JESUS HAD ONLY TWELVE DISCIPLES, ONE OF THEM, JUDAS BETRAYED HIM. I HAVE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DISCIPLES, AND I HAVE TOO MANY JUDASES WHO SHALL BE BETRAYING ME. I CANNOT TAKE TOO MUCH CARE AS TO WHO IS A JUDAS AND WHO IS NOT; AND I NEED NOT, BECAUSE WHATSOEVER HAPPENS IS GODS WILL. IF A JUDAS IS NEEDED THEN HE WILL HAVE TO COME, THAT IS THE WAY GOD WANTS IT TO BE. I HAVE MANY JUDASES, AND IT IS BETTER TO HAVE MANY -- ONE CAN PROVE MORE DANGEROUS. IF YOU HAVE MANY JUDASES, FIRST THEY WILL HAVE TO COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER. THEIR ENERGIES WILL BE WASTED AMONGST THEMSELVES. THEY WILL FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER; THEY WILL BETRAY EACH OTHER FIRST. BUT YOU NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT MY JUDASES, EVEN WHEN I AM GONE, THERE WILL BE MY ALIVE BUDDHAS, YOU ARE BORN TO BE A BUDDHA. IT HAS NEVER BEEN THAT THERE WAS NOT A BUDDHA ALIVE IN THE WORLD, SOMEWHERE, IN SOME PART OF THE WORLD. THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SOURCE, THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BOAT READY TO TAKE YOU TO THE OTHER SHORE. IF ANYTHING IS MISSING IT IS JUST READINESS ON YOUR PART. IT IS RARE TO FIND A BUDDHA AND MORE RARE TO RECOGNIZE HIM, BECAUSE YOU GO ON SEEING WITH YOUR OLD EYES, WITH YOUR OLD, STUPID MIND. YOUR STUPID MIND IS UNABLE TO SEE BUDDHAHOOD. IT CAN SEE ONLY THINGS; IT CANNOT SEE THE IMMATERIAL, THE MYSTERIOUS. IT CAN ONLY SEE THE GROSS, NOT THE SUBTLE. IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND A BUDDHA, AND HARDER TO HEAR HIM AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS SAYING. IT IS EASIER TO MISUNDERSTAND HIM, IT IS EASIER NOT TO RECOGNIZE HIM. YOU CAN FIND A THOUSAND AND ONE RATIONALIZATIONS AND DENY HIM. IN FACT YOU WILL TRY, BECAUSE YOUR EGO IS AT STAKE. IF YOU RECOGNIZE SOMEBODY AS A BUDDHA, THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO SURRENDER. RECOGNIZING A BUDDHA AND NOT SURRENDERING TO HIM IS IMPOSSIBLE. RECOGNIZING A BUDDHA AND SURRENDERING TO HIM IS A NATURAL PHENOMENON. ONCE YOU RECOGNIZE SOMEBODY AS AWAKENED, ENLIGHTENED, THERE IS NO WAY TO ESCAPE, YOU HAVE TO SURRENDER. IF YOU WANT TO ESCAPE, THEN BE ALERT. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING DONT RECOGNIZE, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING CREATE BARRIERS -- AS MANY AS YOU CAN. DISTORT EVERYTHING, BRING IN ALL YOUR PREJUDICES. DONT SEE -- CLOSE YOUR EYES. DONT LISTEN, BECOME DEAF. DONT FEEL, AND ESCAPE FROM THE BUDDHAFIELD, BECAUSE WHO KNOWS -- SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS IN SPITE OF YOU. IT IS HAPPENING TO MANY HERE IN SPITE OF THEMSELVES. THEY HAD NOT COME HERE TO STAY FOREVER. THEY HAD COME OUT OF CURIOSITY, OR A FRIEND WAS COMING AND THEY ACCOMPANIED HIM, OR THEY WERE JUST PASSING FROM KABUL TO GOA, OR KATHMANDU TO GOA... AND THEY WERE TRAPPED IN POONA! THEN THEY FORGOT ABOUT KATHMANDU AND KABUL AND GOA AND ALL DISAPPEARED, THE WHOLE WORLD DISAPPEARED. THEY ENTERED INTO A TOTALLY DIFFERENT REALITY. THEY MAY NOT HAVE COME CONSCIOUSLY, THEY MAY HAVE RESISTED, RELUCTANTLY THEY MAY HAVE DECIDED TO BE HERE FOR A FEW DAYS. SEEING SO MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED, THEY MAY HAVE THOUGHT THERE MUST BE SOMETHING. IT IS HARD TO RECOGNIZE A BUDDHA, TO HEAR HIM SILENTLY, WITHOUT DISTORTING, WITHOUT BRINGING YOUR MIND IN. IT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND HIM, BECAUSE HE SPEAKS FROM A DIFFERENT ALTITUDE. HE SPEAKS FROM THE PEAKS OF THE HIMALAYAS, AND YOU LIVE IN THE DARK VALLEYS DOWN BELOW. THE DISTANCE IS GREAT. HE SHOUTS SO THAT HE CAN REACH YOU, BUT BY THE TIME HIS WORDS REACH YOU THEY ARE NO LONGER THE SAME. BY THE TIME THEY REACH TO YOUR HEART, MUCH OF THEIR FLAVOUR, THEIR AUTHENTICITY, THEIR TRUTH, IS LOST. BUT THOUGH IT IS HARD IT HAPPENS -- AND IF YOU ARE COURAGEOUS ENOUGH IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. AND THE HARDEST THING : EVEN IF YOU HEAR A BUDDHA IT IS HARD TO RISE TO THOSE HEIGHTS. IT IS A TREMENDOUS EFFORT, AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY, A GREAT PILGRIMAGE TO RISE TO THOSE HEIGHTS... BECAUSE YOU CANNOT TRULY UNDERSTAND A BUDDHA UNLESS YOU BECOME A BUDDHA YOURSELF. THE ONLY WAY TO UNDERSTAND A BUDDHA IS TO BE A BUDDHA. YES, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND A BUDDHA