Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

ody may be there, tremendously beautiful, but the presence is not there;sometimes a genius mind is there, but the presence is not there; and sometimesyou pass a beggar and you are filled, touched, stirred -- a presence.Those who were in the presence of Jesus, those who were in his SATSANG --those who lived close, those who lived in his milieu -- breathed HIM. If youallow me to say it, those who drank him and ate him, who allowed him to enterinto their innermost shrine.... THAT transformed, not the prayer; prayer was justan excuse to be with him. Even without prayer it would have happened, butwithout prayer they might not have found an excuse to be with him.You are here with me. I go on inventing meditations for you. They are justexcuses so that you can be here a little longer, a little while more, so that you canlinger around me -- because nobody knows when my presence will touch you.Nothing can be said about it; it cannot be manipulated. It happens when ithappens; nothing can be done directly for it. Just be here. Even withoutmeditations the thing will happen, but without meditations you won't have anyexcuse to be here.I go on talking to you. Even without talk it can happen, it WILL happen, but if Idon't talk, by and by you will disappear because you won't have an excuse. Whatare you doing here? I have to give you something to do so that you can be. I haveto engage you and occupy you so that you don't feel restless. The thing is goingto happen from some other dimension, but when you are occupied thatdimension remains open. If you are not occupied, you become too restless.All meditations and all prayers and all methods are toys invented for children toplay with, but that is useful, very significant. Once you are occupied, yourinnermost shrine is open to me. You are not restless -- you are doing meditation -- and then I can do my work. It is not good to say that I do my work. Then itstarts happening.You are right, twenty years of Christian teaching, listening to The NewTestament stories, may have been futile -- but not because those stories are futile.They are superb as far as stories go. The poetry of The New Testament, thepoetry of the whole Bible, is something not of this world. There are great poets --Shakespeare and Milton and Dante -- but nobody can surpass the Bible. Thepoetry is tremendously simple, but it has some quality which ordinary poetrycannot have. It has awe; that is, the religious quality.Have you watched sometimes? You see a beautiful flower. You may appreciateit, it has an aesthetic quality. You appreciate it and you move ahead. You maysee a beautiful face -- even the face of a Cleopatra: the lines, the proportion, themarble-like body -- but that too is aesthetic. And sometimes you come across afew things or a few beings that inspire not only aesthetic appreciation, but awe.What is awe?Facing some thing or some being, thinking stops. Your mind cannot cope with it.You can cope with a Cleopatra, you can even cope with an Einstein -- howsoeverabstruse, abstract, difficult, you can cope with it. Just a little more training of theCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho