Anand means bliss, blissfulness, wahhab means one who can bestow bliss on others too. And bliss is true only when you can shower it on others, when you can share it. If it is something that you can't share then you have imagined it, it is not true. Truth is always something that has to be shared, that can always be shared. In fact there is an intrinsic desire in truth to be shared. Dreams are private; you cannot share your dream. You cannot invite your friend to be present in your dream, that is not possible, even the most beloved person cannot be part Or your dream -- you will dream alone. It is not shareable. Bliss is not a dream, it is not private. It is reality. when it happens you can bestow it on others; in fact, there is a great urge to shower it on others. When a person feels blessed, he can bless others too.
Wahhab is a name of God, a Sufi name for God: God, the bestower. So let this be a continuous remembrance in you, that whenever you are feeling happy, share it and it will grow, and you will be repaid a thousandfold. Whenever you have a little bit of happiness, immediately share it. Sing it, dance it, hold somebody's hand, give it to him or her. If you cannot find anybody then a tree will do, a rock will do, but share it immediately; don't hoard it. It is by hoarding that we have been killing our beauties, it is by hoarding that we have become miserable. A hoarder will always remain miserable. Share, and be a spendthrift!
[To an initiate Osho says:]
And let this become your practice: whenever you have time just take your eyes upwards, and soon you will feel silence arising out of it. You will become capable of moving them almost to the very end. And when the eyes move upwards, great changes happen in the body energy, in the body chemistry. And you have the natural possibility, otherwise after many many meditations, eyes start moving upwards on their own.
In the deepest trance, the eyes are always upwards; in deep sleep also your eyes move upwards. But you have a natural quality and it will be easily developed, so just sitting silently, move the eyes upwards, either with closed eyes or open eyes; it doesn't matter. And soon you will see that when the eyes move upwards thoughts will stop; you will not be in the ordinary space. When the eyes have moved to the very end you can fall into deep trance, where consciousness is, but the world disappears.
And tell your friends, with whomsoever you are staying, that if you fall or you become unconscious, they need not be worried -- I will take care -- because sometimes it is possible. Mm? others will think that you have fallen into a coma or something; they need not disturb you. If they become too worried and they want you to come back, just tell them to rub the third eye slowly, mm? -- just a one minute rubbing of the third eye and the eyes will come back. That has to be your private meditation.
Mujib is a Sufi name for God; it means one who hears the prayers. Prem means love -- one who hears love and prayer. And deepest in your being is that centre which hears prayer and love. And it hears only two things. Nothing else ever reaches it; all else remains on the circumference, on the periphery. It cannot go into that deep core of your being; only prayer and love reach there. When you are in deep love you are centred.
That's why you are centred, because love connects you with your own centre. That's why people are in so much need of love, because without love they feel uncentred, unrooted. A tree without roots in the soil is thirsty for soil, is hungry for the soil. That's how a man or woman is without love: unconnected with themselves. Love connects.... So is the case with prayer.
Prayer is the highest form of love, the purest form of love. In love there is some demand hidden, unhidden, conscious, unconscious, but there is some subtle undercurrent of demand, of desire, of conditions. In prayer love has become free of conditions, free of desires, free of passion. In prayer love is freedom. It has stopped begging. It asks nothing; it has forgotten the language of asking. On the contrary, it has learned how to give. When love starts giving it becomes prayer.
So in fact, only love is the bridge. The higher love is, the more rooted you will be.... More grounded.
Man also has roots just as do trees, but those roots are not visible roots, that's the only difference. Otherwise we have roots, but our roots are invisible. They need nourishment, and the nourishment comes through love and finally through prayer. So start by loving and by prayer; that is your whole path. The beginning should be love and the end should be prayer, and somewhere in the middle of the way, love is transformed into prayer. If one can go on loving and loving and loving, one day one suddenly sees that now the love is no more crawling on the earth but has grown wings and is flying into the sky. Then it is prayer.
[Osho suggests groups to the new sannyasin. She replies: I would rather like to do the pottery... ]
You can do it, but I think do a few groups and then pottery, mm? First become a potter and then do pottery!
First release all your catharsis, otherwise that will go into your pottery. Your anger, your violence, your aggression, will all go into the pottery. First release all that, so your pottery will be really Zen pottery. That's the difference between ordinary pottery and Zen pottery. They look alike from the outside, but something made by people who know what meditation is has a different quality to it.