INTELLECTUALLY, BUT INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING IS NOT GOING TO HELP; IT MAY EVEN BECOME A HINDRANCE. IT WILL GIVE YOU THE IDEA IN YOUR SLEEP THAT YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD... NOW THERE IS NO NEED TO BOTHER MUCH MORE, YOU ALREADY KNOW. INTELLECTUALLY, MANY PEOPLE WHO COME HERE KNOW WHAT JESUS SAYS, WHAT BUDDHA SAYS. INTELLECTUALLY THEY CAN ANALYZE, THEY CAN DISCUSS, BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT. KNOWING HAS TO BE EXISTENTIAL, NOT INTELLECTUAL. INTELLECT CAN BE USED AS A STEPPING-STONE, BUT IT IS NOT THE REAL TEMPLE, IT IS ONLY A STEPPING-STONE. YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE WHAT BUDDHA IS SAYING; WHAT BUDDHA TEACHES HAS TO BECOME YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE. YOU HAVE TO BECOME A WITNESS TO THIS EXPERIENCE. THEN ONLY HAVE YOU FOLLOWED, THEN ONLY HAVE YOU RISEN, THEN ONLY ARE YOU AWAKE. ALTHOUGH IT IS HARD TO FIND AND RECOGNIZE A MASTER, HARD TO UNDERSTAND, HARD TO REALIZE THE UNDERSTANDING, ACTUALIZE THE UNDERSTANDING IN YOUR LIFE, IT STILL HAS TO BE SAID THAT THE TEACHING IS SIMPLE. THE DIFFICULTY ARISES FROM YOU; THE TEACHING IS VERY SIMPLE. IT HAS TO BE SO: TRUTH IS ALWAYS SIMPLE. THE COMPLEXITY IS IN YOU, AND IT IS BECAUSE OF YOUR COMPLEXITY THAT A SIMPLE TRUTH BECOMES VERY COMPLEX. YOU DONT WANT TO HEAR OR YOU WANT TO HEAR SOMETHING ELSE. YOU COME FOR CONSOLATIONS, NOT FOR REVOLUTIONS. YOU COME TO BE PATTED, YOU COME TO BE TOLD THAT YOU ARE PERFECTLY RIGHT. YOU COME TO BE ACCEPTED AND LOVED, NOT TO BE TRANSFORMED. YOU COME TO BE RESPECTED. YOU ALSO COME SO THAT YOU CAN FEEL THAT YOU ARE IMPORTANT, NEEDED. THE DEEPEST NEED OF THE MIND IS TO BE NEEDED. AND IF YOU START FEELING THAT A MASTER NEEDS YOU THAT YOU ARE INDISPENSABLE, THAT GIVES YOU A GREAT EGO, BUT YOU HAVE MISSED THE WHOLE POINT. YOU COME SO FULL OF IDEAS -- AND THOSE IDEAS GO ON MAKING SUCH NOISE IN YOU -- THAT WHEN BUDDHA IS SHOUTING FROM THE HOUSETOPS, EVEN THEN YOU LISTEN ONLY TO THAT WHICH YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO. BUDDHAS CAN ONLY POINT THE WAY, BUT YOU HAVE TO GO ON IT ON YOUR OWN. NOBODY ELSE CAN WALK FOR YOU AND NOBODY ELSE CAN SEE FOR YOU. YOU WILL HAVE TO SEE YOUR INNER BEING YOURSELF. THERE, AT YOUR INNERMOST CORE, YOU WILL HAVE TO GO ALONE, ABSOLUTELY ALONE. BUT YOU CAN LEARN MUCH IN THE PRESENCE OF A BUDDHA. YOU CAN IMBIBE HIS SPIRIT, YOU CAN START PULSATING WITH HIS ENERGY. YOU CAN BE SO UTTERLY SILENT IN HIS PRESENCE THAT HIS PRESENCE BECOMES A GREAT TRANSFORMATION FOR YOU. BUT ULTIMATELY YOU HAVE TO GO INWARDS ALONE; THERE, NOBODY CAN ACCOMPANY YOU. ONCE YOU HAVE BECOME AWAKE AT THE CENTER OF YOUR BEING, THEN A FEW THINGS BECOME IMPOSSIBLE. THE WORLD CAN NOT RECLAIM HIM…. THE WHOLE WORLD WITH ALL ITS ALLUREMENTS, SEDUCTIONS, IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOTENT IN IMPRESSING THE BUDDHA. HE REMAINS CENTERED, HE CANNOT BE DISTRACTED. AND THAT IS THE BUDDHAS WAY, THAT IS MY WAY TOO. I GIVE YOU KEYS TO CHANGE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS FROM SLEEP TO AWAKENING; THAT IS THE REAL THING TO BE DONE. THEN ALL THAT WAS PART OF SLEEP DISAPPEARS WITH SLEEP -- ANGER, GREED, POSSESSIVENESS, JEALOUSY; ALL THAT WAS PART OF SLEEP DISAPPEARS. YOU CANNOT CHANGE THOSE THINGS UNLESS YOUR SLEEP IS GONE. THE MOMENT YOU ARE AWAKE THE WHOLE EXISTENCE SUPPORTS YOU, THE WHOLE EXISTENCE BECOMES TREMENDOUSLY FRIENDLY. THE WHOLE EXISTENCE ITSELF, ALL THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE, VISIBLE, INVISIBLE, START BECOMING VERY FRIENDLY TOWARDS THE MAN WHO IS AWAKE, BECAUSE HE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS TREASURE. IN HIM NATURE HAS BECOME FULFILLED, IN HIM EXISTENCE HAS BLOSSOMED. HE IS THE GOAL OF ALL EXISTENCE: THE WHOLE EXISTENCE IS MOVING TOWARDS BUDDHAHOOD. AND WHENEVER ONE PERSON BECOMES A BUDDHA, A SHIVER OF JOY GOES ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE... RIPPLES OF JOY, GREAT REJOICING. THERE ARE ONLY TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: THE ALEXANDER THE GREAT TYPE AND THE BUDDHA TYPE. THERE ARE MILLIONS... IN FACT NINETY-NINE POINT NINE PERCENT OF PEOPLE BELONG TO THE ALEXANDER TYPE -- SMALL ALEXANDERS AND BIG ALEXANDERS, BUT ALEXANDERS ALL. EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO CONQUER THE WORLD IN HIS OWN WAY, BIG OR SMALL, THROUGH