Guest guest Posted July 3, 2003 Report Share Posted July 3, 2003 Synthesis is achieved only in the inner vision of an enlightened being. Synthesis is attained when you have attained to absolute silence. In that silence you are so clear, so transparent, that you can see through and through. Then you know that life needs both: day and night, birth and death. Then there is nothing wrong in death; it is perfectly useful, needed, inevitable. Then a deep acceptance arises in you. Buddha calls that acceptance, Tathata -- suchness. Life is such. You understand it and through that understanding you transcend it. Don't be a pessimist and don't be an optimist. Just watch, be a watcher and attain to the ultimate synthesis where you become a third force rising higher and higher and seeing from above, a bird's-eye view. Deep down everything is in conflict, but it is okay because you understand life cannot exist without it. It is not God's fault. There is no God as a person who can be blamed for it. It is just the nature of things -- tao, dhamma -- that life functions through duality. But consciousness can soar so high that it can transcend all duality and can reach to oneness. The real meditator is neither pessimist nor optimist. He lives in a kind of suchness, in total "accept-ability." Osho, The Dhammapada,Volume 9, Chapter 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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