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you want to become silent, you will breathe from the moon side. The whole body is divided: one of your sides is male, another side is female. The mind is divided: one part of the mind is male, another part of the mind is female.
And one has to move from the sun towards the moon, and then beyond both.
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8
Chapter #2
Chapter title: And a perfect liar at that
12 April 1976 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7604120
ShortTitle: YOGA802
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 89 mins
Question 1
OSHO, WILL YOUR DISCIPLES ATTAIN BY SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT, OR BY A SLOW, STEP-BY STEP GROWTH? IS YOUR PATHLESS PATH FOR ANYBODY, OR ONLY FOR RARE EXCEPTIONS?
THE first thing to be understood is that the very word "attainment" is nonspiritual. It is part of your greed. The idea to attain is very worldly. Whether you want to attain prestige, power, wealth, or God or nirvana does not make any difference. The desire to attain is worldly; it is materialistic.
The spiritual revolution happens only when you drop this greed, when you drop the very idea of becoming. You arc that. You are already that, so then don't hanker for attainment. You have never been anything else other than that which you are trying to attain.
God is within you this very moment -- healthy and kicking. Because God is not something separate from you or from life. But your greed has been a problem; and because of your greed, exploiters have existed who go on showing you ways how to attain.
My whole effort here, my whole work here is to help you to see that you already have it. There is no question of any attainment. There is no question of any future. The moment you think in terms of attainment, the tomorrow comes in, time comes in, future comes in. It is a desire. You would like to be somebody else other than you are -- which is impossible. You can only be that which you are.
Becoming is dreaming; being is truth. But because of your greed people have given you many ideas how to attain -- -and you accept it. Not because what they say is truth, but because it enhances your
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