Enlightenment is a simple

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That is the definition of enlightenment: everything is as it should be,

everything is utterly perfect as it is. That feeling...and you are suddenly at

home. Nothing is being missed. You are part, an organic part of this tremendous,

beautiful whole. You are relaxed in it, surrendered in it. You don't exist

separately -- all separation has disappeared.

 

A great rejoicing happens, because with the ego disappearing there is no worry

left, with the ego disappearing there is no anguish left, with the ego

disappearing there is no possibility of death any more. This is what

enlightenment is. It is the understanding that all is good, that all is

beautiful -- and t is beautiful as it is. Everything is in tremendous harmony,

in accord.

 

The stars are in accord with the grass leaves, the earth is in accord with the

sky, the rivers are in accord with the mountains. Everything is in such accord

that existence is an orchestra. Everything is rhythmic, in tune. Existence is

music. That experience is enlightenment. And you are not separate from it like

an observer, like a spectator. The observer and the observed are one, the seer

and the seen are one -- you are it!

 

It is a great participation. You have fallen into she whole and the whole has

fallen into you. The drop has dropped into the ocean and the ocean has dropped

into the drop. It is impossible to say anything more about it. It is impossible

to say, in fact, anything about it. It can only be experienced.

 

But, please, don't go on postponing it, because it is available now. Now or

never, remember.

 

I know you have been taught continuously -- this is a kind of hypnosis in which

you are living; you have been hypnotized by the society -- you have been made

goal-oriented, you have been forced to become ambitious, you have been taught to

be competitive, so you are afraid. You are afraid, "I worry that others will

reach before me."

 

You are not much concerned with your own enlightenment; you are much more

concerned that "Nobody else should reach before me." Now, in the world of

enlightenment such a competitive mind cannot even enter, will remain thousands

and thousands of miles away. It needs a non-competitive spirit. It needs that

you drop all comparisons, because when you become enlightened you will be

totally alone, nobody else will be there -- not even your beloved, not even your

friend. Nobody can be there; you will be utterly alone.

 

And it is not a question of who attains "before", because enlightenment has no

before or after. Those are time phenomena. Enlightenment is always now -- why

think of before and after? This very moment...let it sink in you. And all that

is needed on your part is total receptivity.

 

Fling all doors open, let the sun come in, and the wind and the rain.

 

Enlightenment is not like money, is not like political power. It is not like

anything that you know in life -- it is absolutely unlike anything that you have

known or will ever know. It is unique in the sense that nothing like it exists

in existence. It is just itself; it cannot be compared with anything. It is its

own comparison.

 

But the problem is: how to drop this hypnosis? How to drop this conditioning?

Watch it. See how it is torturing you, how it is making you more and more

miserable every day, and how it is creating barriers between you and that which

is. Just go on seeing it!

 

No other positive method is needed -- just an insight that your whole mind is a

misery-creating factory, that it manufactures misery and nothing else. Once you

have seen it through and through, that very seeing becomes a transformation. You

simply turn in. You drop the mind, or it drops of its own accord because you

have seen the futility of it. And even if for a single moment the mind is not

there, enlightenment is there.

 

In the beginning it will come only in moments, but those moments are of

eternity. Then, slowly slowly, more and more moments will be coming, because you

will become more and more a host. And one day the guest and the host disappear

into each other -- then it never leaves you. And on the outside you remain just

the same old person: doing your work, chopping wood and carrying water from the

well.... You remain just the same, and yet nothing is the same any more.

 

I teach you this relaxation. I teach you the way of non-action. I don't teach

you arduous efforts, because they are all ego-gratifying. No effort can help you

to become enlightened; it will be a distraction. Only an effortless silence --

just sitting, doing nothing, and the spring comes, and the grass grows by

itself.

 

Osho: The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty