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nobody can say.
Whenever your emptiness is total, immediately the whole sky descends in you, you are transformed. One becomes a Christ or a Buddha and then life really begins. Before that we are in the womb. That is the moment when one really comes out of the psychological womb. For the first time we see what existence really is -- and that experience is the experience of god.
Going All the Way
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 November 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8011045
ShortTitle: ALLWAY04
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
EGO OR ZERO
(Osho talks on discipleship.)
The only art of being a disciple is to be a zero. These are the two possibilities, either one can be an ego or one can be a zero. The egoist cannot be a disciple. To be a disciple means readiness to learn, openness to learn -- and the egoist is closed. In his ego , cannot accept that he does not know -- and that is most fundamental requirement for learning, to know that you don't know. Only from that state of not-knowing does disciplehood begin; that is the very seed of disciplehood -- the state of not-knowing. And the ego is always pretending to be knowledgeable. It knows nothing but believes that it knows.
The other possibility is just to be a zero a nobody, utterly empty. In that emptiness learning is possible, the contact with the master is possible, the communion is possible, the transmission of the truth beyond words is possible.
Initiation into sannyas means readiness to become a zero and then disciplehood comes of its own accord.
DISCIPLESHIP... OR SANNYAS STREAM
(Some more pointers about being a sannyasin.)
Sannyas means not to cling to anything, not to be in any way attached to anything, always flowing, not making a home, moving like a river.
Life is dynamic and the moment you stop it it loses something tremendously significant; then it is no more a river, it becomes a lake. The lake
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