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Gibran says: I have seen rivers looking back with great nostalgia at all the mountains that they have crossed, and the plains, and the beautiful trees on the banks, and the sunrises and the sunsets, and a thousand and one things. There is great nostalgia for all the memories and a great desire not to lose one's identity, but the river cannot go back.
Man can go back, that is the problem. The river is bound to fall into the ocean, but man can turn back even from the ultimate door. If fear grips you and you become too protective of your separate existence, of your personality, of your ego, if you have really a strong ego, you may turn back or you may close your doors. You may not listen to the voice of the beyond.
And let me tell you, God comes every day and knocks on your doors. Sometimes He comes as the wind and knocks on your doors, but you don't open your doors. And sometimes He comes in the rains, but you don't go into the open and you don't stand under the sky to be soaked by Him. No, you hide, you open your umbrellas. And you have psychological umbrellas too, and whenever He comes you avoid, whenever He comes across you, you escape.
Kabir says: If you want the Guest, be a host. Welcome Him, receive Him, embrace Him. And He always comes, continuously comes -- every moment of your life He is coming and searching for you; you go on avoiding. All that is needed on your part is not a search for God-but availability -- when God comes to be ready to surrender, when the ocean comes to disappear into it. Slip like a dewdrop... silently, prayerfully. Dancing, laughing, loving, disappear.
SAI MILE SUKH HOY.... KAHAT KABIR SUNO BHAI PYARE.
My beloved friends, listen. This is all that I have to say, says Kabir: That there is no other bliss except the meeting with the Guest.
The Guest
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The time has come to be free
27 April 1979 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7904270
ShortTitle: GUEST02
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 104 mins
The first question:
Question 1
OSHO, SOMETHING INSIDE ME CRINGES WITH DISTRUST WHEN I HEAR
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