The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 07

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How can you know what is right? In the seventh of Osho’s twelve volumes of commentary on Buddha’s essential teachings, he focuses on the concept of “rightness.” The answer is not to be found in anybody’s words, but through meditation.

The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 07
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How can you know what is right? In the seventh of Osho’s twelve volumes of commentary on Buddha’s essential teachings, he focuses on the concept of “rightness.” The answer is not to be found in anybody’s words, but through meditation.


Excerpt from Chapter 6

One never becomes enlightened – one is enlightened. One simply remembers it. It is not an achievement, but only a recognition. You are as much enlightened as I am, nothing is missing. You have not lost your god, it is impossible to lose him. He is our very life; without him we cannot exist for a single moment.

So the question is not how to find him. The question is how to become more alert, aware of that which already is the case.

Enlightenment is not a process of becoming, it is a discovery of being. You don’t grow towards enlightenment; hence it is never gradual – growth is gradual. It is an explosion – sudden, instantaneous. It happens in a single moment…it can happen any moment.

You are only asleep, not unenlightened. You have to be awakened. So remember it: never think in terms of becoming. Becoming is desire, and desire is a hindrance, desire is a dream. If you want to become enlightened you will never be enlightened. Don’t make it a goal, an object for desire, because all goals bring future in. And when the future comes in you are in a turmoil. That is what your so-called unenlightenment is. When there is no goal there is no future. When there is no desire, there is no possibility of dreaming. And the moment dreaming stops, sleep disappears.

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Publisher Osho Media International
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