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CHAPTER 7. THE LAST MILESTONEPROCESSES DO NOT OCCUR, PHENOMENA HAVE NOTHING IN WHICH TO ARISE – THEREARE NOT EVEN NAMES FOR THEM.’”He is saying that everything is contained in your mind. All that you perceive, all that you name, allthat you know is contained in your mind. From all your five senses you go on collecting knowledge.Those five senses are really extensions of your mind. You will be able to understand it very easily.Before this century it was not thought that the sex center is in your mind and not in your genitals.So as you start thinking of sex, immediately the genitals are affected. If we want real celibacy in theworld, you don’t have to cut people’s genitals as they used to do in Russia.A certain sect of fanatic Christians used to cut their genitals. Women used to cut their breasts...nothing else to cut, the only protruding thing – and these people were thought to be saints. But theywere not aware that by cutting your genitals you will not be a celibate, because the center of yoursexuality is in your mind.If we want real celibacy, then we have to cut the nerve in the mind which pulsates and creates sexualdreams in you, sexual fantasies in you. Once it is cut you will not be able to do anything with yourgenitals. They will hang out dead. However you try, it won’t work. The center of all your activitiesand all your senses is in the mind. Smelling or your eyes or your hearing... everything is centeredwithin your skull.Mind is your world. If we take out the mind, your whole world disappears.Meditation is an effort that the world you have known through the mind, disappears, and a newperception of no-mind arises in you. What you cannot see with the mind, you can see with theno-mind.Birth and death have no influence on the no-mind. It simply floats away above birth and death. It hasseen many births and many deaths. It does not matter to it, it simply goes on reflecting whatsoeveris happening. Nothing leaves a trace on your witnessing. I would like to call this witnessing thebuddha. It becomes more understandable, closer.A haiku by Basho:MOOR:POINT MY HORSE WHERE BIRDS SING.Basho lived a very natural life by the side of a pond, under an ancient tree where he had a small hut.He was a prince and when his father died, he renounced it. The family was very much in despairand they said, ”This is not the point. Your father is dead and you have to take care of his kingdom.”Basho said, ”I was waiting for him to die. I wanted to see that everyone dies. Even my father hasdied. One day I will die and who will take care of this castle and the kingdom? Somebody will takecare. Now I cannot remain here, because there is danger of dying any moment. Before I die, I haveto know some undying principle as my foundation.”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 104 Osho
CHAPTER 7. THE LAST MILESTONEHe was a very loving, joyous and a dancing mystic. He is saying, ”Moor: point my horse where birdssing.”Let us go to the birds because they are the only people left in the world who are still singing. Manhas dropped singing far away. Now only professionals sing. Have you seen in birds any professionalsingers... professional musicians...? Birds simply sing just out of sheer joy. It does not matterwhether it means anything or not. Meaning is not the point; expressing the joy is the point. ”Pointmy horse where birds sing.”He always wanted his haikus to be just spontaneous singing like birds – and he succeeded in it.There is no parallel to the haikus of Basho in the whole history of mankind.Question 1Maneesha has asked:BELOVED OSHO,IS THERE JUST ONE REALITY, AND CAN IT BE PERCEIVED ONLY BY NO-MIND?There are two realities: one that is perceived by the mind, and one that is perceived by the no-mind.For the no-mind, the reality of the mind becomes phenomenal, dreamlike. That’s why people whohave attained to buddhahood, will call the world just a dream. But a dream also has its own existence– the buddha also becomes hungry. You cannot eat meditation. You will have something from theworld of the mind, something objective to eat, because your hunger is also part of the objectiveworld, your body is part of the objective world. You are standing on the borderline of two worlds: theobjective world outside, and the subjective world inside. As you go deeper into the subjective, theouter becomes more and more dreamlike, a faraway echo. But I will not say it is unreal. The peoplewho have said it is unreal simply mean that it has no significance.I was meeting a Jaina monk, and he said, ”Everything outside is illusory.”I said, ”Can I slap you?”He said, ”You are a strange fellow. Why should you slap me?”I said, ”You have forgotten that the outside world is just a dream. In a dream can you preventanybody slapping you? There is certainly a difference between a dream and the outside world. Justtell me that the outside world has a different reality, not the same stuff as dreams are made off,otherwise I will slap you.”He looked all around, but I had come with almost twenty friends, so he saw that the situation wasnot going to be just philosophical wrestling, it was going to be real wrestling.He said, ”For the moment I accept.”I said, ”For the moment won’t do. No conditions are allowed. Are you afraid of being slapped?”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 105 Osho
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