The Transmission of the Lamp
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In this series of talks, delivered in Uruguay, Osho answers over a hundred questions asked by the small group of sannyasins traveling with him on his world tour. His answers dive into the esoteric element of the spiritual search.
In this series of talks, delivered in Uruguay, Osho answers over a hundred questions asked by the small group of sannyasins traveling with him on his world tour. His answers dive into the esoteric element of the spiritual search.
Excerpt from: The Transmission of the Lamp, Chapter 1
"The guest always comes; its coming is certain. The bell also rings. The door is also always opened, without fail.
"But the moment you open the door, you are not there. Existence is, being is, but you are not. The way you have known yourself up to now is no longer there, and what is there cannot be named, cannot be defined. It is all and everything…it is the very essence of existence. You will not be there as you think yourself to be. If you are there, then the guest cannot enter in.
"In fact, the guest can come only when it becomes a certainty that you are ready to disappear. Your disappearance is the appearance of that which you have been seeking all along. This is a paradox: when the sought is found, the seeker is lost.
"There are these words of Jesus in some sense significant, but in a very much deeper way, not right. He says, ‘Seek, and ye shall find’ just a small sentence, ‘Seek, and ye shall find’ and every word is wrong, because if seeking continues, there is desire, there is longing. Seeking must stop, must disappear. ‘Seek, and ye shall find it.’ You cannot find it; it will be found, but you cannot be the finder.
"And it is the same with the other sentences that follow. They are beautiful sentences, very poetic– ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you’ – but every word is wrong. Unless you stop asking, nothing can be given to you. Ask, and you will go on missing; stop asking, and it is there. It has always been there – you could not see it because your eyes were so full of asking. ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you’ – again, to YOU? To you, nothing is possible; you are the barrier, you are the hindrance. You have to dissolve into the whole, just like a dewdrop disappears in the ocean.
"And the third sentence is also beautiful: ‘Knock, and the door shall be opened unto you.’But all the words are wrong. You are not to knock; even that much effort on your part will not allow you to be totally relaxed. And the door is not closed, so there is no need to knock. If you are knocking, it must be before a wall, not before a door. The door of the divine is always open; you just go on knocking here and there.
"‘Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.rsquo; Who is there to open it? There is no God; that there is a God is presumably the idea behind Jesus’ sentence. But there is no one to open it– and particularly to you. If you are not, you suddenly find yourself at the door. And the door is open; it has always been open, so that you will not come and find it closed.
"Existence is infinitely compassionate. Its doors cannot be closed; you are always welcome. But remember, when you come close to the door, take your shoes off, and with those shoes leave your idea of yourself also. Just enter as an innocent, just-born child, without any name.
"These three sentences are beautiful, some of the best in the whole New Testament. But looked at through the experience of enlightenment, poetry is not the thing; it has to be reality.
"So everything is right, just you are wrong. And the whole effort is to bring a state of being in you where you can say, ‘I am not.’ Logically, you cannot use that sentence ‘I am not,’ because who is denying? But existentially you can understand. There are moments when you are not and still you are. A beautiful sunset, a sky full of stars… for a moment you forget that you are, although you are, but in a totally new way – fresh, new, reborn. " Osho
"But the moment you open the door, you are not there. Existence is, being is, but you are not. The way you have known yourself up to now is no longer there, and what is there cannot be named, cannot be defined. It is all and everything…it is the very essence of existence. You will not be there as you think yourself to be. If you are there, then the guest cannot enter in.
"In fact, the guest can come only when it becomes a certainty that you are ready to disappear. Your disappearance is the appearance of that which you have been seeking all along. This is a paradox: when the sought is found, the seeker is lost.
"There are these words of Jesus in some sense significant, but in a very much deeper way, not right. He says, ‘Seek, and ye shall find’ just a small sentence, ‘Seek, and ye shall find’ and every word is wrong, because if seeking continues, there is desire, there is longing. Seeking must stop, must disappear. ‘Seek, and ye shall find it.’ You cannot find it; it will be found, but you cannot be the finder.
"And it is the same with the other sentences that follow. They are beautiful sentences, very poetic– ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you’ – but every word is wrong. Unless you stop asking, nothing can be given to you. Ask, and you will go on missing; stop asking, and it is there. It has always been there – you could not see it because your eyes were so full of asking. ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you’ – again, to YOU? To you, nothing is possible; you are the barrier, you are the hindrance. You have to dissolve into the whole, just like a dewdrop disappears in the ocean.
"And the third sentence is also beautiful: ‘Knock, and the door shall be opened unto you.’But all the words are wrong. You are not to knock; even that much effort on your part will not allow you to be totally relaxed. And the door is not closed, so there is no need to knock. If you are knocking, it must be before a wall, not before a door. The door of the divine is always open; you just go on knocking here and there.
"‘Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.rsquo; Who is there to open it? There is no God; that there is a God is presumably the idea behind Jesus’ sentence. But there is no one to open it– and particularly to you. If you are not, you suddenly find yourself at the door. And the door is open; it has always been open, so that you will not come and find it closed.
"Existence is infinitely compassionate. Its doors cannot be closed; you are always welcome. But remember, when you come close to the door, take your shoes off, and with those shoes leave your idea of yourself also. Just enter as an innocent, just-born child, without any name.
"These three sentences are beautiful, some of the best in the whole New Testament. But looked at through the experience of enlightenment, poetry is not the thing; it has to be reality.
"So everything is right, just you are wrong. And the whole effort is to bring a state of being in you where you can say, ‘I am not.’ Logically, you cannot use that sentence ‘I am not,’ because who is denying? But existentially you can understand. There are moments when you are not and still you are. A beautiful sunset, a sky full of stars… for a moment you forget that you are, although you are, but in a totally new way – fresh, new, reborn. " Osho
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:energy... truth... enlightened... love... heart... buddhism... change... mahakashyap... bodhidharma... ramakrishna...
| Type | Series of Talks |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Osho Media International |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-88050-296-2 |
| Number of Pages | 552 |
| File Size | 2.34 MB |
| Format | Adobe ePub |
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