MONEY, POWER, PRESTIGE. AND EVERYBODY IS CARRYING A DEEP DESIRE, A GREAT LONGING TO SUCCEED ONE DAY IN BECOMING THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN THE WORLD, THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD. THIS IS THE ALEXANDER TYPE, THE EXTROVERT, THE WORLDLY; HE ACCUMULATES MONEY, POSSESSIONS, BUT HE LOSES HIS SOUL. AND THERE ARE VERY RARE, VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO BELONG TO THE BUDDHA TYPE, WHO ARE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN THE WORLD, WHOSE WHOLE INTEREST IS IN SELF-ACTUALIZATION, IN SELF-REALIZATION, IN BECOMING MORE AWARE OF THE REALITY THAT THEY ARE. THESE ARE NOT FIXED TYPES, THEY ARE LIQUID. ANYONE WHO BELONGS TO THE ALEXANDER CATEGORY CAN MOVE TO THE CATEGORY OF BEING A BUDDHA. AND ALL THE BUDDHAS, IN THEIR PAST, HAD BELONGED TO THE ALEXANDER CATEGORY, AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE ALEXANDERS NOW CAN BECOME BUDDHAS ONE DAY. IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOU; A CONSCIOUS, DELIBERATE CHOICE IS NEEDED: THAT YOU TURN YOUR ENERGIES FROM EXTROVERSION INTO INTROVERSION, THAT YOU BECOME MORE INTERESTED IN THE INNER REALITY, THAT YOU BECOME MORE INTERESTED IN YOUR SUBJECTIVITY RATHER THAN IN OBJECTS. YOU START MOVING, DIVING DEEPLY INTO YOUR INTERIORITY TO FIND THE CENTER OF YOUR BEING. AND THE MAGIC IS, THE MOMENT YOU FIND THE CENTER OF YOUR BEING YOU HAVE FOUND THE CENTER OF THE WHOLE EXISTENCE -- BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE CENTER; MY CENTER AND YOUR CENTER ARE NOT TWO CENTERS. ANYBODY WHO MOVES INWARDS COMES TO THE SAME CENTER. ON THE PERIPHERY WE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE; AT THE CENTER WE ARE ONE. WE ARE BORN, THAT IS TRUE, BUT WE ARE NOT YET ALIVE -- AND THAT IS FAR MORE TRUE. WE HAVE TO BE REBORN. JUST AS ONE DAY A CHILD COMES OUT OF THE MOTHERS WOMB; THAT IS A PHYSICAL BIRTH... THE MOTHERS WOMB IS A PHYSICAL PHENOMENON. THEN ONE DAY YOU HAVE TO COME OUT OF THE WOMB OF YOUR PSYCHOLOGY, OF YOUR MIND. UNLESS YOU COME OUT OF YOUR MIND AND BECOME A NO-MIND YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT, YOU WILL LIVE IN VAIN. YOU WILL NOT KNOW THE SWEETNESS THAT EXISTENCE IS FULL OF AND THE ECSTASY. THAT IS ALL YOURS JUST FOR THE ASKING, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO ONE THING -- YOU HAVE TO RISK. THE CHILD COMING OUT OF THE MOTHERS WOMB RISKS. HIS RISK IS GREAT, BECAUSE FOR NINE MONTHS HE HAS KNOWN A CERTAIN WAY OF LIFE, THE MOST RELAXED WAY HE WILL EVER KNOW: NO WORRIES, NO RESPONSIBILITIES. HE IS SIMPLY ENJOYING. IT IS A LONG LONG HOLIDAY, NINE MONTHS HOLIDAY, AND EVERYTHING IS PROVIDED FOR. HE HAS NOT EVEN TO BREATHE -- THE MOTHER BREATHES FOR HIM. FOOD IS SUPPLIED, EVERYTHING REACHES HIM. HE GOES ON GROWING, HE SIMPLY RESTS. NOW COMING OUT OF THIS WOMB THERE IS A RISK, A GREAT RISK: LOSING YOUR OLD STYLE OF LIFE, SO COMFORTABLE, SO SECURE, SO SILENT, SO IMMENSELY RELAXED. BUT EVERY CHILD TAKES THE RISK, COMES OUT OF THE WOMB, ENTERS INTO THE WORLD OF WORRIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, ANXIETIES, CHALLENGES. AND THEY ARE NEEDED FOR YOUR MATURITY, FOR YOUR GROWTH. ONE MORE TIME YOU WILL HAVE TO COME OUT OF THE WOMB. THAT WOMB IS YOUR MIND, AND IT IS FAR MORE DIFFICULT TO LEAVE IT. AND MANY DIE IN THAT WOMB, THEY NEVER COME OUT OF IT. THOSE WHO COME OUT OF IT ARE THE BUDDHAS. THE WAY TO COME OUT OF IT IS TO BECOME MORE AND MORE A WITNESS OF YOUR OWN MIND; THAT IS THE WAY OF COMING OUT OF YOUR MIND. YOUR WITNESSING CREATES DISTANCE, YOUR WITNESSING CREATES A SEPARATION FROM THE MIND. YOUR UMBILICAL CORD IS CUT. SLOWLY SLOWLY, YOUR IDENTITY WITH YOUR MIND IS DROPPED. YOU START LOOKING AT YOURSELF AS CONSCIOUSNESS; NOT AS MIND, NOT AS THOUGHT, BUT AS CONSCIOUSNESS. THAT IS THE GREAT BEGINNING, THE REAL LIFE, THE REAL HONEYMOON WITH LIFE, HONEYMOON WITH GOD. AND DONT BE WORRIED THAT OUT OF YOUR MIND YOU MAY BE UNPROTECTED, INSECURE. THE WHOLE EXISTENCE WILL CARE ABOUT YOU, YOU WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF. THE WHOLE EXISTENCE BECOMES A MOTHER TO YOU. MOVE INTO THE INSECURITY OF NO-MIND AND YOU WILL FIND THE REAL SECURITY: THE SECURITY OF INSECURITY. THATS THE DEFINITION OF SANNYAS: THE SECURITY OF INSECURITY. THIS IS A STRANGE WORLD! YOU MAY NOT SEE YOUR UNCONSCIOUSNESS, BUT EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT, JUST AS YOU