Magic Rose

Question: BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC ROSE? The symbol of the mystic rose is that if man takes care of the seed that he is born with, gives it the right soil, gives it the right atmosphere and the right vibrations, moves on a right path where the seed can start growing, then the ultimate growth is symbolized as the mystic rose -- when your being blossoms and opens all its petals and releases the beautiful fragrance. Unless you blossom into a mystic rose, your life is nothing but an exercise in utter futility. You are born unnecessarily, you are living unnecessarily, and you will die unnecessarily. Your whole biography can be reduced to a single word: unnecessary. But if you can blossom and release that which is hidden in you, you have fulfilled the longing of existence.

Beloved Osho, in what soil and in which climate might one find the mystic rose?

Before dying he gave his robe to a person to whom he had never spoken a single word. And the person touched the feet of Mahakashyap and again the same story... the tears of joy and gratitude and thankfulness. And the man said, "You were a great master; you have given me a great responsibility, but I promise you that I will fulfill it with my total heart." This man became the second patriarch of Zen Buddhism. And because Mahakashyap gave his robe, this became the form of choosing the successor. For all these twenty-five centuries Zen masters have chosen their successors by just giving them their bowl, their robe. It is called the transmission of the light, the opening of the mystic rose. You are asking, "In what soil and in which climate might one find the mystic rose?" Your heart is the soil. Your trust is the climate.…

The seed was stagnant, the plant is a river. Bliss is a flower but you have to become the soil, and the ego has to die in the soil like the seed dies, then you can also know the invisible, then you can also manifest the unmanifested. That's what happens to a Jesus, to a Buddha, to a Lao Tzu: something of the unknown starts surrounding them, becomes their climate, their milieu. And those who are unprejudiced, those who are open, can see in a Buddha God walking on the earth, living in a body. It is only the blind who miss, it is only the deaf who miss, but the greater part of humanity consists of blind and deaf people. Initiation into sannyas means that now you will search for the eyes and the ears. They are there, we just have not used them.

if it can be lowered a little bit you can walk through the wall through the mountain there is no problem because it is pure energy there is nothing solid any more this is a great advance that science has to concede reluctantly they conceded because to say that existence consists of energy is to come very close to the mystics they have always been saying existence is energy they say something more too they say that energy is awareness science may never be able to know that for the simple reason it has no way to experience awareness it can be experienced only through meditation and the moment you experience awareness the whole existence is immediately revealed to you as awareness not only that, it starts converging on you immediately, instantly you become the centre of it you become the beloved of the whole and to be beloved of…