Existence Is a Festival
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Osho,
Last night, in a dream, I found myself on a girder high in the air moving towards some door of safety. Then my clothes began to get caught on splinters of iron, and next the girder began to split. I told myself to keep calm, not to look down, to forget the danger and just do one thing at a time. This I was managing and yet not managing. Then I heard myself say to myself, 'Well, you could always wake up.' So I did.
Could one wake up out of the nightmare of the mind just like that?
Last night, in a dream, I found myself on a girder high in the air moving towards some door of safety. Then my clothes began to get caught on splinters of iron, and next the girder began to split. I told myself to keep calm, not to look down, to forget the danger and just do one thing at a time. This I was managing and yet not managing. Then I heard myself say to myself, 'Well, you could always wake up.' So I did.
Could one wake up out of the nightmare of the mind just like that?
Osho,
Last night, in a dream, I found myself on a girder high in the air moving towards some door of safety. Then my clothes began to get caught on splinters of iron, and next the girder began to split. I told myself to keep calm, not to look down, to forget the danger and just do one thing at a time. This I was managing and yet not managing. Then I heard myself say to myself, 'Well, you could always wake up.' So I did.
Could one wake up out of the nightmare of the mind just like that?
Osho continues:
Last night, in a dream, I found myself on a girder high in the air moving towards some door of safety. Then my clothes began to get caught on splinters of iron, and next the girder began to split. I told myself to keep calm, not to look down, to forget the danger and just do one thing at a time. This I was managing and yet not managing. Then I heard myself say to myself, 'Well, you could always wake up.' So I did.
Could one wake up out of the nightmare of the mind just like that?
"If you are living in misery, you are creating it. And nobody else can take it away from you unless you decide not to create it any more. Your hell is your work. All that you are is your self-creation. In a single moment, you can awake.
"This is one of the greatest messages of Zen and Buddha, that time is not needed. If effort has to be made, then time is a must. But if one can awake without an effort, with just the idea, then time is not needed.
"That's why you come across immensely beautiful and unbelievable Zen stories of enlightenment happening so easily, one cannot believe it. A master hits the disciple, and in that moment the disciple is enlightened. What has happened?
"Just the other day, I was telling you the story of Ananda. The moment his head touched the pillow he became enlightened, all samadhi was his. What happened in that moment? Just the same.
"Somendra, your dream is one of the most important dreams one can ever dream. It has a great spiritual significance; it is a key dream. Don't just think about it as a dream and don't forget it. A key has been delivered to you in your dream. Now use it for the greater dream that you go on seeing the whole day with open eyes: wake up.
"The second question:
"You have to go inwards. You will not meet Christ in Israel; you will not meet Christ by going backwards twenty centuries. Just go within and there is the real Israel. It is not a question of going into time; it is a question of going beyond time. And your consciousness exists beyond time this very moment.
"The question is relevant. People go on wondering how I know about Ikkyu."
"This is one of the greatest messages of Zen and Buddha, that time is not needed. If effort has to be made, then time is a must. But if one can awake without an effort, with just the idea, then time is not needed.
"That's why you come across immensely beautiful and unbelievable Zen stories of enlightenment happening so easily, one cannot believe it. A master hits the disciple, and in that moment the disciple is enlightened. What has happened?
"Just the other day, I was telling you the story of Ananda. The moment his head touched the pillow he became enlightened, all samadhi was his. What happened in that moment? Just the same.
"Somendra, your dream is one of the most important dreams one can ever dream. It has a great spiritual significance; it is a key dream. Don't just think about it as a dream and don't forget it. A key has been delivered to you in your dream. Now use it for the greater dream that you go on seeing the whole day with open eyes: wake up.
"The second question:
Osho,"Because I am them, and you are also them. Wake up and know. Krishna or Buddha or Christ are not part of history, they are part of your being. They are stages in your being. You need not go into history to know about Christ, and those who do are being simply stupid.
How do you know Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Zarathustra and Lao Tzu?
"You have to go inwards. You will not meet Christ in Israel; you will not meet Christ by going backwards twenty centuries. Just go within and there is the real Israel. It is not a question of going into time; it is a question of going beyond time. And your consciousness exists beyond time this very moment.
"The question is relevant. People go on wondering how I know about Ikkyu."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 98 mins |
| File Size | 21.82 MB |
| Type | Conversa Individual |
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