| |
to take any exercise. Finally, in desperation, Nancy takes him to the new fitness clinic downtown.
Later, when she comes to pick up Ronnie, she finds the unfortunate president in agony. He is hooked up to a monitoring machine, with wires coming out of all parts of his body. He is shaking and moaning, and sweat is dripping from his body like a waterfall.
"Great news, Mrs. Reagan!" cries Bruno Truckteeth, the attendant. "He has lost five pounds today."
"Wonderful," says Nancy. "How did you manage it?"
"Simple," says Bruno, and he goes and whispers something in Ronnie's ear. The president's body starts shaking and sweating as if he is running a marathon.
"Jesus Christ!" cries Nancy. "What did you say to him?"
Bruno winks and says, "Osho for president. Yaa-Hoo!"
Now, Nivedano ... this is good moment, give a beat!
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
Be silent.
Close your eyes.
No movement of the body.
Go in.
Deeper and deeper.
It is your own home.
Nivedano ...
(Drumbeat)
Relax.
Let go, just die.
This immense silence,
this is your eternity.
This is the only holy place,
and the only holy scripture.
Freed from body, freed from mind,
you are just a cloud -- a pure freedom,
an absolute consciousness.
Nivedano ...
(Drumbeat)
Come back, but come back as a buddha.
Sit down
with the grace and the silence and the joy
which are eternally yours.
You have just been busy in meaningless things
and have forgotten yourself.
Remember it, remember it,
in your twenty-four hours -- day in, day out.
Let it become a silent stream of remembering,
that you are a buddha.
Don't fall down; keep your dignity.
And suddenly you find
that the whole world has changed.
Everything is the same,
and yet nothing is the same,
because your vision is new.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Osho
Can we celebrate all the buddhas?
Yes, Osho.
Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt
Chapter #3
Chapter
|
|
|