The story is that when Buddha reached the doors of NIRVANA the doors were opened, celestial music was played, golden flowers showered, angels with garlands were ready to receive him, but he refused to enter. He turned his back to the door. The angels were surprised, they could not believe it. They asked him again and again, ”What are you doing? Your whole life – not only one but many lives – you have been searching for THIS door. Now you have arrived, and you are turning your back to the door? And we have been waiting for you, and the whole paradise is full of joy – one more person has become a Buddha. Come in! Let us celebrate your Buddhahood together.”
But Buddha said, ”Unless all those who are in suffering are redeemed, I’m not going to enter. I will have to wait. I am going to be the last, let others move first.” And the beautiful story says that he is still waiting at the door. The door is open because the angels cannot close it; any moment he may want to enter. That is his right, to enter, so the door is open. He’s keeping the door open, and the celestial music continues, and the flowers are still being showered, and the angels are waiting with garlands... and he’s standing outside the door. And he’s calling people forth; he’s calling, challenging, he’s provoking. He’s telling people, ”The doors are open, don’t miss this opportunity.
Come in! And I am going to be the last. Now the doors shall never be closed. They will be closed only when everybody is redeemed and enlightened.”
This is just a parable, tremendously significant. Don’t think of it as history, otherwise you will miss the point. There is no door, no angels, no garlands, no celestial music. And Buddha, the moment he became enlightened, has disappeared. How can he stand and keep his back to the door? Who is there to stand? But the principle...
The energy that Buddha released into existence is still functioning. That energy is still available to those who are REALLY searching. The energy goes on and on working, and it will go on working for eternity.Jesus is no more, but his Christ-consciousness has entered into the new sphere. Mahavir is no more, but his consciousness has entered into this oceanic life. These people have become part of existence; they vibrate. That is the meaning of the parable: they still provoke you, and if you are ready to receive their message they are still ready to take you to the other shore.
The moment a Master dies he becomes part of that infinite energy which Buddha has joined, Mahavir has joined, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mohammed. Whenever a Master dies, more energy is redeemed – and it is becoming a tidal wave. So many enlightened people have existed; it is becoming a continuous tidal wave. You are fortunate. If you really long, if you really desire, this tidal wave can take you to the other shore.
Keep it in your deepest heart: don’t be satisfied with small things. Many things happen on the Way, many MIRACULOUS things happen on the Way, but don’t be satisfied with anything. Remember, you have to become a Christ-consciousness. a bodhisattva – less than that is not going to make you contented.
This is divine discontent.
ONE MUST NOT BE TRIVIAL AND IRRESPONSIBLE IN HEART, BUT MUST STRIVE TO MAKE DEEDS PROVE ONE’S WORDS.
And the life of a seeker should not be that of trivia, because each small thing that you go on doing wastes time, energy, life. The seeker cannot waste. His whole life has to be devoted and dedicated to one single point. He cannot waste here and there: he cannot go and sit in the coffee-house and gossip unnecessarily. He cannot read that which is not going to help. He’s not going to do a single thing which is not going to help his journey, and he’s not going to collect a single thing that will become a burden later on and will have to be dropped. He remains simple. This simplicity has nothing to do with asceticism. This simplicity is simply scientific: he does not accumulate garbage because then you have to carry it. He remains unburdened. And the greatest garbage is that of knowledge, because all other garbage is outside you: knowledge gets inside. It makes your head very heavy, and the head should be very light.
Have you watched, or have you seen a Japanese doll called daruma? Daruma is the – Japanese name for Bodhidharma. The doll is beautiful. It represents the enlightened man – the daruma doll.
It’s beauty is that you can throw it any way but it always sits back in full lotus posture. You throw it – you cannot topple it – it again comes back. Its bottom is heavy, its head is light, so you cannot put it upside-down. It is always rightside-up.
Just the opposite is the case with human beings: they are upsidedown. Their heads are very heavy, they are top-heavy. They are standing on their heads. A man who is knowledgeable stands on his head. He is in a continuous sirshasana, a headstand.
The man who has no knowledge in the head, whose head is empty, silent, is rightside-up. He is in a lotus posture, he is a daruma doll. You cannot topple him, there is no way; he will always come back. You cannot disturb him, there is no way; his undisturbedness remains continuous.
ONE MUST NOT BE TRIVIAL AND IRRESPONSIBLE IN THE HEART...
