Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

een very easy: don't do this, do that; just change the periphery, change youracts.I am trying a totally different thing, a mutation -- not a change from one part ofthe periphery to another part of the periphery, but a transmutation from theperiphery to the center. The center is empty, it is absolutely void. There, youARE. There is being, not doing.It is bound to happen to you sometimes: sitting before me you will wonder whatyou are doing here. Nothing -- you are not doing anything here. You are learninghow to just be, not to do -- how not to do anything: no action, no movement... asif everything stops, time stops. And in that non-moving moment you are in tunewith the present, you are in tune with God.Actions become part of the past. Actions can be in the future, they can be in thepast, but God is always in the present. God has no past and no future. And Godhas not done a thing: when you think that He has created the world, you arecreating His image according to yourself. You cannot remain without doinganything -- you become too restless, it makes you too uneasy -- so you haveconceived of God also as a creator.Not only as a creator -- Christians say that for six days He created and on theseventh day, Sunday, He rested: a holiday. The Bible says God created man inHis own image. Just the reverse seems to be the case: man has created God in hisown image. Because you cannot remain unoccupied, you think: what will Goddo if He is not creating the world? And because you get tired by doing, you thinkGod must also have gotten tired after six days -- so on the seventh day He rested.This is just anthropomorphic. You are thinking about God just as you wouldthink about yourself. No, God has not created the world; the world comes out ofHis non-activity, the world comes out of His non-doing. The world is a floweringof God, just like a tree.Do you think a tree is creating the flowers -- making much effort, doing exercises,planning, asking the experts? The tree is not doing anything at all. The tree is justthere, absolutely unoccupied. In that unoccupied state, the flower flowers byitself. And remember, if some day trees become foolish -- as foolish as man is --and they start trying to bring the flowers, then flowers will stop coming. Theywill not come because they always come effortlessly.Just watch a flower: can you see anything of effort in it? The very being of aflower is so effortless, it simply opens. But we cannot conceive of it. The birdssinging in the morning: do you think they go to Ravi Shankar to learn? Do youthink they are doing something in the morning when they start singing? No,nothing of that sort. The sun arises, and out of their emptiness the song arises.The greatest miracle in the world is that God has created without doing a thing.It is out of nothingness.I was reading about the life of Wagner, a German composer and great musician.Somebody asked Wagner, "Can you say anything about the secret of why youhave created such beautiful music -- and how? "Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho