OSHO International Foundation presents
You Have Thousands of Opportunities Every Day to Have Wonderful Experiences
If right now you don't go to another moment,
but do away with your knowledge right where you are,
then you will join hands and walk along together
with the patriarchs,
with the buddhas, with the awakened ones.
It is the most immediate
approach to existence.
You don't have to pray to God,
you don't have to believe in a messiah,
you don't have to have faith
in a holy book,
you don't have to go through tortuous disciplines.
You have just to be
this very moment
alert, awake.
Then, whatever is happening around you,
you listen to it,
but you don't make it a knowledge. You don't say,
"The birds are singing" --
you listen to the song.
You relish the song,
you absorb it into your being,
but you don't reduce it into words.
If this becomes your way of life,
your very style of existence,
then any moment -- whenever you will be absolutely attuned,
your totality present here and now --
the explosion is going to happen.
Look at the beautiful trees, but don't say
they are beautiful. Is not looking enough?
Is it necessary to bring language in?
Can't you enjoy the beauties around you
directly, without any language?
Just try it.
You have thousands of opportunities every day.
Even in the hubbub of a marketplace,
pass alert, without making any judgment...
it is one of the most wonderful experiences
that even the noises in the marketplace
don't disturb you.
On the contrary, they seem to have a beauty of their own,
a life of their own.
Whether you are sitting or working, chopping wood or carrying water from a well,
just be alert to everything that is going on around you,
without reducing it to knowledge.
If you can avoid
words and knowledge from your eyes...
which are like dust
they don't allow you to see that which is.
And that which is, is the only authentic name for God.
And it is not a goal somewhere else;
it is always available,
just you are not available to it.
So the whole process of dhyan, chan, or Zen, is simply
to make you available
to the existence which is always available to you.
Just a meeting, an introduction
with the reality in which you are existing --
so simple and so obvious --
and all your miseries and afflictions and agonies.
you will not be able to find even traces of them.
They were nightmares,
and you were asleep; that's why they were happening.
Now you are awake,
and all the nightmares have disappeared.
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