What is the essential thread of your teaching?

Question: Third question: Osho, forgive me; I made many mistakes in understanding you. Many times doubt pursued me. Again I ask forgiveness. You have propounded many paths. May I ask what is the essential thread, the essence, of your teaching? Dissolve! By whatever pretext you dissolve, it doesn’t matter—just dissolve! In prayer, in worship, in bhajan, in kirtan, in meditation, in satsang—dissolve. The methods are different. Someone drinks poison and kills himself. Someone shoots himself. Someone hangs himself with a rope. Someone jumps into a river. Someone lies down on the railway tracks. The methods are different, but suicide is one. In the same way, all these methods are different, but at the root there is self-annihilation. Dissolve! Let the ego come to an end. This is the real “suicide” I am teaching you.

Question: Fourth question: Osho, what is your essential message? It’s a bit difficult. Difficult because the essential has to be experienced; it does not fit into words, it does not become a message. And whatever does come into words and messages is not the essence—those are leaves, only leaves. Still, your point came to my mind. You want a brief hint. You want something you can keep safe; a diamond you can enshrine in your very life-breath. Remember these lines— You are unaware of your own selfhood; that alone is your helplessness. Become acquainted with yourself; then what will not be within your power? It is the fault of your seeing; remove the veil of duality. This world abides in you; there is no other besides you. If you are the servant, then I am God indeed; just come a little closer.

Question: OSHO, WHAT IS YOUR FUNDAMENTAL TEACHING TO YOUR SANNYASINS? Truth is a transmission beyond words. Words move from one mind to the other mind. What I am saying to you is from one mind to another mind. What is not said is far more important. Listen to my silences the pauses in between. Listen to the gaps. When you are in tune with me, in deep harmony with me, when there is no fight going on between you and me -- no resistance, no conflict no argument... And there is no need of any argument because I am not trying to convince you of anything, I am not trying to persuade you to become followers, to become imitators. My effort is totally different: it is that of communion, not of communication.

Question: First question: Osho, what is your essential message? Bliss—bliss is my essential message. For centuries religion has become synonymous with gloom, sorrow, despair, frustration, prohibition, and denial; religion must be freed from that prison. Religion has become anti-earth. Religion has become anti-body. Religion has turned against all that is—while treasuring dreams of heaven and the hereafter that are only dreams, mere temptations, downright lies. To deny what is, and to honor what is not—such has been religion’s logic till now. I teach song. I teach music. My message is one: bliss—celebration, festivity. And celebration cannot be made into a doctrine; it can only be a way of living. Your life itself must speak it. If you say it with your lips, it becomes hollow and false. It has to be spoken with your very life-breaths.

It can be reduced to a very simple maxim: to watch your thoughts is meditation, because through your watching your thoughts, they start disappearing, evaporating. When your watchfulness becomes really intense, thoughts disappear, and in that thoughtless consciousness you hit upon your innermost core... and the explosion. That explosion is wisdom. That explosion makes one a Christ or a Buddha. And my whole effort here is not to make you a Christian but a Christ, not to make you a Buddhist but a Buddha. Why become a Christian? -- because that is knowledge. Why not become Christ? -- that is wisdom. Why become a Buddhist? -- that is knowledge. Become a Buddha -- that is wisdom. Why settle for secondary things? Why not go to the primary source which is within yourself? Why settle for borrowed things, old and rotten?