Silence shared in words
Presents
OSHO: A Contemporary Mystic and the Media
We have all the media,
and I'm going to use it fully.
Whenever I do anything, I do it fully.
I squeeze the last drop out of everything,
there is no problem in it. And if
politicians can use the media,
if businesses can use the media
if all kinds of lying advertisements
are on the media
then why should truth remain behind?
It has to come into the marketplace.
Its presence only
will be enough
for many lies to die.
If you write a book, somebody has to purchase it, first;
secondly, he has to read it.
The book has become
out of date.
If the person can see it on the television,
without purchasing a book and without reading it...
and remember always,
seeing
reaches deeper in you
than reading.
Reading is only words;
seeing has a totally different effect,
it is almost life
as if you are hearing me.
My gestures
will be missed in the book.
My silent pauses
will not be there in the book,
nor my eyes,
which say so much
you may put the same sentence in the book,
but it has lost almost eighty percent of its meaning,
because that eighty percent was not in the sentence, but in things
around it:
the eyes, the hands, the personality, the man, the face;
his emphasis,
his way of saying a thing,
his
voice,
his authority,
which penetrates the heart.
The coming days are the days of television.
And television makes me available to the whole world.
Buddha had to travel for forty-two years continuously,
and then too he could not go out of his state, Bihar.
Not even all over India;
in forty-two years he could manage to cover only one state.
India consists
now
of thirty states,
and at that time, it was double what it is now.
Sixty states -- and he covered only one state.
I can manage sitting in my chair
to cover the whole world.
So remember: whatever I am saying is not just for you.
I am talking also for the future generations.
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