KNOW ABOUT EVERYBODY ELSES. BECAUSE WE PAY MORE ATTENTION TO PEOPLE THAN WE DO TO OUR OWN MIND, WE ARE CAPABLE OF KNOWING THEIR FAULTS, THEIR REASONS FOR MISERY, THEIR CAUSES OF HELL. WE ARE VERY WISE AS FAR AS OTHERS ARE CONCERNED AND WE ARE VERY UNWISE AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED -- WITH OUR OWN INNER BEING. WE ARE FOCUSED ON OTHERS, AND THIS CREATES TWO THINGS: YOU CANT HELP OTHERS, YOU CAN ONLY CONDEMN THEM. AND YOUR CONDEMNATION IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE THEM; IN RETURN THEY WILL CONDEMN YOU. SO SOCIETY BECOMES A GAME OF CONDEMNING EACH OTHER. NOBODY SEES HIS OWN FAULTS; ON THE CONTRARY, EVERYBODY TRIES TO COVER THEM UP. NOT THAT HE DOES NOT WANT TO SEE THEM, HE DOES NOT WANT THEM TO BE SEEN BY OTHERS. BUT YOU CANT HELP IT: OTHERS ARE BOUND TO SEE, BECAUSE WHATSOEVER THERE IS IN YOUR UNCONSCIOUS GOES ON SURFACING. BUDDHA IS AWAKE MEANS HE HAS STARTED CHANGING HIS FOCUS, HIS ATTENTION, FROM OTHERS TO HIMSELF. HE IS TURNING INWARDS. HE IS SHOWERING HIS WHOLE CONSCIOUSNESS UPON HIS OWN BEING. IN THAT VERY SHOWERING HE IS BATHED, HE BECOMES NEW, HE IS REBORN – AND FINDS JOY IN THE STILLNESS OF MEDITATION. IF YOU MEDITATE ON SOMETHING, YOU ARE NOT MEDITATING AT ALL, BECAUSE YOU ARE AGAIN FOCUSED ON SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF. IT MAY BE LOVE, IT MAY BE TRUTH, IT MAY BE GOD, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. MEDITATION IN THE EAST HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT MEANING, JUST THE OPPOSITE OF THE WESTERN MEANING. MEDITATION IN THE EAST MEANS NO OBJECT IN THE MIND, NO CONTENT IN THE MIND; NOT MEDITATING UPON SOMETHING BUT DROPPING EVERYTHING; “NETI, NETI,” NEITHER THIS NOR THAT. MEDITATION IS EMPTYING YOURSELF OF ALL CONTENT. WHEN THERE IS NO THOUGHT MOVING INSIDE YOU THERE IS STILLNESS; THAT STILLNESS IS MEDITATION. NOT EVEN A RIPPLE ARISES IN THE LAKE OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS; THAT SILENT LAKE, ABSOLUTELY STILL, THAT IS MEDITATION. AND IN THAT MEDITATION YOU WILL KNOW -- YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TRUTH IS, YOU WILL KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, YOU WILL KNOW WHAT GOD IS. NOT BY MEDITATING ON GOD.... SEE THE POINT: HOW CAN YOU MEDITATE ON GOD? YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GOD. ALL YOUR MEDITATION IS GOING TO BE JUST IMAGINATION, AN EXERCISE OF IMAGINATION. YOU DONT KNOW TRUTH -- WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO MEDITATE UPON? SOME IDEA GIVEN BY OTHERS, SOME BELIEF, SOME CONCEPT! IT IS NOT GOING TO HELP. BUDDHAS WAY IS: FIRST BECOME MEDITATION, AND THEN IN MEDITATION, TRUTH, GOD, LOVE, AND ALL THAT IS TRANSCENDENTAL WILL BE REVEALED TO YOU. AND IN MEDITATION, SURRENDER HAPPENS -- SURRENDER TO THE WHOLE. NOT TO ANY IDEA, NOT TO ANY IDOL, BUT TO THE WHOLE. NOT SURRENDER TO KRISHNA OR CHRIST, BUT TO THE WHOLE OF EXISTENCE. NOTHING IS EXCLUDED, EVERYTHING IS INCLUDED IN IT, FROM THE ROCKS TO THE STARS, FROM A BLADE OF GRASS TO THE SUN. EVERYTHING IS INCLUDED: THIS WHOLE ORGANIC, ECSTATIC CELEBRATION WHICH WE CALL THE UNIVERSE. HENCE I SAY TO YOU: KEEP ONLY ONE GOAL: CONSTANTLY BE MINDFUL OF IT, REMEMBER IT -- THAT YOU HAVE TO BECOME A BUDDHA. LESS THAN THAT IS NOT GOING TO FULFILL YOU. DONT OFFEND ANYBODY, AVOID IT. DONT HURT ANYBODY. PEOPLE ENJOY HURTING, BECAUSE THE MORE YOU CAN HURT, THE MORE POWER YOU FEEL. BUT THE POWER IS OF THE EGO, AND THE EGO IS GOING TO BECOME, MORE AND MORE, A HEAVY LOAD FOR YOU. DONT HURT. DONT FEED THE EGO. BE AWAKE -- BECAUSE THAT IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL QUALITY. EVERYTHING ELSE FOLLOWS IT, EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECONDARY. DO WHAT IS RIGHT, THE RIGHT IS THAT WHICH IS DONE CONSCIOUSLY. BE PURE, PURITY ALWAYS MEANS INNOCENCE: A STATE OF NOT-KNOWING, A STATE OF FUNCTIONING LIKE A CHILD. BE A CHILD AGAIN. YOUR KNOWLEDGEABILITY IS A GREAT OBSTRUCTION IN THE WAY -- REMOVE IT. BE INNOCENT. EAT WITH MODERATION: DONT EAT TOO MUCH, AND DONT EAT TOO LITTLE -- MODERATION. JUST BE IN THE MIDDLE, ALWAYS IN THE MIDDLE. BE BALANCED, KEEP AN EQUILIBRIUM. LIVE IN YOUR HEART: AND SLIP DOWN FROM THE HEAD TO THE HEART, FROM THINKING TO FEELING, FROM LOGIC TO LOVE. BE PATIENT: DONT BE IN A HURRY. AT THE END, FREEDOM IS INEVITABLE; IT IS A BY-PRODUCT OF TOTAL AWARENESS. AT THE END OF THE WAY