Whatsoever you have is poured into it. If you are cooking and you are angry, you pour poison into the food. If you are angry and you are doing pottery, your anger is bound to affect it because that too is energy and it will become engrained. It will go into the pot and will remain engrained in it. A man who knows how to read pulsations can read the pot and can say that the person who was making it was angry. He can sniff out who has made it.
When a Zen master makes a pot, a teapot or a cup, he pours his meditation into it, he pours his nothingness into it; he has nothing else. He pours his joy, his silence, his prayer into it. Then it has a different quality, it has a different vibe.
So first go through a few groups, mm? Get attuned and then go into pottery. Pottery is one of the best things to do!
[A new sannyasin says: I have many very strong meditation experiences which I don't trust.... For instance, I have the feeling of dying. I just go into it and I experience that I am leaving, going away. It is very beautiful and I feel I can die. Osho checks her energy.]
Start feeling that you are dying. Go into that space so I can feel whether it is really there or just imagination. Just be there.
Come back! It is perfectly true and real; it is not imagination. You have to use it as your meditation technique. At least once or twice a day, die; you don't need any other meditation. It is just the right thing for you and you have come across it on your own.
But it happens, because there is no way to decide whether it is imagination or reality, it is difficult for you to decide. But I am here for that! It is perfectly real; go into it deeper and deeper... but without any fear. Even if sometimes you feel that you are almost going to die, die; nothing to be worried about. It is not the death of the body, it is the death of the ego. And if the ego dies you are born. It is good!
Eckhart is one of the most beautiful persons the West has produced. I mean Meister Eckhart, a Christian mystic. After Jesus there are only two other persons in Christianity who are valuable. Eckhart and Francis. Eckhart was almost a Zen master.
The Pope had decided to expel him from the church but he died at the right time! That's why he was not expelled, otherwise they had decided, orders were going to be issued, but he died at the right time; these people know when to die
But read Meister Eckhart's sayings, meditate over them; they are some of the most beautiful sayings ever.
[The new sannyasin says he has been doing TM, but he uses his own mantra, 'Om man padmi om.']
You can continue, mm? But the mantra is a little big, it should be small.
The bigger it is, the less effective; it should be very small. Mm? let me feel the mantra for you. Come close. Just turn your eyes upwards, as much as you can, so that they almost start going into the head....
Good! Mm mm. You use a sufi mantra, 'Ya Malik... Ya Malik.' Malik means master, God, Lord -- 'Oh, Lord' -- 'ya' means oh. But use it emphatically: 'Ya Malik!' Mm? (He repeats it.) and make it very forceful. 'YA MALIK... YA MALIK... YA MALIK.' And that will do. Continue it, it will be helpful. Good.
Osho's Commentary
Wahhab is a name of God, a Sufi name for God: God, the bestower. So let this be a continuous remembrance in you, that whenever you are feeling happy, share it and it will grow, and you will be repaid a thousandfold. Whenever you have a little bit of happiness, immediately share it. Sing it, dance it, hold somebody's hand, give it to him or her. If you cannot find anybody then a tree will do, a rock will do, but share it immediately; don't hoard it. It is by hoarding that we have been killing our beauties, it is by hoarding that we have become miserable. A hoarder will always remain miserable. Share, and be a spendthrift!
[To an initiate Osho says:]
And let this become your practice: whenever you have time just take your eyes upwards, and soon you will feel silence arising out of it. You will become capable of moving them almost to the very end. And when the eyes move upwards, great changes happen in the body energy, in the body chemistry. And you have the natural possibility, otherwise after many many meditations, eyes start moving upwards on their own.
In the deepest trance, the eyes are always upwards; in deep sleep also your eyes move upwards. But you have a natural quality and it will be easily developed, so just sitting silently, move the eyes upwards, either with closed eyes or open eyes; it doesn't matter. And soon you will see that when the eyes move upwards thoughts will stop; you will not be in the ordinary space. When the eyes have moved to the very end you can fall into deep trance, where consciousness is, but the world disappears.
And tell your friends, with whomsoever you are staying, that if you fall or you become unconscious, they need not be worried -- I will take care -- because sometimes it is possible. Mm? others will think that you have fallen into a coma or something; they need not disturb you. If they become too worried and they want you to come back, just tell them to rub the third eye slowly, mm? -- just a one minute rubbing of the third eye and the eyes will come back. That has to be your private meditation.
Mujib is a Sufi name for God; it means one who hears the prayers. Prem means love -- one who hears love and prayer. And deepest in your being is that centre which hears prayer and love. And it hears only two things. Nothing else ever reaches it; all else remains on the circumference, on the periphery. It cannot go into that deep core of your being; only prayer and love reach there. When you are in deep love you are centred.
