... deeply rooted in the divine, will be rooted in the body. The body is death; the body is matter already dead, and we are rooted in the body. Be rooted in the divine source which is deathless. Be rooted in the divine which is life eternal. Only then you never die. Rooted in the body you will die again and again. Every moment you are dying; our so-called life is nothing but a long death. From the moment...

... hidden in yourself. You have to uncover it. How to uncover it? How to attain to faith in the divine, and how to be rooted in the eternal source of life? There is only one way, and that is take a jump from body consciousness to divine consciousness. In meditation we are doing that, trying to do that - to take a jump from body consciousness to divine consciousness. Just now, we will be doing a deep...

... meditation. Remain for a few moments more, sitting. This is a jump - a jump from the body. This process.... I must tell you what this process means. You are staring at me. If your stare is total, you will become related to me immediately through your stare. The eyes are the least material part of the body; the energy that moves through the eyes is your consciousness, your attention. For thirty minutes, if...

... you are staring at me, your energy is moving towards me through the eyes. If the energy moves in a total, in a whole process - not fragmentary, not partial - you will forget your body completely. And then you will be jumping constantly. That jumping is to help your energy to jump inside; the jumping is not just a body exercise. The body is jumping, and you are staring at me. Your jumping body, your...

... upward. And you are jumping, and you are staring at me - this whole pattern helps you towards a jump from the body to the divine consciousness. Now get ready.... Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... very cells of the body, to the whole of one's being. The method that Buddha used is known as Anapana-sati Yoga - the yoga of incoming and outgoing breath awareness. We are breathing, but it is unconscious breathing. Breath is prana, breath is the elan vital - the vitality, the very life - and yet it is unconscious; you are not aware of it. And if you had to be aware of breathing in order to breathe...

... breathing; it is an unconscious mechanism. Buddha used breath as a vehicle to do two things simultaneously: one, to create consciousness, and another, to allow that consciousness to penetrate to the very cells of the body. He said, "Breathe consciously." This does not mean to do pranayama - yogic breathing; it is just to make breath an object of awareness, without changing it. There is no need...

... one breath - incoming breath - and destruction, pralaya, the end of the world, will be the outgoing breath. One breath is one creation. In a very miniature way, in a very atomic way, the same thing is happening in you. And when your awareness becomes one with breathing, breathing takes your awareness to your very cells. Then your whole body becomes the universe. Really, then you have no material...

... body at all. You are just awareness. TWENTY-ONE-DAY EXPERIMENT IN SILENCE AND SECLUSION It is helpful to practice breath awareness for twenty-one days in total seclusion and silence. Then, much will happen. During the twenty-one-day experiment, practice Dynamic Meditation once a day and constant awareness of breathing for twenty-four hours a day. Do not read, do not write, do not think, because all...

... these acts are of the mental body; they are not concerned with the etheric body. You can go for a walk. This helps because walking is part of the etheric body; all manual actions are concerned with the prana sharira, the etheric body. The physical body does these things, but it is for the etheric body. Everything concerned with the etheric body should be done, and everything concerned with another...

... body must not be done. You can also have a bath once or twice a day; it is concerned with the etheric body. When you go for a walk, just walk. Do not do anything else; just be concerned with your walking. And while walking, keep your eyes half-closed. Half-closed eyes cannot see anything other than the path, and the path itself is so monotonous that it will not give you something new to think about...

... of energy. And because you are constantly aware, breath awareness itself begins to take only a minimal amount of energy. You are not doing anything; it is a nondoing. You are just aware. The moment you begin to do something, even to think, doing has come in. Now energy will be wasted. If you move your body, doing has come in; energy will be wasted. Twenty-four hours of constant awareness means a...

... unknown a moment before. Be indifferent to any illness and go on doing what you are doing: go on watching your breath. The breath must be watched no matter what you are thinking, no matter what you are feeling, no matter what is happening. After the first week you will begin to have some psychic experiences. The body may become very big or very small. Sometimes it will disappear, it will evaporate, and...

... you will be bodiless. Do not be afraid. There will be moments when you cannot find where your body is - it is not - and moments when you will see your body lying or sitting at a distance away from you. Again, do not be afraid. You may feel electrical shocks. Every time a new chakra is penetrated, there will be shocks and tremblings; the whole body will be in a turmoil. Do not resist; cooperate with...

.... The more subtle the breath is, the more aware you will have to become so that you can be aware of it. Go on being aware, and if you feel that there is no breath, then be aware of your "no breath." Do not try to breathe; just be aware of "no breathness." This will be a very blissful moment. The more subtle the awareness, the more it goes into the etheric body. When you are...

... watching your breath, first there is an awareness of your physical breath. You are aware of your physical body and the breathing mechanism. When the breath becomes subtle and harmonious, then you become aware of your etheric body. Then you may feel that now there is no breath, but the breath is still there. It may not be as much there as it was because your needs are not so great now, but it is still...

... is a very powerful method - very powerful - to know one's own abyss and to know one's own naked reality. And once you have known it, you have become the master of it. tratak When doing tratak you are to stare continuously, without blinking, for thirty to forty minutes. Your whole consciousness must come to the eyes; you must become the eyes. Forget everything; forget the rest of your body, just be...

... with the ingoing breath, you will feel more angry. Then you will become aware of how even a simple sound affects your mind, and how it affects it differently with the ingoing breath or the outgoing breath. When you see someone beautiful, lovely, someone who is your beloved, and you want to touch her body, touch it with the outgoing breath and you will feel nothing; but touch her with the ingoing...

... your meal with an emphasis on the outgoing breath, then no matter how good the food is it will not be a food for your body. Even if you eat very much, there will be no nutrition if your emphasis is on the outgoing breath. So eat with the ingoing breath and let there be a gap when the breath is going out. Then, with a very small quantity of food, you can be more alive. Remember this sound hoo with the...

... cannot be one with the almighty. When the waves disappear, they become the ocean itself. Let us try some experiments in order to understand what is meant by meditation. Sit in such a way that no one touches you. Close your eyes slowly, and keep your body loose. Relax completely so that there is no strain, no tension in the body at all. Now imagine that a river is flowing very fast, with tremendous...

