Communion Is a Silent Meeting

Individual Talk

From:The New Dawn

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"Maneesha, the space, the connection, the merging and the melting that can be called communion, is one of the great secrets of religious life. We have to understand another word before we can comprehend the..."
"Maneesha, the space, the connection, the merging and the melting that can be called communion, is one of the great secrets of religious life. We have to understand another word before we can comprehend the..."

Osho continues:
"He is not silent, he is not absorbing, he is not allowing the other to approach his heart.

"In fact, when two persons are meeting, there are four persons, not two. Two are the real persons which are hidden behind two false personalities; both are pretending to be what they are not. Both are trying to show their best, both are on exhibition, both are showmen. The real persons are hidden behind; they are unapproachable. You can at the most have contact with the mask, with the personality.

"And because the personality is false, all its promises are false, all its commitments are false – it says something, it does just the opposite. It says something, it means something else. To watch two persons, just as an observer, you will be surprised: nobody is hearing anybody, and yet both are pretending that they are not only hearing, they are understanding, they are responding. And what is their response? They just catch a word, and they jump in and start talking. It seems to be related, because they have caught a word from your talk. But they are not responding to you; they have been preparing what they are saying without hearing you.

"I have heard…An old man is sitting in a railway compartment and a young man in front of him asks, 'Can I know the time?' The old man has a watch, but the old man thinks for a while. The young man thinks, 'It is strange, I have just asked about the time – what is he thinking? Perhaps he is deaf, he is old.' So he shouts loudly, 'I want to know, what is the time?'

"The old man said, 'Listen, young man, I am not deaf. I have heard that you want to know what the time is, but I was thinking whether to tell you the time or not, because life is such a puzzling affair, and I am so experienced.'

"The young man said, 'This is such a simple question. You have a watch, you can just tell me the time; there is no problem, no puzzle, nothing.'

"He said, 'You don't understand. Once I tell you the time, one thing leads to another."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 84 mins
File Size 17.27 MB
Type Individual Talks
Edition/ Version 2