Mysticism, the Forgotten Language
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"Existence is always a mystery. People fall in love; they cannot answer why, how they have found each other. And when they fall in love there is an absolute feeling that they are made for..."
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"Existence is always a mystery. People fall in love; they cannot answer why, how they have found each other. And when they fall in love there is an absolute feeling that they are made for..."
Osho continues:
"Life is beyond the boundaries of machines.
"Why are you alive? Do you have any answer? Why in the first place are you born? How did you manage to be born? You have to simply accept the mystery of all that is alive – either consciously or unconsciously.
"Unconsciously you have been accepting many things: your birth, your life, your love, your death, the roses, the stars, the ocean, the rivers, the sun, the moon – but you have been accepting them unconsciously. If you accept them consciously, you become a mystic. Then it is not a question that you are ignorant and that's why you don't know. It is not ignorance, it is the very unknowability of existence.
"I don't know how I have found you. Neither is there any need…it is enough that I have found you.
"Just remember not to get lost.
"Turgenev has a beautiful story:
"In a village a man comes to a sage and says to him, 'Please help me. My whole village, and the surrounding villages too, think that I am an idiot. Whatever I say, however reasonable or rational it may be, they make a laughingstock of me. It has become a nightmare to me. If I remain silent, they condemn my silence saying, 'What else can he do? He is such an idiot, he cannot say anything.' If I say anything, everybody is there to laugh. My life has become so miserable that I feel to commit suicide. I heard that a great sage is passing by and I thought perhaps you can help me.'
"The sage said, 'It is a very simple matter. Just do one thing: from tomorrow morning, whenever anybody says anything, immediately criticize it. Somebody says, 'Look, what a beautiful sunrise.' You say, 'What beauty is in it? Who says? And what is the proof, and what do you mean by beauty? Define what beauty is. On what authority are you calling the sunrise beautiful? It is not.'
"'Somebody says, 'Look, a beautiful woman is passing' – condemn."
"Why are you alive? Do you have any answer? Why in the first place are you born? How did you manage to be born? You have to simply accept the mystery of all that is alive – either consciously or unconsciously.
"Unconsciously you have been accepting many things: your birth, your life, your love, your death, the roses, the stars, the ocean, the rivers, the sun, the moon – but you have been accepting them unconsciously. If you accept them consciously, you become a mystic. Then it is not a question that you are ignorant and that's why you don't know. It is not ignorance, it is the very unknowability of existence.
"I don't know how I have found you. Neither is there any need…it is enough that I have found you.
"Just remember not to get lost.
Osho,"Mysticism is one of the forgotten languages. It has to be revived, because in forgetting the language of the mystics life has lost all color, all joy, all music.
What is the purpose and task of the new University of Mysticism?
"Turgenev has a beautiful story:
"In a village a man comes to a sage and says to him, 'Please help me. My whole village, and the surrounding villages too, think that I am an idiot. Whatever I say, however reasonable or rational it may be, they make a laughingstock of me. It has become a nightmare to me. If I remain silent, they condemn my silence saying, 'What else can he do? He is such an idiot, he cannot say anything.' If I say anything, everybody is there to laugh. My life has become so miserable that I feel to commit suicide. I heard that a great sage is passing by and I thought perhaps you can help me.'
"The sage said, 'It is a very simple matter. Just do one thing: from tomorrow morning, whenever anybody says anything, immediately criticize it. Somebody says, 'Look, what a beautiful sunrise.' You say, 'What beauty is in it? Who says? And what is the proof, and what do you mean by beauty? Define what beauty is. On what authority are you calling the sunrise beautiful? It is not.'
"'Somebody says, 'Look, a beautiful woman is passing' – condemn."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 103 mins |
| File Size | 23.11 MB |
| Type | Einzelner Titel |
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