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  1. OSHO ~ ओशो
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    2021-01-01T19:55:59+05:30
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    NO, IT IS NOT THE SAME. Looking, into one’s own being is still doing something. Doing nothing is precisely that — doing nothing, neither looking out nor looking in. Looking is a kind of doing — even if you are trying to observe, you are TRYING; effort is involved. And through effort comes tension, expectation, frustration — all that. Just a small effort can bring the whole world in. If you succeed you will feel great; if YOU succeed, the ego will succeed. What the effort is, is irrelevant: success brings ego.

    Yes, even if you succeed in meditation it brings ego. If you fail it brings frustration. Frustration is nothing but the ego feeling bad — it could not make it; the ego is hurt, wounded.

    With effort, the whole world enters in. Doing nothing simply means that: no effort, not going anywhere, not desiring anything — not even nirvana, God, samadhi. Desire is desire — what you desire, how can it make any difference to desiring? YOU desire money, somebody desires meditation. You desire pleasures of this world, somebody else desires pleasures in the other world — what is the difference? There is none; it is all the same. The desiring mind is there, and the desiring mind is the world. So even if you desire the other world it remains the world. There is no other world. Desiring creates the world, the whole misery of it.

    Not doing anything means not desiring. There is no movement in you, in ANY direction. There is no future in your consciousness, there is nothing beyond this moment — just this. No going back, no going forward, no memory, no imagination, no out, no in. All is silent. There is no movement; no ripple is arising. That is non-doing. That is the greatest that can happen to human consciousness.

    Looking into one’s own being is nothing compared to doing nothing. It does have something in it compared to outward movements. It is better, relatively, to move inward — a good step, but it is not the goal, it is part of the journey. Somebody is looking out, you are looking in: it is better than looking out, but remember, only relatively. It still has to be dropped. But you are coming closer to home — going out, you are farther away. Looking in, you are still away, but not so far away — you are coming closer and closer and closer.

    But remember, closeness is also distance. Even when you are very close, ninety-nine degrees — only one degree more, and the happening and the transcendence — still you are far away. You may not be able to make that one degree; you may wander again. The water is just coming to the point where it can evaporate, but it may not evaporate; it may start cooling before evaporation happens. It may remain water — it may be HOT water but water is water, hot or cold. But it is relatively better, because the cold water will have to be made hot; this is hot already.

    That’s the only difference between the worldly man and the spiritual man. The spiritual man is like hot water — is very close to the jump, to the quantum leap. One step more, and all in and out will disappear. There will be no division left — no body/mind, no this world/that world. All divisions in all dimensions will simply disappear.

    That is the state of samadhi or nirvana. You cannot desire it, you can only understand it. Understanding it is going into it. When you understand it totally, suddenly it is there. It needs no effort on your part; it is not something to be cultivated, practised. It is something to be ALLOWED. In deep understanding, you open up. This very moment, just THIS, and there is samadhi.

    But if there is a slight ripple — “I should catch it” — you have missed it. “If it is so close by, I should grab it!” — you have missed it. If you start looking around — “Where is it?” — if you close your eyes and you start groping for it, you have missed it.

    Seeking is not the way to find. Non-seeking. That moment of non-seeking is the moment when you are sitting silently doing nothing… and the spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

    — OSHO (Take It Easy, Vol 2 | Chapter 8 – And the Twain Are Always Meeting (2 May 1978 am in Buddha Hall) )

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