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pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8805305
ShortTitle: THIS04
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 70 mins
BELOVED OSHO,
A MONK SAID TO TOZAN, "COLD AND HEAT DESCEND UPON US. HOW CAN WE AVOID THEM?"
TOZAN SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU GO WHERE THERE IS NO COLD OR HEAT?"
THE MONK SAID, "WHERE IS THE PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO COLD OR HEAT?"
TOZAN SAID, "WHEN COLD, LET IT BE SO COLD THAT IT KILLS YOU; WHEN HOT, LET IT BE SO HOT THAT IT KILLS YOU."
Maneesha, this is the very space that I am trying to help you to reach:
Where there is no cold, no heat, where there is only awareness, a silence that transcends duality, cold and heat, day and night, life and death.
All that is dual is transcended when you are not in the mind but at your very center -- which feels neither cold nor hot, which is only a simple, pure space.
Tozan is speaking exactly about what you are doing every day.
A MONK SAID TO TOZAN, "COLD AND HEAT DESCEND UPON US. HOW CAN WE AVOID THEM?"
It is a simple question but has great complexity in it. You have to take the word `avoid' and you will see the complexity. That's what everybody is trying to do: how to avoid -- misery, agony, how to avoid pain, how to avoid life itself. That's what all the religions have been doing -- avoiding. They call it renunciation, yet it is nothing but pure, cowardly escapism.
So the very simple question is not so simple. In the very word `avoid', all the religions of the world are reduced to their basics -- in a very obvious manner. Their whole effort has been to escape from places, from people, from relationships, from the world to the mountains and to the forests; but they don't know... wherever you go your mind is with you. And your mind is your world. You cannot renounce the so-called outside world without dropping the mind and being utterly silent. But that can be done anywhere.
You don't have to go to the Himalayas, you have to go withinward. No outward journey is going to help. You can renounce wealth, you can renounce kingdoms, you can renounce your wife, your husband, your children....
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