The Guest
What does the word God mean? In Osho’s terminology it means love, life, and existence. Through the beautiful songs of Kabir, Osho explores the concept of “the guest.” The guest is godliness, and the seeker must become a host to receive it. “Now wake up. Friend, now wake up!”
What does the word God mean? In Osho’s terminology it means love, life, and existence. Through the beautiful songs of Kabir, Osho explores the concept of “the guest.” The guest is godliness, and the seeker must become a host to receive it. “Now wake up. Friend, now wake up!”
“I am not here to make you understand me, I am here to help you to understand yourself. You have to watch your own actions more closely, your relationships, your moods; how you are when you are alone, how you are when you are with people, how you behave, how you react; whether your reactions are past-oriented, fixed patterns of thought, or spontaneous, responsible. Watch all these things, go on watching your own mind, heart. That’s what has to be understood, that is the book to be opened; you are the unopened book.
“And millions of people die as unopened books, their pages uncut. Please don’t die as an unopened book. Read – go deep into your being. You are carrying all the Vedas and all the Bibles and all the Korans in you. You are carrying all that has happened to humanity or can ever happen to humanity. You represent in a tiny drop, in a dewdrop, all the oceans, past, present and future. In your small flowering will be represented all the flowers.
“Do not to be worried about what I say. How can you understand it in the first place? I speak from my heights using the same language that you use because there is no other language, but I give those words different meanings, twists and turns. When you listen to those words you listen according to your own mind, according to your own conditioning. How can you understand me?
“You can love me, but you cannot understand me. But if you love me, a great understanding will arise. And that will not arise through understanding my words, but by understanding your own being. The deeper your understanding is about yourself, the deeper will be your penetration into my words.”
| Type | Series of Talks |
|---|---|
| Publisher | OSHO Media International |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-88050-353-2 |
| Format | Adobe ePub |
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