奧修演講文章

57
Love.
Your letter has filled my heart with joy.
You are at the threshold of a great revolution;
now, even if you want to run away I will not let you.
You will certainly have to perish in it. so that
you can be reborn.
Gold has to pass through fire -- only then is it
purified.
Love is fire for you and I pray to God that your
ego burns in it.
Then if love comes, prayer can come too; without
love. prayer is not possible.

Remember that body and soul are not two.
The part of the person that can be seen is the
body, the part that cannot be seen is the soul.
The same holds true for God and matter: God made
visible is matter and what cannot be seen is God.

Take life easily and naturally, just as it comes.
Welcome it in its endless forms with an attitude of
complete acceptance.
And do not impose yourself on life; life has its
own discipline, its own wisdom,
and those who are ready to live totally
have no need for any other discipline or wisdom.

But you have always been afraid of life and
therefore you are afraid of love.

Now life has begun penetrating you, breaking your
walls of security.
So, God's infinite grace showers on you!
Don't run from it now, accept it gratefully
and my good wishes are always with you.

58
Love.
Be aware in the waking state, don't try to become
aware in sleep or dreams.
If you become aware in the waking state awareness
in dreams and sleep comes easily -- but you don't have
to do anything for it, doing only creates difficulties.

Sleep reflects the waking state: what we are when
awake we are in sleep.
If we are asleep in the waking state only then is
sleep really SLEEP; the stream of thoughts during the
waking state becomes the web of dreams in sleep.
Being aware in the waking state will begin to
reflect itself in sleep too, and if there are no
thoughts in the waking state dreams disappear
altogether in sleep.

Everything else is fine.
My regards to everyone there.

59
Love.
I was overjoyed to receive your letter -- as pure
and innocent as your heart.
You want to write that which cannot be written so
you send an unwritten letter.
This is good, for it is better to remain silent
about that which cannot be expressed, but beware!
silence also speaks, it speaks and speaks so much!
Silence can speak even where words fail.

The void envelops even that which lines cannot
contain, in fact what can resist the embrace of the
great void?
Nothing is left unsaid by silence.

Where words fail, silence is full of meaning.
Where form ends, the formless begins.
Where knowledge (VEDA) ends,
transcendental knowledge (VEDANTA) begins.
When knowledge dies, the beyond begins.
Freedom from the word is truth.

60
Love.
How can I describe how happy I am to have received
your letter?
Whenever I saw you, only one question arose in my
mind --
How long are you going to keep away from me?
I knew you had to come closer to me, it was only a
matter of time, so I kept waiting and praying for you.
To me, prayerful waiting is love.

I also knew you were going through the pangs of a
new birth and that rebirth is very near --
for only this can give soul to your songs.

Words are the form and form has its own beauty, its
own melody, its own music, but this is not enough, and
he who considers this enough remains discontented for
ever.
The soul of poetry lies in silence.

To me, prayerful waiting is love, and the void is
the door to the divine temple.
You have come to me and I want to take you to the
Lord for how can you come close to me without first
coming closer to Him?
In fact without coming close to Him you cannot come
close even to yourself.
Then as so on as you come near Him you attain that
life for which you have gone through so many lives.
To come close to oneself is to be reborn -- the
principle of being twice born is just this.
And remember, not even the pebbles lying on the
road are just pebbles; they too await a new birth, for
that second birth turns them into diamonds.

P.S. To run after desires is to run after a mirage.
It is a journey from one death to another.
In the illusion that is life man dies this way time
and time again.
But those willing to die to their desires discover
that death itself dies for them.

61
Love.
Where is truth?
Do not search for it for when has truth ever been
found through seeking? for in seeking, the seeker is
present.
So don't seek but lose yourself.
He who loses himself finds truth.
I don't say: seek and you will find.
I say: he who loses himself, finds.

62
Love.
I was happy to receive your letter.
The drop doesn't have to become the ocean.
it already is the ocean.
it just has to know it.
What IS,
however it is,
to know it as it is,
is truth.
And truth liberates.

63
Love.
Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who
are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.
Life becomes known only to the innocent, to those
whose intuition is not covered with the dust of
knowledge.