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kirana - 23.03.2011, 14:53Osho describes Enlightenment
Osho describes Enlightenment
Enlightenment is nothing but your becoming light, your inner being
becoming light.
Perhaps you are aware that the physicists say that if anything moves
with the speed of light, it becomes light—because the speed is so
great that the friction creates fire. The thing is burned, there is
only light. The material disappears, only immaterial light remains.
Enlightenment is the experience of an explosion of light within you.
Perhaps your desire to be enlightened is moving with the speed of
light, like an arrow, so that your very desire, your very longing
becomes a flame, an explosion of light. There is nobody who becomes
enlightened, there is only enlightenment. There is only a tremendous
sunrise within you.
I must have come across hundreds of mystics describing it as if
suddenly thousands of suns have risen within you. That is a common
expression in the mystic's language, in all languages, in different
countries, in different races.
Enlightenment simply means an experience of your consciousness
unclouded by thoughts, emotions, sentiments. When the consciousness
is totally empty, there is something like an explosion, an atomic
explosion. Your whole insight becomes full of a light which has no
source and no cause. And once it has happened, it remains. It never
leaves you for a single moment; even when you are asleep, that light
is inside. And after that moment you can see things in a totally
different way. After that experience, there is no question in you.
Enlightenment means being fully conscious, aware. Ordinarily we are
not conscious and not aware. We are doing things either out of habit
or out of biological instincts…
Just as Freud's conscious mind, unconscious mind, and Jung says
collective unconscious mind, I say there is a superconscious mind
and collective conscious mind. To reach to the collective conscious
mind they are going to the roots and I am going to the flowers.
But they're all interconnected and all the devices and matters are
to discover in you, something which is simply watchfulness.
For example, I can watch my body—certainly I'm not the body. I can
watch my hand: it's hurting, but I'm not the hurt—I'm the watcher. I
can watch my thoughts, then I'm not the thought. I'm the watcher and
I can watch even the watcher. That is the moment beyond which you
cannot go and enlightenment comes.
Enlightenment is simply that you become so conscious, so full of
light, that it starts overflowing your life, your being. You can
impart it.
When one is enlightened one is conscious, but one is not conscious
of consciousness. One is perfectly conscious, but there is no object
in it. One is simply conscious, as if a light goes on enlightening
the emptiness around it. There is no object, there is nothing the
light can fall upon. It is pure consciousness. The object has
disappeared; your subject has flowered into totality. Now there is
no object—and hence, there can be no subject. The object and subject
both have disappeared. You are simply conscious. Not conscious of
anything, just conscious. You are consciousness… .
…He is not conscious about enlightenment; he is simply conscious. He
lives in consciousness, he sleeps in consciousness, he moves in
consciousness. He lives, he dies in consciousness. Consciousness
becomes an eternal source in him, a nonflickering flame, a
nonwavering state of being. It is not an attribute, it is not
accidental; it cannot be taken away. His whole being is conscious.
What is enlightenment? Coming to understand, coming to realize that
you are not the body. You are the light within; not the lamp, but
the flame. You are neither body nor mind. Mind belongs to the body;
mind is not beyond body, it is part of the body—most subtle, most
refined, but it is part of the body. Mind is also atomic, as body is
atomic. You are neither the body nor the mind—then you come to know
who you are. And to know who you are is enlightenment… .
Enlightened means you have realized who you are.
Enlightenment simply means becoming aware of yourself. Ordinarily, a
man is awake to everything around him, but is not aware who is awake
and aware of all the things around. So we remain on the periphery of
life and the center remains in darkness. To bring light to that
center, consciousness to that center is what enlightenment is.
It is just being absolutely centered in yourself, focusing all your
consciousness upon yourself as if nothing else exists; only you are.
Just be natural so that you can remain in tune with existence. So
that you can dance in the rain and you can dance in the sun and you
can dance with the trees, and you can have a communion even with the
rocks, with the mountains, with the stars.
