Chapter #28 Even Bein Gawd Ain T A Bed Of Roses #28
Discourse Overview
Main Teaching: The transformation is a single decisive shift from ego to egolessness: to see oneself as a wave of the one ocean, not a separate island. This recognition removes the root of fear and death — death is merely the shadow cast by the ego; the wave may appear and disappear yet never truly dies. To live joyously means to drop the 'I', to become anonymous and at rest, allowing bliss (anand) to arise rather than chasing shadows like money, power, prestige. Both manifest being and unmanifest rest are celebrated: sometimes we dance as flowers, sometimes we relax as seeds, and both are aspects of the same continuity. On death: Death vanishes when separateness is seen through; what dies is only the ego's story while the essential being persists. On the ego: The ego is a burden, a rock around the neck that prevents the heart from blooming, and letting it go opens the door to relaxation and joy. On anonymity and rest (Paul): To be a 'Paul' means to be nobody and to rest utterly; anonymity is not negation but freedom to taste the divine without the obstructing 'I'. On being and not-being: Manifestation is celebration and unmanifest is rest, both are precious expressions of the one consciousness and neither is to be feared.
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Osho's Commentary
If death is there one cannot live joyously; one is always haunted by death. To live joyously one has to cut the very root of death, and the root is in the idea of separation. The whole transformation consists of a single step: from the ego to egolessness.
So don't be an outsider any more: become an insider. This is your home. This existence belongs to us, we belong to it. We are its flowers! Sometimes we are not there in a manifest form but that does not make us dead. Sometimes we are there in the potential form, in the unmanifest, like seeds. Both are good: to be is good; not to be is good -- because to be is a dance, a song, a celebration; not to be is a rest, a relaxation.
ANAND MEANS BLISS.
In Latin Paul means small, little. a nobody. One can be a nobody only if one drops the idea of "I am." To be a nobody opens the door for bliss. We are too burdened with the idea of I. It is like a rock: it hangs around our necks and does not allow our hearts to bloom.
The second meaning comes from Greek, in Greek Paul means rest. Again, one can rest only if there is no ego. The ego never allows rest; it keeps you rinning hither and thither. It keeps you chasing shadows: money, power, prestige, it never allows you any relaxation, any rest.
Both meanings are beautiful and my sannyasin has to be a Paul in both ways, Latin and Greek: he has to be anonymous, a nobody, and he has to be at utter rest. Then bliss is yours, then God is your, then all is yours!