You Are the Watcher Not the Actor

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From:Beyond Enlightenment

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"There are things which are beyond understanding.
"Enlightenment is beyond understanding, and of course beyond enlightenment is going to be more miraculous, more mysterious. Understanding itself is not the heart of human beings, it is..."
You Are the Watcher Not the Actor
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"There are things which are beyond understanding.
"Enlightenment is beyond understanding, and of course beyond enlightenment is going to be more miraculous, more mysterious. Understanding itself is not the heart of human beings, it is..."

Osho continues:
"The mundane can be understood and should be understood. And the sacred cannot be understood and should not be understood. Its sacredness is basically a secret that you experience, just the way you feel the heartbeat, the way you feel your breathing.

"The sacred gives color to existence, gives music to that which is mundane. It transforms all prose into poetry and makes everything a mystery unto itself, so that the whole existence becomes a constant challenge to discover. You go on discovering, but the discovery is never finished, hence you can never say you have understood. On the contrary, the deeper you enter into the sacred dimension of life the more you feel you don't understand, you don't know.

"Socrates had become very old, and before he was given poison, the oracle of the temple of Delphi declared him to be the wisest man in the whole world. A few people who knew Socrates were immensely glad, they rushed to Athens to inform Socrates: 'It has never happened before, it is unprecedented that the oracle of Delphi should declare anybody as the wisest man in the world. You are the first.'

"Socrates said, 'You will have to go back to the temple of Delphi and tell the oracle that although it has always been right, this time it has missed – because I know nothing.'

"The people who brought the news were shocked.

"They went back and told to the oracle: 'Socrates refuses Not only does he refuse to be the wisest man in the world, he says, 'I know nothing.''

"And here is the beauty of the incident: The oracle said, 'That's why he is the wisest man in the world, there is no contradiction.'

"If you had understood what I was saying for twelve years about enlightenment, you would have missed. If you had understood what I have been saying for one month continually about beyond-enlightenment, you would have missed. Because you are aware that you have not been able to understand anything, you have not missed.

"And your feeling that sitting close to me you feel as if I have become your heartbeat, your breathing, your circulation of blood – this is true understanding."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 131 mins
File Size 29.41 MB
Type Individual Talks