Except this, there is no enlightenment.
Let me define it: Enlightenment is to be in tune with existence.
To be in tune with nature—the very nature of things—is
enlightenment. Against nature there is only misery—and misery
created by yourself. Nobody else is responsible for it. mani11
It will be difficult logically to understand it. It is something to
be experienced. Since the moment I found the ego evaporating from
me, I have not felt part of the universe, but the universe itself.
And yes, I have found many moments when I am bigger than the
universe—because I can see the stars moving within me, the sunrise
happening within me, all the flowers blossoming within me.
When I roam the lofty mountains I feel like my soul is raised on
high and covered like the peaks in never melting caps of snow. And
when I descend into the valleys I feel deep and profound like them
and my heart fills with mysterious shadows. The same thing happens
at the edge of the sea. There I merge with the surging waves; they
pound and roar within me. When I gaze at the sky I expand. I become
boundless, unlimited. When I look at the stars, silence permeates
me; when I see a flower the ecstasy of beauty overwhelms me. When I
hear a bird singing, it's song is an echo of my own inner voice, and
when I look into the eyes of an animal I see no difference between
them and my own. Gradually my separate existence has been effaced
and only God remains. So where shall I look for God now? How shall I
seek him? Only he is; I am not.
I was in the hills, and what they wanted to tell me was transmitted
through their silence. The trees, the lakes, the rivers, the brooks,
the moon and the stars were all speaking to me in the language of
silence. And I understood. The words of God were clear to me, I
could only hear him when I became silent. Not before.
I cannot be other than compassionate; I am just helpless. It has
nothing to do with you, it is just the only possibility for me.
The day I came to know myself, I lost many things and I gained a few
things. Of the things that I have gained, the most important of them
is compassion. So it is irrespective of who is the receiver: a
coconut tree or you, it does not matter. I can only look with
compassion. My eyes don't have anything else and my heart doesn't
have anything else.
The day you realize yourself, your very being becomes love. It is no
longer a relationship, it is no longer addressed to anyone in
particular; it is simply overflowing in all directions and all
dimensions. And it is not something on my part, that I am doing it.
Love cannot be done. And the love that is done is false; it is only
pretension…. It is just my heartbeat, my love is my life; nobody is
excluded from it. It is so comprehensive that it can contain the
whole universe…you too.
You ask me: Is the process of enlightenment the same for everyone?
Enlightenment is a very individual process. Because of its
individuality, it has created many problems. First: there are no
fixed stages through which a person necessarily passes. Every person
passes through different phases, because every person in many lives
has gathered different kinds of conditionings. So it is not the
question of enlightenment. It is the question of the conditionings
that will make your way. And everybody has different conditionings,
so no two persons' paths are going to be the same. That's why I
insist again and again there is no superhighway; there are only
footpaths. And that too, not ready-made, not that you find them
already there and you have just to walk on them—no. As you walk you
make them, your very walking makes them.
It is said that the path of enlightenment is like a bird flying in
the sky: it leaves no footprints behind it, nobody can follow the
footprints of the bird. Every bird will have to make its own
footprints, but they disappear immediately as the bird goes on
flying. The similar is the situation, that's why there is no
possibility of a leader and a follower, that's why I say these
people—like Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Krishna—who say that "You just
believe me and follow me," don't know anything about enlightenment.
If they had known, then this statement was impossible, because
anybody who has become enlightened, knows that he has not left any
footprints behind; now saying to people "Come and follow me," is
just absurd.
So what happened to me is not necessary for anybody else to pass
through. It is possible that one may remain normal and suddenly
become enlightened.
It is like here there are fifty people: if we all go to sleep,
everybody will have his own dream; you can't have a common dream.
That is an impossibility. There is no way to create a common dream.
Your dream will be yours, my dream will be mine, and we will be in
different places, in different dreams. And when we will wake up, I
may wake up at a certain stage in my dream, you may wake up at a
certain stage in your dream. How they can be the same?
