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see its positivity. Then you will see its austere beauty. Suddenly it is no more emptiness. It is fulfillment. But before anything can descend in you, you have to be empty.
All that is useful, all that is creative, comes out of emptiness. God is the perfect emptiness, the ultimate zero. And you are coming to the first experience of what mystics have called the zero experience. But the zero has to be bigger than you. Allow it.
Dance Your Way to God
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
30 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7607305
ShortTitle: DANCE03
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[Through a translator, a visitor said he had come to Osho because he needed a friend.]
Good... but coming to me is dangerous because it means going away from the personality that you have been up to now. The only way to come closer to me is to die in a certain way. Only then is one reborn. So if you really want to come close to me, physical closeness won't help. And spiritual closeness means a deep surrender -- surrendering the mind, surrendering the intellect, surrendering logic, surrendering aristotle. Because when you surrender logic, love starts functioning -- and they never function together. It is a question of either/or -- either logic or love.
Logic is very poisonous for love, because love needs a totality, a simplicity, a trusting heart, almost blinded. Then things are very simple and much can happen. Otherwise, on one side you start coming towards me, on another you start going away. And that's what happens to the logical mind. By one hand it creates, by another it destroys. So that has to be the very basic thing to be understood.
If you want to be with me, it cannot be a half-hearted measure. So if you really want to come close, the Brst thing is to become a sannyasin. That is just a gesture from your side that yes, you are ready; even if I kill you, you are ready. Otherwise much energy is wasted in resistance.
[The visitor says that his problem is that he is not sure of himself, of his own ideas.]
That's everybody's problem. It is the modern human problem. The contemporary
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