That's why you are centred, because love connects you with your own centre. That's why people are in so much need of love, because without love they feel uncentred, unrooted. A tree without roots in the soil is thirsty for soil, is hungry for the soil. That's how a man or woman is without love: unconnected with themselves. Love connects.... So is the case with prayer.
Prayer is the highest form of love, the purest form of love. In love there is some demand hidden, unhidden, conscious, unconscious, but there is some subtle undercurrent of demand, of desire, of conditions. In prayer love has become free of conditions, free of desires, free of passion. In prayer love is freedom. It has stopped begging. It asks nothing; it has forgotten the language of asking. On the contrary, it has learned how to give. When love starts giving it becomes prayer.
So in fact, only love is the bridge. The higher love is, the more rooted you will be.... More grounded.
Man also has roots just as do trees, but those roots are not visible roots, that's the only difference. Otherwise we have roots, but our roots are invisible. They need nourishment, and the nourishment comes through love and finally through prayer. So start by loving and by prayer; that is your whole path. The beginning should be love and the end should be prayer, and somewhere in the middle of the way, love is transformed into prayer. If one can go on loving and loving and loving, one day one suddenly sees that now the love is no more crawling on the earth but has grown wings and is flying into the sky. Then it is prayer.
[Osho suggests groups to the new sannyasin. She replies: I would rather like to do the pottery... ]
You can do it, but I think do a few groups and then pottery, mm? First become a potter and then do pottery!
First release all your catharsis, otherwise that will go into your pottery. Your anger, your violence, your aggression, will all go into the pottery. First release all that, so your pottery will be really Zen pottery. That's the difference between ordinary pottery and Zen pottery. They look alike from the outside, but something made by people who know what meditation is has a different quality to it.
Whatsoever you have is poured into it. If you are cooking and you are angry, you pour poison into the food. If you are angry and you are doing pottery, your anger is bound to affect it because that too is energy and it will become engrained. It will go into the pot and will remain engrained in it. A man who knows how to read pulsations can read the pot and can say that the person who was making it was angry. He can sniff out who has made it.
When a Zen master makes a pot, a teapot or a cup, he pours his meditation into it, he pours his nothingness into it; he has nothing else. He pours his joy, his silence, his prayer into it. Then it has a different quality, it has a different vibe.
So first go through a few groups, mm? Get attuned and then go into pottery. Pottery is one of the best things to do!
[A new sannyasin says: I have many very strong meditation experiences which I don't trust.... For instance, I have the feeling of dying. I just go into it and I experience that I am leaving, going away. It is very beautiful and I feel I can die.
Osho checks her energy.]
Start feeling that you are dying. Go into that space so I can feel whether it is really there or just imagination. Just be there.
Come back! It is perfectly true and real; it is not imagination. You have to use it as your meditation technique. At least once or twice a day, die; you don't need any other meditation. It is just the right thing for you and you have come across it on your own.
But it happens, because there is no way to decide whether it is imagination or reality, it is difficult for you to decide. But I am here for that! It is perfectly real; go into it deeper and deeper... but without any fear. Even if sometimes you feel that you are almost going to die, die; nothing to be worried about. It is not the death of the body, it is the death of the ego. And if the ego dies you are born. It is good!
Eckhart is one of the most beautiful persons the West has produced. I mean Meister Eckhart, a Christian mystic. After Jesus there are only two other persons in Christianity who are valuable. Eckhart and Francis. Eckhart was almost a Zen master.
The Pope had decided to expel him from the church but he died at the right time! That's why he was not expelled, otherwise they had decided, orders were going to be issued, but he died at the right time; these people know when to die
But read Meister Eckhart's sayings, meditate over them; they are some of the most beautiful sayings ever.
[The new sannyasin says he has been doing TM, but he uses his own mantra, 'Om man padmi om.']
You can continue, mm? But the mantra is a little big, it should be small.
The bigger it is, the less effective; it should be very small. Mm? let me feel the mantra for you. Come close. Just turn your eyes upwards, as much as you can, so that they almost start going into the head....
Good! Mm mm. You use a sufi mantra, 'Ya Malik... Ya Malik.' Malik means master, God, Lord -- 'Oh, Lord' -- 'ya' means oh. But use it emphatically: 'Ya Malik!' Mm? (He repeats it.) and make it very forceful. 'YA MALIK... YA MALIK... YA MALIK.' And that will do. Continue it, it will be helpful. Good.