Sunday, June 29, 2008

You are responsible

Here is an excerpt from From Unconsciousness to Consciousness, OSHO. The ending is controversial but the spirit behind this is appreciable.

You are responsible for whatsoever you are.
If you are miserable, you are responsible.
Don't throw the responsibility on anybody else, otherwise you will never be free of it.
Because how can you be free if I am responsible for your misery?
Then unless I free you, you cannot be free;
if it is in my hands.
And if it is in my hands,
it can be in somebody else's hands.

Those who are with me have to understand,
howsoever hard and painful it is,
you and you alone are responsible,
for everything that is happening to you,
has happened to you, will happen to you.

Once you accept all responsibility in its totality,
you become mature.
You stop throwing tantrums and
you stop seeking messiahs.
There is no need for any Jesus to save you.
Nor can any Jesus save you - he was exploiting your situation.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Basho

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

There is neither disciple nor Master in the final understanding

Final understanding is understanding that there is nothing to understand. The world is a spontaneous appearance. The one who perceives it is included in it as a character in the dream. In reality, there is no Master, no disciple, no teaching, and no realization. That all happened in the dream. Final understanding means freedom from the cycle of birth and rebirth: the current dream continues for its allotted time, and then is over. There is a famous quatrain from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

There was a door to which I found no key:
There was a veil past which I could not see:
Some little talk awhile of me and thee
There seemed-and then no more of thee and me.

The Way of the Bird, Ranjit Maharaj