Chapter #4 Silent Period #4
Discourse Overview
Main Teaching: Osho depicts a looming fifteen-year era of catastrophic natural and man-made disasters — floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and wars that could culminate in nuclear devastation and destroy major cities. His central counsel is stark: human survival is not a matter of external shelters or technology but of a total, radical transformation of consciousness. The only possible refuge is inner — a Noah's Ark of consciousness, an unshakable center maintained exactly in the middle of the cyclone so that one does not get swept away by collective panic and reaction. On the crisis: he emphasizes that this is a convergence of nature and human folly, a scale of catastrophe beyond ordinary contingency plans. On survival: the teaching insists survival depends on a qualitative shift in being, not on physical escape, making collective change imperative. On practice: the implication is meditative poise and inner centering as the practical technique, cultivating an unmoving core rather than external arks. On the Ark metaphor: the Noah image is reinterpreted to mean a state of consciousness that holds and preserves life by transcending the storm, not by avoiding it.
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Osho's Commentary
OSHO EXPLAINS THE COMING CRISIS (IN A MESSAGE GIVEN BY SHEELA?)
Beginning next year, the world will face 15 years of catastrophic natural and man-made disasters -- including nuclear war. Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Bombay all will be destroyed -- but the holocaust to come will not be confined to these major population centers.
And unless human consciousness changes totally, man cannot survive. As he is right now, he is already outdated.
There will be floods which have never been known since the time of Noah, along with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and everything else that is possible through nature. There will be wars which are bound to end in nuclear explosions, hence no ordinary Noah's Arks are going to save humanity.
(Here) we are creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. I say to you that except this there is no other way.