The Camel Who Was Not On The Roof

Osho Talks on Sufism and Zen

“There is a lamp in you which always has been Burning and that will Burn Forever. 
However many Clouds cover the Sun, they cannot extinguish it. 
Remove these Clouds and the Sunshine is still there. 
Only the Gentle Breeze of the Buddhas is necessary to Drive away the Clouds.
Then You will remember Who you Are.
Self-Realization is Not the Creation of the Self But rather the Remembrance of a Self
that has been forgotten, the Regaining of a Memory.” Osho

 

IN “THE CAMEL WHO WAS NOT ON THE ROOF” OSHO DISCUSSES  ALL STREAMS TOGETHER 

There seems to be a Great Difference between Life Streams like SUFISM and ZEN. But Osho discusses them both together in one lecture series. 
He explores how they use storytelling to illuminate aspects of human condition. 
And we discover how they share a Real Connection to Truth and an Experience of the Essence of Life. 
These two Famous Life Streams may differ greatly in their Expressions, they all go discovering Truth by your Experience.
The Stories can seem extravagant, even absurd – for example the story about the man who searches on the roof of a palace for his lost camel … but there is a Hidden Meaning in these stories. Osho Reveals to us this Meaning in their depths.

“The Purpose of these Stories is to Provoke your Thinking. They are to Awaken your sensitivity, to Create some Echo of Truth in you.” Osho

 The Camel which was not on the Roof

The Camel which was not on the Roof

Highlights of The Camel who was Not on the Roof 

“Whoever sets out in search of the inner turmoil will become more peaceful. Turmoil is there because you have never looked attentively enough for it. 
It exists only in your unawareness, your lack of watchfulness. In itself, it is nonexistent.” Osho

RABINDRANATHS POEMS

Rabindranath was known as a supreme poet. He wrote some 6000 songs. Shelley, who wrote 2000 poems, was said to be a great poet, yet most of his lyrics while correct in meter could not be set to music. 
But all of Rabindranath’s lyrics could be. Nothing could be more satisfying. He was the greatest among the world’s great lyric poets.
When he was about to die, his friend asked him, are you satisfied? Are you contented with your life? You have achieved everything that is worth achieving: fame, popularity, status. Alll is yours.you have been worshipped like a prophet. You receive the respect not only due to a poet but to a sage. You have written so many songs – no one will ever be able to write so many lyrics – yet each poem has come from the heart. They are not only rhymes, each is unique.”

Rabindranath said: “Stop all these nonsense. I am dying un satisfied. The song I wanted to sing I have not been able to sing. 
In these moments I am praying to God, “What is this? Until now I have just been able to tune the instrument. Now when the time to play upon it has come, the curtain is going to be dropped.”
Until now I have only be able to tune the instrument; I was getting ready to sing dot people. That people took the tuning for finished music was another matter. Now all the instruments are attuned to another and in harmony. Finally, fully confident, when the heart is full and ready to flow, to sing, the time to depart approaches. What irony of Fate,”

OSHO’S COMMENT

Osho comments: “Had Rabindranath been given another hundred years to live, I say that even then he would have made the same statement at the time od death. In fact, the complaint would have become more intense because in those hundred years he would have reached even greater depths. The deeper inside you go, the more difficult it is for the word to emerge. 
TRUTH CANNOT BE TOLD!