IS FREEDOM: AND IF YOU CAN FULFILL THESE SIMPLE THINGS -- AWARENESS, RIGHTNESS, INNOCENCE -- WHICH ARE JUST THREE FACES OF THE SAME PHENOMENON OF BEING CONSCIOUS, OF BEING MEDITATIVE, THEN AT THE END OF THE WAY IS FREEDOM. THEN YOU WILL ATTAIN TO ABSOLUTE FREEDOM, NIRVANA. NIRVANA MEANS ABSOLUTE FREEDOM: NOT FREEDOM FOR THE EGO, BUT FREEDOM FROM THE EGO; NOT FREEDOM FOR YOU, BUT FREEDOM FROM YOURSELF. FREEDOM IS EQUIVALENT TO GOD. WITH THESE SIMPLE REQUIREMENTS FULFILLED, ONE DAY YOU WILL BLOOM INTO A ONE-THOUSAND-PETALED LOTUS. YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE A BUDDHA; IF YOU DONT FULFILL IT YOU WILL LIVE IN MISERY, YOU WILL DIE IN MISERY, YOU WILL BE BORN AGAIN IN MISERY, AND THE WHEEL WILL CONTINUE. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY HERE FOR YOU TO JUMP OUT OF THE WHEEL. DONT MISS THE OPPORTUNITY. A BUDDHA NEVER THINKS OF THE FUTURE. HE NEVER REHEARSES FOR THE FUTURE, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT WHATSOEVER HAPPENS, I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE WITH MY TOTALITY. MORE THAN THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE. SO HE SIMPLY ACTS SPONTANEOUSLY, WITH NO MEMORY, WITH NO FUTURE PROJECTION. HIS ACT IS TOTAL AND OF THE PRESENT -- AND THE ACT WHICH IS TOTAL AND OF THE PRESENT BRINGS FREEDOM. A BUDDHA CANNOT FALL FROM THAT STATE, BECAUSE IT IS NOT SOMETHING LIKE AN ACHIEVEMENT; IT IS YOUR NATURAL, SPONTANEOUS BEING. ONCE KNOWN IT IS FOREVER YOURS. EVEN IF YOU WANT TO ESCAPE FROM IT YOU CANNOT. BY BECOMING FULLY AWARE YOU ARE FREED FROM ALL WAYS, ALL METHODS, ALL TECHNIQUES. ALL TECHNIQUES AND METHODS ARE JUST TO BRING YOU TO THE WAY -- THE WAY THAT LEADS INWARDS. BUT ONCE YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR INNERMOST CORE, NO METHOD, NO TECHNIQUE, NO WAY, IS NEEDED. YOU HAVE GONE BEYOND, YOU HAVE TRANSCENDED ALL. NOW YOU CANNOT GO ASTRAY. HOW CAN YOU GO ASTRAY IF THERE IS NO WAY? NOW YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING WRONG. IF THERE IS NO METHOD, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO ANYTHING WRONG? AND THE VERY FUNDAMENTAL -- THE FIRST BASIC REQUIREMENT, TO ENTER INTO THE WORLD OF RELIGION: TO ACCEPT ONESELF AS ANONYMOUS, AS IF YOU HAVE NO NAME, NO FORM, NO IDENTITY. THEN THE MIND CANNOT DECEIVE YOU. THEN THE MIND CANNOT SEDUCE YOU INTO SOME IDEA, INTO SOME IMAGINATION. MY MESSAGE WAS SIMPLE AS LONG AS I WAS ALIVE, BUT SINCE I LEFT MY BODY MY JUDASES, PRIEST JAYESH AND HIS TEAM AT MY PUNE COMMUNE, HAVE SHUT DOWN THE DOORS OF MY COMMUNE FOR MY OWN DEVOTEES, THEY HAVE BEEN DISTORTING MY MESSAGE. PRIEST JAYESH TEAM HAVE SHAMELESSLY DECLARED THEMSELVES TO BE MY SPECIALLY CHOSEN REPRESENTATIVES…THEY EVEN DO NOT FULFIL EVEN THE FIRST BASIC REQUIREMENT TO ENTER INTO WORLD OF RELIGION..THEY DO NOT ACCEPT THEMSELVES AS ANONYMOUS… PRIEST JAYESH TEAM SHAMELESSLY SAY THAT I HAVE LEFT BEHIND A DETAILED FUTURE ROAD MAP CALLED OSHO GUIDANCE WITH THEM… A BUDDHA NEVER THINKS OF THE FUTURE. HE NEVER REHEARSES FOR THE FUTURE, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT WHATSOEVER HAPPENS, I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE WITH MY TOTALITY. MORE THAN THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE. SO HE SIMPLY ACTS SPONTANEOUSLY, WITH NO MEMORY, WITH NO FUTURE PROJECTION. HIS ACT IS TOTAL AND OF THE PRESENT -- AND THE ACT WHICH IS TOTAL AND OF THE PRESENT BRINGS FREEDOM. PRIEST JAYESH TEAM SAYS THAT ALIVE BUDDHAS ARE OUTDATED CONCEPT, NOT NEEDED ANY MORE….THE REAL FACT IS THAT THEY CAME TO ME BUT THEY CONTINUED TO CARRY THEIR STUPID MINDS…THEY COULD SEE ONLY THE THINGS…BUILDINGS, ROLLS ROYCES, THE MONEY OF MY COMMUNE…THEY COULD NOT SEE THE REAL ME, THE IMMATERIAL, THE MYSTERIOUS, MY BUDDHAHOOD….HENCE THEY COULD NOT SURRENDER TO ME….THEY REMAINED UNENLIGHTENED DESPITE LIVING PHYSICALLY NEAR ME……WHILE THE INNOCENT ONES THE COURAGEOUS ONES DID PUT THEIR MIND ASIDE WALKED ON MY MESSAGE AND GOT ENLIGHTENED……NOW MY OWN JUDASES ARE AGAINST MY LIVING BUDDHAS. THESE JUDASES NOW HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO GET TRANSFORMED BY SURRENDERING IN FRONT OF MY ALIVE BUDDHAS.. MY ALIVE BUDDHAS ARE RARE TO FIND BUDDHAS….THESE JUDASES ARE NOT ONLY DETERMINED TO MISS THEMSELVES THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY….THEY ARE HARMING THE NEWCOMERS TOO…. THESE JUDASES ARE CREATING THOUSAND AND ONE RATIONALIZATIONS AND DENY MY ALIVE BUDDHAS. THEIR EGO IS AT STAKE. