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August 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8008025
ShortTitle: DDMIRA02
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]
[Osho talked about different facets of meditation to the new sannyasins. It's a process of death and resurrection he told the first.]
It is a paradoxical phenomenon: on the one hand you, as you were before disappear completely. Your whole identity evaporates as if it has only been a dream; not even a trace is left behind. And on the other hand there is a new upsurge of energy, a new beginning, a fresh beginning, as if you are the first man on earth, as if god has created Adam again.
It is absolutely discontinuous with your old idea of yourself. There is no continuity at all; hence it is a death and a resurrection, the death of the old and the birth of the new. It is the most strange phenomenon in the world -- death and life together -- the most mysterious experience.
A famous Zen master, Shido Bunan, used to say again and again to his disciples: "While living, be dead...* thoroughly dead.' Whatever you then do, as you will, is always good."
He also used to say when you are both alive and dead, thoroughly dead to yourself, how superb the smallest pleasure!"
Man lives with a false idea about his being and it is that false notion that causes all the miseries, that creates hell. There is no way to get rid of miseries living within your world of the ego. You can change from one misery to another misery, you can divorce one misery but you will be immediately married to another. But you cannot get beyond misery within the world of the ego. To go beyond misery means to let the ego die.
Jesus says "Let the dead bury their dead." Whatsoever is gone is gone, whatsoever is dead is dead; don't go on carrying it because it kills your life. Carrying a corpse is dangerous. And we are all carrying not a single corpse but many corpses, hence our growth is nil. We cannot progress even a single inch -- the weight is too much, the weight of
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