Color

Yes.

When the sun’s rays fall on my dhoti, if my dhoti returns all the rays and absorbs none, the dhoti will appear white. White means all the sun’s rays have been sent back. If my dhoti swallows all the rays, the dhoti will appear black. Black means the dhoti has drunk all the sun’s rays. If my dhoti appears red, it means it has swallowed all the rays except the red; it has not swallowed the red ray. The red ray is not a quality of the dhoti. The dhoti does not drink the red ray, so the red ray returns and is seen by the eye. There is no red color anywhere in the dhoti. It is a delightful thing. The dhoti has drunk all colors except the red; only the red it has left alone. That leftover color returns and appears to the eye, so the dhoti seems…

Osho, when one experiences different forms of light and colours in meditation -- such as red, yellow, blue, ochre, etc. -- how can one know to which layers of being they belong? Is there any gradual sequence of colour and light experiences before reaching the ultimate light experience?

There is a Sufi sect which uses black -- black clothes for their fakirs. Black is also very, very meaningful. It shows absence of color, everything absent. It is just the contrary of white. Sufis say that unless we become totally absent, the God cannot be present to us. So one must be like black -- absolutely absent, a nonentity, a nonbeing, just a nothingness. They have chosen black. Colors are meaningful. So with whatsoever you choose you show much. Even your clothes indicate much. Nothing is just accidental. If you have chosen a particular color for your clothes, it is not accidental. You may not be aware why you have chosen it, but science is aware -- and it shows much. Your clothes show much because they belong to your mind, and your mind chooses. You cannot choose without your mind having certain leanings, certain tendencies. So the sequence…

Osho, no, the same person has written three colors.

Yes, even one person can see three colors in three different states. Because is a person really the same person in all three states? Sometimes when I am in love, you see one color. When I am in anger, you see another color. And sometimes when you are in love toward me, you see a different color; when you are angry with me, again another. And those colors keep changing day by day. Colors change moment to moment. Everything keeps changing. Nothing is fixed here. In this world the very idea of fixity is false. Everything here is in flux. But most people saw a dusky hue in him. There are reasons for that. It seems the dusky hue must have been his steady undertone—the enduring note of his changefulness. That is, his very restlessness played in a dusky key. In the mind of this land there is a certain…

Osho, while listening to you, many times you begin to appear colorful, and yet like an emptiness. The wall behind your chair also looks colorful, and I become filled with a strange joy. What is all this?

And once you learn the knack of entering those colors—if you descend even a single step into this depth—then you won’t need to see those colors only around me. If you look at any tree with the same peace and love with which you looked at me, then around that tree too a sea of colors will begin to surge. It is surging; you lack the eyes. Existence is veiled by no curtain; only you are blind. Even by a small flower you will see dimensions of aura opening. Once you understand that to look at anyone with quietude and love is essential for seeing truth, then you will see as it is. Until now you have seen very little. You have seen as if many curtains had been hung and behind them the lamp is hidden, and only tiny rays manage to reach you. As each curtain is removed,…