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Just fall like a bag of rice

From:
Osho
Date:
Fri, 26 May 1988 00:00:00 GMT
Book Title:
Live Zen
Chapter #:
17
Location:
pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
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MY BELOVED ONES,

I am introducing you to a new meditation. It is divided in three parts.

The first part is gibberish. The word 'gibberish' comes from a Sufi mystic, Jabbar. Jabbar never spoke any language, he just uttered nonsense. Still he had thousands of disciples because what he was saying was, "Your mind is nothing but gibberish. Put it aside and you will have a taste of your own being."

To use gibberish, don't say things which are meaningful, don't use the language that you know. Use Chinese, if you don't know Chinese. Use Japanese if you don't know Japanese. Don't use German if you know German. For the first time have a freedom - the same as all the birds have. Simply allow whatever comes to your mind without bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning, significance - just the way the birds are doing.

For the first part, leave language and mind aside. Out of this will arise the second part, a great silence in which you have to close your eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather your energy within yourself.

Remain here and now.

Zen cannot be understood in any other way. This is the last part of the series LIVE ZEN.

In the third part I will say, let go. Then you relax your body and let it fall without any effort, without your mind controlling. Just fall like a bag of rice.

Each segment will begin with the drum of Nivedano. Before Nivedano gives the drum, there are a few more things I have to say to you....

I am extremely sorry that I have not been physically here for many days, but I am also extremely happy that you never missed my presence.

I was in your heart and I was in the wind and in the rain and the thunder of clouds.

I was in your tears, in your nonsense utterances....

I was absolutely present here with you - and those who are present know it perfectly.

I was absent only for those who themselves are absent. At least today, don't go anywhere.

Nivedano, give the first drum....

(Drumbeat)

(Gibberish)

(EVERYONE BURSTS INTO A SEA OF SOUND, VOLUME AND TEMPO CLASHING AND CRASHING IN ONE GREAT CRESCENDO - A TIDAL WAVE OF MIND.)

(OSHO MOTIONS TO NIVEDANO FOR THE SECOND DRUMBEAT, AND AN INSTANTANEOUS SILENCE FALLS OVER THE WHOLE OF BUDDHA HALL.)

(Drumbeat)

Now the third drum... Relax.

(Drumbeat)

The fourth drum... Come back!

(Drumbeat)

This begins and ends the series called LIVE ZEN.

What I could say, I have said to you.

What I could not say, I have given to you.

Okay, Maneesha?

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Meyer Genoch Moisevitch Wallach, alias Litvinov,
sometimes known as Maxim Litvinov or Maximovitch, who had at
various times adopted the other revolutionary aliases of
Gustave Graf, Finkelstein, Buchmann and Harrison, was a Jew of
the artisan class, born in 1876. His revolutionary career dated
from 1901, after which date he was continuously under the
supervision of the police and arrested on several occasions. It
was in 1906, when he was engaged in smuggling arms into Russia,
that he live in St. Petersburg under the name of Gustave Graf.
In 1908 he was arrested in Paris in connection with the robbery
of 250,000 rubles of Government money in Tiflis in the
preceding year. He was, however, merely deported from France.

During the early days of the War, Litvinov, for some
unexplained reason, was admitted to England 'as a sort of
irregular Russian representative,' (Lord Curzon, House of Lords,
March 26, 1924) and was later reported to be in touch with
various German agents, and also to be actively employed in
checking recruiting amongst the Jews of the East End, and to be
concerned in the circulation of seditious literature brought to
him by a Jewish emissary from Moscow named Holtzman.

Litvinov had as a secretary another Jew named Joseph Fineberg, a
member of the I.L.P., B.S.P., and I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of
the World), who saw to the distribution of his propaganda leaflets
and articles. At the Leeds conference of June 3, 1917, referred
to in the foregoing chapter, Litvinov was represented by
Fineberg.

In December of the same year, just after the Bolshevist Government
came into power, Litvinov applied for a permit to Russia, and was
granted a special 'No Return Permit.'

He was back again, however, a month later, and this time as
'Bolshevist Ambassador' to Great Britain. But his intrigues were
so desperate that he was finally turned out of the country."

(The Surrender of an Empire, Nesta Webster, pp. 89-90; The
Rulers of Russia, Denis Fahey, pp. 45-46)