Chapter #20 The Zero Experience #20
Discourse Overview
The discourse distinguishes two radiances: the body's ephemeral glow that promises a future happiness and the spirit's eternal radiance called Anand Tapesh. Bliss belongs to the spirit and cannot be postponed to 'tomorrow' because the body's language is always 'tomorrow' while bliss happens only herenow. To touch Anand Tapesh one must drop out of time — slipping into the still gap between moments where the mind falls away and eternity opens. This falling out of the mind frees one from bodily bondage and is what India names moksha, a direct taste of timeless freedom rather than a future promise. On bliss: Anand is described not as a pleasure produced by the body but as the radiance of spirit that is immediately accessible when time and mind are transcended. On the body: its radiance signals health and youth but is impotent as a source of ultimate happiness because it always defers joy to tomorrow. On freedom: moksha is the state beyond the mind and time where one is unbound from bodily promises and spontaneously luminous.
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Osho's Commentary
Bliss belongs to the second. The body can only promise but it cannot deliver: all its promises are impotent. So it only gives hope, it says 'tomorrow'. Tomorrow is the language of the body: it says 'Tomorrow the happiness is going to happen. It has not happened today? Don't be worried. Drag on somehow; tomorrow is a date with happiness' -- but it never comes because tomorrow never comes.
Bliss happens only today, right now, herenow, and that is the dimension of the spirit. The spirit lives in eternity. Eternity is not part of time: it is going beyond time or below time. Where there are two moments of time, just between those two moments there is a still, small gap. From that gap one drops into eternity.
'Anand Tapesh' means the bliss, the radiance that comes only when one has dropped out of time. Out of time, one is out of the mind; in time, one is in the mind. In the mind one is tethered to the body; out of the mind, one is simply free of the body, then there is no bondage. That's what in India we have been calling freedom, moksha....