... force and sound, between two mountains. Observe it and dive in... but do not swim. Let your body float without any movement. Now you are moving with the river - just floating. There is nowhere to reach, no destination, so there is no question of swimming. Feel as if a dry leaf is floating effortlessly in the river. Experience it clearly so that you can know what is meant by "surrender," by...

... "total letting go." If you have understood how to float, now discover how to die and how to be dissolved completely. Keep your eyes closed, let your body become loose and relax completely. Observe that a pyre is burning. There is a pile of woodsticks that have been set afire and the flames of the pyre seem to be reaching toward the sky. And remember one more thing: you are not just observing...

... the burning pyre, you have been placed on it. All your friends and relatives are standing around. It is better to experience this moment of death consciously, as one day or the other it is sure to come. With the flames growing higher and higher, feel that your body is burning. Within a short while the fire will be put out by itself. People will disperse and the cemetery will be empty and silent...

... - you do so at the cost of not attaining divinity. Meditation is to die. The last thing you had to experience was "suchness." Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance. Peace will come only to him who is ready to accept even the absence of peace. So close your eyes, let your body be loose, and feel as if...

... there is no life in the body. Feel as if your body is relaxing. Go on feeling this, and within a short time you will know that you are not the master of the body. Every cell, every nerve of the body will feel relaxed - as if the body does not exist. Leave the body alone as if it is floating on the river. Let the river of life take you anywhere it wants to, and float upon it just like a dry leaf. Now...

... feel that your breath is gradually becoming quiet, silent. As your breathing becomes silent, you will feel that you are being dissolved. You will feel as if you are on the burning pyre, and you have been burnt completely. Not even ashes have remained. Now feel the sound of the birds, the sun's rays, the waves of the ocean, and just be a witness to them - receptive and yet aware, watchful. The body is...

... relaxed, breathing is silent, and you are in "suchness"; you are just a witness to all this. Gradually you will feel a transformation within, and then suddenly something will become silent inside. The mind has become silent and empty. Feel this: be a witness to it, and experience it. The river has taken away your floating body, the pyre had burnt it, and you have been a witness to it. In this...

... Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. MASTER LU-TSU SAID: WHEN THE SILENCE COMES, NOT A SINGLE THOUGHT ARISES; HE WHO IS LOOKING INWARD SUDDENLY FORGETS THAT he IS LOOKING. AT THIS TIME, BODY AND HEART MUST BE LEFT COMPLETELY RELEASED. ALL ENTANGLEMENTS HAVE DISAPPEARED WITHOUT TRACE. THEN I NO LONGER KNOW AT WHAT PLACE THE HOUSE OF MY SPIRIT AND...

... MY CRUCIBLE ARE. IF A MAN WANTS TO MAKE CERTAIN OF HIS BODY, HE CANNOT GET AT IT. THIS CONDITION IS THE PENETRATION OF HEAVEN INTO EARTH, THE TIME WHEN ALL WONDERS RETURN TO THEIR ROOTS. WHEN ONE IS SO FAR ADVANCED THAT EVERY SHADOW AND EVERY ECHO HAS DISAPPEARED, SO THAT ONE IS ENTIRELY QUIET AND FIRM, THIS IS REFUGE WITHIN THE CAVE OF ENERGY, WHERE ALL THAT IS MIRACULOUS RETURNS TO ITS ROOTS. ONE...

... have been a very beautiful woman, but just think... she disfigured her face, made it ugly, but deep down she must have been thinking, "Look at my renunciation. I was one of the most beautiful women. I have disfigured my face - nobody has done this before, or since. Look at my renunciation, look at my detachment from the body: I don't care a bit about beauty. I am bent upon finding enlightenment...

... in sleep the search continues, the desire goes on creating dreams. Now all had failed. He had seen the world, the kingdom, the joys and the miseries of love and relationship, the agony and the ecstasy of the body, of the mind; and then he had been an ascetic, a monk, followed many paths - that too he had seen. He had seen the so- called world and he had seen the so-called other-worldly world, and...

... both had failed. Now there was nowhere to go, not even a single inch to move. All desire disappeared. When one is so hopeless, how can one desire? Desire means hope. Desire means that still something can be done. That night Buddha came to know that NOTHING can be done, nothing at all. Just see the point, it is of tremendous beauty... nothing can be done, nothing at all. He relaxed. His body must have...

... silence. People become very puzzled when they come to me for the first time. If they have been with some Buddhist Master, then they were doing vipassana, sitting, forcing themselves into a certain static posture. Why the static posture? - because when the body is forced to remain in one posture, mind also is forced to remain in one posture. Body and mind function together. Mind is the inner aspect of...

... the body; it is a material phenomenon. It has nothing to do with your being. It is as much matter as your body, so if you do something with the body that automatically happens to the mind. Hence down the ages people have been cultivating postures - sit in a lotus posture, force your body to be like a statue, a marble statue. If your body is REALLY still, forced, you will see your mind falls into a...

... kind of silence, which is false, which is not true. He has just been forced to be silent by the body posture. You try it: just make the posture of anger with your fists, your face, your teeth; just go into the posture of anger and you will be surprised, you start feeling angry. That's what the actor does: he moves the body into the posture, and following it, mind comes in. Two great psychologists...

... the body. Try it! If you are feeling sad, start running, go running around the block seven times, breathing deep breaths, in the sun, in the wind; and after seven rounds, stand and see whether your mind is the same. No, it can't be the same. The bodily change has changed the mind. The body chemistry changes the mind. Hence the yoga postures. They are all postures to force the mind into a certain...

... pattern. That is not real silence. The real silence has to be a silence that comes on its own. My suggestion is: don't force your body. Rather, dance, sing, move, run, jog, swim. Let the body have all kinds of movements so your mind also has all kinds of movements, and through all those kinds of inner movements, the mind starts catharting, releasing its poisons. Shout, be angry, beat a pillow and you...

... will be surprised - after beating a pillow you feel very good. Something in the mind has been released. It does not matter whether you were beating your wife, your husband, or the pillow. The pillow will do perfectly as well as beating the wife or the husband, because the body does not know whom you are beating. Just the very posture of beating and the mind starts releasing its anger. Mind and body...

... music there is nobody who is looked at. The observer is the observed. The dancer has become the dance, and all duality has disappeared. This non-duality is the only real silence. AT THIS TIME, BODY AND HEART MUST BE LEFT COMPLETELY RELEASED... And in such moments you should remain in a let-go. Forget all your postures. Forget everything that you try to do; don't try to do anything. Be in a state of...

