Chapter #28
Even Bein Gawd Ain T A Bed Of Roses #28
Date:
1979-10-28
(pm)
Place:
Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Osho's Commentary
(To Barsro): The other way is the way of egolessness, the way of the religious mind: to become a part; in fact to see that we are already part, it is not a question of becoming. It is just seeing that we are waves in the same ocean, not islands. The moment you drop that feeling of separateness, all fear, all anxiety, all anguish disappears. Life becomes pure joy. Even death is no more possible. The wave is part of the ocean whether it is there or not there; the wave comes and disappears but it never dies. It remains: sometimes visibly, somestimes invisibly. So man is sometimes in the form, sometimes in no form, sometimes abiding in a body and sometimes just abiding in the universal consciousness -- but there is no death. Death is the shadow of the ego.
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!
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!