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the only thing that never dies. It is the only thing that you can call your very being.
Maneesha has asked:
BELOVED OSHO,
WHY HAVE YOU CALLED ZEN, "THE DIAMOND THUNDERBOLT"?
Maneesha, it is the diamond thunderbolt. It is a sudden experience, with no preparation, no rehearsal, no discipline, no path. Suddenly you open your eyes as if a thunderbolt has hit you and the sleep of millions of years is broken. In that awakening you know the mystery of existence.
The diamond is the hardest thing in the world, and to call a thunderbolt `the diamond thunderbolt' is to say that it comes to you suddenly like a spear, it passes through you, taking away all garbage and leaving behind a pure space.
Before we start today's meditation ... and remember: do it totally, because nobody knows about tomorrow. Never postpone for tomorrow. Don't say, "Let us wait and watch today and tomorrow we will do it." Tomorrow is absolutely uncertain. Only this moment is in your hands. Transform it into eternity or lose it.
Before we enter into the world of meditation, into the world of Zen, I would like our poor bamboos to have a few laughters. They wait every day.
An English university professor, who has never been to Ireland before, steps out of the central railway station in Dublin. Seeing two Irishmen standing there, he decides to ask them for directions.
"Excuse me, my good fellows," he says walking up to Paddy and Sean, "do you think you could tell me the way to Trinity College?"
Paddy and Sean stare at the Englishman without saying a word. He decides that perhaps they are foreigners, and asks them in French.
Paddy and Sean say nothing. The professor tries German, but the response is the same. So he tries Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Russian, Eskimo, Hindi, Latin, Yiddish and Sanskrit, but all to no avail. So he gives up and walks off.
Paddy turns to Sean and says, "Hey, did you hear that bloke? He spoke fourteen different languages."
"So what?" says Sean, "he still does not know where he is going."
Paddy's wife Maureen has had it. She goes to see her attorney, Abraham
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