Osho gives sannyas
to a six-year-old.
Wahid: Prem
means love, Wahid is a sufi name for God -- it means: the one -- love for the one.
Right now it may
not be possible for you to understand, but let it become a seed in your heart; one day you
will understand. There are two kinds of love: love for the many -- and that's where
everybody lives and suffers -- and there is another kind of love: love for the one; that's
where bliss happens.
Osho then addresses the parents.
The mother had wanted to take sannyas some weeks before but the father was not ready.
To the man That's good! Now
things will start happening. I was waiting for you. I was waiting for the right moment and
the right moment has come today.
Your wife also did
well -- she waited and waited. When one loves, one can wait. Love gives patience, and
there is no hurry.
One can trust that
it is going to happen -- sooner or later; when is irrelevant. And I knew that you were to
come, that's why I told her to wait. Even if she had to wait her whole life, she was to
wait.
Join the sufi dance
and in the night join the music group. For these few days just enjoy. The more you enjoy
being here, the closer you come to me. When you are in a celebration I am there. And even
when you are gone far away, whenever you are celebrating you will find me there.
Celebration is my key word. That's my meditation, that's my prayer.
The woman asks: I
wanted to ask you if we could continue our transcendental meditation. We've done it for
almost three years. We enjoy doing it but we wanted to ask you.
You
can continue. Whatsoever you enjoy, always continue. Enjoyment is the criterion; nothing
else is decisive. If you are enjoying something, go on doing it. Whatsoever feels good, is
good. Continue, mm?
Moumin: Prem
means love, Moumin is a sufi name for God. It means: the faithful one. Prem Moumin will
mean: love and faith, love and trust. And remember faith does not mean belief... never.
Belief is a pseudo-faith. It pretends to be faith -- it is not. It is an intellectual
substitute for something which is of the heart and is never of the head. But the head is
very cunning -- it goes on creating substitutes. They are not more than toys to play with.
Faith is of the
heart, belief is of the head. But when you start longing for faith, the head immediately
gives you belief. It looks like faith but it is not. But one can be deceived, millions are
deceived. To believe in christianity is not faith, to believe in islam is not faith, to
believe in hinduism is not faith. These are beliefs. But to become a Christ is faith. To
become a christian is belief.
Once a zen master
was asked, 'What is the greatest barrier in Christ's work in the world?' And the master
said 'christians, christianity.'
Christianity
becomes the barrier in the work of a Christ because it is a substitute. You can learn
christianity; you cannot learn how to be a Christ. In fact the processes are polar
opposites, diametrically opposite. If you want to be a christian you have to go to the
school, you have to learn christian theology, doctrine, this and that. You can learn it
like anything else -- as you learn geography, as you learn history, you can learn
christianity.
But if you want to
become a Christ, there is no way to learn it. In fact, on the contrary, you have to drop
all learning. You have to get rid of all that has been imposed on you; you have to forget
all that you know. You have to start from scratch. You have to start with a clean slate,
you have to start with an unconditioned mind. All learning is conditioning, and when one
is unconditioned Christ arises in one's own being. It is not something that you gather
from the outside, that you accumulate, imbibe, no. It is something like a flowering of
your own. You bloom into it. It is your colour, it is your perfume. It is your very
nature.
That is faith. To
become a Moumin -- to become faith, to become trust, is the greatest quantum leap. To come
from the head to the heart is the longest journey. Man can reach the moon -- that is
easier -- and soon man will reach to the stars; that too is not very difficult. The only
problem and the most difficult journey is: to move from the head to the heart, because
they don't exist in the same dimension -- their ways of existing are so different.
So remember: your name will mean love and faith, not love and belief. And
love is the door to faith. The more you love, the more you become heart-full. When you
have really become heart-full and your love has grown to a maturity, a ripeness, that very
love starts changing, starts being transformed into a new fragrance. That fragrance is
faith -- it is the ultimate love. Love is the beginning of faith, faith is the culmination
of love.
A sannyasin is
very sad to be leaving.
Then start a small
centre in your town -- just friends gathering together, mm?
Wali: This
will be the name for the centre: Wali. It is a sufi name for God -- it means: the friend.
And think of God as the friend, because we are not different from Him. He is not different
from us. We belong to the same reality, to the same whole. And this existence is a great
brotherhood, a great friendship. Everything is interlinked. The lowest and the highest are
not separate; they are part of the same ladder.
Think of God as the
friend. There is no need to think of God as far away, distant; that creates difficulties.
Think of Him as a friend who is walking by your side, following you like a shadow, who
cares for you, who loves you and who needs you as much as you need Him. That is the
meaning of a friend. The need is not one-sided: it is not only that you need Him -- He
also needs you. You are incomplete without Him and He is incomplete without you. That is
the meaning of friendship: you both complement each other. This whole existence is
interdependence. This small blade of grass is as significant, is needed, is required, as
much as the greatest star. There is equality.
And if we can start
thinking of God as the friend, there will be a change in the world climate -- of thought,
of religion, of philosophy. To think of God as the father is not very good, because we
don't have a good idea of the father in the mind. No son has a good idea of the father in
the mind. There is a certain kind of fear around the very idea of the father. Every boy is
afraid of the father; he punishes. One has not to do this, one has to follow him. He is
all-powerful and there is a kind of domination from the father. It is very difficult to
forgive your own father. To call God the father is to destroy something.
It is better to
call God the friend. Then you feel more in tune. You can open your heart, you can share
yourself with all your limitations; there is no fear. And you know that the friend will
forgive you, you know the friend will support you. Your limitations will not become a
barrier. You need nat hide from the friend -- he will understand.
Start this small
centre, mm? -- and friends will gather and think of God and meditate and pray. Then
something will start moving. All great things start like small ripples. Nobody could have
thought that Jesus would become such a tide. It was such a small ripple, in such afar away
part of the world. But it has become such a great force. What is happening between you and
me -- you cannot be aware right now of what it can become tomorrow. It can possess the
whole world it can become a wild fire.
So just remember,
and don't be afraid of starting. There is no need to do great things -- just small
beginnings. And if they are on the right track, if they are in cooperation with God, they
become great. They are bound to become great, they are destined to become great.
Osho gives a 'come close energy darshan' to a couple. He then talks to them about how we cannot really gauge
happiness, though we can gauge pain. when you have a headache, you are bound to know, but
when you don't have a headache, what is there to know? When there is no headache, there is
no head either! It is strange that all that is really good and healthy and whole remains
unknown. But man has to be made alert about pain, otherwise he will die. Pain is a
protective device, but when there is no pain, nature is not worried about it.
It has no in-built
mechanism. You have to create that mechanism; slowly slowly you have to learn it. It is
not inborn; it is all art that has to be learned. Very few people learn to know what bliss
is. Many people attain to moments of bliss but they don't take note of them. Things are
perfectly good -- go on into this unknown phenomenon. Slowly slowly the art will arise. It
is just like the wine-taster: just by a single drop on his tongue he can say the make of
the wine, the year it was made. It is not inborn, but slowly, through making subtle
distinctions, one comes to know.
To know about bliss is almost like the art of a wine taster.... Things are good -- I can
taste the wine! |