Guest guest Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 Even when people are seeking God, they want only to go this far. So that they can say to the world that they have seen him. But they don't want to go far enough -- because if you go far enough into God, you never come back. They don't want to take another step -- because if you go deep, then there comes a point of no return. They only want to go a little bit, so that they can come back into the world and say to people that, "We have seen God also." But their whole interest is in the world and the respectability that the world can give to them. They have a big bank balance, they have a big palace today; now they even possess God in their homes. This parable is beautiful. Replies the chief of the kings, "Not too far, but just enough so we can say that we have been there." When you go to the temple you are still not going; your face is towards the marketplace. Have you seen it sometimes in you or in others? -- if you are alone in the temple, you don't enjoy your prayer very much. If there are many people watching, then there is great enthusiasm. Then you are so full of spirit. Then your prayer is great, you feel very high -- not because of the prayer, but because the whole town is watching you. And they will think how religious, how virtuous, how close to God you are. You would like them to feel jealous. It is a performance. But your performance is before the people; God is out of it. You are not contacting him. Contact him alone, because it is not a performance. You are not to prove anything to anybody, you are just to open your heart. The Bauls say, As you wonder, sitting alone, the time approaches for death. Heedless of all, O my insane heart, you have travelled eight million times the painful ways of life to death, to find the measured land, the body of the man. Why did you let such human earth turn to wasteland? Cultivated, it could have yielded a harvest of gold. Take up, my heart, the spade of devotion, wrench out the weeds of sin; the seed of faith will grow. Just destroy obstacles. Take up, my heart, the spade of devotion, wrench out the weeds of sin; the seed of faith will grow. You are carrying the seed within you. It is already treasured in the deepest core of your being, waiting and waiting and waiting for obstacles to be removed so that it can unfold. God is your intrinsic quality; God is your destiny. You are the seed and God is going to be the flower out of this seed. Human limbs are held together by a pair of lotus blossoms growing in the lower and the upper regions of the body. But the lotuses burst open in search as the sun in the body rises and sets. As your awareness rises and sets, your innermost lotuses open and close. Just as in the morning the sun rises in the sky on the horizon in the East, and the lotuses bloom, when night comes and the sun sets in the West, the lotuses close again. The Bauls say, Human limbs are held together by a pair of lotus blossoms... ....what the yogis call chakras: the vortexes of energy, the wheels of energy, the seven chakras. Bauls call them the seven lotuses. ....growing in the lower and the upper regions of the body. But the lotuses burst open in search as the sun in the body rises and sets. On which of these blooms is the full moon born, and on which the darkest night of the month? The lowest lotus is the sex lotus. If you remain there you will remain in a dark night. The last lotus, the seventh, sahasrar, is the lotus where the moon becomes full. Osho: The Beloved, Vol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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