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This is a crazy world. From your innocence, if it is childlike innocence, there are two paths. Either you will end up in this big madhouse called the world, or, if you move in a different direction, and this path is open to you, you may eventually become wise.
It is simply necessary to remember what the difference is between these two paths. The path that leads to the madhouse, the big madhouse called the world, is crowded. Avoid the crowd. You can be sure that the place where everyone is going is a trap. Common logic says: “This is the right way, because everyone is going that way, how can it be wrong?”
But I tell you: find a path that no one walks. And you have every chance of eventually becoming wise. Even your first step is already the right step towards ultimate realization. The crowd is followed by cowards. And I have never heard of a coward becoming enlightened. They can become Christian sheep, but they cannot become lions. And I want my people to be lions. Choose the path that leads you to greater and greater solitude. Choose an unconventional path, an unorthodox path. Choose a path that will be revolutionary at its core. Every step is a rebellion against all the past and the old. This rotten nonsense drives the whole world crazy.
And on this path, you are no longer a Christian. You cannot be, because being a Christian means being part of the crowd. You are no longer a Hindu, because you are no longer part of the crowd, you are a loner. Only individuals can become awakened. Crowds never achieve enlightenment. Only individuals, only people who have enough spirit and courage to be alone, can stop the movement of the mind and become rooted in their inner innocence.
The deeper you go into yourself, the purer the sources of consciousness you find. When you reach the very center of your being, you reach the center of the universe. Then wisdom blossoms. This is a rebirth, a resurrection. You die as the world wanted you to be, and you find exactly what existence wants from you. Existence gives you everything you ask for, everything you desire.
The so-called crazy world will only promise, but the promises will remain just words. People die in this world after a long life of despair and torment. If you want to die ecstatically, you will have to choose the path of solitude. This is also the path of meditation, because your absolute solitude is always within. Outside, you will always encounter the crowd – on any road. Maybe you have chosen a path that seems quiet, on which there is no movement, but you do not know what lies ahead. Everywhere you will find one or another crowd. Sometimes this crowd is larger – Catholics, for example – sometimes smaller, but you will encounter it. There is only one path that leads inward and on which you will not meet a single living soul. Here you will find only silence and peace. Then you will find yourself, and after that, even you will no longer be there.
Loneliness becomes so rich and dense that you cannot be there, you cannot have an “I,” an ego, a sense of separation from existence. Your “I” is nothing more than a feeling of separation. And when you discover that you are one with existence, no knowledge is needed. In your innocence, you will know everything significant, everything beautiful, everything true. But it will not be a repetition of any scriptures, it will not be borrowed. It will belong only to you, it will bear your signature.
And this is one of the greatest blessings in life – to have an experience that belongs entirely to you, that is not a copy. Only what is completely new, original, what arises from the very source of your being, can give you satisfaction, a sense of fulfillment, happiness, and a deep understanding of all the mysteries of life and being.
Innocence is a good start, but remember that there are two kinds of innocence: one belongs to a child, the other to a meditator. The meditator also becomes a child, but at such a different level, at such a great height – as if a child is in a valley, and an enlightened person who has returned to childhood is on a sunlit peak. The distance is enormous. But there is some similarity, a thread leading from the child to the heart of the wise. The child cannot understand the wise, but the wise can understand the child. Always remember this as a fundamental rule: what is below cannot understand what is above, but what is above can always understand what is below.
And in your life, if something can be compared to that peak, it is your childhood. Try to enter it again. Do not hide it behind knowledge, so that you can forget it. Cast aside all the accumulated information in order to rediscover your innocence. As you get rid of your knowledge, you will get rid of the mind itself, because your mind is just a collective name for your knowledge. It is not something indivisible – just as we call the plants around us a “garden,” but the garden is just a collective name. If you go looking for a garden, you will not find it, you will always see individual trees, rose bushes, seasonal flowers, but you will not find the garden itself.
Remember, we are often misled by collective names. We begin to think that they are real, but this is not so. Society does not exist. Organized religion does not exist, there is only an appearance. There is no Christianity, no Islam, no Buddhism, they are all just an illusion. What exists is individual.
The mind does not exist, it is just a collective name for all your knowledge. Take them out gradually, and when you have extracted everything you know, you will not find any mind there, not even a container in which all this information was placed. There is no repository. Completely innocent, centered in themselves, understanding that life is a mystery, and that there is nothing that can be known, that knowledge is impossible in its nature, we are surrounded by the wonderful. And it is wonderful that we are surrounded by the wonderful, because it turns life into an endless delight, ecstasy.
You will never get tired of discovering new spaces within yourself. You will never get bored, because there is always something new as you go deeper. And the deeper you go into yourself, the closer you are to existence itself, because deep inside you are rooted in it. If a tree grows towards its roots, it will find the earth, it will find the ocean. It is rooted in the earth, drawing water from the ocean.
If we strive to the center… You will be surprised to learn that our center also puts down roots in existence, although they are invisible roots. Our consciousness is like air. It is invisible, but you can feel it. You feel when the air is cool, when it is hot. You can feel your consciousness in different ways: when it is pure, it is cool, when it is polluted, it is hot. Polluted by anger, polluted by greed, polluted by desires, polluted by goals – it burns, it is not relaxed, and then there is no peace inside. But when all these desires leave you, an extraordinary coolness appears, and it continues to grow.
As you approach yourself, you approach the universe. And the greatest moment in your life is the moment of accepting the mystery of existence as it is, without any questions. You have understood one thing: being is mysterious and will remain mysterious. No knowledge is needed. This means that you have become comfortable with the fact that the universe is mysterious, and you have become comfortable with the fact that you yourself are innocent.
