ten Bucks.” Designer’s corner
Sally came home from her first date looking very pleased with herself. “How did it go with John?” asked her mother. “Ah, it was alright until after dinner,” Sally replied, “But on the way home he stopped the car in a lonely lane and started kissing me to distract my attention. He then started feeling around inside my clothes but I fooled him -- I had hidden my money in my shoes.” Joe had been bitten by a dog. The wound was taking a long time to heal, so he went to see his doctor who ordered the dog to be brought in. Just as the doctor suspected, the dog had rabies. “I am afraid it is too late to give you serum,” the doctor told Joe. Joe sat down at the doctor’s desk and begin to write fanatically. “Perhaps it won’t be so bad,” consoled the doctor, “there is no need to write your will right now.” “I am not making out my will,” replied Joe, “I am just writing out a list of people I am going to bite.”
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