What is responsibility? Ordinarily the meaning of the word has become associated with wrong things. The real responsibility is towards God and towards nobody else; or, the real responsibility is towards your own nature, and to nobody else. You are not responsible to the society or to the church or to the state. You are not responsible to the family, to the community. You are responsible only to one thing: that is your original face, your original being. And in that responsibility all other responsibilities are covered automatically.
Become natural. And the man who is natural is responsible – because he responds. The man who is not natural never responds, he only reacts. Reactions mean being mechanical, response is non-mechanical, spontaneous.
You see a beautiful flower and you suddenly say something: ”It is beautiful.” Watch whether it is a reaction or a response. Go deep into it, scrutinize it. What you have said – that ”The flower is beautiful” – is it your spontaneous response this moment, herenow? Is this your experience, or are you simply repeating a cliche because you have heard others saying that flowers are beautiful. Go into it, watch: who has spoken through you? Maybe it is your mother.... You can remember the day, for the first time she had taken you to the garden, the public gardens, and she had told you, ”Look at this rose. How beautiful it is!” And then the books that you have been reading, and the films that you have been seeing, the people you have been talking to – and they all have been saying ”Roses are beautiful.” It has become a programmed thing in you. The moment you see the rose flower your program says ”It is beautiful,” not you. It is just a gramophone record, it is a tape. The rose outside triggers the tape and it simply repeats. It is reaction.
What is response? Response is unprogrammed experiencing in the moment. You look at the flower, you really look at the flower, with no ideas covering your eyes. You look at THIS flower, the THISNESS of it! all knowledge put aside. Your heart responds, your mind reacts. Responsibility is of the heart. You may not say anything; in fact, there is no need to say, ”This is beautiful.”
I have heard...
Lao Tzu used to go for a morning walk. A neighbor wanted to be with him. Lao Tzu said, ”But remember, don’t be talkative. You can come along, but don’t be talkative.”
Many times the man wanted to say something, but knowing Lao Tzu, looking at him, he controlled himself But when the sun started rising and it was so beautiful, the temptation was so much that he forgot all about what Lao Tzu had said. He said, ”Look! What a beautiful morning!”
And Lao Tzu said, ”So, you have become talkative You are too talkative! You are here, I am here, the sun is here, the sun is rising – so what is the point in saying to me ’The sun is beautiful’? Can’t I see? Am I blind? What is the point of saying it? I am also here.” In fact, the mall who said ”The morning is beautiful” was not there. He w as repeating, it was a reaction.
When you respond words may not be needed at all, or sometimes they may be needed. It will depend on the situation, but they will not necessarily be there; they may be, they may not be.
Response is of the heart. Response is a feeling, not a thought. You are thrilled: seeing a rose flower something starts dancing in you, something is stirred at the deepest core of your being.
Something starts opening inside you. The outer flower challenges the inner flower, and the inner flower responds: this is responsibility of the heart. And if you are not engaged in trivialities, you will have enough energy, abundant energy, to have this inner dance of the heart. When energy is dissipated in thoughts, your feelings are starved. Thoughts are parasites: they live on the energy which is really for the feelings, they exploit it.
Thoughts are like leakages in your being: they take your energy out. Then you are like a pot with holes – nothing can be contained in you, you remain poor. When there are no thoughts your energy is contained inside, its level starts rising higher and higher. You have a kind of fullness. In that fullness the heart responds. And then life is poetry, then life is music, and then only can you do the miracle of making deeds prove your words, not before it. Then you don’t only say ”I love you”, your very existence proves the love. Then your words are not impotent words; they have a soul to them. And to live like that is the only life worth living: when your words and your deeds correspond, when your words and deeds are not opposites, when your words are full of your sincerity, when whatsoever you say you are.
Before that, you live in a kind of split: you say one thing, you do another. You remain schizophrenic.
The whole humanity is schizophrenic unless one comes to this point where words and deeds are no more separate, but two aspects of the same phenomenon. You say what you feel, you feel what you say, you do what you say, you say what you do. One can simply watch you and will see the authenticity of your being.
IF, WHEN THERE IS QUIET, THE SPIRIT HAS CONTINUOUSLY AND UNINTERRUPTEDLY A SENSE OF GREAT JOY AS IF INTOXICATED OR FRESHLY BATHED, IT IS A SIGN THAT THE LIGHT-PRINCIPLE IS HARMONIOUS IN THE WHOLE BODY; THEN THE GOLDEN FLOWER BEGINS TO BUD.
