WHY NOT TRY A JUMP BEYOND LIFE?

Every master in the East has been against suicide because if you are so ready to commit suicide, then why not try a jump beyond life? You have nothing to lose; at the most it may be a suicide.
Meditation is a jump beyond life. It is not getting out of life, it is getting to the very center of life. The people who have entered at the very center of life have shown such grace, such beauty, such presence that they have even become a tremendous inspiration for millions. Just their very presence has transformed people. The question is not of time but of understanding.
Everybody can be freed from nightmares, from sufferings, from miseries, but of course not directly. The problem is that you cannot be freed from your suffering directly because you are clinging to it. It is not the suffering that is the problem, it is you who are clinging which is the problem. You don’t want to leave it. You brag about it, you talk about it. You even talk about how to get out of this misery. But one who has eyes can see that you are clinging to the misery as hard as possible.
Just the presence of a master can help you to see whether the misery is clinging to you, or you are clinging to the misery. That is a very decisive point. Once you see that you are clinging to the misery, you are freed. Just the seeing of it, the very understanding, is freedom. 

 TALKS ON ZEN

The Original Man is Part of the series “Zen All the Colors of the Rainbow“, a magnificent boxed set of 5 books.

ABOUT THE ORIGINAL MAN

“The original man is the constant concern of Zen. In your innermost being, no dust has gathered from outside, no thought is capable of reaching there. It is as pure and clean as ever. It never becomes old, it never becomes stale; its freshness is its nature.” Osho

“It is deep down, hidden in you. Many layers have been put upon it: layers of knowledge, layers of respectability, layers of morality; all kinds of honor, all kinds of belief systems. It has become a very thick wall, although it is only of words. A courageous and intelligent man can cut through the whole wall in the single blow of a sword. Otherwise it takes lives and lives taking away one layer then another layer. And while you are taking away layers, new layers are gathering. You have to clean your mirror every day; in twenty-four hours, new dust will have gathered. ” Osho, The Original Man #4

THE NEED FOR THE ORIGINAL MAN

“The whole world is a chaos and in a mess. It is not only now that it is in a chaos; it has always been in a chaos because so many millions of unconscious human beings are creating all kinds of dreams, projections, expectations, frustrations. The whole air is heavy with the clouds of unfulfilled hopes, incomplete desires. Even failures in success: knowing that you have achieved the goal that you had determined, you are still as ignorant and empty inside as you were before. They say in a proverb that nothing succeeds like success; it is only a half truth. I want to make it complete: nothing fails like success. And the second part is more important; otherwise kings would not renounce their kingdoms, Gautam Buddha would not have been born.” Osho