... they also look like walls. It is better to face the wall. I will face a person only when I see that he is not a wall, that he can respond, that he can understand." His statement that "I don't know" is of immense beauty, grandeur. THEN I NO LONGER KNOW AT WHAT PLACE THE HOUSE OF MY SPIRIT AND MY CRUCIBLE ARE. IF A MAN WANTS TO MAKE CERTAIN OF HIS BODY, HE CANNOT GET AT IT. In this...

... moment, when silence overwhelms you, encompasses you, if you want to make sure about your body you will not be able to get at it. There is no body anymore, or, the whole existence is your body because you are not separated anymore. You cannot define, you cannot draw a line that "This is my body." The whole existence is your body, or there is no body at all. This sometimes can drive you crazy...

.... Beware. Don't be worried if sometimes it happens that you open your eyes and you cannot find your body, you cannot see it. Just the other night a sannyasin was asking me, "When I stand before a mirror I feel very puzzled, because I cannot see that this reflection is mine." Now it is puzzling. He avoids the mirror because whenever he looks into the mirror this problem arises: "Who is this...

... fellow?" He cannot feel that "This is me." Now it can drive you crazy, and he was very disturbed because of it. But this is a beneficial sign, a confirmatory sign. Something really good is happening: he is becoming de-identified with the body. It is good; he is on the right way. I told him to look into the mirror as much as possible, whenever he had time to just sit before the mirror...

..., see the body reflected in the mirror and go on feeling that "This is not me." There is no need to repeat "This is not me" because that would be false. Just feel! And it is happening to him of its own accord, so there is no problem. This will be his natural meditation. This is enough. Slowly slowly, one day, the moment will arrive when he will not be able to see the reflection in...

... descends and you cannot find your body. If you want to look in the mirror, you cannot see your face. Don't be worried, take it as a very confirmatory sign. Something beautiful is on the way: your old identity is eroding, your old idea of yourself is disappearing. And you have to disappear totally before God can take possession of you. IF A MAN WANTS TO MAKE CERTAIN OF HIS BODY, HE CANNOT GET AT IT. THIS...

... CONDITION IS THE PENETRATION OF HEAVEN INTO EARTH.... When you cannot see your body, when you cannot feel your body, you cannot touch your body - this is the penetration of heaven into earth. Paradise is descending, God is coming to you. God has reached. His heart is with your heart, His hand is in your hand. That's why you have disappeared. The part has become the whole. ... THE TIME WHEN ALL WONDERS...

... is like a seed: you destroy the tree but you carry the seed. Wherever the seed will fall into the soil again, the tree will be back. The seed has to be burned. Then wherever you are this miracle will be felt. ONE DOES NOT ALTER THE PLACE, BUT THE PLACE ALTERS ITSELF. This very world becomes paradise, this very world NIRVANA, this very body the body of Buddha. THIS IS INCORPOREAL SPACE WHERE A...

... FASTER THEY HURRY, THE SLOWER THEY GO, AND CLINGING CANNOT BE LIMITED... AND REMEMBER, whenever you cling, clinging as such is the problem; it is not a question of what you cling to. So Sosan says CLINGING IS NOT LIMITED - not limited to this world, to this body, senses, enjoyments. You can cling to enlightenment, you can cling to God. You can cling to love, you can cling to meditation and prayer. And...

... and smoke, they are just substitutes for food. They would like to eat continuously, but it is impossible because the body will not tolerate it, so they have to do something with the mouth. They will chew gum or they will chew PAN, smoke, or do SOMEthing. Or, if they cannot do anything... For example, women all over the world in the past were never allowed to do these stupidities that men are allowed...

.... Perfectly the shoe fits and you are enlightened. Right is Chuang Tzu; "When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten." When every function fits, the body is forgotten; when every function fits, this world of appearances is no more. You are enlightened! Suddenly everything is illuminated as it is. IF YOU WISH TO MOVE IN THE ONE WAY DO NOT DISLIKE EVEN THE WORLD OF SENSES AND IDEAS. This IS BEAUTIFUL...

...! He says... DO NOT DISLIKE EVEN THE WORLD OF SENSES AND IDEAS. There are two types of people. One type goes on fighting with the senses: how to kill the body, how not to enjoy through the body, not to fall in love, not to eat with taste. They go on fighting with their senses, they become great ascetics. Basically they are masochists, they enjoy crippling themselves. But society pays them respect...

... suffer. And the more they suffer, the more they are respected and worshipped because people think they have done something miraculous, they have gone beyond the body. There is no need to go beyond the body. The only thing is: the body should function rightly, perfectly. It is an art, it is not austerity. It is not an austerity; you are not to fight with it, you are simply to understand it. And the body...

... is so wise - wiser than your mind, remember, because the body has existed longer than the mind. Mind is a very new arrival, just a child. Body is very ancient, very very ancient. Because you moved once as a rock; the body was there, the mind was fast asleep. Then you became a tree; the body was there, with all its greenery and flowers. The mind was fast asleep still, not so asleep as in the rock...

... but still asleep. You became an animal, a tiger; the body was so alive with energy, but the mind was not functioning. You became a bird, you became a man... The body has been functioning for millions of years. The body has accumulated much wisdom, the body is very wise. So if you eat too much the body says, "Stop!" The mind is not so wise. The mind says, "The taste is beautiful - a...

... little more." And if you listen to the mind, then the mind becomes destructive of the body, this way or that. If you listen to the mind, first it will say, "Go on eating," because mind is foolish, a child. He does not know what he is saying. He is a new arrival, he has no learning in him. He is not wise, he is yet a fool. Listen to the body. When the body says, "Hungry," eat...

.... When the body says, "Stop," stop. If you listen to the mind, it is as if a small child is leading an old man - they both will fall in a pit. And if you listen to the mind then first you will be too much in the senses, and then you will get fed up. And every sense will bring you misery, and every sense will bring you more anxiety, conflict, pain. If you eat too much there will be pain and...