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING THEY REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING THEY CREATE BARRIERS -- AS MANY AS THEY CAN. THEY ARE DISTORTING EVERYTHING, BRING IN ALL THEIR PREJUDICES. THEY DONT SEE – THEY CLOSE THEIR EYES. THEY DONT LISTEN, THEY BECOME DEAF. THESE JUDASES ARE QUOTING MY WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT, TERMING IT AS OSHO GUIDANCE….RELIGION HAS BEEN HAPPENING AROUND ALIVE BUDDHAS FOR ETERNITY AND GO ON HAPPENING FOR ETERNITY….THESE JUDASES SAYS YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF…YOU DO NOT NEED ALIVE BUDDHAS…..YOU NEED THEIR CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS AND INSTRUCTIONS…..THAT IS REPLACEMENT OF ALIVE BUDDHAS……THEY REALLY MEAN THAT YOU DO NOT NEED ALIVE BUDDHAS…YOU REALLY NEED JUDASES…YOU NEED INSTRUCTORS TRAINED BY JUDASES…..YOU NEED INSTRUCTIONS OF JUDASES IN MY NAME…. THESE JUDASES TRY TO EXPLOIT THE COMPLEXITY OF YOUR MIND AND YOUR EGO…THEY TALK NOT FROM THE HEIGHTS OF ALIVE BUDDHAS…..THEY KNOW YOUR WEAKNESS… YOU COME FOR CONSOLATIONS, NOT FOR REVOLUTIONS. YOU COME TO BE PATTED, YOU COME TO BE TOLD THAT YOU ARE PERFECTLY RIGHT. YOU COME TO BE ACCEPTED AND LOVED, NOT TO BE TRANSFORMED. YOU COME TO BE RESPECTED. YOU ALSO COME SO THAT YOU CAN FEEL THAT YOU ARE IMPORTANT, NEEDED. HENCE AT MY PUNE COMMUNE..THEY PLACE SO MUCH IMPORTANCE ON BEING JORBA..THEY WANT YOU TO ENJOY MY FIVE START COMMUNE..BOOZE…DISCOTHEQUE DJ’S..INDULGE IN LICENTIOUSNESS…PAY THEM THEIR MONEY….AND GO BACK….LET THEM HAVE THE PROFIT..AND LET YOU HAVE A FALSE SENSE OF EGO OF BEING A NEWAGE SELF RELIANT MEDITATOR… MY VISION WAS JORBA THE BUDDHA…WHEN I WAS ALIVE…AN ALIVE BUDDHA(ME) WAS THE FOUNDATION AT THE VERY CENTRE …SINCE I HAVE LEFT BODY…THERE IS NO MORE ALIVE BUDDHA ALLOWED INTO MY PUNE COMMUNE….NOW IT HAS BECOME…JORBA THE JUDAS…..JUDAS AND HIS INSTRUCTORS AND HIS INSTRUCTIONS HAVE NOW REPLACED THE ALIVE BUDDHA FROM THE CENTRAL FOUNDATION. I HAVE ALWAYS STOOD FOR ALIVE BUDDHAS…. YOU CAN LEARN MUCH IN THE PRESENCE OF A BUDDHA. YOU CAN IMBIBE HIS SPIRIT, YOU CAN START PULSATING WITH HIS ENERGY. YOU CAN BE SO UTTERLY SILENT IN HIS PRESENCE THAT HIS PRESENCE BECOMES A GREAT TRANSFORMATION FOR YOU. UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS NOTHING COMPARABLE IN MY JUDASES AND THEIR INSTRUCTORS / INSTRUCTIONS. KEEP MUM…EITHER OBEY THEM OR GET BANNED.. THE WHOLE WORLD WITH ALL ITS ALLUREMENTS, SEDUCTIONS, IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOTENT IN IMPRESSING THE BUDDHA. HE REMAINS CENTERED, HE CANNOT BE DISTRACTED. NOT SO WITH MY JUDASES (PRIEST JAYESH AND HIS TEAM), THE WHOLE WORLD WITH ALL ITS ALLUREMENTS, SEDUCTIONS, IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS THEM, THEY RESORT TO ALL KIND OF FRAUDS AND FORGERY….THEY DO NOT HESITATE FROM DISTORTING MY MESSAGE…QUOTING ME OUT OF CONTEXT…..BANNING MY ALIVE BUDDHAS FOR THEY ARE SIMPLY OBSTRUCTIONS FOR THEM.. WHEN YOU COME TO MY PUNE COMMUNE….ENJOY THE NATURE WHICH HAS ABSORBED THE PRESENCE OF SO MANY ALIVE BUDDHAS WHO WERE THERE WITH ME WHILE I WAS ALIVE…YOU CAN STILL FEEL ME IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE ENOUGH…THAT PRESENCE IS STILL LINGERING…BUT DO NOT LISTEN TO MY JUDASES…PRIEST JAYESH AND TEAM…..DO NOT GET LOST IN THEIR PROGRAMS, THEIR CRAFTY OSHO GUIDANCE, THEIR INTELLECTUAL ZEN, THEIR JORBA DRAMA, THEIR DISCOTHEQUE CELEBRATION… KEEP LISTENING TO YOUR HEART…..AND REMEMBER…THERE IS ALWAYS AN ALIVE BUDDHA SOMEWHERE IN THIS WORLD….WHO IS READY TO BE A BOAT….WHO IS NOT ALLOWED HERE IN MY PUNE COMMUNE…SEARCH FOR THEM, IF YOU HAVE THE THIRST… BE A BUDDHA! [PLEASE NOTE, JAYESH IS A CANADIAN DISCIPLE OF OSHO. HIS LEGAL NAME IS MICHAEL O BYRNE. HE WAS IN RESORT BUSINESS BEFORE COMING TO OSHO. SINCE OSHO HAS LEFT HIS BODY, HE HAS TURNED PUNE COMMUNE INTO HIS PRIVATE RESORT BUSINESS. HE HAS BANNED OSHO PHOTOS, OSHO LOVE SONGS, OSHO FULL LENGTH DISCOURSES, OSHO MALA, OSHO SANNYAS, OSHO AWAKENED DISCIPLES. HE KEEPS HARASSING OSHO DISCIPLES SPREADING OSHO WORK. HE HAS BANNED MANY WAYS TO ULTIMATE TRUTH NURTURED BY OSHO. HE HAS MANY POLICE AND COURT CASES PENDING AGAINST HIM IN INDIA FOR FRAUD AND FORGERY oshowork.org/court_case.html ] ********************************** OSHO shares his understanding: (Osho always insisted that his quotations should