”When there is quiet” – a great confirmatory sign – then ”the spirit has continuously and uninterruptedly a sense of great joy”. For no reason at all you suddenly feel yourself joyous. In ordinary life, if there is some reason you are joyful. You have met a beautiful woman and you are joyous, or you have got the money that you always wanted and you are joyous, or you have purchased the house with a beautiful garden and you are joyous – but these joys cannot last long.
They are momentary, they cannot remain continuous and uninterrupted.
I have heard...
Mulla Nasruddin was sitting, very sad, in front of his house. A neighbor asked, ”Mulla, why are you looking so sad?”
And Mulla said, ”Look! Fifteen days ago my uncle died and he left me fifty thousand rupees.”
The neighbor said, ”But this is no reason to be sad! You should be happy.”
Mulla said, ”First you listen to the whole story. And seven days ago my other uncle died and left me seven thousand rupees. And now, nothing.... Nobody is dying, nothing is happening. The week is passing by, and I am really sad.”
If your joy is caused by something it will disappear, it will be momentary. It will soon leave you in deep sadness; all joys leave you in deep sadness. But there is a different kind of JOY that is a confirmatory sign: that you are suddenly JOYOUS for no reason at all. You cannot pinpoint why. If somebody asks, ”Why are you JOYOUS?” YOU cannot answer.
I cannot answer why I am JOYOUS. There is no reason. It’s simply so. Now THIS joy cannot be disturbed. Now whatsoever happens, it will continue. It is there day in, day out. You may be young, you may be old, you may be alive, you may be dying – it is always there. When you have found some joy that remains, circumstances change but it abides, then you are certainly coming closer to Buddhahood.
This is a confirmatory sign. If joy comes and goes, that is not of much value; that is a worldly phenomenon. When joy abides, remains uninterrupted and continuo us – as if you are intoxicated, without any drug you are stoned; as if you have just taken a bath, fresh as morning dewdrops, fresh as new leaves in the spring, fresh as lotus leaves in the pond; as if you have just taken a bath – when you remain continuously in that freshness that remains and remains and nothing disturbs it, know well you are coming closer to home.
IT IS A SIGN THAT THE LIGHT-PRINCIPLE IS HARMONIOUS IN THE WHOLE BODY.
Now your whole body is functioning as a harmonious unity, your whole body is in accord. You are no more split, you are no more fragmentary. This is individuation: you are one whole, all parts functioning and humming together, all parts functioning in an orchestra of being. Nothing is out of tune – the body, the mind, the soul, the lowest and the highest, from sex to SAMADHI – all IS functioning in a tremendous harmony and an incredible unity.
But Buddha said, ”Unless all those who are in suffering are redeemed, I’m not going to enter. I will have to wait. I am going to be the last, let others move first.” And the beautiful story says that he is still waiting at the door. The door is open because the angels cannot close it; any moment he may want to enter. That is his right, to enter, so the door is open. He’s keeping the door open, and the celestial music continues, and the flowers are still being showered, and the angels are waiting with garlands... and he’s standing outside the door. And he’s calling people forth; he’s calling, challenging, he’s provoking. He’s telling people, ”The doors are open, don’t miss this opportunity.
Come in! And I am going to be the last. Now the doors shall never be closed. They will be closed only when everybody is redeemed and enlightened.”
This is just a parable, tremendously significant. Don’t think of it as history, otherwise you will miss the point. There is no door, no angels, no garlands, no celestial music. And Buddha, the moment he became enlightened, has disappeared. How can he stand and keep his back to the door? Who is there to stand? But the principle...
The energy that Buddha released into existence is still functioning. That energy is still available to those who are REALLY searching. The energy goes on and on working, and it will go on working for eternity.Jesus is no more, but his Christ-consciousness has entered into the new sphere. Mahavir is no more, but his consciousness has entered into this oceanic life. These people have become part of existence; they vibrate. That is the meaning of the parable: they still provoke you, and if you are ready to receive their message they are still ready to take you to the other shore.
The moment a Master dies he becomes part of that infinite energy which Buddha has joined, Mahavir has joined, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mohammed. Whenever a Master dies, more energy is redeemed – and it is becoming a tidal wave. So many enlightened people have existed; it is becoming a continuous tidal wave. You are fortunate. If you really long, if you really desire, this tidal wave can take you to the other shore.
Keep it in your deepest heart: don’t be satisfied with small things. Many things happen on the Way, many MIRACULOUS things happen on the Way, but don’t be satisfied with anything. Remember, you have to become a Christ-consciousness. a bodhisattva – less than that is not going to make you contented.
This is divine discontent.