... there will be vomiting, and the whole body is disturbed. Then the mind says, "Eating is bad, so go on a fast." And a fast is also dangerous. If you listen to the body it will never overeat, it will never under eat - it will simply follow the Tao. A few scientists have been working on this problem and they have discovered a very beautiful phenomenon: small children, they eat whenever they...

... all. When the body was not feeling to, they would not eat, and they never fell ill because of eating. And one more thing which no one ever suspected came to be understood, and that was miraculous. Only Sosan can understand, or Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu, because they are the Masters of Tao. This was such a discovery! They came to understand that if a child was ill, then he would not eat particular foods...

.... Then they tried to understand why he was not eating those foods. The foods were analyzed and it was found that for that disease, those foods were dangerous. How did the child decide? Just the body. And when the child was growing, whatsoever was needed for his growth he would eat more of. Then they analyzed and they found that these ingredients are helpful. And the food would change, because the needs...

... changed. One day a child would eat something and the same child the next day would not eat it. And the scientists felt that there is a body-wisdom. If you allow the body to have its say, you are moving on the right path, the Great Way. And this is so not only with food, this is so with the whole life. Your sex goes wrong because of the mind, your stomach goes wrong because of your mind. You interfere...

... with the body. Don't interfere! Even if you can do it for three months, don't interfere. And suddenly you will become so healthy, and a well-being descends on you. Everything feels okay, the shoe fits. But the mind is the problem. The mind has its own function; that is, how to relate with others, how to move in this world where so many persons are living, how to drive a car, how to follow the rules...

... and regulations of the traffic, how not to create danger for others or for yourself, how to look ahead and plan. The mind is just like a radar, it looks ahead - where to move, how to move - but the base remains the body. Those people who are against the body and cripple their senses will miss their enlightenment for a longer period than those people who listen to their senses and follow their advice...

... everybody can respect you, but you cannot respect yourself because you are completely astray. Nothing fits, everything goes wrong. Listen to the body! - because you are here to enjoy this moment that has been given to you, this graceful moment, this beatitude that has happened to you. You are alive, conscious, and such a vast world! The human being is a miracle on this small planet - very very small, tiny...

... anything, first you have to make it sex-appealing. Whether you sell a car - you have to put a naked woman with it - or toothpaste? You have to find a naked woman. Anything! As if toothpaste is not the real thing, the real thing is the naked woman, the sex. You sell soap, and you have to add a beautiful naked body. I have heard: One Italian model, one woman, who was working for many years as a model for...

... soap advertisements, once she was asked, when she became old and nobody bothered, "What type of soap do you really use?" She said, "None, because every soap is destructive to the softness of the skin. I simply use wet wool on my body, that's why it is so beautiful! but I have helped to advertise all types of soaps, and they are selling." When Mulla Nasruddin became a hundred years...

... that time, no body at that time; you become the sex energy. When you are hungry become the hunger, and eat as if every cell of your body is hungry and absorbing the food. And let it enjoy. And when you want to think, then sit under a tree, close your eyes - enjoy thoughts! Nothing is wrong with thoughts. Enjoy them as a flowering, beautiful flowering, a great poetry in its own right. Then a clarity...

...! That happens on the path, but it is just a part of the mind, nothing of the ultimate. All your lights and experiences come through the mind. Energy moves in the body; subtle senses are hidden there. They become active and you can feel many things. Nothing is wrong in them, enjoy, but don't think that is enlightenment. Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you, when...

... luxury, perfect luxury! It is not concerned with your needs, it always gives you more than you need. That extra energy accumulates in the body - that is what sex energy is. When it accumulates you get a tension in the body. Now the tension arises and then you have to release it. When the tension is released you feel happy, relaxed; you can go to sleep. But the trick is in the tension. So if you make...

... because orgasm needs more energy than the body needs. It is overflowing, so the whole body throbs in it. Remember, in repressive societies people enjoyed sex more, because even to meet with one's own wife was such a difficult thing. It was almost impossible to meet another's wife - there were so many hurdles to be crossed to meet one's own wife. In India you couldn't see your wife in daylight. Such a...

... FREE IN LIFE ITSELF. ONE WHO HAS NO EGOISTIC FEELING IN RESPECT OF HIS BODY AND THE SENSES, AND BESIDES HAS CEASED TO THINK IN TERMS OF "ME" AND "MINE" IN RESPECT TO OTHER OBJECTS, IS CALLED A JIVANMUKTA. WHEN DESIRES DO NOT ARISE EVEN IN THE FACE OF THE OBJECTS OF ENJOYMENT, KNOW IT AS THE STATE OF VAIRAGYA - NON-ATTACHMENT, DESIRELESSNESS. AND WHEN THE EGO CEASES TO ARISE, KNOW...

... the whole body becomes a sex center. Tantra says this is not the way to go beyond sex; this is stupid. Tantra has its own scientific techniques. Tantra says, "Okay, there is desire, there is sex - then move into sex, but move fully conscious." That is the only condition: If you want to touch a beautiful body, touch, but remain conscious, alert that you are touching the beautiful body. And...

... then when you are touching, analyze your touch - what is happening? Observe your touch - what is happening? If you can observe your touch, the touch becomes futile, absurd, stupid; nothing is happening. NOTHING is happening. So tantra has techniques.... Look at a beautiful naked body; observe it, and observe what is happening inside you. The desire arises: observe the desire, and observe the naked...

... body. And really with a naked body, with a full alert mind, sex is neither suppressed nor indulged; it simply disappears. It may look contradictory - but bodies have become so important only because of clothes. Clothes are deeply sexual. They give the bodies a charm, a hidden charm, a secret attraction which is not there at all. Bodies are just bodies. You hide them and the very hiding creates a...

... desire to look at them, to see. Humanity has become so body-conscious only because of clothes. The clothes create a secret desire to unclothe, to undress. I was reading Oscar Wilde's MEMOIRS. He was a very sexual man, indulging rather too much. His whole life was just chasing after women. He notes in his diary that "One woman will not do. I want to enjoy all the women of all the worlds - not only...

..., that any woman passing on the street and he will become attracted. Then for the first time, he went to a prostitute. And the woman was really beautiful with a very proportionate body, alive, young, fresh. And the moment Oscar Wilde entered her room she immediately undressed - she was a prostitute. The very act of her undressing and Oscar Wilde says, "My desire disappeared - for the first time...

