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poem on the Way ...
DON'T TELL ME HOW DIFFICULT THE WAY.
THE BIRD'S PATH, WINDING FAR,
IS RIGHT BEFORE YOU.
WATER OF THE DOKEI GORGE,
YOU RETURN TO THE OCEAN,
I TO THE MOUNTAIN.
Such a tremendously beautiful statement. A river may be going to the mountain, or to the ocean. As far as reasoning is concerned it appears they are going in different ways, diametrically opposite. The river that goes towards the ocean we know; we can see it. But every time the river comes, riding on the clouds, back to the mountains ... that is a little subtle and one needs a poet's, a mystic's understanding to see. The river is coming back to its original source.
This statement of Hofuku ... YOU RETURN TO THE OCEAN, okay; I am going to the mountain. But that does not make you superior or inferior, neither does it make me superior or inferior.
This whole universe is ours and all the dimensions are ours. Wherever your original nature takes you, wherever your spontaneity takes you, it is your home. Zen makes this whole existence our home.
... Do you hear the river going back to the mountains?
Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
BELOVED OSHO,
IS IT NOT TRUE THAT, PARADOXICALLY, THOSE WHO ARE AT HOME IN SILENCE CAN USE SOUND -- MUSIC OR WORDS -- MOST POTENTLY?
It looks paradoxical but it is not, because what is sound?
Just a ripple in silence.
A lake is silent. Then comes a breeze and leaves the whole lake full of ripples. When silent, it was reflecting the moon. When ripples come, the moon is shattered in a thousand pieces all over the lake, making it pure silver. But anyway, it is the same lake reflecting the same moon, either in silence or in sound.
Remember always, Maneesha, that wherever you find something paradoxical, you will be closer to reality than ever, because paradox is the very nature of existence. Those who are at home in silence can use sound; they are the master, the sound becomes their servant. They can use music as an expression of their silence, they can use words as an expression of their experience of the mystic, of the poetic nature of existence.
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