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of the night; it gets ready there. It is like the way a seed has to go into the dark soil. Only then can it sprout and come back to light.
Everything is made of two things: mud and sun. Mud is dark. The seed first has to go into the mud and disappear there. Only then is it worthy enough, capable of coming to the light. Then it starts growing towards the sun. But when it has reached a height and can have a whispering dialogue with the sun, even then its roots are deep in the darkness. It is a kind of bridge between sun and mud. It is between these two that a tree lives.
And so is the situation with man. Earth and sky meet in him. Earth is dark, sky is light. But first one has to go into darkness.
Your energy is really beautiful. Feel grateful and feel very happy, mm? Good.
The Open Secret
Chapter #4
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4 November 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7711045
ShortTitle: OPENSE04
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[A seeker who is taking sannyas says that he has spent nine years serving other indian gurus, which has brought him to Osho. He has been critically ill for the last two years with disorders arising from a congenital problem.]
Deva means divine, narendra means a king -- divine king.
And stop thinking about yourself as if you are missing anything; you are not. It is just a wrong notion that has settled in you. You have made it such a constant thinking that your thinking is keeping it going like a wound. Nothing is wrong with your energy. An idea has just settled in you.
So the first basic thing is to drop that idea. And don't think too much of the body; start thinking of the inner king. Emphasis should be on consciousness, not on the body. And there is a complexity: if you think too much of the body, the body becomes ill, and when the body becomes ill, naturally you think about it more. Then it becomes a vicious circle.
Even if a healthy person, a perfectly healthy person, starts thinking about his stomach -- how he is going to digest this and that and what is going to happen -- within twenty-four hours his stomach will be disturbed.
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