...." And the woman was rare - not just ordinarily beautiful - and charming, a rare beauty. But the very act of her undressing immediately.. and Oscar Wilde notes, "My desire disappeared. Seeing her body naked - there was nothing hidden, and the attraction dissolved." Not only that, he couldn't love the woman, the erection would not come. He tried and tried, and the more he tried... he...

... state is known as the state of a jivanmukta - one who has achieved freedom in lie, one who has achieved freedom while in the body, one who has known the infinite while alive. You can also become a jivanmukta. The only problem is you. Throw it out, and you ARE. Nothing new is to be gained; the freedom is there hidden in you, but you are attached to the ego. That creates a boundary, a limitation. Look...

... beyond the ego, and suddenly you enter another world. And it was always there, just to be seen, but our eyes have become fixed; we cannot move our eyes. We go on looking in one direction - the direction of the ego. The reverse is the dimension of the non-ego, and non-ego is the path. ONE WHO HAS NO EGOISTIC FEELING IN RESPECT OF HIS BODY AND THE SENSES, AND BESIDES HAS CEASED TO THINK IN TERMS OF "...

...;ME" AND "MINE" IN RESPECT TO OTHER OBJECTS, IS CALLED a jivanmukta. EGOLESSNESS IS JIVANMUKTI. Egolessness is a great death. When you die only your body dies; when you attain MUKTI, freedom, your mind dies. In the old scriptures the master, the guru, is known also as death: ACHARYO MRITYU. The teacher is death, great death. He IS, because through him your ego dies; he kills you. In a...

... my body, and then after the discourse I try to listen to my body.] Absolutely right... that's the real way. Words are not very important, but the vibrations that you feel from me. You have stumbled on the right thing. The body absorbs those vibrations and you can listen to them later on. So while listening to me, drink me, and then later on you can feel your body and they will be there. Perfectly...

... empty space which we call a door, and you pass through that. We make a vase or a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that is used. This is the real significance of the pot - that inside it is empty and just has a mud wall around it. Exactly the same is the case with your body. The body is just walled emptiness. Deep inside you are empty, pure sky where nothing ever stirs. One has to taste it to know...

... total, but at least the chief voice! Tonight, sit on your bed and listen, mm? [A sannyasin says: I've done a lot of groups in the West, and it seems like I'm right back at the beginning... For most of the time I feel dead in my body.... but I feel that this is more real.] It has brought you to your real situation. And it happens that when you are doing groups for the first time, you are excited, full...

... of so many expectations, as if enlightenment is going to happen through them, mm? (chuckling) One is excited and passionate and in fever. When you have done many, that expectation, that excitement, goes and you become more cool and calm. You see things more in their reality than through your expectations and projections. This is the real thing. You are dead in many parts of the body, and the group...

... has brought you to a deep understanding of this. So use this insight and do something to bring life to your body. T'ai Chi will be very good... the music group and the ethiopian dance group will both be very good. These three things will be very helpful to help more life flow into the body. This is a simple mechanism. If you dance, first you have to make an effort, but by and by your energy takes it...

... over. Then you don't dance, the energy dances; you simply forget. If you sing, a moment comes when the shift occurs. You are no more singing - the song is singing in you. So, T'ai Chi will be very good to bring energy to the body. Remember, the body is never dead. At the most it is frozen, so it can be melted. The right word for it is what you call hibernation. The frogs after the rains go into...

... same happens to many animals. In the siberian snow, animals go into hibernation. When everything freezes, they also freeze inside and they wait for the right moment to come back, to return. The same happens to the human body. If you don't use a certain limb, that limb goes into hibernation. Not that it is really dead, because if it is really dead, then there is no way to bring it back. You have not...

... used the hand for so long, the energy has not moved into those meridians, those passages, so the limb has frozen. Let energy flow again in that limb, and it will become alive again. T'ai Chi is very good to bring the body back slowly, to fill the body again with chi, with energy. But there are very slow movements in T'ai Chi because the work is very very slow and very cautious. You are working with a...

... very dangerous thing, mm? your own life energy, so one has to be very respectful. You are moving on sacred ground. You have to take your shoes off with deep respect. This is one way... the other is ethiopian dance. It is totally different. T'ai Chi hits the very core of the small nerves, of which there are millions in the body. By and by it infuses life into those small nerves, the body cells, and...

... simple, but very deeply ecstatic. It is very sexual and very sensual. Sex is ordinarily local, confined to the reproductive system, but music spreads it all over your body... spreads it into every part of your body and gives it a very subtle glow. So join these three groups, mm? [A sannyasin says: I'm discovering a lot about myself. I seem to always be creating problems.] But that is nothing to worry...

... your path, exclusively yours. Nobody will ever pass on that path again, and nobody has ever passed on that path before - only you. This is the beauty of existence - that it gives space to everyone, each unique individual. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, SOMETIMES, WHILE FEELING INFERIOR AND LONELY BECAUSE OF MY HANDICAPPED BODY AND WHEELCHAIR, I SUDDENLY BECOME AWARE THAT AS LONG AS I CAN FEEL THIS PAIN, I...

... AM VERY ALIVE. IN THESE MOMENTS, THERE IS ABSOLUTE JOY INSIDE ME, SO MUCH GRATITUDE FOR EACH AND EVERY THING. BELOVED MASTER, IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE TO GROW EVEN THROUGH SUFFERING? Prem Amido, I understand your situation and the problem, but you are facing your situation with great courage. I am happy with you. You are suffering because of a crippled body, but you are not the body. Nor are you...

... crippled, your consciousness is as free as anybody else's. Of course your path is going to be a little difficult. Your body is going to create continuous suffering for you. But perhaps, if you are alert enough - and I can see you are - you can change suffering itself into a blessing in disguise. It is one of the most significant things to understand. Why have all religions insisted that their saints and...

... case. Millions of saints of different religions have created a situation of suffering for themselves, either by fasting ... One Hindu mystic even took out his eyes. And eyes are the most sensitive part of your body. Eighty percent of your connection with existence is through the eyes. The other four senses between them have only twenty percent. To pull out your eyes with your own hands is to destroy...

... eighty percent of your life. But he was very much respected. What happened to all these people? I have seen saints in India, standing for twelve years, fifteen years, not for a single moment sitting down or sleeping, just standing. They have a certain device on which they keep their hands, and by and by the upper part of the body shrinks and their legs become like elephants'. Now even if they want to...