always be accompanied by his complete context..Hence whatever has been quoted in the above article is taken from following discourse of osho which follows in toto here) The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 6 Chapter #1 Chapter title: The security of insecurity 21 October 1979 am in Buddha Hall HE IS AWAKE. THE VICTORY IS HIS. HE HAS CONQUERED THE WORLD. HOW CAN HE LOSE THE WAY WHO IS BEYOND THE WAY? HIS EYE IS OPEN. HIS FOOT IS FREE. WHO CAN FOLLOW AFTER HIM? THE WORLD CANNOT RECLAIM HIM OR LEAD HIM ASTRAY, NOR CAN THE POISONED NET OF DESIRE HOLD HIM. HE IS AWAKE! THE GODS WATCH OVER HIM. HE IS AWAKE AND FINDS JOY IN THE STILLNESS OF MEDITATION AND IN THE SWEETNESS OF SURRENDER. HARD IT IS TO BE BORN, HARD IT IS TO LIVE, HARDER STILL TO HEAR OF THE WAY, AND HARD TO RISE, FOLLOW, AND AWAKE. YET THE TEACHING IS SIMPLE. DO WHAT IS RIGHT. BE PURE. AT THE END OF THE WAY IS FREEDOM. TILL THEN, PATIENCE. IF YOU WOUND OR GRIEVE ANOTHER, YOU HAVE NOT LEARNED DETACHMENT. OFFEND IN NEITHER WORD NOR DEED. EAT WITH MODERATION. LIVE IN YOUR HEART. SEEK THE HIGHEST CONSCIOUSNESS. Gautama the Buddha is talking today about the very essence of buddhahood: the height of buddhahood and the depth of it, the glory and the grace, the tremendous freedom that it brings, the light that it showers, the love, the joy, the bliss, the awakening. These sutras are rare -- rarest amongst the most rare sutras, because Buddha is opening his own heart to you. He is inviting you to become a guest into his innermost core. He is revealing, in simple words, the fragrance that has happened to him and that is possible for you too -- because each man is born to be a buddha. Unless one becomes a buddha one has not lived and one has not known what life is. One has dreamed of course -- dreams of a thousand and one things -- but one has been asleep. And whether you dream beautiful dreams or ugly dreams it does not matter. In the morning of buddhahood, all those dreams, both good and bad, sweet and bitter, golden dreams and nightmares, will be known as false, illusory. It was a self-deception, and the capacity to deceive oneself is enormous. Beware of it! One can even dream that one is awake, one can even dream that one has become a buddha. That is the ultimate trick the mind can play upon you. It happened in Baghdad: A man was brought to the caliph, because the man had declared that he was the new messenger of God. The caliph was irritated, annoyed, and he said, You must be mad, because Mohammed is the last messenger of God and there is not going to be anybody else. The message has arrived in the Koran. Yes, before Mohammed there had been other messages, but all those messages were fragmentary because man was not ready and ripe. Mohammed has brought the full message; now there is not going to be any other messenger in the world. You bring yourself to your senses; otherwise you will have to suffer for it! The man was thrown into the prison for seven days, tortured, beaten, starved. After seven days the caliph arrived. The man was bound to a pillar, bruised, wounded. The caliph said, Now you must have come to your senses. What do you say now? The man laughed and he said, All the torture and all the suffering that have been imposed upon me simply prove that I am really the messenger, because when God was sending me to the world he warned me that My messengers have always beentortured. And I was doubting, Why are people not torturing me if I am the real messenger? You have proved it! God was right, there was no need to doubt. The caliph was at a loss -- what to say to this madman? But suddenly another man who was also bound to another pillar started laughing hysterically. The caliph asked him, Why are you laughing? The man said, This guy is a cheat -- because I am God myself, and I have never sent this man to the world as my messenger! That man had been imprisoned one month before, declaring himself God. Mohammedans are very fanatic; they cant allow -- sometimes even when it is the truth. When al-Hillaj Mansoor declared, ANAL HAQ! -- I am God himself! it was a truth, he was not dreaming. But he was crucified. When Sarmad, another Sufi mystic, declared, I am God! his head was cut off. And these people were not dreaming. But it is very difficult from the outside to decide who is dreaming, who has gone mad, who is imagining, and who is declaring