Osho's perspective on Inner Exploration
When Osho Spoke About Inner Exploration
Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.
What is turning inwards?
Now, what does it mean to turn inwards? Tao's question is significant, it is very relevant. What does it mean to turn inwards? It means seeing the futility of desire, seeing the futility of dreaming, seeing the illusoriness of dreaming. In that very seeing, desire disappears. In that clarity, desire cannot exist. And when you are with no desire, you are in. Not that you have to turn in. Not that first you have to stop desiring, then you have to turn in. The cessation of desire is the turning, the transformation -- what Jesus calls 'metanoia', the conversion. Suddenly another gestalt opens. It was there, but you were not aware of it because you were too much obsessed with the desire. The desire for money, the desire for power, the desire for prestige, does not allow your meditation to bloom. Because the whole energy goes down the drain in…
Inquire of the inmost, the one, of its final secret which it holds for you through the ages.
THE GREAT AND DIFFICULT VICTORY, THE CONQUERING OF THE DESIRES OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL, IS A WORK OF AGES; THEREFORE EXPECT NOT TO OBTAIN ITS REWARD UNTIL AGES OF EXPERIENCE HAVE BEEN ACCUMULATED. WHEN THE TIME OF LEARNING THIS RULE IS REACHED, MAN IS ON THE THRESHOLD OF BECOMING MORE THAN MAN. THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS NOW YOURS IS ONLY YOURS BECAUSE YOUR SOUL HAS BECOME ONE WITH ALL PURE SOULS AND WITH THE INMOST. IT IS A TRUST VESTED IN YOU BY THE MOST HIGH. BETRAY IT, MISUSE YOUR KNOWLEDGE, OR NEGLECT IT, AND IT IS POSSIBLE EVEN NOW FOR YOU TO FALL FROM THE HIGH ESTATE YOU HAVE ATTAINED. GREAT ONES FALL BACK, EVEN FROM THE THRESHOLD, UNABLE TO SUSTAIN THE WEIGHT OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY, UNABLE TO PASS ON. THEREFORE LOOK FORWARD ALWAYS WITH AWE AND TREMBLING TO THIS MOMENT, AND BE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE. ... BETRAY IT....
And a friend has asked: Osho, this matter of meditation—is it, after all, auto-hypnosis, self-hypnosis?
There is a great deal of similarity to self-hypnosis; at the final point the path diverges. For a long stretch there is a connection with hypnosis. All three stages are of hypnosis; only the witnessing state is not. That which must remain in the background the whole time—the witnessing: that I know, I see that the breath has come and gone; I know, I see that the body is trembling, spinning. I know, I see—this very sense is not of hypnosis. That is the difference. And it is a very fundamental difference. The rest is all the process of hypnosis. The process of hypnosis is very precious: if it is joined to witnessing, it becomes meditation; if it is separated from witnessing, it becomes stupor. If you use only hypnosis, you will become unconscious; if you also use the witnessing, you will become awakened. The difference between the two is…
और एक मित्र ने इधर पूछा है कि ओशो, यह जो ध्यान की बात है, यह कहीं ऑटो-हिप्नोसिस, आत्म-सम्मोहन तो नहीं?
आत्म-सम्मोहन से बहुत दूर तक मेल है, आखिरी बिंदु पर रास्ता अलग हो जाता है। हिप्नोसिस से बहुत दूर तक संबंध है। सारे तीनों चरण हिप्नोसिस के हैं, सिर्फ साक्षी-भाव हिप्नोसिस का नहीं है। वह जो पीछे पूरे समय विटनेसिंग चाहिए--कि मैं जान रहा हूं, देख रहा हूं कि श्वास आई और गई; मैं जान रहा हूं, देख रहा हूं कि शरीर कंपित हो रहा है, घूम रहा है। मैं जान रहा हूं, देख रहा हूं--यह जो भाव है, वह सम्मोहन का नहीं है। वही फर्क है। और वह बहुत बुनियादी फर्क है। बाकी तो सारा सम्मोहन की प्रक्रिया है। सम्मोहन की प्रक्रिया बड़ी कीमती है, अगर वह साक्षी-भाव से जुड़ जाए तो ध्यान बन जाती है; और अगर साक्षी-भाव से अलग हो जाए तो मूर्च्छा बन जाती है। अगर सिर्फ हिप्नोसिस का उपयोग करें तो बेहोश हो जाएंगे; अगर साक्षी-भाव का भी साथ में उपयोग करें, तो जाग्रत हो जाएंगे। फर्क दोनों में बहुत है, लेकिन रास्ता बहुत दूर तक एक सा है, आखिरी बिंदु पर अलग हो जाता है।
Question: First question: Osho, Searching for you I have wandered who knows where. Neither heaven says a word, nor does hell open its gate. I look into every eye, feeling for your picture, and I have wandered who knows where. Are these just the gaps between breaths, or only distances upon distances? You too say nothing—your lips never open. How long must I keep walking, groping about in everyone’s heart? Where are you and where am I? Searching for you I have wandered who knows where. I could not meet you on the earth, nor could I fix your address in the sky. I searched everywhere for you and yet did not find you. Now, in searching, I set out after myself—who knows where I strayed. Ah, what is this? Your address is found: your image in my eyes, like musk that dwells within the deer.
इससे बड़ी मुश्किल है। अपने को ही देखने निकल पड़े हो। कौन देखेगा? दूसरे को देखा जा सकता है। देखने के लिए फासला चाहिए। अपने को कैसे देखोगे? वहां देखने वाला और दृश्य अलग नहीं। वहां द्रष्टा और दृश्य एक है। इस मौलिक सत्य को जब तक न समझ लो तब तक भटकाव ही भटकाव है। इसीलिए तो आदमी खोजता फिरता है। और तुम ठीक कहते हो: ‘ढूंढता हुआ तुम्हें पहुंच गया कहां-कहां!’ आदमी कहां-कहां नहीं पहुंच गया! चांद पर पहुंच गया। जल्दी ही और तारों पर पहुंच जाएगा। और तलाश एक है, खोज एक है--वही शाश्वत खोज; मैं कौन हूं, आदमी जानना चाहता है। …
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