Existence Is Perfection
Individual Talk
From:The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 03
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Osho,
Could there be an ultimate goal of the physical evolutionary process? If so, what is it?"Digvijay, there is no goal of life. Life itself is its goal. It is not moving..."
Could there be an ultimate goal of the physical evolutionary process? If so, what is it?"Digvijay, there is no goal of life. Life itself is its goal. It is not moving..."
Osho,
Could there be an ultimate goal of the physical evolutionary process? If so, what is it?"Digvijay, there is no goal of life. Life itself is its goal. It is not moving..."
Osho continues:
Could there be an ultimate goal of the physical evolutionary process? If so, what is it?"Digvijay, there is no goal of life. Life itself is its goal. It is not moving..."
"And the future is possible only through goal orientation. So mind makes goals out of everything; life must have a goal – not only a goal but an ultimate goal. Then mind is perfectly happy, then it can project itself: how to achieve that goal, how to reach to that ultimate?
"The moment you ask how, mind is perfectly at ease. It is very clever, cunning, skillful in inventing ways and means to achieve something, whatsoever it is – but it has to be there in the future. Mind lives through creating goals: political, social, evolutionary, spiritual, and so on and so forth; but the mind needs some goal to exist, it feeds on it.
"In truth, all is and nothing is going to happen. Tomorrow never comes. It is always now and here.
"The mystic approach is totally different from the goal-oriented mind. The mystic says, 'Live the moment in its totality, love the moment in its totality, drown yourself in this overwhelming existence, and you will come closer and closer to God.' By God I don't mean some person; by God I simply mean the essential core of existence, the center of the cyclone.
"The universe is the circumference and godliness is the center. If you dive deep in the now, in the here, you are bound to encounter the center. And the miracle is that the center of all is also your center too. To become aware of it, to live that center, from that center, into full awareness, is to be a buddha, is to be enlightened.
"But remember, buddhahood is not an ultimate goal. It is not something which has to be achieved somewhere else. It is available right now –it is available immediately, not ultimately. Remember these two words: the ultimate and the immediate. The ultimate brings in the mind, the immediate helps the mind to disappear.
"To me, the immediate is the ultimate. There is no goal, physical, psychological, spiritual. All is as it should be: it already is. Drop your tensions, anxieties for the future, what is going to happen. All has already happened. Live it! Don't be ambitious. Goals make you ambitious, and they drive you crazy."
"The moment you ask how, mind is perfectly at ease. It is very clever, cunning, skillful in inventing ways and means to achieve something, whatsoever it is – but it has to be there in the future. Mind lives through creating goals: political, social, evolutionary, spiritual, and so on and so forth; but the mind needs some goal to exist, it feeds on it.
"In truth, all is and nothing is going to happen. Tomorrow never comes. It is always now and here.
"The mystic approach is totally different from the goal-oriented mind. The mystic says, 'Live the moment in its totality, love the moment in its totality, drown yourself in this overwhelming existence, and you will come closer and closer to God.' By God I don't mean some person; by God I simply mean the essential core of existence, the center of the cyclone.
"The universe is the circumference and godliness is the center. If you dive deep in the now, in the here, you are bound to encounter the center. And the miracle is that the center of all is also your center too. To become aware of it, to live that center, from that center, into full awareness, is to be a buddha, is to be enlightened.
"But remember, buddhahood is not an ultimate goal. It is not something which has to be achieved somewhere else. It is available right now –it is available immediately, not ultimately. Remember these two words: the ultimate and the immediate. The ultimate brings in the mind, the immediate helps the mind to disappear.
"To me, the immediate is the ultimate. There is no goal, physical, psychological, spiritual. All is as it should be: it already is. Drop your tensions, anxieties for the future, what is going to happen. All has already happened. Live it! Don't be ambitious. Goals make you ambitious, and they drive you crazy."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 100 mins |
| File Size | 25.63 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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