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capable of getting hold of it. One will have to go without any nets. That's what meditation is. That's what I call sensitivity, understanding.
So start feeling for the universal. Just sitting silently, listen to the universal. This silence of the night... these insects making a noise. Just listen.... Listening to this particular noise, if you bring in the intellect, science comes in. Then you start thinking about what type of insect this is and how it makes such a type of noise... what type of throat it must have, and for what reasons -- you have moved into the particular.
Listening to this noise, not brooding about it, not thinking about it -- just listening... just listening, becoming more and more sensitive; not thinking, just listening -- suddenly you will see that something of tremendous import is arising out of this simple noise. A universal music can be heard through this noise because all noises contain it... but it is a very still, small voice. When you become very very silent it asserts itself in your consciousness.
So remember more and more to be non-intellectual and sensitive, and then you will know that there is a universal law. And to know the universal law is to know all -- nothing else is needed.
Then by knowing it, one becomes it. By knowing it, one by and by dissolves into it. By knowing it, one is overpowered by it.
And when your life is run by the universal law and you are no more a doer, then you have a true life -- the life of benediction, bliss. It is not something that you can practice. You can only listen to the universal law and allow yourself to fall into its trap. It is more a sort of let-go.
[The new sannyasin said he had done a vipassana group which he had felt helpful but difficult.
Osho talked about the need to release any repressions before moving into passive meditation like vipassana. He suggested two groups to him and then added that karate would be helpful for him too.]
... It will bring up all that is inside. The word 'karate' is beautiful -- it means empty hand. If one goes deeply into the process of karate, one becomes empty. And when things are thrown out -- the inner
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