Enlightenment is nothing but awakening. For the enlightened person,
all our lives are just dreams. They may be good dreams, they may be
bad dreams; they may be nightmares, they may be very nice and
beautiful dreams, but all the same they are dreams.
You can wake up any moment. That is always your potentiality.
Sometimes you may an effort to wake up, and you find that it is
difficult. You may have had dreams in which you are trying to shout
but you cannot shout. You want to wake up and get out of the bed,
but you cannot, your whole body is paralyzed, as if.
But in the morning you wake up and you simply laugh at the whole
thing, but at the moment when it was happening, it was not a thing
to laugh at. It was really serious. Your whole body was almost dead,
you could not move your hands, you could not speak, you could not
open your eyes. You knew that, now you are finished. But in the
morning, you simply don't pay any attention to it, you don't even
reconsider it, what it was. Just knowing that it was a dream, it
becomes meaningless. And you are awake, then whether the dreams were
good or bad does not matter.
The same is the situation about enlightenment. All the methods that
are being used are simply somehow to create a situation in which
your dream is broken. How much you are attached with the dream will
be different, individual to individual. How much deep is your sleep
will be different, individual to individual. But all methods are
just to shake you so that you can wake up. At what point you will
wake up does not matter at all.
So my breakdown and breakthrough is not going to be for everybody.
It happened that way to me. There were reasons why it happened that
way.
I was working alone on myself, with no friends, no fellow travelers,
no commune. To work alone, one is bound to get into many troubles,
because there are moments which can only be called nights of soul,
so dark and so dangerous. It seems as if you have come to the last
breathe of your life, that this is death, nothing else. That
experience is a nervous breakdown.
Facing death, and nobody to support and nobody to encourage, and
nobody to say, "Not to be worried, this will pass away," that "This
is is only a nightmare, and the morning is very close. Darker the
night, the closer is the sunrise. Don't be worried." Nobody around
whom you trust, who trusts you—that was the reason for the nervous
breakdown. But, it was not harmful. It looked harmful at the moment,
but soon the dark night was gone, and the sunrise was there. The
breakdown has become the breakthrough.
To each individual it will happen differently. And the same is true
after enlightenment: the expression of enlightenment will be
different….
Enlightenment is a very individual song—always unknown, always new,
always unique. It comes never as a repetition. So never compare two
enlightened persons, otherwise you are bound to do unjustice with
one or the other, or both.
And don't have any fixed idea. Just very liquid qualities should be
remembered. I say liquid qualities, not very determinate
qualifications.
For example, every enlightened person will have a deep silence—
almost tangible. In his presence, those who are open, receptive,
will become silent. He will have a tremendous contentment, whatever
happens makes no difference to his contentment.
He will not have any question left, all questions have dissolved—not
that he knows all answers, but all questions have dissolved. And in
that state of utter silence, no-mind, he is capable of answering any
question with tremendous profundity. It needs no preparation. He
himself does not know what he is going to say, it comes
spontaneously; sometimes he himself is surprised. But that does not
mean that he has answers inside himself, ready-made.
He has no answers at all. He has no questions at all. He has just a
clarity, a light that can be focused on any question, and all the
implications of the question, and all the possibilities of its being
answered, suddenly become clear….
…But the enlightened man has no answers, no scriptures, no quotation
marks. He is simply available; just like a mirror, he responds, and
he responds with intensity and totality.
So these are liquid qualities, not qualifications. So don't look on
small things, that what he eats, what he wears, where he lives—those
are all irrelevant. Just watch for his love, for his compassion, for
his trust. Even if you take advantage of his trust, that does not
change his trust. Even if you misuse his compassion, cheat his love,
that does not make any difference. That is your problem. His trust,
his compassion, his love remains just the same.
His only effort in life will be how to make people awake. Whatever
he does, this is the only purpose behind every act: how to make more
and more people awake, because through awaking he has come to know
the ultimate bliss of life.
OSHO
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