... Amido, as far as you are concerned, you are not creating the suffering. The suffering is there. You can use it to remain alert. And you are rightly observing that the pain keeps you feeling that you are still alive. I have seen you laughing. You cannot dance, but I have seen every effort in your whole being that you want to dance. The body is preventing it; the body is not in the right position. You...

... intelligence and a consciousness which wants to celebrate. Even if your body is not cooperating with you, don't be worried. The body is going to die one day - everybody's body dies - but you are going to be eternally here. It is your consciousness that really matters. It is perfectly good: you can grow even through suffering. One can grow from any place where one finds oneself; growth is possible from...

... infinite sources. Just go on enjoying even the pain because it keeps you alert to your being alive. Most of the people whose bodies are not crippled like your body, may be in the last account losers, not winners. They are so comfortable with their body that they remain identified with the body. You cannot identify with your body, it is too painful. You have to separate yourself from the body and this...

... answer. I felt your pain myself. You were saying that you would also like to love someone. I can understand - a natural instinct, and the instinct does not know that your body is crippled. And the people have become so body-oriented that they don't look inside the body to a beautiful human being. They just look at the body. Naturally, no woman will feel attracted towards you; it hurts. It hurts me too...

.... You can love the trees, they are not so fussy. You can love the stars in the night. They will not object that "Amido, you don't have the right body." You can love the whole universe. And perhaps in my place there may be some woman compassionate enough, meditative enough, who may be able to see your consciousness and will not bother about your body. Anyway, women don't care much about the...

... bodies of men. They are very conscious about their own bodies, but no woman is interested in the body of the man. In fact, when the man is making love to them, they close their eyes. They don't want to see all the gymnastics that the poor fellow is doing on top of them. They are praying to God, "Finish it soon!" because a man making love does not have the same face, it becomes distorted. He...

... is perspiring, huffing and puffing; love seems to be such an arduous thing, like going uphill. He himself knows it is stupid, but still the man wants the light to be on. He is interested in the woman's body. Most men don't feel satisfied with a wife for the simple reason that she lies down almost dead, with closed eyes. She is just a victim, somehow waiting for this guy to finish. These people...

... time a husband tries to make love to the woman, she makes excuses. Sometimes it is a period and sometimes it is a headache and sometimes she is too tired, and sometimes the cook has left. There are a thousand-and-one excuses. She simply wants to avoid the encounter. The woman is not interested in the man's body. Even now, because of the women's liberation movement, there have come into existence a...

... from the outside. You may watch for years, but you will not come to know anything of what love is. You may come to know the manifestations of love, but not love itself. We know the same about death. Just the manifestations on the surface - the breathing has stopped, the heart has stopped, the man as he used to talk and walk is no more there: just a corpse is lying there instead of a living body...

.... These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is fully awakened, from one body to the body of the whole universe. It is a great journey, but you cannot know it from the outside. From outside, only symptoms are available; and those symptoms have made people afraid. Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death...

.... Instead of death being an ugly and fearful thing, it changes into one of the purest, most silent, and most sublime experiences. You experience yourself for the first time without your prison, the body, an experience of absolute freedom... unhampered, uncaged. This kind of death can be known in many ways. One is the usual way - but then you will not be here to report about it. You are gone. You have...

... experienced, but the experience has also gone with you. Fortunately, there are other ways in which you can experience exactly what death is, and yet remain alive. Love is one. In total love, when you are not holding anything back, a kind of death happens. You are no more body, you are no more mind, you are pure spirit. In meditation, the same experience happens of bodilessness, mindlessness, and yet of...

.... The depth is that you are no longer your physical body, and you are no longer your mental body either - just a pure awareness, a pure sky without any clouds, unbounded. Even a simple glimpse into it and death becomes a glorious experience. Zarathustra has a few very important things to say about it. MANY DIE TOO LATE AND SOME DIE TOO EARLY. STILL THE DOCTRINE SOUNDS STRANGE: 'DIE AT THE RIGHT TIME...

....' When he is saying, MANY DIE TOO LATE, he means they go on living meaninglessly, without any joy, without any song. Nothing blossoms in their life. It seems that they have simply forgotten how to die. They go on living, although life has no juice for them, no excitement, no ecstasy. But they are not brave enough to let the body drop. They live unnecessarily. They live like a burden on the earth. They...

... will remain only a prejudice, an opinion, what you have heard people say about it. But you don't have your own personal experience. DIE AT THE RIGHT TIME: THUS ZARATHUSTRA TEACHES. For Zarathustra, death is the actualization of your whole potential. Now there is no point of being in the body. You can die joyously, with a smile on your face, with a tremendous mystery in your eyes. Your death will not...

... be felt as untimely; almost 99.9 percent of deaths are untimely, either too late, or too early. The day Gautam Buddha died, early in the morning he said to his disciples, "It is more than enough. It is time for me to leave." They could not understand what he meant; perhaps he meant to leave for another place. Buddha said, "You don't understand, I mean I am going to leave the body...

... way he says it seems to be that death is simply a decision for him. For a man who has lived fully, death becomes a decision: it is up to him. Death does not come to him; he himself makes his body available for death. It is painful when death comes to you and takes away your body, and all your things are incomplete - your children are not grown up, your daughter was going to be married, your business...

... disciples, "You will never see me again. This body has lived to its fullest; it needs to be retired; it needs to go into ultimate rest. But before I drop it, if you have any question, you should ask it. You may meet another awakened person... when and where is unpredictable." But the disciples were crying. This was not a time to ask questions, and they said, "You have been answering for...

... forty-two years, you have answered all our questions. You just relax, don't be worried about us. You have shown us the path and we will follow it." The story is beautiful: Buddha closed his eyes and said, "I have taken the first step - I am no more the body." And then, "I have taken the second step - I am no more the mind. I have taken the third step - I am no more the heart. I...

... from the body to the mind, to the heart, to the being. Gautam Buddha died at the right time. But how many people can say that they are dying at the right time? It is never the right time. On all the graves you will find the inscription: "He died untimely." You will not find a single grave with the inscription, "This man died timely." Nobody would like that; even the dead person...

