" Remember, only the theory won’t help. Something has to become living in you. Only then will you understand. " - Osho.

BELOVED OSHO,

ONE OF YOUR OLD SANNYASINS SAYS THAT THERE ARE THREE STEPS TO
ENLIGHTENMENT – WITNESSING, CHOICELESS AWARENESS, SUCHNESS.
WHAT DO YOU SAY?


Osho:


THE QUESTION HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED.

I don’t like questions which are not signed,
because the person who is not signing his question is being very cowardly.

You don’t want to say that you have a question.

You want to hide that fact.

It always happens to knowledgeable people –
they don’t want to ask a question because that shows that they are ignorant.

But if you are ignorant, you are ignorant!

Accept the fact.

Through that acceptance, some transcendence is possible.

And what is the fear?

If you cannot even ask a question, how will you be able to receive the ansWer?

A question deeply, rightly asked prepares the ground for the answer to be received.

When you are committed to a question, when you are involved in it,
when it is a life-and-death problem to you, then only will you understand the answer.

Otherwise the answer will be cheap, and it won’t go deep in you.

So never ask a question if you cannot sign your question.

And secondly, you have not mentioned who this old sannyasin is.

You should mention it – because here I am working with individuals, not with a mass.

And I want to relate to you individually.

Who is this old fool?

You should mention it!

because all these three words mean the same thing.

And there are not three steps to enlightenment.

There are no steps to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is an explosion, it is a sudden awakening.

It is a quantum leap!

Steps mean continuity – you remain the same.

You become a little more polished.

You remain the same; you become a little more decorated.

You remain the same; you become a little more modified.

There are no steps in enlightenment.

Those steps are also created out of fear – you don’t want to jump, so you need steps.

But only the jump is needed.

You will have to gather courage and take the jump into the abyss,
into the chaos of existence, into the chaos of love,
into that illogic that I have been talking about.

You say:

THERE ARE THREE STEPS WITNESSING, CHOICELESS AWARENESS, SUCHNESS.

These are the same.

What is the difference between witnessing and choiceless awareness?

Witnessing is choiceless awareness.

If you choose, you are not witnessing.

You have liked, disliked.

You have chosen, you have become identified.

For example, in your mind there are a few thoughts moving.

Witnessing means you simply stand there seeing that they are moving,
like clouds moving in the sky or the traffic moving on the road.

You don’t have any choice.

You don’t say, ”This is good – let me keep it. And that is bad – let it go.”

If you talk this Way you are not witnessing.

You are getting involved, you are getting identified.

You are creating love-hate relationships.

And when you relate, you cannot be a witness.

Witnessing means choiceless awareness!

And what is suchness?

When you don’t choose, things are as they are.

Then the anger passes by... so there is anger.

There is a witnessing and there is anger.

You are not angry.

If you choose, you are angry.

If you choose against it, you become repressive of it.

You simply watch.

The anger comes, the greed comes, and they pass by.

They come and they go, and you watch.

You don’t choose.

So things are as they are!

You don’t give value.

You don’t say this is higher, this is lower;
this is spiritual, this is material;
this is sin and this is a very holy act.

You don’t bring any valuation.

You drop all valuation.

You simply see like a mirror, an empty mirror.

Whosoever passes by, the mirror reflects.

This is witnessing.

And the mirror never chooses, because the mirror is not a photographic plate.

The photographic plate immediately chooses.

It gets caught, trapped.

The mirror remains clean: you have passed –
the mirror is again clean, empty.

In fact, when you were passing, then too there was only reflection,
but the mirror was not having any content in it.

It was only a shadow, a shadow passing by.

When you don’t choose, things are as they are.

That is suchness – that is TATHATA.

’Witnessing’ comes from the Upanishads – SAKSHI.

That is the word used by the seers of the Upanishads.

’Choiceless awareness’ comes from J. Krishnamurti – a new word for the same old thing.

’Suchness’ is a Buddhist word – TATHATA.

It comes from Buddha.

But they all mean the same thing!

Don’t be caught in words.

And don’t start becoming knowledgeable through words.

But these problems arise because you never go into any practise,
you never go into any experience.

Everything remains theoretical.

I have heard:

The slightly worried parents inquired of their son how the lesson on sex went that day.

They were hoping that the teacher had not been too ’progressive’.

The boy gave a somewhat bored reply,

”Oh,” he said, ”it was useless – we only had the theory today!”

Remember, only the theory won’t help.

Something has to be experienced, something was to be practised.

Something has to become living in you.

Only then will you understand.

If you had witnessed a little bit, you would have known;
there would have been no need to ask the question.

You would have known that it is choiceless awareness,
you would have known that this is suchness,
and all distinctions between words would have disappeared.

Because you have not experienced any meditativeness, hence the question.

And you talk about some old sannyasin.

He may be old, but he cannot be a sannyasin.

He may have lived here, but he has not lived with me.

Otherwise this is impossible.

People go on reading books, go on cramming scriptures,
then they become very very efficient with words.

And then they start using words without knowing what they are doing.

I have heard:

As the doctor said to his girlfriend:

”I love you with all my heart – and my kidneys, liver, epiglottis, spinal cord, etc., etc.”

This is what happens to people who go on cramming words.

Wake up a little.

Wake up from your linguistic patterns.

Drop your drunkenness with language...

and things will become very easy.

Things ARE easy.

Things are very simple.

Truth is simple, only you are complicated.

Truth is here-now, only you are far away, lost in words,
scriptures, theories, systems, philosophies.

Come back home.


Source : Take It Easy. Vol 1.

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