OSHO TALKS
silence shared in words
OSHO INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
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Like Flowers of a Garland
OSHO,
You are famous for your contradictions.
But it seems that one of the most powerful confirmations that you are who you are –
for the world in general and posterity –
is that, in all those millions and millions of words, spoken
spontaneously over several decades,
you really never ever contradicted yourself at all.
That's true!
I have never contradicted myself.
I cannot do it.
In the first place I don't remember anything that I have said before –
how to contradict it?
Secondly,
it is not my thinking,
it is my experience.
Contradictions happen in thinking,
but not in experience.
I have said
things which may appear to people contradictory,
but they are really evolutionary.
My experience
I have expressed in different ways;
that may create the idea that I am contradictory.
I was expressing it in different ways so if you have missed
one way,
perhaps the other way
you may get it.
I have tried to describe it
from
all aspects possible,
just to help people, because
sometimes it happens
that one aspect
does not reach you
but the other aspect is more
in tune with you.
I have used all possible, multi-dimensional
expressions,
but
there is no way
for me to contradict.
It is my experience. I am not taking about others' experience.
Even if I am talking about others,
it is always according to my experience.
They may agree with it, they may not agree with it –
but I cannot go against my experience.
During the years,
talking to you,
I have been sharpening
my arrows,
my words,
so that they can penetrate directly to your heart.
But contradiction is not there at all.
And you are right:
the day
all of my words will be understood,
it will be found
an undercurrent
running through all of them
and joining them.
They are like flowers of a garland –
a thin thread,
invisible,
is running
through all the flowers –
and that is my consistency,
that is my experience.
It is true,
I don't think anybody else has spoken so much.
Much of it is lost
because it was not recorded;
almost
half of it is lost,
but whatever remains
is still more
than anyone else
who has ever
tried
to convey.
The reason
is simple: I enjoy it,
I love it.
When I see a word
settling in your heart,
my joy knows no bounds.
When I see
a glimpse in your eyes
that you have caught the meaning,
I am immensely happy.
And I had to speak so much
because nobody before me has addressed
the whole world.
They were addressing
small fragments of humanity.
Jesus remained
confined to Judea,
Buddha remained confined to Bihar,
Socrates remained confined
to Athens.
Fortunately they don't let me remain in one place,
I have to be all over the world.
And I have to speak
again and again
through different angles
about the same experience,
because in that also my life has been unique:
people have been coming to me and
leaving me –
new people coming, old people going.
It has been beautiful. It has not been like a
dead pond
where the water only evaporates,
and soon there is left nothing but
muddy mess.
It is almost as if I have been speaking by the side of a river,
which is running so fast
that each time I look at it
there are new faces
to whom I have to speak again.
In thirty years so many people have changed.
It was not true
about Socrates
or Buddha
or Lao Tzu,
they worked with a group
their whole life.
I have been working
with so many new people,
and I have always to find out a new mode,
a new phase,
new expressions,
new bottles for the old wine...
but the wine is old,
and it is the same wine
I have been offering to all.
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and that is my consistency,