GRATITUDE AND THANKFULNESS TOWARDS THE BODY …..
Even if a small glimpse of meditation starts happening to you, a deep sense of friendliness will arise in you towards your body, because you will discover that it is this very body that is making meditation possible.
Even if a small glimpse of meditation starts happening to you, a deep sense of friendliness will arise in you towards your body, because you will discover that it is this very body that is making meditation possible.
And the day samadhi happens, you will see that this too has become possible because of the body. A liberated individual is full of immense gratitude and thankfulness towards his body even at the time of his death…..
“ So as the meditation will deepen, the mind will start coming to that midpoint. All enmities -- both kinds of enmity -- will drop, and a friendliness will be born. And this friendliness is not towards any particular person, it simply arises within you, so wherever you will look you will feel friendship.
You will look at the trees or at your friends or at the birds, and all around you will feel a friendship -- as though all are your companions, as though no one is in opposition to you. And really no one is.
“ So as the meditation will deepen, the mind will start coming to that midpoint. All enmities -- both kinds of enmity -- will drop, and a friendliness will be born. And this friendliness is not towards any particular person, it simply arises within you, so wherever you will look you will feel friendship.
You will look at the trees or at your friends or at the birds, and all around you will feel a friendship -- as though all are your companions, as though no one is in opposition to you. And really no one is.
When you were in opposition, all were in opposition to you; but now, even if someone will oppose you, because of your meditation you will be able to see that this opposition too is there to benefit you.
This is why Kabir says, "The man who reproaches you, arrange him a hut so he can live in your courtyard." Bring the man who reproaches you and let him live next to you; make him a guest, because his reproach is of assistance to you. Now you see friendship even in the one who reproaches you.
You will see the friendship of your body too, and then you will be able to thank it.
A sannyasin is one who can thank his body too ... because it has not harmed you in any way, but rather has supported and been like a shadow to you.
If you wanted to go to the whorehouse, your body took you there -- but it was you who wanted to go. But we are very strange people: we say this body is the enemy, it took us to the whorehouse!
This is why Kabir says, "The man who reproaches you, arrange him a hut so he can live in your courtyard." Bring the man who reproaches you and let him live next to you; make him a guest, because his reproach is of assistance to you. Now you see friendship even in the one who reproaches you.
You will see the friendship of your body too, and then you will be able to thank it.
A sannyasin is one who can thank his body too ... because it has not harmed you in any way, but rather has supported and been like a shadow to you.
If you wanted to go to the whorehouse, your body took you there -- but it was you who wanted to go. But we are very strange people: we say this body is the enemy, it took us to the whorehouse!
When you wanted to go to the temple, it took you to the temple... This body has followed you like a shadow, has accomplished what you wanted, and yet you blame it.
When you commit a sin you say it is the body that is making you sin; when you are angry it is the body that is making you to do it. When you are overwhelmed by sexual desire, you say it is the body that is driving you into it.
Our habit of blaming the other is so old that when we cannot find anything else to blame, we impose it on the body.
Our habit of blaming the other is so old that when we cannot find anything else to blame, we impose it on the body.
So if a sannyasin is condemning the body, understand well that he has not yet known the fragrance of sannyas; otherwise he would see that his body is a temple, a wonderful gift of nature. Nature has given you so much in this body, if only you could use of some of it.
In the body is hidden not sexual desire alone, there are also other centers higher than the sex, which contain in them other dimensions.
In the body is hidden not sexual desire alone, there are also other centers higher than the sex, which contain in them other dimensions.
Your body also contains that sahasrar from where opens the door to samadhi. Your lowest center is that of sexual intercourse from where opens the door to nature. Your seventh center is that of meditation from where opens the door to the divine. In the body is hidden everything. So do not blame the body; the body opens the door you knock at.
True, people travel the path to hell through this body, but they also travel to heaven through the body. The same ladder can be used to take you heavenwards or hellwards and the ladder does not ask you to climb upwards or downwards, this is entirely up to you.
Even if a small glimpse of meditation starts happening to you, a deep sense of friendliness will arise in you towards your body, because you will discover that it is this very body that is making meditation possible. And the day samadhi happens, you will see that this too has become possible because of the body. A liberated individual is full of immense gratitude and thankfulness towards his body even at the time of his death. [….]
The whole nature is body of the divine; this is why the five elements of nature have gathered in your body too in a miniature form. Your body is a miniature form of the divine.
True, people travel the path to hell through this body, but they also travel to heaven through the body. The same ladder can be used to take you heavenwards or hellwards and the ladder does not ask you to climb upwards or downwards, this is entirely up to you.
Even if a small glimpse of meditation starts happening to you, a deep sense of friendliness will arise in you towards your body, because you will discover that it is this very body that is making meditation possible. And the day samadhi happens, you will see that this too has become possible because of the body. A liberated individual is full of immense gratitude and thankfulness towards his body even at the time of his death. [….]
The whole nature is body of the divine; this is why the five elements of nature have gathered in your body too in a miniature form. Your body is a miniature form of the divine.
Out there is a vast sun burning, some sixty thousand times the size of the earth, and having immense heat and flames. In your house is burning a small lamp -- very tiny, that can in no way be compared with the sun, but a flame is burning in it too. In this flame too is the same sun -- the same rays, the same light. You are a lamp; the form of the lamp is your body, and you are the flame. The divine is the supreme flame, and nature is the lamp for that flame. So when you die your flame will merge into the supreme flame, and your lamp will merge into the ultimate nature.
This game is unique, and this leela, the play, is fascinating! Don't move in it with the feeling of enmity. One who becomes inimical to it goes astray.
This game is unique, and this leela, the play, is fascinating! Don't move in it with the feeling of enmity. One who becomes inimical to it goes astray.
One who becomes friends with it, nature opens all its mysteries to him. Only as a friend you will be able to know, to recognize what you have. Your eyes will be towards the door, you will open the door, and you will enter into the palace. “
OSHO
Nowhere To Go But In, Chapter 13 - None (6 June 1974 am in Buddha Hall) , [NOTE: This is a translation from the Hindi discourses: Nahim Ram Bin Thaon. It is being edited for publication, and this version is for reference only.]
OSHO
Nowhere To Go But In, Chapter 13 - None (6 June 1974 am in Buddha Hall) , [NOTE: This is a translation from the Hindi discourses: Nahim Ram Bin Thaon. It is being edited for publication, and this version is for reference only.]
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