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neti. Neither this nor that ... and then suddenly only that which you are is left behind.
One is neither the body nor the mind. With these two discarded what is left? -- a pure consciousness, a deep awareness. That awareness is our very being, that's what we are and that's what god is. We are little bits of awareness, just dewdrops of awareness. God may be the ocean, a vast ocean, but our innermost nature is the same.
But you have to go beyond two things, the body and the mind; hence the repetition: neti-neti. One won't do! If you can fulfil these two simple words -- and I think you can do it.... (Osho is grinning broadly. He holds her gaze for what seems like some minutes. And the longer he does, the louder becomes the laughter of the group watching.) I know you can do it (more laughter) It is a very simple thing. I have done it and I found it easy!
Now start meditating! That's all you need, at least one hour every day. Use twenty-three hours for the world and one hour for yourself. And ultimately you will find that those twenty-three hours are wasted; only one hour, the one in which you were meditating, is saved.
Time becomes precious while you are meditating. Time is a wastage in every other way; without meditation time has no significance at all. Then people are right when they say that they are killing time -- they are: playing cards and looking at a TV or going to a movie and becoming a member of a Rotary club. And there are few fools who even become members of a Lions' club! (laughter) As if to be just a man is not enough for them -- they have to become some animal! But these people think they are killing time and time goes on laughing because time knows it is killing all these people.
So don't kill time and time will not be able to kill you. The only way to escape from time is meditation because in meditation you move beyond time. Slowly slowly you start transcending time -- and that is our reality, that's our truth: the transcendental.
Is the Grass Really Greener...?
Chapter #2
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2 December 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8012025
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