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CHAPTER 5. THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IS SELF KNOWLEDGE
He answered with the proverb: ”He who has been scalded by hot milk never forgets to blow, even on
his buttermilk. If you had ever been made to push a bus you would also have been about the plane.”
You have been scalded so very many times, and you haven’t even learned to cool the milk, let alone
the buttermilk. The greatest problem in life is that we fail to learn from experience. People say that
they learn by experience, but there is no evidence of it, for time and again the same mistakes are
repeated. If you were to commit some new errors that would show some ability, some skill, and it
would bring some momentum and maturity to your life.
The mind is a circle. You keep revolving round and round in the wheel of the ind, and this wheel is
given energy by your attachments. Break your attachments and the wheel stops, and as soon as
the wheel comes to a halt you realize you are the center. You need not become the center, there is
no need to become God; you already are! Therefore this knowledge is innate.
Such an awakened yogi realizes this world to be the result of the rays that emanate from his own
self. Such is the experience, and it gives supreme bliss. There is supreme nectar in the feeling. All
darkness flees from your life as soon as this knowledge comes to you; all suffering, pain and anxiety
vanish into thin air. You are filled with a joy, an ecstasy. You are drunk, intoxicated with it, and it
awakens the song within you. You throb with every breath; you are filled with a fragrance that comes
from an unknown source.
This is natural knowledge which no scripture can teach, nor any guru, but the guru can help you to
remove the hurdles. Keep this well in mind. There is no way to ‘learn’ this supreme knowledge. You
have to learn to remove the obstacles in its way. Meditation will not give you that supreme treasure;
you only get the key to the door. With this key the door can be opened. The treasure lies within you.
Thou art that! Tat-tvam-si! You are the brahma!
All methods serve to remove the hurdles along the way. All your rocks must be removed. The
destination you carry with you. There is no difficulty in attaining Brahma. The difficulty is in your
holding on to your attachments. You cling so hard to the world, and as long as you hold on to the
world, you are merely postponing the meeting with God. It depends on you. Leave this very moment
and you attain this very moment. If you wish to delay, if you wish to linger, you may do so for many
more births. You have seen lingering since time immemorial. You have lingered enough, and you
can linger for many more lives, but I feel that it is not meaningful to wait any longer.
The time is ripe for you to drop off the tree of the world. Don’t be afraid that you will disappear.
You will be lost, but only the you that is useless will be lost. What is meaningful will be multiplied
endlessly.
The Great Path 101 Osho