Vision

Beloved Osho, more than anything else I want your vision to happen. When I am not with you, and I am out in the world, alone, what part can I play in helping your vision to happen?

Just be yourself, utterly yourself. And never think in terms of how you can help my vision to happen in the world, because that's what makes a missionary -- and I am against missionaries. They are the poisoners. Their intention is good, they want to spread something which they feel is immensely valuable, but a missionary does not know that what he is trying to spread is not his own experience. So I would like to make it clear that you just be yourself, and that will be the way of spreading my message to people, because that's my message -- to be yourself authentically, sincerely. It is not a question of saying something to somebody; it is a question of being somebody in a way that the vision radiates from you... that the people feel that something has happened to you that has not happened to them... that there…

Why is a spiritual experience often called a vision? What is the difference between sight and vision? A while ago you spoke about what it is 'to hear'. Please, what does it mean 'to see'?

Be more sensitive -- less of belief, less of the head, and more of sensitivity. Be more sensuous, alive in your senses, and then suddenly one day you will see: it is not simply the light that is coming to you, it is God in the form of light; and it is not the tree that is standing there in front of you, but God; not the rock, but God; not the woman that you have fallen in love with, but a God; not the man, but God. When the insight becomes clear, unclouded, suddenly you start seeing that everywhere God is, because all is God. A man took a flower once, and without a word, held it up before the men seated in a circle about him. Each man in his turn looked at the flower, and then explained its meaning, its significance, all that it symbolized. The last…

Osho, when I sit in prayer I simply fall silent. What should I say to the Lord, what should I not say? Nothing at all comes to mind. Then I wonder, what kind of prayer is this! Please show me the way.

Doolandas said only a few days ago that God is not deaf! There is no need to shout. The truth is, before the feeling arises in your heart, it has already reached him. Before the prayer is uttered, it is heard. There is no method of saying—before you can say it, it has arrived. The thing must be there: a dense feeling in the heart, drenched in love! Be absorbed in feeling and fall into silence—prayer has happened. In that very silence, the petition will be made. That silence itself is the petition. In that silence, what cannot be said, what has never been said, what will never be said—will be said. Call me close just once, then I won’t ask again— I speak the truth. I was asleep—why did you wake me from my sleep? Why, tinting me with vermilion dreams, did you show me a golden world? What…

“Grant me your vision, O God—my eyes are thirsty.” For three or four days, ever since my eyes met yours, there had been an unbroken humming within. Yesterday evening, the moment I fell at your feet, the tune departed; words became wordless. What kind of call is this?

Chitranjan! The call of words is not a deep call. Only the call of the wordless is deep. As long as prayer is filled with words, it remains shallow, superficial. Only when prayer becomes wordless does it attain depth. A prayer that can be spoken is merely a wave of the mind. A prayer that cannot be spoken is the heart’s own arising. The journey begins with a resonance; it should be completed in the void. “Grant me your vision, O God— my eyes are thirsty.” Good—let it begin from here, from this very longing. But if you cling too tightly to these words, they themselves will make the vision impossible. Their echo will go on, and because of their echo his resonance will not be heard. He is speaking—but his speaking is wordless, it is silence. If you are to understand him, you must understand in wordlessness, in silence.…