ONE MUST NOT BE TRIVIAL AND IRRESPONSIBLE IN HEART, BUT MUST STRIVE TO MAKE DEEDS PROVE ONE’S WORDS.
And the life of a seeker should not be that of trivia, because each small thing that you go on doing wastes time, energy, life. The seeker cannot waste. His whole life has to be devoted and dedicated to one single point. He cannot waste here and there: he cannot go and sit in the coffee-house and gossip unnecessarily. He cannot read that which is not going to help. He’s not going to do a single thing which is not going to help his journey, and he’s not going to collect a single thing that will become a burden later on and will have to be dropped. He remains simple. This simplicity has nothing to do with asceticism. This simplicity is simply scientific: he does not accumulate garbage because then you have to carry it. He remains unburdened. And the greatest garbage is that of knowledge, because all other garbage is outside you: knowledge gets inside. It makes your head very heavy, and the head should be very light.
Have you watched, or have you seen a Japanese doll called daruma? Daruma is the – Japanese name for Bodhidharma. The doll is beautiful. It represents the enlightened man – the daruma doll.
It’s beauty is that you can throw it any way but it always sits back in full lotus posture. You throw it – you cannot topple it – it again comes back. Its bottom is heavy, its head is light, so you cannot put it upside-down. It is always rightside-up.
Just the opposite is the case with human beings: they are upsidedown. Their heads are very heavy, they are top-heavy. They are standing on their heads. A man who is knowledgeable stands on his head. He is in a continuous sirshasana, a headstand.
The man who has no knowledge in the head, whose head is empty, silent, is rightside-up. He is in a lotus posture, he is a daruma doll. You cannot topple him, there is no way; he will always come back. You cannot disturb him, there is no way; his undisturbedness remains continuous.
ONE MUST NOT BE TRIVIAL AND IRRESPONSIBLE IN THE HEART...
What is responsibility? Ordinarily the meaning of the word has become associated with wrong things. The real responsibility is towards God and towards nobody else; or, the real responsibility is towards your own nature, and to nobody else. You are not responsible to the society or to the church or to the state. You are not responsible to the family, to the community. You are responsible only to one thing: that is your original face, your original being. And in that responsibility all other responsibilities are covered automatically.
Become natural. And the man who is natural is responsible – because he responds. The man who is not natural never responds, he only reacts. Reactions mean being mechanical, response is non-mechanical, spontaneous.
You see a beautiful flower and you suddenly say something: ”It is beautiful.” Watch whether it is a reaction or a response. Go deep into it, scrutinize it. What you have said – that ”The flower is beautiful” – is it your spontaneous response this moment, herenow? Is this your experience, or are you simply repeating a cliche because you have heard others saying that flowers are beautiful. Go into it, watch: who has spoken through you? Maybe it is your mother.... You can remember the day, for the first time she had taken you to the garden, the public gardens, and she had told you, ”Look at this rose. How beautiful it is!” And then the books that you have been reading, and the films that you have been seeing, the people you have been talking to – and they all have been saying ”Roses are beautiful.” It has become a programmed thing in you. The moment you see the rose flower your program says ”It is beautiful,” not you. It is just a gramophone record, it is a tape. The rose outside triggers the tape and it simply repeats. It is reaction.
What is response? Response is unprogrammed experiencing in the moment. You look at the flower, you really look at the flower, with no ideas covering your eyes. You look at THIS flower, the THISNESS of it! all knowledge put aside. Your heart responds, your mind reacts. Responsibility is of the heart. You may not say anything; in fact, there is no need to say, ”This is beautiful.”
I have heard...
Lao Tzu used to go for a morning walk. A neighbor wanted to be with him. Lao Tzu said, ”But remember, don’t be talkative. You can come along, but don’t be talkative.”
Many times the man wanted to say something, but knowing Lao Tzu, looking at him, he controlled himself But when the sun started rising and it was so beautiful, the temptation was so much that he forgot all about what Lao Tzu had said. He said, ”Look! What a beautiful morning!”
And Lao Tzu said, ”So, you have become talkative You are too talkative! You are here, I am here, the sun is here, the sun is rising – so what is the point in saying to me ’The sun is beautiful’? Can’t I see? Am I blind? What is the point of saying it? I am also here.” In fact, the mall who said ”The morning is beautiful” was not there. He w as repeating, it was a reaction.
When you respond words may not be needed at all, or sometimes they may be needed. It will depend on the situation, but they will not necessarily be there; they may be, they may not be.
Response is of the heart. Response is a feeling, not a thought. You are thrilled: seeing a rose flower something starts dancing in you, something is stirred at the deepest core of your being.
