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Ma Satya Priya: Reporting From The Osho Resort
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sarito: RE:RE:Reporting From The Osho Resort Email:  hotmail.comDate: Jan 21, 2006, 6:11 |
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One more time (thanks, Sarlo) it's worth repeating, and in its entirety this time. If the recipient of the gift didn't get it, perhaps the rest of us can. from "A Cup of Tea" by Osho 327. Love. Oh, don't take life so seriously! Because seriousness is a great dis-ease, and not only a disease but a suicide also. Be playful -- totally because that is the only way to be living. Life is a play, a leela, and to know it so is religion, and to live it so is sannyas -- renunciation. If you can act and live as if acting and living in a dream and still be a witness to it then you will be in the cosmic flow, the tao. And to be in the cosmic flow is to be free -- free from oneself, the ego. The ego is the seriousness, the disease, and the tao, the egoless existence, is the bliss, the ecstasy. That is why I have given you a name so absurd! But I have given it to you knowingly. I have given it to you so that you may never be identified with it. The name is so absurd that you will have to remain nameless and nobody behind it, and the name is such that not only others but you yourself will be able to laugh at it. Swami Krishna Christ! Oh, what a name! But perfectly suitable in a dream drama. is it not so So feel at ease with it. and laugh with it, and sing and dance with it and be SWAMI KRISHNA CHRIST with all the letters in capital! And always remember that you are nobody. And always be aware that you are neither a swami nor a Krishna nor a Christ -- that is what is meant by a swami! And Krishna himself is not a Krishna and Christ himself is not a Christ because they are nameless, absolutely nameless. They are nobodies -- and that is what makes them divine. The moment one is identified with any name one is lost to one's divinity. Either one can be a name or a reality, and no one can be both simultaneously. Be a name really -- and your reality is lost. Be a reality really -- and your name is just a dream -- maya. And what nonsense to be a swami! But once one is at ease with the no sense one transcends it. Please! Don't try to be sensible otherwise you will never be with any sense at all! Because only stupidity tries to be sensible! The existence is absurd and meaningless and irrational and that is why it is so beautiful. And to be in it such a blessing! |