the truth. Because sometimes the dreamer believes in his dream, believes absolutely, so belief cannot prove anything. It may be just an ego trip. The last deception that the mind can play on you is to say to you, Why are you unnecessarily bothering? You are a buddha! And I want you to be aware of it, because this is going to happen to many people. People can believe anything. Just the other day a man wrote a letter to me saying, I want to become a sannyasin, but I am a little afraid because I know that I am a Judas and I will prove to be a Judas to you. People can believe they are Christ, they can believe they are Judas. And he must be believing it really deeply. I have sent him a message that You can become a sannyasin. I already have many other Judases, so what difference does it make? One more is welcome! Jesus had only one Judas: I have many, and it is better to have many -- one can prove more dangerous. If you have many Judases, first they will have to compete with each other. Their energies will be wasted amongst themselves. They will fight with each other; they will betray each other first. And Judas could betray Jesus because Jesus had only twelve disciples; I have one hundred thousand disciples. I cannot take too much care as to who is a Judas and who is not; and I need not, because whatsoever happens is Gods will. If a Judas is needed then he will have to come, that is the way God wants it to be. But your mind can play tricks with you. You cant just be a nobody -- if you cannot be Christ, at least you can be Judas. You cant accept the fact of anonymity. And that is the very fundamental -- the first basic requirement, to enter into the world of religion: to accept oneself as anonymous, as if you have no name, no form, no identity. Then the mind cannot deceive you. Then the mind cannot seduce you into some idea, into some imagination. Buddha is talking about what happens when a person becomes awakened. Ordinarily man is asleep, all men are asleep. Irrespective of their religion, nation, race, on one thing they all agree: they are all fast asleep -- dreaming different dreams, but the sleep is the same. The difference of dreams makes no difference to the quality of the sleep. One is dreaming Christian dreams, another is dreaming Jewish dreams, another is dreaming Hindu dreams, and so on and so forth, but dreams cant change your consciousness. In fact they are hindrances. The sleep has to be broken, the sleep has to be shattered; otherwise you dont know who you are, you dont know what you are doing. You dont know where you are coming from, you dont know where you are going. You dont know what you are saying and what you are doing, to yourself and to others. You are accidental. You are like driftwood at the mercy of the blind winds -- there is no destiny. The winds throw you on this shore or on that shore, but you are not the master of your own being. You are a slave, a slave of blind forces. The first thing to be done is to come out of your sleep. Buddha says... the first sutra: HE IS AWAKE. He is defining buddhahood, or you can call it christhood; it is the same. Buddha and Christ are synonymous. HE IS AWAKE. That is the most essential quality: he is no longer asleep, he is no longer dreaming. He has no thoughts, no memories, no imagination. He is utterly silent and alert. His silence is not a dead, cold silence; his silence is wakeful, warm, alive. HE IS AWAKE: you are not -- you are so full of junk. Unless you become empty of the junk you will not be awake. And you go on doing the same things again and again, you go on repeating. You move in circles, never seeing the fact that you are functioning like a robot, like a machine. The legend goes that in the days of ancient Rome an officer called away to the wars locked his beautiful young wife in a chastity belt and gave the key to his best friend with the admonition, If I dont return in a year, use this key. To you, my dear friend, I entrust it. He then galloped off to the wars. Ten miles away from home he heard the clatter of hoofbeats behind him and he waited. His friend on horseback galloped up saying, You gave me the wrong key! Man is so deeply unconscious! To be continued in comments of following link https://facebook/groups/I.LOVE.OSHO.RICHNESS.BUT.I.REBEL.AGAINST.JAYESH/permalink/678625378890431/
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