Something starts opening inside you. The outer flower challenges the inner flower, and the inner flower responds: this is responsibility of the heart. And if you are not engaged in trivialities, you will have enough energy, abundant energy, to have this inner dance of the heart. When energy is dissipated in thoughts, your feelings are starved. Thoughts are parasites: they live on the energy which is really for the feelings, they exploit it.
Thoughts are like leakages in your being: they take your energy out. Then you are like a pot with holes – nothing can be contained in you, you remain poor. When there are no thoughts your energy is contained inside, its level starts rising higher and higher. You have a kind of fullness. In that fullness the heart responds. And then life is poetry, then life is music, and then only can you do the miracle of making deeds prove your words, not before it. Then you don’t only say ”I love you”, your very existence proves the love. Then your words are not impotent words; they have a soul to them. And to live like that is the only life worth living: when your words and your deeds correspond, when your words and deeds are not opposites, when your words are full of your sincerity, when whatsoever you say you are.
Before that, you live in a kind of split: you say one thing, you do another. You remain schizophrenic.
The whole humanity is schizophrenic unless one comes to this point where words and deeds are no more separate, but two aspects of the same phenomenon. You say what you feel, you feel what you say, you do what you say, you say what you do. One can simply watch you and will see the authenticity of your being.
IF, WHEN THERE IS QUIET, THE SPIRIT HAS CONTINUOUSLY AND UNINTERRUPTEDLY A SENSE OF GREAT JOY AS IF INTOXICATED OR FRESHLY BATHED, IT IS A SIGN THAT THE LIGHT-PRINCIPLE IS HARMONIOUS IN THE WHOLE BODY; THEN THE GOLDEN FLOWER BEGINS TO BUD.
”When there is quiet” – a great confirmatory sign – then ”the spirit has continuously and uninterruptedly a sense of great joy”. For no reason at all you suddenly feel yourself joyous. In ordinary life, if there is some reason you are joyful. You have met a beautiful woman and you are joyous, or you have got the money that you always wanted and you are joyous, or you have purchased the house with a beautiful garden and you are joyous – but these joys cannot last long.
They are momentary, they cannot remain continuous and uninterrupted.
I have heard...
Mulla Nasruddin was sitting, very sad, in front of his house. A neighbor asked, ”Mulla, why are you looking so sad?”
And Mulla said, ”Look! Fifteen days ago my uncle died and he left me fifty thousand rupees.”
The neighbor said, ”But this is no reason to be sad! You should be happy.”
Mulla said, ”First you listen to the whole story. And seven days ago my other uncle died and left me seven thousand rupees. And now, nothing.... Nobody is dying, nothing is happening. The week is passing by, and I am really sad.”
If your joy is caused by something it will disappear, it will be momentary. It will soon leave you in deep sadness; all joys leave you in deep sadness. But there is a different kind of JOY that is a confirmatory sign: that you are suddenly JOYOUS for no reason at all. You cannot pinpoint why. If somebody asks, ”Why are you JOYOUS?” YOU cannot answer.
I cannot answer why I am JOYOUS. There is no reason. It’s simply so. Now THIS joy cannot be disturbed. Now whatsoever happens, it will continue. It is there day in, day out. You may be young, you may be old, you may be alive, you may be dying – it is always there. When you have found some joy that remains, circumstances change but it abides, then you are certainly coming closer to Buddhahood.
This is a confirmatory sign. If joy comes and goes, that is not of much value; that is a worldly phenomenon. When joy abides, remains uninterrupted and continuo us – as if you are intoxicated, without any drug you are stoned; as if you have just taken a bath, fresh as morning dewdrops, fresh as new leaves in the spring, fresh as lotus leaves in the pond; as if you have just taken a bath – when you remain continuously in that freshness that remains and remains and nothing disturbs it, know well you are coming closer to home.
IT IS A SIGN THAT THE LIGHT-PRINCIPLE IS HARMONIOUS IN THE WHOLE BODY.
Now your whole body is functioning as a harmonious unity, your whole body is in accord. You are no more split, you are no more fragmentary. This is individuation: you are one whole, all parts functioning and humming together, all parts functioning in an orchestra of being. Nothing is out of tune – the body, the mind, the soul, the lowest and the highest, from sex to SAMADHI – all IS functioning in a tremendous harmony and an incredible unity.
Osho
The Secret of Secrets, Vol 2
The Secret of Secrets, Vol 2
CH# 3. THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS OPENING
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