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how much will now be my glory?" That is the search for buddhahood, of becoming totally awakened, enlightened.
So these two parts go on pulling you. Because of this tug-of-war, misery arises; hence misery is human. And man is always at a crossroad: either you go downwards, backwards.... But you cannot stay there either because whatsoever has happened has already happened and it cannot be undone. You will have to come back again. That conscious part cannot be lost. Hence the only possible way to get out of misery is to become more conscious.
The more conscious you are, the more and more you feel bliss arising in you. The day one is fully conscious and there is no nook and corner of one's being which is dark, when one is luminous, when one has become light, each act is done in full awareness -- one even sleeps in full awareness. That has been the goal down e ages. This is the real search of religion: how to come to a point when you can sleep and yet be alert. Right now the situation is just the opposite: you are awake and yet asleep. The day it happens one has entered into the world of the divine, the world of God, what Jesus calls the kingdom of God, and Buddha calls nirvana.
This has to be your work on yourself: become more and more conscious, make every possible effort in transforming your unconscious mind into consciousness. Walk consciously, sit consciously, eat consciously, talk consciously, listen consciously. Let consciousness be spread all over your life, twenty-four hours a day be engulfed in it. And then one day that blissful moment arrives when it becomes natural, spontaneous. That day is the day of rejoicing -- one has arrived home!
LETIZIA IS LEAVING FOR A SHORT WHILE.
OSHO: And then you are coming forever? (SHE NODS)
Come forever... that's good!
LETIZIA: I AM VERY MUCH AFRAID!
Everybody is afraid of love, as afraid as people are of death, because love and death are two sides of the same coin. So fear is natural, but the risk is worth taking.
Help my people there. (HE HANDS HER A BOX)
Keep it with you, and whenever you need me put it on the heart: it will immediately make you very much
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