... my death will be celebrated as a royal state thing. There will be a few days of holiday; flags will be flown in my honor; my body will be carried on an army tank; and I will receive my last salutes from the soldiers." I said to him, "It seems you have missed life; otherwise, who bothers when you are dead, whether your body gets salutes from soldiers, respects from flags, a royal reception...

... chimpanzee can push the button; the button is in the White House and a certain missile will start moving, carrying with it death for millions. In the past the warrior was a dignified human being. He was in every way himself a piece of art. His swordsmanship or his archery gave him a certain discipline, gave him a certain flexible body - strong and yet flexible. You can see in the forest, in the deer, how...

... value to humanity. But the warrior, for thousands of years has given dignity, honor, to his body, to his mind, to his being, because he has to be absolutely alert, no thoughts can be allowed. He cannot go into the past, he cannot move into the future, he has to be in the present. It is because of this that in Japan, swordsmanship and archery became methods of teaching meditation. There is no need to...

...; In Japan, swordsmanship and archery have become methods of learning meditation. The warrior in the past was a beautiful human being, with a body as beautiful as a wild animal's; with agility and with great art. Zarathustra is remembering that if you cannot die as a sage, then at least die as a warrior. That is the second best death. BUT EQUALLY HATEFUL TO THE FIGHTER AS TO THE VICTOR IS YOUR...

... open the doors, will welcome death, because death is not your enemy. It is simply a change of house: from one body into another, from one form into another or, ultimately, from form to the formless life that surrounds the earth. A religious man not only lives religiously, he dies religiously. A man of art lives artfully, and lives not only artfully, but dies too with great art. One Zen master was...

... that before." The master said, "That seems to be good, so goodbye fellows." And he stood on his head, and died. Now the disciples were at a loss. They knew what to do with a dead body when the dead body was lying on the bed, but they had no precedents of a man standing on his head, and dead. "What should we do with him? And if he was so unique, the old fellow should have told us...

... materialist believes only in the body. The psychoanalyst believes in the mind as a by-product of the body: when the body dies the mind disappears also. So what are you doing? - torturing people unnecessarily. Neither the mind is going to be your eternal friend, nor the body. Just use them, but don't forget there is a witness within you. Hence, I have been fighting for meditation. I have been telling people...

.... Your body will be dying, your mind will be dying; only your witness has an eternity. And without having eternity... how can you be joyous when death is coming every day closer? Stop calling your birthdays birth days! These are the days when death has come one year closer. Those are the days of death! You have been dying since the very moment you were born! Every moment death is taking its territory...

... inner world becomes absolutely clear to you. You know that you are not the body, not the mind. For the first time you recognize your being as a witness. This takes you to the beyond, and to the mysterious, and to the miraculous. Onwards, life is a sheer joy, a sheer dance, a great music. You are overflowing, radiating pure gold. You have found the treasure of treasures. This has been the search of the...

... GIVEN THE SAYING OF CHOSHA'S TO CONTEMPLATE ON: "TURN YOURSELF BACK INTO MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND EARTH." It is a very strange statement of Chosha's. "TURN YOURSELF BACK INTO MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND EARTH." What does it mean? It means, remember you are carrying five elements in your body: the earth, the air, the fire, the sky, the water. These are the five elements that make your body...

.... Chosha is saying, "Return these elements back to their sources, and then see whether something is left behind." Yes, something is left behind. That something is your consciousness. It is not a by-product of your body, it is a totally different phenomenon than the material world. Once you have tasted something of consciousness, awareness, alertness, you will not be afraid of death; you know it...

... can happen only to the dead body, it cannot happen to your living sources of consciousness. They are in the body, but they don't belong to the body. Chosha's statement was given to Bansho to meditate on: "TURN YOURSELF BACK INTO MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND EARTH." FOR SIX MONTHS BANSHO MET WITH NO SUCCESS AND SHOMOKU MADE THE COMMENT, "I ONLY HOPE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND LATER." What went...

... a few months. You can go and learn about sex and come back again." Shankara went to his disciples, who were residing in the mountains near Mandla, and he left his body in the care of his disciples. A king had just died, and Shankara entered the dead king's body to know everything about sex, because the king had many queens. Unless you experience it, it won't be valid before that clever woman...

..., Bharti. My question is: Why could he not go in his own body? He believed in the body too much. He talked about that the body is just illusory; if it is illusory, then what difference does it make that you enter into a dead man's body and have love affairs with many women to understand the whole science of sex? Why had you not the courage to go in your own body? Why did you make the difference between...

... whole story seems to be bogus. And how to protect a dead body, Shankara's body, for six months? There is no indication of any science that Shankara or his disciples knew. In six days the body will start stinking; in six months there will be no Shankara, just a pile of bones, and rotten... everything rotten ... and cockroaches... and rats, and all kinds of illusory things! All these so-called great...

... ANSWER - OR IS THIS SIMPLY A DILEMMA FOR YOUR DISCIPLES TO LIVE WITH? Maneesha, it is my destiny to hit hard every untruth, every lie, every consolation, whatever the consequences, because, as far as I am concerned, I have arrived home. They can harm my body, but remember, it is not so easy, for the simple reason... I will remind you. Ed Meese, attorney general of America, when they deported me...

... care of your body, of your food, of your medicine. Secondly, if I ask any question, you cannot say, 'Wait for the right time.' You cannot postpone it, you have to answer immediately. Thirdly, if I want somebody to meet you - even in the middle of the night - you cannot say no." Buddha said, "There is no difficulty. I will remember your conditions." And Ananda remained for forty-two...

... leave me unenlightened.' What can I do? I can only indicate, I cannot become enlightened on your behalf." And exactly what Buddha said happened. The day he died, Ananda did not move from the place where he was sitting by the side of Buddha. His body was taken to the funeral pyre; Ananda did not move. He closed his eyes. For the first time, a tremendous urgency had arisen. If he misses this moment...

... skirt. "Now," says Milton, "take off your panties and lie on the couch." "What?" screams Etta. "Why should I take off my panties? What are you going to do? Fuck me?" "Good," says Milton, "you are learning already!" Nivedano... (drumbeat) (gibberish) Nivedano... (drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen...

