Waiting for a Sweet One

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Osho,
Why…What is a natural Buddhist like me doing leading Sufi dancing? And a natural Sufi like Pradeepa doing leading Vipassana and Zazen?

"Aneeta, this is a crazy place to be. I know..."
Osho,
Why…What is a natural Buddhist like me doing leading Sufi dancing? And a natural Sufi like Pradeepa doing leading Vipassana and Zazen?

"Aneeta, this is a crazy place to be. I know..."

Osho continues:
"At that point, one simply is, with no form, with no identity, a pure nothing.

"Knowingly, I have given Aneeta the work that she is doing here. She is a natural Buddhist, that's true. I am taking her out of her natural form. Doing Sufi work, slowly, slowly she will slip out of her past. Her past has been Buddhist, it is easier for her to be a Buddhist. And so is the case with Pradeepa. It would be easier for her to be in Sufi work, her past interest has been there. Her deepest involvement is with Sufi ideas, particularly Gurdjieff. And I have given her the Buddhist work to lead Vipassana and Zazen.

"This is just a device to bring you out of your routine forms, a device to help you to go into pure meditation. Pure meditation is simply meditation. How can it be Sufi? How can it be Buddhist? On the way, you may be Sufis, Buddhists, yogis, tantrikas, but when you have arrived, all paths disappear. Then you are at the same place, in the same space. That space is nirvana.

"Being with me, many things will look puzzling to you because there are so many people at different stages of their growth. For one, I will suggest one thing; for another, I will suggest something else. Whatsoever is needed at your stage of growth will be given to you, and when the need is no longer there it will be taken away.

"The last thing to be taken away is the form of the meditation. Then one is simply meditative, it is no longer an activity, but just a quality, a fragrance. The form of the meditation is still part of the mind. 'A natural Buddhist' means the mind is still there, because only the mind can be a natural Buddhist. Only a mind can be a Sufi or a Buddhist; mind needs forms, mind needs occupations. The mind is always hankering for some occupation, without occupation the mind starts dying. It needs perpetual work.

"For just three or four days I was not here and people had started disappearing. Just to sit here for one hour was difficult."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 90 mins
File Size 18.95 MB
Type Conversa Individual