From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
has to go down and find out who this man is, whether he is alive or dead. Now their whole mind is
diverted.
He reaches his home, really angry, almost ready to kill the father. And the father is sound asleep,
covered with his blanket... it was a cold night. He pulls off his blanket, and he says, ”Is this the way
to teach your own son?”
He said, ”Are you back? That’s enough; you have learned the art. Now go to sleep, we will discuss
it in the morning.”
But he said, ”You should ask me how....”
He said, ”That does not matter. You are back; about the ’how’, we will discuss in the morning. And
I know how, because the same voice that has been speaking in you has been speaking in me my
whole life. That’s why I was the master thief. It was not the working of the brain, it was not the
working of the mind; it was from my very depths. I have followed only the deepest in me, and I have
never gone wrong.
”You are back; that simply means you heard it, and that’s the whole secret of the art. There is no
other lesson. The first lesson is the last lesson. If you were not back it meant the student was not
able to survive the first lesson: finished. He was not capable.”
You have to take a jump. First it will be dark, very dark.
Rest in that darkness.
Darkness has a beauty of its own.
You have known the beauty of light, and the beauty of flowers and trees, and men and women: that
is all beauty in light, through light. It is all light reflected: different colors, different faces, different
flowers, but it is all the world of light.
You have not known the silence, the depth, the unboundedness of darkness. It also has its own
beauty, totally different.
It is the beauty of death.
And once you have allowed it to happen, once you relax in it, you say, ”Okay. If it is death then let
it be death, but I am not going back.” Once you relax in this darkness of the cosmic unconscious,
slowly it starts becoming lighter.
And the first glimpse of light is the beginning of the superconscious.
When it becomes even lighter, so that you can see the tremendous emptiness, then it is the
supersuperconscious. When it becomes so strong a light that it becomes unbearable – again
you may feel like escaping – it is the collective conscious. It is not only your conscious, it is the
consciousness of all human beings, of the whole history, in totality, condensed. Hence it is too
bright.
From Ignorance to Innocence 389 Osho