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is wrong in it. Let it be meditative and worshipful.
Otherwise things are going well. Things are changing !
The Open Secret
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 November 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7711035
ShortTitle: OPENSE03
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[A sannyasin asks: I was taught as a child to pray and the prayer was of thanksgiving. Now I don't know who I'm praying to any more. Am I praying to Osho? I've heard you say that God is just a name for one's innermost core. Am I praying then to myself?]
Prayer need not be addressed, it need not have any address. In fact the addressed prayer is not very deep. It should just be a song of the heart, unaddressed, to the whole of existence: to the trees, to the mountains, to the stars, to all that is. And that is the meaning of the word 'God'. God does not mean a person. If we make God a person we are simply imagining God as being in our own image. That is very anthropomorphic.
Then we think that he has a nose like us, eyes like us and hands and.... A little better, a little bigger, more beautiful, stronger, but the difference is of quantity not of quality. So we are just magnifying ourselves; through a magnifying glass we are looking at our own self and creating God. So God is our imagination in that way.
But the real meaning of God is the totality, all that is, all that has been, all that will be. The totality of the whole time and space.... And prayer is nothing but gratitude to the whole. Because we belong to the whole. We come from it, we live in it, we live as it, and one day we dissolve back into it and disappear into it. It is our home, it is our source and our goal. So in prayer we are simply remembering our source, remembering our goal. In prayer we are reminding ourselves that we are not separate. One tends tO forget that. In the mundane life one has to use the word 'I, I...' again and again. It is a must: without it it would be very difficult to live. You have to relate to people and of course you have to relate as an individual, as an ego, as a self. You have to struggle and fight and protect and naturally
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