... that does not matter. You will remember again. Sooner or later your remembrance will become a constant heartbeat. That day will be the greatest day in your life, the day of enlightenment. Remember one thing only: the buddha hidden at the center of your being has only one quality, the quality of a witness. Witness the body - that it is not you. Witness the mind - that it is not you. What is left when...

... the mind and body no more belong to you? - only a silent witnessing, a peaceful mirrorlike reflection. This is your eternal being. To make it clear, Nivedano... (drumbeat) Relax, but remember your witness. As your witnessing deepens, your separation with existence will start disappearing. Soon Gautam the Buddha Auditorium will become a lake of consciousness without any ripples. The evening was...

... attitude of suchness is: accept it - and say to yourself, "Such is the way of the body," or, "Such are things." Don't create a fight, don't start struggling. You have a headache - accept it. Such is the nature of things. Suddenly there is a change, because when this attitude comes in a change follows just like a shadow. If you can accept your headache, the headache disappears. You try...

.... The rift is bridged. And so much energy is released because now there is no conflict - the release of energy itself becomes a healing force. Healing doesn't come from outside. All that medicines can do is to help the body to bring its own healing force into action. All that a doctor can do is just to help you to find your own healing power. Health cannot be forced from outside, it is your energy...

... flowering. This word 'suchness' can work so deeply that with physical illness, with mental illness and finally with spiritual illness - this is a secret method - they all dissolve. But start from the body, because that is the lowest layer. If you succeed there, then higher levels can be tried. If you fail there, then it will be difficult for you to move higher. Something is wrong in the body: relax and...

... accept it, and simply say inside - not only in words but feel it deeply - that such is the nature of things. A body is a compound, so many things combined in it. The body is born, it is prone to death. And it is a mechanism, and complex; there is every possibility of something or other going wrong. Accept it, and don't be identified. When you accept you remain above, you remain beyond. When you fight...

... you come to the same level. Acceptance is transcendence. When you accept, you are on a hill, the body is left behind. You say, "Yes, such is the nature. Things born will have to die. And if things born have to die they will be ill sometimes. Nothing to be worried about too much" - as if it is not happening to you, just happening in the world of the things. This is the beauty: that when you...

... are not fighting, you transcend. You are no more on the same level. And this transcendence becomes a healing force. Suddenly the body starts changing. And the same happens to mental worries, tensions, anxieties, anguish. You are worried about a certain thing. What is the worry? You cannot accept the fact, that's the worry. You would like it in some way different from how it is happening. You are...

... everybody is doing - you can force. The dead body will be there, but the living spirit will have left. Then that will be a tension on you. Against nature nothing can be done. Love was a flowering, now the flower has faded. The breeze has come into your house, now it has moved into another. Such is the way of things, they go on moving and changing. The world of things is a flux, nothing is permanent there...

... done about it. You can be miserable and die. Then you miss the point, the beauty that death can give to you, the grace that happens in the last moment, the illumination that happens when body and soul part. You will miss that because you are so much worried, and you are so much clinging to the past and to the body that your eyes ate closed. You cannot see what is happening because you cannot accept...

... quality of the phenomenon changes immediately. Suddenly you are deathless: the body is dying, you are not dying. You can see now: only the clothes are dropping, not you; only the cover, the container, not the content. The consciousness remains in its illumination - more so because in life many were the covers on it, in death it is naked. And when consciousness is in total nakedness it has a splendor of...

... it arises in a body, sometimes it disappears from the body. It has to be so, because life is a rhythm. Sometimes you have to be in the form, then you have to rest from the form. Sometimes you have to be active and moving, a wave, and sometimes you go to the depth and rest, unmoving. Life is a rhythm. Death is not the enemy. It is just a change of the rhythm, moving to the other. Soon you will be...

... the form to the formless, from the formless to the form; from the body to the no-body, from the no-body to the body; movement, rest; rest, movement - this is the rhythm. If you look at the rhythm you are not worried about anything, you trust. IN THE WORLD OF SUCHNESS, in the world of trust, THERE IS NEITHER SELF NOR OTHER-THAN-SELF. Then you are not there, neither is there any thou. Both have...

... entering this truth of not two. Go on tasting it as much as you can, go on feeling it as much as you can. Twenty-four hours a day there are opportunities, opportunities and opportunities - infinite opportunities. No need to miss them. At every opportunity, whenever you feel some tension inside, say "Not two" and relax the whole body. And look within at what is happening when you say "Not...

... it. So just to be safe, nature has made an automatic arrangement in the body: whenever the energy is too much you start feeling sexual. What happens? There is a center that Hindus have been calling the third eye. Whenever energy reaches the third eye, whenever it is too much and you are filled with it, it hits on the third eye. You start feeling something has to be done. This third eye Hindus have...

... called the AJNA CHAKRA, the center of order, of ordering, the office from where the body receives the orders. Whenever the energy is filled up to the third eye center, immediately the body feels to do something. If you don't do anything you will feel suffocated. You will feel as if you are in a tunnel and you would like to get out of it, you will feel narrowed. Something has to be done immediately...

... oceanic self, infinite. You can absorb the infinite, you can absorb the whole, and there will still be space left. This body is narrow. Your consciousness is not narrow, your consciousness is as vast as the sky. In this body you cannot carry much, this body is just a small cup; a little energy more and the cup overflows. Your sex is an overflowing of the cup, the narrow body. But when the SAHASRAR opens...

..., a thousand-petaled lotus in your head, and it goes on opening and opening and opening, there is no end to it. If the whole is poured into you, still there is infinite space left. It is said that a Buddha is greater than the universe. This is the meaning of it. His body is not greater than the universe, of course, obviously, but a Buddha is greater than the universe because the lotus has opened...

... OR SPACE... FOR THIS TRUTH time and space do not exist. It has gone beyond. It is not surrounded by anything now - time OR space. It is greater than space, bigger than time. ... IN IT A SINGLE THOUGHT IS TEN THOUSAND YEARS. This is just a way of saying that in it a single moment is eternity. A Buddha does not live in time, does not live in space. His body moves, we can see his body, but the body is...

... not the Buddha. The Buddha is the consciousness that we cannot see. His body is born and dies; his consciousness is never born, never dies. But we cannot see that consciousness, and that consciousness is Buddha. This enlightened consciousness is the very root of our whole existence - and not only the root, but the flowering of it also. Time and space both exist in this consciousness, and this...