This is a second birth. In India, we called this state dvija. And this is the essence of our search here.
Osho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYzLNgnraKc
It is simply necessary to remember what the difference is between these two paths. The path that leads to the madhouse, the big madhouse called the world, is crowded. Avoid the crowd. You can be sure that the place where everyone is going is a trap. Common logic says: “This is the right way, because everyone is going that way, how can it be wrong?”
But I tell you: find a path that no one walks. And you have every chance of eventually becoming wise. Even your first step is already the right step towards ultimate realization. The crowd is followed by cowards. And I have never heard of a coward becoming enlightened. They can become Christian sheep, but they cannot become lions. And I want my people to be lions. Choose the path that leads you to greater and greater solitude. Choose an unconventional path, an unorthodox path. Choose a path that will be revolutionary at its core. Every step is a rebellion against all the past and the old. This rotten nonsense drives the whole world crazy.
And on this path, you are no longer a Christian. You cannot be, because being a Christian means being part of the crowd. You are no longer a Hindu, because you are no longer part of the crowd, you are a loner. Only individuals can become awakened. Crowds never achieve enlightenment. Only individuals, only people who have enough spirit and courage to be alone, can stop the movement of the mind and become rooted in their inner innocence.
The deeper you go into yourself, the purer the sources of consciousness you find. When you reach the very center of your being, you reach the center of the universe. Then wisdom blossoms. This is a rebirth, a resurrection. You die as the world wanted you to be, and you find exactly what existence wants from you. Existence gives you everything you ask for, everything you desire.
The so-called crazy world will only promise, but the promises will remain just words. People die in this world after a long life of despair and torment. If you want to die ecstatically, you will have to choose the path of solitude. This is also the path of meditation, because your absolute solitude is always within. Outside, you will always encounter the crowd – on any road. Maybe you have chosen a path that seems quiet, on which there is no movement, but you do not know what lies ahead. Everywhere you will find one or another crowd. Sometimes this crowd is larger – Catholics, for example – sometimes smaller, but you will encounter it. There is only one path that leads inward and on which you will not meet a single living soul. Here you will find only silence and peace. Then you will find yourself, and after that, even you will no longer be there.
Loneliness becomes so rich and dense that you cannot be there, you cannot have an “I,” an ego, a sense of separation from existence. Your “I” is nothing more than a feeling of separation. And when you discover that you are one with existence, no knowledge is needed. In your innocence, you will know everything significant, everything beautiful, everything true. But it will not be a repetition of any scriptures, it will not be borrowed. It will belong only to you, it will bear your signature.
And this is one of the greatest blessings in life – to have an experience that belongs entirely to you, that is not a copy. Only what is completely new, original, what arises from the very source of your being, can give you satisfaction, a sense of fulfillment, happiness, and a deep understanding of all the mysteries of life and being.
Innocence is a good start, but remember that there are two kinds of innocence: one belongs to a child, the other to a meditator. The meditator also becomes a child, but at such a different level, at such a great height – as if a child is in a valley, and an enlightened person who has returned to childhood is on a sunlit peak. The distance is enormous. But there is some similarity, a thread leading from the child to the heart of the wise. The child cannot understand the wise, but the wise can understand the child. Always remember this as a fundamental rule: what is below cannot understand what is above, but what is above can always understand what is below.
And in your life, if something can be compared to that peak, it is your childhood. Try to enter it again. Do not hide it behind knowledge, so that you can forget it. Cast aside all the accumulated information in order to rediscover your innocence. As you get rid of your knowledge, you will get rid of the mind itself, because your mind is just a collective name for your knowledge. It is not something indivisible – just as we call the plants around us a “garden,” but the garden is just a collective name. If you go looking for a garden, you will not find it, you will always see individual trees, rose bushes, seasonal flowers, but you will not find the garden itself.
Remember, we are often misled by collective names. We begin to think that they are real, but this is not so. Society does not exist. Organized religion does not exist, there is only an appearance. There is no Christianity, no Islam, no Buddhism, they are all just an illusion. What exists is individual.
The mind does not exist, it is just a collective name for all your knowledge. Take them out gradually, and when you have extracted everything you know, you will not find any mind there, not even a container in which all this information was placed. There is no repository. Completely innocent, centered in themselves, understanding that life is a mystery, and that there is nothing that can be known, that knowledge is impossible in its nature, we are surrounded by the wonderful. And it is wonderful that we are surrounded by the wonderful, because it turns life into an endless delight, ecstasy.
You will never get tired of discovering new spaces within yourself. You will never get bored, because there is always something new as you go deeper. And the deeper you go into yourself, the closer you are to existence itself, because deep inside you are rooted in it. If a tree grows towards its roots, it will find the earth, it will find the ocean. It is rooted in the earth, drawing water from the ocean.
If we strive to the center… You will be surprised to learn that our center also puts down roots in existence, although they are invisible roots. Our consciousness is like air. It is invisible, but you can feel it. You feel when the air is cool, when it is hot. You can feel your consciousness in different ways: when it is pure, it is cool, when it is polluted, it is hot. Polluted by anger, polluted by greed, polluted by desires, polluted by goals – it burns, it is not relaxed, and then there is no peace inside. But when all these desires leave you, an extraordinary coolness appears, and it continues to grow.
As you approach yourself, you approach the universe. And the greatest moment in your life is the moment of accepting the mystery of existence as it is, without any questions. You have understood one thing: being is mysterious and will remain mysterious. No knowledge is needed. This means that you have become comfortable with the fact that the universe is mysterious, and you have become comfortable with the fact that you yourself are innocent.
This is a second birth. In India, we called this state dvija. And this is the essence of our search here.
Osho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYzLNgnraKc