Void

The same friend has asked: Osho, if the pot becomes void, then the pot itself will disappear, won’t it?

The current of our births is a series. Buddha, for the first time, gave the world the sense of a living, flowing soul—dynamic, river-like, a stream. On the day the pot breaks, the very same soul that desired liberation will not be the one that is liberated. Some current of consciousness within that series will be liberated. The series is one. Not a unit, but a flow. And now even scientists, in the material realm, are nearing this truth. They say: it is no longer right to say “atom”; say “event.” Now, to say “particle” is wrong—say event. And no longer say “object”—say process, flow, quantum! Lao Tzu says: become the void. The moment the event of becoming void happens, the pot becomes useless. Even so, the pot may live for a while longer, because the pot has its own laws. You bring a pot into the house to fill…

Osho, what is the method to enter the void?

‘You ask, “What is the method to enter the void?”’ There cannot be a method to enter the void. And if you go by a method, at least the method will remain with you—then the void will not happen. For then how will you drop the method? You will end up asking for a method to drop the method. Once you catch hold of a method, you’ll ask, “Now how do I leave this?” It happens: someone says, “Chant Ram, Ram; Ram, Ram—you’ll enter the void.” The chant grips you, and then you say, “How do I drop this Ram, Ram now? I need a method to drop it.” In fact, to get rid of one method you need a second, and to drop the second, a third. Don’t get into this loop. Do not turn “entering the void” into a method. Then you will ask, “But how do we…

One friend has asked, "you say nothing is complete, then how can the void be complete?"

If you had to attain the perfection of the void, you would never have attained it. The void is complete -- it is, it is! You have just to stop filling yourself and you will suddenly realise that you are empty! There can be no completeness in this world of anything. Nothing is attained by man s actions. Once the Sultan in whose service Nasruddin was, was displeased with him. He told him, "You are a perfect dolt!" Mulla replied, "Do not flatter me. Nobody is perfect." However, if Emptiness too, had to be brought in, it would not be perfect. But the fact is, Emptiness is your nature. You have not to bring it about. It is. All you can do is to cover up what is, hide it, forget it. You cannot destroy it. You have not to attain the perfection of Emptiness. You have only to give…

Beloved master, why, despite appearances, is the void more tangible than the form, consciousness more than thought, silence more than the word?

Deva Bruce, the void is the source of all forms. The void is eternal, forms are temporary. Forms are like ripples in the lake, the void is the lake itself. Forms come and go, the void remains. Forms are only appearances, the void is the reality. Hence Buddha calls reality SHUNYA. Shunya means the ultimate void. Yes, it is far more tangible than your so-called real things, because these real things come from the void and will go back down to the void. The void is the source and the goal. Everything comes out of nothingness and disappears back into nothingness. Hence, remember, nothingness does not mean that it is nothing; nothingness simply means that it is all. Nothingness means "no-thingness." Things are forms; nothingness is a formless energy. It can manifest in millions of forms, and it can only manifest in millions of forms because it has no form…