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Even if you become enlightened at the last breath of your life, it is perfectly good. You have not lost anything. You will see the whole life that you have lived as a dream.
And the moment you can see your whole life as a dream, it has lost all its impact on you. You have become totally free -- free from all bondage of the body and the mind, free from all limitations. You are ready to enter into the limitless consciousness of existence itself.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Osho.
The Great Zen Master Ta Hui
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Insight
15 July 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8707155
ShortTitle: TAHUI02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 122 mins
BELOVED OSHO,
TEND THE OX
SINCE YOU'RE STUDYING THIS PATH, THEN AT ALL TIMES -- IN YOUR ENCOUNTERS WITH PEOPLE AND RESPONSES TO CIRCUMSTANCES -- YOU MUST NOT LET WRONG THOUGHTS CONTINUE. IF YOU CANNOT SEE THROUGH THEM, THEN THE MOMENT A WRONG THOUGHT COMES UP YOU SHOULD QUICKLY CONCENTRATE YOUR MENTAL ENERGY TO PULL YOURSELF AWAY. IF YOU ALWAYS FOLLOW THOSE THOUGHTS AND LET THEM CONTINUE WITHOUT A BREAK, NOT ONLY DOES THIS OBSTRUCT THE PATH, BUT IT MAKES YOU OUT TO BE A MAN WITHOUT WISDOM.
IN THE OLD DAYS KUEI SHAN ASKED LAZY AN, "WHAT WORK DO YOU DO DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF THE DAY?"
AN SAID, "I TEND AN OX."
KUEI SHAN SAID, "HOW DO YOU TEND IT?"
AN SAID, "WHENEVER IT GETS INTO THE GRASS, I PULL IT BACK BY THE NOSE."
KUEI SHAN SAID, "YOU'RE REALLY TENDING THE OX!"
PEOPLE WHO STUDY THE PATH, IN CONTROLLING WRONG THOUGHTS, SHOULD BE LIKE LAZY AN TENDING HIS OX; THEN GRADUALLY A WHOLESOME RIPENING WILL TAKE PLACE OF ITSELF.
DO NOT GRASP ANOTHER'S BOW
"DO NOT GRASP ANOTHER'S BOW, DO NOT RIDE ANOTHER'S HORSE, DO NOT MEDDLE IN ANOTHER'S AFFAIRS." THOUGH THIS IS A COMMONPLACE SAYING, IT CAN ALSO BE SUSTENANCE, FOR ENTERING THE PATH. JUST EXAMINE YOURSELF CONSTANTLY: FROM MORNING TO NIGHT, WHAT DO YOU DO TO HELP OTHERS AND HELP YOURSELF? IF YOU NOTICE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST PARTIALITY, OR INSENSITIVITY, YOU MUST ADMONISH YOURSELF. DON'T BE CARELESS ABOUT
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