Greetings Mel/List - See high-lighted portion of article. - In peace,
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Osho Mind is misery, Meditation is bliss
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Osho Mind is misery and cannot be otherwise, because mind lives in
desires, ambitions, it is always hankering for the more and that
hankering cannot be satisfied. It always goes on jumping ahead of you,
wherever you would be, the mind will be asking for more. It is always
ahead of you. The distance between you and the mind always remains the
same. You have this much money, the distance is there. You can have that
much money, the dame distance is there.
Mind is just like the horizon: it looks you can reach, it seems just few
miles away, but by the time you have reached there it has gone ahead of
you. it is moving with you. The distance remains constant, not even a
single inch less. The beggar is in the same misery as the emperor,
because the distance is the same.
And it is the distance that creates the misery because it is always
frustration, always a wound. It hurts that "I have not been able to
fulfil myself," but nobody has ever been able to fulfil through the
mind. Mind's very texture consists of unfulfilment. Hence the people
who teach peace of mind are doing simply something very absurd. Nothing
like that has ever existed. It cannot exist. Peace of mind is a
contradiction in terms.
One very famous Jewish thinker, Joshua Liebman has written a book. The
title is PEACE OF MIND. It is a well-known book but from the very
beginning it is absurd. Peace of mind is almost equivalent to saying
"healthy disease". Either you are healthy or you are not
healthy, but one cannot be healthily sick. It is impossible.
Mind is sick. It is very sickness. One can get out of the mind, and that
is what meditation is. Meditation is not peace of mind, it is
transcendence of mind, and that distinction has to be remembered.
Because the Christian priests, the Jewish rabbis, the Mohammedan
priests, the Hindu priests, they all talk about peace of mind, and this
is not the way the awakened ones have said.
The awakened ones are all agreed about one thing, that you have to go
beyond mind, only then there is peace. In mind there is no peace. Mind
is the turmoil, the noise. It is the very hell, but it can be
transcended. Because we are not our mind, we are something totally
different, so we can step over it, we can go beyond it, we can use it as
a stepping stone, as a ladder.
The hell of the mind can become a ladder to the heaven of meditation-and
that's my whole work here: to use the mind in such a way that you
can go beyond it. And once you have tasted even a single moment of that
beyondness, of that transcendence, then everything becomes clear. Then
one knows why there has been misery: it was the cause that was causing
it.
The moment you are no more on the mind suddenly there is bliss. Not that
you have to seek for it it is already there just we are so
much engrossed in the mind that we cannot look at our own centre. At the
centre there is absolute bliss and nothing else. It is waiting for us.
All that is needed is a one-hundred-eighty-degree turn. Right now our
back is towards our centre and our face is toward the world this
is the state of mind.
Just the opposite is the state of meditation: when your back is towards
the world and your face is towards your centre, suddenly you become
aware of something that has always been there. You have not lost it even
for a single moment. It is your very nature to be blissful. Meditation
gives you only that which you have had always. It simply makes you aware
of your reality. It does not bring anything new in. It simply reveals
you the treasure that is lying there ignored and neglected, and you are
running all over the world for it. You will not find it anywhere else
because it is within you.
Mind is misery, meditation is bliss. Mind is misery because it takes you
away from your nature and meditation is bliss because it brings you back
to your nature, it brings you back home.
Source Osho Book "Nirvana now or never"
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--- In [email protected], Mel <gunnar19632000@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings Brett/list
>
> I personally take the (Shunryu)Suzuki-sensei line and say..yes, a Sufi
can continue to practise the Sufi path, together with zazen and the
talks afterwards from within the Buddhist temple's inner sanctum.
However, the Sufi path being a part of Islam itself...a Sufi would
eventually be made to choose by his Islamic beliefs one way or the
other. Unless...well...unless the Holy Qur'an, Allah, and Mohammed the
prophet all come as secondary to being a Sufi itself
>
> in peace
> Mel
