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This is a photograph taken with the Hubble telescope, which NASA calls "The Eye of God." THE EYE OF GOD 1.7.05
Meditating on Emptiness I see a new reality One day IT appeared to me
IT had come as This and That That-was-This and This-is-That
enjoyable, rejoiceable contentment halleluia possibilities endlessly present
one day An Eye appeared to me
Hi
a Presence simple presence were IT's presents
hook an image in the mind and then we find ourselves stuck somewhere then we go there
Ho Ho Hee Hee why not simply happy
Be
Existence opened up this Eye to me through IT I see velvet Eternity
through this Eye the I softly disappears all the years all the tears a faint memory I simply See
travel through and you can See that's the end of You and Me as a separate entity
sofly blinks looks another way this Eye sofly sofly links us here today
with Emptiness
Travel In travel through then begin to always do with this in mind IT becomes No Mind
be kind act from this all is emptiness then we find this kiss a Grace upon the face of Existence
this instance is the lace the velvet veil we cannot fail to encounter
Go IN! fly through!
this Eye will take care of you
nowhere to go nothing to do
soflty softly blinks looks another way this Eye sofly links us here today
with Emptiness
softly softly gaze it may amaze soflty gazing bright all thoughts shoulds and oughts disappear into Clear Light
the bright EYE OF GOD
fly on through IT takes care of you smoothly slide deep inside the Eye's open wide
beyond beyond beyond the beyond is a pool a pond called Infinity ALL within you ALL within me
who who who annoys you who?
who who who enjoys you who?
who who who paranoids you who?
who who who bad boys you who?
who who who seriously employs you who?
we all choose to see our own reality a separate I and then we cry sigh and die
what A Friend Existence did send
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His eye then This EYE the Eye Am that Eye Am I Am that I Am
enjoyable, rejoiceable contentment halleluia possibilities endlessly present
one day An Eye appeared to me
Hi
a Presence simple presence were IT's presents
nowhere to go nothing to do Existence is coming through
the precious Eye of God looking at you
travel through
sofly blinks looks another way this Eye softly sofly links us here today
with Emptiness
beyond beyond beyond the beyond
what A Friend Existence did send
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His eye then this EYE the Eye Am that Eye Am I Am that I Am
Emptiness in my hand
copyright Anupama Deanne Kallman
The first English discourse I heard Osho give in 1974 in Pune, India, was No Water No Moon.
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Ultimate Accident Chiyono and her bucket of water It is not a certain sequence of causes that brings enlightenment. Your search, your intense longing, your readiness to do anything--altogether perhaps they create a certain aroma around you in which that great accident becomes possible.
The nun Chiyono studied for years, but was unable to find enlightenment. One night, she was carrying an old pail filled with water. As she was walking along, she was watching the full moon reflected in the pail of water. Suddenly, the bamboo strips that held the pail together broke, and the pail fell apart. The water rushed out; the moon's reflection disappeared--and Chiyono became enlightened. She wrote this verse: This way and that way I tried to keep the pail together, hoping the weak bamboo would never break. Suddenly the bottom fell out. No more water; no more moon in the water-- emptiness in my hand.
Enlightenment is always like an accident because it is unpredictable--because you cannot manage it, you cannot cause it to happen. But don't misunderstand me, because when I say enlightenment is just like an accident, I am not saying don't do anything to attain it. The accident happens only to those who have been doing much for it--but it never happens because of their doing. The doing is just a cause which creates the situation in them so they become accident-prone, that's all. That is the meaning of this beautiful happening. I must tell you something about Chiyono. She was a very beautiful woman--when she was young, even the emperor and the princes were after her. She refused because she wanted to be a lover only to the divine. She went from one monastery to another to become a nun; but even great masters refused--there were so many monks, and she was so beautiful that they would forget God and everything. So everywhere the door was closed. So what did Chiyono do? Finding no other way, she burned her face, scarred her whole face. And then she went to a master; he couldn't even recognize whether she was a woman or a man. Then she was accepted as a nun. She studied, meditated for thirty, forty years continuously. Then suddenly, one night... she was looking at the moon reflected in the pail. Suddenly the pail fell down, the water rushed out, and the moon disappeared--and that became the trigger-point. There is always a trigger-point from where the old disappears and the new starts, from where you are reborn. That became the trigger-point. Suddenly, the water rushed out and there was no moon. So she must have looked up--and the real moon was there. Suddenly she became awakened to this fact, that everything was a reflection, an illusion, because it was seen through the mind. As the pail broke, the mind inside also broke. It was ready. All that could be done had been done. All that could be possible, she had done it. Nothing was left, she was ready, she had earned it. This ordinary incident became a trigger-point. Suddenly the bottom fell out--it was an accident. No more water; no more moon in the water--emptiness in my hand.
And this is enlightenment: when emptiness is in your hand, when everything is empty, when there is nobody, not even you. You have attained to the original face of Zen.
Copyright © 2005 Osho International Foundation
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Communion Harmony without and within Man is living as an island, and that's where all misery arises. Down the centuries man has been trying to live independently from existence--that is not possible in the very nature of things. Man can neither be independent nor dependent. Existence is a state of interdependence: everything depends on everything else. There is no hierarchy, nobody is lower and nobody is higher. Existence is a communion, an eternal love affair.
But the idea that man has to be higher, superior, special, creates trouble. Man has to be nothing--man has to dissolve into the totality of things. And when we drop all the barriers, communion happens and that communion is a benediction. To be one with the whole is all. That is the very core of religiousness.
Heraclitus says: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find the truth, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. Nature loves to hide. The lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither speaks nor conceals--but gives signs.
Existence has no language... and if you depend on language there can be no communication with existence. Existence is a mystery, you cannot interpret it. If you interpret, you miss. Existence can be lived, but not thought about. It is more like poetry, less like philosophy. It is a sign, it is a door. It shows, but it says nothing.
Through mind, there is no approach to existence. If you think about it, you can go on thinking and thinking, about and about, but you will never reach it--because it is precisely thinking that is the barrier. Thinking is a private world, it belongs to you--then you are enclosed, encapsulated, imprisoned within yourself. Nonthinking, you are no more; you are enclosed no more. You open, you become porous, existence flows into you and you flow into existence.
Learn to listen--listening means you are open, vulnerable, receptive, but you are not in any way thinking. Thinking is a positive action. Listening is passivity: you become like a valley and receive; you become like a womb and you receive. If you can listen, then nature speaks--but it is not a language. Nature doesn't use words. Then what does nature use? Says Heraclitus, it uses signs. A flower is there: what is the sign in it? It is not saying anything--but can you really say it is not saying anything? It is saying much, but it is not using any words--a wordless message.
To hear the wordless you will have to become wordless, because only the same can hear the same, only the same can relate to the same. Sitting by a flower, don't be a person, be a flower. Sitting by the tree, don't be a person, be a tree. Taking a bath in a river, don't be a man, be a river. And then millions of signs are given to you. And it is not a communication--it is a communion. Then nature speaks, speaks in thousands of tongues, but not in language.
Copyright © 2005 Osho International Foundation
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