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My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices.
It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
osho
Stage Nine
Not This Not This
There is no similarity. There are no differences |
The great way is not difficult for those who have
no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes
clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and
heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth
then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like
against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. When the deep
meaning of things is not understood the minds essential peace is disturbed
to no avail.
The way is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing is
in excess. Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do
not see the true nature of things. Live neither in the entanglements of outer
things, nor in inner feelings of emptiness. Be serene in the oneness of things
and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves. When you try to stop
activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. As
long as you remain in one extreme or the other you will never know Oneness.
Those who do not live in the single way fail in both activity and passivity,
assertion and denial. To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality,
to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk
and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking
and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know. To return
to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss the
source. At the moment of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond appearance
and emptiness. The changes that appear to occur in the empty world we call
real only because of our ignorance. Do not search for the truth only cease
to cherish opinions.
Do not remain in the dualistic state, avoid such pursuits carefully. If there
is even a trace of this and that, of right and wrong, the Mind-essence will
be lost in confusion. Although all dualities come from the One, do not be attached
even to this One. When the mind exists undisturbed in the way, nothing in the
world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist
in the old way.
When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist. When thought
objects vanish, the thinking-subject vanishes, as when the mind vanishes, objects
vanish. Things are objects because of the subject (mind); the mind/subject/
is such because of things (object). Understand the relativity of these two
and the basic reality the unity of emptiness. In this Emptiness the two are
indistinguishable and each contains in itself the whole world. If you do not
discriminate between coarse and fine you will not be tempted to prejudice and
opinion. ??? To live in the great way is neither easy nor difficult, but those
with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower
they go, and clinging (attachment) cannot be limited: even to be attached to
the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own
way, and there will be neither coming nor going.
Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and
unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.
What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations
If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses
and ideas. Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment.
The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself. There
is one Dharma, not many; distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the
ignorant to seek Mind with the / discriminating/mind is the greatest of all
mistakes.
Rest and unrest derive from illusion, with enlightenment there is no liking
and disliking. All dualities come from ignorant inference. They are like dreams
or flowers in air: foolish to try to grasp them. Gain and loss, right and wrong:
such thoughts must finally be abolished at once.
If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease. If the mind makes
no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are, of single essence.
To understand the mystery of this One-essence is to be released from all entanglements.
When all things are seen equally the timeless Self-essence is reached. No comparisons
or analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state.
Consider movement stationary and the stationary in motion, both movement and
rest disappear. When such dualities cease to exist Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate finality no law or description applies.
For the unified mind in accord with the way all self centered striving ceases.
Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a
single stroke we are freed from bondage, nothing clings to us and we hold to
nothing. All is empty, clear, self illuminating, with no exertion of the minds
power. Here thought, feeling, knowledge, and imagination are of no value. In
this world of suchness there is neither self nor other than self.
To come directly into harmony with this reality just simply say when
doubts arise: " NOT TWO" in this "not two" nothing
is separate, nothing is excluded. No matter when or where, enlightenment
means entering
this truth. And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time or space;
in it a single thought is ten thousand years.
Emptiness here, Emptiness there, but the infinite universe stands always
before your eyes. Infinitely large and infinitely small: no difference,
for definitions
have vanished and no boundaries are seen. So too with Being and Non being.
Don’t waste time in doubts and arguments that have nothing to do with
this.
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To
live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non perfection. To
live in this faith is the road to non-duality, Because the non-dual is one
with the trusting mind.
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Words!
The way is beyond language, for in it there is
No yesterday
No tomorrow
No today
Sosan
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Meditation Classes
every other Friday 7-8pm
West Auckland
New Zealand
ph 09 8155095
Men will need to bring a partner