奧修演講文章

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Love.
Do not seek nirvana as something opposed to life,
rather, turn life itself into nirvana.
Those who know, do this.
Dogen has these beautiful words to say:
Do not strive after moksha (liberation);
rather, allow all your actions to become
liberating.
This happens.
I can tell you this from my own experience;
and the day it happens
life becomes as beautiful as a flower in full bloom
and brims with fragrance.

65
Love.
I received your letter on my return.
Just as the seed within the soil waits for the
rains so you wait for God.

Prayerful wholehearted surrender is the door
leading to Him.
Let yourself go completely just like a boat
floating on the river; you do not have to row the boat,
just let it go loose; you are not to swim, just to
float, then the river itself takes you to the ocean.
The ocean is very near -- but only for those who
float but do not swim.
Do not be afraid of drowning because that fear
makes you swim -- and the truth is that he who drowns
himself in God is saved for ever; and do not have a
goal, for he who has a goal begins to swim.
Remember always -- wherever one reaches, that is a
the destination, therefore he who makes God his goal
goes astray.
Wherever the mind is free from all goals -- there
alone is God.

66
Love.
I say: Die, so that you can live!
When the seed destroys itself, it becomes the tree;
when the drop loses itself, it becomes the ocean.
But man -- man refuses to lose himself.
How then can God manifest in him?
Man IS the seed, God is the tree.
Man is the drop, God is the ocean.

67
Love.
Leave the old track --
only the dead walk on trodden paths;
life is the continuous quest for the new.
Only he who has the flair to be new every moment
truly lives.
Die to the old every moment
so that you are for ever new --
this is the crux of the transformation of life.

68
Love.
Truth is like the sky: eternal, everlasting,
boundless.
Is there a door to enter the sky?
Then how can there be one to enter into truth?
If our eyes are closed, the sky exists not.
The same holds good for truth.
Opening the eyes is the door to truth; closing the
eyes is to close that door to truth.

69
Love.
Where to find truth?
Well, it has to be sought within one's own self,
within one's own self
within one's own self
within one's own self
It is definitely there.
One who seeks it elsewhere loses it.

70
Love.
I am extremely grateful for your loving letter.

I take life as a whole and I am incapable of
viewing it in bits and pieces; it is already the whole
but because it has been viewed in fragments for so long
it has become perverted.

There is no politics, no morality, no religion;
there is LIFE, there is God, whole and unfragmented.
It has to be sought, recognized and lived in all
its forms, therefore I shall continue to speak on all
its forms.
And this is only the beginning.
Answering journalists is just preparing the ground.
All paths lead to one end -- certain friends might
take some time to understand this truth.
As things are, this delay in understanding the
truth is unavoidable, but seekers of truth won't be
afraid -- courage is the first condition in the search
for truth.

Remember, as long as spirituality does not become a
philosophy of the whole life it proves impotent, and
only escapists will take shelter behind it.
Spirituality has to be turned into a force,
spirituality has to be turned into a revolution, only
then can spirituality be saved.

My regards to all.