奧修演講文章

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Love.
I have received your letter.
As the earth thirsts for the rains after a hot
summer
so you are thirsting for God.
This thirst becomes an invitation to the divine
clouds --
and the invitation has arrived.
Just keep drowning yourself in meditation
and His grace will definitely pour on you.
If you are ready here --
He is always ready there.
Look! Can't you see His clouds hovering in the sky?

79
Love.
Do not fight with yourself;
you are as you are,
do not strive to change.

Do not swim in life,
just float,
like a leaf on the stream.
Keep away from sadhanas, mere sadhanas,
this is the only sadhana.

Where is there to go?
What is there to become?
What is there to find?
What is, is here and now --
Please, stop and see!

What are the animal instincts?
What is low? and high?
Whatever is, is --
there is no high, no low.
What is animal?
What is divine?

So do not condemn,
do not praise,
nor condemn nor praise yourself:
all differences are of the mind.

In truth no differences exist;
there, God and animal are one and the same;
heaven and hell are just two sides of one coin;
SAMSARA and nirvana are two expressions of one
unknown.

And do not think about what I have said;
if you think you will miss.
See. Just see.

80
Love.
On the road to God the only sustenance is infinite
hope -- hope shining like the north star in darkness,
hope keeping you company like a shadow in loneliness.
Dark and lonely life's path certainly is -- but
only for those without hope.

The famous geographical explorer Donald Macmillan
was preparing for his journey to the north pole when he
received a letter.
On it was written:
To be opened only when there is no hope of survival.
Fifty years passed; the envelope remained with
Macmillan as it was -- sealed.
Someone asked him the reason for this and he
replied:
For one thing I want to keep faith with the unknown
sender, and for another, I have never given up hope.

What priceless words! -- Ihave never given up hope

81
Love.
I am delighted you have taken sannyas.
A life without the flower of sannyas is like a
barren tree.
Sannyas is the supreme music of life.
It is not renunciation, on the contrary, it is
life's highest enjoyment.
Someone who finds diamonds and pearls is not going
to bother about pebbles and stones.
But note -- he does not renounce them, interest
simply drops away.

82
Love.
Thought is man's strength
but blind belief has robbed him of it,
that is why he has become weak and impotent.
Think fully,
think tirelessly,
for amazingly enough the state of no-thought
is achieved only at the peak of thought,
it is the culmination of thought,
and at this point all thought becomes useless.
In this emptiness, truth lies.

83
Love.
All crutches bar the way.
Shun all support and then you will receive His.
He is the only help for the helpless.
There is no other guide but Him -- all other guides
are obstacles on the path.
If you want to reach the Master avoid all teachers.

Don't be afraid to make yourself empty
for that alone is the door,

that alone is the path --
and that alone is the destination.
The courage to be empty
is all that is needed to become one with the all.

Those who are full stay empty,
and those who are empty become filled --
such are His mathematics.

Do not consider doing anything --
through doing you can never reach Him,

nor through chanting,
nor through austerity,
for He is already here!
Stop and see!

To do is to run,
not to do is to halt.
Yes! If He were far away we could run to meet Him,
but He is the nearest of the near!
If we had lost Him we could search for and find
Him,
hut to us He has never been lost!

84
Love.
I am glad to have received your letter.
The I is not to be given up because -- how can you
drop that which is not?
The I has to be looked into, understood.
It is like taking a lamp to search for darkness --
the darkness vanishes!
Darkness cannot be stamped out because it doesn't
exist.
You just have to bring a light and darkness is
unmasked.
It is the same with your thoughts -- do not fight
with them; the effort to be free of thought comes
itself from a thought.
Know your thoughts, watch them, be aware of them,
then they quieten down without difficulty.
Witnessing finally leads to emptiness and where
there is emptiness -- there is the ALL.